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"Small town lifestyle in the heart of Metro-Detroit"
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What's New in Center Line?
The city is currently accepting applications for the position of Part-Time Department of Public Works Maintenance.
Go to this link for more information and to download an application.
DPW Part-Time Maintenance
Cattleman’s Quietly Opens to the Public
Cattleman’s Meat Co. welcomes carnivores to their new and unique store in Center Line with little flair, but lots to offer. According to Cattleman’s Meat Co. Manager, Brandon Ulewicz, the long-time specialty meat market has expanded into the east side with their first location in Center Line. “We have turned an empty former grocery store into a place where you can get not only our top quality specialty meats, but also prepared foods, deli, groceries, and produce all in one place”. The new business replaced the former Shopper’s Market store which closed its doors in 2016. City Manager, Dennis E. Champine indicated that Cattleman’s made a large investment and rebuilt the more than 45,000 square foot facility interior and refaced the exterior in its entirety creating a business that will serve hundreds of thousands of Macomb, Oakland and Wayne County residents on the northeast side of Metro-Detroit. “Center Line is uniquely positioned right in the heart of the seven county southeastern Michigan region, and is literally in the Heart of Metro-Detroit”, said Champine. “Center Line really is a great small-town community where these kind of investments will pay off simply because of its location, where businesses have access to Michigan’s most density populated area. We really are in the center of it all, with more than 500,000 people living with 5 miles of our community”. Champine pointed out that the timing couldn’t be more perfect as the city continues its aggressive efforts to redevelop its Downtown District. Mayor Robert Binson also praised Cattleman’s new location in his community. “What a awesome anchor to other ‘Mom and Pop’ shops and other small, and large commercial business opportunities and investments!”. According to Mayor Binson, the City of Center Line has begun seeing a substantial increase in interest in Center Line’s Downtown District. “The City Hall phones are ringing off the hook ever since Cattleman’s and others have begun arriving in the Downtown District”. Mayor Binson pointed out that many buildings that have sat vacant for years are now beginning to see new tenants, and several vacant properties city-wide now have plans for new development.
For more information regarding the City of Center Line Downtown District, please go to http://centerline.gov/360/Downtown-Development-Authority-DDA..
“Downspout Follow-up Compliance Inspections”
Click the link for more information
DOWNSPOUT INSPECTIONS EXPLAINED:
The 37th District Court located in Center Line City Hall is closed until further notice.
Appointments to Boards and Commissions in the City of Center Line
are open to all residents. ( There are currently two vacancies on the DDA Board of Directors)
Generally, the only requirement is city residency. All Boards and Commission members are appointed by the
Mayor and/or City Council for specific terms depending on the Board or Commission.
Go to this link for more information: https://www.centerline.gov/263/Boards-Commissions
The City currently accepting applications for the following Boards or Commissions:
Planning Commision
DDA Board of Directors
Recreational Commission
If you are interested in serving on any of these boards, applications are available online or available at City Hall
Board & Commission Skill Sets List
Boards & Commissions Application
The City of Center Line is redevelopment ready.
The City of Center Line is committed to involving the community in its planning, development and improvement processes. The following links have been prepared with the purpose of setting policies and procedures to involve residents in Citywide initiatives and to provide City staff a guide of community engagement strategies and methods.
Public Participation Guide
WATER CONSERVATION TECHNIQUES IN THE HOME
Click to see informative flyer
LINK to the Document Center for all City Forms
FOR ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING THESE FORMS PLEASE CALL 586-757-6800
You can see your ballot here: Public Ballot
Absentee Ballots-
can be put in the silver box by the front door of City Hall.
We are open 8:30am to 500pm weekdays so you can also bring it into city hall.
There is now a ballot box located at City Hall where you can safely drop off your ballot at any time.
CITY OF CENTER LINE: IMPORTANT VOTER REGISTRATION & ABSENTEE BALLOT REQUEST INFORMATION:
• CITY CLERK OFFICE is OPEN. DURING REGULAR BUSINESS HOURS 8:30AM – 5:00PM
The City of Center Line is looking for election inspectors to work the November elections
Click here for an application
ATTENTION VOTERS
DID YOU KNOW…. You can skip the line on Election Day and vote by mail? Voting has never been easier! With the passage of Proposal 18-3 last November, new changes are available for Michigan voters. One of the biggest changes is that ALL eligible registered voters in Michigan may now request an absent voter ballot without providing a reason. You can also request to be placed on the permanent absentee voter list to save a step in the future. Visit or call the Center Line City Hall to request an application prior to any Election, request to be placed on the permanent list, or if you have any questions about the process (586)757-6800 Janice Pockrandt Deputy City Clerk
Mon Feb. 1
Library Commission Meeting
Center Line City Council Regular Meeting
Mon Mar. 1
Social Media Quick Links
City of Centerline Facebook
Center Line Public Safety Facebook
Center Line K9 Foundation Facebook
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Center Line Parks & Recreation Facebook
Center Line Cyclers Facebook
Center Line Downtown Development Authority Facebook
Center Line Independence Festival Facebook
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City of Center Line YouTube Channel
City of Center Line
7070 East Ten Mile Road
Center Line, MI 48015
Hours: 8:30 am - 5 pm
Dennis Champine - City Manager
Email Dennis
Where can I find more information regarding my property taxes?
What precinct am I in?
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Home Entertainment Smarty Scoop On Weekend Events March 8-10
EntertainmentEventsThings To Do
Smarty Scoop On Weekend Events March 8-10
written by CSP Team March 6, 2019
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets In Concert
2700 E. Independence Blvd., Charlotte, NC
March 8, 8:00pm, March 9, 2:00pm, $30-$80, Buy tickets here!
Summary: For the first time ever, audiences around the world are experiencing each full film from one of the most beloved series in history, projected in HD on the big screen, while a full symphony orchestra performs the unforgettable score live to picture.
American Girl Live!
McGlohon Theater At Spirit Square
March 8-9, See website for schedule, $25+
345 N. College Street, Charlotte, NC
Summary: In American Girl Live, a new, original, 90-minute musical that celebrates the power of girls and strength of friendship, audiences join five spunky campers and their fearless counselor at Camp American Girl, an overnight camp in the North Woods. Overcoming fears and obstacles along the way to having the summer of their lives.
430 S. Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC
March 8-17, See website for schedule, All ages, $15-$85
Summary: Take your imagination on an adventure at Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux’s Peter Pan. One of our dancers’ favorite performances, Peter Pan includes extravagant sets and costumes, marvelous dance and an experience you’ll never, never forget.
Run Jen Run 5k & Festival
4400 Sharon Road, Charlotte, NC
March 9, 8:00am, All ages, Register here!
Summary: The 7th annual Run Jen Run 5k, Fun Run and Festival will have a Kids Fun Zone with bounce houses, games, face and hair painting, obstacle course, team mascots and more! All finishers will receive a race medal and all participants older than 21 will receive a post-run beer!
ImaginOn: The Joe & Joan Martin Center
300 E. 7th Street, Charlotte, NC
March 9, 1:00pm-1:45pm, Ages 3-11, Free
Summary: Join us for this magical event! High energy, interactive, magic show with over-the-top fun and laughs. Event is FREE.
301 N. Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC (704) 372-6261
Summary: Step into a world where science is brought to life through interactive exhibits and explosive experiments during daily programs. Connect with the past and visit the future with groundbreaking exhibitions, larger-than-life IMAX Dome films and hands on activities that let you explore more. Plan your visit today. Click on the links below for detailed information on special events, featured exhibitions, featured shows and IMAX.
Featured Exhibitions: For information on all exhibitions click here.
Featured Shows: For information on all featured shows click here.
IMAX: For information on all featured movies and showtimes click here.
Discovery Place Kids – Huntersville
105 Gilead Road, Huntersville, NC (704) 372-6261
Summary: Explore the theme of I CAN at Discovery Place KIDS-Huntersville. The children’s museum features developmentally-appropriate experiences that encourage imagination and offer the opportunity to build confidence while testing skills by trying new things. The exhibits, themed around a small town, allow children to learn through play.
Theme Areas: For a complete description of all nine theme areas click here.
Featured Shows: For a complete listing of all featured shows click here.
Current and Upcoming Events: For all current and upcoming events click here.
Charlotte Nature Museum
1658 Sterling Road, Charlotte, NC (704) 372-6261
Summary: Bring little ones for just an hour or the whole day and experience wildlife through live animal exhibits and interactive education programs. The Museum is easy to navigate with fun surprises around every corner. Kids can roam The Great Hall and visit Beginnings, an area filled with young animals and information on their lifecycles.
Featured Exhibitions: For complete details on exhibitions and exhibits click here.
Featured Shows: For a complete schedule of show times click here.
300 Carowinds Blvd., Charlotte, NC
See website for schedule and events
Explore: what’s new, calendar and hours, park map and directions
Play: rides and attractions, shows and entertainment, special events
Stay: camp wilderness, preferred hotels, special discounts, easy pay
Bojangles’ Coliseum
Spectrum Center
333 E Trade St, Charlotte, NC
YMCA of Greater Charlotte Event Calendar
19 Locations throughout the Greater Charlotte Area
Summary: Most people know their neighborhood “Y” because of its incredible sports, camps and fitness programs but the “Y” has so much more to offer. Spend some time (it will take a while) on the website and learn about all the opportunities the “Y” provides. I promise, you will be amazed.
Free Wednesday Evenings At The Mint Museum
The Mint Museum – Randolph
2730 Randolph Road, Charlotte, NC
The Mint Museum – Uptown
Every Wednesday from 5:00pm – 9:00pm, All ages
Summary:Enjoy free access to both Mint Museum locations every Wednesday night.
Bank of America’s Museums On Us Day
Various locations around Charlotte
The first Sunday and Saturday of every month, All ages, Free
Summary: Now in its 20th year, this distinctive program offers Bank of America and Merrill Lynch credit and debit card holders the opportunity to visit more than 150 of the most popular cultural institutions in the United States free of charge on the first full weekend of every month.
300 E. 7th Street, Charlotte, NC (704) 416-4630
See website for hours of operation
Summary: This collaborative effort between the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library and Children’s Theatre of Charlotte is a 102,000-square-foot facility recently ranked by Livability.com as the No. 1 children’s library in the United States. ImaginOn features two state-of-the-art theaters, a dedicated library space for kids 11 and under, four multi-use classrooms, a teen-only library, a multimedia production studio, and interactive exhibit space.
6000 Sample Road, Huntersville, NC (704) 875-6521
Summary: Carolina Raptor Center is dedicated to environmental stewardship and the conservation of birds of prey through education, research, and the rehabilitation of injured and orphaned raptors. As a charitable 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, CRC relies on public financial support to fulfill our mission. Supporters can release a raptor, adopt a bird, make a charitable donation, purchase a membership or sponsor a capital improvement project. CRC’s environmental education programs reach approximately 40,000 students each year. Our Raptor Trail hosts more than 35,000 visitors a year. Visit our calendar page for event times or just come and enjoy our nicely maintained trails and see all the amazing birds of prey.
The Schiele Museum of Natural History
1500 East Garrison Blvd, Gastonia, NC (704) 866-6900
Summary: The natural wonders of North America and North Carolina coupled with the rich history of our region are all reflected in The Schiele’s exceptional exhibitions and diverse programming. Whether you’re indoors or out, with the kids or your colleagues, by bringing you a lot closer to nature, The Schiele will bring you a little closer to yourself.
Featured Exhibits: For a complete listing click here
Planetarium: For a complete schedule click here
Events Calendar: For all events click here
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(Tyler/Perry)
(Original Album: Aerosmith, 1973)
We all live on the edge of town,
where we all live ain't a soul around.
people start a-comin' all we do is just a-grin,
said we gotta move out cause the city's movin' in,
said we gotta move out cause the city's movin' in.
tell me who ya know and I'll tell ya who too,
go see my friend and he'll set you free.
tell me what you need and maybe I can go too,
no one knows the way but maybe me.
nobody goes there, nobody shows where,
nobody knows where you can find me, yea yea-yea...yea.
good morning glory, halleluh to ya,
what is the story and what's been goin' through ya?
livin' like a king off the fat of the land,
workin' like a dog in a rock n' roll band.
we're movin' -- we're gettin' out.
we're movin' -- without a doubt.
we're movin' -- we're goin' far.
we're movin' -- oh yes we are, cause.
level with God and you're in tune with the universe.
talk with yourself and you'll hear what you wanna know.
gotta rise above cause below it's only gettin' worse.
life in time will take you where you wanna go,
where you wanna go, where you wanna go-o,...
livin' like a king off the fat of the land.
we're movin' -- oh yes we are.
baby catch ya round, I don't know where I'm goin'.
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Positive Inspirational Leadership Stories
A Quote from Maya Angelou predicted the Future of Workplace Leadership
Late poet, Maya Angelou famously observed that 'people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.' Her great kernel of truth here is that human beings are far more influenced by feelings than by rational thinking - not at all what most of us have ever believed. When it comes to motivating employee performance in the workplace, little of Maya Angelou's wisdom has ever seeped into our leadership practices. We've traditionally assumed that workers made up their minds on whether to be loyal, committed and engaged in their jobs, so leaders have intentionally steered clear of their hearts.
But over the course of a long leadership career, my direct experience repeatedly proved this understanding was wrong. Ultimately, I came to this realization:
How I made people feel proved to have the greatest impact on employee decisions to be dedicated, hardworking, and willing to put in discretionary effort to help achieve our goals.
When I intentionally made employees - of every age, education level and job family - feel valued, supported, growing and appreciated, they routinely and instinctively scaled mountains for me.
Ever since this epiphany, I've been calling for a reinvention of workplace leadership. In an era where absurdly low employee engagement and job satisfaction scores prove our traditional methods are failing, I believe the greatest responsibility a manager has today is to ensure employees routinely experience the positive feelings and emotions now known to inspire extraordinary performance. I call this leading from the heart.
Now I'd like to tell you that leaders everywhere have been quick to embrace this new thinking, and immediately trusted it to drive greater productivity. But, as you might have guessed, that's not what happened. Upon hearing words like 'feelings' and 'heart,' alarms were triggered.
'This could never work in the real world,' is what many managers have instinctively assumed.
But I came from that real world - the sharp-edged financial services industry and proved at all levels that caring about employees and supporting their emotional needs is the surest way to driving sales, productivity and profit. Nonetheless, as a realist who fully accepts that some people will always need more convincing than others, I've continued to seek more compelling proof. To that end, I've discovered the work of four extraordinary thought leaders, bestselling authors, scientists, researchers and psychologists amongst them. Coming from entirely different disciplines and working independently, each has made the same remarkable conclusions:
Feelings and emotions motivate human behavior
Employee engagement is a decision not of the mind, but of the heart.
In hope that their collective insights will hold great influence over how you go on to lead and manage, here are highlights of their respective research:
Robert Wright - Author of 'Why Buddhism Is True: The Science of Meditation & Enlightenment'
In his recent New York Times best seller, Princeton University professor and award-winning science writer, Robert Wright, explains some of the foundational ideas of Buddhism, one of which is that 'feelings play a bigger role in shaping our perceptions and guiding us through life - bigger than most people realize.' To remind us how the human species evolved, Wright says that feelings were our original guidance system - long before the brain was built. 'Feelings are our original motivators,' he writes. 'Good or bad feelings are what natural selection used to goad animals into approaching things or avoiding things, acquiring things or rejecting things. Good feelings were assigned to eating, and bad feelings to being eaten.'
Fast-forward today and we might assume that our highly evolved brains now override our instincts in decision-making. But Wright says this just hasn't happened. 'Over time, bit by bit, animals got smarter, but the point of smarts isn't to replace feelings, but rather to make our feelings better informed. Feelings tell us what to think about, and then after all the thinking is done, they tell us what to do. Thinking has always had its beginning and ending in feelings.'
Dr. Rollin McCraty - Director of Research, Institute of HeartMath
For the past 30 years, the Institute of HeartMath has been researching the physiology of optimal human performance - what has to go on inside of a person's brain, body and nervous system to be able to think clearly, maintain composure and perform to one's highest potential. According to Rollin McCraty who leads this research, they've discovered the heart, 'as an organ of perception and intelligence,' is a huge part of the equation. 'We now know that the heart and the brain are in constant communication,' McCraty told me, 'and that the heart sends more information to the brain than vice versa. The signals the heart sends affect the brain centers involved in our decision-making, and in our ability to perceive.'
According to McCraty, every heartbeat reflects our current emotional state. So, if we're angry, irritated or frustrated, our hearts beat out a very chaotic message. Conversely, positive emotions create harmony in our nervous systems (what HeartMath calls 'coherence') and the heart rhythm pattern when we're in our most optimal state. 'It's irrefutable, says McCraty, 'caring leaders set off the neural machinery that produces optimal workplace performance.'
Antonio Damasio - Salk Institute Neurologist & USC Professor. Author of 'Descartes' Error: Emotion Reason & The Human Brain'
In the 300 years since French philosopher, Ren Descartes uttered his famous words, ' think therefore I am,' science made little effort to challenge his assertion that the brain is the source of a human's true being. But in a landmark book, one of the world's leading neurologists finally proves Descartes was wrong. Dr. Antonio Damasio tells his readers that neuroscience has always been preoccupied with the cognitive aspects of brain functioning, and gave little if any attention to the study of emotions. To offset this, Damasio's modern-day research proves emotions play a far greater role in human behavior than we've ever imagined; 'feelings actually guide and even bias our decision-making.'
