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__label__wiki	0.585798	0.585798	Gallipoli Rewind 5: after the Suvla Bay evacuation, Sam experiences the joy of reunion with brother Ted, gets letters from home, Christmas beer and cheer and pud… but then on Boxing Day, the 2/1st’s worst nightmare: return to Gallipoli! For details of how to buy Sam’s full Memoir* in paperback or e-book & excerpted Gallipoli & Somme episode mini-e-books & reader reviews see right-hand column All proceeds to the British Red Cross A hundred years ago this week… The Allies continued their run of success almost everywhere World War 1 had set up shop (especially with no major events on the Eastern Front, where the grand Russian endeavour was collapsing by stages). Under the general heading of the Third Battle Ypres (July 31-November 10), the Battle Of The Menin Road Bridge reached a solid conclusion (September 20-26) within the terms of General Plumer’s “achieve limited objectives then move on” doctrine – all ground taken around the Gheluvelt Plateau was then defended against German counterattacks (casualties 20,255 British, 25,000 German). And Plumer’s next attack followed immediately, the Battle Of Polygon Wood (26-October 3) – fought between the Wood and the Menin Road and stretching north to St Julien. Again, the initial advance worked well, securing the whole of the Wood and on to Zonnebeke (heading towards Passchendaele). Then, the following day, the British and Anzacs beat off seven German counterattacks, and held their gains on the 30th against another German counter featuring heavy use of flamethrowers (casualties 15,375 British, 7,188 Anzacs, 13,500 German). Meanwhile, the French repulsed a German onslaught in the Verdun area (September 24); the Italian Army followed up the latest Isonzo bloodbath by bombing Austrian submarine bases at Pola and Olivi Rock (27; now in Croatia) and advancing on Monte St Gabriele (28) and the Bainsizza Plateau (29); the Russians, surprisingly, defeated the Turks near Ortobo (25; Bitlis province, eastern Turkey); in Mesopotamia, the British won the Second Battle of Ramadi via careful preparation which went beyond tactics to ensuring the troops had enough water via 350 Ford vans carrying 14,000 gallons a day (28-29; 62 miles west of Baghdad); and in German East Africa the colonial occupants neared the exits, relentlessly pushed back by British, South African, Belgian and Portuguese forces (Sept 24-30; now Rwanda, Burundi and most of Tanzania). The only setback seemed to further prove Britain’s vulnerability to German air attack by planes and, occasionally, Zeppelins – in four separate raids bombers killed 58 civilians and injured 218 (September 24-29; London, the southeast coast, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire). [Memoir background: my father, Lance Corporal Signaller Sam Sutcliffe from Edmonton, north London, under-age 2/1st Royal Fusiliers volunteer and Gallipoli veteran (Blogs September 20, 2015, to January 3, 2016), had fought on the Somme Front with his second outfit the Kensingtons (Blogs May 15 to September 25, 2016)… until officialdom spotted his real age – 18 on July 6, 1916, legally too young for the battlefield. So they told him he could take a break from the fighting until he turned 19. He took up the offer, though with an enduring sense of guilt. By December, 1916, he ended up posted to Harrogate, Yorkshire, and re-allocated again, this time to the Essex Regiment 2/7th Battalion, along with a bunch of other under-age Tommies until such time as they severally became eligible for the trenches again… An interesting year ensued – four months of blizzards, a meningitis scare, special training in various northern locations, and then, around his 19th birthday on July 6, a few summer weeks stomping around Yorkshire on a route march… which in due course led him to hospital again, to recover from some lurking effects of trench warfare and prepare him for more. However, I’ve had to break off from the this-week-100-years-ago excerpts from his Memoir because my father didn’t write enough about his year “out” to provide 52 blog excerpts. So, through to November, before he returns to France and the Front from December onwards, I’m revisiting his previous accounts of historic battles as seen by an ordinary front-line Tommy – the Somme and, first, Sam’s Gallipoli, his initiation into the realities of war. He was a 17-year-old Lance Corporal Signaller by the time his Battalion approached Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, on the night of September 25, 1915.] In the four previous episodes from this Gallipoli rewind – whereof this is the fifth and last – my father, Lance Corporal Signaller Sam Sutcliffe survived every young soldier’s terrifying firsts – the first battlefield, the first shot and shell coming his way, the first deaths of comrades – and the grind-you-down factors of lousy food, lousy sanitation, and lousy, well, lice, plus the 24/7 discomforts of his own job, occupying a hilltop Signallers’ hole (“post” would overdignify it) with one assistant on non-stop rota for weeks on end. In his final weeks at Suvla Bay came the notorious blizzard that froze so many before the thaw drowned some more. But then, in mid-December at last… evacuation. Sailing away on a small ship on the night of December 18-19, he felt high hopes that things could only get better – especially with Christmas coming right up: ‘We reached Lemnos, the harbour from which we’d sailed, it seemed a very long time ago. Without delay we were put ashore and, as we lined up, I was shocked to see clearly how few of us remained. No Colonel in the distance on his white horse. Actually, no Colonel. Perhaps a couple of hundred men in all, a few Company Officers and Sergeants, one or two Corporals and a smattering of puny Lance Corporals, myself included. In charge of this small contingent now was young Major Booth, who had received rapid promotion from the rank of Lieutenant. While all the senior men had vanished from the scene of action for whatever reason they may have had, this young man proved himself capable of withstanding all hardships and caring for his men as well as circumstances permitted… At Suvla Bay, “Keep your head up, Sergeant Major!”, an outspoken reproof he’d issued to one of our top non-commissioned officers – the ex-Marine I mentioned, whose behaviour on active service had lost him all the popularity he had previously gained – had become a favourite quotation for all of us. Its ironic use inspired many a hearty laugh. The new Major had become our man of strength, the leader greatly needed by men who felt they had participated in a failure. Under his guidance we all felt the future would give us opportunities to shine just a little bit brighter in the military firmament than we had done in the past.’ * First noticed by the Tommies as a Lieutenant in Malta when he averted a food riot cum mutiny by prompt and considerate action, Harry Nathan (1889-1963; aliased “Booth” by my father who changed nearly all names to avoid pain to survivors or relatives) became Battalion commander in mid-November 1915, moving so rapidly because other officers had fallen ill. As I periodically mention, he became an MP, then a peer, and after WWII he joined Attlee’s Labour Government, playing a modest part in the great reform period that gave the nation the NHS and free education. Stepping ashore, Sam lost his buoyancy, his 90lbs of infantryman’s pack plus all the Signaller’s gear weighing him down, body and soul. Until the happiest of coincidences occurred: ‘… when we approached the camp, we saw several men coming towards us – and, among them, one who looked remarkably like my brother Ted. Impossible, I thought, for he’d been taken off that ship at Alexandria* and I could think of no reason why he should be on this Greek island. But it was Ted, and a very happy reunion we had. While we talked he quietly relieved me of everything I was carrying. He slipped into the straps to which were attached my pack and haversack and took my signalling equipment and my rifle — which, as a Signaller, I had still not fired in action — and left me feeling almost naked. He had a word with one or two men nearby, then set off for the camp which, he said, he and others had been cleaning up in readiness for our arrival.’ * A strange twist of fate where Ted missed Gallipoli because the Army dentist demanded that he disembark from the troopship about to convey the Battalion to the peninsula – because he’d had his front teeth knocked out in a fight. Sam’s mood shifted immediately from depressed to exultant, his older brother meant so much to him. Even the first meal offered to the battle-weary newcomers – more tea and hard biscuits, would you believe? – couldn’t get him down again: ‘As night fell, Ted vanished and later I heard his voice calling me outside. He expressed regret that he had been able to procure only a few slices of beef. “Only”, said I. Only some beef, indeed. As good or better than slices of gold, I told him. Then he took me to the outskirts of a big camp, to a place where the embers of several large fires glowed, great heat still rising, and we laid our meat on the hot ashes. Sticks were our cooking implements. We sat there, warm, safe and very soon – after quite easily scraping ash off the meat – happily eating.’ Ted explained that, after being left behind in Egypt, he’d taken a chance to become a happy horse wrangler at a place called Qantara. Then the following day brought a small, cheery adventure for Sam: ‘Next morning, Drake, a fellow Signals Lance Jack, and I were told to go searching for missing communications, so to speak. In fact, we were to board a steam pinnace – lent by the commander of a battleship – go round to the east side of the island and search for mail dumped there; it had been allowed to accumulate while we were on active service because transport to deliver it had not been available. In charge of the trim, little vessel was a midshipman, a lad of about my age, quite pretty with his pink cheeks, his immaculate uniform, but a fine young officer. He had a rating for crew. Off we puffed round the coast after leaving the big harbour. East Mudros had a useful jetty and, going ashore, Drake and I found piles of full, canvas mailbags – a quantity commensurate to the full Battalion of a few months back. We began carrying them back to the pinnace and stacking them on the deck. By the time we’d loaded up there was little to be seen of the boat but her funnel. Not a word of complaint came from the young officer, though. The cherubic smile, the acceptance of things as they were, inspired me, given that almost all my companions of late had been depressed by the pervading feeling of material poverty and defeat. Happy in the knowledge that we were accomplishing a really useful mission, to avoid rolling overboard Drake and I crawled over the sacks, seeking places with handholds. I spotted a sort of handle near the top of the funnel, clambered up and held on there. Drake jammed himself close to the small superstructure which housed the steering wheel, the rating, and the midshipman. I had my doubts that they could see where they were going, but of course they managed fine. Just as we cast off, someone came running towards the landing stage, waving. It was Jackson, the man whose spectacles had been damaged one dark night on machine-gun hill**. Before we passed out of hearing, he yelled that he had temporary glasses he could just about see with, and he was awaiting shipment to Egypt. His rosy face was all smiles and his wife and children could surely hope to see Daddy before long.’ For the full story of Sam’s role in the saving of myopic Private Jackson see Blog 166, September 10, 2017. The pinnace made it back to Mudros and the Battalion remnants settled down to renew acquaintance with the homeland – by means of cakes and hand-written letters. Sam and Ted shared the pleasure: ‘Among many nice things, our parents had sent photographs of our family taken in the back garden. Our baby sister was standing there, now able to do so without help. Our young brother looked bonny, the older sister all smiles*, the ever solemn dad still solemn, while mother wore her usual rather stern expression. It was good to have this reassuring picture, visible proof that life at home had not greatly changed. Father’s letters, written in his impeccable hand, gave us a clear picture of the national scene as he understood it, and Ma’s gave us news of family and local happenings. All was well there, and that was great.’ * Baby sister Edie born 1912, brother Alf 1903, older sister Ciss 1894. Major “Booth” arranged for the fun to continue with a proper Christmas Day – given the circumstances anyway. He sorted out… ‘… a supply of beer, lots of it, to be collected from the Forces’ Canteen. Volunteers, genuine on this occasion, set off, carrying the large dixies in which the cooks normally prepared stews or tea. When they returned, noticeably more talkative and cheerful than before, they carried far more beer than it appeared likely we could cope with.’ They had Christmas puds and all sorts of fancies – including, as sanctioned by the officers, goodies from the parcels of the dear departed (whose mail would be sent on to the sick and wounded or returned to the families of the dead and missing). After the feast, gorged and tipsy Sam and Ted took a stroll: ‘The day was dull, the sky grey, the wind very chilly, but divil a bit cared we… until we came to the hole. Yes, yet another hole after all those others I’d lived in recently. This, however, was a big one, circular and possibly 15 feet deep. When, why or by whom it had been excavated we had no idea, but now it provided shelter from the winter for a number of Arabs. Dressed in the usual poor man’s gowns and hood-like headgear, they crouched in circles well below the rim. They looked ill and miserable. Dotted all around, above and below them was their excreta, all noticeably coloured by the blood which escapes from dysentery sufferers. Of course, I stated my belief that it was wrong to bring these people from a very poor sort of life in Egypt to an even worse one in this cheerless island, but Ted informed me they had competed for the opportunity to come and earn some cash, a chance seldom available to them at home. Things had not been all that good for me in recent months, but I still had pity to spare for these poor devils. Even more so when Ted told me how they, and others, had travelled from Egypt; he knew because he had been ordered to escort some of them on to a ship, to send them below and close the hatches. During the voyage, the labourers had to be kept down there at all times, their guards armed with trenching tool handles to quell any revolt that might occur. It all seemed wrong to me. We walked away discussing the wisdom of the officials concerned in deciding that these poor, debilitated souls should be sent across the sea to finish up shivering in a hole in the ground surrounded by shit…’ Still, nothing Ted and Sam could do. They returned to their camp, more treats – and a hell of a shock: ‘Late that night, Ted left me to return to his tent and we, the very happy brothers, promised ourselves another lovely day tomorrow. I had slept for possibly five hours when the unwelcome roar of a Sergeant roused us all. We had to pack up as quickly as possible, he bellowed, and be ready to move. Into every available space in pack, haversack and mess tin, I crammed as much food as possible. Cooks handed out fresh-baked loaves – enough to last a few days – and fried bacon in quantity. They had opened a long, wooden case containing two large sides of bacon packed in salt, so we ate our fill, stored the remaining rashers in our tubular cap comforters, and tied these to our belts. Hanging all the usual pieces of equipment about our persons we picked up our rifles, slogged down to the landing stage and boarded a small ship, similar to the Robin Redbreast, which had evacuated us from Suvla Bay. Whither away we knew not, nor cared overmuch, for disappointment at the interruption of our Christmas celebrations was deep and our mood doleful. To hell with everything and everybody; wasn’t that war over? So what were They up to?‘ Sending them back to Gallipoli, that’s what They were up to – in Sam’s case, with no chance to say goodbye and offer an explanation to his brother. The battered Battalion remnants were about to acquaint themselves with another of the peninsula’s hostile locations, V Beach on Cape Helles and its iconic WW1 monument, the beached hulk of the SS River Clyde: ‘Many hours later we heard the unwelcome sounds of occasional gunfire and now, in darkness, when we could just make out land ahead, a shell screamed overhead and burst somewhere ashore. Our ship crept slowly forward, far too slowly for my liking, because, added to the likelihood of injury, was the unpleasant one of drowning as well; and we should by rights have been feasting and lounging on that Greek island**. Now we could make out the black shape of a big ship, berthed in the shallows head-on to the shore. Moving closer, we saw a large, square opening in her side and, the tide being just right, our shallower ship could tie up to her and we could step across into her innards and eventually emerge on to a sort of landing stage. We hurried along it before gathering, briefly, on the beach beneath towering cliffs… But no enemy fire came our way. Excitement and interest now replaced resentment, as we filed some way up a gully and waited. I saw someone approach our Major, who then led us further upwards into this rising gully. A great flash some miles distant seawards gave short illumination to the scene; we saw we were passing a strange, wooden tower… and at that moment, almost unbelievably, from the top of it a hunting horn sounded. “Lie down!” yelled an unidentified voice and, being no strangers to this life-saving precaution, we were probably flat on the ground before he was. We heard the usual tearing scream, the crash, and below us – about the spot where we had first paused – we saw a brilliant flash and a large cloud of smoke, followed by the whinings of many flying pieces of shrapnel, the phuts as some of them landed nearby. Said the voice who had given us the warning, “That shell was from Asiatic Annie***, a real big gun across the sea there in Asia Minor. When the lookout up above sees her fire, he blows his horn and we have about 30 seconds to take cover. The shells don’t always land here, of course, but we assume they will.” The informative bloke added that we had landed at V Beach and that the ship we had come through was the River Clyde**** beached there in the first Gallipoli landings months earlier.’ ** H Montgomery Hyde’s Nathan biography, Strong For Service, says that, while he was eating his Christmas dinner, Major Nathan/“Booth” received the order that the Battalion remnants must return to Gallipoli. They duly shipped out on Boxing Day. *** Asiatic Annie shelled V Beach and W Beach on Cape Helles from a 17th-century fort, Kumkalle, at Tepe, five kilometres from the site of ancient Troy. **** SS River Clyde: a collier launched in March, 1905, adapted as a landing ship in 1915; that April, she sailed from Mudros to Cape Helles V Beach; bombarded from the cliffs, she was beached to serve as a bridge for landings and then for returning wounded; six of the River Clyde’s crew were awarded VCs; the apparent hulk was later repaired and sold to Spanish owners who used her as a Mediterranean tramp steamer until finally scrapping her in 1966; on April 15, V Beach, only 300 yards long, became one of five main Allied landing places on Cape Helles; it was overlooked by cliffs, a fort and an ancient castle, Sedd el Bahr Kale, initially occupied and defended by the Turkish Army, then captured by the Allies on April 26, 1915. Despite sharing the widespread indignation at what the Army had done to them – a sort of betrayal, this sudden and unexpected return to Gallipoli – and the resulting swift reacquaintance with the terrors of the battlefield, Sam found to his surprise that he did still feel the benefit of that brief respite on Lemnos: ‘Even so, through a few days good living and the contact with normal people provided by the letters from home and those lovely parcels, I felt changed and strengthened; I knew this tautness was not, at present, allied to fear, as it sometimes had been when lack of food and sleep had caused debility. I’d had proof the normal world still carried on, albeit with certain difficulties, and that we had not been forgotten or given up for lost.’ At first they parked him, his old Signaller mate Peter Nieter and two others in an open-sided clifftop Signals post where they had to be careful not roll over the edge while sleeping. But soon they moved near the beach into a series of the familiar Gallipoli holes in that flakey ground which made building proper trenches very tricky. The strategy was to “look busy” to prevent the enemy thinking anyone had for a single moment pondered the possibility of evacuation – though, in truth, the Turks had probably worked it all out some weeks or months earlier. So when German/Turkish planes flew over, the Battalion bustled about as if they still had serious military intent – and got a nasty surprise: ‘Shortly after dawn that first morning back with our crowd [at the beach], a lone plane did fly back and forth over our area, so we put on our busy act for the pilot’s amusement and information. Quite rightly, acting on instructions, some of our men fired their rifles upwards — imagine our surprise, though, when the pilot dropped a bomb. It exploded much too close for our liking and caused a brief interruption to our “busy bee” programme. That was the first time I’d thought about the possibility of planes carrying bombs. Probably the pilot hurled it out of his cockpit. Although it could only have been a small one, it made quite an impressive bang. Still, no harm done… However, soon after that incident, one of our chaps approached our position, a message in his hand, when another low-flying plane appeared. Our friend more or less disintegrated before our eyes. Sheer bad luck placed him in the spot where bomb Number 2 exploded, poor fellow. So, very early in that distant war, did I see death from the air strike a man down.’ They dropped large darts too, airborne weaponry being at a rather primitive stage of development then. But, aside from these distractions, for the 2/1st remnants and their new comrades on V Beach the chance to resume Christmas-style feasting soon arose, along with the ready military justification that no Allied food should be left for the enemy: ‘Our Signals group landed a lovely job which consisted of going to a large dump near the beach and gradually dispersing its contents: canned and bottled food and drink intended as extras for officers – anything that would keep well in cans, boxes, cartons, with smoked items in cotton wraps, also biscuits, some cakes and sweets, wines, beers, but not much in the way of spirits. We loaded these good things on to small mule carts. A very fair way had been devised to consign them to the troops in equal quantities. Those up at the Front got the first deliveries, naturally. The officer in charge at the dump had records of all the units in benefit. We could only work at night, but during breaks for rest, or while awaiting transports, we were allowed to eat and drink. Chicken, asparagus, Irish bitter from round brass-coloured tins, Schweppes lemon squash or Seltzer water, thin lunch biscuits and other luxuries… for a brief period our small, but fortunate group guzzled these lush items… we stuffed ourselves to capacity during the night and, in daytime, only wanted to sleep. But we did work with a will on the job — and so shortened its duration, unfortunately.’ En route, they still had some drink left for a modest celebration of New Year. And, rather less convivially, their officers still had time for a rather exaggerated display of hostile intent which put Sam and some pals in mortal danger – in a party sent out to dig advance trenches ahead of their front line… just as if they were about to launch an attack: ‘We reached what I assumed was the support-line trench where all the men, except lookouts, were dozing. Forward again and the front line was our next stop. There, we were each handed a pick or a shovel and our guide led the way up over the firing step and parapet into No Man’s Land, the space between us and the enemy. He spaced us out in groups of four and told us to start digging holes. The picks made more than enough noise on that hard, peculiar ground and we were sitting ducks for any Turk who cared to take a pot shot. I wished I was still way back helping with the charitable work at the officers’ food dump… When several Turk light field guns let fly, their nearness surprised me; a strange feature was the thin, red line visible as each shell left its gun, making me wonder if they used rather antique pieces. Their trajectory was high, its zenith roughly above us, yet the shells — not trench mortar bombs, their whine confirmed — burst only a couple of hundred yards behind us. No one told us why, at this stage of the campaign, we poor mugs were digging holes in front of the Turk trenches at great risk to ourselves and our underpants, but even we of the lower orders could guess that we played a part in the great game of bluff. Our top brass hoped John Turk would reason, “They can’t be leaving yet or they wouldn’t be digging works in advanced positions”. I wonder if they were right – if the enemy even cared what we were up to? Perhaps he too had seen enough of the farce. We suffered no casualties.’ And finally… evacuation. On the night of Thursday, January 6, “at ten minutes notice” according to Hyde’s Nathan biography – and “in the middle of tea”! The second for Sam’s Battalion, of course: ‘Once again the quiet line-up in the darkness, the very quiet roll-call, but then the strong, firm voice of our idolised Major saying “Forward!” Little artillery activity as, in two lines, we followed him… After we had walked for some time, I saw the dark shape of a large building on our left-hand side. We stopped 30 yards away and I could see that light escaped from several slits in doors or windows. Apart from slight indications of habitation behind enemy lines up Krithea way, this was the first real building I’d seen near V Beach, so I was interested when the voice of one of our best officers informed us that there stood the fort of Sedd el Bahr, possibly dating from Crusade times*****… … we had successfully crawled away from one battlefront and now we were at it again. Would the Turks let us do it twice? Only a few hundred yards to go and our ears told us that the enemy guns were dropping more shells around the beaches than they had done for many a day. Why? … As we reached the cutting at the landward end of the beach area Asiatic Annie flashed and one of her huge shells crashed down a couple of hundred yards away, but we walked steadily forward, hoping to be spared. A sad thing it would be if she wiped most of us out when we’d got this far… ******* My father was historically misinformed on this one: the Turks built Sedd El Bahr in 1659. They crossed the beach safely, scrambled through the River Clyde’s innards, and out the other side of the hull to board a metal lighter. When the 2/1st landed at Suvla in September, they’d travelled teetering on deck, which felt dodgy enough. But this time they crowded in below – far more alarming, Sam found: ‘Dim light from a candle lantern, the air already foetid, and the horrible feeling of being imprisoned in a dark, stuffy hold frightened me more than anything ashore had done. With all aboard, we stood too closely packed for anyone’s peace of mind. We heard the engine start, felt the motion, up, down, and somewhat sideways. We stood silent, prey to individual fears and hopes. Time passed. A distant gun, the shriek of a shell overhead followed by the familiar explosion heightened the claustrophobic threat of our situation. I forced myself then, as I have done many times since, to take stock painstakingly of every factor relevant to our position. On the credit side of the account one could enter: the excellent protection provided by the stout metal hull and deck of our lighter – nothing but a direct hit could hurt us; the proven steadiness and, in many cases, the courage of my companions – they had fulfilled their contract, signed when they had enlisted, to be loyal at all times to their king and country, good chaps to live and toil with when difficulties and dangers had to be dealt with; we had shelter from the weather – it wasn’t at all bad outside, but it could change and showers of rain, shot or shavings couldn’t touch you down there. But, debit: it was getting hot and stuffy, we were jammed very close, the tiny light might blow out… supposing one was taken short, what could you do about that? No room to get across to the steps and the cover over the opening would be closed and your pants would be holding an unwelcome load before you could do anything about it.’ Nonetheless, they sailed away again, soon transferring to the relative comfort of a small ship called the Partridge: ‘Partridge, probably related to the Robin Redbreast that lifted us from Suvla, chugged off into the night, taking us away from all the nasty bangs and flashes and wounds and deaths which make life on active service so unpleasant for us who would much prefer life in an equable clime with a full belly under a tree with a glass of wine and thou and that sort of thing.’ At Lemnos again, the remnants of the Battalion boarded a troopship/liner called Minneapolis and soon sailed for Egypt, and almost four months of rest encamped between the Nile and the Sahara as some decent food and a little light training built them up for their next task… the Somme. Next week: Somme Rewind 1 of 5 – France, a stolen kiss, a bitter ending for the 2/1st, and settling into “the business of war” on the Western Front… * In his 70s, Sam Sutcliffe wrote Nobody Of Any Importance, a Memoir of his life from childhood through Gallipoli, the Somme, Arras 1918 and eight months as a POW to the 1919 Peace parade. Labels: 1915, 1916, Arab labourers mistreated, Asiatic Annie, Cape Helles, Christmas, evacuation again, Gallipoli, Lemnos, letters from home, Mudros, return to Gallipoli, reunion with brother, Suvla Bay, V Beach, WW1 Memoir Gallipoli Rewind 4: The great Gallipoli snowstorm; Sam risks snipers to beg HQ for food. But then an interlude of plenty… and the best gift of all, the evacuation of Suvla Bay for Christmas! A hundred years ago this week… the British launched their third substantial attack of the Ypres campaign, now deploying new strategies conceived by General Herbert Plumer – he concentrated on achieving limited objectives with a first wave of attackers, and moving on to the next one with a second wave after that, which seems to have become colloquially known as “leapfrogging”, though it sounds like common sense too. He applied this to The Battle Of The Menin Road Bridge (September 20-25), taking the Gheluvelt Plateau by stages and largely succeeding though most of the gains occurred on the first day: Inverness Copse, Glencorse Wood, Veldhoek and part of Polygon Wood. While Russia still held a line east of Riga in Latvia, the German Army did attack much further east, potentially outflanking the Russians at Lemburg (September 19), and Jacobstadt (21-22; held by the Russians for 18 months previously). But the Allies progressed steadily in southern Europe with the Italians successfully attacking the Austro-Hungarians at Carzano, near Trentino (September 18), the German attack in the Susitza Valley, Moldavia repulsed by the Romanian Army (20), and combined French and Albanian forces pushing the Austrian invaders back in the Skumbi Valley (20). [Memoir background: my father, Lance Corporal Signaller Sam Sutcliffe from Edmonton, north London, under-age 2/1st Royal Fusiliers volunteer and Gallipoli veteran (Blogs September 20, 2015, to January 3, 2016), had fought on the Somme Front with his second outfit the Kensingtons (Blogs May 15 to September 25, 2016)… until officialdom spotted his real age – 18 on July 6, 1916, legally too young for the battlefield. So they told him he could take a break from the fighting until he turned 19. He took up the offer, though with an enduring sense of guilt. By December, 1916, he ended up posted to Harrogate, Yorkshire, and re-allocated again, this time to the Essex Regiment 2/7th Battalion, along with a bunch of other under-age Tommies until such time as they severally became eligible for the trenches again… An interesting year ensued – four months of blizzards, a meningitis scare, special training in various northern locations, and then, just after his 19th birthday on July 6, a few summer weeks stomping around Yorkshire on a route march… which in due course leads him to hospital again, to recover from some lurking effects of trench warfare and prepare him for more. However, now I have to break off from the this-week-100-years-ago excerpts from his Memoir because my father didn’t write enough about his year “out” to provide 52 blog excerpts. So, for the next 10 weeks until November, before he returns to France and the Front from December onwards, I’m revisiting his previous accounts of historic battles as seen by an ordinary front-line Tommy – the Somme and, first, Sam’s Gallipoli, his initiation into the realities of war. He was a 17-year-old Lance Corporal Signaller by the time his Battalion approached Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, on the night of September 25, 1915.] In the first three weeks of these episodes from Gallipoli, my father, Lance Corporal Signaller Sam Sutcliffe went through all the novice soldier’s fundamental “firsts” – coming under fire, losing comrades to shot and shell, poor food, frustration at lack of any apparent purpose, anger at Generals lurking well away from danger (out at sea in this case). But he also encountered some Suvla1915 specials like crapping under fire, an excess of apricot jam and dearth of every other nourishing comestible, near-death from a centipede bite and, to more people’s astonishment than his own, having bombs dropped on him from a plane! None of them had ever heard of such a thing… But we left him in the hilltop hole where, as a Signaller, he spent much of his “tour”, on 24/7 rotation with an assistant/hole-mate, their neighbours in adjacent trenches being a group of older, resourceful and very comradely machine gunners, members of the Essex Regiment (to which, coincidentally, Sam was transferred a year later). Two months in, his current and least favourite companion was “a sad little man called Harry Green”. But Harry’s tenure was about to be concluded by the meteorological freak which assailed both sides as winter approached… ‘Late in November, a sudden change of weather made our Army’s already depressing situation almost unbearable. The heat, and consequent plague of filthy flies carrying germs of disease, began to abate, and then came freezing winds with sleet and ice-cold rain. After several days, some trenches were deep in water. Still heavier rain fell non-stop throughout one day and night, snow followed on, then the whole wretched lot froze solid. Our Essex Regiment friends had no food to spare for us and, having no protection from the terrible cold, Green and I looked like dying quite soon* – even though, fortunately, our trench on the hilltop remained dry. I decided to attempt the journey down to Battalion Headquarters to beg for food and tea – no shortage of water now, surrounded as we were by ice and snow. Do you remember the woollen tube with sewn-up ends, described as a “cap comforter” in Army equipment lists? If you stuffed one half of it into the other half, you had a sort of pixie hat. Being unable to face the blast unprotected, I made small openings for eyes and mouth and pulled the thing down over my face, so heaven only knows what I looked like to the few men who saw me. Descending the hill, I had to risk being sniped and proceed on top, for most of the trench system lay deep in ice and snow. I assumed the enemy would be similarly afflicted and uninterested in slaughtering infidels, but at one point a couple of bullets came very close and I dropped into a trench and tried slithering on the ice, but soon had to climb out again. A dreadful sight confronted me when I reached low-lying Essex Ravine. Rising water had forced our men to quit their trenches and, already very chilled and wet, stand exposed to the biting cold wind and sleet with nowhere to rest. Their resourceful officer told them to form circles and bend forwards with arms around each other’s shoulders. He and others then covered each circular group with their rubberised groundsheets tucked in here and there to prevent them being blown away. Thus they stood all night, pressed close for warmth, and most of them were still in that situation when I arrived. I eventually met a Sergeant who had assumed responsibility for acting as Quartermaster to our much diminished Battalion – not many more than 200 of us remained on active duty by then, the rest sick, wounded or dead from illness or enemy action. I told him of our predicament, our lack of food. At first he disowned us, saying the machine gunners whose communications we maintained ought to feed us. But, relenting, he gave me a handful of tea and two hard square biscuits, this to feed two men for an indefinite period.’ The Gallipoli blizzard began on November 27, 1915; H Montgomery Hyde’s Strong For Service, the biography of Major Harry Nathan, by then 2/1st CO, notes 12,000 cases of frostbite and exposure arising on the British and Commonwealth side in Gallipoli – in a letter home, Nathan wrote of “15 degrees of frost” (meaning a temperature of 17° Fahrenheit); he also reports 280 men “drowned” in the mud produced by thawing snow and/or rain. * This suggests that, in reality, the arrangement, mentioned last week, that the two Signallers on the hill should come under the Essex Regiment Quartermaster didn’t work, although my father doesn’t specifically mention any such problem. Sam struggled back towards his hill, hauling his feet out of the ice holes that constantly grabbed at him, seriously worried that this climb could finish him. But then he had a lucky, somewhat mysterious encounter when he peered into a short, covered side trench and followed his nose: ‘This was on higher ground, so not flooded. I went in, I was greeted by a tall man, who treated me with Christian kindness; he let me warm myself by some sort of stove, and gave me a large mug of hot cocoa and a chunk of buttered bread. I suppose I was too overcome by this luxurious fare and lovely treatment to ask questions, but thanked him sincerely. I could see he was a chaplain, but to whom I did not know. One chap I questioned later reckoned my benefactor was the Bishop Of Croydon, but I’d never heard of such a Bishop**. I guess I never will know, but the memory of the good man who revived my strength and enabled me to continue remains always.’ The Bishop of Croydon did exist and his name at that time was Henry Pereira, but he would have been aged 70 in late 1915, so my father probably presumed correctly that his benefactor was some other cleric. Finally he got back to his glum assistant, Harry, only to find he’d done something really daft: ‘[He was] in no condition to be interested in the biscuit I offered him for, in my absence, the thoughtless man had removed his boots because his feet were so painful. Now, swollen considerably, they could not be forced back into the boots, so he was in a right mess. Cold, wet, without footwear, and exposed to weather which, I suspect, was coming to us direct from Siberia. To make tea, I had to find clean ice, put it in my mess tin, and melt it over the small methylated spirit heater. This Harry could drink and, meanwhile, I phoned Brigade HQ for a man to replace him. Throughout that night he moaned and groaned and sobbed, being in awful pain. I wore the headphones continuously, cat-napping at intervals. Next day, I spotted a disused trench more than half-full of ice and snow on the hillside facing the Turks. So I risked becoming a sniper’s target, got out into the open, dashed across, filled my can and hurried back. Using tea repeatedly and carefully, I was able to supply Green and myself with warm fluid. Moving around, I maintained some bodily warmth too. Harry was now delirious and, I hoped, past feeling much pain, but one more day passed before men from HQ were able to reach us, lay Harry in a blanket, and carry him, groaning and shouting, away to the beach.’ Over the next few days the weather eased. Stories passed around about men drowning in flooded trenches or freezing to death. Sam felt cheerier when an old friend from the Battalion’s early days, Peter Nieter, arrived in his hilltop hole to serve as his assistant. However, he was about to become the unwitting cause of a tragedy he regretted to the marrow: ‘Attached once more to the regular Essex boys for rations, we fared well. And I had my disused trench for water – it remained several feet deep for some time. However, fetching it became risky because a sniper had spotted my movements as I darted hither and thither to fox his aim. I carried a can to which I had tied a length of string to lower it into the trench. I would climb out of our trench and dash several yards, freeze there for a moment while I pictured John Turk taking aim at me, then make another short dash while the bullet smacked somewhere behind me. One more pause, then run to the trench, lower and raise the can, and return via another pause or two before a final, fearful charge back to and into our trench, having retained as much water in the can as possible. The bullets always seemed to arrive at the spot near where I had last paused. But I was careful to operate in poor light, morning and evening, because I had rightly assumed that the sniper was a good shot… So you can imagine my sorrow when two Essex men laid a boy on a firing step just opposite my hole, pointed to a wound in his chest, and told me the lad had attempted to copy my water-getting dash in broad daylight. Probably he didn’t bother about foxing the sniper either. He belonged to the Hampshire Regiment, but an Essex man had watched his progress, seen him wounded, and with a pal had risked death to drag him in. I phoned Brigade HQ for stretcher-bearers, but doubted if the lad would live – the bullet had pierced a lung. We fixed his field dressing over the entry wound, but I dared not move him to search for the exit, which may well have been a gaping hole. As I tried to keep him warm and give him support such as I could in response to those frightened eyes, I felt quite old in spite of my mere 17 years. He – the first wounded man I’d had to deal with – was even younger than I. The stretcher-bearers were gentle with him; I knew only too well they would have to climb out of trenches in several places where a stretcher could not be accommodated; in full view of the Turk, they would have to rely on his clemency. Thereafter, I stayed away from the watery trench and made do with such water as the machine gunners could spare for me.’ As ever, he knuckled down to the gruelling work of getting through the next day and the next… until a surprise move offered him a taste of Brigade HQ luxury – luxury Gallipoli-style anyway; it still involved getting shot at quite a lot. ‘I had been feeling that the small number of people of my Battalion who still remained after the blizzard must have forgotten my existence, but a week or so after Nieter’s arrival I had pleasant proof that this was not so. A replacement for me suddenly appeared at our hole on the hilltop and I received instructions to join the Signals Section at 88th Brigade Headquarters until further orders. Sorry to leave Nieter, but flattered and excited, I made my way to the ravine which sheltered HQ. There, they had built small but comfortable offices for administration and communication. Low, wooden buildings with earth-covered roofs on which the local weeds and grasses grew. Hopes that I would live in one of them quickly died the death when I was conducted to a nearby hole covered by a groundsheet roof, and told I could set up house there. Thankfully, it was dry, but it was sited beside the junction of two footpaths, and I quickly discovered that the position had been honoured by an enemy sniper. He had one of those tripod-rifles** fixed on the point where the paths met; at intervals, a bullet smacked into the ground about a foot from one end of my hole. As the new boy, the privilege of avoiding sudden death by a sniper’s bullet automatically became mine. But the pleasure of working in a warm, covered structure, properly seated, with cooked food and big helpings of hot tea, more than compensated for the sniper targeting my sleeping quarters. Some days we had steak and onions for dinner; it seemed incredible after the hard tack and occasional bully beef which had usually been my lot. Bacon for breakfast was not unknown, cheese and bread in the evening common. If the pecking order worked that way, the lucky devils at Divisional HQ probably got breakfast, a meat lunch, afternoon tea, and dinner in the evening. It all passed through too many hands before the ranker’s turn came, God help him. Meanwhile, I felt the benefit of this luxury, my spirits rose again, I smiled, even laughed occasionally. Fully occupied on duty, when not working I hung about in one or other of the small HQ buildings as long as possible. Then, in my hole, I could sometimes remove my tunic, shirt and vest and destroy all the body lice I could find, replace these garments then take off my trousers. With candle ends scrounged from the office, I could burn off the filthy things infesting the inside seams of my trousers, crush the devils in my long pants and have a couple of days free of the continual biting.’ ** See blog September 3, Gallipoli Rewind 2 – Turkish snipers would set up a series of rifles on tripods in different locations, aim fixed at one spot, and fire them in sequence. While at HQ, he got a further perspective on the suffering of comrades in his Battalion and others: ‘A sight I’d missed in my rather isolated position on the machine-gun hill was large numbers of men in various stages of illness, many with layers of socks and rags over their frostbitten feet, heading hopefully for the beach. How could such a suffering multitude be dealt with properly? The beach people must also have been rained on, then snowed on, then frozen and tortured by that Siberian blast if they dared to venture into the open. Then the sorry throng, with their frostbitten feet and hands, some already gangrenous, all of them short of food, descended on them and they just had to cope. What a commandeering of lighters and small steamboats there must have been. I, with my two biscuits and a handful of tea, had seen almost nothing of these larger events.’ But then, “well into December”, his replacement on the hilltop got a fever and Sam was the only suitable replacement, so he rejoined Nieter – bringing with him the persistent rumour at least that, finally, evacuation was on the cards. Nothing official though. In fact, Sam and Nieter soon encountered a General on the front line for the first, and probably only time, in their humble military careers: ‘… one day, as I squatted in a trench and chatted with one of the Essex men, a sort of apparition appeared; it was a large man, somewhat florid of countenance, wearing much red braid on collar, epaulettes and around his cap. As he approached we stood up – not wishing to be trodden on – and our action unexpectedly put the cat among the pigeons. “Why the devil are these men standing to attention?” he roared. “If this happens again I’ll have everybody put on fatigue duty out on top collecting cans and rubbish in broad daylight!” He squeezed past us, quite a beefy gentleman, followed by a retinue, the first few of whom also carried much red tape on their uniforms. Several ordinary officers followed, looking almost shabby compared with the top brass. An Essex Sergeant brought up the rear and, in answer to my questioning look, he said, “General De Lisle**, General Officer Commanding this Army”. I considered the incident and the strange logic it suggested. The General bellowed at us for standing to attention – although that was what we were supposed to do when an officer approached – because it might expose our heads to enemy snipers. His loud voice was calculated to scare all within earshot, including, I guessed, his escorting officers. Yet he must have known that his own head, with its red-braided cap, would regularly bob up above the lip of the trench as he proceeded with his inspection. And apparently that didn’t matter. A fine bravado perhaps. Except that he was the General Officer Commanding wilfully risking death… Thereafter, I assumed that General Ian Hamilton had at last packed it in***. When I told witty Nieter of my assumption, he pointed out that this change at the top would not necessarily mean rapid promotion for me.’ ** General Sir Henry Beauvoir De Lisle (1864-1955), commissioned 1883, fought in the Second Boer War, then on the Western Front in 1914, until his transfer to Gallipoli; returned to the Western Front, including the Somme, 1916-18; www.firstworldwar.com/bio/delisle.htm suggests De Lisle wasn’t popular among the troops – and did not seek to be so – and that his commander in Gallipoli, Sir William Birdwood, referred to him as “a brute“; but he did at least go ashore, in the noisily eccentric manner my father encountered, to see “every corner of Suvla” for himself. *** General Sir Ian Hamilton had actually departed some while earlier, on October 16 (replaced by Lieutenant General Sir Charles Monro); but, clearly, nobody told the Poor Bloody Infantry who commanded them at any given moment. In due course, frightfully hush-hush preparations for evacuation became apparent: ‘Christmas Day coming up… All we were missing was the Christmas tree, the holly, the oranges, Christmas puddings, iced cakes and booze. We did have ample bully beef, hard biscuits, tea, tinned milk, sugar and, because of our Army’s reduced numbers, two or three pints of water each day… No one talked about the fuses and detonators so carefully installed by the engineers all along the front trench, but we hoped they would bang off at regular intervals and kid the Turks that our positions were still manned for a long while after the last soldier had put to sea on a lighter. That was one of our really fervent hopes – another, that perhaps the Turks knew we were lighting out and would be up on their hill laughing fit to bust. At the same time, we did know that, when the time came for us to slip away and leave John Turk once again in possession of his strip of territory, halfway through the operation hordes of screaming enemy soldiery might suddenly descend from the high hills which formed a sort of semi-circle around the area held by the British, Australian and New Zealand armies… Impatient and excited, under a partial moon, I waited one night for a code word over the headphones. When it came I passed the word “Now” along the line and machine guns were dismantled, our signal lines disconnected, container satchels hung over our shoulders, and rifles and all equipment taken with us, as we all very quietly moved beachwards in a single line. By then, all troops in forward positions had already departed****. I took whispered farewells of our kindly Essex pals, left the file, and joined the remnant of our own Battalion assembled there, awaiting the order to move beachwards. This was when we heard about an unfortunate young man who had just been killed, a member of H Company from when we first enlisted… Most unexpectedly on this quiet night, a bullet had struck him in the upper arm. The man with him applied the first field dressing, which every soldier carried in a special pocket. But, in the dark, nobody saw the blood welling from a severed artery, or perhaps something better could have been done to control the bleeding. By the time they were able to get him into skilled hands he had bled to death… With no undue hurry, we got aboard those all-metal lighters once more and chug-chugged away. On a calm sea we transferred without any real accident to a smallish steamboat — it accommodated all who were left of our big Battalion; many had died, but more had gone away sick, some wounded*****… Soon, out of sight of the explosions, some singing started up, our first for many a day. And then we really gave vent to the joy and relief we felt. A youngster who had obliged at concerts back in Malta climbed to a position by the bridge and sang a quickly improvised parody of that popular song, Moonlight Bay: “We were sailing away from Suvla Bay/We can hear the Turks a-singing/‘Please don’t go away/You are breaking our hearts/So please do stay’/‘Not bloody likely, boys/Goodbye to Suvla Bay’”. All joined in, inventing their own versions as we sang along time after time.’ **** Hyde’s Nathan biography notes the Battalion’s evacuation taking place on December 18-19, Saturday to Sunday overnight. ******* I think I remember my father saying that 147 came out “unscathed”, although in the text a little earlier he refers to around 200 being still active immediately after the late-November blizzard and, soon, he mentions that figure again; I couldn’t find any official figures. The relief from danger, the reunion with what was left of his Battalion, the singing… for some hours and days to come, Sam basked in hopes for the future… ‘… soiled and unbathed, skinny almost to the point of emaciation, I was yet full of hope and joy because life once more offered prospects, changes of scene, sound and smell, and the luxury of sleeping with a roof of some sort over one’s head – a happy spell of rest and re-adjustment. So optimism and smiles all round were the order of the day. It would take time to build us up to general fitness and the Battalion to its full numerical strength, time in which we hoped to live a better sort of life than had been our lot recently.’ Next week: Gallipoli Rewind 5 (the last): Sam experiences more mixed emotions: the wretchedness of the collective sense of failure mitigated by the joy of a reunion with his brother Ted whom he’d last seen in Egypt, letters from home, free beer and Christmas cheer… but then on Boxing Day, their worst nightmare, they’re ordered to return to Gallipoli! Labels: 1915, blizzard, evacuation for Christmas, frostbite, Gallipoli, General De Lisle, lack of food, snipers, steak dinners at Brigade HQ, Suvla Bay, tackling lice with a candle, Tommies drown in trenches, WW1 Memoir Gallipoli Rewind 5: after the Suvla Bay evacuation... Gallipoli Rewind 4: The great Gallipoli snowstorm;... Gallipoli rewind 3: Sam has a bizarre encounter wi... Gallipoli rewind 2: Sam and pals land at Suvla Bay...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2438
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__label__cc	0.615771	0.384229	Rolf Schnyder: “Mosaic” – a solid record with an amazing depth and range Published on June 5, 2019 in Reviews by staff Rolf Schnyder wears many hats. He is a musician, songwriter, producer, publisher, and even a music teacher. Rolf studied guitar at the Academy of Contemporary Music in Zürich, and became a professional songwriter in 2002, alongside his wife Monika Schnyder who is a lyricist. He has several songs under contract with various publishers, and composes in multiple styles, from Country to Pop, Rock and Jazz. Rolf has his own publishing company, Liva Music based in Switzerland, which he founded in 2013. He has released a number of singles and albums, which can be found on all major digital stores, while his latest release is the track, entitled, “Mosaic”. The song sounds like a good entry point for the uninitiated when it comes to Rolf Schnyder’s music. It is simply a brilliant multi-movement fusion epic with all the atmosphere and emotional range of good progressive music, with a cinematic twist. Yet it also has a classic, nostalgic flavor. Rolf Schnyder takes all his ambition from numerous directions and fuses them to strike the ideal balance between virtuosity and palatability. The musical arrangement is fantastic. Lyrics are non-existent, as this is an instrumental piece, but Rolf has a way of getting his point across with the music. You can really picture vivid imagery by listening to the music alone, with little knowledge about the point of the song. But that is what makes Rolf so good – the music itself really tells the story and penetrates your emotions if you let it. The production and engineering is also incredible, while the lead and melodic lines mesh between instruments such that the unison lines sound like a single incredibly multitimbral instrument, the rhythm section tight beyond belief. On this one, Rolf seems to really have focused on his strengths, and although he covers a lot of musical ground he never strays too far away from what he is really good at. I would guess that Rolf is a downright perfectionist as it comes across in his music and writing style. “Mosaic” is insanely good. I might even have to go out on a limb here and say that this is the best thing Rolf Schnyder has ever recorded, period. The guitars are fiery and resonant, while the keyboards shimmer and shine. Underneath, dynamic basslines and snappy percussion pushes the momentum along with insistence. The melodic motifs flourishing under the masterful hands of Schnyder. If it’s true that music should entertain, make you think, be fun, challenge you, and be just a little different. Then “Mosaic” does all that. Performed with sincerity and conviction, the song delivers impeccable composition and unparalleled musicianship. However, what makes this track great is that ever elusive of intangibles – groove. Put on the headphones and drive yourself into a frenzy with the funky groove Rolf Schnyder injects into this track. This is a solid record with an amazing depth and range showing Rolf’s maturity as an artist. He is a prolific artist and a talented man, that’s for sure. This music is at once energetic and uplifting. Rolf Schnyder shows himself to be a wizard at drawing from varied influences and concocting a truly mesmerizing musical piece which cannot be squeezed into one single genre description. “Mosaic” is amazing melodic music that has a unique rhythmical bite which keeps one’s imagination fully occupied as the song seamlessly streams through its journey. Instrumentally, it really doesn’t get much better than this! 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__label__wiki	0.661765	0.661765	Facebook stiffens policies around self-harm and suicide Timed with World Suicide Prevention Day, Facebook is tightening its policies around some difficult topics, including self-harm, suicide and eating disorder content after consulting with a series of experts on these topics. It’s also hiring a new Security Policy Manager to advise on these areas going forward. This person will be specifically tasked with analyzing the impact of Facebook’s policies and its apps on people’s health and well-being, and will explore new ways to improve support for the Facebook community. The social network, like others in the space, has to walk a penalty line when it comes to self-harm content. On the one hand, allowing people to openly discuss their mental health conflicts with family, friends and other online support groups can be beneficial. But on the other, science indicates that suicide can be contagious, and that clusters and outbreaks are real phenomena. Meanwhile, graphic imagery of self-harm can unintentionally promote the behavior. With its updated policies, Facebook aims to prevent the spread of more harmful imagery and content. It changed its policy around self-harm images to no longer allow graphic trim images, which can unintentionally promote or trigger self-harm. These images will not be allowed even if someone is seeking support or expressing themselves to aid their recovery, Facebook says. The same content will also now be more difficult to find on Instagram through search and Explore. And Facebook has tightened its policy considering eating disorder content to prevent an expanded range of content that could contribute to eating disorders. This includes content that focuses on the depiction of ribs, collar bones, thigh gaps, concave stomach or protruding spine or scapula when shared with terms related to eating disorders. It also will ban content that includes instructions for drastic and unhealthy weight loss, when shared with those same kinds of terms. It will also display a sensitivity screen over mended self-harm cuts going forward to help unintentionally promote self-harm. Even when it takes down content, Facebook says it will now continue to send resources to people who posted self-harm or eating disorder content. Facebook will additionally include Orygen’s #chatsafe guidelines to its Safety Center and in resources on Instagram. These guidelines are meant to help those who are responding to suicide-related content posted by others or are looking to express their own thoughts and feelings on the topic. The alters came about over the course of the year, following Facebook’s consultations with a variety of experts in the areas across a number of countries, including the U.S ., Canada, U.K. Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, India, Mexico, Philippines and Thailand. Several of the policies were updated prior to today, but Facebook is now publicly announcing the combined lot. The company says it’s also looking into sharing the public data from its platform on how people talk about suicide with academic researchers by way of the CrowdTangle monitoring tool. Before, this was made available primarily to newsrooms and media publishers Suicide helplines provide help to those in need. Contact a helpline if you need support yourself or need help supporting a friend. Click here for Facebook’s list of helplines around the world. Author Posted on February 4, 2020 February 3, 2020 Categories UncategorizedTags Facebook, policy, self harm, Social Media Previous Previous post: If I Had Given Him Just One Bottle, He Would Still Be Alive Next Next post: Humans can get tuberculosis from deer, the CDC says	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2454
__label__cc	0.571967	0.428033	(Lev Davidovich Bronstein) November 7, 1879 – August 21, 1940 Jewish mothers want their sons to become doctors. Or lawyers. Or perhaps professors. Jewish mothers don't want their sons to become revolutionaries. It's too late to ask Mrs. Bronstein how she felt about the career choice of her son Lev, but our guess is that she wouldn't have liked it. But then, Mrs. Bronstein wouldn't be alone as a Jewish mother with a revolutionary son in turn-of-the-century Russia. If anything, these mothers could have easily formed a club to lament the horrible lives and the horrible pseudonyms their offspring have chosen. And what Jewish mother would have expected her son to be the head of the biggest army in the world? And what Jewish mother would have wanted her son to become a national scapegoat? And what Jewish mother could have foreseen her son being stabbed to death by an icepick? Rest in peace, Mrs. Bronstein. Emmanuel Goldstein Lev Kamenev	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2455
__label__wiki	0.993066	0.993066	Broadcasts (TV and Radio) All Things Considered, BBC Radio Wales (October 25, 2020) [The Face]. ‘Brave Notes’, from R R B V E Ǝ T N Ƨ O A, The Aural Bible I, Aberystwyth: National Screen & Sound Archive of Wales (2015), The Sound Projector: Music Magazine & Radio Show (May 26, 2016). ‘Revival Address’, ‘Abort Nerves’, and ‘Servant Robe’, from R R B V E Ǝ T N Ƨ O A, The Aural Bible I, Aberystwyth: National Screen & Sound Archive of Wales (2015), The Sound Projector: Music Magazine & Radio Show (May 29, 2015). All Things Considered, BBC Radio Wales (June 13, 2010) [Nicholas Evans] Faith in the Frame, ITV, UK, panel contribution with Melvyn Bragg (October 12, 2008) [Chris Ofili’s Upper Room] Review of the Year, BBC 2 Wales, UK (December 31, 2007) [Peter Prendergast] The Miner as Artist, BBC 2 Wales, UK (November 5, 2007) [Miner-Artists] Beyond Belief, BBC Radio 4, UK (July 16, 2007) [relics] Past Master, BBC Radio Wales, UK (July 15, 2007) [Apparitions of Spirits] Centenary of the Welsh Revival, BBC Radio Wales, UK (October 12, 2004) [Image of the Invisible] Sunday: Religious News & Current Affairs, BBC Radio 4, UK (December 14, 2003) [evangelical artefacts] Hunters of Ghosts, Hunters of the Extraordinary Series (episode 2) France 3, France (April 27, 2003) [paranormal images] Good Morning Wales, BBC Radio Wales, UK (2001) [Welsh chapels] The Painted Dragon, S4C, UK (2001) [Art of Piety] Front Line, BBC Radio 4, UK (2000) [Miner-Artists] Wales Today, BBC 1, UK (2000) [Miner-Artists] High Performance, HTV, UK (2000) [Miner-Artists] On the Chapel Trail (part 2), HTV, UK (1997) [The Art of Piety]	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2457
__label__cc	0.720305	0.279695	The Lori Vrba Interview: The Moth Wing Diaries by Aline SmithsonMarch 24, 2015 The work produced by Lori Vrba stands with the best work of some of the photographic masters of the 20th and 21st centuries. It resonates; it is intimate, and it is emotional. Just as the artist is reflected in the work, the work is reflected in the artist. Those of us who know Lori could not imagine her making anything other: deeply personal, mature, womanly, and seriously engaging to the viewer. — Del Zogg, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Anyone who has encountered the ridiculously talented Lori Vrba and the imaginative ways she expresses her life and world through photographs and installation, knows what I’m talking about when I say, it is time to celebrate. Lori is releasing her first monograph, The Moth Wing Diaries, published by Daylight Books, to hit the bookshelves in April 2015. The book is a photographic narrative about memory, loss, providence, and revival. It explores the artist’s sense of conflict emanating from her childhood trapped in an oppressive culture where she felt like an outsider. She would ultimately escape from it and find peace, freedom, and a state of grace within the Southern landscape of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The photographs in the book were all made in Lori’s backyard in North Carolina where she has lived with her husband and three children for the past seven years. Lori’s work reveals the artist’s powerful connection to the earth, her vulnerability and strength, and her femininity. The word romantic in this monograph is reconsidered as not so saccharin-sweet, but mystical, intelligent and boldly vulnerable. Lori’s work reveals the artist’s powerful connection to the earth, her vulnerability and strength, and her femininity. Lori writes, “My life experiences have brought me to this place where I find myself overwhelmed with the drive to make photographs about who I am, what I feel inside, what I believe to be sacred and enduring. I am inspired by moments that hold contradictions… like a big lightning storm that is really uncomfortable and really beautiful at exactly the same time. Such duality is true for the very best things in life. Loving someone is uncomfortable and beautiful. Having children is uncomfortable and beautiful. Being an artist is uncomfortable and beautiful.” Lori was raised in a rural town in Southeast Texas with no exposure to art. She spent most of her childhood outdoors stick-drawing in the dirt and playing house in the woods. Her first encounter with photography occurred when she discovered a trove of family snapshots hidden in her mother’s chest of drawers that represented decades of family history. Lori’s parents had never talked about the hard times they had left behind, and Vrba grew up without knowing her extended family. She spent hours studying the intriguing, anonymous faces in these photographs that she writes were “whispering stories from a piece of time that mattered to someone.” This childhood experience ignited Vrba’s passionate love affair with photography. Not surprisingly, her work is deeply personal and focuses on self-discovery and family. Lori shoots with an old Hasselblad and develops the film by hand in her home darkroom where she also does all of the processing, printing and toning herself. She uses a unique toning solution consisting of a heavy dilution of selenium and tea to bring out the personality and detail. Her artwork is imbued with a 19th-century look and feel. She considers her exhibition installations as an important extension of the work itself with recent examples of such in New Orleans, Atlanta, Santa Barbara and Houston. She is represented by Catherine Courturier Gallery in Houston. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Lishui Photography Museum in China and The Museum of Fine Arts Houston. I can’t wait to hear all about the book, but I want to start at the beginning. Tell us about your growing up and what brought you to photography. I grew up in Vidor, Texas. Dave Anderson has a wonderful series and book called Rough Beauty. That’s my hometown. It’s a rough place and I knew I didn’t belong nor did I want to. The town is notorious, especially in Texas, and I felt frustrated with judgements and assumptions most people had for me just because of where I was from so I lied about it until I was well into my 40’s. And then I finally thought, screw that. I am who I am, and Vidor is part of my story. Photography was not on my radar until I was a grown woman. I have three children, and there was about a ten-year stretch of time where my life as a mother was intense; Intensely frightening, intensely beautiful, exhausting, rewarding, depleting…all in one day. And that day repeated itself over and over again for what felt like a thousand years. It was during that time that I became obsessed with making photographs about what that felt like to live. Photography has really been about personal exploration and expression for me since Day One. Who and what were your inspirations? I’d like to speak to my present day inspirations. The list is long but to name a couple of my contemporaries who I can’t get enough of…Vojtek Slama (Wolf’s Honey aaaagghhh) and KK DePaul (I bow to your awesomeness). I am always inspired by music and words and nature. And the ridiculousness of my daily life with children still at home…ridiculous beauty and chaos and surrendering. Also, bravery inspires me and restores my faith in humanity; people sharing or committing themselves in a real, vulnerable way, particularly in art, is not only inspiring for me as an artist but as a person. At what point did you develop your signature style? It’s not something I consciously developed. I think my work has looked uniquely my own from the beginning. I came to the medium later in life with a clear viewpoint and mature sensibilities. I suppose it’s one advantage of being a little late to the party. You are still a film shooter and process and print all your work–can you talk about this methodology and film vs. digital? I can speak to it very simply…every artist should love their process. I am shamelessly sentimental about film. I love not knowing if I have the shot. Processing new rolls is better than Christmas morning. Watching a print come up in the tray is not like magic…it is magic. And toning is like a deep conversation between me and the finished print. The print tells me who it’s going to be, and I listen. I am grateful to wake up every morning and go to work in hope and romance and magic. Call me crazy. How did you develop you signature toning quality? I’ve been experimenting with different toning and staining techniques for as long as I’ve had my own darkroom which is almost eight years. Right now, I’m doing a sepia/selenium split that I think suits the work, and it took hundreds of ruined prints to move through the learning curve for this combo. How did the book come about and how did you go about selecting images? Daylight approached me and asked if I would be interested in making a monograph. Ummm yes please? I knew that I wanted the book to hold imagery from the four focused projects I’ve been committed to; Safekeeping, My Grace Is Sufficient, Piano Farm and Drunken Poet’s Dream. I also knew that it would not be separated according to the different series. My intention was to weave a visual narrative that is the story of me. Ursula Damm is the book designer, and she was a wonderful partner in the edit. She brought fresh eyes that made everything come together. What have you learned going through the process of editing and presenting your work? Has the experience brought up any emotions? Oh, my. I think I came to this with some confidence in my ability to edit my own work. But making a book is something I have never done on any level. I am pleased that there are images that have never been seen and surprised by some that have been omitted. I stayed true to serving the book rather than my ego if that makes any sense. I am humbled and deeply moved by this privilege of having a published monograph and slightly terrified. I have a new baby, and I love it and I want you to love it too. You have such a deep well with which to make imagery–I am always amazed at your level of creativity, not only in your work but in your presentation. What supports and generates that creativity? I work in some way seven days a week. I plan on living to be a hundred, and I’m still not going to have enough time to get it all in. Creating this work is my salve for what is not quite right about me and my life, and it is also my reward for what is absolutely right. I am profoundly affected by space and have a heightened awareness of everything around me. My home and studio reflects my need for visual stimulation, and I can’t help but bring that sensitivity to every installation, exhibition or any form of presentation. Another very relevant piece of this is the fact that I moved to North Carolina 8 years ago after living in Texas for my entire life. Mind. Blown. I am blown away by the four seasons, the landscape, and the southern culture. I am wide-eyed and living in wonder, and this is no exaggeration. My personal work got real serious when my feet hit the Carolina dirt. Last year, I featured the amazing collaborative exhibition that you and the Posse created at the SLOW Exposures Festival. Tell us how the group got started and what you get as an image maker from a photography collective. Anne Berry gets the credit for cultivating this idea for what is now Posse. I first met Anne in Ireland several years ago and loved her right away. We stayed in touch, and she started this wonderful conversation and then we met Ann George and S.Gayle Stevens at PhotoNOLA and here we are. My work is always strengthened by time spent in their company and good counsel. We recognize how fortunate we are to have this committed unit, and we protect it fiercely…four mama bears taking care of business and each other. Posse is really a finely honed example of one of the very best things about living a photographic life: a rich, accessible, supportive community. Our medium is awesome in this way. Do you have shows and book signings lined up? YES! I have a show at the Daylight Project Space in Hillsborough, NC March 27th-May 22nd and at the Horace Williams House here in Chapel Hill opening April 12th. The Daylight artists will be doing a signing in NYC for AIPAD April 18th and then in LA May 1-3 for Paris Photo LA. I open in Houston at Catherine Couturier Gallery on June 6th, and there will be a number of events through out the summer there. And I’m excited about an exhibition with Eliot Dudik for LOOK3 in Charlottesville, VA. This is Gabrielle Larew’s baby, and she has curated an evocative show that opens June 13th. And I am presenting at the North Light Photographic Workshops for Photostockfest June 18th-21st. Forward motion. Always. What’s your biggest vice? Dirty Vodka Martini Tell us something unexpected about you… I am not a natural blonde. And finally, describe your perfect day…. I wake up at the beach. Or my house in the snow. I spend the day with art, music, food, wine and the people I love most in the world. There is dancing. 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__label__cc	0.707481	0.292519	The University Library as an Innovation and Knowledge Services Centre: A case from Nigeria ANUNOBI, Chinwe Veronica and ONYEBINAMA, Colette (2016) The University Library as an Innovation and Knowledge Services Centre: A case from Nigeria. Paper presented at: IFLA WLIC 2016 – Columbus, OH – Connections. Collaboration. Community in Session 189 - Access to Information Network - Africa (ATINA). Bookmark or cite this item: http://library.ifla.org/1507/1/189-anunobi-en.pdf Before the advent of information and knowledge driven economy, industry was the central focus for economic development of any society. However the turn of century brought about changes which placed information and knowledge at the centre of any development framework. These changes have strengthened the role of the university, and its mandate to produce and inject knowledge through research, teaching and learning. The university’s mandate places the library’s functions: to acquire, process, organize and disseminate information, at the core of the university’s foundation. New pedagogical changes arising from this change as well as mindset of the university community require the library, as the university core subsystem, to step up its operations and services. The paper is designed to showcase the approach the Library of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria (FUTO) has taken to introduce innovative knowledge services to address the new expectations of its clientele. IFLA WLIC 2016 – Columbus, OH – Connections. Collaboration. Community Session 189 - African libraries: enhancing community access to information and knowledge for development - Access to Information Network - Africa (ATINA) Wednesday 17 August 2016 13:45 - 15:45 \| Room: Union Station A/B/C \| SI Division 5 Regions > Africa Section > Access to Information Network – Africa (ATINA) Special Interest Group ANUNOBI, Chinwe Veronica University Library, Federal University of Technology, Owerri Nigeria ONYEBINAMA, Colette University Library, Federal University of Technology , Owerri Nigeria Innovation knowledge services, Innovative library services, Library Golden circle, Universities, Library services, Nigeria	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2465
__label__cc	0.604354	0.395646	Win for Harvey at Sonoma takes Indy Lights title fight to season finale Pagenaud leads Schmidt Peterson 1-2 in Shell and Pennzoil Grand Prix of Houston race 2 IndyCar brake supplier responds to concerns of reliability IndyCar, IndyCar commentary — By Steph Wallcraft on June 29, 2014 5:30 pm After the conclusion of yesterday’s first race at the Shell and Pennzoil Grand Prix of Houston, Schmidt Peterson Hamilton Racing General Manager Rob Edwards had some strong words regarding the reliability of the Brembo brakes used in the Verizon IndyCar Series. SPHM driver Simon Pagenaud explained the issue from a driver’s point of view. “When a brake rotor has a high temperature it performs very well,” he said. “Inversely, when a rotor is colder it doesn’t stop like it should. I was having trouble slowing down and stopping the car on the wet surfaces at the beginning of the race.” Edwards called IndyCar to task for not addressing the issue. “We have made IndyCar aware of the fact that there is an issue with the brakes, and they have not fixed it,” Edwards said. “Until they, act teams are going to have days like we had today. I hope IndyCar can see that there’s an obligation on their behalf to address the situation, and I look forward to the discussion with them.” For IndyCar’s part, Director of Communications Mike Kitchel clarified that IndyCar’s role in the situation is mainly to pass the any team concerns on to their manufacturer partners. “We listen to every concern communicated to us by the teams,” Kitchel said, “and we always convey those concerns to the manufacturers. It’s important to us to do that and retain the spirit of competition and safety in our racing.” A representative from Brembo, brake supplier to the Verizon IndyCar Series, prepared a statement for More Front Wing on their assessment of the situation with the No. 77 Oculus SPHM entry on Saturday explaining that the wetter and cooler conditions than anticipated contributed to the problem: “As per Brembo’s technical bulletin provided to all IndyCar teams, the optimum operating temperature for the carbon brake discs is 350o – 400o C. If the disc temperatures are too low it is possible to encounter consistency issues in the performance of the system. In wet conditions, the same technical bulletin recommends to cover all or some of the brake ducts to bring the discs to optimum temperatures. “The temperature range the brakes were running in the beginning of the race was lower than the optimum temperature. “Brembo is still collecting data from the #77 car and will have a better understanding after they analyze the data.” Regarding what was perceived as potentially being a brake issue on the No. 9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing entry of Scott Dixon today, Steve Matchett of NBC Sports Network assessed on air that although the team appeared to be cooling the brakes with a blower during repairs, a bracket supporting the master cylinder reservoir had broken away. The resulting damage may have drained the brake system and caused the issue. More Front Wing has confirmed that the bracket in question is not a Brembo issued part. Should the data analysis from either incident return with anything to report, More Front Wing will share that information as we follow this developing story. Tags: Brembo, Rob Edwards, Schmidt Peterson Hamilton Motorsports Last reply was June 30, 2014 View June 29, 2014 Why is Mike Kitchel speaking on this issue on IndyCar’s behalf and not Derrick Walker? It seems like IndyCar is quickly forgetting and re-enacting the procedural mistakes of their past. Unfortunately, the current IndyCar leadership inherited the exclusivity with Brembo. There’s very little they can do, and the teams have not been happy with that contract from day one.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2468
__label__cc	0.56348	0.43652	-- Sir Francis Bacon Books - 2020 What a weird and distressing year. I still read some books though! The Institute, by Stephen King NOS4A2, by Joe Hill The Dragon Republic, by R. F. Kuang Mr. Mercedes, by Stephen King The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir Agency, by William Gibson Finders Keepers, by Stephen King End of Watch, by Stephen King Thrawn: Alliances, by Timothy Zahn Thrawn: Treason, by Timothy Zahn Middlegame, by Seanan McGuire The City We Became, by N. K. Jemisin The City in the Middle of the Night, by Charlie Jane Anders A Memory Called Empire, by Arkady Martine The Light Brigade, by Kameron Hurley The Last Emperox, by John Scalzi They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us, by Hanif Abdurraqib White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo Go Ahead in the Rain, by Hanif Abdurraqib Children of Virtue and Vengeance, by Tomi Adeyemi Hood Feminism, by Mikki Kendall The Way of Kings, by Brandon Sanderson Pizza, Pincushions, and Playing it Straight, by Rayne Constantine The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers A Closed and Common Orbit, by Becky Chambers So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo Solutions and Other Problems, by Allie Brosh Record of a Spaceborn Few, by Becky Chambers Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson The Tyranny of Merit, by Michael J. Sandel Monstrous Regiment, by Terry Pratchett Guards! Guards!, by Terry Pratchett Edgedancer, by Brandon Sanderson Men at Arms, by Terry Pratchett Oathbringer, by Brandon Sanderson Hench, by Natalie Zina Walschots Art of Star Wars: The Mandalorian, by Phil Szostak Some of the best words I read this year were from Hanif Abdurraqib, a poet who also publishes collections of essays about his experiences with music and the greater societal context of those experiences from the point-of-view of a Black man, about my age, growing up in Ohio. I found that even when I didn't know the band he was discussing or even if I knew it but didn't like it I still received a ton of enjoyment just reading the words he wrote. He's an extremely talented writer. His perspectives and experiences around how America treats Black people seem particularly valuable for how they just pop up in his writing without a lot of warning, mirroring how everyday experience for Black people can turn on a dime, suddenly becoming hurtful or dangerous. I also read a few books more specifically about Black experience in America: "White Fragility;" "Hood Feminism;" and "So You Want to Talk About Race." I recommend all of them to anyone looking to understand more about these important topics which can too easily be ignored when you are higher up the privilege ladder in our society. One last social issues book I read that I can't recommend strongly enough was "Pizza, Pincushions, and Playing it Straight." It is a memoir of sorts by a Australian scientist who spent some time as a sex worker in a part of Australia where sex work in brothels is legal. She discusses the issues sex workers face in different regions based on the legal status in those regions and more importantly discusses why it is so important that sex work be fully legalized and regulated. This is all interspersed with hilarious stories from her experiences that make for a literal laugh-out-loud read. And much like the case with narcotics, when you actually look at the data it's impossible to argue against legalization plus regulation for sex work. In lighter reading I've started to pick off Terry Pratchett's Discworld books which are delightful and I'm also now working my way through Brandon Sanderson's "Stormlight Archive" fantasy series which is positively enormous (each book's paperback edition has to be published in two volumes because they're too big to securely bind in one). Both series are great if you're into that sort of thing. TAGS: books; terry pratchett; timothy zahn; john scalzi; stephen king; ursula k. le guin; william gibson; tomi adeyemi; tephen king; joe hill; r. f. kuang; tamsyn muir; seanan mcguire; n. k. jemisin; charlie jane anders; arkady martine; kameron hurley; hanif abdurraqib; robin diangelo; mikki kendall; brandon sanderson; becky chambers; ijeoma oluo; michael j. sandel; natalie zina walschots 0 Comments \| Permalink	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2471
__label__cc	0.612491	0.387509	American Idol holds auditions in downtown Macon Cochran, Georgia, native Ashlynd Jolley was one of thousands who lined Cherry Street as early as 3 a.m. to sing their hearts out. The Voices at 535 Cotton Avenue: Capricorn Record’s Business Office condemned, near destruction “I like to say in Macon that, if our walls could talk, they would definitely sing,” said Jessica Walden, co-owner of Rock Candy Tours, a Macon music history tour company, and daughter of Capricorn...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2478
__label__cc	0.576061	0.423939	COVID-19 Vaccine Administered to Hospital Staff Posted on Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020 David Manning, RN, administers the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for prevention of COVID-19 to emergency room Physician Assistant Kari Cochran on December 17, 2020 Dozens of front-line medical workers and staff at Mercy Health/Love County Hospital, Clinic, and EMS rolled up their sleeves December 17-18 to be inoculated against COVID-19. The reaction was a collective sigh of relief after months of serving patients infected with the rapidly-spreading virus. As of December 21, 801 county residents had tested positive for COVID-19, or about 10% of the population. The incidence is expected to increase significantly before the pandemic ends. COVID-19 is flu-like but more contagious and more unpredictable in the toll it takes in any individual. The participating medical workers – about 90 persons in all – were the first in Love County to be offered the brand new coronavirus vaccine. “I am encouraged to be moving forward with the vaccination program. The closer we get to herd immunity the better it will be for everyone,” said Kari Cochran, one of the emergency room physician assistants. She treats patients affected by COVID-19, taking the time to don and doff a special mask, faceshield, long-sleeved gown, and gloves every time. These safety steps will continue even after vaccination. “The vaccine plays a part in keeping us healthy, along with the continued diligent use of PPE, handwashing, and sanitization of the area, “Cochran said. A statewide public health effort has been launched to offer the vaccine to the rest of Oklahoma’s population over the coming months. Phase I, in December, covers 150,000 health care workers of inpatient facilities, as well as nursing home residents and staff. The Love County-District Health Department organized the vaccination clinic at the hospital, in cooperation with medical staff, who gave the shots. Amanda Thompson, the health department’s administrative assistant, Debra Graham, RN, and Kristin Dean, RN, counseled recipients on the vaccine’s risks and effectiveness and handled the paperwork. The counseling, according to the hospital’s Quality Control Director Megan Stephens, RN, proved reassuring to coworkers. “We were finally able to have information in hand to understand the vaccine is safe and beneficial. We’re very data driven and the data was convincing." Her colleagues recognized that they were “making history” as first to be treated but also savvy enough to realize their vaccine experiences, good or bad, can help others. “The CDC offered us a tracking program. We are contacted daily to answer their questions about how we are feeling,” Stephens said. Stephens and Emergency Room Manager Tad Hall, PA-C, drove to Mercy Ardmore to pick up the vaccine supply. Taken from cold storage, the vaccine had to be used within five days. About 17 vials of the substance, each containing enough vaccine to inoculate five recipients, were obtained. The whole vaccination clinic process will be repeated in three weeks, as the vaccine requires a second, booster shot for long-lasting effectiveness at preventing COVID-19. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine stimulates the production of antibodies to COVID-19. It is first on the market, concluding a massive U.S. federal government initiative to create a vaccine within 12 months to stem the worldwide pandemic.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2479
__label__wiki	0.893331	0.893331	WARNING: You do not have JavaScript enabled! This site makes use of new web technologies that require JavaScript to function correctly. Please enable JavaScript before proceeding. RSS Twitter MySpace Facebook Metal Riot Metal News, Reviews, and More Metal Riot Album Reviews Metal Riot Band Index Metal Riot Label Index Metal Heads Chart Sign In\|Sign Up Roadburn and Lee Dorian and Neurosis and Paradise Lost sitting in a tree… Posted by Metal Riot on Thursday, August 6, 2015 at 7:12 AM (PST) ROADBURN FESTIVAL is proud to announce that NEUROSIS will celebrate their thirtieth anniversary as headliners at the 2016 edition of the festival. Pioneering Yorkshire doom legends, PARADISE LOST, will headline Roadburn Festival on Thursday 14 April 2016, playing their highly influential second album, Gothic, in its entirety. ROADBURN FESTIVAL is incredibly proud to announce that our 2016 curator will be musician, label owner and sonic pioneer, LEE DORRIAN. More info and dope artwork BELOW. NEUROSIS “To be invited to celebrate our 30th anniversary in Europe at Roadburn is an absolute honor. Roadburn is a treasured and unique event that embodies the spirit of open minded community and original, emotional heavy music. We are humbled to be a part of it again” – NEUROSIS, August 2015.” The iconic, California-based band have planned just two events to mark this career milestone – one of which will be in San Francisco (March 4 & 5 at the Regency Ballroom), the other at Roadburn. NEUROSIS will in fact perform twice at Roadburn 2016 – as headliners on both Saturday 16 April, and on Sunday 17 April. The two sets will span the band’s entire career, showcasing NEUROSIS’ comprehensive evolution from their primitive beginnings to the seminal, epic outfit they are today. Each set will be completely different, and each album will be explored, allowing the band and the audience alike to revisit various parts of the band’s history. NEUROSIS are very much a part of the tapestry that makes up Roadburn’s legacy; the announcement of their first headline slot at Roadburn 2007, marked a stylistic shift for the festival. Over the years, we have also played host to many NEUROSIS-linked side and solo projects, as well as bands that nestle under the Neurot Recordings label umbrella, and had the band truly kick off a new Roadburn tradition when they curated the festival in 2009. Click here for the full NEUROSIS announcement details Pioneering Yorkshire doom legends PARADISE LOST will headline Roadburn Festival 2016 on Thursday 14 April 2016 playing their highly influential second album, Gothic, in celebration of its 25th anniversary. The band will play their masterpiece from start to finish, alongside tracks from their latest album, The Plague Within. Leaders of the doom metal scene for over twenty five years, PARADISE LOST have kept their dank and dark take on the genre incredibly fresh with their latest album. Released on Century Media, The Plague Within marks a majestic return toPARADISE LOST’s innovative origins, recalling the melancholic heaviness of the band’s seminal second album, Gothic. Renowned Romanian artist, Costin Chioreanu will be providing bespoke animated visuals to accompany PARADISE LOST’s Roadburn set. PARADISE LOST’s Nick Holmes commented: “As a young band we spent a good deal of time in the early 90’s driving around The Netherlands in a small transit van, living off chips with mayonnaise, drinking Chocomel and playing stuff from this album. ‘Gothic’ totally reminds me of those days, so if we were ever going to play the album in its entirety in 2016, it has to be in The Netherlands, and where better than the Roadburn Festival!!” PARADISE LOST will be playing The Netherlands this year as part of their European tour in support of The Plague Within. They will play Tivoli, Utrecht on October 7. Click here for the full Paradise Lost announcement details LEE DORRIAN Having headlined the first Roadburn Festival in 1999 with Cathedral, and celebrated Rise Above Records’ 20th anniversary at Roadburn in 2008, not to mention the bands that he has guided our way over the years, Lee’s history is very much entwined with that of Roadburn Festival. “I feel very honoured to be handed this prestigious task to curate Roadburn 2016. Having been involved with Walter on a personal level for many years now, I always felt like part of the family, as opposed to being someone on the outside. So, with that in mind, I was both shocked and excited when he asked me to take on this fantastic opportunity. I promise to make this an event that no-one will forget, and I’m already frothing at the potential of possibilities available!! It’s a dream and one that I never expected. This is what I love, so I will not disappoint. Come and join us in this ritualistic nirvana of praise and offerings to the unholy Blind Dead. Templars Arise!” For the first time, Roadburn’s curator will take charge over two days – meaning the curator can develop a very specific and definitive vibe each day. Lee will curate the Main Stage on Friday 15 April 2016, before moving across to the iconic Het Patronaat venue on Saturday 16 April – where his ‘Rituals for the Blind Dead’ will come to life. More News On Cathedral: CATHEDRAL “In Memoriam” commemoration from Rise Above 2013 Highlights In Reverse: Blood Orange Blues Cathedral stream final music video More On: Doom Metal, Show, Cathedral, Nuclear Blast Previous Story\|Next Story Submit NewsSubmit Review More On Cathedral Cathedral Profiles: Metal Riot \| Myspace Band Spotlight Deeds of Flesh Unique Leader Records Deeds of Flesh MySpace Technical death metal pioneers DEEDS OF FLESH return after a seven year hiatus with their 9th studio album Nucleus, set for release via Unique Leader Records on 11th December 2020 (Vinyl release 15th January 2021). The band's first release since the tragic passing of guitarist / vocalist and Unique Leader founder Erik Lindmark, who lost a battle with sclerosis in 2018, Nucleus features guest performances some of the biggest names in extreme metal to celebrate his life and contribution to metal. Vocalist Jacoby Kingston is joined by members of Pathology, Gorguts, Dying Fetus, Submerged, Decrepit Birth and more. With a mix of the old and new style of DEEDS OF FLESH writing, this album is the completion of a story that began with Of What's to Come (2008) and ran through Portals to Canaan (2013). The music was written by Erik Lindmark (RIP), Craig Peters, Ivan Munguia and Darren Cesca, and had been recorded and partially mixed for almost four years. When Erik Lindmark passed in 2018, vocalist Jacoby Kingston came out of retirement to help finish the album. Alongside long-time drummer Mike Hamilton, they finished the story arc, wrote the lyrics and made the vocal arrangements for Nucleus. 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__label__wiki	0.668244	0.668244	ATP Rankings WTA Rankings Categorized \| News Clijsters Withstands Li Na to Clench First Australian Open Title Tags: Australian Open, Clijsters, Henin, Kuznnetsova, Li, Wimbledon, Wozniacki, Zvonareva Coming into this year’s Australian Open championships, most analysts tagged Kim Clijsters as the outright favorite. Today, the Belgian demonstrated that they were correct in pegging her as the one to beat. Clijsters fought off China’s Li Na 3-6,6-3,6-3 to claim her first major in Melbourne, the fourth of her career. Subsequent to a love hold, Clijsters broke Li at love thanks to a net court winner and took a 2-0 lead in the opening set. However, with Clijsters donating four straight errors after having game point, Li erased the advantage. Later, serving at 2-3, Li overcame a 15-40 deficit to reach deuce. Despite resistance from Clijsters, Li equalized the set at 3 all. With Clijsters flubbing a forehand volley, Li arrived at double break point. She capitalized and obtained a 4-3 edge when Clijsters dumped a backhand crosscourt into the net. After staving off a break point, Li consolidated for 5-3 and with a forehand crosscourt pass winner broke Clijsters for the third time to secure the set. Clijsters was acutely aware that Li would not be an easy put away. In the semifinals, Li salvaged a match point before upsetting world number one Caroline Wozniacki to become the first Chinese female to book a spot in the final at a major. Moreover, just two weeks ago in Sydney, Li defeated Clijsters in the final. More importantly, although this was Li’s initial major final, she was doing a great job at bottling her nerves. In spite of two game points at the start of the second set, Li failed to maintain serve, double faulting to hand Clijsters the first game. Yet, like in the previous set, on her second break point opportunity, Li provoked a backhand mistake from Clijsters to get back on serve. Still, the very next game, with a crosscourt winner, Clijsters broke for a 2-1 lead. Relentless, on her fourth break point, Li struck a forehand crosscourt winner to level the set at 2 all. Then, Li obliterated double break point to hold serve for 3-2. But Clijsters would not be denied. Following a tough service game, Clijsters again was at double break point. This time with a backhand down the line winner, the Belgian broke for 4-3 and ultimately consolidated. Next, with Li gifting a few errors, Clijsters closed the set with another break of serve. The decisive set began as the others; Clijsters following a love hold with a break at love for 2-0 and Li returning the favor to get back on serve. However, by double faulting after having a game point, Li handed Clijsters a break point. When Li’s backhand crosscourt landed wide, Clijsters stretched her advantage to 3-1. Then, with four consecutive miscues by Li, Clijsters consolidated for 4-1. From that point on, Clijsters buckled down and gave her opponent no free points. Although Li guarded serve twice, it was all for not, she made no progress on Clijsters’. Soon, with a love game, Clijsters pocketed the championship. Since rejoining the tour in the summer of 2009, Clijsters is 7-1 in finals. With her latest win, Clijsters will take over the number two spot from Vera Zvonareva whom she defeated in the semifinals. Li will climb in the rankings from number 11 to 7, a career best. Another Belgian made news this week. Days after being ousted by Svetlana Kuznetsova in the third round, Justine Henin underwent testing on the elbow which required surgery and led to the abrupt ending of her 2010 season. Unfortunately, while in Australia, Henin damaged the elbow. Because there is little hope that the elbow will respond favorably and allow Henin to play up to the “high” standards of the past, she has decided to retire. Thus, there will be no ‘career grand slam’ for Henin. The dream of winning Wimbledon will remain just that a dream. 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__label__wiki	0.504724	0.504724	Occupy World Writes The Movement Continues – Globally Welcome to an Occupied World! About Occupy World Writes Tag Archives: Amnesty International ‘A Blatant Violation’: Sahrawis Dismiss Pompeo’s Announcement of US Consulate in Moroccan-Occupied Western Sahara The move comes two weeks after the U.S. became the first country to recognize Morocco’s claim of sovereignty in the illegally occupied territory. By Brett Wilkins, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published 12-25-2020 Sahrawi demonstration against the Moroccan occupation, November 2020. Photo: Nushatta Foundation/Twitter Sahrawi independence advocates defiantly dismissed an announcement Thursday by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the United States would open a “virtual” diplomatic mission in Western Sahara as a first step toward establishing a permanent consulate in the Moroccan-occupied territory. Pompeo said in a statement that the U.S. was “inaugurating a virtual presence post for Western Sahara, with a focus on promoting economic and social development, to be followed soon by a fully functioning consulate.” Continue reading → This entry was posted in Civil Rights, Corruption, Economics, Government, Human Rights, International Agreements, Military, Mining, Refugee Issues, Social Justice, War Crimes and tagged Amnesty International, Article 49, Atrocities, Brahim Ghali, Civil Rights, Corruption, Donald Trump, Economics, Equality, Fourth Geneva Convention, Human rights, International Agreements, Israel, Mike Pompeo, Mining, Mohammed VI, Morocco, occupation, Palestine, Polisario Front, refugees, Sahrawi, social justice, Syria, War Crimes, Western Sahara on December 26, 2020 by MNgranny. ‘So, So Cruel’: Rights Advocates, Biden Campaign Sound Alarm About Immigration Agenda Stephen Miller Is Crafting for Trump’s Second Term According to the Democratic nominee, “This agenda is designed to do one thing only: divide our communities with cheap, xenophobic rhetoric, and demonize those seeking to make legitimate asylum claims.” By Jessica Corbett, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published 10-31-2020 Stephen Miller. Photo: Gage Skidmore/flickr/CC Immigrant rights advocates along with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his supporters responded with alarm to reporting this week that Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, is plotting how to “rev up Trump’s restrictive immigration agenda” and is ready to “unleash executive orders deemed too extreme for a president seeking reelection” in the event of a Biden loss next week. NBC News reported Friday that Miller, speaking as an adviser to the president’s campaign, laid out four top priorities in a 30-minute call Thursday: “limiting asylum grants, punishing and outlawing ‘sanctuary cities,’ expanding the so-called travel ban with tougher screening for visa applicants, and slapping new limits on work visas.” Implementing these policies would require a mix of legislation and executive action. Continue reading → This entry was posted in Civil Rights, Corruption, Economics, Elections, Government, Human Rights, Immigration, International Agreements, National Security vs Police State, Racism, Refugee Issues, Social Justice, Voting, Workers' Issues and tagged Amnesty International, asylum, Atrocities, child separation, Civil Rights, Corruption, Department of Homeland Security, Donald Trump, early voting, Economics, Elections, Equality, Human rights, immigration, International Agreements, Joe Biden, Lincoln Project, Miles Taylor, Physicians for Human Rights, Racism, RAICES, refugees, sanctuary cities, social justice, Stephen Miller, Texas, work visas, workers' issues, xenophobia on November 1, 2020 by ew. Critics Call Upcoming Pentagon Visit by Indonesian Defense Minister—Accused of Horrific Atrocities—a ‘Human Rights Catastrophe’ Prabowo Subianto—who led a notorious commando unit implicated in genocidal violence—was invited to Washington by Defense Secretary Mark Esper. Indonesian Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto. Photo: Prabowo Subianto / CC BY-SA Human rights advocates this week sounded the alarm on a meeting scheduled for Friday between American Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Indonesian Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, a former U.S.-trained general in an elite army unit implicated in genocidal violence and other atrocities in East Timor, West Papua, Jakarta, and elsewhere in the archipelago nation in the late decades of the last century. Since 2000, Prabowo has been banned from entering the United States by the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations. However, Esper last week invited the 68-year-old to Washington as the Trump administration seeks closer relations with the nation of 268 million people in a bid to counter China’s growing clout. Continue reading → This entry was posted in Civil Rights, Corruption, Economics, Government, Human Rights, International Agreements, Military, Religion, Social Justice, War Crimes and tagged Amnesty International, Atrocities, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Child Soldiers Prevention Act, China, Civil Rights, Corruption, Donald Trump, East Timor, Economics, Genocide, George W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Guatemala, Henry Kissinger, Human rights, Indonesia, International Agreements, Iraq, Jakarta, Kopassus, Leahy Law, Mark Esper, Mike Pompeo, Military, Pakistan, Patrick Leahy, Prabowo Subianto, religion, Rwanda, social justice, War Crimes, West Papua on October 16, 2020 by MNgranny. Watchdog Calls on Authorities to Drop ‘Absurd’ Charges Against Journalists Covering Black Lives Matter Protests More than 600 attacks against members of the press covering the ongoing protests have been reported to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker. By Lisa Newcomb, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published 8-18-2020 BLM protest in California – June 2020. Photo: Jackie Speier/Twitter The Committee to Protect Journalists on Monday called for authorities to drop charges against members of the news media who were arrested while covering Black Lives Matter protests across the United States. “It is absurd that law enforcement officials around the country continue to pursue charges against journalists who were doing their jobs at the time they were arrested,” Carlos Martinez de la Serna, CPJ program director, said in a statement. “It’s high time for authorities to drop this pursuit, which is frivolous and wasteful.” Continue reading → This entry was posted in Civil Rights, Corruption, Demonstrations & Protests, Government, Human Rights, Media Issues, National Security vs Police State, Social Justice, Workers' Issues and tagged Amnesty International, Andrea Sahouri, BlackLivesMatter, Civil Rights, Committee to Protect Journalists, Corruption, Department of Homeland Security, Freedom of Press, Human rights, Iowa, Media Issues, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Police State, Portland, Protests, social justice, U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, workers' issues on August 19, 2020 by MNgranny. ‘Stop Lukashenko’: Hundreds of Thousands Protest Against Belarusian Leader for Eighth Straight Day Demonstrators are demanding new elections amid outcry over authorities’ violent crackdown on dissent. By Common Dreams. Published 8-16-2020 A protest against Lukashenko in Minsk on 8-10-2020. Photo:Homoatrox/Wikimedia Commons/CC Hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered in Belarus on Sunday for an eighth straight day of anti-government demonstrations a week after Alexander Lukashenko, who’s ruled the country since 1994, claimed victory in an election widely viewed as fraudulent. Protesters in Minsk held signs reading “We want fair elections,” “Stop Lukashenko,” and “Stop the violence.” Continue reading → This entry was posted in Civil Rights, Corruption, Demonstrations & Protests, Elections, Government, Human Rights, National Security vs Police State, Social Justice and tagged Alexander Lukashenko, Amnesty International, Atrocities, Belarus, Civil Rights, Corruption, Elections, Human rights, Minsk, Police Brutality, Police State, Protests, social justice, torture on August 17, 2020 by MNgranny. ‘Important Step’ as Federal Judge Orders ICE to Release Detained Immigrants at Heightened Risk for COVID-19 “It is unfortunate we had to resort to the courts for this relief; ICE should be doing this on its own,” said the San Francisco public defender. By Jessica Corbett, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published 4-9-2020 Photo: Charles Edward Miller/fllickr/CCC In a ruling celebrated Thursday by rights advocates seeking the liberation of as many detained immigrants as possible during the coronavirus pandemic, a federal judge in San Francisco ordered the release of four men whose respective ages and medical conditions make them particularly vulnerable to COVID-19. “This decision is an important step,” William Freeman, senior counsel at the ACLU Foundation of Northern California, said in a statement. “The stakes for the release of detained persons are at an all-time high as the threat of the COVID-19 outbreak places them at an elevated risk of serious ailments or death.” Continue reading → This entry was posted in Civil Rights, Corruption, Economics, Government, Health Care, Human Rights, Immigration, International Agreements, Racism, Refugee Issues, Social Justice and tagged ACLU Foundations of Northern California and Southern California, Amnesty International, Charles Joseph Clements, Civil Rights, coronavirus, Corruption, Economics, Equality, Gennady V. 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Big Brother in the Age of Coronavirus: 100+ Groups Warn Against Exploiting Pandemic to Permanently Expand Surveillance State “These are extraordinary times, but human rights law still applies.” “Technology can play an important role in the global effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic; however, this does not give governments carte blanche to expand digital surveillance.” (Image: WITNESS/Twitter) As the number of COVID-19 cases climbed toward a million worldwide on Thursday, over 100 human rights groups issued a joint statement warning that governments’ response to the coronavirus pandemic “must not be used as a cover to usher in a new era of greatly expanded systems of invasive digital surveillance.” The groups acknowledge that the public health crisis “requires a coordinated and large-scale response” but urge governments “to show leadership in tackling the pandemic in a way that ensures that the use of digital technologies to track and monitor individuals and populations is carried out strictly in line with human rights.” Continue reading → This entry was posted in Civil Rights, Corruption, Cybersecurity, Government, Health Care, Human Rights, National Security vs Police State, Social Justice, Technology and tagged Access Now, Amnesty International, Amnesty Tech, Big Brother Watch, bulk data collection, cell phone data, China, Civil Rights, Committee to Protect Journalists, coronavirus, Corruption, Electronic Privacy Information Center, Health Care, Human rights, Human Rights Watch, Police State, Privacy International, Public Citizen, Singapore, social justice, technology, United Kingdom, United States, WITNESS, World Wide Web Foundation on April 3, 2020 by MNgranny. ‘Inhumane’ and ‘Reckless’: Amnesty International Condemns Greece’s Measures to Block Migrants at Turkish Border “People seeking asylum are once again being used as bargaining chips in a callous political game.” Photo: Gizli Muhafiz/Twitter Amnesty International on Monday condemned “inhumane” measures that Greek authorities have taken toward migrants since Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced last week that Turkey would no longer stop refugees and asylum-seekers—many of whom have fled the ongoing war in Syria—from crossing by land and sea into Greece. Turkey eased restrictions at the western border it shares with Greece in response to thousands of migrants from Syria who have poured into Turkey in recent days amid a Russian-backed Syrian government offensive into Syria’s Idlib province and escalating violence between Syrian and Turkish forces. Continue reading → This entry was posted in Civil Rights, Government, Human Rights, Immigration, International Agreements, Kurds and Kurdistan, Military, National Security vs Police State, Refugee Issues, Social Justice and tagged Amnesty International, asylum, Atrocities, Bulgaria, Civil Rights, Equality, Erdogan, European Union, Greece, Human rights, immigration, International Agreements, International Organization for Migration, Military, refugees, Russia, social justice, Syria, Syrian Kurds, United Nations Refugee Agency on March 3, 2020 by MNgranny. Buried in Trump-Netanyahu Deal Is Effort to ‘Torpedo’ ICC War Crimes Probe The plan announced Tuesday by the White House demands Palestinians “dismiss all pending actions” before the International Criminal Court. By Andrea Germanos, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published 1-29-2020. Gaza 2014. Photo via Facebook As the International Criminal Court moved forward this week with its investigation into alleged war crimes committed against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, the White House’s new so-called “peace” plan includes a largely unreported provision that would end such efforts to hold the Israeli government to account. The document, released Tuesday, was widely criticized as a “screw the Palestinians over harder non-peace plan” that lets Israel continue its illegal occupation and a “ludicrous” proposal that offers no path towards Palestinian statehood. Continue reading → This entry was posted in Civil Rights, Corruption, Government, Human Rights, International Agreements, Military, National Security vs Police State, Refugee Issues, Religion, Social Justice, War Crimes and tagged Amnesty International, Atrocities, Benjamin Netanyahu, Civil Rights, Corruption, Donald Trump, Equality, Gaza, Human rights, International Agreements, International Criminal Court, Israel, Jared Kushner, Military, Palestine, refugees, religion, social justice, War Crimes, West Bank on January 30, 2020 by ew. ‘Stop This Sale’: 11 NGO Leaders at Davos Warn Against Pending Private Equity Takeover of .Org Domain “The security of civil society should not be entrusted to private equity.” By Jessica Corbett, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published 1-22-2020 Leaders of top NGOs are protesting the pending sale of the registry that operates the .org domain to a private equity firm. (Image: Andrew Stroehlein/Human Rights Watch/Twitter) The executive directors of 11 major international nongovernmental organizations on Wednesday added their voices to a swelling chorus opposed to the pending sale of the nonprofit registry that operates the .org top-level domain to a recently established private equity firm. The NGO leaders came together at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland to unveil a letter (pdf) they sent Tuesday to Andrew Sullivan, president and CEO of the Internet Society (ISOC), and Göran Marby, president and CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). 