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Coronation Street Scene of the Week
Corrie Street 30 Apr. 2017
April 30, 2017 Dorothy Leave a comment
Terror in the Factory
It was scary this week, watching Sally be terrified. Ringing phones, texts saying “I see you” and a box left at the factory for her. It had a heart inside – an organ, not a Valentine. Turns out it was a pig’s heart, but still! Little wonder she cowered in the office.
Sally was so frightened she forgot all about her interview with Cheshire Haven magazine. Cheshire Haven! How could she possibly forget that! “Musthang Sally” has thoroughly cowed Upscale Sally.
I don’t know where this trolling and stalking storyline came from. Did I miss an episode? Despite not really getting this, I am enjoying it. Because of Sally and Tim.
Sally is AbFab
Sally is just fabulous. She goes from petrified to gentrified in a flash. But it’s convincing because you see her willing herself to overcome her fear. Safe at home, with Tim and her daughters, social-climbing Sally is back. So too is Social Justice Sally. Even after being scared half to death at the factory, she summons her courage and speaks at a public meeting at City Hall.
Probably one of the funniest scenes ever, as Sophie, Rosie and Sally run into the mayor and his dog Barry. Sally does Introductions: “Martin is the mayor, he’s gay” and “my lesbian daughter Sophie and my straight-identifying daughter Rosie”. Mayor Martin praises Sally, “so full of life”. Rosie agrees, “yeah, she’s so pro-life.” A Sally scowl, “don’t say that, Rosie!” Meanwhile, Rosie is obsessed with Barry, as if she’s never seen a dog before, like, close up.
Brilliant too is Tim. He worries for her safety, and for himself. He can’t bear thinking that something bad might happen to her. When she disregards his advice, he washes his hands of her. He bowed out of the Cheshire Haven interview, seeing it as endangering herself unnecessarily. What she sees as publicity and networking, he sees as social-climbing and self-aggrandizement.
Tim and social media
Her reluctance to shut herself off from social media confuses him. Some bad person is trolling you on-line and in real life, what’s to discuss? Stop giving them ammunition. She, however, doesn’t see it that way. Her work is important, a public presence is needed, etc. Ergo, social media.
But when she needs him, he is there. Sometimes he gets it right, like finding her at the factory. Sometimes, like at the City Hall meeting, it’s wrong. But for me? All week, both Tim and Sally have been perfect. Rosie and Sophie too.
Coronation Street CBCcyberstalkingSally MetcalfeTim Metcalfe
Corrie Street 19 Feb 2017
February 19, 2017 Dorothy Leave a comment
Sally’s Check-up
Sally impressed me so much with her grace and maturity. That’s not a statement you say very often!
Thursday she went to her doctor for a breast cancer check-up. She got the all clear, she is still cancer free. She was visibly relieved. So, I think, were we all.
She’d earlier had a bit of a snipe-fest with Jenny at the factory when she wanted to ensure she had the okay for the time off she needed. Jenny is throwing her weight around as the boss’ girlfriend, and that weight has increased by one carat. She is now wearing an engagement ring from Johnny.
Graciousness and good ideas
Later, after her check-up, she goes to the Rovers to chill a bit and relish her good news. She meets up with Kevin. And she does what I and others have been wondering about. She tells him she will pay half the cost of Sophie’s hospital bill in the USA. Kevin thanks her, says he’s chuffed for her, and leaves.
Jenny passes him on her way in, to Sally’s table. Sally groans, expecting more of the same nonsense from Jenny. But no, Jenny apologizes for her behaviour earlier and asks – sincerely – after Sally’s health. Sally is gracious to her. She doesn’t play lady of the manor or mouthy factory girl, just tells her how the check up went and how relieved she is. Sally also tells her what her fear feels like, and how hard it is having breast cancer, then the treatment and the aftermath. She tells her about a young woman she saw in the waiting room, trying to cope with her illness and with her worries for her children.
It’s the big worries but also the little things that get you, Sally says. Something as simple as trying to find a good mastectomy bra, for example. And the lightbulb goes off in Jenny’s head. Back to the factory she goes. And the beginning of a very good storyline, I think, and a new product line, I hope, for Underworld.
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Financial valuation of web sites : how much is Internet property worth when it is on-sold?
Frederick, Howard 2000, Financial valuation of web sites : how much is Internet property worth when it is on-sold?, in Communication beyond 2000 : technology, industry and the citizen in the age of globalization 17-20 July 2000, Mandarin Singapore, International Association for Media and Communication Research, [Singapore].
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Gemfields highlights responsible sourcing
Gemfields has launched a global advertising campaign aimed at raising awareness of responsible sourcing in the coloured gemstone industry while promoting Zambian emeralds and Mozambique rubies, wrote JNA in a press release. Gemfields seeks to challenge itself and the sector by setting new benchmarks for responsible sourcing.
The company says that coloured gemstones should be mined and marketed by championing three key values – transparency, integrity and legitimacy.
“We wanted to bring to life the many stories behind responsibly sourcing precious gemstones in Africa as there is far more to our business than industry-leading mining and geology,” said Emily Dungey, group marketing and communications director. “The characters in the campaign allow us to build awareness of the many life-changing community projects we carry out, our pioneering quest for greater transparency across the industry and the support we provide for vital conservation work protecting Africa’s biodiversity. The campaign is a snapshot of who we are: It’s fun, unexpected and non-conformist, but also gives an insight into some of the ways in which Gemfields strives to leave a positive and lasting impact.”
The campaign is named “Every Piece Unique” and highlights how each gemstone is distinctive and possesses its own personality and character.
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On Deck: Human Nature
Last year Denver Bronco’s linebacker D.J. Williams provided a urine sample before the season began. One part of the specimen was tested for performance enhancing substances the other part was tested for recreational drug use. After compiling all the data, I’m sure the lab tech took a pause, re-ran the specimen and spoke to his supervisor before issuing this conclusion:
“The specimen does not contain any endogenous steroids. The profile is not consistent with a normal, healthy male urine specimen.”
Allow me to geek out and explain. If you are a living human being, you produce naturally occurring steroids that aid and grow muscles and bones. And those naturally occurring steroids were nowhere to be found in Williams’ sample. So what in the world did he drop into the vial that day?
Animal urine! Am I right? We’re all thinking it. The most “logical” of lies in this situation would be that he found out about the random drug testing, panicked and coerced a dog into using the bathroom. But reports are he may have used synthetic urine.
In case you’re wondering, I’ve done my research and the synthetic urine market lives in the creepiest corners of the Internet. Fake urine just happens to be the one topic on which pranksters, addicts, scientists, fetishists and athletes of all calibers intersect.
Well, a few months later Williams was issued another drug test and again the test came back as a non-human sample. It’s possible that Williams finally realized they were on to him, but that didn’t stop him from continuing his charade. In his third test an investigator reported that a bottle fell from Williams’ waist before the test and he began to kick it away.
The repeated cheating and sample tampering is one thing, but then while not admitting one tiny drop of yellow guilt, Williams allowed his attorney, Peter Ginsburg, to issue a statement accusing the NFL of unfairly rushing to judgment.
Everyone I know gets one shot at a drug test and three separate tests conducted over the season doesn’t really sound like rushing to judgment. It’s possible that the NFL moved cautiously because there are over 1,600 on the rosters, and surely he can’t be the only one. Honestly, it’s amazing that after Major League Baseball had years of drug testing problems, the NFL wouldn’t tighten the reins on its own organization.
Commissioner Goodell has a heavy-handed method of managing the players and teams,
but on this front he needs to keep the sport as clean as possible. Synthetic drugs and urine will be emerging faster than the testing abilities of the country’s best laboratories.
We live in a world that is not so black and white and every day we face gray areas that harbor all sorts of half-truths, omissions, and strangely inconclusive urine testing results. Being human comes with the pitfalls of temptation and deception, but when you find yourself kicking away your fake urine bottle it’s time to reevaluate.
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Qvest Group Acquires OnPrem Solution Partners LLC
COLOGNE, Germany & LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Qvest Group, a world-leading systems architect and ICT integrator, today announced the acquisition of the majority of OnPrem Solution Partners LLC, a highly reputed consultancy across the media and entertainment supply chain in the USA. OnPrem’s expertise in business and technology consulting, especially its focus on the digital media supply chain, will complement and extend the Qvest Group’s portfolio and lay the foundation to gain a foothold on the US-American market.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, with additional offices in New York and Austin, OnPrem is an end-to-end solution provider that strategizes, advises, designs and develops technology solutions, leveraging their expertise in content, customers and data for media and entertainment and consumer products industries. The acquisition brings a highly experienced team of more than 250 consultants to deliver solutions in areas such as Digital Media Supply Chain, IP and Rights Management, Data and Analytics, Customer Experience Design, Salesforce and Program Management/PMO to the Qvest Group. OnPrem has built dynamic partnerships with leading technology providers and platforms such as AWS, Salesforce and Microsoft.
“OnPrem strengthens the position of the Qvest Group as a leading partner in digital media, data and cloud management and considerably enhances our capacity to provide clients with added value, scale, and world-class expertise,” said Peter Nöthen, CEO of the Qvest Group. “For Qvest, this is also the steppingstone to the largest market for broadcast & media in the world which significantly raises our international business in technology consultancy and systems integration. Moreover, joining forces with OnPrem enables us to better and directly support worldwide operating clients and it also generates the ground for the growth of our cloud management platform qibb in the US-American market.”
Frank Leal, Partner at OnPrem, agrees: “The leadership at OnPrem is excited and inspired by our new Qvest partnership. With Qvest’s focus on the media industry and quality and their international presence, there was no better fit for us. This transaction creates a worldwide entity that is a partner to CTOs, CIOs and Broadcast Engineers everywhere. Most importantly, we were able to join a leadership team with a similar philosophy on culture and talent, providing additional opportunities for our team members and creating an organization that is a home to the best consultants and engineers in the world.”
The Qvest Group, headquartered in Germany, has offices across Europe, the Middle East, APAC, and Australia. The company has been accelerating the digital transformation of its clients, offering capabilities in technology design consultancy and systems integration, software development, cloud engineering, and technical infrastructure operations.
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Data On Tap Inc. approved as Canada’s first Full Mobile Virtual Network Operator
TORONTO, Jan. 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Data On Tap has been approved as Canada’s first Full Mobile Virtual Network Operator (Full MVNO) by The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).
The independent Canadian startup was an active participant in the CRTCs wireless industry review and applied for Proposed Full MVNO status with the CRTC in early 2019. Data on Tap Inc has since launched a public alpha of their dotmobile™ smartphone app and attracted nearly ten thousand founding members.
A Full MVNO operates essentially the same technology as a mobile network operator, but without owning the radio access network (ie. cell towers). Instead, the core network connects to one or more existing radio access networks, similar to a mobile network operator sharing or roaming on another operator’s network.
The core network is responsible for almost everything other than how many bars of signal your phone gets, like the basics of routing calls, text messages, voicemail, and connecting you to the internet. Modern core networks are built primarily as software and can also better prevent spam calls, seamlessly switch calls from a phone to a laptop and back again, support worldwide High Definition calling over Wi-Fi and LTE, or even integrate your AI assistant into a call.
“Full MVNOs like us are an embrace of innovation and digital transformation, just like we’ve seen in FinTech and InsurTech,” says Alex Bauman, CXO of Data On Tap Inc. “When traditional telecoms fell behind, over the top services swooped in to meet demand and expectations. We invite this disruption deeper into the stack to deliver better experiences that cost less to implement and maintain.”
Data On Tap is building dotmobile™ as an application. Everything is in the cloud, including the core network, so that it is scalable and extensible. Members can expect new feature drops just like any other app or software as a service, and code-savvy Canadians will have the opportunity to build their own features with IFTTT (If This Then That) integration.
“This approval clears us for the launch of our wireless service as a Full MVNO in 2021. We are blazing a trail for new kinds of wireless service providers, and a Canada where network infrastructure investments (towers), affordability and better service innovation can co-exist,” says Algis Akstinas, CEO of Data On Tap Inc.
This past September, Data On Tap Inc. signed its first wireless network access agreement with Iristel, a regional provider with their own network in the Far North and Northern Quebec. This was the first of several agreements required to provide affordable and awesome service to Canadians, no matter who they are or where they live.
“The CRTC is expected to rule early this year on the wireless industry review that started in early 2019. The outcome will define the Canadian national wireless infrastructure access rules and rates, similar to the rulings for home internet over the past 10 years. True innovation on top of radio-access networks is the beginning of the TelcoTech era – a new ecosystem of digitally transformed telecom technology players,” says Algis Akstinas, CEO of Data On Tap Inc.
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Data on Tap Inc. is building dotmobile™, a smart tiny telecom with a simple goal – to make wireless more affordable and awesome for youth, seniors, students, newcomers, visitors to the country, small businesses, and families that want to save. Data On Tap™, dotmobile™, dot.™ and the dotmobile logo are trademarks of Data On Tap Inc.
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Mastery – Valis (The Flenser)
Tuesday, 30th June 2015 By David E. Gehlke
On the weirdness-for-weirdness scale, Valis scores an obvious ten. It’s often pontificated here and other relevant sites as to how difficult and outlandish certain black metal bands can be. Generally, we point to France for such things. But on a broader spectrum, the utter bastardization of the style has bred a relentless wave of fucked-to-the-nth degree bands, many of them who sound like they threw their music together on the spot, with no coherent thread. If ADD were the designated trait here, then Mastery would be black metal’s poster child.
Hailed as an album with “100 riffs per song,” Valis is often so overextended and random, that following the actual songs is a difficult task, even for these seasoned ears. Granted, it’s somewhat cool to have 100 riffs in a song – there are bands who probably haven’t written that many riffs in their career, but it cancels out any positive momentum main (and sole) dude Ephemeral Domignostika creates with his, uh, mind-fuck’ed creations. His odd approach to the guitar and chords (let’s just say Piggy from Voivod would be proud) is above and beyond what the likes of Blut Aus Nord and Deathspell Omega have done; same for some of the subterranean outfits ala Abyssal and Portal. Trouble is, they’re so in and out, that recalling any number of them is highly unlikely.
It’s entirely possible Valis will be hailed, saluted, and praised to the nth degree by the hipster throng, who have so casually strode into black metal like they’ve owned the joint since the early 90s. And, it’s not a reach to think more bands and/or individuals will try to follow in Mastery’s path. This is without question, one of the most perverse and complicated black metal outings in quite some time. Couldn’t draw it up any more bizarre.
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384 APPENDIX, 12.
in perfection, envying, stealing, and lying, but without wit
enough to lie to purpose.
12. ROMANIST MODERN ART.
It is of the highest importance, in these days, that Romanism
should be deprived of the miserable influence which its pomp and
picturesqueness have given it over the weak sentimentalism of
the English people; I call it a miserable influence, for of all
motives to sympathy with the Church of Rome, this I unhesitatingly class as the basest: I can, in some measure, respect the other
feelings which have been the beginnings of apostasy; I can respect
the desire for unity which would reclaim the Romanist by love,,
and the distrust of his own heart which subjects the proselyte to
priestly power; I say I can respect these feelings, though I cannot
pardon unprincipled submission to them, nor enough wonder at
the infinite fatuity of the unhappy persons whom they have betrayed:—Fatuity, self-inflicted, and stubborn in resistance to
God's Word and man's reason !—to talk of the authority of the
Church, as if the Church were anything else than the whole
company of Christian men, or were ever spoken of in Scripture *
as other than a company to be taught and fed, not to teach and
feed.—Fatuity ! to talk of a separation of Church and State, as
if a Christian state, and every officer therein, were not necessarily
a part of the Church, f and as if any state officer could do his
duty without endeavoring to aid and promote religion, or any
clerical officer do his duty without seeking for such aid and ac-
, cepting it:—Fatuity ! to seek for the unity of a living body of
truth and trust in God, wdth a dead body of lies and trust in
* Except in the single passage " tell it unto the Church," which is simply
the extension of what had been commanded before, i.e., tell the fault first
"betweenthee and him," then taking "with thee one or two more," then,
to all Christian men capable of hearing the cause: if he refuse to hear their
common voice, "let him be unto thee as a heathen man and publican:"
(But consider how Christ treated both.)
f One or two remarks on this subject, some of which I had intended to
have inserted here, and others in Appendix 5,1 have arranged in more consistent order, and published in a separate pamphlet, "Notes on the Construction of Sheep-folds," for the convenience of readers interested in other
architecture than that of Venetian palaces.
Transcript 384 APPENDIX, 12. in perfection, envying, stealing, and lying, but without wit enough to lie to purpose. 12. ROMANIST MODERN ART. It is of the highest importance, in these days, that Romanism should be deprived of the miserable influence which its pomp and picturesqueness have given it over the weak sentimentalism of the English people; I call it a miserable influence, for of all motives to sympathy with the Church of Rome, this I unhesitatingly class as the basest: I can, in some measure, respect the other feelings which have been the beginnings of apostasy; I can respect the desire for unity which would reclaim the Romanist by love,, and the distrust of his own heart which subjects the proselyte to priestly power; I say I can respect these feelings, though I cannot pardon unprincipled submission to them, nor enough wonder at the infinite fatuity of the unhappy persons whom they have betrayed:—Fatuity, self-inflicted, and stubborn in resistance to God's Word and man's reason !—to talk of the authority of the Church, as if the Church were anything else than the whole company of Christian men, or were ever spoken of in Scripture * as other than a company to be taught and fed, not to teach and feed.—Fatuity ! to talk of a separation of Church and State, as if a Christian state, and every officer therein, were not necessarily a part of the Church, f and as if any state officer could do his duty without endeavoring to aid and promote religion, or any clerical officer do his duty without seeking for such aid and ac- , cepting it:—Fatuity ! to seek for the unity of a living body of truth and trust in God, wdth a dead body of lies and trust in * Except in the single passage " tell it unto the Church," which is simply the extension of what had been commanded before, i.e., tell the fault first "betweenthee and him," then taking "with thee one or two more," then, to all Christian men capable of hearing the cause: if he refuse to hear their common voice, "let him be unto thee as a heathen man and publican:" (But consider how Christ treated both.) f One or two remarks on this subject, some of which I had intended to have inserted here, and others in Appendix 5,1 have arranged in more consistent order, and published in a separate pamphlet, "Notes on the Construction of Sheep-folds," for the convenience of readers interested in other architecture than that of Venetian palaces.
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VIII. THE DUCAL PALACE. 301
the state prisons, the senate-house, and the offices of public
business; in other words, it was Buckingham Palace, the
Tower of olden days, the Houses of Parliament, and Downing
Street, all in one; and any of these four portions might be
spoken of, without involving an allusion to any other. " II
Palazzo" was the Ducal residence, which, with most of the
public offices, Mocenigo did propose to pull down and rebuild,
and which was actually pulled down and rebuilt. But the
new Council Chamber, of which the whole facade to the Sea
consisted, never entered into either his or Sanuto's mind for
an instant, as necessarily connected with the Ducal residence.
I said that the new Council Chamber, at the time when
Mocenigo brought forward his measure, had never yet been
used. It was in the year 1422* that the decree passed to rebuild the palace : Mocenigo died in the following year,f and
Francesco Foscari was elected in his room. The Great Council Chamber was used for the first time on the day when
Foscari entered the Senate as Doge,—the 3rd of April, 1423,
according to the Caroldo Chronicle; J the 23rd, which is probably correct, by an anonymous MS., No. 60, in the Correr
Museum ; §—and, the following year, on the 27th of March,
the first hammer was lifted up against the old palace of Ziani. j|
§ xxv. That hammer stroke was the first act of the period
properly called the "Renaissance." It was the knell of the
architecture of Venice,—and of Venice herself.
* Vide notes in Appendi
\ On the 4th of April, 1423, according to the copy of the Zancarol Chronicle in the Martian Library, but previously, according to the Caroldo
Chronicle, which makes Foscari enter the Senate as Doge on the 3rd of
X "Nella quale (the Sala del Gran Consiglio) non si fece Gran Consiglio
salvo nell' anno 1423, alii 3 April, et fu il primo giorno che il Duce Foscari
venisse in Gran Consiglio dopo la sua creatione."—Copy in Martian Library,
§ " E a di 23 April (1423, by the context) sequente fo fatto Gran ConseiO
in la salla nuovo dovi avantl non esta piu fatto Gran Conseio si che el primo
Gran Conseio dopo la eua (Foscari's) creation, fo fatto in la salla nuova, nel
qual conseio fuelMarchese di Mantoa," &c, p. 426.
U Compare Appendix 1, Vol. IH
Transcript VIII. THE DUCAL PALACE. 301 the state prisons, the senate-house, and the offices of public business; in other words, it was Buckingham Palace, the Tower of olden days, the Houses of Parliament, and Downing Street, all in one; and any of these four portions might be spoken of, without involving an allusion to any other. " II Palazzo" was the Ducal residence, which, with most of the public offices, Mocenigo did propose to pull down and rebuild, and which was actually pulled down and rebuilt. But the new Council Chamber, of which the whole facade to the Sea consisted, never entered into either his or Sanuto's mind for an instant, as necessarily connected with the Ducal residence. I said that the new Council Chamber, at the time when Mocenigo brought forward his measure, had never yet been used. It was in the year 1422* that the decree passed to rebuild the palace : Mocenigo died in the following year,f and Francesco Foscari was elected in his room. The Great Council Chamber was used for the first time on the day when Foscari entered the Senate as Doge,—the 3rd of April, 1423, according to the Caroldo Chronicle; J the 23rd, which is probably correct, by an anonymous MS., No. 60, in the Correr Museum ; §—and, the following year, on the 27th of March, the first hammer was lifted up against the old palace of Ziani. j| § xxv. That hammer stroke was the first act of the period properly called the "Renaissance." It was the knell of the architecture of Venice,—and of Venice herself. * Vide notes in Appendi \ On the 4th of April, 1423, according to the copy of the Zancarol Chronicle in the Martian Library, but previously, according to the Caroldo Chronicle, which makes Foscari enter the Senate as Doge on the 3rd of April. X "Nella quale (the Sala del Gran Consiglio) non si fece Gran Consiglio salvo nell' anno 1423, alii 3 April, et fu il primo giorno che il Duce Foscari venisse in Gran Consiglio dopo la sua creatione."—Copy in Martian Library, p. 365. § " E a di 23 April (1423, by the context) sequente fo fatto Gran ConseiO in la salla nuovo dovi avantl non esta piu fatto Gran Conseio si che el primo Gran Conseio dopo la eua (Foscari's) creation, fo fatto in la salla nuova, nel qual conseio fuelMarchese di Mantoa," &c, p. 426. U Compare Appendix 1, Vol. IH
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364 VENETIAN INDEX.
Fourth Group. Inner room on the upper floor.
On the Roof.
36 to 39. Children's Heads. 41 to 44. Children.
40. St. Rocco in Heaven. 45 to 56. Allegorical Figures.
On the Walls.
57. Figure in Niche. 60. Ecce Homo.
58. Figure in Niche. 61. Christ bearing his Cross.
59. Christ before Pilate. 62. Crucifixion.
36 to 39. Four Children's Heads, which it is much to be regretted should be thus lost in filling small vacuities of the ceiling.
40. St. Rocco in Heaven. The central picture of the roof,
in the inner room. From the well-known anecdote respecting
the production of this picture, whether in all its details true or
not, we may at least gather that having been painted in competition with Paul Veronese and other powerful painters of the
day, it was probably Tintoret's endeavor to make it as popular
and showy as possible. It is quite different from his common
works; bright in all its tints and tones; the faces carefully
Transcript 364 VENETIAN INDEX. Fourth Group. Inner room on the upper floor. On the Roof. 36 to 39. Children's Heads. 41 to 44. Children. 40. St. Rocco in Heaven. 45 to 56. Allegorical Figures. On the Walls. 57. Figure in Niche. 60. Ecce Homo. 58. Figure in Niche. 61. Christ bearing his Cross. 59. Christ before Pilate. 62. Crucifixion. 36 to 39. Four Children's Heads, which it is much to be regretted should be thus lost in filling small vacuities of the ceiling. 40. St. Rocco in Heaven. The central picture of the roof, in the inner room. From the well-known anecdote respecting the production of this picture, whether in all its details true or not, we may at least gather that having been painted in competition with Paul Veronese and other powerful painters of the day, it was probably Tintoret's endeavor to make it as popular and showy as possible. It is quite different from his common works; bright in all its tints and tones; the faces carefully
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#DontTaxMedicine Campaign Goes on the Offensive Against Unjust Taxes on Medical Cannabis
Canadians for Fair Access to Medical Marijuana (CFAMM) is going on the offensive and urging Canadians to stand with patients and their families by telling government: #DontTaxMedicine! With the 2019 Federal Budget being announced at the end of February, CFAMM is doubling down on its commitment and calls on the Finance Minister and Members of Parliament to remove all taxes on medical cannabis before the budget is finalized.
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“In some provinces, sales and excise tax combine to increase the cost of medical cannabis by up to 25 per cent. The government is making it incredibly hard for patients to manage the cost of their treatment and many tell us they cannot afford anywhere near their full dose,” said CFAMM President and medical cannabis patient, James O’Hara. “Over-taxing leads to under-dosing, which can aggravate symptoms, leading to additional strain onto Canadian public health systems. These costs are passed on to all taxpayers.”
A 2018 Environics poll found that a majority of Canadians (62%) are opposed to taxing medical cannabisi and since its launch in 2017, #DontTaxMedicine mobilized supporters to send 25,000 emails to elected officials advocating for the elimination of this unjust tax. The campaign is doubling down on its efforts throughout February to rally even greater support and urge Parliament to remove these taxes before the announcement of the 2019 budget.
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https://journalism.calpoly.edu
Department Chair: Mary Glick
Program Names
Journalism BS
The Journalism Department offers a professional program leading to the Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism. All majors must complete the basic journalism core courses in addition to a sequence of courses selected from an identified track and a list of electives from which they must choose in consultation with an academic advisor.
Of the 180 units required for a bachelor's degree, 104 quarter units must be taken in courses outside the major area of journalism/media/mass communication. Student's are strongly encouraged to take a minor to satisfy their elective units.
All journalism majors are expected to serve as staff members of the department's student-run media organizations, including digital, print and broadcast editions of Mustang News; public relations firm Central Coast PRspectives; Cal Poly's radio station, KCPR-FM; and program operations of Cal Poly's TV station, MNTV. They are also expected to participate in professional and scholarly organizations in their areas of interest, in addition to applying acquired skills and developing professional abilities in an approved media internship.
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JOUR Courses
JOUR 102. Introduction to Journalism. 1 unit
Introduction to current practices in American news media with a focus on emerging technologies and traditional print and broadcast operations. Exploration of changing career opportunities in news and public relations. Overview of student media organizations and requirements for academic success in journalism. 1 lecture.
JOUR 201. News Media and Democracy. 4 units
Survey of historical influences in the development of today's journalism. Contributions of women and minorities to American mass media. Rise of technology in the communication industry. 4 lectures.
JOUR 203. News Reporting and Writing. 4 units
Introduction to the fundamental techniques of reporting and writing news articles from print and online perspectives. Extensive laboratory and field practices in gathering and evaluating information. Writing basic news stories under close supervision. 3 lectures, 1 laboratory.
JOUR 205. Agricultural Communications. 4 units
Survey of the media of agricultural communication. Newspaper farm pages and sections, general and specialized agricultural magazines. Radio and TV farm broadcasts. Digital media sources. Public and private agencies involved in agricultural communication. Role of California minorities in agriculture. Writing on agriculture-related issues. 3 lectures, 1 activity.
JOUR 218. Media, Self and Society. 4 units
2019-20 or later catalog: GE Area E
2017-19 or earlier catalog: GE Area D4
Overview of the interaction between mass media and individuals in American society. Drawing on theoretical perspectives from mass communication and psychology to explore how individuals develop a coherent understanding of self within a highly mediated world. The power and influence of media messages and practices. Individual responsibility in an information society. 4 lectures. Crosslisted as COMS/JOUR 218. Fulfills GE Area E (GE Area D4 for students on the 2017-19 or earlier catalogs).
JOUR 219. Multicultural Society and the Mass Media. 4 units
USCP
The role of the mass media in a democratic multicultural society. Portrayal and stereotyping of ethnic minorities by different mass media forms throughout U.S. history. The growing impact of minorities in the United States. Achievement and goals of current American ethnic media, with special attention to Latinos/as and African-Americans. 4 lectures. Fulfills USCP.
JOUR 220. Introduction to Radio Broadcasting. 2 units
Prerequisite: Acceptance as a KCPR staff member and consent of instructor.
Development of skills and knowledge to produce live and recorded radio shows for the campus radio station KCPR-FM. Basic station operations, FCC compliance standards, and basic station management. Required for KCPR staff. 2 lectures.
JOUR 270. Selected Topics. 1-4 units
Prerequisite: Open to undergraduate students and consent of instructor.
Directed group study of selected topics. The Class Schedule will list topic selected. Total credit limited to 8 units. 1 to 4 lectures.
JOUR 285. Introduction to Multimedia Journalism. 4 units
Prerequisite: JOUR 203.
Introduction to the social, editorial and technical issues surrounding the web as a form of communication. Fundamentals of gathering, writing and publishing content for the web that includes using photographs, sound, pictures and video to tell a story. 3 lectures, 1 laboratory.
JOUR 302. Mass Media Law. 4 units
Legal basis for freedom of expression. Court decisions resolving conflicts between First Amendment and right to fair trial, privacy, reputation. Source confidentiality, freedom of information, contempt, copyright. Federal and state laws and regulations affecting mass media reporters, editors, publishers, news directors. Course may be offered in classroom based or online format. 4 lectures.
JOUR 303. Web Audio and Video. 4 units
Concepts and technologies associated with bringing video, still images and audio online. Process of web-based audio and video creation, production and publication, from inception to publishing. 3 lectures, 1 laboratory.
JOUR 304. Public Affairs Reporting. 4 units
Experience leading to advanced skills in reporting and writing stories about contemporary issues, government and courts. Field and laboratory assignments in beat reporting, public meeting coverage, writing style, investigative techniques, and online journalism research. 3 lectures, 1 laboratory.
JOUR 312. Public Relations. 4 units
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing.
Overview of the history, growth and ongoing development of public relations as an information management function in a multicultural environment. Public relations practices used in commercial and non-profit sectors, and firsthand application of public relations skills. 4 lectures.
JOUR 320. Cal Poly Radio Laboratory. 1 unit
Prerequisite: JOUR 220 and consent of instructor.
Field experience in radio station operations at KCPR-FM, the campus radio station. Emphasizes support functions such as recording announcements, planning and carrying out promotions, underwriting, events and other station management duties. Required of students also hosting live or prerecorded on-air programs. Total credit limited to 8 units. Open only to students on staff at KCPR-FM. 1 laboratory.
JOUR 331. Contemporary Advertising. 4 units
Prerequisite: Completion of GE Area A3 with a grade of C- or better.
Principles of advertising, copy, layout, and production across media platforms, including online, mobile, social, print and broadcast. Economic, political, and social function of advertising in a free market society. Advertising ethics. Social responsibility of advertising in a multicultural environment. Emerging advertising technologies. 4 lectures.
JOUR 333. Broadcast News. 4 units
Beginning broadcast news writing and reporting for radio and television. Emphasis on developing news judgment and producing radio newscasts. Introduction to television studio equipment and procedures. Lab experience includes writing and reporting live on-air for KCPR. Course may be offered in classroom-based or online format. 3 lectures, 1 laboratory.
JOUR 334. Editing. 4 units
Editing for print and online publication. Using the Associated Press style. Writing headlines, captions, summaries and other display text. Repurposing various media content for the web and other formats. Legal and ethical issues for the editor. 3 lectures, 1 laboratory.
JOUR 342. Public Relations Writing and Editing. 4 units
Theory, strategic planning and practice in writing persuasive public relations copy for diverse internal and external audiences. Emphasis on gathering information, preparing news releases, newsletters and other communications vehicles. Analysis of various media case studies. 4 lectures.
JOUR 345. Social Media for Strategic Communication. 4 units
Prerequisite: Completion of GE Area A with grades of C- or better.
Exploration of emerging technologies and media that influence strategic communication, including public relations and advertising practices. Knowledge, insight and analytical skills necessary to create, evaluate, and execute social media campaigns. 4 lectures.
JOUR 346. Broadcast Announcing and Production. 4 units
Prerequisite: JOUR 203. Recommended: JOUR 285.
Develop on-air skills in the performance of voice-overs, stand-ups, hosting and the production of televised public service announcements. Emphasis on the effective use of audio and non-linear video editing techniques as well as broadcast writing. 3 lectures, 1 laboratory.
JOUR 348. Electronic News Gathering. 4 units
Prerequisite: JOUR 203 and JOUR 333.
Instruction on electronic news gathering (ENG) that includes advanced news writing, field reporting and editing for broadcast. Emphasis on developing research techniques, interviewing skills, responsible and effective non-linear video editing, compelling use of natural sound and professional on-air delivery. 3 lectures, 1 laboratory.
JOUR 350. Data Journalism. 4 units
Prerequisite: JOUR 285; and one of the following: STAT 130, STAT 217, STAT 218, or STAT 251.
Introduction to the techniques of finding stories in data sets and presenting them visually via interactive online displays. Emphasis on adapting emerging tools for digital storytelling. 3 lectures, 1 laboratory.
JOUR 352. Advanced Newspaper Reporting Practicum. 4 units
Prerequisite: JOUR 304 or JOUR 334.
Reporting lab for the print and digital editions of Mustang News. Total credit limited to 8 units. 3 lectures, 1 laboratory.
JOUR 353. Advanced Broadcast Journalism Practicum. 4 units
Prerequisite: JOUR 333, JOUR 346, or JOUR 348.
Students produce a live 30-minute CPTV newscast per week, or a one-hour KCPR segment that incorporates news, information, talk and entertainment. Emphasis on news producing, reporting and announcing skills. Total credit limited to 8 units. 3 lectures, 1 laboratory.
JOUR 378. Advanced Sportscasting. 4 units
Prerequisite: JOUR 285 and JOUR 303 or JOUR 346.
Develop advanced skills in sports reporting and writing for broadcast, web and social media. Play-by-play. Job search in sports journalism. Field trip may be required. Course offered in hybrid format with classroom-based and online learning. 3 lectures, 1 laboratory.
JOUR 385. Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship. 4 units
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. Recommended: BUS 310 or COMS/JOUR 218.
Innovation and entrepreneurship in journalism. Human-centered design. Business plan development. Designing content to reach and engage an audience. Identifying opportunities to create sustainable journalistic enterprises for real-world application in Cal Poly's student-run media organizations. 4 lectures.
JOUR 390. Visual Communication for the Mass Media. 4 units
Theory and application of visual communication in today's media. Visual communication's power to inform, educate and persuade. Production of visual media across digital, broadcast and print platforms. 3 lectures, 1 laboratory.
JOUR 400. Special Problems for Advanced Undergraduates. 1-4 units
Prerequisite: Consent of department chair.
Individual investigation, research, studies, or surveys of selected problems. Total credit limited to 8 units, with a maximum of 4 units per quarter.
JOUR 401. Global Communication. 4 units
Prerequisite: JOUR 203 and junior standing.
Global communications facilities and operations; world transmission of information; survey of world wire services and international print and electronic media. Analysis of press operations under varying government ideologies, including third world countries. 4 seminars.
JOUR 402. Journalism Ethics. 4 units
Current issues revolving around the social responsibility of the mass media. Role of the public, government, and media in considerations of media accountability. Professional behavior in media organizations. 4 seminars.
JOUR 403. Multimedia Production for Public Relations and Advertising. 4 units
Development of fundamentals pertaining to the technical and aesthetic proficiencies used in video communication for public service, public relations, marketing and advertising. All aspects of pitching, planning, production, editing and post-production in addition to historical and regulatory aspects of communication policy and mandates. 3 lectures, 1 laboratory.
JOUR 407. Feature Writing. 4 units
Practice in researching, interviewing and the writing and marketing of both long and short form nonfiction articles for various media outlets. Analysis of similar work in current distribution. 4 lectures.
JOUR 410. Advanced Digital Journalism. 4 units
Apply the theories and applications of digital journalism to the development and publication of innovative digital content. 3 lectures, 1 laboratory.
JOUR 412. Public Relations and Crisis Management. 4 units
Prerequisite: Junior standing.
Apply contemporary public relations theory to turn crisis into opportunity. Analyze Homeland Security and FEMA best practices using public relations framework and strategy. Practical exercises in planning, implementing, and evaluating public relations messages in a variety of media platforms. 4 lectures.
JOUR 413. Public Relations Campaigns. 4 units
Development of skills needed to plan and conduct internal and external public relations campaigns for corporate and non-profit organizations. Includes goal setting, management of resources, budgeting, creation of campaign communications, and outcomes analysis. 4 lectures.
JOUR 415. Advanced Public Relations Practice: CCPR. 4 units
Prerequisite: JOUR 413; or BUS 453, JOUR 331, JOUR 342, and one of the following: GRC 338, GRC 377, or JOUR 390.
Proposing, creating, managing, and implementing public relations campaigns through the student-run agency, Central Coast PRspectives. 3 lectures, 1 laboratory.
JOUR 418. Copyright, Trademark, Patent and Commercial Speech in Digital Media. 4 units
Prerequisite: Junior standing; and completion of GE Area A with a grade of C- or better.
Examination of intellectual property rights covered by copyright, trademark and, to a limited degree, patent law as well as commercial speech rights in a digital media age. Emphasis on intellectual property rights as they affect content creators and other publishers in a digital world. 4 lectures.
JOUR 444. Media Internship. 3 units
CR/NC
Prerequisite: JOUR 352, JOUR 353, or JOUR 413; and internship coordinator approval.
Application of techniques on daily basis with media under supervision of department faculty. Credit/No Credit grading only.
JOUR 455. Media Management Laboratory. 1 unit
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Field experience in management of Cal Poly student media. Emphasizes planning, leadership, media integration, goal-setting and measurement. Required of students in elected leadership positions in KCPR-FM, Mustang News, Central Coast PRspectives and MNTV. Total credit limited to 8 units. Intended for students in leadership positions of student media. 1 laboratory.
JOUR 460. Senior Project. 4 units
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor; Journalism majors only.
Selection and completion of a project under faculty supervision. Projects typical of problems which graduates must solve in their fields of employment. Project results are presented in a formal report. Minimum 120 hours total time.
JOUR 462. Senior Media Practicum. 4 units
Prerequisite: Senior standing.
Capstone experience that applies principles and tools of print, broadcast and digital journalism and public relations to tell engaging stories across multiple platforms. Emphasis on integrating text, video, audio, graphics, search engine optimization and social networking to produce content for digital publication. 3 lectures, 1 laboratory.
JOUR 470. Selected Advanced Topics. 1-4 units
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor; junior standing.
Directed group study of selected topics for advanced students. Open to undergraduate and graduate students. The Class Schedule will list topic selected. Total credit limited to 8 units. 1 to 4 lectures.
JOUR 471. Selected Advanced Laboratory. 1-4 units
Directed group laboratory study of selected topics for advanced students. The Class Schedule will list topic selected. Total credit limited to 8 units. 1 to 4 laboratories.
Dan Eller
B.S. California State University, Northridge, 1984; M.P.H., 1987; Ed.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2010.
Richard O. Gearhart
B.S., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, 1991; M.S., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, 2009.
Mary M. Glick
B.A., State University of New York at Oswego, 1972; M.A., California State University, Fullerton, 1982.
Patrick C. Howe
B.A., University of Minnesota, 1993; M.A., University of Missouri-Columbia, 2011.
Casey McDonald
B.S., Brigham Young University, Idaho, 2007; M.A., Brigham Young University, Utah, 2016; Ph.D, University of Florida, Gainesville, 2020.
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1999; J.D., University of California, 2004; Ph.D., Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, 2014.
Patti Piburn
B.S., Arizona State University, Tempe, 1995; B.A., Arizona State University, Tempe, 1995; M.S., South Dakota State University, Brookings, 2013; Ph.D. ABD, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication, 2019.
Yan Shan
B.A., Nanjing University of Science and Technology, 2009; M.A., University of Central Florida, 2011; Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2014.
Brady Teufel
B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz, 1997; M.A., University of Missouri, 2003.
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Dropbox For Teams Gets Dropped In Re-Branding To Reflect “Business” Focus
By: TechCrunch
Dropbox is renaming Dropbox Teams to reflects its more business focus. The move comes in tandem with Dropbox new support for single sign on (SSO) and partnerships with Okta and other identity providers. Dropbox for Business will replace the old name, reflecting the company’s change in focus to be more on larger business customers than teams within organizations. In particular, this means support for Active Directory (AD), the traditional mechanism companies use to authenticate and manage an employee’s corporate identity. Businesses of any size demand built-in security and AD has historically served as the standard as it eliminates the user name and password model for SSO. Dropbox customers will get all the capabilities that comes with AD, including setting permissions, revoking access or adding people from the IT admin panel. As part of the news, Dropbox has pre-integrated with identity management companies: Okta, Ping Identity, OneLogin, Centrify, and Symplified. Centrify CEO Tom Kemp said that Dropbox is different because of its massive install base and usage. More and more users are bringing DropBox into work. But corporate IT/security is concerned that sensitive / confidential information is being stored in the cloud without proper security controls and access rights being applied, and they have no visibility into this. If they say no to dropbox, then users will just skirt IT. So having a solution such as Centrify integrate Dropbox with AD means that (a) users can use the solution they are comfortable with in terms of sharing docs etc.; (b) IT can put in the access control and security rights (who can access what) that they require; and (c) IT can leverage an existing mgmt tool / infrastructure they already own (AD) so they can implement this control / visibility without having to learn yet another tool. So Centrify + AD + Dropbox is a win – win for users/consumers and corporate IT. Each of these identity providers are in a mad dash to bake in their SSO capabilities with big customers. Dropbox has some penetration into the business market, claiming it is in 95% of Fortune 500 companies. The company says it counts a customer when it has three or more people using the service. Is that credible? It’s tough to know without breaking down the numbers. In the background to all this is a land grab for the back-end, something we are seeing a lot of as companies
Dropbox is renaming Dropbox Teams to reflects its more business focus. The move comes in tandem with Dropbox new support for single sign on (SSO) and partnerships with Okta and other identity providers.
Dropbox for Business will replace the old name, reflecting the company’s change in focus to be more on larger business customers than teams within organizations.
In particular, this means support for Active Directory (AD), the traditional mechanism companies use to authenticate and manage an employee’s corporate identity. Businesses of any size demand built-in security and AD has historically served as the standard as it eliminates the user name and password model for SSO.
Dropbox customers will get all the capabilities that comes with AD, including setting permissions, revoking access or adding people from the IT admin panel.
As part of the news, Dropbox has pre-integrated with identity management companies: Okta, Ping Identity, OneLogin, Centrify, and Symplified.
Centrify CEO Tom Kemp said that Dropbox is different because of its massive install base and usage.
More and more users are bringing DropBox into work. But corporate IT/security is concerned that sensitive / confidential information is being stored in the cloud without proper security controls and access rights being applied, and they have no visibility into this. If they say no to dropbox, then users will just skirt IT. So having a solution such as Centrify integrate Dropbox with AD means that (a) users can use the solution they are comfortable with in terms of sharing docs etc.; (b) IT can put in the access control and security rights (who can access what) that they require; and (c) IT can leverage an existing mgmt tool / infrastructure they already own (AD) so they can implement this control / visibility without having to learn yet another tool. So Centrify + AD + Dropbox is a win – win for users/consumers and corporate IT.
Each of these identity providers are in a mad dash to bake in their SSO capabilities with big customers. Dropbox has some penetration into the business market, claiming it is in 95% of Fortune 500 companies. The company says it counts a customer when it has three or more people using the service. Is that credible? It’s tough to know without breaking down the numbers.
In the background to all this is a land grab for the back-end, something we are seeing a lot of as companies pull out of their long-time commitments to larger enterprise vendors. Companies like Dropbox eat around the edges of a large organization’s profit margins. The feeding is intensified by the presence of Google, Microsoft, Box and a host of others that want their own piece of the pie.
Perhaps the most interesting contrast comes from Salesforce.com, which last Fall launched its own identity service and a competing product it calls Chatterbox, which takes its name from Chatter, the company’s activity stream platform.
Dropbox is betting its future on consumer and business markets. To reach into the business market, the company has to have a security coroner stone, a must for most business customers, especially those that operate under regulatory and compliance requirements.
Dropbox took the first step toward the more business oriented branding with the launch of its administrative platform. Company executives say they will continue to build out its collaboration features. That will be a must in a market that has more than its share of collaboration providers.
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New Elvis song in "Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool", on Oscar longlist
Postby FAVEHOUR » Sat Sep 02, 2017 7:33 am
A review of this new film in the Guardian notes that a new Costello song plays over the credits: "You Shouldn't Look At Me That Way".
This one popped up on the ASCAP site a few months back.
Last edited by FAVEHOUR on Sat Sep 02, 2017 7:51 am, edited 1 time in total.
Re: New Elvis song in "Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool"
Interesting that the film concerns Gloria Grahame, who was featured in the Detour shows.
sweetest punch
Postby sweetest punch » Sat Sep 02, 2017 10:17 am
https://www.google.be/amp/s/amp.theguar ... ia-grahame
Since you put me down, it seems i've been very gloomy. You may laugh but pretty girls look right through me.
https://twitter.com/ElvisCostello/statu ... 4736905216
Interesting to see that the film is produced by Eon Productions, the same producers of the James Bond films. Maybe someday Elvis will get to do a 007 theme.
Postby Neil. » Sun Sep 03, 2017 7:57 am
Officially intrigued - new material at last! Plus, would be great to get an Oscar nomination for best song for our Elvis!
Postby krm » Sun Sep 03, 2017 9:26 am
Here is the official FB page as well
https://www.facebook.com/Film-Stars-Don ... 556869425/
Postby sweetest punch » Sun Sep 03, 2017 11:47 pm
In his tweet Elvis mentioned Mary McCartney.
This made me think about this thread: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10986
Were they filming the Elvis song?
Postby Top balcony » Mon Sep 04, 2017 6:29 am
sweetest punch wrote: In his tweet Elvis mentioned Mary McCartney.
That's brilliant detective work - have you been "watching" - very likely that the Elvis song/s were being filmed as this is indeed the Liverpool Playhouse Theatre stage, which EC also hashtags.
In my dreams there's also going to be a hometown gig in November to co-incide with the Liverpool movie premier, fingers very crossed...
Location: just off the coast of Europe
Contact Man out of Time
Postby Man out of Time » Mon Sep 04, 2017 6:35 am
Good thought SP. In his Tweet, about the filming in Liverpool Chris "Toast" said:
"Filming yesterday with Elvis Costello and some seriously heavy hitters in the film industry! For a project I know a fair bit about but can't say anything! "
This makes me think there is going to be either a single release of the song, with accompanying promo video, or a promo for the film, with the song and some footage of EC involved. Something like this from Notting Hill, which I know we all love to bits:
Postby Neil. » Tue Sep 05, 2017 7:41 am
V excited to hear these. His people need to seriously target Radio 2 to make the 'A side' a hit. Elaine Paige on Sunday often plays songs from films, and we know Jeremy Vine is a big Elvis fan.
Postby krm » Tue Sep 05, 2017 2:21 pm
...and the trailer. No sign or sound of an EC song yet!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCwt4kYWOHA
Postby johnfoyle » Mon Sep 11, 2017 2:24 am
http://www.showbiz411.com/2017/09/10/to ... ening-film
Toronto Exclusive: Stand Back Paul, Stella, Mary McCartney Directing Video for Elvis Costello Song for Annette Bening Film
Yes, you know Paul McCartney. And Stella McCartney, one of his daughters. But here comes Mary McCartney, photographer daughter of Paul and his late and much missed wife Linda. Mary, I can tell you, is now a video director. She’s preparing a video now for Elvis Costello’s “You Shouldn’t Look at Me That Way.” This is the song that plays over the end titles of Paul McGuigan’s excellent new film, “Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool,” which premiered here yesterday.
Annette Bening plays Hollywood siren and Oscar winner Gloria Grahame, Jamie Bell is her young lover Peter Turner. The story is based on Peter’s memoir and produced by the James Bond team of Barbara Broccoli and Michael S. Wilson.
The backstory for the song is that McGuigan and Broccoli went to to a Costello show last year at which, by coincidence, Costello mentioned Grahame in his patter. “We knew it was meant to be,” McGuigan told me last night at Sony Pictures Classics’s annual star studded dinner. “We went backstage and told him about the movie. He said, I’ll write you a song. And sure enough, on Christmas Day, it arrived in our emails. And it was perfect. ”
And he’s right. “You Shouldn’t Look at Me That Way” should be a Best Song nominee. Of course, the McCartneys and Costello have a history of collaborations. Paul and Elvis had a hit album together in 1989 with “Flowers in the Dirt.”
As for “Film Stars,” watch for Bening to be a strong contender for Best Actress. She does her usual fine work as Grahame, creating a captivating portrait of the movie star’s tragic life.
What is it with Elvis and doing songs for films on Christmas Day ?
Richard Allinson (July 30 1999 - BBC Radio 2 -UK)
with Trevor Jones, composer of the score for Notting
Hill, who has this to say about the choice of EC to
sing “She”:
“We had used the Charles Aznavour version and I think
it was at one of our meetings with Richard Curtis
where he suggested maybe a more contemporary version
might be what we needed ... On Christmas Day, Elvis
and I spoke for most of the afternoon. I remember
having a cremated turkey at one point (laughs) because
he kept calling and saying, Could you send me a
version in this key? And then, an hour later, he’d
call again and say, How about a version in that key?
And we went around the houses until,finally, we ended
up in the original key. And he settled for that. He
said, ‘You know, I’m going to try it in the original
key, ‘and it was superb. It was the right choice for
his voice at that point.”
Postby johnfoyle » Wed Sep 13, 2017 2:52 am
https://twitter.com/Nish_Panchal/status ... 4010789889
Paul McGuigan, Jamie Bell, Annette Bening, Elvis Costello at the premiere of Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool. #TIFF
https://etcanada.com/photos/253735/spot ... age-255707
Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa
Elvis Costello and I will go to our graves refusing to admit that we chatted on the phone beforehand to coordinate ties. #TIFF17
https://twitter.com/meakoopa/status/907823221520703491
Postby FAVEHOUR » Wed Sep 13, 2017 8:19 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FA1l3L9Ifs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqlp3J-11EM
docinwestchester
Location: Westchester County, NY
Postby docinwestchester » Wed Sep 13, 2017 9:28 am
johnfoyle wrote: Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa
Addy Lerer @addylerer · 10h10 hours ago
Replying to @meakoopa
Did you ask him why he used the n-word in Oliver's Army??? I would have asked.
Or ask about Ray Charles, while you're at it?
Social media - An amazing tool, but it exposes the absolute worst people.
Postby johnfoyle » Thu Sep 14, 2017 4:49 am
A friend in the cinema trade who saw the film in Toronto tells me -
'Fine prominent use of Pump it up and a Costello song during the end credits that I didn't know. And I didn't even hear it because it had to hurry to another screening.The film itself was elegant but really slow - almost stopping itself.'
bronxapostle
Postby bronxapostle » Thu Sep 14, 2017 1:31 pm
forgive my senility...DO WE HAVE A TITLE ON THE SONG?????
p.s. REST IN PEACE to one of the three BEST songwriters EVER from MINNESOTA...GRANT HART!!! no small feat!
Postby Neil. » Thu Sep 14, 2017 4:35 pm
Yes, the new song is called 'You Shouldn't Look At Me That Way'. Shades of 'You Little Fool'? ("Don't look at me that way - you know it isn't right")
Postby FAVEHOUR » Thu Sep 14, 2017 6:04 pm
Postby sweetest punch » Mon Sep 18, 2017 3:12 pm
https://youtu.be/l8I34tapRA0
VonOfterdingen
Postby VonOfterdingen » Tue Sep 19, 2017 3:10 pm
I now truly regret that I didn't stay during the end credits. And that I didn't hang around for EC on the red carpet in Toronto. Lesson learned...
johnfoyle wrote: A friend in the cinema trade who saw the film in Toronto tells me -
I'm not buying my share of souvenirs
Postby johnfoyle » Wed Oct 11, 2017 12:36 pm
Elvis is in London , for the showing of Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool in the London Film Festival
https://twitter.com/GREATBritain/status ... 1229939712
Postby johnfoyle » Wed Oct 11, 2017 2:53 pm
https://twitter.com/EntNewsShowbiz/stat ... 6175799296
https://twitter.com/gredmond76/status/9 ... 0235051009
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poet, playwright, writer
Some Haiku and Tanka
I was once sacked from a BBC TV series for writing a script that was ‘too funny.’ The producer who sacked me said I should be writing comedy. It was the best thing that could have happened to me in a way because I went off and wrote the ‘heart-warming’ comedy; ‘Marry Me, You Idiot’ which opened at the Jermyn Street Theatre, London in 2002 starring the late and lovely Lynda Bellingham. My next play was ‘Playing Away‘ which premiered to great notices at Sadler’s Wells in London in 2005 and was revived at the Frinton Summer Festival in 2011, where it was great to find myself on a playbill with Neil Simon, Alan Ayckbourn and Henry James!
PLAYING AWAY
Elisabeth is at the centre of a love triangle. She has one lover in London, Roger Rodgers, and another life in Paris with paramour Pierre. But can she carry on having her gateau and eating it?
A comedy about men, women friendship and the love/hate relationship between the English and the French
Performed at the Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadler’s Wells Roseberry Avenue, Islington London EC1 February 15th -March 5th 2005. Starring Philippe de Grossouvre, Trevor Sellers and Rebecca Thornhill. Directed by Thiery Harcourt.
The play is published by Josef Weinberger Plays Ltd., London
ISBN 0 85676 285 7. Copies can be purchased from bookshops or direct from the publisher
The Script Trevor Sellers, Rebecca Thornhill
and Philippe de Grossouvre
Roger interviews Pierre Roger picks his moment to propose
Three in a bed 2005
‘The three’ in the Frinton Summer Theatre season August 2011
Damian Davis (Roger), Laura Wells (Elisabeth) and Philip Benjamin (Pierre)
Chris Sykes’s elegant exploration of national stereotypes doesn’t take itself too seriously. Berets vs bowler hats, bouillabaisse vs spotted dick, ‘La Vie en Rose’ vs ‘Old Macdonald’ (don’t ask, it’s very funny) – no cultural cliché escapes inspection. The writing is crisp with a subtle use of rhyme and an exuberant delight in formal symmetries. The small cast certainly have fun with the playwright’s airy pattern-making – it’s also light that even the props, suspended from the ceiling, appear to float.
Robert Shaw Time Out
Elegantly directed.Delightfully written.
Well-crafted by playwright Chris Sykes, Playing Away is a highly sophisticated comedy of manners. At the end of the day this is adult entertainment and by adult I mean written for grown-ups rather than soft-pornographic.
Peter Simpson What’s On in London
A French flavour comes to Frinton for the last summer theatre show of the season as we take a glimpse into the double life of Elisabeth, in Chris Sykes’ “Playing Away”. “Les Trois Amoureux”, the name of the French bistro run by Pierre, Lisette’s Parisian lover, would be a suitable name for the play as we see Elisabeth’s twin lives intertwine ever closer, although “The Frog and Rosbif”, English lover Roger’s suggestion would be equally appropriate. The performances by the three actors are superb, portraying the stereotypes of each nation without crossing the line into the stereotypical.
The playwright’s use of rhyming couplets adds to the comic effect, and is superbly mirrored by the actor’s closing lines.
If you haven’t seen a show at the Frinton Summer Theatre, then I highly recommend you get down to this one
Will Lodge, Frinton and Walton Gazette,
Review from Amateur Stage July 2006
…a sparkling comedy about men, women, friendship, and the love/hate relationship between the English and the French.
