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The Logbook
Land Rover Adventures
Land Rover Tech
The Land Rover Fleet
Rover Tech: Discovery 1 GM Fuel Pump Swap
17 December 2016 15 March 2018 by Greg Fitzgerald
NB: This is an incomplete post from December 2016 on the subject of replacing the core of fuel pumps for 1980s-90s Land Rovers. I never finished it, but I’m publishing it in March 2018 for the benefit of a friend in need of the information. I’ll get to it eventually.
If there’s one thing I like doing with my truck, it’s making it more field servicable. The great thing about 90s-era Land Rovers is that they actually have a lot of parts crossover with other European, and even American, cars. One of the classic instances of this is swapping a fuel pump from a General Motors vehicle into a Discovery 1 or Range Rover Classic.
I did this on the side of the road in Upstate New York back in June 2016, but it seems like my half-assed trail fix backfired, as now in a deep and dark December, I find my truck again stranded, this time in my driveway.
Since there’s a lot of forum posts about how to fix this, but no really thorough explanation for those of us who are both visual and anal-retentive, I’ve written this heavily-illustrated article to help you, oh gentle reader, too get your Land Rover on the road.
This is a somewhat simple fix, all in. You can cobble it together, as I did, and do fine for a while. But in the heat of the moment on a warm summer’s day in a gas station forecourt, I missed several steps, and there’s some things I wish I’d done differently.
The details henceforth apply to a 1994 Discovery 1 with a North American-spec 3.9 litre Rover V8. They “should” cross over to V8 Range Rover Classics after 1989, and continue to cover all Discovery 1 models through the run-out year of 1999. However, I make no guarantees. Later Discovery 1 trucks had some variations in their fuel systems, most notably the addition of AEL (Advanced Evaporation Loss) systems in the 1997 model year, and the 4.0 litre GEMS engine may have some different requirements to the earlier 14CUX ignition system. As I’ve only ever owned 14CUX trucks, I’m not sure there. There’s a pretty good chance that these instructions largely or totally apply to these other applications, but I make no guarantees, and if you blow up your truck using these instructions, that’s on you.
Right, onward.
When I say “remove everything from the back,” this is how not-fun that is to do on a roadtrip.
The fuel pump is located in the fuel tank, and can be accessed through a hatch in the rear floor on all Discovery 1s and Range Rover Classics after 1989. To get to this hatch, remove everything from the back of the vehicle, pull up the rear carpeting, and you will find a flap cut into the rubber padding beneath in the rear cargo area floor. Flip it over and you’ll see a round hatch about twelve inches around. Undo the six screws and set it aside. Do not lose the screws like I did.
There’s three things to disconnect here, which are both electric and fuel. Remember, these things do not go well together. The electric multiplug comes off by pushing the tab in the side and sliding it off. There’s two fittings holding the feed and return lines that go from the pump to the engine. Depending on where you live, when/if this was last done, and your lot in life, these may be very, very seized. A liberal application of your favourite penetrating liquid (I’m a PB Blaster man myself) and high-quality profanity, combined with the patience of a saint, should undo these. Keep calm, if these break you’re kinda pretty much completely screwed.
Now that you’ve undone these three connections, the good thing to do would be to vacuum the indentation around the fuel pump port in the tank so that you don’t get all the dirt and crap in the tank. This is possible to varying degrees depending on situation, however, so if you’re really stuck just do the best you can. Then undo the giant ring around the fuel pump hole, and lift it away. The pump now sits before you, awaiting its careful removal from the hole in the tank, an exercise to be undertaken with the greatest of care to avoid damaging the float for the level sensor.
Unless you’re a better man or woman than I, you will spill fuel in your cargo area. Fortunately you’ve got the carpet all tucked away somewhere nice, and you can just try and sop up as much as you can.
—”Mr Fuel Pump, are you free?” —”I’m free!”
You have now liberated the fuel pump, and it’s time to really dig in. Go somewhere relatively clean with it and it’s time to disassemble.
The pump itself is contained in the lower, enclosed half of the assembly. To detach this, carefully prise the four clips holding it in, taking the utmost of care to not break them. Doing this second exercise in December, with an outdoor temperature of 15 Fahrenheit, I decided that it would be prudent to bring the assembly inside to warm up a bit to help prevent brittleness issues. (Remember, direct heat is not a way to assuage this, considering the circumstance.)
You should now see the metal cylindrical pump exposed, with two electrical wires attaching it to the top of the assembly and a plastic corrugated hose connecting the pump’s output to the outlet for the feed line at the top of the assembly. The original pump, at least on my truck, has a flanged barb on the end of the output outlet, which nicely nests into this hose.
When keeping in mind that Land Rover did not really intend for this assembly to be a user-serviceable part, this hose has a very symbiotic relationship with its original host pump, but it is both very difficult and somewhat impractical to reuse it. The two replacement pumps I’ve had so far (more on that below) did not have these dramatic barbs on the outlet, which impacts the ability of this hose to seal to the new pump. When I had my original trailside repair, I kind of picked it off with an etching chisel and needlenose pliers, and later reattached it by squeezing it shut with a zip tie. This was functional but not ideal, so let’s do it proper.
Right, now you’ve got the actual pump itself free, let’s take a look.
I’m looking at three pumps here: (1) the original Land Rover part, which may or may not have been there for twenty-two years; (2) the latest purchase, an ACDelco EP241; and (3) the interim device, a Delphi FE0114 that I purchased at a NAPA on site.
1) Land Rover 2) AC Delco 3) Delphi
Here is where I figured some stuff out after the fact. Apparently the 14CUX (1994-5 D1, possibly RRC 1989ish-1995) and GEMS (1996-9) trucks could use different spec pumps. Going back to vintage resources, the venerable Discoweb parts number resource, likely last updated some time during the second Bush administration, supplies different part numbers that I’ve extrapolated as follows:
14CUX/3.9
AC Delco EP-241
GEMS/4.0
Airtex E3270
Delphi FE0114
What’s the difference?
(WHAT THE $@%# IS THE DIFFERENCE?)
After replacing the part, I’ve found that the EP-241 does, in fact, seem to run better than the FE0114. It is quieter, and the truck seems to have slightly better performance. This may be in my head.
Categories Land RoverTags Discovery 1, Fuel Pump, Fuel System, Land Rover, Range Rover Classic, Repairs, Tech Tips
The Trials and Tribulations of a Land Rover Owner, Part One
28 July 2016 28 July 2016 by Greg Fitzgerald
The first thing the new owner of an older Land Rover will learn is that breakdowns are always to be expected at the point where you have finally become totally confident about the state of your vehicle. You learn this lesson very, very quickly. After a few years, the underlying anxiety that accompanies any road trip becomes a part of your psyche, and you throw a bottle of Xanax or whatever in the center console and be done with it.
The second thing you learn is that most things in an old Land Rover are possible to bodge together again with some basic tools and knowledge, and possibly some RTV sealant. By “basic tools,” I mean the three large Husky tool bags I keep in the back of my Discovery, plus the crate of extra fluids, plus the spare parts artfully placed throughout the vehicle. (Upper coolant hose under the driver’s seat, spare serpentine belt next to the atlas behind the back seat, spare radiator cap in the glove box.)
And this is where my latest Trials and Tribulations — the first of this blog column — began.
A few weeks ago, I was heading to the Ottawa Valley Land Rovers‘ 33rd Annual Birthday Party rally, one of the biggest and oldest Land Rover events on the East Coast. With the goal of exploring some parts of the Ontarian side of the St. Lawrence Seaway, I rolled out of the house at 3 AM, streaming BBC Merseyside on TuneIn to track the returns of the Brexit referendum. By Scranton, David Cameron had resigned, the sun was rising, and everything on the Disco was feeling pretty tickety boo. I hit Syracuse at rush hour, headed up I-81, and just south of Watertown, decided to fill the truck up with some sweet ethanol-free 91 octane petrol that we’re not allowed to have in the good ol’ Garden State.
The ungrateful bastard rewarded this gift by not starting. Shit.
I flicked the key; the solenoid in the starter clicked once, the fuel pump’s familiar two-second startup buzz was absent. I thus realized two things: one, I should swap out the fuel pump I wanted to swap out anyway; and two, my friends were coming up to the same event from Connecticut via Albany, and I should probably get in touch with them to rendezvous if needed.
I was thus sat front of a gas pump at a moderately busy Sunoco station, taking the entirety of my camping gear out of the back of the truck and laying it out on the forecourt so I could access the fuel pump in the tank, and somehow the entire patronage of the station was entirely nonplussed, oblivious to the old green truck with the New Jersey plates expelling its contents out of its rear.
Someone finally noticed me, helped me push the truck onto the side of the station, and in a move that forever cements him on the good side of my Rover Karma Book, offered me a lift to the NAPA a mile away to score a new fuel pump.
These things would never happen Downstate.
I scored a Delphi fuel pump to serve the purposes of the famous Land Rover/General Motors pump swap, and nothing more. This will become important later and was quite bone-headed.
Back at the truck, I proceeded to remove the entirety of my fuel pump from the tank, feeling not that bad about spilling some of the fuel, because it’s a bloody gas station, and I’m quite proud of myself because I’m a New Jerseyite and I didn’t spill any this time at the pump like I always do because we don’t do this shit ourselves. On speakerphone with some friends, which I don’t think you’re supposed to do either but whatever, I got it done and in, and it still didn’t start.
I directed my friends to rendezvous, and regretted not buying that damn wire. I fiddled for about an hour, until my friends arrived in a glorious convoy. One of them went to purchase the wire so we could hot wire the fuel pump. The starter solenoid seemed to have also gone decidedly wonky, causing part of these issues, so we jumped the solenoid with my jump leads and headed northward to a fantastic event, where I alas played it safe and didn’t wheel the truck, because no way was I jumping that solenoid if I stalled in a river. We tinkered some over the weekend, but nothing we hypothesized seemed to actually work, except for our theory of “let’s drink for now and worry about it later.”
The extent of Duncan’s Canadian fun.
And thus, with a hot wired fuel pump and a starter that works sometimes on its own and sometimes by crawling under with the jump leads and being careful to not scald yourself on the exhaust, I go into the third lesson of a Land Rover owner.
Lesson Three: because these things break down so frequently, and because they’re so bog easy to repair, once you have some kind of workaround to fix things you sometimes become incredibly complacent with things like your convoluted starting procedure that includes connecting something submerged in a 23-gallon tank of waiting explosion to a live battery of waiting fire, and consider using jump leads to start your car without involving another car totally fine and acceptable.
Complacency in action.
So I drove around town with said complacency, and felt so damn confident with my vehicle’s bodged together state that I decided, I shall take this vehicle off roading with my friends in Vermont two weekends after the Ottawa adventure, having put minimal effort into fixing anything.
This is the source of the Fitzgerald Corollary, which is that whenever I take my trucks on any trip with other Land Rovers, they get incredibly antisocial and decide to expound all their grief and woes of any degree into one gloriously large and dramatic breakdown. The lead-in hint was an expulsion of coolant from the expansion tank at a rest area in New York, as I ironically sat waiting for my friend Jarek’s Mercedes-Benz OM617-powered Disovery to cool down from a sustained 70mph highway run. And then to make it worse, I found myself on a hill climb into a crazy trail in Southern Vermont, with a truck that has now compounded all of its issues into a fit of stalling and cutting out whenever asked to perform between 700rpm and 1800rpm on an incline, requiring immense group effort and use of tow straps to coax it to the top of said complex hill climb, until such point as I jumped in at the top of the hill and drove it down the other side with the CD changer spinning and the truck performing near enough perfectly. The only issue was that the speedometer wasn’t working, due to the Vehicle Speed Sensor that has not worked since December, and the absence of which has caused minimal issue for 5,000 miles of driving since then. That may or may not have still been a cause of the trail issues; jury’s out.
Disco Woe on the Thruway.
To make matters more fun is another tenet, the one of “just because you think you engineered something better than everyone else ever has does does not mean it is.” In my case, I learnt that my method of dealing with a seized center differential lock lever was brilliant and convenient in the driveway, but beggared second-degree burns when implemented in the wild, which I have the scars to prove such on the back of my left hand and back of my right arm.
And so, I got to that point of caving to all of the lessons and tenets, and realized We Have Issues and headed home early to solve my woes, by way of my friend Eric Riston in Albany who sells parts for Atlantic British and will help you with your woes as much as he helped me with mine if you call him there on extension 231.
At a Land Rover Holy Land, Atlantic British in Clifton Park, NY.
Because I have found that I do not need to drive this truck during the week, since I carpool to work and get home too late to actually have a life, I’ve parked it in the driveway the past two weeks and have done heavy tinkering on it at night. Although I’ve done tons of work on this truck lately, I did purchase it as a sort of step above a barn find in Vermont, having been off the road approximately five years. It’s structurally in quite good condition considering its age and location, but there’s lots of little stuff still to keep on top of to get it in the great shape it has potential to be in.
The results of said tinkering? To be figured out Friday night, when Duncan comes out again for yet another rally — fortunately, closer to home.
Categories Land RoverTags Discovery 1, Duncan, Land Rover, Logbook, Ottawa Valley Land Rovers, Repairs, Trials and Tribulations of a Land Rover Owner
Opening Doors in My Own Backyard on A Weekend Journey Through the Past
12 October 2014 21 July 2016 by Greg Fitzgerald
There are three township-owned historic properties in Warren, New Jersey. I’ve lived in this town my entire life, and somehow I have never set foot in any of them — until today.
This is a bit embarrassing since I’m a member of the Township Historic Sites Committee, but we have low demand for tours, and don’t always end up hosting our monthly open houses. This weekend, however, brought an opportunity: a Somerset County-run event that brings these historic homes, churches, and commercial buildings across the county to the public all together for one weekend a year. Tours run both days of the weekend, from 10-5 on Saturday and 12-4 on Sunday, at about two dozen sites across Somerset County. The County has created three routes, connecting the Watchung Mountains, the Delaware and Raritan Canal, and the Old York Road into curated driving tours.
I took the opportunity today to journey though the past, jumping in with both feet, giving tours at both the Kirch-Ford-Terrill House and the Mount Bethel Baptist Meeting House. Both are among the oldest buildings in Warren, each dating from the 18th century.
The Kirch-Ford-Terrill House, sitting on the corner of Reinman Road and Mount Bethel Road, today looks across a series of office complexes. In the early 18th century, however, when the Terrill family built a one-room dwelling with a large hearth and windows looking southward, the view would be fields and forests all the way to the horizon. The house is a fantastic contrast to the McMansions that have sprung up across Warren in the past few decades. The house is comprised of many additions over three centuries, each bringing its own style and purpose to the building. Heavy wooden floors; magnificent brick hearths; and a secret room designed for Underground Railroad refugees, Prohibition moonshine, or Revolutionary War munitions (take your pick, nobody really knows) create a cozy abode that typifies many of the homes that dotted Warren in the 18th and 19th centuries.
A half-mile down the road, the Mount Bethel Baptist Meeting House sits in the historic center of the village of Mount Bethel, one of six or nine villages (depending on who you talk to) that came together to form Warren Township in 1806. Across from the abandoned and endangered landmark King George Inn, the Meeting House looks upon a vista of its historic cemetery, the modern Morris-Union Jointure Commission school for autistic students, and the rolling hills of the Appalachians. Built in 1761 further to the eastern border of town with Watchung, it was moved in 1785 to its current site. The building is plain, in the tradition of religious buildings of the time, but is filled with natural light from large windows all around. There is class division, as there would have been at the time; the lower level’s pews would be rented (up to $28 per year) to the wealthier residents of Mount Bethel, while the poor, Native Americans, and slaves would be on the upper balconies with their steeply sloped floors. The Mount Bethel Baptist Church moved to a modern building in the 1970s, donating the original building to the Township. Today, it stands as an anchor of the past in a rapidly-changing town.
Inside the Mount Bethel Baptist Meeting House
As a history lover, today, I was invigorated by giving tours of these newly-discovered places in my hometown. (Yes, I catch on fast to give tours right off the bat!) But even better, I saw a new generation inspired when I gave a hectic tour to eighteen Cub Scouts from the local troop at the Kirch House. As seems the case with so much regarding history and kids today, many weren’t interested much, and were horsing around the centuries-old floors. But two or three were asking questions, noticing details, taking interest in my rope bed tying demonstration and my schpiel on chamber pots.
These kids…they were me fifteen, twenty years ago, when I dogeared and marked up fellow Committee member Alan A. Siegel’s book, Images of America: Warren Township. It’s getting more and more difficult to involve people, young people especially, in local history projects, but maybe, just maybe, there’s a chance that another generation of Warrenites will take on the torch of telling our town’s story.
The Somerset County Weekend Journey Through the Past is usually held on Columbus Day weekend. https://www.co.somerset.nj.us/schistoryweekend/
Categories New JerseyTags featured, History, King George Inn, Kirch-Ford-Terrill House, Local History, Mount Bethel, Mount Bethel Meeting House, New Jersey, New Jersey History, NJ, Somerset County, Thoughts, Warren
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The Joburg Advocacy Group is an independent, non-aligned and voluntary civil society advocacy group working for best practice governance, social justice and environmental protection in the City of Johannesburg.
A Small Breakthrough
We're pleased to hear via the media that the report on the Joburg billing crisis requested by the Minister of Cooperative Governance has been completed, and is due to be handed over to both the department and the Public Protector. We applaud Minister Shiceko for ensuring that this report was, indeed, speedily produced, and hope that appropriate measures will now be taken to resolve the crisis.
It has, however, been extremely difficult for JAG to manage its campaign and to respond in an informed way to resident complaints and media queries, as we have received no formal feedback from any level of government about the billing crisis. Everything we know about the measures being taken to address the serious problems within the municipal billing system has had to be gleaned from the media.
We would therefore like to suggest that the city appoints an experienced communications company with crisis management experience to issue daily updates to both the media and to interested and affected parties should a situation like this arise in the future.
We would also like to suggest that the city conducts a weekly media briefing, followed by a Q&A session. This would help to keep residents and community groups informed about important issues, developing problems and the measures being taken to address these issues - and to mitigate against the kind of confusion that has arisen during the billing crisis campaign.
Also, as many residents are still in a desperate situation, and as there are still very concerning reports coming in from both individuals and businesses about how their complaints are being dealt with, we will continue to publicise specific complaints in order to illustrate the nature and extent of the situation. And we will, needless to say, be keeping a very watchful eye on developments.
We will also shortly be publishing an updated and more comprehensive version of the information leaflet for residents that we published in November, and we will make that available here as well as on our Facebook page. The new leaflet will provide information not only about avenues for redress within the government system and through such agencies as the Public Protector, but will also provide information on the legal steps residents can take should they need to. The leaflet will replace the current information leaflet and previous resident advisories.
NOTE: Regular updates are being posted on our Facebook page (Joburg Advocacy Group) and @JoburgAdvocacy on Twitter (billing crisis tweets are tagged #jbills).
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The Joburg Advocacy Group (JAG) is an independent, non-aligned and voluntary civil society advocacy group working for best practice governance, social justice and environmental protection in the City of Johannesburg.
PLEASE NOTE: The Joburg Advocacy Group aims to empower residents to take action on their own behalf in matters relating to local government or service delivery, either as individuals or through residents' associations and civil society groups. As a small, voluntary group we are unable to assist with individual complaints.
Please contact your ward councillor should you need assistance with service delivery matters. Should the city's list of ward councillors be unavailable, you can search for your councillor's contact details on the IEC's web site.
"No person is your friend who demands your silence ..."
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Log a Complaint
Information last updated 20 April 2018
If you have a billing dispute or a problem with service delivery, the first course of action is to log a complaint with the city's call centre, Joburg Connect on either 011 375 5555 or 0860 JOBURG (0860 56 2874).
Please insist on an 8000 reference number and follow up on your complaint regularly.
Joburg Connect can be reached by e-mail on joburgconnect@joburg.gov.za, but this service is extremely unreliable and we recommend that you call to log a complaint instead.
Note that the call centre is very busy during the day and the early evenings, as well as on Saturday mornings. It is, however, a 24/7/365 call centre, so if you can't get through during office hours, try calling at off-peak times, especially if you have a query about your account. Note that complaints for certain city agencies, such as Pikitup and Joburg Roads Agency, can only be logged during office hours.
If you're unable to get your dispute resolved or to have your service delivery issue problem addressed within 30 days, visit your local Customer Service Centre personally (locate yours here) and don't move until you get someone to help you resolve your issue. This takes time, but it's often the next best step. Residents have had mixed results at the service centres, but if you can get a supervisor to assist you, you may be able to get your issue resolved without any further difficulty.
Further, you can contact your ward councillor for assistance, but note that ward councillors are only able to assist if you already have an 8000 Joburg Connect complaint reference number. Should the city's list of ward councillors be unavailable, you can search for your councillor's contact details on the IEC's web site.
In addition, you have the option of logging a complaint with the National Consumer Commission. We haven't had much success with the NCC but this is a route available to residents who might like to try it out. Unfortunatley, the NCC has removed its online complaints form, but you can download a form from the site and post it or deliver it to your nearest NCC office. Alternatively, the person to contact for consumer complaints in the Gaunteng region is: Reuben Sedibane (011 355 8000/8648/consumer@gauteng.gov.za).
You may also like to send an e-mail, giving the details of your issue, to Anna Cox of The Star's Metrowatch (annacox@icon.co.za). The Star has a good record of success in managing to get consumer issues resolved.
Finally, residents with unresolved billing disputes and service delivery complaints can log a complaint with the Presidential Hotline on 17737 or by mailing president@po.gov.za. Sadly, this seems to be easier said than done, as many residents report not being able to get through to the hotline, but it's worth trying.
Most importantly, don't be bullied into paying an inflated bill that can't be justified. There is a court order in place restraining the city from cutting power to residents who have active billing complaints or disputes with the city. Print this out and, if the city does attempt to terminate your services while you have an active complaint in the system, call the SAPS - and don't allow the technicians to leave your premises until the officers arrive. You have a right to lodge a complaint of harassment in a case like this and to have the matter investigated by the police.
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Joburg Billing Crisis Resources
If you've been affected by the Joburg billing crisis, please click through to the JAG Billing Crisis Information Leaflet for further information. Details of all options available to both residents and businesses in this situation are outlined there.
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Ward councillors are tasked with representing all of the people who live in their wards in local government. You can appeal to them for assistance on issues like unresolved billing disputes, failures in governance or poor service delivery.
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Information as at 20 April 2018
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Please give exact details of where the dumping has taken place (full street address, including name of suburb - and nearest corner). Help to keep your city clean!
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The City of Joburg is calling on residents to report graffiti hotspots, especially at historic sites, as the culture and heritage department is keen to remove "unsightly tagging".
The person to contact with information about locations needing attention is: Zoleka Ntabeni (Ntabeni@joburg.org.za / 011 373 7529.
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Contact details: 011 870 5312 / commercial.hq@saps.org.za.
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Corruption is unfortunately rife in our society, and it often flourishes because ordinary people do nothing about it.
Report corruption to the Anti-Corruption Hotline on 0800 701 701 and be part of the solution. You can also e-mail info@corruptionwatch.org.za or SMS 45142.
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For assistance with any service delivery issues or municipal disputes, you can also contact The Star's Metrowatch section, which does excellent work in this area.
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The National Consumer Commission deals with individual consumer complaints relating to both products and services, and can be contacted by telephone on 0860 266 786, by fax on 0861 515 229, or by e-mail on either ncc@thedti.gov.za or NNetshitomboni@thencc.co.za. We haven't had much success with the commission but, again, this is one of the options available to residents.
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Contact the Public Protector
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HSC and Atlantic Council host series of events on oil theft
The modalities of oil theft range from low-level tapping, siphoning, adulteration and smuggling, to extremely sophisticated maritime operations involving extensive networks of actors, to brazenly corrupt dynamics in which states lose billions of dollars per year while their officials profit from those losses. At peak prices, tapping a Mexican pipeline of refined oil for only seven minutes could earn a cartel $90,000. In 2012 alone, hydrocarbons fraud cost the EU €4 billion in lost revenues. In Nigeria, 30% of all hydrocarbons products are smuggled into neighboring states.
In recognition of the magnitude of the problem and the need for it to be addressed, Atlantic Council published in January 2017 the landmark report Downstream Oil Theft: Global Modalities, Trends, and Remedies, the first major study of refined oil theft around the globe.
In support of this publication, the London-based foreign policy think-tank Human Security Centre (HSC) and the Washington-based think-tank Atlantic Council have over the last week co-hosted a series of events on an event on Downtream Oil Theft. The events took place at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London on 21st March 2017, Cercle de Lorraine in Brussels on 22nd March, and at Cercle de l’Union interalliee in Paris on 23rd March. Principle speakers included Dr. Ian M Ralby, Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center, ambassador Richard Morningstar (Ret.), Founding Director and Chairman of the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center, and Eric Besson, former French Minister Industry, Energy, and Digital Economy.
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Book Review Allan S. Blinder, After the Music Stopped –The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead (New York, Penguin Press, 2013)
Raymond Richman, 6/1/2015
Allan Blinder is a Princeton professor of economics and a former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. As he states in his preface, the American people still don’t quite know what caused the Great Recession, how and why it happened, or what the authorities did about it.
He acknowledges that the housing bubble was not the only contributor to the financial crisis that followed. He writes that seven key weaknesses predated the recession:
Inflated asset prices,
Excessive leverage (heavy borrowing) throughout the economy,
Lax financial regulation,
Disgraceful banking practices,
Unregulated securities and derivatives,
Abysmal performance of statistical credit agencies,
Perverse financial incentives inducing financial institutions to “go for broke”.
He does not mention that the Community Investment Act of 1977, which is still the law, which forced the banks and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, government-sponsored private entities, to make millions of subprime loans. Nor does he mention that the Federal Reserve Board was made responsible by the Act for ensuring that mortgage lenders maintained lending standards, but that it failed to do so and thereby itself helped worsen the recession. He does not mention the explosion of our trade deficits that resulted from foolish trade agreements and were a drag on economic growth.
The inflated asset prices he criticizes were caused by the low long-term interest rates, partly caused by the inflow of foreign government loans which caused the trade deficits. As every economist knows lowering interest rates inflates asset prices, real estate and corporate stock especially. There was lax financial regulation alright, but the Fed and the other bank regulators did not use the powers they had to regulate financial institutions. Yes, there were disgraceful banking practices. As for perverse financial incentives, banks rewarded executives for taking risks and producing profits as long as the bubble continued. When the bubble burst, Treasury Secretary Paulson bailed out all but Lehman Bros. Its failure precipitated a collapse in the securities markets.
He blames lack of regulation. But he ignores the bankruptcies in the regulated and subsidized climate change industry and the bloated subsidies. Every wind and solar firm and electric or fusion automaker is heavily subsidized. Wind and solar energy producers could continue to exist if electric utilities were not forced to pay them inflated prices which are then passed on to consumers of electricity as a hidden tax.
He believes that if financial institutions and derivatives were regulated and leverage reduced, the crisis would have been less severe. Maybe, and economic growth would be sacrificed. Many investors fear that we face another world-wide financial crisis in spite of the thousands of pages of Dodd-Frank regulations.
He describes the measures taken by Presidents G.W. Bush and Obama to prevent a recession, such as Bush’s tax rebates and the bail-out of Bear-Stearns and AIG by the Fed of the Troubled Assets Relief Fund (TARP) which injected capital into the major banks and the FED’s efforts to increase liquidity, and its purchase from Bear Stearns of $30 billion in sub-prime mortgages.
But Secretary Paulson refused to bail out Lehman Bros. which precipitated the Panic of 2008:. “All hell broke loose after Lehman Brothers failed on September 15, 2008.” AIG. Contagion. Run on the money funds. Treasury and Fed came to the rescue. What the Fed was doing was lending money to banks and money market funds, to other lenders and even some foreign institutions. The Fed encouraged big banks to come to the rescue of other banks and investment institutions. Of the $700 billion in TARP, about $430 was disbursed. It bought few troubled assets and cost taxpayers very little in the end.
Blinder asks, “Stimulus wherefore art thou?” He discusses the Economic Stimulus Act of 2009, the tax rebate, and he remarks that the total stimulus was less than it should have been blaming the Republicans. Given the size of the program and the huge annual federal budget deficits, it is obvious that the policies were ineffective to promote an economic recovery.
Blinder argues that the policies worked about as expected. He does not question, being a Keynesian himself and a member of the Federal Reserve Board, whether the Keynesian policies he would prescribe were defective. It is about time he did. It could be argued that government stimulates best when it stimulates least.
Recovery has to come by stimulating the private sector. Instead, the Obama administration’s policies discouraged investment at home and encouraged American firms to re-locate abroad. China prospered as a result of our policies while manufacturing in the U.S. languished.
Who and what does Blinder blame? Why did the stimulus fail? First, he blames the large interest rate spread between the rate the Treasury pays and the rate that the private sector, including consumers pay. It is hard to take this seriously. He blames the fact that spreads are based on perceived risk and inflation expectations.
What does he propose? Some banks are “too big to fail.” He favors adoption of the Volcker rule: insured banks should not engage in proprietary trading. Regulate hedge funds, limit executive compensation so as not to encourage excessive risk taking, over-seeing rating agencies, and use benefit-cost criteria in economic decision–making. He proposes to re-instate Glass-Steagall.
He writes: “Dodd-Frank gives America a comprehensively, if imperfectly reformed financial system if we can keep it.” We believe both are unnecessary. Big banks are not too big to fail. They would continue operations after bankruptcy but the shareholders would be wiped out, as they should be for taking excessive risks.
These are all designed to prevent another recession. But nothing to do with stimulating economic growth.
What did he learn from the financial crisis? He suggests that unconventional monetary policy may be the new normal, that we need more regulation, that regulatory neglect got us into this mess. What nonsense! He writes that, as Hegel wrote: “What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history.” True but neither has Prof. Blinder learned much from the history of the recession!
What this reviewer has learned from this recession appears in article after article on this blog.
1. The housing bubble originated in an absurd law called the Community Investment Act of 1977, which is still in effect and which in effect ordered banks to make subprime loans. Oh, the law says that mortgage standards were to be maintained and put the Federal Reserve Board in charge of oversight together with the other bank regulatory agencies. They not only did nothing to maintain lending standards; they aggravated it. But that’s another story.
2. Other factors contributed. Our government ignored the exploding the U.S. international trade deficits which grew to over $800 billion in the early 2000s. They cost millions of American jobs and probably precipitated the defaults in mortgage payments that burst the housing bubble.
3. American corporations by the hundreds relocated their factories abroad secure in the knowledge that U.S. trade agreements enabled them to produce their products abroad and sell them in the U.S. without tariffs.
4. Keynesian policies designed to stimulate consumption did not address the problem that it was the lack of manufacturing investment in the U.S. that was a cause of our malaise.
5. The federal, state, and city governments prevented millions from finding jobs as result of their minimum wage laws.
6. The Fed’s quantitative easing policies caused an artificial rise in security and real estate prices giving the appearance of a recovery of the economy and economic growth but creating few jobs.
7. As Prof. Blinder noted, there was excessive leverage throughout the economy, foolish Wall Street policies that permitted abuse of unregulated securities and derivatives, and perverse financial incentives that caused banks and other lenders to take excessive risks.
Comment by Richard Manfredi, 7/2/2015:
I disagree ."Many investors fear that we face another world-wide financial crisis in spite of the thousands of pages of Dodd-Frank regulations."Yes, Glass-Steagal 33 pages vs deli baloney . "It bought few troubled assets and cost taxpayers very little in the end." Technically , it didn't cost you "interest" if you never received it. In the real world, any one who saved a dime was , is , and continues to be flogged by the 'Zero' interest policy.Three legged stool anyone? " Keynesian policies designed to stimulate consumption did not address the problem that it was the lack of manufacturing investment in the U.S. that was a cause of our malaise." No, it was a lack of dispoable income from the consumer who provides 80% of the gas for the economy. No demand from wholesalors, retailers , consumers. This 'recovery' is a maintenance or replacement economy. You maintain what you have until it falls apart , then you replace it . If there was demand, there would be investment . Who in there right mind will build a factory when there is no market for the product ?
I have one word on flipping houses ; I can't flip panckes . This bank and that bank were fined billions, more deli baloney . The stock holders were fined billions , management should have been put behind bars.
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Trump taps Mark Meadows to Substitute Mulvaney as chief of Personnel
Trump also declared on Twitter which Mulvaney would eventually become U.S. special envoy for Northern Ireland.
Trump didn’t offer a reason behind why he substituted Mulvaney.
Meadows is thought to be one of Trump’s staunchest allies. Meadows declared in December he wouldn’t seek out re-election in 2020. At the moment, Meadows suggested he might have a part in aiding the president.
The lawmaker said that his”work with President Trump and his government is just starting.”
“This President has achieved incredible consequences for the nation in only 3 decades, and I am fully committed to remaining at the struggle with him and his staff to build on these successes and deliver on his promises for years ahead,” Meadows stated from the December announcement.
Mulvaney became Trump’schief of staff in December 2018, after the president declared that John Kelly, his next chief of personnel, was supposed to depart at the conclusion of the year.
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Kilmore GAA Club Notes 26th September 2017
posted 28 Sept 2017, 08:17 by Brian Carroll
Our King and Moffat sponsored senior team had a very disappointing finish to 2017 on Sunday when we lost to Elphin in the senior league relegation game in Elphin. Unfortunately we will now be playing Intermediate league and championship in 2018. The club wishes to thank the players and management for their efforts during 2017.
Our junior B team were awarded the game last Saturday by Boyle and have now qualified for the Junior B quarter final. We play that quarter final this Saturday at 5pm in Elphin against Kilbride.
Well done to our U-12 skills team who came 2nd in the County finals and we will now go on to the Connacht competition next week. Well done to our U-10 team who won 2 of their 3 games in the Shane Kelly cup at the weekend. Hard luck to our U-14 team of Kilmore/Shannon Gaels who were narrowly defeated in the County final on Sunday last in Elphin by Kilbride. The team started slowly but fought back very well in the 2nd half and nearly got a draw at the end. Thanks to the players and management for their efforts. On saturday next at 3.30pm our U-14 team play Castlerea in the Garda Cup final in Boyle. On Sunday our minors play St Dominics at 12pm in Knockcroghery in their final championship group game.
There was heartbreak following our Junior Ladies’ 2 point defeat to Four Roads last Friday night in Kiltoom. Kilmore were a point down at half-time. The concession of scores in the opening 15 minutes of the second half left us 10 points down but then the effort and determination of this young team came to the fore when the deficit was back to a point with time nearly up. A decision awarding a free-in on the edge of Four Roads’ square was incredibly changed to a hop ball from which the cleared their line and went up field to score what was to be the last point. From the kick out we won possession and were on track for goals when the final whistle was sounded much to the dismay of our players and supporters. Four Roads went on to record a 2 point victory. The Ladies are to be commended on some incredible football and a fight back that deserved at least a draw on the night. A special thanks to all the girls who have played and committed to the team this year. To Jake Feely, Jamie Sharkey and Kevin Caslin for the work and effort they have put into the team, it is hugely appreciated. The Club would also like to thank Andy Connellan for sponsoring a new set of jerseys for the ladies and to Gerry Connellan for sponsoring a meal for the team after the final. There was a huge turnout of supporters for the final, thanks to everyone for their support. To Cliona Beirne, Aoife Devaney and Lisa Shannon, thanks for helping on the night. Panel: Joann Finnerty, Aoife Butler, Jenny Connellan (Captain), Lauren Duignan, Aoife Earley, Aine Caslin, Shauna McWeeney, Lauren Shanagher, Aisling Burke, Shauna Burke, Aisling Earley, Grainne Burke, Aine Earley, Natasha Munnelly, Eleanor McWeeney, Olivia Connellan, Martina Duignan, Pamela McGauran, Eilis Caslin, Nicola Craughwell, Sorcha Earley, Fiona Tiernan, Lauren O’Flynn, Clodagh Boland. Our U12 girls played at half-time and thanks to Steve Holmes and Noelle Geraghty who looked after the girls. Deirdre Devaney, Rachel Devaney, Roisin Dowd, Shannon Dowd, Charlotte Geraghty, Victoria Geraghty, Roisin Higgins, Eli Holmes, Maria Keane
On Tuesday morning last our club and parish was saddened to hear of the death of our good friend and club president Willie Casserly of Rockfield. Willie was a great supporter of the club and was highly respected by everyone who knew him and he will be sadly missed. We extend our deepest sympathy to his 3 daughters Carmelita, Una and Catherine and all his extended family and friends. Thanks to everyone who took part in the Guard of honour at Aughrim graveyard. Well done to Martin Glynn who won our 50/50 jackpot of €340 on Sunday night last. The seller was the Arch bar, Jamestown. Our €25 winners were JJ Collins, Helen, Tom Sherwin and Emily Hunt. Well done to Mervyn Foley and his team of sellers. Next on selling duty is Pamela McGaurans team. The club wishes Eibhlin Earley, Hillstreet a very happy 50th birthday. Well done to the ladies of the parish who done the Dublin mini marathon in memory of Mary Donohue in June and on Friday night last presented the Mayo/Roscommon hospice with a cheque for over €12,000.
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Roy Horn of legendary magic duo Siegfried & Roy passes at age 75 of COVID-19 related complications
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ABOVE (Left to Right): Roy Horn, Kenneth Feld, Irvin Feld, Siegfried Fischbacher. Courtesy Feld Entertainment
Roy Horn, one half of the renowned magic duo Siegfried & Roy, passed away from COVID-19 related complications at a Las Vegas hospital on May 8, 2020. He was 75.
Born October 3, 1944 in Germany, Roy developed a connectivity to animals from an early age, beginning with his beloved wolfdog Hexe and his pet cheetah, Chico, which he adopted from the Bremen Zoo. While working as a steward on a cruise ship, Roy assisted a performance of Siegfried’s magic act. After the show, Roy asked the question that changed both of their lives: “Siegfried, disappearing rabbits are ordinary, but can you make a cheetah disappear?”
Together, Siegfried & Roy redefined live magic by combining remarkable stagecraft with rare and endangered animals. In doing so, the duo created the modern era for Las Vegas entertainment.
From 1990 through 2003, the two performed at The Mirage’s 1500 seat showroom in Las Vegas. The show would be filmed with IMAX 3D cameras for a 1999 documentary release titled “Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box.” Roy’s big cats remain on public display at Siegfried & Roy’s Secret Garden at the Mirage, where a portion of admission is applied to wildlife conservation efforts.
Siegfried & Roy’s Secret Garden. Courtesy MGM Resorts International
Courtesy Seigfried & Roy
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Roy and Chico. Courtesy Siegfried & Roy.
Courtesy IMAX Corporation
“Today, the world has lost one of the greats of magic, but I have lost my best friend,” said Siegfried. “From the moment we met, I knew Roy and I, together, would change the world. There could be no Siegfried without Roy, and no Roy without Siegfried.
“Roy was a fighter his whole life, including during these final days. I give my heartfelt appreciation to the team of doctors, nurses and staff at Mountain View Hospital who worked heroically against this insidious virus that ultimately took Roy’s life.”
“When my father, Irvin and I first met Siegfried and Roy in 1977, we were astounded by their talent, charisma and work ethic,” shared Kenneth Feld, Chairman and CEO of Feld Entertainment, who produced Siegfried and Roy’s show at The Mirage. “For over 40 years, I continued a creative and business partnership with Siegfried & Roy, which grew into a friendship and unending admiration for Roy’s perseverance and captivating persona. Together with Siegfried, Roy elevated the art of magic with large scale illusions and high production value, redefining the expectations for a Las Vegas based show. Roy dedicated himself to the audience, continually pushing the limits of performance to sold-out theaters for decades. His passion for the art of illusion was surpassed only by his love for the animals that he cared for so deeply. Roy’s legacy will live on in the memories of the millions of fans who saw him perform and in the friendship of those of us who knew him.”
“My friend Roy Uva Ludwig Horn died of Coronavirus today,” wrote filmmaker Brett Leonard. “One of the wildest most unique beings I have ever known – Collaborating with Roy and Siegfried, and their manager Bernie Yuman on my 3D IMAX film ‘The Magic Box’ (which was an expressionistic depiction of their life story) was one of the most storied periods of my life…and being around their Tigers and Lions was a peak experience, afforded by Roy’s true magic with those cats.
“In fact, Roy was a cat in human form…the true Tiger King… As Siegfried always said, ‘I’m the magician, but Roy is the Magic…’ It was an honor to know him, and to tell their outlandish story in an outlandish medium…. I can feel Roy is now roaming the savanna beyond the veil…at one with his beloved cats forever…RIP my friend.”
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Founded in 1889 on Halsted St. in this city, Hull House was the most famous settlement house, kind of an immigrant community center
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Show #8054 - Thursday, September 19, 2019
Jason Zuffranieri game 15.
Adam Clark, a police officer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nilla Sivakumar, a college student from Dublin, California
Jason Zuffranieri, a math teacher from Albuquerque, New Mexico (14-day champion whose cash winnings total $399,543)
THE HINTING OF HULL HOUSE
THE U.S. WOMEN'S NATIONAL SOCCER TEAM
A "DROP"
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Ricola makes them
Hull House did political work, starting with lobbying for a max 48-hour work week for women in these "shops"
"The Family Circus" is a comic strip; this is the similar name of the magazine founded by Charles Merrill of Merrill Lynch
DD: $1,000 21
With a pickaxe blow in 1859 Ferdinand de Lesseps began construction of this
In 2019 Jessica Chastain tweeted, "Guys, I just met" this same-surnamed hero of the '99 tournament
This onstage action has become a metaphor for a stylish ending
The Kuroshio Current
Immigrants from all over lived in the area; a group from this country put on "Ajax" in the original on the Hull House stage
In 2018 billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong bought this newspaper & moved its headquarters to El Segundo, California
Judge Ferdinand Pecora led a 1933 Wall Street investigation & later served on this newly created federal commission
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In 2006 Doug Flutie made one of these for an extra point, the first time that had been done in the NFL since 1941
The Sunda Double Trench
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A Yurble stole my cinnamon roll! Circulation: 193,523,354 Issue: 695 | 21st day of Hiding, Y17
The Sorceress and the Prisoner: Part Seven
by dudeiloled
Master Vex paced up and down the cold dungeon. A drip of water persistently hit his head, but he was used to this as he walked this walk every morning and every night. He had been doing so for the past twenty years; nothing was new anymore. It wasn't that he liked keeping these prisoners here, it was more he enjoyed the isolation from the outside world. Only a few people to check on every now and then, and he had complete power over their conversations. There weren't many prisoners here – Lord Darigan rarely bothered enough anymore to throw any people here and the latest prisoner before Lisha had been over a decade ago. The oldest prisoner was Prisoner Five. There had been five prisoners before him, but he was the only one who had survived the long and hard twenty years of this.
The other prisoners thought he had gone insane with being locked up for so long. Master Vex knew differently; he was the only one who knew differently. Perhaps now was finally the time to tell Lisha, to tell everyone. He wasn't affected by being burdened with this secret, but to finally release it into the world would be a huge weight off his shoulders. Because Prisoner Five was the only one who could help them now.
Lisha reeled off the conditions of the spell to Master Vex. She had to be within a five metre radius of whatever she was mending, and she had to be able to see it. The Mynci knew well enough that the orb was not within five metres of her cell. Lord Darigan probably hid it in his chambers somewhere. His bedroom, even, where no one had ever gone apart from the Lord himself. How could he get it? He rarely came out of the dungeons...Lord Darigan, no, anyone who saw him would know something was wrong.
And another thought was troubling him. Lisha had seemed to have forgotten Lord Darigan's own spell on this dungeon, cast by one of his sorcerers...one of his ex sorcerers. No magic could be performed in this dungeon, ever. Lisha had to get out of here to do the spell. Everything was adding up now...and the odds didn't look great.
“I've memorised the chant,” Lisha told Master Vex now. “Ick nishi erin tu. I don't know how good I am at casting spells without my wand, so it would be best if we could get the orb in my hands if possible.”
Master Vex sighed. “I have no idea where it is. We'll have to –”
Suddenly, without warning, a huge crash sounded and the whole palace shook. What was going on? All of the prisoners yelped, some waking up from their slumber. It was barely dawn! Was this another wave of attack so soon?
“Master Vex!” Lisha shrieked, knocked off her balance and falling to the floor with a bump. The heavy book slipped from her hands and hit the floor beside her, missing her by inches. Two hands shot out and grabbed the book – it was Prisoner Five. He hid it under his cloak, then stepped backwards into the shadows of his cell.
“What...?” The Mynci was confused by the Lupe's actions for a moment, until a new shadow fell across the dungeon in the shape of a large, intimidating Korbat.
Lisha picked herself up from the floor and clapped a hand to her mouth. She steadied her balance as the palace continued to shake. Dust fell from the ceiling and the bars, causing her to cough. Lord Darigan opened her cell door with the key hanging from Master Vex's neck. He took her roughly by the arm and dragged her from her holding place. All the while shouts could be heard even from down here, and the huge roars of catapults firing large stones. Lisha wondered if her brother was up there in the open of the Citadel. Until now she hadn't allowed herself to think of him. Now that she did, she felt the yearn to see him again.
“Lord Darigan, where are you going with Lisha?” Master Vex asked as he stepped out of the way of Lord Darigan marching past him, Lisha in tow. She threw the Mynci a bewildered look as she hurried past.
“That is of no business of yours, Vex.” Lord Darigan replied quietly. “But if my minions have served me well it seems you have grown far too friendly with this prisoner in particular. Conversations, whispers of a spell, no doubt. Why, even a yellow Lupe broke in, did he not? And you did not report this to me. So no, I will not tell you where I am going with Lisha. I, too, have secrets from you.”
At this he left, and when the pair of footsteps could no longer be heard over the chaos above, Master Vex sank to the floor in exasperation. He had no idea how Lord Darigan had known – perhaps one of the prisoners was a spy reporting back when he fell asleep? – but he did, and now their plan was ruined. Now was definitely the time to –
Master Vex almost didn't hear Prisoner Five at first. Then his coarse, croaky mutterings were like music to his ears. Even without his memory he had remembered something vital. Something that would at least bring the plan to fruition, even if they had to somehow get Lisha back to perform the spell.
“The orb is in his floor, the orb is in his floor, the orb is in his floor...”
“CHARGE!” Jeran yelled, as his troops landed on Darigan Citadel soil. The battle was already in full swing and it was hard to make sense of everything for a moment. Darigan Citadel was only a small area of land and Jeran feared for the village not far from the battlefield.
With Sir Borodere now here, the Meridellian soldiers now had faith in their win and fought harder, but the Darigan troops seemed somewhat...relaxed and smug. As if they knew already they were going to win. Jeran wanted to wipe the smirks off their faces.
Everywhere, noise. Jeran wondered, briefly, where King Skarl was. Sat at home in his castle? Did he ever actually participate...or did he rely on his knights, guards and soldiers? All of this...this war, the previous ones...all of it boiled down to him originally stealing that orb from Darigan Citadel. Was he a good king after all?
Hours seemed to fly by and no one was letting up. It was around sunset when suddenly Jeran spotted Lord Darigan stood atop a roof of a building. The Korbat raised a hand, and wondrously, all of the Darigan troops stopped fighting and turned to look at their leader. Some Meridellians tried to carry on fighting, but Jeran called the fighting off. Something was going on now. And then he saw her.
Lisha, being brought onto the roof by no one other than Lord Darigan himself. The three of them were stood there, waiting for silence to fall. Hundreds of hushed voices ran through the area, older folk wondering what in Neopia was going on. Everyone seemed to be thinking that at this very moment. Sir Borodere stepped forward to the front of the crowd, and stared at no one but Lisha, primed ready to attack incase they decided to hurt her. For what seemed like forever the three of them just stood there, and then Lord Darigan spoke to everyone, his tone low and serious.
“Some years ago, though I am not being pedantically precise, our two countries were plunged into war for the first time. Why was this, may some of you younger ones ask? Because King Skarl stole a very powerful orb from me, an orb that provided Darigan Citadel with food and fresh water and prosperity. When this orb was taken, all of this was lost. We were plagued with disease and famine whilst Meridell flourished. The way we look now is not how we used to. People have coined us 'Darigan coloured'. This is an insult to my very name. In fact, the last war made me lose sight of my senses. Lisha here thwarted an enchantment on the King. Then I returned and took my rightful place at the throne of this Citadel. He has been here all along. Over the past decade I have been training my soldiers up to fight again, and this time, to win. To get revenge on what Meridell has done to us. Now is the time! And now, Darigan will succeed.”
“You will never defeat us all!” Jeran shouted, loud and brave. Others stared at him admirably, in awe of such a noble and true knight. “We will fight with everything we have!”
Lord Darigan grinned, baring his sharp, pointed teeth. “Will I not, Sir Borodere? But I have something you don't...sacrifices. One in particular that you will not want to be used...”
“I'd rather die myself than let you harm Lisha.” Jeran said, not breaking his intense eye contact with his sister. She was shaking her head at him, mouthing something he couldn't quite work out. Jeran hesitated.
Jeran's answer only seemed to please Lord Darigan more, but he couldn't figure out why.
No one was in the palace – some sort of speech from Lord Darigan was going on outside. Master Vex didn't care. He just didn't care anymore. He needed to save Lisha before something happened to her, so that she could save Meridell and Darigan from a sure terrible fate. He released Prisoner Five from his cell for the first time in twenty years, but to his surprise the Lupe didn't try to just run away. Perhaps there was some of his old self still in there after all, but he realised there was something important that needed doing. And now the two of them were running to Lord Darigan's chambers, up and up countless stairs.
Prisoner Five was talking to himself under his breath until they reached Lord Darigan's door. Master Vex opened it cautiously, half expecting Lord Darigan himself to jump up in front of them even though he knew for sure the Lord was outside. It almost seemed like a ruckus was starting outside now.
“What part of the floor is it?” Master Vex demanded once they were both in the room. It was a well organised office but rather bare and hardly welcoming.
“In his floor, fool!” Prisoner Five insisted. He opened another door Master Vex hadn't noticed and it revealed Lord Darigan's bedroom. Purple and navy blue in colour, a huge four poster bed stood in the centre against the back wall. A gigantic red and gold chest was sat next to a similar coloured wardrobe. A huge oil painting of Lord Darigan hung on his wall – of how he used to look.
It was strange to see. No one ever talked about how people looked back then. Ever. Before the orb was stolen and everything was peaceful and happy. Before everyone took on these strange, twisted forms of themselves. Master Vex remembered what Darigan Citadel used to be like, and for a second he sympathised with Lord Darigan and Galgarroth. They just wanted the Citadel to go back to how it was. A welcoming country, not a place no one would dare to visit in fear of never returning. On a table, slightly hidden in the shadow of the large wardrobe beside it, was a tiny picture in a small, dusty frame. The painting was old, very old indeed. There was a picture of a young female Korbat, unsmiling, gazing ahead as though in another world altogether. At the bottom was the inscription: Maid Marbella, aged seventeen.
But Master Vex did not notice this tiny painting.
There was another painting on the opposite wall, much smaller and harder to notice, and this one surprised Master Vex. It was a painting of the orb, and Lord Darigan holding it...and the orb's creator.
The orb's creator, who, right now, was smashing his way through the floor with his old wooden staff, a staff that contained more power than anyone would know, but no one knew. One of the most powerful sorcerers to ever live. The one who made the orb how it was. How only a pure and noble heart could fix the orb. The creator couldn't fix it, not now. There was some sort of hold. Master Vex had tried before, many years before Lord Darigan hid the orb properly, to get the old Lupe to fix the orb, but it hadn't worked. And his mutterings of only someone of his descent could fix it, with a pure and noble heart...
Darigan Citadel would never stoop so low as to ask for help from a Meridellian. But Lord Darigan may have done so and failed in vain, as he did not know of the true way to fix it. Only Master Vex did – but Master Vex had left it. The truce had seemed to be working, but now, clearly, that wasn't to be. And that was why making sure Lisha wasn't harmed was the most important thing in the whole of Neopia right now.
Because Lisha was of Prisoner Five's descent, and she had a pure and a noble heart indeed...she just didn't know this. It was why she was such a successful sorceress, and why she'd be able to do this spell even if she doubted herself.
Because Lisha was his daughter.
“Master Vex!” Prisoner Five jabbed the Mynci with his staff. He was grinning with glee and pointing at the floor whilst doing a funny sort of dancing jig. “Look! Look!”
Lying under the floor were the two halves of the mystical orb, wrapped in a silk cloth, golden with beautiful patterns on both parts.
“How do we get this to that lovely young maiden?” Prisoner Five asked. “She was lovely, she kept me company, yes, we have to save her...” His brow furrowed. “We have to save her!”
Master Vex passed one half of the orb to Prisoner Five, praying he wouldn't drop it. He held the other half in both arms – it was surprisingly heavier than he thought it would be. How would they get the two halves of the orb to Lisha? He had no idea...but he had to try. It seemed it was all down to him and his old friend now. “Come on,” he nodded to Prisoner Five now. “We have to hurry!”
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Posted by Nicky Drayden on May 20, 2017 in Writer's Life |
Every good playlist tells a story, and I’ve pulled together these 12 amazing songs to complement The Prey of Gods and add musical depth to the characters and arcs found in the novel–a novel that heavily centers around song. This playlist highlights some of South Africa’s most talented and prolific musicians spanning nearly eight decades.
