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OPEC+ agrees to increase output by 500,000 barrels a day in Jan
By IANS | Bharat Defence Kavach | Publish Date: 12/4/2020 12:32:00 PM
Vienna: The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and non-OPEC countries have decided to increase oil production by 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) in January 2021.
In light of the current oil market fundamentals and the outlook for 2021, OPEC+ agreed, beginning in January 2021, to adjust production by 500,000 bpd, according to a statement released after the 12th OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting on Thursday.It means the group would move to output curbs by 7.2 million bpd early next year, compared with current cuts of 7.7 million bpd, reports Xinhua news agency.
The oil group also agreed to hold monthly ministerial meetings, starting January 2021, to decide on further production adjustments for the following month, with monthly adjustments being no more than 500,000 million bpd.The meeting decided to extend the compensation period until the end of March 2021, to ensure full compensation from all participating countries that overproduced in previous months, the statement added.
OPEC and its allies, an oil group known as OPEC+ led by Saudi Arabia and Russia, agreed in April to slash output by 9.7 million bpd for May and June as the Covid-19 pandemic ravaged demand, and decided in June to extend the first phase of oil output cuts until the end of July. Entering the second phase, the cuts are reduced 7.7 million bpd starting August until the end of the year.
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Modern «Ivanov»
My dear readers! I’d like to share my impressions about a visit to the Theatre of Nations. I was able to attend the first night of «Ivanov», a new play.
It’s worth mentioning that 129 years ago this first play, written by Chekhov, was set on stage in the very same building.
A scene from the play «Ivanov»
The action on stage, the duration of which initially was five hours, was reduced to three hours. Besides, the play got some modern flare. It was especially interesting to watch the new interpretation.
I had a feeling that all those things really happened to people who live next to us. I hope that exactly this feature will attract young generation to the theatre.
Evgeniy Mironov and Liza Boyarskaya
One more time I was convinced that Mironov is as excellent as always. Victor Verzhbitskiy was one of the most authentic in the play. I think that a new life awaits this dramatic and mysterious play. And we still have a lot to learn from Anton Pavlovitch Chekhov.
Waiting for the play to begin
Program of the play
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BERIN IP AGENCY PARTICIPATED ON THE 83rd COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN PATENT INSTITUTE
The delegation of the Agency for Intellectual Property "Berin" in composition of: prof. Prof. Dr. Gjorgji Filipov, MA Maria Koseska and B.Sc. Eng. Liljana Filipova (Associate Member) participated in the work of the 83rd Council of the European Patent Institute (EPI) that took place in Warsaw (Poland) on November 17-19th, 2017.
During the work of the Council the new members of the appropriate committees of the EPI were elected for the period 2017-2020. The representatives of the IP Agency Berin were elected in three EPI Committees: Maria Kjoseska in the Committee for Professional Enforcement, Bogoljub Ilievski in the Committee for European Patent Practice and Vanco Damjansky in the Committee for Disciplinary Procedure. The Macedonian European patent attorneys have representatives in three Committees: Litigation, Education and By-Law.
In addition to the Council was held a seminar on "Patent infringement litigation in EU jurisdictions and the UPC Perspective".The two-day work and friendship with the other 160 colleagues, representing 12,500 patent attorneys from the countries that had ratified the European Patent Convention, provided a real opportunity for exchange of experiences and ideas for the further development of the European Patent Institute and the cooperation of the attorneys within their competencies, both with colleagues, and with their business partners.
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Daren Tang Assumes Functions as WIPO Director General
Prior to his appointment as WIPO Director General, Mr. Tang served as Chief Executive of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS). Between 1997 and 2012, before joining IPOS, Mr. Tang held different legal positions within the Attorney-General’s Chambers and the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Singapore. Mr. Tang also presided as Chair of WIPO's Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) from May 2017 until his appointment as Director General.
WIPO's member states on May 8, 2020, appointed Mr. Tang by consensus as the Organization's next Director General, following his nomination by the WIPO Coordination Committee in March 2020.
Following his appointment, Mr. Tang laid out his priorities and vision for the Organization going forward, saying that work will be channeled along three themes: inclusiveness, balance, and future-orientation.
Mr. Tang is the fifth Director General of WIPO, following Mr. Gurry of Australia (2008-2020), Mr. Kamil Idris of Sudan (1997-2008), Mr. Arpad Bogsch of the United States (1973-1997) and Mr. Georg Bodenhausen of the Netherlands (1970-1973).
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BOGOGJUB ILIEVSKI FROM BERIN – VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN PATENT INSTITUTE IN MUNICH!
At the 88th Assembly of the Council of the European Patent Institute, organized by professional representatives before the European Patent Office in Munich, held today, June 29, 2020 (online), a new leadership of the Institute was elected, in which on one of the two vice presidential posts was elected the Macedonian and European patent attorney, Mr. Bogoljub Ilievski, director of the Patent Department at the Berin Intellectual Property Agency in Skopje, MK.
The European Patent Institute has about 12,000 European patents attorneys from 38 countries (all EU members, plus Turkey, North Macedonia, Serbia, Albania, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Norway, and San Marino). This election is a great recognition for Bogoljub personally, for the Berin Agency and for all Macedonian patent representatives.
At today's meeting, which was also attended by Prof. Dr. Gjorgji Filipov, founder of Berin IP Agency, one another term in the Disciplinary Commission of the European Patent Institute for the Macedonian and European Patent Representative, Vanco Damjanski, Chief Executive Officer of Berlin was confirmed. Thanks a lot to all colleagues who suported the election!
Congratulations to Bobby and Vane!
Congratulations to all Macedonian Patent Attorneys!
EPO published Inventors's handbook section at their website
"The purpose of this Inventors' Handbook is to provide you with basic guidance on all the key stages of turning an invention into a commercial product. Or perhaps we should say the key stages of turning an idea into an enterprise, if we are to widen our definition of 'invention' to include novel processes, business methods, social interactions etc. Though invention has traditionally been associated with manufactured products, it is now better understood that new wealth has always been created primarily from new knowledge, or novel uses of existing knowledge.
Although this guide is published by the European Patent Office, its content goes well beyond issues of intellectual property (IP). While IP is undoubtedly essential to the successful exploitation of new ideas, it is only one of several important aspects of innovation."
From the introduction given in the handbook.
For complete content please visit: epo.org
Stay inspired in the upcomming #2020
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KJOSESKA AND ILIEVSKI FROM BERIN ON THE 87TH COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN PATENT INSTITUTE
The EPI Council, 87th in a row, was held on November 22 and 23, 2019 in Lisbon, Portugal. About 150 representatives from a total of 12,500 European Patent Attorneys participated, including Marija Kjoseska Ilievska, Head of TM and ID department in BERIN LTD and Bogoljub Ilievski, Head of patent department in BERIN LTD as one of the four delegates from MK.
The seminar under the name “Forum shopping and European patent infringement litigation in a UPC environment, preceded by the work of the Council. The Chairman and Vice-Presidents of EPI, the Secretary General, the Internal Auditors, the Finance Committee, the treasury secretary and other committees were submitted and adopted reports. Furthermore, lively discussion about new proposed budget plan for 2020 as well about new proposed IP Commercialization committee within epi followed.
The said new committee will look into the issues considering IP Valuation and Monetarization, Portfolio optimization, Assignment of IP rights as well Licensing matters. Still, the main event in this Council was presentation given by the EPO president Mr Antonio Campinos concerning EPO strategic plan 2023.
Mr. Campinos additionally was open to discuss and answer the questions from epi delegates mostly dedicated to status of the new measures concerning improving of the quality management system in the EPO.
The debates continued at the participants' dinner, followed by folklore songs and dance performances from Portugal, Berin's representatives did not miss the opportunity to solidify old friendships and business ties and to open up new ones.
PATENT * is a set of exclusive rights granted by the state to the patent owner (inventor or holder) for a specified period in exchange for regulated disclosure of certain details of the invention that may be a device, process, method or composition which is new, possessing innovative contribution and usable or industrially applicable.
BERIN LTD. offers services in the field of protection of patents in the following segments:
Search in the patent bases.
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Annuities: Maintenance of patents.
TCM: Procedures for issuing a supplementary certificate for extension of validity of patents.
Licenses: Preparation and registration of license agreements for the use of patents.
Estimates: Value evaluation of Patents and inventions.
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* PATENT The term derives from the Latin word patere which means "to be open" (to be presented to the public) and the term letters patent, which originally marked the posh decree that gives exclusive rights to a certain person or business.
TRADEMARK is a right of industrial property, which refers to a distinctive sign used by a person, organization or legal entities for marking on their products and/or services to consumers, and to distinguish their products from those of other entities.
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Search in the national and international databases;
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Monitoring on the market and official publications;
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Cancellations;
Procedures to changes in the registers (transmission contracts, change of name and address);
Licenses: Preparation and registration of license agreements for the use of trademarks.
[Judicial protection and enforcement]
Litigation;
Mediation process for resolving disputes;
Requests for customs measures;
Inspection insights, insight and measures.
[Other Services]
Estimates: value evaluation of trademarks
* A trademark usually is consisted of a name, word, phrase, graphic logo, symbol, device, picture, or a combination thereof. Sign ® is used to denote characters that are registered with the Trademark Law, it is equivalent to the TM symbol used for the territory of North America.
Copyright is a term that covers the rights relating to creation, use and use of the copyrighted works and specific expressions of ideas/information.
Copyright work is intellectual work of a person or group of persons in the field of literature, science, arts and other areas of work, regardless of the type, manner and form of expression.
BERIN is a copyright agency that offers to the customers the following services:
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BERIN through its network of representatives, authorized to represent before all administrative and judicial authorities, provides reliable and professional representation to its customers at all stages of realization and protection of the rights of intellectual property. By continuously monitoring on all legislative changes and practice in cooperation with our customers we provide the optimum outcome of any initiated proceedings.
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* The representatives of BERIN have been involved in the hearings before the court of the European Patent Office (EPO), representing and defending patent specifications from different fields and on behalf of important companies from the region and beyond.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN is a right of industrial property, which refers to a specific appearance or shape of a body, picture, drawing, contours, composition of colors, texture or combination of them in a way that meets the requirements of novelty and individual character compared to those ones previously familiar to the public. Industrial design is a right that is intended to give the products that are aimed for a certain visual, aesthetic, ergonomic, practical purpose or quality to distinguish them from the rest of the products on the market.
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Search, in the domestic and international databases;
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Berin® Intellectual Property Agency is an internationally active company founded in 1992. The company started on a modest scale, providing services primarily for the national market, and over time developed into a leading full-service IP Provider in the Republic of Macedonia and one of the bigest in the region of Southeast Europe.