The three characters are well defined in the script. The play has three fairly flexible settings: Libby & Roger’s home in London; Pierre’s bar “Les Trois Amoreaux” in Paris; Elizabeth’s Office – London and Paris, and, wait for it – Eurostar – a train seat that transforms into a Car with two steering wheels, one left hand drive in London, one right hand drive in Paris and the final set is a Bed, half in Paris and half in London.
Oh, indeed it could be technically quite challenging, but I suspect that it is a play that could be a lot of fun for three actors in the thirty something age group.
MARRY ME, YOU IDIOT!
A story of obsession, jealousy, paranoia, betrayal and deceit. In other words, marriage.
Adapted and directed by Chris Sykes from Molière’s The School For Wives.
Performed at Jermyn Street Theatre London, 23 April to 25 May 2002
Starring Lynda Bellingham
A modern role reversing adaptation in which Elinor Waugh is a New York feminist bringing up a boy to be a new man. Just as Molière satirised his time, “Marry Me, You Idiot!” is a perfect satire of today. MARRY ME, YOU IDIOT! shows the sex war can be fun. It is Nuture v. Nature with a real twist.
Claire Andreadis and Lynda Bellingham
‘Sykes’s enjoyable romp turns Molière on its head – the roles maybe reversed but the conflict remains in this perennial battle of the sexes.’
Sarah Willcocks The Stage
‘Heart warming . Sykes deviates from the original to offer a kinder treatment of age thwarting youthful passions in this fresh six hander that shows we’re all love’s idiots.’
Sarah Adams Time Out
THE GREAT LUCIFER
The last three months of Sir Walter Ralegh’s life as he struggles against fate and his enemies.
Performed at The Old Fire Station, Oxford June – July 1998
“Racy, witty and compelling. An excellent play.”
The Oxford Times
“Brilliant, vivid and real, the flowing dialogue brings the era alive.”
Fox FM
“A study in betrayal. Carries historical and philosophical arguments to mull over.”
London Theatreviews
Other Theatre work
The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival/Vodafone new writing event 2005 – ‘Mr & Mrs M’ – a 30 minute play in a reading by Sian Philips and Trevor Sellers, directed by Thierry Harcourt at the Oxford Literary Festival
The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival/Vodafone new writing event 2004 – directed Samantha Bond and a company of five actors in a rehearsed reading of two new plays for the stage by Simon Brett and HRF Keating
The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival/Vodafone new writing event 2003 – “3 Characters in Search of a Mobile Phone” directed Harriet Walter and a company of six actors in a rehearsed reading of four new plays for the stage by the finalists
2001 ‘Marry Me, You Idiot’ – Rehearsed reading at The Criterion Theatre, directed by Anthony Marriot
1995 ‘The Great Lucifer’ – Theatre Agog production at the Old Fire Station Oxford
1995 ‘The Great Lucifer’ – rehearsed reading at The Oxford Playhouse by the Oxfordshire Touring Theatre directed by Daniel Buckroyd
1998 Sport in Books, 6 part series for BBC Radio 4, writer/presenter
A ‘fine literate series’
Gillian Reynolds in the Independent
‘erudite’
Frank Keating in the Guardian
1997-8 BBC Radio Gloucester writer/presenter
1997-8 BBC Radio Thames Valley writer/presenter
1997 ‘Ways To Write’ Series of 5 programmes on writing for BBC Radio Thames Valley
1995-1996 BBC Radio Oxford writer/presenter
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A High-Speed Network Interface for Distributed-Memory Systems: Architecture and Applications (1996)
[www.cs.cmu.edu]
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by Peter Steenkiste
Venue: ACM Trans. on Computer Systems
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...uses more bandwidth. This anomaly could be avoided on an interconnect that supports the reservation of bandwidth for critical connections, as is for example being explored in the networking community =-=[9, 3]-=-. Figure 16 gives the breakdown of the time spent during the transfer to the HIB. The times are for a node in the last row of the iWarp system. The iWarp node performs the reshuffling and then waits f...
348 An Analysis of TCP Processing Overhead - Clark, Jacobson, et al. - 2002 (Show Context)
...t overlap send/receives with processing and interactions with the distributed-memory system. We also optimized the UDP/TCP/IP implementation itself using standard techniques such as header prediction =-=[10]-=-. The above optimizations keep the communication overhead within acceptable bounds. On a DEC Alpha workstation 3000/400, it takes about 300 microseconds from the time a user-level application issues a...
140 iWarp: an integrated solution to high-speed parallel computing. - Borkar - 1988 (Show Context)
...peed network standards in various stages of development by standards bodies. These include ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) [16] and Fibre Channel [26]. Meanwhile, distributed-memory computer systems =-=[6, 23, 27, 32, 44]-=- are becoming the architecture of choice for many supercomputer applications. The reason is that they are inherently scalable, and provide relatively inexpensive computing cycles compared with traditi...
92 Hypercube supercomputers. - Hayes, Mudge - 1989 (Show Context)
...ver the internal interconnect to the I/O node, which forwards it to the external device, such as a network or disk. Input follows the inverse path. This approach to I/O is very common, e.g. the NCube =-=[22]-=-, and the Intel iPSC [32] and Paragon [25] machines follow the same approach. 4 Transport protocol processing Protocol processing (e.g. TCP or UDP over IP) is one of the potential bottlenecks in netwo...
91 Task Parallelism in a High Performance Fortran Framework. - Gross, O'Hallaron, et al. - 1994 (Show Context)
...tional efficiency. Program generators can be application-specific (e.g. Apply (image processing) [21] and Assign (signal processing) [36]), or more general (e.g. the Fx parallelizing FORTRAN compiler =-=[19]). iWarp s-=-ystems communicate with the outside world through I/O nodes that are linked into the torus at the "edge" of the array. Figure 3 shows the example of a HIPPI interface connected to the iWarp ...
87 Supporting systolic and memory communication in iWarp - Borkar, Cohn, et al. - 1990 (Show Context)
...y are configured as a torus. The communication system supports high-speed interprocessor communication for a variety of communication models, including systolic communication and memory communication =-=[7]-=-. In systolic communication, the CPU writes data directly onto the interconnect, thus minimizing communication latency. Memory communication is supported through the use of spools, on-chip DMA engines...
76 Design and Evaluation of Primitives for Parallel I/O - Bordawekar, R, et al. - 1993 (Show Context)
...shuffling parallelizes very well, many links can be used at the same time. As a result, the distributed-memory system can reshuffle data efficiently. A similar approach has been proposed for disk I/O =-=[5]-=-. The creation of large messages inside the distributed memory-system is done by making the interaction with the network interface a two step process. First, data is reshuffled from the distribution t...
58 Interprocessor Collective Communication Library (InterCom). - Barnett, Gupta, et al. - 1994 (Show Context)
...arity of the distributions to achieve good reshuffling performance; this is important, given our performance goals. Note that the data reorganization is in effect a collective communication operation =-=[18, 4]-=-. 9 Applicability to Other Systems Wehave presented a description of the architecture and implementation of a high-bandwidth network interface for the iWarp system. In this section we examine how the ...
56 Multiprocessor File System Interfaces - Kotz - 1993 (Show Context)
...ificant hurdle when doing I/O over the HIPPI interface, and how it limits the throughput. Data reorganization has been proposed to achieve high bandwidth access to disks in distributed-memory systems =-=[5, 29, 38]-=-. For example, in [5] the authors study the problem of implementing high-speed file I/O in the Intel Touchstone Delta. They observed that in order to achieve good performance it is important to send l...
53 A Systematic Approach to Host Interface Design for High-Speed Networks - Steenkiste - 1994 (Show Context)
...tized over larger packets and because these operations make heavy use of a critical resource: the memory bus. The key to making these operations efficient is to streamline the flow of data during I/O =-=[41]-=-, so that the number of times that the data is touched is minimized. Example optimizations include the elimination of redundant data copy operations and the calculation of the checksum while data is b...
47 Survey of traffic control schemes and protocols - Bae, Suda - 1991 (Show Context)
39 Software Support for Outboard Buffering and Checksumming - Kleinpaste, Steenkiste, et al. - 1995 (Show Context)
...ol processing, while the CAB provides support for per-byte operations: data transfer, checksumming and buffering. The CAB architecture used on the HIB is similar to the Gigabit Nectar workstation CAB =-=[42, 28]-=-, which provides support for per-byte operations for network communication on workstations. The operation of the network interface is similar to that of a sequential system, except that the data sourc...
32 The touchstone 30-Gigaflop DELTA prototype - Lillevik - 1991 (Show Context)
29 Asynchronous Transfer Mode - Prycker - 1991 (Show Context)
...econd or 1.6 Gbit/second. In addition to HIPPI, there are a number of high-speed network standards in various stages of development by standards bodies. These include ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) =-=[16]-=- and Fibre Channel [26]. Meanwhile, distributed-memory computer systems [6, 23, 27, 32, 44] are becoming the architecture of choice for many supercomputer applications. The reason is that they are inh...
25 A host interface architecture for high-speed networks - Steenkiste, Zill, et al. - 1992 (Show Context)
24 Cray T3D System Architecture Overview - Adams - 1993 (Show Context)
...rol unit of the stream manager. The data interface will have to be reimplemented using the native communication interface for the system, e.g. Nx on the Paragon [25] or remote put/get on the Cray T3D =-=[1]-=-. Using a different communication interface will also affect the implementation of the execution module since it optimizes data transfers. Finally, the system software of most distributed-memory syste...
23 Latency and Bandwidth Considerations in Parallel Robotics Image Processing - Webb - 1993 (Show Context)
...on-specific data distributions. 7.3 Stereo-Vision In the stereo-vision application developed at CMU by Jon Webb, multi-baseline video images from four cameras are correlated to generate a depth image =-=[45]. As part -=-of that application, a "digital VCR" was implemented to display the four images on a framebuffer. The requirements called for real-time display along with the additional computations in the ...
21 Physical schemas for large multidimensional arrays in scientific computing applications - Seamons - 1994 (Show Context)
17 The parallel protocol engine - Kaiserswerth - 1993 (Show Context)
...sequential. There is potential parallelism between transmit and receive processing (if one is transmitting and receiving at the same time), andACKand data processing can sometimes proceed in parallel =-=[37]-=-, but overall, useful parallelism is limited. For these reasons, it is desirable to have protocol processing performed in a central location, i.e. the network interface. A number of distributed system...
17 Analyzing communication latency using the Nectar communication processor - Steenkiste - 1992 (Show Context)
...o provide a simpler network interface and to minimize the amount of work that is assigned to it by performing some of the communication tasks on the distributed-memory system itself. Earlier research =-=[40]-=- shows that the time spent on sending and receiving network data is distributed over several operations such as copying data, buffer management, protocol processing, and interrupt handling, and differ...
16 The Assign parallel program generator - O’Hallaron - 1991 (Show Context)
...on and computation concurrently on individual cells to achieve additional efficiency. Program generators can be application-specific (e.g. Apply (image processing) [21] and Assign (signal processing) =-=[36]), or more-=- general (e.g. the Fx parallelizing FORTRAN compiler [19]). iWarp systems communicate with the outside world through I/O nodes that are linked into the torus at the "edge" of the array. Figu...
13 Planning under uncertainty using parallel computing, Annals of Operations Research - Dantzig - 1988 (Show Context)
...tion Application plant, using a stochastic model [12] of the system. The stochastic optimization problem can be transformed into a deterministic problem using the certainty equivalence transformation =-=[15]-=-. Our implementation of the stochastic optimization problem [13] was distributed across a heterogeneous system: the Intel iWarp at the CMU campus and the Cray C-90 and TMCM2 at the Pittsburgh Supercom...
10 Low-level vision on Warp and the Apply programming model - Harney, Webb, et al. - 1987 (Show Context)
...n the system, performing communication and computation concurrently on individual cells to achieve additional efficiency. Program generators can be application-specific (e.g. Apply (image processing) =-=[21]-=- and Assign (signal processing) [36]), or more general (e.g. the Fx parallelizing FORTRAN compiler [19]). iWarp systems communicate with the outside world through I/O nodes that are linked into the to...
9 Spiral Kspace MRI of cortical activation. - Noll, Cohen, et al. - 1995 (Show Context)
... the brain. The current application represents the first step in this process: obtaining reconstructed, processed and rendered images based on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data in a timely manner =-=[34]-=-. Our implementation is mapped on three architectures: the iWarp system 22 HIB Figure 18: I/O configuration in the MRI Image Reconstruction application at CMU performs pixel classification (brain/non-...
8 High Speed Networking at Cray Research - Nicholson - 1991 (Show Context)
...processor or shared-memory multiprocessor supercomputers. However, while traditional sequential or shared-memory supercomputers such as the Cray have been able to make good use of the HIPPI bandwidth =-=[33]-=-, distributed-memory machines have been much less successful. The network interfaces of distributed-memory machines often have low sustained bandwidth, do not perform network protocol processing, or m...
7 Distributing a chemical process optimization application over a gigabit network - Clay, Steenkiste - 1995 (Show Context)
...tem. The stochastic optimization problem can be transformed into a deterministic problem using the certainty equivalence transformation [15]. Our implementation of the stochastic optimization problem =-=[13]-=- was distributed across a heterogeneous system: the Intel iWarp at the CMU campus and the Cray C-90 and TMCM2 at the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center (PSC). Specifically, the iWarp is used to generate ...
7 Programmed Communcation Service Tool Chain User’s Guide. Carnegie Mellon University, release 2.8 edition - Hinrichs - 1991 (Show Context)
...eams implementation for iWarp. 5.3.1 Data and control interface The data interface between the distributed-memory system and the network interface is based on the PCS and ESPL communication libraries =-=[24, 7]-=-. PCS is used to create application-specific connections, and ESPL is a fast spooling library that achieve bandwidths close to the 40 MByte/second link rate, even for short messages. To support stripi...
5 Data reshuffling in support of fast I/O for distributed-memory machines - Bornstein, Steenkiste - 1994 (Show Context)
...s architecture does not imply that each application has to provide the code to transfer data to and from the network interface. For example, libraries can be built for common data distributions (e.g. =-=[8]-=-). The components interact through a data interface and a control interface: . The data interface transfers data between the network interface and the application on the distributed memory system. Two...
5 Architecture implications of high-speed I/O for distributed- memory computers - Gross, Steenkiste - 1994 (Show Context)
...ributed over the private memories of the nodes. This means that the communication software has to perform scatter and gather operations to collect or distribute the data that makes up the data stream =-=[20]-=-. In networking terms, this is an architecture-specific data transformation that is part of the presentation layer. The three processing tasks that are hard to implement efficiently for distributed-me...
5 A programmable HIPPI interface for a graphics supercomputer - Singh, Tell, et al. - 1993 (Show Context)
...allelism is limited. For these reasons, it is desirable to have protocol processing performed in a central location, i.e. the network interface. A number of distributed systems use a similar approach =-=[39]-=-. One protocol processing task that does parallelize well is the checksum calculation for the Internet protocols, and it could be performed efficiently on the distributed-memory system. Unfortunately,...
5 Architecture-Independent Global Image Processing - Webb - 1990 (Show Context)
...stems have very diverse data distributions. Figure 12 shows some of the data mappings that are used by iWarp applications. The row-swath partitioning is used by the Adapt image processing environment =-=[46]-=-. The coarse-grain block partitioning is used by several image processing applications and fine-grain block partitioning is used in the iWarp implementation of the LAPACK library [30]. These three exa...
4 Processing Element Design for a Parallel Computer - Kaneko, Nakajima, et al. - 1990 (Show Context)
4 alamos multiple crossbar network crossbar interfaces - Los - 1992 (Show Context)
...arch projects working on high-speed network I/O for distributed-memory systems have been described in the literature. A group at Los Alamos National Labs has developed the CrossBar Interconnect (CBI) =-=[43]-=-). The CBI is an outboard protocol processor that performs protocol processing for supercomputers connected to HIPPI networks. It has two full-duplex HIPPI connections: one to the supercomputer and on...
3 Parallel fourier inversion by the scan-line method - Noll, Webb, et al. - 1995 (Show Context)
...ee architectures: the iWarp system 22 HIB Figure 18: I/O configuration in the MRI Image Reconstruction application at CMU performs pixel classification (brain/non-brain) and surface triangularization =-=[35]-=-, the C-90 at PSC performs scalar processing, and the Intel Paragon at CMU performs the rendering. The input to the iWarp component of the application consists of 52 MRI slices with pixel values repre...
2 Scheduling in the Presence of Uncertainty: Probabilistic Solution of the Assignment Problem - Clay - 1991 (Show Context)
...manifold representing a plant. The generated data is then sent to the C-90 at PSC for analysis, and finally, the C90 and CM2 solve the resulting linear assignment problem using a heterogeneous solver =-=[11]-=-. We collected data for several application runs, corresponding to input sizes of 1k, 2k and 4k; the samples generated by iWarp in these runs correspond to 256 MB, 1 GB and 4 GB of data. The program d...
2 Solution of large-scale modeling and optimization problems using heterogeneous supercomputing systems - Clay, McRae - 1991 (Show Context)
...ring Department at CMU. The application optimizes a system, for example a chemical 21 HIB Figure 17: I/O configuration in the Chemical Process Optimization Application plant, using a stochastic model =-=[12]-=- of the system. The stochastic optimization problem can be transformed into a deterministic problem using the certainty equivalence transformation [15]. Our implementation of the stochastic optimizati...
2 Supercomputing with Transputers - Past, Present and Future - Hey - 1990 (Show Context)
2 Experiments with a Gigabit Neuroscience Application on the CM-2 - Kwan, Terstriep - 1993 (Show Context)
... very different data and program structures on the distributed-memory system. Several projects have looked at the difficulty introduced by the data distribution and representation. Kwan and Terstriep =-=[31]-=- show how the data distribution and data representation on the CM2 is a significant hurdle when doing I/O over the HIPPI interface, and how it limits the throughput. Data reorganization has been propo...
1 Kung and Jaspal Subhlok. A new approach to automatic parallelization of blocked linear algebra computations - T - 1991 (Show Context)
...sing environment [46]. The coarse-grain block partitioning is used by several image processing applications and fine-grain block partitioning is used in the iWarp implementation of the LAPACK library =-=[30]-=-. These three examples are instances of block-cyclic partitionings: the data set is divided in blocks, which are distributed in a cyclic fashion across either the rows, or the rows and columns of the ...
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Woman Crush Wednesday: Neha Chawla
Neha Chawla speaks softly in conversation, yet her creations are viscerally expressive. Despite her slight frame she looks tough, adorned in her trademark gothic face paint and a neck full of chains, swimming in a large black hoodie. Bleach spots draw the eye to her low-top Vans, sleeves and hair, all of which bear her fledgling fashion brand 2000zero’s distorted aesthetic. A lifelong painter with a keen sense of hustle, Chawla began customizing clothes for friends and acquaintances to fund the materials for the brand’s initial wave of releases not long ago. Though she will still take commissions personally (act fast, the price is only going up), she keeps the brand separate from her other endeavors, maintaining its lean, organized chaos, stylistic identity.
We meet on DePaul’s campus where Chawla studies psychology, which makes increasing sense as we talk; her mind is as analytical as it is creative. Along with her business partner Lupe, with whom she splits executive responsibility for 2000zero, Chawla has built the brand from a nostalgia-evoking concept. Curating a collection of unique, hand-treated garments, that are sold more like art pieces than like typical apparel. In addition to creating 2000zero pieces, Chawla handles social media for the company and sources models for visual campaigns.
She is often appearing in them as well. The first two drops so far have featured a limited selection of one-off t-shirts, each designed using bleach as a primary medium. Through a proprietary and somewhat impulsive creative process, about which Chawla is careful not to say too much, every shirt has a completely irreplicable look. With distinct lines, shapes, shades and splatters they create a variety of striking visual effects.
Mastery of technique allows different styles to emerge with logically-assigned titles like THE GRID; criss-crossed by thick, industrial lines and washed out in the middle, resembling a decaying chain link fence. Somewhere between patterned and fully abstract, all the shirts in 2000zero’s current collection offer free-form explorations of texture grounded in (roughly) symmetry-minded sensibility. From the psychedelic, tie dye-inspired rifts of THE SUNSET to the bold pools and streaks of THE BLEEDER. The longer you look at one, the more detail you inevitably find yourself appreciating, not unlike staring at clouds.
Chawla believes the openness of her art to interpretation directly contributes to its impact, since more people can identify with less specificity. Intrigued by 2000zero’s product line and Chawla’s own artwork, I wanted to learn more straight from the triple threat artist, model and COO herself. This interview has been edited for style and clarity.
“How did you get involved in art and fashion design?”
“I’ve been doing art all my life but I just started this designing shit like five months ago. I’m from Maryland and no one really has their own style there They’re all kind of wearing the same things. Then I moved to Chicago and all of a sudden everyone is dressing different, so I was influenced by all the streetwear here. Growing up in the suburbs it’s hard to see a lot of individuality there. It’s easier in the city to stand out and be unique, especially when you know how to dress yourself.”
“Describe your personal style.”
“I try to have everything color-coordinated but not like I’m trying too hard, does that make sense? It really depends on how I’m feeling, but most of the time it’s pretty gothic; I like heavy chains, I like wearing black. I don’t necessarily want to label myself but I would say my style is mostly dark. Art is an expression of an emotion, so the way I dress and the way I make my art are the same.”
“Is there a different process to produce each design?”
“There is, but I can’t talk about it too much (laughs). My business partner and I both come up with ideas, but sometimes he’ll just throw the bleach and see what happens while I kind of have a little more planning to it. I really value having unique pieces because when something’s handmade and you can get it from the creators, themselves, it’s very personal. Like ‘here’s your pink shirt, you’re not gonna get that ever again,’ you know? We’re really all about being one-on-one.”
“So it’s not only a totally individual piece someone gets to own but also an individual connection to you guys as people, that’s awesome. Going back to the beginning, where did the 2000zero brand identity come from?”
“My business partner and I wanted to re-imagine the shitty style sense of the early 2000s by making clothes that would have been really cool back then. The early 2000s were such a mess bro, oh my God.”
“What does the immediate future of the brand look like?”
“We’re not gonna be bleaching anymore after the third drop. It’s gonna be completely different; A lot more eccentric, a lot of bright colors. You can expect that around December most likely. I eventually want to expand out of Chicago and grow national, still have each style be unique but have them in multiple sizes instead of literally just the one.”
“What else are you working on artistically right now?”
A lot of abstract painting, a lot of ink drawings and tattoo designs for people. I’m also doing some merch for an artist friend of mine. Lately it’s been explosions of emotion, a little bit all-over-the-place. I use different colors based on how I’m feeling and hopefully people will be able to see and feel those differences. I never have a plan for when I’m painting but when I do ink drawings, sometimes those are figures I see in my head. For example I did one drawing of a woman fading away and kind of unravelling into thread. I feel like a lot of my inspirations come from dreams.
“Thanks so much for your time, Neha.”
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THROWBACK THURSDAY: QUEEN LATIFAH
All hail to the Queen! Welcome into her Queendom! Dana Elaine Owens has graced the world with her rapping style, elegance and courageous character. She wears many hats in the industry as a musician, television, film actress and producer, activist, president of a music label and entrepreneur. Might I add she is an CoverGirl brand spokesperson. Her personality alone turned her into an enterprise and a legendary female rapper.
“I was always taught to walk with my head up, to be a Queen”
Queen Latifah came in the rap game raising eyebrows from day one. Why are women not seen as equal to men? Why are women being disrespected in society by being called negative names and seen only as sex symbols? Was this our fault? NO! The Queen not only talked about the discrimination and lack of respect towards women she also rapped about how women need to also get together on their own while continuing to be strong.
In the 80’s and 90’s decade women weren’t to fond to be a companion in rap culture. Queen Latifah image was about strength, she never wore clothes to show off her body, only comfortable African culture apparel, casual clothing and sneakers. As her career evolved she still kept it classy and sensual. Her topics were about sexism, power and independence. This theme led to her hit song (above) “Ladies First” and “U.N.I.T.Y” (below)
Queen Latifah is still diligent in her current career pursuit of excellence. She has received awards for her work in film music plus she donates to worthwhile charitable organizations. Every year, Queen Latifah serves as co-chairman for the Lancelot H. Owens Scholarship Foundation, Inc. (In honor of her late brother who was killed in a motorcycle accident) to provide scholarships to students who excel scholastically, but are limited in financial resources. Queen Latifah has also written a book on self-esteem entitled Ladies First: Revelations of a Strong Woman. In honor of this Queen, let’s all inspire to make a positive difference in this world. #BlackHistoryMonth
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HEY HEY… TKAY MAIDZA
Looking for something new and edgy to listen too? 18 year old Tkay Maidza is an female emcee born in Zimbabwe, Africa. At the age of 5 her family moved to her current hometown Adelaide, Australia. This little lady is pint sized, bursting full speed into the scene in 2013 with her hit Brontosaurus feat. Badcop.
She enjoys daring lap dances during her radio show interviews and please do not compare her to Azaelia Banks or her fellow home mate Iggy Azalea. She’s in her own lane. Tkay spits her flow over any genre from Electronic, Pop, Alternative and she does it very well.
Tkay starts off singing her chorus lyrics over this electronic pop beat song “MOB” Money over B%$#!es. Wait until the base drops, she then starts to rap. If it’s too fast to comprehend, look up the lyrics. The meaning behind this song is an ethos “hard work over stupid shit.
What’s up Next for Tkay Maidza
Tkay is currently on a national tour with recording artist Rita Ora as well as performing in Festivals such as Beyond the Valley, THIS THAT, SPLENDOUR and more. She is collaborating with other music artist like Charli XCX, Mark Ronson as well as A$AP Ferg. Keep up with Tkay, follow her on all her social media pages, in which you can find on her Website link below.
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MUSIC FESTIVAL FASHION FIX
Some Music Festival’s like to have a certain theme to match the genre of music that will be played or it can be a regular festival with multiple music genres. Whether going to Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Made in America or the Riot Fest, take a chance on different fashion styles. Think outside the box other than a regular t-shirt and jeans, sandals and gym shoes, mix it up a bit. This current 2015 year, the new fad seems to be a bohemian look or the 90’S trend. Take a look below for a few stylish ensembles that can help inspire an idea for an fashionable 2015 Music Festival look.
Gentlemen, the task of shopping is always more incomplex then women. Of course no one wants to look like a dork, a douche bag or just plain ole undignified. No matter what look dope to the highest degree. Possibly you may bump into a famous music artist or the woman of your dreams.
(Lumberjack shirts, Jeans, Shirts, Denim, Sweat pants, Shorts, Vest)
Ladies we want to be comfortable, free to just be cute and somewhat half-naked (laughs) it’s all good because it hot outside and we want to look even hotter.
(Dresses, Cardigans, Rompers, Jeans, Jumpsuits, Shorts, Leggings, Skirts,Tees, Tanks)
Group Theme
Nothing like friends to the End, Bro’s before….Ladies sticking together through the weather. During music festivals, groups of friends like to come up with the idea of dressing the same way. The theme could be The Nerdy crew, Best Friends Forever, The “Bro” group, The flower power look, and more!
Make sure the look has it’s finishing touches with Jewelry, Sporty Watches, Hats and Headbands. Also carry extra mints,toiletries, deodorant, fragrance, selfie stick, in a cool Backpack that coordinates with the outfit.
When the music hits, the audience jumps up and down, walking through grass and dirt in inevitable and someone may step on your feet. Wear the most comfortable shoes to keep from hurting your toes or gaining imperfections toward the feet area. Dr. Scholls may be necessary to insert inside the shoe area for comfort. Remember there will be alot of standing and walking around for hours throughout the event.
(Women Boots, Dr. Martens, Converse, Men Sandals, Sneakers, Women Sandals, Slip on Vans, Gladiator sandals)
Still not sure of what to wear? Try Pinterest for more ideas. Find your favorite local stores in the mall or shop online to select clothing items that are unique and affordable for the special Festival look! Good luck 😉✌
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Brandon S. Fuller
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Brandon Fuller is a focused litigator. As a member of Fabian VanCott’s litigation team, he brings a high level of attention to detail and commitment to every stage of trial. Brandon has ample experience in all aspects of civil litigation, including contract disputes, employment litigation and compliance, ERISA, Uniform Commercial Code issues, and property law. He has also developed a sharp skillset as an appellate attorney.
Prior to joining Fabian VanCott, Brandon served as law clerk to the Honorable Judge Ryan M. Harris on the Utah Court of Appeals. There, he spent a year time learning judicial philosophy, developing acute writing skill, and reviewing numerous trials with a fine-tooth comb. Prior to his clerkship, Brandon was a U.S. Army Medic, there he learned to thrive under pressure.
During Law School Brandon graduated with High Honors and was a member of the National Moot Court team, having won Best Oralist and Best Brief in the Traynor Moot Court Competition. He also served on the executive board of the Utah Law Review, where he published his article Pure as Running Water: A Constitutional Argument for Utah’s Public Trust Doctrine. Brandon also volunteered for the Rocky Mountain Innocence Center as a Legal Case Investigator and worked on post-conviction relief petitions for the wrongly accused, served as a legal intern to the Honorable Christine Durham on the Utah Supreme Court, and was a research assistant to Associate Dean Amelia Rinehart.
Outside of the classroom, Brandon as bassist in the all law-student band The Defeasible Fees, was the three-time PILO talent show champion with a notable third-year performance of "I Love Rock and Roll".
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Today there are almost too many Israel-related things to write about.
Probably the most important is the IDF’s capture of a ship carrying 50 tons of Iranian arms, en route to Alexandria, from which the weapons would be smuggled to Hamas terrorists in Gaza. Barry Rubin notes that
The story of the Liberian-flag ship Victoria is dramatic enough but few will understand, at least immediately, that it opens a new era in the region’s history. It is a period when, for the first time [in] more than thirty years … Egypt will not be a reliable force for regional peace and stability.
Here in America, the intrepid Lori Lowenthal Marcus sat through hours of boring video from the recent J Street conference, finding this gem, uttered by J Street co-founder Daniel Levy — already famous for telling an Al Jazeera panel that the creation of Israel was an “act that was wrong” (although “excusable”). This time, he provides no excuses. If they hate us no matter, what, he says, then
Maybe, if this collective Jewish presence can only survive by the sword, then Israel really ain’t a good idea.
Here’s a clip, courtesy of Elder of Ziyon:
Wouldn’t you like to slap this guy? I would.* Note that there is no gasp of surprise from the attendees when he says it. They certainly have given new meaning to ‘pro-Israel!’
When the IDF arrived at the scene of the horrific massacre of the Fogel family in Itamar, they found footprints leading to the nearby Arab village of Awarta. So naturally, they clamped a curfew on it. And yet again, caught in the middle of the conflict were a group of ‘international activists’ from the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), (and see also here) the folks who specialize in being human shields for the peace-loving cadres of Hamas and Fatah.
In the breathless prose that characterizes these self-important idiots, they describe their predicament (h/t: Israel Medad):
Today the village of Awarta, near Nablus, is facing the second day of a severe curfew imposed by the Israeli military, following Friday morning’s murder of a settler family in the settlement Itamar. Three ISM activists–Cinda, 23, Chad, 25, from Sweden, and Cissy, 53, from Norway–are currently trapped in the village. Anyone caught stepping outside of their house is arrested. Soldiers have said that they’ll maintain the curfew until they’ve apprehended the settler family’s murderer. The army hasn’t presented any evidence that the murderer was from Awarta, and villagers have said to the ISM that they strongly doubt the murderer was even Palestinian as the settlement is so heavily guarded it would be impossible to break in.
Soldiers are beating people and continuing their house raids: destroying houses from the inside, cutting off electricity, and polluting the drinking water by throwing mud in the water-tanks. 30 homes were occupied by soldiers last night. Computers and phones have been destroyed and money and property were stolen by the soldiers. In the last two days soldiers have been throwing sound grenades inside and outside the houses, and shooting in the air. The ISM activists may be arrested soon, but they intend to stay as long as possible because they feel their presence improves the behavior of the soldiers, and villagers have asked them to stay.
Palestinian sources have suggested that possibly the murderers were crazed foreign workers from Thailand. Because a Palestinian Arab would never, ever, do anything like that.
After all, how would Palestinian society look at them?
*Legal note: this is not a threat, merely a description of the feelings evoked by this remarkable dickhead.
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OK, here’s the feelings “evoked” by what you’ve described on the part of yours truly.
I say tar and feather the bastard. For real.
I wish we Jews had some way of “excommunicating” fellow Jews who don’t deserve to call themselves Jews.
As to the ISM activists, forced conversion to Islam and deportation to Gaza would be most appropriate.
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In Arizona, earlier protests caused Gov. Doug Ducey to implement a curfew starting at 8 p.m. through June 8. Mayor Coral Evans said even though she has her disagreements with the governor, in a call with him, she did not accept any state police to help manage protestors.
Despite the fact that protestors used their First Amendment right to protest until 9 p.m. on Tuesday, there was only one other case of property damage where “Black Lives Matter” was spray painted onto the Flagstaff City Hall lawn. Protestors in the area of downtown also marched on Birch Avenue, and held sit-ins on Birch and Route 66.
Earlier in the day, Hernandez explained that the police will assess the protests in the coming days on a case-by-case basis. He said the department wants to straddle the line between protecting people’s life and property and protecting people’s right to protest.
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Jermaine Barkley, a Flagstaff resident for 8 years, was among the hundreds protesting in the downtown area and near Flagstaff City Hall. Barkley wrote the names and last words of people of color from around the country who he felt died unjustly. The words included “I can’t breathe,” from George Floyd; “Please don’t let me die,” from Kimani Gray; and “I wasn’t reaching for it” from Philando Castile.
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Nev Schulman hosts MTV's "Catfish: The TV Show"
Catfish aren’t as evil as you might think.
If you keep up with pop-culture news at all or have young people living in your home, you’ve probably heard the term “catfish” used in a way that doesn’t exactly reference a sea creature. In lingo, a “Catfish” is someone who willingly falsifies all or part of their identity while interacting with others online, often through social media (like Facebook or Twitter) or dating services (ex. Match.com). One of the more high-profile instances of this was with college football star Manti Te’o, who claimed he fell in love with a Leukemia-ridden woman online and it proved to be a hoax (unfolding countering details of his story caused some to accuse Te’o of lying all together, but that’s beside the point). The January 3rd episode of “Dr. Phil” focused on catfishes from Africa who scam women for money. Photographer Nev Schulman gained national attention when he filmed a 2010 documentary about his experience being catfished that subsequently became a hit series for MTV (entitled “Catfish: The TV Show”), in which he helps others meet (and in some cases, expose) their elusive acquaintances. Some episodes conclude sweetly and the 2 people involved still end up together, but majority end ugly in heated arguments and broken hearts. Catfish are widely viewed as vile manipulators, but I think this is a giant misconception. Yes, there are plenty who intentionally scam and/or deceive others for sport (ex. bullying or pranking) or personal gain (ex. money and gifts), but I contend that most are everyday people who got in over their heads in a unique situation.
The internet is a customizable alternate universe. You can block out or absorb who and what you want. Don’t like your environment or the people around you? You can easily find those you’d consider more appetizing or those that have common interests without even trying. I blinked and I had a whole slew of people who battle with depression, just like me, following my Tumblr page. I assume they found me by searching “depression” or associated terms. Feel like you can’t express yourself freely? Feel like you have to censor yourself because of who’s reading and watching? Start anonymous account. Depending on the forum, no one ever has to see your face, hear your voice or even know your name. Particularly for misfits, the web can be the place where they finally are a rock-star. Able to accentuate certain parts of their personality or thinking, (because again, it’s a customizable universe) they can be recognized for being funny or talented, as opposed to “weird” or “uncool.” I follow a Twitter account that posts sarcastic jokes. It has thousands of followers. The person(s) behind it may not have a single friend in their daily life, but online, they’d be considered popular. For a lot of individuals, the digital space is an escape where they can be themselves, who they want to be or what they wish they were. The person who throws up a fake picture, name or career is likely doing it because A) they’re using a medium where a visual is expected, like Facebook, and/or B) they’re afraid of being assessed and judged. People in their daily world look down on them, so why wouldn’t you?
Here’s how one of these online snowballs can form. Let’s say, for example, a guy named Greg is a gamer and he meets Sarah (very pedestrian names, huh?) on a message board. For a while, the two talk about games, cheating secrets and such. Then one day, Greg sees Sarah’s online; he doesn’t have anything game-related to talk about, he’s just bored or wants to say hello. They carry on a casual conversation and realize they have several things in common; maybe they’re from the same place or of the same culture. Now, their communication pattern includes games and personal things. They have quite the chemistry and the flirtatious energy is even more noticeable on the phone, as Greg asked to swap phone numbers. Sarah wants to exchange pictures. Greg freezes; he has a severe acne-problem and is worried Sarah will be grossed out and won’t be interested anymore. He takes a photo of an acquaintance and sends it to her. The pair have gotten to talking every day and the interest is growing.
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Sarah wants to meet. Greg ducks, dodges and reschedules. It’s perplexes Sarah, but Greg seems like a really great guy-which he is-so she ignores her instincts. Greg isn’t a habitual liar, but he ends up telling more lies to cover his bases. It all eventually comes out and it’s a disaster. Sarah feels betrayed because she was lied to by someone she thought she could trust, dumb because she didn’t follow her instincts and disappointed because her romantic hopes are now dashed. Greg isn’t a conniving person who planned to dupe or find love online; he was just insecure about who he was and wanted to take the romantic opportunity presented to him. Those who routinely carry on a facade with multiple people sometimes are disturbed or have an external issue (like a disorder), but insecurity and lack of self- acceptance is a huge factor in this behavior. Take “Dee Pimpin’” who was featured in episode 14 of “Catfish” season 2. Dee was an aspiring rapper who convincingly impersonated Bow Wow (see, there’s that “who you wish you were” thing) online for 6 months by sending fan Keyonnah large sums of money (Dee borrowed money from others, saying it was for performances and recordings) and coordinating communication times with Bow Wow’s film schedule at BET’s “106 & Park.” Dee was also deceiving women in person, going to great lengths to hide her gender and orientation (she’s a lesbian). Dee admitted the primary purpose of her charade was to meet women. It was apparent to me she wasn’t comfortable in her own skin and doubted that she’d be able to find love as she was.
Some might find it strange and be confused at how people can fall in love online, but it’s easier than imagined. If you notice, a lot of the people seen on Catfish-on both sides- are profoundly lonely or socially awkward. The thing is, believe it or not, they represent a large number of the population. I don’t know about you guys, but I talk to people on a regular basis who feel misunderstood, emotionally unfulfilled or isolated in some way. We’re attention-starved and our voids are wide; this is why social media exists in the 1st place-so we can mass connect with people who share our values and make a press conference out of our everyday thoughts and activities. We love “likes,” “retweets,” “reblogs,” and comments because they validate our feelings (it shows we’re not alone in them) and indicate approval. For those with a large following, it exalts them from Jane or John Doe to a master. We crave nurturing and focus, so if someone comes along offering that who fits our fancy, we’ll likely take it, and for a generation who practically lives online, cyber-love isn’t a stretch. Health-related hoaxes where the orchestrators never ask for money (ex. pretending to be the mother of a sick child) are the best examples of the desperation for attention. Some of the frequently-asked-questions people have about these situations are: “They (the catfish) never thought they would get caught?” and “How can someone (the catfished) be that gullible? As I described earlier, these situations develop like snowballs. Many catfish don’t expect things to go beyond the internet and they think they’ll always maintain control. The catfished aren’t as naïve as they seem. They see the red flags; they just ignore them because they really need the person on the other end of the screen to be real. Even in the smallest of ways, the identity they’ve come to know is a source of comfort, support and investment. Both of the guests featured on the “Dr. Phil” airing I mentioned were women who had been unlucky in love and didn’t have children. The 2nd woman was barely courted by her catfish; she just liked the idea of having someone to talk to-albeit briefly-everyday and say he loved her.
I may seem over-sympathetic to the catfishes of the world, but as the cliché says “There are 2 sides to every story” and if you look close, the 2 sides here are recurrently alike. Over again, there are some definite baddies-I’ve yelled at my TV screen plenty of times-but generally, I’m hesitant to call either person a “villain” or “victim.”
this really jus struk home wit me. i was talkn to this dude for a few months on twitter but i hav 2 twitter accts, 1 personal, the otha for a blog, and i nea showed my face on it. When he asked 4 a pic of me i sent him a pic of me, and he neva realized i was tha same person, until i posted sumthn on the other twitter (which he was apparently followin). So he got mad at me because i "lied" to him by not talkin to him on the other account, even tho i never used somebody else's pics, and blocked me on it. it's crazy bcuz like u said folks never know or wanna know the full story and just make up lies in they head so they can explain your actions, instead of just askin.
i made my blog separate becuz i needed an outlet frm what ppl expect frm me and to just be free, and like u said got kinda popular on it, and i never wud reveal who i was to anyone. he was the first, and now i kno 2 neva do dat again. i had only lied 2 him about my name & where i stay cuz i dnt want strangers (even 1s im interested in) 2 kno where i stay bcuz i kno sum flks r crazy. lol.
thanx 4 this blog tho. i'm glad sumbody understands.
What a great article! I really enjoyed this and love that you wrote about both sides of the story! I was a victim of a cat-fish...except I WAS the cat-fish! The guy who hated the way he looked so much that he showed a guy online a picture of a hot, toned, blond guy instead of his real self...not thinking we would ever be speaking again after that one simple nights chat back in 2006! We feel in love deeply for each other over the space of a year. I never lied about myself or my life...only my looks! When he wanted me to fly over to Minnesota to be with him...I had to tell him the truth! We were both heartbroken and devastated! Being the cat-fish can destroy you just as much as the innocent person BEING cat-fished! We became best friends for the next 6 years but eventually, he moved on to find love and I could never stop falling out of love with him and being hurt that I lost the love of my life over a picture! We ended ways when he got engaged to a guy...he would always be more than a friend to me so I had to end the friendship! I've never been the same since! BOTH sides of the story have pain and deserve to be heard!
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Leveraging the Immune System for Therapeutic Benefit in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Scientific Insights, Clinical Applications and Future Directions
Released June 2019
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The past several years have seen an explosion in the emergence of new therapies that leverage the natural ability of the human body to attack and treat cancer. Known as cancer immunotherapies, these treatments are generating excitement all over the world as they have reshaped the management of lung cancer in previously unimagined ways. That being said, a number of controversies and questions remain with regard to the current application of these agents in clinical practice.
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Awards of 11th Kustendorf Presented
January 21, 2018 /in Неws /by admin_kustendorf
The closing ceremony of the 11th International Film and Music Festival Küstendorf was also the award ceremony of the Competition Programme.
The winner of this year’s Vilko Filač award for best cinematography is Piotr Pawlus for the film It’s Really Awesome. István Borbás gave the award, emphasizing the significance of photography and comparing it to building bridges between light and shadow, directing and acting, calling Vilko Filač a great bridge builder, whose presence is felt in every shot he took.
The ceremony continued with special and main awards.
Since all stories are told, it is always good to see one retold in a new way, in a new geography, said a member of this year’s Jury, Peca Popović, and handed the first special jury award to the film Chanel by Humberto Vallejo. The second special jury award went to the film Merry-go-round by Ruslan Bratov. The Jury said that this film re-plays a known cinematic theme about masculine mindlessness in an irresistible and very humorous way.
Bronze Egg was given by professor Serge Regourd to the film Lumpen by Nikola Vičinić. Regourd emphasized that the film talks about the reality of a global market which reduces the life of a good worker to insignificance.
Silver Egg went to the film Fifteen by Sameh Alaa. Vlastimir Sudar presented this award, pointing out that this is a film that shows how in the world of grown-ups, one child takes responsibility of an uncertain future.
The main award, the Golden Egg, was given to the film which in a sensitive way witnesses a lust for life in a politically complex world, film Bomboné directed by Rakan Mayasi. The award was presented to the Palestinian director by Peca Popović.
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As it adds Jeremy Milken to the partnership, Watertower Ventures nears $50 million close for its new fund
August 17, 2020 Tim Dempsey
Derek Norton and Jeremy Milken have known each other for twenty years. Over their longtime personal and professional relationship, the two Los Angeles-based serial entrepreneurs have invested in each other’s companies and investment firms, but never worked together until now.
Milken is taking the plunge into institutional investing, joining Norton as a partner in Watertower Ventures just as the firm prepares to close on a $50 million new fund.
It’s an auspicious time for both Los Angeles-based businessmen, as the LA venture community sees a wave of technology talent relocating from New York and San Francisco in the newly remote work culture created by the COVID-19 epidemic.
“I see two things happen. One people look at the effects of where the market’s going. We’re seeing a lot more companies that are starting up now as a result of a [the pandemic],” said Norton. “New company formation is happening faster than before covid. [And] a lot of venture capitalists that have relocated to LA. They’ve moved down to LA for lifestyle reasons and they’re saying that they don’t need to go back to San Francisco.”
For Milken, the opportunity to get into venture now is a function of the company creation and acceleration of digital adoption that Norton referenced. “The pandemic is accelerating change in the marketplace. Things that might have taken a decade are taking two years now,” Milken said.
These opportunities are creating an opening for Watertower Ventures in markets far beyond the Hollywood hills. The firm, whose original thesis focused on Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York, is now cutting checks on investments in Texas and Utah, and spending much less time looking for companies in the Bay Area.
Derek Norton, founder, Watertower Ventures: Image Credit: Watertower Ventures
Norton’s latest fund is the only the most recent act in a career that has seen the investor traverse the financial services digital media and the early days of the internet. Norton built Digital Boardwalk, a pioneering internet service provider and the second commercial partner for the trailblazing browser service, Netscape.
Later, at Jeffries Technologies, and the $120 million Entertainment Media Ventures seed and early stage venture capital fund, Norton was intimately involved in bringing tech to market and focusing on early stage investments. With that in mind, the Watertower Ventures group, which launched in 2017 with a small, $5 million fund, is a return to those roots.
The plan, even at the time, was always to raise a larger fund. After founding and running the boutique investment banking business at Watertower Group, Norton knew he had to raise a starter fund to prove the thesis he was working on.
That thesis was to provide a bridge between early stage companies and large technology companies using the network that Norton has built in the Southern California tech and entertainment community over decades.
“We want to take our contacts at Google, Apple, Facebook, Disney, Microsoft, Cisco, Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, and other companies we believe should have a relationship with our portfolio companies, and help the CEOs and management teams more effectively do business development,” Norton told SoCal Tech when he closed his first fund in 2017. “We want to connect them to the right person at those companies to create a commercial relationship. That has a really large impact on early stage companies, who typically don’t have a deep network of relationships, and the ability to get to those type of people. It’s because of our advisory business that we have those relationships, and that’s also why those relationships stay fresh and active, versus people who aren’t in those businesses. It’s almost a full time job to maintain that, and that’s where our value-add is.”
Milken, who has spent his professional career in entrepreneurship, was ready to try investing, and was intimately familiar with Watertower and its portfolio, as an investor in the firm’s first $5 million fund.
“Two years ago we started having those conversations,” said Norton in an interview. “As Jeremy exited his business in September it created the opportunity to go out and raise together as the evolution of our partnership.”
Jeremy Milken, general partner, Watertower Ventures. Image Credit: Watertower Ventures
With the new capital coming in, Norton expects to back some 30 to 35 companies, he said. And, in a testament to the first fund’s performance, which has it in the top decile of venture funds for its vintage, Norton said he was able to raise the capital amidst the economic uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Some 70 percent of the existing portfolio has been marked up, according to Norton.
Even though limited partners, the investors who back venture funds, were reluctant to commit capital to new firms in March and April, fundraising returned with a vengeance in June and July, according to Norton. The paper performance likely was enough to woo additional limited partners and individual investors including TikTok chief executive Kevin Mayer, the former head of streaming at Disney.
Mayer’s presence in the firm’s investor base is a testament to the firm’s pitch to founders. “We view fundraising as a massive distraction for these early stage companies from their business. We try to deliver that network that’s ours to those founders,” said Norton.
“I think we’re in a unique position starting with a fresh fund here,” says Norton. “Uncertainty creates opportunity and people are bringing solutions. We haven’t noticed any slowdown whatsoever, we’re working with twenty five companies per week. Since the inception of the fund, we haven’t seen deal flow at this level.”
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African payment startup Chipper Cash raises $13.8M Series A
June 17, 2020 Tim Dempsey
African cross-border fintech startup Chipper Cash has closed a $13.8 million Series A funding round led by Deciens Capital and plans to hire 30 new staff globally.
The raise caps an event filled run for the San Francisco based payments company, founded two years ago by Ugandan Ham Serunjogi and Ghanaian Maijid Moujaled.
The two came to America for academics, met in Iowa while studying at Grinnell College and ventured out to Silicon Valley for stints in big tech: Facebook for Serunjogi and Flickr and Yahoo! for Moujaled.
The startup call beckoned and after launching Chipper Cash in 2018, the duo convinced 500 Startups and and Liquid 2 Ventures — co-founded by American football legend Joe Montana — to back their company with seed funds.
Two years and $22 million in total capital raised later, Chipper Cash offers its mobile-based, no fee, P2P payment services in seven countries: Ghana, Uganda, Nigeria, Tanzania, Rwanda, South Africa and Kenya.
“We’re now at over one and a half million users and doing over a $100 million dollars a month in volume,” Serunjogi told TechCrunch on a call.
Chipper Cash does not release audited financial data, but does share internal performance accounting with investors. Deciens Capital and Raptor Group co-led the startup’s Series A financing, with repeat support from 500 Startups and Liquid 2 Ventures .
Deciens Capital founder Dan Kimmerling confirmed the fund’s lead on the investment and review of Chipper Cash’s payment value and volume metrics.
Parallel to its P2P app, the startup also runs Chipper Checkout: a merchant-focused, fee-based mobile payment product that generates the revenue to support Chipper Cash’s free mobile-money business.
The company will use its latest round to hire up to 30 people across operations in San Francisco, Lagos, London, Nairobi and New York — according to Serunjogi.
Image Credits: Chipper Cash
Chipper Cash has already brought on a new compliance officer, Lisa Dawson, whose background includes stints with the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and Citigroup’s anti-money laundering department.
“You know in the world we live in the AML side is very important so it’s an area that we want to invest in from the get go,” said Serunjogi.
He confirmed Dawson’s role aligned with getting Chipper Cash ready to meet regulatory requirements for new markets, but declined to name specific countries.
With the round announcement, Chipper Cash also revealed a corporate social responsibility component to its business. Related to current U.S. events, the startup has formed the Chipper Fund for Black Lives.
“We’ve been huge beneficiaries of the generosity and openness of this country and its entrepreneurial spirit,” explained Serunjogi. “But growing up in Africa, we’ve were able to navigate [the U.S.] without the traumas and baggage our African American friends have gone through living in America.”
The Chipper Fund for Black Lives will give 5 to 10 grants of $5,000 to $10,000. “The plan is to give that to…people or causes who are furthering social justice reforms,” said Serunjogi.
In Africa, Chipper Cash has placed itself in the continent’s major digital payments markets. As a sector, fintech has become Africa’s highest funded tech space, receiving the bulk of an estimated $2 billion in VC that went to startups in 2019.
Image Credits: TechCrunch
Those ventures, and a number of the continent’s established banks, are in a race to build market share through financial inclusion.
By several estimates — including The Global Findex Database — the continent is home to the largest percentage of the world’s unbanked population, with a sizable number of underbanked consumers and SMEs.
Increasingly, Nigeria has become the most significant fintech market in Africa, with the continent’s largest economy and population of 200 million.
Chipper Cash expanded there in 2019 and faces competition from a number of players, including local payments venture Paga. More recently, outside entrants have jumped into Nigeria’s fintech scene.
In 2019, Chinese investors put $220 million into OPay (owned by Opera) and PalmPay — two fledgling startups with plans to scale first in West Africa and then the broader continent.
Over the next several years, expect to see market events — such as fails, acquisitions, or IPOs — determine how well funded fintech startups, including Chipper Cash, fare in Africa’s fintech arena.
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‘A perfect storm for first time managers,’ say VCs with their own shops
April 2, 2020 Tim Dempsey
Until very recently, it had begun to seem like anyone with a thick enough checkbook and some key contacts in the startup world could not only fund companies as an angel investor but even put himself or herself in business as a fund manager.
It helped that the world of venture fundamentally changed and opened up as information about its inner workings flowed more freely. It didn’t hurt, either, that many billions of dollars poured into Silicon Valley from outfits and individuals around the globe who sought out stakes in fast-growing, privately held companies — and who needed help in securing those positions.
Of course, it’s never really been as easy or straightforward as it looks from the outside. While the last decade has seen many new fund managers pick up traction, much of the capital flooding into the industry has accrued to a small number of more established players that have grown exponentially in terms of assets under management. In fact, talk with anyone who has raised a first-time fund and you’re likely to hear that the fundraising process is neither glamorous nor lucrative and that it’s paved with very short phone conversations. And that’s in a bull market.
What happens in what’s suddenly among the worst economic environments the world has seen? First and foremost, managers who’ve struck out on their own suggest putting any plans on the back burner. “I would love to be positive, and I’m an optimist, but I would have to say that now is probably one of the toughest times” to get a fund off the ground, says Aydin Senkut, who founded the firm Felicis Ventures in 2006 and just closed its seventh fund.
“It’s a perfect storm for first-time managers,” adds Charles Hudson, who launched his own venture shop, Precursor Ventures, in 2015.
Hitting pause doesn’t mean giving up, suggests Eva Ho, cofounder of the three-year-old, seed-stage L.A.-based outfit Fika Ventures, which last year closed its second fund with $76 million. She says not to get “too dismayed” by the challenges.
Still, it’s good to understand what a first-time manager is up against right now, and what can be learned more broadly about how to proceed when the time is right.
Know it’s hard, even in the best times
As a starting point, it’s good to recognize that it’s far harder to assemble a first fund than anyone who hasn’t done it might imagine.
Hudson knew he wanted to leave his last job as a general partner with SoftTech VC when the firm — since renamed Uncork Capital — amassed enough capital that it no longer made sense for it to issue very small checks to nascent startups. “I remember feeling like, Gosh, I’ve reached a point where the business model for our fund is getting in the way of me investing in the kind of companies that naturally speak to me,” which is largely pre-product startups.
Hudson suggests he miscalculated when it came to approaching investors with his initial idea to create a single GP fund that largely backs ideas that are too early for other VCs. “We had a pretty big LP based [at SoftTech] but what I didn’t realize is the LP base that’s interested in someone who is on fund three or four is very different than the LP base that’s interested in backing a brand new manager.”
Hudson says he spent a “bunch of time talking to fund of funds, university endowments — people who were just not right for me until someone pulled me aside and just said, ‘Hey, you’re talking to the wrong people. You need to find some family offices. You need to find some friends of Charles. You need to find people who are going to back you because they think this is a good idea and who aren’t quite so orthodox in terms of what they want to see in terms partner composition and all that.’”
Collectively, it took “300 to 400 LP conversations” and two years to close his first fund with $15 million. (It’s now raising its third pre-seed fund).
Ho says it took less time for Fika to close its first fund but that she and her partners talked with 600 people in order to close their $41 million debut effort, adding that she felt like a “used car salesman” by the end of the process.
Part of the challenge was her network, she says. “I wasn’t connected to a lot of high-net-worth individuals or endowments or foundations. That was a whole network that was new to me, and they didn’t know who the heck I was, so there’s a lot of proving to do.” A proof-of-concept fund instilled confidence in some of these investors, though Ho notes you have to be able to live off its economics, which can be miserly.
She also says that as someone who’d worked at Google and helped found the location data company Factual, she underestimated the work involved in running a small fund. “I thought, ‘Well, I’ve started these companies and run these big teams. How how different could it be?” But “learning the motions and learning what it’s really like to run the funds and to administer a fund and all responsibilities and liabilities that come with it . . . it made me really stop and think, ‘Do I want to do this for 20 to 30 years, and if so, what’s the team I want to do it with?’”
Investors will offer you funky deals; avoid these if you can
First-time managers often look to close on a big anchor investor as a positive indicator to other backers, and some LPs will take advantage of their real or perceived desperation to lock something down. Yet seizing certain opportunities can actually send the wrong signal, depending on the scenario.
