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LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
BleuPanda
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Post by BleuPanda » Fri Aug 04, 2017 3:25 pm
6 years later, I still can't believe this is happening. Due out September 1st, two of the ten tracks have been released, and the album art was just released.
...that's certainly an album cover.
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Re: LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
Post by Pierre » Fri Aug 04, 2017 4:17 pm
I like the two tracks already released. Catchy post-punk for one, moody new wave for the other, which is a bit funny, as you usually swap those qualifiers. Definitely looking forward to it.
When I saw the thread appearing, I hoped for a second that the album was already released for some reason Back to waiting then.
Pierre wrote: When I saw the thread appearing, I hoped for a second that the album was already released for some reason Back to waiting then.
Sorry! I'm just so hyped; these 4 weeks are going to take forever.
BleuPanda wrote:
No sweat, I'm probably as hyped as you are
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Post by StevieFan13 » Fri Aug 04, 2017 5:23 pm
Pierre wrote:
Make that hype tripled! So ready for it. I'm just glad they're back.
...now can we bring back R.E.M.? Pretty please with sugar on top?
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Post by Nick » Fri Aug 04, 2017 6:24 pm
I am legitimately annoyed at how bad this album art is.
Like, is it an Infinite Jest reference? But then why use that font?
I've seen some people online claim it may be a reference to Infinite Jest as well.
Which is funny because DFW notoriously hated the Infinite Jest cover.
And even if they wanted to do a reference to Infinite Jest there's a million better ways they could've done it. The whole thing just looks so sloppy.
This fan made cover looks way, way better for example. They turned down the overbearing saturation and made the text not so laughably huge and overwhelming.
LCD must stand for Lazy Cover Design.
And now they have an ice cream truck:
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Post by Live in Phoenix » Fri Aug 04, 2017 8:44 pm
BleuPanda wrote: And now they have an ice cream truck
LCD is the new KLF?
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Post by Listyguy » Fri Aug 04, 2017 10:21 pm
Nick wrote: I am legitimately annoyed at how bad this album art is.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who hates that album cover. Nothing about it screams LCD Soundsystem. Their other albums had decent to good cover art, but this is just awful.
I'm hopefully going to see the band this December, so I'm pretty excited for that.
http://pitchfork.com/news/lcd-soundsyst ... rk-listen/
In the interview, he claims the album is darker than the first two singles suggest (which seems to be a usual process for a band that previously led with North American Scum and Drunk Girls). The album cover is apparently a painting.
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Post by notbrianeno » Fri Aug 11, 2017 9:14 pm
Cover has grown on me but is still a bit of an eyesore. Would have preferred something closer to the "Call the Police / American Dream" single cover with the album title "Demonstration"
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Post by BleuPanda » Tue Aug 15, 2017 6:03 pm
Third single out tomorrow!
Post by BleuPanda » Wed Aug 16, 2017 4:36 pm
The third track is out...and I can't listen yet...
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Post by Nassim » Wed Aug 16, 2017 6:05 pm
Textbook LCD Soundsystem, which is fine by me !
Pretty great groove, better produced than the previous 2 singles. Starts like a 1st album throwback and moves more to This is Happening territories.
I don't think it will stand out amidst their discography, but I enjoy it nonetheless.
I'm thinking Call the Police over Tonite over American Dream so far, but I'm liking all three. The best track of their last two albums were quite a bit more melancholy than what we've seen so far, so I'm hoping a truly classic track is still hiding somewhere among the other seven.
Either way, I think this is promising to be a strong album.
Post by Listyguy » Wed Aug 16, 2017 7:31 pm
I could be wrong, but is this the first time we've heard autotune in an LCD Soundsystem song?
Post by Nick » Wed Aug 16, 2017 10:09 pm
Listyguy wrote: I could be wrong, but is this the first time we've heard autotune in an LCD Soundsystem song?
I'm actually pretty sure it's a vocoder, not auto tune.
Post by Listyguy » Thu Aug 17, 2017 12:21 am
Nick wrote:
Yeah, you're right.
Now begins the longest week. It feels like Black Screen and How Do You Sleep are going to be the big songs based on early reactions I've seen (and they just so happen to be the longest songs as well). Here's Stereogum's early take:
http://www.stereogum.com/1959243/premat ... ream/news/
BleuPanda wrote: Now begins the longest week. It feels like Black Screen and How Do You Sleep are going to be the big songs based on early reactions I've seen (and they just so happen to be the longest songs as well). Here's Stereogum's early take:
Well, that guy seems pretty enthralled by what he heard. That new week can't come fast enough.
Post by BleuPanda » Mon Aug 28, 2017 2:08 pm
4 days...or really 3 and a halfish days since I'm certainly going to be staying up to hear it as soon as it drops.
Metacritic finally has its page up; starting with a 92 after the first four reviews!
Now an 89 with 9 reviews.
Post by notbrianeno » Wed Aug 30, 2017 4:36 am
Still at an 89 with 14 reviews now.
Post by Pierre » Thu Aug 31, 2017 8:17 am
They've also released a new, 14 minutes electronic and percussions instrumental during the night titled "pulse (v.1)" which apparently won't be on the album. It's downloadable for free on their website without further explanation (or streamable everywhere else).
I don't have a particular opinion on the track yet except that the title suits it well. I'm in my second listen and I'm starting to enjoy it quite. It sounds like old school ambient-house à la Phuture or 808 State.
Post by BleuPanda » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:07 pm
It's out in Australia now...just 14 more hours for CST...
(I don't think I've been this hyped for something than when Super Smash Bros. Brawl was getting daily updates over the course of a year)
How am I so lucky to live in a world where a third season of Twin Peaks is concluding the same weekend as a new LCD Soundsystem album?
Post by Nick » Thu Aug 31, 2017 4:10 pm
I listened to it yesterday, but only once.
Premature first reaction: A very good/great album, but easily their weakest. There's some filler in the first half and nothing on this album as good as "All My Friends", "Losing My Edge", or "All I Want". Still an incredibly good album, but a little short of my expectations.
Highlights: How Do You Sleep?, Call the Police, American Dream
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Post by acroamor » Fri Sep 01, 2017 1:23 am
Only heard it the once beside a few individual track listens, but a real pleasure. I might agree that there's not anything on the same scale as an "All My Friends, but for my money their most cohesive other than This Is Happening.
Post by BleuPanda » Fri Sep 01, 2017 4:24 am
Finally listening!!!
Post by Setherex » Fri Sep 01, 2017 5:35 am
Nick wrote: Premature first reaction: A very good/great album, but easily their weakest. There's some filler in the first half
This opinion will not age well.
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Post by prosecutorgodot » Fri Sep 01, 2017 6:10 am
Context: not an LCD fan, though I enjoy them casually. I wanted to get in on the convo.
On first listen, the only memorable tracks are "how do you sleep?" and "emotional haircut."
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Post by Nick » Fri Sep 01, 2017 12:00 pm
Setherex wrote:
On the contrary, once the "oh my god LCD" are back hype died down, I fully expect my opinion to become the general consensus.
Though this may just be wishful thinking.
Anyway, it may seem weird for me to gripe about an album that I've called "great". But this is LCD Soundsystem we're talking about here. In the 8 years between 2002 and 2010, James Murphy wrote, recorded, and released some of the greatest and most iconic songs of indie rock. In that timeframe he put out Losing My Edge, Daft Punk is Playing at My House, Tribulations, Someone Great, All My Friends, New York I Love You..., North American Scum, Dance Yrself Clean, All I Want, and I Can Change. Imagine what he could've put out in the 7 years since his last LP. Instead he puts out an album that is somehow much worse than anything he's released before?
If anything this release is a testament to the fleeting nature of genius. Murphy still has some of the spark here, and several songs on American Dream can go toe to toe with LCD's best. But, and I really hate to say this, it seems as if Murphy really is losing his edge.
Post by BleuPanda » Fri Sep 01, 2017 12:35 pm
Nick wrote: Though this may just be wishful thinking.
Why would you be wishful that other's opinion lower over the idea that your opinion might raise?
This is also based off a first listen: Either way, I agree that this album opens weaker than it ends, but I don't think it begins as weak as you're suggesting. Though it never reaches the high of their best works (except maybe How Do You Sleep), it also never reaches their lows; there's no song on here I'd put as low as Never as Tired as When I'm Waking Up, Sound of Silver, Pow Pow, or Somebody's Calling Me, and there are a few other tracks I'd probably rank lower than the majority of the songs on this album. What we have here is their most consistent album, with a darker tone that works in a different direction from their previous work.
And I don't think first listens are ever good enough for a band like this; quite a few of their best songs are so outside the norm it's easy to miss the beauty of what they're doing. Though its my favorite song ever right now, "All My Friends" definitely had to grow; it's a song with the same piano loop over and over for seven minutes! I thought it was a joke seeing it so highly acclaimed while discovering this band when Someone Great and even Daft Punk is Playing at My House seemed so clearly better. Already I'm seeing a lot of people say the singles work better in the context of the full album.
I'd say it falls short of Sound of Silver and This is Happening, but most albums do! I'm also quite confident in saying I like this more than self-titled. I find albums this cohesive incredibly rare; few have such an overarching theme carrying through each song.
Current track ranking after first listen (the singles get an advantage of being seen live and being repeated dozens of times):
How Do You Sleep?
Tonite
Call the Police
I Used to
Change Yr Mind
Emotional Haircut
Any album that has me rank something like Black Screen in the bottom half is something great.
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Post by Bruno » Fri Sep 01, 2017 12:55 pm
"How Do You Sleep?" is great!!
Post by Listyguy » Fri Sep 01, 2017 2:40 pm
Listening now. "How Do You Sleep" is great! I also particularly like the guitar solo on "I Used To".
Post by Nick » Fri Sep 01, 2017 3:00 pm
Good point right here.
I'll admit I am s bit too focused on the negatives right now. If American Dream were by any other band my disposition would be much different. But Sound of Silver is my #7 album of all time and This is Happening is about #60 or so. The good news for American Dream is that it'll probably make my top 500, but end up around #450 or so (still need more time to really digest it).
I'll post a more in depth review sooner or later.
So after a full listen, I think it's somewhere between LCD Soundsystem and This Is Happening, which I haven't heard lately but have always viewed as their least good album. Overall, American Dream is solid but I don't think we'll know how good it really is until after the dust has settled from the excitement of seven years of waiting.
Post by BleuPanda » Fri Sep 01, 2017 6:39 pm
Still at an 89 with 29 reviews. Critics are really loving this one (Sound of Silver is at an 86).
Post by Pierre » Fri Sep 01, 2017 7:59 pm
I've listened to it twice (and I love it). Here's the stuff I have to say about it:
First off, the album is, as promised, quite dark. Not goth-level dark, but the underlying melancholy of James Murphy's work is even more apparent this time.
Secondly, it's somewhat striking how LCD Soundsystem wear their influences on their sleeves here. Talking Heads, Brian Eno and the Bowie/Eno collaborations, Joy Division and New Order, Magazine, Suicide, Gang of Four, they're all there and then some, and in plain sight. Whether it's subtle (the doo-wop-ish background vocals on the title track have been interpreted by some critics as a tribute to the late Alan Vega. Why not?) or not so much (the arrangement for "Other Voices" could have been on Remain in Light, the lyrics quoting Gang of Four on "How Do You Sleep?", the blatant tribute to David Bowie that is the entirety of "Black Screen"). But even if it's obvious that musically, all these artists are not so far apart in the first place, it's amazing how LCD Soundsystem still mix these influences while undeniably keeping their identity and producing on all levels their most cohesive work yet.
This is no random coincidence: this album, from the politically-charged title American Dream (Murphy doesn't really talk about politics anywhere on the record, but the album title is so in-your-face, you can't miss it), to the breakup opening track "Oh Baby" and the David Bowie tribute closer "Black Screen", is mournful. It's probably their way of putting the difficult year that was 2016 out of their system (and also probably Murphy's divorce), and they do so while expressing surprising strength, and even optimism, as shown by the rather hopeful piano melody the album closes on. It's really the music 2017 needs. In this respect, it's definitely the product of a definite point in time, and yet I bet it'll transcend it.
The reason is the songs. If LCD Soundsystem are losing their edge, it's definitely their poppier one. But the compositions have never been so cohesive and great overall. Many have noticed that the album has apparently a hard time taking off ("Change Yr Mind" is probably the nadir of the album), but when "How Do You Sleep?" kicks in and the rest of the album unravels, man are you glad for the ride. Despite their rougher arrangements, the album piles up gem after gem from this point onward. The arrangements might not be as accessible as they were on "All My Friends" or "Someone Great" back in the days, but in my opinion what the album might lose in immediacy, it makes up for it with the sheer quality of the songs. And the lyrics are top-notch James Murphy, his vision intact despite the open cracks that his divorce, the general climate and the deaths of many of his influences (Bowie in particular) have left on him.
The album is both a tribute to these influences and an affirmation that Murphy has his sights set on a brighter future. I don't know where American Dreams will rank compared to his stellar body of work, but if it's really his weakest work to date, then he's a genius light-years ahead of the competition.
Side-note regarding "Pulse (v.1)": Murphy confirmed on Facebook that the song was a sort of "addendum" that didn't make the record but could have played after "Black Screen". The reason invoked, not enough place on the vinyl edition, is dubious. In my opinion, it's just that Murphy came to the realization that "Black Screen" was the perfect finale for the album and that adding this track would have been overstaying its welcome. It's a sign if there was any that LCD Soundsystem is no longer the garage dance-punk act that it was 12 years ago, and that Murphy is a pretty professional producer today who showcases his skills. It's all the paradox and the genius of the guy: managing to create an album that has both a slightly less accessible sound while actually being definitely the work of a veteran act who perfectly know what they're trying to achieve. Some lessons to be learned for the kids there.
Conclusion: the album is a must-listen. One of the best releases of the year so far, and just the stuff I needed after the bummer that was Everything Now last month. Thanks Jim, you did it again.
Post by Moonbeam » Mon Sep 04, 2017 6:01 am
When they announced their return, I had my doubts. Listening to this, though, and I'm blown away. Again. LCD Soundsystem is on the short list for best artist of the 21st century for me. I've only listened 3 times in full, but the album is already a contender on the level with This Is Happening, and with further listens, it could possibly approach Sound of Silver in my eyes, though that would be tough.
"How Do You Sleep?" is the most "staring into the void" song they've ever done: the darkness of a midnight sky growing darker with those manic strings before the frozen synths striate the black sky in bold, neon relief. Amazing. "It Used To" is one of their most guttural pieces ever, with that gorgeous high synth line and visceral guitar attack toward the end. These two are the standouts in an album full of them thusfar. The opener "Oh Baby" is so tender and unabashedly beautiful, and "Black Screen" closes the affair like an updated Oppenheimer Analysis soliloquy. I literally laughed out loud with the "good gracious... I sound like my mom" line in the ever-fun "Tonite", and the 1-2 punch of "Call the Police" and "American Dream" as a lead-off single was so tantalizing that it was very hard to resist the urge to overplay ahead of the album's release.
The only songs I don't love yet are "Change Yr Mind" and "Emotional Haircut", but that may change.
Post by BleuPanda » Wed Sep 06, 2017 2:11 pm
Updated track ranking after, like, 7 or 8 listens:
So, Other Voices and Emotional Haircut both jumped 2 spaces while everything else remained the same. I could see Other Voices placing above American Dream with time, it's a lot of fun. Sound of Silver has 5 songs in my top 2000 range, This is Happening has 6, this already has 4 and will probably have 5, and I could see everything down to Black Screen at least being considered.
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Post by spiritualized » Fri Sep 08, 2017 3:22 pm
Just my 2p.
I just listened to change yr mind and still in shock. How Talking Heads is that song ????
I had to check if David Byrne hadn't done a cameo appearance on the album. Good song too !
spiritualized wrote: Just my 2p.
Well, what about "Other Voices" then? It was actually the one that struck me most as Byrne-esque at first
And you're right, "Change Yr Mind" is good, but it's still the worst song on the album in my opinion. That doesn't mean it's a bad song, it just shows how awesome the album is.
Post by BleuPanda » Mon Sep 11, 2017 12:09 am
American Dream ended up #1 on the charts this week in America.