Berin® IP Agency has its own network of representatives and/or partner offices in: Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, EUIPO (EU Intellectual Property Office), EPO (European Patent Office), EAPO (Euro-Asian Patent Office), Germany, Greece, Croatia, Cyprus, Kosovo, Montenegro, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey and Ukraine.
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Berin® IP Agency Ltd offers full range of IPR protection to clients from all over the world and is specialized in preparing and filing patent, industrial designs and trademarks applications, copyright and neighbouring's rights protection as well as in the field of technology and know-how transfer, franchising and licensing. The longstanding connections with intellectual property law firms around the globe allow Berin to serve clients creatively and cost-effectively. Many of Berin's attorneys are qualified to practice in several areas and before domestic and international IP offices, including the EPO, EUIPO, EAPO, above mentioned national IP Offices and specialized organizations and offices, including World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), which is administrating Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) as well as Madrid Agreement and Protocol for Trademarks and Haag Agreement for Industrial designs.
Berin's employees are experts of various profiles, engineers from different fields as well as attorneys and IP agents. All of them are well-respected local and international IP experts supported by a team of experienced and multilingual paralegal and administrative staff as well as subject matter experts (SMEs) from different fields such as: mechanical engineering, electrical & electronical, software and computers, chemical and pharmaceuticals, enviromental and civil and architectural engineering as well as jurists and lawyers. Constantly, Berin's team is praised for consistently providing quick, reliable and easily comprehensible service to its clients.
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Berin® Ltd. today is a symbol of loyal, sustainable and price-wise very competitive IP Partner, performing high quality services in the interest of our international customers. Berin is well known as a regional firm that serves a diverse mix of clients, from individuals to world's leading corporations, most of which work directly with us. The majority of Berin clients require its services at a regional level, from a few to over 30 countries. In addition to this, Berin Ltd. has built a reputation of a European IP firm that successfully handles patent, trademark and design filings and related issues before the national ofiices as well as before the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), European Patent Office (EPO) and Eauroasian Patent Office (EAPO) under very competitive expenditures.
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1992 : Founding
Georgi Filipov decided to initiate proceedings to establish a company
1993 : Registration
Decision on establishment of enterprise for marketing, research and development BERIN LTD Skopje
1993 : Patents
Filing of the first application for granting patent rights
1994 : Partnership
Liljana Markovska Filipova joined the company as co-owner
1994 : First Industrial Design and Trademark Applications:
Submission of the first application for recognition Industrial Design and Trademark registration
1995 : First PCT Application
Submission of the first international patent of inventor from Republic of Macedonia under the PCT (Treaty Extending Patents)
1996 : Promotion of Inventions
Participation on the International Fair for Inventions and conquering the Grand Prix Eureka 1999
1997 : International Trademarks
First application filed under the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks
2001 : International Protection of Industrial Designs
First application before the WIPO under The Hague arrangement for registration of industrial designs
2004 : Representation before the EPO
Start of representation before the European Patent Office
2005 : Representation before the OHIM
Start of representation before the OHIM
2010 : Certification
Implemented and certified system for quality management ISO 9001: 2008
2012 : International Fairs
First solo participation on the International Fair of Intellectual Property in Munich- Visit of deputy director of EPO Mr. Željko Topić at the stand of Berin
2014 : Expansion
Founding of Berin International GmbH in Vienna, Austria
2015 : Software
Introduction of (Paperless) completely electronic administration of procedures
2016 : First Macedonian Patent to EPO
First Macedonian Patent recognised in European Patent Organisation
2017 : 25th Anniversary
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Computational simulation is an integral part of the BioBrick design process. However, given that realistic systems often involve multiple BioBricks, and that each BioBrick may contain multiple functional components (Knight, 2003), constructing simulatable models of biological systems can be a daunting task.
Genetic circuits can be designed either manually, using CAD tools (e.g. Chandran, Bergmann & Sauro, 2009), or automatically (Rodrigo, Carrera & Jaramillo, 2007). To support these approaches several researchers have proposed methods for the bottom-up assembly of BioBricks (Marchisio & Stelling, 2008, Cooling et al., 2010). To achieve this task these tools require access to a library of models for individual parts, and enough additional information about these parts to allow the user to quickly identify valid combinations which allow the software to combine model fragments into larger models.
Genetic circuits can be designed either manually, using CAD tools (e.g. Chandran, Bergmann & Sauro, 2009), or automatically (Rodrigo, Carrera & Jaramillo, 2007). To support these approaches several researchers have proposed methods for the bottom-up assembly of BioBricks (Marchisio & Stelling, 2008, Cooling ''et al''., 2010). To achieve this task these tools require access to a library of models for individual parts, and enough additional information about these parts to allow the user to quickly identify valid combinations which allow the software to combine model fragments into larger models.
Here we describe a RESTful service API for querying and fetching parts, model fragments for these parts, and combinatorial information about these parts, to support both automated and human-directed construction of complex models.
BBF RFC 66: A RESTful API for Supporting Automated BioBrick Model Assembly
Steyn, J. S.; Boyd, R. M; Essa, Y.; Hall, P.; Koh, A.; Sheth, H.; Tsu, D; Woodhouse, S; Hallinan, J.; Wipat, A.; Pocock, M. R.
1 Purpose
2 Relation to other BBF RFCs
3 Copyright Notice
5 Terminology and Typography
6 Data Model
6.1 Data model types
6.1.1 Assembly:
6.1.2 Part:
6.1.3 Variable:
6.2 Data model well-formedness constraints
7 Data Rendering
8 Component Assembly
10 Authors' Contact Information
Constructing simulatable models for BioBricks by hand is a complex and time-consuming task. The time taken could be reduced by using Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools to aid in designing models, but these tools need to be augmented with domain-specific knowledge. Here we propose a standard for a RESTful (Richardson, 2007) API which facilitates the discovery and publication of models of functional biological units. This API is designed to produce parts models which can be automatically combined into complete, simulatable models of entire systems.
Relation to other BBF RFCs
BBF RFC 66 does not update or replace any earlier BBF RFC.
Copyright (C) The BioBricks Foundation (2010). All Rights Reserved.
Computational simulation is an integral part of the BioBrick design process. However, given that realistic systems often involve multiple BioBricks, and that each BioBrick may contain multiple functional components (Knight, 2003), constructing simulatable models of biological systems can be a daunting task. Genetic circuits can be designed either manually, using CAD tools (e.g. Chandran, Bergmann & Sauro, 2009), or automatically (Rodrigo, Carrera & Jaramillo, 2007). To support these approaches several researchers have proposed methods for the bottom-up assembly of BioBricks (Marchisio & Stelling, 2008, Cooling et al., 2010). To achieve this task these tools require access to a library of models for individual parts, and enough additional information about these parts to allow the user to quickly identify valid combinations which allow the software to combine model fragments into larger models. Here we describe a RESTful service API for querying and fetching parts, model fragments for these parts, and combinatorial information about these parts, to support both automated and human-directed construction of complex models.
Terminology and Typography
Text appearing in fixed-width font denote parts of the RESTful API, such as data-types and operations. Text appearing in italic font indicate names and identifiers. The words ‘part’, ‘device’ and ‘system’ in standard font have the usual BioBrick meaning.
The data model is hierarchical (Fig. 1). At the top level, an assembly bundles parts, connections and other assemblies together, producing re-usable, simulatable systems. Parts represent biological primitives and their associated models, including any publicly visible variables. Connections join parts together via their variables.
Figure 1. Data model class diagram
Data model types
There are four data types in the data model. Their structure is described in this section.
A device or system that can be independently simulated
An Assembly has the following attributes:
name: The assembly name.
description: An optional human-readable description of the assembly.
subAssembly: Zero or more assemblies of which this assembly is composed.
hasParts: The parts assembled by this assembly. Individual Parts may be assembled into any number of assemblies.
hasConnections: The connections that wire parts together. For example, the POPs output of a promoter may be wired to the POPs input of a coding sequence.
An encapsulation of a quantified entity
A Part consists of:
name: The part name.
description: An optional human-readable description of the part.
type: The biological type of the part, such as Promoter, CDS, RBS. This SHOULD come from an appropriate controlled vocabulary.
model: A MathML block describing the relationships between the variables of this part.
hasVariables: The variables exposed.
An exposed quantity
A Variable has:
name: No two variables within the same part may share the same name. However, variables from different parts may have the same name.
units: The physical units of the variable. Defaults to dimensionless.
isIn: A flag to indicate if this is an input variable for the part. Defaults to false
isOut: A flag to indicate if this is an output variable for the part. Defaults to false
Connection: A binding of an out-variable from one component to an in-variable of another component
in: the in-variable to connect
out: the out-variable to connect
Data model well-formedness constraints
For data to be well-formed, it must both conform to the data model described above, and additionally adhere to the following constraints:
assembly.name (scope): each name uniquely identifies a single assembly. Assemblies MUST NOT share names. These MAY be re-used between entities of different types, for example between an assembly.name and a part.name.
part.name (scope): each name uniquely identifies a single part. Parts MUST NOT share names. These MAY be re-used between entities of different types, for example between a part.name and a variable.name.
part.hasVariables and part.model (scope): Every name of every variable of a part MUST appear in the model of that part.
Variable.name (scope): Every name of every variable of a part MUST be unique within that part. Variables of different parts MAY (and in some circumstances MUST) use the same name.
connection.in and connection.out (flags): These MUST refer to variables with the isIn and isOut flag set to true, respectively.
connection.in and connection.out (scope): These MUST refer to variables that are within parts that are within the assembly holding the connection.
Data Rendering
Individual implementers are free to chose from one of several renderings of the data model. These include XML and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). To keep per-fetch costs low, this specification states what data MUST be present in a particular rendering. In particular, it states what MUST be directly embedded in-line as a value, and what MUST be included by reference to a name.
name string value
description string value
subAssembly List of assembly reference ${subAssembly.name}
hasPart List of part reference ${hasParts.name}
hasConnections List of connection value
type string(cv) value
model MathML value
hasVariables List of variable value
in variable reference ${in.name}
out variable reference ${out.name}
units string(cv) value
isIn boolean value
isOut boolean value
Component Assembly
A CAD client is responsible for allowing the user to combine parts and assemblies to build a model of the system of interest. This is achieved by binding all unbound variables. A variable is unbound if it is not referred to by any connection. To ensure that the model can be simulated, the CAD program will need to bind each unbound in-variable to either an unbound out-variable, or to a constant value. For example, if an assembly modeling the Lac operon exposes in-variables named lac_repressor and inactivated_lac_repressor, these variables must be bound either to out-variables giving the levels of these molecules, or to suitable constant values.