Inherent in Descartes well-known quote is an assertion that our minds are separate from our bodies. Calling this, 'Descartes Error,' Damasio says the truth is that mind and body, rationality and emotion, all work together. 'Feelings don't just depend on brain activity,' he writes, 'but also on specific systems interacting with a number of body organs including the heart. While the heart doesn't make our decisions, it has direct influence over them through its contribution of emotional feelings.'
Barbara Fredrickson - Psychology Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - Author of 'Love 2.0' & 'Positivity'
Nearly two decades ago, Dr. Barbara Fredrickson began a formal study of the science of human emotions. And her principal discovery is that positive emotions are the foundation of human motivation. 'Human beings are hardwired to thrive on positive emotions,' Fredrickson told me last year, 'in fact, the body's biochemistry is very negatively affected when they're not experienced.' Fredrickson was the first recipient of the American Psychological Association's Templeton Prize for Positive Psychology. That award may be in recognition of her stunning conclusion that any time human beings experience a positive emotion, (joy, awe, hope, inspiration or hope) what they're really feeling is love. And feeling love is arguably the greatest human need there is.
'Love transforms people into making them more positive, resilient, persistent, healthier and happier,' she says. 'Those are the kind of feelings that drive the commitment and loyalty leaders want. If someone is made to feel uniquely seen, understood, valued and appreciated at work, that will hook them into being committed to their team, leader and organization. This is how positive emotions work.'
All of these thought-leaders come from very different backgrounds and intellectual points of view. Nevertheless, each believes that feelings and emotions determine our engagement in life, what motivates us, and what we care about most. Were Maya Angelou alive today, I'm quite certain she'd urge us all to go out and put this profound knowledge to use.
Written by Mark C. Crowley
Mark is a speaker, leadership consultant, frequent contributor to Fast Company Magazine, and the author of Lead From The Heart -Transformational Leadership For The 21st Century. His mission is to fundamentally change how we lead and manage people in the workplace, and to intentionally make it far more supportive of human needs. Visit his website at . . . Mark C. Crowley >>>
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Leadership and management - chalk and cheese
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Why Nice Bosses Finish First
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Aviation Law Indonesia
Said, Sudiro & Partners
Corporate Guarantee in an Aircraft Lease Transaction
Aircraft procurement is a big project for any airline company in Indonesia, the stakeholders, and the financing parties. Not only big in the value of the money involved, but also by the scale of the financing.
It is common that the financing scheme takes the form of a lease. And it is more common that the lease would involve foreign lessor.
With the big value of the project, it is common that the lease arrangement for an aircraft be made for a long term period. For the lessor, long term financing would certainly have a big risk on the fulfillment by the lessee (the airline company) of its payment obligations. Lessor would obviously take some measures with the purpose to safeguard its asset (the aircraft) until the time the payment terms are fully satisfied by the lessee.
Mostly a lease agreement would retain the ownership of the aircraft with the Lessor. The asset (aircraft) would be delivered to the Lessee, conveyed to the hand of the Lessee and to be operated by the Lessee.
Lessor would seek sort of security interest to secure its ownership and to guarantee full payment of the aircraft lease value and all other payment obligations of the Lessee under the lease agreement.
Here comes the widely known a piece of document so called Guarantee Agreement.
In many transactions, Lessee would be supported by the ultimate stakeholder, the shareholder/parent company. The shareholder or parent company gives a guarantee (corporate guarantee) for the benefit of the Lessor, which in the guarantee document would usually be defined as Beneficiary, mainly for the due, punctual and complete payment of the payment obligations under the Lease Agreement.
The Indonesian Law recognizes the nature of a guarantee as to support the underlying transaction. The existence of a guarantee would be depending on the existence (and validity) of the underlying transaction document. Thus a guarantee will not be in existence without the presence of the underlying obligations under the underlying transaction document.
Whilst under the (corporate) guarantee agreement, the guarantor (parent company) warrants that it will pay to the Beneficiary when so requested, any amount payable by the Lessee were the Lessee fails to fulfill its payment obligation when due and payable, a guarantee will not become a security interest for the Lessor of a lease agreement. Unlike mortgage, pledge, or fiduciary security, a guarantee would rely on the voluntary obedience by the guarantor of its warranty and covenants.
A complete thorough guarantee agreement nonetheless does not put a security interest on a particular asset of the guarantor. The Lessor that owns the aircraft leased and operated by the Lessee does not hold a security interest for the life of the lease.
It is often the case that the underlying aircraft lease agreement is governed by foreign law. The use of foreign law in a transaction document is widely known and practiced, and off course will relate to the principles of Private International Law. So long the rights and obligations under the aircraft lease agreement are fully satisfied and acceptable to (mainly) the Lessor, the Lessor could expect the agreement would run and mature smoothly, without the need to come to the Guarantor.
Enforceability of the foreign law governed aircraft lease agreement, and the (corporate) guarantee agreement will become a crucial concern and question if there is a need to seek enforcement of those agreements.
Whilst Indonesian legal system and the Law on Aviation (Law No. 1 of 2009) recognize the principles of Private International Law, the implementation of Private International Law principles to the documents (the performance of rights and obligations) in concerned would yet to be examined at the relevant court. Enforceability of foreign judicial decision in Indonesia would also depend on the ruling of the Indonesian court where enforcement is sought.
The Law on Aviation provides support to a Lessor through recordation with the Directorate General of Civil Aviation of an irrevocable power of attorney from a Lessee to a Lessor for deregistration and exportation of the leased aircraft or helicopter. Irrevocable Deregistration and Export Request Authorization (IDERA) will enable the Lessor to request for deregistration of the leased aircraft when the Lessee is in breach of the aircraft lease agreement, and exporting the aircraft. This concept of IDERA has its root in the international convention known as Cape Town Convention in 2001.
There is no doubt that a (corporate) guarantee of the parent company would provide some comfort to the Lessor of an aircraft lease. Issuance of a corporate guarantee will also put the parent company to a big responsibility to maintain the company’s sound financial condition and well standing reputation. So whilst the Lessor may face a risk of not being able to come to the guarantor, the guarantor put itself on a risk of being brought to the court and declared bankrupt.
All may have consequence. Therefore prior to entering into the transaction, the Lessor must have a deep and thorough review on the finance as well as the legal terms and conditions, and seek a strategy to add some comfort to its position as a Lessor of an aircraft lease transaction.
Indonesian Attorneys at Law
South Tower, Level 18
Jl. Jend. Sudirman Kav. 45 - 46
Phone: (62-21) 575.0983
Fax: (62-21) 575.0803
Website: www.ssplegal.com
www.saidsudiro.webs.com
Emails: mail@ssplegal.com
sdsdp@cbn.net.id
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ALT #314: He's Got Rhythm
He's Got Rhythm
Summary: Dolly and Milkshake encounter a brand new, musical ECO.
Related Logs: Nope
Flight Sims — Deck 2 — Battlestar Orion
The Simulator room is empty, lights are dimmed. Well, that's not entirely true as the full cabin Raptor is active, and running, whirring sounds and a voice coming from it, singing an upbeat tuns, though through the Raptor shell it's muffled, the quality of the voice is good. And who in hell would be in there?
Who the hell, indeed? Phin certainly wasn't expecting to find anyone else here, as he opens the hatch and makes his way inside. He definitely wasn't expecting random singing. He approaches the Raptor cabin, but he doesn't do anything to interrupt…whatever's going on inside. He just stands there listening, lips pursed to suppress a chuckle.
Ygraine arrives from the Air Wing Corridors.
Yep, the room is quiet save for the Raptor Simulator, which is active, a voice coming through. As the Raptor Sims ECM suite is going like crazy, the voice singing seem to be coming from within, much to Phins amusement, apparently, the voice is quality, and singing brightly, a snappy sort of tune actually.
Phin has just wandered into the sims, which were unoccupied apart from whoever is singing in the Raptor cabin. It's unclear if even Phin intended to actually use them, since he's dressed in greens, and usually prefers to 'realism' of sim'ing in a flight suit. For the moment he is, indeed, just standing by the Raptor and listening. And trying not to make any noise, lest he alert whoever's inside to his presence. He definitely finds random singing in a duty area out of the ordinary enough to be amusing.
Not far behind Phin is Yggy, amused as hell, who comes up to his shoulder and peers at the control boards to track the progress of the person in the sims. "He ain't bad." she notes with a quiet grin. "The sim score and th'singin'."
He's doing mostly jamming, really, the ECM going nuts as he lays out missile screens and direct Raider jamming, as they listen,
Don't you know I'm still standing better than I ever did
Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid
I'm still standing after all this time
Picking up the pieces of my life without you on my mind
Seems to be helping him keep rhythm, watching the telemetry.
"He's actually doing something besides the harmonizing in there?" Phin is surprised, and peers over at the control boards Ygraine is looking at. He can tell the scores are in the decent range, even if he doesn't have as much of a baseline for what they should be as the other ECO. "Huh. Yeah. Guess not." Even if he can't help but snigger as whoever's in there hits the chorus.
"Eh." comments Ygraine. "If he's not careful he'll fall in too much with th'rhythm of th'song and the raiders will pick up th' pattern. But ain't he a regular choirboy." A chuckle, and her fingers wiggle a little as if she's tempted to mess with the sim.
Inside, the ECO continues to work the Raptors electronic suite, setting up a communications net around one Raider, and focuses on maintaining that, as the Sim raider fights to get comms back. The singing continues, the 'Battle' sim just a set of preprogrammed ECM drills. It's running a program, yeah, but it's completely mess-able.
"You would not hear something like this in a proper choir," Phin says. But he has to add, grudgingly, "He's decent. If you're into that kind of thing." He does some more chuckling when Ygraine fidgets as if she's going to mess with the controls. He certainly isn't going to stop her. He's enjoying the show.
Ygraine waggles a finger. "Don't be jelly, Phinny." A wriggle of her nose and her fingers to the keyboard as she rapidly types, adjusting the simulator to add another raider which will promptly start pewpewing poor Greg while he's so focused on that one comm net.
A raider blips in and begins firing on the Raptor. Which was not supposed to happen.
Whole thing stops in a pause, as the singing halts, and the telemetry shows.. Oh he's coming out. The side door, opens and pulling the jawpiece from his helmet, he pulls it off, curly black hair, flatish nose and a smile, "Oh. Sorry sirs, there was no one scheduled." He makes a light salute, smiling sheepishly.
Phin rolls his eyes at Ygraine. "Jealous? Please. Whatever. Nicely done." The last part, followed by a snigger, as Ygraine's Raider blasts that Raptor. He clears his throat to stop chuckling when Greg comes out, though he's still grinning. The salute is briskly returned, along with an equally brisk "As you were. And no worries. We didn't book the room proper. I was just coming in to pull my last few scores and look at the schedule before I went off duty. That was…umm…tuneful."
"Why'd ya stop?" is what Ygraine wants to know, offering a salute, though more casually than Phin's crisp one. "Ya coulda dealt with that second raider, ya know."
Greg smiles, "Well, thank you, sir, I've been singing a while." He says to Phin, to Yrgaine, he smiles, "Because someone had altered the program. I thought I was alone. I'm Ensign Greg Coulton, Raptor ECO freshly minted from training. Haven't gotten a.. callsign." He shrugs.
Phin does still rather look like he practices saluting in the mirror at night. "In battle, Ensign, nothing is predictable," he says, doing his best to sound grizzled. With the boyish face, and being at least five years Greg's junior even without it, he doesn't really pull it off. Plus, he's still kind of trying not to chuckle about the program messing. "Lieutenant Phin McBride. Callsign's Dolly. I fly with the Seven-seven-sevens. Lucky Strikes." One of the Viper squadrons aboard.
"Never, ever leave your program unless you're ordered to, or someone shuts down your program outright." Ygraine informs him, serious about it though the corners of her mouth are upturned. "If ya don't want people messin' with it, then add security parameters to th'program." She inclines her head. "El Tee Jay Gee Ygraine Vashti, callsign Milkshake, ECO. Gentlemen Ghosts, best Raptor Squadron on this here ship."
Greg nods to Phin, "Dolly," Then to Ygraine, "Milkshake. I don't mind people messing with it, just wanted to make sure I wasn't getting Raidered out to be kicked off the Sim. I'll shut it down. I was mostly studying up on the latest Countermeasure signatures."
"We just get a load of fresh meat from somewhere?" Phin asks. "I ran into this newb Viper ensign in the mess this morning who practically jumped through the ceiling trying to salute anything that moved. It was way too much energy for before I'd had my coffee." He talks with the world-weariness of someone trying to forget they were doing the same thing a year ago.
Ygraine eyes Greg moment, and simply repeats, albeit kindly, "Don't leave your sim unless you're ordered to or someone shuts it down. If ya need t'be kicked off the sim, they'll put themselves on th'comm and let ya know ya gotta bugger off." A snicker for Phin. "Must be. Feels like we've had a population explosion since retakin' Picon."
Greg smiles a little uncertainly and nods, moving back into the sim to conclude it letting his crop batch number be mused on as he shuts it down. Just making quick work of it, clearing out after his useage of the simulator.
"Not complaining. Could always use more people on the flight line," Phin says. "Maybe it's a sign they want to restock to move on another colony soon." He doesn't sound exactly eager for another major combat action, but the outcome of Picon seems to have made him less pessimistic about their chances in such things. He waits for Greg to finish the sim. He almost looks like he might be expecting more music. But, alas, it doesn't come.
"So where'd we pick ya up, Ensign?" asks Ygraine, seeing as how Greg can solve the mystery for them.
Greg tilts his head as he emerges from the Raptor, "Ah, I was approached after Warday to join up, was on a cruise, Found out I had a Masters in advanced Telecommunications, and after that, they started teaching me how to fly." He shrugs, "I'm still not used to this, but I guess I'll get used to it." He nods, "Came in through the fleet training, just transferred into the Ghosts. Lived on Caprica, Libran born." He shrugs.
"You were on Caprica when the bombs dropped?" Phin can't suppressed a wince. "Well, welcome to the Orion, if I didn't say it already. Ygs…that is, Lieutenant Vashti and I have been with the ship since just a little before the attacks. Our first engagement of the war was over Caprican airspace, actually, when we got word of what was happening and jumped back into colonial space. Couldn't stick around too long that time, though."
"What he said. Ya get a squadron assignment yet? Know who you're reportin' too?" asks Ygraine with casual interest, though something he says catches her attention. "You cross-qual'd?"
Greg nods, "I'm to report to Butch, for Ghost deployment, and no, I'm straight ECO. If I have anything it's a firm grasp of electronic warfare." He smiles, "It's what I used to do before the war, I worked for the CBC, keeping video broadcasts straight for all twelve colonies. These days I just am using that to do the opposite."
"You were in the vid business? Cool." Phin grins broad, which manages to make him look even younger. "Did you work on any shows we'd have heard of?" He nods when Butch and the Ghosts are mentioned, though he just listens to the Raptor folk, as that's not his department.
"Welcome aboard, then. You'll find that Butch is tough but fair." Ygraine lets out a soft huff of air through her nostrils, brows lifting in interest to see how Greg answers Phin's question.
Greg grins at Phin, gesturing to him, "All of them, nono, When you were getting live Pyramid broadcasts, simu-cast for the Grand finals? three hundred cameras covering every angle, all smoothly intercutting and crystal clear. That's what I did." He looks to Milkshake, and nods, "Looking forward to meeting her. I been staying out of the way, set up a bunk, and doing the transfer paperwork."
"Did you actually get to go to the games?" Phin asks, all stoked at this idea. And maybe a little envious. "Seems like a job like that'd be awesome. I mean, all jobs have parts of that suck but…still. Sounds pretty cool." He nods kind of absently as Greg talks about setting himself up on the ship.
"Uh oh. Ya got th'colonies' biggest Stars fan right here, and now you're stuck with him." Ygraine tells Greg gaily, adding, "Watch this." She looks at Phin, amd affects a Virgon accent. "Go Boskirk Reds!"
Greg rubs his nose, smiling to Phin, "Ah, no, not really, the suck part is I worked in a darkened room with screens everywhere. But I got the best view, honestly. I had access to footage and different cuts of the games from the CBC archives." He grins widely to Ygraine and looks back to Phin, "Aw man, you woulda loved that stuff."
"That's because the Silverstars are awesome. Totally would've owned the post-season this year…if it hadn't been for the whole Cylon attacks thing." If Phin has more to say on Pyramid, it's halted by a snorted laugh at Ygraine's Virgon accent. He's going to need a second. "I will pay you hard cubits to do that over the wireless sometime."
"Cubits ain't worth crap these days, pay me in fruit from P and I'll consider it." Ygraine retorts with a laugh of her own. "So how similar are countermeasure systems to comm systems, do ya reckon?"
Greg grins at Phins intensity and laughs a little, looking to Ygraine, "Close enough to jam communications, easiely." He shrugs, "Part of keeping the comms systems straight when they worked like that. Course that's all, 'In the Clear' Transmissions, so the fancy stuff isn't done anymore."
"I'll see what I can come up with," Phin says to Ygraine with a half-smile. He works his way around to the control console, pushing a few buttons and pulling up some system logs. Finally pulling up those scores of his that he supposedly came here for. While doing that he asks Greg, "You do any time in the military before the attacks, or did you go straight from being a civvie to all of this?"
"Comm systems are th'least of your worries. The majority of your countermeasure efforts is usually dedicated to assault on targetting systems." says Ygraine seriously, but seems diffident about whether or not she'll be believed. Again, Phin's question is a good one and she'll wait for the answer.