Post by StevieFan13 » Mon Sep 11, 2017 12:25 am
BleuPanda wrote: American Dream ended up #1 on the charts this week in America.
Woo-hoo! Good taste!
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Read Chapter 1 of the middle-grade mystery Shirley Link & The Party Poopers
by Ben Zackheim | Aug 19, 2015 | Shirley Link & The Party Poopers | 0 comments
Here’s Chapter One of the middle grade mystery book, Shirley Link & The Party Poopers! It’s available now on Amazon.
Everyone loves my mom. She’s fair, stern but kind, and she makes brownies that sell out at every bake sale. But I have to say, she’s never been good with large groups of people. Don’t get me wrong. In her job as a police officer she could charm a room full of crooks before arresting them. But when it comes to things like speeches, well, she’s not in her element. The crowd is especially big today as the town enjoys the Iron Bridge Dinner. It’s an annual party where most of Shelburne Falls shows up at our bridge to eat a meal together.
“So, uh, YEAH! Okay!” my mom says. “Thank you, councilman. Thanks to uh, to uh…” She wants to thank her sister, my Aunt Patty, but it looks like she’s forgotten her name.
“Patty,” Patty mutters. She’s shaking her head and smiling, teeth clenched like she just sat on a cold toilet seat.
Poor Aunt Patty.
Poor Mom! The town is recognizing her for her service to the community. She raised $25,000 for a fund to restore the Mohawk Trail, which is this beautiful path that runs around our town. She came up with the idea of a music fair fundraiser last summer. No one thought it would come to much. But when she asked a really popular band called The Nields to play, they said yes.
(Which freaked out my friend Wiley, because he has a huge crush on the Nields sisters. He started testing out colognes which was disturbing on several levels.)
So after they said yes, that opened the floodgates and before we knew it we had a free venue and five bands performing for the cause.
My Aunt Patty nominated Mom to get the annual Community Service award. Everyone is surprised she won, though. The last few years’ awards have been given to my friend Jacob’s dad, J.L. Graham who, apparently, has as much charm as his son. Meaning not much at all. I mean, the man has never shown up to receive the award. He’s a billionaire. I guess he likes his privacy.
I’m fascinated by J.L. Graham. His family has lived in the area for two hundred years. They’ve always enjoyed a lot of support from the community, even when the Graham family hit hard times. If I remember right, J.L.’s mom died young and his dad had a reputation for hating everyone. J.L. had to stay with friends for months at a time while his dad got carted off to jail. Just a bunch of small crimes. But they added up to a life that doesn’t sound like much of a life. J.L. worked hard to put that behind him. He built up his empire from nothing.
Speak of the devil! Well, speak of the devil’s son, I see my friend Jacob on the other side of the crowd. He’s what many people would call handsome, but I would call dastardly. What can I say? I just know him too well. I guess the fact we met because he kidnapped me makes it hard to be objective. I gesture for him to come over, but he just slouches his shoulders and walks away.
Weird. I probably did something to offend him. Like getting an A to his A-. Or maybe I beat him to school one day this week. He’s competitive that way. Hey, I said he’s a friend. I didn’t say I like him all the time.
Mom’s finished her speech, Thank Thor. That was painful.
“Hi sweety,” she says to me, coming off the stage.
“Hi, Mom.”
“That was a disaster,” she says, the smile not breaking from her face. She doesn’t really have a problem messing up. She usually thinks it’s funny.
“It was your worst yet,” I say, giving her a hug. She laughs even more. Before I know it, she and I are taking Aunt Patty to Moe’s for something sweet.
“I still feel bad for forgetting your name, Patty.” Mom is sipping a lemonade while her two favorite girls enjoy ice cream.
“Stop it,” Aunt Patty says.
“It could happen to anyone,” I add.
“Sure. Anyone who drops 127 IQ points when she speaks in front of more than three people,” Aunt Patty finishes, with a smile and a wink.
“Congratulations, Mrs. Link,” a voice says from the table behind me. It’s Jacob. He has his moping face on.
“Why, thank you Jacob!” Mom says. “We finally broke your father’s impressive run. Actually, I think the bridge repairs he paid for were more worthy of the honor.”
“No, not at all, Mrs. Link. My dad could use a few more losses in his life.”
Uh-oh. He’s in a mood and a half.
“Excuse me,” I say, getting up from the table. I’m going to get to the bottom of this. “Jacob, would you walk with me for a minute?” Mom and Aunt Patty look at each other and use some kind of weird silent language that only siblings understand. I think Mom thought, “Wonder what’s going on here!” and Aunt Patty thought back, “Best to stay out of this one, Mrs. Link!”
Jacob follows me outside. We stroll toward the bridge.
“What?” he asks. Or whines. Depending on how you look at it. He has his hands in his pocket and his whole body screams leave me alone.
“Did someone steal your Cheerios this morning?” I ask.
“What’s that supposed to mean?” He darts out from between his slouched shoulders like an angry rooster.
“You look like your spoiling for a fight with the whole world,” I say. “And you congratulated my mom back there. No way would Jacob ever do that. Jacob does not congratulate anyone, anytime, ever, never.”
“Maybe Jacob is changing,” Jacob says. “Did Shirley ever think of that?”
“Shirley has not thought of that,” I say, running with the fun new game ofRefer to Yourself in the Third Person.
“Maybe she should. Maybe after all these months of nagging Jacob to be normal have finally paid off for Shirley.”
“Shirley hasn’t been trying to make Jacob normal,” I say. “Shirley has been trying to make Jacob not a felon.”
“Maybe Jacob wants Shirley to mind her own business!”
We glare at each other.
“Maybe Marie and Wylie should capture this Instagram moment,” Wylie says from a bench on the sidewalk. Marie is sitting next to him. They both grin like they just won a million dollars on a game show. I didn’t see them there.
“Jacob is acting weird,” I say, jerking my thumb at him.
“Shirley is acting normal, which is to say she’s irritating and making a perfectly nice gesture on my part into a crime.”
“You were nice to someone?” Wylie and Marie ask at the same time. They laugh. I try not to. I don’t want to pile on Jacob. I just want him to tell me why he’s so mopey!
“Very funny. Nice talking to you three,” he says as he walks off.
“I’m here to help if you need it, Jacob,” I call out after him. He stops walking, doesn’t quite turn around and then starts walking again.
“Boy, he’s crabby,” Wylie says.
Suddenly, Mom pops out of Moe’s. She’s on her cell phone and has that urgent walk I know so well. It looks like the police have a new problem on their hands.
I’m about to stick my nose in her business when I hear a honk up the street.
“Who’s that?” Marie asks. She points up the hill. A shiny red Chevy pickup truck that I don’t recognize has stopped next to Jacob.
New Hampshire license plates.
Fresh from the car wash. Maybe even just off the sales floor.
Jacob’s body language screams discomfort. Whoever is in that truck is not a friend. So I’m surprised when the driver leans over and pushes the passenger door open. Jacob climbs in.
“Jacob,” I say, not loud enough. He doesn’t hear me. Or he ignores me. “Jacob!” I yell. He slams the door shut.
The truck peels off and roars up the hill, out of sight.
Shirley Link & The Party Poopers is here! It’s Shirley’s FIFTH adventure!
Shirley Link & The Party Poopers is here! Well, almost. On August 20th, you can head on over to Amazon and snag Shirley’s FIFTHadventure.
What’s the book about?
Our favorite amateur detective is worried about her friend, Jacob. He’s been acting odd lately. Okay sure, he’s usually odd, but he’s also being unfriendly which isn’t like him at all.
When Shirley and her friends, Wylie and Marie, discover that Jacob’s difficult cousins are in town they begin to see why he’s in such a bad mood. But when police reports start to flood in about missing items, the team suspects something else may be going on in Jacob’s household.
Join Shirley for the most perplexing case of her career as she tries to solve the case of The Party Poopers!
And here’s the cover, by the talented Robin Hoffman!
Writing three books at once is not a good idea
by Ben Zackheim | Jun 7, 2015 | Atticus Quimby, Shirley Link & The Party Poopers, The Camelot Kids, Writing | 4 comments
Something has to give. I’m just not sure what yet.
I’m in New York City for the next two months, teaching a marketing course at School of Visual Arts. While I’m here, I’m writing the next Shirley Link. The final draft will be done by the end of the day! I’m excited by that in ways I’ve never felt before. This Shirley adventure has been the toughest one to craft yet. By far. Part of it is that I’ve had the idea for the mystery for a long time. That meant wrestling with age-old preconceptions about how the clues would be set up, how the players would respond to them and how they’d be revealed. But once I sat down to write the book, well, none of those ideas lasted a single draft. Still, with the help of my beta readers, I’ve worked through it and I think this may be my new favorite Shirley Link book! Stay tuned for launch dates and peeks at artwork soon ;-)
Then there’s The Camelot Kids: Book Two. I found myself at 40k words before I knew it, so I know the book is primed and ready to emerge. I’ve been getting up at 5:30am every morning to work on it and that’s worked well on a number of fronts. There’s something about writing Fantasy (that’s heavy in magic) at the start of the day when the world is quiet. Magic is more present when our lives are still. But to tap it means pushing aside all concerns. It means assuring The Stress that it can come out in a little bit and do its thing. It means gently nudging strong insecurities back into whatever caves they spring from. While the story is all over the place right now, I’m excited to release the ending to a story that’s been dancing around my head for ten years.
And then there’s Atticus. The book died last night. I mean it was dead. Flatlined. It had frustrated me one too many times. I went to sleep in despair. My good idea had no legs. It had nowhere to go. It gasped for oxygen and I tried to give it some but it wasn’t enough. Then, this morning, its eyes popped open and it breathed in a lungful of air of its own making. So, on its own, it’s showed me a way forward. Now I’m more excited than ever about the story, though I also see that it’s bigger than I initially assumed.
Excited. Terrified. Tired. Pounding on three books will do that to a guy. So wish me luck. I’m headed into the final pass on Shirley Link & The Party Poopers and then I’ll be outlining the next Shirley! Yeah, you know that title I gave this post? The one that advises against writing three books at once? Well, I may be addicted to the feeling so, uh, do as I say, not as I do…
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On this hour, John is joined by Xen Sams to host on this Freaky Friday. They discuss what is going on in the markets, words matter about the Capitol siege, predictions on the market when Biden takes office, and so much more. Today's guests: Michael Johns. Original Air Date: January 15, 2021
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Preconceived Notions
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Buying Bitcoin
During this second half of Liquid Lunch, John Tabacco focuses more on bitcoin, and is then joined by Vito Fossella to discuss political hot topics. Today's guests: Julio Rivera, David Eisenbach, John Burnett, Vito Fossella, and Adam Roosevelt. Original Air Date: January 14, 2021
Censorship & Free Speech
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Fractured Party
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Madness Abounds & Constitutional Crisis
On this hour, John discusses the madness abounding, cancel culture, comparing protests, and his thoughts on a second impeachment. Today's guests: Terrey Jeffrey, Bill Pepitone, Vito Fossela, and Jonathan Adler. Original Air Date: January 12, 2021
Tech-ocracy & Money Monday
On this hour, John discusses how our country is now being run by technology, your money, questions in the market, eliminating identities, and so much more. Today's guest: Fernando Uribe. Original Air Date: January 11, 2021
Things Are Getting Spooky
On this hour, John discusses President Trump's final Tweet, his pick for who could win the National Championship, accuracy in the media, excusing riots, and so much more. Today's guests: Adam Guillette, Joe Pinion, and Wayne King. Original Air Date: January 11, 2021
The Happenings in D.C.