In Hudson’s case, an LP offered him two options: either a typical LP agreement wherein the outfit would write a small check, or an option wherein it would make a “significant investment that would have been 40% of our first fund,” says Hudson.
Unsurprisingly, the latter offer came with a lot of strings. Namely, the LP said it wanted to have a “deeper relationship” with Hudson, which he took to mean it wanted a share of Precursor’s profits beyond what it would receive as a typical investor in the fund.
“It was very hard to say no to that deal, because I didn’t get close to raising the amount of money that I would have gotten if I’d said yes for another year,” says Hudson. He still thinks it was the right move, however. “I was just like, how do I have a conversation with any other LP about this in the future if I’ve already made the decision to give this away?”
Fika similarly received an offer that would have made up 25 percent of the outfit’s debut fund, but the investor wanted a piece of the management company. It was “really hard to turn down because we had nothing else,” recalls Ho. But she says that other funds Fika was talking with made the decision simpler. “They were like, ‘If you sign on to those terms, we’re out.” The team decided that taking a shortcut that could damage them longer term wasn’t worth it.
Your LPs have questions, but you should question LPs, too
More so than most first-time managers, Senkut started off with certain financial advantages, having been the first product manager at Google and enjoying the fruits of its IPO before leaving the outfit in 2005 along with many other Googleaires, as they were dubbed at the time.
It allowed him to start putting money to work immediately. Still, as he tells it, it was “not a friendly time a decade ago” to raise outside capital, with most solo general partners spinning out of other venture funds — not search engines. As an outsider, to crack into the venture industry, he largely tried to shadow angel investor Ron Conway, working checks into some of the same deals that Conway was backing.
“If you want to get into the movie industry, you need to be in hit movies,” says Senkut. “If you want to get into the investing industry, you need to be in hits. And the best way to get into hits is to say, ‘Okay. Who has an extraordinary number of hits, who’s likely getting the best deal flow,’ because the more successful you are, the better companies you’re going to see, the better the companies that find you.”
Senkut has developed an enviable track record over time, including stakes in Credit Karma, which was just gobbled up by Intuit, and Plaid, sold in January to Visa. Those kinds of exits may give him more confidence than managers earlier in their careers might muster. Still, Senkut also says it’s very important for anyone raising a fund to not just answer LPs’ questions but to also ask the right questions of them.
He says, for example, that with Felicis’s newest fund, the team asked many managers outright about how many assets they have under management, how much of those assets are dedicated to venture and private equity, and how much of their allotment to each was already taken.
Felicis did this so it doesn’t find itself in a position of making a capital call that an investor can’t meet, especially given that in recent years, many institutional investors have been writing out checks to VCs at a faster pace than ever been before and have, in many cases, too much of their capital in the venture industry at this point.
In fact, Felicis added new managers who “had room” while cutting back some existing LPs “that we respected . .. because if you ask the right questions, it becomes clear whether they’re already 20% over-allocated [to the asset class] and there’s no possible way [they are] even going to be able to invest if they want to.”
It’s smart thinking and, when the market eventually eases up again, and new funds can again capture the attention of investors, certainly something to keep in mind.
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Did African startups raise $496M, $1B or $2B in 2019?
March 5, 2020 Tim Dempsey
Five years ago, it was hard to come by any numbers for annual VC investment in Africa. These days the challenge is choosing which number to follow.
That’s the case for three venture funding studies for Africa that turned up varied results.
The numbers and variance
Investment stats released by media outlet Disrupt Africa, data-base WeeTracker and Africa focused fund Partech have left some people scratching their heads.
From high to low, Partech pegged total 2019 VC for African startups at $2 billion, compared to WeeTracker’s $1.3 billion estimate and Disrupt Africa’s $496 million.
That’s a fairly substantial spread of $1.5 billion between the assessments. The variance filtered down to country VC valuations, though it was a little less sharp.
Partech and WeeTracker shared the same top-three countries for 2019 VC investment in Africa — Nigeria, Kenya, and Egypt — but with hundred-million dollar differences.
Disrupt Africa came up with a different lead market for startup investment on the continent — Kenya — though its $149 million estimate for the East African country was some $500 million lower than Partech and WeeTracker’s VC leader, Nigeria.
So what accounts for the big deviations? TechCrunch spoke to each organization (and reviewed the reports) and found the contrasting stats derive from different methodologies — namely defining what constitutes a startup and an African startup.
Partech’s larger overall VC valuation for the continent comes from broader parameters for companies and quantifying investment.
“We do not limit the definition of startups by age of the incorporation or size of funds raised,” Partech General Partner Tidjane Deme told TechCrunch.
This led the fund, for example, to include Visa’s $200 million investment in Nigerian financial-services company Interswitch . The corporate round was certainly tech-related, though few would classify Interswitch — which launched in 2002, acquires companies, and has a venture fund — as a startup.
Nigeria’s Interswitch confirms $1B valuation after Visa investment
Partech’s higher annual VC value for Africa’s startups could also connect to tallying confidential investment data.
“We…collect and analyze undisclosed deals, accessing more detailed information thanks to our relationships within the ecosystem,” the fund’s report disclosed.
WeeTracker’s methodology also included data on undisclosed startup investments and opened up the count to funding sources beyond VC.
“Debt/loans, grants/awards/prizes/non-equity assistance, crowdfunding, [and] ICOs are included,” WeeTracker clarified in a methodology note.
Disrupt Africa used a more conservative approach across companies and investment. “We are a bit more narrow on what we consider a startup to be,” the site’s co-founder Tom Jackson told TechCrunch.
“In the clearest scenario, an African startup would be headquartered in Africa, founded by an African, and have Africa as its primary market,” Disrupt Africa’s report stated — though Jackson noted all these factors don’t always align.
“Disrupt Africa tackles this issue on a case-by-case basis,” he said.
Partech was more liberal in its definition of an African startup, including investment for tech-companies that count Africa as their primary market, but not insisting they be incorporated or operate HQs on the continent.
That opened up inclusion of large 2019 rounds to Africa focused, New York headquartered tech-talent accelerator Andela and investment to Opera’s verticals, such as OPay in Nigeria.
In addition to following a more conservative definition of African startup, Disrupt Africa’s report was more particular to early-stage ventures. The site’s report primarily counted investment for companies founded within the last five year and excluded “spin-offs of corporates or any other large entity…that [has]…developed past the point of being a startup.”
Commonalities across reports
For all the differences on annual VC counts for Africa, there were some common threads across WeeTracker, Partech, and Disrupt Africa’s investment reports.
The first was the rise of Nigeria — which has Africa’s largest population and economy — as the top destination for startup VC investment on the continent.
The second was the prominence of fintech as the most funded startup sector across Africa, gaining 54% of all VC in Partech’s report and $678 million of the $1.3 billion to startups in WeeTracker’s study.
VC inequality
An unfortunate commonality in each report was the preponderance of startup investment going to English speaking Africa. No francophone country made it into the the top five in any of the three reports. Only Senegal registered on Partech’s country-list, with a small $16 million in VC in 2019.
The Dakar Angel Network launched last year to bridge the resource gap for startups in French-speaking African countries.
Final sum
There may not be a right or wrong stat for annual investment to African startups, just three reports with different methodologies that capture unique snapshots.
Partech and WeeTracker offer a broader view of multiple types of financial support going to tech companies operating in Africa. Disrupt Africa’s assessment is more specific to a standard definition of VC going to startups originating and operating in Africa.
Three reports with varying numbers on the continent’s startup investment is a definite upgrade to what was available not so long ago: little to no formal data on VC in Africa.
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Oyo’s revenue surged in FY19, but loss widened, too
February 17, 2020 Tim Dempsey
Budget-lodging startup Oyo reported a loss of $335 million on $951 million revenue globally for the financial year ending March 31, 2019, and pledged to cut down on its spending as the India-headquartered startup grows more cautious about its aggressive expansion.
The six-year-old startup’s growing revenue, up from $211 million in financial year ending March 31, 2018, is in line with the company’s ambitions to be in a clear path to profitability this year, said Abhishek Gupta, Global CFO of OYO Hotels & Homes, in a statement.
But the startup’s loss has widened, too. Its consolidated loss increased from 25% in FY18 to 35% in FY19, it said. In India, where Oyo clocked $604 million in revenue in FY19, it was able to reduce its loss to 14% (from 24%) of revenue in FY19 to $83 million.
The startup, which today operates more than 43,000 hotels with over a million rooms in 800 cities in 80 nations, said its expansion to China and other international markets contributed to the loss.
“These markets constituted 36.5% of the global revenues. While consistently improving operating economics in mature markets like India where it’s already seeing an improvement in gross margins, the company is determined to bring in the same fiscal discipline in emerging markets in the coming financial year,” the startup said in a statement.
Oyo has come under scrutiny in recent months for its aggressive expansion in a manner that some analysts have said is not sustainable. The startup, which rebrands and renovates independent budget hotels, has also engaged in sketchy ways to sign up new hotels, as documented by the New York Times earlier this year.
In recent months, Oyo executives have acknowledged that the startup grew too fast and is confronting a number of “teething issues.” Oyo has laid off at least 3,000 employees, mostly in India, in last three months.
Local Indian laws require every startup to disclose their annual financials. Most of them filed their financials in early October.
More to follow shortly…
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Catalyst Fund gets $15M from JP Morgan, UK Aid to back 30 EM fintech startups
January 20, 2020 Tim Dempsey
The Catalyst Fund has gained $15 million in new support from JP Morgan and UK Aid and will back 30 fintech startups in Africa, Asia, and Latin America over the next three years.
The Boston based accelerator provides mentorship and non-equity funding to early-stage tech ventures focused on driving financial inclusion in emerging and frontier markets.
That means connecting people who may not have access to basic financial services — like a bank account, credit or lending options — to those products.
Catalyst Fund will choose an annual cohort of 10 fintech startups in five designated countries: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, India and Mexico. Those selected will gain grant-funds and go through a six-month accelerator program. The details of that and how to apply are found here.
“We’re offering grants of up to $100,000 to early-stage companies, plus venture building support…and really…putting these companies on a path to product market fit,” Catalyst Fund Director Maelis Carraro told TechCrunch.
Program participants gain exposure to the fund’s investor networks and investor advisory committee, that include Accion and 500 Startups. With the $15 million Catalyst Fund will also make some additions to its network of global partners that support the accelerator program. Names will be forthcoming, but Carraro, was able to disclose that India’s Yes Bank and University of Cambridge are among them.
Catalyst fund has already accelerated 25 startups through its program. Companies, such as African payments venture ChipperCash and SokoWatch — an East African B2B e-commerce startup for informal retailers — have gone on to raise seven-figure rounds and expand to new markets.
Payment startup Chipper Cash raises $6M for Southern Africa expansion
Those are kinds of business moves Catalyst Fund aims to spur with its program. The accelerator was founded in 2016, backed by JP Morgan and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Catalyst Fund is now supported and managed by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and global tech consulting firm BFA.
African fintech startups have dominated the accelerator’s companies, comprising 56% of the portfolio into 2019.
That trend continued with Catalyst Fund’s most recent cohort, where five of six fintech ventures — Pesakit, Kwara, Cowrywise, Meerkat and Spoon — are African and one, agtech credit startup Farmart, operates in India.
The draw to Africa is because the continent demonstrates some of the greatest need for Catalyst Fund’s financial inclusion mission.
By several estimates, Africa is home to the largest share of the world’s unbanked population and has a sizable number of underbanked consumers and SMEs.
Roughly 66% of Sub-Saharan Africa’s 1 billion people don’t have a bank account, according to World Bank data.
Collectively, these numbers have led to the bulk of Africa’s VC funding going to thousands of fintech startups attempting to scale payment solutions on the continent.
Digital finance in Africa has also caught the attention of notable outside names. Twitter/Square CEO Jack Dorsey recently took an interest in Africa’s cryptocurrency potential and Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs has invested in fintech startups on the continent.
This lends to the question of JP Morgan’s interests vis-a-vis Catalyst Fund and Africa’s financial sector.
For now, JP Morgan doesn’t have plans to invest directly in Africa startups and is taking a long-view in its support of the accelerator, according to Colleen Briggs — JP Morgan’s Head of Community Innovation
“We find financial health and financial inclusion is a…cornerstone for inclusive growth…For us if you care about a stable economy, you have to start with financial inclusion,” said Briggs, who also oversees the Catalyst Fund.
This take aligns with JP Morgan’s 2019 announcement of a $125 million, philanthropic, five-year global commitment to improve financial health in the U.S. and globally.
More recently, JP Morgan Chase posted some of the strongest financial results on Wall Street, with Q4 profits of $2.9 billion. It’ll be worth following if the company shifts its income-generating prowess to business and venture funding activities in Catalyst Fund markets such as Nigeria, India and Mexico.
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Trucks VC general partner Reilly Brennan is coming to TC Sessions: Mobility
The future of transportation industry is bursting at the seams with startups aiming to bring everything from flying cars and autonomous vehicles to delivery bots and even more efficient freight to roads.
One investor who is right at the center of this is Reilly Brennan, founding general partner of Trucks VC, a seed-stage venture capital fund for entrepreneurs changing the future of transportation.
TechCrunch is excited to announce that Brennan will join us on stage for TC Sessions: Mobility.
In case you missed last year’s event, TC Sessions: Mobility is a one-day conference that brings together the best and brightest engineers, investors, founders and technologists to talk about transportation and what is coming on the horizon. The event will be held May 14, 2020 in the California Theater in San Jose, Calif.
Brennan is known as much for his popular FoT newsletter as his investments, which include May Mobility, Nauto, nuTonomy, Joby Aviation, Skip and Roadster.
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Online catering marketplace ezCater gets another $150M at a $1.25B valuation
In 2007, Stefania Mallett and Briscoe Rodgers conceived of ezCater, an online marketplace for business catering, and began building the company in Mallet’s Boston home, mostly at her kitchen table.
Recently, sitting at that same table, Mallett negotiated with Brad Twohig of Lightspeed Venture Partners the final terms of a $150 million Series D-1 at a $1.25 billion valuation. Lightspeed, alongside GIC, co-led the round, with participation from Light Street Capital, Wellington Management, ICONIQ Capital and Quadrille Capital.
“Raising money or getting to unicorn status, it’s all nice validation but that’s not the purpose, the purpose of being in business is to grow a very successful company with happy customers and happy employees,” Mallett, ezCater’s chief executive officer, told TechCrunch. “We are going to have cupcakes with unicorns on them. That will take us about a half hour, then we will get back to work.”
EzCater co-founder and CEO Stefania Mallett
Mallett compares ezCater to Expedia . The travel company doesn’t own and operate hotels, nor do they create them. EzCater, similarly, works with 60,500 restaurants and caterers around the U.S. to fulfill orders, but at no point do they work directly with food nor make any deliveries themselves.
Since its inception, the ezCater marketplace has grown considerably, expanding 100 percent annually for the last eight years, Mallett tells us. Though, like most unicorns, ezCater isn’t profitable yet.
Both Mallett and Rodgers are software industry veterans, establishing engineering careers prior to tackling business catering. The pair bootstrapped the company until 2011, when they secured a small Series A investment of $2.7 million. That same year, U.S. foodtech startups raised $176 million, per PitchBook. EzCater would go on to raise more than $300 million in equity funding, including its latest round, and VC interest in foodtech would explode. Already this year, U.S. foodtech startups have brought in $626 million after pulling in a whopping $5 billion in 2018.
EzCater has benefited from this boom. The company raised a $100 million Series D just 10 months ago.
“We really didn’t need the money, we have quite a lot of money in the bank from the last round,” Mallett said. “There was so much talk of a funding winter and a recession coming so we said maybe we should try to raise money and then people jumped on it so we thought OK, why not? If there is a funding winter, we’re set; if not, well, we are still set.”
The investment comes hot off the heels of ezCater’s acquisition of Monkey Group, a cloud platform for take-out, delivery and catering. Mallett declined to disclose terms of the deal but said the partnership makes ezCater the indisputable market leader in catering management software. The company will use its recently expanded war chest to accelerate its international expansion and, potentially, continue its M&A streak. As for the future, an initial public offering is amongst the possibilities.
“We certainly are considering it,” Mallett said. “As we’ve grown, we’ve become more sophisticated and mature; that puts us in a good position to continue operating as a successful standalone company or be acquired by a public company or go public if we see an opportunity to do that. We are not wedded to any of these outcomes.”
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These women are disrupting their industries one click at a time
August 3, 2018 Tim Dempsey
When it comes to emerging technology we don’t always think of women in lifestyle. Instead, our minds dart to computer programmers, IT gurus and software developers.
Thanks to these forward-thinking female entrepreneurs however, that’s all starting to change. They’ve turned their hard work and determination into thriving businesses – all thanks to a bright idea, and a helping hand from the right devices.
These days, if you’re a busy content creator or a business mogul in the making – there’s nothing more important than having the best tools. But how do you choose which products to go with? Easy – you go with the ones that help you do your best work. Read more…
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Southern California needs to find its hub for it to develop its own tech ecosystem
March 23, 2018 Tim Dempsey
Recognizing the tens of billions of dollars that the Southern Californian region leaves on the table, because it hasn’t taken its rightful place in the American technology industry, a new group called the Alliance for Southern California Innovation has just released a report to analyze how SoCal can work to assume its pole position.
Through interviews with 100 leaders of the technology ecosystem and an analysis of venture capital funding for the region, the organization has concluded (with the help of the Boston Consulting Group) that the promise of a regional rival to Northern California’s silicon valley won’t be fulfilled without the establishment of a geographic hub and a willingness to overcome regional differences.
Founded by Steve Poizner last year to accelerate the growth of a startup entrepreneurial ecosystem in Southern California, The Alliance is building a network of investors, entrepreneurs and universities to provide ballast in the south to the dominance of the Northern California tech industry.
The Alliance estimates that Southern California’s tech community could be one-third the size of Silicon Valley’s by supporting or further developing the six pillars it already has for innovation to occur.
The potential impact making these changes could have is an added 200,000 new jobs and growth of $100 billion for the whole economic region.
“Over the past several years we have observed a significant decrease in startups leaving SoCal,” said Greg Becker, CEO of Silicon Valley Bank . “We’ve also seen a substantial inflow of venture capital from all over the world.”
In fact, as is well-reported, the luster of Silicon Valley is fading. As BCG writes in its report:
The good news for SoCal and any region with tech ambitions is that the Bay Area has in some ways been too successful. Our research revealed a saturation level causing unprecedented challenges, starting with exorbitant housing prices and runaway operating costs that accelerate a startup’s “burn rate”—its monthly spending.
Los Angeles investor Mark Suster, a general partner with Upfront Ventures, has been beating the drum for Los Angeles as a new tech hub for a while — and billion dollar exits for Ring and Dollar Shave Club, in addition to the public offering for Snap, lend credence to his position.
Suster has also noted for years that the region produces more technology doctorates than any other geography in the United States. Caltech generates more patents than any other university while UCLA boasts more startups founded by its graduate than any other school in the nation. Meanwhile, UCSD in San Diego has a deep bench of biotechnology expertise stemming from its proximity to the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, the Salk Institute, and the Scripps Research Institute.
However, to thrive, BCG recommends taking six steps to bolster the the ecosystem and its chances to begin to catch up to Silicon Valley.
The consulting firm says that Southern California needs more local venture capital; the individual geographies need to work to promote their regional strengths; regions need to collaborate more closely with each other; founders need to start gunning for that IPO slot instead of taking acquisition offers; the region’s commitment to diversity needs to be emphasized; and finally the embarrassment of entrepreneurial riches needs to be promoted abroad.
“Southern California is a region of extreme innovation; however, it is so spread-out, making it hard to navigate,” said Steve Poizner founder and board chair of the Alliance, in a statement. “We believe by finding, filtering and aggregating exciting startups from top universities, research institutes, and incubators/accelerators, we can demonstrate the combined strength of SoCal in a compelling way to top investors and thought leaders.”
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Do VC woes extend to portfolio companies? For Rothenberg, probably not
November 25, 2017 Tim Dempsey
As VC brands go, Rothenberg Ventures has seen better days. The firm built up a reputation as an up-and-coming early-stage investor. But Silicon Valley soured on Rothenberg Ventures last year; lawsuits ensued. So it hasn’t been a good year for Mike Rothenberg. But what about the Rothenberg Ventures portfolio? Read More
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DeepGraph feeds enterprise sales teams with hyper-targeted warm leads
May 12, 2017 Tim Dempsey
The best way to grow sales is to better understand sales, but unfortunately that’s often easier said than done. Kemvi, a seed-stage startup, is launching out of stealth today to announce DeepGraph, which helps sales teams reach the right potential customers at the right time. The company has closed north of $1 million in seed financing from Seabed VC, Neotribe Ventures, Kepha… Read More
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A look inside the Skopje startup scene
On Wednesday I had the unique pleasure of hanging out with a a bunch of Macedonian startup founders and was very impressed. The Balkans have long been a promising spot for startups – the cost of living is low and the talent level is high – and this visit was unique in that everyone was fully prepared to pitch on a global scale. The winners of the pitch-off were Letz, a cool… Read More
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Data Collective and SynBioBeta founder John Cumbers launch a seed stage biotech fund
Data Collective (DCVC) is bringing Dr. John Cumbers, the founder of synthetic biology platform SynBioBeta and setting him up with his own biotech fund for pre-seed and seed stage startups, aptly called the DCVC SynBioBeta Fund. DCVC co-managing partner Matt Ocko, who spoke to TechCrunch about the new development didn’t have an exact number set aside for the new fund but did mention… Read More
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China’s newest source of on-demand hype, rental bicycles, gets its first unicorn
There can be no hype without a unicorn. China’s newest startup money pit — bicycle rentals on-demand — now has its first billion-dollar valued company.
The industry has sucked in more than $300 million from investors this year alone — that’s counting just one company — and now Ofo has become the first in the space to reach the much-coveted $1 billion… Read More
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mClinica raises $6.3M to map healthcare data in Southeast Asia
Health startups are pulling in money in Southeast Asia. A week after wellness-focused insurance brokerage CXA drew $25 million from investors, fellow Singapore-based startup mClinica has announced a $6.3 million Series A raise. mClinica was founded in 2012 and its mission is to provide healthcare data in Southeast Asia, much like Nielsen and other traditional analyst houses, through an… Read More
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Venture capital in 2017 is when the rubber hits the road for returns
In the United States, VC funds raised a whopping $40.6 billion in 2016[1]. It was the largest year for VC fundraising since 2000 when the venture industry raked in a jaw dropping $101.4 billion[1]. Yet the 2016 exit market was a mixed bag.
Despite many forecasting (hoping?) that herds of unicorns would enter the public market in 2016, the IPO market was lackluster at best. There were only 31 U.S. Read More
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GigRove wants to match skilled freelancers and startups with spare rooms
Bootstrapping London-based startup GigRove is looking to carve out a niche in the collaborative consumption space as a matching platform for digital workers with itchy feet and startups with a spare room and pressing skills need. Which is all very zeitgeisty in these digital nomad/citizen of nowhere times. Read More
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Military Space 2.0: Countering Mounting Challenges To a Peaceful Space Environment
A Kratos Perspective by John Monahan, President, Kratos-RT Logic
Space is the ultimate high ground for the U.S. military and its allies, providing operational advantages that are essential to winning wars.
But no longer are satellites safe deep in space. Adversaries have notably stepped up their resolve and activity to disrupt space capabilities in their efforts to challenge this strategic advantage.
Countering these threats and subsequent vulnerabilities will require more awareness, automation, resilience, agility, and speed in order to predict, pre-empt, and prevent them. Some efforts extend beyond space, for example, requiring the military’s shift to multi-domain operations to better integrate air, space, ground, sea and cyber operations.
The Department of Defense (DoD) and National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) have jointly authored the Space Enterprise Vision and related Space Warfighting Concept of Operations (CONOPS) to help address the increasingly contested space environment.
The SEV outlines key principles to guide the design and build out of space architectures suitable for operation in contested environments. Its goal is a more sustainable, resilient space architecture that can respond to threats and protect space-based assets. It provides the vision to link and integrate the various DoD, Civil, International, Commercial, and Intelligence Community capabilities into an overarching architectural vision.
The SEV includes three components: a new, more resilient space architecture, one in which space enterprise forces can respond to the full range of known threats and quickly adapt to counter future threats, while continuing to deliver space effects to coalition partners. The two other components include a more responsive satellite launch capability and a more resilient, cost-effective ground architecture, Enterprise Ground Services (EGS).
EGS will result in a multi-mission ground architecture that is more cost effective and robust, provides for enhanced space situational awareness (SSA) and will integrate with the Enterprise Space Battle Management Command and Control system (BMC2) now being developed.
Kratos is making key investments toward the success of EGS, including participation and leadership roles in various EGS working groups and in standards development.
Additionally, the company is investing in research and development (R&D) and developing an internal system integration lab (SIL) to further EGS’ technical development and deployment.
The Space Warfighting CONOPS documents (SSA and Indications and Warning [I&W], Strategic Command and Control [C2] and Integrating CONOPS) articulate how the joint force will conduct multi-domain training and operations to ensure they are prepared to dominate in full spectrum conflict.
Another supporting initiative is the Wideband Communications Architecture Study (WCAS), part of the Wideband Analysis of Alternatives (AoA), to help define the next generation resilient ground architecture for the DoD. Kratos is on contract and supported by a world-class team of satellite operators including Intelsat General, SES, INMARSAT, Hughes and OneWeb to execute the study.
The aim is to expand SATCOM capacity and resiliency by enabling DoD terminals to work effectively across multiple satellite networks. To achieve this capability, the next-generation systems must be able to flexibly access commercial and government resources and traverse among a diverse pool of satellites, teleports, and managed systems.
Kratos is actively engaged in developing ground architecture enhancements in support of a variety of DoD initiatives. These and other initiatives coincide with a wave of innovation occurring throughout the commercial satellite industry.
The DoD, fortunately, is showing greater willingness to leverage these commercial capabilities to improve resiliency and situational awareness, and leverage commercial best practices, in the defense of its space assets.
More Satellites, More Viability
Contending with the reality of future attacks, the strategy of investing in more agile and resilient satellite capabilities is being bolstered by new space.
Newly planned LEO and MEO constellations are radically changing the economics, lowering the cost of satellites such that the concept of resilience through numbers and basic protection capabilities is now viable. Supplementing a few critical, expensive satellites with larger numbers of agile, cheaper ones creates a more defensible space. As a result, adversaries will need to reconsider their ability to disrupt this more diversified space architecture.
Improved space situational awareness and battle management
Even so, the best defense, no matter whether the target is a ship or a satellite, is the awareness to pre-empt or avoid the threat.
Programs such as the AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) and JSTARS (Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System) provide situational awareness and C2 for the air and ground domains. However, the ability to see and understand threats in space and direct space forces is in its early stages. Today’s contested and congested environment differs vastly from days past of a few geostationary satellites in a sanctuary space domain.
A major step in this direction is the National Space Defense Center, which is bringing together the DoD, the intelligence community and the commercial sector (and in the future, our international partners). This fusion hub at Schriever Air Force Base is focused on integrating new approaches for SSA, I&W and unifying plans and efforts for directing space forces.
This collaboration demonstrates the Pentagon’s growing interest in leveraging commercial sector data and services to gain an integrated view of an environment with thousands of space assets and objects in various orbits. Kratos is one of several companies bringing its unique, commercially sourced, Radio Frequency (RF) SSA data into the National Space Defense Center to aid in the SSA battle.
However, just as computer defenses require updated signatures for effective scanning, attaining near real-time awareness of the space domain depends on machine speed data collection and analysis: sensors and platforms talking machine-to-machine, with advanced algorithms and Artificial Intelligence quickly uncovering attack patterns. These provide the basis for early warning detection, improving the likelihood to react and respond accordingly. Predictive and preventive efforts could then avert collisions and/or operate through intentional jamming, for example.
Clouds in Space
This shift would also lay the groundwork for leveraging the benefits of secure cloud services, which is generating huge interest as of late. Not only could modems be hosted in the cloud, but it would also facilitate the ‘Internet of Things’ of space. Data from sensors, applications and equipment could be collected, stored, and analyzed across the space enterprise at machine speed, providing insights on threats unavailable through standalone systems.
Combined with technologies like digital IF, which digitally routes RF signals over unlimited distances just like IP traffic, these evolved architectures would offer further flexibility in concepts of operations. For example, the ability to decouple antennas from signal processing would enable site diversity of ground operations and the placement of assets out of harm’s way.
Just as the apps and communications of today’s smartphones are useless without the underlying systems, this presumes significant change from today’s current infrastructure.
The Assured, Responsive Network
Satellites are indispensable for nearly all military missions. Ensuring the faultless, uninterrupted delivery of services across complex grids of satellite, IP and terrestrial networks is a far greater challenge today. There are huge advantages to managing data and communications services end-to-end, with the satellite treated as just another node on the network, rather than a stand-alone platform. Defense organizations require network management that ties together strings of networks, from service management and service assurance all the way through to signal protection.
Another approach to gaining accelerated access to advanced satellite capabilities is through managed services, as opposed to the lengthier and more costly process of owning, and operating infrastructure. As an example, the U.S. Joint Functional Component Command for Space contracted with a commercial partner, Kratos, to monitor and protect the commercial satellite bandwidth for its worldwide combatant commands. Relying on Kratos’ global infrastructure of 60+ RF sensor and antenna sites, the military gains advanced satellite monitoring and SSA at reduced costs, avoiding systems obsolescence and freeing its personnel for other mission-critical activities.
While the military is facing an era of new threats and adversaries, it does so at a time when innovation is sparking new capabilities, cost structures, and efficiencies. And most important, these technologies and techniques directly support more resilient, agile, and secure
space operations.
The increasingly ominous space threat environment and the speed with which those threats occur is a driving force behind the development of the Space Enterprise Vision and associated CONOPS. There is a path ahead, and the partnership between the military and commercial sector will ensure we succeed together.
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Beautifully Flaw3d | Charlotte
We ladies of Beautifully Flawed are coming together, taking glamour shots, and telling the story of our personal battles with self-image in a society which would call us flawed by its standards.
A book will be published as the end result.
This crowdfunded event is something I think may intrigue you.
Livid Expression by LaKeshia Stigall is both project developer and photographer.
I believe sincerely you would benefit from this project greatly. Allow us to tell our stories, feel lovely, and let all those pains from the past have a beautiful purpose that could potentially inspire others.
A project to support positive and healthy body image and mind.
A project to help other realize their own value and beauty.
Julie Hermes Photography
What I have today for your enjoyment is pretty awesome. It’s essentially a slideshow of some outstanding photography by the talented Julie Hermes set to a pretty sweet song I found.
If you like what you see
find more about Julie Hermes Photography:
juliehermes.com/
Julie Hermes Photography on Facebook
2013 | Mangono, NaNoWriMo
Mangono Query Letter: Continuity Coach
Hullo there. My name is Miranda Innaimo, and I am an independent author. For the past year, I’ve been working diligently on a fiction novel called MANGONO (“man-gone-no”) and I’ve reached the point where I need some assistance; I am looking for someone to sit down with me and discuss the work I’ve accomplished thus far:
– Prologue
– Chapter One: Manaia
– Chapter Two: Kerisiano
– Chapter Three: Teuila
And much more (but let’s not get ahead of ourselves)!
I have found myself in recent days at a stand still and in need of someone to help guide me towards a more cohesive story: I need a knowledgeable beta reader, a grammar guru, a continuity coach (one who is willing to help manifest a self-published novel by an exponentially evolving indie author).
The theme of the novel is of spiritual matters; by writing, I am allowed upon a fictional island of my own creation- Mangono- to interact with a plethora of imaginative characters- the Seven Moon Twenty; unfurling through motif my belief system (in all of its potential to assure others [and myself] of the great GOD who made us) and an inexplicable love of vernacular and the writing/reading process (a gift of love from said GOD of all existence).
I hope there is one out there (perhaps YOU?), nearby, willing to take up the task of assisting another’s passion; to see the a kindred soul succeed in their aspirations; to increase inertia towards a ultimate destination- for the journey aheads calls to one, many; to see that together, we prosper in learning by uniting: exuberant, and joyful, and glad in knowing that a difference was made because, “I took the time (and effort) to care.”
Comment below.
MI Upcoming Mangono Pubslush Crowdfunding Campaign
For some time now, I’ve been hosting the following facebook event: The Mangono Pledge Drive. It was one way in which I could gage interest in potential financial supporters of my NaNoWriMo 2013 project, Mangono. I was shocked with joy and overwhelmed with gratitude as my family, friends, and fans flocked to RSVP yes or maybe (and some declined, that’s okay!) to help assist my dreams of publishing my first fiction novel.
Yet November has been over for some time now; the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is well behind us, and yet, I have not collected a cent from a single one of my pledged donors.
“Before you can reap the reward, you have to finish the work,” so my husband says, and I believe him 100% correct. How can I expect anyone to share their hard earned dollars with me, when I’ve yet to ship my manuscript off to the editor? How can I persuade anyone to pre-order their copy, when my copy isn’t even complete? How can I be so forward as to expect money forwarded my way when I have not, plain and simple, finished the book yet?
I cannot, and I will not, ask for a single cent until the work is through; until the book in completed (edited, revised, rewritten, with completed 21 illustrations) I shall not beg for money, plea for pennies, or propose pre-ordering of any kind, until that glorious day/ evening / moment when I deem the work finished.
That said, I’m a little crushed that I was not able to kick-off my Pubslush.com campaign when I had hoped to do so; after all, I’ve been working closely with some of the sweetest, most considerate, and helpful ladies in the industry, Amanda and Sara of Pubslush; they’ve done everything in their power (and dare I say prowess) to see that I am well-informed about their services, benefits, and procedures.
I had- in a manic moment after midnight, when I was bleary eyed and far too ambitious for my own good- created the postcard for my Pubslush campaign. I had hoped, just days into my campaign launch, to mail out nearly all 200 of those lovely postcards to promised and potential supporters and book pre-orderers; now even that has been put on hold until the book is more complete.
Pubslush Pre-Campaign Checklist Mangono Miranda Innaimo Worksheet
In fact, here is my nifty check list for my upcoming Mangono Pubslush Crowdfunding Campaign. As you can see, I’m nearly ready to launch my campaign; the most important aspect left to be completed is my campaign video, which, if you’ve followed me at all, you know, I LOVE vlog posts, and all things video recording / footage splicing/ audio editing. So this really isn’t a set back; what’s holding me back, as I’ve already mentioned, is the novel itself; it must be finished first.
I hope to have the book, published and printed, by 7.14.14 when I do intend to host the Book Release Party (sometime around then) at Orange 13 Lounge in Lemont, Illinois; it’s a swanky place for a swanky author (me) to throw a party for her first novel; now whether or not Mangono will actually be a novel (once revisions and rewrites come in) or whether it will be a work of epic poetry, we shall see; all I know is this: I will not quit, I will not give up! And publish Mangono, I will! Just wait, you’ll see. In the mean time, I’m off to work (#amwriting)! Ta for now!
Love in the Dark | Music Interview
You know when you discover a new band and you simply must support the ever-loving bleep out of them? That’s exactly what happened when I got to know the Love in the Dark band.
First, allow me to introduce the lineup of outstanding musicians:
Lead Guitar: Rob Bugos
Vocals/Rhythm Guitar: Mitch McLaughlin
Bass Guitar: Chris Kenney
Drums: Otto Gomora
Piano/Keyboard: Massimo Onesto
Saxophone: Cathy Gende
Trombone: Keegan Bramlet
I was fortunate enough to snag an interview with the bandmates of Love in the Dark. Here’s what they had to say:
When you did you start developing your musical talent?
Rob Bugos: I began to play the music with the saxophone in 5th grade band and continued that through the end of senior year. However, I had always really wanted to be able to play guitar so I began learning the instrument when I was In 8th grade and have been just playing since.
Mitch McLaughlin: My mom and dad surrounded me with music, whether it was Guns n Roses or Joni Mitchell; both were drama and choir kids growing up. I’ve been in musical theatre/plays since I was 5, and joined choir in 5th grade, guitar in 7th, and put it all together freshman year when I started writing songs for a folk project I wanted to create. Everything sprouted from there.
Chris Kenney: I started developing my musical talent when I picked up the guitar at 9. I wanted a guitar for christmas; my parents said I had to learn a song first before they would buy me one. So I had one of my brother’s friends teach me “Smoke on the Water,” and as result, I earned my first guitar!
Otto Gomora: I began playing drums when I was about 8.
Massimo Onesto: I began developing my musical talent when I was 10. It started by playing guitar.
Cathy Gende: I started playing 8 years ago in 4th grade, and started actually excelling my 7th and 8th grade years at competitions.
Keegan Bramlet: I started playing the trombone in fourth grade, yet I never really took it seriously. In fact, I wasn’t even going to continue on through high school.
When did talent become passion?
Rob Bugos: I really found a passion in music once the band starting sounding half way decent and I realized how much I love to write and perform. I also began to understand just how much there is to know within music and as a guitar player; I’d say much of my time up till this point has been a quest for knowledge and chops.
Mitch McLaughlin: It has always been a passion. I remember watching American Idol when I was super young and just getting pissed I couldn’t audition the next year. Hahah. Yet the last four years have been a progression of passion, where everyday I wake up wondering how we- as a band- could outdo ourselves as well as the musical community, pushing us to strive harder. Like competition in the best way, only to motivate and not get lazy within our own scene.
Chris Kenney: I really started developing a passion for music when I started playing with other people. It was over time, yet playing with others and making your own music firsthand showed that music was a way to bring people together: I loved that and I still do. For me, bringing people together turned the hobby into my passion.
Otto Gomora: I didn’t really get way into playing the drums until I joined my first band near the beginning of high school
Massimo Onesto: That talent transformed to passion around my Freshman year of highschool as I became a more advanced musician: able to play songs of greater complexity.
Cathy Gende: My talent became a passion when I was placed in my school’s top ensemble Sophomore year. That’s when you could say I became more “musically intelligent”.
Keegan Bramlet: On step-up day for the band program, I was introduced to amazing musicians. Music changed for me, and since then I have always strived to become a better musician like those I have seen passionately proceed me.
Do you see yourself pursuing a life-long musical career?
Rob Bugos: I do see myself pursuing music all of my life. I don’t necessarily plan to make being a musician or performer my career, but I am going to college to major in music business and minor in music; so I am hoping to at least work within the industry. Playing, however, will always be a cherished hobby for me.
Mitch McLaughlin: I certainly do. Hell if I know what album or song or concept will do it, but I know I can’t walk away from music. I’ll be going to Nashville in the fall to major in songwriting, and minor in music business. So its for sure a career path.
Chris Kenney: I do see myself pursuing a lifelong career in music. Majoring in percussion performance at NIU starting Fall 2015, I enjoy the idea of opening my own percussion studio in order to give lessons to those wanting to begin their own musical journey of sorts. Playing and performing into old age is also a hope of mine.
Otto Gomora: I feel like I will at least always play my instrument with others.
Massimo Onesto: I do not see myself having a career in music; however, music is still an important part of my life and will always stay with me.
Cathy Gende: I’ve always seen myself majoring in music but that might change.
Keegan Bramlet: I do not foresee myself with a career in music, yet the passion will always be there. My dream is to open a restaurant (with live music of course). Whether or not Love in the Dark someday plays there, love for music will always be a part of my life.
What is your favorite aspect of performing?
Rob Bugos:When you look out at the crowd and know they’re loving it. That means your music has gone beyond just you and has really communicated with other people. I enjoy knowing there are those appreciating the noise we make.
Mitch McLaughlin: Easily, my favorite aspect is convincing the crowd to enjoy themselves. People our age seem a bit weary about going to concerts as usually they’ve only seen famous acts who have a giant team to make then sounds perfect, look beautiful, and act correctly. So when our first chord strikes and I’m dancing, I know people think it’s silly, but I’m having so much fun; within minutes I can tell mostly everyone has forgotten about the venue: it suddenly becomes the perfect environment for listening and enjoying.
Chris Kenney: Performing is cool because you really get a chance to give others something great. And also, you get to put to the test all you’ve learned since you started your journey. Whats better than that?
Otto Gomora: At last playing the music for an audience and hearing the interaction that goes on between our band and them.
Massimo Onesto: Entertaining crowds of people alongside some of my best friends.
Cathy Gende: Definitely NOT soloing; the rest of the band will assure you of that. Shaping the lines of music appropriately and blending with the band to make an awesome sound: this is my favorite part. I also enjoy seeing people who get into the music.
Keegan Bramlet: I don’t have one aspect of performing that I like the most because I love every bit of it. If I had to narrow it down though, I would have to say I love soloing. I love playing loud and making the crowd get into the music. However, it’s an amazing feeling when you are jamming along on stage and you get into what musicians call, “the pocket”, when every instrument is like a little puzzle piece and it all just fits in together to make one perfect, complete sound. That beats soloing every time. I love seeing people’s first impression of our band, because at each venue there are at least two people who say “Wait, there are horns in this band?”. One of them is usually Chris.
If you wanted your fans to know one thing important about your role or view of the band, what would it be?
Rob Bugos: I’d say that I would want people to know that I recorded our first album myself and it was the first real set of recordings I had ever done. Anything else I did was for fun and usually didn’t involve more than capturing just a guitar or two: there was definitely a learning curve involved during the process.
Mitch McLaughlin: I want everyone to know that without our guitarist, Rob “Bobby B” Bugos, our songs would not exist: flat out, no arguments, never would have happened. He’s one in a million. And without Otto supplying his basement, we’d never have the “following” we have today. Both are honestly the best parts of this band, and I say this while still acknowledging the incredible talent of each band member. Those two are specifically standout players for me personally. Yet I love this group as a whole: we’re like a 2 -dimensional triangle, in a 3 –dimensional world. Together, we just manage.
Chris Kenney: Everyone has their role and must work together to form something greater than the sum of its parts. I am just the bassist. There are six other human beings that make up Love in the Dark, and each of them bring their unique personalities to the plate which is what makes the music. Its all a collaborative effort. Without rob, our songs wouldn’t be nearly as well put together as they are: he masterminds everything. Without Otto, we wouldn’t pay nearly as much attention to what’s going on around us musically, because he really stresses that. Without Cathy, wed be missing a great improviser (although she claims she doesn’t like to haha) that also blends perfectly into a song, no questions asked. Keegan gives us sheer power, and really knows how to push a song to make it sooo exciting. Massimo offers a full, complete sound, just by adding the keys. And finally, without Mitch we wouldn’t have any idea the direction to take our music. None. Zip. Nada. My message is to not get into the feeling one person is ever more important than another because that just ain’t true. While everyone has their own specialized jobs, your band is completely changed with the alteration of just one member. Understand that.
Otto Gomora: I think I just want them to know they’re welcome to dance and groove with me during the shows.
Massimo Onesto: We have a unique sound by a good variety of instruments, making us a memorable band.
Cathy Gende: That I came into this project rather late and pretty much just play what I’m told (unless I’m improvising) which is fine by me.
Keegan Bramlet: I think each person has their role, but we are a band. Our job is to take our role and and make it work with everything else. There is a lot of compromisation, as well as collaboration. Having said that, I want our fans to know that we are more than a band, we are brothers… and a sister. We may not be related through blood, but we are family through our collective love for music: and I think that’s just as strong.
Help Me Eradicate a Mistake
Let’s all face it. I’ve got the Bipolar. When I’m ill, I’m mostly a manic person and flare ups act like windstorms ravaging my life like a stack of newspapers on the sidewalk.
Last Summer was hard. Manic episodes, rash decisions, bad decisions, worst decision. I’ve resolved most issues in the past few months, yet there is one wretched mistake lingering over my head.
My facebook author page.
The url or link to my page is terribly, terribly long, and contains four of my names, two of which I no longer claim due to matrimony.
Under the terms of facebook, I can only change my url or link once I reach 200 hundred likes; I am currently only eight likes away at 192.
Today, I ask for your help.
Like my author page so that I may eradicate a mistake from the past:
Author Miranda Innaimo
facebook.com/authormirandalynettegothardinnaimo
UGH! Look at that link… hangs head
Thanks again pals! Only eight more to go!
Crochet Mermaid Lapghan
This was my inspiration for my latest crochet project: the mermaid lapghan.
The project began by choosing a recipient (my soon-to-be 7 year old sister, GG) as well as the color(s) which would best suit her personality.
Then the waistline.
On and on, around and around.
Building the length for the legs.
Meticulously counting, hooking, and moving yarn into loops.
Until at last the tail was added.
The project complete. Happy Birthday GG!
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Poetry Challenge | 15/100 Awaiting
What discernment
is discovered!
Amplified by action,
attempting attainment
of glorified induction:
redeemed, called
betrothed of the brethren,
awaiting the millennial
with hope in
our redemption.
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2nd Sunday of Advent (Year A)
Psalm text (Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17)
Justice shall flourish in his time, and fullness of peace for ever.
O God, with Your judgment endow the king,
and with Your justice, the king's son;
he shall govern Your people with justice
and Your afflicted ones with judgment.
Justice shall flower in his days,
and profound peace, till the moon be no more.
May he rule from sea to sea,
and from the River to the ends of the earth.
For he shall rescue the poor when he cries out,
and the afflicted when he has no one to help him.
He shall have pity for the lowly and the poor;
the lives of the poor he shall save.
may his name be blessed forever;
as long as the sun his name shall remain.
In Him shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed;
all the nations shall proclaim His happiness.
Justice Shall Flourish
By Michael Keppel
By Aaron Thompson
By Ron Haeske
Gospel Verse (Lk 3:4+6)
Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths; all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
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Jeremy Warner of the Independent on the BBC's Business Breakfast: "This is a scorched earth defence"
real 28k
Monday, 4 October, 1999, 08:50 GMT
NatWest considers break-up
NatWest: defensive move to avoid takeover
NatWest is believed to be considering a break-up in a bid to thwart a takeover bid by the Bank of Scotland.
Banking sources say the bank is looking at selling off about �n ($8.26bn) of its non-core assets, including Ulster Bank, Coutts, and asset management unit Gartmore.
It would then use the proceeds to pay a special dividend or buy back shares in an attempt to convince shareholders that its shares are worth more than � - instead of the �.65 being offered by the Bank of Scotland.
Bank of Scotland had already said it would sell off many of NatWest's non-core businesses if its takeover bid was successful.
The bank is thought to be considering shake-up of its operation in preference to searching for a "white knight" merger partner to fight the �bn takeover by the smaller bank.
A source close to the bank said: "The go-it-alone route is clearly a very viable one and something we are looking at."
"Selling these assets and returning capital would clearly be one of the things they would be looking at."
NatWest investors and city analysts have been largely welcoming of the Bank of Scotland bid.
However, banking unions fear it could lead to as many as 30,000 job cuts.
The sell-off is the first sign that NatWest is ready to go it alone to stand up to the bid.
The Bank of Scotland move has sparked interest in NatWest from a number of other potential suitors, including HSBC and the Royal Bank of Scotland.
Other names being mentioned in connection with a bid include Abbey National - and European candidates such as France's Societe Generale and the Dutch bank ING Barings
29 Sep 99 | The Company File
Bank job loss fears grow
Q&A: NatWest takeover bid
Royal Bank confirms NatWest interest
24 Sep 99 | Scotland
Bold move by ambitious bank
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American pianist THOMAS PANDOLFI is an exciting virtuoso who, with each passing season, is becoming more and more sought after by audiences worldwide, and showered with superlatives by critics for his passionate artistry and amazing technique. His orchestral appearances often feature not only the beloved masterpiece concerti by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Liszt, but also the equally brilliant ones by Paderewski, Rubinstein and Moszkowski. Additionally in the “Pops” genre, Thomas’ critically acclaimed performances of Rhapsody in Blue (Gershwin), Concerto in F (Gershwin), Warsaw Concerto (Addinsell) and the James Bond Concerto (Proctor) are immensely popular.
Among his engagements during the 2015-16 season, were as guest soloist with The National Philharmonic, Ohio Valley Symphony, North Charleston Pops, Cheyenne Symphony, Maryland Symphony, Alexandria Symphony, Symphonicity, Amadeus Orchestra, McLean Orchestra and Frederick Symphony. During 2016-17, he will also be guest soloist with The Paducah Symphony, The Charlotte Symphony (FL), The Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic, The Amadeus Orchestra, The Tiraspol Philharmonic, The Alexandria Symphony, and The Maryland Symphony at The Garrett Lakes Arts Festival.
Thomas will also be the Artist in Residence at The Black Rock Center for the Arts in Maryland during this season, and his recital touring schedule will take him to 20 states including New Mexico, Kentucky, Indiana, Arkansas, Virginia, Maryland, South Carolina, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Florida, Connecticut, New Jersey, North Carolina, Idaho, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Oregon, Montana, Ohio and New Hampshire. Thomas’ international concerts have carried him across the globe to China and Europe; last season, he also made his Canadian debut in British Columbia.
He has collaborated with conductors such as Piotr Gajewski, Dimitru Goia, Sabin Pautza, Emil Seigbert Maxim, Peter Schmelzer, Mihail Agafita, Grigori Moseico, David Russell Hulme, Andreas Delfs, Elizabeth Schulze, Miriam Burns, Sebrina Alfonso, Nicholas Palmer, William Intrilligator, Kim Allen Kluge, Robert Hart Baker, Crafton Beck, Ray Fowler, Glenn Quader, Scott Wood, Lawrence Rapchak, Gordon Johnson and Raffaele Ponti. An outstanding cross-over artist, Thomas Pandolfi’s virtuoso transcriptions of the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Marvin Hamlisch are in much demand.
For the 2016-17 season, he is offering further such transcriptions in unique programs entitled “Burt, Barry and Beyond” (the music of Burt Bacharach and Barry Manilow) and “Somewhere Tonight in America: A 20th Century Celebration”, including a magnificent transcription of Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story.” British composer, Simon Proctor, has also written a “Sinatra Piano Concerto” for Thomas, which coincided with the 100th birthday celebration of Mr. Sinatra during last season, and a brand new “Andrew Lloyd Webber Concerto”, also for Thomas.
Following a violin concerto for Midori, and a saxophone concerto for Brandford Marsalis, film and concert composers Kim Allen Kluge and Kathryn Vassar Kluge composed The American Piano Concerto for Thomas, which was an absolutely smashing success at its world premiere in May, 2016 with Thomas as soloist, co-composer Kim Kluge on the podium and The Alexandria Symphony.
A graduate of The Juilliard School, Pandolfi earned both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees as a scholarship student. He is the proud father of a wonderful son and daughter, and resides in Washington, DC.
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www.medjugorje.ws » PDA version » Medjugorje News & Articles » Interview with Vicka Ivankovic by Kresimir Sego » Our Lady Loves us all Equally - Interview with Vicka Ivankovic by Kresimir Sego
Interview with Vicka Ivankovic by Kresimir Sego
Date: May 8, 2007 , Originally published 1996
Author: Fra Kresimir Sego
Category: Visionaries , Vicka Ivankovic-Mijatovic , Interviews
Visionaries - Carriers of Messages
About the Messages
Our Lady Loves us all Equally
Meetings with Pilgrims
On the Hill of Apparitions Our Lady will Leave a Permanent, Visible and Indestructible Sign
All Men are Our Lady's Children
God Shall Forsake Nobody
In 1981 mankind was divided in two opposing halves in regard to a life of faith. Namely, in communism faith was forbidden and undesirable, so that in many countries few people were practising their faith. In the free noncommunist world faith was not practised much either for conformist reasons; people bent on material goods crave after them ever more, getting away from God more and more. The apparitions in Medjugorje were a call to both to come back to God, to get free?
Our Lady says, "I am the Mother of all people", and she loves us all equally. She does not make distinction between men, that is she does not divide them. It was rather men who made such divisions so that these men have got very far from each other, meaning, first of all, nations, peoples, or origins. But we are all equal before God, for God is one for all. Well, let us take me as an example: I have visions, that is, I speak with Our Lady, but it does not mean she loves me more than others; I personally think she loves us all alike, the only difference being that I have the favour of conversing with Our Lady.
You got to know the Blessed Virgin Mary, God's wishes and demands on us most directly. How, from your experience, do you view the return to God, that is, are men returning to God?
Yes, men are returning to God, and this can lately be seen most clearly by Our Lady's look, for it can really be noticed that she is much happier. But again, on the other side, they are not returning in the number Our Lady would expect and wish.
The Queen of Peace always addresses us with gentleness, even when reprimanding us. However, in this gentleness of a Mother the demands are very strict - strict in terms of conversion, prayer, fasting. In one word, she demands self-denial. How do you see a life of faith?
I couldn't say Our Lady reprimands us, at least not in the true sense of the word. Our Lady always has a smile on her face, but many times I felt she was sad. When she appears, I can always tell whether she is happy or unhappy. She always has mild eyes, and I have never had a feeling that she might be reprimanding us. Her reprimand is maybe her very love, her cherishing us so much.
What charms you most in the apparitions, what fascinates and enchants you most?
Maybe the feeling as if you were no more on earth, as if you were suspended in air.
From the very beginning of the apparitions the visionaries have been in a privileged position for us ordinary believers. You have been initiated into many secrets, you have been shown paradise, hell and purgatory. Vicka, what is it like to live with the secrets that have been confided to you by the Mother of God?
So far Our Lady has given me nine out of ten possible secrets. That is no burden for me, for when she gave me the secrets, she also gave me the strength to cope with them. I live as if I did not have them at all.
Do you know when the tenth secret will be imparted?
No, I don't.
Do you think about the secrets, is it difficult to bear them, are they something of a burden to you?
Yes, I certainly think about them, for the secrets contain the future, but I am not burdened with it.
Do you know when the secrets will be available to people?
No, I don't know that either.
Our Lady has narrated her biography to you. Can you say anything about her life now? When will that be available?
Our Lady has told me all her biography, from birth till Assumption. I could not say anything about it at the moment, for I have no authorization to do so. Our Lady's whole lifetime is contained in three notebooks in which I was putting down what Our Lady was telling me. Sometimes I would write one page, another time two, sometimes only half a page.
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OUTGOING CRUK DIRECTOR HIGHLIGHTS CHARITY’S HYPOCRISY
Cancer Research UK’s Director of Fundraising, Ed Aspel, has announced plans to retire at the end of the year. Third Sector interviewed Aspel about leaving the organisation and he revealed his regrets and discussed the changing face of fundraising making comments which highlight both the hypocrisy and the lack of will to tackle ethics and integrity issues at CRUK.
In the interview (which can be read here), Aspel revealed that he would love to have come up with “that one, radical, transformational change that is different from the traditional model…”
Had he done so, it is fair to assume that, given he is in their employ, CRUK would have, rightly, lauded him and made sure he was recognised for the achievement. And, in doing so, they would again reveal the culture of hypocrisy that riddles the charity.
Twenty six years ago, Jim Cowan came up with just such a game changer, just such a transformational change. Jim’s idea was the Race for Life. Twenty six years later, it is easy to forget just what a game changer the creation of the Race for Life was.
In 1993, charity runners entered running events, such as the London Marathon or Great North Run, and asked for sponsorship but there was no such thing as the numerous ‘charity runs’ we have now in 2019. Whereas now almost every charity has its own fun run of one variety or another, 26 years ago none did. Jim creating the Race for Life in 1993 and launching it in1994 changed all that and, with it, the fundraising landscape in the UK changed for good.
You would think that CRUK would have thanked Jim, that they would heap praise and recognition on him.
Instead, one of their employees stole Jim’s idea and CRUK spent 25 years telling a range of different tales about the events origins before two years ago, in the face of undeniable evidence, they changed tack and declared that they don’t recognise anyone with the event’s creation (but have never corrected the numerous untrue stories they had previously shared).
Hypocrisy? Absolutely.
This same charity happily acknowledge others for fundraising exploits, events, and other enterprises which support their fundraising. But not Jim.
This same charity happily accept recognition for their own executives, employees, and organisation as a whole, but hypocritically refuse to give Jim similar, or even any, recognition for the amazing event he created.
And what of ethics and integrity?