This week, I’m focusing on the A-Side of the Playlist–the six songs that embody each of the point-of-view characters in The Prey of Gods. Read below if you want a bit of insight on how I came to pick these songs…or just listen to the playlist and enjoy!
Mbube: (Spotify | Amazon | iTunes) Muzi’s character embodies the spirit of this traditional Zulu song, performed by Solomon Linda in 1939. Also known as The Lion, the melody should sound familiar, though without the jungle references, because, well, that’s not where lions sleep. In the novel, Muzi has a deep connection to the preservation of wildlife, and a mural of Themba, the last lion to roam the savanna before they were driven to extinction, is prominently featured in his bedroom.
Special Star: (Spotify | iTunes) Sydney loves herself some Mango Groove and listens to it in her first chapter. Special Star is a spirited and lively song, just the pick-me-up a certain nail technician needs when she’s running low on energy and motivation. This 11-piece South African Afropop band fuses pop and township music, and was very popular in the 80s and 90s with many award-winning songs that held their place on the charts for months at a time.
Rain – Rain – Beautiful Rain: (Spotify | Amazon | iTunes) Nomvula, you know that girl on the cover of the book, under the umbrella…her name means “mother of rains” in Zulu. Rain often gets a bad rap when it interferes with our outdoor plans, but rain is beautiful. Rain brings life. Ladysmith Black Mambazo is an award-winning South African male choral group, who Nelson Mandela publicly called “South Africa’s cultural ambassadors.”
Lizzy: (Spotify | Amazon | iTunes) Do yourself a favor and watch the YouTube video of this one, first. Hawt, right? Now you have an idea of the level of funk that Stoker’s character brings to the page. Stage presence up to here, and the vocals to match. The Soil’s debut LP went platinum in 2011, and honestly, I can’t tell you which voice I’m more in love with.
Amazulu: (Spotify | Amazon | iTunes) Riya Natrajan is the pop diva in The Prey of Gods, so of course she’s going to have an over-the-top amazing song that you can’t help but dance to. Let’s face it, Amanda Black’s got some serious pipes in this song. You can feel what she’s fighting for, and you can feel the emotion behind the words–no matter what language they’re in.
Flesh Temple: (Spotify | Amazon | iTunes) We’re still a couple years away from music solely composed by an AI (I found this attempt — close, but not quite), but this song serves as a good stand-in until then. Radio Rats is a South African rock band, first popular in the late 70s with a peculiar aesthetic. Flesh Temple is a bit tongue-in-cheek for Clever4-1, since it has no flesh to speak of, but man or metal, we’re all chasing after freedom, right?
Stay tuned for my B-Side adventure, and six more songs that hit at the emotional core of the novel!
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The Trump administration is poised to undermine senior citizens’ access to lifesaving medications. It recently proposed a rule that would weaken patient protections within Medicare’s “Part D” prescription drug benefit. Part D drug plans are required to cover all drugs in six “protected classes” of medicines. This ensures that seniors have widespread access to drugs used to treat cancer, depression, HIV and more.The administration wants to allow insurers to stop covering some drugs in the six protected classes. This change could result in poorer health outcomes for Medicare’s most vulnerable beneficiaries – and inflate health spending in the longrun.
Politico: Part D Rule Could Harm Efforts to Eradicate HIV
As reported today by Politico, a new proposal to weaken Medicare's six protected classes policy could harm national efforts to eradicate HIV — a top priority of the Trump administration and HHS Secretary Alex Azar. "That's according to Precision Health Economics, which argues that applying negotiation tactics for protected classes drugs in Medicare Part D could harm patient access and end up hurting efforts to eradicate HIV. It's the latest in an effort led by AIDS United and other disease advocacy group to keep Medicare requirements to cover all protected class drugs."
Keep Medicare Part D’s Protected Classes Protected
This post originally appeared in The Independent on March 8, 2019.
Recently, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed a troubling regulation that would weaken Medicare Part D, the federal program that helps 45 million American seniors and people with disabilities afford prescription drugs. Part D is unique among government programs. The federal government allows people to purchase coverage from private insurers. The government subsidizes these plans but otherwise lets Medicare beneficiaries choose the coverage that’s best for them. Congress did put some guardrails on insurers when it created Part D. It required Part D plans to cover all medications in six “protected classes” of drugs, including antipsychotics, antidepressants, and anticonvulsants. These medicines help treat people with schizophrenia and other psychiatric illnesses.
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Diane Bahr, MS, CCC-SLP, CIMI will be presenting on February 25, 2016 at the RAIR SYMPOSIUM. If you would like to get a feel for Diane’s work, here are links to her recent articles for Kids in the House and Dysphagia Café. Click on the links below to see these articles.
What Every Parent Needs to Know about Mouth Development from Birth: What Can Go Wrong and Why
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Here are also four recent radio interviews by Diane. Click on the links to read them, print them, or listen to them.
Feeding 101: What Baby Food Jars Don’t Tell You (AKA: What do parents need to know when feeding their children from birth to 12-months of age?)
Sippy Cups, Bottles, and Straws – Oh My! Feeding 201 (AKA: What do parents need to know when feeding their children from 12 to 24-months of age?)
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Teething and Drooling: What Every Parent Should Know (AKA: What should every parent know about teething and drooling?)
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National Council of Negro Women focuses on eye health
Robert Beatty— April 26, 2012
WASHINGTON (PRNewswire) — The National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) is making eye health an important component to its health programming to address the higher risk among African Americans for many eye- and overall-health issues that can impact vision.
One of the goals of this focus is to drive awareness about the importance of getting a regular eye exam and protecting eyes from the sun. A recent study showed that less than half of African Americans had an eye exam within the past year. The study also found that only 7 percent of African Americans know that extended exposure to the sun (a risk for cataracts) can damage the eyes, and that African Americans are the most likely demographic group to say they do nothing to protect their eyes from the sun.
The NCNW featured vision care at its Black Family Reunion Celebration the last two years with more than 500 attendees receiving free vision screenings sponsored by Transitions Optical, Inc., maker of Transitions lenses. In 2012 NCNW is expanding efforts to reach the
community with eye health information through additional channels, including the NCNW chapter network and national conferences with support from Transitions Optical.
“I was pleased to have been approached by Transitions Optical to launch an eye health awareness campaign realizing the magnitude of vision issues and diseases that affect our community at such high numbers,” said Avis Jones-DeWeever, executive director, NCNW. “We will be making sure that vision care is addressed throughout our health outreach efforts in the future.”
African Americans reportedly are 1.5 times more likely to suffer from cataracts than the general population, and are five times more likely than Caucasians to develop glaucoma. They are also at higher risk for overall health issues, such as diabetes, hypertension and HIV/AIDS, all of which can have serious implications for vision.
NCNW has launched a section on its website providing eye health information and resources at ncnw.org/resources/health.htm. An educational brochure called What to Expect: African American Eyes, along with other materials sponsored by Transitions Optical, are available for download.
“We hope these efforts will help our community better understand that making sure eyes are healthy and protected is an important component to overall health,” added Jones-DeWeever. “I encourage everyone to utilize our resources and learn more about what they can do to maintain healthy sight.”
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Study finds that Plastic Recycling from Europe being dumped in Asian Waters
Jun 30 2020 Posted: 09:20 IST
Up to 31% of plastic exported for recycling not recycled at all Highest Proportion of Ocean Littering from UK, Slovenia, Italy
New research from NUI Galway and the University of Limerick has for the first time quantified the volume of plastic from European countries (EU, UK, Switzerland and Norway) that contributes to ocean littering from exported recycling.
While European countries have developed world-leading waste management infrastructure, 46% of European separated plastic waste is exported outside the country of origin. A large share of this plastic is transported thousands of kilometres to countries with poor waste management practices, largely located in Southeast Asia. Once in these countries, a large share of the waste is rejected from recycling streams into overstretched local waste management systems that have been found to contribute significantly to ocean littering.
This new research, published in the scientific journal Environment International, estimated the best-case, average, and worst-case scenarios of ocean debris pathways from exported recycling in 2017. The results estimated a range between 32,115 - 180,558 tonnes, or 1 - 7% of all exported European polyethylene, which ended up in the ocean. Polyethylene is one of the most common types of plastic in Europe, and the results showed that countries such as the UK, Slovenia, and Italy are exporting a higher share of plastic outside of Europe and see a higher share of their recyclable plastic waste end up as ocean debris.
Speaking today, George Bishop, lead author of the study said: “The results indicate an important and previously undocumented pathway of plastic debris entering the oceans, which will have considerable environmental and social impacts on marine ecosystems and coastal communities.”
Using detailed international trade data and data on waste management in destination countries, the study modelled the fate of all polyethylene exported for recycling from Europe, accounting for different fates ranging from successful conversion into recycled resins, or ending up as landfill, incineration, or ocean debris.
Dr David Styles, a lecturer at the University of Limerick and co-author, explains, “Given that such a large share of waste destined for recycling is exported, with poor downstream traceability, this study suggests that ‘true’ recycling rates may deviate significantly from rates reported by municipalities and countries where the waste originates. In fact, our study found that up to 31% of the exported plastic wasn’t actually recycled at all”.
The study was part of the Science Foundation Ireland funded, ‘Innovative Energy Technologies for Bioenergy, Biofuels and a Sustainable Irish Bioeconomy: IETSBIO3’ led by Professor Piet Lens, Established Professor of New Energy Technologies at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
Professor Lens added: “To successfully move towards a more circular economy, European municipalities and waste management companies need to be held accountable for the final fate of “recycled” waste. Our study highlights the lack of available data on plastic waste and the need to consider extended audit trails, or “on-shoring” of recycling activities as part of emerging regulations around trade in plastic waste.”
The authors caution that these findings should not discourage people to recycle as it remains the best waste management treatment, environmentally speaking. However, there is considerable work to be done to improve aspects of these plastic recycling chains, to reduce the ‘leakage’ of these systems.
The full study is available at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412020318481#s0125
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The 'riot' began BEFORE his speech, so the 'rioters' must have been psychic, huh.
Re: You can believe anything you like. In America that is as it should be. -- Slim Post Reply Top of thread Forum
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There was no coverage of the speech. None. Zip. Zilch. Nada.
If you haven't been paying attention, the President has been de-platformed, by everyone in tech and the media.
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"Incitement" Timeline Debunked as Ex-Capitol Police Chief Says Pelosi, McConnell's Sergeants-at-Arms Refused Security Measures - The National Pulse
Raheem Kassam
The Washington Post has reported that the outgoing Capitol Police Chief, Steve Sund, believes his efforts to secure the premises were undermined by a lack of concern from House and Senate security officials who answer directly to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate leader Mitch McConnell. The National Pulse can also report the Washington Post’s timeline proves it was impossible for Trump speech attendees to have made it to the Capitol in time for the breach.
In addition to the fact that Trump openly called for the “cheering on” of Congressman, and “peaceful” protests, the timeline as established from numerous, establishment media reports simply doesn’t stack up.
The admission that House and Senate security leaders failed to provide Capitol Police with resources on the day will raise questions over their role in the day’s events.
WaPo reported late Sunday night:
Two days before Congress was set to formalize President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund was growing increasingly worried about the size of the pro-Trump crowds expected to stream into Washington in protest.
To be on the safe side, Sund asked House and Senate security officials for permission to request that the D.C. National Guard be placed on standby in case he needed quick backup.
But, Sund said Sunday, they turned him down.
In his first interview since pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol last week, Sund, who has since resigned his post, said his supervisors were reluctant to take formal steps to put the Guard on call even as police intelligence suggested that the crowd President Trump had invited to Washington to protest his defeat probably would be much larger than earlier demonstrations.
House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving said he wasn’t comfortable with the “optics” of formally declaring an emergency ahead of the demonstration, Sund said. Meanwhile, Senate Sergeant at Arms Michael Stenger suggested that Sund should informally seek out his Guard contacts, asking them to “lean forward” and be on alert in case Capitol Police needed their help.
Irving could not be reached for comment. A cellphone number listed in his name has not accepted messages since Wednesday. Messages left at a residence he owns in Nevada were not immediately returned, and there was no answer Sunday evening at a Watergate apartment listed in his name. A neighbor said he had recently moved out.
Sund recalled a conference call with Pentagon officials and officials from the D.C. government. He said on the call: “I am making an urgent, urgent immediate request for National Guard assistance… I have got to get boots on the ground.”
But the request was apparently denied over optics.
“I don’t like the visual of the National Guard standing a police line with the Capitol in the background,” an Army official replied.
John Falcicchio, chief of staff for D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser admitted: “Literally, this guy is on the phone, I mean, crying out for help. It’s burned in my memories.”
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And while the Washington Post clumsily attempts to blame President Trump for the violence – despite the President calling for “peaceful” protests and the “cheering on” of Congressmen – their own article admits the “first wave of protesters arrived at the Capitol about 12:40pm.”
President Trump’s speech didn’t conclude until 1:11pm, and with at least a 45-minute walk between the two locations with crowd-related delays, that would put the first people from Trump’s speech at Capitol Hill no earlier than 1:56pm – a full hour and sixteen minutes after troublemakers arrived.
In fact, rioters who breached the perimeter would have had to leave before Trump’s speech even began (at 12pm precisely) to make it in time for the events as they are detailed by authorities.
The Washington Post also states: “Sund’s outer perimeter on the Capitol’s west side was breached within 15 minutes,” meaning the Capitol was breached over an hour before Trump speech attendees could have even begun to arrive.
This correlates with Sund’s interview, where he admits: “I realized at 1pm, things aren’t going well… I’m watching my people getting slammed.”
Again, 1pm would have been a full 56-minutes before any Trump speech-attendees could have begun arriving, let alone breaching the perimeter and clashing with police. Downtown Washington, D.C. roads were closed. There was no way of arriving faster, let alone before the President had finished speaking.
At 1:09pm, still before the President had finished speaking, Sund called the Sergeants-at-arms of the House and Senate. He told them it was time to call in the National Guard. He even said he wanted an emergency declaration. Both, however, said they would “run it up the chain” and get back to him.
At 1:50pm the Capitol itself was breached. Still before most Trump speech attendees could have arrived.
What happened after this point was a back and forth over hours between D.C. officials, Army officials, and Capitol police.
Eventually – at past 5pm – the National Guard arrived.
And while Sund is quoted in the Washington Post as blaming President Trump’s speech for the violence that ensued – the timeline means that makes no sense.
The President’s fans are not known for leaving his speeches 5 or 10 minutes in. And by the time the Capitol was breached, those who had stayed to listen to even the first 15 minutes would not have even made it there in time.
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Wicked The Musical Tickets – Tour Dates 2021, News, Cast & Resources
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This will be a record-breaking engagement for Boise. Wicked is a phenomenon that resonates around the country and Boise is without exception. This is the first national touring company of one of the most popular Broadway musicals in history. It’s the first time since “The Producers” in 2004 that a first national tour has hit Boise.
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The Vietnamese government said it will raise the export duty on iron ore to 40 percent in early July from 30 percent now to ensure raw material for its domestic steel industry.
The government in a statement said that the new rate will come into effect on July 2 following a Finance Ministry circular. It added that "The export of iron ore in recent years has led many domestic steel manufacturing enterprises to face shortages of the raw material and forced them to import."
The Vietnam Steel Association and several domestic steel producers had sought a government ban on the export of processed iron ore.
Much of Vietnam's exports of raw minerals such as iron ore go to China. Vietnam had to spend $6.16 billion last year to import steel and steel products, a rise of 15 percent from 2009, the government's statistics show.
Between January and May this year, the cost of importing the products rose an estimated 15.6 percent from a year earlier to US$2.6 billion.
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In Her Time on target for the Hawkesbury Crown 2020
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Trainer Kris Lees is looking to send dual Group One winning sprinter In Her Time out on a high at Rosehill.
The mare is listed for auction as a broodmare proposition at the Chairman’s sale early next month and will be backing up from her fifth in the Group Three Hall Mark Stakes at Randwick on Saturday.
She is nominated for two races on Saturday, the Hawkesbury Crown (1300m) and the Hawkesbury Gold Rush (1100m).
The races are part of the Hawkesbury Cup program which has been transferred from the provincial track to Rosehill amid coronavirus protocols.
Jockeys in NSW have been divided into three regions which means Sydney’s metropolitan riders would not have been able to compete if the meeting was held at its normal provincial site.
Lees has indicated the Crown is his preference with Hugh Bowman to ride In Her Time who will carry 60kg in the Group Three event.
“Under the set weights and penalties conditions of the Crown, she is well treated,” Lees said.
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In Her Time’s two Group One wins have been in the 2018 Galaxy when she was trained by Benjamin Smith and the 2019 Lightning Stakes in Lees’ care.
After striking trouble in the Hall Mark, In Her Time made up a lot of ground late.
She is the $4.50 favourite for the Crown ahead of Wednesday’s acceptances.
Lees will make a decision whether Asharani runs in the Crown after he sees the make-up of the field.
The trainer is also looking forward to the return of Graff who is among his entries for the Listed Gold Rush.
The four-year-old is another whose racetrack career is coming to an end with Aquis Farm joining Australian Bloodstock in a joint venture earlier this year to stand him at stud.
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He won the Clarendon at the 2018 Hawkesbury meeting at his second start.
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DVD Review: He Named Me Malala
By Chaz Lipp, Contributor
Malala Yousafzai is the focus of He Named Me Malala, a documentary currently available on DVD and Digital HD via Fox Home Entertainment. The now-18-year-old Yousafzai, a Pakistan native, became a global representative for female education rights in 2012 when the Taliban shot and nearly killed her. During the years leading up to the assassination attempt, Yousafzai had risen to prominence after blogging about the oppressive Taliban regime and their prevention of girls from receiving an education. Her efforts made her a target but, though nearly fatal, she recovered from her critical injuries. Yousafzai's activism has continued and in 2014 she became the youngest Nobel Prize winner (at just 17).
Given the subject matter, it seems inevitable that He Named Me Malala should be a worthwhile documentary. But director Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) has put together a strangely lightweight, dispassionate film. Its stylish animated sequences are nice to look at, but ultimately rob Yousafzai's story of some of its power. An abundance of casual moments obviously intended to emphasize that she's a 'regular teen girl' are over-relied upon. A little clowning and mawkish sentimentality goes a long way, but some of these candid moments are unnecessary. Yousafzai never comes across as anything but likable, but the key here is that she is decidedly far from average. Guggenheim can't be faulted for painting a rounded portrait, but it is his subject's extraordinary courage that deserved a more intense focus.
That said, if the name Malala Yousafzai doesn't already resonate with you in some way, He Named Me Malala remains a must see. The film, running a very tidy 88 minutes, is a very accessible way to become acquainted with a very inspiring person. What it lacks in hard-hitting intensity (and even detailed information, for that matter), Malala makes up for simply in terms of spreading the word about this young woman's accomplishments.
Chaz Lipp is a Las Vegas-based musician and freelance writer. His new jazz album 'Good Merlin' is now available.
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THE BROTHERHOOD: ASSASSINATION OF JUDGES:
AL KHAZINDAR IN THE PAST TENSE:
In his book, “To Connect the Dots – The Muslim Brotherhood and the Private System”, Ahmed Adel Kamal explains why Al Khazindar was killed from a Muslim Brotherhood point of view. Under the subtitle “Al Khazindar in the Past Tense”, he writes:
“Judge Ahmed Bek Al Khazindar, Head of the Cairo Court of Appeal approved the legitimacy of the British presence in Egypt under the 1936 treaty. Our youths saw him as a major obstacle for they had dreams of jihad and liberation. A few of us volunteered to get rid of him and someone was chosen, so I used to read the papers every morning looking for the news. Days passed and I never read the news I wanted to see, so I asked why is it taking so long? They replied saying they cannot locate his address because he was recently transferred from Alexandria and his address was not listed. Finally, they found out that he was living in Helwan.”
ASSASSINATION:
Adel continues saying: “I kept looking for the news till March 22, 1948. I was at work in Al Ahly Bank when one of the foreign employees yelled to freeze Ahmed Bek Al Khazindar’s account. He was asked why and he answered because he was shot dead. Everyone regarded the news as simply an accident. His account would be frozen till his inheritors each get their share, but to me, it meant a lot more than that. As soon as I finished work, I rushed to make sure of what happened. Unfortunately, I found out that the two from the Brotherhood who killed him were arrested.”
HOW WAS AL KHAZINDAR KILLED?
Under this title, Adel tells the full story’ as follows:
“Hassan Abdel Hafez and Mahmoud Sayed were chosen to hunt him down. We followed him for several days and found out that he uses public transportation and more often than not, he goes to the railway station on foot. We also discovered that the Helwan police station does not own any cars and so we devised our plan accordingly. They will wait for him to leave home then Hassan will shoot him, while Mahmoud stands on guard. Once accomplished, Mahmoud is to use voice grenades to prevent anyone from following them then they will escape while shooting in the air and throwing bombs targeting Abdel Rahman’s house. (Note how intricately the Brotherhood plan for their crimes and yet their leaders still insist that the Brotherhood has never used violence).
“Early morning, the two hunters were waiting for him to leave home. Indeed he leaves and walks confidently not knowing what would become of him. Mahmoud was a bit far, watching the road as Hassan approached and fired around three shots that missed the target. Mahmoud, who was a well-built wrestler, seized the opportunity and rushed to Al Khazindar and knocked him to the ground. He then shot him many times then left him and ran with his colleague. His wife kept crying from the window, “Haven’t I told you, Ahmed?” (Meaning ‘haven’t I warned you?’)
A nearby shop owner heard the shots and the cries so he alerted the police. And here came the surprise; the police station that owned no cars had just received a car from Cairo, and the chase began.
The situation changes forcing Mahmoud and Hassan to escape to the mountain instead of going to a house in Helwan. El Moqattam Mountain is not a suitable escape route, Hassan fell spraining his ankle so Mahmoud had to help him up for some time. Soon enough, the whole mountain was surrounded by police officers and the two were promptly arrested. Attorney General Mahmoud Mansour carried out the interrogation that night in Helwan police station. They denied any relation to the crime so they were transferred to Cairo. The next day, I found myself amongst a group of judges attending the funeral of Al Khazindar in Sharkas Mosque.”[1]
Adel Kamal continues:
“The investigation and the trial took a long time. Hassan pretended to have a mental illness and was transferred to the psychiatric hospital in Abbaseya. Several reports were submitted on his illness and the extent of his criminal responsibility.
The defense used all arguments to keep postponing the case. It is known that controversial issues tend to fade away by time and that is exactly what the defense was trying to do. (Note how the Brotherhood plan was to escape justice). While stating his defense, lawyer Fathy Radwan, said, “…Let us assume they did kill him. What is their motive?” But finally, on November 22, 1948, Mahmoud Zeinhom and Hassan Abdel Hafez were sentenced to life in prison with hard labor.”
HELPING THE INMATES TO BREAK OUT OF JAIL:
Adel Kamal continues to detail the Brotherhood’s plan to get the convicted members out of prison:
“The Al Khazindar operation caused us a great deal of stress and we were concerned about Mahmoud Zeinhom and Hassan Abdel Hafez. We not only hired the best lawyers to defend them, we were also planning to smuggle them out of prison.
We calculated all the details of the operation, the prison buildings, their entrances and exits and we prepared all the tools needed for breaking in. A group was selected for the break in and underwent extensive training on the use of small machine guns and pistols. The prison guards were armed with old guns that are loaded one bullet at a time. Some prison guards were bribed and spare keys for prison cells were made. The getaway car, needed to smuggle them out, was ready and so was the place where the convicts would go into hiding. The electric system was studied carefully to prepare for a power cut during the break in. Everything was going as planned.
But the jeep, being driven, crashed, and the 1948 ordeal, and the arrest of some of the members nominated for the operation ruined the plan. Even the prison spare key fell in the car without anyone noticing it. None of the police officers, prosecutors or investigators noticed that the key to Egypt’s main prison was inside the jeep. Surely they saw the key; they just did not make the connection. And so, Mahmoud Zeinhom and Hassan Abdel Hafez remained in prison for five or six years, but when the revolution erupted they were released.[2]
BOMBING THE COURT OF APPEALS:
This operation was planned by the prominent leaders of the Private Entity. The aim was to bomb the Cairo Court of Appeal because all documents pertaining to the “Jeep Trial” where Mostafa Mashhour was the main suspect (a leader of the Private Entity and the 5th Guide from 1996 to 2002). The story of the jeep is well known; Mostafa Mashhour was arrested driving a jeep filled with weapons and explosives that the Private Entity used for training, in addition to documents containing the future plans and strategies of the Brotherhood. El Banna denied that any Muslim Brotherhood could do such a thing, but years passed, unveiling the truth El Banna wanted to conceal. About this incident, Mahmoud El Sabbagh says, “Sayed Fayez reviewed all the crimes the government is accusing the Brotherhood of and was certain that the government had forged the documents presented to the prosecutor to build their case. He decided to burn the documents and assigned brother Shafiq Anas for the case. Shafiq Anas succeeded in placing a bag full of explosives besides the cupboard but a policeman saw Shafiq leave the bag so he picked it up and ran after Shafiq who continued running to prevent the bomb from exploding in the court’s stairwell. When he got out, he alerted the policeman to the bomb so he left it and it exploded without causing any damage. Shafiq was later arrested.[3]
MAHER, NOKRASHY AND ABDEL HADY:
On February 24, 1948, Ahmed Pasha Maher was on his way to the parliament. While crossing the hall, a young man named Mahmoud El Essawy, shot and killed him instantly.
Since Essawy was a Brotherhood member, following the incident, Hassan El Banna, Ahmed El Sokary, Abdel Hakim Abdin and other Muslim Brotherhood members were also arrested. However, they were released a few days later after Essawy confessed that he belongs to the National Party. But, there are those who insist that Essawy’s confession was given only to save his Brotherhood from trouble.
None of the Brotherhood leaders mentioned their connection to Essawy after their release. But, years later, the Brotherhood’s connection to Essawy was established. Sheikh Sayed Sabek, the prominent Brotherhood member who supported the killing of Nokrashy Pasha had mentioned that Mahmoud Essawy was an important member of the Brotherhood.[4]
El Sabbagh, who was a member of the Private Entity then says that Ahmed Maher was a traitor, however, the Brotherhood did not approve of killing him. Yet, this did not prevent them from plotting to kill him if matters escalated. El Sabbagh personally said that he was in charge of the plan. [5]
[1] Ahmed Adel Kamal – Dots over Letters. Pages 173 – 175. El Zahraa for Arabic Media. 1st Edition
[2] Previous reference. Page 178
[3] Mahmoud El Sabbag, previous reference. Page 451
[4] Sayed Youssef – Muslim Brotherhood Series. Part 3. Page 73
[5] Mahmoud El Sabbagh, previous refrence. Page 271
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Catching Up With Those Pretty Little Liars! Kate’s Gotta Secret!
So let’s talk about the latest episode of “Pretty Little Liars” . . . .
Caleb, unbeknownst to Hannah, was helping the others try and spy on -A and crack their phone. He made progress, but Hannah learned and was upset. She was trying to protect him and keep him out of -A’s attacks. However he found a major clue, a photo of a fake ID Alison had with brunette hair. Hannah recalled seeing her at a hair dressing salon pretending to be someone else. When they googled the name Alison was using, it lead them to the infamous book “Lolita.” Hannah seemingly had no idea what that book was about, but knew Alison had a copy, and swiped it. The book is of course about a young teenager dating a much much older man . . . . A clue? I think so! Well the show didn’t go there yet, but in the book was a claim card that Spenser looked into . . .
Kate’s new step-sister moved to town and joined the school. Hannah tried to remain civil with her step, but Spencer just knew she knew Kate from somewhere. It took a long time, but she finally remembered. Kate was at camp with Melissa years ago, and she heard stories and even had a photo of the camp group . . . Kate freaked, what did Spencer want to keep quiet? She just wanted her to be nice to Spencer . . . or everyone would find out how ugly she really is. Was that literal or figurative? I’m going with literal given Spencer mentioned she had a photo . . . Did Kate go through insane plastic surgery perhaps? When she was first introduced (at least in the books) Hannah’s dad always noted how beautiful she was . . . and it made Hannah feel ugly and fat (which lead to her bulimia in the books).
-A meanwhile sent out a photo of naked Kate to Hannah’s friends via her phone . . . uh oh! Yeah I’m guessing this has to do with some previews for next week with Hannah in the principal’s office!
Emily’s mom returned, and learned she was dating Maya again. Tension! Emily meanwhile had her own issues after Maya dropped the bomb last week she had been dating a boy. Emily said it bothered her that Maya was dating someone else period, and that she loved her! Maya said the same . . . but something tells me this isn’t going to end well for Emily. Honestly, I’ve always been suspicious . . . could Maya be -A? Maya did live in Alison’s house after all. If she’s not -A, I suspect she’s helping them.
Aria and Ezra made up, and Holden figured out the truth. He agreed to be her fake date cover with her parents, but it seems that Aria and Holden began to perhaps like one another? . . . . complicated! Holden meanwhile had some mysterious bruises. Is he being beaten, and by who? His parents . . . or someone else? Is he working for -A?
Fitz meanwhile learned that he was up for a promotion, a Deans position, but it meant a transfer to Louisiana! Okay we are going to just ignore the fact that most Deans have advanced graduate degrees that I don’t think Ezra has one given his young age (which in the books it seemed he had just taken the job straight out of school). Let’s ignore how he even got a job and the college in the first place! But he soon learned he of course was nominated for the promotion by Aria’s dad Byron . . . .
The very end of the show had -A taking a gun out of Ezra’s Spencer’s dad’s drawer . . . what will he/she do with it? Spoilers have indicated a major character will be offed on the show, but not one of the four main girls.
ABC February Sweeps/Valentine’s Week Spoilers!
A bunch of spoilers for Mid-February here . . . of note there are two weeks of “Private Practice” as the spoiler release went out a bit later for it than the “Grey’s” episode for the same date. Previews for this bunch include . . . .
On “Private Practice,” Sam reconnects with his estranged sister.
On “Castle,” the first of a two-parter guest staring the one and only Jennifer Beals and “Drop Dead Diva’s” Jason Stamberg, both who play agents that work with Castle and Becket on an international conspiracy case.
On “The River,” the second episode finds the family/boat crew face to face with “guardians of the jungle.”
On “Body of Proof,” a body is found dead in a freezer of an Italian restaurant . . . I swear I watched this already? Or did “Castle” do a similar story?
On “Revenge,” it looks like we are finally nearing the present, where Daniel gets his at the engagement party?
On “Grey’s” and “Private Practice,” a two part cross-over as they turn to Derek to help Mason’s mom Erica with her brain tumor.
On “Desperate Housewives,” if you suspected Orson is the person who killed Alejandro . . . you may be right as he is back!
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Once Upon A Time: The Genie Of The Lamp!
In the latest episode of “Once Upon A Time” we got more back story on Regina/The Queen, as well as Sydney/The Mirror.
In Fairy Tale land we learned that The Mirror actually started out as a Genie, who Snow’s father The King found and freed (even giving him one of his own wishes to use). The Genie refused to use it, as all wishes turn sour on the wisher eventually. He thanked The King and served in his court. In case you missed it, this was their little nod to Aladdin, as the Genie was from Agrabah.
The Genie met The Queen, who was very unhappy and unloved. It became clear The King still loved his first dead wife, and was always praising Snow as the fairest in the land. The Genie fell for The Queen, and she for him . . . but they could never be together. Eventually The King became suspicious that another man had won The Queen’s heart, so she planned to send The Genie away. However The Genie got another idea, put in his head by The Queen’s father via the gift of a serpent. They could kill The King and make it look like an accident. In the end though, The Genie found out The Queen had used him all along, even setting him up by using a snake from his homeland. She just wanted The King dead as part of her punishment to Snow. The Genie was in love with The Queen and wished to always be with her, which is how he got trapped in the mirror.
In Storybrooke, Sydney came to Emma shamed and fired and wanting revenge against Regina. He convinced Emma that Regina had stolen 50 thousand from the town fund, apparently to build a house for herself in the woods. She had previously torn down the fort where Henry played and he would meet Emma. She claimed it was unsafe, and Henry was devastated two fold . . . because it’s also where he hid his story book. In the end Emma was left with egg on her face, as Regina had taken the money . . . only to build a new playground for the kids of the town.
At the very end we learned what became obvious, Sydney is working with Regina to get closer to Emma and ruin her. He’s never been mad at Regina and he hasn’t been shamed and fired as he claimed, it’s a set-up. We also learned who retrieved the story book before the fort was destroyed . . . The Mysterious Writer! Aha! I at least got one thing right. He is somehow connected to the book.
I loved the twists they threw at us in this episode. For half of it you really felt for the poor unloved Queen, and I thought her vengeance for Snow would be The Genie being cast out. But we learned that wasn’t it, we still don’t know what Snow did to her.
Has Henry’s Dad Been Cast On Once Upon A Time?
TV Guide is reporting that Sebastian Stan will guest star on ABC’s “Once Upon A Time,” but little else is known. Sebastian is probably best known for his role on the CW’s “Gossip Girl” as well as for playing Captain America’s sidekick Bucky Barnes on the big screen flick “Captain America: The First Avenger.”
Who could he be playing? Based on his looks alone, I think he’s a dead ringer for Henry’s deadbeat dad that Emma mentioned an episode back. Recall that she lied to Henry, telling him his dad was a firefighter and died a hero battling a fire. In reality he’s someone bad, someone Emma feels Henry is better off not knowing about.
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Catching Up With The Secret Circle Gang!
So I realized I hadn’t written about “The Secret Circle” since before I left for my cruise. This post discusses some of my thoughts on the last few episodes. The show is on hiatus this week and returns February 2nd (I’ll post some spoilers this weekend . . . . though I hate to because that means I have to read/edit them and I so enjoy this show without them!)
Faye made a deal with a Voodoo Priest named Lee to try and get her own powers back, but it came at the cost of the circle. Lee turned out to be a con-artist, his grandparents were the real voodoo priests, he was a joke basically. He could do the spells, but wasn’t as knowledgable as them. Faye got crucified by her circle for what she did, but part of me was for her when she lashed back at them. They’ve all forgiven Cassie for her mishaps, but roast her. Okay yeah, Cassie didn’t mean to do the things she did, Faye did. Sure Faye’s not perfect, but she did have a point, and she didn’t know she was stealing from all of them (she thought it was just Cassie, not that it makes what she did better). I guess I just like her cause she’s exciting, and she has been labeled the trouble maker . . . even if she is 🙂
Faye isn’t done with Lee just yet. She keeps seeing him, and him her . . . but we know he has bigger plans. Something tells me he is somehow after her powers and may plan a sacrifice in the future . . . I guess Faye’s karma will bite her in the ass sooner or later.
One thing I loved about Faye screwing the others was Melissa and Diana bonding. We learned they were good friends, until Melissa started hanging out with Faye. I love Melissa, I just wish she had a bigger part in the show. She seems to just be the side kick so far.
Jake was back, thanks to Cassie’s spell, but he lurked about until this latest episode. Jake finally came out of the shadows, and told Cassie that they had to find out what happened the night their parents died. He was a toddler and there, so they could use a spell to see his memories. I was honestly a little confused. I thought they were high school students when they died? Seemed more like they were in college from the flashbacks!
But anyways, a huge twist I never saw coming, though of course I never read the books! The fire on the boat was not the circles doing, but started by witch hunters who were trying to kill Cassie’s father. The twist happened when he vanished! He escaped before being executed! The news had broke before this episode that “Dr. Quinn” heartthrob Joe Lando had been cast as Cassies father. Wait, he’s a bit old isn’t he? Guess not if he’s still alive! I had wondered how that would have worked. I thought maybe his ghost?
I absolutely love this twist . . . though what will this mean for the circle members who had their powers stripped after the accident? Will they be vindicated? Will they be returned? Dawn with powers . . . scary thought!
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GCB Sneaker Peakers!
I cannot WAIT for this show! The cast looks amazing. All they need now is guest spots from Jean Smart and Delta Burke for a “Designing Women” reunion and I’ll be in heaven!
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A Desperate Housewife To Die?
Reports have it someone only being called a major character on the show will die by March!
Desperate Housewives: Don’t Call My Name, Alejandrooooooo . . . Just call me Ramonnnnnnnn
So the latest episode of “Housewives” had Susan and Gabby scrambling to clean up Susan’s mess with Alejandro’s latest wife, who came to town thinking Susan had stolen her man. This all happened as Gabby was having the room Alejandro was killed in redone before Carlos came home, so he wasn’t further reminded of what happened. The blood stain on the floor and carpet she claimed was a wine stain.
Alejandro/Ramon’s wife showed up and met with Gabby, when Gabby decided it was time to tell the truth after Susan let her know another step-daughter had been molested. Gabby never said she killed Alejandro, but did point out his name was not Ramon, that he had a family before his new one, and disappeared on them . . . She said Alejandro returned to find her when she revisited her old home town and said some not nice things about him that got him angry. She told the new wife he was a child molester, which at first she wouldn’t believe . . . until her own daughter claimed it was true. All this coupled with the “Red Wine Stain,” well the new wife seemed to fill in the pieces. It seems like she’s keeping the secret . . . but who knows. I’m sure something will come out eventually and get the girls in hot water again. Ben’s construction site is in big trouble, I’m sure that cement foundation Alejandro is hidden in will break open at any moment! Knowing this show, it will crack when a tornado hits, and crashes a plane into it! Have they done an earthquake yet? That could be an option too!
Lynette attempted to move on by dating Renee’s hairdresser. Of course it was a huge disaster of a first date, because she did what she does best . . . critique and micro-manage. Apparently that’s what this guys ex-wife did, and it ended their marriage. Oops! But there must be something there, as it seems they give a second date a try. Frankly, I’m not sure I want to watch another date!
Bree, however, was a very very very fun date! Bree continued her drinking binge, along with her string of men. Her Reverend became concerned with her, even suggesting . . . no telling her that she wouldn’t be running the bake sale this year as it was for her own good. Bree didn’t like that, showed up, and got into a huge fight with a woman who happened to be married to one of her one-night-stands. Bree decided she liked being bad, the town slut, and walked out of the bake sale with her head held high. Honestly, I loved it! It was shades of Kimberly from “Melrose Place!”
Finally Ben proposed to Renee, who accepted. However his conscious got the best of him and he confessed while he loved her, he proposed because he was having money problems and she had money. Renee was devastated and ended things, unsure if Ben ever really loved her. Poor Renee! Why do I feel like Renee might end up with Tom in the end?
Parenthood and Grimm February Spoilers
It looks like both “Grimm” and “Parenthood” don’t return until February. *Sigh* I guess shows are going on hiatus in order to put good stuff on during sweeps month. Frankly we just came off a long enough hiatus if you ask me!
On “Grimm,” an illegal organ donation business plays on the “Hansel and Gretel” story.
On “Parenthood” Mark and Sarah have the talk about possibly having a kid . . .
Read on for the full spoilers . . .
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Some February 2012 ABC Spoilers, Including “The River”
Some upcoming ABC Spoiler Releases for their shows, including the new show “The River.” I definitely plan to give this one a try. I also STILL have to catch up with “Revenge.” I keep forgetting to watch that one.
These spoilers are mainly for the second week of February. Many shows are on a short hiatus from now until then. In this edition . . .
On “Castle,” Castle and Beckett go back in time with an old school hollywood-like mystery.
On “Revenge,” William Devane guests as Conrad’s father, who comes to town as Daniel and Emily’s engagement party nears . . .
On “Grey’s Anatomy,” It’s Valentine’s Day and the doctors are all trying to plan the perfect romantic evening with their partners.
On “Housewives,” Julie returns, very pregnant; and Lynette has her first time with a man since her break-up with Tom.
Read on for the full spoilers . . . as well as info on “The River” and its premier.
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Marc E. Bassy – “Music Changed Me”
blame it on Wongo September 30, 2018
Last year, Marc E. Bassey dropped off his third project in as many years with Gossip Columns and while it floated under the radar for the most part, the album was quite the impressive blend of pop & R&B.
Approaching the one-year anniversary of his debut album, Marc drops off a new treat for fans. Taking to his SoundCloud page, he dropped off a new track titled “MUSIC CHANGED ME.”
While a new song from the San Francisco singer is pleasing, it’s what was in the track’s description that’s even better: “Big announcements this week. Get ready.”
Hit play on the track below and stayed tuned for the big announcements.
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Climbing Access Is Not a Given: Tim McGivern on Starting SNECC and the Importance of Participation
The VW Passat barreled along the Pike, a last leg surge depressing the pedal. Tim McGivern, lanky, a quick-talker and antsy was careening back to his childhood home with his wife Syrah, and all their belongings in tow.
He wasn’t sure what to expect, it had been a few years since he left for California. But that was no more.
Tim had been counting down the miles since the Pacific, and adding up the road signs along the way: 90. 95 North. 128. 114 East. Then the familiar struck him: salt-tinged air wafted in through the open windows.
Some things don’t change much in your absence. Or they do imperceptibly like mountains; rocks might slough off but the general shape remains. Others turn course dramatically, like the development in up-and-coming North Shore towns near the Atlantic.
When Tim left, The Promised Land was one of the largest concentrations of boulders north of Boston. 500 problems, a gem, and his hometown crag. Now it was a bunch of townhouses. The subdivisions sprawled out like a swollen river after the spring thaw, submerging and washing away a once pristine boulder field. A permanent landscape alteration.
“I was incensed,” Tim says upon learning about The Promised Land.
“It bugged me. A lot of local crags around here, on the Eastern side of [Massachusetts], they didn’t receive much attention for clean up and care. I saw a void before I left, but didn’t do anything then,” he says.
When he returned, the need for climbing area stewardship in Southeast New England became clear.
“Advocacy doesn’t just happen.”
– Tim McGivern
Historically, the crags in the urban 95 loop around Boston were seen as a training ground for bigger objectives elsewhere. They were nice to haves and weren’t given the same oversight as better known places in Western Mass. and New Hampshire. Home spots like Quincy Quarries became tarnished and tagged with graffiti or remained underdeveloped like Lynn Woods.
Tim saw that if climbers weren’t paying attention the land that housed their beloved boulders and cliffs could get sold, fenced off, and even destroyed.
So he took a stand. He wasn’t going to let what happened to The Promised Land occur again.
Spray paint at Quincy Quarries. Photo source: snecc.org
The Southeast New England Climbers Coalition (SNECC) was started by Tim and Dave Twardowski in 2017 with the mission to “preserve climbing areas for present and future generations of climbers.”
The group has grown to include Shannon McFarland, Ryan Bouldin, Courtney Cutler, Pete Sancianco and Patrick Montague on the Board of Directors, along with an active membership.
They are working towards efforts from land protection (The Promised Land, Quincy Quarries), to access, (Bartholomew Pond), to awareness (Lynn Woods Boulder Bash, New Englands first outdoor bouldering competition), and a Regional Stewardship Plan in order to effect change on a larger scale.
“Advocacy doesn’t just happen,” Tim says. “The more I talk with climbers the more I realize they don’t understand this.”
Regional territory under SNECC’s purview. Photo source: snecc.org
With the rise in popularity of climbing and ever greater attendance at outdoor crags, stewardship is more important than ever.
According to the Access Fund, “1 in 5 climbing areas in the United States is threatened by an access issue—whether its private land lost to development, public land managers over-regulating climbing, or climber impacts degrading the environment.”
The challenge comes down to one basic tenet: Climbing requires rock, which is often on private land and easy to lose.
Tim advocates that protection requires participation, in being custodians to the areas we frequent, and supporting efforts like SNECC who work at a municipal and regulatory level for long-term solutions. Without engagement climbers have no voice and beloved climbing areas can be inalterably changed, like at The Promised Land.
Results of a hard day at Quincy Quarries. Photo source: snecc.org
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Discuss World War I and the early years of aviation thru 1934.
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The Red Baron 2008 movie
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JackFlash (Stephen T. Lawson) said
Posted: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 - 12:52 PM UTC
Another attempt by cinematographers to tell the story of the Manfred von Richthofen. In reality the story is a modern attempt at revisionism. The real stars of this film are the aircraft. As to the review. . .Who would have thought that a Movie review could be done best by a fellow WWI aviation fanatic, who''s life work has been at a newspaper? Our own Burl Burlingame has put in his 2 cents (Pfennings) and its spot on IMHO. . .
". . .The most important thing is to know why you build and then get the most that you can out of building." via D.D.
The NEWS thread has some interesting additional information.
from Director Nikolai Müllerschön:
". . .A meticulous reconstruction of the Baron's life and the historical setting was not uppermost in mind, that didn't interest me so much. It is more important to see what is relevant for people today. I saw no sense in making the film like a well-researched documentary. However, during my preparation on the film and looking into the story of his life, the man seems to be more like how I thought he should be."
also. . .
". . . My name is Thomas, I designed ALL of the aircraft on the Red Baron feature, and gave all of the initial texture maps to Pixomondo. Obviously, I love the genre as much as all of you. But please do not speak to the film as if you know JACK, about making a feature.
With that said, I will maintain my position that The Red Baron is the greatest WWI aviation film to date. Be advised that it is actually an ANTI-WAR film, surprising as it may be, considering that, that is not what you would expect, especially since no one up to this point has had the balls to do a film like this.... but hey, if you don't get it, you don't get it. . ."
Since my callsign here is JackFlash, please allow my comments.
We know JACK about what we like. War movies make good movie subjects. Antiwar movies don't do JACK and maybe tthats why this movie did so poorly at the Box office. I guess for you modern cinematographers the reality of war isn't artistic enough and you feel it important to add humanistic revisionism to the life exploits of one that many aready respect or find some credence to. Today you find the term "Red Baron" on everything. You want to sell something just add "Red Baron" to it. What I personally don't get is why people that have no clue about real subjects get to make movies about them. But after all it just entertainment.
At least DC comics created a successful and whole new personality and name for its WWI German pilot hero without having to borrow anything from the legend of the Red Baron.
As to it being the greatest WWI aviation film todate, not hardly. The greatest movie todate on MvR? You have got to be smoking something illegal and hallucinogenic.
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mrockhill (Mike Rockhill) said
Just watched this move this evening and I think maybe the best WWI aviation movie to date(oops forgot Dawn Patrol, my favorite). I must say, Im really keen on what the director had to say above. i dont know jack about making movies. But everytime these things come up directors consistently fail to explain to us of the unwashed masses why some seeming small, easy to get right details, must go out the window. If the A/C are CGI why not show the early dogfights with Hawker in pusher planes instead of SE5s. I dont know if Hawker used such an emblem, but it looks to me more like someone wanted Nungessers plane in the story, but it didnt belong. The german planes looked really good (a few ficticious schemes, some based on reality), a far cry from ten thousand red triplanes of flyboys, so they had the attention to detail to make a decent overall film. Roy browns first appearance in a camel looked good, but later was a preposterous mix of markings from several planes. The biggest cop out was not even attempting MvRs last flight. I was exited, the details were coming together, even Wolfram was going to be in the air... and then its over... lame. Note I dont bother with the love story and Richtofen/Brown scenes. The love story was at least rooted in rumor and the Richtofen/Brown scenes are part of the antiwar narrative (as far as Ive seen all war movies are anti war, as it should be) and help tell a story, so no matter how weird and counter factual they are. It could have been better without them, but the director had a mission in mind. The movie also seemed to trivialize the "blue max" (all the sudden everyone had one) and Hawker was snuffed out as if he was a helpless child in the cockpit(shouting like a barbarian too). This just skims the surface there is tons to complain about, but i think a few details could have really changed this for the better. Was still enjoyable though.
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badwolf (keith martland) said
Posted: Thursday, August 05, 2010 - 04:50 AM UTC
Well i manage to watch both the RED BARON and FLYBOYS over the weekend and i thought Flyboys was a better film, i tried to forget about the hords of triplanes and watch it for what it was, infact it made me think more of the American flyers who also fought before the U.S came in to the war.
As for the Red Baron film i fast forwarded the love story and just watched the dog-fights. As for the ending when MvR took his last flight, to me it looked like the film company had run out of money and couldn't afford to film it. making the whole film pointless. Now if Peter Jackson did a film about the first world war, i am sure it would be a knock out.
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BOC262 (Karl) said
Can you tell us more about this? I'm not a comics reader, but if it is well done, and reasonably realistic, I would be interested in reading it.
Sow justice, reap peace
Fortunately what both this new flick and "flyboys" demonstrates is that if someone decides to do a reasonable historically accurate film or a less generic historical fictional tale, the technology is there now to really blow the audience away. With the massive amount of CGI in the Lord of the Ring movies, Jackson sure has the credentials. This Movie reminded me alot of "Dark Blue world" which was another european (czech I think) made aviation movie set in WWII about czech pilots in the RAF. Fantastic CGI dogfights, though brief and over ruled by a love story.
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Bratushka (Jim Hand) said
Posted: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 - 09:00 AM UTC
I just got this from Netflix and watched it. What a stinker it was! I didn't dwell on historical accuracies/inaccuracies, but just watched it as a WWI aviation film I wanted to entertain me. It failed miserably. While I did like the flight scenes and the dog fighting, the close ups of the aircraft, and while it did have a few good moments this was all too much crapola! The philosophical chat between Brown and the RB as they strolled happily along together while making their way back to their lines was too much when I saw it even though I knew it was coming. I don't claim to be an expert on Brown, but things I have read about him hardly portrayed him as an almost aristocratic deep thinker. The RB- well that's the trouble with legends, they have a life of their own. The oddest thing was the ending. If you aren't aware of the historical information surrounding the RB's last combat actions the dialog where the new pilot is told to hang back and not enter the fray is just that- meaningless dialog. The next thing you know the RB is dead and the film ends. You don't see anything! You certainly don't get the gravity and irony of those instructions. So, on one hand it's best to know little about history to be able to watch this film but at the end if you don't know history you don't get what happened. The tactical mistakes the real RB made in failing to heed his own advice about combat conduct are telling to some degree if the director and writers wanted to take literary license. Maybe he had had enough, maybe he had lost his edge, maybe he no longer cared. The debate whether the Australian machine gunner on the ground got him (my belief is with him) or if Roy Brown actually got him could have added a final note but wasn't included. I guess the best way I can sum, it up is saying I wouldn't bother watching it again. I'm glad I saw it through Netflix rather than bought it retail.
Maybe somebody someday will make a movie about WWI aviation with the Red Baron that will do justice to the subject. For that, someone needs to portray history, not reinvent it.
The only other film I felt as badly let down by was the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Nobody seems to be able to get that one right either or make it as good as it could be.
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Rotebaron
Rotebaron (Alfredo Rubio) said
Sadly, the WB did not thought that Mexico could to be a good market for this aviation movie, so... we never saw the film in cinema halls
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thegirl
thegirl (tripping the rift) said
Sadly, the WB did not thought that Mexico could to be a good marcket for this aviation movie, so... we never saw the film in cinema halls
It never hit the movie theaters on this side of the globe . Was only in Europe and came out 2 years later on DVD .
I won't waste my time with seeing this film. With the attitude of the writers and directors, they need a history lesson or two .
Terri, I thought that the movie were in USA and Canada, I saw in Internet the premieres and now I know it was in Europe.
About the history...mhhh... you are right, the story is some wrong, as a friend says, if the airplane movies only present the real history, the halls where empty.
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Home/hungary/NL: Kane in the final, England in the Fourth Final!
NL: Kane in the final, England in the Fourth Final!
hungary November 18, 2018 hungary, Sport
The England team reached the fourth game of the National League in Portugal, defeating Croatia in the final Group A Group A match in the final Group A game with the lead of Harry Kane in the last quarter of the game, going 2-1 in the last quarter of the game. The main Croats at 78 minutes, with the defeat, bid farewell to division A.
The British team in the end reversed and finalized (Photo: AFP)
England-Croatia 2-1 (Lingard 78, Kane 85 and Kramaric 57)
END OF GROUP 4
1. England 4 2 1 1 6-5 +1 7
2. Spain 4 2 – 2 12-7 +5 6
3. Croatia 4 1 1 2 4-10 -6 4
For both teams, the situation was clear before the game: victory over group domination and the quarterfinals of Portugal, defeat is a disadvantage – the Spaniards could have been happy.
The first option was in front of the Croats winning in the World Cup semifinals, Pickford did not want to take the risk of taking it home, but Rebic was caught in a shot, but his dismissal did not find a goal.
After that, however, the host was dominated by Sterling in the 11th minute but Kane could not shoot Kalinic but by the end of the first two Kane could have scored, but first he was defending the goalkeeper. Out of the penalty area, Kalinic wasted.
At 18 minutes, England had half a dozen corners, with 69% possession, and two powerful Croatian attempts in which Rashford could have scored the first goal but failed to finish the match.
The Crowns were penalized in the wake of the game, but the whistle remained silent, and Barkley's shot reached the limit, so the two teams played the first game without any goal.
But Kramaric's goal was led by Croatians (Photo: AFP)
After the interval, the English team stopped, but Sterling lost a new situation, and was a pity: in the 57th minute, the Croatian team made the decision. Kramarić he dribbled inside the penalty area as long as he could shoot, and his nap attempt was tied in the upper right corner (0-1).
KRAMARIC GOLA
They became even more relaxed, and the host, as well as the World Cup, started rolling again in the second half, so in vain the Croats made bigger positions, but Perisic crossed the front of the gate while Vlasic called for shaking opportunity.