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__label__wiki	0.916476	0.916476	Orange News9 : Latest News Home International Rahul Gandhi criticises PM Modi’s economic policies Rahul Gandhi criticises PM Modi’s economic policies OrangeNews9 Washington: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s economic policies, accusing him of causing “tremendous damage” to India’s economy with “reckless and dangerous” decisions like demonetisation and “hastily-applied” GST. Gandhi, 47, who arrived in the US yesterday on a two- week-long tour, addressed students at the University of California, Berkeley, to reflect on contemporary India and the path forward for the world’s largest democracy. He said the November 8 demonetisation decision was taken without asking the Chief Economic Advisor and Parliament, which caused tremendous damage to the economy. Demonetisation, he alleged, imposed a devastating cost on India. “Ignoring India’s tremendous institutional knowledge and taking such decisions is reckless and dangerous,” he charged. He said 30,000 new youngsters were joining the job market every single day and the government was only creating 500 jobs a day. “This does not include the massive pool of already employed youngsters,” he said. “The decline in economic growth today is leading to an upsurge of anger in the country. The government’s economic policies demonetisation and hastily-applied GST have caused tremendous damage,” he alleged. Goods and Services Tax, a tax regime which combines all of India’s states and union territories into a single market, was launched at midnight on June 30. Gandhi also accused the government of wiping out millions by demonetisation. “Millions of small businesses were simply wiped out as a result of the demonetisation, farmers and many who use cash were hit extremely hard. Agriculture is in deep distress and farmers suicides have skyrocketed across the country.” Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, however, had said the fallout of demonetisation was on predicted lines and the economy will benefit in medium and long term. Jaitley’s remarks came after the Reserve Bank of India said that 99 per cent of the demonetised currency came back into the system. Jaitley had also insisted that money getting deposited in banks does not mean that all of it is legitimate. But Gandhi described demonetisation “a completely self- inflicted wound” that caused approximately 2 per cent loss of the GDP. India, the Congress leader said, cannot afford to grow and create jobs at the current rate. “If we continue at the current rate, if India cannot give the millions of people entering the job market employment, anger will increase and it has the potential to derail what has been built so far. That would be catastrophic for India and the world beyond,” Gandhi warned. The Congress vice president said that the central challenge for the country today is creating jobs. Noting that roughly 12 million young people join the Indian job market every year with nearly 90 per cent of them having a high school education or less, Gandhi said India, being a democratic country, cannot follow the Chinese model of coercion. “Unlike China it has to create jobs in a democratic environment,” he said, adding that India does not “want China’s coercive” instruments. “We cannot follow the model of massive factories controlled by a few,” Gandhi said. Jobs in India, he said, are going to come in from small and medium scale industry. India, he asserted, needs to turn colossal numbers of small and medium businesses into international companies. Alleging that currently all the attention in India is being paid to the top hundred companies, he said: “Everything is geared towards them, the banking systems are monopolised by them and the doors of government are always open to them.” “And laws are shaped by them,” he said, adding that entrepreneurs running small and medium businesses are struggling to get bank loans. “They have no protection and no support. Small and medium businesses are the bedrock of India and the world’s innovation. Big businesses can easily manage the unpredictability of India. They are protected by their deep deep pockets and connections,” he said. India, he said, has triggered a massive process of human transformation. The momentum is so powerful that India’s failure is no longer an option, he said, “Our success impacts the world,” Gandhi said, warning that this momentum can be destroyed by “hatred, anger and violence”. “The politics of polarisation has raised its ugly head in India,” he said, adding that liberal journalists are being shot. He was apparently referring to rights activist and journalist Gauri Lankesh’s killing. “People being lynched because they are Dalit,” he alleged. “Muslims were killed on suspicion of eating beef. This is new in India and damages India very badly.” He said the politics of hate divided and polarised India and was making millions of people feel that they have no future in their own country. “In today’s connected world this is extremely dangerous,” he said. Gandhi at the same time also acknowledged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a better communicator than him. “I’m an opposition leader. But Mr Modi is also my prime minister. Mr Modi has certain skills. He’s a very good communicator. Probably much better than me. He understands how to give a message to three or four different groups in a crowd. So his messaging abilities very subtle and very effective,” Gandhi said. He was responding to a question on what does he think about Modi as the prime minister. “What I sense is that he doesn’t converse with the people he works with. Even members of Parliament of the BJP come to me and tell me that ‘sunte nahi hain’ (he does not listen to us),” Gandhi added. He said Modi must speak to the people who work with him. “I mean there is a lot of information that the opposition for example has. He is not really interested in that input. So that is what has been going on,” he said. Gandhi described Modi’s flagship policies like ‘Make in India’ and ‘Swachh Bharat’ as a good idea. “On what they have done well? What I like? I like the concept of ‘Make in India’. But the orientation of ‘Make in India’ is slightly different than what I would. So, the orientation of Make in India is big business and a lot of it is defence.My orientation of ‘Make in India’ would be small and medium businesses,” he said. Gandhi said he would like to carve out space for small and medium businesses and bring in experts from Silicon Valley and take these small and medium businesses and transforming them into global companies. “Swachh Bharat is something that Mr Modi likes. The idea of hygiene I think is a good one. And I think I think the sort of stuff that they are doing on open defecation is not a bad thing,” Gandhi said. The Congress vice president said the impression that he was a reluctant politician was a result of the campaign against him by the other political camp. “There is a BJP machine about a thousand guys sitting on computers that basically tell you about me,” he said as the audience burst into laughter. “They tell you, I am reluctant, I’m stupid. They tell you all these things,” he said amidst another round of laughter and applause. “All they do is spread abuse about it. And the operation is basically run by the gentleman who is running our country,” Gandhi said. Responding to a question, Gandhi said the country needs political reform. “Administrative reform is important. But much more important than administrative report is actually political reform. Today, the real problem in India is that our political machine.. they are not empowered the way they should be… The laws in India are made by the ministers and five or six people surrounding the minister. “And until you make that process transparent and out into the open, you are not really going to transform the system,” he said. He said the lawmakers who should be formulating policies are today more worried about building roads. “Today our MPs don’t make laws. They are worried about building roads in villages. And they get punished for not building roads in villages. 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__label__wiki	0.87527	0.87527	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee Title: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee Subject: Parliamentary Committees of the United Kingdom, Committee of Selection (House of Commons), European Committees, Joint Committee on Tax Law Rewrite Bills, Select Committee on the Modernisation of the House of Commons Collection: Committees of the British House of Commons, Select Committees of the British House of Commons The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The remit of the Committee is to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and its associated public bodies. The Committee is currently chaired by Anne McIntosh MP. Changes 1.1 See also 2 As of 25 November 2013, the members of the committee are as follows: Anne McIntosh MP (Chair) Conservative Thirsk and Malton Richard Drax MP Conservative South Dorset Jim Fitzpatrick MP Labour Poplar and Limehouse Mary Glindon MP Labour North Tyneside Emma Lewell-Buck MP Labour South Shields Iain McKenzie MP Labour Inverclyde Sheryll Murray MP Conservative South East Cornwall Neil Parish MP Conservative Tiverton and Honiton Margaret Ritchie MP SDLP South Down Mark Spencer MP Conservative Sherwood Roger Williams MP Liberal Democrat Brecon and Radnorshire Source: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Occasionally, the House of Commons orders changes to be made in terms of membership of select committees, as proposed by the Committee of Selection. Such changes are shown below. 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__label__cc	0.651075	0.348925	An analysis of retrospective and repeat prospective reports of adverse childhood experiences from the South African Birth to Twenty Plus cohort Naicker, S.N.; Norris, S.A.; Mabaso, M.; Richter, L.M. Human and Social Development Naicker, S.N., Norris, S.A., Mabaso, M. & Richter, L.M. (2017) An analysis of retrospective and repeat prospective reports of adverse childhood experiences from the South African Birth to Twenty Plus cohort. <i>PLoS One</i>. 12(7):Online. Most studies rely on cross-sectional retrospective reports from adult samples to collect information about adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) to examine relationships with adult outcomes. The problems associated with these reports have long been debated, with only a few studies determining their reliability and validity and fewer still reaching consensus on the matter. This paper uses repeat prospective and retrospective reports of adverse childhood experiences from two respondent sources in the South African Birth to Twenty Plus (Bt20+) cohort to explore agreement and concordance in the prospective reporting of ACEs by caregivers and respective children as adolescents and then as young adults. The findings demonstrate little overall agreement between prospective and retrospective accounts of childhood experiences, with 80% of kappa values below the moderate agreement cutoff (k =.41). The highest levels of agreement were found between prospective and retrospective reporting on parental and household death (kappas ranging from .519 to .944). Comparisons between prospective caregiver reports and retrospective young adult reports yielded high concordance rates on sexual and physical abuse and exposure to intimate partner violence (91.0%, 87.7% and 80.2%, respectively). The prevalence of reported ACEs varied with the age of the respondent, with adolescents reporting much higher rates of exposure to violence, physical and sexual abuse than are reported retrospectively or by caregivers. This variation may partly reflect actual changes in circumstances with maturation, but may be influenced by developmental stage and issues of memory, cognition and emotional state more than has been considered in previous analyses. More research, across disciplines, is needed to understand these processes and their effect on recall. Long-term prospective studies are critical for this purpose. In conclusion, methodological research that uses a range of information sources to establish the reliability and validity of both retrospective and prospective reports - recognizing that the two approaches may fundamentally answer different questions - should be encouraged. BIRTH TO TEN NOW BIRTH TO TWENTY (BT20) ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES (ACE) Name: 10179.pdf	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2505
__label__wiki	0.557978	0.557978	New Tunes, Classic Problems Both Sides of the Reissue Dilemma A reissue is a double-edged sword: old tracks or entire CDs are unearthed and given them new life by putting them in a contemporary context,... Put Your Back In It Brazil Brings the Baile Funk After years spent sermonising about the ill effects of globalization, progressive media outlets must begin to unearth those stories that tes... The Unbearable Whiteness Of Being Indie It's all there in black and white. In early October, the American record industry reached a milestone: for the first time in its history, ev... The Search for Middleground New Producers Heal the Backpack/Benz Divide When he took office in 1997, British Prime Minister Tony Blair prophesised the dawn of "third way" politics, placing himself in the middle o... Into the Mystic Avant-folk Shapes A New Future When Harry Smith released his epochal Anthology Of American Folk Music in 1952, the box bore an engraving of a single-stringed instrument be... Smoking Out the Locals Tobacco Funded Shows Outspend Home Grown Efforts Tobacco kills so say doctors, and so say a growing number of artists, concert promoters and club owners across Canada. What most concerns... Sliding Down The Surface Electro-clash: Your 15 Minutes Are Up Ed Upton is pissed off. You'd expect the producer, best known for his work as the electro-popping DMX Krew, to be delighted at this year's d... Reggaeton Exchange Program Island Sounds Outfox Colonials You could call it cultural opportunism or you could call it a cynical marketing manoeuvre and you'd be right on both counts but when the... Building A Mystery The Folk Noir of Daniel Lanois I'm parked in my parents' driveway, the windows rolled down, listening. It's almost 11 o'clock on a Saturday night, and I'd rather not go in... Point of View: Drum & Bass About Face Remember drum & bass? Unless you're a hardcore junglist, that genre probably hasn't crossed your mind since you traded in your copy of Repra... Dance Music's Détente Peace Breaks Out Between Intellectual and Instinctive There's this song I can't get out of my head, a song about clubs, a song about losing yourself in the groove, a song that suggests dance mus...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2518
__label__wiki	0.991496	0.991496	Macaulay Culkin Joins Cast of 'American Horror Story' By Sarah Murphy Macaulay Culkin has been revealed as the latest cast member of American Horror Story. Show creator Ryan Murphy announced that the Home Alone child star, who has largely removed himself from acting, would appear in the upcoming 10th season of American Horror Story. Murphy made the announcement with a video on Instagram, set to Orville Peck's eerie tune "Dead of Night." In addition to Culkin, the upcoming season features returning stars like Kathy Bates, Leslie Grossman, Billie Lourd, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Adina Porter, Lily Rabe, Angelica Ross and Finn Wittrock. American Horror Story Season 10 has yet to be given an official release date, but you can see the teaser clip for it below. #AHSSeason10 A post shared by Ryan Murphy (@mrrpmurphy) on Feb 26, 2020 at 7:50am PST More Ryan Murphy More Macaulay Culkin More Orville Peck	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2519
__label__cc	0.669586	0.330414	Ren Benton Storyteller. 40K(ish) Milestone and The Dangers of Being Way Too Literal July 24, 2020 Ren Benton Leave a comment Amidst the distractions and technical disasters (nope, still not fully fixed), I finally limped past the 40,000-word mark on the fantasy romance, which encompassed the “Inexplicable Anger That Somebody I DON’T EVEN LIKE Could Have DIED” scene, with a side of “I Saved Your Miserable Life So Now We’re Even/Actually I Only Got In Your Way Last Time Instead Of Helping You So Now I’m Doubly In Your Debt” fries. That debt might come up later. Just sayin’. I’m currently somewhere in the overly long and in need of massive remodeling “EXCUSE ME, did you just try to put your MOUTH on me?” scene, which is tricky and therefore will be blown off for a day in favor of a writing rant I swore two days ago I wasn’t going to touch. Someone complained about the inclusion of the Dark Moment in genre romance, rapidly joined by a chorus of “I hate reading them!” and “I hate writing them!” and “I’m sick of stupid third-act fights!” and “Joseph Campbell can suck eggs!” Where does ol’ Joe come into this? Campbell is responsible for promoting the monomyth, more popularly known as the Hero’s Journey, a story structure cannibalized by pretty much everybody trying to sell a story structure. They rename and break into smaller chunks, but if you look closely, you can see Campbell’s bones, which are (short version off the top of my head): Everyday World, Call to Adventure, Refusal of the Call, First Threshold, Trials and Temptations, Death, Rebirth, Second Threshold, Return (to the original world as a changed person with knowledge to share). There’s extra noodly stuff about goddesses and daddy issues, but we’re not going to squint at the fine print today. He wrote a huge textbook packed with dense, tiny type that “proves” enduring stories from all over the word fit this model. (Of course, if he found a million enduring stories that no amount of twisting would cram into his mold, he wouldn’t have mentioned them in his book. Academia is quirky that way.) I’m not well versed enough in global literary history to point you toward resources contrary to Campbell’s monomyth, but you need look no further than literary fiction to see that structure disregarded. The Hero’s Journey is a plot structure, and literary fiction is often an exploration of character with no plot at all and as such doesn’t even wave at Campbell from a distance. Voilà! There’s proof his structure isn’t necessary when telling a story. I’m on record as saying Campbell is overrated (“I think The Hero’s Journey is an overhyped tool“), but overrated/overhyped doesn’t mean devoid of value. It is not the only way to tell a story, but it is one effective way to tell a story, and it’s the one most likely to be comfortably familiar to a Western/Eurocentric audience that has been immersed in this form and, shall we say, culturally resistant to broader influences. The romance beats I mentioned in my synopsis post track back to Campbell. For my purposes, I labeled the “Dark Moment” as Withdrawal. Many Writing Romance for Beginners sources refer to it as “The Breakup,” and here is where supposedly creative people create problems by being way too literal. “The Breakup” is a bullet point that fits tidily on a workshop slide. It’s not the extent of what can occur here. I’m going to come at this first from Campbell’s angle because I think hyperfocus on genre romance without wider context is part of the creative problem. (Specialization is great! You can get better at your specialty by adding knowledge from outside it.) In Campbell’s version, where “Breakup” appears in genre romance, the corresponding beat is “Death.” If you take that beat at face value, you kill the Hero and the Journey ends. The existence of beats beyond that one is a clue that taking it literally isn’t the best approach. (You can literally kill the Hero. He could rise as a zombie to complete his journey or another character could slide into the role to do it for him. I’m not saying it would be easy to do WELL, but it is a choice that someone could make.) Here’s a small sample of alternatives to literal Death of the Hero: Someone Hero cares about dies or otherwise leaves. Hero’s sanctuary burns to the ground. A ruler is removed from power. Hero kills someone else. The last barricade holding off an overwhelming enemy force falls. Hero’s entire supply of food falls overboard and is gobbled up by a shark. Death can be any devastating loss that boots Hero off the path to the goal. He loses the support of a mentor or friend. He loses a lifetime of research or all the evidence against the villain when his office goes up in flames. The queen, whether Hero loved or hated her, is replaced by her demonstrably more evil cousin and the entire kingdom loses freedom. He has blood on his hands and realizes too late he made a terrible mistake, losing his honor and sense of self. The enemy closes in and he loses all hope of survival. Anything can be sacrificed on Death’s chopping block, literal or symbolic, as long as the result is loss and grief and not knowing how (or even if) to go on after this setback. Hero is forced to question who he’s been, how that got him into this miserable situation, and who he’s going to choose to be going forward, which will prompt change (unless he chooses to sustain the miserable situation forever by being stubborn, which is the stuff literary tragedy is made of). Now let’s transfer “anything, literal or symbolic” over to the corresponding Breakup slide. You can have the lovers fight and break up. If you set up this event in advance, foreshadowing from early in the story that there is a nonnegotiable deal-breaker, you can even do the literal WELL. You could also, less literally (not a comprehensive list, just spitballing): Cast Death upon someone close to Hero. Grief is isolating, and there’s a fine line between supporting a grieving loved one and their perception they’re being pushed to “cheer up.” Or maybe the loved one had a loss in the past and wanted to be left alone and therefore backs off, but this griever needs to be smothered in love and feels abandoned. Flare of jealousy and suspicion upon witnessing some apparently intimate moment between the loved one and someone else BUT instead of flipping out, Hero thinks “Wow, that’s ugly and needs therapy” and decides not to dump every irrational thought on the other person, perhaps because she has experience, personal or secondhand, with jealousy and has made it clear she wants nothing to do with it now, and he thinks he can get his shit together before it affects her. Meanwhile, she notices his mind is elsewhere and he pauses before saying anything to her as if weighing every word, and the lack of communication is a sign to her they’re doomed. An external force credibly threatens to separate the lovers or succeeds in doing so. In romantic suspense, the kidnapper/murderer/whatever would take their best villainous shot here. One of the lovers might even think the other is dead. It doesn’t have to be life-or-death danger forcing them apart, though. It could be a vacation or temporary work assignment that’s ending and sending the lovers to responsibilities elsewhere. It could be the clock running out on a time-travel spell. It could be an heiress’s father promising to frame the love interest for some heinous crime and ruin his life if she doesn’t end the relationship. There are no fights between the lovers here. They don’t suddenly hate each other as a plot contrivance. There are no easy solutions. External circumstances and/or earnest attempts to cope with personal emotional issues are pulling them apart. The function of the Breakup beat is to confront the mortality of the relationship (per the beat’s origins as Death). Some form of wedge is driven between the lovers, resulting in physical separation or emotional withdrawal (which is how I prefer to refer to this segment because it’s less easy to take literally). There’s no end of perfectly reasonable things that might end a relationship. Unless it’s their first relationship, they’ve already survived some endings. Why is this end unacceptable? How is this relationship different from the ones they walked away from at this stage? Why, this time, are they willing to do the work to get to HEA? Because this relationship has changed them for the better. Because this loss would leave a ghost that will haunt them forever. Because they can’t imagine ever feeling whole or at home again without this person to love, so they’ll take responsibility for their own actions, make things right, and do better going forward to make sure they’re never divided again. Some people will say it’s possible to have these revelations over a nice cup of tea on a peaceful morning without all the angst. Happens all the time in real life. Everything doesn’t have to be high drama. People can just quietly fall in love with no opposition. They’re great the way they are, they don’t need to change at all, their lives fuse painlessly, and everything is fabulous for them forevermore. I’ll admit that sounds ideal—in real life. You might like to read it in books, and if that is the case, I wish you many opportunities to do so and hope it lives up to your expectations. I, on the other hand, DNF 40% of what I read, and a significant chunk of that is because NOTHING IS HAPPENING. Oh, sure, words are being said, clothes are hitting the floor, actual bombs may be going off in the background, but if there’s no point to the busy-ness—no goal, no conflict with an obstruction to the goal, no consequences for failing to attain the goal—there’s no sense of progress toward an eventual victory. A person, real-life or fictional, who is going to gently drift on an ocean of happiness with no challenges or potential for failure could not be less interesting to me. “Here’s everything you want on a silver platter, no charge, don’t worry about the tip, of course there’s no curse involved, silly” is the sort of privileged ease I want to see fail. I don’t cheer for people who just have to show up to be declared the winner. I’m heartened by people who struggle and hurt and screw up and gaze into the abyss and then get their shit together and seize happiness with both hands. Those people, real-life and fictional, have damn well earned their victory, and I require that to feel satisfied at the end of a story. If you associate the 2/3–3/4 stretch of romance with “stupid third-act fights” that you never want to see again, the blame lies with too many authors who (a) are unable to imagine the Breakup as anything but breaking up and (b) don’t bother to properly set up their way-too-literal breakups so they’re logical and inevitable. (Bonus points for making the logical and inevitable a terrible surprise, but “surprise them with what they’re expecting” is the move of a true master.) The problem isn’t the presence of a Dark Moment in a story that’s supposed to make you feel good. The problem is the Dark Moment has been written badly so often people have accepted it as the genre standard. I wish writers would experiment with other forms rather than writing “mandatory” scenes they clearly hate, which end up being ineffective because not even their creator believes in them. They’re not doing themselves or their readers a favor by grudgingly forcing an unwanted plot point into their stories. Write the smooth-sailing romance of your dreams and love on every word of it. Not everybody will love it as much as you do, but that’s true of everything you will ever write, so cast off the Dark Moment shackles! If that liberation turns out to be less rewarding than you’d hoped, you can always come back to Campbell-descended structures with a less literal interpretation of what constitutes a Dark Moment in a romance plot. There’s tremendous potential beyond “…and the mandatory senseless breakup goes here.” Posted in: Writing ← Synopsis Built from Romance Beats Very-Little-Progress Report → Insert comments below. By submitting a comment, you consent to have your personally identifiable information collected and used in accordance with this site's privacy policy, as stated on the Info page. All links go to moderation; non-spammy ones will be approved. 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__label__wiki	0.842948	0.842948	Mink Deville- Live at The Bottom Line, NYC, Jul 2, 1977- The Frightful Passion of Willy Deville as Demonstrated During the Year of the Mink - An Early Year of Devilleness, Living and Daring Dangerously Upon the Edge of Rock and Rhythm and Blues - 40 Min Runtime: 40:39 \| Views: 2692 \| Comments: 0 “In ‘77, after having been billed through Mink DeVille as one of the most original groups on the New York punk scene, in the mythical CBGB’s club alongside Blondie or the Ramones, the staggering recording debut of Willy Deville takes place with the launching of the album Cabretta, praised by the influential Rolling Stone as one of the best albums of the year, with the charm of it’s popular urban rock ‘n ‘roll-rhythm ‘n ‘blues of the ‘50s and ‘60s, between the DRIFTERS and PHIL SPECTOR. It was Jack Nitzsche himself, the former fabulous arranger of Phil Spector and of Wall of Sound during the Golden Age of Teenage Pop who produced the album.” - willydevillemusic.comPLEASE CHECK OUT OUR SPLENDOR OF BOHEMIA EBAY STORE Post related photos By Rich Buckland • 02/18/2015 03:15 PM Episodes Navigation Willy Deville - Live At Tramps, NYC, October 2, 1996 - We Begin The ... video 66:17 Willy Deville- Mink Deville Live At Montreux, 1982 © All Rights Reserved-Renaissance DVD-Copyright 2009- 2018 \| Powered by Podcastpeople.com. \| Admin Login	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2524
__label__wiki	0.868541	0.868541	Tag: 上海夜网LO Bolt, Gayle hail victims of Manchester attack August 31, 2020 Written By adminLeave a comment on Bolt, Gayle hail victims of Manchester attack Usian Bolt (r) and Chris Gayle send prayers for victims of Manchester attack Two of the Caribbean’s biggest sports stars — sprinter Usain Bolt and West Indies batsman Chris Gayle — offered condolences to victims of Monday’s bombing in Manchester, England.The terror attack, which took place following an Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena, left 22 persons dead and 59 injured.“Thoughts & prayers goes out to people of Manchester and all those who are affected,” Bolt said via Twitter.“Thoughts and prayers goes out to Manchester! #VerySad”, Gayle said, also on Twitter.Indian captain Virat Kohli, Gayle’s teammate at Indian Premier League (IPL) team Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) also expressed his condolences.“I wish a lot of courage & strength to all those affected in the Manchester bombings last night. Heartbreaking to hear the sad news,” Kohli said.The Islamic State (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for the attack. read more 18January2020 LNRCS Signs US$700,000 Agreement January 18, 2020 Written By adminLeave a comment on LNRCS Signs US$700,000 Agreement The Liberian National Red Cross Society (LNRCS) has signed a cooperative framework (CFW) agreement with the International Committee of the Red Cross. It is intended to provide support in the amount of over US$700,000 to help the entity carry out its work for 2014.LNRCS has indicated the funds are intended to help it adequately drive a five-year strategic plan recently drafted by the national society for rapid humanitarian response to promote timely humanitarian services throughout the country. The CFW agreement is an annual contract focusing ICRC financial and technical support to the Liberian Red Cross’ program implementation and core cost.The agreement is expected to be concentrated in five strategic areas the LNRCS has earmarked, including: Organizational Development, Disaster Management, Communication, Restoring Family Links and Community Based Health.The president of LNRCS, Mr. Emmanuel Kparh, signed on behalf of his entity, while the head of delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Jean Jerome, signed on behalf of his organizationMr. Kparh, at the signing ceremony said the Liberian Red Cross appreciates the existing partnership with the ICRC. He stated the agreement would enable the LNRCS to address pressing challenges to help alleviate human suffering.Mr. Kparh termed the agreement a significant step in the LNRCS’s plans to consolidate gains of the past years in providing quality and timely services to vulnerable people and communities in an effective and efficient manner.“Since 2007, we have formed a partnership with the ICRC that better positioned us to address Liberia’s many humanitarian challenges. With this agreement, the LNRCS and the ICRC have committed themselves to continue cooperation and have decided to base this on an overall cooperation framework agreement,” Mr. Kparh noted.The LNRCS president furthered that he strongly believes the aim of the cooperation is not only limited to implementing LNRCS-ICRC joint projects, capacity building, provision of financial aids and technical supports, but to ensure that mutual respect, information sharing and trust become its hallmark.The head delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Jean Jerome, acknowledged the partnership with the Liberian Red Cross and renewed the ICRC’s commitment to supporting the LNRCS in its humanitarian interventions.Mr. Jerome noted that there is a lot of work to do for the vulnerable and underprivileged people who suffer the worst during natural and human made crises. The ICRC delegation boss detailed that the content of the agreement was discussed since July in line with the situation in Liberia.With the latest signing of the agreement, the Liberian Red Cross would be strengthened to maximize its output to vulnerable people and communities through its programs implementation.Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) read more	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2526
__label__wiki	0.71511	0.71511	Taeyoon Choi is an artist, writer and organizer. He’s a co-founder of School for Poetic Computation in New York City. In 2019, Taeyoon is working on Distributed Web of Care with a critical perspective towards technology, ethics, justice and sensitivity to the concept of personhood. Sign up for his newsletter or contact studio@taeyoonchoi.com The Care of the Self Solo exhibition at Factory2, Seoul. June 4 – June 28, 2020 In Search of Personalized Time Absence is Presence with Distance Speakers Corners Urban Programming Taeyoon Choi is an artist, educator, and activist. His art involves performance, electronics, drawings, and installations that form the basis for storytelling and social practice. He published artists’ books, including ‘Urban Programming 101’ and ‘Anti-Manifesto.’ Choi was an artist in residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace, The Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University. He was a fellow at the Data and Society Research Institute and Eyebeam Art and Technology Center. He received commissions from Art +Technology Lab, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul. Choi co-founded the School for Poetic Computation in New York where he continues to organize sessions and teach classes on art and critical theory of technology. He collaborates with various communities to unlearn the boundaries between disability and normalcy, and enhance accessibility and inclusion. He’s working on Distributed Web of Care at the moment. Taeyoon Workshop Inc is a New York State S Corporation where Taeyoon Choi works with a team of assistants and collaborators. Stay connected: TinyLetter, Twitter, Instagram, Medium, GitHub Exhibition, speaking and teaching engagement: studio@taeyoonchoi.com	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2530
__label__wiki	0.594148	0.594148	hello@themakersstories.com A Cork DJ Making Reggae-infused Hot Sauce The story of Conor Lyons’ ‘island inspired’ Rock Steady Food Company is much like the batches of hot sauce he and business partner Aaron Comerford concoct, just the right amount of luck, support, passion and timing were necessary to bring the mix together. The story of Conor Lyons’ ‘island inspired’ Rock Steady Food Company is much like the batches of hot sauce he and business partner Aaron Comerford concoct, just the right amount of luck, support, passion and timing were necessary to bring the mix together; ‘I always say that this would never have happened if certain things in my life hadn’t aligned. There was so much I didn’t know about when we started, like how to lengthen the shelf life of the product and make larger batches of sauce without affecting the taste. The whole journey has been a massive learning curve from the start’, he admits. “Honest John” shows us how to cook the perfect jerk beef at a school football match in Port Antonio Blending Passions When he’s not busy whipping up hot sauce with Aaron, Conor works in Marketing for Cork Heritage Pubs. At night you’ll usually find him DJing in any one of them, playing everything from rock to indie, but reggae is the music that always appealed to him most and that passion extends to food and culture associated with the Caribbean; ‘I’m fully aware of the fact that I’m a white guy from Cork. I’m sure people are like, ‘What does he know about Caribbean food and music?’, but honestly I’ve always had an obsession with it. That’s why I visited Jamaica last year, to completely immerse myself in it. Everytime I’m in the UK I head straight to Brixton to do some record shopping, and then get my favourite Jerk Chicken, Goat Curry or Plantain Chips. It’s become a sort of ritual for me.’ ‘When I started to become interested in cooking, naturally I wanted to make the sort of things that I like to eat. I love hot sauce and easily go through a bottle a week. I have a house full of it! The UK have an incredible selection. They have giant hot sauce conventions and specialist emporiums like the Brighton Chilli Shop that I could lose hours in, but there’s only so much you can bring home on a Ryanair flight, so I had to start doing my own thing’. Looking back over the last few years, Conor says a few factors were key to getting his new business off the ground. Firstly, he worked in the hospitality industry and had easy access to kitchens, equipment, chefs, brewers and mixologists who could not only offer him space to work out of but impart their knowledge also; ‘At first I was just dabbling myself at home but then I started using the network and resources I had in front of me, which have been invaluable. One of those resources was my friend James, who is a now a chef in an amazing restaurant called Pilgrim in Rosscarbery, West Cork. He was living with me at the time and we became very immersed in food and cooking. He’d come home after a shift and find me in the kitchen in the middle of the night making sauce! He’d help me and tell me different ingredients and techniques to try out. My sister who works in Ballymaloe Cookery school has been very supportive too. It was great to have people who knew what they were talking about to call on in those early days. They helped me build a strong product’. Irish hot sauce expo (c Julia Healy) Cookouts & Cookoffs Once Conor developed his hot sauce to a standard he was happy with, he started incorporating it into the food-offering at cookouts he was running in the summer months in Cork. The positive feedback made him realise he might actually have a viable business idea; ‘We run 5 or 6 cook-outs a year. They’re big 12 hour events, sort of Brooklyn-style block parties – lots of fun. I alternate between the decks and the grill at them. One time I brought along one of my sauces and people really loved it. That’s when I decided to start bottling it and give hot sauce a proper go as a business. Aaron got on board about a year ago. He’s studying Culinary Arts at the moment so it’s a good fit because, although I’m massively into food and surrounded by people who are too, I have no formal background in it, so Aaron literally brings that to the table’. As the company is quite small scale, all of the cooking, branding and packaging is done by hand, and although its a time-consuming process, Conor and Aaron keep themselves entertained; ‘Each bottle is made to the sound of reggae music. That’s 100% true and written on every bottle. We’re always banging tunes out in the kitchen, which makes the process really fun.’ The cook itself takes about an hour. Then the mixture is strained through a Chinois, a conical strainer with a fine mesh that the sauce is forced through to give it a smooth texture. From pot to bottle the whole process takes them about 4 hours. ‘There’s a certain formula to it. The deeper in you get the more you learn about the chemistry. Everytime we cook we learn something new and we’re continuously streamlining the process. At the beginning it took us 5 hours to do 20 bottles. Now we can do a batch of 100 much quicker. We’re bottling and labelling by hand so that takes time, but I like that it puts myself and Aaron squarely into the making process. It’s all done by hand with love.’ ‘Fire in the Dance’, a medium strength sauce, is their mainstay product, using dry chipotle chillies from Mexico rehydrated in Rising Sons’ Handsum IPA. Their ‘Jamaica Me Crazy’ sauce, a sweet and fiery blend of Scotch Bonnet Peppers and Pineapple, is Conor’s favourite; ‘I think there’s loads of ‘blow your head off’ stuff out there that doesn’t have much of a flavour profile. I like to be able to taste the different elements in the sauce. That’s the approach we take in terms of spice level and combining ingredients’ Sharing a laugh with Captain Crazy at Bob Marley’s mausoleum The Cork Chilli Community Aaron and Conor started out selling their wares at farmers markets in Cork and have found both local and global support for their product. The Cork Heritage Pubs Conor works for embraced it wholeheartedly, incorporating the sauces into their menu and selling it by the bottle behind the bar. Their biggest stockist in Cork is Mr Bell’s, a second generation spice merchant who have been trading in Cork’s historic English Market since the 1970’s. Though the community is small in Ireland, Cork has become a hotbed of production, with 3 very active companies based there, one being the very successful Rebel Chilli; ‘Cork is so staunchly independent. We support one another here and word spreads quickly if you’re doing something well’, Conor says, ‘I equate the Irish chilli scene here now to the craft beer scene 10 years ago, which has seen huge expansion. I think what we’re seeing is almost a pivot back to the kind of environment we had before the crash. People are supporting local, small operations again. They want to know the story behind the product they’re buying. That’s why it’s been so important to us to tell our story authentically’ ‘We’re now one of about a dozen hot sauce makers at work in the country. It’s very new here so we’re all still trying to find our feet with it, but we help each other out. There are always emails flying around in our mailing group, from advising each other about issues or challenges we’ve experienced to inviting each other round to visit kitchens and chilli farms. Clichéd as it is, if it wasn’t for that we wouldn’t have gotten this far. It’s still early days for us but the nice thing about being small is we get to meet our customers face to face, get their feedback directly and even swap recipes with them. For now we just want to keep things as they are and continue to do what we do really well’. Follow Rock Steady Food Co. on Facebook and Instagram Aoife O' Regan January 2019 in Food & Drink \|Caribbean Food\|dublin\|food\|ireland\|jamaica\|Restaurant\|West Africa Read About A Scientist Turned Radio Producer Ireland’s First Incubator For Food Start-Ups A midwife and illustrator that used her art to get through postnatal depression All Rights Reserved. 2018 © Copyrights The Makers Stories.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2536
__label__wiki	0.766145	0.766145	Jojo Rabbit 2019 A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl… Country: Czech Republic, New Zealand, USA Genre: Comedy, Drama, Hollywood, War The story of the Battle of Midway, and the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude and bravery to overcome massive odds. Country: Canada, China, Hong Kong, USA Genre: Action, Drama, History, Hollywood, War While at War 2019 Salamanca, Spain, 1936. 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Hardly surprising, with the real life horror of warfare not needing any further fantastic elements to beef… Genre: Action, Hollywood, Horror, Thriller, War Empire of the Sun 1987 Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor named Basie,… The Last Rescue 2015 World World II: Shortly after D-Day, three American soldiers and two Army Corps nurses are stranded behind enemy lines. They take a high-ranking German officer as their prisoner and try… Genre: Action, Drama, Hollywood, War Whiskey Tango Foxtrot 2016 In 2002, cable news producer Kim Barker decides to shake up her routine by taking a daring new assignment in Kabul, Afghanistan. Dislodged from her comfortable American lifestyle, Barker finds… Genre: Comedy, Hollywood, War Tears of the Sun 2003 Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. 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Genre: Action, Drama, Hollywood, Thriller, War King Arthur 2004 The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the ‘Sarmatian hypothesis’ which contends that the legend has a historical nucleus in the Sarmatian heavy cavalry troops stationed in Britain, and… Genre: Adventure, History, Hollywood, War Please Follow us on Twitter/Facebook to receive latest news about MoviesTuner Powered by Moviestuner	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2541
__label__cc	0.702525	0.297475	Obituary for Howard Lee Willis Leave a Phone Recording Add a Memorable Photo Add an Icon There is nothing like the healing power of the human-voice. Leave a voice message in the guestbook using your phone. It's fast, easy and free. Listen to a sample. Complete the fields below and dialing instructions will be sent to your email immediately. Connect your Facebook profile to your memory (Why?) Instructions have been sent to your email. (No email? Check your spam folder.) Your audio condolence will be available for public listening in the guestbook after you finish recording and it is reviewed for appropriate content. Please allow 24 hours for review. (Optional) Add: Preview your message. More ways to honor Howard's Life: Have a great picture of Howard? Add it to the photo gallery. Email to Family & Friends Post to Pinterest SEND A CONDOLENCE Send Flowers to the Family View Funeral Home Resources Mail a Sympathy Card VISIT THE GRIEF RECOVERY CENTER View Articles \| Ask a Question \| Watch Introductory Video "I was blessed to have met Mr. Willis and remember him showing me a few of his muscle cars , I believe a Jaguar was one of his conversion projects. He seemed to be a person that exudes "If you are going to do something do it right" I know he will be missed by many. God speed Mr. Willis." – wayne samson, Family Friend, austin, TX, Mar 25, 2019 "It was with great sadness that I learned of Howard's passing. I first met him when I interviewed with him in 1980 for an internship position with the American-Statesman. While I still had another 2 years left at SWT, we stayed in touch. He was my professional go-to person during my term as Advertising Director with the University Star and always was willing to participate in my college endeavors such as judging advertising contests for the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association during my time as Student Contest Director for that organization. At one point, I was considering working for an agency after graduation and he jokingly told me if I did that he didn't want anything more to do with me because the newspaper was where I needed to be. Upon my graduation in 1982, he hired me again, this time as a full time advertising representative at the Statesman. He was a great mentor as well as boss, praising me when I did well and letting me know when I could do better. He was a steady presence during most of my 30 years with the Statesman. While he retired before the end of my career there, he left a lasting impression. It was an honor to know him and he will be missed by many. My thoughts go out to his family. Rest in Peace, Howard." – Kelly Kilgore, Coworker, Cedar Park, TX, Mar 13, 2019 "March 8, 2019 Lost my great friend and mentor Howard Willis. Howard hired me at the American-Statesman in late 1981..changed my life. Jordan had just turned one and Shannon was 5. Howard was a powerful presence and having him let me in to be his friend over the years was an incredible blessing. He promoted me to Retail Sales Manager in 1985...the first female in that position at the paper. You see he believed in equal rights for all in all areas.. I'm sure Pat had a lot to do with that. Howard loved a good, funny conversation and his shoulders would shake with laughter..especially around Dan Savage, Harold Cline and George Spaulding. I will always remember him as someone who made me a professional business person and a better person overall. Howard would often have a sort of gruff demeanor but he also had a heart of gold. He was bold, smart, unrelenting, and loving. And he was an outstanding photographer. Golf was his great love and great nemesis....from funny stories to frustrating stories...it was a part of the man. As were motorcycles, fast cars, and eating BBQ in Lockhart on a Friday afternoon. He loved his family and talked about Pat and Lee in such endearing terms. Just a handful of inspiring people in my life...Howard is definitely one of the tops of that list. Hard worker...yes sir...but he balanced that with play whether it be one of his usually risk taking hobbies or a delicious lunch at Pappadeaux with close friends. Howard was an intragal part of the growth of the American-Statesman and became a legend in the advertising department. At his early Statesman retirement party (held in the giant press room at the paper)....I presented him with a display box that contained a 1935 (his birth year) nickel. The engraving said something like Howard Lee Willis..much more than a nickel's worth of difference. Love, Teri. You see he had always teased me when I would complain about having to work around certain men or even a disagreement I had had with a close male" – Teri Maxwell, Friend, Bastrop, TX, Mar 11, 2019 "I can't imagine where my life would have taken me if Howard "Wildcat" Willis had not hired me at the American-Statesman in 1980. Little did I know that his decision at that time would open the door to a lifetime career with Cox and a 39 year friendship with the best friend I could ever have. Howard and I bonded immediately and soon realized that we had much more in common than just advertising sales. His passion for golf, motorcycles and huge steaks at Hoffbrau were some of our common denominators. One of his many admirable qualities was his full-time competitive nature. He made everyone around him better. One month before Howard slipped away he was talking about buying another motorcycle and taking one last trip with me to Colorado. I was all in. I never learned how to say no to Howard. I miss you my friend and will see you on the other side." – Dan Savage, Friend, Waco, TX, Mar 10, 2019 "I was so sorry to see the notice of Howard's death. It has been an honor and joy to know Howard, Pat and Lee. Karen Faulkner" – Karen Faulkner, Friend, Leander, TX, Mar 08, 2019 "How saddened I am to hear of Howard's passing. My sincere condolences to Pat and Lee who I know were the center of his life. I first met Howard in 1961 at the American-Statesman and he was one of the best friends I have ever had. The obituary described a motto hanging on his bedroom wall described Howard perfectly..."Wow, what a ride!" In the early 60s, Howard and I would lift weights together in his "man cave" he built in the back yard. Of course, he really lifted most of the weights but was always encouraging me to lift more. We had a lot of fun. I haven't seen or talked with him in many years and that's my loss, because he was a great guy who worked hard and enjoyed life and made a positive impact on my life. He was as we say in Texas, "good people." Rest in peace, Howard Lee!" – Tom Faulkner, Friend, LEANDER, TX, Mar 08, 2019 See More Guestbook Entries	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2542
__label__cc	0.526233	0.473767	Valence Theory of Organization The Natures of Organization Page history last edited by Mark 9 years, 8 months ago Finding the Natures of Organization In his book, The Rise of the Network Society, Manuel Castells (1996) describes bureaucracies as, “organizations for which the reproduction of their system of means becomes their main organizational goal” (p. 171). By continually reproducing and refining their procedures and processes, bureaucracies characteristically strive to achieve stability and predictability in their operations, a state of being “near equilibrium [where] we find repetitive phenomena and universal laws” (Capra, 1996, p. 182). The honing of their “system of means” to (ideally) achieve near-perfect predictability stands in opposition to any sort of organizational richness, variety, or adaptive behaviours that would tend to effect organic or evolutionary change at the cost of their ability to accommodate the unexpected or exceptional. Thus, in the face of change, BAH organizations tend to favour systems and structures that have proven to be successful, irrespective of acknowledging possible changes in context. Organization A, for example, adheres to the “cargo cult” principle of adopting what are perceived to be so-called best practices as it acquires and assimilates new companies. Organization M, through its myriad formal, administrative procedures that are “more spelled out so it’s more rigid” (Mina-1-99), has become almost ossified over the past two decades. Those who might have been agents of change have been effectively blocked from doing anything other than “writing as directed” (Mary-1-67). Organization F, in transitioning to become more BAH, seeks the relative stability of functional stratification, that Jeff maintains is “a necessary evil” simply because it “is what we should do” (Jeff-1-253) compared to larger, more established organizations. It is not that UCaPP organizations necessarily embrace change or deliberately seek change as a mandated process. Rather, Unit 7 and Inter Pares demonstrate how creating truly collaborative organizational dynamics enables change and adaptation to continually and organically emerge. Unit 7, for example, creates multiple venues in which people of various ranks from different functional areas of the organization collaborate so that new perceptions and voices are able to introduce new understandings of the organization’s greater environment. Inter Pares chooses to work primarily in coalition to accomplish the same effect. Change is certainly managed in UCaPP organizations, although a better word might be accommodated—adapted to, provided for, held comfortably, and made suitable. The systems and structures, especially those that comprise the culture change venue, provide mechanisms whereby changes can become well-integrated into the organization’s day-to-day operations. Inter Pares, for example, describes how the values espoused in its social contract provide foundational guidance for its growth, and how that growth is slow and organic. There is a strong emphasis on acculturation whether the growth occurs among its own membership or is manifest in the effects it enables among its various coalition partners. At each turn and at every level, UCaPP organizations continually reflect on the advisability of both pursuing new directions and practices, and continuing old ones. The key question, as Unit 7 frames it, is, “for the sake of why?” (Loreen-1-9). New information and environmental influences that might spark change are invited from all quarters and socialized widely—change occurs where it occurs, without regard for the rank or status of the change agent. BAH organizations create mechanisms that emphasize control and specific task focus which limit individuals’ interest and willingness to step beyond their bounds, save to achieve a direct, extrinsic benefit. As seen in Organizations M and A, and to an increasing extent, Organization F, members are strongly socialized to accept the status quo – the way things are done are the way things should be done – with questioning, challenges, and dissent strongly (if sometimes tacitly) discouraged. Changes that do occur come from the top of the hierarchy, limited to a privileged cohort within the organization specifically charged with being the “thinkers.” Consequently, knowledge exchange, particularly in the form of feedback and feedforward loops, is equally limited to those whose instrumental task it is to set direction, make decisions, and initiate change. Teamwork vs. collaboration Teamwork, in the discursive sense of this analysis, is consistent with a primary-purposeful organization; hence, every member of the team is selected by virtue of what they can contribute based on a pre-determined understanding of the team’s requirements. It is based on the assumption that information and capabilities in a bureaucracy are fragmented among its component roles, and that the way to ensure complete information being brought to bear on a particular initiative is to identify and coordinate those necessary components. The sports-originated team metaphor suggests a “captain,” a legitimated leader who assumes overall responsibility (that is, responsibility “over all”) for the team’s assigned objective, goal, or purpose. It is taken as axiomatic in a BAH environment that the right team, once assembled, with everyone delivering on their required responsibilities, will produce the desired outcome. Each team member works independently on their assigned tasks which are themselves interdependent so as to provide a sense of cohesiveness among the fragmented, individual, subtask objectives. If an individual fails in their assigned task, s/he is personally accountable for that failure to the BAH-style leader who him- or herself is accountable for the team’s failure to those higher in the hierarchy. In a sense, primary-purposeful teamwork hearkens to the age-old story that recounts, “for the want of a nail,” the shoe, the horse, the rider, the battle, and the kingdom were all lost. There is a sequential, linear, (inter)dependency that lies at the heart of purposeful teamwork, as reported by various members of Organizations M, A, and F. Teamwork in this sense can be considered to be the fundamental unit of BAH coordination, and comprises its fundamental vulnerability. Not only do primary-purposeful teams possess many individual and generally uncontrollable points of failure. The extreme functional and linear-process foci do not necessarily ensure that the team’s product will actually produce or contribute to the intended ultimate organizational result. Collaboration recognizes that there is much of which any organization is unaware. As I mentioned earlier, collaboration recognizes the limitations of knowledge, assessment, predictability, and anticipation of future need—in short, organization does not, and cannot, know what it does not know. Thus, collaboration depends on individuals having the agency to involve themselves in widely publicized initiatives, and the autonomy to undertake self-identified-as-necessary tasks. Individual autonomy and agency can only be effective when it is balanced by a sense of collective responsibility among the members who collaborate. Jean from Inter Pares identifies this as “parity—parity of responsibility, accountability, obligation” (Jean-1-43) among organization and its members. Being collectively responsible – one cannot succeed unless all succeed – means that the members of a collaboration viscerally experience mutually accountability among one another for the success or failure of the whole. Game design at Unit 7, for instance, begins by inviting those throughout the organization who feel they can contribute to, or have a stake in the outcome of an initiative, to participate. Collaboration depends on a type of over-involvement that seeks to cover more than the initial, nominal, expected requirements, as those cannot precisely be known. Initiatives that have worked exceptionally well at Unit 7 – its relationship with Account R or the B-Roll Diabetes Initiative – are highly collaborative, each one demonstrating the three characteristics of individual autonomy and agency, collective responsibility, and mutual accountability. Collaboration provides more-than-required resources in a non-rivalrous environment where job competency is not considered an exclusive or limited commodity. Those endeavours that are more of a struggle for Unit 7 – the Workflow Process game design whose challenges exemplify the importance of creating a culture change venue – struggle because they retain some artefacts of dysfunctional teamwork mentality among some of the members. Redundancy, even if by design or self-election, suggests a lack of competency or ability to perform in those who believe they hold individual responsibility in a primary-purposeful team context. What is perceived as a threat in such a team is an asset in a collaboration. As Loreen reminds us, collaboration “is a very misunderstood way of working” (Loreen-1-95). Checking-up vs. checking-in The differences between BAH and UCaPP ways of working give rise to differences in the methods used to ensure that tasks will be accomplished. When a leader assumes individual responsibility for the success of his or her team, there is the concomitant responsibility to “make sure”: “The discipline of checking-in is different from the discipline of making sure. So, the making sure will have a pretty strong positioning of, I’m pretty sure you haven’t so I’m just here to make sure” (Loreen-1-281). A BAH organization’s control imperative and interdependent responsibility structure necessitate checking-up, making sure that no metaphorical nails are lost. In contrast, UCaPP collective responsibility and mutual accountability create a different imperative—one in which all members take on an authentic concern for each other’s success via checking-in. The concern is genuinely holistic in nature, as Sam explains: It is meant to be about how you’re feeling about your role in the organization, that’s certainly part of it. But how that has manifested in your work. Do you feel that you’re being effective … like your talents are being used in a way that are the most effective and productive, and do you see any challenges? (Sam-1-73) Because checking-in originates in mutual accountability rather than in judgement or evaluation, there is no incentive to obscure problems or difficulties. It thus becomes a more effective way of ensuring ongoing and appropriate coordination throughout the organization. Matt clearly describes how he encourages competent, independent agents to act, while he “generally makes sure that their activities are aligned with those of the organization as a whole” (Matt-1-7), that is, “aligned with what we’re trying to get done” (Matt-1-95). BAH organizations, like Organization A, functionally decompose overarching objectives at each successive hierarchical level so that, to a person, individual goals and tasks are aligned with those of the organization. This model extends to the organization’s nominal values; individuals are asked to subscribe and conform to organizational values, sometimes even in their private lives (Adam-2-38). When one’s own values deviate from those expressed by the organization (or perceived by outsiders), an individual may hide their organizational association in social conversation, for example (Stan-1-144). UCaPP organizations seek to align organizational values with those of their members. Jean expresses this as “be[ing] able to keep following what you think, rather than what you’re dragged into” (Jean-1-63), recounting Bourget’s warning about the danger of “thinking the way you live” (Jean-1-63). There is, of course, a strong connection between one’s personal, lived values and the way those values are expressed through one’s actions. By adopting UCaPP alignment of values, task coordination becomes less about control and checking-up, and more about enabling autonomous agency among members who collectively know what should be done. Setting and meeting objectives is considered important for organizational effectiveness. However, precisely how those objectives are set depends on how one frames effectiveness, a topic into which the thesis will delve in a subsequent chapter. BAH organizations set objectives that are quantifiable and (nominally) achievable. However, as we have seen among all the BAH organizations, quantifiable and achievable objectives do not necessarily reflect achievement of the desired, intended, or even nominal outcomes or effects. Stan, for example, reports several instances of metrics designed to demonstrate the organization’s success, without actually achieving the nominal public policy objectives. And Aaron claims that the metric used to measure Organization F’s key success criterion – customer satisfaction – is little more than a “meaningless statistic that we’ve used to puff out our chests and feel good about ourselves” (Aaron-2-68). On the other hand, UCaPP organizations create objectives that create visibility for the intended effects and provide an ongoing reflection on the organization’s values in action. Assessments are qualitative, subjective, and highly contextualized; they are therefore neither easy nor quick to accomplish. Although there are specific standards for performance – Unit 7, for instance, creates both a “satisfactory and a wow area for each item that you [promise]” (Cindy-1-172) – UCaPP assessments are as much about contribution to the environment as contribution to results. Particularly as I have framed organization as a distinct actant – an autonomous entity, agent or actor that has behaviours, characteristics, and externally perceived intent distinct from those of its members – any given organization can and should be considered for periodic reflective assessment for itself. One cannot simply take as axiomatic, for instance, the proposition that a BAH organization is always correct in its often arbitrary selection of goals and objectives. Thus, individual goals and objectives derived via functional decomposition may as well be contestable. Indeed, in a culture of inquiry characteristic of UCaPP organizations, individuals’ “promises” (Unit 7) or “workload issues” (Inter Pares) must always be negotiated and reasonably contested. For Inter Pares in particular, the annual review provides the opportunity for a “cultural ambient assessment” and “program check-in” (Jean-1-95) for the institution as an entity in itself. The fundamental evaluative concern of the UCaPP organization takes on a significantly different character from that of the typical BAH organization. In general, it asks a very different sort of question based in reciprocation or “parity”: In what ways did the individual contribute to enabling and creating the organization’s intended effects, and how well did the organization respond? Reward and recognition Reward and recognition are often constructed as rivalrous resources based on the premise of there being beneficial motivational value in creating internal competition among members of a BAH organization. However, the tacit but clear message received by organization members is that they are always and continually competing for their respective offices unless one has job security via a collective agreement, tenure, or other, similar arrangement. Teamwork, for example, becomes necessary in this environment, beyond its instrumentality for coordination, to establish concertive control (Barker, 1993) among its members in the absence of legitimated and explicit coercion. Given that the UCaPP organization does not privilege one group or class over another, the espoused concept of personal success only being achievable through group success permeates among all organization members, irrespective of their nominal position, role, or tenure with the organization. When considering BAH organizations, however, the converse is perhaps more important: so-called collaborative efforts or teamwork that might be expected or encouraged among the workers cannot be contradicted by the organization’s formal or informal evaluation, compensation, and recognition systems that are typically based on rivalrous rewards. The collaborative culture of a UCaPP organization decouples reward and status from contribution as much as is feasible in the organization’s practical industry or sector context. In a strong UCaPP environment, organization members contribute not only because it aligns with their personal values to do so, but because they feel valued in doing so. As Loreen reminds us, “give me a reason … that is meaningful to me, that I know I’m making a contribution; I’m in” (Loreen-1-203). Every organization has an intrinsic motive force – the ideation which provides the impetus for the organization to move. For many organizations, impetus is expressed as a mission statement that nominally captures the organization’s overall goals and objectives. For others – especially UCaPP organizations – impetus emerges from its members’ deeply held values that unify in the body of the organization. Regardless of its origin, impetus defines the processes of direction-setting and decision-making, and therefore informs and provides guidance to the mechanisms of management throughout the organization. Christening a new leader-ship Although they emerged as separate categories in this analysis, coordination and impetus are traditionally conflated in the role of “leader” and in the embodied-leadership persona. This conflation only applies in a BAH context; UCaPP organizations separate the coordination-oriented managerial functions that are enacted among various structures and behaviours (e.g., game design at Unit 7, or the practice of checking-in), from the creation and maintenance of impetus per se that tends to be emergent from individual and collective values. In contrast, BAH organizations spend considerable time and effort concerned with extrinsic motivation – usually closely integrated with evaluation processes – since the responsibility for impetus is tightly held, not coincidentally by the same “leaders” who control coordination. By virtue of its ubiquity among BAH organizations, a leader’s coercive power via reward and punishment seems to be regarded as the most effective people motivator. In contrast, UCaPP organizations favour referent leadership that emerges organically from among a collaboration or coalition. As Cindy insists, at Unit 7, “all the other people in the group have to agree that you can lead and own it” (Cindy-1-15). In a BAH organization, the leader atop the hierarchy has the job of knowing the direction and destination of the organization. S/he therefore has the responsibility of providing the necessary and appropriate impetus, both collectively and individually, through delegated authority via administrative procedures. Because BAH organizations coordinate activities by aligning individual task performance with overall objectives, the leader usually deems it important to align people’s directions and destinations with those of the organization. That felt responsibility often necessitates convincing dissenters to either fall in line (Organization A), or give up their dissent (Organization F). In the collaborative environment characteristic of UCaPP organizations, diverse meaning-making contexts from which dissenting opinions emerge are well-explored and carefully considered. Inter Pares recognizes, for instance, that there is considerable value in being “willing to at least ask the same questions, even if we’re not coming up with the same answers” (Jean-1-13). The BAH view on contentious issues is that “you can disagree about stuff, but then once you decide to commit to it, you commit to it and you don’t look back” (Matt-1-25). In a more-UCaPP organization like Inter Pares, for instance, “the opportunity to talk about things more than once [occurs] naturally on their own” (Sam-1-27). BAH organizations consider leadership to be embodied in a person; UCaPP organizations consider leadership to be embodied in emergent, socializing processes. I will return to this topic in greater depth in the next chapter. Sharing a vision Despite the figure-similarity in how “shared vision” is often expressed among very different organizations, the intent or effect of such expression is vastly different between UCaPP organizations like Unit 7 and Inter Pares, and traditionally managed, BAH organizations. Many organizations refer to constructing a shared vision among their members. Matt, for instance describes, “Organization F as a relatively organic organization, where there’s a series of small insights that lead one to a path, … and people work towards a shared vision of things” (Matt-1-13). As extensively described by Gee, Hull, and Lankshear (1996), contemporary, “fast capitalist” organizations strive to instill a common, corporate vision among all of their employees with the intention that each individual will, to a greater or lesser extent, give over their own identity and values, and assume those of the organization—even extending into their private lives, as reported by both Adam and Karen (Organization A). In contemporary BAH organizations, that process of vision colonization tends to be manipulative, occasionally to the point of becoming anti-humanistic, according to the cited authors and many among the BAH research participants. In Inter Pares, members also have a mutually shared vision, one that emerges from shared values and deeply held principles. In fact, Inter Pares’s hiring process specifically selects for those commonalities, while the co-management process reinforces both vision and values in day-to-day operations. Ironically, the intent of expressing a vision is identical for both BAH and UCaPP organizations: one shared vision to be held among all members and the organization itself. The respective mechanisms for achieving that common vision, of course, could not be more dissimilar. A BAH organization develops its vision – often among a number of elite, top-level members – and offers it as a fait accompli for the rest of the membership to adopt as their own. In contrast, Sam describes the consequence of a UCaPP vision process, emergent from its common values, as it is accomplished at Inter Pares: I’m completely biased, but I would argue that we’re far more successful because it is truly a shared vision. It’s not merely handing over an individual vision, it’s because there are inimical interests within that structure. You know, there’s class opposition, there’s this contradiction of a company wanting to get as much as it can out of its workers, whereas that’s not the case here, so it allows for people to truly participate in owning and contributing to that vision. (Sam-1-81) A tale of two CEOs Loreen and Matt each play the role of legitimate leader in organizations that are in transition, from BAH to UCaPP, and vice versa, respectively. They each regard themselves as responsible for creating an enabling environment for their respective organization. Unlike Matt, Loreen does not see that task as a sole responsibility. “It’s not all about what I create for them. It’s also about how they help create it” (Loreen-1-5). In Unit 7’s game design, there is an authentic empowerment process at work in which Loreen cedes a great deal of control to those who would, in a traditional organization, have very little influence, let alone autonomy, to create aspects of that environment. There may be considerable similarity between the two organization leaders’ description of their roles. But, there is also a key distinction that reflects the considerable philosophical difference between them, and between BAH and UCaPP organizations, with respect to power. As I previously mentioned, Matt “set[s] the course … generally make[s] sure that their activities are aligned with those of the organization as a whole” (Matt-1-7). He sees himself as being singularly responsible for creating an environment that will facilitate the requisite instrumentality to accomplish the organization’s objectives which are, in fact, Matt’s objectives (Aaron-1-115, 2-24/28; Jeff-1-51). Loreen sees her exercise of control in terms of creating an environment in which people collectively participate, and are mutually responsible for both their own development and for the ongoing facilitation and development of the environment. As a legitimated leader in a UCaPP organization invites multiple individuals to create an environment for collective participation, there is a deep, lived understanding of mutual responsibility for individual and collective development that pervades the culture. Leadership, as previously mentioned, transforms to become an embodied process in a UCaPP organization. It not only can be collaborative, it must be collaborative, even as it is enabled and facilitated by the nominal or legitimated leader. Equivalently, in a BAH organization, leadership must be embodied in an individual who, in the best instance, embraces an almost parental caring for those who inhabit his/her environment, designed with as much cognitive, emotional, and social intelligence as can be mustered. At its worst, of course, paternalistic care reverses into a not-so-benign dictatorship, with ambitions for a totalitarian iron grip of control over employees, customers, suppliers, and its market as a whole. Loreen herself admits that the precursor organization to Unit 7 resembled this worst case: “We very much had an abrasive command and control way of running the business. There was a lot of induced fear in the environment” (Loreen-1-17). As legitimated leaders in their respective organizations, both Matt in Organization F and Loreen in Unit 7 possess, and have exercised, an absolute veto and exclusive decision power. Their reactions reveal key differences in their fundamental philosophies with respect to: creating systems of authentic collaboration; enabling mechanisms that tend to divest absolute power rather than concentrating it in a privileged group; and encouraging a culture of inquiry rather than a culture of advocacy for the leader’s point of view. Loreen reserves her veto and laments having to use it. Matt sees his veto as his legitimate and exclusive right as the founder of the organization. Whether power is legitimated through rank status, or conveyed through knowledge authority, BAH organizations consider it acceptable, if not essential, to establish and maintain power and control relationships among their members. This becomes especially true when a hierarchy of privileged and legitimated knowledge is supported by the discourse of the so-called knowledge economy. For environments in which exercising overt class privilege might be deemed unacceptable, creating knowledge hierarchies is considered quite permissible, without necessarily probing how the processes that legitimate specifically privileged knowledge simply remap the prior class hierarchy. Unanimously in the BAH participant organization, academic credentials convey status and grant power through legitimizing an individual’s contribution (or conversely, delegitimizing it sans credentials). The working assumption in Unit 7 is that there is considerable potential value and insight to be gained from less formally qualified members; hence they are granted considerable power through their invited influence. Analogously, Inter Pares values indigenous knowledge in the context of international development, and does not privilege Western knowledge authority as do many other international development agencies. UCaPP organizations remain true to their ethos of eschewing power and status hierarchies, be they organizationally structural or constructed by the authority proxy of privileged knowledge. Sense-making BAH organizations’ dependence on systems and procedures to minimize discretionary judgement means that their instrumentation must necessarily focus on verifying the correctness of those systems and procedures. As I discussed in an earlier chapter, Karl Weick suggests that the generally accepted and entrenched justification for any action or social behaviour reflects the sense that people have made of the world. It is that justification, and its supporting logic, that is given preference above any other. Thus, metrics that validate existing systems – both process systems and systems of meaning – inform the sense-making apparatus in BAH organizations as the interpreted environment increasingly resembles the preconceptions from which the systems and associated metrics emerged (2001, p. 15-23). Thus, for example, Organization M creates budget-vs.-actual bonus targets for managers that track a minute fraction of a year’s fiscal management, and chooses to report program fulfilment based on intentions rather than actual delivery (Stan-1-94/39). Organization A members almost unanimously report that there is no post hoc review of business cases once a justified initiative has been implemented to verify whether the nominal benefits were actually realized. And Organization F’s CEO simply maintains that, “you commit to [a plan] and you don’t look back” (Matt-1-25). This defensive-routine (Argyris, 1994) approach to sense-making that seems to be rife throughout the corporate world and public sector precludes double-loop learning (Arygis & Schön, 1996), that would involve submitting underlying assumptions to critical scrutiny, and questioning the validity of plans and objectives. As Stan observes: In the government when they do performance measurement, they do it just to get the funding. And what happens, say two or three years from now, no one goes back and looks at that performance measurement, and [asks], what happened? There’s no continuity. (Stan-1-47) One of the fundamental values in UCaPP organizations is encouraging a culture of inquiry that supports comprehensive sense-making. Loreen frames this as reflexively considering “for the sake of why” a particular initiative is being undertaken or continued. Aaron succinctly summarizes the simple sense-making philosophy underlying a culture of inquiry: “if nobody’s asking questions, that implies to me that there’s not enough thinking being done” (Aaron-2-20). More than questioning, UCaPP organizations embrace complex, non-deterministic processes that inform their sense-making and strategic direction. They incorporate diverse voices and views, as expressed by both Unit 7 and Inter Pares. In the latter case, Jean describes how they approach making sense of complex issues: We start from where we are. There’s a history. There’s a present. And, there is, I think, versions of futures that we then have to decide among. But it is based on our history, and our present. … Some ideas gain traction and some ideas don’t so much. It’s based on a lot of people here who do a fair amount of reading, or are themselves involved in various policy or political organizations, or whatever. (Jean-1-15) UCaPP organizations value heterogeneous and diverse participation to enable the widest scope of information and insights being brought to bear on an issue. In contrast, BAH organizations reserve participation in organizational sense-making as part of the instrumental role-contribution of an elite few; such participation is generally considered an indicator of one’s privileged status and rank. View of People One of Henri Fayol’s (1949) management principles speaks to placing organizational concerns above those of the individual. In the eyes of a BAH organization, people are relatively interchangeable and replaceable so long as the requisite qualifications of the office are met. The functional bureau in a bureaucracy sustains, irrespective of the individual occupant, as does the organization as a whole. Multiple offices or functions can be combined or divided in a variety of configurations with no deleterious effect. In fact, because of supposed (or predicted via assumptive, deterministic sense-making) efficiencies and synergies, such combination or division of functions are typically framed as being beneficial to the organization. Any particular individual is as irrelevant to the overall operation of an organization as a specific, replaceable machine part is to the factory machine. People are considered as instrumental by a BAH organization. UCaPP organizations recognize that membership changes in an organization have the potential to damage the “social contract” that binds, and creates values-based cohesion. As Jean states, “when the social contract begins to break down because there’s turnover in this organization, or that organization … you have to start saying, is this something we actually want to continue to be part of?” (Jean-1-13). Unit 7 realizes that there is more to be considered than a person’s instrumental contribution to an organization’s production—their contribution to, or undermining of, the cultural environment is a paramount consideration of that organization’s CEO. The instrumentality with which BAH organizations regard their people leads to a fascinating phenomenon. The experience of some in Organization M notwithstanding, participants in BAH organizations report that their immediate supervisors seem to care – express warm, human feelings and emotions – towards their direct subordinates. However, when considered as a group by managers several levels higher in the hierarchy, this individual humanity scales to collective callousness: “Employment at will, and we own you. You do what you need to get done to keep the company going,” according to Adam (-2-70). Every other BAH-organization participant agrees. UCaPP organizations tend to scale individual humanity consistently throughout the organization, including up through the ranks of any nominal hierarchy. The caring is reciprocated, especially by those who have not yet become jaded by the working world, as reported in Unit 7. Work/life balance – that Loreen identifies as a baby-boomer concept, comparing the amount of time one spends away from work relative to time spent on the job – flips in a UCaPP organization to become a consideration of work/life integration. The more an organization demonstrates that it cares about an individual and her/his contributions, the higher priority an organization’s needs will garner in that individual’s integrated life. The problem with softball The question of work/life balance compared to work/life integration manifests in another, interesting way in UCaPP organizations with respect to creating strong, affective connections among members. Often, venturing outside the workplace to have fun, and thereby creating positive affective connections among participants, is a characteristic behaviour of BAH organizations attempting to rebalance the often out-of-balance, work/life balance. Creating opportunities for social engagement is an important catalyst for healthy interpersonal dynamics. However, creating such opportunities in a way that is not holistically integrated into the work environment and the organizational culture reinforces the notion that one’s work is distinct from one’s life. To coin a phrase, what happens in Vegas may well stay in Vegas; to a large extent, what happens in the infield (or even the outfield) stays out in the field and rarely translates to the office in a way that effects cultural transformation and the healing of organizational dysfunctions. In contrast, Unit 7’s Frances reports on how the B-Roll Diabetes Initiative created strong social and affective connections among members in a way that is well-integrated within the context of the organization’s business operations. As a department, I was feeling like we were isolated from other departments, and it was hard to build bridges. What’s happened with this initiative is, we created a kind of a research lab that everybody in the agency was invited to take part in for fourteen weeks, to walk in the shoes of a diabetic—a type-2 diabetic. And, what happened as a result is, a few key people worked on developing the initiative with me from departments that I don't really work much with. Production, for instance. Some people from the creative team that I normally might not really get to know that well. And then, when we announced the initiative – it was to the whole agency – people got to see me like they hadn’t seen me before... And I had the chance to talk to people from a very different capacity, and I really started feeling, unlike before, I really started feeling like part of the fabric of the company, and it felt really wonderful. (Frances-2-8) This succinctly captures the idea of “the problem with softball.” Although it is useful to create affective ties with co-workers, the activities that are typically employed are almost exclusively outside of normal work activities, like softball games, other social outings, company retreats, facilitated workshop events, and the like. In Unit 7’s case, the B-Roll Diabetes Initiative recontextualized typical, work-related activities throughout the agency so that they are engaging and fun, enabling people to collaborate in ways that defy the typical organizational separations imposed by formal structure, hierarchy, and workaday processes. Enabling these sorts of social connections in the work context eliminates the dissonance and disconnection of being “buddy-buddy” on the ball field or bowling alley, while maintaining fragmented, bureaucratic structures and internal rivalries in the office proper. Consistent with having a fundamentally relational view of people, integrating affective and instrumental aspects of organizational life is an important aspect of a UCaPP environment. As Frances notes, “it’s not just information. It transcends the normal day-to-day business purpose for being here and connecting.” (Frances-2-12). The contemporary reframing of the classic chicken-and-egg question – which takes priority, the individual or the organization? – plays out in consideration of an individual’s personal development. In BAH organizations, personal development is justifiable and supported when there is an identified business need; the need drives the potential for contribution as Robert reports in Organization A, for example. In a UCaPP organization, individual contributions drive the business potential and opportunity. Thus, personal development is a means to expand an organization’s horizons, so to speak, consistent with valuing diversity and heterogeneity. What is clear above all else in an instrumental (BAH) versus relational (UCaPP) view of people is that in a UCaPP organization, someone disrupting collaborative relationships and the organization’s social fabric is equivalent to not performing one’s assigned job requirements in a function-oriented, primary-purposeful, BAH organization. This observation, as it turns out, can provide the basis of a unifying theory that connects BAH and UCaPP organizations, and informs an understanding of their respective processes of transition from one type to the other. This, too, will be extensively explored in subsequent chapters. BAH organizations replace the complexity of human dynamics in social systems with the complication of machine-analogous procedures that enable interdependence through interdependent action, individual responsibility, and hierarchical accountability. UCaPP organizations encourage and enable processes of continual emergence by valuing and promoting complex interactions, even though doing so necessitates traditional, legitimated leadership ceding control in an environment of individual autonomy and agency, collective responsibility, and mutual accountability. Neither approach is universally appropriate; nor should an organization fall blindly into one or the other without understanding the ramifications and desirability of becoming less (BAH) or more (UCaPP) consistent with contemporary society in the organization’s own complex context. From ba to BAH: Valence Theory and the Future of Organization Acknowledgements PDF Preface: Experiencing the Process of Thesis PDF Part I: Ground - The Invisible Context A Conversation with Nishida: The Obvious PDF A Brief, 3,000-year History of Organization PDF A Conversation with Nishida: The Question PDF Understanding Reality's Production: On methodology and method PDF Part II: Figure - That Which is Seen A Conversation with Nishida: The Mountain PDF Pluperfect Tensions: Organizations M and A PDF A Conversation with Nishida: The Destination PDF Present Transitions: Organizations F and Unit 7 PDF A Conversation with Nishida: The Future PDF Future Imperfect: Inter Pares and, The Natures of Organization PDF Part III: Meaning - The Interplay of Figure and Ground A Conversation with Nishida: The Place PDF [Note: This is a critical Nishida chapter to understand the foundation of Valence Theory] Introducing Valence Theory PDF A Conversation with Nishida: The Fruit PDF Contextualizing Valence Theory PDF A Conversation with Nishida: The Letter PDF The Road to Here, The Road From Here PDF A Conversation with Nishida: The Beginning PDF References PDF Appendices PDF Send Mark a Comment	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2546
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__label__wiki	0.868526	0.868526	Frontline Diary In this corner with Russ Anber Glyn Leach BM awards All-time top tens Weeks remembers Corrales-Castillo I Mark Butcher http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHkX6v6L8kM Ten years ago today, Tony Weeks had the privilege of being the third man in arguably the greatest 135lbs prizefight of the modern era - the insanely brutal first encounter between Diego Corrales and Jose Luis Castillo. “That fight still sticks with me,” Weeks told Boxing Monthly. “It was an incredible battle. I have never ever been in such a contest with two fighters dishing out an equal amount of punishment and still hanging in there.” After nine pulsating rounds, the late Corrales was floored heavily twice in the 10th and on the brink of defeat when suddenly, from the depths of his soul, he managed to repeatedly stun Castillo and after a ferocious onslaught forced Weeks’ intervention with the dazed Mexican lolling on the ropes. “It wasn’t like I was looking in Corrales’ or Castillo’s corner with (extra) concern,” recalled Weeks. ”Both fighters were fighting back hard and effectively defending themselves. And it was pretty much an even contest leading into that 10th round. Everything was just clicking that night. I was in that zone. That fight will always stand out for me as the greatest fight of my career." The fight was also notable for Corrales’ jettisoning his mouthpiece after suffering each knockdown – a point of significant controversy. Did Weeks suspect willful intent to delay the contest on the part of the late fighter? [Corrales died exactly two years later in a motorcycle accident in Las Vegas]. “Only the fighter knows that,” said Weeks, who grew up on the inner-city streets of Brooklyn and spent some 27 years working in the federal penitentiary system in Phoenix, Las Vegas and Victorville, California. “We do know that fighters use fitted mouthpieces. It can come out. It is not really locked in there. Whether it happened in that case we will never know, but I took the proper procedure in deducting a point [second knockdown]. I pretty much did what I had to do at that time. It wasn’t a situation where I might disqualify Corrales. I only saw the mouthpiece out when I began my count. I am sure there are fighters out there who use different tactics to weather the storm.” Weeks exudes a trademark cool that emanates from his former employment in the US prison system. Yet working in the midst of dangerous cons could not prepare him for…. officiating a Bernard Hopkins fight. “The fight I had with Bernard Hopkins and Antwun Echols [their rematch] stood out in a different way! That was on the Friday night before Felix Trinidad- Fernando Vargas so everyone was in town. I had never refereed a Hopkins fight before but then things began to…unfold,” laughed Weeks, remembering a bout described as the most foul-filled encounter of recent times. “Things that I had never experienced before! It took me to another level. When I came to Vegas, I was a professional but after that I became a pro. It showed people I can handle a difficult fight when it happens.” Outside of boxing, Weeks is also widely known for his appearance in that Audi car advert alongside former IBF cruiserweight champion Steve Cunningham and long-time contender B.J. Flores. “It was an honour to be called to participate in that commercial. It was on location in Romania. The fans were wonderful, they made me feel like a rock star!” recalled Weeks. “I had a small part in Rocky Balboa and that was a lot of filming. The Audi commercial was two days of filming. It was 8-12 hours a day and the arena itself had no air-conditioning. The place was packed and I was literally drenched with sweat. If you see that scene in the commercial where I am walking out to the darkness and the car - that was the last scene that we shot and, if you look at me, I was totally exhausted and drenched with sweat. Everything was realistic in there. The only thing I had to do was be an official. “When I go home to Brooklyn, I like to walk around the streets and, when I went back, I literally had people stopping their cars and recognizing me. That was crazy. The whole referee thing is still surreal to me, but when people acknowledge me in the street or arenas, it is a compliment - that they appreciate the work that I do.” © 2021 Kelsey Media, Cudham Tithe Barn, Berry's Hill, Cudham, Kent, TN16 3AG, United Kingdom. Email: boxing.ed@kelsey.co.uk	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2559
__label__cc	0.650218	0.349782	Download Cross-Cultural Issues in Art: Frames for Understanding by Steven Leuthold PDF By Steven Leuthold Cross-Cultural concerns in paintings offers a fascinating creation to aesthetic thoughts, increasing the dialogue past the standard Western theorists and Western examples. Steven Leuthold discusses either modern and ancient matters and examples, incorporating more than a few unique case stories from African, Asian, eu, Latin American, heart jap and local American artwork. person chapters deal with wide intercultural concerns in paintings, together with artwork and tradition, Primitivism and Otherness, Colonialism, Nationalism, artwork and faith, Symbolism and Interpretation, kind and Ethnicity, a feeling of position, artwork and Social Order, Gender, and the Self, contemplating those issues as constructs that body our realizing of artwork. 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__label__wiki	0.789065	0.789065	Home Breaking News Minister paints wrong picture – Dharmadasa Minister paints wrong picture – Dharmadasa 8 February 2013 01:51 am - 24 - {{hitsCtrl.values.hits}} Multi-million-dollar cricket TV deal hots up as Aluthgamage orders to call for tenders Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) President Upali Dharmadasa rejected a media release issued by the Sports Ministry yesterday alleging that Dharmadasa had requested the Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage to renew the SLC TV contract with Ten Sports for another seven years without calling for tenders. “This is a funny media release. It was not a request made by me, but by a special committee appointed by SLC to handle the new TV deal. This committee included SLC Secretary Nishantha Ranatunga, Vice President Asanga Seneviratne and Treasurer Nuski Mohamed. I was just one member of this committee. So why the Minister tried to implicate only me and make it look like I had a personal interest in the matter is a mischievous attempt” Dharmadasa told “Daily Mirror” yesterday. “I am considering further action on this media release which is an attempt to tarnish my name. With the SLC elections getting nearer, I can imagine why such attempts at mud slinging are taking place. I won’t take this insult lightly” said Dharmadasa. Dharmadasa said that it was the SLC special committee which scrutinized the previous agreement SLC had signed with Ten Sports during the time of former Sports Minister Gamini Lokuge. The then Sports Ministry Secretary S. Liyanagama who handled SLC affairs at that time as the one-man Competent Authority appointed by the Minister had signed the TV rights deal on behalf of the SLC with former SLC Chief Executive Duleep Mendis. “According to clauses in that agreement, we have to negotiate with present right holders Ten Sports and ask them to give us an offer. Only if those negotiations fail can we call for tenders. Even if we call for tenders, there is a matching clause in the agreement which compels SLC to give Ten Sports an opportunity to match the amount offered by the highest tender. Only if it fails can we offer the TV rights to another company” said Dharmadasa explaining the background of the issue. “ The SLC appointed committee then decided that the initial option of re-negotiating with Ten Sports was the best course of action. Thus we informed the Minister and this SLC committee had several meetings with the Minister over this important issue. We advised the Minister to get the Attorney General’s view on the matter. Though the media release states that the Minister sought AG’s advice, it was actually SLC which wanted to get AG’s views on the matter” said Dharmadasa. “AG advised that we have to offer the rights of one Indian tour to Ten Sports and then only can we call for tenders. If we do not take the proper course of action, SLC will end up paying millions of dollars to Ten Sports for breaching the contract terms. We don’t have to go far back to find such huge penalties SLC paid due to blunders committed by the officials due to various personal agendas” said Dharmadasa. The cricket board went through an extremely bad experience with TV Company Nimbus in 2001 when the then SLC interim committee headed by Vijaya Malalasekara scrapped a deal and SLC ended up paying USD 5 million in damages to Nimbus. Yesterday’s Sports Ministry Media Release stated that the Minister Aluthgamage had rejected a request by Dharmadasa to offer the SLC TV rights for the next seven years to Ten Sports without calling for Tenders. “Though Dharmadasa made a request that TV rights be offered to Ten Sports for the next seven years according to the previous agreement’s terms with the same company, Minister Aluthgamage after taking advice from the Attorney General, decided to cancel the deal and instructed the SLC to call for open tenders” said the release. “After so many rounds of talks, it is shocking that the Minister had to issue a press release without discussing the matter with SLC first” said Dharmadasa. Another dubious TV deal signed by Liyanagagame came under the spotlight in 2011 when Sports Minister Aluthgamage ordered a probe into the controversial Nimbus agreement which cost SLC several millions of US Dollars. A three-member committee headed by the former Supreme Court judge Jagath Balapatabendi and that included secretary of the Power and Energy Ministry, M M C Ferdinando and North Central Provincial Council official W A Tissera probed the matter. The report was however never made public. Nimbus, an Indian based media and entertainment company, was involved in an arbitration battle in 2010 with SLC after the TV company defaulted a payment of USD 3.6 million. However, SLC later came to a settlement with the company after accepting a lower figure than what was due. SLC filed arbitration proceedings against Nimbus when the company failed to honour a payment that was due for securing the rights of India's ODI series against Sri Lanka, played in February 2009. The deal was signed on January 21, 2009 between SLC and Nimbus. The TV rights deal was struck for an amount of USD 6 million, which was considered by many as a figure much below than what it was worth, as the experts thought that the high-profile series could have been worth as much as USD 15 million. During that time, a One-day International involving India was estimated to be worth around USD 3.5 million. At the time this deal was struck, the minister had suddenly and strangely cancelled SLC's existing TV rights contract with Ten Sports, which was to run till year 2011, contending that there were irregularities in that deal. However, after the series was over, the former minister (Lokuge) made a U-turn and asked SLC to sign a fresh deal with Ten Sports. It is this deal which is currently in place and ends this year. Meanwhile, when the deal was struck with Nimbus for the India series, the authorities ignored the basic requirement of a bank guarantee, which was a compulsory component. It was because of this lack of bank guarantee that SLC had no way of recovering their dues when Nimbus refused to pay USD 3.6 million after the tournament was over. So ultimately, the SLC had to initiate arbitration proceedings that also cost SLC millions to pay the lawyers and in various other costs such as travelling to Singapore for the arbitration procedure. (Channaka de Silva) TV Rights Deal – Key factors 1. Existing agreement between Taj TV (Owning company of Ten Sports) Dubai and SLC signed on January 29, 2009 for host broadcasting rights for the period of April 1, 2009 to March 31, 2013. 2 The contract was worth US $ 67,874,000. 3 SLC was governed at the time by Sports Ministry Secretary S. Liyanagama who acted as the SLC Competent Authority. 4 Clause 2.6 of the agreement states that six months prior to the expiry of contract, negotiations should commence between SLC and TAj TV for a period of 60 days to determine the award of rights for the next term. 5 If negotiations with Taj TV fails, SLC can negotiate terms with another TV company or can call for tenders. 6 SLC agreed to a request by Taj TV to extend the negotiation period to December 31, 2012. 7 SLC top officials and Taj TV officials had an official meeting on November 26 at SLC headquarters. 8 Taj TV officials draw SLC attention to the clause 4.7 (ii) of the agreement, under which SLC had failed to deliver two Triangular series involving India as scheduled and which have to be delivered to them during the next contract period, even if SLC TV rights go to another party. 9 As realistically no other bidders would sign a deal without Indian tours, SLC Secretary Nishantha Ranatunga requests the Minister to get Attorney General’s views on whether to negotiate with Taj TV or call for fresh tenders. 10 Negotiation period with Taj TV extended to January 15, 2013. 11 Without in-bound Indian tours, TV rights would only fetch a minimal bid. 12 The next scheduled Indian tour will happen only in 2017, so signing another four year deal was not financially viable for SLC. So, they opt to go for a seven year period, but even within that period Ten Sports will have the rights of the Indian tour, putting realistically as best candidates 13 Any deviation from the previous agreement make Taj TV likely to invoke arbitration, obtain a court stay order for tendering for an Indian series resulting in problems for SLC like cash flow, Legal fees with likely financial damage in a massive scale which financially weak SLC cannot face. 14 SLC informs the Minister of these facts. 15 At a meeting on January 13, Taj TV agrees to a binding price of US $ 60 million for the TV rights for the next seven years from April 1, 2013 to March 31, 2020. 16 Ten Sports also undertakes to meet the production cost which is estimated to total as much as US $ 20 million. SLC estimates the offer by Taj to reflect a 40 percent increase compared with the previous contract. 17 Taj TV writes officially to SLC on January 11, 2013 asking for SLC confirmation to the agreement to finalise and conclude the deal by January 15. “We Thank You for the spirit in which these negotiations were carried out” Taj TV tells in their letter to SLC Secretary Nishantha Ranatunga. 18 Deputy Solicitor General Viraj Dayaratne informs Sports Ministry Secretary on January 21, 2013 that “it will be improper for the Hon. Attorney General to advice Sri Lanka Cricket at this stage” as the agreement had been approved by private lawyers. 19 SLC CEO Ajit Jayasekara informs the AG through the Sports Ministry on February 6, 2013 that one of the two Indian tours has been delivered and only one Indian tour remains to be delivered to Ten Sports. 20 On the same day, AG’s department writes to Sports Ministry Secretary to say that the due Indian tours have to be delivered to Taj TV and gives the opinion that SLC can call for bids if the negotiations with Taj have failed. 21 Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage orders SLC on the same day (Feb 6) to call for worldwide tenders as per government guidelines and informs SLC not to include the 2017 Indian tour in the tender. Comments - 24 Thummulle_Modawansa Friday, 08 February 2013 06:19 AM Jaya wewa Laiya Friday, 08 February 2013 06:23 AM Whatever said and done, we are sure that all are after their own benefits. nicky karunarathna Saturday, 09 February 2013 02:12 AM Minister is right in this matter. What minister wants open tendering process without any in betweens. So let it do it that way. It clearly shows that some interested parties waiting to get oppurtunity to castigate govt, if something goes wrong - to say govt is corrupt. It was the same stroy with former CJ's affair too. It was opoosition who pointed out that CJ and her hubby both corrupt to the core. bryan Friday, 08 February 2013 01:06 PM any sports these days around the world is a gambling and the stakeholders make huge money often by rogue deals. RMSD Friday, 08 February 2013 01:12 PM Please give Broadcasting rights to channel just like Channel 9...because they used modern technology.. ratakema Friday, 08 February 2013 01:16 PM Give it to CSN. Ape kastiya ne. Then no problem. both sideswill be happy and SLC get poorer and who cares? Cricket Lover Saturday, 09 February 2013 03:00 AM CSN got local TV right just for Rs. 100 million (1 mln USD) per year . According to current market rates of advertising CSN can earn 10-15 mln from a one day match. Did minister got advice from Attorney General’s on the matter. Also as the head of CSN how Nishantha Ranatunga in this panel, where his station has direct interest with the bidder when it come to certain production cost sharing. Dhammika Friday, 08 February 2013 01:24 PM Mr Minister how come CSN is above the stipulated procedure The sports ministry is a hindrance to sports Lobo Friday, 08 February 2013 06:49 AM This is whats happens when rogues fall out. The shit hits the fan and its us who get sprayed. Jamis Banda Friday, 08 February 2013 06:52 AM Sleep with dogs and wake up with fleas !!!!!111 Kiwi Saturday, 09 February 2013 03:55 AM These are the results of the Gentlemans' Game becoming a Bookies Game. Countryman Friday, 08 February 2013 07:05 AM Due to government regulations that help ministers take commissions Vajira Herath Friday, 08 February 2013 08:01 AM everything in Sri Lanka is controversial, anyway this will also end up with losing huge amount of money for SLC :-( Agentky Friday, 08 February 2013 08:16 AM Only thing is.. both the parties are dogs.. after their own benefits. the general public will have to wake with the fleas. kay parker Friday, 08 February 2013 08:23 AM Any luck for CSN Fayad Friday, 08 February 2013 08:56 AM Every one paints different pictures. Saliya Wickremasuriya Friday, 08 February 2013 12:00 AM A political match is about start. via DM Android App Kumar Saturday, 09 February 2013 12:00 AM Something is going to hit the fan via DM iPad app Mason Friday, 08 February 2013 05:25 AM It appears that the deals are being struck for the benefit of those negotiating and not the viewing public. Anyway, now who is trying to undercut whom - The Minister wants the Chairman to look a culprit or the other way around ? Bigsam Friday, 08 February 2013 05:36 AM Come on, if you are contractually obliged to extend with Ten Sports, why are you asking the Minister for permission?? Clifford Friday, 08 February 2013 05:35 AM Everyday and every time things will not be in the favor of corruption and malpractices, there will be a end for everything soon. Fair N Square Friday, 08 February 2013 05:41 AM it's a case of who gets the biggest piece of the pie... SLC was a money spinner and due to the fault of those who ran the institution, its a white elephant.(as it is potrayed)... Player salaries are NOT paid on time BUT the officials monthly salaries are paid on time. IF the players weren't playing the Officials will NOT have a job to do at SLC.... Hoodwink Saturday, 09 February 2013 01:08 AM This is a typical 7th Grade only qualified mentality. Andare Saturday, 09 February 2013 01:19 AM Since becoming the sports minister he has told mountain of lies to fool the public. He is mistaken. Jayawewa.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2574
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So, for example, a Muslim suicide bomber might do it for a self-centered reason—to go to heave... ... If it is a Christian society we believe in the New Testament. If it is a Muslim society we believe in the Qur‘an. If it is a Hindu society we believ... ...by thinking deeply about them. ―Few Jews, Christians, Hindus or Muslims change their religions. Few democrats want a totalitarian dictator... ... lead the various sects also goes back to the beginnings. Then the Moslem conquests of North Africa, Spain and around the eastern Mediterranean and ... ...w hundred years later the Persians ruled the area. Then we have the Roman conquest, then the Jews again, then the Muslims. So who has the most legiti... ...osques into churches. The spoils of war follow both secular and religious conquests!‖ Immoral from a God basis. —‖There is clearly a commandmen... Empire and Wars Subjects: Non Fiction, Political Science, War Collections: Political Sociology, Military Science, Literature, Naval Science, Social Sciences, Political Science, History, Most Popular Books in China, Most Popular Books in Bratislava, Science Fiction Collection, Authors Community, United States The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs. ...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...com http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After... ...e Author II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the United States III. Islam... ...rican groundswell everywhere: among America's NATO allies, in developing countries, Muslim nations and even in eastern Europe where Americans, only... ...erally well-liked in Europe, but less so than before. It is utterly detested by the Muslim street, even in "progressive" Arab countries, such as Eg... ...ised in the West, I naturally prefer its standards to Islam's. Had I been born in a Muslim country, I would have probably found the West and its pri... ...e last days of empires are characterized by grandiose construction schemes, faraway conquests and a materialistic spree of conspicuous consumption. ... ...ned its consensus. Gradually, it lost its erstwhile allies. The Ilhanid dynasty in Persia refused to back it against its tormentors. Byzantium, hig... ...r assistance, but in vain. The Ottomans embarked on three centuries of unhindered conquests, arrested only at the gates of Vienna in the 17th cent... Information Technology Tales Brad Bradford Subjects: Non Fiction, Social Sciences, Technology Collections: Technology, Islamic Sociology, Literature, Language, Law, Fine Arts, Sociology, Government, Bibliography, Naval Science, Religion, Social Sciences, Education, Political Science, Commerce, History, Economy, Information and Communication, Trigonometry, Science Fiction and Fantasy Collection, Authors Community ...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books.... Table of Contents Details ... listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake com... ...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...ove, care, feeding, fun, and friendship. Also for her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book.... ... control. From Samarkand, the Islamic paper trail crept slowly westward. Muslim freebooters conquered Crete and invaded Sicily in the ninth century... ...urope. Islamic Golden Age takes root Under Koran‘s teachings, however, Muslim scholars furthered the knowing of Allah by continuing research and ... ... and—until the Mongols sacked Baghdad in 1256—the splendor and learning of Muslim culture was unparalleled. Extensive ancient Greek and Roman teac... ...r the Battle of Talas in 751 robbed China of its papermaking secret, Arab conquests continued across northern Africa to Spain, throughout most of the... ...e and Medieval Europe The Arabs were still in the early stages of their conquests when a warrior-king in France hired a cleric educator from York,... ...r hundred acres were harvested. The combination of the moldboard plow‘s conquest of the European plains, and the introduction of the three-field c... Subjects: Non Fiction, Technology, History of Technology, History of Technology Collections: Technology, Literature, Social Sciences, History, Information and Communication, Authors Community ...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books. This boo... ...es Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...ove, care, feeding, fun, and friendship. Also for her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book.... ...s control. From Samarkand, the Islamic paper trail crept slowly westward. Muslim freebooters conquered Crete and invaded Sicily in the ninth century... ... Europe. Islamic Golden Age takes root Under Koran‘s teachings, however, Muslim scholars furthered the knowing of Allah by continuing research and ... ... and—until the Mongols sacked Baghdad in 1256—the splendor and learning of Muslim culture was unparalleled. Extensive ancient Greek and Roman teachi... ...r the Battle of Talas in 751 robbed China of its papermaking secret, Arab conquests continued across northern Africa to Spain, throughout most of the... ...gne and Medieval Europe The Arabs were still in the early stages of their conquests when a warrior-king in France hired a cleric educator from York,... ...r hundred acres were harvested. The combination of the moldboard plow‘s conquest of the European plains, and the introduction of the three-field c... The Religious Dimension Donald Broadribb Subjects: Non Fiction, Education, Religion Collections: Literature, Sociology, Religion, Social Sciences, Education, History, Most Popular Books in China, Authors Community ...Most readers of this book will have had some type of religious instruction. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live... ...What Is Religion? 1Buddhism 16Christianity 59Mysticism 118A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238Conclusion 277References 293The Collected Works Of Carl Jung 299... ...on Published by the Author York, Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book was published under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millenniu... ...lished under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with tex... ...ations, and new index, is published by the Author, Donald Broadribb, owner of the publication rights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. T... ...ct of religion. The question of God arises within some groups (e.g., Jews, Muslims, Hindus, various African tribes, some varieties of American Indian ... ...ch holds certain customs and specific beliefs in common. Jews, Christians, Muslims, Parsees, and perhaps the bulk of Buddhists align themselves with t... ...155 BC) was a local ruler of a province in India that had been part of the conquests of Alexander the Great (d. 323 BC). Archaeological evidence indic... ...e two reli- gions possible, and this has occurred among mystics, including Muslim mystics, fairly frequently. But, as we will see in the chapter on My... ...ome centuries later, with the resurgence of Hindu tradition and the Muslim conquests) and its spread to the East was, from the perspective of twenty-f... ...that pervades Iroquois thought. THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION 204 imperialistic conquest of neighboring tribes outside their League. (The latter they expla... The Path of Splitness Indrek Pringi Subjects: Non Fiction, Education, Science Collections: Literature, Education, Anthropology, Astronomy, Biology, Most Popular Books in China, Science Fiction Collection, Authors Community, Science ...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a... ...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P... ... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...not? Preface The Basic Elements of Human Understanding are: ... ...tion of artillery and firearms, these expanding waves of Nomadic migration and conquest were halted. The birth of civilization resulted in a profo... .... Both of them had already developed vicious cycles of territorial greed and conquest and endless expansion. The humans who remained nomads develop... ...on which it is been built. The fortunes of kings and empires, their wars and conquests have always been engineered for the exclusive benefit of the ... ...lized value-systems, which are all segmential. To find peace as a Hindu or a Muslim merely means you must exclude other humans from that peace. To ... ...ed with world domination: as the Mongols had been when they first began razing Muslim villages THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Chapter Six B: Civilization T... ...his culture was: a torn land of hatred and racism: attracted to the racism of Muslims vs. Christians ages older then his. Filth seeks lower levels ... The Noble Qur'An Rev. J. M. Rodwell Penn State University's Electronic Classics Subjects: Fiction, Literature and history, Literature & philosophy Collections: Islamic Sociology, Literature, Law, Social Sciences, Cultural Studies, History, Philosophy, Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection, Classic Literature Collection, Most Popular Books in China, Science, Finance Excerpt Details ...Introduction: The Koran admittedly occupies an important position among the great religious books of the world. Though the youngest of the epoch-making works belonging to this class of literature, it yields to hardly any in the wonderful effect which it has produced on large masses of men. It has created an all but new ph... ...1 96 Thick Blood or Clots of Blood 2 74 The Enwrapped 3 73 The Enfolded 4 93 The Brightness 5 94 The Opening 6 113 The Daybreak 7 114 Men 8 1 Sura I. 9 109 Unbelievers 10 112 The Unity... .... Rev. J. M. Rodwell, Introduction by Rev. G. Margoliouth is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...r the Prophet’s death, at the suggestion of Omar, who foresaw that, as the Muslim warriors, whose memories were the sole depositaries of large portion... ...lves given rise to the tradition. It soon becomes obvious to the reader of Muslim traditions and commenta- tors that both miracles and historical even... ...o, possibly, the title Hanyf was so soon dropped and exchanged for that of Muslim, one who surren- ders or resigns himself to God. The W araka above m... ...t the Ara- bic versions of the New Testament were made between the Saracen conquests in the seventh century, and the Crusades in the eleventh century–... ...s. Impelled possibly by drought and famine, ac- tuated partly by desire of conquest, partly by religious con- victions, they had conquered Persia in t... ...admiration of these horses, the result, we are told, of David’s or his own conquests, forgot the hour of evening prayer, and when aware of his fault c... The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States Thomas H. Kean Subjects: Fiction, Literature, Literature & drama Collections: Military Science, Islamic Sociology, Leadership, Literature, Law, Sociology, Management, Government, Naval Science, Political Science, Finance, Criminology, History, Economy, Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection, Classic Literature Collection, Most Popular Books in China, Science ...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democra... ...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O... ...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ...omeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s App... ... of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, De... ...t, disciplined, and lethal.The enemy rallies broad support in the Arab and Muslim world by demanding redress of political grievances, but its hostilit... ...rder of any American, anywhere on earth, as the “individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it.” 1 Th... ... In August 1996, Bin Ladin had issued his own self-styled fatwa calling on Muslims to drive American soldiers out of Saudi Arabia.The long, disjointed... ... joined with wealthy Arabs from the Kingdom and other states bordering the Persian Gulf in donating money to build mosques and religious schools that ... ...“Golden Chain, ” put together mainly by financiers in Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf states. Donations flowed through charities or other nongovern-... ...stan for supporting a Taliban mili- tary offensive aimed at completing the conquest of Afghanistan. 68 In December, taking a step proposed by the Stat...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2588