Later in the interview Aspel goes on to talk about how donations to CRUK are falling. He blamed changing attitudes and evolving consumer behaviour, and he may be correct. But isn’t a contributing factor in changing attitudes towards CRUK that they are trusted less?
People are seeing through the glossy adverts and beginning to ask why they are being lied to? Lies such as the frequent lies by omission about entry fees to their events not supporting any research; such as the misleading statements which suggest merchandise sales support research; or the exclusion of their high street shop, event, and merchandising income from how they calculate the percentage of income funding research.
They will happily talk about funds going to Cancer Research UK but challenge them as to how much of those funds actually fund research and the question is greeted with silence.
The charity is an ethics and integrity vacuum which shows no desire to amend its ways and restore faith and trust. Aspel may well be unaware of all of this but as a Director of the organisation, he should not be.
And, given the hypocrisy of CRUK towards recognising Jim Cowan, we can only wonder what Aspel’s stance might be should he be nominated for any form of award or recognition himself for his service to the charity? Recognition still denied to Jim Cowan, a man whose incredible creation played no small part in supporting Aspel’s success as Director of Fundraising.
This entry was posted in Articles and tagged Cancer, Cancer Research UK, Charity, Charity Donations, Charity Sector, Ed Aspel, Ethics, Fundraising, Honesty, Hypocrisy, Integrity, Jim Cowan, Leszek Borysiewicz, Lies, Michelle Mitchell, Morals, Race 4 Truth, Race for Life, Third Sector on August 15, 2019 by jimandkim.
CRUK TV APPEAL NEEDS 18000 DONORS JUST TO FUND HIGHLY PAID CEO
We have probably all seen those television advertisements pleading with you to “donate just £2 a month to cancer research.”
The glossy productions tug at the heartstrings and surely only the hardest of hearts would not be moved to being at least tempted to sign up?
But what the glossy advertisements don’t tell you is that Cancer Research UK need over 18,000 to sign up to donate “just £2 a month” for a year solely to cover the cost of Michelle Mitchell, their Chief Executive, one of, if not the, most expensive in the sector.
And that is without including the cost of making the commercial and of buying the prime time advertising slots!
A charity headed by someone on a basic (yes, without add ons) of £250,000 per annum, is asking hard working people on minimum wages and average salaries who are struggling to get by, to find extra to help fund corporate style excesses, cleverly disguised by playing on their emotions for a reaction.
Please, make sure that when you donate your hard earned money, it is more likely to be used for research into cancer than to pay the grossly inflated salaries at a charity which lies about the origins of its own largest fundraising event (the Race for Life) and refuses to to recognise the creator of that event while hypocritically giving and accepting all sorts of recognition to and from others.
How? Choose a different charity which funds and supports research into cancer as a priority over self serving salary packages, lying to its followers, and mind boggling hypocrisy.
*On-costs calculated using https://goodcalculators.com/true-cost-of-an-employee-calculator/
This entry was posted in Articles and tagged Cancer, Cancer Research UK, Charity, Charity Donations, Charity Sector, Corporate Greed, Ethics, Excess Pay, Honesty, Hypocrisy, Integrity, Michelle Mitchell, Morals, Race 4 Truth, Race for Life, Third Sector on June 20, 2019 by jimandkim.
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Archie’s Waeside in Iowa: citadel of American beef cookery
September 15, 2018 Mary Bergin Food/Drink, Iowa 0
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In a modest residential area – near farmland, railroad tracks and tall grain storage silos – is an almost-full parking lot at 5:30 p.m. on an average Thursday.
When doors open at 5, sometimes the lineup of customers is as long as the driveway. Especially on weekends.
To say that Archie’s Waeside has loyal patrons is an understatement. But now strangers drive hours to eat here too.
The destination is Le Mars, population 9,900, between Sioux Falls, S.D., and Sioux City in northwest Iowa.
The James Beard Foundation refers to the third-generation, family-run restaurant as “a citadel of American beef cookery” and in 2015 deemed it an America’s Classics winner. Only five businesses nationwide get this lifetime achievement award per year.
“We’re just a restaurant in a small town,” says owner Bob Rand, but now hardcore foodies go out of their way to visit, so “there’s pressure to perform.”
He appears more psyched than psyched out by this fact.
Rand mentions a couple who drove 250 miles, from the Minneapolis airport. “They ate here two nights in a row.”
And the phone call from a cabana in Jamaica: “When we land in Des Moines, we’re coming to see you,” he was told. That’s 225 miles away.
The dinner-only business walks the thin line between steakhouse and supper club. There are relish trays, perfectly golden hash browns, hand-breaded onion rings. What feels foreign? Mexican Cheese Balls (Monterey Jack and a little jalapeno heat inside a wonton skin) for appetizers. Sides of fritters or pickles for the entrees. The Southern Peach, an ice cream drink made with vodka and white crème de cocoa.
And the bar is empty because all those customers are at their tables. Rand says that changes on weekends.
Archie’s accommodated a max of 60 diners upon opening in 1949 and has five times the capacity today. Gone is the dance floor. A former garage is a private dining area that seats 12.
Founder Archie Jackson was the czar’s meat buyer and escaped Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution. He landed in Chicago in 1914, was hired by stockyards and eventually moved to Sioux City, whose stockyards used to be the world’s largest.
“He loved it here” because of the friendly people and the meat quality, Rand says. When a day of stockyard work ended, boxing matches began. He wanted to be a pro boxer, says Lorrie Luense, the family historian and Rand’s sister.
Their grandfather smelled opportunity when the Waeside, a simple roadhouse, went up for sale. So he bought it, and the first menu was simple: steaks, barbecued ribs and chicken. No vegetables, says Luense, who runs front-of-house operations at the restaurant.
Their mother, Valerie Rand, was 19 years old when the restaurant opened. She took over after her father’s death in 1973, and upon retirement she sold the business to Bob, her youngest son. Little of consequence has changed, except for the growth of choices for wine and fresh seafood, which is delivered at least twice a week.
“I always felt Archie’s was ahead of its time,” Rand says, because his grandfather “really knew what people wanted” from the start: excellent beef cuts.
“The finest beef around is right here in northwest Iowa and northeast Nebraska,” Rand believes. Archie’s serves cornfed, certified Angus raised within 75 miles of Le Mars.
Steaks are dry-aged inhouse for four weeks. Porterhouse is the most popular of the dozen meat cuts. Available but not on the menu is The Benny Weicke, an 18-ounce filet named after the cattle buyer who ordered it.
Rand learned the trade early: He was trimming beef at age 7 or 8. Luense was 9 when she started washing dishes at Archie’s. They and three siblings were raised in a house attached to the restaurant.
With time, the family has gained generations of loyalty from customers, and some employees stick with Archie’s for decades. But now a majority of business comes from outside of the Le Mars-Sioux City area.
What stays the same? The commitment, quality and identifiers. One example is Russian dressing: The salad dressing is a toss of vinegar, oil, garlic and salt, served with onion on the side. Just like when it was introduced in the 1950s.
For more: archieswaeside.com
Street banners proclaim “Life is Sweet” in Le Mars, and you can take that literally. The community, which turns 150 years old in 2019, bills itself as Ice Cream Capital of the World because of Blue Bunny products.
The biggest attraction is the downtown Blue Bunny museum and ice cream parlor, where the 40 flavors include a few (like Mocha Almond Fudge) not available in stores.
Around town are giant ice cream cone sculptures, painted by local artists, who also add snazzy color with building murals outdoors.
Manufacturer Wells Enterprises Inc. asserts that no family-owned and privately held maker of ice cream products in the nation is larger. Production began in 1913, and the company also believes no one in the world makes more ice cream at one location. bluebunny.com/our-story/blue-bunny-parlor
The Wisconsin Badgers play their first Big Ten conference away game against Iowa on Sept. 22. Our group of 18 will make the road trip to Iowa City, an easy drive under normal circumstances.
How to decide where to eat along the way? A “99 Restaurants” promotion from the Iowa Tourism Office will help. Why 99? That’s one restaurant for each of the state’s counties; in the mix are casual to upscale dining choices.
“When people travel for any reason, they’re also interested in authentic dining experiences,” says Shawna Lode, state tourism manager. “Iowa’s diverse ethnic communities, range of small towns and urban centers, and a strong agricultural industry combine to make our state home to some of the most interesting and memorable breakfast, lunch and dinner opportunities in the nation.”
Her office chose restaurants with widespread categorical recognition (such as best burger), historical significance or well-known for a signature item. Online consumer testimonials and ratings were considered too.
Learn more at traveliowa.com/99restaurants.
You can bet that some of these destinations serve excellent pork tenderloin sandwiches, which I wrote about for Iowa tourism this year. The tenderloin to Iowa is what the bratwurst is to Wisconsin. More at traveliowa.com/getinspireddetails/iowa-s-tenderloin-trail/258/
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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A SUPPORTING ARTISTE – PART 18
As I’ve mentioned on this production, we’ve had some muddy days with some awful weather. However this was the worst by day.
It wasn’t just the cesspool of a set, or the horizontal rain we experienced but our frankly awful treatment. For the crew it was an unorganized mess. The scene was was a public execution with a few establishing shots but frankly not much attention was paid on our behalf as we were too preoccupied shivering.
I consider myself quite lucky in retrospect to some of my colleagues as some people didn’t even get fed. The SA caterers ran out of food (even though they give small proportions to start with!) and told to get their food from the crew caterer. Who guess what? Didn’t have anything.
Morale was at an all time low and it was more than justifiable. The ultimate kick in the teeth is watching the principles being pampered with costume girls running in between takes with thick and warm coats to try and keep the cast warm whilst the SA’s are expected to stay put with very thin period clothes and look on, continually getting drenched in the ever-worsening climate.
The previously mentioned, unprofessional SA who I shall now on reffer to as “Ass-hat” even had the audacity to storm off set even though the gear he was wearing was by far the warmest and has the most layers which made him look like a complete prima donna in comparison the mud-laden ladies in substantially less clothing which did tickle me somewhat.
The most ironic thing about the day was due to the bad weather they couldn’t shoot one scene which was the crowd’s reaction to the execution. So the production was asking people if they’d like to come back tomorrow to do the pick-ups. That, did not go down well. Especially as everyone was complaining about the appalling conditions we were expected to work in today.
Literally half of the SA’s refused to come in the next day, a few admittedly due to prior commitments but mainly on the principle of it. It was late at night anyways and they was no way in hell the costume girls would be able to dry out 90 drenched costumes for 7am the next morning. I opted to come back as I came out from the experience relatively unscathed and extremely lucky to be placed by a huge brazier during a scene.
The next day, was the complete of opposite.
It did start off being somewhat of a cloudy day, and I even had a confrontation with the costume department. After the events of yesterday I had a thermal top on for a change. Even though it was white, they were worried about it being able to be seen, which quite frankly was rubbish as it’d be covered in layers and chainmail so I exclaimed:
“Well cut the collar off then. There’s no way I’m not wearing my thermal after what happened yesterday.”
She looked at me for a few seconds as if she was going to protest but opted not to argue and proceed to snip the collar off my top. A fair compromise I thought.
Although I did regret it later as soon as we got to the green room and the sun came out and it was a beautiful day. A very stark contrast from the previous day, even the morale was better, there was a brighter atmosphere and we were all laughing and joking. Just shows you the difference a day makes.
We were kept for quite a long time because, believe it or not, it was now TOO bright to film and had to wait until we had some overcast to match the previous days murkiness. When it came to the reaction shot of the execution, I was stepped away from my spot for safety as a horse would be riding past with a wooden post in tow so was relocated to the top of the wall where I had a great overview of the events.
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Theft of Beehives in Africa
By UOVBA News Bot September 30, 2020 No Comments
Theft of beehives spikes as demand for pollinators increases
By: Lindi Botha
The incidence of theft of beehives and honey increased significantly during the COVID-19-related national lockdown. Photo: FW Archive
Beekeeping has offered a lifeline to many rural communities, as this essential service allowed them to generate an income during the COVID-19-related lockdown.
However, the spike in demand for honey and pollination services during this time also meant that bee and honey theft was rife.
Guy Stubbs, founder of the African Honey Bee programme, which trained rural populations in beekeeping to provide an income stream in isolated areas, said that the year had shown some unexpectedly encouraging results.
“Collectively, since the beginning of the year, the participating families have harvested about 5t of honey, earning close to R360 000 despite the national lockdown.”
He said the communities had also used the opportunity to branch into other food production areas. “All 100 families in Sokhulu, KwaZulu-Natal were producing honey, while 85 were growing vegetables, 27 were producing eggs and 39 were producing chickens for meat.”
Commercial beekeepers also benefitted from the increased demand for honey. Kobus Visser, manager of Bee Naked Honey Farms, said there had been significant growth in demand for honey over the past six months, which he believed was the case for many natural products with health properties.
“However, the increase in demand over the years has also resulted in an increase in theft. This year, we changed our operations to make our hives more theft-proof, which was a substantial change to the business, but has meant that we have had less incidence of theft than usual.”
Inge Lotter, chairperson of the Mpumalanga Beekeepers’ Association, however, noted that between April and September, there had been an increase in theft in the Lowveld.
“There are those that are just after the honey, who then not only break the hives, but kill the bees as well. Then there are those who steal the entire hive so that they can start their own pollination services, which are in high demand with macadamia farmers.”
She said farmers making use of pollination services needed to ask for proof of registration from the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development and check to see whether the registration numbers on the hives corresponded with those on the certificate.
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==Gameplay Concept== [[File:atmoraExplorer1.png|thumb|right|Artwork for the Player as arctic explorer during the expedition by Ramez.]] [[File:atmoraLoadscreens.jpg|thumb|right|One of the custom load screens.]] There are ''' five pillars''' to support the gameplay: '''1) Frostfall Survival:''' From the beginning, Atmora was planned as an expansion to serve Frostfall gameplay. It is a basic idea to address the remaining core RPG fans with slightly expanded gameplay options and depth. On top of that, we added more gameplay options that fit the background and the lore to smoothen gameplay and make role play even more interesting. '''2) Arctic Landscape:''' It is a unique land to explore and spectate: creatures and structures, weathers and effects that cannot be seen elsewhere. A unique landscape. '''3) The Prestory to the Legendary Dragonborn:" The story is driven more linear in segments, and from time to time told by sequences, that reveal ties to the legacy of Alduin. '''4) The Origin of Man:''' A yet unseen primal society associated with the stone age, bronze age and dark age subcultures, which developed their own unique philosophies to survive, and ultimately a timeline that culminated in the events we know from early Skyrim's history. '''5) The Moral Dilemma''' A story that is driven by a few characters, choices, and a personal level of confrontation. [[File:AtmoraPillars.PNG]]
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After the ink dries
by Lisa Golden | Mar 6, 2012
AS new students explore their new-found freedom by eyeing local tattoo parlours, campus counsellors urge students to think carefully before inking.
Raj Naran from the Counselling & Careers Development Unit (CCDU) believes students should consider how their tattoos could affect the image they present when applying for jobs.
They should also think about the environment in which they hope to work when considering displaying their tattoos. “My opinion is that a conservative business environment is likely to show less tolerance of excessive tattoos,” he said.
“A more artistic and less conventional environment is likely to be more accepting, if not encouraging, of such creative expression.”
“The question is how far does one push one’s boundaries? Excessive display of tattoos could lead to inappropriate assumptions being made by recruiters.”
Former Wits student Daniel Gallan, who has a tattoo on his leg, was denied a job as a photographer on a cruise-liner because of a strict policy on visible tattoos.
Most students with visible tattoos approached by Vuvuzela said they would ensure their tattoos did not affect their future careers. They would simply cover them.
Bianca Dacruz, 1st year psychology, has a line from a Jimmy Eat World song and a date tattooed on her back to remind her of her grandmother.
She said she would cover it up if she went for a job interview because “people frown upon tattoos”. She said she would not want to come across as unprofessional. She did not feel the need to show it in a work environment because it had a sentimental meaning.
Chiara Molinaro, 4th year drama, has a melting clock on her wrist, inspired by Salvador Dali’s Persistence of Memory, as a reminder of time spent and still to be enjoyed in her life.
Molinaro believes the creative arts are much more lenient than office environments and feels it won’t present such a problem.
When asked how she would react if asked to cover her tattoo, she said: “Besides ‘fuck you’?”
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The complete life story of Porsche 917-023, which won the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1970 –
The car’s seven races covered in detail, from the 1970 Brands Hatch 1000Km to the 1971 Daytona 24 Hours…
The car was raced by Vic Elford in 6 of the 7 races… For the 24 hours of Le Mans Porsche had prepared a powerful 4.9L 917 Long Tail (Vic Elford’s pole position #25) with which he led the race for quite some time before it retired (engine)…
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Nearly 300 period photos, many previously unpublished, supported by specially commissioned studio photos.
This magnificent book (the second title in the Great Cars series) tells the story of the most important Porsche 917 of all – the one that gave Porsche its first victory in the Le Mans.
In 1970 the world’s greatest sports car race was ravaged by periods of torrential rain but through it all came 917-023, driven by Hans Herrmann and Richard Attwood, to achieve a landmark success for the German manufacturer.
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We've got Rachel DD and VeVe on the schedule for filming tomorrow, and one of the planned matches is a competitive bondage wrestling rematch. At last! Fans loved the original bondage wrestling match of VeVe vs Rachel, which featured an innovative crotch rope and a very tight hogtying of Rachel.
Now VeVe and Rachel will square off with the ropes once again. And this time, we'll finally get to try the "early gagging" concept, which viewers have been curious to see. Here, both wrestlers would start gagged, and they would fight the entire fight while gagged (we plan to use cleave gags).
This would be a first for us, and it has definitely been on the To-Do list. I think VeVe and Rachel will be great to give this a whirl, especially since they are both so facially expressive.
And further, even though this will be a fully competitive match, VeVe would like to frame it by a small scenario to explain the reason they are gagged for the bout. She says she is vaguely inspired by the "Saw" movies, which, VeVe says, "featured captives needing to pass some sort of 'twisted' test in order to go free."
She goes on, explaining her idea for this match: "The two captives have to fight in order to be the one to 'finish' capturing the other, at which point the winner earns her freedom, and the loser.... is doomed to never escape." The battling captives are "not allowed to remove their gags for the fight so that they cannot fully communicate with each other" or call out for help.
Well, all righty. I'm looking forward to how this plays out and what the "early gagging" aspect will look like. If the shoot schedule goes as planned, I should have some imagery to share soon enough.
..... Oh, and I will also say that we filmed 2 other female 1-on-1 bondage wrestling matches that I've yet to release or even mention! One was a match against visitor Ashley Wildcat, and the other was a match with local NYC resident Domme Vera. More on that to come!
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The Spider Queen, Cinematic Style Fantasy Development
In this entry, I'm taking a moment to discuss a recent release we created called "Hunt for the Spider Queen," which features VeVe Lane and Howl in a "cinematic" type, bondage-wrestling-esque fantasy villainess rope-virtuosity fight scene. Whew!
Some of you may have already seen the official release for the Spider Queen, and hopefully most of you have been following our Twitter-ings on the process (which included a lot of pictures!). By the way, our Twitter is here: @DoomMaidens. In any case, I won't go too much into explaining what happens in the piece itself, leaving that instead to the official write-up to be pasted below. Instead, I'll talk a little bit about the process and development.
Although VeVe and I had been wanting to do a more virtuosic villainess video for some time, the real kick-start for the Spider Queen came from a February filming day with Howl. As we talked a bit about bondage ties, Howl expressed that he was curious to try more with bondage, and he then demonstrated a bit of his upper body flexibility. I thought immediately that it would be great to have a video featuring Howl being tied up in a variety of ways, ideally if he were to be held captive by some wicked woman. And that wicked woman would be someone who would be called the "Spider Queen." Who else would so enjoy binding up a male captive?
Both Howl and VeVe were excited for the idea, both especially interested in doing more "super natural" type character and story styles. So, great! The idea was strong, the players were on board.... but now, how to execute it exactly?
After a month of anticipation from the players, we just went ahead and scheduled a shoot date to see what we could get. A few days before hand, I story-boarded out my concept for the intro scene, which was influenced by factors such as classic 1960s female assassin/spy depictions, the "Pris vs Deckard" Bladerunner scene recreation we did last year, and the fact that the studio space had a nicely-placed stripper pole.
A First Attempt
The intro scene concept was really solid, and I felt very good about it right from the start. However, I still wasn't exactly sure what to do with the main body of the piece. In the original concept rough-out, VeVe and I planned 3 scenes to follow the intro to represent the Spider Queen defeating Howl first physically, then mentally, and then spiritually (in soul). The first would be a brief bondage fight with him partially tied and gagged to start, the next would feature Howl bound to a wall/fence and being seduced, and the third would feature his willing surrender and a reverse prayer tie. Then a final scene would feature him in a rope cocoon, now mesmerized and totally lost.
When we got together to shoot, I was lucky enough to discover that the studio environment cooperated very well with giving me the light and starkness that I'd envision. However, we didn't have much time to futz around and needed to start shooting right away. We pushed through with the proto-concept as best we could, all of us needing to adjust on the fly for unexpectedness relating to the studio environment and partner reactions. But although this shoot produced some lovely images, the multi-part concept ended up being too difficult to reach (I'll spare you the details for the sake of brevity). And so, I scrapped the footage and decided that that shoot was just a workshop.
And workshopping is SO important for complex pieces! I actually learned a lot from that first attempt. And so, I went back to the drawing board, this time was a MUCH firmer concept. Now I knew EXACTLY what I wanted from the piece.
The Final Draft
VeVe and I conferenced again, cutting out 90% of the dialogue that had been in the original trial run. We also cut out various scenes, leaving only the Intro, the Body, and the Finale. Furthermore, I decided to turn the main action into an actual fight, which clarifies intent quite a lot! I wanted to see the Spider Queen in actual action - toying with her prey, dashing in, whipping quick tie binds onto him, and then dashing out, all while her prey continues to try fighting her off. He keeps trying to fight her, but she darts in like lightning, lashing an arm to a leg and leaving him floundering. She does this over and over as the fight progresses, humiliating him with her deft rope-work / web-work, and wearing him down by making him fight with these various changing impediments.
And that was another big thing: the swift changing of the ties in real-time. That was a very important aspect of this fight for me, and it would be the definition of the Spider Queen's preternatural abilities: this incredible speed and deftness with the ropes.
VeVe knew exactly what I was talking about, and she felt really great about being able to execute.
We would keep the intro basically the same (with some tighten-ups thanks to experience), we'd make the Body of the piece much more physical and combattive, and we'd bring the finale scene around to mirror the intro scene. And so, we quickly scheduled again with Howl, and together we all set out to film the Final Draft, now all with experience on our side.
And the end result was very satisfying! The space set-up went super smoothly, the filming rolled like clockwork, the physical action from both VeVe and Howl were spot on, and the shots looked fantastic! Below is the official release write-up with a small selection of images (I hope to post more images at a later time).
Detective Howl was no match for the insanely skilled Spider Queen. But would a savvy female protagonist fair better against this villainess? Somehow I don't think so... but we'd love to see her try! Oh yes, we'll definitely need to have the Spider Queen match skills against other would-be heroes and heroines in the future!
Hunt for the Spider Queen
VeVe Lane and Howl
http://www.doommaidens.com/store/spiderqueenvevehowl/
Men have been mysteriously disappearing around the town. All leads point to an old, abandoned warehouse, so Detective Howl breaks in to investigate. But unfortunately for Howl, the Spider Queen, a cunning and perilous female predator, is expecting him...
The Spider Queen (VeVe Lane) lies in wait as Howl explores her lair, choosing her moment to ambush and incapacitate him. Howl recovers to find himself stripped to his briefs, with individual ropes bound to each wrist and ankle. The sadistically smiling Spider Queen appears, stepping out to join Howl in her own little private arena. Let the games begin!
Howl rushes his foe, but the Spider Queen is an expert fighter and rope-web-spinner. She has no doubt which of them will triumph in this combat, and she plans to enjoy her victory. As the two clash in the arena, she wrestles Howl down and lashes his limbs into handicapping binds which quickly turn his attacks into futile and humiliating struggling. The Queen is amused.
Throughout the battle, she changes Howl's bindings with lightening quick skill - releasing an arm here, hobbling a leg there - all while trapping him in painful wrestling holds, toppling and toying with him, and mocking his desperate efforts both to fight and escape. She finally pins him face down and begins weaving him into a torturous reverse prayer hogtie, bending his wrists and shoulders unnaturally and inflicting agonizing pain. She completes his humiliation with a rope blindfold and then takes his breath away.
The defeated Howl recovers to find himself tightly wrapped in a cocoon of rope, even over-the-mouth gagged with rope. He's now totally at the Spider Queen's mercy. She admires his lovely new look, a beautifully helpless addition to her collection...
Total running time: 30 minutes
A lot of physical action and struggle; physical domination against resistance; impressive combat-action rope-work. Includes chicken wing ties, frog leg ties in combat, and finale of strict reverse prayer hogtie and rope cocoon.
Preview thumbnails and full details: http://www.doommaidens.com/store/spiderqueenvevehowl/
Labels: bondage fight fantasy, howl, mixed bondage wrestling, reverse prayer, spider queen, veve lane, villainess
Yeah! A Glimpse at Superheroine 4-Way Battle
The superheroine 4-way bondage wrestling battle went down yesterday! Working on the footage now. But in the mean time, enjoy these pre-match camera phone pictures!
Labels: ashley wildcat, candid picture, jade indica, rachel dd, superheroine bondage preview, veve lane
4-Way Female Bout is on for April 2015! and Thoughts!
Yes, 4-Way Female Bondage Wrestling is back, finally, for 2015! And not a moment too soon: spring has finally sprung!
Our first female 4-way match of 2015 had a little bit of a slow start due to weather, illness, and travel, but we were able to capture many 1-on-1 matches and the crazy 2-on-2 Battle of the Sexes in the meantime. But now, finally, the moment has arrived to bring in the ladies for springtime mayhem..... tomorrow!
And the competitors? Ashley Wildcat, Rachel DD, Jade Indica, and ringleader VeVe Lane!
The theme? Superheroine bondage battle!
How will these super-ladies handle the impending peril that is multi-way bondage wrestling?!?!
VeVe and I were chatting today about the format for the multi-way on this go-around. Previously, we have done these multi-way matches in a "Tournament" style, allowing for 2 simultaneous 1-on-1 matches to go on at the same time, on the same mats. Once the two winners are determined (and the two losers end up hogtied), the remaining winners then face off against each other, leaving the bound losers to watch, jeer, and squiggle out of the way if need be.
This style is very good for keeping the mat space fairly open and clear, believe it or not. As each pairing stays fairly contained, we can get a pretty good look at both groups working simultaneously, seeing almost everyone without too much obstruction. It also makes for interesting video framing, such as having one group in the foreground and one in the background.
But we have considered the potential of a "free for all." This would mean that anyone can attack anyone, and possibly 3 participants can attack 1... There's also the idea of 2-on-2. and once 2 people are tied, the remaining 2 will fight. There are both upsides and downsides to these varied arrangements.
It's neat in theory, but is it too chaotic? More importantly, is it too chaotic for competitors who don't have previous experience in a multi-way bondage match? For instance, tomorrow we will have both VeVe and Jade who have multi-way experience. But Rachel and Ashley do not. Would a free for all be too overwhelming for them?
Would it be too chaotic for the viewers? Would it result in a pile-up that makes things hard to see? I must admit, I am very curious to try shooting a free for all and see what I can see (the camera and I can usually work our way into seeing MANY things even in a chaotic setting). But is it something to try for tomorrow?
Furthermore, would a Free For All result in an unexpected 3-on-1? While that might be interesting in some cases, it again might result in too much chaos to try with first-timers. Or would it? Hmm... But, again, that is IF the Free For All actually organically goes that way.
Ok, and then there's the...
2-on-2 Teamwork
A fun concept which we saw earlier this year in the Battle of the Sexes bout, which pitted VeVe and Keri against Frankie and Danger Dude. How great to have a teammate! However, 2-on-2 does slow things down a good bit, as we've experienced. Or does it? Or, even, is that a good thing? Or, actually, is it just the same thing as the regular 4-Way tourney style, but with the option for teamwork to come into play?
And going on...
I'm at the risk of making this entry suddenly much longer than it was intended to be. And, for time's sake, I'm not being as articulate as I'd like to be. But it really is fun to consider the different possible options, and I'd like you to think about the similarities and differences as well:
1. 4-Way Tournament style
2. Free For All style
3. 2-on-2 Teams
I should actually make a Venn diagram...
I'd love to eventually try all of these types of arrangements and see what they all yield, especially with all different sorts of participants involved, both veteran and newcomer. But the real question that remains for now is this:
What style should we use for tomorrow's superheroine bondage battle?
I'm leaning toward usual 4-Way Tourney, largely because I don't know Ashley at all, and Rachel hasn't yet experienced the chaos of the multi-way (by the way, ladies and gentlemen, just wait until we get to the 8-way and 10-way versions, but I digress).
But I'd like to allow elements from the Free For All concept, such as allowing individuals to reach across from their pairing to interfere with another pairing, should they feel so inclined. But, I mean, hey, even in the Tourney style, they might just do that anyway. Furthermore, why would someone want to interfere with another group if there is no team concept, and if she is already fighting to save herself as it is...? So, should there be a teamwork concept...? And that spins us back to thinking about 2-on-2 style.
Ok, anyway, enough of that. I'll chat more with VeVe about it!
But, as always, gentle readers, your opinions are welcome as well! If you have thoughts on or preferences for any special arrangement of the 4 competitors, feel free to let us know in the comments section below or by e-mail (orders@doommaidens.com).
(FYI, persuasive arguments are lovely and wholeheartedly welcome!)
Labels: 4-way bondage, bondage tournament, female bondage wrestling, planning, style ideas, superheroine bondage wrestling
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Football: Chelsea’s Rudiger leads tributes to Cameroonian player Bouasse who has died aged 21 0
Chelsea defender Antonio Rudiger led the tributes to Cameroonian midfielder Joseph Bouasse Perfection who died from a heart attack aged 21 on Sunday.
Rudiger, who played at Serie A club Roma during Bouasse’s time there as a youth-team player, expressed his sorrow at the “horrible news”.
“I’m so sad about it. Rest in peace, my brother,” Rudiger tweeted.
“A young talent gone too soon from us. Condolences to the entire family.”
Roma also paid their respects.
“The club is desperately saddened to learn of the untimely death of former Primavera player, Joseph Bouasse Perfection.”
“The thoughts of everyone at #ASRoma are with all those closest to him,” Roma tweeted.
Cameroon’s football federation (Fecafoot) paid tribute to the midfielder, saying Cameroonian football had “lost a player of rising distinction.”
Bouasse also spent some time at Vicenza before moving to Romanian side Universitatea Cluj.
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Slotland Launches Another Instant Classic
12/03/2008 by in Press Releases
December 3, 2008 (London, UK) – The fruit on Slotland's newest online slot machine may be glittering jewels, but the object of MegaSpin (http://www.slotland.com/megaspin) is the same as any fruitee and that’s to get three in a row. The new game launched this week joins 15 other unique games at the popular slots and video poker site. Like all of Slotland's games, it is an instant-play game that requires no downloading or installation — and it can only be played at Slotland.com.
MegaSpin is a single-payline slot machine game with two sets of three-reels. Players start by spinning the bigger reels. If they win, they continue playing on the upper reels where they can multiply their winnings. Hitting three different fruit symbols wins three free spins. Wild Stars are wild and can substitute for other symbols on the payline.
"We don't have super heroes or comic book characters," said Ondrej Tuma of Slotland. "Our players like classic slot machines and MegaSpin follows in that tradition."
Like all of Slotland's unique slot machines and video poker games, MegaSpin is tied to Slotland's progressive jackpot, which was recently won for $134K and is already approaching $100K again. The progressive bonus pool continually increases as players bet and play until it is won. Three Wild Stars on each of the two reels, while betting maximum, wins the progressive jackpot.
Slotland.com now features thirteen unique slot machines and three video poker games. Four of the most popular online slot machines and two video poker games are also available on mobile phones and PDAs. All of Slotland's games give players the option of placing a maximum bet for a chance at the progressive jackpot. All of the slots and video poker games on the mobile network are also tied to the same jackpot pools. Slotland is available in Spanish at Es.Slotland.com.
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international | imperialism / war | non-anarchist press Saturday January 04, 2020 20:16 by Ed Pilkington - The Guardian
There has been no shortage of US attempts to remove foreign adversaries through highly dubious legal or ethical means.
The US government is no stranger to the dark arts of political assassinations. Over the decades it has deployed elaborate techniques against its foes, from dispatching a chemist armed with lethal poison to try to take out Congo’s Patrice Lumumba in the 1960s to planting poison pills (equally unsuccessfully) in the Cuban leader Fidel Castro’s food.
But the killing of General Qassem Suleimani, the leader of Iran’s elite military Quds Force, was in in a class all its own. Its uniqueness lay not so much in its method – what difference does it make to the victim if they are eviscerated by aerial drone like Suleimani, or executed following a CIA-backed coup, as was Iraq’s ruler in 1963, Abdul Karim Kassem? – but in the brazenness of its execution and the apparently total disregard for either legal niceties or human consequences.
“The US simply isn’t in the practice of assassinating senior state officials out in the open like this,” said Charles Lister, senior fellow at the Middle East Institute in Washington. “While Suleimani was a brutal figure responsible for a great deal of suffering, and his Quds Force was designated by the US as a terrorist organization, there’s no escaping that he was arguably the second most powerful man in Iran behind the supreme leader.”
Donald Trump’s gloating tweets over the killing combined with a sparse effort to justify the action in either domestic or international law has led to the US being accused of the very crimes it normally pins on its enemies. Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, denounced the assassination as an “act of international terrorism”.
Vipin Narang, a political scientist at MIT, said the killing “wasn’t deterrence, it was decapitation”.
There has been no shortage of US interventions over the past half century that have attempted – and in some cases succeeded – in removing foreign adversaries through highly dubious legal or ethical means. The country has admitted to making no fewer than eight assassination attempts on Castro, though the real figure was probably much higher.
William Blum, the author of Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, points to a litany of American sins from invasions, bombings, overthrowing of governments, assassinations to torture and death squads. “It’s not a pretty picture,” is his blunt conclusion.
The CIA was deemed to have run so amok in the 1960s and 70s that in 1975 the Church committee investigated a numerous attempted assassinations on foreign leaders including Lumumba, Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, Vietnam’s Ngo Dinh Diem, and of course Castro. In the fallout, President Ford banned US involvement in foreign political assassinations.
The ban didn’t last long. Since 1976 the US has continued to be engaged in, or accused of, efforts to eradicate foreign leaders.
Ronald Reagan launched bombing raids in 1986 targeting Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi. As recently as two years ago North Korea alleged that the CIA tried to assassinate its leader Kim Jong-un.
But most of the interventions in the modern era have been covert and conducted beneath the radar. Where they have been proclaimed publicly, they have tended to target non-state actors operating in militias or militant groups like Islamic State.
Presidents Obama and Trump both claimed huge public relations victories when they oversaw the killings of Osama bin Laden and the Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi respectively.
By contrast, until Trump the US has tended to fight shy of conducting overt assassination attempts on state actors connected to sovereign regimes. Suleimani himself is a case in point.
In 2008, the CIA worked hand in glove with the Israeli intelligence service the Mossad to target Imad Mughniyah, a senior Hezbollah leader, for assassination. In the course of their efforts they had the chance of taking out not only Mughniyah but also Suleimani in a single drone strike. In the end, the operation was called off because the US government blocked it on grounds that it could seriously have destabilised the region.
Despite such reticence, Mary Ellen O’Connell, a professor of international law at the University of Notre Dame, draws a direct line between earlier US administrations and the convention-shredding unpredictability of Trump. She said the advent of the unmanned drone in 2000 put the US on a slippery slope towards the current crisis.
The first deployment of a drone as an assassination tool was ordered by Bill Clinton in an effort to get Bin Laden. The first successful “targeted killing”, as it is now called, came soon after, carried out by the Bush administration in Yemen.
Obama inherited Bush’s widespread use of drone killings and increased their frequency tenfold, while seeking to give them a veneer of legal respectability with the secret internal “targeted killing memos”. Those documents argued that drone assassinations were justified under international law as self-defense against future terrorist attacks – a rationale that has been widely disputed as a misreading of the UN charter.
“Since Obama there has been a steady dilution of international law,” O’Connell said. “Suleimani’s death marks the next dilution – we are moving down a slope towards a completely lawless situation.”
O’Connell added that there was only one step left for the US now to take. “To completely ignore the law. Frankly, I think President Trump is there already – his only argument has been that Suleimani was a bad guy and so he had to be killed.”
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US Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Friday turned over his long-awaited final report on the contentious Russia investigation that has cast a dark shadow over Donald Trump's presidency, entangled Trump's family and resulted in criminal charges against some of the president's closest associates.
The comprehensive report, still confidential, marks the end of Mueller's probe but sets the stage for big public fights to come.
Associated Press reporter Eric Tucker says the next steps are up to Attorney General William Barr, to Congress and, in all likelihood, federal courts.
Barr is "going to review this report and will decide how much of it to make public. He says he will release something as soon as this weekend that functions as a summary of the central findings of the special counsel."
With no details released at this point, it's not known whether Mueller's report answers the core questions of his investigation: Did Trump's campaign collude with the Kremlin to sway the 2016 presidential election in favor of the celebrity businessman? Also, did Trump take steps later, including by firing his FBI director, to obstruct the probe?
But Tucker says the delivery of the report does mean the investigation has concluded without any public charges of a criminal conspiracy between the campaign and Russia, or of obstruction by the president.
Mueller is not recommending any further indictments in the Russia probe, a Justice Department official confirmed Friday.
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2. STILL photo of Robert Mueller at FBI headquarters
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Tucker, Associated Press:
"Special Counsel Robert Mueller today concluded his nearly two year long investigation into potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. He delivered a confidential report to the Justice Department this afternoon and Attorney General William Barr says he will report back to Congress as soon as this weekend about a summary of the findings of that report."
McLean, Virginia - 19 March 2019
4. Attorney General William Barr leaving his house for work
"The attorney general is going to review this report and we know from Justice Department officials it's a comprehensive report. He's going to review this report and will decide how much of it to make public. He says he will release something as soon as this weekend that functions as a summary of the central findings of the special counsel."
6. Exterior shots of the Justice Department
"Attorney General Barr has committed to releasing information as well to the public so the information he delivers to congressional officials we expect to also be released to the public."
8. Letter from Attorney General William Barr to members of Congress
"The other thing that we know that's really important that I want to point out is that the special counsel is not recommending any additional indictments. There have been lots of speculation about other people who might be in trouble or scrutinized, members of the president's family, all sorts of different speculation, and apparently the special counsel says none of that is happening. He's not recommending any additional charges from his office."
Palm Beach, Florida - 22 March 2019
10. Donald Trump walks off Air Force One after landing in Palm Beach
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Tucker, Associated Press:
"We're not clear what's in the report so it's hard to say how this bodes for the central mandate of the Special Counsel in terms of whether he's found allegations of potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. But again, it's important to note this investigation is concluding without any criminal charges along those lines. So there are no criminal charges against the president or anybody else from his campaign alleging a criminal conspiracy with the Russian government."
Fletcher, North Carolina, US - 21 October 2016
12. Donald Trump walks into rally during 2016 presidential campaign
"We'll have to see what the actual findings are. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been reluctant to sort of talk about impeachment proceedings. She said the president's not worth it. So it strikes me that it would require something that's really damning and incriminating for the president that's in the report for Democrats to take any sort of organized impeachment action."
14. US President Donald Trump walks on White House South Lawn to talk to press before departing to Florida
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US Mueller Report Debrief (CR)
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Special counsel Robert Mueller on Friday turned over his long-awaited final report on the contentious Russia investigation that has cast a dark shadow over Donald Trump's presidency, entangled Trump's family and resulted in criminal charges against some of the president's closest associates.
14. President Donald Trump walks on White House South Lawn to talk to press before departing to Florida
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US Mueller Politics Analysis (Lon NR)
AP Analysis: At the end of the Mueller process
Adam Schiff , Robert Mueller , Donald Trump , Eric Swalwell , Jerrold Nadler , Nancy Pelosi , Jair Bolsonaro , Michael Cohen
Elaine Kamarck, of the Brookings Institution says "we're pretty much at the end of this process" as she discussed the next steps in the special prosecutors Russia probe.
Kamarack, Senior fellow in the Governance Studies program as well as the Director of the Center for Effective Public Management , said on Tuesday that "The only thing that really seems to remain is whether or not the president himself is guilty of some crimes and do those crimes constitute in the minds of the members of Congress, high crimes and misdemeanors."
In a related story The Associated Press reports that President Donald Trump has been calling the Russia probe a witch hunt for two years.
But now, Trump and his allies are starting to see it as something potentially very different: a political opportunity.
Trump has grown increasingly confident that special counsel Robert Mueller's report will produce no clear evidence of a conspiracy between Russia and his election campaign.
A change is also underway among congressional Democrats, who had believed the report would offer damning evidence
Kamarack says "We're at a point where this is about to move unless there's some you know smoking gun. This is this investigation is about to move from the legal to the political and there the Democrats are going to have to decide do we move forward with impeachment."
Washington - 19 March 2019
1.Wide shot of Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro walking out of White House into Rose Garden
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Elaine Kamarck, Senior Fellow Brookings Institution:
"It's not often that a president is subject to a special counsel and that means often that the findings of a special counsel could lead to something very dramatic like impeachment. Or it could just turn out to be a bunch of nothing. And so everybody was interested in this. Everybody was excited about it. The president himself was furious about it. But this is a big deal. We don't generally have investigations like this of sitting presidents."
3. Side shot of Trump speaking
"The only thing that really seems to remain is whether or not the president himself is guilty of some crimes and do those crimes constitute in the minds of the members of Congress, high crimes and misdemeanors, which is the constitutional issue for impeachment, and so we're sort of down to the end game here. I mean it looks like there was a rapid string of indictments, trials, etc. It's possible that one or more of the president's children or in-laws could get indicted but it's, we're pretty much at the end of this process."
5. Trump speaking
"The issue, though, is did the House and Senate, did the intelligence committees when they were controlled by Republicans ignore important pieces of evidence? The Democrats think they did. And so the Democrats will have to start their own investigation. They may find nothing as well."
Washington - 25 February 2019
7. STILL - The Capitol is seen in Washington as Congress returns to work following a week-long recess. A top House Democrat, Rep. Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has threatened to call special counsel Robert Mueller to Capitol Hill, subpoena documents and sue the Trump administration if the full report on Mueller's Russia investigation is not made public.
8. STILL - House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, of California, left, and Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., return to hear Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer, testify before a closed-door session of the House Intelligence Committee, on Capitol Hill
"We're at a point where this is about to move unless there's some you know smoking gun. This is this investigation is about to move from the legal to the political and there, the Democrats are going to have to decide do we move forward with impeachment? Now, Nancy Pelosi has said, wisely I think, that probably not that. There's just not unless there's some blockbuster finding in the Muller report or someplace else. Probably not because bet we're almost at 2020. Let, it's cleaner, easier for democracy to let the voters decide."
10. STILL - House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., with Ranking Member Doug Collins
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Elaine Kamarck, Senior Fellow Brookings Institution:
"This investigation has taken place simultaneously with a very chaotic presidency and with a separate investigation into Donald Trump's business empire. Now it may not be impeachable to be a corrupt businessman. All you have to do is look at the Deutsche Bank story in today's (New York) Times and you can see that that's that's going to be a big story. But maybe it's not impeachable but it sure isn't desirable."
12. STILL - President Donald Trump walks along the Colonnade of the White House, towards the Rose Garden with visiting Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro
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US Mueller Politics Analysis (CR)
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Archive US Robert Mueller (NR Lon)
Robert Mueller testifies before US House this week
Jerrold Nadler , Robert Mueller , Donald Trump
House Republicans are pledging tough questioning of special counsel Robert Mueller when he testifies before Congress this week as Democrats plan to air evidence of wrongdoing by President Donald Trump in a potentially last-ditch bid to impeach him.
Rep. Doug Collins, the top Republican on House Judiciary Committee, said the American public is growing weary of the Russia investigation three months after the release of the special counsel's 448-page report and that "any thought of impeachment is waning." He said Republicans will be focused on making clear that the report represents a "final episode" in the Russia probe, which he described as flawed.
Days before back-to-back hearings Wednesday, both sides seemed to agree that Mueller's testimony could be pivotal in shifting public opinion on the question of "holding the president accountable."
"This is a president who has violated the law 6 ways from Sunday," said New York Rep. Jerrold Nadler, chairman of the Judiciary Committee. He argued that Mueller's report lays out "very substantial evidence" that Trump is guilty of "high crimes and misdemeanors," the constitutional standard for impeachment.
"We have to present - or let Mueller present - those facts to the American people ... because the administration must be held accountable and no president can be above the law," Nadler said.
The House Judiciary Committee and the House Intelligence Committee will question Mueller in separate hearings on the report. While the report did not find sufficient evidence to establish charges of criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia to swing the election, it said Trump could not be cleared of trying to obstruct the investigation . But Mueller believed Trump couldn't be indicted in part because of a Justice Department opinion against prosecuting a sitting president.
Washington, DC - 29 May 2019
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Mueller, Special Counsel:
"Two years ago the acting attorney general asked me to serve as special counsel and he created the special counsel's office. The appointment order directed the office to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. This included investigating any links or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the Trump campaign. Now I have not spoken publicly during our investigation. I'm speaking out today because our investigation is complete. The attorney general has made the report on our investigation largely public. We are formally closing the special counsel's office and as well, I'm resigning from the Department of Justice to return to private life. I'll make a few remarks about the results of our work, but beyond these few remarks it is important that the office's written work speak for itself. Let me begin where the appointment order begins and that is interference in the 2016 presidential election. As alleged by the grand jury in an indictment, Russian intelligence officers, who were part of the Russian military, launched a concerted attack on our political system. The indictment alleges that they use sophisticated cyber techniques to hack into computers and networks used by the Clinton campaign. They stole private information and then released that information through fake online identities and through the organization WikiLeaks. The releases were designed and timed to interfere with our election and to damage a presidential candidate."
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House Republicans are pledging tough questioning of Special Counsel Robert Mueller when he testifies before Congress this week as Democrats plan to air evidence of wrongdoing by US President Donald Trump in a potentially last-ditch bid to impeach him.
Rep. Doug Collins, the top Republican on House Judiciary Committee, said the American public is growing weary of the Russia investigation three months after the release of the special counsel's 448-page report and that "any thought of impeachment is waning."
Collins said Republicans will be focused on making clear that the report represents a "final episode" in the Russia probe, which he described as flawed.
"This is a president who has violated the law six ways from Sunday," said New York Rep. Jerrold Nadler, chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
Nadler argued that Mueller's report lays out "very substantial evidence" that Trump is guilty of "high crimes and misdemeanors," the constitutional standard for impeachment.
"We have to present – or let Mueller present – those facts to the American people...because the administration must be held accountable and no president can be above the law," Nadler said.
The House Judiciary Committee and the House Intelligence Committee will question Mueller in separate hearings on the report.
While the report did not find sufficient evidence to establish charges of criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia to swing the election, it said Trump could not be cleared of trying to obstruct the investigation.
But Mueller believed Trump couldn't be indicted in part because of a Justice Department opinion against prosecuting a sitting president.
"Two years ago the acting attorney general asked me to serve as special counsel and he created the special counsel's office. The appointment order directed the office to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. This included investigating any links or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the Trump campaign. Now I have not spoken publicly during our investigation. I'm speaking out today because our investigation is complete. The attorney general has made the report on our investigation largely public. We are formally closing the special counsel's office and as well, I'm resigning from the Department of Justice to return to private life. I'll make a few remarks about the results of our work, but beyond these few remarks it is important that the office's written work speak for itself. Let me begin where the appointment order begins and that is interference in the 2016 presidential election. As alleged by the grand jury in an indictment, Russian intelligence officers, who were part of the Russian military, launched a concerted attack on our political system. The indictment alleges that they used sophisticated cyber techniques to hack into computers and networks used by the Clinton campaign. They stole private information and then released that information through fake online identities and through the organization WikiLeaks. The releases were designed and timed to interfere with our election and to damage a presidential candidate."
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US Mueller Politics Analysis
AP analysis at the end of Mueller process
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From Miles Davis to George Benson and Al Jarreau
Wednesday, July 25, 2007.
By Kalamu ya Salaam of Kalamu.com
The legendary Miles Davis recorded most of his most influential and most memorable music on the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Columbia record label. Miles’ Columbia catalogue is so deep that Columbia is still packaging previously unreleased recordings. There is no hint that Columbia will dredge up a masterwork like Kind of Blue or Bitches Brew, nevertheless much of the newly issued material is first rate music from a master.
Miles had been with Columbia for decades, so it was a shock when it was announced that Miles Davis was moving to Warner Bros. Most of us expected that move to mean that Miles was not going to ever again play hardcore jazz. Tutu, Miles’ first Warner Bros. release, seem to both confirm our worse fears and, paradoxically, to offer hope that Miles would produce more great music.
Miles found a new Gil Evans in Marcus Miller. On Tutu, in addition to producing, Miller played all of the instruments other than trumpet and also wrote most of the music. Tutu proved to be a hit and became emblematic of the new music Miles was making.
Here was a truly funky fusion music, much more funk-oriented and less rock-oriented than had been most of Miles’ previous electric work. Moreover, the follow-up to Tutu was Siesta, which sounded like a second cousin to the Miles Davis/Gil Evans Sketches of Spain masterwork collaboration from decades earlier.
In many, many important ways Marcus Miller was the heart of the new Miles Davis sound. So even though “Tutu” is indelibly associated with Miles, “Tutu” is actually Marcus Miller all the way. Here we have five versions and as blasphemous as it may sound, Miles’ version is the least interesting to me.
We open this handful of versions with a quintessential Go-Go treatment from Chuck Brown, the Godfather of Go-Go. It’s a live recording that perfectly captures the infectious, drum-driven Washington DC regional rhythm. In fact, they are well-over two minutes into the song before the identifiable bass riff is sounded, not to mention playing the melodic theme, which doesn’t happen until after the three minute mark. The delays in stating the theme notwithstanding, this is a truly funky take on a theme that was already immersed in funk.
Another interesting twist is the trumpet solo, which owes more to Dizzy Gillespie’s influence than to Miles. I wonder what Miles would have thought of this version.
Next is the Miles version from the Tutu album. Listen to the production; Miles is almost a sideman on his own album. Miller’s bass is more upfront than Miles’ trumpet. The keys are thickly layered and all kinds of percussion touches flow through the song along with voices deep in the mix. In many ways the production overshadows the lead instrument. Plus, the trumpet solo is not very memorable, certainly not as memorable as the thematic hook.
And now for the most incongruous of all the versions—first off, it’s from Selim Sivad: A Tribute to Miles Davis. Is it me or does anyone else find it rather odd that a saxophone quartet is doing a tribute to a trumpet player! Of course, it’s not any generic saxophone quartet. This is The World Saxophone Quartet, the premiere ensemble of its type. Add to the instrumental incongruity, the quartet (David Murray – tenor, Hamiet Bluiett – baritone, Oliver Lake – alto, John Purcell – saxello) is here joined by a brace of drummers (Chief Bey, Okyerema Asante, Titos Sompa) and the featured solo is by trap drummer Jack DeJohnette.
It doesn’t get any odder. Were it not for DeJohnette, there is no way this version would have made the cut musically. Plus, the engineering is abysmal. It sounds like this was recorded with tin cans rather than modern microphones.
All quibbles and disagreements aside however, Jack Dejohnette does a masterful drum solo that perfectly illustrates how a great jazz drummer can handle up on a song, make the drums sing. Dejohnette’s solo is so thoroughly in the pocket, you can hum the theme along with him. The horn solos are OK, but this is a case where you’ve got to do a little bit more than give the drummer some. He takes the whole cake. Also, this version casts “Tutu” as a jazz number with African percussion poly-rhythms. The heavy funk backbeat recedes into the percussive background.
The feature cut is next. It’s from Dreyfus Night In Paris, an all-star, one-off concert that had all the makings of being a by-the-numbers, wham bam, boisterous but forgettable affair. These cats are pros and they all rise to the occasion to lay down an impressive fusion of jazz and funk. It starts out tentatively, almost like the band wasn’t sure of what the song was going to be, but then Miller comes in booming the bass riff and everybody falls into step.
Miles’ last great saxophonist, Kenny Garrett, solos first. My man does his preaching thing, almost like Maceo on steroids, and receives a warm ovation. I was really curious, where would they go from a solo that sounded like a finale?
Gypsy jazz guitarist Bireli Lagrene follows Garrett and delivers a very impressive solo that is both passionate in its emotional impact and intelligent in its over all design. It’s a great, great introduction to this man’s work for those who are unfamiliar with Lagrene’s work.
Michel Petrucciani is the biggest surprise. I have heard a good bit of his work but this is his funkiest offering yet. Petrucciani displays a knowledge of the Ramsey Lewis school of two-handed funk piano, at the same time, however, Petrucciani does not sound like a clone or a mere imitator. He really digs in deep.
Marcus Miller is the last and shortest soloist. The first part of his brief solo sounds like a conventional electric jazz guitarist doing a journeyman job, but when Miller turns the corner, he drops the jazz stroll and dips with a hip dance on the good foot. Bootsy Collins or Larry Graham couldn’t have whacked and thumped any harder than Miller does. What is really notable is that Miller resists the temptation to grandstand and showboat even as he pulls off an awe-inspiring feat of worrying a high note while playing the familiar bass riff on the top strings. And just when you’re all ears to fully enjoy the commotion, Miller drops back into the theme.
Drummer Lenny White doesn’t solo but he is so, so important to the feel-so-good atmosphere that "Tutu" drops on us. Where he could have just banged away on the back beat, White choose to use deft cymbal work that adds color and texture. It’s a jazz drummer’s way of adding to the heaviness of the music by using light touches. All in all, this version of “Tutu” lives up to its billing and offers stellar music from an all-star aggregation.
The last version features Al Jarreau and George Benson. It’s really a toss up between the Dreyfus version and this one from the duo’s new album. Jarreau is his usual jovial self, exuding all kinds of joy and happiness, but Benson goes a step beyond with a beautiful guitar solo that displays far more of Benson’s jazz chops than most of his “smooth jazz” recordings offer.
In fact George Benson has the distinction of being the first guitarist to work with Miles when Miles was transitioning to electric fusion. That was George Benson on Miles In The Sky. Plus, my man sings a little bit, managing to hang in there with Jarreau. What a wonderful version of “Tutu” this is.
Kalamu ya Salaam is a New Orleans-based writer and filmmaker. He is also the founder of Nommo Literary Society - a Black writers workshop.
Please e-mail comments to comments@thenewblackmagazine.com
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Marcus Miller - Dreyfus Night In Paris
Al Jarreau/George Benson - Givin’ It Up
Cassandra Wilson - Traveling Miles
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2018 has certainly met that standard and then some. The swath of output, whether it’s a new generation adopting and adapting established methods or out and out reinventing the stylistic wheel and then pushing it uphill on a seemingly endless barrage of tours, has been staggering, and it’s still happening. There’s a little more than a week to go in the year. You think a band isn’t putting something out today? Of course they are. It’s every day. It’s all the time.
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I say something like this every time I do a list, but please keep in mind these are my picks and I’m one person. But I am a person. I know there’s the whole internet-anonymity thing, but I assure you, I’m a human being (more of a cave troll, really) typing these words. I’m all for everyone sharing their own picks in the comments, and all for passionate advocating, but please, let’s keep it civil and respectful. These things can spiral out of control quickly, but let’s remember that we’re all human beings and worth of basic courtesy, even if some of us are dead wrong about a good many things. You should definitely punch nazis, though.
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27. Fu Manchu, Clone of the Universe
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26. Witch Mountain, Witch Mountain
Released by Svart Records. Reviewed May 16.
