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Photo: Courtesy of Tonya Gonzalez
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‘Brown Girls Who Bruja’ Creator Tonya Gonzalez Talks Sisterhood and Spirituality
by Virginia Isaad August 5, 2019 July 29, 2020
Brujería in Latinx culture is more than just a spiritual ritual. It’s reclaiming ancestral traditions and empowering women in the face of cultural erasure. For Tonya Gonzalez, creator of the “Brown Girls Who Bruja” Instagram account, it’s also about sisterhood and grounding yourself in your inner feminine power.
“For women of color to gather and connect with other women (sisters), we grow, flow and glow,” Gonzalez tells HipLatina. “‘Brown Girls Who Bruja’ began as a way for me to reach and connect with other Afro-Latinas, Latinas, and women of color around the world who use candles, crystals, and cards without being afraid.”
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With nearly 50k followers, her popular Instagram account is a social media favorite for brujas and there she practices what she preaches, often connecting with followers a.k.a “beloveds” on IGTV. During her latest episode, she discussed the healing aspects of mercury retrograde, as well as the importance of letting go of what does not bless you. Gonzalez has also done episodes on self-love v. self-care and healing.
But her reach extends beyond social media, as she’s incorporated Black Girl Magic into her everyday life, both personally and professionally. Gonzalez initially launched her site in 2009 and by 2012 she’d been voted as one of the top psychics in the world in the 2012 International Psychic Battle in Kyiv, Ukraine, coming in third. But since then she says she’s focused more on “sacred sisterhood, entrepreneurship and community building,” offering bruja retreats and boot camps, as well as tarot card readings.
“Brujería used to be considered ‘dark and evil magic’ yet now it’s trending,” she says. “It is my dream to support women in such a dynamic and healing way. Social media used as a tool is so useful and helpful at bringing the world closer. ‘Brown Girls Who Bruja’ is the community I always wished I had growing up.”
The trending power is all in the numbers: #bruja yields nearly 700K post on Instagram, #brujeria yields more than 200k and #brujas nearly 500k. But it’s not solely evident on social media, the number of brands associated with brujería has also grown in the last few years with companies including Brujita Skincare, The Hoodwitch, Brooklyn Brujeria, and The Flowerchild Bruja gaining popularity.
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But for Gonzalez, it goes back to spiritual and sisterly connection and cultivating that inner magic. She hosts retreats in Puerto Vallarta, where she lives, helping women develop their brujería skills with teachings on African spirituality, tarot, and chakras. She’s also coming out with a book in 2020 tentatively titled Heal, Sister, Heal: The Sensuous Bruja, a healing guidebook for women of color that includes a self-love plan and a directory of WOC-owned businesses and brands to aid in the process.
“Everyday brujería is self-love. I grew up afraid of the woman within and around me and full of self-hate. Society, family, and men convinced me that I was wrong. It wasn’t until I embraced the womanly arts that had been hidden away, did my life begin to shift and transform,” she explains.
She breaks down some of the ways to incorporate brujería into everyday life including attention and intention as integral to “use your magic,” meditation or prayer, and devotional practice as well as Kemetics (ancient African spirituality) and some form of movement like yoga.
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“Our ancestors used dance and movement as an offering and as a part of sacred rituals,” she says. “By adding our unique energy to everything we do is what our magic is. Applying makeup can become a ritual and conversation with the goddess within.”
Gonzalez, who is African American, Native American, and Mexican, says her mixed background has been influential in her spiritual journey. “Primarily it affords me the chance to learn as much as I can. I believe to know thyself is to heal thyself. I gave myself permission to discover and play as a practice,” she says. “The problem comes when others try to take ownership of another’s cultures for personal gain. I’ve grown to be conscious, not critical of the unknown.”
Like her own background, brujería’s roots can be found in Africa, the Caribbean, and indigenous communities throughout Latin America. Santería (worship of saints) is an Afro-Cuban religion that formed right as the Spanish began colonizing and introducing Catholicism in Latin America beginning in the 15th century. Historically, the marginalization of communities has only contributed to the growth of mysticism.
In “Sex and Sin, Witchcraft and the Devil in Late-Colonial Mexico,” Cuban-American anthropologist Ruth Behar explains how brujería became a form of protection for women in Latin America against machismo. “Since women were left with few domains in which to assert themselves, they developed, in Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America, a rich symbolic language of beliefs and acts for resisting, punishing, and even controlling the men who dominated them,” she says.
Consequently, the same can be said for millennial women now in the face of attacks on women’s rights in the U.S. The ever-increasing popularity and resurgence of brujería as a form of healing and feminist empowerment is a result of millennial Latinx reclaiming their heritage.
“Not only does bruja feminism create a space for Latinas to participate in a larger discussion regarding women’s rights and social and racial injustices, but it also in many ways allows them to be seen. It gives, for instance, Afro-Latinas or Latinas of indigenous descent, an opportunity to honor their brown ancestry that has been hidden and erased by so much of our Eurocentric influence. It’s a way to decolonize and find healing,” HipLatina’s deputy editor Johanna Ferreira wrote in an article “Latina Feminists Are Reclaiming Their Inner Bruja Like We’ve Never Seen Before.”
For Gonzalez, one of her choice phrases, “use your magic,” sums up her advice for women to own their inherent power.
“I came up with ‘use your magic’ to remind women of their inner majesty and it is the only love spell ever needed,” she says. “When we allow ourselves the opportunity to shine, we do. This is why it is so important for WOC to learn about themselves, their ancestry and their inner bruja. I believe all women are brujas, we just need healing to remember and reclaim her.”
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Looking Back: Cinderfella (1960)
With the passing yesterday of Hollywood legend, philanthropist and ultimate fundraiser Jerry Lewis, I thought I’d revisit one of his many films. CINDERFELLA, which came out in 1960, is a comedic take on the classic Cinderella story with the genders of most of the characters being reversed. And you thought GHOSTBUSTERS broke new ground in that regard!
In the film, Lewis plays Fella, an orphaned man-child who lives with his wicked stepmother, Emily (Dame Judith Anderson, REBECCA), and her two adult sons, Maximilian (Henry Silva, the original OCEAN’S 11) and Rupert (Robert Hutton, the awful THEY CAME FROM BEYOND SPACE). Like Cinderella, Fella is at the beck-and-call of his family, making their meals, serving their food, cleaning the swimming pool at their Bel Air mansion and servicing their fleet of expensive cars. He doesn’t seem to mind it though, as he is happy with his lot in life. After Emily arranges for the Princess Charming of the Grand Duchy of Morovia (Tony award winner, Anna Maria Alberghetti) to visit California with the intent that she marry Rupert and rescue the family from impending bankruptcy, Fella is visited by his Fairy Godfather (played with wonderful camp by another Hollywood legend, Ed Wynn) who informs Fella that he will be the one who will marry the princess. The film roughly follows the traditional Cinderella story but with a Hollywood twist with a goldfish doubling as the Cadillac driver and ball music provided by Count Basie and his orchestra.
From the start of the film, it’s very clear that this is a vehicle to showcase Lewis’ huge talent as he mugs, sings and dances his way through the film. The only other actor who gets to sing is Alberghetti, but considering she is a professional opera singer, her number is hugely understated. Ever the entertainer, Lewis often gives Fella his typical, loveable klutzy clown treatment right down to the crossed eyes, wobbly legs and nasally, loud voice. Audiences back in 1960 probably would have wanted to see him that way. Today, we may look it nostalgically but the characterisation does wear a bit thin after a while, especially when we see scenes in this film where he tones the shtick down and just plain acts. (I’m reminded of Jim Carrey whose best work has been in films like THE TRUMAN SHOW and ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND where he didn’t overact.)
Paramount apparently wanted to release the film during the summer of 1960 but Lewis preferred to hold onto it until Christmas. Given his enormous clout, the studio agreed to the delay provided he give them another film they could release in its place. Lewis agreed, and he wrote, produced and directed THE BELLBOY, which was released in July of that year. It was a huge hit for the studio and everyone was happy.
If you haven’t seen CINDERFELLA before, or if you haven’t seen it in a while, check it out. Fifty-seven years later, it still holds up. Remember to look closely at the mansion. If it seems familiar, it was the same mansion that was used in the 1960s TV show, THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES.
Jerry Lewis was one extraordinary talent and he will certainly be missed by his millions of fans all over the world. May his soul be bound up in the bond of life.
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Growing Up in Wenham in WWII
Wenham local Bob Hicks began his collection of remembrances as part of the 375th Town of Wenham Anniversary Celebration (1645 – 2018.) Under these auspices they appeared on the Wenham Town Hall web site and in the Hamilton-Wenham Chronicle. He continued his work through 2019 in the pages of The Wenhamite until he had reached a conclusion to his coverage of WWII, with an epilogue discussing some of the changes that followed.
“From 1937 through 1947, the period in which I grew up in Wenham, the town went from the burdensome poverty of the Great Depression through the trauma of World War II to come face to face with the totally unexpected impact of a postwar boom, a decade of transition that forever changed the way of life in town. This is a chronicle of how it was to grow up here during those years.”
We thank Mr. Hicks for his contribution of original PDF chapters, linked below, and his donation of a physical copy of Growing Up in Wenham in WWII: Recollections of a Bygone Era, now being processed as part of our library’s Local History collection.
01 Introduction
02 Coming to Wenham in 1937 Looking for a Small Farm
03 What Manner of Town is this Wenham? – Part 1
06 School Days Part 1 – The Center School
07 School Days Part 2 – Let’s Hear It for Our Teachers!
08 School Days Part 3 – Let’s Hear It for Our Teachers! (continued)
09 School Days Part 4 – Miss Bessie Buker
10 School Days Part 5 – Wrap Up
11 War Comes to Wenham
12 Knowing Our Roots: Reflections On Our Town
13 My Father the Air Raid Warden
14 Rationing
15 Chief Eddie Hall: Law & Order in 1943
16 The US Navy Lands in Wenham
17 Time Out
18 The Farm Kid Emerges
19 Cows & Vegetables
20 Entering the Wage Earner World
21 Moving Up in the Working World
22 VJ Day & Our Towering Inferno
23 After the War Was Over
24 Epilogue
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July 6, 2006 by ianbernard
Recently, the New Hampshire secession movement has started to gear up. The more I think about secession, the more I like the idea.
In fact, I can’t see any reason to keep the federal government around. Really, what good is it? All it does is tax, threaten, regulate, and destroy freedom.
It’s quite clear that in America we can’t all get along, and nor should we continue to attempt it. I say let the Liberty lovers all move together, socialists all move together, religious zealots all move together, racists all move together, etc…
Screw the USA, it’s done for. Am I wrong? Is there some redeeming quality to the federal government that I am missing? Why should it continue to exist? Please post your suggestions in the comments.
Gabe J says:
Getting off track, I am a candidate for office here in leon county, florida, and I had uncovered a bit of a scandal involving one of the members of the board i am to be serving on voting to give a $169,00 contract to a company he owns.
What was the response to the breaking of this scandal? Six of my large signs (4’x4′) have been defaced or torn down in the two days since, and the local county commission have all endorsed my opponent.
I do not understand why they would throw their endorsements behind a person involved in this sort of scandal, except that they all have their own dirty laundry, and dont want me in a position to sniff it out.
>I do not understand why they would throw their
>endorsements behind a person involved in this sort of
>scandal
Because in this country the rule rather than the exception is that you have to be a criminal in order to be a politician.
I used to be a secessionist. These days I’m mildly opposed, for two reasons:
(1) As Ruby Ridge, JustUs Township, and -especially- the Republic of Texas have demonstrated, the federal government definitely WILL fight a war to keep a few people, never mind an entire state, in the union. No secessionist movement that gives no consideration to neutralizing the federal government’s violent objection has a prayer of success.
(2) Should secession become a reality, the new government will almost certainly not be created by libertarians. It will be created by the same people who would run the state without secession, who currently represent the state in Congress. Given that, is it more likely or less likely that the new state would better protect individual rights? I suspect less likely- mainly because a seceding Texas would essentially be the kingdom of Tom DeLay and his ilk.
I don’t support secession and think it’s a dead end- but I wouldn’t be sad to be proven wrong at all.
Sounds like a great idea, but I do share Kris’ skepticism as to how realistic it is. The FedGov DOES NOT NEED the paltry million or so people of NH who would be seceeding, but they DO NEED to stop the precedent that would embolden other states to follow suit.
Michael Hampton says:
We’ll have to burn that bridge when we come to it.
I’m not entirely opposed to the idea of secession — IF and only IF the question of U.S. reaction can be addressed.
The U.S. currently thinks it has a right to prevent the states from seceding, and if I remember case law correctly, it won’t recognize a secession unless the several States — all of them — also do.
Considering that that may not be politically viable, you may just have a civil war on your hands. Again.
Cato Craft says:
Another concern-
If the secession were to succeed, you would then be out from under the (theoretical) protection of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights (I know…what good are they now?!)
But rhetorically, is the constitution of NH a more libertarian substitute?
This isn’t a leading question- I honestly just don’t know.
Nigel Watt says:
Actually, doesn’t NH’s Constitution declare the right of secession? Since Congress recognized NH as a state in 1789 or whatever, and therefore recognized its Constitution, hasn’t Congress given NH the right to secede?
It does declare the right to secession, as a matter of fact. :)
Paul Pace says:
If we outlaw the federal government, then only outlaws will have the federal government.
I think the thing to do is support Aaron Russo’s movie America From Freedom to Fascism. If we could get it in enough theatres all over America it would make a big dent in the real problem–the sense of complacency among most Americans about the federal government. Then with enough Americans up to speed on the problems with the Federal Government, a state such as New Hampshire could get enough support from people in other states to make it a peaceful possibility. Or maybe with enough of a paradigm shift in society, secession would not be a necessity.
DaveT says:
How can a state secede? The last time it was tried, the remaining states retook the seceding states by force.
I hope NH does secede. What a beautiful day that would be. And if the federales decided to go against the…I’d hope there’s be lots of signs on libertarian doors everywhere that said “Gone To New Hampshire”.
Eukreign says:
NH Constitution is much better than the US Constitution so that won’t be a problem.
Secession has been successful several times in the past within our boundaries — The United States succeeded from Great Britain in 1783 and Texas succeeded from Mexico in 1836. Each time, though, armed conflict was the result, but in each of those cases, the militarily stronger party actually lost. The Confederate States of America may have actually lasted longer (or won) had they not attacked Fort Sumter so early.
Around the world, though, there are many cases of nations gaining independence without bloodshed — mostly former British and French colonies.
Chris: Wrong on the first part. The United States won its war of revolution as part of a military coalition- America, France and Spain- which together were militarily superior to Great Britain. The victorious army at Yorktown was more than half French, and only succeeded in trapping the British and forcing surrender due to the presence of a French blockading fleet.
Questionable on the second part- Mexico never recognized Texas as ever having been independent. It invaded Texas twice after San Jacinto- in 1841 and 1843- and decisively crushed Texan attempts to exercise control over the Rio Grande Valley and Santa Fe. It took the Mexican-American War- in which the United States had the superior military power- to force Mexico to give up Texas (and a lot of other districts).
Peaceful secession is possible only with the consent of the old government (Norway, Slovakia, most recently Montenegro). Secession in defiance of government rule is insurrection and rebllion- nothing less.
Mike R says:
In other news, the FBI has been investigating a rise in terrorist activity in New Hampshire.
I totally agree with supporting Aaron Russo’s film. I will probably go see it multiple times, assuming it is picked up anywhere in California. I will even drag friends along. This sort of activism has helped other independent movies gain theater acceptance, with an expansion to more and more cities.
“Mexico never recognized Texas as ever having been independent.”
I don’t think Texans cared whether Mexico recognized them or not.
The point is peaceful succession is possible, as is violent succession. I think some discount the US governments lack of resolve to kill New Hampshire citizens if they chose to peacfully succeed. That is not to say that they wouldn’t, though. I don’t know.
There is much New Hampshire CAN do to rid itself of some of the federal government without suceeding. Some of which Kris proposes for Texas in his campaign (education).
Russo will be appearing on Free Talk Live sometime this month. His film is very good.
Susan Hogarth says:
Ian, nice bit.
Something to keep in mind, though, is indivdual secession. Why should I have to find a bunch of people who think just like me (even if I COULD:) in order to live in peace? Heck, I want the Republic of Hogarth. The English used to beleive that a man’s home was his castle – meaning he was KING of his own domain. THAT’s the sort of secession I can get behind :)
But, yes, smaller states are probably less odious than bigger ones, so I’m all for group secession as an interim measure. And people say I’m not willing to compromise! ;-)
Short plug for my new website reviving the LP Radical Caucus:
http://www.lpradicals.org/
Radicals take heart! The LP is a radical party!
Yes! I like the message of that site, Susan!
Thane Eichenauer says:
Commenting on Kris Overstreet’s post #3, point 1, I find the closest analogy to be the ending of black slavery in the US. While I haven’t read enough on the era to say there was no grand plan to neutralize slavery, my impression based on my education is that black slavery ended based on 2 factors: 1: Slaves wanted to be free and did whatever was necessary to gain freedom, 2: Through general promulgation and acceptance by the general population of the concept that black slavery was immoral, inefficient or simply not necessary.
Point 2, Same analogy, so long as a former slave was in a free state I can only assume he found himself better off in most situations (perhaps not all black people appreciated the freedom or even preferred it to slavery). In many situations blacks were discriminated against but neither society today nor society then is being offered utopia, just the opportunity that results from reducing oppression (government coercion or government condoned slavery).
Stuart Richards says:
LOL yeah that’s gonna happen.
When I was a little kid I decided that I was going to declare independence from the USA and my bedroom was my own nation. Sadly, the American government deputized my parents to invade Stuartaria, rescind its Constitution and send its President-For-Life to bed without dinner. The UN never returned my phonecalls. :\
Anyway, I grew out of the whole secession thing when I was six. Yeah it’d be nice, but get real, kids. And if you honestly believe that that’s what the LP needs to focus on-in this era of the Iraq War and wiretaps and a huge debt-that’s EXACTLY what you are, a kid.
Thane: Slavery ended only because the South seceded trying to protect it- leading to a war which was doomed to destroy it. Without the Civil War, it is unlikely slavery ever would have been abolished. Both North and South feared what would happen if millions of former slaves were suddenly freed- and feared social equality of black and white almost as much.
There was secession to protect slavery; there was a war to prevent secession; and the war led to the end of slavery.
To address your points: (1) Irrelevant, because in the US slavery did not end peacefully. (2) A slave emigrated- he did not “secede” from his master, he fled his home. He did not create a new government- he fled to a government already well established. The equivalent would be if Libertarians in New Hampshire fled to New Zealand instead… except, unfortunately, that New Zealand prohibits all immigration.
“And if you honestly believe that that’s what the LP needs to focus on-in this era of the Iraq War and wiretaps and a huge debt-that’s EXACTLY what you are, a kid.”
Some might argue that continually begging daddy to stop beating up other people, stop listening in on your phone calls, and stop spending your allowance money on booze makes you a child.
Others may prefer to be emancipated minors. You’re free to just keep asking daddy “pretty please”.
Oh, and Ian never said anything about the LP.
Why does everything have to be about the LP?
Yeah, I was just asking for people to give me reasons why the federal government should continue to exist. So far no one has.
Commenting on Kris Overstreet’s post #16, one could point out the Former USSR is now a bunch of independent countries now largely (or entirely) free from the previous soviet federal government.
Operating in defiance or indifference to any particular government is sometimes tolerated and sometimes not. The challenge is to persuade individuals in government that it is immoral, ineffective or just not worth it to squash freedom and persuade those who might support government that it isn’t worth it to support it.
Leave it to Ian the sensationalist, to dig up a website put together by Caleb and promote it as if it has any support. Except from other very extreme radicals in NH. Other FSPers are clear that secession isn’t viable anytime soon, if ever.
I wouldn’t call it gearing up, by a long shot.
See the last paragraph of Jason’s most recent speech at Porcfest. for a more realistic scenario, one over years and years.
What happened to running for Congress? http://www.calebforcongress.com/
Yes, the same man actively advocating for secession just abandoned running for Congress as a Democrat.
Ian’s post had nothing to do with the FSP, either (other than a link).
Chris: agreed, but speaking on behalf of those of us in the FSP who aren’t FOR secession (nor the Org itself), we tend to get tarred with the same broad brush… Googling shows that we’ve spent too many hours clearing that misconception up over and over.
Oops, didn’t close the link, and it’s broken.
Argh, link just won’t post. Oh well. google it yourself :)
Since you think it “isn’t viable”, we should just stop talking about it, right Seth?
Also, did Caleb announce that he was abandoning his run, or are you putting words in his mouth?
Clearly, you have a thing or two to learn about publicity and propaganda. I’m the one with the nationally syndicated radio show, if I say it’s gearing up, it’s gearing up. If I say it’s viable, it’s viable. If I say the FSP is the answer, people join. (Who’s the #1 recruiter?) If I say that Keene is the place to be, people move. Get it?
I’m not your enemy, Seth. I support what you’re doing, and I have not left the political train just yet. There’s no need to be hostile to me, I am not a threat. Distance yourself if you like, but we’re on the same side. I’ll be helping your cause whether you like it or not.
My people just want to go a little… further than you do.
Perhaps I’ll talk to Gardner Goldsmith about secession tomorrow. I predict he’ll be for it. That will make two radio shows in the state of NH on the side of secession. Plus the Keene Free Press.
If you don’t think we can influence people, you are in for a surprise! ;)
Russell Kanning says:
“The Keene Free Press does not officially support or oppose NH secession.”
Ah …. who am I kidding? ;) We love the idea! :)
How about Keene independence?
I sure hope Seth doesn’t oppose our efforts towards NH independence all over the internet. That could really dampen the enthusiasm and set back the cause of freedom.
Please send your letters to the editor (russellkanning@keenefreepress.com)
Or, maybe it would just generate more publicity!
Yell as loud as you can, Seth!
Tom Blanton says:
The way I read the Declaration of Independence (that some of us celebrated this week), states are sovereign. If that is the case, then there is a right of secession.
Despite the hysterical hyperbole that the feds would come in with armed soldiers and kill everybody in a state that left the union, I would suggest that it would first be challenged with mere words by the federal government.
If a state voted for secession, it would most likely wind up in court to decide of it was legal. Of course, the political hacks on the Supreme Court (especially the strict constructionists) would rule it was illegal. But, it would open the topic up for debate and would be in court until it worked its way up to the Supreme Court.
Lincoln’s war of aggression would be discussed again. The reasons for secession would be debated. Once again, it would probably be revealed that the emperor is stark naked.
I can think of nothing better for America to go through this no matter what the outcome.
There is already precedent:
Texas vs. White
Well said, Tom Blanton. I think it would take an awful lot of propaganda of demonizing NH to turn public sentiment to support a war of aggression in NH. Plus, they have shown that they can’t fight a 4th generation war. If the people of NH were willing to fight a 4th generation war, it would further threaten The State if it were to engage.
The USA has enough military problems as it is. More 4th generation enemies – of the domestic persuation, no less, could seriously undermine the agenda. The only solution for The State would be to capitulate and sweep it under the rug or to continue to escalate the situation which would require some seriously draconian measures even on the non-secessionist state’s people. Which of course would undermine the legitimacy of The State.
What I am saying here is that the FSP and NH secession are great ideas! But expect some serious, well financed (unlimited money) anti-liberty smear campaigns/demonization and propaganda when things heat up.
Oh and the US Constitution advocates the right of secession. Besides, if the US Constitution is an agreement between the states and the people, how is one party supposed to act when they have no remedy for a dispute? Who is to be the arbiter? And what of The State being the interpreter of it’s limitations?
This is why the very idea of using a constitution or other such artifice to “limit” the power of The State is an exercise in absurdity doomed to fail right from the beginning. The State is ALWAYS total. There are no ifs ands or buts about it.
Thanks for posting the Texas v White case, Chris. I knew there was some case but I thought it was during the “recent unpleasantness” as opposed to afterwards.
Regardless, if a state seeks secession, the first step would be a resolution voted on by the state assembly and signed by the governor. Perhaps also a public referendum.
Another option might be an amendment to the state constitution declaring the state to be independent.
Then the state would have to seek a negotiated settlement with the US Govt through Congress or the federal court system. As I suggested above, the result would be a national debate on the reasons for secession and the merits.
Possible grounds for a court action would be the unilateral breach of the contract called the Constitution by the federal government. This would not be such a hard case to make. There are too many instances where the federal govt has ignored the 9th amendment to lose the battle in the court of public opinion.
“Then the state would have to seek a negotiated settlement with the US Govt through Congress or the federal court system.”
This may actually be enough. NH could agree to remain in the union with the US’s recognition of autonomous rule. Moving through to the Supreme Court would be a looser. Better to deny the SC’s jurisdiction and bring the US government to the bargaining table.
R. E. Lee says:
Can someone suggest a good real estate agent in New Hampshire?
RELee: http://freestateproject.org/nhinfo/Housing.php
has a number of them… best choice depends on where you are looking for something. For central NH, I can personally recommend the Blevens Agency, very very happy with them, and Ken is not only a Libertarian, but ran for office a few times, including getting 4.5% of the vote for Senate in 1996. Mention my name if you talk to him or Eric.
Robin Smith from the Masiello Group for the Keene area.
paulie says:
As Ruby Ridge, JustUs Township, and -especially- the Republic of Texas have demonstrated, the federal government definitely WILL fight a war to keep a few people, never mind an entire state, in the union. No secessionist movement that gives no consideration to neutralizing the federal government’s violent objection has a prayer of success.
Very true. I suggest WMDs.
Slavery ended only because the South seceded trying to protect it- leading to a war which was doomed to destroy it. Without the Civil War, it is unlikely slavery ever would have been abolished. Both North and South feared what would happen if millions of former slaves were suddenly freed- and feared social equality of black and white almost as much.
Not true at all. Slavery ended in every nation of the Americas in the decades right before and after, with Brazil being the last in 1898. Haiti was the only other nation that fought a war about it. Slavery was doomed for economic reasons (industrialism). It would also have been doomed if the South had seceded peacefully, since there would no longer be any enforcement of fugitive slave acts. An independent CSA would probably have abolished slavery in 5-10 years, 20 at most. Had they done so before the emancipation proclamation, they could have won the war with the support of Europe.
Susan: good step, although quite possibly too late. I also like the Boston Tea Party.
Helio says:
It will occur naturally, as libertarians gather in the Free State. There will be a point in which the diverging principles between the State and the US will become so clear as to require a separation.
One argument they can use…
The rights granted to the citizens of NH, as citizens of the United States, and so vigorously defended by federal government, cannot be defended if NH withdraws from the union. Therefore, NH can not leave the union without violating the constitutional rights of its citizens.
I just came up with this, so it may have holes, but it is an argument that could be made. Remember, your rights cannot (or at least should not) be revokable by majority vote. It takes a presidential memo to do that.
Mike R, government grants you nothing. Your rights are inalienable. You have them regardless of government. It’s only a question of if government recognizes them or not. Looking at the Bill of Rights, even when some of those rights are enumerated in the governnments founding document and in the form of contract, the government does not recognize those rights.
Gene Berkman says:
As a native of Southern California, the idea of living in New Hampshire leaves me cold.
I have no problem with the principle of secession, but talking about it makes one appear kooky. New Hampshire seceding from the union is even less likely than the LP electing people to office.
There is also the problem of currency. When America and most countries were on a gold standard, a new country could use the gold and silver coins of other countries. The United States did for many years. But with fiat currency, secession is a problem for the region splitting off, which would include lots of people with bank accounts, debts & receivables in US dollars.
Even if the US did not take military action against a secessionist region, they would probably freeze assets in US bank accounts.
Let’s get a Canadian perspective on this. One of our major federal parties (Bloc Quebecois), has the seperation of Quebec from Canada as one of their main objectives. They have over 30 MP’s in the house of commons, imagine having 30 Congreesmen from one state who all want to secede. There are also parties that are registered federally and provincially that want Alberta to secede, BC to secede and Saskatchewan to secede. The only reason there are not a dozen or more countries in North America already is that we have a short history. If we had been living in North America as long as people have been living in Europe then there would be a dozen or more countries here. Once we gain a history bullets will fly. If you think no state in your union will never succeed in seceding then you are an idiot. 360 million people live in the US, less than that live in Europe and make up more than a dozen different nations. Then of course we have geography, it shows just how different we are.
Georgia is totally different than Washington State. New Hampshire is totally different than New Mexico. The food, the accents, the attitude, the temperature, the tolerance for deviation from the norm. Look at the UK, I lived there for 5 years, if I left Manchester and drove less than 50 miles to Liverpool I find a totally different accent, different “traditional” food dishes etc. Scotland wants to secede, Wales would love to secede, all that on an island smaller than Texas and with 60 million people. In Canada the same differences occur between people on the West Coast vs the East Coast, Alberta vs Ontario, North vs South. As our land grows older and more densly populated people are going to want to start something of their own. I really do hope that Alberta leaves Canada, soon. I hope Quebec leaves as well. A country the size of Canada, the size of the US, the size of Russia, is not viable, to much money is spent just on keeping the infrastructure in tact.
I don’t refer just to transportation infrasturcture but government infrasturcture as well. Add the challenges of geography and someone who makes a decision in Ottawa has no fucking clue what someone in the Yukon needs or wants. Even with technology, the ability of geography to kill smart decision making lives on. As an Albertan I don’t want gun control, I don’t want government funding of the arts, this ain’t just a personal preference, it is a societal preferance in Alberta. In Toronto they want gun control, they want government funding of the art, it is their societal preference. Saskatchewan wants big government, they want big time social programs and as a result people from Saskatchewan have been immigrating to Alberta for decades. Alberta has had a conservative government for 20+ years, Saskatchewan has had an NDP(socialist) government for 20+ years. I tell people from Saskatchewan to fuck off on a regular basis, give it 50 more years and I will be shooting them instead.
Jody’s comment is that people thousands of miles away don’t know what other people want. Well, Alaskans sure do. They know New Jerseyans would just love to be taxed to build a
gamillion dollar bridge to nowhere!
If taxes are to be collected then the tax dollars need to stay and be spent in the area they were collected from. This so called social contract bullshit really gets on my tits.
paulie: The virulent racism and terror of black-led massacres in the South would have ensured the continuation of slavery as a means of controlling the potentially deadly black population.
At least, that’s my view on it.
And what a bizarre view it is, Kris – but I would expect no less from you.
Here in Richmond, former capital of the south, there were a large number of free blacks before and during the northern war of agression. In fact, some actually owned slaves themselves.
Slavery was not the cause of the civil war, a fact Lincoln wrote about. Lincoln seemed to be more rascist than many southerners and used the slavery issue as a tool. Slavery was on the way out before the war and while many, if not most, whites believed blacks to be inferior, there was little violence between the races in this area – just separatism.
Richmond is rich with black history. The Jackson Ward district was a black business mecca, ironically until Jim Crow laws were abolished and the black economy decentralized. The Ebenezer Baptist Church located in this area was originally purchased by black and white church trustees during the civil war.
By the way, I just refuted your lies about the platform:
/2006/07/02/libertarian-party-convention-recap-sunday/
Tom B: In Alabama, Texas and Mississippi, during the war all free blacks in those states were forcibly re-enslaved by law. Many Confederate states before the war had passed laws forbidding emancipated blacks to remain in the state- in those states you could only be freed by your master’s last will and testament, and if he did, you had to go or else re-enslave yourself to someone else.
Slavery was not on the way out. The Dred Scott decision said blacks, slave or free, could never be citizens, and thus were not protected by the Constitution. It also said that if a slaveowner took a slave into a free state, no matter how long he remained in that state, the slave remained a slave. Another case which would have come before the Supreme Court in 1861 had not war broken out, Lamont v. New York, would likely have overturned the right of a state to prohibit slavery. The result- NATIONWIDE slavery. (more)
I did not say that slavery caused the war. I said (in another thread on this blog) that slavery caused -secession-, and -secession- led to the war, and the war destroyed slavery. The Union war object was to stop secession- not to end slavery- but due to many factors slavery had essentially collapsed months before Amendment XIII was declared ratified.
As for antebellum interracial violence, leaving aside whips, manacles, starvation, sundering of families, and other things inherent with slavery, I believe I will do some research. Even a black freedman risked beating or even hanging if he failed to bend or doff hat to even the lowliest white man- this much I know.
Finally, as for Lincoln- he was about as racist as most whites of the period. However, by the end of the war he called not merely for emancipation but political equality- the vote- something he had opposed prior to the war, and which was opposed by most whites even after his death.
I would dispute the claim that secession was about slavery.
Secession wasn’t completely about slavery, but it was one of the dividing issues.
Tom: Most of the seceding states’ legislatures or secession conventions issued resolutions explaining their reasons for seceding. They can be looked up online.
I once went through these resolutions and counted up the causes listed. Slavery was referred to over seventy times. State’s rights were referred to six times, usually in reference to slavery. The import tariff was mentioned ONCE. No other causes were given.
Of course, it’s been several years since I did the count- look it up for yourself.
The secession of the first seven states was definitely about slavery. The states that seceded after Ft. Sumter did so in response to the call for troops to put down insurrection, but even they made it plain that slavery was a vital, and even THE vital issue, for which southern independence was sought.
Remember the Confederacy.
That is what will be said about New Hampshire if there are any survivors if secession is attempted. The new saying will be “remember the Nation of New Hampshire”.
Even the land where NH once was will not be habitable for thousands of years if secession is attempted.
George Phillies says:
If you don’t believe secession was about slavery, you should try reading the secession ordnances. What was slavery about? It was about claiming that people can be owned. More important, it was about the privilege of slaveholders of fornicating their 12 year old girls whenever they wanted.
Slaveholders were vile filth. Their defenders were vile filth, and still are vile filth, even farther from the Libertarian movement than are the Revolutionary Socialists, the Maoists, and the advocates of involuntary pedophilia.
‘Lincoln Freed No Slaves’ is a lie from the defenders of the slaveholders. He freed vast numbers of them, starting with all those fugitive slaves in the North at the time of the Emancipation Proclamation.
As some of you will recall, I have already said that DC needs one more war memorial: To all the slaves who rose in just, virtuous, violent revolution against their slaveholder masters and gave the slaveholders the fate they deserved: early death.
George Phillies
What do you mean by “involuntary pedophilia”? Is there justification for pedophilia as long as it is voluntary? Who is the volunteer? Is it the adult, the child or both? Is a child capable of making that decision? I am calling your hand on this one because it was no accident you inserted “involuntary” in the sentence.
I have attended local libertarian discussion groups in Colorado and one of the most disturbing discussions is forwarded by those that I am convinced are pedophiles. They advance that it is OK as long as the child accepts the sex act as being OK and agrees to participate. I cannot agree and end up in a huge fight with those perverts.
Even libertarians must have some standards on issues such as pedophilia. “Anything goes” is not acceptable in society.
Please clarify your position, if you dare to be honest.
George says: If you don’t believe secession was about slavery, you should try reading the secession ordnances.
Here they are for 13 states:
http://americancivilwar.com/documents/ordinance_secession.html
I would encourage everyone to read these and decide for themselves the role slavery played in secession.
It is also instructive to read the Emancipation Proclamation to see which slaves were freed and which were not:
http://www.law.ou.edu/ushistory/emanc.shtml
Lincoln’s first inaugural address also is interesting in regards to the slavery issue:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trt039.html
An interesting article about Lincoln:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo44.html
I think going beyond the typical “Lincoln was born in a log cabin and freed the slaves” history that is typically taught, it is obvious that the civil war was about far more than slavery and that Lincoln’s motivations for his actions were not all together pure.
One does not have to be a defender of slavery to be critical of Lincoln’s war. Slavery was a horrible institution and southerners should not be tarred with being in favor of slavery becasue of a dislike of Lincoln. The vast majority of white southerners did not own slaves and many were not much better off than slaves.
Even Lysander Spooner wrote about the hypocrisy of Lincoln over slavery.
It is strange that during court ordered busing in the 70’s, there were no riots here in Richmond, yet in the enlightened city of liberal Boston, white racsists rioted.
To ignore the fact that tariffs and the disagreements between federalists and anti-federalists had nothing to do with the civil war is to misread history. For those libertariasn that place Lincoln on a pedestal, I would suggest going back and reviewing his impact on the role of the federal government.
For purposes of the current debate on secession, slavery is a moot issue.
Jesus fucking H Christ. If this is what the Libertarian party is like in the US no wonder it never has any success. You all sound like a bunch of east coast wannabe intellectuals, get off you fucking asses and do something. Ian from FTL, I don’t know why you bother with some of these idiots, your topic was great but then these morons turn it into a discussion about slaves and recently, pervs. They are to busy arguing about something totally off topic, trying to make themselves look like the superior intellectual. Posting snot head messages on a website is one thing, getting off your pussy ass and moving to the Free State is something else entirely. If the bullets start to fly most of these fucktards are going to be arguing about the history of their guns instead of actually shooting back. I did not find liberty because of the Libertarian party or some snot fuck eurudite conversation, I found it because I found FTL and FTL skips all the bullshit and snot headeness, unlike you tossers.
Also, respond to the question Ian posted, stay on topic or you will never find freedom and liberty.
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STUDIES ON THE INTRAOCULAR PENETRATION AND TOXICITY OF TERRAMYCIN
EDWARD J. CANNON, M.D.; ANNA C. NICHOLS, M.S.; IRVING H. LEOPOLD, M.D.
From the Research Laboratories of the Wills Hospital and the Harrison Department of Surgical Research, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
AMA Arch Ophthalmol. 1952;47(3):344-349. doi:10.1001/archopht.1952.01700030352008
TERRAMYCIN, an antibiotic with a broad antibacterial spectrum, is an elaboration product of the actinomycete Streptomyces rimosus.1 Investigators2 have reported on the effectiveness of terramycin in the treatment of bacterial, viral, rickettsial, and protozoan diseases. Welch and associates3 have reported on the absorption, distribution, and excretion of this antibiotic after systemic administration to man and the experimental animal. The toxic properties have been investigated by Schoenbach, Bryer, and Long.4 The present study was undertaken to evaluate the penetrability of terramycin into the ocular fluids and tissues after local and systemic administration. Additional experiments were devised to study the toxic effects of terramycin on ocular tissues. Since this study was undertaken, reports on the intraocular penetration of terramycin and its clinical effectiveness have appeared.5
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Dragon’s Lair Trilogy v Sega Genesis Classics (IGC Retro Bowl I)
January 25, 2019 by Indie Gamer Chick 6 Comments
Welcome to the first IGC Retro Bowl. Here’s the idea: two classic game collections will be pitted head-to-head with each other in a variety of categories. Whichever game wins the most wins and moves on to face the next challenger. The loser takes their seat somewhere on the IGC Retro Board, which is like the Leaderboard but for Retro Collections instead of indies. That’s coming soon.
By the way, in the interest of full disclosure, this is the first feature in IGC history where I’m not paying for every game featured. These are not indie games, and I really can’t justify buying games that were not remotely aimed at me. Some of these were supplied by fans who wanted me to experience (or suffer) through the games of their childhood. Others have been supplied by the companies themselves. I’ve also bought a few for myself and will continue to buy others if this feature takes off.
What collections to look forward to for IGC Retro Bowl? Here’s what I already have for it, and I expect to get more:
Midway Origins
SNK 40th Anniversary Collection
SNES Classic Edition
Capcom Arcade Cabinet
Capcom Beat ‘Em Up Bundle
Atari Flashback Classics (Switch version)
Mega Man Legacy Collection 2
And of course, today’s contenders..
Dragon’s Lair Trilogy
$19.99 for Nintendo Switch
3 arcade games released between 1983 – 1991
Game supplied by a fan.
IN THE OTHER CORNER
Sega Genesis Classics
$29.99 for Switch, PlayStation 4, & Xbox One
53 console games released between 1988 – 1997 (51 on Switch)
Game supplied by Sega.
I hate FMV games. I’m getting that chiseled on my tombstone. Dragon’s Lair wasn’t the first FMV game. Funny enough, Sega barely beat them to the market with Astron Belt, even though work on it was done much sooner than Dragon’s Lair. But while Astron Belt bombed so badly that you’ve probably never heard of it, Dragon’s Lair went on to become a bonafide legend. It’s still fondly remembered today. I had barely played it at all before a fan bought it for me for this feature and really didn’t understand it. But, I go into every game with as open a mind as humanly possible, and this was no exception.
As for the Genesis, it had NOTHING to do with my childhood. My father insisted he did own a Genesis, and eventually we did find one in the attic. It had two games (Altered Beast and Super Monaco GP) and looked like it had barely been touched. My gaming upbringing really didn’t begin until the PlayStation 1 in 1996. Funny enough, the oldest game released in this set came out in North America a year after I got my PS1. Anyway, I’m known for shitting on Sega games, Sonic especially. So imagine my surprise when Sega actually sent me a code (initially from my friend/surrogate little brother Jon). When I finally spoke to them, I was fully open that I wasn’t the biggest fan. But they were smart enough to know that it didn’t matter if I was. Once my fans saw I was playing the set, they’d find out it existed at all and rush out to buy it. And they did. Sega’s message to me was essentially “sock it to us.” Which is pretty much what happened. And my older readers responded by buying the set OUT OF SPITE for me. Sega: they’re smart cookies.
And so, for our first every IGC Retro Bowl, we’re going to pit these two collections featuring games I have no nostalgia for against each other. Which will soar and which will sink?
Yea, this is a tremendous waste of time. Dragon’s Lair has about as much chance as no-armed golfer using his mouth to swing the club at Augusta. But work with me here.
Sega Genesis Classics’ menu is themed like a typical 90s child’s bedroom. Well, an idealized, borderline fantasy one. It’s too clean, among other things. Games are displayed on a wooden rack. You can move the games you enjoy into their own section, which is a nice feature. Selecting games sees them inserted into the Genesis. You can even eject the carts afterwards. There’s a huge variety of options to run the emulation too. Of course, it kind of sucks that sometimes the emulator shits the bed, especially displaying text in games like the Phantasy Star and Shining Force titles.
I questioned on Twitter whether children of the 90s really would have a record player. Most people said yea, they would. I still find that hard to believe but they insist. Guess it’s true.
Dragon’s Lair Trilogy has a much fewer options. You can display the games with or without an arcade cabinet. You can turn on and off the movements guides. Turning them off is something only the most sadomasochistic person would ever consider. But really, the most noteworthy aspect is how bad figuring out what’s highlighted on the menus can be. Take a look here and tell me which of the two options is selected?
Believe it or not, CONTINUE is what’s selected right now. I have no clue why they decided to make the duller color the cursor, but they did. And that combines with other issues. There’s no language options, which is weird because you’re watching a movie. I mean, sorta. And while the extra features are nice (more on them later), you can’t skip to different parts of the interview, nor can you rewind or fast forward. You either watch it all at once or not at all. Lame.
Edge: Sega Genesis Classics
HISTORIC IMPORTANCE
Dragon’s Lair is slightly more than a weird anomaly. In 1983, it received the largest order for units in the history of the Chicago Coin convention. It shattered every previous record, by some accounts securing more orders than all other games at the show combined. That order was for $10,000,000. That’s in 1983 dollars, or over $30,000,000 in today’s dollar. For an arcade game. Granted, Dragon’s Lair cost between 3 to 5 times as much as other games did, but still, it’s pretty noteworthy. And that investment did pay off for arcade operators. Arcades were starting to decline, but Dragon’s Lair brought players back and kept them there. Even being the first upright game to charge $0.50 a play didn’t deter gamers.
In a set based on an anomaly, Space Ace is itself an anomaly. Of the three, I think it has the best story and best animation. It certainly has the highest potential to become a property with actual value today. Besides, it’s about emasculating a dude-bro. I heard that’s topical today.
For a few months at least. What Dragon’s Lair really did was attract a crowd to arcades so they could check out the latest titles from other manufacturers. Dragon’s Lair was neat to watch, but players quickly caught on that it wasn’t really interactive. You had no control over Dirk the Daring and once the novelty wore off, so did Dragon Lair’s use. It didn’t help the machines were prone to breaking down. No game from its era displayed “out of order” signs more than Dragon’s Lair. When Space Ace came along, the boom was even briefer. Funny enough, Dragon’s Lair was so uncommon by 1991 that Dragon’s Lair II: Time Warp also very briefly caused an arcade resurgence. And once again, the same thing happened: fans quickly caught on that it was a horrible game and moved on to other things. Still, people do remember it for reasons other than being shitty, and that counts for something. I had a gamer from that era tell me that Dragon’s Lair was like a bright, beautiful shooting star. Look away for even a second and you miss it completely, but everyone who saw it will never forget it.
But the historical significance of Dragon’s Lair pales in comparison to the Genesis. They’re polar opposites in terms of their trajectories. Dragon’s Lair made a major impact immediately and then fizzled out quickly. The Genny arrived with little fanfare and support. Gamers of the time wanted to wait on the next new Nintendo console. But then an incredible marketing campaign (Genesis Does What NintenDon’t), an aggressive free-game for early adopters program, competitive pricing and the arrival of Sonic T. Hedgehog turned around the fortunes of the console. By time the SNES launched, the Genesis was legitimate competition for it, and that carried on for the entire generation. The Master System flopped. The Saturn flopped. The Dreamcast, regretfully, flopped. Sega still carries clout and reverence to this day, and the main reason for that is the Genesis.
Major Edge: Sega Genesis Classics
Oh my God, Genny fans will hate me for this: I actually liked Toejam & Earl 2 more than the original, which I didn’t like at all. I think the idea for TJ&E was great and this was a case of being ahead of its time. “The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak” type of deal based on the limitations of the Genesis. That’s why I’m excited for the upcoming reboot. It’s going to be what the original wanted to be and wasn’t. UPDATE: Wow was I ever wrong about Back in the Groove. I hated it.
BEST AND WORST GAMES
I blitzed through all fifty-one games in the Switch port of Genny Classics over a two-day period. Twenty of those games got a more in-depth look from me afterwards. But during that initial blitz, only one of the games had me so sucked in that I couldn’t put it down until the credits rolled. That game was Gunstar Heroes. I’d heard the stories of course, but most titles from that era that carry the legend of John Henry’s hammer never live up to their towering reputation. With Gunstar, I was so awed by the marvelous gameplay that I literally started to cry in euphoric elation. It was so fun. I couldn’t believe a game that good was in a collection that had so underwhelmed me up to that point. Not only does it hold up today, but it should be studied by all game design students. It drops all the bullshit and focuses on fun, tight shooting gameplay. It’s one of the 25 best games ever made, and the best Genesis exclusive from its generation. It’s probably worth $29.99 on its own.
Sometimes the legends live up to their reputation.
As for the stinkers, over half the set has games that couldn’t withstand the test of time, but, nothing really stands out as abysmal. Except Sonic Spinball, which was never good for its day. Riddled with slowdown and technical issues (no surprise, it was made in only two months in order to replace Sonic 3 for a Happy Meal tie-in), the game is almost unplayable. Even then, Sonic Spinball has more gameplay at its worst moment than any of the three games in Dragon’s Lair Trilogy has. FMV games are limited in their capabilities, but I can’t let that be an excuse for just how crushingly unfun these relics are. Dragon’s Lair II: Time Warp probably plays the best of the collection. It’s more clear which direction you’re supposed to press, which is something you can’t say about a few rooms in Dragon’s Lair or especially Space Ace. I preferred Space Ace to Dragon’s Lair 1 because it has a little more going on with the energize concept, but none of these anti-classics are really all that playable. Plus, they’re so prohibitively difficult that I think the average gamer will never put more than five minutes at most into any one of the three games even if they want to. They’re putrid.
Dragon’s Lair II was co-written by an author whose initials are L.S.D. if you catch my drift.
Hey, congratulations Dragon’s Lair Trilogy! You didn’t get shutout! Due to licensing issues, the Genny collection couldn’t include things a true museum-style collection probably ought to, like the iconic Genesis advertising. I can understand that. What I can’t understand is why things like concept art or interviews weren’t included. You do get online play and leaderboards, but I found the co-op to be laggy. There’s also “challenges” on the Switch version which stand-in for achievements from other ports. It’s a low-effort affair, with the best “special” feature being alternate region versions of games like Streets of Rage that differ sometimes in small ways and sometimes in huge ways. It’s a nice touch, one that a lot of my fans were shocked but very happy to learn about.
Dragon’s Lair Trilogy has a few bonuses. There’s a twenty-minute or so interview with Don Bluth, Gary Goldman, and Rick Dyer. It’s not long, but there’s some nice info in it, including plans for a line of thirty (!) FMV games, none of which materialized. An unproduced concept, The Sea Beast and Barnacle Bill, was going to be inspired by vintage Popeye cartoons and even had a promotional flyer made. But, nah, a game based on golden age animation would never succeed.
There’s also the animatics for part of a deleted stage (complete with voice acting) from Dragon’s Lair II, attract screens, and the ability to watch the complete movies without playing them. Those tell you everything you really need to know about Dragon’s Lair: that the best extra feature is the ability to not play the game.
Major Edge: Dragon’s Lair Trilogy
The dude in the middle did all the work and got none of the credit. Then he went bankrupt trying to push a Laserdisc-based console. No happy endings here, anyone.
WHAT IS MISSING THE LEAST?
My first exposure to Dragon’s Lair as a franchise came at the age of 13 with the release of Dragon’s Lair 3D: Return to the Lair for Xbox and GameCube (and PS2 if you were in Europe, though I heard it was broken on that platform). When I heard the term “Dragon’s Lair Trilogy”, I honestly thought the third game was going to be that, not Space Ace. It aspired to be what people always wanted to be able to do with the original game: actually play it. With the invention of cel-shaded graphics, it was now possible to take full control over Dirk. Return to the Lair did recreate all the famous set-pieces from the arcade original, and it looked very convincing. But, the game controlled miserably, had a terrible camera, and just still wasn’t very fun. Still, at least it’s a game and not a glorified string of DVD menus. Also missing are more gamey ports of Dragon’s Lair. Data East released one for the SNES. Absolute released Space Ace for the SNES. A Dragon’s Lair III was released on Amiga computers. There’s not even a mention of them here. While getting the rights to these games might have been prohibitive, it’s regretful that there’s nothing here but the three famous laser disc games. Then again, since all these games sucked (the NES Dragon’s Lair is famous for it’s horribleness), we really aren’t missing that much. Thayer’s Quest is probably the biggest omission. It was a conversion kit for Dragon’s Lair and I assume Rick Dyer has to own the rights to it. And at least that has something resembling gameplay and interactivity. But ultimately, nothing important is missing.
The same can’t be said for Sega Genesis Classics. The Genesis was defined by its sports games, but none of those are here. Nor are celebrity games like Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker. None of the three Ecco the Dolphin games are included. Sonic & Knuckles isn’t included. Sonic *3* isn’t included (apparently due to music issues). Eternal Champions isn’t included. It’s not as if these are minor omissions. These are first party Sega games that helped define the platform. Maybe they would have bumped the cost of the set up and that’s why a better effort wasn’t made to secure the rights to them. To which I say: I think most Genesis fans would have paid $10 more to have them involved. It’s not a complete set without them. Even stranger: the Switch version specifically is missing the two Wonder Boy games PS4 and XB1 owners got. Bizarre.
Edge: Dragon’s Lair Trilogy
Jokes aside, this would probably KILL upon solo re-release today. Someone really should get on it.
PLAY VALUE TODAY
All games are a product of their time, so perhaps the test of time is an unreasonable one. That doesn’t make it any less real. I didn’t grow up in either set’s respective eras. Their play value to me has to exist without historic context. Under those terms, at least the a few of the Sega Genesis Classics hold up reasonable well and can stand on their own merits. Besides Gunstar Heroes, I think the average gamer will still be able to enjoy games like Sonic 1 and 2 (I literally can’t believe I just said that), Alien Solider, the Streets of Rage games, the Shining Force games, and at least two of the three Phantasy Star Games included. There’s something for everyone here. And if you’re a slobbering 90s fanboy, that precious nostalgia dopamine is bound to hit even for stuff that aged especially poorly. You’ll feel like a kid again. And probably act like one too when you read how much younger people hate your childhood favorites.
A priest wants to “investigate” a bunch of children “to make sure nobody is hurt.” Well, if that’s not timeless, I don’t know what is.
I don’t think the same can be said about Dragon’s Lair Trilogy. No matter how fond your memories of it are, playing these games today is the pits. Putting aside how beautiful Don Bluth’s animation is, they have to also hold up as video games, and they don’t at all. They basically didn’t from the moment they launched. They’re frustrating, quarter-snatching slogs. Even by the low standards of FMV games, badly designed too. I can’t tell you how many times the on-screen indicator was placed in a way where it wasn’t clear if you’re supposed to move one direction or another. It forces you to use a guide that was added to this set in order to know what you’re supposed to do. The greatest irony of Dragon’s Lair and its ilk is that excelling at playing them can only be done by paying as little attention to the artwork and the storylines as possible. Only when you ignore the only possible reason you’d want to play them can they be played well. And that, above all else, makes them some of the absolute worst games ever made.
(Cathy slowly puts down her Nintendo Switch)
I think I'm good, Dragon's Lair Trilogy. pic.twitter.com/H9TmmKTobB
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And let’s face it: it wasn’t even a fair battle. I had never played Space Ace or Dragon’s Lair II before I got this set, but having spent five minutes previously with a BluRay of Dragon’s Lair, I sort of had. I’m not taking anything away from what these games accomplished. But it’s pretty telling that most of the fondest memories from Golden Agers are not of actually playing Dragon’s Lair itself, but watching others play it on a second monitor most cabinets came with. I’m sure the visuals were mindblowing for their time. It’s not their time anymore. It stopped being their time long ago. Really, did any game lose its relevance faster during that era than Dragon’s Lair?
Sega Genesis Classics is hardly a flawless set. The lack of extras, frequent emulation issues, laggy online play, and perplexing omissions frustrate for sure. But there are games here that have value today, in 2019. More than one. I think there’s even games that initially were shit on, like Sonic 3D Blast, that are actually better than anyone gave them credit for being. Genesis Does indeed.
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Conservation · Environment · Land
Demand for sand: the largest mining industry no one talks about
Written by Lucienne Cross
Environment Conservation Land
The world’s largest and perhaps most destructive mining industry is rarely discussed. Approximately 85 percent of all material mined from the earth is a simple and widely available resource: sand. Because it is so cheap and readily available, it is mined by everyone from guy with a shovel, to multi-million dollar machine operations. The majority of sand is used to make concrete, but the displacement of sand leads to the catastrophic destruction of coastal, sea bed and river ecosystems and topography.
The United Nations Environment Program estimates that 40 billion tons of sand are mined every year, but since the market is corrupt, hidden and decentralized there have been no comprehensive studies to date. In order to get a rough number, the United Nation’s used global cement production and sales figures to approximate how much sand is collected. For example, every ton of cement requires six to seven tons of sand and gravel in order to make concrete.
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The environmental impact
Sand mining, especially when done without regulation or oversight, can damage rivers, cause beach erosion and destroy coastal ecosystems. At least 24 Indonesian islands disappeared off the map just to build Singapore.
Since sand dredging occurs primarily for construction purposes, miners target river and coastal ecosystems where the sand is ideal. River sand is particularly perfect for concrete because it is coarse and does not contain salt that would otherwise corrode metal and other building materials. In addition to disturbing riverbed and river bank ecosystems, altering the flow and capacity of rivers can cause drought or disastrous flooding– though rarely recognized as a contributing factor.
In Kerala, India, flooding was found to be partially caused by sand dredging that took 40 times more sand out of the river bed than the river could naturally replace.
Dredging sea grass habitat can also cause sediment to drift for miles causing both coastal erosion and smothering ecosystems like coral reefs. Erosion, land subsidence and the introduction of heavy machinery and vehicles into delicate habitats also threatens the integrity of nearby infrastructure such as roads and bridges.
One study found that every ton of sand taken from a river in California cost taxpayers $3 in infrastructure damage.
Cities’ demand for sand
Development and urbanization are expanding rapidly in every corner of the world to accommodate an exponentially growing population and our insatiable rates of consumption and expansion. According to the United Nations, the number of people living in cities is more than four times what it was in the 1950s. Over 50 percent of the world’s population now lives in urban areas with nearly three billion additional people expected to migrate to cities in the next 30 years.
In addition to new buildings, sand is also used for land expansion projects. In China, it is a common practice to dump sand on top of coral reefs to speed the process of building land. Dubai is also famous for its man-made islands, which required millions of tons of sand.
Singapore has added over 50 square miles of land in the past four decades and more skyscrapers in the last 10 years than all of New York City— a feat that required over 500 million tons of sand. The creation of Singapore was so rapid that Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam all banned the export of sand, but miners simply moved to Lake Poyang on the Yangtze River. The WWF calls this Lake the largest sand mine in the world, but it is tragically also Asia’s largest destination for migratory birds. Sand dredging activities have more than doubled the river’s capacity in certain areas, draining parts of the lake and reducing key fisheries.
“It’s the same story as over-fishing and over-foresting,” says Pascal Peduzzi, from the United Nations Environment Program. “It’s another way to look at unsustainable development.”
The scale of the problem is enormous and the consequences of moving massive amounts of life-and land-sustaining material from one place to another is glaring but the world remains functionally oblivious, blinded by the desire for new buildings and up-and-coming neighborhoods.
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Can sand dredging be done sustainably?
River ecologists suggest that sand dredging in rivers should only be done up to a pre-determined quota that allows the river to annually replenish sediment. However, this sustainable number will never equal humanity’s unsustainable need for development.
There are a number of suggestions to improve the sustainability of the industry, but none are perfect:
Offshore sand mining
Britain now sources much of its sand further offshore in order to protect river and coastal ecosystems, however, much of this sand is only used for land reclamation projects where the salt content is not a concern.
Sandy bottom reservoirs
Another untapped source is the sand that collects at the bottom of reservoirs. Dredging reservoirs could not only provide sand but also helps to expand storage capacity. Ecologists, however, argue that this sand should technically be put back into the rivers that feed into reservoirs.
Recycling glass and rubble
Rubble from demolished buildings can be used to produce concrete, reducing the need for fresh sand. Glass can also be recycled, which again reduces the need for sand.
Mining on flood plains
Limited mining on floodplains, rather than riverbanks and riverbeds, is thought to be less destructive. However, floodplains also have fragile ecosystems. In Australia, floodplains are home to rare carnivorous plant species that are now at risk from mining activities.
Replacing sand in concrete
Ash from incinerators and dust from stone quarries can be used in the production of concrete to reduce the demand for sand.
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Sand mining is the most destructive type of mining in the world.
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Sand mining disturbs riverbed and river bank ecosystems.
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More Americans Now Understand that Fox News is an Impediment in the Information War
I didn’t get to hear much of Rush Limbaugh yesterday, but I knew he’d cover the important things from Thursday’s debate — and he did. Below are a few things from three of the transcripts he posted at his website after his show.
As important as the performance of the candidates was the behavior of the Fox News Channel panelists. Everyone on the political right understands that the liberal media is a huge impediment to getting good information to our fellow citizens. Social conservatives have long known that Fox is not fair and balanced. After Thursday’s debate, more people now understand that fact.
RUSH: It’s Open Line Friday, and I am your host, the award-winning Rush Limbaugh, all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-everything Maha Rushie. We are here on the day after the first Republican presidential debate last night on the Fox News Channel from the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, and we go to Rocko up in Westchester County to kick it off on the phones today. Hi, Rocko, great to have you with us.
CALLER: Rush, thank you for taking my call. I tuned in to the debate and I had to check the channel because I thought I was watching MSNBC. The moderators methodically torpedo each candidate, with Donald Trump being the biggest target. Scott Walker worked miracles in Wisconsin but they dug up some statistic that he hadn’t reached the economic growth he promised. Jeb Bush sat on a board of a Bloomberg organization that donated to Planned Parenthood. Jeb didn’t even know it, but Fox News did. And the worst was Megyn Kelly, who you just referenced, who thinks she’s all that and just too cute, asked that ridiculous name-calling question and referenced the nonexistent War on Women. I have lost all respect for Fox News.
RUSH: Yeah, you know, you’re not the first. (laughing) I’ve heard this stuff from the beginning last night. And it is frustrating. I don’t know about you, Rocko, but we’re in the middle of seven years of an all-out — you talk about war, we got a war on the way this country was founded being conducted right now by Barack Obama and the Democrat Party. And these guys on that stage have not done one thing, they have not contributed one iota to the mess in this country, and they have to justify themselves?
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Who do you think got the most, call it camera time, airtime, voice time, whatever, who got the most airtime last night in this debate? (interruption) Just take a guess, for crying out loud. (interruption) Who? (interruption) Marco Rubio. No. Dawn, give me a name. Who do you think it was? (interruption) Megyn Kelly is right. The Fox moderators got 31% of the airtime last night. Not a single candidate came anywhere near it. Trump was the closest, and he was second.
The Fox moderators were heard from more last night than were the candidates running for the Republican presidential nomination. There were time limits on the candidates and their answers and replies and rebuttals and rebut-but-buttles, but there were no time limits on the moderators. They could take as long as they wanted answering a question and as long as they wanted interrupting an answer.
Read more: My Initial Thoughts on the Debates
[T]he first half of this debate was Beat Up the Candidates. The first half of the debate was Trash the Candidates.
Beat Up the Candidates. Trash the Candidates. Make the Candidates Justify Their Existence. Make Them Justify Things They’ve Said in the Past, Done in the Past (or what have you).
Our guys are not the problem. I know we have some guys on that stage who want amnesty. I know we have some people on that stage who don’t like conservatives. But even so, not a one of them has really been in positions of power to implement anything, other than some of the governors. Scott Walker’s done great things with his governorship. So there’s a lot of potential there. But I just found there to be an elephant in the room that wasn’t mentioned or discussed.
Read more: Massive Audience for Fox Debate Proves There Is an Overwhelming Thirst for Change in This Country
Image credit: Fox News.
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Dividend yields curve of most high dividend-paying companies have sharply turned downwards in the past three months due to rising share prices
Many companies have given a lower rate of dividend or no divided because of the pandemic
Improving economic conditions in the country will ensure that many of the dividend-paying companies may continue to perform well
The current situation of the London Stock Exchange makes it suitable for income investors to pick up good dividend-paying stocks at a discount. These stocks which are currently battered by the pandemic could be underperforming and may be giving a lower rate of dividend or no divided because of it. However, whenever the economic situation improves in the country, these could be the leading companies who will show a smart bounce back and even get back to their regular dividend rates.
Investors planning to build an income portfolio look for good dividend-yielding stocks, we are going to discuss the top five dividend-yielding companies on the London Stock Exchange till May 2020, when the lockdown started being eased and businesses gradually moving back to normal.
M&G Plc- (LON: MNG) – M&G Plc is a British investment management company which manages a wide variety of assets in the UK and abroad including fixed income, real estate as well as equities.
The company has a long and consistent history of paying dividends and in 2020 also it has paid a better rate of dividend despite the underlying economic situation in the country.
Till now in the year 2020, the company has paid a dividend of GBX 15.77, with a final dividend of GBX 11.92 on 29 May 2020.
The dividend yield for the company for the months of March, April and May 2020 was 10.58 per cent, 9.01 per cent and 8.51 per cent, respectively.
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Legal & General Group Plc- (LON: LGEN) – The company is a London based multinational financial services company providing services like investment management, pensions, annuity, and life assurance.
Legal and General Group Plc also has been a consistent dividend payer, and its latest revenue performance also indicates that it has a strong bottom line and a robust business model to support its dividend-paying trend.
The company paid its last dividend of GBX 12.64 on 04 June 2020. The dividend yields of the company for the months of March, April and May 2020 were 9.06 per cent, 8.58 per cent, and 8.85 per cent, respectively.
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Vodafone Group Plc- (LON: VOD) –It is a telecommunications company having reach in different parts of the world apart from Britain. The company principally operates in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceana. The company has a history of consistently paying dividends to its shareholders and has a strong business model which seems to have been affected due to a lesser extent by the coronavirus pandemic compared to other LSE listed companies. The company has declared a final dividend payment of 4.5-euro cents per share to be paid on 7 August 2020.
The dividend yields of the company for the months of March, April and May 2020 were 7.96 per cent, 8.02 per cent, and 6.76 per cent, respectively.
Phoenix Group Holdings Plc– (LON: PHNX) - Phoenix Group Holdings is one of the largest insurance services providing company in the United Kingdom. The group comprises of four regulated companies, namely Phoenix life, Phoenix Ireland, AXA Wealth and Abbey Life.
The company has a resilient capital position, and despite the deteriorating economic condition in the country, it did not avail of any government financial assistance or put any of its employees under Furlough, with each receiving their salaries in full during the period. Despite the difficult business environment, the company expects a cash generation of £800 million to £900 million.
The company underpinning on its strong business model has been a consistent dividend payer.
The company paid its dividend of GBX 23.4 on 19 May 2020, as final dividend for 2019.
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British American Tobacco Plc - (LON: BATS) - British American Tobacco Plc is a British multinational cigarette and other nicotine products manufacturer. The company having famous cigarette brands Dunhill, Rothmans, Kent, Lucky Strike and Pall Mall, operates in around 180 countries of the world.
The company has been a very resilient company, and its bottom line has not been impacted that badly by the coronavirus pandemic. The company made an announcement on 27 February 2020 that its Board had declared an interim dividend of 210.4 pence per ordinary share of 25 pence, payable in four equal quarterly instalments of 52.6 pence per ordinary share in May 2020, August 2020, November 2020 and in February 2021.
The dividend yields of the company for the months of March, April and May 2020 are 7.96 per cent, 8.02 per cent, and 6.76 per cent, respectively.
If we go into the basics, the dividend yield of any company is calculated by dividing the latest dividend by the prevailing share prices. In all the above five cases, the dividend yield curve can be seen downward sloping. It is indicative that the share prices of each of these companies have risen during the past three months after they touched bottoms, in March when the lockdown was imposed in the United Kingdom. With the stock markets expected to gain strength over the next couple of months when the real business activity starts to recover, these yield curves may fall further. Similar is the case with other good dividend- paying companies, on the London Stock Exchange and for someone who wants to build an income portfolio, it may not be a good idea to wait further.
It is quite possible that many of these companies would be announcing more dividends further down the line during this year, making them more valuable in the eyes of potential investors. In such circumstances not only will the prices of their shares rise but will push the yield curves further down. A falling dividend yield curve is also a sign that the underlying business is performing well and that investors in the market are expecting the company to declare higher dividends in the near future whereby their future earnings would be higher than the current yield values.
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Slipknot we are not your kind tracklist
What Slipknot song says we are not your kind?
How many copies has We are not your kind sold?
The many-membered band is back at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 this week with their latest release We Are Not Your Kind, which snags the highest possible rung on the all-genre chart. The set moved 118,000 equivalent copies, with 102,000 of those being pure sales.
Is we are not your kind good?
Unlike their recent LPs, We Are Not Your Kind doesn’t drag on, nor does it dwell too long in one particular sound or style. There’s a terrific balance of aggression and emotion within the work; on We Are Not Your Kind , Slipknot really bring home excellent blends of melancholy and anger.
What does We are not your kind mean?
You will never be ours
What is the heaviest Slipknot song?
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What is the meaning of Slipknot?
: a knot that slips along the rope or line around which it is made especially : one made by tying an overhand knot around the standing part of a rope — see knot illustration.
Why is we are not your kind on the album?
That’s why the album’s title is so inspired: a reference to the President’s apparent mistrust of anyone who doesn’t look like him, it’s also a testament to the band’s outlier status, as they align themselves with the outsider (and against the bigots).
How many albums did Slipknot sell?
As of March 2019, Slipknot has sold 30 million units of records worldwide.