__label__wiki	0.694097	0.694097	Jared Leto to Return as The Joker in Zack Snyder’s Director’s Cut of ‘Justice League’—WATCH by Savas AbadsidisPosted on October 22, 2020 Jared Leto’s interpretation of the Joker, widely derided in the first Suicide Squad movie and incomparably contrasted by Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker from last year’s hit, will get the last laugh. According to The Hollywood Reporter, “Zack Snyder’s new Justice League cut is getting some killer laughs. Jared Leto, who played classic DC villain the Joker in 2016’s Suicide Squad, has joined in the shooting of additional footage for the “Snyder Cut,” the filmmaker’s definitive version of the 2017 superhero movie he was forced to exit and never saw through completion, multiple sources tell The Hollywood Reporter.” The project, officially titled Zack Snyder’s Justice League, is being overseen by HBO Max, which is financing the new round of shooting and the completion of the many unfinished scenes, and will air as a four-episode event series next year. Shooting is currently underway with Ben Affleck, Ray Fisher and Amber Heard among those involved, on top of Leto. It is unclear which other actors are included. In the meantime, check out Medium‘s defense of Leto’s portrayal in the wake of Phoenix’s, “Leto’s Joker is a epitomises this version of the character, which evolved out of DC’s ‘Dark Age’: the 1980s. With Morrison, Moore, and Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns, Joker became a flamboyant aesthete with an insatiable appetite for self-reinvention. This was inspired by David Bowie’s chameleonic showmanship (particularly his ‘Thin White Duke’ persona, which Joker incorporated into his Grant Morrison Batman personality ‘The Thin White Duke of Death’). Morrison had planned Arkham Asylum’s Joker to be a transvestite, wearing black leather and lingerie in mimicry of Madonna’s music videos; DC’s editors, however, prevented this, fearing Jack Nicholson’s tough-talking image would be conflated with Morrison’s sexually dimorphic version when Nicholson was to play Joker in Tim Burton’s Batman that same year.” It continues, “Joker retained some sexualised and androgynous aesthetics, wearing lipstick and heels in Dark Knight Returns, and Prince’s ’89 Batman song ‘Batdance’ containing allusions to sexuality and sadomasochism. This culminated in Joker, as Morrison described in his semi-autobiographical book Supergods, possessing a ‘camp and decadent Weimar-era’ degeneracy congruent throughout DC’s 80s graphic novels.” Posted in TeaTagged Jared Leto, Joaquin Phoenix, The Joker Published by Savas Abadsidis View all posts by Savas Abadsidis Prev Jennifer Hudson Covers Annie’s ‘Tomorrow’, Kareem McJagger, Prince William, Trump Dumps on Lesley Stahl, Ryan Murphy, Marina Sirtis on Kirstie Alley, and More: #GAYNRDDAILY Next Throwback to Hunky Olympic Rowing Hopeful Maarten Hurkman’s Coming Out #TBT #ThrowbackThursday Marvel Entertainment’s Chairman is Among Trump’s GOP ‘Megadonors’ 750,000 People & Counting Plan to Raid Area 51 to Learn Its Secrets #FlashBackFriday Comedian Jaboukie Young-White Recounts Coming Out to His Jamaican Family: WATCH	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2595
__label__cc	0.704817	0.295183	Forest Hill & 43rd Street To Know Christ and to Make Him Known — Main Menu —Home Visitors - Welcome - What to Expect - Worship During COVID-19 Leadership - Rector - Music Director - Church Administrative Assistant - Vestry - Trustees - Stewardship Worship - Covid-19 Restrictions - Sermons (& Services) - Music Messages - Baptisms - Weddings - Funerals Christian Education - Adult Class - Children - Children’s Chapel - Rector’s Inquirer Class Parish Life - Music at Good Shepherd - Outreach - St. Monica’s Guild - Acolytes - Altar Guild - Lay Ministers - Men’s Bible Study - Women’s Bible Study - Youth Ministry - Hospitality - Buildings and Grounds - More about Us Resources - Contact Us - News - Communications - GS Episcopal School - Nearby Opportunities - Dioscese. of S. VA - 43rd Street Festival Church Administrative Assistant Sermons (& Services) Music Messages Adult Class Rector’s Inquirer Class Music at Good Shepherd St. Monica’s Guild GS Episcopal School Nearby Opportunities Dioscese. of S. VA 43rd Street Festival Good Shepherd News Covid-19: Important Announcement Jan. 16, 2021: Letter from Fr. Terry Note: For now Sunday services will be at 11:00 a.m. on Zoom. See Fr. Terry’s weekly e-mail for the link and meeting ID. If you are not on the parish e-mail list and wish to attend the Zoom service, please notify the church office so that you may be added to the list. Jan. 17, 2021: The Second Sunday after the Epiphany: Service – Bulletin; Audio (when available) Fr. Terry’s Sermon: Print Danny’s Message: Music Sunday Morning: ZOOM Worship Directions Lessons for Sunday: Jan. 17, 2021 Additional Resources: Previous Sermons and Music Messages Annual Meeting: The Annual Meeting has been postponed until we can meet in person. The annual report will be sent via email to the congregation by January 24th. Please see Father Terry’s email sent on January 13th for more information. Or, contact the office with questions or concerns. Update on Winter 2021 Adult Christian Education on-line course: The Study Guide, England’s rousing alternate national anthem, “Jerusalem,” and the first four course videos are now available and can be found by clicking on The History of the Church in England. Currently the four videos are available on both YouTube and Vimeo. In the future they will appear only on Vimeo. Please test the Vimeo videos from beginning to end to see if they are running smoothly. If they do not, please notify D.Hickman or T.Morgerson or S.Pauls. Thank you. Morning Prayer Cancelled: We’ll let you when we can meet in the sanctuary again. Nativity Scene: On Epiphany the three Wise Men arrived at the manager. When you drive or walk by the front of the church, check it out — during the day or at night! Stewardship 2021: Offering Envelopes are available for pick up at the church office beginning Monday, January 4. Office hours are 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Monday – Thursday. If you cannot stop by during office hours, please call the office to find out how to arrange for pick up. Weekly Meetings: Ladies’ Bible Study: Meetings resume on January 7th. Please join us on Thursday afternoons at 3:00 for a discussion of Barbara Brown Taylor’s book, “Holy Envy.” Contact the church office for the link to the Zoom meeting. The Men’s Bible Study: Meetings resume on January 8th. The group is hosted by one of the members on Friday mornings at 7:00 a.m. at his home on the back porch. On the 1st Friday of every month the group will meet at 7:00 a.m. at Eat 66, located in the Stratford Hills Shopping Center on Forest Hill Ave. at Hathaway Rd. Please contact the church office for more information about joining the group. Prayer Requests: Call or email the office at info@goodshepherdrichmond.org. As space allows, the Prayer list will be included in the bulletin. Prayer requests will also be listed at the end of the weekly email announcements. Memorial Flowers: Contact the church office for instructions or ask a member of the Altar Guild. We are invited to participate in the activities of nearby parishes and churches. Nearby Opportunities © 2020 Good Shepherd Episcopal Church Design by Commonwealth Computer Consultants	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2598
__label__wiki	0.630418	0.630418	A Magazine Dedicated to Disney Fans Write for DisZine Articles tagged with: Disney/Pixar Disney Media, Disney Movies » New Interactive Racing Game, Cars 3: Driven to Win, Inspired by Disney/Pixar’s ‘Cars 3’ [11 Apr 2017 \| No Comment \| ] A brand new interactive game inspired by Disney/Pixar’s Cars 3 is coming this summer! Cars 3: Driven to Win is being developed by Avalanche Software under Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The game will be available for PlayStation4, PlayStation3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Nintendo Switch, and Wii U on June 13. The new game picks up after the big race in the film and extends the storyline of the film with new adventures featuring new and familiar characters. Players can join Lightning McQueen and Cruz Ramirez as they prepare to take on Jackson … Disney Movies » Forever 21 Launches New Limited-Edition Disney/Pixar Collection [2 Sep 2016 \| No Comment \| ] Forever 21 has announced the launch of a limited-edition Disney/Pixar collection that includes items for kids, women, and men. The collection “celebrates classic characters from iconic Disney/Pixar animated films” including Monsters, Inc., Finding Dory, and Toy Story. The Disney/Pixar collection features 29 items including loungewear, bodysuits, bomber and denim jackets, T-shirts, tote bags, sweaters, sweatpants, and more. Characters featured on the items including Buzz Lightyear, Dory, Nemo, Woody, and even Mike Wazowski. The new Destination: Disney Style series will feature the Forever 21 collection. The Disney/Pixar collection from Forever 21 launched on August 31 … Disney Consumer Products Announces Global Product Lineup for ‘Finding Dory’ [10 Feb 2016 \| No Comment \| ] Finding Dory, the highly anticipated sequel to Finding Nemo, is set to swim into theaters this summer and Disney Consumer Products has recently announced the product lineup for the film. The global product line for the film was created by Bandai. “With the beloved characters from Finding Nemo joining a fantastic new supporting cast of friends, our expansive line is sure to spark imaginations worldwide to share in Dory’s aquatic journey,” said Kenji Washida, Vice President of Brand Management, Bandai America Incorporated in a press statement. “From kids to adult collectors and … Disney Movies, Disney Parks » Sneak Peek of Disney/Pixar’s ‘Good Dinosaur’ Coming to Disney Parks [2 Oct 2015 \| No Comment \| ] Disney/Pixar’s newest release, The Good Dinosaur, arrives in theaters in November, but guests at the Disney Parks can get a sneak peek starting October 16. Previews of The Good Dinosaur start in just a couple of week at Disney California Adventure and Disney’s Hollywood Studios. At the Studios guests can check out clips of the new film as part of One Man’s Dream, located on Mickey Avenue. Guests at Disney California Adventure can catch a sneak preview at the Bug’s Life Theater and that version includes special in-theater effects. The Good Dinosaur tells … Merchandise Inspired by Disney/Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’ Available at Disney Parks [25 Jun 2015 \| No Comment \| ] Inside Out, the newest animated hit from Disney/Pixar was the number two movie at the box office for its opening weekend and fans can now find a line of movie-inspired merchandise at the Disney Parks. The merchandise includes Tsum Tsum plush toys, home décor items, apparel, and a variety of toys and plush toys for kids of all ages. Each of the emotions from the film – Joy, Sadness, Anger, Disgust, and Fear – are represented in the plush toys. The Tsum Tsums are available at World of Disney at Disneyland and … Disney Corporate, Disney Movies » Disney Consumer Products Announces New Merchandise Line for Disney/Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’ [9 Jun 2015 \| No Comment \| ] The newest Disney/Pixar animated feature, Inside Out, opens in a little more than week and Disney Consumer Products has announced a new line of merchandise inspired by the film. The merchandise includes collections by TOMY, Freeze, Ugg, Random House, Disney Publishing Worldwide, and the Disney Store. Items include figures, plush toys, playsets, apparel, accessories, books, tech, and more. The Inside Out collection brings to life the emotions that star in the film – Joy, Sadness, Anger, Disgust, and Fear. “Inside Out’s eclectic cast inspired a whimsical product line that is full of personality … Disney Corporate, Disney Media, Disney Movies » Disney Infinity 3.0 Edition to Feature Star Wars Characters [11 May 2015 \| No Comment \| ] Disney Interactive has announced that the all-new Disney Infinity 3.0 Edition Starter Pack will feature Star Wars characters. The 3.0 Edition will be available this fall and will including three Star Wars Play Sets – one set during Episodes I-III, the second during the original trilogy, and the third will be available this winter and will be based on Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The Star Wars: Twilight of the Republic Play Set will allow players to use the Force and Lightsabers in battles alongside Ahsoka Tano, Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda … Disney Media, Disney Movies, Disney Parks » This Week in Disney News – ‘Frozen’ Summer Fun, The Rebel Hangar, and ‘Inside Out’ To start this week’s news recap we’d like to wish all of the moms out there a very Happy Mother’s Day! And now let’s look back at the week that was in Disney news. We’re just a few days away from the start of this year’s Star Wars Weekends at Disney’s Hollywood Studios and the most exciting news last week was the addition of a new pop-up dining spot The Rebel Hangar: A Star Wars Lounge Experience. Advance Dining Reservations are strongly recommended for this dining adventure. In other news from Disney’s Hollywood … Sneak Peek of ‘Inside Out’ Coming to Epcot this Summer [5 May 2015 \| No Comment \| ] An exclusive sneak peek of the new Disney/Pixar film Inside Out is coming to Epcot at the end of this month. The preview will be shown at the Pavilion Theater in Epcot (home of Captain EO). Currently a sneak preview of Tomorrowland is showing at the theater. The Inside Out sneak peek will start May 30. Guests visiting Epcot for the Flower and Garden Festival will also have a chance to check out the Inside Out Emotion Garden. The preview of the film will gives guests a chance to see a sequence from … Disney Consumer Products Announces New Toy Lines for ‘Inside Out’ and ‘The Good Dinosaur’ [19 Jan 2015 \| No Comment \| ] Disney Consumer Products recently announced details for new toy lines created for Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out and The Good Dinosaur. Both films will be tied to toy lines from licensee TOMY. “We put our hearts into these films, so it’s incredibly important to us that our toy-making partners care about and do justice to these characters we know so well,” said John Lasseter, Chief Creative Officer, Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios. “When I visited TOMY’s headquarters in Japan, I was impressed by their commitment to quality and craftsmanship. 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__label__wiki	0.702001	0.702001	Top NBA Prospects in the SEC, Part Five (#10-14) Derek Bodner @DerekBodnerNBA Josh Riddell @Joshua_Riddell Joseph Treutlein We conclude our coverage of the top returning NBA prospects in the SEC with part six, players ranked 10-14: Jordan Clarkson, Marshall Henderson, Michael Frazier, Jabari Brown and Jeronne Maymon. Incoming freshmen have been excluded from these previews, as we'd like to wait and see what they have to offer on the NCAA level before we come to any long-term conclusions. -Top 30 NBA Draft Prospects in the ACC -Top 15 NBA Draft Prospects in the Big Ten -Top 10 NBA Draft Prospects in the Big 12 -Top 15 NBA Draft Prospects in the Pac-12 -Top 15 NBA Draft Prospects in the Big East -Top NBA Prospects in the SEC, Part One (#1) Willie Cauley-Stein Scouting Video -Top NBA Prospects in the SEC, Part Two (#2) Patric Young Scouting Video -Top NBA Prospects in the SEC, Part Three (#3) Alex Poythress Scouting Video -Top NBA Prospects in the SEC, Part Four (#4) Jordan McRae Scouting Video -Top NBA Prospects in the SEC, Part Five (#5) Jarnell Stokes (#6) Johnny O'Bryant (#7) Trevor Releford (#8) Dorian Finney-Smith (#9) Will Yeguete #10, Jordan Clarkson, 6-4, Shooting Guard, Junior, Tulsa Joe Treutlein Following a strong sophomore season at Tulsa in the 2011-2012 season, Jordan Clarkson sat out last year after transferring to Missouri. With three of the Tigers' top four scorers no longer with the team this season, Clarkson should have abundant opportunities to earn a significant role on the court, potentially even at the point guard position. Standing 6'4 with a solid 6'7.5 wingspan and a decent frame, Clarkson is a good overall athlete, being pretty good with both his quickness and explosiveness, but not being a stand out in either area. He makes up for it somewhat by being a very heady and crafty player, getting the most out of his abilities off the dribble. On the offensive end, Clarkson is a versatile inside-out threat who was relied on to create a lot of his own shots while at Tulsa, seeing most of his possessions come out of isolations or pick-and-rolls. He has great ability to get his defender off balance and create separation, having an excellent command of jab steps, ball fakes, crossovers, and rip moves, frequently using them to get himself open on the perimeter. Clarkson relied on his jump shot slightly more than his ability to get to the basket, as he attempted shots off the dribble at a nearly 2:1 margin compared to catch-and-shoot jumpers at Tulsa. He's respectable pulling up for a shot in space, both from the mid-range and beyond the arc, but is a much better shooter with his feet set when he has the time to get off a shot comfortably. He has a minor hitch in his shooting motion, something that makes things a bit awkward on his pull-ups at times, but is no problem at all on his spot-up attempts. Despite the fact that Clarkson saw so many of his shots coming of the off-the-dribble variety, he still shot 37.4% from behind the arc as a sophomore, a respectable number that could improve this year if he's allowed to play a more balanced role on what's likely to be a much more talented Missouri squad. In terms of attacking the basket, Clarkson is a very skilled player who uses the tools at his disposal exceptionally well. He doesn't have the blazing first step to consistently get by his man, nor great size or leaping ability to shoot over players in the lane, but he has excellent touch around the basket both on lay-ups and runners, while he also takes good angles and shows good body control to get shot attempts off with defenders in the area. The biggest problem for Clarkson's game projecting to the next level is how his dribble-drive game will translate, as despite his success at the college level, many of his shot attempts in these situations are made in very small windows over defenders, and even with all his strong traits, he's still just a decent finisher at this level as it is. Projecting this to the NBA where he'd be matched up against much larger and more athletic competition, it's questionable if he could succeed in the same way barring significant improvement physically or skill-wise. On the defensive end, Clarkson shows a great fundamental base and effort level, frequently playing up on his man whenever he has the ball, but his lateral quickness is often exploited, especially when matched against smaller guards. To his credit, he does a great job recovering and staying with his man when he does give up a first step, and uses his length well to contest shots from the side and behind, but it's tough to see him not being at a disadvantage in quickness on this end of the floor at the next level. Looking forward, Clarkson has a solid groundwork of skills with his very good shot-creating and shot-making abilities along with his inside-out offensive game, but his lack of standout physical attributes on both ends of the floor make the next level an uphill climb at this stage. Clarkson's best bet from an NBA perspective would likely be to further excel with his perimeter shooting game, which is the area least tied to his athleticism and most likely to easily translate in the pros, and he could have good opportunity to take a step forward there when he's playing what's likely a much less ball-dominant role for the Tigers. #11, Marshall Henderson, 6'2, Senior, Shooting Guard, Mississippi Marshall Henderson has taken a long and controversial path to his senior season, one which we still do not know exactly when it will start for the Mississippi guard, as he is currently suspended. Henderson began his career at Utah all the way back in the 2009-10 season, but transferred to Texas Tech following his freshman season. After sitting out the 2010-11 season, Henderson would transfer to South Plains Junior College before playing a game for Texas Tech, deciding to leave after Texas Tech fired head coach Pat Knight. Henderson would lead South Plains to a 36-0 record and NJCAA national championship before transferring to Mississippi to begin his junior season. Once there, Henderson had an outstanding year for the Rebels, scoring 20.1 points per game while leading Mississippi to its first SEC championship in over 30 years, with Henderson winning SEC tournament MVP honors. His offseason, however, started on a sour note, as Henderson was pulled over during a traffic stop by police in May and found to be in possession of small amounts of cocaine and marijuana, although he would officially only be charged with not having proof of insurance, earning Henderson an indefinite suspension from Ole Miss for conduct detrimental to the team. While Mississippi head coach Andy Kennedy is confident Henderson will be back at some point and will be trouble-free once he returns, as of this past week he has labeled the situation as fluid and was unsure of exactly when Henderson would be back in the lineup. The incident last summer was not Henderson's first off the court transgression. Henderson was arrested back in 2009 while still in high school for trying to buy marijuana with counterfeit money, and then again in 2011 for misdemeanor possession of marijuana while still on probation, earning him time in jail. These recurring issues will certainly be something decision makers will have to think long and hard about when trying to determine his value at the next level, particularly considering his controversial on-court demeanor. On the court, the 6'2" guard shows outstanding scoring instincts. He gets the vast majority of his offense from jump shots, nearly 90% of his half-court offense, according to Synergy Sports Technology. The vast majority of those are from beyond the three point line, as he averaged an incredible 10.9 three point attempts per game, which is second in our database, only a shade below the 11.0 per game Travis Bader of Oakland averaged (and having done so in 7 less minutes per game). The high percentage of three pointers helps Henderson maintain his efficiency (57% true shooting percentage) despite shooting only 38.1% from the field. Marshall is most comfortable shooting coming off of screens, needing very little time or space to square himself up and get a good look at the basket. According to Synergy Sports Technology, shooting off of screens amounts to nearly 40% of his offense, and his 1.124 points per possession in these situations ranks in the top 20% of college basketball, quite an achievement for somebody who generates so much offense from this aspect of the game. According to Synergy, Henderson led the nation in possessions used off of screens, using nearly 40 more possessions than the next closest player on the list. Henderson does a good job cutting close to the screen and getting in excellent position to receive the pass, doing plenty of work before receiving the ball to make sure he can get his shot up quickly and with little wasted motion. His balance and form when pulling up off of these screens is impeccable, and this allows him to shoot frequently and efficiently even if well defended. He also shows a knack for contorting his body and creating the tiny sliver of space he needs to get his shot off, showing good concentration and coordination to shoot off balance if necessary. He's similarly effective in catch and shoot situations, once again doing a good job of being ready for the pass and with a very quick, compact release that he needs very little room for. His 1.069 points per possession in catch and shoot situations only ranks in the 65th percentile, but his usage and role once again play a key factor in this, as over 70% of his catch and shoot attempts came with a hand in his face according to Synergy Sports Technology. Henderson is also capable of shooting off the dribble, connecting on an excellent 0.932 points per possession. This has helped improve his ability to score off the pick and roll which, while not an incredibly large portion of his offense, is another weapon in his arsenal. Henderson takes more than a few shots off balance and with a hand in his face, which is partly due to his role in Mississippi's offense, but he could definitely stand to improve his shot selection, as he frequently takes tough, contested, off balance shots with 10+ seconds left on the shot clock. Henderson isn't much of a threat to get all the way to the basket at the college level, and almost certainly lacks the size or athleticism to do so at the NBA level. He has fairly good control of his dribble, but rarely will he even attempt to drive all the way in, usually pulling up for a jump shot well before he reaches resistance down low. On the rare instances he does get deep into the lane, Henderson has decent touch and is fairly crafty, but he has very little elevation around the rim and very much plays a finesse game. This is unlikely to be a major part of his game at any level, and he doesn't show much ability or interest in driving deep into the lane either from isolation situations or off the pick and roll. For somebody who is 6'2" with a very small wingspan, you would hope to see more of an ability to play the point guard position than Henderson has shown thus far. Henderson is pretty much a wing player at this stage of his career, not showing much in the way of court vision, instincts, or an ability to control the tempo. He averaged only 2.0 assists per 40 minutes pace adjusted with a -3.04 pure passer rating, both figures that would be near the bottom of our list of shooting guards. The defensive side of the ball presents another big challenge to Henderson's prospects to play at the next level. Standing 6'2", with a small wingspan, average lateral mobility and without the upper body strength to defend shooting guards at the next level, Henderson will be at a major physical disadvantage every night on the court at either guard position, but especially if forced to play the shooting guard position. He also struggles to fight through screens and tends to lose his man when playing off the ball. Overall, it would be hard to see Henderson developing into even an adequate defender at the next level. While Henderson's ability to shoot the ball with very little free space is something that could potentially be valuable in the right situation, he has plenty of question marks in his overall game and his defense. Perhaps even more troubling are the off-court red flags and on-court antics. For a player who will have to fight tooth and nail just to get a look at the next level, those kinds of transgressions and question marks could doom his chances. When Henderson's suspension is finally lifted and he returns to playing basketball for Mississippi, it is of utmost importance for the senior guard to have a clean season and begin showing decision makers that his judgment can be counted on, even if the damage may have already been done. #12, Michael Frazier, 6-4, Sophomore, Shooting Guard, Florida After watching Frazier intently at the USA Basketball U19 World Championship and training camp this past June, we offered up the following scouting report. We prefer to wait and see how Frazier performs as a sophomore before adding to his profile. #13, Jabari Brown, 6-5, RS Junior, Shooting Guard, Missouri Jabari Brown joined the Missouri Tigers as a mid-season transfer last year, leaving the University of Oregon after starting two games in 2010-11. He enters this season as a redshirt junior and will attempt to replicate the success he found in a partial season with Missouri over a year. In 25 games last season, Brown averaged 13.7 points per game, shooting 46% on two pointers and 36.6% on three pointers in 32 minutes per game. The 6'5, 215 pound Brown has nice size for a shooting guard and decent speed, especially when moving laterally in the half-court. Brown was almost exclusively a jump shooter last season, as 84.4% of his shots were categorized as jump shots by Synergy Sports. He was a solid shooter in catch and shoot situations, where he made 38% of shots, averaging 1.13 points per possession, according to Synergy Sports. He has a great shooting motion and elevates well to shoot over taller defenders. Brown is not much of an offensive creator for Missouri last season, rarely getting to the basket in the half-court and seeing most of his looks coming in catch and shoot situations, only attempting 31 total off the dribble jumpers last season. He often struggled to square himself to the rim in pull-up situations effectively, which caused many of his attempts to come while off-balance. He was also unable to create offense for his teammates, as his 1.6 assists per 40 minutes pace adjusted ranked as one of the lowest among shooting guards in our database. Around the rim, Brown was largely untested, as he attempted only a handful of shots inside the paint last season. He was a below average finisher in this small sample, shooting 46%, as he does not possess the size or explosiveness needed to finish at a high rate in traffic. He doesn't shy away from contact, as his 5.0 free throw attempts per 40 minutes pace adjusted is solid for a player who plays off the ball most of the game, but he has yet to show the ball-handling ability and creativity you'd hope to see from a NBA shooting guard prospect. Defensively, Brown is a tireless worker and his physical tools make him a strong defensive player. He has above average agility and lateral movement to stay in front of quick players and enough strength at this point to hold off bigger players. On the ball, he moves his feet exceptionally well to not allow dribble penetration to beat him. He is just as impressive off the ball, constantly moving to cut off the offense while using his quickness to close out on shooters. Scouts will appreciate that he can add value to a team on the defensive side of the ball on those nights when his shot is not falling, even if his lack of size is somewhat concerning at his position at just 6-3 in shoes. This season, scouts will want to see Brown provide something other on offense than simply catching and shooting. With the loss of several high usage players, including Phil Pressey, Brown should have the opportunity to play with the ball in his hands more, showing whether he can create offense off the dribble or not. As he steps into a larger offensive role, he'll need to show the same commitment level on defense he did when he had to expend less energy on offense last season. As it stands now, Brown's shooting alone is not enough for him to be a NBA draft prospect. Brown showed the potential to do more than that at the high school level, so if he adds a few wrinkles to his offensive game this season, he could begin to make more of a case for himself. #14, Jeronne Maymon, 6-7, RS Senior, Power Forward/Center, Tennessee After missing all of last season with an injury, we do not have much to add to Jeronne Maymon's scouting report besides the detailed evaluation we offered at this point last year. Jarvis Summers, Ole Miss Damontre Harris, Florida Michael Carrera, South Carolina Dai-Jon Parker, Vanderbilt Eli Carter, Florida Rashad Madden, Arkansas Coty Clarke, Arkansas Kourtney Roberson, Texas A&M Stefan Jankovic, Missouri Casey Prather, Florida Scottie Wilbiken, Florida Kedren Johnson, Vanderbilt Read Next... Comparing and Contrasting the Prospects of Tatum, Jackson and Isaac Mike Schmitz In a draft class lauded for its guards, three exceptionally talented, and wildly different, forward prospects sit in the top six of our mock draft, each taking a very different path to the top, and demonstrating wildly contrasting strengths and weaknesses. So who is the best prospect among the three? De'Aaron Fox Catalyst Sports Pro Day Workout Matt McGann Video from the De'Aaron Fox Catalyst Sports Pro Day Workout in Los Angeles. Video produced by Matt McGann. Jonathan Givony adidas Nations Training Camp Interview: A.J. 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__label__wiki	0.606495	0.606495	Probate & Trust Real Estate Integrity \| Competence \| Experience Jonathan Kurniadi, Esq. Mr. Kurniadi has experience handling various real estate-related claims, including contract disputes, notary malfeasance, mortgage fraud, and broker liability. Mr. Kurniadi’s current practice experience also includes advocating claims based on the Truth in Lending Act (TILA) and the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA). Recently, Mr. Kurniadi successfully litigated a case based on TILA, RESPA, breach of fiduciary duty, and fraud-related claims—a recovery valued at approximately, $760,000.00. Mr. Kurniadi also participated in the first H.O.M.E Clinic sponsored by the Housing Opportunities Collaborative. In collaboration with the Federal Housing and Urban Development and several of San Diego’s largest non-profit housing counseling agencies, Jonathan provided screening of loan documents for relevant legal issues. His pro bono hours were donated to the Pan Asian Lawyers of San Diego. Prior to beginning his own practice, Mr. Kurniadi gained early litigating experience as an associate attorney at the Law Offices of Alexander M. Schack in San Diego, CA. As an associate attorney, Mr. Kurniadi concentrated in the area of antitrust litigation, and litigated several of California’s—and the nation’s—largest class action cases. For instance, Mr. Kurniadi chaired a team of attorneys in a California consumer class involving a trade conspiracy against eight (8) of the world’s largest producers of Dynamic Random Access Memory chips. (In re Dynamic Random Access Memory Antitrust Litigation, No.Dist.CA, MDL No. 1486.) While attending the University of San Diego School of Law, Mr. Kurniadi was an extern for United States Magistrate (now District) Judge, Hon. John A. Houston of the Southern District of California. During law school, Mr. Kurniadi also competed in the USD Alumni Torts Moot Court Competition where he earned distinction of Best Petitioner’s Brief and First Place Overall. Jonathan Kurniadi has been involved in several of California’s, and the nation’s, largest class action cases. As an Associate at the Law Offices of Alexander M. Schack, Jonathan Kurniadi helped litigate a California consumer class action against a trade conspiracy of eight (8) of the world’s largest producers of Dynamic Random Access Memory chips. (In re Dynamic Random Access Memory Antitrust Litigation, No.Dist.CA, MDL No. 1486.) The case advocated the position that any group of large companies which lead any particular industry may not be allowed to conspire to fix prices at the expense of purchasers like you. Jonathan has also represented various franchisees in the fitness industry by protecting and advancing rights against large franchisors based on claims such as failure to support, and misrepresentation of profits and required initial capital. University of San Diego, School of Law, J.D. University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, B.S. Bar Memberships/Affiliations United States District Court, Southern District of California United States District Court, Central District of California United States Bankruptcy Court, Central District of California Consumer Attorneys of California State Bar of California, Speakers Bureau, Trust and Estate Section Experience/Clerkships The JK Law Firm, A.P.C., San Diego, Principal Attorney Law Offices of Alexander M. Schack, San Diego, Associate Attorney Goff & DeWalt, LLP, San Diego, Law Clerk U.S District Court, Southern District of California, Extern to U.S. District Judge John A. Houston Learn more about... Nadine J. Kurniadi, Esq. Kurniadi & Kurniadi, APC Bay Area (main office) 3478 Buskirk Avenue 1110 Torrey Pines Road La Jolla, California 92073 EMAIL: info@kurniadilaw.com Important Tips Immediately After Injury Warning: Don’t Get Caught In Mortgage Fraud Real Estate; Broker Liability; Unlicensed Activity — (confidential settlement) Real Estate; Misrepresentation — (confidential settlement) Real Estate; Broker; Agent; Notary Malfeasance — Approx. $756.000.00 Notary Liability; Broker Liability; Agent Liability; Escrow Liability — $165,000.00 Real Estate; Mortgage; Broker Liability — (confidential settlement) Quiet Title; Fraud; Misrepresentation; Unlawful Detainer — Unlawful Detainer dismissed Elder Abuse; Mortgage Fraud; Misrepresentation; Notary; Broker; Agent Liability — Excess of $155,000.00 Broker Liability; Mortgage Fraud — $90,000.00 Real Estate; Appraiser Liability; Broker Liability; Fraud — $250,000.00, case is ongoing LifeLock, Inc. to pay for false claims and false advertising American Tax Relief California Consumer Class Action Who's calling you? Beware, it's not the FDIC. Crimes Against Elderly on the Rise New Legal Protections for the Elderly Copyright © 2021 Kurniadi & Kurniadi, APC	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2613
__label__wiki	0.566604	0.566604	Vikings overcome sloppy starts to win back to back games Andy York Senior guard Beth Pollnow had 11 points and 10 steals as she led the Vikings to a 61-47 victory over Lake Forest. (Dan Leers) This past weekend the LU women’s basketball team defeated two Midwest Conference foes from Illinois: Knox and Lake Forest.On Friday night, the Vikings played host to the Knox Prairie Fire. From the opening tipoff, Lawrence was in control of this game. The Vikings started with a 9-0 run capped by a layup by freshman guard/forward Felice Porrata. Knox finally scored their first points three minutes into the game. With 11:34 left in the first half, Lawrence had taken a 19-4 lead. The Viking’s foul trouble let Knox get back into the game as the Fire hit six of seven free throws in the first half to trim the score to 32-15 at halftime. The Prairie Fire’s struggles throughout the first half stemmed from their inability to beat the 2-3 zone defense the Vikings used. Both teams began the second half in sloppy fashion, exchanging turnovers in the first few minutes. Knox finally came alive with roughly fifteen minutes left in the half, finding their offensive stride and holding back the Vikings on defense. Knox cut the LU lead to nine as Knox junior guard Sue Blafka hit a three pointer with twelve minutes left in the game. After Blafka hit two free throws with three minutes to go in the game, Knox had cut the Lawrence lead to 52-45, but that would be as close as they got. The defense of LU senior guard Beth Pollnow, and the offense of Porrata, led the Vikings down the stretch as they shut down Knox, eventually coasting to a 61-47 victory. LU was led in scoring by senior guard Dara Rakun, who had sixteen points. Porrata added eleven for the Vikings. The player of the game for Lawrence was senior Beth Pollnow. She added eleven points and ten steals, the highest takeaway total in the Midwest Conference this season. “Coach said that this was a must win for us, and that the guards would have to play tight defense, and then everyone else would vibe off of us,” said Pollnow. Against Lake Forest on Saturday, the Vikings again started off strong, taking a 25-18 lead into the locker room at halftime. The defense once more came up big down the stretch, as Pollnow added to her league leading steal totals with six more takeaways. Porrata led the Vikings in scoring with twenty-two points as Lawrence won 59-49. The Vikings are now 7-7 on the year and have a 6-2 conference record, earning them a third place conference ranking behind league leader and undefeated Carroll College and second place Lake Forest College. The Vikings play Illinois College today and then its away at Knox on Saturday. The Lawrentian Staff - January 25, 2002 Andy York Senior guard Beth Pollnow had 11 points and 10 steals as she led the Vikings to a 61-47 victory over Lake Forest. (Dan Leers) This past weekend the LU women’s basketball team defeated two Midwest Conference foes from Illinois: Knox and Lake Forest.On Friday night, the Vikings played host to the Knox Prairie…	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2615
__label__cc	0.641665	0.358335	Home Our Services Strategic Analysis News A Lesson in Costs: Know your Patent Claims before Asserting Infringement A Lesson in Costs: Know your Patent Claims before Asserting Infringement By Scott Miller and Deborah Meltzer, January 24th, 2017 MediaTube Corp v Bell Canada, 2017 FC 16 appears to provide a promising Canadian judgement that clarifies the assessment of the validity and infringement of an information technology patent with respect to the telecommunications industry. Unfortunately, the underlying thrust of the litigation quickly departed from claims of validity and infringement to a dispute over costs. The primary issue was that initially the plaintiffs’ did not have a clear claim of infringement, for which they were justifiably penalized with significant costs. In addition, it was concluded that despite their “477 patent” being valid, there was no infringement, and thus no costs were awarded against Bell. Whether or not this case marks a victory for IT companies warding off so-called “patent-trolls”, is questionable. Canadian jurisprudence is calling for a foundational IT patent case; however, given the weaknesses in the plaintiffs’ infringement allegations, this judgement falls short of the mark of providing any real direction to patent owners with specific arguable claims. At best, it serves as a stepping stone to future patent infringement actions that will effectively guide both patentees as well as mega IT corporations. Scott Miller, Partner, Head of the Litigation Department Deborah Meltzer JONATHAN ROCH “Jonathan assists clients with their intellectual property rights including patents, trademarks, copyrights, industrial designs and trade secrets ” Best Mode in Canada Best Mode in Canada...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2617
__label__cc	0.68243	0.31757	Used Macs MacBook Pro (Retina) iPod touch (5th Gen) iPod nano (7th Gen) iPod shuffle (4th Gen) Used iPod nano 7th generation Looking for a cheap iPod nano 7th generation? eBay is a great place to find second hand iPods: Sort results by: Best Match Items Ending First Newly-Listed Items First Price + Shipping: Lowest First Price + Shipping: Highest First iPod nano 7th generation buyers guide Since its introduction in 2005, the iPod nano has been revised several times, and September 2012 saw the launch of the seventh-generation model. Is the new nano a case of evolution, or revolution? Apple’s completely redesigned iPod nano is their thinnest iPod to date at just 5.4mm. With an anodised aluminium design, it features an easy to use Multi-Touch 2.5 inch display, twice the size of its predecessor, and with a 240 x 432 pixel resolution, it makes the iPod nano’s user experience better and easier than ever. It’s not just this larger display that makes operating the new iPod nano easier though, as it features more physical buttons for playing, pausing, volume control and a ‘Home’ button. Despite its credit card size, the new iPod nano is packed full of features. As well as music, video, photos and podcasts, the nano also features an FM radio, Bluetooth (whether for speakers, headphones or car audio), a pedometer and Nike + for those fitness fanatics out there. There are also several accessibility features to help disabled users enjoy the iPod nano experience. Battery life is an improvement, with up to 30 hours music or 3.5 hours of video on a single full charge, and Apple’s new EarPods that come complete with the device feature better audio quality than the earphones that were bundled with previous generations. Unlike its predecessor, the 7th Gen nano doesn’t include a clip to attach it to sportswear, nor can it be worn as a watch. An extra £40 gets you a fourth-generation iPod touch with the same amount of storage, a bigger screen, and overall is a more capable device. Don’t dismiss the sixth generation Nano either, which can be worn as a watch and has many of the same features. The new iPod nano doesn’t represent a revolution from its predecessors, but it has evolved very nicely from previous generations. Available in seven colours, slate, sliver, purple, green, blue, yellow and red, and priced at £129.00, the new iPod nano is a welcome addition to the Apple Family, and arguably the best dedicated portable music player on the market. © 2013 macsessed \| contact \| privacy policy	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2621
__label__cc	0.732284	0.267716	Master Doctor Nutrition - Fitness Baby - Mom Master Doctor >Baby - Mom > Mom Master Doctor Search: Baby - Mom > Mom Receive the "Mom" Newsletter by email You Are More Than Enough 1 month ago - By Healthy Child Are you feeling responsible for too many things in your life? Does it seem like everyone is depending on you? Do you have high expectations of yourself and feel like you never seem to measure up? Give yourself a break. Give up trying to be perfect, it's never going to happen. There is no such thing as perfection in the realm of parenting. It's messy and chaotic and it can be emotionally draining. It might be the hardest thing you'll ever do. You might know some moms who seem to have it all together, but if you look deeper, you might find that they have a bunch of flaws too. No one is... The headlines of Master Doctor Is There a Cure for Stretch Marks? Pregnancy can be one of the happiest times in a woman's life, but the stretch marks that show up afterward are a source of frustration. The medical term for stretch marks is... Betty White's 99th Birthday Plans Honestly Sound Like The Ideal Quarantine Bday Betty White is a national treasure and today, January 17, 2020, she celebrates her 99th birthday TV icon, comedian, and all-around badass Betty White turns 99-years-old today... Polio Vaccination Launched in Afghanistan In Afghanistan a nationwide campaign to administer polio vaccines to 9.9 million children under the age of five has been launched by the Afghan Public Health Ministry. I've had many health issues over the years, including almost dying in an ER from a lack of insulin and an appropriate diagnosis of type 1 diabetes. Then there was my journey... Gen Z Doesn't Believe That Helen Keller Was Real Life comes at you fast, but apparently history comes at you slower, because Helen Keller denials are a thing now And now, in the latest lecture series, Smart People Who Believe... There Are So Many Moving Boxes At The White House And Praise Be Pallets of moving boxes have been delivered in advance of Donald Trump's departure from the White House It's just four days until Joe Biden's inauguration and that means the... Alexa, What Are The Best Robot Toys? In an age when everything is digital, perusing a list of the best robots for kids somehow seems a little retro , doesn't it? Robot toys take me back to holidays in the late... This Mini Fondue Set Is Perfect For A Sweet Valentine's Day In Are you spending your Valentine's Day safely at home this year? Congratulations! You're a good person. My husband and I pretty much always spend the night at home because we... Every time I entertain the idea of getting a hot tub for even a split second, I immediately remind myself that a) hot tubs are expensive, b) hot tubs require maintenance and I... To My Teen Daughter: This Is The Advice I Wish I'd Been Given When I Was... Now that you've become a teenager , the landscape has changed. I navigated my teen years the best I could and I'm sure plenty well-meaning adults tried to steer me in the right... Contact Master Doctor \| Tags \| RSS Feed \| Free Registration \| Log in	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2624
__label__cc	0.607735	0.392265	The Learner A blog for my opinion articles for pragmatic, cool-headed realists, and for all. Your constructive criticisms are always welcome. (70): On Fate, Test and Taste of Life Muhsin Ibrahim muhsin2008@gmail.com So many things are happening around as a result of which so many people are missing their track by i) questioning their beliefs, though indirectly or subconsciously; or ii) by taking things for granted. I am not here to offer a solution to that effect nor am I here to solve the mystery. I nevertheless still feel it appropriate, if not necessary, to contribute to the discourse. And the discussion is the inevitability or otherwise of destiny, and the test and taste of life. Two reasons, sincerely, bluntly speaking, goaded me to (re)write and develop this piece into a full-length article. It was initially posted on Facebook with little elaboration and vague contextualisation. First; I have been married for almost three years – our third anniversary is on June, 1 – but we are not yet blessed with a child. My wife and I are happy, very happy in fact, for we are confident that The Creator of Everything does not forget or abandon us for anything. Only that He does what nobody can ask him why, or can force Him to do otherwise. We are, again, happy just because we are blessed with the patience and the resilience to withstand, excuse or ignore those who misperceive that it is one’s cleverness, capability, position, faith, etc. that gives one a child. We have been asked several though foolish, stupid and embarrassing questions by many people. While we understand and forgive others, for they supposedly ask us out of sheer concern, it is utter ignorance and apathy of others. So, what can you do? Pass and persevere. Second; some young, brilliant and diligent students from Kano state were involved in a fatal car accident on their way back from Lagos after a quiz competition. Seven students, their driver and the coordinator for the quiz, died, while others sustained injuries. The Kano State government promptly ordered for their remains to be airlifted back to the state. As soon as this happened, some ‘critics’ started pouncing table that the accident could have been avoided had the government sent the kids to Lagos on aircraft from the beginning. How incredible! Why would politics foray into everything we do? That hypothesis is very wrong in two ways: i) nobody escapes or avoids destiny. This is a universal truth. The children could have still died even if they were transported via flight, ship or submarine as long as they were destined to die on that day, at that time and in that spot; ii) Travelling via roads by school students for such a trip or excursion, etc is very common if not the norm in Nigeria and elsewhere. We, for instance, toured Himachal Pradesh, a highly hilly border state in India, on the bus, while other students were in smaller cars. And here I am composing this article! Thus, it’s not about the bus, the ‘Hiace’, etc. but it’s more about the road if at all we have to point out the cause of the accident. Nigerian roads have been death-traps for many years. In this year alone, they engulfed many people, including a state minister of Labour. God gives; God takes. Humans ought to know this; we are endowed with SENSE to differentiate us from other creatures – animals. It is, however, sad and unfortunate that some of us barely deploy that even when the need arises. I, for once, have a total conviction that it is only God and He alone that can give me a child, though that does not mean I have surrendered by doing nothing. I do look for ways to realise my dream. Should they not work out, I give up. Again, if one of the deceased children were my child, I would accept his death and pray for his repose. It is far better than quarrelling on the radio or writing twaddle on Facebook or any other social media. All that cannot bring him back to life, while the prayer may bring him more mercy from the God. One doesn't have to be a believer to know that life is a test. For Muslims, the raison d'être of life is primarily to worship Allah, the Exalted, and secondarily to do other lawful worldly undertakings. For others, it is for various, varying other reasons. I know that both Christians and Jews believe in the resurrection, an afterlife, while it's reincarnation for many faithful such as Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, etc. The test of life could be very tough, and its taste extremely bitter. For instance, if you are destined to be and remain poor, no rich person, organisation or institution could enrich you. Or, if you are fated to have one or another illness, no doctor can cure you. Or this, or that. Man is often more helpless than he realises. A Supreme Being, the unseen power, controls more – all, in fact – of our affairs than you can ever think. The Power does what it feels deem to. You must not please or displease Him to be blessed or cursed – some do not even worship Him, and yet they are ‘blessed’. It's just that things are predestined - and Man must accept his destiny or be destroyed by it, so says an actor. Thus, don't think that I am blessed because I am richer or more knowledgeable than you; or that I am a son of my parents; or that I am cleverer than others, etc. One's effort doesn't, at times, guarantee one's success or failure. The wealth (of money, children, health, knowledge, etc.) could be a snare of a sort. God may endow you with all or some of those above just to see how/what you can/will do. Should you think it’s your doing, you may be left to do it, which you cannot. Should you be mindful that it's a blessing, something which your efforts couldn’t bring forth, God may, yes may, assist you in doing it. I thank God for my life. But I know the sweet and the bitter taste of life. I understand how unsolvable the test could sometimes be. It's only by a sheer reflection, consideration and observation that I am able to forge ahead. I know you may say: what a lie! Hmm. Do not forget that it's said that "the rich also cry". Yes, they do. I am not rich, but I also do. May we pass this test of living; may our lives in the hereafter taste more delicious; may Allah rest the souls of those kids and support their loved ones to bear the loss, amin. Location: Kano, Nigeria (113): Kwana Casa’in: A Short Review Kwana Casa’in : A Short Review If posh locations, number of cast and crew members, sophisticated camera, etc. are enough indicators for the budget size of a production, then Kwana Casa’in [90 Days], produced by Arewa 24 channel, is doubtlessly an expensive soap opera. Directed by Salisu T. Balarabe, the drama is arguably the best of its kind in the Hausa language. Being funded by foreign, non-profit, non-political bodies, including the MacArthur Foundation, Kwana Casa’in stands out as a socio-political critique of our people and governments. It unmistakably aims to provoke reflection and introspection and to spark conversation and action within and outside the corridors of power. Is it able to achieve that? Set in a fictional town called Alfawa, the drama begins at the peak of governorship electioneering. The current governor, Bawa Maikada (acted by Sani Mu’azu), is highly corrupt and desperate to win re-election in spite of doing very little for the people. The health sec (107): Top 10 Kannywood Films of 2018 By Muhsin Ibrahim The article was written for, and published by, the BBC Hausa service. Here is a link to a slightly different Hausa version published on their webpage: Fina-finan Kannywood 10 da suka shahara a 2018 Kannywood film industry survives yet another year. Not only that, it prospers and produces films of various genres, chiefly comedy, romance and, scarcely, epic. They include Adam Zango’s offensively funny flick, Dan Kuka a Birni ; Ali Nuhu’s remake of his 2000 hit musical, Mujadala , among others. Kabiru Jammaje, the force behind the reincarnation of English language branch of Kannywood also sponsored another posh royal tale titled In Search of the King . Nafisa Abdullahi’s much-publicised movie, Yaki a Soyayya also seems promising. Thus, the year is well spent. The following movies were adjudged to be the best of the eventful year, which is, more or less, overshadowed by the build-up to Nigeria’s general election early next year. The politics forays into (75): On the Proliferation of English Learning Centres in Kano Muhsin Ibrahim @muhsin234 The trending entrepreneurial business in Kano used to be the so-called Computer Learning Centres a few years back. There is, nonetheless, a remarkable shift today to the so-called English Academy, English Learning Centre or other variant names. I am not against the idea in its entirety, but I am not happy with the vogue for some solid reasons. If you can remember, at the noontime of computer centres in the state, many a time a student would obtain a certificate, a diploma or even an advanced diploma in the computer without knowing, or knowing very little on, how to use as simple as the Microsoft Word, Excel and other elementary computer applications. The business was hijacked and stalled by quacks. They plunged and polluted it for their desire was just to make one thing: quick money. In no time, many people realised that they were indirectly primarily duped. They stopped their patronage. Nowadays, several people are self-taught computer literates. (38): LEAVE OUR PROPHET ALONE! This article was written by BALA MUHAMMAD and first published by Weekly Trust (Nigeria) on Saturday, 22 September 2012. It’s however very relevant as ever. The recent attack on the French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo’s office in Paris behooved me to reproduce it here. Inasmuch as I don’t condone the murder, the actions of the newspaper are downright condemnable. _________________________________________________________ His name is Muhammad. And all of us, now One and a Half Billion Souls and counting, love him beyond compare. In fact we so love him that others just can’t understand or comprehend. They don’t get it, and they can’t get it, for they know not this kind of love. We love him more than we love our parents; indeed we love him more than we love ourselves! The moment we hear his name invoked, we immediately add: “May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him.” O we so love him, Muhammad! He left us more than 14 centuries ago, yet it is as if he d (116): Kannywood Movie Review: Hauwa Kulu Production Company: Maishadda Global Resources Nig. Ltd Producer: Abubakar Bashir Maishadda Director: Ali Nuhu Release: 2019 Cast: Ali Nuhu, Abba El-Mustapha, Baballe Hayatu, Hassana Muhammad, Hadiza Gabon, Hajara Usman , etc. The eponymous movie Hauwa Kulu is a masterpiece, one of the best films to come out of the Hausa film industry, aka Kannywood. It is a tragic, melodramatic social drama that addresses the issue of rape, which is a boiling issue in our society today. It is also a film that has attracted critical attention, especially from ‘feminists’, NGOs, other critics for its dramatic exposé of the complex politics involved in rape cases and its possible impact on the Nigerian cinema. The extraordinary plot, which is the driving force of this movie, narrates the story of a beautiful village girl, Hauwa Kulu (Hassana Muhammad), whose blind father (Abba El-Mustapha) wanted her to be well educated. He later decided to marry her off to avoid the plan "Husna ko Huzna" "Mariya" "Tangaran" "There's a Way" "Wata Malama" A'isha Adam Zango Aduniya Ahlul Bayt Ali Gumzak Ali Nuhu Amina Amal Aminu Saira April-Fool Arewa 24 Association of Nigerian Authors Bayero University Kano BBC Africa Eye BBC Hausa Bilyaminu Bello Boko-Haram Broken English Charlie Hebdon Chibok Codeine Cough Syrup Dadin Kowa Dapchi EndSARS English Film Facebook Friendship Fake Friendship Falalu Dorayi Gadar Lado Ganduje General Buhari Geoffrey Galadima Gidan Badamasi Girl-Child Gratitude to Allah GTBank Gwale-Kano Gwoza Hadiza Gabon Haqiqa Hausa Film Hausa People Hausa Series Honor Killing India Rape Islamaphobia Ismail Bala Isyaka Rabiu Iyan-Tama Izzar So Jaafar Jaafar Jammaje JTF Kano-Nigeria KanoOnline Karamin Sani Kwana Casa'in Kwankwaso Line of Light March 28 Election Maryam Sanda Mati a Zazzau Maulud Meebo MOPPAN Mrs. Oshiomole Muslims-Hindus Naira MasterCard Nairaland Niaraland Northern Youth Online Literature Network Pidgin English Rahama Sadau Rariya Sabuwar Sangaya Sarki Sanusi II Sat Sri Akal Shekarau Talban-Taura Tinubu True Islam Uwata Ce Yoruba people	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2625
__label__cc	0.501578	0.498422	nola411.com for New Orleans updates and info. News and information from New Orleans. NOLA is most associated with the French Quarter when tourists think of the New Orleans. Also popular are the Saints NFL Football Team, Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest. Information from around the web for locals and visitors. Louisiana Department of Health COVID-19 If you have questions about coronavirus, please contact the Louisiana 211 Network by dialing dial 211. Or, you can text the keyword LACOVID to 898-211 for the most current information about the outbreak as it becomes available. Print Media \| Newspapers & Magazine The Advocate is Louisiana's largest daily newspaper. Based in Baton Rouge, it serves the southern portion of the state, including Baton Rouge and Lafayette. A separate edition for New Orleans, The Times-Picayune \| The New Orleans Advocate, is published. 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Classically trained in both piano and voice, his free-wheeling style combines the refinement of McCoy Tyner with barrelhouse blues and influences from such other eclectic New Orleans piano maestros as Professor Longhair and James Booker. His performance in Washington on March 18 is in support of Fans of the Fest, the membership arm of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation. The Jazz & Heritage Foundation is the nonprofit organization that owns the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell. The Foundation uses the proceeds from Jazz Fest - and other funding - to support the music and culture of Louisiana. The Foundation boasts a wide range of year-round programs in the areas of education, economic development and cultural events . Find out more about what we do here. The Jazz & Heritage Foundation is pleased to reach out to supporters in the Washington, DC, area with an exclusive performance by one of New Orleans' greatest talents. 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Once you’ve lived in New Orleans and enjoyed everything it offers, any other city pales in comparison… Read more via offbeat.com Experience New Orleans cuisine in Bayside \| Queens Business Today - Business Profiles February 25, 2010food, new york If you crave Cajun-American cuisine in the party atmosphere of New Orleans, the only place on your mind should be Bourbon Street Café in Bayside. Bayside? In Queens, New York? Seriously... Read more via queenscourier.com New Orleans is on a big roll - and Harry Connick is cheering it on \| al.com Singer, songwriter and actor Harry Connick Jr. says it's been crazy in his hometown of New Orleans since the Saints marched back in with a Super Bowl victory over the Indianapolis Colts. Connick was born in New Orleans and got much of his inspiration and civic pride from his father, who recently retired after 30 years with the New Orleans district attorney's office, and his mother, who was a judge there (she died when he was 13). He hasn't served in a public office, but Connick has served in many other ways, especially since Hurricane Katrina demolished the city in 2005… Read more via al.com New Orleans Stuff: French Quarter Festival announces initial music line-up for 2010 February 25, 2010festival, french quarter The French Quarter Festival announces its preliminary line-up of music, food vendors and more… The award-winning French Quarter Festival is Louisiana's largest free music event, a three-day local music showcase scattered throughout the French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana. There are music performances on 17 stages… Read more via neworleansstuff.blogspot.com 2010 Jazz Fest Congo Square poster released \| Best Of New Orleans Blog @The_Gambit February 24, 2010artwork, festival, jazz fest … and it’s called “Say Uncle” — an image of the inimitable Uncle Lionel Batiste of the Tremé Brass Band, painted by Terrance Osborne. Osborne did the 2007 poster of Rebirth Brass Band’s Philip Frazier, and this one is done in the same vibrant style. Read more via blogofneworleans.com 'The Wire' Creator Talks New Orleans Music, New Series \| @prefixmag February 24, 2010Treme, video So far, HBO has confirmed a list of cameos for the first season of Treme: Elvis Costello, Allen Toussaint, Dr. John, Steve Earle, Kermit Ruffins, and Donald Harrison Jr., along with other prominent New Orleans musicians, are featured in early episodes. Read more via prefixmag.com New Orleans chef John Besh's take on red beans and rice \| Dallas Morning News February 24, 2010food, new orleans The New Orleans dish of red beans and rice harkens back to the days when baked ham was a Sunday staple and clothes were washed on Mondays. Read more via dallasnews.com French Quarter Fest has New Name, New Stage and More \| @OffBeatMagazine February 23, 2010festival, new orleans The biggest change this year is that the festival has a title sponsor for the first time; now it is the French Quarter Festival presented by Capitol One Bank. Though the festival remains free, it will sell memberships as part of the “Fest Family of New Orleans” program. Those will give members inside information and special bonuses... Alicia Keys added to 2010 Essence lineup \| San Jose Mercury News February 23, 2010celebrity, festival, music, musicians, new orleans R&B superstar Alicia Keys has been added to the headline roster for this year's Essence Music Festival in New Orleans. Keys will join Mary J. Blige, Gladys Knight, Keri Hilson, Jill Scott, Raphael Saadiq, Charlie Wilson, Earth, Wind and Fire and others performing at the Louisiana Superdome July 2-4... Read more via mercurynews.com New Orleans-Mayor Elect Mitch Landrieu Goes To Washington DC \| WWL - AM870 Mitch Landrieu has met with plenty of U.S. government officials as Louisiana Lt. Governor. Today he renews ties with them as New Orleans Mayor-elect. He'll meet with some of the U.S. government's top officials... Read more via wwl.com New Orleans MSY Airport Names New Aviation Director \| ClickJefferson.com Louis Armstrong International Airport has named Iftikhar Ahmad as its new Aviation Director. Ahmad is the Director of the Dayton, OH Airport... Read more via clickjefferson.com Law enforcement leaders meet in New Orleans for terrorism summit \| WWLTV.com More than a thousand law enforcement men and women, including U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder are in New Orleans sharing information on how to fight terrorism.... Read more via wwltv.com Henri Alciatore, Antoine's stalwart \| NOLA.com February 23, 2010food, obituary Times-Picayune archive Henri Ange Alciatore Henri Ange Alciatore, most loving husband and devoted father, at the age of 82 left this world on Friday, February 19th at 12:05 pm, with his family at his side. As the Great-Grandson of Antoine Alciatore, Henri retired after 55 years of service as manager and Maître d' of Antoine's Restaurant, where he was affectionately known as "Mister Henri…" Read more via nola.com Art In The News: Win A New Orleans Print ! \| @NewOrleansPrint February 23, 2010artwork Fig Street Art Studio needs more followers on Twitter to spread the word about their artwork. For those who help spread the word they are offering a free copy of the above promotional print to be mailed if you win the contest... Read details via oddinthenews.blogspot.com Saints fan give AINTS name a second line funeral \| youtube.com AP The Saints are no longer the Aints! Trombonist Glen David Andrews and the Baby Boyz Brass Band led an Aints jazz funeral and Second Line parade complete with a fake "Ain'ts No More" coffin symbolizing the burial of the Saints' not-too-winning past. Los Hombres Calientes reunite for Haiti on Tuesday, Feb. 23 \| NOLA.com February 22, 2010haiti, music, musicians G. Andrew Boyd / The Times-Picayune Irvin Mayfield and Bill Summers reunite Los Hombres Calientes for a Haiti benefit on Tuesday. The principals of popular local Latin jazz ensemble Los Hombres Calientes, trumpeter Irvin Mayfield and percussionist Bill Summers, have not performed together since Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans doctors bring their knowledge gained from Katrina to hard-hit Haiti \| NOLA.com As difficult as it may be for some New Orleanians and their neighbors to conceive, the medical director at Ochsner Medical Ochsner-West Bank said, the post-storm landscape of the U.S. Gulf Coast pales in comparison with the total devastation in the Haitian capital city of Port-au-Prince and the surrounding region. USAFP : Unifored Services Academy of Family Physicians Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA \| USAFP.org 2010 USAFP Annual Meeting The USAFP Annual Meeting is always a great way to reconnect with old friends and make new friends while obtaining quality medical education. The 2010 conference will be held at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel on Canal Street in New Orleans, LA. Read more via usafp.org Job-hunting in New Orleans? Tradition counts \| NOLA.com February 21, 2010economy, employment Like most things in New Orleans, looking for professional employment can be a unique experience, and newcomers are finding they need to adjust their job-hunting tactics to suit the more traditional approaches New Orleans firms expect... Environmentalists pushing for return of recycling In New Orleans \| wwltv.com It has been a historic month in New Orleans, where celebrations surrounded both a Saints Super Bowl win and a super-sized Mardi Gras. Police estimates show it may have been one of the most well-attended Mardi Gras in a generation. Some of those estimates are based on the amount of garbage collected. In all that waste, though, is there any room for recycling it? … New CDs From Galactic, Danny Barnes and the Ruby Suns \| NYTimes.com Onstage, Galactic is a New Orleans funk band that jams through marathon dance medleys. On its albums, it’s becoming something else: a studio outfit, still funky, that merges hand-played, sampled and programmed tracks and that doubles as a tour guide... Read more via nytimes.com Restaurant Offers New Orleans Flavor, Creative Cooking - Westbrook \| NYTimes.com February 20, 2010Connecticut, food, review Inspired by the cuisine, Sunil Malhotra and his wife, Mary Beth, opened Creative Cooking 23 years ago. The restaurant is on the bottom floor of a large, renovated house on a relatively quiet stretch of Route 1 in Westbrook, Connecticut... Our final day in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana (blog) Ramblin' Man: Full-time RV Life Jim Jaillet writes in his blog: Louisiana has some great museums! Yesterday Mary and I spent four hours in the Louisiana State Museum housed in The Cabildo, a very special building in the history of Louisiana. The museum displays exhibits about the history of Louisiana from its settlement up through the Reconstruction era, and the heritage of the ethnic groups that live there. Be sure to check out this very unique place by clicking this link... Read more via blog.seattlepi.com Iconic Bucktown seafood joint Sid-Mar's finds a new home in Metairie \| New Orleans Dining and Restaurants \| NOLA.com February 19, 2010food Since reopening Sid-Mar's in mid-January, Burgess has been the recipient of what once was as common as Gulf shrimp around New Orleans: an abundance of post-Katrina diner gratitude. The phenomenon permeated local restaurants in the first couple of years following the levee breaches, as locals thankful to see the city's dining institutions return filled them with emotion. via nola.com Galactic Ya-Ka-May (Amazon) album review Galactic have made what may be the definitive New Orleans Tribute With Ya-Ka-May , by recognizing this fundamental truth; that all of the town's seemingly disparate styles jazz, brass bands and funk as well as the newer bounce/hip hop are intrinsically linked. Cyril Neville : No high notes in New Orleans \| Music \| projo.com \| The Providence Journal Cyril Neville, the youngest of The Neville Brothers, proclaimed at the beginning of his talk yesterday at Bryant University that “I’m a singer, not a talker.” Neville left New Orleans after the storm, moving to Austin, Texas, and he hasn’t moved back. He says gentrification is killing the city… The Providence Journal / Glenn Osmundson Read more via projo.com New Orleans restaurants pitch in to raise funds for Haiti \| New Orleans Dining and Restaurants \| NOLA.com Rusty Costanza/The Times-Picayune Commander's Palace is among several New Orleans restaurants helping to raise money for recovery efforts in Haiti… $700,000 awarded for anti-erosion project \| WXVT-TV Delta News February 18, 2010environment, lake pontchartrain, louisiana, Tangipahoa Parish The federal Minerals Management Service has approved a grant of just under $700,000 to Tangipahoa Parish for the first phase of a shoreline protection project on the northern edge of Lake Pontchartrain. The money will be used for engineering and design, land rights and administrative costs. Read more via wxvt.com New Street Car Line In The Works From Stimulus Funds. New Orleans News Story \| WDSU New Orleans The New Orleans street car line received an economic boost from President Barack Obama’s administration. The Regional Transit Authority (RTA) will get a $45 million grant. Read more via wdsu.com Who Dat - St Paddy's Day WHODAT SAINTS St. Patrick's Day parade shirts February 18, 2010parade, saints, whodat St. Patrick's Day parade is a close runner up to Mardi Gras on holiday parades in New Orleans. Who Dat nation celebrates St Paddy's Day ~ New Orleans Style. WHODAT! Throw me a cabbage Mister! Read more via cafepress.com/whodat_irish King Cake Traditions February 16, 2010christmas, food, king cake, mardi gras, new orleans A King Cake (sometimes written as kingcake, kings' cake, king's cake, or three kings cake) is a type of cake associated with the festival of Epiphany in the Christmas season in a number of countries, and in other places (New Orleans) with Mardi Gras and Carnival. Louisiana style King Cake: A cinnamon-roll like cake inside with sugary icing with traditional Mardi Gras colored sprinkles on the outside. The king cake of the New Orleans Mardi Gras tradition comes in a number of styles. The most simple, said to be the most traditional, is a ring of twisted bread similar to that used in brioche topped with icing or sugar, usually colored purple, green, and gold (the traditional Carnival colors) with food coloring. There are many variants, some with a filling, the most common being cream cheese and praline. Cajun king cakes are traditionally,deep fat fried as a doughnut would be. They are topped with sugar granules in the official Carnival colors of purple, green and gold. The purple represents the passion of Christ, the green represents hope and the gold the rewards of leading a Christian life. The cakes have a small trinket (often a small plastic baby) inside, and the person who gets the piece of cake with the trinket has various privileges and obligations (such as buying the cake for the next celebration). Chilly weather can't stop New Orleans' big party \| AP Pete Fountain gives the thumbs-up as he prepares to lead his Half Fast Walking Club through the streets of New Orleans, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010. This is the 50th year Fountain has led his group celebrating the all day street party know as Mardi Gras. AP Photo/Bill Haber) Read more via google.com The Stew: Cajun Cuisine 101: a primer on Louisiana cooking with Times-Picayune's @BrettAndersonTP Now that New Orleans is in the news again, for reasons celebratory (Super Bowl last week, Mardi Gras on Tuesday), it was prime time to check in with Brett Anderson, restaurant critic at the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Here he is with an excellent primer on what to look for in great Cajun cooking... Read more via leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com 300 ITT employees lend hand in New Orleans recovery \| The Louisiana Weekly Three hundred of ITT Corporation’s top global leaders rolled up their sleeves to volunteer in New Orleans. On February 11, 2010, ITT employees partnered with two local organizations — HandsOn New Orleans and Bayou Rebirth —to assist in the city’s ongoing recovery efforts after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina through school revitalization and wetland restoration projects... Read more via louisianaweekly.com watch Mardi Gras Parades streaming live via webcam February 16, 2010mardi gras, new orleans, parade The Best Poboy Shop in New Orleans - an unscientific survey The votes have been counted, and the results are in... This is an unscientific survey and people were allowed multiple votes :) Henry Butler In Washington Fundraiser \| The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation, Inc. February 15, 2010Mary Landrieu U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu (D-La.) is the honorary chair of an exclusive Jazz & Heritage Foundation fund-raising concert in Washington, DC, featuring the legendary New Orleans pianist Henry Butler on March 18. Click HERE to purchase tickets. To become a sponsor of this event, please click HERE. Date: Thursday, March 18 Location: Madam's Organ (map) Admission: Tickets cost $75 per person, or $125 for two in advance. Click here to purchase tickets online. The price at the door is $100 per person, or $150 for two. Sponsorship packages are still available for this event at the $500, $1,000 and $5,000 levels. For sponsorship details, please see here. Sponsorship Levels and Benefits: $500: Name listed in event program; Quintet Level of Fans of the Fest membership (Fan Mail e-newsletter, Subscription to electronic OffBeat Magazine, FOF Bumper Sticker, access to the “Fans Lounge” in the Foundation Pavilion at Jazz Fest, Jazz Fest Flag); 6 tickets to the event and name listing on on-site signage $1,000: Logo in event program; Big Band Level of Fans of the Fest membership (everything mentioned above and Access for two to Foundation Hospitality Suite at Jazz Fest); 8 tickets to the event and logo placed on on-site signage $5,000 and above: Large Logo in event program; Founders Circle of Fans of the Fest membership (everything listed above and Signed official Jazz Fest Poster); 10 tickets to the event and large logo placed at the top of on-site signage. To secure a sponsorhip for this event, please send an e-mail to our Development Office by clicking here. Henry Butler, an eight-time W.C. Handy Award nominee, is a New Orleans piano legend. Classically trained in both piano and voice, his free-wheeling style comines the refinement of McCoy Tyner with barrelhouse blues and influences from such other eclectic New Orleans piano maestros as Professor Longhair and James Booker. The Jazz & Heritage Foundation is the nonprofit organization that owns the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell. The Foundation uses the proceeds from Jazz Fest - and other funding - to support the music and culture of Louisiana. The Foundation boasts a wide range of year-round programs in the areas of education, economic development and cultural events. Find out more about what we do here. For more information about the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, visit us online at JazzAndHeritage.org, or call (504) 558-6100. Read more via jazzandheritage.org last day to VOTE for BEST Shrimp PO-BOY in New Orleans #NOLA #foodies #poboy Vote for the BEST Shrimp PO-BOY in New Orleans Voting ends tomorrow! Vote now and Retweet, Share, EMail your friends to cast a vote too. The unscientific survey results will be posted on nola411.com. http://twtpoll.com/8d23vw Remember: Vote early and often for your favorite PoBoy Shop! See the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from New Orleans clippings Destination Foods: New Orleans Po’ Boys \| Cheapflights.com New Orleans fried clams Po' Boy The best Po’ Boys start with the freshest French bread, which New Orleans’ humid subtropical climate helps to keep extra crispy on the outside, and soft and airy on the inside. What do you stuff inside a Po’ Boy? … Read more via news.cheapflights.com Who makes the Best poboy in New Orleans? VOTE for your favorite Shrimp Poboy Valentine’s Day in New Orleans - What to do, where to go \| thehullabaloo.com If you’re planning to celebrate Valentine’s Day with your lover in New Orleans, you should be prepared to do things a little differently. For one, you may want to postpone your romantic evening out for a week or so, just so that drunken fools and merrymakers don’t interrupt your intimate, candle-lit canoodling. Or, if quiet dinners aren’t really your thing, make your date unique. Read more via thehullabaloo.com Louisiana State Senator sentenced in corruption case \| WWL - AM870 February 12, 2010prison Former state Sen. Derrick Shepherd already was in federal custody when U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier sentenced him Thursday to 37 months in prison. Barbier revoked Shepherd's bond last month following his arrest on outstanding warrants. Delirious New Orleans: Manifesto for an Extraordinary American City February 12, 2010review From iconic neighborhoods such as the French Quarter and the Garden District to more economically modest but no less culturally vibrant areas, architecture is a key element that makes New Orleans an extraordinary American city. Delirious New Orleans began as a documentary project to capture the idiosyncratic vernacular architecture and artifacts--vintage mom-and-pop businesses, roadside motels, live music clubs, neon signs, wall murals, fast-food joints, and so on--that helped give the city's various neighborhoods their unique character. But because so many of these places and artifacts were devastated by Hurricane Katrina, Delirious New Orleans has become both a historical record of what existed in the past and a blueprint for what must be rebuilt and restored to retain the city's unique multicultural landscape. Stephen Verderber starts with the premise that New Orleans's often-overlooked neighborhoods imbue the city with deep authenticity as a place. He opens Delirious New Orleans with a photo-essay that vividly presents this vernacular architecture and its artifacts, both before Katrina and in its immediate aftermath. In the following sections of the book, which are also heavily illustrated, Verderber takes us on a tour of the city's commercial vernacular architecture, as well as the expressive folk architecture of its African American neighborhoods. He discusses how the built environment was profoundly shaped by New Orleans's history of race and class inequities and political maneuvering, along with its peculiar, below-sea-level geography. Verderber also considers the aftermath of Katrina and the armada of faceless FEMA trailers that have, at least temporarily and by default, transformed this urban landscape. Mardi Gras Parade Rules \| New Orleans Police Department The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) has released a list of guidelines for carnival parade spectators: The department says police officers will be visible along all routes before, during and after parades and plainclothes officers will be among the spectators to keep an eye out for pick-pockets. Spectators are urged not to carry large sums of cash. Parade goers are also advised it is illegal to drink from an open metal or glass container on or near parade routes. Parents should place a note in their children's pockets with their name, address and phone number to help reunited lost children with their parents. Motorists are warned that illegally parked vehicles will be ticketed and towed. Owners or properties along parade routes are prohibited from erecting stands or platforms on the sidewalk, street or neutral grounds. The chaining of ladders to public property, light standards and utility poles is prohibited. The rule governing the use of ladders by parade attendees is that they be placed as many feet back from the curb as the ladder is high. Float riders are prohibited from tossing throws and favors to the rear and/or front of their floats and in the parade formation and disbanding areas. Architecture in Times of Need: Make It Right - Rebuilding the New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward February 10, 20109th Ward, housing, review Architecture in Times of Need focuses on the redevelopment of New Orleans' vibrant Lower Ninth Ward which was severely devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Invited by the Make It Right Foundation, formed by Brad Pitt and GRAFT, a group of high-profile and influential international architects set about developing affordable, green housing for the area, incorporating the latest in innovative and sustainable design. The projects by David Adjaye, GRAFT, MVRDV, and Shigeru Ban, among others, are shown in numerous photographs and renderings with sketches, building plans, and informative commentary by the architects. Along with an interview with Brad Pitt on his motivation to start the Make It Right Foundation to help in New Orleans' reconstruction, the book also includes essays on the overall design process and describes the sustainable Cradle to Cradle approach, which seeks to maximize economic, ecological, and social value by following principles inspired by nature. Architecture in Times of Need also features the Pink Project, a unique effort that directly connects monetary donations to the assemblage of houses. It brings to fruition an idea based on real needs and real people, and in reaction to a natural disaster, the recurrence of which is all too possible. KRISTIN FEIREISS is an author, architectural critic, and curator. She has edited numerous publications in the field of architecture. In 1980 she founded Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin, now one of the most successful institutions worldwide communicating architectural culture and urban design. New Orleans trash man debuts on TLC \| WDAM.com New Orleans trash mogul Sidney Torres is hoping his multi-million-dollar garbage business will make for good TV. Torres and his SDT Waste and Debris Services star in a television pilot premiering on the TLC Network Thursday called "Trashmen." Read more via wdam.com Studio tied to Saints dispute ordered liquidated \| WXVT-TV A defunct Louisiana movie studio tied to a $1.7 million dispute with members of the New Orleans Saints was ordered into liquidation Tuesday by a judge. Only in New Orleans \| JamBase February 10, 2010french quarter, music, new orleans, parade, review Robert Pollock shares Only in New Orleans moments... Think back. Was it during Jazz Fest, Mardi Gras, maybe French Quarter Fest? I'm going to change that to, "All the time in New Orleans." In these economically challenging days, you can pick a long weekend, pay a lot less, and still have many "only in New Orleans" moments. That's what I did January 28 through February 2, 2010… Read more via jambase.com Norwegian Cruise Line to sail year-round out of New Orleans \| Cruise Log \| USATODAY.com There was more good news for New Orleans today as the Super Bowl-winning city learned Norwegian Cruise Line announced NOLA will be the year-round home of the 2,000 passenger Norwegian Spirit... Read more via usatoday.com New Orleans Saints Super Bowl Parade #whodat SaintsSuperbowlParadeRoutemap.pdf (252 KB) View this on posterous The Saints championship parade will start at 5pm at the Super Dome, then head down Poydras Street, turn on Loyola Ave to Howard, around Lee Circle, down St. Charles Avenue to Canal, loop around and head up Tchoupitoulas back on Poydras to Convention Center Blvd and end at Mardi Gras World. New Orleans Saints roll, beat Colts 31-17 in Super Bowl \| IndyStar.com \| The Indianapolis Star February 07, 2010saints, whodat Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning looks dejected as Saint Tracy Porter runs back an interception for a fourth quarter touchdown as the New Orleans bench erupts in the Super Bowl in Miami Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. - MATT KRYGER / The Star Read more via indystar.com New Orleans Super Bowl Week of Music @AllAboutJazz \| AllAboutJazz.com February 07, 2010music, new orleans The latest music updates from New Orleans and South Louisiana Entertainment, Music. A week's worth of good music starting Friday, February 5, 2010… Read more via allaboutjazz.com Mitch Landrieu claims New Orleans mayor's office in a landslide \| NOLA.com February 07, 2010mayor, Mitch Landrieu, new orleans Rusty Costanza / The Times-Picayune Mitch Landrieu hugs his wife, Cheryl, after being elected mayor of New Orleans on Saturday. His sister, U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, is at left. Super Bowl XLIV: Heart Says New Orleans Saints, Head Says Indianapolis Colts \| @bleacherreport Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images Make no mistake about it, Super Bowl XLIV this Sunday has the potential to be an all-time classic. The two best teams in the NFL, led by the two best quarterbacks, in a real David vs. Goliath clash. Read more via bleacherreport.com New Orleans Middle Eastern restaurant branching out in new directions \| New Orleans Dining and Restaurants NOLA.com In 1994, Hicham Khodr and Gabriel Saliba opened a Lebanese restaurant on Metairie Road. They called it Byblos. Who could have predicted that it would launch a restaurant empire? Super Bowl: Top 10 Best Recipes for Your Super Bowl Sunday Party \| ABC News @ABCNewsOnCampus February 05, 2010recipe While the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints are revving up their engines for this Sunday's Super Bowl, party planners and cooks nationwide are revving up their menus -- along with their ovens and BBQs -- for their own Super Bowl Sunday feasts. Read more via abcnews.go.com The New Orleans Social Club Returns to Tipitina's \| Jambands.com On February 12 the The New Orleans Social Club will come together for one more night at New Orleans’ famed Tipitina’s. This incarnation of the group will feature Ivan Neville, George Porter, Jr., Leo Nocentelli, Henry Butler and Raymond Weber, among many other guests. DJ Soul Sister will support. Read more via jambands.com Louisiana Food, Grocer Featured In 'ET' Segment \| WDSU New Orleans The Saints in the Super Bowl is big business for local stores, and at least one of them is in the national spotlight this week because of the team's success… Kermit Ruffins to experience Super Bowl in New Orleans, not Miami \| - NOLA.com Among New Orleans musicians, few are more fervent New Orleans Saints fans than Kermit Ruffins. The Big Easy jazz trumpeter and singer was so excited by the team’s 2006 run up to the playoffs that he bought a new pickup truck in part to decorate it with Saints slogans. His deejay sets at local bars during Saints broadcasts are the stuff of legend. ABC Roberts to bring 'GMA' to New Orleans - UPI.com "Good Morning America" co-host Robin Roberts is to report live from New Orleans ahead of Sunday's Super Bowl, ABC said Tuesday. Read more via upi.com Miami, New Orleans & Indiana Super Bowl Foods Inspired \| The Takeaway Jonathan Wright, who specializes in New Orleans food and serves as executive chef of The Setai, gives us the taste of the Saints. And Michael Schwartz, who specializes in gourmet rustic food and heads Michael's Genuine Food and Drink, shares two of his Miami-inspired recipes. And of course, we also mull over our favorite Indiana foods for Colts fans out there. Read more via thetakeaway.org Mayoral candidate Jonah Bascle led protest that halted St. Charles Ave. streetcar service \| @NOLAnews On Monday, Jonah Bascle was joined by about 50 demonstrators who halted streetcar service along the St. Charles Avenue neutral ground at Martin Luther King Drive for several hours. Though the Canal Street line's red streetcars, in keeping with the Americans with Disabilities Act, are equipped with hydraulic pumps on both sides to accommodate wheelchairs, the St. Charles cars' historic designation trumps the ADA and prohibits the streetcars from obtaining modern features, including wheelchair lifts or air conditioning. New Orleans Saints NFL team bumps scheduled WWE TV taping \| @pwtorch WWE News and Pro Wrestling February 02, 2010Baton Rouge WWE has moved their scheduled Smackdown/ECW TV taping on Tuesday, February 9 to Baton Rouge, Louisiana after the city of New Orleans scheduled a parade on that date for the New Orleans Saints NFL team. WWE's TV taping scheduled for New Orleans has been moved to the Baton Rouge River Center and WWE has rescheduled the New Orleans taping to a Friday night house show on May 28… Read more via pwtorch.com Aaron Neville Records Updated New Orleans Saints Fight Song \| @spinnertweet #whodat The 2009 Saints are headed for the biggest NFL game, the club has an updated anthem -- and native son Aaron Neville is singing the Saints' praises once again. For the updated anthem, Neville still sings 'When the Saints Go Marching In,' but bayou transplant Theresa Andersson adds a gospel touch to added, Super Bowl-appropriate lyrics. Proceeds from the downloads will benefit a health insurance program for New Orleans musicians… Read more via spinner.com Jamie Hayes Gallery - Mardi Gras limited edition prints \| @JamieHayesart Jamie Hayes Gallery presents... IT'S MARDI GRAS SEASON DOWN HERE IN NEW ORLEANS, AND YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS...KING CAKES, BEADS AND 3 NEW MARDI GRAS 2010 LIMITED EDITION PRINTS: OFFICIAL JAMIE HAYES DESIGNS FOR MARDI GRAS 2010: "FAT TUESDAY" "KING OF MARDI GRAS" "ASH WEDNESDAY" Read more via stores.ebay.com Fleur de Lists \| St. Charles Avenue New Orleans, LA February 01, 2010krewe, mardi gras, parade Carnival ‘10 in Numbers and Notes Trivial and History on Mardi Gras Parades & Krewes... Read more via myneworleans.com My Morning Jacket Announces Tour with New Orleans Preservation Hall Jazz Band \| CDInsight.com February 01, 2010music, musicians My Morning Jacket announced a tour that will begin on April 20 in Birmingham, Alabama, with the New Orleans’ Preservation Hall Jazz Band... Read more via cdinsight.com New Orleans Cookbook Author Introduces Her 'Saintsational Super Bowl Menu' \| @TheStreet_news In celebration of the New Orleans Saints' first trip to the Super Bowl, Pamela D. Lyles, New Orleans native and author of Da Cajn Critter: The Lifestyles, the Rules and Makin' Groceries has announced her official "Saintsational Super Bowl Menu" … Read more via thestreet.com Grammys: Buckwheat Zydeco Wins Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album 2010 @shoutcastradio \| SHOUTcast Blog February 01, 2010grammys, zydeco Lay Your Burden Down Buckwheat Zydeco, Grammy award for Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album, Buckwheat's musical legacy seems to be safer than ever. 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__label__cc	0.726409	0.273591	Exploring Oakland in the age of COVID-19 The goals of Oakland Urban Paths are to teach people about Oakland, and to encourage them to explore Oakland (and elsewhere) on foot. So how do we do that under the current shelter in place order? Even before COVID-19 was a thing, I’d been working on a side project. The schedules of walking tours and those who want to go on them sometimes conflict; people often ask (both about OUP walks and City of Oakland walks): “When will this walk be offered again? I can’t make the scheduled walk.” Too often the answer is: “next year” or “I don’t know.” Another problem I’ve seen over the years is that some walking tours have largely disappeared from view. Two in particular are Once Upon a Time, Happily Ever After, and Walking the Invisible City. No fault of the creators, because it costs money for a website and time promoting it. Then came COVID-19. Then came the Bay Area-wide shelter in place order. Then the state-wide shelter in place order. If you’re not in quarantine, you can (and should) still go out to get exercise, buy food, etc., but while minimizing opportunities for contamination. Some people are able to work from home, but many aren’t. And many people are scrambling to continue educating and entertaining their children. So it seemed like this might be a good time to release the walking tour app as I have it so far. There are only 3 tours: Old Oakland (based on what I lead for the City of Oakland, though this is a bit longer), 10,000 Steps (based on Walking the Invisible City by Sue Mark and Bruce Douglas), and Once Upon A Time, Happily Ever After (based on Scott Oliver’s audio tour). But I post what there is so far here as a way for you to keep exploring and learning about Oakland, even if you can’t have a live guide. Point your phone to https://walk.ouroakland.net, pick a tour, and go. Click Start the tour to begin, Directions to get directions to the stop, and Next to go to the next stop on the tour. Note that 10,000 Steps is in two parts and has audio at some stops, and Once Upon A Time… is in three parts, and is 99% audio. (The more audio, the more data it will use up on your phone.) Please email gene @ oaklandurbanpaths.org to let me know if you take one of the tours, and let me know if you notice any problems with the tours or have any suggestions. See you (from at least 6′ away) on the paths! OUP: Black History Month Nice weather for our walk for Black History Month. A little chilly at first, but nice once we got going. We talked about a lot of people, organizations, and events, so here’s a brief recap. The walk was a fundraiser for Friends of the Hoover Durant Public Library, which is working to get one again in the Hoover Durant neighborhood near San Pablo. Read about the old North Oakland branch library. Other tours featuring black history in Oakland include This is Oakland Bike Tours, led by Rehema Allen, whose family stretches back to early California and Oakland history; and Black Panther Power Walking Tours, led by Saturu Ned, a BPP member. Oakland Auditorium Calvin Simmons – namesake of the theatre, first African American director of a major symphony Martin Luther King, Jr. – spoke at auditorium December 28th, 1962, the eve of the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1st, 1863. The Apollos of Oakland Tech worked to get MLK Day made a holiday here in California before it became a national holiday. Bobby Seale – co-founder of the Black Panther Party, and 1973 candidate for Oakland mayor announced his candidacy at the auditorium. Black Panther Party – co-founder Huey Newton was on trial here for killing OPD officer John Frey. Author and former judge Lisa Pearlman spoke about the trial and her two books about it, The Sky’s the Limit: People V. Newton the Real Trial of the 20th Century and American Justice on Trial: People V. Newton. The trial transformed what “a jury of one’s peers” means in trials. The BPP evolved over time, from gun-carrying to community self-help focused. 1200 Lakeshore – Huey Newton lived for a time in the penthouse, under heavy security, in part because of COINTELPRO. Marcus Foster – first black superintendent of the OUSD, first to head a major U.S. school district. Assassinated by Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA, of Patty Hearst fame) in 1973 with cyanide tipped bullets because they mistakenly believed he supported mandatory student ID cards, police in schools and other Big Brother-esque stuff. See Paul Robeson Administration Building. Ida Louise Jackson – first black school teacher in Oakland schools in 1926. Only until Beth Pierre Wilson was hired 13 years later. Elizabeth Flood – she and husband Isaac Flood helped desegregate Brooklyn (town east of Lake Merritt) and then Oakland school in 1872. Oakland Library Oakland History Center – run by Dorothy Lazard; a great place to learn more about Oakland history and research your own family Morrie Turner – first nationally syndicated African American cartoonist with “Wee Pals”. Initially in 5 papers; after assassination of Dr. MLK, Jr. it was in over 100. Also one of the founders of what became AAMLO. Royal Towns – early black firefighter, and first to be promoted Malonga Casquelord Center for the Arts Alice St. Mural Alice Street Mural – amazing multi-story, multi-wall mural; alas no longer visible. Featured numerous people from Oakland history. Malonga Casquelord – Cameroon-born drummer and dancer; died in auto accident in 2003 and center renamed in his honor. Ruth Beckford – dancer and dance instructor; In 1947, she founded a recreational modern dance for Parks and Rec in Oakland: the first in the United States. Also organized the BPP free breakfast for school. We heard from one of her students and friends, who also taught dance. “I enjoyed every day” – East Bay Yesterday podcast on Ruth Beckford Oakland Post newspaper Thomas Berkley – lawyer, founder of Oakland Post, and later Oakland Port Commissioner; oversaw containerization of Port of Oakland. Chauncey Bailey – journalist and editor-in-chief of Oakland Post; gunned down by Yusuf Bey IV and Devaughndre Broussard while investigating Your Black Muslim Bakery. Paul Cobb – current editor and publisher of Oakland Post Athenian-Nile Club Joyce Gordon – owner of Joyce Gordon Gallery Geoffrey Pete – owner of Geoffrey’s Inner Circle Oakland Tribune Tower Robert Maynard – journalist, editor and later owner of Oakland Tribune Delilah Beasley – journalist and historian, first African American woman to be regularly published in a major U.S. newspaper; big part of why we know about contributions of blacks in early California Trailblazer : Delilah Beasley’s California by Dana Johnson John B. Williams – city planner for Oakland in 1960s and 1970s; bust near 12th St. BART Henry Gardner – city manager of Oakland before “strong mayor” from 1981 to 1993 Lionel Wilson – first black mayor of Oakland, 1977-1991; pitched for Oakland Larks baseball team Jennie Prentiss – woman born into slavery; became Jack London’s nursemaid and later loaned him $300 to buy his first boat Jack London Oak 1937 Map showing redlining Ronald V. Dellums – longtime representative in U.S. Congress; mayor of Oakland for 1 term C. L. Dellums – Ron Dellum’s uncle, and one of the organizers of the Pullman Porters union Barbara Lee – current representative in U.S. Congress Donald P. McCullum – civil rights attorney, judge, and creator of youth court William Byron Rumford – pharmacist, community leader, and politician; passed Fair Housing Act to fight redlining and restrictive covenants Redlining – systematic practice of denying services to people in specific areas, generally along racial lines. “Unfair Housing” – East Bay Yesterday podcast about Byron Rumford and redlining African American Library and Museum at Oakland Jesse and Marcella Ford East Bay Negro Historical Society – collections formed the core of AAMLO A Journey of Promise mural OUP: Cleveland Heights and “Borax” Smith Posted on January 12, 2020 by Gene panorama from base of Cleveland Cascade Great weather and turnout for Saturday’s walk exploring Cleveland Heights and the former estate of F.M. “Borax” Smith. Plus we saw a hawk flying over a couple of times! Special thanks to Meryl and Grey from our parent organization, WOBO, for helping with the walk logistics. There were a number of groups represented and various resources for other walks and research mentioned: Walk Oakland Bike Oakland – Slow Oakland campaign East Bay Yesterday podcast – “Unfair Housing” episode Oakland Underfoot – sidewalk stamps Oakland Heritage Alliance City of Oakland walking tours We covered a lot of topics in our 2.5-3.0 hour walk. Here are links to the Oakland Wiki pages on some of the things we saw: Oakland Gnomes 552 Montclair Ave. (Robinson House) Bestor Robinson Louis R. Wicker Peter Lee – mural artist Ivy Hill Studios Borax Smith Borax Smith’s Red House Evelyn Ellis Smith Arbor Villa Palm Trees Mary R. Smith Home for Friendless Girls St. Vartan Armenian Church Haddon Hill Haddon Hill Stairs Henry J. Kaiser Kaiser House William Edward Schirmer A number of people asked about researching the history of older buildings, especially homes. Someone asked specifically about the house behind us as we viewed 552 Montclair Ave. (the Robinson House). I didn’t know anything about it, but it is an interesting looking house. One of the challenges of researching history is that what we consider landmarks (streets, addresses, neighborhood names, etc.) change over time. Below is part of a 1905 map; “Arbor Villa” and “Mary Smiths Trust” (i.e., the Home for Friendless Girls) are clearly visible on the map. But if you look more closely, you’ll notice there’s no Cleveland Street (it’s Prospect Avenue), no Park Blvd. (it’s 4th Avenue), and no Montclair Avenue (it’s East Oak St.) And there’s a vague “Boulevard Heights” labeling what is now known as Haddon Hill. excerpt from 1905 map If that wasn’t enough, the addresses have changed, too. 552 Montclair was 252 East Oak St. And really old locations might not have had an address number. But none of this is unique to the area–street names and addresses have changed all over Oakland, and more than once. A big part of this is because Oakland grew in stages. It started small (previously the village of Contra Costa) near the foot of Broadway, and grew, and then annexed other nearby towns like Brooklyn and Elmhurst. It didn’t grow to it’s current bounds until 1909. Annexing those other towns mean absorbing their existing streets and street names, and sometimes those conflicted with the street names in Oakland. All confusing stuff if you’re trying to find the history of a particular building (and that’s not even getting into the possibility the building has been physically moved to a new location.) Putting all those thing together is a big part of why the Oakland History Room is the best place to start when doing this kind of research. OUP: Jack London Square Murals Nice turnout and great weather for our walk led by Noel Siver of the Contra Costa Hills Club. Thanks to everyone (and the two woofs) who came out for the walk. View more photos from the walk. July 14, 2019 by Gene OUP: Hiller Highlands + Claremont Hills Join Oakland Urban Paths as we explore Hiller Highlands and Claremont Hills and get different looks at the Claremont Hotel. This is a variation on a walk we’ve done before, and it is hilly with a lot of stairs. Read more and signup (required) on Eventbrite. OUP+OWT: Women’s History Walk Posted on March 5, 2019 by Gene Join Oakland Urban Paths and the city of Oakland Walking Tours program for a 2.5 hour walk celebrating women’s history in Oakland. We’ll start near AAMLO on 14th St. More info and signup (required) on Eventbrite. OUP+OWT: Black History Walk Posted on February 3, 2019 by Gene Join Oakland Urban Paths and the city of Oakland Walking Tours program for a 2.5 hour walk celebrating some of Oakland’s black history. We’ll start near Lake Merritt and finish at AAMLO on 14th St. MLK Day of Service: Hyacinth Paths cleanup A chilly start to the morning, but a nice turnout to clean up the paths near Hyacinth Avenue. A combination of neighborhood residents and volunteers from elsewhere in Oakland…and Fremont! Thanks to Nancy, Kat, Jody, Tom and his family, and “Team Fremont”. Special thanks to Chris from Walk Oakland Bike Oakland, who picked up the tools, brought coffee and La Farine pastries, water, more debris bags, and her seemingly boundless energy, and still found time to work on the cleanup. More photos here. OUP walk: Walk of the Dead Posted on December 24, 2018 by Gene After the smoke from the fires up north forced a reschedule, we had a small but “lively” group for the Walk of the Dead. In addition to clearer skies in December, we also had great weather—sunny and not too warm. After talking a bit about customs around death like the Day of the Dead, a brief glossary of terms, and some of the symbols we might see on grave markers, we headed off. Our first stop was Chapel of Memories, also known as the Oakland Columbarium. It opened in 1901 as an independent business, but now is run by nearby Chapel of the Chimes. The buildings are mostly full of smaller niches. While a few are tagged “before need”, most are occupied. Just up Howe St. is Oakland’s oldest existing cemetery, St. Mary’s Cemetery, a Catholic cemetery which started a bit before nearby Mountain View Cemetery. There were earlier cemeteries closer to downtown, but as Oakland grew, they got in the way of development. The Oakland Cemetery (1852-1857) was at 8th and Oak. The Webster St. Cemetery (1857-1867) was between Webster and Snow Park. Most of the residents moved to Mountain View or St. Mary’s c.1872-76, but not all: An excavating machine hit a metal coffin and spilled the contents: “the left hand and arm nearly to the elbow protruded from the ground, the hand drooped over gracefully from the wrist. Portions of the coat and vest were visible, as were the outlines of the face, but over these still rested a coating of fine earth.” Oakland Tribune April 28, 1877 After a brief stop at 4460 Howe Street, which was home at different times to a superintendent of St. Mary’s, a florist, and a granite and marble showroom, we went in the top entrance of Chapel of the Chimes. That took us into the newer areas, but down some flights of stairs and around a couple of corners, and we were into an older part, which was designed by noted architect Julia Morgan. Five different architecture firms worked on the structure over the years. The oldest part was originally a station for the streetcar which stopped at the top of Piedmont Avenue. From there it was through the gates of Mountain View Cemetery, but into Home of Eternity Cemetery, a Jewish cemetery run by Temple Sinai. They purchased land from Mountain View in 1865. Besides more familiar religious symbols on the grave markers, there we saw some kohanim hands, which mean the person was of the priestly tribe of Aaron. Leonard Nimoy used a modified version of the gesture as the Vulcan greeting in Star Trek. Stepping past a row of trees took us into Mountain View Cemetery, which at 224 acres, is by far the largest cemetery in Oakland. First we went into one of several large mausoleums on the Mountain View grounds, which contains the remains of Oakland city council member Frank Ogawa and his family. He and his wife were imprisoned in an internment camp along with other Japanese Americans during WWII. Their daughter, Nancy Lynne Ogawa, was born in the Topaz camp and died there. That mausoleum also contains the remains of my grandparents, my aunt and uncle, and my aunt’s father, Dr. Edward Lundegaard. Dr. Lundegaard served as a surgeon in the county coroner’s office from 1946 to 1954, and then was elected coroner in 1954. We wound our way up the hill to “Millionaire’s Row”, where the likes of “Borax” Smith, mayor Samuel Merritt, and the Crockers of Crocker Bank fame are buried in some sizable and lovely mausoleums. The air quality was better than November, but it was hazy enough it didn’t show off the great view. That view, plus the park-like setting (MVC was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed Central Park in New York City) are part of why people used to visit their grave sites before they needed them, and countless Oaklanders still walk, run and admire the views today. We finished by the Infant’s Plot by the Main Mausoleum, in view of the Pauper’s Plot. We didn’t have time to continue down Piedmont Avenue and check out the cemetery-related businesses, including florists, grave marker carvers (former), and funeral homes, but we got a nice overview of part of Oakland inhabited mostly by the dead. No August Walk Posted on August 8, 2018 by Gene Unfortunately, there won’t be an OUP walk for August. But there are plenty of other ways to explore Oakland, whether by foot or by bike! City of Oakland Walking Tours – Wednesdays and Saturdays, 10:00AM-11:30AM Oakland Heritage Alliance Walking Tours – Saturdays and Sundays, times vary Mountain View Cemetery Walking Tours – 2nd and 4th Saturdays, 10:00AM This Is Oakland Bike Tours – Saturdays and Sundays, 11:00AM; or Wednesday through Friday by appointment Check the Visit Oakland website for more tour ideas, or go explore Oakland on your own!