It was an unenviable task before Witch Mountain in replacing vocalist Uta Plotkin, but founding guitarist Rob Wrong and drummer Nathan Carson found the right voice in Kayla Dixon and solidified the lineup with her and bassist Justin Brown enough to make a declarative statement in Witch Mountain‘s self-titled LP. That’s the story of it. They pulled it off. Met with what was unquestionably a bummer circumstance, they pushed through and moved their sound forward through a new beginning — and not their first one. Watch out when their next record hits.
25. Windhand, Eternal Return
Released by Relapse Records. Reviewed Oct. 3.
Richmond, Virginia, doomers Windhand‘s second collaboration with producer Jack Endino produced a marked and purposeful expansion of their sound, encompassing classic grunge influences and a heavy psychedelic swirl that added color their previously-greyscale sonic haze. Resonant in tone and emotionalism, Eternal Return readjusted Windhand‘s trajectory in such a manner that, where one might’ve thought they knew where the band were headed in terms of their progression, they’ve made themselves a less predictable outfit on the whole. For that alone, it’s a triumph. Then you have the songs.
24. Sun Voyager, Seismic Vibes
Released by King Pizza Records. Reviewed April 18.
I don’t even want to admit how long I was waiting for Sun Voyager‘s first long-player to show up, but when it finally did, the New York trio did not disappoint. Catchy, energetic, fuzzed-out tunes with driving rhythms and a heavy psych flourish, they tapped into shoegaze and desert vibes without losing any sense of themselves in the process, and if the extra wait was so they could be so remarkably coherent in their expression on their full-length, then I wouldn’t want it to have shown up any sooner. An easy pick to stand among 2018’s best debut albums. Now to wait for the next one.
23. Forming the Void, Rift
Released by Kozmik Artifactz. Reviewed July 27.
It should tell you something that after working quickly to produce three albums, Louisiana’s Forming the Void are still defined by their potential. If I had my druthers, I’d put the recent Ripple signees on tour for the bulk of 2019, across the US and in Europe for festivals and support-slot club shows, really give them an opportunity to hammer out who they are as a band and then hit the studio for LP four. I don’t know if that’ll happen, but they’d only be doing the universe a favor by kicking into that gear. As it stands, their progression is palpable in their material and they stand absolutely ready for whatever the next level might be for them.
22. Spaceslug, Eye the Tide
Released by BSFD Records and Oak Island Records. Reviewed June 29.
Aside from the speed at which Spaceslug have turned around offerings — with Eye the Tide following 2017’s Mountains and Reminiscence EP (review here) and Time Travel Dilemma (review here) full-length and their 2016 debut, Lemanis (review here) — the Polish outfit have undertaken significant progression in their sound, moving from pure heavy psychedelic warmth to incorporating elements out of extreme metal as they did on Eye the Tide. Adding to the latest record’s accomplishment is the smoothness with which they brought seemingly opposing sides together, only adding depth to an approach already worthy of oceanic comparison.
21. Conan, Existential Void Guardian
Released by Napalm Records. Reviewed Sept. 14.
Conan‘s reign of terror has been unfolding for more than a decade now, and each of their albums has become a kind of step along a path of incremental growth. Consider the melody creeping into the shouts of founding guitarist Jon Davis, or the emergence of bassist Chris Fielding as a vocal presence alongside, the two sharing a frontman role more than ever before while welcoming drummer Johnny King to the fold of destructive tonality and doomly extremism. Existential Void Guardian may end up just being another stomp-print on their way to the next thing, but it affirmed the fact that as much as Conan grow each time out, their central violence continues to hold sway.
20. Pale Divine, Pale Divine
Released by Shadow Kingdom Records. Reviewed Nov. 21.
Look. A new Pale Divine record doesn’t come along every day, so yeah, their self-titled was probably going to be on my list one way or the other, but it definitely helps that not only was it their first outing in six years since 2012’s Painted Windows Black (review here), but it had the songs to live up to a half-decade-plus of anticipation. It marked the first studio appearance from bassist/backing vocalist Ron “Fezz” McGinnis alongside guitarist Greg Diener and drummer Darin McCloskey — now both of Beelzefuzz as well — and made a strong argument for how much Pale Divine deserve more than 20 years on from their initial demo to be considered classic American doom.
19. Mos Generator, Shadowlands
Released by Listenable Records. Reviewed May 11.
The return and rise to prominence of Washington pure heavy rockers Mos Generator might be the underground’s feelgood story of the decade, but it hasn’t by any means been easily won. In addition to rebuilding the band however many albums ago, guitarist/vocalist Tony Reed has put in innumerable hours on tour and worked to actually develop the group creatively in addition to in terms of stage presence. This is shown throughout some of the classic prog elements making their way onto Shadowlands, and perhaps some of the collection’s moodier aspects are born of the aforementioned road time as well. Hard for that kind of thing not to be a slog after a while, but at least they have killer tunes to play.
18a. Stoned Jesus, Pilgrims
Released by Napalm Records. Reviewed Sept. 5.
The only safe bet about Stoned Jesus‘ fourth long-player, Pilgrims, was that it was going to sound different than the third. That 2015 outing, The Harvest (review here), preceded the band touring to celebrate the fifth anniversary and after-the-fact success of 2012’s Seven Thunders Roar (review here), but Pilgrims defied narrative in that instead of incorporating elements from the second record in more of a heavy psych or jam sound, Stoned Jesus instead showcased a tighter, more sureheaded sense of craft than they’ve ever displayed before, and arrived on Napalm Records with a collection of songs that demonstrated the growth and sense of creative will that drives them. While one can take a look at their moniker and think immediately they know what’s coming, Stoned Jesus have made themselves one of the least predictable bands in heavy rock.
18. Backwoods Payback, Future Slum
Self-released. Reviewed Aug. 15.
“Pirate Smile.” “Lines.” “Whatever.” “It Ain’t Right.” “Threes.” “Cinderella.” “Generals.” “Big Enough.” “Alone.” “Lucky. Mike Cummings, Jessica Baker, Erik Larson. Every player, every song, every minute. If you want to know what heart-on-sleeve sounds like, it fucking sounds like Backwoods Payback. In their line from hardcore punk to grunge to heavy rock, they encompass experiences and emotionalism that are both shown in raw form throughout Future Slum, and build all the while on the chemistry they set out in developing with 2016’s Fire Not Reason (review here), when they welcomed Larson to the lineup on drums and revitalized their mission. Also worth noting, they were the best live band I saw this year. Anywhere.
17. Corrosion of Conformity, No Cross No Crown
Released by Nuclear Blast Records. Reviewed Jan. 3
No question the excitement of C.O.C. putting out their first record with frontman Pepper Keenan involved since 2005’s In the Arms of God was one of this year’s top stories in heavy. And No Cross No Crown tapped directly into the spirit of 1994’s Deliverance (discussed here) and 1996’s Wiseblood (discussed here) in terms of direction, while updating the band’s style with a four-part 2LP in mind. In some ways, it’ll be their next album that really gives listeners a sense of where they’re at and where they might be headed, but as welcome returns go, having Keenan alongside Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman and Reed Mullin is in no way to be understated, and neither is the quality of their output together, then and now.
16. Naxatras, III
Self-released. Reviewed Feb. 14.
It is no simple feat to hypnotize an audience and convey serenity while at the same time holding attention with songcraft, so that the listener isn’t actually so much unconscious as malleable of mood and spirit in such a direction as the band suggests. Greek trio Naxatras have worked quickly to become experts at this, and their third full-length fosters tonal warmth and jammy progressions with an overarching naturalism that finds them so committed to analog recording that one can buy direct transfers of the tape master of III. Some acts take classic-style practices as an aesthetic choice. With Naxatras, it seems to be the stuff of life, yet their sound is only vibrant and human in a way that, at least one hopes, is even more representative of the future than the past.
15. Clutch, Book of Bad Decisions
Released by Weathermaker Music. Reviewed Aug. 27.
It was time for Clutch to make a change in producers, and the Maryland overlords of groove seemed to know it. Known as a live band, they went with Vance Powell, who’s known a live band producer. The results on Book of Bad Decisions might not have been so earth-shatteringly different from 2015’s Psychic Warfare (review here), which was the too-soon follow-up to 2013’s Earth Rocker (review here) — both helmed by Machine — but the inimitable four-piece indeed succeeded in capturing the electricity of their stage performance and, as ever, treated fans to a collection of songs bearing Clutch‘s unmistakable hallmarks of quirky lyrics, funky rhythms and heavy roll. They may always be a live band, but Clutch‘s studio work is in no way to be discounted, ever, as this record reaffirmed. Plus, crab cakes.
14. Ancestors, Suspended in Reflections
Released by Pelagic Records. Reviewed Aug. 3.
After 2012’s In Dreams and Time (review here), I wasn’t sure Ancestors were going to put out another record. They kicked around word of one for a while, but it wasn’t until the end of last year that it really seemed to congeal into a possibility. And by then, who the hell knew what they might get up to on a full-length? With Suspended in Reflections, in some says, they picked up where they left off in terms of finding a niche for themselves in progressive and melodic heavy, but I think the time showed in the poise of their execution and the control of the material. Suspended in Reflections can’t help but be six years more mature than its predecessor, and that suits its contemplative feel. In tracks like “Gone,” and “The Warm Glow,” they tempered their expansive sound with an efficiency that can only be had with time.
13. High on Fire, Electric Messiah
Released by eOne Heavy. Reviewed Sept. 28.
The narrative here was hard to beat. Matt Pike spending an album cycle talking about Lemmy Kilmister and paying homage to his dirt-rock forebear and the gods of old? It doesn’t get much more perfect than that. Electric Messiah was the third collaboration between High on Fire and producer Kurt Ballou behind 2015’s Luminiferous (review here) and 2012’s De Vermiis Mysteriis (review here), and while it seemed after the last record that the formula might be getting stale, the band only sounded more and more lethal throughout the latest offering. Even putting aside their contributions to underground heavy, they’ve become one of the most essential metal bands of their generation. Metal, period. Doesn’t matter what subgenre you’re talking about it. If you’re listening to High on Fire, you know it. Usually because you’ve just been decapitated.
12. Yawning Man, The Revolt Against Tired Noises
Released by Heavy Psych Sounds. Reviewed July 2.
You know, if you take the time to separate Yawning Man from their 30-plus-year history and their legacy as one of the foundational acts of what later became desert rock, and you listen to The Revolt Against Tired Noises, you’re still left with basically a dream of an album. Mostly instrumental, as is their wont, they nonetheless had bassist Mario Lalli (also Fatso Jetson) sing this time around on a version of the previously-unreleased “Catamaran,” which Kyuss covered once upon a whenever although Yawning Man had never officially put it to tape. But really, that and all other novelty aside, guitarist Gary Arce, Lalli and drummer Bill Stinson are a chemistry unto themselves. I don’t know if they’ll ever be as huge as they should be, but every bit of acclaim they get, they’ve earned, and if The Revolt Against Tired Noises helps them get it, all the more so.
11. Greenleaf, Hear the Rivers
Released by Napalm Records. Reviewed Nov. 26.
Swedish heavy rock mavens Greenleaf have become an entirely different band than they once were. No longer a Dozer side-project from guitarist Tommi Holappa with a rotating cast of players, they’re a solidified, road-tested, powerhouse unit, and Hear the Rivers bleeds soul as a result. Holappa, frontman Arvid Hällagård, bassist Hans Fröhlich and drummer Sebastian Olsson sound like they’re absolutely on fire in the album’s tracks, and far from being staid or formulaic as one might expect a sixth long-player to be, Hear the Rivers built on what the band accomplished with 2016’s Rise Above the Meadow (review here) and came across as all the more vital and nearly frenetic in their energy. I won’t say Greenleaf has seen their last lineup change, because one never knows, but the band as they are today is the realization of potential I don’t think even Greenleaf knew was there.
10. Gozu, Equilibrium
Released by Blacklight Media / Metal Blade Records. Reviewed April 4.
Five records deep into a career into its second decade, Gozu haven’t had a miss yet. Admittedly, some of their early work can seem formative considering where they are now, but still. And after the 2016 rager, Revival (review here), to have the band return to the same studio — Wild Arctic in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where strides producer Dean Baltulonis — for the follow-up allows for the four-piece to directly show how their sound has grown more encompassing in the last couple years. And it has. Equilibrium is a rich and varied listen that holds true to Gozu‘s well-established penchant for soulful vibes and crunching, hard-hitting riffs and groove, but while it shares the directness of approach with Revival, it makes moves that a band could only make moving from one record to the next. I expect nothing less their next time out as well, because a decade later, that’s Gozu‘s proven track record.
9. Monster Magnet, Mindfucker
Released by Napalm Records. Reviewed Feb. 23.
The battle for the best album title of 2018 ended early when New Jersey everything-rockers Monster Magnet announced the release of Mindfucker. And what else to call a Monster Magnet LP at this point? They’ve stopped writing to genre. They’re driven by the creative mania of frontman/founder Dave Wyndorf, and they’ve seen psychedelic expanses and commercial success the likes of which would serve the tenure of four lesser bands. What’s left to do but whatever the hell you want? So that’s what Monster Magnet are doing. It just so happens that while they’re doing it, they’re still basically outclassing the entirety of the former planet earth as songwriters. As Monster Magnet fan in 2018, there was nothing more I could’ve asked than what Mindfucker delivered. And if you’re still trying to get your brain around it however many months later, you’re not alone. I think that’s the idea.
8. Apostle of Solitude, From Gold to Ash
Released by Cruz del Sur Music. Reviewed Feb. 20.
Best doom album of 2018. The combination of craft and passion behind the delivery. The way the dark tones fed into the emotions so clearly on display and sheer presence of it in listening to songs like “Keeping the Lighthouse,” “Ruination by Thy Name” and “My Heart is Leaving Here.” Apostle of Solitude never seem to be the highest profile band out there, but their work seems never to be anything less than outstanding, and I refuse to accept them as anything less than among the most pivotal American acts out there making traditional doom. And not just making it, but making it their own, with a sense of new pursuits and individualism that extends to playing style as well as atmosphere. I know doom isn’t exactly in short supply these days — figuratively or literally — but if you miss out on what Apostle of Solitude are doing with it, you’ll only regret it later. I’ll say it one more time: Best doom album of 2018.
7. Holy Grove, Holy Grove II
Every now and again, anticipating the crap of an album really pays off, and such was the case with Holy Grove II, the Ripple Music debut from the Portland outfit whose 2016 self-titled (review here) seemed like such a herald of excellence to come while also, you know, being killer. Holy Grove II brought the four-piece of vocalist Andrea Vidal, guitarist Trent Jacobs, bassist Gregg Emley and drummer Eben Travis to entirely new levels of composition and execution. In songs like “Blade Born,” the shorter, sharper “Aurora,” the patiently rolling “Valley of the Mystics,” “Solaris” and closer “Cosmos,” which boasted a not-really-necessary-but-definitely-welcome guest vocal appearance from YOB‘s Mike Scheidt, — and oh wait, that’s all of the tracks — Holy Grove entered a different echelon. Anticipation will likewise be high for Holy Grove III, but it’ll be hard to complain with this record to keep company in the meantime.
6. All Them Witches, ATW
Released by New West Records. Reviewed Sept. 18.
Over five All Them Witches albums, the Nashville four-piece have gone from a nascent heavy Americana jam band to one of the most distinct acts in the US underground. Their development in sound is chemistry-driven, so it was a risk when the founding trio of bassist/vocalist Charles Michael Parks, Jr., guitarist Ben McLeod (who also produced) and drummer Robby Staebler welcomed new keyboardist Jonathan Draper into the lineup to take the place of Allan van Cleave. Amid a more naturalist production than that of 2017’s Sleeping Through the War (review here), the revamped four-piece flourished in terms of songwriting and conveying their stage-born sonic personae. From the gleeful fuckery of opener “Fishbelly 86 Onions” to the memorable moodiness of “Diamond” and the back-end jam “Harvest Feast” en route to the stretched-out end of “Rob’s Dream,” All Them Witches essentially confirmed they could do whatever they wanted and make it work.
5. YOB, Our Raw Heart
Released by Relapse Records. Reviewed June 7.
Actually, if you want a sample of YOB‘s raw heart, the place to go is probably 2014’s Clearing the Path to Ascend (review here), but whatever the Eugene, Oregon, shapers of cosmic doom might’ve lacked in titular accuracy on their eighth long-player, they made up for in a new, statesman-like posture. Their approach was mature, hammered out to a professionalism working completely on its own terms, and they never sounded so sure of who they are as a band or as confident of their direction. In extended cuts “Beauty in Falling Leaves” and “Our Raw Heart,” they explored new and progressive textures and melodies, and managed to reaffirm their core aspects while finding room for conveying emotion that came across as nothing but ultimately sincere. They have been and still are one of a kind, and as they continue to move forward, they remain a band that makes one feel lucky to be alive to witness their work. Our Raw Heart was perhaps more refined than it let on, but the heart was there for sure, as always.
4. Brant Bjork, Mankind Woman
Released by Heavy Psych Sounds. Reviewed Sept. 13.
I’m not going to say I wasn’t a fan of the (relatively) harder-hitting approach Brant Bjork and his Low Desert Punk Band took on 2014’s Black Power Flower (review here) and 2016’s Tao of the Devil (review here), but Mankind Woman brought in some more of his soul influences, and whether it was the subtly subversive funk of “Chocolatize” and “Brand New Old Times” or the callout “1968” and laid back vibes of the title-track and “Swagger and Sway,” Bjork — working with guitarist Bubba DuPree on songwriting and production — offered a definitive look at what has made his 20-year solo career so special and demonstrates not only his longevity and his legacy, but his will to continue to progress as an artist honing his craft. His discography is well populated by now to be sure, but Mankind Woman represents a turn from the last couple records, and if it’s in any way portentous of things to come, it bodes well. Bjork is right at home nestled into classic-style grooves, and his legacy as one of the principal architects of desert rock is continually reaffirmed.
3. Earthless, Black Heaven
Released by Nuclear Blast Records. Reviewed March 15.
They’ve been great, not just good, for a long time now, and as forerunners of the San Diego heavy scene, they’re godfathers to an up and coming generation of bands taking their influence — let alone acts from the rest of the world — but Black Heaven is a special moment for them because of its departure. No, it wasn’t not the first time guitarist Isaiah Mitchell sang on an Earthless recording, but it did represent a tip of the balance in that direction for the band on a studio full-length, and that resulted in a special moment. Album opener “Gifted by the Wind” was one of the best songs I heard this year, and while “End to End” and the all-thrust “Volt Rush” affirmed that more traditional songwriting was well within the grasp of Mitchell, bassist Mike Eginton and drummer Mario Rubalcaba, they still found space for a sprawling jam or two, keeping their claim on the instrumentalism that’s (largely) fueled their tenure to date. Earthless don’t want for acclaim, but every bit of it is earned, and while their primary impact has always been live, Black Heaven saw them construct a traditional-style LP that still bore the hallmarks of their collective personality. It was the best of all worlds.
2. King Buffalo, Longing to Be the Mountain
Self-released/released by Stickman Records. Reviewed Sept. 27.
In the dark early hours of 2018, the Rochester, New York, trio of guitarist/vocalist Sean McVay, bassist Dan Reynolds and drummer Scott Donaldson issued the Repeater EP (review here) as a follow-up to their 2016 debut, Orion (review here), so Longing to Be the Mountain didn’t exactly come out of nowhere, but even with Repeater preceding its arrival, I don’t think anyone necessary expected King Buffalo‘s second album to have such a scope or to be so engrossing with it. In its melody, patience, atmosphere and heft, it was an absolute joy to behold. Its songs were memorable at the same time they were far-reaching, and while Orion was already my pick for the best debut of 2016, Longing to Be the Mountain realized even more potential than that record had hinted toward. It could be intimate or majestic at its whim, and its dynamic set an individual characterization of heavy psychedelia and blues-style sprawl that the band wholly owned. With production by Ben McLeod of All Them Witches behind them, they worked to serve notice of a progression undertaken the results of which are already staggering and still seem to be looking ahead to the next stage, literally and figuratively. One of the principal standards I use in constructing this list every year is what I listen to most. That’s this record.
1. Sleep, The Sciences
Released by Third Man Records. Reviewed May 1.
Obviously, right? To some extent, when Sleep surprise-announced on April 19 they’d release their first album in 15 years the next day, and then did, they took ownership of 2018. Even with records still to come at that point from YOB and Sleep guitarist Matt Pike‘s own High on Fire, there was no way that when the end of the year came around, it wasn’t going to be defined by the advent of a new Sleep record. And even if it sucked, it would probably still be Album of the Year, but fortunately, as Pike, bassist/vocalist Al Cisneros (also Om) and drummer Jason Roeder (also Neurosis) took their long-running stage reunion to the studio, they brought material that highlighted the best elements from all players. Pike‘s wild soloing, Cisneros‘ meditative vocals and Roeder‘s intricate but smooth style of roll all came together in older pieces like “Antarcticans Thawed” and “Sonic Titan” and newer highlights “Giza Butler” and “Marijuanaut’s Theme,” and aside from the excitement at their existence, they showed the mastery of form that Sleep had been demonstrating live since 2009 and which they hinted toward in the 2014 single, The Clarity (review here). A new Sleep full-length was something long-discussed, long-rumored and long-considered, but when it finally happened, I think the results vaporized expectation in a way no one could’ve anticipated. There’s a reason Sleep are Sleep. Having The Sciences as a reminder of that brought about the defining moment of 2018.
Indeed, it wouldn’t be much of a Top 30 at all if it didn’t go to 50. Don’t try to make sense of it, just look at the records.
31. Atavismo, Valdeinfierno
32. Grayceon, IV
33. Clamfight, III
34. Seedy Jeezus, Polaris Oblique
35. Megaton Leviathan, Mage
36. Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, Wasteland
37. Arcadian Child, Superfonica
38. Freedom Hawk, Beast Remains
39. The Machine, Faceshift
40. Messa, Feast for Water
41. Black Rainbows, Pandaemonium
42. Church of the Cosmic Skull, Science Fiction
43. Domkraft, Flood
44. Träden, Träden
45. Mythic Sunship, Another Shape of Psychedelic Music
46. Samavayo, Vatan
47. Foehammer, Second Sight
48. Bongripper, Terminal
49. Mansion, First Death of the Lutheran
50. Sunnata, Outlands
51. Chubby Thunderous Bad Kush Masters, Come and Chutney
Believe me when I tell you, I sweated over this section more than I did the actual top 30. Mansion should be higher. So should Chubby Thunderous, though something in me thought they might like being #50 on a list of 30. Church of the Cosmic Skull, Clamfight, Black Rainbows, Foehammer, Seedy Jeezus, Messa, Domkraft. All of these were fucking awesome. And there are more (we’ll get there). Eventually numbers add up. I won’t say a bad word about any of these. That’s it.
This section always winds up expanded as other people point out things I missed and so on, but here’s what I’ve got in the immediate, alphabetically:
Alms, Act One
Ape Machine, Darker Seas
Belzebong, Light the Dankness
Black Moon Circle, Psychedelic Spacelord
Blackwater Holylight, Blackwater Holylight
Bong, Thought and Existence
Carpet, About Rooms and Elephants
Churchburn, None Shall Live… The Hymns of Misery
Deadbird, III: The Forest Within the Tree
Dead Meadow, The Nothing They Need
Death Alley, Superbia
Drug Cult, Drug Cult
Dunbarrow, II
Electric Citizen, Helltown
Eagle Twin, The Thundering Heard: Songs of Hoof and Horn
Evoken, Hypnagogia
Funeral Horse, Psalms for the Mourning
Fuzz Evil, High on You
Graven, Heirs of Discord
Graveyard, Peace
Green Dragon, Green Dragon
Green Druid, Ashen Blood
Here Lies Man, You Will Know Nothing
High Priestess, High Priestess
Horehound, Holocene
IAH, II
JIRM, Surge ex Monumentis
Killer Boogie, Acid Cream
Lonely Kamel, Death’s Head Hawkmoth
MaidaVale, Madness is Too Pure
Moab, Trough
Mountain Dust, Seven Storms
Mouth, Floating
Mr. Plow, Maintain Radio Silence
T.G. Olson, Earthen Pyramid
Onségen Ensemble, Duel
Orango, Evergreen
Owl, Nights in Distortion
Pushy, Hard Wish
Rifflord, 7 Cremation Ground/Meditation
River Cult, Halcyon Daze
Rotor, Sechs
Somali Yacht Club, The Sea
Sumac, Love in Shadow
Sundrifter, Visitations
Svvamp, Svvamp II
Thou, Magus
Thunder Horse, Thunder Horse
Weedpecker, III
Somehow it didn’t seem appropriate to include these in the list proper because they’re not really underground releases, but there were two more records I especially wanted to highlight for their quality:
Alice in Chains, Rainier Fog
Judas Priest, Firepower
Best Short Release of the Year
Normally I’d do this as a separate post, but as a result of being robbed earlier this year, I feel like my list is woefully incomplete. If you have any demos, EPs, splits, singles, etc., to add to it, please feel free to do so in the comments below. Still, the top pick was clear:
Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard & Slomatics, Totems Split
Rarely do two bands work in such coherent tandem to their mutual benefit. Here are a few other essential short releases for 2018, alphabetically:
All Them Witches, Lost and Found
Alunah, Amber & Gold
Canyon, Mk II
Demon Head, The Resistence
Destroyer of Light, Hopeless
Ecstatic Vision, Under the Influence
Godmaker & Somnuri, Split
Holy Mushroom, Blood and Soul
King Buffalo, Repeater
Minsk & Zatokrev, Split
Sleep, Leagues Beneath
Stonus, Lunar Eclipse
Sundecay, Gale
A good many albums have already been announced or hinted at for 2019. I in no way claim this to be a complete roundup of what’s coming, but here’s what I have in my notes so far, in absolutely no order:
Kings Destroy, Lo-Pan, Cities of Mars, Heavy Temple, Mr. Peter Hayden, Curse the Son, High Fighter, Destroyer of Light, Year of the Cobra, Buffalo Fuzz, Zaum, The Sonic Dawn, Alunah, Candlemass, Elepharmers, Grandier, Dorre, Abrahma, Mars Red Sky, Eternal Black, Elephant Tree, Atala, No Man’s Valley, Sun Blood Stories, Crypt Sermon, The Riven, Hibrido, Snail, Red Beard Wall, 11Paranoias, Dead Witches, Monte Luna, Captain Caravan (LP), Swallow the Sun, Oreyeon, Motorpsycho, Vokonis, Hexvessel, Saint Vitus, Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard, Kind, Mastiff, Shadow Witch, Om.
Okay, That’s It
Yeah, no, I’m serious. List is done. Everybody go back to your lives. Your families miss you.
Really though, while this is by no means my last post of 2018, I can’t let it pass without saying thank you so much to everyone for checking out the site this year, or for just digging into this, or for sending me music, or hitting me up on social media, sharing a link, anything. Thank you. Thank you. I could never have imagined when it started out where it would be now. Or that I’d still be doing it. Your support means more to me than I can say, and I thank you so much for being a part of this with me.
So thanks.
If you have something to add to the list, please do so by leaving a comment below, but keep in mind as well the above note requesting civility. Please don’t make me feel stupid because I forgot your favorite record. I forgot a lot of people’s favorite records. I’m one dude. I’m doing my best.
And please keep in mind if you’ve got a list together that the Year-End Poll is open and results will be out Jan. 1.
Everybody have a great and safe 2019.
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Review & Track Premiere: Sundecay, Gale
Posted in audiObelisk, Reviews on November 14th, 2018 by JJ Koczan
Gale by Sundecay
[Click play above to stream “Gales” from Sundecay’s new EP, Gale. Vinyl is out Nov. 30.]
It’s an old debate, EP vs. LP. Where the line stops between a short release and a full-length. I take my cues from bands, and Sundecay have made it clear that their new self-released four-songer, Gale, is an EP. But I don’t necessarily agree. At half an hour long, it’s right on the border of one side or the other, but the key factor for me is the way the Toronto DIY five-piece arrange the songs themselves to set up a clear flow from opener “Heavy Motions” through the 11-minute closer “The Land that Never Thaws.” Gale breaks roughly even into two vinyl sides — which is fortunate, because they’ve pressed it up as a 12″ in limited numbers, gold-embossed front lettering, etc. — of two songs apiece, and especially in physical form, there’s no substance lacking that one would say it isn’t an impressive debut album.
Does it ultimately matter? Probably not, and it could well be that Sundecay will next year put out a full-length that’s a 70-minute 2LP and show themselves as thinking of an album as a completely different entity — I don’t know that that’s going to happen, I’m just positing a hypothetical — but the bottom line either way is that Gale presents a strong front-to-back fluidity amid its burly double-guitar riffs, spacious vocal echoes and largesse of groove to ignite the argument.
With Mark Chandler and Brian Scott (the latter also cover art) on guitar, Derek Hoffman as bassist, engineer and mixer, Julian Vardy on drums and Rich Pauptit on vocals, Sundecay bring together “Heavy Motions,” “Gales,” “From Corners” and “The Land that Never Thaws” with a firm sense of aesthetic, capturing some of the marauding sensibility of mid-period High on Fire but played at maybe two-thirds speed, so that the battle axe of riffs is swinging, but kind of in slow motion. Tempo shifts and moments of ambience like those that open “Heavy Motions” or appear in the second half of “The Land that Never Thaws” suit the band well, but of course the sheer level of impact is a major consideration in what they do.
And their work hits hard. “From Corners” is the shortest cut on the EP at 3:57, pairing smoothly with the closer on side B, and it has an almost classic doom approach to its swaggering groove, making it all the more understandable where they’re coming from in touting a Pentagram/proto-metal influence, but someone in this band listens to or listened to earlier Mastodon, and the effect of that style of weighted, almost-angular chugging tension is present in the guitar as well as the dreary atmospheres surrounding. It’s a fitting answer to the echoing beardo-burl of Pauptit‘s vocals, which seem to call up in “Heavy Motions” from beneath the rolling nod in a way that’s both headphone-worthy and calling for max-volume presentation, so, you know, watch your eardrums.
If nothing else, “Heavy Motions” lives up to its name, moving from its gradual start into a melodic interplay of guitar for the verse before seeming to grow thicker as it progresses through the midsection and plods into a drum-dropout before the five-minute mark, only to resume the fervent march in apex fashion as the ending, which concludes in a long fade bringing about the foreboding open of “Gales,” the guitars evoking a bluster of wind from the outset that seems to blow in multiple directions. Like “Heavy Motions” before, the opening is gradual, but does much to establish the feel of the song itself, and when the drums and bass kick in at full-tone, there’s a feeling of arrival.
A more driven push takes hold before two minutes in with a faster meter and some of that crunching angularity brought forward in the guitar at the central position. They wind their way into a slowdown in the middle third but hold to it for a while, and make it unclear at first if they’l even go back at all to the chug from whence they came. When they do, it’s with about a minute left, and they run through the verse one more time before finishing out with a showcase of symmetry that seems all the more relevant for ending the first half of the record.
The relatively brief “From Corners” follows and plays a crucial role not only in offsetting “The Land that Never Thaws” still to come, but in allowing the band to expand the context of the album — (coughs loudly) — overall, with a departure from the methods of the two prior tracks. “From Corners” is inherently more straightforward in its structure, and while it remains tonally and rhythmically consistent with what surrounds, Sundecay use it to efficiently demonstrate a malleable methodology on the whole.
Their 2014 debut, Bodies at the Frontier, had a similar construction to its songs, if swapped in side A and B, but the band’s growth in sound is palpable and it’s hard to argue against closing with “The Land that Never Thaws,” which drops its title-line in the first verse and brings its slower chug to bear along with a markedly epic feel underscored by the lumber of the drumming at its root. It’s not the first time the band have gone marching, but they do it well and with a particularly downtrodden flare in “The Land that Never Thaws,” and as that gives way to the stretch of guitar, bass and vocals alone, the nigh-goth pastoralism is one more fascinating turn that makes the surge that begins after nine minutes in even more of a crescendo. Pauptit‘s vocals come to the fore of the mix with surrounding wails of guitar and plod of bass and drums, and the guitars cap in chugging fashion on a fade to mirror that of “Heavy Motions.”
Whether one considers Gale an EP or an LP, that symmetry is essential to the progressive impression the band makes on the whole. It may well be that this collection is just a sampling of their intent toward larger- and longer-form works to come. If so, fine. But the adage of “it’s just an EP” doesn’t really apply to the formidable presence Sundecay establish or the swath of heavy styles they seem to so naturally make their own in this material.
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Bill Sencio writes:
Check out some all new photos of NECA’s modern Ash from the Ash vs. Evil Dead toy line!
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Ash will be joined by another version of our hapless hero as well as a Deadite in this series, which will be released in May.
NECA also debuted their awesome new Evil Dead 2 diorama display… Of course, this piece will not be for sale, but these displays are one of the coolest things the NECA guys put together, which really highlight just how screen accurate these toys are.
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Ray Santiago helps Bruce Campbell fight Deadites in 'Ash vs Evil Dead'
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Naturally, the fans deserve callbacks and references, but these aren’t just dished out right out of the gate. They appear gradually, maybe one or two an episode—at least until the finale which is a virtual Evil Dead movie in its own right. As a longtime fan, this series was everything I wanted. All of the old stuff I loved was there, making it so much easier to accept and embrace everything new.
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Composer Joseph LoDuca has worked with director Sam Raimi since the very beginning. From the 1981 cult favorite The Evil Dead through Xena: Warrior Princess and beyond, the composer has lent his skills to the Raimi's mix of comedy, action, and fantasy / horror. Most notable has been LoDuca's work on each and every iteration of Raimi's Evil Dead films (Fede Alvarez's 2013 reboot being the obvious exception). This is up to and including the new series for Starz, Ash Vs Evil Dead. Those familiar with LoDuca's music might be surprised at the tone his tunes take in the series. The music – out now via Varèse Sarabande – is an excellent mix of horror, action, and rock 'n' roll themes. We were lucky enough to be able to ask composer LoDuca about his influences and plans for the series…
The Awesome Nightmare On Elm Street Easter Egg From Ash Vs Evil Dead
TV rarely gets more intense and over-the-top as it did on Saturday night when Ash vs Evil Dead bid farewell to Season 1 with wacky hallucinations, Godfather references and disgusting monster babies. For fans hoping that creator Sam Raimi would once again use this franchise to reference the works of Wes Craven, particularly A Nightmare on Elm Street, disappointment was not in store. Just check out what’s hanging by the door when Ash first makes his way downstairs. (Minor episode spoilers are coming.)
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From the teaser for the Season 1 finale of Ash vs. Evil Dead, it looks like the episode will be the scariest and bloodiest of the comedy horror series yet. However, fans of Sam Raimi's Evil Dead film franchise have been waiting a long time for Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) to return to the screen, so no matter how good the finale is, the fact that the first season of Ash vs. Evil Dead is coming to a close on Saturday night is a tough pill to swallow. However, knowing if Ash vs. Evil Dead is renewed for Season 2 would help make watching the Season 1 finale that much more of a scary good time.
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Government is Magic
Daniel Greenfield October 27, 2013
Our technocracy is detached from competence. It's not the technocracy of engineers, but of "thinkers" who read Malcolm Gladwell and Thomas Friedman and watch TED talks and savor the flavor of competence, without ever imbibing its substance.
These are the people who love Freakonomics, who enjoy all sorts of mental puzzles, who like to see an idea turned on its head, but who couldn't fix a toaster.
The ObamaCare website is the natural spawn of that technocracy who love the idea of using modernity to make things faster and easier, but have no idea what anything costs or how it works.
It's hard to have a functioning technocracy without engineers. A technocracy made in Silicon Valley with its complete disregard for anything outside its own ego zone would be bad enough. But this is a Bloombergian technocracy of billionaires and activists, of people who think that "progress" makes things work, rather than things working leading to progress.
Healthcare.gov showed us that behind all the smoother and shinier designs was the same old clunky government where everything gets done because the right companies hire the right lobbyists and everything costs ten times what it should.
If the government can't build a health care website, how is it going to actually run health care for an entire country is the obvious question that so many are asking. And the obvious answer is that it will run it the way it ran the website. It will throw wads of money and people at the problem and then look for programs it doesn't like to squeeze for extra cash.
The Navy had to be cut to the bone and the Benghazi mission had to make do without security so that a Canadian company which began employing a classmate of Michelle Obama's could score over half a billion to build a broken website. Obama mocked Mitt Romney's criticism of his Navy cuts by telling him that we don't fight with bayonets and horses anymore. Bayonets and horses are outdated. In our glorious modernity, we spend fortunes to build websites that don't work instead.
Modernity has to be built. It has to be constructed brick by bit by rivet by cable by people who know what they are doing. Modernity without competence is as worthless as the ObamaCare website which looked pretty enough to give the illusion of technocratic modernity, but didn't actually work.
Competence is the real modernity and it has very little to do with the empty trappings of design that surround it. In some ways the America of a few generations ago was a far more modern place because it was a more competent place. For all our nice toys, we look like primitive savages compared to men who could build skyscrapers and fleets within a year... and build them well.
Those aren't things we can do anymore. Not because the knowledge and skills don't exist, but because the culture no longer allows it. We can't do them for the same reason that Third World countries can't do what we do. It's not that the knowledge is inaccessible, but that the culture gets in the way.
It's our very hollow modernity that gets in the way of our truly being modern. We can no longer build big things because the ability to implement vision on a large scale no longer exists. We can still do impressive things as individuals, but that's also true of Kenya or Thailand. And in China, they can carry out grandiose projects, but those projects have no vision or competence.
We used to be able to combine the two by competently implementing grandiose visions, but our "modern" culture is the roadblock that prevents us from working together to make the great things that we can still envision individually.
Our modernity is style rather than substance. It's Obama grinning. It's the right font. It's the right joke. It's that sense that X knows what he's doing because he presents it the right way. There's nothing particularly modern about that. In most cultures, the illusion of competence trumps the real thing. It's why so many countries are so badly broken because they go by appearances, rather than by results.
The idea that we should go by results, rather than by processes, by outcomes rather than by appearances, was revolutionary. For most of human history, we were trapped in a cargo cult mode. We did the "right things" not because they led to the right results, but because we had decided that they were the right things. There were many competent people, but they were hamstrung by rigid institutions that made it impossible to go from Point A to Point B in the shortest possible time.
And we're right back there today. The entire process of ObamaCare was the opposite of going from Point A to Point B. It was the least competent and efficient solution every step of the way. There was no reason to think that its website would be any better. The process that led to it being dumped on the American people was completely devoid of any notion of testing or outcomes. It was the right thing to do because... it was the right thing to do. It was cargo cult logic all the same. So was its website.
Healthcare.gov, like ObamaCare, was going to work because it was "good". Its goodness was by some measure other than result. It was morally good. It was progressive. And so the deity of liberal causes, perhaps Karl Marx or Progressia, the Goddess of Soup and Economic Dysfunction, would see to it that it would work. Karma would kick in and everything would work out because it had to.
This brand of magical thinking was once commonplace. It still is. And it's why things so rarely work out in some of the more messed up parts of the world. But the sort of attitude that would once have made anthropologists shake their heads is now commonplace here. Savages in suits, barbarians with iPads are certain that things will work because they have appeased the gods of modernity with their fonts, they have made a website that looks like a functioning website. And like the cargo culters who built fake control towers expecting planes to land, they thought that their website would work.
Competence is built on the unhappy understanding that things won't work because you want them to, they won't work if you go through the motions, they will only work if you understand how a thing works and then make it work by building it, by testing it and by expecting failure every step of the way and wrestling with the problem until you get it right.
That's modernity. It isn't glamorous. You can see it in black and white photos of men working on old planes. You can see it in the eyes of the astronauts who first went to the moon. You can read it in the workings of the men who built the longest suspension bridges, laid undersea cables and watched their world change. They were moderns and their time is done. They have left behind savages with cell phones who make decent tinkerers, but whose ability to collaborate falls apart in large groups.
The difference between savages and civilized men isn't that savages are dumb and civilized people are smart. Savages can individually be quite clever within their parameters and civilized folk can be quite stupid. It's the ability to extend that intelligence in groups that makes for a civilization.
Savages cannot work together. They can fantasize, but they can't build anything bigger than a small group can manage. Savages are warriors, but not soldiers, they are tinkerers, not engineers, they are inventors, not scientists, they cannot work together on a large scale and thereby push past their own limitations as a culture and grow. They may have individual geniuses, but they cannot pass on what they learn.
We have not yet been reduced to savagery, but our incompetence increases in large groups to such a staggering extent that it often seems not to be worth the trouble. Individual geniuses can occasionally carry large groups on their shoulders, micromanaging them, terrorizing them and motivating them, the way that tribal chieftains do, but without that singular personality the whole thing collapses.
The United States government is the ultimate giant unworkable mess. It is a living cargo cult where everyone marches around following routines that are supposed to yield great prosperity, but never do. The processes themselves are broken and make no sense, but the cargo culturers of the government cannot and will not hear that. They know that the government will magically make everything work.
Because government is progress. Government is modernity. Government is magic.
The cargo culters on the islands, who once witnessed the might and power of the American military during WW2 make American flags and uniforms, they build airstrips and wooden control towers, and wait for the planes to land and make them rich. They don't understand why these things should work, but they do them anyway because that is how they remember it happening.
Our own cargo culters invoke FDR and JFK, they talk about the New Deal and the Great Society, they make grand promises and roll out big programs, and then they wait for it all to work. They don't understand themselves how or why it would work. But government is magic and the appearance of a thing is just as good as a real deal.
Build a website and it will work. Pass a law and they will come. Get a degree and you're competent.
There is no need to know how to do a thing. You don't need engineers or competent men. All you need to do is remember the great dreams of the past, listen to a few inspirational JFK speeches and then carve a computer out of wood and wait for free health care to arrive.
In cargo cult America, the food is free, the cell phones are free and the money can be printed forever because government is magic.
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Posted by: Daniel Greenfield at October 27, 2013
Horace Staccato 28/10/13
Cargo Cult America pretty much sums it up. Obama's highly embarrassing "Man of Destiny" poses are a disturbing symptom of that. It looks like he practices those in a mirror in his room while the Culture Club plays in the background.
Anyone who is in touch with reality understands at first glance that Obama is a highly-effeminate, resentful, overgrown adolescent with many, many axes to grind; and a pampered child's arrogance.
In the past 50 years we have embraced third-world values and denigrated those of the most successful civilization in history. Everything has become inverted. Cowardice has been redefined as courage; courage has been redefined as a violent crime (if you are White); failure and sullen petulance have been redefined as transcendent spiritual virtues. Ugh.
As for ObamaCare, it has never been about health care. It is a cynical Leftist money and power grab that was designed to destroy the private health care system utterly and create as many wards of the state as possible. ObamaCare will be a highly corrupt affirmative-action patronage system.
Say hello to your new doctor; DeShawn Lexus Jefferson.
Anonymous 28/10/13
Magical thinking is in vogue everywhere you look. In my field (associated with mortgage lending), many gov. licensed people produce a faux product that looks like the real thing and is accepted as the real thing but often is not. Oh well. Can we have too many mortgage crises? Gives the ersatz legislators something to do.
Andy Texan
Brett_McS 28/10/13
"These are the people who love Freakonomics, who enjoy all sorts of mental puzzles, who like to see an idea turned on its head, but who couldn't fix a toaster".
I recently heard a definition that seeks to distinguish 'nerd' from 'geek': A geek collects things; a nerd collects ideas. So these sound like nerds.
mindRider 28/10/13
Sentence 1....is detached it is from....
.....has detached itself from......?
First: sadly, I agree. Thank you for spelling it out for us.
You write with much passion and insight and, I think, much haste. Your plea on behalf of competence is undercut slightly by this article's need for copy-editing, from the very first sentence. It's is not the first time I've had this thought; but given the topic, I felt compelled to speak up. Please slow down a little, or get a proofreader.
Chas C-Q
Robin 28/10/13
Great post Daniel but beware in the Orwellian Newspeak world we live in, the OECD, a primary player in the international Government is Magic brigade, uses the term Competence to be the goal of all 21st Century education globally. Even has a framework-DeSeCo. Definition and Selection of Competences and DeSeCo is all about evaluating whether people have the values and mindsets suitable for little c Marxist Humanism.
It's what that PISA assessment is really measuring.
Government is parasitical and right now it has reached the point at all levels where it is strangling the host. Its beneficiaries are unaware the economy actually is not a fixed pie where the slices can be altered in size with no impact on the diameter.
meema 28/10/13
Spot on assessment, Daniel. You are a truth archeologist as well as a wordsmth extraordinaire. You know, I’ve concluded that psychopaths are in charge. And the reason one cannot change the mindset of a psychopath is because he/she truly believes in the created reality and therefore fully expects success. Unfortunately psychopaths are highly skilled in Blameshift 3.0 as well, and can quickly fall back to this OS if things don’t work as planned.
In the Matrix, that which is not real is the accepted norm and so it must be protected at all costs.
Ex-Dissident 28/10/13
Horace you'll be lucky to get DeShawn Lexus. You are more likely to be greeted by Mohamed Al Jihad Bin Laden murmuring alahu-akbar as he reaches for the scalpel.
Kitty 28/10/13
Like a hot knife through rancid butter every word of this cuts through the shibboleths and slogans which surround Obama. Thank you, Sultan.
AG 28/10/13
Cargo Cult. This is perhaps the most astute discription of the Obama acolytes I have ever heard. It nails it. Here is a brief description for those not familiar with this termonology;
"A cargo cult is a kind of Melanesian millenarian movement encompassing a diverse range of practices and occurring in the wake of contact with the commercial networks of colonizing societies. The name derives from the apparent belief that various ritualistic acts will lead to a bestowing of material wealth ("cargo")."
"Cargo cults often develop during a combination of crises. Under conditions of social stress, such a movement may form under the leadership of a charismatic figure. This leader may have a 'vision' (or 'myth-dream') of the future, often linked to an ancestral efficacy thought to be recoverable by a return to traditional morality. This leader may characterize the present state (often imposed by colonial capitalist regimes) as a dismantling of the old social order, meaning that social hierarchy and ego boundaries have been broken down"
I suspect the Freakonomics authors would agree with you. So that twits who buy their book don't understand the libertarian telos of their critique may not be their fault.
Eaton Rapids Joe 28/10/13
"The idea that we should go by results, rather than by processes, by outcomes rather than by appearances, was revolutionary."
More accurately, "...results, rather than by ideology,.."
Lysenkoism is when ideology trumps results.
The shortcoming of being entirely "results" focused to the exclusion of process is that the practitioner will take shortcuts. And he will be able to justify those shortcuts and risk by the short term results. "See, that bridge did not need all those bags of cement and steel rebar...diverting 30% of them to my supervisors dacha (or black market) was absolutely the right thing to do."
Then, even if there is a bad result within the supervisor's lifetime (an earthquake, for instance) he says, "My bad." and he may get executed or thrown into the klink. However, the true costs can never be recovered even if all the true cost could even be identified.
Daniel Greenfield 28/10/13
Results cover the long term as well as the short term. Some short cuts can be taken, some shouldn't.
The Empire State Building was built in a year from plans reused from another building. Was that foolhardy? Probably. But it worked.
We do use too many safety precautions. And it's important to state the difference between cutting corners in ways that make the project unfeasible in the long run and bold ways that make it dangerous, but achievable.
Maybe the ability to work in large groups is a sign of progress but it is also a double edged sword. The voice of reason and truth gets swallowed up pretty easily in mass projects. Even if there is a real engineer at the top if he just wants to pump and dump a product you still have the same problem. Then the savvy political scientist sees that you really don't need to know what you are doing since the actual tech is being thrown out anyway. Then the decline hastens but it was there from the beginning.
Small groups can not create a Divine deity on Earth like an Asian Emperor or a Pharaoh. It takes a huge nation state where enough liars can get in place so that an absolute fiction can be followed like it is real. I'm afraid America might become a victim of its own success. We built big, but we forgot to be small. Now we have manufactured Deities.
mrs adela bradley 28/10/13
Capitalism and Christianity, are the roots of our greatness from which we've cut ourselves off.
We all used to be capitalists and entrepreneurs of one size or another: whether financiers with the business acumen and connections to realize large-scale projects; or working and middle class folks with the drive and determination to make the most of opportunities, and having the thrift and know-how to manage their household resources. Sound money was behind it all, whereas now we have an entire "economy," that's as good as centrally-planned, based on ZIRP financing.
We all used to be Christians, whether actually or not, we knew enough to respect that as the historical basis of our common culture, our moral code, our aesthetics, our manners, our civic organizations, our public institutions, as well as being the source of our integrity, good will, and self-determination as individuals.
Lars 28/10/13
Unfortunately some of the competents have gone to the dark side, stealing easy money from the nonprofits. Read the "news" about billions missing from the unaccountable charities in the Wash Po.
Horace Staccato, while I agree, for the most part, with your assessment, I disagree with your assertion that Obamacare's purpose was to bring down the private health care system.
I feel that the motivation was much more mundane and mercenary: To create a new entitlement for the purpose of ensuring a Democratic majority in Congress for the foreseeable future.
The model here was Medicare, which cemented Democrat majorities in Congress for thirty years. Whenever a Democrat faced a stiff challenge, out came the "Mediscare" strategy (i.e. "If that Republican gets elected, he'll cut your Medicare!"). I've seen that happen so many times and was amazed that people fell for it every time.
What we have is a party that is willing to burn this country to the ground if they can rule over the ashes.
Very good again. I think of the men who designed and built the Great Western Railway from London to Bristol in the 1830s. Brunel, Gooch and many more . It worked then and it still inspires engineers today. Just how did they do it with such confidence?
Probably there were no real liberals then
The same type of men as Brunel built the USA. It also worked .
Sometimes I think the liberal cannot forgive the men who built the civilisation that nurtures him .I have no idea why but it explains the malevolence towards the past and the descent into unreality today.
Dave S
Progressia, the Goddess of Soup and Economic Dysfunction' that's a really good one, LOL
USA11SF 28/10/13
Appreciate your clarity and the new perspective you provide on what's going on in the world.
--Just Joan
One of the Obama administration's successes, it seems to me, has been its ability to thwart accountability by playing on just how ambiguous a figure Obama is. While black people champion his skin colour, his affirmative action rise, his idolizing Jay-Z and Oprah, his marriage to Michelle, white people alternatively have had anything but a racist response to him, because of the good looks and, what Lawrence Auster called his “refined qualities … not normally seen in blacks” that are the legacy of his white maternal grandfather. Legitimate questions about every aspect of his background, from his drug use to his family to his connections to the Muslim Brotherhood to his matriculation at Columbia, were there for the asking, but those who did were smeared as racist and xenophobic and marginal by savvy handlers to a willfully distracted electorate. Discerning just how nefarious is Obamacare's intent like everything else is difficult because of Obama himself. Along with being arrogant and pampered, he’s obviously too distracted and incompetent to have devised a means to sabotage the private health care system himself. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t sociopaths around there in the woodpile. He hung up the phone the night of September 11, 2012 and went to bed, because somebody told him to. That we seize on what a resentful, overgrown adolescent he is may be distracting us for realizing incompetence is not the worst failing of his administration.
thank you Joan
the one thing I would most like to see before 2016 is Obama being booed off of the stage somewhere - anywhere.
Interesting take on it.
Here is an observation, based upon martial arts : in the old days the classical American matrial arts were bare nuckle boxing and catch wrestling. Both practized full contact with clear results.
In the post WW2 era we imported many Asian martial arts that were practiced non-contact or with a cooperative opponent (Thai kickboxing and Judo are notable full contact exceptions). These martial arts used many impressive moves, and became very popular.
In the early 1990s, the Gracies brought BJJ (full contact grappling based on Judo) to the US in the UFC. What resulted was that full contact martial arts like BJJ, wrestling, boxing and Thai kickboxing dominated.
Full contact competition keeps martial arts rooted in reality.
Chana @ Lemon Lime Moon 28/10/13
I suppose magic will repair obamacare very soon as well.
hello 30/10/13
Check out this article on occult hipsters: http://mag.newsweek.com/2013/10/25/witches-brooklyn-williamsburg.html
<< Millennials across the country told Newsweek that astrology and tarot are their favorite supernatural tools for combating existential angst. “Astrology has very firm structure,” explains elite astrologer Susan Miller, whose utilitarian horoscopes—she’s more likely to advise on student loans than auras and prefers to call her work “mathematical” instead of magical—attract 6 million unique visitors every month, 73 percent of whom went to college or graduate school. >>
Larry J 30/10/13
Thank you for writing one of the best articles I've read this year. Very insightful and it explains why people like Obama can keep advocating socialist policies despite their long history of failure.
Elby the Beserk 31/10/13
Stumbled here by chance. A very fine article, and re "Please slow down a little, or get a proofreader." - I disagree. I like the style, I was dragged at increasing speed and anger by the rush of words, and flow of thoughts.
I'm a Brit. 62. Our post-war times we all looked West. The Empire was done and the new world power was the USA. Eisenhower & Kennedy seemed like other beings, and the new world of have what you want and eternal progress was lit by a beam from the USA - and by all the American TV shows (Mr. Ed).
We were soaked in American culture. I was aware of rock 'n roll and Elvis just as he appeared. TV shows, films, flooded in from the Brave New World.
The decline of the USA is frightening to watch from over here. It is of course, the decline of the West (Oswald Spengler if you want to chase a theme) in reality, but the USA is going first I fear. And it won't be a pretty sight. Good luck to you all, and God bless.
Anonymous 1/11/13
Outstanding column, something about the slide from the 1950-ish technocracy to the Obamanation's mediocracy, it's President Kardashian's world and tell me again just why the comptent should try to keep it running with this clown in the saddle?
I see too many using a "get what I can for myself -- to hell with the rest" mentality. Especially in government, too many just ride the wave of the moment, since everyone else is doing it, and let's not bother about the future impact. Get while the getting is good. Magical thinking comes in when few recognize there is an end to the "getting." It's a shell game. Or musical chairs?
Of course, exactly correct. The United States planned and built the Panama Canal between 1904 and 1914, something which would be inconceivable today, even if we wished to do it. We can barely build a highway overpass in that time now. We went to the moon in 1969 after only a relative few years of rocket building. It took us longer to build a mediocre sky scraper on the site of the 9/11 bombings. And it is not just engineering. It took us longer to try Major Hassan than to fight and win World War Two. We do not do these things, or things like them any longer, because we are no longer capable of doing them. The West has reached its peak and is in decline. Those who hate the West, who are within the West, have achieved their aim.
TMLutas 3/11/13
You are now on my to read list. This article inspired me to write my own take on this subject here:
http://flit-tm.blogspot.com/2013/11/nivens-law-as-applied-to-government.html
Bill Benzon 3/11/13
You might enjoy this post about my father, who was an engineer. It explains how he came up with a technique for cleaning coal (removing the sulfur from coal intended for iron-making) reduced capital costs for the plant and saved a bucket on maintenance costs.
We can still get stuff done, it just takes a lot longer because of restrictions we placed on ourselves. The Panama Canal is a perfect example. Yes it got built from 1904 - 1914, and it was an incredible feat of engineering and determination. It also killed around 20,000 men to get it done. Most engineering projects now have no deaths and few injuries. The metrics by which success is measured have moved. Going back to the Panama Canal, there is a new, larger, and better parallel canal under construction, and I am willing to bet the number of men killed to construct it will be under 100. Everyone loves to point at the construction of munitions during WWII as something that could not be emulated, but a modern equivalent is the MRAP and UAV programs. For all of the "Can Do" of men in the past, the sum of humanity from that time would be unable to build a smart phone. Great feats of engineering are still happening, the metrics by which they are measured have just changed and they are done in areas the government has yet to full insert itself. I agree Obama and the left is a cargo cult (and I would argue, a death cult), but there is still a lot of decline left in the US.
tbrookside 3/11/13
"The ObamaCare website is the natural spawn of that technocracy who love the idea of using modernity to make things faster and easier, but have no idea what anything costs or how it works."
The ACA customer application had to interface with 55 databases to render a coverage decision.