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When it comes to albums, Slipknot’s powerful self-titled debut takes the lead. Despite peaking at Number 37 on its release in 1999, it has since gone platinum with 378,000 combined sales. At Number 2, the group’s Number 1 album Iowa has combined sales of 316,000.
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Recently, Sega has revealed the new Sonic green hedgehog game. Sonic Forces allows players to customize their characters. It is the first time in the game series, the players can create a character for themselves. With Sonic Forces, you cannot use each Sonic character as before but control many characters.
Sonic Forces is an action game featuring the adventures of Sonic Hedgehog and his friends. Coming to Sonic Forces, you will experience exciting races over hills, deserts, and reach the finish line to win the highest. Explore this game now!
Sonic Forces: Speed Battle is a runner game that allows players to compete against each other through a random match-finding system to increase attractiveness and competitiveness. The game also owns a series of familiar characters in the Sonic series such as Sonic, Amy, Tails, Knuckles, Shadow, and Rogue for you to collect through competing with other players.
In the game, there are seven character models that you can choose from with distinct abilities including Wolf (retrieves the rings automatically when near them), Rabbit (extends immortality after taking damage), Cat (holds a ring after taking damage), Dog (reboot with five rings after death), Bear (blows away enemies), Bird (flies high with the ability to double jump), and Hedgehog (collects rings after taking damage).
In Sonic Forces, besides using available characters such as Sonic, Tails, or Knuckles, you can also create your character. Sega announced that information with a new announcement. It will focus heavily on the different options available to you, including body adjustments, colors, gloves, shoes, and hats. Besides, there are accessories you can use in the game such as flamethrowers or hooks. The game also provides a quick look at modern 3D action style and a classic horizontal screen 2D setup of Sonic Forces.
Sonic Forces, originally known as Project Sonic 2017, is one of two new Sonic games to be released this year. In the game, for unknown reasons, Dr. Eggman has captured almost the entire world. Sonic the green hedgehog will join a resistance force that puts an end to the dynasty of Dr. Eggman. Similar to Sonic Generations, Sonic Forces allow players to play in two classic horizontal screen styles and modern 3D settings.
Sonic Team developed Sonic Forces with the lead developer and longtime Sonic series producer, Mr. Takashi Iizuka. The team had worked on Sonic Colors and Sonic Generations. Implementation began in 2013, not long after Sonic Lost Word was born. Sonic Forces uses Hedgehog Engine 2, a remake of the engine used for Sonic Unleashed and Sonic Generations. The music of the game is played by the sound director of the movie, Tomoya Ohtani. And the scriptwriter of Sonic Forces is also a familiar character, Warren Graff, who wrote the script for the Sonic series.
Sonic Forces was first announced alongside Sonic Mania during the Sonic brand’s 25th-anniversary event held by Sega at the San Diego Comic-Con on July 22, 2017. The presence of both modern and classic styles in the tester trailer led some to believe the game was a sequel to Sonic Generations. But Iizuka later established Sonic Forces as a separate game and not a sequel. They schedule to launch the game on PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch in 2017.
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You will join the race with two other players and try to race to the finish line to win first. In the race, not only speed, but you also need to dodge obstacles on the way. Then, collect gold rings to maintain your life if you accidentally bump into obstacles.
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Win through the levels to unlock unfamiliar terrain and new characters. Upgrade for stronger characters runs faster thanks to the rings gained when winning the track, completing quests, reaching certain milestones.
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Players taking part in Sonic Forces can compete in races such as Sonic, Amy, Tails, Knuckles, Shadow, and Rouge. If you do well, you can unlock new and rare characters including Omega and Vector. Then compete in every race to upgrade your character and complete quests to earn rewards. It is possible to win high rankings along with your teammates.
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Sega is grappling with a rather ambiguous story which makes the legendary Sonic Runners the protagonist. With the coming of the Halloween event dedicated to him, they introduced a new character named Boo. The Japanese company is now busy apologizing to its fans for the delay. In the meantime, we tell you about Sonic Dash.
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There are also a couple of new special powers. There is a hammer for Amy and a power called to jump up and slam to attack the Knuckles. Also, the developer introduced a new game mechanic called Swing and Tilt that will allow you to take advantage of the accelerometer.
Sonic Dash has the dual purpose of playing to the Sonic Forces with the same genre. And a spin-off of the video game Sonic Boom based on the animated series of the same name whose goal was to redesign the characters by adapting them to a more Western style. Perhaps, in the eyes of the Japanese, we are seen as the fate of deformed beings considering the reprehensible design of Sonic and companions of this game.
The genre that embraces Sonic Dash is the endless runner. The game is raised third-person view slightly with three lanes and traps that invite you to jump or slide. It is the Hardlight Studio. They are the team that also brought to light the good Crazy Taxi: City Rush.
The gameplay mechanics of Sonic Forces MOD APK is like popular Endless Runner games like Temple Run with simple swipes to control the character to move to avoid obstacles and collect household items. In the game, you must speed up your life. However, the difference in Sonic Forces is that you will have to compete with other players in the world in proper time, which promises to be extremely intense.
Sonic Forces has a beautiful and detailed 3D graphics background with the character lineup keeping the eye-catching design from the original. It makes the game easy for gamers to regain a feeling of childhood while experiencing the game.
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THORIUM Reveal Album Details – Watch ‘Empires in the Sun’ Trailer
by NorthWar 12/07/2020 16:48 12/07/2020 16:48 071
The second THORIUM album Empires in the Sun will be released March 5th 2021 via Freya Records. The record is now available for pre-order via Bandcamp.
For the epic trilogy ‘1302’ the band acquired the help of several renowned guest vocalists: Arjen Anthony Lucassen (Ayreon), Benny ‘Zors’ Willaert (23 Acez), Joe Van Audenhove (Evil Invaders) and Anneleen Olbrechts. Moreover, Norman Eshley (Blind Guardian) lent his warm voice to provide the narration on a selection of songs.
This announcement is put forward via an official album teaser trailer, which can be watched below:
The album will be available on black vinyl, gold vinyl, yellow/blue swirl vinyl (limited availability), on CD, and of course on all online streaming platforms. All pre-orders (before March 5th 2021) will receive several exclusive items from the band.
EMPIRES IN THE SUN tracklist:
Dreams of Empire (a pastorale) (0:53)
Exquisite (3:52)
Powder and Arms II (3:08)
Where Do We Go (4:34)
More Than Meets The Eye (4:42)
Empires in the Sun (5:12)
The Old Generation (4:44)
Winterfall (5:15)
Itching and Aching (Dead-Eyed Society) (3:18)
1302 – The Minstrel part I (2:09)
1302 – The Golden Shadow (13:02)
1302 – The Minstrel part II (2:15)
The album was produced by Tom Tee. Mixing and mastering were once again handled by Simone Mularoni at Domination Studio in San Marino, Italy.
The cover artwork was painted by Velio Josto.
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Launching the Opera Season
by Charles T. Downey | Friday, August 31, 2007
The new production of Puccini's La Bohème from Washington National Opera, is probably on everyone's radar already. It opens on September 15 for a run of nine performances, two three of them already sold out at the time of this writing. When thinking about the question "What operas should we see in the fall," this was the the most prominent answer, and Tim Page covered it in detail earlier this week ('Bohème': We'll Always Have Paris, August 26) in the Washington Post. Page opened the article with the following question:
There must be somebody out there left cold by Giacomo Puccini's "La Bohème." But who? -- and how?
Vittorio Grigolo -- what a dreamboat!
Opera Chic has already raised her hand, and our own Jens Laurson has memorably trashed that most beloved of Italian operas (it's a pity that the comment thread attached to that post was lost when we switched systems). For my part, La Bohème will always be exempt from harsh criticism because it is the first opera I grew to love: it hooked me on opera, so I overlook its weak points. As Page notes, La Bohème is an easy pill to swallow for an opera neophyte, but whether it will unblock a listener's ears permanently to the pleasure of opera is not at all sure. Most people who develop a soft spot for La Bohème will not go out the next week -- let's face it, probably not for the rest of their lives -- and develop a similar weakness for Duke Bluebeard's Castle.
The new staging by Polish director Mariusz Treliński (seen here in Madama Butterfly and Andrea Chénier) will probably be of interest. As I looked forward to the 2007-2008 season, this production disappointed me the most, not because of the director but because of the casting. The cast is young, singers reportedly chosen as much (or even more) for their attractive appearances as their voices. (Page discreetly avoids the issue of the singers for the most part in his article, which causes one to read between the lines.) One hopes that the company will make some money from the combination of sold-out houses and star-free budgets, but Vittorio Grigolo as Rodolfo may cut into the profit margin (although his alternate career as a crossover heart throb likely means he does not need money). Among the relative better-knowns, the Musetta will be Nicole Cabell, whose appearance in the role at Santa Fe Opera this summer has been described as "almost inaudible," "a bit underpowered," and "big in the recording studio, not so big otherwise." If the reason you go to the opera is to hear the most compelling singing possible, as well as to see engaging drama, you may wonder about the rate of casting to ticket price (as much as $500 on opening night!).
Brian Cummings (Him) and Elizabeth Baber (Her), Ground, American Opera Theater (Ignoti Dei Opera), 2006, photo by Greg McLeskey
We will have some season previews later this week, but our first recommendation of the year goes to the revival of American Opera Theater's Ground (September 7 to 9), which will inaugurate the company's residency at Davis Performing Arts Center, on the campus of Georgetown University here in Washington. When the experimental opera troupe from Baltimore (formerly known as Ignoti Dei Opera), presented Ground at Baltimore Theater Project last summer, not only did it receive a stellar review from Ionarts, it ended up making our list of Top 10 Live Performances of 2006. For its musical score, Ground patches together a series of unrelated vocal and instrumental pieces from 17th-century Italy. Most of the music is built over repeating bass patterns (known in English as ground bass), a compositional process that is static harmonically but that pulsates with rhythmic variation and invites visual diversion.
The repetition of a musical trajectory, an ostinato pattern of chords, is echoed in the story created under the direction of AOT's Timothy Nelson. It is simultaneously contemporary and timeless, about a man (Him) and a woman (Her) who meet, fall in love, and -- no more spoilers. The Italian texts sung by the two performers -- this year as last year, countertenor Brian Cummings (Him) and soprano Elizabeth Baber (Her) -- have little if anything to do with the action, and supertitles usually avoid giving any literal translation. For far less money (tickets are priced from $15 to $30), you will get to see a new work of operatic theater (not an old and overdone one reworked in yet another way), but without the additional challenge of new music. Do what Clayton Koonce has already done and buy your ticket.
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Uchidiana
by Charles T. Downey | Thursday, August 30, 2007
Available at Amazon:
Schumann, Kreisleriana (Carnaval), Mitsuko Uchida (remastered August 14, 2007)
Kreisleriana:
Radu Lupu
Vladimir Horowitz
When it comes to Schumann's Kreisleriana, Jens has already declared that the search for the perfect recording ends with Maurizio Pollini, and far be it from me to disagree with that recommendation. It is the set of Schumann character pieces with which I feel the least connected, probably because I have not spent hours in the practice room struggling to make it sound not awful. Recent perusal of the online score has reminded me of just how difficult Schumann's writing can be, with all those tangled lines at impossible distances from one another. The piece's namesake, Johannes Kreisler, was the manic-depressive composer-hero of three of E. T. A. Hoffmann's novels. Schumann, who compartmentalized his own personality into manic (heroic Florestan) and depressed (moony Eusebius) characters, likely identified with Kreisler. The challenge, beyond the technical demands of picking out the melody from the wash of arpeggiation, is to capture the bipolar contrasts.
The remastered version of Mitsuko Uchida's Kreisleriana, released earlier this month, has provided the opportunity to reassess another excellent reading (made in 1994 at Snape Maltings). The melodies are perfectly etched in Uchida's singing tone, voiced resonantly among whirring clouds, in both forceful and wispy sections (compare the A and B sections of the first movement, for example). In the second intermezzo of the second movement, she nestles the melody cleanly in the center of the figuration, and captures the chimeric quality of the Langsamer section. The most taxing movements, probably the fourth and seventh, are nothing short of stunning, especially the sequences of the latter, purled out with seeming effortlessness.
András Schiff
Till Fellner
The market is glutted with extraordinary recordings of Kreisleriana, a selection of which are shown here. Uchida is the one that could challenge Pollini the most, paired as it is with her equally good Carnaval (in many ways a more accessible piece) and now considerably reduced in price. Based on this review from Paris, I have a little dream that Mikhail Pletnev is planning to record the work: he is playing it in recital lately, so we can speculate wildly. It is not an enviable situation for a young pianist who wants to make an impression with Kreisleriana, as the Curtis-trained Jonathan Biss did earlier this year for EMI. Not only does Biss's Kreisleriana suffer by comparison, but Pletnev has recorded a much more interesting (if slightly odd) reading of the Fantasy in C, op. 17, in his 2004 Schumann disc on DG.
Philips B000943602
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Kissin at Verbier
by Charles T. Downey | Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Evgeny Kissin, Verbier Festival Recital (Chopin) (released January 9, 2007)
Earlier this spring, I revisited the legend of Evgeny Kissin, as represented by the re-release compilation of some of his early recordings, called Fantasy. His recitals in Washington have won consistent praise around here, from Jens in 2005 and me in 2007 (for DCist). We have enjoyed Kissin's performances of the music of many composers, including the disc of Schubert for four hands with James Levine, but invariably it is Kissin's way with Chopin that knocks us flat. This live recording of Kissin's recital at the Verbier Festival in July 2006 is a nice testament to the mature Kissin's handling of a challenging all-Chopin program (much of it included in Kissin's 2005 recital at Strathmore).
Kissin tackled four polonaises, some of the most personal pieces Chopin composed. They are difficult to play not only for their technical demands but their emotional character, bound up intimately with Chopin's identity as a Pole in exile (if we can call Romantic Paris exile). The two early polonaises (op. 26), especially the second one, are masterful readings of less familiar works of considerable charm. Kissin strikes the right balance of blustery Polish nationalism and the forlorn mal de pays -- the Chopin who recited the poetry of Adam Mickiewicz to himself. A few minor cracks even appear in the perfect Kissin veneer, noticeable only in the "Heroic" polonaise (A-flat major, op. 53) that concludes the recital (for example, at about 1:34 in Track 8). That does nothing to diminish Kissin's accomplishment, which is technically staggering (like the rolling thunder of the bass in the B section), and in fact adds a level of sympathetic complexity.
Evgeny Kissin and Martha Argerich, Mozart's Sonata in C for 2 Pianos,
K. 521 (second movement), Verbier Festival, July 22, 2003
(see also first movement and third movement)
The other four pieces on the program are impromptus, a genre rightly identified by Stephen Wigler (who has made a sort of mini-career out of writing about and for Kissin) in the liner notes as more or less Chopin's exclusive territory. Rarely of the same substance as the polonaises (by length if by no other criterion), the impromptus in Kissin's hands are appropriately mercurial, prone to sudden flashes of dreamy reverie or volatility (like the butterfly flutters starting at around 3:55 in the op. 36). Kissin has played the infamous Fantaisie-Impromptu (C-sharp minor, op. 66), because of which every pianist (myself included) eventually has to learn to play sixteenth notes against triplets, at both of his recent Washington recitals (on the program in 2005 and as one of his eight encores this spring). It's a signature piece that Kissin could probably play in his sleep, and he can even make me forget the rainbow-chasing travesty perpetrated on this piece by Harry Carroll (even when sung as memorably as Al Jolson did).
At this year's Verbier Festival, Kissin appeared with the festival orchestra and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen (July 26) and gave a solo recital (July 30). These concerts can be seen in streaming video, of very high quality (although experiencing a few glitches at the time of this writing), online only through August 31.
RCA Red Seal (Sony BMG) 82876 68668 2
Filed under CD Reviews, Evgeny Kissin, Frédéric Chopin
Tolle! Lege! Tolle! Lege!
by Charles T. Downey | Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Benozzo Gozzoli, The Conversion of Augustine (fresco cycle, c. 1465, in Church of Sant'Agostino, San Gimignano)
I flung myself down under a fig tree--how I know not--and gave free course to my tears. The streams of my eyes gushed out an acceptable sacrifice to thee. And, not indeed in these words, but to this effect, I cried to thee: “And thou, O Lord, how long? How long, O Lord? Wilt thou be angry forever? Oh, remember not against us our former iniquities.” For I felt that I was still enthralled by them. I sent up these sorrowful cries: “How long, how long? Tomorrow and tomorrow? Why not now? Why not this very hour make an end to my uncleanness?”
I was saying these things and weeping in the most bitter contrition of my heart, when suddenly I heard the voice of a boy or a girl I know not which--coming from the neighboring house, chanting over and over again, “Pick it up, read it; pick it up, read it.” Immediately I ceased weeping and began most earnestly to think whether it was usual for children in some kind of game to sing such a song, but I could not remember ever having heard the like. So, damming the torrent of my tears, I got to my feet, for I could not but think that this was a divine command to open the Bible and read the first passage I should light upon. For I had heard how Anthony, accidentally coming into church while the gospel was being read, received the admonition as if what was read had been addressed to him: “Go and sell what you have and give it to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven; and come and follow me.” By such an oracle he was forthwith converted to thee.
So I quickly returned to the bench where Alypius was sitting, for there I had put down the apostle’s book when I had left there. I snatched it up, opened it, and in silence read the paragraph on which my eyes first fell: “Not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying, but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof.” I wanted to read no further, nor did I need to. For instantly, as the sentence ended, there was infused in my heart something like the light of full certainty and all the gloom of doubt vanished away.
-- Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, Book 8 (A.D. 397-398), trans. Albert C. Outler
Today is the feast day of Saint Augustine, which is very appropriate for the opening of school. The above is the saint's account of how he was turned from the sins of his youth to the holy life. The Latin of the child's song he hears is the title of this post.
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The Wonder of Korngold
Korngold, Das Wunder der Heliane, A. Tomowa-Sintow, RSO Berlin, J. Mauceri
(re-released on April 10, 2007)
Decca 475 8271
Erich Korngold's second full-length opera, Das Wunder der Heliane (1927), last came across the Ionarts radar because Renée Fleming recorded some excerpts on her Homage CD, reviewed earlier this year. (La Fleming will sing one selection from the opera, and another from Die Kathrin, at the National Symphony Orchestra's Season Opening Ball Concert on September 16.) One of the best things that you could do to celebrate the Korngold Year -- he died 50 years ago, on November 29, 1957 (the official sponsor is Jessica Duchen) -- is to acquire this excellent recording of Heliane (made in 1992), re-released at almost one-third of its regular price. Someone needs to buy a copy for Edo de Waart and whoever replaces Richard Gaddes (assuming they do not have one already, which is probably unlikely), to increase the chances that Santa Fe Opera will stage Heliane.
The historical background of the opera's creation, outlined capably in the liner notes by Brendan G. Carroll, is significant. Heliane was composed during the first two years of the composer's marriage, to a woman hated by his controlling parents. Korngold's father was a celebrated and ultra-conservative music critic in Vienna, the literal successor of Eduard Hanslick, and he attempted to use his son as a pawn in his critical tirade against atonal modernism. The libretto, Hans Müller's adaptation of a mystery play (Die Heilige) by Hans Kaltneker, could be interpreted as the struggle of Julius Korngold (the Ruler) and Erich Korngold (the Stranger) for the love of Music (Heliane). In the end, the Ruler's power is broken, and the Stranger and Heliane rise to eternal life, exalted in union. The angels that sing in chorus in the third act connect the lovers' salvation to the power of their love, a notable echo of the end of Mahler's Resurrection symphony (and the end of the Symphony of a Thousand, for that matter). Not surprisingly, Korngold dedicated the opera to his young wife.
Jessica Duchen, Erich Wolfgang Korngold
(Phaidon Press, 1996)
It is a shame that Heliane was overshadowed by Krenek's brilliant Jonny Spielt Auf, premiered in the same year. Carroll's essay also explains how Julius Korngold's campaign against Jonny, overlapping uncomfortably with the rise of the National Socialist party, actually contributed to the negative reception of Heliane. The weak libretto, based admittedly on a wacky source, was no help either. Regular readers, however, know that I have a weakness for weird operas on dark, fairytale subjects -- Pelléas, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Duke Bluebeard's Castle, Susa's Transformations, Die ersten Menschen, to name just a few. The combination of an odd story and luscious score has moved Heliane quickly into that category, too.
This recording, the only one of the opera, features generally fine solo singing from Anna Tomowa-Sintow (Heliane), Hartmut Welker (Der Herrscher), and John David de Haan (Der Fremde). La Fleming's rendition of the famous Act II aria Ich ging zu ihm -- in which Heliane testifies, during the trial ordered by the jealous Ruler, that she showed the Stranger her hair and feet and then stripped naked in his cell -- is more pleasing than Tomowa-Sintow's (this is what Fleming will sing with the NSO next month). One hopes Fleming will have the chance to sing the role on the stage soon. The score calls for a Glockenklavier (a lower relative of the celesta), only one part of a diverse and clanging battery, all of it used to greatest effect in the transcendent third act, where Korngold flirts the most with outright atonality. John Mauceri holds the large forces, well honed, together impressively. Only the women's voices of the Rundfunk Chor Berlin are occasionally too strident for their angelic role.
Jessica Duchen will surely be covering the opera's much-anticipated U.K. premiere (we already know that she will give a pre-concert lecture), with Ionarts favorite Patricia Racette and the London Philharmonic Orchestra (November 21). Vladimir Jurowski will conduct.
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Zinman's Resurrection in Zurich
by Charles T. Downey | Monday, August 27, 2007
Mahler, Symphony No. 2 ("Resurrection"), J. Banse, A. Larsson, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Schweizer Kammerchor, D. Zinman (released on May 29, 2007)
Shortly after the first installment of David Zinman's Mahler cycle with the Zurich Tonhalle-Orchester, there is this Resurrection symphony. Pierre Boulez's most recent recording of Mahler 2 quickly became a favorite after it was recommended by Jens. Zinman's reading is unlikely to dislodge it from that position, but it is poised to be a contender. The Zurich rendition has some stodgy moments, perhaps the result of a too heavy approach by Zinman. It seems much slower than Boulez's recording with the Vienna Philharmonic, but in fact they are of approximately the same length. True, Boulez's first three movements are between 0:43 and 1:16 shorter than the corresponding movements by Zinman, but Boulez takes the final two movements more expansively, and Zinman is faster in both, by almost two minutes in the final movement. (The Zinman has to be on two CDs, because it is over the limit by a minute or two, while Boulez fits the symphony on one disc.)
The second symphony was the first Mahler work to enter my consciousness, through a collegiate performance of it as a chorus member. The piece immediately impresses on the ears a sense of transcendence, but in spite of listening to it for so many years, I still find many things about Mahler 2 mysterious. Mahler characterized it as the funeral for the hero of his first symphony, while its scherzo movement (quoted and deformed so memorably in Berio's Sinfonia) is musically related to Mahler's own song Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt. The artwork on this CD's cover, Arnold Böcklin's Saint Anthony preaching to the fish, is a sardonic commentary on that story. The shark listens piously to Anthony's sermon, fins crossed as if at church, but in the lower panel (cropped out on the CD cover), it goes back to its old ways, eating little fish (the same irony is present in the poem Mahler set, from Des Knaben Wunderhorn).
What do Urlicht (fourth movement) and Auferstehn, ja auferstehn (fifth movement) mean, exactly? The fourth movement contrasts with the spirit of secularism in the scherzo, as if the hero were one of the fish hearing -- but not listening to -- Anthony's sermon. Mahler described the fifth movement as a sort of Last Judgment, and the hero's soul sees itself rise from oblivion toward the creator. However, the words that Mahler added to the verses from Klopstock's Resurrection chorale (which Mahler heard at the funeral of Hans von Bülow) transform the Lutheran background to something not really Christian. Whatever it means, no one could ignore this exquisite O Röschen rot! from contralto Anna Larsson, which Zinman never rushes, allowing his singer to unravel the melody from its harmonic background in a suspended trance-like -- but still speech-like -- way. Equally striking, the fifth movement has the full dynamic range from sonic boom to ghostly whisper. Once again, although the first three movements leave me a little cold, David Zinman has shown exceptional promise for his Mahler cycle.
A recording of Mahler's third symphony from David Zinman and the Zurich Tonhalle-Orchester is expected this October.
Filed under CD Reviews, Gustav Mahler
Sol Gabetta's Rococo Variations
by Charles T. Downey | Sunday, August 26, 2007
Tchaikovsky, Rococo Variations (also Saint-Saëns, Ginastera), Sol Gabetta, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Ari Rasilainen (February 6, 2007)
Sol Gabetta's first home was Argentina, but she moved to Europe with her family (Spain and France) for educational reasons in the 1990s. She now lives in German-speaking Switzerland (where she hosts the Solsberg Festival near her home in Olsberg, with the Kammerorchester Basel, in June), so her linguistic palette must be remarkable (including colorful English, as evidenced in this lengthy interview). Her first major recording, on Sony's RCA Red Seal, features Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme, which Sol Gabetta will play later this season in concerts with the National Symphony Orchestra (June 26 to 28). The piece is a favorite of performers, last heard from the NSO with another beautiful young cellist, Alisa Weilerstein, at the start of the 2005 season. Tchaikovsky is not particularly one of my favorites, but this sugary piece, which lacks the heft of a powerhouse concerto, is enough to establish Gabetta's virtuoso bona fides (there is an excerpt online).
Far more interesting listening is found in the tracks that follow the Rococo Variations. Not really the three little Tchaikovsky encore bon-bons, which are mostly in the same pretty vein, but the demanding first cello concerto by Saint-Saëns. This piece is heard less often, and Gabetta negotiates its bravura solo part with passion and flair, occasionally losing some of the refined sound of her tone elsewhere. The best eight minutes by far on this disc are the final track, Alberto Ginastera's Pampeana No. 2 (available online as an .MP3 file, in a version with piano), a sultry and exciting piece one hopes she will play as an encore in Washington. The affinity of Gabetta for the music of her countryman comes across in the sound. Hopefully, a future Sol Gabetta disc will be devoted to Ginastera: he composed two concerti and one sonata for the cello, as well as this charming pampeana (named for the region of Argentina to the south of Gabetta's native Córdoba).
RCA Red Seal (Sony BMG) 82876759512
In Brief: Back to School Edition
Here is your regular Sunday selection of links to good things in Blogville and Beyond, although there is not much at the end of August.
Please tell me that someone has YouTubed a video of Bill Murray driving a golf car through Stockholm. Maybe it was actually part of a new Sofia Coppola movie (the writer of this article actually went there -- "Police wondered whether something was lost in translation"). [Associated Press]
News flash! Apparently, Peter Sellars is an unconventional director. Or something. [International Herald Tribune]
Matthew Guerrieri has reviewed the best answers to his delightfully fun quiz last March, in preparation for a new one (goodie!). My answers got a gold star a couple times, but if you want to revisit the whole glorious thing, here is my complete response. [Soho the Dog]
It's true that living in Europe gave me the taste for the occasional cigarette, and I have suggested before a new way to spend all that tobacco lawsuit money. Artist David Hockney has already pulled out all of the polemic stops in writing against the growing craze of more and more stringent smoking bans. I have no problem with imposing some limits on smoking in airplanes and airports, government and office buildings, even some restaurants, but can we at least leave a few places where it is allowed? A few skanky dives? I mean, can we at least agree that the Rolling Fucking Stones should be allowed to smoke on stage? [BBC News]
Kriston Capps answers the question of "whether Chinese art sweatshops resemble Renaissance art apprenticeships." I'm with Kriston: very little about how art was made in the Middle Ages and Renaissance has much to do with how art is made and consumed now. [Grammar.police]
Internet Flies on the Wall of Royal Albert Hall
by Charles T. Downey | Saturday, August 25, 2007
Mahler Third Symphony:
A. S. von Otter, Vienna Philharmonic, P. Boulez (2003)
A. Larsson, Berlin Philharmonic, C. Abbado (live, 1999)
A. Larsson, L.A. Philharmonic, E.-P. Salonen (1998)
Abbado in Lucerne:
Mahler 2, A. Larsson (2003)
Mahler 5 (2004)
Gustav Mahler's third symphony is the latest in Claudio Abbado's Lucerne Festival cycle. Abbado and his hand-picked orchestra from the Lucerne Festival traveled to London, to perform Mahler's third at the Proms on Wednesday night. That performance has been made available, for a week, by Internet broadcast at the BBC Web site (unfortunately, requiring RealPlayer). It is certainly not as good as hearing the concert live, but it sure beats merely reading a review (in The Times and The Guardian, both rapturous). Jens has recommended two recordings of Mahler's third: Pierre Boulez with with the Vienna Philharmonic, with Anne Sofie von Otter singing the crucial solo part, and the live recording by Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic. Abbado returned to the same singer for the Lucerne Festival performance, the exquisite contralto Anna Larsson. David Zinman also worked with her in his recent recording of Mahler 2 with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich (review forthcoming), and her loamy, rich voice is ideally suited to the voice of Life calling to Zarathustra in the fourth movement ("O Mensch! Gib acht!").
Mahler conceived the symphony as a revelation of wonder as a soul becomes aware of the splendor of creation, beginning with the inanimate rocks and moving through the flowers, animals, and other mysteries, ending with love. The first movement, longer than many earlier entire symphonies and constituting by itself the work's first part (balanced by the other five movements as the second), is a sprawling tableau that also, according to Mahler at other times, depicted the birth of Pan and a Bacchic ritual. As expected, Abbado guided the Lucerne players through an expansive reading, with raspy and incisive solos from horns, muted trumpet, posthorn. Much has been made of Abbado's charismatic assembling of the Lucerne group, combining the finest principals from various orchestras under his baton with the core of his Mahler Chamber Orchestra. The following part of Tom Service's interview with Abbado for The Guardian should be required reading for American orchestra management and players:
You know, in America, there are wonderful orchestras everywhere, but I never accepted a position there, because I can't fight with the unions. [...] The terrible thing is that the players of orchestras like that, they finish the rehearsal not because the music is finished, but because the time is finished.
The second movement was a field of luminescent and delicately petaled flowers, and the third evoked the frolicking of animals in the countless wind solos especially, all beautifully played. The posthorn in the distance, a voice of human intrusion, was dreamy and hazy, if not always perfectly in tune with the orchestra. The success of a Mahler 3 performance hinges on the fourth movement, the luxuriant, revelatory setting of Nietzsche's (drunken) Midnight Song. I had never made the connection before, but the wailing call that opens the movement and recurs thematically throughout, a glissando upward, may be what is behind the mysterious "whale call" that plays a structural role in Edgard Varèse's Poème électronique. Anna Larsson, whom we last heard live as Fricka in the Fura dels Baus Ring cycle in Florence, rang out prophetically but also caressed every phrase and phoneme of what is essentially an extended accompanied recitative. Like so many of the themes of the third symphony, that ultimately serious moment is immediately contrasted by the joyous, folksy, tintinnabulatory fifth movement, which combines the choruses (children and women's voices) with the soloist on a poem from Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Then Love speaks to Mahler, in a poignant song without words. Mahler fans everywhere should look forward to this Lucerne Festival performance to be released on DVD later this year.
Also, make sure to read the tributes to Abbado, by musicians in the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, at the end of Tom Service's interview.
Filed under Concert Reviews, Gustav Mahler
In Honor of Purple Hearts
by Mark Barry | Saturday, August 25, 2007
In August, when most galleries slow down or close all together, not so at Jen Bekman’s tiny Lower East Side gallery. First, Bekman just announced the winners of the Summer '07 Hey, Hot Shot photo competition, something I mentioned in a previous post. Hot Shot is a fabulous opportunity for photographers to get in a NYC gallery group show, and even if you're not selected, throughout the month before the announcement of the winners, the gallery staff will load images and artist info on their Flickr site and blog, making for an exciting buildup to the exhibit. The show will be up from September 13th to the 16th, short but sweet.
Showing now at Bekman is Purple Hearts, photographer Nina Berman’s images and interviews with soldiers severely wounded in Iraq, including her award-winning Marine Wedding, shown here. The images are amazing, sensitive, and apolitical: they are a direct testament to the consequences of war.
Here is Holland Cotter's review in the New York Times.
Classical Month in Washington (November)
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Classical Month in Washington is a monthly feature. If there are concerts you would like to see included on our schedule, send your suggestions by e-mail (ionarts at gmail dot com). Happy listening!
November 1, 2007 (Thu)
With Iván Fischer and Nikolaj Znaider
Review -- Michael Lodico (Ionarts, November 2)
Mozart, Don Giovanni
Washington National Opera
Kennedy Center Opera House
Review -- Charles T. Downey (Ionarts, October 31)
Handel, Alcina
Opera Vivente (Baltimore, Md.)
Review -- Michael Lodico (Ionarts, October 30)
Marian Anderson String Quartet
The Mansion at Strathmore
Evelyn Elsing (cello) and Rita Sloan (piano) [FREE]
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
November 2, 2007 (Fri)
University of Maryland Symphonic Wind Ensemble [FREE]
American Chamber Players
Corcoran Gallery of Art
November 3, 2007 (Sat)
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (Casual Concert)
Beethoven, 8th symphony (Carolyn Kuan, conductor)
Meyerhoff Symphony Hall (Baltimore, Md.)
Measha Brueggergosman (soprano) and Roger Vignoles (piano) [FREE, tickets required]
Review -- Tim Smith (Critical Mass, November 6)
William Bolcom, A View from the Bridge
The Five Browns
Music Center at Strathmore
Purcell, Dido and Aeneas
Peabody Chamber Opera
Grace and Saint Peter’s Church (Baltimore, Md.)
Café Zimmermann [FREE]
Music by J. S. Bach and C. P. E. Bach
Review -- Charles T. Downey (Ionarts, November 5)
November 4, 2007 (Sun)
Lecture by Meredith Monk
Perceptual Weave: Pattern and Variation in Multidiscipline Performance
2 and 4 pm
NSO Children's Concert
With Iván Fischer
Kennedy Center Family Theater
Review -- Daniel Ginsberg (Washington Post, November 6)
With Andre Watts, piano
George Mason University Center for the Arts
Alexandria Symphony Orchestra [FREE]
Andrew Manze (violin) and Richard Egarr (fortepiano)
Time for Three (two violins and bass)
Friends of Music
November 5, 2007 (Mon)
Lecture by Meredith Monk [FREE]
Friday Morning Music Club Orchestra Concert [FREE]
Kennedy Center Terrace Theater
November 6, 2007 (Tue)
Noontime Cantata: Der Herr denket an uns (BWV 196)
Washington Bach Consort (Julie Vidrich Evans, organ)
Church of the Epiphany (13th and G Streets NW)
North American Indian Cello Project [FREE]
Review -- Robert Battey (Washington Post, November 8)
Louis Schwizgebel-Wang, piano
Young Concert Artists Series
Review -- Cecelia Porter (Washington Post, November 8)
November 7, 2007 (Wed)
Measha Brueggergosman (soprano) and Roger Vignoles (piano)
Vocal Arts Society
Embassy of Austria
Review -- Joe Banno (Washington Post, November 10)
Review -- Matthew Guerrieri (Boston Globe, November 12)
Musicians from Marlboro I [FREE]
Music by Kodály and Beethoven
Emmanuel Pahud (flute) and Eric Le Sage (piano)
Review -- Charles T. Downey (Ionarts, November 10
With flutist Emmanuel Pahud
With Günther Herbig, conductor
Jeffrey Cohan (flute) and Nicoletta Sanzin (harp)
Embassy Series
Slovenian Embassy (2410 California Avenue NW)
Eric Le Sage, piano
La Maison Française
Ryan de Ryke (baritone)
Austrian Embassy
Review -- Tom Huizenga (Washington Post, November 13)
MacDowell Colony Centennial Concert [FREE]
With Norman Scribner, conductor
Review -- Daniel Ginsberg (Washington Post, November 12)
November 10, 2007 (Sat)
Conservatory Avant-Garde Ensemble [FREE]
Peabody Institute, Griswold Hall (Baltimore, Md.)
Ying Quartet (complete Stravinsky works for string quartet)
Review -- Cecelia Porter (Washington Post, November 13)
Review -- Robert Battey (Washington Post, November 12)
"For the Beauty of the Earth: Songs of Nature and Conservation"
Congressional Chorus
Atlas Performing Arts Center
Donizetti, Maria Stuarda
With Fabiana Bravo and Gregory Kunde
Baltimore Opera
Review -- Mark J. Estren (Washington Post, November 13)
November 11, 2007 (Sun)
Eric Ruple, piano
Washington Chorus: Tribute and Reflection
New Zealand String Quartet [FREE]
National Academy of Sciences (2100 C Street NW)
Brandenburg Concertos
Washington Bach Consort
Harman Center for the Arts (650 F Street NW)
Family Concert: Tell Me a Story
Capitol City Symphony
Atlas Arts Center
Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church (Bethesda, Md.)
Paul Badura-Skoda, piano [FREE]
National Gallery of Art (West Building, West Garden Court)
Review -- Charles T. Downey (Ionarts, November 13)
November 12, 2007 (Mon)
Yo-Yo Ma (cello) and Kathryn Stott (piano)
WPAS
Mark Hill (oboe) and Sue Heinemann (bassoon) [FREE]
November 13, 2007 (Tue)
November 14, 2007 (Wed)
November 15, 2007 (Thu)
With cellist Heinrich Schiff (Shostakovich first concerto)
Review -- Michael Lodico (Ionarts, November 17)
John Musto, Later the Same Evening (world premiere)
University of Maryland Opera Studio
Peabody Opera Theater
Peabody Institute, Friedberg Hall (Baltimore, Md.)
With Madeline Adkins, violin (Mendelssohn concerto)
Review -- Tim Smith (Baltimore Sun, November 17)
November 16, 2007 (Fri)
Donizetti, Elixir of Love
Catholic University School of Music
Augustin Hadelich (violin) and Philip Fisher (piano)
Residence of the German Ambassador (1900 Foxhall Road NW)
Quatuor Ysaÿe [FREE]
Music by Haydn, Saint-Saëns, Schumann
Left Bank Concert Society
Two-piano arrangements of Grosse Fugue, Rite of Spring
Mozart, The Magic Flute
Salzburg Marionnette Theater
Shriver Hall (Baltimore, Md.)
Emanouil Manolov, violin
Embassy of Bulgaria (1621 22nd Street NW)
National Philharmonic
Beethoven, Missa Solemnis
Humperdinck, Hansel and Gretel [FREE children's concert]
Master Chorale of Washington: Verdi Requiem
Kim Kashkashian (viola) and Lydia Artymiw (piano)
Congregation Beth-El (Bethesda, Md.)
red fish blue fish [FREE]
World Premiere of Roger Reynolds, Sanctuary
National Gallery of Art (East Building, Ground Level)
Nicolas Dautricourt, violin
Suzanne Farrell Ballet
Balanchine choreographies
Review -- Sarah Kaufman (Washington Post, November 22)
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
1:30 and 7:30 pm
Bach Brandenburg Festival
Eclipse Chamber Orchestra and Cantate Chamber Singers
St. Patrick's Episcopal Church
Washington International Competition winner (TBD) [FREE]
ArcoVoce and Rosa Lamoreaux [FREE]
Amy Beth Horman, violin
New Music at University of Maryland
Han-Na Chang (cello, Elgar concerto) and Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony
Alexander Paley, piano
18th- and 19th-century music on the Broadwood piano
ModernWorks, with Margaret Leng Tan [FREE]
Music by Ge Gan-ru (string quartets and music-melodrama)
Review -- Daniel Ginsberg (Washington Post, December 1)
Music by Kernis and Beethoven
Review -- Tim Smith (Baltimore Sun, December 1)
Chu-Fang Huang, piano
Embassy of the People's Republic of China (2300 Connecticut Avenue NW)
Bellini, I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Concert performance with piano (with Meghan McCall and Tara McCredie)
Opera Bel Cantanti
Randolph Road Theater (Silver Spring, Md.)
Two Takes on Mahler 1
Mahler, Symphony No. 1, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, G. Solti (remastered June 12, 2007)
We have reviewed the National Symphony Orchestra in two concert performances of Mahler's 1st symphony (with Roberto Abbado in 2004 and Leonard Slatkin in 2007), and Jens has recommended Rafael Kubelik's recording with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Sometimes known as "Der Titan" (see the essay by Henry-Louis de La Grange), this symphony was described by Mahler as the story of "a powerful, heroic man," whose burial is commemorated in the Resurrection symphony. The work was a dismal failure at its 1889 premiere, with the composer at the podium of the Budapest Philharmonic. In several stages, Mahler revised the symphony extensively, most importantly cutting it from five to four movements by excising the second movement, an Andante allegretto now called Blumine (recently reviewed at Ionarts in a performance by the Baltimore Symphony).
Georg Solti made a landmark recording of the Mahler first symphony with the London Symphony Orchestra in the 1960s, following it in 1983 with a second one with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. That second recording has recently been reissued by Decca, prompting me to revisit it. Unlike the Kubelik, in which Der Titan was paired with the Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, the symphony stands alone on the Solti disc. Solti's reading is most remarkable in how he pushed the sections of the Chicago Symphony in the fast and loud passages. The players, especially the brass, respond with everything they have. There is little bend or subtlety, however, except in the third-movement funeral march, where there is some unwarranted stretching that strikes me as against Mahler's tempo specification, ohne zu schleppen (without dragging). The things one hopes to hear in Der Titan -- the mystery of consciousness awakening with spring in the first movement, the Musikanten irreverently interrupting the "Callot" scene in the funeral march -- are a little bland. Still, the audible edge to this performance does suggest the sinfonia ironica epithet attached to this symphony by Viennese critic Max Kalbeck.
Mahler, Symphony No. 1 (and Blumine), Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, D. Zinman (released on March 13, 2007)
This new recording by David Zinman and Zurich's Tonhalle-Orchester inaugurated a complete Mahler cycle from these forces, followed closely by their Resurrection Symphony, which we are also listening to right now. It is a shame that an American orchestra could not have kept Zinman here (well, except Aspen, that is) after his lauded time on the podium of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, but his recordings in Zurich have been successful. It is surprising that Zinman's track times for Der Titan are almost identical to Solti's, as the two renditions sound rather different. Only the funeral march is markedly different in length, with Zinman coming in almost 40 seconds faster than Solti, due at least in part to Zinman's much less square Musikanten and more characteristic sense of folk rubato. The spring forest in the first movement is distant and hazy, with the hungry calls of the cuckoos under a veil, and the trio of the second movement is suave without being oily.
The Zinman recording has a final detail to recommend it, the inclusion of the Blumine movement as a fifth track. It is slightly odd to listen to the final version of Der Titan, in which the final movement reviews the sounds of the preceding movements (a gesture taken from Beethoven's ninth symphony). Among those themes is the gentle lilt of Blumine, originally in the second position, like the phantom itch of an amputated hand. (See these further essays on Mahler's first symphony.) As Thomas Meyer notes in a perceptive article in the liner notes, modern sound technology allows each listener to program the playback of this disc as he wishes, reinserting Blumine or hewing to Mahler's ultimate plan. All in all, worth a listen.
Prokofiev with a Beat
Judging by the number of views of his YouTube videos, just about everyone knows about beatboxing flutist Greg Pattillo by now. In case you were in the dark as I was, he is a classically trained flutist (M.M., Cleveland Institute of Music) with jazz and pop leanings. Mrs. Ionarts, who plays and teaches flute, passed along his name from one of her students (you know, the kids these days and the YouTube). He lives in Brooklyn now and is one of the officially sanctioned performers in the New York subway system. The best of his YouTube videos is this adaptation of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, which begins with Pattillo displaying his chops on the solo of the Bird and then moves into his signature beatboxing style. His takes on the music of American popular culture -- the themes from Inspector Gadget and Super Mario Bros., which have gotten the most hits on YouTube -- interest me less, but there you go.
Crazy for Classical Webcasts
It is normal at this point in the summer to complain about the lack of classical music in August. While the Ionarts Concert calendar is as empty as one expects this time of year, the growing phenomenon of classical webcasts is filling up the empty days and keeping us listening contentedly. The video broadcasts from the Verbier Festival are of extraordinary quality. For example, last night I listened to (more than watched) the July 28 recital by Thomas Quasthoff and Hélène Grimaud, the second half of which is a complete performance of Schumann's Dichterliebe (starting at around 30:00). If you work in an office and cannot get away for a summer of classical music in the Valais, you could pass the days with the sound in your headphones as you work on a computer. There is Evgeny Kissin, Martha Argerich, Hilary Hahn, Nelson Freire, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and much more (according to rumor, online only through the end of August).
Unfortunately, the equally wonderful BBC Proms webcasts currently require the installation of RealPlayer (and the sound is not very good), which brings me to the following suggestion. Could all institutions that want to have webcasts make them available instead (or merely also) as .MP3 files? This is what the Gardner Museum did with its concert podcasts: you can download the file to your MP3 player and listen to it when you want.
Like after you have taken your son, son's best friend, and nephew (with Grandpa and Uncle Dave) to the Maumee Valley Antique Steam and Gas Association's 30th Annual Summer Show. Watching the steam-powered vehicles shown in these photos actually running is enough to make any five-year-old's heart sing, AND there were remote-controlled airplane displays at the field next door. Then Dad could have listened to Elgar's The Apostles on the way home as the kids napped in the back of the car.
Claudio Abbado Returns to Mahler
Claudio Abbado is an Ionarts favorite, and we wish we had the opportunity to hear him live as much as possible. As he did last year, with Mahler's sixth symphony and again with Maurizio Pollini, Abbado has impressed critics this summer at the Lucerne Festival. Here is how Jean-Louis Validire put it (La maîtrise de Claudio Abbado, August 20) for Le Figaro (my translation):
No surprise, if we dare to say it, that Claudio Abbado appeared for the appointment he has set for five years with the audience of the Lucerne Festival by offering, on Saturday night, a masterful rendition of Gustav Mahler's third symphony. A work that is familiar to him and which he has already recorded, in 1999, in a memorable live version from London with the Berlin Philharmonic. The conductor remained faithful to Anna Larsson, a marvelous contralto with the warm and shining voice, who sang the text of the fourth movement, drawn from Nietzsche's Zarathustra, in Lucerne as in England.
The third symphony with its choruses of children and women's voices and alto solo is imposing, as much by its length, over an hour and a half, as by its ambitious plan. Composed in six movements, as many days as it supposedly took God to create the world, it is a powerful meditation in the form of a dream on the origin of the universe. Abbado excels at building up the edifice of the work without anyone being able to perceive the scaffolding.
The marvelous effect, according to Validire, is due to the unity and rarefied quality of the orchestral sound but also to the extraordinary acoustic of the Lucerne hall. Ionarts needs to get there one of these days.
See also Daniel J. Wakin, For Claudio Abbado, the maestro, passion rushes in where energy limits (New York Times, August 21)
Shirley Apthorp, Nestlé draws management lessons from music world (Bloomberg News, August 17)
The Lucerne Festival Orchestra and Claudio Abbado will perform Mahler's third symphony again, at the Proms on August 22, which will be available for a limited time via the extraordinary Proms webcast page. I hate RealPlayer as much as the next person (everyone, please use a different format!), but you have to do what you have to do.
See also Tom Service, The maestro (The Guardian, August 22)
Filed under Gustav Mahler, News
Lully's American Thésée
Lully, Thésée, Boston Early Music Festival, H. Crook, L. Pudwell, P. O'Dette (June 26, 2007)
Last January, we reviewed a recital by lutenist Paul O'Dette and soprano Ellen Hargis at the National Gallery of Art. Both are regular participants in the Boston Early Music Festival, where they worked together on this production of Jean-Baptiste Lully's Thésée, in 2001. A co-production with Radio Bremen brought the performers to Germany, where this recording was made last September, somewhat surprisingly the only version of the opera now available. The opera was premiered at St.-Germain-en-Laye in 1675, although its prologue is set in the relatively new château of Versailles (which is one way to signal that the listener should read the opera in terms of the life of Louis XIV). The libretto by Philippe Quinault is one of the stranger works of literature, but the story is based upon Plutarch and Ovid, with a few extra characters thrown in to make it read like 17th-century French drama.
Two mythological characters fresh from disastrous romantic liaisons become entangled with one another. The vengeful sorceress Medea, having just gotten murderously even with the unfaithful Jason, falls in love with her later husband's son, Theseus, who has returned to Athens after killing the Minotaur and abandoning Ariadne. (This family history does not get any healthier, since Theseus's son Hippolytus was killed in an accident after he rejected the advances of his stepmother, Phaedra.) As unlikely as the story is for operatic treatment, Handel's later opera Teseo uses a libretto that is basically Quinault's text translated into Italian. After its premiere at St.-Germain-en-Laye in 1675, Thésée was one of Lully's most successful operas, receiving numerous revivals in Paris late into the 18th century. One can actually consult the entire score, from its first printing, online.
Calyx krater (with Medea in her chariot), c. 400 B.C.
In our time, the opera has largely been forgotten, except for a few performances, led by William Christie as part of the Ambronay Festival. Also, Emmanuelle Haïm and Le Concert d'Astrée will present a staged production at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées this February and at the Opéra de Lille in March, with Jean-Louis Martinoty directing and Anne Sofie von Otter as Médée. The Boston instrumental forces have a unified and propelled sound (as in the concluding Chaconne), directed gracefully from the theorbo section by Paul O'Dette and Stephen Stubbs. Any orchestra that has two musette players (Jean-Christophe Maillard and François Lazarevitch) is going to have some vibrant colors available. Laura Pudwell snarls and menaces as Médée, with a thick tone and percussive diction, while experienced Baroque tenor Howard Crook continues to impress with his flexible voice as Thésée. The bass of Harry van der Kamp (Ægée), of the same age as Crook, has aged less gracefully. Ellen Hargis's Æglé is good, but perhaps lacks the naïve shimmer proper to the role.
The test of a recording's merit is generally in the supporting voices, which here are hit-and-miss, with some strained and pushed sounds, as well as occasional lapses in French pronunciation. Suzie LeBlanc (Cleone) and Aaron Sheehan (Un plaisir and other minor roles), both of whom we have reviewed live in recent years, have pleasant turns. It seems unlikely that this recording, as good as it is, will not be bettered by one conducted by either William Christie or Emmanuelle Haïm (the latter seems a quite likely eventuality). However, as that has not yet happened, this 3-CD set is most welcome, and it is complete, with all of the charming dance music (and a liner essay on the dance music by respected scholar Rebecca Harris-Warwick).
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Filed under CD Reviews, Early Music, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Opera
In Brief: Last Vacation Edition
Revisiting Le Grand Siècle
Gerhaher's Schubertiade
Max Roach (1924-2007)
Palio dell'Assunta
Opera on DVD: Salzburg Marriage of Figaro
Manhattan Diaries at Wolf Trap
Four Hundred Seasons (Or: 392 Too Many)
In Brief: Back from Italy Edition
Ionarts in Santa Fe: Platée
Musée Zervos in Vézelay
Opera on DVD: Salzburg Magic Flute
Ombra mai fù: Giacinto Scelsi's Palm Tree
Ionarts in Santa Fe: Tan Dun's Tea
Making a Litho
Ionarts Almost Old Enough to Get That New Bike
Ionarts in Santa Fe: Daphne
Ionarts in Siena: Antonio Meneses
Dip Your Ears, No. 82 (Chamber Busoni)
Ionarts in Santa Fe: Così fan tutte
Thomas Stewart's Dutchman
Ionarts in Santa Fe: La Bohème
Classical Month in Washington (October)
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Classical Music Agenda: January 2012
Readers have long been asking for a monthly feature with picks for the best things to hear in the month to come. It is the sort of piece I have often written for other outlets, and now it will run here instead. My goal for this Classical Music Agenda is to have the widest possible awareness of what is being performed, from which only the most promising performances, no more than ten, will be selected each month.
As noted earlier this month, Pope Benedict XVI has announced his plan to make clear and final the canonization of Hildegard von Bingen, the medieval abbess, mystic, and composer. Celebrate this most unusual woman, who will also be given the title Doctor of the Church, with a concert of her music by the outstanding vocal quartet Anonymous 4, joining with the period string players of the Folger Consort. The program also includes later medieval pieces by the composers of the Notre Dame school. January 6 and 7, 8 pm, in Washington National Cathedral, where the listening experience will be better the closer you are to the performers. Tickets: $30 to $50.
We have long been admirers of the playing of viola da gambist Paolo Pandolfo. You should not pass up the chance to hear him play at the Library of Congress, in a program that will combine music of J. S. Bach and the lesser-known Carl Friedrich Abel. January 28, 2 pm. Tickets: Free.
A recommendation for a trip to Baltimore does not come easily, but the concert by the Canadian HIP ensemble Les Violons du Roy at Shriver Hall, the only one in our area this season, is worth it. The program features music by Handel, Telemann, Sammartini, and Geminiani, with recorder player Maurice Steger as soloist. January 29, 5:30 pm. Tickets: $38.
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Hannu Lintu's recent appearances with the National Symphony Orchestra and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra have been highlights of past seasons. The Finnish conductor returns to the NSO this month, with the added incentive of firecracker violinist Leila Josefowicz, to present Steven Mackey's violin concerto Beautiful Passing. Also on the program are a set of Debussy's preludes, orchestrated by Colin Matthews, and Sibelius's fifth symphony. January 12 to 14, Kennedy Center Concert Hall. Tickets: $20 to $85.
Conductor Hannu Lintu
Christoph Eschenbach also offers a striking program with the NSO later this month. Jörg Widmann will serve as soloist in Mozart's golden clarinet concerto, as well as offer one of his own compositions, Armonica, featuring Christa Schönfeldinger on the glass armonica, the zany instrument featured earlier this year in Lucia di Lammermoor. January 26 to 29, Kennedy Center Concert Hall. Tickets: $20 to $85.
A LITTLE OF THIS:
Most of Opera Lafayette's performances recommend themselves, and even when they might disappoint it is still worth hearing lesser-known operas. Such is the case with this month's staged performance of Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny's opéra-comique Le Roi et le Fermier, which receives its modern-day premiere, in preparation for the company's debut in February at the Royal Opera in Versailles. January 20, Atlas Performing Arts Center (tickets, $20); January 21, 7:30 pm, in the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater (tickets, $65 -- SOLD OUT).
I had the chance to speak to violinist Joshua Bell earlier this month, about his upcoming WPAS recital, with pianist Sam Haywood. He was quick to confirm that he will not be performing incognito in the Metro this time, and for the rest of what he said look for an interview piece here later this month. Although I characterized his program as following his typical Romantic bent, Bell sees it as contrasting classical impulses (Mendelssohn and Brahms) with Romantic ones (Ravel, Ysaÿe, Gershwin). January 23, 8 pm, Kennedy Center Concert Hall. Tickets: $45 to $115.
In the dance slot this month, among a few excellent choices, is the outstanding choreography of Handel's L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato by Mark Morris Dance Group. Morris's dances are always carefully matched to the music they set, performed live in this case by the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, choral singers from the Washington Bach Consort, and four fine vocal soloists. Not to be missed. January 26 to 28, 7:30 pm, Kennedy Center Opera House. Tickets: $19 to $69.
The National Gallery of Art is reopening its 19th-Century French Galleries, and there is un tas de concerts to celebrate the event on the last weekend of the month. Performers include Men in Blaque, an unusual all-male choir from the University of California at Irvine, the Grammy-winning organist Paul Jacobs, The Singers Companye, organist Alexander Frey, and the NGA Vocal Ensemble. January 28 and 29, various times, NGA West Building. Tickets: Free.
You can be the judge of the opera singers of tomorrow, by attending the Metropolitan Opera National Council's Middle Atlantic Region Auditions. The best young singers from this part of the world will have the chance to sing two arias each, competing for the chance to go to New York for the national competition and a possible spot in the Met's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. January 29, 2 pm, Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. Tickets: $32.
See the full calendar for the month of January.
Listen What the Cat Dragged In: Thielemann's Vienna Beethoven
L.v.Beethoven,
The 9 Symphonies,
C.Thielemann / WPh / A.Dasch, M.Fujimura, P.Beczala, G.Zappenfeld
Christian Thielemann's Beethoven set first came out on Blu-ray and DVD (C major / Unitel) which was, along with Weinberg's "The Passenger", reason enough to finally get into Blu-ray. The picture of the Blu-ray set does look fantastic, indeed so much that it is almost worth watching the performances, rather than (just) listening to them.
Still, I generally prefer pure audio listening (and many homes are set up with better audio-only equipment, relying on perfectly inadequate TV speakers for sound that accompanies pictures), and so I'm very happy to see the cycle out on CD. Thanks to their new-found relationship with the Vienna Philharmonic, Sony jumped to the occasion and issued the set as a belated Christmas present to Beethoven-lovers on December 27th.
The first impression: The packaging is marvelous. Similar to the Chailly Beethoven-set on Decca, it's a thick book with page-sleeves... generous with pictures and text. Better yet, it is bound in white cloth and—this distinguishes it from the Decca release which comes in a comparatively flimsy paper slipcase—the slipcase is also bound in white cloth with bold magenta, gold, and white-on-white lettering. Minor, superficial details, perhaps, but all the same an asset for those who cherish haptic pleasures. Handling the set is a joy. The symphonies are spread over six CDs (no overtures included) and one 45-minute "Making van Beethoven" German/English documentary that strikes me like a luxury trailer for the DVD/Blu-ray set.
L.v.Beethoven, Symphony No.4, 4th Movement (excerpt), Christian Thielemann, WPh, Sony 7927172
I am still going through the performances to gather more definite impressions, but I have already come across several gorgeous highlights on the Blu-ray that I am looking forward to re-encountering on CD. What is evident throughout is that the Vienna Philharmonic plays for "CT" like they do for no other conductor.
Filed under CD Reviews, Christian Thielemann, jfl, Ludwig van Beethoven, New Releases
Twelve Days of Christmas: Chants of Angels
The Chants of Angels,
Gloriæ Dei Cantores
(released on September 13, 2011)
GDCD 051 | 59'14"
Angels, of course, are a phenomenon that goes far beyond Christmas, the Christian kitsch equivalent of the New Age crystal. The idea behind this new release is to bring together as many chants as possible that contain the word "angelus" in some form (Angelis suis, Immitet angelus, Benedicite omnes angeli, Stetit angelus -- you get the idea) or that set words spoken by an angel in the Bible (the angelic hymn known as the Gloria, for example). The packaging of the disc, with a booklet fluttering with seraphic wings in various pastel hues, certainly plays to the angel market. The programming idea is not exactly brilliant, it must be said, combining chants from Michaelmas, Guardian Angels, and a couple other liturgical occasions. It does not help that the chants are all sung from the modern Solesmes editions, honorable and expertly edited, yes, but not really of historical interest. The singing is generally good, with male voices edging out the female ones for beauty and unity of sound (the woman a little pinched and nasal, and fussier of diction). There is something special about actual monks singing Gregorian chant, however, as noted earlier this week of the new recording from the Cistercians of Stift Heiligenkreuz. The voices recorded here are not those of monks, but of an ecumenical community named the Community of Jesus, founded in 1958 in a part of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The group of lay people celebrate the Divine Office together, in a form of prayer modeled on Benedictine practice, and their choir, known as the Gloriæ Dei Cantores, is heard on this disc (the sound captured in the group's resonant Church of the Transfiguration in Rock Harbor). Not the best chant recording I have heard, by any means, but a lovely diversion.
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Twelve Days of Christmas: Sonia Wieder-Atherton
Vita (Monteverdi / Scelsi),
S. Wieder-Atherton, S. Lancu,
M. Lejeune
(released on March 29, 2011)
Naïve V 5257 | 1h08
We have been following the work of cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton, rewarding for both her playing and her daring programming. After an absorbing 2009 release, Chants d'Est (a "journey of 24 hours" through Slavic music), she has combined the music of two Italian composers, Claudio Monteverdi and Giacinto Scelsi, from opposite ends of the history of tonal music. I have my doubts about Scelsi, although his music is at the very least perplexing and therefore fun to unravel. As expected of Wieder-Atherton, the approach is a personal one, with the title of Vita derived from her first thought about the program (about "Life and Fate"). In the program notes, she writes that the combination of Scelsi and Monteverdi was inspired by her feeling "that both of them explored the forces within human nature. Both in their own particular way attempted to reach out to what binds human beings to the cosmos, to the worlds beyond." Wieder-Atherton's impassioned performances of four Scelsi movements, from the "large fresco cycle" of Trilogy (sections from the "Three Ages of Man"), are interspersed with her arrangements of Monteverdi pieces (partial credit given also to experimental composer Franck Krawczyk, who helps Wieder-Atherton design her projects), mostly from the eighth book of the composer's madrigals, on warlike and amorous subjects (joined by two younger cellists, Sarah Lancu and Mattheiu Lejeune). Wieder-Atherton has imagined a narrative to accompany the selection of music, some story about a male character and a female character, Angel and Angioletta, who are actually the same person in different periods of history, followed throughout the three ages of life. One can ignore it completely and still enjoy this diverting and rewarding disc.
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Twelve Days of Christmas: Cantus
by Charles T. Downey | Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Christmas with Cantus
CTS-1211 | 54'03"
We took note of Cantus, an all-male vocal ensemble formed at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, a few years ago when they performed at the Kennedy Center with Trio Mediæval. In the choice of music for that performance, the group seemed to remain too much in the world of the collegian a cappella group, and their latest recording, although it has some beautiful tracks, makes the same misstep. The sound, captured in a chapel at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, is lovely, with a beautifully blended and balanced sound coming unraveled only at a few places where volume was applied over-zealously. The group's rendition of Franz Biebl's lush Ave Maria is calm and warm, as is the world premiere recording of a new setting of the O Magnum Mysterium text by Brian A. Schmidt, not a bad piece but hard to distinguish from the work of many choral composers, like Whitacre and Tavener, whose equally undistinguished Awed by the Beauty is also featured. The typical sampling of carols from around the world, in arrangements by the group's members and others, turns up some British favorites (Nowell Nowell is the Salutacion and Coventry Carol), Native American carols (Twas in the Moon of Wintertime and Heleluyan), and other choices from France, Russia, Slovenia, and Scandinavia. Many readers will cringe, therefore, at the Bing Crosby turn the album takes, with a cute Carol of the Bells, the despicable Do You Hear What I Hear? (performed with guitar and finger-cymbals, as if at church camp), and a smarmy Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. Worst of all, the group sneaks in The Little Drummer Boy, a tune that is as tedious as it is impossible to erase from one's memory, weaving it in perniciously with a Burgundian carol about a drummer, echoed by a drum circle of random percussion. So, a guilty pleasure perhaps, but lovely music to play in the background at your Christmas party.
Twelve Days of Christmas: Amor et Passio
Chant: Amor et Passio, Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz [mp3]
(released on November 3, 2011)
Obsculta Music | 72'33"
Everything about the secular celebration of Christmas is backwards. We are suffocated with Christmas carols and decorations earlier and earlier in the fall, so that by the time Christmas arrives, when people should be decorating their houses and trimming trees and singing carols, most are tired of the idea. Christmastide is supposed to last until Epiphany, on January 6 (the so-called Twelve Days of Christmas, as in the famous song about leaping lords and partridges in pear trees), and by extension through Epiphanytide until Purification, on February 2. Instead, within a day or two of Christmas, people are throwing their Christmas trees out into the street, and just when we would be happy to hear carols, Christmas dies without the commercial drive to support it. In this period we like to offer up some brief thoughts on recent releases of music we have enjoyed, both Christmas-related and not.
The Cistercian monks at Stift Heiligenkreuz made news a couple years ago when they released a recording of chant on the Universal/Decca label. That disc was eventually repackaged as a two-disc set, with an extra disc of Advent and Christmas chants, that is worth a listen. The monks, in fact, have gone full tilt technologically speaking, even hosting their own Monastic Channel (auf Deutsch) on YouTube. The Austrian monks have now launched their own label, Obsculta Music, with this new CD that also features their community's singing (available through Amazon, but at the moment only as mp3 files). One can hear Gregorian chant performed many different ways, from the very humble to the most polished professional musicians. Some of my favorite recordings remain those made by monks and nuns, like the monks of Solesmes and Santo Domingo de Silos, and the monks of Heiligenkreuz fall into the same category -- not as purely gorgeous in sound as a group of professional singers, but imbued with a sense of devotion to this music as much more than just notes on a page.
The disc follows a Holy Week trajectory, with music from Holy Thursday (Amor), Good Friday (Passio), Easter (Silentium et Jubilatio), and finally a glimpse of heaven itself (Caelum). In that final section the monks have done something rather unusual, performing four chants that, one could say, reflect the heavenly liturgy, with piano accompaniments by the Luxembourgian composer David Ianni, who has a long relationship with Stift Heiligenkreuz. The musical style of these accompaniments is generally minimalistic, with wavelike patterns that reinforce the repetitive nature of these formulaic hymns and litanies, which could strike the ear as meditative or New Agey, depending on your tastes (perhaps a case of gilding the lily, although chant is durable music and has withstood all manner of adaptation). A sample, along with some views of the monastery and its monks, in the video embedded below.
In Brief: In Splendoribus Sanctorum Edition
by Charles T. Downey | Sunday, December 25, 2011
Georges de La Tour, La Nativité, c. 1645
Here is your regular Sunday selection of links to good things in Blogville and Beyond. Merry Christmas!
For your Christmas listening today, the children of the Maîtrise de Radio France, performing music for Christmas by Britten, Finzi, Bach, and others in the Basilique Sainte-Clotilde in Paris. [France Musique]
To conclude the Liszt year, Bertrand Chamayou performs the entire cycle of Les Années de Pèlerinage, at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. [France Musique]
Concerto Romano performs sacred music by Pietro Paolo Bencini, Niccolò Jommelli, and Giovanni Battista Casali, from the church of Santa Maria dell'Anima in Rome. [France Musique]
Watch Pierre Boulez conduct the Orchestre de Paris in music by Schoenberg and Bartok, with Bertrand Chamayou as soloist. [Cité de la Musique Live]
A special offer for tomorrow (December 26), with free streaming of a collection of online videos. [Medici.tv]
Ilan Volkov conducts the Stuttgart Radio Vocal Ensemble and the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra, in a program of Stravinsky's Requiem Canticles, John Cage's Seventy-Four (1992), and Pascal Dusapin's operatorio La Melancholia (1991), from the Festival d'Automne in Paris. [France Musique]
Listen to Valery Gergiev conduct the Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater, with pianist Alexander Toradze as soloist. [France Musique]
Pianist Hélène Grimaud joins the WDR Symphony Orchestra Koln and conductor Manfred Honeck, for music mostly by Beethoven at Bad Kissingen. [France Musique]
An unusual performance of Alain Moëne's Le Grand décret (2007), with Musicatreize and Ensemble L’Itinéraire. [France Musique]
For Your Consideration: 'War Horse'
Steven Spielberg has adapted War Horse, Michael Morpurgo's children's novel from the 1980s, into a film that often seems aimed at the same audience, like an after-school special, except set during World War I. Screenwriters Lee Hall and Richard Curtis could not have the book's title character, a horse named Joey, narrate or participate -- without a lot of voice-over, which thankfully the movie eschews -- as it did in the novel and in a stage adaptation from a few years ago, where it was played by an elaborate puppet. In the film, Joey, played by a series of beautiful horses, has a lot of staring silences, on which the viewer is meant to project his reverence for horses. Unfortunately, from the first scene one knows exactly how the story will go, from beginning to end. The faith kept between the horse and Albert Narracott, the boy who raises him (newcomer Jeremy Irvine, cast only because the young Ethan Hawke was not available), will triumph over all -- his father's tendencies toward drink and bad luck (Peter Mullan), the rapacious greed of the family's landlord (David Thewlis), even the devastation of the Great War. Some people may find this kind of movie heartwarming, but if you are like me, you will find it insincere and cloying.