Greg grins, looking to Phin, "Oooh, I was very Civilian, sir." He winces slightly, "I was a Network Vid nerd working in Caprica city and doing live theatre in my off time." Shrugging, "Was on a cruise ship on Warday, was pulled off it, and actually was in enterance interviews for the Marines when a Naval aviator recruiter pulled me into the Airwing." He nods to Ygraine, "Yep, retraining was interesting, but I had a firm grasp of most of the qualifications." He shrugs.
"You do musicals?" Phin can't help but ask, when live theater is mentioned. "Anyway, yeah. I like my Raiders unable to hit much of anything, which the Ghosts generally provide."
"Now you're never gonna be rid of him." Ygraine tells Greg gleefully.
Greg looks at Phin, "Not these days, no. End of the worlds kinda put a damper on the whole Live Thratre scene." He looks at Ygraine, then back, "Song and dance, choriography…" He looks to Milkshake, "Making it worse aren't I?"
"I just figured, because of the live show we got while you were in the pod," Phin says, before sticking out his tongue at Ygraine. While hitting 'print' on the console. Out his scores come, on a sheet of corner-cropped paper. "I should mosey. Got early shift tomorrow. Actual flight duty, though, which beats knocking around the ship. Good luck in the Ghosts, Coulton."
"He likes to dance his feelings!" insists Yggy in a tone that seems to assure that she's kidding. "I need my rack time too, I got early CAP. Welcome t'the Ghosts, Coulton. I'm sure you'll do fine."
Greg nods to both, "Thanks, sirs, hope to pull my weight. And any more I might need to." He grins, nodding to them.
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Benford, Jake. (2010) spotlight europe #2010/11, December 2010: For whom the bell tolls: Britain's new coalition government. [Policy Paper]
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Unlike Aerosmith's first CLASSICS compilation, the group had direct creative involvement in putting this collection together. Of the eight songs that make up LIVE II, six were taken from a New Year's Eve show the band played before a hometown Boston crowd in 1984 at the Orpheum. The triumphant "Back in the Saddle" is included along with the funky "Walk This Way" (complete with a crowd sing-along intro for birthday boy Tom Hamilton), the sassy "Same Old Song and Dance," and the raucous "Toys in the Attic." A version of the always potent "Draw the Line," taken from 1978's CALIFORNIA JAM and "Let The Music Do The Talking" (originally recorded by the Joe Perry Project), recorded at a 1986 Worchester, Massachusetts gig round out this set.
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The man has produced a Finnish Napier Heston Fighter...need we say more?
Re: Erryplanes by perttime
Quote from: GTX_Admin on April 26, 2013, 02:44:29 AM
I wonder if in this scenario Sweden would get involved?
I have one or two things lined up that mention Sweden being involved... Maybe tomorrow. The dog WANTS to go out NOW
Now, a break in the Spitfires. I think I should adjust the color schemes on a couple of Seafires...
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When Squadron Leader G.L.G. Richmond was preparing to test fly the first prototype of the Nuffield-Napier-Heston J5 high speed aircraft, he knew he would have a hot bird in his hands. If all went well, he would soon take the World’s Landplane and Absolute Speed Record from Fritz Wendel and the Messerschmitt Me 209, also known as Me 109R. But it was not to be... There was a war in Europe and Speed Records had ceased to be a priority by the time he got "The Racer" in the air on 12 June 1940.
Wikipedia photo:
The first flight revealed some "issues" but nothing that a little more engineering couldn't fix: the engine was overheating and elevator control was not quite right. Subsequent flights showed improvement, and the second prototype - G-AFOL - turned out even better. The power of the Napier Sabre engine made the little aircraft go fast and climb quickly, and adjustments to the control system had made the plane quite nimble and well behaved. Could this beast be turned into a fighter?
After even more engineering, the first Heston Dragon Mk 1 took to the air, with four 12.7mm machine guns, larger fuel tanks, and a cockpit canopy from a Spitfire. There was not enough space for fuel tanks in súch a compact aircraft to make it a long distance performer but it was a supreme point defence fighter, only rivaled years later by the Grumman Bearcat.
Improvements incorporated into the Heston Dragon Mk 3 included enlarged tail surfaces and ailerons, a bubble canopy, and a more powerful version of the mighty Sabre engine. This one was protecting the Stockholm area against long distance bomber raids in mid 1940s.
... For what really happened to the Napier-Heston Racer, see Wikipedia or a 1943 article on it at Flight Global archives.
Great Spitfires......
Quote from: jorel62 on April 26, 2013, 07:31:15 PM
I had great fun with the Spitfire variations. I might still make a somewhat different one
... but there's a few old ones coming soon.
Having put the Dragon point defence interceptor into production, the Heston Aircraft Company started on a design for an all-rounder fighter with more range. To accomplish this, Heston's Chief designer George Cornwall started by stretching the Dragon fuselage to make room for more fuel. Two 20mm guns were fitted on top of the longer nose and two or four 12.7mm machine guns could be installed on the bottom, as on the Dragon. To carry the additional weight, Cornwall designed a larger wing, somewhat influenced by the one used on the heavier Hawker Tempest.
By the time the Basilisk was ready for service, most European countries had gone for various Spitfire marks. However, the resently liberated Norway found the new Basilisk to be ideal for their particular needs. Most Norwegian Heston Basilisks were painted in simple Coastal Camo schemes, designed to disrupt the shape of the aircraft.
Later, the Dragon was also used by Finland - in a defensive role over southern parts of the country.
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In the north, Naval action was needed initially to capture the nickel and cobalt resources of the Murmansk area, and later to prevent Soviet naval action through the Barents and Kara seas. Those operations were mainly given to to the Western nations of the area: Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. The Co-Nordic Fleet included an Air Component where Finnish Seafires had primary responsibility for fighter defence. While the first carrier ship was under construction in Sweden, VL navalised a Spitfire MK 27 batch into Seafire 27 standard. As the nations were new to carrier operations, some experiments on color schemes were carried out, including an all blue, and a black & silver one:
A more subdued two-color scheme was finally adopted for Finnish Seafires. The same scheme remained in use on later models - and other types.
Since early 1940, volunteer pilots from USA were flowing to Great Britain to join RAF and Fleet Air Arm in the fight against Nazism. It turned out to be a short fight and everybody was preparing to go home when it became obvious that the end of one fight had become the beginning of another one. Most felt that Stalin's policies were not much better than Hitler's - and decided to stay on.
In 1942 British and US leaders determined that they might as well make it official. American squadrons were formed and their aircraft were given United States Army Air Forces and United States Navy markings.
While US forces in the Pacific area used aircraft made in USA, units on the European side mainly kept using "local" hardware.
... Black Sea, 1946
I'm enjoying the Seafires but your avatar Heston Dragon is a stunner! :)
Quote from: apophenia on April 28, 2013, 10:20:55 AM
I was a bit worried about touching the "Napier-Heston Racer" because the real-world original is so beautiful - but it turned out better than I expected.
I have a few more developments coming on that theme but - staying with the alternative history chronology - there's a Supermarine prototype next...
Having seen the Ambrosini, Kyushu, Henschel, Curtiss-Wright, and Miles experiments with fighter aircraft in the "pusher canard" configuration, Supermarine decided to build one of their own. There were challenges - but the configuration had its advantages too. A tricycle landing gear was needed and, for emergencies, Supermarine discarded the American idea of jettisoning the propeller to keep the pilot alive on bailing out, and went for Martin-Baker's new explosive-powered ejection system.
Jeffrey Quill first flew Type 402 in September 1947. The aircraft performed as expected. By then, however, the new German turbine engines were well on their way and were clearly the engines of choice for future fighters.
Stripped of engine, guns and instruments, Type 402 ended its days as a target at a gunnery range in Essex, UK.
Oh, your Type 402 will have the Spitfire purists pulling their hair out! Keep up the good work
When I posted Type 402 elsewhere, it was noted that it should be quite possible to kitbash it in plastic.
For the picture, most of it came from Seafire 47 tracings. If you want a different engine, a Tempest or Sea Fury can work. The nose could come from an early jet or a DH Hornet. Landing gear might cause some head scratching.
At the moment... I don't have more late '40s or '50s designs. So, keeping things in some sort of chronological order, we'll have a look at what happened to some war time airplanes after they were retired.
Tor Odinsson left the Norwegian Air Force when they stopped flying propeller fighters. He preferred the sound and feel of piston engines. As he left, he purchased his trusty Heston Basilisk, and a few extra Napier Sabre engines just in case.
You can tell that he enjoyed his airplane but by mid 1980s he started feeling that it could be even better. Being a firm believer in lots of cubic centimeters, he started looking for a bigger engine but nothing seemed quite suitable. One day it occurred to him that there was quite a lot of space between the engine and his legs. It wasn't empty space but a few quick measurements confirmed that there was - barely - enough to bolt a second crank case onto the engine.
A period of furious wrenching ensued, interspersed by shopping for new propellers and other parts. The space that the second crank case filled had previously mainly been occupied by the main fuel tank. The reduced range did not bother Tor much. This wasn't, after all, his long range travelling vehicle. It is just perfect for his Thorsday joy rides and the occasional air race.
Why? Because the Napier Sabre just wasn't complicated enough!
On the Type 402, a Supermarine Attacker nose and canopy would keep it in the family. For landing gear, maybe a P-39 nose gear?
More is better. Right?
(That may be in character for Tor Odinsson, at least... )
I think Type 402 needs a tall landing gear, to keep the props from hitting the ground when landing.
With the advent of jet engines, propeller fighters were gradually phased out of service. Thousands of Spitfires were recycled but many were also preserved in museums and in the hands of individuals who wanted to own and fly an aircraft powered by a big V12 engine.
To maximize the fun of the retired fighters, people started racing them. Out of the many somewhat informal races, a European air racing series was developed. European pylon race courses are mainly longer than the American ones, and include turns in both directions.
In the forested north of Europe, racing didn't become wide spread until it was realised that it is best to run the major contests during the winter. A big frozen lake is an ideal base for racing, with lots of open space for runways or, in case of a serious Mayday, opportunities to land just about anywhere.
Spitfires, and especially short wing variants, are among favorite aircraft types in the Stock Piston Warbird class.
In the Open Piston Warbird class of the European Air Racing Series, modifications to the aircraft are allowed - and needed if you take your racing seriously. A Griffon powered Spitfire is a good starting point. A low drag canopy is a standard feature in the Open class. This one also has the engine cooling systems re-located into the rear fuselage. Griffon powered Spitfires tend to be so nose-heavy that weight needs to be added to the rear anyway ... Might as well put something useful in the tail.
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Suuri Suomi Uraliin asti! I wonder if Hungary might end up joining that Federation...
Love it - some great stuff here. It's also making me think of actually posting my Alternate Hungary story/ies...
"God save our Queen and heaven bless the Maple Leaf forever!"
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"Bernard, this doesn't say anything!" "Why thank you, Prime Minister."
Hungary joining the Finnish Federation ?
My imagination cannot make it happen on such short notice...
There's all sorts of other nations in between, and I keep thinking that Nation States should have common borders, and not too many common languages - but that is not always so.
You have stories but haven't posted any yet?
Well, I've posted a bunch of my Alternate Canada and my Dominion of British Columbia stuff, but no, I haven't yet posted anything of my Alternate Hungary project. Maybe soon, though!
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Posted on April 20, 2010 by Mike New
One thing we always love here at The Inner Circle, and across all our high school sports blogs here on mycentraljersey.com, is teams who finally break through for their first win. Doesn’t matter if it’s the first game or the last (two years ago, the Wardlaw-Hartridge boys basketball team lost its first 20 games, only to pull out a win in its season finale), but at some point, you hope everyone gets a win. Sure, you can’t win them all, but seniors especially deserve to win at least one.
Today’s big winner was New Brunswick and senior Ebony Jernigan, who drove in two runs and scored two more to lift the previously winless Zebras past South River. Classmate Jasmyne Guzman added an RBI single to get her team into the win column.
So who’s next? There are only three teams left, though Piscataway Tech gave E.B. Tech a good shot in a 19-11 loss today. They might get their first win a week from tomorrow when they play Woodbridge Academy, which is also searching for win No. 1, in a game after which we’re guaranteed to have one less winless club.
Then there’s Piscataway. The Chiefs have played twice as many games as any of those other three teams have (even after today) without finding a victory. They’ve shown a lot of grit at times, but missed on a few good opportunities early and have been struggling with the toughest stretch on their schedule.
But there are a few opportunities on the horizon; they face Perth Amboy this Monday in a rematch of a back-and-forth 13-11 game, and have their regular season finale schedule for May 14 at Franklin, another Group IV school that is taking its lumps under a second-year coach as it tries to build a foundation. And there’s always the GMC Tournament, where Piscataway pulled it together and surprisingly won two games last year.
Anyway, it all boils down to this. If there is a GMC team playing June 5 in Toms River, great. If not, I’ll enjoy the weekend off before starting on All Area, it really doesn’t matter to me. But by the time championship Saturday rolls around, what I AM hoping for is to see all three of these teams with at least a “1” in the win column.
About Mike New
Mike New is former writer at the Home News Tribune, having covered Middlesex County softball in 2009 and 2010. A 2008 graduate of Rutgers University, he served as sports editor and managing editor of The Daily Targum. Now an assistant in the publishing world, he has returned to In the Paint and will be a weekly contributor on Sundays.
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Prince Harry opens up on life with baby Archie: Proud dad in emotional hospital visit
PRINCE HARRY opened up on how the past week with his baby has been and how important his son Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor has already become in his life during an emotional visit at a children hospital in Oxford.
The Duke of Sussex was visiting the Oxford Children’s Hospital and meeting parents of children affected by cancer when he let slip how much love he feels for his firstborn Archie. Chatting to Ida Scullard from Aylesbury, whose son Emmett, 3, is in remission after being diagnosed with testicular cancer last year, Harry revealed Archie simply “fitted” into the Sussex’s family life.
Ms Scullard, holding her 10-month-old daughter, said: “Harry asked me if she was over the stormy period as babies are supposed to be grumpy for the first 10 weeks – and she is.
“He said he’s getting used to the baby and how Archie has fitted into family life.
“He said he just feels part of the family and he can’t imagine life without his son.”
Prince Harry was welcomed by hundreds of adoring well-wishers and members of the Oxford Children’s Hospital’s staff as he arrived in the city to visit the clinic.
Prince Harry confessed how important Archie already is in his life (Image: REUTERS/GETTY)
The Duke of Sussex took the time to speak to some of the royal fans who have been waiting for him for hours, especially spending time with children in the front rows who looked eager to meet him.
But the attention of the Duke, who looked in excellent spirit, quickly focused on Daisy Wingrove, a sweet 13-year-old former patient of the hospital who handed Harry an adorable teddy bear wearing a white t-shirt for his son, Archie.
Richard Palmer, the Daily Express royal correspondent, wrote on Twitter as he shared the sweet snap: “New dad Prince Harry arrives at Oxford Children’s Hospital and is given a teddy bear for Archie.”
The Duke of Sussex, who became a father for the first time in the early hours of May 6, is spending the day in Oxford to celebrate the work of the city’s children’s hospital.
But Archie didn’t allow him to get his proper rest, as he told one of the little patients’ mothers.
Prince Harry talking to a little patient of the hospital, his mother and sibling (Image: REUTERS)
Prince Harry was given a teddy bear for his son Archie (Image: PA)
Harry was given the teddy bear by a former patient of the Oxford hospital (Image: TWITTER/RICHARD PALMER)
Christine George, 52, whose son James, 17, is having chemotherapy, said: “He said he had all this organised but had a sleepless night last night – not the ideal preparation for his first day at work.”
After being showered of congratulations for becoming a parent by royal fans waiting outside the hospital, Harry entered the building based at the John Radcliffe hospital site to start his tour.
The Oxford Children’s Hospital is a purpose-built centre for the treatment of children and young adults, which has a series of wards specifically designed to provide for the needs of ill children and teenagers.
During the visit, Harry has met children and young people receiving treatment and the staff caring for them, as well as supporters of Oxford Hospitals Charity.
Before leaving the hospital, Harry will also visit a school built inside the clinic to meet the students taking lessons while undergoing treatment and their teachers.
Prince Harry hugging former patient Daisy Wingrove (Image: PA)
Prince Harry is meeting children and teenagers receiving treatment at the hospital (Image: GETTY)
Archie Harrison was born on May 6 (Image: GETTY)
Prince Harry’s visit to Oxford will continue later today, as the Duke will honour the memory of his late mother, Princess Diana, by visiting the Oxsrad Disability Sports and Leisure Centre.
The Princess of Wales launched the centre in 1989, and experts have been since running Rebound Therapy and physiotherapy programmes.
The inclusive centre has been supporting people with disabilities through sport and physical exercise for 30 years, offering rehabilitation sessions as well as fitness classes and gym facilities.
Harry will also visit Barton Neighbourhood Centre, a hub for local residents which houses a doctor’s surgery, food bank, cafe and youth club.
Prince George and Princess Charlotte are said to be very excited to be meeting Archie today (Image: GETTY)
Prince Harry’s visit comes as his brother and sister-in-law, Prince William and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, are set to visit for the first time Meghan and her baby at Frogmore Cottage today.
A source claimed the Cambridges have waited to head to Windsor to give the new family some time to adjust – but Prince George and Princess Charlotte have been “dying” to visit their cousin.
A source said: “Harry’s family wanted to give him and Meghan some time to settle in to family life and Meghan’s mum Doria is still staying with them as the baby gets used to his surroundings.
“Prince George and Princess Charlotte have already been asking their parents when they can meet their new cousin, they are as excited as anybody.”