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A Divisive Country
On this hour, John and Michael Fiumefreddo discuss the contributions to the divisiveness in the country, the discrepancies of what happened on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, and Inauguration Day preparation. Today's guests: Dr. Melanie Burkholder and Barry Goldsmith. Original Air Date: January 8, 2021
Capitol Turmoil
On this Thirsty Thursday, John Tabacco and Xen Sams discuss the turmoil in the US Capitol. Today's guests: Timothy Head and David Eisenbach. Original Air Date: January 7, 2021
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Today on Liquid Lunch, Xen Sams and John Tabacco update with the news from Capitol Hill. Today's guests: Joe Hagan and Karyn Turk. Original Air Date: January 6, 2021
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Today on Liquid Lunch, Xen Sams and John Tabacco update with the news from Capitol Hill. Today's guest: Kelly Hyman. Original Air Date: January 6, 2021
In Need of a Revolution
On this hour, John discusses the need for a revolution in the political system, standing up for fair elections, and so much more. Today's guest: Bill Pepitone. Original Air Date: January 5, 2021
Fashionable Identities
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A Cashless Society
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Fight For What's Right
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James Toto fills in for John Tabacco on this last day of 2020 and we look to our goals for the new year. Today's guests: Michael Schwartz and Michael Johns. Original Air Date: December 31, 2020
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The Birthday Bash Continues
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A Shift in the Tide
On this hour, John discusses how how NYC is cracking down and there might possibly be more lockdowns until April and May. Today's guests: Dean Fanelli. Original Air Date: December 17, 2020
Electoral Process
On this hour, John discusses how election cases are still going, why Kamala has not given up her Senate seat yet, and more lockdowns to come in the new year. Today's guests: Jonathan Adler, David Eisenbach, John Burnett, and Dr. Michael R. Eades. Original Air Date: December 17, 2020
Things Have to Change
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Crisis Communication, Culture Shock, & Star Power
On this hour, John discusses William Barr's resignation, the effects on the community over lockdowns & election trauma, and voter confidence. Today's guests: Dr. Joanna Massey and Lauren Wright. Original Air Date: December 16, 2020
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Getting the VA Right
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Transparency and Trust
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Lawsuits & Mask Police
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Honesty for the People
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Peaceful Revolting & COVID Logic
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On this hour, John discusses a possible Chinese spy, the election lawsuits, and standing up for liberty and freedom. Today's guests: Xen Sams, Karyn Turk, and Joseph Hagan. Original Air Date: December 9, 2020
Best Interest of the People
On this hour, John discusses how he is helping restaurant owners and other small businesses (not deemed essential) open up in NYC legally, getting back to work safely, and so much more. Today's guests: Derryck Green & Joy Villa. Original Air Date: December 9, 2020
Fighting for Small Businesses
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What's Happening to Small Businesses
On this hour, John discusses what's happening to small businesses in NYC and the rest of America during COVID. Plus, news of Texas filing a lawsuit challenging the election procedures in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Today's guests: Todd Hillis and Bill Pepitone. Original Air Date: December 8, 2020
Small Business and the American Economy
On this hour, Fernando Uribe fills in for John on this Money Monday! Fernando discusses his frustration with Rutgers about the waste of money being used for a non-issue. Plus, should we really believe a fool-proof COVID vaccine and the current state of the election investigation. Original Air Date: December 7, 2020
Faith, Family, and Hope
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V Shape Rebounds
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Mac's Public House
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Standing Up for Small Businesses
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Liberty and Freedom Demonstration
On this Thirsty Thursday hour, John discusses the work he is doing to fight for small business, in NYC like Mac's Public House. He shares how the fight is going for our freedom and liberties, as well as other top headlines of the day. Today's guests: Pavlina Osta, John Burnett, and Mitch Roselle. Original Air Date: December 3, 2020
Freedom and Liberty Loving
On this hour, John is on location at Mac's Public House in New York. Emotions are high today as New York is trying to steal people's businesses. Today's guests: Xen Sams, Joseph Hagan, Karyn Turk, and Dan Presti. Original Air Date: December 2, 2020
Tyrannical Government & Lockdown Conditions
On this hour, John is on location at Mac's Public House in New York. John discusses the second amendment facts, living in a tyrannical government, stopping the steal, and so much more. Today's guests: Kelly Hyman. Original Air Date: December 2, 2020
Bitcoin Down
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Overseas News & Victories
On this hour, John breaks down the Dominion Voting systems, vote spike tally, President Trump's victory overseas, and facts to help stop the steal. Today's guests: Matthew RJ Brodsky and Michael Wilson. Original Air Date: December 1, 2020
Thanksgiving Eve Special
On this special Thanksgiving Eve special AND Women Wednesday, we give thanks for so many things. Plus, we go behind the headlines of Stop the Steal. Today's guests: Xen Sams, Lisa Becker, Joseph Hagan, Karyn Turk. Original Air Date: November 25, 2020
Farewell Nico
On this Thanksgiving Eve special, we bid farewell to our Senior Producer and Frank Morano is back for the day! Today's guests: Frank Morano, Nico Romono, Kevin Freeman, and Dennis Carstens. Original Air Date: November 25, 2020
Fear and Faith
On this Terrific Tuesday, John discusses President Trump's strategy of "conceding", freedom of religion, creating a safe space for small businesses to stay in business during lockdown, and more stop the steal tv. Today's guests: Patrick Hedger & Noah Weinrich. Original Air Date: November 24, 2020
Jobs, Energy, and Fuel
On this Terrific Tuesday, John discusses fossil fuel, entrepreneurism, the Biden Administration announcement, and continued work to "Stop the Steal" of the election. Today's guests: Bob Inglis. Original Air Date: November 24, 2020
Hypocrisy and Thanksgiving Lockdowns
On this hour, John compares the movie "Footloose" to our Country trying to lockdown Thanksgiving. Today's guests: Fernando Uribe & Joe Pinion. Original Air Date: November 23, 2020
Founding Values in Jeopardy
On this hour, John discusses actual COVID discrepancies, political hypocrisy, were New California State stands, and the things are country were founded on that are now in jeopardy. Today's guests: Bishop Aubrey Shines & Paul Preston. Original Air Date: November 23, 2020
Freedom and Fairness
On this Freaky Friday, John continues the stop the steal movement of the 2020 election. He brings you market news and what you need to know and do post election results. Plus, a face mask lesson. Todays guests: Graham Summers & Allan Stevo. Original Air Date: November 20, 2020
Transparent, Free, & Fair Election
On this hour, John discusses CBD products and delivery, the need for transparent elections, interference in the election, and the hunt for truth in the election. Today's Guests: Gary Chapman, Michael Johns, and Barry Goldsmith. Original Air Date: November 20, 2020
On this Thirsty Thursday, John isn't having the media's urge to have a second lockdown. Today's guests: David Eisenbach, John Burnett, and John Cribb. Original Air Date: November 19, 2020
Health & Environmental Solutions
On this Thursday, John discusses the latest in the fight to Stop the Steal, Trump Campaign's press conference, and so much more. Today's gusts: Dr. Holden Shane. Original Air Date: November 19, 2020
Facts, Truth, and Big Tech
On this hour, John is bringing everything you need to know about the facts of what is going on with the 2020 election and voter irregularities. Today's guests: Xen Sams, Larry Masi, and Dr. Patrick Byrne. Original Air Date: November 18, 2020
1776 Forever Free
On this hour, John continues his discussion on the facts and evidence of the results of the 2020 election. Today's guests: Dr. Patrick Byrne, Dr. Cordie Williams, and Sam Peters. Original Air Date: November 18, 2020
Stop the Steal Nation is underway here on Liquid Lunch. Follow along as John searches for truth and evidence. Plus, don't miss actor John Schneider right here! Today's guests: John O'Connor & John Schneider. Original Air Date: November 17, 2020
A President Like No Other
On this Terrific Tuesday, we continue with "Stop the Steal TV", because John believes that President Trump is still on the path to victory. Today's guests: Conrad Black. Original Air Date: November 17, 2020
Chaos Is Among Us
It's Money Monday and John talks about all that we missed over the weekend. Chaos of the 2020 election is upon us. Today's guests: Fernando Uribe & Joe Pinion. Original Air Date: November 16, 2020
Dark and Shady Things are Happening
On this Money Monday, John continues his discussion on the dark and shady happenings of the 2020 election and we go BEHIND the headlines. Plus, what it is like to own a restaurant in NYC during COVID. Today's guests: Karyn Turk & Butch Yamali. Original Air Date: November 16, 2020
The Fight Continues
On this hour, the fight continues in the truth for the 2020 election results, credibility, and so much more. Today's guests: Michael Johns. Original Air Date: November 13, 2020
The Fight for Truth
On this Freaky Friday, John discusses the fight for truth agains the media and censorship, the latest on the election, not giving into the narrative, and so much more. Today's guests: Xen Sams, Mitch Roselle, & Barry Goldsmith. Original Air Date: November 13, 2020
Thirsty for Facts
Are you thirsty for some real news and emerging facts over the election? Today's guests: Reverend Dee Hawkins-Haigler and David Eisenbach. Original Air Date: November 12, 2020
The Fact of the Matter
On this hour, John tries to search for facts and evidence on the 2020 election, possible ballot fraud, offensive media attacks over truth, memorabilia exchange, and so much more. Today's guests: Dr. William Briggs, Erin Elmore, and Brandon Steiner. Original Air Date: November 12, 2020
It's Women Wednesday here on Liquid Lunch! We discuss actual evidence of voter fraud experiences, the Lincoln Project, honoring our Veterans, and so much more. Today's guests: Angela Tahiliani and Chad Robichaux. Original Air Date: November 11, 2020
Vaccine Efficacy
It's Women Wednesday as well as Veterans Day and we take some time to honor our veterans. John discusses the controversy of the PA postal service worker Richard Hopkins, vaccine efficacy, cases for election investigations, and exploitation cinema. Today's guests: Dean Fanelli and Xen Sams. Original Air Date: November 11, 2020
The Vaccine Announcement
On this hour, John discusses the vaccines, the timing of the announcement of the vaccines, the challenges all around the country over the election, fraud, and so much more. Today's guests: John Banzhaf & Mark Williams. Original Air Date: November 10, 2020
Millennial Voters & Vaccine Haste
On this hour, John discusses the latest on the Pfizer vaccine announcement, what's going on with the election results, and so much more. Today's guests: Pavlina Osta & David Dodd. Original Air Date: November 10, 2020
Post Election Mayhem
On this hour, John discusses the post election mayhem. Plus, Rudy Giuliani calls in to tell us what we can REALLY expect in the upcoming days. Plus, Joe Pinion shares why we should WANT to help fight for a legal fight over the election. Original Air Date: November 9, 2020
Keep Your Eyes Wide Open
On this hour, John continues his discussion on the post election mayhem. Today's guests: Fernando Uribe, Jen Kerns, and Mike Burke. Original Air Date: November 9, 2020
Fishy and Awake
On this hour, John discusses the fishiness going on in the election, legal vs illegal votes, and media bias. Today's guests: Michael Johns. Original Air Date: November 6, 2020
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Money and Influence
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Election Madness Part 1
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The blockchain economy: what should the government do?
Satoshi Nakamoto said Bitcoin would be “very attractive to the libertarian viewpoint”. The pioneers of cryptocurrencies were cypherpunks or crypto-anarchists who wanted to use this new invention to escape the state’s monopoly on money.
We’re sympathetic to this — as we argued in our last Medium essay ‘Byzantine Political Economy’.
But the state is not so easy to escape.
Not only are there many blockchain use-cases for government, but it is possible that positive government action could help the blockchain revolution along.
Just as the blockchain radically decentralises economic activity, the born-global nature of the blockchain can radically decentralise economic power.
Crypto-friendly governments — that is, governments that can rapidly adjust their regulatory frameworks to suit the blockchain economy — have a unique window to attract global investment.
Crypto-friendly governments: the state of play
A number of smaller countries and autonomous regions are trying to position themselves as crypto-friendly.
Both Great Britain and Australia have issued high-level government science reports on the prospects of the technology.
Other smaller countries (such as Estonia) and city-states (such as Singapore) have folded blockchain into a digital and e-government investment strategy.
City-states such as Dubai and states or cantons such as Zug in Switzerland and Illinois in the United States are trying to move many aspects of government services to the blockchain, or to create special crypto-economic zones.
Singapore and Australia have directed their financial regulators to issue detailed guidance about the regulatory, legislative and tax treatment of crypto-assets.
Political leaders in Japan and Russia have made multiple announcements broadly supportive of crypto-investment.
Those are the good news stories. However, most countries maintain a sort of benign neglect — either because of the relative small presence of the cryptoeconomy or lack of government interest or capability in the space.
And a small number of jurisdictions are outwardly hostile. New York adopted a hard line in terms of regulatory compliance when it introduced the BitLicense. China has banned initial coin offerings and cryptocurrency exchanges.
Global differences are going to matter
So far, the development of cryptocurrencies has been geographically concentrated in regions like Silicon Valley. But that won’t last. The blockchain is a distributed technology. The relationship between the regions that develop the technology and the regions that adopt the technology is unlikely to be strong.
In other words, the geography of invention is not the same as the geography of innovation.
The United States is highly successful in inventing blockchain technology. Yet it has been finding it hard to adopt blockchains because of American regulatory complexity.
Regulatory agility will be a significant factor determining which nations are able to successfully adopt blockchain technology.
This favors city-states (Singapore), smaller countries (Estonia, Australia) and subnational jurisdictions (Zug, Illinois).
The blockchain tax problem
How should cryptoassets be taxed? Are tokens money (taxed as spending)? Or are they debt or equity (in which case it would be treated as income or gains from a capital asset or investment vehicle)? We’ve argued that they cryptoassets are in fact the hypothetical asset class that Nobel laureate Oliver Williamson once called ‘dequity’. This means they should be taxed as capital assets, not as money.
But blockchain technology is not just another productivity enhancing technology that can be taxed at the point of adoption. Blockchains are actively associated with tax avoidance or tax shifting owing to the pseudonymous nature of transactions and the difficulty of establishing the correct jurisdiction for taxation.
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are going to be harder to tax than the monolithic firms of the 20th century. We’ve published sceptically about the parliament’s efforts to prevent profit shifting by multinational firms. However, the born-global nature of blockchains will supercharge these trends. We do not believe there will be any easy regulatory solution to this, and parliament will need to rethink not just how it taxes, but what it taxes.
What should government do?
Nakamoto did not develop Bitcoin in a vacuum.
To the extent that government funding of academic mathematicians and cryptographers produced the initial research papers that were subsequently developed into the blockchain, then the early development of this technology was publicly sponsored — but not publicly planned.
Should government do more on the research side?
Let’s first assume that governments are benevolent — call this the public interest model of government.
Many economists, following Kenneth Arrow’s 1962 paper ‘Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention’, argue that the uncertainties and positive social benefits from invention can lead to a market failure in research and development.
It’s not clear that the blockchain has this problem. This is in part because token sales incentivise early adoption. What some people are calling a ‘bubble’ we think is massive experimental investment.
Alternatively, governments could substitute blockchains for their own existing services like the provision of money or property registries.
Governments should pick specific use-cases — such as identity and asset registries, licenses and certification, open government data, reporting and management of government contracts and public assets — then estimate the marginal cost and benefits of investment and adoption of this technology.
These benefits could be huge. For instance, a Bank of England report estimates a 3 percent gain in GDP from issuing a government cryptocurrency.
Other potential government involvement could focus on public goods problems — such as the need for the network communications infrastructure upon which a cryptoeconomy operates (particularly in the developing world).
Governments could also create open access data regimes and registries that can be harnessed and used by cryptoeconomy businesses.
But most fundamentally, governments should invest in high quality legal institutions (regulators, courts, bureaucracies, democratic systems, etc) to provide the cryptoeconomy with the needed predictability, efficiency, transparency, accountability, and efficacy.
But then again…
Why might some countries fail to make the necessary reforms for the blockchain economy? Governments might not know about the benefits or might misunderstand them (bounded rationality or information constraints). Governments might not be able to afford the necessary public investment (financial constraints).
Or we might not trust government enough. There are huge efficiency gains to be made from moving government registries like identity, property titling, tax, voting, central bank coin to the ‘trustless’ blockchain. But to do so itself requires high levels of trust in the government making that change.
This is the paradox: it takes a lot of trust to get to trustlessness. Sweden and Australia will be able to move easily to distributed land title registries. Haiti (where the need for a distributed land title register is much greater) will find it harder.
Governments against blockchains
Radical decentralisation will not always be in the interest of centralised governments.
In the public choice model of government, both governments and citizens have distinct objectives that they seek to maximize.
Citizens trade votes for services. Governments seek to create benefits for themselves (subject to the constraint of getting elected). What citizens want and what governments conflict, resulting in political exchange.
Take blockchain-enabled identity. From the perspective of the government, each citizen ought to have one and only one identity. A single, centralised identity is useful for entitlements and taxation — or conscription.
These centralised identity registrations are co-opted for commercial uses of identity (e.g. to open a bank account, or to rent a car).
But from the citizen perspective this is inefficient, because as identity is owned and managed by the state, they have no control over it, and cannot choose how to permission and share this data. It also creates problems of trust and privacy (for example in health and criminal records).
A decentralized identity would be more efficient, facilitating variety of types of identity for specialized uses and enabling user control. Citizens might want this. Governments do not.
What will other governments do?
Ideally, the approach of governments to the blockchain economy would be both rationally optimal from the perspective of its own citizens, but also a best response to the expected moves of foreign governments — many of which will differ in size, level of economic development, and institutional quality.
For instance, there is no doubt that many tax bureaucracies would like to constrain or control the growth of the cryptoeconomy as it will make taxation harder.
But their success will depend on what other countries as well.Blockchains — and the wealth and relationships on the blockchain — are both everywhere and nowhere.
In this world, it is not obvious what most effective public policy settings will be. There will be heavy learning costs involved. Some governments might rationally decide to delay decision making in order to learn from first-movers who can then be expected to incur costly mistakes in the experimental process of policy settings.
It is possible that larger countries will be much more cautious in adopting cryptoeconomic policies that are significantly divergent from other competing countries.
Alternatively, we could see bilateral or club-like coalitions of strategic investment and public policy harmonization — just as we do with tax and trade treaties.
Private governance and crypto-secession
When governments are particularly oppressive, blockchains can be used to move many aspects of an economy away from central control (identity, contract, money and payments, organization, data, etc). This allows what Trent MacDonald calls nonterritorial secession, or crypto-secession.
In the classic federal model of local public goods, governments competitively provide public goods with different offerings and price points. If an individual prefers a different bundle of public goods, they move to another jurisdiction. If a group of individuals collectively prefers a different bundle of pubic goods, they secede. But to secede, they have to physically move somewhere else, which is costly.
Non-territorial secession allows individuals to choose a different bundle of public goods without having to move. They just opt out of all or part of the government bundle. Crypto-secession is when the new bundle of local public goods is organized, coordinated and delivered through blockchain technology.
What does this mean in practice? An example of such emergent private governance of local public goods might occur at a local or regional level where a group of citizens create a pooling mechanism of social insurance, energy grid, or asset titling management through smart contracts, decentralised applications and distributed autonomous organisations.
This is more likely at the local, regional or city level than that of a nation state because of set-up costs and self-selection. We expect that the adoption of blockchain technology for governance will be a bottom-up phenomenon beginning with small groups.
Blockchains and property rights
Blockchain technology may also disrupt the relationship between government and property rights.
A fundamental question in the economics of law is this: Do property rights originate from the state and are then used by market participants? Or do property rights arise from markets and economic activity, and are thenefficiently enforced by the state?
While the former view (legal-centrism) is the most widely held among law and government scholars, public choice and market institutional economists tend to defend the latter (evolutionary) view.
Cryptocurrencies and crypto-assets provide a test of these competing views. It is not obvious what role the state plays in either creating or enforcing the property right claims over these assets.
One argument is that cryptocurrencies and crypto-assets have emerged entirely outside state jurisdiction and instead occupy a new software-enforced constitutional governance realm. In this strong form view, these are native crypto-property rights from which there is a risk of government predation.
An alternative argument is superficially similar, but allows that this parallel crypto-property rights regime has emerged in-the-shadow-of state law and enforcement. Crypto-property rights will remain in the domain of private law only until there are irreconcilable disputes, at which point there will be a role for government enforcement and sanctions.
This distinction about the origins of property rights matters because while governments provide public goods and support property rights(emphasised by the legal-centric school), they also impose costs by accumulating power (emphasised by the evolutionary school). A crypto-property rights regime will test which of these is more significant.
Governments may also find themselves addressing the effects of creative destruction in a blockchain economy.
Past experience has shown that governments often end up supporting or compensating those negatively affected by new technology. They also end up making complementary investments such as education and workforce retraining.
The risk is that without such government action those who expect to be harmed by the adoption of a new technology may form political coalitions to block or raise the costs of developing the new technology.
Blockchain technologies face substantial hurdles from incumbents and vested interests that might lobby to slow or outright ban uses of the technology.