And this time the English were punished, after a huge replenishment of Gomez to Kane, the ball hit the goalkeeper and hit the net minutes before Jesse Lingard but it certainly helped on a firm footing (1-1).
MESSAGE FROM LINGARD
The Croats could have made a point in the 82nd minute, but Vida's head was blocked on the goal line by Lingard, and as usual in this match, the penalty came, after a free kick Chilwell left side Kane he put the ball in the net (2-1).
GOLF SAVING AND WINNING
Another result was no more, so the Englishman won by 2 to 1 and entered the League of Nations. Fourth finals of Portugal.
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Movie Trailers Trending This Month (Dec. 2020)
Each month, we preview a batch of movies coming soon by gathering up some of the trending trailers across the interweb. Here’s a look at the ones stirring a buzz this month.
Scroll below for movie titles, release dates and coming soon movie previews.
Check out the full-length trailer for George Clooney's adaptation of Lily Brooks-Dalton’s acclaimed novel, Good Morning, Midnight. Clooney directed, but also stars as Augustine — a lonely scientist in the Arctic racing to stop another group of astronauts from returning home to Earth.
Release date: Dec. 23
This new Wonder Woman 1984 trailer features a sampling of Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer’s (Dunkirk, The Lion King) music for the film. Watch the preview below to give a listen.
Oscar-nominated actors Laura Linney and Viggo Mortensen both star in this heart-poking drama about a father’s struggling with the early stages of dementia (played by the talented Lance Henriksen). Watch the preview for Falling below.
Release date: Feb. 5, 2021
Academy Award winner Frances McDormand (Fargo, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) plays Fern — a woman who decides to start exploring life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad in rural Nevada.
Marvel fans should be ecstatic to see this latest addition to our batch of new movie previews for films coming soon: Loki. Tom Hiddleston continues his role as the god of mischief, but in the lead role for the first time. Check out the new Loki trailer below.
One Night in Miami joins the fictional story of Cassius Clay, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke and Malcolm X as they discuss the responsibility of being successful black men during the civil rights movement in 1964 Miami.
A young man finds romance with a literary agent while taking a trip with the woman’s famous aunt and her friends. Let Them All Talk stars Meryl Streep.
Rainn Wilson (The Office) stars in this $12,600 ethical dilemma about two brothers who steal money and in turn leave a security guard (Wilson) trapped at the bottom of a forgotten cistern.
Release date: Jan. 15, 2021
Jason Segal and Casey Affleck star as best friends in Our Friend, the story of a family losing their mother and battling through the grief with an unfamiliar presence in Segal.
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Home Airlines JAL/American: Seattle Gets New Nonstop Flights To Tokyo-Narita
JAL/American: Seattle Gets New Nonstop Flights To Tokyo-Narita
James Field
LONDON – Through joint venture agreements set between American and Japan Airlines (JAL), a new non-stop service between Seattle (SEA) and Tokyo-Narita International Airport (NRT) is to launch next year.
The service will launch on March 31, 2019, on a daily basis on Japan Airlines’ Boeing 787-8 Dreamliners.
This will be JAL’s sixth west coast route operating between Japan and North America.
“We are pleased to announce the introduction of the Seattle-Narita route, which will go into service in March 2019, said Tadashi Fujita, VP of Japan Airlines.
“Along with our joint business partner, American Airlines, we look forward to welcoming more visitors to Asia for business or pleasure who will experience Japanese hospitality from the moment they step onboard the aircraft,” he added.
Likewise, American Airlines President Robert Isom commented on the growing partnership between the two sides, which will “strengthen American and JAL’s joint business across the Pacific and meet the growing demand in the Seattle-Tokyo market.”
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Isom added that AA’s customers in Seattle “will soon have nonstop service to one of the world’s most important business and leisure destinations, as well as convenient connections to many other cities in Asia.”
All in local times, JL068 will depart Narita at 1800 and arrive into Seattle at 1100. The return, JL067 will depart Seattle at 1420 and arrive back into Narita at 1630 the next day.
This route probably comes as a response to Delta’s presence on this segment.
For JAL, this route will also bring an extended partnership with Alaska Airlines, which will offer direct connectivity to 20 codeshared flights.
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Dapper, globetrotting spies were all the rage in the 1960s. Colognes of the decade followed suit with exotic odors and suave ad campaigns. The 1970s, in contrast, were a decade of brown, denim, corduroy and body hair. It’s no surprise…
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Spinning at the Nasir al-Mulk Mosque in Iran
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Catalog dedicated to the work of Josep Renau made with the work of his whole life and a series of texts. The catalog is divided into four parts differentiated by paper and ink, creating...
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Expedition to Africa is a project to create a graphic identity and merchandising for «A-VENTURE». This is a fictitious company specialized in alternative trips to Africa for the whole family. * Developed by Alicia...
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This short story shows the story of a girl who feels lonely and use her imagination to create some monster friends. It was made in black and white and then it was digitally...
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Typo is a magazine about typography based on the content of the digital magazine Unos tipo duros. In this printed version, the information has been divided into three sections (historia, cuadratines y tratado de...
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naturally contaminated —
“Natural” bottled water has natural arsenic contamination, testing finds
Investigation also raises questions about testing and regulations.
Beth Mole - Apr 21, 2019 12:00 pm UTC
Enlarge / Water can pick up arsenic from geological, agricultural, or industrial sources.
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Several brands of bottled water contain concerning levels of arsenic contamination, according to an investigation by Consumer Reports.
The worst offenders in the report were Starkey, a brand owned by Whole Foods and marketed as water in its “natural state,” and Peñafiel, owned by Keurig Dr Pepper and imported from Mexico.
Samples of Peñafiel tested by CR had arsenic levels that averaged 18.1 parts per billion, well above the federal allowable limit of 10ppb set by the Food and Drug Administration. Testing of Whole Foods’ Starkey Water revealed levels at or just a smidge below federal limits, with results ranging from 9.48 ppb to 10.1 ppb.
Arsenic is a trace element in rock and sediment and can contaminate groundwater naturally from geological sources or from human activities, such as mining and run-off from agricultural and industrial sources. Long-term exposure to high-levels of arsenic are associated with skin disorders and increased risks of certain cancers, diabetes, and high blood pressure, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Some studies have also linked arsenic to impaired intellectual development following exposure early in life.
In response to CR's findings, Keurig Dr Pepper announced that it had suspended bottled water production at its Mexico facility and would revamp its filtration. Whole Foods, on the other hand, said that it had run its own tests on batches of water that CR tested and determined that the levels were acceptable. The company’s test results “show these products are fully compliant with FDA standards for heavy metals,” Whole Foods told CR in a statement. It added that it tests "every production run of water before it is sold” and that the company would “never sell products that do not meet FDA requirements.”
Yet, this is not the first time Starkey Water has run into issues with arsenic. From late 2016 to early 2017, Starkey recalled 2,000 cases of water over arsenic levels above the federal threshold.
Is 10ppb too high?
Additionally, some public health experts and researchers say the federal threshold is too high. As such, some states have set different arsenic standards for their water. New Jersey, for instance, set the maximum allowable arsenic level in tap water at 5ppb. But the Garden State still goes by the federal 10ppb limit for bottled water.
Scientists hired by CR recommend that regulators cut the threshold down to 3ppb. In their analysis of 130 bottled waters, CR found six brands that had levels at or above 3ppb. In addition to Starkey and Peñafiel, those brands are Crystal Geyser Alpine Spring Water (3.8ppb), Danone’s Volvic (4ppb), and two regional brands, Crystal Creamery (5ppb) and EartH₂O (3ppb).
One reason to keep the levels low in water is that water is just one source of arsenic exposure in daily life. As a naturally occurring element in soil, it can be found in plants, air, and food. Advocates have also expressed concern over levels of arsenic in fruit juices and rice-based baby foods. (Rice plants are particularly good at sucking arsenic and other elements, such as mercury, out of soils.)
Given its natural sources, avoiding arsenic can be difficult in some instances—but the multibillion-dollar bottled water industry in the United States is not one of them, according to critics.
“With bottled water, why should you have arsenic in the water?” Ana Navas-Acien, professor of environmental health sciences at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, asked CR. “There should be plenty of opportunities for treatment and remediation.”
Beth Mole Beth is Ars Technica’s health reporter. She’s interested in biomedical research, infectious disease, health policy and law, and has a Ph.D. in microbiology.
Email beth.mole@arstechnica.com // Twitter @BethMarieMole
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John le carré, legendary British author of spy novels died at 89
Legendary Spy novel Author Died :
David John Moore Cornwell, aka John le carré, died at 89. His family stated that the reason for his death is pneumonia. He has made many contributions to literature. His life is no less than a movie. Working at secret services to writing novel under a pen name.
To know more about his legendary life, Read further.
How David Moore Cornwell became John le carré :
John le carrè has written many spy novels. So why is it so up to the mark. He worked at secret services. But it is to be noted that he added some instances to make his story interesting. If you are reading one of his novels don’t assume that exact same thing happened at Cold War. He led quite a mysterious life. No one knew who is John le carré for decades.
When he started publishing his works no one believed in him and thought it would never be successful. But as you all know that he proved them all wrong.
Many of his friends and family paid tribute to him.
Some 0f John le Carré work :
John le carré died at 89 but he has left behind a legacy. His literary works not only told us cold truths about the Cold War but also win our hearts.
His Novels
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Smileys people
Agent running in the field
A perfect spy
Call for the dead
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John le carré dies at 89
There are many movies based on his books. And they all did well at the box office.
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Legendary spy novelist John le carré died at 89
He was famous for his novels written on Cold War
He led quite a mysterious life.
many of his friends and families paid tribute to him.
202o is the year which has taken a lot from the world. Now another legend has left the world.
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Suicide Squad [spoilers included]
A hot mess. That’s what it is.
Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn is just about the only reason to watch this thing, and honestly, I’d like to break up with the rest of the movie and do the post-break-up thing where I cut the rest of the cast out of all the pictures and just make a glorious 18 minute movie out of just the Robbie footage. I’d be happier with that. Not super happy. I still thought the Quinn character was too loosely drawn and scantly introduced. Like, I totally buy that a patient could brainwash her into being evil. But there is no amount of brainwashing on the planet that could induce me to speak with a Jersey accent randomly. Or to replace my PhD-level vocabulary with baby talk. That shit is bananas.
I don’t know much about this Suicide Squad outside of what the movie told me, and what the movie told me was downright confusing. Supposedly they’re super-villains, mostly sprung from tremendous prison sentences. Yet assembled they’re pretty…meek. And reserved. And obedient. I thought we’d get to see them just going apeshit in Gotham, unleashing all kinds of gleeful hell, but instead they thoughtfully fight a super bland villain that I felt mislead about in the marketing campaign.
The only thing I really connected to in the movie was the music. I assume that the money they saved on Tom Hardy backing out was funneled directly to the music budget. We don’t know for sure why Hardy left – some say for reshoots for The Revenant, some say he just didn’t like the script (although I expect most of the big stars signed on without seeing a script). I think he was supposed to be the most vanilla cracker out there, Rick Flag, and I can’t imagine him being happy with that crummy role. While I appreciated the music (great big pop anthems that helped perk me back up – my patience and attention floundered considerably, and often), I can also see how it was a cop out. First off: you aren’t Guardians of the Galaxy. Music had a purpose and is part of the universe. In Suicide Squad it just felt they were using music to distract us from the fact that they didn’t know how else to finish a scene. Or begin the next one.
Being part of the Suicide Squad must be a lot like being part of Taylor Swift’s squad. I mean, can you name anyone in it besides Taylor Swift? Harley Quinn is obviously the Taylor Swift here, and Will Smith is The Duff (designated ugly fat friend) – he’s nice to have around mostly just to prop her up. Smith didn’t annoy me as much as I feared (this movie has so many bigger problems), but Robbie is the true star. She plays Quinn not with a truly villainous heart, but with a completely troubled one – with loads of vulnerability. When the witch tempts her with a vision, her true heart’s desire is revealed to be…a banal suburban existence, completely with a husband and an infant. Clearly the good Doctor is still buried within her, and is peaking through. Or maybe it’s the baby in her belly poking mama in utero. Because she must be pregnant, right? Why else would the Joker so doggedly rescue her? He’s not exactly the kind of guy who’s all about love, honour, and commitment. But what if she’s his baby mama? Why else would he be seen lying in a womb made out of knives, skirted with baby clothes? It must have been some bad-guy baby shower!
Speaking of the Joker…what the fuck? I’m not in love with Jared Leto’s portrayal, and I’m not certain about David Ayer’s intention. Who is this Joker? Chris Nolan’s Joker was so demented there’s no way he could be in a relationship. You cannot picture Heath Ledger’s Joker having a Netflix and chill night with his girlfriend. So this Joker’s…I’m not sure. Down to earth just seems wrong. But he’s not as twisted. He’s more human, in a hipster’s ironic conception of a Latino gangster-cum-circus clown hybrid kind of way. We didn’t see much of him so it’s hard to tell, but he also didn’t seem as evilly inventive as I’ve come to expect in a Joker. So he’s possessive and he’s got some hacker friends. Big deal. I’m sorry that so many of Leto’s scenes ended up on the cutting room floor because I found him to be the second most compelling character in the bunch, and he’s not even on the squad! He’s the Calvin Harris of the bunch. Or the Tom Hiddleston, I suppose, just trying to steal Taylor Swift away all for himself. Fuck the squad.
And let’s be honest: this movie couldn’t handle the squad. It didn’t know what to do with them. The introductions were wildly variable, and, spoiler alert: the character who noticeably didn’t get one DIES. Yeah, that’s right, Ayer. Your shit is weak. You clearly couldn’t cook up a fun and deliciously depraved story for these fuckers so you gave us this watered down jumble instead. You should have saved it for someone who had the cojones. I think a satisfactory Joker-Quinn story could have been told here instead. DC jumped the gun with Suicide Squad – too many unknown characters, too little for them to do, too little story to make us care. But watching ‘Mister J’ change diapers for little Joker Junior in Arkham? Now that I’d be down for.
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54 thoughts on “Suicide Squad [spoilers included]”
Birgit August 9, 2016 at 12:50 am
I am hearing nothing but it’s a Hot mess and it seems the editing is a big problem here. Everyone is mentioning the girl as the best thing and nobody even mentions Will Smith which kind of makes me smile. I think I’ll wait u til it’s on tv
Jay Post author August 9, 2016 at 12:02 pm
Will Smith is past his prime.
allendemir August 14, 2016 at 4:48 pm
Desperately trying to prop up his son for the last several years has probably sucked the life out of the former Bel Aire prince.
Jay Post author August 15, 2016 at 8:12 am
Something like that, yes. He seems deflated these days.
Tom August 9, 2016 at 2:00 am
Yeah I could not agree more with this because this thing downright disappointed my pants off. Fucking the Joker was in it for like 8 mins I think I saw someone post. David Ayer is a director I really like and I kind of think that this is the equivalent of David Fincher’s Alien3 where the studio got nervous and got all handsy with Ayer’s movie and then it got all fucked up.
8 minutes…yeah, that’s pretty crazy, because it wasn’t a short movie!
So what does the Joker even do if he’s not on the team and he’s not the one running it? I can’t picture him talking on the radio like Charlie in Charlie’s Angels.
He’s completely underused and the parts he does pop up for are irrelevant to the plot. He clearly didn’t belong in this movie, they only stuck him in because he’s the only character that’s remotely familiar to most non-diehard moviegoers.
kutukamus August 9, 2016 at 5:22 am
Haven’t seen this one. Sounds hot, really—banana-shitted. 🙂
Jay Post author August 9, 2016 at 11:13 am
Yeah, I tried to like it more but it’s badly written, terribly edited, and not very well imagined. It may be plausibly acted but there’s not enough room for anyone to really show it. And worst of all: it just wasn’t very fun.
Kim August 9, 2016 at 8:20 am
This is so disappointing. The producers and director had such a great opport here and it sounds like they blew it. Being a fan of the original comic, I’m not sure if I’ll even watch this when it comes out on dvd.😕
Jay Post author August 9, 2016 at 6:28 pm
Yeah, some of the characters were better than others if you already know them. Deadshot is like 50% actual Will Smith.
Jade August 9, 2016 at 10:01 am
I agree completely. I hated Jared Leto’s take on the Joker, not sure if I would have loved to see more. Glad Tom Hardy escaped this mess.
I’m confused by the look of the Joker, I’m not happy with how Leto is doing him (but willing to reserve judgement because of the short screen time), and I’m not sure how the character differs from other Jokers, though it’s clear he does. So that’s a bad start.
Courtney August 9, 2016 at 11:06 am
I agree with this review.
fragglerocking August 9, 2016 at 11:33 am
Oh that’s 2 of you not liking it, so defo on the miss list. Thanks 🙂
It’s all 3, Sean’s just not let up the weeping in disappointment to say it writing yet. 😉
fragglerocking August 9, 2016 at 12:07 pm
haha aw, poor Sean, tell him to stick with Marvel 🙂
Dan O. August 9, 2016 at 11:53 am
Story is a bit lame, but the action is still fun and exciting. Nice review.
I thought it was disappointing to spend so much of the action on CGI stuff. This movie needed an ultimate villain to go up against the squad and enchantress only convinced me she wasn’t it.
The Chaos Realm August 9, 2016 at 12:01 pm
I kinda thought I would be more excited about this, but my instincts were not really keen on it, for some reason. Maybe this is why LOL
Yeah. Lots of people think the trailer was the best part. It made the movie feel fun. They totally failed to translate that to the movie though. It’s too convoluted.
Sometimes I miss the days of old gothy stuff 🙂 (Is that even relevant?–who knows)
I know, right now everything has to be funny and oversaturated. They’re afraid to leave the mold of what’s making money. Ugh.
Shawn August 9, 2016 at 2:26 pm
This review is pretty close to my opinion. I did find it a step up from BvS. Also, gimme those Anthropoid tickets in ottawa please!
Bryan Murray August 9, 2016 at 3:15 pm
Will Smith is a curse for any film he is in
He really hasn’t been an asset lately, has he? I guess he should have done a theme song!
Liz A. August 9, 2016 at 5:45 pm
This didn’t look interesting to me even when the fanboys were drooling over it. That it’s a hot mess disappoints me, but not too much.
J. August 9, 2016 at 5:47 pm
Reckon this looks pretty dreadful and from what I’ve read that definitely seems to be the case. Seems all the thumbs are pointing towards the floor …
Yes, it’s trying too many different things and has no identity.
girlandworld August 10, 2016 at 5:50 am
Only coz of my nostalgia of watching a Hollywood movie after long
Docthewho August 10, 2016 at 4:55 pm
Seems like a bit of a hot mess… but a hot mess I want to see nonetheless!
fifi + hop August 10, 2016 at 10:26 pm
I think I’m going to check this out anyways just for Margot Robbie – love her!
She’s the best thing about this.
Bun Karyudo August 11, 2016 at 3:37 am
Having watched Fury Road last year, I know Tom Hardy is great at miraculous escapes. He clearly pulled off another one here.
Ha, you’ve got a point!
The Telltale Mind August 11, 2016 at 10:40 am
I liked it, but I pretty much turned my brain off and just enjoyed it for all the ‘splosions and stuff.
Courtney Young August 11, 2016 at 3:49 pm
A hot mess INDEED! I forgot about Hardy’s detachment from this movie; obviously he made a wise decision, because the movie is such a disaster. It was my most anticipated movie of the year, and what a disappointment it turned out to be. David Ayer needs to be silenced…every time he opens his mouth, more stupidity and word vomit seep out.
It’s a little funny to watch them try to spin bad movies.
I wasn’t super looking forward to this, but the other Assholes were, so there’s quite a bit of disappointment in our camp too. Too bad. It feels like there must have been a good movie in there somewhere.
Courtney Young August 15, 2016 at 9:06 am
They’re all spinning this one hard…except poor Jared Leto…he’s just like wtf…
I know, he seems genuinely hurt about being cut.
You’re probably right about them jumping the gun with this one. Look at how long Marvel took to set up the Avengers movies. Hell, Captain America and Thor probably only got movies so they’d be introduced before the first Avengers.
Yes, I think there’s truth to that for sure.
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Lloyd Marken September 3, 2016 at 9:45 am
Wow Jay that stuff with the Joker and Harley possibly be pregnant was really insightful. I too was frustrated by the film, anything interesting wasn’t elaborated on further.
Jay Post author September 7, 2016 at 2:09 pm
Yes, you can tell I was a bit bored because I started studying things a bit more, rather than just kicking back and enjoying it.
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Giving an edge to the country's strategic strike capability, India successfully carried out the maiden trial of its most potent missile Agni-V on the last day in office of sacked DRDO chief Avinash Chander. The missile, which has a strike range of over 5,000 kms and can carry a nuclear warhead of over one tonne, was launched from a canister mounted on a roadmobile launcher at Wheeler Island off Odisha coast.
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Short Story: Appearances Can Be Deceiving
March 29, 2016 January 6, 2018 ~ S.M. Nolan ~ Leave a comment
By day, they were no more than a group of nerds– social outcasts banded together from their mutual trait of having been exiled from the other cliques of the standard, American high-school. By night however, they were two psionics, a tank-built soldier, a sniper, and a combat medic whom specialized in healing their wounds. Their goal was not to gripe about the bully of the day, or become enveloped in social commentary on their less-enlightened peers. Instead, they came together for one reason; to game.
When they entered the basement where the walnut-wooded table with its soft, velvet top, resided, they were instantly transported to a universe both similar and so unlike their own. Each night their surroundings were different. At times they might be slogging through a scot-like bog, ascending great nordic-dwarfing mountains engulfed in blizzards, or even delving deep into a labyrinthine bunker of blood and danger.
To the casual observer their D20s were just curiously-shaped number cubes, but to them they were their Gods. Its rolls were the Gods’ words, commandments they were bound by honor to follow whether through great success or unimaginable misery. With each toss, they might find themselves in mortal peril that even the most clever of schemes could not correct. With one mistake, they might doomed, slain before they could react, or else they might defeat their enemy, scour its corpse for loot.
To them, the game was life, the automated die-tracker built-in to the table the oracle of all things good and evil. The randomized, procedurally-generated scenarios eternally crawled from the table’s speakers and the Game Master’s, synthesized, female voice to give narration to the landscapes that rose and fell before them in their Augmented Reality glasses. Each step, breath, and move was tracked in real-time before them as though they were there.
When the tank’s roll came up positive, combat began with him in the lead. His avatar so curiously resembled him sans the full-body armor it wore. Like it, he was enormous; a giant, fleshy redwood that lumbered through space-stations, across foreign planets, and along hidden trails to combat encounters. Like him, his primary weapon– a shotgun– was big, loud, and intimidating. In reality, the soldier was little more than a giant with more heart than flesh– but this wasn’t real-life, that was the point.
Invariably, behind him the Psionics would be scanning the horizon with their sub-machine guns. Whether it was a jungle, ice-field, or even open desert, they’d both be in single-file behind their leader. There was only the smallest hint of a ever-present field of super-opaque blue around them, an effect of their psionic barriers interacting with their armor’s shields. The shimmer told of powerful psychics ready to manipulate sub-atomic matter at a moment’s notice, unleash hell on any would-be attackers.
To that end, the combat medic would be second to last, always with her assault rifle shouldered to suppress any enemies and head for cover. When the others’ shields failed, or the tank-like solider drew too much aggro, she would lay down fire, rush to aid with medical tools, and keep death’s scythe at bay.
Meanwhile, the sniper at their rear-guard would never falter. Her long-rifle was steady, attached bi-pod waiting to be deployed or her light-bending cloak activated to make her invisible to the naked eye. Then could she duck down, bob, or weave through the enemy advance to gain the high-ground, out flank them. Even outside of combat she was ready to sneak ahead of the others, leave the rear-guard to the medic to take up over-watch on a ridge. There she could observe and mark enemy positions and patrol-routes on the over-head, A-R map accessed in real-life by a simple button press on the side of their A-R glasses.
When things finally kicked off, be it from crude, synthetic life-forms; their more-advanced, less obvious android counterparts, or any of the other multitudes of human or alien pirates, mercenaries, or rogue soldiers, they were prepared. The tank’s job, his duty, was to keep the others safe, lead them to victory. With a howling war-cry he’d boost their various stats to increase their resolve, initiative, and stamina, then sprint headlong into the furthest cover forward to take aim with his shotgun and blast their adversaries apart.
Behind him the Psionics would further buff the groups’ stats, spray SMG bursts at the enemies, or manifest elements in their hands to hurl at clustered or individual enemies. Beside them, the medic kept her aim true, ready to bolt and heal at a moment’s notice while her rifle barked with muzzle flashes, spit fire at already-doomed enemies. The few that crossed the sniper’s sights stood no chance, especially when her cloak was still engaged to increase her damage. Even at full health, a single-round from her rifle might strike them down, eliminate the threat altogether.
On the inside, they were more than “nerds,” more than any, singular moniker could apply to them, really. They were a well-oiled military machine, a five-man army with all the fire-power, cunning and honor of even the most fabled war combatants. To see them outside, one would never believe that they had mastered the virtual arts of infiltration, matter manipulation, weaponry or medicine. But such is the deceptive nature of the world. The five needed no approval from those outside the universe they inhabited outside their own. They needed only to rely on each other, both in and out of game, were all the stronger for it.
It is in the nature of the man, like the gamer, to band with those that best compliment their qualities and short-comings. In true gamer fashion, they settled disputes in-game and out with honor-bound duels– either of words or weapons. Even with the latter, no-one was so stupid as to cut the throat, go for the kill, lest they wish the game to end for everyone. Their almost civilized-brutality might have frightened those outside the circle, but the five were well-aware of that.
They were better for it, always respectful for fear of incurring wrath and having their honor-challenged by one whose skills were less advanced. Otherwise, like the game, attacking one meant bringing the full-force of the team against them. Outcast or not, the solider especially was not one to take such attacks lightly. Then again, there were few who would dare to face them at all. At that, they emanated an air of confidence, because– as the adage goes– appearances can be deceiving, and that most certainly applied to them.
Short Story: Red 5, Standing By
November 17, 2015 January 6, 2018 ~ S.M. Nolan ~ Leave a comment
Red Five, Standing By
Red 5 comics sat on the corner of Asimov Avenue and Lily Drive in the southern part of Bacatta’s “downtown” area that stretched more than five miles. Nestled beside “Oddities knick-knacks,” and the sprawl of the rest of downtown Bacatta, it was one the main attractions for the nerd and geek community. Its only, minor competition was that of Gamer’s Galaxy a block southeast. Luckily Red 5’s proprietor, Winifred “Red” Asner, had no real competition. G-G sold only the few, odd comics that would fit in the last half of a game-book shelf, hardly comparable to the plethora of colorful covers that spanned the walls, shelves, and egg-crate aisles of Red’s store.
Like the others on downtown’s south-side, Red 5’s size had been fixed when the city’s reconstruction was planned over a decade ago– long before its owner had ever laid down her wares. At times, between six and nine shops shared these city blocks, and only a fortunate few had procured the coveted corner spot. Red had been quick enough to snatch up corner store before someone else got it. Others were less-fortunate, buried in the center of roads so that even pedestrians paid them less attention. Knowing that, Red kept the shop as quaint, stocked, and inviting as was humanly possible.
Presently she stood before the register on the small counter at the shop’s rear, centered between the four aisles of tables with egg-crates mouth-up on them. Every comic book from the heroic Avengers to the cunning and mischievous Zorro was stocked and alphabetized through-out the crates, while thick, hard and soft-bound compendiums filled the right walls, separated by category and shelved in common book-cases.
The compendiums stretched all the way to the store’s back wall, where the most precious first and signed editions hung in a locked, glass display case behind the counter. Though a few sold, to Red, they were more show pieces than sale items, and their prices reflected that. Conversely, the left wall was covered by hanging racks in slotted peg-boards, “New Issues” emboldened above them in large, black letters. The melange of hues below was speckled neutral around the random of hot and cold colors.
The din of the after-school rush rose and fell as bodies weaved through the store, or thumbed the merchandise. Every few moments, the bell rang as someone came or went, more than a few without purchases. Those lined up to pay were greeted by Red’s bushy, curly, red-hair and thin-rimmed glasses. She wore the standard dress of a lifetime nerd; a screen-printed T-shirt with slacks and flats a decade out of style. She shifted back and forth rhythmically, conducted a symphony on the register with one hand, and bagged merchandise to keep time with the other.
The typically nerdy kids with bad skin, braces, or oily hair– or any combination therein– were interspersed with their more hygienic, elder counterparts in a line that made its way down the middle aisle. At its rear, a smug kid in a blazer stood beside his gum-popping brunette as she wore a perpetual disgust above her crossed arms. They couldn’t have been more than twenty-five, but the kid had “spoiled brat” etched permanently into his forehead, as though tattooed their at birth.
The line shuffled forward to Red’s left-handed symphony, and the punctual whole-rests after dings as the drawer slid open. A cascade of change clamored over the audible flit of bills counted out. Plastic rustled, gave way to light tamps on carpet that preceded yet chime of the door’s bell.
Even before the smug kid and his disgust compatriot made it to the register, Red smelled trouble. It clung to the air like B-O at a Comic-con, thickened the air she drew through her nose and mouth with a pungent putrescence. She’d been attuned to it for years, once its long time victim and its occasional visitor. Its attraction to her was more than part of the reason she’d continued to live alone at thirty, and otherwise interacted very little with the world outside work. While it was lonely, it was better than the humiliation and drama of being rejected past her twenties. She was single, plain-looking, and her bushy, auburn hair was mostly usually wild, unflattering.
In short, she wasn’t in the mood to be harassed, but the spoiled brat didn’t seem to notice nor care. He merely stepped to the front of the line, sans merchandise, and slapped a business card onto the counter. Red eyed it from afar. The minute text inclined something about investment banking with Bacatta First National bank. It was BS, and Red knew it– probably Daddy’s card he used to get what he wanted.
She furrowed her brow, “Can I help you?”
The brat glanced sideways through the place like he owned it, “Yeah, I’m with BFN. Noticed your contract’s up at the end’a the month, wanted to by the place out.”
She slid the card across the counter, looked past him to the next customer, “Sorry, not for sale.”
He filled her vision by leaning forward with two, greasy hands on the counter. His blue sports blazer hung open over his t-shirt and above his blue jeans with a wannabe-Hollywood style.
He leaned forward, whispered, “Look, we can talk civilly about this, or I can get my attorneys involved. Believe me when I say, you don’t want that.”
She lift the card with a finger nail, slipped it in between her fingers, and leaned forward to slip it into his front blazer pocket, “Not. For. Sale.”
He straightened with a twitch to the corners of his mouth and eye, puffed out his chest. He gave a hearty laugh, “What, you think these dweebs’ll keep you in business forever?” His projected speech drew the collective ire of the “dweebs” around the store. “Hell, I’m offerin’ you a good deal. I buy out your contract right now for my girl’s new pad, you get a little extra, and we don’t have to take this any further.”
Red grit her teeth, crossed her arms with a sneer. Her spine went rigid, “These dweebs are my customers and friends. You think you can just walk in here with your Daddy’s clout and harass me? I think the BPD’d have something to say about that.”
He snorted, glanced around at the oiled faces of the kids in the store. He threw out his arms to beckon a fight. A few of the adults shook their heads in disgrace.
“You think a guy like me’s gotta’ worry ’bout cops?”
A deep, heavy man’s voice intoned from the left, “No, but I think a guy like you’s about to get thrown out on your ass.”
Red’s face went blank, her jacked slacked slightly. The brat turned, readied a smug grin. It sank as his eyes met the hulking figure of Cameron Burr, owner of Gamer’s Galaxy, world-wide internet celebrity, and local brick-shithouse. He took two, wide steps toward the brat, dwarfed he and his girlfriend in width, and nearly a foot in height.
At one time, Cam had been a heavy-set guy with a failing business. Then, some of his friends got together to create an internet-video network– like a television station– that revolved around Gamer’s and their interests. One of the shows, called “Tank Training,” had been Cam’s attempt at a reality fitness show. Among other things, Cameron had lost the majority of his fat, compressed the rest into thick bulges of muscles. The show’s format then changed as he began training others, but it had left him looking like a pro-boxer with more confidence.
Red’s dull expression tracked him toward the brat, but it disintegrated as Cam met her eyes.
“This asshole botherin’ you, Winny?” He asked, with a nickname she hadn’t heard since Junior-High.
Red wet her dry mouth. To see Cam in her store was like a celebrity sighting and rival confrontation rolled into one. More than that though, he seemed more than ready to defend her, risk a possible fight. Even if he pummeled the dumb bastard into the ground– which he most certainly could– Daddy’s lawyers would have a field day. Then again, Cam had always been the gentle giant, and now had piles of money from his internet network to stand on. Perhaps there wasn’t as much risk as she thought.
She stammered a reply, “Cc-am? Y-yeah. Little brat just walked in here–”
“That’s slander,” the kid spat.
Cameron crossed his massive arms, “Why don’t you turn your little ass around, and get outta’ the store before this dweeb shows you the door.”
The kid glanced around with a smug sneer. The kids and adults alike had begun to whisper to one another. Clearly they knew something he didn’t. Even his “girl” seemed afraid.
She leaned into whisper with her high, valley-girl nasal-ness, “Mark, that’s Cam Burr, the guy from the web.”
A slow, terrified realization crept across his face as his confidence fell away and his chest deflated. A shit-eating grin spread across Cam’s mouth. His head titled with a lift of his brow as he spoke, “You recognize me now, don’t you?.”
Red saw her chance, took it. She flanked the bratty punk with a harsh tongue, “You think everyone in here’s just a loser ’cause they’re not rich pricks like you. Then you see someone you know isn’t, and you’re instantly terrified they’ll rat you out for the asshole you are. You’re pathetic kid. Now get the hell outta’ my store before I have Cam toss you through it.”
The kid’s mouth hung open like a stoned catfish. He met Cam’s eyes beneath brows that jumped with an eager smile. A voice sounded behind him, caused him to whip backward. One of the “dweebs” had shouted “Would you kindly fuck off!” Others began to spout curses and swears to decry the kid’s continued presence. He swiveled to see eyes and faces directed at him as a chant rose through the store. Up-thrust fists kept the beat.
“Prick. Go home. Prick. Go home. Prick. Go Home.”
The kid was thrown for a loop; a spoiled brat to put a moldy apple to shame. His “girl” began to drag him away as he rubbernecked his way out, completely dumbfounded. The terror in her face feared the of oily nerds getting too near, her humiliation tenfold the red on her cheeks.
Red called the door’s bell rang, “Let it hit your ass on the way out!”
Cam gave a roaring chuckle as the brat passed from the store. His dumb expression was still plastered over his punk-face when it disappeared around the left-corner windows. The people roared with a cheer that brought a timid smile to Red’s face. Cam braced a hand against the counter to lean as the crowd settled, returned to their former moseys.
“Thanks,” Red said through her shy smile.
Cam tossed a dismissive hand sideways, “Eh, fuck ‘im. No one messes with Winni Asner.”
She chuckled, “It’s Red now.”
Cam’s smile was charmed by hers, “I know, but you’ll always be Winni to me.”
Her face reddened slightly, “That’s fine.”
Cam caught it, his face glowed, “Don’t worry ’bout guys like that. Long as you pay your rent, you got nothin’ to worry ’bout. And if you ever need anything… you know… business-wise, don’t hesitate to stop by the shop.”
Red saw a curious gleam in his face, thrilled by the rush of adrenaline from the confrontation. “S-sure,” she stammered. “I… uh– I could use some, actually.”
Cam straightened with a wily eye, expertly contained a tickle of glee beneath his aloof exterior, “Why don’t you stop by the shop tonight then? Say… 8:15? Max and Riley’ll cuttin’ out ’bout then. And we can… you know, talk.”
Red’s cheeks and ears suddenly matched her hair, “Uh.. s-sure. Talk. About business.”
“Right,” Cam said with a single nod.
She half-laughed, half-inhaled a breath, “S-so I’ll s-see you then.”
He smiled, readied to turn away, “I’m lookin’ forward to it.”
Her heart jumped as he turned away with a smile, stepped outside to where he thought he was out of view, then thrust a fist in victory. She giggled with a exhilarated breath as the next customer took their place in front of the counter, ranted and raved about her expert dispatch of the brat. Through-out the next hour, each of the people in the store that had seen the confrontation gradually stepped up to say their piece or thank her. As the last of them trickled out, her day returned to normality.
Night gradually overtook the store outside as Red’s adrenaline waned, gave way to anxiety at the meeting ahead. What neither Red nor Cam could have anticipated was its eventual outcome. That cryptic “meeting” clearly became a date as she thought more on it.
Red’s anxiety peaked as she pushed open the door to Gamer’s Galaxy. Despite it being just around the corner from her shop, the place was mythical to her. Its hardwood floors, aisles of board games, and stocked walls of rule-books, card games, and video-games had been immortalized in countless internet vids. The terror of a celebrity meeting skyrocted as she met her other, fellow Bacatta alumni Riley and Max; two, beautiful, female lovers she’d known nearly as long as Cam. Like him, they were world-famous for their vids, doubly so even for their extreme popularity. Even so, they greeted her as old friends as they pointed her to the backroom and readied to leave.
Red’s notion of a date was asserted as she stepped into the small, back-room where the large, gaming table sat with its leaf in. Atop its deep, glossed mahogany finish were a pair of place settings and a handful of bags from Emma’s Diner next door. A plethora of scents wafted from them to fill the back-room with mouth watering
Cam stood up from the laptop on a card table in an alcove at the room’s left, “Winni! S-sorry, I was just finishing up some last-minute stuff.” He shut the laptop, stepped toward the table, “I know it’s not much, but Emma’s place is our mainstay. I-I wasn’t sure what you’d want, so I bought the place out. I-I figured we’d both be hungry after a full day of work.”
Red’s anxiety dissolved at Cam’s own, stammering terror. A wide smile crossed her face, plumped her cheeks.
What took place in that small stock-room, was the furthest Red had ever known from a business meeting. They drank, smoked, talked well into the night; until dawn drew their respective open-hours frightfully near. Even so, neither cared. They split for work only to return the next night, then again, and again before the dates blossomed into more.
Before either of them knew it, they were celebrating an anniversary, Red’s patronage nearly doubled from the consequences of that fateful day she’d slain the snot-nosed brat’s ego. The confrontation became a legendary tale that spread through the “dweebs” of Bacatta, tripled her earnings, and created a safe place for the nerds and geeks. They finally had a place of peace, where they didn’t have to fear those rich pricks she’d spoken of. As Red 5 continued to grow, it appeared more and more apparent that– for the dweebs at least– Red 5 would always be there to welcome them, shield them. Forever more, they knew, Red 5 was standing by.
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Salman’s opinion on ‘Tubelight’ breaking the records of ‘Dangal’ and ‘Baahubali 2’
Last Updated 09:50 pm, 3 Jun 2017 by Piyush Chugh
Salman Khan-starrer ‘Tubelight‘ is one of the most awaited films of the year. The movie is scheduled to release on June 23, and people are expecting it to create a history at the theaters. Both the masterpiece, ‘Baahubali 2 – The Conclusion’ and Aamir Khan ‘Dangal’ are setting a new standard by breaking the records and creating the new ones at the box office. So, at a recent promotional event, when Salman was asked about breaking the records of both the films, his response completely surprised us.
On asking whether his movie ‘Tubelight’ will break the records of ‘Baahubali 2: The Conclusion’ and ‘Dangal’, Salman said ‘Both Baahubali 2’and ‘Dangal’are both good movies. There is still time for me to break their record at the box office”. On interpreting his response, one can say that Salman is not that confident with his film.
Director Kabir Khan said that they have taken the germ of the idea from 2015 ‘Little Boy’ and made it according to their sensibilities. Also, they have made it in the context of their own history, the director said. The Trailor which released a few days back was surely soul touching and gives us a bromance vibes. Both Salman and Sohail Khan nailed the trailer with their innocence and liveliness of their acting. The released song ‘Sajan Radio’ won hearts with its beat and the second song ‘Naach Meri Jaan’ from the film celebrates ‘Bhaihood’.The song features Salman Khan and Sohail Khan dancing in a free and casual way.
Thanks to the festival of Eid, ‘Tubelight’ will surely get a good response at the box office. But it will be interesting to see what kind of opening this film gets as it will be hitting the screens during the Ramzan period.
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by Bette Lee Crosby | Jun 23, 2018 | Audiobooks, Fun with Fans, My Books | 0 comments
A missing child sets the lives of three women on a collision course in this powerful and compelling novel by USA Today bestselling author Bette Lee Crosby.
When a music festival rolls through the sleepy town of Hesterville, Georgia, the Dixon family’s lives are forever changed. On the final night, a storm muffles the sound of the blaring music, and Rachel tucks her baby into bed before falling into a deep sleep. So deep, she doesn’t hear the kitchen door opening. When she and her husband wake up in the morning, the crib is empty. Emily is gone.
Vicki Robart is one of the thousands at the festival, but she’s not feeling the music. She’s feeling the emptiness over the loss of her own baby several months before. When she leaves the festival and is faced with an opportunity to fill that void, she is driven to an act of desperation that will forever bind the lives of three women.
When the truth of what actually happened that fateful night is finally exposed, shattering the lives they’ve built, will they be able to pick up the pieces to put their families back together again? CLICK HERE to find the audiobook
The Year of Extraordinary Moments
From USA Today bestselling author Bette Lee Crosby comes a heartwarming novel about letting go of the past to make way for a brighter future.
Tracy Briggs has finally gotten her act together. She’s focusing on her own life and helping her hearing-impaired son learn to talk. With her sister married and exploring a new career, Tracy has begun to run the family’s magazine business and feels her life is pretty much perfect. That is, until her son’s deadbeat dad shows up in Magnolia Grove asking for a second chance.
Now that her son is getting the help he needs and a promising new romance with his teacher is in bloom, Tracy wants to keep her life just as it is. But her ex isn’t taking no for an answer. And when a spirited elderly woman enters Tracy’s life in an unexpected way, she’ll have to work harder than ever to keep her new life on track.
Torn between the past she knows and the uncertain future, Tracy must decide what is best for both her and her son, learning along the way that ordinary choices can bring extraordinary possibilities. CLICK HERE to find the audiobook
One family learns that love is the greatest miracle of all—from USA Today bestselling author Bette Lee Crosby.
Aspiring journalist Meghan Briggs has always been the responsible one in the family. So when her father passes away unexpectedly, leaving behind his at-risk business, she steps up to save his legacy—even if that means putting her own dreams on hold.
Tracy couldn’t be more different from her sister. She’s always been the rebellious type, without much direction in life. But in the wake of her latest romantic disaster, she finds herself moving back home as a single mother.
As Tracy experiences the difficulties of new motherhood, Meghan faces her own struggle: trying not to fall for the stray puppy she rescued. This is no time for attachments—not to the adorable “Sox,” whose owner is bound to turn up any day, and certainly not to the handsome new vet in town. But as the summer unfolds, she discovers that, like Sox, she may need rescuing, too.
As both sisters navigate unexpected challenges and exciting new relationships, they’ll find that putting the past to rest can make way for beautiful new beginnings. CLICK HERE to find the audiobook
A woman grieving her loss. A boy running for his life. A town defending them both…
A USA Today Bestseller and the first book in a collection of gritty, small-town family sagas. Reviewers say, “Spare Change is written in the tradition of the finest Southern fiction.”
Small-town gossip never really bothered Olivia Westerly. As a single career woman, she’s endured her share. It’s easy to ignore the raised eyebrows over her late-in-life marriage to Charlie Doyle. But after he drops dead on their honeymoon, the whispers pour salt on her raw grief. Especially when an orphaned, eleven-year-old-boy shows up on her doorstep, looking for the grandfather he never met.
Behind Ethan Allen Doyle’s wary blue eyes lie heavily guarded emotions that unexpectedly tug on Olivia’s heart, and she finds herself wanting to win his trust. But when his murderous secret comes looking for him, the entire town embraces this lonely widow and desperate child to show its true heart before danger can threaten one of its own.
A heartwarming tale of love, loss and unexpected gifts, featuring a woman you’d like to call friend, a boy you will ache to hug, and a town you wish you could call home…
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Can the faith of a child inspire forgiveness in the heart of a woman seeking revenge?
This second novel in the Wyattsville Collection is a heartwarming Southern family saga that redefines the meaning of family.
Crime is a rarity in the small town of Wyattsville, so when one occurs it is front page news. Grocery store owner, Sidney Klaussner, shot in the course of the robbery, is lying in the hospital unconscious. In the room across from him the young man assumed to be the shooter.
Although no one knows the truth of what happened inside that store, Sidney’s wife is determined to see the boy punished. The lad’s only hope is his sister Jubilee. She knows why he was there but is anyone going to believe a seven-year-old?
A touching tale of finding forgiveness and coming together as a family. Spare Change readers are sure to welcome back Olivia Doyle and the colorful residents of the Wyattsville Arms…
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Book three in the Wyattsville Collection, Passing through Perfect, is a heart-wrenching, Southern family saga that starts on the night Benjamin fell madly and completely in love with Delia. Once he tasted the sweetness of her kiss, he envisioned them spending the rest of their life together.
He didn’t stop to consider her daddy was a learned Pastor and her mama a woman with a college degree; he only knew she set his heart to racing. When he touched his mouth to hers, he forgot the hardships of being a sharecropper, forgot what it was like to work from dawn ‘til dark and forgot that nothing in Grinder’s Corner ever really changed.
Benjamin’s only thoughts were about lying together every night, sitting side by side on the front porch, and raising a family. Yes, he knew there’d be heartaches. Every couple had their share of heartaches, it was to be expected; but he never imagined such a tragedy would befall their family…
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4 Emerging Imported Spirits
The craft spirits movement is hardly contained to America. Countries across the globe now play host to a worldwide market of premium spirits from craft producers. After all, consumer appetite for high quality and interesting stories are tastes that fit into nearly any culture.
With that in mind, here are four emerging imported spirits that reflect the global craft movement.
West Cork Irish Whiskey
Innovation is sweeping through the resurgent Irish whiskey category. For proof, look no further than West Cork. Based in Skibbereen, the brand offers a bevy of creative barrel finishes, including bourbon, sherry, port, rum and double charred #5 casks.
The brand has also recently made waves with its Glengarriff Series: Peat Charred Cask, and Bog Oak Charred Cask. Both aged in sherry before finishing in barrels charred with fuel sources obtained from Southern Ireland’s Glengarriff Forest.
“West Cork is a brand that’s real people, real place and real process,” says Gary Shaw, V.P. Control States at M.S. Walker, which owns the brand. “And Irish whiskey is a taste profile that’s ideal for consumers newer to brown spirits, because it’s a lighter style.
Broken Shed Vodka
Hailing from New Zealand, this craft vodka is made from a blend of two natural water sources, combined with natural protein whey. Unusual for a smaller brand, Broken Shed employs brand ambassadors in all 16 U.S. states where it operates. The suggested retail price is $26.99 per 750-ml. bottle.
“Tito’s has successfully the low end of the vodka market, but nobody has successfully disrupted the premium side of the market,” says Jonathan Bailey, CEO, Broken Shed Distilleries.
The original founders are two American ex-pats who thought up the concept — vodka made from all-natural New Zealand resources — while relaxing in a broken shed on the banks of Lake Wanaka.
Tom of Finland Vodka
This spirit’s name is the pseudonym of the famous 20th-century Finnish artist Touko Laaksonen. If “Tom of Finland”doesn’t ring a bell, Google it and you’ll likely recognize his provocative artwork depicting gay culture from his time period.
Two entrepreneurs saw his image on a postage stamp (he passed away in 1991) and thought they could license the trademark for Finish vodka. Similar with other brands tied into cultural icons and movements, Tom of Finland Vodka donates 5% of profits to its namesake’s foundation. The brand also raises money for the LGBT community, with the mission to promote awareness and education.
“This isn’t just putting a rainbow on a bottle,” explains Umberto Luchini, proprietor of Wolf Spirits Distillery, which is behind the brand. “This is a genuine story in the community. This celebrates a man whose life was incredible.”
Production-wise, this Finish vodka is made of wheat, with 15% rye. Currently it’s in 17 states, with plans for national distribution by the end of this year.
Sierra Norte Mexican Whisky
This brand distills whiskey from Mexican heirloom corn grown in Oaxaca. Available in 24 states and expanding, Sierra Norte offers whiskeys made from black, white and yellow corn. Each tastes different. The brand does not blend the different-colored grains, and processes them separately.
Master distiller Douglas French says his whiskeys have become popular with Millennials because “they’re the most adventuresome generation, and also want to know where their drinks come from.”
Kyle Swartz is editor of Beverage Dynamics magazine. Reach him at kswartz@epgmediallc.com or on Twitter @kswartzz or Instagram @cheers_magazine. Read his recent piece 5 Products We Loved at the 2019 NYC USA Trade Tasting.
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Movie review: 'Ms. Purple' will leaving you feeling blue
By Al Alexander/For The Patriot Ledger
The old Smothers Brothers saw about “Mom always liked you best” comes to mind while stumbling through Justin Chon’s family parable, “Ms. Purple.” Just replace “Mom” with “Dad” and you have your catalyst for a clichéd tale of quietly warring siblings floundering to meet halfway over the comatose body of their bedsore-covered Pops as he lay dying in a cramped bungalow in L.A.’s colorful Koreatown.
It’s the latest feel-bad offering from Chon, the writer-director who placed himself on the talents-to-look-for map two years ago with his widely praised “Gook” about the divisions between blacks and Koreans caused by the 1992 L.A. riots. His second effort is a considerable letdown, as he unfurls a half-baked yarn hampered by a script resembling an outline more than a fully organic probe into ethnic transplants at odds over the clash between their American roots and their Korean heritage. It’s a dual loyalty represented via an overused symbol of palm trees, an L.A. staple that -- like the family represented here -- is an immigrant fighting to blend into the Southern California landscape.
It’s a fine premise, but the script by Chon and Chris Dinh is so relentlessly shallow, and the accompanying eclectic soundtrack so jarring, it’s near impossible to be sucked into the manufactured strife of quasi sex-worker Kasie (Tiffany Chu) and her deadbeat, video-game addicted brother, Carey (Teddy Lee). Chon dutifully exposes us to their aimless lives, as each act out on all-consuming guilt trips that have rendered them as inert as their dying, equally miserable father (James Kang).
He has the luxury of soon checking out of the mess he and his runaway bride have created for the kids, who still have their whole stilted lives ahead of them. Chon fights to bring meaning to their plight but fails to succeed because he allows himself to get buried in his obsession over aesthetics. It’s all he cares about, and it shows in the spectacular look he and his “Gook” cinematographer Ante Cheng create in both the neon glitz of Kasie’s life in her job as a “karaoke hostess” (a fancy term for a woman who gets paid to be pawed by drunk, sexist Asian businessmen) and her drab home life spent caring for Dad, who she stubbornly refuses to place in hospice.
Yes, it’s marginally affecting. How could it not be? But Chon never enables us to connect emotionally to Kasie, nor her even less likable brother and his thick vein of self-pity. You sit there dumbfounded by their lack of initiative, but particularly Carey, who has the added burden of being resentful toward Kasie because Dad always seemed to dote on her more in repeatedly telling her how beautiful and special she was while ignoring him. OK, he’s got a right to be angry, but is it any reason to live on the streets scrounging for cash to fritter away in a video arcade?
That’s the level of silliness Chon operates in. He also cares little for plausibility, like his repeated (ad nauseam) cuts to Carey pushing a bed -- with his unconscious father atop -- up and down the streets of L.A. First, how did he manage to get Dad and the bed out the door of Kasie’s tiny house; and second, didn’t anyone think to call a cop? Then there’s Dad’s nighttime nurse. She tells Kasie she’s leaving because she’s tired of waiting around for the old man to die. But then adds that she’s going to take a new job at a hospice -- like that doesn’t have the same exact job description? It makes no sense; nor does Kasie’s outside-work relationship with a rich jerk who pays her to be his concubine/girlfriend. What’s up with that? Like everything in “Ms. Purple” (including that stupid title), none of it is explained or rationalized.
Clearly, it’s Chon’s intent for us to do all of that for him, even though it’s HIS job to be fleshing his characters out. Oh, and did I mention all those visual references to palm trees? The only thing more obvious is the annoying, blaring soundtrack bearing everything from electronic pop to country to classical, with the latter being the most obnoxious with its screeching, nails-across-the-blackboard cellos. Mercifully, it only wastes a mere 85 minutes of your life, but that’s 85 minutes you could have spent doing more interesting things like copying recipes or paying bills. It’s all so infuriating it’s all you can do to not turn – well – purple.
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Maharashtra govt will explore option of PMC bank merger: Fadnavis
The Maharashtra government will explore possibility of merging crisis-hit PMC Bank with other bank, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis has said. "Unfortunately, a revival package for PMC bank is not in jurisdiction of the state government, but with the RBI. But, the state government can facilitate merger of the bank with other bank," Fadnavis said.
October 19, 2019, 17:18 IST
MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government will explore possibility of merging crisis-hit Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative Bank (PMC) with other bank, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis has said.
Assuaging concerns of depositors facing hardships due to restrictions on withdrawal of funds from the scam-hit bank, the chief minister said that money of account-holders would remain safe.