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41 results for Wetlands
1.Forestry: Friend or Foe? by Edgerton, C.R. Coastwatch Vol. Issue , Mar/Apr 1992
Edgerton, C.R.
North Carolina ecologists view wetlands as the sustainers of the well-being of coastal waters, while the timber industry, companies such as Weyerhaueser, Union Camp, and Champion International, view wetlands as places for the harvesting and growing of timber.
Coastwatch (NoCar QH 91 A1 N62x), Vol. Issue , Mar/Apr 1992, p10-14, il Periodical Website
Wetlands; Forest policy
2.Wetlands in the Highlands by Earley, Lawrence S. Wildlife in North Carolina Vol. 53 Issue 10, Oct 1989
Earley, Lawrence S.
Small, scattered and disappearing, mountain bogs are some of our rarest habitats and contain some of the least common plants and animals. Yet we know almost nothing about these tiny, isolated worlds.
Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 53 Issue 10, Oct 1989, p10-14, il Periodical Website
Wetlands; Bogs
3.PCS Phosphate Seeking Permit to Continue Mine: 2,500 Acres of High Quality Wetlands at Risk by Jacobs, Heather Currents Vol. 25 Issue 4, Fall 2006
Jacobs, Heather
PSC Phosphate, Inc., has applied to the Army Corps of Engineers for a Clean Water Act Section 404 permit to impact and fill wetlands and waters of the state for the purpose of continuing their mining operations along South Creek in eastern Beaufort County. A similar grant that allowed the company to impact over 1,200 acres of wetlands in 1997 resulted in the largest permitted destruction of wetlands in the history of the state. If the new permit is granted, the Pamlico River basin would lose 2,500 acres of high-quality wetlands.
Currents (NoCar TD 171.3 P3 P35x), Vol. 25 Issue 4, Fall 2006, p1, 3, map
Wetlands; Phosphate mines and mining--Beaufort County--Laws and legislation
4.Urban Greening in North Carolina: Case Studies from New Bern, Mecklenburg County, and Raleigh by Brantley, James W. Carolina Planning Vol. 35 Issue , Summer 2010
Brantley, James W.
This article features communities that successfully integrated water resource management into urban sustainability efforts.
Carolina Planning (NoCar HT 393 N8 C29x), Vol. 35 Issue , Summer 2010, p31-42, map, f
Wetlands; Water resources development; Stream restoration
5.Fishing for Answers: Where Land and Sea Meet by Davis, Nancy Coastwatch Vol. 11 Issue 8, Sept 1984
Farmers have found that the wetlands that lie adjacent to coastal waters yield bountiful crops, but only if the water can be controlled.
Coastwatch (NoCar QH 91 A1 N62x), Vol. 11 Issue 8, Sept 1984, p3-4, map, f Periodical Website
6.Success Stories Flow Along the Neuse by Loughner, Lilley Coastwatch Vol. Issue , Spring 2004
Loughner, Lilley
Storm water regulations are hard to enforce. However, the city of Smithfield has found a way to do it through wetlands with great success. It has helped not only the storm water pollution, but the community as well.
Coastwatch (NoCar QH 91 A1 N62x), Vol. Issue , Spring 2004, p16-20, il, por Periodical Website
Stormwater runoff--Solutions to; Wetlands
7.Wetlands: Preserving the Resource by McNaught, David Currents Vol. 9 Issue 3, Spring 1990
McNaught, David
Pamlico-Tar River Foundation director Dave McNaught discusses why wetlands are such a crucial part of the environment. Wetlands are important not only for the animals living there, but the people in the surrounding areas.
Currents (NoCar TD 171.3 P3 P35x), Vol. 9 Issue 3, Spring 1990, p4, il
Wetlands; Wetland conservation
8.Wetlands Policy Remains Center of Controversies by Currents Vol. 11 Issue 2, Winter 1992
The legal battle over the protection of wetlands continues and is contended all the way up to the federal level. Many factors are at play from big oil companies to environmental considerations.
Currents (NoCar TD 171.3 P3 P35x), Vol. 11 Issue 2, Winter 1992, p4, il
9.Because Wetlands are Important by Currents Vol. 13 Issue 3, Spring 1994
The Pamlico-Tar River Foundation details its aims with the Environmental Conservation Statement it made regarding Texasgulf’s request to mine in the wetlands.
Currents (NoCar TD 171.3 P3 P35x), Vol. 13 Issue 3, Spring 1994, p1
Wetlands; Pamlico-Tar River Foundation; Texasgulf
10.Agencies urge Close Review of Mining Statement by Currents Vol. 13 Issue 4, Summer 1994
Various agencies voice their concerns and comments on the Texasgulf request to mine phosphate from several wetlands.
Currents (NoCar TD 171.3 P3 P35x), Vol. 13 Issue 4, Summer 1994, p1-2
Texasgulf; Wetlands
11.‘Save Our Wetlands’ Theme Announced for 1976 National Wildlife Week Observance March 14-20 by Not Given Friend O’ Wildlife Vol. 20 Issue 1, Jan-Feb 1976
The theme of the 39th annual National Wildlife Week is “Save our Wetlands.” Members of conservation groups, teachers and students will participate in activities that focus on the priceless and irreplaceable nature of the nation’s wetlands. Programs will emphasize the inventory, variety, threats to, and ways to protect wetland resources.
Friend O’ Wildlife (NoCar Oversize SK 431 F74x), Vol. 20 Issue 1, Jan-Feb 1976, p17
Wetlands; National Wildlife Federation
12.Wetlands, Our Precious Heritage by Berger, Michael E. Friend O’ Wildlife Vol. 20 Issue 2, Mar-Apr 1976
Berger, Michael E.
The rapid loss of wetland habitat is considered one of the most critical natural resource problems in the United States, but steps are being taken to preserve remaining wetlands. The Wetland Loan Act and the Migratory Bird Hunting Conservation stamp are efforts to save land and raise funds for wetlands.
Friend O’ Wildlife (NoCar Oversize SK 431 F74x), Vol. 20 Issue 2, Mar-Apr 1976, p26-27
13.Resources Defense by Tomalleso, Tom Friend O’ Wildlife Vol. 24 Issue (27) 1, Jan 1980
Tomalleso, Tom
Due to a recent federal district court decision, it will be more difficult for developers to take over forested wetlands. The court held that some clearing activities were in violation of the Clean Water Act.
Friend O’ Wildlife (NoCar Oversize SK 431 F74x), Vol. 24 Issue (27) 1, Jan 1980, p6
14.Wetlands: High in Saturated Soils by Cobb, David T. Friend of Wildlife Vol. 36 Issue 6, Nov/Dec 1989
Cobb, David T.
North Carolina wetlands serve a variety of functions that are important to maintaining the integrity of our environment. However, the state faces difficult decisions concerning the relative value of wetlands to alternative land use practices.
Friend of Wildlife (NoCar Oversize SK 431 F74x), Vol. 36 Issue 6, Nov/Dec 1989, p12, il
15.EPA to Decide What Is a Wetland by Friend of Wildlife Vol. 34 Issue 2, Mar/Apr 1987
Thousands of acres of North Carolina pocosin wetlands have been developed without federal permits because the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ruled they are not wetlands. Now the Environmental Protection Agency will decide whether state coastal areas proposed for development constitute wetlands.
Friend of Wildlife (NoCar Oversize SK 431 F74x), Vol. 34 Issue 2, Mar/Apr 1987, p8, il
Pocosins; Wetlands
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Cursive Handwriting and Other Education Myths
Resume Reading — The Volcano That Shrouded the Earth and Gave Birth to a Monster
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Three years of darkness and cold spawned crime, poverty, and a literary masterpiece.
Gillen D'Arcy Wood By Gillen D'Arcy Wood Illustrations by Wesley Allsbrook December 31, 2015
Two hundred years ago, the greatest eruption in Earth’s recorded history took place. Mount Tambora—located on Sumbawa Island in…By Gillen D'Arcy Wood
Two hundred years ago, the greatest eruption in Earth’s recorded history took place. Mount Tambora—located on Sumbawa Island in the East Indies—blew itself up with apocalyptic force in April 1815.
After perhaps 1,000 years’ dormancy, the devastating evacuation and collapse required only a few days. It was the concentrated energy of this event that was to have the greatest human impact. By shooting its contents into the stratosphere with biblical force, Tambora ensured its volcanic gases reached sufficient height to disable the seasonal rhythms of the global climate system, throwing human communities worldwide into chaos. The sun-dimming stratospheric aerosols produced by Tambora’s eruption in 1815 spawned the most devastating, sustained period of extreme weather seen on our planet in perhaps thousands of years.
Within weeks, Tambora’s stratospheric ash cloud circled the planet at the equator, from where it embarked on a slow-moving sabotage of the global climate system at all latitudes. Five months after the eruption, in September 1815, meteorological enthusiast Thomas Forster observed strange, spectacular sunsets over Tunbridge Wells near London. “Fair dry day,” he wrote in his weather diary—but “at sunset a fine red blush marked by diverging red and blue bars.”
RAIN OF ASH: This map shows the density of ash fall issuing from Tambora’s eruption. The thickness of the ash is shown in centimeters. Prevailing trade winds drove the ash clouds north and west as far as Celebes (Sulawesu) and Borneo, 1,300 kilometers away. The volcanic eruptions could be heard twice as far away.Macmillan Publishers Ltd.
Artists across Europe took note of the changed atmosphere. William Turner drew vivid red skyscapes that, in their coloristic abstraction, seem like an advertisement for the future of art. Meanwhile, from his studio on Greifswald Harbor in Germany, Caspar David Friedrich painted a sky with a chromic density that—one scientific study has found—corresponds to the “optical aerosol depth” of the colossal volcanic eruption that year.
For three years following Tambora’s explosion, to be alive, almost anywhere in the world, meant to be hungry. In New England, 1816 was nicknamed the “Year Without a Summer” or “Eighteen-Hundred-and-Froze-to-Death.” Germans called 1817 the “Year of the Beggar.” Across the globe, harvests perished in frost and drought or were washed away by flooding rains. Villagers in Vermont survived on porcupine and boiled nettles, while the peasants of Yunnan in China sucked on white clay. Summer tourists traveling in France mistook beggars crowding the roads for armies on the march.
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One such group of English tourists, at their lakeside villa near Geneva, passed the cold, crop-killing days by the fire exchanging ghost stories. Mary Shelley’s storm-lashed novel Frankenstein bears the imprint of the Tambora summer of 1816, and her literary coterie—which included the poets Percy Shelley and Lord Byron—serve as tour guides through the suffering worldscape of 1815–18.
Considered on a geological timescale, Tambora stands almost insistently near to us. The Tambora climate emergency of 1815–18 offers us a rare, clear window onto a world convulsed by weather extremes, with human communities everywhere struggling to adapt to sudden, radical shifts in temperatures and rainfall, and a flow-on tsunami of famine, disease, dislocation, and unrest. It is a case study in the fragile interdependence of human and natural systems.
On Sumbawa Island, the beginning of the dry season in April 1815 meant a busy time for the local farmers. In a few weeks the rice would be ready, and the raja of Sanggar, a small kingdom on the northeast coast of the island, would send his people into the fields to harvest. Until then, the men of his village, called Koreh, continued to work in the surrounding forests, chop- ping down the sandalwood trees vital to shipbuilders in the busy sea lanes of the Dutch East Indies.
On the evening of April 5, 1815, at about the time his servants would have been clearing the dinner dishes, the raja heard an enormous thunderclap. Perhaps his first panicked thought was that the beach lookout had fallen asleep and allowed a pirate ship to creep in to shore and fire its cannon. But everyone was instead staring up at Mount Tambora. A jet of flame burst skyward from the summit, lighting up the darkness and rocking the earth beneath their feet. The noise was incredible, painful.
Huge plumes of flame issued from the mountain for three hours, until the dark mist of ash became confused with the natural darkness, seeming to announce the end of the world. Then, as suddenly as it had begun, the column of fire collapsed, the earth stopped shaking, and the bone-jarring roars faded. Over the next few days, Tambora continued to bellow occasionally, while ash drifted down from the sky.
THE BIG CHILL: This diagram shows the penetration of volcanic matter into the stratosphere. As volcanic sulfur dioxide is chemically transformed into sulfuric acid, an aerosol layer forms, reducing incoming radiation from the sun and cooling the surface, even as the stratosphere itself is warmed.Macmillan Publishers Ltd.
Meanwhile to the southeast in the capital Bima, colonial administrators were sufficiently alarmed by the events of April 5 to send an official, named Israel, to investigate the emergency situation at the volcano, on the Sanggar Peninsula. By April 10, the man’s bureaucratic zeal had led him to the very slopes of Tambora. There, in the dense tropical forest, at about 7 p.m., he became one of the first victims of the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded history.
Within hours, the village of Koreh, along with all other villages on the Sanggar Peninsula, ceased to exist entirely, a victim of Tambora’s spasm of self-destruction. This time three distinct columns of fire burst in a cacophonous roar from the summit to the west, blanketing the stars and uniting in a ball of swirling flame at a height greater than the eruption of five days before. The mountain itself began to glow as streams of boiling liquefied rock coursed down its slopes. At 8 p.m., the terrifying conditions across Sanggar grew worse still, as a hail of pumice stones descended, mixed with a downpour of hot rain and ash.
On the northern and western slopes of the volcano, whole villages, totaling perhaps 10,000 people, had already been consumed within a vortical hell of flames, ash, boiling magma, and hurricane-strength winds. In 2004, an archaeological team from the University of Rhode Island uncovered the first remains of a village buried by the eruption: a single house under three meters of volcanic pumice and ash. Inside the walled remains, they found two carbonized bodies, perhaps a married couple. The woman, her bones turned to charcoal by the heat, lay on her back, arms extended, holding a long knife. Her sarong, also carbonized, still hung across her shoulder.
The Tambora climate emergency offers us a rare, clear window onto a world convulsed by weather extremes. It is a case study in the fragile interdependence of human and natural systems.
Back on the mountain’s eastern flank, the rain of volcanic rocks gave way to ashfall, but there was to be no relief for the surviving villagers. The spectacular, jet-like “plinian” eruption (named for Pliny the Younger, who left a famous account of Vesuvius’s vertical column of fire) continued unabated, while glowing, fast-moving currents of rock and magma, called “pyroclastic streams,” generated enormous phoenix clouds of choking dust. As these burning magmatic rivers poured into the cool sea, secondary explosions redoubled the aerial ash cloud created by the original plinian jet. An enormous curtain of steam and ash clouds rose and encircled the peninsula, creating, for those trapped inside it, a short-term microclimate of pure horror.
First, a “violent whirlwind” struck Koreh, blowing away roofs. As it gained in strength, the volcanic hurricane uprooted large trees and launched them like burning javelins into the sea. Horses, cattle, and people alike flew upward in the fiery wind. What survivors remained then faced another deadly element: giant waves from the sea. The crew of a British ship cruising offshore in the Flores strait, coated with ash and bombarded by volcanic rocks, watched stupefied as a 12-foot-high tsunami washed away the rice fields and huts along the Sanggar coast. Then, as if the combined cataclysms of air and sea weren’t enough, the land itself began to sink as the collapse of Tambora’s cone produced waves of subsidence across the plain.
On the sunless days following the cataclysm, corpses lay unburied all along the roads on the inhabited eastern side of the island between Dompu and Bima. Villages stood deserted, their surviving inhabitants having scattered in search of food. With forests and rice paddies destroyed, and the island’s wells poisoned by volcanic ash, some 40,000 islanders would perish from sickness and starvation in the ensuing weeks, bringing the estimated death toll from the eruption to over 100,000, the largest in history.
While the skyward eruptions lasted only about three hours each, the boiling cascade of pyroclastic streams down Tambora’s slopes continued a full day. Hot magma gushed from Tambora’s collapsing chamber down to the peninsula, while columns of ash, gas, and rock rose and fell, feeding the flow. The fiery flood that consumed the Sanggar Peninsula, traveling up to 19 miles at great speeds, ultimately extended over a 216-square-mile area, one of the greatest pyroclastic events in the historical record. Within a few short hours, it buried human civilization in northeast Sumbawa under a smoking meter-high layer of ignimbrite.
WORST OF TIMES: Charles Dickens, whose grim weatherscapes and portraits of poverty are definitive representations of Victorian London, grew up under the ever-cloudy, bone-chilling atmosphere created by the Tambora eruption.British Library
Tambora’s cacophony of explosions on April 10, 1815, could be heard hundreds of miles away. All across the region, government ships put to sea in search of imaginary pirates and invading navies. In the seas to the north off Macassar, the captain of the East India Company vessel Benares gave a vivid account of conditions in the region on April 11:
The ashes now began to fall in showers, and the appearance altogether was truly awful and alarming. By noon, the light that had remained in the eastern part of the horizon disappeared, and complete darkness had covered the face of day ... The darkness was so profound throughout the remainder of the day, that I never saw anything equal to it in the darkest night; it was impossible to see your hand when held up close to the eye.
Across a 600-kilometer radius, darkness descended for two days, while Tambora’s ash cloud expanded to cover a region nearly the size of the continental United States. The entire Southeast Asian region was blanketed in volcanic debris for a week. Day after dark day, British officials conducted business by candlelight, as the death toll mounted.
Months after the eruption, the atmosphere remained heavy with dust—the sun a blur. Drinking water contaminated by fluorine-rich ash spread disease and with 95 percent of the rice crop in the field at the time of the eruption, the threat of starvation was immediate and universal. In their desperation for food, islanders were reduced to eating dry leaves and their much-valued horseflesh. By the time the acute starvation crisis was over, Sumbawa had lost half its population to famine and disease, while most of the rest had fled to other islands.