Even worse, the film drags on for far too long (almost two and a half hours), as countless improbable plot twists play out, one after the other. Albert's "thoughtless" father, thinking only of trying to save what he almost lost by buying the horse in the first place, sells Joey to the British cavalry at the outbreak of the war. Joey falls in with two officers, played with straight-backed, stiff-lipped class distinction by Tom Hiddleston (seen recently in the equally saccharine Midnight in Paris) and Benedict Cumberbatch (less distinguished than in the superior Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy). Tragically, the British cavalry did not realize its own obsolescence in war, with the advent of the machine gun, and the horse quickly falls into German hands. We follow the horse as it gets into and escapes from a series of predicaments and changes of fortune, each less believable than the last.
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You have all the ingredients for a grand Spielbergian success: a broad historical sweep, an equine protagonist that no one could not love, an epic human tragedy that can be soft-pedaled into the background, an eye for the big picture in cinematographer Janusz Kaminski (working on actual film, old school), and a stirring score by John Williams that sounds very much like many of the composer's other scores. Still, Spielberg has managed to make a film that is too violent for young children and too jejune for adults. For your holiday week entertainment, stick to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and other options.
For Your Consideration: 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'
by Charles T. Downey | Friday, December 23, 2011
Because I grew up with a father obsessed with books about wars -- Civil, World I and II, and especially Cold -- the novels of John Le Carré were early on pressed into my hands. Like Anthony Lane, who wrote a long analysis of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy for The New Yorker earlier this month, I thought that Tomas Alfredson's new film adaptation of this Cold War classic was a fool's errand, after the memorable BBC television miniseries, with Alec Guinness as veteran spy master George Smiley. There are definitely things that both Le Carré's novel and the longer BBC adaptation do better, but the Swedish director's two-hour film both updates the sensibilities of the story (notably on the issue of homosexuality) and remains true to its spirit. It is a brilliant follow-up to Alfredson's last feature, the stylish vampire film Let the Right One In, thanks in no small part to a streamlined screenplay by Bridget O'Connor (who died last year) and Peter Straughan (O'Connor's husband, and one of the screenwriters for another, less successful espionage thriller, The Debt). For all of the film's tautness, reducing all of the characters and Byzantine plot complications to feature length, the pacing preserves the agonized waiting, silence, and unraveling of the spy chess match, making it certainly the best Le Carré film since Richard Burton's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Those of you searching for the right movie to see during the end-of-the-year holiday season, look no further.
The film hangs on the pasty, owl-glassed face of Gary Oldman's George Smiley, impassive and calculating yet vulnerable, as he plays a game of cat and mouse with his Soviet nemesis, the mysterious Karla, in an attempt to unmask a mole at the top of the British intelligence agency MI6, known charmingly as "The Circus." Also representing the old guard is the unstoppable John Hurt (recently reviewed in Melancholia and on stage in Krapp's Last Tape) as Smiley's shadowy mentor, known only as Control. Any of the younger agents -- played, all of them admirably, by a strong supporting cast of Mark Strong, Toby Jones, David Dencik, Ciarán Hinds, and Colin Firth -- could and do fall under suspicion. Officially retired from MI6, Smiley is entrusted with the job behind the scenes, taking with him only a couple of trusted colleagues, principally young Peter Guillam, played by a natty, tow-headed Benedict Cumberbatch, on my radar recently as the title role in the quirky new television series Sherlock. This is mostly a silent chess match of waiting, punctuated by a few moments of horror and violence, handled with terrifying austerity by Alfredson, in a palette of bright 70s colors and muted grays and browns (cinematography by Hoyte Van Hoytema, production design by Maria Djurkovic).
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The telescoping of the story may make it difficult for some viewers to follow, as many significant developments go by without much time to process them. It is easy to miss things. What is clear is that the heaviest sacrifice of espionage is the personal happiness of family life. Any affection or relationship equals a liability, and more than once in the film, relationships -- Smiley's attachment to his less than devoted wife, Guillam's secret liaison with an older man -- must be jettisoned as something to "clean up" rather than allow one's enemies an avenue of attack, and this could come from either side as allegiances are fluid. Ricki Tarr (the 70s-haired Tom Hardy), a lesser operative who inadvertently finds an inroad into the matter of the mole, puts it best when he says that he wants out of the Circus so he can have a family: "I don't want to end up like you lot." He makes the classic mistake of the spy, falling in love with the beautiful woman, a Soviet agent played by the lovely, elfin-featured Russian actress Svetlana Khodchenkova. He is in the wrong line of work, one where just a few words betray him and the woman he loves. Even the grave, taciturn Smiley, who does not say a word in the movie's first twenty minutes, has his most emotional moment, over many drinks with Peter Guillam, when he recounts how he said too much at one crucial moment early in his career. He, too, has paid for it ever since.
This film is screening at many area theaters.
It is time to take stock of the year that was, beginning with the best concerts we heard here in the Washington area. (Jens will tell us about the best performances he heard in Europe this past year.) These are in no particular order of preference, listed simply from most recent to least. A few honorable (and dishonorable) mentions, in various categories, and a remembrance of some of the artists we mourned in 2011 are added at the end.
Echoes of Paris (Poulenc, Stravinsky, Debussy, Prokofiev),
A. Hadelich, R. Kulek
1. Augustin Hadelich, Kennedy Center Terrace, December 7
It is an unfortunate result of the music recording industry's obsession with photogenic marketability that second-rate violinists receive major contracts, while a far superior player like Augustin Hadelich does not. As shown again in a Wednesday night recital in the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater, with pianist Rohan de Silva, the Italian-born violinist, now in his late 20s, is an extraordinary musician. [Read Review]
2. Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, WPAS, November 19
Far from resting on his laurels as he nears his 70th birthday, Gardiner continues to innovate and rethink his approach to Beethoven, as heard in this extraordinary concert. The overture to Egmont was supremely expressive, with curvaceous woodwind lines in the slow introduction and violent brass underpinning the full sections. A restless, tragic, windswept feeling hovered over this performance, and the small ensemble, huddled together at the center of the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, sounded crisp and unified. The third symphony, focused on a similar theme of revolutionary heroism, was an ingenious counterweight—both works were created around the time of the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte as emperor and the subsequent French assault on Vienna. [Read Review]
3. National Symphony Orchestra, Lorin Maazel, October 28
Lorin Maazel, one of the world’s most accomplished and most senior conductors, has entered a glowing, autumnal phase in his career. In rather active semi-retirement since stepping down two years ago from a sometimes rocky tenure at the New York Philharmonic, Maazel has been giving performances characterized by warm, lovingly crafted mentorship — not descriptions one could always apply to this most imperious of leaders. [Read review]
Liszt, Années de pèlerinage,
Louis Lortie
CHAN 10662(2) | 161'20"
4. Louis Lortie, Library of Congress, October 19
This recital reestablished Lortie in my estimation as one of the most gifted colorists at the piano and placed him at the top of my list of the best interpreters of Liszt’s keyboard music. He took Liszt’s often over-the-top romanticism at face value, giving the music its full drama without letting it descend into vulgarity. Each vignette received its own carefully calibrated soundscape of colors, from the ringing bells and nuptial hymn of the Sposalizio to the obsessive knell-like dotted-rhythm ostinato of Il Penseroso to the Mephistophelian snatches of impish motifs and fiercely virtuosic chaos of the Dante sonata movement. Lortie differentiated many voicings within each texture, creating luxuriantly paced, multilayered portraits of scenes or ideas inspired by the paintings of Raphael or the poetry of Petrarch and Dante. [Read review]
5. Hugo Wolf Quartett, Dumbarton Concerts, October 15
Unlike some other string quartets, these four musicians did not feel the need to scrape every last ounce of sound from the strings. Beginning with a glowing rendition of Schubert’s one-movement “Quartettsatz” in C minor, D. 703, they played with a mellow amber tone that was carefully balanced and rarified. The cello did not growl, the viola did not bark and the violins did not wail over the top of the ensemble. The intensity of the performance came from the fleet tempo and the rise and fall of expressive phrasing. [Read review]
Liszt Project, Pierre-Laurent Aimard
6. Pierre-Laurent Aimard, WPAS, May 5
The program, combining four one-movement re-imaginings of the piano sonata form (by Wagner, Berg, Scriabin, and Liszt), was ingenious. Three short Liszt pieces, all experiments with the dissolution of tonality and traditional musical forms from Liszt's final years, prefaced each of the first three, shorter sonatas. In every case, the ambiguous ending of the Liszt piece obscured the aural boundary with the piece that followed it, an effect enhanced by Aimard's insistence on silence throughout the entire first half, his hands held intentionally on the keyboard as if the piece had not yet ended. [Read review]
7. Christine Brewer, Vocal Arts D.C., March 23
Composer Alan Louis Smith set words taken from letters by First Lieutenant George W. Honts, who went to fight in World War II a year after he was married to his wife, Evelyn Honts. The harmonic idiom is mostly tonal and quite nostalgic, with a broad range of vocal styles that played to Brewer's strengths as a storyteller, although some songs take a more dissonant turn, like the clustered death-knell ostinato in the fifth song, as the first signs of battle are looming. The climax of the cycle, a heart-rending setting of the telegram notifying Evelyn of George's death, was devastating, especially the high-soaring shrieks at the core of the message ("THE SECRETARY OF WAR . . . DESIRES TO EXPRESS"), where each fortissimo high note sets the piano strings, thanks to a depressed pedal, shimmering with overtones. [Read review]
8. National Symphony Orchestra, Turangalîla-Symphonie, March 11
The sprawling Turangalîla-Symphonie is a dazzling, even stultifying piece that merits all of the epithets, kind and unkind, leveled at it over the years: most famously, Boulez dismissed it as "bordello music" for its obvious orgasmic moments (inspired by Messiaen's love for Yvonne Loriod, who would become his second wife) and Stravinsky said the work contained more embarrassment than riches ("plus d'embarras que de richesses") adding that "little more is needed to write such music than a copious supply of ink." Like so much of Messiaen's music, it binds together an impossible number of references and influences -- Indian rhythmic patterns, bird song, Tristan and Isolde, and much more -- with a vast orchestral palette, almost too large, too loud to absorb with the human ear. To hear it in live performance, even a less than perfect one like that led by Eschenbach, is an unforgettable experience. [Read review]
Kissin Plays Liszt
Live recordings, 1987-2003
(released on April 4, 2011)
9. Evgeny Kissin, WPAS, March 6
Kissin's program was limited in chronological scope, but Liszt's music sounded tenderly poetic, as in "Ricordanza" (the ninth Transcendental Etude), and far less saccharine. Even in "Venezia e Napoli," Liszt's Italianate reworking of Italian composers' themes, Kissin steered clear of the potentially treacly sentimentality of this kind of paraphrase. To no one's surprise, he also played Liszt's Piano Sonata, a work that unites many elements of his musical style: the almost keyless ambiguity of the opening theme; the metamorphosis of that theme through variation; extraordinary technical demands, and a seemingly programmatic narrative, in the manner of his tone poems for orchestra. No one knows for certain if Liszt intended the sonata to have a story, although both the Faust legend and the passion of Christ have been suggested, among many others. Kissin gave the work a driven urgency, taking no rhythmic freedom, even in the many astonishing passages in octaves, and achieving a glowing, glossy performance, alternating between sinister and angelic. [Read review]
10. Gluck, Iphigénie en Tauride, Washington National Opera, May 7
Without any daringly ornamented arias or anything extraneous that might divert attention from the story's dramatic continuity, a Gluck opera will succeed only with talented singing actors and compelling direction. There are almost none of the tried-and-true operatic clichés to fall back on, not even a romantic intrigue: the central relationship here is of brother and sister, who do not even recognize one another until the end. In the title role, soprano Patricia Racette was riveting, the searing strength of her voice underscoring the still intensity of her stage presence. Racette hit her stride, singing with lyrical abandon in the Act IV aria "Je t'implore et je tremble." [Read review]
Puer Natus Est: Tudor Music for Advent and Christmas, Stile Antico
Best Local Debut:
Stile Antico, Folger Library, April 2
Worst Concert:
Paul Appleby, Vocal Arts D.C., May 15
Best Opera Production:
Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor, Washington National Opera, November 10 and 12 (directed by David Alden)
Worst Opera Production:
Vivaldi, Griselda, Santa Fe Opera (directed by Peter Sellars)
Best Contemporary Program:
JACK Quartet, Mansion at Strathmore, November 5
Best Early Music Program:
Le Poème Harmonique, La Maison Française, February 19
Best Christmas Concert:
Folger Consort and guests, Music of Spanish Renaissance, December 10
Lux perpetua luceat eis:
The list of beloved artistic figures we lost this year includes playwright Václav Havel; singers Cesária Évora, Montserrat Figueras, Salvatore Licitra, and Margaret Price; writer Christopher Hitchens; composers John Gardner, Daniel Catán, John Barry, Peter Lieberson, Lee Hoiby, and Milton Babbitt; film directors Ken Russell and Sidney Lumet; actors John Wood, Elizabeth Taylor, and Pete Postelthwaite; violinist Josef Suk; painter Cy Twombly; and conductor Yakov Kreizberg. We also note the passing of Denis Dutton, the founder of Arts and Letters Daily; Roman Catholic Cardinal John Foley, the voice of American broadcasts from the Vatican; and musicologists Charles Hamm, Piero Weiss, and László Dobszay.
Filed under Best of the Year, Concert Reviews
Christmas Blah Blah Blah
Charles T. Downey, Choral Arts Society Christmas concert at the Kennedy Center
Washington Post, December 21, 2011
Norman Scribner, who has led the Choral Arts Society of Washington since founding it in 1965, has set the date of his retirement for next summer. Scribner’s leadership of this mammoth volunteer choir has certainly been consistent. The ensemble’s current season, offered in tribute to Scribner, is recapitulating his legacy down to the annual Christmas concert, heard Monday night.
Many people love concerts of Christmas music, certainly enough to fill most of the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. Much of the program was aimed at the group’s strength, which is full-bodied, strongly articulated singing, an ethos put clearly into words by Scribner when he instructed the audience for the inevitable carol singalongs with the gruff words, “Stand up and sing. LOUD.” This was true of both the rather unsubtle rendition of “Jauchzet, Frohlocket!,” from Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio,” and a lusty waltz scene from Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin,” made forceful by the sheer number of singers. [Continue reading]
It may be difficult to take seriously the idea of a war on Christmas, given how pervasive the holiday’s trappings are in the marketplace. In any case, it remains unclear on which side the forces of trivialization would be fighting.
Filed under Concert Reviews, Johann Sebastian Bach, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Washington Choral Arts Society, Washington Post
Getting in the Spirit: Alt-Christmas
On Sunday evening, there were two Christmas concerts after my own heart. This is not really a review, because of my friendly connection to the performers, but more an appreciation. First, Jeremy Filsell gave an organ recital at Washington National Cathedral, with a rare complete performance of Olivier Messiaen's La Nativité du Seigneur. It is a fairly youthful work, composed when Messiaen was still in his 20s, but it still hits all the hallmarks of the composer's intensely mystical style, just with a few more plain triads, fewer hallucinatory bird songs, and some unexpected humor. Filsell chose some exciting registrations: glowing stained-glass colors, whirring intense sounds, brassy theater organ fanfare, ominous low reeds clustered like bagpipes. In a pithy presentation on the work beforehand, Filsell explained some of the pictorial devices Messiaen embedded in the score, and many of them popped out in the performance, like the pastoral cantillation of the shepherds, the crunchy dissonant chords in time-suspending rhythmic patterns (hints of the Quatuor pour la fin du temps), the chaotic dancing of the angels, the heavy-footed slog of the wise men's camels. While parts of the piece are slow, even spare, there are some technical challenges, played here as thrilling toccatas.
Later that evening, it was out to the wilds of Virginia with my passport in hand for the second Christmas concert from the local all-male choir known as the Suspicious Cheese Lords. The venue kind enough to host the ensemble was Holy Spirit Catholic Church, one of those wood-and-carpet mid-20th-century buildings, with an acoustic that sounds like a living room. Still, this concert gets high marks for programming, proof yet again that Christmas programming really does not need to regurgitate Messiah and countless other tired pieces. The Lords, as is their wont, fed us with mostly unknown Renaissance motets, by the likes of Gregorio Turini, Leonhard Paminger, Melchor Robledo, Ivo de Vento, Dominique Phinot (an expansive Ave Maria, somber except for a glorious opening up at the words "O mater dei"), Giovanni Nanino, and Francesco de Layolle, all worth knowing.
More recent pieces were just as alluring, including the moody Christmas processional Voici la nuit (featured in the splendid film Of Gods and Men), Stephen Sametz's catchy, hocket-like Noel!, the austere American hymn Shepherds Rejoice (from The Sacred Harp), and the magnificent Three Kings by Canadian composer Healey Willan, who is always worth discovering further. Russell Weismann, organist and Associate Director of Music at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (where I sang for many years in the choir), added some unusual organ selections to the mix, from the theatrical use of bells and Zimbelstern in Richard Purvis's setting of Greensleeves to the crazy toccata of Keith Chapman's take on Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella.
Filed under Concert Reviews, Early Music, Olivier Messiaen
For Your Consideration: 'Melancholia'
If you have not realized it yet, you will die. If there is one thing of which you can be certain, it is that your days upon this planet are numbered. As obvious as that seems -- and most of us come to this realization quite young -- people often suddenly react to some development in life as if it suddenly makes them aware of the limits of time. Whether doomsayers are right about the supposed end predicted by the Mayan calendar, the imminent (and continually rescheduled) rapture or other world-ending cataclysm, or that enormous blue planet that was hiding behind the sun and is now hurtling toward an apocalyptic date with Earth does not alter the fact of your own inevitable demise.
In Melancholia, the stately, expansive new film from Lars von Trier, the implacable approach of the eponymous heavenly body, like an evil star in ancient astrology (and, like astrology, mostly nonsense, shown with stunning CGI effects by Pixomondo and Platige Image), may be the cause of the saturnine disposition of the leading lady, played by Kirsten Dunst -- or it may be only a justification of her own long-term negativity about the world. As Justine, a pretty, young creative writer of advertising, Dunst paints an infuriating and accurate portrayal of the personal disaster of depression, as she sabotages her own wedding (to a well-meaning but clueless Alexander Skarsgård) and alienates everyone who cares about her. No one can really blame Justine, given that she was apparently born this way and that she had despicably dysfunctional parents -- the sentimental yet suspiciously touchy John Hurt and the imperious Charlotte Rampling, who gives the acid-tongued wedding toast all of us have probably dreamed of making at some point. As is true in real life, unfortunately, people do blame her. Only her long-suffering sister and substitute maternal figure, Claire (played with patience by Charlotte Gainsbourg), remains devoted to her, in spite of Justine's many reasons to make herself hated.
In the Renaissance, melancholy was thought to inspire both artistic creativity and, in the worst cases, insanity. That combination seems to be behind Albrecht Dürer's engraving Melencolia I, from 1514, commonly interpreted as a self-portrait of the artistic temperament given over to imagination, which traps even the winged figure of genius in inaction. This seems to be the case for Dunst's Justine, who is hounded by her employer, played ruthlessly by Stellan Skarsgård, at the wedding reception for a tag line for his latest ad campaign -- and for Lars von Trier himself, who has long struggled with depression, often rendering him unable to work.
On the other hand, it is hard to feel sorry for Justine, or for Claire, whose story is brought more clearly into focus in the second part of the film. To use a contemporary metaphor, the film does not concern itself with how the 99% would react to the possibility of a cataclysm: there is no looting or lawlessness in evidence in the privileged lives of von Trier's characters. The entire film takes place at a secluded estate in an unspecified country, and in general the 1%-type tragedies that these wealthy people face, like Justine having wasted the outrageous sum spent by her brother-in-law (the vain, grouchy Kiefer Sutherland) on a failed wedding or Claire being shocked that the butler (a brilliantly dry Jesper Christensen, of The Debt) has not reported for work with a planetary collision looming, do not really garner much sympathy. I should have such problems.
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Melancholia is an intensely beautiful film (cinematography by Manuel Alberto Claro), with a tidal pace that may annoy many viewers, as will the frank examination of the unpleasantness of dealing with someone with depression. Von Trier has done a much better job of incorporating his story with its cosmic backdrop than a film with which it must inevitably be compared, Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life. The film feels longer than its 2.5-hour running time, because of the sense of suspension of time produced by von Trier's looping, sometimes non-narrative storytelling. The awkward cutting and splicing of the music from the prelude to Act I of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, which returns obsessively to the opening theme of that music like a manic tic or the gravitational pull of the approaching planet, bothered me at times, as it will anyone who is familiar with that opera -- but it did not annoy me as much as it did Alex Ross.
As far as von Trier's films go, Melancholia is one of the easiest to watch, since it does not confront the viewer so irritatingly with unpleasant subjects as some of his other movies (Dogville, Antichrist, Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, actually pretty much all of them). He also peppers the film with humor, like the bitchy wedding planner played by Udo Kier, in ways that do not undermine the seriousness of the story but that do help put the viewer more at ease. Don't worry, von Trier will be back in that territory soon enough: Charlotte Gainsbourg, it is being reported (in spite of von Trier's ouster from the Cannes Festival last spring, over an off-the-cuff remark about being a Nazi), will star in von Trier's next film, The Nymphomaniac, to be released in two versions, more and less raunchy.
This film is still screening at the recently reopened West End Cinema, at 23rd and M Streets NW, a theater we mourned when it went out of business and are glad to see back in action.
Tim Page, Filmmaker’s audacious teaming of his ‘Melancholia’ with Wagner’s music (Washington Post, December 23)
Filed under Film, Richard Wagner
In Brief: Chance of Snow Edition
Here is your regular Sunday selection of links to good things in Blogville and Beyond.
Watch James Conlon conduct the Orchestre de Paris and the Chœur de l'Orchestre de Paris (also available as audio only) in Debussy's Trois Nocturnes and Poulenc's Gloria (with Patricia Petibon as soloist), plus Samuel Barber's violin concerto with Gil Shaham. [ARTE Live Web]
Listen to a performance of Philip Glass's opera Les enfants terribles, with Emmanuel Olivier conducting the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, live from the Grand-Théâtre de Bordeaux. [France Musique]
More contemporary music, most of it inspired by rock music, with the so-called Fête de l'Humanité from the Parc de La Courneuve, including pieces by Didier Benetti, Graham Fitkin, Edgard Varèse, Frank Zappa, Iannis Xenakis, Christopher Rouse, and Stewart Copeland. [France Musique]
A concert devoted to music of John Cage, with the vocal ensemble Exaudi and friends, from the Théâtre de la Ville as part of the Festival d'Automne in Paris. [France Musique]
In hagiographical news, Pope Benedict XVI has announced that he will canonize Hildegard von Bingen, the medieval abbess, mystic, and composer, and name her a Doctor of the Church. Some see the move as a possible hint of movement from the Vatican to reform liturgical music practices in the Catholic Mass. [The Chant Café]
Watch Paul Agnew conduct Les Arts Florissants in a concert of Monteverdi's second book of madrigals. [Cité de la Musique Live]
Listen to the Chœur de Radio France perform sacred music by Liszt and Kodály, in the Basilique Sainte-Clotilde. [France Musique]
Watch Valery Gergiev conduct the Israel Philharmonic in Beethoven's third symphony, plus Gil Shaham in two violin concertos, by Bruch (no. 1) and Tchaikovsky. [ARTE Live Web]
Revisit the performances of the last two winners of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, Denis Kozhukhin and Anna Vinnitskaya. (Click on the headphones icon under the heading "(ré)écouter.") [France Musique]
Watch the Orchestre National du Capitole perform music by Tchaikovsky and Brahms, plus Musorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death with soloists Tugan Sokhiev and Olga Borodina. [Medici.tv]
Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in a program of Prokofiev, Roussel, and Strauss, with violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja. [France Musique]
For more ideas on good music to be heard, for little to nothing, Tim Page has a nice piece in this weekend's Washington Post. The paper's beloved former music critic is in town for a couple weeks as an end-of-the-year bonus for Washingtonians. [Washington Post]
Listen to soprano Polina Pasztirczak give a recital of German Lieder by Strauss and others, with pianists Jan Philip Schulze and Jean-Frédéric Neuburger. [France Musique]
As widely reported earlier this week, legendary harpsichordist, teacher, and early music luminary Gustav Leonhardt played what he says will be his last concert on Monday. Now 83 years old and appearing frail and thin at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris, Leonhardt says that health concerns required him to cancel the rest of his engagements in 2012. Jacques Drillon reported on the extraordinary event of this final concert: "The theater was packed, with some listeners even being seated on cushions on the floor, and the auditorium included a striking number of musicians, especially harpsichord players, all more or less his students, or students of his students." We wish him good health and some well-deserved rest. [Le Nouvel Observateur]
More Strauss and Mahler, this time chamber music performed by Jean-Frédéric Neuburger and friends. [France Musique]
The Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris is showing an exhibit of art by the German sculptor and painter Georg Baselitz, through January 29. Here is a video (en français). [Le Point]
The Chœur de Radio France and the Orchestre National de France perform Beethoven's Mass in C Major, under the baton of Colin Davis, plus Beethoven's fourth piano concerto with soloist Nicholas Angelich. [France Musique]
In another example of the worst parts of American culture invading France, Michel Legrand, among several others, has released an album of Christmas music. An article by Jessica Rat explains to the French what a Christmas album is. [L'Express]
Time for a review of classical CDs that were outstanding in 2011. My lists for the previous years: 2010, 2009, (2009 – “Almost”), 2008, (2008 - "Almost") 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004.
W.A. Mozart, Piano Sonatas, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Harmonia Mundi 907498
W.A.Mozart, Piano Sonatas v.2,
K.Bezuidenhout
For the longest time (well, a couple years, at least) my favorite Mozart Sonata CD on the fortepiano had been Kristian Bezuidenhout's disc on Fleur de Son. Well, move over Bezuidenhout and make room for... Bezuidenhout. Volume 2 of his survey of Mozart's music for solo keyboard on Harmonia Mundi is played on a Paul McNulty instrument, a copy of a Anton Walter & Sohn fortepiano from around 1802. (McNulty also supplies the incandescent Ronald Brautigam, arguably the king of the fortepiano if Bezuidenhout is its “prince” [The Times, UK].) The disc is choc-full of favorites (The sonata K.330, the Rondo K.511, the Adagio K.540...) and each one of them is played with freshness and a vividness that delights from the first note to the last. The playing and the quality of the instrument are such that we get all the intended benefits from the fortepiano (note separation, quicker decay, greater nimbleness, the more heterogeneous sound) with virtually none the downsides of the often clangy, twangy sound of the badly restored, dried-up fortepianos of yesteryear. Total joy!
A. Bruckner, Symphonies 3 - 9, Te Deum, Sergiu Celibidache, Munich Philharmonic, EMI 85578
A.Bruckner, Symphonies 3-9, Te Deum,
Celibidache, Munich Philharmonic
Celibidache’s work is least controversial in Bruckner, where that mysterious touch yielded lots of magic. Even if some performances don’t come across as well on record than they must have in the concert hall (specifically the Eighth), there’s so much greatness on this near-complete set (3 - 9 + Te Deum) that it has been one of the most sought after when it was hard to get… and should be the natural complimentary set to more mainstream cycles like Eugen Jochum’s or Günter Wand’s. The Third, Fifth, and Sixth are each my favorite interpretations of those symphonies – with his incredible slow-glow, he turns the often underrated Third and Sixth into highlights of the Bruckner canon, and the Fifth—despite a similar, very fine Thielemann interpretation with the same orchestra. (“Slow Food for the Ears”)—is non-pareil anyway. Finally they’re easily available again!
J.S. Bach, Original Works & Transcriptions, Evgeni Koroliov, Duo Koroliov, Tacet 192
J.S.Bach, Original Works & Transcriptions,
E.Koroliov, Duo Koroliov
Tacet 192
Transcriptions in general—and of Bach’s works or by Bach in particular—are a favorite topic of mine, and I collect recordings that suit that topic in a special box. The pile is ever growing; Marimba versions of the Cello Suites and Goldberg variations variously for harp, accordion, or various saxophone conglomerations abound. My favorite release of 2009—the Goldberg Variations in the Rheinberger-Reger arrangement—belonged to the category as well and this year’s Bach-transcription choice with Evgeni Koroliov and his wife continues very neatly in that line: Adaptations and arrangements for piano duo (and solo piano) by romantic composers (Liszt, Prelude & Fugue in A minor BWV 543), by Bach via-performer (the “Organ Mass” a.k.a. Clavierübung III, which are arrangements of chorales for organ performed on the piano), by the performer (Passacaglia for two pianos), and most delightfully of them all: various organ pieces by György Kurtág for two pianos on the audiophile Tacet label.
Taking Bach’s work from the organ to the modern grand piano is perhaps the most ‘natural’ among all the transcriptive steps, despite the fact that they’re based on two as-different-as-can-be ways of producing sound. With all the differences from one organ to another, and considering the piano’s ability to create a great variety of tonal colors (further increased when two pianos are aat work), the piano is really an organ by other means. If the organ is the king of instruments (although I’ve always thought of it, for all its pipes, as more or a resplendent queen or something gender-unspecific), the grand piano is the prince (and workhorse).
Leaving the ‘what’, ‘why’, and ‘how’ of transcribing and transcriptions aside for the time being, this disc is an absolute marvel. The work of the creative agents isn’t in this case the equal of their lowest common denominator (which would still be lofty, given the musicians involved), but achieves something as wonderful as—and just-slightly, wonderfully different than—the Bach original.
The Passacaglia, so dear to my heart, is oft transcribed and very happily so for two pianos, a version where I feel it can achieve its greatness almost more easily than in an average organ performance. Instigated by Busoni (who never made his own transcription of it), Bösendorfer even designed its Imperial Grand Piano to accommodate Bach’s writing for the grand organ sound of the Passacaglia. Koroliov’s idiomatic transcription is one of several two-piano arrangements (most famous of them probably Max Reger’s). Whether it is Koroliov and Ljupka Hadžigeorgieva’s playing or the transcription (or both) that makes the textures sound occasionally leaner than I am used to from the Reger versions is hard to tell; easy to tell is the propulsive-compelling excellence of the performance, though. Ditto the Liszt and Clavierübung III. Koroliov’s Ricercar a 6 from “The Musical Offering” (a transcription-favorite of mine in Webern’s brilliant orchestrated version) is a superb lead-in for the six Kurtág transcriptions that are such things of beauty that they bring metaphorical, sometimes literal, tears to my eyes.
Bach-Kurtág, Sonatina from "Gottes Zeit" BWV 106 (excerpt), Duo Koroliov, Tacet 192
The two and a half minutes of the Sonatina from the Actus Tragicus alone are invaluable, just for the beauty of the piece itself. But if you listen closer, also for how Kurtág teases out the interplay of the voices that, in the original, are made up of two recorders, violas, and da gambas. Elsewhere he emulates overtones by doubling the melody a twelfth above in pppp. Everywhere he exudes musical intelligence and humble passion for the great master’s music.
(Tacet does need better distribution in the US, though, and doesn't like working with German Amazon. The best deal can usually be had on Amazon.co.uk)
W.A. Mozart, The String Quartets, Quatuor Talich, La Dolce Volta 100
W.A.Mozart, Complete String Quartets,
Talich Quartet
La Dolce Volta
The Talich Quartet is one of my favorite string quartets on record and their sets of Mozart’s String Quintets and Mendelssohn’s String Quartets on Calliope atop my personal list in that repertoire. What makes them special is a relaxed musicality with just a hint of old fashioned comfort and genial musicality make up for sound that isn’t the equal of the best modern recordings, and for playing with something less than laser-like precision. Their Mozart String Quartet set includes the whole 'canonic' set of 23 Quartets, starting with K.73f "Lodi", making its way through the "Milan", "Vienna", "Haydn", and "Prussian" Quartets (+ “Hoffmeister” somewhere in there)... but not the early Divertimenti for string quartet – and it’s not far behind the String Quintets in quality Anyone with a hankering for old-world deliciousness will find the set tremendously rewarding… now that it is easily available again, thanks to a new re-issuing label called “La Dolce Volta”
M. Weinberg, "Die Passagierin", Teodor Currentzis, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Michelle Breedt et al., Neos Blu-ray & DVD
M.Weinberg, The Passenger ♀,
T.Currentzis / VSO / Breedt,
NEOS Blu-ray
I had tickets to Weinberg’s “The Passenger” (♀) in Bregenz, but something or other got in the way and I had to cancel. What a missed opportunity. It’s almost hard to say whether the recording of the production (NEOS) alleviates the regret, or heightens it – because everything: the work, the production (directed by David Pountney), the performance, and the transfer onto DVD/BluRay is terrific.
It is one of the happy developments of the last few years that Mieczysław Weinberg doesn’t even need an introduction anymore. When I first came across him in “Surprised by Beauty” (expanded second edition in the making) and when filing him at Tower Records (RIP), we still had about six different spellings of his name to make cross references for. Now that’s settled and Weinberg is enjoying a much deserved boom to which releases on Chandos, Toccata Classics, cpo, and Naxos (who are planning a symphony cycle with Antoni Wit) have enriched the catalog tremendously. ArkivMusic now lists over 60 CDs on which at least some Weinberg is found. (Compare that to poor Walter Braunfels who is still stuck at eight.)
Shostakovich, the most obvious reference in matters musical to Weinberg, said of this Holocaust-themed opera from 1967/68: “I simply cannot stop enthusing about Weinberg’s The Passenger. I’ve heard it three times now, studied the score, and every time I understand more of the beauty and greatness of this music. It is a work of consummate form and style and its subject extremely relevant. …Weinberg’s own life and fate have de facto dictated him the work; the drama of the opera’s music is harrowing… there isn’t a single ‘empty’ or indifferent note in it. …I’m glad for every opportunity to help this opera which I love and believe in.”
In 1960 two passengers recognize each other on an ocean liner to Brazil: Lisa – who was a guard at Auschwitz, now the wife of a West German diplomat – and Martha, who was under a polish inmate under Lisa’s direct jurisdiction. Flashbacks and Lisa’s attempts (with her husband) to deal with her past and the impossible moral schism that results from it lead the viewer through eight scenes and an epilog in two acts. Librettist Alexander Medvedev’s invention of Tadeusz, the musician-fiancé of Lisa, who fatally plays Bach’s Chaconne (which strikingly moves and morphs from soloist to orchestra to chorus) instead of the concentration camp commandant’s favorite waltz, introduces music ‘naturally’ into the opera.
Beyond brimstone, drama and harrowing bits, there are moments of radiant Britten-esque beauty and calm in the multi-lingual (German-English-Polish) Passenger; climaxes that could be found in Prokofiev, and admittedly brittle stretches. The Prague Philharmonic Choir and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Teodor Currentzis are worth singling out; ditto Michelle Breedt, who sings the part of Lisa. (Interview with her about that character here.) Production values are great throughout, except for the Chia-Pet-like shorn-hair ‘wigs’ that make the inmates look like cartoon hedgehogs in the close-ups… one of the snags of the superb picture quality of the BluRay. It comes with an exemplary booklet that includes a synopsis, Shostakovich’s text in full, and the libretto in four languages (English, German, French, and Polish). The DVD is out in Europe, and when the distributor Qualiton gets its act together, also in the US, soon.
G. Mahler, Symphony No.8, Kent Nagano, DSO Berlin, Sophie Koch, Sally Matthews et al, Harmonia Mundi 501858
G.Mahler, Symphony No.8,
K.Nagano / DSO Berlin
With mystery and sensuality second only to Seiji Ozawa (Philips), Nagano offers that sound from other spheres that few, if any, other Mahler Eighths (recent, live, or otherwise) achieve. The prominent organ in Nagano is a much appreciated touch, too. At 88 minutes (the time it takes him for the second movement is well spent!) it comes on two CDs, which made the—unfathomably short-lived—original release pricey compared to its rivals. In the lower priced hmGold re-release, that’s no longer an issue and the Mahler-addict can be glad to have one of the finest Eighths back in the catalog.
(Review of the original [SACD] release here: Live recordings of Mahler’s Eighth. The release was maligned by a hatchet review in Grammophone when it came out and was torn apart in comparison to Simon Rattle's lame Mahler 8th on Grammophone's 'in-house' label, EMI.)
R. Strauss, "Poesie", Diana Damrau, Christian Thielemann, Munich Philharmonic, Virgin Classics 628664
R.Strauss, Orchestral Songs,
D.Damrau / C.Thielemann / MuPhil
Virgin Classics
Her playfulness, her ease, her joyfully purled high notes, her melodious allure and the coy sparkle: Whether in opera or concert, Diana Damrau is a perfect joy to experience... capable of making believers out of doubters and turning hackneyed roles into three dimensional, intriguing characters. If you haven't the opportunity to hear Mme. Damrau live, the proof is in her latest pudding... err: CD release on Virgin Classics. Strauss' finest orchestral songs, recorded with the best Strauss-team available at the time: Christian Thielemann and the Munich Philharmonic.... The loving, caring sensitivity of Thielemann's support is oozing through the music everywhere; he accompanies in the best sense: eager to let Damrau and Strauss shine in the best possible light.
(Full review here: “Diana Damrau’s Strauss Sublime”)
F. Schubert et al., Symphonies, Dialog & Epilog, Jonathan Nott, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Tudor 1610
F.Schubert, Symphonies et al.,
J.Nott / Bamberg SO
Tudor SACDs
This damn set, because it is so incredibly fancy and shiny, doesn’t fit into any CD shelf. That’s beautifully annoying, but depending on how picky you are about sorting your music, it may not matter… or you will find a creative work-around. In any case, it’s the music that (presumably) matters. And this Schubert cycle is absolutely fantastic, making the most of the lesser symphonies (1-4) and turning in highly competitive versions of the magnificent Fifth, the “Little C major”, the unfinished Eighth, and the “Great” Ninth. Better, still, it includes the “Dialog” and “Epilog” CDs of their Schubert exploration, and those two CDs alone would be worth the recommendation. I’ve written about Luciano Berio’s Rendering just recently (“Schubert’s Ghost”), and the other works included (Aribert Reimann’s Metamorphosen on a Schubert Minuet, Hans Werner Henze’s Erlkönig, Schubert Choruses by Hans Zender, and Kurt Schwertsik’s Rosamunde Epilog) are also highly intriguing, consonant works of modern beauty. The “Dialog” CD includes Schubert-infused and tuned works by Jörg Widmann, Wolfgang Rihm, Bruno Mantovani, and Dieter Schnebel and is just as fascinating. That’s contemporary music made very, very easy… with a generous Schubert dollop to boot.
A. Scarlatti, Sonatas, Alexandre Tharaud, Virgin Classics 42016
D.Scarlatti, 18 Sonatas ,
A.Tharaud
Alexandre Tharaud is a regular on this list, with Bach (HMU, 2005), Chopin (HMU, 2006), Couperin (HMU, 2007), and the re-issue of the “baroque” trilogy (HMU, 2010). He has moved from Harmonia Mundi to the Virgin Classics label now, where he has released a decent Chopin album (“Journale intime”) and most recently a very lovely recording of Bach Concertos. But inclusion on this list comes courtesy of his Scarlatti (live review here: “A Case of Perpetual Puppy”), which is more than just lovely.
Tharaud cares about every note of Scarlatti he plays, which his D-minor Sonata Kk.64 demonstrates well. On the surface this is a straightforward firecracker that one might play faster or slower, more or less abrupt… but otherwise find little differentiation in. Yet the way Tharaud enriches every space between the notes with atmosphere is surprisingly, enjoyably distinct. In Kk.141 Tharaud proves Pletnevian spunk, and a peckish-puckish Elsewhere he shows a perfect balance of attitude and cool, quicksilver fleetness and coy bumps; is delightfully whimsical here, and employs ruffian vigor elsewhere. (Full review here: “Original and Happy Freaks”)
J.S. Bach, Wanda Landowska, Le Temple de la Musique Ancienne • Saint-Leu-la-Forêt, Paradizo PA0009
Italian Concerto et al.,
Wanda Landowska
Paradizo
The collection of Bach works performed by Wanda Landowska titled “Recordings from Le Temple de la Musique Ancienne” was specially re-mastered for Skip Sempé’s “Paradizo” label. The Partita in B-flat, Three Little Preludes, the Italian Concerto, the English Suite in A minor, and the Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue (recorded in 1935/36) present Landowska from her best side, they haven’t ever sounded that good before, and they certainly have never been re-issued with so much TLC. Sometimes her idea of “historical performance”, including her custom-built Pleyel instrument (which reminds me of Wendy Carlos' Bach, actually), are bemusedly belittled. But for all the anachronisms from a 21st century perspective, Landowska was earnestly concerned with early music, and in the 1920s its foremost champion without which the revival of old music in modern times but historical guise would certainly have come significantly slower and later. The release is a beautiful shrine to Landowska, her importance and her playing, but also to the lasting and multifaceted beauty of Bach.
(The DVD with the high resolution rare photos and documents somehow doesn’t work for me, despite having the latest version of the Adobe Reader… which means missing out on the letters from Landowska to Jean-Charles Moreux that she wrote while embarked on a concert tour of the US. I await word on how that .pdf file might be made to work and whether the file is at fault, or somehow my computer. Edit: I've been told that my troubles seem unique; a new DVD is on the way. Edit 2: Mea culpa: I did not have the latest version of the Adobe Reader, but 8.0. With 9.0 and above it works just fine and presents a real bonus, especially to those with an additional interest in architecture.)
F. Mompou, "Silent Music", Jenny Lin, Steinway & Sons 30004
F.Mompou, Música Callada ,
Frederic Mompou’s life spans modern history. He was three when Brahms died. When he died at the age of 94, Ronald Reagan had just told Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this Wall”. The British pianist Stephen Hough has aptly described Mompou as “Satie without cynicism”. Piano miniatures are the prominent output of both, but unlike his good acquaintance Satie, Mompou doesn’t seem to be hiding behind (disingenuous?) self-effacing humor. Mompou is serious about his little gems; the fact that they look humble and are short doesn’t seem to worry him. Rightly popular is his Música Callada (“Voice of Silence”) – somber yet charming, nostalgic but affirmative. Only the occasional gentle dissonance reminds of the 20th century... breaking like waves against the stoic music. Played with enough warmth, they are as enchanting and accessible as the softer hued Impresiones intimas or his lilting little dances—and apart from Herbert Henck, it is Jenny Lin who does exactly that. She creates tapestry of subtlety into which the ears can sink like an exhausted cat on extra thick shag carpeting. Since Henck’s release, I haven’t heard such felt, beautifully simple Mompou.
Russian & French Music, Sergiu Celibidache, Munich Philharmonic, EMI 85606
Russian & French Music,
S.Celibidache / MPhil
EMI - 11CDs
Sergiu Celibidache, the first post-War conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, attained something of a mythical reputation in the last 17 years of his career during which he shaped the Munich Philharmonic into his instrument and celebrated music with it in unique, usually uniquely slow fashion. He divided opinions greatly—and even the orchestra had moments during which they wanted to get rid of him. Fortunately for them, they realized then that an artistic vision and a strong music director were the best shot they had at fame and glory (or even just an international reputation), even if it meant dealing with an extremely difficult individual as their boss. (How different from these days!)
The results might have been uneven (at least on recordings—which Celibidache disapproved of—they have a wildly varying success rate), but at their best they were of literally unheard-of glory. The orchestra still lives off the fame that combination attained; in Munich, of course, and in fervently devoted Asian pockets. The results in French and Russian repertoire are among the happiest and those where lasting greatness can be easily weaned off the recorded legacy. His Pictures at an Exhibition, his Sheherazade, his Concerto for Orchestra (Bartók being conveniently russified for the purposes of this set), and his Debussy Ibéria are all astonishing... In the good sense, largely. Inexplicably, his superbly lush Romeo & Julia Overture is not included, but that doesn’t keep this from being an essential re-issue for those who adore gloriously celebrated orchestral music.
J. Friedman, Quartets, Chiara String Quartet & Matmos, New Amsterdam Records NWAM-030
J.Friedman, Quartets,
Chiara SQ4t / Matmos
New Amsterdam Records
From reading the nearly non-existent liner notes, or glancing at the cover, you really don’t know what you are getting into: “Jefferson Friedman Quartets” – presumably string quartets, given the involvement of the Chiara String Quartet. With both those ingredients being unknown quantities to me, I just plopped the CD, which came recommended to me by a friend in the music-PR business whose unfailing instinct and honesty I know better than to resist, into the player and let exploration and surprise take its course.
I listened with intrigue to the 1999 Quartet no.2, which despite its three movements being suspiciously titled “I - ♩= 120, II - Free ♩= ca.60, and III - ♪ - 180” is a work with a strong lyrical and beauty-embracing bent... and (later) Shostakovichean drive. Modern, discernibly, but with the immediate appeal that a healthy amount of consonance brings about. Allan Kozinn calls them “neo-romantic” in his enthusing New York Times review, which is an apt, if liberal description.
As I listened, still under the fairly recent impression of Mojca Erdmann’s Yellow Lounge disaster in Salzburg (a ghastly failure of the otherwise well-intentioned experiment in forcing classical music to be hip), I thought during the propelling first and archaic-romantic slow movement, that this might actually be suited very well for a playback in a club, subtly underscored by a repetitive beat of my own imagining.
Lo and behold: the fourth track does just that. Turns out that the “Matmos” timidly emblazoned on the cover, which I therefore overlooked or ignored, is a Baltimore-based (!) two-man band that likes to amplify crayfish nerve tissue, modify the succulent sounds of liposuction surgery, and rattle rat cages. Go look, it’s all true. Friends with the young (south-of-40) Friedman, they took their re-mixing approach (fairly conventional in this case, I’d say) to the two quartets on this disc which results in two electronically re-imagined distillations (five and ten minutes, respectively) of the music one has just heard. I can imagine many listeners that are (or think themselves) allergic to that kind of treatment, which so blurs the sacred boundaries between “serious” and “entertainment” music. Well, all the power to Matmos, all the same. Both, the originals and the re-mixes on this disc make for terrific music (Gabriel Prokofiev comes to mind, although I find Jeffereson/Matmos catchier stuff) and help erode the remnants of artificial borders that wish to divide categories that need not be divided.
The long, 17 minute slow movement “Act” of the 2005 String Quartet is like a modern meditation on Beethoven’s “Heiliger Dankgesang” – with an ethereal but never perfumed or esoteric quality that ends on slippery and sliding business which provides the contrast to the serene concluding “Epilogue/Lullaby”. Then comes the remix… in this case not something that would get you dirty on the dance floor, but with space-industrial qualities that make the ears perk. A refreshing, smartly entertaining release from New Amsterdam Records.
N. Rimsky-Korsakov, The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh, Valery Gergiev, Kirov (Mariinsky) Theater Orchestra & Chorus, Decca 1615802
N.Rimsky-Korsakov, The Legend Of The Invisible City Of Kitezh,
V.Gergiev / Kirov O&C
“Kitezh”, or if you are into full names “The Legend Of The Invisible City Of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya” is the most important Russian opera you don’t know about. And if you already know about it, it’s still the most important Russian opera you haven’t heard. And if you’ve actually heard it, then you most likely already have this seminal (live) recording with of Rimsky-Korsakov’s finest and (in the best sense) strangest opera. Or maybe you were so lucky to be at one of the two New York performances in 1995 and 2003, also with Gergiev. If you haven't, read Alex Ross’ article in the New Yorker about the latter performance here, and his 1998 Kitezh-themed Gergiev article.
If this is a seminal recording, it’s not because it somehow beats the competition to smithereens; there is no competition. But it’s also not just seminal because it’s the lone plausible recording, which might abuse its monopoly position with a lazy reading or shoddy performance. No, this is one of the early-ish examples on Philips (now rescued into the Decca catalog) of how Gergiev came to be the omnipresent maestro… It combines all his musical and persuasive strengths; his gruffness and his sweetness in music that is gorgeous and mystical, a Парсифаль—a Russian Parsifal—of sorts, a work that shows off why Rimsky was the undisputed master of orchestration, not just among Russian composers.
Story: The Prince Vsevolod , defender of legendary Kitezh, wishes, against family opposition, to marry the ‘common’ maiden Fevroniya, the very model of virtue. The latter endures mudslinging, then kidnapping, then the battle-field death of her betrothed. Tartars attack, but are foiled by the titular invisibility of Kitezh. Vsevolod (revived) and Fevroniya get to enjoy life-eternal within the city and the bad lead Tartar is forgiven. It’s not the worst, as far as opera story-boards go, but if you don’t understand Russian, your enjoyment-loss for this opera is minimal and the libretto very optional.
B. Bartók, The Violin Concertos, Arabella Steinbacher, Marek Janowski, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Pentatone SACD 478 2721
DSCH, Piano Concertos, PQ5t,
M.Helmchen / V.Jurowski / LPO
Technically Arabella Steinbacher’s recording of the Bartók Concertos is a 2010 release. But logistical issues kept me from getting it in time for the 2010 “Best of” list and I certainly don’t want it to fall by the wayside. (The fact that her latest recording—the Brahms Violin Sonatas—is such a gruesome dud only increases my determination to sing this release’s most deserved praises.)
Since hearing this violinist in concert some 11 years ago, I’ve followed her career with interest—an interest that regularly pays dividends in the form of excellent recordings. First there were the Milhaud concertos, an interesting and intelligent, if not particularly emotional release (Orfeo). Eventually, by way of totally committed Piazzolla, came the Shostakovich concertos that gave a sneak preview of the skill of Andris Nelsons (with the BRSO, Orfeo). The release after that might be the best to-date: The Beethoven concerto because of Nelsons (and the WDR SO) and the coupled Berg concerto because of Mlle. Steinbacher’s heart-wrenchingly lyrical interpretation.
As her Chumachenco-classmate Julia Fischer moved from Pentatone to Decca, Steinbacher filled the gap and moved from Orfeo to Penatone. The first release on the new label meant tantalizing Dvořák coupled with Szymanowski ‘One’ (Marek Janowski, RSO Berlin). A straggler on Orfeo with the Brahms Concerto (coupled with a Schumann ‘Four’, all with Luisi piloting the VSO) came out this year but hasn’t made it across my desk yet.
Despite these fine releases with nary a clunker among them, I still never know what to expect from the violinist, whose interpretative range runs the gamut from earthy tenacity to dainty prettiness; from fierce to polite to bland. Perhaps I should have been less surprised at how good this Bartók is, and more at how boring the Brahms, but happy surprise isn’t the reason why this CD makes the list – it’s the combination of the above mentioned qualities applied in just the right measure in the right places.
Bela Bartók’s first, two-movement, concerto is a story of admiration and infatuation gone wrong; Bartók wishfully hoped for a relationship with the Swiss violinist Stefi Geyer who would, alas, have none of it. Image-googling the lady makes Bartók’s fixation look somewhat reasonable; pictures show a beautiful (but cool, dispassionate) face attached to the fiddling rest. Miss Geyer made sure Bartók didn’t harbor any false hopes, but she still accepted the concerto, kept the score, put it in a drawer, and never played it. It needed Paul Sacher to instigate the world premiere performance in 1958; thirteen years after Bartók’s and two years after Geyer’s death.
The liner notes call the Second Concerto “arguably [the] most important violin concerto of the 20th century”. That’s a little ambitious, given Berg, Sibelius, and Prokofiev in the wings, especially for a work that somehow manages to just fly beneath the radar, despite being well recorded. (James Ehnes, Barnabás Kelemen, and Valeriy Sokolov in 2011 alone.)
In sweetness as well as grit, the soloist, Marek Janowski, and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, offer a tremendous reading that seems to get everything right, in both concertos. Hearing Bartók’s Second like this, ever tasteful but never boring, one is actually tempted to believe the bit about it being the most important violin concerto of the 20th century… or at least the most fascinating one.
R. Strauss, An Alpine Symphony, Bernard Haitink, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Newton Classics 8802054
R.Strauss, Eine Alpensinfonie,
B.Haitink / RCO
Newton Classics
Newton Classics is one of the most interesting new re-issue labels. It produces high quality, mid-priced releases (rather than super-bargain budget cheapos without corporate design or liner notes) of venerable classics, emotional favorites, and curiously out-of-print performances both recent and mature. Its founder Theo Lap has worked in licensing ‘from the other side’ for EMI and Universal and knows that aspect of the business inside out. He knows that even recordings that never quite garnered universal praise (or, to be more blunt: recordings I wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole) can find a nice and steady market of ‘appreciateurs’, and that the success of a performance need not depend on whether it is (or isn’t) available in other versions and at different price points. Many of Newton Classics re-releases are from the digital age that saw so many mainstream issuances that many a disc never made the splash a similar such recording might make today: a Brahms Cycle with the Vienna Philharmonic under Giulini, or a Schumann cycle with the same band under Muti, for example.
Most of Newton Classics' sources come from the Universal Music catalog so far – with lots of former Philips products among them; perhaps because Universal itself can’t catch up with re-issuing that rich catalogue on Decca, since they no longer have the rights to the Philips name. Mercury Living Presence (like Byron Janis’ Liszt) is well represented, too. Standouts are Firkusny or the Hagen Quartet in Janáček, Markevitch’s Tchaikovsky-cycle with the LSO, or a 1998 HIP “Trout” around Jos van Immerseel that Sony let slip through their fingers.
Bernard Haitink’s 1985 Alpine Symphony, with its stupendous mix of dainty touches, ferocious dynamism, and lyrical tenderness – all in excellent sound and with the colorfully glittering Royal Concertgebouw – was one of the finest Alpine Symphonies when it came out on Philips in 1986. With Haitink recordings, it’s an odd thing – the worst of them are still good and ‘tolerated’ in the catalogue as inoffensive, solidly played and usually good sounding 'also-rans'. And the best ones don’t inspire particular fervor, either… go underappreciated sometimes, and occasionally are not loved for what they were until after they have been deleted. Something like that happened to this Alpine Symphony… but Newton Classics has revived it now and the man from the Low Countries can show of his mountainous glory again.
The only snag: Haitink has since delivered another blistering account with the LSO (LSO Live, Best of 2010) that plumbs the depths a little deeper, and shines brighter atop, which would make up for the minimally smaller amount of color and surprise (present here). If one had to chose only one. Which one doesn’t, anymore.
L. v. Beethoven, The Symphonies & Overtures, Riccardo Chailly, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchester, Decca 478 2721
LvB, Symphonies & Overtures,
R.Chailly et al. / LGO
Somehow Riccardo Chailly has managed never to record any Beethoven* (except for the Mass in C) in his long conducting career. Not, that is, until he performed and recorded Beethoven with his Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchester over the last couple of years. (Interview with Chailly about Beethoven here: “The Band that Beethoven Knew”) Decca issued the recordings—which includes all the Overtures—on a beautiful, luxurious box, and for the most part the interpretations fulfill the promise of Chailly’s statements:
“If we don’t surprise with the works we play, at least I hope we will surprise with the interpretations. Our Beethoven has come a long way and has shook up things a little, here in Leizpig. It was new for the orchestra, but after the initial surprise, the players saw the musical reasons behind it and followed with great believe and courage. That doesn’t mean changing the sound of the orchestra, though. You can’t ‘improve’ that. And it would be criminal to do so.”
The readings are also in line with my impression of Chailly aging into an ever more interesting, more daring, darker musician, instead of letting a mellow, routine dangle creep into his conducting. The First and Second Symphonies are bold works of romantic brawn and classical speed. The Third is very tightly argued and at 42 minutes (with repeats) one of the quickest on record. The Fourth, strangely, falls flat – at least to my ears, spoiled by the dancing Fourth from Vänskä & Minnesota, it’s a near-total dud. It remains the only unsatisfactory work… the next, the Fifth, is downright threatening with grim drama; well suited to frightening children and pets. The first time I listened to it, I underwent a strange sense of fascinating discomfort, not unlike a touch of vertigo… An experience ultimately much more fascinating than discomfiting.
The Overtures are irritable and gruff, dissonances are emphasized and while the lyrical lacunae are always serene, they are usually short. The “Name Day Overture” which kneels before Chailly a humble, forgotten work, rises a grand, superbly entertaining piece. Coupling it (plus the King Stephen Overture) with the wild but breezy Ninth Symphony further highlights Beethoven’s use of earlier works to sketch out the famous themes of his last symphony.
Part of the robust darkness of the set stems from the famously ‘dark’, varnished Gewandhaus sound, already impressive in the previous Leipzig Beethoven cycles under Franz Konwitschny (Berlin Classics) and Masur (1970s, Philips/Pentatone and again in the 90s, Philips). Masur’s first cycle has its followers, but except for the LGO-sound (not yet performed in the new hall, and sonically not ideal), it’s a drowsy affair. With superb sound taken from the new Gewandhaus hall, a contemporary interpretive edge, and brimming with personality, Chailly’s Beethoven—combining in it the new and old—isn’t just the Leipzig-cycle of choice, it is one of the most interesting and finest modern cycles, and utterly unique. Not my first-choice for a Beethoven cycle (Järvi, RCA or Vänskä, BIS currently), but one of the top complementary cycles.
* As a few readers have rightly pointed out, Chailly did record some more Beethoven; in the 80s he and Alicia DeLarrocha put down the five Piano Concertos on Decca. Long since deleted, it made a brief re-appearance on Decca Eclipse, but those recordings are also OOP.
D. Shostakovich, The String Quartets, Mandelring Quartet, Audite 5 SACDs 21.411
DSCH, SQ4ts 1-15,
Mandelring Quartet
Audite 5 SACDs
I have written about the Mandelring’s Shostakovich recordings before (2008, “Shostakovich with the Mandelring Quartet”, “First Impressions and Shostakovich” 2010, (“Notes from the 2011 Salzburg Festival ( 18 )” 2011) – and always with calm enthusiasm… not unlike the playing of the German quartet in these interpretations. It goes something like this:
“The sheer beauty of all of Shostakovich’s brilliantly harrowing ugliness that these discs offer […] is something to behold… The Mandelring Quartett offers more beauty and less gore in Shostakovich than one would expect if the only reference were the performances of the (all-Russian) “Borodin”, “Beethoven”, or “Shostakovich” Quartets. They accentuate surfaces more than spikes and corners; their rhythmic beat is propulsive but rarely maniacal. They are DSCH-seducers, not DSCH-enforcers… which is not to say that they can’t work up an awesome storm. One must merely first get out of ‘Borodin-mode’ to listen to the Mandelring Quartett and gain the maximum reward from their sessions with Dmitry.”
In short: there's much awesomeness to be had here, and in state-of-the-art sound at that.
# 10 - New Release
D. Shostakovich, Piano Concertos & Piano Quintet, Martin Helmchen, Vladimir Jurowski, LPO, LPO 0053
During a musical tour of London in 2009, the orchestral highlight was a night with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under their Principal Conductor Vladimir Jurowski. A cracking, tight Mahler First was still topped when Martin Helmchen married Mozartean lightness to Chopin-romanticism in a world-class performance of Shostakovich’s Second Piano Concerto. The LPO’s own label recorded that performance, added it to a performance of the First Concerto (with similar qualities) from exactly one year before that, and waited another year to generously add the Piano Quintet in G Minor, performed by Helmchen with the LPO’s principal string players at Henry Wood Hall.
Helmchen, admittedly, wouldn’t have been the first pianist to come to my mind thinking of ‘great Shostakovich’. I know him as a master of moderation, terribly serious, at home with the ‘Viennese Classics’, 19th century repertoire, and of a disposition that favors subtlety over attack; refinement over edges, depth over flash. His performances usually kick in on the third listen, rarely on the first.
But then Shostakovich’s Piano Concertos—certainly not the Second and not the First, either—are hardly the gruff-and-rough works that his symphonies would suggest or as tensely focused and acerbic as his string quartets. They’re among the lightest, even fluffiest among Shostakovich’s ‘repertoire works’… closest in spirit to his Ninth Symphony, and sometimes closer still to works like Tahiti Trot or The Golden Age. Nor does Helmchen hold back when holding back would be a hindrance; the cadenzas and the furious closing gallop before the gleefully celebratory finale of the First Concerto are all played up with abandon and humor… the Andante of the Second with such superlatively touching, restrained and pliable lyricism that it must be heard to be believed.
# 10 – Reissue
A. Boito, Mefistofele, soloists, Julius Rudel, LSO, EMI 0879562
A.Boito, Mefistofele,
Rudel / LSO / Treigle, Domingo, Caballé et al.
Arrigo Boito’s Mefistofele is one of my favorite operas; certainly one of my favorite Italian operas. Like many non-German treatments of the subject, Boito has no compunctions about going straight to Goethe for his self-written libretto. With Germanic sincerity (lacking, as Boito found, in Gounod’s Faust) and great admiration for Wagner, he tackled the daunting subject in a style that was well ahead of his time. If you wonder how important Boito and his advice were to Verdi’s last few operas, just check out Mefistofele!
For years, there have only been two realistic choices among recordings: Julius Rudel’s EMI account (1973, Treigle, Domingo, Caballé), and Oliviero de Fabritiis’ on Decca (1985, Ghiaurov, Pavarotti, Freni). Riccardo Muti’s recording from La Scala (RCA, 1995, Ramey, La Scola, Crider) was in and out of print so fast it never quite registered; ditto Giuseppe Patané’s Budapest recording (Sony, 1988, Ramey, Domingo, Marton). Everything else is either old, pirated, or negligible. Only this year did Naxos add an account from Palermo to this (also available on DVD from Dynamic).
I grabbed the excellent Decca account when it was re-issued a few years back, but the EMI recording still reigns supreme. Not only is the swift and bold conducting of Rudel so much more entertaining than the languorously celebratory style of Fabritiis, the EMI cast also seems more dramatically involved and homogenous, rather than just concerned with sounding good. That goes particularly for Norman Treigle who simply does not sound as gorgeous as Ghiaurov in his prime, but whose embodiment of the role—especially when he starts whistling with gusto—just gels. How good to have it re-released as part of EMI’s “The Home of Opera” series.
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7. Commitments
in Note 2, “Summary of Significant Accounting Policies”, we adopted Topic 842 as of January 1, 2019.
In December 2010, the Company entered into a
non-cancellable
operating lease for office space and laboratory facilities in Yonkers, New York expiring in December 2025. In December 2011, the Company entered into an amendment which extended the term of the lease through December 2027 (the “Third Floor Lease”). The lease provides for the option to renew for two additional five-year terms. The premises were occupied in June 2011. Monthly rent payments began the date the office and laboratory facilities were ready for occupancy.
In January 2012, the Company entered into a
operating lease for additional office space and laboratory facilities in the same building in Yonkers, New York expiring in December 2027 (the “Fourth Floor Lease”). The Fourth Floor Lease provides for an option to renew for two additional five-year terms. Effective August 1, 2017, the Company relinquished 10,912 square feet of space under the Fourth Floor Lease and was relieved of its obligations related to such space.
The Company performed an evaluation of its other contracts in accordance with Topic 842 and has determined that, except for the leases described above, none of its contracts contain a lease.
The balance sheet classification of the Company’s lease liabilities was as follows:
Operating lease liabilities:
Current portion of lease liabilities
$ 641,249 $ 631,889
Long-term portion of lease liabilities
$ 3,038,056 $ 3,264,128
Operating lease liabilities are based on the net present value of the remaining lease payments over the remaining lease term. The leases are renewable at the end of the lease term at our option. For the purposes of determining the remaining lease term in contemplation of available extensions, the Company did not consider either renewal to be probable at this time. In determining the present value of lease payments, the Company estimated its incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at the adoption date of Topic 842. As of January 1, 2019, the remaining lease term was 9.0 years and the discount rate used to determine the operating lease liability was 9.93%.
As of September 30, 2020, the maturities of the Company’s operating lease liabilities were as follows:
October 1, 2020-December 31, 2020
Year ending December 31:
Total lease payments
Less: Present value adjustment
(1,540,515 )
Operating lease liabilities
Lease costs under the terms of the Company’s leases for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 were as follows:
Operating lease cost (1)
$ 153,734 $ 153,809 $ 460,756 $ 460,990
Variable lease costs (2)
Total lease cost
Operating lease payments included in the measurement of the Company’s lease liabilities are comprised of fixed payments according to the terms of the Company’s leases.
Variable lease payments consist of the Company’s utility costs billed by and paid to its landlord. Variable lease payments are presented as operating expenses in the Company’s Consolidated Statement of Operations in the same line item as expense arising from fixed lease payments and in net cash used in operating activities in the Company’s Statement of Cash Flows.
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Erica Russell
Courtesy of @thatssorose
Despite the countless disasters 2020 has thrown at us, Megan Vice and TT The Artist are "Feeling Good" on their groovy new collab.
Premiering exclusively on PopCrush, "Feeling Good" is a colorful, disco-infused throwback to the neon-tinged bloghaus days we spent dancing in sweaty underground venues, with not a care in the world. The vibe? Kylie Minogue meets Bruno Mars meets Pharrell, perfect for parties and music festivals—even if we can't attend them right now.
“‘Feeling Good’ is about the moment when you finally come out of the other end of heartbreak — you’ve healed, done the inner-work and unlocked a new level of self-worth you never thought could exist," Vice says of the Kyle Kelso-produced track, which manifested during a night in the studio after Vice had just ended a long-term relationship and was finally "feeling good" again.
After moving to Los Angeles, Vice linked up with rapper TT through a mutual friend and "instantly fell in love with her vibes."
"When Megan reached out to me and said she wanted to release her single on my women-focused record label, Club Queen Records, the first question I asked her was her vision was for this record. She said she wanted every DJ to play it and every artist, no matter what genre, to remix it," TT shares, adding that Vice "had the ambition and vision, so we decided to team up."
Listen to the upbeat party anthem, below:
But the track isn't just about letting go of what doesn't serve us—it's also an unabashed celebration of good things to come, and a bona fide New Year's anthem to boot.
"After experiencing such devastation over the past nine months, feeling like our lives have been stolen from us, we wanted to give the world a fire comeback anthem to hit the streets with in the New Year," Vice explains. "We voted that demagogue out of office, a vaccine is finally on its way to the people, we’ve elected the most ethnically and racially diverse congress in history and we’re about to enter the Age of Aquarius — leading us into what is sure to be the Roaring Twenties, 2.0."
"I am super excited about bringing good vibes and affirmations to the world through our music," TT says. "I think 'Feeling Good' is the soundtrack that people need right now. 2020 is almost over, so get ready to set those New Year's resolutions and when the virtual ball drops, turn the volume up all the way and feel good!"
"I’m ready to fiercely and unapologetically follow my bliss," Vice adds. "2021 is the year of feeling good—and everyone’s invited. See ya there!”
Source: Megan Vice and TT The Artist Are ‘Feeling Good’ on Their Optimistic New Bop (EXCLUSIVE)
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Long Beach Has Hits, Misses in National Bicycling and Walking Report
Brian Addison
Photo by Brian Addison.
The Alliance for Biking & Walking has released its massive benchmarking report which takes 52 major US cities and analyzes them in terms of biking/walking friendliness, with Long Beach showing both strengths and weaknesses as it moves forward toward its goal of becoming the nation’s most bike friendly city.
The point of the report is simple: to make sure that hard data is taken into account as active transportation, Open Streets, and livable urban centers become the increasingly popular trend in city government.
This isn’t to say that the trend is overtly massive: only 1% of all trips in the US are taken by bicycle and 10.4% on foot. But the key, as the report notes, is not the direct number but its growth. With an increasing rate that cannot go unnoticed—particularly in urban centers—the need for municipalities to create infrastructure ahead of time is becoming crucial.