The alleged scam to the tune of Rs 4,355 crore scam at the bank is attributed to loans given to realty firm HDIL, which were allegedly hidden from regulators' scrutiny, turning non-performing assets.
"Unfortunately, a revival package for PMC bank is not in jurisdiction of the state government, but with the RBI. But, the state government can facilitate merger of the bank with other bank. I have already spoken to the Prime Minister and the finance minister on this issue. I will again peruse the matter after polls," Fadnavis said in an interaction with selct journalists as the campaign for the October 21 polls winds up at 6 pm on Saturday.
When asked about the steps taken by the BJP-Shiv Sena government in the bank scam, Fadnavis said accused have been arrested and their assets seized.
"Depending on the provisions of the Depositors Act the state or the Central government can auction the assets (of the accused) and pay depositors," he said, adding that the process may take time.
Investigators have so far arrested five persons, including promoters of HDIL and top executives of the bank, in connection with the alleged scam.
The depositors of the bank have been holding protests demanding release of their money, as the RBI has imposed restrictions on withdrawal of funds from their accounts.
After an alleged Rs 4,355 crore scam came to light at the bank, the apex bank initially capped withdrawals at Rs 1,000 in view of liquidity crisis, and later hiked it to Rs 40,000.
Fadnavis said bank deposits upto Rs one lakh are safe and insured.
"However, the number of deposits (in the bank) holding funds less than Rs one lakh is more. The problem is with housing societies, religious institutions and individuals who have higher deposits. I will pursue the matter after the polling ends. Even though the issue is under RBI jurisdiction, I will pursue with the Centre to see that depositors money returned to them through whatever power at their disposal under law," Fadnavis said.
The chief minister admitted that the model code of conduct restricted the government from playing a more "proactive" role in the PMC bank case.
"Due to the poll code in place there are some restrictions," he added.
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ou mean get a gig in front the people saying something isn’t funny anymore? Yeah. That’s why feminists are some of my favorite people to do comedy in front of. It’s so easy. They’re so fucking sensitive. They take themselves so seriously that you can’t be absurd enough — they still act like you’re presenting legislation. When I was in L.A. during the election I would just trash Hillary [Clinton]Both Clinton and Trump were frequent targets of Burr’s jokes during the 2016 election. “They’re just sort of talking about each other, about what assholes they are,” said Burr of the candidates. “It’s like two seventh-grade girls starting rumors about each other.”. But when I go to Oklahoma, I make fun of gun owners and their AR-15s“What do you do with it?” wondered Burr on his podcast about the semi-automatic rifle. “I know what I would do with it. I wouldn’t take it down to some stupid fucking gun range and do target practice. That’s not what you get that gun for. You get that gun to reenact — safely — the end of Scarface.” (With rotting pumpkins that is.). I don’t mean trying to piss people off so much that they leave the show, but just trying to bug ‘em. That’s where the fun is.
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The Imperial Troop Transport joins Star Wars’ Vintage Collection
A true classic is about to become a part of Hasbro’s Star Wars Vintage Collection. The Imperial Troop Transport is back and better than ever.
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The Imperial Troop Transport is a classic, but not of Star Wars movies. The vehicle was a toy produced by Kenner back in the original trilogy’s heyday. Thing is, it was never in a movie.
That wasn’t that much of a rarity though in those days. You might remember that Kenner also made a series called Mini-Rigs, that basically was created just to offer more vehicles in the Star Wars toy line.
The Troop Transport though, was a little different. It was bigger than the Minis for one thing, and it had a lot more going on with it, including electronic features. A personal favorite, the vehicle made a comeback to toy shelves a few years ago as a part of the Star Wars: Rebels collection from Hasbro. That version was pretty similar to the original, but this new one is most definitely not.
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The all-new Imperial Troop Transport is patterned after the one seen in The Mandalorian on Disney+. And as you can see, it’s got detailing in spades, as well as multiple features that the original didn’t.
Trooper ports open and close, the cockpit can be loaded with two figures, the back bay door folds down, and the roof even pops off for maximum display options. If you’re a Star Wars fan, it’s tough to not think this thing is awesome.
All that detailing and sculpting does come at a cost of course. This is no discount item after all. What is a little surprising though, is that it’s not as expensive as the Imperial tank was at launch. For that matter, I’m pretty sure it’s cheaper than the TVC TIE Fighter was originally too.
Our friends at Entertainment Earth currently have it listed for $69.99 USD. They also have it listed as “in stock” right now, and leaving the warehouse in 1-2 days. I’m going to assume that’s a misprint, as the Troop Transport is scheduled for a March 2020 release.
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MLB Faces Uncertainty as Coronavirus Crisis Continues
By Kevin Reichard on March 11, 2020 in Major-League Baseball, News
With Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announcing a ban on gatherings of more than 250 people in the Seattle area amidst the coronavirus crisis, the scheduling of early-season Seattle Mariners home games is among the uncertainties facing MLB.
When MLB announced first steps in addressing the coronavirus crisis, the commissioner’s office added that no other changes to the regular season were being considered. That has changed quickly, however, as Inslee’s announcement comes with plenty of uncertainty still on the horizon.
There’s no doubt sports gatherings are being impacted across the globe, with Italian soccer matches being played before empty crowds and the beginning of the Japanese pro baseball season delayed. MLB announced two policy changes to address the coronavirus crisis: players were told to limit interactions with fans at spring training—no handshakes, no touching of items supplied by fans for autographs, like pens or cards—and the closing of clubhouses to the press. The warning about fan interaction is a major move; the closing of clubhouses a rather minor one. After announcing the clubhouse closing, MLB officials said no further measures were under consideration.
But that all changed yesterday, when it became apparent that more drastic measures would be needed. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warned yesterday that Americans need to prepare for the day “when the infections will come, and they will come — sorry to say, sad to say — they will.” Large gatherings—say, the 40,000 or so folks showing up for a Major League Baseball game—are being targeted by local officials. California’s Santa Clara County has temporarily banned gatherings larger than 1,000 people, and the NHL’s San Jose Sharks are looking whether to play upcoming games at SAP Center before an empty house or move the games to a neutral site.
Among the most highly contagious parts of the country include Washington state, hit hard by the coronavirus virus. Today Gov. Jay Inslee announced a ban in King, Snohomish and Pierce counties on gatherings larger than 250 people through at least the end of March—a mandate that will impact professional soccer and the Mariners, who were set to open the home season on March 26, with the Texas Rangers visiting T-Mobile Park. With the ban in place, the Mariners may end up switching a series with the Rangers and play their opener in Texas, where a new ballpark will be open for play, while a March 30-April 1 home series against the Minnesota Twins figures to be affected.
The Mariners issued a statement Wednesday saying that they would work with MLB to create alternative plans for games through at least the end of March, but did not announce specifics:
Following Washington Governor Jay Inslee’s announcement this morning that he is banning large group events through March, the Seattle Mariners are working with the Major League Baseball Office of the Commissioner on alternative plans for our games that were scheduled for the end of March at T-Mobile Park in Seattle.
While we hope to be back to playing baseball in Seattle as soon as possible, the health and safety of our community is the most important consideration.
We will provide more information about our plans for the games as it becomes available.
No announcement has been made yet on the status of those games, but MLB officials are looking at switching series to less-affected markets or keeping teams in Arizona spring-training ballparks for opening series. Right now, it doesn’t sound like playing games at empty ballparks or cancelling games are yet serious options.
We could see additional state action to shut down large gatherings, with California Gov. Gavin Newsom questioning whether MLB did enough by just banning reporters from clubhouses. “I found it quite curious and I mean this with respect … The four major organizations — NHL, soccer, Major League Baseball and the NBA put out guidelines to protect their athletes but not their fans,” Newsom told the San Jose Mercury News. “I think they owe you and their fan base an answer as to why it’s more important to keep reporters away from their players in the locker room than fans” from other fans in “highly contagious parts of the country.” As of now, the San Francisco Giants are looking at moving Oracle Park exhibition games scheduled for the last week of March to their spring-training home in Scottsdale, while the A’s may need to shift exhibition games and a season-opening series as well: right now the Alameda County Public Health Department is recommending against gatherings, but it doesn’t have the force of an order—yet.
The problem with switching series is that you may quickly run out of markets where large gatherings are not banned. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has already set up a coronavirus containment area in suburban New York City’s New Rochelle area, as the state now hosts the highest number of confirmed cases in the country. If the virus spreads, there will surely be talk of expanding a containment area into New York City, affecting both the Yankees and the Mets.
This is a highly fluid situation, as more information is released daily and better data on infections coming once more testing kits hit the market. But with the number of confirmed numbers increasing daily and public-health officials warning that the worst is still to come, it’s inevitable that the beginning of the MLB season will be impacted by government attempts to contain the coronavirus epidemic.
Image courtesy Seattle Mariners.
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THE GENERAL’S generation
FOR DECADES, ‘AUSTRALIA’S OWN’ DID MORE THAN JUST PUT THIS COUNTRY ON WHEELS. HOLDEN HELPED SHAPE WHO WE WERE AS A NATION
WORDS PHIL SCOTT
HOLDEN 1948 2017 THE BIG PICTURE
BENEDICT Chifley, fedora in hand, wore a wool suit minus the usual waistcoat, given Melbourne’s late November weather.
Australia’s 16th Prime Minister was very nearly a day late for this, the launch of the first Holden, but he was never – ever – going to be a penny short. After all, he’d arranged one million pounds of bank loans and invested a good deal of his heart and soul.
This was the realisation of a dream for a country where butter, petrol and tea were still strictly rationed, long after peace was declared.
The former railway engine driver, war time Treasurer and now PM, endured the ravages of the Great Depression and then a war that seared the hearts and hopes of every Australian family.
Now, on 29 November, 1948 – definitely not the 30th as initially scheduled – he was here at the factory in Salmon Street, Port Melbourne to see his efforts made whole.
This was a banner occasion for a country of just 7.5 million citizens that only six years earlier was perilously close to a Japanese invasion.
That distant past was indeed a different country. But to understand the present, we need to rewind… DARWIN was hit by more bombs than Pearl Harbour – 681 of them – delivered by more Japanese aircraft. There were 100-plus enemy bombing missions extending from Broome, right across the north, signalling a serious, imminent threat.
In 1942, our generals were war gaming likely tank battles in the Northern Territory and planning a strategic withdrawal to what they called The Brisbane Line. The railway station posters depicted a charging Japanese soldier: He’s Coming South. It’s fight, work or perish!
At General Motors-Holden, hastily reconfigured factories were pumping out torpedoes, anti-tank guns, aircraft engines and boats, a far cry from their pre-war role marrying Australian-built Holden bodies to imported Chevrolet, Buick, Oldsmobile and British Vauxhall mechanicals.
By the end of it, on VJ Day in 1945, more than 27,000 Australians were dead.
Another 30,500 were POWs and 34,000 were wounded. Some grievously, others with more subtle but still potentially fatal issues. My father was one of them.
This farm boy from Ganmain in NSW, drove a Matilda tank, was a reluctant Borneo invasion soldier and remained, until the day he surrendered his licence, a serial Holden buyer.
He was a member of The Greatest Generation, demographic shorthand for those who lived through the Depression and fought World War 2. They shared a huge, visceral relief that it was over and set about the job of rebuilding.
To understand Holden’s bond with post-war Australian culture means understanding my old man’s generation, those stoics who transformed this place from a pastoral past to a modern future, under leaders like Chifley. For them, the first Holden was a national project; a cross between the Snowy Scheme and the Royal Flying Doctor service. This was something to swell the chest and wrap tightly in the flag, and it made the betrayal of the 1980s so much harder to accept.
In the United States it was the Model T, in Germany, the Volkswagen. Our ‘People’s Car’ was a humpy hybrid with six-cylinder torque and four-cylinder economy, right-sized for the time and tougher than a stockman’s saddle. Australia’s Own, they called it; proud that 92 percent of it was made here.
A dinky-di Holden was more than a car, it was optimism with a chrome grille, it signalled democracy on the road, new freedom and the prospect of better days.
There was the stirring drumbeat of the greater good, for sure, but also a rich dividend in store for ‘the average man’ in the form of new jobs, new skills and the wealth that went with them.
To the pop of flashbulbs, Prime Minister Chifley posed for his iconic shot with the 48-215, the first Australian car, declaring, “She’s a beauty” to an eager press.
OUR ‘PEOPLE’S CAR’ HAD SIX-CYLINDER TORQUE AND FOUR-CYLINDER ECONOMY, RIGHT-SIZED FOR THE TIME AND TOUGHER THAN A STOCKMAN’S SADDLE
THE IDEA OF OWNING A CAR WAS BEYOND MY DAD’S PAY PACKET, BUT THE DREAM OF A HOLDEN WAS NOT
The papers all ran it on page one with the kicker that buyers wouldn’t need a permit, just the 742 quid which was a slug equivalent to two years’ wages. They’d still have to deal with fuel rationing, meaning a maximum of 800 miles driving a year.
Only one in four families owned a car; the Pacific Highway between Sydney and Brisbane was gravel in many parts, with single-lane bridges. A home telephone was the height of modernity.
In his speech, to the 1100 invited VIPs, Chifley was expansive. Prophetically, he described his job as “a man killer”. It was a year before his epic ‘Light on the Hill’ monologue but the pain of war, a shared vision and a sense of common purpose, these were all writ large.
“During the war it was driven home to the government the urgent need of this country being able to produce the things it wanted, not only from an economic point of view but of defence…” he said.
That was sugarcoating it. Early in the war, the Secondary Industries Commission discovered it had little to work with and Australia, being an island continent, was uniquely exposed to a maritime blockade.
If it didn’t arrive by ship, it probably wasn’t going to arrive at all.
In 1939, Australia could feed itself but manufacturing anything requiring precision or heavyweight engineering was a stretch.
The country needed a manufacturing base.
The war effort established a strong platform but Chifley, in his role as Minister for Post War Reconstruction, took a longer view.
His words ring down through the decades: “I came to an understanding with General Motors-Holden’s that they would engage on what, for a country of this size, is a very gigantic venture,” Chifley told the Day One audience at Fishermans Bend.
“We had two things in mind – the great development of this country which I think is inevitable … with magnificent opportunities … perhaps in my time but certainly in the time of younger members of the audience, for better standards of living…” Then the invited throng adjourned to celebrate. They took home a gift of true luxury at a time of boiled wool sweaters and cuts of mutton: a gleaming tin of 200 Benson & Hedges cigarettes.
The scene may as well have been Paris or Monaco for the veterans housed in their euphemistically named ‘pavilions’ at Concord Repatriation Hospital in Sydney.
These drafty wooden huts housed young men for whom the war wasn’t really over.
My father spent 18 months there; struck down by tuberculosis acquired in Moratai or Balikpapan, a disease that gradually whittled the strapping six-footer to a form so skinny his shocked mates back in Ganmain reckoned “he’d fit in a matchbox.”
Several times the doctors told him it would be wise to get his affairs in order.
But after some close calls he rallied, although his lungs were scarred for life.
He tired of the leatherwork and pottery classes, so started a correspondence course in accountancy.
They told him he was TPI – Totally, Permanently Incapacitated – and offered him a pension with the prospect of one day, perhaps, driving a lift in a department store.
History doesn’t record what he told them but “pig’s arse” would have been close.
With two little kids he wasn’t going to pay the bills with a pension. He put his tank driving skills to work on Sydney’s buses, studying when he wasn’t double-shuffling Leyland double-deckers.
The idea of owning a car was beyond his bus driver’s pay packet but the dream was not. And his journey with Holden, like so many others of his generation, is instructive.
My parents didn’t own a refrigerator until the early 1950s. Cooling came courtesy of the iceman, who slipped giant blocks into a chest cabinet.
After my father earned his accountancy qualifications, things looked up for the young family. By the early 1950s, a clappedout Vauxhall Velox was acquired, which dad rebuilt from valve stem to stern, including new Duco, at night, after work.
What he really wanted was a Holden.
But so did everyone else. Despite a looming recession, Holden held 52,000 unfulfilled back orders by March 1950 as petrol rationing ended. That was two and half times the annual production rate, which spiked after early industrial relations setbacks and a crippling coal strike.
The advertising stressed that a Holden was “worth waiting for.”
While it hadn’t been all golden for Holden, by the beginning of the new decade sales of the lion badge were up 60 percent over 1949 and every one of them was Australian Made, an achievement tinged with patriotism and pride for the Greatest Generation.
The Holden plants were now churning out 100 cars a day. Profits soared with a margin of 7.4 percent on sales, a car-making record
that drew serious attention from Ford’s US headquarters.
With four kids by now, the creaky Vauxhall with the suicide front doors carried the tribe off to Albury in 1957, where the old man was to be a teacher of accountancy with Tech, or TAFE as it became later.
Holden was coining it with production hitting a cumulative 250,000. The 48-215 (retrospectively dubbed FX) gave way to the FJ and the impossibly futuristic FE in 1956, as the suburbs exploded into quarteracre blocks faster than the dunny man could run, balancing cans of ‘night soil’ on his shoulders. ‘Shitcan’ had entered the Australian idiom. Shitbox, a term widely adopted by motoring enthusiasts, described the location of the can, some of which were equipped with real toilet paper. Many, however, were pioneering recyclers of printed matter.
Just as Chifley and his contemporaries had envisaged, Australia’s Own had spawned a component parts industry, cascading the jobs and wealth to 4000 makers of glass, springs, tyres, instruments and trim.
The FC now had 98 percent local content, but Ben Chifley didn’t get to see it, nor Holden’s achievement of a half share of all new car registrations across its model range.
He died from a heart attack in Canberra, aged 66, in 1951. Nation building had proven him right. It really was a man killer.
With five kids now under one roof, my Totally Permanently Incapacitated father set about expanding our Albury accommodation.
He did this by hand, making 9000 concrete bricks in the backyard, three at a time, while the radio carried news of astronauts Yuri Gagarin and John Glenn.
Light relief was lopping the head off a chook, followed by plucking ahead of a Sunday roast, accompanied by a long neck of Reschs DA. For so many veterans, this was La Dolce Vita, Australian style.
Our green and white FC station sedan with the Savell Brothers Hurstville sticker on the rear screen arrived about the same time as the first Datsuns came off the boat.
This was a momentous day in family history, even if the FC was a secondhand unit with a habit of oiling the plugs. DIY was the default option and secondhand made sense when it came to cars. Dad the accountant knew all about depreciation, but like so many of his contemporaries, he’d worked out the more metal for the money story and the lure of cheap and plentiful spare parts.
Used-car demand underpinned Holden’s business model for nearly three decades, as mums and dads snapped up the ex-fleet and ex-government cars, putting a firm floor under resale values.
Holden market share soared to an all-time high of 45.5 percent in 1958.
Combined with stablemate GM models, the company achieved better than half new-car registrations.
The arrival of the EH in 1963 marked Peak Holden, statistically at least, for a single model. It also marked the passing of Peak Hat – at least for blokes not playing detectives on the TV. In the 1950s and early- 60s, the wearing of brimmed fedoras and Trilbys was a real consideration for interior headroom. Holden even made a short film about it, trotting out a Perspex cut-out of “the average man” with hat.
At no time, before or since, has a single model line accounted for nearly 40 percent of Australian car sales, but the EH achieved it, just as another Japanese invasion, this one more stealthy and a lot more successful, was beginning.
Australia was about to be given greater choice, more supply and better value for money, none of which mattered to many veterans of the war with Japan. Bill Bourke, the firebrand boss of Ford Australia, captured the spirit of the time with his quote about “no Japanese cars in RSL car parks.”
And so it was, that the Scott family’s FC gave way to the mighty HK, resplendent in white with a gold roof and maroon interior, red motor, three on the tree, non-synchro first, and servo-assisted brakes with all the feel of an on/off switch. It was an ex- Woolworths fleet car; the closest thing my old man had owned to a new one, and had enough grunt to tow our new Viscount caravan. These were salad days for him and for Holden.
Young fellas were strapping surfboards to old Station Sedans (a.k.a. wagons); farmers weren’t fair dinkum unless they drove to town in a Holden ute, and in the big smoke, Life Was Suddenly Very Monaro.
Go-go dancers, The Pill, bright paint and GT stripes brought the 1960s to a close with back-to-back wins at the holiest of holies, Bathurst, over the arch enemy at Ford.
As a child of the Depression, one who lived through years of petrol rationing, my
THE ARRIVAL OF THE EH IN 1963 MARKED PEAK HOLDEN, STATISTICALLY AT LEAST, FOR A SINGLE MODEL
old man thought motor racing was “a waste of bloody good fuel” but the halo it cast would define the 1970s and weld Holden’s appeal to a new generation of white, working class Aussies.
The Monaro was the antithesis of Holden’s roots – immodest, flashy, fast and dangerous – qualities the Greatest Generation rejected even as their kids lapped up its hedonism.
“Get one before you’re too old to understand” said the advertising tagline.
Schoolboys could quote the tyre spec, not just horsepower and top speed. Such was its resonance that those same kids, flushed with nostalgia, now middle-aged and cashed up, bought the Monaro encore story in 2001.
Never mind the blood-pressure meds, these Boomers were reliving the dream.
Conveniently overlooked was that the original Munro, like most Holdens of the early 1970s, handled indifferently and was under braked.
Guided by American chief engineer George Roberts, early Kingswoods wafted and ploughed around the suburbs, the steering wheel a handy volume control for tyre squeal and scrubbing understeer. No matter, you could order a set of rear-window venetian blinds from the Nasco catalogue.
Holden had become lazy, fat and comfortable.
The character of Ted Bullpit, from the hit TV series Kingswood Country, was a pin-up boy for the era. He was a caricature older bloke, slightly bewildered by a country that was changing around him, tight with a quid, confused about multi-culturalism with his “wog” son-in-law, but passionately wedded to his Holden Kingswood.
There were plenty like Ted who remembered the war years; the virtues of being frugal and never pushing your own barrow. But the demographic conveyor belt was spitting out kids with no memories of real hardship. This was the ‘Me Generation’ and it took the piss out of institutions. The RSL was a particular target as Canberra reintroduced conscription and sent 20-yearolds off to a hot war in Vietnam.
White Australia was still government policy until 1973 and cutting the rust out at rego time an annual ritual.
Who gets rust today? And nobody gets conscripted.
My father didn’t exactly re-chrome the tow ball when his HZ Radial Tuned Suspension Kingy arrived, with its 4.2 V8, but his handwritten logbook recorded every drop of oil, every fluctuation in tyre pressure and every bit replaced at service time.
It was a thing of beauty and a real joy for him. Aussies built good cars, there was a mining boom on and all was well with his world. None of his sons had yet had their birthdate drawn from the barrel that led to Kapooka for conscript training.
He kept quiet on anything to do with armed conflict. Not once did he march on Anzac Day and the only glimpse he allowed was a one-liner, years later, while savouring a beer late one afternoon.
I asked him about Borneo.
“Bad business…” he muttered.
“Flamethrowers … bad business...”
Then he changed the subject.
At starched-collar Holden, the surf boom Sandman – a savvy recognition of real-world customers – was a product of a sales and marketing team with more chutzpah than the engineers.
Puberty Blues was the book and the movie; shagging and surfing the plot lines.
Converting panel vans and wagons to beachside bed-sits was nothing new but this was the first time a major manufacturer had acknowledged the trend by turning a panel van into an off-the-shelf ‘lifestyle’ vehicle.
Football, Meatpies, Kangaroos and Holden cars arrived on TV screens in 1976 courtesy of George Patterson advertising. It was Aussie nationalism writ large; a celebration of egalitarian values. It traded shamelessly on patriotic pride and started something of an Ocker genre on the telly.
Except it was all American, just like the Channel Nine news theme from CBS. The jingle was originally conceived as ‘Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Chevrolet’ and it wouldn’t be the last straight lift. In the 1980s, ‘We Build Excitement’ was a Pontiac tag line nicked by Holden Special Vehicles.
Both are subtle but symptomatic hints that maybe Holden was not quite as advertised. On paper, it was never Australia’s Own. Not a single share existed in local hands since the late 1950s, when the Holden family sold their small tranche of preference stock. The company lauded by Chifley and adored by the post-war generation has always been a wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors.
For all its resourceful local engineers, talented designers and gifted sales and marketing executives, Holden took its orders
GUIDED BY AMERICAN CHIEF ENGINEER GEORGE ROBERTS, EARLY KINGSWOODS PLOUGHED AND SQUEALED AROUND THE SUBURBS
and nearly all its fly-in, fly-out managing directors from corporate HQ. They tended to keep their heads down when interacting with government, playing the role of house guests, with one or two exceptions.
General Motors in Detroit was a hierarchical culture very foreign to bluntspeaking Australians but every now and again it threw up a kindred spirit.
Charles ‘Chuck’ Chapman arrived in 1976, a Marine veteran who fought at Iwo Jima then put himself through night school. A practical engineer with a global view, he arrived via Opel in Germany and inherited a mess not of his making, a company insecure and indecisive in a rapidly changing social and economic environment.
The Commodore, a re-engineered Opel, was his baby and a seemingly good bet at a time of a global fuel crisis as queues formed outside petrol stations.
He had a big go at boosting exports to claw some economies of scale, selling fourcylinder engines to Korea and Europe. It went well for a while but the rest, as they say, is history.
Chapman and his team did a mighty job but by the mid 1980s he knew the Holden business was in serious jeopardy.
The government’s 1984 blueprint for the motor industry was called The Button Plan, named after its author. Its message was pretty clear. Australia had too many carmakers producing too many models to be efficient, all of them sheltering under stiff import taxes and quotas that restricted competition and inflated prices. Get efficient or get out was the bottom line.
Shock followed as leaked Holden board papers of the time hit the newspapers. They recommended a merger with Nissan as a viable option.
My father read that story in total disbelief.
When the VL Commodore arrived with its Nissan six-cylinder engine, Dad rationalised buying one as being good for jobs and supporting local industry. He also quite liked the zing of the engine and conceded the Japanese were good engineers. But his heart wasn’t in it anymore, despite his often-repeated, “this one will see me out.”
BACK in the mid-80s, sitting in the hallowed boardroom at General Motors in Detroit, I had the chance to interview Roger B.
Smith, the chairman. It was an epiphany. As he prattled on about building a paperless corporation and how the new brand Saturn was going to conquer the world, he seemed genuinely clueless about the world outside Michigan. His face flushed red under serious questioning about America’s marketshare losses to Japan both at home and abroad. He got testier by the minute to the point his minders stepped in. Here was a dull corporation man, uninspiring and scarily uninformed, running the biggest carmaker in the world.
Down the road at Ford and some little time later, the boss was Red Poling. He answered my question by declaring the best car in the world to be the Lincoln Town Car.
General Motors Corporation went into Chapter 11 – unthinkable but true – during the 2008-09 financial crisis and had to be bailed out by the US Government.
It emerged from bankruptcy with a new chief executive, Mary Barra, who immediately made a break with history.
The announcement came in December 2013: Holden would no longer make cars in Australia.
My father didn’t quite live to see it, passing away just eight weeks earlier, aged 94.
In many ways we are back to the 1939 of his youth. Australia is an island without a heavy manufacturing industry. The globalists say this is okay; it’s the market at work and there’s nothing to worry about.
In 100 years, warfare has moved from sabre to cyber, so all this blockade stuff, all these arguments about self-sufficiency, are outmoded.
Meanwhile, in the South China Sea, ‘freedom of navigation’ exercises continue.
THE HOLDEN CLOSURE ANNOUNCEMENT CAME IN DECEMBER 2013. MY FATHER DIDN’T QUITE LIVE TO SEE IT, PASSING AWAY JUST EIGHT WEEKS EARLIER
HAND IN YOUR BADGE OR WE’LL GET A GUN. . .
Today, Holden’s own research says two-thirds of Australians have an indifferent attitude to the brand. That loss of faith can surely trace its roots to the horrendous decision to first rebadge the Nissan Pulsar as an Astra in 1984 (above), then switch allegiances to Toyota, flogging the Corolla and Camry with lion badges in 1989. This was the era of the infamous UAAI joint venture with Toyota and the public didn’t buy any of it. The spin nor the cars.
Araldite Engineering was a dark period in our automotive development as manufacturers churned out shared models designed to conform to the Button Plan. The nadir was the Toyota Lexcen.
Although named after the famous yacht designer, it was 100 percent Holden Commodore.
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VR Esports: The Future of Esports?
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VR esports is setting its foot into the esports world. How will it shape the future of esports? What business opportunitiies await LBVRs (Location Based VR)? In this article, the EVA team shares its vision with you!
Should Esports be considered real sports? This question has long been debated since the emergence of Esports to this day. It is undeniable that there are numerous elements that esports and traditional sports have in common such as competitiveness, dedication, and the amount of training required to excel. In fact, the fundamentals of these two businesses are also quite similar and yet, esports struggles to acquire the recognition it deserves. Some may even say that esports is an imposter in its attempt to bring video games and sports together.
Well this ‘imposter’ is now one of the hottest topics on the internet. Not only the exponential growth of esports is starting to attract major brands such as Intel, Redbull, ASUS, etc, the market value of esports clubs has skyrocketed over the past few years and are almost as high as top tier traditional sports clubs. The two highest ranking esports clubs in terms of market value are currently Team Solo Mid and Cloud9, at roughly $400M each. Team Liquid is following closely behind at $320M, and Fnatic (ranked first in europe) at $175M.
Another indisputable way to assess the popularity of any field that relies on media is through the amount of audience watching on television or, nowadays the internet.
For example, the Super Bowl finale of 2019, one of the main sports events in the United States, generated an audience of 98M spectators; the UEFA Champions League (European Cup), one of the most prestigious football tournaments in the world, gathered an audience of 180M spectators. Esports is no exception; take the latest League of Legends World Championship in 2019 as an example, it has gathered an audience no less than 150M spectators. Generating numbers that are competing with many prestigious sports events worldwide.
It is therefore safe to say that esports has become mainstream.
WHAT ABOUT VR ESPORTS?
Virtual reality is set to not only be part of this booming new sporting genre, it is positioning itself to bridge the gap between esports and traditional sports. One of the many advantages virtual reality has over other gaming platforms is to get the player moving. Thanks to it’s immersive gameplay, players will have to physically turn to observe their surroundings, crouch, bend over, etc, instead of a couple mouse clicks on a flat screen. The level of precision and tracking technology is growing by leaps and bounds as VR technology matures. However, is getting the players out of their seats enough to change the public perception of esports?
Since the infancy of VR gaming, there have been several VR esports initiatives such as VR Challenger league, Virtuix Omni tournament, etc. These VR esports competitions were pushed on the VR arcade platform which essentially allows the player to move about in a 5 or 6sqm space. Despite the fun gameplay and well organized tournaments, the number of audiences still struggles to push VR esports into the mainstream light.
VR esports should not be an imitation of the existing esports model but an innovation that blazes a trail in esports.
With that in mind, EVA has decided to embrace the innovative VR technology and hone in on creating competitive free-roaming VR content that is esport worthy. Our company was originally founded by 4 partners and currently consists of 22 employees. With the support of the Trust Esports fund who has invested 2M euros into our project in 2019, EVA aims to be the pioneer of VR esports.
As a true believer of free-roaming VR being the key element that will catapult VR esports into the mainstream light, our team has managed to work around the tracking technology limitations and offer an arena space of up to 3000sqm where players can compete in a FPS (First Person Shooter) game, breaking new grounds in esports.
During Paris Game Week 2019, we showcased our brand new concept, a VR esports stadium, to the public for the first time. The entire booth surface was more than 1000sqm with an integrated playground that was a little over 500sqm. The setup included indoor bleachers accommodating up to 500 spectators, as well as a shoutcasting podium and live streaming stations to allow live commentaries and streaming of the matches, creating a real sports stadium atmosphere.
To better understand the outcome of EVAs showcase, you can also check out the making of: EVA World Premiere.
The players competed in 4v4 on After-H, our flagship arcade game that had been adapted to free-roaming; fully equipped with backpack PC, VR headset, 3D printed guns, and connected accessories that were colour coded, allowing the spectators to follow the players movements in real life as well as in game. The success of this showcase was evident as the event gathered an audience of 50M spectators through various online and broadcasting platforms. In the span of 5 days, the EVA stadium attracted 2M visitors and had queues as long as 6 hours for a 5 minute test game. The feedback was not only positive from the general public, but also from infamous esports influencers, pro gamers and journalists who tested the game.
OUR 3 KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM EVA SHOWCASE'S SUCCESS
Real sport!
Free-roaming allows physical movement in large surface areas which brings a breath of fresh air to both immersion and gameplay. It creates a competitive virtual reality experience that demands a certain level of physical fitness to compete, marrying the values of traditional sports and esports; dexterity, stamina, endurance, etc, with an “easy to play, hard to master” gameplay.
Entertaining show
We were overwhelmed by the number of spectators who stuck around to watch the regular matches that weren’t part of the main event. The audience enjoyed the spectacle thanks to the giant screens and exciting commentaries from the shoutcasters. Seeing the players move physically in person and in game has certainly made for a far more enjoyable spectating experience.
Easy to play, hard to master
As players navigate through the game by actual movements, complicated buttons and controls to move around in a game are no longer necessary. It is therefore very intuitive and easily adaptable to players of all ages, even for non-gamers. This hypothesis was confirmed when we saw a lot of non-gamers being captivated by the game just after a couple minutes of briefing. This is, in our opinion, key to unlocking new audiences for VR.
In 2020, EVA playgrounds will soon be available to the public at Lille, Toulouse, Rouen, Paris and La Réunion.
What form will VR esports take is an interesting future to ponder. Will it take on a more traditional sporting form such as soccer or basketball, rendering future LBVRs (Location Based VR) into esports stadiums where professional esports teams go to train? Or, will VR headsets become more accessible at home, rendering LBVRs obsolete unless they offer a premium VR experience such as free-roaming or various VR simulations? In which case professional esports players will hone their skills at home and compete in free-roaming at LBVRs, as Formula 1 drivers do today.
Train at home Compete in LBVRs
Whatever the future holds, a couple things are for certain:
A new hybrid of athletes and gamers will emerge. These pro-gamers will be lean, dexterous, and agile. Their eye and hand coordination will be crucial to success, as well as their reaction time.
Virtual reality will definitely see a strong drive for more competitive experiences as the technology continues to mature.
The exponential growth of esports will continue to accelerate.
Free-roaming will remain unattainable for home users due to the space required and therefore, will always be a premium VR experience to the public.
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C4 instances and the tip of the iceberg
tl;dr: C4 instances have a simpler design because they don’t have to support hard drives which makes them more reliable and cheaper for AWS.
C4 instances
At last years re:Invent AWS announced a new generation of compute-optimized EC2 instances: the C4 instance family. Back then they provided some technical details about these instances including the information that they are powered by a custom “Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3” processor built for AWS only, but the information regarding pricing or an availability date were still missing. Earlier this week these instances became available and pricing details and some remaining information were published as well.
Most press coverage about these new instance family focused on the custom built CPU, but the longer I think about it the more I think that this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Block storage at AWS
AWS is providing two different kinds of block storage: So called ephemeral storage, which is storage directly connected to the host system an instance is running on and EBS (Elastic Block Storage) volumes, which are network attached disks.
Ephemeral volumes have been available for most instances, only their smallest instance families (T1 and T2) don’t offer them. Depending on the instance you choose you’ll get a different amount of ephemeral storage which can be either HDD or SDD backed. The great thing about it: It’s free, because it’s a part of the price you already pay for an instance whether or not you use this storage. But there is as usual a caveat: Once you stop an instance the data stored on these volumes is gone, because there is no host system anymore which could hold the data.
EBS volumes are the means of choice if you want reliable block storage. In the past there have been performance bottlenecks with them, but since the introduction of IOPS EBS volumes, gp2 volumes and some improvements they are going to implement, that shouldn’t be an issue anymore.
One thing that went unnoticed with the C4 instances is, that these are the first instances (beside the small T1 and T2 instance) which don’t provide ephemeral storage at all!
I believe that’s a shift in AWS philosphy to decrease their costs and to ease their server architecture.
We all know that companies like Google or AWS build their own hardware. Facebook goes a different way with it’s Open Compute project, but they all try to achieve the same goal: They want to have hardware perfectly matching their needs without including features they don’t need to drive costs down and increase reliability.
AWS started builing it’s own custom network equipment five years ago and they have several other specialized components as well, like big storage racks and of course the EC2 instances. But these instances always came with hard disks included to enable ephemeral storage. With the introduction of the C4 instances AWS seems to be confident enough that EBS volumes also fit the needs of customers which have been using ephemeral volumes before, so they omitted these ephemeral storage options, which allows them to omit hard drives completely from these instances. That removes on major pain point of such servers: Failing drives. That’s a big plus for reliability.
AWS has published technical details about their custom “Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3” processor, but one interesting detail is missing: The TDP (Thermal Design Power), the maximum amount of power the CPU uses during normal operation. I wouldn’t be surprised if Intel managed to decrease that by a few watts for AWS, maybe by disabling features AWS will never use. But if AWS doesn’t even need hard drives they also don’t need SATA ports and only a limited number of PCIe-lanes for the network cards which would allow them to use a stripped down platform controller hub, which I believe Intel developed for them as well. So AWS uses a custom processor and might also use a custom platform controller hub, which both might save them a tiny fraction of needed power. Even if it’s a tiny fraction at the scale of AWS that’s a lot of saved money, which is important to drive the costs down to stay competitive.
The biggest news about the C4 instances isn’t the custom built processor, but the removal of the ability to use ephemeral volumes with them. With not providing such volumes AWS eleminated the need to add hard drives to these instances which removes a major point of failure of such servers and also drives down costs by making the design simpler and by maybe saving some watts of power. It’s interesting to see such developments and I’m pretty sure they’ll be enabling AWS to continue cutting prices in future as they did in the past.
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Voting Among Subgroups in 2014
We have recently discussed the importance of turnout, and we firmly believe that turnout will determine the outcome of this election. But, this is not to say that direction of vote conditional on turnout is not important. A lot of media attention is spent on White men without a college degree, or suburban, college-educated, white women. Other key demographics, that arguably receive less attention, are Milennials and African-Americans. Both demographics have been reliable Democratic blocks in recent midterms.
Here are the Exit Polls from 2104, courtesy of the New York Times. To cut to the chase, two-party vote share among Blacks was 90% Democrat, 10% Republican. Among Millennials (18-29), the margins were much closer, with 55% Democrat, and 45% Republican.
What we see Now
Casual observers of the political space have noted a focus of conservative intellectuals on the Black and Millennial vote, respectively. If you follow Candace Owens or Charlie Kirk on Twitter these days, it easy to be pessimistic about both demographic groups. Not in the least, Kanye West’s controversial Twitter and Saturday Night Live rant, and his subsequent departure from social media, have also stirred renewed questions as to how Democratic the Black vote will be going forward. Will African Americans remain solidly Democratic, or is there a potential for a massive realignment in the yeas to come?
This cycle, PredictWise has conducted massive amounts of generic ballot polling (i.e. questions asking respondents whether they vote for the Democratic or the Republican candidate), relying on more than 3 Million responses from 200,000 respondents. In addition, we have conducted private, candidate-specific polling in 40 of the most competitive districts. We poll the horse race as we always do, relying on state-of-the-art Random Device Engagement (RDE) polling. Here is what we see: We estimate that among 18-24 year olds, 60% will vote Democratic come November, and among 25-34 year olds, that number even reaches 62%, a much higher support number than the 55% among 18-29 year olds in 2014 (though no direct comparison).
Among African Americans, however, Democratic support has fallen since 2014. While only 10% of African Americans voted for the Republican candidate in 2014, per exit polls, by our own estimation this number would be 18% if elections were held today; it has almost doubled from 2014.
In sum, vote intention among these important demographic groups is a little bit of mixed bag for Democrats. Millennial support for Democrats has sky-rocketed, while African American support has decreased. Importantly, the margins still look very robust, with clear majorities of both Millennials and African Americans supporting Democratic candidates this cycle. This also means that elevated turnout among these groups, as we have argued elsewhere, are a key condition for a Blue Wave in November.
We have said it over and over again – turnout matters when it comes to control of the House of Representatives! Of course, turnout is only part of the game.
Progressive Pendulum: Bringing Bakersfield to the Good Side
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Comic Book Review: Batman #36
Daniel Mills
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“I don’t see why I need to call him.“
Catwoman and Batman are kind of an item. In fact, they’re the hottest new couple in the DC Universe at the moment. That’s all thanks to the work of Batman series writer Tom King. One of the first writers in the history of the character to be interested in giving Bruce Wayne a happy ending. He actually already gave him one. Now, in Batman #36 the story returns to the present. The time has come for the important people in Batman’s life to know about the other important people in Batman’s life. With the assistance of the ridiculously talented Clay Mann, Tom King sets out to bring the DC’s biggest heroes together for a chat.
The friendship has been strained for a while. Bruce doesn’t call; Clark doesn’t call. Lois knows this; Selina knows this. So two of the most powerful women in DC set their men straight. It’s time they talk to one another. It’s a heartwarming story without an impending explosion or doomsday clock. Because when it comes to simple and satisfying stories, Tom King seems to have a way with words.
“I thought he was your closest friend.”
Tom King’s run on Batman is a wonder to behold, and completely unlike Scott Snyder’s. That’s not to say that Scott Snyder isn’t also brilliant. But Super Friends part 1 perfectly displays the differences between the two writers. Snyder’s work, accompanied by the fantastic art of Greg Capullo most of the time, was operatic and epic. King tells those stories too, but he also has pallet cleansing arcs to change up the tone. Both The Rules of Engagement and Super Friends are King giving the readers a breather with a fun and relatively light story.
If there’s any fault to be had with Batman #36 it’s that not much transpires. Batman is having trouble talking to Superman; Superman is having trouble with the fact that Batman hasn’t told him yet. That’s pretty much it. The World’s Finest are then coached into changing their tunes by their respective partners. Simple. Effective. Lovely.
“Guy who always writes about Superman, looks just like Superman.”
Clay Mann is relatively new to DC’s pantheon of amazing artists. But if his amazing work in Batman #36 were any indication, readers would think Mann’s been around for decades. He did some incredible work with Francis Manapul on Trinity, and now he’s created something truly special here on Batman. Like Jim Lee, he styles the physique of Bruce and Clark quite similarly. Also like Lee’s, it doesn’t make it seem tired or cheap. It points out the parallels between these two behemoths. That while one may hold the strength of the world in their hands they both look as intimidating as possible. Making them the gods they truly appear to be.
Brother Seth Mann joins Clay on the inks. The work is completely seamless, with perfect pencil work that makes each panel worthy of a massive banner image or phone wallpaper. The best colorist in the business once again earns her title. Jordie Bellaire makes Batman’s Rebirth costume as eye-catching as the world around him. The deep purple of his cape blends into the dark depths of the dreary streets below. It’s a wonderful mix of artists that help Batman remain one of the best titles in comics.
Tom King tries something different with each new arc on Batman. It’s not that every arc has a new artist, because that isn’t the case. Every new story doesn’t paint Batman in a new light; or star a new character. But they each somehow manage to have their own identity. It’s all because of perspective. King uses the trajectory made by the previous stories to inform the next. The tension from this story doesn’t come from any villain or hardship. It comes from the fact that readers know that Batman is about to have a difficult conversation. And that might be more difficult than having to face any foe in the Universe.
There isn’t much going on in the pages of Batman #36, and that’s absolutely fine. The landscape narrated by the words of Tom King and painted by Clay Mann, Seth Mann and Jordie Bellaire is as bright and hopeful as it is dark and terrifying.
The Score9.5
Fun and Heartwarming!
Hilariously Explores the Dynamic of DC's Finest
Clay Mann's Art is Dangerously Breathtaking
A little uneventful
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Daniel Mills is a screenwriter and director working in Los Angeles, California. Far too many comics and Forgotten Realms-novels led him to want to tell stories of his own. From articles and opinion pieces to reviews and screenplays, he sees every new opportunity as another new realm waiting to be explored.
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The ancient Egyptians were known to use honey as medicine, and the juices of pomegranates served as both an astringent and a delicacy.” In the Ebers Papyrus, there are over 800 remedies; some were topical like ointments, and wrappings, others were oral medication such as pills and mouth rinses;still others were taken ….
One of the most important inventions of the Ancient Egyptians was writing. They wrote in hieroglyphics. You can learn more about hieroglyphics here. Writing allowed the Egyptians to keep accurate records and maintain control of their large empire.
Sources. Knowledge of anatomical studies is drawn from papyri and ostraca, especially the Ebers, Edwin Smith and Kahun Papyri. One of only two extant texts on creating a mummy is the Ritual of Embalming Papyrus. Mummification techniques led to advancement in anatomical knowledge.
Egyptians used antiseptic to aid the healing process, another major development in medical practice (they used Willow leaves and bark which are known to decrease the likelihood of infection). Surgery was often conducted in conjunction with healing methods derived from religious beliefs.
The ancient Egyptians believed in prayer as a solution to health problems, but they also had natural, or practical, remedies, such as herbs. It was a structured society with tools such as written language and mathematics, which enabled them to record and develop ideas, and it meant that others could learn from them.
The success of ancient Egyptian civilization came partly from its ability to adapt to the conditions of the Nile River valley for agriculture. The predictable flooding and controlled irrigation of the fertile valley produced surplus crops, which supported a more dense population, and social development and culture.
A mummy preserves information about lifestyle, diet, diseases, cause of death, and religious and funerary beliefs, giving us an insight into aspects of the civilisation that archaeology and ancient literature alone cannot provide.
The bark of the willow tree contains one of the oldest medicinal remedies in human history. In its modern form, we call it aspirin. More than 3,500 years ago, the ancient Sumerians and Egyptians used willow bark as a traditional medicine for pain relief.
The contribution of Egypt to the world civilization is noteworthy. The method of writing, literature, art, architecture, religion, science of the Egyptians had compelled the people of the world to raise their eyebrows.
There are loads of firsts in ancient Egypt; that’s why Egypt is important. For example, religion. Most people are shocked to learn that monotheism, the belief in one god, is first presented by an Egyptian pharaoh. … If you read Greek historians, they all say the same thing: We got our civilization from Egypt.
ImhotepThe first physician to emerge is Imhotep, chief minister to King Djoser in the 3rd millennium bce, who designed one of the earliest pyramids, the Step Pyramid at Ṣaqqārah, and who was later regarded as the Egyptian god of medicine and identified with the Greek god Asclepius.
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Jean Charest’s ideological soft soap that verges on the demagogic
Molly Alexander and Pierre Dostie / November 1, 2003
Canadian PoliticsQuebec
Yes Mister Charest, the public interest is gravely in danger as are social peace and the historic interests of Quebec. Photo by Martin Sauvageau/Wikimedia Commons.
The “conservative” Prime Minister Jean Charest has tried to justify his re-engineering project in an open letter addressed to the men and women of Quebec published two days ago. Quebecois have become increasingly disturbed by a right-wing current that threatens to undermine the remaining social rights in this province.
Invoking the “common good” to defend the budgetary cuts announced or in the works, he has tried to present himself as a defender “of the historic interests of Quebec” At the same time he attacks trade unionists and pressure groups who oppose “change” as ” immovable defenders of corporate interests.” The guardian of the chicken coop holds the door open for the wolf and allows it to devour not only the chickens but the owner to boot.
The Charest government has thought it timely to adopt this course just six months after assuming power and just before the opening of parliament next week in an autumn which is certain to be conflicting. The anger brewing in trade union and popular ranks is more and more evident since the government launched its attack on many fronts.
Here’s a partial list: increases in child care rates, increases in electricity bills, questioning pay equity, refusal of the right of child care and family care workers to unionize despite favorable court decisions, announced modifications of the labour code to favour even more contracting out , penalizing those refusing to conform to unemployment insurance rules which force people to enroll in programs that do not lead to real employment, threats to increase the cost of an education.
We know that sub-contracting from the government that does exist does not save public money, that private companies already paying very little have received further tax holidays. We know too that the announced massive tax cuts only benefit the rich and only serve to increase the gap between them and the poor.
The government is having difficulty disguising its project of re-engineering. It fear popular resistance. That is why it chooses to prepare the ground one more time with this open letter which in reality is only a set of empty phrases of ideological, indeed, demagogic propaganda. According to the opinion of most experts it is Jean Charest who has broken with a historic tradition maintained by Quebec Prime Ministers for forty years by agreeing to make Quebec re-enter the ranks of the “Council of the Federation” making Quebec ” a province just like the others.” Indeed, he himself proposed this.
This is the same Quebec that Canada does not recognize as a nation, which refused to recognize the Canadian Constitution of 1982 by a unanimous vote of the National Assembly. It is this man who today appeals to the notion of safeguarding the historic interests of Quebec. This operation has a name: it is called demagogy!
Mr. Charest warns us that if we refuse “change” like vulgar reactionaries “the Quebec model will become nothing more than a relic.” Isn’t it reassuring (we aren’t fools) to note that the liberal (sic) government is defending “the Quebec model?” Isn’t it ironic furthermore that at the onset of this maneouvre Prime Minister Charest cites the introduction of the Facal Report, a report drawn up by someone who, while a Pequiste minister, recommended the abolition of many government agencies and even ministries?
There is thus a certain continuity with the neo-liberal policies of the previous government. The PQ can play the role of offended virgin sitting in the ranks of the opposition. It is not well positioned to criticize the Charest government.
On the one hand, this present government allows itself to renege on certain of its electoral promises like a law on poverty, electoral reform and free prescriptions for the poor. On the other hand, it claims to have an electoral mandate to unilaterally totally restructure the Quebec state and the social contract.
The fall, winter and spring will be full of conflict. Yes Mister Charest, the public interest is gravely in danger as are social peace and the historic interests of Quebec. There will be a unified response by the Quebec people on all fronts. The defense of the public interest and the historic interests of Quebec demand it. As part of this response our party, The Union of Progressive Forces (UFP) will be supporting every initiative towards building a united mass opposition movement to the irrational and retrograde politics of this government.
This article appeared in the November/December 2003 issue of Canadian Dimension .
One Year of Charest
Pierre Dostie / May 1, 2004
Fighting austerity in Québec is tied to Canada and colonialism
Stefan Christoff / April 6, 2015
The Charest Factor
Pierre Dostie and Gordon Lefebvre / January 2, 2004
Changing of the Guard in Québec
Andrea Levy and René Charest / September 25, 2012
Jean Charest’s Latest Deception
Pierre Dostie / January 1, 2005
The presumed innocence of capitalism and Lac-Mégantic
Harry Glasbeek / August 7, 2013
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Blu-ray: Recommended
3rd Party 6.18
Release Date: November 5th, 2013
The Three Faces of Eve
Review Date November 11th, 2013 by Steven Cohen
Overview - Eve White, a mousy, withdrawn housewife (Joanne Woodward) startles her husband (David Wayne) when she claims she did not buy the flashy, provocative clothes he finds in their bedroom. After she complains of blackouts, he takes her to a psychiatrist (Lee J. Cobb) who soon encounters her second personality, Eve Black, a sexy, uninhibited woman. As Eve's therapy continues, her third self, the sensible, intelligent Jane appears to help resolve her rare multiple personality condition. Based on a true story, this acclaimed psychological drama brilliantly explores the dimensions of the human mind.
Technical Specs: BD-50 Disc
Region A
Video Resolution/Codec: 1080p/AVC MPEG-4
Length:0
English Descriptive Audio: English DTS-HD Mono
Spanish Dolby Digital Mono
Subtitles/Captions: English, French, Spanish
Special Features: Audio Commentary by Aubrey Solomon
Fox Movietone News: Academy Awards
Original Theatrical Trailer
Movie Studio: 20th Century Fox
A truly great performance can go a long way toward elevating any film, and in the case of Joanne Woodward's Academy Award winning turn in 'The Three Faces of Eve,' we actually get three for the price of one. A perfect example of "truth is stranger than fiction," the movie takes its cue from a real life instance of multiple personality disorder, chronicling the lofty struggles that come as a result of fractured psyches and lingering childhood trauma. The filmmaking itself doesn't offer too much to get excited about, but the lead actress is mesmerizing to watch, and acclaimed Hollywood writer Nunnally Johnson does a solid job in the director's chair. It might not quite earn classic status, but all three of Woodward's distinct personalities easily stand the test of time.
Based on an actual case study written by psychiatrists Corbett H. Thigpen and Hervey M. Cleckley, the story follows a timid woman, Eve White (Joanne Woodward), who is suffering from memory loss and apparent mood swings. Through the help of Dr. Curtis Luther (Lee J. Cobb), Eve discovers that her recurring blackouts and inexplicable behavior are actually the result of a rare case of multiple personality disorder. As her wild and flirtatious second persona, Eve Black, takes control, Eve White's marriage begins to fall apart and she becomes unfit to take care of her daughter. Determined to sustain some semblance of normalcy, the poor fragmented woman and her physiatrist work hard to handle her unpredictable life -- but when a third personality suddenly emerges, any chance at a manageable existence is put into jeopardy.
From the moment we fade in, the filmmakers go out of their way to make sure that the audience is aware of the script's true life inspirations. A formal intro from the movie's narrator, Alistair Cooke, goes over the general history of the case and sets the stage for the strange yet mostly factual story to follow. Cooke continues to offer voice over narration intermittently, helping to clue us in on time shifts and advances in Eve's unfortunate predicament. To this end, the majority of the runtime focuses on therapy sessions between the increasingly tragic patient and her doctor, but there are also a few traditional dramatic beats added here and there to liven things up, including a subplot dealing with Eve's dissolving marriage and the potential romantic exploits of her two other personalities.