Tambora’s violent impact on global weather patterns was due, in part, to the already unstable conditions prevailing at the time of its eruption. A major tropical volcano had blown up six years prior, in 1809. This cooling event, hugely amplified by the sublime Tambora eruption in 1815, ensured extreme volcanic weather across the entire decade.
A flurry of research since the discovery of the 1809 eruption has resulted in the identification of the 1810–19 decade as a whole as the coldest in the historical record—a gloomy distinction. A 2008 modeling study concluded Tambora’s eruption to have had by far the largest impact on global mean surface air temperatures among volcanic events since 1610, while the 1809 volcano ranked second over that same period, measuring just over half Tambora’s decline. Two papers published the following year confirmed the status of the 1810s as “probably the coldest during the past 500 years or longer,” a fact directly attributable to the proximity of the two major tropical eruptions.
The spectacular eruption increased that cooling to a truly dire extent, contributing to an overall decline of global average temperatures of 1.5 degrees Celsius across the decade. One-and-a-half degrees might seem a small number, but as a sustained decline characterized by a sharp rise in extreme weather events—floods, droughts, storms, and summer frosts—the chilled global climate system of the 1810s had devastating impacts on human agriculture, food supply, and disease ecologies.
The Scottish meteorologist George Mackenzie kept meticulous records of cloudy skies between 1803 and 1821 over various parts of the British Isles. Where lovely clear summer days in the earlier period (1803–10) averaged over 20, in the volcanic decade (1811–20) that figure dropped to barely five. For 1816, the Year Without a Summer, Mackenzie recorded no clear days at all.
On the eve of the summer of 1816, 18-year-old Mary Godwin took flight with her lover, Percy Shelley, and their baby for Switzerland, escaping the chilly atmosphere of her father’s house in London. Mary’s young stepsister, Claire Clairmont, accompanied them, eager to reunite with her own poet-lover, Lord Byron, who had left England for Geneva a week earlier. Mary’s other sister, the ever dispensable Fanny, was left behind.
The dismal, often terrifying weather of the summer of 1816 is a touchstone of the ensuing correspondence between the sisters. In a letter to Fanny, written on her arrival in Geneva, Mary describes their ascent of the Alps “amidst a violent storm of wind and rain.” The cold was “excessive” and the villagers complained of the lateness of the spring. On their alpine descent days later, a snowstorm ruined their view of Geneva and its famous lake. In her return letter, Fanny expresses sympathy for Mary’s bad luck, reporting that it was “dreadfully dreary and rainy” in London too, and very cold.
Stormy nor’easters are standard features of Genevan weather in summertime, careening from the mountains to whip the waters of the lake into a sirocco of foam. Beginning in June 1816, these annual storms attained a manic intensity not witnessed before or since. “An almost perpetual rain confines us principally to the house,” Mary wrote to Fanny on the first of June from Maison Chappuis, their rented house on the shores of Lake Geneva: “One night we enjoyed a finer storm than I had ever before beheld. The lake was lit up—the pines on Jura made visible, and all the scene illuminated for an instant, when a pitchy blackness succeeded, and the thunder came in frightful bursts over our heads amid the darkness.” A diarist in nearby Montreux compared the bodily impact of these deafening thunderclaps to a heart attack.
In fact, the year 1816 remains the coldest, wettest Geneva summer since records began in 1753. That unforgettable year, 130 days of rain between April and September swelled the waters of Lake Geneva, flooding the city. Up in the mountains the snow refused to melt. Clouds hung heavy, while the winds blew bitingly cold. In some parts of the inundated city, transport was only possible by boat. A cold northwest wind from the Jura mountains—called le joran by locals—swept relentlessly across the lake. The Montreux diarist called the persistent snows and le joran “the twin evil genies of 1816.” Tourists complained they couldn’t recognize the famously picturesque landscape because of the constant wind and avalanches, which drove snow across vast areas of the plains.
On the night of June 13, 1816, the Shelleys’ splendidly domiciled neighbor, Lord Byron, stood out on the balcony of the lakeside Villa Diodati to witness “the mightiest of the storms” that he—well-traveled aristocrat that he was—had ever seen. He memorialized that tumultuous night in his wildly popular poem “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”:
The sky is changed—and such a change! Oh night,
And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong ...
And now again ’tis black,—and now, the glee
Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain-mirth,
As if they did rejoice o’er a young earthquake’s birth.
In Byron’s imagination, the Tamboran storms of 1816 achieve volcanic dimensions—like an “earthquake’s birth”—and take delight in their destructive power.
GHOST STORY: One night in1816, in a villa on Lake Geneva, in the dark, dismal atmosphere created by Tambora’s eruption, poets (at left) Lord Byron and Percy Shelley, and writer Mary Shelley, told ghost stories that gave birth to Frankenstein’s monster and the Byronic Dracula.Wikipedia
What caused the terrible weather conditions over Britain and western Europe in 1816–18? The relation between volcanism and climate depends on eruptive scale. Volcanic ejecta and gases must penetrate skyward high enough to reach the stratosphere where, in its cold lower reaches, sulfate aerosols form. These then enter the meridional currents of the global climate system, disrupting normal patterns of temperature and precipitation across the hemispheres. Tambora’s April 1815 eruption launched enormous volumes of long-suppressed volcanic rock and gases more than 25 miles into the stratosphere. This volcanic plume—consisting of as much as 12 cubic miles of total matter—eventually spread across 386,000 square miles of the Earth’s atmosphere, an aerosol umbrella six times the size of the cloud produced by the massive 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines.
In the first weeks after Tambora’s eruption, a vast volume of coarser ash particles—volcanic “dust”—cascaded back to Earth mixed with rain. But ejecta of smaller size—water vapor, molecules of sulfur and fluorine gases, and fine ash particles—remained suspended in the stratosphere, where a sequence of chemical reactions resulted in the formation of a 60-mega- ton sulfate aerosol layer. Over the following months, this dynamic, streamer-like cloud of aerosols—much smaller in size than the original volcanic matter—expanded by degrees to form a molecular screen of planetary scale, spread aloft by the winds and meridional currents of the world. In the course of an 18-month journey, it passed across both south and north poles, leaving a telltale sulfate imprint on the ice for paleo-climatologists to discover more than a century and a half later.
Once settled in the dry firmament of the stratosphere, Tambora’s global veil circulated above the weather dynamics of the atmosphere, comfortably distanced from the rain clouds that might have dispersed it. From there, its planet-girdling aerosol film continued to scatter shortwave solar radiation back into space until early 1818, while allowing much of the longwave radiant heat from the earth to escape. The resultant three-year cooling regime, unevenly distributed by the currents of the world’s major weather systems, barely affected some places on the globe (Russia, for instance, and the trans-Appalachian United States) but precipitated a drastic 5 to 6 degrees Fahrenheit seasonal decline in other regions, including Europe.
The first extreme impact of a major tropical eruption is felt in raw temperature. But in western Europe, biblical-style inundation during the 1816 summer growing season wrought the greatest havoc. Because of the tilt of the Earth in relation to the sun and the different heat absorption rates of land and sea, solar insolation of the planet is irregular. Uneven heating in turn creates an air pressure gradient across the latitudes of the globe. Wind is the weatherly expression of these temperature and pressure differentials, transporting heat from the tropics to the poles, moderating temperature extremes, and carrying evaporated water from the oceans over the land to support plant and animal life. The major meridional circulation patterns, measuring thousands of miles in breadth, transport energy and moisture horizontally across the globe, creating continental-scale weather patterns. Meanwhile, at smaller scales, the redistribution of heat and moisture through the vertical column of the atmosphere produces localized weather phenomena, such as thunderstorms.
Tambora’s influence on human history does not derive from extreme weather events considered in isolation but in the myriad environmental impacts of a climate system gone haywire.
In the summer after Tambora’s eruption, however, the aerosol loading of the stratosphere heated the upper layer, which bore down upon the atmosphere. The “tropopause” that marks the ceiling of the Earth’s atmosphere dropped lower, cooling air temperatures and displacing the jet streams, storm tracks, and meridional circulation patterns from their usual course. By early 1816, Tambora’s chilling envelope had created a radiation deficit across the North Atlantic, altering the dynamics of the vital Arctic Oscillation. Slower-churning warm waters north of the Azores pumped over-loads of moisture into the atmosphere, saturating the skies while enhancing the temperature gradient that fuels wind dynamics. Meanwhile, air pressure at sea level plummeted across the mid-latitudes of the North Atlantic, dragging cyclonic storm tracks southward. Pioneering British climate historian Hubert Lamb has calculated that the influential Icelandic low-pressure system shifted several degrees latitude to the south during the cold summers of the 1810s compared to 20th-century norms, settling in the unfamiliar domain of the British Isles, and thus ensuring colder, wetter conditions for all of western Europe.
Both computer models and historical data draw a dramatic picture of Tambora-driven storms hammering Britain and western Europe. A recent computer simulation conducted at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado showed fierce westerly winds in the North Atlantic in the aftermath of a major tropical eruption, while a parallel study based on multiproxy reconstructions of volcanic impacts on European climate since 1500 concluded that volcanic weather drives the increased “advection of maritime air from the North Atlantic,” meaning “stronger westerlies” and “anomalously wet conditions over Northern Europe.”
Back at the ground level of observed weather phenomena, an archival study of Scottish weather has found that, in the 1816–18 period, gale-force winds battered Edinburgh at a rate and intensity unmatched in over 200 years of record keeping. In January 1818, a particularly violent storm nearly destroyed the beloved St. John’s Chapel in the heart of the city. The slowing of oceanic currents in response to the overall deficit of solar radiation post-Tambora had left unusual volumes of heated water churning through the critical area between Iceland and the Azores, sapping air pressure, energizing westerly winds, and giving shape to titanic storms.
It was in this literally electric atmosphere that the Shelley party in Geneva, with Byron attached, conceived the idea of a ghost story contest, to entertain themselves indoors during this cold, wild summer. On the night of June 18, 1816, while another volcanic summer thunderstorm raged around them, Mary and Percy Shelley, Claire Clairmont, Byron, and Byron’s doctor-companion John Polidori recited the poet Coleridge’s recent volume of gothic verse to each other in the candlelit dimness at the Villa Diodati. In his 1986 movie about the Shelley circle that summer, British film director Ken Russell imagines Shelley gulping tincture of opium while Claire Clairmont performs fellatio on Byron, recumbent in a chair. Group sex in the drawing room might be implausible, even for the Shelley circle, but drug taking is very likely, inspired by Coleridge, the poet-addict supreme. How else to explain Shelley’s running screaming from the room at Byron’s recitation of the psychosexual “Christabel,” tormented by his vision of a bare-chested Mary Shelley with eyes instead of nipples?
From such antics, Byron conceived the outline of a modern vampire tale, which the bitter Polidori would later appropriate and publish under Byron’s name as a satire on his employer’s cruel aristocratic hauteur and sexual voracity. For Mary, the lurid events of this stormy night gave literary body to her own distracted musings on the ghost story competition, instituted two nights earlier. She would write a horror story of her own, about a doomed monster brought unwittingly to life during a storm. As Percy Shelley later wrote, the novel itself seemed generated by “the magnificent energy and swiftness of a tempest.” Thus it was that the unique creative synergies of this remarkable group of college-age tourists—in the course of a few weeks’ biblical weather—gave birth to two singular icons of modern popular culture: Frankenstein’s monster and the Byronic Dracula.
YELLOW EYE: An illustration from an 1831 edition of Frankenstein features this indelible line from the novel: “By the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull, yellow eye of the creature open.”British Library
A week after the memorable night of June 18, Byron and Shelley almost came to grief sailing on Lake Geneva, caught unawares as another violent storm swept in from the east. “The wind gradually increased in violence,” Shelley recalled, “until it blew tremendously; and, as it came from the remotest extremity of the lake, produced waves of a frightful height, and covered the whole surface with a chaos of foam.” By some miracle they found a sheltered port, where even the storm-hardened locals exchanged “looks of wonder.” Onshore, trees had blown down or been shattered by lightning.
The pyrotechnical lightning displays of June 1816 ignited the literary imagination of Mary Shelley. In Frankenstein, she uses the experience of a violent thunderstorm as the scene of fateful inspiration for her young, doomed scientist:
When I was about fifteen years old ... we witnessed a most violent and terrible thunderstorm. It advanced from behind the mountains of Jura; and the thunder burst at once with frightful loudness from various quarters of the heavens. I remained, while the storm lasted, watching its progress with curiosity and delight. As I stood at the door, on a sudden I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak, which stood about twenty yards from our house; and so soon as the dazzling light vanished, the oak had disappeared, and nothing remained but a blasted stump.
Frankenstein’s life is changed in this moment; he devotes himself, with maniacal energy, to the study of electricity and galvanism. In the fierce smithy of that Tamboran storm, Frankenstein is born as the anti-superhero of modernity—the “Modern Prometheus”—stealer of the gods’ fire.
Tambura’s influence on human history does not derive from extreme weather events considered in isolation but in the myriad environmental impacts of a climate system gone haywire. As a result of the prolonged poor weather, crop yields across the British Isles and western Europe plummeted by 75 percent and more in 1816–17. In the first summer of Tambora’s cold, wet, and windy regime, the European harvest languished miserably. Farmers left their crops in the field as long as they dared, hoping some fraction might mature in late-coming sunshine. But the longed-for warm spell never arrived and at last, in October, they surrendered. Potato crops were left to rot, while entire fields of barley and oats lay blanketed in snow until the following spring.
In Germany, the descent from bad weather to crop failure to mass starvation conditions took a frighteningly rapid course. Carl von Clausewitz, the military tactician, witnessed “heartrending” scenes on his horseback travels through the Rhine country in the spring of 1817: “I saw decimated people, barely human, prowling the fields for half-rotten potatoes.” In the winter of 1817, in Augsburg, Memmingen, and other German towns, riots erupted over the rumored export of corn to starving Switzerland, while the locals were reduced to eating horse and dog flesh.
Meanwhile, back in England, riots broke out in the East Anglian counties as early as May 1816. Armed laborers bearing flags with the slogan “Bread or Blood” marched on the cathedral town of Ely, held its magistrates hostage, and fought a pitched battle against the militia.
In his magisterial account of the social and economic upheaval in Europe during the Tambora period, historian John Post has shown the scale of human suffering to be worst in Switzerland, home to Shelley and her circle in 1816. Even in normal times, a Swiss family devoted at least half its income to buying bread. Already by August 1816, bread was scarce, and in December, bakers in Montreux threatened to cease production unless they could be allowed to raise prices. With imminent famine came the threat of “soulèvements”: violent uprisings. Bakers were set upon by starving mobs in the market towns and their shops destroyed. The English ambassador to Switzerland, Stratford Canning, wrote to his prime minister that an army of peasants, unemployed and starving, was assembling to march on Lausanne.
Most shocking of all was the fate of some desperate mothers. In horrific circumstances repeated around the world in the Tambora period, some Swiss families abandoned their offspring in the crisis, while others chose killing their children as the more humane course. For this crime, some starving women were apprehended and decapitated. Thousands of Swiss with more means and resilience emigrated east to prosperous Russia, while others set off along the Rhine to Holland and sailed from there to North America, which witnessed its first significant wave of refugee European migration in the 19th century. The numbers of European immigrants arriving at U.S. ports in 1817 more than doubled the number of any previous year.
Devastated by famine and disease in the Tambora period, the poor of Europe hurriedly buried their dead before resuming the bitter fight for their own survival. In the worst cases, children were abandoned by their families and died alone in the fields or by the roadside. The well-born members of the Shelley circle were never reduced to such abysmal circumstances. They did not experience the food crises that afflicted millions among the rural populations of western Europe in the Tambora period. Yet the Shelleys’ celebrated writings were enmeshed within the web of ecological breakdown following the Tambora eruption.
Byron and Percy Shelley were companions on a weeklong walking tour of Alpine Switzerland in June 1816, during which they debated poetry, metaphysics, and the future of mankind but also found time to remark on the village children they encountered, who “appeared in an extraordinary way deformed and diseased. Most of them were crooked, and with enlarged throats.” In Frankenstein, the Doctor’s benighted creation assumes a similar grotesque shape: a barely human creature, deformed, crooked, and enlarged. Like the hordes of refugees on the roads of Europe seeking aid in 1816–18, the Creature, when he ventures into the towns, is met with fear and hostility, horror and abomination. As the indigent Creature himself puts it, he suffered first “from the inclemency of the season” but “still more from the barbarity of man.”
As remarkable a feat of literary imagination as Frankenstein is, Mary Shelley was not wanting for real-world inspiration for her horror story, namely the deteriorating rural populations of Europe, in the climatic upheaval of Mount Tambora.
Gillen D’Arcy Wood is the author of Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World. He is a professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he directs the Sustainability Studies Initiative in the Humanities.
Excerpted from Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World by Gillen D’Arcy Wood. Copyright @ 2014 by Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission.
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9/11, straight up
Posted on September 11, 2020 September 11, 2020 by Mike
Unsurprisingly, perhaps, Glenn doesn’t really share my bitter cynicism about things.
19 YEARS AGO TODAY, WE SAID “NEVER FORGET,” BUT WE MOSTLY HAVE. Maybe that’s okay, in a way. As hardly anyone has noticed, Trump’s mideast peace deals have pulled the teeth of Islamic terror — without funding from the Saudis and the other rich Arab states, these “grassroots” terror movements miraculously disappear, just as the “people-based” communist revolutions vanished as soon as the Soviet Union went belly-up and quit funding them. And also, with fracking, there’s not as much Arab money lying around to begin with.