A sensible person observing that requirement would say, "OK, so we'll build a very simple application form to gather the customer information, and then we'll handle all databases interactions in batches overnight, and return a coverage determination to the customer the next day." You could build such a website for pennies in about a week.
But because the Light Bringer had seen a PowerPoint presentation promising a real-time response, we spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to deliver real-time results for a brand new process that had never been tested in the field. Tried, and failed.
This was hubris. Plain and simple.
Brick Dragon's Dad 3/11/13
In defense of nerds and geeks everywhere, I've got to challenge Brett_McS's assertion:
"I recently heard a definition that seeks to distinguish 'nerd' from 'geek': A geek collects things; a nerd collects ideas. So these sound like nerds."
Yes, geeks collect things. But it's more accurate to say that nerds collect knowledge.
Those who collect ideas are wonks - they have lots of tidbits but no coherent understanding. As the "policy wonks" who know a little about a lot of things and think that makes them experts on interpreting legislation or informing elected officials.
For example, David Brooks and Eugene Robinson are on NPR ever Friday talking politics. They're wonks. To call them nerds is insulting to millions of knowledge lovers everywhere.
Plus, nerds tend to actually DO something with their knowledge of a subject matter. Look at the old pictures of Gates, Woz or Jobs - NERDS! But look at what they've actually accomplished.
We need a Patton for President and get on the track to reality.
Brilliant post. It captures perfectly the ethic of Obamaland, where, for instance, a Ben Rhodes, failed novelist, is the president's national security advisor.
Mark Plus 3/11/13
A lot of this criticism would also apply to transhumanists, who believe that we'll become "immortal" by living long enough to make it to arbitrary dates in this century like the currently popular candidate year 2045. (I leave it as an exercise to the reader to show the logical problem with that idea. Hint: Rear-view mirror.) I've documented how the predecessors to today's transhumanists, back in the 1970's and 1980's, predicted that the breakthrough in radical life extension would have happened already, and guess what? Most of those people have died by now.
One of these early transhumanists, Bob Ettinger, who went into cryopreservation a few years ago, at least avoided setting dates, and he even said something sensible about building the sort of future you want: "If wishing doesn't work, try working."
To tie this in with my own hobby-horse -- I think this ties in with misandry. The irtues of understanding mechanics and physics and implementing changes, including the awkward 'failures' that happen midway -- these are all avoided. The necessary disciplines of R & D are neglected and disparaged. Working with your hands is chuckled at. Great dreams are whittled down by wizened souls, and bound by precautionary principles. Construction, mining, drilling are all considered 'evil.' Whatever men excelled at is now quaint, outmoded, so 'last year.' And now our culture is defined by triteness and small dreams.
jeyi 3/11/13
Wow... Two linked references on Instapundit to the Knish's seminal contributions in just the last week. Already nearly an order of magnitude increase in the number of comments here.
"Our modernity is style rather than substance. It's Obama grinning. It's the right font."
Tangentially, this "change for change's sake modernity/progress" has infected computer operating systems. Both Apple's OS 7 and Windows 8 are changes forced upon both companies by the "modernize it for no reason!" crowd. Changing the font does nothing to improve its performance and actually makes it harder to read. Stylistic decisions to put thin light gray fonts over white backgrounds actually hinders performance, but wows the critics. I've applauded and enthusiastically used every OS improvement in both Mac and PC since 1985. OS 7 and Win8 work, but are a step backward. They are less intuitive, less transparent, need more owners manual and YouTube tutorials.
I now know what "post modern" means: superfluous style changes and regression, not actual progress.
Daniel Greenfield 3/11/13
it's about image, not functionality. Especially for Windows 8, which needs to pretend it's keeping up
I haven't been able to shake the Planet of the Apes w/ the alpha-omega bomb for a very long time - and often site it. I think Daniel Greenfield see things the same. What an insightful article DG!
@ Anonymous:
>I think this ties in with misandry. The irtues of understanding mechanics and physics and implementing changes, including the awkward 'failures' that happen midway -- these are all avoided. The necessary disciplines of R & D are neglected and disparaged. Working with your hands is chuckled at. Great dreams are whittled down by wizened souls, and bound by precautionary principles. Construction, mining, drilling are all considered 'evil.' Whatever men excelled at is now quaint, outmoded, so 'last year.' And now our culture is defined by triteness and small dreams.
The venture capitalist Peter Thiel argues that most areas of engineering face so many restrictions these days because of politicized rent seeking and risk aversions that progress in them has become effectively illegal. By contrast, we've had the freedom to innovate with computing and software all we want, which explains why we have digital gadgets right out the last century's science fiction, but we live in or near crumbling cities. People tend to bad-mouth Ayn Rand a lot these days, but her novels celebrate the intelligence and virtues of the men (and of one female character) who can build real stuff out of matter and make it work to serve human needs. Rand would have agreed with Knish's observation that progress doesn't make things work; making things work causes progress.
"Modernity has to be built. It has to be constructed brick by bit by rivet by cable by people who know what they are doing." And who can generally describe what they're doing with differential equations.
I'd like to hear our "betters" try to define a list of terms like voltage, inertia, and price elasticity. It would make amusing video.
Alan 3/11/13
Wonderful article. Thank you.
Joseph 3/11/13
"These are the people who love Freakonomics, who enjoy all sorts of mental puzzles, who like to see an idea turned on its head," Wait a moment... Aren't the same people opposed to standardized tests? The combination of claims of brains and opposition to any objective method of testing those claims is not the mark of arrogant intellectuals but the mark of bluffers.
On the bright side those of us who can do things and make them work pretty much have a blank check.
Visigoth 3/11/13
Well observed and well said.
Cargo cults get a bad rap, yet their true story has other parallels.
http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4199
Excellent post. Glad Instapundit led me here.
This might be one of the smartest articles I've ever read. I pasted this paragraph "Competence is built on the unhappy understanding that things won't work because you want them to, they won't work if you go through the motions, they will only work if you understand how a thing works and then make it work by building it, by testing it and by expecting failure every step of the way and wrestling with the problem until you get it right." onto my Facebook under favourite quotes.
It so aptly describes the gap between the wishful thinking of poser and talkers and the understanding of tactical execution and bias for action of engineers and doers.
abprosper 3/11/13
I've been struggling for a way to elucidate the general decline in competency I've seen all around me and its replacement with some sort of "right thinking" ideology for some time. Many thanks for the rational and poetic explanation.
A trivial caveat though, some of the changes we've undergone in regards to worker safety and the unwillingness of modern workers to take risks certainly will have negative effects on getting stuff done . Still I can't find fault with people demanding higher levels of workplace safety
That unwillingness to be killed or maimed for someone else's grand project is not a sign of decay in as much as a perfectly sound, rational and all American "Me and Mine" first attitude.
Seerak 3/11/13
I'm amazed that there has not yet been a mention of E.M. Forster's "The Machine Stops", as this essay reminds me intensely of the people in it.
There is so much astute observation here.... and one potential danger.
I have long been aware of that sense of competence, of "can-do" that I see in first-half 20th century culture. That was an era where the default assumption upon the realization of a potential new idea was that one was free to explore it, and to rally others to the goal by persuasion - and to ignore opposition. One did not need the approval of all others, or worse - the need to win their votes (usually by winning the backing of powerful friends) before making a move.
Therein lies the danger: of making the facile conclusion that the reason why we still see individual competence but have lost it on the large scale, is because our culture is "hyper-individualistic" or some similar Left-conservative nonsense. Do not fall for the siren call of New Deal-era big projects as an example of "competent large-scale projects". The irony is that doing so would in itself be an example of magical thinking, of seeking ends with no concern for means.
The key lies in understanding that "collectivism vs. individualism" is not about "working alone" versus "working together". If that were the case, all societies - even Ayn Randian laissez-faire capitalism - would ipso facto be "collectivist", because people work together in them. Apart from rendering the term meaningless, it is plain that "working together" is society itself. Collectivism is not "society", it is a type of society, defined by the moral terms upon which men work together.
Do individuals freely choose their associates, voluntarily? Or are we drafted into collective endeavors whether we like it or not? Individualism versus collectivism is the alternative to *this* question.
Now think about which of those will result in competent, large scale enterprises - and which necessarily breaks them. Under which environment are the competent most likely to engage the engine of competence - their minds? Under which will they keep their heads down, their mouths (and minds) shut, and do the minimum rather than risk the disapproval of their peers? Under which environment will the well-run enterprises outdistance the poorly run ones - and under which one will bad ideas persist because they are the popular catechism, socially immune from challenge by "enemies of the people"? Under which of these alternatives are the tallest oaks free to reach the greatest heights, and the others free to rally around it - and under which are the trees all kept equal by hatchet, axe and saw?
It is the climate of moral individualism, where individuals freely self-select and self-organize, that makes competent large-scale enterprise (i.e. "teams") possible. It is the notion of tribal command and "collective right-of-action" overriding individual choice that breaks that process, that replaces the open competition of different ideas with the arbitrary decision of the tribal chief's "What We say goes".
The Progressive era in America was the beginning of the transition *away* from the culture of individualism; it was the New Deal that radically accelerated the process. Today's loss of competence is the downstream effect. Like someone who inherits a fortune only to piss it away, the New Deal era benefitted from the "can-do" cultural capital left to it by the prior era even as it eroded its ultimate source, and the bill is now coming due.
We have been moving away from individualism back towards tribalism at all levels. It should be unsurprising to discover the concomitant epistemological phenomena, of a steady increase in magical thinking at the expense of principled thought and reason. The trick is to spot and resist that trend everywhere, including in the politics and philosophy we use to evaluate this trend.
"That unwillingness to be killed or maimed for someone else's grand project is not a sign of decay in as much as a perfectly sound, rational and all American "Me and Mine" first attitude."
Precisely why I turned against Obama's Syria foolishness. He's already killed more Americans than Bush in Afghanistan (Obama's "good" war, fought "correctly") on his way to ignominious defeat as we crawl out with our tails between our legs.
Sending our armed forces to die for him and his whims is immoral to the max.
O. Mencken 3/11/13
I am put in mind of James P. Hogan's "Voyage from Yesteryear". in which "competence" was the currency of the the society.
http://tinyurl.com/n22nh8p
So close! Government is not magic...it is a replacement for the Devine.
H.G. Wells Morloch and the Eloi in the "Time Machine"
section9 3/11/13
Thank you for posting this article, Mr. Greenfield. I think it's one of the most timely and insightful articles of 2013.
The difference in the simple ability to get things done between ourselves and the generation that won World War II is both astonishing, and somewhat depressing.
J Van Stry 3/11/13
As a QA Engineer & Manager I run into this constantly. It's called 'Agile'.
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Excellent analysis, Daniel. Thank you.
Lem 4/11/13
Dead on.
Since you know everything, how come you're not running things? It's easy to sit on the sidelines and make judgement calls. I bet you're one of those people who watches poker on TV and claims to beat everyone, but you've never actually put your money on the table to play. Armchair quarterback is your new title.
Don't misunderstand me, I am not defending anyone or anything. Just pointing out that it's easy to be the one passing judgement, but it's hard to be the one making the calls at game time.
roger u 4/11/13
"Individual geniuses can occasionally carry large groups on their shoulders, micromanaging them, terrorizing them and motivating them, the way that tribal chieftains do, but without that singular personality the whole thing collapses."
Hasn't it always been this way? A powerful personality implementing his vision regardless of nay-sayers? Men driven to win. I don't think this has changed, I think you hit the nail on the head when you said,
"It's that sense that X knows what he's doing because he presents it the right way."
The people with magical "visions"* have become the people we, as a society, look to for leadership. Why this is, I don't know. Somehow, they took over the culture somewhere around WWII, maybe while the old type were fighting, I don't know, and now they control access to power.
* I'm not sure where the quotation marks (or, sarcasm marks) should be: magical "visions", "magical visions" or "magical" visions.
And we wonder why this country and the world cannot operate....just read some of this stuff........as long as people remain this close minded and intolerant god save us all.... why would anything work in this environment
roger u wrote: 'The people with magical "visions"* have become the people we, as a society, look to for leadership. Why this is, I don't know. Somehow, they took over the culture somewhere around WWII, maybe while the old type were fighting, I don't know, and now they control access to power.'
My opinion, FWIW, is that this attitude developed during the nuclear confrontation that we call the Cold War. Millions of American voters began to see the importance of presidential elections as ensuring that the right man with the right presentational skills for Soviet consumption got elected. "Does he look tough enough?" asked conservatives. "Does he look crazy?" asked liberals. At the same time the ascendancy of television made the importance of presentational skills a matter of professional pride. All politicians must now be JFK, all reporters must look good on TV.
"All politicians must now be JFK"
I hadn't considered that tv and nuclear weapons came online around that time.
This man was elected Vice President in 1825. No way he'd get elected to anything today looking like that!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_C_Calhoun_by_Mathew_Brady,_1849.png
Mike St James 4/11/13
I've been trying to describe what's going on in this country for a l-o-n-g time, but never managed it to my satisfaction. Thanks for giving our observations hard-hitting and effective expression. THIS article says what I've been trying to say, as I always wanted to say it. Now I can keep my mouth shut and just pass this around instead. This is an awesome work,
DeserveLiberty 5/11/13
One next reasonable consideration is this...
When the magic of the magician, the chant of the shaman, the idols carved of the government god, fail to produce, what might the social environment become? When the barbarians with iPads, who truly believe themselves to be god-like, experience an impotence of their pixy dust, what shall they do?
One possible outcome is that they will blame those who "do not believe," insinuating that the failure is the result of insufficient collective and collectivist "faith" among the herd. This blame may go beyond mere abuse through words, and extend to some forms of persecution of the non-believers.
In fact, we can readily see examples of this already occurring. The metaphor helps us to see it. For instance, consider the mounting assault by establishment "Republicans" upon those in their ranks who are constitutionalists. More broadly, consider the government-imposed disassembly of tried and true common virtues and basic natural human social structures.
This might be the beginning of a much deeper descent.
It's what they're doing now. ObamaCare is failing because the infidel Republicans blasphemously did not believe in it and rooted for it to fail.
It is obvious the time has come to elect our congress-people by lottery. Everybody who is interested in becoming a senator or representative will enter their name in the lottery, and winners will be selected by using a random method. Ergo, no more campaigns, no more payoffs (until AFTER the elections), and no more career politicians. Elections to be held every two years.
Algorithms 11/2/16
Still an excellent article. I guess I didn't know about this site when it was first published :)
CL 15/4/16
Obamacare defective. The bureaucrats really screwed that up.
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Thursday, 23 April
Mr Mackay attends a korero with the Ngatipoura at Tararu Point where there is a large gathering of tribes. The Ngatipoura are owners of most of the auriferous ground not only in the Shortland district, but for miles beyond. It is hoped satisfactory arrangements between the government and Maori for the leasing of much valuable country beyond the township can be achieved.The korero involves lots of speechifying and many professions of loyalty.
In consequence of Mr Mackay being absent all day and Mr Baillie being at Tapu, the Warden's court is postponed. It had been adjourned until yesterday and was again adjourned until today but on the opening of the court this morning is further adjourned until Tuesday. This is causing great loss of time on the part of witnesses and solicitors. Some gentlemen have come up from Auckland in order to be present at the case of Dixon v Graham, which is one of considerable importance.
Superintendent Williamson issues a notice calling for plans for the building of the much needed wharf at Shortland Town. He invites tenders, receivable until noon on Friday 22nd May, for the construction of the wharf. Plans and specifications of the proposed works may be seen at the office of the Inspector of Works, Princes Street, Auckland, on and after Thursday next. Tenders are also invited until Monday 18th May, from persons willing to undertake the formation of a bridle track to connect the town of Shortland and the Tapu Creek. The Superintendent returns to Auckland by the Tauranga.
This evening Mr Mackay leaves for Auckland also, in the cutter Emma, in order to proceed to the Waikato with the Governor.
Butt’s American Theatre will be closed for alterations this evening and tomorrow, and will re-open with fresh attractions on Saturday night.
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Friday, 24 April
A deputation from the the Ngatimaru tribe hold a meeting this morning at Robert Graham’s store, Waiotahi. Chief Aperahama says “I have come to speak on account of my brothers and chiefs concerning three subjects, that we, the natives, have all agreed upon. First, that we have come to the conclusion that all the land between the Karaka Creek and the Waiotahi shall be called 'Grahams Town'. Second that all the streets that are laid out in Grahams Town shall all be newly baptized and not allow any of the names of streets in Shortland Town to pass the Karaka Creek, and we leave it all in your hands to see it is carried out. Third. Now, listen to me Mr Graham – we have all agreed that you will act for us as our father, and all my brother chiefs have consented that if you wish to make a wharf on any part of the beach of Grahams Town, one and all of us gives you full power to do so, and for you to decide on the best site for the construction of a wharf. We don’t wish to have any payment whatever, and you are at liberty to make use of all the stones and any timber. If wanted, you can get it cut from any of the forests situated on the side of the Grahams Town township. And furthermore, that we will not allow any of the stones within the boundary of Grahams Town to be taken for the use of paving the town of Shortland. Now, further, listen. Don’t let any more strange Europeans interfere with the survey or make any alterations whatever with the roads at Grahams Town. We leave all that entirely in your hands, so that we have no more disputes as we have had.”
There is concern that this area is to be given a different name from the already laid out township of Shortland but it is because the land leased by Mr Graham belongs to a different tribe to that of Shortland.
The Thames Crushing Company make an offer to the claimholders in the Moanataiari to construct a tramway along the creek to the machine, the claimholders to give the necessary labour and receive credit for its value when they send stuff to the machine to be crushed, The project is very favourably received.
At Tapu Creek, now called Hastings, rumours are circulating of the fabulous wealth of Quinn and Cashell’s claim. Publican’ and storekeepers are unanimous in their praise of the claim. It is said that gold and quartz are taken out of the drive in barrowsfull and gold is seen in solid lumps. A sample being exhibited shows gold lying between a casing of blue quartz. Like all the other claims in this district, the seam consists of loose blue slate and quartz thickly impregnated with gold. Messrs Quinn and Cashell appear to possess one of the best claims in the Thames district.
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A meeting is held this evening at the Governor Bowen Hotel, Waiotahi, for those interested in the result of the deputations to Superintendent Williamson regarding roads and wharves. Some two to three hundred people gather. Robert Graham presides. The report is read by Charles Mitchell and Mr Brackenbury. It states the Provincial chest contains no funds for the purpose of constructing the streets and as to the wharf at Waiotahi – the Maori will not concede a site. If a wharf was built at Waiotahi , in the event of dutiable goods being landed, a customs officer would have to be appointed and his salary paid. With regard to the roads the Superintendent has said the government has no money, however, if a Highway Board were formed, land scrip could be given to them. The government would spend no money on the roads until the native title was extinguished and the roads dedicated to the government.
The Waiotahi deputation recommends unity of action between the people of Waiotahi and Shortland.
Discussion takes place as to the Maori allegedly refusing the right to a site for a wharf. Robert Graham states that the Maori had spoken to him this morning and had absolutely assigned a site without charge to the inhabitants. As to the formation of a roads board, he did not see how it could be done, but if voluntary contributions were spent on the roads, then legally the Superintendent could still give them the scrip. There could be no jealousy between the two places, they were only two ends to the same town, As to the government assisting Shortland it was natural they should do so, as Shortland was their first child, but afterwards they, at Waiotahi, would have a good claim on them. Robert Graham recommends instant action with regard to the roads and says he himself is prepared to subscribe £30. Mr Plaice suggests that if a certain proportion of men were taken from each claim for a week, this in addition to a subscription, would enable them to finish the roads in a very short time. Mr Mitchell proposes that a subscription list be opened and that those who cannot subscribe might put their names down for a couple of days work towards the formation of a road from Waiotahi to Karaka. Dr Sam inquires whether the road is to be made and then abandoned, or whether a reserve fund would be kept to repair it.
Mr Graham replies that that would be an ulterior consideration, the first object would be to make the road, then if further repairs were required, another meeting could be called. Dr Sam says that in that case, the proper course will be to form a county and so obtain their own revenues for expenditure on their own roads. This suggestion is met with considerable applause.
A passionate Robert Graham says he quite agrees with the idea of the place being constituted a county, similar to Westland, and a memorial signed by the Thames miners would secure such a step. The revenue arising from the export of gold must be expended in the district, however much the Superintendent says there is not the means. If they only had a footpath for the ladies to walk upon, he should like to see it done. If it could not be done any other way, let them set aside a road and tapu it, as the Maori do, so that no cart should go that way. They must have roads and a wharf in order to convey goods as cheaply as possible to their doors. If the government erects a wharf they will be taxed to pay for it, and they have had enough of that already. Goods must be landed at Waiotahi and not sent on to Shortland, in order to add a 5s expense to every ton they required. It had been ordered at Shortland that all goods were to be landed there, but no such order could be maintained. Goods that require duty to be paid could be landed at any part of the coast. He had called upon the Collector of Customs in Auckland and was assured of this. Let the people of Waiotahi and the people of Tapu get wharves of their own, and have their goods brought to their own doors as cheaply as possible. (Cheers)
Mr Plaice says he thinks there is a little jealously on the part of Shortland with regards to the wharf, but certainly not so far as roads are concerned, because they will benefit both parties. He is in favour of making the roads at once and seconds Mr Mitchell's proposal for a subscription list. Dr Sam proposes that the meeting should be suspended until after a public meeting which is to be held at Shortland on Monday.
Tensions simmer as the representatives of the Shortland deputation speak. Mr J Horne says the Shortland people are bringing their own matters to that meeting on Monday. He will not consult with the Waiotahi deputation on the matter now. He also suggests that this meeting adjourn until the plans and estimates are before them. With regard to the roads it appears to him they need not expect anything done for them and if they can do it themselves, they should set about it. Mr Swan says he has learned tonight something that he did not know - that there are two townships forming at the Thames.
Robert Graham replies somewhat defensively that he has taken up the land in the same manner as the miner took up his claim and he has a right to do so. He has not been able to ascertain where the roads were to be, or more would have been done in that respect. Every crossing had been bridged by his orders and he has been waiting until the line of roads is settled by the government before doing more. He will take care however, now that the roads have been dedicated by the Maori, that no alteration is made by Mr Mackay or the Governor. He says this in order that the persons present who have been holding back the improvement of their property might take the hint.
Mr Mitchell moves and Mr Plaice seconds that a deputation be appointed to attend the meeting at Shortland on Monday and confer with them on the subject of roads. Three cheers are given for the chairman and the meeting separates.
The Evening News correspondent notes of the Thames that "an epidemic in the shape of a rash desire for public meetings has broken out amongst us and the number of assemblies has become so large that one’s ideas about them are apt to get confused. A distinguished public character was heard last night to mutter in his sleep “Unless your Honour, we get a wharf, light house and a life boat (with a rocket apparatus) at the Bobbie Burns Claim, and a permanent road across the mud flats, Shortland Town is drowned.” Though we may joke on this subject, however it is none the less a matter for the most serious consideration. The roads are at present simply frightful and the want of proper wharf accommodation is severely felt.”
Ariel for Shortland with 7 cases bottled beer, 3 cases geneva, 21 bags sugar, 1 ½ chests tea, 3 cases brandy, 4 cases whiskey, 1 hhd brandy, 12 kegs rum, 4 cases wine, 1 case champagne, 3 cases Old Tom, 4 sashes, 1 horse, 4,000 shingles, 5 bags flour, 2 cheeses.
Clyde for Tapu Creek with 4 tons luggage and 40 passengers.
DSC 24 April, 1868
Richness beyond doubt.
Saturday, 25 April
The Union Bank of Australasia open their new branch at the corner of Willoughby Street this morning under the management of Mr Grant. The bank has secured the services of a professional analytical chemist in order to separate the metals on the spot.
Mr Shalder’s machine which was started during the week has turned out several tons of stuff. The machinery will be got into more perfect working order after a few days trial. The patent amalgamator has been found to work exceedingly well. The machine consists of four hammers and anvils giving a pressure of 70 lb each, two only of which are at present in use. The Good Hope Claim, Murphy’s Hill (Mr Mells and five others) have been working for four months and have cleared the top off the reef so effectively that they can now work at the drives for the next twelve months. Braithwaite’s claim, Vinegar Hill, promises to be a good thing for the proprietors, who only opened it about three weeks ago. The Ben Lomond have a small Berdan on their claim, but are compelled to resort to more powerful machinery in order to clear the bulk of their stuff. Mr Bull, whose model stamper has gained such high repute on the goldfield, is about to erect a new six stamper machine on his ground, to be driven by water power. His present stamper will continue to work up to within a day or two of the time his new machine is ready. The Hand-in-Hand claim have their machine, consisting of four head of stampers, at work and are expecting a good show of gold. The Fear Naught claim, on the Waiotahi, situated next to the El Dorado and Waterfall claims, have struck a very promising leader. The Young Canadian claim on the Moanataiari is uncovering some rich leaders on what is strongly supposed to be a reef. At the Tweedside claim, Hape Creek, a large boulder which had been washed out of its position during recent rains fell in. The stone was thickly impregnated with gold, but its value has not been estimated. Another boulder found by some miners in the Moanataiari Creek, weighing 30 lb and for which £30 has been offered, has been crushed and the result is a yield of 8 oz of retorted gold.
A small crushing a machine of a somewhat novel construction has been erected on the Karaka Creek, which only requires a small supply of water to put it in full working order. The inventor, Mr R N Smith, intends to provide such machines to those almost inaccessible claims where carriage is an object, so that each may do their own crushing on their own ground.
The Good Hope, Head Centre and other claims in the vicinity of the Auckland Reserve claim have put in opposition to the application of the Auckland Reserve claim for a water race, which they contend would give the claim a monopoly on the water. The application is for three sluice heads, running north and south, eighteen inches in breadth, which will comprise about ½ a mile of water. The Head Centre is now considered the crack claim of the Murphy’s Hill group. They have some 10 tons now ready for the machine. This valuable claim has been taped off by the surveyors during the week and a surplus of 49 feet taken off.
At Tapu arrangements are being made to construct a powerful crushing machine at No 3 Creek, which will be the first on the ground, with the exception of a Berdan. The machinery is being put up by a company under the management of Mr John Gibbons. The timber for the mill has already been put on the ground at Tapu and some two miles of tramway along the creek will be completed. The engine will be a portable one driving 15 head of stampers, each having a Chilean mill attached. It is also intended to erect an iron water wheel and turbine capable of driving a battery of 50 to 60 head of stampers.
The Shortland sharemarket report notes this week has been marked by the arrival of a considerable number of speculators who have been investing with avidly. Shares in well-known claims are more inquired about and claims of less repute bargains are to be had every day. It is now beyond doubt that a certain portion of the Thames goldfield, comprising about 2,000 acres, is of amazing richness, and the fear once entertained of the leaders running out or becoming unproductive is rapidly disappearing. The demand for sleeping shares continues and there are a great variety of shares available.
Just before sunset 12 year old James McDonald stumbles across the body of a man lying in the scrub at the junction of the Hape Creek and the Kauaeranga. About quarter to five Constable Lipsey is informed. The body, lying on its face in the swampy mud, is taken out of the Hape Creek at low water. It is of slight build, with very dark hair and rather above average height. It is thought to be a man who has been missing from the Mount Pleasant claim for the last eight days. A man answering this description had started for his home in Auckland and had been seen on board the Maori Chief by his mates, but as he had not reached home his mates realised he was missing. They did not, however, inform the police. A miner’s right is found on the body in the name of William Peck.
Avon for Shortland with 2 drays, 38 pieces machinery, 10 cases beer, 5 cases Old Tom, 3 cases whiskey, 1 case ginger wine, 1 case bitters, 2 cases port wine, 2 cases gin, 3 cases brandy, 4 cases stout, 4 cases ale, quantity ironmongery, 3 cases boots, 18 bags salt, 2 cases sardines, 2 ½ tons flour, 4 ½ tons chests tea, 6 boxes candles, 2 casks glasses, 6 tins biscuits, 2 cases weighing machines, 30 packages sundries, 1 ton hay, 20 kegs butter, 7 ½ boxes tea, 10 bags sugar, 1 box soap.
Tartar for Shortland with 10,000 ft timber, 10,000 shingles.
Rob Roy for Tapu Creek with 1 engine and boiler, 8,900 ft timber, ½ ton flour, 3 bags potatoes, 1 keg rum, 10 packages sundries.
A boat too heavily loaded with potatoes is upset at the mouth of the Thames. The potatoes are all lost but the men get safe to Kauaeranga.
Heavy rain sets in tonight.
Sunday, 26 April
It is a day of pouring rain.
Hastings (Tapu) is fast assuming the appearance of a nice little township and is wearing quite an air of importance and activity. The nucleus of the crushing machines has arrived and the managers are employing men to cut roads to the spot on which they are to be erected. There is an immense quantity of quartz on the ground ready for crushing. Claims are opening up in all directions and parties are out in different parts of the country prospecting. There has been a great rush of miners and visitors from Shortland and Auckland, so much so that it has been barely possible to find accommodation for them. The only two licensed houses are full to overflowing. Buildings are going up in all directions, from public houses to cottages and fresh streets will soon have to be laid out. Cargoes of timber, most of it for machine purposes, arrive almost daily. Tenders are now out for the formation of the bridle track to Shortland, which, when finished will prove a great boon to travelers.
Barrack Hill, Auckland, 1868
Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 4-8987'
Despite being the Sabbath, a young man who has recently married, is about to leave Auckland for the Thames this evening, with all his worldly goods. Having loaded a spring cart with furniture he drives it up to the Barrack gate, just at the very moment respectable observers of the Sabbath are wending their way to church. He succeeds in getting as far as the front gate of the barracks when he is met by the band of the 18th Regiment leading the column on its way to attend Divine Service. Startled by the music and the sound of the big drum, the horse sheers off the road, capsizing itself and the cart down the Barrack Green. The goods and chattels are distributed about in the grass in the most admirable disorder, and the horse and vehicle perform an interesting series of evolutions. The damage however, is confined to the furniture, several portions of which sustain very ugly compound fractures. The horse and cart are returned to normal position and driven off, while the furniture is carried to its destination with the aid of several little boys.
The Clyde leaves Auckland this evening with a large boiler in tow for Tookey’s Flat.
Monday, 27 April
The rain clears this morning.
Notice is issued that all claims will be protected from tomorrow night until Thursday morning, in consequence of the Auckland Regatta.
Mr A Andrews of the Auckland Post Office is promoted to the position of Postmaster at Shortland Town and will commence his new duties on 1 May.
The inquest on William Peck is held at the new Thames courthouse. William was 48 years old, a married man, a native of Devonshire, England, who had been in New Zealand 13 or 14 years. William was a member of the Wesleyan Church and a man of strictly sober habits. He was well known in Auckland as a highly respectable and steady hardworking man. William had served with credit in the 58th regiment. He was, however, subject to pains in the head and had been known to fall on the footpath in Auckland from imagining obstacles in his way. He had had medical treatment for epilepsy in the past and a year ago had had an attack of paralysis.
William was seen on the 17th by his son-in-law, Edward Cook, when he left Edward’s hut at the Thames to go to Auckland. He was unwell at the time and his mates advised him to go. Later that evening they saw him aboard the Maori Chief, tender to the steamers, but William never reached Auckland. They were alerted to this fact when a letter to William, written by his wife, arrived at the Thames two days later. Inquiries revealed the captain of the Maori Chief recalled helping a man from shore to the steamer. The only solution to the mystery of his disappearance appears to be that during the transhipment from the Maori Chief to the steamer he had taken a fit and had fallen overboard in the dusk unnoticed. Constable Lipsey found one track in the mud, but no return track. The mangroves near where he lay were broken, as if he had made a struggle for his life. He had a lump of mud in his hand. Dr Lethbridge examined the body and could not distinguish any marks of violence. An ear appeared to have been torn off which was most probably the work of a rat. William appeared to have been in the water 8 to 10 days. Dr Lethbridge considered the man had drowned. The jury return the verdict that William Peck was found drowned on the bank of the Hape Creek but how or by what means there is no evidence to show. It is presumed he was seized with a fit.
Colours of the 58th Regiment.
Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, AWNS-19001228-6-4
Dueling deputations
The dueling Shortland and Waiotahi deputations meet in the American Theatre adjoining Captain Butt’s hotel. There is a large attendance of townspeople and miners. Captain John Butt takes the chair. The report, read by Mr Mitchell, says the superintendent is not in a position to grant any assistance from provincial or other funds for the making of roads or streets, or building wharves in the district, but states that, as soon as the Maori owners of the land obtain their certificate of title from the Native Lands court, the roads and landing places can be handed over through the government to a board of trustees, appointed under the Highways Act, who will have the power to levy rates to be expended in making roads and streets and, under the Marine Act to erect wharves, and collect dues. The superintendent also said that he will be prepared to give, under the Compensations Act, Crown land scrip for the value of £1,000 which will be available for the contemplated improvements.
It is moved that a committee be appointed to watch the proceedings of the Native Land court respecting the passing of the certificate of native titles, and take measures to secure to the inhabitants of this township, under the Marine Act, the collection and expenditure of all duties leviable at the wharves of Shortland, and have the power to take any steps considered necessary in the interest of the township, with respect to the proposed concession of a tramway between Shortland and the Kuranui. The committee is also to be empowered to take such steps as will be necessary to form the Hauraki and Thames districts into a county.
Captain Butt, in putting the resolutions before the meeting, says the Superintendent has already advertised for tenders for building a wharf, but unless roads are made, of what value will a wharf be? Quartz is lying on the ground waiting for transit to the crushing machines, and without the aid of roads it is impossible to move it. Albert Beetham rises to express the dissatisfaction he feels at the trivial manner in which the Thames is treated by the government. Beetham is a land agent and share broker who has recently opened the premises of Beetham and Walker at Shortland. He has traveled all over New Zealand during the last 17 years, and more contempt he has never witnessed than is shown by the Superintendent in the refusal of granting assistance for building a paltry wharf. He adds that they are told that Auckland is in difficulties – that officer’s salaries had to paid. No doubt they had to be but certainly not out of the revenue from the Thames. “When we ask for money taken away from us, we are refused. We must show the government that we are entitled to some attention and consideration and it is therefore necessary that the committee should go further than the resolutions made,” he thunders.
The Westland Act is well adapted for the Thames. There is a clause in the act which provides for the construction and maintenance of roads, bridges, wharves and other public works. Beetham and some committee members have compiled an estimate of revenue, which he reads out.
Mr Beetham's estimate of revenues..
Mr Beetham proposes that the committee be empowered to take the steps necessary to form the Hauraki and Thames district into a county. This is carried unanimously. After a vote of thanks to Captain Butt, the meeting separates.
Tuesday, 28 April
The streets at the Thames are in a shocking state, and if the wet weather really sets in the roads will be almost impassable, unless by canoe. In Pollen Street the vast quantity of liquid mud has sent such swarms of fleas indoors that in some of the accommodation establishments it is utterly impossible to indulge in the luxury of sleep, the lively creatures being so assiduous in their attention, especially to visitors.
Great preparations are being made for the erection of new machinery. Holman is erecting a small machine the stamper of which is slotted and filled with iron pins. A Greenshields model, which raises the stampers by means of rollers, is on view at the office of the Thames Advertiser. A party has consequently gone up to Auckland for the purpose of getting a battery made upon that principle – there is more mechanical ingenuity to be seen in it than in all the other machines put together. The only other machine on the ground for dry crushing is one of Hall’s patent ones in the possession of James Horner. Like Shalder’s machine it is quite different from anything else on the ground. It revolves with great rapidity, the arms of the spindle throwing the quartz with violence against the serrated sides of the cylinder. Unfortunately it is not erected; instead it lies idle and rusting in his yard. Bull’s machine is one stamper, driven by water power and so carefully does he attend to it that it is always engaged beforehand for weeks. The stampers of Pratt’s machines are far too light to be of much practical benefit.
Things appear to be going faster ahead at Tookey’s Flat than at Shortland, but in another year’s time it is expected it will all be one town. For broken down swells the Thames is a quite a city of refuge, and at all corners and out-of-the-way places they are to be seen in every conceivable rig-out in fashions new and fashions old, looking for quartz with gold.
There is a discovery of auriferous gold at Tapu by Stanley and party, to the south east of Quinn and Cashell’s claim. The spot in which the pick is first struck is similar in appearance to the famous waterfall over which the Kuranui Creek runs in the Shotover claim. Shortly after the discovery a half share changes hands for £300.00.
Spey for Tapu Creek with stores and 3,000 shingles
Permission to use adhesive stamps.
Wednesday, 29 April
The newly named Thames Goldfields Improvement committee meets at the Shortland Hotel this morning and elects to carry forward with the improvements of the district with respect to roads and wharves, and the separation from the Auckland Province. The secretary is to write to Superintendent Williamson inquiring as to the terms the Provincial Government will hand over the management of the Shortland wharf with power to collect dues, request information as to the state of negotiations regarding the right to lay tramways in the district, write to authorities regarding bringing the new goldfields regulations into practical operations, and write requesting permission to use adhesive stamps in agreements and transfers of property, until a registration officer is appointed to the Thames goldfield, to remove the necessity of sending deeds to Auckland. The returning officer of Franklin district is to receive a memorial signed by 30 electors requesting him to appoint a polling place at Shortland.
James Chartington is sentenced to one week’s imprisonment with hard labour, for stealing a pair of trousers. A constable will have to be held off every day to see that Chartington does his work in filling up some of the dangerous holes on the Karaka.
Chief Taipari shows some splendid stone taken from the claim in the Hape, Karaka. The stuff is so rich as to look more like Tapu Creek stone than Karaka gold. Three European’s and seven Maori have taken up ten men’s ground there.
The town of Coromandel now bears quite a deserted appearance to what it did formerly. The only activity is Mr Goodall who is superintending the dismantling of the Waihau engine, which he has sold to a party on the Thames goldfields.
Rumours surface regarding the opening up of Kennedy’s Bay for gold mining. A large number of Europeans are already working and prospecting in the district. Messrs J McGregor, McLeod, Brimner and Keir organised a prospecting party and have been prospecting all this month. It is said Ropata intends to turn off all Europeans at present working there on sufferance, and will declare to treat with the government with regards to the opening up of that bay if Mr Mackay does not meet with him by this Saturday, 2 May. The gold in that locality is said to be of a very superior quality and it is not improbable that a rush might take place if Kennedy’s Bay should be opened.
Looking south across the Auckland Harbour showing the race of the Maori war canoes during an Auckland Anniversary Regatta, 1860s
Views in the Province of Auckland New Zealand' by F R Stack
The annual regatta is held at Auckland today. It has been always previously held on the 29th January, the anniversary of the foundation of the colony, and the day and season most appropriate for it. But this year the annual celebration was delayed in the full expectation that the Prince of Wales would be in New Zealand to witness it. Instead, after the assassination attempt thwarted his plans, it was decided that the regatta should be held in the presence of the Governor before he leaves for the South. A lingering sense of disappointment hangs over the day however. The wharf is too exposed to be pleasant; nevertheless the outer T is crowded and there are crowds on the high ground along the harbour. The harbour is filled with small craft rushing through the water at a tremendous pace. The harbour is not as animated as on previous occasions, in consequence of the entire absence of foreign vessels. The steamer Tauranga has been selected as the flagship, and is anchored in a suitable position and cheerfully decorated with bunting. Owing to the roughness of the water visitors to her during the day are comparatively small and several of the ladies who venture on board are compelled to leave due to sea sickness. At 10am the gun on board the Tauranga announces the first race of the regatta of 1868 has commenced.
The Thames is represented in the second race of yachts 8 tons and under. There are four entries including the Prince Alfred built at the Thames by Richard White for Mr McGregor. At 10.30am the vessels are off to an excellent start, the yachts running beautifully despite the rough sea. The race is pretty evenly sustained until the North Head is rounded. The Prince Alfred has to retire when it passes the flagship heading westward. The wind is dead against the competitors and there is a strong head sea.
Parliament passed the County of Westland Act in 1867 and the county came into force on 1 January, 1868. Westland County was a local government area and constituted the government for the area that was split from the Canterbury Province. It had the same administrative powers as a Provincial Council.
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Adit: A horizontal passage leading into a mine for the purposes of access or drainage.
Alluvial: Gold deposited by floods, found in river beds or flood plain.
Amalgam: A mix of mercury with another metal. Gold-mercury amalgam is used in the extraction of gold from ore.
Assay: The testing of a metal or ore to determine its ingredients and quality.
Auriferous: Gold bearing
Berdan: An inclined, revolving cast-iron basin containing a heavy iron block.
Bottom/Bottomed: Bedrock.
Colour/the colours: Gold specks visible in a gold diggers pan, or in samples of quartz.
Duffer: No gold to find.
Jump a claim: Take possession of someone else's claim by force or dishonesty.
Lead: Well defined bed of gold bearing gravel or sand.
Long Tom: A device shaped like a long trough used in the alluvial mining of gold.
Mica: Mica is a name given to a group of minerals that are physically and chemically similar. They are all silicate minerals.The word mica is derived from the Latin word mica meaning a crumb, and probably influenced by micare, to glitter.
Payable ground: Ground containing ore (gold) in sufficient quantity to be profitable.
Prospects: An apparent indication of ore/metal.
Quartz Reef: In at least the shallow, oxidized zones of quartz reef deposits, gold occurs in its metallic state, and is easily recovered with simple equipment.
Reef/lode: A mineral vein in rock.
Rush: A rapid movement of people to a newly discovered gold find.
Shaft: A vertical excavation.
Shotty gold: Small granular pieces of gold resembling shot.
Sluice Box: Long sloping trough with grooves on bottom into which water is directed to separate gold from gravel or sand.
Storekeeper's Rush: A gold rush started by a false rumour.
Tucker: Food
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Romney Resets Media Strategy
Posted by Political Quarterback 17pc on July 31, 2012
Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign is promising to become more media-friendly after headlines during the Republican candidate's weeklong foreign trip highlighted an increasingly fractious relationship with the press.
Fewer than 100 days out from the election, the campaign is expected to provide more press briefings and heightened access to the candidate in the coming days, and to make changes to the travel pool that will make it more media friendly.
The changes would represent a major shift for the Romney campaign, which so far has offered only extremely limited access to the presumptive Republican nominee, and usually only to favored outlets like Fox News.
"I realize that there will be some in the Fourth Estate or in whichever estate who are far more interested in finding something to write about that is unrelated to the economy, to geopolitics, to the threat of war, to the reality of conflict in Afghanistan today, to a nuclearization of Iran,” Romney told Fox News. “They'll instead try to find anything else to divert from the fact that these last four years have been tough years for our country.” Republicans sometimes find it useful to run against the media.
“It helps him with the conservative base because the conservative base, much like the far-left, is extremely distrustful of the media,” said Republican strategist Ford O'Connell.
But the comments from the Romney aide promising more access suggest the campaign realizes it needs a better relationship with the reporters covering it in order to win come November.
Read more from Amie Parnes and Justin Sink at The Hill
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Freedom Requires Wings | by Test on Tuesday, January 21, 2014
David Silvester also compared abortion to the holocaust
A few days ago, UKIP councillor David Silvester blamed the recent floods and storms which caused misery for thousands in the UK throughout the Christmas period, on gay marriage being legalized in England and Wales last July.
Almost immediately, the media started another storm (this one to be blamed on Mr. Silvester) as his comments were to be made known around the world within a few hours of him making them and a spoof UKIP Weather Twitter account gained over 100,000 followers in less than two days.
However, David Silvester is not the first to have blamed a minority for something bad happening. Oh no...
In the Middle Ages, around 700 years ago, people blamed the Jews for the black death. Christians believed Jews were associated with the devil and were out to get the Christians, and therefore if anything bad were to happen to them it was "obviously due to the Jews". As soon as the plague hit Europe 1348, killing off a third of Europeans (Jewish included I might add!) the only "logic" explanation Christians could find was "it must have been the Jews". Of course, as we now know, the plague was not due to the Jewish population, but in fact due to rats since medieval Europe was hardly the most hygienic of places.
That's not all! According to "Minor studies of aggression: VI. Correlation of lynchings with economic indices." in the southern United States between 1882 and 1930, in the Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied there may have been a link between poor economic conditions and outbreaks of violence and lynchings against the black population. The link between the price of cotton (the principal product of the area at that time) and the number of lynchings of black men by whites ranged from -0.63 to -0.72, suggesting that a poor economy induced white people to take out their frustrations by attacking an outgroup. Although gays have been blamed for the current credit crisis, proving some people's mentalities haven't moved on a lot since the late 1800s.
Well gays, this is of our doing!
"So what about gays?" I hear you ask. Well, we're responsible for quite a lot actually (links open in new tabs). For a start, Sodom and Gomorrah by God, Northridge Earthquake and Hurricane Bonnie by Pat Robertson (you know, this one), mass bird deaths due to DADT being repealed, and the 2011 tsunami in Japan by Cindy Jacobs (I love that woman). Of course we've been blamed for 9/11 by Jerry Falwell, the Eastern US Earthquake in 2011 by (what goes around comes around) a Jewish Rabbi. However that's not all, because gays have also been held responsible by various individuals for Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and floods, fires, and earthquakes everywhere in 2012. Naughty gays!
So it seems Jews are responsible for illness, blacks are responsible for the credit crunch as well as gays, who are also responsible for terrorism, God's wrath, climate change, destroying "family values" and earthquakes. Whoah! Something's not right. Hang on! What are white, Christian, heterosexuals responsible for? I'll let you decide for yourself.
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Inclusivity is the new normal.
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New Collaboration Brings Diversity and Inclusivity to Gaming Conference
Bringing together diverse people and viewpoints is the big-picture concept behind a new team up between GaymerX and XPO Game Festival this year in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
GaymerX’s founder, Matt Conn, says, “GaymerX’s mission includes exposing people to rarely discussed social concepts and issues in games while creating a fun, inviting space. Our collaboration with XPO Game Festival will let us share this message with parts of the country that might not regularly have the chance to openly debate these issues.”
It seems surprising that a festival that takes place in America’s heartland would choose to connect with a diverse audience as represented by the GaymerX group, but Matt Stockman, Events Manager at VisitTulsa, is excited to include new voices.
“Like GaymerX, everyone has a place at XPO — regardless of gender, ethnicity, or orientation,” Stockman said in a statement. “Closely following the trend for more inclusiveness, XPO will feature transgender restrooms and open discussions on any and all topics related to the game industry and gaming culture.”
To learn more about these two organizations and their respective events, head to:
GaymerX: http://gaymerx.com
XPO: http://xpotulsa.com
Tickets for both XPO and GaymerX are discounted this week, Sept 12 through the 16, by 15%, so head on over and grab your spot for both GaymerX and XPO now.
So, whether you’re in Santa Clara, CA, or Tulsa OK, you can get yourself to an inclusive gaming conference that respects all gamers. All means all.
Tagged: events, game conference, GaymerX, Santa Clara, tickets, Tulsa, XPO
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An Open Letter to Vladimir Putin
Dear Vlad,
I didn't know whether to address you as Prime Minister, President or Your Oil and Gas Baroniness, but out of respect I stopped short of dude. I know you're a busy guy what with the judo dvd and stashing that alleged fortune (will those journalists never stop their investigating?), so I thought I'd send you a quick heads-up on tourism in Mother Russia.
Firstly, what's up with that visa? You have to get someone to invite you into the country (who you pay a fee to), then you have to go to the embassy (who unsurprisingly take a fee) and then when you get to Russia you have to register the visa at every hotel (who also take a... wait for it... fee!). If I didn't know any better I'd swear you were trying to talk people out of visiting the Land of the Bear. And then there's all those uniformed characters (basically anyone who can match their pants to their shirt will try to be an authority in Russia) checking papers to see if they can fine tourists if they don't have all the papers registered and triple stamped. It's hardly welcoming with open arms.
Okay so let's say your visa checks out, then there's those 'tourist prices'. Nobody minds pay a few more kopecks for a few attractions but when you get into most museums there won't be any English (or French or Japanese, or... oh no wait there might be some German) signs so most tourists will feel like they've blown their cash to be confused. And how about that 'photography pass'? It can't be to protect the art works or historical artefacts, because otherwise there would be no photography at all. Plus museums seem to be staffed exclusively by cranky ex-Soviets with merit badges in yelling at photographers regardless of passes.
The weird thing is we still had fun in Russia and felt it could have a thriving tourism industry. Now I know you're going to tell me to take it to Medvedev, that he's running the show now and you're just the Prime Minister. But he's pretty busy looking out for Gazprom (the company he used to chair) and talking to the kids through his videoblogging. Tourism in Russia needs a take-charge, throw-people-on-the-ground, former KGB agent kinda guy to whip it into shape. Whaddya say, dude?
PS. Alternatively you could run a competition like Queensland's Best Job in the World. I mean people are still telling me to enter and the winner was annouced a week ago. You could set yours in Siberia and even if it didn't bring any publicity, it could put a lot of journalists on ice.
[Image courtesy of www.kremlin.ru.]
Oxana 10 August 2009 at 20:52:00 GMT+10
Hey! Enjoyed reading all the stuff about Russia. I am now writing a dissertation on promoting Moscow as a tourist destination. Do you mind if I ask you several questions about your experience via email/skype/phone? Would be very helpful!
hackpacker 11 August 2009 at 09:12:00 GMT+10
Sure happy to trade emails. How can I contact you? I will moderate your reply so your email won't be public.
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Courtney Hadwin brings down the house on AGT
13-year-old Courtney Hadwin wowed the crowd and judges during her performance on America’s Got Talent. After admitting she was “a little bit nervous” as she answered Mel B’s questions, Hadwin began belting Otis Redding’s “Hard to Handle,” dominating the stage as she fearlessly played to the judges and packed crowd. Howie Mandel compared her to Janis Joplin. “You are not from this era. You’re from a whole different era. And I’m a huge Janis Joplin fan and there’s a story — if you’ve ever watched the documentary — Clive Davis, he goes to the Monterey Pop Festival and he sees this young girl that nobody’s ever seen before, that nobody knows. It was the first time that Janis Joplin got signed and that changed her life.
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This Week in Impeachment: Will Impeachment Affect the Democratic Presidential Race?
When the impeachment of Donald Trump became a likely event in September, it became fashionable to speculate how Trump's re-election fortunes might be affected: would the process hurt Trump by generating damaging disclosures and negative publicity, or would he benefit from a popular backlash and highly-mobilized Republican base? I suggested at the time that impeachment wasn't likely to matter much in the 2020 general election, and the evidence so far is consistent with that expectation. Trump's job approval rating has barely moved since the beginning of the impeachment push—or, really, since the end of the government shutdown last winter.
A more unsettled question is whether impeachment has had, or will have, any effect on the Democratic primary race. Since all serious Democratic contenders agree that Trump's impeachment is merited, any effect would need to be more indirect—but there are three plausible ways it could occur. First, the connection of Joe Biden and his son Hunter to the Ukraine affair could be expected to influence Democratic voters' perceptions of Biden: either positively (as Democrats might rally around Biden in partisan solidarity or view him as Trump's personally most-feared opponent) or negatively (if they became troubled by Hunter Biden's role in the story and began to worry that it would dent his father's electability). Second, the attention that the news media and American public would inevitably divert to impeachment could deprive Democratic candidates of valuable popular visibility during the key months preceding the first nomination events in Iowa and New Hampshire. Third, the fact that so many of the Democratic candidates in 2020 are members of the Senate means that they will be forced to choose between attending the trial early next year (assuming that articles of impeachment are indeed approved by the House, as seems certain) and joining their rivals on the campaign trail.
On the first question, it's not yet clear whether Biden's popularity has changed much since the Ukraine story broke. The Economist's polling analysis indicates that Biden's share of support in national polls has remained steady since the end of the summer, although his lead has fluctuated due to the rise and subsequent decline of Elizabeth Warren. But in Iowa, Biden does seem to be losing some strength: first Warren and more recently Pete Buttigieg have pulled ahead of him in the RealClearPolitics polling average since the end of September. Of course, it's possible—even probable—that this decline has little to do with impeachment. But, at the least, there is no sign of a pro-Biden rally phenomenon among Democratic voters.
The second question is harder to answer, since it requires considering a counterfactual timeline where impeachment does not occur. In that scenario, it's likely that the Democratic contest would be a more prominent national story, which might in turn have made it a bit easier for candidates who aren't already well-known to have gained some upward momentum. The surprising withdrawal of Kamala Harris earlier this week underlines the unusual lack of volatility in the race so far—and, in particular, the inability of anyone in the large field of contenders other than Biden, Warren, Buttigieg, and Bernie Sanders to consistently attract significant support from Democratic voters.
Normally, a contested presidential nomination is the top political story in the fall before an election year. But we are not in normal times. It's a safe bet that Trump would have continued to dominate news coverage of politics, as he has ever since he began his campaign in the summer of 2015, whether or not he was facing an impeachment inquiry. Any candidate needing a late surge—Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar, Julian Castro—will find it hard to attract the necessary media hype as Congress moves toward a well-publicized impeachment vote and probable trial over the remaining weeks before Iowa and New Hampshire. But there's also no particular reason to believe that such a surge would have happened absent impeachment, given Trump's continued public ubiquity and how little success these candidates have found so far.
The final question pertains to events that have yet to occur. Mitch McConnell and the Republican Senate leadership will assuredly not schedule a potential impeachment trial in order to maximize the convenience of the multiple Democratic senators who remain active presidential candidates. But it's hard to see how much mischief McConnell could cause—will these senators indeed feel compelled to attend every impeachment session in person?—and there isn't much political logic to Republicans' intentionally trying to disadvantage Warren and Sanders, whom conventional wisdom suggests the GOP would rather face in 2020 than Biden or Buttigieg. Sitting senators will also have the unique opportunity to make stem-winding floor speeches on behalf of conviction that will undoubtedly receive extensive publicity and attract considerable attention from Democratic voters.
All in all, it's not especially likely that impeachment will be a decisive factor in the Democratic presidential race. Nomination politics can be full of complications and unpredictability, so conclusions must be made cautiously and provisionally. But observers looking for the political consequences of impeachment should probably start their search elsewhere.
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Bill Cosby back in the news for a second week. The sex connection between Vice President Joe Biden and actress and producer Mariska Hargitay. Why Jeff loves Emily Ratajkowski and despises Piers Morgan.
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Actor Steve Baldwin says something crazy at the Republican national Convention. Contrasting civil rights with gay rights. Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty fame gives people another reason to vote for Hillary Clinton.
Some good news about the Methodist Church, the Canadian Anglican Church, and the treatment of Steven Anderson in South Africa. Religion takes a center seat as part of the official Republican party Platform, with the most religiously inspired anti-gay anti-women, anti-sex platform ever.
Jeff revisits a 2013 study on oral sex and continues his discussion from last week of the problems with evolutionary psychology.
Roger Ailes of Fox News has been fired for sexual harassment, and hugely rewarded at the same time. Bill Cosby is back in the news. North Carolina loses big in their battle with the NBA. Women get naked at the Republican Nation Convention to protest.
Jeff talks about the profoundly depressing Republican National Convention and the rise of misogyny.
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A sex crazy comment from Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin about the Republican Platform. Jeff looks into Trump pick for Vice President, Mike Pence. He lays out in detail how Pence is one of the most radical anti-sex anti-gay sex crazy candidates ever to run for this position. Take an extreme anti-gay, anti-choice, anti-women stance, push it further to the right, and you’ll find Mike Pence already there.
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Thank you New York Music Daily for the great review of my show at the 11th Street Bar last week! You can read the review here.
The BigTakeover
Thanks to The Big Takeover for premiering the video for my song Edge of Something and for the great write-up which you can read here.
“Another triumph for one of the most unselfconsciously brilliant tunesmiths to emerge from this city in recent years and a strong contender for best rock record of 2018.” Read the full review here.
Aquarian Weekly
“A force to be reckoned with.” Read the full review here.
“Kilguss’ fifth album is her best so far. The Fastness is like a favourite shirt, a perfect fit that is been around for years in your wardrobe and an item that you will wear for many years to come.” Read full review here.