REST is based around resources, identified by URLs. Given, for example, a base URL called BASE, the following resources MUST be provided by any implementation of this API: BASE/parts/ representing all parts; BASE/parts/${name} for each part; BASE/assemblies/ representing all assemblies; and BASE/assemblies/${name} for each assembly. For example, a server located at 'http://myuni.ac.uk/modelrepository' which published an assembly BA_K302012, would be exposed as: 'http://myuni.ac.uk/modelrepository/assemblies/BA_K302012'.
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Jannetta S. Steyn: jannetta.steyn@ncl.ac.uk
Rachel May Boyd: rachel.boyd@ncl.ac.uk
Younus Essa: younus.essa@ncl.ac.uk
Phil Hall: phillip.hall@ncl.ac.uk
Alan Koh: s.c.a.koh@ncl.ac.uk
Harsh Sheth: harsh.sheth@ncl.ac.uk
Deena Tsu: deena.tsu@ncl.ac.uk
Steven Woodhouse: steven.woodhouse@ncl.ac.uk
Anil Wipat: anil.wipat@ncl.ac.uk
Jennifer Hallinan: j.s.hallinan@ncl.ac.uk
Matthew Pocock: matthew.pocock@ncl.ac.uk
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Page 3, 11th November 1988 — NEWS ANALYSIS
Organisations: Francisan Centre for Environmental Studies in Rome, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican's Secretariat
People: John Paul, Capuchin Fr Bernard Przewozny, Promoting Christian Unity, Fr John Mutiso Mbinda, Carlos Chagas, Churchmen, John Thavis
Locations: Chernobyl, Rome, Vatican City
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Keywords: Geography, Europe, Political Geography, Christianity In Europe, Enclaves, Vatican City, Pope John Paul Ii, Pontifical Academy Of Sciences, Pope John Paul I, Pope, Environmentalism, Environment
John Paul gets bitten by 'green' bug
The Pope is turning increasingly to environmental issues as a meeting of mission workers in Rome last week demonstrated. John Thavis reports
IN THE 100-acre Vatican City, a quiet enclave on a Roman hill, environmental issues might sometimes appear remote. There are no smokestacks on the skyline, clean water still arrives from papally restored aquaducts and the lush Vatican garden can seem like paradise regained.
But today's ecological crisis has knocked at the Vatican's door, too. Last summer a female traffic officer keeled over in the square beneath Pope John Paul II's window, a victim of carbon monoxide and other tour bus fumes. She had to be hospitalised.
The giant statues above St Peter's, like many in Rome, are being corroded by chemicalladen rain water. Even the Vatican's medieval walls needed "first aid" last year to repair damage caused in part by chemical pollution.
For the Vatican, however, environmental concern goes well beyond its borders. The point
being raised these days — by church scholars, missionaries and the Pope — is that care of the earth may be one of the most serious moral issues of our age.
Dr Carlos Chagas, recently retired president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, told the Pope bluntly in an address at the end of October: "The destruction of the environment is the result of a progressive and obstinate action, nearly invisible in the beginning, driven by greed, economic power and ignorance."
"You alone, with your voice, can stop ecological disaster, and the academy is at your service," Chagas said.
The academy's report last year on disappearing species — some 35,000 are facing extinction by the year 2000 — raked an alarm in the scientific community. Five years ago, the academy issued early warnings about the depletion of the ozone layer and the global build-up of carbon dioxide, as well as the
environmental disaster that would follow nuclear war.
The Pope has taken up the issue with notable vigour. His latest encyclical, Sollicitudo Rel Socialis was immediately hailed as an ecological breakthrough for its tough language on the environment. In it, the Pope insisted that the dominion granted humankind over the natural world has biological and moral limits that cannot be violated in the name of development.
In other declarations, the Pope's language has been even sharper. Earlier this year, he told farmworkers that economic exploitation of resources was threatening to turn the earth into an "abandoned desert." He told a
group of scientists last autumn that he was concerned about the "uncontrolled discharges" of waste products into the earth's atmosphere, land and seas. Part of this "irreversible damage," he added, was caused by economic practices "aimed only at profit."
Those who know the Pope say that as a hiker and outdoors enthusiast, he has a keen awareness about damage to the environment. It is a growing issue among Churchmen in his native Poland, where widespread industrial pollution has threatened whole regions and is eroding, among other things, the facade of the Pope's former cathedral in Krakow.
Although he has spoken about general causes, the Pope has been cautious about assigning blame for specific damage — whether for disasters like Chernobyl or for long-term problems like deforestation. Among Vatican agencies, too, there is hesitation about making sweeping pronouncements on ecology because it often involves the complicated interaction of First and Third World economies, population migration and international regulation.
Several ecology-minded churchmen in Rome have high hopes for a papal document on green issues in the near future.
"Actually, if he'd put all his previous statements under one cover, it would make a beautiful document," said Capuchin Fr Bernard Przewozny.
Fr Przewozny is the mover behind the Francisan Centre for Environmental Studies in Rome, a new institute expected to open this autumn. He hopes within two years to obtain Vatican approval for the programme and have it raised to the level of a pontifical academic institute.
"Deforestation, chemical pollution, uncontrolled urbanisation — these are going to be major issues in the coming decades, and the Church needs people qualified to speak on them," he said.
An ecological movement is also developing among missionaries. Last week, about 100 mission workers gathered in Rome to discuss approaches to the environmental problems they encounter daily — ranging from multinational corporations that eschew safety norms to the lack of firewood in Third World countries. Partly because of urbanisation, the missionaries have seen many local cultures lose their connection to the land in a single generation. Several of them wanted environmental studies to be included as part of a missionary's training program.
Kenyan Fr John Mutiso Mbinda, an official of the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, spoke at the meeting and called missionaries "firsthand witnesses" to environmental abuse. As one example, he cited the extensive sale in Africa of fertilisers that are banned in Western countries.
Governments often view the church and its missionaries as environmentally guilty, as the original bearers of a Western development mentality, he noted. "Now is the time to convince them we are prepared to look at the issues again", he said.
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By The Arty Dans
Director Yoon Eun-gyeong
Starring Park Ji-young, Lee Ju-won, Lee Se-young, Park So-yi
Alternative Names 호텔 레이크
This is my second last hope for Asian horror movies in 2020. Third last if you count Chinese film The Perilous Internet Ring.
Currently streaming now on Shudder, this Korean film has all the hallmarks of the classic hotel haunting movies like The Shining and Psycho, just with a very modern Korean flavour.
While it definitely can’t be compared to those two juggernauts, is this movie good enough to stand on it’s own and be crowned the best Asian horror movie of 2020?
What's this Movie About?
A young woman, twenty-something year old Yoo-mi, takes custody of her step sister, Ji-yoo, from an orphanage.
Realising she isn’t fiscally and emotionally mature enough to look after her, and also holding some deep resentment towards her, she decides to take Ji-yoo to Hotel Lake, a seasonal resort run by their late mother’s friend and ex-employer. This woman is referred to as “aunty”.
Aunty convinces Yoo-mi to stay a few days to reminisce about her time growing up in the hotel. Due to the fact it’s the off-season, the only other person in the hotel is one of the cleaners, an alcoholic woman with a sordid past.
There is a room that Yoo-mi has forbidden Ji-yoo from entering, the room where their mother committed suicide. However, children being children, Ji-yoo ignores this advice and she starts to report she is seeing a woman around the hotel.
At the same time, Yoo-mi starts to notice some creepy things are also occurring, and after Ji-yoo goes missing and she is presumed to be responsible, the truth about Hotel Lake is revealed.
Is it Worth Watching?
If you were to stop the movie at the 70 minute mark and ask my opinion, my answer would be an unequivocal yes. The problem is, the movie continues for another 30 minutes after that point, and that’s where the shift in tone happens that turned around my opinion of the film.
Within the first hour we get a lot of creepy moments. Shadows in the background that move, or mysterious visions that appear, like the face in the darkness under the stairs of the cellar.
There’s also the ramblings of the drunkard cleaner and the one-eyed schoolboy medium that really add to the tension and mystery of the movie.
But, if you’ve ever seen Chinese horror films, it’s almost like a completely different writer was involved in the final third of the movie, and decided that instead of continuing on the great work that had already been done, they were going to ensure this movie could be released in China, completely forgetting they were a Korean film.
The worst part is that this movie wasn’t even released in China, so what a waste that ended up feeling like.
What are Some of the Memorable Moments?
Hotels can make a great setting for horror films, especially if they are empty. It’s part of what made The Shining a great film, and while this film is no The Shining, the layout of the hotel, its décor and the history that we slowly learn about it, make it a great setting for this film. Actually, it would have made a great setting for any horror film, it’s just a shame it ended up in this film.
It’s also great that, for once, the little girl isn’t some kind of ghost character, as such is the norm for Asian horror films.
What's Not So Hot?
Without giving away any spoilers, it’s the shift that you don’t see coming that lets down the film.
After the scene involving the schoolboy in the basement of the hotel, I thought we were heading for a very exciting ending full of proper supernatural themes.
But someone decided that would be too exciting, and thus we ended up with the end we got.
Another thing I really didn’t like, although I realise its part of the background of the character, is the way the little girl was treated, especially by Yoo-mi. She’s quite an adorable character, and the way she is treated, and her reaction is kind of heartbreaking. Maybe a kudos should go to young actress Park So-yi who plays as Ji-yoo and the terrific job she did.
Overall Impressions
Well, its definitely not an awesome horror movie, but considering what’s been on offer this year, this is probably the second best of the lot after Impetigore.
The first 70 odd minutes of the movie certainly make it worth watching, but just be prepared to be very disappointed by the ending. Very disappointed.