Though the core of the narrative is certainly interesting in its own right, it's Woodward's performance -- or should I say, performances -- that really make the picture. As the sweet but submissive Eve White, the actress exudes fragile desperation and dreary vulnerability. All she wants is to be able to take care of her daughter, but her constant blackouts and unpredictable behavior make it impossible. Shy, reserved, and quiet, she's a likeable character, but it becomes clear that she sadly lacks the strength to really take control. On the other hand, Eve Black is something else entirely. A southern belle seductress, she's everything Eve White isn't. Confident, playful, and sexy, the screen lights up whenever she's around, but her frivolous, selfish, and irresponsible behavior makes her a poor match for motherhood.
Watching Woodward segue from personality to personality, almost at the drop of a hat, is simply mesmerizing. Though each persona could be interpreted as different facets of the same woman, as Eve White and Black the actress really does become two distinct roles. Everything from her body language, to her facial expressions, to her voice, to the very look in her eyes, completely changes, and the speed at which the actress is able to transform herself is incredible. Once her third personality manifests, the performance is taken to even greater heights, and once again we are introduced to a new, yet not altogether unfamiliar woman. And while it might be easy for some of these competing psyches to come across as underdeveloped, each piece of Eve's conflicting mind really feels like a whole individual, complete with desires, fears, and motivations all their own. In fact, it's the disparities between all three women's differing goals that fuel most of the movie's drama.
As impressive as Woodward's acting is, the rest of the film isn't always quite so compelling. Though director Nunnally Johnson and his cinematographer maintain a very competent visual style that takes full advantage of the movie's Cinemascope frame with wide masters, long takes, and thoughtful lightning designs, the film's overall aesthetic isn't terribly interesting. Likewise, the script's relative faithfulness to the source material can leave the runtime feeling a bit dry and slow during certain stretches, with very standard dramatic detours used to try and spice things up. Eve's husband, played by David Wayne, also seems a little out of place, with the character's constant confusion and anger coming across as a tad hokey. An early, rather disturbing instance of off-screen violence ultimately rings falsely as well, since in retrospect it never really seems like any of Eve's personalities would be capable of such an act. Thankfully, these issues are fairly minor, and the narrative and visuals remain solid throughout. To the director's credit, there's even a particularly striking camera movement in the third act, that's made all the more powerful thanks to its deliberate break from Nunnally's otherwise subdued style.
'The Three Faces of Eve' is a genuinely remarkable showcase for actress Joanne Woodward. In a trio of roles that all happen to share the same body, the actress gives a memorable and intricately nuanced series of performances. The true life story of one woman's fascinating bout with multiple personality disorder tackles weighty themes dealing with identity, control, and trauma, and while some of the narrative's focus can be a little too clinical, the movie is a well made piece of old fashioned Hollywood melodrama.
20th Century Fox brings 'The Three Faces of Eve' to Blu-ray on a single BD-50 disc housed in a keepcase. After some warnings and logos the screen transitions to a standard menu. The packaging indicates that the release is Region A compatible.
BD-50 Disc
1080p/AVC MPEG-4
English DTS-HD Mono
Audio Commentary by Aubrey Solomon
The film is presented in a black and white 1080p AVC/MPEG-4 transfer in the 2.35:1 aspect ratio. Sharp, authentic, and nicely preserved, this is a rather gorgeous video presentation.
The print is essentially in pristine shape with no real signs of age or damage. A light layer of fine grain is present throughout, offering a natural, filmic appearance. For the most part, clarity is exceptional, with sharp textures and patterns readily visible in characters' suits and dresses. The filmmakers use a lot of wide shots that fully utilize the Cinemascope frame, and every layer of the image is impeccably rendered with pleasing dimension, revealing lots of detail in background objects. With that said, there are a few shots (usually right before a dissolve or scene transition) that offer a comparatively soft appearance. The grayscale is perfectly balanced with bright but natural whites and deep, inky blacks that don't crush.
Beautifully detailed with gorgeous cinematic texture, this is a fantastic video transfer. Though there is some occasional softness here and there, fans of classic black and white films should be very impressed with this authentic and nearly immaculate image.
The movie is provided with an English DTS-HD MA 1.0 mono track. Optional English SDH and Spanish subtitles are also included. Basic but respectful, the mix is free from any major issues.
Dialogue is a little thin compared to contemporary releases, but remains clear and clean throughout. Effects work within the single channel of audio is minimal but adequately conveyed. The movie's score becomes integral to the mood, with key cues that are tied to Eve's different personalities, and thankfully the music comes through with pleasing fidelity and decent range. Though some very faint background hissing is apparent in a few scenes, major age related issues like pops and crackle are nowhere to be found.
The 1950s mono sound design is nothing to get excited about, but Fox has offered an authentic and clean audio presentation that preserves the filmmakers' original intentions.
Commentary by Film Historian Aubrey Solomon - Solomon provides a fairly interesting discussion on the film, and while there are a few pauses here and there, he offers a wide array of production trivia. Details on the adaptation process and differences from the real life case are all shared, along with tidbits about casting (Judy Garland was the first choice for the lead) and deleted material. Solomon even shares a refreshingly humble quote from the film's director assessing his own passable but admittedly unspectacular direction.
Fox Movietone News: Academy Awards (SD, 2 min) - Presented in standard definition with Dolby Digital 2.0 sound, this is a vintage promotional news story about the winners of the 1958 Academy Awards, including Joanne Woodward. We even get to see footage of her very brief acceptance speech.
Theatrical Trailer (SD, 3 min) - The film's trailer is included, which also happens to feature an on-set introduction from the director.
'The Three Faces of Eve' features a marvelous performance from Joanne Woodward, allowing the actress to tackle three distinct roles in one. While the film's style and script aren't quite as memorable, the movie's real life tale of multiple personality disorder is certainly fascinating in its own right. On the technical front, Fox has provided an exceptional video transfer and a great, faithful audio mix. We don't get a whole lot in the way of supplements, but the included commentary is definitely worth a listen. The film isn't exactly a classic, but it's a well made Hollywood drama with a remarkable leading performance. Recommended.
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Grandiosa March 12th - Any refunds yet?
By lovetoholiday,
April 3, 2020 in MSC Cruises
lovetoholiday
Hi, wondering if anyone who was due to sail from Barcelona on the Grandiosa on 12th March has heard anything from MSC yet about refund or FCC. I emailed them a few days after I got home and said I would like to take the FCC offer of 125% as per the letter given to us as we left the ship.
I received a reply 2 days later thanking me for my request to book another cruise and that they would get back to me in due course. This was on the 19th March.
Has anyone else heard anything from them?
Shocked91
Still waiting for our refund.Could take up to 8 weeks.
chrisgalwv
36 minutes ago, Shocked91 said:
Are you saying you still havent received the refund from the Meraviglia, or just a refund in general?
We were told 30 days while we were still on board. I just don't understand why they have already refunded people who didn't even sail before those of us who actually incurred travel expenses! Its just beyond me??!!
2 minutes ago, chrisgalwv said:
We were on the Grandiosa March 12th.
Good luck to you! I'll update if I ever get mine. At this point, I think its pretty much hopeless. Mine should have been being worked on before I ever stepped foot off the ship 😞
Happygcruiser
I was about to board on the 13th in Marseilles. Nothing yet here...
3 hours ago, chrisgalwv said:
Fingers crossed for you.
Nymich
You may want to ask on your roll call to hear what others are saying. That is what I am doing so we all know what is being said and done. I asked the others to let us know and everyone seems to be willing to.
Edited April 5, 2020 by Nymich
8 hours ago, Nymich said:
Unfortunately there were only 3 posts on the roll call and the last one was December last year. I admit to being guilty of looking but not joining in. So not a lot of help there I'm afraid.
On 4/4/2020 at 8:00 PM, Nymich said:
No posts there 😞
STILL NO REFUND, and I am beyond annoyed. My boat sailed on 2/23, the very first "coronacruise". There are zero excuses why others have been refunded (for trips they didn't even go on) and I have yet to receive even a phone call, much less a refund.
Gross lack of customer service to say the least. I did find out my refund is being handled in Italy which is the DUMBEST thing Ive heard yet. They have until May 2nd, that's double the time they said it would be....then I'm done messing around.
An update - I received a reply today, saying that the UK was slower than the USA and Canada as their procedures are less strict over there, and that they had planned to send our FCC's last week but had to wait due to changes from ABTA, which meant that they have had to change some wording.
They have been told that these should be getting sent out imminently and that I should watch my emails - yippee!!
Watch this space.......
dexddd
20 hours ago, chrisgalwv said:
On the couple threads here not seeing many, if any, of us before or after your date having been refunded.
I've seen all kinds of people refunded for cruises they didn't even go on. Most of that info is on the MSC Facebook groups. Join those.
Still no refund.Will wait another few weeks if still no refund will ring MSC.
We finally got our money back mid June.
notme2012
On 4/3/2020 at 9:46 AM, lovetoholiday said:
Can you post a pic of that letter? We were on that ship as well. We never received any letter! My TA has spoken to a res agent who stated that the letter proves you were on the cruise. We have boarding cards. Please, anything would help?
On 12/5/2020 at 5:46 PM, notme2012 said:
Sorry no idea why there are so many copies showing. I just tried to upload the file I had saved. Hope you can do something with it and it helps you though. Good luck!
On 12/7/2020 at 6:49 AM, lovetoholiday said:
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Vidya on a detox break
Movies, News | March 18, 2012 | | by Janine Gall
With the most successful female lead film released in November, winning an award at every award show and a successful release last week would be a toll for any actress but Vidya intends to reward herself with a long awaited vacation. The award winning actress has been working non stop since the end of 2009 and has promoted her biggest recent hits The Dirty Picture and Kahaani almost back to back.
“I want to read, listen to music, catch up on movies, spend time with my loved ones and yes, sleep! My parents have threatened to lock me in if I don’t rest,” says Vidya. This will certainly come as welcome news to her family given her health scares she had during wrapping up filming on The Dirty Picture. Even Vidya admits it has taken its toll saying “It’s been hectic and crazy, and there have been times when I’ve wanted to pull my hair out!”
During her filming for The Dirty Picture, Bollywood’s leading lady put on 12 kilos to make her role as Silk as authentic as possible. With some free time she hopes that those 12 kilos will be lost as she hits the gym.
Fans will not be left disappointed however with Vidya appearing in an item song for the up coming Vidhu Vinod Chopra film Ferrari Ki Sawari. Commenting on her experience of filming the item song Vidya says, “The moves are aggressive and the song oozes sensuality. It was difficult to do even with a Lavani dancer on the sets, but it’s my favorite form and I enjoyed it.”
With Vidya becoming one of the hottest female stars in Bollywood it will be expected that she will have plenty scripts to read through while on her personal detox. Her next confirmed film will be the comedy, Ghanchakkar, which will begin filming in August-September. “I’ve been itching to do a comedy and I’m glad it’s with Rajkumar Gupta with whom I made No One Killed Jessica (2011). But first I need my detox break.”
Janine Gall
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Bruton’s Books and Mile High United Way Launch First Club Connect Program in Colorado
by Bruton's Books | Mar 2, 2016 | Success Stories
Bruton’s Books and Mile High United Way have partnered to launch “Club Connect” at Kenton Elementary School in Aurora.
United Way Club Connect provides schools with resources to improve early-grade reading through an onsite Reading Oasis library, an online reading platform for each child, and an incentive program and tools to support parental engagement. The innovative reading program focuses on third grade, a critical year in reading proficiency for students.
“It is so important to me personally to do my part in helping children have access to books and develop a love of reading, especially at the elementary school level,” said Bruton Jr. “I hope this is just one of many Club Connect programs I can support through my partnership with Mile High United Way and our local schools.”
United Way Club Connect at Kenton Elementary is funded by David Bruton Jr. and Bruton’s Books, the charitable program of the David Bruton Jr. Fund to help underserved children in grades K-3 become strong readers through tutoring and by providing books to underfunded schools, libraries, and classrooms.
“We are so thrilled to be opening the very first United Way Club Connect in Colorado here at Kenton Elementary, made possible by a generous donation from David Bruton Jr. and Bruton’s Books,” said Christine Benero, president and CEO of Mile High United Way. “David Bruton Jr. has been an incredible partner of ours, as we share the same passion and vision for ensuring children become strong readers by the end of third grade. He is a true champion both on and off the field.”
At the center of the program is a “Reading Oasis” in the school, which provides a comfortable space complete with 500 new books from Scholastic, bean bag chairs, and an audio book listening center. It is a safe and inviting location where students, families, and community partners can meet and enjoy reading together while gaining access to books year-round.
“We are extremely excited and thankful for the opportunity to develop a Reading Oasis at Kenton Elementary,” said Heather Woodward, Principal of Kenton Elementary. “It is critically important that our students have easy access to books and now there will be a dedicated and beautiful space for students and their families to grow in their love for literacy together.”
United Way Club Connect also helps elementary school students by providing relevant books and resources to promote reading and parent engagement throughout the entire year. In addition to the Reading Oasis, every child receives a free one-year membership to the Club Connect website, which encourages a love for reading and offers incentives to read after school and through the summer.
The interactive website unitedwayclubconnect.org features educational games, videos, e-books and more. Parental engagement is also a primary focus, which empowers families to help their children read and learn, especially during the summer months when students can tend to lose achievement gains they made during the previous school year.
Club Connect Adopt-A-School was launched by United Way Worldwide in partnership with the National Association of Elementary School Principals and Scholastic in 2014. To date, 85 elementary schools across the US have participated in the program.
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Presidents Day: Why Can't We Nominate Our Own President? We Can, We Are
Why can't the American public nominate their own candidate for president? It turns out we can, and are doing so for the first time in American history.
If the last 12 years have revealed anything, they have shown beyond reasonable doubt that both Status Quo political parties in the U.S. are hopelessly, ruinously corrupt and thus beyond any reform or redemption. We all know why: it now takes millions of dollars to run costly mainstream media election campaigns, and the only source for contributions of that scale is the financial/corporate Elite.
It doesn't matter how you arrange the taxonomy of the financial aristocracy that rules the nation or how you subdivide it--old money, new money, family money, corporate money, etc.-- the bottom line is these campaign contributions are viewed by the aristocratic donors as investments that yield gargantuan returns in tax breaks, subsidies, bailouts, sweetheart contracts, "get out of jail free" cards for the shadow banking system, and so on.
In Social Fractals and the Corruption of America (February 8, 2012) I wrote:
Clearly, the tax code is both legal and completely skewed to the very wealthy and politically powerful. $100,000 is still a fairly significant contribution in politics, and if that contribution ends up yielding a tax break that gains the donor $1 million in lower taxes, then that donation earned a 10-fold "return on investment."
Longtime correspondent Kevin K. described the reality from personal knowledge:
I had an old boss (I won't mention his name, but he is worth over $100 million) that actually tracked the ROI (Return on Investment) of every dollar he gave politicians.By the mid 90's there was no better "investment" out there with a better return than "giving perfectly legal campaign contributions". Because of this, his "contributions" kept getting bigger and bigger (they are huge now, with much of the "perfectly legal campaign contributions" hidden by giving to PACs (political action committees) and funding things the politician wants funded rather than writing checks to a re-election fund that has a paper trail.
This neofeudal, systemic corruption raises a simple question: why can't the American people nominate a candidate for president themselves, directly, rather than being left a false choice of whatever lackeys the corrupt, neofeudal parties have nominated? Answer: we can, and even better, we are.
Correspondent Cris V. alerted me to the existence of AmericansElect.org, the first national online primary. "Americans Elect lets you choose a leader that puts country before party. Americans Elect is a secure, online nominating process that combines our oldest values with our newest technologies."
In essence, voters register online and can draft a candidate of their choice, or review the candidates drafted by other citizens. There will be an online primary process where candidates will be pared down by a series of online votes by delegates (you, me, and anyone else who registered to participate). The final candidate will be entered on ballots nationwide as the candidate of Americans Elect.
Here is the Wikipedia entry: Americans Elect:
As of January 2012, Americans Elect has gained ballot status in 15 states: Alaska,[23] Arizona,[23] Arkansas,[24] California,[25][26] Colorado,[27] Florida,[28] Kansas,[23] Maine,[29] Michigan,[28] Mississippi,[30] Nevada,[23] Ohio,[31] Rhode Island,[32] Utah,[33] and Vermont.[34] As of February 2012, certification is pending in Hawaii,[35] New Mexico,[30] and Wyoming.[36] As of December 2011, signatures for fifteen other states were being collected.[26]Americans Elect is in the process of securing a line on the ballot in all 50 states for a ticket to be named directly by the people through the first-ever online nominating convention. Any registered voter can sign up to participate as a Delegate at [AmericansElect.org].[37] The organization is attempting the process of being accredited in every US state, allowing it to place candidates on presidential ballots nationwide.[5]
In order to obtain ballot access nationwide, some states' guidelines require Americans Elect to register as a political party,[8] even though federal courts have ruled[3] they are not a traditional political party.
It's not too difficult to see Americans Elect as the means by which Americans who want to opt out of the corrupt party system could nominate Ron Paul or another independent.
As Cris V. observed:
Ron Paul will be marginalized by the GOP establishment regardless of how many true Republicans he has coming to the GOP Convention. The GOP/Internationalist Establishment will see that Ron Paul gets buried and forgotten at the GOP convention even as he gets a real larger and larger following.So he will be jumping off the GOP (ham-strung and out of gas) horse and running thru the finish line with 80% Independents, 95% of Constitutionalists and Libertarians, the 55% of Republicans, and 45% of the Democrats. All he has to do is get on the ballot.
Clearly, the Status Quo parties fear and loathe anyone who isn't dependent on their power with every fiber of their rotting, corrupt, neofeudal being. It is also clear that there can be no real reform of anything as long as the two corrupt parties remain in control of the political Elite, which is funded and controlled by the financial Elite. In this sense they are partners in the larger project of looting the republic, transferring private losses to the taxpayers and snuffing out any challenges to their neofeudal power.
In their view, debt-serfs must only be allowed the false choice of voting for Tweedledum or Tweedledee, both of whom are bought and paid for.
If you are a member of the Upper Caste benefitting from serving the Aristocracy, then you will be serving your best interests by voting for one of corrupt parties candidates, Tweedledum or Tweedledee. Nothing will change in any meaningful way because the entire power structure is devoted to one cause and one cause only: suppressing or destroying any and all challenges to their power and perquisites.
Can an independent president change a corrupt aristocracy single-handedly? Of course not. But a single voice of independent reason and truth would provide a beacon of hope in a nation blanketed by ceaseless self-serving propaganda, looting, fraud, devaluation of our currency, debauchery of credit and the corruption of our system of governance.
I see no way to "reform" this base corruption except to ban all contributions from campaigns and fund elections from taxpayer funds. Is that a perfect solution? Of course not; but it is a solution. Eliminate all contributions of any kind and ban those leaving office from working for the government, or any lobbyist or government contractor for five years, and you will have a system which is less easily corruptable than the present neofeudal one.
Here are a few choice quotes from presidents of the past: Oh, how far we have fallen when Soaring Rhetoric (TM) has become the chief qualification to assume the Imperial Presidency.
Lincoln likened the case to that of the boy who, when asked how many legs his calf would have if he called its tail a leg, replied, "Five," to which the prompt response was made that calling the tail a leg would not make it a leg. (source, Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln)
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." (George Washington)
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder." (George Washington)
"I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell." (Harry S. Truman)
"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month." (Theodore Roosevelt)
"Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play." (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Interviews with CHS and Zeus Y. are now available:
My recent interview with Max Keiser (I appear via Skype about halfway)
Zeus Y. interview with Dennis Fetcho (MP3 file)
website link to Zeus Y. interview
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Missing Aurora Boy’s Blood Found In SUV
Filed Under:Amy Fry-Pitzen, Aurora, Aurora News, Mike Puccinelli, Missing, Nancy Harty, suicide, suv, Timmothy Pitzen
Timmothy Pitzen, 6, of Aurora, has been missing since mid-May 2011. (Credit: Aurora Police)
UPDATED 08/11/11 3:37 p.m.
AURORA, Ill. (CBS) — Blood belonging to a 6-year-old missing Aurora boy whose mother committed suicide has been discovered in the woman’s van, although police say it could have been the result of a mere bloody nose.
Timmothy Pitzen has not been seen since early May, when his mother, Amy Fry-Pitzen, took off with him. The case of his disappearance has since gone cold.
Fry-Pitzen pulled her son out of school on May 11 and took him to the Brookfield Zoo. Over the next two days, they also visited the Key Lime Cove Resort in Gurnee, and the Kalahari Resort at Wisconsin Dells.
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Then on May 13, Pitzen-Fry checked into a motel room with her son still in tow. There she committed suicide.
As CBS 2’s Mike Puccinelli reports, Fry-Pitzen left a note saying Timmothy was in someone’s care, but she didn’t say who. It also said he was with people who love and care for him and had a statement that he will never be found.
Police seized Pitzen’s 2004 Ford Expedition sport-utility from the parking lot of the motel after her body was found. When the SUV was found, it was visibly dirty, and weeds were found under it, Aurora police said.
Aurora police turned the van over to a private lab, in hopes that substances on the van would prove unique to some areas in western Illinois where Timmothy and his mother were last known to be together. Detectives know they were together in the Interstate 88 and 39 corridors in the Dixon-Rock Falls-Sterling area.
The lab did end up finding blood staining the back seat that turned out to belong to Timmothy. But it is not known how long the blood was in the vehicle, and family members tell police it could have been from a bloody nose he suffered in the past year or year and a half.
Only Fry-Pitzen’s own blood was found on the knife she used to commit suicide, police said.
Fry-Pitzen has no connection to the area where she committed suicide, nor to the region where she was last seen with her son. But it turns out that she took two trips to the Dixon-Rock Falls-Sterling area before her death that family members cannot explain, police said.
Her I-Pass records show she traveled to the area on the afternoon and evening of Feb. 18, and the morning and afternoon on March 20.
Fry-Pitzen’s cell phone and I-Pass have not been found, nor have Timmothy’s Spider-Man backpack and toys.
Police say the clothes Fry-Pitzen was wearing when she was seen on surveillance videos are also unaccounted for. They include a pair of brown Capri pants, a white or light pink shirt, and a pair of high-soled, sandal-type shoes, police say.
Police previously released pictures of toys similar to the ones Timmothy had with before he disappeared. They include an “Aquatic Rig” toy truck made by Wild Republic toys; Kalahari Resort commemorative coins with pictures of giraffes, lions, elephants and other wild animals; an Iris brand plastic craft case, a Hot Wheels toy race car starter set, and a tube of kids’ Crest toothpaste.
Anyone in the area is asked to be on the lookout for items.
Police have also released surveillance video of Fry-Pitzen taking Timmothy out of school on May 11.
Also out is a two-part home video of Timmothy from November of last year. In the home video, he is seen in pajamas pretending to play a guitar made from with Tinkertoys.
Timmothy is about 4 feet 2 inches tall and weighs aro
und 70 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.
Anyone with information on the case is asked to call Aurora Police at (630) 256-5500, or their local authorities by dialing 911.
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Chicago Buildings To Go Dark Tuesday Night In Honor Of National COIVD-19 MemorialLocal buildings and institutions will go dark at 6 p.m. Some buildings will then display candles and ring bells in observation.
White Sox Sign Top International Prospect, Cuban OF Yoelqui CéspedesCéspedes is rated the No. 1 international prospect by MLB Pipeline, and was a two-time Cuban Serie Nacional champion with Granma.
White Sox Sign Closer Liam Hendriks To 4-Year, $54 Million ContractWith the signing of Hendriks, the White Sox now have four pitchers who finished in the top 10 in the AL Cy Young Award voting in 2020.
La Russa Pleads Guilty To Lesser Charge To End DUI CaseLa Russa's attorney said his client underwent alcohol counseling after his arrest. Authorities say La Russa blew out a tire and smashed into a curb, leaving the car smoking.
MLB Officially Recognizes Negro Leagues As Having Major League Status After 100 YearsMajor League Baseball is correcting what it calls a “longtime oversight” in the game’s history.
Adam Eaton And White Sox Finalize $8 Million, 1-Year Deal
White Sox First Baseman José Abreu Wins AL Hank Aaron AwardAbreu, 33, already had been named American League Most Valuable Player, and had won a Silver Slugger Award this season.
White Sox Acquire Lance Lynn From Rangers In Trade For Dane Dunning“Lance is one of the most proven and dependable starting pitchers in baseball,” White Sox general manager Rick Hahn said in a statement.
White Sox Bringing Back Adam Eaton In Right Field On One-Year Deal, Per ReportsThe White Sox reportedly are reuniting with free agent outfielder Adam Eaton, signing him to a one-year $7 million deal, almost four years to the day they traded Eaton to the Washington Nationals.
White Sox Great Dick Allen Dies At Age Of 78Allen's family announced his death through his Twitter account.
Cubs TV Broadcaster Len Kasper Is Moving To White Sox RadioCubs TV broadcaster Len Kasper reportedly is leaving the North Side to become the radio play-by-play voice of the White Sox.
White Sox Decline To Offer Contracts To RF Nomar Mazara, LHP Carlos RodónRodón was selected by Chicago with the No. 3 overall pick in the 2014 amateur draft. He broke into the majors the following year and looked as if he could be a key member of the team's rotation for years to come before he was hampered by a series of injuries.
White Sox Manager Tony La Russa To Change Plea In Arizona Drunk Driving CaseAuthorities say La Russa blew out a tire on the grey Lexus he was driving in a collision with a curb that left the vehicle smoking.
White Sox, Yankees Now Set To Play At Field Of Dreams On Aug. 21, 2021The White Sox are now tentatively scheduled to play the New York Yankees at the Field of Dreams in August of next year, after the game planned there for this season had to be canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
White Sox Say They Understand 'Seriousness' Of La Russa Case
White Sox' José Abreu Named American League MVPWhite Sox first baseman José Abreu was named American League Most Valuable Player on Thursday.
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The types of Joystick
Introduction to joysticks:
There have been many different types of game controllers used in the history of computer games. The most popular controller has been joystick, which is simply a box with a button and sticks to control the motion in the game. But there have been many types of joysticks.
Different joystick types:
Digital Joysticks:
The most common joystick type in home computers have been Atari-style digital joysticks. Those joysticks are called after Atari, because this joystick type was first introduced in Atari 2600 videogame and then adopted to the home computers. The joystick itself consisted of five which are arranged to that four of them told about the joystick direction (UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT) and one was for fire button.
The nicest thing is that those joysticks were standard and there were joysticks available from many manufacturers.
Paddle controller:
is a simple controller which consists of one knob which is used to control the game. Paddle controllers were used in video games since the first TV-games to control the racket on the screen.
Paddle controllers use analogue principle for control, and they simply consist of one potentiometer and button in one controller. The analogue information from potentiometer has to be converted to digital in order the computer to use that information.
Analogue joysticks:
were like a combination of ideas of both joystick and paddle. The idea was that potentiometers were used to measure the movement of tick (instead of switches like in digital joystick). Digital joystick made is possible to have more accurate control, which was needed in flight simulator programs.
Analogue joysticks have been used in Apple, Amiga and IBM PC, which only had analogue joystick inputs. Analogue joysticks are not so standardized as digital ones. Each manufacturer had its own specifications of the stick and their own connector model.
PC analogue:
Joystick Nowadays the most common analogue joystick type is PC analogue joystick. This joystick model was presented by IBM together with their first IBM PC computer. The joystick is just a basic analogue joystick with two buttons.
Later time some manufacturers put two connectors to their interface card and some card manufacturers implemented only one joystick input. The joystick interface card was designed to be as simple and cheap as possible.
Nowadays there are so called PC digital joysticks. Those sticks have implemented some other way than through PC joystick card interface to avoid some of the common PC joystick problems and providing faster access for joystick for game programs. The way how those digital PC joysticks communicate with PC is not standardized and possible methods are keyboard connector, serial port or proprietary serial protocol through old joystick interface.
Bluetooth gaming controllers:
Whether you’re a PC or a mobile gamer, there are some games that just play better on a controller. A mouse and keyboard might be more accurate, but are slow to use with limited space or on a sofa. Touchscreen controls don’t require any peripherals, but aren’t accurate or pleasant to use.
But not all Bluetooth game controllers are created equal. Some are designed specifically for Android devices, and others are true console controllers that work across all platforms, to help you make the decision, we’ve put together a list of the best Bluetooth controllers for Android and PC gaming.
For more information: https://www.androidauthority.com/best-bluetooth-gaming-controllers-403184/
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Carter Tutti Void 'Triumvirate'
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Triumvirate = the combined power of a group of three in creative collaboration.
CARTER TUTTI VOID (Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti and Nik Void) have an-nounced their third and final studio album Containing all new studio recordings, Triumvirate brings Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti and Nik Void’s collaborative partnership as Carter Tutti Void to a conclusion.
The trio first came together as a collective for a live performance, invited by Mute for the Short Circuit Festival in 2011 and released their acclaimed debut, the live album Transverse the following year. Carter Tutti Void went on to release f(x) (Industrial Records, 2015), their first studio recording and performed a handful of selected shows, culminating in their final live performance in Hull, part of a series of events for Hull City of Culture 2017 centred around the COUM Transmissions retrospective at Humber Street Gallery.
For some time Carter, Tutti and Void have been awaiting an opportunity when all three artists were able to gather at Carter and Tutti’s Studio47 in Norfolk, where the album was recorded, produced and mastered. Triumvirate was approached with the improvisational spirit of previous Carter Tutti Void albums.
The rhythms, created by Chris Carter, formed the foundation and starting point from which the process began of melding the live instrumentation of Cosey Fanni Tutti and Nik Void’s searing guitars, vocals, effects and the arsenal of sounds each had amassed from a variety of sources, some sounds manipulated to extremes, all fed into the mix. Tying the album together is the power of three, and a free open approach to sound shared by the trio.
Chris Carter recently released his first solo album in 17 years, Chris Carter’s Chemistry Lessons Vol. 1 (Mute, 2018) and Cosey Fanni Tutti’s TUTTI, her first album since 1982, came out ear-lier this year on Conspiracy International (home of Chris and Cosey since 1982). Nik Void is currently working on her debut solo album.
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Fu Manchu 'The Action Is Go! Deluxe Edition' Vinyl 2xLP Green/Blue + Vinyl 7" Clear Sparkle PRE-ORDER
The second release in Fu Manchu’s 30th Anniversary vinyl reissue series, The Action Is Go Deluxe Edition, celebrates the band’s 4th album and debut of guitarist Bob Balch and drummer Brant Bjork, which was originally released on 7 October, 1997.
Produced by White Zombie’s J. Yuenger and recorded at the legendary Sound City Studios and also at Grandmaster Studios in Los Angeles, California, The Action Is Go is considered a classic of the '90s and a pillar for the "stoner rock" movement.
Highlights include the lead single "Evil Eye", which was featured on the soundtrack for Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 and is included on the reissued version released 4 September 2020 alongside live staples "Grendel, Snowman,” “Hogwash” and “Saturn III”.
This limited edition 1,000 unit double LP run is cut at 45 RPM for maximum heaviness and the gatefold package design includes never before seen photos of the band.
Also included is a bonus Sparkle vinyl 7” of “Swami’s Last Command” and an alternate version of “Module Overload” recorded during The Action Is Go album sessions, both of which were previously only available on the European pressing of the original album.
Both the LP and 7” feature newly remastered audio for optimum fidelity.
The Wildhearts 'Thirty Year Itch'
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"Ginger gave me two instructions: “Loud guitars and loud crowd”….I didn’t have a choice in either as that’s what was captured during the recording” - Live album producer Dave Draper
At a time when we are craving live shows more than ever, Round Records presents “ The Wildhearts - 30 Year Itch”, recorded live during the band’s The Renaissance Men and Diagnosis tours during 2019. The 17-track album showcases the incendiary energy that has made The Wildhearts one of the best loved UK live rock acts of the last thirty years.
A perfect moment in time, thirty years from the band forming, that shows a band still at the height of their powers, bristling with energy as they deliver classic tracks such as “Caffeine Bomb”, “Suckerpunch”, “Let Em Go”, “Vanilla Radio” and “I Wanna Go Where The People Go”.
Ginger says, “There are a few authorised bootleg live albums of The Wildhearts doing the rounds, but as soon as Danny rejoined the band I knew I had to capture the classic Wildhearts line up on record.
There were a few reasons for this, the main one being that we're still alive, which is a situation that could change at any second with this group. I also wanted people to hear how insanely powerful The Wildhearts are as a live band.
Pounding drums, chainsaw bass and bombastic guitar riffs, all underpinning harmony vocals and huge anthemic songs that every member of the audience sings like a football crowd. It's a surprisingly emotional blend of noise, passion and unity.
As far as I'm concerned this is a classic album by a unique band playing timeless songs that don't fit into any established genre. Is it rock? Is it punk? Who cares, it's The Wildhearts.”
Although the release date of the album was set pre Covid, the albums Imminent release will give the fans a little taste of what they can’t have with the current situation. Mastered once again by maestro Dave Draper, this double album captures the band’s balls out performance that still kicks the ass of crowds up and down the country, 30 years since they started!
Dave explains “‘Never Outdrunk, Never Outsung‘ was my first adventure into the world of working with The Wildhearts. I carried a lot of pressure on my shoulders to make sure it was as close to the experience of actually being in the crowd. Judging on what the feedback has been since it came out, I can say I think it worked out just fine. So when the time came around to make another live album for the boys, myself and Elliot Vaughan once again jumped in the car and captured a few shows from The Renaissance Men and Diagnosis tours of 2019. When it came to the mixing, like on ‘Never Outdrunk…’, it was really good to hear older tracks having a new lease of life and power from the boys…. the two songs from ‘Endless Nameless’ that have made this new album are highlights for me and I’m sure many of you will agree. Timeless songs with all you mad bastards singing your hearts out on. What’s not to like? Ginger gave me two instructions: “Loud guitars and loud crowd”….I didn’t have a choice in either as that’s what was captured during the recording, Thank you for making my job a lot easier, guys!”
The album will also be released featuring an exclusive yellow vinyl version and also a CD version with 4 exclusive postcards, that will only ever be available with this version.
The Wildhearts are one of the UK’s best loved rock acts. Fronted by the mercurial Ginger, the band have written countless anthems that are woven into the fabric of UK rock music.
The band have nine studio albums, from the iconic debut “Earth Vs The Wildhearts” through to 2019’s critically acclaimed “Renaissance Man”, their first new studio in ten years.
The band are an established live act who consistently sell out venues across The UK and Europe. For all those fans of live music craving something to fill the gap until life returns to normal then this is the album you must have.
1. Dislocated
2. Everlone
3. Suckerpunch
4. Anthem
5. Diagnosis
6. TV Tan
7. The Jackson Whites
8. Let Em Go
9. Vanilla Radio
10. Urge
11. Mazel Tov Cocktail
12. Sick Of Drugs
13. Someone Who Won’t Let Me Go
14. The Revolution Will Be Televised
15. Caffeine Bomb
16. Love U Til I Don’t
17. I Wanna Go Where The People Go
The Vacant Lots 'Damage Control'
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“Damage Control” LP is the double album that combines both EPs released by The Vacant Lots on Anton Newcombe's label A Recordings - "Berlin” EP and "Exit” EP.
This is the first time all tracks will be made available on CD and including liner notes from the band. All tracks were produced and recorded by Anton Newcombe (Brian Jonestown Massacre) at Anton's Cobra Studio in Berlin.
Jared Artaud of The Vacant Lots says, "working with someone who made you want to make records is fucking inspiring. You not only learn a lot working with Anton in the studio – you become a better artist in the process. Through this collaboration we were able to distill ideas on the spot and turn fragments into songs. Anton pushes you further to get the best results and that really drives the process of making records.”
The Vacant Lots have recently released their critically acclaimed third album "Interzone" on Fuzz Club and have previously released singles with Mexican Summer and Reverberation Appreciation Society.
The duo has collaborated on their debut album “Departure” with Spacemen 3’s Sonic Boom, and their second album “Endless Night” with Alan Vega. The group has toured with Suicide, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Growlers, Dean Wareham, The Dandy Warhols, and Spectrum.
1. Bells
3. Disordered Vision
4. Funeral Party
5. Promise Me
6. Verschwinden
7. Land
8. Funeral Rites
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Still Corners 'The Last Exit' PRE-ORDER
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Limited edition crystal clear LP comes with exclusive mosaic 2'x2' poster.
All orders will come with a postcard signed by the band.
THE LAST EXIT is the fifth studio album from Still Corners, which will be released on 22nd January 2021 on Wrecking Light Records.
With the shimmering desert noir sound the band has become known for, THE LAST EXIT takes you on a hypnotic journey, one filled with dilapidated towns, mysterious shapes on the horizon, and long trips that blur the line between what’s there and not there.
Greg says, “We found something out there in the desert – something in the vast landscapes that went on forever."
THE LAST EXIT consists of eleven beautifully crafted songs with organic instrumentation, clean-toned guitar, spacious drums and the smoky croon of Tessa Murray.
Album highlights include “The Last Exit”, “White Sands” and “Shifting Dunes” all of which evoke the vast space of the desert and rolling unconcerned skies.
1. The Last Exit
2. Crying
3. White Sands
4. Till We Meet Again
5. A Kiss Before Dying
6. Bad Town
7. Mystery Road
8. Static
9. It’s Voodoo
10. Shifting Dunes
11. Old Arcade
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Rosary O’Neill Talks ‘Clark and Carole’
Rosary O’Neill, ‘Clark and Carole,’ New Orleans (DCLarue)
When playwright Rosary O’Neill was living in New York City, she was inspired to write Plane Love based on her own love relationship and the love relationship between Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. She mounted a number of successful readings of Plane Love at the National Arts Club, The Player’s Club, The Actor’s Studio and a few other venues. I attended a few of these readings and reviewed Plane Love which is an intriguing and beautifully written love story,
Rosary and I had the opportunity to touch base in emails, texts and phone conversations these past months. It was then she mentioned that she had reworked Plane Love into another version of the play and titled it Clark and Carole. Playwrights and writers who subscribe to my Social sites will be interested to discover Rosary O’Neill’s motivation in reworking an older idea. Arthur Miller said in the biographical film about his life and writing that he felt that he was never “finished” with a work. He believe that there was always something more to discover.
The thrust of this interview with Rosary O’Neill about this play that she refashioned, follows Miller’s conceptualization that writers are not always “finished,” with their works. And indeed, the great writers are always evolving and reshaping what they’ve written. The interview with Rosary was conducted via email.
Rosary O’Neill, ‘Clark and Carole,’ pictured at Musée d’Orsay in Paris with Degas ballet dancers (Carole Di Tosti)
What if any are the differences between the old version (Plane Love) and this new version (Clark and Carole)?
The new version Clark and Carole is set in 1937-42 rather than today. So we have all the delicious details of pre-World War II Hollywood glamour: the big movie stars, the glorious silver screen, the larger than life seductions. Most importantly are the lure and the sizzle that sparks the real love behind the silver screen.
Why did you decide to change the title from Plane Love to Clark and Carole?
The play was always based on the wild, strange, circuitous and surprising love story of Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. Their relationship took off during the time when Gone with the Wind was shot. It was also a time when Hollywood stars lived on ranches outside Los Angeles and their amorous girl friends were lured by letters, phone calls and surprise visits. Since the play was actually based on Clark and Carole I decided to put their names in the title to make that clearer. I also changed the characters’ names to “Clark” and “Carole.”
I found that using the title Plane Love and changing the names of Clark and Carole to Bill and Jane confused audiences so that they forgot or didn’t get the story was based on the love affair of Gable and Lombard. Because much of the plot—unwanted pregnancies, children put up for adoption, infertility—that was considered “shameful” in the time of Clark and Carole is no longer considered so, I felt I could remove the guise of an update and name change.
In the earlier version of Plane Love, I had the Carole Lombard character live after the plane crash and find herself pregnant, in the search for a happier ending. In the Clark and Carole play I returned to the real and sad ending. The crash that killed Carole Lombard sent Clark into shock, a love shock he never truly recovered from
Rosary O’Neill, ‘Clark and Carole,’ pictured in Paris at Musée d’Orsay, with Degas’ Little Dancer (Carole Di Tosti)
What is Carole and Clark about?
It’s about love, Love, and more LOVE. It’s a madcap love story told through letters and phone calls and secret meetings and wild romance that ends in a fantasy marriage, furious love, infertility, more lavish romance, a plane crash, and FOREVER LOVE.
What is poignant about their relationship?
What’s heartfelt is how they loved and never stopped loving each other. She was racing home through bad weather on a prop plane to be with him for her birthday. She never made it to his loving arms.
They had both been married unhappily. Clark was married twice, to his acting teacher, and a society maven, both of whom launched his career. Carole was married to the famous actor William Powell in a partnership that strengthened her career.
Both Gable and Lombard were at the height of their careers and had more roller coasters to ride when their love affair ascended. Other actresses embroiled with Clark and Carole who added fuel to the tryst included Loretta Young, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow and Lana Turner. One of these glamorous stars added an illegitimate baby to the mix.
Rosary O’Neill, ‘Clark and Carole,’ New Orleans, (DCLarue)
Why might millennials, the younger generation, be interested in learning about Carole Lombard and Clark Gable and that time in Hollywood?
It was a GREAT TIME of beauty and intrigue. Stars started young. Bloomed young, died young. Jean Harlow died at 24, Carole Lombard at 33. Jimmy Dean died at 24. This was the time before bodywork and face-lifts, and lip injections happened on the scale that they occur today. The the line up of youth and beauty was awe-inspiring; and of course, women’s careers ended by 40-years -old.
Rosary O’Neill at the National Arts Club (Carole Di Tosti)
Actor training for the screen was coming into its own. Gable studied acting (Stanislavsky method) prodigiously. The screen required close ups and psychological verity. The secrets of the stars were kept secret and so their beauty was magnified with supposed virtue. This was the pre-drug pre-decadence pre suicide era. It wasn’t that problems weren’t rampant, they were just hidden, and virtue and good looks were promoted.
Why were you drawn to these personalities particularly and not others during that era of Hollywood or later?
I have always been attracted to actors from a broken past. Gable and Lombard each, like Marilyn, like Jimmy Dean, like Monty Clift lost a parent at an early age. They grew up in a broken household and looked to the theatre to build their dreams. All the actors I’ve studied worked so hard to be great artists. And they were each successful until—some big blow. For Dean and Gable/Lombard and Clift, it was a big physical crash. For Marilyn it was a body pill crash.
Rosary O’Neill, outside the Actor’s Studio, NYC (Carole Di Tosti)
I love Gable because he worked so hard to be a great actor and had such a bucolic but buoyant sense of humor. Carol Lombard bore all kinds of pain and endured betrayal and trickery to work her way into stardom and into the arms of Gable. I also love Clark and Carole because of the tragedy behind their beauty. Carole couldn’t conceive, and Gable couldn’t keep her. Finally, the actors were on a timeline. Pre plastic surgery and pills, pre fertility pills and drugs, pre exercise and life coaches, time ran out.
But in my play, there is no time limit. Glark loves Carole and Carole loves Clark, forever!
You will be able to see Rosary O’Neill’s play Clark and Carole on July 20 at 8 PM in a live streaming format on these links below.
Alan Smason is producer/director of the reading. Kelly Lind and Robert Pavlovich play Carole Lombard and Clark Gable.
https://www.facebook.com/Theatrecriticismcom-252647605344604/
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Tags: Alan Smason, Carole Lombard, Clark and Carol, Clark Gable, NOLA Theatre Talk, Plane Love, Rosary O'Neill
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CASE Adds 650M Dozer to M Series Lineup
CASE Construction Equipment announces the 650M—the latest dozer in the M-Series lineup. Replacing the popular 650L, the 74-horsepower dozer has been updated with all of the hallmarks of the CASE M-Series dozers, including a Tier 4 Final FPT engine with Diesel Oxidation Catalyst (DOC) technology. The new 650M also features an enhanced undercarriage with improved track frame, idler, sprockets, rollers and extended-life SALT HD tracks, as well as a reinforced mainframe. Like all M-Series dozers, the 650M comes standard with CASE ProCare for added uptime protection.
CASE M-Series dozers also offer best-in-class drawbar pull, increased horsepower ratings, improved fuel efficiency, industry-leading visibility, customizable controls and pressurized isolation-mounted cabs for optimal comfort.
Posted on: 31 Oct 2017 MORE
It All Started With a Backhoe
Jon Fye founded Fye Excavating in Sperry, Iowa in 1995 with only three employees. Incorporated in 1998, Fye Excavating Inc. now employs over 50 people. The company provides full-service excavation, site work, commercial, utility, and “plan and spec” work in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri—the majority of their work being within a 100-mile radius of the company’s headquarters.
The beginning of Jon’s story started with a backhoe. Out of high school, he began his career on the Burlington Northern Railroad as an electrician, stripping and rebuilding locomotives. In 1995, he was building a house for his family, and decided to purchase a CASE 580 Super E backhoe.
CASE and Michigan Dealers Donate Equipment to Team Rubicon and Habitat for Humanity for Urban Renewal/Recovery Project
CASE Construction Equipment, RPM Machinery, Southeastern Equipment, Habitat for Humanity of Kent County and Team Rubicon teamed up for a heavy equipment operator training and socio-economic improvement project—named Operation Fearless Mary—in the Roosevelt Park neighborhood of Grand Rapids, Michigan. RPM Machinery and Southeastern Equipment donated the use of several skid steers and excavators, while Team Rubicon brought in 72 volunteers and 20 new members from across the U.S. for the operation.
For Team Rubicon — an organization that unites the skills and experiences of military veterans with first responders to rapidly deploy emergency response teams for disaster relief — this kind of training/community service operation prepares their volunteers for operating heavy equipment during deployments, and helps to solidify the humanitarian and relationship-building skills that are crucial in disaster response scenarios. A key component is Team Rubicon’s partnership with CASE, which provides both training and heavy equipment through its dealer network.
CASE Boosts C Series Line with All-New CX30C Mini Excavator
CASE Construction Equipment introduces the CX30C to its C Series line of mini excavators. With an operating weight of 6,020-pounds and a 24.8 horsepower Tier 4 Final engine, the CX30C boasts a bucket digging force of 4,520 pounds of force.
This new offering expands the CASE mini excavator lineup to its broadest range of sizes ever, and provides a more comprehensive and feature-driven compact excavator solution to the landscaping, construction, utility and rental markets.
CASE Launches All-New TV370 Compact Track Loader
CASE Construction Equipment introduces the TV370 compact track loader (CTL), a new 74-horsepower machine that combines a maintenance-free Tier 4 Final solution with the strength and reach of a large-frame CTL. The TV370 provides a 3,700-pound rated operating capacity and a vertical-lift design that makes it ideal for loading trucks, and lifting and placing heavier palletized materials.
“As the CTL market expands, there are no one-size-fits-all solutions,” says John Dotto, brand marketing manager, CASE. The new TV370 gives contractors a 74-horsepower option in a large-frame vertical CTL that provides a high capacity, low ground pressure and stable platform for earthmoving, load and lift applications, and heavy attachments while utilizing a maintenance-free after-treatment system.
The Operational Benefits of Combi Rollers
Asphalt compaction practices vary from contractor-to-contractor and region-to-region — larger asphalt paving projects generally rely on some combination of double-drum vibratory and pneumatic tire rollers to complete the work. The double-drum vibratory compactor provides the brute force of compaction while the pneumatic tire roller provides varied weight through ballasting, and a kneading action that results in excellent density, fewer voids and a well-sealed finish.
The continued adoption of combi rollers — a vibratory steel drum on the front and a sequence of pneumatic tires on the back — has provided another option for paving contractors that ultimately delivers the best attributes of each standalone design.
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September 19 – National Gymnastics Day
Initiated in the late 1990s, National Gymnastics Day encourages kids to explore this exciting sport. As part of this year’s National Gymnastics Day, gymnasts, families, friends, and enthusiasts from gymnastics clubs globally will participate in a variety of activities, including open houses, hand stand contests, carnivals, and fitness activities to build awareness of gymnastics and its benefits. Many clubs will use this as a way to provide opportunities for underprivileged children to participate in the sport. Why not find and attend a special event at a gym or gymnastics club today to celebrate!
Nadia: The Girl Who Couldn’t Sit Still
Written by Karlin Gray | Illustrated by Christine Davenier
“In the village of Oneşti, Romania, a country rich with forests and mountains” Nadia Comaneci could often be seen swinging from tree branch to tree branch. She was a little girl who loved to play. She was “feisty and fearless,” attempting new things on a whim and always with a sense of adventure. Once while trying on a pair of roller skates, she skated right out of the store! Another time she was so impatient to ride her new bike that she pedaled off before her father could even tighten the screws. The bike “fell apart as she rode away.” And one year her love of climbing trees extended to the family Christmas tree, which toppled over on her, pinning her to the ground.
To channel all that energy, Nadia’s mother enrolled her in gymnastics lessons. Nadia’s eyes lit up when she saw the room full of ropes, ladders, bars, mats, and trampolines to discover, but she didn’t leave her new skills at the gym. Nadia and a friend cartwheeled around the school playground, capturing the attention of Bela and Marta Karolyi, who owned a gymnastics school. They invited the girls to join.
Image copyright Christine Davenier, courtesy of karlingray.com
Nadia was only 6 when she began studying with Bela and Marta. Immediately, she discovered that she liked gymnastics better than her school subjects. She progressed quickly from performing “a straight cartwheel on a line painted on the floor” to doing it on a low balance beam and finally to perfecting it on the high balance beam. She began learning harder and harder moves, “flying from bar to bar, from floor to vault, and high above the beam.”
At 9 years old, Nadia competed in her first National Junior Championship. Despite her skill and hard work, she fell from the high beam during a leap not once but three times. Nadia finished the competition in 13th place. Her disappointment only strengthened her resolve. She went back to the gym and continued to practice many hours every day. Her determination paid off, “and at the next National Junior Championship games, she won first place.”
The ultimate recognition of her skill came when she was chosen to be part of the 1976 Romanian Olympic team. The games were held in Montreal, Canada, and all eyes were on the returning gold medalists from Russia, Olga Korbut and Lyudmila Turischeva. But excitement soon filled the venue as Nadia performed on the beam, the floor, and the vault where she scored 9.9, 9.75, and 9.7 on a scale of 1 (the lowest score) to 10 (a perfect score). The next event was the uneven parallel bars on which Olga Korbut had just scored a 9.9. “Nadia mounted the bars. Now fourteen years old, she was a long way from the forests in Romania. But she swung around as easily as she had jumped from branch to branch as a little girl. The audience gasped as she twirled and whipped and flipped.”
Nadia dismounted and landed perfectly on the mat below as the audience “exploded with applause.” Nadia returned to her team to wait for her score. And wait…and wait. Finally, the score appeared on the board—1.00. The worst score. How could that be? “‘What is Nadia’s score?’” Bela asked the judges. “One of the officials held up ten fingers as a voice announced over the loudspeaker: ‘Ladies and gentlemen, for the very first time in Olympic history, Nadia Comaneci has received the score of a perfect ten!’”
Because no one had ever achieved a 10 before, the scoreboards were programmed only for a high of 9.9. Nadia couldn’t bask in her accomplishment for long, however. She moved on to her next event—and her next perfect 10! “When the competition ended, she had earned seven perfect 10s.” At the medal ceremony both Olga and Lyudmila congratulated their competitor as the new Olympic champion. In all Nadia won five medals and became the youngest ever Olympic gold medalist in gymnastics.
Nadia became a darling of the press. They surrounded her, asking “how it felt to have the world’s attention, if she had been confident she would win, and when she would retire.” She answered each reporter with enthusiasm and confidence, and promising that she was a long way from retiring. When she returned home, it seemed that all of Romania had come out to welcome her and her teammates—even the country’s president.
Now Nadia was famous all over the world. She returned to practicing and inventing new routines, preparing for other competitions and the 1980 Olympic Games. She had come far from swinging branch to branch in the trees of Oneşti, but she would always be that little girl who couldn’t sit still.
Karlin Gray’s compelling biography captures all the spunk and spirit of Nadia Comaneci that made the world fall in love with her at the 1976 Olympic Games. Adults of a certain age well remember watching her in astonishment as she seemed to effortlessly swirl, twirl, and flip through her routines, flashing her sweet smile as she waved to fans. In the first pages Gray reveals anecdotes of Nadia’s adventurous nature that will captivate readers even as they giggle at her predicaments.
The straightforward narration of Nadia’s trajectory from playground cartwheeler to Olympic champion enhances both the gritty determination of her studies with her coaches as well as the suspense of her competitions. All children—no matter what their talent—will draw inspiration from Nadia’s story, which includes disappointments as well as unbounded accomplishments. Gray’s lyrical language flows as smoothly as Nadia flew through the air and will land in readers’ hearts as a perfect 10.
From the cover, which sports Nadia in her iconic floor exercise pose, to the last page, Christine Davenier depicts the world of gymnastics with beauty and the kind of realistic details that create a classic. The two-page spread of the gym where 6-year-old Nadia learns to love gymnastics portrays the enormity of the space and the equipment for a small girl—as well as the enormity of her achievement.