In its strongest showing, Long Beach ranked third in the most miles of bike facilities per square mile, just behind San Francisco and Austin. Long Beach is home to 4.5 miles of biking facilities per square mile, while Austin has 4.6 miles/square mile and San Francisco has 7.8 miles/square mile. This is why some publications had mistakenly described Long Beach as “the third most bike friendly city” in the States.
The report shows many areas where Long Beach still needs work. Long Beach came in:
#24 in regard to overall commuter bike/walk levels
#29 on per capita spending for bike/pedestrian projects
#23 in the lowest bike/pedestrian fatality rates
#12 on recommending physical activity for its population
#17 for the number of people who bike to work and
#27 for people who walk to work.
In terms of how we count commuters by bike or foot, we fall behind cities like golden-star commuter counter Minneapolis: not only does the city include biking/commuter counts, they handout household surveys, conduct cordon counts, have three automatic loop detectors, and hold annual counts at 40 benchmark locations.
Also, the only published goal we have as a city is to increase bicycling, with the report noting that we have no published goals to increase walking, increase physical activity, or decrease bike/pedestrian fatalities.
Strangely, the report misstated that Long Beach has an active bike share system—confusing considering there is not a single kiosk in the city following a long-ago agreed partnership with Bike Nation. The report claims we have some 25 operating stations that house 400 shared bikes; it is unclear as to where or how they received this information.
This isn’t to say that we didn’t have other great moments: we, like our LA neighbor, don’t limit the number of bicycles that can board transit trains. We have a massive number of educational and encouragement opportunities that cater to everything from youths and adults needing to learn how to commute safely, to Open Streets initiatives geared toward balancing motorist and cyclist/pedestrian needs. Long Beach has the nation’s largest youth biking participation with nearly 37,000 youth education participants. Much of our City staff partakes in walking and biking, along with a large advocacy staff to help encourage City initiatives.
Oh, and a fun fact: we have 17 bicycle traffic lights, the second-largest number in the nation (New York City has more, for obvious density reasons, with 190 bicycle traffic lights).
The number one state overall in regard to getting its citizens to bike and walk while providing them the tools to do so? Alaska. That’s right: Alaska is not only home to the nation’s highest level of commuter bicyclists and walkers, but also spends the most per capita on bike/pedestrian projects while boasting one of the lowest bike/pedestrian fatality rates.
The organization began its benchmarking project in 2003, collecting data for 15 cities and 15 states and publishing the first report in 2004. Now, 52 major U.S. cities partake in the report.
Brian Addison has been a writer, editor, and photographer for more than a decade, covering everything from food and culture to transportation and housing. In 2015, he was named Journalist of the Year by the Los Angeles Press Club and has since garnered 19 nominations and two additional wins for Best Political Commentary for his work at KCET and Best Blog for Longbeachize, a section of the Long Beach Post. In 2019, he was awarded the Food/Culture Critic of the Year across any platform at the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards. Brian currently serves as a columnist and editor for the Long Beach Post.
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Residents plea for more police after crime rate spikes
October 23, 2018 by leicestershirepress Leave a Comment
By Olivia Mumby
Residents of Leicester’s Elston Fields area are calling for an increase in police presence after a recent spike in crime in the area.
The park, known as ‘Tick-tock park’, is near Saffron Lane and has seen an increase in crime over the past few weeks.
Most recently, a white Audi was found burning on the children’s play area.
Residents of the area are now calling for more officers on the street and for CCTV cameras to be installed in the park in an effort to deter criminals from operating in the area.
Speaking via Facebook, resident Mark Rowley said: “In the last week we’ve had a burnt-out motorcycle and now a car on Tick-tock park.
“Is there any chance of a more frequent police presence in this area? Installation of CCTV cameras would make us all feel much safer.
“It could save the council money instead of having to install new fencing and removing the vehicles.”
Speaking of a recent stabbing that occurred in Southfields Drive, where a man was killed, Mr Rowley said: “There’s been a stabbing, now a death – it’s extremely unnerving.”
As yet, there has been no word from the council about the resident’s concerns.
Mr Rowley continued: “There’s been two mopeds in the last couple of weeks too, they have been set alight and abandoned, leaving the tarmac footpaths in a scorched condition.
“It’s not fair to the decent families who want a safe place to live.”
Another resident, Amy Morgan, said: “There have been numerous stabbings in Leicester of late.
“We need more police officers on our streets but down to government cut-backs, I can’t see this happening in the near future, maybe more neighbourhood watch groups and youth groups working with this issue could help.”
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Little Words.
Spirituality & Inspiration By Elle Sommer
We were headed for the City of Angels and ran into challenges, with a short delay, in airline terms, of an hour and a half, due to mechanical failure. Airline speak for one of the overhead bins is broken. It took two engineers an hour and a half to tape the bin. I wish they’d told me what the problem was, I’m a dab hand and taping things and could have done it in five minutes. Oh well.
The connecting flight left without us, probably the first time ever that I’ve seen the departure board say… flight departed… when it was my flight. I found it a little disconcerting and disheartening and maybe a teeny bit demoralizing all at the same time. We had made great plans. Up at four thirty in the morning to get a really, really early flight, get to LA at a decent time and…blah blah blah.
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The agents weren’t having a good time either…it was early in the morning and they had a plane load of unhappy passengers clamouring to know about connecting flights while lamenting their fate, lambasting the airline in general and the ticket agents specifically. Not a pretty sight. They were frazzled, brows furrowed, hunched over their computers trying to placate irritated people while remaining polite and calm.
I wondered how they did it? These airline representatives were dealing with hordes of passengers every day some of whom were not going to be very happy, including me. What a thankless task they had. I stopped feeling sorry for me and began to feel sorry for them. It wasn’t their fault that someone was incompetent, or that regulations had prevented the engineers from asking me to tape the bin.
I remembered my Mum telling us to pay attention to the little words that make a difference like thank you, great job, you’re brilliant, you’re my hero, you’re wonderful, I love you.
Whilst I didn’t tell the agent that I loved her I will tell you that when we walked away with a seat on the very next flight to LA she had a smile on her face as she greeted her next customer.
My Mum was right, little words can have a big impact.
Elle Sommer is the author of the Mindset Mastery Series and when she's not searching for the secrets of the Universe or discovering a new technique that supports her growth and life expansion, she's on a mission to support others to become the best version of themselves through her popular personal development website Live Purposefully Now. Her website features original weekly articles on happiness, inspiration, gratitude, productivity, success, wealth, hope, and positive living. Her greatest desire is to encourage and inspire others to build the business, relationships and life they want.
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GMS 9 years ago Reply
your mum was brilliant, words (spoken and unspoken) powerfully impact others as well as ourselves
christine 9 years ago Reply
How lucky we were to have a mum like that.
Elle Post Author 9 years ago Reply
We are blessed indeed.
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Biomusicology (or Better Living Through Music)
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
Excerpts from scientific articles:
1) One of the most curious effects of music is that it compels us to move in synchrony with its beat. This behavior, also referred to as entrainment, includes spontaneous or deliberate finger and foot tapping, head nodding, and body swaying. The most striking of these phenomena is dancing: a human universal typically involving whole-body movements. Dancing rests on humans’ unique ability to tightly couple auditory-motor circuits.
— Marcel Zentner and Tuomas Eerola, U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, “Rhythmic Engagement with Music in Infancy”
2) The ability to follow a beat is called beat induction. Neither chimpanzees nor bonobos—our closest primate relatives—are capable of beat induction, which is considered both a uniquely human trait and a cognitive building block of music….
“We hear music, we clap along. Music becomes faster or slower, and we can dance to it,” said Honing [Henkjan Honing of the University of Amsterdam’s Music Cognition Group], lead author of the study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [“Newborn Infants Detect the Beat in Music” Vol. 106, No. 4, Jan. 26, 2009].
— Brandon Keim, “Baby Got Beat: Music May Be Inborn”
3) [Neuroscientist Valorie Salimpoor of the Rotman Research Institute in Toronto, Canada, and Robert Zatorre at McGill University’s Montreal Neurological Institute] showed that listeners’ dopamine levels in pleasure centers surged during key passages of favorite music, but also just a moment before—as if the brain was anticipating the crescendo to come.
…Our brains are well-suited to using patterns, such as the structure of music, to predict the future. “We’re constantly making predictions, even if we don’t know the music,” Salimpoor says. “We’re still predicting how it should unfold.”
These predictions are based on past musical experience, so classical fans will have different expectations than punk devotees. But when the music turns out better than the brain expected, the nucleus accumbens fires off with delight.
— Paul Gabrielsen, “Why Your Brain Loves That New Song”
4) In fact, it’s music’s dual ability to distract attention (a psychological effect) while simultaneously goosing the heart and the muscles (physiological impacts) that makes it so effective during everyday exercise. Multiple experiments have found that music increases a person’s subjective sense of motivation during a workout, and also concretely affects his or her performance.
[Later in the article, Nina Kraus, a professor of neurobiology at Northwestern University in Illinois, who studies the effects of music on the nervous system, is quoted.] “Humans and songbirds” are the only creatures “that automatically feel the beat” of a song, she said. The human heart wants to synchronize to music, the legs want to swing, metronomically, to a beat. So the next time you go for a moderate run or bike ride, first increase the tempo of some insidiously catchy Lady Gaga downloads (or Justin Bieber or Katy Perry or whatever reflects the current popular taste in your household), and load them on your iPod. “Our bodies,” Dr. Kraus concluded, “are made to be moved by music and move to it.”
— Gretchen Reynolds, “Phys Ed: Does Music Make You Exercise Harder?”
5) In the last 10 years the body of research on workout music has swelled considerably, helping psychologists refine their ideas about why exercise and music are such an effective pairing for so many people as well as how music changes the body and mind during physical exertion. Music distracts people from pain and fatigue, elevates mood, increases endurance, reduces perceived effort and may even promote metabolic efficiency. When listening to music, people run farther, bike longer and swim faster than usual—often without realizing it. In a 2012 review of the research, Costas Karageorghis of Brunel University in London, one of the world’s leading experts on the psychology of exercise music, wrote that one could think of music as “a type of legal performance-enhancing drug.”
[Later in the article, cognitive neuroscientist Jessica Grahn of Western University’s Brain and Mind Institute in Ontario, Canada, is quoted.] “We have also known for decades that there are direct connections from auditory neurons to motor neurons,” explains Grahn, who enjoys working out to cheesy techno-music. “When you hear a loud noise, you jump before you have even processed what it is. That’s a reflex circuit, and it turns out that it can also be active for non-startling sounds, such as music.”
— Ferris Jabr, “Let’s Get Physical: The Psychology of Effective Workout Music”
6) Okay, but why? Why should a collection of sounds cause the brain to reward itself? That remains a bit of a mystery, but a favorite theory, proposed almost 60 years ago, posits that it’s about fulfilled expectations. Put simply, music sets up patterns that causes us to predict what will come next and when we’re right, we get a reward. Some have suggested this has its roots in primitive times when guessing wrong about animal sounds was a matter of life or death. What was needed was a quick emotional response to save our skin, rather than taking the time to think things through.
— Randy Rieland, “Eight New Things We’ve Learned About Music”
Check out this piece on “The 18 Wonderful Ways Music Affects The Brain.”
For a different perspective on the transformative ability of music, here’s Benjamin Zander, the Grammy-nominated conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, talking to NPR:
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Advance Base - A Shut-In's Prayer (Orindal Records)
Owen Ashworth’s exquisite, haunting new record trades in estrangement
by Nathan Phillips
While it's true that Owen Ashworth has grown more serious with age — no songs about mouse infestations here — the evolutionary justifications for his retirement of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone are exaggerated. His exquisite, haunting new record as Advance Base, A Shut-In's Prayer, carries forward from the palpable resignation of CFTPA's Vs. Children. The production's slightly fuller, the creaky sound of flawed recording spaces giving way to chasms of ache, the melodies more complex, but it's the same weirdly stirring cry as ever.
The preoccupation is estrangement: from old friends, from family, forgotten traditions ("Christmas in Oakland" prompts a mournful "I don't feel a thing"). Using repeated melodic lines in the insular Pet Sounds sense, Ashworth keeps the old toy piano sound while waltzing into oblivion on lyrics that don't seem profound until he sings them in that tremendously affecting deadpan. It's a kind of "Do You Remember Walter" / "Chelsea Hotel No. 2" world, where you're choked up by phrases as simple as "the sound of music from the kitchen boom box" and "outside a sports bar in neon light" and all the fiercely fragmented memories they evoke.
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THE DEVIL’S TRADE release first new track of forthcoming album
June 11, 2020 Latvijas Rokmūzikas Asociācija News 0
Dark singer-songwriter act THE DEVIL’S TRADE is now releasing the very first track of the upcoming album ‘The Call of the Iron Peak’. The album is slated for release on August 28, 2020.
Frontman Dávid Makó comments on the track: “The muse for this piece was probably the biggest storm cloud I have ever seen covering the perfectly clean summer night sky. I was sitting right under the eye of the storm on a plain somewhere in the Hungarian countryside. It was like sitting under a gate to another ancient world. The world went silent the air stopped and I was waiting to be smashed by the elements. For about twenty minutes it felt like I was connected to the otherworld. Then a cool wind came and blew it away. The sister part is too personal. It took thirty years to understand that someone I never met has such a powerful influence on me. If there is an afterlife I hope she will be there and I can hug her.”
The Iron Peak; a mystical place where one once found his long lost peace total silence and home. Where he would return when his time to come to pass away. A place that has became a materialization of everlasting freedom cut from society and all earthly struggles. As ancient beliefs says heaven is a place where we found peace with our loved ones in life the Iron Peak is some kind of heaven.
Listen to the call of the Iron Peak as it is calling for you to find your true self in a world you want to be isolated from. It is calling for you to make peace with yourself, with the inevitable end. It is calling for Hungarian singer-songwriter Dávid Makó, who redefined himself as THE DEVIL’S TRADE a few years ago, embarking on a long journey with his deeply personal and dark, sometimes doom infused folk songs.
Be it the folk of the Appalachians, the tales of Hungarian and Transylvanian traditionals, THE DEVIL’S TRADE fuses his past of metal and his roots laying deep in the folk songs of his immediate surroundings.
Very much like how the Iron Peak, a mountaintop both metaphorical and literal is calling for Makó, he is calling for you to share his rituals of loves and hopes lost and found along the pilgrimage of his. It is after all, the journey itself that matters the most, and how you adapt. From basements in his hometown of Budapest, to all corners of Europe, stages small and big, THE DEVIL’S TRADE has been relentlessly walking on his path finding his voice and calling, and that is to let listeners to glimpse into himself through his heart wrenching songs.
His new album, and his debut for Season of Mist, titled ‘The Call of the Iron Peak’ will be released on August 28th 2020, preceded by a tour in April 2021 alongside UK singer-songwriter Darkher and Swedish neofolk/ambient artist Forndom.
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Doug and Marcy waited in the car, behind five other vehicles waiting in the drive-thru testing line. They clutched their respective phones, the rush and rattle of the vents the only sound between them as the air conditioning struggled against the record day temperatures. Doug looked up occasionally, to the protests across the street. He’d been stewing the entire two hours they’d been in the car, shaking his head, fiddling with the climate control, then turning back to his feed.
“You know,” he said, turning to the window again.
“No,” Marcy said. “Don’t start.”
“I just don’t get it, the world has lost its mind.”
Marcy glanced at her husband, her smirk hidden by the mask but her eyes giving it away. “Maybe you’ve lost your mind, and everyone else is perfectly fine?”
“Pfft. Doubt that,” Doug said.
Had Doug smiled it would’ve been plain to see, as he refused to wear a mask or even admit the virus was real. The masks had been point of contention on the way to CVS. The conversation started and ended the way most did these days between the couple of twenty-six years, with Marcy shaking her head, incredulous, wondering if her husband had always been such a schmuck or if it were merely something else going around during this godforsaken year.
It was uncanny, she thought, how well they’d gotten along when they were out in the world. Working in separate places, they’d arrive home in separate vehicles, have dinner, talk about their separate days, then go their separate ways on separate devices. Now, working from home while her husband was on a shut down, she‘d found that he lived on an entirely different planet from the one she did.
The didn’t agree on masks. On protests. Civil War Monuments. Climate Change. Even sports had become a point of contention. Marcy had been shocked the other day, signing onto the MacBook only to find an angry, deranged, grammatically incorrect version of America until she realized she was on Doug’s Facebook feed. She’d quickly logged out, but not before rebuking several of Doug’s friends’ political posts.
She was no closer to an answer when he started in on the testing again. Four cars ahead, the drive-thru window opened, and a feeble arm stretched to return a test. Doug drummed on the steering wheel.
“All I’m saying is, if you have it, I have it. Why should we both get tested?”
Marcy refused to even look up and lend credibility to such foolishness. Doug edged the car an inch closer to the bumper in front of them, as though it would get them to the window faster. Two hours in slow, grueling gridlock with her husband and she was about to wait on the curb in the triple digit temperatures. She could go join the protesters and risk the tear gas. It was preferable to this.
They’d been married in the mid nineties, a time of prosperity, peacefulness, the digital boom and parenthood leaving neither of them time to pay much attention to politics. The first split was Gore/Bush, but even then the arguments had been fun, harmless teasing and light-hearted ribbing on the couch whenever Bush stumbled and Gore stiffened. Even as the nation turned to Florida for answers, they’d simply gone about their lives. Then came 9/11, the ensuing middle east debacle and financial crises, the recession that followed. It seemed Barrack Obama was the splitting point. But no, that was nothing, Marcy thought now. Not compared to this.
The line moved forward a vehicle length only to wait again. Marcy took notice of the climate controlled settings. His at sixty degrees, hers at sixty-seven. Mask. No mask. 2020 was proving to be too much. The holding pattern, the second wave, the schools and all the phases. Her husband at home on the couch. The lack of diversions. The constant pull of social media. The harrowing newscasts. The unknown. And now a heatwave had joined the assault.
Just as well, Marcy thought, just wait until the hurricanes come. Their cruise had already been canceled, and Marcy wasn’t sure if she’d ever schedule a make-up date. She glanced at her husband again, still huffing and puffing, watching the protesters with a skeptical gaze. She thought about the Corona virus, about symptoms and sickness. About positive and negative results.
Either way, she thought, the damage was done. Test or no test, they were already infected.
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I don’t think Marcy is alone in her disillusionment. This story sounds kind of familiar..Not plagiarism–just close to life!!!
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New Adventures of Superboy (1980-1984) #43
New Adventures of Superboy (1980-1984)
Superboy continues his battle against Dyna-Mind, who eventually cons the Boy of Steel into thinking he has reformed.
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Howard Bender Kurt Schaffenberger
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Frank McLaughlin Kurt Schaffenberger
Colored by:
Bob Lerose Jerry Serpe
Rocketed to Earth from the exploding planet Krypton, baby Kal-El was adopted by a kindly couple named Jonathan and Martha Kent. Re-named Clark, he grew to adolescence in Smallville, learning to use wisely the amazing super-powers that would one day make him The World's Greatest Hero! These are the adventures of Superman when he was...Superboy!
Collecting the early adventures of the Legion of Super-Heroes from Adventure Comics!
Superman Presents The Phantom Zone (1982)
Explore the early history of Krypton and the origins of it’s other-dimensional prison, the Phantom Zone!
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Newsflash: MMUving on up – ManMet up in Green League Table
Posted on May 28, 2012 by manchesterclimatemonthly
Manchester Metropolitan University has moved up 7 places in a “Green Universities” League Table” released today.
The Green League Table, run by People and Planet, “the largest student network in Britain campaigning to end world poverty, defend human rights and protect the environment.” Following last year’s 17th place, MMU has taken further action which no doubt they will talk about in their press release tomorrow (they were under the impression that the results weren’t being announced until tomorrow…).
We spoke to Mary Heaney, MMU’s director of services who is tasked with leading the environmental agenda, and she said she was absolutely delighted with the news. She added that despite the steps that the university is taking, it is never certain that the university will move up as universities are moving around significantly on the league every year. “The criteria for the table are also more stringent every year, however, we are trying to improve and I’m glad that was reflected in our ranking this year.”
Heaney also added that to keep university improving they are looking at their investment policies and are exploring ethical investment and ethical procurement strategies. “Ethical investment and procurement is a big area but colleagues have drafted documents which are being exchanged and we are actively looking to do something about it,” she said.
By the way, University of Manchester – home of the Sustainable Consumption Institute and Tyndall Manchester – came joint 59th (up from 89th last year), behind the totally wonderful Salford University in 51st (down from 37th last year).
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MCFly covered the awards ceremony of their Green Impact scheme in April.
MCFly interviewed MMU Director of Services Mary Heaney recently
Release of “Big Tent” Communique on on Sustainability, Knowledge and Higher Education
http://pascalobservatory.org/pascalnow/pascal-activities/news/release-big-tent-communique-sustainability-knowledge-and-higher-edu
(hat-tip to Erinma Ochu!)
::This article was updated to include a comment from Mary Heaney on Tuesday 28th May.
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The Museum of Pop Culture
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“Fueling contemporary popular culture”
The Museum of Pop Culture, or MoPOP is a nonprofit museum, dedicated to contemporary popular culture. It was founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 2000 as the Experience Music Project. Since that time MoPOP has organized dozens of exhibits, 17 of which have toured across the US and internationally.The museum, which used to be known as Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame and later EMP Museum until November 2016, has founded many public programs including Sound Off!, an annual 21 and under battle-of-the-bands that supports the all-ages scene, and Pop Conference, an annual gathering of academics, critics, musicians, and music buffs.MoPOP, in collaboration with the Seattle International Film Festival presents the Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Film Festival, which takes place annually every winter at Seattle Cinerama Theater.
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The EMP is absolutely awesome and one of the coolest collections of musical stuff in the world. They have instruments that belonged to pretty much every "Rock God" to ever live, and that's not including the 100 foot tall guitar pillar that meets you in the entrance. Kurt Cobain fans will love the Nirvana exhibit that includes some of Kurt's own hand written lyrics.
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Uneven evictions Uneven evictions Uneven evictions
Who gets evicted in Washington? It depends on gender and race, a UW study reveals.
Story by KIM ECKART | Illustration by Curtis Dickie | june_2020
A recent study of evictions in Washington shows that more women are evicted than men, and in the state’s two most populous counties—King and Pierce—eviction rates among black and Latinx adults are almost seven times higher than they are for white adults.
A team of UW researchers, led by Tim Thomas, ’17, now an urban sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley, based the Evictions Study on filings from Washington’s 39 counties. “By collecting all this data, we wanted to provide the public with an in-depth look at eviction trends at a geographical level in the region,” says Jose Hernandez, ’15, the data scientist leading the UW work. “The hope is that the information sheds light on a problem happening in people’s backyards, and that folks begin having a discussion about solutions while not ignoring evictions and their intersection with race and social class.”
The team turned first to eviction filings in Washington State Superior Court to obtain eviction counts. To put the numbers in context and analyze other potential contributing factors, they used population, rental, income and housing market data from the U.S. Census Bureau as well as information from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the annual regional Point-in-Time counts of homelessness.
Armed with the most detail from King, Pierce, Snohomish and Whatcom counties, the researchers produced interactive maps. Users can filter by race and geography (census tract, municipality or county) to see a variety of data sets, including the percentage of renters, median household income and eviction counts.
“The most concerning finding is the severe over-representation of black adults in the Western Washington eviction filing process,” says Thomas. “In Pierce County, one in six black adults were named in a filing between 2013 and 2017, and one in 11 in King County during that same time. For whites, it’s one in 55 and one in 100, respectively. This severe racial disparity makes evictions a civil rights issue, requiring new laws to intervene.”
The disparities are significant because they relate to historic patterns of discrimination, Thomas says. “Most of King County’s eviction filings occur in South King County, where households of color have been displaced from Seattle. In Pierce County, some of the highest risks of eviction occur in formerly redlined neighborhoods,” he explains. “This link between evictions, the legacy of segregation, and gentrification can’t be ignored and requires further investigation.
Last year, as the study was underway, Thomas worked with housing advocates and legislators to promote eviction reform. Senate Bill 5600 extended the “pay-or-vacate” deadline for tenants to pay rent, from three to 14 days.
Kim Eckart is a public information officer for UW News.
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Daniel Tollady
Hosted for residency in Prague, 2018
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Emerging artist: Daniel Tollady (UK)
Residency place: Prague Biennale (Prague, Czech Republic)
Practice: Installation
Featured artist: Jan Pfeiffer, David Možný, Daniela Baráčková, and Intermedia Atelier FAVU VUT led by Pavel Sterec
Curated by: Elis Unique
Daniel Tollady in Prague for Magic Carpets project. Photo by Artūras Morozovas / Nanook
While tourism presents many opportunities for a city, there are certain challenges related to it as well. As the city of Prague embraces tourism and creates space for stag parties and Thai massage parlours, the residents are moving further and further away from the city centre, taking with them any semblance of authentic life. The gaps they leave behind become AirBnB rentals, increasing the capacity for tourism and providing the owners with more and more money, the process becoming a symptom of itself. As it currently stands, there are already around 14,000 AirBnB properties available, encouraging the rise of the souvenir shop and other imitation ‘cultural’ attractions at the expense of authenticity.
As part of his residency with the Prague Biennale, Daniel Tollady was invited to create a new body of work to be exhibited in their Urban Skanzen exhibition alongside other selected Czech artists, held in the Clam-Gallas Palace in central Prague. The term ‘skanzen’ originally refers to open-air museums, but in this context, however, is a more sensitive, yet derogatory description of attractive historical parts of cities where the excessive inflow of tourism has deprived the city of authentic life. In response to the subject matter, Daniel created the Urban Archive, an installation that combines a breadth of field research conducted during his month-long residency there.
The Urban Archive functions on three plateaus: one of domestic space, one of personal experience and one of quiet protest. While each is distinctive, the boundaries are undefined, allowing them to exist symbiotically and simultaneously through the same materials at the same time.
Using a hand drawn map of Prague as a starting point, he began mapping destinations and routes that he had taken through his own experiences, marking locations of personal importance or highlighting specific tramlines or buildings. Complemented with the documentation of isolated urban details, these subjective notations eventually began to encapsulate networks of local stories as he continued to embed himself further into the community of Central Prague. The map functions as a record of experience and datamining that then disperses itself throughout the environment of a bedroom, reproduced on domestic objects and amongst the household items gifted to the installation by the people he met.
Including the wardrobe found in the hidden recesses of the Clam-Gallas Palace, and the bed donated by a particularly insightful resident, every item used within the installation was given to him by somebody that lived within central Prague, either before the exhibition opened or during the opening event itself. The installation, on first impressions, may seem like another AirBnB apartment appearing in an available space, but Daniel wanted it to form the basis of a quiet protest, a reinstatement of authentic domesticity in the city centre, even if only temporarily. The objects become totems of authentic life in a space where this no longer exists, in a district where this is quickly disappearing.
Daniel Tollady in Prague for Magic Carpets project. Photo by Severina Venckutė / Nanook
Concerned with the creation of a fictional spatiality, Daniel Tollady uses generative drawing processes and intuitive structural compositions to describe a new spatial experience. A spatiality that manifests itself through analogue drawings and physical 1:1 structures. Daniel’s practice is a hybridisation of spatial design and fine art using his architectural knowledge as a backdrop for producing his art pieces. After graduating with a BA in Interior Architecture & Design in 2009 from the University for the Creative Arts, Daniel began pursuing his career in the visual arts. Following that, Daniel then went on to gain an MA in Fine Art in 2015. Having studied two different disciplines has allowed Daniel to develop a unique approach to the arts, incorporating drawing with different processes and theoretical information gained through artistic research that is merged into his methodology.
During his career and as an artist, Daniel has exhibited his works widely across the South East of England, in both group and solo shows, and he has created installations for a number of events, including the Ramsgate Arts Festival, the Cheriton Light Festival and for the Folkestone Triennial Fringe. Alongside this independent process, Daniel likes to pursue collaborative projects that operate between architecture and fine art. Being currently a Sessional Tutor for Stage01 BA Architecture and Interior Architecture and Design at the Canterbury School of Architecture (based at the University for the Creative Arts), and a Creative Tutor for the National Saturday Club programme at the University for the Creative Arts in Rochester, Daniel teaches and regularly facilitates workshops that push the boundaries of design-thinking.
The final exhibition was opened on 12 July 2018 and was open from the 13thof July to the 3rdof August 2018. There was also a public panel discussion Magic Talks subtitled ‘Monuments of Integration’ on the 11thof July. The opening of the final exhibition featured Daniel Tollady, three local artists (David Možný, Jan Pfeiffer and Daniela Baráčková) and a Studio project by Intermedia atelier of FAVU VUT.
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What Is The Formula For Efficiency Of A Machine?
What is work formula?
How do you calculate work done?
What is simple machine efficiency?
How do we calculate energy?
What is power measured in?
What is the formula for efficiency?
What is the efficiency of a machine?
What is the formula used to calculate the efficiency of a machine?
What is the formula of efficiency in terms of power?
How is pout calculated?
We can calculate work by multiplying the force by the movement of the object.
W = F × d.
Unit.
The SI unit of work is the joule (J).
Work is done when a force that is applied to an object moves that object. The work is calculated by multiplying the force by the amount of movement of an object (W = F * d). A force of 10 newtons, that moves an object 3 meters, does 30 n-m of work.
While machines can provide a mechanical advantage of greater than 1.0 (and even less than 1.0 if desired), no machine can never do more mechanical work than the mechanical work put into it. Efficiency. The efficiency of a machine is the ratio between the work it supplies and the work put into it.
In classical mechanics, kinetic energy (KE) is equal to half of an object’s mass (1/2*m) multiplied by the velocity squared. For example, if a an object with a mass of 10 kg (m = 10 kg) is moving at a velocity of 5 meters per second (v = 5 m/s), the kinetic energy is equal to 125 Joules, or (1/2 * 10 kg) * 5 m/s2.
wattsThe dimension of power is energy divided by time. In the International System of Units (SI), the unit of power is the watt (W), which is equal to one joule per second. Other common and traditional measures are horsepower (hp), comparing to the power of a horse; one mechanical horsepower equals about 745.7 watts.
Efficiency is often measured as the ratio of useful output to total input, which can be expressed with the mathematical formula r=P/C, where P is the amount of useful output (“product”) produced per the amount C (“cost”) of resources consumed.
Efficiency is the percent of work put into a machine by the user (input work) that becomes work done by the machine (output work). The output work is always less than the input work because some of the input work is used to overcome friction. Therefore, efficiency is always less than 100 percent.
The work efficiency formula is efficiency = output / input, and you can multiply the result by 100 to get work efficiency as a percentage. This is used across different methods of measuring energy and work, whether it’s energy production or machine efficiency.
For an electrical power conversion process, efficiency is measured simply by dividing the output power in watts by the input power in watts and is expressed as a percentage. … Efficiency (η) is output power in watts divided by input power in watts.
The power electronics system operates at the rated output-power level, and, by measuring the input power and output power, you can calculate the systems efficiency using the equation η=(POUT/PIN)×100%, where POUT is output power and PIN is input power.
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What does the Bible say about dinosaurs?
Dinosaurs are merely made up to support the theory of evolution.
Dinosaurs were animals that had become corrupted, weren't taken into the ark, and died in the flood.
Dinosaurs were created by God, possibly even taken onto the ark, but died thereafter.
Are dinosaurs real?
Those who have collected dinosaur remains in the Midwest plains of Canada and the United States or in the Colorado Plateau region have no lingering doubt concerning their reality. Thousands of specimens have been found and excavated, thereby debunking the first theory mentioned. However, simply because we acknowledge the existence of dinosaurs does not mean we must accept that it took millions of years for their appearance/disappearance. The second theory comes from those who see the dinosaur bones, but feel there is no direct Biblical supporting evidence for their creation. Theory number three, is one that is rather plausible and even supported in the Bible.
Did God create dinosaurs?
Would God have created dinosaurs? Why is there no mention of dinosaurs in the Bible, especially the creation account? In Creation, there are many creatures that were not mentioned by name that do exist. When thinking of dinosaurs, most first thoughts are of gargantuan, ferocious lizards. It makes it hard to believe that God would create something so monstrous for the Garden of Eden.
Actually, the fossil remains indicate that they were indeed a highly diversified group, ranging in size from that of a rabbit to tremendous beasts 20 feet high, 85 feet long, and weighing up to 50 tons. It appears that some were relatively light-footed and had bipedal locomotion, while others were quadrupedal and moved about in a slow and cumbersome manner. Some were carnivores and others herbivores. Certain types were well suited for aquatic habitat while others remained on land. However, most dinosaurs were relatively the size of humans.
Not only that, something to be considered is that humans at the time of Adam up until Noah lived hundreds of years. Adam died at 930 years, Methuselah died at 969, Noah lived 950 years. With such longevity, isn't it only logical to believe that mankind grew larger and taller? True, it might not be the size of a 20-foot dinosaur, but perhaps proportional to how one experiences the grandiose size of a blue whale compared to the modern average human.
What about the large ferocious teeth? How would a "T-Rex" fit into the picture of paradise? If one can imagine a lion in heaven eating grass like a cow, perhaps a Tyrannosaurus Rex in the Garden of Eden is no longer a stretch of the imagination.
Isaiah 11:6-7 shares this picture of heaven:
“ The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,
The leopard shall lie down with the young goat,
The calf and the young lion and the fatling together;
The cow and the bear shall graze;
Their young ones shall lie down together;
And the lion shall eat straw like the ox. "
Predators of our world today were not predators at the start of Creation. Lions used to eat straw and wolves didn't eat lambs. It was not until sin came in and corrupted animals, bringing in death, predation, and "survival of the fittest." Is it also possible that dinosaurs once were peaceful creatures?
Are dinosaurs mentioned in the Bible?
There has been much discussion on the topic specifically involving verses in Job 40-41. Job is considered to be the oldest book of the Bible. Scholars, in studying Job's longevity (he lived up to 140 years), descriptions of his wealth and household, believe he was most likely alive after the time of Noah, but before the time of Abraham.
Behemoth: Job 40
Job 40:15-24 speaks of a "behemoth." No one is really sure what it is, but read its description.
15 “Look now at the behemoth, which I made along with you; he eats grass like an ox.
16 See now, his strength is in his hips, and his power is in his stomach muscles.
17 He moves his tail like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are tightly knit.
18 His bones are like beams of bronze, his ribs like bars of iron.
19 He is the first of the ways of God; only He who made him can bring near His sword.
20 Surely the mountains yield food for him, and all the beasts of the field play there.
21 He lies under the lotus trees, in a covert of reeds and marsh.
22 The lotus trees cover him with their shade; the willows by the brook surround him.
23 Indeed the river may rage, yet he is not disturbed; he is confident, though the Jordan gushes into his mouth,
24 Though he takes it in his eyes, or one pierces his nose with a snare."
The way the "behemoth" is described, doesn't it almost sound like a dinosaur? Perhaps one of the sauropods? Some will argue these verses are referring to the hippopotamus or elephant. However, they run into the problem of explaining verse 17, since the tails of both animals are...well, far from looking like a cedar tree (let alone moving like one). Their tails more resemble switches.
Leviathan: Job 41
In Job 41:1-2,7,12-32, the "Leviathan" is another creature described that has been hard to find a modern equivalent.
1“Can you draw out Leviathan with a hook, or snare his tongue with a line which you lower?
2 Can you put a reed through his nose, or pierce his jaw with a hook?...
7 Can you fill his skin with harpoons, or his head with fishing spears?...
12 “I will not conceal his limbs, his mighty power, or his graceful proportions.
13 Who can remove his outer coat? Who can approach him with a double bridle?
14 Who can open the doors of his face, with his terrible teeth all around?
15 His rows of scales are his pride, shut up tightly as with a seal;
16 One is so near another that no air can come between them;
17 They are joined one to another, they stick together and cannot be parted.
18 His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
19 Out of his mouth go burning lights; sparks of fire shoot out.
20 Smoke goes out of his nostrils, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.
21 His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.
22 Strength dwells in his neck, and sorrow dances before him.
23 The folds of his flesh are joined together; they are firm on him and cannot be moved.
24 His heart is as hard as stone, even as hard as the lower millstone.
25 When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid; because of his crashings they are beside themselves.
26 Though the sword reaches him, it cannot avail; nor does spear, dart, or javelin.
27 He regards iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.
28 The arrow cannot make him flee; slingstones become like stubble to him.
29 Darts are regarded as straw; he laughs at the threat of javelins.
30 His undersides are like sharp potsherds; he spreads pointed marks in the mire.
31 He makes the deep boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
32 He leaves a shining wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair.
Some have translated the Leviathan to be a "crocodile," because of the large number currently present in the region. However, the crocodile pales in comparison to the description given to the Leviathan. Do crocodiles really raise themselves? Aren't the underbellies of crocodiles smooth rather than "sharp potsherds?" Does the crocodile really move fast enough and graceful enough to leave a "shining wake"? The Leviathan is also mentioned in the following verses: Psalms 74:14, 104:25-26, Isaiah 27:1.
Why are dinosaurs not alive today?
The sudden extinction of the dinosaurs, as shown by the geological record, is a mystery that evolutionary paleontologists have considerable difficulty explaining. What happened to wipe out the dinosaurs so quickly? A change of temperature? A change in the plants? Blasts of heat from a meteor? Mammals eating dinosaur eggs? A change in oxygen concentration? Overspecialization? Senility? All these have been offered as explanations by evolutionary scientists. The dominant theory at present is that a large object from space hit Earth and blasted up so much dust that the sun was obscured for months. Plants and animals died. However there are problems with this theory. If this happened, why was the extinction selective? Why did some plants and animals, including some more fragile than dinosaurs, not become extinct?
Were dinosaurs on the ark?
From a biblical perspective, the most likely explanation for the extinction of the dinosaurs is the worldwide Flood described in Genesis 6 and 7. Soon after the flood mankind began to rapidly decrease in size, and in length of years. There was a class of very large animals which perished at the flood. God knew that the strength of man would decrease, and these mammoth animals could not be controlled by feeble man.
Ironically enough, by trusting the Bible, Christians have no need to "explain away" dinosaurs and do mental gymnastics to try and disprove their existence. The Bible even leaves the door open for Christians to discover dinosaurs alive today. Should a dinosaur exist today and ever be discovered roaming around deep in some jungle, it would not really affect our understanding of the Bible or our faith. On the other hand, evolutionists would have to restructure their entire system of thought if a dinosaur appeared alive on today's scene.
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A dilithium incubator modified to charge a time crystal
The dilithium incubator was a device that could recrystallize dilithium, which would free interstellar societies from having to seek new sources of dilithium for their warp drive. It was invented by Me Hani Ika Hali Ka Po, who at the time was the princess of Xahea. Her discovery made Xahea the most politically relevant planet in the galaxy, but also made the Xaheans greedy and corrupt. (ST: "Runaway")
After Po became queen in 2257, she continued to keep the secret to dilithium recrystallization to herself, as she did not trust others with the information. Later that year, the crew of USS Discovery, guided by a red burst, approached her for help in charging a time crystal. Po developed a way to modify her dilithium incubator to trigger an ongoing cascade of energy within the crystal by combining it with dark energy, which replicated the power of a supernova. (DIS: "Such Sweet Sorrow")
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‘Napalm girl’ in famous Vietnam War photo: ‘Those bombs led me to Christ’
The “napalm girl” famously captured in Nick Ut’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1970s photograph has related her incredible journey from a pagan life of bitterness and hatred to a new life of love and forgiveness through her discovery of Jesus Christ as her savior.
On June 8, 1972, South Vietnamese military bombed Phan Thị Kim Phúc’s village. The highly flammable sticky napalm burned Phúc’s clothes and skin as she fled. As the nine-year-old Phúc ran naked and burning from the village, she was captured in a picture by a Vietnamese American photographer, Nick Ut.
The picture, named ‘Napalm Girl,’ became a symbol of the suffering and cruelty of the Vietnam war. When Phúc first saw the photo, 14 months after it was published, she wished it had never been taken. She wondered why the photographer would have taken that picture when she was “in agony,” “naked,” and “so ugly.”
Phúc was sent to a hospital where she underwent more than a dozen surgeries in 14 months.
“I had to deal with the pain every single day,” she said in a video..
Phúc related how she built up “hatred, bitterness, and anger” against the people who had done this to her.
“I was just living with the question, ‘ Why me?’ What that happened to me?’”
The pain and unanswered questions led Phúc to want to take her own life ten years later, in 1982.
“I thought that after I die, no more suffering, no more pain,” she said.
Phúc was raised in the Cao Dai religion. For years, she prayed to the gods of Cao Dai for peace without receiving a response. She continually asked herself, “Why was I made to wear these awful scars?” Phúc was told that the reason she suffered was because “the life I had lived before my own must have been bad.”
READ: Vietnam persecutes Christians
Phúc’s experience made her want to become a doctor. She devoted herself to her studies in an attempt to escape from her suffering. In 1982, while studying in Saigon, Phúc found a copy of the New Testament in a library and began reading the Gospels.
Her life was changed forever.
Instead of taking her life, Phúc decided to become a Christian. That happened at Christmas that same year.
“That faith, it helped me a lot,” she related.
Video: She shares her testimony on Canadian television:
She was captivated by the suffering she read that Jesus had endured in order to bring people like her the possibility of a new life. “I had never been exposed to this side of Jesus—the wounded one, the one who bore scars,” she said.
“His entire ministry, it seemed, pointed to one straightforward claim: “I am the way you get to God; there is no other way but me,” she continued.
Phúc finally “experienced the kind of healing that can only come from God” on Christmas Eve of the same year when she converted to Christianity.
Phúc said the most difficult lesson for her to learn in her new faith was to forgive her enemies. She recalled that she was filled with anger and it seemed impossible to forgive her enemies. However, Phúc described how prayer helped her to heal.
“My enemies list became my prayer list,” she said in the CBC docs video.
“I realized to myself, ‘Wow, Kim, you pray for your enemies? This means you love.’”
She now says that “forgiveness set my heart free.”
"I was in agony. Naked. So ugly. I wish that picture wasn’t taken." Phan Thị Kim Phúc’s life changed forever when she became known as “the napalm girl” in a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph.
She offers her Brief But Spectacular take on forgiveness and that girl in the picture. pic.twitter.com/H4zglrxkfk
— CBC Docs (@cbcdocs) January 16, 2020
“I forgive everyone who caused my suffering, even the pilot, commander, people controlling me,” she said.
In her testimony on Christianity Today, Phúc declared, “My faith in Jesus has enabled me to forgive those who have hurt and scarred me.”
“Nearly half a century has passed since I found myself running—frightened, naked, and in pain—down that road in Vietnam,” Phúc said. “I will never forget the horrors of that day—the bombs, the fire, the shrieks, the fear. Nor will I forget the years of trial and torment that followed. But when I think about how far I have come—the freedom and peace that comes from faith in Jesus—I realize there is nothing greater or more powerful than the love of our blessed Savior.”
VIDEO: Photographer recounts details of famous photo
Although Phúc previously hated her photograph, she came to change, saying, “today, I thank God for that picture. Today, I thank God for everything—even for that road. Especially for that road.” She now realizes that had it not been for the bombs that dropped, she never would have wanted to become a doctor, never would have embarked on the path of studies, never would have encountered the Bible, and never would have become a Christian.
Phúc revealed on Premier Christianity that her scar from the napalm burns reminds her of God’s presence. She described her scar as a mark that God stamped onto her body to remind her of His constant presence. Phúc said the more she prayed, the more peace she felt. She continued, “Every time I touch my scar, I am so thankful.” She referred to her scar as a miracle.
Kim Phuc with her sons Stephen, left, and Thomas.
Phúc’s dream is to one day meet the pilot who dropped the bomb on her. While the identity of the pilot is unknown, Phúc hopes that he is still alive so she can one day hug him. She desires to tell him, “I love you. I pray for you. I forgive you.”
“We have to show love, hope, and forgiveness because every person needs that – rich or poor, every human being needs those things,” she said.
“I realize,” Phúc said, “That those same bombs that brought so much suffering also brought great healing. Those bombs led me to Christ.”
After the war, Phúc was used by the North Vietnamese socialist government as a war symbol. Phúc and her husband received permission from the government to travel to Russia for their honeymoon. When the plane stopped to refuel in Newfoundland, they left the plane to escape to Canada. They now live in Toronto with their two children and a grandchild.
–LifeSiteNews service
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1890: A widow’s witnesses
20 July 2018 Molly C. 10 Comments
Sepia Saturday 428: Third in a series about my great-great grandmother Mary Elizabeth (Blakeslee) Bull, a U.S. Civil War widow. Mary was the mother of my paternal great-grandmother Eva (Bull) Charboneau.
Widows of U.S. Civil War veterans — such as my great-great grandmother Mary Elizabeth (Blakeslee) Bull — were required by Acts of Congress to substantiate their marriages when applying for benefits.
So Mary had to produce witnesses and/or available documents to support her contention that she was indeed the wife of my great-great grandfather Arthur T. Bull, a Union Army pensioner.
Fashion illustration of a widow and a bride (circa 1896). In 1890, my widowed great-great grandmother Mary Elizabeth (Blakeslee) Bull needed witnesses to substantiate her marriage to Union pensioner Arthur T. Bull. One person she turned to was son-in-law Sidney Banton, who had married her daughter Jessie two years before. Image: msu.edu
Proof of a marriage
In a 2010 article “‘A Reasonable Degree of Promptitude’: Civil War Pension Application Processing, 1861-1885,”[2. Prechtel-Kluskens, Claire. ‘A Reasonable Degree of Promptitude’: Civil War Pension Application Processing, 1861-1885. Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives and Records Admininstation, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Spring 2010). Website. Archives.gov (https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2010/spring/civilwarpension.html : accessed 19 July 2018.] Claire Prechtel-Kluskens describes how proofs of marriage typically worked .
The pension office could allow a widow’s pension based on evidence of cohabitation but, ironically, could not legally terminate a widow’s pension because of cohabitation. Because marriage records had been created haphazardly in many places, or not at all, pension office custom was “to accept evidence of cohabitation and general recognition as husband and wife, as sufficient proof of marriage to entitle to pension in cases where it is clearly shown that more satisfactory proof cannot be furnished.” The pension files are replete with affidavits of persons who may not have witnessed the marriage ceremony but who could testify that John Doe and Mary Doe held themselves out as being husband and wife and were so accepted in the community.
Mary Bull’s witnesses
In this, my great-great grandmother Mary Elizabeth (Blakeslee) Bull was no different from the mass of other Civil War widows filing pension claims.
Her Application for Accrued Pension. (Widows.) includes the following written testimony of two witnesses attesting to her marriage. (Handwritten entries are underlined; strikethroughs were manually entered.)
Also personally appeared Carey D. Davie, residing at Salamanca, N.Y., and Sidney S. Banton, residing at Salamanca, N.Y., who, being duly sworn, say that they were present and saw Mary E. Bull sign her name (make her mark) to the foregoing declaration; that they know her to be the lawful widow of Arthur T. Bull, who died on the 30th day of January, 1890; and that their means of knowledge that said parties were husband and wife, and that the husband died on said date, are as follows: from acquaintance with Mr. Bull and family and from general reputation and the annexed certificate of William Whitney and Rhoda A Whitney.
Carey D. Davie was a lawyer, according to the 1892 New York State census[1. Free login required by FamilySearch to view the document image.]. Judging by the penmanship, he appears to have completed the handwritten portions of Mary’s application.
Sidney S. Banton was Mary’s son-in-law, who had married her daughter Jessie Ann Bull just two years earlier. At the time, Mary was mourning the Jan. 1888 death of her mother Hannah (Hance) Blakeslee — so the above illustration of widow and bride echoes the ups and downs of Mary’s life during that period.
But what was the “annexed certificate of William and Rhoda A. Whitney”?
More on this in the next post. Meanwhile, please visit the blogs of this week’s other Sepia Saturday participants here.
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1890: Widow’s application reveals Bull family history
Sepia Saturday 427: Second in a series about my great-great grandmother Mary Elizabeth (Blakeslee) Bull, a U.S. Civil War widow. Mary was the mother of my paternal great-grandmother Eva (Bull) Charboneau.
When my great-great grandmother Mary Elizabeth (Blakeslee) Bull, 50, filed an 1890 Application for Accrued Pension after the death of her husband Arthur T. Bull, she had to prove several things.
First, she had to show that Arthur was a bona fide military pensioner from his Union service in the U.S. Civil War and that there was an accrued pension amount due.
An unidentified 1850 bride. In her application for a Civil War widow’s pension, my great-great grandmother Mary Elizabeth (Blakesleee) Bull provided details of her 1856 marriage to Arthur T. Bull. Photo: George Eastman Museum
Then Mary had to verify that she was Arthur’s wife and therefore entitled to the accrued amount. This entailed providing the specifics of their marriage as excerpted below. (Handwritten entries are underlined; strikethroughs were manually entered.)
…that she was married to the said Arthur T. Bull on the Eleventh day of August, 1856, at Brookdale in the State of Pennsylvania; that her name before said marriage was Mary E. Blakslee (sic); that she had (or had not) been previously married; that her husband had (or had not) been previously married; that she hereby makes application for the pension which had accrued on aforesaid certificate to the date of death; that her residence is No. 82 W. State Street, City Village of Salamanca, County of Cattaraugus, State of New York, and her post office address is Salamanca, Cattaraugus County, N.Y.
A remarkable legacy
What a remarkable legacy with a few strokes of the pen!
Mary gave her maiden name, the exact date of her 11 Aug. 1856 marriage to Arthur and the location of their ceremony in Brookdale, Pennsylvania — all of which backed up some of my earlier research.
Survey map showing Brookdale in Liberty Township, Susquehanna County, Pa. (1858). To the left of Brookdale P.O. on this map the name Z. Blakeslee appears. He is my third great grandfather and the father of Mary E. (Blakeslee) Bull — so this is where she lived when she and Arthur married. Source: Ancestor Tracks
In addition, Mary gave the address where she and Arthur lived in Salamanca, N.Y., pinpointing where he spent his final days — which was new information to me.
And her signature on this document was my first tangible memento of my great-great grandmother, since I have inherited no photos of her.
March 1, 1890: Widow’s signature of Mary E. Bull on form 3-560, Application for Accrued Pension. (Widows.). Her signature on this document was my first tangible memento of my great-great grandmother, since I have inherited no photos of her. Photo by Molly Charboneau
Alas, the court and the Pension Board were not just going to take Mary’s word. They also required witnesses and whatever documentation could be pulled together — not an easy task for the years before state-wide vital records were kept in Pennsylvania and New York.
Accordingly, Mary did not go alone when she filed her claim with Cattaraugus County Judge O.S. Vreeland. Pension paperwork indicates that two “reputable persons” went along to serve as her witnesses.
Who were these witnesses and what were their statements? More on this in the next post. Meanwhile, please visit the blogs of this week’s other Sepia Saturday participants here.
Arthur BullArthur T. BullJessie A. (Bull) BantonJessie A. BullMary Elizabeth (Blakeslee) BullSidney Banton
Arthur Bull, Banton, Blakeslee, Bull, Hance
1890: Mary Elizabeth (Blakeslee) Bull becomes a Civil War widow
6 July 2018 Molly C. 8 Comments
Sepia Saturday 426: First in a series about my great-great grandmother Mary Elizabeth (Blakeslee) Bull, a U.S. Civil War widow. She was the mother of my paternal great-grandmother Eva (Bull) Charboneau.
In January 1890, my great-great grandmother Mary Elizabeth (Blakeslee) Bull, 50, became a Civil War widow following the death of her husband — Union Army pensioner Arthur T. Bull, 57, a veteran of the 6th New York Heavy Artillery.
May 4, 2014: A Union Army reenactor and his wife at Spotsylvania Court House, Va. In January 1890, my great-great grandmother Mary Elizabeth (Blakeslee) Bull, 50, became a Civil War widow following the death of her husband — Union Army pensioner Arthur T. Bull, 57, a veteran of the 6th New York Heavy Artillery. Photo by Molly Charboneau
Mary’s new persona was thrust upon her after two years of ups and downs in her Salamanca, Cattaragus Co., N.Y. household. Among the major events in her life during that time were:
The death of her mother Hannah (Hance) Blakeslee on 8 Jan. 1888 while she was residing with Mary and Arthur.
The marriage of her daughter Jessie Ann Bull on 10 May 1888 to Sidney Banton, which left just two minor children — Alice and Waples — still living with Mary and Arthur.
Arthur’s inability to work and his application on 23 Feb. 1889 for a full-disability military pension.
Approval of a full-disability pension for Arthur in June 1889.
A new round of paperwork
When Arthur died in early 1890, Mary was faced with a double loss. Not only was her beloved husband, and father of her nine children, gone from her life — but with him went the financial support of her household.
So with barely time to mourn, Mary began the difficult process of seeking an income by applying for a widow’s pension — with its own set of proofs and paperwork to be sent in to the U.S. Pension Board.
Application for accrued pension
On 1 March 1890, Mary appeared with her attorney William H. Peck before Cattaraugus County Judge O. S. Vreeland and filed form 3-560 — Application for Accrued Pension. (Widows.).
The opening passage of her application is excerpted below, with handwritten portions underlined.
On this First day of March, 1890, personally appeared Mary E. Bull, who, being duly sworn, declares that she is the lawful widow of Arthur T. Bull, deceased; that he died on the 30th day of January, 1890; that he had been granted a pension by Certificate No. 315 208…; that he had been paid the pension by the Pension Agent at Buffalo, NY up to the 4th day of Dec–, 1889; after that date he had not been employed or paid in the Army, Navy, or Marine service of the United States…
A poignant bequest
Once she had established that her late husband had been granted a pension and there was likely an accrued, unpaid pension amount, Mary went on to provide other details required of Civil War widows.
And in so doing, my great-great grandmother Mary unknowingly created a rich source of family history and relationships — a poignant genealogical bequest to her descendants, which will unfold in this series.
More on Mary’s widow application in the next post. Meanwhile, please visit the blogs of this week’s other Sepia Saturday participants here.
Alice I. (Bull) TamkinsAlice Istora BullArthur BullArthur T. BullHannah (Hance) BlakesleeJessie (Bull) BantonJessie A. BullMary Elizabeth (Blakeslee) BullSidney BantonWaples H. Bull
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The Crisis of Israeli Religious Identity
The Israeli government categorizes many of the Russian immigrants as “Israelis of no religion” because they do not satisfy the demands of an overbearing rabbinic establishment.
Protesters outside the Chief Rabbinate’s offices in Jerusalem in 2016. Hadas Parush/Flash90.
David Brofsky
Rabbi David Brofsky has authored books on prayer, the Jewish festivals, and the laws of mourning. He is also a teacher and serves as the rabbinic liaison for Israel’s Giyur K’Halacha conversion courts.
As an American Jew growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, the plight of Soviet Jewry, the Prisoners of Zion, and the refuseniks were central to my experience. Pictures of Natan Sharansky decorated the walls of my Jewish day school, our synagogue reserved pews for Jewish activists denied the right to practice their religion and to emigrate, and an empty chair was placed at our Passover seder to symbolically welcome the presence of imprisoned Soviet Jews into our homes. We marched every year with tens of thousands of protestors at the Solidarity Sunday rallies in New York City, and in 1987 we joined over 250,000 participants in the Freedom March in Washington.
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The future of climate (abridged from ‘Weathered’)
Mike Hulme | 16/11/2016
My latest book Weathered: Cultures of Climate is published tomorrow (17 November) by Sage. Here, I offer a heavily abridged version of the final chapter of the book, ‘The future of climate’. Cultural theorist Arjun Appadurai has argued...
Anglophone Political Populism and the Future of Climate-Change
Today’s result in the US Presidential election follows hard on the back of the UK’s Brexit vote in June. Both results – an expression of collective public preference from the electorate – have shaken political and cultural establishments on...
The cultural functions of climate
I delivered the keynote lecture to the Royal Anthropological Institute’s international conference on Anthropology, Weather and Climate Change, held at the British Museum in May 2016. You can listen to the lecture here and view the accompanying slides here....
New book: “Weathered: Cultures of Climate”
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Weathered: Cultures of Climate, will be published by SAGE in November 2016. This book in many ways is a prequel to Why We Disagree About Climate Change (CUP, 2009), in the sense that it deepens our understanding of the...
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Brutal Oxford Street Attacks on Jewish gay man
This news of a brutal attack on Simon Margan, a Jewish gay man in Sydney, is extremely disturbing. Whilst there does not yet appear to be any indication Simon was brutally attacked because he was Jewish, there appears to be strong evidence he was attacked because he was gay. Despite that, there needs to be support from the Jewish community to say that it is unacceptable for any member of the Jewish community to be subjected to vicious hate attacks, especially if they are motivated by homophobic intolerance.
There has been no visible support from the Australian Jewish community to date on this matter, specifically addressing homophobic intolerance and violence. This situation is now critical and there must be strong, visible support from the entire Australian Jewish community that hate crime and intolerance based on sexual orientation is unacceptable. There must also be a strong message that any intolerance of a person based on their sexual orientation is completely unacceptable.
I call on the leaders of the Australian Jewish community to take an immediate and effective stand.
I hope to see a media statement from the Jewish community issued before the end of this week.
Michael Barnett.
———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Roy Freeman
Date: 12 August 2010 14:35
Subject: [Dayenu] Oxford Street Attacks
To: Dayenu Yahoo
I just wanted to share with you news of this disturbing unprovoked attack that took place on Oxford Street on Monday evening. Gay-rights activist and Dayenu member, Simon Margan, was attacked along with 5 other people before the assailant was caught. Simon was kicked in the eye, which shattered his eye socket. He will have to have plastic surgery as a result.
If you were around Oxford Street on Monday evening and witnessed any of these attacks, please contact Surry Hills police.
http://www.samesame.com.au/news/local/5746/Six-injured-in-Oxford-St-bashing-spree.htm
Author Michael BarnettPosted on 12 August 2010 Categories Humanity, JusticeTags Australia, Gay, Hate crime, Homophobia, Jewish, Jewish community, Oxford Street, Simon Margan, Sydney4 Comments on Brutal Oxford Street Attacks on Jewish gay man
Sydney’s Jewish community adopts anti-homophobia/anti-transphobia policy
Hot on the heels of the Victorian Jewish community calling for respect for same-sex attracted Jews, the NSW Jewish community has passed a history-making motion for a policy on counteracting hatred and discrimination against gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender persons*.
The New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies has voted overwhelmingly to implement an anti-homophobia/anti-transphobia policy.
This is fantastic news for the Jewish GLBT community as the NSWJBD finally recognises that there is a demographic within the Jewish community that needs more support.
Roy Freeman — J-Wire, May 26 2010
Congratulations to everyone who supported this history-making policy change, and most especially the dedicated team lead by Roy Freeman from Dayenu.
It is long overdue for the entire Jewish community to understand that same-sex attraction and gender-identity variation is normal and valid, just like being left-handed. There is no room for intolerance of people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, or who simply do not conform to heterosexual or conventional male/female stereotypes. The Jewish community must move with the times and learn that these are normal, acceptable human behaviours. The cost of not doing this will continue to be counted in human lives.
* 2010 copy of policy statement on Dayenu archives here.
Author Michael BarnettPosted on 26 May 2010 Categories HumanityTags Anti-homophobia, Anti-transphobia, Dayenu, Gay, glbt, jccv, Jewish, Lesbian, NSW JBD, nswjbd, Roy Freeman, Sydney, Transgender4 Comments on Sydney’s Jewish community adopts anti-homophobia/anti-transphobia policy
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Rewriting of History and Sectarian Nationalism
Ram Puniyani 27 Mar 2018
With the Hindu nationalist BJP in the seat of power an exercise in History writing is being undertaken on lines parallel to what was done in Pakistan. So far we did keep hearing loudly about the communal version of medieval history, where villainous foreigners, the Muslim kings attacked India, spread Islam and destroyed Hindu temples. The latest sample of this version is seen in glorification of Rana Pratap as a great Hindu nationalist, freedom fighter etc. Lately it is being said that he had defeated Akbar’s army in Haldighati! So far there already are projections of the theory that Aryans, from whom Hindus are supposed to have derived their lineage, were the ancient natives and that Harappa Mohenjo-Daro were part of Aryan culture!
Now to put seal on “Hindu first” version of history the Modi Government has appointed a committee; the aim of which is to work on these lines so as to prepare a report which will from the base of syllabus of the school books. The panel is referred to in government documents as the committee for “holistic study of origin and evolution of Indian culture since 12,000 years before present and its interface with other cultures of the world.” Mahesh Sharma, culture minster announcing the panel said this that the long taught version that people from central Asia arrived in India much more recently, some 3,000 to 4,000 years ago, and transformed the population needs questioning.
In this panel one aspect which is the major focus of study is the ancient Indian History, the origin of Aryans. So far various versions have prevailed. Jyoti Rao Phule attributed the coming of Aryans as the invasion, which led to oppression of low caste here. Lokmanya Tilak went by the theory that Aryans, the people of superior race had come from Arctic zone. In succession; RSS’s second Sarsanghchalak, by now aware that if Hindu superiority and exclusive ownership of this land is to be asserted, Aryans have to be presented as the natives, did not want to contradict Tilak still wanted to claim on Aryans being ‘Original natives’, went on to say that yes Aryans did come from Arctic zone, but lo and behold, Arctic zone was earlier located in our Bihar and Orissa areas and later shifted to north through the movement of the land mass!
The primary source for theories of Aryans in subcontinent has been the study of Indo-Aryan languages and the major current theory has been that there might have been series of waves of migration, through which Aryans came here. The remains of Indus valley, Harappan and Mohanzo-Daro (H-M), culture show that this was an urban culture. Vedas, major source for understanding Aryans; reflect the nomadic village life contrary to Indus valley culture. Horse seal, symbol of Aryans, has been concocted in this area to show its Aryan origin. As such horse seal in Indus valley civilization has been very questionable.
There are various genetic studies which have showed the migration of people from Western areas. Now with a prime mandate of ‘Hindu First’ the committee has been asked to prepare a report. Why this wasteful exercise in the face of the pressing problems all over? Eric Hobswam has pointed out ‘History is to Nationalism, what poppy is to opium addict!’ The sectarian nationalism always wants to take its history as back as possible to strengthen its claim of exclusive control over the land. In Pakistan the marginalization of Hindu minority has run parallel with the theory that Pakistan was formed with Mohammad bin Kasim winning over Sind. In their syllabi all Hindu Kings are missing, the role of Indian National Congress, Gandhi and Nehru are missing. Here in India Hindu nationalists begin with a political assertion formulated by Savarkar that all those regarding this land as ‘holy land and father land’ are Hindus. So logically the ancient lineage has to begin with Hindus, irrespective of the fact that the word Hindu itself came into vogue in eight century.
It is remarkable that leaders of Indian nationalism, Gandhi (in his book Hind Swaraj) and Nehru (in his classical book Discovery of India), saw the country belonging to people of all religions, the interaction between religions giving rise to a syncretic plural culture, giving rise to aspects of unity in diversity. The cultures interact, influence each other and change over a period of time, all the time. This is what came out in the very significant UN document ‘Alliance of Civilizations’. For Academic interest the genetic studies have already shown that the birth of Man begins in South Africa, from where the sections moved all over the globe, debunking Eurasian origin theory. The interaction of culture is not one sided, it is a process taking place over time and evolving. The UN document concludes that all the societal progress has been due to the interaction of cultures. This is the view of inclusive Indian Nationalism as well.
In Hindu nationalist view, which is being espoused by Modi and company for this panel, the ‘Hindu first’ is the starting presumption. It can be understood that all observations-results of this panel will be guided by that dictum. The construction of past for present political goals is with the aim of deriving legitimacy to suppress and marginalize those who do not fit into their definition of Hindu, or to force everybody to adopt Hindu norms as defined by them. Indian Constitution correctly begins with ‘We the People of India’, here from within the belly of this profound statement, ‘We the Hindus’ is being gradually made to dominate. This is a foil to Hindu nationalist ideology, on lines of what Muslim communalism did in Pakistan. There is surely a convenient ‘pick and choose’ aspect from the past which gives foundation to sectarian nationalisms. The focus for these is to prove lineages of the past, which in any way should not matter in a democracy. Sectarian nationalism goes along with sectarian and exclusive mind set; which is the root of divisiveness in the society.
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“I will lead Maldives out of a failing democracy, we don’t want a phobiocracy”: PPM presidential candidate
The newly elected presidential candidate of Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) Abdulla Yameen on Tuesday night delivered his first address to supporters following the conclusion of the primaries.
“Our motto is ‘nation first’”, Yameen stated. “Any other parties who genuinely want to join us can come knock on our door anytime. You are welcome at any time, whether it be day or late at night.”
“I am not trying to be elected President for want of a castle. I don’t want such a palace. It is also not with the intention of challenging competitors. This is why I’m telling my opponent in the party itself, too, to stop competing with me. I do not intend to compete with anyone. I am here to fight the battle of solving the many issues our country is facing now,” Yameen said.
“I want to repair the damaged social fabric of this country. I want to bring Maldives out of this failing democracy, save it from the impeding dictatorship and establish a modern democracy as facilitated by the systems set in place by our Constitution. We do not want a phobiocracy. We want development and modernisation.”
While the losing candidate who contested against Yameen, Umar Naseer, held his own rally on Monday night, PPM announced Tuesday’s rally to be “the first gathering held by the party after the primaries”.
The statement was made after Naseer aired serious allegations against Yameen during Monday night’s rally, accusing him of a variety of offences including forming alliances with drug cartels, vote buying and various other forms of corruption.
Meanwhile, the party’s council released a ruling after an emergency meeting held Tuesday afternoon, ordering Umar Naseer to offer a public apology for the comments he had made and for holding a gathering ‘against the party’s regulations’ before the commencement of Wednesday night’s official rally.
The council further ruled that should Naseer fail to put forward an apology within the assigned duration, the council would take further disciplinary action against him.
Umar Naseer was not responding to calls at the time of press. Local media has meanwhile reported that he refused to comment on the matter.
Playing in defence
“Many attacks have come at me from inside and out. I do not wish to defend myself, but I will make some comments here for your sake, as you should know the character of the person to whom you have pledged support,” Yameen told the crowds.
“I swear upon Allah that none of the things I have been alleged of doing can be proven against me. I am here with much more stability than that. If I had such actions on my conscience, I would not have stepped out for public service.”
“Just so as to offer consolation for you all, I am saying this. I am not a rich man. I do not own apartments in other countries. I do not control gangs. I am not involved in the illegal drug trade. I do not have even a small connection with the murder of MP Afrasheem Ali,” Yameen said.
“I would like to add that for the sake of our party, let us stop making allegations like this. We are far more responsible and well-established to be making comments of this nature.”
“Most democratic primaries ever held”: Gayoom
PPM Party Leader former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom addressed the hundreds of party supporters at the rally, stating that the recently concluded party primaries were “the most responsible, free and fair, transparent primaries ever held by a political party in the country to date.”
“Both candidates who competed in the primaries showed high competitiveness in the spirit of democracy,” Gayoom stated.
“These historic, free and extremely fair primaries were won by Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayyoom. I congratulate him in your name and mine,” Gayoom continued.
“At the same time, Umar Naseer, who could not win the primaries, also contacted me via phone after the results were announced. He said to me that he accepted the results, and extended congratulations to Abdulla Yameen. He further said he believed the primaries had proceeded in a very fair manner. Naseer also said that the campaign office he had built was from that moment on gifted to PPM, and hence I would like to thank him for the democratic example he has displayed with these actions,” he stated.
Both Gayoom and Yameen have claimed that the party has 31,000 “genuine” members now, and called on the members to each find two new members by the end of May.
“This is not difficult. If we each get two more members, we will soon have 93,000 members and with a little more effort we can easily achieve 100,000,” Gayoom said.