My recommendation is: Your Choice
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October 19, 2014, Asif was senior to Omar Rasman but didn’t manage directly
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May 1, 2012, David managed Asif directly
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Size: S: M: L: Chest: 73cm: 77cm: 80cm: Waist: 68cm: 72cm: 76cm: Hips: 88cm: 90cm: 93cm The 2nd Expedition (1493–1496), which Christopher Columbus headed already in the rank of admiral and vice-king of the newly discovered lands, consisted of 17 vessels with a crew of over 1.5 thousand people. Shop Discover America. Try our new digital puzzles. Adopt an Officer Fellow American! Discover the marvelous Galapagos Archipielago a “Living Laboratory of Evolution” and enjoy the unique fauna of the islands, and great activities in a spectacular setting. All the latest breaking UK and world news with in-depth comment and analysis, pictures and videos from MailOnline and the Daily Mail. Choose a cruising experience among a wide variety of boats or if you prefer design your own Island Hopping Expedition. A new discovery has revealed that the Vikings may have travelled hundreds of miles further into North America than previously thought. The Heineken voice is witty, intelligent and speaks in a refreshing tone. Plaza Del Totem GND Poster. March 12-29, 1494 Columbus, in search of gold, made an aggressive campaign into Haiti, and crossed the Cordillera-Central ridge. $24. On July 31, 1498, he discovered the island of Trinidad, entered the Gulf of Paria from the south, discovered the mouth of the western arm of the Orinoco delta and the Paria peninsula, initiating the discovery of South America. The exhibit will open on Oct. 8 … Posters; Reset. Green New Deal Poster Pack. Learn about the latest recommendations on attractions, places to eat, shop and much more. The digital efforts include banners, free trip contest, social media and even a free song download, all welcoming foreigners to see unique sides of America. Our experienced travel specialists will take great pride to curate you an individually tailored itinerary designed to your own interests, time and budget. We ship some items ship separately to speed up arrival time. $24. VisitTheUSA is the USA official guide for traveling the United States of America. Discover America project launches campaign. open We use cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website, by analysing information to enhance and customise content. Breathe3L Mask: Living Out Loud. The Public Garden GND Poster. The discovery of America is one of the most argued and controversial issues discussed today by historians and different groups of interest. During the U.S. Embassy’s Discover America campaign, the St. Regis Abu Dhabi Hotel will showcase some of its historic and unique rituals. There are reasonable grounds to believe that the continent was named after the English patron of arts Richard Amerike from Bristol, who financed the second transatlantic expedition of John Cabot in 1497, and Vespucci took for himself the nickname of the continent already called. Use left/right arrows to navigate the slideshow or swipe left/right if using a mobile device Book now while these fares are available! Discover it all in Northern Ireland. Keep America Great. Here are just some of these hypothetical contacts: in 371 BC er – Phoenicians You can’t watch a Twilight Zone episode or a sci-fi movie without hearing a mention of Area 51... You can’t get any weirder than Carhenge, a replica of England’s Stonehenge made entirely out of old, painted cars... Stretching along the California-Nevada border, Death Valley National Park is famous for its otherworldly landscape... Florida is home to many kitschy attractions and one-of-a-kind wonders that have beckoned tourists for decades. On November 3, 1493, Columbus discovered the islands of Dominic and Guadeloupe, turning to the North-West – about 20 more Minor Antilles, including Antigua and the Virgin Islands, and on November 19th – the island of Puerto Rico and approached the northern coast of Haiti. 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The discovery of America is an event as a result of which for the inhabitants of the Old World (Europe) a new part of the world became known – America, consisting of two continents. It's where 80% of travelers research their destinations. In the Bristol calendar for that year we read: “… on the day of St.. John the Baptist [June 24] found the land of America by merchants from Bristol, who arrived on a ship from Bristol with the name “Matthew” (“metik”) “. Stream North America FREE with Your TV Subscription! America Collection - USA American Flag Hats TShirts Gifts; Trump 2020 Election & Campaign Gifts - Fun & New; All Items; Home › Trump 2020 Election & Campaign Gifts - Fun & New Trump 2020 Election & Campaign Gifts - Fun & New. Design Corps: Thomas Bickley. in the 6th century – holy Brendan (Irish monk) The celebration featured a gathering of employees, members of the winning 1995 American Camel Trophy U.S. team and a number of new and classic Land Rover vehicles on display, including an original 1987 North American Spec (NAS) Range Rover Classic from the first year Range Rover was sold in America. The exhibit will be located in Art Hall, near the current temporary exhibit on women’s suffrage. Regional Antique show listings from Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Iowa … Choose from Biden pins, Democratic Party pins, and issue-oriented campaign pins, all Made In America. Within an hour of Salt Lake City you’ll find 10 first-class resorts that make this region a true winter sports paradise. Monitor your performance on Discover. Please click to see all Friday Flyday advantages. Campaigns. Columbus made three further voyages to the New World, exploring the Lesser Antilles in 1493, Trinidad and the northern coast of South America in 1498, and the eastern coast of Central America in 1502. All rights reserved. In optimum viewing conditions, the Milky Way galaxy shines so bright as to cast your shadow on the ground. So, sit back, relax and let us help you discover the USA & … 2020 Campaign Bling - from a Blue POV. $24. The adventure never stops, regardless of the weather. You will be placed at the top of these playlists to begin, and gradually move down as the campaign progresses. Not One More Vet is an online veterinary support group. Mronge-1 is drilled by the drillship Discoverer Americas, and the site is located 20 kilometres north of the Zafarani discovery, and at 2,500-metre water depth. By clicking "Accept" you agree to allow cookies to be placed. $20 Designed By Rachel Bickley. Discovery and expansion ran through their blood, as Leif went on to travel much farther: to America. Oct 27, 2019 07:00 PM 09:00 PM Jumeirah at Etihad Towers, Abu Dhabi Purple 2020 Campaign Poster. Discover our one-of-a-kind loyalty programme. A Savvy Halloween Menu. This report shows impressions, clicks, and CTR for any of your content that has appeared in on Discover in the last 16 … Most villages at the time had a gathering place in the center of town. Discovery Park of America has announced a pop-up exhibit of presidential campaign buttons that opens Oct. 8, and will be on display at the museum and heritage park though the end of the year. If you have content on Discover, you can monitor your performance using the Performance Report for Discover. The park’s wild, isolated location, 386 kilometers north of Anchorage, Alaska, makes it a fine stargazing spot. Sort by Trump 2020 gifts and games for election 2020. 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Many people think that Columbus deserves the praise for the discovery of America while, others believe that he deserves no credit because when he landed on the Island there were already natural inhabitants there who had been living there for centuries. The One Month Campaign guarantees placement for one song into 4-6 user-curated playlists on Spotify for 30 full days. Home / NOMV Campaign. There were no results for your above query. Breakfast With Tori. Blue 2020 Campaign Poster. Discover America (Brand USA) digital campaign. in the 5th century – Hui Shen (a Taiwanese Buddhist monk who traveled to the country of Fusan in the 5th century, identified by different versions with Japan or America) Discover America (Brand USA) is the first ever integrated campaign to promote US tourism to international markets. Choose one of the two images below to customize your journey and match you with content that interests you. Pelham Bay Park GND … The first expedition of Christopher Columbus (1492–1493) consisting of 91 people aboard the ships “ Santa Maria ”, “ Pinta ”, “ Nina ” left the Polos de la Frontera on August 3, 1492, turned from the Canary Islands West (September 9) crossed the Atlantic Ocean in the subtropical zone and reached the island of San Salvador in the Bahamas archipelago, where Christopher Columbus landed on October 12, 1492 (the official discovery of America). Christopher Columbus made four expeditions to the New World, which equipped the Spanish Catholic kings in the hope of opening a shorter western route to trade with India. On the night of December 25, the flagship “Santa Maria” sat on the reef, but people escaped. CAMPAIGN 4 AMERICA is advancing the values and principles of our Founding Fathers by accepting public speaking engagements, appearing on national TV and radio networks, and by producing educational material, commentaries, and videos that advocate the strengthening of our Constitutional Rights, Liberty, and Freedom. L’Ans-o-Meadows has remnants of a Viking settlement on the continent. Its main purpose is to recreate a Midnight Supper as a nod to Caroline Astor, the mother of John Jacob Astor IV, the founder of the St. Regis. As a result of the English colonization of the XII — XVIII centuries and repressive anti-Catholic laws of the indigenous Irish... Of course, The Maid of Orléans is one of the most remarkable figures in history: of any kind, of any gender, of any age. Kickstarter exists to help bring creative projects to life. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your shopping experience, to provide our services, understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements, and display ads. America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. Find out more about how we use, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, San Juan Islands National Wildlife Refuge, 4 Seasons of Adventure in Yosemite National Park, California, 5 Places to Experience Native American Culture, 5 Weirdly Cool Places to Visit in the USA, 6 Places to be Outside in the USA This Winter, Incredible U.S. What’s more, every customer will be eligible to … The discovery of the Americas has for centuries been credited to the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, but ancient markings carved into rocks around the US could require history to … There’s no better time to visit the island of Moloka'i, Hawai'i, than now. $20 Designed By Rachel Bickley. MOST ITEMS SHIP IN 24-48 Hours via 1st Class US Postal Mail. Love a challenge? Explore your curated feed below or shuffle for more suggestions. UNION CITY, TN — The Discovery Park of America has announced a pop-up exhibit of presidential campaign buttons. The New York Times Discovers China . Campaign clothing brand. In these times of social distancing, we have provided a new way for Democratic groups and other organizations to raise funds. A 40-kilometer drive and ferry ride northwest of St. Petersburg, Florida, Caladesi Island is known for its tranquility. Stream North America FREE with Your TV Subscription! Stay Updates about golf in Tenerife, Golf Las Américas near Playa de las Américas including golf with hotel. Dairy Export Council USDEC organized a series of cheese samplings and in-store promotions in four countries: Oman, UAE (Dubai and Abu Dhabi), Qatar and Kuwait in October 2019 in conjunction with the broader Discover America campaign to build U.S.-UAE business ties. These pins measure 2.2" in diameter. Frida's Fiesta Azul/Blue Mask. In each and every destination, you will find information, advice, and experiences from locals. $24. The Museum of Discovery and Science has received a $1 million grant from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation in support of the $20 million "Building New Pathways to Discovery" capital campaign. Turning then to the North, June 25, 1503 crashed near the island of Jamaica; help from Santo Domingo came only a year later. October 14-24, Christopher Columbus visited a number of other Bah… Enjoy! Discover our one-of-a-kind loyalty programme. Columbus aboard the ship “Nina” on January 4-16, 1493 completed the survey of the northern coast of Haiti and returned to Castile on March 15. It’s more than a membership, it’s your window to your world. Subscribe to receive updates, access to exclusive deals, and more. Just in time to provide cover for Biden in the final stretch of the presidential campaign. 