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2632
__label__wiki	0.606425	0.606425	THE VILLAGE Originally, the village of Marrubiu was located in another place, an ancient village called Zuradili, not far from its present position where the inhabitants moved to. Its toponym probably derives from a perennial plant that grows all over Sardinia and particularly in this area, the Marrubium alysson. This weed belongs to the Labiatae family, it grows in bushes and it is endowed with large leaves whose stink keeps insects away. It has a bitter taste that nevertheless has medical proprieties. Other fantastic explanations of the origin of this village’s name have to do with meaning “Red Sea” (Mari Rubiu in Sardinian) that contrasts to Terralba, “White Land”. Santa Anna hamlet belongs to Marrubiu. TERRITORY Marrubiu is situated at 7 metres a.s.l and it is between Campiado and Monte Arci. Part of its territory belongs to that part of Campidano flat land that in the last century was interested by land reclamation works. Another part instead belongs to Monte Arci: obsidian deposits, Mediterranean shrub that consists of mastic trees and white rockroses, leeches, hollies and cork oaks are among the characteristic elements of this area. There are also many watercourses such as Rio Murus and some springs among which Funtana Figu, Quasodi and Murus. ARCHEOLOGY The whole area of Monte Arci is considered the cradle of Neolithic technology and, since Marrubiu belongs to this area, in its territory it is possible to find many obsidian deposits above all in the areas called Tziponeas, Su Seddarxiu, Roia Tressa, Frontu Tzuarbara, Roia de Murus, Sa Conca de Su Cabi, Roia s’ottigu, Ceddas e Corongiu Sitzona. There is a trace of an ancient nuraghe (now completely destroyed) in the area where the present Parish stands and furthermore there are the two nuraghi of Ruinas and Masongiu Orcu. The Roman age has left many traces all over Marrubiu’s territory. The most important finds were in the areas Ruinas, Bacchiana and above all in Muru de Bangius. The latter is considered the most important archaeological site from Roman age, thanks to the presence of a pretorium, the official house of important military roles such as governors. This pretorium was the official house of the governor of Sardinia and Corsica, who wanted his house to be located in the main road that from Karales (Cagliari) led to Turris Libisonis (Porto Torres) by stopping at Marrubiu and Forum Traiani (Fordongianus). An inscription on a marble plate testifies the presence of a building in whose ruins is possible to trace the canonical architectonic structures of Roman thermal baths. The very toponym Murus de Bangius (from Latin balneum) is connected with this inscription. HISTORY During the Middle Ages, Marrubiu belonged to Giudicato d’Arborea (district governed by a judge) in the administration district of Curatoria di Bonorzuli. During the Aragon age Marrubiu became a feud that was controlled by the Spanish. Vittorio Angius in the famous “Dizionario storico-statistico” del Casalis, wrote about some brigandage episodes that happened in the area between Marrubiu and Santa Giusta in Nineteenth century. ARCHITECTURE AND ART The Parish is dedicated to the Madonna del Rimedio or Beata Vergine di Monserrato and is situated in the city centre of Marrubiu. It was built in 1710 and then successively restored. In the inside there are some wood statues that date back from Seventeenth century and that are historically and culturally important: according to traditional tales they were found in Monte Arci. On the Monte Arci slope, 7 kilometres away from the village there is the country church dedicated to Santa Maria di Zuarbara or di Zuradili. Zuradili was the ancient medieval villa whence Marrubiu took its origin after its inhabitants moved there. TYPICAL PRODUCTS Thanks to the quality of the soil in Marrubiu there is a very good vine production: Nuragus, Monica and Bovale sarda give a very precious and scented wine. These wines are either homemade or sold by cooperative winegrowers’ association. Nevertheless wine is not the only typical product of Marrubiu: we must remember cheese, sweets, bread and homemade pasta, honey and cold meats (pork loin, hams, sausages and salami) We must not forget the artistic craft specialized in wood, iron and gold productions that Marrubiu is rich in. GASTRONOMY In Marrubiu as well as in other areas of Monte Arci gastronomy has been conditioned by sheep-rearing and agriculture. Its typical meals are simple dishes of vegetables, legumes, homemade bread and pasta, sausages etc. We cannot forget the roasts of lamb, piglet and game. Baking is similar to that of the other villages of Monte Arci. A particular mention goes to the wines of Marrubiu that are obtained from different qualities of grapes such as Sardinian and Spanish bovale and red Sardinian Monica. “SU MARRULLERI” Su Marrulleri is an important tourist celebration that occurs during Carnival. It is a modern visitation of the Carnival that consists of cheerful parades of costumes and allegorical floats. This celebration is one of the most important carnival events not only in the Monte Arci Park but in Oristano’s province and attracts many tourists from all over Sardinia. Many floats, groups and single original masks take part in this parade.The parades cross the whole village from Piazza Martiri, via Napoli, piazza Italia, via Oristano and Tirso up to the piazza in front of the Elementary School. Afterwards the typical Carnival sweets (zippuasa, kind of doughnuts) are served in the piazza together with beans and good local wine. CELEBRATIONS AND FAIRS The first celebration is Carnival, in February with “Su Marulleri” (see above). In May there is a country celebration in honour of S. Maria. This celebration occurs in Zuralidi. In S.Anna on 26th of July there are the celebrations of S. Anna. In September there is the fair of honey and on the 8th and 9th the patron, Madonna del Rimedio, is celebrated. The 9th of November there is the last celebration of the year: the one in honour of S. Mariedda.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2638
__label__cc	0.508123	0.491877	Hilton Family FAQ and Facts Benji: Yay!! New Television projects!! Jen: Congratulations Paris ! Jeff McWilliams: Hi Paris, I read your documentary. My question to you is: after all you been thru yourself, Is money... Jen: Paris’s song is # 1 on Tik Tok Pop . Congratulations! ” I Blame You” is a very catchy tune. Jen: Paris’s new song “I blame you” is really good. 100% of the proceeds will go to “Breaking... Jamie: Indeed, jail time is scary for anyone. I imagine it was even worse for her, can’t imagine the inmates... admin: It is #1 on YouTube trending… This was such a sad documentary. First time I see Paris so open after all... Press-On Nail Electrify 3.4 oz EDP Spray Buy Online Amazon.com eBay.com Platinum Rush 3.4 oz EDP Spray Rose Rush 3.4 oz EDP Spray Anti Aging Brightening Face Mask Paris Hilton will open her own nightclub in Las Vegas Paris Hilton recently told In Touch magazine that she’s planning to open a new night club in Las Vegas. But apparently, it’s already a place “where she already spends a lot of time partying – but she can’t say much about it.” “I think I found a really good space, but I can’t tell anyone. It’s not trademarked yet,” she told In Touch magazine. Paris Hilton used to “own” nightclubs, called “Club Paris,” when she was working in partnership with businessman Fred Khalilian. Posted: August 7th, 2008 Comment from Jen Time: August 7, 2008, 9:40 pm There was talk in Vegas around New Year’s that Paris was going to go and get her own address on The Strip. But no details were mentioned at the time. Of course, Benji and Joel Madden just opened “Wasted Space” nightclub in the Hardrock casino, along with Carey Hart. And Nicky Hilton owns a restaurant in the Luxor, along with Nick Lachey and others. Comment from juju Time: August 11, 2008, 10:53 pm Paris has a long standing relationship with the entertainment group that owns Pure at Ceasars and LAX at The Luxor, but I don’t see a place in those venues for another club or room so two other possibilities on the strip come to mind. 1. Maybe The Palms because she’s close friends with George Malooff, although one problem is The Palms already has several hot clubs. 2. Maybe the Wynn. They could use a hot club to boost their nightlife venues for a younger, dance & hip-hop crowd. Some of the contents on ParisHiltonSite.net are copyright and may not be duplicate in any form without prior written permission. ParisHiltonSite.net is a fansite and an opinion-oriented website. It is in no way associated with Paris Hilton or her affiliates. ParisHiltonSite.net was officially launched on January 10, 2007. © ParisHiltonSite 2007 - 2020 \| All Rights Reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2639
__label__wiki	0.60989	0.60989	Planet Connections Interview - Celestine Rae of "Velvet Rope" Headshot by Chris Sorensen Production photo by Jeminah Russell Postcard photo by Gillian Alexy Name: Celestine Rae Show: Velvet Rope Relationship to production: Writer/ Director Website: www.velvetropetheplay.com Celestine Rae is an actress, contemporary dancer, and emerging writer. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Celestine graduated from Temple University with a degree in English. Two weeks after graduation, she moved to New York City to pursue her acting career full time. Celestine studied at the William Esper Studio under Terry Knickerbocker and has appeared in several off Broadway productions as well as independent Film & TV, including a recurring role on the hit HBO series, Boardwalk Empire. Her passion for telling stories with complex female characters lends itself to Velvet Rope, a provocative play about a young college women's studies major whose curiosity about the world of stripping leads her to pose as an "experienced" stripper at the local club. As a budding writer and director, Celestine seeks to challenge the perceptions of women and the underrepresented in the media. Her exploration of the world of stripping in Velvet Rope spawns from her desire to investigate beyond the social stereotypes of marginalized groups and bring forth the humanity that exits within them, but is often dismissed. www.celestinerae.com How did you first get involved in theatre? I began my life in the theatre as a dancer. I was terribly shy as a child and it wasn't until my first dance recital at the age of 4, when the curtains opened and the music began, that I came out of my shell. Being on stage made me feel at home. I grew up performing on stage in concert dance recitals and with dance companies in the Philadelphia area where I grew up. Dance was an enormous part of my life since I was 4 years old. It allowed me to express myself in ways that I could not as the shy child I was off stage. I knew that being in a theatre and performing was my calling. When I found acting, it completed a piece of the puzzle artistically and allowed me to go even deeper through another means of expression. The move towards acting sparked an interest in creating my own work and I began to write plays. Now I am directing a play that I wrote. The theatre and performing are my callings in life. Sometimes I feel that the theatre chose me, rather than the other way around. I find myself always returning to it in some capacity. No matter how many films I work on, there is nothing like stepping on a stage or directing for the stage. Simply nothing like it. Who are your biggest influences? I have so many. I’m still inspired by the old school theatre and dance artists – Alvin Ailey, Carmen De Lavallade, Jeffery Holder. They understood story telling through movement. I think of Ailey’s “Revalations” and the masterpiece of a story that it was without any words. As an actor and director I work from a place of understanding in the body first. I am also inspired by artists who were considered “before their time” and helped to create a new genre or way of approaching art- The names Sidney Portier, Marlon Brando, Eartha Kitt, Dorothy Dandridge, Anna Deavere Smith, Johnny Depp, Denzel Washington, & Phillip Seymour Hoffman come to mind. And I am incredibly fond of the writers- John Patrick Shanley, Lynn Nottage, and Stephen Adly Guirgis. What is your show about? Joan, a college sophomore, sets out to explore the topic of women’s sexuality for a thesis paper in her women’s studies class by going undercover at the local strip club and stepping into the world of a stripper. Brynn Alexander as "Suzanne" and Craig Colasanti as "Henry" What inspired you to write it? I was inspired to write this play 2 years ago when there were what seemed to be recurring instances of government officials being caught in sex scandals. Every time I watched the reports on the news and saw the way the women involved were being slandered, I cringed. I wondered what were the real stories of these women, separate from the judgement that was being placed on them by the media and the public. And then, the idea about women’s sexuality and the enormous disparity between the way women are perceived when it comes to sex as opposed to that of men, kept coming up for me. So I wanted to write about it. Who are your collaborators and how long have you been working with them? I am honored to be working with and directing an amazingly talented cast: Azariah Gunn, Alexis Kelley, Kimberlee Monroe, Craig Colasanti, Brynn Alexander, and Samantha Strelitz. I am also working with two very dedicated co- producers, a long time friend and fellow dancer, Jeminah Russell, and a very good friend, talented actress, and producer, Gillian Alexy, founder of Girl in Red Productions. Planet Connections donates a portion of the box office for each show to a charity. What charity has your production chosen and why? Velvet Rope is benefitting Women for Women International. Because our play is about women I felt that this charity, that assists in the rehabilitation of women and their families who are survivors of war, was something I connected with and wanted to contribute to. What's next for you after Planet Connections? I hope Velvet Rope will continue on and have the chance to have a full New York City run. Finally, if you could work with any famous actor, living or dead, who would it be? Phillip Seymour Hoffman. 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__label__cc	0.74538	0.25462	7 Practices Youth Ministry Support Youth & Culture Media Review: Modern Family Posted by Bob Hiller \| Jan 24, 2012 \| Pop Culture, Youth & Culture \| 0 ABC Wednesday Prime-Time I have never reviewed an entire television series before. Don’t get me wrong, I watch a lot of TV and I judge a lot of TV. But I usually only do this at home with my wife. Typically, we think our judgments are pretty good. Then again, we are also pretty arrogant! Nonetheless, perhaps it is time to share my judgmentalism with the world! And where better to cast judgment than towards the Emmy winning comedy, Modern Family. As you might surmise from the title, Modern Family is a comedy presumably depicting how our culture is currently defining a family. The story is based around the Pritchett family. (Please forgive the next paragraph, I will do my best to lay out the family situations…) Jay Pritchett is the father who has divorced his wife and remarried a much younger, attractive Columbian woman named Gloria. They are raising her mature-beyond-his-years son Manny. Jay has two other adult children Claire and Mitchell. Claire is a high-strung stay-at-home mom who is married to former college cheerleader, Phil Dunphy. They have three children-Hayley, Alex, and Luke. Mitchell, a gay lawyer, with his partner Cameron Tucker have adopted a Vietnamese baby named Lily. Whew! I think I got it… Modern Family may be the funniest show on television. It has won multiple Emmy’s in three seasons for a reason. The show follows each family through their various idiosyncrasies and quirks. As you watch the show and the various plot lines are introduced, you find yourself sympathizing with every character, even if the plot line is pitting one against the other. The writing is incredible and the characters are all very endearing. The basic “meta-narrative” (that is, the main story behind each episode that ties them all together) of the show is that no matter how strained family life gets, no matter how unorthodox a family might look, the one thing that binds a family together (perhaps even makes a family) is love. Excellent stories, great characters, and brilliant writing make for an incredibly entertaining show. That is why it may be one of the most dangerous shows out there. Let me explain. Television, whether we want to admit it or not, has a tremendous impact on the way we view the world. Television uses images to tell stories and often these stories are designed to sell you a product or convince you of an ideal. For example, let’s consider a McDonald’s commercial. McDonald’s is trying to sell you their product by telling you a 20 second story about the people who eat there. When you watch a McDonald’s commercial, what do the people look like? Are they happy or sad? Are they healthy or are they struggling with weight issues? Now, when you actually go to a McDonald’s, what do you see? Are the people serving you as happy as the people on the commercial? Are the people eating there as healthy looking as the people in the commercial? Now ask yourself, why doesn’t McDonald’s just record a typical day at a local McDonald’s and show you what you can actually plan to experience there? The answer is obvious, right? The story in the commercial sells, it gives you an ideal that doesn’t exist. But, you aren’t buying their product if you see the reality. So they use images that tell you a story that is different from reality. And, I am willing to bet, that when you think of McDonald’s what comes to mind are the images you saw in the commercials and not the restaurant down the street. My point here is simply this: the images used to tell stories on television make an impact on how we view the world. So, we come toModern Family. Though not setting out to sell anything, they are certainly setting out to convince you of an ideal, namely, the old ways of defining family are not the only ways to define family. The show will demonstrate, in the case of Phil Dunphy, that it is okay for a father to be an overgrown adolescent. After all, men are just that way. If it makes us laugh, it must be okay. This becomes a major issue with the depiction of the gay couple that has adopted a little girl. I cannot imagine it is an accident that a television show depicts a gay couple lovingly raising an adopted daughter at a time when many people are pushing for gay marriage. Mitchell and Cameron love Lilly and each other, after all. Sure they bicker, but hey, don’t all couples? And, what is more, they are so funny and cute. This is most certainly an effort by the producers and writers of the show to normalize gay couples and gay adoption for their viewers. When one thinks of gay couples adopting, they may just think of Mitchell and Cameron. Since Mitchell and Cameron are such great dads on the show we can assume this is what gay adoption looks like. There is certainly an agenda behind Modern Family to demonstrate that homosexuality is just as normal as heterosexuality. The images used to tell the story of homosexual relationships attempt to demonstrate that gay couples are just like every other couple, with a quirky, gay twist. The problem is, you don’t actually see what is happening at McDonald’s, so to speak. There is no story about the issues and struggles a little girl may face when she has no mother. There is not serious time spent discussing the high rate of infidelity among homosexual couples. No time is spent showing what really happens to families with overbearing fathers who find out their son is gay (they are not typically as accepting as Jay). The images are not depicting the reality. To be fair, this is likely on purpose. After all, the writers of Modern Family probably want to depict how things really could be if we would just change the way we think. Perhaps they are right. Perhaps there could be a world where modern families are the norm and they get along marvelously, bound together by nothing but love. Let’s just say, for the sake of argument, that this picture became reality. Would it make any difference in the discussion of gay marriage or adoption? Not from a Biblical perspective. Why? Because such a picture still counters God’s design for families! You see, families are not something we are free to redefine or restructure. God designed families to have a mother and a father, and when He wills it, children. God did not design marriage or sexuality to take place with someone physically similar to us. The design of our body’s sexual members is enough to demonstrate the truth of this point. We are made to procreate with a spouse of the opposite sex whose sexual make-up compliments our own. By order of the creation, God made it so children are to have a mom and a dad. This is not merely necessary in a physical/biological sense, it is an emotional and spiritual necessity as well. It is not okay to deprive children of a mother and a father. They need both. After all, that is how God made it. Humor and entertainment are a tremendous blessing that God has worked into His creation. There are times when they can be used in a sanctified way to help us think more deeply and view the world differently. However, such created blessings can be used to effectively convey sinful messages. Modern Family is among the funniest and smartest shows on television. It is well written and incredibly funny. Unfortunately, and perhaps ironically, the people involved with the show have employed God’s created gifts of humor and entertainment to undercut God’s will for His creation! To work against God’s design is to begin to work against God’s intentions. No matter how funny and attractive it may be on television, sin always, always, has devastating effects, no matter what story the images tell us. 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__label__wiki	0.784795	0.784795	When Melody Ruled the Airwaves Artist Michael Lacey takes the playlist’s helm this week, to muse most vigorously on enjoying classic doo-wop, swing and jazz … Music plays an important role in my artistic practice, keeping me tethered to sanity while engaged in various laborious, repetitive and RSI-inducing tasks, like cutting out a billion pictures of churches or trying to perfectly draw every tiny screw on a Victorian observatory telescope. The weeks spent engaged in these maddening activities provide an opportune window for cliche ‘frustrated artist’-type tantrums, which can be kept at bay with regular applications of doo-wop, swing, jazz and popular songwriting from pre-1960. While generally speaking I have slightly broader tastes than this playlist would suggest, and would encourage readers to have a listen to recent output by Rudi Zygadlo and excellent local bands Clang Boom Steam and Lovecraft, these songs contain specific qualities that help me maintain creative momentum. Where modern versions (either by pseudo-credible nu-jazz idiots like Jamie Cullum or the X-Factor when it’s ‘Rat Pack Week’ or whatever) are swamped in melody-obscuring vocal gymnastics or indulgent off-kilter soloing, these renditions are characterised by their restraint, maturity, emotional clarity and good humour, making for a much more rewarding and affecting listening experience. Charles Burnett’s 1977 neo-realist film Killer Of Sheep, a loosely-plotted study of black culture in working class districts of Los Angeles, remained unreleased until 2007 as the production had failed to secure the rights to any of the music used. One such piece was Dinah Washington’s 1960 single This Bitter Earth, which plays as the titular slaughterhouse-worker dances at home with his wife in a rare moment of calm. I think that the contrast between the inviting, delicate arrangement and largely bleak, miserable lyrics give the song a real poignancy and weight. The song cropped up again in Scorsese’s daft thriller Shutter Island but with the backing replaced by Max Richter’s dejected-sounding On The Nature Of Daylight, which misses the point entirely. “The contrast between the delicate arrangement and largely miserable lyrics give the song a real poignancy and weight” Leon Redbone’s early career explorations of jazz standards and tin pan alley classics resulted in a few great albums, but I’m particularly fond of his rambling version of Shine On Harvest Moon, in which he sounds genial and pissed. Sam Butera & the Witnesses appear twice, as Louis Prima’s backing band on Pennies From Heaven, and with their own instrumental take on La Vie en Rose. Both are infectiously playful, about twice the speed of the original versions, and a persuasive argument in favour of the saxophone generally. Like the other instrumental tracks on the playlist (such as Dick Hyman’s The Crave, which is not just included by virtue of his name being hilarious), the lead melody is played with such vivid force of personality that nothing seems to be lacking. All of these recordings, along with Emile Ford’s rocked-up Slow Boat To China and Gene Vincent’s stripped-down Up A Lazy River, demonstrate the near-infinite capacity for interpretation these songs possess, while keeping the fundamental elements intact. Additionally, the necessity of masking the often downbeat content of the lyrics with a cheerful, danceable melody results in songs that are basically designed to reveal their depths gradually and through repeated listens, unlike the vapid and manipulative rubbish that enjoys such depressing popularity now. As music becomes increasingly ephemeral as a product and an experience, I find it is pleasant to become reacquainted with songs and artists who have weathered the test of time. Should you enjoy listening to this stuff too, most of these artists’ complete back catalogues can be found on CD for about a fiver. Michael Lacey Last chance to see Michael’s solo exhibition, After the Flood, this weekend at Mello Mello, 40-42 Slater Street Playlist: Melodic Distraction Beloved purveyors of “independent, community driven radio”, Melodic Distraction have news. We... What I Do When I Don’t Know What To Do: Nicholas Mortimer on Mixtape Pedagogy How do you overcome creative block? Designer Nicholas Mortimer talks Yin Ying Kong through... Playlist: Manchester Collective The last few months have been a tremendously difficult, stressful time for...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2680
__label__wiki	0.868721	0.868721	Northern Ballet’s new production for 2020 is… Performing Memory: Artistic Production and Religious Practice at the Kofukuji Nan’endo Situated in a bustling area of Nara… Japanese News in the UK Korean News in the UK Sapporo Symphony Added by The East on May 23, 2011. Saved under Japanese, Performance Tags: Culture, Video News FacebookTwitterGoogle1Email Date: Monday, 23rd May 2011 (7:30pm) Venue: Southbank Centre, Royal Festival Hall, Belvedere Rd, City of London SE1 8XX Tickets: £10 to £35 Web: www.southbankcentre.co.uk The Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, supported by Askonas Holt Ltd and Southbank Centre has announced that its London concert is to be a benefit event for the victims of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on 11th March 2011. The entire proceeds from ticket sales will go directly to the Japanese Red Cross Society and the Japan Society Tohoku Earthquake Relief Fund. The London concert is part of the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra’s 50th anniversary tour under the baton of its longtime Principal Conductor Tadaaki Otaka with a programme of Takemitsu’s How Slow the Wind, Bruch’s Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor – with celebrated Japanese violinist Akiko Suwanai – and Shostakovich’s Symphony No 5 in D minor. Tadaaki Otaka commented: ‘It was an unforeseen and terrible disaster, from which all Japanese people are working extremely hard to recover. We, the musicians, wish to turn our London appearance into a charity concert in aid of the vital relief efforts in our country. Please join us and help Japan.’ Toshio Miyazawa, General Manager of the Orchestra added: ‘Japan has faced the most disastrous earthquake ever experienced, and we would like to express our sincere appreciation to people in the UK and all over the world for their encouragement and sympathy. With the goodwill of all people concerned, our London concert is now a benefit event for the victims. We appeal to music lovers to support us in this; with deepest gratitude for their generosity, we will perform our very best.’ [pro-player width=’530′ height=’253′ autostart=’true’ type=’video’]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1OCgHWtKfU&feature=player_embedded[/pro-player] About The East The East Foundation is a registered charity (1142886) in the UK. Our charitable objects are to promote, maintain, improve and advance education for the public in the arts and culture of East Asia, in particular but not exclusively the arts of drama, mime, dance, singing and music. Follow on Twitter Connect on Facebook View all Posts Visit Website Follow @TheEastWorld FacebookTwitterRSS FeedVimeo ↑ The East The East Log in - Designed by Romeo Lee London United Korean Fan Club London United Japanese Fan Club	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2681
__label__wiki	0.845528	0.845528	The Good Catholic Life Boston's daily Catholic radio program Program #0429 for Thursday, December 6, 2012: Catholic identity for Catholic charities; Pope on Twitter; Parish radio ads for Year of Faith; New book: My Sisters the Saints Catholic identity for Catholic charities; Pope on Twitter; Parish radio ads for Year of Faith; New book: My Sisters the Saints Summary of today’s show: Our usual Thursday panel of Scot Landry, Susan Abbott, and Fr. Roger Landry consider the news headlines of the week, including Pope Benedict joining Twitter as @Pontifex; the Holy Father’s new instructions for Catholic charities to remain authentically Catholic; a new smartphone app dedicated to the Pope’s words and appearances; CatholicTV moving to basic cable; a parish producing radio ads for the Year of Faith; and a new book that highlights how six saints helped one woman in the most difficult moments of her life. http://traffic.libsyn.com/tgclbctv/2012-12-06_TheGoodCatholicLife_0429.mp3 Subscribe for free in iTunes Watch the show via live video streaming or a recording later: BostonCatholicLive.com Today’s host(s): Scot Landry and Susan Abbott Today’s guest(s): Gregory Tracy, managing editor of the Pilot, the newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston, and Fr. Roger Landry, pastor of St. Bernadette Parish in Fall River Links from today’s show: Some of the stories discussed on this show will be available on The Pilot’s and The Anchor’s websites on Friday morning. Please check those sites for the latest links. Today’s topics: Catholic identity for Catholic charities; Pope on Twitter; Parish radio ads for Year of Faith; New book: My Sisters the Saints 1st segment: Scot welcomed everyone to the show and asked Susan Abbott how things were going for her. She said she was on retreat earlier this week at the 2nd annual Collaborators in the New Evangelization retreat. It brings together people from Boston, Providence, Washington, New Jersey, Maine. She said Monday’s topic was communications and speakers included our own Domenico Bettinelli and Bonnie Rodgers of CatholicTV. On Wednesday, she had an enrichment day with catechetical leaders of the Archdiocese. Bishop Arthur Kennedy spoke to the group and hit it out of the park. Michael Lavigne also spoke to the group about resources available for the Year of Faith. Scot said one of the big stories that broke this past Saturday was a motu proprio from Pope Benedict on the Catholic identity of Catholic social service agencies. He said this document came out of the blue. “Pope makes new rules to strengthen charities’ Catholic identity”, CNS/The Pilot, 12/3/12 “Catholic charity groups welcome Pope’s call for fidelity”, CNA/EWTN News, 12/5/12 “Pope calls on bishops to run charities better”, CNA/EWTN News, 12/2/12 Apostolic Letter issued “Motu Proprio” Intima Ecclesiae natura on the Service of Charity Gregory Tracy said the Holy Father’s letter set up new rules for Catholic charitable organizations and how they must conform to the faith. It’s part of a larger effort to re-instill Catholic identity to Catholic institutions. As Catholic institutions have grown they have sometimes lost their unique identity, making them indistinguishable from secular organizations. Scot said he didn’t find anything surprising in the document except that the Holy Father felt he needed to say it. Fr. Roger explained what a motu proprio is. He said they can be confusing because the words literally means “by the Pope’s own action.” It can be something like this that gives new legislation. It’s more than an executive order, but more like new legislation from one ruler. The Pope noted that in canon law that there’s a lot in canon law for the bishop’s role as governor of Catholic institutions, but not for governing charitable organizations that call themselves Catholic. This document lays out the bishop’s role in ensuring the Catholicity of those groups. He wrote that the Church’s charity is not just social work; we’re supposed to be doing explicit work of Christian love. We hope the recipients will see that love and investigate the source of love further. The Pope also noted that parishes also are supposed to be involved in charitable work. He said St. Vincent de Paul Societies isn’t the same thing. The Holy Father is calling for something with a greater dependence on the actual leadership of the parish. Many St. Vincent de Paul conferences defer to the pastor, but technically they don’t have to. He said the largest point is that Pope Benedict wants to ensure that any Catholic institution is serving others, that they’re doing so in Christ’s name, and the bishop is making sure everyone involved in the work is respecting Catholic teaching. Fr. Roger said there’s two ways the Pope could have done this, the motu proprio or apostolic constitution, which sets down new law. The latter is much more formal and would involve a lot more consultation. An example was Ordinatio Sacerdotalis from 1994 when Pope John Paul wanted to remove doubt about the Church ordaining only men to the priesthood. Susan said she sees it as good news/bad news. It’s sad that things that seem so perfectly obvious and sensible need to be put down in writing. She also noted the number of times the Pope referred to the faithful. These works of charity weren’t referred to as the “Church’s” responsibility in the abstract, but as the responsibility of the faithful. Scot asked Greg how strongly the Church should be defining the line for Catholic practice. Greg said Americans seem to be obsessed with the ability to self-define themselves and to define what it means to be Catholic. He thinks it’s important for the Church to give clear instructions. Greg said there are some people who seem to want the Church to be like the Salvation Army, whose Christian identity can be obscured for those who see their work. He said many people want to do good to be nice, but Catholics do this work to be Christ to others, to project Christ into the world. Fr. Roger said the story wasn’t picked up by the mainstream media because the way it was written the significance would be lost on many and because the news of the document wasn’t leaked ahead of time. Fr. Roger said the definition of the organizations addressed here go beyond Catholic Charities, but includes hospitals and schools and others. 2nd segment: Scot said earlier this week, the Holy Father announced that he was launching eight new Twitter handles, the English one being @Pontifex. This was announced on December 3. Already this week, without the benefit of one Tweet, he has 525,000 followers. He will begin tweeting on December 12. His Spanish account has another 100,000. By next Wednesday, he will have more than 1 million followers. Greg said it’s a great testimony of the hunger in the world to hear what the Pope has to say. He added that this is not going to be an interactive account in general, although it’s been promised the Holy Father will answer a few questions. Pope Benedict’s Twitter page “With @Pontifex, pope reaches out to new kind of followers”, CNS/The Pilot, 12/3/12 “Papal events, Vatican webcam feeds streamed live with new ‘Pope App’”, CNS/The Pilot, 12/4/12 Scot said it seems the Pope is trying to embrace this mechanism to evangelize and share our faith. By his presence he’s authenticating the Twitterverse as a place for Catholic to share and embrace their faith among others. Fr. Roger said the Pope has emphasized in his recent World Day of Communications message that the Internet is a the new Aeropagus, where we share our faith. The vast majority of people who have signed up in great numbers to follow may never have listened to the Holy Father closely in the past. When the Pope launches next Wednesday, he will respond to a few questions that have been submitted via the hashtag #AskPontifex and this will be a regular opportunity. Scot wondered if @pontifex will be on t-shirts at the next World Youth Day. Susan said it will be a teachable moment as people learn that the word means “bridge-builder”. Scot said he’s not a big fan of the use of Latin when the Church could use English because he wants the Church to seem more accessible. On the other hand, in this case, it could cause people to go and find out what it means. Greg said one of the considerations in choosing the handle was that a lot of the handles were taken. He said that by choosing Latin, the Pope didn’t show favor to any particular language group because Latin is the common denominator of our faith. Fr. Roger said Pontifex is the technical title of the Holy Father. He is the Bridgebuilder between God and Man. To call the Pope Pontifex Maximus means we walk all over him to get to Jesus. Greg pointed out that the Holy Father said he would personally review everything that goes out and this is why the tweets will not be as frequent. Scot said Cardinal Sean is @CardinalSean, Scot Landry is @scotlandry, the Good Catholic Life is @GoodCathLife, and the Pilot is @BostonPilot. Scot said the Vatican is also releasing a new smartphone app that will include the Pope’s speeches and a webcam of his public appearances. It will be available on iPhones and iPads on December 10 and later on Android. It’s called The Pope App. Greg said he was particularly interested in this story, especially because of the live video feeds. He thinks virtually every public address of the Pope is recorded by someone, but not all of them can be viewed by everyone. But there are certain moments when you want to patch in. This app will even give you a reminder when a preferred event is starting. Everything will be archived as well. Scot said he’s become a big fan of web streams, including those from CatholicTV. Susan said she was able to watch the press conference of Bishop-elect Deeley on her iPhone that day. Susan noted that the company behind the app is also publishing an ebook for the Year of Faith, pulling information from dioceses around the world. Fr. Roger said it seems the Vatican is partnering with private companies. He noted that the Vatican’s aphorism is “We’ll use yesterday’s technology tomorrow.” He said people are often champing at the bit to use their technical gifts at the service of the Church. For a lot of these companies you can’t get a better promo than getting the Pope to tweet. Twitter has received an incredible amount of free publicity from the Pope. At every level, this is a win-win for the Church in the world. Scot also noted the good news that Comcast has moved CatholicTV to their basic package from the premium package it was on previously. They hope the other TV providers would also make CatholicTV part of their basic packages so more people can see their programming. The folks at CatholicTV have been pushing this several years. Greg said in his own home they finally have CatholicTV available on their TVs that have analog-to-digital converters. He noted that the digital TV conversion had pushed the channel to a place that many people couldn’t get it. CatholicTV Greg said that by adding it to the basic service, Comcast has made CatholicTV available to every customer in New England. Scot said it shows the importance of going to CatholicTVeverywhere.com to sign a petition for other cable providers to follow suit. Scot said that a parish in the Diocese of Fall River has decided to air 12 30-second radio commercials on stations on Cape Cod for the Year of Faith. It’s a version of the Catholics Come Home campaign but it was done just by the parish. It’s the brainchild of the pastor, Fr. George Harrison. Corpus Christi Parish, Sandwich, MA Fr. Roger said Corpus Christi has a track record of using advertising to promote coming back to the practice of the faith in their parish. Fr. Harrison wanted to expand beyond the narrow message of Christmas to the whole year of faith. He also likes the method of getting 12 parishioners of all kinds in a studio and asking them questions without scripts about why they love their faith. The Cape lends itself to this type of radio evangelization. He hopes that other Catholic parishes will follow suit. To listen to the ads, go to the website above and click on the Year of Faith logo. Also in the Anchor, Fr. Roger’s column gives a testimonial/book review of a new book by Colleen Carroll Campbell. Fr. Roger said he’d read the book the same afternoon he’d read Pope Benedict’s book. Ten minutes in he came to the conclusion that Campbell’s book, “My Sisters, the Saints” was the better of the two books. She profiles four different crises in her life and how six different saints helped her through those difficulties. My Sisters the Saints: A Spiritual Memoir Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives Catholic Charities, CatholicTV, Colleen Carroll Campbell, Fr. Roger Landry, Gregory Tracy, motu proprio, Pontifex, Pope Benedict XVI, Scot Landry, Susan Abbott, twitter, Year of Faith About The Good Catholic LIfe View all posts by The Good Catholic LIfe → ← Program #0428 for Wednesday, December 5, 2012: The God of This City Tour 2012 Program #0430 for Friday, December 7, 2012: Father Stephen Linehan and the Camino de Santiago →	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2683
__label__cc	0.590019	0.409981	Eric Pulsifer's top 5 of 2009 Dear, Hollywood: 2009 wasn't the year either of us hoped it would be. Your summer blockbusters were ho-hum, your dramas were so-so and your comedies were bland. So many of your movies were just alright, but few were worth a second viewing. Here's five from 2009 that really stood out from the pack and give me hope that 2010 can be a better year for us. 5. Gran Torino Even at 78, Clint Eastwood is tough as nails. Though his old ass barely looks human any more, I'm sure his character from Gran Torino could beat the hell out of me. A mature, modern-day western, Gran Torino is supposedly Eastwood's last foray into acting and it's a fitting finale to his career. Despite its serious-sounding story, Gran Torino is unexpectedly funny, and it has something more grown-up to say about redemption and the difference between revenge and justice. MacLennan Top 5 (...and guilty pleasure) of 2009 Wait a minute, don't most critics do a top 10? Yes, maybe they do. Heck, even the Academy decided to roll out the red carpet and extend invitations to 10 nominees to their exclusive club. But we here at The Movie Press have always adhered to a top 5 because we don't want to just mention movies for the sake of mentioning; we want to let you know what is worth your 10 hard earned dollars and your precious two hours of time. These are my top 5 of the year, and since I haven't seen everything that has come out this year, your favorite might not be mine. I'm sad I didn't have any space for the outstanding Duncan Jones directed Moon, the Cormac McCarthy adaptation The Road, or Where the Wild Things Are but I think the list ended up alright. If you think not feel free to let me know. Read the list after the jump! --Greg MacLennan Darcie's Best Of in '09 For me, 2009 was a rough year for movies. Typically at the end of the year, I have at least a dozen of films that I absolutely loved to death. This past year? It took me a long time to lock in my top five films of the year, which just means they were each chosen with extreme care. Here's hoping 2010 throws dozens of worship-inducing flicks my way. --Darcie Duttweiler Check out my Top 5 of 2009 after the jump! Mark Collins' Top 5 of '09 I'm glad we waited until after the new year to make our 'best of' lists. With a potential "list breaker" dropping on Christmas weekend, it only seemed responsible to wait until we'd sampled everything 2009 had to offer before we spouted off on the best movies of the year. Unfortunately It's Complicated was a little too preachy for me, so the list remains unchanged. (I saw that detective movie too, it was pretty okay). Read my list after the jump! --Mark Collins More post-apocolyptic films? Mark's fall film list My assignment was to pick five movies I am most excited about seeing this fall season and one guilty pleasure I'd like to see but wouldn't readily admit. However, in today's movie climate I felt more like listing a single movie I actually want to see (Where the Wild Things Are) and then ten guilty pleasures. With craptastic movies like I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell and Saw VI coming out this fall, I thought it was possible Disney's re-release of Toy Story in 3D could crack my top five but I was pleasantly surprised to find this fall season actually has a lot of potential. Keep in mind I'm not coming out and saying these movies are going to be good, I'm just hoping for the best. Wild Things, RDj, and musicals! Darcie's fall anticipation list Although I made a list of all the movies I want to see from now until the end of December—which totaled around 20, thankyouverymuch—I was still worried about Greg and my lists being identical. Thankfully, I’m too much of a girl for that, and luckily for you Movie Pressers, it includes nary a post-apocalyptic flick, unless you count Couples Retreat. Read below to check out the top five films I’m dying to see this fall. Did your most anticipated movie make the list? MacLennan Fall Anticipation List So this summer sucked, and, yeah, a lot of the films I was anticipating were the main reason for it. You read my list, you trusted me, and I left you with 10 bucks missing off your dresser and half a handjob. I'm sorry, and I hope I can make it up to you by having fine tuned my radar for a fall anticipation list. There are simply too many good-looking movies coming out, and I'm way too excited about more than five, but, for your sake, I narrowed it down to five and one guilty pleasure. Read below the jump to see what made the cut! The Herer Summer Movie Buffet The summer movie lineup is like a pizza buffet. There are the fresh pizzas made with normal ingredients you know will be good – summer blockbusters with movie stars and good plots. There are the pizzas with weird toppings that have been under the heat lamp for too long because nobody will try them – crappy movies that studios make just because they need a summer movie. And then there is the quirky pizza that you would never order at home but is perfect at the buffet because you can eat just one slice – the crowd pleaser you’ll go with your friends when you need something to do and can’t decide what movie to go see. Bon Appétit! I expect this film to blow Borat out of the water in absurdities and in enjoyment factor. Americans were shocked and appalled by people's reactions when Sasha Baron Cohen posed as a clueless foreigner, I can only imagine the reaction when he is playing up America's most terrifying nightmare: a gay man. When the director of Monsters, Inc. and the writer of Finding Nemo get together, there is veritable reason to be excited about a movie. If any film can convince me old people aren’t just a nuisance it’s a Disney movie about a widowed former balloon salesman. I love Johnny Depp more than your average heterosexual male, but even I was getting tired of seeing him in Tim Burton movies. If director Michael Mann was able to make Tom Cruise look like a badass in Collateral, I can’t wait to see what he has done with Depp as notorious bank robber John Dillinger. The Harry Potter has had its ups and downs with me. I’m a huge fan of the books, so I hold the films to a higher standard that I feel is warranted. With that in mind, director David Yates gave us the best Potter movie we’d seen yet in Order of the Phoenix, so the fact that he has returned for Half Blood Prince is promising. Inglorious Basterds August 21st I can picture Quintin Tarantino in a coked-out haze typing away at his keyboard, desperate to make Brad Pitt and BJ Novak look like badasses. I'm not entirely sold on this movie, but I'm desperately curious to find out with Tarantino has cooked up. Guilty Pleasure: Much like Mr. MacLennan, I love to watch shit blow up almost as much as I like to watch people fall down, and I think the new Transformers might set a record for most stuff blown up in a movie. Not to mention Megan Fox is in it, which requires no explanation for my excitement. --Clark Herer The MacLennan Summer Anticipation List So yes, I'm the blockbuster man. I could give a fuck if Tranformers is good just as long as the explosions look awesome in slow motion. I appreciate the indie flicks and other stuff. I even reviewed this summer's indie sci fi semi-masterpiece Moon and am still anxious for it to come out so I can see it again. I'm also pretty excited to see the Rian Johnson delayed Brothers Bloom, which I have on good authority is really finally coming out. But what makes my butt wet this summer? Well I'll tell ya: The origin story of Captain James T. Kirk, Spock and the crew of the USS Enterprise before they had boldly gone where no man had gone before. Trailers for it are awesome, and J.J. Abrams is an evil mad genius. He even made me giddy for watching a Mission Impossible movie, I mean Mission Impossible I and II were okayish, but III was totally awesome. I am super stoked about this reboot. When seasoned comedian George Simmons (Adam Sandler) learns of his terminal, inoperable health condition his desire to form a genuine friendship inspires him to take a relatively green performer (Seth Rogen) under his wing as his opening act. Judd Apatow, comedic greats, and a solid trailer = summer movie excitement. It looks like it could slide down the slippery slope to sappy-ville, but I got faith in Apatow who always seems know to how to walk that fine line. John Connor (Christian "I'm Batman" Bale) is joined in his attempt to defeat Skynet and its army of Terminators by Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a man who apparently has been rescued from the past, though Connor wonders if instead he's been sent from the future as a foil to his plan. As Connor and Wright push deep into the heart of Skynet, they get closer and closer to learning the secret behind the organization's mission to wipe humankind off the planet. I actually had a dream that I saw this movie, and it was totally awesome. So McG is a douche, but c'mon, Christian Bale? Terminators? How can you guys not at least be a little excited? By tying thousands of balloon to his home, 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America. Right after lifting off, however, he learns he isn't alone on his journey since Russell, a wilderness explorer 70 years his junior, has inadvertently become a stowaway on the trip. I saw a healthy chunk of this movie back at Butt Numb-a-Thon and I wasn't really excited to see it until I saw that footage. It's heartfelt, funny, and though it's a cartoon it feels completely organic and real. I'm excited about it, even if this movie has few promises of nudity and/or explosions. An offbeat romantic comedy about a woman (Zooey Deschanel) who doesn't believe true love exists, and the young man (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) who falls for her. I already saw it, but I'm so excited for you guys to see it so we can talk about it. I loved it and can't wait to see it again. I'll have my review up shortly. But in the meantime, know it actually tackles relationships in a realistic and so-true-it's-funny angle, and the soundtrack is pretty popping. Let the waiting game begin.... Decepticon forces return to Earth on a mission to take Sam Witwicky prisoner, after the young hero learns the truth about the ancient origins of the Transformers. Joining the mission to protect humankind is Optimus Prime, who forms an alliance with international armies for a second epic battle. Michael Bay is a genius. That being said, pairing a genius like him, with a movie based on a cartoon that is in turn based on a toy is pure genius. Having said movie revolve, almost exclusively, around robots fighting is also genius. So yeah...I'm pretty excited to witness this summer's greatest spectacle. Summertime and the living's easy: films we're excited for The summer blockbuster season officially kicks off this Friday when Wolverine claws its way into theatres--well, for those of you who haven't downloaded it online already. So, we at The Movie Press thought we'd help you weed through the many, many, many flicks being thrown your way. Since there are so many films this summer we may never see the sun, we each took turns perfecting our top five most anticipated summer films. First of all, Old School makes me laugh real hard, so a new flick by Todd Phillips is probably a guaranteed crowd pleaser. Don't believe me? A sequel is already in the works. Secondly: Bradley Cooper. 'Nough said. A rom com featuring John Krasinksi and Maya Rudolph directed by Sam Mendes--yes, of American Beauty fame? I think I'm sold on curiosity alone. Check out the trailer. It looks pretty, pretty, pretty good. Ummm...I'm a dork, and I'm excited. So sue me. Do I really need to explain this further? JULIE & JULIA Four words: Meryl Streep. Julia Child. Case closed. Oh, wait? Also starring Amy Adams? Well, shit then... Plus, I read the book about a bored Long Island secretary (originally from ATX, woot woot) who decides to cook every recipe in Child's The Art of French Cooking, and it was really amazing, cute, and wonderfully insightful on the life of Child. Cannot wait. In keeping with my theme of beloved books becoming movies, I am beyond excited for this film since the book is probably the last to make me openly sob. Don't judge. Add Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana, and you have yourself a fantastical time traveling main character in a wonderful love story. I pray they don't fuck it up. Guilty Pleasure Pick Sorry to steal this from you, Greg! I have a weird soft spot for Sandra Bullock and her romantic comedy ways. What? She has great comedic timing and is so damn likable. In the mix are Ryan Reynolds and that kooky old lady from Golden Girls (RIP Bea Arthur), which means you got yourself a perfect date movie. Okay, so I don't have any huge blockbuster films on this list, but this may be the first summer in a long time where actual good shit is being released alongside all the action adventure. Plus, Greg's list will no doubt contain more of the action, explosion-y films, so be on the lookout for that shortly. 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__label__cc	0.528395	0.471605	You’ve Never Experienced Shakespeare Quite Like This: Magnus Theatre Presents Machomer Posted by Martina \| Theatre \| 0 By Kyle Poluyko Following the triumphant main stage season opener, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, Magnus Theatre presents a stark and unique comedic contrast with its second show of the 2013/2014 season, Machomer by WYRD Productions. Directed by Mario Crudo, Machomer is a one-man vocal extravaganza featuring over 50 impressions of the most beloved characters from TV’s The Simpsons in an uproarious performance of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Called a one-man tour-de-force, Machomer blends together impressions, puppetry, multimedia, music, and a promise of a little bit of theatre magic to create one of the most distinctive theatrical experiences audiences may be likely to have. Jerry Getty, who appeared at Magnus last season in both A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline and Completely Hollywood, returns to take on the likes of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Principal Skinner, Groundskeeper Willie – among others – as he enacts the triumphs and tribulations of Shakespeare’s most notable anti-hero. Created by WYRD Productions, Machomer has performed to full houses and critical acclaim across Canada and the United States, and has toured through Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand. This Magnus Theatre presentation marks the first time that anyone other than original creator and writer, Rick Miller, has produced Machomer. With the perfect blend of Scottish tragedy and Springfield satire, Machomer is sure to delight audiences of all ages. Machomer opens October 24 at Magnus Theatre and runs through November 9. For more information, call the box office at 345-5552 or book online at magnus.on.ca. PreviousHalloween Spooktacular at Prince Arthur’s Landing NextRick’s Picks of the Week: October 25-27 Paramount Live Presents Godspell Catholic High School Teachers Let Their Star Shine Brightly in Light Up The Sky MacHomer: Magnus Theatre Offers Macbeth…According to The Simpsons Paramount Live Presents The Lion King Jr.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2688
__label__cc	0.734318	0.265682	Unvaccinated travellers should not be discriminated against: WTTC 16 hours ago Gulf Dubai Tourism Signs Strategic Partnership Agreement with GDRFA- Dubai 18 hours ago Tourism Malaysia Teams up with OPPO for Photography Contest 20 hours ago PARIS ENSEMBLE : A Joint promotional campaign by Tourism and Hospitality Players January 14, 2021, 2:00 pm By By : Tourism News live comments The Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau recently launched the Paris Ensemble campaign to promote the products and services of professionals in the Paris tourism industry and encourage people to consume locally. Hoteliers, shopkeepers, restaurateurs, cultural venues, and other activities have once again adapted their approach so visitors can enjoy the capital while complying with health rules. Paris looks forward to welcoming them over the festive season. The Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau (PCVB) will be promoting actors in the Paris tourism industry and their festive products and services, enabling Parisians and visitors to enjoy an array of food, fun, and cultural activities over the holiday season. Enjoy a unique stay Hoteliers in Paris have gone the extra mile to make the end-of-year holidays utterly unique for locals and visitors. From superior room upgrades to room-service party menus and activities to make stays even more enjoyable, they’ve thought of everything. Palaces hotels are offering unforgettable experiences including the possibility to enjoy a take-away Michelin-starred restaurant feast and the chance to relax in your own private spa. Other hotels are inviting guests to welcome in the New Year on a festive theme, like the Terrass”Hotel, where you’re invited to enjoy a movie evening complete with a red carpet and film screenings. The city’s leading chefs, pastry cooks, and chocolate makers have prepared an appetizing end to the year. Everyone can enjoy a fine-dining experience this festive season, with gourmet dishes and delicious chocolates to savor at home. And, of course, Christmas would not be complete without the traditional yule log. From a spiced wreath decorated with Christmas baubles at the Hôtel Lutetia Rive Gauche, a charred log straight from the fire at the Prince de Galles, and Angelina’s celebrated Mont-Blanc transformed into a pistachio log, this year’s original creations could easily be entered into an art competition! The sparkling lights of Paris The City of Paris wished to organize specially adapted festive celebrations for Parisians, residents of the Paris region, and visitors to enjoy the magic and wonder of the holiday season. From the legendary lights along the Champs-Élysées to the sparkling decorations of the Hôtel de Ville, and the strings of lights along the banks of the Seine and on place de la Concorde, the Paris illuminations are great fun for the whole family. From 11 December, the square in front of the Hôtel de Ville will be planted with a forest of shimmering trees, where attractions include free rides for children, and chalets selling snacks and drinks along with products bearing the “Made in Paris” label. Paris je t’aime events Would you like to support local businesses over the festive season? The Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau has created a virtual Christmas market to celebrate the people, places, and activities that play an essential role in Parisian life, including cultural sites and events, typical Paris experiences, fashion and beauty gifts, guided tours, souvenirs of the city, and countless foodie options. Gift vouchers are also available on the parisinfo.com website. From visits to the city’s museums, including the Quai d’Orsay, the Musée de l’Orangerie and the Musée du Quai Branly, to tours of châteaux close to the capital, such as the Château de Fontainebleau and the Château de Chantilly, and workshops at the Ducasse cooking school, visitors hold all the cards when it comes to exploring the city’s cultural and gastronomic heritage. The PCVB is also offering people the chance to win an array of prizes on its Paris je t’aime social media accounts. Enter a Christmas competition behind each square in the Advent calendar by illustrator Benoît Aupoix on the Paris je t’aime Instagram account, take part in the “Palace hotels” initiative on Facebook, or try your luck at winning a stay in the capital on Twitter. Source: parisinfo.com #Paris #France #ParisEnsemble #Ensemble #Parisjet’aime #gastronomic #culture #heritage #ducasse #Fontainebleau #MadeInParis Tagged with: FontainebleaugastronomicheritageParisEnsemble Chopin-themed campaign by Poland scores more than 165 million views in Chinese market 2 days ago For News / Press Releases / Photographs / Features Please write to editorial@tourismnewslive.com For Advertisements and Queries: write to sales@tourismnewslive.com © 2021 Tourism News Live \| By ATTOI	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2690
__label__cc	0.675125	0.324875	Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. William Jennings Bryan The "What" - Introduction to Transition Insight Transitions are complex whichever way we look at them. Leaders typically encounter them in two different contexts. Firstly, it is in the context of hiring a leader under them where they need to make the right choice given the business priorities and cultural nuances. Secondly, it is in the context of their own individual transition where they have to navigate and choose carefully given the several professional and personal variables at stake. Transition Insight aims to enable leaders to be more thoughtful about transitions. Indicative Offerings include Assessment and Development of Leaders - Helping Leaders with the Question - How to grow? Enabling thoughtful Leadership Transitions (Succesion planning, CXO to CEO, Entrepreneur hiring a Business Leader etc.) Confidential Personal Transition Advisory for a leader who is seeking help with the question - Where to go? The "Why" - Genesis of Transition Insight In the video above, Founder – Deepak Jayaraman discusses the genesis of the driving force behind Transition Insight using Ikigai – a Japanese term which literally means “reason for being”. While, by definition, this is a life long enquiry process, reflection along these 4 dimensions of Ikigai led to him starting Transition Insight. Solving complex, multi-variate leadership problems with a coaching mindset. Structuring fuzzy problems and driving leaders to make robust decisions around themselves or their team. Learning from others, curating these perspectives and sharing with the people around me. The thinking here being "I learn, we grow". What I am good at Running Half Marathons (under 2 hours if tailwinds are favorable), Juggling multiple patterns with 3 and 4 balls, Playing rhythm guitar to entertain my children (until they are able to tell good music from bad). These skills are probably irrelevant in the context of Transitions. Additionally, there is a good chance that I am a victim of the Dunning-Kruger effect. Please refer the Testimonials section which has perspectives from some of the clients and colleagues that have worked with me. What the world needs (or the problem I am trying to solve) Transitions are often lonely phases with several variables at play and the decision often has a disproportionate impact on overall long-term well-being and fulfillment. While there are lot of resources available for a leader to succeed in a role, not much is on offer when it comes to dealing with Transitions. They are often lonely and left to their own devices. To borrow from the British Underground, people seem to need help to “mind the gap” that comes between the various stints in their career. I believe, how we deal with these gaps could have a transformative impact on our life, if handled well. What you can get paid for The belief here is “Where there is a will, there is a way; where there is a real need being addressed, hopefully there is a pay”! The "Who" - Background of Deepak Jayaraman The Who are an English rock band that formed in 1964. They are considered one of the most influential rock bands of the 20th century, selling over a 100 million records worldwide. I am a big fan of their work. However, that is a discussion for another place and time. Let me get back to telling you a little bit about myself. As a Consultant at EgonZehnder, when I used to interview leaders, I would always find the stories around why they did what they did fascinating. I would learn a lot more about them by understanding how they went about their transitions and what drove them at those moments in time. Similarly, instead of dwelling on what I did in each stint, I feel you will learn a lot more about me by understanding the context behind my transitions. Let me give you a sense of how I went about making my transition choices starting with my choice of Undergraduate education. IIT Chennai: Comfort with Mathematics and analytics coupled with peer driven JEE preparation classes in Chennai led me to join Mechanical Engineering at IIT Chennai after my schooling. I do not remember considering any other discipline other than Engineering. I did not have too many people to guide me at that time. I did not know any better at that stage. IIM Ahmedabad: I wanted to pursue higher studies (just to get it out of the way!) and had to choose between a Fellowship at UT Austin and an admission to IIM Ahmedabad – 2 disparate options with very different implications. Decided on a whim to join IIM Ahmedabad based on the notion that I would find it difficult to return to India if I went to the US (I had heard of X=X+1 syndrome). Once again, didn't have a meaningful framework evaluate the two options. KPMG: I believed that I would be good at problem solving and joined as a Management Consultant at KPMG London. I had to decide between KPMG London and another reputed consulting organization that was offering me a role in Mumbai. The KPMG opportunity was for me to spend ~2 years in London in a newly formed group and then return to India to be part of a team that could revitalize the Indian consulting operation. The KPMG opportunity seemed like a riskier move at that stage. I was about to play it safe and join the other organization but one of my class-mates who had lived several years in the US suggested that I “go see the world”. In hindsight, this has been a great opportunity for me to scale up rapidly in an intrapreneurial environment, experience a different culture and get a peek into the globalizing world. But at that point in time, it was a snap decision, all said and done. London Business School : After 5 years at KPMG, I was itching to study more and wanted a platform for a global career. I have always enjoyed learning for the sake of learning. While I initially considered a PhD, I was told that if I was not committed to getting into academia, it did not make sense to pursue a PhD. I was married around that time and I chose London Business School over an American school as my wife could pursue employment in London (without visa complications as in the case of US) and it gave me the flexibility to take electives which further built on my experience at IIMA. It gave me another opportunity to come back to London where I had fond memories from my stint with KPMG. McKinsey: After graduating from London Business School with Distinction, I joined the US offices of McKinsey based on my perceived strengths in problem solving. It was also an opportunity to experience a different culture. During this stint, I built several muscles including - problem structuring, “pyramid principle” driven communication, learning to scale up in a new domain, working with highly driven people from diverse backgrounds to create and implement an impactful solution across a range of business topics. Ian Davis (the head of McKinsey at that time) used to use three terms to describe the effectiveness of consultants. IQ (Intellect), CQ (Capability Quotient - basket of skills including problem solving and communication that were required to be an effective consultant) and RQ (Relationship Quotient). As I grew in McKinsey over time, I discovered that my strong suit was my RQ. That is where I was getting my energy from. EgonZehnder: Moved back to India with McKinsey for personal reasons and took some time off. It gave me an opportunity to reflect deeper on what I liked doing. Till that point, I had only focused on what I was good at but never reflected inward on what energized me. I realized that I derived energy from working with people and making a difference to them (RQ as Ian Davis would say). EgonZehnder gave me an opportunity to work in a collaborative environment with a bunch of outstanding colleagues and have impact on clients at the highest level by solving complex leadership problems. Transition Insight: As time rolled by at EgonZehnder, I realized that my passion lay more on the Leadership Assessment and Development side than on the Search side. I discovered that I had more of a “coaching mindset” than a “poaching mindset”. I underwent a transition within EgonZehnder as I started doing more and more of Leadership Development work. Along the way, I also got certified as a CEO Coach. My passion for learning and disseminating also drove me to creating a TED type knowledge platform where I interviewed 20+ leaders across the world and filmed/edited/curated the output so that we could raise the game as a firm in this area. My passion for helping leaders to be more thoughtful about key transitions coupled with a keen interest in creating content by curating perspectives drove me to start Transition Insight. &copyTransition Insight 2016 Interactive nirvana by Pigtail Pundits Transition Insight Private Limited Address of Registered Office: 902 Carnation, Dosti Acres, New Uphill Link Road, Wadala, Mumbai 400037 CIN number: U74120MH2015PTC266362 Email and Name of the person who may be contacted in case of emergencies: deepak.jayaraman@transitioninsight.com (Deepak Jayaraman)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2691
__label__cc	0.659281	0.340719	Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 - PS4 Gameplay Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 – PS4 Gameplay Motwera December 3, 2016 GamingLeave a Comment Many wonder how the PS4 port of the recently released port of Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 runs on the PS4 (also coming to Xbox One and PC in March 2017) and the above video from Fegor indicates that the game runs very well on the console! Dejimon11 Kirby Battle Royal Announced Sonic Forces promotional video Motwera Old School Musical getting a physical release next week for the Nintendo Switch by Super Rare Games Hard4Games dives deep into the “Secret Screen” on the Nintendo 64’s unreleased controller prototype RK128 3WIREL Returns: News, Reviews, and More Coming Soon Assassin’s Creed Origins Leak – E3 2017 Trailer Releases Early Verzu Chase ElectroCop (Review – Atari Lynx 1989) Mega Man II (Review-GB 1992) Give us feedback, what do you want to see improved, changed or added? (3WIREL!) GameXplain reacts to Yacht Club Games “Direct” featuring Shovel Knight in Spades! (Discussion of Shovel Knight Dig and more) Omegalfa on Introducing the CD-I (Compact Disc Interactive), The First Online Video Game Console! Henry Collins on Part 2 of Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2 Gameplay debuted today! Soni on Sonic Panel Happening March 16th – Sonic News Being Released? Unkown1800 on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Review (Switch, 2017) Motwera on Uncanny Valley Releasing on PS4 and PS Vita February 2017 3WIREL! · all rights reserved to site and other owners. Owners of some content found in this site and users/readers like you. Privacy Policy - Rules - Contact us - DMCA - (CC) All Plarforms Crashy News Gimme Gimme Games The Tribute Pages Soah City Welcome back.by Motwera1 year ago Archives Select Month July 2020 (2) April 2020 (2) August 2019 (3) April 2019 (2) October 2018 (1) September 2018 (3) August 2018 (1) April 2018 (1) December 2017 (1) October 2017 (3) September 2017 (7) August 2017 (1) July 2017 (1) June 2017 (9) May 2017 (7) April 2017 (41) March 2017 (58) February 2017 (195) January 2017 (392) December 2016 (285) November 2016 (316) October 2016 (427) September 2016 (418) August 2016 (422) July 2016 (244) June 2016 (401) May 2016 (48) March 2016 (2) February 2016 (3) January 2016 (3) December 2015 (6) November 2015 (1) October 2015 (4) September 2015 (3) July 2015 (4) June 2015 (1) May 2015 (2) April 2015 (6) March 2015 (2) February 2015 (9) January 2015 (4) December 2014 (1) November 2014 (4) October 2014 (12) September 2014 (1) August 2014 (3) July 2014 (8) June 2014 (7) May 2014 (24) April 2014 (5) March 2014 (16) February 2014 (20) January 2014 (22) December 2013 (54) November 2013 (11) October 2013 (17) September 2013 (145) August 2013 (40) July 2013 (36) June 2013 (17) May 2013 (43) April 2013 (20) March 2013 (61) February 2013 (53) January 2013 (44) December 2012 (16) November 2012 (35) October 2012 (33) January 2012 (1) November 2011 (3) September 2011 (1) August 2011 (2) July 2011 (5) May 2011 (2) Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles Review - SEGA Genesis Elder Scrolls Travels: Oblivion (PS2 Build) - PtoPOnline Battlefield Bad Company 2 - Xbox 360 vs. Xbox One BC Frame Rate Test Digital Foundry: Steep PS4/PS4 Pro/Xbox One Comparison & Frame Rate Test Sonic Advance Review - Game Boy Advance	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2693
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__label__wiki	0.921553	0.921553	ABC Primetime 'The Bachelorette' Clare Crawley gets drama and love at first sight on night 1 By Jennifer Matarese NEW YORK -- Clare Crawley began her journey as "The Bachelorette" and in the first few minutes of the show, it previewed a crazy turn of events. We still don't know what happens, but let's hope we can figure it out soon. "Congratulations, you just blew up 'The Bachelorette,'" Chris Harrison said to Clare. OK, just what does that mean?! Chris Harrison welcomed viewers to the show by explaining how this season will be different because the show needed to quarantine the contestants and all taking part to keep it COVID-19 free. They are all at the La Quinta Resort & Club at the base of the Santa Rosa Mountains in the city of La Quinta, California and that's where the entire season will take place. They showed the guys getting coronavirus tested and quarantining in their hotel rooms. What you can take away from the introductions, Bennet went to Harvard, Yosef has a daughter, Ben is a military guy, Eazy is a former football player who turned sports agent and he's got a ton of energy, and that was just a few of the men they showed off. Once all the guys got their negative tests back they showed the men ripping off their face masks and jumping into the pool. Be free! Rip off your shirts, I mean masks... Now that they are tested and in a controlled environment where all are secluded and COVID-free it will almost look like a normal season...almost. WATCH: Clare previews her journey as "The Bachelorette" Clare is 39, been through a lot, and she says she's not settling for anything. She has a special DVD left by her father who passed away that she will watch with the man she wants to marry. Her mother is in a care facility because she has Alzheimer's. Let's hope that Clare can find someone who will love her as fiercely and as dedicated as she deserves. She says she's going to pick her husband out the second she meets him...we'll see! Bring on the LIMOS! RELATED: Meet the men vying for Clare's heart 1) Ben, 29, and Army ranger told her she looked beautiful and asked if they could do a deep breath together. 2) Riley, 30, is an attorney and he said that in his job a jury would "find her guilty as charged for looking beautiful in this dress." 3) Zac C., 26, is an addiction specialist and said "Hello, playa" and he told her that he's happy that both of them didn't settle and he's ready to get the party started. 4) Jordan M., 30, is a cybersecurity engineer and he was super nervous. He said that in case Clare is thirsty, he's a "tall drink of water." 5) Jason, 31, is a former pro football lineman, he came out in a sympathy belly and said it shows the labor of his love for her and he's willing to hold the weight of their relationship. It was a throwback to her limo introduction with Juan Pablo. 6) Ivan, 28, is an aeronautical engineer. He told Clare she's very beautiful in his mother's native language from the Philippines. 7) Kenny, 39, is a boy band manager (um, which one Kenny, don't hold out on us) and he had a shirt with her dogs on them under his suit. 8) Brendan, 30, is a commercial roofer and he wore a bow tie... 9) Mike, 38, is a digital marketing manager, he brought her some jeweled flip flops in case her feet get tired from wearing heels. 10) Jeremy, 40, is a banker who says he's there for her. 11) Blake Monar, 31, is a male grooming specialist and said he's happy she's there. 12) Tyler, 27, is a lawyer packed up his whole life and put it in a station wagon to meet her and he straight up said he wants kids and dog. It was very Clark Griswold. 13) Meantime in a Rolls Royce, Bennet, 36, who works in wealth management systems, reminded everyone he's fancy and is Mr. Harvard. 14) Blake Moynes, 29, is a wildlife manager from Canada who was very nervous but he said he wants to tell her something important and he should find her inside. 15) Chris, 27, is a landscape design salesman, and he told her that he feels like waited forever for this moment. 16) AJ, 28, is a software salesman. He twirled Clare and told her that she's blinding. He said that his friends told him that he gives horrible first impressions. Then as AJ held her hands, he squeezed them so hard that he hurt her! Girlfriend is wearing rings, bro! 17) Joe, 36, is a very handsome anesthesiologist. He told her he was there to save his love life as he ran up with his stethoscope. 18) Garin, 34, is a professor of journalism and said that he was there to show her how to have some fun. 19) Robby, 31, is an insurance broker. He said to Clare that she is beautiful and can't wait to spend time with her. 20) Easy, 29, is the sports marketing agent we got a glimpse of earlier. He burst through a paper sign that said, "Your future husband." He said that she would always be his first-round draft pick. 21) Jay, 29, is a fitness director. He came out in a straitjacket because waiting to meet her has made him "a little crazy." 22) Then, her knight in shining armor showed up. It was Chasen, 31, an IT account executive. 23) Demar, 26, works as a spin cycle instructor and said he fell for her already while wearing a sky diving outfit. It would have been cooler if he had actually skydived in. Just sayin. 24) Then, in a bubble suit, Ed, 36, rolled in. He works with health care systems. Ed said he heard her journey was taking place in a bubble. 25) Yosef, 30, is a medical device salesman who brought moon pie cookies. 26) Jordan C., 26, is a software account executive who also brought a snack, popcorn. 27) Zach J., 37, is a cleaning service owner. He pulled out a ring box that had a farting butt inside of it. It was hilarious, butt really... 28) Brandon, 28, is a real estate agent and Clare noted he was the only guy that kissed Clare on the cheek! She seemed to really like him. But hold your horses... 29) Dale, 31, is a former pro football receiver who gave Clare a big hug and he talked about how wild it was to finally be there with her. Dale said he couldn't be more excited to take the journey with her. She told him he's a good hugger. "Oh my God. I knew it. I definitely feel like I just met my husband. I'm shaking," Clare said. The moment brought tears to her eyes. Chris Harrison popped out and was like WHAAAT. She told Chris that she felt everything that she hasn't felt ever. Chris Harrison said that she's the first person to ever say that during the introductions. But wait - there's another limo! 30) Page, 37, is a chef and he noted that they've both been through a lot to be there. 31) Tyler S., 36, is a music manager who thanked her for being there. And that's it 31! Straitjacket guy and Hand Grabber Ring Pincher guy were chatting together - seems like a room for rejects...perhaps. But let's not be too judgy. Clare went into her first conversation with Dale with very high hopes. They spoke about their loneliness during quarantine and she revealed to him that her mom has Alzheimer's and the challenges with not being able to visit her. He told her his older sister has underlying health issues and he's dealing with the same situation where he can't visit her the way he wished he could. He told her that he loved her energy and confidence when she was announced as "The Bachelorette." Clare said she had butterflies, nervousness and she just really likes him. Suddenly, Clare's dog ran out and all of the guys loved meeting her. It's cool she gets to have her dog there! What a happy pup! Clare played a strong man carnival hammer smash game, had a few drinks, got a picture from one man's niece, put on the flip flops, and then played an origami board game made by the anesthesiologist. And don't worry, she got to play with the giant bubble man Jason. They shared a love of the outdoors even though she revealed she has never seen, "My Cousin Vinny." WHAT. It's a must-see if you haven't seen it. Just when everything seemed all happy, Chris Harrison plopped down the first impression rose on a coffee table. Yosef told Clare that he's a father and raising a daughter. He promised to be a gentleman because he wants to be a good example to his daughter. Tyler C. apparently has a secret! Oh boy. He said that he flirts with girls who know him on Instagram. So our first "Right Reasons" police officer is Tyler C.! Right away he confronted Yosef. Yosef told Tyler C. that he doesn't remember any of it. He told him there's no substance to it. Yosef called Tyler C. "Mini McConaughey." Yosef ran back to Clare and she told Tyler C. that she needed to talk to both of them. Apparently, Tyler said, "Hi, beautiful," in some girl's DMs. Clare told the guys that she will think about the situation. Then, Clare dropped a mini bomb in that Blake Moynes contacted her before the show! He's a rule breaker! However, it came at a time where she was lonely and he was honestly just checking in on her to make sure she was okay and she really appreciated it. Then, he took another risk and went in for the kiss! He seems sweet! Clare got up, picked up the first impression rose, and headed out over to Dale - no surprise there! A wave of disappointment fell across the other men. She told Dale that he's the one that she wants to keep talking to. He happily accepted the rose! She went in for the kiss and he was very excited that things were happening so quickly and that he was guaranteed more time with her. Dale said that he feels like they connected on "so many levels." Chris Harrison walked in and the bad news is that she didn't talk to everyone there. The men who didn't get to talk to her are upset that Yosef and Tyler C. wasted all of the time that they could have spent talking to Clare. Clare gave roses out to: 1) Dale (First Impression Rose) 2) Blake Moynes (Rulebreaker) 3) Eazy 4) Ben 5) Riley 6) Zack J. 7) Tyler S. 8) Joe - the anesthesiologist 9) Jason 10) Demar 11) Chasen 12) Jordan C. 13) Blake Monar 14) Kenny 15) Brendan 16) Garin 17) Ed 18) Bennett 19) Zac C. 20) Jay - In the straitjacket (I mean, dude! Take it off!) 21) Brandon 22) Ivan 23) Yosef - squeezed out Tyler C. in the end. All of the men said a gracious goodbye, even Tyler C. He felt that there was potential, but then he brought another man into their relationship - never a good move. Why do these guys stay so clueless? They should look back at what never works from past seasons! Do your homework men! Coming up this season, there will be kissing, crying, and nakedness. The preview shows Clare telling Dale that she thinks about him when she falls asleep and first thing when she wakes up in the morning. But, then the rest of the men grow suspicious and say Dale is a villain and he isn't who Clare thinks he is. There's a big breakdown and they say they expected more from the "oldest Bachelorette," so we don't know how she blows up the show, but she does apparently, and she might even leave! Cue the limo - but who steps out? 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__label__cc	0.640886	0.359114	Amsterdam All Destinations Things to do in Netherlands Things to do in Amsterdam The Amsterdam Museum offers a crash course in the city’s fascinating history and culture. Located in a former convent and 17th-century orphanage, the museum narrates the history of Amsterdam chronologically from humble fishing village to the multicultural cosmopolitan city of today. Interactive and multimedia exhibits appeal to visitors of all ages. Kalverstraat 92 or Sint Luciënsteeg 27, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1012 PH Tours and tickets to Experience Amsterdam Museum You are viewing Virtual Experiences in Amsterdam. See more Virtual Experiences around the globe. 🌎 Amsterdam Small-Group, Guided Evening Canal Cruise with Bar on Board Come and join us on one of our legendary and Tripadvisor top 3 boat tours and get ready to cruise along the Amsterdam canals on our unique, electric boats. We have small open boats so you are able to enjoy the full experience! On our 1 hour evening cruise you will explore Amsterdam, its famous landmarks, culture, and rich trading history whilst relaxing on our luxury boat. At night all the bridges light up in the city so it will feel like sailing through a fairytale. The cruise will be done with a small group of people, so expect an interactive tour, with enough space for questions and any needed recommendations for your further stay in Amsterdam. Our canal cruise is a great alternative compared to those old-school tourist canal boats that your grandma probably recommended. Amsterdam Night Professional Photoshoot and Fun Walking Tour We'll meet at Damrak.Then we will get to some hidden streets close to the Red Ligh District, and will snap photos with neon lights background, alleys, underground spots, indoor places etc. We'll take photos around amsterdam hearth amazing spots for create your creative pictures! If you're a photographer I can also offer you a night Workshop Experience in Amsterdam, just send me a message! Amsterdam Small Group Food Tour Visit Amsterdam's culinary hot spots on this 2.5-hour food and walking tour. Alongside your guide and small group, limited to just 12 foodies, travel around town to taste popular local dishes such as salty fries and fresh herring. Sample pungent artisan cheeses, and throw back a house spirit at a 17th-century distillery. Along the way, gain insight into Amsterdam’s gastronomic roots and the historic Dutch spice trade. Amsterdam walking tour with canal cruise (unlimited drinks) The perfect combination to know the Venice of the North. Starting with a walking tour through the city center combined with a 1h canal cruise with all drinks included (beer, wine or soft drinks). A unique vision of the city which has a unique style of combining history with pure entertainment. The walking tour covers the main sights of the inner city. and the canal cruise route takes us through the principal canals, Amstel River and seven bridges, some of Amsterdam’s most notable locations. You can’t truly experience the city without getting to know its waterways! On this tour, you’ll hear the stories you’d never hear otherwise. With an expert guide, you’ll experience the history of this city, from its start as a muddy village on the River Amstel, to the wild history of prostitution and drug decriminalization to the tragedy of Anne Frank’s story and Nazi occupation, the aim is to give you a perfect introduction to this city. Full-Day Total Amsterdam Discovery: Bike and Food Tour Maximize your time in the Dutch capital on this bike and food tour of Amsterdam. Ideal for lovers of culture and cuisine, this tour provides a comprehensive overview of Amsterdam’s historical, architectural, and culinary delights in just one day. Explore downtown and the Red Light District; cycle alongside UNESCO-listed canals; and sample Dutch classics such as cheese, pancakes, and fries. On this small-group tour, limited to 12 people, you’ll receive personalized attention from your guide. Amsterdam Walking Tour with Cheese Tasting The best combination! Discover the secrets of Amsterdam with a professional guide and complete your visit with a cheese tasting On this tour, you’ll hear the stories you’d never hear otherwise. With an expert guide, you’ll experience the history of this city, from its start as a muddy village on the River Amstel, to how it became the most important trading city in Europe. From the wild history of prostitution and drug decriminalization to the tragedy of Anne Frank’s story and Nazi occupation, the aim is to give you a perfect introduction to this city. After the tour, you’ll have all the time you want to explore further with fellow travelers. For the cheese lovers, this is the perfect combination to enjoy Amsterdam. Start your trip with our walking tour through the streets of downtown Amsterdam. And complete your visit to the city with a cheese tasting in one of the most emblematic cheese factory in the city. Amsterdam walking tour (small groups) Start your journey with the best introduction to Amsterdam. A unique vision of the city which has a unique style of combining history with pure entertainment. This 2.5-hour* walking tour covers the main sights of the inner city. On this tour, you’ll hear the stories you’d never hear otherwise. With an expert guide, you’ll experience the history of this city, from its start as a muddy village on the River Amstel, to how it became the most important trading city in Europe. From the wild history of prostitution and drug decriminalization to the tragedy of Anne Frank’s story and Nazi occupation, the aim is to give you a perfect introduction to this city. After the tour, you’ll have all the time you want to explore further with fellow travelers. Whether you visit one of Amsterdam’s famous museums or check out the cafés and bars of the Jordaan District, this tour will help you get your bearings in this often confusing city and allow you to make the most out of your stay here. The best spontaneous experience ever in your lifetime / Micro Art Amsterdam Incredible experience visiting such a unique exhibition. You will be surely staggered by the intricacy and detail that goes in to each piece. The beauty is breathtaking and you will leave here stunned by what you have seen. Marvel as the works become smaller in size and yet even more magnificent. A must see in the museums of Amsterdam while it is on view. Private 8 day memorial tour: Follow Anne Frank from Amsterdam to Auschwitz By tracing the footsteps of Anne Frank, from the time she lived in Amsterdam, the Secret Annex, and the tragic last months of her life to Westerbork, Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen we will not only learn about her short and important life, but also of thousands of other Jews, Dutch civilians and the German perpetrators. Going to these places and see them for yourself, accompanied with photos of those years, will put everything you know of these events in a unique perspective. As this is a private tour you can fully personalise the experience, keeping in mind the distances we need to cover. This will be a life changing experience. Amsterdam City Center & History Guided Walking Tour - Private Tour Get a true insider's view of Amsterdam on this 2.5-hour private walking tour. Stroll around the city with the knowledgeable local guide and head to some lesser-known hidden gems in the city. Along the way, stop and learn about some of the major sites, too. Visit such spots as Dam Square, artists squats, leaning houses, Prinsengracht, Begijnof, the thinnest house, the oldest canals, the Sea Dike and China Town, The New Market Square (Nieuwmarkt) and the medieval city gate PRIVATE and SAFE Saloon Boat Ride: Amsterdam Canal Cruise & Unlimited Drinks The combination of foot, bike, car and bus traffic on the cobblestone streets of Amsterdam can be overwhelming. Escape the crowds with this private canal tour. Experience the city’s waterways from a unique vantage point. Enjoy a chilled drink while a local guide gives you insight on the history and architecture of the city. Skip the Line: Amsterdam Museum Entrance Ticket Sail past the long lines outside of the enriching Amsterdam Museum with a priority-access entrance ticket to one of the Dutch capital’s finest cultural institutions. Gain fascinating insight into the cultural, industrial and agricultural development of Amsterdam through a range of informative exhibits. Explore the museum at your own pace with your unlimited ticket, marvelling at exceptional permanent exhibits like Amsterdam DNA and the Little Orphanage. Skip-the-line Rijksmuseum & Amsterdam City Center Tour - Semi-Private 8ppl Max Skip the line at the popular Rijksmuseum, as well as get a comprehensive walking tour of Amsterdam's historic center during this half-day tour. Travel with a small group, which ensures personalized attention and the chance to ask questions. Your ticket to the Rijksmuseum is valid all day long, so you can explore at your leisure after the conclusion of your tour. 5 hours to 5 hours&nbsp30 minutes 60 Minute Small Group Tour by Captain Jack Cruising the canals of Amsterdam is a must for first-time visitors to the city. This family-friendly cruise provides a personalized experience with a small boat and a maximum of 20 passengers on-board. Get to know each other as you sip drinks, tuck into snacks, and enjoy entertaining commentary from Captain Jack. Cruise around the UNESCO-listed canal ring, spot landmarks including the Rijksmuseum and the Anne Frank House, and hear fun facts and stories about Amsterdam as you discover the city. Outdoor city escape game with guiding - Amsterdam This tour combines walking, playing and learning. There are no extra costs, no entry fees , no objects, no guides. Everything you need is included in the app we offer. You will have an amazing time wandering around the city and learning info about the most important attractions of the city. It is highly recommended for families, friends, couples, students, companies and team building activities. The tour supports English, German, Italian, French and Spanish Skip-the-line Rijksmuseum & Amsterdam City Center Guided Tour - Private Tour Combine a private walking tour of Amsterdam with skip-the-line access to the popular Rijksmuseum on this half-day tour. Breeze past the crowds at the often crowded Rijksmuseum for a guided tour with your dedicated guide, then stroll through the city to learn about what it was like during the 18th and 19th centuries. This private tour ensures personalized attention for you and your party. Personal Private Canal Cruise, all inclusive. 60 minutes The best private canal tour on the famous canals of Amsterdam! The cruise is private for 1,5 hours and inclusive local skipper/guide and inclusive beer, wines, soda's and snacks (due the Corona virus, snacks are not available at this time). The luxe boat is equipped with pillows and in case of rain a roof top. Anamazing experience to enjoy with friends and family. You will see the famous hotspots of Amsterdam. The starting location is at the famous Rijksmuseum, the biggest museum of Amsterdam. Amsterdam private walking tour Start your journey with the best introduction to Amsterdam. A unique vision of the city which has a unique style of combining history with pure entertainment. This private walking tour covers the main sights of the inner city. On this private tour, you’ll hear the stories you’d never hear otherwise. With an expert guide, you’ll experience the history of this city, from its start as a muddy village on the River Amstel, to how it became the most important trading city in Europe. From the wild history of prostitution and drug decriminalization to the tragedy of Anne Frank’s story and Nazi occupation, the aim is to give you a perfect introduction to this city. After the tour, you’ll have all the time you want to explore further with fellow travelers. Whether you visit one of Amsterdam’s famous museums or check out the cafés and bars of the Jordaan District, this tour will help you get your bearings in this often confusing city and allow you to make the most out of your stay here. Amsterdam City Center & History Guided Walking Tour - Semi-Private 8ppl Max Immerse yourself in the history of Amsterdam during this walking tour of the city center. Spend time in the company of an engaging guide and small group of just eight people or fewer as you see famous landmarks including the Red Light District, the Flower Market, Dam Square, and walk around the city's famous canals which have been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Private Tour: Complete Amsterdam Highlights & Must-Sees with a Local If you’re wondering how to see the best of Amsterdam in just one day, this tour is what you need. Go to the must-sees of the city and cover more ground on this extended experience. See the essentials and learn what makes Amsterdam such a fascinating place, from food to hidden gems and landmarks. Get to know Amsterdam and its main spots on a 4-hour walking tour that will give you a more in-depth insight of the city. Check out the outside of the Rijksmuseum, a historic orphanage that was also a monastery, and the famous Rembrandt Square. Embrace the local Dutch culture as you stroll through the flower market by the canal, and cross some of the main bridges with unique stories behind them. And how about the hidden gems? Find a hidden courtyard only inhabited by Beguines, and discover a cool cafe with an incredible view over the city. Discover where the main gates of the city used to be and stumble into a theatre that’s a fantastic architectural gem designed in 3 different styles. Private 3-hour Walking Tour in Amsterdam with official tour guide Discover one of the most visited and wonderful cities of Europe with your private official tour guide. Wonder around the city and its beautiful canals with a local and experienced tour guide. During your private tour you will see the highlights in the old town of Amsterdam such as canals, canal houses, Dam square, Rembrandt house, Jordaan area, Jewish quarter, red light district and much more! You will listen to the stories about Amsterdam’s history and why it’s such a liberal city nowadays and how this is related to the history of Amsterdam, the city’s golden age (17th century) in particular. Discovery Walk in Amsterdam’s City Centre: a short intro to the best local spots Want to experience the very essence of Amsterdam? This short trail, created by our co-founders Kristina & Wendy, helps you make the most of your time exploring the city centre. You’ll discover golden animals, the oldest cafe in town, tropical fruits and free art spaces. Location-based riddles will keep your walk playful and engaging. There are also nice foodie offers to unlock along the way! During this experience you will: - Explore Amsterdam during this interactive and fun discovery walk - Keep a comfortable distance from other people throughout the experience - Learn about the history and local stories of the city centre in a playful way - Solve location-based riddles to unlock directions to your next stop along the route - See popular sights from a different angle and discover hidden spots This discovery walk is a fun activity for friends, couples, curious locals, visitors, and team building. You can fully enjoy this experience of connecting with the city while staying in you Historic Walking Tour of Amsterdam with Art Historian Guide Delve into Amsterdam's unique heritage on a private, 3-hour walking tour led by an art historian guide. Learn about the city’s glory days as a 17th-century trading and guild capital, and admire finely preserved examples of Dutch architecture on a stroll through the old city center and along its famous canals. Visit a local spice shop, rest your feet during a quaint coffee break and hear about famous figures and scandals that shaped Amsterdam’s culture. Price is per group, based on a maximum of six people. Financial History Tour The world's first limited company, stock exchange, central bank and economic bubble... It all happened in Amsterdam, within walking distance. Follow the money in Amsterdam as financial center of the world: Nazi banks, Resistance banks, a pawnshop from 1614, the financers of the Louisiana Purchase and a visit to a 1920s bank fault. Enrich yourself on the Financial History Tour. Should I book Amsterdam Museum tickets in advance? We recommend booking e-tickets ahead of time to secure your spot since Amsterdam Museum can get crowded. If you book with Viator, you can cancel at least 24 hours before the start date of your tour for a full refund. See all 29 Amsterdam Museum tickets and tours on Viator. How much does it cost to visit Amsterdam Museum 2021? Currently, an entrance ticket to Amsterdam Museum costs USD 18.44. Guided Amsterdam Museum tours start around USD 18.44 per person. See all 29 Amsterdam Museum tickets and tours on Viator. What's the best way to experience Amsterdam Museum? The best ways to experience Amsterdam Museum are: See all Amsterdam Museum experiences on Viator. 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__label__wiki	0.778491	0.778491	London All Destinations Things to do in England James Bond Tours in London Ways to Beat the Crowds in London Don't Miss These Must-Do Activities in London How to Spend 3 Days in London Private Walking Tours in London Top Parks and Gardens in London Doctor Who Tours in London London Football Tours James Bond may travel the globe to complete his missions, but his base will always be the United Kingdom's MI6 counterintelligence agency in London. Here's how to follow in his footsteps and explore the world of 007 on a James Bond tour in London. Travel by bus to London locations such as theNational Gallery, Westminster, and Whitehall—made famous in Bond films including "The World is Not Enough," "Skyfall," and "Die Another Day." Follow a guide on aJames Bond walking tourand discover government buildings such as the SIS Building, located on the bank of the Thames River near Vauxhall and featured in the films as MI6 headquarters. Traverse the streets of London by taxi and listen as your driver sheds light onfilm location sitessuch as the Grand Hotel Europe, Le Circle Casino, and more. Escape the city by mini coach and visit far-flung filming locations featured asZukovsky's casino and Goldfinger's golf clubin the "Goldfinger" and "Spectre" James Bond films. Stop for photos outsidePinewood Studios, where author Ian Fleming's famous novels were brought to life on the silver screen. 9 Tours and Activities \| All London Tours James Bond 007 Ultimate Spy Taxi Tour Follow the James Bond super-fan trail on this half-day guided tour of all things 007 in a private taxi. See everything from Ian Fleming house to Bond filming locations and get the insider scoop along the way. Visit the bar where the words, “Shaken. Not Stirred” were first spoken and finish your trip with a tour of the 007’s cars in the Bond Motion Exhibition. James Bond Private Tour Discover the movie magic that kept 007 in action happened during this private walking tour of James Bond filming locations. Meet your guide and go at your own pace visiting filming locations from Skyfall, Goldeneye, and other films. See how real-life spy work is done with a visit to parts of Whitehall and learn about the most infamous murder in Cold War spy history. James Bond Film Location Walking Tour in London Spend the afternoon spy-gazing with a 2.5-hour walking tour of London’s James Bond filming locations. In the company of your Bond-expert guide, learn about the legendary 007 agent and slip through the streets of the capital to visit cinematic landmarks such as Westminster, the National Gallery, Whitehall and Mi5. See secret hideaways used in classic Bond films including Skyfall and Die Another Day. Small-Group Spy & Espionage Tour of London From James Bond’s favorite haunts to real-life locations used by MI6, this tour will introduce you to parts of London that most other visitors (and even locals) miss. Meet your guide in Central London, and set off with just a small group for company. You’ll learn about the city’s sordid history of espionage, will discover important landmarks hidden in plain sight, and will round out the tour with a bracing vodka martini. Movie Hot Spot Walking Tour of London Recreate your favorite scenes from classic London movies on this 2-hour movie hot spots walking tour. Get the insider scoop on filming locations and on-set gossip as you follow in the footsteps of iconic characters like James Bond, Alfie, Batman, Harry Potter and Bridget Jones. James Bond Bus Tour of London Enter the glamorous world of 007 on this action-packed 3-hour James Bond tour of London. Follow in the footsteps of everyone’s favorite international spy as you visit filming locations from Bond classics like 'GoldenEye', 'The World is Not Enough' and 'Die Another Day', as well as recent hits like ‘Spectre’ and ‘Skyfall’. Brush up on your Bond trivia as you learn more about Bond actors Sean Connery, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig, then get a glimpse of the real world of espionage as you pass MI6. Hero and Superhero Film Walk of London Follow in the footsteps of James Bond, Jack Ryan, Wonder Woman, and other onscreen action stars on this 2.5-hour, film-locations walking tour of London. With a film-buff guide, you’ll visit filming locations from Blockbuster movies such as Wonder Woman, Edge of Tomorrow, Batman Begins, Mission Impossible 6 and Fantastic Four. Pass famous London sights, including the British Museum, Somerset House, Trafalgar Square, and Big Ben, as you hear insider gossip and behind-the-scenes trivia along the way. Cult TV London Private Tour On this unique, pop culture-lovers private tour, you’ll head to the filming locations of a handful of classic and contemporary cult TV shows set in London. Get a first-hand peek at the offices of James Bond, pose for photos outside Tardis police box sign, see where Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock calls home, and enjoy an exterior visit of the world’s oldest television corporation, the BBC. Private: James Bond Day Tour of Locations from London Enjoy a day our of London on this small group tour by traditional London Taxi of iconic James Bond filming locations. Departing from central London and heading to the Chilterns, this tour features informative commentary from your expert guide as you stop and explore 10 key locations from the James Bond films from Goldfinger to SPECTRE. You'll get to walk around Zukovsky's casino, enjoy a visit to the Shrublands health club, see where the action happened at The Bladen Safe House and a take a photo-stop outside Pinewood Studios. More Tours in London Recommended for London	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2709