Governments may find themselves on both sides of creative destruction, seeking to promote the adoption of blockchains for social welfare maximizing reasons, while at the same time being captured by vested interests seeking protection.
Blockchain public policy
The blockchain is an extremely new technology. There is substantial uncertainty associated with its future uses, adoption levels — even its basic economic properties.
But it will be disruptive. And despite the libertarian, secessionist ethic of the blockchain community, government will be involved, for better or worse.The goal for the blockchain community and for crypto-friendly governments ought to be ensuring that this technology can be adopted in a way that benefits citizens, not rent-seekers.
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Mum of toddler with rare sickness seeks Irish Health Minister’s permission to use THC
June 5, 2018 written by RJ Kavanagh
More than 9,000 people are rallying behind a mother’s plea for the Health Ministry to allow her son to use THC to stop his seizures.
A mother whose toddler son suffers from a rare neurological condition is imploring the Irish Health Minister Simon Harris to grant them the license to use THC as treatment for his seizures.
Michael O’Neill, who will be turning two years old this summer, has bilateral frontal polymicrogyria. According to his mum, Noreen O’Neill, Michael started suffering from seizures when he was just three months old, and, at one stage, was having up to 20 seizures a day.
In a letter she penned to Harris last month, Noreen explained that she started giving Michael cannabidiol or CBD oil in January and was therefore seizure-free for four months. The CBD oil was obtained legally in Ireland.
However, Noreen said that the 18-month-old boy now needs the more potent THC because there has been a sudden escalation in his seizures recently. In her letter, she pointed out that THC will have to be administered along with CBD to keep Michael seizure-free.
THC or tetrahydrocannabinol is the main psychoactive ingredient found in cannabis. Patients in Ireland who wish to use cannabis products in the treatment of any medical condition need to get the case-by-case approval of the Minister for Health, which is a long and painstaking process.
(Photo credit Noreen O’Neill)
Life before CBD oil
Noreen wrote that aside from the rare neurological condition, the boy also has global development delay. In the months that followed the start of his seizures and his diagnosis, all of the milestones that Michael had previously achieved disappeared, including his smiles. This, Noreen said, was “soul destroying.”
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Noreen also described how time-consuming and difficult feeding had become for Michael and her.
In her account, Noreen said that the boy had been fitted with a feeding tube, but this took his ability to swallow his own saliva, which caused a lot of drooling and soaking through towels. She was told that while the tube protected him from aspirating his milk, it could not protect him from aspirating his saliva. Over time, this would take a toll on his lungs and destroy them beyond repair, and this would ultimately cost him his life.
She would spend a total of six hours every day on feeding Michael, with each of the four feedings taking one and a half hours. She also had to suction him every so often so he would not choke on his own spit or on his own vomit.
Noreen also recounted that she brought the boy to developmental therapy sessions.
Her life, she said, became a series of trips to the hospital, to the pharmacy, to therapy, as well as trips for feeding equipment and frantic runs to A&E. She was “living in a constant state of fight or flight” and was always on edge, watching, listening, analyzing, and having an adrenaline rush the entire day every day.
Noreen also pointed out that before they tried CBD oil, Michael’s doctors had tried 10 different medications and all had failed to varying degrees.
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How CBD oil improved Michael’s condition
According to Noreen, the frequeny of Michael’s seizures lessened by half the day after he was first given CBD oil. On the second day, the number of seizures again dropped to half. On the third day, the seizures stopped altogether.
She also eventually stopped bringing the suction machine when they would go out for a walk and no longer had to check on him every two minutes.
She described the effect of CBD oil as “life-changing.”
In her letter, Noreen is asking Harris to license cannabis-based products in the same way as existing prescription medication.
Currently, the Department of Health has established a ‘Cannabis for Medical Use Access Programme’ that allows patients access to cannabis-based treatments provided that:
they are suffering from certain qualifying conditions,
are under the care of a medical consultant, and
have failed to respond to standard treatments.
People show support
Noreen’s letter went viral on social media. The people’s response to it has been phenomenal, she said in an interview with the Irish Examiner.
According to her, people in similar situations from across the country and even from as far as Canada contacted her for advice. People also asked her where they can get CBD oil and how to administer it.
Noreen has decided to start a petition calling for medical cannabis legalization. As of today, Noreen has received nearly 10,000 signatures.
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Amuse-Bouche: Hercules Mulligan’s
By: Rémy Robert / February 15, 2012 / 3 Comments
The man, the legend.
I know, I know, you’re wondering the same thing I was: who is Hercules Mulligan, anyway? According to the website Who Was Hercules Mulligan, Anyway?, he was the son of an Irish immigrant and basically a badass patriot during the American Revolution who coaxed juicy tyrannical deets from British soldiers, then tattled on them to President Washington himself. Today, he remains a kind of cult figure who inspires websites like Who Was Hercules Mulligan, Anyway?
Another such homage is Thayer Street’s newest addition, which sits atop Soban in the space that formerly housed Marley’s. Like the original Mr. Mulligan, it packs a big dose of patriotism, reflected in both its hodgepodge of a menu and its avid fandom of the New England football team. Also like the original Mr. M, it’s true to its Irish heritage: giant barrels of Guinness stand in as bar tables, and Flogging Molly blasts through the speakers at all hours and unspeakable decibel levels.
But the restaurant itself is a mutt, evidenced by the abundance of Irish favorites like shepherd’s pie and bangers and mash amidst Caprese salad and pistachio-crusted salmon. Asian food finds a strange home in there, too: spring rolls come stuffed with corned beef, Swiss, and sauerkraut. Likewise, nachos are “Irish-ized” with the addition of potato chips and Irish bacon, as is BBQ sauce with Jameson whiskey. Drinks-wise, there’s a great rotation of beers on tap, plus $3 ‘Gansetts (cool) and the requisite pint of Guinness. Vegetarians: there’s a veggie burger and requisite pasta dish, but you’re probably better off elsewhere.
Bangers and mash, complete with Guinness gravy.
While I can’t really make heads or tails of the Irish spring rolls, the food’s pretty solid. Greasy, starchy, stomach-padding food such as this runs the gamut; grease sometimes eclipses everything else so all you taste are salt and calories (which both have their place, and that place is Jo’s). To pay ~$10 for it in a real restaurant is to gamble that what you get will taste like it was made with real ingredients, by a real person, in a real kitchen.
All can be said of the food at Herc’s. Sure, nothing you get will be the best version you’ve ever had of that thing, but that’s the nature of eating at an American-Chinese-Mexican-Italian-BBQ Irish pub. All the same, we are in college; places like this are born to be our old standbys. It’s a fun place to go with friends for choose-your-own-adventure dining from the incredibly extensive menu, binging on icy cold and affordable beer (isn’t that a beautiful combination of words?), and satisfying-if-not-enlightening eats.
High: Herc’s rounds out the repertoire of Thayer Street eats quite nicely. It’s a great place to go in big groups, with picky eaters, and/or with drunk people: between the mainstays and the constantly updated specials, there’s something for everyone (unless you’re macrobiotic/vegan/crazy, in which case you, my friend, are up a creek). And for all the food you get, the price is right.
Low: Point blank, there is no excuse for an Irish restaurant to have meh mashed potatoes, but this one does (kinda just like a potato smoothie). This won’t be the best meal of your life, and you probably won’t be inspired to drag your parents by the wrists next time they’re offering you a free meal out.
Bottom line: Imagine a stoned person sat down and wrote the greatest hits of greasy food from across the globe. Voila, for better and for worse: Hercules Mulligan’s.
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SingularityNET Platform Launches Beta Decentralized AI Marketplace After $36 Mln ICO
Blockchain artificial intelligence (AI) platform SingularityNET has officially launched a beta version of its Ethereum-based decentralized marketplace on Thursday, Feb. 28, according to a press release obtained by Cointelegraph.
Ben Goertzel, CEO and chief scientist at SingularityNET, noted in the press release that the pre-beta version was stress tested by the community and volunteers prior to the launch .
The AI firm, which is working with renowned robot Sophia built by Hong Kong-based Hanson Robotics, completed an ICO in 2017, raising over $150 million in pledged orders from investors. The ICO eventually collected $36 million in total, the limit of their hard cap.
Following the AGI token offering, the company reportedly partnered with more than 20 companies and institutions, including UNESCO and the government of Malta, the press release states.
The AI company intends to create a blockchain-driven marketplace where individuals, small businesses and government agencies will be able to purchase algorithms that had previously been available only to Silicon Valley players, the release notes. The services available on the marketplace will include image and emotion recognition services, object detection and speech-recognition, among others.
SingularityNET believes that AI is a rapidly growing area that will probably contribute over $15 trillion to the global economy by 2030. Goertzel also states that the AI economy will further expand and the businesses will need more tech solutions in coming years:
“As the AI economy matures and expands, the demand for a democratic and decentralized AI infrastructure is becoming increasingly clear, as is the need within businesses across the spectrum for AI tools with a greater variety of focus and generalization capabilities.”
As Cointelegraph previously reported, the government of Malta collaborated with SingularityNET back in November 2018 for a pilot project to “explore a citizenship test for robots in the process of drafting new regulation for AI.”
In other AI news, South Korean internet giant and messaging app operator Kakao Corp has recently announced it will keep investing in blockchain and AI despite the significant expenses related to new businesses.
Another AI-related initiative, Fetch.AI, has recently closed its FET token sale on Binance’s Launchpad platform, gaining $6 million dollars with the sale of over 69 million tokens within 22 seconds.
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Barry becomes season's first hurricane as it makes landfall in central Louisiana
On Saturday morning, Barry was upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane (with peak sustained winds of 75mph) just before it made landfall south of Lafayette. Dangerous storm surge of 6-8 feet is occurring east of the center (Morgan City area), and heavy rain is just making its way onshore... fortunately, the storm remained lopsided and the majority of the rain is still south of the center. But it is not over; now that it's onshore, the rain will be too!
Again, the classification of the storm (tropical storm, Category 1 hurricane, etc) *only* pertains to the peak sustained wind speed found somewhere in the storm -- it does not tell you anything about the size of the wind field, the amount of rain it will produce, or the depth and extent of the storm surge. You can find a few long, updating radar loops covering Hurricane Barry's landfall at http://bmcnoldy.rsmas.miami.edu/tropics/radar/
As you can see, rainfall remains a major concern today and in the coming couple of days as Barry moves inland. The graphic below shows the flask flood risk from Saturday through Tuesday morning:
This event fits within what we expect from climatology: the Gulf of Mexico is a favored region for tropical cyclone formation during July.
Barry is the 8th hurricane to make landfall in Louisiana in the past two decades... the other recent hits include Lili (2002, Cat1), Cindy (2005, Cat1), Katrina (2005, Cat3), Rita (2005, Cat3), Gustav (2008, Cat2), Isaac (2012, Cat1), and Nate (2017, Cat1).
Tracks of the seven hurricanes to make landfall in Louisiana from 1999-2018.
Elsewhere in the Atlantic, an easterly wave left the African coast back on July 8th and continues to maintain a minimal amount of organization. The National Hurricane Center is giving it just a 10% chance of becoming a tropical depression by Thursday. It, in whatever condition, would reach the Lesser Antilles around Monday-Tuesday. At this point, it's very likely to be nothing more than a tropical breeze.
Strengthening Tropical Storm Barry bearing down on Louisiana
Today's analysis and forecast of Tropical Storm Barry is available on the Capital Weather Gang blog:
Barry forms and is predicted to unleash ‘dangerous’ hurricane conditions in Louisiana on Saturday
Thursday's update on newly-formed Tropical Storm Barry is available on the Capital Weather Gang blog:
A hurricane is forecast to strike Louisiana on Saturday
The National Hurricane Hurricane has initiated advisories on "Potential Tropical Cyclone Two" as of Wednesday morning. It has a very high chance of becoming Tropical Storm Barry, and could even be Hurricane Barry by the time it makes landfall on Saturday. Get the full scoop in today's update, available on the Capital Weather Gang blog:
A tropical mess is taking shape along the northern Gulf coast
An update on a developing tropical system in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico is available on the Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang blog at:
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Let’s try to look on the bright side of coronavirus politics. OK, that sounds ridiculous. Let’s look on a less neurosis-inducing side.
I know, still not easy.
Sure, Donald Trump has been a terrible leader. But drop the bar a little. Unlike the king of Thailand, he hasn’t moved to a luxury Alpine hotel with a huge entourage of retainers. And he hasn’t demanded the permanent right to rule by decree, like Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary.
Truly scary to think of Trump ruling by decree. “Today, I want everybody to go out shopping and boost the economy,” he’d begin the day. Then after all the health experts reminded him about sheltering in place, he’d announce that anyone caught shopping would be guillotined. Followed by a retraction that was coupled with a press conference in which he introduced America to some of the nation’s most prominent guillotine manufacturers.
See? Things could be worse.
Trump-watchers have actually noted a welcome presidential transformation this week. Gone are all the claims that the coronavirus is just like a flu. Now he’s somber and serious, predicting “a hell of a bad two weeks … and maybe even three weeks.”
Actually, maybe even three months. But you’ve got to take improvement where you can get it.
And those flu comparisons? Trump was not denying reality! He explained it was … a psychological strategy. “I’m not about bad news. I want to give people hope,” he said. “I’m a positive person.”
Yeah, a positive person who positively rejected the idea of giving uninsured Americans a chance to sign up for Obamacare. And who, in his spare time, managed to further water down future fuel efficiency standards. Because global warming is actually just … mediocre air-conditioning.
OK, Trump may not be our best bright light. Maybe our quest for good news needs to focus on the governors. This is not a country that has been trained, in times of crisis, to look to the state capitols for leadership. But now they’re sounding, in the main, pretty smart and sensible.
A lot of people now know that the governor of Washington is Jay Inslee, and that the governor of Ohio is Mike DeWine. And that the governor of Michigan is Gretchen Whitmer, who became nationally famous when Trump said he’d told Mike Pence not to call “the woman in Michigan” after she complained about the administration’s failure to get hospital equipment to the states.
Now Whitmer is being widely discussed as a possible running mate for Joe Biden. In fact, she is possibly being discussed more widely than Joe Biden himself, who’s stuck in a basement studio like so many other prominent public people. And to be honest, he’s not handling it as skillfully as Trevor Noah or Stephen Colbert.
Sadly, all governors are not created equal. Ron DeSantis of Florida was still dithering about a shelter-in-place order when the state was hovering around 7,000 coronavirus cases. DeSantis said he’d make the call if the White House told him to, and Trump, even on Tuesday, was saying that it was up to DeSantis. On Wednesday DeSantis finally gave the order, but history is going to remember him as the guy who didn’t see any point in banning partygoers from the beach during spring break.
A lot of corporate leaders have risen to the moment, throwing their companies into the race to produce masks, hospital gowns and other critically needed equipment. That’s been a plus — although we’re still waiting for all those testing sites Walmart and CVS were going to be welcoming to their parking lots.
But the president has filled up his press conferences with so many titans of business and industry — most of them lining up for an introduction — that we’re on titan overload.
One high point in the we-love-business Trumpathon came when the president brought up Mike Lindell, the head of MyPillow. (“Boy do you sell those pillows.”) Lindell then launched into a short infomercial for his company, followed by a eulogy to Trump as the man who had rescued a nation that had “turned its back on God.” It wasn’t inspiring, but it was definitely a break in the routine.
Lindell is a Fox celebrity, a big Trump donor, and the president would like to see him run for governor of Minnesota. No way right now of knowing whether his political future will be affected by a 2017 Better Business Bureau decision to revoke MyPillow’s accreditation.
We should be grateful that the president at least realizes that he has to spend some airtime with medical experts. (How long will it take before he’s driven crazy by the great press Dr. Anthony Fauci is getting? Feel free to place your bets.) But you know he always was, and always will be, a guy who likes pretending everybody in the Fortune 500 is just a comrade in commerce.
“They’re big people. I know their names very well, from watching business and studying business all my life,” said Trump.
People, do you think it’s surly to stop here and to recall that at one point in his highly publicized business life Donald Trump was managing to lose more than twice as much money as any other taxpayer in the entire nation?
No, I would definitely put that under the heading of needed diversion. Feel free to discuss over dinner. And stay well.
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Richardson v. Sauls
EDWARD RICHARDSON, Plaintiff,
BILLY J. SAULS, et al., Defendants.