No one who was alive and aware that day will forget it, but my law students are already mostly young enough not to really remember it.
But look at it this way: The Bush presidency was basically all about reacting to 9/11. The Obama presidency was mostly about reacting to the Bush presidency’s reaction to 9/11. Trump’s presidency has been about putting the United States in a position where things like that won’t happen. I’ll take it.
He usually provides a link to his 9/11/01 posts but for some reason didn’t this year, and the archive link redirects to the main Instapundit page. But from my own bitterly cynical point of view, I can only ask: at this late stage of the game, why bother?
Meanwhile, my good friend and esteemed fellow OG warblogger Bill Quick—DEFINITELY unsurprisingly for those of us who know him well—does indeed share my bitter cynicism. But even a Pro-level cynic like Bill can’t quite eclipse my own weapons-grade Bitter Cynicissitude, I don’t think.
We have, of course, forgotten.
It is natural that we would. Two of the current crop of young American heroes, Nick Sandmann and Kyle Rittenhouse, have no living recollection of the Muslim jihad attack on America that occurred on September 11, 2001, two years before either were born.
We move on. Time heals all wounds. Blah, blah, blah.
It is revealing that, from my point of view, Islam appears to have won that encounter. Americans of today seem far more worried about being perceived as “Islamophobic,” than they are about the ongoing wave of atrocities being committed around the world in Islam’s name.
Of course, we have become a soft and decadent people. One of the reasons we have not unconditionally won a war since WWII is that we don’t have the fiber to wage a war to victory. Hell, we even get the vapors if some white couple dares stand on their own property while bearing arms against a rioting mob invading their neighborhood.
We want to be “nice.” But what we end up being, over and over again, is dead.
I haven’t forgotten, nor have I forgiven. But I am part of a dwindling breed. Young heroic men like Kyle Rittenhouse and Nicholas Sandmann give me hope for the future. But I can’t escape the ominous feeling that even they may only be the last gasp of a dying past.
He’s right, of course, about all of it. Sadly, depressingly, that would include that last sentence.
But right now, what it’s all putting me in mind of is that, on 9/14/01, I registered the Cold Fury domain name. Over the next couple of days, I built the site from scratch—I had only just discovered this whole newfangled blogging thang, so the original site was constructed using Adobe GoLive and BBEdit—and on the 16th I put up the first few posts. Before too long, I would discover the old blogging software Grey Matter, using that for a while before switching over to Moveable Type, then finally moving on to WordPress soon after it came out.
And that, in turn, means that once again I’ll soon have to remind myself to renew the domain name. Usually I forget, leading to a stupid outage; the seemingly perennial personal-cash-flow blockage of the last several years means that renewing in advance, or setting things up for auto-renewal (such luxury!), just ain’t in the cards, alas. But I SWEAR I’ma get it done on time this year, dammit. I SWEAR it.
And that, in turn, puts me in mind of the necessity to begin the Herculean task of trying at last to untangle the malicious Russkie code planted in last year’s über-hack from the voluminous CF archive database, which I’ll be starting on forthwith, Lord help me. Maybe I’ll also see if I can dig up a screenshot from those halcyon early CF days and post that, too. No promises on that one, though. Heck, I don’t even know that I have one at all, much where I’d go a-hunting for such an elusive snipe.
A side yarn I’ve spun before here, while we’re on the subject of ancient history and bygone days: the Cold Fury name originally came to be because of my immediate realization that, although the whole country came together in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, that apparent unity was illusory, and would be short-lived. I knew that the Left would be unable to restrain its still-developing but already quite powerful America-Hate muscle from spasming involuntarily. Its Pavlovian instinct to lay the world’s every ill, every evil, and every injustice at America’s feet would soon find its too-predictable expression via the latest Islamic act of barbarism and savagery against the hated Western infidel. That sure and certain knowledge sparked a…well, yes, a Cold Fury in me that still scorches the soul even now.
In my bitterly cynical mind, I gave the dirty bastards no more than a week before they’d bare the bloody fangs and revert to their true nature. Two, at the outside.
In the event, I had been too magnanimous: as I recollect, it was no more than two-three days before the first establishment-media op-ed appeared, penned by some self-loathing shitlib bint or other who superciliously opined that, what with its many decades of Oppressing Innocent Brown People the world over—most especially the long-tormented Middle East, whose only sin was being situated atop all that accursed oil, placed by heartless Fate between Black Gold and AMERICAN GREED™—America had only itself to blame for the latest shattering, calamitous assault.
The rubble and carcinogenic dust hadn’t yet settled; the deadly fires still burned in Lower Manhattan. Nobody even knew yet how many innocent souls, from all over the world, had been murdered. An entire nation had been brought to a standstill, holding its breath while it waited for information about the calamity.
Yet here the loathsome brigands came nonetheless, bringing the routine Despicable-Left shit to be smeared all over tear-streaked American faces, ground into grieving American hearts.
They eagerly made an obscene, gruesome mockery of all human compassion, forbearance, and decency in an orgy of mindless hatred. And now, almost two decades later? If anything, they’re even worse than they were back then. Now as then, their only thought is to denigrate, to defile, to destroy. But today the thought has, by orders of magnitude, grown more intense. Their ambition has metastasized, their determination hardened far beyond the ability of mere words to break, soften, or deflect.
As Glenn has long said: Anti-war? Nope. On the other side.
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Happy 9/11 Day!
Hope every “American” will be joyously celebrating that glorious morning (or was it evening?) so long, long ago when “some people did something,” according to one of our most distinguished and beloved US CongresswymryngXX, who is truly a shining examplar of the “American” traditions of bigamy, incest, immigration fraud, and casual, offhand treason. ZrshmX is certainly an inspiration to us all, and rightly so.
Yes, on this day of days let us all make time to “remember” those Noble Sacrifices of some sort or other—made to preserve our “freedom,” by somebody or other—with holiday cookouts, long-weekend beach trips, sportsball games on TeeWee, illegal fireworks, and big, big holiday savings on every item from Chinese-made sheets and towels to Chinese-made hand tools to Chinese-made clothing. Be sure to have plenty of delicious Chinese-made hotdogs on hand and grill-ready too, comrades, for all your hungry party guests!
All 9/11 Day celebrants are required to wear facemasks, diving-bell helmets, and full Level-4 biohazard gear throughout the weekend, as usual. Bars, restaurants, and Xtian churches will remain strictly closed, of course, with extremely stiff Freedom Fines™ and remediative incarceration to be imposed as punishment for any noncompliance. Mosques will be open as always for worship services honoring the True God and his Prophet, PBUH. “Mostly peaceful” “protests,” arson, and random murder will continue as before.
Oh, and next year’s 9/11 Day will be observed on September 19th.
Posted in Believe it or Else, BLEARGH!, Dhimmi-wits, LOSING!, Yech!
Two sets of laws Part the Bazillionth
Posted on April 21, 2020 April 21, 2020 by Mike
Remember back when I mentioned that, amidst the Christian church/synagogue shutdowns, arrests, fines, and threats from His (dis)Honor Bill DeBalledZero, nobody seemed to be including mosques in all that?
Yeah, well. About all that.
A Syracuse mosque is still open for daily prayers amid the Coronavirus shutdown as Christians are threatened and fined for attending drive-in services.
New York is the country’s Coronavirus epicenter with more than 18,000 deaths, however this mosque is still open for prayers.
This mosque located on the north side was once the Holy Trinity Catholic Church, but it closed down due to lack of parishioners — now it is considered a victory mosque.
It ought to be. Because that’s precisely what it is.
The Muslims who attend this mosque are not practicing social distancing. They are standing and praying closer than 6 feet apart, so why aren’t the police raiding this mosque and threatening the attendees with imprisonment and or fines?
Because Islam, silly. Another report:
While virtually every church in the United States is shut down due to coronavirus, and those few willing to defy lockdown orders are threatened with arrest or hauled to jail, a New York mosque is operating with impunity during the pandemic.
The mosque, in Syracuse, New York, had its operating procedures detailed by gushing local media, which described how the facility has modified its practices to adhere with social distancing during the China virus pandemic.
The building, formerly a Catholic church, is disinfected between services – not by cleaning professionals, but by volunteers – and video reveals those worshipers brave enough to leave their homes during the pandemic are not social distancing.
In video to YouTube uploaded by Syracuse.com, a small group of worshipers is seen praising Allah far less than six feet apart, failing to adhere to social distancing procedures and potentially defeating the purpose of worshiping in a room completely covered in plastic.
While this mosque is allowed to operate during the coronavirus pandemic, albeit under slightly modified procedures, Christians are being forced out of their churches across the country.
Shocking, yet not in the least surprising. Back to Cristina for some specifics:
Parishioners who attended a drive-in service at Temple Baptist Church in Mississippi were fined $500 each by police for violating ‘social distancing’ orders.
20 police cars swarmed King James Bible Baptist Church in Mississippi and pastor Charles Hamilton Jr., was told by a cop that his rights were suspended.
A Kentucky church parking lot was littered with nails on Easter Sunday and police officers harassed churchgoers by recording their license plates and leaving notes on their cars.
That’s but a few examples from an ever-expanding list. The conclusion is as obvious as it is appalling:
Clearly Christians are being singled out and persecuted.
Yup. It amounts to nothing more nor less than the mopping-up phase of the PC Left’s long campaign against America That Was, as Proggie walks the battlefield shooting the wounded.
Posted in Believe it or Else, Dhimmi-wits, Gangster Government, Immivasion, Leftward ho!, Life in a once-great nation, Life In The O!gulag, LOSING!, Our Enemies, Savages!, The Liberal Way of War, The West and the Rest, We Are Soooooo Screwed, WTF?!
Jersey dhimmis embrace Teh Suck
Posted on March 21, 2020 March 22, 2020 by Mike
While your attention was diverted, a thing happened.
New Jersey City Approves Changes to Noise Ordinance to Allow Islamic Call to Prayer to Broadcast Five Times a Day – Beginning at 6 AM
After extensive debate, the City Council on Tuesday night voted 5-4 to approve changes in Paterson’s noise control ordinance that supporters say will allow mosques to broadcast the Islamic call to prayer five times a day.
The vote drew an impassioned standing room only crowd of more than 120 to City Hall, including some Christian pastors who opposed the measure, saying it would create a nuisance for people who live near mosques, as well as members of Paterson’s Muslim community, who praised the ordinance as a victory for religious inclusion.
Hey, long as those pesky Christian pastors don’t try something truly offensive and dangerously confrontational like, oh, reading from the Bible audibly in the vicinity of a mosque, say. Or, heaven forfend, handing out pamphlets advocating Christianity where a Mooselimb might see you.
Because that would be wrong.
But another resident, Steve Bauer, said mosques’ loudspeakers would be “blaring” in neighborhoods. During his comments, Bauer mentioned Islamic terrorists, including the man who was living in Paterson in October 2017 when he killed nine people at a Hudson River bike path in Manhattan.
Public nuisance isn’t the real issue; volume isn’t, and the time of day the devotional yodeling gets cranking damned sure isn’t. The issue is the establishment of a preferred state religion, most especially the official embrace of a hostile, alien pseudo-religion which is savagely antithetical to every last principle this pathetic joke of a nation used to proclaim.
City officials quickly interrupted Bauer to tell him he could only comment about the noise ordinance.
“With all due respect, this is a religious issue,” Bauer responded.
One would think so, perhaps. But ask the FBI anytime yet another known-wolf Muzzrat drives a truck onto the sidewalk to crush the infidel about his possible motive and you’ll quickly find out different.
The revised ordinance approved on Tuesday night listed 14 exemptions to the city’s noise regulations, including one that covered “bells, chimes or carillons…while being used in conjunction with religious services.” The revised ordinance also said that the call to prayer already was exempt from the noise control regulations under state law.
I’ll let Cristina say it for me:
The Islamic call to prayer should never be allowed in any city in the United States.
It is a total nuisance and it is also a way for the Muslims in the community to show their dominance, forcing a city with Christians, Jews and perhaps agnostics to be subjected to Islam.
It is every bit of that, yep. Unfortunately, shamefully, this is just another in a lengthening list of wars we lost a long time ago. And in war there ain’t no do-overs.
In case you didn’t know, Paterson is but a short drive from a certain place in lower Manhattan some of us used to refer to as Ground Zero. A thing happened there also way, way back in antiquity—a seemingly major event at the time which has now been totally forgotten. In the fall of 2001, that was; you could look it up if you’re interested, I suppose. But hardly anybody is anymore, so why bother?
*spit*
Posted in Bah!, Believe it or Else, BLEARGH!, Culture of Cowardice, Dhimmi-wits, Flotsam and/or Jetsam, LOSING!, Our Enemies, Savages!, The Government You Deserve, The West and the Rest, We Are Soooooo Screwed, WTF?!
I just gotta bring Georgiaboy61’s most excellent comment out front here, for anybody who might have missed it.
The convoluted logic by which Turkey was admitted to NATO was that Kemal Ataturk was a secular modernist ruler, and that by admitting the Turks, we could bottle up the Soviet Black Sea fleet while having the ability to station intermediate range nuclear missiles on their border.
The provocation of stationing missiles right hard up against the Soviet border was lost on the foreign-policy hawks, who did not realize that they had set the stage for the Cuban Missile Crisis by their action. Ataturk may or may not have been what he represented himself to be – a secular moderate (there is considerable evidence that he was not who he claimed to be) – but the fact remains that Turkey has been an explicitly Islamic nation for almost all of her long history, and perhaps the oldest and most-determined of the Islamic enemies of western (Christian) civilization.
We see this today under the neo-Ottoman ruler Recep Erdogan, an unreconstructed Islamic supremacist and Sunni Muslim who longs to return his nation to its glorious “golden age” as a new 21st-century caliph. Under Erdogan, Turkey is reverting to its historical mean and what it has heretofore always been – an explicitly Islamic nation.
Erdogan has done more than talk. He is one of the founders of ISIS/Islamic State, the Sunni Muslim direct-action jihad-terror group which has caused so much trouble across the Middle East and elsewhere in the world. In the recent past, Erdogan has been the biggest supporter of the group, and his son, Bilal, was caught red-handed smuggling oil to market in Turkish-flagged ships, the revenue from which had been funding the group’s operations.
Erdogan is also part of the cabal of globalists and other mischief-makers attempting to infiltrate millions of Muslims into old Europe, would-be conquerors for the new caliphate. His latest stunt along the Greek border is just his latest gambit. One in a long line of them.
The U.S. should remove its equipment, personnel and weapons from Turkey, as soon as possible, and then inform Ankara that they are no longer members of the NATO alliance. And if the other NATO members complain, then the U.S. should threaten to dissolve the alliance entirely. Once done, Turkey can then be treated as precisely what it is – an enemy of western civilization and of the alliance. Whereupon, if requested by Athens, NATO assets can be moved to Greece, should the need arise, to reinforce their borders.
Endorsed, to the last syllable, with all my heart and soul. Well done, G.
Again and again, the West has attempted to rehabilitate its Moslem enemy without Moslem consent or cooperation, recasting them as “moderates,” as “peaceful,” as civilized people who are “just like us” at bottom, who “love their children as much as we do,” without a single shred of evidence supporting any of it. The West perpetuates this pathetic self-delusion exclusively for its own near-term comfort and convenience, but the only thing such puerile folly has ever achieved is to convince the enemy of our weakness, our decadence, and our cowardice.
We crave safety so desperately that we’re willing to try nearly anything to get it, excepting of course the one and only thing that ever will: an honest, clear-eyed acceptance of certain unpleasant realities, along with the flinty resolution to act in accord with them.
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Greece nuts the fuck up.
The situation in the no-mans-land between Turkey and Greece is becoming increasingly more violent and desperate for the refugees. Reporters on a tour heard gunshots despite the Greek government denying the use of anything except tear gas to stop the refugees.
Daily Beast:
For over an hour, the sound of people trying to direct each other in multiple languages through farms, woodlands, and across riverbanks was punctuated by shots. First it sounded like single rifle blasts, then came bursts of three, and then longer, heavier automatic fire.
Encouraging, and way overdue. Greek officials, when confronted by wailing “journalists” and other hanky-soaking globalist cunts claiming to have heard gunfire, blithely responded No you didn’t.
However, when Papastathis appeared on Wednesday afternoon to direct us to the new location, he denied absolutely that we had heard what we heard.
“Only tear gas is being fired,” he insisted to a group of a dozen journalists on the tracks.
Turkey accused Greece of killing a Syrian man and wounding five other people.
My heart bleeds. Maybe shoulda stayed the fuck home then, no?
Fuck the goddamned treacherous Turks and their accusations all to hell and gone, by the way. The rationale for their even being in NATO at all escapes me completely. Then again, I feel the exact same way about the US, too.
The next day footage of Greek soldiers apparently firing in the direction of migrants on the border surfaced online. And more signs of the Greeks using live fire on migrants and asylum seekers could be found at a makeshift camp for people waiting to cross the Evros River near the Turkish city of Edirne.
As encouraging as the Greek gubmint’s properly hardnosed response to the de facto invasion of their nation by predatory Moslem rapefugees and perpetual dependents surely is, this next is even more so:
Greece is becoming more and more desperate to stop what has to be considered a Turkish-inspired invasion of its territory. And since the government has been ineffective, armed private citizens have taken matters into their own hands.
The BBC has encountered members of self-styled militias who carry out night-time armed patrols in Greek border towns looking for migrants.