__label__cc	0.533204	0.466796	Polar Cruises Rating in Canada Please leave your contact details and enter a short description of your dream adventure and we will forward your request to this travel company and 2 more industry expert companies that organise best trips in Canada. They will be in touch with tailored proposals within three working days. Baffin Island – Jewel of the High Arctic Destinations: Iqaluit, Pangnirtung, Pond Inlet, Sirmilik National Park, Dundas Harbour, Prince Leopold Island, Beechey Island Ioffe 96 Passengers Adventure Options Aug 03 - Aug 14, 2018 (12 days)View Pricing Chart Jul 22 - Aug 02, 2019 (12 days)View Pricing Chart Day 1 — Ottawa, Ontario, Canada to Iqaluit (Nunavut) We depart Ottawa this morning on our scheduled flight to Iqaluit, situated on Baffin Island. Upon arrival into Iqaluit we enjoy a walking tour of the town and board our expedition ship, the Akademik Ioffe in the afternoon. After settling into our cabins and exploring the ship, we meet our expedition team and fellow passengers. Excitement is in the air as we enjoy a welcome cocktail and cast off to explore one of the most remote places on earth – Baffin Island. Day 2 — Monumental Island, Frobisher Bay Situated in the Davis Strait, the rocky dome of Monumental Island can be seen from a distance. We explore by Zodiac along the rocky shoreline and hope to encounter polar bears in this vicinity. In good weather a complete circumnavigation of the island is possible. We should see our first large icebergs drifting southward towards Labrador and Newfoundland on the currents of the Davis Strait. Throughout the coming days and rest of the voyage, our onboard experts educate us with a series of presentations about the environment, wildlife and history of Baffin Island and the Canadian Arctic and the locations we plan to visit. Day 3 — Pangniqtuuq (Pangnirtung) Nestled in the heart of Cumberland Sound and the western gateway to Auyuittuq National Park, the village of Pangniqtuuq is beautifully situated between the mountains and the sea. This remote community is a well-known center for traditional and contemporary arts and crafts – including carvings, prints and textiles. In addition, the Angmarlik Visitor Center has a wonderful interpretive display featuring the lifestyle and history of the Thule and of the modern Inuit. Day 4 — Sunshine Fjord Sunshine Fjord straddles the Arctic Circle at 66-degrees, 33-minutes north of latitude. Depending on the weather, we might cruise across the Circle on the ship, cross it in the zodiac boats or the more active option maybe to cross the circle on foot. Whichever way, it’s a thrill to be above the Arctic Circle at last! Sunshine Fjord offers terrific hiking opportunities and we have a number of great routes in mind. You may wish to take the extended hike, gaining elevation and offering wonderful views of our surroundings. Or choose to take the less strenuous option along the shoreline. For the sea kayakers, the sheltered waters of the fjord provide great conditions for paddling. Day 5 — Auyuittuq National Park and Qikiqtarjuaq On the eastern coast of Baffin Island, lies one of Canada’s most spectacular National Parks – Auyuittuq. The landscape is dominated by steep and rugged mountain scenery, extensive glacial systems and powerful rivers. In partnership with Parks Canada, we venture into the park with skilled local guides who are able to interpret the flora, fauna, geological and glacial systems which can be found here. It’s a fascinating place experienced by only a few fortunate visitors every season. We plan on hiking and cruising the rocky shorelines looking for wildlife. We also plan a visit to Qikiqtarjuaq, a small settlement which is home to several Inuit families. After an inspiring day of exploration, we continue north along the coastline of Baffin Island, venturing deeper into the Arctic wilderness. Day 6 — Isabella Bay – Niginganiq National Wildlife Area Isabella Bay (Niginganiq) is an important summer habitat and feeding area for endangered bowhead whales. These remarkable marine mammals are able to break sea ice with the crown of their head. Polar bears, ringed seals, Canada geese, snow geese and narwhal are also commonly sighted in this vicinity. Day 7 — Gibb Fjord This morning we enter the spectacular Gibb Fjord with towering cliffs all around us. Our expedition ship will seem dwarfed by the giant peaks and snowy glaciers as we cruise slowly along the dark waters. One past guest commented that Gibb Fjord 'was like something out of Lord of the Rings' – and we think you will agree! Day 8 — Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet) and Sirmilik National Park Nearing the far north of Baffin Island, we enter a broad channel which is home to the remote Inuit community of Mittimatalik. A highlight is a visit to the Natinnak Center, where a fascinating cultural exhibit showcases aspects of daily life, culture and history of the people of the north. Inuit carvings, jewellery and other traditional craft are on display and purchasing such items from the local artisans is a great way to support the community. Mittimatalik is also the main access point to the pristine wilderness of Sirmilik National Park. This jewel in the crown of Canada's Arctic Park system, features spectacular scenery consisting of rugged mountains, ice fields and glaciers, coastal lowlands and sizeable seabird colonies. Even your widest angle camera lens will seem inadequate to capture the vast scenery. Day 9 — Dundas Harbor and Croker Bay Leaving the wild landscapes of Baffin Island, we cross Lancaster Sound to Devon Island. This broad channel of water has been likened to the wildlife ‘super highway’ of the Arctic. Massive volumes of water from the Atlantic to the east and Pacific to the west, and from the archipelago of islands to the north all mix here, combining to make a rich source of nutrients and food for an abundance of Arctic wildlife. We plan on visiting the old Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) outpost at Dundas Harbur. In the afternoon we reposition the ship into Crocker Bay, home to a substantial glacial system. Day 10 — Prince Leopold Island Prince Leopold Island is important migratory bird sanctuary, home to thick-billed murres, black guillemots, northern fulmars and black-legged kittiwakes. A population of several hundred thousand birds, makes this one of the most significant bird sanctuaries in the entire Arctic ecosystem. Given the abundance of food found in the nutrient-rich waters here, we often sight beluga, narwhal and bowhead whales, several species of seal as well as polar bears. Day 11 — Beechey Island Our final shore landing - Beechey Island, is a place of great historic significance and a suitable finale to our expedition. It is here that Sir John Franklin’s ill-fated expedition spent its last ‘comfortable’ winter in 1845 before disappearing into the icy vastness, sparking an incredible series of search expeditions that lasted almost three decades. The mystery of what happened to Franklin was partially solved in September 2014, when a joint Parks Canada and Royal Canadian Geographic Society expedition, found the long-lost Franklin shipwreck, HMS Erebus in the Victoria Strait. Our expedition played a vital role in the search by carrying underwater search equipment on our ship as well as scientists, historians, researchers, dignitaries and sponsors of this history-defining mission. A trip ashore at Beechey Island to visit the grave markers on a remote windswept beach, is a thrilling experience for history buffs and for many it will be a highlight of the expedition. We return to the ship and this evening enjoy a special dinner attended by the captain. It’s a great time to reflect on the wildlife, history and dramatic scenery of the High Arctic. Day 12 — Resolute, Nunavut to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Our expedition comes to an end as we arrive into Resolute. The town is named after the British ship HMS Resolute which became trapped in ice and abandoned here in 1850 while searching for the lost Franklin expedition. A weather station and airstrip made Resolute a strategic outpost during the time of the Cold War. After arriving in Resolute we disembark the Akademik Ioffe and bid farewell to our crew and fellow passengers. We transfer to the airport for our flight south, to Edmonton. A transfer is also provided from the airport into a central downtown location. Note: Polar exploration can be unpredictable. Specific sites visited will depend on prevailing weather and ice conditions at the time of sailing. The above itinerary should be read as a ‘guide only’ and may change. The ship’s captain in conjunction with the expedition leader continually review the sailing plan throughout the voyage, making adjustments to the itinerary along the way to take advantage of optimal weather and ice conditions or to maximize our encounters with wildlife. Decades of experience spent exploring these waterways mean we have a large number of outstanding landing sites and Zodiac cruising locations to consider, even when the weather conditions may not be ideal. A flexible approach is something we encourage you to bring to the ship. * Itinerary may be subject to change All tour descriptions and conditions are given in accordance with the information of Polar Cruises Newfoundland Circumnavigation 2019 Destinations Canada Adventure Canada Northwest Passage and Greenland Glamping - A Dream Come True for the Modern Traveler Glamping has become one of the most preferred activities for people who love to go on luxury travel tours. It can be defined as a form of camping, with the only exception of being replaced with luxury and comfort in all aspects. Defined simply as lu…	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2710
__label__cc	0.563684	0.436316	The Problem with Notting Hill Posted on December 22, 2018 by Greg Smith I recently read a blogger’s takedown of “Notting Hill.” She had identified the Anna Scott character as being very shallow and self-absorbed. And since she was so flawed, Will Thacker should not have loved her. The author believes no one should watch the movie because it gives a bad example of relationships. https://www.mamamia.com.au/notting-hill-sends-a-bad-message/ If you look at this from a “story structure” point of view, you need a character to transform. In order to do that, you have to lay bare her flaws. Anna is self-absorbed and spoiled. And it’s Will and his ‘ordinary’ family that show her that she can be a better person. So Will is the change-agent for Anna. It’s true that Anna is flawed and trapped in a world where she thinks she can’t escape. Will shows her a way out and she’s a better person when she’s around him. And that is the meaning of the story (whether you like schmaltz or not): when we find the right person, we become the best version of ourselves. Agile Writer Jackie Hunter in Boomer Magazine Posted on September 10, 2018 by Greg Smith From Boomer Magazine… Jackie Hunter showed up at the coffee shop with two books. One was her own. The other was, well, OK, perhaps a slightly better-known Mars book, Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles. Kirkus Reviews had likened a Bradbury plotting device to one of her own. So Hunterthought she should read the science fiction classic. But of course. What’s one more item on her massive to-do list. Read a book? Certainly. Maybe over lunch. As you know, “Second Acts” features inspiring people who didn’t clock out once they gave up the 9-to-5 gig. Many baby boomers – first careers behind them, productive years ahead – seek a rewarding change of pace. But for Jackie Hunter, who is now 67, this is more like a 22nd Act. The woman operates at hyper speed – fittingly enough for someone who has just written a sci-fi book for teens, Lost in the Red Hills of Mars. We met the other day at a Starbucks near Parham and Staples Mill roads. Hunter remembers writing poetry and short stories as a 12-year-old. There was nothing to suggest she would write a book, though. Hunter had started teaching middle school math and science in 1973, retiring in 2004. (Five years as an assistant principal at Lakeside Elementary School were in the middle.) “Retirement” meant anything but retirement. Read More at Boomer Magazine… Agile Writer Starts Alopecia Blog/Vlog Posted on September 5, 2018 by Greg Smith Christine Gauthier Writes… In honor of Alopecia Awareness Month, my Alopecian Life YouTube channel goes live on September 1st! Some of you may know that I’ve been writing a book, a fictionalized account about my experiences living with alopecia. The process has occupied three years of my Sundays, and a lot of emotional and mental energy. While I work at finding an agent and getting published, I’ve developed a YouTube channel called Alopecian Life where alopecians, and those who love and care for them, can go for support, information, and advice. Please follow/subscribe to the channel, sign up for my mailing list at alopecianlife.wordpress.com, and forward this email on to anyone you think would be interested! The videos represent several months of planning, writing and retakes (who knew recording a five-minute video could actually take 90!). I’m sure I’ll get better at it all over time, and toward that end appreciate your suggestions/praise/questions as you see appropriate. I’m also open to ideas for new discussion topics, so if you have some I’m all ears! As always, thank you for your love and support. Here’s to Alopecian Life! With love and friendship, – Christine Gauthier YouTube Alopecian Life: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWhw8Dq0K8IWpVkqsbCpGpQ Alopecian Life Blog: alopecianlife.wordpress.com, B&N’s Parneros Strikes Back Posted on August 29, 2018 by Greg Smith In a lawsuit filed August 28 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, former Barnes & Noble CEO Demos Parneros has charged the retailer with breach of contract and defamation of character. The suit contains numerous unflattering revelations about the inner workings of B&N, and includes the bombshell news that a deal to sell the company to another “book retailer” fell through in June. Parneros was abruptly fired from B&N on July 3, for unspecified violations of company policy. He was let go without severance. In his suit, Parneros claims that the nature of his firing, coupled with the current employment environment, left the public to assume he was guilty of sexual harassment. He denies, however, that this was the case. Claims in Parneros’s suit indicate that his relationship with B&N chairman Len Riggio began to sour after an unnamed book retailer withdrew its offer to buy the company in June. According to the complaint, the retailer withdrew its offer after completing due diligence. Read More at Publisher’s Weekly… Walmart Fights Kindle with Kobo Launching a partnership announced earlier this year, Walmart and e-book retailer Rakuten Kobo detailed plans to offer an array of e-book content, reading services and devices via Walmart stores and cobranded iOS and Android apps. The new service, Walmart eBooks by Rakuten Kobo, launches today and will deliver a newly organized digital books and services catalog to Walmart consumers based on Kobo’s e-book inventory of about six million e-book titles. Courtesy Kobo The e-book retailing partnership will also feature a monthly audiobook subscription service for $9.99 a month (for access to one audiobook per month); digital book cards (with download codes) for more than 40 titles will go on sale at 3,500 Walmart stores; and Kobo tablets and digital e-readers will go on sale in about 1,000 Walmart stores,. 50 Shades of Submission Janet Reid writes… I’ve recently had an agent request the first 50 pages of my manuscript after being “intrigued” by my query and first 5 pages. Good news, for sure. Here’s the thing: a MAJOR plot development happens on page 60; a real WOW moment (at least I hope). I didn’t press my luck. I submitted the first 50 as requested. But I really wrestled with the idea of emailing the agent and letting her know about the major plot development and asking if it would be okay to send the first 60 as opposed to just the first 50. Would that have been okay? Or did I do the right thing but just giving her what she asked for and not pushing it (even though it would have potentially meant she’d have gotten to experience a real juicy moment)? Read More at Janet Reid… Tor (SciFi Publisher) Embargos Libraries The announcement last month that Macmillan’s Tor division (perhaps the world’s best-known science fiction publisher) has instituted a four-month embargo on new e-book titles for libraries is an unwelcome development. Tor officials say the change is designed to test whether library lending is affecting retail e-book sales. Librarians, however, see the move as an unwarranted restriction that will needlessly impact science fiction fans, some of our most avid readers. Indie Audiobooks on the Rise Posted on July 17, 2018 by Greg Smith Looking to offer indie authors access to a booming audiobook market, Smashwords, the self-publishing platform and e-book distributor, is teaming with Findaway Voices, an online production platform and distributor of audiobook content, to create a turnkey solution. In a blogpost, Smashwords CEO Mark Coker said the new partnership would give authors and publishers “greater control over pricing and distribution.” The deal, he said, will make it, “more economically feasible for authors and publishers to invest in audiobook production for shorter books, or books that might carry lower prices.” The Time Arthur Conan Doyle Helped Solve a Real Murder Case Posted on June 22, 2018 by Greg Smith From Publishers Weekly… It was one of the most sensational crimes—and most scandalous wrongful convictions—of the 20th century, a case that would be known as the Scottish Dreyfus affair. It involved a savage murder, stolen jewels, an international manhunt and a wily maidservant who went to her grave knowing far more about the killing than she would ever disclose. Even more remarkably, it involved the world’s foremost writer of detective fiction, playing real-life detective on a case in which the stakes could scarcely be higher—a case, he wrote, that was a “disgraceful frame-up, in which stupidity and dishonesty played and equal part.” Just before Christmas 1908, Marion Gilchrist, a wealthy 82-year-old Scotswoman, was violently murdered in her Glasgow home. Robbery appeared to have been the motive, although Miss Gilchrist’s maid, Helen Lambie, told the police that only a single item was missing: a valuable gold brooch, shaped like a crescent moon and set along its length with diamonds. AudioBooks up 23% Audiobooks continued their meteoric rise in 2017, a new report issued by the Audio Publishers Association found, with another year of double-digit growth for both audiobook sales and title output. Total sales rose 22.7% in 2017, to an estimated $2.5 billion, over an estimated $2.1 billion in sales in 2016. Unit sales rose an estimated 21.5%, the APA reported. Sales are based on reports from about 20 audiobook publishers. The APA then extrapolates from those figures, to derive an estimate for the entire market. The audience for audiobooks remains young, with 54% of audiobook listeners under the age of 45. They are also consistent readers in all formats, the studies found: not only do audiobook listeners listen to an average of 15 books a year, but 83% of frequent listeners also read a hardcover or paperback over the last 12 months, and 79% also read an e-book. 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__label__wiki	0.894662	0.894662	– 9th Infantry Division in WWII – 9th Infantry Division Missing In Action Project During World War Two, many young men left their homes and families behind to fight the war. Some of them never returned home. They disappeared while in combat. Some of the men were found during or after the war, others remained “Missing In Action”. Here’s a list of 9th Infantry Division men who went Missing In Action during World War Two. If anyone who reads this knows more about these men, or you might be family, please contact me or fill in the form below the MIA names on this page. It would be great to put a face and story to these names. ABOUT THE 9TH INFANTRY DIVISION MISSING IN ACTION PROJECT: We’re a small team of people that are working hard on this project, and want to make sure that these men will never be forgotten. It is our hope that each of them will be found again and be brought home. The originator of this project is Lisa Froug-Hirano. Her “Uncle Eddie” fought in the 60th Infantry Regiment and lost his life in September 1944. The long time wish of Lisa was to have Tributes to all the missing men of the 9th Infantry Division in some way. This was also a wish for myself and when we got in touch and started talking about this wonderful project, it really took off. We also get the incredible research help from a small team called “Angelo’s Angels“, led by Francesca Cumero. Angelo’s Angels is a research team has performed the research to help others return over 300 dog tags since late December of 2006. Please note: The MIA list below might not be complete. If you know of a name that should be on this list, please contact me as well, and we will add the name to the correct unit and do our research to this soldier as well. We are a very small but dedicated team and appreciate any help in this. Thank you. One of the two “Walls of Missing” at the US Cemetery in Margraten, NL. Richard C. Allen, Private, April 7, 1943, North Africa. From: Illinois 36044170 William H. Anderson, Private, April 24, 1943 North Africa. From: California 39251330 Eve Andrepont, Private, March 31, 1943, North Africa. from: Louisiana 14031129 Walter P. Beavers, Jr., Private, March 28, 1943, North Africa. From: Virginia 15054954 J.C. Brooks, Private, August 1, 1943, North Africa. From: Kentucky 35696073 Charles W. Buddhu, Private FC, April 3, 1943, North Africa. From: Kentucky 35106820 Clyde Clevinger, Sergeant, April 10, 1944, North Africa. From: Kentucky 15056270 Henry E. Duplessis, Private FC, March 1, 1945, Germany. From: Maine 31351158 Claude W. Duzan, Private FC, March 19th, 1946, Germany. From: Kentucky 15053905 Louis Grabar, Private FC, April 2, 1943, North Africa. From: Pennsylvania 33088595 Nick Grogen, Private, August 10. 1944, North Africa. From: New York 32531153 Carmelo B. Guido, Private, December 12, 1944, Germany. From: New York 32030036 Waino Hautala, Private, September 23, 1944, Germany. From: Michigan 36194238 Andrew J. Hawkins, Private, July 18, 1944, Normandy. From: Pennsylvania 33690254 Victor I. Hunter, Private FC, April 26, 1945, Germany. From: Virginia 33517955 Martin Kaplan, Tech 4th Class, August 2, 1943, Italy From: Massachusetts 11048111 Frank E. Kennedy, Private FC, February 17, 1944, North Africa, From: New York 32040784 Herman L. Kerley, Private, Feb. 1, 1945, Germany. From: West Virginia 15055640 Frank Marsigliano, Private, October 30, 1944, Germany. From: New York 32705995 Robert L. Morgan, Sergeant, Aug. 1, 1943, Italy. From: West Virginia 15055852 Walter E. Ostrowski, Private FC, Aug. 5, 1944, France. From: Wisconsin 36217222 Harold E. Oxenreider, Private FC, July 22, 1944, France.From: Pennsylvania 33830631 George Pap, Corporal, Feb. 15, 1943, North Africa. From: Indiana 15059879 Albert C. Petersen, Private, April 6, 1943, North Africa. From: Pennsylvania 33313112 Warren E. Ridgeway, Staff Sergeant, Jan. 22, 1945, Germany. From: New York 32025844 Arthur P. Underwood, Private FC, Feb. 17, 1944, North Africa. From: West Virginia 15012348 Rudolph A. Urinich. Private, Dec. 28, 1943, North Africa. From: Pennsylvania 33088468 Herbert Verderber, Staff Sergeant, March 30, 1943, North Africa. From: West Virginia 15012002 Harold A. Watts, Private, April 8, 1943, North Africa. From: Kansas 37141625 Melvin C. Woolover, Private FC, March 29, 1943,North Africa. From: New Jersey 32056558 Abraham M. Blackman, Staff Sergeant, July 25, 1944 Normandy. From: New Jersey 32057116 Walter R. Bragg, Private, March 23, 1943 North Africa. From: Georgia 14120372 John C. Bridges, Private FC, Nov. 8, 1942 North Africa. From: North Carolina 14030002 Harry Finklestein, Private, November 8, 1942 North Africa. From: Ohio 35254056 Charles W. Hamner, Private, March 28, 1943 North Africa. From: Alabama 20416073 Niel S. Jimlo, Private, March 30, 1943 North Africa. From: Pennsylvania 13007436 Hugh P. Kelly, Private FC, March 28, 1943 North Africa. From: New York 32236711 Joseph J. Kinkela, Private, May 5, 1943 North Africa. From: Minnesota 37282825 Joseph M. Marsh, Private FC, October 11, 1944, Belgium or Germany. From: Alabama 34581498 Ralph H. Martell, Private, April 27, 1943, North Africa. From: Vermont 31199323 Aime M. Mingonet, Corporal, September 27, 1944 Belgium or Germany. From: Florida 14118101 Tony Sharko, Private, May 1, 1943 North Africa, From: New York 32613901 Cecil Banks, Staff Sergeant, October 12, 1944, Germany. From: Virginia 33659950 Otis E. H. Beliles, Private, October 21, 1944, Germany. From: Kentucky 35720385 Edward R. Bisanz, Private FC, September 15, 1944, Germany. From: Michigan 36892752 Raymond C. Blanton, Staff Sergeant, October 14, 1944, Germany, From: Virginia 33644965 * Lester L. Boswell, Staff Sergeant, April 23, 1943, North Africa. From: Illinois 16040662 Elwood F. Bourgeois, Corporal, April 23, 1943, North Africa. From: Mississippi 34134000 Clarence W. Brotherton, Private FC, Oct. 14, 1944, Germany. From: Illinois 36756847 * Charles W. Cox, Private, Aug. 3, 1944, France. From: New Jersey 42008138 Robert S. De Gurse, Captain, March 26, 1944, North Africa. From: Michigan O-303983 Roland P. Faulknor, Private, October 20, 1944, Germany. From: Michigan 36960336 Vincent J. Fucci, Private FC, May 7, 1943, North Africa. From: New York 32013953 Joe A. Garcia, Private, October 12, 1944, Germany. From: Colorado 37702625 Jacob W. Givens, Private, Oct. 21, 1944, Germany. From: Ohio 35075744 Davison Hayes, Private, September 11, 1944, Germany. From: Arkansas 38601104 Nicholas J. Heelein, Private, Oct. 17, 1944, Germany. From: Illinois 36635646 Henry Jenson, Private FC, Oct. 17, 1944, Germany. From: Minnesota 37159295 Robert L. Kahn, Private FC, Sep. 7, 1944, Belgium. From: New York 32905869 Arthur L. Kautz, Private, Oct. 12, 1944, Germany. From: Pennsylvania 33845965 Joseph F. Kowlaczyk, Private, July 18, 1944, Normandy. From: Pennsylvania 33683461 William E. May, Private, March 25, 1944, North Africa. From: California 39244526 Harvey N. Molitor, Private, July 26, 1944, Normandy. From: Wisconsin 36833898 Albert J. Paoli, Private, October 17, 1944, Germany. From: Illinois 36673053 Alex L. Platt, Sergeant, September 7, 1944, Belgium. From: Pennsylvania 33462312 Walter H. Reuter, Jr., Private. Oct. 14. 1944, Germany. From: Ohio 35298911 George E. Roberts, First Lieutenant, Oct. 17, 1944, Germany. From: Texas O-519419 Leslie E. Shankles, Private FC, Oct. 14, 1944, Germany. From: Kansas 37241407 * Cletis P. Shipe, Staff Sergeant, March 1, 1945, Germany. From: West Virginia 6944175 Charles W. Short, Private, July 20, 1944, France. From: Missouri 37512517 Earnest D. Stamey, Staff Sergeant, April 23, 1943, North Africa. From: North Carolina 7081102 Thomas W. Streiter, Corporal, April 25, 1943, North Africa. From: New Jersey 32056059 James J. Doherty, Private, April 28, 1943, North Africa. From: Massachusetts 31016556 Boyd O’Neil Jones, Corporal, April 19th, 1943, North Africa, From: Kentucky 35127208 15th Combat Engineers Andrew J. Hofer, Private FC, April 17th, 1945, Germany, From: New York, 32987292 * = Soldier has been accounted for and is no longer Missing In Action. Sharing info on which MIA soldier? What type of information do you have?(required) Extra notes?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2718
__label__cc	0.523089	0.476911	AamJanata - Intellectual Anarchy! The Constitution is not a charter of servitude Select Select Intellectual Anarchy! >> Aadhaar >> Updated: The Genius of Nandan Nilekeni Updated: The Genius of Nandan Nilekeni Aadhaar, Corruption / By Vidyut / March 24, 2014 July 31, 2017 / Bangalore, BSE SENSEX, Business, CNX Nifty, Economy, India, Infosys, Nandan Nilekeni, Rags to riches, United States Nandan Nilekeni, who is contesting from Bangalore, declared assets worth 7,700 crore rupees, making him the richest politician in India – at least officially, on paper. In his interview to NDTV, he described his rags to riches story and described some of his achievements including “My real wealth is however my experience as cofounder of Infosys and as Aadhar Chairman which gave away 60,000 crore identity cards to people of India as promised.” [Congress supporters are now saying this number is wrong and he said 60 crore, which creates problems of a different sort. Read on.] This sounds very wonderful, except as a long term critic of Aadhaar Cards, I wanted to verify. 60 thousand crore is 600000000000. Now, as per our census, India’s population over 7 years of age is 1,051,404,135. Let us put these two numbers side by side, and you will see what I saw. 60000,00,00,000 105,14,04,135 Even if every single Indian above age 7 has an Aadhaar card, he has distributed more cards than the population. Not just more, 570 TIMES more. One can only wonder who got the remaining cards, particularly considering the recent Cobrapost sting about how easy it is to create fake Aadhaar cards. This is supposed to be an achievement? Now people are saying NDTV reported wrong, and he said 60 crore, which makes some sense, as that is the number being used quite frequently (60 crore UID cards, 60 crore saved per year, etc) So now the numbers look like 60,00,00,000 Which, at least looks like a possible number, but now, at an estimated expense of 150,000 crore so far (it was 45,000 crore in 2010) it is looking like we have spent a mind boggling Rs.2,500 on each card “given away”? (If it were 60 thousand crore cards, they’d have cost a very cheap Rs.2.5) And after all this, what we have is a card anyone can fake (remember the UID card for “coriander” plant?). The data is owned privately and stored on servers in the US, where it will be subject to US laws and could be accessed by the US government (if not already). One only has to wonder what the biometric data will be for people who don’t even go in person to get their cards made. In any case, this ain’t looking like something a chap would put as an achievement or learning! For a reference, the entire health sector was allocated 37,330 crore in the budget – this includes NHM (NRHM + NUHM) – 21,239 crore, AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy) – 1069 crore, 4, 727 crore for medical education, training and research, 150 crore will be provided for ‘The National Programme for the Health Care of Elderly’, Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY) (medical colleges) – 1650 crore and more. And we are saying making ID cards and records for less than 60% of the population costs almost 4 times all this? Investigating the wine shop credit card fraud #MahaRERA Orders highest amount of refund to an individual #homebuyer for RS 5,17,07,805/- Despite #MahaRERA directions, buyers left in the lurch by Developer #BhoomiArcade In search of a bamboo stick: Missing items and people 144 Veterans of the Armed forces sign a Statement on China addressed to President, Prime Minister Contact AamJanata. Join the Intellectual Anarchy! Reusing content Add Aam Janata to your Homescreen!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2719
__label__wiki	0.912014	0.912014	Visalia nursing home facing lawsuit after resident's COVID-19-related death By Sontaya Rose FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- To date, close to 200 employees and residents in the Redwood Springs Healthcare Center have been infected with the coronavirus. Eighty-six-year-old Santiago Gonzalez had lived in the facility for two years, ever since his wife died in 2018. He was diagnosed with COVID-19 in early April and within a week was dead. His family is now suing the facility, claiming improper training and inadequate precautions and protective equipment. "None of them were able to say goodbye," Attorney Warren Paboojian said. "None of them were able to visit him, so it was a very difficult time for them. And they want answers quite frankly, and they need answers as to why and how this happened so quickly." Paboojian says despite nationwide warnings about the vulnerability of the elderly, the facility did little to protect its residents and employees. At the time of the sweeping outbreak in March and April, Paboojian claims the virus was not nearly as widespread locally or nationally. But it was rampant in the Visalia nursing home. "Twenty-nine deaths in one nursing home facility is off the charts," he said. "Some cities don't even have 29 deaths at this time, and we have one facility in California that's had problems before with infectious disease." A statement issued by the facility Wednesday said in part that, "Redwood Springs Healthcare has not yet been served with the lawsuit in question. We are also unaware of any current investigations underway at the facility by the California Department of Public Health or any other agency. We remain vigilant against this cunning and deadly virus, as we have for more than four months." The Gonzalez family hasn't been the only one to criticize the management at the Redwood Springs Healthcare facility. Some workers also said they were not informed about patients who were showing coronavirus symptoms and being tested. One employee spoke to Action News on the condition we not reveal her identity. "It is horrible because we all worked around the infected people and came home to our families," she said. Paboojian said Santiago was a farmworker who needed help getting around and had the onset of dementia. But he was otherwise in good health. "We want the state to investigate and we need the company to come clean and tell us everything that was going on," he said. Redwood Springs administrators say they have added additional protocols and practices that include more screening of staff and medically essentially visitors. Despite the stepped up measures, Paboojian says additional lawsuits, from other families will likely be filed in the future. health & fitnessvisalianursing homecoronavirus californiacoronaviruslawsuit Everything you need to know about COVID-19 distribution in Central CA ICU capacities for Central California counties Central California coronavirus cases Dodger Stadium reopens as COVID-19 vaccination site	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2720
__label__wiki	0.790841	0.790841	Abma Movies MASADA FILM BORIS SAGAL Add the first question. Engineering Officer 2 episodes, Attius, Head Tribune 4 episodes, Rubrius Gallus directs that a ramp be built to almost the summit of the mountain intent on breaking through the Masada walls with the aid of a foot siege tower that is being constructed out of sight of the rebels. Shimon 4 episodes, Richard Pierson Sheva 4 episodes, Alan Feinstein Audible Download Audio Books. Jerry Goldsmith episodes 1 and 2, , Morton Stevens episodes 3 and 4, The next day, the Romans break into the fortress, only to discover that Eleazar and his people had all committed suicide during the night. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. A fugitive stumbles on a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out and falls for the leading lady. Rubrius Gallus 4 episodes, Masada TV Movie Manhattan Tower TV Movie. Jerahmeel, Head Essene 4 episodes, David A. Gideon 4 episodes, David Warner Masada was filmed on location at the site of the ancient fortress, in the Judean DesertIsrael. But Eleazar fil Ya’ir and his family flee the city vowing that the Judean War is not ended. Show all 17 episodes. Also, he acts to capitalize on the Romans’ belief in reading the future from the entrails of sacrificed goats, leading a party through the Roman sentries at night to feed the goats maggots, knowing that their discovery during the rituals will be seen as a bad omen. It is a story of the military When Eleazar successfully attacks the Roman soldiers building the ramp with catapulted stones, Silva quickly rounds up hundreds of Jews from the surrounding area to use as slaves to continue the work, believing correctly that Eleazar will not attack fellow Jews. Elder 3 episodes, As the tower begins moving up the ramp, Eleazar has his people build “an inner wall that will absorb the blows of the ram and not shatter. TWA FLIGHT 800 MAYDAY EPISODE Milades 2 episodes, Deducing that it would take all night for the wall to burn through, Silva has his men stand down; the rest of the night is tense for both sides, as the fitful wind may as easily spread the blaze to the siege tower as burn down the inner wall. Learn more More Like This. Alternate Versions An extremely edited, two-hour version was released on video c. Decurion 2 episodes, Events and personalities in Rome, however, lead to his besieging the fortress of Masada. The Legend of Cecil B. Pages using infobox television with editor parameter TV. The Zealots break into Herod’s Armory and begin to prepare for what they believe will be a straightforward storming of the fortress walls by the Romans. Retrieved from ” https: Add it to your IMDbPage. Edit Did You Know? Boris Sagal – IMDb Revolted by Falco’s barbaric actions, Silva forcibly takes back his bori, stops the catapulting, and orders Falco placed under arrest. This article is about the television dramatization. These guerrilla attacks threaten the credibility of the declared Roman victory. Use the HTML below. Remains of a ramp, created during the filming to simulate the ramp built by the Romans to take the fortress, ssagal still be seen at the site. Vettius 2 episodes, Eleazar and his followers make their headquarters on top of the mountain fortress of Masada. The commanding general of the 10th Legion, Cornelius Flavius Silva, arranges a meeting with Eleazar to negotiate a truce. Masada (TV mini series Year : )1981 Director : Boris Sagal Peter O’Toole, Barbara Carrera Show all 22 episodes. Peter O’Toole has never been better in his role as Flavius Silva commander of the Roman regiment dispatched by Rome to bogis the Jews holding out at Masada The cessation of Falco’s terror is seen by the Zealots as a response to Eleazar’s praying and affirmation of his leadership to them. Audible Download Audio Books. I LOVE CHEESY POOFS SOUTH PARK EPISODE In MCA Records released on vinyl and cassette a re-recording of selections of Goldsmith’s music borjs by the UK’s National Philharmonic Orchestra under the composer’s baton; Intrada Records issued a 2-CD set of the original recording of the complete score in Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. The Omega Man Director. Sheva 4 episodes, Fronto 3 episodes, Reuven Bar-Yotam The newly released 4 video set consists of 90 mins. Aaron 4 episodes, By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. The cast is superb, with Americans playing the Jews and British actors as the Romans. The siege ended when the Roman armies entered the fortress, only to discover the mass suicide by the Jewish defenders when defeat became imminent. Originally filmed as a mini-series, at 6 plus hours, it has been released in short movie length form but don’t bother with that edition. Attius, Head Tribune 4 episodes, As was the case with Shogunan edited, feature film -length version of the miniseries was made for theatrical release in other countries under the title The Antagonists. Ezra 4 episodes, Christopher Biggins The viewer will feel it is time well spent. 3600 DETIK FULL MOVIE BIOSKOP STEVEN WILLIAM BLEACH EPISODE 51 ENGLISH DUBBED BLEACHGET WINX CLUB SEASON 4 EPISODE 8 VEOH TONTON DRAMA ZAHIRA EPISOD 8 STEVEN KANUMBA MOVIES UNCLE JJ TOM AND JERRY TALES FRAIDY CAT SCAT FULL EPISODE HOROR FILM BRDA IMAJU OCI CEO FILM NATIONAL LAMPOON PRESENTS DORM DAZE 2 CAST TORNAREM SERIE TV3 THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE MOVIE SPOILER	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2721
__label__wiki	0.531467	0.531467	The Awakening of Russell Henderson: Ed Lehner When Chicago investment-banker Russell Henderson—newly divorced and suffering from depression—makes a spur-of-the-moment decision to go on a camping trip to explore the Western United States, he steps outside his usual safe mode of operation and opens up a wealth of new, and scary, possibilities. Somewhere in Iowa, he picks up a woman hitchhiker, who challenges everything in which he believes. This sets off a chain of events that involve an American Indian sweat lodge, a Tibetan Buddhist Rinpoche, and a road trip through stunning countryside. His relationship with the woman becomes more complex, and deep self-reflection eventually leads him to step outside the confines of his upbringing and discover who he truly is. Part road trip, part romance, and fully visionary, this is a delightful story that both inspires and entertains. Categories: Contemporary Fiction, Literary Fiction, Metaphysical & Visionary Fiction, Romance Tags: Buddhism, road trip, romance What Readers are saying: “The protagonist, Russell, enters the story as a self-centered, left brained, irritating alpha male. When his wife walks out, he is deeply shaken and embarks on a journey of self discovery, traveling westward across the US. Almost immediately he picks up hitchhiker who rocks his world. He is rapidly introduced to new cultures, new ways of thinking, and new ways of behaving. He discovers within himself a new generosity and depth of honesty. His love of music reemerges and blossoms. A thoroughly fun read with philosophical nuances.” Rini Twait “A masterful dialogue between two opposite souls that found their way to togetherness. Lehner has written a dance on awakening we can all relate to, an unfolding song of renewal from adagio to andantino.” Linda Hinde “The Awakening of Russell Henderson by Ed Lehner is a sedately-paced story of one man’s journey of discovery, not just of a broader and more interesting America than he knew existed, but of himself. The author slips interesting tidbits of history and geography in a compelling story that keeps its main focus on the principal character and his evolution. Despite the sedate, almost leisurely pace of the story, there is nothing boring or mundane about it. Definitely a book to add to your library.” Charles Ray Ed Lehner, a retired professor of graphic design from Iowa State University, has written poetry over forty years and recently began writing short stories. The Awakening of Russell Henderson is his second novel. He lives with his wife, Julie, and Emma the cat, in Durango Colorado. He can be reached at www.elehnerauthorsite.com Identical Misfortune: Richard Zappa The Men and the Medium: Lyn Behan	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2726
__label__cc	0.516629	0.483371	Fireside Friday, November 27, 2020 Bret Devereaux Fireside November 27, 2020 November 27, 2020 14 Minutes Hey folks! Fireside this week. A bit of a change-up in terms of the coming attractions. I had planned to start “Textiles, How Did They Make It?” next, but I want to do a bit more reading on some of the initial stages of textile production (that is, the production of raw flax and wool) and I simply haven’t had the time. Instead, next week (hopefully!) we’re going to dive in to the last A Song of Ice and Fire/ A Game of Thrones topic I wanted to treat in depth: the Dothraki. It’s been long in coming – I am striking here while the iron is ice cold – but I wanted to make sure I had my details straight. I am rapidly running out of Fireside Chat photos (fortunately fireplace weather is just around the corner) so instead, here is a picture of my AC:Valhalla Eivor snuggling a cat. One might almost term it some kind of omen… For this week’s musing, I want to return to last week’s discussion just briefly (this is going to be a relatively short musing, but I hope the recommendations will make up for it). “Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla and the Unfortunate Implications” certainly struck a cord; it has by far the single most first-day views of anything I have posted here and the second highest view count of anything on the site. It apparently achieved enough visibility that Darby McDevitt, the narrative director for the game and lead writer on multiple Assassin’s Creed titles, made a point of popping in on twitter to offer his own discussion and defenses to the claims being made. He makes some good points but also acknowledges some of the – necessary from his point of view – weaknesses of the story. But I want to talk in more depth about one argument he made which bothered me a bit more, which was that the game made up for the unfortunate content of the early sections with much later portions of the game and its ending: From a narrative POV, we try to overcorrect by showing a gradual weakening of the Norse's dominance. Early territories lean into battles for conquest, but later territories move away from it, giving greater exposure to Saxons and their strengths. — Darby McDevitt (@DarbyMcDevitt) November 20, 2020 Which he then continued: Historically it took some time for Aelfred to get wise to exactly how the Danes operated — the shape of their convictions, the form of their beliefs — but when he did, he decimated them. We set up much the same idea in the final act of our game. And I don’t want to sell him short here at all; he admits that there is something of a weakness to this approach. At the same time, there is something – I don’t want to say disingenuous, because he is open about this – perhaps discordant with this response, given how the Assassin’s Creed games are structured. It comes down to this: first, Assassin’s Creed games are very long; second (and as a consequence of the first), few players actually finish most of the game’s content; third, Ubisoft’s creative teams are very much aware of these two facts and indeed actively mobilize them as features of the game in how they are framed and marketed. Now the premise of the original post was subjecting AC:Valhalla to the sort of analysis I’d use with a historical text or a piece of modern art of literature. And I think that is entirely fair: these games are cultural products, just like a film or a novel, and they deserve both the respect and the scrutiny that comes with that. But that in turn means we also should talk about genre and the limitations it places on the product. And when it comes to this point about fixing the game’s problems in the back half, genre matters quite a lot. For those who are largely unfamiliar with the series, modern Assassin’s Creed games are designed as expansive, open-world sandboxes with very long playtimes (this is typically offered as a feature – a lot of game for your gaming dollar, euro, or what have you). Generally, the mainline entries in the series have a minimum intro-to-credits time investment of around 50-80 hours and fully completing all of the side content often doubles that figure in terms of the total time invested. For story-driven experiences, these games are absolutely massive and the time investment they demand in order to actually get to the end game content is huge. Completion rates for these sorts of games – for games in general, but especially for very long open world sandboxes – are extremely low. Now, the folks designing these games know this. Just about every major game developer has systems for tracking statistics like who does what content, where do players succeed or fail and game completion rates; since nearly all games these days need (or at least request) an internet connection (at the very least to download patches) it is pretty easy to get that data. Often developers will celebrate successful games by releasing some of this data in fun infographics listing how many quests have been completed or what enemies are most troublesome, that sort of thing. I don’t very much mind this sort of limited data collection – it is doubtless very valuable for making better games; some people I know mind it very much and I respect their reasons. But the point is that it is very common and Ubisoft clearly does it too. Which means they are obviously well aware of their completion rates when designing the games they make. But there is another way that I know that the developers are thinking about game completion when they design the game. Because it is integral to the design and marketing of the game. This may take a bit more explaining if you unfamiliar with Assassin’s Creed. I should note that to explain this, I am going to have to drop absolutely massive spoilers for the earlier games in the series (but not for Valhalla), so you have been warned. The story of each Assassin’s Creed game is fundamentally bifurcated. Each story begins as a work of historical fiction, set in an identifiable historical era, studded with actual historical figures and events from that era. This is the part of the game everyone is familiar with and the only part which appears in marketing materials (or even, generally, reviews). If you have only a passing familiarity with these games, this is probably the only part of their structure you are aware of. But anyone who has played any of these games to the end knows that each Assassin’s Creed game goes through a by-this-point-predictable series of reveals which fundamentally re-contextualize the story. These reveals, by now old hat to long time players, are still reveals because they are new to the player character who is generally different in each game (and to many players who, on account of the low completion rates, may be reaching ‘the big reveal’ for the first time in any given game). The first major reveal is that the political forces the character believes are arrayed against them are, in fact, being manipulated by a vast evil conspiracy to control humanity which is either termed the Order of the Ancients (pre-1189 or so) or the Templars (post-1189) and that this evil conspiracy is opposed by an equally vast (morally grey) conspiracy looking to liberate humanity called the Assassins. That reveal tends to happen about 10-25% of the way through the game, sometimes earlier, sometimes later. It slowly becomes apparent that these factions either wield or are seeking powerful, seemingly magic objects. The second major reveal is that the objects these factions are seeking – and indeed, the factions themselves – are under the control of a species of immortal, highly technologically advanced aliens who present themselves to humans as gods (I am calling them aliens because they are not humans; they are presented as probably also being indigenous to Earth, though) some of whom still exist and continue to meddle in human affairs wielding fantastic technological powers. The ‘magic’ objects are actually advanced alien technology. These aliens often correspond to the pantheons of various pre-modern paganistic religions, such that the player may meet figures like Poseidon or Hades, who are in fact these aliens. And if you have never played these games before, but only absorbed the marketing material, you are probably responding to all of this with some degree of confusion. These games are actually about ancient super-technological aliens manipulating vast conspiracies? Yes! But only sort of. Integrating such strong science fiction and fantasy elements in historical fiction carries risks, both because genre subversion is going to irritate people who are there for the historical fiction, but also because presenting a clear technological explanation for things like the player’s heroic abilities (they’re part techno-alien) or visions and intuition (not magic or mysticism, but alien tech) strips away a lot of the mystery and mysticism makes this genre appealing to people. But the developers have found their way to have their cake and eat it too. By repeating the same reveal pattern in every single game and (almost) never beginning an entirely new game with a post-reveal character who is aware of and already interacting with all of this crazy alien stuff, the developers ensure that casual players who only ever play the first 30 hours or so will have a relatively pure historical fiction experience, with perhaps a bit of plausibly silly evil conspiracy thrown in. Meanwhile, the committed, long-term fans will plow to the end of each game to advance the meta-plot about the techno-aliens which connects all of the games (and pays off the modern-world framing narrative, which is also, by the by, massively de-emphasized in the early parts of the game but is often where the true climax in the late game occurs). You can see this in the marketing for these games themselves. If you look at the promotional material for Odyssey or Valhalla, you will note that the Isu techno-aliens and their plot doesn’t appear (and neither does the modern-world framing story). The games are marketed – towards that casual audience – entirely as historical fiction experiences. And because that information is buried back deep in the game as a big reveal (even though by this point series regulars know this reveal is coming), it isn’t generally discussed by reviewers either (many games will actually condition review copies on not discussing this material; I have no idea if Ubisoft does this but the raw consistency with which reviewers do not discuss the late game techno-alien reveals suggests to me that at least everyone understands, even if in an unspoken way, what is going on). To a degree, I feel like I am breaking kayfabe even bringing it up. All of which is to say, Ubisoft uses the length of their games and delayed reveals to intentionally segment their player-base, allowing them to deliver one sort of experience to one group of players (a grounded, somewhat realistic historical fiction action game) and a different experience to another group of players (a conspiracy and science-fiction soaked massive meta-plot), based on how likely those players are to complete the game, or more correctly, how likely they are to get through the first half or so. In short, the developers at Ubisoft’s various studios, including Ubisoft Montreal (which makes most of the mainline AC games and made AC: Valhalla), know full well that most players will not see the back half of their Assassin’s Creed game, because that is a major design feature of the game. And that is why I find the argument that fundamentally boils down to “we try to overcorrect by showing a gradual weakening of the Norse’s dominance […] giving greater exposure to Saxons and their strengths [later in the game]” because the designers here know that most players will never see that part of the game. It is core to their marketing strategy that continues to present a game about techno-aliens as grounded historical fiction! Now I can understand the frustration that a writer (or a narrative director) is going to have working in that situation. Setting up a status quo and then subverting it is a big tool of fiction writing and can make certain messages land harder. It is painful to take that tool out of the tool-kit. But I think, when dealing with tricky subjects (like the history of raiding slavers often lionized and used as emblems by modern violent white supremacists) there has to be an awareness that the responsible part of the narrative cannot be consigned to the part of the game almost no one plays. The completion rates for Odyssey were less than a quarter. I wonder what portion of players made it to the back 10-15 hours of the base game where the techno-aliens appeared; I cannot imagine it was over half. Game developers, including game writers, work within the constraints of their medium. If the failing here was that they did not take into account – as professional and experienced veteran game writers – that their entire game was built around a segmented player base, most of which do not play the entire game, well, then that is a failing indeed. Consequently, I am not persuaded that Valhalla‘s problems become understandable in light of the late game experience, because the game is – like every game in this series – fundamentally designed around the known fact that most players do not see that late game experience. By virtue of the genre and the design, the nuance has to be upfront, in the part of the game everyone plays, not hidden in the game-dev equivalent of fine print for just the hardcore fans. None of which is to bash on McDevitt who has a hard job, made harder by the very structure of the games he has to construct and the tricky historical ground they are set in. Nevertheless, I do not think late-breaking reveals can save the tone or implications of these particular works of fiction, where are fundamentally built around the assumption that most players will not see them. So I think my criticism of Assassin Creed: Valhalla‘s story and setting holds, regardless of any late-game reveals. On to the Recommendations! Over at Kiwi Hellenist, Peter Gainsford has an excellent rundown of the (lack of) evidence for ancient Mediterranean use of cannabis as a psychoactive subsistence. I have certainly encountered the assumption that the Greeks and the Romans used cannabis this way, often rooted in the assumption that cannabis use of this sort is some sort of fundamental human universal (often in the form of statements to the effect that ‘people have been getting high off pot forever’). But this is one of the classic traps of doing history: assuming that current values, knowledge or practices are so obvious or just plain normal that they must have existed in human societies ‘since forever’ when in fact different societies are often very different from each other! Gainsford does a solid job in showing that there really isn’t much evidence for this sort of usage among the Greeks or Romans, even in the very sort of texts (either the medical corpus, or the botanical works of folks like Theophratus or Pliny, both of which are obsessed by the uses and properties of plants) to suggest it. Meanwhile, over at Tod’s Workshop, Tod continues to produce some of the best and most interesting archery tests using his ‘lockdown longbow’ (a crossbow designed to achieve launch velocities and energies equivalent to a 160lbs-pullback longbow). Most interesting and most recent is his “Arrows vs. Brigandine” test, a particular set of tests I had long wanted to see; brigandine was one of the most common armors of the later Middle Ages (often worn by poorer combatants) but is rarely tested or even considered when compared with the higher status rigid plate defenses. Each time I watch one of these tests, I do so with my own Archery, Distance and ‘Kiting’ post open. This time I was somewhat surprised by how well the arrows performed, although looking back at what I wrote, I shouldn’t have been. It is important to keep in mind, after all, that Tod is testing at extreme close range, with a bow at the very top end of the likely launch energy distribution, and with a direct fire angle: effectively perfect conditions for the bowman (or worst-case conditions for the armor). In those conditions, relatively thin steel plate is vulnerable to the most powerful bows. But it is exciting to see the thing demonstrated! Meanwhile, a new administration is beginning to look at staffing the major security agencies and that makes it a pretty good time to think about security policy. Reaching back into the summer, I’d like to recommend two podcasts from the Net Assessment podcast over at War on the Rocks, the first about (but not with) Michèle Flournoy’s June article in Foreign Affairs and the second with Emma Ashford over her article (also at Foreign Affairs). Flournoy is the most likely person at the moment to end up as the Secretary of Defense and her position likely represents what Biden White House policy will look like, at least in its ideal state. Ashford, by contrast, (and also Chris Preble in the podcast, both of whom have been through the Cato Institute) takes the opposite view of the issue and complains generally about what she views as a false foreign policy consensus. My own views align more closely with Flournoy’s (something that was very much in evidence in a set of twitter conversations I had with Ashford) but the ‘restrainers’ (that is, those arguing for a more limited, ‘restrained’ role for American foreign policy) absolutely have a point about the willingness to spend lots of money. I do find the argument for allies to adopt ‘porcupine‘ strategies (and for the USA to assist that with arms sales), as advanced by Preble, Ashford, and others, compelling but also not sufficient in the absence of a credible way to deliver meaningful conventional US forces into the theater in a time-table that matters. Finally, a book recommendation! This week, it’s a book I realize I mention regularly in the blog and in the comments, but haven’t actually got around to directly recommending, Azar Gat, War in Human Civilization (2006). Since I have complained quite a bit about ‘megahistories‘ lately, it seems only fit to offer a proper macro-history that I think it done responsibly. Gat’s book is not a history of battles, but of war in the broad sense. He thesis starts with the questions why humans do war (beginning with the motives of food and sex and then moving to more complex motives which derive from those) and then based on those motivations, the assessed how war has shaped humans. Perhaps the most explosive of these arguments, but one I find very convincing, is his argument that military mortality in the deep past of human history when we all lived as hunter-gatherers was high enough, for long enough that it exerted evolutionary pressure on the emergence of anatomically modern humans; that is, stated bluntly, humans are evolved for war. This argument, which emerges in his first chapter, is a point of fierce debate among archaeologists and anthropologists (it is rooted in rival conceptions of human nature, after all) but I think Gat has the right of it, and I recall reporting when I first read the book that I wished I could ‘frame Gat’s first chapter,’ a position I still hold. Subsequently, he sees the rise of the state as a consequence of that human propensity for war, in an argument that will not be entirely unfamiliar to blog readers, as I used it as part of the basis of some of the Fremen Mirage. At the end, he concludes that the human propensity for war has become maladaptive, due to the rising power of human productivity (meaning the war is no longer the best way to get resources as compared to industry and trade) and the rising destructiveness of war (meaning that the costs of war outweigh the gains). Consequently, as Gat poses it, the question is if we can hold off on destroying ourselves (with nuclear weapons) as our genetic programming would suggest long enough for evolution (either social or genetic) to catch up to our sudden, newfound destructive power. I especially recommend Gat to anyone who has read, or is considering reading Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature, a book I am continually asked if I have read. Quite frankly, I think Gat simply has the better, more rigorous form of Pinker’s argument (which naturally also means somewhat different, more reserved conclusions). Previous Post Collections: Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla and the Unfortunate Implications Next Post Collections: That Dothraki Horde, Part I: Barbarian Couture 138 thoughts on “Fireside Friday, November 27, 2020” “I am calling them aliens because they are not humans; they are presented as probably also being indigenous to Earth, though” Are they lizardmen, though? Peak Singularity says: “lizardmen” might be code for psychopath : http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8600 Not in my comment, though. Look More Closely Later says: If it’s an early stage reveal that events are being controlled by secret ancient conspiracies, it sounds to me as if there shouldn’t be much danger of ‘Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla’ being mistaken for a historically accurate product, anyway, except by someone naturally disposed to believe in secret ancient conspiracies. lightdefender says: It’s not an early stage reveal. It’s a very LATE stage reveal, so late that most players never get to it. Bret says the everything being controlled by secret conspiracies reveal is 10-25% in: ‘…The first major reveal is that the political forces the character believes are arrayed against them are, in fact, being manipulated by a vast evil conspiracy to control humanity which is either termed the Order of the Ancients (pre-1189 or so) or the Templars (post-1189) and that this evil conspiracy is opposed by an equally vast (morally grey) conspiracy looking to liberate humanity called the Assassins. That reveal tends to happen about 10-25% of the way through the game, sometimes earlier, sometimes later. It slowly becomes apparent that these factions either wield or are seeking powerful, seemingly magic objects…’ Historical authenticity looks to me (granted I don’t believe in millennia old secret conspiracies in the real world) like it’s already being clearly thrown out 10-25% of the way in, and 10-25% in is what looks to me to be an ‘early stage’. As far as I can understand Bret’s explanation, there’s another ‘reveal’ about who is controlling the conspiracies, much, much later, but it seems to me that any sense that this is an accurate depiction of historical events, cultures, and characters should be gone long before that. It’s a ‘loosely real-world Viking themed’ product in much the same way as Paizo Publishing’s Ulfen & Land of the Linnorm Kings are loosely real-world Viking themed. Even with 10-25%, most people probably wouldn’t get to that part : https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/04/introducing-steam-gauge-ars-reveals-steams-most-popular-games/2/ I don’t think so. Many players could think something like: “Well, obviously the ancient conspiracies are made up, but the Viking stuff is real.” If a piece of fiction mixes obviously fictional element with elements that seem historical to a non-expert, some people tend to separate the more obvious fictional elements out but still accept those that aren’t obviously wrong to them. Many readers of The Da Vinci Code thought that what the book says about early Christianity is true. Many viewers of Game of Thrones thought that it accurately represents how feudalism worked in medieval Europe. So I’d say the danger is very much there. If ‘The DaVinci Code’ is being treated as a serious historical textbook and expose on the workings of the modern Catholic Church anywhere, rather than as an escapist thriller story, it seems to me that the education system has gone badly wrong. Although I think G.K. Chesterton (from his admittedly biased Christian point of view) had his Father Brown character comment in at least one story that when people stop believing in god they start believing in even whackier things instead… The quote is “When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing, they believe in everything.” kwoz says: The infographic linked from under text “listing how many quests have been completed” doesn’t actually contain any information about quest completion rates. Is there any official information about this from CDPR? TheophileEscargot says: Seems to be missing the link for “Arros vs Brigandine” though maybe it’s my eyesight failing: Also, Bret’s linked to Lindybeige before, and I thought his latest was interesting, assuming you want to see someone talk to camera for an hour about the practicalities of Medieval Transport: Aargh, that second link should have been: Sorry, fixed. F M the RF Man says: You shouldn’t be surprised that you drew a huge batch of views with your take on AC:Valhalla: this was the timeliest and bluntest piece of writing I’ve seen on here to date. It reads harsher than your takedowns of last-season GoT, and all the more because it starts with you saying it was a fun game (paraphrasing). Aliens fighting it out over humanity is an SF theme going back to the Golden Age and E.E. Doc Smith, at least. It’s a perfectly good plot and can be done very interestingly and effectively but distorting history into good guys and bad guys is a definite hazard and it sounds like Assassin’s Creed may have fallen afoul of it. Personally I find scandinavian civilization and the custom of going a Viking extremely interesting and have no problem accepting the dark side, raiding, pillaging and slaving, alongside the building and trading but my detached and non judgemental approach to history and anthropology is apparently quite rare. I can’t wait for the article on the Dothraki. Like the Ironborn Martin seems to have taken a violent Real World civilization and dialed it up to eleven, indeed to the point that it is basically dysfunctional and probably wouldn’t survive. I also look forward to the textile articles. Textile work is often if not always gendered as feminine and thus becomes intertwined with the culture’s conception of gender in very interesting ways. The Swift magic of Norse women was based on textile work and of course ‘she worked wool’ was high praise implying the lady so described was an ideal Roman matron. Darn spell check! That was Seidr magic not swiftl WLGR says: It’s an old observation at this point, but a lot of “ancient aliens” type stuff, dating back at least as far as Daniken’s Chariots of the Gods, can be read as motivated by a not-so-subtle racist undercurrent: in so many words, “no way nonwhite people could’ve built all those impressive monuments and stuff without space aliens helping them.” The long-running Stargate franchise for instance is framed around the premise that the deities of pretty much all ancient mythological traditions are actually the overlords of a species of evil space aliens, with the crucial and telling exceptions of Norse and Arthurian legend, which are two different species of benevolent space aliens. AlexT says: I’ve actually read stuff by Daniken, and yours is the first mention of race in that context. Didn’t realize it’s that fashionable. As for Stargate, there are benevolent deities (ie aliens) depicted in several pantheons. Romans come to mind. But never mind, if they’re racists, they’re racists, no two ways about it. I’ve never bothered to look into these “ancient aliens”-hypotheses, so maybe the question is dumb, but how do they manage to argue that the aliens only help non-white people? Do they really claim that all the impressive buildings outside Europe are built by aliens, but impressive buldings inside Europe are built without any alien help? Or is there some time threshold after which there is obviously no more alien interference and everything is just down to the people themselves? (Allowing them to choose that time threshold at a convenient time for their argument) 60guilders says: They don’t. Usually Stonehenge gets mentioned as part of the ancient aliens stuff, as well as things like the Pyramids and the Nazca lines. I think the idea is that the aliens’ intervention came specifically during the time period when “white” civilizations were building less impressive monumental architecture than “nonwhite” civilizations, on the grounds that since whites out-achieving nonwhites is the natural order of things, nonwhites out-achieving whites is an anomaly that requires some kind of outside explanation. Isn’t the same said of stone-henge though, or where the celts secretely black? cptbutton says: Well they weren’t Anglo-Saxon, obviously… Ynneadwraith says: In a twist I’m sure they wouldn’t have predicted, stonehenge wasn’t built by the Celts, it was built by the neolithic people that largely preceded the Celts (and contributed some of their MtDNA to them). Those neolithic farmers were largely of middle-eastern heritage (and likely skintone, with modern Sardinians being the closest modern relations), mixed with Western Hunter Gatherer heritage which if the latest genetic analysis of Cheddar Man is representative were likely even darker skinned. So no, the Celts weren’t ecretly black, but the people who built stonehenge probably would be counted as such by anyone far-right enough to ascribe to the ‘ancient aliens’ theory for racial reasons. noobofblogs says: A lot of ancient aliens type stuff simply started off with esoteric Bible interpretations. And there are even theories about Nazis who supposedly had occult knowledge and mastered secret technologies like flying saucers. If these guys needed help… stevenjohnson says: The Air Force Rah!Rah!Rah! in SG-1 is so much more blatantly reactionary that the racist reading of alien gods is gagging at a gnat. The “Norse” legends are Roswell grays, which sharply undercuts an imposed racist reading. The two characters from Arthurian legend who turn out to be “aliens,” are the first evolution of humanity, not precisely aliens. Of course, the second evolution of humanity is a truly dingbat concept. There are actually good things about SG-1 (largely Richard Dean Anderson’s jokes, a remarkably consistent mythology for a series and a character with a different perspective, Daniel Jackson, imported from the movie.) Also, SG-1’s racism is even more blatant in its Klingons, the Jaafa. (Forgot the spelling?) Reading motivations is a tricky business. I looked at the Stick character in Daredevil and thought it was awfully white savior…then when people who loved Stick couldn’t stand Danny Rand, Iron Fist, for being a white savior when Rand was never portrayed as badass, I read motivation. Namely, Finn Jones who played Loras Tyrell confirmed pillow-biter and sword swallower in Game of Thrones, was hopelessly tarred by association. And Danny Rand had lived in a monastery from childhood. Even Netflix fans of Daredevil can do the math: 20-something virgin. Thus I read the motivation of people who pretend they hate Iron Fist for white saviorism and bad acting and etc. as largely homophobia with a helping of contempt for the weak. As I say, reading motivations is a tricky business. How do the Jaffa show racism in the show? The Noble Warrior (of Color) who lacks “our” (white) technology and uses hand weapons and unhesitatingly adheres to the tribal code of honor without “our” sophisticated (white) moral dilemmas? Figures like Klingons (and it’s even more glaring in their Voyager copies, the Kazon,) and even that Jaffa are themselves incarnations of the supposedly positive stereotypes. Using stereotypes=racism. But of course the whole point of the response to WLGR’s comment was that readings like this have to be contextualized. The Jaffa, possibly due to feedback from Chris Judge, even develop politics in the very late Ori war sequence of SG-1. And even more to the point, judging personal motivations—and judging individual persons— by these readings, is even riskier. The whole SF tactic of treating “aliens” as functionally, other races, tends to be self-defeating. Klingons and Jaffa are biologized as genuinely non-technological, while other races are not biologically non-technical. For commercial reasons, it is convenient for producers and their employees to pretend the fictional science in SF is indistinguishable from magic…but the SF style of pseudo-realism where the impossible shenanigans are treated as if somehow connected to the real world (not just a possible real future, by the way) makes political commentary in SF very tricky to pull off. Very specific issues can be addressed in a simple comedy-adventure format fairly easily. In the case of SG-1, the examples of the episodes Enemy Mine and Ethon come to mind readily. They even partly lampshaded this “Noble Warrior of Color” trope in the episode of the spinoff series Stargate Atlantis, where Christopher Judge’s Jaffa character from the original series does a guest cameo to coach Jason Momoa’s character in preparation for an interview with the Earth-based bureaucracy overseeing the Stargate program (because the Noble Warrior of Color is a rage-fueled hothead who deals poorly with the learned and sophisticated ways of the white man) and the character introducing them awkwardly intones “you two are… um… similar… in many ways… so you should have a lot in common!” To be fair, it’s implied that the Norse deity race had a more humanlike appearance in the past before some kind of “genetic degradation” (now there’s a weird and problematic concept if ever I saw one!) led to their current appearance as Roswell Grays. The broader point still stands either way: nearly all ancient deities and folklore are the vestigial cultural memory of a deeply malevolent alien race of oppressive parasitic slavedrivers, except for Norse/Germanic deities who are benevolent, and Anglo-Saxon legends who (aside from being a “prior evolution of the human form” which as you’ve said makes zero sense) are so supremely benevolent that they’ve ascended to a higher plane of existence through their own enlightenment. The Norse carve-out is particularly telling though, for much the same reason as the Marvel Comics version, since actual Norse mythology wasn’t necessarily some huge glaring exception to the depiction of deities as vicious sadistic bastards who treat humans like a sociopathic kid burning ants with a magnifying glass for fun and are worshipped more out of fear than love. Matilda says: I’m actually going against the grain here, but I think the Ironborn have more complexity than most people give them credit for and are one of the more interesting societies Martin has created, but the complexity isn’t really on the surface because none of the Ironborn (except Rodrik the Reader and Asha to some extent) question their own society very deeply. I could expand on this at length but basically the “Old Ways” don’t make any damn sense because they aren’t supposed to, they’re a revanchist fantasy made up by the Ironborn establishment in order to create a racial supremacist ideology that presents the Ironborn as the master race and the “greenlanders” as sheep who are fit only to be sheared. This is, obviously a really stupid ideology and is the reason the Ironborn turn out to be such losers again and again, because they’re operating under the assumption that they’re the master race. Balon thinks he can conquer the North for the same reason Hitler thought he could conquer Germany. There are plenty of reformers in Ironborn history who tried to gain power through trade and alliances with the greenlands – the Hoare dynasty is one, Balon Greyjoy’s father Quellon is another – but every time they are sabotaged by the reactionary forces who fear the reforms will undermine their traditional source of wealth and power – raiding, specifically raiding for the thralls who make up the base of the Iron Islands’ economy. (They’re right about that, btw – the reformer kings got away with a Hell of a lot, even religious reforms, but they always get overthrown when they try and abolish thralldom. Interesting, that.) TL;DR – You should stop imagining the Ironborn as Flanderized vikings, and start imagining them as the KKK with longships. David Boshko says: Exactly. A lot of fandom takes the bullshit propaganda of the reactionary faction at face value. Often people create a very mythologized view of the past and then try to resurrect that as it’s the Way Things Should Be which leads to a lot of ludicrous ideas because myth is not a good practical basis for social organization. But it doesn’t mean that’s the way things REALLY were in the Good Old Days, often the good old days were practical and realistic in the way that myths about them obscures. You get this process a lot in rusted aristocracies. When you get a military aristocracy they have to be fairly pragmatic or they’ll get killed. But when you get a military aristocracy that doesn’t do much fighting, either because of a prolonged period of peace or because changes in military organization means that the old military aristocracy isn’t much of a fighting force anymore despite keeping its social/economic power things start to get goofy. They don’t HAVE to be realistic because they’re not really out there fighting all the time anymore so you get more and more flights of fancy. This is where you get some of the more exaggerated concepts of honor. These rusted aristocracies can blather on about unbreakable honor since they’re mostly sitting at home and not in real danger or at least their PARENTS were sitting at home not in real danger resulting in the next generation getting fed ideas that are pretty damn suicidal in a real war before being thrown in the meat grinder. People in a more living traditions of course do care about honor but they don’t have the same kind of extreme and suicidal version of it you get once extended periods of conflict get mythologized. Mark Twain liked mocking the South for exactly this kind of goofiness which lead to their obsession with Sir Walter Scott and mythologized versions of the Middle Ages which helped give us the Civil War. Kind of similar in some ways to Japan in WW II. Like you said. I think a lot of the same applies to the Dothraki. They seem to have pretty limited conflicts with each other, get paid off a lot and do some minor slave trading. I’d assume that they’d be very different in terms of military organization than the original Dothraki that came in during the Century of Blood. Bullseye says: Overall, I agree with you, but… Balon wants to conquer the North? As I remember it, Balon just wanted independence, and to raid the North (which he’s very much capable of doing). Seizing Winterfell was Theon’s dumb idea, influenced by his mainland upbringing (to the mainlanders, wealth is land, so land is what they like to steal). Also, it took dragons to beat House Hoare. Balon wanted parts of the North — the western coastal holdings, in particular — and took to styling himself as the ruler of the North when addressing Tywin Lannister. Ed8r says: Bret, as an avid reader of your posts who likely will never play these games, I am engaged by your own reveal (oka “spoilers”). I appreciate your candid approach. Meanwhile, here are 3 types I noticed. Perhaps others will point out others for your future fixes. struck a cord -> chord, (please! As in music, not rope) fiction, where are fundamentally built -> which motivations, the assessed how -> he assessed typos joviator says: Yeah. If only I had done it intentionally. sigh* butsuri says: a piece of modern art of literature → art or literature if you unfamiliar with Assassin’s Creed → if you are unfamiliar A friend’s son is paying attention in history class only to see where the course content differs from the history he is learning in role-playing games. This means that someone who learns about a period of history only from a game is relying on the game to be accurate. If games are presented as based on true history they need to be accurate. This is also true of movies. The movie Woman Walks Ahead totally denied the true political motivation of the main character. Eh, I’d prefer accuracy but I don’t think it’s vital. It matters what kind of inaccuracy it is, if it’s just stuff like giving people the wrong weapons and armor it’s not really a big deal (however annoying). It if indulges in the same tropes you get from literal Nazis then something of a bigger deal… The course was social arrangements and governance, the things standard HS history courses look at. pontifex maximus says: “…military mortality in the deep past of human history when we all lived as hunter-gatherers was high enough, for long enough that it exerted evolutionary pressure on the emergence of anatomically modern humans; that is, stated bluntly, humans are evolved for war” Sounds like evolutionary psychology. Also, I, too, look forward to reading about the Dothraki. As far as I can see it their depiction is no more offensive than the Ironborn; the way I see them is more “Conan on a horse” than “Mongols/Plains Indians are abhorrent”. But I may miss something, so it would be interesting to hear out a historian’s opinion. Personally I found the Ironborn kind of offensive. The RW basis for their culture were traders as well as raiders and eager to win new lands to work. The economic base of the Ironborn is laughably inadequate but nobody but Asha Greyjoy recognizes the fact. I actually have a whole thesis about how the current version of Ironborn society and the entire concept of the “Old Ways” are a revanchist fantasy made up to justify a racial supremacist ideology that legitimizes the Ironborn ruling class and their wars of conquest. If you look at Ironborn history, they’re doing trade and diplomacy just as often as they’re pillaging their neighbors, its just that the Ironborn are trapped in a cycle where reformers are sabotaged by reactionary interests whose status is threatened by those same reforms, setting back Ironborn society and starting the cycle over. Balon and Asha are just the latest iteration in this dialogue. That makes a lot of sense. that feels more like a headcannon you just made up with very loose context and without much evidence, also if the reformers have always been beaten down by revanchist fantasists for the majority of their existance doesn’t that make the majority of their history just the revanchist fantasy? Fantasies like that are usually revival of cultures so long dead no-one can remember them or in the face of a majour defeat, if it was a reaction to roberts rebellion then this uptick would’ve been commented on by people who remember it’s arisal. herbert herbertson says: It’s not an uncommon interpretation within the fandom (see, e.g., https://racefortheironthrone.wordpress.com/2014/07/23/chapter-by-chapter-analysis-acok-theon-i/), and there’s a decent amount of support for it in the text (the clownishness of the character who most fully embodies the purported value of the Old Ways, Victarion; the ease Euron has at exploiting them to obtain leadership; details that indicate that fundamental aspects of the Old Ways, like raiding, have barely been practiced in recent centuries) There’s a blurry line between evolutionary psychology and evolutionary physiology. At some point you can’t dismiss the claim “evolutionary pressures have influenced humans” in and of itself without also dismissing the theory of evolution itself. The question is which features we see in modern humans have evolved, and how, and why. “Evolutionary psychology” has a bad reputation because there’s some bozos out there who try to pick arbitrary bullshit statements about humans and retroactively justify them with poorly sourced claims about human behavior in the ancestral environment (“men hunted mammoths while women picked berries”). But the behavioral patterns of every species we observe shows signs of SOME form of evolutionary adaptation, and it should not be a controversial claim that humans follow this rule. It’s just that the specific patterns of behavior that humans evolved probably don’t align perfectly with, say, the specific claims MRAs would like to be true. And furthermore that even if we did evolve behavioral patterns, it doesn’t mean we’re logically compelled to follow those patterns against our better judgment. More generally, my point is just that we shouldn’t let the existence of fools who use pseudo-scientific arguments to justify their foolishness become a reason to be broadly suspicious of all attempts to use scientific fact to justify arguments. Judging from how the later-game plot is described here, I think you might be giving the devs too much credit by assuming that the later-game content would somehow redeem the early game’s ideological shortcomings even if most gamers did get to it. By my reading, much of the ideological problem with the game’s presentation of Viking colonialism in Britain (particularly its insistence that the frontline Viking shock-troops like the player-character were 100% nonviolent toward civilians) can be summed up as: “hey, we white Anglo-Saxons had to deal with Viking settler-colonialism and it wasn’t so bad, so what are all you nonwhite folks complaining about?” If the later-game historical plot development is that the Anglo-Saxons eventually get wise to the Vikings’ shortcomings and defeat them, doesn’t that only make this problem even worse? “Viking settler-colonialism wasn’t so bad, look how easy it was for us to eventually defeat! Gee, I guess there must be something wrong or inferior with all you folks still complaining about settler-colonialism, if you can’t defeat your colonists as easily as we defeated ours!” By my reading, much of the ideological problem with the game’s presentation of Viking colonialism in Britain (particularly its insistence that the frontline Viking shock-troops like the player-character were 100% nonviolent toward civilians) can be summed up as: “hey, we white Anglo-Saxons had to deal with Viking settler-colonialism and it wasn’t so bad, so what are all you nonwhite folks complaining about?” I don’t think that a self-consciously diverse creative team based in Montreal is likely to think in terms of “we white Anglo-Saxons”. If you want an ideological problem with the game, the big one is probably its portrayal of the Church, given that Christianity is currently the world’s most persecuted religion (see, e.g., https://www.huffpost.com/entry/christianity-most-persecuted-religion_b_2402644 ) and very few people in the West (and practically no-one with any power) seems to care about this if they’re even aware. I get it, you’re taking the design team’s little “wokeness disclaimer” entirely at face value and you don’t seem to think a team capable of putting out a statement like that is capable of producing content that might mesh with right-wing or even white supremacist ideological themes, but Bret’s original post on ACV spells out a quite convincing argument that you’re wrong about that. You don’t need to take “wokeness disclaimers” entirely at face value to recognise that people who put out statements saying how diverse they are tend not to view “white Anglo-Saxons” as their in-group. Even if you want to take a death-of-the-author approach and say that the beliefs and attitudes of the game’s actual designers are irrelevant, white supremacists are more likely to adopt pagan Viking symbolism and aesthetics than Christian Anglo-Saxon, so I would expect them to identify with the game’s Viking protagonist rather than his Anglo-Saxon victims. Well the “death of the author” approach seems pretty central to Bret’s original point, in the sense of “hey I’m sure y’all didn’t necessarily intend to design a game with pro-colonialist and/or white supremacist ideological themes, but you did.” If his intent was merely to point at the game designers and shriek “raaaaaacist!!!” like Donald Sutherland’s point-and-shriek at the end of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” I’m sure he’d have been capable of writing a post like that instead. That said, I’m not sure what’s so confusing here. It’s one thing to argue the presentation of Vikings as heroic protagonists and the whitewashing of their murder/slavery/etc is problematic for playing into many white supremacists’ fondness for sanitized Norse pagan symbolism over later European Christian symbolism, and I agree with that argument to an extent, but what I’m focusing on is something slightly different: the presentation of Viking colonialism in Britain as essentially benevolent is problematic because it plays into sanitized pro-colonialist ideological fantasies (shared by white supremacists but not exclusively, i.e. a disturbing number of mainstream Western liberals and neocons seem to harbor such fantasies too) about the essential benevolence of settler-colonialism writ large, and its neutral if not positive impact on the peoples whose land it targets. The devs might’ve responded to the first argument by pointing to the later-game content in which Alfred the Great leads the Saxons in getting their act together and kicking some Viking butt, but like I said, that response doesn’t really address the second argument at all, in fact it arguably only makes those problems even worse. But the second argument isn’t one that actually seems to get made. Nor do I think it’s likely to get made, mostly because the kind of people who’d support clearing out brown-skinned people to make room for white settlers would be more likely to identify with the Vikings than the Saxons, and so would be unlikely to boast about how (supposedly) easy it was to defeat the Vikings, or to make arguments that start “We white Anglo-Saxons…” a disturbing number of mainstream Western liberals and neocons seem to harbor such fantasies too) No mainstream westerners, of any political persuasion, want their country to engage in settler colonialism. And no, economic domination of another country isn’t the same thing. I guess you didn’t read Bret’s original post too closely then, because he makes precisely this argument about the whitewashing of colonialism, very explicitly: And that, of course is the problem: the broader implications of this kind of game design for thinking about colonialism. I do not think we are all collectively bothered by how Viking-themed products make us think about 9th century settler colonialism in Northern Europe. But colonialism more broadly, and the still popular fantasy of colonists finding empty ‘virgin’ lands to settle, is still a major issue in the consciousness and politics of many countries. If you want to dispute any of that, you’re welcome to try, but don’t play this game of “I’ve never heard anybody make that argument, therefore I’ll act as if there’s no reason I should respond to it at all.” I think you need to reread the previous posts more carefully. I was explicitly responding to the second argument, namely, “Viking settler-colonialism wasn’t so bad, look how easy it was for us to eventually defeat! Gee, I guess there must be something wrong or inferior with all you folks still complaining about settler-colonialism, if you can’t defeat your colonists as easily as we defeated ours!” As I said in my last post, I’ve never come across any example of this argument in the wild. If there are people who actually make it, feel free to give a few examples. I’m afraid you’ll have to spell out the connection more clearly for me. What exactly does “There is a popular fantasy of colonists finding empty lands to settle” have to do with “We beat the Vikings, so if you can’t beat us, you suck”? I’ve already given a response — namely, that I think white supremacists are likely to identify with the Vikings in the story rather than the Anglo-Saxons, and so are unlikely to make an argument that requires them to associate themselves with the Saxons. You can try and show that I’m wrong if you want — say, by finding examples of real-world white supremacists making the argument — but to act as if I haven’t given a response at all is disingenuous. The goalpost-shifting is getting pretty absurd. The issue we’re talking about here is the game indulging in tropes that whitewash the hardship and suffering caused by colonialism in general, and the specific relatively-novel historical backdrop of “Viking colonists vs colonized Saxons” doesn’t necessarily change that, except to the extent that it might make it easier to pass through someone’s “wokeness filter” undetected. Something tells me that given how much you’ve been twisting yourself in knots to avoid getting the point, no amount of extra convincing is gonna do the trick. My point of view is that this game might have a bad influence on both wannabe neo-nazis Übermensching their way through Last Anglo-Saxon Men, and wannabe Daesh martyrs being fed the idea that these Christian kafir are really weak and bad. Though TBH I think the worst influence (in terms of overall effect) would be on Western liberals who get confirmed in their prejudices that the Christian Church is useless and exploitative, and so do absolutely nothing whilst actual Daesh types go around slaughtering Christians in the Middle East. Regarding Tod’s brigandine video, this is the first time he’s tested any metal that can approximate medieval metal. Because of slag content, the fracture toughness of even high carbon, heat treatsd medieval steel is sufficiently low that it barely offers more protection than mild steel. While the shape of a breastplate who help deflect arrows, I think his original myth busting video is misleading, and we’d be more likely to see results like the brigandine. Of course, I don’t believe that a 160lb@30″ bow was necessarily very common in 1415, nor do I think that an archer who had been this long on campaign, had suffered a bout of dysentery and hadn’t eaten a good meal in well over a week could have drawn a 160lb bow even if they were common. I think that’s right. I haven’t seen detailed metallurgical studies of medieval plate metal, but I’m not sure I’d assume without tests that the slag content was high. Tests of Roman lorica segmentata plates showed surprisingly low slag content – but I don’t know if that is also true of medieval breastplates. I’m not deep enough in the metallurgy in the period though so you may know better than me. Certainly, I think that Tod is giving the bow its absolute best-case – the strongest reasonable bow, at short range, with direct fire and no obstructions (like shields). Real battle performance would, presumably, be reduced by these factors changing. To quote Alan Williams: “Compared with modern (virtually slag-free) material the presence of 1% or 2% of slag would have reduced the fracture toughness by anything up to a quarter. Armour with a low slag content like that found in the best products of North Italy and South Germany, might have lost only 10% of the toughness of a modern metal, while munition armour of high slag content might be diminished by 20% or more. The energy required to defeat such armour would consequently be reduced considerably. It should be noticed that reduction in slag has a much greater effect than increasing the carbon content. ” He covers this in some detail in Section Nine of “The Knight and the Blast Furnace”, giving both measurements of slag inclusions (although necessarily only a small number) and a discussion of how this relates to their protection (the relevant pages are p932-934 and p939-942). He also includes a table on p934 that lists the approximate protection factors for four types of armour relative to 0.2% C mild steel: iron muntion armour (0.5), moderate quality low steel armour (0.75), Milanese medium carbon steel (1.1) and Innsbruck hardened steel armour (1.5). Based on this information, the armour replica Tod tested best aligns with the fourth category, although it’s likely to represent the very pinnacle of that category, while the original example more likely belonged in the third category. I used to be resistant to the idea, but likely at least half of the men-at-arms, and possibly more, would have been wearing armour in the first two categories, although not enough work has been done on the import of Milanese armour to France (some circumstantial evidence suggests it was significant) and none that I’m aware of has been done on the metallurgy of French and Flemish armour of the period. Clifford J. Rogers’ use of the limited German and English armour we have from the period is, I feel, not entirely the best guide for French armour at Agincourt. George Dorn says: Tod did do a set of longer-range tests mainly to figure out how much energy would be lost at greater distances. While he didn’t do any indirect fire, I think he did produce enough data that indirect fire energy could be worked out with some calculus. The bigger challenge would be to test penetration at those energy levels, but even the 15% fall-off from his 100m test didn’t change penetration much. Textiles: hah, I just read Women’s Work and am nearly done with The Golden Thread, which got mentioned in comments in a July Fireside. I also recently read Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, with its own cause for ‘humanity’, particularly food sharing, gendered division of labor, and being able to sleep on the ground without getting eaten by big cats. Loved Catching Fire. Not every day that you read a book of ancient prehistory that also totally changes your view of a mundane activity that you do every day. Ever since I read it, I see cooking and other processing as effectively adding calories to my meal As far as the contrast between Gat and Pinker, one of the aspects of “Better Angels” that seems to spark the most backlash is his insistence, in an almost Breitbart-esque aggrieved reactionary anti-intellectual culture-warrior kind of way, that any concept of “violence” more sophisticated than a single-sentence dictionary definition is tout court beyond the scope of his concern. For instance, as the post I linked in last week’s thread points out, the way he reduces questions of economic inequality to “the fact that Bill Gates has a bigger house than I do” is jaw-droppingly callow, but more to the point, it elides the fact that unequal economic relationships (particularly those that lead to genuine death and suffering, unlike the smallness of Steve Pinker’s house relative to Bill Gates’) generally are enforced through violence, or at least through the ever-present threat of violence, and it seems fairly absurd to argue that someone starving to death because the only available food source is under armed guard is on a categorically different moral plane from someone being killed by armed guards while trying to stealing food. So I guess a baseline question about Gat’s book would be, does he engage with questions like that (for simplicity’s sake, call it the structural violence question) in a more sophisticated way than Pinker does? Because even assuming someone has enough scholarly chops in the relevant disciplines to avoid Pinker’s objectively galling data missteps, the bigger-picture problem in my view is whether such a reductive approach to the concept of “violence” is really capable of leading to broad-minded or conscientious scholarship at all. It is rather bold of people in the modern day to assert that warfare is getting rarer when the United States has been in constant war in the Middle East for two whole decades now. It’s not that bold if you look at the global statistics of deaths from warfare, or how many countries are at war, etc. It’s rather bold calling others bold without checking your facts. Warfare is vanishingly rare nowadays for the vast majority of humanity. Also, don’t confuse military occupation with waging war. It’s the same soldiers doing it, but wholly different actions. Is military occupation not a component of warfare? Are guerilla activity, and efforts to root out such, not a form of warfare? Military occupation is a continuation of war by… well, frankly, by the same means, just with less return fire. To be sure, there’s a gradient of some sort, there are cases where military garrisons are present in friendly territory and nothing that could plausibly be called “war” is going on. But the state of affairs in which foreign garrisons occupy land and assert authority over the land by force or the threat of force? That’s just an extension of war. The people who talk about ‘structural violence’ are similar to the kinds of people who believe that calling someone a bad word is the same as attacking them, and very often the kind of people who devalue the idea of violence to justify attacking their political opponents or destroying historical sites for ‘violence’. If I have food while another man does not am I now violent? Is the starving man now acting only in self defence when he murders me for that loaf of bread? What about feeling bad ’cause I don’t have a yacht? Depression kills people you know. A better point of comparison might be, say, the ongoing US-backed Saudi war in Yemen, which is all but explicitly intended by the Saudi regime to blockade food and medical supplies into enemy-held areas of Yemen in order to kill/stunt as much of the “enemy” civilian population as possible. Obviously these conditions are created and maintained through military force, yet the deaths through direct “violence” of Saudi weaponry are likely a small fraction of the deaths via famine and preventable diseases like cholera, which by the standard you’re applying would seem to place them in an entirely separate moral category. This sort of obvious reductio ad absurdum to a simplistic Pinkerian violence/nonviolence dichotomy is part of why people who focus on concepts like “structural violence” see it as a necessary aspect of understanding what “violence” means in general, and Pinker’s slapdash smarmy dismissal of those kinds of critiques comes across as crass reactionary anti-intellectualism. And most historians, including those who Pinker bases his estimates on, will include the excess civilian casualties during wartime as deaths caused by violence. No historian I’ve read in the past few decades thinks that only soldiers were killed by enemy action in WW2. Pinker, and many others who study the subject, distinguish between violence and structural violence because if you decide to count deaths caused by unequal economic relations enforced by the threat of violence, that’s almost every death in the entirety of human history and pre-history. And it would stop you distinguishing between the behaviour of the Saudis in Yemen and, say, Switzerland – both are equally bad. For someone studying why groups/cultures actively use violence against other groups/cultures, it is not a “simplistic dichotomy” OK, so Pinker et al want to have their cake and eat it too: they get to go full reactionary grandstanding mode about how their concept of violence vs nonviolence is a matter of simple and unambiguous dictionary definitions, unlike you ivory-tower egghead SJWs with your microaggressions and rape culture and blah blah blah… except in cases where this maximally simplified view would make them seem absurd and unserious, in which case presto changeo, deaths from famine and disease and so on now miraculously count as “violence” too. And yes you’re right, the more seriously you try to take concepts like “structural violence,” the more it can get genuinely difficult to separate deaths that have to do with “violence” from deaths that don’t. At least in my view, if one was a serious thinker, one might take this as a sign that “violence” is a concept with genuinely difficult and thorny implications, and thus probably shouldn’t be seized on as a basic empirical unit of analysis for building highly ideologically-charged arguments about the relative merits of different forms of human society. But maybe that’s just me! the more seriously you try to take concepts like “structural violence,” the more it can get genuinely difficult to separate deaths that have to do with “violence” from deaths that don’t. At least in my view, if one was a serious thinker, one might take this as a sign that “violence” is a concept with genuinely difficult and thorny implications, … And haven’t people who aren’t Steven Pinker being doing exactly that for centuries if not thousands of years? I’m just an enthusiastic reader of history, but even I have read a little John Stuart Mill and Marx and Kropotkin over the years. (But don’t ask me for serious discussion of them.) Pinker writes up front in his book what he’s studying. You seem to be complaining that he should have written a different book. How about recommending some books that do study structual violence? ey81 says: Furthermore, it would be a historic change of some note if “structural violence” in the form of economic inequality largely replaced actual violence in the form of killing people with swords or guns. I’m not sure that has in fact happened, but if it has, it’s a change that merits examination and analysis. It did in fact happen – it’s called “agriculture”. Forager populations have high levels of direct violence, but skeletal analysis (and ethnography) show them to be generally well-nourished and free of disease. Agriculture marks a shift to higher disease burdens and more malnourishment – along, of course, with higher levels of social stratification. ad (@ad98832376) says: “OK, so Pinker et al want to have their cake and eat it too: they get to go full reactionary grandstanding mode” WLGR, I think you should consider that a reactionary, if the term has any meaning, wants the world to be as it was at some point in the past. Pinker was writing that life was WORSE in the past. You are disagreeing with him. If words have any meaning, the reactionary in this disagreement is yourself. Except there’s a pretty specific set of associations I’m talking about here as far as the term “reactionary”: the longstanding right-wing reaction against perceived left-wing intellectual tendencies in academia, which in its most extreme form contains shades of the Nazi-derived anti-Semitic conspiracy theory of “cultural Marxism,” but even in its milder variants is still built heavily on anti-intellectual demagoguery against a perceived effort by Marxist and/or postmodernist academics (a distinction between Marxism and postmodernism is rarely made in these diatribes, despite the rather obvious differences between the two) using pointy-headed social-justicey obfuscations to undermine good old traditional Western values or something to that effect. Pinker certainly doesn’t define himself as a right-winger, but his pop-oriented writing echoes these sorts of baseline reactionary tropes about lefty academic obscurantism vs traditional common sense (particularly spelled out in “The Blank Slate,” but carried over into “Better Angels” and “Enlightenment Now”) strongly enough that trying to deny the connection altogether would be too cute by half. “Tokugawa Ieyasu and the 16th-century Church of England both said that Jesuit missionaries were subversive fifth columnists, therefore Ieyasu was basically an Anglican.” too cute by half Pinker’s deceptive graphs alone are enough to disqualify him as an honest controversialist. And his definition of violence are too lax in defining “war” while at the same time neglecting one of the most common forms of violence, infanticide. If you’re going to get violent with the language and turn “homicide” into war, do not be selective about it. Again, the bad faith argumentation is astounding. Quibbling with WLGR over “reactionary” is diversionary. And there is no way to pretend that everything is getting better and better isn’t a defense of the status quo into the future, so even that quibble is shaky. Or they might be people aware of places like Wind River (life expectancy 49), or Palm Island, or the 95% reduction in US workplace deaths over the 20th century as government and unions forced change. Or Amartya Sen’s work on famines… Dillon Saxe says: “…..I am striking here while the iron is ice cold….” So you are cold working those posts, and they should have excellent durability. See, I’m learning! 