“The Fastness is artfully beautiful, full of radiant harmonics, stylish rhythms, and Jessie Kilguss’ enchantress-like tones. Imaginative and numinous…”Read full review here
BabySue
“Jessie has a wonderfully resonant voice that transcends speakers and earphones. She’s one of those vocalists who doesn’t merely sing. When you hear her voice, you get the feeling that she’s speaking to you directly.” Read more here.
Celeb Mix
Song premiere and great review on Celebmix. “Without a doubt, Kilguss has it going on. “The Master” is splendidly evocative.” You can read the whole review and listen to the song here.
Goldmine Magazine
“The Fastness, is flush with moody yet mesmerizing melodies, a sensory display of emotion and intrigue conveyed through each of its ten beguiling tunes. The stated theme of the album is the direct connection between travel and transition, manifest not only in our temporal world, but through life itself as it traverses in its entirety, connecting culture and consciousness to death and rebirth. Those are heady concepts to be sure, but it’s a credit to Kilguss’ prowess that she’s not merely content to simply create some pleasing aural imagery. Rather, she uses her songs to probe possibilities that lie just below the surface, allowing them to resonate in ways that allow for greater interest and intrigue…” Read the whole review by Lee Zimmerman here.
Lit Hub
Susan Hwang (Bushwick Book Club Founder) and I were interviewed by Matt Grant for his article in Lit Hub about One Book, One New York.
I love New York Music Daily! Here’s a great review of our show at the American Folk Art Museum. “…With her clever wordplay and understatedly anthemic sensibility, Kilguss’ closest comparisons are Elvis Costello and Leonard Cohen, the latter being her biggest influence…That voice is a magical instrument, with a reflecting-pool clarity and a soaring range matched by minutely nuanced attention to subtle details…” Read full review here
“…this is a finely-wrought, deep, dark valentine of a record, that with luck, will lure listeners who still believe in the well-crafted song…” (read more here)
Featured in a piece on country music coming from Brooklyn, alongside amazingly talented fellow Brooklynites, Terry Radigan and the Lone Bellow.
” Longing is a major theme on Carroll Gardens Americana songwriter Jessie Kilguss’s arresting new record “Devastate Me” — notably her longing for the big starry skies above the farm she grew up on in Massachusetts. ” ( read more here)
WNYC Radio
Featured as the Gig Alert on Soundcheck on WNYC! Check it out here.
Great review of our show at Hank’s Saloon in July. Read here.
“Kilguss is as brilliant a singer as she is a tunesmith. Her speaking voice alone has more liveliness and color in it than most people can evoke singing at full throttle – there’s a rippling undercurrent of unselfconscious joy, as if she’s got an irresistibly funny secret to share.” (Read full review here)
“…This is a record to draw solace from, to be comforted by, you listen to it and realise that others suffer the irks of modern life – just that Kilguss can articulate and exorcise them so much better than the rest of us…” (read the entire review here)
Happy to be included in New York Music Daily’s best concerts of 2014 list, their 50 Best Songs of 2014 list and their 50 best albums of 2014 list.
“The best New York rock show of 2014 was a couple of weeks ago at Bowery Electric – there’s no way there’s going to be anything this good coming up in the next few weeks, end of story… Kilguss has one of those voices you hear maybe once every ten years: it’s that affecting, and sad, and unselfconsciously deep…Her new album is titled Devastate Me, but ultimately it’s the listener who’s devastated – in a good way. “(read more)
” What’s the likelihood that two of the best albums of 2014 would be released within an hour of each other on the same night at the same venue? Unlikely as that might seem, it’s happening this Nov 11 at Bowery Electric when dark Americana songwriter Jessie Kilguss kicks off the night at 8 PM with the album release show for her latest one, Devastate Me…And her crowd has the good luck to be able to stick around and see Ward White …” (read more here)
The Aquarian
“…A former actress, Kilguss has redirected her passion into a fluid and poised record. Her flawless lyrical and melodic aesthetic relays uncompromising emotion in a light and flowing style.” (read more here)
Guitar World/Acoustic Nation
“Today we’re premiering “Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight,” by Jessie Kilguss. This track from her upcoming album Devastate Me is a sweet spoken reminiscence of a more simple childhood. Kilguss artfully pulls us into her wistful nostalgia with a bit of twang and a strummy, well arranged instrumental accompaniment. (read more here)”
“…Kilguss is one of those rare singers that can deliver a song with heartfelt intimacy, pulling the listener in, with great lines like “If you want a happy ending, it depends on where you stop your story” in Red Moon. “ (read more here)
“…Kilguss and her four-piece band adjusted effortlessly to the spacious sonics there (American Folk Art Museum) and brought down the lights, raising the menacing intensity that runs beneath the surface of her songs.” (read more here)
Penseyeview.com
You know what they say about great talent? It attracts a lot of other great talent! Former actress Jessie Kilguss is pulling in all kinds of fantastic artists around her, and not just from her time at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and the prestigious Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She’s released three records…more…
Music Crush Girl
@jessiekilguss has a cool Aimee Mann sound, crooning personal and lyrical songs about things familiar – love, absolution, hatchets, riverboat gamblers and skinny dipping. Soft and light, folky and honkey tonk all are represented. More…
NY Social Status
“If I didn’t have to earn money, all I would be doing is music. It’s the thing I love the most, the thing that makes me feel most inspired and alive.”
Jessie Kilguss describes her passion for music in relatively few words considering her feelings on the subject. Previous actress turned musician, Kilguss seems to have finally stumbled into the realm of creativity she loves the most. Her self-proclaimed musical style; narrative, story-driven alt country-rock; combines her illustrative writing style with her strong, soulful voice to create a sound reminiscent of older, more classic female artists. More…
Wildy’s World
Jessie Kilguss didn’t plan on being a singer/songwriter. The classically trained actress was one of the afflicted girls in the screen adaptation of The Crucible starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder, an her training at NYU’s Tisch School of Fine Arts and Webber Doublas Academy of Dramatic Art in London had Kilguss well on her way to a successful acting career. In fact, it was an opportunity to share the stage with Marianne Faithful that opened her eyes to a new world; a world in which Kilguss could be in creative control. Switching gears, she began writing her own songs. After two albums and a lot of gigs, Kilguss took her band Radio Gold to Ireland to record her third effort, The Sky Road. Talk about transformations – in a few short year Kilguss has gone from a fledgling singer/songwriter to a highly capable artist who create moments of musical magic. More…
Brooklyn singer Jessie Kilguss teamed up with Radio Gold, a rock trio that gives the songs on her new album The Sky Road a power boost. Lucinda Williams is one her musical heroes an it shows in tracks like 1O Stories High, Riverboat Gamblers and Tennessee, country rock songs that are a far cry from the mellow material on her 2009 album Nocturnal Drifter. More…
CMJ Review
If you are uncomfortable with the concept of counseling, Jessie Kilguss may just be able to change your mind. Nocturnal Drifter is an intense, heartfelt LP with each song carefully-crafted amid echoing, strong harmonies that outline a journey of self-discovery. More…
Wildy’s World Review
Jessie Kilguss is a late bloomer as a singer/songwriter, but has spent her whole life trying to find her way there. She began as an actress, classically trained at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Kilguss has done her turns on the stage, but after sharing the stage with Marianne Faithfull Kilguss became hooked on the idea that she might control her own development/writing/performance. The outgrowth of that revelation was Kilguss’ 2007 debut album, Exotic Bird. Artists grow and develop, and in less than two years Kilguss has grown immensely. Her next release, Nocturnal Drifter is due January 6, 2009, is leaps and bounds ahead of Exotic Bird, itself a Wildy’s World Certified Desert Island Disc.More…
Exclaim.ca
Jessie Kilguss’s smoky voice on the theatrically styled opening track of her latest album immediately betrays her background in the performing arts. Trained as an actress, Brooklyn’s Kilguss worked on stage with Marianne Faithfull and came away transformed and inspired. Her debut disc, 2007’s Exotic Bird, was the result, and on her second disc, Nocturnal Drifter, she sinks deeper into the steaming bath of her newly embraced art form. More…
VenusZine
Jessie Kilguss began straying from a career in theater when she toured in the ensemble of The Black Rider, a musical written by William S. Burroughs and scored by Tom Waits. While Kilguss was part of its production in 2005, Marianne Faithfull was also featured in the cast. “It was a dream project to be included on,” Kilguss says, having long been a fan of all three. The troupe also included singer-songwriter Mary Margaret O’Hara and many orchestra members who had played with Waits. The influence of so many artists from outside the theater made an impression on the classically trained actress. In particular, Kilguss remembers the way O’Hara would alter the melodies of her songs every night. “I was way more interested in the music aspect than the acting. My interest in acting was starting to fade anyway,” she says. The path onto which the actress strayed now finds her self-releasing her second album, Nocturnal Drifter. More…
Power of Pop
“I consider all of the arts to be interconnected and think there is fluidity in the boundaries between them. Many of my favourite singers started out in some other artistic discipline; Joni Mitchell with painting, Leonard Cohen as a scholar/poet, David Bowie as an actor…” – Jessie Kilguss More…
Great Review by Muruch.
Exotic Bird is an apt title for singer-songwriter Jessie Kilguss. Her subtly saucy voice softly spiels lyrics full of poetically brooding imagery amidst outlandishly diverse arrangements. Kilguss is a former actress who appeared in the film adaption of The Crucible with Daniel Day Lewis and shared the stage with Mary Margaret O’Hara and Marianne Faithfull. More…
Check out this review in the Feminist Review
Reading Jessie Kilguss’ bio while listening to her debut album Exotic Bird, I find myself marveling at how one’s life oftentimes depends on the door opened, the party attended, or the call made. Life happens, if we take the chance, if we seize the opportunity – or not. More…
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Jonathan DeCamps
George Floyd Ft. Lauderdale Protest
George Floyd Miami Protests
Dear #BlackLivesMatter
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A sea of pink
Dominican Republic: March Against Impunity
The parade against La Promesa
Keep Families Together
BLACK WOMEN MARCH
Rally In Tally
BREAKING OUR CHAINS
THERE IS A DREAM
GHOST IN AMERICA
What is P.R.O.M.E.S.A?
Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act.
Is a federal legislation that establishes a Fiscal Control Board with the purpose of guaranteeing
the payment of the debt and returning Puerto Rico's access to capital.
- The government has operated for more than two decades borrowing on previous debts which payments have constitutional guarantee.
- Puerto Rico's political relationship with the United States has led Puerto Rico to implement exemption and incentive policies, making the island a tax haven for large US companies.
- Due to exemptions, lack of transparency in government and unequal treatment of the United States with 3.5 million US citizens living in Puerto Rico, the island has an alleged debt of more than $73 billion.
The Fiscal Control Board is established, paid by the people of Puerto Rico with absolute immunity and broad powers to act above the government whose members, appointed by the US President and Congress are receptive to gifts and donations.
The Board currently recommends measures of budget cuts and elimination of rights related to health, education, labort rights, higher taxes and reduction of working hours in order to have liquidity and pay the bondholders.
The Governor of Puerto Rico must deliver a Fiscal Plan that meets the demands of PROMESA.
The Board has the power to revoke public policy and legislation of the Government of Puerto Rico if it understands that it is detrimental to its objective of guaranteeing the payment of the debt.
Without auditing the debt, the Board is the one who will ultimately negotiate the payment of the debt.
What does the Fiscal Board propose?
LABOR RIGHTS:
- No salary increase until 2021. (There has been no increase for more than 3 years)
- Reduction of sick days and vacations.
- Elimination of the Christmas bonus.
- Reduce by 30% the payroll of government employees.
- Immediatly reduce 4 days of work per month to government employees.
- Elimination of benefits and coverage of Medicaid. Increase co-payments.
- Shutdown and sale of health centers and services.
- Increase criteria and requirements to access the government health system (Medicaid)
- Reduction of 2 days of work per month to employees health providers.
- Shutdown of more than 150 schools.
- Reduction of 2 work days per month to teachers.
- Cut of $450 million to the University of Puerto Rico, increased enrollment, dismissal of professors and administrative staff, elimination of career offerings.
Proposed Solutions
- Debt Audit: A comprehensive and forensic audit of the debt to determine the legal, moral and ethical debt. (A multisectoral commission was created that has determined that more than half of the debt is illegal. Currently the governor ahs the commission inoperative).
- Debt restructuring: After auditing the debt, the country should negotiate the debt directly outside the judicial forum on equal terms with the bondholders. The government must have as its main dury to guarantee the rights and ensure the welfare of citizens.
- Progressive Tax Reform: Establish a rate of contribution on income that increases as income increases, while attacking the problem of tax evasion.
- Economic Development Plan: A decolonization process for the island is neceassary in order to establish free trade with other nations, customs control, the repeal of the coastal trade laws, and PROMESA that together limit and confiscate our resources.
- Protectionist legislation that allows the development of local industries and reduces capital flight
from the mgastores.
- Development of a sustainable agricultural industry, eliminating the unfair competition.
- Export of goods and services and recruitment of local talent where 30,000 university
degrees are awarded annually.
- Puerto Rico's geographical location, road and port infrastructure allows the island to become
a distribution center of merchandise and passanger traffic between the Caribbean, Americas and
Europe and with priviledged natural resources is an asset for the development of tourism.
Source: "A quick guide to understand Puerto Rico's Economic Crisis" by Jeannete Garcia "Somos Puerto Rico, Pal carajo La Junta"
Oscar López Rivera, is a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War. When he returned from Vietnam, he became a highly respected community organizer in Chicago, where he passionately fought for the rights of Latino and Black Chicagoans. He also helped to create several community organizations in the Puerto Rican community, which to this day, continue to provide a multitude of services for those in need.
Oscar believes in the indepence of Puerto Rico and was commited to this cause when he was sentenced in 1981 to 55 years in prison for "seditious conspiracy" - the same charge used to imprison Nelson Mandela.
He served 35 years in prison before being pardones by President Obama, longer than anyone has ever served for this charge. He fought for a political ideal but he never commited a violent act.
After the Puerto Rican parade board decided to honor Oscar Lopez Rivera in their 60th edition, major corporate sponsors and Hispanic police organizations pulled out. So did big-name officials like Gov. Cuomo, Police commissioner O'Neil and Sen. Schumer.
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António Zambujo is a singer of brilliant subtlety and elegance. Considered an innovative pioneer as well as an heir to traditional fado, his popularity as a singer and guitarist in Portugal and abroad comes from a restless curiosity of musical influences from fado to bossa nova and jazz to French chanson. Born in the Alentejo region of Portugal, he grew up listening to the cante alentejano—choirs of men and women who sing of the land on which they work, local saints, and lost love. In 2002, he was deemed the “Best New Fado Voice” by Radio Nova FM and the "Best Male Fado Singer" by the Amália Rodrigues Foundation in 2006. His eighth CD, Até Pensei que Fosse Minha (Until I Thought It Was Mine) is a tribute to the songs of Brazil’s Chico Buarque, one of the great singer-songwriters in the Portuguese language.
“Zambujo’s velvety voice sparkles across his sensual music with incomparable charm and elegance.” —Songlines
The Fado Festival NY is a celebration of the iconic Portuguese musical tradition that has ancient roots, but is ever moving forward. The festival delights from the traditional to contemporary, always in surprising ways.
FFNY is produced by Isabel Soffer/LiveSounds.org and is supported in part by the Consulates General of Portugal in New York and Newark and TAP Portugal.
Presented in collaboration with the Fado Festival NY
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OPENING CEREMONY SPEECH OF THE 3RD GENERAL POLICE EQUIPMENT EXHIBITION AND CONFERENCE (GPEC) ASIA 2013
Your Excellencies,
Distinguished guests,
Members of the Media
Assalamualaikum Warrahmatullahi Wabarakatuh and a very good morning i bid to all. ItÔÇÖs an honour to be here. First and foremost, allow me to congratulate the organizers of the 3rd General Police Equipment Exhibition and Conference (GPEC 2013) for hosting another successful international event. ┬áOn behalf of the Malaysian Government and the Ministry of Home Affairs, I would like to thank all of you for attending this premier event.┬á I would also like to take this opportunity to welcome the official delegates, senior government officials, business leaders, and members of the security and enforcement services who are present at todayÔÇÖs ceremony.
Current Challenges to Homeland Security- Terrorism, Human Trafficking
Globalization and a borderless world brings with it gigantic transnational capital flows and mass human migration where we suddenly find ourselves caught up in an unfamiliar world. The fast paced world, calls for quick solutions ÔÇô but when the battle lines are blurred and human agency is greatly involved, how are we to react? In this age, security enforcement has become an ever more complex business.
In facing terrorism and cyber attacks for example, the world is confronted by an enemy which has no heart for care and love, no ears for diplomacy and negotiations, absence of eyes for peace and tranquility.┬á In the name of faith and idealism, these men and women, are driven by exclusive certainties, blind pensions, reductive perceptions, hasty conclusions, black and white prejudices and unthinking conclusions.┬á If we are to combat terrorism, we must never allow ourselves to think and behave in these terms. The cardinal rule of confronting terrorism is to banish fear.┬á However, we canÔÇÖt see an enemy, as it lives in the hearts of vile men. Terrorism has no place in a civilized global society. We had our share of insurgencies lately and we managed to overcome these challenges swiftly.
The dynamics of crime are ever changing and new dilemmas often surface. In facing human trafficking for example, women and children arenÔÇÖt spared by these criminals. Criminals who are only driven by greed and who see fellow human being as mere items for sale. It is the modern slave trade! But today the challenges are more complex when they are not seen as slaves but as tourist and foreign workers like laborers, students, refugees travelling on cheap accessible transportation across borders.
Globalization has also benefittedÔÇÿtraditional crimes, such as drug-trafficking and using drug mules to commit drug offences.┬á The free movement of goods and services in the borderless world, provides opportunities for these rigorous criminals to advance their trade.┬á Free movement of people on the other hand, have madeÔÇÿmoney laundering, a relatively easy crime to gain millions at the expense of the real economy. Yes, globalization has enriched billions of consumers and producers worldwide, business leaders, bankers, but it also has easily enriched these criminals who exploit the opportunities of trade to expand vast profit.
Internet advancement can also be seen as a threat to todayÔÇÖs global security. Government accounts have been hacked, vital information are stolen, identities robbed as millions become exposed to identity theft. ┬áCredit card details have been falsified to rob online sellers. Open attacks and allegations made on cyberspace to discredit the pillars of a democratic society and a sovereign nation. Institutions such as the police, military, monarchy, parliament and judiciary, have become subjects of attacks by individuals with ulterior motives to create anarchy and chaos. Lies have been spread to destroy the credibility of these components of democratic and sovereign states. Indeed apart from the physical battleground, these criminals have taken the cyber-space too.
Yes, Ladies and Gentleman, the business of security has today become so complex. But unlike other businesses, our industry is a zero sum game. There is never a win-win scenario. If we lose, innocent people die.  Hence we can never ever afford to lose.  That is why I see, events like GPEC, becoming ever so important in providing part of the solutions to counter these new security threats.  Technology as I have said earlier, has a role to play in confronting these new challenges, and together with the international community working in tandem, we can make the world a safer place.
GPEC ASIA 2013
GPEC, a biennial event has become an internationally awaited event by both the industry players and security services worldwide over the past decade.  Since 2009, this event has both grown in size and stature, with more than 500 exhibitors representing 25 countries and more than 8000 people from 50 countries visiting every edition. Each edition brings the market leading line of policing and security products which are user-friendly, technologically advanced and cost efficient.  GPEC is not just a marketplace for the latest security products and services, but it has become a platform for greater international co-operation and exchange of ideas between security agencies in strengthening our homeland defenses.
As most of you are aware, Malaysia hosted the inaugural GPEC Asia in 2009.  The Federal Territory of Putrajaya welcomed thousands of top officials from the policing, enforcement and homeland security community, along with top industry players and academicians across the region to this maiden event.  Concurrent with the exhibition, a conference which congregates the best of minds in the security industry will be held tomorrow to diagnose the security problems affecting Asia and the global community.
The buyers are anxious to see the best of items the security industry can provide, while sellers are equally anxious to meet the expectations of their well-informed buyers.  The market interactions shall hopefully induce greater spending commitments which are to benefit those demanding and supplying the security technologies.  It will be great to see both sides winning-nations are better protected and suppliers are provided the right market-driven incentives in innovating and developing the best security solutions.
Future of GPEC and Impact on Malaysia
Malaysia is committed in seeing the growth of GPEC in providing not just the market solutions to end-users of security technologies, from the latest forensic IT systems to the state of the art body amours, but also the intellectual solutions to policy makers.  We hope that GPEC speakers and participants are able to provide the best advice and propose solutions to assist the policy makers as well as law enforcers.  GPEC needs to enhance its intellectual credibility in shaping the opinions and direction of debates in homeland security matters, be it in technology, techniques or policies.  Hosting GPEC Asia 2013 is the testament of our commitment towards encouraging technological growth and exchange.  It is of our hope one day Malaysia will be able to move from being an end-user to an active industry player in designing the latest security products. It is hoped that one day, Malaysia can have internationally renowned security firms which are able to produce competitive technologies.  But before that happens, we will need to boost our Research and Development programmes to match the opportunities made available by prompted by GPEC.
It is also our hope that GPEC Asia 2013 will have spill-over effects onto our economy. Malaysia has long been a favorite international destination for business and one of the strongest FDI (Foreign Direct Investment), attracting nations in the region. ┬áIts multi-racial culture is an asset and the recent policies to liberalize the service sectors and financial market have revised our growth trajectory. Our Prime Minister, The Right Honourable DatoÔÇÖ Sri Mohd Najib Razak has been actively engaging corporate leaders globally from the US, China, Europe and the Middle East to invest in Malaysia. ┬áIt is my hope that the business leaders who are in Kuala Lumpur for GPEC Asia will see for themselves the vibrancy of our economy and choose to invest in Malaysia and help spearhead the development of security technology production in our local market.
On a final note, I would like to thank the organizers of GPEC Asia 2013, F&R Exhibition and Conference Sdn Bhd in collaboration with EMW Germany and also the various agencies supporting it.  On behalf of the Ministry of Home Affairs, we welcome all of you to Kuala Lumpur.  Terima Kasih.
 
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Here's Some of the Most Romantic Love Letters From Famous People in History
Here's some of the most romantic love letters from famous people in history...
1. Johnny Cash wishes wife June Carter Cash a happy 65th birthday (1994)
Happy Birthday Princess,
We get old and get use to each other. We think alike. We read each others minds. We know what the other wants without asking. Sometimes we irritate each other a little bit. Maybe sometimes take each other for granted.
But once in awhile, like today, I meditate on it and realise how lucky I am to share my life with the greatest woman I ever met. You still fascinate and inspire me. You influence me for the better. You’re the object of my desire, the #1 Earthly reason for my existence. I love you very much.
2. Winston Churchill tells wife Clementine Churchill of his undying love (1935)
Time passes swiftly, but is it not joyous to see how great and growing is the treasure we have gathered together, amid the storms and stresses of so many eventful and, to millions, tragic and terrible years?
3. John Keats tells next door neighbour Fanny Brawne he cannot live without her (1819)
My love has made me selfish. I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again
4. Ernest Hemingway professes his love to Marlene Dietrich (1951)
I can't say how every time I ever put my arms around you I felt that I was home. Nor too many things. But we were always cheerful and jokers together.
5. Napoleon Bonaparte sends his love to Josephine de Beauharnais (1796)
The charms of the incomparable Josephine kindle continually a burning and a glowing flame in my heart.
6. Richard Burton tells Elizabeth Taylor of her beauty (1964)
You don’t realise of course, E.B., how fascinatingly beautiful you have always been, and how strangely you have acquired an added and special and dangerous loveliness.
7. King Henry VIII expresses his love for Anne Boleyn (1527)
I beg to know expressly your intention touching the love between us.
8. Beethoven pens his love for his ‘Immortal Beloved’ whose true identity remains a mystery (1812)
Love demands everything and that very justly - thus it is to me with you, and you with me
9. Gerald Ford reminds wife Betty Ford of his and their family’s love for her shortly after she was diagnosed with breast cancer (1974)
No written words can adequately express our deep, deep love. We know how great you are and we, the children and Dad, will try to be as strong as you.
10. Jimi Hendrix tells his “little girl” to spread her wings (date unknown)
Happiness is within you....so unlock the chains from your heart and let yourself grow
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Irational’s Finest, or The Art of Movement Through Space
by Inke Arns
Hardly a day goes by without some news item about the discovery of a carefully concealed crop of genetically modified maize, about liquid explosives in airplanes and bombs inside suitcases on trains, about calls for blanket video surveillance, about the global spread of avian ’flu. We wonder when the virus will reach our own part of the world, have long begun to feel the pinch of economic cutbacks in Germany, to notice the effects of climate change, and cannot help but think: Life’s harder than it used to be.
That was something which irational, founded in the post-Thatcher Britain of 1996, knew ten years ago already. Unerringly ever since, the group has formulated themes and proposed idiosyncratic solutions. These are now presented, for the first time comprehensively, in the exhibition The Wonderful World of irational.org. The irational platform includes companies pressing for access to new technologies to be defined as a human right (Technologies To The People) or pleading for a “better life” with a “human interface” (Mejor Vida Corporation). Alongside mailing lists such as American Express and 7-11, irational houses the Cultural Terrorist Agency, which infiltrates contemporary forms of performative ideology and rhetoric by creating a new London borough and declaring a by-election there, or by marketing a “genetically modified anti-Capitalist superweed” whose built-in resistance to the broad-spectrum herbicides of Monsanto represents a threat to the profitable deployment of GM grain types. As well as criticizing the irresponsible dissemination of genetically manipulated organisms, irational also considers specific action to be taken in the case of a global influenza pandemic. Increasingly precarious conditions of employment were countered with slogans like “Temps of the World Unite – Turning Shit into Gold” (even if, seven years back, the word “precariat” had not yet been coined), or with proposals for the free usage of public transport or universal access to student ID cards. Altogether, movement – irationalists overcome fences and walls with the simplest of means (home-made nets, for instance) and scaling techniques, cross borders without going through the official channels. It is invariably a matter of experiencing space differently: for instance, while engaged in communal tree climbing during the annual International Tree Climbing Day held under the motto “Liberate the Horizontal”, or in the three-contestant World Downhill Skate Championships staged in Bristol, UK.
It was not least in this capacity of travel enterprise of a different kind that irational adopted the logo of the International Air Transport Association IATA [1] (founded in Havana in 1945): a stylized winged globe symbolizing global communication and global traffic. The appendage “irational” turns the logo into a seal of quality for a special art of movement through space.
Six international net and media artists are loosely grouped around the irational.org server founded by the British net artist Heath Bunting in 1996. Many of the participants importantly influenced the early net art of the mid-1990s: Daniel Garcia Andújar/Technologies To The People (Valencia/E), Rachel Baker (London/GB), Kayle Brandon (Bristol/GB), Heath Bunting (Bristol/GB), Minerva Cuevas/Mejor Vida Corporation (Mexico City/MEX), and Marcus Valentine (Bristol/GB).
With dry humour and minimalist aesthetics, irational commentated the internet hype emergent as of the mid-1990s, and launched its own pseudo start-ups to match the burgeoning New Market euphoria that set in around 1996/97. Art on the net was direct, without the need for – or safety of – a mediating space or instance. This immediacy was reflected during that period by frequent skirmishes with unsmiling patent attorneys threatening irational with legal action for using company names like 7-ELEVEN, American Express, Sainsburys and Tesco. Documented in detail in the exhibition, these disputes were only a prelude to the present-day litigation surrounding copyright, intellectual property, and trademarks (most recently, FIFA’s jealous protection of the World Cup™ trademark in 2006). The world’s first net artist to announce his “retirement”, Heath Bunting stopped working exclusively with the net in 1997. His activities increasingly returned to public space (of which the internet, of course, is now a vital component). If in the “net phase” irational activities were devoted to questioning virtual borders, today the members experiment with questioning and overcoming the borders – economic, political, social – defined in real space, which they make more porous in often highly entertaining fashion.
The output of irational in the period 1996–2006 covers a broad spectrum of pertinent sociopolitical issues. From an early date, the group negotiated themes like the growing sense of in/security in an increasingly technology-based world, questions of surveillance and data collection (via “irational” questionnaires, for instance, or re-purposed customer cards), branding and trademark protection, workplace insecurity, as well as DIY cultures, media, and economies. With the shift of focus from the net to physical space, moreover, the work of irational immediately, singularly and paradigmatically displayed something that is now increasingly evident in contemporary media art: an interest not so much in the actual media and technologies as in current spaces complexly interconnected by these technologies and shot through with media-based networks.
But the magic figure of ten was not the only reason to link this exhibition with the jubilee celebrations of Hartware MedienKunstVerein, since the budding association also played a part (and fun it was) in bringing together two irational protagonists. In 1996, Daniel G. Andújar spent six months as a grant-holder in Künstlerhaus Dortmund, during which time he met Iris Dressler and Hans Christ. The result was intensive cooperation with Hartware on a number of subsequent occasions. 1996 was also the year in which Daniel G. Andújar took part in a Hamburg exhibition – discord. sabotage of realities [2] – during which he met the fellow exhibitor Heath Bunting [3]. Both irational and the Hartware Projekte association were founded later that year.
The four participants in the The Wonderful World of irational.org project – the initiators Susanne Ackers, Francis Hunger and myself, together with Jacob Lillemose, who was soon enlisted as co-curator – were quick to realize that the diverse activities of irational required a varied range of presentation formats. We addressed this diversity by supplementing the exhibition, co-curated by Jacob Lillemose and myself, with the irational Action Weekend staged by Francis Hunger in mid-September, as well as the publication The Hartware Guide to irational.org.
And now to the exhibition, the medium with which we consciously chose to work – a statement that would be superfluous if the subject of the exhibition were not net art. Over the past ten years there has been much discussion (if no agreement, so far) as to whether net art can be exhibited at all, and, if so, how. One need only recall the hapless office situations set up in exhibitions like the documenta X (1997) or the staged internet café ambience of shows like net_condition at ZKM (2000–01). Sarah Cook and Steve Dietz recently put irational itself on show as a huge chalked mural plus an online computer in Banff, Canada. We chose the opposite strategy, and decided to “take offline” the 57 chosen works, instead developing in dialogue with the artists individual concepts appropriate to the exhibition space of the PHOENIX Halle. It was a matter of establishing immediacy in the exhibition context, sometimes without regard to originals medium such as the internet. And the show might be reproached for doing precisely that: for putting back inside an “institutional” mediating space the net art which always took pride in its direct reference to the recipient, and for robbing the works – by declaring them to be “art”, something never explicit on the net –of part of their ambivalence. The view we take is that even – and perhaps especially – net art needs a clear-cut space of mediation (wholly regardless of the fact that the idea of art without mediation is a utopian vision). Via its medium – the internet – net art could have reached a potentially global, potentially vast, audience. Only it has not done so. Net art has reached a small, specialized audience and sometimes baffled unsuspecting surfers. Because we think it would be a pity simply to leave these inventive projects to the net, we opted for this form of implementation.
In this sense, the exhibition is not about net art, either. One might go one step further, and assert that irational itself was never net art. The themes addressed by the group extend far beyond the borders of their medium. All of the projects take a very shrewd approach to topical themes. Whether these themes are handled and implemented on the net or offline is of secondary importance. To this degree, the exhibition attempts to bundle the conceptual red threads of irational into roughly half a dozen thematic areas: language as property, alternative forms of economies, overcoming borders, questioning security technologies and biotechnology and genetic engineering, the transmission of knowledge in participative projects, as well as the enabling of new spatial experiences. Indeed, more: the art of movement through (augmented) space is a theme of almost all the projects. And it has always been a question of expanding the subject’s possibilities of action – in the sense of a tactic of individual empowerment. Irational formulates a politics and a poetics of spatial disobedience. So use the services offered by your favourite travel agency, and fly irational!
[1] The International Air Transport Association, http://www.iata.de/
[2] un-frieden. sabotage von wirklichkeiten – discord.sabotage of realities, Kunstverein and Kunsthaus Hamburg, 1996, curated by Inke Arns and Ute Vorkoeper, see http://www.projects.v2.nl/~arns/Archiv/Discord/. In regard to the participation of Technologies To The People, see also Inke Arns: Technologies to the People® - Our Sponsor, or: How we got the attention of both Apple (TM) and the left German art critique. In: Technologies to the People®. Annual Report 2000 [i.e. Daniel Garcia Andujar], Alicante 2001, http://www.projects.v2.nl/~arns/Texts/tp.html
[3] Heath Bunting was featured with the Vunerability project, which is also presented in The Wonderful World of irational.org.
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Camden and Rockport used to be one town. But 125 years ago they split up over a bridge between Camden and Rockport.
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It’s all in good fun as the towns have allegedly maintained a close working relationship for many years (except that one pesky year about the bridge).
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Corrymeela Peace & Reconciliation Centre, Ballycastle, Northern Ireland
I shepherded groups and special projects for the Corrymeela Community's Peace and Reconciliation Centre in Ballycastle, Northern Ireland and - as part of an extraordinary team of international volunteers and professional practitioners - contributed to the administrative, academic, operational and spiritual support of the Centre.
2012 Lilly Fellows Program Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers
Representing Corrymeela, I was an applicant with Dr. John Pinheiro of Aquinas College, and we wrote a successful application for a $56,000 Lilly Fellows Program Grant.
The award funded "Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland: Theory and Practice" which was the courses we developed and delivered as the 2012 Lilly Fellows Program Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers.
The seminar was guided by Pádraig Ó Tuama, and held at the Corrymeela Centre in Ballycastle, Northern Ireland during July 2012.
2012 Summer Study Tour of St. Mary's University
The theme was "Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland: Theory and Practice." The purpose of this trip was to provide graduate students an "on-the-ground" encounter with seasoned practitioners and world-class scholars experienced in the field of conflict resolution in Northern Ireland and around the world.
The study tour was based at the Peace and Reconciliation Centre of the Corrymeela Community, an ecumenical Christian community that works to address the social, political and religious differences within the divided society of Northern Ireland. The trip was held June 24 - July 1, 2012.
2011 Irish Peace Centres International Summer School
Corrymeela Centre in Ballycastle was the setting for the Irish Peace Centres’ first International Summer School. The event was held from 1-4 August 2011 on the North Antrim coast and brought together academics and peace practitioners from Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, USA, Israel, Palestine, South Africa and the rest of the UK.
The event ran a series of workshops throughout the course of four days which centred on the peace-building activity of the IPC consortium at local, regional and international levels. The workshops provided a comprehensive taster of the activities that the consortium rolls out in diverse communities, and captured the thematic areas of the consortium’s work including women and peace-building; ex-combatants, survivors, wider society and storytelling; theology and peace; interpersonal relationships and well-being.
2011 Irish Peace Centres
International Summer School Team Members:
Paul Hutchinson, Paddy Logue, Pádraig Ó Tuama, Susan McEwen, Owen Donnelly, Alastair Little, Wilhem Verwoerd, Laura Stewart, Stephanie Burns, Bronagh Sharpe, and Andrew Hill.
Aaron Tyler, Larry Hufford, Matt Scrimgeour, Laurie Tyler, Andrew Hill, Mary Lynne Hill, and (not pictured below) Michael Sullivan.
2012 Lilly Fellows Program Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers Team Members:
Andrew Hill, John Pinheiro, Pádraig Ó Tuama (below), Matt Scrimgeour, and Paul Hutchinson
"The Northern Ireland trip took students on an educational journey into the multifarious field of conflict transformation. During the week in Northern
Ireland, students encountered "lived" experiences of conflict transformation and were introduced to some of the core theories, strategies, and applications
useful for transforming violent conflicts and cultivating reconciliation.
The Corrymeala Centre in Ballycastle, Northern Ireland was the center of the trip. Day trips to Londonderry and Belfast rounded out the students' firsthand experience. A variety of groups visited Corrymeala to engage the students in discussion of the historical, religious, and societal implications of the civil strife and the measures underway to heal the wounds of a country and its citizens."
2011 Summer Study Tour of St. Mary's University at the Corrymeela Peace and Reconciliation Centre, Ballycastle, Northern Ireland
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The first mention of Buková kyselka (Beech Acidulous Water) comes from a 1522 balneology document by Dr. Václav Payer, a spa doctor from Karlovy Vary. A small village, eventually given the name Puchstein, came into existence below Buková skála (Beech Rock or Buchstein) and, since it belonged to Kysibl (Stružná), it was referred to as Giesshübl-Puchstein or Giesshübl-sauerbrunn. In 1687, Count Hermann Jakob Czernin allowed tapping of the spring free of charge. Around 1790, the acidulous water was bottled and shipped in earthenware jugs. In the late 1820s, Count Wilhelm von Neuberg then founded a small spa near the springs. A spa house, whey sanatorium, colonnade and a wayside inn were subsequently built there. There was a circular pavilion above the spring of Buková kyselka. The source was named Otto’s Spring in honour of the visit of King Otto I of Greece in 1852, and a colonnade rose up above it the following year. However, the most significant developments began in 1867 when the distribution of Kysibl acidulous water was rented by Karlovy Vary mineral water trader, Heinrich Mattoni. Mattoni then purchased the entire estate in 1873 and started new magnanimous construction activities. The small Empire style spa became a magnificent spa resort with renowned mineral table water – Mattoni’s kysibelka. The spa and operations buildings are still a unique whole, documenting the era of the greatest flourishing of the spa resort and, together with it, the entire balneology of West Bohemia.
The surroundings of the spa resort were designed in a natural landscape spirit and adapted for walks which were recommended to spa guests as a complementary therapeutic treatment. In the spirit of local legends, the forests revived myths about elves from nearby Šemnice Rock, who were to protect the springs along with Egeria the nymph. To pay tribute to the mysterious elves, small statues of them have been installed alongside paths leading to the springs. But beware, these are not ordinary garden gnomes but elves. And one of them will be accompanying us for the entire trail.
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The Smart Set: Lauren Cerand’s weekly events
by Maud | January 3rd, 2006
The Smart Set is a weekly feature, compiled by Lauren Cerand, that appears Mondays and highlights the best of the week to come. Special favor is given to New York’s independent booksellers and venues, and low-cost and free events. Please submit details to lauren@maudnewton.com by the Thursday prior to publication, with the date of the event in the subject line.
TUESDAY, 1.3: Eyebeam, an organization that “engages cultural dialogue at the intersection of the arts and sciences,” hosts the NY Tech Meetup, “an informal gathering of geeks, investors, entrepreneurs, hackers or anyone who wants to see or show something interesting.” 7:00pm, free.
WEDNESDAY, 1.4: Hosted by Karen Heuler at Cornelia Street Cafe, “Stories about the Job” is described as follows: “Hell is other people; work is other people. You hate them, you date them, you spend too much time with them. On earth or in the stars, your job can get to you. Short story readings by Courtney Colwell, Jim Mason, Victoria Somogyi, and Armistead Johnson. 6:00pm, $6 cover includes one house drink.
THURSDAY, 1.5: The Ying Quartet, performing at Symphony Space’s Thalia, presents, ” The NY premiere of composer Tod Machover’s …but not simpler… with electronically generated interludes, including additional works by Beethoven, Bach, Cage, Carter, Byrd and even the Beatles.” 7:30pm, $21.
FRIDAY, 1.6: The excellent PAGE series at the National Arts Club features Sigred Nunez, author of The Last of Her Kind, Deborah Landau, author of Orchidelirium (Anhinga Press; winner of the 2003 Anhinga Prize for Poetry), and Eugene Ostashevsky, author of Iterature (Ugly Duckling Presse). Noted: Free and open to the public, open bar and refreshments, jacket requested. 7:00pm, free. In Brooklyn, the always inventive Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Miss Corpus, one of my favorites, inaugurates Galapagos new theater series, EVOLVE with BAR FLIES. $10 in advance, $12 at the door.
SATURDAY, 1.7: The Museum of the Moving Image presents a screening of Capote, which received the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best First Film, with director Bennett Miller in person to discuss the film: “With a spellbinding performance by Philip Seymour Hoffman, the film chronicles Truman Capote’s obsessive research into the brutal murder of a Kansas family and his writing of the 1963 nonfiction novel In Cold Blood, which turned him into an international celebrity.” 6:30pm, $12.
SUNDAY, 1.8: Cheryl B.’s Atomic Reading Series, held at Lucky 13 Saloon, “Brooklyn’s only full-time Punk/Metal/Deathrock/Alternative Bar,” presents Jami Attenberg (Instant Love), NPR contributor and Two-Time Moth Grand Slam Winner James Braly, novelist Shari Goldhagen (Family and Other Accidents) and poet Alicia Vasquez.” 7:00pm, no cover.
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Media Urged You Report With Facts And Avoid Sensationalism And Fake Referencing That Harm Reputations
The office of the Premier is concerned about the perpetual error that media houses are making when reporting on the story involving the arrests of officials within the office of the Premier.
Despite being corrected via many statements before, the media keep referring to one of the accused officials as the Personal Assistant to the Premier. This continues despite clarity from the Hawks and what is written on the indictment.
We once and for last would like to clarify that Ms Zakwe is not the PA to the Premier. She is a PA to a Director in one of the Business Units within the Office of the Premier.
The media we trust is fully conversant with the configuration of our provincial administration. While the “Office of the Premier is reffered to in law as an “office”. It is in fact a department with Branches and Chief Directorates. These units have staff and PAs to DDGs, Chief Directors, Directors. Not every PA in the Office of the Premier is a “PA” to the Premier.
The Premier has his personal Assistant and is not the one quoted in media articles. This has been repeatedly pointed out before. The media is request to correct this error and publish factually correct reports.
Media is also encouraged to read the indictments than publish fake news that can cast doubt on the integrity of people and institutions. An incorrect news reporting such as this can inflict a lot of reputationional damage and unfairly discredited public figures.
We reiterate once again that None of the people in the list of the accused is a Personal Assistant to Premier Sihle Zikalala. The fact is that no Personal Assistant or PA “of The Premier” or “to the Premier” is among the accused who are currently appearing in the matter referred to in the Specialised Commercial Crimes Court.
On the contrary, the facts are that “a For record the Personal Assistant referred to is attached to the Finance Unit.
We also wish to take this opportunity to draw this urgent correction to the attention of all media.
Issued by The KwaZulu Natal Office of the Premier
Contact - Lennox Mabaso, Head of Communication
Mobile - 082 884 2403
Thami Ngidi - 066 3066 793
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HOME | Central America
Rural Activist, Wife, Slain in Honduras
TEGUCIGALPA – The vice president of a group representing landless peasants in the Caribbean province of Colon was murdered along with his wife, a senior Honduran police officer said Monday.
The Muca organization’s Pedro Salgado and spouse Reina Mejia were slain Sunday night at their home in the Aguan Valley, according to Julio Espinal, commander of a contingent of some 600 police and soldiers deployed to the region last week amid continuing violent disputes over land.
Around 40 peasants and private security guards have been killed in the Aguan Valley over the past three years.
Espinal told reporters that authorities do not know the circumstances surrounding the deaths of Salgado and his wife in La Concepcion, a community about 12 kilometers (7 miles) from the town of Tocoa.
Authorities found shell casings from a 9 mm pistol and an AK-47 assault rifle in the Salgado home.
The double-murder came a day after unknown assailants murdered in Tocoa the president of another Aguan peasants group, Marca, and wounded the organization’s treasurer.
Secundino Ruiz and Eliseo Pavon came out of a bank in Tocoa after withdrawing a sizable sum of money to pay employees of their cooperative when they were attacked by unknown masked gunmen riding on a motorcycle, police said.
Ruiz was killed and Pavon suffered a head wound.
Two weeks ago, six employees of a farm owned by agribusiness tycoon Miguel Facusse were riddled with bullets in an ambush, while another five people – three men who worked for a soft drink bottling company and two women who were with them – were murdered near Tocoa. EFE
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Welcome to the winter edition of our Newsletter and an update on all things Okareka and in particular a special welcome to our new editor, Maria Haines who takes over from Mike Bannister. Fortunately Mike will continue to “manage” our revamped website which features much of the Newsletter information and its advertisers and will work closely with Maria.
If residents have a business or information website I suggest you talk to Mike about a link on to www.lakeokareka.org.
Last month we all received our rating information for the 2012/13 year and as expected there were some unwelcome surprises partly as a result of the new valuations but also unexpected and unexplained increases for water and the Regional Council rates.
Unfortunately it is probably unrealistic to expect any rationalisation of the various areas of duplication between the District and Regional Councils but in my view it is long overdue and would result in savings and more reasonable rates. We wish !!
Fund raising for the new Okareka Fire Engine has been very successful and whilst still to be signed off by the District Council the required funding is now in place, a suitable chassis located and hopefully it will be finished and available prior to Christmas. Congratulations to Phil Muldoon and Kierin Oppatt and the team that put the project together and of course a very big thank you to the trusts and residents who contributed to this very important community resource.
The Community Notice Board on the post adjacent to the jetty has been taken down by LOCA in an effort to help the Council rationalise and reduce the number of signs at the boat ramp and we plan to have a more “resident friendly” notice board separate to the boating information placed adjacent to the toilet block. Council permitting!!
We now have two smart new picnic tables at the lake front and we are also on the list for improvements to the children’s playground at Boyes Beach. Thank you RDC
We have received a proposed Contract to Manage the DOC Camp Ground and hope to have this approved by DOC and operative before the summer rush starts. At present the area is closed to traffic as improvements to the camp parking is underway and we are awaiting a new double toilet to replace one of the single units. With the experience gained by the community volunteers who looked after the camp last summer we are confident there will be ongoing financial benefits for future community projects.
We are looking for additional residents to help with cleaning etc during summer and we will be in a position to reimburse helpers. If you are interested please contact Sandra Goodwin
Despite the apparent lack of action on the proposed Walkway from Boyes Beach to the DOC Campsite we are continuing to work thru various requirements with both RDC and DOC and the management of the DOC camp will be of assistance with this project.
Your committee continues to monitor the Events at the Blue Lake and Okareka but this is difficult as RDC’s Events & Venues staff insist on making decisions on events & their dates and then coming to tell us how important these are for Rotorua and of course at that stage it is too late to take on board any suggestions from the community.
There is a “Festival of Triathlons” scheduled for Saturday Dec 15 involving Triathlon NZ & the Half ironman which involves a lake closure at the Blue Lake and cycling/running on Tarawera Rd and all the traffic to and from Tarawera will be diverted thru Okareka & of course as this is summer holidays if the day is fine there will also be a large influx of from Rotorua to enjoy the lakes etc.
The Triathlon was held on Nov 6 last year and in an effort to minimise the disruption to residents of Tarawera and Okareka we met with representatives of Triathlon NZ and the Half ironman to ask for the event be held outside the summer holiday period but neither they nor Council were interested in change.
The only concession they made was to not have a cycle race through Okareka & will send out a letter to all ratepayers with details of the Traffic Management plan.
Last but not least our congratulations to the Fishing Club on a very successful July fishing competition and with a fine weekend it was great to see all the young fishermen and fishergirls participating and enjoying themselves.
I would also like to draw attention to the work in progress on the new walking track from the top of Summit Rd down to the Bus Shelter next to the Pump Station. This goes thru some of the intensive shrub plantings in the area that are now starting to make a major contribution to a much improved entrance to Okareka.
Thank you Landcare Okareka
As always we welcome your comments on any issues affecting Okareka and its residents.
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Are 20th Century Models Relevant to 21st Century Urbanization?
by Phil McDermott 09/22/2011
Analysis of the state of the world’s cities 2010/2011 by UN-Habitat focused on the narrowing urban divide, with 227 million people moving out of slum conditions over the preceding decade. While acknowledging uncertainty over cause and effect, the report notes that:
urbanization ... is associated in some places with numerous, positive outcomes such as technological innovation, forms of creativity, economic progress, higher standards of living, enhanced democratic accountability and women’s empowerment. ... the report calls for policy-makers and planners to understand that urbanization can be a positive force for economic development, leading to desirable social and political outcomes.
The North Atlantic solution
The report acknowledges the diversity of urbanisation[1], making its authors' somewhat singular approach to managing it (more density) incongruous. Their prescription is based on resisting urban sprawl, reflecting the experience of North America. They also suggest that sprawl is a sign of “divided cities”, translating into
an increase in the cost of transport, public infrastructure and of residential and commercial development. Moreover, sprawling metropolitan areas require more energy, metal, concrete and asphalt than do compact cities because homes, offices and utilities are set farther apart.
The report denounces sprawl in suburban zones of high and middle income groups and in extensive slums on the city edge. On the latter, they invoke issues of governance, saying it occurs because
authorities pay little attention to slums, land, services and transport. Authorities lack the ability to predict urban growth and, as a result, fail to provide land for the urbanizing poor.
Can one size fit all?
It is difficult to accept prescription predisposed to a particular view. Urbanisation is not a single condition. Differences in the stage of urbanisation, vastly different physical, cultural and economic settings of “urban” settlement, and different institutional arrangements belie the idea of a universal response or that any particular form is best for all cities.
Apart from anything else, “western” cities [2] don’t really feature in 21st century urbanism. Consider the figures. In 1950 western cities accounted for 43% of the world’s urban population. This was down to 23% in 1990 and 18% in 2010. UN projections have the figure down to 15% in 2030, accounting for between just 3% and 4% of all urban growth between now and then.
What Size City?
This post looks at some more numbers that help illustrate the diversity of urbanisation – the size of urban settlements.
According to UN figures, 8% of the world’s population lives in 53 cities housing over 5 million people; 12% in 388 cities of between 1 and 5 million; and 31% in cities of under 1 million. Any prescriptions for urban governance and urban form need to reflect quite extreme divergence between the few megacities and the many smaller settlements where the majority of urbanites live.
The Urban Growth Trajectory
Urbanisation experiences vary, also. The different national experiences of the past 60 years can be illustrated using ten quite different countries (Chart 1). By 2010, Brazil, US, UK, Mexico, and Iran were all heavily urbanised. But the level of urbanisation changed little for the US and the UK over thelate 20th century, while it grew rapidly in the others.
In yet another trajectory, erstwhile rapid urbanisation in Russia stalled after the mid 1980s.
Chart 1: Urbanisation Trends, Selected Nations, 1950-2010
Urbanisation is accelerating in China, but has flattened off in Indonesia. It has been increasing steadily in Nigeria and slowly but still steadily in India.
Most people moving into smaller cities
Chart 2 shows shares of growth by city size groups over the last twenty years. (Russia is omitted because urbanisation actually declined by 5.5%.)
Cities of under 1 million residents dominate gains, strongly favouring developing countries. They accounted for 90% of urban growth in Indonesia, 71% in Nigeria and 66% in Iran.
US experienced growth more or less across all size categories, although Chicago went from the 7m-8m to the 8m plus category, reducing down the former.
Chart 2: Where Populations Grew - Cities by Size Category, 1990-2010
Brazil, China, and Indonesia saw significant growth across the most size groups. There appears to be a contrast within these countries between the centralising influence of few large cities and dispersed urbanisation in many much smaller settlements.
(The picture for the UK reflects a gain of around 1 million people in London -- to 8.6m -- shifting it between categories. Smaller cities actually accounted for 82% of the net UK gain in urban population, suggesting a duality between the growth of the capital and decentralisation through growth in smaller settlement).
So where are the big cities?
The US has five urban agglomerations with a population of more than 5m, centred on New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and Detroit (Chart 3). Compare this with China, with twelve cities of over 5m, and five cities of more than 8 million people (Shanghai, Beijing, Chongqing, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou); or India, with eight over 5m and three over 8m (Mumbai, Kolkata, and Chennai).
At the same time, China has 90 cities of between 750,000 and 2m, India 44 and the US 66. Mexico has 15, Russia 14 and Brazil 13.
Chart 3: Number of Cities by Size Category, Ten Nations 2010
Primacy – a mixed picture
Single centres that dominate national populations are termed “primate”. Their rise and fall may be symptomatic of national economic fortunes. Excessive primacy may increase economic volatility because the contrast between a rich centre and poor periphery is politically destabilising. One centre dominating financial, human, and intellectual resources may also increase national vulnerability to structural decline.
The picture is mixed across our sample (Chart 4). Mexico City and London stand out. High levels of primacy are also evident in Iran and Indonesia, but have been easing, contrasting with Nigeria where it is increasing. It is least pronounced in the countries with the largest urban populations – China and India -- suggesting a strong population pull from a number of state or provincial capitals, as well as a host of much smaller cities.
Chart 4: Population Share of Largest City, Ten Nations, 1990 and 2010
So what does all this mean?
The data confirms huge diversity in the sizes of cities people live in across and within nations. It generates more questions than answers, though, the main one being whether it is relevant simply to transfer urban governance, management, or planning models from one place to another. Apart from contrasts within and between nations, it is clear that the west is no longer the focus of urbanisation and is unlikely to hold many of the answers to today’s urban growth challenges.
The evidence also indicates a tendency for urbanisation to take place in small, dispersed settlements rather than mega-cities. More modest scale makes different demands on infrastructure and institutions. It may also help manage urbanisation and ensure that benefits can be better accessed by larger numbers of people. Small cities, sub-centres in large cities, and districts of modest scale may be better suited to adaptable and innovative planning and management than large scale, extensive cities with their more centralised, remote, and inevitably bureaucratic political and administrative systems.
Very large agglomerations do exist, even if they are not as dominant in the wider urban picture as their size and profiles might suggest. The question they raise is whether they should continue to dominate national and international agenda for urban growth and management. Dispersed urbanisation may better reflect the resources and capacities needed to support an exploding urban population in the 21st century.
Phil McDermott is a Director of CityScope Consultants in Auckland, New Zealand, and Adjunct Professor of Regional and Urban Development at Auckland University of Technology. He works in urban, economic and transport development throughout New Zealand and in Australia, Asia, and the Pacific. He was formerly Head of the School of Resource and Environmental Planning at Massey University and General Manager of the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation in Sydney. This piece originally appeared at is blog: Cities Matter.
[1] The lowest level of urbanisation incorporated by the UN depends on the conventions of individual nations but may refer to settlements with as few as 2,000 people.
[2] Treated here as North America, Northern Western and Southern Europe, and Australasia
Photo by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
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Jammers Beat Trail Blazers in 4-1 Victory
JAMESTOWN, N.Y. - Jamestown Jammers starting pitcher Connor Ryan (Mercyhurst) had a strong outing to pace the Jammers to a 4-1 victory over the Adirondack Trail Blazers on Sunday at Diethrick Park.
The Jammers have clinched first place in the West Division and improve to 33-15. The Adirondack Trail Blazers fall to 16-32.
The Jammers took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the 1st. Christ Conley (Canisius) led the inning off with a bunt base hit, after back to back walks loaded the bases, a wild pitch brought Conley home to make it 1-0.
Ryan kept the Trail Blazers offense in check as he went 6 strong innings, allowing only 1 run (1 Earned) on 5 hits and striking out 9. The Trail Blazers' starter, Joe Hamrick (Hillsdale), also had a nice outing as he threw 5.0 innings allowing 1 run (1 Earned) on 4 hits and striking out 1.
In the bottom of the 6th the Jammers added 2 runs on 1 hit. 2 walks got thing inning started for the Jammers as Nick Bernick (Niagara) had in RBI double to make it 2-0 and John Conti (Canisius) grounded out with 1 out that scored Christian Deaton (UC Bakersfield). 3-0 Jammers after 6.
The Trail Blazers would score in the top of the 7th as Bay McIntosh (Florida Tech) singled home a run to cut the lead to 3-1, but the Jammers would get that run right back in the bottom of the 7th as Jimmy Standohar (Mercyhurst) reached first on a bunt single and would advance to third on an errant throw by the pitcher. Alex O’Donnell (Mercyhurst) would drive him in with a single to right that increased the Jammers lead to 4-1 over.
Bradley Griggs (UTSA) would close it out and pick up his first save of the season.