Kids will love the almost “play-by-play” illustrations of how Nadia learned to perform her feats, from starting with a line on the floor to perfecting the high beam and more. Nadia is shown leaping, somersaulting, doing handstands, and even wavering and falling as she practices and competes. The thrill of the Olympic Games, from the opening ceremonies to the rapt and cheering audiences to the awards ceremony are drawn with stirring action, color, and attention to the specifics of that very special 1976 summer in Montreal.
An Afterword expands on Nadia Comaneci’s courageous life choices and career post-gymnastics and includes a timeline, notes, a selected bibliography, and websites for further study.
Nadia: The Girl Who Couldn’t Sit Still will fascinate kids and would be a very welcome addition to school classroom—as well as home—libraries.
Ages 5 – 10
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016 | ISBN 978-0544319608
Visit Karlin Gray‘s website to learn more about her and to download fun activities!
View a gallery of artwork by Christine Davenier on her website!
Discover more about Nadia: The Girl Who Couldn’t Sit Still on the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt website!
National Gymnastics Day Activity
Rhythmic Gymnastics Ribbon
You can recreate the grace of rhythmic gymnastics with this easy craft! The swirling beauty of the ribbon makes any movement fun!
12-inch dowel
6-foot length of ribbon
Paint the same color as the ribbon
Hot glue gun or strong glue
Paint the dowel and let dry
Glue the edge of the ribbon to one end of the dowel. Wrap the ribbon about ½ inch around the dowel and secure with glue. Let glue dry.
You can find Nadia, the Girl Who Couldn’t Sit Still at these booksellers
Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Books-a-Million
To support your local independent bookstore, order from
Bookshop | IndieBound
Posted in Biographies, Book Related Crafts, Gymnastics, Olympics, Sports, Sports History, Women in Sports
Tagged Christine Davenier, Karlin Gray, Nadia: The Girl Who Couldn't Sit Still Book Review, Picture Book Biographies, picture book review, Picture Books, Picture Books about Nadia Comaneci, Picture Books about Sports, Picture Books about Sports History, Picture Books about the Olympics, Picture Books about Women in Sports, Rhythmic Gymnastics Ribbon Craft
Celebrating Books about Black Leaders in the Arts, Science, Music, Sports, Politics & More
About Today’s Post
Following the recent events that have unfolded this past week, I feel it is important to celebrate Black leaders today, rather than another holiday. The biographies included in this list will educate and inspire readers with the stories of prominent Black leaders within the arts and sciences, as well as music, sports, politics, civil rights, and across society.
With their combination of compelling storytelling and powerful imagery, picture books provide a unique vehicle to invite discussion between adults and children about the inequity and injustices faced by many in this country and around the world. This list reflects books I have reviewed over the years. Please look it over and spend time reading these books with your children. Each title provides a link to the full review.
If you are in the position to buy any of the books on this list or other reviews that you may see, please consider supporting black-owned bookstores and/or your local booksellers. You can also support Black authors and illustrators as well as these books and others by asking your local library to carry them.
After today’s post, this list will appear in my sidebar. I’ll continue to add to it as I review more books.
Every day I am reading, listening, watching, and learning. I know I can never understand, but I stand with you.
Artists and Writers
Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks
Written by Suzanne Slade | Illustrated by Cozbi A. Cobrera
In her outstanding biography, Suzanne Slade highlights the prodigious talent of Gwendolyn Brooks, illuminating the influences, continual study, and inborn voice that informed and created her poetry. Gwendolyn’s self-confidence, unique perspective, and the support she received throughout her youth and career are strong themes that will inspire readers. Slade focuses on the awe Brooks found in her subjects, demonstrating her singular vision and how poetry is found in the everyday aspects of life. Beginning with Gwendolyn’s childhood, Slade links the events of Brooks’ life with beautiful imagery of the clouds she once likened to her exquisite future. Quotes are sprinkled throughout Slade’s lyrical text, allowing children to hear Brooks’ own voice and the dreams and pride had for her work.
Cozbi A. Cabrera’s acrylic paintings are stunning representations of Gwendolyn’s life. Her family life with her well-read and supportive family comes alive with images of their home, where the large glass bookcase has pride of place, portraits hang on the walls, Gwendolyn practices the piano while her mother exclaims over her poetry, and the family gathers for a meager dinner during hard times. For young readers, Cabrera visualizes the parts of Gwendolyn’s life that fed her imagination and work and the copious amounts of poetry that she created—even as a child. Images of Gwendolyn’s early publishing successes give way to the changes brought by the Depression, school, marriage, and motherhood, but a pen, paper, and books are still her constant companions. Scenes from Chicago give children a look at the city that inspired Gwendolyn’s poetry, and intermittent views of the pastel clouds let readers dream along with her.
A stirring biography to inspire the dreams of any child, Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks is a story that children will want to hear again and again. On its own or paired with Gwendolyn Brooks’ poetry, the book also makes an impactful lesson for homeschooling. The book is highly recommended for home, school, and public library collections.
Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2020 | ISBN 978-1419734113
Fancy Party Gowns: The Story of Fashion Designer Ann Cole Lowe
Written by Deborah Blumenthal | Illustrated by Laura Freeman
With straightforward storytelling adorned with lyrical passages, Deborah Blumenthal reveals Ann Cole Lowe’s lifelong love of fashion design, her struggles, and her ultimate acclaim. Lowe’s natural talent, single focus, self-confidence, courage, and persistence come through as she overcomes obstacles and prejudice to become the first African American couture designer. Children interested in fashion and history will find much to spark their curiosity and desire to know more about the woman and her times. Blumenthal’s repetition of Lowe’s philosophy to think about what she could do instead of what she couldn’t change will inspire readers to push past difficulties and find solutions.
Laura Freeman’s full-bleed illustrations are as bold and vivacious as Ann Cole Lowe herself. Beginning with the endpapers, which are scattered with drawings of Lowe’s one-of-a-kind gowns, Freeman takes readers on a tour of the workrooms and salons stocked with the fabrics that gave form to Lowe’s creativity. While the backgrounds are typically brilliantly colored and patterned, twice Freeman places Lowe on a completely white page—after her mother has recently died and she is left alone to finish dresses and when she is segregated from the other students in design school. These pages make a moving and effective statement. Children fascinated by fashion will love seeing the beautifully depicted gowns, and may be stirred to create styles of their own.
little bee books, 2017 | ISBN 978-1499802399
Carole Boston Weatherford’s portrayal of Gordon Parks’ life is as starkly revealing as her subject’s photographs. With her writer’s skills, however, she deftly contrasts the facts of his life and turns his story into a universal metaphor for freedom and the struggle to attain it: “When young Gordon crosses the prairie on horseback, nothing seems beyond reach. But his white teacher tells her all-black class, you’ll all wind up porters and waiters. What did she know?” Weatherford’s pacing also adds to the story’s power. Although Parks attained wide acclaim, this biography ends with one of his earlier photographs—a picture of Ella Watson, a cleaning lady, who inspired Parks and came to symbolize the hopes of her generation and beyond. This is not only Parks’ story, but the story of millions of others.
Jamey Christoph continues and strengthens the metaphorical force of this biography in his illustrations. Readers first see Gordon Parks as a much-loved, smiling infant. He goes to school and grows up, his expression changing, slightly but importantly. He acquires his camera, and the pages are filled with drawn representations of his black-and-white photographs. Alternating dark and light pages further emphasize Parks’ world. The darkroom contrasts with Parks’ new bright office and prospects; the shadowed back alleys of Washington DC contrast with the city’s gleaming white marble monuments. Later photographs are also depicted, and “American Gothic” is represented on two pages. Christoph provides readers with much to see and ponder.
Albert Whitman & Company, 2015 | ISBN 978-0807530177
Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph
Written by Roxane Orgill | Illustrated by Francis Vallejo
Roxane Orgill recreates the syncopation of jazz and the exhilaration of the photo shoot in twenty poems that capture the sights, sounds, conversations, horseplay, and vibe of that special day that forever commemorated the Golden Age of Jazz. The smooth, cool lines of Orgill’s free verse poetry are a joy to read aloud. Full of personality, captivating details, history, and nostalgia, the poems reawaken the past for a new generation.
Working from the actual black-and-white photograph, Francis Vallejo vividly reimagines the scene on 126th Street as well-known and lesser-known jazz musicians came together to represent themselves and their art for Esquire magazine. Vallejo’s acrylic and pastel illustrations bring to life the surprise, camaraderie, and expressions of the men, women, and boys as they mingle, rest, and pass the time until the pose and lighting is right for the shot. As the book opens, readers get a bird’s-eye view of the street and quiet neighborhood, but as the musicians begin arriving the illustrations move in, allowing readers to rub shoulders with the greats of jazz.
For children (and adults) who love photography, jazz, biographies, history, and/or poetry, Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph is a marvelous choice for home libraries and is highly recommended for school and public libraries.
Ages 8 – 12 and up
Candlewick, 2016 | ISBN 978-0763669546
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
By Javaka Steptoe
Javaka Steptoe’s compelling biography of this complex, brilliant artist who people called “radiant, wild, a genius child” beautifully brings to life the inspirations and motivations that fueled his unique and intense talent. Steptoe delivers the story in staccato and flowing sentences, using consonance, assonance, and repetition—the rhythms of a poet. He shows how Basquiat maintained his focused determination, self-confidence, and persistence from childhood into adulthood. This perseverance reveals to readers that success is not a matter of luck, but of belief in oneself despite obstacles. Steptoe sensitively addresses the serious injury Basquiat suffered, his mother’s mental illness and Basquiat’s continued love for her, and his unsettled teenage years to complete this far-reaching life story.
Steptoe’s mixed-media paintings were created on found wood from neighborhoods across New York City. While Steptoe does not reproduce any of Basquiat’s work, he states that readers will find “original pieces that were inspired by him and my interpretations of his paintings and designs.” As befitting his subject, Steptoe offers pages that burst with vibrant color and intricate details and beat with the pulse of the city, the people, the dreams, and the imagination that Basquiat transcribed onto paper, walls, and canvas. Part collage, part fine art, Steptoe’s illustrations will fascinate children and entice them to linger and take in the emotion and meaning in each. The final spread, a crowd scene made up of photographs, sets Basquiat in the midst of people whom he and his art continue to inspire.
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat offers children an inspirational model of creativity, compassion, and confidence no matter where their talents lie. The book is an excellent choice for school, public, and home libraries.
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2016 | ISBN 978-0316213882
A Song for Gwendolyn Brooks
Written by Alice Fay Duncan | Illustrated by Xia Gordon
With her own sterling verses, Alice Faye Duncan celebrates the life of Gwendolyn Brooks—the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature—taking readers to the Chicago neighborhoods that informed and inspired Brooks’ ideas and the words and rhythms with which she defined them. Along an arc that takes Gwendolyn from a child contemplating the potential of a flower to becoming that blossom herself, Duncan pays tribute to those who recognized Gwen’s genius and helped her fulfill her talent. For readers who themselves may be poets, writers, or other types of artists, Duncan’s beautifully crafted phrases about the artistic process of revision are inspirational and welcome. Standing side-by-side with Duncan’s storytelling are four of Brooks’ poems—The Busy Clock, Forgive and Forget, Ambition, and the children of the poor—Sonnet #2. From cover to cover, Duncan’s book sings with Gwendolyn Brooks’ positivity, confidence, uniqueness, and love for life that made her a unique voice for her time and always.
From the portrait of Gwendolyn Brooks that graces the title page and throughout the book, Xia Gordon’s distinctive artwork creates a masterpiece of motion and stillness that mirrors Brooks’ penchant for watching and listening to the sounds and sights that filled her mind and ultimately her notebooks. Downy swoops of violets, pinks, browns, and grays provide backdrops to images of Gwendolyn as a young girl and an adult rendered in lines that show her as down to earth but soaring in her thoughts. Her intelligence and spark shine through on every page. Gwendolyn’s parents appear often, always watchful and supportive. Her friends, her husband, her son, and her readers also populate the pages, giving the book an embracing warmth.
A Song for Gwendolyn Brooks is a must for school, classroom, and public library collections, and for children who are discovering their talents and the parents who nurture them, the book would be an inspirational and invaluable addition to home bookshelves.
Stichin’ and Pullin’: A Gee’s Bend Quilt
Written by Patricia McKessack | Illustrated by Cozbi A. Cabrera
Patricia McKessack’s free verse poems capture the close relationships and camaraderie of the generations of women who join around the quilting frame to share and pass down their art and their heart. McKessack’s conversational verses, connected page after page like the patches of a quilt, reveal the complexity of this handmade art form in the way intimate talks between friends unveil a life. Readers learn not only about the little girl and her own thoughts, but the history and influence of her immediate family, world events, inspirational figures, and deeply held beliefs that make her who she is and ties her to the other Gee’s Bend women.
Cozbi A. Cabrera’s stunning acrylic paintings take readers inside the heart of the Gee’s Bend women, depicting the girl’s home, the table-sized quilting frame where the women collectively work, the plantations, the protests, and the changes that came but did not unravel the convictions, values, and love of the little girl’s family. Readers can almost hear the talking and singing of the Gee’s Bend women as they stitch their quilts, and the comforting, embracing environment is evident on every page. Cabrera’s portraits of the little girl, her mama, and her grandma are particularly moving. For What Changed, Cabrera depicts a yellow school bus appearing on the dirt road from the right hand corner of the page. In the driver’s side mirror, a dot of a house is reflected, reminding readers that no matter how far these women are from home, Gee’s Bend is always with them.
Children—and adults—will find Stitchin’ and Pullin’: A Gee’s Bend Quilt inspirational and uplifting. This volume of poetry can be read at one sitting or delved into again and again, making it a wonderful choice for home libraries and a must for school and public libraries.
Dragonfly Books, Random House, 2016 (paperback edition) | ISBN 978-0399549502
Grandpa Cacao: A Tale of Chocolate from Farm to Family
By Elizabeth Zunon
Elizabeth Zunon’s celebration of family and pride in one’s heritage is a compelling read that shines with a strong father – daughter relationship, shared memories, and the joys of working together. The warmth shared by the girl and her daddy is evident as she revels in hearing the story of Grandpa Cacao and identifying with him even though he lives far away. Zunon’s smooth delivery of Grandpa Cacao and Daddy’s story imparts fascinating details of how cacao is grown, harvested, and prepared for sale. While the little girl may wish for a new dress or a puppy, she is happier with the surprise of meeting her grandfather at last.
Zunon’s mixed-media, collage style illustrations beautifully meld the world inside the family kitchen with the girl’s imagining of life in Africa on Grandpa Cacao’s farm. The opaque screen-printed images of Grandpa Cacao, the girl’s father as a child and young man, and the other villagers, are powerful reminders to readers that their family and family history is always with them and supporting them.
A unique book to share during family story time, in the classroom, or during a library program, Grandpa Cacao: A Tale of Chocolate, from Farm to Family would be a much-loved addition to home, school, and public library collections. And don’t forget to include cake!
Bloomsbury Children’s Books, 2019 | ISBN 978-1681196404
Birth of the Cool: How Jazz Great Miles Davis Found His Sound
Written by Kathleen Cornell Berman | Illustrated by Keith Henry Brown
Kathleen Cornell Berman’s lyrical passages reveal a boy, a teenager, and a man who embodied music, listening to and absorbing the various sounds around him and incorporating them into his own, unique sound. Her evocative vocabulary (swirl, rollicking, croon, rumbling, far-out, rippling, blizzard of notes, itching to play) and phrasing that blends short staccato lines with longer sentences echoes the rhythm of jazz and will keep readers riveted to the story. Berman emphasizes the listening, practice, and experimentation that informed Miles Davis’s original sound, showing children that innovation is built on hard work, dedication, and even history. Her inclusion of Davis’s setbacks also demonstrates that perseverance is part of the success of any endeavor.
Keith Henry Brown’s gorgeous, detailed pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations take readers from Miles Davis’s living room, where he listens to the radio as images of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington swirl through his imagination, to an overlook on the Mississippi River and its paddlewheel steam ships to the clubs and jam sessions of New York and finally, to the Newport Jazz Festival. Brown’s color palette of cool blues, greens, purples, and browns, punctuated with Davis’s ever-present gleaming brass trumpet, brings Davis’s country and city experiences to life while mirroring the tone and feel of his unique sound. Quotes from Miles Davis are sprinkled throughout the story and set apart with type that looks handwritten, giving his words a personal touch.
Sure to inspire readers to learn more about Miles Davis and listen to his music, Birth of the Cool: How Jazz Great Miles Davis Found His Sound would be an excellent accompaniment to school music programs, an inspiring book for biography lovers and young musicians of all types, and a beautiful addition to home, school, and public library collections.
Page Street Kids, 2019 | ISBN 978-1624146909
Hey, Charleston! The True Story of the Jenkins Orphanage Band
Written by Anne Rockwell | Illustrated by Colin Bootman
Anne Rockwell succinctly and clearly relays the story of the Jenkins Orphanage Band while also retaining all the heart and soul of this fascinating group of children and their dedicated caregiver. The true-life tale is mesmerizing, not only for the historical details of the growth of ragtime music and the Charleston dance but for the accomplishments of the orphans once given love, acceptance, and education. Rockwell’s conversational tone contributes to the story’s smooth, flowing pace, which will keep listeners or readers rapt from beginning to end.
Colin Bootman’s bold two-page spreads illuminate the sights and sounds of the early 1900s for readers. Emphasizing the personal connections between Reverend Jenkins and the orphans as well as the band and their audiences, Bootman’s vibrant paintings are full of people watching, dancing, marching, and celebrating these boys’ awesome gifts.
Carolrhoda Books, 2013 | ISBN 978-0761355656
Lift Every Voice and Sing: A Celebration of the African American National Anthem
Written by James Weldon Johnson | Illustrated by Elizabeth Catlett
It has been more than 120 years since James Weldon Johnson, a principal at Stanton Elementary School in Jacksonville, Florida, wrote a poem to be used in the school’s commemoration ceremony of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. His brother, composer John Rosamond Johnson, set the poem to music. On February 12, 1900, five hundred students performed the song. From that celebration, the song spread, gaining in popularity throughout the South and then throughout the country.
In 1949 the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People adopted Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing as the official African American anthem. The song continues to inspire as it is sung and heard in churches and schools and during times of celebration and protest. This new edition of Lift Every Voice and Sing brings together Johnson’s stirring poem with stunning black-and-white linocuts by Harlem Renaissance artist Elizabeth Catlett, who created them in the 1940s as part of a series of artworks focusing on black women.
An emotionally moving presentation of James Weldon Johnson and John Rosamond Johnson’s poem and song, Lift Every Voice and Sing: A Celebration of the African American National Anthem would make a beautiful thought-provoking and inspirational addition to school, home, and public library collections.
When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc & the Creations of Hip Hop
Written by Laben Carrick Hill |Illustrated by Theodore Tayler III
Laben Carrick Hill’s biography of a Hip Hop pioneer invites young readers to discover the early years of and influences on the music they love today. Hill superbly structures his story so through the formative details of DJ Kool Herc’s life from childhood into adulthood, readers understand that they too can follow their hearts to achieve their dreams. When the Beat Was Born is inspirational in its depiction of an “ordinary kid” with ingenuity and self-confidence who changed the face of music by combining his multicultural experiences, being open to experimentation, including his friends, and sharing his vision. Straightforward storytelling is punctuated with verses of rap that make reading aloud fun and will engage listeners.
In his bold, vibrant illustrations, Theodore Tayler III lets kids in on the not-so-distant past that saw the rise of Hip Hop music, celebrity DJs, and new dance styles. Keeping the focus on DJ Kool Herc—just as Clive kept his eye on his future goals—Taylor reinforces the theme of the book. Scenes of kids lining up to attend DJ Kool Herc’s parties and dancing in the street give the book an inclusive feel. Images of skyscraper-tall stacks of records mirrors Kool Herc’s ambitions, and depictions of breakdancing moves will get kids wanting to try them for themselves.
When the Beat Was Born is a terrific biography for all children, whether they like music and dancing or quieter pursuits. In the classroom, the book would be a great addition to music, history, or biography units.
Roaring Brook Press, 2013 | ISBN 978-1596435407
Civil Rights and Politics
Become a Leader Like Michelle Obama
Written by Caroline Moss | Illustrated by Sinem Erkas
Encouraging, supportive, and always smiling, Michelle Obama inspired millions of kids across the country during her eight years as First Lady and continues to motivate children to be and become the best version of themselves. Through her fast-paced, engrossing biography, Caroline Moss creates a reading experience that gives children the opportunity to get to know their idol the way friends do: by talking together. In ten short, but information-packed chapters, Moss captures Michelle’s voice and spirit through snapshots of formative events that influenced and changed her life, all told in a conversational style with plenty of dialogue and fascinating details.
Sprinkled throughout the text are inspirational quotes from Michelle Obama that are called out in eye-catching blocks and soaring illustrations. Back matter includes ten key lessons from Michelle Obama’s life on how to become a leader, questions to prompt kids to think about what is important to them, and resources for further reading and exploration.
Accompanying this personal narrative are Sinem Erkas’s stunning 3-D cut paper artwork. Bold colors, stirring imagery, and portraits that follow Michelle through times of happiness, sadness, and change reveal to readers Michelle’s intelligence, spark, hard work, and enthusiasm for life that fuels her vision and success.
Emphasizing family, community, self-confidence, and the importance of seizing opportunities to make a difference, Become a Leader Like Michelle Obama is highly recommended for home, school, and public libraries to hearten and embolden young readers to listen to their inner voices and take action for what they believe in.
Frances Lincoln Children’s Books, 2020 | ISBN 978-0711245181
Hector: A Boy a Protest and the Photograph that Changed Apartheid
By Adrienne Wright
Adrienne Wright’s gripping storytelling and evocative illustrations go hand-in-hand to present a full portrait of young Hector, his life, his sweet nature, and the dreams he had before he was killed in a protest against Apartheid. His family’s close bonds and their concern for each other is evident in the dialogue that accompanies images of Hector playing, helping Mma and Granny Mma, running errands, and interacting with his sisters. As June 16 dawns, Wright sketches a normal day, with Hector joking with his mother at home and his friend on the way to school.
As it did for Hector, the protest comes as a surprise for readers, sweeping them up into the action just as Hector was. Hector’s sister, Antoinette’s chapter is the shortest but gripping in its pacing that mirrors the turmoil of the day and her tragedy. As readers enter Sam’s viewpoint, they see, blocked off in vertical and horizontal frames, the pictures of celebrating and happy, yet serious students marching to make a difference. The moment of the shot is seen through Sam’s lens and clouded in smoke.
Wright’s use of overlapping storylines as she transitions from Hector’s account to Antoinette’s and then to Sam’s adds to the tension, drawing readers in and reinforcing their understanding of the atmosphere and what the students were protesting. The final, nearly full-page reproduction of the actual photograph is an unflinching look at the reality of that day, what it stands for, and its personal cost.
A profound narrative for teaching children about South African history, the costs of discrimination, and the personal stories involved in any conflict, Hector is an important book to add to school and public library collections.
Ages: The book is targeted for children from eight to twelve, but adults should be mindful of the maturity and sensitivity of readers. Hector would also be a compelling inclusion in middle school and even early high school social studies and history classes.
Pies from Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Written by Dee Romito | Illustrated by Laura Freeman
Dee Romito’s inspiring biography delves into the crucial role individuals can make in supporting people and causes they believe in. By focusing on unsung historical hero Georgia Gilmore and using her own words and thoughts, Romito reveals how those with strong beliefs can use their talents and courage to fight for change behind the scenes and still make an important difference. Her conversational storytelling brings a personal touch to this biography, drawing young readers in to learn the details of this early battle in the Civil Rights movement—also begun by an act of a solitary person. Bookended by the radio reports that Georgia hears, the story is well-paced to show how Georgia’s contribution grows over nearly a year. This timely biography is made even more resonant perhaps in that Georgia’s cooking and selling of meals and baked goods is an activity that many children will recognized from their own involvement in bake sales and other food-related fund raisers. The open ending invites readers to learn more about the Civil Rights movement and Georgia Gilmore.
Laura Freeman’s boldly colored, realistic artwork allows children to embrace the historical context of Romito’s biography through her expressive portraiture that introduces Georgia Gilmore, Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the members of Georgia’s Nowhere Club. A double-spread of the National Lunch Company’s segregated counter is visually striking as the divide comes at the book’s gutter, creating the side for white customers on the left and the side for black customers on the right. The injustice of this separation is expressed in the similar red clothing and dark hair of the woman on the right and the man on the left. Illustrations of crowds walking as buses go empty, attending the boycott strategy meetings, secretly buying pies, and filling Georgia’s home place readers at these scenes of the resistance movement. Freeman uses action, media coverage, and Georgia’s courtroom appearance to great effect. Knowledgeable readers will understand that making a positive difference continues across all generations.
Pies from Nowhere is a stunning book of empowerment for children and adults. The theme of using ones talents to make a difference is a timely lesson that kids will respond to. The book belongs in all classroom, school, and public libraries and is a top choice for home bookshelves as well.
What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan
Written by Chris Barton |Illustrated by Ekua Holmes
Chris Barton’s stirring biography of Barbara Jordan introduces children to a woman whose voice is just as relevant today as it was when she was a state senator, US representative, and professor. Barton clearly and lyrically depicts Jordan’s trajectory while showing readers what it takes to succeed: practice, perseverance, learning, and wisdom. For young readers Barton briefly but cogently outlines the core of the case against Richard Nixon then allows readers to hear, in her own words, Jordan’s rousing defense of the Constitution. His inclusion of Jordan’s seventeen years of teaching after her diagnosis of MS is a poignant reminder that her influence is still heard through her students and admirers, and Barton’s final exhortation to readers to speak out honors Barbara Jordan’s life and will impel both children and adults to follow her lead.
Ekua Holmes stunning mixed-media illustrations will set readers’ hearts soaring in this over-sized picture book that beautifully reflects Barbara Jordan’s influence in politics and beyond. Holmes’ collages, rendered in lush colors and textured with intricate patterns and images from nature, take children on Jordan’s journey from sun-drenched Texas to law school to Washington DC, giving them a glimpse of her childhood and her growing stature as a stateswoman. Today’s savvy readers will be interested in the examples of campaign materials and images of Jordan’s building relationships with diverse voters and her fellow senators and representatives. Several photographs of Jordan from her graduation, campaigns, and televised appearances during the Watergate hearings join Holmes’ realistic portraits and will inspire readers to learn more about this influential and unforgettable woman.
What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? is a stirring and empowering biography that belongs in every home, school, and public library collection.
Ages 4 – 8 and up
Beach Lane Books, 2018 | ISBN 978-1481465618
Blast Off into Space Like Mae Jemison
Focused, intelligent, courageous, and giving, astronaut Mae Jemison is an inspiration to millions of kids and adults around the world. Through her captivating biography, Caroline Moss introduces readers to this accomplished woman in ten engrossing chapters that, through pivotal events, dialogue, and thoughts, reveal Mae’s dreams, motivations, and triumphs. Paced in short, impactful chapters, this biography reads like a novel yet imparts factual information that will entice readers to learn more about Mae Jemison and careers in science.
Sinem Erkas punctuates this personal narrative with her stirring 3-D cut paper artwork. Vivid colors and action-packed imagery, take readers along on Mae’s journey from childhood dreams of “sailing off into space on a rocket ship” to the day she fulfills that dream and beyond. Images of Mae completing experiments in college and medical school as well as detailed depictions of Mae inside the space shuttle working and interacting with other astronauts will have children lingering over the pages.
Compelling and personal, Blast off into Space Like Mae Jemison is a biography young readers won’t be able to put down. The book is highly recommended for homeschooling and home libraries as well as for school and public library collections.
Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13
Written by Helaine Becker | Illustrated by Dow Phumiruk
Helaine Becker’s captivating storytelling captures Katherine Johnson’s genius for math and talent for applying it to even the most complex problems in a ground-breaking field. Her self-confidence, curiosity, and love of learning as well as her trajectory at NASA will impress readers, many of whom may also be dreaming of making a mark in new ways. A highlight of Becker’s text is her clear explanations of how Katherine’s calculations for NASA were used and what was at stake when her help was needed most. Becker’s repeated phrase “You can count on me” and her stirring ending weave together the numerical and lyrical aspects of Katherine’s life to inspire a new generation of thinkers.
From the first page, readers can see Katherine’s intelligence and inquisitiveness that shined whether she was walking to school, doing chores, or, later, making sure our astronauts made it to the moon and back safely. Dow Phumiruk’s artwork is always thrilling, and here blackboards covered in formulas as Katherine stands on tiptoe as a child and on a ladder as an adult to complete them will leave readers awestruck with her understanding of and abilities with numbers. Illustrations of school rooms and offices give children a realistic view of the times, and her imagery pairs perfectly with Becker’s text in demonstrating the concepts of sending a rocket ship into space and bringing it home again. Phumiruk’s lovely images of space are uplifting reminders that dreams do come true.
A stellar biography that will enthrall children and inspire them to keep their eyes on their goals and achieve their dreams, Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 is highly recommended for home bookshelves and is a must for school and public library collections.
Henry Holt and Company, 2018 | ISBN 978-1250137524
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race
Written by Margot Lee Shetterly | Illustrated by Laura Freeman
Margot Lee Shetterly brings her compelling story Hidden Figures to children in this exceptional picture book that skillfully reveals the talents and dreams of Dorothy, Mary, Katherine, Christine as well as the work atmosphere and social injustices of the time period. While acknowledging the struggles and obstacles the four women faced, Shetterly keeps her focus on the incredible achievements of these brilliant women and the positive changes and opportunities for others they created. Brief-yet-detailed descriptions and explanations of math, science, and computer terms flow smoothly in the text, allowing all readers to understand and appreciate the women’s work.
As Dorothy, Mary, Katherine, Christine each begin their work at Langley as young women, Laura Freeman establishes their dreams and their particular field of expertise through richly colorful illustrations that highlight the schematics, tools, equipment, and models they used. In one particularly affecting spread, Dorothy, Mary, Katherine, and Christine go off to their offices on the left-hand side, and their white counterparts head out to theirs on the right-hand side while the blueprint of their building lies under their feet. Dorothy, Mary, Katherine, and Christine’s clothing is also mirrored in color by the women on the other side of the fold. Period dress and electronics show progression through the years, and kids may marvel at the size of early computers. The final image of Dorothy, Mary, Katherine, and Christine as older women is moving and inspirational.
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race is an outstanding biography of four women who contributed their gifts for math as well as their self-confidence not only to science but to dreamers in their own and future generations. The book would be a stirring choice for classroom and home libraries.
HarperCollins, 2018 | ISBN 978-0062742469
Ticktock Banneker’s Clock
Written by Shana Keller | Illustrated by David C. Gardner
With lyrical language that glides as smoothly as a well-oiled timepiece, Shana Keller reveals the remarkable story of Benjamin Banneker, born free during the time of slavery, who possessed exceptional math and scientific skills and used them to help his friends and neighbors and to make real his vision of a striking clock. Keller’s detailed and descriptive storytelling animates this life story, allowing readers to take the journey with Banneker as he experiences excitement, setbacks, and ultimately success. Banneker, embodying determination, persistence, and creativity, is an excellent role model for kids with big dreams of their own.
David C. Gardner’s lovely full-page and two-page-spread illustrations gloriously portray Benjamin Banneker’s farm and home as well as his dedicated commitment to building a striking clock despite—or perhaps spurred on by—the challenges he faced. Gardner’s detailed images set the biography firmly in its time period, letting children experience farm and home life in the 1750s. Banneker carries wooden buckets to feed the animals, tobacco leaves hang in a dry shed, a fire blazes in a large, open fireplace, and a candle flickers as Banneker whittles wheels and gears with his pocket knife. The realistic paintings that depict Banneker’s emotions as he imagines creating a large clock, overcomes obstacles, and studiously works on his drawings and carvings will inspire readers to attempt their own inventions—whatever they may be.
For any would-be inventors, history lovers, tinkerers, and science buffs, Ticktock Banneker’s Clock is a stirring biography that would make an inspirational addition to home, school and public libraries.
Sleeping Bear Press, 2016 | ISBN 978-1585369560
Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
Written by Chris Barton | Illustrated by Don Tate
Chris Barton’s biography of Lonnie Johnson is a fascinating look at a man who succeeds in turning “No” into “Yes” by the power of his intelligence, ideas, and determination. Kids will love hearing about how one of their favorite toys came to be and will be inspired to chase their own dreams despite challenges and setbacks. Barton’s detailed narration provides a full picture of Lonnie Johnson and his times, specifics that attract and inform like-minded kids. Including the results of Lonnie’s exam should encourage kids who think differently. The story is enhanced by the conversational tone that makes it accessible to kids of all ages.
Don Tate illuminates Lonnie Johnson’s life story with his bold, full-bleed paintings that follow Lonnie from his being a child with big ideas to becoming a man who has seen these ideas through to success. With an eyebrow raised in concentration, young Lonnie demonstrates confidence and skill as he works on an invention, and kids will love seeing the tools of his trade laid out on the kitchen table. As Lonnie grows older and designs systems for NASA, the illustrations depict the schematics of the Galileo power package and Lonnie’s surprise at the strength of the water stream in his prototype cooling design. As all kids know, the spurt of a Super Soaker is awesome, and this fact is demonstrated in a “Wowing” fold-out page.
WHOOSH! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions is a superb biography of the man who designs systems for the greater world but has never lost his youthful enthusiasm to invent. The book would be an inspirational addition to home, school, and public libraries.
Charlesbridge, 2016 | ISBN 978-1580892971
Freedom in Congo Square
Written by Carole Boston Weatherford | Illustrated by Gregory Christie
Through powerful rhythmic couplets, as spare and austere as the work they describe yet ending in a focal point of hope, Carole Boston Weatherford recreates the steady thrum that resonated in the hearts of slave and free men and women as they anticipated each afternoon in Congo Square. As the days remaining until Congo Square are counted off, Weatherford’s predominantly one-syllable words form a staccato beat, the pounding of hard, physical work. When Sunday comes and people find joy in their shared music and dance, Weatherford’s phrasing within the same structured couplets rises, employing multi-syllable words that give the verses a pulsing flow that echoes the freedom they find in Congo Square.
Gregory Christie’s vivid folk-art illustrations are a perfect complement to Weatherford’s verses. The elongated figures stand tall and proud amidst the fields and workrooms of the plantation. In some scenes the slaves’ angled bodies, leaning over to pick cotton, wash floors, or lift baskets may be bent, but they are not broken, and while two men work on building a wall, they seem to kneel prayerfully as they add another brick. In a moving two-page spread set at night, brown wood-grain houses superimposed with rows of sleeping slaves float on a blue-toned ground below a red sky, reminiscent of ships laden with Africans sailing the Middle Passage of the Atlantic slave trade. As the men and women congregate in Congo Square, Christie’s lithe figures raise their arms and kick their legs in dance. The fiery backgrounds swirl with color as the celebrants jump, stretch, play instruments and move with exultation.
Freedom in Congo Square is both a heartrending and jubilant book that would make a wonderful and meaningful addition to any home, school, and public library.
Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
Written by Ellen Levine | Illustrated by Kadir Nelson
Based on an actual story of The Underground Railway, Henry’s Freedom Box is written and illustrated to stunning effect. Ellen Levine’s lyrical and metaphorical language combines with the excellent pacing of the pages to enhance the emotional impact of this powerful and original true story. Children will be inspired by this man who suffered devastating loss, but persevered and through cunning, bravery, and the help of friends, obtained freedom.
Kadir Nelson took inspiration for his illustrations from an antique lithograph of Henry Brown, created by Samuel Rowse in 1850. Through a combination of watercolor and oils crosshatched with pencil lines, Nelson’s richly hued paintings capture the poignancy of Henry’s struggles and ultimate freedom. His characters’ facial expressions are particularly moving.
Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad is a riveting story of slavery and one man’s fight for freedom that would make an excellent addition to children’s libraries.
Scholastic Press, 2007 | ISBN 978-043977733
Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass
Written by Lesa Cline-Ransome | Illustrated by James Ransome
Lesa Cline-Ransome has written a compelling biography of Frederick Douglass for children in Words Set Me Free. In straightforward language and through first-person point of view, Cline-Ransome reveals the brutal truth of Douglass’s life as a slave and his fight against injustice. As the title suggests, the book focuses on Frederick’s desire to become educated and the obstacles he overcame to succeed. This universally important message continues the work Douglass engaged in long ago.
James Ransome’s stirring paintings realistically highlight pivotal scenes of Frederick’s life, beginning with the tender moments he spends with his mother as a very young child. With an unstinting eye Ransome reveals the hardship and cruelty Frederick endured as a slave. His moving illustrations also demonstrate hope as Frederick, with blossoming intellect, resolves to educate himself and find a means of escape.
Simon & Schuster, New York, 2012 | ISBN 978-1416959038
Fast Enough: Bessie Stringfield’s First Ride
By Joel Christian Gill
Joel Christian Gill introduces children to Bessie, a determined, brave, and pioneering woman at a formative time in her life. Told that girls don’t ride bikes and that she wasn’t good enough or fast enough anyway, Bessie Stringfield wrestled with self-doubt, but she took control of what she wanted and ultimately proved to herself and others that she was more than capable. Gill’s first pages set the stage for readers to contemplate ways in which they may doubt themselves, before encouraging them to find inspiration and confidence in Bessie’s story.
Gill’s vivid illustrations clearly show Bessie’s sadness as she internalizes the boy’s taunts, her tenacity, and finally her jubilation is besting them and achieving her goal. Images of Bessie’s dream and its resulting reality creatively play on the dual meaning of the word dream while a change in Bessie’s room décor while she sleeps is a clever touch.
A singular story about a trailblazing black woman, Fast Enough: Bessie Stringfield’s First Ride encourages children to embrace their own identity instead of letting others define them. The book would be a welcome addition to home, school, and public library collections.
Oni Press, 2019 | ISBN 978-1549303142
Queen of the Track: Alice Coachman, Olympic High Jump Champion
Written by Heather Lang | Illustrated by Floyd Cooper
Heather Lang brings an athlete’s appreciation for the in-born talent and hard practicing that creates a world-class Olympian. Her story reveals not only the details of Alice’s physical training but also the social and economic hurdles she overcame in her quest to compete in the Olympics. Lang’s graceful and evocative prose carries readers down dirt roads and over obstacles, to the halls of the Tuskegee Institute, and into Wembley Stadium as they learn about the singular focus Alice Coachman dedicated to her sport. Children will feel as if they are sitting in the stands watching with suspense as the bar is raised again and again, pushing Coachman to a world record.
Floyd Cooper sets readers in the hot, dusty, sun-burned South, where Alice Coachman—as a little girl and then a teenager—runs barefoot on dirt roads, jumps over homemade bars, leaps to tip the basketball from her brothers’ hands, and delivers food to tornado victims. The golden-brown-hued illustrations catch Dorothy Taylor and Alice Coachman as they soar over the high bar in their fierce competition and capture Coachman’s hopes, dreams, and anticipation as she waits—hands clasped—to hear the judges’ final decision in the 1948 Olympic Games. Readers will cheer to see Coachman standing on the first-place podium, ready to receive her well-deserved gold medal.
A compelling and inspiring biography for children pursuing any talent, Queen of the Track: Alice Coachman, Olympic High Jump Champion would be a welcome addition to home, school, and public libraries.
Boyds Mills Press, 2012 | ISBN 978-1590788509
Serena: The Littlest Sister
Written by Karlin Gray | Illustrated by Monica Ahanonu
Karlin Gray’s masterful biography of Serena Williams shows young readers the determination, confidence, and strong familial bond that followed Serena through her life and made her one of tennis’s most influential women players. The family’s remarkable life and focus on what one can achieve will inspire all kids, no matter what their dream is. Choosing seminal events in Serena’s and Venus’s life, Gray follows Serena’s reputation on the court as she loses and wins matches, building suspense until that day when she accomplishes her goal and wins the US Open. Her inclusion of articles and comments that cast doubt on Serena’s future success, demonstrates that even the greats face opposition and naysaying, and Serena’s sister’s advice to ignore it is sound.
Monica Ahanonu’s textured, collage-style illustrations leap off the page with vibrant images full of action and the girls’ personalities. As the girls race onto a court for practice, their eager expressions show their love of the game and being together. Even as a four-year-old Serena has the steely eyed gaze of a champion as she watches the bouncing ball and lines up for her swing. Ahanonu’s use of various perspectives and shadowing create dynamic scenes on the court, and tennis lovers will be thrilled at the many illustrations of Venus and Serena playing their sport. The bond between the sisters is evident in images of Serena interacting with one or more of her sisters. Those who remember Serena’s win at the 1999 US Open will recognize her joyous win.
Perfectly aimed at young readers who are the same age as Serena and Venus when they began developing their skills and sport, Serena: The Littlest Sister is an inspirational biography of a present-day role model that is sure to spark an “I can” attitude. Adults who have followed the Williams sisters’ rise to tennis stardom will be equally enthralled with this beautiful biography. The book would make a stirring addition to home, classroom, and library collections.
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June 6 – Global Running Day
Do you love to run, or do you find yourself thinking, “I really should take up running.” Then today is for you! Established to allow serious runners to recommit to their sport and to encourage those on the fence to jump down and join in, Global Running Day provides the inspiration to embrace this healthy lifestyle. Celebrated in 139 countries and with 184,583 people pledged to run (as of this writing), Global Running Day inspires people of all ages to take to the road, track, or trails and enjoy the exhilaration of running. To learn more about the day visit the Global Running Day website!
The Wildest Race Ever: The Story of the 1904 Olympic Marathon
By Meghan McCarthy
On August 30, 1904 at the World’s Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, the first United States Olympic Marathon took place even though torrential rainstorms had washed away the original route. On the morning of the race thirty-two racers faced an unfamiliar, more difficult route. Some of these racers were:
Fred Lorz, a Boston bricklayer; John Lorden, the winner of the 1903 Boston Marathon; Sam Mellor from New York and the winner of two major marathons; Felix Carvajal, a mailman from Cuba; Arthur Newton; Albert Corey; Len Tau, a long-distance running messenger from South Africa; William Garcia, the “greatest long-distance runner on the Pacific Coast”; and Thomas Hicks, who had only trained on flat terrain and was not ready for hilly St. Louis. There were also racers from countries all over the world.
Copyright Meghan McCarthy, 2016, courtesy of simonandschuster.com.
The racers waited in 90-degree heat at the starting line for the signal. When the pistol shot rang out, they took off. The early leader was Fred Lorz. As the racers took to the hills outside the stadium so did cars full of reporters, judges, and doctors. Some spectators rode along side them on bicycles. All these vehicles stirred up so much dust that the runners choked on it.
At mile two, Sam Mellor and Fred Lorz were in the lead with Thomas Hicks only a little behind, but at mile 9 Lorz suffered terrible cramps and was driven away in a car. Now Albert Corey and William Garcia were neck and neck, and Hicks was catching up!
Felix Carvajal was also in the mix. He ran and ran—but he also stopped and stopped. He loved talking to the spectators that cheered him on. It gave him an opportunity to practice his English! Arthur Newton, Sam Mellor, and Thomas Hicks exchanged the lead several times. Everyone wondered which of them would come out on top.
Meanwhile Len Tau was being chased by an angry dog that forced him a mile off course. Felix Carvajal also got distracted—not by a dog, but by an apple orchard! After running so far and talking to so many people, he settled down under a tree to satisfy his hunger. Soon, Mellor began suffering cramps and was suddenly out of the race.
Hicks, suffering unbearable thirst in the staggering heat, began begging his trainers for water. They refused, instead giving him a concoction of strychnine and egg whites. Meanwhile who should appear out of the dust but Fred Lorz! He ran through the tape at the finish line and was declared the winner! But was he really? When the officials discovered that Lorz had cheated, cheers turned to boos, and Lorz was banned from racing for life.
Hicks, sluggish and confused, somehow kept running, buoyed by the cheering crowds. He pushed himself to run harder and harder until he broke through the tape. He collapsed on the ground just as he was declared the winner. He was rushed to the hospital, but was well enough to accept his award an hour later.
What happened to the other runners? All except one crossed the finish line. These racers may have been very different, but each one accomplished an astounding feat: They competed side by side in the “killer marathon” of 1904 while upholding the Olympic spirit.
With wit and suspense,Meghan McCarthy brings the story of the 1904 marathon to life for kids used to paved, well-marked routes, energizing sports drinks, supportive running shoes, and comfortable running clothes. Perhaps the only similarities to today’s races and yesteryear’s are the start and finish line and the cheering crowds! McCarthy’s inclusion of the humorous and the near-disastrous will keep readers’ hearts racing until the very end, when the topsy-turvy finish is revealed!
McCarthy illustrates The Wildest Race Ever with verve and comic flourishes that well-represent this extraordinary Olympics event. Kids will giggle and gasp when they learn what happens to the racers – and even a couple of spectators – during the race.
The Wildest Race Ever is a must-read for sports and history enthusiasts as well as for any child who loves a good story.
Simon & Schuster, 2016 | ISBN 978-1481406390
Global Running Day Activity
Sassy Shoe Laces
Did you know that having cool shoelaces makes you run faster? Well…that might not be exactly true, but you will definitely look good no matter what you’re doing if you make some unique laces for your shoes.
Shoelaces in any color
Fabric paint or markers
With the fabric paint or markers make dots, stripes, or any designs you like. You can even paint fish or flowers!
Enjoy them on your run!
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June 23 – Olympic Day and Q & A with Author Heather Lang
Olympic Day is celebrated by millions of people in more than 160 countries to commemorate the birth of the modern Olympic Games in 1894. The mission of Olympic Day is to promote fitness, well-being, culture and education, while promoting the Olympic values of excellence, friendship and respect. The Olympic Day pillars – move, learn and discover – are promoted in every corner of the globe. To have Olympic-size fun today, why not get together with friends or family and host your own mini-Olympic games? For more ideas and to learn more about today’s observance visit teamusa.org!
Queen of the Track: Alice Coachman, Olympic High-Jump Champion
Alice Coachman was a born runner and jumper—skipping, hopping, and vaulting over every obstacle that came her way. As Alice grew older, however, the joy of running and jumping had to come a distant second to chores like cooking, laundry, picking cotton and peaches, and taking care of her younger siblings. Besides, her papa told her, “running and jumping weren’t considered ladylike.” Still, that was all Alice could think about, so after her chores were finished, she went out to play sports with the boys.
Image copyright Floyd Cooper, text copyright Heather Lang. Courtesy of Boyds Mills Press, 2012.
Living in the segregated South, Alice didn’t have the same rights as white people. She had nowhere to practice, but that didn’t stop her. Alice “ran barefoot on dirt roads. She collected sticks and tied rags together to make her own high jumps. Alice jumped so high, she soared like a bird above the cotton fields.” In seventh grade, Alice caught the attention of the high-school track coach. He arranged for her to join the track team at the Tuskegee Relays in Alabama, where the best black athletes from around the country competed. Alice had never worn track shoes or jumped over a real high-jump bar, she “won first place anyway, beating high-school and college girls.
Alice’s speed did more than win races. Once when a tornado ripped through Albany, she volunteered to deliver food to those in need. She ran so fast that the food stayed hot! Her talent won her a scholarship to finish high school at the Tuskegee Institute. Alice missed her family, and they didn’t have the money to really stay in touch. “One time she went home for a surprise visit, and her family had moved to a different house.”
Image copyright Floyd Cooper, courtesy of Boyds Mills Press, 2012
Alice competed on both the track-and-field and basketball teams. She won every event— the high jump, the 50-meter, the 100-meter, and the 400-meter relay—and led the basketball team to three straight championships. Alice was ready to compete in the Olympics. It was 1944, however, and the Olympic Games were canceled as the world was at war.
After graduating college from the Tuskegee Institute, Alice went home to continue practicing. Here, she trained alone on dirt roads. In 1948 with the war at an end, Alice qualified to compete in the London Olympics high jump. Even though years of hard training had weakened her back and made jumping painful, Alice pursued her dream. In London, the ravages of war were still visible, and “England faced serious food shortages. Alice and the other athletes were often hungry and thirsty.” The cold weather “pricked her like pins,” but here Alice and the other athletes—black and white—lived together, and Alice could sit anywhere she wanted on the buses as she toured the city.
As the Olympic Games opened with spectacular ceremonies, Alice marched into “Wembley Stadium to the applause of eighty-five thousand spectators.” Alice watched for eight days as her teammates lost event after event. Finally, it was Alice’s turn to compete. Her toughest opponent was Dorothy Tyler of Great Britain. “Inch by inch they battled it out—5 feet 3 2/5 inches, 5 feet 4 ½ inches. The sand in the landing pit was thinning out and the landings were tough on Alice’s back. 5 feet 5 1/3 inches.” The day was waning, and even though all of the other events were over, “the king and queen of England and thousands of spectators stayed to watch.”
The bar was placed at 5 feet 6 1/8 inches—as tall as Alice herself. She had never jumped so high before. “She sprinted, pumping her arms. She pushed off and flew…up…soaring…over the bar. Her leap set a new Olympic record!” But it was short lived. Dorothy also cleared the bar on her second attempt. The bar was placed at 5 feet 7 inches. Alice and Dorothy both jumped and missed. What would the judges decide? There are no ties allowed in the high jump.
Suddenly, Alice saw her name appear on the board! The judges awarded the medal to her because she “had made the record-breaking jump on her first try.” On that day—August 7, 1948—Alice Coachman stepped to the top of the podium and “became the first African American woman to win an Olympic gold medal.”
Author’s Notes containing more information about Alice Coachman and the 1948 Olympics as well as lists of resources follow the text.
Discover more about Heather Lang and her books plus videos, pictures, and fun activities that accompany each book on her website!
Learn more about Floyd Cooper, his books, and his artwork on his website!
Enjoy this Queen of the Track book trailer!
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Q & A with Author Heather Lang
Today, I’m excited to talk with Heather Lang about her inspirations, her books, brave women, and writing and research lets her be a little like childhood heroine Nancy Drew!
How did you become a children’s writer?
As a child, I loved books and stories and creating things, but I struggled with writing. I was much better at math. I never thought I could become an author, because I wasn’t naturally good at writing. As an adult, with kids of my own, I rediscovered my love for picture books, and I kept thinking how fun it would be to create a picture book! By then I’d realized that the seemingly impossible could be possible with hard work and dedication. So I began writing. It took many years and many rejections, but with support from other writers and my critique group I’ve learned to embrace the process.
Why do you like to write books about brave women?
The women I write about inspire me every day to be brave and step outside of my comfort zone. It’s amazing the things you discover about life and yourself when you dream big, keep an open mind, and push yourself. My hope is that my books will do the same for kids.
Heather meets Alice Coachman, the first African-American woman to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games.
What inspired you to write Queen of the Track?
After seven years of rejections on my fiction, I needed a little spark in my writing life to keep me going, so I decided to research and write a true story about an inspiring woman. Since I love sports, I looked for an athlete, and who better than the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal? If Alice Coachman could overcome poverty and segregation and discrimination, surely I could overcome a few rejections. I kept one of Alice’s quotes on my desk: “When the going gets tough and you feel like throwing your hands in the air, listen to that voice that tells you, ‘Keep going. Hang in there.’ Guts and determination will pull you through.”
You seem to dig very deep when researching a book. What would you say is the biggest surprise you’ve discovered during your research?
Every book is a treasure hunt, full of surprises and discoveries! My biggest surprise probably came with my most recent book Swimming with Sharks: The Daring Discoveries of Eugenie Clark. When I began my research journey, I was afraid of sharks and swimming in the ocean—terrified actually. As a child, I watched the movie Jaws and believed that sharks were swimming around looking for people to eat. That fear is what drew me to Eugenie Clark, an open-minded young scientist who never judged sharks based on rumors or appearance. I discovered that sharks are intelligent and important and that humans are NOT on the shark menu! I learned to scuba and snorkel, so I could experience Genie’s underwater world and swim with sharks myself. Writing that book transformed my fear of sharks into a passion for them!
Heather learned to scuba dive while writing Swimming With Sharks: The Daring Discoveries of Eugenie Clark.
With the titles “Diving into Nonfiction and the World of Sharks,” “Got Grit?” and “Girls with Grit: Researching and Writing about Brave Girls,” your interactive presentations sound fascinating. Do you have any anecdotes from your speaking engagements you’d like to share?
I have so much fun visiting with kids and am always amazed at some of their questions. “How big are great white sharks?” “How big are their teeth?” “How big are their pups?” “How do they have pups?” I LOVE their raw curiosity! It inspires me and helps me develop my school visit programs. In reaction to the endless questions kids were asking me about sharks, I designed a program that includes hands-on activities that teach kids about shark anatomy and behavior, as well as the food chain and why sharks are important for a healthy ocean. And in the process, I’ve learned even more cool facts about sharks!
You’ve mentioned that you were inspired by Nancy Drew and once wanted to become a spy, which you compare to researching and writing children’s books. What was your favorite Nancy Drew book and why?
I remember two favorites that I owned: The Mystery at Lilac Inn and The Hidden Staircase. For several summers it was my mission to read every Nancy Drew book in the library. If I couldn’t get there, I’d reread the two that I owned. I never tired of them. I worshipped Nancy’s courage, resourcefulness, and willingness to push boundaries. More than anything I wanted to be a spy, just like her. And in a way, that dream has come true. I do lots of spy work for my books. Ideas and stories are all around us if we look, listen, and investigate. I think solid sleuthing is the backbone of an authentic story.