“Our party has the highest number of genuine members now. By that I mean that all 31,000 of our members have submitted complete details of themselves to authorities, including even their fingerprints. The other parties have not done so,” Gayoom alleged.
Official figures on the Elections Commission website show that PPM currently has 22,383 members, with an additional 1671 forms awaiting clearance.
“Our loyalties should be to the party, not to Maumoon”: Gayoom
“Our party always acts in accordance with law and regulations, and it must continue to do so,” Gayoom said. “All party members must follow the party’s regulations. No one is above these regulations. We are obliged to act in accordance with the regulations, or else people will start acting as they please, which would lead us astray from our objectives.”
Gayoom referred to the breaking up of his previous party Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party (DRP) into factions, stating that he had made a stand for Umar Naseer when DRP had tried to dismiss him from the party in breach of their regulations.
“I stood up for his rights, but then DRP started acting towards me in a very demeaning manner. They went on TV and said they did not need me, my advice or opinions. And so, I had to leave that party. This is an experience I have had related to the importance of following regulations.”
“Article 69 of our regulation states clearly that all PPM members must pledge allegiance to the presidential candidate. We cannot say that we will support him if he acts in any particular way. That is simply not an option,” Gayoom said.
“Our loyalties should not lie with an individual. It should not be pledged to a certain Maumoon, or to anyone besides Maumoon. It should be towards the party itself, with our policies and principles,” he stated.
Furthermore, Yameen called out to Naseer to work with him to lead the party to further successes.
“We were able to win 17 of 20 recent by-elections. This is because of the strength of having worked together, which is why I call out to Umar Naseer to come work with us,” Yameen said.
“The primaries were a test of character of the whole party and its individual members,” Yameen said. “We must not let any weakness seep into the party. Our brother Naseer, who was unfortunate this time and lost the primaries, must also display his test of character now. Our party is larger than any of us individuals,” he continued.
“My biggest strength is that our fountain of wealth, fountain of experience, party leader Gayoom, is here to guide me and our party and lead us. This is my ultimate happiness,” Yameen stated.
Autism Awareness Day
With April 2 declared Autism Awareness Day and marked widely throughout the Maldives, many speakers at the rally pledged support to families with autistic patients.
“Today is the internationally marked day for families with autistic kids to raise awareness in countries of the challenges that they face. Thus, in commemoration of this day, I really wish to extend my heartfelt sympathies, love and support to such children, and so I have now done that,” Gayoom stated.
Presidential candidate Yameen said in his speech, “This is the Autistic Day, isn’t it? If one is not autistic, whichever way one looks, one would doubtless see the development that has been brought to this country in the 30 years.”
Yamin’s comments, though applauded at the rally, were criticised in social media as being offensive and insensitive.
Responding to criticism and demands for an apology, PPM Spokesperson Ahmed Mahloof initially tweeted “Yameen’s comments on autism are being twisted by MDP (Maldivian Democratic Party) members after watching our rally and not being able to digest it.”
He then tweeted an apology on behalf of Yameen, stating “Yameen apologises if there was any misinterpretation of his comments with regard to autism.”
Yameen has since released an official statement on Wednesday, echoing Mahloof’s allegations of political opponents distorting his words and apologising if there was room for misinterpretation.
He also pledged to advocate for the rights of persons with special rights, and offered assurance that such persons will be given equal opportunities in the instance that PPM wins the September 7 elections.
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Posted on April 3, 2013 Author Mariyath MohamedCategories PoliticsTags Abdulla Yameen, Ahmed Mahloof, DRP, maldives, maldives news, Maumoon Abdul Gayyoom, MDP, minivan, minivan news, ppm, PPM Primaries, yamin
15 thoughts on ““I will lead Maldives out of a failing democracy, we don’t want a phobiocracy”: PPM presidential candidate”
hassan ahmed says:
Alas! Yameen, for thirty long years Maldives was a hagiocracy.
saibot says:
"...or to anyone else besides Maumoon.."
What does that mean? Just see what these guys are saying! ALl you have to do is listen!
Andre Andreas says:
Be it you or Anni, i just want stability and peace now. i am tired! of the parties haggling both Inter, Intra. Parliamentarian disaster. Public imbecility.
Set course for the future of the kids.
gaand e rasool says:
Another dictator in making!
GIP says:
This is Maldivian Mugabe in waiting. Taught and trained by a ruthless ruler.
Kuribee says:
THis guy can not be worse than the dictator Nasheed.
In fact he will be much better since he will at least improve our economy.
Unlike Nasheed , he is proven the leadership and bringing efficiency to the system.
He will for sure will take bribes but much more professionally than Nasheed and will not do day time robbery like Nasheed.
He will earn 100 Dollars and will pocket 20 dollars where as Nasheed can earn 50 dollars and will pocket 40 dollars. This will be the difference between Nasheed and Yameen.
We all know about his criminal past and connections. Someone please save us from this evil man and the old brutal dictatorship.
I truly did not expect this rubbish from Yaameen!
Anyway, seems to be counting chicks long before they are hatched!
Yameen is no different than the British father of 6 children who murdered his entire family by setting fire on the apartment while all the six kids were inside.
On BBC today, they showed him crying like a baby, pleading with the public and repeating the same way Yameen is, saying ' did not kill my children, i am a good family man...'
The police bugged his temporary place he was living after the murder and finally recorded his conversation with the wife on how to cheat the public through tears and body language. Yesterday, he and wife were found guilty of first degree murder and sentenced to prison, rather death as they will never see the outside world ever again.
Yameens plea of innocence is a bluff. Anni was right about the oil deals, and Umarus intelligence on gangs, buying of votes and drug dealing is absolutely true. The facts shall be displayed when MDP wins the election and expose all the evils in our society...its a matter of time before we know how much wealth is hidden in Malaysia.....
glimpse says:
Comment on AUTISM gives a good glimpse into the elusive mind of Yameen.
Yameen said in his speech, “This is the Autistic Day, isn’t it? If one is not autistic, whichever way one looks, one would doubtless see the development that has been brought to this country in the 30 years.”
Totally out of touch with human feelings..
Masood says:
Although Yamin is perceived as a technocrat capable of sound economic reform, no one "trusts" him because of his questionable past and the legacy of the Gayoom's for taking undue advantage of the people.
Anni on the other hand has genuine intention and trust he will do what is best for the people at the expense of his own self. He has the background of many years of sacrifice fighting for democracy. But unfortunately he is more an activist than a clever politician and executive heading the state.
So this 2013, we will have to vote for the lesser of these two devils. if only these two join hands and learn to co-exist peacefully for the greater stability and prosperity of this country! wishful thinking i know!
Ahmed Bin Addu Bin Suvadheeb says:
Look, even Umar Naseer has seen the evil games and ruthlessness of Yameen. Why would anyone ever trust a man who has Jangiyaa Nazim behind him? Taking advice from Satan himself would be far better!
Rationale says:
Gayyoom Brothers win the primarie!!!
Umar back (bone) to fire-safety n volleyball n submarine... where he will clense the drugs, thugs and gangs.
Dear Yameen ABDUL GAYOOM.
The day you became a unseperable buddy of Jangiya Nazim and the gang, your political future is down. You may think its going up. but you will end up been the biggest looser. Your brother Gayoom was far wiser and able leader. But you are a corrupt leader like Nasheed (Anni). People don't really trust you. They just want to use you. You will suffer and will cause great pain to this country. What is the difference between you and Dr.Waheed? Dr.Waheed just want power without any hard work or commitment. But you and Anni are dame corrupt politicians. Enjoy the ride up.
this man is a d**khead. a typical autocrat being fattened by years of looting and plundering with assistance from dictator brother old gayoom.
my advise to the people is dont vote ppm, a vote given to ppm is a vote given for oppression and poverty. these people and people who represent the old gayoom clan do not have the substratum typical mladvian mindset. these people are devilish in nature and they would not hesitate to shed the blood of ordinary maldivians for their political and economical interests. this family should be kept at bay for the good of our nation. they killed hussain solah of hithadhoo.
hussain solah was killed because he threw a pebble at dictators vehicles. the young man was tortured sadistically before being killed on gayooms order. gayoom orderd maafushi jaill massacre. he is directly responsible for that gencodie that lead to start-up of changing the political dynamics of the country.
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A “much better defensive effort,” that’s the feeling in the MSUM women’s basketball locker room after the Dragons defeated the Bemidji State Beavers 70-47 in a Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference matchup Saturday evening.
“I thought last night as compared to tonight, our defensive intensity was a little bit better,” Dragon’s head coach Karla Nelson said. “Last night we did not defend well at all and was the reason why we lost the game. Tonight was a much better effort defensive effort.”
Sophomore forward Megan Hintz said the Beavers were still in the game after the first half, so the goal was to kill any run of theirs in the second half.
“They were still in it, they were hitting threes here and there and making key shots,” Hintz said. “Coach has also stressed that team defense is huge for us. We just wanted to step up with solid defense.”
The Dragons (6-2, 3-1 NSIC) continually gave looks to Hintz and Drew Sannes in the paint. The two combined for 25 points in the first half. Hintz, who recorded 10 points and 8 rebounds, nearly had a double-double in the first half alone.
The Beavers (2-6, 1-3 NSIC) applied a similar offensive attack in the first half. Sophomore center Sydney Arrington became a popular target for Bemidji State, scoring a team-high 13 points through the first half.
In the second quarter, the Dragons diversified its offense approach by giving its three-point shooters open looks. It seemed to be a solid plan as Bemidji State began taking more risks defensively. Senior guard Cassidy Thorson, MSUM’s main sharpshooter, missed on all six of her first-half attempts.
Hintz finished the game with a double-double, recording 19 points and 10 rebounds. Sannes ended with a double-double as well, tallying 21 points and 12 rebounds.
“Last year we were successful with Drew being dominant in the post,” Hintz said. “So far this season we haven’t really had a dominant game. We wanted to step up and give that post presence tonight.”
The Dragons shut down one of the Beaver’s top scorers Brooklyn Bachman (0 points). Arrington’s hot start to the game was cut short as she only netted two points in the second half after scoring 13 in the first.
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CFANS terms cloud meaning
Faculty say CFANS terminology confuses students but are divided on what to do.
Anne Millerbernd
Some faculty members within the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences consider it a “discovery” college, meaning many students learn about its majors late in their college career.
College administrators and faculty members have noticed a lack of understanding among students about what specific majors and common terms in CFANS curricula mean, and they’re split on how to address the issue.
“We have real problems with name recognition within this college,” said Jay Bell, CFANS associate dean of academic programs and faculty affairs. “We have some trouble with some people even knowing that there’s disciplines [within CFANS].”
The University’s Office of Measurement Services and CFANS surveyed University of Minnesota and high school students in February 2011 to see how well they recognized terms used within the college.
Connie Tzenis, a part-time faculty member who worked on the survey, said it found students were interested in general areas of study in CFANS like environment or wildlife. But students had trouble understanding the names of some specific CFANS majors and areas of study.
For example, Tzenis said few students understood what “biobased products,” “food production” and “entomology” mean. But she said the survey found many students were familiar with terms like environment, animals and entrepreneurship.
Many majors’ names use terminology that faculty members are familiar with, Bell said, but students can’t always relate to that phrasing.
“If you looked at the list … plants, sustainability, food — all those resonated [with students],” he said. “So that’s the language we need to be using, not the language that was developed 100 years ago.”
Bell said faculty members sometimes become “enamored” with their fields of study and terms associated with them.
But entomology associate professor Vera Krischik said using the proper terminology is important. Because some disciplines within CFANS have long histories, she said, each field’s traditional vocabulary has meaning.
Tzenis said CFANS majors and departments sometimes have long names because faculty members want to feel like their area of study is included.
But the survey showed a correlation between the length of a major’s name and the level of student interest, Tzenis said.
“The longer the major got, the less interested in it students were,” she said. “Students don’t need to know the whole major within the name.”
Agricultural education senior Stephanie Kasper said she didn’t have a hard time understanding the phrasing CFANS used when she came to the University. She said her upbringing gave her an advantage many prospective CFANS students don’t have.
“I grew up on a dairy farm, so I’ve been blessed with a better understanding,” she said. “I was heavily involved in 4-H and [Future Farmers of America] when I was in high school.”
Though renaming CFANS’ current majors would be a strenuous process, Bell said, some departments are considering it.
CFANS launched two new majors this fall — Plant Science and Food Systems. When naming them, Bell said, administrators considered the survey’s results.
In 2006, a University task force created CFANS by merging the College of Natural Resources, the College of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences and the Department of Food Science and Nutrition.
Bell said CFANS’ name is long because each college involved wanted to be represented in it. He said he doesn’t expect the name to change anytime soon.
“People have kind of just gotten used to CFANS,” Bell said. “Those people maybe don’t know what CFANS stands for, but at least it’s a name that’s on the college.”
Bell said transfers are important to CFANS because students don’t often recognize it as one of their prospective colleges.
This fall, nearly 450 students started in CFANS for their first semester at the University. In addition, more than 280 — about 10 percent of the college’s total enrollment — transferred in.
Krischik said she thinks few high school students choose CFANS for their first year at the University, because they’re unfamiliar with the school’s curriculum.
Wayzata High School resource management and biology teacher Mark Sonderup said he doesn’t cover things like entomology in his course, because they don’t fit into the lesson plan.
“We’re so stuck in the amount of the time that we have to teach what the state says that we have to teach. … It’s mostly cell bio stuff that we’re teaching,” he said.
Despite pushes from some CFANS administrators, Bell said, few departments are likely to make substantial changes to their name. He said CFANS will continue to be a discovery college.
“Frankly,” he said, “I think that our college is one of the best-kept secrets in the University.”
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After criticism, new U regents up engagement
Christopher Aadland
As the University of Minnesota raises tuition after a failed bid to freeze costs while simultaneously trying to cut down on unnecessary spending, some state legislators are calling for the Board of Regents to be more critical of the administration’s priorities.
Influenced in part by the newest crop of regents and from pressure from state leaders, some regents said they plan to push to resolve unanswered questions about topics such as spending and research ethics that the school’s administration has been unclear about.
“This is long overdue. [The regents] are finally doing what the regents were created to do,” said Rep. Gene Pelowski Jr., DFL-Winona, adding that the board has been too trusting of the school’s administration in the past.
Pelowski said the three newest board members, Regents Thomas Anderson, Michael Hsu and Darrin Rosha, have pushed for answers from the University more than other regents.
Board chair Dean Johnson, who assumed the role last week, said he’s heard concerns from people outside of the University and plans to improve the board’s image while he leads the regents.
“This board wants to be engaged at a different level than we have in the past,” Johnson said at a board meeting last month. “The days of simply saying ‘yes’ are over.”
Criticism of indifference in decision making surfaced during the regent election process earlier this year and culminated last month during budget discussions between the regents and administration — discussions where regents, especially the three newest, questioned the proposed budget more intensely than in past years, Pelowski said.
“All the boards asked tough questions, and I believe it’s healthy for both the board and the administration to challenge the status quo at times,” said University President Eric Kaler in an email statement.
This election cycle, stances on issues like allegedly excessive administrative expenses, the rising cost of higher education and human research ethics were factors
when selecting regents, said Sen. Eric Pratt, R-Prior Lake, a member of the Senate’s higher education committee and the Regent Candidate Advisory Council.
After lawmakers selected regents in March, they turned their attention to the University’s budget request, in which the school had asked for $65 million from the state to freeze tuition for in-state students.
But regents and administrators weren’t able to provide thorough answers about how the school spends its money, said Rosha, who previously served on the board in 1989-95 when he was a student at the University. He said the unsatisfactory answers contributed to an imbalance between the University’s allocation and the
Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system, which received about $100 million more than the University.
“We have a strong directive from [legislators] to make sure the board is engaged,” he said. [Lawmakers last session] were not pleased with the level of clarity they received about our spending,” Rosha said.
Though the regents have approved Kaler’s initiatives, like reallocating $90 million in administrative costs and the implementation of a new strategic plan, Hsu said he’s unsure of how exactly the University will put the new policies in place.
“Right now, there’s no real strategy,” he said.
He said he hopes the board is able to chart out a way to approach the unanswered questions at a regents’ retreat later this week.
Administrators haven’t provided regents with enough information to guide the board, Rosha said, which has partly caused the board to be ineffective leaders.
He said regents were provided with more thorough information to guide decisions during his first stint on the board in the 1990s.
“We started from a point of substantially more [information from administrators],” Rosha said, adding that instead of detailed information and answers to questions, regents today receive vague responses.
While Johnson said it’s important for the board to hold administrators accountable for their decisions, the board should also be careful to not micromanage
Still, if regents wanted to improve the University, they wouldn’t hesitate to challenge administrators’ ideas, said Ardell Brede, chair of the Regents Candidate Advisory Council and mayor of Rochester, Minn.
He said he’s optimistic the new makeup of the board will reverse the perception that the regents aren’t engaged
“I can’t think [the newest regents] are going to be just yes folks,” Brede said.
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Innovation Meets Transformation
By NikkiOnTheDaily in Inspiring, Travel on January 24, 2018 January 24, 2018
This article first appeared in the January 24, 2018 issue of The Independent Newspaper
Up until a few short weeks ago East End entrepreneurs had dispiriting options of where to work. Home isn’t a suitable place for business meetings and local coffee shops provide more chaos of passerby’s than professional growth. Now, a location with world wide recognition for its creativity and beauty has a space to aid its ingenious businesses.
Welcome to The Spur, a by-invitation, members only co-working space targeting creative entrepreneurs on Long Island’s East End. In partnership with Southampton Social Club, The Spur launched on January 8 in its recognizable 256 Elm Street pop-up location in Southampton deally suited for those commuting off the train, walking down the street or driving in from Montauk. As the first of its kind in the area, it’s divided up by three zones. A dedicated desk are, with eight desks including two standing desks custom designed by California Closets, a lounge area with enough room for 40 people to work and have open meetings, and the conference room for privacy.
“Its a combination of two business models. WeWork is one and Soho House is the other,” Ashley John Heather, The Spur and i-Hamptons founder detailed.
“The Spur is a home for innovators. If you’re innovating, creating a product, creating something new, transforming the industry,” Heather explained.
The industry focus remains on media & tech, health & wellness, food/beverage & retail, a contrast to the typical concept of real estate and construction in the area.
John Wagner of Mighty Insights says community is the biggest benefit to joining.
“It’s what drives motivation and innovation around specific industries. It’s what built Silicon Valley into the beast it is today. The Hamptons are no different. There is an energy that exists when entrepreneurs work close to each other… As my company, Might Insights, is in the tech space and focused on data, it’s an opportunity for me to talk with other people and companies in my space.”
Memberships begin at $100 a month and range from Core options such as Local and Weekender to Alternative options for those 27-years-old and under to Moonlight. The Local Membership includes access to a dual location in New York City, located at 21 West 46th Street, called WorkHouse. However, there’s a vetting process before you can do business, or talk business, with likeminded individuals. Unlike WeWork, where renting space grants access, The Spur aims to strengthen the community through varied commonality. A membership committee of six people review each online application, which must be referred by an already existing member. Only upon a quick interview, to sense a prospecting members personality, vibe is everything, and tour will new innovators be considered.
As with any successful endeavor, business takes passion and admiration. Similarly to the philanthropic attitude of the area, The Spur cares for those around it. “Part of what we’re trying to do is give back to the community. We have a not for profit called i-Hamptons…through that we organize courses and events for the community…We have a big annual event called Rip Tide, Sink or Swim, which is like Shark Tank….[we want to] leverage the fact that there are some wealthy, successful individuals out here,” Heather emphasized.
“Our goal here is to connect the 20s, 40s, 60s, I’m saying that as a broad range. The young who are just getting started, out of college…to encourage them to stay and know there is a place you can come and learn and start something.”
In connecting the freshly thinking 20s, the those in their 40s who are potentially moving back after a stint at city life to those retirees in their 60s aiming to start something back up again, there’s an advisory council. The council boasts a three person team of Kathleen King, founder of Tates Bake Shop, David Bonnett, founder of Geocities, Bruce Bockmann, former Chairman of Techspace and Porter Bibb, founder of MediaTech capital partners, all of which will mentor members in building business.
Heather added, “We’re trying to stop the brain drain of all the 20 year olds leaving and we’re trying to build the next generation of year round businesses. So the town is less seasonal and more financially sustainable.”
Weekdays at 5PM members are invited to the Innov8 Speaker Series. M.A.D. Mondays, covering marketing, art & design across creative, digital marketing and social media. Tech Tuesdays, discussing innovative showcases across software and hardware. Wellness Wednesdays focus on the individual entrepreneur health, stress and time management. Thirsty Thursdays fills in on the newest trends in food and drink. Future Fridays, a mystery mag of fun topics for the upcoming year. “It’s kind of like further education. You get to learn, develop new skills, network between people. If you’re working on a business you can present it to the members who are all very adoptive in their own areas…It’s a whole culture and way of life,” described Ashley.
Meg Farrell, CEO of Huntley Global and Chief Marketing Officer of Aromox, feels ‘a sense of relief as an entrepreneur.’
“There is a certain divinity and positive light when authentic, like-minded people understand the journey as creator, developer, innovator and entrepreneur. As a collective membership supportive of one another in a co-working environment, men and women will break open the glass ceiling with steadfast innovation in 2018,” Farrell envisioned. Having attended three Innov8 speaker events thus far, her experience says it all.
“The Innov8 series is continuing education but the best kind – relaxed time for brain rest outside of your work, while cross training your mind with a variety of fascinating innovative concepts in an interactive setting. It’s an entrepreneur educational movement that benefits the members, and will impact the east end community. The members think beyond themselves, in order to make an imprint for the betterment of a sustainable lifestyle at home and at work.”
In a mix of work hard play hard, complimentary breakfast refreshments are offered 8AM to 11AM, including premium local brands like Hampton Coffee Company and Plain-T. Newly installed, for the healthier inclined, is Kombucha on tap. A lunch menu focusedon local cuisine is available 11AM to 4PM and happy hour begins at 5PM at the bar serving local beer, wine and infused spirits- just in time for Innov8 hour. Come Summer 2018 The Spur will move into a permanent, 10,000sqft facility in Southampton Village that will include a food court with 10×10 space from local businesses, a wellness studio highlighting the fitness community in the area and local liquor company partnerships.
While the businesses model landscape is changing, The Spur incites innovation at its best. Connecting the community, collaborating with individuals and creating a home. The next great idea is only a membership away.
Southampton is the hub with phase two underway to expand over the entire East End. Locations include Quogue, Sag Harbor, East Hampton, Montauk and Greenport. For more information visit www.thespur.com.
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Nearly 600 St. Thomas community members gathered virtually over Zoom for yesterday’s academic convocation. Two important topics – the COVID-19 pandemic and racial injustice – were frequently addressed during the hourlong event that featured speeches by President Julie Sullivan, faculty and staff. Executive Vice President and Provost Richard Plumb served as the emcee.
“St. Thomas is incredibly fortunate. We have challenges in front of us, but we really are blessed with the quality of the faculty and the staff that we have,” Plumb said. “Your dedication and your commitment give me hope, and hope is what’s going to get us through this year … I know it’s going to be a fantastic year.”
The St. Thomas mission and convictions, which Plumb called the “road map” to guide the university through the challenges, were a focal point of the convocation. Seven faculty and staff members each had an opportunity to share their own prepared reflection on one of the convictions.
President Julie Sullivan started her remarks by talking about gratitude, one of the seven convictions. “I cannot tell you how grateful I am for you, and how proud I am of you for the enormous effort every one of you has put into the reopening of our campus this fall,” she said. “The 2020-21 academic year will likely go down as one of the most challenging, yet most fulfilling, years to launch in our 135-year history. Your efforts to launch this year have been nothing short of extraordinary.”
Sullivan highlighted the transformation of north campus by the completion of two new residence halls, a renovated Ireland Hall, a new dining facility and the Iversen Center for Faith. She also spotlighted the First-Year Experience, Living Learning Communities, Theme-Based Learning Communities and the creation of Tommie Corps.
She quoted Pope Francis in what he calls a culture of encounter, “being fearless in the ways we look beyond ourselves to the needs of others. A culture of encounter requires a listening ear and an open heart. It requires us to step out of ourselves and our own fears and insecurities to seek relationship with the other, and within the other, to encounter God.”
Sullivan noted that Pope Francis points out that authentic encounters do not have to be in person. “I believe our commitment to this culture of genuine encounter and relationship with one another and with our students is providing us the creativity and the energy to persist in delivering the St. Thomas full-person, personalized education.”
Regarding systemic racism, she said that she is hopeful about changes that can be made for two reasons: the younger generation not standing for the status quo, and the changing nature of discussions within St. Thomas as well as among leaders of Twin Cities organizations. Sullivan shared specific steps that the university is taking this year in its journey to becoming an anti-racist community: augmenting the Action Plan to Combat Racism; commissioning an external diversity, equity and inclusion audit of the university’s policies and practices; supporting and expanding the work of the Racial Justice Initiative; and hosting Dr. Ibram X. Kendi on campus in the spring.
Sullivan closed by saying, “There is much to be grateful for, and we begin with each other. We are our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers, and the culture of encounter moves us to walk the journey of our lives tenderly holding each others’ hands, even if figuratively or virtually, and knowing all the while that it is God who is our veiled and shining companion. … I am certain that what we are learning today and how we are adapting as a community and as individuals will continue to propel us forward as a shining light for all.”
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Descenders Rides Into Xbox Game Preview This Summer
by Mike Rose, No More Robots • Feb 9, 2018 @ 8:00am
This is Mike Rose from publishing label No More Robots, and I’m rather excited to announce today that Descenders, the downhill mountain biking game from Action Henk studio RageSquid, is coming exclusively to console on Xbox One in Xbox Game Preview!
We’ve spent the last two years building Descenders with one simple goal in mind: To create the most gorgeous, stylish and addictive freeriding game possible, filled with satisfyingly intense speed – and we can’t wait for you lovely Xbox people to get your hands on it.
What the Heck is Descenders?
Good question! Descenders is extreme downhill freeriding for the modern era, where you flip, whip and scrub through procedurally generated worlds, filled with the underlying awareness that a single bail could end it all.
We know that the MTB community has been crying out for a proper mountain biking game for years now, so we wanted to create an experience that both satisfies the hardcore freeriding fan, while also feeling like great fun even if you’ve only ever casually ridden a bike.
The game plays out across four unique worlds, starting in the Scottish Highlands, weaving through dense forests, opening out into gaping, humid canyons, before chucking you out of a helicopter on the highest and most dangerous mountain peaks.
Every single run feels fresh and new – that’s because each level is uniquely generated before you play, meaning that you never see the same level twice. Oh, and there are no upgrades or power-ups to collect; Instead, you must progress through skill alone, feeling yourself getting better and better as the hours are whittled away.
Rinse and Rep-eat
Everything you do in Descenders earns you “Rep” points. Simple jumps and slides will boost your Rep ever so slightly, but it’s the biggest tricks and fastest speeds that really earn you the big bucks. Looking to top that Rep leaderboard? You might want to, oh I dunno, try jumping over a moving train?
As you build your Rep, the risk vs. reward grows deeper and far more intense. See, every time you bail, you lose 1% of your total Rep. That’s not too bad when you’ve just started out… but when you each 250,000 Rep, those tumbles really start to add up. All of a sudden, racing down a mountain at 50mph dodging trees left and right becomes a real heart-stopper.
You’re not just building your Rep for yourself – Descenders is very much a team effort. Early on in the game when you’ve proven your skills, you’ll be approached by one of the core riding teams, who will want to sign you up. Team Enemy is all about sick tricks, Team Arboreal take their action off the beaten path, and Team Kinetic are the game’s speed demons.
Your Rep will then also go towards your team’s total Rep, and will determine which team has prevailed each Season, along with who will receive exclusive gear and bikes. Make sure you pick the team that’s right for you!
Speaking of gear: As you play through Descenders, you’ll start unlocking new bikes, thread and accessories to kit yourself out with. The threads you own at the beginning aren’t exactly mind-blowing, but as the sponsorships start rolling in, you’ll find yourself with a full wardrobe, ranging from super slick kits to, shall we say, some rather silly shirts and accessories.
The types of kits and bikes you collect are linked to your Rep score, so players who spend time building their skills will find themselves unlocking the best, most gorgeous kits. As you can see, there are plenty of reasons to build that Rep score.
There’s so much more to see in Descenders, including secret gap, shortcuts, and rare events that occur… but I’ll keep those all to myself for now. We don’t want to spoil it all before you’ve had a chance to play!
We can’t wait to get Descenders into your hands as soon as possible – and it will definitely be soon! We’re aiming to launch in Xbox Game Preview in the next several months, so watch this space.
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Boko Haram: Amnesty International as NGO wing
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By Israel Abiodun
That the Boko Haram crisis in Nigeria has lingered is a function of various factors. There has been an unimaginable level of conspiracy against the Nigerian Military from multiple quarters. From those that have been benefiting from the heist, down to those that have used the insurgency as a means to achieving political gains.
To say that the actions of these groups and individuals are despicable would be an understatement. It is indeed a shame on how some have elected to be blinded by selfishness to be cruel to humanity.
I have followed the trajectory of the Boko Haram crisis in Nigeria since 2009 when the group began its violent campaign against the country. I have marvelled on how they have been able to sustain a war with the Nigerian Military all the years. At some point, I felt that God was angry with Nigeria. Also, I thought that the end of Nigeria was in sight because the way and manner the Boko Haram group grew in their strength and sophistication left so many things to the imagination.
The harder the Nigerian Army pushed, the more the Boko Haram group became deadlier, and this made me ask pertinent questions. I also undertook researches with the help of some professors in war and strategic studies. And guess what? The results were mindboggling. I was dumbfounded and came to terms with reality. I consequently concluded that there is indeed more than meet the eyes in the Boko Haram crisis in Nigeria.
If we must admit, the Nigerian Military, as well as some critical stakeholders, raised an alarm of the activities of some organizations parading themselves as advocates of the people, while in truth, they have been providing tactic and logistic support to the group.
One of such organizations is Amnesty International, the organization that pretends to be advocating for the preservation and protection of human rights. But it’s all a ruse because their activities in Nigeria have been nothing short of constituting a clog in our wheels of progress.
Amnesty International does not mean well for Nigeria. This much can be easily deciphered when a lens is focused on the tilt of their annual reports and the various disjointed press statements credited to it.
The lies, the hatred, the distractions and of late the rendering of intellectual support to the Boko Haram group are some of the ways Amnesty International have continually undermined Nigeria’s efforts towards ending the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria.
As unbelievable as this might sound, it is the starkness of the reality before us hence this piece. This position is not hinged on hearsay, but a product of critical analysis of the method of operation of Amnesty International and their position on issues that concerns the Boko Haram group.
Have we wondered why the various annual reports of Amnesty International on the conduct of the Nigerian Military in the prosecution of the Boko Haram insurgency has been consistent in condemning the Military? Have we also wondered why Amnesty International’s major preoccupation in Nigeria in the past five years has been that of constant rebuff and antagonism for the Nigerian Military whenever gains are recorded in decimating the Boko Haram group.
Isn’t it more curious that Amnesty International tends to value the lives of Boko Haram Insurgents than that of the victims of their nefarious activities? Have we ever read reports by Amnesty International condemning the killing of innocent woman and children by Boko Haram? Have we ever read statements of Amnesty International condemning the killing of humanitarian workers by Boko Haram? Have we also read any report from Amnesty International condemning the use of underage girls for suicide missions? The list is indeed endless.
Yet this is the same Amnesty International that sees nothing good in the efforts of the Nigerian Military in its various operations. Again, the nefarious activities of the Boko Haram group are normal and not worthy of condemnation. This is where we are today and at the mercies of Amnesty International. They do not only cause a distraction to the Nigerian Military, but they have also unofficially assumed the position of spokesperson of the Boko Haram group.
The curious thing is that we might not have realized that Amnesty International, through their actions, have been running terrorist propaganda for the Boko Haram group. This is on the heels that propaganda is indeed a potent weapon of war and not just tanks and bullets. The propaganda machinery of Amnesty International is a strategy with an overarching objective to provide intellectual support to the Boko Haram group, thereby demoralizing the troops in the theatre of operations in North-East Nigeria.
Amnesty International amplifies messages that would dampen the morale of troops. Amnesty International would accuse the Nigerian Military of the arbitrary killing of Boko Haram members. Amnesty International would castigate the operations of the Nigerian Military when gains are being recorded, yet, it would maintain an unholy silence when Boko Haram terrorist ambush soldiers, plant landmines and burn down communities.
Amnesty International would also turn a blind eye when young girls are strapped with bombs and detonated in places of worships and public spaces with the bulk of the casualties innocent women and children.
At this point, I am overwhelmed with emotions. I can only wish that Nigerians know a fraction of the evil plots of Amnesty International against Nigeria. And to imagine the level of progress that would have been made in the war against Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria is more depressing.
The conspiracy theorists would say when a “fact” tastes good and is repeated enough; we tend to believe it, no matter how false it may be. Understanding the illusory truth effect can keep us from being bamboozled. This is the case of Amnesty International in Nigeria and its entrenchment of illusory truth. And this is the time for Nigerians to understand the illusory truth effect and rise in support of the efforts of the Nigerian Military in addressing the threats posed by the Boko Haram terrorist group.
Amnesty International must retrace its steps and respect the sovereignty of Nigeria because it won’t be business as usual anymore. There are two options: be guided by the principle of truth and objectivity or leave the country. They should take this message to their sponsors wherever they are that Nigerians are resolute this time around. The past campaign for its expulsion from Nigeria should be fresh in their minds. Nigerians won’t tolerate any act of sabotage from Amnesty International and any other organization. Enough is indeed enough. Nigerians are watching.
Abiodun wrote this piece from Ibadan.
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by Mark Patton December 6, 2019 0 comment
UCSB guard Max Heidegger (middle) drives past teammates Ajare Sanni (left) and Max Cheylov during a scrimmage at the Thunderdome on Saturday, November 2, 2019. Kenneth Song/NEWS-PRESS
UCSB senior Maximilian Heidegger, avowed fan of Robert Frost, knows the poem as well as any schoolmate:
“Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.”
Heidegger must stay at home today as the rest of the Gaucho Blue-and-Gold board a flight for Saturday afternoon’s basketball game at Texas Arlington.
It will be his third-straight missed game and his 12th absence in the last two years because of concussion-related symptoms.
It’s enough to make any UCSB fan wonder if this haunting loop of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome will ever end.
“Max is day-to-day,” coach Joe Pasternack said again this week.
It’s about all he wants or even can say. It could be another week, or month, or … who knows?
A junior year that Heidegger described as “a mess, health-wise” was expected to improve with the turn of the season.
“I think I’m in the best place I’ve been in since I’ve been here,” Heidegger said as his senior year began a month ago. His headaches were gone. His knee no longer ached. His 6-foot-3 frame had been muscled up with an off-season of weight training.
His shot was gold again, too, finding its mark at a 59% percent rate through the Gauchos’ first three games. He averaged 20.3 points to that point and, for at least one glorious half, had the Gauchos on course for an upset at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion.
It was reminiscent of a sophomore season in which Heidegger’s 19.1-point average and school-record 95 three-pointers had put him on the All-Big West Conference first team.
But a pair of concussions and a gimpy knee derailed him at the start of last year …
… And then his head struck a metal railing last week at the Thunderdome.
The injury occurred during the closing minutes of UCSB’s Thanksgiving Eve game against Portland State. Heidegger was making an impact despite having made nary a basket. He drove and dished out four assists to go with a pair of steals that put the Gauchos on track for an 81-70 win.
But with under two minutes to go, he went one hustle play too far.
He was on the left baseline when teammate Amadou Sow blocked a shot by the Vikings’ Rashaad Goolsby. The ball was careening out of bounds when Heidegger leapt to save it, twisting in the air to throw it to point guard Devearl Ramsey.
Heidegger’s momentum, however, took him backwards into the first row of bench seating on the end court. He then tumbled into the aisle, striking the back of his head onto the metal handrail.
The railing had been recently installed as a safety measure … and, as it turned out, as a rub of salt into Heidegger’s wound.
He sat there, dazed, as his teammates dashed down court to eventually score on Sékou Touré’s fast-break put-back.
By the time the action had stopped, allowing trainer Jackson Smidt to leave the bench area, Heidegger had already departed the court. He got up and walked through a back exit before taking a hallway to his locker room.
As Robert Frost might muse, it was A Road Less Traveled.
HIPPA rules which prohibit the disclosure of protected health information have kept Heidegger’s status mostly under wraps. Not much was even said about his failure to attend UCSB’s post-Thanksgiving game against Grambling.
“He’ll continue to get better and improve,” is all Pasternack said. “When he does, that’s when he’ll be back.”
Even Heidegger’s teammates have remained mostly mum.
JaQuori McLauglin acknowledged his absence last week before adding, “I’m not really sure what happened to him.”
But the show goes on, even without a senior captain. The Gauchos (5-3) won both of their subsequent games and will be taking a four-game winning streak to Arlington to play a team that’s beaten the likes of Tulsa and fell just six points short at No. 8 Gonzaga last month.
Matt Freeman, a 6-foot-10 graduate transfer from Oklahoma, has tried to help junior guards McLaughlin and Ramsey with the leadership.
“Obviously, Max is a huge part of this team,” he said. “It’s a big piece missing when we don’t have him here.
“Other guys have to step up and that’s what they’ve been doing. That’s what coach always talks about: Next man up.”
Freeman has earned the respect of his new teammates by shooting 50% percent from the three-point line (17-for-34) and 52.6% overall while averaging 11.4 points.
Injuries have also forced guard Brandon Cyrus to miss two games and Ramsey to sit out another. The thin backcourt has forced McLaughlin to carry a heavy load, playing all but three minutes in each of the last two games.
“I think I’m pretty conditioned to play all those minutes,” McLaughlin said. “I need to play, so I feel pretty good.”
It is poetry to the ears of Pasternack, who needs a Max effort now from all.
Mark Patton’s column appears on Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday. Email: mpatton@newspress.com
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Open reader view Pesachim 52 The Power of Imagination Psychology of the Daf
The Gemara quotes a verse in Hoshea (4:12) that criticizes the Jews for taking counsel from a staff and rod. What does this mean ?
Rashi (Devarim 18:10) says that people would hold a stick and somehow see which way it tended to point, offering magical guidance of which road to take. A kind of Bronze Age GPS system. This must be something similar to the ancient practice of dowsing, where Y shaped wooden branch was used to search for water or precious metals. The Derashos HaRan (12) explains this further that the movement of the stick would put the person into a trance, and those whose power of imagination was great, could come to genuinely see the future. The point is that various forms of trances and divination were not ineffective according to the Ran. Rather, this process was forbidden by the Torah as prophecy replaced it as a more powerful and genuine way to connect to Hashem.
Let’s reflect on what the Ran is saying as it is opposite of our modern mentality but nonetheless representative of a universal mystical mentality. The power of imagination was not considered to be a useless feature of consciousness. To the contrary, it had spiritual powers. However in the untrained mind, it produced false readings. But it’s actual function was to pick up on subtle hints and emanations that were not verbal, and so required the imagination to give this amorphous sense some kind of symbolic representation. We come from a strong literary and scientific background that it is hard for us to give credit to this kind of thinking. Yet, many other great Jewish authorities make similar assertions. See for example, Maimonides in the Guide (II:43 and 45) and Rabbenu Bechaye (Bereishis 41:1), where each According to their own specific theological beliefs put so much emphasis on the power of the imagination to properly interpret the spiritual emanations. One of the greatest scientists of the modern world, Albert Einstein was known for his use of Gedankenexperimenten, or thought experiments. Einstein relied on the imagination to picture certain physical conditions difficult to create. He famously began to his preconscious deliberations on relativity when at age 16 he used to imagine himself chasing a beam of light ( https://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Chasing_the_light/ ).
We can use our imagination to amplify intuition and motivate us to bigger truths. We must also prove or disprove what our intuition tells us, because it can be notoriously unreliable especially to the untrained user. However, with life experience, a person can finely hone their imagination, intuition and even dreams to allow them awareness of much broader sense data than can easily or initially be put into words. It is good to think of intuition and imagination as data used in weather forecasting such as wind speed and barometric pressure. They are factors that contribute to the overall forecast, but not the conclusive or sole basis of the forecast.
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Joined by new friends from other planets, Pinkfong and Baby Shark explore outer space and search for missing star pieces to return home.
Jo Kyoung-i, Kim Seo-yeong, Kim Eun-ah, Jeong Jae-heon
Children & Family Movies, Animal Tales, Korean Movies
Byeon Hee-sun
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In a story of interconnected lives, three families of different religious faiths navigate conflicting beliefs, hardships and other struggles.
Reza Rahadian, Revalina S. Temat, Rio Dewanto, Agus Kuncoro Adi, Endhita, Hengky Solaiman
Dramas, Indonesian Movies
Hanung Bramantyo
While her mom is away, a teen sneaks out of the hippie commune where she lives and embarks on a life-changing adventure to discover who her father is. When she went searching for a father, she found two. Which is the real one? In her heart, she knows.
Maisa Silva, Eduardo Moscovis, Marcelo Médici, Laila Zaid, Pedro Ottoni, Rayana Diniz
Children & Family Movies, Brazilian Movies, Teen Movies
Cris D'Amato
Follow LA's wildly wealthy Asian and Asian American fun seekers as they go all out with fabulous parties, glamour and drama in this reality series. Party. Shop. Eat. Repeat. These friends are living their best lives — and making up the rules as they go along.
Reality TV, US TV Shows
When her estranged mother falls into a coma, a self-made single mom grapples with regret and resentment while reflecting on their strained relationship. Three brave women. One broken family. Their lives couldn’t be more different. They’d never be the same without each other.
Kajol, Tanvi Azmi, Mithila Palkar, Kunaal Roy Kapur, Vaibhav Tatwawaadi, Kanwaljeet Singh
Social Issue Dramas, Bollywood Movies, Dramas
Renuka Shahane
In the near future, a drone pilot sent into a war zone finds himself paired with a top-secret android officer on a mission to stop a nuclear attack. One's a hotshot drone pilot. The other's a secret new class of soldier. And where they're headed, none of the old rules apply.
Anthony Mackie, Damson Idris, Emily Beecham, Michael Kelly, Pilou Asbæk
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In this delightful short documentary, an Italian American grandmother and film buff finds strength and joy in the life of her screen idol, Sophia Loren. One is a screen legend, the other is not. But both are beloved — and their lives are more similar than you would think.
Nancy "Vincenza Careri" Kulik, Sophia Loren
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Ross Kauffman
Princess duties call, but she'd rather be drinking. Free-spirited Bean exasperates the king as she wreaks havoc with her demon and elf pals. Misadventure is her middle name. Unfortunately, "princess" is her title. A madcap medieval quest from Matt Groening.
Abbi Jacobson, Eric André, Nat Faxon, John DiMaggio, Tress MacNeille, Matt Berry
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Stranded at an isolated hotel, a couple is horrified to learn their room is wired with video equipment and that they are the subjects of a snuff film. If your car breaks down near this secluded hotel, you may want to give it a pass. Staying there might just kill you.
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What’s It Take To Get An Endorsement? 10 Organizations/Unions Explain How
Printed from: https://newbostonpost.com/2020/10/10/whats-it-take-to-get-an-endorsement-10-organizations-unions-explain-how/
Political candidates tout endorsements, which raises the question: what exactly do they mean?
When a candidate has an endorsement from an advocacy group or union, what does it say — particularly about their policy positions?
New Boston Post reached out to more than 25 organizations that endorse candidates to ask what the endorsement process is like and what a candidate has to stand for to earn their endorsement.
In all, 10 responded. Here is what they had to say:
Massachusetts Citizens for Life
Massachusetts Citizens for Life can’t make endorsements because it is a 501(c)(4) corporation, which federal and state rules prohibit from endorsing candidates. However, an external political action committee in state races and an internal political action committee in federal races make such decisions. They pick candidates based on their support for defending life — from conception to natural death.
MCFL considers candidates from all parties, sending Bay State candidates a questionnaire in every election cycle.
“Do the responses indicate that the candidate will consistently and unqualifiedly support legislation that advances pro-life causes?” a statement from the Massachusetts Citizens For Life PAC Chairman provided by Pat Stewart told New Boston Post. “Are the responses ‘mixed’ – meaning pro-life on some issues but not on others? Did the candidate not respond at all? Is the candidate ‘personally opposed’ to abortion or doctor-prescribed suicide, for example, but in practice, would vote to support legislation that favored these policies?”
“Other factors that may be considered include for incumbents, his or her voting record on pro-life issues, and for all candidates whether or not he or she belongs to any pro-life organizations or has done any work to advance pro-life causes,” the statement continued. “Irrespective of party affiliation, only candidates that unequivocally, consistently, and publicly stand for pro-life policies are eligible to receive the State PAC’s endorsement.”
In federal elections, the MCFL PAC uses similar standards and may take into consideration the perspective of individual people on MCFL’s board of directors.
In Massachusetts, the National Federation of Independent Business has a state political action committee that is willing to endorse candidates from any party. The organization bases its endorsements of incumbents on their voting record, Massachusetts state director Christopher Carlozzi told New Boston Post. For non-incumbents, NFIB uses a questionnaire of issues they see as important to small businesses. Then, the state political action committee board, composed of small business owners, decides whom to endorse.
So what issues do they consider?
“Economic recovery for small businesses is the primary concern for NFIB,” Carlozzi wrote in an email message. “Creating an environment where businesses will thrive and begin to create jobs again is vital to the state’s recovery. This means elected officials must resist the urge to raise taxes, introduce new labor mandates, or increase operating costs for small employers. In order to prevent dark storefronts in communities across the Commonwealth, lawmakers will need to support legislation that will encourage small business growth, not inhibit expansion through higher taxes or increased mandates.”
Massachusetts Voters for Animals
Massachusetts Voters for Animals endorses Democrats and Republicans alike and considers candidates regardless of their party affiliation. They look only at Massachusetts State House races.
“Our group’s sole mission is to endorse and try to help elect to the State House the most humane minded candidates who we feel would most strongly advocate for protecting animals from cruelty and to try to defeat candidates who we feel likely to support bills that would harm them,” Marge Peppercorn, a steering committee member for Massachusetts Voters for Animals, told New Boston Post in an email message.
The candidates receive a questionnaire. The group assesses the positions listed on a candidate’s web site, as well as a candidate’s past voting record, if applicable.
“We don’t actually have a main issue and instead ask questions that touch on each group of animal — farm, wildlife, research lab, and domestic,” Peppercorn wrote. “For example we ask views about the wildlife protection act trapping restrictions, having wild animals in circuses and other traveling shows, civil citations for neglect and cruelty of all domestic animals not just dogs, breed-specific insurance regulations, use of animals for cosmetic testing, ivory and rhino horn commerce, Sunday hunting, etc.”
“For each question, we give a brief background of the issue and then ask the candidate’s opinion,” she added.
Massachusetts Nurses’ Association
The Massachusetts Nurses’ Association has a group of nurses and health care professionals elected by their colleagues in Massachusetts who serve on the board of directors and on the board of the organization’s political action committee. They use questionnaires and interviews, and Joe Markman, an Massachusetts Nurses’ Association spokesman, told New Boston Post in an email message that “all candidates are welcome to seek endorsement.”
He also explained what the nurses’ association looks for in a candidate.
“Among top priorities when considering endorsements: Support and protection for nurses and healthcare professionals on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, and ensuring safe, high-quality patient care conditions, a safe workplace, fair working environments, protection of collective bargaining rights, access to local healthcare and best nursing practices,” he wrote.
The Environmental League of Massachusetts’s Action Fund requires candidates to fill out a questionnaire and undergo an interview process. Ellen Tomlinson, the organization’s communications director, told New Boston Post that party affiliation does not affect a candidate’s chances of an endorsement and noted that the organization has endorsed two Republicans in this election cycle.
Tomlinson also listed out league’s priorities:
Reducing transportation emissions, particularly through the regional Transportation and Climate Initiative.
Increasing our offshore wind resources, since offshore wind is the biggest lever we can pull to protect the environment and grow the economy at the same time.
Ensuring that environmental agencies and programs are adequately funded in the state budget.
We’ve strongly supported the 2050 Roadmap bill in the state legislature, as well as the inclusion of the environmental justice amendment.
Boston Independent Drivers Guild
The guild for ridesharing drivers endorsed Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, for president, and executive director Henry De Groot uses Sanders’s brand of politics as an example of what the guild looks for in a candidate.
“We want people who are unequivocally fighting for workers’ rights and the labor movement and who are taking on the corporate establishment in the Democratic Party,” De Groot told New Boston Post in a telephone interview.
“When we endorsed Senator Sanders, we also endorsed his idea of a political revolution against the billionaire class,” he added. “The mainstream of the labor movement tied in with the corporate part of the Democratic Party hasn’t been able to help workers organize in new industries like ridesharing and even ones that have long existed like food service.”
De Groot said that his group wants politicians who will regulate transportation network companies like Uber and Lyft to add protections for workers. He also said since the drivers come from diverse backgrounds, the organization prefers candidates with pro-immigrant policies “who are active in the fight for racial justice.”
He said the group would consider endorsing candidates of various parties — but probably not a Republican anytime soon.
“If there was a candidate running in the Republican Party that was committed to a political revolution against the billionaire class, I suppose we would, but it seems incredibly unlikely in this GOP. Maybe in the GOP of 100 years ago or 150 years ago. In terms of independents and third-party candidates, we’re definitely open to them.”
United Auto Workers
Brian Rothenberg, a spokesman for United Auto Workers, explained how their process works and why they tend to be one of the last major unions to endorse in presidential elections.
“Under the UAW Constitution each Local Union has standing committees,” Rothenberg told New Boston Post in an email message. “One of those is the CAP Committee which local unions each have. Endorsements recommendations come from those local CAP committees to the region (in case there are dueling recommendations). The Regional CAP Council then makes the final endorsement from those recommendations of the Locals. In the case of the Presidential Campaign, the Regions then forward their recommendations to the International Executive Board which reviews those recommendations and makes a final endorsement.”
Fair trade is an issue that United Auto Workers cares about. The UAW’s national CAP department notes a few other issues they look for in candidates:
Protecting our right to collectively bargain
Protecting Social Security and Medicare
Fair tax laws
Adequate funding for public education
Ensuring that all workers, regardless of country of origin, are treated with respect and dignity
United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America
United Electrical regards itself as one of the most progressive labor unions in the country, although communications director Jonathan Kissam told New Boston Post by email, “We support or oppose candidates based upon their actions, not their words or party label.”
Some issues that UE supports: a federal jobs program, a $15-an-hour federal minimum wage, Medicare-for-All, a moratorium on home foreclosures, eliminating offshore tax havens, breaking up and/or nationalizing banks, raising taxes on the wealthy, and supporting all immigrants (including illegals).
UE doesn’t do many presidential endorsements, but they have done these seven: Franklin D. Roosevelt (twice), Lyndon B. Johnson, George McGovern, Michael Dukakis, Ralph Nader, and Bernie Sanders.
United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1459
United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1459 represents workers in eight fields: food, transit, education, retail, the public sector, security, Westover Air Base, and health care.
Some of the issues the union cares about include: protections on the job, unemployment benefits, paid family medical leave, time-and-a-half pay on Sundays, and increasing the minimum wage.
Union officials say they don’t care if the candidate has a D or R next to their name, as long as they feel as though the candidate helps achieve those goals.
“We would support anyone of any party as long as they share the views of labor and bettering the lives of the working class in the district which they are running to represent,” UFCW Local 1459 vice president Matt Szulborski told New Boston Post in a telephone interview last week.
“To be honest with you, most of the people who support labor issues tend to lean Democrat or are independent, but I would love to see Republicans come around and offer more support for labor,” he later added. “We’re open to endorsing candidates on either side of the aisle.”
Citizens for Limited Taxation has never endorsed a candidate, but it had a state political action committee called 2 1/2 PAC headed by Francis J. “Chip” Faulkner until his death last year.
Citizens for Limited Taxation executive director Chip Ford told New Boston Post that the political action committee sent candidates a CLT Taxpayer Protection Pledge as the first step for candidates to qualify for an endorsement.
It read, “I, (blank), pledge to the taxpayers of the (blank) District of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and to all the people of this state, that I will oppose and vote against any and all efforts to increase taxes.”
The candidates also got a questionnaire with tax-related issues. The political action committee judged the candidates on their responses.
“If a candidate got that far then he or she had to demonstrate that there was an actual campaign in place, with a campaign manager and credible fundraising, that the campaign was competitive,” Ford said by email.
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Officer Helps Woman in his Free Time
Officer John Holder was doing a routine wellness check on 73-year-old Dorothy Shepherd when he realized she was in pretty rough shape after having just gone through knee and back surgeries. He gave her his phone number and told her to call if she needed help.
Ever since, Holder has been helping Shepherd get wherever she needs to go, whether it's a doctor appointment or the grocery store. Chris Cuomo has the full story.
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Open Wide: Anaconda Eats Man Alive on Discovery Channel?
Paul Rosolie says he was eaten alive by a giant green anaconda, the largest and most powerful snake in the world.
The herpetologist, naturalist and author presented himself as prey to the snake after putting on a special reinforced suit with helmet and devices to measure his vital signs, he says in a press release on the Discovery Channel website.
"She got me right in the face," he said. "The last thing I saw was her mouth wide open before everything went black. As this happened, she wrapped around me and took me off of my feet. I felt the suit cracking. It felt as if my arms were ripping out of their sockets."
Rosolie doesn't say much about the experience in the western Amazon, which was filmed in advance, because he wants everybody to tune into Discovery Channel's "Eaten Alive" show 9 p.m. Sunday ET.
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Protesters Flood California Highway, Throw Explosives at Officers, Police Say
From the streets of California to the stores of New York City, protesters are making sure no one forgets the case of Eric Garner.
But some are doing so more violently than others.
Demonstrators flooded a highway in Oakland, California, late Sunday night, prompting a heated standoff in the freeway between protesters and the California Highway Patrol.
Some threw explosives, bottles and rocks at officers, authorities said. Highway Patrol Sgt. Diana McDermott said it wasn't clear what type of explosives were thrown, but she said some in the crowd had Molotov cocktails and M-80 firecrackers.
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New gene regulation model provides insight into brain development
A well-known protein family binds to many more RNA sequences than previously thought in order to help neurons grow.
Raleigh McElvery | Department of Biology
Raleigh McElvery
Email: mcelvery@mit.edu
MIT Department of Biology
Some RNA-binding proteins like Rbfox (gold ellipses) help tune gene expression and control biological processes by latching onto more RNA sequences (black and gold lines) as their concentration increases (teal shading).
Image: Bridget Begg
In every cell, RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) help tune gene expression and control biological processes by binding to RNA sequences. Researchers often assume that individual RBPs latch tightly to just one RNA sequence. For instance, an essential family of RBPs, the Rbfox family, was thought to bind one particular RNA sequence alone. However, it’s becoming increasingly clear that this idea greatly oversimplifies Rbfox’s vital role in development.
Members of the Rbfox family are among the best-studied RBPs and have been implicated in mammalian brain, heart, and muscle development since their discovery 25 years ago. They influence how RNA transcripts are “spliced” together to form a final RNA product, and have been associated with disorders like autism and epilepsy. But this family of RBPs is compelling for another reason as well: until recently, it was considered a classic example of predictable binding.
More often than not, it seemed, Rbfox proteins bound to a very specific sequence, or motif, of nucleotide bases, “GCAUG.” Occasionally, binding analyses hinted that Rbfox proteins might attach to other RNA sequences as well, but these findings were usually discarded. Now, a team of biologists from MIT has found that Rbfox proteins actually bind less tightly — but no less frequently — to a handful of other RNA nucleotide sequences besides GCAUG. These so-called “secondary motifs” could be key to normal brain development, and help neurons grow and assume specific roles.
“Previously, possible binding of Rbfox proteins to atypical sites had been largely ignored,” says Christopher Burge, professor of biology and the study’s senior author. “But we’ve helped demonstrate that these secondary motifs form their own separate class of binding sites with important physiological functions.”
Graduate student Bridget Begg is the first author of the study, published Aug. 17 in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology.
“Two-wave” regulation
After the discovery that GCAUG was the primary RNA binding site for mammalian Rbfox proteins, researchers characterized its binding in living cells using a technique called CLIP (crosslinking-immunoprecipitation). However, CLIP has several limitations. For example, it can indicate where a protein is bound, but not how much protein is bound there. It’s also hampered by some technical biases, including substantial false-negative and false-positive results.
To address these shortcomings, the Burge lab developed two complementary techniques to better quantify protein binding, this time in a test tube: RBNS (RNA Bind-n-Seq), and later, nsRBNS (RNA Bind-n-Seq with natural sequences), both of which incubate an RBP of interest with a synthetic RNA library. First author Begg performed nsRBNS with naturally-occurring mammalian RNA sequences, and identified a variety of intermediate-affinity secondary motifs that were bound in the absence of GCAUG. She then compared her own data with publicly-available CLIP results to examine the “aberrant” binding that had often been discarded, demonstrating that signals for these motifs existed across many CLIP datasets.
To probe the biological role of these motifs, Begg performed reporter assays to show that the motifs could regulate Rbfox’s RNA splicing behavior. Subsequently, computational analyses by Begg and co-author Marvin Jens using mouse neuronal data established a handful of secondary motifs that appeared to be involved in neuronal differentiation and cellular diversification.
Based on analyses of these key secondary motifs, Begg and colleagues devised a “two-wave” model. Early in development, they believe, Rbfox proteins bind predominantly to high-affinity RNA sequences like GCAUG, in order to tune gene expression. Later on, as the Rbfox concentration increases, those primary motifs become fully occupied and Rbfox additionally binds to the secondary motifs. This results in a second wave of Rbfox-regulated RNA splicing with a different set of genes.
Begg theorizes that the first wave of Rbfox proteins binds GCAUG sequences early in development, and she showed that they regulate genes involved in nerve growth, like cytoskeleton and membrane organization. The second wave appears to help neurons establish electrical and chemical signaling. In other cases, secondary motifs might help neurons specialize into different subtypes with different jobs.
John Conboy, a molecular biologist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and an expert in Rbfox binding, says the Burge lab’s two-wave model clearly shows how a single RBP can bind different RNA sequences — regulating splicing of distinct gene sets and influencing key processes during brain development. “This quantitative analysis of RNA-protein interactions, in a field that is often semi-quantitative at best, contributes fascinating new insights into the role of RNA splicing in cell type specification,” he says.
A binding spectrum
The researchers suspect that this two-wave model is not unique to Rbfox. “This is probably happening with many different RBPs that regulate development and other dynamic processes,” Burge says. “In the future, considering secondary motifs will help us to better understand developmental disorders and diseases, which can occur when RBPs are over- or under-expressed.”
Begg adds that secondary motifs should be incorporated into computer models that predict gene expression, in order to probe cellular behavior. “I think it’s very exciting that these more finely-tuned developmental processes, like neuronal differentiation, could be regulated by secondary motifs,” she says.
Both Begg and Burge agree it’s time to consider the entire spectrum of Rbfox binding, which are highly influenced by factors like protein concentration, binding strength, and timing. According to Begg, “Rbfox regulation is actually more complex than we sometimes give it credit for.”
This research was funded by the EMBO Long Term Fellowship and by a grant from the National Institutes of Health.
Paper: "Concentration-dependent splicing is enabled by Rbfox motifs of intermediate affinity"
Christopher Burge
Burge Lab
Bringing RNA into genomics
A new way to regulate gene expression
Decoding RNA-protein interactions
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The New Fourth Plinth Artwork At Trafalgar Square Has Been Unveiled
By Maire Rose Connor Last edited 6 months ago
Maire Rose Connor The New Fourth Plinth Artwork At Trafalgar Square Has Been Unveiled
Heather Phillipson, THE END. Image © David Parry/PA
The latest artwork to occupy Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth has finally gone up, four months after its original unveiling was delayed owing to the coronavirus pandemic.
Created by British artist Heather Phillipson, who is known for her sculptural and video works, this is The End — the rather ominous implications of its name compounded by the fact that it is the thirteenth artwork to occupy the space.
Justine Simons, Heather Phillipson and Ekow Eshun. Image © David Parry/PA
On first glance, the sculpture seems fairly whimsical: a shiny cherry teetering precariously atop a generous dollop of whipped cream. But note the fly and the drone, and the sculpture becomes somewhat more unnerving, inviting ideas of decay, surveillance and impending collapse. In fact, you are being watched — the drone transmits a live feed which can be viewed here.
Such themes arguably make it a totally apt piece of public art for 2020, a year in which a global pandemic brought much of the world to a standstill. And those involved with the project have acknowledged the seismic changes that have taken place since the sculpture's conception.
Image © David Parry/PA
"When Heather’s work was selected two years ago we could never have imagined the world we find ourselves in today", said Justine Simons OBE, Deputy Mayor for Culture and Creative Industries. "But we always knew this sugary swirl with a dystopian flavour would spark a conversation."
The artist has also been commissioned by Art on the Underground to produce a new online work to accompany it. Volta deals with upheaval, renewal and possibility, and can be accessed here.
With a braille panel included on its plaque, tactile imagery, and audio description available via the GLA's website, The End is the Fourth Plinth's first fully accessible commission. It's also the tallest artwork to date, measuring 9.4m and weighing 9 tonnes.
"I wanted to take into account both the political and physical aspects of Trafalgar Square and the plinth. I'm honoured...to see THE END scaled up for its ultimate size and context - one in which the surrounding architecture and its population are participants in a mis-scaled landscape, magnifying the banal, and our cohabitation with other lifeforms, to apocalyptic proportions.”
-Heather Phillipson, artist.
The End will stay in Trafalgar Square until spring 2022, so you've got plenty of time to see it in situ. In the meantime, you can check out the live stream for a sculpture's eye view of the square.
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8 tips for the Linux command line | Opensource.com
Take advantage of all of the powers the almighty Linux command line has to offer.
12 Jan 2021 Jim Hall (Correspondent) Feed
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The Linux command line provides a great deal of flexibility. Whether you are managing a server or launching a terminal window on a desktop system, the command line brings with it an extensive toolkit to update files, tweak system performance, and manage processes. The command line is where it's at.
Testifying to the command line's popularity, Opensource.com publishes many excellent articles about how to get the most out of your system. The following were some of Opensource.com's most-read articles about Linux commands in 2020:
Make Bash history more useful with these tips
Bash is the default command line shell on most Linux systems. Seth Kenlon wrote this guide to help you with your Bash history. Manipulating history is usually less dangerous than it sounds, especially when you're curating it with a purpose in mind. Tell Bash what you want it to remember—or even rewrite history by deleting entries you don't want or need. Use your history sessions as required, and exercise your power over history wisely.
How I balance features and performance in my Linux terminal
Learn Advanced Linux Commands
Download Cheat Sheets
Find an Open Source Alternative
Read Top Linux Content
Check out open source resources
Ricardo Gerardi is a big fan of command line applications and spends a lot of his time working in a terminal. Ricardo invested some time to make the command line a pleasant environment to work in. Learn how to customize terminal apps, themes, and the prompt to create a feature-rich terminal that's easy on system resources.
Drop Bash for the fish shell to get beautiful defaults
Matt Broberg recently let go of the default command line interpreter, Bash, in favor of fish, which proudly markets itself as "a command line shell for the '90s." The fish-themed "friendly interactive shell" creates a more enjoyable experience on the command line. Read Matt's article to learn more about how to get the most out of fish. If you're looking to move away from tinkering with your terminal, focus more on code, and have a more beautiful default shell, give fish a try.
10 ways to analyze binary files on Linux
We work with binaries daily, yet we understand so little about them. Linux provides a rich set of tools that makes analyzing binaries a breeze! These simple commands and tools can help you sail through the task of analyzing binary files. Whatever your job role, knowing the basics about these tools will help you understand your Linux system better. Gaurav Kamathe covers some of the most popular Linux tools and commands to manage binaries, including file, nm, strings, and hexdump.
4 Markdown tools for the Linux command line
When it comes to working with files formatted with Markdown, command line tools rule the roost. They're light, fast, powerful, and flexible, and most of them follow the Unix philosophy of doing one thing well. Scott Nesbitt reviews four command line utilities that can help you work more efficiently with Markdown files.
Improve Linux system performance with noatime
Whenever I upgrade Linux on my home computer, I have a list of tasks I usually do. They've become habits over the years: I back up my files, wipe the system, reinstall from scratch, restore my files, then reinstall my favorite extra applications. I also make a few system tweaks. One tweak is atime, which is one of the three timestamps on every file on Linux. Turning off atime is a small but effective way to improve system performance. Here's what it is and why it matters.
Extend the life of your SSD drive with fstrim
Over the past decade, solid-state drives (SSD) have brought about a new way of managing storage. SSDs have benefits like silent and cooler operation and a faster interface spec, compared to their elder spinning ancestors. Of course, new technology brings with it new methods of maintenance and management. Alan Formy-Duval wrote about a new systemd service to make your life easier when managing SSDs.
5 modern alternatives to essential Linux command line tools
In our daily use of Linux/Unix systems, we use many command line tools to complete our work, and to help us understand and manage our systems better. Over the years, these tools have been modernized and ported to different systems. However, in general, they still follow their original idea, look, and feel. In recent years, the open source community has developed alternative tools that offer additional benefits. Ricardo Gerardi shows us how to gain new benefits by improving old command line tools with these five updated alternatives.
Use these articles as a springboard to finding your own tips and tricks for the command line. Is there something missing from this list? Comment below, or better yet, submit an article of your own!
Jim Hall - Jim Hall is an open source software advocate and developer, best known for usability testing in GNOME and as the founder + project coordinator of FreeDOS. At work, Jim is CEO of Hallmentum, an IT executive consulting company that provides hands-on IT Leadership training, workshops, and coaching.
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Christopher Fairbank, Cosmo Jarvis, Florence Pugh, Golda Rosheuvel, Naomi Ackie, Paul Hilton, William Oldroyd(dir)
Drama, Latest Reviews
Transplanted from its Russian literary setting, this adaptation of ‘Lady MacBeth’ tells the story of Katherine sold into a loveless marriage in the north of England. Set in the repressed era of the industrial revolution Katherine’s life is commuted to the interior of the house and the provision of heirs as a fulfilment to the bargain she was sold on. Slowly, twisting at the chains of deportment and expectation, Katherine’s life changes when her husband is called away. Alone, with the exception of her handmaid and house servants, Katherine pushes at the limits of her expected confinement and steps outside. From that very moment, her life and those around will never be the same.
…subtexts are delivered with scorn and thinly veiled contempt always threatens burst through the bodice of Katherine's corsets.
As a BBC / BFI co-production, ‘Lady MacBeth’ reflects the experienced dramatic stables it comes from. With British stalwarts such as Christopher Fairbank as her father in law, subtexts are delivered with scorn and thinly veiled contempt always threatens burst through the bodice of Katherine’s corsets as she chokes on the expectations put upon her.
Directed by William Oldroyd, the film reflects his theatre production path to that of film director. More caustic than cinematic, his big screen adaptation hangs on the delivery of its speeches, the furrowing of brows and spat indignations rather than fluid camerawork or symbolic juxtapositions. As a piece of cinema, ‘Lady MacBeth’ can occasionally feel leaden, especially given the past heritage of BBC’s historical canon of quality adaptations and the film’s murderous title.
Neither as dramatic as the classic ‘La Reine Margot’ or as visually impressive as the recent ‘MacBeth’ starting Marion Cotillard, ‘Lady MacBeth’ will sadly only satisfy those already hooked on British historical drama. Those seeking richer fare will find ‘Lady MacBeth’s frigid charms better suited to the frame of a television set rather than a cinema screen.