ROSEMARY M. COLLYER UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE.
Edward Richardson, a former employee of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, sues eleven current and former Board employees pursuant to Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971), under which plaintiffs may allege constitutional torts directly against individual federal employees. Mr. Richardson claims that Defendants violated his constitutional rights by taking various improper actions related to his job, personnel records, and complaints of discrimination, leading to his termination and undermining his subsequent attempts to challenge that termination. Defendants move to dismiss on the grounds that the claims have already been litigated or are barred by Defendants' qualified immunity, among other arguments. Because Counts One through Eight in Mr. Richardson's Amended Complaint have been litigated fully in a related case, they are barred by the principles of res judicata and collateral estoppel and will be dismissed. Counts Nine and Ten will be dismissed because they are untimely. Count Eleven will be dismissed for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted. As a result, the Amended Complaint will be dismissed in its entirety.
A. Amended Complaint in this Action
Because the facts of this case have been summarized repeatedly in this and related actions, see Richardson v. Yellen, 167 F.Supp.3d 105 (D.D.C. 2016) (Richardson I); Richardson v. Board of Govs. of the Fed. Res. Sys., 248 F.Supp.3d 91 (D.D.C. 2017) (Richardson II), the Court provides only a brief summary.
Mr. Richardson worked as a conditional employee for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the Board) in its Law Enforcement Unit (LEU) from June 8, 2009 to June 7, 2010, when his employment was terminated. Am. Compl. for Damages (Am. Compl.) [Dkt. 21] ¶¶ 3, 21-22. He is an African-American male and a former military police officer who served in Iraq in 2003. Mr. Richardson previously alleged that his termination was illegal, stemming from race-based and disability discrimination, see generally Richardson I, 167 F.Supp.3d 105, but those allegations are not the basis of the instant Complaint. Here Mr. Richardson alleges numerous violations of his constitutional rights by some or all of the eleven Defendants. As listed in the Complaint, Defendants are Billy Sauls, retired LEU chief; Albert Pleasant, senior special agent within the Board's Office of the Inspector General (OIG); Larence Dublin, LEU lieutenant; Marvin Jones, LEU deputy chief of operations; Kevin May, Human Resources specialist; Robert Bakale, LEU sergeant and Mr. Richardson's direct supervisor; Tyson Coble, LEU administrative lieutenant; Charles O'Malley, retired LEU assistant chief; Margaret Shanks, Board ombudsman; Keisha Hargo, senior employee relations specialist in HR; and Andre Smith, an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) specialist for the Board. See Am. Compl. ¶¶ 4-14.
Mr. Richardson brings eleven counts by which he alleges constitutional torts stemming from discriminatory harassment, improper tampering with documents and personnel records, lying about his termination, and undermining his administrative complaints, among other trespasses. Count One charges that Defendants Jones, Coble, Dublin, May, Sauls, Bakale, and O'Malley violated Mr. Richardson's Fourth Amendment rights when they allegedly “conspired with one another to remove protected medical records from Plaintiff's personnel file that . . . should not have been in the defendants['] possession.” Id. ¶ 168.
Counts Two and Five allege violations of Mr. Richardson's rights under the Fourth and Fifth Amendments, respectively, based on the claim that Messrs. Sauls and Pleasant illegally obtained Mr. Richardson's cell phone records “knowing the information used to obtain those records to be falsified and [a] misrepresentation of facts, ” and that they “willfully released” his phone records to other people. Id. ¶¶ 83-84, 92, 178, 214-15.
Counts Three and Six allege that Mr. May violated the Fourth and Fifth Amendments, respectively, when he “searched Plaintiff's personnel file[, ] retrieving only documents that would be most character damaging to Plaintiff, ” and “searched through Plaintiff's ongoing EEO activity file, removing specific documents, including his own EEO affidavit and converted those documents to his personal use” by improperly mailing them to JaCina Stanton of the Maryland Attorney Grievance Commission. Id. ¶¶ 188-89, 229-30.
Count Four alleges that Ms. Shanks and Messrs. Sauls, Bakale, Coble, Jones, Dublin, and O'Malley violated Mr. Richardson's Fifth Amendment rights and are liable for wrongful termination because they “intentionally and callously remov[ed] 22 medical documents” from Mr. Richardson's personnel file; the absence of these medical records allegedly deprived Mr. Richardson of the ability to document his medical “call-offs” when requested; and his termination resulted. Id. at 28-30.
Count Seven alleges that Messrs. Bakale, Dublin, Jones, May, Sauls, Coble, and O'Malley violated Mr. Richardson's First Amendment rights by retaliating against him due to his protected speech and, specifically, that Mr. Bakale “harass[ed]” Mr. Richardson when confronted about the alleged removal of medical documents and asked Mr. Richardson why he planned to “tak[e] the illegal removal of medical documents public and to the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs.” Id. ¶¶ 238-240.
Count Eight alleges that Messrs. Sauls and Pleasant violated Mr. Richardson's First Amendment rights by retaliating against him for engaging in protected speech following his termination: Mr. Richardson claims that Messrs. Sauls and Pleasant “attempted to establish a falsified investigation against Plaintiff and further attempt[ed] [to] have Plaintiff wrongfully prosecuted by 4 separate law enforcement agencies, ” in retaliation for Mr. Richardson's “public disclosures” concerning the removal of his medical documents. Id. ¶¶ 247-49. Also in Count Eight, Mr. Pleasant is alleged to have investigated another employee for wrongful behavior, who had not engaged in protected activities and who received a lesser discipline than Mr. Richardson. Id. ¶¶ 250-52.
Count Nine alleges that Mses. Hargo and Shanks and Messrs. Jones, Sauls, O'Malley, Bakale, Dublin, Coble, and May violated Mr. Richardson's rights under the First and Fifth Amendments by conspiring to retaliate against him and to deny his appeal of his termination. The crux of count's allegations is that Ms. Shanks's purported reason for upholding Mr. Richardson's termination-that he had accumulated too many “tardies”-was pretextual and a “malicious fabrication of evidence.” Id. ¶¶ 259-60. Mr. Richardson contends that Mr. May had informed him that he was being terminated for failing to provide supporting documentation for medical call-offs. Id. ¶ 262.
In Count Ten, Mr. Richardson complains of unequal treatment in violation of his Fifth Amendment due process rights. See Id. ¶ 280. Count Ten alleges that Mses. Shanks and Hargo and Messrs. O'Malley, Jones, Sauls, Bakale, Dublin, Coble, and May failed to consider prior misconduct of two white employees, Rocco Christoff and Darren Harris, when terminating Mr. Richardson for comparable reasons in June 2010. Id. ¶¶ 273-78.
Finally, Count Eleven charges Mr. Smith, a senior EEO specialist with the Board, with violations of Mr. Richardson's rights under the First and Fifth Amendments for allegedly failing to provide EEO counseling when Mr. Richardson submitted an administrative complaint of discrimination in 2016, several years after his discharge. Id. ¶¶ 284-90. Specifically, Mr. Smith allegedly deprived Mr. Richardson of his “right to free speech” by denying him adequate investigation of his EEO claims and related counseling. Id. ¶¶ 286-87. Mr. Richardson also contends that Mr. Smith violated the Fifth Amendment by denying him the opportunity “to be heard and to bring his claims before an administrative judge or this Court.” Id. ¶ 288. He asserts that Mr. Smith improperly forwarded new EEO charges filed by Mr. Richardson to Board senior counsel Joshua Chadwick and that Messrs. Smith and Chadwick together “prevented Plaintiff's newly filed claims from moving forward” in the EEO process. Id. ¶ 156. Mr. Richardson contends that Mr. Chadwick presented a “fabricated” EEO form to Mr. Richardson's EEO investigator, thus undermining his claim. Id. ¶ 162. He alleges that the failure to “conduct EEO counseling . . . and a limited inquiry into Plaintiff's new claims of discrimination” violated his constitutional rights to due process and free speech. Id. ¶ 157. Related to this claim, Defendants filed with the Court an exhibit, of which they ask the Court to take judicial notice, which is a letter dated February 2, 2017, in which Mr. Smith informed Mr. Richardson that his complaint was dismissed in accord with EEO regulations. See Mot. to Dismiss, Ex. 1, 2/2/2017 Letter to Mr. Richardson (2017 Letter) [Dkt. 34-1] (citing 29 C.F.R. § 1614.107(a)(1), (3)); see also Am. Compl. ¶¶ 156-58, 284-89 (referencing the 2017 Letter).
The Board moved to dismiss. See Mot. to Dismiss (Mot.) [Dkt. 34]. Mr. Richardson opposed. Mem. in Opp'n to Mot. to Dismiss (Opp'n) [Dkt. 37]. Defendants replied. Reply to Opp'n to Mot. to Dismiss (Reply) [Dkt. 39]. The motion is ripe for review.
B. Richardson I
Mr. Richardson sued the Board and Messrs. May, Sauls, Jones, Coble, Bakale, Dublin, and Pleasant in a previous, related case. See Richardson I, 167 F.Supp.3d at 109-12. Richardson I concerned the Board's alleged failures to provide reasonable accommodation for Mr. Richardson's “severe persistent asthma/allergies” and subsequent harassment by Mr. Richardson's superiors and co-workers. See Id. at 108-09. Among alleged constitutional violations, Mr. Richardson alleged that Mr. Pleasant “willingly and intentionally defamed [Mr. Richardson's] character to gain access to [his] cell phone records, by claiming that [Mr. Richardson] was involved in a spoofing scandal against the Board”; and “access[ed] [Mr. Richardson's] cell phone records with malicious intent” “in violation of the Fourth Amendment.” First Am. Compl., Richardson I (Richardson I Am. Compl.) [No. 14-cv-1673 Dkt. 8] ¶¶ 230-31. Mr. Richardson also alleged that Mr. May knowingly removed from Mr. Richardson's personnel file a separation letter, the denial of an appeal, and an investigative affidavit, id. ¶¶ 235-36; and that Messrs. Bakale and Coble retaliated against Mr. Richardson by removing medical documents from his file so that he could be terminated before his probationary period was over. Id. ¶ 243. Further, he alleged that all seven Richardson I defendants “knowingly, willingly, and with malicious disregard for established laws, falsified testimony under penalty of perjury, while knowingly defaming [Mr. Richardson's] character, with intentional malice, to support their cause that resulted in [his] termination.” Id. ¶ 238. Mr. Richardson also alleged that after he disclosed certain protected activity to Messrs. Dublin, Jones, Sauls, and May, he was given undesirable work assignments, including being “forced to work 3 different shifts weekly” until he was terminated. Id. ¶ 243. The Richardson I complaint included allegations of denial of promotion, denial of accommodation, and derogatory name-calling. Id. ¶ 253.
The Board moved to dismiss the Richardson I complaint as to all claims except those brought under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. § 791. Among the claims dismissed were those alleged by Mr. Richardson as constitutional torts against individual defendants, which the Court evaluated as Bivens claims and determined were untimely. See Richardson I, 167 F.Supp.3d at 115-16.
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A motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) challenges the adequacy of a complaint on its face. Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6). A complaint must be sufficient “to give the defendant fair notice of what the . . . claim is and the grounds upon which it rests.” Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 555 (2007) (internal citation and quotation marks omitted). Although a complaint does not need detailed factual allegations, a plaintiff's obligation to provide the grounds of his entitlement to relief “requires more than labels and conclusions, and a formulaic recitation of the elements of a cause of action will not do.” Id. To survive a motion to dismiss, a complaint must contain sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to state a claim for relief that is “plausible on its face.” Id. at 570. A court must treat the complaint's factual allegations as true, “even if doubtful in fact.” Id. at 555. But a court need not accept as true legal conclusions set forth in a complaint. Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 678 (2009). In ...
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ABOUT THAILAND BIRDING
# Species: 1032
# Excl Vagrants: 945
# Endemics: 3
# Near Endemics: 5
Thailand is a superb birding destination with varied environments that include mountainous regions, delineated on the map by narrow blue lines within Thailand, coastal areas, and rainforest. Although much of central Thailand is devoted to agriculture, many parts of the country remain excellent as birding destinations. Especially noteworthy are the mountainous regions in the north and the forests in the southern peninsula. Then there is the wintering population of Spoon-billed Sandpiper, one of the most critically endangered species on Earth. Over 1000 species of birds have been recorded in Thailand. Only two true endemics are found there, White-eyed River Martin and Deignan's Babbler. The former is probably extinct as it hasn't been seen anywhere since 1980. The latter is known only from Chiang Dao in the north, is now considered a subspecies of Rufous-fronted Babbler, and has apparently been extirpated. Thailand does feature 6 near endemics and numerous range-restricted specialties of southeast Asia, making it a country well worth birding. Below is a description of the major birding regions in Thailand, separated by climatic zones and to some extent by biogeographical regions. For more information see Nick Upton's website.
Northern Thailand is the first place most birders visit in Thailand. The usual arrival point is Chiang Mai. Numerous birding destinations are easily reached from there. Close to the city is Mae Hia Agricultural College, a good place for a half day or even full day birding excursion nearby. Also within easy reach of the city is Doi Suthep-Pui National Park, which offers an altitudinal transect through some good forest. The premier birding destination is Doi Inthanon National Park 80km southwest of Chiang Mai. Farther north are Doi Chiang Dao National Park, Doi Ang Kang, and Doi Lang, each with their own specialty birds, many of which representing the southern-most range of more northern species from China. These latter sites are espcially worthwhile during winter months from November-February when Palearctic migrants, especially several species of northern thrushes, are typically present.
The most notable birding destination of northeast Thailand is Khao Yai National Park. This park is not a great distance from Bangkok and is an especially good place to see hornbills. Birding there is excellent and is worth spending a couple days. The park is notable as the best place to find Coral-billed Ground-Cuckoo. Farther north is Nam Nao National Park, less visited but very good for woodpeckers.
Western Thailand features the largest remaining forest in Southeast Asia. Mae Wong National Park in the north borders on Myanmar and features several species difficult to see elsewhere in Thailand, most notably the rare Rufous-necked Hornbill. Another notable species there is Burmese Yuhina, which is mainly in quite inacessible sites at high elevation but is occasionally seen elsewhere in the park. Another notable park in the west is Kaeng Krachan National Park, largest in Thailand and also bordering on Myanmar. This park features excellent forest habitat and is the premier destination for forest birding in the country.
Central Thailand is devoted heavily to agriculture but water birds are found at many sites. The top destination has to be the Laem Pak Bia/Pak Thale area where wintering Spoon-billed Sandpipers can be reliably seen during the Palearctic winter. This site is good as a day trip or overnight visit and features numerous shorebirds, herons, gulls, terns, and other birds of interest.
Southeast Thailand is rarely visited by birders due to its inaccessibility in relation to other prime birding areas. This is one of the wettest areas in Thailand, and the avifauna is similar to neighboring Cambodia. Good forest still remains in the area.
Finally, south Thailand is worth a trip on its own, as there are so many excellent birding sites. The region features many species not found farther north, including a good variety of Malaysian species. The extreme south is considered unsafe for travel due to occasional insurgent activity near the border with Malaysia. Some birders do visit there without incident, and the birding is fantastic. Khao Nor Chuchi was previously the only place in Thailand to see the critically endangered and highly prized Gurney's Pitta. However, the species has not been seen there since 2013 and may be extirpated in Thailand. The park is considered the most difficult place for birding in Thailand due to the heavy forest undergrowth and poor maintenance of the trail system. Other notable destinations include the mangroves around Phang Nga, Krung Ching Waterfall area within Khao Luang National Park, Sri Phang Nga National Park, and the Similan Islands where one can find Nicobar Pigeon and Pied Imperial-Pigeon.