Heather researches Ruth Law’s Scrapbook while writing Fearless Flyer: Ruth Law and Her Flying Machine
If you have a particular place that you write, would you mind describing it a little?
I enjoy mixing it up, depending on what I am working on. When I was writing The Original Cowgirl: The Wild Adventures of Lucille Mulhall, I enjoyed writing on a picnic table at a local barn, surrounded by fields and horses. Sometimes I write in my office, but if the weather’s nice I head out to the screened porch. In the winter, my favorite place to write is by a roaring fire with my dog curled up next to me. And often ideas come to me when I’m in the car or on a walk or out to dinner—not the most convenient places to write. But when an idea strikes, I write it down and do a quick free write if possible, or poof the idea can vanish!
What’s the best thing about being a children’s writer?
My favorite part of being a writer is opening kids’ minds and hearts! I grow tremendously with every book I write, and nothing makes me happier than when my books do the same for kids. Whether a book inspires a child to dream big and be brave or it sparks a new interest in sharks or aviation, those moments are powerful.
What’s up next for you?
My next picture book biography, Anybody’s Game: The Story of the First Girl to Play Little League Baseball, comes out in March 2018. I am also working on a new book about sharks. And I’m so excited for an upcoming research trip to the Amazon for a book I’m writing about the rain forest!
What is your favorite holiday and why?
Christmas in our house is a creative holiday. My daughters and I try to make most of our gifts—anything from soap and candles to knitted hats, woven coasters, and jewelry. And we love to make handmade notecards and ornaments, especially when they involve GLITTER!
Do you have an anecdote from any holiday that you’d like to share?
Every year on Mother’s Day I get to choose exactly what I want to do! No—It’s not going to a spa or a fancy lunch. I choose to get my hands dirty with my husband and kids. It’s the day when we plan our garden, make a trip to the garden center, and plant our seeds and seedlings.
Thanks so much for chatting with me today, Heather! I wish you the best with all of your books!
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Tagged Alice Coachman, Biographies for Kids, Black History Books for Children, Books about the Olympics for Children, Books about Women in Sports for Kids, Floyd Cooper, Heather Lang, Olympic Day, Olympic Events Word Search, picture book review, Picture Books, Queen of the Track: Alice Coachman OLympic High-Jump Champion, Sports History Books for Kids
September 18 – Gymnastics Day
Image copyright Christine Davenier, courtesy of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co.
As I take some personal days over the next couple of weeks, I am reposting some earlier reviews with updated interior art and links.
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Little Mix insist they will continue as trio for 'a long time' and have planned seventh album and new The Search series
AFTER Geri Halliwell left the Spice Girls and when Zayn Malik quit One Direction, their bands didn’t last much longer.
But Little Mix are determined to buck the trend and follow in Take That's successful footsteps after Jesy Nelson decided to leave.
They are already planning new music as a trio for early next year and will also start to explore solo projects, just as Gary Barlow and the lads have done.
I revealed last month how all four girls had been meeting managers, agents and industry bosses about solo plans, but remaining Little Mix members Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Perrie Edwards and Jade Thirlwall insist that won’t spell the end of the beloved British group.
Some fans are saying the trio may only stay together until the end of their Confetti tour next year.
Questions remain over whether that will go ahead in April due to the ongoing pandemic but they have made it clear they are raring to make more music in 2021, their tenth year as a group, and beyond.
A music insider said: “Speculation is rife that Jesy’s departure will spell the end for Little Mix but if they were going to split up, they would have said that this week.
“The tour could have just been cancelled if Perrie, Leigh-Anne and Jade didn’t want to carry on, but they adore Little Mix and all decided they don’t want this to be the end.
“There is a new single featuring the three of them ready to go early next year, as well as other tracks, and there could even be a seventh album before 2021 is over.
“They are also in advanced talks about doing a second series of their BBC1 singing competition The Search.
“Perrie, Jade and Leigh-Anne are all interested in doing solo music and other projects but realistically those probably won’t start until 2022.
“Take That are proof bands can continue to thrive even without all the members, and that doing solo music during down time for the group can be a success.
“2021 marks a decade of Little Mix and the girls are raring to go for another ten years.”
Jesy’s distance from the group had been apparent for several months before her statement on Monday that she was leaving the 2011 X Factor winners.
She stated she was quitting to do “things that make me happy” in her message on Instagram — which was not liked or commented on by Jade, Perrie or Leigh-Anne.
She was hardly involved in writing the group’s recent No2 album Confetti, while the others had been major contributors.
While promoting the album in November, Jesy also said she had been more content in the first lockdown, as it meant her life was not dominated by the group.
Asked if she was happy, she said: “No, not really. I was happy when the world went into lockdown. It was a pause from all the hectic things. Finally, we could do nothing for days.”
Following the news of her departure fans also noticed she had unfollowed the group’s manager, Sam Cox, on Instagram.
Despite almost a decade in the game, Little Mix’s pulling power is still clear, as yesterday they were named as the most-watched act on video streaming site Vevo this year, with 90.3million views.
They had said in the past that they could not stay together if one member decided to leave. But after a tumultuous year, I’m sure they’re all making the right decision.
Rag'n'Bone to riches
RAG’N’BONE MAN’s name hides his riches, after his fortune topped £5million.
The singer, real name Rory Graham, has seen reserves at his firm rise by £300,000 this year despite not releasing a record or playing gigs.
Much of this is believed to be thanks to his No1 album Human, released in 2017, which has sold more than 2.5million copies worldwide.
This year he also won an Ivor Novello for 2019’s double-platinum hit single Giant with Calvin Harris.
His worth has risen ten-fold since his firm Ne Oublie Ltd – French for Don’t Forget – filed its first accounts in 2015.
He has teased he will return with new music in early 2021. That will top up the bank balance even more.
bizbit
McFLY will play London’s O2 Arena on November 21 in the show One Night Only . . . Again, two years after the one-off gig there that led to their full comeback.
Tickets go on sale to subscribers to the McFly Total Access site at 9am today. General sale is Friday.
DRAG Race UK’s Baga Chipz isn’t keen on Coleen Nolan. Baga told the United Queendom podcast: “Me and The Vivienne were at the National Television Awards and we’d been talking about her and she looked at us like something she’d just trod in.”
Dionne raps it up
DIONNE Warwick has shown her star power at 80 – by roping in The Weeknd and Chance The Rapper in a collaboration.
The music legend jokily tweeted about the acts: “If you are very obviously a rapper why did you put it in your stage name?”
And later she asked: “The Weeknd is next. Why? It’s not even spelled correctly.”
But her tweets didn’t put them off, as Dionne has announced a new song with them to benefit the Hunger: Not Impossible aid organisation.
In a video on social media, she said: “I am so excited, I can’t tell you. The Weeknd has agreed to join Chance The Rapper and myself on our song Nothing’s Impossible.
“I’m still on a mission to end foolishness by 2021. It looks like @theweeknd and @chancetherapper are joining me. Who’s next?”
NICK GRIMSHAW’s appearance on Radio 1 made Noel Gallagher feel ancient.
The DJ has revealed the Oasis frontman knew his older brother Andy, who also used the nickname Grimmy.
Nick said: “At the time my brother was going out in Manchester and he was friends with the HAPPY MONDAYS and Oasis when they were forming.
“After years and years had passed, when I was living in London and I’d just started on Radio 1, I’d be like ‘Hi, it’s Grimmy’. I guess it was when I was new.
“Noel texted my brother and said, ‘Some k***head on Radio 1 is calling himself Grimmy, you better sort that out’.”
Nick added on Clara Amfo's This City podcast: “My brother was like, ‘Yeah, that’s our Nick’. And Noel was like, ‘Nick? Nick’s eight’. He’d known me when I was a little kid. Noel was like, ‘He’s on radio? That means we’re f***ing well old then’.”
Harry no to shows
FANS banking on seeing Harry Styles in the coming months have had their hopes dashed after he postponed his European tour for a second time.
He tweeted last night: “Everyone’s health and safety remains our top priority, which is why I unfortunately have to postpone my UK and European shows planned for Feb/March 2021 until further notice.
“I really hope to play these shows and will have news for you in the New Year on when they will take place.
“I can’t wait to see you all on the road as soon as it’s safe to do so.
“Treat people with kindness.”
Despite postponing his Love On Tour shows, Harry is still intending to get back on stage in the US in August.
It's a mad outfit
MADISON BEER knows a thing or two about how to catch the eye.
The US singer wore this shredded outfit for a performance of her song Selfish, which went live on Vevo today.
The track will feature on her long-awaited debut album Life Support. It is now set to be released on February 26, having been seven years in the making.
She signed her first record deal aged 13, in 2013, after Justin Bieber bigged up her cover version videos on YouTube.
Last Friday she put out her latest single Boys**t which will also feature on her album.
With a title like that, she obviously doesn’t mince her words – even though her clothes look like they have been through the mincer.
Jingle bell shock
JAMES Corden invited viewers into Santa’s twerkshop where he performed an X-rated song with rapper Megan Thee Stallion.
In the skit for The Late Late Show, the pair sang Savage Santa, a take on her No1 Savage.
They rapped: “I’m Santa, make your north pole tingle, bells are gonna jingle, bi*ch.”
I’ll stick to Mariah Carey to soundtrack my Christmas.
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Ambulances, Police Vehicles and Fire Trucks
in San Antonio and South Texas
By Hugh Hemphill, author of "San Antonio On Wheels"
and "The Railroads of San Antonio and South Central Texas."
Our thanks to the San Antonio Police Department Historical Association for their invaluable assistance with both information and images on this page. See link on right hand side for more about the SAPD HS
Joint SAFD & SAPD buiding in San Antonio
Combined SAPD and SAFD building at the corner of St. Marys and Market Strets in San Antonio in 1915
Hospitals, doctors, the police and the fire service have always needed specialized vehicles to carry out their tasks. Doctors used lightweight one horse wagons with high, narrow wheels capable of carrying just one person and the famous medical bag over any terrain under the worst conditions. It was easier for the horse to pull a wagon than have all that weight on its back and less tiring for the human as well. Also, many doctors were no longer in the first flush of youth and could no longer ride a horse, with knees and hips beginning to fail. As hospitals developed they employed lightweight covered wagons to bring in patients. These were given the name ambulance, the same word used to describe wagons designed to carry wagon train guards who had pulled overnight sentry duty. Over time the word has come to apply to only to only medical vehicles.
Early Ambulances
Horse drawn ambulance in San Antonio.
Ambulance at the San Antonio Physicians and Surgeon's Hospital, 1903.
Model Ts at TTM 2008.
San Antonio Military Vehicle Show, September 2009. A partnership of the Texas Transportation Museum and the Alamo Military Vehicle Preservation Association.
Very often, the first person in town to own an automobile was a doctor. He could justify the expense because instead of only being able to make two or three house calls a day using a horse, he might be able to make seven or eight with a car. The automobile industry copied the carriage trade and built vehicles specifically for this group, usually lightweight one or two seat vehicles with a large trunk and good ground clearance. Two of San Antonio's earliest automobile pioneers, Dr. Richard Goeth and L.F. Birdsong, were both ticketed for speeding to a patient. While Dr. Goeth, who was stopped by the same policeman he had early almost bowled over on Alamo Plaza, allegedly on his way to a medical emergency, managed to avoid a fine, Birdsong was not so lucky, though it is arguable that as a railroad surgeon, Goeth may not have been strictly telling the truth while Birdsong had been approached by another doctor whose own car had refused to start. These incidents led to the city including a requirement in subsequent traffic ordinances that persons using their own vehicles for medical emergencies display a prominent green cross on their windshields
Early Doctor Vehicles
Horse drawn doctor's carriage at the Texas Transportation Museum.
1921* Ford Model T doctor's coupe at the SAS Shoe Factory. (* Educated guess of the year model)
Dr. Richard Goeth, SA Auto Club president.
1950s Buick Ambulance
SAPD - the San Antonio Police Department
San Antonio Police Department horse patrol
Horse drawn San Antonio Police department patrol wagon, San Antonio.
San Antonio Police department patrol wagon, San Antonio. The word ambulance had yet to be used exclusively for medical vehicles
Although the city published its first set of road regulations, including the instruction that automobiles must drive on the right side of the road, in 1910, it was not until August 1915 that the San Antonio police department acquired its first department owned motorized vehicle, an air-cooled Franklin purchased from local dealer Lewis Birdsong. The department paid $2,050, $46,600 in today's money, for the Franklin intended for Police Chief Lancaster. Mr. Birdsong's own records indicate that he had sold a Franklin to the department in 1910 but this may have been a private sale. Two officers may also have used their own motorcycles for police work before the department acquired its own machines. These followed the tradition of many officers using their own horses prior to mechanization. At the same time, the department was also authorized to purchase more automobiles and motorcycles. By November 1917 these had been acquired, giving the department the use of five automobiles and eleven motorcycles. By this time the automobile and its attendant problems were commonplace in San Antonio, where the first automobile club had been formed by thirteen charter members, including Mr. Birdsong, as early as 1903. At the same time the San Antonio Light was reporting on the acquisition of vehicles for the SAPD, it reported that a local plumber, Jonathan Bowman, a 72 years old immigrant from Liverpool, England, was struck by a north bound automobile on Alamo Plaza, immediately outside the Menger Hotel. He died in the horse drawn ambulance operated by Riebe, presumably a local contractor. The automobile's driver, one Felice Rojas, was arrested. He stated that Mr. Bowman had simply stepped off the sidewalk right into his path, perhaps failing to appreciate that cars go faster than horse drawn carriages. Local papers were also talking about the problem of overly bright head lamps at this time. Even the lowly Model T introduced a resistor into it circuitry to stop its six volt headlights receiving too much power from the magneto. A proper dimmed position was introduced in 1919.
San Antonio Light news item about SAPD's acquisition of automobiles and motorcycles, June 9, 1914
San Antonio Light news item about SAPD's acquisition of automobiles and motorcycles, June 25, 1914
San Antonio Light news item about SAPD's acquisition of automobiles and motorcycles, Nov. 17, 1915
In 1919 Comal County posted speed signs in and around New Braunfels and hired two motorcycle officers to enforce the 18 MPH speed limit on Highway 2, the post road between San Antonio and Austin. Within San Antonio, the posted speed limit in the downtown business district was a mere 10 MPH. Just outside this zone it rose to 18. Within the city limits it was 25 but persons passing on the highway were supposed to slow to 15 as most roads were still only sixteen feet wide, so the margin for error was very limited. The first electronically linked traffic lights in America were installed in Houston in 1922. San Antonio got its first set one year later. In the same year the department finally retired its last horse and set up a squad to deal with the growing problem of automobile theft.
1921 City of San Antonio Traffic Regulations
Texas Ranger and car, 1928
L.F. Birdsong near an automobile wreck on the main road to Laredo, circa 1920
Car wreck involving a train, San Antonio, 1939
By 1932 SAPD police cars could receive messages over the radio from police headquarters but it would take another three years before two way communication was possible. The department acquired four high speed patrol cars in 1934. The first parking meters in the city arrived in 1936. While it is sadly true that more people dies in automobile accidents in San Antonio each year than are murdered, the good news is that the death rate per thousand is only half hat is was in 1921. The police department also operated the first motorized ambulances in the city but this activity soon passed to funeral homes. Not all funeral homes thought this was a good idea. Porter Loring quit the business within just a few years in 1929. The crews were not provided with any training to take care of seriously injured accident victims. According to Emil Knaus, one of the first fire fighters in the city to be trained for emergency rescue work, they had also managed to acquire a rather unsavory reputation for dawdling if they thought the charge might die in order to capture the ensuing movement of the corpse. As in the rest of the country San Antonio made the emergency ambulances part of the fire department and began training fire department personnel to become emergency medical technicians, or EMTs. With the introduction of trained staff, and the correct movement of injured people, the number of both fatalities and serious long term complications has diminished rapidly.
SAPD Motorcycles
SAPD motorcycles at the Alamo
SAPD motor cycles cops in 1932
SAPD motorcycles, 1940
SAPD motorcycles at a 2014 Fiesta parade
SAPD bicycles at a 2014 Fiesta parade
While the SAPD did not officially acquire motor-cycles for patrol work until 1917, records and newspaper accounts indicate that some officers may have used their own machines for official purposes far earlier.
SAPD Vehicles
1941 SAPD Studebaker "Voice of Safety" with built in loud hailer
1941 SAPD commissioner "learning" how to park between the lines
New SAPD police cars at San Antonio city hall, 1946
SAPD incident investigation police car, 1946
950's SAPD crime scene investigation police car
San Antonio police officers at the corner of W. Market and Main Streets
San Antonio police Studebaker at the Alamo, early 1950s
SAPD patrol car in San Antonio, 1954
Restored 1953 Chevrolet SAPD patrol car at the 2014 San Antonio Police Officers Association "Memorial Car Show," March 2014
SAPD 1957 Chevrolet police car
SAPD 1957 Plymouth police car
SAPD van in the 1960s
SAPD 1970s police car at the Alamo
SAPD 1990s police car
SAPD 1990s police cars, 2006
SAPD patrol vehicle at the 2014 San Antonio Police Officers Association "Memorial Car Show," March 2014
Privately owned vehicle owned by an SAPD police officer at the 2014 San Antonio Police Officers Association "Memorial Car Show," March 2014
Bexar County Sherriff's Department vehicle at a 2014 Fiesta parade
SAPD Helicopters
SAPD helicopter at the 2014 San Antonio Police Officers Association "Memorial Car Show," March 2014
SAPD helicopter assisting at the scene of an accident on HWY 281 at Nakoma
The SAPD acquired it's first helicopters in early 1971, the same year as Dallas. Unrestricted by ground obstructions, these speedy machines allow the SAPD to monitor traffic, look for missing persons, follow fugitives and get a situational overview during natural disasters, such as flooding and fires. The helicopter unit is based at Stinson Field on the south side of the city.
SAPD Bicycles
EMS bicycles at a Fiesta parade
SAPD bicycle cop on Alamo Plaza
Created in 1990 as part of an effort to clean up downtown San Antonio, the SAPD bike patrol was remarkbaly effective in making citizens feel safer and criminals far less so. They are now a most welcome fixture downtown.
Fire Fighting Vehicles and Equipment in San Antonio and South Texas
Few organizations need more specialized vehicles than the fire service. When the fire volunteer fire fighters, the Ben Milam Fire Company, was formed in San Antonio in 1854, they had little more than two wheeled carts with a few ladders and many buckets. The first horse drawn steam pumper arrived in 1868. By 1877 there were five different volunteer organizations. The Milam Steam Fire Company, #1, was on Market Street between Tyturri and Cochran Streets. The Alamo Fire Association, on Avenue C between Houston and Travis, was Company #2. As well as two colored fire companies there was also the Turner Hook and Ladder Company. This took its name from the Turn Verein athletic club. The fire company was just one of the many public organizations that sprang from the civic minded German community.
San Antonio fire steam pumpers, 1899
San Antonio fire fighters and wagon #5, 1910
1892 San Antonio steam pumper owned by the Witte Museum, now on display in Houston
1898 SAFD American LaFrance steam fire pumper now on display at the Texas Transportation Museum in San Antonio
These companies were united into the San Antonio Fire Department, or SAFD, in 1878 under H. Karber, but it remained an all volunteer force. The same year the creation of a city wide water system allowed for the introduction of fire hydrants but their equipment would continue to include pick-up hoses with cylindrical open grills to pump water from rivers and ponds for many years. The SAFD went professional in 1892. The same year three more steam pumpers, with fifty-six inch wheels in front and sixty-two at the rear, were delivered in person by Chris Ahrens of the Ahrens Fire Engine Company. One of these was donated to the museum in 1939 and is now on display at the Fire Museum in Houston.
San Antonio fire station on Culebra at Zarzamora, 1914
Original San Antonio fire station #7, on South Alamo, near the King William district
First San Antonio fire station #7, on South Alamo, near the King William district
Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, fire department, c 1919
Second San Antonio fire station #7, on South Alamo, near the King William district
Second San Antonio fire station #29, on South Presa at Steves
San Antonio fire fighters and truck, 1916
SAFD Chief Goetz in downtown San Antonio, 1921.
In 1898 the city acquired another horse drawn steam fire pumper, built by American LaFrance. Pulled by three horses abreast, this machine, built in Elmira, New York, used a modern Fox sectional boiler to create steam to operate the pump that projected water onto flames in buildings that were becoming larger and taller. It still remains within the city. It was donated to the Texas Transportation Museum in the 1970s having been in storage since its last service to the city, draining out flooded basements downtown after the great flood of 1921. Efforts to create a San Antonio fire museum have been floated on several occasions but have yet to bear fruit.
Fiery result of steam train meeting gasoline truck, San Antonio, 1947.
1958 American LaFrance fire truck "Alfie" fighting a fire with the North East Volunteer Fire Department in San Antonio
Old central San Antonio fire station near the Alamo, which it is hoped will become a fire fighter museum
Ford Model T Show, San Antonio, 2010.
These fire departments have grown as the city has swelled far beyond its original borders. The old North East VFD on Wetmore Road near Thousand Oaks closed for business when the area came under the jurisdiction of the SAFD. One its last pieces of business was to donate its much cherished 1958 American LaFrance fire truck, called Alfie, which had successfully served the area for decades, to the Texas Transportation Museum. This vehicle, was comprehensively restored thanks to the generosity of Roy Gilbert Jr., of SMT Truck Lines and has been used in numerous public activities, especially Fiesta parades, as has the 1924 Buffalo.
Fighting Fires in Alamo Heights
Early Alamo Heights Fire Truck
Alamo Heights fire station on Broadway.
Alamo Heights fire equipment.
In 1924 the Alamo Heights Fire Department, formed in 1922, purchased a fire truck from the Buffalo Fire Truck Company of Buffalo New York. This company failed during the Great Depression. The fire truck has a GMC chassis and, currently, an inline six cylinder engine built by the Continental Company. It has mechanical brakes, no synchromesh on its four speed transmission and no windshield. Nonetheless it provided sterling service to the city as a ladder truck until it was donated to the Texas Transportation Museum in the 1970s when the State of Texas passed a law that stipulated that no fire equipment could be more than twenty years old.
1924 Buffalo Ladder Fire Truck in Alamo Heights.
1924 Buffalo ladder fire truck in Alamo Heights - Note the snow!
Alamo Heights Volunteer Fire Department volunteers using their 1924 Buffalo fire truck as a parade vehicle in San Antonio
1924 Buffalo fire truck now owned by the Texas Transportation Museum in the 2012 Battle of Flowers parade in San Antonio
Fire Fighting in Seguin
First fire house and equipment, Seguin 1884.
Seguin's 2nd fire station, near the town square. Note Wichita Motor Company tractor and ladder truck second from left.
Horse drawn Seguin ladder truck, later converted to be pulled by a Wichita Motor Company built tractor.
Seguin ladder truck with Wichita Motor Company built tractor.
Seguin ladder truck with Wichita Motor Company built tractor restored, in Wichita Falls where the tractor was built.
The first fire department in Seguin was formed in 1884 in a small shed just off Austin Street, the main business street in town. As was the case across the state, it was an all volunteer organization. By the 1920s the department had become professional and occupied an imposing fire house on the main square. It fielded all modern equipment which included an articulated ladder truck updated from horse power to a tractor built by the Wichita Falls Truck Company.
Fire Fighting in South Texas
Bandera's first motorized fire equipment.
San Marcos fire station, 1920
Fredericksburg, Texas, firefighter practising with their equipment in 1938
Fire station in Marion, Texas.
Kids playing with fire equipment at a Kerrville Fair.
"San Antonio On Wheels" by Hugh Hemphill
1898 LaFrance Pumper
1958 American LaFrance Fire Truck
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San Antonio Police Department History
SAPD History on Facebook
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Replacing Big Energy with community solar
15 May 2018 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, Recommendation
The Geelong Community Solar Rebellion
Why I am interested in this community solar program
https://climatesafety.info/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/JenFuller_Sheryl_Lindsey2min032.mp3
Interviews with Jen Fuller, Sheryl Biddle and Lindsey Fuller recorded after Alex Georgiou’s presentation at Geelong Library on 14 May 2018
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Radio podcasts about the project
Two hours on 94.7 The Pulse:
People-powered solutions saving on emissions and money
Sow beauty and free energy, not pollution and destruction
Solar installer. Photo courtesy of Shinehub
Dan Cowdell and Alex Georgiou: Live radio interview
https://climatesafety.info/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ShinehubSolarGeelong_032kbps.mp3
11-minute excerpt of the interview in The Sustainable Hour
“Geelong residents will be among the first in the country to hear how they can save on their power bills by installing a solar panel system without any upfront cost. Fresh from releasing its new ‘Free System Solar’ initiative, ShineHub is coming to the Geelong region to pitch the opportunity through a series of free community forums. Under the ShineHub offer, homeowners can receive a free solar panel and battery system and in return they are required to pay for the electricity produced by the system at a low fixed price.”
» Geelong Advertiser – 30 April 2018:
Geelong residents among first in the country to hear how they can save on power bills with solar
Geelong Community Solar Program
Newsletter from Geelong Sustainability:
Save up to 90% on your energy bills with solar + battery technology
Free event! Expert advice on solar – exclusively for Geelong
Geelong Sustainability is excited to announce that ShineHub will be coming to Geelong in May to offer Geelong Sustainability supporters an exclusive deal to cut your electricity bills by up to 90% with solar and battery technology.
There will be 13 free local events in Greater Geelong, the Surf Coast, Colac, Bannockburn and Smythesdale. All you have to do to qualify is attend one of ShineHub’s upcoming events in your local area. Here’s a preview of what they will be offering:
ShineHub’s ultimate goal is to replace big energy with community solar. They began with one simple question: “If we were able to start the whole solar industry from scratch, what would that look like?”
This is the model they came up with:
Late last year, ShineHub spent just one month in Adelaide and they managed to help over 175 homes make the switch to solar, using their innovative approach. These homes can look forward to a cleaner, cheaper future – slashing their power bills by up to 90%!
» Click here to find your local event
Want to find out more about community solar and the ShineHub model?
Check out these two of their recent media stories:
‘TODAY’ on 9NOW – 18 APRIL 2018
Meet Craig Mercer, one of ShineHub’s customers who was able to turn his big energy bills into a credit, using solar and battery technology. Also, find out more about ShineHub’s ‘Free System Solar Plan’.
» Watch here
NEWS.COM.AU – 18 APRIL 2018
News.com.au provides a detailed analysis of ShineHub’s new ‘Free System Solar Plan’ including all the facts and figures specific to Victoria.
» The Fifth Estate – 15 May 2018:
Bill shock powers a renewables rush
“Almost half of Australian businesses are investing in renewable energy to beat rising power costs and reduce their carbon emissions, according to a new report from the Climate Council.”
» Geelong Sustainability – 15 May 2018:
Replacing big energy with people-powered community energy
Replacing Big Energy with People Powered Community Energy (newsletter to members)
» Ocean Grove Times – 17 May 2018:
“Grove business leads renewable push by going solar”
» Read more about the community solar program – and sign up for a meeting:
www.shinehub.com.au/geelong
https://twitter.com/alinojnat/status/989444249753014272
Find out about Community Solar Power https://t.co/B77cCShR2q thanks to @geelongsustain #community #solar #Sustainable pic.twitter.com/AREx9eVFmX
— Humans in Geelong (@HumansinGeelong) May 8, 2018
Recharge the clean energy transition
Here is a report for activists and foundations who want to understand how battery storage can become an essential new part of their clean energy and climate advocacy. It tries to answer two basic questions: 1) What do we need to know to understand these opportunities? and 2) What actions should we support to realise them?
The report explores the Top 10 emerging trends for battery storage across all elements of the energy system, and it recommends over 50 actions that should be taken to accelerate battery storage in these topic areas.
» Read the report: ‘Jump-Start: How Activists and Foundations Can Champion Battery Storage to Recharge the Clean Energy Transition’
» Medium | Urban Resilience Project – 14 May 2018:
Recharging the Clean Energy Transition with Battery Storage
“A new report shows how activists, foundations, and policymakers can incorporate battery storage into clean energy, environmental justice, and climate advocacy efforts.”
Taking power into their own hands
C|Net’s Claire Reilly has delivered an accurate report on what is going on in Australia at the moment:
“Tired of blackouts, high energy prices and fossil fusels, communities are ditching big electricity companies and taking power into their own hands.”
“Tyalgum is going off the grid. And for the people in this bohemian town in Australia’s east coast hinterland, the stakes are high.
As the existential threat of climate change grows, people and communities across the world are growing frustrated with governments dragging their feet on environmental policy and investment in renewable energy.
Australia is deeply dependent on fossil fuels, with around 90 percent of the country’s energy generation coming from oil, coal and gas. While other countries around the world go to 100 percent renewable energy, Australia’s federal government is unabashedly pro-coal. While other nations turn to renewables, Australia contemplates building a massive coal mine in the northeast of the country. When debates about volatile power prices hit the news, Australian politicians call for the construction of more coal-burning power plants. In 2017, the deputy prime minister at the time said he would support clean energy targets — if they included coal.
But climate change is real, and Australia is feeling the effects. With unstable energy prices, statewide blackouts and a fierce debate over fossil fuels, more Australians than ever want to take action on electricity.
For the people of Tyalgum, solar is the future.
That’s where the Tyalgum Energy Project comes in. The ambitious project wants to power the entire town with 100 percent renewable energy and, one day, begin selling excess power to the wider local area, turning Tyalgum into a community-owned energy retailer in its own right.
Tyalgum isn’t alone. Far from it.”
“We’re wedded to coal for the time being, but we need to be phasing out of it,” he said. “It’s going to happen sooner or later. Why not do it sooner? And why not get Australia involved in the economies involved with that?”
~ Mick Julien, member of the Tyalgum District Community Association
Renewables in reality: reliable and cheap
“With the diesel generators, there were always blackouts and brownouts,” he says. EDL, the company behind the project, “came in with these two big windmills and the solar panels, and ever since it’s been extremely reliable.”
It’s strange to think that this mining town of 3,500 people has been quicker to adopt renewables than many parts of Australia. But Wright has a message for the rest of the country.
“Just put the bloody solar panels and the wind in and stop telling us it’s unreliable,” he says. “They say, ‘It’s expensive’. But it’s going to be more expensive if none of us can bloody breathe.”
» Read the full article on www.cnet.com
“Why wait for fossil fools when we can build renewables ourselves?”
~ Michael Bones, Head of Engagement at Future Super
» My Future Super – 18 May 2018:
3 Solar Farms That Prove Everyday Aussies Can Supercharge The Renewables Revolution
Solar investor program launched in Geelong
At first, when Geelong Sustainability launched ‘CORE Geelong One’, about 30 people attended the event, where Dan Cowdell gave a presentation about the idea of finding 20 investors to finance the installation of over 500 solar panels generating 156kW on the roof of an aged care facility Multicultural Aged Care Services in North Geelong.
Only one week later, over $150,000 had been raised from individuals in the community wanting to invest in local community owned renewable energy.
“Geelong Sustainability is fully focused on the people power possible through community renewables – proud to be leading our region in the energy democracy movement by enabling community solar to replace big energy,” said Dan Dowdell. “We’ve been overwhelmed by the response since launching CORE Geelong One just seven days ago.”
He explains the concept and how it works in this presentation from April 2018:
CORE Geelong One is now fully subscribed. But you can register your interest to invest in Geelong Sustainability’s next community solar projects, and learn about the application process here:
www.geelongsustainability.org.au/invest-in-community-solar
» CORE news blog
» CORE group page:
www.geelongsustainability.org.au/core
Article in Armstrong Creek Times
» Solarquotes Blog – 27 April 2018:
Geelong Community Solar Energy Project Powering Ahead
» Geelong Advertiser – 10 October 2017:
Solar panel program at Multicultural Aged Care Services (MACS) complex in North Geelong
Surf Coast Times
https://twitter.com/climatecouncil/status/989398820466380800
Carbon rebellion leads to community rebuilding
ABC Landline ran a great episode on community energy projects, which is well worth a look. Australians can watch it on ABC iView on tv.
» ABC Landline – 7 April 2018:
‘People Power – Communities funding their own wind and solar projects’
“There are now 1.8 million households and businesses boasting solar rooftops in Australia, and that number is growing every week. Makes sense considering we live on the sunniest continent on earth! The rooftop revolution isn’t slowing down.”
~ Solar Citizens
» RenewEconomy – 24 April 2018:
Angry and frustrated, more customers are quitting the grid
“Recent data shows that the number of off-grid installations is increasing rapidly: a combination of new homes that don’t bother connecting to the grid, and an increasing number of on-grid homes that have had enough.”
» CNET – 24 May 2018:
Going off-grid: How remote towns are taking back the power
New Report: Shift to #Renewables would save #Australians $20bn a year
https://t.co/kIAPHEVtHS
"State & local gov., households, communities, farmers, & businesses large & small are getting on with the job of repowering #Australia"#EnergyTransition https://t.co/KSLtAGFiPv
— Prof Peter Strachan (@ProfStrachan) May 3, 2018
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Hardy Dining Chair
from Another Country
Delivery to UK in 3 days
Seat height 45.8 cm
Finish Oak
Material Solid Oak
Old Furniture, a poem by Dorset born Thomas Hardy, is an ode to beauty of furniture being handed down the generations, and David Irwin’s Hardy chair is a classic in the making.
Two chair typologies from the 19th century, Thomas Hardy’s birth century, inspired its design: firstly the Captain’s chair originally a low-backed wooden armchair and secondly, the Smokers bow, a low back Windsor, often used in smoking rooms, public houses, barbers shops and cottages.
David Irwin
David Irwin is an industrial designer driven by a curiosity for how and why things are made. For Irwin, design ideas grow from a desire to assign purpose to both traditional and contemporary manufacturing processes.
Originally from Northern Ireland, Irwin was drawn to Northumbria University in Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, by its reputation for hands-on teaching and a holistic approach to 3-D design.
In 2007, he was awarded the New Designers Peter Walker Award for Innovation in Furniture Design with his final project, a steam-bent timber frame chair. The Jed chair gave a contemporary twist to the traditional aesthetic of a lounge chair by utilising the inherent properties of timber through steam bending and natural soap flakes as a finish, to create very few environmental disadvantages. The chair also caught the eye of Bethan Gray, then Design Director at Habitat, who thought it would work well within the Habitat collection, giving David his first taste of the manufacture and retail process.
In 2010, Irwin completed a post-graduate fellowship in the Designers in Residence Program at Northumbria’s School of Design, a program that furnishes workspace, equipment and mentoring to chosen graduates of the 3-D Design program. A year later, he founded his own studio in Newcastle, where he has continued to produce designs which combine strong conceptual thinking with a fundamental usefulness, resulting in simple, innovative and refined solutions to aid our daily lives.
"I suppose the satisfaction I get from seeing an idea make the jump off paper and into reality is the reason I became a designer."- David Irwin.
Another Country makes contemporary craft furniture and accessories
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A Quiet Place and Silent Cinema
By James Prestridge March 28, 2018
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IT is rare that we go to the cinema in search of silence.
More often than not, the cinemagoer seeks out colourful, large and loud films that are ripe for escapism. The superhero movie is the current oasis for such distracting pleasures. A realm of perpetual motion where the viewer is hardly ever left in silence with their own thoughts.
The booming superhero cinematic experience is some way from the infancy of the art form – a time when film was bound to silence by technological limitation. A time when audiences could be satisfied merely by the moving image alone, whether it be of Topsy the electrocuted elephant or – later – by the highly-physical acting of Charlie Chaplin and his peers.
Audiences now crave sound. Filmmakers and their teams (especially sound designers) are under pressure to deliver intricate detail and cohesion. The viewer is just as much a listener – and craves layered, high-quality surround sound to fall into an immersive state. Perhaps one day content creators will be under similar pressure to focus on other senses such as touch and taste.
This attention to sound is why the conscious decision of a filmmaker to make their work silent for more than 20 seconds – or so – is considered brave and somewhat of a novelty. John Krasinski’s film A Quiet Place seems to be a prime example of that.
If the trailers are anything to go by, A Quiet Place uses silence – and the pressing, fatalistic need for silence – as a means for building tension. When the silence is broken, bad things are bound to happen.
Life or death silence in A Quiet Place
Silence in this way can be a simple but effective tool. Especially if you consider that when the film is silent, you feel an absence of sound not only on the screen but in your cinema chair too. It can make for an unnerving, uncomfortable shared experience – and perhaps why A Quiet Place looks so alluring.
This, of course, lends silence to the horror genre. The two mostly come together in a pre-jump-scare context as silence helps to build suspense before a visual jump and the accompanying sharp return of sound.
Of all the horrors to use silence in recent years, Hush and Don’t Breathe are the most noteworthy. Mike Flanagan’s Hush saw a deaf woman (played by the brilliant Kate Siegel) attempt to fend off a home invader. While Fede Alvarez and Nino Kirtadze’s film, Don’t Breathe, flipped the viewpoint. This time putting us in the home invaders’ shoes as they attempt to keep silent in the home of a gun-wielding blind man.
In both instances, audiences are left to soak in the uncomfortable dread of silence.
Last year, director David Lowery warned us we were in for an unusually quiet experience ahead of a screening of his ethereal film A Ghost Story. For Lowery, silence and stillness allowed him to create the reverse effect to action or horror flicks. Lowery’s prolonged, calm images gave space for meditative thought rather than unsettling anticipation.
Quiet images in David Lowery’s superb film A Ghost Story
As he put it: ‘I like when I go to see a movie that allows me time to think, when I’m not worried about when the next cut will occur. I don’t have to think about what is going to happen next. I can just exist in a moment and regard an image for a given period of time.’
A Ghost Story’s noticeably quiet experience was one of the true cinematic joys of 2017. A film far-flung from the noisy cinema we are usually fed.
A reminder that when silence is used artfully in film – whether it is for tension or for reflection – it can be golden. As the Tremeloes reminded us: ‘Silence is golden, golden.’
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Art$Pay Launches New Incubator Uptown
Rachael MacIntosh· July 3, 2019
Art$Pay is an organization that advocates for visual artists in the Waterloo Region. Over the last two and a half years, they have been working to help artists through efforts such as campaigning for fair pay, organizing exhibitions and events, and creating a directory of local artists to easily connect them to potential clients.
“[Art$Pay] is designed from my perspective of what’s hard about being an artist and making that easier,” said Cathy Farwell, visual artist and manager of Art$Pay.
Many people are aware that artists face financial struggles, but may not understand the factors that contribute to those struggles. Part of the issue is the undervaluation of art which results in artists getting unfair compensation for their work, if any at all.
For example, artists are often asked by local businesses to hang their work on the business’s walls for sale. There is the idea that this will give an artist exposure and a chance to sell their work, but it can often be much more trouble than it’s worth.
“[The businesses are] getting free decor, they’re getting their walls covered, they’re getting that person to bring it in and to install it and to hang it — and the person who produces the art never even covers overhead. Even if they sell a piece or two, that’s not enough to cover [overhead],” Farwell said.
Art$Pay works to get proper compensation for artists in situations like these and many others where their work may be undervalued.
Recently, Art$Pay has added a new project to their already impressive line up, a program supporting up-and-coming artists called Art Incubate. The program provides five recent graduates of the University of Waterloo Visual Arts program with free studio space for a year along with some funds to go towards materials and set-up. The current art incubate artists include Ioana Dragomir, Melika Hashemi, Andrew McKay, Steven Restagno and Jessie Rowe.
“[Art Incubate] is a continuation of our mission to make it easier to be an artist [in KW],” Farwell said.
“[It’s] an incubator where five people can work together, get to know each other, where I can help them get connected to the community, to other artists, to get them involved in exhibitions, help them find resources, materials, all that sort of thing.”
The two houses, located at 52 Regina St. and 56 Regina St. North in Waterloo, were offered to Art$Pay at nonprofit rates by development company Hip Developments. The houses are the location of Art Incubate, along with several other Art$Pay initiatives such as a window gallery and a space for exhibitions and other events.
Art$Pay’s Summer in the City exhibition is running from July 4 – August 27. Information about this and many other Art$Pay events can be found on their website.
Rachael MacIntosh
Rachael is a Staff Writer for the Community Edition
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Don’t forget to wear your helmet. Safety first. DAVE KLASSEN PHOTO
Easy Being Green: Temporary Bike Lanes
Stacey Danckert· October 8, 2020
October is the final month of a temporary bike lane program introduced earlier this year by Waterloo’s Regional Council Members to address space needs related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Regional Council should be applauded for such a bold move. They pledged about 30 kilometres of temporary lanes at a cost of approximately $500,000. In the end, the portion in Cambridge was relatively short-lived under pressure from some residents, but the rest remained, including a large portion of Westmount, Erb and Frederick among others.
Additionally, Waterloo and Kitchener also identified some streets as “quiet” streets for which signage indicated that roads should be a shared space. This is in addition to a pilot project already underway in uptown Waterloo, testing separated bike lanes.
With these efforts, the Region has helped get people out of cars and given them more ways to get around safely. We already know that if you build safe infrastructure, people are more likely to use it.
Although, the greatest need for additional space may have been during the height of the lockdown in May and June, there was a tremendous opportunity to use the reduction in cars to test a new approach for some roads.
After all, transportation is about half of our carbon footprint in this Region, so it is an important thing to address.
The pilot project has not had a serious impact on traffic congestion. Traffic has only slightly increased within acceptable limits.
One unintended benefit of the placement of temporary bike lanes is that it works to equalize the existing uneven distribution of cycling infrastructure for our less affluent areas.
Brian Doucet (a Canada research chair and associate professor in urban planning at the University of Waterloo) commented in a piece in The Record entitled “Westmount Road Bike Lanes a Path to a More Equitable Community”:
“The bike lanes installed by the Region of Waterloo have created new possibilities and opportunities in neighbourhoods that lacked the kind of transportation alternatives my neighbours and I take for granted.”
Since two of the major lessons of COVID-19 have been the issues of systemic racism and institutionalized disadvantage, this is at least a tiny step to build back better.
Looking at the overview of cycling infrastructure across the Region (there is a map on the Region’s website), it identifies a hodgepodge of solutions.
I continue to be dumbfounded about some of the missing pieces — a number of times while cycling, I have had a bike lane end abruptly, and some of the temporary lanes address that.
My experience is that cycling now feels significantly safer, and can be a much faster way to get across town. There are some challenges in getting into and out of the bike lanes, and pylons are too tightly placed because of their temporary nature.
By having these lanes for so short a time, we decrease the opportunity to transform how people traverse the Region. But I believe these lanes are evidence that we may be moving forward in a positive direction.
Ideally, we will start to see a shift from car-centric design to one that is built around people, active transit and strengthening local communities. Our mental, physical and environmental health all stand to win.
If you have enjoyed the bike lanes, or even just like that they were implemented — please share that feedback with Regional councillors through EngageWR.ca.
The lanes are there until the end of October, so if you haven’t already tried them, you definitely should! Challenge yourself to ride your bike the next time you run an errand, visit a friend or just go out and see where you end up.
Stacey Danckert is co-director of Waterloo Region Environment Network (WREN)
Stacey Danckert
Stacey is the co-Director of the Waterloo Region Environment Network (WREN), past Green Party candidate, has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience and is a passionate community volunteer. She works hard to build collaboration into everything she does and to empower others along the way. She is an eco-warrior who is continually pushing herself to learn more ways to help create a better future for her 2 sons. Follow her ponderings on Twitter @StaceyDanckert.
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When Amalee's grandmother dies, she inherits a very strange object: a huge champagne bottle filled with over a thousand dollars' worth of change. Amalee is told to spend the money on something important, so she decides to make a movie about endangered species. Soon there's as much going on behind the scenes as there is in front of the camera, as Amalee deals with a new friend, a very cute older boy, her wacky family friends, and a host of other challenges. She also discovers something she never expected to find -- a link with her mother, who disappeared and died when she was very little.
"Amalee's newfound filmmaking skills coincide with her emerging life skills, evident throughout in this very satisfying story." - School Library Journal
"...a treat to read." - The Horn Book
"Williams interweaves elements of environmental science, film production, first crushes and the very normal emotional growth of a tween's initial understanding of a mother's alcoholism and subsequent early demise...a multilayered work, offering a well-developed protagonist who has grown into a sincere, genuine, caring adolescent." - Kirkus Reviews
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Microsoft sees India as a global hub in Cloud Computing
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Microsoft Corporation feels India will play a major role in cloud computing and foresee India as a global hub in cloud services that has taken the technology world by storm.
“India will not only see a surge in cloud computing services but companies all over the world will look to India to support their transition to cloud computing,’’ Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said.
Microsoft is among a handful of companies betting big on cloud services, aiming to convince enterprises to give up building and managing data centres and switch to their computer capacity instead; competing against rivals such as Amazon, Google and AT&T as well as smaller firms like Rackspace and Terremark.
The transition that India will champion will seed 3 lakh jobs in five years, during which the business is estimated to grow to $70 billion, Microsoft said, quoting a study by Zinnov Management Consulting. Jobs will be generated in areas like cloud consulting, enabling software as a service, integrating offerings like Azure with IBM’s Blue Cloud or salesforce.com’s customer applications on cloud, and creating new applications.
For Indian businesses too, there is great potential, given that 30%, or $7 billion, of the global cloud computing work is to be offshored, said the Zinnov study.
Microsoft already has more than 600 customers for its cloud services, but wants a deeper head start over rivals after catcalls of playing catch-up in other tech fields have been growing louder by the day. The company is, therefore, sparing no efforts in making its cloud computing push a success in India, a market that is “developing very nicely”, where “piracy is reducing and intellectual property protection is better than in China”.
Microsoft said cloud is important in India as it is a catalyst for IT adoption. “We are successful at exporting IT services and talent. But when it comes to using technology domestically, we are quite poor,’’ says Microsoft India chairman Ravi Venkatesan.
There isn’t much use of computers and technology in schools, homes, government offices or by the more than 4 million small and medium businesses.
Even so “this is changing and cloud will be a huge catalyst in enabling this wave of IT adoption”, Mr Venkatesan said, because of the affordability factor.
Microsoft must also be pleased with some of the changes in the segment are taking off from its platform. Companies such as Cognizant, NIIT, CDC Software and Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, besides a host of independent software vendors, have developed training modules to applications on Azure. NIIT plans to train 1-lakh students on Azure in three years. Likewise, Cognizant has more than 400 engineers who have developed applications for healthcare and oil and gas sectors on the same platform.
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Sameer August 15, 2010 At 4:16 PM
Dear KShilp,
Please accept my appreciation towards your articles from last few weeks. I am working on Web 2.0 for which cloud computing is root.
I am amazed to see such dedication on cloud computing and constant follow up on a single beat from some one.
I am sure your post are adding much more knowledge value to all web professionals, like me, across the globe.
Keep it up…Looking further many more analyzed reviews on cloud computing.
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Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure marks key MUGA milestone at Roydon Primary School
Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure has celebrated the completion of a new Multi Use Games Area (MUGA) at Roydon Primary School, near Diss, with a special celebratory event.
The completion of the MUGA marked a key milestone in the delivery of the £5 million school project which the company is constructing for Norfolk County Council (NCC) under the Norfolk County Council Construction Framework. The scheme is part of a £169 million investment by NCC to increase the number of school places in Norfolk by expanding or building new schools.
The wider project works to improve Roydon Primary School will see the school undergo a large expansion, increasing its capacity from 250 to 420 students and is due to complete next year.
The build will create eight new classrooms, a main hall, food technology room, reception area, offices, toilets and storage space. Teachers will also be given a new staff room as part of the expansion, while sections of the school’s main building and library, which dates back to 1886, will be refurbished.
The project also involves the removal of four old mobile classrooms, and encompasses extensive external works including the construction of a new car park, vehicular entrance and remodelling of the existing car park to create a hard play area.
The whole school turned out for the event held outside on the MUGA, where stories were told and the school choir sang. Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure’s senior site manager Justin Hunt, cut a ribbon to mark the official opening of the games area before pupils and teachers enjoyed a kick-about on the new pitch with the project team and the company’s managing director in the East, Saul Humphrey with 12 footballs the company donated for the school’s PE lessons.
Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure managing director in the East, Saul Humphrey, said: “We thoroughly enjoyed celebrating the opening of the new games area at Roydon Primary School with this joy-filled event which included song, stories, and of course, a good kick-about on the new MUGA pitch!
“The project team has been privileged to get to know this great school community during our time on site. We’re delighted to have reached this key milestone on the project and to be making good progress on the construction of the new school.
“We look forward to delivering an outstanding new school for pupils and teachers at Roydon Primary School and to enjoying more celebrations in the future.”
During the celebration assembly Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure also presented the school with a defibrillator and has arranged defibrillator and first aid training for staff.
For more information about this news release please contact Ruth Cobban at Influential on 0151 239 5000 or email cobban@thisisinfluential.com
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You are here: HomeConsumer Action Law Centre ⁄ News ⁄ Other ⁄ Consumer Action welcomes the Victorian Government’s plan to establish a Fire Services Monitor
Consumer Action welcomes the Victorian Government’s plan to establish a Fire Services Monitor
Consumer Action Law Centre has welcomed the Victorian Government’s plan to establish a Fire Services Monitor to protect consumer interests as changes are made to the way the fire services levy is administered. The levy, which has traditionally been collected through insurance premiums, will soon be collected through land rates, meaning insurance premiums should drop – and drop significantly if industry claims about the impact of the levy are to be believed. But Consumer Action says the new monitoring body is necessary to ensure insurers reduce premiums by the full amount.
‘The fire services levy has traditionally been built into the cost of Victorians’ insurance, but as this will no longer be the case, Victorians should expect to see a drop in their insurance premiums. We’re pleased the Government has established an independent monitor as without independent oversight, there would be little motivation for insurers to pass on the full savings,’ said Gerard Brody, Director of Policy and Campaigns at Consumer Action.
‘There was an obvious risk that consumers would be paying the levy though their land rates and see minimal changes to their insurance costs. But with Professor Allan Fels in charge of a new monitoring body which has the power to take insurers to court if they fail pass on savings, we expect to see the insurance industry acting appropriately.
‘It will also be interesting to see whether removal of the levy will have an impact on levels of underinsurance. We very much doubt it – despite industry claims, removal of the levy in other jurisdictions has had little impact on rates of under-insurance. Consumer focussed solutions are necessary to attack this problem – including insurers increasing the availability of suitable products for renters and low income consumers, and making available payment options such as CentrePay, which enable consumers to smooth the impact of big bills,’ said Mr Brody.
The new monitoring body is the latest fire services levy announcement welcomed by Consumer Action which has previously supported moves to stop the Metropolitan Fire Brigade suing uninsured Victorians for the cost of a call out.
‘Previously if the MFB responded to a call out at a rental property and neither the property owner or resident had insurance, the MFB could sue either or both parties for the cost. But it’s clearly unfair for a tenant to be sued for faulty wiring that in no way could be their fault – the old system was arbitrary and had the potential to cost innocent parties thousands of dollars.
‘One of the advantages of the levy now being charged on property rates is that all properties will be covered for the cost of a call out and innocent parties won’t be left holding the bill,’ said Mr Brody.
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Sick Love Zine Launches ‘What’s It To You’ Series Featuring Shea Universe | Music News
21 Dec 2020 — Filed Under: Music, Music News
What’s It to You!? is a six part interview series created by Sick Love Zine that aims to introduce its audience to up-and-coming artists whilst exploring issues or topics important to them, giving an hosted and informed insight into the artists and their lives.
Hosted by Tallulah Syron, the show is set on acting as an unconventional ‘get to know’ for the artists, offering viewers a deeper insight into who the artist actually is and what interests them.
The show will be airing weekly from the 14th of December (with a one-week break for Christmas!) and features a variety of talented and charismatic artists such as Shae Universe, P**sy Liquor, Suzi Wu, Elli Ingram, Quarry and Charles.
The series will cover a wide range of topics, from songwriting as a dyslexic to women in ancient history. These interviews are sure to be a great watch, not only for the topics discussed but the activities performed during.
Suzi was being tattooed by her sister Needle Nymph, P**sy Liquor were painting with vibrators provided by Naked Grapefruit, and Elli Ingram and Tallulah cooked us lunch! Our first episode with Shae Universe is out now, in which Tallulah travels to Watford to talk to Shae about being a woman in R&B and the wider industry, whilst they drink milkshakes in Kaspas.
As a result of the pandemic the music industry has become increasingly distanced from the audience. What’s it to You!? seeks to build a strengthened connection between artist and audience by providing an unfiltered look into the lives of a some of the UK’s finest up-and-coming talent.
Make sure to follow Sick Love on Instagram for regular updates on What’s it to You!? and subscribe to their Youtube. Watch the first episode with Shae Universe below.
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Thousands Of Ancient Rock Wall Paintings Discovered In Amazon Forest: Report
Thousands of ancient rock paintings believed to have originated around 12,500 years ago have been discovered in Colombia by a team of British and Colombian archaeologists, The Guardian reported Monday.
The discovery has been hailed as the “Sistine Chapel of the ancients.” Stretching across eight miles of cliff faces, the immense size of the discovery means it will likely take generations to completely study, The Guardian noted.