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Parasites & Vectors
The geographical distribution and prevalence of Echinococcus multilocularis in animals in the European Union and adjacent countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Antti Oksanen1,
Mar Siles-Lucas2,
Jacek Karamon3,
Alessia Possenti4,8,
Franz J. Conraths5,
Thomas Romig6,
Patrick Wysocki5,
Alice Mannocci7,
Daniele Mipatrini7,
Giuseppe La Torre7,
Belgees Boufana4,8,9 &
Adriano Casulli4,8,9
Parasites & Vectors volume 9, Article number: 519 (2016) Cite this article
This study aimed to provide a systematic review on the geographical distribution of Echinococcus multilocularis in definitive and intermediate hosts in the European Union (EU) and adjacent countries (AC). The relative importance of the different host species in the life-cycle of this parasite was highlighted and gaps in our knowledge regarding these hosts were identified.
Six databases were searched for primary research studies published from 1900 to 2015. From a total of 2,805 identified scientific papers, 244 publications were used for meta-analyses.
Studies in 21 countries reported the presence of E. multilocularis in red foxes, with the following pooled prevalence (PP): low (≤ 1 %; Denmark, Slovenia and Sweden); medium (> 1 % to < 10 %; Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania and the Ukraine); and high (> 10 %; Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Liechtenstein and Switzerland). Studies from Finland, Ireland, the United Kingdom and Norway reported the absence of E. multilocularis in red foxes. However, E. multilocularis was detected in Arctic foxes from the Arctic Archipelago of Svalbard in Norway.
Raccoon dogs (PP 2.2 %), golden jackals (PP 4.7 %) and wolves (PP 1.4 %) showed a higher E. multilocularis PP than dogs (PP 0.3 %) and cats (PP 0.5 %). High E. multilocularis PP in raccoon dogs and golden jackals correlated with high PP in foxes. For intermediate hosts (IHs), muskrats (PP 4.2 %) and arvicolids (PP 6.0 %) showed similar E. multilocularis PP as sylvatic definitive hosts (DHs), excluding foxes. Nutrias (PP 1.0 %) and murids (PP 1.1 %) could play a role in the life-cycle of E. multilocularis in areas with medium to high PP in red foxes. In areas with low PP in foxes, no other DH was found infected with E. multilocularis. When fox E. multilocularis PP was >3 %, raccoon dogs and golden jackals could play a similar role as foxes. In areas with high E. multilocularis fox PP, the wolf emerged as a potentially important DH. Dogs and cats could be irrelevant in the life-cycle of the parasite in Europe, although dogs could be important for parasite introduction into non-endemic areas. Muskrats and arvicolids are important IHs. Swine, insectivores, murids and nutrias seem to play a minor or no role in the life-cycle of the parasite within the EU and ACs.
Human alveolar echinococcosis (AE), caused by the metacestode stage of the tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis is considered as one of the most pathogenic zoonosis in temperate and arctic regions of Europe [1]. The life-cycle of E. multilocularis involves small rodent intermediate hosts such as arvicolids and wild or domestic canid definitive hosts such as the red fox (Vulpes vulpes), the Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus), the raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) or the dog (Canis lupus f. familiaris). Humans can act as aberrant intermediate hosts and are infected through the ingestion of eggs excreted in the faeces of definitive hosts. Such faecal-oral infection can be acquired by contact with definitive hosts or through contamination of soil, food or possibly water [2]. In humans, the metacestode stage resembles a malignant neoplasia as it proliferates indefinitely by exogenous budding and slowly invades the surrounding tissue to produce tumour-like lesions [3]. Human alveolar echinococcosis is characterized by an asymptomatic incubation period of around 5–15 years [4].
In Europe, the human risk of E. multilocularis infection was considered in the past to be restricted to certain geographical regions. In fact, until the 1990s, only a ‘core’ area consisting of Eastern France, southern Germany, parts of Switzerland and Austria were known to be endemic for the disease [5]. More recently, the expansion of the parasite into several new areas such as the Baltic regions, Denmark, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and the increase of human AE incidence in ‘core’ areas such as Austria, France and Switzerland, suggested that the disease was spreading in Europe and the incidence of human AE increasing at least in some regions [6–10]. Although greater awareness and the use of advanced diagnostic tools may have contributed to an improvement in the detection of E. multilocularis infection in animals and humans, epidemiological research conducted over the past 20 years, suggested the expansion of this parasite in European countries [9]. Factors such as change in landscape composition and use, vegetation, climate change, presence of good intermediate hosts, urbanization of foxes, changing human behavioural attitudes toward foxes, wildlife reintroduction, E. multilocularis host population dynamics as well as globalization have all been proposed as potential factors influencing the increase of E. multilocularis infection risk for Europe [9, 11, 12].
In the light of these concerns, the European Commission (EC) adopted a Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No. 1152/2011 (14 July 2011). This was considered as a preventive health measure to control E. multilocularis infection in dogs and decrease the potential risk of AE infection in humans, in order to ensure continuous protection of Finland, Ireland, Malta and the United Kingdom (UK), countries that have remained free from E. multilocularis [13]. Regulation 1152/2011 described the obligations of these four European Union (EU) member states in implementing a pathogen surveillance programme for the detection of E. multilocularis in accordance with specific requirements regarding sampling, detection and reporting procedures [14]. It also stipulated that the EC had to review this regulation by December 2016 to assess the justification of these preventive health measures, in the light of scientific developments regarding E. multilocularis infection in animals. In response to Article 29 of Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002, in addition to an EC request, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) was tasked with assessing E. multilocularis infection in animals within the EU and neighbouring Adjacent Countries (ACs) (Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Norway, Russia, Serbia, Switzerland, Turkey and the Ukraine). To fulfil this requirement, EFSA funded a project to provide a comprehensive and quantitative assessment of the current knowledge on E. multilocularis using a systematic review (SR) approach (GP/EFSA/AHAW/2012/01: Echinococcus multilocularis infection in animals).
The current SR provides an overview of the distribution and prevalence of E. multilocularis in the EU and ACs derived from both scientific and grey literature. In addition, the purpose of this review was to systematically determine the geographical distribution of E. multilocularis and the known wild and domestic definitive and intermediate hosts. The retrieved information was used to compile tables on the occurrence of E. multilocularis or highlight the lack of reliable reports. When available, data on E. multilocularis prevalence and worm burden of definitive hosts was reported. The importance of the various definitive and intermediate host species in the life-cycle of E. multilocularis in different parts of the EU and ACs was assessed and gaps in our knowledge were identified.
Bibliographic searches
This SR and meta-analysis followed the Cochrane and PRISMA Group guidelines [15] and the systematic search was carried out using the Documentation Service for literature search at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy. The STN International-Fiz Karlsruhe platform [16] was used for database searching carried out on the 5th November 2013 and again on the 11th February 2015 in order to identify articles that had been published since the initial search. The results of these two searches were then combined. Searches were carried out using the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (MEDLINE), Excerpta Medica Database (EMBASE), Science Citation Index (SciSearch), Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS), Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International (CABI) and Google Scholar. Databases were searched using keywords associated with the Boolean operators “AND” and “OR”. The question mark (“?”) was used to expand searches by looking for words with similar prefixes using more than one letter (i.e. “echinococc?” was used to search for “echinococcus”, “echinococci”, “echinococcosis” and “echinococcoses”). The hashtag (“#”) was used to expand searches by looking for words with similar prefixes using one letter (i.e. dog# was used to search for “dog” or “dogs”).
Different combinations of words and Boolean operators were used in order to narrow results retrieved and maximise the number of relevant studies returned. The full electronic search strategy, including any limits used was: [Echinococcus multilocularis OR (Echinococcus AND Multilocularis) OR E# Multilocularis OR Alveolar Echinococcosis OR A# Echinococcosis] AND (Dog OR Dogs OR Cat OR Cats OR Canis OR Felis OR Canid? OR Felid? OR Wolf OR Wolves OR Animal OR Animals OR Fox OR Foxes OR Vulpes OR Ferret OR Ferrets OR Rodent OR Rodents OR Rodentia OR Nutria# OR Muskrat# OR Jackal# OR Arvicolid? OR Arvicolinae OR Worm Burden OR Host OR Hosts OR Hosted) AND (Occurrence# OR Geographic? Distribut? OR Geographic? Diffus? OR Incidence# OR Frequency OR Epidemic Outbreak# OR Endemic Outbreak# OR Prevalence# OR Epidemiology)]. If the title or abstract did not give a clear indication of relevance, the full text was screened. After this initial selection, full-text articles were evaluated for eligibility, in accordance with the inclusion/exclusion criteria described below. Data extraction was performed independently by two researchers and any disagreements were resolved either by consensus among researchers or through arbitration by an additional independent researcher. If database outcomes overlapped, all duplicated articles were removed. EU reports and conference proceedings were searched using the keywords “European Union report, “EU report”,”, “conference proceedings”, “Echinococcus multilocularis”, “E. multilocularis” and “alveolar echinococcosis”. Unpublished epidemiological data on E. multilocularis available within individual member states was collected from the National Reference Laboratories for Parasites in Europe [17] using a questionnaire (Additional file 1: Text S1). Searches for Bachelor, Masters and PhD theses were carried out using the keywords “Echinococcus multilocularis” and “alveolar echinococcosis”. A list of databases used for retrieving theses is available in Additional file 2: Text S2. Review Manager [18] software was used to prepare and maintain this SR.
Study selection
Studies eligible for inclusion were defined a priori and fulfilled the following criteria: (i) studies published from 1900 to 2015; (ii) studies based on cross-sectional or cohort design; (iii) primary research studies either published or in press; (iv) reports on wild or domestic hosts of E. multilocularis; (v) studies published in English, German, French, Polish, Finnish, Dutch, Spanish or Italian.
The list of included articles is available in Additional file 3: Text S3. Studies providing data from outside Europe and ACs, case reports, reports on E. multilocularis in humans, studies on agents other than E. multilocularis (e.g. Echinococcus granulosus), reviews and letters or editorials without original data were all excluded from this SR. The list of excluded articles is available in Additional file 4: Text S4. The study selection process was carried out according to the PRISMA statement [15] and is reported using the flow chart shown in Fig. 1.
The flow chart represents the algorithm of record/article selection
Eligibility for inclusion in the meta-analyses
Studies included in the meta-analyses were those that reported prevalence data (total number of studied animals and number of positive animals) and studies with a definition of a geographical area (whenever possible the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics designated as NUTS level 1, 2 and 3 was used) [19]. When studies originated from different geographical areas or when they were conducted within the same geographical area but at different time intervals (e.g. during distinct years or months) they were divided into sub-studies. Data were extracted from each study independently. If the same samples were tested using different diagnostic methods, only data derived from the sedimentation and counting technique (SCT) or the intestinal scraping technique (IST) were included in the analysis. Studies reporting prevalence data obtained exclusively by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs), designed to detect pathogen-specific copro-antigens in DHs, were subsequently excluded from the meta-analysis because of the low specificity of this test. When it was not possible to accurately assign the proportion of data reported per country, meta-analysis was not performed.
Statistical approach and meta-analyses
Statistical analysis was conducted using the statistical software Stats Direct 2.8.0 (Stats Direct Ltd., Altrincham, UK). To perform the meta-analysis, animal species were divided into two main groups, definitive (DH) and intermediate (IH) hosts. The DHs included the red fox (Vulpes vulpes), the Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus), the raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides), wild canids (wolf, Canis lupus; golden jackal, Canis aureus), the dog (Canis lupus f. familiaris) and the cat (Felis silvestris f. catus). The IHs included arvicolid rodents (including Arvicola spp., Myodes (syn. Clethrionomys) glareolus and Microtus spp. but excluding the muskrat Ondatra zibethicus), muskrat, nutria or coypu (Myocastor coypus), murid rodents (including Apodemus spp., Micromys minutus, Mus musculus and Rattus spp.), insectivores (including Sorex spp., Neomys fodiens and Talpa europaea) and swine (domestic Sus scrofa f. domesticus and the wild boar Sus scrofa). Each meta-analysis group included studies conducted in the same geographical area, at the European level, national level and using the three NUTS levels [19]. Meta-analyses were not stratified for the years/months in which the studies were conducted.
Since all included studies were cross-sectional, meta-analyses on proportions were performed. The Cochran’s Q test was performed to assess the degree of heterogeneity between studies, and the I2 index was used to describe the percentage of total variation across studies as a result of heterogeneity. If the p-value from the Cochran’s Q test was < 0.05 and the I2 statistic was > 50 %, heterogeneity was found and a random-effect model was applied. However, if heterogeneity was not detected, a fixed-effect model was used. A forest plot was produced to describe the pooled analysis; this showed the single prevalence of the studies and the pooled proportion with relative 95 % confidence intervals (CIs). Publication bias was quantified by inspection of funnel plots and computation of Begg and Egger’s probability values [20, 21].
The quality of all included studies was assessed independently by two researchers using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) according to the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews [22, 23]. The NOS was modified for use on an animal model. Quality assessment could not be performed on grey literature.
Bibliographic searches identified 2,805 scientific papers, of which 1,429 were deleted due to duplications. At the end of the search, 1,376 papers were identified of which 974 were excluded based only on title and abstract screening. A total of 402 full-text papers were assessed for eligibility, data were extracted from 255 studies and it was possible to perform meta-analyses on 244 studies (Fig. 1). The quality assessment carried out using the modified NOS, allowed the allocation of a maximum 7-star rating to any one individual study. A score of 5 or 6 was given to 108, 9, 1, 17 and 8 studies on foxes, raccoon dogs, wild canids, dogs and cats, respectively. A lower score (4 or 3) was assigned to 79 studies on foxes, 7 on raccoon dogs, 2 on wild canids, 9 on dogs and 12 on cats. A similar scoring for intermediate hosts showed that 2 studies on muskrats and 5 on arvicolids had a 5 or 6 rating. Four or three star ratings were assigned to 6 studies on muskrats, 11 on arvicolids, 4 on murids, 2 on nutria, 1 on insectivores and 1 on swine, respectively.
Geographical distribution and prevalence of Echinococcus multilocularis
Red foxes
Data regarding the geographical distribution and prevalence of E. multilocularis in red foxes were extracted from reports published for the period between 1968 and 2014 (Table 1).
Table 1 Pooled prevalence of Echinococcus multilocularis in red foxes
A total of 192 papers describing the distribution and prevalence of E. multilocularis in foxes were used in the meta-analyses. A preliminary ranking of E. multilocularis infection in red foxes based on pooled prevalence allowed us to identify three main groups (Table 1). A low prevalence group included countries with a pooled prevalence of ≤1 %, namely Denmark [24–27], Slovenia [28, 29] and Sweden [24, 30–36]; a medium prevalence group with a pooled prevalence of > 1 % but ≤ 10 %, which included Austria [37–44], Belgium [24, 45–55], Croatia [24, Relja Beck, personal communication], Hungary [24, 56–59], Italy [24, 60–66], the Netherlands [30, 31, 40, 49, 54, 67–72], Romania [73–75] and the Ukraine [76, 77], whereas the high prevalence territories had a pooled prevalence of > 10 % and included the Czech Republic [30, 31, 40, 78–83], Estonia [84–86, L. Laurimaa, personal communication], France [30, 31, 40, 87–104], Germany [24, 30, 31, 39–41, 105–151], Latvia [152], Lithuania [153, 154], Poland [155–171], Slovakia [24, 28, 31, 40, 164, 172–184], Liechtenstein [70] and Switzerland [24, 30, 39, 40, 185–198]. The occurrence and pooled prevalence of E. multilocularis in foxes in the EU and ACs is shown in Fig. 2. The highest prevalence estimates for E. multilocularis in red foxes seem to be concentrated in central and north-eastern Europe. A more detailed map of the geographical distribution and pooled prevalence of E. multilocularis in red foxes at a NUTS 1 level is shown in Fig. 3. Studies from four countries, namely Finland, Ireland, the UK and Norway, reported the absence of E. multilocularis in red foxes [24, 31, 32, 158, 196–203]. Echinococcus multilocularis in Arctic foxes in Norway was documented only for the Arctic Archipelago of Svalbard [207, 208].
Pooled prevalence of Echinococcus multilocularis in red and Arctic foxes within the European Union and adjacent countries at national level (data obtained from studies performed after 2000). Note: the pooled prevalence data for Norway originated only from Arctic foxes on the Svalbard islands; prevalence data from Spain originated from single studies
Pooled prevalence of Echinococcus multilocularis in red foxes within the European Union and adjacent countries at NUTS 1 level (data obtained from studies after 2000). Note: prevalence data from the Netherlands and Sweden originated from single studies; only studies reporting NUTS information were taken into account
Other definitive hosts
Five potential DHs of E. multilocularis other than red foxes were identified in the screened literature; four wild animal species, the Arctic fox [21, 24, 209], the raccoon dog [24–26, 32, 77, 152, 154, 168, 169, 175, 177, 199, 210–213], the golden jackal [24, 214] and the wolf [31, 77, 215] and two domestic animal species, dogs [24, 30, 72, 80, 95, 101, 122, 142, 168, 169, 177, 193, 195, 199, 200, 216–225] and cats [24, 37, 66, 80, 113, 115, 121, 122, 132, 133, 142, 168, 169, 177, 216, 219, 223, 226–230]. The geographical distribution and prevalence of E. multilocularis for these DHs are summarized in Table 2.
Table 2 Pooled prevalence of Echinococcus multilocularis in Arctic foxes, raccoon dogs, wild canids (golden jackal and wolf), cats and dogs
Pooled prevalence results showed that sylvatic animals, excluding red foxes, are more frequently infected than domestic species. The two species showing high E. multilocularis prevalence were the raccoon dog and the golden jackal. In general, high E. multilocularis prevalence in these two species correlated with high infection rates in foxes. Importantly, the raccoon dog is currently not established in some areas that are deemed free of E. multilocularis (e.g. Ireland, Malta and the UK), but is present in high numbers in Finland. A third species, with high prevalence rates was the Arctic fox [21, 24, 209], which is only present in a few northern countries, namely northern Russia, Iceland, and the Norwegian Arctic Archipelago of Svalbard, in addition to a small population on the Scandinavian peninsula.
Dogs and cats do not seem to be important in terms of prevalence and are found to be infected only in some areas of high E. multilocularis pooled prevalence in red foxes such as Czech Republic [80, 212], Germany [24, 113, 115, 121, 122, 132, 133, 142, 216, 219, 227, 228], France [24, 30, 95, 101, 216–218, 226] and Switzerland [24, 193, 195, 223–225]. However, dogs can be regarded as potentially relevant hosts considering E. multilocularis introduction into areas that are free of the parasite by travelling from endemic to distant (non-endemic) areas with their owners, and also with regard to transmission in endemic areas because of their closer association with humans than sylvatic DHs.
Information on E. multilocularis worm burden in definitive hosts from EU countries and ACs was only available in a few studies for red foxes (43/190) [25–27, 29, 34, 38, 55–59, 61, 63, 68, 75–77, 79, 80, 85, 99, 102, 110, 119, 127, 140, 152–154, 161, 165–167, 173–176, 179–181, 189, 191, 192], raccoon dogs (3/17) [32, 154, 213], dogs (1/23) [224] and cats (5/19) [80, 113, 132, 169, 228]. In contrast, no data were available on E. multilocularis worm burden of wild canids and Arctic foxes for the same regions.
Intermediate hosts
Potential IHs of E. multilocularis screened in this study included the muskrat [51, 113, 121, 136, 231–241], arvicolids [24, 30, 32, 39, 51, 79, 93, 95, 101, 121, 141, 187, 189–191, 207, 209, 223, 224, 242–257], murids [51, 79, 95, 101, 168, 169, 224, 229, 242, 246, 250, 251, 253, 256], nutria [231, 233], swine [32, 73, 220, 258] and insectivores [24, 79, 101, 251] (Table 3). For the majority of countries, the distribution of the prevalence of E. multilocularis in muskrats and arvicolids matched that (although the prevalence was lower) in red foxes and was similar to the pooled prevalence of E. multilocularis in other sylvatic DHs (Table 2). Muskrats and arvicolids are thus potentially good sentinels to investigate the presence of E. multilocularis in specific settings.
Table 3 Pooled prevalence of Echinococcus multilocularis in arvicolids, muskrat, nutria, swine (domestic and wild), insectivores and murids
Among murids, Apodemus spp. was the host with the highest E. multilocularis prevalence [24, 79, 224, 242, 246, 250, 251, 253, 256]. In France, E. multilocularis prevalence in these species was similar to that reported for Microtus spp. [256]. Only one study on E. multilocularis infection in Mus musculus in France is known to exist [95]. In general, murids have not frequently been found positive for E. multilocularis [24, 79, 101, 168, 169, 224, 229, 242, 246, 250, 251, 253]. However, the number of studies (n = 14) and the number of murids examined remains small (n = 2,610). None of the screened insectivores were positive for E. multilocularis [24, 79, 101, 251] but the number examined was small (n = 531). Although swine seem to play no role in the life-cycle of this parasite, E. multilocularis infections in swine were reported from Germany [259], Lithuania [220] and Switzerland [258] and therefore this animal species could potentially be regarded as a domestic IH sentinel (Table 3). Data regarding E. multilocularis in definitive and intermediate hosts in EU countries and ACs are summarised in Table 4.
Table 4 Data on Echinococcus multilocularis infection in definitive and intermediate hosts
Ranking of hosts (other than red foxes) in the life-cycle of Echinococcus multilocularis
Definitive hosts
In order to clarify the importance of other screened DHs in the life-cycle of E. multilocularis, pooled prevalence for each DH, other than red foxes were generated (Table 5). The ranking of pooled prevalence in DHs could be used to hypothesise the importance of the different DHs in the life-cycle of E. multilocularis.
Table 5 Pooled prevalence of Echinococcus multilocularis in definitive hosts other than red foxes
Ranking based on an E. multilocularis pooled prevalence of > 3 %, resulted in the following order (high to low rank): red fox, Arctic fox, golden jackal, raccoon dog and wolf. Although data on the golden jackal and the Arctic fox are scarce [21, 24, 209, 214], they provide evidence in support of these two animal species serving as potentially important DHs of E. multilocularis. Despite some uncertainties due to the low number of studies regarding these two species, data have nevertheless been included in this report for the following reasons: (i) these are the only data available for the golden jackal and the Arctic fox; and (ii) parasite prevalence in the studied individuals was high (Arctic fox, 9 %, 95 % CI: 6–12; golden jackal, 4.7 %, 95 % CI: 0.1–15.3), which is indicative of the potentially important role that these species could play in the maintenance and transmission of E. multilocularis. Interestingly, Arctic foxes are restricted to the northern area of the EU and ACs because of their habitat needs, but the golden jackal population seems to have an increasing trend of migrating from eastern EU countries and ACs towards the west, which should be taken into account when considering the potential future spread of E. multilocularis.
In order to clarify the importance of the screened IHs in the life-cycle of E. multilocularis, the pooled prevalence for each IH group was determined (Table 6). Pooled prevalence in the screened IH groups showed that muskrats and arvicolids (muskrats, n = 25,985; arvicolids, n = 65,956) (and more specifically Arvicola spp.) are important in the life-cycle of E. multilocularis. For nutria (n = 650) and murids (n = 2,610), the number of animals screened was too low to draw any robust conclusions, although it seems that they could play a role in the life-cycle of E. multilocularis in areas with a sustained medium to high pooled prevalence in red foxes [24, 79, 95, 101, 168, 169, 224, 229, 231, 233, 242, 246, 250, 251, 253, 256]. Swine and insectivores seem to play no role in the life-cycle of E. multilocularis within the EU and ACs.
Table 6 Pooled prevalence of Echinococcus multilocularis in intermediate hosts
The importance of different definitive hosts in countries classified as having low, medium and high prevalence rates of Echinococcus multilocularis
Considering that the number of studies and the number of animals screened in many cases were too low for drawing robust conclusions, the following comments should be regarded as tentative.
The importance of each screened DH, according to country, was stratified by the pooled prevalence of E. multilocularis in red foxes (or Arctic foxes in Svalbard, Norway). The resulting classification, with regard to E. multilocularis infection, enabled us to group countries into zero, low, medium or high prevalence regions (Table 7). The raccoon dog [24–26, 32, 199, 200], the wolf [31], the dog [31, 216] and cat [216] were screened in countries with low (including absence of the parasite) E. multilocularis prevalence in foxes. None of these DHs, at this level of fox prevalence, seem to sustain the life-cycle of E. multilocularis, although issues relating to the representativeness of the sample number should be taken into account since, occasionally, the number of screened animals was low (raccoon dogs, n = 3,833; dogs, n = 27,638; cats, n = 13,498).
Table 7 Grouping of countries according to Echinococcus multilocularis prevalence in red foxes in relation to definitive (DH) and intermediate (IH) hosts
For countries stratified in the medium E. multilocularis prevalence group, golden jackals [24, 214], if present, seem to participate in the life-cycle of the parasite, with prevalence estimates roughly similar to those reported for red foxes in the same countries [56–59, 120]. By contrast, wolves [77], dogs [24, 72, 216] and cats [216] seem to play no role in countries with medium E. multilocularis prevalence levels in foxes [24, 30, 31, 37–44, 49, 54, 60–72]. For countries with high E. multilocularis prevalence levels, raccoon dogs [24, 152, 154, 168, 169, 175, 177, 210–213] are also important in the life-cycle of the parasite, with prevalence estimates of between one-seventh and two-thirds of the pooled prevalence in foxes. An exception is evident in Slovakia, where the pooled E. multilocularis prevalence in foxes [24, 31, 40, 164, 172–184, 260] was similar to the prevalence found in raccoon dogs (~27 %) [24, 175, 177]. Importantly, in countries with a high prevalence, an additional DH (i.e. wolf) seems to join the life-cycle of E. multilocularis, although with a lower prevalence (one-sixth) than that reported for foxes and raccoon dogs [215].
With regard to domestic hosts (dogs and cats), only a very low prevalence of E. multilocularis could be found and only in highly endemic situations (Table 7), and thus these hosts seem to be of minor importance in the life-cycle of the parasite in Europe and ACs, especially when a zero, low or medium E. multilocularis prevalence is found in foxes. In addition, cats have been shown to be unsuitable hosts for E. multilocularis, because full maturity of the parasite is often not attained in the feline intestine [261].
In countries with a low (including 0) E. multilocularis pooled prevalence in foxes, only two types of IHs have been screened, namely arvicolids (in Finland) [24] and swine (in Finland and Sweden) [32] whereas in other countries such as Ireland, Slovenia and the UK no IHs have been inspected for the prevalence of E. multilocularis. Therefore, to interpret these results, the potential importance of those IHs in medium- and high-prevalence situations should first be assessed. Muskrats and arvicolids seem to be the only IHs for E. multilocularis in medium-prevalence rated countries. In muskrats, a pooled prevalence of 16 % was recorded in Belgium [51, 232] and a prevalence of 0.06 % in the Netherlands [236] where the pooled prevalence for E. multilocularis in foxes was 8 and 4.7 %, respectively. Similarly, in Norway (Arctic fox pooled prevalence 5.8 %), Romania (fox pooled prevalence 4.5 %) and Belgium (fox pooled prevalence 8 %), the pooled prevalence for E. multilocularis in arvicolids was 27.5 % [30, 39, 207, 209], 1.4 % [262] and 0.2 % [51], respectively. In countries with a high E. multilocularis prevalence, the prevalence estimates were high for arvicolids (13.3 %) [187, 189–191, 223, 224, 252–254] and pigs (10 %) [258] in Switzerland (fox pooled prevalence 17 %), muskrats (3.8 %) [113, 121, 136, 231, 235–237, 240, 241] and pigs (5.3 %) [259] in Germany (fox pooled prevalence 29.2 %) and arvicolids (4.8 %) [93, 95, 101, 242–249, 255, 257] and nutria (5.8 %) [233] in France (fox pooled prevalence 13.9 %) (Table 7).
Gaps and conclusions
Generally gaps were found in the literature regarding the following aspects (i) NUTS level specifications beyond the national level were absent in many reports, making it difficult to localise infection foci within specific areas for each country; (ii) many EU countries and ACs (n = 18) had no data on E. multilocularis prevalence in definitive or intermediate hosts, even in cases where E. multilocularis infection was probable because the parasite had been found in surrounding countries; (iii) data on the prevalence of the parasite in DHs, other than red foxes, and in some IHs were scarce and often reported in only one single study; (iv) the number of screened animals was considered insufficient in some reports in which the estimated prevalences were low; and (v) publication bias (for example there may be unpublished studies regarding the absence of E. multilocularis within the EU and/or ACs).
Furthermore, inadequacies were identified with regard to the assessment of E. multilocularis prevalence in red foxes. Specific gaps were that (i) the vast majority of studies were concentrated in six countries (Germany, France, Slovakia, Switzerland, Poland and Hungary, whereas the estimates of the pooled prevalence for other countries was based on few studies or further to this, in two cases (Liechtenstein and Spain) on single studies; (ii) sampling in some countries had been done in only specific areas in which it was assumed that the prevalence might be high and thus extrapolation of the data at national level could be biased; and (iii) bias may arise as a result of the sampling strategy used. The sampling strategy data for red foxes are summarised in Additional file 5: Table S1. In the current SR, 50/190 studies relating to fox sampling and E. multilocularis control programmes, excluding those based on coproELISA (n = 10), were included in the analysis. In addition, data were obtained from 20/190 papers describing rabies control programmes, in which foxes were probably mainly obtained by shooting. A further 38/190 papers included in this study did not report the type of sampling methods utilized. Additionally, in 133 studies examined, fox carcasses were made available to authors/authorities through other sources (road kill; hunting season). This type of sampling strategy can cause bias with regard to restrictions in sampling locations, since hunting for example is generally conducted in areas distant from human habitation. Therefore, in more than half of the prevalence studies, synanthropic fox populations living in villages, towns or cities were not included in the sampled animals. This may be the case for all fox sampling within the EU and ACs.
Specific gaps and weaknesses were also found for data relating to DHs other than red foxes. These were that (i) the number of studies was very low (n = 44) for the five DHs; (ii) some of the DHs are geographically restricted, for example, Arctic foxes are limited to northern latitudes [21, 24, 209] and golden jackals are found in only a few countries [24, 93, 209, 214]; (iii) some of the DHs such as raccoon dogs were not found on island countries (Ireland, Malta and the UK) and (iv) some of the DHs are protected species (e.g. the wolf). Specific gaps and deficiencies in data for IHs were that (i) the number of studies were very low (n = 27) for all screened IHs, excluding arvicolids and muskrats; and (ii) some of the IHs were geographically restricted.
In addition, in terms of the importance of definitive and intermediate hosts of E. multilocularis, this systematic review identified gaps regarding the following aspects: (i) the number of studies for the different hosts and the number of screened animals was very low, excluding red foxes, muskrats and arvicolids; and (ii) data on worm burden and worm maturity for the different DHs or fertility of protoscoleces in different IHs were lacking, precluding the assessment of the real role of each host in the maintenance of the life-cycle of E. multilocularis. However, the ranking of animals according to their importance as hosts may be useful in providing recommendations for the screening of DHs to better ascertain the presence of E. multilocularis in a given area. Host screening strategy should be as follows: in the absence of the most important DH, the second most important DH should be screened and so forth. Nevertheless, both the presence of hosts and the protected status of some species (e.g. wolves) are a matter to be taken into account when a recommendation for screening is given.
When conducting epidemiological studies, particularly if the absence of the parasite or a low to medium prevalence is expected and if red foxes cannot be screened, sylvatic animals should, preferably, be screened if the aim is to demonstrate the absence or presence of E. multilocularis. When the presence or maintenance of the life-cycle is to be assessed, the suitability of each DH to allow the full maturation of the parasite (worms producing infective eggs), and the evaluation of worm burden, should be taken into account. In a similar manner, when the presence or maintenance of the life-cycle needs to be assessed, the suitability of each IH to allow full maturation of the parasite (protoscolex production) should be considered.
The prevalence in muskrats and arvicolids seems to parallel those found in red foxes and if foxes cannot be screened, a larger number of muskrats and arvicolids than foxes would need to be screened to confirm the absence of E. multilocularis. This is necessary because the prevalence in foxes as compared to Arvicola spp. appear to correlate at a ratio of around 3:1. Similarly, in areas where both M. glareolus and Microtus spp, were found, E. multilocularis prevalence correlated with that in foxes at a ratio of 1:4–6 (Table 7). An exceptional case is Svalbard in Norway, where Microtus spp. had a 27 % E. multilocularis prevalence and the DH (Arctic fox) showed around 9 % prevalence [207, 209]. This could be attributed to ecological variables specific for this DH-IH interaction, since the IH (Microtus levis) has a very limited spatial distribution, while Arctic foxes are able to stroll on ice and can cover long distances and are therefore not limited to either the Spitsbergen Island nor to the Svalbard Archipelago. The only additional potential DH in this area is the dog, but this DH has to date not been screened in this region.
This SR has also highlighted gaps in our knowledge regarding mustelids and the role they may potentially play in the life-cycle of this parasite. Studies on E. multilocularis infection in mustelids (including Mustela spp., Neovison vison, Lutra lutra, Meles meles and Martes spp.) from Europe initially formed part of this meta-analysis. None of the studied mustelids from the Czech Republic (n = 6) [80], Denmark (n = 29) [24], Germany (n = 1142) [24, 122, 133, 142, 263], Poland (n = 22) [168, 169, 251], Slovakia (n = 18) [175, 177] and the Ukraine (n = 26) [77] were found infected with E. multilocularis. Interestingly, mustelids (Martes spp.) from Ryazan district, Russia were recently found to harbor adults of E. multilocularis [264]. As far as we are aware this is the only known report on the occurrence of E. multilocularis in mustelids and is the only known study that identified mustelids as ‘definitive hosts’ based on the presence of E. multilocularis adults in the intestine of 4/31 Martes species. While this infection can evidently occur, no information on E. multilocularis worm maturity, worm burden or prepatency was provided. Additionally, no mustelid-derived faecal samples have been unequivocally confirmed by molecular methods to be positive for E. multilocularis. Furthermore, we speculate that this infection may occur as a result of the predator-prey relationship of carnivorous mustelids and small rodents. In the absence of studies in which a larger number of mustelids are examined and/or experimental data we were reluctant to include data on mustelids in this analysis. Although the absence of E. multilocularis in mustelids in Europe suggests that they may not be important hosts of this parasite, further studies are required in order to clarify their role.
Importantly, the presence of E. multilocularis in red foxes cannot be excluded from countries where data may have been published using languages other than those represented by this SR consortium, but where this host is known to be present. For example there are many publications (albeit in Russian) on E. multilocularis in animals in the former Soviet Union ([265], Paul Torgerson personal communication]). High E. mulitlocularis infection rates in foxes (33.1 %) and raccoon dogs (15.4 %) were reported from Ryazan district [264] and in foxes from Bryansk Oblast (41 %) [266] and Kamchatka (14.7 %) in the east, respectively [267]. Similarly, high E. multilocularis infection rates of 40 % and 98 % were found in Arctic foxes from Krasnoyarsk region [268] and Sakha, Yakutia [269], respectively. In addition, reports on rodents have documented E. multilocularis infection in Apodemus uralensis and Microtus arvalis [270] in Kabardin-Balkar and Clethrionomys spp. in Sakha [271]. In a similar manner, the absence of E. multilocularis in foxes in countries for which only a few studies were available, may not be representative of the infection status of foxes in those particular areas.
In conclusion, this SR confirmed the status of the red fox as the most important definitive host of E. multilocularis in the EU and ACs. If the prevalence in foxes was zero or low in a given area, there was no indication that the life-cycle of E. multilocularis was maintained by other DHs. In contrast, when the prevalence level in red foxes was greater than 3 %, both raccoon dogs and golden jackals, if present, seemed to play a similar role as the fox in the life-cycle of the parasite. In terms of IHs, muskrats and M. glareolus, if present, are important hosts in the life-cycle of E. multilocularis. Under specific conditions, Arvicola spp. and Microtus spp. could be important in the life-cycle of the parasite. Swine and insectivores seem to play no role in the life-cycle of E. multilocularis within the EU and ACs.
AE:
Alveolar echinococcosis
AHAW:
BIOSIS:
Biological Abstracts
CABI:
Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International
DH:
Definitive host
EC:
EFSA:
European Food Safety Authority
Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays
EMBASE:
Excerpta Medica Database
IH:
Intermediate host
IST:
Intestinal scraping technique
MEDLINE:
MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System
Newcastle-Ottawa scale
Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics
PP:
Pooled prevalence
SciSearch:
Science Citation Index
SCT:
Sedimentation and counting technique
SR:
STN:
Scientific and Technical Information Network International
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The authors would like to thank Relja Beck for the provision of raw data on red foxes from Croatia. We are grateful to EFSA staff in the persons of Andrea Gervelmeyer, Frank Verdonck and Gabriele Zancanaro for supporting this project. We are also grateful to Rosaria Rosanna Cammarano, Information Specialist (Documentation Centre, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome) for performing the literature search.
This research received funding from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA; http://www.efsa.europa.eu/) under the grant agreement GP/EFSA/AHAW/2012/01 (Project: Echinococcus multilocularis infection in animals). This work was also supported by the DG SANCO of the European Commission (2015). The funding bodies had no involvement in the conception, preparation and writing of the manuscript, in the viewpoints expressed, nor in the decision to submit this article.
The datasets supporting the conclusions of this article are included within the article and its additional files.
AC conceived and designed the research. AP, AM, DM and GLT supported the systematic review approach. AO, MSL, AP and JK extracted the data. AM, DM and GLT analyzed the data. AO, MSL and JK wrote the first draft of the manuscript. AC, AP and BB finalized the manuscript. All authors contributed to the manuscript, read and approved the final version.
Finnish Food Safety Authority Evira (FINPAR), Elektroniikkatie 3, FI-90590, Oulu, Finland
Antti Oksanen
Department of Parasitic Zoonoses, IRNASA, CSIC, Cordel de Merinas, 40-52, 37008, Salamanca, Spain
Mar Siles-Lucas
Department of Parasitology, National Veterinary Research Institute, 57 Partyzantów Avenue, 24-100, Puławy, Poland
Jacek Karamon
Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immunomediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanitá, Viale Regina Elena, 299, 00161, Rome, Italy
Alessia Possenti, Belgees Boufana & Adriano Casulli
Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Institute of Epidemiology, Südufer 10, 17493, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany
Franz J. Conraths & Patrick Wysocki
Universität Hohenheim, FG Parasitologie 220 B, 70599, Stuttgart, Germany
Thomas Romig
Dipartimento di Sanità Pubblica e Malattie Infettive, Sapienza University of Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy
Alice Mannocci, Daniele Mipatrini & Giuseppe La Torre
European Reference Laboratory for Parasites (EURLP), Rome, Italy
World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for the Epidemiology, Detection and Control of Cystic and Alveolar echinococcosis (in humans and animals), Rome, Italy
Belgees Boufana & Adriano Casulli
Alessia Possenti
Franz J. Conraths
Patrick Wysocki
Alice Mannocci
Daniele Mipatrini
Belgees Boufana
Adriano Casulli
Correspondence to Adriano Casulli.
Additional file 1: Text S1.
Questionnaire. (PDF 65 kb)
Grey literature searching. (DOC 29 kb)
List of the studies included in meta-analyses. (DOCX 47 kb)
List of excluded studies. (DOCX 45 kb)
Sampling strategy for red foxes (and Arctic foxes in Svalbard Islands, Norway). (DOC 66 kb)
Oksanen, A., Siles-Lucas, M., Karamon, J. et al. The geographical distribution and prevalence of Echinococcus multilocularis in animals in the European Union and adjacent countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Parasites Vectors 9, 519 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-016-1746-4
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ViON Corporation Named to the 2020 Tech Elite 250 by CRN®
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Ken Rice
A national award-winning journalist, Ken Rice has co-anchored the weeknight editions of KDKA News at Five since 1995 and KDKA News at Eleven since 1999.
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Before joining KDKA, Ken spent six years reporting and anchoring for WTAE-TV, launching its 5pm newscast alongside Sally Wiggin in 1992.
A native of Chicago, Ken began his career in journalism while attending the University of Wisconsin in Madison — reporting and anchoring news on the statewide Wisconsin Public Radio network. Ken then moved into television, reporting for Madison’s WISC-TV, and eventually anchoring its evening newscasts.
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Over the years, Ken has anchored KDKA’s live coverage of many, major breaking stories, notably the Quecreek mine rescue in 2002; the protests at the G-20 Summit and the police shootings in Stanton Heights in 2009; multiple Stanley Cup and Super Bowl championship parades; and the tragedy at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in 2018.
Ken has been honored with local, state and national journalism awards, including a national first place Associated Press award for an investigation called Harrisburg Paydirt – which exposed Pennsylvania legislators’ lucrative, taxpayer-funded perks. Other honors include Golden Quill awards from the Pittsburgh Press Club and awards from the Radio-Television News Directors Association for investigative reporting.
Active in the community, Ken developed and taught a TV news reporting course at Point Park University and is frequently called upon to speak at local schools and community organizations. He has served on the board of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the Multiple Sclerosis Society and has long served as Honorary Chair of Pittsburgh’s annual MS Walk. Ken has also chaired the advisory board of the volunteer service organization Pittsburgh Cares, and serves on the advisory board of the Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council. He is a past board member of the Southwestern PA chapter of The American Red Cross, and has worked on charitable endeavors with many organizations including Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, the Western Pennsylvania Chapter of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America, and the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. In 2007, the Food Bank honored Ken’s contributions with its Hunger Awareness Day Award.
Ken’s favorite recurring assignment comes every October at Pittsburgh’s Byham Theater: serving as emcee and delivering a monologue at the annual production of Off the Record, a musical that features local journalists and actors lampooning the city’s movers and shakers, all to benefit local charitable causes.
Ken is a graduate of the School of Journalism at the University of Wisconsin. He and his wife, Lauren, have two children.
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FrieslandCampina Engro posts Rs321m profit for third quarter
KARACHI: FrieslandCampina Engro Pakistan Limited (FCEPL) on Friday announced its financial results to the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX).
According to the results, FCEPL registered a profit after tax of Rs321 million in the nine months ending September 30, versus a loss of Rs809 million during the same period last year. The company’s net sales stood at Rs32.4 billion in the nine month period, compared to Rs28.5 billion in the same period of 2019.
The company’s earnings per share stood at Rs0.42, compared to a loss of Rs1.05.
In a press release, FrieslandCampina Engro Pakistan said that the company had recorded the eighth consecutive quarter of robust topline growth and registered a 12pc growth versus last year.
The company, formerly known as Engro Foods, said that this year, the overall cost environment remained challenging, with record inflationary levels leading to a high increase in commodity costs over the last 12 months and sharp devaluation of the rupee.
“However, the company achieved a 220 bps improvement in gross margins versus the same period last year through multiple initiatives including cost optimization and mix management. The improvement in margins has been diluted somewhat by the higher borrowing costs on account of high interest rates in the first quarter.” the company said.
FCEPL’s dairy and beverages section registered a 16pc growth versus the same period last year, with the segment reporting a revenue of Rs28.9 billion. The company added to its portfolio by launching Olper’s Flavored Milk and Tarang Tea Whitening Powder in the first half of the year.
“Other recent launches like Olper’s full cream milk powder (FCMP), Olper’s Creams, Olper’s Pro-Cal and Tarang Elaichi have gained a healthy market share in a short span of time despite strong competition from established players,” the company claimed.
FCEPL said that the ice cream segment was impacted by the closure of retail and leisure spots due to COVID-19, which coincided with the ice cream summer season. Consequently, the ice cream and frozen dessert segment reported a revenue of Rs3.4 billion, versus a revenue of Rs3.6 billion in the same period last year. However, the segment recorded better volumes during Eid.
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Ryan Bingham ‘Live’ Album Streaming and Available for Download
Ryan Bingham has a Grammy, and he has meandered into acting lately, but now the former bull rider has a new live album, aptly titled, Live.
The fourteen track live album was recorded in Texas at Whitewater Amphitheater, and features fan favorites including: "Weary Kind," "Southside of Heaven," and "Bread and Water." Click here to check out, Live.
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Works by Carlos Mariscal
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Modern Synthesis is the Light of Microbial Genomics.Austin Booth, Carlos Mariscal & W. Ford Doolittle - 2016 - Annual Reviews of Microbiology 70 (1):279-297.details
CRISPR as a Driving Force: The Model T of Biotechnology.Carlos Mariscal & Angel Petropanagos - 2016 - Monash Bioethics Review 34 (2):1-16.details
The CRISPR system for gene editing can break, repair, and replace targeted sections of DNA. Although CRISPR gene editing has important therapeutic potential, it raises several ethical concerns. Some bioethicists worry CRISPR is a prelude to a dystopian future, while others maintain it should not be feared because it is analogous to past biotechnologies. In the scientific literature, CRISPR is often discussed as a revolutionary technology. In this paper we unpack the framing of CRISPR as a revolutionary technology and contrast (...) it with framing it as a value-threatening biotechnology or business-as-usual. By drawing on a comparison between CRISPR and the Ford Model T, we argue CRISPR is revolutionary as a product, process, and as a force for social change. This characterization of CRISPR offers important conceptual clarity to the existing debates surrounding CRISPR. In particular, conceptualizing CRISPR as a revolutionary technology structures regulatory goals with respect to this new technology. Revolutionary technologies have characteristic patterns of implementation, entrenchment, and social impact. As such, early identification of technologies as revolutionary may help construct more nuanced and effective ethical frameworks for public policy. (shrink)
There is Grandeur in This View of Life: The Bio-Philosophical Implications of Convergent Evolution. [REVIEW]Russell Powell & Carlos Mariscal - 2014 - Acta Biotheoretica 62 (1):115-121.details
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Phnom Penh Post - Central bank head: Thailand’s economy can survive shocks, but political unrest worrisome
Central bank head: Thailand’s economy can survive shocks, but political unrest worrisome
Bank of Thailand governor Sethaput Suthiwartnarueput says the economy is resilient enough to survive the shock unleashed by the ongoing political unrest. THE NATION
Thailand's newly-minted central bank governor Sethaput Suthiwartnarueput said he is concerned about the ongoing political unrest, but added that the economy is resilient enough to survive any shock.
The Bank of Thailand (BoT) has forecast that the economy will contract 7.8 per cent this year and will only start expanding in the second quarter of next year.
“It [the political unrest] will affect consumption, investment and confidence,” Sethaput said at his first press meeting on Tuesday.
“And problems with actual execution of policies will make things tougher,” he said referring to the government’s usual difficulty with policy execution rather than planning.
Anti-government protesters have intensified their rallies across the country demanding that the government step down, while the government has responded with crackdowns on protest leaders and censorship of the press.
Businesses, meanwhile, are worried that the state of emergency imposed by the government will have an adverse impact on the economy.
Thailand’s economy has already been crippled by the Covid-19 outbreak and taking far too long to recover.
“The state of the economy now can be compared to a patient who is slowly coming out of intensive care,” he said.
The outbreak resulted in a sharp drop of tourists from about 40 million to 6.7 million, which translated to an income loss of 10 per cent of the gross domestic product. Thai exports in the second quarter shrank to the lowest level in 11 years, like a gravely ill person who needs intensive care, he continued.
Recovery, he said, is uneven among different sectors and the economy will take at least two years before it returns to pre-Covid levels, especially since it is still uncertain when a vaccine will be available and how much the tourism sector will recover.
In a bid to adapt to the changing environment, the BoT has recently shifted its policy from providing blanket financial aid to a more targeted, comprehensive and flexible scheme, he said.
However, he said, there are no new measures planned.
He also voiced confidence that the Thai economy is resilient to shocks brought on by the virus or other factors.
“The public debt is manageable, the country is financially stable and the labour market is flexible,” he said.
As for the strengthening of the baht, he said this was due to the high current account surplus, which comes in at $30 billion annually.
He said Thailand is not able to recycle this money for investment overseas because few Thai listed companies are investing abroad. This is unlike South Korea and Taiwan, which have been successfully recycling their large current account surplus by investing overseas.
Over the past five years, the BoT has learned that external factors such as the US dollar and regional currencies account for 85 per cent of the impact on the baht exchange rate, while domestic factors represent only 15 per cent.
Hence, the central bank is not able to have much of an influence on the currency’s exchange rate.
Thai exporters have long complained that a stronger baht is eroding their competitiveness, and have recently suggested that the currency be brought down to 34 baht against the dollar from the current rate of 31.
When asked how the central bank will help boost economic growth, he admitted that the fiscal policy was the key driver with the monetary policy playing a supporting role.
Thailand is among few countries in Asia to have brought its policy rate down to 0.5 per cent, which is so low that it leaves limited room to bring it down further.
Sethaput said as central bank governor, he faces five key challenges, with the most important one being solving the debt crisis so households and businesses can survive and recover from the Covid-induced crisis.
The second is to maintain financial stability to support recovery, third is ensuring a stable macroeconomic level, so it is resilient to the impact of coronavirus and the fourth is to enhance public confidence. He said the fifth challenge is to ensure BoT works as a unified entity because it is fragmented and has so many small departments that its potential is restrained.
He said he will take a performance-based approach, allowing everyone to work together and deliver a good outcome.
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Question: How Many Words Is Too Many For A Sentence?
Is a 500 word paragraph too long?
What is the world’s shortest sentence?
How many sentences is 100 words?
What does a 150 words look like?
How long is too long sentence?
Is a 50 word sentence too long?
What does 500 words look like?
Can a paragraph be less than 100 words?
How many pages is 750 words?
How many words is the average sentence?
What is the longest sentence ever?
Why are short sentences bad?
What do you call a really long sentence?
How many pages is 1000 words?
Is hi a full sentence?
How Ielts 150 words are counted?
How many paragraphs is 50 words?
“Well-developed” certainly means the paragraphs can be long, but even two long paragraphs shouldn’t exceed 500 words or so.
That’s what I mean by an “implicit” word limit—there is a reasonable length you could go to within the boundaries of the prompt..
“Go!” Is The Shortest Grammatically Correct Sentence In English (+29 Fun Facts)According to the Global Language Monitor, the estimated number of words in the English language is 1,025,109. … “I am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.More items…•
With a standard sentence length of 15 words per sentence and 7 sentences per paragraph, 100 words equals 1 paragraph!
Documents that typically contain 150 words are short memos, blog posts, or marketing copy. A 150 word count will create about 0.3 pages single-spaced or 0.6 pages double-spaced when using normal margins (1″) and 12 pt. Arial or Times New Roman font.
When is a sentence too long? It is difficult to come up with a magic number or formula for determining when a sentence is too long. A 12-word sentence that minces words can be too long, while a crystal clear, beautifully-composed 22-word sentence is sometimes just perfect. In general, though, never go beyond 30 words.
So here’s the rule: your sentences should usually be about from 20 to 30 words long. If your style is breezy, 15 words would be good. Sentences with 50 or more words should be avoided if possible. Throw in a shorter sentence now and then that refocuses, summarizes, surprises.
Write short paragraphs and cover one topic per paragraph. Long paragraphs discourage users from even trying to understand your material. Short paragraphs are easier to read and understand. Writing experts recommend paragraphs of no more than 150 words in three to eight sentences.
Answer: 500 words is 1 page single spaced or 2 pages double spaced.
Paragraph Length Depends on Document Type However, paragraph length also depends on the type of writing. Some paragraphs may be a single sentence. Some may spread across more than one page. In this blog post, for example, most of the paragraphs are under 100 words because shorter paragraphs are easy to read on screen.
1.5 pagesA word count of 750 words will equal about 1.5 pages single spaced or 3 pages double spaced. Of course it will depend on the word processor settings, what font and font size you’re using and page margins.
20 wordsHow many words should we have in a sentence? A common plain English guideline says an average of 15–20 words (Cutts, 2009; Plain English Campaign, 2015; Plain Language Association InterNational, 2015). Such sentences are clearer, less intimidating, and easier to scan (Cutts, 2009; Vincent, 2014).
A sentence often claimed to be the longest sentence ever written is in Molly Bloom’s soliloquy in the James Joyce novel Ulysses (1922), which contains a “sentence” of 3,687 words. One of the longest sentences in American literature is in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!
Small sentences are boring to read and, in fact, many of them strung together look bad because they appear simple. If your thoughts look simple, it will seem like you can’t sustain an idea for more than a few words and can think in only trivial, simplistic ways.
A complex sentence is a sentence that contains one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. Example: Because life is complex, we need complex sentences.
1000 words is around 2 & 1/3rds of a page visually, single-spaced, and 4 pages double-spaced.
Yes it is a full sentence. “Hello” is an interjection (like an exclamation, but it might or might not have an exclamation point.) Other examples of this form are “Good morning.” “Good night”. “Thanks.” “Yes.” “No.” “Hey!” “Damn!” “Ouch!” “Voila!”
We recommend writing 150-180 words for Task 1, and 250-280 words for Task 2. On average, most people write about 10 words per line, which means you don’t have to count every word, just the lines. You should be practicing your essays on IELTS Answer sheets.
1 paragraph is 100 – 200 words for essays, 50 – 100 words for easy writing. 2 paragraphs is 200 – 400 words for essays, 100 – 200 words for easy writing. 3 paragraphs is 300 – 600 words for essays, 150 – 300 words for easy writing.
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"Piers Morgan Live, Rewind": Piers' panel predicts the outcome while Daryl Parks shares insight from the Martin family
Whether you fell asleep early, stayed out too late, or simply want to watch it again, we realize it's not always possible to get your entire "Piers Morgan Live" fix from television. As an answer to this, we offer the below labor of love – "Piers Morgan Live, Rewind" – dedicated and designed to getting you caught up and connected to the conversation.
Piers' Panel: Four guests predict Zimmerman trial outcome
Thursday marked the close of the prosecution’s case against George Zimmerman, the Florida man charged with the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. As the nation remains fixated on one of the most-polarizing cases in recent memory, “Piers Morgan Live” invited a star-studded panel – including Judge Glenda Hatchett, Defense Attorney Jayne Weintraub and Huffpost Live’s Marc Lamont Hill – to offer reactions and predictions moving forward.
Meanwhile, with experience in both the O.J. Simpson and Casey Anthony trials, jury consultant Richard Gabriel offered particularly poignant insight as to the strategies used to persuade this particular jury, and what we can expect from these six women after weeks of compelling arguments from both sides:
“The truth is that verdicts are rarely just about evidence or the law. They are about human judgment, and both of the attorneys have to sit there and say, here is my juror. I've got a nursing assistant with eight kids. I've got a safety officer. I've got a woman whose husband is a space attorney who used to carry a conceal-and-carry weapon but let it lapse," he detailed. "These are the people that we have to talk to. This is the judgment that has to be made. It's what they think of it. It's likely that their judgment has already been made and their views may have even been formed before this case started.”
So with the understanding that jury rulings are largely dependent on personal experiences and attitudes, Piers Morgan asked for a ruling from his four guests, and was handed a hung jury, as Hatchett and Gabriel predicted a manslaughter conviction, while Lamont Hill and Weintraub forecasted a not guilty verdict.
Daryl Parks' personal account of the Martin family
With the media frenzy surrounding the dramatic court proceedings in the Zimmerman trial, the personal experiences of grieving family members can at times be overlooked.
On Thursday, “Piers Morgan Live” invited Martin family co-counsel Daryl Parks to shed some light on what Trayvon’s parents are feeling following weeks of painfully personal testimony:
“It's very emotional,” said Parks, of the family’s role in the case.
However, Parks explained, there is a support system in place:
“Sybrina's mom is here, one of Tracy's very good friends is here. Sybrina's bother is also here, as well as the CEO of their foundation.”
Having been with them from the beginning, Parks noted that both parents “are very tired at this point. It's been a very, very long enduring four weeks for them, and so they are trying to do their best to make it to the end."
Offering additional insight, Parks continued:
"As you know, there was a lot of emotional testimony this week, for example, to sit through the defense case and to hear people make statements that all of us knew were not true or lack good foundation was very tough for them.”
But with strong closing statements from the prosecution’s Bernie de la Rionda, Thursday's guested revealed that the family seemed to be maintaining hope that justice will be served.
For the next edition of "Piers Morgan Live," watch CNN every night at 9.
Post by: Katherine Schad
Filed under: Piers Morgan Live, Rewind • The Big Story
drake mallard
Who calls the police just prior to committing 2nd degree murder? Someone who is known by the police and whose father is a retired judge would be confident that there would no consequence. And if it wasn't for the outrage by the public, he wouldn't be on trial.He had a dad who could tell him how to get away with stand your ground. There's a reason why the Police Chief is gone and Serino himself got knocked down from Lead Homicide Detective to 3rd-shift beat cop! They learned Zimmerman was lying only after they botched the investigation.
July 12, 2013 at 9:12 pm | Report abuse | Reply
sherel davis
Why isn't anyone talking about Zimmerman's criminal record? I get that it's not allowed in court but, you in the news media can and should talk about his violent history. His current wife has a criminal past & lied at his bail hearings along trying to flee country with fake passport after her arrest. Osterman was fiered after lying about moonlighting for a con-artist. Taffy is a drunk driver x2 & domestic violence criminal. Zimmerman had his records closed by (retired judge)George senior his father & should have never been able to carry a gun if those records were available to reference! Zimmerman also was e-mailing with a now fired chief of police who worked with Osterman threading to expose a case he hid on the shooting of an innocent homeless man. Zimmerman has drunk driving conviction, battery on law inforcement & domestic violence against an x-fiance. And that is just what I found in 15 minutes of research. Why is he off limits after he killed a boy in cold blood with no remorse? His so-called trainer for MMA, also has an arrest for threading to mame someone by cutting off fingers & toes. His people who all lied in court are fakes and criminally connected. Have you heard the saying, show me who your friends are and I'll tell you who you are????? Please give the public the real truth about who they all really are! What happened to freedom of the press? No-one is telling the real story and the injustice of it all.
Jeremiah Hudson
What if Trayvon saw the gun in George Zimmerman's and felt like his life was on the line. Do we ever think about this or do we think about Zimmerman side of the story.
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Cynthia Passera
Has anyone given thought that George Zimmerman could have smashed his own nose with his left hand (he is left handed) after the shooting?? Looking at the injured nose it is smashed to the right side of his face. Something to think about. Reason for no blood on the hands of Trevon. Was Trevon right handed?
Ron blessing
Piers Morgan should reconsider his thought process and tone of questioning considering the fact that O.J.Simpson, a black man, pummeled and stabbed an UNARMED white woman and white man and was subsequently acquitted for those murders. And, if he accepts that verdict, he should accept this one with humility and dignity and then go back to England.
audrey whitaker
The interview with Robert Zimmerman did his brother's cause no good at all.
He comes off as arrogant, unsympathetic and cold. He questions why people are so upset and why they feel hatred for his brother.
It's simple ..... George Zimmerman is alive and NOW he is a free man .... Trevon Martin is DEAD! Period
If Robert is going to do interviews he should practice behaving like a human being with feelings.
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Ruth Stoffel
I would like to have someone bring up the fact that the jurors, though quite smart, did not understand the judge's instructions. In my opinion, the instructions should be written so 5th grade child could easily understand them. The commentators were able to explain them in laymen terms.
Nicanora
Me gustaria que todos los ciudadanos dejen de estar en contradictoria acerca del veredicto quela ciudad de Miami dio al caso de zirmenman Por favor debemos de dar respeto a cada leyes que cada estado tiene en la region, este caso no tiene que ser burla para nuestras leyes de este pais tan libre, deseo que respeten los derechos de las personas que estaban como jurados y que respeten a la jueza que dio el veredicto final. Este caso tomo un rumbo publico solo porque se hicieron rumores de racial a todo al publico les suplico hay cosas que las leyes deben tomar su decicion y no el publico que hacen el veredicto. Respetemos a las personas que participaron para dar un justo veredicto el cual es todo claro desde el principio se vio que todo fue sobre defensa personal aceptenlo. Espero pongan final a la comunidad por hacer relajo con nuestra justicia.
Larry Moniz
Would someone rewind Piers Morgan and put him away somewhere until his contract expires. I was a journalist for 45 years and he makes me ashamed every time he calls himself one. I can't help but wonder if he has a clue about how to remain unbiased. I realize it's his training, or lack thereof, as a Rupert Murdock employee, but I yearn for the good old days of Larry King, who still is able to be far more fair in his questions than Morgan. Morgan should return to America's got Talent, that's more in keeping with Morgan's fairness quotient. Just my opinion after decades as a journalist and writer.
ceasar callender
The word cracka comes from a whip being cracked on the backs of slaves
There are dozens of etymologies. That's one that is alleged.
Bill Masi
cracka
A white person. Derived from the -CRACK- sound of a whip hitting someone in slavery times. Sometimes used as a mild insult from a black person to a white person. "urban dictionary"
A word is a word but it has meaning. They seem both to have come together with a certain profile instead of love and compassion for each other.
Jeff Small
The news media can add fuel to the fire or put it out. Right now CNN specifically Piers Morgan is adding fuel to the fire BIG TIME. As a longtime resident of Sanford I am disgusted and sick of the news media doing their best to instigate such action. The trial is over, go away and allow us Sanford residents to get back to normal before our town is destroyed.
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July 2006 - Microsoft: World's Biggest Brand
Partners get behind the most powerful marketing icon. Plus, Virtual PC 2004; Microsoft's Partner program revamp -- three years later; and how to get Microsoft haters on your side.
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With a great brand name comes great partner responsibility.
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In 2003, Microsoft announced a sweeping, risky overhaul of its partner program. Three years later, many partners give the changes passing marks.
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By Lee Pender
Microsoft isn't just the world's most powerful software company. It's also the world's biggest brand. Here's why -- and what that means to partners.
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Sensitive plaque assay and propagation of Chuzan (kasba) virus, a palyam serogroup orbivirus, in BHK-21 cells
N. Hirano, T. Tawara, R. Nomura, A. Imai, K. Ono, R. Yamaguchi
Anatomy Ⅰ
Various factors influencing plaque formation of Chuzan virus in BHK-21 cell monolayers were studied and a practical method for plaque assay was developed. On addition of trypsin (5 μg/ml) and/or diethylaminoethyl (DEAE)-dextran (50 μg/ml) to the virus diluent as the virus adsorption medium and agar overlay medium, the number of plaques increased. When 100 μg/ ml DEAE-dextran was added to the diluent and overlay medium, plaques were produced in about 10-fold higher numbers than without trypsin and DEAE-dextran. Based on these results, a practical plaque assay method for Chuzan virus was established. Using this method, one-step growth of Chuzan virus was performed at an input multiplicity of 25 plaque-forming units (PFU) per cell. Cytopathic effects were first observed at 7.5 h post-inoculation (p.i.), and were complete at 12 h p.i. The titre of cell-associated virus, after gradual decline during the first 3 h of incubation, showed a rise within 4.5 h p.i. and a rise to a plateau of 106 3PFU/0.2 ml at 12 h p.i. By indirect immunofluorescence, virus-specific antigen was detected in the cytoplasm of the cells at 4.5 h p.i., and all the cells fluoresced at 6 h p.i. Haemagglutination activity was first detected in infected whole cultures at 7.5 h p.i. reaching a plateau of 1 :64 at 15 h p.i. Plaque formation and haemagglutination by the virus were specifically inhibited by antisera against the original and the plaque-cloned virus.
Journal of Veterinary Medicine, Series B
Published - 08-1996
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Hirano, N., Tawara, T., Nomura, R., Imai, A., Ono, K., & Yamaguchi, R. (1996). Sensitive plaque assay and propagation of Chuzan (kasba) virus, a palyam serogroup orbivirus, in BHK-21 cells. Journal of Veterinary Medicine, Series B, 43(6), 333-342. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0450.1996.tb00323.x
Hirano, N. ; Tawara, T. ; Nomura, R. ; Imai, A. ; Ono, K. ; Yamaguchi, R. / Sensitive plaque assay and propagation of Chuzan (kasba) virus, a palyam serogroup orbivirus, in BHK-21 cells. In: Journal of Veterinary Medicine, Series B. 1996 ; Vol. 43, No. 6. pp. 333-342.
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abstract = "Various factors influencing plaque formation of Chuzan virus in BHK-21 cell monolayers were studied and a practical method for plaque assay was developed. On addition of trypsin (5 μg/ml) and/or diethylaminoethyl (DEAE)-dextran (50 μg/ml) to the virus diluent as the virus adsorption medium and agar overlay medium, the number of plaques increased. When 100 μg/ ml DEAE-dextran was added to the diluent and overlay medium, plaques were produced in about 10-fold higher numbers than without trypsin and DEAE-dextran. Based on these results, a practical plaque assay method for Chuzan virus was established. Using this method, one-step growth of Chuzan virus was performed at an input multiplicity of 25 plaque-forming units (PFU) per cell. Cytopathic effects were first observed at 7.5 h post-inoculation (p.i.), and were complete at 12 h p.i. The titre of cell-associated virus, after gradual decline during the first 3 h of incubation, showed a rise within 4.5 h p.i. and a rise to a plateau of 106 3PFU/0.2 ml at 12 h p.i. By indirect immunofluorescence, virus-specific antigen was detected in the cytoplasm of the cells at 4.5 h p.i., and all the cells fluoresced at 6 h p.i. Haemagglutination activity was first detected in infected whole cultures at 7.5 h p.i. reaching a plateau of 1 :64 at 15 h p.i. Plaque formation and haemagglutination by the virus were specifically inhibited by antisera against the original and the plaque-cloned virus.",
author = "N. Hirano and T. Tawara and R. Nomura and A. Imai and K. Ono and R. Yamaguchi",
journal = "Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series B: Infectious Diseases and Veterinary Public Health",
Hirano, N, Tawara, T, Nomura, R, Imai, A, Ono, K & Yamaguchi, R 1996, 'Sensitive plaque assay and propagation of Chuzan (kasba) virus, a palyam serogroup orbivirus, in BHK-21 cells', Journal of Veterinary Medicine, Series B, vol. 43, no. 6, pp. 333-342. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0450.1996.tb00323.x
Sensitive plaque assay and propagation of Chuzan (kasba) virus, a palyam serogroup orbivirus, in BHK-21 cells. / Hirano, N.; Tawara, T.; Nomura, R.; Imai, A.; Ono, K.; Yamaguchi, R.
In: Journal of Veterinary Medicine, Series B, Vol. 43, No. 6, 08.1996, p. 333-342.
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JO - Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series B: Infectious Diseases and Veterinary Public Health
JF - Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series B: Infectious Diseases and Veterinary Public Health
Hirano N, Tawara T, Nomura R, Imai A, Ono K, Yamaguchi R. Sensitive plaque assay and propagation of Chuzan (kasba) virus, a palyam serogroup orbivirus, in BHK-21 cells. Journal of Veterinary Medicine, Series B. 1996 Aug;43(6):333-342. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0450.1996.tb00323.x
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Lucky is a small time criminal and he’s happy just getting by until he agrees to look after some counterfeit money for a friend who is in a bit of trouble with the law Two months go by without a word from him so Lucky burns the ‘funny money’ to avoid problems for himself.
Director: Julie Daly-Wallman, Lucy Ward, Sacha Bennett
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Keywords:Uhvatite Luckyja Удачу за хвост
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Through unlocked genetic memories that allow him to relive the adventures of his ancestor in 15th century Spain, Callum Lynch discovers he’s a descendant of the secret ‘Assassins’ society. After…
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RAW agent Tiger/Avinash Singh Rathore returns from the dead to take on an international terrorist organisation but this time he has his wife Zoya by his side.
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Miley Cyrus Teases New Disco-Inspired Song on Social Media: Listen
Amy Sussman, Getty Images
New Miley Cyrus music is coming!