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Bung Boraphet
Chiang Saen Area, Mekong River
Chumphon Area
Doi Ang Khang
Doi Chiang Dao
Doi Inthanon National Park
Doi Lang
Doi Phu Kha National Park
Doi Suthep-Pui
Hala-Bala Wildlife Sanctuary
Khao Nor Chuchi Wildlife Sanctuary
Khlong Saeng Wildlife Sanctuary
Krabi River & Town
Krung Ching
Laem Pak Bia/Pak Thale
Laem Pakarang
Mae Hia Agricultural College
Mae Ping National Park
Mae Wong National Park
Nam Nao National Park
Pha Pru
Phu Hin Rong Kla National Park
Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary
Phu Suan Sai National Park
Ratchaburi & Huay Mai Teng Reservoir
Similan Islands Marine Park
Sri Phang Nga
Thai Muang
Thale Noi
Yaring Mangroves
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Tom Hopper | Les Misérables
Claude Michel Schönberg and Alan Boubil (book, based on the novel by Victor Hugo and their original musical in French), Herbert Kretzmer (lyrics, with additional text by James Fenton), William Nicholson (screenplay), Tom Hopper (director) Les Misérables / 2012
Tom Hopper’s grand operetta, brought to film from the extraordinarily successful Broadway musical, begins with an improbable scene in which prisoners are forced to pull by rope a huge ship into dry dock while they sing of their humble position in life, “Look Down,” averting their glances into the eyes of their torturers to prevent themselves from further punishment. Among the men is the hero of this work, Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman), who as the ship is finally pulled in, is forced by his arch enemy, the head prison guard, Jauvert (Russell Crowe), to single-handedly pull in the huge flag, which, like Christ bearing the cross of his own death, he delivers it up to his torturer.
Of course, in beginning with the concept of “looking down”—the position in society in which most of the “miserable” characters of this piece exist—the musical also posits its opposite, as Valjean—freed soon after by Jauvert, but haunted through the early part of the film by his parole documents—strives to “look up.” Particularly through the religiously inspired scenes, as Valjean aspires to gain faith, the songs switch to inspirational-like ditties, the most notable of which is the poor former factory-worker turned prostitute Fantine’s (Anne Hathaway) paean to life as it might have been, “I Dreamed a Dream,” possibly the best song of the film. She dies soon after.
So is the pattern of this film revealed, as various figures, including the evil Jauvert, vertiginously walking a high ledge overlooking the city, shout-out in chant-like pieces the necessity of “looking down,” while the score alternates with quieter pleas for beauty and grace. That pattern, indeed, is at the center of this sprawling work’s various directions, as some characters seek out love (Valjean, Marius, Cosette, Éponine), others freedom through revolution, and still others look into the deep depths from which they have risen or in which they, like Madame Thénardier and her husband, remain. Unfortunately, it seems, neither the original musical nor this film version, offers anything in between. Les Misérables, it seems, are unhappy because they live at the extremes, phantom beings out of some vast tapestry that keeps weaving and unweaving itself, each figure chasing or running from one another like laboratory rats.
If anything, director Tom Hopper—perhaps in an attempt to maintain the popular theatricality of a work seen on stage by millions of adoring fans—further exaggerates the dichotomous pattern of the work, lifting his fussbudget camera to the towering heights only to drop into the lowest depths (the sewer scene is hard to endure), pulling away momentarily from his players only to rush forward, as the figures, like Sunset Bouelvard’s Nora Desmond, call out that they are ready for their “close ups.” Although one can commend Hopper, it appears, for asking the singers to perform their songs in real time, the constant placement of his camera up and close creates such an artificial feeling that, except for in the large group scenes, we must wonder at times whether these characters have torsos and legs.
In fact, they don’t. Like so many rag dolls, each fills the large cinema screens with tears and perspiration running down his or her face—or even worse, as in the “Lovely Ladies” scene, with macabre patches of red, white, and black paint swabbed across her eyes, cheek, and nose. At times, particularly in the comic scenes involving the Thénardiers (Helena Bonham Carter and Sasha Baron Cohen) it is almost as if the performers have escaped from another movie, in this case, Burton’s Sweeney Todd, to suddenly reappear in Les Misérables. At least this dour film of eternal suffering has these few comic moments!
Allowing his international cast to use their own dialects, from the Aussie-vocalizations of Jackman, the Kiwi shout-outs of Crowe, and the apparently Cockney utterings of the Dickensian-like David Huddelstone (as Gavroche)—all of whom are supposedly French—Hopper creates a mish-mash of character-types that, once more, squeeze any humanity from them.
Hopper’s over-the-top direction is particularly unfortunate for Jackman—whose presence in this film was, in part, what drew me to the theater—because his full and rich baritone voice on display in his stage-version of Oklahoma! here seems considerably strained, perhaps due to the fact that he was forced to lose 30 pounds in order to appear like a man who has just spent nineteen years in chains. As I’ve suggested, since Javert does little more that howl, I have no idea whether Crowe can sing or not.
While I’m at it, I should admit that I came to Les Misérables with a bit of a chip on my shoulder, mostly because I see the lumbering and bumbling musical score, similar to Cats, as being responsible, in part, for the death of the American Broadway musical. Yes, both works have moments of lilting melodies, but the unimaginative tunes of the rest, combined with never ending series of banally rhymed couplets nearly drive me to despair. If any tears flowed from eyes—and a few did; I’ve admitted elsewhere I’m a sentimentalist and Les Misérables is sentimentality determined to try to break your heart—I might almost attribute them to the pain inflicted by its music and lyrics. It is hard to imagine, for example, the following passage is sung:
Javert: Now Prisoner 24601, your time is up and your parole's begun.
You know what that means?
Jean Valjean: Yes, it means I'm free.
Javert: No.
[hands him a yellow paper]
Javert: Follow to the letter your itinerary, this badge of shame you wear
until you die. It warns that you're a dangerous man.
Jean Valjean: I stole a loaf of bread. My sisters child was close to death, and
we were starving...
Javert: And you will starve again unless you learn the meaning of the law!
Jean Valjean: I've learnt the meaning of those nineteen years; a slave of
Javert: Five years for what you did. The rest because you tried to run,
yes 24601...
Jean Valjean: My name is Jean Valjean!
Javert: And I'm Javert! Do not forget my name. Do not forget me, 24601.
All right opera has its strange moments, if translated into English, but this is just insufferable dialogue!
Or consider this inane rhyme, repeated throughout the song:
Marius: In my life, there is someone who touches my life. Waiting near...
Éponine: Waiting here...
"Life/life," "near/here." I could do better in my sleep, and have!
Despite that, however, I must admit the orchestration was quite effective.
And then, there were those wonderful surprises, such as the performance throughout of Eddie Redmayne as Marius, a handsome young man with a glorious voice, particularly well employed in “Emply Chairs at Empty Tables,” as he sings of the passing of his revolutionary partners. Quite moving also was Samatha Bark’s rendering, despite the drip-drop of rain down her face, of “On My Own.” Throughout, Amanda Seyfried as Cosette sang, although quite waveringly, beautifully.
But in the end, none of them could save Hopper’s up and down, in and out cinematic eye-balling of this war-horse of a crowd-pleaser. My comments, surely, will mean little to those thousands of devotees of this over-the-top display of loving and hating types, and even I did not share the feelings of a slightly grumpy elderly man who left the theater loudly muttering, “That was most boring movie I’ve ever seen.” And although I’ve heard news of thunderous applauses in local movie theaters, no one applauded at the early morning showing I attended. I might have simply called Hopper’s film, “ponderous.” It’s hard to “Hear the People Sing” without a real human being in sight.
Los Angeles, January 3, 2013
Reprinted from Nth Position [England] (February 2013).
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The Vegetarian by Han Kang
When I was studying my A Levels I had a friend from Southern Japan. I was with her the first time she saw England in the snow. It was a small country town with plenty of trees and pretty cobbled streets and though everything was covered in glistening layers of whiteness the snow was still falling. My friend turned to me and said, “It is so beautiful. Like feathers being shaken from a dead swan.” The Vegetarian has much the same aesthetic.
Split into three sections, each from a different character’s perspective, the novel tells the story of Yeong-hye who has a terrible dream that turns her vegetarian. Up until this moment Yeong-hye has been the meekest most absent of people who fulfilled her family’s and husband’s expectations and lived quietly in the background. Her refusal to eat meat causes surprising upheaval and leads Yeong-hye into a world in which one unconventional behaviour breaks many barriers.
Her story is told by first her husband, then her sister’s husband, and then her sister. It is her sister who remarks of herself, “It’s your body, you can treat it however you please. The only area where you’re free to do just as you like. And even that doesn’t turn out how you wanted.” And the book is all about what we do to our bodies, why we do it and how these actions are interpreted. We are physically bound to the world around us and The Vegetarian explores how little we think of our intermingled physicality, employing dreams to break through the surface of our conventional real through the use of the surreal. I don’t want to spoil the plot but her brother-in-law’s narrative is all about bringing the surreal into reality in a cleverly lustless congress of floral blossoming.
We do hear snippets of Yeong-hye’s voice in her husband’s narrative. It seems a strange place for them to come free given his almost complete distance from her even when he chose to have her in his life. I think I would have taken them out of his narrative entirely, given them their own place outside of the three sections, but I could easily be misunderstanding something.
Ultimately, The Vegetarian is a pleasing, engaging read full of ideas and provocative images. It is probably at some disadvantage coming after László Krasznahorkai’s writing because it feels light in comparison but perhaps that lightness is a positive, invasive thing. You’ll know if the idea of the story appeals to you and whilst I can’t promise you’ll be blown away by The Vegetarian, you will enjoy it and it will leave you with questions to ponder.
Next week I’m reading The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector.
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Seiobo There Below by László Krasznahorkai
“… already I am ascending, I still see the troubling chaos of the villages and the cities, the lands and the seas, the valleys and the peaks, and the moment that enclosed so much into itself comes to an end, and as I ascend, everything ascends with me, a magnificence rises there, a magnificence – back to the purity of the Heavens, to the sphere inconceivable – which in its own form, resplendent, streaming forth, swelling, is nothing else than a return back to that place where nothing is, to the Radiant Empire of Light, the boundless plains of the Sky, for that is the place where I exist, although I am not, for this is where I may place my crown upon my head, and I can think to myself that Seiobo was there below.” (p214)
Thus the gods move through the Noh theatre of the story ‘The Life and Work of Master Inoue Kazuyuki’, one of the seventeen stories that form the formidable Seiobo There Below.
I say formidable because Krasznahorkai’s work is not something you can pick up lightly. The stories themselves are erudite, full of studied learning about history throughout the world, and, like the writing, there is a refusal to bend for the reader. If an explanation of an event or thought requires a sentence several pages long, or a ritual must be described in painstaking detail that refuses to break into the sort of fresh territory in need of a new paragraph, then so be it. These stories demand attention in such a way that even though you feel the reading is at times an ordeal, you end a story with a sense of having actually lived through it, of having moved through the heads of the characters and sensed what they experienced. To read these stories is to be these stories. And of course this way of experiencing a story mimics the way we experience life (it seems to me no surprise that Krasznahorkai returns again and again to the idea of the copy, the renewed icon, the new representation of a temple which is more authentic for its recreation – again no surprise that Japanese culture is therefore so prevalent, a land whose relationship to simulacra is entirely different to a typical western relationship where even the word reproduction has negative overtones). What you bring with you to the story allows you to see and experience only what you can comprehend. It is like being a fly on the wall with internal privileges. You see but you don’t necessarily understand.
In many ways the writing has the labyrinthine qualities of Borges and the grandiloquence of Sebald. The workings of literature are clearly in motion, making the miracles of the world manifest, asking readers, the characters even, to observe. Yet even that is not enough because the act of our observation and consequent action must in its turn be observed. Like the Ooshirosagi, the snow-white bird, hunting motionless in the Kamo river in Kyoto, from the opening story, if no one notices the way in which your stillness gives meaning to the human world of activity around it, you may as well creep into the weeded grass and die because “there will be no one at all to understand, no one to look, not even a single one among all your natural enemies that will be able to see who you really are … for there is no point in the sublimity that you bear” (p15).
My favourite story is ‘Something is burning outside’. It is a story of a creative retreat in the mountains. The routine of the retreat is disrupted by one of the artists who appears to have arrived on foot. For days he seems to do nothing but observe the other artists and in order to get to the bottom of what he is doing, the other artists decide to watch and follow him. They discover that he has been working. For all those days he has been rising at dawn, digging an enormous pit at the edge of the camp in the middle of which stands a “life-size earth-hewn horse … holding its head up; sideways, baring its teeth and foaming at the mouth; it was galloping with horrific strength, racing, escaping somewhere … as if he had dug it out, freed it, made this life-sized animal visible as it ran in dreadful terror, running from something beneath the earth” (p319). When they show their admiration for his work, he stretches his arm out over the landscape. “There are still so many of them, he said in a faint voice” (p319). And the story ends with him walking away from the bus that delivers the artists back to civilisation, as if, we imagine, he has seen another creature for when they look after him, he has disappeared. “Only the land remained, the silent order of the mountains, the ground covered in fallen dead leaves in the enormous space, a boundless expanse – disguising, concealing, hiding, covering all that lies below the burning earth” (p320).
It seems to me that for these stories, art is all about concentration and the revelation of observation that almost always requires some form of repetition, some kind of physical repetitive craft be it endless careful movements with a chisel or the repeated words of a prayer; ritual is everything. So it doesn’t matter that he tells written history in many of the stories, or describes famous landmarks or works of art, because the power is in the going-over, in the endless turning this way and that of the meaning of all that is and has been. The action of art – the brush stroke, the chisel stroke, the hand moving the pen – that represents observation, as both physical and spiritual, holds the key to the story of conscious being. Because these acts of creation are impossible to do with the certainty of perfection, it must be practised, it must be done again and again.
Seiobo There Below is not an easy read but it is a rewarding one. If you want to feel you have an understanding of modern literature then I think you can’t afford to miss him from your reading list.
Next week I’m reading The Vegetarian by Han Kang.
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My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
One day the narrator, Elena, is telephoned by the son of her dear friend, Lila (Lina to everyone else), and told that her friend has disappeared without trace. Now in their sixties, the true story of Elena and Lila begins in their childhood and before all trace of Lila can be lost, Elena takes it upon herself to tell the story of their friendship, the story of Lila, as closely as she can.
The tale that unfolds is gripping, eloquent, and beautifully evokes the intensities of childhood and adolescence where one believes true knowledge and feeling are only things that young people can really access. They are the story of the world, the characters of novels; adults, old people, have had their time and have bound themselves in ways which give them no room to manoeuvre and given that Elena and Lila come from a poor area of Naples, manoeuvring, escaping, changing, is everything.
Lila is fascinating because she observes, questions, and formulates her own opinions. Quite simply, Lila is brilliant in the way that most of want to be. She has a force that draws people in, that demands attention and devotion regardless of her often less than nice behaviour. She drives others, the narrator included, to behave in certain ways. Elena in particular strives to be good enough, to know enough, to converse as eloquently, in order to remain Lila’s friend because Lila is more than an intelligent, kindred spirit, she has what Elena considers to be a destiny. Elena feels Lila is going somewhere and Elena wants to go somewhere too, even if, ultimately, that means they go in different directions.
Both girls are learning to navigate the adult world. The novel charts both Elena and Lila as they journey towards an awakening of self-awareness, a journey as much about disappointment as fulfilled expectation, and it is a journey well worth reading.
In some ways, even though the outcomes of their early choices suggest their onward journeys, I wish there were a third section that took Elena and Lila into adulthood. I have no doubt that the story would be written well. Perhaps, however, this novel is not about what happens once you are bound, but the memory of that youthful energy and desire for change. And yet the novel opens with Lila, in her sixties, performing the most amazing change of all: disappearing. Energy and desire, emotional intensity, these aren’t only for the young.
I also wish that the magical real elements of Lila were explored further. Though again, it could be argued that the magic Elena describes is a by-product of intense feeling, an expression of the fullest living of experience, a kind of hyper-real, how wonderful to feel that. Why not explore that further?
Whatever else I may want from My Brilliant Friend, you can’t read it without being reminded of that feeling of wonder. Even when that feeling expresses the most painful isolation, there is within it a suggestion of progress, an upward trajectory that the narrator exposes and exploits. We are the heroines of our own narratives, but how often do we step back, observe and take charge? What does it really mean to come of age?
I would recommend My Brilliant Friend. Don’t be put off by the cover. Yes, there is a wedding and shoes are important to the plot, but this is chic lit only in the sense that it is literature written by a woman whose protagonists are women; this is chic lit in its purest, most relevant, and critical form. Austen and Duras would sit happily on the same bookshelf with Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend.
Next week I’m reading Seiobo There Below by László Krasznahorkai, followed by The Vegetarian by Han Kang. Do keep your comments and suggestions coming.