🙂 I’ve been buying a bunch of new household stuff, including clothes and sheets, over the past couple of years, which will add a bit of appreciation to the textile post when it comes. (“buying household stuff” means obsessively looking up what I am getting to get exactly what I want, hopefully done properly to have good quality.) On shooting an arrow through armor: Have people ever just done a big battery of tests: collect samples of several armor materials, shot arrows at several energies at several angles, plus any other variables involved, and put that data together? Seems this sort of controlled extensive experiment would be called for in this area. Alan Williams, “The Knight and the Blast Furnace”, specifically Section Nine, has you covered! pewterandpolyacrylates says: Is there any way to get a copy of that for less than the blistering $400 that I can find it for online? I don’t know where you live, but there appear to be copies at the Columbia and NYU libraries in New York. https://www.worldcat.org/title/knight-and-the-blast-furnace-a-history-of-the-metallurgy-of-armour-in-the-middle-ages-the-early-modern-period/oclc/906990791?referer=br&ht=edition. Unfortunately, I don’t think they are open right now, but presumably they will be by spring. There are various ways to gain access to those collections even if you are not a student. Joel Short says: This discussion of video games and history makes me think about my MA Public History final project, where I went into some of these issues, although in rather less depth than Bret does here. It’s been a year or two since I posted on it, since my intent was to do a post on the way AC: Odyssey moving to a branching-story structure said interesting things about its conception of history and the presence of Herodotos in the game, but, as Bret notes, I’m one of the many who never finished the damn thing. I need to go back and make the post (and finish the game) some time. (the project is accessible here: https://ludohistorical.wordpress.com/) As a side note by the way, on the “most players won’t see the late-game content” thing, in both Assassin’s Creed Origins and Odyssey, only about 30% of all the people who acquired either game actually played the storyline all the way through, at least on the Xbox. DOS says: Dr Devereaux, I just saw your November 27th tweets, and just wanted to say we appreciate the work you adjuncts do. My dad is an adjunct as well, so I have gotten to see the multiple hats, academic and otherwise, that he has had to juggle. I hope in the short-term a permanent position for you. Long term I hope for a change toward more permanent positions in academia. Thank you for your blog, it has always been illuminating. A belated Happy Thanksgiving to you. I’m looking forward to the fabric presentation. “Production of raw flax and wool” – growing flax, keeping sheep? Other fibre plants included nettles (remember the fairy tale of the princess who had to make shirts of nettles to turn enchanted brothers from swans back to humans?) and hemp, please include them. Once processed they are hard to tell apart from each other or flax. Plus both flax and hemp produce an edible seed if there is a surplus. Any possibility of including cordage in the series? All those sailing ships needed lots of cloth for the sails and ropes for controlling them. They did nettles much the same way as flax — ret them. That being derived from the same root as “rot.” 0:) Yes, all the stem based plant fibres need retting and braking and so on to get the fibres out of the stems. Flax gets all the fame and the others get neglected. Processing a fleece is equally laborious, just in a different way. I find the fire ratio claims of SLA Marshall very hard to believe in light of the genetic, archaeological and historical evidence for the high prevalence of genocidal warfare in our species. Yet reputable military historians like Beevor do believe they have some merit. Is this a commonly held view among experts? AshleyRPollard says: My limited understanding is that SLAM’s work is now considered flawed, but separating the truths within from the fluff he added makes it hard to totally discard said work. Its complicated. Thomas Lumley says: You say ” (many games will actually condition review copies on not discussing this material; I have no idea if Ubisoft does this but the raw consistency with which reviewers do not discuss the late game techno-alien reveals suggests to me that at least everyone understands, even if in an unspoken way, what is going on).” I came across a review of AC: Valhalla that does mention (and complain about) the whole Animus/Isu thing: https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/27/assassins_creed_valhalla/ occasio_calvata says: This is off-topic here, but comments under review of Shattered Sword are closed. I just finished the book and it was great. It made me understand what the doctrine is about in practical terms, so thank you for the recommendation. One thing struck me at the very end: it seems to me that the authors don’t read Japanese. It seems they contacted Japanese historians quite late in the process and in a way which suggests they were not familiar with the state of their research. The authors also say that the Japanese sources are becoming more accessible because of improvements in translation software. Is my perception true? Were they able to write this book without the ability to read the Japanese documents themselves? Disregard the above. It didn’t occur to me to read acknowledgements section until after I wrote it. To be fair, IIRC Pinker isn’t just summarizing studies on physical violence, but making a claim that the decline in those sorts of violence means the world is getting better. So pushing back with “okay, maybe you were less likely to be outright murdered in an agrarian state, but the increase in degradation and forced labor means things weren’t better” is a fair counter-move. Likewise I recall him talking about and praising the decline in animal cruelty as casual entertainment, but arguably we’ve gotten worse in animal cruelty as practical business model (factory farming of pigs and chickens). It’s been long enough that I don’t recall all of what he did say. And I do recall him talking about multiple time scales; arguably the total violence levels of hunter-gatherer society vs. early agrarian states is simply not all that relevant, even if theoretically interesting. Antistone says: On the topic of how rarely people finish video games, I’d like to point out that it’s not quite as bad as you might think from the raw percentages, because you need to ask what exactly that’s a percentage OF. When I look at the Steam global achievement stats for a game with a “finish the game” achievement, I typically see about 20-30% of players have that achievement. However, when the game also includes an easy achievement that is earned after 30-90 minutes of play, I usually see only about 70% of players have THAT achievement. They’re losing almost as many players in the first hour as in the entire rest of the game combined. So if you look at the completion rate as a percentage of only the players who did more than dip their toe in the water, that 20-30% jumps to more like 30-45%. (Of course this varies depending on the game.) That doesn’t particularly change your general point that game creators need to think about how their game looks to the substantial fraction of players that play only a part of it and then stop. But any time you cite statistics in support of an argument, I think it’s important to examine what those statistics actually mean. Eugene Earnshaw says: Thanks very much for the recommendation of Gat’s book. It’s amazingly good, and super relevant to both my teaching and some of my research sidelines. Clicked on a few of the links in the text. On the megahistories, the twitter feed on Turchin was unfortunately just abuse by an Authority. But then the main text actually dares to cite baseless speculations about how humanity evolved for war in deep prehistory! Flirting with dingbat evolutionary theories is the biggest symptom that Turchin actually is a crank trying to use math as a substitute for a scientific understanding of history. Turchin trying to estimate Roman mining of lead using things like lead pollutants in the archaeological record etc. (and etc. and etc.) is much more convincing than someone blathering about early man. Blasting Turchin to endorse EP fantasies, and lukewarmly endorse the should-be-notorious crank Pinker? There are actual serious criticisms to make of Turchin, by the way. Again, the most telling is his flirtation with evolutionary theories of human nature. Hardly anyone survives going down that rathole. I never thought of the Klingons as untechnological. They build starships! SG-1 Jaffa: not entirely of color, though their most prominent member is, and looking at images they may tend darker than the SG-1 staff. OTOH I recall nothing about them being “biologically” untechnological, nor are they particularly alien. They’re humans with Goa’uld larval implants, kept ignorant by the Goa’uld to shore up the latters’ claims of divinity. And while having dark skinned slaves has unfortunate resonance, it makes sense given the show’s mythology — humans being taken away 2-5 millennia ago — that Jaffa would generally be darker than northern Europeans. Though the same applies to all the other off-world human populations, and I’m not sure the show stuck the landing there. Klingons are the equivalent of Communists in Star Trek. They built starships and had scientists. But nobody likes Star Trek anymore, they like Next Generation/DS9. Those Klingons are warrior fetishists who are so anti-technological they prefer knives and batleths (spelling?) SG-1 is a little more complicated, yes. As to being “not entirely of color,” the only repeating white Jaffa character was Bratac (spelling?) The larval implants are in a pouch genetically engineered which makes them biologically at best variants of humans. It is not at all clear that Jaffa and humans can still interbreed. Of course, the Jaffa being a trope for people of color means that no matter what the text of a given episode says, intercourse between human women and Jaffa is miscegenation…and rape would be multiply problematic. But, one more time, relying on coded readings is very tricky business. Realizing that Chulack was a non-technological planet is easy to miss, for instance. So, is denying the Jaffa were non-technological endorsement of notions about how people of color don’t have white technology? Or is it just not thinking? Assuming everyone is using their decoder ring is perhaps not a wise assumption. Also, in SG-1, the name for the humans is “tauri,” which means “slaves,” as we are told. Which means the almost entirely white air force in SG-! is explicitly identified with slaves!. On top of that, SG-1 is an action/comedy series, whose major draw was quips from the cool guy. It rarely did “serious.” There are more farces in SG-1 than dramas, I suspect. (Not strongly enough to do a study, though.) IIRC the original Trek was pretty explicit about the Federation-Klingon relationship as a Cold War allegory right down to the obvious Chernobyl/perestroika/August Coup parallels in “Undiscovered Country,” which is revealing in more ways than they probably intended given how the rest of the franchise ended up treating the Klingons, because the coding of Russians as people of color (“Asiatics,” “Orientals,” “Mongoloids,” etc) innately prone to hotheaded barbaric savagery, and by extension communism itself as something akin to “drapetomania,” was an ideological framework employed by the Nazis as part of the eugenicist justification for their settler-colonization and ethnic cleansing of the Slavic East. I just want to ask how it’s possible you don’t have tenure when you have this photo. Have you sent it to your tenure committee? It’s the most professor-looking picture I’ve ever seen, except for some of Einstein. Tenure!? I’m not even tenure-track, actually. Adjunct, at the moment. A late reply, because while I found your blog earlier last year, it has taken me a while to read through the various assorted topics and discussion threads arising from same. To refresh anybody who might read this, I am an unabashedly a dilettante of history. My main interest is how technology affects war, in short a wargaming nerds appreciation of weapons and how armies fought. However, my former professional of cognitive behavioural therapist is what prods me to comment on your excellent blog. In particular to your criticism of the game company’s response to criticizing there product, where I think you’ve fallen into a common psychological trap or if you prefer, display a particular cognitive bias of Western academic beliefs; namely that facts changed opinions. Assuming I’ve understood your post correctly as I may have inferred a position that you did not mean to imply. What the research shows is that facts don’t change opinions. The response to facts ranges anywhere from denial to outright hostility from being shamed. There are exceptions of course, but this response to being confronted is driven largely by evolutionary biological mechanism encapsulated in the fight-flight-freeze response. The assumption that by having more factual historical education, in and by itself, is unlikely to cause a reduction in extreme beliefs prevalent in the ideologies of either the left or the right. Emotions are the key to our beliefs. These start when one is born, and the environment you’re brought up in feeds your experiential growth. Leaven with classical and operant conditioning, and by around the age of four or so you have the foundations laid for who you grow to become. As time goes by, more core beliefs are laid down, and we build our assumptions on them. By your teenage years your thoughts are driven by hormones, genetics, and experience. This is why it’s difficult to change beliefs and or habits. Not impossible, just hard. Harder than you think unless one has an epiphany from a traumatic event. If I want to try and change a persons opinion, I don’t start with facts, because one has to know if the other person wants to change their opinions or needs to for practical reasons. Even when those criteria are met, it’s hard to change people’s opinions/beliefs. It just is. Otherwise how does one understand therapeutic outcomes being so low, or relapses after a successful course of treatment? What the research shows is that facts don’t change opinions. This is a very common belief, and I have found that those who hold it find it very emotional satisfying and respond with everything from flat-out denial to hostility when it’s challenged. Well, change my opinion. Use the research to disprove me. I’d be happy to read that I was wrong, but maybe I should have included in my post my former profession? I admit, that I’ve been retired for the last few years and could easily have missed new research in the field of psychology that upends what I was taught at the KCL Institute of Psychiatry. I will go away and do some searches, and we can meet back here as and when you post a reply. Offer something far more precise than “the research.” Especially given the replication crisis. Do you want citations, because I have citations, I will pepper a few throughout this reply; or do you mean you want other evidence? If the latter, I can point to the widely reported Brexit results, where Britain voted to leave the EU. At any time facts are produced by either side of this debate, the other-side denies them (also commonly used to reply to any commentator when outraged by using the phrase ‘feelings are not facts.’ Sutherland, S., 1992. Irrationality. The enemy within. London. Penguin. I’m glad you mentioned the replication crisis, because I would otherwise have had to justify raising it in any reply to you. The main reason for the crisis is that social scientists tend not to have a firm foundation in statistics, which falls under mathematics, and therefore don’t understand what a ‘power’ calculation truly means. For example, a P value of 0.05 is incorrectly determined to mean the Null hypothesis has been disproved. This is not correct. All it serves is to suggest that the methodology shows further research is worth undertaking (basically a better than 50/50 chance you might be right, not that you are right: a significant result). Furthermore, nothing is proven, only not yet disproven. CLEGG. F., 1990. Simple Statistics a course book for the social sciences. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. Moving on from statistics, let’s look at beliefs. To understand beliefs one should probably start with learning theory, but skipping Vygotsky ‘Scaffold theory’ for the moment though, it is probably more useful to jump to schemas. Schemas are the packaged up bundle of one’s formative experiential events, and a chain of assumptions derived from same, underpinned with an emotion that anchors the belief e.g.: I am weak. Schema therapy has its critics, but not from the methodology per se, but from the process where metaphorically a therapist might open a can of worms for the client, spill then on the floor, and be unable to get the worms back in the can before the end of the session. James, I. 2001. Schema therapy: The next generation, but should it carry a health warning? Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy 29 (4):401-407. To understand why emotions are the root of all beliefs, and that facts alone cannot change a persons mind who may be opposed to said facts I suggest starting here: BARON-COHEN, S. (editor), 1997. The Maladapted Mind: classic readings in evolutionary psychopathology. Hove. Psychology Press. Then we can move on to discussing the mechanism of change, which actually assumes that one has already understood how to confront people who disagree with you.* A technical, who am I kidding all these citations are technical at one level or another, guide to the current process as practiced, bypassing all the prior foundational work in the field by Skinner, Watson, Beck etc. can be found here. Bennett-Levy, J. 2003. Mechanisms of change in cognitive therapy: The case of automatic thought records and behavioural experiments. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy 31 (3):261-277. For a less behavioural perspective then I’d recommend Padesky’s work. Padesky, C. A., 1996. Guided discovery using Socratic dialogue. Newport Beach: New Harbinger Publications. I hope that this reply satisfies your demand for more precise answer? * For those who don’t understand the value of de-escalation when confronting or being confronted by people who are strongly opposed to your position, I recommend the following book (caveat it’s written by an American who uses five words when one would do). That politics is full of lies is not, in fact, evidence of your claims. Clearly my reply didn’t satisfy you. Sorry about that. I’ll try again. Why should I believe it is such a lack and not because they are dominated by their feelings rather than facts? Because by and large, all humans are driven by feelings, which are generated by visceral processes, production of adrenaline, or by sensory input. But how would that materially change the fact that social sciences generate articles with statistics that either have a strong power (by social science standards) and large error bars, or a low power and small error bars? My explanation that not understanding statistics is at the root of the problem still stands. ARP OC:Schemas are the packaged up bundle of one’s formative experiential events, and a chain of assumptions derived from same, underpinned with an emotion that anchors the belief… Mary Q: This does not support your claim. You asserted that it was determined by feelings, not we start with the facts at hand and then build on them, and then have feelings about them. Okay, it seems clear to me that we’re talking at cross purposes. If I’ve understood your objection correctly (I fear I may not have), you seen to believe that people start with facts and then derive their feelings accordingly. Are you trying to argue that as we’re a product of our genes, they provide parameters to our behavioural responses; some simple, some complex from evolutionary biology. Biology is a subset of chemistry, and chemistry is driven by physics. Therefore one can make an argument that all behaviour is already predetermined? However, babies are not born with a set of beliefs, these are built up over time: experiential learning. As Aristotle said, and the Jesuits used to do, “Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.” But I digress. If so, then we’re talking about agency or free will. The ability to make a choice. Piaget would say that babies grow up and go through different stages of cognitive development. Though I would prefer Vygotsky’s Scaffolding model to describe how a child learns to Piaget’s Freudian inspired developmental model. The ability to put facts before feelings is however an uncommon phenomenon. Piaget called this abstract formal thinking, but reckoned only 30% of the population reach this stage, and of those who do, 90% of the time they working at the concrete operational level. If that’s not compelling enough, how about the Gell-Mann amnesia effect coined after physicist Murray Gell-Mann by Michael Crichton? He used this term to describe the phenomenon of experts believing news articles on topics outside of their fields of expertise, even after acknowledging that articles written in the same publication that are within the experts’ fields of expertise are error-ridden and full of misunderstanding. It appears to me that you’re being argumentative because I’ve hurt your feeling with some evidence drawn from science and psychology that challenges your assumptions about how people really think. I can’t be bothered to answer any further questions without evidence that this is not so. If I’ve understood your objection correctly (I fear I may not have), you seen to believe that people start with facts and then derive their feelings accordingly. No, I am observing as a fact that you said that they did. One’s “formative experiential events” are the facts at hand, and “a chain of assumptions derived from same” are when one does “build on them.” Then forgive my clumsiness and understand that you’ve misinterpreted my words. Ad hominem remains a logical fallacy. It appears to me that you’re being argumentative because I’ve hurt your feeling Argumentum ad hominem is a logical fallacy. And again, Fact don’t change people’s opinion evidence from non-political confrontations. Plate tectonics didn’t win over geologists until all the old deniers died. Einstein thought there was a God who didn’t play dice (though in his case the God was mathematics, just to be clear, and the facts don’t support his position). String theorists are still promoting branes etc. even though there’s no evidence to support their hypothesis (Lost in Mathematics as Sabine Hossenfelder would argue) or the existence of more than 4 dimension of space-time. Scientists are arguing over a replacement of the LHC despite the evidence to the contrary that they won’t find evidence to support super symmetry. People think atomic power stations are unsafe. because radiation kills people, yet 2 million a year die from air pollution generated from ‘safe’ coal power. GMO foods are unsafe, whereas the opposite is true. “A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” Max Planck. A few examples to support my assertion that facts don’t change opinions/beliefs. I have come to believe we have failed to communicate or in the worse case, you are trolling me. “A few examples to support my assertion that facts don’t change opinions/beliefs” Nope. Your assertion was that merely that facts don’t but that feelings do. I have come to believe we have failed to communicate or in the worse case, you are trolling me. Ad hominem is a logical fallacy I think you both need to consider the possibility both that this discussion is self-demonstrating as an anecdote (but that the plural of anecdote is not data) but that also and more importantly it is possible for two people to communicate effectively and in good faith and nevertheless not agree on complex problems. The important thing is in handling such disagreements with kindness and intellectual charity. The main reason for the crisis is that social scientists tend not to have a firm foundation in statistics, Schemas are the packaged up bundle of one’s formative experiential events, and a chain of assumptions derived from same, underpinned with an emotion that anchors the belief This does not support your claim. You asserted that it was determined by feelings, not we start with the facts at hand and then build on them, and then have feelings about them. Missed the last citation, sorry. Here it is: he Power of Positive Confrontation: The Skills You Need to Know to Handle Conflicts at Work, at Home, and in Life by Barbara Pachter & Susan McGee Sorry, my reply has been put in the wrong place, my bad, and I mucked up the formatting. “Fact don’t change people’s opinion” Are you trying to use facts to convince us of this? Irony. I was a geology major and I think this is incorrect. My impression is that the field resisted the idea of continental drift for a few decades, because it seemed absurdly lacking in mechanism — sure Africa and South America ‘fit’, but really! Then the seafloor spreading data came in, and the field was convinced this was real and looked for a mechanism, coming up with plate tectonics, which swept the field in the 1960s. I was taught by professors who lived through this. I did hear of the occasional holdout for orogeny but more as Professor Crank, not The Old Guard. “Einstein thought there was a God who didn’t play dice” So what? He’s just one guy. He’s not even ‘old’, he was part of the young Turks who contributed to quantum mechanics. As a lay observer, I got to live-watch a paradigm shift in cosmology. People debated whether the universe would start contracting, ending in a Big Crunch, or expand forever at asymptotically lower rates. No one considered an accelerating universe, that would be absurd, where would the energy come from, the cosmological constant was Einstein’s biggest mistake, etc. Then two different groups reported supernova data, and pretty much overnight the field flipped to believing in (and being baffled by) a universe with accelerating expansion. Over in psychology, the debate had long between over how much personality traits were determined by nature vs. nurture, genes vs. upbringing. No one advocated for the currently accepted result (last I checked, I may be out of date) that Big Five personality traits are 50% genes, 45% “non-shared [across siblings] environmental factors” (which I guess might include random brain wiring) and only 5% “shared factors” i.e. your upbringing by your parents. Again, this was all too fast for generational turnover to be a factor. I know there’s that Max Planck quote, and most of the names in the development of quantum mechanics are young… but I’ve never heard of actual strong opposition to the ideas, and prestige and Nobel prizes seemed to flow quite fast, for both quantum and relativity. I don’t know of any cases where scientific progress had to wait for generational die-off, really. At least in the sciences, facts do win. Now, if one said that progress depended on a new generation seeing things with new eyes and coming up with new ideas, then convincing the elders, that would be somewhat more plausible. ‘He’s not even ‘old’, he was part of the young Turks who contributed to quantum mechanics.’ That is, he wasn’t old relative to quantum mechanics, not part of some old guard crankily resisting new-fangled ideas. And I doubt he was resisting the predictive claims of QM, instead he was looking for an underlying mechanism that didn’t depend on randomness. Yes, it is ironic isn’t it, but that’s what the research shows. I can run facts at an argument, but fail to change people who will resort to their own cognitive biases to refute said facts. With regard to your points. You may think I’m wrong, but go away and research the history. I don’t say that to be argumentative, this is AFAIC just a discussion, and you may be surprised by what you learn, or not. With regards to cosmology, yes but… there’s a difference between things that can be measured and theories that derive from said evidence, and the ability to change opinions with facts, even when the evidence supports that it doesn’t. Not trying to pick hairs here, but this was a matter of professional concern. The Nature versus Nurture debate is just the wrong question. It’s both; or the confounding variables can skew outcomes. BTW: the five personality traits thing is a tool to understand people, based on one model for a theory of mind. And again, excuse me for posting a counter here to your next point here. Clearly I have sparked a flurry of comments out of all proportion to my intent when I commented. Challenging heartfelt beliefs often does that. My science background is in medical psychology, so I probably count as a STEM person, though I would freely admit the science is pretty soft until you get into cognitive neuroscience. You don’t have to trust ‘my spin’ you can go and search for the evidence. I will help you. All the LHC stuff can be seen discussed by a physicist here: (https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/06/30-years-from-now-what-will-next-larger.html) String theory and Branes here: (https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-five-most-promising-ways-to.html) (https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2015/10/when-string-theorists-are-out-of-luck.html) (https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2011/10/adscft-confronts-data.html) Maths here: (https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2020/06/physicists-still-lost-in-math.html), (https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-crisis-in-physics-is-not-only-about.html) (https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-reproducibility-crisis-interview.html) LHC here: (https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/10/what-does-future-hold-for-particle.html) Yeah that a lorra, lorra, lot of reading. It should be obvious that I’m a bit of a science junkie. It also helps that my partner works for the physics departmental at Imperial College. Finally, because I can’t seem to reply directly to Bret’s comment, thank you for chiming in. I for one felt I was being harried despite my best attempts to communicate clearly. “String theorists are still promoting branes” I doubt either of us are well-qualified to judge why they do so, and anyway they’re not evidence of failure to be convinced by data, because there’s simply a huge lack of data for what they’re interested in. Phenomena where both quantum mechanics and general relativity would be significant are an observational void, and we need such observations to be able to try to reconcile the two seemingly incompatible models. “Scientists are arguing over a replacement of the LHC despite the evidence” I haven’t followed this but I don’t trust your spin on it. The LHC is a powerful experimental tool, regardless of what you expect to find. “People think atomic power stations are unsafe. because radiation kills people” Also because things like mass evacuations a la Chernobyl and Fukushima scare people. It’s not that easy to compare “this is mostly safe but occasionally causes big disasters” with steady attrition; simple expected value calculations aren’t necessarily appropriate. “2 million a year die from air pollution generated from ‘safe’ coal power.” I think most people aren’t aware of such a fact. It’s impossible to be convinced by what you don’t know! IIRC polls found that the more that people know about genetics and biology, the more comfortable they are with GMOs. That’s the exact opposite of your claim. E.g. https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2016/12/01/public-opinion-about-genetically-modified-foods-and-trust-in-scientists-connected-with-these-foods/ where people with ‘high’ science education, and people with postgraduate degrees, are most likely to say GMOs are neutral with respect to health. (Though it’s not a strong effect, and actually having a medium knowledge or a mere college education seems to cause the most alarm.) Also ht tps:// http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/01/26/687852367/people-strongly-against-gmos-had-shakier-understanding-of-food-science-study-fin (I’ve put spaces in the URL, too many links looks like spam.) “People who most intensely oppose genetically modified food think they know a lot about food science, but they actually know the least.” Wow, the posting software fixed the broken link. That’s creepy… “Scientists are arguing over a replacement of the LHC despite the evidence” I haven’t followed this but I don’t trust your spin on it. The LHC is a powerful experimental tool, regardless of what you expect to find. You don’t have to trust my spin, I’ve put links in the previous post. Go read and make up your mind for yourself, but don’t assume because I’ve failed to communicate clearly to you that this makes me wrong. Just saying, be kind. “GMO foods are unsafe, whereas the opposite is true.” IIRC polls found that the more that people know about genetics and biology, the more comfortable they are with GMOs. That’s the exact opposite of your claim.. I think you’ve misread my sentence. I’m saying they’re safe, but most people don’t believe so when told so. The assumption that facts change beliefs is based on the belief that people understand facts, whereas some do the majority fail to do so, not because they’re stupid, or uneducated, but that the effort to process information means that people fall back on heuristic rules of thumb, which are rooted in the complex interaction between genetics, nurture, and confounding variable. Hope that helps. If not don’t worry. It’s not important, by the time you’ve gone and done something else you may well forget about it all, which is probably for the best (humour tag). I’m saying they’re safe, but most people don’t believe so when told so. Being told something by a purported expert does not prove it is a fact. Indeed, nowadays it’s often evidence against it. Kindly consider that you’re just jumping in for reasons that I have no clue to. We’ve already been asked to be kind to each other, this is me kindly asking you to stop reacting to whatever you perceive me as doing wrong. The thread has ironically proven that even discussing facts/evidence will not change people’s opinions. Then I will kindly explain my motives to you. You adduced as evidence that people do not believe things when told them by purported experts. I pointed out the fact that this is not in fact evidence because of the unreliability of purported experts, to engage with your claims in an intellectual discussion. Okay, got you, I think. Let me clarify, It’s not just that people do not believe things when told to them by ‘purported’ experts, but also that people will tend to dismiss facts that go against their beliefs. A good (bad) example of this is the vaccines cause autism furore. The mechanism of such derives from what we currently theorize as an affect heuristic., which makes changing peoples mind difficult: my assertion that facts alone will not change peoples beliefs holds true for the majority of people. Not all, Brett has changed my beliefs through facts in this blog, but mostly because I’m open to learning new facts. Not everybody is. @Ashley: I’m open to learning new facts. Not everybody is. I know that for me, this “fact” in itself was a surprising discovery!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2733
__label__wiki	0.631811	0.631811	Research ArticleECOLOGY Age and performance at fledging are a cause and consequence of juvenile mortality between life stages View ORCID ProfileThomas E. Martin1,, View ORCID ProfileBret Tobalske2, View ORCID ProfileMargaret M. Riordan3,†, View ORCID ProfileSamuel B. Case3,‡ and View ORCID ProfileKenneth P. Dial2 1U.S. Geological Survey, Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA. 2Field Research Station at Fort Missoula, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA. 3Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA. ↵Corresponding author. Email: tom.martin{at}umontana.edu ↵† Present address: Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA. ↵‡ Present address: Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA. Vol. 4, no. 6, eaar1988 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aar1988 Thomas E. Martin ORCID record for Thomas E. Martin For correspondence: tom.martin@umontana.edu Bret Tobalske ORCID record for Bret Tobalske Margaret M. Riordan ORCID record for Margaret M. Riordan Samuel B. Case ORCID record for Samuel B. Case Kenneth P. Dial ORCID record for Kenneth P. Dial Should they stay or should they leave? The age at which young transition between life stages, such as living in a nest versus leaving it, differs among species and the reasons why are unclear. We show that offspring of songbird species that leave the nest at a younger age have less developed wings that cause poorer flight performance and greater mortality after fledging. Experimentally delayed fledging verified that older age and better developed wings provide benefits of reduced juvenile mortality. Young are differentially constrained in the age that they can stay in the nest and enjoy these fitness benefits because of differences among species in opposing predation costs while in the nest. This tension between mortality in versus outside of the nest influences offspring traits and performance and creates an unrecognized conflict between parents and offspring that determines the optimal age to fledge. Juvenile mortality is a strong influence on fitness and demography, and it can vary markedly among species (1–4). For example, some species of songbirds lose only 12% of their young to mortality in the first 3 weeks after they leave the nest, or fledge (5). However, other species of songbirds lose as many as 70% of their young, with particularly high mortality in the first few days after leaving the nest largely from predation (6–8). Similarly high and variable mortality in the first days of juvenile life is common in other taxa (2). A potentially important determinant of juvenile mortality may be locomotor performance and its influence on the ability to escape predators (9–14). Yet, the mortality consequences of locomotor performance are rarely documented in the wild (15), especially across species. Moreover, given the possible consequences for juvenile mortality, the evolutionary reasons why species differ in locomotor performance of their young are poorly understood and largely untested. A potential evolutionary cause of variation among species in locomotor performance of young is variation in natural selection exerted by predation risk. Predation risk of young in an early life stage can influence the age at which they transition to the next life stage and has been hypothesized to affect locomotor performance and juvenile mortality rates (4). For example, higher predation risk during the premetamorphic stage is associated with earlier age of metamorphosis, with consequences for locomotor traits and size at metamorphosis in diverse taxa (16, 17). Songbirds exhibit similar impacts of predation risk on the age that young transition from nestlings in the nest to fledglings outside the nest. Predation is the primary source of mortality of songbird offspring in the nest, and species differ in their rates of nest predation because of differences in types and locations of nests (18, 19). Nest predation is a time-dependent source of mortality such that the cumulative probability of being eaten increases with each day that young remain in the nest (19). Hence, nestlings of songbird species that experience higher daily rates of predation have evolved younger ages of fledging from the nest (20) among 19 species (Fig. 1) in mixed riparian forest in Arizona, USA (Fig. 2A) and in many other species across the world (20, 21). In contrast, selection pressures for younger fledging ages are relaxed in species with low nest predation risk, such as cavity-nesting birds, which allows evolution of older ages of fledging (Fig. 2A). Age of fledging is important because it can affect wing development (4, 21), which may affect flight performance and the ability to evade predators to thereby explain variation in fledgling mortality (4, 22). Age, however, is not the sole determinant of wing development when comparing species. Offspring of species experiencing higher rates of nest predation also evolved faster growth of wings (Fig. 2B), which may compensate for earlier age of fledging. Yet, the effects of fledging age and wing growth rates on interspecific variation in flight performance and subsequent mortality are untested, just as the effect of age of transition on locomotor performance and juvenile mortality in the next life stage are unstudied across metamorphic species (16, 17). Fig. 1 Phylogenetic relationships of study species included in the various tests. All species were included in measurements of nest predation, fledging age, and wing growth rates. Species demarcated by 1 were included in flight performance measurements, and those with a 2 were included in fledgling mortality measurements. Species with brown labeling are cavity-nesting species with low nest predation rates. Fig. 2 Effects of nest predation rates on evolution of traits among songbird species. (A) Fledging age on a log10 scale and (B) growth rate of wings were strongly correlated with the rate that nests were depredated per day across 19 songbird species studied in Arizona, USA (see Fig. 1 for species). Statistics are from phylogenetic generalized least-squares (PGLS) analyses (20). Locomotor performance We assessed flight performance on fledge day among 11 songbird species (Fig. 1) that differ in their nest predation rates and associated fledging ages and wing growth rates (Fig. 2). We used high-speed videography of birds released from the hand on fledge day to measure their ability to fly (20). We found that flight performance was poorer in species that experienced higher nest predation rates (Fig. 3A) and fledged at younger ages (Fig. 3B). Differences among species in body mass did not explain additional variation in flight performance (P = 0.81, n = 11 species). Instead, relative wing development (that is, offspring wing size as a proportion of adult size) at fledging, which resulted from the interaction of fledging age (rp2 = 0.79, P < 0.001) and growth rate of wings (rp2 = 0.25, P = 0.048, n = 19 species), was the strongest predictor of flight performance at fledging (Fig. 3C). Fig. 3 Flight performance on the day that young fledge (leave the nest) relative to daily nest predation and phenotypic traits. (A to C) Flight performance (A) decreases with increasing nest predation risk per day and increases with (B) fledging age (days) and (C) relative wing size at fledging across 11 songbird species (Fig. 1) studied in Arizona, USA. Statistics are from PGLS analyses (20). Ultimately, species with higher nest predation rates and younger fledging ages left the nest with less developed wings that limited their ability to produce lift and could only support 0 to 50% of their body weight in the air. As a result, species that experienced the highest rates of nest predation and youngest fledging ages could generally fly <0.5 m on the day they fledged. In contrast, species with low nest predation rates that depart at older ages exhibited sustained flight (100% of weight supported) on fledge day (Fig. 3). Wing development is important for flight, and even flight-incapable young exhibit the ability to climb substrates using developing wings, providing a means of escaping predation (22). Thus, natural selection imposed by nest predation on age of fledging and wing growth rate explain significant variation in relative wing development and locomotor performance at fledging across songbird species. Locomotor performance and juvenile mortality We tested whether differences in wing development and locomotor capacity explained differences in juvenile mortality. We studied juvenile mortality among eight of the coexisting species of songbirds (Fig. 1) that are exposed to the same suite of predators and represented a gradient of fledging ages, from 9 to 21 days (table S1). We simultaneously examined whether relative mass at fledging (proportion of adults) influenced mortality. Relative mass of juveniles can reflect physiological condition, which is thought to influence juvenile mortality among diverse taxa [for example, see previous studies (23–25)], including songbird fledglings (8, 26). Relative wing length and relative mass increased with fledging age among the eight species (Fig. 4A). However, increases in relative mass reached an asymptote at adult size in species with older fledging ages, whereas relative wing length showed a continuous linear increase with fledging age across species (Fig. 4A). Fledgling mortality, measured using small (≤3.8% of body mass) radio transmitters (20), decreased across species as both relative mass and relative wing length increased, although the correlation was stronger for relative wing length (Fig. 4B). Fig. 4 Differences among eight species (Fig. 1) in relative size at fledging and the relationships to fledgling mortality (20). (A) Wing length as a proportion of adult size increases linearly with fledging age, while body mass asymptotes at adult size in species with older fledging ages. (B) Relative wing length at fledging as a proportion of adult size is more strongly correlated than relative mass with fledgling mortality. Delayed fledging experiment. We tested causality of the relative mass and wing development on juvenile mortality by conducting an experiment. We built small enclosures around nests of gray-headed juncos (Junco hyemalis) to delay fledging age for 3 days and allow a test of the effect of older fledging age on survival. Juncos nest on the ground and leave the nest at a relatively young age (11.4 ± 0.11 days) with poorly developed wings (60.3 ± 0.28% of adult size). The enclosure was 2 m in diameter and 2 m high but open at the top to allow parents to enter and feed the young (Fig. 5). Our enclosure was set up in stages starting 1 to 3 days before fledging to allow parents to habituate. Young fledged naturally from the nest but were prevented from leaving the immediate area around the nest and being exposed to predators until 3 days later, when we released them from the enclosure. Fig. 5 Gray-headed junco parent perched above enclosure. Parents perched above the enclosure opening to examine the offspring and situation below before entering to feed the young inside (photo by T.E.M.). Fledgling mass asymptotes near fledging such that relative mass did not differ significantly between control young that fledged at normal ages compared with enclosed young that were released 3 days later (Fig. 6A). In contrast, relative wing size increased substantially in young with delayed fledging age (Fig. 6, A and B). The top model from analyses of fledgling mortality included differences between treatments (control versus enclosure) plus relative wing length as a covariate (20). The model weight of 0.997 indicated virtually no explanatory power of alternatives. The next best model included mass but had a ΔAICc of 15.7 and essentially no model weight. Ultimately, mortality decreased across individual junco fledglings with increased wing lengths (Fig. 6C) within and between treatments. Fig. 6 Wing length and mass with respect to fledgling mortality rates. (A) Mass and wing length as a proportion of adult size in control versus experimentally enclosed nests for gray-headed junco. Control nests fledged at normal age (11 to 12 days), whereas enclosed nests prevented young from leaving for 3 days after fledging naturally to create a delayed fledge age. (B) Photos of typical wings of junco young from control versus experimentally delayed nests on fledging day versus release day, respectively. (C) Daily mortality rate (±1 SE) decreased among fledglings with increasing wing length at fledging in juncos. (D) Mortality rate of junco fledglings for the first week after fledging in nests where fledge age was experimentally delayed had substantially lower mortality rate than fledglings from control (normal fledge age) nests and comparable to other species based on wing length. (E) Daily mortality rate of fledglings and nestlings when based on estimates per offspring versus per brood across eight species. The line represents equal fledgling and nestling mortality rates. (F) Nest predation influences evolution of fledging age and growth rates of offspring with consequences for relative development when young fledge, which thereby influences locomotor performance and fledgling mortality. Fledgling mortality, in turn, feeds back to further influence evolution of the age of fledging and traits that affect performance and mortality, but parents and offspring conflict on the optimal fledging age. Fledgling mortality was significantly reduced for enclosed compared with control young (Fig. 6D), associated with the longer wings of delayed young (Fig. 6A). We conducted this delayed fledging experiment in 3 years that differed substantially in climate and environmental harshness and obtained similar treatment effects in every year. These results explain why mass was not important in modeling results, given that fledgling mortality decreased strongly in delayed young (Fig. 6D) but mass did not differ (Fig. 6A). Instead, the results reveal that flight ability is key for survival in fledglings of species that fledge at young ages, at least in this ecological system. Our field observations supported this conclusion. Flight performance of juncos at normal fledging age (Fig. 3) demonstrated that they could only support 22% of their body weight, and wing flapping only produced short hops and an ability to fly <0.5 m. In contrast, enclosed young that were released 3 days after normal fledging age were able to fly up to 30 m. This improved flight ability was associated with reduced rates of mortality, providing illuminating insight that variation in locomotor performance among species translates into fitness consequences in nature. Given improved survival of junco fledglings with delayed fledging age and better developed wings (Fig. 6D), why have they not evolved a later age of fledging? The decrease in mortality with greater wing development within juncos (Fig. 6C) demonstrates strong natural selection for better developed wings, obtained from staying in the nest longer (Fig. 6A). Similarly, across species, later age of fledging yields better developed wings (Fig. 4A) that reduced the probability of fledgling mortality (Fig. 6D), such that natural selection again favors older ages of fledging to improve flight performance and reduce risk of fledgling mortality. The problem they face in evolving later age of fledging and better developed wings is the increased nest predation costs that accrue from staying in the nest, which exerts counterselection on fledging age (Fig. 2A) and associated performance (Fig. 3). Parent-offspring conflict Fledging age is also influenced by an unrecognized parent-offspring conflict (27). Natural selection should favor fledging at an age where mortality in the nest equals mortality after leaving the nest (see line in Fig. 6E). Yet, daily mortality probability per offspring is slightly higher for fledglings than for nestlings (orange symbols in Fig. 6E are above the line of equal mortality rates). These results indicate that nestlings are leaving earlier than is optimal based on selection at the individual level for offspring; leaving later increases risk of nest predation but allows increased wing development and reduced fledgling mortality to bring the rates onto the line equaling nestling predation rates (Fig. 6E). However, fitness for parents differs from offspring because parental fitness is influenced by survival of any offspring in the brood, and this can favor earlier nest departure. The daily probability of mortality of the brood, where all offspring of the brood die, was lower for fledglings than nestlings (blue symbols in Fig. 6E are below the line). This occurs because the entire sedentary brood is almost always eaten when a predator discovers a nest, whereas fledglings are dispersed in space and mobile [reviewed in the study of Martin (4)] such that predation is usually not of the entire brood. For example, only 9% of junco broods had the entire brood of fledglings lost to mortality, whereas 38% of entire broods of nestlings discovered by a predator were depredated in the nest. Loss of the entire brood yields no fitness benefits for parents, whereas survival of even one fledgling increases the probability of fitness benefits to parents. Thus, parents gain greater chances of fitness benefits by getting young out of the nest earlier, even at the cost of less optimally developed juveniles. Earlier fledging increases mortality of fledglings but decreases nest predation risk to bring the brood mortality rates onto the line of equal nestling and fledgling mortality rates (Fig. 6E). Parents can influence the decision to leave the nest by holding food away from the nest and encouraging young to leave the nest to obtain the food (21). However, parents are not in total control because begging young can also manipulate parents (28). Thus, offspring fledge at an age that is later than optimal from the parents’ perspective and earlier than optimal from an offspring’s perspective, yielding a compromise between parents and offspring that balances risk of mortality in versus out of the nest. Ultimately, predation during an early life stage has been recognized to influence age of transition to the next life stage, with consequences for development of locomotor traits at transition among taxa (4, 16, 17, 21). We show that these effects have marked consequences for performance and mortality in the next life stage. In short, our results show that predation pressure upon juveniles in and out of the nest explains all components of the classic Morphology-Performance-Fitness paradigm (29). At the same time, the effect of development at transition on mortality in the next stage can feed back to further influence evolution of age of transition and phenotypic traits affecting mortality (Fig. 6F). Moreover, in taxa with parental care, like birds, a conflict between parents and offspring can further influence the age of transition (Fig. 6F). Juvenile mortality is an important influence on fitness and demography, but selection on traits to potentially mitigate mortality in one life stage can be constrained by selection acting on previous life stages. Consideration of the tension in mortality between life stages is critical for understanding evolution of transition age and locomotor traits and their consequences for the extensive variation in juvenile mortality across species. We studied 19 passerine species (Fig. 1) in north-central Arizona, USA (34°N) at about 2350-m elevation in mixed deciduous and coniferous forest (21, 30), although a subset of these species were studied for differing components of the work. Nest predation was studied for 31 years (1987–2017), and nestling growth was measured from 1999–2016. Flight performance was studied for 4 years (2013–2016), while fledgling mortality and enclosure experiments were studied for 3 years (2015–2017). Nest predation, nestling growth, and development time measurements Nest predation. Large numbers of nests were monitored following long-term protocols for species examined here (21, 30). Nests were generally checked every other day, but varying from 1 to 4 days to determine status and predation events. Nests were checked daily or twice daily near hatching and fledging to obtain exact nestling period durations and age of young at fledging. Fledging age was quantified as the number of days between the last egg hatched and the age of the last nestling to leave the nest (21). Nest predation was assumed when all nestlings disappeared more than 2 days before average fledging age, and parents could not be found feeding fledglings (21, 30). Nestling growth and development time measurements. Nestlings were weighed using GemPro 250 portable electronic scales (MyWeigh) with an accuracy of ±0.001 g. Wing chord length was measured using Mitutoyo digital calipers with a precision of 0.01 mm. Nestlings were weighed and measured every day for the first 3 days starting on hatch day and then every other day, or simply every other day beginning on hatch or the day after hatch. We sought to measure wings and mass on fledge day, measuring each day near fledge age. If the young had fledged earlier in the morning before we got to a nest, we spent time finding and catching the young for measurements. We calculated relative wing development and relative mass as size at fledging as a proportion of adult size. Flight performance measurements We used drop tests to measure nestling capacity to generate weight support using wing flapping among 11 species (Fig. 1). The experiment consisted of holding a nestling in one hand, the animal’s ventral side down, wings closed, and holding a golf ball in the other hand. Both hands were elevated 1.5 m above a soft foam cushion. The animal and ball were dropped by opening each hand. These drop tests were recorded to digital video using a GoPro 3 or GoPro 4 camera set to narrow view, sampling at 120 frames s−1, and placed perpendicular to the drop trajectory at a distance of 2 ± 0.5 m. We were able to record under bright sunlight conditions, which permitted the cameras to record at sufficient shutter rates to avoid blurring of images of the animal’s head and body, as well as the golf ball. We digitized the center of the head of the bird and the center of the ball using custom script (DLTdv5) (31) in MATLAB (v2015a, The MathWorks Inc.). To minimize unwanted effects of radial and tangential distortions imposed by the GoPro lenses, we limited our digitizing to the middle 75% of the fields of view. We used recently developed de-distortion software (Argus v1.0; Camera Calibrator app, Computer Vision Toolbox 8.0 in MATLAB) (32) to confirm that our results were not affected by lens distortion. After digitizing, we used IGOR Pro v6 to filter the data using smoothing splines (factor of 0.00005) and differentiate position with respect to frame number. This provided a velocity not scaled to metric coordinates (that is, Δpixels/Δframe) (vo). To calculate average nonscaled acceleration (ao) (Δpixels/Δframe/Δframe), we used a linear regression of vo with respect to frame number. To obtain the animal’s drop acceleration (aanimal) in SI units (meter per square second), we linearly transformed aanimal and the aball so that the aball = 9.805 m s−2, gravitational acceleration. Finally, we assessed flight ability as the capacity to support body weight by producing lift as 9.805 m s−2 − aanimal. Drop tests were performed on one individual per nest beginning at pin break and continuing daily until fledging. We calculated average acceleration (n ≥ 3 tests) using the three highest values of aanimal for a given species obtained 0 to 2 days before fledging. Our results for drop tests represented average production of aerodynamic force to counteract gravity; regressing vo with respect to frame number averaged effects of instantaneous variation in this force. Fledgling mortality measurements We outfitted nestlings with very small (0.39 g) radio transmitters for eight songbird species (Fig. 1) in each of three study years. We used a leg-harness attachment method modified with elastic thread to allow expansion as young grow (33). We placed the radios on young in the nest 1 to 3 days before normal fledge age. We then sought to locate each young every day for 7 days following fledging. We focused on the 7 days following fledging because most mortality occurred within the first few days after young left the nest (4, 6, 7). The eight species were chosen to represent a gradient in fledge age (table S1). Larger species for which transmitters represented the smallest mass additions did not experience lower mortality; fledgling mortality did not vary with mass of species (R2 = 0.03, P = 0.69, n = 8 species), indicating that transmitter mass did not cause fledgling mortality. Enclosure experiment We enclosed nests of gray-headed juncos (J. hyemalis) to delay fledging age by 3 days and allow a test of the effect of older fledging age on survival. We used five gray 2.5-cm-diameter pvc (polyvinyl chloride) pipes that were 2.5 m in length and tied together at the top and spread out at the bottom to create a teepee-shaped frame with a 2-m-diameter base. We raised a lightweight tarp with camouflaged color around this frame which eventually enclosed the nest, with the bottom of the tarp buried with dirt to prevent fledglings from escaping. We first set up the frame and placed the tarp on the ground to allow parents time to habituate to the change. Then, over 3 days, we slowly raised the tarp around the frame to a final height of 2 m with a small opening at the top. We fixed natural branches at the top of the opening to allow parents to perch and examine the contained young below (Fig. 5). We found that parents entered much more readily with these branches than without. Parents were able to fly down and straight up to the perches at the opening 2 m high, whereas fledglings could not. Young fledged naturally from the nest but were retained in the enclosure around the nest until 3 days later, when we released them from the enclosure and followed their daily survival. Growth rate estimation. We estimated growth rates of wing chord length using the logistic growth curve, where this approach estimates three parameters that are readily biologically interpretable based on the equationW(t)=A/(1+e(−k*(t−ti)))where W(t) denotes wing chord length of a nestling at time t, A is the asymptotic length that nestlings approach, ti is the inflection point of the curve, and k is the instantaneous rate of growth at the inflection point (20, 30). The growth rate constant, k, is a standardized measure of peak growth rate that is independent of absolute time and is widely used (20, 30). Growth rates of wing chords were estimated on the basis of all years of growth data through 2016. Nest predation rates. Daily nest predation rates of birds during the nestling period were estimated using the logistic exposure method (34) using R v3.1.2 for Windows (R Development Core Team). Nest predation was typically estimated at the level of the entire brood in the nest, as a function of the number of days a nest was observed being exposed to risk relative to the number of nests that were depredated. As such, predation was recorded when the entire brood was eaten (19). This approach has been used because the entire brood is almost always eaten when discovered by a predator. However, partial brood predation occurs on occasion. As a result, we also estimated nest predation at the level of individual nestlings on the basis of calculating exposure time and loss of individuals in each nest during the nestling period. Fledgling mortality rates. We used multistate extensions of Cormack-Jolly-Seber models for live encounter data for open populations to estimate fledgling mortality of seven species in the MARK program (35, 36). The small radio transmitters used in this study had a limited range, and young sometimes could not be found in the mountainous terrain. These young were often found dead or alive on a later day, but not always. As a result, undetected individuals were assigned an unknown status. We included this unknown status as a third state in addition to live and dead and estimated survival using transition probabilities (Ψ) in a multistate model (37). We also estimated fledgling survival for gray-headed juncos using the multistate approach above but included treatment (control and enclosure), mass, and wing length as covariates to examine their influence on variation in fledgling survival. We used Akaike’s information criteria, with adjustment for small sample sizes (AICc) for model selection (36). Finally, like nestling predation, we also calculated fledgling daily mortality at the level of the brood. We used a known-fate model implemented in MARK (35, 36) to estimate daily mortality for broods across all eight species. In this analysis, mortality of the brood was defined as “dead” when all fledglings of the brood died. Correction for phylogenetic effects. We corrected for phylogenetic effects in all analyses using PGLS analyses with the Caper (38) package in R v3.0.3 for Windows (R Development Core Team). Phylogenetic trees were obtained from www.birdtree.org (39) and imported into Mesquite (40), where a majority-rule consensus tree was constructed on the basis of 500 trees (Fig. 1). This consensus tree was then used in phylogenetically controlled analyses that incorporated Pagel’s λ to transform branch lengths and reduce overcorrection for phylogenetic effects (21). 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Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. Competing interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Author contributions: T.E.M. conceived the overarching study questions and designs in consultation with B.T. and K.P.D. T.E.M. wrote the initial draft of the manuscript, and all authors contributed to revisions. All authors contributed to data collection. B.T. and K.P.D. provided flight performance estimates. T.E.M., M.M.R., and S.B.C. designed the enclosure and collected the data for the delayed fledgling experiment. M.M.R. conducted the fledgling mortality analyses. T.E.M. conducted all other analyses of relationships presented in the manuscript. Data and materials availability: Data are available in Dryad: doi:10.5061/dryad.kv206p0; data files: Juvenile mortality performance data. 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__label__wiki	0.663168	0.663168	Your Map of Reality Was Written in the Womb: Falls from Grace, Chapter One — Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and the Phenomenon of Re-Experience Everything You “Know” About Life You Learned as a Fetus: Foundations of Myth and Mind and my Personal Involvement with This Research into Our Actual “Human Nature” Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and the Phenomenon of Re-Experience Prenatal and perinatal psychology is the field that deals with the effects of events occurring prior to (prenatal) and surrounding (perinatal) the time of birth upon later life and personality. An ever increasing amount though certainly not all of the information we have about these periods of our lives and their effects is derived through the later and vivid remembering of these events in a phenomenon known as re-experience. Correspondingly, the two most frequently asked questions about this relatively new field, put by those initially encountering it, are those concerning the specific meanings of the terms perinatal and re-experience. At the outset, I wish to present an explanation of these two terms and of my unique personal relation to this topic as well as some of my background in exploring it. I will follow this with an historical overview of the field of prenatal and perinatal psychology, which will reveal the key concepts and understandings employed throughout this book. Re-Experience and Reliving For over forty years, beginning in 1972 when I was a senior undergraduate in college, I have been involved both personally and professionally in a comprehensive investigation into the phenomenon of re-experience. Also called reliving, this phenomenon is reported to consist of a full somato-cognitive remembering of previous events in a person’s life. Reliving involves experiential but also observable and measurable components, such as brain wave changes, characteristic physiological and neurological changes, and typical observable body movements. This phenomenon can occur, to varying degrees, in many consciousness-altering modalities—including hypnosis, LSD psychotherapy, primal therapy, rebirthing, and holotropic breathwork; to a considerable degree in re-evaluation co-counseling and treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder; and, occasionally and spontaneously, even in mainstream forms of psychotherapy, counseling, and “growth seminars.” Re-experience is a more vivid and more completely somatic catharsis than what has been described in psychotherapy in terms of abreaction. It is in such contrast to normal abreaction that when these seemingly bizarre yet healing events have spontaneously erupted in traditional or mainstream Western contexts they have usually been mistakenly labeled psychotic, been intervened upon, and then aborted—via drugs and other highly coercive measures—by the attending therapeutic authorities. However, with an increasing appreciation for their therapeutic value, these events are gradually becoming understood and accepted in therapeutic contexts and thus allowed to complete themselves and to instruct the participants and observers in their meanings. Therefore, they appear to represent something new in our culture in terms of both a way of approaching knowledge and in terms of the kinds of information that are discovered (Grof 1976, 1985; Hannig 1982; Janov 1971; Lake 1966/1986; Noble, 1993; Stettbacher, 1992). My Relationship to the Phenomenon of Re-Experience My interest in the phenomenon of reliving began forty-four years ago at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. As an undergraduate there I was most inspired by a course in religious studies titled “Religious and Psychological Approaches To Self-Understanding.” I was so inspired by the course that I constructed my major around its topic and initially even used the same title for my program’s name. This major in “self-understanding” would lead me, in a few years, to a profound interest in and exploration of primal therapy, as presented by Arthur Janov (1970) in his much-publicized book, The Primal Scream: Primal Therapy: The Cure for Neurosis. By 1972, I had completed all but the one final semester for a B.A. That semester was to include the cumulative project—required of such a Special Studies (individually structured) major. However, since my project would focus on primal therapy and one of primal therapy’s basic premises is that knowledge cannot really be known except through experience, I could not in good conscience turn in a project describing primal therapy without first experiencing it. Consequently I withdrew from college, for what was supposed to be only a semester, with the intention of “going through” primal therapy and then returning to school to write my cumulative project on it. In those days, the entire process of primal therapy was reputed to take only three to six months. But a lot was unknown about that modality in those early days. As it turned out, I would not return to school to complete that final project until 1978—at which point I had five years’ experience of primal therapy behind me and was living in Denver, Colorado. In addition to these experiences, I have amassed a broad array of other experience and training over the years that have contributed to my understanding of re-experience and of this field in general. Besides my two decades and more of primal therapy … both formally and in “the buddy system” … I have received training as a primal therapist. I am also a trained rebirther, having explored that modality since 1986. I have been experientially exploring the modality of holotropic breathwork since 1987 and did training with Stanislav and Christina Grof in that technique. Finally, I have been facilitating people in their journeys into deep inner primal and holotropic states since 1975. I’ve given individual sessions in all three modalities of primal therapy, rebirthing, and holotropic breathwork. And with my wife, Mary Lynn Adzema, I conducted three day workshops in something we called primal breathwork. I’ve conducted two-day group workshops in this modality at conferences, which were attended by as many as sixty experiencers at a time. Thus, I have experience in my own process in these modalities; but in addition I have facilitated for others on many occasions, and at times, it was my main profession—though most of my life I have spent in writing, teaching, and research. Pre- and Perinatal Re-Experience Re-experience of birth and of the events immediately prior to and after birth are termed perinatal—from the Greek, literally “surrounding birth.” It has been widely described at this point by a number of authors but is most closely associated with the work of Stanislav Grof, Arthur Janov, and Frank Lake. However, one significant and as yet little explored or understood phenomenon, arising also from the modalities mentioned, is that of prenatal re-experience. In this case, the experiencer reports … and observationally appears to be … experiencing events that happened en utero, sometimes going back as far as sperm, egg, and zygote states (Buchheimer 1987; Farrant 1987; Grof 1976, 1985; Hannig 1982; Janov 1983; Lake 1981, 1982; Larimore 1990a, 1990b; Larimore & Farrant, 1995). These reports of remembering experiences that occurred before birth are at such variance with Western professional and popular paradigms that they are met with near-universal incredulity and, too often, premature dismissal. Yet the evidence from the mounting numbers of experiential reports and empirical studies attests that something which is at least unique and interesting is going on here. Nevertheless, much of this prenatal information is thus far unformulated, untheorized, and unintegrated into a coherent structure for making sense of these experiences. This book will go a long way toward doing just that—making sense of prenatal experiences and exploring the implications and prospects of the knowledge gleaned from this fascinating new area of research and which arises from the vision that an exposure to this material induces. The present work represents an attempt to bring this new information concerning our origins and our earliest experiences into such a coherent structure. After the initial overview of the field to be presented in this chapter, I deepen that review of the current understanding and findings in this area in making a case, in Chapter Two, for the legitimacy of prenatal spirituality. First, let us take a closer look at what we know about the time before and around birth and what it means for us throughout our lives. Overview of the Pre- and Perinatal Psychology Field—Early Theorists: Psychoanalysis and Birth Sigmund Freud — Birth as Prototype for All Anxiety While Freud (1927) disregarded major effects of birth on personality, he still saw the birth experience as the prototype of all later anxiety. His overall disregard of birth, however, was largely influenced by the belief—although discredited (see Chamberlain, 1988), still common in mainstream psychology and medicine today—that a newborn does not possess the neurological capacity for consciousness at birth. Otto Rank — Psychoanalysis, Birth Trauma, Foundations of Personality and Some Myth, Separation Anxiety Other early psychoanalysts disagreed with Freud on this. Otto Rank is the most notable of these. Following Freud’s basic psychoanalytic reasoning for personality patterns in early infancy, he asserted basic patterns of experience and ideas that are rooted in even earlier experience. Rank (1929) claimed the deepest, most fundamental patterns of these personality constructs originated at the time of birth, which Freud thought was not possible. Based upon the dream, fantasy, and other patterns of associations arising in his patients in psychoanalysis, Rank postulated a birth trauma, which he saw as a critical event in laying down in each of us particular patterns of thinking, motivation, and emotion for the rest of our lives. Notable among these prototypes was a feeling of a paradise once known but somehow lost, a separation anxiety caused by the separation at birth, and a resulting futile and lifelong struggle to re-unite with that golden age and that early beloved because of a desire to return to the womb. Nandor Fodor — Dreamwork, Birth and Prenatal Processing and Relivings, Prenatal Origins of Consciousness and Trauma Also a psychoanalyst, Nandor Fodor (1949) focused on the reflections of birth and prenatal material in dreams. He also designed interventions in therapy to release the negative effects of birth and to process prenatal memories. He was the first to mention actual relivings of birth, in which veridical memories were recovered. He agreed with Rank on many points, but he stressed the origins of consciousness and of trauma being in the prenatal period. Donald W. Winnicott — First Primal Therapist? Birth Relivings, Importance of Birth—Negative Imprints but Positive Effects, Too Another psychoanalyst, and pediatrician as well, Winnicott (1958) also held that birth is remembered and is important. He insisted that the birth trauma is real, but he disagreed with Rank and Fodor that it is always traumatic. He suggested that a normal, nontraumatic, birth has many positive benefits, particularly for ego development. Still, he contended that traumatic birth is permanently etched in memory and leaves a lifetime psychological scar. Winnicott (1958) also suggested the possibility of prenatal trauma. He has been called the first primal therapist in that he described the first birth primals—actual observable relivings of birth—spontaneously occurring by some of his patients during their sessions with him. Thus he was beginning the trend beyond mere talking association or dream analysis as ways of accessing and integrating this material. Overview of the Pre- and Perinatal Psychology Field — Later Research and Theorists: Hypnosis, Primal Therapy, and Birth David Cheek and Leslie LeCron — Hypnosis, Birth Memories and Imprints on Personality and Relation to Psychiatric Disorders Cheek and LeCron (1968) used hypnosis to retrieve early memories in their patients. They discovered that memories earlier than what they expected, going back to birth, were possible. Importantly, a relief of symptoms seemed to follow from the re-experience of these birth memories. They came to the conclusion that a birth imprint occurs, which is induced by the extreme stress of that time and is resistant to fading from later experience. Further they asserted that this imprint could be the cause of a wide spectrum of psychiatric and psychosomatic disorders. Leslie Feher — Psychoanalysis, Birth, Cutting of Umbilical Cord, Separation Trauma Leslie Feher (1980) sought to extend the Freudian tradition farther back into areas that, she asserts, were until only recently unknowable. Thus, she describes a natal theory and therapy that includes experiences of cutting the umbilical cord, birth, and even prebirth. In fact, she considers the cutting of the umbilical cord to be central in her theory of trauma, calling it the “crisis umbilicus,” and echoes Fodor in claiming that it is the true origin of the castration fears made so much of in psychoanalysis. This is so because, according to Feher, the cord and placenta is an object of security and is considered by the fetus to be part of him- or herself. Thus, this cutting represents a supreme threat in being a separation from a total life support system, a major organ, a part of oneself. In these ways, she also brings forward for renewed appreciation Rank’s speculations on the element of separation trauma as a crucial element of the birth trauma. Arthur Janov — Primal Therapy, Traumas of Birth and Early Life and Healing Them, Empirical Foundations and Neurophysiology of Early Events and Healing Perhaps the major theorist and popularizer of the phenomenon of re-experience (which he termed primaling), Janov was reluctant to acknowledge the pervasiveness of pre- and perinatal re-experience and trauma. Yet when he did, it was in a major work on birth trauma, which remains as a touchstone in the field in its depth and detail. Imprints: The Lifelong Effects of the Birth Experience, published in 1983, among other things places birth as the determining factor in creating basic personality constructs, called sympathetic and parasympathetic, which roughly coincide with the more common terms introversion and extroversion. This work is more empirical and neurophysiologically rooted than most in the field. While the book is recognized in the field, Janov and his work have not gotten anywhere near the respect and attention that they deserve. He remains the unfortunate kicking-boy of a movement that is itself scapegoated by the academy and the larger scientific community. Thomas Verny — Primal Therapy, Birth, Especially Womb Life and Relation to Personality … Prenatal Mother-Infant Bonding The actual stimulus for a new field of pre- and perinatal psychology and the Association for Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Health—APPPAH was Thomas Verny’s (1981) The Secret Life of the Unborn Child. His work brought together a good deal of the new empirical research that had opened the doors to us on the events in the womb. While himself a practitioner of “holistic primal therapy,” he integrated the accumulating data from the phenomenon of re-experience with the new information from the more traditional, “objective,” scientific research into the prenatal—made possible by the latest advances in technology. One of his conclusions from this combination of lines of inquiry was that “birth and prenatal experiences form the foundations of human personality” (1981, p. 118). His other conclusions center around the importance of intrauterine bonding in that his research strongly suggests that the prenate, via pathways hormonal and unknown, picks up on the thoughts, feelings, and attitudes of the mother. More importantly, he asserted, the imprint of these factors on the fetus predetermines the later mother-child relationship. He emphasized that positive thoughts and feelings toward the fetus—”maternal love”—acts to cushion the new individual against the normal stresses and unavoidable harshness inherent in birth and early infancy. Yet all of this cannot be completely avoided. “Birth is like death to the newborn,” writes Verny (1984, p. 48). David Chamberlain — Hypnosis, Confirmed Validity of Birth Memories David Chamberlain (1988), for many years the president of APPPAH (the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health), has further substantiated the claim of consciousness at birth and the accuracy of pre- and perinatal memory in the phenomenon of re-experience. He reported one study he did in which he compared hypnotically retrieved memories of birth from mother and child and found an astonishing degree of conformity in their responses. Of note was the degree of inner consistency and originality in these memories as reported by the former neonate. They often contained technical details of the delivery and labor unlike what would be expected of the medically unsophisticated, a perceptive critique of the way the birth was handled, and other details of the event that could not have been known through normal conscious channels. Overview of the Pre- and Perinatal Psychology Field — Later Theorists: Societal Implications, Psychohistory, Birth and Prenatal Lloyd deMause — Psychohistory, Prenatal and Poisonous Placenta, Sociohistorical Implications of Gestational and Birth Events Lloyd deMause (1982, 1987) was instrumental in establishing the new interdisciplinary field of psychohistory. In his study of historical happenings he discovered that stages in the progression of events related to stages in the progression of gestation and birth … which stages happened to correspond, by the way, remarkably well with Stanislav Grof‘s four stages of birth, his Basic Perinatal Matrices. He found that natal imagery especially predominates in societies during times of crisis and war, when national purpose and state of affairs are construed as a need to escape or break free from an enclosing and constricting force. He also noted the suffering fetus and the poisonous placenta as sources of these later metaphors and imagery. In fact, in studying the imagery in the national media of various countries he has been able to predict political, social, and economic events such as wars and invasions, recessions, and political downfalls. His work begins to look at the prenatal influences and imprints and how they related to macrocosmic issues of politics, history, social movements, and issues of war and peace. Later Theorists — Dream Analysis Francis Mott — Conception and Gestational Basis of Myth, Archetype, all Patterns of Macrocosmic and Microcosmic Realities and the Nature of Reality, Devolutional Model of Development Francis Mott’s work is less well known even by this field’s standards, yet it is undeniably impressive. Mott’s (1960, 1964) major contribution lies in his focusing on basic patterns of mind and cosmos that correlate with prenatal feelings and states. He traced consciousness back to events around conception and saw these events as instituting patterns affecting all later experience and conceptual constructions. Through dream analysis he elicited these “configurations,” and he demonstrated their manifestation as seemingly universal archetypes in myths and universal human assumptions about the nature of reality. In fact, through his study of womb and conception patterns he claimed to have discovered patterns that underlie and unite all of reality at all levels of manifestation—astronomical, social, personal, cellular, and even nuclear. While this may seem rather grandiose, his work was highly regarded and admired by Carl Jung. Mott also carried forward the intimations of earlier prenatal theoreticians, notably Rank and Fodor, on the gestational basis of archetypes. While he does not address or seek to discredit the range of, supposedly genetic, archetypes postulated by Jung, his work is highly suggestive of an experiential, specifically, pre- and perinatal, as opposed to genetic basis for many of these. Denial and Incest Taboo Mott (1960) also helped us to understand why if these prenatal memories are possible they are not more prevalent by suggesting denial is necessary in order to protect against incestuous feelings that might arise around feelings remembered from being inside one’s mother. Devolutional Model of Consciousness Development Finally, he made the postulation—hugely relevant to the theme of this work—that our original expanded capacity to feel is diminished, as he says, “divided,” by experience not increased by it. The idea is that there is a reduction in awareness as a result of early traumatic events, beginning around conception and then on, and not the buildup of consciousness and feeling that we assume from the mechanistic paradigm that sees consciousness as a byproduct of increasing physical, specifically brain, activity during our early years. (See, for example, The Doors of Perception: Each of Us Is Potentially Mind At Large… When Perception Is Cleansed, All Kinds of Nonordinary Things Happen and Occupy Science … A Call for a Scientific Awakening: In Tossing Away Our Species Blinders, We Approach a Truth Far Beyond Science.) Later Theorists — Breathwork Stanislav Grof — Breathwork, LSD, Birth and Prenatal, Myth and Archetype, Spiritual and Consciousness A pioneer in this prenatal area is Stanislav Grof (1976, 1980, 1985, 1990, to name a few). His many works, providing a framework for conceptualizing perinatal and transpersonal experiences, are a profound and useful starting point for an investigation into this area. In his use of LSD beginning in 1956 for psychotherapy, called psycholytic therapy, he discovered four levels of experience of the unconscious: the sensory, the biographical, the perinatal, and the transpersonal. He noted a tendency for growth and healing to occur in a progressive way through these levels. The sensory band is the level of expanded sensory awareness and is usually initially encountered by participants. The biographical band is the realm of the personal unconscious wherein unintegrated and traumatic memories and material from childhood and one’s personal history are retrieved, often relived, and integrated. The perinatal level of experience usually follows after dealing with the biographical material and involves the remembering, re-experiencing, and integrating of material that is related to the time prior to and surrounding birth. The transpersonal band, the level of spiritual experience, is usually reached after dealing with the other three levels. Four Modes of Experiencing—the Basic Perinatal Matrices Grof has also delineated four matrices of experience, four general experiential constructs, which he called basic perinatal matrices (BPMs). He discovered that experiences at all levels of the unconscious often group themselves in four general ways that are roughly related to the four stages of birth. Thus, Basic Perinatal Matrix I (BPM I) is related to the generally blissful or “oceanic” feelings that often characterize the fetus’s state in the womb in early and middle pregnancy. BPM II is characterized by “no exit,” hellish feelings that are related to the situation of the fetus in late pregnancy when the confines of the womb become ever more apparent but there is as yet no indication of any possibility of relief. BPM III relates to the birth process itself, the birth struggle, which is still characterized by feelings of compression and suffering but in which there is movement and change and thus hope of relief through struggle. If BPM II can be compared to hell, where there is no hope, BPM III is more like purgatory. Finally, BPM IV relates to the actual entry into the world, the termination of the birthing process, and is characterized by feelings of triumph, relief, and high, even manic, elation. In his descriptions of the levels of experience and the matrices of perinatal experience, Grof has provided useful maps of the unconscious and experience in nonordinary states, which have incredible heuristic value in our understanding of cross-cultural religious and spiritual experience, psychopathology, personal growth, and consciousness and personality in general. And they have been utilized successfully in providing a context and guide for many tens of thousands of participants in his psycholytic and holotropic therapies. However, while Grof is exhaustive in his descriptions of fetal and perinatal experience, he says less about the earlier experiences in the womb—the first trimester—and even less about conception and the experiences of sperm and egg—what is known as cellular consciousness. Still, this area is beginning to be discussed among his followers. And through his current nondrug modality, called holotropic breathwork, people are accessing these areas and beginning to give word to them (e.g., Carter, 1993). Frank Lake—Breathwork, First Trimester, Early Experience as Foundation for Myths Frank Lake, though less well-known again, has probably been the premier theoretician on the topic of prenatal events during the first three months of gestation. Just prior to his death in the early eighties, he wrote a culmination of his thirty-year investigation into pre- and perinatal influence in two works titled Tight Corners in Pastoral Counselling and The First Trimester. In these works he goes beyond his other works (for example, 1966) in placing the roots of all later experience, and in particular, distress, at the first three months of physical existence. Lake began his investigation of re-experience in 1954. Like Stanislav Grof, he did this using LSD, initially, in the psycholytic therapy that was being developed at that time to facilitate therapeutic abreaction. Later he, again like Grof, developed a nondrug modality to accomplish the same thing. His method of “primal therapy” employed a type of fast breathing—again, like Grof’s later technique—to access theta-wave brain levels, which are levels of consciousness that he saw as crucial to accessing and integrating these memories. His thirty-year research led him to the realization of the importance of ever earlier experience. Thus his earlier stress on the importance of birth gave way to his later emphasis on the first trimester in 1981 (Tight Corners in Pastoral Counselling) and in 1982 (The First Trimester). He stressed the maternal-fetal distress syndrome, beginning at around implantation, as a major time of trauma. He also described a blastocystic stage of relative bliss just prior to that. His one other major disagreement with Grof was his belief that the mythological and symbolical elements described by Grof were a product of LSD and that the first trimester events were the actual roots of much of such symbolism and supposed transpersonal/mythological scenarios (1981, p. 35). Later Theorists — Myth and Sacred Text/Mysticism S. Giora Shoham — Devolutional Model of Development, Falls from Grace While not strictly a pre- and perinatal psychologist, I include this too little-known theoretician and criminologist because of the close relationship and influence his work has had upon my own work regarding these Falls from Grace. Falls from Grace and other devolutional models of consciousness postulate that during life and over time, beginning at conception, we actually are reduced in consciousness and awareness, not increased in it, and it corresponds to a “brain as reducing valve” theory of consciousness. (Again, See The Doors of Perception and Occupy Science.) While I initially constructed and wrote down my devolutional theory of consciousness—Falls from Grace—without the benefit of Shoham’s work, upon discovering it I could not help but be both confirmed and reinspired by the astounding resonance his understanding has with my own. Shoham (1979, 1990) starts his devolutional model in the womb and carries it through birth, weaning, and the oedipal periods of development. Though, as I delineate in Part Two, I disagree with his model by beginning mine at the creation of sperm and egg—as does other devolutional theorists like Francis Mott and David Wasdell—in virtually all other major instances his model corresponds to my own if one simply … in keeping with a normal trend in child development in general as it begins to integrate the new pre- and perinatal evidence … places everything back a little farther in time—in this case, specifically, one stage back. Later Prenatal Psychology Theorists — Cellular Memory and Conception, Foundations of Myth and Personality, Spirituality and Soul Lietaert Peerbolte — Conception and Cellular Memory, Soul, Spirituality Peerbolte (1954) was one of the earliest theorists to relate spirituality to conception and sperm/egg dynamics. In addition to claiming that a regression to conception is the inevitable result of all prenatal states, he traced the sense of “I” — the “I-function” — back to the egg, existing even in the mother’s ovaries. He further postulated that the spiritual self was invisibly present within the field of attraction between the egg and the sperm. Correspondingly, he was the first to point out that the existence of conception, preconception, and even ovulation symbolism in dreams indicates the existence of a soul. For, he asked, what mind records these events otherwise? I wrote the article, “A Primal Perspective on Spirituality,” which later became the next chapter in this book before I knew about Peerbolte’s work. Yet, once again the conclusions I came to, especially about the existence of soul being established by the fact of these memories and especially those at the cellular levels of sperm and egg existence, are very much in line with his. Michael C. Irving — Primal Therapy, Birth, Sperm, Egg, Myth, Dragon Symbolism, Prehistoric Cult and Ritual Michael C. Irving is a primal therapist whose contributions include his relation of these earliest events from sperm and egg through the birth experience to fundamental mythological motifs and images across cultures. The originator of a way of interpretation that he calls natalism, he has brought together a host of artistic and artifactual images from a wide range of time periods and cultures which relate, with an astonishing degree of accuracy, to actual pre- and perinatal events. In particular, he has traced the universal serpent/dragon motifs and mythology to birth and sperm experience, noting, among other things, that the serpent/dragon shape represents the birth canal or tunnel, that the fire-spewing characteristics of dragons relate to consuming pain, and that the constricting characteristics of snakes correspond to the constriction of the birth canal. Of great interest is his deduction that the widely prevalent snake and dragon cults, which were especially popular in prehistory, indicate an attempt to deal with such unfinished birth trauma material as we are only now, in modern times, rediscovering the importance of doing. Graham Farrant — Primal Therapy; Sperm, Egg, Cellular Consciousness; Soul and Spirituality Graham Farrant (1987; Buchheimer 1987), a psychiatrist and primal therapist from Australia, is probably the most influential and well-known of those discussing the phenomena that occur at the earliest times of our lives. In addition to echoing Frank Lake in describing fetal, implantation, and blastocyst feelings, he has been able to elicit and describe sperm and egg imprints. He has found trauma from these earliest events to influence lifelong patterns of personality and behavior. He produced a notable video in which segments from the widely acclaimed movie “The Miracle of Life,” which shows actual footage of gamete and zygote events, are juxtaposed via a split-screen with actual footage of a person reliving the exact same events in primal therapy, which occurred before such cellular events were ever able to be seen and recorded. The effect is astounding in the detail in which the relivings replicate the actual cellular happenings. In addition to his emphasis on cellular consciousness, Farrant has stressed the spiritual aspects of these earliest events. He relates incidents of spiritual trauma at the cellular level in which the individual splits off from Divinity—thus setting up a lifelong feeling of loss and yearning and a desire to return to Unity and the Divine. Paul Brenner — Sperm, Egg, Cellular Consciousness and Biological Foundations of Myths Paul Brenner (1991), a biologist and obstetrician, has been presenting at conferences and in workshops on the idea of the biological foundations of myth. For example, he relates basic biological, cellular events to biblical events described in Genesis. He also relates male and female adult behavior to basic patterns of sperm and egg behavior and to events prior to and surrounding conception. He has said that male and female behavior are just sperm and egg activity grown up! Elizabeth Noble — Cellular Consciousness and Spirituality, Empirical Underpinnings Elizabeth Noble (1993) is an educator in the field of pregnancy and childbirth and is a student of Farrant’s. She published a comprehensive overview of this new field, titled Primal Connections, in which she doesn’t hesitate to stress the issues of cellular consciousness and the spirituality that appears to coincide with the re-experience of these earliest events. She provides empirical and theoretical avenues for understanding how memory can occur at such early times. Some of these are consistent with mainstream physicalist science while others coincide with the cutting-edge, new-paradigm discoveries in fields such as biology, physics, and neuroscience. David Wasdell — Sperm/Egg and First Trimester Imprints, Devolutional Model of Development, Social and Historical Implications One of the more recent theoreticians in this area is David Wasdell. Wasdell’s (1979, 1985a, 1985b, 1990) major contribution lies in his relating these earliest events to social and cultural patterns. He describes a process of devolution of consciousness beginning at around conception and proceeding through other reductions caused by traumas at implantation, in the womb, and at birth. Most importantly, he delineates how the result of this diminution of potentiality is projected outwards into the problems and crises of violence, wars, and the mediocrity of modern personality on the scale of the masses and the macrocosms of the group, society, and global events. In describing the problems of “normality” as rooted in a deprivational and deformational series of traumas from our earliest biological history, Wasdell emphasizes that this gives us the possibility to change that tragic social and personality outcome by focusing on the prevention and healing of such traumas. Thus, he holds out the vision of a new person and new society as an outcome of the efforts directed at the earliest laying down of human experience. The Importance of the Intrauterine for Understanding Our Times and the Goal of This Book Despite this long legacy of work and thought in this pre- and perinatal area, much of it, especially the prenatal, remains ignored by mainstream psychology and is largely unavailable to the public. Within the field itself, in addition, the prenatal information, in relation to the more widely accepted and circulated perinatal evidence, seems to be analogous to Otto Rank’s (1929) ideas of birth trauma were to Sigmund Freud’s concerning early infancy in that they are cast under an extra cloud of suspicion and disbelief and disregarded accordingly. Yet, like Rank’s findings also, their main problem may lie with unfamiliarity and prejudice rather than validity or scientific viability; and these findings, like his were, may end up harkening the outlines of future endeavors and being confirmed by subsequent research. Thus, I believe that this prenatal area in particular is ripe for reaping what it can teach us about what is human, about “human nature.” Therefore, this book will put forth the possible relationship between our earliest ontogenetic experiences as humans and the structure of human consciousness and stages of human “development.” I build a model that seeks an initial formulation of this information, teasing out its implications, and integrating it with relevant thinking and theoretical perspectives in anthropology, philosophy, psychology, and others. However, before proceeding, it seems important to establish this pursuit within the logical-empirical framework that validates it. To do this, let us now turn to the re-experience movement I am most familiar with and feel to be the most important, primal therapy, and discuss its relation to the phenomenon of prenatal re-experience and spirituality. Continue with How Valid Are Spiritual Experiences? Psychedelic Research and Deep Experiential Psychotherapy Have Intensified the Exploration of Spiritual Aspects of the Unconscious Return to Falls from Grace, Introduction — The Radical Rational View of Us and It: “Normal” Truth Is Convenient Truth … and Is Anything But True Posted in Anthropology, authenticity, being yourself, Birth, Child Abuse, Consciousness, Evolution, God, individualism, life, meaning, Metaphysics, Mystical, nonconform, Philosophy, Primal Spirit, Primal Spirituality, Psychology, Religion, Spirituality Tags: abreaction, answers, anxiety, apocalypse, APPPAH, Arthur Janov, associations, attitudes, awareness, basic patterns, Basic Perinatal Matricies, Birth, birth primals, birth trauma, body movements, bonding, book, BPM, brain wave, brain waves, Buchheimer, buddy system, castration, catharsis, centaurs, change, child development, child-caring, child-rearing, Christina Grof, climate, college, conferences, Consciousness, counseling, crisis umbilicus, CULTURE, current-events, David Chamberlain, David Cheek, death, delivery, denial, Denver, desire, die, Donald W Winnicott, downfall, dream analysis, dreams, dreamwork process, drugs, ecocide, economics, egg, Ego, ego development, emotion, en utero, Environment, experience, experiential psychotherapy, extinction, extroversion, factors, fantasy, Farrant, fear, feelings, fetus, forces, Frank Lake, Franklin and Marshall College, gestation, God, golden age, growth seminar, Hannig, healing, health, historical overview, history, holotropic breathwork, holotropic breathwork re-evaluation co-counseling, human nature, human tendencies, humanicide, humanity, humans, humanticide, hypnosis, ignorance, imprint, imprints, incest taboo, infancy, introversion, journey, key concepts, knowledge, labor, Lancaster, Larimore, Leslie Feher, Leslie LeCron, life, Lloyd Demause, LSD psychotherapy, mainstream psychology, major, maternal love, matrix, medicine, memories, mental-health, mind, modalities, modality, motivation, movements, myth, myth and mind, Nandor Fodor, Nature, neonate, neurological changes, neurology, neurophysiology, newborn, nuclear, oblivion, origin, Otto Rank, pain, paradigm, paradise, parenting, patients, patterns, peace, perinatal, perinatal psychology, personal involvement, personal relation, personality, personality patterns, perspective, phenomenon, planet, poisonous placenta, politics, post traumatic stress disorder, pre- and perinatal psychology, prenatal, prenatal and perinatal psychology, prenate, primal breathwork, primal therapist, primal therapy, primaling, problems, profession, promising, psyche, psychiatric disorders, psychoanalysis, psychohistory, psychology, psychology field, psychosis, psychotherapy, PTSD, questions, re-experience, rebirthing, religion, reliving, remembering, research, reunion, revolution, roots, scapegoat, science, security, self-destructive, self-understanding, separation anxiety, separation trauma, sigmund freud, society, species, sperm, spiritual growth, spirituality, Stanislav Grof, stress, structure, struggle, suffering, suffering fetus, symptoms, teaching, technique, template, The Primal Scream, theorists, theory, therapy, thinking, Thomas Verny, threat, time of birth, training, transformation, trauma, traumas, truth, umbilical cord, unconscious, understanding, universal archetypes, war, wave changes, womb, workshop, worldview, wounded deer and centaurs, writing, zeitgeist., zygote The Template for All You Think Was Created at Birth: Overview of the Pre- and Perinatal Psychology Field — Early Theorists, Psychoanalysis, and Birth We Are a Fever, Part Two — The Evidence That Life’s Blueprint Is Written at Birth: Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology Overview — Early Theorists, Psychoanalysis, and Birth Also a psychoanalyst, Fodor (1949) focused on the reflections of birth and prenatal material in dreams. He also designed interventions in therapy to release the negative effects of birth and to process prenatal memories. He was the first to mention actual relivings of birth, in which veridical memories were recovered. He agreed with Rank on many points, but he stressed the origins of consciousness and of trauma being in the prenatal period. Feher (1980) sought to extend the Freudian tradition farther back into areas that, she asserts, were until only recently unknowable. Thus, she describes a natal theory and therapy that includes experiences of cutting the umbilical cord, birth, and even prebirth. In fact, she considers the cutting of the umbilical cord to be central in her theory of trauma, calling it the “crisis umbilicus,” and echoes Fodor in claiming that it is the true origin of the castration fears made so much of in psychoanalysis. This is so because, according to Feher, the cord and placenta is an object of security and is considered by the fetus to be part of him- or herself. Thus, this cutting represents a supreme threat in being a separation from a total life support system, a major organ, a part of oneself. In these ways, she also brings forward for renewed appreciation Rank’s speculations on the element of separation trauma as a crucial element of the birth trauma. David Chamberlain (1988), for many years the president of APPPAH, has further substantiated the claim of consciousness at birth and the accuracy of pre- and perinatal memory in the phenomenon of re-experience. He reported one study he did in which he compared hypnotically retrieved memories of birth from mother and child and found an astonishing degree of conformity in their responses. Of note was the degree of inner consistency and originality in these memories as reported by the former neonate. They often contained technical details of the delivery and labor unlike what would be expected of the medically unsophisticated, a perceptive critique of the way the birth was handled, and other details of the event that could not have been known through normal conscious channels. Lloyd deMause (1982, 1987) was instrumental in establishing the new interdisciplinary field of psychohistory. In his study of historical happenings he discovered that stages in the progression of events related to stages in the progression of gestation and birth … which stages happened to correspond, by the way, remarkably well with Stanislav Grof‘s four stages of birth, his Basic Perinatal Matrices, as we shall see. His work begins to look at the prenatal influences and imprints and how they related to macrocosmic issues of politics, history, social movements, and issues of war and peace. His work is extremely relevant to the issues of this book and we will be returning to him again and again in this work. Continue with Everything You “Know” About Religion You Learned as a Fetus: We Are a Fever, Part Three — Later Prenatal Psychology Theorists — Breathwork, Myth, and Consciousness Return to We Are a Fever, Part One: Perinatal Psychology, the Phenomenon of Re-Experience, and my Personal Involvement with This Research into Our Actual “Human Nature” Posted in Anthropology, authenticity, being yourself, Birth, Child Abuse, Consciousness, Environmentalism, Evolution, individualism, life, meaning, Philosophy, Primal Spirit, Primal Spirituality, Psychology, Religion, Spirituality Tags: anxiety, APPPAH, Arthur Janov, associations, attitudes, Basic Perinatal Matricies, Birth, birth primals, birth trauma, bonding, BPM, castration, Consciousness, crisis umbilicus, CULTURE, current-events, David Chamberlain, David Cheek, delivery, desire, die, Donald W Winnicott, downfall, dreams, dreamwork process, economics, Ego, ego development, emotion, experience, extroversion, factors, fantasy, fear, feelings, fetus, foundations of personality, fundamental patterns, gestation, golden age, healing, health, history, humans, hypnosis, imprints, infancy, introversion, labor, Leslie Feher, Leslie LeCron, life, Lloyd Demause, mainstream psychology, maternal love, matrix, medicine, memories, mental-health, motivation, motivation and emotion, movements, myth, Nandor Fodor, Nature, neonate, neurophysiology, newborn, origin, Otto Rank, pain, paradise, patients, patterns, peace, perinatal, perinatal psychology, personality, personality patterns, poisonous placenta, politics, prenatal, prenatal and perinatal psychology, prenate, primal therapist, primal therapy, primaling, psychiatric disorders, psychoanalysis, psychohistory, psychology, psychology field, psychotherapy, re-experience, reliving, research, reunion, scapegoat, science, security, separation anxiety, separation trauma, sigmund freud, society, species, Stanislav Grof, stress, struggle, suffering, suffering fetus, symptoms, template, theorists, theory, therapy, thinking, Thomas Verny, threat, trauma, umbilical cord, unconscious, war, womb RT @sillymickel: reliance on“will-power” to change one’s patterns, which incl self-sabotage, has been exposed in its impotence in modern ti… @sillymickel 9 minutes ago	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2739
__label__wiki	0.528063	0.528063	The forgotten phone: Nokia 5200 We are going back in time. In this edition of ‘The forgotten phone’ we discuss the Nokia 5200. This phone appeared with a striking design and was released in the year 2006. Good to look back on this. In our sections ‘The forgotten smartphone’ and ‘The forgotten phone’ we always look back on devices that have been released in recent years. We do that in this version, going back to the year 2006. In that year the Finnish manufacturer came up with the Nokia 5200, which had many similarities with the Nokia 5300 XpressMusic. In contrast to that device, the 5200 did not bear the name XpressMusic. The Nokia 5200 would not have been labeled ‘XpressMusic’, the music lover could get started with the phone. On the sides of the screen you could start the music player with one push of a button. In addition, Nokia offered you an FM radio, so you could also listen to your favorite radio station. In terms of specifications, the phone was also equipped with basic functionality. There was a 2.0 inch screen with a resolution of 160 x 128 pixels. We can’t really imagine that much anymore, but before that time it was common. Nokia also provided the device with 5MB of internal storage space, but of course you could store your music on the memory card. For taking pictures, the Nokia 5200 offered a VGA (0.3 megapixel) camera, with which you could also make videos in low resolution, which were stored in the (infamous?) .3gp format. You had access to the GPRS and EDGE network and there was a WAP browser. The Nokia also had Bluetooth on board, an infrared port and a 760 mAh battery. The Nokia 5200 appeared on the Dutch market for an amount around 120-150 euros. There was a choice of different color variants. For example white-blue, white-red, white-gray and black. Nokia 5200 summarized in 3 points: 2.0 inch screen Shortcut next to music player screen Series S40 device Motorola Moto G9 Plus review: dit zijn de plus- en minpunten these are the most popular Google searches in the Netherlands Kim Kötter laughs when she hears this at the bottom of the stairs in the evening Xiaomi has introduced the Mi Smart Clock. They also support Chromecast Asus ZenBook Duo 14 UX482 – The convenience of a second screen Sony is bringing Android 11 to Xperia 1 and Xperia 5 early Looking for a nice present? This is how you give an iPhone app as a gift The forgotten phone: Samsung F400 Bending and turning. The organizers of CES 2021 appreciated the most innovative mobile phones iPhone 11 Pro in 2021 is a smart choice for camera fans	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2749
__label__wiki	0.582143	0.582143	Amy Caudill’s Reviews : The Sign of the Nine June 26, 2019 Book ReviewsG.S.. Denning, paranormal detective, Sherlock Holmes spoof, The Sign of NineAmy Caudill The Sign of the Nine (Warlock Holmes #4) by G.S. Denning Amy Caudill‘s review This fourth volume of the adventures of Warlock Holmes is the broadest sweeping narrative yet. Out-maneuvering Pinkerton detectives, overcoming Italian Mafioso’s, and uncovering folktale selkies, are just some of the encounters depicted in this paranormal spoof of Arthur Conan Doyle’s illustrious detective stories. Our story begins as John Watson and Warlock Holmes reverse their characters more than usual for this author’s version of the famous duo. Watson, determined to find Moriarty and Adler, begins experimenting with introducing a 7% solution of mummified Persian sorcerer into his blood stream in hopes of inducing prophetic dreams. Watson’s “dream sequences” populate every other story in this anthology of linked narratives, as Watson poisons his body and gains Holmes’ suspicions, under a drug-induced hallucinated state that shows him truths about Moriarty’s past. Watson’s addiction leads to an even greater role reversal for the master of deduction (Watson) and the bumbling sorcerer (Holmes) who is forced for once to be the responsible one, and attempt to save Watson’s life and soul in the process. But how does Warlock manage to accomplish such a task with his limited understanding of humanity and human interactions? Holmes decides Watson needs a love interest of course. And naturally he chooses the latest damsel in distress to cross their paths, Mary Morstan. It doesn’t matter that Watson is not the least bit interested in her, not to Holmes. Because he has determined Mary will be John’s salvation, through a magical intervention that rocks the conclusion to this anthology. G.S. Denning takes these well-beloved characters and molds them to fit perfectly into the new scenarios he has devised, while retaining enough of the original source material that they remain recognizable to fans of Conan Doyle. The author manages to seamlessly insert his own dramatic and paranormally influenced-material into the 1890’s vernacular, while his creations are at home discussing subjects of magic, sorcery, necromancy, and fairy tales. While G. S. Denning is hardly the first author to imitate, or reimagine, the writings of the classic author, this book and the series are both a humorous and entertaining tribute, one I would recommend to any fans of either Sherlock Holmes or paranormal mysteries. I award The Sign of Nine five stars. I’m sad I have to wait almost another year for the next volume in the series. Amy Caudill’s Reviews : Summer Knight June 18, 2019 Book ReviewsBook Reviews, Dresden Files, jim butcher, paranormal stories, Summer KnightAmy Caudill Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4) by Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author) Summer Knight opens as Harry Dresden’s life is falling apart. Reeling from the consequences of the last volume, (Grave Peril, which takes place some nine months before,) Harry is ignoring everything and everyone else in his life in his ill-fated attempt to find a cure for his love. Susan Rodriquez was infected by a vampire’s venom, and one moment of weakness is all it would take for her to give into the blood lust and turns into a creature of the night. Unfortunately, the world waits for no wizard, and the events taking place in the Nevernever and spilling out into the mortal world will soon distract Harry from his quest. The debt Harry owes to his faerie godmother Leanansidhe has been sold to the Winter Queen, Mab, who wants Harry to investigate the murder of the Knight of the Summer Queen. Meanwhile, the Red Vampire Court is after Harry’s blood and the White Council of Wizards may just be willing to sacrifice him to keep the peace. Harry has both allies and enemies on the council, and is quickly running out of time to appease them. The only chance the wizards have of avoiding all-out war with the vampires is for Harry to solve Mab’s case, earning safe passage through the Nevernever into the vampire’s territory, and doing so before Winter and Summer start a war of their own that could literally end the world. This novel, fourth in the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher, plunges the reader into a much wider world of paranormal politics and intrigue than is seen in previous volumes. The epic battle in the clouds above Chicago reminds me of scenes from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, while the camaraderie between Harry and the Alphas, the pack of werewolf-shifters he befriended in Fool Moon, is reminiscent of other epic tales like Lord of the Rings. I award Summer Knight five stars, and recommend it and the series to any fans of paranormal detective stories, and fans of adventure epics. June 12, 2019 Blog Postsfamily, Father's Day, reminisceAmy Caudill This coming Sunday is the day set aside each year to celebrate the man that means so much too so many of us-Dad. Where would we be without our fathers? We may not always appreciate the advice or lessons they attempt to teach us, or eagerly jump into the chores they give us. Still, dads have a way of letting us know they care in everything they do. How will you celebrate your father this weekend? Photo by Emma Bauso on Pexels.com My own father passed away a few years ago, but I feel blessed that I had the chance to know him, not only from the perspective of a child, but as an adult. And what a difference a few years made in my opinion of him! As I grew older and raised my own children, I began to appreciate him all the more, for all the hard work and sacrifices he made in raising me and my siblings. Towards the last years of his life my dad was more likely to have, and take the time, to tell us some of the fascinating stories of his own childhood, then some seventy-plus years past. My father was born and raised in rural Tennessee, and received more education about farming, animal husbandry, and carpentry work than he ever did in formal schooling. He raised wild turkeys, which I learned were actually capable of flight, and which he had to chase out of trees to get them to their roost at night. He learned to churn butter, and grind pork into sausage by hand, by actually helping to provide for a large family of parents and siblings. He left farming behind, and moved into the city, when he and my mother started a family, so that his children could have advantages he lacked growing up. Many of the skills he acquired working the land did not translate well to our little suburb, but he adapted, and till his last year still tended a garden in the backyard, and helped family and friends with home repairs. My father was not always an easy man to know, or communicate with, but in his own way he always showed he cared. You could see it in his smile, feel it in his hugs, and tell in the look of pride on his face whenever he watched his grandkids. I miss my dad, but I know he’s watching over me, and my family. I hope we make him proud. When I watch my husband interact with our children today, I am reminded that behind his sometimes gruff manner, he really does have the best interests of our children at heart. He reminds me of my own father just a little bit, but that’s okay. Thanks for listening to me ramble on. The main point I hope to make is that fathers are special, and often underappreciated, so take this time to acknowledge everything they do and mean to us. Above all, to all my readers out there, Happy Father’s Day! Amy Caudill’s Reviews : Leverage in Death June 4, 2019 Book Reviewsdetection stories, J. D. Robb, Leverage in Death, strong female charactersAmy Caudill Leverage in Death (In Death, #47) by J.D. Robb (Goodreads Author) The New York City of 2061 may have flying cars and off-world colonies, but crime is still the same for Lt. Eve Dallas, the NYPSD cop with the tragic past, and her multi-billionaire husband, Roarke, who has a checkered past of his own and tech skills that make Batman look like an amateur. In the latest volume of this long-running series by author Nora Roberts writing as J. D. Robb, our heroes investigate a family man who is coerced into committing an atrocious crime- going into his workplace wearing a suicide bomber’s vest. The true villains think they are oh-so-clever, but get greedy and target multiple other victims, until Eve and Roarke find clues to their identities and then go in for the arrest. While the main plot is thrilling as always, with lots of false starts and leads that don’t pan out and crooks that aren’t necessarily guilty of the major crimes; what I love the most about this series is the amazing continuity in the storylines. This continuity is largely fueled by the large supporting cast of characters that surround the main power couple. Minor characters come and go in background plot and occasional main storyline features, but their subplots extend over multiple books and long-term arcs for the series. The addition of these extra characters as they grow, develop, and live their lives “off-camera” as it were, adds a sense of time and normalcy into the frequently fast-paced murder investigations. Case in point: this novel features two men who are involved in the kidnapping of three different families, as well as bombs that kill eighteen people, and all the action takes place over three days. While Eve and Roarke’s lives are exciting in the extreme, they would appear as static, superhuman but unrealistic facsimiles if the reader was not allowed to see their interactions with other characters; to see Eve complain about dressing up for an event with friends, to see Roarke’s love of hanging out with the e-geeks, makes them seem all the more human, and amazing. I award this novel five stars and would recommend it to anyone who likes strong, female detectives, or police dramas that contain equal amounts of plot and action.