The pop star shared the first snippet of her upcoming song on Instagram Live on Tuesday (August 4).
She followed up the surprise preview with a second 31-second teaser on Wednesday (August 5). Cyrus then shared a cryptic tweet with the words, "Midnight Sky." Fans are speculating that it could be the title to her next release or a lyric from the song.
Plus, fans that play any of Cyrus' previous releases on Spotify are met with an image of a disco ball to promote her upcoming era.
The "We Can't Stop" singer also tweeted a clip from her 2007 "Start All Over" music video with the caption, "Meet Miley Cyrus... again. #SheIsComing #ButForRealThisTime."
See the tweets, below.
Listen to snippets of the song, below.
Cyrus is said to be working on her seventh studio album, She Is Miley Cyrus. The artist previously released She Is Coming back in May 2019, which acted as the first of three EPs that will make up the entire album. The other two EPs are titled She Is Here and She Is Everything.
The former Hannah Montana star was originally scheduled to release the extended plays last year. Unfortunately, they were delayed due to Cyrus' hospitalization for tonsillitis in October, as well as her vocal chord surgery in November.
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HomePublicationsMaking space for art
Making space for art: a spatial perspective of disruptive and defensive institutional work in Venezuela’s art world
Victoria L. Rodner
Thomas Roulet
Finola Kerrigan
Dirk Vom Lehn
The physical and material aspects of space, such as geographical distance or boundaries, have social and symbolic consequences that impact how people influence and are influenced by institutions. Social actors can however contest how space is conceived, perceived and lived, thus making space a crucial lever in the disruption and defense of institutions. However, we lack understanding of the spatial aspects of such institutional struggles. In exploring how space is leveraged in institutional work, our study foregrounds the socio-political nature of space, building on and expanding the theorization of Lefebvre. We draw on an in-depth longitudinal analysis of the material, social and symbolic aspects of the spatial dimensions of disruptive and defensive institutional work over the past twenty years in Venezuela’s art world. Following the Bolivarian Revolution in the late 1990s, the incoming government transformed the organization of the national cultural landscape, resulting in a prolonged period of institutional disruption and defense. We demonstrate that actors use the material, social, and symbolic dimensions of space to challenge and maintain their key values and practices, and that those three dimensions are intertwined.
Academy of Management Journal
Venezuela, Space, Art Worlds
Rodner_et_al_Making_space_for_art_Academy_of_Management_Journal_2019
Rights statement: Checked for eligibility: 17/09/2019 This document is the Author Accepted Manuscript version of a published work which appears in its final form in Academy of Management Journal. The final Version of Record can be found at: https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2016.1030
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Click chemistry meets polymerization: Controlled incorporation of an easily accessible ruthenium(II) complex into a PMMA backbone via RAFT copolymerization
B. Happ, C. Friebe, A. Winter, M.D. Hager, U.S. Schubert
Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry
The copper(I)-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition provided an easy and efficient access to a functionalized heteroleptic ruthenium(II) complex monomer. A grafted copolymer with the heteroleptic ruthenium(II) complex and methyl methacrylate (MMA) as comonomer was synthesized by reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization. The product was characterized by means of 1H NMR spectroscopy, UV/vis spectroscopy and size exclusion chromatography coupled with a photodiode array detector. The RAFT process itself led to a grafted copolymer with a low polydispersity index.
European Polymer Journal
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2009.09.010
10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2009.09.010
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Happ, B., Friebe, C., Winter, A., Hager, M. D., & Schubert, U. S. (2009). Click chemistry meets polymerization: Controlled incorporation of an easily accessible ruthenium(II) complex into a PMMA backbone via RAFT copolymerization. European Polymer Journal, 45(12), 3433-3441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2009.09.010
Happ, B. ; Friebe, C. ; Winter, A. ; Hager, M.D. ; Schubert, U.S. / Click chemistry meets polymerization: Controlled incorporation of an easily accessible ruthenium(II) complex into a PMMA backbone via RAFT copolymerization. In: European Polymer Journal. 2009 ; Vol. 45, No. 12. pp. 3433-3441.
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Review could lead to closure of the Regina airport's control tower
Wayne Mantyka CTV News Regina Video Journalist
@WayneMantykaCTV Contact
Published Tuesday, November 24, 2020 6:47PM CST Last Updated Tuesday, November 24, 2020 7:27PM CST
REGINA -- A review that could lead to the closure of the Regina airport control tower is being met by opposition.
Nav Canada, which provides air traffic control services across Canada, is questioning whether Regina’s airport is busy enough to make it necessary.
The corporation is planning a review of the tower that has guided aircraft in and out of Regina for 60 years.
Newly sworn-in Regina Mayor Sandra Masters calls the plan an embarrassment.
“Anything that reduces our capacity is unacceptable, I think in the long term,” Masters said.
Nav Canada believes an airport should have 60,000 aircraft movements per year to warrant air traffic control. Last year, Regina fell 4,000 flights short of that threshold. The province is calling on Ottawa to intervene.
“The federal government owns the airport, the federal government regulates the air industry, the federal government needs to get involved and make sure that we have air traffic control access here in Regina,” Jeremy Harrison, Saskatchewan’s Minister of Trade, said.
Nav Canada said the review will focus on safety.
“This rigorous, systematic approach provides for full consultation with affected stakeholders, with the key factor being Safety,” the corporation said in a statement.
Local officials believe loss of an air traffic control tower will hurt the airport’s ability to grow.
“In our view, any change to the YQR’s capabilities would be a mistake,” John Lee, the president and CEO of Economic Development Regina, said.
The city, province and aviation community are expected to weigh in if the air traffic control review moves forward. Nav Canada expects to complete the process by the summer.
The Regina International Airport's air traffic control tower. (Wayne Mantyka/CTV News)
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Published Wednesday, November 25, 2020 9:02AM CST Last Updated Thursday, November 26, 2020 8:13AM CST
REGINA -- The Government of Saskatchewan has tweaked some of its COVID-19 restrictions for the province, including changes for sports, restaurants, places of worship and performance and gaming venues.
SPORTS, FITNESS, DANCE
Team and group sport and fitness activities are suspended including activities, games, competitions, recitals and practices.
Persons under 18 may continue to train only in groups of fewer than eight. There must be at least three metres of distance between participants. Coaches and trainers are not counted so long as they are wearing masks.
Group fitness for all ages can continue in groups of eight or fewer, masks must be worn and physical distance of three metres must also be maintained.
INDOOR PUBLIC GATHERINGS
Indoor public banquets, conferences, wedding and funeral receptions in public venues are reduced to 30 people maximum. This restriction also applies to places of worship. The limit on private gatherings stays at five. Food and beverage cannot be present of served.
If your immediate household has five people or more, additional guests should not come over.
“Individuals, recurring caregivers, support personnel (i.e. therapists, nursing staff) and tradespersons (i.e. housekeeper, plumber) are permitted, though they should maintain two metre distancing and be masked during service provision,” the province said in a news release.
RESTAURANTS, BARS, ENTERTAINMENT
Restaurants and licensed establishments are now limited to four people per table. Capacity is also being reduced down to 30 at all casinos, bingo halls, arenas, live theatres, movie theatres, performing arts venues and any other facilities that are currently supporting a capacity of 150 people.
Establishments must keep guest information on all patrons.
The curfew on liquor sale remains.
MASK MANDATE
Masks are now required in all indoor fitness activities with an exception for aquatic acitivites.
All persons in schools and daycares are now required to wear masks at all time, expect for during meals.
All employees and visitors at all businesses and workplaces are required to wear masks in all common areas. All residents employees and visitors of correctional facilities must wear a mask in all common areas.
Large retail spaces must reduce customer access to 50 per cent or four square metres of space per person.
SJHL teams respond to suspension of Sask. hockey seasons
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Justia Regulation Tracker Agencies And Commissions Securities And Exchange Commission Sunshine Act Meeting, 4947 [06-878]
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The following items have been added to the 9 a.m. Closed Meeting scheduled for Thursday, January 26, 2006: Institution and settlement of injunctive actions; and Institution and settlement of an administrative proceeding of an enforcement nature. Commissioner Atkins, as duty officer, voted to consider these items listed for the closed meeting in closed session and that no earlier notice thereof was possible. At times, changes in Commission priorities require alterations in the scheduling of meeting items. For further information and to ascertain what, if any, matters have been added, deleted or postponed, please contact the Office of the Secretary at (202) 551–5400. CHANGE IN THE MEETING: Dated: January 25, 2006. Nancy M. Morris, Secretary. [FR Doc. 06–878 Filed 1–26–06; 11:34 am] SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION [Release No. 34–53168; File No. SR–CBOE– 2006–06] Self-Regulatory Organizations; Chicago Board Options Exchange, Incorporated; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of a Proposed Rule Change Relating to Its Marketing Fee Program January 23, 2006. FBOT00004 Counsel to the Chairman. Effective December 15, 2005. Authority: U.S.C. 3301 and 3302; E.O. 10577, 3 CFR 1954–1958 Comp., P.218 Office of Personnel Management Linda M. Springer, Director. [FR Doc. 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Status: Closed meeting.
Place: 100 F Street, NE., Washington, DC.
Date and Time of Previously Announced Meeting: Thursday, January 26,
2006 at 9 a.m.
Change in the Meeting: Additional items.
The following items have been added to the 9 a.m. Closed Meeting
scheduled for Thursday, January 26, 2006:
Institution and settlement of injunctive actions; and
Institution and settlement of an administrative proceeding of an
enforcement nature.
Commissioner Atkins, as duty officer, voted to consider these items
listed for the closed meeting in closed session and that no earlier
notice thereof was possible.
At times, changes in Commission priorities require alterations in
the scheduling of meeting items. For further information and to
ascertain what, if any, matters have been added, deleted or postponed,
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Dated: January 25, 2006.
Nancy M. Morris,
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Richard Wu
Sophistry with a dash of wisdom
07 Dec 2015 in Movies Philosophy ~ read.
My Favorite Scene in All of Cinema
2017 update: It is no longer. But maybe you can figure out why it was?
This is the scene, taken from Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises. If you haven't seen the movie, I suggest watching it first - great flick. Spoilers ahead.
Losing everything
Do you ever get scared of losing things? A career, friends, family, health, beauty, savings... It's irrational - we all know that - but entertain me for a moment, take some time, really reflect on how you'd feel if you lost any of these. Perhaps some mean more to you than others.
And what about losing yourself - your identity, your values and character, your worldview...
What about... losing it all at once?
Could you get back up?
Would you even want to?
If we believe that each individual holds certain values which give them purpose and fuel their existence, then it wouldn't be a stretch to say the loss of these values is akin to a spiritual death. Bruce Wayne suffers such a death in this movie.
A little Batman history: after watching a common mugger kill his parents with a gun, Bruce develops a deep hatred for what can be best described as "crime itself." Its eradication becomes his sole raison d'etre, and he the Batman, a vigilante operating outside the law, the law whose incompetence so vastly fails to address what he holds to be cardinal sin. Bruce is lucky; he inherits Wayne Enterprises, its wealth, the wise family butler Alfred. He trains under formidable masters to hone his mind and body, develops highly advanced gear to give himself a technological edge in combat...
But in this movie, he is faced with Bane. Bane is not as lucky as Bruce. He never knew his parents or had a modicum of wealth, but manages to rise from this barren past to become a charismatic ideologue, a Robin Hood - no less powerful than Bruce, and in some ways more respectable. Especially when you consider that The Dark Knight Rises was released at the height of the Occupy Wall Street protests. Bane becomes, perhaps unintentionally, a personification of the movement and the will of the people behind it. With his goal of overturning Gotham's socioeconomic structure, Bane views Bruce as the paragon of corruption and vice versa. If you can't feel where Bane is coming from, then at least you understand why he's doing what he's doing. Villains with good backstories almost always make better foils.
When the two first meet, Bane defeats a Batman who, having stagnated in a crimeless Gotham, is only a shadow of his former self. This, I say, is no mere "win;" the degree of Bane's victory is better reflected in the term total war. Let's break it down:
Before the two even fight, Alfred leaves Bruce, having lost faith that Batman can win.
Bruce loses the trust of his closest friend and advisor.
Bane bankrupts Wayne Enterprises by hacking the Gotham stock exchange.
Bruce loses his wealth.
He breaks Batman's back in a fierce underground melee.
Bruce loses his health.
He confines Bruce to a nigh-inescapable prison while reducing Gotham society to chaos.
Bruce loses Batman.
Our valiant hero spends months entombed in this abyssal well of a prison, spiritually tortured by a television set showing Gotham's ongoing desecration on the news. Bane's idea, of course. It is a constant reminder that Bruce has failed. But generally speaking, it's not a wise idea to kick a man when he's down, nor is it one to keep prisoners who can help your nemesis out, such as the old doctor who fixes Bruce's back.
Enraged, Bruce tries to escape several times by scaling the wall, but fails every time. He survives the falls by way of a rope tied around his waist as a harness. One of the prisoners tells him that the climb has only been done once before, by a small child, whom we assume to be Bane... a child sentenced from birth to be imprisoned for life, a child whose mother is forcibly taken away in front of his eyes to never be seen again. Bane climbs the pit without the rope that acts as a safety harness - it wasn't even an option for him, the prison then controlled by numerous hostile guards, save for the one rebel who snuck him to the wall.
In retrospect, it becomes less of a surprise that Batman lost when the two faced off. Director Nolan gets my kudos for this story because it metaphorically demonstrates Bane's superiority. In a way, the rope represents the privilege Bruce had throughout life; he was destined to lose from the beginning. Only when he eschews this lifeline does he finally escape, a literal rising and a figurative rebirth of the Batman.
Why this scene is my favorite
Simply put, this scene strongly resonates with me. I think it's pretty powerful even without the context. I like to call it Pandora's Prison - where hope has escaped, and only man remains.
For the architect, there is no practical reason for the rope to exist. It gives the prisoners a risk-free way to attempt escapes. But perhaps its existence serves as a special kind of torment. You see, hope is a powerful thing. It is the anticipation, the possibility of a better future. Hope motivates us to keep moving forward in difficult times because we believe its potentialities are worth whatever we must endure to achieve them.
Hope is also a double-edged sword, and this scene is about the edge that faces you. You peer through it like a window, and on the other side you see what you desire more than anything in the world, but can never achieve no matter how, or how many times you try. This scene is about the hope that never disappears though you wish it would, the hope whose existence is grotesquely distorted from one of possibility into one of resignation and despair. Each of the prisoners is so tortured. For them, it is easier accept fate than to challenge it, knowing they will lose each and every time; it is not failure which torments them but opportunity. The Water of Tantalus.
However, there is a reprieve. You see when Bane, and later Bruce escape from the prison, they do so under the gravest of circumstances. Without the rope, there is no other option; to attempt and fail is literally to die. The fear of death gives them the ability to fly. When Bruce finally escapes, he vindicates not only himself, but also in a way the prisoners, who are able to vicariously quench their thirst by witnessing a member of their group make it out. They cheer because he once again ignites their hope; not the dark version I described above, but hope for their fellow man.
Bruce defeats Bane upon meeting him a second time. Interestingly, upon his dying breath, Bane reveals that it had not been he who made the climb, but Talia al Ghul, daughter of the supervillain Batman had defeated two movies prior. This completes the metaphor; because Bruce accomplishes what Bane could not, Bruce triumphs.
So let me ask again...
Rhetorical question, yes, but I believe it's worth reflection. Even if your loss is but one iota of what Bruce went through in this film, I believe the "yes" is not as important as the "why." Why would you be able to get back up?
To validate your existence?
To protect someone you love?
To liberate your people?
And what would you be willing to wager?
"Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'."
-Viktor E. Frankl, Holocaust survivor, father of logotherapy
Deshi Basara, friends, Deshi Basara.
One further point. Having passed the same trial, Talia and Bruce should technically be equals, but Bruce ultimately wins. Why is this the case? Well, it's simple, really. The Dark Knight Rises is a big-budget superhero flick and the hero always wins. Yay!
I end with another one of my favorite scenes in this movie - it's up to you to deduce why.
(Hint: You won't be able to unless you know me personally. For better or worse.)
4/3/16 P.S. I just learned Frankl had actually been quoting Nietzsche. Oh well! Leaving my error in as-is for editorial integrity.
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Sacred Number Science
by Richard Heath
Book: Matrix of Creation
Book: Sacred Number and the Lords of Time
Read some of my papers
Megalithic Period
their astronomy
their numeracy
near Carnac
in Britain
in Egypt
Sacred Buildings
Planetary Harmony
Geometry and Metrology
Tuning Theory
From Sacred Geometry: Language of the Angels
from Sacred Geometry: Language of the Angels, Appendix 1.
(Available: first few weeks of 2021)
This is relevant to many on-site posts.
Metrology has appeared in modern times (phase five below) in reverse order, since humankind saw the recent appearance of many measures in different countries as indicative that past cultures made up units of measure as and when they needed them, perhaps based upon lengths found in the human body. But this soon breaks down under scrutiny because the measures called after different regions all have systematic ratios between them, such as 24/25 feet (which as a foot is the Roman) and 6/5 feet (which is an aggregate unit, a remen), and the size of humans is quite various between regions and within populations. As stated in the main body of this book, the notion of measures from different regions was called historical metrology. This framework began to break down when answers appeared as to why the different regional feet were related, not only to the English foot as equalling one for each ratio, but also to the fact that the units of measure were often seen to divide into the size and shape of the Earth (leading to our phase four)—then called ancient metrology.
Another aspect of measures was their ability to approximate important, otherwise irrational, constants (our phase 3), such as π, √2 and even e in the form of megalithic yards, which are close to 2.71828 feet, the numerical value of e—the exponential constant. The earliest megalithic yard was almost exactly that number of feet—derived from an astronomical count over three lunar and solar years in day-inches (chapter 1) leaving a 32.625-inch difference between these years (our phase one); those 32.625 inches equal 2.71875 (87/32) feet.
The gap between the first and second phases of metrology seems to be the gap in time between the megalithic in Brittany and in Britain. Only as the metrological purpose of more megalithic monuments becomes clear might one be able to know more accurately, but British metrology, in choosing a megalithic yard of 2.72, was able to factor the nodal prime number of 17 within its counting. While Brittany could, at Le Ménec’s western cromlech, use a radius of 17 megalithic rods (6.8 feet) to have a count of 3400 megalithic inches across a diameter, Britain could use 12 such rods to model the lunar year of 12 months while also counting 15 rods as 3400 shu.si, a small digit known to historical metrology as dividing the 1.8 foot (the double Assyrian foot of 0.9 feet) into 60 parts, while the shu.si (0.03 feet) divides into many foot modules (see p. 112), and the English yard contains 100 shu.si, and 68 yards contains 6800 shu.si enabling the nodal period to be counted at Balnuaran in Scotland.
There is a particular need to regularize this subject through the gathering of more examples of metrology’s past applications. One must recognize that those responsible for our present knowledge of it have largely passed away, and those in academia are not going to rewrite history in order to impartially reassess whether their own approach to ignoring it can still be justified, especially when they are not preserving the metrology within monuments because they can’t see it as a signal from the past.
Overview of Megalithic Units of Measure
At least five specific MYs have emerged from the counting applications within megalithic monuments:
1. The proto megalithic yard (PMY) of 32.625 day-inches, emanating from an original day-inch count over 3 solar and 3 lunar years (at the Manio Quadrilateral) as the difference in their duration (chapter 1). This is therefore an artifact of the world of inch counting.
2. The Crucuno megalithic yard (CMY) of 2.7 feet: We saw that, by the factorization of 32 lunar months as 945 days long, the lunar month (as 29.53125 days long) can be represented by 10 MYs of 2.7 feet (27 ft) where the days in such a count are the Iberian foot of 32/35 feet. This I call the Crucuno megalithic yard, though, in the historical period, this foot came to be called the root foot (27/25 feet) of the Drusian module, which, times 25, is then 27 feet. The astronomical megalithic yard AMY (next) is 176/175 of the CMY.
3. The astronomical megalithic yard (AMY): In Britain, this is 2.715 feet (32.585 inches) long, giving N = 32.585 for the actual N:N + 1 differential ratio between the solar and lunar years. When representing lunar months over a single year, the excess becomes the English foot of 12 inches—a megalithic, now-called English, foot. From this one sees that every AMY on the base of the Lunation Triangle defines an AMY plus 1 inch on the hypotenuse above it (length N + 1 = 33.585 inches – a Spanish vara), as the duration 1 mean solar month. The AMY can appear as an integer when the CMY defines a radius because it is 176/175 of the CMY.
4. The nodal megalithic yard (NMY): Used in Britain. Thom’s Megalithic Sites in Britain gave the megalithic yard as having had the value of 2.72 feet as “the” MY, based on integer geometries within stone circles and some statistical methods applied to some of the other inter-stone distances Thom had measured. Its value evidently derives from its relationship to the nodal period of 6800 day-feet because 2.72 =6800/2500, where 2500 feet is half a metrological mile of 5000 feet. For this reason, I now call it the nodal megalithic yard (NMY), which contains the key prime number 17 in its formula 272/100, 272 being 16 times 17. Its megalithic rod (NMY times 2.5) of 6.8 feet factorized the nodal period of 6800 days: 15 rods gave 102 feet (3400 shu.si) and 30 rods gave 204 feet (6800 shu.si – e.g. Clava and Avebury), the shu.si being 204/6800 = 3/100 feet. It therefore appears that the NMY, its rod of 6.8 feet, and the shu.si had a raison d’être in the British megalithic period that was focused on the later problem in astronomy of counting the days of the nodal period.
5. The later* megalithic yard (LMY): Seen at Stonehenge and Avebury. Thom in 1978 published a new estimate for the MY as 2.722 feet. Unbeknownst to Thom but lurking within his own error bars was a further development of the AMY which, times 441/440, would locate his value within ancient metrology as 2.716 feet, 126/125 of the CMY. The CMY is clearly the root value (in Neal’s terminology 2.5 root Drusian of 27/25 feet) and the AMY the root canonical value, while this LMY is the standard canonical value.
*in the context of Thom’s work.
All of these different megalithic yards had their place in the megalithic people’s pursuit of their astronomical knowledge. Noting the role of the shu.si in compressing the length of a nodal count to a mere 204 feet, Thom’s NMY of 2.72 is the key to how its length of 3/100 feet was arrived at. The shu.si of 0.03 feet (0.36 inches) surprisingly divides into many of the historical modules of foot-based metrology.
Module Foot Ratio shi.si Notes
Assyrian 9/10 30 Carrying the sexagesimal (base-60)
system of the Sumerians.
Roman 42/25 32
Inverse Byzantine 99/100 33 Times 3 gives 99, a yard minus one shu.si.
English 1 33.3 Times 3 gives 100 shu.si in a yard.
? 51/50 34 Divides into the nodal period.
The difference between 80 and
81.6 feet and between 90 and
91.8 feet at Seascale, where 91.8
locates the Jupiter synodic period.
Persian 21/20 35 Its remen (6/5) is 42 shu.si.
Drusian 27/25 36 The CMY is root of the AMY and
the LMY.
Remen 6/5 40 Half-remen of 20 shu.si as ideal
form of the equal perimeter model.
Some units commensurate with the shu.si
Five Phases for Metrology
MetrologyThe application of units of length to problems of measurement, design, comparison or calculation. as a single system was based on the number 1, which was then realized astronomically as the English footThe standard prehistoric foot (of 12 inches) representing a unity from which all other foot measures came to be formed, as rational fractions of the foot, a fact hidden within our historical metrology [Neal, 2000]. as an excess over one year [Robin Heath, 1998; Heath & Heath 2010], which then became related to all the foot modules of the ancient world—through a range of simple fractions. There were, therefore, phases in the evolution of ancient and then historical
metrology. I can see five right away.
Phase One: An Inch-Based Metrology for Astronomical Counting*
Primordial measures arising from the conduct of astronomy in the megalithic period included the English inch used to count days at Le Manio, CarnacAn extensive megalithic complex in southern Brittany, western France, predating the British megalithic.; the Proto Megalithic YardAny unit of length 2.7-2.73 feet long, after Alexander Thom discovered 2.72 ft and 2.722 ft as units within the geometry within the megalithic monuments of Britain and Brittany. (PMYproto-megalithic yard of 32.625 (261/8) day-inches, generated at Le Manio Quadrilateral as the difference between three solar and three lunar year counts.) of 261/8 inches arising from Le Manio’s three-year count, forming the Lunation TriangleThe right-angled triangle within which the lengths of the two longer sides are the relative proportions of the solar and lunar years.; and the English foot arising from counting the Lunation Triangle over a single solar year as lunar months using the PMY per month.
To form the English foot required definite steps that were necessarily taken
through megalithic astronomy and findable in the monumental record as (a) the use of the inch to count days over 3 solar years,† (b) the use of the differential length over 3 years to count lunar months rather than days, and (c) the counting over a single year to find an excess length of the English foot, which still has 12 inches because the lunar year has 12 months.
*Corresponding to the work of Heath and Heath (2011) and Heath (2014)
†See “Reading the Angelic Mind” in chapter 1, p. 14.
Phase Two: A Foot-Based Metrology for Astronomical Counting‡
Using ad hoc simple foot ratios based upon the English foot, in the service of
astronomical counting such as: 27 feet representing the lunar month at Crucuno (near Carnac) enabling days to be counted in parallel, using Iberian feet of 32/35 feet; nodal units such as Thom’s early megalithic yard of 2.72 feet; and the yard of 3 feet containing 100 shu.si.§ Nearby, the use of feet per day can be seen at Erdevan, over the SarosThe dominant eclipse period of 223 lunar months after which a near identical lunar or solar eclipse will occur. and MetonicGreek: The continuous 19 year recurrence of the moon’s phase and location amongst the stars. periods. The full system of Ancient Metrology was not yet developed.
‡Corresponding to the work of Alexander Thom (1967, 1971, 1978, 1980)
§More on the types of megalithic yard and the shu.si can be found in the box above (p. 237)
called “Overview of Megalithic Units of Measure.”
Phase Three: A Foot-Based Metrology for Handling Mathematical Functions
Using ratios of the English foot to approximate to irrational and geometric functions: measures are able to map feet to √2 or its reciprocal, to π, or to other measures related to the models in chapter 2.
The English foot was long enough to form fractional ratios in which the number field could be expressed as a calculating tool, since the measurement of a length using a different ratio of foot length gives a result in which the original measurement has been multiplied by the denominator of the fraction and divided by the numerator. Thus, 9 feet becomes 8 feet of the ratio 9/8. The initial approach to such ratio-based feet was to build right triangles using English feet so that the foot of 9/8 feet emerged from a base length of 8 feet and hypotenuse of 9 feet. Above each foot on the base were 8 demarcated feet of 9/8 feet (see fig. 2.1, p. 34), and there are strong reasons to suspect grids of unit squares were in use to form triangles since the right angle is native to such grids, which are also conceptually adapted to studying pure numerical interactions in space.
Phase Four: A Metrology of Foot-Based Modules and Microvariations*
Foot modules evolved as a general-purpose toolkit involving only the prime numbers {2 3 5 7 11}: the systems of root measures using right triangular ratios from the common English foot standard; a common grid of microvariation within each module, applicable to geodeticUnits of measures and monumental measurements relating to the numerical definition of the shape of the Earth by the late megalithic. surveying and modeling; and some less common microvariations such as 225/224 and 81/80.
*Corresponding to the recent books about ancient metrology
from John Michell (1981, 2008) and John Neal (2000, 2016, 2017)
Phase Five: The Foot-Based Metrology Discovered from the Historical Period†
The historical measures were found through exploration of the geographical regions after which they were named, such as measuring sticks, anthropomorphic sculptures, objects whose size was noted in antiquity, modern-era survey measurements (e.g., by Petrie and Thom), and through inductive metrology, measuring surviving sites and artifacts.
†Corresponding to Petrie (1877) and Berriman (1953)
Berriman, A. E. Historical Metrology. London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1953.
Heath, Robin, and John Michell. Lost Science of Measuring the Earth: Discovering the Sacred Geometry of the Ancients. Kempton, Ill.: Adventures Unlimited Press, 2006. Reprint edition of The Measure of Albion.
Michell, John. Ancient Metrology. Bristol, England: Pentacle Press, 1981.
Neal, John. All Done with Mirrors. London: Secret Academy, 2000.
—-. Ancient Metrology. Vol. 1, A Numerical Code—Metrological Continuity in Neolithic, Bronze, and Iron Age Europe. Glastonbury, England: Squeeze, 2016.
—-. Ancient Metrology. Vol. 2, The Geographic Correlation—Arabian, Egyptian, and Chinese Metrology. Glastonbury, England: Squeeze, 2017.
Petri, W. M. Flinders. Inductive Metrology. 1877. Reprint, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Author Richard HeathPosted on October 14, 2020 November 7, 2020 Categories Geometry and Metrology, Megalithic, Sacred Geometry: Language of the Angels, UncategorizedTags Ancient Metrology, megalithic yard, metrology
Le Site Mégalithique du Manio à Carnac
by Howard Crowhurst
Perched on a hill in the forest north of the Carnac alignments, a megalithic site has escaped the fences that have littered the landscapes of the region for several years. These are the menhir and the quadrilateral of Manio. From the outset, the large menhir impresses with its dimensions. Nearly 5m50 high, it is the highest standing stone in the town.
More discreet, the quadrilateral caps the top. 90 upright and contiguous stones, varying in height between 10 cm and 1m60, make up an enclosure approximately 36 meters long and 8 meters wide on average, because the long sides converge. The stones at the ends draw a curve. Four stones to the northeast form the remains of a circle. Two menhirs, much larger than all the other stones in the quadrilateral, open a kind of door in the south file. This particular form questions us. What could she be used for? Was it a meeting place, maybe an enclosure for sheep? In fact, what we see today is probably only the outer skeleton of a larger monument, a mound of stone and earth that contained a chamber inside. Other remains complicate the whole, unless they help us solve our puzzle. Hidden in the brambles and brush, we can discover a stone on the ground of rounded shape. These curves are reminiscent of the belly of a pregnant woman. She is nicknamed the “Lady” of the Manio.
Author Richard HeathPosted on October 10, 2020 October 14, 2020 Categories UncategorizedTags geometry, Le Manio Quadrilateral
Day-inch counting at the Manio Quadrilateral
It is 10 years since my brother and I surveyed this remarkable monument which demonstrates what megalithic astronomy was capable of around 4000 BC, near Carnac. The Quadrilateral is the earliest clear demonstration of day-inch counting of the solar year, and lunar year of 12 lunar months, both over three years. The lunar count was 1063.125 day-inches long and the solar 1095.75 day-inches, leaving a difference of 32.625 day-inches. This length was probably the origin of a number of later megalithic yards, which had different uses.
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Author Richard HeathPosted on October 9, 2020 October 13, 2020 Categories near Carnac, Sacred Number and the Lords of Time, UncategorizedTags counting, Le Manio Quadrilateral, megalithic yard, Robin Heath
pdf: Astronomical Musicality within Mythic Narratives
Ancient musical knowledge came to Just tuning long before Greek music, in Babylonia. It now seems likely that two sources of musical information, were involved in an early tradition of musical tuning by number: firstly, the early number field is the original template upon which musical harmony is based; and secondly, the prehistoric geocentric astronomy which preceded the ancient world had been comparing counted astronomical time-periods, and had discovered the rational tone and semitone intervals between the lunar year, Jupiter and Saturn . Ernest G. McClain identified a harmonic parallelism within ancient texts in which the anomalous numbers found within mythic narratives inferred a unique array (a matrix) of whole numbers, shaped like a mountain, which could explain plot elements, events and characters of the narrative, as intended parallels to such harmonic mountains. McClain’s matrices allowed the author to locate the harmonic intervals found between planetary synods as a reason why religious texts should have employed harmonic numbers, these relating to planetary time as gods alongside ancient systems of tuning. Based on a talk delivered at ICONEA2013, 5th December at Senate House, University College London.
Author Richard HeathPosted on September 29, 2020 September 29, 2020 Categories Harmonic Origins of the World, Planetary Harmony, Sacred Buildings, Tuning, UncategorizedTags Ernest G. McClain, ICONEA
Le Menec: Start of Carnac’s Alignments
The Meaning Of Le Menec
“Alignments” are long rows of stones, that run in parallel for long distances through the landscape. The alignments in Carnac, Brittany, often have a starting point in what the French call a cromlech. Based upon a circular geometry, these monuments are made up of stones following arcs to form a single compound shape. The stones of a cromlech can be touching or they can be spaced out and in some cases, stones might have been removed during the historical period but in some cases also, gaps in the “walls” of a cromlech were probably intentional and are there on purpose.
Originally published July 2012
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Author Richard HeathPosted on August 3, 2020 September 19, 2020 Categories near Carnac, Sacred Number and the Lords of Time, UncategorizedTags Alexander Thom, egg-shaped, Le Menec
Units within the Great Pyramid of Giza
There is a great way to express pi of 22/7 using two concentric circles of diameter 11 and 14 (in any units). Normally, a diameter of 7 gives rise to a circumference of 22, when pi is being approximated as 22/7 (3.142587) rather than being the irrational number 3.141592654 … for then, the 14 diameter should have a circumference of 44, which is also the perimeter of the square which encloses a circle of diameter 11.
The square of side 11 and
the circle of diameter 14
will both have the same perimeter.
Figure 1 The Equal Perimeter model of two circles, the smaller of which has an out-square of equal perimeter to the greater circle
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Author Richard HeathPosted on July 20, 2020 October 5, 2020 Categories in Egypt, Sacred Buildings, Sacred Geometry: Language of the Angels, Sacred Number and the Lords of Time, UncategorizedTags 3168, Ancient Metrology, equal perimeters, Great Pyramid, John Michell, John Neal, royal cubit, sacred geometry
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Award-Winning Film 'Rom' to Hit Theaters in Vietnam on July 31
Wednesday, 03 June 2020.
Written by Saigoneer.
After eight years in development and months of not knowing whether the movie would be allowed to be screened, the filmmakers behind Rom can now heave a sigh of relief.
Tuoi Tre reports that an official premiere date for the drama film Rom has been finalized after getting the seal of approval from film authorities back in April. The movie will hit Vietnamese cineplexes on July 31 this year.
Rom made waves last year after news broke that it clinched the prestigious New Currents jury award at the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), a category that honors excellent cinematic works by new Asian directors.
The movie is the passion project and directorial debut of local director Tran Dung Thanh Huy. He developed the full-length feature from the previous award-winning short film 16:30, which was screened as part of the Cannes Film Festival in 2013.
Rom is a gritty, raw depiction of Saigon’s working-class families, centered around the residents of a derelict apartment marked for demolition. In hopes of changing their life, they often engage in số đề, a form of lottery-like gambling. Rom, the titular character, is a young bookie who has to compete with other kids to make a living in the neighborhood.
During last year’s award season, the production company got into trouble with censorship authorities for submitting their movie to BIFF without acquiring a distribution license first, and was eventually fined VND40 million. At that time, the prospects of local fans being able to watch the film in theaters was grim.
On April 1, Tran Dung Thanh Huy shared on his personal Facebook page that the movie was approved for screening, though he said in an interview with Tuoi Tre that the version to be shown in Vietnam will differ from that of BIFF. A number of scenes were flagged by the film censorship authority for removal, so the director has adjusted the local cut to ensure that its total length remains the same.
“Luckily, the approval committee still accepted the main story of the movie. The journey of the two main characters is still intact and the high-adrenaline chases across Saigon are still there,” he assured fans in a recent Facebook update. “Two versions in Vietnam and Busan have similar screen times.”
[Photo via Tuoi Tre]
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Water Polo at the Hamilton College Tournament
The Army Water Polo team brought the full 20-man roster to compete in the New York area state tournament at Hamilton College. The team traveled with team OIC COL Michael Benson and Coach Chris Judge. Starting out competing against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and Columbia on Saturday winning both games with scores of (21-5) and (18-6) respectively and qualifying Army for the championship game on Sunday.
Early Sunday afternoon, the Army team competed against Cornell winning the championship with a score of 8-7 capturing a national tournament placement spot to compete in Pittsburgh. With the three strong wins on the weekend, the team extends its win streak in the New York Division to 44 straight wins in conference play.
The team fought extremely hard in the final win with Plebe Goalie Mason Calbert making several crucial saves to hold Cornell defensively. Clutch goals by Captain, Chris Onorato(14), Aaron Chough(6), Sebastian Houng(11), and Cooper Smith(9) propelled the team to victory in an extremely close, defensive battle in the championship game of the weekend.
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Profits Over Safety
Almost a Radioactive Disaster for Ohio- Davis-Besse CoverUp Trial-NRC Spokesman Testifies
21 August 2008 at 8:00:41 AM
Do you think that the NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) is always putting safety first over deals with the owners? Then read about the court case against Andrew Siemazsko, the FirstEnergy engineer who "is charged with five counts of lying or withholding information from the government about Davis-Besse in the fall of 2001. The man who was tesfitying yesterday, Samuel J Collins, negotiated a deal with FirstEnergy and didn't put in a shutdown EVEN THOUGH he knew of "massive streaks of rust flowing out of the lid's inspection ports" (See the pic above).
Here's part of the timeline. Collins met with Bob Saunders, who used to be president of First Energy, on Nov 28, 2001. At that point, it was already known about the corrosion in Davis Besse, but, for political reasons, Collins CUT A DEAL with Saunders to keep the plant running six weeks longer. Why? Because it would cost money and FirstEnergy didn't want to get a shutdown order from the NRC. The next outage was supposed to be on March 31, 2002 but on March 8, 2002, THIS came out.
On March 8, 2002, the nuclear industry was rocked by the discovery of a football-shaped cavity, six inches deep, in Davis-Besse's steel reactor head. The cavity exposed a thin liner that had started to crack and buckle.
Laboratory tests later showed the reactor head was weeks, if that, away from bursting and allowing radioactive steam to form, one of the worst scenarios for a nuclear plant.
Samuel Collins, incidentally, STILL holds a position of considerable authority within the NRC, even though he has a photo to remind him how close Ohio came to being a radioactive hellhole.
Mr. Collins is now administrator of the NRC regional office in King of Prussia, Pa., that oversees nuclear plants in the Northeast.
Incidentaly, a reminder that in that same period of time Comanche Peak was also found to have a leak.From Wired in February 2003
Recently, workers found coolant leaks at the Sequoyah 2 plant in Tennessee and the Comanche Peak 1 plant in Texas. Both plants had leaked boric acid, which is an additive in reactor coolant that is highly corrosive to carbon steel.
"There's been a lengthy list of these near-misses," said David Lochbaum, a nuclear safety engineer at the Union of Concerned Scientists. "It's a growing problem. For an aging fleet of nuclear reactors, it's not unexpected."
While there hasn't been a major nuclear accident in the United States in 20 years, the consequences of such an event could be devastating. If safety systems fail, aging reactors could leak radiation, which may contaminate the water supply and cause life-threatening diseases and infections.
Seems that the NRC identified 12 nuclear plants as being susceptible to corrosion or cracking and shut ALL of them down for inspection.... All, except Davis-Besse.
Davis-Besse started leaking boric acid in 1996. Between 1998 and 2000, the leakage began causing problems for other equipment. In 1999, FirstEnergy, the corporation that operates Davis-Besse, found traces of rust particles in the filters of radiation monitors. These filters, which sample the air inside the reactor's containment structure, are normally replaced every two to three months. When the leakage began, the filters had to be replaced every day....
FirstEnergy ignored photographic evidence documenting rust seeping from the reactor head as early as April 2000, Ryder said.
In August, FirstEnergy admitted to NRC investigators that it placed production before public safety by deferring inspections and corrective action programs. FirstEnergy is spending more than $400 million on repairs.
By allowing safety margins to erode, FirstEnergy and the NRC have lost a great deal of the public's trust, Lochbaum said
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Goodbye Scienceblogs, Hello Scientific American Blogs!
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100,000 People Working In Scottish Games Industry
The Telegraph has posted the latest part of it’s ‘tech map of Britain‘ today, looking at the digital media and technology sectors here in Scotland. It specifically mentions the games sector, speaking to Specialmove’s Andy Campbell, as well as a spokesman from Rockstar North.
While the article is positive overall and looks at a number of other areas of technology, a couple of its claims are a little unusual. It gives a figure of 100,000 people working within the videogames industry in Scotland, making around £5 billion per year for the Scottish economy:
Indeed, the gaming sector employs around 100,000 people in Scotland, and contributes around £5 billion annually to the Scottish economy.
From smaller companies, such as T-Enterprise, which specialises in funny viral games, to the larger studios, such as Rockstar North, the team behind the Grand Theft Auto franchise, there’s a rich seam of games design talent in Scotland to be mined.
There’s also a lot of investment in the future of the industry. Edinburgh-based Rockstar North is one of the biggest supporters of the Dare to be Digital initiative, a competition run by Scottish games studios and universities to encourage the next generation of games designers.
We’ve already left a comment on the Telegraph site and contacted the journalist, saying this isn’t quite accurate (and asking where those figures came from). Updates when and if we hear anything back…
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4 thoughts on “100,000 People Working In Scottish Games Industry”
barbara gunnell says:
i note that you think telegraph figures are wrong – would be most grateful if you could tell what the real figures are?
scottishgames says:
Hi Barbara, thank you for getting in touch. I’m not sure where the 100,000 figure came from, but it’s vastly overinflated. There are probably 500-600 people working in the games sector in Scotland. If you factor in the students on games-related courses, then you may be looking at 2000-3000+ but certainly not very much more. The whole digital media sector in Scotland might muster perhaps 5000-6000 people. Does that help? Brian…
yes that is a vast overfinlation.. is there an official figure for the contribution to the economy too.. £5 billion does seem a lot
I don’t know a recent official figure, but I will try to track down the last one which was officially announced. Back with you asap.
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Santino Cara
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Bach - Oboe Concerto in F major for Oboe, Strings and Continuo - Score and Parts, BWV 1053
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Oboe Concerto in F Major
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Oboe Concerto in F major BWV 1053 for Oboe, Strings and Continuo (realized for harpsichord) reconstructed in Rome in 2016 by Santino Cara.
With the complete score of the concerto, it is also inserted the separate parts for oboe, string instruments (first violins, second violins, violas, violoncellos) and harpsichord.
This concerto, is also available, in the version for oboe and Piano on my Musica Neo page.
Movements: 1. Allegro, 2. Siciliano, 3. Allegro
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Caught In A Transformative Romance
So I was grumbling to people, as I do, about books. And at one point I was saying 'Oh, how can someone want Character A and Character B to get together?' And I was answered: 'Well, they're attractive, and get on well...' To which I: 'But surely that's not enough?'
Obviously it is enough in real life, at least initially. But just as I demand little more from life than a comfy chair and a delicious drink and an excellent book, I would not be thrilled by a book about someone in a comfy chair with a delicious drink and an excellent book. So yes, with the romances in fiction that I love passionately, screech about and chant 'Kiss kiss why will you not kiss' at the page or screen, they have to be a certain thing.
The romance I love is a transformative romance.
My demands are as follows! a) I have to like Character A very, very much b) I have to like Character B very, very much and c) I have to like Character A and Character B much more together than apart. I have to love their interaction, the way their conversations with each other flow, the subtly or not-so-subtly different people they become with each other.
Which may be the point: I have to love them, and yet also want them to change.
This makes me feel a little bit like a Golden-Curled Innocent Young Miss who thinks she can change the wicked ways of the rakish marquis.
But not quite, because it does have to be a mutual transformation.
edited to add: And transformation is a difficult, uncomfortable process. The characters are usually going to have some conflict with each other because they're changing each other - and that's how I like the trope of romantic partners who initially don't get on, or at least have spiky moments. If I don't get the sense they're changing each other, I won't like the not-getting-on. But if I do...
See also: Pride and Prejudice = The Title Is Literally The Two Besetting Faults The Protagonists Have & The Fact They Counteract Each Other Is Why They Are Meant To Be (Also It Was Originally Titled 'First Impressions' But Please Ignore That).
In Beauty by Robin McKinley, there are two literal transformation moments: the moment Beauty transforms the Beast into a man, obviously, but also the moment where the prince shows Beauty herself in a mirror, and she sees that she has not only become beautiful but regal, dignified - that she has grown into herself as the Beast grew into a different person, too.
It's rarer for the girl to have the Big Transformation than the boy, so I love it that in Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones the heroine Sophie is the one under an enchantment, and thus the one literally transformed at the end. Sophie is enchanted to look like an elderly lady rather than a monster, of course, which is a bit of a significant difference!
Robin McKinley's Chalice
HEROINE: I have to become co-ruler of a land and vital magical personage! And I am a humble beekeeper!
HERO: I have to become co-ruler of a land and a human being! And I am mostly made of fire!
Margaret Mahy's The Changeover
HERO: I have to overcome my abusive childhood, learn to care about others, and to be less of a freakmonkey.
HEROINE: I have to overcome evil, undergo a Spiritual Journey, and become a witch. This transformation will literally cause the bones in my skull to move around.
There's the question of names that signify transformation: in Beauty Beauty's name was given to her ironically, as she is the plain sister, and the Beast shows her it's a true name. And the Beast tells Beauty he has forgotten his name, and she will have to give him one. Sorry Carlisle of The Changeover both complains that he has to introduce himself whenever he apologises and routinely does things that are kind of awful without seeming very apologetic at all about it: however, near the end of the book he says 'I'm sorry' to Laura, obviously meaning it, both genuinely remorseful and self-consciously aware of both his name and his feelings. It may also be significant that Sorry alone in the book calls Laura 'Chant.' And in Chalice we don't know the hero's name until a good way in, and then we are offered the choice of two names for him: the one he remembers, and the one Mirasol the heroine remembers. He uses the name she gave back to him to tell her he cares about her. Similarly in Howl's Moving Castle, Howl has to wait until the end to see Sophie's true face, but it isn't until a long way into the book that she learns Howl's actual name - that the glamorous heart-stealing wizard is really called Howell Jenkins.
And in Pride and Prejudice, it is only after Darcy has received the huge hit to his pride of Elizabeth turning him down, and after Elizabeth has just read the prejudice-collapsing letter from Darcy entitled 'You May Be Interested to Know the Villain Of This Novel is Mr Wickham' that we read, for the first and only time, Darcy's first name.
I like the idea of love being someone knowing your true name: and when someone calls you that, you have to answer.
And I love fantasy for yet another reason - that things like 'someone knowing the real you' can be actualised, that love can be turned into magic.
This blog post may not have come as a big surprise to anyone else, since now I have written it all out it's been clear what I like for years, and how what I like keeps cropping up in the books I love. It clarified things for me, though - what's really important to me in my fictional relationships, and why I sometimes really don't get romances everyone else goes crazy for. (It made me realise who I want to get together in Cassandra Clare's Infernal Devices series, only I can't talk about that yet. But soon Clockwork Angel will be out, and I shall!)
But what kinds of romance really get you, and what specific fictional romances do you really love?
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Cowan Palace: Wizards of Words: Sorting our Favorite Playwrights into Hogwarts Houses
In this two-part blog series, Ashley Cowan and Marissa Skudlarek attempt to sort some notable playwrights into their proper Hogwarts House.
Anyone else needing an escape from the adult world of taxes and other miscellaneous boring stuff? I am! Which is why I was so delighted when Marissa reached out to me about writing a blog together involving placing playwrights into their respective Hogwarts House. I was like, Marissa, are you Sirius? That sounds prefect.
And we aren’t the only ones contemplating Harry Potter “types” in the theatre world these days. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts 1 and II, a world premiere new play based on a story by J.K Rowling, Jack Thorne, and John Tiffany, will be opening at the Palace Theatre in London later next month!
But in case you can’t quite afford a plane ticket to England (F you, evil taxes!), we will celebrate all this magical, theatrical fun Theater Pub blog style. So grab that sugary new Starbucks drink that’s supposed to taste like Butterbeer and read on!
Now, if you’re a muggle who hasn’t jumped aboard the glorious Hogwarts Express Train, here’s a quick rundown of the four Hogwarts Houses as told by the Sorting Hat himself in Book Four, The Goblet of Fire:
By Gryffindor, the bravest were
Prized far beyond the rest;
For Ravenclaw, the cleverest
Would always be the best;
For Hufflepuff, hard workers were
Most worthy of admission;
And power-hungry Slytherin
Loved those of great ambition.
–Sorting Hat (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)
In other words, we’ve got four houses: Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin. Gryffindors are daring and bold folks who value a sense of honor. Ravenclaws are witty and steady minded and love academic achievements. Hufflepuffs are truth abiding, loyal friends who care for others often above all else. And Slytherins are cunning and passionate with a strong focus and drive. There’s so much more to say about each of their characteristics and attributes but I’ll leave that to JK Rowling for now.
If you had asked me a few years ago which house I best identified with, I would have told you I saw myself as “Gryffin-claw” (so, a hybrid between Gryffindor and Ravenclaw). It seemed like a good balance for someone who adamantly moved to California against the wishes of her friends and family at the time to follow a dream but who also spent a great deal of time alone reading whatever she could get her hands on while crafting detailed lists of new goals and color-coded schedules. But after researching the Houses a bit more for this blog, I gotta say, I think this Hugs and Cuddles blogger may be more of a Hufflepuff! I’m totally that person that stresses that I haven’t “liked” enough of someone’s Facebook content because I wants to make sure they feel loved and appreciated when I can’t see them in person.
And, this should come as no shocker, but Ravenclaws everywhere would be proud to have Marissa as a part of their crew. She’s totally that babe in the library casually taking in another book who will probably forget more facts than I’ll ever know. Marissa is the person you want on your debate team, your trivia team, and the gal you call for fashion advice when you want an authentic, beautiful look to wear to a themed party. So teaming up with her for this blog was a no-brainer.
Over a ginger-y cocktail in a dimly lit bar, we chatted about playwrights in between sharing select secrets from our earlier days as writers for the San Francisco theater scene and its residents. It was as delightful as it sounds. So without further ado, here are some of our thoughts as Sorting Hat Hotties.
“It’s the wanting to know that makes us matter.”
Sorting Hat Marissa: Schoolboy wit, punster, lover of books and ideas, cramming his plays with erudite references, the favorite playwright of the academic classes: there’s no doubt about it, Tom Stoppard is the Head Boy of Ravenclaw House. “It’s the wanting to know that makes us matter,” from Arcadia, is the line that sums up Stoppard’s ethos, and also sums up the key values of Ravenclaw. He also once claimed to write plays because it’s the only socially acceptable way of arguing with himself, and of all the Houses, Ravenclaws are most likely to welcome a good debate and be swayed by a good argument.
“I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn’t write anything without hope in it.”
Sorting Hat Ashley: When I brought up Hammerstein over drinks, Marissa knowingly said something along the lines of, “only a Hufflepuff could help create Oklahoma!” and as the Ravenclaw she is, I believe she’s correct! Hammerstein was a known collaborator, co-writing nearly 900 songs! He was involved with creating a community of artists that would go on to pave an encouraging path for future music makers and lovers. He was known for being fairly sentimental, which seems obvious given his musical theatre resume, but he was also a socially conscious spirit who wrote with sincerity. He guided and influenced countless collectives, filling their hearts with love and music. Well, mine is pretty full, anyway. As Hufflepuffs are thoughtful team players with a strong sense of justice, Hammerstein would be a cherished Hufflepuff alumnus.
“What’s poetry? It’s not real but maybe it’s more than real. It’s dreaming while you’re awake.”
Sorting Hat Marissa: Another candidate for Greatest Living British Playwright, and another Ravenclaw, though of a less flashy variety than Stoppard. Her plays are coolly perceptive and draw inspiration from a wide range of sources; while they often deal with political themes and reflect her socialist and feminist beliefs, they do not feel polemical (as a Gryffindor’s plays might be). Her work has also gotten more, rather than less, experimental over the years, testifying to her Ravenclaw creativity and questing intelligence. Churchill shuns publicity and does not grant interviews, preferring to let her plays and their ideas speak for themselves – a very Ravenclaw thing to do.
Will Eno
“I think we’re born with questions, and the world is the answer.”
Sarah Ruhl
“This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house.”
Sorting Hat Ashley: I’m linking Eno and Ruhl on this thought bubble because I feel like they share some similarities in their House placements and I go back and forth between sorting both of them in either Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw. I think I’ve landed on Will Eno being a Ravenclaw (who probably marries a Hufflepuff) and Sarah Ruhl as a Hufflepuff with an endless stream of Ravenclaw crushes. Eno writes (and writes) questioning our roles and our humanity while forever swimming in this sea of existential thought and meaningful observations. And Ruhl’s writing often plays like a dreamy poem. Her work seeks to explore love’s communication style and it’s impact on relationships. If Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff had a love child House, I think these two would be in it. But for now, Eno’s wearing a Ravenclaw hoodie and Ruhl’s decked out in cozy Hufflepuff knits.
Tony Kushner
“The work of artists is to find what’s humanly possible – possibility’s furthest reaches.”
Sorting Hat Marissa: A very smart guy who writes verbose and encyclopedic plays, so there is a temptation to put him in Ravenclaw, but look closer, and you’ll see that he’d do better in Gryffindor. The most memorable moments in Kushner’s plays often revolve around the key Gryffindor trait of bravery: think of Baz’s monologue in A Bright Room Called Day about how he lacked the courage to kill Hitler; or the epilogue of Caroline or Change, where Emmie describes how she and her friends vandalized a Confederate statue. Kushner also values the Gryffindor traits of hope and optimism: he once said “It is an ethical obligation to look for hope; it is an ethical obligation not to despair.” And writing a fantastical seven-hour drama that climaxes with the protagonist going to heaven and arguing with the angels to give him “more life”? You can’t get much more Gryffindor than that.
“A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.”
Sorting Hat Ashley: My goodness, y’all. I thought about this placement for awhile. Like four coffees and two episodes of Fixer Upper on Netflix worth of thought. I texted friends and chatted to castmates over it. Because it seems like he could almost go anywhere and nowhere at the same time! Williams was gifted with a beautiful grasp of language but vowed to write honestly, once stating, “I only write about what I experience – intuitively or existentially”, which could be a Ravenclaw thought but also seems like a Hufflepuff promise. And while his characters populate Slytherin and Gryffindor, as a writer destined to tell the truth about social realities and humanity, I think I’m going to keep Williams in Hufflepuff!
That’s our start to this glorious conversation; fun, right?! And we’d love your thoughts! Marissa will be discussing a well known writer within the Slytherin House tomorrow but if you have a playwright you think needs to be sorted, let us know so we can keep this Hogwarts party going! See you tomorrow, fellow witches and wizards!
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Working Title: The Ruhl’s of Kissing
This week Will Leschber closes his eyes and gets ready for a Stage Kiss!
My first stage kiss was with Jessica Middleton. Do you remember yours? Ah yes… First semester of college was starting off with a bang! My guess is that I got the part in that readers’ theater original play of Mother Jones because I was good at making bashful googley eyes at attractive actresses and know how to positively lose all brain function when making said googley eyes. Ask my wife, she knows!
But back to the story… so the audition called for an actor and an actress to sit, hold hands, look into each others eyes and have a conversation using only the letters of the alphabet, the ABC’s. I say A?. She says B. I say C! And so on. So I get to around P and…damn…her eyes…they are such a radiant deep shade of cedar brown…it’s like a circular forest folding in on itself and then peering into me…and oh shit…what letter is next…oh my god…did I forget the next letter in the alphabet! Why did I skip kindergarten?!
I look over at the director…no help. I look back at the Jessica just to check how much I’m ruining her audition,,, and she kindly smiles and says, “Q?”. Man, did I look like an idiot! But, apparently, I looked like an idiot who liked a girl enough to forget the alphabet when looking into her eyes. And wouldn’t you know it, we both got cast. Hooray for being young and dumb, huh!
A first kiss, a first stage kiss, they are hard to forget. We forge them into our stories and use them as touchstones pointing toward who we are and who we were. What do you remember about your first kiss? Was it gentle and sweet? Did you clunk teeth? Was it somehow not a total disaster?! Was it the best ever?
I had the pleasure of speaking to Millie DeBenedet about some of her own Stage Kiss…ing. Millie is a Bay Area actress/director/cocker-spaniel enthusiast and currently plays Laurie/Millicent in Stage Kiss, at SF Playhouse, this holiday season. And of course, while asking after perfect stage kisses, I had to ask for her thoughts on an equally romantic cinematic kiss that would couple well in that vein. She had this to say…
She (Carrie Paff*) and Millicent (Millie DeBenedet) rehearse a scene from ‘The Last Kiss’.
Stage Kiss is Sarah Ruhl’s love poem to actors. The play is utterly romantic. It reveals the twisted dynamics actors find themselves in when they wind up in a showmance. I think it’s easy for actors to confuse lust vs. love. The work of Theatre (like the game of love) requires so much risk-taking. Having a crush on one of your coworkers is inevitable. How you deal with those feelings, well…
She (Carrie Paff*) kisses understudy Kevin (Allen Darby) as Director (Mark Anderson Phillips*) looks on during auditions.
DeBenedet continues…
To accompany your taste buds the following films are great pairings for Stage Kiss:
1. The Lady Eve (1941) – Because it embodies the dicey and passionate relationship between He & She. However, He is more like Barbara Stanwyck’s character and She is more like Henry Fonda.
2. Let’s Make Love (1960) – The tone is similar to Stage Kiss. However, I think Carrie Paff is a much stronger female lead than Marilyn Monroe. Another similarity is you understand the play-within-a-play idea.
3. Love, Actually (2003) – This is my unsophisticated answer. At one point in Stage Kiss, there are a couple of different love stories you could follow, similarly to Love Actually. Also because it’s a funny holiday rom-com.
Love doesn’t have to be sophisticated. It just has to make you, well… feeling something! These are all excellent choices, but my, my, if I go one holiday season without watching the glory that is Love, Actually, my heart withers a little. Good choice, I say! Now, my first stage kiss my have not lead anywhere besides a decent role my first semester at university, however, my last stage kiss was shared with my wife…so don’t shut down those showmance feelings too early. You never know where a showmance can sweep you off to. As Millie said, how you deal with those feelings, well…well that is a key part in how you continually mold who you are, and where your emotional future may go. It’s a gift.
Stage Kiss runs at the SF Playhouse until January 9. Tuesday – Thursday at 7pm, Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 3pm & 8pm, Select Sundays at 2pm
If you are searching for classic fare, The Lady Eve can be found for rent on Amazon, iTunes, Vudu and other e-rental depots; Let’s Make Love may be a little harder to find, but I trust your savvy searching ways. And way too many copies of Love, Actually can be found in my DVD cabinet (what’s a DVD cabinet, you say?) or Netflix.
Palopoli, Jessica. “She (Carrie Paff*) kisses understudy Kevin (Allen Darby) as Director (Mark Anderson Phillips*) looks on during auditions.” 2016. Photograph. http://sfplayhouse.org/
Palopoli, Jessica. “She (Carrie Paff*) and Millicent (Millie DeBenedet) rehearse a scene from ‘The Last Kiss.’” 2016. Photograph. http://sfplayhouse.org/
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Hi-Ho, the Glamorous Life: The Practical Magic of Props
Marissa Skudlarek, giving props to props.
Making theater means spending your life creating and re-creating other worlds onstage. Some of the tools we use to create these other worlds are abstract – language, gesture, spatial relationships. But there’s also a whole heap of tangible stuff that becomes part of the world of the play: sets, lighting, costumes, props. These items need to be carefully considered, and obtained, and maintained. October 2015 is Design Month on the Theater Pub blog, so, to kick things off, I asked friends and members of the community to share their favorite stories about props.
Playwrights have vivid imaginations, which means that scripts can sometimes require weirdly specific props. If a prop is mentioned in the stage directions but not the dialogue, you might be able to do without it, but if the characters discuss it, you’re probably on the hook for including it.
The Desk Set requires a plush rabbit that can conceal a bottle of champagne. In the production I was in this summer, we substituted a rabbit hand puppet, but it still caused some problems during a dress rehearsal.
Other shows require people to get more artsy-craftsy. Claudine Jones shared the following story on Facebook: “The plot of Angel Street literally hinges on a brooch that contains hidden jewels. The description in the script is so vivid, it’s almost impossible to fake. I set out to make a brooch that fit all these requirements: small enough to wear as an article of jewelry, easy to open and close, and able to hide “jewels” that are big enough to be recognized as such by the audience. A couple of weeks of trial and error, bizarre prototypes that went straight into the trash, and I finally succeeded. The main component was an old tuna fish can, painted gold, with a pin epoxied on the back and an overlapping series of metal triangles that formed a kind of iris that opened and closed. The “jewels”? 3mm ruby Swarovski crystals that shone like crazy. I think the playwright would have approved.”
Oh, Tony Kushner and your weirdly specific, metaphorical props. Photo by Dale Ratner.
The play Slavs requires a Russian-style icon of St. Sergius of Radonezh with the face of Lenin. When Dale Ratner directed this play in graduate school, he commissioned someone to paint the icon on salvaged wood – and still has it in his living room. Alandra Hileman has a similar story from when she directed the short play Overtones, in which the characters discuss an “ugly but expensive” lamp. After searching in vain for a suitable 1910s-era lamp, Alandra “assembled this from a candlestick, a votive holder, and an LED tea light for like $5 total. It’s lived on our mantle since then because my mom thinks it’s adorable.”
Ugly but expensive? More like cute and $5! Photo by Alandra Hileman.
Dale and Alandra aren’t the only people who’ve been known to take props home and use them as décor. For the last month or two of my freshman year of college, I lived with a stylized wrought-steel horse’s head hanging on the wall, because my roommate had been in a student production of Equus.
Theater is all about provoking emotion, and it can be either cathartic or harrowing to see something destroyed before your eyes. But what a nightmare it must cause for the props master! I’m thinking of plays like Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House, where, at a climactic moment, the characters muss and dirty a pristine living room. Or, my friend Catherine Cusick shared the following story: “I did a play where a character pours a full bottle of vodka onto a MacBook laptop that we’ve seen working and being used for two hours onstage. My mom called me up out of nowhere during rehearsals asking if I still needed that. Turns out a neighbor had left a lookalike to the working laptop out on the side of her driveway. My mom walked right by and promptly swiped it.”
Speaking of finding props on the street… When I worked with director Katja Rivera on the production of my play Pleiades in summer 2014, I learned that she has what I call a “magpie superpower” – a preternatural ability to find cool and useful stuff on the sidewalks of Berkeley. This year, a record player that Katja found has starred in three productions in a row: Grey Gardens, at the Custom Made Theatre; The Desk Set, produced by No Nude Men; and The Real Thing, at Masquers Playhouse. You have to admit that’s a pretty snazzy resume – and such versatility too, going from the 1970s in the Hamptons to the 1950s in New York City to the 1980s in London without missing a beat! “Do I have an eye for talent, or what? I literally picked that baby up off the sidewalk, and he’s done three shows this year. Next stop Broadway!” Katja writes.
Katja’s record player got passed around between these three productions thanks to informal bartering and Katja’s generosity in loaning it out to friends. If a theater company maintains a proprietary stock of props and costumes, one can even more frequently see the same items appearing in multiple productions. Stuart Bousel recalls “a dress that appeared in five productions I directed in Tucson: a simple red ankle-length gown with a gathered bodice. It was made for a chorus member in Lysistrata, then used in the Oresteia, where it was worn by Clytemnestra. Then we used it in a comedy sketch about the Oresteia where it was worn by Cassandra, then in a production of Faust Part One, where it once again went back to the chorus, then a production of Salome, where it was worn by the Cappadocian (female in our version). I’m almost certain it was finally retired after that… but maybe not.”
In the first show I ever did in high school, I had a small role as a Russian noblewoman attending an opera, and got to wear a beautiful mink stole. I grew very attached to the stole and, later on in high school, basically insisted on wearing it again when I played Mrs. Luce in Little Shop of Horrors. It’s been over ten years, but in all likelihood, that stole is still being worn by teenage actresses at my high school. Though, if I’m honest with myself, I still think of it as “mine.”
Indeed, if you love a prop or a costume piece enough, you’ll find ways to keep reusing it. Catherine Cusick, again: “I worked with a theater in high school that made a papier-maché cow for a production of Into the Woods, but managed to slip it into any other show that could conceivably involve a cow on wheels.”
Marissa Skudlarek is a playwright, producer, and arts writer. She still wants a mink stole, especially now that it’s October. For more: marissabidilla.blogspot.com or Twitter @MarissaSkud.
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The Real World – Theater Edition: An Interview with Savannah Reich
Barbara Jwanouskos interviews Savannah Reich about her upcoming Bay Area production.
Savannah Reich is the type of playwright that when you read and hear and see her work, you’re like, “I want to do that! That’s so cool! Theater’s so cool!” I met her while in the second year of the MFA Dramatic Writing program at Carnegie Mellon University, headed by Rob Handel, and was blown away by her humor, theatricality, and the moving moments of human connection and confusion she creates within her writing. So, of course, I was very happy to learn that her play, Six Monsters, A Seven Monster Play was being produced by All Terrain Theater in the summer of 2015.
The show opens next Thursday, July 30th at 8:00 PM and runs on Thursday, Fridays and Saturdays until August 8th at the EXIT Theatre in downtown San Francisco. I had a chance to chat with Savannah about playwriting, the inspiration behind Six Monsters, and her creative impulses.
Savannah Reich, probably driving to California as we speak.
Babs: Very excited to interview you!
Savannah: Thank you! I am so excited to be interviewed!
Babs: To begin, could you tell me about your background? How did you get involved with theater and writing?
Savannah: I wrote my first play in the second grade. I’m not sure where I got the idea. My parents were both doing theater when I was a kid, as a prop-master and scenic artist at the Guthrie in Minneapolis, so I’m sure I had already seen plays? I am counting this as “my first play” because it was more elaborate than a show I did with friends in the basement or whatever- it had a typed script, which went through several drafts, and I think I forced my entire second grade class to be in it, although I don’t remember that part.
So as long as I can remember I had this incredibly specific compulsion to write plays. I briefly went to NYU for the undergraduate playwriting program, which I was not really prepared for at eighteen. I dropped out after a year and decided I would never write a play again- I was just going to be wild and free and be in punk bands and experience real life. But then I started writing plays again probably six months after that.
I recently found the script for my first play in a box at my parent’s house; it was about two witches who turn people into chickens and serve them to children at an orphanage, which actually sounds like something that I might be working on now.
Babs: How would you describe your style and what interests you?
Savannah: The way I’m thinking about it these days is that I am interested in taking inexplicable emotional processes and making them into something concrete and mechanical. I am obsessed with the Charlie Kaufman movie “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” because it does this so nicely- it takes this very gooey personal feeling, the grief about losing a shared past when you end a relationship, and makes it into this action story. It literally ends with a chase scene. So that’s a really nice way to create ways to talk about things that maybe don’t fall into the cultural shorthand.
More concretely, my plays tend to be removed from true-to-life situations- as Sarah Ruhl says, “my characters have no last names.” They are animals or ghosts or subhuman beasts. They tend to be suffering greatly in some neurotic, cyclical way and they all talk on rotary dial telephones.
Also, I am interested in structure because it is the essential relationship between the play and the audience, which for me is at least as interesting as the relationships between the characters.
Babs: I think Six Monsters, A Seven Monster Play has an interesting origin story – do you mind sharing and then how it developed from its inception?
Savannah: Yes! You were there! It was very early on in my first year at CMU, maybe the second or third week, and Rob Handel had us do a writing exercise that involved beginning a 60 page play at nine am and finishing it by midnight. The exercise was so great, but I feel like I don’t want to give it away in case he is going to do it again next year- part of what was great about it for me was the surprise. I had all these ideas for plays that had been percolating for a long time, and I was fussing over them and trying to make them “good”, and then we got this exercise that said, “Okay, forget about all those plays- here’s a prompt, now write this play. Write this play today.” It was totally liberating for me.