Descent by Ken MacLeod
Ryan has a UFO experience as a teenager. Descent follows Ryan through the unraveling of this experience as its effects shape his adult life. Conspiracy theories abound and truth crosses paths with belief and with paranoia as we move in a near future world where everything can be seen and tracked through satellites, remote flying cameras and the internet. Descent would seem a strange title but for the other implications of the plot. It seems the human race isn’t one species. Future space travel and human survival both rely upon different forms of descent.
Everything about the sound of the novel promises tight plotting, complex character developments and provocative sci-fi theories. I was looking forward to a mind-bending journey that would invade my dreams but instead found a novel which simply wasn’t for me. There are undoubtedly readers who would enjoy Descent. Somehow, though, I couldn’t quite climb aboard the ride. Ryan didn’t draw me in or win my sympathy. I wasn’t uninterested but nor was I gripped and the writing itself wasn’t enticing enough to carry me along regardless. Ken MacLeod has written many books though, and I suspect there are others that would have me screaming my way around the rollercoaster, just not this one.
Next week I’m reading My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, followed by Seiobo There Below by Laszlo Krasznahorkai.
The Undertaking by Audrey Magee
Peter is at the Russian front of Germany’s war, fighting for Hitler. He is desperate for leave, for something to fight for, so he chooses a woman from a group of photographs and heads to Berlin to marry her. Katharina offers him leave and Peter offers her a soldier’s pension should the almost inevitable take place. This is the undertaking.
It is a brilliant premise for a novel. Even if the two like each other, as Katharina and Peter do, how will war affect their transaction? Can two people who barely know each other create a real marriage from a few days’ leave and letters? The novel follows their attempts looking at life as a woman in Berlin and life at the front in Russia. Both lives are fascinating and compromising and ultimately survival manipulates and challenges politics.
Again, the plot reads like a moving and thought-provoking novel and The Undertaking does breathe the painful monotony of war into Peter and Katharina’s lives, but somehow, something falls short. Perhaps it is the weight of expectation I brought to the novel. It came highly recommended and the premise was enough to entice all kinds of imaginings. The end, however, just seems to underwrite all the salacious and illicit intrigue the plotline first initiated. In some ways this must be intentional. This isn’t tabloid history. These are lifelike characters acting in a kind of calculated desperation and sometimes true-to-life storylines don’t follow pantomime emotions. Normally I admire and seek the stark but I’m not sure about where this novel goes and what it is meant to leave the reader feeling. I hoped for more. I understood where Katharina ended, but not Peter, almost as if the novel rushed to a close.
The Undertaking is an interesting read, well written and pleasing in that it takes German perspectives on the Second World War. This is a good book many will, and have already, loved, but it doesn’t quite do it for me.
Next week I’ll be reading Descent by Ken MacLeod followed by My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante and then Seiobo There Below by Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Keep the comments and suggestions coming.
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Studying LearningMethods
In-Depth Study with DAVID GORMAN
Learn how to use your own intelligence and bring it to bear on your experiences so you can understand how and why you have been caught in the problems you have... and learn how to change them so that you become free of them.
— Change can be quick and dramatic
when we get past our symptoms to the real causes.
— When we get in touch with ourselves, we really do have
all the sensitivity and information we need to guide our lives.
— We are the most amazing learning creatures on the planet
when we remove what has stopped us from growing
— If we stop trying so hard to change ourselves and to get things right, new and surprising abilities are revealed
Change can be quick and dramatic
When we get in touch with ourselves, we really do have
We are the most amazing learning creatures on the planet
when we remove what has stopped us from growing.
If we stop trying so hard to change ourselves and to get things right, new and surprising abilities are revealed.
These workshops show you how to access all this in a simple and systematic way. They have been designed to be equally valuable as a format to understand your problems and transform your own life or as an on-going apprenticeship towards learning to teach others. Anyone new to the work is very welcome to join us.
LearningMethods Open Workshops
The emphasis in these workshops is on learning how to learn and find out for yourself; i.e. the workshops are driven by your own questions, problems, explorations and experiments. The weeks are open to anyone willing and committed to learning more about themselves, to challenging their current framework of understanding and to exploring their practice or performance.
Sessions can be set up either individually, in small groups of 2, 3 or 4, etc. or by joining in any of the scheduled workshops that take place in various cities in Europe and North America. These workshops are small—usually between 5-8 participants, in order to ensure a depth of personal and practical work.
Most of the time we will be working as a group so that each person learns to articulate their experiences and everyone can share in the learning. There is a tremendous support and understanding when we all go through things together, not to mention more opportunities to gain a perspective on one's own issues when see them mirrored in others.
The workshops usually take place over 5 days, from approximately 10:00am to 4:00pm (with a one-hour lunch). Because of the small class size, preference will be given to those committing for the whole workshop, but if numbers permit, it may be possible to attend for three days, the minimum period in which it is possible to get a sense of the approach of the work. This part-time attendance is especially helpful for those who wish to get a sense of whether this approach will be helpful for them before committing to a whole workshop.
Private classes or small groups of 2-4 with David may be available some days after the main workshop day finishes—contact the organizer of each event for further information (see workshop schedules).
LearningMethods / Anatomy of Wholeness
Practice and Principles Workshops
Prerequisite is to have attended one or more of the other introductory open LearningMethods workshops or Anatomy of Wholeness workshops.
For anyone interested in learning more about:
— The practice & pedagogy of teaching others how to learn,
— Our human structure and function and its implications for performance and movement,
— Bringing greater skill and ease of learning to singing, acting, yoga, martial arts, etc.,
— How to apply the insights of LearningMethods in other teaching modalities,
— and for those becoming teachers of the LearningMethods work.
More information coming soon...
Further Information about the Courses
All of the courses on the calendar follow roughly the same format and schedule (except for some of the residential weeks as noted):
Course Dates and Times:
Monday to Friday (or sometimes Saturday to Wednesday or Thursday to Sunday)
10:00 am to 4:00 pm with a one hour lunch
Contact organizers for details, a non-refundable deposit will assure your place.
Description of each Course:
Jump to the workshop schedule page for a description of each particular course and its venue.
David Gorman will be present full-time on all these courses. Other teachers and senior apprentices may join us to assist in some of the courses.
Individual and Small Group Sessions after 4:00 pm
Private lessons: approx. 1.5 to 2 hours each
Small groups of 2 to 4 people: approx. 1+ hour per person (e.g. 2 people for 2 to 2.5 hours, or 3 people for 3 to 3.5 hours).
About the developer of LearningMethods
David Gorman has been studying human structure and function since 1970. He is the author of an illustrated 600-page text on our human musculoskeletal system, called The Body Moveable (now in its 6th edition and in colour), and numerous articles and essays, including the book, Looking at Ourselves (2nd edition in colour).
David has been working with performers (singers, musicians, actors, dancers and circus artists) for over forty years. He is a trainer of teachers of LearningMethods and of the Alexander Technique and has taught all over the world in universities, conservatories, performance companies, and orchestras; for doctors in hospitals and rehabilitation clinics; and in training courses for Feldenkrais, Alexander Technique, physiotherapy, osteopathy, massage & yoga.
Over the years, his changing understanding about the root causes of people's problems led him to gradually extend his Alexander Technique teaching into the development of a new work, LearningMethods (and an offshoot, Anatomy of Wholeness about our marvelous human design), which is being integrated into the curricula of performance schools in Europe, Canada and the United States by a growing number of LearningMethods Teachers and Apprentice-teachers.
Since 2010, David has been running online post-graduate groups for Alexander Technique teachers and groups for those who want to learn to use LearningMethods in their own lives, as well as those who want to integrate the work into their existing professional work as a teacher, therapist, medical or body-work practitioner.
LEARNINGMETHODS Teachers
The following are the certificated LearningMethods teachers currently licensed by David Gorman to teach the LearningMethods work. All teachers adhere to a Professional Code of Conduct. If you wish more information than these web pages offer about how the LearningMethods work may be able to help you, contact one of the teachers below to talk or to set up an appointment and experience it for yourself.
Most of the teachers below teach in-person sessions or workshops, but they also teach in online or phone sessions, so don't let distance stop you from exploring how LearningMethods can help you.
To find a LEARNINGMETHODS Teacher in a specific country, click below:
Canada -|- France -|- Norway -|- Sweden -|- Switzerland -|- United Kingdom-|- United States
or to find a Senior LearningMethods Apprentice-Teacher (see note about Apprentice Teachers):
Canada -|- Ireland -|- United Kingdom -|- United States
More information on training as a LearningMethods teacher, click here
David Gorman
Teaches in-person lessons and workshops
Online / phone sessions worldwide
LearningMethods teacher training
Eillen Sellam
In-person lessons or workshops
Online / phone sessions
Les séances en Français, en anglais ou en espagnol
— sessions in French, English, or Spanish
web site: www.eillensellam.com
Ann Penistan
Geneva area: see also France, Switzerland, U.K.
web site: www.learningmethods.com/annie/
Julia Gilroy
Nice / Vence area
Les séances en Français / en Anglais
— sessions in French or English
Tel: +33 (0)6-70-67-59-98
web site: www.technique-alexander-france.com/Julia
Kari Manum
Oslo area
Teaches in Norwegian or English
Bodil Rummelhoff
Stockholm area
Teaches in Swedish or English
Tel: +46 (0)8-687-0248,
mobile: +46 (0)73-679 48 43
web site: www.learntolearn.se
Åsa Öhlin
Stockholm / Drottningholm area
mobile: 0707-306450
Lena Jonhäll
Tel: +46 (0)8-156395,
mobile: +46 (0)70-899-0528
Babette Lightner
Minneapolis/St. Paul & western Wisconsin area
Tel. (cell): +1 612-729-7127
web site: www.StonesInWater.com
Ben Kreilkamp
Minneapolis/St. Paul area
web site: www.BenKreilkamp.com
Elizabeth Garren
Tel: +1 612-375-9142,
cell: +1 612-804-1086
Rebecca Frost
web site: www.EmbodiedArts.com
Bonnie Z. Bottoms
Minneapolis / St. Paul area
Tel (cell): +1 952-380-7667
Miriam Scholz-Carlson
SENIOR APPRENTICE-TEACHERS
The senior Apprentice-Teachers in this section are at the stage of their training as LearningMethods teachers where they are quite experienced and are qualified to work with pupils in an unsupervised capacity even while they continue the final stages of their supervised training, Contact them for details, appointments, fees, etc.
Canada -|- Germany -|- Ireland -|- Sweden -|- United Kingdom -|- United States
More information on training as a LearningMethods teacher
CANADA — APPRENTICE-TEACHERS
Marion Day
Stratford, Ontario area
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario area
GERMANY — APPRENTICE-TEACHERS
Kathryn Doehner
Tübingen / Stuttgart area
Unterrichtet auf deutsches oder englisch
— sessions in German or English
IRELAND — APPRENTICE-TEACHERS
Cork or rest of Ireland
SWEDEN — APPRENTICE-TEACHERS
Niclas Stureberg
Teachers in Swedish or English
Tel: +46 (0)8-744-4463
UNITED KINGDOM — APPRENTICE-TEACHERS
Enniskillen, Belfast, and other parts of Northern Ireland
Tel: +44 (0)288-952-1986
mobile: +44 (0)770-959-0838
UNITED STATES — APPRENTICE-TEACHERS
Jen Bush
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One death and 4 new cases of corona among the Palestinian community around the world
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates reported one death, 4 new infections with Coronavirus and 2052 recoveries, today, Wednesday, among our communities around the world.
The Embassy of the State of Palestine and the Consulate General in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced the registration of a new death in the ranks of the community with the Corona virus, for Suhail Awni Muhammad Al-Hartani (58 years), which raises the number of deaths to 86.
The task force responsible for following up on the conditions of the community in the United States reported that 4 injuries were recorded among the community in both Dallas and New Jersey, which brings the number of injuries to 3,672 injuries, while no new deaths were recorded for this day, so the number of deaths remains 76.
The task force concerned with following up the evacuation trips indicated that a new batch of beloved citizens and students in the homeland will leave for Frankfurt to join their studies and work, and a new batch of beloved students studying in Egyptian universities will leave for Cairo.
Also, the last batch of loved ones stranded in Turkey and the United Arab Emirates arrived, and a new batch of stranded people in the United States arrived, and Ambassador Ahmed Al Deek was saying goodbye to departing loved ones and receiving those coming.
التعليقات والاراء
العنوان*
18 pro-Iranian elements killed in air strikes on sites in eastern Syria
China and Palestine launch negotiations on free trade agreement
12 detainees from the West Bank at dawn on Thursday
Show American power off Iran to reassure allies
Assaf: The occupation demolished 3,300 homes in Area C during the past six years
France condemns the Israeli decision to build 1936 new settlement units in the West Bank
The Democratic Party is embarrassed after the invitation of Tlaib and Han Omar to boycott Israel
Protest in Gaza to demand compensation for those affected by 2014 aggression
The Lebanese president: A political battle that prevents the formation of the government
Gaza Health: We are constantly working so that we do not reach the stage of health collapse
MSF: Corona virus is spreading widely in Yemen
Human rights center: 628 violations on the Gaza border during the first half of this year
The occupation court issued a decision of administrative detention against Alaa al-Bashir
72 people were killed and 4,000 injured in the Beirut explosion, including members of the international peacekeeping forces
"Facebook " Security breach a major blow to the credibility of the giant company
The Minister of Health: sent 1,500 smears for "Corona" checks to the Gaza Strip
The arrest of 13 civilians, including a wounded boy
Netanyahu: Our alliance with America is stronger and we have a new ally
Fierce battles between Kurdish and Turkish forces in northeastern Syria
An infinitesimal robot that can remove hormonal contaminants from liquids
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More Needle Gauges (2)
Another board full of gauges. Again the order is not always logical. There are gauges on other boards that have close links to some of these. (Click knitting tools in the tags, or categories, to see posts about other gauges.)
Left-hand Column
The gauges are all the same size and shape with a one-inch measuring slot and holes from 1 to 16. They also have a six-inch ruler along one edge. Emu and WB (William Briggs) are identical apart from the printing so were probably made by the same manufacturer. The other four are all alike and may all be of Canadian origin – Rayolith, unnamed, Magic Baking Powder, Nabob Irradiated Coffee.
These celluloid gauges were cheap to make and were probably all given as free gifts. They are flexible and difficult to break but they have the disadvantage that the writing sometimes wears off.
Right-hand Column
The three gauges at the top are from Canada. They have American and Canadian sizes. They are very similar in format.
Elgin Group of Hotels. It has pictures of the Lord Elgin Hotel, Ottawa and the Laurentien Hotel, Montreal. Lord Elgin was built in 1941 and Laurentien in 1947 so the gauge probably dates from the late 1940s. It seems a strange gift for a hotel to give.
Bouquet by Dominion Woollens. This company went into receivership in 1959 so the gauge is probably earlier than that.
PK Mothproof Wools.
Two metal gauges
The first has a badge which says MV Devonshire. I have been able to find information about this ship but have no idea why there should be a souvenir needle gauge.
The other says Use Monarch Yarns For Best Results.
Plastic gauges in the form of rulers are very common. They were given as free gifts and the plastic is very strong so they have survived well.
The top two are Canadian with Canadian sizes (which are the same as British) on one side, and metric on the other. There is no indication where they came from.
The white one was given by People’s Friend (which celebrates its 150th anniversary this year). In addition to the ruler and measuring holes, it has a slider and numbers so that you can count rows. It pre-dates metric sizing. The holes are from 3 to 14.
Unnamed with metric and UK sizes.
Betterwear. These came in many colours. Make Betterwear The Rule. Betterwear Knitting Needle Gauge. Free Gift. Hole sizes 7 to 14.
Betterwear gauges. The name is not immediately obvious as it is printed on the cut-out part that is meant to act as a bookmark or pattern marker. It says Betterwear Free Gift. On the back it says Knitting Needle Gauges. Hole sizes 7 to 14.
All these are made of cardboard.