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Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. January is actually the best time to visit Scottsdale, Arizona. October 14-24, Christopher Columbus visited a number of other Bahamas, and on October 28-December 5, he discovered and explored a portion of the northeast coast of Cuba. In May 1497, Cabot reached the shores of Labrador, becoming the first officially registered European to set foot on the North American continent. Shop DISCOVER AMERICA. Discover America (Brand USA) is the first ever integrated campaign to promote US tourism to international markets. By Callum Hoare PUBLISHED: 00:09, Sun, Sep 20, 2020 Sort by. You can be a citizen scientist! Discover here all the information you need for your American holidays. Joe Biden & Kamala Harris WIN!!! Aspen/Snowmass in beautiful Colorado is one of the most iconic ski destinations in North America. There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America in .3 meters of water. Collection created in partnership with NOMV (Not One More Vet). Enjoy advantageous fares with discounts of up to 15% on flights departing from the USA. It's well … Discover the world with Flyday fares . Christopher Columbus returned to Castile on November 7, 1504. Spots to Stop and See the Stars, Death Valley's Racetrack, California-Nevada, Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico, Aspen/Snowmass, Colorado: World-Class Skiing and Much More. The first expedition of Christopher Columbus (1492–1493) consisting of 91 people aboard the ships “ Santa Maria ”, “ Pinta ”, “ Nina ” left the Polos de la Frontera on August 3, 1492, turned from the Canary Islands West (September 9) crossed the Atlantic Ocean in the subtropical zone and reached the island of San Salvador in the Bahamas archipelago, where Christopher Columbus landed on October 12, 1492 (the official discovery of America). is all about minimalist jewelry with attitude. The name America was firmly rooted by the end of the 1500s, Crawford said. DISCOVERY Loyalty Open in the DISCOVERY Loyalty App. Having obtained permission to continue the search for the western route to India, Columbus, with 4 ships, reached Martinique on June 15, 1502, on July 30, Honduran Bay and opened the Caribbean shores of Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama from August 1, 1502 to May 1, to Urab. 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The above line by famous Irish novelist, Oscar Wilde makes an important point about discovery of America. It has grown into an international group of veterinary professionals who come together on Facebook to laugh, cry and lend a supportive ear with their colleagues. $24. It’s now cheaper than ever before to get your NJPW merchandise shipped directly to your door with our shipping discounts! The 3rd Expedition (1498-1500) consisted of 6 ships, 3 of which Christopher Columbus himself led across the Atlantic Ocean at about 10 ° north latitude. in the XII century – Madog ap Owain Gwynedd (Welsh prince, according to legend, visited America in 1170) The internet is the most used source for planning travel. ENSURE A GOOD FIT: This hat was specifically desig Yellow 2020 Campaign Poster . As part of a three-phase Discover America campaign, which is slated to soft launch in November, Google will be working with Brand USA on an interactive Discover America map … Discover Vintage America: Your source for Antiques, Collectibles, Unique Home Decor and Historic Tourism. Sheets & Giggles - Exclusive 3L Donation Colors. September 20, 2006 by Ted McKenna WASHINGTON: Several top travel industry executives have launched a multi-million dollar new campaign to encourage more people overseas to visit the US, arguing that more foreign visitors not only are good for US businesses, but also foster better international relations. Filter by. We’re holding hands together, banded with courage, love, and American Pride. Discover America - USA Travel Guide, Bellevue, WA. Returning to Cape Cruz on May 15, Columbus walked along the southern coast of Cuba to 84 ° west longitude, found the Jardines de la Reina archipelago, the Zapata peninsula and the island of Pinos. In 1507, the cartographer M. Waldzemüller proposed that the open lands be called America in honor of New World researcher Amerigo Vespucci – this is considered the moment from which America was recognized as an independent continent. Home; Shop Collection; Campaigns; Press; Size Chart; INFO. 907 likes. Hart Plaza GND Poster. open We use cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website, by analysing information to enhance and customise content. Return to Paradise. Ever wondered what peasants did for entertainment in the Middle Ages? The American Revolutionary War lasted through the period of the Siege of Yorktown — its last major campaign — in the early autumn of 1781, with peace being achieved in 1783. The claims about discoveries hold less significance in today’s world where, even scientific theories of Darwin are being challenged. by David Catron. 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In 1495, Christopher Columbus continued the conquest of Haiti; March 10, 1496 left the island and on June 11 he returned to Castile. Subscribe. Adopt an Officer is on a mission to bring joy to all of the brave officers in our country, The United States of America. Our jewelry are made especially for you to feel confident and timeless. Ken Lewis, the Chairman and CEO of Bank Watch Full Episodes, Get Behind the Scenes, Meet the Cast, and much more. The digital efforts include banners, free trip contest, social media and even a free song download, all welcoming foreigners to see unique sides of America. Pride 2020 Campaign Poster. there are versions according to which at least from the thirteenth century America was known to the Knights Templar Click for details. in 1331 – Abubakar II (Sultan of Mali ) Union made in USA 18 x 12 This is a single poster with a unique print on each side. In 1500, Christopher Columbus was allegedly arrested and sent to Castile, where he was released. 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Hamas hails UN call to free children jailed by Israel
Palestinian resistance group Hamas has welcomed a call by UN officials for the release of Palestinian children held in Israeli prions amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“We appeal to international human rights groups and health organizations to pile pressure on the [Israeli] occupation to release prisoners held in occupation jails,” Hamas spokesman Abdelatif al-Qanou said in a statement on Saturday.
He held the Israeli authorities “fully responsible for the lives and safety of Palestinian prisoners”.
On Monday, a group of UN officials called for the release of Palestinian children held in Israeli prisons in light of COVID-19 virus.
“The rights of children to protection, safety and wellbeing must be upheld at all times. In normal times, the arrest or detention of a child should be a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time,” read a statement signed by Jamie McGoldrick, coordinator of UN’s humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians, UNICEF special representative Genevieve Boutin and James Heenan, head of the UN Human Rights Office in the West Bank.
“During a pandemic, States should pay increased attention to children’s protection needs and children’s rights, and the best interests of children should be a primary consideration in all actions taken by Governments.”
Israel is holding around 5,000 Palestinians, including 180 children and 700 patients.
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TMN Encore to Rebrand as Starz in 2019
Thread: TMN Encore to Rebrand as Starz in 2019
LOSat
Bell Media has signed a deal with Lionsgate to bring Starz to Canada. TMN Encore will be rebranded.
http://www.bellmedia.ca/pr/press/bel...arz-to-canada/
CDN Viewer
WOW, I didn't see this one coming!?
This explains why Counterpart, the new Starz series, will be airing on TMN and not Super Channel. Also, I think this deal will spell the end of Super Channel, seeing as how they currently air most of Starz original series. It appears as though their agreement with Starz ends next year which is why Bell will not be re-branding TMN Encore until 2019.
Interesting tidbit I noticed in the press release:
Bell Media has signed a multi-year content deal with Starz, the No. 2-ranked premium paid U.S. television platform.
I thought Showtime was #2 (after HBO) but according to the stats Starz IS the #2 premium service. HBO is first with 49 million subs, followed by Starz with 29 million and Showtime is third with 27 million. I find it quite surprising that Starz is available in more homes then Showtime, considering that Showtime produces more original content then Starz?!
ottawasnowdog
So Bell has HBO/Showtime and now Starz I guess the good news for Canadians is we will get all the shows but the bad news is one company owning all 3 in Canada.
InMontreal
Originally Posted by ottawasnowdog
Bell convinced the CRTC to replace TMN's licence from "half of Canada" to national, then succeeded in convincing Corus to shutdown Movie Central & Encore Ave on March 1st, 2016. For its latest licence renewal, Bell asked the CRTC for TMN + "Mpix" to merge into 1 single licence... Dunno if it's been approved yet or not, but some service providers like Videotron offers TMN Encore in their Pick 10-20-30 packages at no additional charge due to its low cost for a PayTV licence (same as DHX's Family), so I guess TMN Encore becoming Starz in "early 2019" instead of in 2-3 months means Starz will be part of the main TMN package and there are some administrative details to fix first. Oh, and expect a monthly price increase too !
We had a good run: 2006 to 2020. Thanks for the informations and debates.
mtlguy
SuperChannel won't have an issue with that much. They are already using others source of programming, Epix, Audience Network, etc and internationnal shows from the UK for example. They already only had a few Starz series.
By the way this should go into Premium channels, but anyway, since TMN Encore has 2 channels, maybe they will keep one as Encore?
Originally Posted by mtlguy
since TMN Encore has 2 channels, maybe they will keep one as Encore?
But since TMN4 = TMN1 but 2 hours later, same for HBO2, it's likely TMNE2 will be converted into a time-shifting Starz.
Last edited by InMontreal; 02-17-2018 at 05:15 PM.
lostjon
I figure with two channels, that will probably mean Eastern and Western feeds for STARZ - in the same manner that they already have it arranged with HBO Canada.
You’d think by now that this was already being done with Showtime. Perhaps TMN will use one of their three current multiplex channels to do this in the near future. But for now, Bell Media is using CraveTV for premiering Showtime originals.
Having said that, TMN Encore’s original mandate has been running classic movies. But now, there are other players in that genre such as Hollywood Suite with its four commercial-free channels (each one devoted to a decade from the 1970s to the 2000s), AMC and Rewind just to name a few. Bell Media figured that they could capitalize on the popular brands in the premium market for which they already have bragging rights (HBO, Showtime, Cinemax) while looking to expand their portfolio with another popular brand in STARZ, likely attributed to the financial problems with Super Channel and the rights to their programming due up for renewal.
Last edited by lostjon; 01-23-2018 at 09:38 PM.
bigoranget
Honestly, I have no interest in TMN, HBO or Starz via traditional linear cable TV packages. I'm not paying $20+ a month for TMN on top of a regular cable package. This deal would have been great 10 years ago but I doubt it will move the needle with TMN subscriptions in the right direction. I suppose it's a leg up for CraveTV but CraveTV's interface is sub par compared to other established streaming services. Over-the-air TV, Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Prime and Game Centre Live is good enough for me.
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STARZ Launches in Canada March 1 # # # Crave Exceeds 2.3 Million Subscribers
TORONTO (February 7, 2019) – Bell Media and STARZ announced today the launch of a new STARZ channel and streaming service in Canada beginning Friday, March 1. STARZ, the United States’ second most-watched pay television service, delivers immersive, premium content, including critical favourites VIDA and COUNTERPART, and the hit drama SWEETBITTER. The announcement comes as Crave confirms its subscriber base has grown to 2.3 million.
Rest of the article : https://www.bellmedia.ca/pr/press/st...anada-march-1/
"The following week, STARZ becomes available directly to all Canadians with access to the internet as an add-on to Crave for an additional $5.99/month."
^^^^ Crave already costs 20$ since CraveTV merged with The Movie Network last november, and now they want 6$ more for Starz content? What the Bhell ?!?!
I like Sweetbitter, but Starz and other major channel content is too easy to get for free from the pirate streaming/downloading sites (and I've still never used torrents), so I have no need for Starz or even Crave, and instead always look for content or channels that are not easily obtained via free VOD streaming or free download (and then I often subscribe to those channels, as part of a package, for a few months at a time).