“There are such militia along the entire region,” said Yannis Laskarakis, a newspaper publisher in the city of Alexandroupoli who has received death threats for speaking out against armed vigilantes.
“We have seen them with our own eyes, arresting migrants, treating them badly and if someone dares to help them, he has the same fate.”
And the vigilantes aren’t only going after refugees. Aid workers and the press have also been assaulted.
I bolded the best part so’s you wouldn’t miss it. Elsewhere, the Telegraph gets busy trotting out the usual boogeyman:
On Lesbos, young men have targeted reporters and NGOs because they perceive them as being sympathetic to the refugees’ plight.
It is not clear if they are local or outsiders from the mainland, possibly connected to far-Right organisations.
On Friday there were reports that members of German and Austrian far-Right groups had arrived on the island.
Yeh, yeh, whatevs. Moran deftly slices and dices that hooraw:
I doubt whether a lot of these simple Greek villagers are members of a far-right organization. Their motivations are simple; their families are at risk and their property is being invaded by foreigners. For them, there are no grand geopolitical issues involved. They are protecting theirs and their own from harm.
But with the rest of the EU cheerleading from the sidelines — while not lifting a finger to help except to open their wallets — Greece finds itself alone and facing a potential onslaught of 100,000 people.
Doesn’t matter a damned bit whether they’re “far-Right” or not; I’d bet the farm that none of those militia types give a shit about any of that, either. Let liberal “journalists” clang the “far-Right” tocsin to their hearts’ content; there is but one issue that matters here: when a national government fails to meet its most basic obligations—securing its borders, maintaining its sovereignty, and defending its citizens—then eventually its citizens will take matters into their own hands.
Nobody is obliged to sit passively back as hostile marauders invade their country, rain violence and destruction on its people, assault its culture and institutions, soak up its resources, and just generally run riot through the place. However complacent, peaceable, or over-civilized a population may be, sooner or later enough finally becomes enough. Then the lamp is lit, the ball has dropped, and it’s game on for reals.
Somebody really ought to give our own Democrat-Socialists a strongish heads-up about that lest they someday find their own precious butts caught in the blades, for some very similar reasons.
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Posted on February 24, 2020 February 24, 2020 by Mike
For a real change of pace, this one is perfectly easy to spot as a Bee satire.
John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ Rereleased With More Realistic Description Of Communism
UK—Have you ever tried to imagine living in a perfect world ruled by communism, but previously only received the information from catchy folk songs which praise the system? Well, lucky for you, it is now easier than ever to understand what a full-blown communist utopia actually looks like.
That’s because John Lennon’s commie classic “Imagine” has been rereleased with more realistic lyrics to reflect the harsh realities of communism. Lennon, long dead—though not by way of communism, since he was blessed to live in a capitalist country—would be proud of the change, due to its artistic value in realism.
While the classic folk song does do a fantastic job of laying out the basics of communism—no religion, no possessions, no food—it never invites the listener to imagine all the people in their true form, which is dead—usually by firing squad, but often by way of starvation as well.
The folks at the Bee are good enough to provide us with the new lyrics, which include a “re-Imagined” turnaround:
You may say I’m a commie
And someday you will join us
Or we’ll shoot you in the face
Somehow, I just can’t quite see this more candid and factual version being sung at the next big candlelit ‘n’ teary-eyed circle jerk in the wake of yet another Islamic mass slaughter that has nothing whatever to do with Islam. Way too real for the “reality”-based creampuffs to choke down, maybe.
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Much as I do hate to come down on the side of Muzzrat primitives on anything, anytime, anywhere, I have to say that my sympathy for this obnoxious cooze is…limited. QUITE limited.
A 26-year-old British woman who has appeared on TV shows “First Dates” and “Ninja Warrior UK” was arrested for wearing a bikini in the Maldives — accusing three male cops of “sexually assaulting” her, according to reports.
Cecilia Jastrzembska was arrested after strolling past a mosque and a school on Maafushi, an island in the Maldives where it is illegal to wear bikinis except on designated beaches because of strict Muslim Sharia laws, the Sun of the UK reported.
Video of the incident shows Jastrzembska, who describes herself as a parliamentary adviser at the House of Commons, thrashing as she is being arrested.
“You are sexually assaulting me!” she yells at the three officers as her male friend tries to cover part of her body with a small towel.
“Anyone who gets in my personal space I’m going to have a problem with,” she is heard screaming.
Maldives Police Commissioner Mohamed Hameed later issued a public apology over the incident, saying it appeared to have been “badly handled,” and the woman was released after spending an hour and a half in custody Thursday.
Do note the following bit. It’s important.
“Tourists on local islands are requested to respect the community’s cultural sensitivities and local regulations by restricting the wearing of swimwear to certain areas of the island where local communities live,” police said, according to the UK’s Standard.
So even the Maldives Mooselimbs, who I am confident are awake to what the resort-area cash cow means to them, are reasonable enough to allow “swimwear” on their tourist beaches. That bespeaks a flexibility and restraint not exactly common in the Moslem world, wouldn’t you say? This Brit bimbelina, onthe other hand, chose to strut her luscious, scantily-clad little ass right past a fucking mosque. In broad daylight and full view of the local yokels, who apparently took issue with this brazen show of disrespect for local custom and law and called the cops.
She got what she had coming, if you ask me—little indeed of it, in fact, seeing as how she not only got herself sprung in less than two hours but also somehow garnered a near-groveling apology from the top cop himself, which I consider entirely unnecessary and undeserved. I cannot for the life of me see how the “incident” was “badly handled.” It was handled quite gently, compared to the deep, boiling kettle of fish this bint would have found herself steeping in in just about any other Moslem country you could name.
Tease the tiger and you might get bit. Offer affront to Moslems on their own turf with obvious intent to provoke, particularly if you’re a Western female, and you almost certainly won’t like what happens to you. If Brass-Balled Barbie managed to survive twenty-six years on this blue marble before learning that lesson with no more damage than she suffered, she ought to spend a significant portion of the rest of her life on her knees thanking God for it.
Video at the link, which is kinda-sorta worth a look. What, you thought I was kidding when I said her ass was luscious? Actually, the bit where her wispy little cuck of a boyfriend is halfheartedly trying to get past the cops to belatedly toss a blanket over Miss Thang as they wrassle her around and then haul her bad self off to the jug is pretty funny.
(Via Sarah Hoyt)
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Predictable as the sunrise
Posted on January 13, 2020 January 14, 2020 by Mike
In an otherwise good piece, Roger Kimball whiffs bigly on one important thing:
The disaster of Flight 752 took place in the context of the liquidation of the terrorist mass-murderer Qasem Soleimani last week by the United States on the order of President Donald Trump. But that courageous and far-seeing act itself took place in the context of Iran’s decades-long assault on American and, more broadly, on Western institutions that promote a culture of tolerance and religious freedom.
The fact that many U.S. news outlets and Democratic politicians instantly coalesced around Soleimani as a “revered” military leader tells us what great inroads Stockholm Syndrome has made among American elites.
Sorry, Rog, it does no such thing. What it actually tells us is just how low those treasonous blackguards are willing to stoop to attach themselves to true, real-world evil if they think they might somehow grub some cheap political points from it; how reflexively they will always side with America’s enemies, no matter what; how deeply, deeply desperate they are to somehow hold onto power and position by attacking Trump; and how there can be no more fitting, just, or accurate a condemnation of them than to simply name them as traitors, the unabashed enemies of this country.
Last week, Donald Trump eliminated one of Iran’s most potent emissaries of death and destruction. All the beautiful people huddled together and wailed that Trump had just “destabilized” the Middle East (had it been stable beforehand?), that his “unilateral” action was illegal, counterproductive, immature, that, ultimately, he may have started World War III.
That was then. Now it looks as though he may have sparked the great unraveling of theocratic totalitarian control in Iran. And this just in: the Iranians apparently have just arrested the British ambassador. Arrested. In civilized countries, if there is an issue with a diplomat, one expels him. In civilized countries. But this is the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Someday, the world will stand back and applaud Trump for his canny and farseeing statesmanship. I do not assert that that recognition is coming any time soon. But come it will.
Most likely, yeah. But not from the Treasoncrats and Enemedia—not unless and until they can use Trump as a weapon for dishonestly smearing some future candidate as the new Second Coming Of Literally Hitler, they won’t.
Update! Schlichter calls ’em out.
You spent the last three years babbling like idiots about “traitors” and “treachery.” Well, head docs call that “projection.” You are siding with the enemy in a war against the United States. And yeah, Iran has been at war with the United States for 40 years, ever since your peanut-farming, half-wit fellow Dem handed over the keys to the country to a bunch of Seventh Century Pennywises. The least you could do is show a little respect to the people trying to clean up your party’s mess.
Your party’s latest triumph is blaming Donald Trump because these drooling morons shot down a passenger airliner the night they launched missiles at our American soldiers. What the hell is wrong with you? Are you sick? Are you stupid? Are you huffing that funny powder you found in Hunter Biden’s medicine cabinet? What would ever have possessed you to start making excuses for people trying to kill Americans?
It’s nothing new for them. After all, it was, what, like two days after 9/11 before they all started preachifying in their oh-so-superior way that we had that coming too? They can’t help themselves; it’s who they are, it’s what they do. They’ve been this way for far too long already, and couldn’t stop now if they tried. Go ahead and ask the scorpion not to sting the frog while you’re at it, you’ll end up with the same result.
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Five years on
Haunted by the ghosts of Charlie Hebdo.
I heard about the attack shortly before I went on that morning’s John Oakley Show in Toronto. Throughout the grim half-decade for free speech that has followed, I have thought often of Stéphane “Charb” Charbonnier, the editor of Charlie Hebdo and a great cartoonist in the French style. Two years before his death, he said:
It may seem pompous, but I’d rather die standing than live on my knees.
He did. He was an heroic figure, and he paid for it with his life. One reason for that is because, when everyone else is on their knees, the guy standing up kinda stands out. And Charb & Co had been standing out for almost ten years. As I said to Megyn Kelly at Fox News later that night:
STEYN: Yes, they were very brave. This was the only publication that was willing to publish the Muhammad — the Danish Muhammad cartoons in 2006 because they decided to stand by those Danish cartoonists. I’m proud to have written for the only Canadian magazine to publish those Muhammad cartoons. And it’s because The New York Times didn’t and because Le Monde in Paris didn’t, and the London Times didn’t and all the other great newspapers of the world didn’t – only Charlie Hebdo and my magazine in Canada and a few others did. But they were forced to bear a burden that should have been more widely dispersed…
We will be retreating into a lot more self-censorship if the pansified Western media doesn’t man up and decide to disburse the risk so they can’t kill one small, little French satirical magazine. They’ve gotta kill all of us.
Given the despicable, gutless groveling so shamelessly on display this past week, it’s clear that the five years since have brought no improvement in our sorry lot. Steyn looks back in anger:
Five years ago I quoted Andrew Stiles:
Journalists: These French journalists are so brave!
Readers: What did they do? Can I see?
Journalists: It’s our policy not to show you.
But I see Mr Stiles’ Tweet has somehow managed to disappear from the Internet. George Clooney held up a pencil and Dame Helen Mirren wore an exquisite pencil brooch pinned to her splendid embonpoint and thousands of tilty-headed wankers with sorrowful expressions marched through the streets of Paris waving pencils. But none of them was willing to do the one thing that mattered – and show what Charb et al had drawn with those pencils. By the following day I was good and sick of it:
To be honest, it makes me vomit to see people holding these Princess Dianafied candlelit vigils, and using the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie – I am Charlie -and in effect appropriating these guys’ sacrifice for this bogus solidarity. It makes me sick to see all these ‘the pen is mightier than the sword’ cartoons that have appeared in newspapers all over the United States, Canada, Britain, Germany, France, Australia, everywhere, from other cartoonists, again expressing solidarity with these very brave men – but not doing what they did…
I’ve been on enough events in Europe with less famous cartoonists than these who live under death threats, live under armed guard, have had their family restaurant firebombed – it’s happened to a Norwegian comedienne I know – have come home and found their home burned, as a Swedish artist I know happened to. And all these people doing the phony hashtag solidarity, screw your phony hashtag solidarity. Let’s have some real solidarity – or if not, at least have the good taste to stay the hell out of it.
That would have been asking too much. In the days that followed almost all those who claimed to be expressing solidarity with Charb were, in fact, signaling very clearly that they preferred to live on their knees.
I’ve quoted this great Tolkien passage here before, and it bears endless repeating:
It needs but one foe to breed a war, not two, Master Warden, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.
The Charlie Hebdo victims proved their mettle with a defiant message written in their own blood. Too bad the pathetic, weepy fools who boasted “Je suis Charlie!” in between choruses of “Imagine” at all those repulsive candlelight vigils are too cowardly to do anything more than disgrace such a noble legacy.
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Destination Maternity Announces Proposed Stalking Horse Bidder
Marquee Brands provides "stalking horse" bid in court-supervised Chapter 11 restructuring
Motherhood Maternity®, A Pea in the Pod® and Destination Maternity® Stores and Websites Remain Open During Process
MOORESTOWN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 2019-- Destination Maternity Corporation (NASDAQ: DEST) (“Destination Maternity” or the “Company”), the premier national retailer for maternity apparel and accessories, filed on November 29, 2019 a motion to approve the selection of Marquee Brands, LLC (“Marquee Brands”) as the stalking horse bidder in its ongoing marketing and sale process. Marquee Brand’s bid is to purchase the Company’s ecommerce businesses, intellectual property, leased departments within department stores and baby specialty stores, strategic marketing partnerships and the right to designate certain inventory and related assets for sale by its partners, Gordon Brothers and Hilco Merchant Resources.
The bid of approximately $50 million, subject to adjustment, along with the assumption of certain liabilities, represents a baseline bid and is subject to higher or otherwise better offers in an open auction process. The proposed Purchase Agreement contains customary closing conditions. To the extent additional qualified bids are received, Destination Maternity expects the auction, scheduled to take place on December 9, 2019, to be competitive.
The deadline to submit qualified bids is December 5, 2019, and the Company expects to seek Court approval of the winning bid on December 12, 2019. Parties interested in participating in the marketing process should contact the Company’s investment bank, Greenhill & Co., LLC (Neil Augustine, neil.augustine@greenhill.com, and Peter Johns, peter.johns@greenhill.com).
“We are pleased that Marquee Brands recognizes the value of our business and has made a competitive bid during our marketing and sale process,” said Lisa Gavales, a member of Destination Maternity’s Board of Directors and the interim Office of the CEO. “We are working to continue the sale process, including the auction, and look forward to an outcome that will maximize value for our stakeholders. Looking ahead, we remain focused on continuing to serve our loyal customers.”
Throughout the process, Destination Maternity expects its operations to continue to serve customers and to meet its day-to-day obligations to its employees, suppliers of goods and services and customers.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Landis Rath & Cobb LLP are acting as the Company’s legal co-counsel, Greenhill & Co., LLC is acting as investment banker and Berkeley Research Group, LLC (“BRG”) is serving as Destination Maternity’s restructuring advisor.
About Destination Maternity
Destination Maternity is the leading designer and omni-channel retailer of maternity apparel in the United States, with the only nationwide chain of maternity apparel specialty stores, as well as a deep and expansive assortment available through multiple online distribution points, including our three brand-specific websites. We sell our merchandise on the Internet, primarily through our Motherhood.com, APeaInThePod.com and DestinationMaternity.com websites. We also sell our merchandise through our Canadian website, MotherhoodCanada.ca, through Amazon.com in the United States, and through websites of certain of our retail partners, including Macys.com. Our stores operate under three retail nameplates: Motherhood Maternity®, A Pea in the Pod® and Destination Maternity®. We also operate leased departments within leading retailers such as Macy’s®, buybuy BABY® and Boscov’s®.
About Marquee Brands
Marquee Brands is a leading global brand owner and marketer. Owned by investor funds managed by Neuberger Berman, one of the world's leading employee-owned investment managers, Marquee Brands targets high quality brands with strong consumer awareness and long-term growth potential. Marquee Brands seeks to identify brands in various consumer product segments with the goal of expanding their reach across retail channel, geography and product category while preserving the brand heritage and enhancing the ultimate consumer experience. Through its global team of professionals and partners, Marquee Brands monitors trends and markets in order to grow and manage brands in partnership with retailers, licensees and manufacturers through engaging, impactful strategic planning, marketing, and e-commerce. www.marqueebrands.com.
About Gordon Brothers
Since 1903, Gordon Brothers (www.gordonbrothers.com) has helped lenders, operating executives, advisors, and investors move forward through change. The firm brings a powerful combination of expertise and capital to clients, developing customized solutions on an integrated or standalone basis across four service areas: valuations, dispositions, operations, and investments. Whether to fuel growth or facilitate strategic consolidation, Gordon Brothers partners with companies in the retail, commercial, and industrial sectors to put assets to their highest and best use. Gordon Brothers conducts more than $70 billion worth of dispositions and appraisals annually. Gordon Brothers is headquartered in Boston, with 25 offices across five continents.