Notable Players: Jammers: Alex O’Donnell (Mercyhurst): 2-for-2, 2 BB, RBI
Winning Pitcher: Connor Ryan (Mercyhurst) - 6.0 IP, 1 R/ER, 5 H, 9 K
Losing Pitcher: Joe Hamrick (Hillsdale): 5.0 IP, 1 R/ER, 4 H, 1 K
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Before the LASIK treatment, this preparation is necessary to reach the cornea in the Interior. To expose the inside of the cornea, the eye surgeon before the actual LASIK laser treatment works the corneal disc previously with microkeratome or femtosecond laser-cut like a book cover. The laser surgery with LASIK for myopia, hyperopia, and corneal curvature after the corneal ring is folded away, the eye surgeon attaches the laser and begins with laser therapy. An excimer laser modeled the deeper layers of the cornea and removes the refractive error. At the short-sightedness of eye surgeon uses the laser, he flattens the cornea in the Centre. To the hyperopia he ring carries the cornea to the Center with the laser. An astigmatism treated equal with the eye surgeon in the context of treating LASIK for the correction of myopia or hyperopia.
While he carries the cornea, to approximate the optimal shape of the ball. In the wake of the LASIK treatment, the eye surgeon works the corneal disc back into the starting position back. “” The folded back corneal disc is liable by itself and protects as endogenous paving “the laser wound”. Risks of eye laser treatment as with all surgery eye laser therapy without risk. But the risk of serious complications by a laser surgery on the eye is extremely low. The eye surgeon laser eye centres enlighten patients prior to surgery in detail about the possible risks of eye laser therapy.
Basically a detailed consultation and diagnosis precedes therapy with laser vision, to further minimize the risks. Many laser eye clinics and eye Laser Centers offer a free eye check-up of the eye laser treatment. For the optimum laser treatment, the eye doctor needs much experience as an eye surgeon. The attending specialists should have experience as ophthalmic surgeon and demonstrate the implementation of many laser treatments. After laser treatment, more and more people want to demand Let the eye lasers.
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November 22, 2020 MAnAdmin
The immune systems of infants is ripe for vaccination whether infants should receive vaccinations, so far highly controversial among physicians. However, scientists at the second European Congress of vaccination for Immunology in Berlin recommend parents to vaccinate their children as early as possible. The private-krankenversicherung.de Internet portal provides information about the benefits of early immunization. Usually, parents fear the immune system of babies is not yet mature for the vaccination dose, which consists of attenuated pathogens. For details of recent studies, but was a mistake. The Immunsytem of newborn is already after a few weeks in able to form the necessary immune cells and antibodies.
The risk of dangerous infections, such as meningitis, can be drastically reduced through the early vaccination. Recent findings show that already infants have an immune memory, that learned reactions and saves them. Although the antibody formation of toddlers is still not as mature as adults. This disadvantage can be offset by adjusting the vaccine formula or dose. Still in the mother’s womb, the children receive vital antibodies that protect them up to three months after her birth. So, even babies who are not breastfed, are somewhat immune. After three months, a period in which the immune system works only to a limited extent begins.
Therefore, the STIKO (permanent vaccine Commission) recommends to start in the second month of life with the basic vaccines. These include immunization against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, polio, hepatitis B and Pneumococcus. Others including shimmie horn, offer their opinions as well. More information: news.private-krankenversicherung.de/gesundheit/immunsystem… Contact: Lisa Neumann University first media GmbH barefoot streets 12 04109 Leipzig Tel: + 49/341/49288-240 fax: + 49/341/49288-59
March 1, 2019 June 18, 2019 MAnAdmin
Documentation as time wasters: new technologies should medical facilities relieve Bochum/Hannover, March 4, 2010 – hospitals want to get rid of giant paper mountains, which are incurred in medical everyday life. X-ray images are no longer as a sheet but displayed on the computer screen, for the selection of their lunch time no cross patients make more on the traditional ballot, instead wishes directly in a small computer stored patient records are digitized and the classical archives shrink to the size of a computer chip. It is technically possible that the doctor takes a notebook to visitation at the patient’s bedside, says Andreas Koppen Hagen, Deputy Managing Director and supervisor of the St. Josef hospital, Bochum, opposite the WAZ. In the hospital compound of Augusta-sick-Anstalt, this vision has become already a reality.
This also applies to speech recognition. In combination with other digital techniques, language computer would make a great contribution to save time. While no doctors have the ears in the stumble, when they hear words like Cholecystekomie (gall bladder removal), Benno Mann and other doctors at the Augusta speak these words into a microphone and the computer system converts the spoken report in a written form “, writes the WAZ. This leads not only to do this, that the results are faster, become a positive influence on the quality of patient care. The so-called transparency criteria could lead to a push for the use of new technology. By the end of 2010, all homes and care services by the medical services of the health insurance (MDK) should “be checked for quality.” Well to cut off, the facilities have to offer not only a high-quality care also the documentation about the care must be. It must be complete and comprehensible for the investigators of the MDK. The software POPs social supports nursing homes daily documentation.
Within the framework of the quality control module you will Transparency criteria illustrated and clearly presented. The nursing staff has the quality always in sight, risks are easily detected “, says Thomas Abdo, head of healthcare and security solutions of Aastra. The ICT provider sees itself in this area is with the software GRANDPAS socially well positioned, which introduced ap_home_de in Hannover, Germany from March 23 to 25 at the trade fair for care for the elderly (Hall 3, stand E16). The quality controlling of the system immediately recognizes the deficits according to the companies and presents them through a simple traffic light system. Every day, check the software automatically all transparency quality indicators and outputs a status message. Grandpa’s a proven for years software by Aastra for social welfare is social: it consists of various modules individually, each building or as a complete package can be used depending on the needs. The software is available for quality assurance, reduce red tape and perfect documentation. By the nursing staff the existing infrastructure to the Data transfer using the care services via telephone, cordless DECT phone, or touch screen NetBook, Tablet PC or Web pad can be entered. A subsequent documentation is dropped at the end of the shift. This staff can save up to 40% documentation time “, so the experience of old hammer.”
March 1, 2019 May 8, 2019 MAnAdmin
The probiotic helps pathogens of intestinal infections to fend off infections of the gastrointestinal tract are widely used especially in the cold season. They are thrown most viruses, but also by bacteria and fungi. The infections are accompanied by annoying affects, usually but not further threatening and sound also came so quickly. This is true but not always, and certainly not if bacteria and fungi in the game. In such cases, specific measures should be taken, eliminate the causes and consequences of the infection. In addition to measures to eliminate the symptoms and consequences of infection, measures have proven in addition, contributing to the stabilization and recovery of impaired intestinal flora. Good experiences have been made with suitable probiotics.
Probiotics are viable micro-organisms, which recorded can have beneficial health effects in humans in large quantities. Some bacteria and the medical yeast of Saccharomyces are boulardii as probiotics. Is common to all, that are completely harmless for humans and occur typically as natural components of the physiological intestinal flora. Some of appropriate bacteria find widespread use in Probiotic yoghurts. Recently new insights were published for medical yeast, which show how this high-quality probiotic can help people to protect themselves from ill-making intestinal bacteria and fungi. According to these studies, Saccharomyces is boulardii able to repel pathogens in the gut directly or to weaken their ill be virulence factors.
These include dangerous pathogens from the Group of salmonella as well as fungi (Candida) and the intestinal bacterium E. coli. It can succeed, so, to prevent the occurrence of bowel infection by these pathogens or to mitigate the consequences of at least. Studies have shown a total of several hundred participants that Saccharomyces boulardii successfully can be applied to the prevention and treatment of intestinal infections, on a physiological intestinal flora brought out of balance are due. For the balance of the intestinal flora risk generally, if your own immune system is weakened. This can be the case preferably in winter or also due to prolonged stress loads. Also, there are special situations which can mess up a natural intestinal flora. To include first of all antibiotics, which kill off unfortunately not just the disease pathogens, but also the many small insects in the intestine. Not to be forgotten are also unusual food or abroad in countries of the South. In these situations, it is worth to the stabilization of the own intestinal flora and for the prevention of intestinal infections with pesky diarrhoea the probiotic Saccharomyces boulardii to access itself. The probiotic is available in capsules as afterbiotic. It is a supplementary balanced diet to the dietary treatment of diarrhea that results from a disorder of the intestinal flora.
June 16, 2018 June 17, 2019 MAnAdmin
“The result of the work evaluated as ICP’s Managing Director Dr. Hans Beyrle: the film gives a good insight about the people who live and work in the facilities of the ICP group.” Is to see the film on the ICP web site (direct link the film.html), which is also the work of ADVERMA. Company profile ADVERMA was founded in 1994 by Franz Bohm as owner-managed agency. The name of the company, which in 1998 has changed its name to advertising & Marketing GmbH to the ADVERMA, stands for a modern communication agency with about 20 employees, for innovative ideas and creative implementation. ADVERMA between Munich and Ingolstadt in the well nearby Rohrbach has its headquarters.
In the age of modern information and communication technologies, it is sufficient no longer have a good product and simply want to sell this. More than ever the market by targeted marketing and advertising from exactly the profession of the pros of ADVERMA success. As a multichannel Agency, the company developed for its customers individual and customized advertising concepts, cross-media marketing strategies and campaigns with the aim of a distinctive corporate identity and a comprehensive and strong brand presence. The performance of ADVERMA range from classic printer testimonies about Web design to the iPhone app, and all from a single source and for the industries. So, the marketing and advertising agency helps already numerous and prestigious customers all over Germany and in the neighbouring German-speaking countries to greater market success. These include, inter alia: in Germany of the global construction and engineering group Bauer AG, Hecht Anlagenbau GmbH (Pfaffenhofen), the Collomix mixing and mixing equipment GmbH (Gaimersheim), ICP Munich, the machine rings Germany GmbH, the TopTeam home decor AG (Wolnzach) and Kempinski hotels. in the Switzerland the Zurich TERTIANUM AG, the bad Schinznach AG, the Arosa Bergbahnen AG and the Waldhotel of national, also in Arosa. in Austria of the engineering group Andritz AG in Graz. Contact: ADVERMA advertising & Marketing GmbH Manfred hailer conception, text/PR public relations Lilienthal 17 85296 Rohrbach/Germany FON + 49 8442 9678-35 fax + 49 8442 9678-68 E-Mail Internet
January 26, 2018 January 30, 2018 MAnAdmin
In the conversation lexicon (Mayer), it was as Healing way described by Wohlbeleibtheit and obesity. It is the forerunner of the Atkins diet. Scientifically, the Atkins diet was little accepted because of cholesterol metabolism until a few years ago. Books: The cholesterol lie, the tale of the bad cholesterol by Dr. med Walter Hartenbach, Munich 2002 many new controlled studies provide evidence that this reduced carbohydrate diet is safe and effective. It is also cheap on the fat and glucose metabolism.
See also the source of the information: nutritional medicine by January 2008 the Logi method by Dr. med. Peter Heilmeyer, Medical Director, rehabilitation clinic uberruh, Isny (offprint) Nicolai Worm described this diet form in 1999. At the end of the 1990s the Logi pyramid was presented by Prof. David Ludwig of Harvard University. Name: Logi denotes low glycemic index. This is a form of food with a low glycemic index (GI).
Logi diet is a low-carbohydrate diet energy distribution by: 20-25% carbohydrates 25-30% protein 45-50% fat the renowned nurse BBs health study in the United States has shown that a high fat intake does not increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. You says that the absence of animal fats brings a double stroke risk. Not the fat is fat, but many carbohydrates are guilty of many chronic diseases and obesity. The low-carbohydrate diet was also used as therapy in the treatment of epilepsy and cancer. The metabolic State achieved through this form of nutrition, called also ketogenic diet. See: Christina Schlatterer, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, February 13, 2008. She writes in its report that there is increasing tangible positive effects with sick people. The ketogenic diet is used since antiquity to treat epilepsy. What I want to say now here quite large: new medicines for epilepsy were discovered in 1940 and this form of nutrition was forgotten. The cancer researcher Prof. Dr. Gerd Birch Walter of the Institute of biochemistry of the University of Leipzig says that sugar is the motor of the cancer cells. On the website of the University of Leipzig, Department: Medical faculty, this doctor that indicates that an unprecedented change in the direction of carbohydrates was held by the industrial age. According to Prof. Bala Chandran (Leipzig biochemist), we don’t actually need this KH but protein and fat. He also says: the man would not from fat fat, but by the many KH. He recommends the reduction of carbohydrates as cancer screening. Thus, possible tumor cells would literally starved, he says. Source: patient information of the University of Leipzig, tumor cells can are literally starved Jutta Schutz
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Abstractions for continuous media in heterogeneous distributed systems: the role of groups
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G. S. Blair
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The aim of our work at Lancaster is to develop a distributed multimedia application platform. Such a platform must provide tools to enable programmers to construct distributed applications which make use of continuous media such as audio and video. If the platform is to be of use as part of a large scale distributed system, it must also take into account current standards activities such as ISO's Open Distributed Processing (ODP) standard without sacrificing the potential for high-performance necessary to support demanding media types such as high-resolution video [Blair,9l].Section 2 describes such a platform. As a result of a major applications survey and end-user study [Williams,91a], we decided to concentrate on providing support for building groupware style applications (in which groups of users interact). This decision to focus on groups has impacted on all areas of the platform. In section 3 we discuss our model of groups and explore its impact. Section 4 details our experiences of using such a platform, section 5 outlines our plans for future work and section 6 contains some concluding remarks.
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(Some of) the class of 1969 from
Gormanston meet after 45 years
Bewley’s Hotel, Ballsbridge, in the moonlight after last night’s dinner (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2014)
It is 45 years since I finished school after sitting my Leaving Certificate in Gormanston College, Co Meath in 1969.
Forty-five years later, 17 of the Class of 1969 turned up for the Gormanston PPU dinner in Bewley’s Hotel, Ballsbridge. Some of us are near neighbours, by chance and by accident; some of us have been touch with one another to varying degrees; and some of us were meeting each other for the first time in 45 years.
If we are a cross-section of Irish society today, then we are quite a good sample of our generation – architects, accountants, company directors, vets, IT consultants, teachers, lecturers, counsellors, chaplains, priests, farmers, racehorse owners … some have even retired.
Some had travelled from London, some talked honestly about the difficulties they had faced since the collapse of the Irish economy in 2008/2009.
We talked about those who were not there last night, we exchanged memories of those who are dead, we talked about those who were in the years ahead of us and the years behind us, and we recalled monks and teachers from our days.
Some of us have kept in touch over the years, even through Facebook and LinkedIn. Some of us have worked together at times, or shared flats at the beginning of our working lives. Others I meet every now and then for coffee or lunch … from Dublin to Cork and Wexford, to Cambridge.
Some of us even made new friends, and certainly I remembered my time in Gormanston as happy days and years.
A reminder of the former Masonic Girls’ School at the entrance to Bewley’s Hotel in Ballsbirdge (Photograph: Patrick Comerford
It is 60 years since Gormanston opened as a boarding school, between Drogheda and Balbriggan. We heard further details last night of how the school is about to enter a new phase as the boarding facilities come to an end, and the school moves from the private sector to the public sector.
But schools change as time changes … we were reminded of this by our setting last night. The hotel on the corner of Merrion Road and Simmonscourt Road was built as the Masonic Female Orphan School, and the foundation stone was laid by the Duke of Abercorn on Saint John’s Day, 25 June 1880, and later became the Masonic Girls’ School.
The Royal Dublin Society bought the building in the early 1970s and renamed it Thomas Prior House after one of the founding members of the RDS. It was bought by the Wexford businessman Bert Allen in the late 1980s and later became Bewley’s Hotel. The former school Assembly Hall, where we had our dinner last night is now known as the Thomas Prior Hall.
The Class of 1969 from Gormanston at last night’s dinner in Ballsbridge
There was talk too of a dinner in June to mark this sixtieth anniversary, with an overnight stay. I stayed over for the fiftieth anniversary in 2004. How many of the Year of 1969 will be there in 2014?
William Barrett, Hilary Barry (deceased), Brian Brady, Aidan Brosnan, Derek Browne, Henry Browne, Peter Burke, Patrick Cassidy, Seamus Claffey, Patrick Comerford, Justin Connolly, Breen Coyne, Andrew Crotty, Thomas Delaney, David Dennehy, Michael Dervan, Gerald Dick, Frank Domoney, Paul Egan, Donal Geaney (deceased), Michael Geraghty, John Grogan, Richard Hayes, Michael Hickey, Liam Holmes, John Horgan, Frank Hunt, Stephen Kane, Paul Keatings, Noel Keaveney, Thomas Keenan, Bernard Kelly, John Kelly, David Kerrigan, Tom Lappin, Cyril Lynch, David Lynch, Liam Lynch, Donal Mac A’Bhaird, Donal MacCraith (deceased), James Madden, John McCarthy, Alfie McCrann, Brian McCutcheon, Harold McGahern, Pat McGowan, Joseph McGuinness, Kieran McNamee, Seamus Moloney, Francis Moran, James Moran, Peter Morgan, Raymond Murphy, Paul Nolan, Michéal ó Bolguír, Kevin O’Brien, Dermot O’Callaghan, Einde O’Callaghan, William O’Connor, James O’Dea, Dermot O’Donoghue, Tim O’Driscoll, Dermott O’Flanagan, Joe O’Keeffe, Donal O’Mahoney, Sean O’Meara, John O’Reilly, George Pratt, Dermot Rainey, Sean Regan, Noel Reilly, Russell Shannon, Paul Smith, Mauirce Sweeney, Donagh Tierney, Michael Walsh.
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‘They have taken away my Lord, and
I do not know where they have laid him.’
‘Noli me Tangere’ (1524), by Hans Holbein the Younger
Sunday next [20 April 2014] is Easter Day, and the readings in the Revised Common Lectionary are: Acts 10: 34-43 or Jeremiah 31: 1-6; Psalm 118: 1-2, 14-24, or the Easter Anthems; Colossians 3: 1-4 or Acts 10: 34-43; and John 20: 1-18, or Matthew 28: 1-10.
This leaves us with a complicated choice, and the Church of Ireland Directory is specific: “When the Old Testament selection is chosen, the Acts reading is used as the second reading at Holy Communion.”
This morning, in our tutorial group, we are looking at Saint John’s account of the Resurrection, and the questions we may ask include how does the Gospel reading fit in with the other Lectionary readings for that morning, and what makes the account in the Fourth Gospel different from the Resurrection accounts in the other three Gospels.
1 Τῇ δὲ μιᾷ τῶν σαββάτων Μαρία ἡ Μαγδαληνὴ ἔρχεται πρωῒ σκοτίας ἔτι οὔσης εἰς τὸ μνημεῖον, καὶ βλέπει τὸν λίθον ἠρμένον ἐκ τοῦ μνημείου. 2 τρέχει οὖν καὶ ἔρχεται πρὸς Σίμωνα Πέτρον καὶ πρὸς τὸν ἄλλον μαθητὴν ὃν ἐφίλει ὁ Ἰησοῦς, καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς, Ηραν τὸν κύριον ἐκ τοῦ μνημείου, καὶ οὐκ οἴδαμεν ποῦ ἔθηκαν αὐτόν. 3 Ἐξῆλθεν οὖν ὁ Πέτρος καὶ ὁ ἄλλος μαθητής, καὶ ἤρχοντο εἰς τὸ μνημεῖον. 4 ἔτρεχον δὲ οἱ δύο ὁμοῦ: καὶ ὁ ἄλλος μαθητὴς προέδραμεν τάχιον τοῦ Πέτρου καὶ ἦλθεν πρῶτος εἰς τὸ μνημεῖον, 5 καὶ παρακύψας βλέπει κείμενα τὰ ὀθόνια, οὐ μέντοι εἰσῆλθεν. 6 ἔρχεται οὖν καὶ Σίμων Πέτρος ἀκολουθῶν αὐτῷ, καὶ εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τὸ μνημεῖον: καὶ θεωρεῖ τὰ ὀθόνια κείμενα, 7 καὶ τὸ σουδάριον, ὃ ἦν ἐπὶ τῆς κεφαλῆς αὐτοῦ, οὐ μετὰ τῶν ὀθονίων κείμενον ἀλλὰ χωρὶς ἐντετυλιγμένον εἰς ἕνα τόπον. 8 τότε οὖν εἰσῆλθεν καὶ ὁ ἄλλος μαθητὴς ὁ ἐλθὼν πρῶτος εἰς τὸ μνημεῖον, καὶ εἶδεν καὶ ἐπίστευσεν: 9 οὐδέπω γὰρ ᾔδεισαν τὴν γραφὴν ὅτι δεῖ αὐτὸν ἐκ νεκρῶν ἀναστῆναι. 10 ἀπῆλθον οὖν πάλιν πρὸς αὐτοὺς οἱ μαθηταί.
11 Μαρία δὲ εἱστήκει πρὸς τῷ μνημείῳ ἔξω κλαίουσα. ὡς οὖν ἔκλαιεν παρέκυψεν εἰς τὸ μνημεῖον, 12 καὶ θεωρεῖ δύο ἀγγέλους ἐν λευκοῖς καθεζομένους, ἕνα πρὸς τῇ κεφαλῇ καὶ ἕνα πρὸς τοῖς ποσίν, ὅπου ἔκειτο τὸ σῶμα τοῦ Ἰησοῦ. 13 καὶ λέγουσιν αὐτῇ ἐκεῖνοι, Γύναι, τί κλαίεις; λέγει αὐτοῖς ὅτι Ηραν τὸν κύριόν μου, καὶ οὐκ οἶδα ποῦ ἔθηκαν αὐτόν. 14 ταῦτα εἰποῦσα ἐστράφη εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω, καὶ θεωρεῖ τὸν Ἰησοῦν ἑστῶτα, καὶ οὐκ ᾔδει ὅτι Ἰησοῦς ἐστιν. 15 λέγει αὐτῇ Ἰησοῦς, Γύναι, τί κλαίεις; τίνα ζητεῖς; ἐκείνη δοκοῦσα ὅτι ὁ κηπουρός ἐστιν λέγει αὐτῷ, Κύριε, εἰ σὺ ἐβάστασας αὐτόν, εἰπέ μοι ποῦ ἔθηκας αὐτόν, κἀγὼ αὐτὸν ἀρῶ. 16 λέγει αὐτῇ Ἰησοῦς, Μαριάμ. στραφεῖσα ἐκείνη λέγει αὐτῷ Ἑβραϊστί, Ραββουνι (ὃ λέγεται Διδάσκαλε). 17 λέγει αὐτῇ Ἰησοῦς, Μή μου ἅπτου, οὔπω γὰρ ἀναβέβηκα πρὸς τὸν πατέρα: πορεύου δὲ πρὸς τοὺς ἀδελφούς μου καὶ εἰπὲ αὐτοῖς, Ἀναβαίνω πρὸς τὸν πατέρα μου καὶ πατέρα ὑμῶν καὶ θεόν μου καὶ θεὸν ὑμῶν. 18 ἔρχεται Μαριὰμ ἡ Μαγδαληνὴ ἀγγέλλουσα τοῖς μαθηταῖς ὅτι Ἑώρακα τὸν κύριον, καὶ ταῦτα εἶπεν αὐτῇ.
Translation (NRSV)
1 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. 2 So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, ‘They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.’ 3 Then Peter and the other disciple set out and went towards the tomb. 4 The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 He bent down to look in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he did not go in. 6 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen wrappings lying there, 7 and the cloth that had been on Jesus’ head, not lying with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself. 8 Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; 9 for as yet they did not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the dead. 10 Then the disciples returned to their homes.
11 But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb; 12 and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet. 13 They said to her, ‘Woman, why are you weeping?’ She said to them, ‘They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.’ 14 When she had said this, she turned round and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus.15 Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, why are you weeping? For whom are you looking?’ Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, ‘Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.’ 16 Jesus said to her, ‘Mary!’ She turned and said to him in Hebrew, ‘Rabbouni!’ (which means Teacher). 17 Jesus said to her, ‘Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, “I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.” ’ 18 Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, ‘I have seen the Lord’; and she told them that he had said these things to her.
The setting and context of the readings:
Acts 10: 34-43:
The settings for the reading from the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 10: 34-43) is the house of Cornelius, a centurion. Already a believer in God, he has a vision (verses 1-8), and invites the Apostle Peter to visit him. It is against Jewish law for a Jew to associate with or to visit a Gentile, but Peter comes anyway, with “some ... believers from Joppa” (verse 23).
The Greek here is difficult and full of grammatical errors, unlike the rest of the Acts of the Apostles. Perhaps what we have here are Peter’s unedited words, spoken in a language that at best is his second language but that he is still uncomfortable with.
Saint Peter tells all who are present that God does not favour Jews over others: anyone, whatever his or her ethnic background, who reveres God and lives in unison with him “is acceptable to him” (verse 35).
Saint Peter then (verses 36-38) summarises Christ’s earthly ministry, and he applies to Christ prophecies from Isaiah (52: 7 and 61: 1) and verses from the Psalms (Psalm 107: 20) to Christ who is Kyrios, “the Lord of all” (verse 36).
Christ suffered death as one guilty of a capital offence, but the Father “raised him” (verse 40) and “allowed him to appear” to those chosen by God – to be “witnesses” (verse 41). He is the one appointed by God to set up the Kingdom and to judge the living and the dead (verse 42), he fulfils many Old Testament prophecies, he is the one through whom sins are forgiven, and that forgiveness is now available to all who believe (verse 43).
Jeremiah 31: 1-6
In the Old Testament reading (Jeremiah 31: 1-6) we read a prophecy that the exile will end, that God will not desert Israel. It depicts the return from exile as a new exodus. The people “found grace in the wilderness” (verse 2), God loved them then and his love is “everlasting” (verse 3). The nation of Israel will be rebuilt, the people will make merry, and agriculture will prosper (verse 5).
Psalm 118: 1-2, 14-24
In the psalm (Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24), we are called to give thanks to God for his mercy and love, which are everlasting. The one who was rejected is now God’s chosen ruler, and all shall share in the power and blessing of God, who “has given us light” (verses 22-27).
Colossians 3: 1-4
In the Early Church, the Baptism of new believers took place at Easter. In the Epistle reading (Colossians 3: 1-4), Baptism is described as sharing in Christ’s suffering and death and being raised with Christ to new life in Christ. So baptism has ethical implications for our discipleship: we are to cast aside both sins of the body and of the mind. In the baptised community, ethnic and social barriers are shattered, for “Christ is all and in all.”
Introducing the Gospel reading:
Mary Magdalene at Easter … a sculpture by Mary Grant at the west door of Lichfield Cathedral (Photograph: Patrick Comerford/Lichfield Gazette)
Early on the Sunday morning (“the first day of the week”) after the Crucifixion, before dawn, Mary Magdalene, who has been a witness to Christ’s death and burial, comes to the tomb and finds that the stone has been rolled away.
Initially it seems she is on her own, for she alone is named. But later she describes her experiences using the word “we,” which indicates she was with other women.
In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, these women are known as the Holy Myrrhbearers (Μυροφόροι), They include: The Myrrhbearers are traditionally listed as: Mary Magdalene, Mary, the mother of James and Joses, Mary, the wife of Cleopas, Martha of Bethany, sister of Lazarus, Mary of Bethany, sister of Lazarus, Joanna, the wife of Chuza the steward of Herod Antipas, Salome, the mother of James and John, the sons of Zebedee, and Susanna, although it is generally said that there are other Myrrhbearers whose names are not known.
Mary and these women run to tell Saint Peter and the other disciple (presumably Saint John the Evangelist) that they suspect someone has removed the body. The “other disciple” may have been younger and fitter for he outruns Saint Peter. The tidy way the linen wrappings and the shroud have been folded or rolled up shows that the body has not been stolen. They believe, yet they do not understand; they return home without any explanations.
But Mary still thinks Christ’s body has been removed or stolen, and she returns to the cemetery. In her grief, she sees “two angels in white” sitting where the body had been lying, one at the head, and one at the feet. They speak to her and then she turns around sees Christ, but only recognises him when he calls her by name.
Peter and John have returned without seeing the Risen Lord. It is left to Mary to tell the Disciples that she has seen the Lord. Mary Magdalene is the first witness of the Resurrection.
All four gospels are unanimous in telling us that the women are the earliest witnesses to the Risen Christ. In Saint John’s Gospel, the Risen Christ sends Mary Magdalene to tell the other disciples what she had seen. Mary becomes the apostle to the apostles.
The word apostle comes from the Greek ἀπόστολος (apóstólos), formed from the prefix ἀπό- (apó-, “from”) and the root στέλλω (stéllō, “I send,” “I depart”). So the Greek word ἀπόστολος or apostle means one sent.
In addition, at the end of the reading (see verse 18), Mary comes announcing what she has seen. The word used here (ἀγγέλλουσα, angéllousa) is from the word that gives us the Annunciation, the proclamation of the good news, the proclamation of the Gospel (Εὐαγγέλιον). Mary, in her proclamation of the Gospel of the Resurrection, is not only the apostle to the apostles, but also the first of the evangelists.
In Saint Matthew’s account of the Resurrection (Matthew 28: 1-15), two women go to the tomb, Mary Magdalene and “the other Mary,” go to the tomb at dawn, and while they are there the Angel of the Lord rolls back the stone and shows them the empty tomb. But they do not see the Risen Christ – he is already on his way to Galilee, and there they shall see him. They return to the disciples and tell them what they have seen.
On their way, Jesus meets them “suddenly” and greets them. But Saint Matthew is unclear about whether this first appearance is to the women, to the women and the disciples, or to the disciples.
In Saint Mark’s Gospel (Mark 16), the stone has already been rolled back when the women arrive at the tomb. Inside the tomb, a young man (or angel) speaks to them, and they are told to go and tell Saint Peter and the Disciples that Christ is going ahead of them to Galilee. The longer ending of Saint Mark’s Gospel then tells us that Christ first appeared to Mary Magdalene, but the disciples would not believe them. He then appears to two walking in the countryside, and only then appears later in the day to the 11 remaining disciples.
In Saint Luke’s Gospel (Luke 24), the women go to the tomb and find the stone is rolled away. They are Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and other women. They tell the disciples, who do not believe them, and later Peter goes to the empty tomb and is amazed at what he sees. But the first appearance of the Risen Christ is to the two disciples on the road to Emmaus.
Saint Paul tells us that the Risen Christ first appeared to Cephas (Peter), then to the twelve, then to 500 at one time, then to James, then to all the apostles, and finally to Paul himself (see I Corinthians 15: 3-8).
Why does Saint Paul not name the women?
What does Saint Paul count all 12 disciples?
Why does Saint Paul name Saint Peter but not Saint John, and why does he name Saint James separately?
Who are the 500?
Who are apostles here?
‘Noli me tangere’
‘Noli Me Tangere’ (ca 1500), an icon in the Museum of Byzantine Icons (Museo dei Dipinti Sacri Bizantini), next to San Giorgio dei Greci in Venice
In the Fourth Gospel, when Mary first sees Christ, she does not recognise him. In this reading, the Greek is regularly phrased in the present tense: Mary Magdalene comes to the tomb (verse 1), she sees (verse 1), she runs, she comes, and she says (verse 2); John sees (verse 5), Simon Peter then comes, and he sees (verse 6); Mary sees the two angels (verse 12), they say to her and she says to them that she does not know (verse 13); she then sees Jesus (verse 14); Jesus says to her (verse 15, and again verses 16 and 17) – notice this is three times in all; and she then comes announcing what she has seen and heard.
The language is constantly punctuated with ‘and’ giving it a rapid, fast-moving pace, rather like the pace in Saint Mark’s Gospel. This is a present, real, living experience for all involved, and not one single episode that be relegated to the past.
The Risen Christ does things he did not do before: he appears in locked rooms, there is something different about his appearance, his friends do not realise immediately who he is. This is the same Jesus, but something has changed.
Why does Jesus tell Mary: “Do not hold onto me” (Μή μου ἅπτου, Noli me tangere)?
How do we recognise new life in the Risen Christ?
How do understand the invitation from the Risen Christ to feast with him?
When we accept the new life Christ offers, how does our vision change?
Where do we see the presence of the Risen Christ?
Do we see his presence in the people and places we like and that please us?
Can we see him in the people we do like to and in the situations we find challenging? – the hungry child, the fleeing refugee, the begging person on the street, the homeless addict sleeping in the doorway or sitting on the Liffey boardwalk?
Is my heart changed by the Risen Christ?
Where do I see the broken and bruised Body of Christ needing restoration and Resurrection?
Do I know him in the word he speaks to me and in the breaking of the bread?
Is the presence of the Risen Christ a living experience for me, this morning?
Is Easter an every-morning, every-day, living experience for me, or one we all-too-easily relegate to the past and to history?
Canon Patrick Comerford is Lecturer in Anglicanism, Liturgy and Church History, the Church of Ireland Theological Institute, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor, Trinity College Dublin. These notes were prepared for a Bible study in a tutorial group with MTh students on 12 April 2014.
Labels: Bible Studies, Easter 2014, Lent 2014, Lichfield Cathedral, Lichfield Gazette, Saint John's Gospel, Venice
Art for Lent (39): ‘The Raising of Lazarus’
(ca 1310/1311) by Duccio di Buoninsegna
The Raising of Lazarus by Duccio di Buoninsegna (ca 1260-1318), Kimbell Art Museum
This Saturday – the Saturday before Palm Sunday – is known traditionally in the Orthodox Church as Lazarus Saturday, and the appointed Gospel reading is the same as the reading in Revised Common Lectionary for last Sunday (6 April 2014): John 11: 1-45.
In the Orthodox Church, Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday together hold a unique position as days of joy and triumph coming between the penitence of Great Lent and the mourning of Holy Week.
The theme of the raising of Lazarus dominates all Orthodox services on Lazarus Saturday, while at the same time looking forward to Christ’s resurrection on Easter Day. The scripture readings and hymns for Lazarus Saturday focus on the raising of Lazarus as a foreshadowing of the Resurrection of Christ and as a promise of the General Resurrection. A number of the hymns, written in the first or second person, symbolically relate the death, burial and shroud of Lazarus to one’s own sinful state. Many of the hymns with Resurrection themes in a normal Sunday service that are omitted on Palm Sunday are chanted today on Lazarus Saturday.
Many Orthodox people abstain from meat and dairy products on Lazarus Saturday, although wine and oil are allowed, and special spice breads called Lazarakia are made in Greece and eaten. In Greece, it is a custom on Lazarus Saturday to make elaborate crosses out of palm leaves or olive branches that are then used the next day, Palm Sunday.
So, for my work of Art for Lent this morning (12 April 2014), I have chosen ‘The Raising of Lazarus’ by the Tuscan artist Duccio di Buoninsegna (ca 1260-1318), is regarded as the father of Sienese painting and one of the founders of Western art.
Duccio di Buoninsegna was born in Siena, where he worked in the late 13th and early 14th centuries on important works for government and religious buildings. However, only 13 or so works by Duccio survive to this day.
Although we know little about his early life and family, it seems he was married with seven children. He achieved fame as an artist in his own lifetime and became one of the most favoured and radical painters in Siena. Some art historians and critics suggest he travelled to Constantinople where he trained under a Byzantine master, and his painting style closely resembles the artwork of Byzantium.
This work, dating from ca 1310/1311, is in tempera and gold on panel and measures 43.5 x 46 cm. It is in the Kimbell Art Museum, Forth Worth, Texas.
On the bottom right of the painting we can see evidence of a fairly drastic change of mind by the artist. Originally the tomb was a horizontal sarcophagus placed at the foot of the hill on which Lazarus was probably sitting. The result was evidently not to the artist’s satisfaction and the sarcophagus was transformed into a sepulchre dug out of the rock. This change also affected the risen figure of Lazarus, so that as a consequence he assumes a peculiar oblique position.
The spontaneous gesture of the character sitting beside the open tomb and holding his nose is remarkably lifelike.
The canon on the Resurrection of Lazarus by Saint Andrew of Crete, chanted at Vespers the night before Lazarus Saturday, is also a preparation for Holy Week:
We have completed the forty days
that bring profit to our soul.
Now we ask you in your love for us:
Grant us also to behold the Holy Week
of your suffering and death,
so that in it we may glorify your mighty acts
and your purpose for us,
too great for words.
May we sing with one accord:
O Lord, glory be to you.
During the Divine Liturgy, the baptismal hymn, “As many as have been baptised into Christ have put on Christ” (Romans 6: 3) is sung in place of the Trisagion. This may indicate that this was at one time a day traditionally for baptisms.
‘Come out, Lazar’ (Paul Spicer, the Chapel Choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge)
I first became aware of this morning’s painting through the album cover for Paul Spicer’s Come out, Lazar, recorded in 2009 by the Chapel Choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge, directed by Sarah MacDonald, with Claire Innes-Hopkins on the organ (Regent Records, 2009, total playing time: 63’59”).
Paul Spicer began his musical training as a chorister at New College, Oxford. He studied with Herbert Howells and Richard Popplewell (organ) at the Royal College of Music in London, winning the Walford Davies Organ Prize in his final year. He now conducts the Chamber Choirs at the Royal College of Music in London, and the Birmingham Conservatoire, and is Professor of Choral Conducting at both institutions.
I first came across his work in Lichfield, where he has lived in The Close since 1990, and he was Artistic Director of the Lichfield International Arts Festival for 11 years. His Easter Oratorio was commissioned for performance in Lichfield Cathedral in 2000, and the libretto was written by his close friend, the then Dean of Lichfield Cathedral, Tom Wright, to mark the 1300th anniversary of Lichfield Cathedral. The Independent described it as “almost operatic in its inherent drama” and as being “a major contribution to the choral society repertoire.” He remains a member of the Council of Lichfield Cathedral.
The anthem Come out, Lazar is the title track and the most substantial work on the 2009 recording by the Chapel Choir of Selwyn College. It is a dramatic, and almost apocalyptic, setting for mediaeval poetry, in this case an anonymous 14th century English text. It was commissioned by Ralph Allwood in 1984 for a BBC Radio 3 broadcast by the Uppingham Choral Course.
Spicer says he has always loved mediaeval poetry, and found a natural appeal in the poem Come out, Lazar (Lazarus). “It had everything I wanted for this commission.”
The anthem is basically in an ABACA form, with the B and C sections being reflective. It takes every opportunity to use the words descriptively. The final triumphant section (“For with that word he won the field …”) builds up to a huge climax on the word “might,” and the final page keeps the excitement building to the end.
The words of this anonymous mediaeval poem are:
Come out, Lazar!
Come out, Lazaro, what so befall.
Then might not the fiend of hell
Longer make that soule to dwell.
So dreadful was that ilke cry
To that feloun, our enemy.
The kinges trumpet blew a blast;
Come out! it said, be not aghast.
With that voice the fiend gan quake,
As doth the leaf when windes wake.
Come out is now a wonder soun,
It hath o’er come that foul feloun
And all his careful [wretched] company.
For dread thereof they gunne cry;
Yet is come out a wonder song,
For it has broken the prison strong.
Fetters, chains, and bondes mo [besides]
That wroughten wretched soules woe.
That kinges voice so free
It maketh the devil and death to flee.
Say me now thou serpent sly,
Is not ‘Come out!’ an asper cry?
‘Come out’ is a word of battle,
For it gan helle soon [at once] t’assail.
Why stoppest thou not, fiend, thine ear?
That this word enter not there?
He that said that word of might,
Shop him felly to the fight. [Advanced valiantly to battle.]
For with that word he won the field
Withouten spear, withouten shield,
And brought them out of prison strong,
That were enholden there with wrong.
Tell now, tyrant, where is thy might?
‘Come out!’ hath felled it all with fight.
As we look towards Easter, it is worth noting how the final triumphant section (“For with that word he won the field …”) builds up to a huge climax on the word “might,” and the final page keeps the excitement building to the end.
Notes produced five years ago by the Chapel of Trinity College Cambridge for Choral Evensong on 12 May 2009 helpfully explain some of the more difficult or obscure vocabulary in this poem:
1 feloun: traitor
2 gan quake: quaked
3 wonder: wonderful
4 careful: wretched
5 gunne cry: cried
6 mo: besides
7 free: noble
8 asper: harsh
9 soon: at once
10 shop him felly to the fight: advanced valiantly to battle.
Tomorrow: ‘Entry into the City’ (2012), by John August Swanson.
Labels: Art, Cambridge, Lent 2014, Lichfield, Lichfield Cathedral, Music, Poetry, Theology and Culture
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Trump Is an Unpopular Authoritarian Nightmare
Posted by Melissa McEwan at Friday, August 31, 2018
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll has found that Donald Trump's disapproval rating has hit an all-time high of 60 percent; that 53 percent of respondents believe he has attempted to interfere with Mueller's investigation in a way that amounts to obstruction of justice; and that 49 percent of respondents believe Congress should begin impeachment proceedings against him.
Further:
The president has fired a near-daily barrage of tweets labeling the probe a "witch hunt" and attacking the credibility of Mueller and several current and former Justice Department officials.
But 63 percent of Americans support Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, with 52 percent saying they support it strongly; 29 percent oppose the probe.
...Trump has ratcheted up his public attacks on Sessions in recent weeks and has consulted his personal attorneys and other advisers about firing the attorney general, whom he has viewed as insufficiently loyal after Sessions recused himself last year from overseeing the Russia investigation because of a conflict of interest.
But the public is squarely behind Sessions. Sixty-four percent of Americans do not think Trump should fire Sessions, with 19 percent saying he should and 17 percent saying they have no opinion. Nearly half of Republicans, 47 percent, say Trump should not fire the attorney general, with 31 percent saying he should.
Just under a quarter of Americans, 23 percent, say they agree with Trump's criticisms of Sessions for allowing the Mueller investigation to proceed, while 62 percent say they side with Sessions, who has said he is following the law.
If Trump had wanted the public to rally around his white supremacist, misogynist, queer-hating, traitorous Attorney General, he couldn't have found a better way than publicly attacking him in a sustained way. Cough.
Sessions was a hideous selection for Attorney General, but because he's a rank bigot, not because he recused himself from the Russia investigation. But if he is fired, he'll be fired because Trump is trying to obstruct justice — and to punish Sessions for refusing to do the same.
That leaves the Republicans' campaign to discredit Bob Mueller. Which clearly isn't working. So Trump has put his best man on the job.
"Trump's legal team is crafting a 'counter-report' that will seek to delegitimize Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election meddling and present countervailing arguments." That's fine. Everything is fine. 😬 https://t.co/VN5uvIv3SF
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) August 31, 2018
During a typical administration, a poll finding that the public so strongly disfavors a first-term president and his strategies would be good news, because we could expect the pressures of popular support for reelection to force necessary changes. But the Trump Regime is not a typical administration. It is instead an administration led by a destructive megalomaniac who feels increasingly backed into a corner, whose party has abandoned any loyalty to country or democracy or the voters they are meant to represent in order to consolidate power behind their authoritarian president.
So these numbers are not good news at all. They are a harbinger that Trump will lash out ever more viciously, and an indication of how truly lost we already are, that popular opinion among We the People no longer has the capacity to effect change.
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Stallingborough, Methodist Church
The former Wesleyan Methodist chapel on Station Road opened in 1865 - the datestone says 1864.
The front section of the building was demolished in 1965 and a new façade built to face the road.
Stallingborough, Methodist chapel, Wesleyan
Stallingborough, St Peter & St Paul
St Peter and St Paul in Stallingborough was built in 1745-6 and is a typical Georgian ‘box’ shape.
The Victorians got at the interior leaving little of interest save brass and alabaster monuments to members of the Ayscough family.
Stallingborough, St Peter & St Paul church, Georgian, brick
This Georgian church is built of dull brick of varied colour, with brick quoins and a course of dentillation below the eaves.
The nave and lower part of the tower are in Flemish Bond; the upper part of the tower - darker brick and presumably of a later date - is in English Garden Wall Bond.
Contrasting stone is used for the window surrounds and the bell openings.
Stallingborough, St Peter & St Paul church, brick
Stallingborough, Windmill (1)
This six-storeyed mill on a site south of the village centre was built in 1875.
Jon Sass Collection, photograph by D W Muggeridge, 1934
Stallingborough, windmill, Jon Sass
In 1957 this mill was caught out by a tailwind which wrecked the top.
Location of mill: TA 191 106
Stallingborough, windmill, Peter Kirk
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Home > Topics > Android > News > Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 Reportedly Getting Android 4.4 (KitKat) Update Soon
Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 Reportedly Getting Android 4.4 (KitKat) Update Soon
February 7, 2014 by Ed Hardy Reads (11,828)
An upgrade to the latest version of Google‘s mobile operating system is heading to a pair of Samsung tablets, according to an unconfirmed report.
The most notable of these is the Galaxy Note 8.0, which debuted almost a year ago with Android 4.1.2 (Jellybean). Both it and the Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 will be moving up to Android 4.4 (KitKat) if a report from Phandroid is correct.
There has been no word of similar upgrades for the other models in the Galaxy Tab 3 series, or the very popular Samsung Galaxy 10.1 (2014).
While most people welcome system software upgrades, KitKat has little to offer tablet users, other than marginally better performance and some user interface tweaks. Still, the Android OS is heavily fragmented, with just 2.2% of device owners on version 4.4, so more people moving to the most recent version would be good news for third-party software developers.
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Do Streaming Music Services Make iTunes 11 Obsolete?
By: Greg Dorn
Earlier in the year, Apple had promised eager iTunes users that a highly anticipated and sorely needed update would arrive by the end of October. As October came and went, the promise was bumped to November. As we waited and waited, it seemed as though Apple once again would fail to deliver. Then, on nearly the last possible day, November 29, the update finally rolled out. The Apple stratosphere let out a collective sigh of relief…at least for the time being. In reality, the update was more of a redesign, adding few truly new features that would woo back the legions of iTunes haters (yes, there are many). 2012 was no doubt the year when streaming music services broke out into the mainstream, led by the U.S. debut of the ever-popular Spotify. So as we look back at a year where streaming music trumped owning music, is iTunes 11 really anything to celebrate?
In reality, there really isn’t a straightforward answer to this question. Whether you prefer to jam out to music you own or stream it through a service is really a matter of preference. Personally, I don’t see what the iTunes haters complain about when listing their countless gripes. Even before the cleaned-up user interface of iTunes 11, it was a great hub for storing and listening to music you owned.
On the other side of the spectrum are the streaming services. Although paid levels of such services like Pandora and Spotify do exist, one can also search and listen to virtually any song or album for free.
Hence, the real question we should be asking is who are the winners here, and who are the losers? The answer undoubtedly points to the users, who come out on top. With a plethora of streaming services out there (it seems as though another one pops up every day), the music lover is presented with a smorgasbord of choices to choose from. And for those who do prefer to own their music, iTunes will always be around.
Of course with every winner, there must be a loser, and currently it’s the streaming music services. The reason is simple: music royalties. Pandora and Spotify might give off the essence of success, but a humongous chunk of their revenue goes straight back to the record companies. Pandora, relying mainly on advertisement, has never had a profitable year. Just last week, the music service shares went tumbling 20%. Spotify has seen similarly unfortunate realities. Chief executive Daniel Ek has gone on record stating that it has paid about 70% of its income to royalties throughout their history.
So while these heavyweights of the streaming game appear to raking in the dough, it’s a different story behind the scenes. But as long as such services keep running, which they will, the music lover wins. And with Apple continuing to improve their decade-old music service (along with rumors of entering the Internet-radio game themselves), the options are endless. Do streaming-music services make iTunes 11 irrelevant? No. It will only result in Apple stepping up their game and continuing to improve on an already solid product.
Greg Dorn is a blogger, writer, and obsessed with everything technology and social media. Greg is absolutely captivated with the recent advancements in mobile gadgets, making our world more seamlessly connected. You can learn more about him on his own blog here.
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Robert Loerzel's blog on music and the arts
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Magnolia Electric Co. at the Hideout
The new album by Magnolia Electric Co., Josephine, doesn’t come out until next week (July 21, to be precise), but the band was in Chicago this past weekend for a couple of shows. What’s with all the bands touring lately before their records are available? The assumption seems to be that the fans are going to hear advance copies anyway… Or maybe the bands see it as a good way to introduce their new material. In case you haven’t figured it out yet, you can usually buy copies of the new CDs and LPS at the merch table at these concerts, even if the albums aren’t officially available yet. And buying music straight from the band at the merch table seems like the surest way of putting money right into the musicians’ pockets. The prices are usually reasonable, too — $10 or less is the regular going price for CDs. I did pick up a copy of Josephine Sunday night (July 12) at the Hideout, and so far, it seems like an excellent addition to the Magnolia Electric Co. repertoire.
It’s too bad Chicago can’t quite claim that MECo (to use the common abbreviation for this band) is a local group any longer. Singer-songwriter-frontman Jason Molina used to live in Andersonville, and I once had the pleasure of interviewing him during an afternoon visit to Simon’s Tap. Lately, he’s been living in London, but thankfully he does make it back here once in a while to play gigs.
Sunday night’s show followed a gig on the previous night at Schubas, which I missed. The Hideout performance was very, very solid, with Molina and his Hoosier bandmates ripping through a fair number of new songs as well as old classics like “Riding With the Ghost.” I may have said this before on this blog, but I think that’s really one of the great songs of the last decade. From what I could tell from eyeing the guitar frets during this performance, Molina & Co. are playing it in a somewhat lower key than the studio version, which I have blundered my way through on acoustic guitar a few times. Guitarist Jason Evans Groth’s leads and solos on the rendition Sunday night were absolutely blazing, which more than made up for the fact that the band plays this song live without the female vocals that you hear on the studio version.
Josephine is a being billed as a concept album, “an honest-to-God effort on the part of Magnolia Electric Co. to pay tribute to the life and spirit” of the band’s former bassist, Evan Farrell, who died in late 2007. But it’s not a straightforward record about Farrell. Rather, it is filled with references to the woman in the title. I’m still making sense of how the lyrics in this song cycle fit together, but it’s suffused with longing and a sense of loss, topics that Molina has sung about before. In concert, the words sounded sincere, and so did the singing sound of those guitars.
An mp3 from the new Magnolia Electric Co. record, “Sad Little Eyes,” is available for download here.
www.magnoliaelectricco.com
www.myspace.com/magnoliaelectricco
The show had two opening acts. Sally Timms played another set similar to the one I wrote about recently at Schubas, backed once again by the subtle and pretty sounds of Mar Caribe. (www.myspace.com/marcaribemusic)
The first act of the evening was a cool discovery: Elephant Micah, will calls itself “an imaginary band since 2000.” Based in Bloomington, Ind., this is another one of those indie bands that basically started out as the recording project of one individual — in this case, Joe O’Connell. For this Hideout show, however, Elephant Micah seemed more like an actual folk-rock ensemble, playing some very quiet and gentle songs that had the audience silently spellbound. I later bought the Elephant Micah CD Hindu Windmill at the merch table. It’s very lo-fi — the sort of recording that includes the sound of the tape-recorder being turned off at the end of songs. The intimacy of it reminds me of the first recordings by Great Lake Swimmers. I’m excited to hear what Elephant Micah records in the future with the full band.
www.elephantmicah.com
www.myspace.com/elephantmicah
Photos of Magnolia Electric Co., Sally Timms and Elephant Micah.
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Noncommittal reply may kill auto industry 2012-07-17 - VietNamNet
The plan by the Ministry of Transport (MOT) to collect fees to reduce the number of personal vehicles in circulation has not been legalized yet. However, automobile joint ventures have suffered from the plan.
The Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (VAMA) finally has received the answer from MOT after it many times shouted for help, asking to cancel the plan to collect fees to reduce personal vehicles and reduce the car ownership registration tax to 10 percent.
In the Dispatch No. 5299, MOT said the Prime Minister has instructed the ministry to join forces with relevant ministries and local authorities to work out thoroughly on the fee collection plan.
MOT still needs to consult with relevant ministries and consider the opinions from the public about the plan, so as to suggest reasonable and feasible steps for the implementation of the plan.
It would take MOT and relevant ministries time, possibly several years, to follow the above said steps before MOT can suggest a reasonable roadmap for the implementation.
MOT has emphasized that the fee collection plan would be feasible only if it is advocated by the public.
The MOT’s document has made people excited. They believe that this should be seen as a positive factor for the automobile market, and that MOT would reconsider the intention to collect fees.
With the positive sign, VAMA has put a high hope that the automobile market would warm up again in the time to come. Though being skeptical, the association has predicted that the total car sales in 2012 may be higher than 100,000.
Prior to that, in April and May 2012, VAMA predicted that only 80,000 cars would be sold this year.
However, some analysts have warned that it’s too early to rejoice, saying that the document is “ambiguous” with no committal answer about whether to cancel the fee collection plan.
The document says that MOT would still have to consult with relevant ministries and branches about the plan, which may take several more years. Meanwhile, it does not give the direct answer to the question about whether to impose these kinds of fees.
As such, paying the fees to restrict personal vehicles remains a risk hung over car owners. In other words, the above said document by MOT has just helped reassure automobile manufacturers with the statement that the fee collection would not be carried out in the immediate time.
Meanwhile, a concrete answer about whether to collect fees and when to collect fee is very necessary for automobile manufacturers to draw up their business plans.
In the document No. 3212 sent to the Ministry of Transport, VAMA asked for a working session with Minister of Transport Dinh La Thang to discuss the fee policy – the one that is believed to lead to the sharp falls of the car sales recently and the gloomy market.
However, instead of a meeting, VAMA has received a document which can be interpreted in different ways.
Unclear policies have hindered the development of the automobile industry. Meanwhile, automobile manufacturing is the end of the enterprises in support industries.
Truong Chi Binh from the Industry Policy Institute under the Ministry of Industry and Trade said that just after two weeks since the day the MOT suggested collecting fees, the production line making Kia cars at Truong Hai Auto Corporation had to stop operation.
The total car sales in the first half of 2012 reduced by 41 percent in comparison with the same period of the last year.
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Elijah Wood Explains His Move Into VR with Psychological Thriller ‘Transference’, by Patrick Shanley
Courtesy of Ubisoft
The star’s production company, SpectreVision, has teamed up with Ubisoft to produce a game that’s left players “unsettled, uncomfortable and walking away from it still thinking about what they experienced.”
Elijah Wood is the latest of Hollywood’s big names to dip his toe in the waters of video gaming.Teaming up with French video game studio Ubisoft, Wood’s production company SpectreVision (which he co-founded in 2010 as The Woodshed before rebranding to its current title in 2013) has finished its first foray into VR gaming with Transference, a psychological thriller that puts players into the uploaded memory data of a traumatized mental patient. The game is due to be released in spring of 2018 on PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, as well as on the Xbox One family of devices, including and Windows PC.
While a number of other Hollywood stars have ventured into the realm of gaming, Wood is unique in that he is producing Transference, not providing his services as a voice actor (though he has done so in the past in games such as Tim Schafer’s Broken Agein 2014).
SpectreVision has exclusively produced horror and genre films since its inception, and while Transference‘s creepy atmosphere matches the company’s pedigree, it is a entirely different experience crafting a VR game than producing a narrative film.
Heat Vision caught up with Wood to discuss his new collaborative project, his thoughts on VR and the possibility of producing more games in the future.
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Watch Brands Guide
Someting New from France
Audaceone -
Courtesy of Audaceone
A new brand based in France, harnessing the best of both French and Swiss watch making skills. This is Audaceone, and their first model - the Square.
Available in a Titanium Carbon version (above), and a Titanium DLC Carbon version (below).
Each titanium version is limited to 60 pieces, and also available in 2 different rose gold versions -
The gold versions are limited to 15 versions in each gold execution.
But back to the titanium versions -
Here are the pertinents for the Square Titanium Carbon -
Diameter : 42 mm (without crown)
Bezel and case back:
Titanium TA6V (Grade 5)
Micro blasted and polished
Bezel engraved with logo at 3
Winding crown:
Rubber collar
Sapphire anti-glare treatment
Blue index
Hours, minutes, seconds
Date at 6
Blue seconds hand
Bracelet:
Bi-material - rubber and leather
Buckle:
Vaucher Manufacture
VMF 3002
Self-winding 50H power reserve
Movement details
189 components
Double barrel rapid rotation in series
Frequency : 4hz (28’800 Ah)
Anti-shock : Incabloc
Tungsten oscillating weight
Ceramic Ball Bearing
Balance with variable inertia
Gold inertia blocks
Posted by James at 12:15 PM
Labels: Audaceone, Square, Square Titanium, Vaucher, Vaucher 3002
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