Before grad school, I had been writing plays and producing them myself, so I think that I had gotten into this trap of keeping my producer’s hat on while I was writing. I would think about making props affordable, stuff like that. It was dumb. This exercise broke me out of that. The original opening stage direction for “Six Monsters” was something like, “There are six audience members seated on a wooden cart. The wooden cart rolls through an infinite darkness.”
I also think I put a bunch of things that felt really vulnerable and revealing to me in this play, and maybe I wouldn’t have if I had been imagining that it would ever be performed. I write much better when I am able to convince myself that no one I know will ever see it.
After I finished the play, I co-produced a one night workshop performance of it with our fellow MFA writer Dan Giles, with him directing, me as the skeleton, and six amazing CMU undergrad acting students as the chorus, which I will get to brag about when they are all famous in like twenty-five minutes.
Babs: When I last saw this piece, you were actually performing in it as the Skeleton. How do you think performing/not performing in your own work influences how you see the play, what to develop/not develop next?
Savannah Reich as the Skeleton carrying Jeremy Hois as the Baby in the Pittsburgh performance workshop at the Irma Freeman Center for the Imagination directed by Dan Giles in February 2014.
Savannah: I’m not sure how I feel about this anymore! I am worrying about it a lot in a neurotic and cyclical way! I have performed in my own work a fair amount, and sometimes I think I don’t want to do it anymore, because probably it would be better with real actors who are good at acting. But then I recently saw the performance artist Dynasty Handbag in New York, and I love her, and I thought that maybe I should always perform my own work. Not that I am a performer like she is- I tend to be visibly thinking on stage in that way that playwrights do when they try to act- but I do think there is something special about seeing someone perform their own words, there is a kind of specificity to it.
But I’m not going to be a performance artist because I love actors so much. They are my favorite thing to look at, especially when they are in my plays being hilarious. It’s great to be a playwright because we get to see all these very attractive people pretending to be us, pretending to have our same anxieties about capitalism or intimacy or whatever, which feels deeply healing in some probably very messed up way. Also good collaboration makes the show better, of course. The actor can see a lot of things about the show that I can’t.
I don’t know that I learn anything much from being in my own plays. I played the part of the skeleton in the workshop mostly because it felt too personal to turn it over to an actor. But now I have a little more distance, and I’m so excited to see what Laura Peterson does with it.
Babs: In the San Francisco production, is there anything that you are most looking forward to seeing or experiencing?
Savannah: I was just talking about how much variability actors bring to the table but of course that’s also very much true of directors. I haven’t worked with Sydney Painter before, and seeing her take on the piece is probably what I’m the most excited about. I haven’t been in town for rehearsals yet, and I’m looking forward to seeing the ways that this crew has interpreted the show in different ways than I would have imagined.
Babs: Any advice for playwrights in creating new work or getting it produced?
Savannah: For me the simplest way to get your play produced is to do it yourself. It is only very recently that other people have wanted to produce my plays, and that is a new and exciting thing, but it’s important to me to always know that I can make my own work, and that I never need to get picked out of the pile or get the grant or win the contest to make my art.
Babs: Any shout-outs for shows, events, or other things going on around the Bay Area that you might check out while you’re here?
Savannah: If you come to Six Monsters; A Seven Monster Play you will also get to see a short play by the fabulous Tracy Held Potter called Texting. And we should probably all get on a plane to New York to see Dan Giles’ play How You Kiss Me is Not How I Like To Be Kissed at the New York Fringe Festival.
Also, this.
Learn more about Savannah Reich, her screenplays, plays, and upcoming artistic projects from her website, http://savannahreich.com/.
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Katja Rivera: Reigning Orpheus Interpreter Of The Bay Area
We’re doing a double post today because Orpheus is part of a pair and so is our director du jour, Katja Rivera! She’s not only directed tonight’s Theater Pub, but also directed the recently opened EURYDICE at Custom Made Theater Company. We wanted to know what it’s like to have the same story so much on the brain and with a headshot this charming we think you’ll agree there’s always room for quality time with Katja.
Seriously. How can you not love this smile?
So, how did you end up with your hands full of Orpheus and Eurydice?
Ah, synchronicity. Marissa Skudlarek had been working on her translation of Orphee at the same time I was working on Eurydice at Custom Made, so she thought it would be fun to have me do both.
And how did you get involved with this reading?
Lovely Marissa asked me. I had directed a play of hers at last year’s Pint Sized Festival (“Beer Theory”), and she felt I’d be a particularly good match. How could I say no?
What do you consider the major differences between Sarah Ruhl’s version of the story and Cocteau’s?
Ruhl uses the myth to explore the grief she’s experienced since her father’s death, and really, to get a chance to spend some more time with her pops. It’s poetic, visceral. It reminds me of of Alice in Wonderland. Cocteau’s version explores the myth surrealistically, and focuses more on the relationship between Eurydice and Orphee. And it has a happier ending.
Is there anything that stands out to you as a real strength of Coctaeu’s vision?
The element of magic and carnival, which in a full production would be a blast to explore.
What are some of the differences between directing a reading and directing a show?
Oh my goodness. Readings are instant magic. You throw your instincts at the piece and–go! A show you’ve got a longer period to let the collaboration stew and get rich. I’ve loved watching how Jessica Rudholm’s performance in Eurydice has become more and more nuanced.
We noticed you are using some of your custom made cast (Jessica, Jeremy Parkin, Stefin Collins) in this reading- any particular reasons behind that?
They are good, reliable actors who fit the roles. And I loved hearing echoes of lines from Eurydice as we rehearsed Orphee. My own private joke.
What’s next for you? Any more trips to the underworld in your future?
Next, I am directing at Playgrounds Best Of Festival opening on May 11. And the I am going to Washington DC to see my daughter graduate from law school!
When enjoying a dramatic reading at the Cafe Royale, what’s your favorite thing to get from the bar?
Ginger Beer!
Don’t miss Orphee, for one night only, tonight at Cafe Royale at 8 PM! And dont’ miss Eurydice, playing all month at Custom Made Theater Company!
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Where Obama, Romney stand on foreign policy challenges
By Jamie Crawford
Editor’s Note: Over the next week, CNN's national security reporters and producers will be looking at some of the most poignant differences between the two candidates on the most pressing foreign policy issues. Watch for the stories all week on CNN. More from Election Center
The protests and violence at American diplomatic missions across the Middle East and North Africa last week steered the 2012 presidential race into somewhat unchartered territory - a debate over U.S. foreign policy.
While the topic certainly has not been absent in the rhetorical sparring between President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney, most of the campaign's focus thus far has been a battle over who has the best prescription to jolt a seemingly sluggish economic recovery.
But that changed last week. Romney's charge the United States was too quick to condemn a film that insulted Muslims before condemning the violence directed at American diplomatic missions abroad spurred Obama's claim that Romney had a tendency to "shoot first and aim later." And all this talk has opened a window on an area that is sure to consume a great deal of attention for whomever sits in the Oval Office next January.
The list of foreign policy challenges facing the United States is daunting - including an awakening in the Arab world with a direction still unknown, a looming nuclear crisis with Iran and an uncertain future in Afghanistan (and neighboring Pakistan) once U.S. troops withdraw in 2014.
And let's not forget a bloody civil war in Syria, where the fate of thousands of biological and chemical weapons also hang in the balance. Then there are fiscal issues, from debt crises plaguing Europe to economic and geo-political challenges posed by a rising China.
Here is a look at some of the most pressing foreign policy issues facing the United States, and how the candidates who seek to lead the country approach them.
As the tension over Iran's disputed nuclear program ratchets up in the face of Israeli discord over the pace of current sanctions designed to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions, both Obama and Romney agree that Iran must not be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon.
"We are determined to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon," Obama said in a press conference earlier this year alongside British Prime Minister David Cameron.
More: What are your top election issues? Weigh in now
The Obama administration and European Union have launched parallel sanctions designed to squeeze Iran's petroleum sector and bring the economy to its knees as an incentive to get Iran to give up any military dimensions to its nuclear program.
In a recent interview with ABC News, Romney said he would draw the same line as Obama when it comes to Tehran's nuclear capacity.
"My red line is Iran may not have a nuclear weapon," he told ABC's George Stephanopoulos. "It is inappropriate for them to have the capacity to terrorize the world."
What ultimately constitutes that red line, though, is seemingly different for both men. For Obama, the Iranian government would have to take direct steps to actually acquire a weapon (which U.S. intelligence does not believe has happened yet), while Romney has said merely having a "nuclear capability" without actually moving ahead to produce a weapon would be a tipping point.
More: Netanyahu urges U.S. to set 'red line' for Iran
In Syria, where the carnage of the last year and a half has claimed tens of thousands of lives, the fate of the country's large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and whether to arm the opposition forces battling the regime of President Bashar al-Assad has drawn out differences between the two candidates.
What would trigger either overt or covert military involvement from the United States inside Syria?
"We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to the other players on the ground, that a red line for us is (when) we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized," Obama said in a White House press conference last month. "That would change my calculus. That would change my equation."
More: CNN/Facebook's 'I'm Voting' app, take the pledge
As to supporting al-Assad's opposition, the administration has provide funds and non-lethal equipment like communications gear. In addition, the CIA is aiding in vetting rebel members for other countries who may be providing arms on their own.
For Romney, the Obama administration's policy of not providing arms to the Syrian opposition - whose character and composition is still uncertain, according to administration officials - is a mistake. The former Massachusetts governor supports greater American involvement in Syria.
"Instead of watching what's happening in Syria from a dispassionate distance, I would be leading in Syria by encouraging our friends there like the Turks and the Saudis to provide weapons to the insurgents in Syria," he said at the Faith and Freedom Coalition's annual briefing this summer.
More: Syria explained: What you need to know
And Barbara Starr on Obama and Romney's red lines for Iran and Syria.
No single foreign policy issue has bedeviled more U.S. presidents than the search for peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
Unlike previous presidents, for whom Mideast peace was mainly a focus in their second term, Obama entered office determined to work with all parties involved in the process to find a workable plan. But the effort did not go far, as the Israeli government continued to construct settlements in Palestinian areas and a unilateral quest for statehood by the Palestinians at the United Nations brought talks to a halt.
The relationship between Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is cool, and while they have put on a public face of U.S./Israeli solidarity when they meet, it is understood the two don't have much of a personal rapport. Romney and Netanyahu, on the other hand, have a relationship that goes back decades from the time they were colleagues at the Boston Consulting Group.
While the style and rhetoric of Obama and Romney's approach to the Middle East may differ, there are rather modest differences in the substance of their positions on the conflict's root issues. Both men say their personal view is that Jersualem is the capital of Israel, but that issue must be negotiated between the Israelis and Palestinians - a policy shared by previous presidential administrations, from both parties.
In a May 2011 speech at the State Department, Obama called for a two-state solution based on borders that existed before the 1967 Six-Day war. He also proposed "mutually agreed swaps" of land as a basis of negotiations. In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer during a visit to Jersualem this past July, Romney would not comment on what borders he'd propose, but said, "I will leave that to the negotiating parties themselves."
Throughout the campaign, Romney has accused Obama of "throwing allies like Israel under the bus" and not giving due credence to Israeli concerns over Iran. He has also pledged Israel would be the first country he would visit as president.
But while the personal relationship between Obama and Netanyahu is well documented, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak told CNN in July that the bond between Israel and the United States are "stronger and deeper than ever" under Obama.
Both presidential contenders have said they respect Israel's sovereign right to defend itself against perceived threats - an apparent reference to Israeli apprehensions over Iran's nuclear program.
With the war in Afghanistan set to enter its twelth year in October, U.S. forces are on schedule to end their combat role by the end of 2014. The current plan calls for only a small number of American troops to remain to train Afghan forces.
After years of military focus on Iraq, Obama ordered a surge of 30,000 troops to Afghanistan in December 2009. At its peak, there were about 100,000 U.S. forces in the embattled country, intent on wrestling back control of areas in southern and eastern Afghanistan that had been taken over by the Taliban. That boost of troops was temporary and, by the end of September, all 30,000 extra troops will have been removed.
While Romney has called Obama's policy in Afghanistan a politically timed retreat, there is little evident daylight between them as to how they'd approach the U.S. military effort.
"Our goal should be to complete a successful transition to Afghan security forces by the end of 2014," Romney said this month in a speech before a National Guard Association meeting in Reno, Nevada. "I will evaluate conditions on the ground and solicit the best advice of our military commanders," he said.
That's not much different than what Obama said last month, during a visit to the Army base of Fort Bliss in Texas.
"Next year, Afghans will take the lead for their own security. In 2014, the transition will be complete," he said then.
It's what happens once military operations cease where differences between the two candidates come into view.
"We are pursuing a negotiated peace. In coordination with the Afghan government, my administration has been in direct discussions with the Taliban," Obama earlier this year, explaining his administration's policy of supporting reconciliation by all elements of Afghan society so long as minority and women's rights are respected, and violence is renounced.
Negotiating with the Taliban is a dangerous prospect, according to Romney.
"We don't negotiate with terrorists. I do not negotiate with the Taliban. That's something for the Afghans to decide how they're going to ... pursue their course in the future," he said last year during a Republican primary debate.
More: 'Green on blue' attacks in Afghanistan | Attackers wore U.S. uniforms
FUTURE OF THE MILITARY
As commander in chief of the U.S. military, President Obama differs from Romney on what they see as the types of weapons and numbers of troops needed to defend the country.
In his remarks and position papers released by his campaign, Romney champions a large conventional force supplemented by 100,000 extra troops, which would bolster the entire military force to over 1.5 million.
"We must have a commitment," he said last week at an event in Virginia, "not just to more ships and more aircraft, but also, in my view, to more members of our armed forces."
In addition to extra troops, Romney has pledged to increase the Navy's shipbuilding rate from 9 to 15 new vessels a year, modernize existing weapons systems and establish a multilayered ballistic missile defense system. Romney has not said how he would pay for any of these measures.
With the war in Iraq over and military operations in Afghanistan winding down, Obama has said he wants to cut $500 billion in defense spending over the next decade. He does not support a second round of $500 billion in cuts that may take effect in January if Congress cannot reach an agreement on the federal budget.
The cuts in Obama's budget would get rid of older ships while delaying the construction of newer ones. His military would place more emphasis on small special forces teams that can deploy to hotspots worldwide, as well as the continued use of unmanned drones.
While drones and special forces would also play a role in Romney's defense strategy, the former governor says a strong and robust military is necessary to preserve America's leadership position in the world.
More from Barbara Starr on Obama and Romney's competing proposals for the U.S. military
From the early days of his campaign up to the present, Romney has maintained that China - through its monetary policy and trade practices - is cheating Americans out of good jobs and opportunities, as well as stealing its intellectual property and know-how.
"If I'm president of the United States, I will finally take China to the carpet and say, 'Look you guys, I'm gonna label you a currency manipulator and apply tariffs unless you stop those practices," he said at a campaign event earlier this year.
Like previous administrations, Obama has not taken the step of designating China a "currency manipulator" out of concern such a move could start a trade war with a nation that enjoys a $200 billion trade surplus with the United States and holds even larger sums of U.S. debt. But Obama has brought lawsuits against Beijing at the World Trade Organization.
"We're going to continue to be firm in insisting that they operate by the same rules that everybody else operates under," he said last year at the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference.
On the sensitive issue of Taiwan, Obama has signed off on arms sales to the island - which China considers a renegade province - but he has refused to sell them advanced F-16 fighter jets. Romney has said he would sell additional arms to Taiwan and confront China more forcefully on its human rights record.
More: Obama and Romney differ on approaches to China and Russia
With Russia, Obama came to office looking to "reset" a relationship that become strained when George W. Bush was president. He negotiated a new arms control agreement, and Russian assent to opening crucial supply lines for coalition forces in Afghanistan.
As to Romney, earlier this year, he told CNN that Russia was, "without question, our number one geopolitical foe." He has said he will re-evaluate the arms control treaty, and will confront the Kremlin on its human rights record.
"Under my presidency, our friends will see more loyalty and Mr. Putin will see a little less flexibility and more backbone," Romney said at the recent Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida.
Romney has taken issue with the Obama administration's cancellation of plans, under Bush, to put missile defense components in Poland. But it should be noted that the United States is involved with, and supports, a NATO-sponsored missile defense shield that would host interceptors, ships and radars in Poland, Romania, Spain and Turkey. Russia has repeatedly voiced its disagreement with the NATO plan.
For an issue that was front and center for the past decade, and took the country to war, terrorism has not gotten the attention it once did on the campaign trail.
The Obama administration has emphasized the use of unmanned drones to take out terrorists in Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere. They have been used more frequently than during the Bush administration, and are seen as an effective tool of counter-terrorism that does not put U.S. troops in harms way.
But while the use of drones has expanded, Obama said deciding to deploy them presents significant challenges.
"That's something that you have to struggle with," Obama told CNN's Jessica Yellin in a recent interview. "If you don't, then it's very easy to slip into a situation in which you end up bending rules thinking that the ends always justify the means. That's not been our tradition. That's not who we are as a country."
And while he moved to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay at the beginning of his administration, those efforts were blocked by Congress. He supports military tribunals for accused terrorists, but says he would like to see justice in federal courts.
For Romney, terrorists should be treated as enemy combatants, jailed at Guantanamo and tried by the military. He has said he would also allow more aggressive interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects.
Obama eliminated the enhanced interrogation techniques used during the Bush administration such as waterboarding, labeling such practices as torture. Romney has not specified what type of techniques his administration would employ.
More: 11 years after 9/11: Who are the terrorists?
Post by: CNN's Jamie Crawford
Filed under: Afghanistan • China • Iran • Obama • Romney • Russia • Syria • Terrorism
Obama's foreign policy looks like a mess. Libya has evidence of a planned attack and Obama claims the attack was spontaneous. Obama thinks all Muslims walk around with RPGs on their shoulders and surround the US embassy such that RPGs can be fire from three positions. Purely coincidence says Obama. Does Obama have his head in the sand or up his butt? And the mainstream news media is failing to let the people know that everyone disagrees with the Obama story except the Obama excuse and lie machine – called appointees and corrupt Democrats.
republicaderp
Ignorance is bliss.
Who built a buisness by there self? It is true one can build a product or site or building themselves, but a business can not exist without customers or consumers. I repeat, A business can not exist without a SELLER and BUYER!!! I.E. Obama was right YOU DIDN'T BUILD THAT!
Baa Weet
I don't care much about another protest over there.Like all other fires,they burn out until someone starts another.This will soon not be news worthy.
HAVEN'T YOU HEARD! THEY HAVE THREATEN US. TO KILL ANY ONE WHO DOES'T AGREE WITH THEM EVEN HERE IN THE U.S.A. WHERE THEY HAVE THEM READY TO ATTACK. If we the old generations know why don't you!!
Marco Hsiao
[Biggest scandal: the US kills 100,000 innocent Iraqi Muslims by lies and violence]
The US uses lie and violence to slaughter 100,000 innocent Iraqi Muslim, lots of innocent Muslims in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya and Yemen are killed by the US violence, too. Thus the US is worst country on violating human right in 21st century.
Furthermore, now lots of lies are used by the US to murder 100,000 innocent people in Syria. Besides, after 2019 the US will decline continually and China (Mainland + ROC Taiwan + Hong Kong) will rise steadily; that is the destiny.
Religions and lives both need to be respected. Change, apology and compensation are the best policies for current the US.
Sir The truth is the Muslim are lying. YOU know STOP it. We AMERICAN ARE FREE. STOP COMPLAINING BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT. YOU BLINDLY FOLLOW ANY ONE WHO HAS A WEAPON. YOU ARE WEAK ALONE. YOU OBEY YOUR LEADER YOU HAVE NO THOUGHT OF YOUR OWN. We AMERICAN THINK FOR OURSELVES AND KNOW WE LIVE IN A FREE COUTRY. TAKE OBAMA BACK WITH YOU. HE IS A MUSLIM.
I think that the newly released video on Mitt is about the most inhuman thing I have ever heard. He let us know that if you aren't rich that you are not paying tax. Mitt THAT IS SO SMALL OF YOU AND OUT OF TOUCH. I am going to work hard to keep you from being my PRESIDENT. By the way you talked about people not telling the truth. You have to be out of your mind with all the lies you and paul have told and polled by the fact checkers. Oh I am sorry you two don't belive in fact checkers. So out out o touch.
Yeah he has the nerve to single out half the population as worthless tax paying government milkers when he wont even present his own tax proof.
Are 47% of Americans dependent upon the government or not?
Retard Alert
@JuJu – How's that SS and Medicare treating you? If you are not using it now, you will be and you will need it.
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We're drowning in debt and still give taxpayer money to every country where we want friends. They still hate us for a variety of reasons, mostly our own fault. Let's pull all of our people from everywhere, stop the welfare, and let the world know that while we focus on saving ourselves we will respond to any direct attack on the US with overwhelming force delivered with extreme prejudice!
The root of the problem is oil dependence. That’s why we can’t do what you suggest. “Drill baby drill” won’t work because there is not enough domestic oil. We need alternatives, which Obama pushes and Republicans block.
There is enough domestic oil and it can support the US. If we actively begin drilling in America – we put people back to work producing a product that will generate a return to the American citizen directly. We will break out dependence on the Middle East and we will be saving billions of dollars by our money in our county. We will generate more tax revenue, which goes back to us. We can get some people off of welfare and into a productive life. And we won't be supplying outside governments with our money – which is used to hurt us and hold us hostage. Take the money away from them – then what can they can do to us?
Drilling doesn't happen overnight – which is why we need to start the process now. We need to protect our country and bring our citizens back to prosperity.
Alternative sources of fuel should be actively sought as well, but that is a very long term and expensive solution that most Americans cannot afford yet. It's not an effective answer to our problem yet – but it should be actively sought as a long term solution.
@JuJu – There's more oil drilling today in the US than any time in history. Check out the drilling in ND. ND surpasses Alaska. Dolt.
Blondshagg
President seems to be missing in action!
American needs a President available 24-7 and on the job 100%!
VOTE – ROMNEY/RYAN 201 -– NOVEMBER 6, 2012!!!
pogojo
The phone rang at 2am, no one answered.
JamesinOKC
Amen to that. While americans died overseas on american soil our so-called-president was hanging out with rappers and celebrities raising money for himself. Meanwhile, a sister country for several decades now wanted to meet up and was willing to come to him, but our so-called-president said no way, I have to fundraise. But low and behold, the president of egypt, the muslim brotherhood, called and our so-called-president FLEW TO THEM!!!!!! Which side is he on???????? What are his intentions???????????
fredjones95
SECRET VIDEO: Romney Tells Millionaire Donors What He REALLY Thinks of Obama Voters
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/09/secret-video-romney-private-fundraiser
Legal :Latinos are voting for Romney/Ryan.
willram1
In your DREAMS!!!!, We don't need an IDIOT like R&R who'll DESTROY the Middle Class. now far as your name I know your NOT a fellow LATINO but a SELLOUT who's trying to put their 2 Cents in. OBAMA/BIDEN 2012!.
Madrep
Obama hasn't destroyed the middle class already??? What planet do you live on?
Pnm9pnm
Both have good vaueponts who to vote for? Both are well invested like all world leders koo koo 4 coo coo puffs.i gess the one that has the most shares.?pnm.
Mark Twain on "The Book of Mormon" 1861
"The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so "slow," so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle --keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate. ... The book seems to be merely a prosy detail of imaginary history, with the Old Testament for a model; followed by a tedious plagiarism of the New Testament. The author labored to give his words and phrases the quaint, old-fashioned sound and structure of our King James's translation of the Scriptures; and the result is a mongrel–half modern glibness, and half ancient simplicity and gravity."
The sad reality is that Mitt Romney's foreign policy "advisors" are the usual retreads.
If he's elected, ( and it could happen ), you can count on another war, ... or two.
A war is only because the Obama Admin has weakened our security. Just as Clinton did. Typical Libs, cut the military, put our Country in jeopardy and them a Repub got to fix the issue....See you in November.
When Clinton was president the GOP criticized him for taking charge in Eastern Europr. We are not nation builders, they said. But, when Bush II send troops to Iraq and Afganistan, we spent our treasure, The GOP's argument is merely rhetoric without principle to support it. It is just a politically convenient as are ALL arguments made by this current gang of GOP leaders. The GOP would send the wrong message to the rest of the world and commit a new set of young men to their deaths. We cannot be the policeman of the world and we must let the free world know it. Once they get the message they will handle it. The French got the message and stood up in Libya. Maybe they will enjoy the role and do it next time in Syria or assist Israel in its fight against Iran. Let the Saudi's step up. They have many young men who want to die for Allah. Give them a fish and they will eat for a day. Teach them how to fish and they will eat for a lifetime. We can sit back for a while and lick our wounds and heal our treasury. We supported bin Laden in Afganistan. bin Laden arose against us. There is a reason and a season for all things.
Manofcolor
We should call this election a" blood drive"!
American politicians- selling Americans blood-one drop at a time!
They're all like leeches!
PAULIENY
What could anyone possibly expect from either party in dealing with the population of foreign countries. These people will not like the United States no matter what we do. It's a done deal. Let's stop wasting our time with these fanatical countries. I'm sorry. I know democracy is the new thing, but let's fix our democratic process first.
Well it should be clear where jihad joesafens hot spots are from the move down with jihades now these are allso known as strong holds so have a booms ready at all times as in we the people may miss an hit the peramints.))))))))))))singd the meek an pnm.
Rod M.
CNN said "Romney's [made a] charge the United States was too quick to condemn a film that insulted Muslims".
No he didn't. He said the president was sympathizing with the protesters. No wonder CNN is going down the tubes – Can't you guys report anything accurately?
Exactly, The liberals can't help themselves. It has become any means to an end and their end game is to re-elect a radical socialist, regardless of the facts.
Do you know what a fact is? Please provide one fact that shows Obama to be a radical socialist. Just one substantiated act or quote that is consistent with radical socialism. Do you know what radical socialism is?
Barack Obama was, in fact, a member of the socialist New Party in the 1990s and sought its endorsement for the Illinois senate–contrary to the misrepresentations of Obama's presidential campaign in 2008, and in spite of the efforts of Politico's Ben Smith to quash the story. Stanley Kurtz, author of Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism (2010), has released new "smoking gun" evidence at National Review Online. It is evidence that the mainstream media can no longer ignore–and Obama can no longer deny. Source: Breitbart
*Demonized corporations
*Abandoned Barack Obama Jr. when he was 2 years old to continue at Harvard (teaching son that ideology is more important than family)
Stanley Ann Dunham (Mom)
*Communist sympathizer
*Practiced ‘critical theory’ (aka Marxism)
*Influenced by Nietzsche and Freud
*Left Hawaii for Indonesia, Pakistan
*Attended a leftist church nicknamed the ‘little red church’ because of its Communist sympathies
*Left Barack Obama Jr.
*Barack’s grandparents introduced Barack Obama Jr. to poet and communist Frank Marshall Davis (Link)
*Davis becomes a mentor as young Barack struggled with abandonment by parents
College & Church
*Admittedly sought out ‘Marxist’ professors (Link)
*Admittedly attended ‘socialist conferences’ (Link)
*Began attending a Marxist church – led by pastor Jeremiah Wright (attended for 20 years) (Link)
*Tragedy of the Warren Court: No redistributive change (Link)
*Voted for TARP (Link)
*$787 billion stimulus redistribution bill
*Healthcare bill admittedly about ‘redistributing the wealth’
*Single Payer Healthcare proponent (Link)
*President Obama now also President of GM & Chrysler
*President Obama seizes control of insurance giant AIG
*President Obama is leading America to single payer healthcare
*President Obama seized control of Student Loan industry in order to ‘cut out middle man’
*President Obama seizes control in massive land grabs
*Repeatedly vilifies ‘the rich’
*Obama believes race problems can be solved through redistribution of wealth… he said "race is still an enormous factor in our society. But economics can overcome a lot of racial division."
*Trying to regulate the Internet via FCC
*Forces mortgage co’s to cover people who aren’t paying mortgage (Link)
*Extends unemployment benefits to 99 weeks (Link)
*Told Joe the plumber ‘it’s better when you spread things around’ (Link)
Family, Friends, Advisors & Administration
*Wife Michelle Obama said “The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.”
*Jim Wallis, Obama’s spiritual advisor & forced redistribution of wealth advocate
*Van Jones, disgraced Green Jobs Czar & Communist
*Ron Bloom, Manufacturing Czar & anti-free market
*John Holdren, pro-redistribution of wealth
*Andy Stern, SEIU President & redistribution of wealth fan
*Anita Dunn, fan of Chairman Mao
*Mark Lloyd, FCC ‘Diversity Czar’
*Carol Browner, socialist
*Robert Creamer, socialist
Vryadli
"Practiced ‘critical theory’ (aka Marxism) *Influenced by Nietzsche and Freud "
Marxism influenced by Nietzsche and Freud! That made my mornng.
But why you didn't add in the list Sauron and Dar Wade? That would make my whole day.
Seriously, it like saying "he died heat stroke beacause he walk in winer naked too long". BEacuse both heat and cold are lethal, anyhow, and you don't care about small stupid details. yes? Is how
they teach you in Duke?
Chicago monetary theoretists – that is what is influenced by Nietzsche and Freud. Those are both individualistic stuff, one with mystic, other with "subconscious" flavor. Marx tryed to be rational and "thermodinamical" in an approach (big ensemles of peole, classes etc.). iIt's
That’s quite a list, Duke. Of bizarre internet conspiracy theory. But not exactly facts. I didn’t know that being influenced by Nietzsche and Freud made someone a radical socialist. That would include just about anyone who attended college since the 19th century. Thanks for clarifying.
nice list Duke
September 17, 2012 at 10:03 pm |
Go lay down by your dish Duke!!! Good boy!!!!
MuskogeeOkie
Your ignorance is very entertaining, keep it coming
September 18, 2012 at 10:23 am |
Thank you. CNN is a lib media outlet and their ratings suck....good riddance CNN, take Wolf, Anderson, and Martin with you.
Hard to take this article seriously after "unchartered territory" in Line 1. Is that what they teach you in charted school?
Romney would have attended all his intel briefings and would have pro-acted on the info before it blew up! Obama and Hillary miss over half the meetings and are always surprised and caught off gaurd playing catch up. We need a president that takes the job seriously. We need Romney.
Did you get this from the same crack reporter who discovered that Obama was born in Africa, is a practicing Muslim and a radical socialist? If you don't like Obama, don't vote for him. But stop spreading this idiotic nonsense that has no validity whatsoever.
So your going to vote for a socialist? You support a bigger, more intrusive government? You support more and more people on welfare? You approve of our President bowing down to dictators? You believe the President when he thinks a video caused the attack on our consulate? You like how he has pandered to every imaginable interest group? You support his bailout of wallstreet? You support more debt? You support more empty promises? You support more regulations and more taxes? If you vote for Obama, this is exactly what you are, a socialist. Admit it, why is this so difficult liberals to say? Just say it!
Duke,
Obama grew government outlays by 6% in his first 4 years. By comparison, Bush grew government outlays by 23% in his first 4 years. So if Obama’s a socialist, what is your label for Bush? Wake up. Your political opinion is dictated by mindless talking points.
@tor5 The GOP Controlled House of Reps is why ANY spending has gone down or was slowed down. I agree that President Bush was very liberal like in spending. Bush couldn't find a veto of the dems or Repubs spending... I don't support any liberal spending on either side of the isle.
Google the Following: Fact Checker: The facts about the growth of spending under Obama
Nice to know you have a crystal ball about Romney. Where did you get the attendance record for Obama and Clinton?
Their strategies are Romney = WAR ; Obama = DIPLOMACY.
Michael, Chapel Hill
Open your eyes...Apologies and pacifism have not won any nation.
TheTraveler
So, do pacifists use drones? Do pacifists give executive orders to have people like Osama bin Laden terminated?
I think not ...
fire0bama
0bama is the worst US president we have ever had – he is so empty, weak, fake and lousy. If we say that he is Jimmy Carter, Jr, it would be an insult to President Carter.
Vote 0bama out in Nov. 2012!
nope--Bush was the worst by far--Obama just inherited the bologna Bush and others began--he is just continuing the junk Bush started
I'm with you man. If you vote for Obama, you are one or more of the following:
1) A socialist.
2) You get a check from the taxpayer
3) Your a welfare queen
4) Your very uneducated on how the economy works
5) Your stupid
libraryandcommunity
*you're
ariday
How can you call someone else stupid when you can't even spell YOU'RE right?
I will vote Obama and at least I know the difference between your and you're 🙂
*you're stupid
If you choose to insult people openly on a forum like this, maybe you should consider not sounding stupid yourself. Romney may have said it best, the educated will never join them.
Yall that want to talk smack about Obama... Think about what he is acheiveing by passing the dream act though... Even though unemployment rates might be up... Guess what. It's all those people's fault for being so freaking lazy and not doing crap for this country. We are in an economic crisis as we speak... But believing in the future generations of kids and immigrants that will go to college, have a future, and also get a job. You people out there know how it feels to become successful and non successful. There are kids in this world that get treated like crap. There are kids that cannot read and write. There are kids that have no health plans and so they can't live up to but a few years of their lives. Think about yourself. Look at what you have done in the future and what you learned in the past. Relying on some people that will not do anything for you just makes your life worse. All these people at work that do not do their work and go just to play around... Stop smoking people. Stop Drinking. Stop texting and driving. Do you know what this world has come to ? HELP MAKE A DIFFERENCE. VOTE FOR OBAMA! That is all.
Duke's ignorant banter is pretty entertaining. He cites google as his main source, quite credible. He also is quick to through around the word "socialist" when he doesn't even know the meaning behind such a term.
Why is it that liberals cannot tell you the truth. That they support bigger and bigger massive government, they support the welfare state, they support cutting down American pride and strength in the world, they support higher debt, they support bailouts, they support higher taxes, they support government run healthcare, and that they are socialists and some are Marxists... Please just admit that this is who your are... why is this so difficult for you? If you vote for Obama you are for all the above and that's just a FACT. Look at yourself in the mirror you moochers, poachers, welfare queens
You are hilarious! More! More!
You obviously do not want to address any of the points I made because it hurts to admit that you are a socialist. I know it's got to be hard to admit your a welfare queen or that you like the nanny state. Why is it so difficult for you to admit who you are? Just say, I AM... A.... S O C I A L I S T and I depend on my big nanny. Go ahead, you can do it... You should be proud of who you are. I have yet to hear ONE liberal say so.
Bravo Duke! Please another performance! I can tell you're just getting warmed up.
You're the kind of right winger that I find constantly reminds why I will vote for Obama this election. Romney should have gotten you for a running mate ...
Go lay down by your dish Duke. Good boy!!!!
JeannieM
The way I see it every time romney the flip flopper and lying ryan open their mouths they tell another whopper. The 716billion$ lie, that everyone now knows is a lie. The welfare to work lie, everyone knows the truth about that one as well. The lie they don't plan to touch medicare or medicaid except to turn it into a voucher program. The biggest whopper of them all is that he will create 12 million jobs during his first term. That is impossible. He just pull that number out of the air. Besides, he'll never be president. Even with all the gop attempts at blocking the vote they still won't win.
Obama owns Afghan war. Why is he and them Democrats who accused Bush for everything accuse themselves for the failures? Even after failure of their own policies, they are ready to accuse someone else.
Because liberals are like emotional children. They have little logic and reason.
You must really like voting AGAINST your own interests.
Where is any of this information actually from? Israel and Netenyahu are no friend of Obama. Obama does not think Jerusalem should be the capital of Israel
vote out both of them-–nobody in our gov't can be trusted,least of all a politician.You can spew out the Romney vomit if you want--we all know none of them are trustworthy.You just have political zealots who ignore reality,because they want their party to be elected.please
truth teller
obozo stands on the principle of apologizing and bowing down to terrorists while romney stands on the principle of saying it like it is.
TruthTeller
haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahah you believe that do you? I have to wipe my eyes,hold up......he's a politician.....are you kidding me?haaaaaaaaaaahahaha hoho hehe heehee
Why is it that liberals cannot tell you the truth. That they support bigger and bigger massive government, they support the welfare state, they support cutting down American pride and strength in the world, they support higher debt, they support bailouts, they support higher taxes, they support government run healthcare, and that they are socialists and some are Marxists... Please just admit that this is who your are... why is this so difficult for you? If you vote for Obama you are for all the above and that's just a FACT. Look at yourself in the mirror you moochers, poachers, welfare queens.
in reply to Duke: well im a lib dem and im voting obama, because what romney stand for only makes the rich richer, and the poor and middle class poorer. I do not support going to war when its none of our business. I support social health care, I would rather pay a tax then die of a curable sickness. and bailout? yes I strongly support the US auto makers, if they had went under like you wanted, look at all the jobs lost. then the US. a world power would have no cars, only forign cars.
but you on the other hand Duke, you enjoy giving all your money to the rich, enjoy going to war with everyone, dont support the US auto makers, would rahter drive a honda then a GM or ford. would rather die then pay a tax to save your life. then YOUR party added most of the debt in the bush days, 1.2 trillion in tax cuts for the rich. so is this really what you support?
cleareye1
How about some truth about taxes?
well obama has the best policy. where as romnney has the worst. romneys: if your not 100% for the US, your 100% against and prepair to be invaded, conquered, and occupied. romnney already has his little list of countries to wage war against, hummm lets see theres
1. iran
2. iraq
3. syria
4. afganistan
5. russia
so those of who love romney, love rich people, you better be thinking about which armed forces you'd like to join, and where you would like to be deployed to, then how your going to pay for 5 wars at the same time. with this list he will bring the draft back.
You forgot China too!
Volcano0201
Now that every single leaders of the country are saying present in United Nation at 45st and 1st ave in Manhattan New,York you should go after the police deparment of that City for coming after me for no reason at my living place like times during 2007 where I was living a great life where I needed to leave it to go to a different state in which is Florida because nobody was able to help me with this police misconduct where the police deprtment Violated the 4th Amendment rights of a person for entering his holdhouse for no reason because I was not selling no illegal drugs or hand guns ladies & gentlemens
upwardquest
President Obama is far and away smarter, wiser, caring, more dependable and trustworthy than Romney in regard to foreign policy and everything else. President Obama helped me keep my home. He has my vote!
Obama's burden is that he is young, agressive and competent. Lot's of people fear that combination, particularly in an off-white person. Romney is an old dude, with old people habits. They puff him up so he looks good but he's a generation older than Obama. We need young ideas, not old ones. We've tried all the old ones.
Tom in Santa Fe
I am in the Middle Class, a white collar worker, married had we have a teen, I have a job, and I am paying my mortgage every month. Sounds great, right? Well folks, the reality is I am NOT better off now than I was 4 years ago. I am paying more taxes, the cost of living has gone UP, along with gas now around $3.65 a gallon, not $1.98 as it was on January 20th, 2009, utilities (Electricity, Gas, and, Water) has also gone up. As for Healthcare, my premiums keep going in one direction – UP – while my coverage keeps shrinking! And don't get me started on how the past 4 years have badly affected my Wife's Grandmother and her Medicade/Medicare. I, like many other people I know, did not get a rise for 3 years, so the bottom line is this: I am voting for Romney because I can NOT take another 4 years of this deplorable administration. It IS a matter of survival, nothing else.
I never heard or saw the president apologize for the U.S. and I've been watching politics before and since he's been elected, although it is clear someone should. I am a proud American, but i don't except the idea that America is without mistakes. I was always told it takes a big person to admit when they are/were wrong. Does exceptional mean perfect? Didn't think so.
ciaopaparazzi
Obama has zero leadership ability (even for his own agenda) and is incredibly naive. He turned his back on Eastern Europe and kowtows to Putin's Neo-Soviet Russia, and his only idea of combatting terrorism is to use drones so they stay off the news.
Great, Romney wins. Another war. I bet you none of his family members will be going Over There.
CarolinaKate
The author seriously needs a proof reader.
this is CNN.com, you got to go with the Spirit of the article, not the letter of the article
Greenaxe
I think Romney has a well thought out plan for foreign relations: Bomb Iran, and ship manufacturing to China.
zzxzzc
Believe me Romney would know about anything as much as obama would. Im not sure obama even knows he's president., though if he does he sure doesnt know what to do with it.
MCFx
It all picked for Pres Obama when campaign season started...ahhhh!!!!....then he felt right at home. "Intelligence Briefing meeting??? Why do I have to bother with that? They love me out there in the world."
Romney has no clue about foriegn affairs.
WP4E
Dummy only stands up for 1% so wouldn't know what to do about anything else.
viknat
Stop with the Liberal Propaganda and look up the facts at factcheck.org
Neither did Obama before he was elected president. All presidents rely upon the foreign service officers in the State Department to advise them as well as their own experts, such as Henry Kissinger for example. The ultimate decision is theirs but they don't make it in a vacuum. That's why you can never rely on what a presidential candidate says on the campaign trail.
jeansees
the point that Obama was inexperienced on Foreign affairs when he enter office is a reason Romney should be elected is Hilarious.... OBAMA is experienced now by your own admissions... Why put an inexperienced person in there when our country is at an international crisis..? Be kind of dumb you think? Romney being a business man would not hire and inexperienced worker to head one of his companies would he? And his so called experience of business control and success is not demostrated to us through any kind of proof of paper such as his INCOME TAXES... I was a human resources Office Manager for some Big companies in my career and I would NEVER hire anyone without proof of what they said they are and inexperienced...
Dont make sense... and when it dont make sense then their is no truth in it... Maybe this is why Romney/Ryan are caught in so many lies..
VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN Save America!!! Save Social Security!!! Save Womens Rights!!!! Save Medicare!!!! Save our service men and women!!!! Save our Veterans!!!
We are seeing Obama foreign policy 101.
Shame on CNN for not even mentioning why Romney said the word "flexibility" in his speech. Because Obama was caught with the mic on telling a Russian diplomat the once he was reelected he would have much more "flexibility". Wink/Nod! The media sucks doesn't it. ANything to get Obama reelected.
Listen, I was around when the media was kissing Ronald Reagan's butt. The media like who ever is popular. Why don't you nominate someone popular.
I guess that would be mirror image to FOXNEWS and their bullcrap coverage of Obama.FOXNEWS,unbiased news-yeah,sure.....
Fox News 48% 43% Obama +5
Thank Tea Party People
The Tea Party is what is wrong with politics today. Isolationism, fear of and anger towards people who don't agree with you, refusal to work with your fellow Americans to restore the country. We need to move past the visceral anger and immaturity of the Tea Party, and work together again.
Reagan must be puking in his grave to see what has happend to the party he represented.
Nicholas Crossette
But these polling companies readily admit that they use the 2008 voter turn out to calculate their numbers. In '08 many republicans stayed home because they didn't want to support another bush (McCain) and so 7% more democrats turned out than republicans. Because of that the numbers these poling companies use are not straight up "this is what the american people say"... But rather if 50 people said they support Obama and 50 people said they support Romney the polls would show Obama have a 50% to 48% lead. simply because these companies use the 2008 statistics to run their numbers through. They also don't tell you who the "likely Voters" are or how they determined who is a likely voter. So It's very difficult to believe that the polls will stay with a 7% advantage to democrats. since '04 '00 and historically it's nearly always dead even. '08 was the exception not the rule.
jerry archuleta USN ret.
Remember Rommey has no foreign relation experience anywhere, he still thinks Russia is our mortal enemy. The extreme GOP right hates everyone that is not white. The person that stained the kuran and Mohammed is a extremists on the far,far right (neo nazi's)(skin heads). Rommey should not even run for the office of the Presidency or even dog catcher. He is too sneaky to run this country.
Mormons are a sneaky lot. All of a sudden they are advertising!! What's with that? Ever since they snuck into California to buy an election I knew they couldn't be trusted. Be careful with them, very, very careful!
Jack Pearl
I can't tell whether you're serious, trolling, or making a very subtle joke. Condemning perceived racism by attacking an entire religion seems rather odd, to say nothing of charging that an election was stolen, or interpreting a TV ad campaign as part of a sinister conspiricy.
Could you be any dumber. Romney didn't say "mortal enemy". He didn't even say "enemy" He said "geopolitical foe". Log off of here, go get a dictionary, look up the word "geopolitical" then the word "foe". And THEN do a little research on how Russia votes at the United Nations. Also, take a look at their relationship with our REAL "mortal enemy" Iran. Then come back to this post and edit the stupidities you just spouted.
SM McMahon
Many of us have noted for years that Mitt Romney lacks a moral compass. That's why he has yet to articulate WHY he wants to be president.
He knows nothing of the Middle East except that some Jews - and right-wing Christians hoping for Armageddon to arrive - might vote for him if he proves he's strong on Israel. He knows nothing of Islam or of the long-lasting power struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran (and their various on-again/ off-again allies). He knows only what his right-wing "advisers" tell him, and has no independent means to judge when they're lying.
Mitt knows one very narrow slice of the American banking industry – how to maximize profits by leveraging relatively small amounts of money, transfer it through many accounting tricks into profits rather than earned income, and avoid taxation by moving it overseas
He's never made a small-business or mortgage loan – though he bought a set of existing loans as a guaranteed high-return investment package and now collects mortgage payments from unfortunate homeowners – or dealt with people buying CDs or trying to balance their checking accounts. He's never manufactured or sold a product, other than the soft soap of his leveraged investment opportunities.
He's certainly never faced the vicissitudes of life that Americans face, like how to pay for your kid's braces, or Mom's doctor, the mortgage or the rent.
mtbeau
you so much "hit the nail on the head"!
Romney scares me.. I see nothing in this man that makes me feel he has the ability to be at the head of a nation.. He might be able to run a company where bottom line excludes the humanity in his decisions. Where bottom line is money and productivity..
But as the head of a nation bottom line is not money.. its about the people..
He is better suited as a dictator..
Obama just seems like he is smarter.
Romney is just plain strange. He is not in touch with most folks.
But mtbeau, Romney and Ann shop at Costco. Didn't you hear?
Seems? Obama, in half the time has accomplished more than Romney's entire family tree, magic undies and all. Very view people knew who Obama was before 2004. Romney has been on the fringes of his party forever. I guess they just thought they might as well put him up and be done with the Mormon thing. They had no other candidates with a realistic chance anyways.
SMART DOES'T BREAK IT. WE NEED A TRUE AMERICAN IN CHARGE NOT A MUSLIM OK!!!
The Republican majority in the House of Representatives has been and even bigger failure than George W Bush's eight years. They have blocked, obstructed, kicked and screamed, and refused to do their jobs since Obama won. Even more so in the last two years. There has been a jobs deal on the table for a year that the Republican whiners have blocked, while they haven't introduced reasonable legislation on their own to create jobs. Where are the jobs these so called "pro-business" republican majority legislators have promised? They hate the president more than they love their country, and they need to go. This is probably gonna make you cry again Boehner, but you gotta go!
I agree they all have to go... VOTE DEMOCRATIC!@@@@@@@ alll the WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!
VOTE OBAMA/
you are voting for your children dying in a WAR on our homefront. Please research for yourself as I have. Tell me how many electons have you seen where the reporters agree. NEVER!!! SOMETHING IS GOING WRONG FOR US. FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF. OK!!!
Mitt R.
Hi my name is Mitt. I am the proud father of five boys and the Husband of a beautiful wife and I'm voting for Obama, trust me you should too.
you are a genius of comedy
YOU WILL BE SAYING BYE TO YOUR SONS IF OBAMA DOES'T DO SOMETHING WITH WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE MIDDLE EAST NOW NOT AFTER THE ELECTIONS. OUR LIVES DEPEND ON IT.OK!!! Thanks
Mitt the Twit could even get his facts right on the tragedy in Benghazi. How can anyone expect him to be credible on foreign policy and national security issues.
It's obvious where Obama stands. Right smack dab in the middle of a lie, the latest one anyways. There's three different sources saying he had warning three different times of an impending attack on the embassy. How do the parrots spew this one?
and........you think he is the only politician to have ever lied?perhaps you should follow politics a bit longer,friend.They all lie--Reps and dems included
I want a president that can actually relate to people and not simply pretend to relate. It is not Mitts wealth that turns voters off, it is his lack of sincerity. Mitt should try being human and not the robot we often see. The way he interacts with the public just seems practiced.
Romney doesn't know what his policy is.
ohreally
all the current bonehead knows how to do is bow, and appologize....
jonat
Obama thought apologizing and backing away from support of Israel would endear Islam to the USA...he was grossly mistaken
Interesting to note the strong rhetoric Romney spews out regarding China and Russia--especially in a time when we have become so dependant on them(China for trade and Russia for logistical support with its allies in the Afghanistan region).If indeed Romney becomes president,starts a war with Iran(which China gets 60% of its oil from),sells advanced arms to Taiwan and goes on the rampage against Russia and China he could very well lead us into the abyss of WW3.We may end up there either way,who knows?But,it seems the path Romney wants is destructive to say the least.
Anyone that votes for Romney is a greedy person or wants to send young men to war. Romney is a Mormon and you will be sorry if you vote for him. They are a bunch of weirdo's, for lack of a better word and they care about no one but those that are in the church. They really don't like people of color and oh sure they have their token colored people in their church but they have their own stake centre they don't pray with the masses. Beware of Romney!!!!!!!
You can always tell a failed President by SNL skits. The one of Obama was great!
You right wing nutjob bloggers forget your prez Dubya f***** up the country for 8 years after Bill Clinton had a surplus. How quickly we forget.
Flipflopping Mitt and Lyin Ryan have no policy.
Lyin' Ryan is like a deer caught in the headlight!
and in under 3 hours too!
Romney can stand on anything because he stands for nothing.
staplehawk
Romney stands for jobs and money. I'm pretty sure those two things have not changed and that's what America needs most right now. Nobama had his chance and failed miserably at making that happen. Your words have no merit left. Next President please!
Seriously Americans... How can you take the word of a man that can't support his own rhetoric. Mitt Romney should be the poster child for undecided voters, because he too is undecided on nearly every issue. He feels he should be president merely because he is the alternative. He is purely a narcissist, how many times will he run for president, only to add it to his list of achievements. President of The United States should not be on ones bucket list. Romney would find a way to go to war with Iran, China, Russia, and any other country he deemed necessary because he lacks personality and the ability to resolve conflicts diplomaticaly.
He and the GOP seem to have to make-up lies in order to deal with their platform.
Generally speaking US politician and administration is impotent and amateur.They run out of idea to lead domestically and internationally.Their policy made is not to lead but to react.They have no clear picture of the world would be and the behavior of human nature.Americans are very nice people and behave very sensible and responsible but by somehow once move up to the international and world stage level,US behave completely unpredictable, erratic and even unreasonable
We need to give Obama four more years so that he can imporove the economy George Bush and Ripublican screwed up
mkat2
and, exactly WHO screwed it up the past four years?!!
When something is sufficiently screwed up and we have a traitorous group of politicians believing that it's more important to make Obama fail than to make the country succeed you're going to need more than 4 years to get things working right again. If you think things were bad after Bush hold on to your hats if Romney is elected.
you're joking right. Reagan inherited a much worse economy than Obama did. The unemployment rate for Obama has been above 8% for 43 months. that's more than all the presidents from 1948 to the present combined. To say give him four more years just is absolutely asinine. Socialism is not Capitalism!! Socialism's strength is not wealth and prosperity. That's capitalism. Capitalism is scarier. it allows people to be rich and poor depending on how much they work. Socialism's main goal is to make no one rich and no one poor. The problem with socialism is that there are other countries and places for people with money to go to. If you tax them they will leave. you don't get their money to redistribute. But stop pretending that Obama wants Capitalism. If you support him fine. But don't be ignorant about what his stances are. If he wanted this country to be rich he would approve the Keystone Pipeline, Remove the drilling moratorium he has in place, and start other programs like nuclear power plants or drilling in An war. But these are all firmly against his party's beliefs.
Obama isn't socialist, numb nuts.
Gurgyl
Mitt is flip-flop. He goes to Iran war leaving his five sons in safe place, sends jobs to china, India. He is duplicate FERDINAND MARCO of Phillipenes, takes all the money to cayman Islans. Watch YouTube when mitt Romney came to town-enjoy.
eviltaxpayer
Cmon stop sounding like an msn robot, obamas "job cza"r" (jef emelt) pays no taxes and just sent thousands of jobs to china-
I think it's more important to be having interviews with TMZ and talking about 'love life with Michelle'. These points shouldn't be considered when voting, right?
I like that better that BHO's stuff.
5o days of obamas arrogance and lies left, then we can all go back to being proud of our country again!
After four years of Romney and Ryan there wouldn't be much country left to be proud of.
I don't approve of Obama's over-tolerance to our enemies and I don't approve of Romney's GOP as being a party capable of proper leadership. I believe Obama is too soft and Romney is all about wealth. Unless Obama grows a backbone and until Romney SWEARS he'll not let Paul Ryan kick granny off food stamps, I'll not vote for either man. Obama needs to grow some brass and Romney needs to take control of the wigged-out far right neo-nazis in the GOP, so that we can trust republicans again, which NOW we don't.
Andrew-
\ Whats this WE stuff?
A president can't kick people off of food stamps. That's totally congressional realm. The president has very little power over something like that. Sure it's talking points for a debate but the truth is neither can really do much. Presidents real power is in relation to foreign affairs and the Economy. And with the economy he is very limited. But can do things like stop oil drilling, or decline the keystone pipeline being built.
It's true that Obama didn't really cause most of these issues in the middle east. And for those retarded enough to accuse Bush of it – remember Thomas Jefferson had a Koran on his desk because he wanted to understand his enemies better. We have had serious issues with the Terrorist Muslim part of Islam for 200+ years. This is not our fault except to the fact that we don't all convert to islam and kill our daughters when the sleep with someone we don't like. Most Muslims are great people. But there are terrorists out there that want to kill people. Osama Bin Laden's biggest enemy was the Saudi Royal Family because they kicked him out of the country. He only started attacking America as the real enemy once it started to resonate. In fact according to most reports those that were trained under him rarely knew their targets were american ones until the day of the attack – because most of them were hoping to attack local authorities. The difference between the two is Romney cares more about America than he does other countries. He'll do what it takes to keep America on top. Obama on the other hand is a very socialist utopia type who believes appeasement and kindness will cure all of the worlds problems. If you believe that America is the cause of other countries griefs and pains vote for Obama. If you believe that other countries are sometimes evil and have evil desires to attack innocent people and start wars than vote for Romney.
williamsunset
ROMNEY JUST PUT A NAIL IN HIS COFFIN... WATCH THE VIDEO THAT JUST LEAKED ALL OVER TWITTER!!!
It was nailed shut before now.
STOP TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING THAT DOES'T MATTER. WE ARE BEING THREATEN MAN. WE NEED A STRONG PRESIDENT TO STOP THE WAR THAT IS A BREWING IN THE MIDDLE EAST. THEY WANT TO WAIT UNTIL THE ELECTIONS BUT WE DONT HAVE TIME. IMPEACH OBAMA AND PUT SOMEONE STRONG NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!! I am old but I don't want to lose my GRANDCHILDREN. WHERE IS OUR LEADER ASLEEP AGAIN. HE SLEEPS MORE THAT WE OLD PEOPLE.
Romney's policy adviser is Clint Eastwood.
JCQueipo
After all that Dick Cheney have done for Mitt and you are going to give all the credit to Clint ???
Fine... What happened the the wise advisers of Obama?..... More than 20 countries are against US now.
Romney consults with Bush's staff. Sounds like the same old crap to me.
jeff tartt
Once again...This president and his administration are a joke.Finding the wall street protesters again? What won't they do to win again?
Excuse me,FUNDING the wall street protesters.
He'll do ANYTHING! Even more than his ideology, is the narcotic drug of 'power'! 62% of California's Latinos are for Obama & THEIR narcotic of welfare! I know, I live in California! Under the same Liberal, Socialist system as Obama espouses that has changed Calif. into a third world cesspool!
T. E. Lawrence O. A.
WOW – ROMNEY BASICALLY SAYS: "OBAMA'S POLICIES ARE NO GOOD! MINE ARE THE SAME, BUT BETTER! (um, what little specific detail I have actually provided, which is not much...)"
BL Reed
I guess the fact that Obama is a liar and Romney is not will be my deciding factor on foreign policy. It also will help in my decision that Romney actually acts like he is a proud American instead of ashamed of America as Obama is.
Yup! How did Obama's "policy of apology" work out for us?! Too bad we can't ask Ambassador Stevens.....(RIP, Sir)
The history of the Republican party is one of appeasement and quitting the battle. In addition they are historically the big spenders, tax raisers, war profiteers, and draft dodgers. They have always left a bigger government in their wake...every one of them. If you want a safe country, or a war won, you had better call a Democrat.
Obama is a liar and Romney is not? You definitely should be on SNL.
good one.... LOL
Mark P
Fantasic! Romney dissembles, and Obama lays out specifics that have proven remarkably effective in, for example, taking out everyone ever known as #1, #2, or #3 in the Al Quaeda and Taliban ranks (even as the promotions to next top target continue...take 'em out over and over again. Romney said he'd not go into an ally's nation to get Bin Laden, harshly criticizing Obama for say he would. Wups. Bin Laden would be alive today if Romney'd had his way. Romney also famously declared, "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt", as Obama gave Detroit a LOAN that enabled them to not only survive, but become #1 in the world again. Romney today claims "quite a bit of credit" for our auto industry's success, in spite of his having very publicly advocating for it's demise. Romney's already in our past....a very embarrassing one for republicans.
Obama has been al Qaeda's worst nightmare. He is relentless in going after them and they know they will pay a heavy price for this act. They are not facing a Junior Bush this time as I'm sure Bin Laden would agree,
I have always believed that bin Laden waited until Bush squeezed his way into office before they attacked. They knew his response would be a weak one and that they could easily trick him into doing their dirty work in Iraq. It worked like a charm.
What they didn't count on was the American people choosing a man named Barack Hussein Obama to settle the score. The American people corrected their error, or should I say the Supreme Court's error.
pnpt
obama's incredible spending and over all failure to improve a failing america's economy did more to make china the new worlds most powerful country than the chinese!!!
Dumb and Dumber. Getting hard to tell the difference.
regarding the "film", I thought liberals love free speech?
the truth is, obama is lying to YOU, the american people about islam, muslims, and how we can make peace with them...we cant. get it through your liberal skulls. This aint about a crappy little movie...this is about crazy muslims who hate everything about us.
unfortunately all this riots and mess not about film at all......
everything is political.... and some people have to pay with their lives...
lynchem
You have mistaken confidence for arrogance. U Poor things!!! many people make this error. Now Romney looks like he is afraid of his shadow. But don't be fooled he is confident and arrogant in other areas like spending other peoples money and other white collar issues – you know the stuff you will hear about 10 years from now. LOL!
0rangeW3dge
What happens when the Chinese attack our Embassy? Are you still going to by their virus-infected computers?
Romney.. Like on every other issue has no position other than what is contrary to Obama, or what he thinks he can score quick brownie points with the far right on..
flashtrum
This is why Ron Paul was right. We shouldn't even be having these debates. Pull out of the region, take advantage of our own natural resources (this can be done without "killing" the planet) and half, if not all, of your debt issue is resolved. We did fine thank you very much during isolationist periods before WWI and leading up to WWII. After that it seemed like meddling in everyone else's business was like being hooked on crack – we can't get enough.
Yes because it was so Isolationists of us to start the war of 1812 with England instead of France simply because we wanted to take parts of Canada and Florida from Spain. Or when we invaded Mexico so that we could steal california, new mexico, and move the texas state line farther south. All that was very isolationist of our founding fathers. Or perhaps you Ron Paul supporters just don't know that much about History and so you make believe that our founding fathers believed the same way you did.
Obama is absent and distant and unresponsive and does not want America to lead. This has been a total disaster as this last week and the weeks to come will prove. Obama is a liar and the liberal media have been in full protect Obama at all cost mode this last week. Campaigning openly and cheering Obama and attacking Romney. Like his statement about the attacks in Egypt when IN FACT Hillary said the exact same thing. Romney does not want war but he will not surrender as Obama has done.
A 'spontaneous' demonstration does not come equipped with RPG'S & armored vehicles, particularly on the anniversary of 9/11 !! Obama thinks the american people are imbeciles to believe THAT fairy tale! Well, maybe we ARE, after all he got elected didn'nt he?
Ivar Tangen
How come Mitt Romney have to disagree with Obama on every issue?
And lying seems sometimes the only way to support his views.
Dan Klein
Gotta go with Romney on foriegn policy. He'll put the security of the country first before golf!
That's a big DUH, Dan
TomGI
Did Romney check with Ed Gillespie, Dan Senor, Alex Wong and the 2 dozen other former Bush neoconservative retreads before he enlightened us about "his" foreign policy insights?
At least they'd probably keep Romney from bowing to Islamic leaders and apologizing to our enemies.
Obama has NEVER APOLOGIZED if you take the time to read and if you'll google "Bush Saudi Oil" you will see W kiss the Saudi Prince.
disgustedvet
Gotta give the edge to Obama in screwing up foreign policy. His diplomacy has "endeared " us to our enemies and p/od our friends.
You mentioned "our friends" and who exactly would that be?
I meant our ex-friends.
Hadenuffyet
Keep your friends close, your enemies closer.
WHICH IS OBAMA? FRIEND OR ENEMY? LOOK AT MIDDLE EAST THREATS ON US. ENEMY TO AMERICA.PLEASE OPEN YOUR EYES BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.Thank you.
MichellePasadena
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. The dems owned both houses since 2006. When did the economy tank? 2008. So endith the lesson
Is CNN secretly supporring Romney?
Look at the pictures above. You HAVE to admit that that finger-pointing know-it-all pose by Obama is at least a LITTLE annoying. I know it's hard to find a picture where he doesn't look arrogant, but anyone who doesn't already hate one of these men is going to lean toward Romney with images like these.
It's hard to find a flattering picture of him because the " Mussolini " pose is his favorite. I think he practices it because if you research Mussolini the superficial; resemblance is uncanny. Try it.
His 'RANTS' remind me of another well known politician from the 30's coming out of Germany..........RILE UP THE MASSES!
Divide and conquor. Saul Alinsky, the community organizer and Obama mentor.
Vidyashanti
Whether V like it or not. The truth is Romney knows only about Swiss banks, Cayman island and France (may be). All thes late uttering are from Bush advisers who created the mess in Islamic world.
jeff Haupt
It's fun watch Obama faulter on the world stage. The only thing is can do is dump on Romney.
David Brock loves his little herd of sheep.
Vidaya,
Who created the mess in India with the Muslims?
Why the govt had to ban SIMI?
Did the GOP or Romney do anything against Indian Muslims?
Before you criticize please evaluate everything.
tomclements
Where was the hate crime agaiinst Bill Maher in his film Religuous? Where were the riots? The overthrow of embassy's? The arrest and condemnation of the President?
Calcommuter
Romney's stance on foreign policy: "Syria? Yeah, I have a factory there. They work cheap. Well, you know my opinion on factories and fences, heh heh...."
My name is Mitt Romney! I am not as likeable as my opponent. But I am running for President of the United States, not student council president! Vote accordingly.
edgyone
No, Mitt is pretty likeable, affable guy, but he will make a terrible president.
George Holmes
The Russia Times is not covering the Anti-Putin Riots in Moscow.
Spain, France, Portugal also in major public demonstrations/riots.
Muslims in (20) cities and now China in (20) cities. In deep humiliation Occupy Wall Street resurrects itself in New York and steals the headlines.
MSM NBC, CBS, ABC, AP, CNN, Fox News all seem to be missing the World Wide September Rages of 2012.
Romney stand on his head on all the policies including the foreign policy. Etch a sketch.
Curious as to why this does not include the NDAA? This bill is endorsed by BOTH candidates. It allows the United States government to arrest anyone in the world for committing a "belligerent" act. This type of arrest can be done without charges and allows the accused (if you can call it that without formal charges) to be indefinitely detained. The wording of this bill does extend to US citizens although the Obama administration claims it would not use it in that way. Obviously then, it fall under the heading of foreign policy. How could such legislation that tramples our Bill of Rights, that both parties have supported on record, not be included in this discussion?
It also states that citizens engaged in "terrorist like activities", including speaking out against the Government, can be indefinitely detained without charges or trial.
Does that mean OBAMA too, what did he tell that foreign DELEGATE IN HIS EAR , WHILE THE MICS WERE ON ? FIND OUT LOOK IT UP. OK!!!!
Bombombombiran
Roomney's answer: just bomb them.
Republicans would win the election for sure if they’d simply show ads with footage of Obama apologizing for America. But they can’t. Because it never happened. It’s merely a lame Republican talking point with no basis in reality. I hope undecided voters will realize that most of what Republicans are saying about Obama is bunk. If he really did the things they say, they’d be plastering the airwaves with footage. If you can’t see it, don’t believe it.
I saw the video of him apologizing. You are obviously watching lame stream media such as CNN and NBC. Thedy will not show the footage because they want to sway the voters opinions.
Hey people this news network is not giving any negative press on Obama. is that news?????
Why don't you provide a link to the so-called apology? Let people judge for themselves. It's very simple, back up your accusations.
I'd like to see the video also as the President has NEVER APOLOGIZED. Just a typical Republican talking point that isn't true.
I won't believe anything that Romney says until I see his tax returns. I think he isn't giving his 10% to the church and he doesn't want to be found out. Anne Romney made a statement about "you people" and that's how they both come across as looking down on everyone that isn't in the !%
you must have watched the same film (which none of them watched but heard about) the muslim protestors watched.
There are several instances where he is "apologizing" – just google it. You'll find it.
Hey dumbo craps did u miss his world apology tour, how quick u forget, any way wheres oblunder today ??? ans partying like a rock star. Our embassys are being over run, unemp up again, and mr A-Ho%% is out having a party. if u vote for this pos u should be ashamed of yourself, ps loved the Romney tape,
First of all, go back to the 1st grade and learn the alphabet. No one will take you seriously. 2nd of all it seems you take the side that Obama apologized , but yet have proof of it. Send a link.
October 3, 2012 at 9:53 am |
Mitt Romney is a Lip Sync Patriot with an Air Guitar Foreign Policy.
Obamas foreign policy exactly the same as his domestic/budget policy...he does not have one. He is a panderer not a leader. He has disrespected our Allies and emboldened our enemies. Meanwhile back home more Americans living in Poverty and on foodstamps. Blind faith in one party gives you Carter, Bush and Obama.
NO MORE TALKING POINTS!
Look dude, get over your complete nonsese Faux Noise talking points. NOBODY, I repeat, NOBODY except foreign policy know- nothings (like yourself) would spill that EMPTY HATE.
GET A CLUE DUDE AND LEARN HOW TO BE A REAL AMERICAN!
Stryder45
one party?? because carter, bush and obama are all republicans...
Obama has had more success in foreign policy in one term than Bush could have in his entire lifetime. And since when was Bush disowned from the GOP anyway. He is yours, we don't want him. Romeny will have no positive effect on this nation, as the rest of the Republicans have done nothing but chip away at the foundation of this country for the last thirty years.
Samuel Brinckerhoff PhD
The denuclearization of South Asia (Subcontinent) particularly India is imperative.
Quid pro quo transfer of nuclear technology by USA to third world countries such as India needs to be opposed on moral grounds. Billions of people live in that neighborhood and would be at risk from such catastrophes which I am sure the American people would not like to be a party to. We are all well aware that that region is prone to floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, massive power blackouts and of course terrorism placing such nuclear installations at tremendous risks. Obama Administration and US Congress is urged to reconsider and cancel all the agreements for the transfer of such technologies due “Force Majeure”.
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