I also still pay for the Rogers Starter package (my OTA isn't as reliable as it used to be), but I think I'm going to dump it this month. I like the superior HD quality, but the online channel/content quality is usually close enough.
And now that the American online streaming services have online cloud DVR capability without the need of a USA set-top box (at least for now), I don't mind paying for US channels/content, even though I can still stream most of them live for free (if I'm home when the content airs, or is available as free VOD).
However, as American prices rise (and the exchange rate remains terrible), and some channels are removed entirely from my favourite services (due to contract squabbles) or soon moved to premium set-top box IPTV American systems (that I'll have no access to as a Canadian), I know I'll eventually cancel everything and go back to the days of mostly just trying to watch the stuff that I already have, but haven't had time to watch, or want to watch again.
Warning: I'm not playing with a full deck.
Well for now I think that Starz, if you have Encore with any providers now, is not going to change price. Unless they haven't announced it yet, but that $6 is for those buying it as a stand alone or directly with Crave I think.
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Truncated memory
Published on Monday, 17 August 2015 14:11
Written by Juan L. Mercado
Is a short memory a major flaw in Vice President Jejomar Binay’s P200-million damage suit against the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the Ombudsman, plus 11 other officials?
“Charges to scare is the defense of the corrupt,” snapped Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano in response to the suit. Based on testimony at the hearings of the Senate blue ribbon subcommittee, Binay “stole from the people of Makati while he was city mayor.”
Binay should perhaps also hit the recall button to 1999, when a number of Filipino journalists were locked in bitter conflict with a cocky, often soused, President Joseph Ejercito Estrada.
In July 1999, the Manila Times changed hands amid charges that Estrada had engineered the sale because of the paper’s critical coverage of his administration.
A month earlier, Estrada sued the paper for P101 million. The “sore point” stemmed from a report alleging corruption in a public works contract.
The Times apologized, the suit was dropped. But according to sources, Estrada threatened to retaliate against the holdings of the Gokongweis, the family that owned the paper.
The Gokongweis folded. They sold the Times to a housing magnate with zero newspaper experience. The paper’s former editor, Malou Mangahas, accused “a group of persons closely identified with President Estrada [of seeking] … to tame a critical press, through the back door.”
By Dec. 30, 1999, the entire senior editorial staff of the Times had either quit or been fired. The new publisher was once a senior information official in Ferdinand Marcos’ martial law government.
At about the same time, the Estrada administration also organized an advertising boycott against the country’s largest newspaper, the Philippine Daily Inquirer, which has long exposed government scandals and irregularities.
In July 1999, virtually all Filipino movie producers canceled their ad placements in the paper following a meeting with the then president. “Sources present” at the meeting asserted that Estrada had offered, as a quid pro quo, tax breaks to the movie industry.
A number of government corporations and pro-Estrada businesses also yanked their ads, including the Philippine National Bank, Social Security System, and Land Bank of the Philippines. So did the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. and Smart Communications.
Movie producers, whose ads were an important segment of the paper’s revenue base, said they withdrew their placements from the Inquirer as “a gesture of sympathy” for President Estrada.
The ad pullout began on July 10, two days after a group of producers met with Estrada and requested tax breaks for their industry. Estrada’s spokesman later announced that the tax breaks had been approved.
In a July 21 letter to Estrada, the Committee to Protect Journalists pointed out that the mere appearance of government interference in the media could have a profoundly chilling effect. The organization urged Estrada to call for an end to the advertising boycott of the Inquirer and disavow any support for such harassment campaigns.
“This is a blatant case of intimidation,” Inquirer publisher Isagani Yambot, since deceased, wrote then. “[The President is saying] stop publishing negative stories about me [and my administration].”
Some advertisers had tiptoed back by December 1999, but the key movie ads had not reappeared at year’s end. Opposition leaders accused Estrada of attacking press freedom, and individual journalists were alarmed by the events.
Did most competing newspaper choose not to protest the Estrada administration’s actions? Why were local press organizations silent, leading critics to lament a lack of professional solidarity?
“Instead of Marcos-style tactics to control the press, more sophisticated methods of influencing media reportage were used,” said journalist Sheila Coronel of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, who is now dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
“Instead of the strong arm of the state, market mechanisms are being employed to put the squeeze on critical reportage…” said Coronel. “But whether done directly through the state or through market mechanisms, these tactics undermine the independence of the media. They tamp down on the diversity of voices offered to the public.”
That was then. Now comes VP Binay and his damage suit. “We are at a loss why the Vice President has singled out the Philippine Daily Inquirer,” the paper said in a statement. His own complaint mentions some defendants as getting “maximum media mileage” from other media outfits.
That’s truncated memory. Inquirer.net
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Obama's Pastor and the Traditional Religious Left
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By Mark D. Tooley
FrontPageMagazine.com | 3/20/2008
Apologists for Obama pastor Jeremiah Wright have tried to portray him as a traditional voice for the black church in America . ‚ But the Chicago minister, who belongs to the nearly all white United Church of Christ (UCC) denomination, is far more recognizably the voice of the traditional white Religious Left than he is for the historically more conservative black church.
Wright’s calls for America ’s damnation and his suggestion that our country deserved 9-11 are fairly traditional fare within the Religious Left, especially among the mostly white elites of his 1.1 million member denomination. ‚ His liberal stance on homosexuality, which is conventional within the UCC, is also anathema to historically black churches. ‚ Wright’s searing critiques of American foreign policy are far more common to the nearly all white Mainline Protestant denominations, of which the UCC is the furthest left, than to the historically black denominations. ‚ Not surprisingly, the UCC’s officers have rushed to defend Rev. Wright.
"Many of us would prefer to avoid the stark and startling language Pastor Wright used in these clips," acknowledged UCC President John Thomas in a special March 17 statement. ‚ "But what was his real crime? ‚ He is condemned for using a mild " ˜obscenity’ in reference to the United States . ‚ This week we mark the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq , a war conceived in deception and prosecuted in foolish arrogance. ‚ Nearly four thousand cherished Americans have been killed, countless more wounded, and tens of thousands of Iraqis slaughtered. ‚ Where is the real obscenity here?"
According to Thomas, "Pastor Wright's judgment may be starker and more sweeping than many of us are prepared to accept. ‚ But is the soul of our nation served any better by the polite prayers and gentle admonitions that have gone without a real hearing for these five years while the dying and destruction continues?" ‚ In typical fashion for UCC officials, Thomas rambled on about the supposedly widening "gap between the obscenely wealthy and the obscenely poor," neighbors "relegated to minimal health care," and "bailouts" for "unscrupulous lenders." ‚ ‚ Thomas wondered: ‚ "Is Pastor Wright to be ridiculed and condemned for refusing to play the court prophet, blessing land and sovereign while pledging allegiance to our preoccupation with wealth and our fascination with weapons?"
Evidently not content with his one statement, Thomas also issued another salvo against Wright’s critics through a March 14 UCC news release. ‚ "Trinity United Church of Christ is a great gift to our wider church family and to its own community in Chicago ," Thomas gushed. "At a time when it is being subjected to caricature and attack in the media, it is critical that all of us express our gratitude and support to this remarkable congregation, to Jeremiah A. Wright for his leadership over 36 years, and to Pastor Otis Moss III, as he assumes leadership at Trinity."
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Diferenças no perfil de saúde entre beneficiários e não-beneficiários do programa Bolsa Família em uma população de baixa renda
Jeremy A. Labrecque, Jay S. Kaufman
Os autores investigaram a relação entre pertencimento a uma família beneficiária do programa Bolsa Família (BF) e características de saúde, e se tais relações são heterogêneas, comparando os 26 estados e Distrito Federal, Brasil. De acordo como dados da Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde de 2013, 18% dos domicílios brasileiros participavam do BF. Entre as famílias com renda per capita abaixo de R$ 500,00, havia diferenças entre diversas características de saúde, comparando pessoas de famílias beneficiárias e não beneficiárias do BF. Por exemplo, pessoas de famílias matriculadas no BF mostraram menor probabilidade de ter cobertura médica, mas maior probabilidade de haverem consultado um médico nos últimos 12 meses, além de maior probabilidade de serem fumantes e menor probabilidade de serem fisicamente ativas. Consumiam quase uma porção a menos de frutas e verduras por semana, mas tinham menor probabilidade de substituir refeições com lanches. Apresentavam pior percepção da própria saúde, mas não mostravam diferenças importantes no relato de doenças. Houve uma heterogeneidade moderada nas características de saúde em relação a algumas variáveis. Por exemplo, a cobertura de saúde mostrou um valor de I2 de 40,7%, enquanto a diferença de cobertura entre famílias com e sem BF variou entre 0,09 e -0,03. Houve diferenças qualitativas entre estados em relação a algumas doenças, tais como hipercolesterolemia, asma e artrite. Este estudo foi o primeiro a definir o perfil de saúde de pessoas em famílias beneficiárias do BF. Também é o primeiro a encontrar uma heterogeneidade geográfica na relação entre o programa e variáveis de saúde. Os resultados sugerem que o efeito de um programa de renda mínima pode variar de acordo com a população na qual é implementado.
Política de Saúde; Características da População; Programas Governamentais
In 2004, Brazil implemented a conditional cash transfer program (CCT) called Bolsa Família (BF; Brazilian Income Transfer Program). The program has grown to be the biggest in the world, paying over USD 9 billion to 14 million households in 2016 alone (Brazilian Comptroller General of the Union. http://www.portaltransparencia.gov.br, accessed on 14/Jan/2017). Most studies of BF have understandably focused on child health because the conditions of the program are targeted toward them. Little research has been conducted on adults. One study found that people receiving BF had a higher TB cure rate than those not receiving BF 1. An ecological study found that increased coverage by BF was associated with a decrease in leprosy detection rates 2. Another study examined the nutritional status in adults receiving BF but did not have a control group 3. To our knowledge, no other study has either investigated the effect of BF in adults or described how people receiving BF differ from non-BF recipients.
While the relationship between CCTs and child health has been well-studied, results have been inconsistent 4. Some results suggest a reduction in growth/nutritional status 5, some no difference 6 and some suggest an increase in growth/nutritional status 7. One possible explanation is that all these studies are estimating the same quantity but obtain different results due to the methods used and random variation. Though the methods employed and chance variation certainly influence all results, another explanation is that there is important geographic heterogeneity in the causal effect or association of BF with child growth. Therefore, studies in different settings are estimating different quantities. Effect heterogeneity could also partially explain the wide range of results found in a recent meta-analysis of the effect of different CCT programs on child growth in a number of different countries 4.