About Hilco Merchant Resources
Hilco Merchant Resources (www.hilcomerchantresources.com) provides a wide range of analytical, advisory, asset monetization, and capital investment services to help define and execute a retailer’s strategic initiatives. Hilco Merchant Resources’ activities fall into several principal categories including acquisitions; disposition of underperforming stores; retail company or division wind downs; event sales to convert unwanted assets into working capital; facilitation of mergers and acquisitions; interim company, division or store management teams; loss prevention; and, the monetization of furniture, fixtures and equipment. Additionally, HMR now includes among its subsidiaries the nation’s premier fixture and equipment liquidation firm, Hilco Fixed Asset Recovery (www.hilcoffe.com), an innovative sale locater website called Shop Genius (www.shopgenius.com), as well as the popular online retail and daily deal e-commerce company, Deal Genius, LLC (www.dealgenius.com). Hilco Merchant Resources is part of Northbrook, Illinois based Hilco Global (www.hilcoglobal.com), one of the world’s leading authorities on maximizing the value of business assets by delivering valuation, monetization and advisory solutions to an international marketplace.
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Towers of Wyoming
Submitted by jonathan on Sun, 2000-10-15 13:57
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Construct a Tower of cards—a pile containing only one suit—faster than the other players, or to be the last player in the game.
A deck of cards with four distinct suits and 25 cards in each suit.
Shuffling two poker decks together and then removing one card from each suit works nicely. You can also use extra cards you have lying around from certain collectible card games (think of ones that rhyme with “tragic: no blathering”).
Put ten pennies in the middle of the table. This pile is called the Settling Sky.
A Tower that does not contain any cards is called a Foundation. When the game begins, all players start the game with a certain number of Foundations:
Foundations per player
Settling Sky pennies
3 1 or 2* 10 or 8*
* Players decide at the beginning of the game, before any cards are dealt. If you choose to play with two Foundations apiece, reduce the number of pennies that make up the Settling Sky to eight.
Shuffle the deck. Deal 7 cards to each player. Place the remaining cards face-down in the middle of the table to create a draw pile. Although it doesn’t exist yet, the discard pile will be a face-up pile next to the draw pile.
Choose a person to go first.
At the beginning of your turn, you must draw until you have 7 cards. (If you already have 7 cards, don’t draw.) Once you have a full hand, you must play one or more cards. All cards played must either Construct or Deconstruct.
Restrictions: Regardless of whether you play to construct or deconstruct, the following rules always apply:
All cards played on a turn must be of the same suit. (You may play one, some, or all cards from that suit that you have in your hand.)
All cards played on a turn can only be played on a single player.
All cards played on a turn can only be played on a single Tower or Foundation.
Constructing: Cards played to Construct may be added to any Tower in play, provided that that Tower contains cards of the same suit. If you have an empty Foundation, you may begin Constructing it with any suit. You may not play cards on another player’s empty Foundation.
Deconstructing: Cards played to Deconstruct may be added to any Tower in play, provided that that Tower contains cards of an “opposing” suit (see below). Once played, Deconstructing cards are then moved to the Discard pile. In addition, the Tower that they were played on loses one card to the discard pile for each Deconstructing card played. (Deconstructing cards cancel Tower cards.) If there are more cards played to Deconstruct than there are in the Tower, then the excess cards form the new Tower, changing the suit of the Tower to the suit of the Deconstructing cards.
Spades oppose Hearts and vice versa.
Clubs oppose Diamonds and vice versa.
After you’ve Constructed or Deconstructed, then your turn ends and play passes to the next player.
It’s the end of the deck as we know it…: When the draw pile runs out of cards, take one penny out of the Sky and recycle the discards, shuffling them and making a new draw pile; continue playing normally.
If, at the end of a turn, any player has a Tower with a number of cards greater than the number of pennies in the Settling Sky, then that player wins.
If, at any time, only one player remains in the game (see Optional Rules, below), then that player wins.
Sudden Death: When the draw pile runs out of cards, continue play as normal without drawing cards. When all players have run out of cards, the game ends. The player with the most cards in one Tower wins.
This is a good rule to use if you don’t have long to play.
Contractual Deadlines: Any player without a tower when the cards are recycled loses his or her building contract and is removed from the game. If, at any time, only one player remains in the game, then that player wins.
This rule is an optional rule only because it’s a little too harsh for beginning players. I recommend using it once all players are comfortable with the rules of the game.
Tidal Influences: The Settling Sky starts with eight pennies (regardless of how many players there are). Instead of removing a penny from the Sky when you reshuffle the deck, toss all of the pennies onto a flat surface. If there are more face-up pennies than face-down ones, then add a penny to the Sky. Otherwise, take a penny out of the Sky. If they come out half-and-half, toss again.
This is my favorite variation.
Wheel of Opposition: The suits lose their normal opposition rules and oppose each other as follows: Clubs oppose Diamonds which oppose Spades which oppose Hearts which oppose Clubs.
You should find that this rule dramatically affects the strategy of the game.
Finicky Clients: To win, your Tower must have exactly as many cards as there are pennies in the Settling Sky.
Origins & Credits
I was trying to design a game based on the comic strip Bob the Angry Flower, and I got this instead. From intent to completion, I figure the core game took about two days to make. The extra rules evolved as we (ICP) were brainstorming to think of a “theme” to attach to the game.
Many thanks to Ben, Natosha, and Sharon for playtesting this with me.
Four players
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Review: The Daedalus Sentence
By Wolfie on January 10, 2017 Featured Reviews
In a grim timeline for the human race, aliens called the Loctae have invaded Earth, nearly wiping out the species, and imprisoning the rest in space stations scattered across the galaxy. To prevent escape, humans are kept in small groups with limited communications. In the case that any group managed to escape their cells, the space prisons are built with rotating rings that shift in random increments, making it nearly impossible to find the escape pods without getting captured.
But human ingenuity never seems to fail, and just when all hope seems lost, one brilliant scientist has managed to scratch together a computer virus that has weeded into one alien space station known as the Hive. The THESEUS program enables the humans to predict the rotations of the station, and even better can decode the locks that lead from one ring to the next.
When a freak asteroid crashes into the Hive, damaging its systems and temporarily unlocking the prison cells, the remaining humans have once chance to break out of the space prison, ring by ring, and make it to the escape pod without getting caught. Otherwise they and the rest of humanity will have no hope but to live out the rest of their meager lives as slaves, waiting to be experimented on by aliens, under The Daedalus Sentence.
The goal of the Daedalus Sentence is for all players together to find and unlock the escape pod. To do so, they must make their way from the center of the board to the outermost ring, avoiding Minotaur and Loctae patrols, while collecting the cards needed to unlock the codes for each gate.
It all starts in a big, unexplored wheel of doom…
There are three phases to the game:
Update the THESEUS board
Players resolve their actions
The Hive prison resolves its actions based on the THESEUS board.
The Action phase is the meat of the game. Each player has a certain number of actions (based on the number of players) to perform each round. These actions including exploring new rooms, moving, attacking guards, and using a room’s special function. The board features a variety of rooms: control rooms and communications relays to manipulate the station rotation and guard movement, hive rooms to hide, research labs to draw more cards, vents to sneak from one ring to the next, and gates to unlock the next ring.
Cards feature numbers, colors, and spin directions. Some cards depict one of the two enemy types. On the THESEUS board, these let players know which rings will spin, how far, and in which direction, as well as guard movement and spawning. Minotaurs stay in the same ring, while Loctae scientists gradually move outward.
THESEUS COMMANDS IT
A matching enemy card can be played to kill an enemy in an adjacent room; alternatively, three Minotaur cards can kill one Loctae, and one Loctae card can kill up to 3 minotaurs.
Each gate discovered can be scanned to reveal a code – another set of cards. In order to unlock the gate, players must play matching cards (in color, number, or monster).
However, each time a gate unlocks, the Alert level increases, which affects the Status phase.
In the status phase, a certain number of columns are resolved – first Ring rotation, then Guard movement. The higher the alert level, the more columns are resolved.
If a player is ever in the same room as an Enemy, they are immediately returned to their prison cell, and must remain there until another player returns to free them. However, if the same player is captured twice – or all players have been re-captured – the game ends in a loss.
“Difficulty modifiers” are included variants to increase the challenge once you’ve gotten the basic rules. These include timers (a 1-hr game timer and a randomized or 25-second action phase timer), decreasing the visible information on the THESEUS board, adding random bad events, and limited communication. Modifiers can be mixed in as preferred, and a smartphone app (not required) is available to assist in keeping track of many of the options.
Jamie ain’t got time for your sass
Let’s Go To Prison
The Daedalus Sentence is a great concept. The mere mention of escaping an alien prison conjurs up dozens of thrilling images: stealthily sneaking past guards, hacking into computer systems, dodging advanced defenses, frantically running from a triggered alarm. The rotating rings add a unique gimmick to an already uncommon theme.
Oh, those gimmicks. Those filthy charlatans. Low-down dirty deceivers.
Here’s the thing about gimmicks: alone, they don’t have lasting entertainment value. Any gimmick, whether it involves flicking, dropping, bouncing, dancing, or stacking, carries with it an expectation that it will provide some new way of interacting with the game. Maybe it’s a clever way of randomizing effects, or a style of action resolution, or a way to add dexterity skills into the mix. Whatever it is, it should add something meaningful to a game, otherwise it’s just a toy, and not a great one at that.
So Daedalus Sentence gives us this incredibly fancy board with a plastic base that lets us spin the different sections around, which is cool. It’s a cool gimmick. But how does it actually affect gameplay?
All the rings…
Well. It doesn’t, really.
The spinning rings only come into play during the Hive action phase, when they spin randomly a few times based on the THESEUS board and the alert level and all that. But rarely does the spinning actually, you know, change anything about the board. In fact there are only two situations in which it does matter.
Situation #1: it can bring an enemy closer to you. There are two types of aliens, but only one of which can travel from ring to ring. Sometimes that alien will be near a gate, and sometimes that gate will spin in your direction. Okay.
Situation #2: Someone enters a new ring to begin exploring it, and then the gate (and other access points) spin away. But there’s rarely a reason to go back, so this really only matters if the player in the new ring hits a dead end on both sides. How exciting is that?
It’s not. It’s not exciting at all, and usually results in the trapped player losing out on a few turns while the others struggle to use a control room to get them back. Or, just hope the game does it accidentally, because you don’t really have enough actions to fully control the ring spinning anyway, not if you hope to continue to survive.
So what’s the point of all this, I wonder?
As soon as you realize how little the ring-spinning actually effects the game, the game loses a whole lot of luster. And, to be fair, it does start with a decent amount of that luster. In the box you get lots of cool miniatures, tiles illustrated with creepy, evocative art depicting the various rooms, and the excitement of the unknown. The ring rotation system is very clever as far as components go, and it’s pretty cool that the location tiles are able to be randomized within the rings.
5 characters, of which only 4 or less are used in a game
Yet, the more I played, the more I realized how little there is to actually do in this game. There’s nothing here that makes you feel clever, like you used your actions in precisely the right way to sneak past a guard or set up the ring rotation just so. You can’t push your luck because all information is known, and you can calculate whether or not you’re actually in danger of getting caught.
The guards are stupid. You could be right next to them, but they’ll move in the opposite direction. Presumably you’re being sneaky, but this kind of sneakery doesn’t provide any excitement. You either know you’re screwed or you know you’re safe. Occassionally a surprise will pop out at you out of the blue, but… well, that’s not very fun either.
Admittedly a few of the difficulty modifiers aim to add uncertainty. A 1-hr game timer pushes you to hurry. The Faulty Algorithm turns some of the THESEUS cards upside, forcing you to spend your own cards or risk not knowing what the guards are going to do. A few options add timers to the action phase itself so you don’t have time to sit around adding up guard movements.
But still. Even with Faulty Algorithm, half the game the necessary cards are exposed, and it’s pretty clear when you’re in danger.
Danger! We’re in danger!
At least you don’t instantly lose the game when a player is captured. You can go back and rescue them, although you’ll have to weave past all those Minotaurs you left behind. Also, when a player is captured they have sort of an anti-power that makes everything harder for you until you’re rescued. Once again, this is a clever idea, but it’s not implemented well. Most of the time you can avoid capture until later in the game, so when someone does end up getting captured it’s nearly impossible to rescue them. You’ve got to slog backwards with those penalties, spending a ton of extra actions to retrace your steps while the board keeps churning out new threats at you. The 1-hr game timer is a huge blessing here; you’ve pretty much lost the game when someone gets captured, but it can take another 40 minutes to actually lose. The timer mercifully ends the game for you.
“Give us the gate key”
“I have no gate key”
“Fezzik. Tear his arms off.”
Even without someone getting captured, the final third or so of the game sucks. For the most part Daedalus Sentence is merely mediocre, but here it starts to flirt with pure tedium. The Hive action phase becomes uncomfortably long and clunky.
Oh, it starts out okay – you only resolve one column per open ring, so it’s one ring rotation and one guard movement. There aren’t too many guards, so it goes quick. As soon as you open the gate to the third ring though, things just bog down. Enemies start to stack up, and suddenly it feels like you’re spinning rings and moving bad guys every few seconds. The player action phase goes by so fast, you’re spending more than half the time just updating the board. Rings spin, enemies move and spawn, rings spin some more.
Don’t worry… you have these absurdly large player aids to remind you of all the rules
Remember when I said the spinning rings barely affect the game? Yeah. It gets pretty tiring to keep spinning them after the first few turns. It’s also dull to move the 8 Minotaurs left back in the blue ring that you just don’t care about because there’s no reason to go back there. So you’re just building up more and more stuff to maintain on the board in between your limited actions. Not very fun.
At the very least, they could’ve made each column correspond to a ring, so you could do it all quickly and in an organized fashion. Since it’s based on the cards, enemy groups can move multiple times or not at all, but it doesn’t add tension because it doesn’t add much uncertainty.
It’s too bad, because I see a lot of potential in this game. I like the idea of being able to hack into the Hive computer to control ring movement or redirect guard patrols. I like the idea of sneaking through vents and breaking gate codes. It just doesn’t come together well. Enemies are too dumb to be interesting – I’d rather have a few smarter programmed enemies than a ton of little guys to move around meaninglessly.
Just… a bit… closer…
And why, why, why isn’t the ring rotation, you know, actually involved in the gameplay? Seriously. Why not make players line up certain rooms to unlock the escape pod, or spin the rings in a certain sequence to get the final code? There are so many ways that the rings could actually be made interesting with just a little more design effort. Otherwise it’s just a wasted, pointless gimmick that is mildly attention-getting for about two minutes, and then boring. Come on! Right now it’s just a fancy-game-component equivalent of roll-and-move.
So the game isn’t broken. The mechanics work. It’s playable, winnable, and losable, and you have choices while you play. It’s got a cool theme, and a cool board, sure. But it quickly becomes dull and repetitive, and doesn’t offer anything clever to do with your actions or your cards or the board. There are a few more rules I could nitpick, but what’s the point? The overarching issues obsure anything else the game could have or would have been.
Side note – there is a smartphone app available as a free download. It’s not required, but it does keep track of timers and other randomized game elements for you. That’s nice, I suppose, but the app needs a bit of work. I’ve had it crash on me 47 minutes into the 1 hr timer, and the music for the round timer only works sometimes. That music is kind of important – it lets you know you’re running out of time without forcing you to stare at the screen.
There’s a 1 vs All “Overlord” variant but… meh
There’s no doubt about it, The Daedalus Sentence provides spectacle. But for $150 and a titanic amount of shelf space to hold that box, it’s gotta do more than look good. It’s got to give me a reason to keep coming back, and after just a few plays I can’t say that it holds my interest.
iSlaytheDragon would like to thank Eagle-Gryphon Games for providing a review copy of The Daedalus Sentence.
Cool, unique theme
Fancy board with spinning rings
Some clever ideas
Gets really tedious by the end
The spinning-ring gimmick does very little to the gameplay
No interesting goals for the players
Really expensive and takes up a lot of shelf space
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Thomas Romanelli January 10, 2017 2:20 pm
Thanks for your detailed review, because you validated my initial doubts about this game when I came across during the Kickstarter campaign.
I was drawn to the potential of the game, what with its spinning rings and visions of close calls, derring-do and code hacking to finally escape from the alien clutches of doom. But the board had no automated spinning mechanism- it’s all done manually. That’s OK, but exactly what am I paying $95 for (this was the basic KS price)? There is no fancy board at all.
I simply could not justify the projected $150 MRSP for an oversized lazy-susan, even if the game mechanics were solid (which they are most certainly not). I think you were very generous with a rating of 6.
Moderate difficulty geared towards players with some familiarity to the hobby
50-60m (box says 45-60min)
Tom Bleys, Ian Van Gemeren, Bart Waeterschoot
Cripplefish Games, Eagly-Gryphon Games
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Mmm-kay so perhaps I am the wrong person to write a review here, since I actually haven't read said book properly from start to finish (and the bits I did read I can't remember). But this is, after all, a game, so the important thing here is playability.
Not only does this game seem to be crammed full of references to said book, it also manages to be very enjoyable to play, and for the most part, aesthetically pleasing and rewarding. The game follows an almost exclusively linear room layout, going through the rooms in sequence from left to right, progressing (presumably) through the chapters and events of said book.
As in We Pretty, every room contains a challenge. There are no 'walk along... jump up a few platforms... collect the object... carry on walking... onto the next screen' rooms at all. Almost every screen will need to be boggled at for a while, as you look for the right way to approach it. This is, in my view, what makes the game so unique. Coupled with the linear format, it means you get a little further each time you play, and gives it a different feel to all the other 'clones' out there.
My only criticism (and these are not my words but someone else's, although I agree entirely so I will repeat them) is that although the game comes in two flavours, Easy and Hard, the Easy version is far too easy, and removes a lot of the devious little puzzles from the gameplay, whereas the Hard version is just prehaps a smidgin too tricky. My advice to you is to play the Hard version - it gets easier as you get used to it, and you won't miss any of the little tricks that make it such an interesting game.
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