The age of the drawings is estimated by what is depicted, such as a long-extinct relative of the elephant called the mastodon that has not been in South America for at least 12,500 years, according to the newspaper, which added that other ancient animals such as the palaeolama, giant sloths and ice-age horses are also depicted.
The drawings, located in the Serranía de la Lindosa, an extremely remote area where other rock paintings have been discovered before, were first discovered last year but have been kept secret until now, The Guardian noted. In order to reach the site, team members had to drive two hours out of San José del Guaviare before making a four-hour trek to the location.
“The new site is so new, they haven’t even given it a name yet,” archaeologist and documentarian Ella Al-Shamahi said, according to The Guardian.
“We started seeing animals that are now extinct,” added project leader José Iriarte, professor of archaeology at Exeter University and expert on the Amazon and pre-Columbian history. “The pictures are so natural and so well made that we have few doubts that you’re looking at a horse, for example. The ice-age horse had a wild, heavy face. It’s so detailed, we can even see the horse hair. It’s fascinating.”
Iriarte also reportedly said the drawings, which appear to show smaller groups of figures raising their arms around animals, could be depictions of worship.
“For Amazonian people, non-humans like animals and plants have souls, and they communicate and engage with people in cooperative or hostile ways through the rituals and shamanic practices that we see depicted in the rock art,” said Iriarte, according to The Guardian.
Iriarte says there are likely more paintings waiting to be found.
“We’re just scratching the surface,” he said.
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Your right to know Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Oil drops almost 2% as new coronavirus strain renews demand fears
Oil prices dropped almost 2% on Tuesday to below $50 a barrel, adding to losses from the previous session, as a new coronavirus strain in the United Kingdom revived concerns over demand recovery.
The detection of the new strain prompted several countries to close their borders to Britain, although a British minister said the UK and France are working to reopen one of Europe’s most important trade routes.
Brent crude was down 72 cents, or 1.4% to $50.19 a barrel at 0915 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude fell 76 cents, or 1.6%, to $47.21.
Both benchmarks slid nearly 3% on Monday, partly erasing recent gains driven by the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines seen as key to allowing a return to normal life.
“In the battle between immediate negative concerns and future optimism, the former is now fighting back,” said Tamas Varga of oil broker PVM.
The latest rally culminated in Brent hitting $52.48, its highest since March, on Friday. Some see potential for prices to fall further. “The environment remains decidedly risk-averse,” said Jeffrey Halley of brokerage OANDA. “Given the scale of oil’s two-month rally, a deeper correction cannot be ruled out.”
Oil gained support from the US Congress approving a $892 billion coronavirus aid package after months of inaction.
In focus will be the latest US oil inventory reports, expected to show crude stocks fell by 3.3 million barrels. The American Petroleum Institute’s report is due at 2130 GMT. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies, known as OPEC+, are set to boost output by 500,000 barrels per day in January. There is no sign yet of any wavering induced by the price drop. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak on Monday said the rise in output should not result in a glut.
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Barcelona earn narrow win over Huesca in La Liga
HUESCA: Barcelona edged La Liga’s basement club Huesca 1-0 on Sunday courtesy of a Frenkie de Jong goal made by Lionel Messi in the Argentine’s 500th league appearance for the club. Dutch midfielder De Jong arrived at the far post to meet a Messi cross and score on the volley in the 27th minute to give the visitors a deserved lead after a rampant start. But Ronald Koeman’s side failed to take their many other chances and in the end were made to sweat for all three points. Huesca could have levelled in the second half when the ball trickled across Barca’s area and striker Rafa Mir directed a backheel at goal but the shot lacked power and keeper Marc-Andre Ter Stegen made the save despite seeing the ball late.
The win took Barca above Sevilla and into fifth place in the standings on 28 points, 10 behind leaders Atletico Madrid who beat Alaves 2-1 earlier on and who have a game in hand on the Catalans. Huesca stay bottom with 12 points. “It’s evident we need to kill off our opponents in games like these; we suffered too much in the end,” said Barca keeper Ter Stegen. “But these are three very important points, we had to suffer for them and games like this are very important when you want to win the title. “They hacked us a bit in the first and second half and we weren’t able to take our chances but we stayed focused throughout.” Barca had been held to a frustrating 1-1 draw at home to Eibar in their last match and had also lost Philippe Coutinho to a serious knee injury but they could at least welcome back Messi, who had missed that match with an ankle problem.
The Argentine looked slightly off the pace in his milestone league match and wildly missed the target with a left-footed volley in the first half when the sensible option would have been to take it with his right. He made amends with an clever piece of play for the only goal of the game, however, picking out De Jong with a sensational, curling cross. Messi came close to scoring himself late in the first half with a free kick but Huesca keeper Alvaro Fernandez got across to tip his shot over the crossbar.
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Sakya and Kālacakra: the Galo, Śākyaśrī and Vajrayogini lineages and contemporary master, Chogye Rinpoche
20th May 2019 Dakini Translations
The Sakya and Kālacakra: Lineage teachers of many Jonang masters, including Dolpopa. Also, holders of the most direct lineage of Kālacakra in the world today, given directly by Vajrayogini, the Sakya have a strong history and connection to Kālacakra.
In this short blog post, I discuss the Kālacakra lineages of Sakya, contemporary masters and post some photos of my recent visit to the late Sakya Kālacakra master, Chogye Trichen Rinpoche’s monastery (Jamchen Lhakhang) in Boudha, Nepal and his small kudung stupa housed in his former personal residence there.
Considering that much has been written the tradition of Kālacakra in relation to HH 14th Dalai Lama and Gelugpa and more recently, the Jonang, I have sought to balance this out, by writing about the Kālacakra traditions and masters in Kagyu: see here and here, and Nyingma: see here and here.
The Sakya Lineages
The Sakya lineage are also important holders in the history of the Kālacakra tradition. As Jetsun Tāranātha writes in One Hundred Blazing Lights, there are seventeen identifiable lineages of Kālacakra that were brought from India to Tibet by Indian mahasiddhas. These were compiled by the Jonang master Kunpang Chenpo; see post about these lineages here.
Two of these lineages, distinct from the Dro and Rwa lineages that are mainly practised today, are clearly identifiable Sakya lineages. These are:
The six-branch yoga of the Hevajra mother tantra that Galo [Ga Lotsāwa (1105/1110 – 1198/1202) was a great siddha and translator who visited India; also known as Palchen Galo [‘Galo’ is an abbreviation of Ga Lotsāwa, or “the translator of the Ga clan”] gave to the great Sakyapa Lama Kunga Nyingpo.[1]
That which the great Kashmiri Pandit Śākyaśrī[2] also gave to the Lord of Dharma Sakya Panchen[3], distinguished by the Six Vajra Verses of the hearing lineage.
In addition, Kunkhyen Dolpopa (1292-1361), one of the main Jonang master and founders, who was also considered to be an accomplished practitioner of Kālacakra, got the original transmission and instructions on it from Sakya lineage masters. As his Treasury of Lives biography states:
In 1309 he traveled to Mustang (glo) to study the treatises on the vehicle of the perfections, epistemology, and abhidharma with the master Kyiton Jamyang Drakpa Gyeltsen (skyi ston ‘jam dbyangs grags pa rgyal mtshan, d.u.). Kyiton soon left Mustang and went to teach in the great monastery of Sakya (sa skya) in the Tsang region of Tibet, and Dolpopa followed him there in 1312. Dolpopa received many teachings from Kyiton at Sakya, the most important of which were the Kālacakra Tantra, the Bodhisattva Trilogy (sems ‘grel skor gsum), the ten Sutras on the Buddha-nature (snying po’i mdo), the five Sutras of Definitive Meaning, and the Five Treatises of Maitreya. He became an expert in the Kālacakra tradition he received from Kyiton and served as his teaching assistant for several years. He also received teachings and initiations from other masters at Sakya, such as the Sakya throne-holder of the Khon (‘khon) family, Daknyi Chenpo Sangpo Pel (bdag nyid chen po bzang po dpal, 1262-1324). From Kunpang Drakpa Gyeltsen (kun spangs grags pa rgyal mtshan, d.u.) he again received the Vimalaprabhā commentary on the Kālacakra Tantra.
In terms of contemporary Sakya masters, there appears to be few today alive who practise or give empowerments of it. I attended a Kālacakra empowerment in London in 2012, given by HH 41st Sakya Trizin, who has given the empowerments several times in different countries.
The only other contemporary Sakya master who practised and gave empowerment of it was Chogye Trichen Rinpoche (bco brgyad khri chen) aka Ngawang Khyenrab Thupten Lekshé Gyatso (ngag dbang mkhyen rab thub bstan legs bshad rgya mtsho) (1920-2007), who was also the root lama of one of the main scholars and translators of Dolpopa and the Jonang lineage, Dr. Cyrus Stearns. Chogye Rinpoche was the head of the Tsarpa branch of the Sakya school. He was born in Tsang in 1920 and was recognized by the Thirteenth Dalai Lamas the reincarnation of the previous Chogye Rinpoche of the Nalendra Monastery. For a more extensive biography of Rinpoche see this blog post here.
Chogye Trichen Rinpoche
Chogye Rinpoche and the direct lineage of Kālacakra from Vajrayogini
According to biographies, the previous Chogye Trichen Rinpoches, Khyenrab Choje (1436–97), beheld the sustained vision of the female tantric deity Vajrayogini at Drak Yewa in central Tibet, and received extensive teachings and initiations directly from her. Two forms of Vajrayogini appeared out of the face of the rocks at Drak Yewa, one red in color and the other white, and they bestowed the Kālacakra initiation on Khyenrab Choje. When he asked if there was any proof of this, his attendant showed the master the kusha grass that Khyenrab Choje brought back with him from the initiation. It was unlike any kusha grass found in this world, with rainbow lights sparkling up and down the length of the dried blades of grass.
This direct lineage from Vajrayogini is the ‘shortest’, the most recent and direct, lineage of the Kālacakra empowerment and teachings that exists in this world. Not much as been written or studied about this lineage, I am thinking of writing another post soon about this lineage and transmission in more detail, if the materials are easily accessible.
In addition to being known as the emanation of Manjushri, Khyenrab Choje had previously been born as many of the Kings of Shambhala as well as numerous Buddhist masters of India. These are some indications of his unique relationship to the Kālacakra tradition.
Chogye Trichen Rinpoche is the holder of six different Kālacakra initiations, four of which, the Bulug, Jonang, Maitri-gyatsha, and Domjung, are contained within the Gyude Kuntu, the Collection of Tantras compiled by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo and his disciple Loter Wangpo. Rinpoche has offered all six of these empowerments to Sakya Trizin, the head of the Sakya School of Tibetan Buddhism.
Rinpoche has given the Kālacakra initiation in Tibet, Mustang, Kathmandu, Malaysia, the United States, Taiwan, and Spain, and is widely regarded as a definitive authority on Kālacakra. In 1988 he traveled to the United States, giving the initiation and complete instructions in the practice of the six-branch Vajrayoga of Kālacakra according to the Jonangpa tradition in Boston.
Chogye Rinpoche has completed extensive retreat in the practice of Kālacakra, particularly of the six-branch yoga (sadangayoga) in the tradition of the Jonangpa school according to Jetsun Taranatha. According to one report, when Chogye Rinpoche was young, one of his teachers dreamed that Rinpoche was the son of the King of Shambhala, the pure land that upholds the tradition of Kālacakra. (See biography of Chogye Trichen Rinpoche in “Parting from the Four Attachments”, Snow Lion Publications, 2003.)
Cyrus Stearns, who translated for Chogye Rinpoche when he was in the USA for the teachings on the six vajra-yogas, told me that:
As far as I know, the Kālacakra and six yogas (Sbyor drug) are not practiced at all in the Sakya tradition these days. Chogye Rinpoche was the only Sakya lama who taught the six yogas and had a special interest in that practice. Early six yogas texts from India and Tibet, some of the later ones such as Taranatha’s Mthong ldan, Rtags tshad yi ge, etc., and more recent works by Kongtrul are included in the Gdams ngag mdzod and Rgyud sde kun btus collections. Chogye Rinpoche was the main holder of the Rgyud sde kun btus collection, which he passed to HH the Sakya Trizin. Other lamas were also present when Rinpoche gave the empowerment and taught the Mthong ldan, and gave the lung for all the six yogas texts in the collection and the Kālacakra Tantra, and all the other related texts in the Kangyur.
I recently visited Chogye Trichen Rinpoche’s monastery in Boudha, Nepal and went up to see his small stupa and personal room at the monastery, which is normally closed to visitors. I spoke to an old lama, Lama Wangdu (who according to Stearns was always with Rinpoche and was his personal assistant during the Kālacakra empowerments and teachings), who stated, confirming what Stearns said, that there were no other Sakya lamas who could give the transmission of the six yogas text in Nepal. The Kālacakra six-yogas tradition appears to be dying out within the Sakya lineage. The 42nd Sakya Trizin gave the Kālacakra empowerment last year in the USA.
Since Chogye Trichen Rinpoche passed away in 2007, his two assistants, Chogye Shabdrung and Gar Shabdrung have been working together. The Chogye Shabdrung Rinpoche is now the 26th Chogye Trichen.
See below some photos I took of the stupa and room of Chogye Rinpoche at his monastery in Nepal.
The kundung stupa at Chogye Rinpoche’s former personal residence at his monastery in Boudha, Nepal.
Special thanks to Lordshri Gurung for his helpful suggestion to visit this monastery.
Photo below of Chogye Rinpoche with the 17th Karmapa, Orgyen Trinley Dorje, HH 41st Sakya Trizin and HH 14th Dalai Lama.
[1] Sakyapa Lama Kunga Nyingpo (1092 – 1158) was the first Sakya throne holder and the founder of Sakya monastery.
[2] Śākyaśrī Bhadra (1127- 1225), whose immense learning was incomparable even in India, was head of the famed dharma universities of Vikramaśilā and Nalanda, and who was continually blessed with visions of the mother of the buddhas, Arya Tara, was the last of the great Indian panditas to visit Tibet.
[3] Sakya Paṇḍita Künga Gyeltsen (chos rje sa skya paṇḍita kun dga’ rgyal mtshan (1182- 1251)) was a Tibetan spiritual leader and Buddhist scholar and the fourth of the Five Sakya Forefathers (sa skya gong ma lnga). Künga Gyeltsen is generally known simply as Sakya Paṇḍita, a title given to him in recognition of his scholarly achievements and knowledge of Sanskrit. He is considered to be the fourth Sakya Forefather and sixth Sakya Trizin and one of the most important figures in the Sakya lineage.
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Enari Hernandez (L), 6, and her cousin Maritza Jimenez (R), 6, play in front of a damaged tree in their neighbors yard on December 6, 2013 in Plano. (credit: Stewart F. House/Getty Images)
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Freezing rain and stinging winds slammed the area Friday and made a strangely blank landscape out of normally sun-drenched North Texas: mostly empty highways covered in a sometimes impassable frost, closed schools and businesses, and millions of residents hunkered down for icy conditions expected to last through the weekend.
Earlier this week, many in Texas were basking in spring-like temperatures that hit the 80s. But by Thursday, Texas was facing the same wintry blast that has slammed much of the U.S., bringing frigid temperatures, ice and snow.
The weather forced the cancellation of Sunday’s Dallas Marathon, which was expected to draw 25,000 runners, some of whom had trained for months. A quarter of a million customers in North Texas were left without power, and many businesses told employees to stay home to avoid the slick roads.
Rob Yates, 44, of Rowlett, had trained for four months to participate in the half-marathon Sunday — his first time competing at that distance. His wife and three children were going to attend the race to volunteer and cheer him on, he said.
Now, “I’ll probably be catching up on some work,” Yates said, laughing.
Yates spent Friday at home with his children, who were outside pulling off icicles and wishing more snow had fallen. But Yates, originally from near Manchester, England, said he stayed inside with his wife.
“It’s kind of unusual weather for Dallas, so they’re just having fun with it,” Yates said. “Me and my wife — adults are not particularly impressed with it.”
Friday’s storm stretched from South Texas, where anxious residents bagged outdoor plants to protect them from the cold, through the Midwest and Ohio Valley and up into northern New England and the Canadian Maritimes.
In North Texas, agencies and residents haven’t forgotten the disastrous week before the Super Bowl two years ago, when an inadequate response to a snowstorm crippled the region and left visitors stranded on impassable highways.
People in the Dallas area raided grocery shelves and home improvement stores Thursday in advance of what one store manager joked was the Black Friday of bad weather — “Ice Friday.” Most people appeared to heed warnings Friday to stay inside.
Bundled up against the elements, Matthew Johnson was one of the few people braving the cold Friday.
“We’re going to walk the dog and have fun outside, I guess,” said Johnson, standing near his home in the Dallas suburb of Richardson.
The weather led to more than 1,000 cancellations at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, one of the nation’s busiest airports and a key hub for Fort Worth-based American Airlines. Many travelers were stuck waiting — and hoping for another flight. Those arriving in North Texas were having trouble finding cabs as many drivers stayed home. Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) light rail trains were not running.
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Rosibel Gutierrez Artavia, shivering in a light sweater as she waited for a taxi, had traveled from Alajuela, Costa Rica, to suburban Fort Worth to see family. Relatives called her before she left Costa Rica to warn her to pack warm. But she got the call when she was already at the airport.
“I did not come prepared with snow clothes,” Artavia said in Spanish.
But she was thankful the weather didn’t prevent her from boarding a flight that got her from Houston to North Texas and close to her family.
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Julie Bahbaz, 31, of Little Rock, Ark., was planning to run in the marathon but decided Friday not to try to drive the more than 300 miles to Dallas shortly before the race was canceled.
“I’ve been thinking about it for the last couple of days and hoping (the forecasts) were wrong, but apparently not,” Bahbaz said.
Police in Arlington reported one driver was killed when his car slammed into a truck. Authorities in Oklahoma reported two weather-related traffic deaths.
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Defense Grid: The Awakening(Microsoft Xbox 360)
Michael Merhar | September 14, 2009 | Archive, Top Story, Video Game Reviews, Xbox 360 | 4 Comments
Defense Grid: The Awakening
Developer: Hidden Path Entertainment LLC
Publisher: Hidden Path Entertainment LLC
Tower Defense games are something I have never really gotten a chance to get into. The idea of placing towers and letting waves of enemies take something from you didn’t sound appealing to me. Of course I have played numerous real time strategy games that involve defensive towers but they also utilized offensive strength as well. In fact, when I played games like Starcraft or Civilization I was always about building up my defenses and maximizing my armies with upgrades before crushing my opponents. This made for a longer game experience and sometimes my own destruction as some opponents couldn’t wait to be crushed by me. There have been a few tower defense games like Crystal Defenders that have made it to the XBLA, but they have only fueled my lack of appeal for this genre. That particular game was just plain awful. Defense Grid comes to the XBLA having been ported from a PC game that came out a while back. It was pretty popular on the PC but can it transition well to the XBLA and change my opinion of this genre or will it be another arcade game to be forgotten within a year?
Let’s Review
Story/Modes
With strategy games like Defense Grid you can’t expect too much of a story. Basically some aliens invaded a thousand years ago and now they have come back to attack your power cores. The power cores keep your British accented A.I. alive and offering to buy you drinks. Well, he said he would buy me a drink if he could. Now that the aliens are back you must build defense towers to protect your cores. There is a little more to the story but not much more. Let’s be honest :for those of you who enjoy these types of games, a story is not necessary. All you need is something to protect and that is what the story is set up to do.
The game comprises of 20 story campaigns that should take about 10+ hours to complete. Even more time is required if you suck at strategy games. After completing each campaign, you have the option to complete additional challenge modes on them. There are anywhere from two to six challenges modes per map. In all there are over 100 different challenge modes. Each challenge allows you to play the map in a totally different way. Also included with XBLA is four additional campaign maps called the Borderlands. This expansion for now is exclusive to XBLA. These maps also include challenge modes as well. I actually had great time trying all the different types of challenges.
Store/Modes Rating: Enjoyable
Well the graphics are not stunning in Defense Grid, but they are what I have come to expect from XBLA. Every map has its own unique look and color scheme, so there is plenty of visual variety. All of your towers have different animations for their weapon type and there are plenty of different enemies to look at. In order to view all the variety of enemies however you will have to do a quick zoom in. This game has three zoom levels that can easily be changed with your right stick. After exploiting the zoom option a few times to check out the aliens, you will likely cease to use the option as gameplay using the feature is not necessary.
Strategy games in my mind are less about graphics and more about gameplay. So it doesn’t bother me that the game’s graphics are less than spectacular. They do get the job done and met my expectations. It is by far one of the more visually stimulating tower defense games and much better than the cute animations of most tower defense style games.
Graphics Rating: Above Average
In Defense Grid there is only one voice actor and he does the voice for the A.I. Early on he is very helpful at pointing out how to play the game similar to a tutorial. Later in the game he just points out the obvious. It’s kind of like a sports announce doing play by play. He will point out when you lose power cores, gain power cores back, that your certain tower is very effective. As I said before, he would buy you a drink if he could. He has a quirky British accent that reminded me of C-3PO and he’s just as whiny.
The music in the game is suitable for the gameplay. The custom score is nothing special so I just ended up just streaming some Rammstein, NIN, and Marilyn Manson with my Zune. For some reason it just seemed appropriate for this game. I am not saying the music is bad – I just prefer not to here the same score repeated over and over again in a game like this.
Sound Rating: Mediocre
Control/Gameplay
Tower defense games have a pretty simple style of game play. You have a map. On that map you place towers. Once towers are placed waves of enemies arrive at one or more points on the map and exit at one more points. Some tower defense games allow you to upgrade your towers and placement after every wave. With Defense Grid, the waves of aliens never stop and you can constantly place new towers and upgrade your old ones. The towers have three levels of upgradability. There are some occasional downtimes between waves of marauding aliens. Later in the game these are fewer and fewer. You start with a set amount of resources in which you use to build and upgrade towers. You can only earn more by destroying aliens or earning interest on your pool of resources. Earning interest only works well if you have some resources in your pool to begin with. The more in you pool the more you can make just sitting idle. The game has an autosave feature that allows you to replay at your last checkpoint should you fail. It would be nice if you could go back multiple check points because sometimes your mistakes were made a lot earlier.
There are quite a variety of towers and each one acts differently. Most do damage but some slow the aliens and others increase the resources you earn from kills. Where you place them is essential in this game. Some of the maps have pretty linear paths that aliens pass so it best to try and put your towers where you can damage them the longest or twice. Later on, the maps have lots of open areas where you can place towers and direct the path of the aliens. Usually you want to direct on long paths of destruction while keeping them from stealing your power cores.
There are many different types of aliens: weak ones traveling in large groups, flyers, shielded, fast ones, and large ones that take lots of damage. There are quite a few variations. Certain towers working better on certain types of aliens. For example the inferno towers, which are basically flame throwers, work really well on the packs of weak ones. You can speed up the waves of aliens by pressing either the right or left bumpers. Holding these down can be a little bit of a pain. It would have been nice to just turn it on and off with the bumpers. Towards the end of the game you will have a little of everything on your map to protect those precious cores.
The killing of aliens is quite fun. Watching them walk into your carefully laid path of destruction is quite rewarding. Having them slip by your defenses however is not. You lose the game once all of you power cores have been stolen, but at least you’ll learn from your mistakes and try again. I only have a few gripes about this game. One is the lack of camera rotation. I would have been nice to be able to see from different angles as the maps are 3D. You can zoom in, but as I said before, this is more for visual effect. Another thing that was kind of convenient once I located it was the health indicator for the aliens. This is not present by default and you have to turn it on from the options menu. The most bothersome thing was the amount of lag in certain waves of the final levels. There was so much going on that the slowdown was a little frustrating. It didn’t happen a lot so I won’t knock it down to much for that. With this kind of game, the gameplay is a very important element and it is definitely up to par in this area.
Control/Gameplay Rating: Great
Tower defense games are made for replayability and Defense Grid is no exception. After completing the story mode in this game, there are so many different variations like poison core and grinder mode. Grinder and super grinder were two of my favorites as they both have 99 waves and are set up for massive amounts of towers. The slow down really takes place a lot in this mode but it is still fun. You can also replay all of the story modes to attempt to get higher scores and earn silver and gold medals. There are achievements for having all of the medals in the story mode and at least 40 gold medals in story and challenge modes combined. Trying to get the gold medals is very challenging as you have to use your towers wisely to protect your cores and maximize your resources.
There are no multiplayer modes available. However there are leaderboards are available to compete with your friends and others XBOX live. Each map and mode within that map has its own leaderboard. This is easily a game I could stop playing for a while and pick back up months from now. That is if I could stop playing it first.
Replayability Rating: Classic
Defense Grid has a very difficult learning curve. It starts out pretty easy in the first couple of levels just to give you a feel for the game, but becomes difficult very quickly. This basically forces you to become good at the strategy of this game very quickly. This was fine for me as I pretty quickly learned from my mistakes and repeated the level and succeeded.
This game will only set you back $10(800 MSP). This is what I love about some of titles coming to the XBLA. They have a lot of bang for your buck. With so much replayability with all the levels you will definitely get you $10 worth. When this came out on PC last December it was priced $20 on steam. XBOX players get it at half the price with four extra maps.
Balance Rating: Good
There are a lot of tower defense style games out there and Defense Grid isn’t bringing that much new to the genre. What the game does accomplish is being one of the best and most polished games of this genre. The ability to steer your enemies was something new to me and was pretty cool. It added a new factor to apply to your defensive strategy. Traditionally tower defense games are pretty cartoonish but this game offers more modern graphics for the genre.
Originality Rating: Mediocre
Addictiveness
Defense Grid is like Pringles: once you pop, you can’t stop. You have the ability to pick this game and play it for like 20-30 minutes, but more than likely you will play for a few hours at a time or long marathon gaming runs. As I am writing this review, I feel compelled to play the game instead. There is something about the rampant destruction of aliens to my defensive towers. It is very rewarding when you make impenetrable defenses and watch even the big bosses crumble as they try to approach your power cores.
Addictiveness Rating: Great
Appeal Factor
“Defense Grid will definitely appeal to anyone that is a fan of this genre. It should also appeal to a broad range of player because is so simple to just pick up, play, and learn to strategize. The price point is excellent for of game of this depth. With so many games approaching $15 range on XBLA, it is nice to see a good one at the $10 level. Most player s will know if this is the game for them by just downloading the trial. One of the great things about XBLA is that all of the arcades games have trials for you to decide yourself if you want this title.
Appeal Factor Rating: Good
Defense Grid is proof the strategy games can work well on consoles. The controls are pretty smooth and I would like to see more strategy games like this appear on the XBLA. I know that there have been a lot RTS games on consoles but none have been really successful. The only thing game could use is co-op as some of the maps are large enough.
Miscellaneous Rating: Good
Story/Modes: Enjoyable
Graphics: Above Average
Sound: Mediocre
Control and Gameplay: Great
Replayability: Classic
Balance: Good
Originality: Mediocre
Addictiveness: Great
Appeal Factor: Good
Miscellaneous: Very Good
FINAL SCORE: GOOD GAME
Short Attention Span Summary:
Defense Grid: The Awakening is great tower defense game for XBLA. As it was a pretty successful PC game, it definitely is worthy of your purchase. It is only $10(800 MSP), which is a reasonable price for all of the numerous levels and modes you will get. It’s easy to learn gameplay style is very addicting. If you like tower defense games, then this is a must buy.
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Jonah Falcon September 14, 2009 Reply
I’m more of the one or two levels every day or other day. It’s not the kind of game I’ll play for hours, but it’s great for quick gaming sessions.
Michael Merhar September 14, 2009 Reply
I think that is what is great about this game is that it works for both casual gaming and long sessions like I did early on.
vincenttucker July 26, 2010 Reply
are there any more games like defence grid out there and what are they
Christopher Bowen July 27, 2010 Reply
@vincenttucker – You’re asking if there’s any more tower defence games? There’s a BUNCH; just a quick Google search will turn them up. But if you’re interested in another GOOD one, I recommend Mikado Defenders, an iPhone game from Taito set in the Sengoku era.
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C. D. Kang, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
J. Choa, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Right atrial mass is rare, and management varies based on the etiology. We present a case of a right atrial mass that posed an unusual diagnostic dilemma. A 75 year-old man with PMH of CHF, COPD, and PE 3 months ago with anticoagulation noncompliance who presented with few weeks of shortness of breath and decreased exercise tolerance. There was no fever, cough, chest pain, PND, orthopnea, or intentional weight loss. Vital signs showed he was afebrile, HR 75, BP 123/70, RR 23, saturating at 95% on room air. Physical exam showed diminished breath sound in bibasilar lung bases. There was no peripheral edema. Bedside TTE revealed new right atrial mass measuring 4 x 2cm possibly in transition to the right ventricle. Patient was admitted to CCU and started on heparin drip. TEE showed large mass with fingerlike projections encompassing majority of right atrium and protruding into the right ventricle, and that origin of mass appears to come from pedunculated stalk off IVC. CT A/P showed no mass. Surgery to retrieve the right atrial mass was then done. Cardiopulmonary bypass and bicaval cannulation were performed. Right atrium was opened and explored, without visualization of the mass. Further exploration was made into right ventricle, main pulmonary artery, and bilateral pulmonary arteries, with finding of only a 1-2cm thrombus-liked mass in the right pulmonary artery which was retrieved. Although no mass that commensurate to the size that was on TEE was found, it was thought that the inferior venous return during cardiopulmonary bypass had sucked out the thrombus for the most part. The mass that was able to be retrieved was sent to pathology, which confirmed it to be thrombus, without features of malignancy. Postoperative course was uncomplicated, and patient was discharged on warfarin. Right atrial (RA) mass is an uncommon finding, and the incidence of which has not been well-studied. It carries a broad differential diagnosis, which includes benign or malignant tumors, vegetation, or thrombus. It is easily detected by echocardiogram, however, the composition of the mass is often difficult to differentiate. Management also widely differs based on the etiology. Right atrial thrombus is also a rare entity itself, and can progress to fatal PE if undiagnosed. Our case not only highlights the diagnostic dilemma that RA mass presents, but also reminds us how the changing intraoperative hemodynamics during cardiopulmonary bypass could present another challenge in the search for its cause.
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Tidbits and Tales: Further Details on Past Endeavors.
Celestia Tershwind; if not for Samatha Lavelle, she probably wouldn’t have existed.
So, I figured I’d go all out on the theme I brought up on Wednesday’s post. Here is some info and potential improvements to the Macro Corp: The Super hero group that dates back to my middle school years.
Hero Name: Macro Man
Real Name: Raymond Jackson
Powers: Force Projection / Ability to change Size
Profile: Due to a dormant gene he was granted powers due to an improperly disposed of radioactive materials unearthed while breaking ground for new mansion he had purchased. This accident would have likely killed him otherwise.
Ray is a saavy businessman that got his break from a half million dollar grant. He is an insufferable patriot that holds the American Dream in high regard. He didn’t have to think twice about what to do with his new found power.
What was good: Mac has always had a sense of Naïve purity. He was also a bit of a nerd that actually got excited about tax season. As a gimmick, he was actually intimidated by women very easily. It could almost be classified as a phobia. Looking back Mac’s powers were very bread and butter and effective: Offensively oriented but with Defensive capabilities.
What needs changed: Mac was a millionaire in the original. This is just wish fulfillment hogwash. It would be much more interesting if he was in the process of establishing his business presence, budgeting making his business thrive and affording doo-dads for the Super hero team. I would also impose clear disadvantage to his powers with clear weaknesses and limitations. His name: I don’t think he needs to have my last name. And it’s such bad form to give characters variations of your real name… *eyes Derrek*
Hero Name: Micro Kid
Real Name: (Redacted)
Powers: Super Speed (Time manipulation) / Flight / Ability to Shrink to microscopic sizes. (duh!)
Profile: Micro Kid was present when Mac gained his powers and had the same gene as him. He was a local orphan that saw the mansion grounds as an easy opportunity to make money.
What was good: Microkid was an earnest guy that could be counted on as much as Mac, despite his age (15) he is considered the second in command rather than a sidekick.
What needs changed: I sort of ‘forget’ that MK was supposed to be a saavy street urchin and quickly adopts his roots. While it’s OK that he makes the adjustment it should rear its head more often. His name, while the personality isn’t really a match, MK’s look was based on a friend of mine in school. I really shouldn’t use his name too…
Hero Name: Medic
Real Name: Joycelyn Jackson
Powers: Telepathy, Healing powers/factor, Super Strengh(?)
Profile: Mac’s twin sister, a licensed doctor, earned her powers from a Radiology experiment gone wrong. She wasn’t the only one exposed, but had to feign illness to avoid being revealed to have gained powers. During the down time she went to reconcile with her brother and confide in him the truth of her powers.
What was good: Joyce has always been a rather militant feminist, to a man hating degree. This is mostly due to a bad experience in high school that also placed a rift between her and her brother. I would likely play up the fact that they have things to sort out still. It is inferred that Joyce has the highest base strength of the cast but seems to ramp up when she’s angry. She’s a big girl at 6’ tall and well built. If I went on with Macro Corp, I would likely make this an official power, explained through hyperactive adrenaline.
What needs changed: Joyce never really had established super powers despite having one of the more developed backstories and personalities of the group. I’d want to avoid making her the metal powers chick character. I also would like to make her the ‘tank’ of the group as much as the healer.
Hero Name: The Form
Powers: Shapeshifting, multiple consciousness,
Profile: The Form is a happy- go-lucky scientist that took part in experiments involving cloning. His tampering triggered an incident that granted his cells the ability to work independently. Despite the fact he became a shape shifter he retains his actual form (A fat guy). Over all his theme was be content with who you are.
What was good: The Form was a sort of father figure to Mac even though his actual father was present. He was the voice of experience when it came to the group and the technical savant. That wouldn’t need to change.
What needs to change: Like MK his real name is a friend of mine from school. That should be changed. In combat I should have TF rely more on gadgets or provide a more supportive role. It also might be fun to make him focus primarily on stealth.
Hero Name: Mech
Real Name: Keri Lavelle
Powers: Telepathy / Master Markswoman
Profile: Keri’s backstory was actually fairly developed and tragic. She was actually approached with a ‘monkey’s paw’ sort of deal that turned her into a machine. She wished for a way out of her witch lineage and that’s what she got. Initially a villain, she was granted a human body again through The Form’s tampering with cloning, although not a permanent one. Sometimes she’s forced to retreat back to her metallic body until a new test-tube one can be prepared.
What was good: Keri’s attitude was always aloof and kind and her colors as a former assassin shone through in her mannerisms in the form of being meticulously thorough. I also had a lot of friction between her and Joyce. A Doctor and an Assassin are bound to have disagreements after all.
What needs to change: There’s no harm in her being the bombshell of the group, but Mech needs to be less forward when it comes to Mac. It was usually just played for laughs, and the reason for her infatuation for him was because he was the one that pulled strings to see she wasn’t prosecuted (her spot in the Macro Corp. is a sort of parole.) Also she needs to actively share the tech position with The Form thought instead of making her an accomplished robotics expert, it’s more that she understands how machines ‘think’ from being one.
Hero Name: Bandit
Powers: Shadow Manipulation, invincibility(?)
Profile: Bandit is a bratty, hormone driven, teenager that had the same passive gene flaw as the rest of the group. The object of his ‘affections’ is primarily Joyce and he takes a beating for it. No matter how badly he gets mauled he bounces back, it might as well be listed as a superpower. You could probably carry around a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition and use it like smelling salts.
What was good: Bandit was actually one of the only people that used his powers for evil (read perversion) but at the same time that established his mastery of them and his desire to improve. Without any practical attacking powers he was decidedly on the B team, but that’s OK. He also held a great deal of spite towards MK, as he viewed him as the teacher’s pet.
What needed changed: Bandit’s ‘affections’ got a bit dicey at times, needless to say that has to be toned down even if he did get mauled for it. Again name for being loosely based on a real person. (The pervy part wasn’t based off of him! I swear!)
Hero Name: Indifferent Boy
Powers: Aura of apathy / inflicted apathy
Profile: IB was the extreme of mellow, and Bandit’s ‘sidekick’ of sorts, more like partner in crime. He outright aided Bandit in his pervy conquests but never seemed to get flak for it. Ironically his seemingly stupid super power is likely one of the strongest of the team.
What was good: IB’s presence and mannerisms worked. When he talked it was words of wisdom, simplistic and straightforward. He questioned the validity of actions and planted a seed of doubt when recklessness was out of place. Despite his power of apathy, there was cool air of confidence about him.
What needs changed: *sigh* his name. I would love to keep it, but to this day I can’t think of a hero moniker that would suit him. It would need to be a single word that captures his essence and approach. Like “Doubt” or something.
Hero Name: Necromancer
Real Name: Samantha Lavelle
Powers: Black Magic / Spiritual Channeling
Profile: Not a superhero persay, but Keri’s little sister was forced to take up the mantle of the surviving descendent of Morgan LeFaye. She wants nothing more to be rid of the title and live a normal life. She holds a great deal of resentment for her older sister that took that chance from her. Sam is a little on the cold side as her sister’s predicament did little to quell her spite.
What was good: Samantha is the only surviving member of my future writing exploits for a reason. She was confident and beautiful in her eyes before anyone else. The red-headed Sam surfaced in my later works as the raven haired Celestia Tershwind, same character base. She was actually in a frustrating relationship with Bandit that had its cute moments.
What needed changed: It was fine that Sam was French, but I had some pretty stereotypical aspects about her. I also need to attribute her interest in Bandit to a specific happening that steers her from her general disinterest in a monogamous relationship into seeing his true worth as an individual.
Hero Name: Redneck
Powers: Increased Agility endurance / Ability to talk to animals.
Profile: RN (God I know. I was a kid, leave me alone) was originally from Atlanta GA but found his way to New Orleans, LA shortly after his powers surfaced. He was stamped as crazy for talking to (and having conversations with) animals. Once there he met a bear cub he named Rusty and was content to live in the swamps near New Orleans. He met Mac when he realized the home he was building was close to his stomping grounds.
What was good: RN was some much needed age to the team laden with teens and twenty somethings he was exceedingly blunt about bad ideas and actually had a fair bit of tactical know-how.
What needed to be changed: His name, I’m sure with a bit of Brainstorming I could find something that noted his bayou theme. And in my defense he wore a red scarf all the time. -_-;;
Hero Name: Rusty
Real Name: Rusty
Powers: He’s a brown bear. He’s big.
Profile: A bear raised to think he’s a boy, he makes it habit to walk on his hind legs. Usually oblivious to the fact that he’s nearly 10 feet tall and people can’t understand him. He also seems to overlook the fact that he’s always naked. They gave him a pair of goggles to humor him when doing super hero duties though. He likes to say “Gra!”
What was good: His name was actually fine. He was good natured and loyal, as any good pet… er… boy should be. His comprehension of words struggled realistically when people besides RN talked to him, which could lead to some hilarious misunderstandings.
What needed changed: He talked with signs. That was ripped directly from Ranma ½. Instead I’ll just make it so he’s actually literate (but his handwriting can’t possibly be good). Things written should have terrible grammar and are likely usually mono-syllabic. “FUD!”
Hero Name: Kirin
Real Name: Kirin
Powers: White (Supportive) Magic
Profile: A fairy scaled up to people size (well technically) when Microkid saves her from extinction (yes one of the villians was so evil one of his passive objectives was to kill off faries) he uses the wish he gets from her thoughtlessly. ‘I wish you were my size’. This made it so she would match his size when he shrunk she would too (though in her case that technically meant returning to normal size).
What was good: Kirin was fairly oblivious to Microkid’s puppy crush on her. Her ridiculously sunny personality made it hard for him to steer the subject towards ‘date’ but they hung out together a great deal. Kirin actually made it practice to fold her wings in a modified backpack and had to disguise her horns as hair accessories. (She’s technically a sort of demon).
What needed changed: She needed a superhero name, but in my defense Mac was hesitant to take her into combat. Her metabolism is terrible and she is very, very fragile. She almost needs a name akin to my little pony ones that would make villians cringe in terror. ( a different sort of terror).
With that out of the way I’ll leave you with this weeks short story. I decided to keep with the theme further and take a stab at giving Krauner another shot at the spot light. I hope you enjoy the revisions as much as I did. Enjoy!
The Battle Zone
The lights of the arena dimmed to pitch black in the domed arena. Fifty thousand pairs of eyes scanned the darkness as a hush fell over the crowd like a warm blanket. It incubated build excitement on a low boil. It was opening night. Everyone had waited eagerly for the first taste. The season had begun after a long four month Hiatus. At its center a fifty yard square of canvas and stone waited below. It had laid dormant for long enough. It was time to shine.
A lone spotlight shone on a figure below a bellowing voice filled the arena. “In this corner, weighing in at two hundred and thirty six pounds, standing at six feet nine inches. You know him as a respectable contender with a record of 33 wins and 8 losses. BRUUUGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN HUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLL!”
The crowd erupted in response. Hoots, loud whistles, roars, horns, anything that could possibly make noise echoed through the stadium.
Brugan Hull was a no-nonsense fighter. It showed in his calm confidence even in the face of such a large crowd. This was his first time on the main stage, usually confined to the lesser arenas that housed a little less than ten thousand. A simple raised fist was his greeting to cheers of on lookers. He was a striker, and fairly popular at that. Strikers wore down their opponents with flurries of punches and kicks and were instant crowd pleasers. Announcers loved them too, it was easy to get the crowd behind a fight when big decisive hits were made.
He stretched idly rather than soaking in the attention of the crowd. Rows of brilliant fireworks burst about him as he made his calm stride to the battle floor. He was looking forward to this.
The lights stayed dormant save for the lone spot light trailing Brugan.
A thunder clap echoed throughout the arena with a lightning flash that illuminated the arena for but a brief moment. The details of the stadium faded to darkness along with the hush amongst the crowd. It fell quiet enough to hear a lone, steady tap echo though the speakers lined around the stadium. The tap evolved into a heartbeat. The pulsing sound reverberated through each and every soul in the room. Eyes scanned about, eager to see what he would do this time.
The pulse was deafening and effectively served to synchronize fifty thousand hearts. The only light was the one around Brugan.
Another thunderclap erupted. This one allowed the audience another look at the environs before it fell to black once more. The silence was dotted with muttering, eyes scanning for a glimpse.
Another thunder clap, the light’s presence lingered for longer this time. A familiar guitar rift blared through the stadium and the crowd erupted in cheers. They all knew what it meant: a particularly spectacular opening night.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, it’s time again for controlled chaos!” The announcer’s baritone voice fed off and fueled their excitement both. “Welcome. To the Battle Zone.”
A fire flash erupted in the edge of the arena opposite of Brugan and thick smoke billowed outward. Fireworks and flares erupted around the perimeter of the square arena. Brugan didn’t so much as flinch, he was well accustomed to the theatrics. He might not have ever foght on the main stage but he had watched countless fights here.
“This man needs no introduction. Standing at six feet tall, and two hundred pounds…. most of the time…” The audience paused for a few bits of laughter through the arena. “…with a record of 502 wins and 126 losses. The one and only KRAAAAAAUUUUUNEEEEEEER!”
The smoke cleared to reveal a man wearing an expensive grey suit. His black feathered hair was slicked back to polished perfection. Krauner was the proprietor of the Battle Zone and a walking enigma. No one knew where he came from or how he even fronted the staggering annual costs for the fighting complex. A good look at him, his dark skin, his facial features, his thick black hair, would peg him as Hispanic in origin. The truth in that was left unknown.
He wore a pair of sunglasses to mask his eyes and stood in a confident manner. He glanced up and regarded his opponent in a polite manner, the way one would greet an old friend. He began to walk and approach him. Brugan lowered his arms from stretching and watched him carefully; he made his way to meet him in the center. The crowd fell into a hush and every step of Krauner’s dress shoes and Brugan’s boots clacked noisily on the arena floor. He paused in front of him.
Krauner reached up and pulled off his sunglasses, pocketing them, then reached out a hand of greeting. His eyes were green, a piercing green that seemed to glow in low light. “May the best man win?”
Brugan smiled and returned the hand shake with one firm shake. As soon as they parted hands the fight began. This wasn’t an act of treachery this was the way of the ring.
Krauner sprung backwards and narrowly avoided a wide opening swing. During the jump he produced a pair of ruby red sunglasses; when they found his way to the bridge of his nose, all the shadows in the room seemed to coalesce to his position, engulfing him into a lightless void. The onlookers could only see it as a falling dark star that settled onto the opposite end of the arena floor.
Beams of light gathered from corners of the arena an pierced the blackness surrounding him. With each strike, blinding light highlighted and illuminated the man within. The cloud of shadow finally burst and Krauner was striking a balanced Kenpo stance. He was wearing a pale blue Karate Gi. Brugan had not sat idle though, and charged.
The second attack of the night was a strike from above, Brugan with an axe kick. Undaunted Krauner merely stooped down flexed his arm and drove his fist upward into his opponent’s stomach. The crushing impact echoed through the arena as Krauner’s momentum carried him another three feet upward before he spun and landed gracefully. Brugan finished his skyward trip on his back.
“When will people EVER learn. You don’t jump in on Krauner.” The announcer said as Brugan righted himself. The crowd cheered in response.
Krauner offered a smug smile and tightened his fighting gloves one by one and dropped back into a ready stance. Brugan charged on the ground this time, with a lighting right hook. Krauner blocked it tidily but struggled with the left that followed. A third straight right connected clean and staggered him.
“A brutal exchange from Brugan, tidily handled! No! A clean hit!” The announcer called.
Brugen stepped forward and tensed landing a second hit in Krauner’s stomach, then followed up with a proper uppercut to the jaw. Krauner toppled and slid backwards, inching close to the arena’s edge.
“The challenger has Krauner on the ropes! He’s going for a quick finish!” The announcer leaned forward in tense anticipation.
He did just that. He approached for a mount, but Krauner had sprung back from the strike as quickly as Brugen did. The two collided into each other headfirst, but neither of them flinched, neither wavered. Their eyes lost focus from the impromptu mutual head-butt and yet they remained standing. With unspoken agreement the two of them lunged backward into a drunken stagger. Neither of them wanted to rely on the other to remain standing. If they fell so be it.
Neither of them did.
Krauner’s heels were on the edge of the arena, he clapped his hands around his cheeks to shake out the dizzy sensation as Brugen watched him like a cautious hawk. He knew better than to assume Krauner’s focus was elsewhere. The champion of the Battle Zone had drawn benefit from his ruby shades many times. Not knowing where your opponent’s eyes were focused was a huge disadvantage.
“You’ve improved,” Krauner said calmly. He brought himself to a casual stand once he realized his opponent wasn’t falling for the ruse.
Brugen nodded. He wasn’t here for small talk. He was here to win. Regardless, hearing Krauner acknowledge that was a great honor. He might have been a clown, but he held his respect. He kept his eyes on his opponent but paced towards the center of the ring. He was not so foolish to fight a technical fighter at the ring’s edge.
“Back to square one folks! It looks like they’re taking it from the top!” the audience cheered their approval. A reset like that only meant the explosive action at the start of the match could be repeated for them.
Krauner happily complied and met him step for step. The short break in action benefitted both men. He stetched idly then twisted sharply away from Brugen. When the challenger considered the opening Krauner had sprung into a flying side kick that connected clean. Krauner’s left foot made impact with the challenger’s face sending him into a helpless spin in place. The impact of the strike echoed across the arena, an effect amplified by microphones placed on the competitors’ bodies.
“Another fan favorite! “ The announcer boomed.
Krauner landed from the kick and pivoted, he effortlessly closed back in on his stunned opponent and hefted him onto his shoulder with one arm. He free one pointed and the crowd erupted into cheers. He broke into a sprint toting Brugen a short distance before drilling him into the canvas with a power bomb.
“One!” The audience erupted.
Brugen groaned groggily as Krauner stood and effortlessly scooped up Brugen. He pointed to the opposite edge of the arena. He and tore into a sprint again.
“Two!” The audience called as the second power bomb drove Brugan’s helpless body into the mat.
He stood and pointed a third time. He broke into a leap half way to his destination and started a spinning tumble. Brugen wrenched control from the spin capitalizing on Krauner being winded from the sprint. Brugen was able to accelerate the tumble but finished the throw with the champion landing hard on the blades of his shoulders.
“Three!” The audience roared, initially oblivious of the reversal. Though it was made clear when it was Brugan who stood and not Krauner.
“What a development! The running three has been made a two and a counter!” The announcer said with pitched excitement.
Brugan staggered to a stand and reached down to Krauner’s fallen body. He wasted no time wrapping him up in a submission hold. The champion remained stunned from the throw and didn’t react until Brugen applied hard pressure on his shoulder and neck.
“This looks like it’s the end of the fight! It’s unlikely Krauner can weasel his way out of this one! But it looks like the champ has some fight left in him!” The announcer called to desperate gasps and cheers.
Krauner stood, forcing Brugan upright but the challenger didn’t lose his grip. Krauner winced, the impact from the throw along with the hold was making him drowsy. He hopped twice testing his legs and sprung upward while buckling forward. With expert control, he tumbled them so Brugan landed head on his shoulders and back.
“Nice!” The announcer called to cheers. “But was it enough?”
The answer was ‘no’. Brugan shut an eye, in clear pain, but he maintained his grip. They tumbled back, with Krauner held helplessly on top of Brugan in a prone position. All he could do was drive and elbow into the challenger’s side desperately. He managed after three strikes to get him to free him, but the damage had been done. Krauner rolled away but he could barely get himself to his elbows. While Brugan stood with little difficulty.
Brugan stumbled slightly as he approached but Krauner was in no state to fight. His eyes were vigilantly hidden by his ruby colored sunglasses but his arms were slumped and it was a small miracle that he was even standing. The challenger cracked his knuckles and wound up for a hard right aimed at Krauner’s cheek. A hush fell through the air as it connected, the resounding crack echoed through the arena.
Krauner’s body tightened as he took the brunt of the hit. It looked and sounded absolutely vicious but was only amplified by the fact that Krauner’s feet had planted in place. Sweat and saliva was tossed to the way side as his he reeled from the strike. An aftershock from the impact popped noisily, some of the onlookers had to cover their ears with a wince.
He didn’t fall though. Brugan’s strike had been a resounding success but instead of Krauner being tossed into a staggering spin his muscles tensed further and erupted forward with hard left cross. It connected clean and pushed him past his stunned opponent. Before Brugan could get his bearings a second hit, a turning hard right connected and planted him firmly on the canvas .
Krauner stood with his fist poised with the final punch, indignant and strong, but crumpled onto one knee and then sprawled out alongside Brugan, completely unconscious.
Brugan hadn’t been expecting the punch, let alone two but managed to bring himself to his feet. He wiped a at fat lip, a parting gift from the Champion of the Battle Zone before settling to a casual stand.
“Ladies and Gentleman! That’s the match! Our challenger stands triumphant!” the announcer called, his words were accompanied by noisy cheers.
Brugan gave a sideways glance to Krauner’s sprawled body, half expecting him to spring to his feet unharmed, but that was not the case. Brugan had the match won at the punch he landed on him. If the clown hadn’t intentionally took a bigger hit just to lose in a flashy fashion he would have been awake enough to walk out of the arena. He held up a hand to acknowledge the crowd. The roars deepened when he did so.
“Your Winner! BRRRRRUUUUUGAAAAAAN HUUULLLLLLLL!”
Brugan smirked, despite the fact the fan favorite was lying face down on the canvas, they cheered just the same. They were here for the fight, and nothing but. That was the very nature of the Battle Zone. It just made him wish Krauner could hear the roar of the crowd he had fueled. But he couldn’t help but notice the smile on Krauner’s face.
August 17, 2012 by Eric R. Jackson Battle, Dimanagul, Fantasy, Ficton, fighting, Krauner, Novel, Short Story, Zone
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Home Big Tech LG’s Clarksville Factory Makes its Millionth Washing Machine
LG’s Clarksville Factory Makes its Millionth Washing Machine
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LG Tennessee in Clarksville is part of LG Electronics USA, Inc., based in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., the North American subsidiary of LG Electronics, Inc.
The LG Electronics home appliance manufacturing plant in Clarksville, Tenn., has just produced its one-millionth washing machine – a key milestone for the plant’s American workers.
The millionth washer – an Energy Star-certified front-load model with smart features – rolled off the production line this week at the $360 million factory, which has been ramping up production since the official grand opening a little over a year ago.
Employment already has grown to more than 700, and the company is still hiring as production continues to increase, according to LG.
“In addition to commemorating LG’s top-rated washing machines for American consumers, this milestone highlights LG’s proud role as a strong contributor to the local economy and a leading employer in America,” according to LG Electronics North America CEO Thomas Yoon.
The factory’s production line, at a million square feet, is said by LG to be the world’s most advanced integrated washing machine production plant. The plant has “increased LG’s competitiveness in the U.S., increasing speed to market and responsiveness to changing market conditions,” Yoon added in his statement.
Since constructing the factory, the company has been accelerating production of LG’s washing machines. LG front- and top-load washers are ranked #1 according to a leading U.S. consumer magazine, LG says, adding that the brand also holds the #1 spot in overall customer satisfaction across its home appliance portfolio that includes laundry and other major appliances, according to the most recent American Customer Satisfaction Index rankings.
Moreover, LG says, there are currently openings at the facility for Line Operators, Technicians, Maintenance, Supervisors and Managers, with opportunities for job growth and career advancement. Applicants are invited to visit lgecareers.com.
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