Brazil is well-suited for the investigation of geographic heterogeneity because its 27 states have stark differences in socioeconomic and demographic characteristics. For example, the state with the highest per capita gross domestic product 8 has a value higher than many European countries including Portugal and the Czech Republic, but the state with the lowest per capita gross domestic product is closer to Guatemala or Nigeria (World Bank. http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD, accessed on 24/Feb/2017). Brazil is not only economically but also racially diverse. In the northern region, about 80% of the population identify themself as black or mixed, while in the southern region, 80% identify themself as white (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics - IBGE. http://www.ibge.gov.br/home/estatistica/populacao/condicaodevida/indicadoresminimos/sinteseindicsociais2016/default_tab_xls.shtm, accessed on 16/Dec/2016). Brazil's three other regions fall somewhere in between.
The following description of BF is drawn from the law that established the BF 9 and the Brazilian Federal Savings Bank website (http://www.caixa.gov.br/programas-sociais/bolsa-familia/Paginas/default.aspx, accessed on 14/Jan/2017). In 2013, all households with a household per capita income (HPCI) below BRL 70 were eligible to receive a monthly BRL 70 payment, the unconditional component of BF. Households with children under 18 years with a HPCI below BRL 140 were also available for an additional payment as longs as the child met specific conditions. For every child under 16 years (to a maximum of five children) who attended yearly health check-ups, adhered to the vaccine schedule and maintained a school attendance of 85% or above, a monthly payment of BRL 32 was made. For every child of either 16 or 17 years (to a maximum of two children) who maintained a school attendance of 85% or above, a monthly payment of BRL 38 was made. For families who, after adding all BF payments to their income, still had a HPCI below BRL 70, a complementary payment was made to bring their HPCI up to BRL 70.
This manuscript has two main objectives. The first is to determine whether Brazilians receiving BF have a different health profile than Brazilians not receiving BF. This will provide policy makers more knowledge about the health status of BF recipients as well as provide knowledge about potential confounders for future researchers. The second objective is to see whether, given the socioeconomic and demographic heterogeneity seen across Brazil's 27 states, there is corresponding geographic heterogeneity in the association between BF and health indicators across states. Evidence of this type of heterogeneity would suggest that research on BF in one part of Brazil may not be transportable to another part or that transportability would require conditioning on some ecological or compositional covariates. Furthermore, heterogeneity within Brazil would make it more difficult to use evidence on the effectiveness of a conditional cash transfer in one country to justify its implementation in another country.
We used data from the 2013 Brazilian National Health Survey (PNS, acronym in Portuguese). It was a household-based, national survey that interviewed 205,546 people in 64,348 households and included an extended interview with 60,202 people 10. The purpose of the survey was to get an overall picture of the multiple facets of Brazilians' health, health-service use and medical care. It was conducted between August 2013 and February 2014 by trained fieldworkers. It was composed of 21 modules covering household and community characteristics, general health and socioeconomic characteristics of household members and more specific modules such as exposure to accidents and women's health. The first two modules describe the household, the next nine modules are applied to every household member, and the last nine more specific health modules are applied to one household member above 18 years selected at random.
The sample was drawn from the Master Sample of the IBGE' Integrated System of Household Surveys which is a sampling strategy used to ensure national representativeness 10. The sampling is conducted at three levels. At the first level, census sectors are selected through proportional probability by random sampling. Within each selected sector, a random sample of households is chosen. At this stage, all household members complete the nine modules asked of all household members. The last stage selected one household member at random to complete the extended survey.
BF definition
Though the survey specifically asked about household income received from BF, when the data were made public, this value was combined with the values from questions on “interest from savings accounts and other financial investments, dividends, social programs, unemployment insurance, secured insurance or other income?”. This created the difficulty of disentangling the values received from BF and from other sources in this combined variable. Firstly, we assumed that among poor Brazilians, very few would have payments from financial dividends. Secondly, the minimum monthly payout from unemployment insurance is the minimum wage (BRL 678), therefore we eliminated any values from the combined variable that were equal to or over that value. We downloaded a database of all the payments made by BF in July 2013 and found that 99.5% of the payments made were under BRL 500. We retained only values in the combined variable that matched payment amounts from the BF database and compared the resulting distribution to the distribution found in the BF databases. Lastly, we eliminated all payments of BRL 300 made in the PNS data to avoid misclassification with another cash transfer program, Garantia-Safra (GS; Crop-Guarantee), that paid farmers who lost crops to drought. We preferred to remove payments of this value because in the BF data from the national database BRL 300 payments accounted for 0.003% of all BF payments while GS made up 5% of all cash transfer payments by the Federal Government.
All variables except weight, height and body mass index (BMI) were obtained via questionnaire. Trained field employees that worked in the IBGE, administered the questionnaires and recorded the responses on a personal digital assistant 11. Nutritional questions regarding numbers of servings per week were measured by asking the respondents how many times a week they ate a specific food item and how often each day they ate it. An electronic scale was used to measure weight and a portable stadiometer was used to measure height. Education was classified as low for people with 9 years of school or less, medium for people with more than 9 years but less than or equal to 12 years of schooling and high for people with a higher degree to be consistent with the Brazilian education system 12.
The main statistics of interest were differences in health and health behaviors between households receiving BF and households not receiving BF as well as the heterogeneity between states in these measures. For the purposes of this analysis, only people who answered the extended survey were used because most variables of interest were only assessed in the extended interview. We estimated the prevalence of BF in every state to compare to the values reported by the government. In the main analysis the sample was restricted to households with a HPCI below BRL 500. Prevailing differences were estimated for binary outcomes and simple differences for count or continuous outcomes both crude and adjusted for basic demographic variables (sex, household per capita income, number of people living in the household, age, race, education and whether the household was in an urban or rural area). For binary outcomes, we estimated logistic regression models and subsequently calculated the difference in marginal predicted probabilities when setting those that received BF and those that did not receive BF, both in the entire country and in each state, where the covariates were set to their observed values. Rather than using these estimated differences, we chose to use empirical Bayes to shrink the estimates toward the grand mean. This introduces bias into the estimates but reduces the overall mean square error 13. For the count and continuous outcomes we repeated this procedure but with Poisson and linear regression, respectively. The degree of heterogeneity in the associations between the Brazilian states was quantified using Cochran's Q 14 and I-squared statistics 15. In order to incorporate the complex sampling design used for the PNS and to get the appropriate standard errors, we used the survey package in R. All data analyses were performed in R (http://www.r-project.org). The code for running the entire analysis (including downloading the data) can be found at https://github.com/jerbreck/BF_hetereogeneity.
The data were publicly available and therefore their use did not require ethics approval.
The PNS survey visited 81,357 households and found 11,363 (14%) to be unoccupied 11. Among occupied households, 64,348 (92%) agreed to the short questionnaire applied to all household members. After selection of a household member for the long questionnaire, 4,146 (6%) declined to answer the long questionnaire. The percentage of those that declined varied by state from 1% to 18%. Among occupied households, the response rate for the long questionnaire was 86%.
The distribution of the payments received from social programs was very similar to the distribution of payments made by BF Figure 1. The three largest spikes in the histograms are at the same locations and have very similar relative magnitudes. Also, the tail of the distributions above BRL 150 are similar. A few notable differences between the distributions can be found between BRL 75-100 and BRL 175-200. The differences may be due to the rounding of payment amounts.
Figure 1 Histogram of distribution of the Brazilian Income Transfer Program (Bolsa Família - BF) payments as reported by respondents in the Brazilian National Health Survey (1a) and according to the Brazilian Transparency Portal (1b).
Table 1 shows the proportion of people receiving BF in different demographic and socioeconomic groups in households with a monthly per capita income below BRL 500. White Brazilians are nearly half as likely to live in a BF household as black or mixed race people. Around 40% of people between 18 and 30 years of age live in BF households but BF participation decreases strongly after 50 years likely because of a lack of children in the household and because Brazil offers a pension to all elderly who live in a household earning under one-quarter of the minimum monthly wage per capita. HPCI is also highly related to receiving BF although households with a reported HPCI below BRL 100 were less likely to receive BF than households between BRL 100-300. This demonstrates that either households are not reporting the same income to the PNS than they did to the Brazilian Ministry of Social Development or they are staying on BF even after their HPCI improves. BF participation increases monotonically with the number of people in the household. BF participation in rural areas is nearly the double of the participation in urban areas. Those with less than a high school degree were 8% more likely to be BF participants than those with a high school degree or higher.
Table 1 Unadjusted distribution of the Brazilian Income Transfer Program (Bolsa Família - BF) among demographic variables in the 2013 Brazilian National Health Survey (PNS).
According to data from the Brazilian Ministry of Social Development, 23% of households in Brazil participated in BF in 2016 (http://aplicacoes.mds.gov.br/sagi/RIv3/geral/index.php?relatorio=153&file=entrada, accessed on 02/Feb/2016). According to estimates derived from the 2013 PNS data, the participation rate was 18%. These differences may be due to the changing BF participation rates from 2013 to 2016.
Overall, the associations between living in a BF household and the health indicators investigated here tend to show they have poorer health indicators and behaviors Table 2. In terms of medical services use, people living in households that receive BF were less likely to be hospitalized or to have seen a doctor in the previous year. However, when adjusted for basic demographic and socioeconomic variables, residents of BF households were more likely to have seen a doctor in the previous year. They were also less likely to have any type of private health insurance and more likely to have had contact with a community health worker. People from BF households were approximately a half-centimeter shorter and had an equal or higher BMI than people from non-BF households. People from BF households also had riskier health behaviors being slightly more likely to smoke and less likely to exercise compared to non-recipients of BF. Nutritionally, people from BF households ate one less serving of fruits and vegetables per week but were also less likely to report substituting junk food for a meal. With regard to health problems, no large differences emerged between people from BF and non-BF households with the exception of self-rated health where they were 4% less likely to say their health was good or very good.
Table 2 Unadjusted and adjusted differences (95%CI) between households receiving the Brazilian Income Transfer Program (Bolsa Família - BF) and those not receiving BF across a range of health indicators.