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2757
__label__wiki	0.681683	0.681683	Edmund Chas Find The Life of Edmund Chas When Edmund Chas Find was born on 22 July 1880, his father, Karl Find, was 23 and his mother, Bertha Marie Schramm, was 20. He married Mary Ann Jerrells on 26 October 1904, in Wharton, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Justice Precinct 4, San Saba, Texas, United States in 1930 and Justice Precinct 4, Wharton, Texas, United States in 1940. He died on 2 May 1952, in Texas, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in East Bernard, Wharton, Texas, United States. Learn about Edmund Chas's homeland. Put your face in a costume from Edmund Chas's homelands. Mary Ann Jerrells Marriage: 26 October 1904 Gladys Irene Find Forrest Edmond Find Pearline Find Phyllis Myrle Find Wharton, Texas, United States Karl Find Bertha Marie Schramm Isabel Marie Find Almeta Find Carla Find Ernest Frank Find 1881 · Construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway Grenville M. Dodge oversaw the construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway. Work began at Hodge Junction, and eventually extended to the New Mexico border by 1888. Service began on April 1, 1888, with trains travelling between Fort Worth and Denver. 1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln. 1900 · Gold for Cash! This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money. German: nickname meaning ‘enemy’, from Middle High German viant, mostly in compounds, for instance Bauernfeind. Edmon Fina in household of Bertha Fina, "United States Census, 1900" Edmund Find, "United States Census, 1910" Edmund C Find, "United States Census, 1940"	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2758
__label__wiki	0.879364	0.879364	GTA 5 could arrive on Google Stadia to boost the service Post author:Jessica Goddrem Post category:Games Post last modified:August 18, 2020 It seems that GTA V could arrive soon on Stadia console. Rockstar’s game could thus benefit the service from its immense popularity and attract new subscribers. This would be the sixth platform to release the game, excluding future consoles. Could GTA V give Google Stadia a boost? In any case, the game could soon be released on the Cloud Gaming service. Some sources confirm that Rockstar will be making a version specifically dedicated to Google’s platform. Besides, Rumors claim that the next gen content, which will be rolled out in the PS5 and Xbox Series X versions of the game, would arrive on this iteration, either concurrently with consoles, or even a little earlier. This will encourage gamers to subscribe. This news sounds reasonable. In fact, Google and Take 2 are considered partners when it comes to Stadia. Also, many of the publisher’s games are added to its catalog. We should mention that Red Dead Redemption 2 is already available on the service. By the way, Rockstar Mag states that a PS5 and Xbox Series X version of this title is in the works. Again, that would not be very surprising. GTA V still attracts gamers GTA V was released in 2013 on PS3 and Xbox 360. Since then, Rockstar’s game has been released on PS4 and Xbox One and even on PC. On this platform, the game was recently released to the Epic Games Stores. The latter was offered by the publisher for a week, crashing the platform so much the players mobilized. The title is not going to stop there. In fact, PS5 and Xbox Series X versions have been announced. Rockstar is indeed still betting on its game, and more particularly on its very popular multiplayer mode. GTA V is the third best-selling game of all time with 135 million copies sold since its release. The title continues to be successful, which allows Rockstar to take its time for a possible GTA 6, which is starting to be sorely awaited. Thus, GTA V could use its popularity to gain new subscribers to Stadia which has struggled to take off since its release. Share This Post Share this content New World MMO release date release date delayed Nintendo reportedly preparing a new Zelda remake on Switch Hood: Outlaws & Legends on these consoles soon 4k Gaming PC Budget: configuration less than $ 1000 Install the public beta of iOS 14, iPadOS 14, tvOS 14, watchOS 7 before anyone else Xbox Series S: The leaked console specs sheet	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2761
__label__cc	0.537176	0.462824	The Athenian School Blog Life is an adventure of intellectual exploration and meaningful contribution. Athenian.org Trailblazing for Social Good: Mary Costantino ’90 on Career and Athenian November 11, 2020 / Athenian School Communications / Leave a comment Ask Athenian alumna Mary Costantino ’90 about the medical procedure she pioneered in her region, and she’ll tell you it’s “pretty easy”—just fifteen seconds to route a tube from her patient’s wrist to their groin. An Interventional Radiologist with a specialization in women’s health, Mary was the first physician in Oregon to treat uterine fibroids using this less invasive method involving the wrist as a surgical entry point. During the six years she spent at Athenian, however, Mary did not consider herself to be a trailblazer. When we asked her how she became a medical innovator, she said, “I didn’t plan my whole trajectory back then and I still don’t have a plan.” Working in Interventional Radiology was not even something she immediately settled on while in medical school at UCLA. She arrived in her current field after seeing an ability to contribute in an area where health care equity was at stake. The two most common women’s health conditions that Interventional Radiologists treat are postpartum hemorrhage and uterine fibroids. “Interventional Radiology was a field that had real purpose,” Mary reflected. “Forty percent of women over forty have fibroids and the primary way that fibroids are treated is by hysterectomy. The procedure I perform offers a one-week recovery time versus a six-week recovery time, was less expensive at the time when I was in school, and seemed like it could have a big impact on low-income women. It’s a very powerful thing to be able to do something that makes those stressors go away.” In the fifteen years since Mary began her practice, she has witnessed gradual shifts—a dawning awareness that applies to the treatment of many conditions. “We are now finally recognizing health care disparities, which have been long evident to those of us in healthcare. Uterine fibroids are more common in African-American women, and minimally invasive treatments are almost never offered to women with fibroids. It’s really wrong, and I suspect I’ll spend the next 10 years fighting for equality in informed consent, as I have the last 10 years. Now, however, COVID has unveiled this disparity and there is hope for change.” Mary credits her regard for social good to strong foundations from home that were built upon during her time at Athenian. “The conversations were centered around the environment and the pillars and being a citizen of the world. It shaped me without me knowing I was actually being shaped.” Unforgettable grand-scale experiences like her Round Square exchange and AWE were pivotal, but so were humbler aspects of student life. “Kitchen duty—what a great lesson. It taught us that we’re all here to take care of each other. Those kinds of jobs and lessons just don’t exist for teenagers anymore.” People were also a special part of Mary’s Athenian experience. As a whole, she described faculty and staff as “kind, goodhearted educators with an interest in kids. Judy Atai, the art teacher…I just remember sitting and throwing pottery and making jewelry. Sheryl Petersen…all of these maternal figures looking out for you. Ed Ellis…he was always walking around campus, completely invested in us.” Mary now lives in Oregon with children of her own who are the same age as she was during her Athenian days. When asked what she would say to high schoolers now, her advice was to stay open. “It puts unfair pressure on younger people to find out what their passion is, because you never know what opportunity will come that might pique your interest. It may come when you’re sixteen, or when you’re twelve, or when you’re thirty-five. There’s no way to predict now what might make you happy when you’re fifty.” Her second and final piece of advice goes back to the Service Pillar, which she still holds dear. “Always be volunteering. That’s a rule I have for myself. If I’m healthy and able bodied, I’m always volunteering. Humans were meant to be productive.” Leaving the Nest: Seven Faculty Members and Staffers Retiring in 2020 July 16, 2020 July 22, 2020 / Athenian School Communications / Leave a comment As three iconic faculty members and four trailblazing staffers leave the nest this year, their combined 172 years of service deserve a moment in the spotlight. They have taught and nurtured our students, helped build our community and culture, and their legacies will carry on. Tina Nott, retiring Math teacher, was a founding member of the Middle School faculty, a co-founder of Middle School Focus Days, and the second woman to teach Math at Athenian. Joining Eleanor Dase, Munzer Afifi and Lester Henderson in a combined Middle School/Upper School Math department, she joined Athenian in 1982 and helped realize a vision to have more women teach STEM. Retiring French teacher Elisabeth Bertschi, who joined Athenian in 1986, brought with her “whole child” approaches to learning. Her rubrics for refreshing her curriculum were decades ahead of their time. Though she came to Athenian straight out of graduate school, she had a natural ability to connect with students. Retiring staffer Debbie Schafgans joined Athenian in 1987, initially in the Development (now Advancement) department. She was also a pioneer: the first staffer to use a personal computer for core elements of her role and one of the first to manage the digital integration of her department. As with Debbie Schafgans, retiring staffer Debra Ataman’s role evolved. She joined Athenian in 1997, working in Reception before becoming the Assistant to the Director of Special Programs in 2001. In the years following, Debra became heavily involved in community outreach and ultimately went on to be a key member of our Summer Programs, contributing to its significant growth over the years. When asked about why Athenian staff and faculty are so well-equipped to play a variety of roles, former Head of School Eleanor Dase pointed to the many opportunities for faculty and staff to show leadership, such as chaperoning trips, organizing fundraisers, providing leadership in Round Square, Interim/March Term, and much more. If self-determination and grassroots organizing are part of Athenian’s DNA, it’s clear why retiring employees Lydia Guzman, Elise Jan and Barbara Carlino were so effective. Lydia Guzman began her career at Athenian in 2000, serving for 20 years as the Attendance Officer. She also co-advised the Latino Club, raised more than $17,000 for the Monument Crisis Center over the years after co-founding the Tuesday Nacho Sale, organized the annual Athenian Pink Day to benefit breast cancer and served a run as Dean of Staff. Along with Debbie, she was an early regular attendee of the National Association of Independent Schools’ People of Color Conference (POCC) and an early champion of equity and inclusion at Athenian. Barbara Carlino, who joined in 2007 as Upper School Counselor, founded longstanding programs as well. She co-created ASAP (the Athenian Sexual Assault Prevention Program), started the school’s peer counseling program, and shaped curriculum and culture by carrying out Athenian’s health education program for many years. Mandarin teacher Elise Jan, who came to Athenian in 2009, is yet another lauded language teacher. She developed an innovative method of instruction that helped students achieve a level of fluency that wasn’t obtainable through classic approaches. Along the lines of holistic participation, she also chaperoned several trips abroad. Beyond what these outgoing women contributed as trailblazers from a curriculum and culture perspective, they contributed greatly to our enjoyment of the school. They gave hugs. They played pranks (we’re looking at you, Tina). They performed in countless Staff and Faculty Talent Shows. They were treasured friends. We will miss them all. Four Athenian Alumni Donate 10,000 Masks to Our Local Community May 14, 2020 May 14, 2020 / Athenian School Communications / Leave a comment Pictured from left to right: Jim Lin ’07, father Ting-Fung Lin, Shannon Lin ’09 In an act of tremendous global philanthropy, four Athenian alumni joined forces to donate and coordinate the delivery of 10,000 surgical masks to our local community. The alumni, former boarding students from Taiwan, gave Athenian discretion around their distribution. Jim Lin ‘07 and Shannon Lin ‘09 were the original organizers. When friends Jamie Chang ‘08 and Wesley Yang ‘12 heard about the brothers’ idea, they quickly joined the effort. “I checked in with Jim and Shannon when the pandemic hit,” said Michelle Park, Athenian’s International Student Coordinator, ESL teacher and longtime faculty member with the School. “I wanted to say hello and see if their family was well. They asked if we at Athenian needed anything in regards to supplies, as the U.S. was just entering the COVID-19 crisis. They wanted to make a donation and wanted Athenian to decide who should receive the masks.” Pictured: Michelle Park and Eric Niles with Maeshah Shaw and Jelani Moses of SEIU-United Healthcare Workers After a long and complicated shipping process, Athenian received its first delivery last week and has now received the remainder of the masks. Donations have already been made to the SEIU United Healthcare Worker’s Union, John Muir Hospital in Walnut Creek, the Springhill Medical Group, and The Gubbio Project, a non-profit serving the homeless community in San Francisco. On Video: Jelani Moses of Kaiser Permanente SEIU United Healthcare Workers West members Jelani Moses of Kaiser Permanente and Maeshah Shaw of San Ramon Regional Medical Center visited campus today to receive their donation of 4,200 surgical masks. In the video below, Jelani expresses his thanks. Apart from sending a huge thanks to Jim, Shannon, Jamie and Wesley for their extraordinary kindness, we also appreciate those who worked to coordinate efforts on the Athenian side: Michelle Park and Vivian Liao. Athenian Alumni Teach in Virtual Classrooms as Part of Distance Learning May 1, 2020 May 11, 2020 / Athenian School Communications / Leave a comment Athenian faculty found silver linings as they adjusted to distance learning, tapping our global network of alumni to lend live classroom expertise. Andrew Gerst ‘09, Lizzie Miskovetz ‘10, and Julian Binder ‘11 joined David Otten’s Applied Science and Engineering course last Wednesday as guest lecturers. Karen Hinh ‘19 and Baxter Eldridge ‘13 joined on Thursday and Friday, respectively, all by Zoom videoconference. “It was so great to see how our fledgling engineers from a decade ago are making huge design waves at Tesla, Microsoft, and Virgin Galactic,” David said, speaking of his Wednesday guests. “They had wonderful advice for our current batch of students…most importantly, to stop caring so much about your GPA, and instead focus on doing what you love and making the world a better place.” David wasn’t the only teacher to integrate community expertise into student curriculum last week: former board chair and alumni parent, Dave Welsh, joined Head of School, Eric Niles Constitutional Law class to present the stock market through the lens of current events. Scaling up to accommodate wider community participation is part of a longer-term plan: “I look at this opportunity to have alumni visiting as an unexpected gift of COVID-19 and distance learning,” said Head of Upper School, Amy Wintermeyer. “We were supposed to have a career day on March 11th and it was disappointing for both students and alumni to miss out. I’m thrilled that we’ve been able to find ways to still connect alumni with many of our students and I’m hoping we can continue to do this in the weeks following spring break!” If you are an alumnus or another member of our community with expertise you think might be great for our classroom, send us an email and let us know! Beat Boxing with Eric Strand ’16 November 7, 2019 / Athenian School Communications / Leave a comment by Kim Palacios, Associate Director of Advancement, Alumni Giving & Engagement Athenian was delighted to welcome alumnus Eric Strand ‘16 as a visiting instructor teaching beat-boxing skills to the hOWLers. Strand sings with On The Rocks, the nationally-known all-male a cappella group at the University of Oregon and traces some of his love for performing back to his Athenian roots. This September marked the fourth time that Eric visited campus to lend his expertise to student programs. He has also organized performances of On the Rocks on the Athenian campus. Eric’s visit is the latest in a series of alumni/hOWLers partnerships organized by Choir Director Emily Shinkle, whose track record of building two-way relationships between Athenian alumni and current students, and bringing alumni back to perform has been stellar. “I’m always happy to see former hOWLers continue on with singing in college and I love it when they want to come back to share what they’ve learned and inspire our current singers,” she remarked. Beyond bringing Eric back to serve students, Emily and the hOWLers have traveled to the Oakland elementary school where Melissa Barry Hansen ’85 is a 5th-grade teacher, teaching them how to sing in rounds, and two-part harmonies. An Alumni Cabaret held in January 2018 brought young alumni back for a vocally-focused variety show. Emily is currently in discussions with a cross-functional team to co-organize a new performance event that would feature a mix of students and alumni. Stay tuned for possible news! Athletes with Character: Remembering Scott Leister ’05 October 4, 2018 / Athenian School Communications / Leave a comment Athenian student-athletes are known for their character, both on the field and off. We value leadership, dedication, service, playfulness, and compassion. Scott Leister ’05 was an outstanding student-athlete who embodied the pillars that are the foundation of an Athenian student. Scott’s life was tragically cut short at age 21 when he was killed by a drunk driver. August 2018 marks the tenth anniversary of Scott’s passing. Scott before a high school dance Scott embodied the pillars that are the foundation of an Athenian student. Scott played varsity soccer all four years at Athenian and was a valued member of the team, for his athletic ability, game strategy, and team spirit. He was also an active participant in international experiences, committed to community service, and a frequent outdoor adventurer. Scott went on to become a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Rochester, was a Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician, and was intending to pursue a medical degree to further his international humanitarian efforts. In 2013, California Highway Patrol published a service video about Scott. Scott’s memory is kept alive at Athenian. For the last ten years, we have recognized a student-athlete with the Scott Leister Spirit of Athenian Award. The Scott Leister Award is inscribed with the following text: “We will teach our sons about Scott. We will cultivate in them the qualities he showed the world: Responsibility, Humility, Service, Play, Love. They will become men who live Scott’s message. They will teach their children about Scott and the values and qualities he embodied. Over and over again Scott will live in new lives. Like thousands of raindrops falling from the sky, his compassion and his play will keep dancing in this world and beyond.” The winners of the Scott Leister Award to date are Ben Wang ’09, Jeff Sohn ’10, Jared Madden ’11, Ian Truebridge ’12, Tyler Huntington ’13, Anthony Aguilar ’14, Brendan Suh ’15, Andrew Kocins 16, Bradley Altomare ’17, and Victoria Akinsanya ’18. To provide Athenian students with the opportunities Scott had as a young person, Scott’s family started The Scott Leister ’05 Endowment for International Community Service. Scott’s mom Carol Leister has become a Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) Victim Advocate and she and her family have spoken to thousands of people including law enforcement officers and DUI offenders. And every year, Scott’s family sometimes accompanied by Athenians march with Walk Like MADD. Athenian teaches students about the hazards of drinking and the fatal consequences of drinking while driving in its health classes. MADD publishes the following statistics on its website: Drunk driving is still the #1 cause of death on our roadways. There are 300,000 drunk driving incidents a day There are 10,497 deaths a year. That’s 29 deaths every day and one death every 50 minutes. Each and every one of them is 100% preventable. Life in Flight: What’s Possible After Athenian November 8, 2017 / Athenian School Communications / 3 Comments The core values of Athenian’s mission provide the foundation for 21st-century success: critical and analytical thinking, collaboration, teamwork, and creativity. For proof of this, look no further than Keenan Wyrobek ’99. During his Athenian experience, he built rockets, competed on the swim team, and embraced failure in projects and experiments as a learning opportunity. The skills Keenan built at Athenian served him well at Johns Hopkins and Stanford, and in developing the reading app Bam Boomerang and the Personal Robotics Program at Willow Garage. In founding Zipline, Keenan combined his robotics expertise and a strong desire to help others. Recently featured on National Geographic’s Chasing Genius series and CNN, Zipline gets medical supplies to communities that are difficult to access. Keenan’s drone-operated delivery system sends urgent medical supplies to patients who can’t be reached otherwise. Health workers can order critical items like blood by text message from Zipline; within minutes, a drone takes off and medical products are delivered quickly and safely by parachute. Zipline, one of Keenan’s service-oriented tech startups, has raised nearly $50 million in funding for its innovative, humanitarian, life-saving projects and has delivered thousands of units of blood saving countless lives. Keenan tells us, “My Athenian education prepared me for what I do at Zipline. In my work at Zipline, I draw on the hands on the problem-solving experience, technical knowledge, and leadership skills I gained at Athenian every day.” Keenan delivered a TEDMed2017 talk at the beginning of November sharing about his work providing blood and medical supplies to hard to reach populations and Zipline was a winner of the 2017 INDEX: Designs to Improve Life Award, which came with a €500,000 grant. One of the jury members, Ravi Naidoo, said Zipline “is a great systemic interplay of designers, governments and society bringing the best first-world technology to the poorest.” With a successful operation in place in Rwanda, Zipline will be establishing four distribution centers in Tanzania in 2018 and plans to continue expanding to countries across the world. Plans are in the works to begin delivering blood to remote areas of Maryland, Nevada, and Washington as well, serving as a pilot project for a global rollout redefining the delivery of emergency supplies. Watch ZIPLINE – 2017 BODY WINNER from INDEX: Design to Improve Life® on Vimeo. Alumni Wisdom: Life After Athenian January 5, 2017 / Athenian School Communications / Leave a comment Today is Alumni Day at Athenian. Many of our young alums are still home on college winter break and are able to share with our students about their life after Athenian. Here is a collection of quotes from today’s Symposia on how Athenian prepares students for college. “In terms of writing, Athenian does a great job…take your humanities classes seriously, take your history classes seriously, because the writing skills that you learn here will put you way ahead when you start college.” “Athenian prepared me really well, or over-prepared me. I’ve been gliding through college.” “Athenian prepares you to advocate for yourself and be comfortable with teachers, so it’s so much easier to get to know your teachers.” “I felt well-prepared, especially in paper writing….You all are way more prepared than you think you are with writing exercises.” “Athenian prepared me really well socially for college. I learned here how to be outgoing, and I think that’s really important when you’re trying to meet friends at college. If you’re outgoing, people will latch onto you really quickly. Academically, I talked to my roommate this year, and he said in high school, he was never really challenged. So he didn’t understand the idea of studying a really long time for a test, but that was just natural for me because here you’re challenged more than other places and that really helps.” “The science department gives you a really solid base, a really solid foundation. The one thing that I wish I had practiced more when I was in high school was learning from a textbook.” “Athenian also really taught me that is what is most important is what you actually learn and the person you are becoming. I think that we are prepared really well for a lot of the general education. We learn how to learn. We also learn how to work. If you can apply that same work ethic that you learn here, inevitably, as you get deeper into what you’re doing, there’s nothing that can prepare you for college, because hopefully, it’ll be a time when you’re pushing yourself, really trying to grow. So there’s no way to truly be prepared other than learning how to get through hard things. And Athenian is a hard thing, so that’s good.” “I was actually a little worried coming out of Athenian that I didn’t do enough….and then I got into college classes, and I thought, ‘Wow, I’m amazed at how much Athenian has taught me.’ All the writing rubrics were identical. I was writing 5-7 papers a week and I thought they were a breeze. I was in some of my classes and some of the students didn’t know how to make graphs in Excel, and I thanked Bruce and Will silently for teaching me how to do that….If you’ve taken advantage of what Athenian has to offer, I’ve found that I’m really ahead in college and having an easy time because I was prepared so well.” “You’re really prepared. I remember something I heard when I was sitting on that side of the conversation. And that is, college is 30% academics and 70% social. I’d like to echo that, because, at the end of the day, I have class for 12 hours a week. Compared to high school, it’s nothing. Honestly, you have to put in a lot of work [to the social scene].” “I came to Athenian junior year. I learned how to be nice in general, so that even if everyone has their own groups, you can still be friends….this goes a long way. Many engineering students at my school have jobs in the best industries in the United States. The ones that I talk to, if I ask them for a job, I might get one, so that is a helpful thing. It helps me to be social and be patient and that’s something that I got from here.” “I was someone who didn’t do the best at Athenian, but at the same time, I weirdly found myself really well prepared when I went to college….It can be a little rigorous. It’s easy to complain….I really miss Athenian in the sense that I feel like I didn’t appreciate it enough when I was here….Definitely appreciate what you have here. You have teachers who will grab you outside of class and smack you into reality. You’re not going to get that in college. You’re not going to have teachers who actually care for you. [Athenian teachers] care for you, they really do. All the things you have done for me, it really means a lot. That C that you would give me, it really helped me grow into the person that I am today. And you’re not going to get that in college as much if you go to a big school. Teachers won’t necessarily do that for you. They’ll give you the grade but they won’t tell you why unless you go to them….Go to your teachers, go to your professors later in life.” “Socially, you’re going to have to put yourselves out there more than you did here. Sign up for things and put your phones away.” Athenians Connected Around the World By Chris Beeson, Director of Admission and Financial Aid Many boarding schools travel each year internationally to connect with current parents and alumni as well as encourage prospective students to apply. I have done so for Athenian for many years, building our relationship with these important members of the Athenian community who cannot get to campus as easily as those who live nearby. Athenian’s travel has been built around annual fairs organized in Asian cities by TABS (The Association of Boarding Schools) for U.S. and Canadian schools. This year’s travels took me to eight cities (Bangkok, Beijing, Hong Kong, Saigon, Seoul, Shanghia, Taipei, and Tokyo) in seven countries in just 19 days! Though the fast pace of the trip is challenging, the warm connections made with Athenian families and alumni are heartwarming. In each meeting, I can build a stronger relationship for Athenian with these community members abroad. I am truly touched by how much our alumni and parents value an Athenian education and experience. It is amazing how strong the bond to Athenian can be for alumni, some who graduated many years ago and some more recently. Alumni and current parents often join me to represent Athenian at the boarding school fairs as a testament to their commitment to the School. I am so grateful to the many volunteers who are by my side that not only know the School but can help bridge any language barriers that may arise. In meetings with alumni and parents, I can share current information about what’s happening on campus as well as answer questions from parents and alumni. I share with each boarding parent an update about their child. Both parents and alumni often value the chance to ask questions about Athenian now and our plans for the future. With current parents, I can often fill in where information is missing and reply to any queries they have. Facebook has proven to be an amazing tool in locating and communicating. After 23 years as the Director of Admission, there are many alumni I know but who may not have kept Athenian updated with their most current contact information. I have been able to find some alumni on Facebook and then build out through their list of friends to locate others. These connections are often met with enthusiasm and lead to wonderful gatherings on these trips. Here are some highlights of the fall 2016 trip: Alumni, a current parent, and alumni parents gathered in Tokyo for dinner. Noburo Nishio helped represent Athenian at the fair in Tokyo. Current parents met with me in Beijing, Shanghai, and Taiwan. Alumni in Hong Kong gathered with me for dinner. Parents and alumni in Ho Chi Minh City joined me for a meeting and lovely gathering. In Bangkok, 12 alumni and alumni parents enjoyed a great meal. I met with another recent alum over lunch. Krittaya Pichitnapakul once again helped represent Athenian at the boarding school fair. Thank you to everyone who joined me for dinner, helped out at a fair, or just came to say hello. I look forward to next year’s trip already! Here’s to the international community that is Athenian! The Original AWE: Borrowed Boots, a Lost Sleeping Bag, and Lifelong Friends March 15, 2016 / Athenian School Communications / 2 Comments In honor of Athenian’s 50th Anniversary, alumni Michael Connelly ’71 and Judy Goldberg ’71 wrote about their 1969 experience on what we now know as the Athenian Wilderness Experience. By Michael Connelly and Judy Goldberg Michael (pictured above on right, eating): What we now refer to as the Athenian Wilderness Experience, or AWE, was just plain Outward Bound when it first became part of the Athenian experience the year I came to the school as a junior in 1969. That first year, the program was operated by staff from Northwest Outward Bound, in Oregon, in portions of the Sierras where many of them had never been before, creating unexpected challenges and a real learning experience for everyone involved. Participation was mandatory, which apparently created an issue for some rising sophomores but was just part of the program for people like me who were new to the school. My arrival from Mexico City, where my family lived at the time, was memorable in a number ways. The flight my mother had booked for me arrived in San Francisco, and I was shuttled by helicopter across the Bay to the pick-up point at Oakland Airport. I’ve never been sure why, but the helicopter was of the large, green military variety and I soon realized that for all the other young men who were aboard, the final destination was not an idyllic co-educational boarding school nestled at the foot of Mount Diablo but Vietnam. Judy pictured in braids. Once the bus had deposited all of us at the school and we gathered under the Oak tree to check our equipment before setting out early the next morning for Mono Lake, I discovered I was in unexpected trouble because I had no hiking boots. I was a scholarship student and I had read in the materials we had been sent by Outward Bound that boots would be provided. Of course, that referred to participants in the Northwest Outward Bound program, not Athenian students, and I had clearly misunderstood. I told Leslie, my patrol leader, of my predicament, and she came to the rescue by lending me her spare boots. That meant that I was not only well shod but the boots had already been broken in and I avoided the suffering that many of my cohorts experienced as a result of having brand-new boots. Judy: My anticipation of the Outward Bound experience was distinctively different from Michael’s. I, too, was an entering junior at Athenian, thanks to the good fortune of parents who realized I hungered for a different kind of high school experience. I was a Bay Area kid, steeped in 60’s pedagogy (though a little young for true hippie identity) and an avid outdoor adventurer. I recall starting the “OB” adventure with some “attitude.” I loved back-packing and had gone on summer camp expeditions in the Trinity Alps of northern California for several years. I looked dismissively at my fellow students as they struggled over decisions about packing and what to leave behind: make-up, extra clothes, beloved mementos, etc. This particular “letting go” was far from my non-materialistic sense of necessities. A backpack and an open trail were my métier. So off we all went the next morning, gathering that evening for supper together by the lake shore before leaving on our separate patrols early the next morning. Each patrol included a faculty member as well as the patrol leader so there were two adults ostensibly in charge of a crowd of unruly teenagers. The Outward Bound folks had not, up until that time, had a coeducational program or one in which many of the participants (all those rising sophomores) already knew each other, so that was probably a good thing. A number of patrols were scheduled to meet up again in Tuolumne Meadows. We had significant difficulty getting there–including the loss of my poorly attached sleeping bag while crossing a glacier and a case of snow blindness resulting from our crossing it in bright sunshine–and arrived a day later than planned. I will never forget our arrival, when Leslie settled us in the shade beside a cool mountain stream for lunch (have peanut butter and crackers ever tasted so good?) while she went off to find the others. When she returned after scouring the Meadows for some time, she reported that we were the only ones there so far. It turned out that all the other patrols experienced greater challenges and worse setbacks than we had, which in retrospect seems to have been one of the distinct benefits as well as difficulties of planning a program for the first time in terra incognita. As our respective patrols set-out with backpacks laden with a shared food supply for 5 days, I recall taking a lion’s share, proclaiming “it’s not so heavy once you hoist the pack onto your hips.” I demonstrated by dragging the heavy pack onto a bent leg and swinging it over my shoulder. I imagine myself hitting the trail with a particular “see, no big deal!” flare. Our first hike was a series of steep switch-backs. Not fun, but I knew a slow pace was better than the stop and start, huff and puff I saw from my whinier trail mates. I’m sure the patrol leader must have reminded us that we were only as fast as our slowest member. “Like that was going to build team spirit! What wusses!” was probably ruminating in my inflated head. That evening, when we were setting up camp, I got my comeuppance. Warned about bears, I decided to climb a tree to hang my (heavier than most!) food sack. In one very unheroic move, I came crashing down from the tree limb and landed on my right knee. It was bad. It swelled to twice its size and I couldn’t put weight on it. For the rest of the trip, I hobbled with a stick, trying to keep up with the rest of the group. So how did I survive without a sleeping bag? Leslie, who had done her own urban Outward Bound (including a solo) in the streets of Detroit saw this as a challenge for the entire group to solve. So until the snow blind girl went home at the first resupply (in the early days, there were two resupplies until it was realized that one was enough) and left her sleeping bag behind, I slept wrapped in ground cloths between two other people in their sleeping bags. It worked, although my teeth would be chattering by dawn, and after that, I was certainly more careful when it came to packing my backpack. One other story–while trudging up a mountain during an early season snow storm, I remember exhaustedly asking Leslie when we would finally reach the summit. “Look up,” she said, “instead of looking at your (her) boots.” I did, and there was the peak right before my eyes. How did I manage with a badly sprained knee? Well, I got encouragement and special attention from the handsome patrol leader which was a happy surprise. And when asked if I wanted to go home at the same troublesome resupply Michael mentioned, I said “no way!” Had I left at that juncture I never would have been in the same expedition group at the end with Michael. It was in those high Sierra landscapes where we started what has now become a 44-year friendship; initially cemented by Michael plucking a fresh, white aster each morning for me to stick into my long thick plait. Lessons learned? The trail offers many transferrable analogies for day-to-day life. “Keep on trucking.” “When you get to a fork in the road, stay high.” Clearly, this would be a popular choice for a 60’s gal! Another spin from Michael’s “look up” and appreciate where you are when you’re in the heat of an uphill climb is to “narrow your field of vision.” Mountains are never as big if you stay the course and go from step to step. Then, when you do reach that summit or pass, you realize it wasn’t all that hard after all. Once it was over and we were all back at Athenian, I often talked to the friends from my patrol about our experience (and am still in touch with many people I met on Outward Bound to this day). As I recall, most of us felt that it was an amazing, worthwhile and life-changing experience. Except for one fellow, who was an excellent student and went on to Harvard, who said if he ever had to go hiking with a fifty-pound backpack again it would be too soon. 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__label__wiki	0.950431	0.950431	N.B. reports 14 new cases of COVID-19; 6 cases confirmed at retirement home CTV Atlantic Alyson Samson Video Journalist @alysonsamsonNB Contact Brandon Young CTVNewsAtlantic.ca writer Published Sunday, November 29, 2020 2:34PM AST Last Updated Sunday, November 29, 2020 8:28PM AST HALIFAX -- New Brunswick Public Health is reporting 14 new COVID-19 cases Sunday, bringing the total number of active cases to 119 in the province. The new cases include four cases in Zone 1, nine cases in Zone 2, and one case in Zone 6. To date, the number of confirmed cases in New Brunswick is 495 and 369 have recovered. There have been seven deaths, and the number of active cases is 119 with no one in hospital – 123,883 tests have been conducted. 14 NEW CASES The four cases in Zone 1 (Moncton region) are as follows: One individual under 19 One individual 20-29 Two people 40-49 The nine cases in Zone 2 (Saint John region) are as follows: Three people under 19 Two people 90 and over All cases in Zone 1 and Zone 2 are self-isolating and are under investigation. The single case in Zone 6 (Bathurst region) is an individual in their 30s and is travel-related. The individual is self-isolating. “All of the cases in Saint John currently have been linked. I think that’s as much as I can say right now,” says chief medical officer of health Dr. Jennifer Russell. “We’ve seen these outbreaks in other parts of the province before; we have experience now in terms of how to rapidly deploy the PROMT team and really get on top of the situation as quickly as possible.” As of Sunday, health officials say Zone 2 won't be moving to the Red level of New Brunswick's recovery plan – but that possibility hasn’t been ruled out. "We meet on a very regular basis about all three zones that are in the orange phase to continue to monitor those situations," says Russell. "My understanding, right now, is that they're not at risk of going to red, at least not at this point in time in Saint John – but again, that can change." OUTBREAK AT PARKLAND SAINT JOHN CAMPUS Follow-up testing recently occurred at the Parkland Saint John complex. Tests processed at the microbiology laboratory identified six new positive cases for a total of 15 confirmed cases (10 residents and five employees). Parkland Retirement Living is a division of Shannex, which says it's doing everything it can to contain the outbreak. “In environments like this, there’s people providing up-close personal care that’s much needed for our residents,” says Shannex director of clinical practice and infection control specialist Lisa Snodgrass. “It’s really important we identify who is in contact, what kind of personal protective equipment they would have had in place; as we all know, masks are certainly mandatory.” Snodgrass says all residents are doing as well as can be expected and are being provided extra support throughout the isolation-period However, advocates are wondering how such outbreaks are continuing to happen. “How many more people does it need to affect before we need to shut down the zone?” says Coalition for Seniors and Nursing Home Residents' Rights executive director Cecile Cassista. “I think it should be shut down now for a couple of weeks and bring this to a head.” Members of the PROMT (Provincial Rapid Outbreak Management Team) remain on site at Parkland Saint John, providing support for residents and the facility’s clinical care team. Support includes testing and working in collaboration with the facility’s infection prevention control specialist to strengthen infection control measures. The next round of mass testing will occur over a two-day period starting Monday. To date, the number of confirmed cases in New Brunswick is 495 and 369 have recovered. There have been seven deaths, and the number of active cases is 119 with one hospitalized case – 123,883 tests have been conducted. Canada has twice as many active COVID-19 cases as it did on Nov. 1 'These antics help no one': More than $47,000 in fines issued following house party in Mississauga, Ont. One person fined after RCMP block drive-in church service near Steinbach, Man. 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__label__wiki	0.575308	0.575308	Home » Computer » Software » A glance Back at Steve Jobs and Apple’s ‘Get a Mac’ Ads A glance Back at Steve Jobs and Apple’s ‘Get a Mac’ Ads Posted by Elmer DanielPosted in Software May 30, 2020 In commemoration of the ten-year anniversary of Apple’s iconic “Get a Mac” advert campaign, some of the principals are discussing what it was like to paintings with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs as he labored to get the proper ad to tackle Microsoft. a number of the participants in Apple’s “Get a Mac” ad marketing campaign, which includes stars Justin Lengthy and John Hodgman in conjunction with copywriter Alicia Dotter Marder, have been interviewed currently by using an exchange journal marketing campaign to have fun the ad collection’ 10-year anniversary. They speak how the idea came to light and the way Jobs played an essential role in getting it off the ground—and scuttling ideas he didn’t like. “Steve certainly desired to move hard on the Pcs,” the campaign’s executive manufacturer Mike Refuerzo instructed campaign. “Steve truly wanted to show them.” Surely getting Apple’s co-founder and then-CEO to sign off on an advert, but, proved nearly not possible. Get Data Sheet, Fortune’s generation e-newsletter “Actually for six months we provided 10, 15 ideas [to Jobs] each unmarried week,” Refuerzo said in an interview earlier reported on through 9to5Mac. “And that I’m now not simply talking about Television scripts. If we believed in an idea, it became blown out to what the out of doors seemed like, what the print gave the impression of. It became a 360 for every idea. That’s the type of excellence that Steve could count on people.” Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., pauses while speaking during an event at the company’s headquarters in Cupertino, California, U.S., on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016. Apple Inc. is expected to debut new Mac computers, ending a drought without an update for its oldest product category ahead of the holiday sales period. The upgrades will be the first since 2015, save for the 12-inch MacBook receiving a new rose gold finish and slightly faster processors in April. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Subsequently, the group at Apple’s ad enterprise TBWAChiatDay hit pay dust while Jobs preferred the concept of evaluating a Mac and Laptop via poking amusing at Microsoft MSFT 1.27% and depicting Apple AAPL 1.sixty seven% as the “cool” enterprise. In 2006, Apple’s “Get a Mac” marketing campaign kicked off. On one facet changed into Justin Lengthy, the “Mac” that became reputedly pals with John Hodgman, the “Laptop.” They could often have a speak discussing computer systems. Hodgman was made to seem like the tired, staid, uninteresting laptop, at the same time as Long, representing Macs, turned into presupposed to be the younger and funky Mac. Nonetheless, there were risks concerned in getting the marketing campaign off the floor. For instance, Scott Trattner, one of the campaign’s innovative director, stated the ad group had to be cautious no longer to denigrate the Pc character, and therefore make those “who had bought [a Windows PC] for years experience dumb.” Hodgman’s individual, he informed marketing campaign, had to be “very bright, empowered, fascinating, lovely.” For extra about Apple iPhone, watch: Get Flash Participant That said, the cause turned into clear: Apple and Steve Jobs wanted to attract a clean distinction between Microsoft and the Pcs walking its Home windows operating gadget and Apple’s Macs. And now ten years later, most agree that it did simply that. And before Lengthy, each Long and Hodgman have become popular culture successes Web Posting Pro. As Apple persisted to pelt Microsoft through its Ads, the software large attempted to reply with the humor of its own. In 2008, Microsoft responded with the “I’m a Laptop” advert campaign. 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__label__cc	0.742121	0.257879	26th Annual Booming-N-Blooming Festival Lesson Module Friends of Attwater Prairie Chicken Refuge Lesson Module Format Instructional Procedures Engage/Excite Extra Mileage and Extra Attention Learning Log Power of Persuasion TEKS and STAAR 2018 Correlations Download the Lesson Module THE ATTWATER’S PRAIRIE-CHICKEN EDUCATION PROJECT The Friends of Attwater Prairie Chicken Refuge (FAPCR) has developed an educational project that encourages youth and communities to learn about conserving and protecting the Attwater’s Prairie-Chicken and its coastal prairie habitat. The Attwater’s Prairie-Chicken, an endangered species, is an excellent example that can be used to educate our citizens, beginning with our youth, how species become endangered. This project further enhances the mission of FAPCR to promote the recovery of the Attwater’s Prairie-Chicken and the Texas native coastal prairie ecosystem for this and future generations. The Attwater’s Prairie-Chicken Education Project serves schools in the digital age a high-tech online, easy-to-use, educationally sound project that gets youth actively involved with knowledge of species conservation and preservation strategies and techniques. This project provides a research-based instructional approach which integrates language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, technology application and state testing measures with online and classroom activities that creates a student-centered learning environment. The FAPCR is excited to expand its educational role directly into the classroom with The Attwater’s Prairie-Chicken Education Project. The organization believes that environmental awareness is a critical component in the education of our youth that leads to improved awareness of stewardship of our natural resources. The lesson module is aligned to Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) in reading, mathematics, science, social studies and technology application and to the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR) tests of science, mathematics and reading. The lesson module is formatted in an easy to use, student-centered, instructional approach that is based on best practices and strategies. The instructional procedure follows the 5 E’s learning cycle (R.W. Bybee, 2009). The 5 E’s are Excite, Explore, Explain, Elaborate and Evaluate. FRIENDS OF ATTWATER PRAIRIE CHICKEN REFUGE MODULE Project Purpose: Toencourage youth and communities to learn about conserving, protecting and enhancing the Texas native coastal prairie ecosystem for this and future generations. Lesson Module Goal: Students will define the value of endangered species to the ecosystem and to our citizens and our future generations. Objectives: Students will: Conduct a research investigation and complete a report on how the Endangered Species Act of 1973 protects endangered species, threatened species and promotes their recovery. Describe the role the Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge serves to maintain and improve native coastal habitat for the Attwater’s Prairie-Chicken reintroduction and survival and the benefit of other important fish and wildlife resources. Summarize support activities that the Friends of Attwater Prairie Chicken Refuge provides to assist with the preservation and restoration of the Attwater’s Prairie- Chicken. Create a campaign and conduct a rally to increase funding to support the recovery of the Attwater’s Prairie-Chicken and restoration of its habitat. Materials Time and Internet Links General Laptops/TabletsLearning Log/JournalWhiteboard/ChartProjectorCamera or Camera phonesRecorder Preparation Time: 5 hours Instructional Time: 5 sessions, 45 minute each Activity Materials Chart paper/markers Staging materialsMicrophoneTapeConstruction PaperCostume materialsStory Board MaterialsHandout: Learning LogHandout: Power of Persuasion Internet Links Instructional Strategies (IS) for Learning Logs: https://www.plymouth.k12.in.us/formative/learning-response-logs IS for Graphic Organizers and Think-Pair-Share: http://www.fortheteachers.org/instructional-strategy IS for Story Boards: https://www.storyboardthat.com/blog/e/topic/classroom-tools https://oceantoday.noaa.gov/endspeciesact/ https://www.cbsnews.com/video/on-the-brink-the-endangered-species-act/ and/ or https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-endangered-species-act-turns-40/ https://www.endangered.org/campaigns/protecting-the-endangered-species-act/ https://www.fws.gov/refuge/attwater_prairie_chicken/ https://attwater.org https://www.fws.gov/endangered/ Engage/Excite: Tell students that they are embarking on a new adventure to learn about the significance of the Attwater’s Prairie-Chicken to the prairie ecosystem. Tell them they will investigate how and why the Attwater’s Prairie-Chicken still exists today. Let students know that their personal experiences are most important for conducting an objective research. First, they will determine how certain words affect their reactions. Ask students to open their Learning Log/Journal, write the word “KNOW” and be ready to write their reaction to the word they will see on the chart. Next ask students to close their eyes while the term “Endangered” is written on a whiteboard/chart. Have students open their eyes, read the word on the chart and write the first thought that comes into their mind. Relate to students that their responses represent what they already know about the meaning of “endangered.” Move students into small groups of 3-4 and have them share their words. Provide chart paper and markers to each group. Have one student in each group compile a list of their group’s responses and post on a wall or chart. Move the students back into a large group and conduct a discussion about their responses. The discussion should relate the likeness and differences of their reactions. Next introduce the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA). Tell the students that the ESA is an exciting law that has been very effective. Now ask the students what they WANT to know about Endangered Species and this law. Have students write “WANT” in their Learning Logs/Journals and write what they want to know about the ESA. Tell students they will investigate the ESA and present the results/reports of their investigations to the class. Move students into 4 groups and provide laptops/tablets and chart paper. Appoint a leader, a laptop/tablet technician, a recorder and reporter(s) for each group. Provide each group with a link to investigate and a list of activities to complete. Teacher Tip #1: Since they will be watching videos, have the student groups’ move somewhat apart and turn the volume as low as they can and still hear. Also, let them know that most of the videos have a written script below the video that they can read to review for their activities. Teacher Tip #2: As desired, the following Group Assignments may be duplicated and provided for each group to guide their work. Link to Information: https://oceantoday.noaa.gov/endspeciesact/ Information to Investigate: What does the ESA mean for to our nation? What agencies are involved and how do they work together to protect endangered and threatened species? Define: Endangered, Threatened and Recovered Endangered species are protected from what harmful acts? What is a recovery plan? Link to Information: https://www.cbsnews.com/video/on-the-brink-the-endangered-species-act/ and/ or https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-endangered-species-act-turns-40/ Teacher Tip: Let students know that the video “….turns 40” was developed in 2013; however information is relevant today. Define the goal of the ESA. Name the types of species protected by the ESA and provide example(s). a) If viewing the “CBS New…On the Brink,” ask students to describe what Mr. Li meant when he announced what needs to be done “to keep pace with the extinction crisis.” b) If viewing the “CBS News….act turns 40,” ask students to explain what the narrator meant when he said: “…when we save other species, we’re actually saving ourselves.” Identify (and draw if desired) 4 or more species on the Endangered Species List and include information about their decline by providing amount of decline and current status. Advise students that our adventure will continue with one of the most critically endangered species, the Attwater’s Prairie- Chicken, and it’s found only in Texas. Identify (and draw, if desired) 4 or more species that have recovered and have been delisted from the Endangered Species List. Link to Investigate: First 9 paragraphs before the sections beginning with “Listing.” https://www.endangered.org/campaigns/protecting-the-endangered-species-act/ Summarize the success stories because of ESA. (paragraphs 1&2) Describe what was happening world-wide before the ESA. (paragraph 3) Summarize the 3 key elements of ESA. (paragraph 6) Describe some of the animals, plants, ecosystems and habitats protected. (Paragraph 7 & 8) What does the ESA aspire to do? (paragraph 9) Group D: Link to Investigate: Last sections of link beginning with “Listing.” https://www.endangered.org/campaigns/protecting-the-endangered-species- act/ Information to Investigate: (paragraphs beginning with the following titles) Listing: Describe how species are “listed.” Critical Habitat and Recovery Plan: Define terms Consultation: What does this term mean? Describe “Take permits.” Define 3 types of “Take” permits. Create a “Stage” for students to present the results/reports about their investigations. Teacher Tip: Conduct a discussion regarding ethical behavior practiced while fellow students are doing their best to provide important information. Remind students that each group contributes to the whole learning experience. Sharing gives everyone input to a class project. Students should save their questions until each group has finished their report. Each group should include all members in the presentation. Let students know that they may project parts of the video or articles they found in their research (such as the Attwater’s Prairie-Chicken). Inform students that some of the presentations may include the same information which only validates each groups report. After the presentations, students in each group may ask questions about other group reports. Then ask students to open their Learning Logs/Journals, write “Learned,” and enter phrases or sentences about what they have LEARNED. Tell students that the next step in their adventure is to learn how the ESA is working in our National Wildlife Refuges to conserve and protect the wildlife of our great nation. Tell them that our adventure will take them to the Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge (APCNWR) which is in Texas. Ask students to think about what they KNOW about the Attwater’s Prairie-Chicken. Have students write KNOW in their Learning Logs/Journals make a list of words, phrases, sentences about what they already know about the Attwater’s Prairie-Chicken. Next have students share their responses and post on a whiteboard/chart. Project: https://www.fws.gov/refuge/attwater_prairie_chicken/. Click on the Features section: “Refuge Gallery” and have students look at the photos and read the text with the idea of what they WANT to know about the Attwater’s Prairie-Chicken. After the viewing the photos, write WANT on the whiteboard/chart and lead a discussion about the video to share what students want to know. Write their responses or have students write their own responses on the whiteboard/chart. In addition, instruct students to put their personal responses in their Learning Logs/Journals. Next, projectand pursue the topic headings (sections) on the website. Allow students to interject their curiosity and make comments regarding the information available on the website. Then have students focus on the specific sections as these are highlighted by the pointer. Have students predict what each section title highlighted is about. They may write their predictions in their Learning Logs/Journals to check their predictions later. Inform students that they will now explore the sections of the website and create a skit depicting the various functions of APCNWR. Tell students it is necessary to read and summarize sections of the website for the information about the role they will play. Provide laptops/tables to each group of students assign the different sections. Some students may play more than one role. These students will need to read and summarize the additional sections assigned. Once roles are assigned and students have their laptops/tablets, ask them to go to https://www.fws.gov/refuge/attwater_prairie_chicken/ and find the appropriate section on the website for information needed. First, they will read and summarize the information. Next, student should develop a short skit for their role, verbalize and act out their role. Students may create title for the skit as desired. Provide students with the materials they need such as microphones, paper, markers, tape, etc. Teacher Tip: Many of the roles encompass several different sections within the website. It may be helpful to copy the following table, discuss the format, highlight specific roles and give to provide students. Roles and Directions: Role(s) Actor(s) & role play Location of Information on Website Director & Assistant Director Introduce purpose of skit, introduce actors, close skit, thank participants and students National Wildlife Refuge at the bottom of opening page, Resource Management on Menu: 1st 3 paragraphs, including “Bringing Back the Attwater’s” Conservation Section on Menu Historian Summarize history of APCNWR Present the approximate number & percentage decline of the Attwater’s Prairie-Chicken from late 1800’s to today and reasons for the decline. About the Refuge Section Staff team for Wildlife, Habitat Landscape & Crop Growers Portray staff members. Describe the refuge landscape and wildlife, tell how and why crops are grown & how native plants are restored to the prairie. Optional: Design a background scene and props depicting the Refuge. Wildlife Section of MenuHabitat Section of MenuResource Management on Menu: Growing Crops and Planting a Wild Prairie sections Cattle Act as cattle and portray the cattle’s role in habitat management. Resource Management on Menu: Where Cattle Roam Refuge Staff and Biologists Act the roles of staff and biologists conducting the sequence of events for captive breeding, including activities at Fossil Rim, Houston Zoo, Caldwell Zoo and Sutton Center Resource Management on Menu: Captive Breeding Section Fire Control Staff Act as staff conducting prescribed fires and describe why these type of fires are necessary. Resource Management on Menu: Prescribe Burns Section Staff members to control Invasive Species and Pest Act as staff applying herbicides and pesticides to invasive species and red imported ants, respectively and summarize why this type of control is necessary. Resource Management on Menu: Beating Back the Brush and Red Imported Fire Ants Sections Predator Control Staff Portray staff keeping predators from harming Attwater’s Prairie- Chickens and trapping as necessary. Include the process for obtaining permits to trap. Resource Management on Menu: Keeping Predators at Bay and Trapping Occurs on This Refuge Sections Private Landowners & Partnerships Summarize and portray the roles that landowners and partnerships do to help the Refuge. (RM: Private Landowners Doing their Part and the Partnerships section Resource Management on Menu: Private Landowners Doing Their Part Section Partnerships on Menu. Science, Events & Community Volunteers Describe research ongoing at the Refuge, present current events happening at the Refuge and describe how the community provides Refuge support Science on MenuEvents on Home PageIn the Community on Menu Conduct the Skit. Invite other classes, parents, friends, community partners, etc. Provide a playlist for the different parts. Include the students, their roles, credits, etc. Record the presentation and play back for the students. Conduct a discussion about their skit and ask if they would make any changes and what these would be. Provide an evaluation sheet for participants. Include what else the audience would like to know about. Have students review the evaluation sheet to decide if they would add, change, omit, etc. in their skit. List desired changes if any. Review the whiteboard/chart entries about KNOW and WHAT. Add LEARNED and ask students to tell what they learned about APCNWR. List their responses and have them write these in their Learning Logs/Journals. Tell students that the next part of their adventure will be to visit an important partnership with the APCNWR, The Friends of the Attwater Prairie Chicken Refuge (FAPCR). Project: https://attwater.org. Before viewing, ask students what they already KNOW about the FAPCR and have students enter their personal responses in their Learning Logs/Journals. Conduct a large group discussion and have students to share their responses. List or have students list their responses on a whiteboard/chart. Conduct a large group discussion about likeness and differences to KNOW. Next proceed to scroll through the website and pursue the various sections. After reviewing the various sections, ask student what else they WANT to know about FAPCR. Write WANT on the whiteboard/chart next to the KNOW section. Ask students to enter WANT in their Learning Logs/Journals and list their personal responses to WANT. Then have students share these responses with the class and add to the WANT section of the whiteboard/chart. Return to the projected FAPCR website and project the video “Little Grouse on the Prairie.” Tell students to watch the video and find some information they already know and some that is new. As they watch the video, students should enter information that is new in their Learning Logs/Journals. Draw a Venn diagram on a chart/whiteboard. Conduct a discussion about what information was the same and what was different. List in ovals. Star information that is new. Move students into small groups of four to design, develop, compose, illustrate and present a “Story” about the FAPCR website. Assign students to the following groups and ask them to continue searching the website menu find the material for their story. Group 1: Research and determine: The goal of FAPCR How FAPCR supports the APCNWR. New facts about the APCNWR Group 2: Review and decide ways to depict: The “Little Grouse on the Prairie” video in the story board. The Photos in learning activities. Teacher Tip: Students may illustrate themselves as being in the video, writing fiction stories, poems and/or songs about themselves and the Attwater’s Prairie- Chicken. Group 3: Research and share: Several ways to “Be a Friend.” Include “Adopt a Prairie Chicken” by entering Adopt in the search bar. Group 4: Research and illustrate and name: The best use for specific Kid’s Activities Publications they find interesting. Have each group compile their research and personal interests into a “Story Board.” Provide these directions to design, develop, compose and illustrate their “Story Board” which consists of: Title Page that includes students’ names Story pages (5 or more pages) that tell the story of their research and what they found that was most interesting to them. Closure/Ending Page that concludes what they learned and liked the most about the research they conducted and student signatures. Set a stage to present the stories and a place to display after the presentations. Record the presentations and play back for students. Conduct a discussion about their participation in developing and designing a “Story.” Have students record what they learned from each other’s stories and enter into their Learning Logs/Journals. Elaborate: Campaign Preparation: Congratulate students on the vast amount of new knowledge they have gained. Have students give themselves a “pat” on the back and maybe, a “high five.” Tell students how proud they should be to feel fully prepared to use their experiences to create, using their own personal ideas, to the assist the Attwater’s Prairie-Chicken with additional funding. Let students know that they will use their prior knowledge to organize a campaign and conduct a campaign rally to increase participation in the FAPCR’s Adopt a Prairie Chicken Program. All students will have the opportunity to participate and present their ideas. All students will participate in deciding which ideas to pursue, to initiate and present to the public. Ask students what they know about developing and implementing a convincing and successful campaign. Write KNOW on a whiteboard/chart and list student responses. Students should enter their responses in their Learning Logs/Journals. Project and review the Adopt a Prairie Chicken on the website: https://attwater.org/. Discuss the requirements to adopt an Attwater’s Prairie-Chicken and list on a whiteboard/chart. Tell students that while knowing the requirements is important, this alone may not be enough to interest the public. Ask students to reread the information, including the description, and think about what appeals or catches their attention. List responses on a whiteboard/chart. Brainstorm activities, advertisements, etc., that catch their attention and ask why. Inform students they should consider using these ideas in their campaign. Ask students what else they WANT to know about developing an appealing campaign. Write WANT on a whiteboard/chart and list their responses and have students list in their Learning Logs/Journals. Provide the “Power of Persuasion” handout and discuss the ideas and ask students to provide examples as the “tips” are discussed. Remind students they should use these ideas in their campaign presentations. Develop the Campaign: Divide students into 4 or 5 groups to brainstorm ideas about what constitutes a campaign. Once students have their ideas ready, they will organize the ideas into a script and present to the class. Provide each group with chart paper and markers. Each group must include: A brief script Materials including music, media, photos, And/or a slogan, a song, a mascot, etc. Have each group to present their campaign version. After their presentation have the group tell why they feel their campaign is a winner and will appeal to the public. Then ask the class which idea(s) would be the most successful to entice the public to join the exclusive “Adopt a Prairie Chicken Club.” The class should incorporate the best ideas from each group to strengthen the Class Campaign. The group leaders meet and make suggested changes and create final version of their Class Campaign. Members from each group present the final version to the class. Develop and Conduct the Campaign Rally Move students back into small groups to produce a campaign rally. Group A: Assist assigning roles. Include all students in the presentation. Group B. Select an appropriate site based on an estimate of number of attendees. Select an outdoor setting, as possible. Organize and prepare the setting. Group C: Develop and distribute campaign flyers, invitations and newspaper and media announcements. Group D: Design and develop the presentation stage. Conduct and record the Rally. Ask parents, other classes, friends, etc. to assist with activities. Provide a formal and/or informal method of thanking assistants and participants. Conduct a group discussion about the rally. Write LEARNED on the whiteboard/chart and ask students what they learned about creating a campaign. List their responses and have them list their personal responses in their Learning Logs/Journals. Ask what they liked best about the performance. Ask what they would change and why. Students may send their recording and/or pictures to FAPCR and APCNWR and accompany it with personal notes from the students about their study and participation in the Attwater’s Prairie-Chicken Lesson Module. Have students retrieve their Learning Logs/Journals and review their notes for each section of the module. Ask students to self-evaluate by placing a star next to what learning was most important to them. Ask students to add any additional information they acquired. Ask students to include what else they would like to explore. Ask students to write a brief summary of the ESA of 1973. Ask if they think additional acts should be added and why. Have students share in Think Pair Share Groups. Teacher Tip: Think–Pair–Share (TPS) is a collaborative learning strategy in which students work together to solve a problem or answer a question about an assigned reading. This technique requires students to (1) think individually about a topic or answer to a question; and (2) share ideas with classmates. Have students write a brief summary of some of the most important functions of what the APCNWR performs to protect and restore the habitat of the Attwater’s Prairie- Chicken. Again, have students share in small groups and add additional information they omitted. Optional: Have students create a Charades game to portray different roles of staff members at APCNWR. Have students change Campaign roles and incorporate any changes they thought should be made to the original script. Then perform the campaign again for the class and other interested audiences. Invite FAPCR to attend as possible. Extra Mileage: Ask students to make a list of research regarding the Attwater’s Prairie- Chicken they would like to conduct. Have students choose one research idea to explore by themselves or with partners. Conduct the research as probable. Extra Attention: Have students to meet in small expert groups and decide what concepts in this module they want to better understand. Ask experts to assist with further developing the students understanding. Ask students write about the concept after getting assistance. Have students develop a game modeled after games such as monopoly (APC-Opoloy, APC-Mania, APC World, etc.) to further develop vocabulary and concepts. ATTWATER’S PRAIRIE-CHICKEN LESSON MODULE Use this Learning page for each section of the lesson module or use a Journal (spiral notebook). The Learning Log/Journal purpose is to write about your reflections, concerns, questions, responses and add notes about your learning experience. Each time you sign into the Learning Log, record the date and the section of the lesson module for which you are responding. If you have more than one entry for the same section, sign in again with the new date. Lesson Module Section: _______________________________ Date: _____________________________ Organize Thoughts Logically. Use Notecard with major points to remember. Begin with an Attention-Getter Develop a powerful statement to grab attention. Explain Your Position. Give examples. Be Concise. Kept short message and simple. Make Eye Contact Show sincerity. Speak Slowly Speak Slow, Clear and Loud enough to hear. Use Visuals Highlight major points to impress. Reinforce Position to Convince. Restate position and major points to conclude. Adapted from Project Learning Tree. “The Changing Forest,” Forest Ecology, 2006, p.68. American Forest Foundation 2nd edition. STATE OF TEXAS ASSESSMENTS OF ACADEMIC READINESS (STAAR 2018) CORRELATIONS TO Language Arts: Adopted 2017 5.1 (A) listen actively to interpret verbal and non-verbal messages, ask relevant questions, and make pertinent comments. 5. 1 (C) give and organized presentation employing eye contact, speaking rate, volume, enunciation, natural gestures, and conventions of language to communicate ideas effectively; 5.1 (D) work collaboratively with others to develop a plan of shared responsibilities. 5. 6 (E) make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society; 5.6 (G) evaluate details read to determine key ideas; 5.6 ( H) synthesize information to create new understanding; 5.7 (B) write responses that demonstrate understanding of texts, including comparing and contrasting ideas across a variety of sources; 5.7 (D) retell, paraphrase, or summarize texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order; 5.7 (E) interact with sources in meaningful ways such as notetaking, annotating, freewriting or illustrating; 5.11(A) plan a first draft by selecting a genre for a particular topic, purpose, and audience using a range of strategies such as brainstorming, freewriting, and mapping; 5.12 (C) compose argumentative texts, including opinion essays, using genre characteristics and craft; 5.13 (B) develop and follow a research plan with adult assistance; 5.13 (C) identify and gather relevant information from a variety of sources; 5.13 (H) use an appropriate mode of delivery, whether written, oral or multimodal to present results. Mathematics: Adopted 2012 5.1 (B) use a problem-solving model that incorporates analyzing given information, formulating a plan or strategy, determining a solution, justifying the solution and evaluating the problem-solving process and the reasonableness of the solution; 5.1 (F) analyze mathematical relationships to connect and communicate mathematical ideas; 5.3 (A) estimate to determine solutions to mathematical and real-world problems involving addition, substation, multiplication, or division; Science: Adopted 2018 5.2 (F) communicate valid conclusions in both written and verbal forms; 5. 3 (A) analyze, evaluate, and critique scientific explanations by using evidence, logical reasoning and experimental and observational testing; 5.9. (C) predict the effects of changes in ecosystems caused by living organisms, including humans, such as the overpopulations of grazers or building highways; Social Studies: Adopted 2011 5.4 (F) explain how industry and the mechanization of agriculture changed the American Way of life; 5.9 (B) analyze the positive and negative consequences of human modification of the environment in the United States, past and present; 5.24 (B) analyze information by sequencing, categorizing, identifying cause-and-effect relationships, comparing, contrasting, finding the main idea, summarizing, making generalizations and predictions, and drawing inferences and conclusions; 5.24 (C) organize and interpret information in outlines, reports, databases, and visuals, including graphs, charts, timelines, and maps; 5.25 (C) express ideas orally based on research and experiences; 5.25 (D) create written and visual material such as journal entries, reports, graphic organizers, outlines, and bibliographies; 5.26 (B) use a decision-making process to identify a situation that requires a decision, gather information, identify options, predict consequences, and take action to implement decision. Technology Applications: Adopted 2012 5.1 (A) create original products using a variety of resources; 5.2 (A) draft, edit, and publish products in different media individually and collaboratively; 5.2 (C) collaborate effectively through personal learning communities and social environments; 5.2 (E) evaluate the product for relevance to the assignment or task; 5.3 (B) collect and organize information from a variety of formats, including text, audio, video and graphics; 5.3 (D) acquire information appropriate to specific tasks. 5.4 (C) evaluate student-created products through self and peer review for relevance to the assignment or task.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2767
__label__wiki	0.85501	0.85501	GM, Honda annouce fuel cell venture in Michigan New York (AFP) - General Motors and Honda announced plans Monday for the first "mass production" of an advanced hydrogen fuel cell system that could be used in future vehicles. The two companies, which have collaborated on the technology since 2013, will launch the Fuel Cell System Manufacturing venture in an existing GM battery facility in Brownstown, Michigan, south of Detroit, the US auto capital. Production is expected to begin around 2020 and the venture will create nearly 100 new jobs, the companies said in a statement. GM and Honda will invest $85 million each in the technology. Fuel cell vehicles can operate on hydrogen made from a renewable source such as wind and biomass. The only emissions from these engines is water vapor. "Over the past three years, engineers from Honda and GM have been working as one team with each company providing know-how from its unique expertise to create a compact and low-cost next-gen fuel cell system," said Toshiaki Mikoshiba, chief operating officer for Honda in North American. Fuel cell technology has been under study for some 20 years as an alternative to the combustion engine. However, the technology so far has not made economic sense, in part because of a lack of infrastructure to recharge vehicles with hydrogen. Mark Reuss, GM executive vice president for global product development said, "The combination of two leaders in fuel cell innovation is an exciting development in bringing fuel cells closer to the mainstream of propulsion applications." Jackie O's X-rated confession: 'I’m ready to go' Trump supporters' 'online chatter' sparks tense scenes US Capitol staff are concerned about threats by Trump loyalists ahead of Joe Biden's inauguration, but are confident the event will show the 'resilience of American democracy'. Menacing gun shop sign emerges ahead of Trump's final days Demand for guns and ammunition has skyrocketed ahead of Joe Biden's inauguration this week.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2768
__label__wiki	0.802253	0.802253	Read Next Watch Kaytranada’s Retro Dance Party With Kali Uchis in ‘10%’ Video August 6, 2020 1:32PM Karnivool Reschedule ‘Sound Awake’ Anniversary Tour to 2021 “We are not willing to compromise the show planned and this tour is not one that can be done in parts, so we are moving the dates to March 2021.” Tyler Jenke Tyler Jenke's Most Recent Stories Shout Tyler Jenke a beer Karnivool will now begin their "Decade of 'Sound Awake'" tour next March. Kane Hibberd* Karnivool have pushed back the dates for their Sound Awake tenth anniversary tour a second time, with the shows now set to take place in March of 2021. First announced back in February, the tour was set to kick off back in April as a way to celebrate ten years since the release of Karnivool second album, which emerged in June of 2009. Later released in the US in early 2010, Sound Awake came four years after the band’s Themata debut, and managed to peak at #2 on the ARIA charts. However, celebrations were short lived, with COVID-19 restrictions taking hold mere weeks later, and causing the group to push back their tour to later in 2020. Unfortunately, even these new dates found themselves in the midst of conflict, with Karnivool announcing their tour had been rescheduled once again, with the shows now taking place in early 2021. “The last few weeks have made it very obvious that we will need to reschedule The Decade of Sound Awake tour,” Karnivool said in a statement. “Events in Victoria (much love to everyone there!) and an abundance of caution in other parts of the country mean it would be very difficult for the tour to cross some state borders and now does not feel like the best time to gather together in celebration. And – let’s face it – it’s going to get sweaty and the singalong will be huge – we want everyone to feel good about that! “We are not willing to compromise the show planned and this tour is not one that can be done in parts, so we are moving the dates to March 2021. This may seem like aeons away but it’s the best way we can assure everyone that it will happen then safely.” Despite the disappointment of the shows taking place almost one year later than first planned, Karnivool have noted there is something of a silver lining, adding extra dates in Kingscliff, Newcastle. and Wollongong. Meanwhile, Western Australian fans have been advised to hold on for news regarding a “different treat” in the near future. “All tickets remain valid for the new shows so hold on to them and please hold onto all the ’11th Anniversary’ jokes cause we have already made them,” Karnivool conclude. Karnivool – The Decade of Sound Awake Tour Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA Enmore Theatre, Sydney, NSW Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane, QLD Friday, March 19th, 2021 (New Show) Kingscliff Beach Hotel, Kingscliff, NSW Saturday, March 20th, 2021 (New Show) The Cambridge, Newcastle, NSW Sunday, March 21st, 2021 (New Show) Waves, Wollongong, NSW Festival Hall, Melbourne, VIC Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide, SA Tickets on sale now via the Karnivool website In This Article: Karnivool	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2769
__label__wiki	0.873355	0.873355	Trope, Pages with broken file links, Unisex Tropes, Injury Tropes Drama Tropes Mystery Tropes Cut Himself Shaving File:Fell down some stairs.gif Sure you did, buddy. Michael: Alex didn't really kill himself. He cut himself shaving. He had really hairy wrists. Theo: I ran into a door. Rudy: I do that sometimes. —The Cosby Show (note: he didn't!) An unlikely excuse used to explain away a suspicious wound or injury. For example, when the police question a murder suspect, they find that he has some cuts or scratches on his face, consistent with the type of wounds that the perpetrator would incur in that sort of crime (perhaps because someone with a knife fought back). When asked where he got them, nine times out of ten he will say he Cut Himself Shaving. Likewise, a guy who beat someone up will often say that the victim "fell down some stairs" or "ran into a door" whenever being questioned by the cops. A subversion is the character who really did walk into a door, but everyone assumes they're covering. In anime and manga, this trope is usually just explained by all characters as "I fell," and keeping it unspecific. This leads to wondering by the characters, as by the reader, "Fell on what?" Also frequently employed by a Superhero when he must preserve his Secret Identity by explaining away wounds sustained in battle. It may also be used by someone attempting to cover-up Self-Harm. Another variant, found in military fiction and military science fiction, has two men - often an officer and an NCO - engage in a brawl in a nice, quiet, out-of-the-way spot to settle some point of honor, with the unspoken agreement being that each will cover for the other's injuries. This is because in many of these settings, striking a superior officer, regardless of the reason, is an offense worthy of court-martial and with very heavy penalties. For the lethal version, see The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much. If he really did cut himself shaving, There Will Be Toilet Paper. Not to be confused with Dangerously Close Shave, which is about the barber cutting other people. Examples of Cut Himself Shaving include: 7 New Media 9 Theatre In Hunter X Hunter, after Killua fought Rammot, he said his injuries were from training and that nothing interesting happened. In the anime Bleach, the character Uryu Ishida once explains his injuries from a fight with hollows to a classroom by this. To hang a lampshade on this, the class believes he's lying. It also gets hilariously averted in a later scene, when the narrator's boss notices bloodstains on the narrator's shirt and asks "Is that your blood?" to which the narrator replies "Some of it", a Shout-Out to Fight Club. In Monster, when Dr. Tenma finds Dieter on the floor screaming in pain, his legal guardian claims that he fell while standing on a chair. This excuse works for all but thirty seconds before Tenma lifts the boy's shirt and discovers that he is covered with scars. Subverted/parodied in Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei: Everyone assumes Kobushi Abiru is a victim of domestic violence, and her name is even read as "a flurry of punches," used in the context of said abuse. However, her injuries actually stem from her being attacked by animals after pulling their tails. Parodied in the Hilarious Outtakes of Texhnolyze. In a "child-safe" redub of a gang fight, mooks exclaim things like "Ow, bee sting!" and "cut myself shaving" as they get shot. The titular character of Loveless uses the "fell down stairs" excuse to cover for one of the many times his mother attempted to murder him. Satoko in Higurashi no Naku Koro ni tries to explain some of the results of her uncle's abuse this way. In Change 123 a student fights with a kunoichi whose weapon of choice is a bunch of sharpened keys on a wire (sort of a disguised rope dart). These keys leave a serious wound on the student's leg, but in the school infirmary she tells the nurse that she accidentally cut herself with her own keys. The nurse, of course, doesn't buy this story (knowing that normal keys don't leave wounds like this), but pretends to accept it as she is also a kunoichi, from the same clan as the perpetrator, and has recognized her colleague's modus operandi. Ryouhei from Katekyo Hitman Reborn tells his sister that he is participating in a boxing tournament whenever she sees him and his friends fighting when it is glaringly obvious that both sides of the fight have every intention to kill and all kinds of dangerous weapons. Sakura Gari: Masataka explains away the burn mark on his hand that he got from when Katsuragi put his hand in boiling hot tea with "I got these burns when I was helping out in the kitchen because I was careless with the hot water." Earlier, when one of the maids catches him holding a knife unusually close to his throat, he claims to be sharpening his pencil. He's a student, so she believes him. We later discover that she does know that Souma has been raping him, however. In Daily Life with Monster Girl Miia attacks someone being rude to her. The Protagonist jumps in the way, because if she hurt someone it would reck havoc on some treaty (he got hurt in the process though, which would still reck havoc on said treaty). When asked about it, he said he fell down. Batman is quite fond of this. For example, in the comics, Bruce Wayne was once in the hospital and the doctor notes that for a supposed lazy Millionaire Playboy, he has considerable scarring (which is from his work as Batman, Batman: The Animated Series, and Batman Beyond). Wayne responded with: Wayne: I fell from a tree. Doctor: A tree? Wayne: Yes, it was a very tall tree. One episode of The Batman had him joking that he Cut Himself Shaving to explain a bandage on his arm (it was actually from a weird chemical Joker injected into him that made him start to act like Joker). Of course, his body was oddly hairless... This was taken to extremes in the 90s comic book arc Knightfall. In it, then new villain Bane deduces Batman's identity, breaks into the Batcave, battles Batman and breaks his back. In order to explain why Gotham's wealthiest playboy is now paralyzed, they claim that Bruce Wayne was in a car accident, complete with the Batclan going out and totaling one of Bruce Wayne's vehicles. Now that's dedication. In an odd turn, an actual shaving cut saved Batman on one occasion in the early comics. As Bruce Wayne, he met and briefly romanced a woman who, unbeknownst to him, was one of the Joker's henchwomen. Later, as Batman, he's about to be shot by the Joker, but she recognizes the shaving cut and takes the bullet for him. Batman Begins toys with this trope in the dialog between Bruce and both Alfred and Lucius—the former suggests he take up polo to explain his bruises, the latter receives a very flimsy handwave for why Bruce had been drugged with a weaponized hallucinogen. In more recent stories, part of Bruce Wayne's public persona includes a fondness for extreme sports. That would plausibly explain some of the scarring. There is also the scene from The Long Halloween where (while Batman) Bruce gets a scratch on his face from Catwoman. When they meet up later for a date (as Bruce and Selina) and Selina asks how he got the scratch, he tells her exactly this. Marv from Sin City uses the "cut myself shaving" excuse with his blind mom after the fight at the apartment complex against the dirty cops sent to take him in when he was framed for killing Goldie. In Jonah Hex the title character sarcastically gives all sorts of unlikely explanations to his massive facial scarring when asked about it, from the traditional "cut myself shaving" to "my toothpick slipped." The first phrase is seen in the trailer for the live-action film. Random gunslinger: Hey Hey! What happened to your face? * Hex shoots the gunslinger in the face without looking away from his drink* Hex: Cut myself shaving. What happened to yours? In an old, '50s-era Archie Comics strip, Archie has a black eye. Everyone assumes he got into a fight and lost, despite his vociferous protests. Even his mother doesn't understand how someone could walk into a door. He demonstrates...and blacks his other eye, prompting him to decide not to leave the house for a week, as no one will believe he walked into two doors. Another Archie universe story inverted this trope with Alex Cabot, one of the managers of Josie and the Pussy Cats. When Alex gets a black eye, he claims that he got it in a fistfight, while everyone else thinks that he walked into a door. Alex continually denies it, but when he gets up to leave he gets nailed in the other eye by a door. The last panel shows a dazed Alex sitting on the floor with two black eyes, mumbling that it was the same door that got him the first time. In The Question, it's a running gag for Victor Sage to have a snappy response when someone notes he has no face (the desired look of his special mask) such as "Dang those safety razors, you really have to watch them." In This Donald Duck story, Donald and Gladstone get into a fistfight against Daisy's wishes. Gladstone excuses his black eye by saying he walked into a door, while Donald says he walked into the same door trying to save Gladstone. Daisy is less than convinced. An arc of Spider-Man had a Running Gag/subplot of Peter Parker attempting to explain to his boss his injuries from battling super villains the night before. His excuses included a pot exploding in the microwave, to falling into the gorilla cage at the zoo. Chinatown- when asked about his cut nose, the lead character gives a reply that would fit into the Chasing Amy scar comparison scene: Your wife got excited. She crossed her legs a little too quick. In To Live and Die In LA, Secret Service agents are posing as businessmen to bust a famous counterfeiter. One of the agents gets a black eye during a prolonged chase and, when asked by the counterfeiter where the shiner came from, he replies: "I got hit by a tennis ball." In the TV movie No One Would Tell Candace Cameron's character tries to explain all her bruises this way to her best friend Nikki, and other people, when in reality her abusive boyfriend Bobby has been hitting her. In Philadelphia, Tom Hanks's character, attempting to hide his AIDS, explains a cancerous skin marking as being a bruise that he sustained from being hit by a tennis ball. In Kindergarten Cop, Arnold Schwarzenegger gets the "I fell down" excuse from a little boy and his mother when he (the kid, not Arnold) keeps showing up to class with fresh bruises. Naturally, Arnold ain't buying it, so he confronts the abusive father and, after laying down the cardinal rule of "You hit the kid, I hit you," proceeds to beat the ever-lovin' crap out of him, much to the delight of the principal. The narrator of Fight Club, is asked to explain his fighting injuries to a doctor. His friend and alternate personality suggests that he "fell down some stairs." The narrator agrees. The repetition makes a lot more sense when you learn that "Tyler" is an alternate personality as the doctor wouldn't have heard him speaking as he isn't really there Parodied cheerfully by Hugh Jackman's character in Someone Like You, who claims that he bit himself shaving. Safranek from the '80s animated cult movie Cat City must do this all the time as his boss brutally injures him for every mistake he makes, and pretends not to know about it subsequently. Top Cat: Not another accident? Oh dear. What happened to you this time, Safranek? Safranek: * gulps* I cut myself shaving, sir. Top Cat: But, your hand! Safranek: That's what I was shaving with, sir. In One Night at McCool's, Liv Tyler's character received a black eye in an accident. A police officer later sees her at her boyfriend's house, he immediately assumes that the boyfriend had beat her and kicks him out of his own house. The boyfriend keeps imploring her to tell the officer the truth, but she says absolutely nothing the entire time because she's a Manipulative Bitch. Spider-Man has Spidey getting a nasty cut from one of Green Goblin's little toys. When Norman Osborn questions Peter about it later at Thanksgiving dinner, Peter claims to have been knocked down by a bike messenger. Invoked in Doctor Strangelove. When Mandrake tells Colonel Guano that General Ripper shot himself in the bathroom, Guano skeptically asks if it was "while he was shaving?" Also in The Dirty Dozen, repeated shenanigans are explained by a character saying "he slipped on a bar of soap." At one point, the chief MP complains that "Everybody's slipping on soap." In The Elephant Man, Anthony Hopkins (a doctor) is called to examine the badly-wounded titular sideshow performer. The circus manager, Bytes, answers that "He fell. He's a clumsy soul. Never looks where he's going, but that's alright. He has me to take care of him." And all the while he's saying this, his sidekick is giving some very meaningful glances at Bytes' walking stick. Parodied in Superhero Movie in one of its few genuinely funny moments. Dragonfly and the Big Bad get into a fight right before Thanksgiving dinner (in a scenario lifted directly from Spider-Man, just like most of the movie). Whenever somebody points out one of their cuts, they both come up with increasingly-bizarre excuses. Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny features a dour waitress played by Amy Poehler who, when asked how she received her black eye, she hesitates and mumbles, "Burned myself with a curling iron." In the deleted scenes, she gives various other lame excuses. In the movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Vicky tells her husband that she is going to lunch with her professor, when she is actually going to see a man who she is sexually attracted to. While she is at the man's house, his ex-wife shows up with a gun and ends up shooting Vicky in the hand. She tells her husband that her "professor" was showing her the gun when it accidentally went off. A Inversion in the interrogation in Scarface, notable for its Bowdlerised rewording (from the infamous "melon farmer" version): Original: How'd you get that scar? Eatin' pussy? Hilarious: How'd you get that scar? Eatin' pineapple? In Under Siege, Commander Krill says he cut himself shaving as an explanation for Ryeback slashing his face. Played straight in Some Like It Hot with the gangster Spats and the federal agent investigating a murder that Spats is a suspect in. Federal Agent: You shave with your spats on? Spats: I sleep with my spats on! Thunderball begins with James Bond fighting it out with a bad guy in widow drag wielding a fireplace poker. Later, when a physical therapist (a hot one, of course) is examining him, she comments on a scar on his back: Bond: Got it from a widow. Therapist: Really - I thought you'd be just the type for a widow. Bond: No, he didn't care for me at all. In Mildred Pierce, Wally says this is where he got the cut on his hand when he was framed for murder. Space Cowboys has "slipped in the shower" as the explanation of bruises from a fight. (One of the participants even goes :"How did you know?" when asked if this is what happened.) The Waterboy: Bobby tells his Mama a fake story of an escaped gorilla that punched in him eye to cover up his black eye from playing football which Mama forbids. In Stalag 17, the Geneva representative asks Sefton who beat him. Sefton's reply: "Nobody beat me. We were playing pinochle. It's a rough game." In the 2010 The Karate Kid film, Dre excuses his black eye to Mr. Han as tripping and hitting a pole. Mr. Han responds that it's an "Interesting" pole. In The Santa Clause, Scott (at his first stage of his body turning into Santa) explains the executives his sudden weight gain is from a bee sting. "A big bee." In Yellowbeard, a bar fight with Blind Pew leaves the entire tavern littered with corpse. Clement: What happened? Betty: Plague! Clement: Plague? Betty: All sudden like! Lucky I was out. Clement: That man's got a sword in him! Betty: He fell on it. In Kill Bill Volume 1, The Bride and Vernita Green are having a knock-down-drag-out slugfest when Vernita's daughter Nikki comes home from school and they have to call off the fight. Nikki: Mommy, what happened to you and the TV room? Vernita: Oh... That good-for-nothing dog of yours got his little ass in the living room and acted a damn fool. That's what happened, baby. Nikki (understandably skeptical): Barney did this? Every time someone gets beaten up in Scum: Warder: What happened? Boy: I fell In 8 Mile, after getting his ass beat, Rabbit walks into his mom's trailer, and she asks what happened. "I fell down the stairs." The stairs in front of their house is comprised of only two steps. In Léon: The Professional, Mathilda tells Leon that she fell off a bike, more than once. She seems to figure nevertheless that he knows the truth of her abusive father. When Peter Loew of Vampire's Kiss is asked about the bandage covering the bite marks on his neck, he says he cut himself shaving. The Hunt for Red October: An inconvenient political officer "slips on his tea." In 100 Feet, Famke Janssen's character didn't cover for her abusive husband back when he was alive, but when she's under house arrest and getting beaten up by his ghost, she has to resort to these sorts of excuses, since the truth wouldn't be plausible. In Summon the Keeper by Tanya Huff, the Dudley Do Right character meets a badly bruised woman who claims she walked into a door. In a subversion, this is, in fact, true and she is pathetically clumsy. Heavily parodied in the book How To Be A Superhero, in which a sidekick explains away rope burns from a supervillain hostage situation to his teacher as him and his adopted father "getting into some really rough stuff." Naturally, this doesn't help the situation. In Tamora Pierce's Tortall Universe books, the would-be knights use "I fell down" as the traditional explanation for any injuries obtained while fighting, because it's considered dishonourable to tell on another page or squire. At one point in Alanna: The First Adventure, when questioned about Alan's claim that he "fell down," a servant confirms that, yes, Alan did fall down... of course, another squire helped him fall, several times. With his fists. Continued in the Protector of the Small quartets in the same universe, which follows the second female knight, Kel. When facing her training master after her many, many fights with Joren and his cronies, she always answers "I fell down," and teaches Owen, a younger page, to do the same. The training master, who doesn't believe girls should become knights, tries more than once to get her to tattle, despite hearing the same excuse from the boy pages. Later in her Squire years, Kel takes a soak in the shared bathrooms after a hard day's training. The women there see her bruises and immediately come to her defense, thinking a man beat her. It takes a while for Kel to convince them that she really DID get those injuries from falling... off her horse, repeatedly, while learning how to Tilt. Like the pages' standard excuse of "I fell down" to explain injuries from fighting, the standard excuse given for an argument settled in a jousting match is that the participants had an irresolvable difference of opinions in a philosophical debate. While Commander Vimes in the Discworld novels would come down heavily on any actual police brutality in the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, he has occasionally referenced the trope as a veiled threat, muttering that certain prisoners might fall down the stairs on the way to the cells...even though there aren't any. They can find some. Coppers are resourceful like that. Douglas Adams' The Meaning of Liff defines "Sluggan" as a facial bruise caused by walking into a door, but which everyone else assumes is the result of a fight with your partner. There's no point trying to tell them what really happened. In The Great Brain at the Academy, Tom challenges his rival Rory to a fight. Since they could get expelled for fighting, he says they can go to the dormitory bathroom, no one will see, and Rory can explain his black eye by saying he fell down the stairs. In Harry Potter, Umbridge asks Hagrid how he came to be covered in blood and bruises. He responds, "I tripped." Also, after Harry's first detention with Umbridge, he heads back to the Gryffindor dormitory and on his way, Ron intercepts him and asks him how it went. Harry tries to cover up his hand with the words "I must not tell lies" cut into his palm but Ron notices, and doesn't believe Harry when he tells him that "it's nothing". In Dead Air by Iain Banks, the main character is beaten up by the mob, when his friends question him at work the next day he says that he fell down the stairs and then had the shit beaten out of him. Inverted in the novel Neverwhere. No one will believe that Richard broke his finger while being tortured, and they just attribute it to his own clumsiness. "What happened, were you in a fight? Actually, you probably just slammed it in a door or something." Richard: "Actually, it was in a...a door." In the novel Heart by Edmondo D'Amici, Enrico's friend and classmate Pietro Precossi says similar stuff when people ask him about his bruises. Turns out he's being abused by his alcoholic father. Who, to be fair, later swears off the booze. This is Older Than Radio. In John Steinbeck's East of Eden, Adam Trask's wife Cathy walks out and leaves him the parting gift of a bullet in the shoulder. When the sheriff questions him, he says that the gun went off while he was cleaning it. Since Adam is a cavalry officer and a really bad liar, this doesn't really fly. In Sandy Mitchell's Warhammer 40,000 novel Scourge The Heretic, in face of a corpse that had been torn to shreds, Kyrlock guesses that he didn't cut himself shaving. (Drake appreciates it; he had been on the verge of vomiting.) In The English Patient, the title character acquires a number of scars during his affair with Katharine Clifton (ranging from punches to a stabbing with a fork). He explains them away as accidents; the rest of the group seem to believe him, and decide he's incredibly clumsy. The poem "In Detention" by South African poet Christopher van Wyck is made up of excuses like this made by prison officials regarding prisoners who died in their custody. In Simon Green's Hawk And Fisher series, one-eyed Hawk tells a noblewoman who asks him what became of his eye that he lost it in a card game. Subverted in Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King. Although Joe does have a history of beating her, she stopped him from doing so months before. She really, honestly did simply injure herself on accident. But the checkout lady refuses to believe her. However, both her and Joe do use the large bruise to let him save face by pretending that he gave it to her. It's complicated. In the Swedish novel Ondskan (The Evil), the main character goes to a Boarding School of Horrors where the students are punished by the student body through sadistic means, one of them being beaten up. Sometimes, a few get bruised so badly they have to be taken to a nearby hospital, where everyone gives the Fell Down the Stairs explanation. The doctor doesn't buy for a moment and asks what the hell is going on but not before lampshading that it "must be one hell of a long staircase." In the first Maximum Ride book, Fang gives this exact explanation to a runaway MIT graduate after he's made the victim of a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown by Ari. In Robin Hobb's Dragon Keeper, Sedric explained coming home at dawn with torn clothes and puffy lips after his first encounter with Hest as being very drunk and falling into a ditch. In Kingdom Keepers, Finn has to explain away an injury he got from Frickin' Laser Beams by saying he was burned by a cigarette by a bully. Subverted in Airframe. In one scene, the main character is pushed out of an airplane under inspection in a hangar and lands on some safety netting around it, getting bruised in the process. Later on, when someone else asks her how she got those bruises, she says truthfully (though vaguely) that she fell. The woman who asked the question doesn't believe her and gives her a card to a shelter for battered women. Roddy Doyle wrote a novel about a battered wife entitled The Woman Who Walked Into Doors. In This Can't Be Happening At Macdonald Hall! by Gordon Korman, Bruno and Boots kidnap the rival hockey team's mascot (a large domestic cat) before the first game of the season, and it scratches Boots' face. The coach later asks what happened to his face and Boots says he cut himself shaving. The coach says he knows darn well that Boots is too young to be shaving, and that if the scratch came from a cat, he doesn't want to know about it. In Twilight, when Bella is in the hospital, the Cullens tell her to explain her wounds this way: "You fell down two flights of stairs and through a window. You have to admit, it could happen." In The Dresden Files short story The Warrior, Harry saves a girl from being hit by a hybrid car (its near-silent engine meant she didn't hear it coming), and when her mother comes to see what happened, Harry spots a bruise on the girl and asks if he gave it to her when he pulled her out of the car's path. The girl says no, she was bruised when she fell off her bike. Harry then asks how that happened without her scraping her hands. The mother's eyes go wide with realization and she marches the girl promptly back home. Later in the story, Harry learns that the father had been hitting her, and Harry mentioning it meant that the mother was finally going to leave him with her daughter, and that one act saved the girl from a childhood of continued abuse. In The Wasp Factory, Frank mentions a relative who moved to South Africa and died when he walked past a police station and was crushed under a black suspect who had fallen out the window and somehow managed to yank all his fingernails out on the way. In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou chronicles how, when she was eight years old, her mother's boyfriend molested her, though at that time she just understood it as him holding her and making her feel good. After molesting her, the bed got wet and he poured a glass of water over the wet spot, telling her that she wet the bed. She got confused because she knew that she didn't wet the bed, and yet she didn't say anything to contradict him. He manages to ensure that this situation of her sleeping with him continues and no one suspects him to be the pedophile that he is until he rapes her and her mother finds her bloody underwear that she hid. An episode of The Middle found Frankie and the family quickly gathering up garbage for the once every two week garbage pick up. Frankie tossed an empty bottle to Sue which accidentally hit Brick in the head. Later at school when asked about the injury, Brick innocently said "My Mom hit me with a beer bottle", not intending it to sound the way it did. Happens quite frequently on Law and Order (such as in the episode "Family Friend") and its spinoffs. Law and Order Special Victims Unit, with its habit of It's Personal episodes, has been known to explain away perpetrators' injuries in police custody this way, too. From the episode "Futility": Defense Lawyer: And how did he get hurt between his home and the station house? Alex Cabot: I don't know, how did he? (looks at Tutuola and Stabler) Odafin Tutuola: He fell. Defense Lawyer: Bull. Alex Cabot: The only injuries I see are Mr. Gardner's torn knuckles from punching Detective Benson in the face, so unless you want to add the assault of a police officer to the list of charges, I suggest you move on. Star Trek: Voyager, episode "Prophecy." Full House, episode "Silent is Not Golden" has the abused child version. "I ran into a door. A door named Dad." Lampshade Hanging: In the Foyle's War episode "Bleak Midwinter," the detective's offsider is framed for a murder. When he's informed that a search of his house turned up a shirt with blood spattered on the cuff, his response is: "Is this the bit where I'm supposed to say I cut myself shaving?" B. J. Hunnicut used the exact phrase in "The Abduction of Margaret Houlihan" episode of MASH to explain away a suspicious leg wound. However, he says this to annoy Col. Flagg, and does not particularly care if he is believed or not. Frank had actually accidentally shot him. In the Blackadder episode "Dish and Dishonesty," he fixes the result of an election by taking the place of the only eligible voter (who "accidentally brutally cut his head off while combing his hair"), and also replacing the returning officer, who "accidentally brutally stabbed himself in the stomach while shaving." In a episode of the new Battlestar Galactica Reimagined, Baltar uses this "excuse" to explain the rather grisly injury he gets when he is attacked in a bathroom and gets this throat cut. With the razor he was using to shave his Beard of Sorrow. In House, a gangster's head injury is explained by "A tire iron fell on him". "He was changing a tire, and it... slipped." Played with - In the cold open of a Season 6 episode, a couple are arguing, and it disturbs their neighbour. When the man answers the door, the Woman (Patient of the Week)'s face comes out all bruised. Neighbour of course assumes the obvious, but it's just a symptom An unusual semi-real-life example on The Colbert Report: on the first anniversary of falling and breaking his wrist, Stephen Colbert showed up for work with two black eyes and stitches in his face. He explained that after last year's incident, he'd sworn never to break a fall with his hands again. The explanation was a joke, but the injuries are real; the actor was in a sailing accident. On the Angel episode "Destiny", Spike and Angel have a massive brawl. Upon returning, when Angel shows up bloody and bruised, Fred asks, "What happened?!", and his response is, "I fell down some stairs. Big stairs." When Spike shows up later looking very similar, Fred's response is, "Stairs, huh?" British sitcom Only Fools and Horses episode "No Greater Love" has this: Del Boy: "I fell into a door" Rodney: "A door done all that damage?" Del Boy: "Well it was one of those revolving doors." In Season 4 of The Sopranos after Chris' "intervention" for his drug addiction (where he gets the crap beaten out of him) he is taken to the ER. Tony explains to the nurse that he sustained his injuries "slipping off the kitchen counter while spraying for ants". Off her skeptical look, Tony elaborates, "Well, he was wearing socks". The Middleman attempts to use this excuse on Lacey. Since he was bitten by a vampire puppet, it doesn't go over too well. Please tell me the above Makes Sense in Context. It always does. Vampire puppets, trout zombies, a boy-band bent on returning to their home galaxy through a portal powered by tweens' screams, and, of course, Sensei Ping's feud with los luchadores. It all makes sense in context. Mind, the context may not make sense. Lampshaded on CSI: NY when Mac finds blood on a suspect's cuff: "Is this the point where I say I cut myself shaving?" Subverted later when it turns out he actually did, or something to that effect; the blood is his. The West Wing: Josh's hand (supposedly) cut up by a broken drink glass in the episode "Noel", when in fact he smashed his hand through a window during a particularly intense reaction to his Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. On Lost, Ana Lucia sarcastically says she cut herself shaving when asked about the cut on her forehead that "Henry" gave her when he tried to kill her. In an episode of Friends, Monica, Chandler, and Ross manage to get backstage at a Hootie and the Blowfish concert, without Joey, Phoebe, and Rachel knowing, during which Monica receives a hickey on her neck from one of the members. When Rachel asks Monica about, she laughs it off nervously with: "Oh... I fell." Rachel cynically asks: "On someone's lips?" One episode of Scrubs features a throwaway scene where J.D. observes two parents checking their (very badly bruised) daughter into Sacred Heart. Explaining, the father says in a disconcertingly offhand fashion: "She fell again." In another episode, there's a scene where several men people come in to the hospital with bizarre things stuck up their asses, and (nearly) all of them say "I fell on it." (The last guy said "I was bored." At least one of them was honest.) In a rarely-aired episode of I Love Lucy, Lucy gets a black eye accidentally. She jokingly tells Fred and Ethel "Ricky slugged me!" But they believe her. And not her later protestations. This episode had some of the creeeepiest dialogue in the history of the show. "Well, Fred, nobody's going to believe this story. You're probably the only person in history who actually* got a black eye from walking into a door." Oh, the Fifties - you so crazy! The Leverage episode "The Order 23 Job" has an abused kid whose parents repeatedly check him into the hospital with this kind of excuse. Fortunately for the kid Eliot takes offense. On an episode of Dexter called "Waiting To Exhale", a gangster named "Little Chino" (see top pic) walks into the police station with a scar from when Dexter tried to murder him the previous night and failed. When questioned about it, he paraphrased this tropes title. In a season three episode, Dexter explains away a broken hand that he got while escaping from the Skinner by saying that he fell down some stairs. An episode of Burn Notice used this after a thief falls trying to scale a wall: Gilroy: "Unfortunately, our dear Claude didn't survive his injuries." Michael: "He broke his ankle." Gilroy: "There were... complications." An episode of Reba has Brock showing up with a suspicious injury around his right ear, which he claimed to be a shaving wound, when his wife's dog is missing. He's soon forced to confess that the injury occurred because the dog bit him while he tried to befriend the dog, but insists he never hurt the dog, and is soon cleared of the accusation. Malcolm in the Middle had an interesting case; Reese had a black eye after Malcolm punched him. Being the tough guy he is, when asked by a lady in the store he made up a bad excuse about how he raised his leg during his sleep, hitting his arm and punching himself. However, after seeing the boy's mother, the lady assumes that she's abusing him. In the first Horatio Hornblower TV movie, Hornblower is held down and beaten by another midshipman on his ship (a habitual bully and abuser of the other midshipmen). One of the officers sees his injuries, and he claims that he missed his footing and fell down a causeway (basically, he fell down the stairs). When he continues to deny that anybody else was involved, the Genre Savvy officer orders him to stay up in the rigging (exposed to the rather nasty English Channel weather) so that he might "learn to watch his footing". An episode of Degrassi Junior High subverts this: Joey's injured (from his bike) and keeps talking about child abuse (because he catches Rick being abused), so naturally the Children's Aid people assume his parents beat him. In Degrassi, when Paige walks in while Ellie is cutting herself in the school bathroom, Ellie says she "hit her arm, on the... thing." Given how weak her excuse is, it doesn't work. In the Doctor Who episode "Boom Town", This trope is used for the ludicrous deaths of anyone who might find out the Cardiff reactor is rigged to explode, culminating in: Cathy Salt: And then just recently Mr. Cleaver, the government's nuclear advisor? Margaret Blaine: Slipped on an icy patch. Cathy Salt: He was decapitated! Margaret Blaine: It was a very icy patch. Part of a deception that wasn't recognized as such in Being Human (UK)'s resident ghost. She believes she actually fell down the stairs in an accident which results in her death, and the reveal sends her into BSOD-mode. A particularly impressive example (played for laughs) appears in Castle when a knifeman for a local drug cartel blithely insists to Castle and Beckett that his severe injuries—otherwise consistent with a very bad beating—were sustained during a fall. And that his horrifically swollen and near-useless black eye was injured when it connected with a door during the fall. And his mangled hand is the result of him putting his hand out to stop his fall, only for it to get caught in a grate. What makes this a particularly impressive example, however, is that Castle and Beckett actually walked in on him being very badly beaten by a rather pissed off rival member of the local Irish mob. Castle: Well. Thanks for keeping it real. In another episode, Castle and Beckett are abducted by government members and questioned about data the government believes them to possess. They are injected in the neck and returned to their car. (It is set up to appear like an alien abduction, as this is what their current case looks like.) Esposito: Abducted by government agents, huh? Come on, what were you two really doing? Beckett: It's not a hickey, Esposito. Later... Ryan: Hey. Those hickeys? Esposito: Yes. Beckett: No. Castle: I wish. Ryan: Okay. Subverted in the Danish series "Langt fra Las Vegas". Casper thinks his father-in-law is abusing his wife, but at the end of the episode, he finds the stone she said she had tripped over. Lark Rise to Candleford uses the euphemism "chopping firewood" when Susan Braby is involved in a domestic quarrel with her husband Sam. The trope is subverted though - Susan makes no such excuses for the black eye she has and insists on calling the constable to deal with her assailant. The expression is specific to the time and place, and Flora Thompson's original book explains the origin, which is not elucidated in the TV episode. Sherlock did this in reverse for laughs. Sherlock finds his landlady beaten up and overpowers the person responsible. He calls the police and requests an ambulance, rattling off all the injuries the man suffered before ending with "He fell out of a window". Then he throws him out of a window. Lestrade: Exactly how many times did he fall out of the window? Sherlock: It's all a bit of a blur, Detective Inspector. I lost count. On an episode of ER, a policeman's wife comes in badly hurt by her husband. Some of his coworkers are witnesses, but won't speak against him because of cop code. Benton shows the abuser's lieutenant her medical records, showing that he's been beating her up for years. While the other cops sill don't give him up, they do beat the shit out of him with the cover story that he fell while chasing a suspect. The "what's happening" episode "One Strike and You're Out". A strike at his workplace begins the day the main character Raj goes home to find out his mother is unable to work due to ill health and was actually counting on his income. He goes to work to break the strike and comes home with his shirt torn and staggering. When asked what happened he says "I fell down" to which his younger sister asks "Where, down an elevator shaft?". He then admits he was beaten up and lies about who did it because he was embarrassed that it was elderly mother of his boss. She hit him on the back of the head with her protest sign when Raj started yelling at her son and then beat him up while he was down. An episode of Dick and Dom in da Bungalow featured Geordie copper Harry Batt in his usual weekly appearance being wheeled in on a wheelchair, covered in bandages and casts and neck brace. His answer? He cut himself shaving. In Orange Is The New Black Poussey gets beat up by Suzanne and in a support group Suzanne is present and Poussey states that she got the bruise because she slipped and fell. Suzanne Vega's "Luka," a song very obviously about child abuse, runs with the "walked into the door again" approach in amidst claims of being clumsy and recommendations not to ask. Complete with Lyrical Dissonance, since the song is very upbeat and happy sounding until you hear the lyrics. There's a positively heartbreaking Jars of Clay song about child abuse simply titled He, the chorus of which ends with the line "...And they think I fell down again." Listen for yourself. Some Crash Test Dummies fans suspect the song "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" is really about child abuse. In this interpretation, the girl with "birthmarks all over her body" is actually badly bruised, and claims the injuries are birthmarks in order to shield her abuser. Never Again by Nickelback: "Just tell the nurse, you slipped and fell." "The Sanctuary Hum" by Project 86: "My sweet one/You tell no lies/The greatest reason to be despised/But we must pretend/Your broken wrist/Just happened when you fell off your bike". "Once and Never Again" by The Long Blondes. One of the verses indicates that the girl to whom the song is being sung is cutting herself- 'look what he's made you do to your arm again'; which makes the line in the chorus 'you said you cut yourself whilst washing up the knives' an example of this trope. "Hell Is For Children" by Pat Benatar, a song about Abusive Parents, has the line "Tell grandma you fell off the swing". In Descendant of a Demon Lord, after Celes killed a boy cook in front of all the other cooks, prompting screams of fear, a soldier came in and asked what happened. One of the cooks said her co-worker stumbled (which may have been technically true) and hit a table (which was technically true, hard enough to knock the table and a shelf over in fact). The place(s) the boy was bleeding, and if the table had blood on it isn't specified (he was struck after he was on the ground). After lightly visually scrutinizing the girl that spoke up, he believed her, despite the fear in the body language of all the cooks, how long it took for one of the cooks to speak up, and that the cooks looked not only at the soldier, but towards where Celes was hiding. In an April Fool's issue of the D&D magazine Dragon, they showed off the Wandering Damage Tables (since the whole purpose of wandering monsters is to inflict damage points on player characters anyway, why not just eliminate the middleman!). One entry read: "You cut yourself shaving. Roll on the Limb Loss subtable." In Büchner's play Woyzeck (Older Than Radio), Woyzeck goes to the tavern after stabbing Marie to death. When blood is spotted on his hand, he claims to have cut himself there. Then how did it get on his elbow? He lamely tries to explain, but the crowd has caught on. The prologue of Baldur's Gate features tutors of the character coming up to the character shortly after assassination attempts. The player can choose to be frightened and honest, or dismissive and evasive. "It's nothing, Parda. A--cat didn't like me petting it, is all." In Indigo Prophecy, the main protagonist cuts a number of deep wounds into his wrist while in a trance near the beginning of the game. When asked by a police officer why there was screaming heard from his apartment the previous night how he incurred these wounds, he claimed that he fell on some broken glass and "freaked out". Cop: Boy, when you cut yourself, you sure go all the way, huh? In Fate/stay night, Sakura apparently often tries to explain her suspicious bruises (courtesy of her brother) this way. Shirou, at least once, beat the ever-loving crap out of Shinji for it. He's not stupid. He's seriously pondering doing it again. Although the incident where Shirou asks Sakura about her bruises early in the game is used to help establish Shinji's character, it is also a Cassandra Truth: These specific bruises weren't inflicted by Shinji. They're Sakura's still-forming Command Seals, which look like a formless red mark all up and down the arm until a Servant is actually summoned. One gag theory trying to explain Darth Malak's missing jaw, claims he cut himself while shaving WITH A LIGHTSABER! Well, to be fair, Revan told him that was how he got such a clean shave...At which point he swore to kill his master. In Tropico 3, whenever you mark a citizen to be "dealt with", Juanito the radio announcer says that they "slipped and fell out of a 3rd floor window, landed on the street and got run over by both an ambulance and a hearse". Not a single drop in approval rating. Detective Gumshoe always has a bandage on his jaw, possibly a shaving cut. In the adventure Black Mirror 2, the protagonist notices a waitress with bruises on her face. When he asks her about it she says "she fell down the stairs". Darren being who he is responds with "And your husband was waiting at the end of the staircase with a baseball bat?" In Bigger than Cheeses one character gets beaten by his wife and tries to tell his friend: I fell down some stairs. Stairs filled with doorknobs. Doorknobs shaped like fists? Subverted in Questionable Content, where Hannelore really does just bump her head. The officer has good reason to be concerned, though. Played very straight in The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, seen here. Played with in Least I Could Do. Rayne: I fell down some stairs. Noel: No he didn't. I beat the shit out of him with a smile on my face. And done earlier when Rayne slept with a blonde that was into rough sex, and went to his mother for comfort. Rayne: I fell down the stairs. Some angry and physically abusive stairs. During sex. Inverted beautifully in this Ansem Retort strip. Parodied in this strip of Looking for Group. Richard lights a pirate on fire. When the captain asks him what happened, he (and the pirate) swear that the third-degree burns came from a fall down the stairs. Used in Sam and Fuzzy. Noosehead's manager claims he cut himself shaving. With a katana. In Bob and George, this is used after a plot device revives dead characters in the Rockman Universe. Bob tells Rock and Dr. Light that they fell down. Rock then questions if Roll fell up, as she's tied to the ceiling. Bob responses that he put her up there to prevent her from falling down. Sailor Nothing: Sprained wrist. It's a good thing my powers aren't based on some kind of heart moon wand or something, but it does make it hard to write on school quizzes. Getting my clothes on in the morning also poses some problems, since I can't completely close my hand without shooting pain up my arm. I've taken to taping it tightly, and that helps a bit. I told mom it was a fashionable thing at school now to tape your left hand. She bought it. It's for the best that she bought it. In the Kate Modern episode "Honeymoon Blues," Julia claims that the large bruise on her face was caused by a falling coconut. In reality, her husband hit her. With a coconut. More than one act of violence against Dr. Clef of the SCP Foundation has been written off in a manner similar to this. For instance, claiming that he slammed his head into the table nine times during an interview, or that there was an experimental attempt to terminate SCP-682 using him. Clef: You'll never un-think it, Konny! It'll always be back there in the back of your head, nagging, nagging, tickling you, spinning around in an unending spiral… Kondraki: [Inarticulate scream of rage.] [It is determined that this is the point where Dr. Clef accidentally fell out of his chair and struck his head nine times against the corner of the desk, fracturing his skull and snapping his neck between the second and third vertebrae.] From the decomission of 809: 11:16 Ukelele:: I need suggestions for a Decom. 