Knitter’s Companion. Thick card. There are two rotating pointers in the centre. One is labelled Register of Times (1 to 15). The other is Register of Increases or Decreases (1 to 20). The outer circle has numbers from 1 to 50 but no caption. The hole sizes are 6 to 12 and there is a 4 inch ruler.
woolmeter Registered Design. One side has UK sizes, a 6 inch ruler and a 2 inch ruler. The holes are the same size as the cut-outs along the edge. The other side (white background with black bars) has metric sizes and ruler. I think it was primarily a metric gauge but there are some anomalies. The UK side has one hole labelled 12/13 and another labelled 9/10. The metric side has no 3.25, which is commonly used in UK but it does have 3.5, which is not standard UK. It also has letters A to O, which are not used in UK. The holes are not stamped accurately within the stripes.
Nomotta. Gauge and Interchangeability of Nomotta Yarns. The holes appear to be American sizes. They are from 1 to 9. On the back it says Printed in U.S. Zone of Germany. It could date from about 1949. There is a great deal of information, on the back, about washing, rinsing, blocking, etc.
Bear Brand Yarns – Glossilla – Bucilla Yarns and Cottons. This is probably from US. It has three different gauges, which are (1) Actual Sizes of Celluloid Bone and Wood Crochet Hooks and Knitting Needles (2) Actual Sizes of Steel Circular, Steel and Aluminum Knitting Needles. Also Aluminum Crochet Hooks (3) Actual Sizes of Double Pointed Steel Needles. It also lists the sizes all their needles are made in. Both sides are covered in information including helpful advice like To Obtain Best Results Use Only “BUCILLA” Crochet Hooks and Knitting Needles. By Following the Directions Exactly You Will Insure the Correctness Of Your Work
English and French versions (with red cross). Compliments of The Yellow Pages of Your Telephone Directory. These seem to be UK sizes 1 to 14 so the gauges probably come from Canada.
Compliments of Your Super Yarn & Markets, Inc. On the back it has addresses of seven US stores. US sizes 0 to 15. The first rule for happy knitting is to check your stitch gauge. Knit a swatch and adjust your needle size to give you the correct gauge.
Lux Won’t Shrink Woollens. English Gauge. 6 inch ruler. Holes 1 to 16.
Doesn’t Your Sweater Need a Dip in Lux Tonight? Very similar to the gauge above but narrower.
Betterwear. Very flimsy card with lines drawn on the back. To check the size of your knitting needles lay them on this accurate needle gauge. Sizes are from 1 to 24. This suggests it pre-dates any of the plastic Betterwear gauges. On the front it says Increase your leisure! – use Betterwear The Better Polish. Manufactured only by Betterwear Products Ltd., Romford, Essex.
“AT – A – GLANCE” Knitting Counter and Needle Gauge. Very thick card with two rotating discs. Registers any number from 1 to 99. Revolve the discs to show the number required. A “Lazy Rainbow” Product. Patent Applied For. Made in England. It has a 3 inch ruler and holes from 2 to 16.
Five are cardboard. Vogue is plastic
The two on the left are exactly alike. They are called Knitting Register. The first two columns are for counting rows (1 – 50); the third column says Increase or Decrease (1 – 20 with some blank spaces at the bottom); the fourth column says Times (1 – 25). The cardboard sliders can be pushed up and down the columns. There is a 5 inch ruler. The holes are from 6 – 12.
On the back it says Knitting Register (With Needle Gauge and Measure)
A Handy Help For The War-Time Knitter
Number indicated is the one above the guide.
To register “Rows completed”, etc., move Guides with finger or with point of needle. After registering 50, go back to 1.
When casting on or casting off, use Increase or Decrease Guide.
When using fancy patterns, etc., use the Times Guide.
Keep Guides not in use on blank spaces.
WILBEE Seeries No. W2
The next gauge is very similar except that it is called “Bestway” Knitting Register and does not say it is for the war-time knitter.
Family Circle Knitting Gauge looks as though it was intended to be folded but there is no fold line. It has dotted lines on the top and bottom of the front half saying Cut here. I presume the aim is to cut at the top and bottom of the two 4 inch rulers. It was printed in US in 1972. The holes are US sizes 4 to 11. The other section has detailed instructions about knitting a small sample square and using the cut-out square to count the number of stitches and rows.
Card with three orange pointers is Woman’s Weekly Knitting Register.
It was given away with the UK magazine in 1972. It has a 6 inch ruler and a 10 centimetre ruler. Strangely, on the back, the metric ruler begins with 2 inches and a label saying 2 ins = 5 cm. It does not mark 5 cm on the scale and continues from 6 to 15. One corner of back and front is marked as a tension gauge for stitches and rows. The dials are for Rows (40), Increase or Decrease (24) and Times (24). They have markings spaced all round but are only labelled on the quadrants. Hole sizes are 6 to 14. The back has instructions for use:
Use large dial for registering rows ; when 40 are completed move ‘Times’ dial to 1 and continue counting on large dial.
Register increases and decreases on centre dial. If both increases and decreases are worked simultaneously use both centre and ‘Times’ dials.
Use the ‘Times’ dial for counting pattern repeats.
Push un-numbered needles through the Needle Gauge holes – they should fit closely.
For checking tension lay the appropriate corner squarely on the knitting and count stitches one way, rows the other.
50 gramme ball of yarn equals 1¾ ounces.
Vogue Knitting To save time, take time to check stitch gauge. This is made of thin plastic. It has a 5 inch ruler, a 16 centimetre ruler, and a cut-out shape, 2 inches in each direction. There are 21 holes; 16 are marked in US sizes, 19 in metric.
Old and modern versions of Boye
Old Boye
Front has a huge amount of information, including a copyright date 1933.
Two gauges. One is for Double Point Steel Pins Only (Sized in millimetres from 1 to 3¾ and Boye from 8 to 18, 8 being the largest); the other is Standard Gauge For Pins Other Than Double Point Steel (Sized in millimetres from 2 to 6½ and Boye from 0 to 10½, with 10½ being the largest)
The cream-coloured ring lists many different yarns, in very small print.
The rotating black bar has a lot of writing. Against one of the windows it says Corresponding Crochet Hook Sizes (Some of the sizes are numbers, some are letters). Another says Number of Stitches (Some of these give the number of stitches in 1″, others are in 2″). The bigger hole says Materials Used.
The sizes of hooks and the number of stitches are on the two green rings under the black bar.
Back has a 1 inch ruler, information about lengths and sizes of all Single Point Steel, Double Point Steel, Single Point Non-inflammable Composition, and Double Point Non-inflammable Composition Circular, needles. It also has lots of helpful advice.
This gauge is regulated to indicate sizes for even, medium, flat knitting, with sizes of crochet hooks to correspond. A tight worker uses one size larger pin or hook – A loose worker one size smaller than gauge specified.
Dont’s (sic) for Knitters. (1) Never bend a circular pin before starting work. It will take its own curvature as work progresses. (2) Never begin work without first making a 2″ sample square to test work. Wash and block, then measure and compare with Stitch Gauge. In measuring work it should be allowed to hang naturally with pin against top edge of yard stick or tape measure. — Always allow 4″ to 5″ more than natural waist measurement so that garment will slip over body.
After reading all that I am surprised anybody ever managed to knit anything.
Modern Boye
3 in 1 Tool, (1) Gauge Check (2) Needle & Hook Check (3) Yarn & Gauge Recommendations
Holes in millimetres from 2.25 to 10.
One rotating dial with five windows – Needle Size, Gauge in Knit per 4 inches, Yarn Weight, Gauge in Crochet per 4 inches, Hook Size. The yarn weights are also listed on icons with numbers.
Two 4 inch rulers to form the sides of a square.
Instructions To Determine Stitch Gauge and To Determine Row Gauge. These are well laid out and much as you would expect.
knitting needle gauges
Squiggly Things
Frankie Brown says:
I think the ruler ones are very useful. The one I use most is a modern ruler gauge which has inches, centimetres and the holes marked in old English numbers, metric and US sizes which I find particularly helpful.
I’m interested in the ones with the red crosses. Are they anything to do with the actual Red Cross do you think? I’m also asking my daughter who’s the Archivist for the British Red Cross to see if she knows anything about them.
Pat Ashforth says:
I knew she was an archivist but didn’t realise that it was for the Red Cross. It feels as though there should be a connection but I don’t know of one. I can’t imagine what it would have to do with Yellow Pages.
I posted a close-up on Twitter https://twitter.com/matheknitician/status/1123514358657630209/photo/1
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From: Michael Gibson 9 Oct 2010 (7 of 7)
3806.7 In reply to 3806.6
Hi Ed, well I'm not sure how that would work to try and wedge in extend functionality into MoI's current Trim command with its current workflow.
You see, the main way to select the object that you're going to trim is to select it _before_ you even run the Trim command.
Do you mean that you would want MoI to remember if you held down shift when you were selecting objects, and to perform a really different result in the command just because of that key being held down before you even ran the command? That could potentially be very confusing it seems.
Also there is already an Extend command that allows you to extend lines to boundaries, it's available right next to the Trim button here:
If Trim also did extensions, then what would you want to happen with the current Extend command that already does that stuff, would it be removed?
But then that causes a problem of a lack of discoverability - that's when users can't figure out how to do something because it requires special modifiers or things like that which are not immediately apparent. By this I mean that if the only way to extend things was by holding down the shift key while you were in Trim, it is likely that a lot of people would never find out how to do that...
So instead of trying to wedge it in to the current Trim command where it does not really fit, that would be more likely something that could be added as a completely separate "AcadTrim" command later on at some point as a plug-in.
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Mercedarian Friars Spotlighted in Vintage 1951 Video
The 1950’s debuted rock and roll, pop art, and booming sales of television. That was part of the cultural scene in America. But what was going on in religious orders? And in Spain, especially with such men’s orders as the Mercedarian Friars?
The Spaniards endured a bitter civil war that lasted from 1936 to 1939. The official history of the Mercedarians, or Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy, states that, “A collusion of liberals, socialists, Marxists and masons imposed the 1931 Constitution which was nothing less than a frontal attack against the Church and religious orders.”
In fact, 19 Mercedarian Friars who died during the war were named martyrs by the Vatican in 2011. The Nationalist force, however, led by General Francisco Franco, was eventually victorious, and now Christians were finally free to practice their faith.
Video Offers Glimpse
A black and white video – in Spanish naturally – that was filmed in 1951 by the Mercedarians has been made public by the Order recently. (See all of our videos on YouTube.) Although the clip sidesteps the recent civil strife — no doubt as to avoid bitter memories — it relates the noble calling of Mercedarian men that began centuries ago in this country.
With stirring music, it shows everyday community life: the celebration of the old Latin Mass, eager young friars studying subjects both ancient and new, chores, praying in choir, recreation, and the beautiful architecture of their monastery.
The video features Mercedarian seminarians in class.
The video discusses the Order’s foundation, the early martyrdom of its members, and life within their huge and ancient monastery. Only eleven minutes long, and clearly made to attract new vocations, it shows young men in clean white habits not only praying and studying, but sewing, reading the newspaper, playing handball against a wall, washing clothes in an outdoor cistern, and enjoying a lively game of ping pong.
“We don’t wash clothes in outdoor cisterns any more — at least in the U.S.,” joked Fr. Joseph Eddy, O. de M., vocation director of the U.S. province. “But the noble history of the Mercedarians, the devotion to communal prayer, and the spirit of fraternity among the friars is the same.”
At Work, Prayer, and Rest
In the video, two friars play chess while another, older friar is seen leaning back in his garden seat, apparently in quiet sleep with a prayer book in his lap. A group of friars say common prayers in an outdoor garden while one man reads the Hail, Holy Queen in Spanish. In another dramatic scene against the backdrop of the monastery’s tall arches and towers, hooded friars carry long, lit candles down a stairway and enter the chapel for a ceremony in which they receive a blessing from a priest shaking the aspergillum, a tool used to sprinkle holy water.
Mercedarian friars receive a blessing during the Saturday Salve.
The Saturday Mass and the Salve
This is the Saturday Mass of Saint Mary, along with the singing of the Salve in her honor, and it is a beautiful custom. It is a fact that in 1307, Galcerán de Miralles donated three pounds of wax to the church of Santa María de Bell-lloch so that, every Saturday, it would have lighted candles during the celebration of the Mass of the Virgin and the singing of the Salve.
“The friars in the video are taking part in one of the oldest rituals of our Order, ‘the Saturday Salve,’” Fr. Joseph said. “This beautiful rite, which we still do today, was started by our founder, St. Peter Nolasco to give honor to Mary on her day, Saturday. This immemorial Marian custom was also performed in thanksgiving when the redeemers returned with the redeemed Christian Captives.”
Singing with great gusto
At the end of the video, one priest walks down the hallway shaking the aspergillum, with holy water, at the doors as a good night blessing for the men.
Active in Four States
The Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy is active in Pennsylvania, New York, Florida and Ohio in the United States, with its U.S. headquarters in Philadelphia. Active in twenty-two countries, it was founded in 1218 in Spain to support the work of ransoming Christian captives from the Saracens. The Mercedarians take a “Fourth Vow” — to give one’s life for someone in danger of losing their Christian faith.
Do you have a vocation as a Mercedarian friar? Read a letter from our vocation director, or visit our Mercedarian Facebook page. Contact Vocation Director Fr. Joseph Eddy, at vocations@orderofmercy.org.
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Vallette, François M.
Director of Research 1st class
Center of Research in Cancer and Immunology Nantes
http://www.crcina.org
Dr François M. Vallette (male) is Director of Research 1st Class at INSERM and is born in 1958. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1984 from the Paris Denis Diderot University and his “Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR)” at Paris 6 (Pierre et Marie Curie) University in 1993. After an initial training and a thesis at the “Laboratoire de Neurobiologie de l’ENS Ulm”, he joined the Department of Cell Biology of NYU Medical Center (NY, NY. USA) as a post-doc (1986-1988). He was appointed at the INSERM in 1986 as Chargé de Recherche and consecutively worked at the ENS Ulm, the Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique (IBPC) in Paris before establishing his INSERM research group at the Nantes University in 1998 as Director of Research INSERM. He is currently head of the Team 9 “LaBCT” of the U1232 INSERM, President of the INSERM “Cancer-Genetic-Rare diseases” committee (CSS2 2017-2021), Deputy President of the Cell Biology committee (CN3) of the charities foundation ARC (2015-2018) and member of the ESF College of Expert Reviewers (2018-2022). He is the author of 135 publications since 1983 (40 publications for the 2012-2017 period) with an H-index 43, citations 10036 (Google Scholar).
Publications with MOLAB
Universal scaling laws rule explosive growth in human cancers
Nature Physics 16, 1232-1237 (2020)
Víctor M. Pérez-García, Gabriel F. Calvo, Jesús J. Bosque, Odelaisy León-Triana, Juan Jiménez, Julián Pérez-Beteta, J Belmonte-Beitia, M Valiente, L Zhu, P García-Gómez, P Sánchez-Gómez, E Hernández, R Hortigüela, Y. Azimzade, D Molina-García, A Martínez, A Acosta, A Ortiz de Mendivil, F Vallette, P Schucht, M Murek, M Pérez-Cano, D Albillo, AF Honguero, G. A. Jiménez, E Arana, AM García-Vicente
Identification of a transient state during the acquisition of temozolomide resistance in glioblastoma
Cell Death & Disease 11, 19 (2020)
M. Rabe, S. Dummont, A. Álvarez-Arenas Alcami, H. Janati, J. Belmonte-Beitia, G. F. Calvo, C. Thibault-Charpentier, Q. Séry, C. Chauvin, N. Joalland, F. Briand, E. Scotet, C. Pecqueur, J. Clairambault, L. Oliver, A. Nadaradjane, V. M. Pérez-García, P. François Cartron, C. Gratas, F. M. Vallette
Mitochondria transfer from tumor-activated stromal cells (TASCs) to primary Glioblastoma cells.
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 533(1) 139-147 (2020)
Céline Salaud, Arturo Alvarez-Arenas Alcami, Fanny Geraldo, Juan Belmonte-Beitia, Gabriel F. Calvo, Catherine Gratas, Claire Pecqueur, Delphine Garnier, Víctor M. Pérez- García, François M. Vallette, Lisa Oliver
Applied Mathematics in Oncology. How can we help cancer patients?
ICIAM Valencia Intelligencer (2019) 72-82
Víctor M. Pérez-García, Susan Fitzpatrick, Milica Pesic, Philippe Schucht, Juan M Sepúlveda, Francois M. Vallette
Projects with MOLAB
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