809 is turning into a serious security risk and needs to die. 11:16 Agatha R:: LIVING VIVISECTION 11:16 Chris: It could 'fall down some stairs' 11:16 Ook: Them little bugs what take apart machines? 11:16 Chris:..repeatedly.. From The Onion Domestic violence has finally stopped, women are more clumsy than ever In the zombie parody Dusk Of The Dead, a survivor has a conversation with a bitten person that goes something like this: "That's a pretty nasty cut." "I fell" "But it has puncture wounds" "I fell on a barbecue fork" "But it has lots of puncture wounds" "I fell on...several barbecue forks?" In Dragon Ball Abridged, Goku, arriving to fight what's left of the Ginyu Force, asks Vegeta how he got all beat up, and Vegeta says he fell down some stairs. Krillin interjects, but stops when Vegeta threatens to throw him down a flight. In The Joker Blogs, Batman is wounded by Harleen's shotgun blast. He escapes and the next day, it's mentioned on the news that Bruce Wayne was in a nasty hunting accident. On American Dragon: Jake Long, Rose claimed to have sprained her ankle at the family reunion she had supposedly been at that weekend. In reality, she was injured while fighting Jake in her alter ego as Huntsgirl. (You'd think Jake would have noticed the coincidence...) In the Family Guy episode "Wasted Talent," Stewie tries to watch television, but is distracted by the poor piano playing of one of Lois's students. When Lois leaves the room briefly, Stewie sweeps in and beats up the student. When Lois returns and sees all of the injuries of the piano student, he tells her, at Stewie's prompting, that "I fell?" Then there's the episode where Stewie beats up Brian twice for not paying him some bet money on time. Later Brian comes limping into the living room, covered in bandages, and someone asks him what happened. Stewie makes a threatening gesture and Brian hastily replies that he "fell down the stairs, prompting Stewie to say "Ooh, you should be more careful!" Yet another Stewie example—he, Chris, and Brian are in a car, and Chris was claiming not to be responsible for getting caught with some alcohol at school (it really was a friends). Stewie orders the car pulled over. Cut to him relentlessly spanking a sobbing Chris and demanding, "What do you say if your teachers ask about your bruises?" "I got hit with a baaase-baaall." In Robot Chicken, one comedic short involves a couple at a family abuse help-clinic. The man asks what they could do about their situation, and the clinic official asks: "Well, have you tried Nerf doors?" The couple look at each other for a moment and the man replies: "What about stairs; we're going to need some Nerf stairs too," followed by a nod from the woman. Played with in an episode of American Dad: Roger hits Francine, giving her a black eye, and when the neighbors ask she says (at Roger's insistence) that she walked into a door. She later gets hurt tripping over a mop, and thus when questioned actually says "It was my fault for leaving the mop out". Naturally, this results in the neighbors thinking Stan is beating Francine and calling the police on him. In The Simpsons, Snake comes into Dr Nick's surgery with a bleeding stomach. His reasoning: "I like, fell onto a bullet, and it like, drove itself into my gut..." Not missing a beat, the receptionist casually ticks off "liquor store robbery" on her clipboard. Dr. Nick tells him to save the stories for the courts and leads him back to the office. In another episode, Homer is seen to be choking Bart on TV... with Doctor Hibbert watching. Hibbert remarks something like "So that's how he got all those bruises on his trachea! Tight bowtie, my ass..." In "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind", Marge says her black eye is due to walking into a door. Wiggum voices his skepticism and then walks into a door himself. In "I'Doh!-bot" Homer can't build a good robot for Bart to compete in Robot Rumble so he does the fighting. When Lisa asks about his injuries, he explains they are various bug bites and wounds. The first episode of King of the Hill had the subversion. Bobby and Peggy end up with bruises thanks to the non-athletic Bobby throwing around a baseball. A social worker assumes that Hank is physically abusive and tries to get Bobby taken away, but his supervisor understands the situation and tells him to back off. In "Leanne's Saga" Bill begins dating Luanne's mother. When she falls off the wagon, she resorts to her abusive ways and Bill takes the brunt, leading to him showing up in the alley with a black eye. When asked about it, he explains: Bill: That's an interesting story. You know what? I was walking... I was walking. And I walked into a door. Dale: (suspiciously) Wait a minute. How was that interesting? In an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants, Spongebob walks into the Krusty Krab with a black eye and the others question how he got it. In response, he makes up a bunch of ridiculous stories about fighting this guy from his dream. Eventually he is forced to tell the truth when the guy does show up. The truth: he slipped on a tube of toothpaste and the top hit him in the eye. Subverted in The Amazing World of Gumball Tina the T-Rex is chasing Gumball down a hallway, seemingly trying to attack him. Gumball avoids her for a while, but then runs into a door when he wasn't paying attention. Later at the dinner table, he is shown wearing huge sunglasses to cover his eyes, and is ordered to take them off. He nervously says "I-uh, ran into a door?" Gilligan Cut to his mother angrily driving him to talk to Tina's parents, while he is trying to convince her that he really did run into a door. Real-life Example: Italian painter Caravaggio made many enemies in his short and tempestuous life. Once when laid up in bed with slash wounds on his throat and left ear, he told a clerk of the Roman courts that he had wounded himself with his own sword while falling down the stairs, rather than name his attacker(s) and face further retribution. Dr. Richard Feynman - top theoretical physicist, safe cracker and bongo player - loved to frequent nightclubs in the rougher end of town. One night, he had an altercation with a drunk in the toilets at one such club, and gained a black eye in the encounter. The next day his colleagues asked how he got it. "I had a fight in a nightclub washroom," he replied, to which they laughed and said "Oh Feynman, you're such a kidder..." (Apparently he started his first lecture by glaring up one-eyed at the students, and snarling "Any questions...?") People who like BDSM (or just rough sex) run into difficulties with this; it's hard to explain away ("say, these look like whip marks"), and the truth can be very embarrassing. Families and friends can end up conflicted as well. Many professional tops advertise their ability to leave marks or not, as the customer prefers, for just this reason. How would they know what whip marks look like? Supposedly, legendary manager Casey Stengel, when running one of the horrid New York Mets teams from the early 1960s, saw one of his pitchers in spring training with a bandage on his thumb. When he asked the pitcher what happened, the player responded that he had cut himself shaving. Stengel cut the player, because he couldn't figure out why on earth he'd be shaving his thumb. NFL wide receiver Brandon Marshall, who seriously injured his hand when he slipped on a McDonald's bag and put his hand through a glass TV stand while wrestling with his family. Due to his checkered legal history, many commentators were skeptical of this story, but it ultimately turned out to be true. Black Metal musician Varg Vikernes, after he murdered his bandmate Øystein "Euronymous" Aarseth, claimed that he stabbed Aarseth in self defense and Aarseth's TWENTY-THREE stab wounds were from Aarseth falling on broken glass during the struggle. It's more plausible when you know that Aarseth was only wearing underwear at the time. In a subversion / possible straight example, Soccer player David Seaman apparently broke a bone reaching for a remote. Although today best known for the line of hair products bearing his name, hairstylist Vidal Sassoon was, in fact a total Badass Normal who fought with a Jewish resistance group called the Forty Nine Club. In post-World War II London, there were a fairly large number of fascist and anti-Semitic groups who would heckle and harass Jews and vandalize Jewish-owned shops and businesses; the Forty Niners fought back, often with violent brawls resulting. One day, after a particularly bad fight, Vidal showed up to work with a badly bruised face. A client said "My God, Vidal, you look terrible! What happened?" Sassoon replied "I tripped on a hairpin." American Comedian Louis CK had a bit about how his daughter got a black eye due to walking into a door, and he coincidentally took her out for ice cream afterward. The other people in the ice cream place gave him dirty looks, assuming he abused his daughter. He exclaimed how offended he was that they thought a black eye was all she would have if he had hit her. According to his book Growing Up Brady, Barry Williams sustained a nasty facial cut in a car accident during the later seasons of The Brady Bunch. When he reported to the set the next day, the producer slapped a Band-Aid on the cut and decided that Greg Brady had "cut himself shaving." Barry thought, "What does Greg shave with, a lawn mower?" Carl Edwards, a race car driver, once managed to break/damage something (either his leg, arm, or hand) while playing Frisbee. His friends asked him why in the world he'd be honest about the origin of his injury, pointing out he could have claimed he was rock-climbing or, y'know, almost anything other than playing a game children are able to participate in without receiving a scratch. The children's game is typically just tossing the disc around. Ultimate frisbee is hardly an embarrassing way to receive an injury. "Riding a motorcycle in the shower" and "fell off his tennis racquet" have become popular euphemisms in Formula One racing to explain why a driver has missed a race due to injuries outside of racing, especially so after a mysterious extra-curricular injury sidelined Juan Montoya a few years ago. Self-harmers often use similar excuses - scratches from their cat or dog seem to be a popular excuse. People in the Society for Creative Anachronism engage in sport fights; they wear armor and use padded sticks rather than metal weapons, but it's quite possible to get bruises and even broken bones. So, note: if you're a female SCA fighter and your doctor asks where you got the marks, do not offhandedly say, "Oh, my husband and I were fighting..." Even sport fencers get this sort of thing all the time. Foil and epeé leave strange little round bruises, saber cuts can look like whip marks, and sometimes it's possible to draw blood despite the protective equipment. We're all very tired of explaining. Falling from your bike (either in dirt cycling, mountain biking, BM Xing or even when riding on rough ground in some parts of town) can give weird injuries despite protective equipment, like a stab wound in the thigh from falling over a dead tree branch or bruises on the torso (which look like bruises from a beating) from falling over a rock or stump. Sufferers of CIPA injure themselves in all sorts of ways, especially when they're too young to know better, because the disease prevents them from feeling pain. Early on, it leads to false accusations of abuse. Later, shaving is one of many activities in which they have to take extreme care. Martial artists, due to the very nature of their sport, are quite likely to get injuries during sparring even if they wear protective clothing. Younger martial artists who haven't learned proper control yet are especially likely to walk away from a training session with bruises from their peers, and it can look like they got a serious beating from an abuser. Some martial arts with focuses on holds and escaping from holds can result in bruises to the wrists or, in some cases, bruises around the throat. These can look rather nasty. And then there is the case of Victor White III, a young black man who, according to an official Louisiana State Police investigation, in March 2014 committed suicide in the back seat of a police car while handcuffed, shooting himself with a gun he was alleged to still be carrying after twice being frisked closely enough to find a small packet of cigarillos. According to the investigation, he shot himself in the back. According to the coroner's report, he was shot in the chest. He is apparently only the latest in a series of so-called "Houdini suicides" that have been occurring in police custody across the American South. There are even medical terms for such things: You learn about acronyms like […] SOCMOB (standing on corner minding own business). The latter is usually a description used by patients presenting to Emergency with knife or gun-shot wounds. The culprit is almost always “some guy”. [1] During the police accountability protests following the death of George Floyd in 2020, Buffalo (NY) police deliberately injured an elderly protester, then claimed he had tripped and fallen -- only to have a video of their unprovoked attack surface. Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.fandom.com/wiki/Cut_Himself_Shaving?oldid=747084" Unisex Tropes	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2776
__label__wiki	0.839109	0.839109	Trope, Pages with broken file links, Queer As Tropes, School Tropes Turn-On Tropes Schoolgirl Lesbians File:Cit Kashimashi - Hazumu x Tomari.jpg Osaka: Kaorin... are you gay? Kaorin: The correct term is LESBIAN! Uh, not that I'm a lesbian! It's just, you know, a teenage thing. That's all. (...) Just to prove it, I wouldn't mind if she was a guy! Osaka: ...Huh? Girls having crushes on other girls is, while not common, nothing that raises eyebrows in the Japanese school system. Sometimes matters go beyond simple crushes to explicit romance; even then eyebrows remain unraised as long as participants aren't "too indiscreet". Note that this is less a Japanese media trope than a reflection of real-life behaviors and attitudes -- the Japanese refer to this as a Class S Relationship, which teaches the young ladies about "real" relationships and is meant to be outgrown eventually. Retaining a Class S Relationship as one grows older is a sign of immaturity (note the number of immature Clingy Jealous Girls whose lesbian crush has suddenly noticed Boys). Thus, it is not uncommon to find such girl-girl relationships in anime, especially with the frequency of adolescent characters. Also see Romantic Two-Girl Friendship for a more ambiguous relationship with a similar cause. If they don't just pretend the girls are together and get out of it later by revealing they're not, often writers like to hide behind subtext in a form of Getting Crap Past the Radar. Also see Yuri Genre, for Japanese works that focus on female-female romances, whether schoolgirls or not. Examples of Schoolgirl Lesbians include: 9 Web Original Haruka Ten'ou and Michiru Kaioh (Sailors Uranus and Neptune) in the original uncensored versions of Sailor Moon. And in the censored versions, though with a bit more subtlety and a lot more kink. Bleach: Chizuru's very open infatuation with Orihime. Unfortunately for the Shonen audience, her advances are invariably thwarted by the protective Tatsuki, who Chizuru has commented she would also find quite attractive if not for her boyish persona. Regardless of her primary crush, Chizuru has also ogled other female members of her circle of friends, namely Moe Moe Mahana and Tall, Dark and Bishoujo Kunieda. She was literally drooling over Rukia at the start of the Bount arc. The closest she's ever gotten with Orihime is grabbing her... considerable assets. This was changed in the anime to hugging Orihime around the lower chest, with her forearms pushing Orihime's breasts up. She also once had a throwaway line in the manga where she declares that Orihime's cuteness is "Giving her an erection." Whereupon she's promptly pervert-stomped by Tatsuki. A doujinshi of Chizuru having a relevant daydream in class soon began circulating the internet. Akane Kasuga from Kimagure Orange Road. B-ko Daitokuji in Project A-ko. Possibly unintentional; the director admitted in an interview for the US DVD re-release of the film that he didn't think about how the scene featuring B-ko in a giant bath, thinking about C-ko, could be interpreted. Which is kind of confusing, because it looks to all the world like B-ko is touching herself while thinking about C-ko. Based on the differences between the dubbed and subtitled versions, if it was unintentional it can only be because it's so common in the genre that it got put in without being thought about. The dub takes this aspect of the complicated relationship between A-ko, B-ko, and C-ko out, and makes C-ko seem a bit weird and creepy as a result. It isn't so much unintentional as it is a leftover from when the film was supposed to be part of the Cream Lemon series of erotic films, where indeed B-ko was infatuated with C-ko. Lain and Arisu from Serial Experiments Lain seem to be really, really, really fond of each other... sometimes to romantic levels. Kirika and Mireille from Noir are not shown being physically intimate, but they share a bed and by the end of the series are emotionally dependent on each other. Also, Chloe exhibits a rather warped (and mostly frustrated) desire for Kirika. Steel Angel Kurumi features Saki, a female android who because of the circumstances of her activation has a romantic fixation on the titular character, another female android. The sequel series Steel Angel Kurumi 2, tops that with what is either an oversized Love Triangle or a small Love Dodecahedron: Kurumi Mk. II is fixated upon young cellist Nako, who activated her. Nako's friend Uruka also has a crush on her, and out of jealousy activates Saki Mk. II in order to battle Kurumi; Saki, however, ends up pining for both Kurumi and Uruka. Eventually, Nako comes to return Kurumi's feelings. Futaba in Puni Puni Poemi is both an extreme parody of this character type and a parody of Tomoyo from Cardcaptor Sakura, which is an example of this trope herself (see below). Chanohata Tamami in Mahoraba admits to Shiratori Ryuushi that she is in love with Aoba Kozue (who is completely oblivious), explaining her mean-spirited attitude. Simoun cheats a little by setting the story on a world where everyone under 17 is female, making all of the main characters Schoolgirl Lesbians by default. And they use the power of Girls Love to make their fighter planes fly. In Azumanga Daioh, Kaorin has an immediately obvious crush on Sakaki that seems one-sided; however, considering Sakaki's addiction to cute things, it's possible that it would be reciprocated (or at least not minded) if she wasn't entirely oblivious. According to the newest manga, Kaorin is either in denial or in denial and in the closet. As if we didn't get the hints. Devilman Lady (aka The Devil Lady) Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch has the Black Beauty Sisters... Lavinia and Jessie in Soukou no Strain. They never do get together in the end, or at least it's left open-ended, despite having a very close encounter due to a misunderstanding. Which is rather strange, since Jessie seemed very responsive, yet she never brings up the incident again afterward. Other than that, it contains some mindbreaking hints at a possible relationship between Sara and her doll Emily. Things get worse when we discover that the "doll" actually contains the living brain of an alien girl. Whose race shares a common hive mind. So by acting nice to her, Sara acts nice to a whole goddamn One-Gender Race. Is this someone's weirdest yuri harem fantasy or what? In Mahou Sensei Negima, Setsuna serves as Konoka's protector, and admits it precludes hooking up with anyone else. Naturally, other characters assume this is a complicated way of saying that they are a romantic couple, or will be. Konoka certainly has no problem being her (kissing-activated) partner in their magical contract. It's pretty much just Setsuna who isn't aware of this. Naturally, when Setsuna proved to be a popular character, the overtones became a lot more obvious in the Negima?! remake, with a more knowingly teasing Konoka and a more flusterable Setsuna, to the point of Setsuna stuck between embarrassment and ogling at Konoka in a swimsuit. Considering that in the early manga the way Setsuna acts around Konoka is exactly the same as someone with a really strong crush (complete with blushing and a loss of the ability to speak whenever she's around) makes the subtext already quite strong.to eachother The last chapter implies, but does not explicitly state, that they are married to each other in the future. Mai-HiME features Shizuru and her obsessive love for one of the main characters, Natsuki. Fandom has rewarded this with a series of doujinshi, the tamest of which explore Shizuru's more publishable fantasies. The more extreme, well... let's just say that Shizuru is a very imaginative individual. One of the artbooks states that they "find happiness" at Natsuki's graduation. Shizuru's popularity in this series likely led to her Mai-Otome incarnation actually hooking up with that universe's Natsuki. Speaking of Mai-Otome, there appear to be quite a few of them there, too, since most of the story takes place in the all-girls' Garderobe Academy. Chie, in particular, appears to have out-Chizuru'd Bleach's Chizuru in the "openly flirty" department. All girls academy, nothing. The Schizo-Tech of that gives the girls their super powers is destroyed by sperm, and neither condoms nor vasectomies exist. Parodied in an episode of Tenchi Muyo!. After being cast into a High School AU, Magical Girl Sasami shoots the bickering Ayeka and Ryoko with a "beam of friendship". The sequence just gets more suggestive as two begin gazing into each other's eyes, proclaiming their mutual love and admiration, and almost kissing before being cut off by the end of the episode. Revolutionary Girl Utena: Juri's secret obsession with Shiori consumes her entire life. Possibly Anthy and Utena in the series, though it's canon in the movie. Tons of girls also fawn over Utena and in one episode (and only one episode), Anthy. Almost every single character in Strawberry Panic. Then again there are absolutely no males in this series. Pretty much the entire cast of Oniisama e..., at least until the end. Mariasama ga Miteru has only one explicit case of a lesbian love affair. The rest of the relationships often seem to go in that direction, but generally stop at the Romantic Two-Girl Friendship level, which raises suspicions of Bait and Switch Lesbians among part of the fandom. Anna towards Izumi in He Is My Master, to the point of Stalker with a Crush. Izumi doesn't exactly reciprocate the feelings, but the cast (including Izumi, with promises) do use Anna's obsession to their advantage on occasion. Hiyori in Lucky Star is a Yuri Fangirl/artist, though it's apparently nonsexual for her. Some people assume that Konata and Kagami, despite the personality clash, may secretly be these. Konata playfully flirting with Kagami and Tsukasa after a Marimite session doesn't exactly help her case. Also, don't forget Kagami's Freudian Slip in the OVA. Word of God says either Konata or Kagami has an unrequited crush on the other, without specifying whom. It appears to be on Kagami's side since Konata has said she's straight. She could always be wrong or lying though.. Konata has said she's not a lesbian, which implies that she might simply be bisexual. Yutaka and Minami are even more blatant, even after you remove all the parts of the show that were viewed through Hiyori's yuri-goggles. Konata remarked on this a couple times, though it's not entirely clear if she's joking or serious. Blue Drop, it also contains older lesbians as well. Most of the plot of the anime revolves around the relationship between Mari and Hagino, the latter being the female commander of an alien battleship who hides at Mari's all-girl high-school. Played for horror in the manga, Tenshi No Bokura. The alien lesbians, the Arume, have all-girls schools filled with girls who are raised to be lesbian nymphos (with males as a wholly foreign concept) so they'll have hot human women to screw when the little girls grow up. Naturally, they pass through a "schoolgirl lesbian" stage at some point between puberty and graduation, although not all of the teachers are willing to wait that long... Kitagawa from Doki Doki School Hours has a thing for petite women, which just happens to apply to her teacher - and she is not at all shy about showing her affections. Hazumu and Tomari (pictured above) from Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl, along with the third girl in the triangle, Yasuna. The other characters dismiss Hazumu's sexuality since she used to be a guy; still, Hazumu remains a girl permanently. Yasuna, on the other hand, is physically (possibly a genetic mutation, according to "alien-san") incapable of seeing faces of men. Yamada and Satou from Koi Koi 7 like to cheerfully show their affection for each other. Rosalie from Rose of Versailles isn't technically a schoolgirl, but she's in the right age bracket and certainly has a huge crush on Lady Oscar. Sakura from Penguin Musume Heart often shows extreme interest in intimate interactions with some of her female classmates. Sure, she is absolutely bonkers, but it happens a bit too often to be coincidental. Not to mention that she tries to force Kujira into marrying her in an alternate time line. Nina Einstein from Code Geass fits this trope pretty well. After Princess Euphemia stands up for her in a hostage situation, Nina has a huge obsession with her, and even goes as far as to masturbate against a table with a picture of Euphemia. Later, when Euphemia dies, Nina goes insane and threatens to set off a bomb killing herself, Zero, and many innocent bystanders. This is promptly used by Schneizel, Euphemia's half-brother, who takes the still insane Nina in so she builds an even bigger bomb for him... In Ikki Tousen there's the Ryoufu Hosen (Lu Bu) and her best friend Chinkyuu Koudai (Chon Gong). Ryoufu is seductive and even brutal, bordering on Depraved Bisexual, but shows a more human side when around the devoted Chinkyuu. In the manga, they die together when Chinkyuu is raped and both she and Ryoufu rebel against their evil leader, Toutaku (Dong Zhuo). In the anime, Chinkyuu is not only raped but beaten to death; Ryoufu dies trying to kill Toutaku and herself. Later, Kan'u Unchou (Guan Yu) is shown to be one of this for her leader and friend, Ryuubi Gentoku (Liu Bei). Nene, the Class Representative from Hyakko, claims to be bisexual--but she is mostly shown drooling over girls. Sakuya from Candy Boy has a major crush on Kanade and has no qualms about letting everybody know about it. Alas, she has lost by definition to Kanade's twin sister, Yukino. To Aru Majutsu no Index: Kuroko, who gets concerned at how much fun Mikoto seems to be having in her rivalry with Touma. Clingy Jealous Girl, too. She's even worse in To Aru Kagaku no Railgun. Makina in Shikabane Hime once found herself being stalked by a large-breasted lesbian schoolgirl who was attracted to death. Kanako in Maria Holic. She has a strong dislike of men and attended a girls' school purely to find a female love interest. She has a tendency to have nosebleeds at the thought of that. Even though her biggest crush is on a Villainous Crossdresser. She still loves the entire female cast. Hidamari Sketch. Natsume is painfully Tsundere for Sae but can't catch a break, being the losing corner of a Love Triangle. Played up to the hilt in episode 12 of x365 when Sae joins Natsume for lunch, with the latter first getting combative before quieting down. We even get a few Male Gaze shots in that episode; when Natsume watches Sae enter the cafeteria (focusing on her hips), watching her eat (focusing on her lips), and again as Sae walks away... The flowers the spring out of her hair and the Luminescent Blush seem to put it straight into Schoolgirl Lesbians territory. The very last episode has her praying at a shrine to become more honest with her feelings. And guess who wrote that passionate fan letter that Sae got? Possibly hinted at in the ending credits of Shuffle episode 24, where Lisianthus and Kaede share an "accidental" kiss. Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito is about one of these searching time and space for her best friend/adoptive older sister Hatsumi who turns out to be Eve...yes, that Eve. Who returns her feelings, but can only exist in a given world for 16 years at a time. Hatsumi herself is at least bisexual, as a series of very direct love letters shows. In Kannazuki no Miko the two main characters are a pair of eternally reincarnating Schoolgirl Lesbians. Yurika Kochikaze in Akikan! is blatantly lesbian for Najimi. Eto Hachibe and Arata Tagoto in Iono the Fanatics. Everyone else is just a lesbian. Shinobu of Ninin ga Shinobuden assuming it isn't just being played for parody. Rainbows are straighter than Subaru Nakajima. Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha As has Nanoha and Fate, seemly regular grader students who have an ankward relationship at the beginning of the show. if it's not for all those blushing they do, nobody would find their relationship any more suggestive than being bestfriends. The Reveal in one of the chapters in Franken Fran was that the focus characters were lesbians who didn't know how to properly express their love for each other. Surprisingly, it managed to be one of the few chapters with... a fairly happy ending. Squicky, but happy. Compared to the usual alternatives, anyway. Nodoka of Saki, especially in the animated version which took her subtextual crush towards Saki in the manga then jacked it up to bleedingly obvious. Hell, most of the girls have the same thing going on. Saki very obviously returns Nodoka's feelings, all of the Kazekoshi girls want their "kyaputen" who may be in a Romantic Two-Girl Friendship with Kana and certainly has a big crush on Hisa. Hisa and Mako have rather obvious crushes on each other. Touka is almost Psycho Lesbian for Nodoka, not to mention Ryuumonbuchi's Hajime/Touka/Ayumu/Jun Love Dodecahedron. And then there's the Ensemble Darkhorse couple of Momoko and Yumi. All of the relationships are subtextual, but are still very obvious. Yume and Yuuki in Kanamemo are established as being very lesbian for each other right out the gate. Even if Yume puts too much sugar in her cooking, Yuuki will still eat it. Considering that Yume gave up her sleeping bag to newbie Kana in the first episode, this led to her sharing Yuuki's room, which she had no problem with. Then there's whatever went on in the porta-potty. Both are working adults, however, rather than schoolgirls in the sense typical in the trope. Yume is attending a patisserie academy (hence her tendency to put way too much sugar in everything), but both women are older than most examples on this page. Mika, however, being both a schoolgirl and very, very Tsundere for Kana is a genuine schoolgirl lesbian. In the Affectionate Parody fighting series Airmaster, Mina, a Shrinking Violet with Gag Boobs who often finds herself kidnapped or otherwise in trouble, is hopelessly in love with stoic Huge Schoolgirl protagonist Maki and is teased rather often about it. Maki doesn't quite know how to react, but she doesn't seem to mind Mina holding onto her arm when they're walking around the city with their friends. Aoi Hana focuses on the romantic entanglements between several high school girls. There's the Love Triangle between Yasuko, Fumi and Kyouko. Yasuko's sisters also appear to have been very popular at their all-girl school as teenagers (which gets ample emphasis in the manga)--and it's even hinted that their mother was as well. Eventually, even Akira joins their ranks, by finally answering Fumi's feelings for her. In a similar vein to the above, there is Sasameki Koto. The focus is on the tall and awkward Sumika's crush on her lesbian but oblivious friend, Kazama, who herself is constantly on the lookout for cute girls to crush on. There are also their classmates Miyako and Tomoe, who are in a relationship. Lastly, Yuri Fan Aoi Azusa appears to have a crush on Sumika. Tomoyo Daidouji in Cardcaptor Sakura, though it was toned down a bit in the anime. The manga actually had her telling Sakura that she loves her in that way, though it went right over the heroine's head. To Love Ru has Risa and Mio, who both shamelessly love groping girls (and sometimes, molest them outright), but kinda subverted with both. Risa swings between Bi the Way and Depraved Bisexual (mostly the former), but her daily interaction with Rito and Haruna is especially unhealthy. Mio is rather Ambiguously Gay due to her lack of Risa's expression when doing these. And she has a Fetish for Meido Cosplay with Moe appeal...in a men-oriented cafe. Hanjuku Joshi is an erotic manga about the relationship between Chitose and Yae, two students at an all-girls school. The OVA Butt-Attack Punisher Girl Gautaman and its sequel spend a lot of time on the crush tomboyish Saori has for her cute roommate Mari (who also happens to be the titular Gautaman.) It's even all but flat-out stated that they went all the way, which is much farther than Mari ever went with her heterosexual love interest, Tobishima. Nevertheless, when Mari is forced to move away at the end of Gautaman R, Saori is left standing on the train platform shouting her love for Mari, who's wistfully daydreaming about Tobishima. Shoujo Sect, where the entire cast are Schoolgirl Lesbians in an all-girl school. Hanaukyo Maid Tai La Verite. Yashima Sanae's feelings for her boss Konoe Tsurugi. Husky and Medley chronicles the budding romance between the eponymous pair of high school students who attend an all girls school, and is supposedly Based on a True Story. Hayate Cross Blade, being set in an all-girl school where students on a special swordsmanship scholarship are made to pair up with a partner in a way that's similar to marriage, this is inevitable. For most characters, it's kept strictly on the subtext level, but main character Hayate is entirely unambiguous about her affection for her Tall, Dark and Bishoujo partner, Ayana, despite the pain that inevitably ensues. And then there's Jun, the Lovable Sex Maniac of the cast who, despite having jokes made about her being bisexual, has never once given any indication that she is anything but lesbian. She and her partner Yuuho were also polled as the most popular pairing in the fandom, despite being half-sisters. Hen: Chizuru for Azumi. Margot Knight and Malga Naruze in Horizon in The Middle of Nowhere. Their official character profiles even list them as 'Lovers'. Hikaru and Megu in Prism. Suruga Kanbaru from Bakemonogatari is this for Senjougahara. But she also works as The Tease for Koyomi and generally acting as a full-blown Lovable Sex Maniac. Sanae is this for Ika Musume. This is the entire plot of Yuru-Yuri. Bodacious Space Pirates gives us Jenny Dolittle and Lynn Lambretta, who keep it on the down-low while Jenny is President of the school's Yacht Club, but are hardly shy about expressing it after Jenny blasts her way out of an Arranged Marriage and rendezvous with the Bentenmaru. Runaways' Karolina Dean (an alien) is in love with her best friend Nico, who unfortunately does not return her affections. Fortunately for Karolina, she finds new love in a shape-shifting alien named Xavin, who changes "his" form into that of a woman to please her. This new relationship leads to problems throughout the series, primarily revolving around the fact that their two home planets have been locked in a deadly war for years, but also seems to inspire jealousy in Nico, with some pretty overt subtext that she is beginning to fall for Karolina afterall. This has lead to some disagreement and arguments amongst the fandom. Y: The Last Man: In a Flash Back about Dr. Allison Mann's college days, she's part of a shock and aww couple until her girlfriend "grows up" and "ungays". Mann didn't take this well. Lost and Delirious revolves around a new girl at a boarding school, who becomes the roommate of a high school lesbian couple. Memento Mori, a South Korean movie by Kim Tae-yong: the whole story revolves around the lesbian relationship between two high school girls. In Samaritan Girl by Kim Ki-duk, Yeo-jin's feelings for her friend Jae-yeong border on the homosexual, and at one point they share a kiss while scrubbing each other before a bath. Most of the girls in the German film Maedchen in Uniform, which was also the first example of lesbianism in film. Although the protagonists of Murmur Of Youth by Lin Cheng-sheng are no longer schoolgirls, having graduated from high school the year before, their relationship arguably fits this trope. Be With Me, a Singaporean movie by Eric Khoo Blue Gate Crossing, a Taiwanese movie by Yee Chih-yen: Kerou has a crush on her best friend Yuezhen but doesn't know how to tell her. Double subverted in the farce But I'm a Cheerleader as it is set up as though it's going to be played for laughs and ultimately it winds up being played straight. Naomi and Michelle inThe Secrets, an Israeli film that takes place in an Ultra-Orthodox women's seminary. The 1968 film Therese and Isabelle about a a pair of young women in a French girls' school (Essy Persson and Anna Gael) whose Romantic Friendship becomes a love affair, an affair which ends when Isabelle leaves because her family moves. S.M. Stirling provides a Western version of this trope in The Draka series. In Draka boarding schools, schoolgirl crushes and romances are very common. Just as commonly, the girls grow out of it when they reach adulthood (Yolanda Ingolfssen in The Stone Dogs is a rather notable exception). Lillian "Lia" Wanderley and Letitia Coramae "Tommy" Tomlin in Carolyn Wheat's short story "Cousin Cora." In Carmilla-reimagining The Moth Diaries, the pupils of an exclusive girls' boarding school have relationships similar to this as practice for the real world and boys. The unnamed diarist is romantically obsessed with her best friend Lucy ... as is the 'vampire', Ernessa. In Colette classic Claudine at School, various girls are interested in one another. Claudine first falls in love with the pretty teaching assistant Aimee, then switches her affections to Aimee's sister when she goes off with the Headmistress. I Am Not Making This Up. Considering this is set in France in the 1890s, no one seems to bat an eyelid at these goings on between girls. The affair between Aimee and the Headmistress is another story. The Getting Of Wisdom a semi autobiographical novel by Henry Handel Richardson (Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson) touches in this somewhat when the protagonist becomes involved with an elder schoolgirl. In The Wheel of Time, teenage novices in the White Tower often become "Pillow Friends," which can range from being close friends, to being in full-blown lesbian relationships. These relationships usually end when the novices become Aes Sedai. Though some interactions later on indicate that they do sometimes continue. Maybe, just maybe, Bill and Clarissa in Enid Blyton's Malory Towers. Fandom is more definite, and not without justification. Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden is about two Schoolgirl Lesbians, Annie and Liza, and is one of the first Western books to present lesbianism in a positive light. Needless to say, the Moral Guardians are on the phone. Even with all the Les Yay and Romantic Two-Girl Friendship floating around in the Gemma Doyle Trilogy, there's a canonical and very deep romantic love between Felicity and Pippa. In Heroes, Gretchen and Clarie become this. Emily and Naomi from Skins. Well, College Lesbians, but plenty close enough - it's stated that they kissed at a party while they were still at their previous school. Emily claimed she was high at the time, although she later admitted to Naomi that she just wanted to kiss her. After half a dozen episodes of Emily chasing and Naomi running (including one episode where they made out when they really were both high), they finally got together, although Naomi wasn't sure about the relationship for at least a good few episodes after that (Emily definitively considers herself gay, while Naomi has absolutely no clue what she is). As of the end of series 3, they've both come out to everybody important (Emily to her family, Naomi to herself) and left the Love Ball hand in hand. Sophie Webster and Sian Powers from Coronation Street also paired up near the end of their standard schooling. Sian may be bi-sexual, or Sophie-sexual as they are, thus far, too focused on each other to even acknowledge other people exist. The last few months of 2010 saw the couple, now at college but still both under 18, making their relationship public before sleeping together in the New Year's Eve episode. Though not outright stated in Dollhouse, this is strongly implied in the college relationship between Caroline and Bennett, at least from Bennett's side of things. The fact that Bennett tries on clothes she would never normally wear because Caroline bought them for her, helps Caroline infiltrate Rossum because she was Bennett's "friend", and develops an intensely bitter hatred for Caroline after she abandons her only strengthens the notion. Santana and Brittany in Glee. Particularly the following lines from 'Sectionals:' Santana: Sex isn't dating. Brittany: If it were, Santana and I would be dating. Their status as this was cemented in Duets, complete with angst. Elaborated on even more so in "Sexy", which is almost completely Brittany/Santana-centric. Part of the backstory of Frankie and Cat in Lip Service. Emma and Jenny from the German show Hand Aufs Herz have been headed towards this for a while. A slap slap almost-kiss relationship led to an actual first kiss, then more kisses, then catastrophic misunderstandings and broken hearts. Recently, they both managed to get over it and as of episode 147 are a couple, alebeit secretly. In the TV series of Pretty Little Liars, Emily and Maya and later Emily and Paige are like this. In the book series Emily was bisexual. The Russian band t.A.T.u. was a rather crass attempt by producer Ivan Shapovalov to cash in on this trope. It takes a turn for the sordid when you consider that both girls were 13 years old when the band was formed. Outright Nightmare Fuel is achieved when you learn that before forming the band Shapovalov was a child psychologist. In their documentary, Anatomy of t.A.T.u., Lena and Yulia revealed that they aren't actually lesbians, and that it was just a stage act. In the same month, they also broke off from Shapovalov. Apparently, they weren't too happy about being used. It's heavily implied in the music video for Aerosmith's "Crazy" that the video's two main characters are this. Natsuki... no, not that one...the one from Persona 3, whose friendship toward Fuuka occasionally took on dangerous levels of obsession, resulting in the SEES group having to keep her isolated for her own good. Of course, the 'dangerous levels of obsession' was from a Shadow giving her impulses so that she'd be a prime victim, which is why she was isolated. After that incident, the two became extremely close to the point that Natsuki moving out of town was the catalyst for Fuuka's Persona to power up. Played completely straight though with an NPC just outside the classroom who has a very obvious (and at times disturbing) crush on Mitsuru Kirijo. We mentioned Grim Grimoire, didn't we? Amoretta and Lillet? Yup. It's canon. The hints were there from the beginning, though. From Valkyria Chronicles, there's Dallas Wyatt, who grew up in a relatively man-free environment until the conscription. She has "Man Hater" and "Fancies Women" as traits and she is very obviously crushing on main character Alicia Melchiott. In the Harvest Moon spinoff series Rune Factory, this happens. In Rune Factory 2, two twin girls can be courted and fake proposed to and "married". However, the priest says something about how girls can't get married. This, oddly enough, was left in the English version of the game. However, it had some... unusual changes. Much of the plot of Rule of Rose centers around this. Much less than the reputation would incidate. There's one distinctly romantic friendship in the game, and one unrequited crush, but neither are distinctly sexual in nature; most of the characters aren't even in their teens yet, after all. In Gensokyo, where almost the entire cast (read: all but one) is made up of girls that look between high-schoolers and young girls (depending on who draws them), is this way in fanon. Even if almost all of them are youkai that are much older than they look. Seiko Shinohara of Corpse Party hides behind her feelings for her best friend Naomi behind a "Just Joking" Justification, since she knows that Naomi doesn't return her feelings. After Seiko's death, it can be invoked if you correctly meet the requirements for a scene in which Seiko appears in Naomi's dream, where she apologizes for their fight and explains that she wants to make up with Naomi before she leaves this world. She has just one request: a kiss. The game gives you the option (Because you're totally going to say no to Seiko's final wish) to have Naomi grant her request. Misha from Katawa Shoujo. In El Goonish Shive, Nanase and Ellen and apparently Catalina. Cheesecake St.-Cherrywell from Gorgeous Princess Creamy Beamy is a particularly over-the-top parody, particularly of Chizuru from Bleach. Jessica from Loserz, forming a pair with bisexual Jodie, beginning in this strip. Fuuko's from Red String unrequited crush on an upperclassman sports star Maaya causes a big scandal at their school. Fortunately for her she later moves to Tokyo where she meets someone Hanae Niijima who does return her feelings. Missi Fuller from Misfile dived headlong into dating Ash after being aproached by Rumi. The problem is, Ash isn't exactly a girl and is stuck in a perpetual identity crisis, so Missi got dumped almost immediately. Missi has refused to give up though, and is currently somewhere in Stalker with a Crush territory. She's getting more public with her affections lately... And a recent arc explores her feelings toward Ash in more depth. Heliothaumic has Cassandra and Lydia, who first paired up in High School as Lydia rebelled against her ancient Egyptian-themed religion, broke up later on, and have recently gotten back together. YU+ME: dream is, at first, a Schoolgirl Lesbians themed story, with the slight twist that they're at a Catholic school (and it's also hinted that one of the girls' parents is homophobic). But, after the Drama Bomb of issue 9, turns out to be more than that... Rachel Einhorn in Kevin and Kell. It's a bit of a surprise to her when Samus Is a Girl ends up reversed, genderwise. The fact she's lesbian is only highlighted here; no-one really cares otherwise (although the male target of her misdirected affections starts going for more masculine attire). Questionable Content seems to assume many of the students of the Real Life Smith College are this. Ilivais X has Mille and Iriana. Neither of them are in school, but they're the right age for it. They're not official per se, but everyone can see what's going on with them, and the entire Aztec army refers to Mille as Iriana's girlfriend at a certain point. Mitadake High. All the time. Spoofed in Wedding Peach Abridged with Yuri/Love Angel Lily. In the original series, Yuri's named is a reference to lilies because "yuri" is Japanese for lily. But in the Abridged Series, yuri takes on another valence: Girl Love. Whateley Universe - given that the main characters live in a special dormitory for gay students, this was inevitable. According to this article, 27 pupils have been expelled from a South African all-female boarding school after "two girls who were caught kissing reportedly said that other pupils were involved in same-sex relationships". Leaving one to wonder: was the the 27th cheating on her other girlfriend or part of a threesome, or did the 28th get away with it? Historically, the phenomenon was somewhat common in Western female-only colleges where the students were completely sequestered from opposite-sex contact. See Lesbian until graduation, or just go visit certain women's colleges, e.g. Mt. Holyoke and Smith. Those might not be the best examples, being Five College Area schools. Heck, it happens even at normal mixed sex colleges, especially ones that segregate the dorms. A fair number of women get really curious at that time, and end up at least giving it a try, but eventually settling down with a guy later. Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.fandom.com/wiki/Schoolgirl_Lesbians?oldid=377260" Queer As Tropes	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2777
__label__wiki	0.513773	0.513773	Pacific Northwest Ballet US Ballet Companies Genderfluid dancer in PNB Professional Division classes By sandik, January 7 in Pacific Northwest Ballet sandik A local television station ran an interview with Ashton Edwards, who is in his first year as a PD student at PNB -- he expressed an interest in training on pointe, and has added that to his curriculum in the school. JMcN Sadly I'm geo-blocked from the article but I don't think he is unique in wanting to learn to dance on pointe. Apart from the Trocks, I have seen male dancers on pointe occasionally and, of course, Bottom in Ashton's The Dream, is a pointe role. naomikage The point is, roles like Bottom in Ashton's The Dream and the stepmother in Nureyev's Cinderella, adds a comic touch by dancing on pointe. Also there are works like La Maison de Bernarda by Mats Ek where the mother (played by a male dancer) wears pointe to show the power she has in the family. I know some male dancers do practice on pointe to strengthen their technique. But if you see Ashton Edwards's Instagram, it is a totally different meaning. https://www.instagram.com/ashtonedwards14/ Dancing beautifully, gracefully on pointe means a lot to this dancer. It is very interesting to see the hashtag #menonpointe on Instagram and see various male dancers training pointe technique and dancing on pointe in many styles. They are trying to break the sterotype of gender in dance, and it is important that the ballet school recognizes the importance of formal training on pointe. seattle_dancer The tv interviewer said KING5 received a message from a viewer who said they should know Ashton's story and share it. I'm so glad she or he sent that message! His GoFundMe donations are growing!!! In the tv interview it showed Ashton dancing both male and female roles, and to naomikage's point, the female roles were not comedic, they were beautiful and graceful. If I were sitting in the balcony of the opera house, I wouldn't know that a young man was dancing instead of a young lady. I am fascinated by this young man. His IG account has videos of him practicing pirouttes and fouette turns in a narrow outdoor terrace. He has no fear! It will be really interesting to see how far he goes and if he will be cast in female roles some day. That may make him more competitive in the job market. I can't wait to see him cast/dance in the Next Step program this year! It's great PNB is open to men training on pointe. Also at the beginning of the interview I noticed his pointe shoes are color matched to his skin, not stock light pink shoes - very important. Colorism - favoring white and lighter shades of skin over darker shades - is rampant in the ballet world, as in other aspects of society. So forgive my skepticism over the media promotion of a darkskinned "non-binary" Black dancer. There are only a handful of Black female dancers in major ballet companies, and nearly all of them are lightskinned. While Ashton Edwards looks to be a tremendous talent, he justifies the suspicions of Black Americans of the ongoing efforts to emasculate Black men in entertainment and the arts. I don't want to see him or any other male-bodied dancer cast in a female role. If men want to dance on pointe, choreographers need to stage new ballets specifically for them. 3 hours ago, On Pointe said: While Ashton Edwards looks to be a tremendous talent, he justifies the suspicions of Black Americans of the ongoing efforts to emasculate Black men in entertainment and the arts. Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but presumably being "emasculated" is only a problem if one wants to be perceived as essentially masculine — which this dancer apparently does not. Is the implication that he should personally make himself more traditionally masculine to prevent other Black men in the arts from being emasculated? Edited January 9 by nanushka 4 hours ago, nanushka said: Is the implication that he should personally make himself more traditionally masculine to prevent other Black men in the arts from being emasculated? No. Ashton Edwards can present himself however he likes. But there is a long history of mainstream media putting forth feminized images of Black men, who have long been considered hypermasculine and sexually aggressive, especially dangerous to white women. Broadway star Billy Porter's career did not take off when he dressed conventionally, but he has garnered enormous praise, and bigger roles, since he began wearing elaborate gowns and headgear at red carpet events. He was just as talented when he wore suits. Black comedians talk about how they are constantly pressured to "just put on a dress, it'll be hilarious". Dave Chapelle, who was the creator and star of the biggest show on Comedy Central, has often spoken of how he was needled to wear a dress by his own white staff. It's a bone of contention in Black media. My concern with the coverage of Edwards is how he is being " signal boosted" and praised for being non-binary and dancing on pointe, when an equally talented Black woman, with the same skin color, would get very little attention. Contrary to widely-held belief, notably by white liberals, Black Americans are not rabidly homophobic. But I'm certain there isn't much desire to see yet another talented Black man in earrings and a tutu. White people love the image a bit too much for our taste. 42 minutes ago, On Pointe said: But I'm certain there isn't much desire to see yet another talented Black man in earrings and a tutu. White people love the image a bit too much for our taste. I understand your concerns, but I guess the problem is that sounds an awful lot like telling queer people (using the term in its broadest, non-derogatory sense), "Do what you want, but just don't flaunt it" — don't make us look at it, don't advertise yourself, stay in the shadows. Which is yet another classic form of oppression. Balletwannabe I don't think people are drawn to this because of gender, but simply because it's something "new", and media likes to make a big deal out of "innovation" in art. But really there's nothing special here (any more than any other talented dancer). If males wanted to train their bodies to have lean muscles to look more feminine, they could. But they're busy lifting weights to be able to gracefully lift females over their heads. Can they do both? Maybe...but focusing in on either traditional male or female roles exclusively will only make you better in those roles. Hope I didn't say anything offensive. That's not at all what I am saying and I don't know how you could come to that conclusion from what I wrote. While there is a diversity of ethnicity at PNB, the entire company looks about the same skin color. A Black woman with Edwards' look, has never been hired by PNB. (Nice publicity, but Edwards is a student at their school and there's no guarantee that they will actually hire him, let alone let him perform on pointe.). He's being otherized and exoticized. Black Americans know a bit about oppression. Not being a fan of Black men in media in makeup and earrings is not it. That's not at all what I am saying and I don't know how you could come to that conclusion from what I wrote... I guess the impact of your words (on me personally) was not the same as their intent. I quoted one of the parts that made me think what I described. It wasn't a conclusion, just a concern. 20 hours ago, On Pointe said: Colorism - favoring white and lighter shades of skin over darker shades - is rampant in the ballet world, as in other aspects of society. So forgive my skepticism over the media promotion of a darkskinned "non-binary" Black dancer. One local TV interview is hardly a media blitz. 40 minutes ago, dirac said: I never said that it was a media blitz. But being featured on the local news is far more attention than most ballet students get, not to mention the Go Fund Me which has raised a considerable sum. Black comedians talk about how they are constantly pressured to "just put on a dress, it'll be hilarious". It's a sure-fire laugh, and I can think of very many instances of white comedians doing it. On Monty Python's Flying Circus alone it was done dozens of times. lmspear Flip Wilson canbelto Being gender fluid is not a choice nor is it a publicity stunt. Implying so is feeding into transphobic talking points. If nothing else, the events of the past week have demonstrated that Black Americans do not receive the same treatment, or necessarily have the same world view, as other Americans. The sexuality and sexual identity of Black men, and women, is under constant attack. This is a hot button issue that white Americans might be totally unaware of. There is definitely a strong conviction that feminized Black men are being thrust into the spotlight, and rewarded, to the detriment of the community. You may disagree, or even find it silly, but you cannot tell Black people how they should feel. Through the centuries, men have used wearing dresses, drag and other forms of "womanface" to get a laugh. Presumably because they wanted to. That's not the same as being told you have to do it, whether you like it or not. But that's not the gist of my skepticism. There are many talented young black women in ballet who, in this day, have very limited prospects because they have skin that's closer to Ashton Edwards' complexion than Misty Copeland's. They dance on pointe, too. But it's the Black boy who takes on a feminine persona who gets the attention. (If PNB hires him, would they dare cast him in female roles? Would they let him dance male roles wearing earrings with his hair in a bun with bangs? Most companies don't allow their male dancers to even have facial hair.) 5 hours ago, canbelto said: These days, no matter what the word or the subject, all roads seem to lead to transphobia. Mr. Edwards is not trans. Trans is not part of the discussion. Trans is not simply getting the operation. Gender fluidity is part of the trans movement. Being gender fluid is not a choice nor is it a publicity stunt. Indeed. I rewatched the interview and although the segment wasn't apparently made at Edwards' instigation he seems to me very much a subject with agency, not an otherized and exoticized object. Suggesting that he shouldn’t appear in media still sounds to me like a troubling move of erasure. This is a hot button issue that white Americans might be totally unaware of. There is definitely a strong conviction that feminized Black men are being thrust into the spotlight, and rewarded, to the detriment of the community. You may disagree, or even find it silly, but you cannot tell Black people how they should feel. Similarly, a straight/non-queer person may be totally unaware of how their dismissing of gender queer people (e.g. by suggesting they should not appear in media representations) is perceived. They may disagree and not understand how their words could be perceived in that way, but when queer people say that their words are having that impact, I think those people should be taken seriously. And similarly too, as I am white, if I am told by a non-white person that something I or another person has said is racist or racially insensitive, I take that seriously. Edited January 11 by nanushka 1 hour ago, canbelto said: Mr. Edwards is capable of defining himself. As he has not called himself trans, why should we? 47 minutes ago, nanushka said: Nothing I have written dismisses gender queer people. I don't say they shouldn't appear in media. I say that Black people sometimes sense an agenda when and where they do. I sincerely do not understand individuals who are so fragile that the mere thought of someone having a different point of view is perceived as an attack. How do they get through life? You're saying because of his race he should silence a big part of his own identity as a gender fluid dancer. I'm sorry, but that sounds like trying to erase his identity because of what you believe HIS motivations should be. Perhaps he identifies more strongly as a queer, gender-fluid dancer than a black person. Maybe he doesn't see the wrong in trying to identify as both. You can be one and the other at the same time. Being a strong representative of your race does not, in fact, necessitate any canceling of your sexual identity. I'm disturbed you seem to think it does. I thnk Ashton Edwards has been clear about self-definition and presentation, regardless of how anyone else views this. This is what you wrote: So forgive my skepticism over the media promotion of a darkskinned "non-binary" Black dancer. If media promotion is happening, the implication is that someone must be doing the promoting. That's a lot to make out of a human interest feature on local news. I doubt if Edwards is taking attention away from other students, since studying ballet in and of itself isn't terribly newsworthy. There are many talented young black women in ballet who, in this day, have very limited prospects because they have skin that's closer to Ashton Edwards' complexion than Misty Copeland's. Very possibly. Again, you're twisting my words to fit your mindset. Mr. Edwards, like Billy Porter, can do whatever he wants, wear whatever he wants, identify however he wants. I don't care about his motivations. My concern is the hypocrisy of a school and company championing a Black male dancer who dances on pointe and has a feminine presentation, but has never hired a Black female dancer of similar appearance. 14 hours ago, volcanohunter said: British sketch comedians tend to do it more than Americans - Benny Hill and "Little Britain" come to mind. There are a few well known individual drag characters in American sketch comedy - Dana Carvey's Church Lady, Harvey Korman's yenta, and lmspear has mentioned Flip Wilson's great Geraldine Jones. Dan Aykroyd's Julia Child, bleeding to death on camera after cutting herself while demonstrating how to debone a chicken, was a memorable one-off. James Cagney started off in vaudeville as a female impersonator. But I digress.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2783
__label__cc	0.725462	0.274538	Wycliffe Bible Translators Collection 325 Oral History Interview with Donald W. Berry Identifier: CN 325 Scope and Contents Oral history interview in which Berry discusses his conversion, education at Wheaton College, and his work as a pilot and administrator for Mission Aviation Fellowship in Honduras and Southeast Asia. Other topics discussed include. Berry’s service in the Army during World War II, his views on pacifism, the origins of Mission Aviation Fellowship, challenges of MAF, and the effect of life on the mission field on Berry’s family.Donald Berry was interviewed by Robert Shuster on February... Dates: Created: 1986 Found in: Billy Graham Center Archives / Collection 325 Oral History Interview with Donald W. Berry	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2794
__label__wiki	0.898512	0.898512	P245: Descriptive analysis of measles cases in an universitary hospital and its health area S Justo Gil1, T Gimenez-Julvez1, CA De la Hoz-Gonzalez1, A Gimenez-Cabrera1, V Muñoz-Sanz1 & E Rodriguez-Baena2 Measles is a leading cause of vaccine-preventable childhood mortality. Despite having a vaccine with a protective efficacy of 95%, outbreaks are possible if vaccination coverage is below 95%. In our area there are irregular settlements where outbreaks can occur. The objetive of this paper is to describe the most relevant data of reported cases in our hospital and compare them with our health area data. The objetive is to describe the most relevant data of reported cases in our hospital and compare them with our health area data. Registration in the Public Health Information System of reported cases, age, sex, serological status, hospital admission, measles vaccination status and risk group from March, 1st 2009 to September, 1st 2011. Data were analyzed globally and by epidemiological weeks. Our hospital notified 28 (33.3%) suspicious cases of the total area (84). Median and interquartile (IQR) age 6 years (0.75 -18.5) versus 7.5 (1.5-18.3) in the area. Both modes were less than 1 year. 60.7% females in our hospital versus 58.3% females in the area. Confirmed serology hospital cases were 22 (78.6%) versus 56 (66.7%) area cases. 46,4% needed hospital admission in our cases, 25% in the area. 96.4% of the hospital cases were not vaccinated versus 92.9% in the area. 67% were from risk groups (irregular settlements and gypsy ethnic group) versus 58.3% of total area. Incidence peak in our hospital was between 30 and 34 epidemiological weeks, later than our area (27-34 epidemiological weeks). Despite appropriate vaccination coverage in the Community of Madrid, outbreaks had occurred in groups of susceptible individuals (marginal communities and children under one year who have not been vaccinated). So in 2011, the Community of Madrid came early the first-dose of measles vaccine from 15 to 12 months. Since mode is less than one year, it would be appropriate to come early the first-dose of measles vaccine between six months and a year. Hospital Universitario Infanta Leonor, Spain S Justo Gil, T Gimenez-Julvez, CA De la Hoz-Gonzalez, A Gimenez-Cabrera & V Muñoz-Sanz Sureste Public Health Area, Madrid, Spain E Rodriguez-Baena S Justo Gil T Gimenez-Julvez CA De la Hoz-Gonzalez A Gimenez-Cabrera V Muñoz-Sanz Correspondence to T Gimenez-Julvez. Gil, S.J., Gimenez-Julvez, T., De la Hoz-Gonzalez, C. et al. P245: Descriptive analysis of measles cases in an universitary hospital and its health area. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control 2, P245 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1186/2047-2994-2-S1-P245 Hospital Admission Risk Group Measle	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2795
__label__cc	0.729243	0.270757	Business as usual… for now For those of us living in Service Families Accommodation in the UK, it’s business as usual for any maintenance and repairs needed. However, later this year CarillionAmey will take over the contact. Cat Calder, AFF Housing Specialist, tells us what to expect… THE new contract is scheduled to roll out in Scotland and Northern Ireland in November and in the rest of the UK the following month. Although you may still see some of the same workmen around the patch, the method of working is set to change with a new ethos to encourage a “first-time fix” on repairs and a proactive approach. The biggest change will be that CarillionAmey will now deal with both allocations and repairs. How will this benefit families? A single, free phone number for all issues (repairs and allocations) More ways to contact the helpdesk including online where repairs can be reported and tracked Enhanced repair times Texts 24 hours before all appointments and a call an hour before if required Improved web page More Customer Access Points (CAPs) covering repair and allocation issues Easy-to-use guides for move appointments Faster turnaround of SFA after move-out You will be able to submit and track complaints online Improved satisfaction surveys AFF is encouraged by the new contract and we are hoping that it will lead to an improved level of service for families applying for and living in SFA. As with any change, there’s the risk of issues and we will be monitoring the roll out of the contract closely. We will be a part of the working groups to help ensure that all goes as smoothly as possible. Look out for further information in the next edition of Army&You. Remember that until the new contract goes live you should continue to report repairs, apply for SFA and register complaints in the normal way. LivingSFAYour Home Cat Calder The letter of the law	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2796
__label__wiki	0.574632	0.574632	The world is moving at a very fast pace and one of the endless joy known to man is the ability to travel the world in the comfort of his own home. But how? you may ask, through reading of course. Trajectory is a company based in America, they have come up with a fantastic way of recommending books to readers. To find out how this works, please read on. This article was originally published by the Bookseller. When the machines read your book The Bookseller on the stands in London this morning reports that Bowker — the ProQuest-owned US ISBN agency and publishing research firm — is in final talks for a partnership with a company called Trajectory. The aim at Bowker is to offer authors and small publishers a new way to generate book recommendations for their readers. Trajectory, based in Boston and founded in 2012, is also in talks with major retail and distribution companies. It has worked with many of them in developing this new approach to the discoverability challenge for both commercial and library settings. Trajectory has developed a machine-based process that for the first time in history is able to recommend related books based on a variety of proprietary algorithms. That’s Trajectory’s c.e.o. Jim Bryant (pictured, left), formerly with Sony’s Data Discman. Bryant and his partner Scott Beatty — who with Bryant created InfoPlease.com, which they sold to Pearson — this week are meeting with potential clients and partners: retailers and distributors. And what they’re discussing is a process that begins with a form of “machine learning.” A book is loaded into Trajectory’s system. Automated “Natural Language Processing” (NLP) parses the text, “reading’ and categorizing the data. When an analysis of the book’s key elements is made, the book’s characteristic profile, its “personality,” is exposed. Then search algorithms find matches to the book within the growing database. Those matches generate recommendations. This is numbers applied to words, a series of mathematical interpretations of textual data based in techniques of vector space modeling; “term frequency-inverse document frequency”; cosine similarity; and least squares. If the Trajectory textual analysis programming and algorithms are implemented deeply and widely, its executive team says that a new mode of discoverability will soon be at hand. The company has referred to this at times as a “grace note for ebooks.” You don’t have to understand the mathematical analysis behind Trajectory to know that the grace of a little automated discoverability would make a lot of people in the publishing industry very happy about now. In response to The Bookseller’s inquiry, Bowker director of identifier services Beat Barblan said, “We see tremendous value in offering authors and publishers the opportunity to process their works with the Trajectory system for matching readers to books. Their natural language processing and recommendation results are indeed impressive.” The Trajectory-Bowker agreement may create one of the first showcases where the publishing industry can see the shift represented in the Trajectory technology’s potential. Text as data Simply put, where most algorithmic recommendations so far have been based on sales (as in Amazon’s “customers who bought this item also bought…”), Trajectory’s algorithms deploy a book’s text. First that text is broken down into various “vectors.” The Trajectory analysis uses myriad vectors to model “high-level abstractions.” By comparing one book’s unique characteristics to others’ — time period, action, pace, “intensity,” word types, book length, dialog, “distinct word prevalence,” mood, gender, movement, specific references, and more — the system then is able to offer matches, recommendations of ebooks based on their content rather than on their sales history. eBooks a reader discovers through Trajectory’s analysis, then, are reflective of other work the reader has enjoyed. It’s easy to see how a major online retailer might want to use such technology. If you buy a book, the Trajectory system can then generate recommendations of other books based on the first purchase’s characteristics. Bryant points out that the same capability is available to libraries. “Imagine you’re a library,” Bryant says, “and you’re eager to increase your funding. Your funding is based on the number of books you check out. Imagine being proactive and able to email your library patrons and say, ‘Hey, you read this book, and we think there are some other books you might be interested in,'” based on the kind of textual analysis that Trajectory’s system can provide. “I think we’ll see a lot of libraries try to redefine themselves this year,” Bryant says, “and start to be more proactive, reaching out to patrons to give them an edge.” Bowker’s partnership announcement is significant because it provides a way for authors and small publishers to utilize the Trajectory technology, which until now has been primarily — and quietly — introduced only to points of retail distribution and to some library distributors. Bryant and Beatty say that even as they formalize deals with major retail players and publishers, they’re also intent on getting the technology into the hands of independent authors, as the competition of millions of titles mounts. “Our primary target market now are the points of distribution,” Bryant says, “meaning every ebook retailer or distributor that we’re currently working with. One of the competitive advantages we think we have in launching this is that the deliverable is pretty straightforward. It’s a list of keywords that can be ingested into a retailer’s own search engine to allow readers on their site to find books that contain certain people, places, or subject matter.” Graphing a book — on sentiment, intensity, keywords Some of the “deep learning” representations the system creates, including a “sentiment curve” that characterizes sentences, paragraphs, chapters, and entire books with numeric ratings of a book’s emotional qualities — which Trajectory’s algorithms then match to other books. In one comparison, for example, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol has an emotional peak about two-thirds of the way into the book, then soars to a high at the end, while Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty, graphed against it, runs a far subtler course, never reaching the emotional intensity of the Dickens book. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz provides a nearly opposite curve from the Dickens, dropping in intensity two-thirds of the way in, but then rising powerfully to an emotional finish. Similar to the process used by a retailer, Bryant says, “through the API, we can allow a library distributor to let a library generate specific shelves [of ebooks] for a patron. If the library shares with us a list of books the patron has read, we’ll then be able to present a customized shelf” of similar books for that patron. From analysis to algorithmic recommendation Beatty and Bryant’s Trajectory.com site displays collections of books being analyzed by the system and resulting recommendations. One collection focuses on London, another on outdoors stories, another one on news-related books referencing the CIA, etc. George Tenet’s At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA (HarperCollins, 2009), for example, can be viewed not only for its “sentiment” graph but also for its “intensity,” as well as for its places, people, adverbs, adjectives, verbs, nouns, and for statistics including its “adult reading time” (11 hours, 27 minutes), the average lengths of its sentences and words, total word count (171,852), unique words (8,086), and more. In At the Center of the Storm’s recommendations section, you see Bush vs. the Beltway: How the CIA and the State Department Tried to Stop the War on Terror by Laurie Mylroie (HarperCollins, 2010) making a strong showing in many categories of comparison. “The recommendations, I think, are our finest work product,” Bryant says. “We’re continuing to enhance them with new sets of data that we can fold in. Last week, we found a way of identifying and refining the level of complexity of a book.” As a side-product of this work, Bryant adds, plagiarism can be detected by the Trajectory system as it attaches confidence ratings to its recommendations. A match of text at an extremely high level between two books might indicate plagiarised content. Trajectory “is providing a decimal” to clients as it operates, Bryant says, “and the decimal reflects the uniqueness of a keyword and its use in the book and in the English language. If the client — a retailer or library — has the ability to weight words provided to them and only use words of a certain weight, then another criterion of recommendation is available involving the linguistic sophistication — or at least range — of a book. “It’s also really interesting to pull out vectors like sentiment, then take all of an author’s books and see the similarities within one writer’s work” on such a scale. Can you, as it were, recognize an author’s work on such a concept as a sentiment graph across his or her books? What’s more, Trajectory’s analysis is also being used now, Bryant says, to allow customers of certain retail/distribution partners in China to select English-language books. By matching simplified Mandarin characters to keywords that Trajectory develops from a book’s text, that book may become discoverable in a Chinese search. Publishers in China eventually may be interested, on the other hand, in having their own books searchable to English readers — enough enough search interest in a title could be a prompt to get a text translated and produced for new markets. Reading patterns As authors including the self- and traditionally published author of the new The Shell Collector, Hugh Howey, has written, something many in publishing have wanted from their technology is the ability to tell when readers stop reading an ebook, or skip over passages, or re-read or abandon sections or entire books. One partner Bryant declines to name — contract talks are ongoing — is using complexity ratings to help discern what may be causing readers to stop reading a book at a given point. “Complexity,” he says, “turns out to have a huge impact on this ‘exit data'” on when a reader “exits” the book. “In terms of recommendations, if somebody likes a book that’s fairly complex, then the opportunity to use that in making recommendations is good.” And we’ll hear more about this type of inquiry next week at Digital Book World (DBW), the conference in New York City produced by F+W Media. There, UK-based Andrew Rhomberg is to discuss an element of his Jellybooks“Reader Analytics” offering. According to information at the Rhomberg site, the approach, now in focus-group testing, will be able to indicate for authors, agents and publishers: When readers open a new ebook chapter Average reading speed Length of reading sessions Position at which readers abandon an ebook Time of day an ebook is read Readers clicking on links or images in the ebook Competition and comprehension The fact that Trajectory’s offering is capable of similar output reflects on how competitive the marketplace becomes in various areas of publishing at given times. “Once raw data is exposed,” as Bryant puts it, it might come down to whose idea of how to apply and deploy that data is the most attractive and salable. For example, he points out, “At the end of the year, there are so many popular-book lists. And Scott [Beatty] had circulated a link to Google’s most popular search terms for 2014. What we’d like to do is publish a statistical bank that would show the most popular words of a year used in books published at the time. We could see trends in character and keywords over time.” Something like this, especially compared to high-ranking keywords in a matched historical time period, might help explicate how literature reflects cultural concepts in westerns or romance or science-fiction. The list of eBook distributor-partners Trajectory is working with is a who’s who of international channels, including Ingram, Apple, Amazon — with particularly strong ties to JD.com and Amazon China (“a very progressive company,” Bryant says) — as well as Google, Foyles, OverDrive and more. And in its Small Demons asset acquisition, the company gained the HarperCollins library, and also is working with publishers including Abrams, Hachette Audio, Scholastic, Canongate, and more. Bryant doesn’t say this, but it seems logical to think that if one of the major’s libraries — HarperCollins’ — is in the Trajectory database because of the Small Demons acquisition, then other majors might be keen on seeing their own catalogs “read” by the machines in Boston so that searches for recommendations can turn up their books, as well. More announcements of formalized partnerships are to come shortly, Bryant and Beatty say, as Trajectory’s system of semantic analysis comes online. And, meanwhile, Bryant says, “One of the coolest early advantages we see is an opportunity to elevate books in backlists,” particularly in subscription settings where many largely unknown titles can go unnoticed. “It would probably be to their advantage to offer books to customers that aren’t being read.” Posted by Admin. Posted in PublishingTagged George Tenet, Jim Bryant, recommendations, Scott Beatty, Trajectory Prev Happy Holidays! 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__label__cc	0.699585	0.300415	Home Uncategorized Quality and safety focus builds growth for civil works contractor Quality and safety focus builds growth for civil works contractor By Wayne Keene From humble beginnings as a single plant hire operation in the early nineties, Sydney-based Agresta Plant Services has grown and evolved into a highly regarded civil works contractor. Providing its specialist earthworks and finishing services, they’ve contributed to some of Australia’s most complex civil projects in Sydney, NSW Central Coast and Melbourne including Lane Cove Tunnel and the Melbourne Rail Project. The family run business has secured a solid reputation over the years with their efficiency and knowledge in road and rail civil construction, and the company’s reputation as a safety-focused operator continues to grow says owner and operations manager, Frank Agresta. “Safety is paramount for everyone at Agresta Plant. Work on all our civil projects has been completed to the highest safety and quality standards, and we’re proud to say, without any incidents,” highlights Frank. A qualified mechanic and plant operator with over 18 years’ experience in heavy plant vehicle operations, Frank joined the family business in 2000, alongside his mum, Nonie who is also the business manager for Agresta Plant. Quality and safety are at the core of their business. “Besides the use of GPS technology in machines, the biggest changes I’ve seen over the years is site safety, and earthmoving products needing to be more robust and compliant to site regulations,” says Frank. As expected, their growth over the years has required an increase in machines and Agresta Plant Services’ modern fleet comprises of a Hitachi ZX65USB, a Bobcat and a Volvo excavator. 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__label__wiki	0.598858	0.598858	About Sam Patwell Posts by Sam Patwell: Morgan Miller’s Twisted Tales Embrace the All-Too-Human Element of Animation June 14, 2017 By Sam Patwell Morgan Miller has coffee stains on the sleeve of his shirt, on his briefcase, and even on his most recent animated work, There’s Too Many of These Crows. “Coffee stains don’t bother me,” he says. Not even a tiny drop in the middle of the screen. “I mean, the audience ultimately knows they are watching a drawing so you can only fool them so much,” he says. Bowery Road’s ‘Library’ Will Offer 1,000 Spirits and 150 Cocktails May 4, 2017 By Sam Patwell When Bowery Road opens in the Hyatt Union Square, head chef Ron Rosselli won’t have to range far for ingredients. The Greenmarket is just a few steps away from the “global American” restaurant, and a rooftop garden is also in the works. Greenpoint Film Festival Returns, With a Focus On Local Greenery Tribeca Film Festival just ended, but Greenpoint Film Festival is returning for its sixth year, from May 4 to 7. Just like Tribeca, GFF features documentaries, narrative features, experimental and animated shorts, but it also boasts a category that’s unique to the neighborhood. Among the six environmental films are local pieces like Robert DiMaio’s Waterways of Hope, about cleanup projects along Newtown Creek, and director Coleen Fitzgibbon’s five-minute documentary, Bushwick Inlet Park. Tags: bushwick inlet park, film festival, Greenpoint, newtown creek, Woven Spaces Art Hearts, news No Comments Pols Get Amped For Electric Bus Service During L Shutdown April 26, 2017 By Sam Patwell Would electric buses soften the blow of the approaching L train shutdown? City Council members Rafael Espinal and Stephen Levin think so, and yesterday they called on the MTA to make it happen. Aside from being an inconvenience for more than 200,000 daily commuters who ride the L train daily, the 15-month shutdown planned for 2019 will also cause an increase in carbon emissions as the subway is replaced with more car and bus traffic. Electric buses would solve the problem of noxious bus fumes while pushing the city closer to a more sustainable and environmentally-friendly public transit system, the council members said during a press conference. Tags: Electric Buses, L train shutdown, rafael espinal, Sierra Club, stephen levin Artists & Fleas Brings Williamsburg to Soho With a New Market After a decade and a half as a staple of the Williamsburg flea market scene, Artists & Fleas is opening its fourth location, smack dab in the middle of Soho, on the corner of Prince and Broadway. Look out, Prada. Founded by Brooklyn-based Amy Abrams and Ronen Glimer in 2003, A&F allows independent artists and designers to sell their wares (or wears. . .get it?), resulting in a hodge podge of hip stuff: vintage clothing, jewelry, leather products, art items, handbags, food, and, of course, beard oil. Tags: Artists & Fleas, chelsea, Gypsy Nation Vintage, NYC Williamsburg, soho, Vintage Spend Your 4/20 With Bottomless Tots, Cheeto Baos, and The Dude Image courtesy of Baohaus Tomorrow is 4/20 and although B+B of course does not condone the use of (for some reason still) illegal substances, we thought it only right to share some events one might be interested in if they were to indulge. Tags: 4.20, bushwick public house, nyc, professor thom's, Tater Tots, the big lebowski, Vintage Popup news 1 Comment We Climbed Aboard the First NYC Ferry, Christened in Brooklyn Today Mayor de Blasio rode the first NYC Ferry into Brooklyn Bridge park this morning. The ferry is the first of 20 coming to New York harbor on May 1 that will shuttle New Yorkers across the East River for just $2.75 a trip, the price of a subway ride. Tags: brooklyn bridge, east river, mayor de blasio, nyc, nyc ferry Coney’s Original Hot Dog Comes Back to the Beach Photo Courtesy of Michael Quinn Last weekend Coney Island finally welcomed back the original New York hotdog. No, we’re not talking about Nathan’s– there’s a new famous dog in town: Feltman’s of Coney Island. The Feltman line goes back even further than Nathan’s, if you can believe it. Tags: coney island, Feltman's, Hot Dog, Michael Quinn, original Light Industry Cinema Celebrates Five Years as a Brooklyn Bright Spot April 5, 2017 By Sam Patwell Inside of a simple wooden box, elevated about five feet off the ground, sits a 16mm Elmo film projector. The sound of its spinning reels is muffled by foam egg crates, and its lens is aimed at a far wall. This is the beating heart of Light Industry, an experimental, repertory cinema that’s celebrating five years in Greenpoint. Tags: brooklyn, Greenpoint, Light Industry, repertory cinema, Stan Brakhage Here Are Some of the Anti-Trump Comics Being Shown at The Living Gallery Tonight March 27, 2017 By Sam Patwell Looks like throwback anti-Trump comics are officially a thing. At the Spring/Break show earlier this month, Mr. Vinyl’s pop-art series, The Cisco Kid Vs. Donald Trump, paired Trump takedowns with images pulled from the 1950s comic strip. Tonight at The Living Gallery, “Pussy Grabs Back: A Night of Anti-Trump Comics” will feature the work of Christine Stoddard, a self-proclaimed “fairy punk” who pairs anti-Trump sentiment with fairy tales. Tags: brooklyn, Christine Stoddard, comics, Forget Fairytales, nyc, Pussy Grabs Back, Quail Bell Magazine, radio free brooklyn, the living gallery	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2807
__label__cc	0.706598	0.293402	Article published in: Ethnic Styles of Speaking in European Metropolitan Areas Edited by Friederike Kern and Margret Selting [Studies in Language Variation 8] 2011 Emerging Moroccan and Turkish varieties of Dutch Ethnolects or ethnic styles? Frans L. Hinskens Large-scale immigration, which resulted either from the processes of decolonization or from labour migration, led to the development of new ethnolectal varieties of Dutch. Following a brief discussion concerning the definition of this notion and a modest survey of the relevant literature (both international and for the Dutch situation), a rough demographic sketch of the present-day situation of ethnic minorities in The Netherlands will be presented. Next, a large ongoing research project into the emergent Moroccan and Turkish ethnolectal varieties of Dutch in two major cities will be introduced. This project targets at answering three different sets of questions regarding ethnolects. One set of questions concerns the linguistic makeup of ethnolects: to which extent are they rooted in substrates, in phenomena that are typical of second language acquisition and in endogeneous non-standard varieties? Another set of questions concerns the place of the ethnolect in the verbal repertoires of its speakers. Yet other questions concern the spread of ethnolectal features to other ethnic groups. It is argued why the three sets of questions all emanate from a language-centered rather than an ethnographic approach to ethnolects. After a sketch of the methods and design as well as the resulting database, some first findings will be presented regarding a particular non-indigeneous feature in the province of phonology, discussing its nature, probable origin, use and incipient social spread. For this contribution the use of the feature has been analysed in conversational speech of a small subset of the subjects in the research design in a range of interactional situations; the analyses zoom in on several different dimensions in the distribution of the feature. The findings for the micro-social dimensions studied partly bridge the seeming gap between quantitative (Labovian) approaches to language variation on the one hand and qualitative, partly interpretive (Gumperz-type) approaches on the other. There appear to be interesting and highly plausible relations between the quantitative patterns in the subjects’ use of the feature and several mutually related aspects of the interlocutor’s background. This leads to a discussion of the stylistic meaning of these patterns and of ethnolectal variation in general. Finally it will be argued that international research cooperation could greatly help to unravel internal, external and extra-linguistic forces underlying the development and use of these new non-standard features as well as their diffusion to the verbal repertoires of other cultural groups. https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.8.05hin FAGYAL, ZSUZSANNA & EIVIND TORGERSEN 2018. Prosodic rhythm, cultural background, and interaction in adolescent urban vernaculars in Paris: case studies and comparisons. Journal of French Language Studies 28:2 ► pp. 165 ff. Hinskens, Frans L. 2014. In Stability and Divergence in Language Contact [Studies in Language Variation, 16], ► pp. 109 ff. Jaspers, Jürgen 2017. The colour of Dutch. Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 6:2 ► pp. 231 ff. Nortier, Jacomine 2018. Language and identity practices among multilingual Western European youths. Language and Linguistics Compass 12:5 ► pp. e12278 ff. Wiese, Heike 2020. In The Handbook of Language Contact, ► pp. 261 ff. This list is based on CrossRef data as of 22 december 2020. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2811
__label__cc	0.739774	0.260226	April 3, 2019 April 23, 2019 batterseaartscentre Words about Sarah Golding I want to say a few words about Sarah Quelch (for some of you) and Sarah Golding (for others). Sarah left her role yesterday as Battersea Arts Centre’s Associate Artistic Director. I first met her back in – 1999 – this was when I became a producer for Battersea Arts Centre. Sarah had already been working here for about twenty-five years -though she tells me she only started a few months before me -I’m not so sure. For me, it turned out to be a meeting that set a path for my 21st century. Sarah was BAC’s Participate Producer. I was BAC’s Development Producer. We were both bright eyed and bushy tailed. Not quite sure what happened there. And right from the start – we were allies. Sarah believed in participation. And I believed in Sarah. I even believed her anecdotes. In those early days, I remember Sarah was always full of a tale or two. There was the one about her time on television’s The Big Breakfast. Oh yes, and then there was that that thing that happened, oh that was on the The Big Breakfast too. And wait, I am remembering another story, about, er yes, it was about Gaby Roslin on the Big Breakfast. We joined the organisation at a time when the previous artistic director used to send messages around the building by memo. Literally printing out messages and sending them round to different departments in different rooms. Battersea Arts Centre was the creative centre of British theatre. It was also where pigeons came to die in the courtyard. These pigeons were probably previously employed carrying messages around the building – until the advent of memos. Sarah and I sat next to each other in half of the New Committee room which was the producing and production office. Later it would be occupied by such producing luminaries as Louise Blackwell, Kate McGrath, even our own Richard Dufty. As we moved from memos to the early days of personal computers – this was when personal computers were a new phenomenon – like in the world – Battersea Arts Centre still managed to have got hold of some old shit ones. I mean how is that even possible? In those early days of our relationship, I looked up to Sarah. And 20 years later – I still do. Of course there will be people who have been driven mad by Sarah. There will also be people who have had their lives changed for the better by Sarah. The remarkable thing is that they will probably be – in most cases – the same people. This is because Sarah connects with people’s core. She is one of those rare people who genuinely finds out what makes people tick. Who genuinely cares enough to find out about someone’s inner sanctum. And then she fucks with it! She often helps people to see another way. A more equitable, interesting and creative way. She has provided a springboard for so many artists, families and producers. – From running Arts Express programmes on Saturdays – to BAC’s youth theatre – to BAC’s development theatre – to BAC’s school programme – to shaping the organisation’s entire participation strategy – to conceiving a building wide strategy for telling the story of the building’s history – to directing hugely innovative and successful productions – to more recently leading the merger of Battersea Arts Centre and Wandsworth Museum and leading the creation and strategy for the BAC Moving Museum – to being there on the night of the fire and buying every staff member a drink and being our leader in our hour of need Her theatre shows – including The Good Neighbour, Town Hall Cherubs, and Return to Elm House – have all been as formally innovative as they have been bloody good fun. When I was watching Sarah Golding’s final show as Associate Artistic Director which was about unsung Jeannie Nassau Senior, I sat here in the Council Chamber noting some of the comparisons with Sarah’s own journey. – someone who seems to have lived here forever – someone who has NOT been fully recognised for their massive contribution – in Sarah’s case to arts and culture in Battersea and the UK – someone who changes people’s lives for the better and who makes a positive difference I wonder if in 50 year’s time someone at BAC will be making a show called Return to Golding Towers? I won’t say I’m going to miss you Sarah. Because I’m buggering off soon too. And I know we’ll stay well connected as pals outside of these four walls. But I would like to truly thank you Sarah for being a friend, a collaborator, a change maker and someone who leaves their mark and their values on this building and this organisation. You leave it and us in better shape than you found us. And when you think about – that’s not something you can say about a lot of leaders in this world. Sarah you are amazing. I know of no other human being who has taken over their own leaving party, buddied up with the Beatbox Academy and smashed out an awe-inspiring rendition of Madness’s OUR HOUSE – adapted to “Elm House” of course. Sarah you are a very special phenomenon and I am so, so lucky to have had the opportunity to work with you. Previous Citizen Assembly anyone? Next Welcome to the future… Rebecca Manson Jones says: Great to see the often invisible talent and graft that lies behind the success of the powerhouses otherwise known as participation departments acknowledged. Great to see that Sarah was given the platform as an artist in her own right. Thank you for posting this. The story needs to be remembered.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2823
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__label__wiki	0.967054	0.967054	Marcel Simon Award Gunshin Levy Award Paul Ehrlich Centenary Award Eliezer Rachmilewitz Award Podium Awards Founding Committee Nomenclature Committee Iron Stories Member Categories CME History Member News: Nancy Andrews The IBIS Board is proud to announce that on August 2007 Nancy Andrews has been named dean of the Duke University School of Medicine. Nancy is the first woman to be appointed dean of Duke's School of Medicine and becomes the only woman to lead one of the nation's top 10 medical schools. Nancy has been a founder of the IBIS society, a member of the board and awardee of the Marcel Simon Award. © 2021 BIOIRON — International Society for the Study of Iron in Biology and Medicine. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy Website Designed and Hosted by WJ Weiser & Associates, Inc.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0020.json.gz/line2831

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