Next, we examined the heterogeneity in associations between states. Brazil has 27 states that differ markedly in their economic situation, demographics and medical systems. These differences can be seen in the heterogeneity between states in health indicators Table 3. The association between being from a BF household and both private health insurance and having visited a community health worked both has an I-squared value above 40% indicating that between state variation accounted for over 40% of the overall variance. This can be seen in the difference between the state with the lowest difference and high difference in Table 3. For example, being from a BF household was not related to whether someone had had contact with a community health worker in Sergipe; in Acre however, people from BF households were 13% more likely to have had contact with a community health worker. Only small differences were seen between states with regard to hospitalization and having visited a doctor in the previous 12 months. Differences in both height and weight showed moderate heterogeneity across states as well ranged from large negative differences to positive differences. Very little heterogeneity existed between states when considering health behaviors. Exercise had the highest I-squared value; however, in absolute terms, the difference between the lowest and highest state was only 3%. Nutrition also did not show much heterogeneity. Of interest, although not many differences were observed by BF status for health problems when all the data was pooled, there was moderate to large amounts of heterogeneity by state. The most important heterogeneity was found for high cholesterol, in which the variability between states was 63% of the total variability. This heterogeneity can be seen in the difference between Mato Grosso, where people from BF households were 10% more likely to have been diagnosed with high cholesterol, and Pernambuco, where people from BF households were 3% more likely to be diagnosed with high cholesterol. Strong heterogeneity such as this was found for diabetes, asthma, arthritis, mental illness, cancer and having any type of handicap. Although the differences reported between the lowest and highest difference states for mental illness and cancer seem small, the small risk differences still exhibit moderate heterogeneity.
Table 3 Heterogeneity in health characteristics between states (Cochran's Q and I2) and highest and lowest differences between people living in Brazilian Income Transfer Program (Bolsa Família - BF) and non-BF households.
Lastly, we inspected the state-by-state differences in four variables with high I-squared values to assess whether these were similar between states Figure 2. There did not appear to be a strong overall pattern demonstrating that the four selected variables showed similar patterns between states. In all states, private health insurance was lower among people receiving BF. In two states, Amazonas and São Paulo, the differences between people from BF households and non-BF households were negative for all variables. There were no states where the pattern of differences between BF households and non-BF households went in different directions across variables. Also of note, we saw no geographical pattern in the data. That is, there was no apparent similarity within states that were close geographically.
Figure 2 Difference between households receiving and those not receiving payments from the Brazilian Income Transfer Program (Bolsa Família - BF) in four variables that demonstrated moderate to large heterogeneity between states.
We found that the association between BF status and many health indicators did not indicate that people receiving BF, or living in households that receive BF, had universally worse health indicators. People with BF had much lower rates of health insurance but were simultaneously more likely to have visited a doctor in the previous 12 months, suggesting that this lack of coverage was not preventing them from accessing health services. The increased frequency with which people with BF visit the doctor could indicate that they have more health problems than non-BF people but when examining health problems, despite people with BF reporting worse self-rated health, they do not report higher rates of any important health problem. In fact, they report lower rates for most conditions.
We also observed moderate to large heterogeneity across Brazilian states in health services use, anthropometrics and health problems. This heterogeneity is seen both in the I-squared statistics and in the magnitude of the difference when comparing states at the extremes of the distributions. For a number of health problems such as diabetes, high cholesterol, asthma, arthritis and having a handicap, there was a qualitative difference between some states; meaning that in some states the BF recipients had higher rates of these health problems and lower rates in other states. This may be because different types of people are either targeted for receiving BF or different types of people are self-selected to receive BF.
This study was the first to examine general health characteristics in terms of medical services use, anthropometrics, health behaviors, nutrition and health problems of people who live in the households that receive BF. This information will benefit policy makers by showing which aspects of their health lack the most among families who receive BF. This study is also the only one that describes whether the relationships between receiving BF and health differ from state to state. This has many important consequences. Firstly, knowledge of which states are doing particularly poorly on certain indicators can be used to target BF households with certain additional programs. Many Brazilian states already have programs that offer BF recipients additional cash transfers or programs. These programs could incorporate state-level knowledge of health issues among BF recipients that need to be addressed. For instance, in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, BF households had a higher BMI and ate one less serving of fruits and vegetables per week. The state has its own cash transfer program that targets poor families, including BF recipients, whose HPCI still falls under half a minimum wage per capita even after receiving money from BF. The state may consider targeting these groups with nutritional education as well as additional cash transfer. Another example is the state of Goiás whose BF recipients were 1.8% more likely to smoke and 3.4% less likely to do exercise. Similar to the previous example, the state could consider additional programs that target health behaviors of BF recipients.
A second important consequence of the heterogeneity between states is that it lends support to the idea that the effects of a cash transfer are sensitive to the setting in which they are implemented. Although only associations were estimated in this study, not causal effects, we demonstrate that there are important differences in the health indicators of people who receive cash transfer within one country. Given that many important health characteristics of participating households, health services use and health problems in particular, differ from state to state, causal effects of the same policy may also differ from the state to state. This has important policy implications as this type of heterogeneity makes it difficult to apply the results from one population to another population.
The most important limitation of our study was the misclassification of BF participation. Although BF status as well as money received from BF was included as a separate question in the survey, when the data were released by the IBGE, this variable was combined with other variables regarding the money received from financial dividends, other social programs and other income sources. While some amount of misclassification is inevitable, we took careful steps to eliminate as much misclassification as possible and to verify that the resulting distribution of payments from the combined variable resembled the distribution observed from the actual BF data. Any misclassification that occurred was most likely misclassification with other cash transfer programs. At the federal level, only two other cash transfers exist. We eliminated one, GS program, by removing BRL 300 payments. The second is a program to prevent child labor and makes up less than 0.1% of all cash transfer payments in Brazil and therefore is unlikely to influence the results (http://downloads.ibge.gov.br/downloads_estatisticas.htm, accessed on 09/Jan/2017). Some states offer their own cash transfer programs either as a complement to BF or as a target to other disadvantaged groups not covered by BF. In our study, people receiving money from these programs would have been classified as BF as well. Because most of these programs share a lot of similarities with BF, classifying people receiving these benefits as having received BF is unlikely to have an appreciable impact on the results. Alternatively, this group could simply be considered as “exposed to a cash transfer”.
In conclusion, we observed heterogeneity between Brazilian states indicating important differences in use of health services, anthropometrics and illnesses among households that earn less than BRL 500 per month. The possibility of heterogeneous effects of social programs should therefore be taken into consideration in future research.
We would like to thank Dr. Djalma Pessoa and Anthony Damico for the creation of the R package, which greatly facilitated the analysis of PNS data. We also thank the Canadian Institutes for Health Research through the Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship, for the financial support.
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Pain Killers (Like Tylenol) Also Numb Emotions
You know that Tylenol can take the edge off physical pain. But did you know that it may also dull your emotions? Intriguing research from Ohio State University suggests that acetaminophen-containing drugs like Tylenol may reduce the intensity of emotions.
Acetaminophen is a popular painkiller, with billions of doses sold annually. In any given week, about one-quarter of American adults (23 percent) take it to relieve all kinds of pain – everything from post-surgical discomfort to menstrual cramps. You may even have taken acetaminophen without realizing it. The FDA reports that over 600 medications include it as an active ingredient, including nonprescription remedies like Nyquil, Theraflu and Midol and prescription drugs like Vicodin, Ultracet and Percocet.
The Research Study
The Ohio State researchers, doctoral student Geoffrey Durso, graduate student Andrew Luttell and professor Baldwin Way, recruited 82 college students and asked half of them to take 1,000 mg of acetaminophen. After waiting an hour, they viewed photographs designed to elicit negative or positive emotional reactions, for example, starving children or playful kittens. Researchers then asked participants to rate the pictures along a continuum ranging from negative to positive and to indicate the strength of their own emotional response to the images.
The results were surprising. People who took acetaminophen rated the pleasant images as 20 percent less positive than people who had taken a placebo and rated the unpleasant images as 10 percent less negative. They also judged the pictures to be less powerful overall. The participants were unaware that the medicine had diminished the intensity of their feelings.
“This means that using Tylenol or similar products might have broader consequences than previously thought,”Durso said. “Rather than just being a pain reliever, acetaminophen can be seen as an all-purpose emotion reliever.”
The group of researchers wondered if the drug was reducing reactivity to other stimuli, so they repeated the study, adding a new twist. This time, in addition to asking about the evocative pictures, they also asked participants to evaluate the intensity of color in the images. The subjects had no trouble with that task, and their assessments matched those of people who had taken the placebo instead of acetaminophen. It was only their response to the emotional material that differed.
The researchers concluded, “These findings suggest that acetaminophen has a general blunting effect on individuals’ evaluative and emotional processing, irrespective of negative or positive valence.”
The Connection Between Physical Pain and Emotion
People often describe negative emotions as painful. We may speak of a “painful” breakup or an “aching” heart or say that someone has “hurt” our feelings. Similarly, we may portray positive feelings as though they have physical effects. For instance, we may say that love gives us a “high” reminiscent of an addictive drug.
There may be a biological basis for these common figures of speech. Deep in the brain, shrouded beneath the squiggly tissue of the outer cortex, sits the insula. The insula acts something like a switchboard, taking input about basic body sensations (for example, smelling a rotten odor) translating it into a complex emotional reaction (in this case, disgust and aversion) and then generating output that returns to the body as a physical response (maybe nausea).
If the insula is damaged, there can be a variety of far-reaching effects. Insular damage has the potential to suddenly cure a lifelong smoking addiction, but it could just as easily remove the ability to appreciate emotional aspects of music.
All this is relevant to the acetaminophen study because scientists already knew that acetaminophen acts on the insula. Unlike some other painkillers that appear to work on the specific site of discomfort – whichever part of the body is sending painful signals to the insula – acetaminophen instead targets the insula directly. So when you take acetaminophen, you still sense pain, but your mind interprets it as less distressing. On the flip side, the study found that acetaminophen had the same dampening impact on positive sensations. You experience them, but they feel less pleasurable and less powerful.
Baldwin Way has since done additional acetaminophen research, and his findings align with the previous study. Not only does the drug appear to blunt emotions, it also seems to hamper empathy. Participants on acetaminophen did a worse job of imagining how others might feel, guessing that others’ emotions would be less intense than they were.
For now, physicians caution against using medications like Tylenol for emotional pain. Acetaminophen can be toxic to the liver if taken above the specified dosage.
Of course, the recent findings have implications for future research. Do all painkillers lessen our emotional sensitivity, or is the effect limited to acetaminophen alone? For example, do ibuprofen users demonstrate the same emotional flattening?
And it also raises a question for consumers: Would you be willing to take a painkiller if it also killed pleasure?
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Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory Releasing in November 2020, Gameplay and Platforms
November 10, 2020 by Aanchal
Initially scheduled to be released in October this year, the upcoming rhythm action game is in a fit state to be released on November 11, 2020, in Japan and on November 13, 2020, globally. It will be made available for the platforms, including Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch. Set after the Re Mind downloadable content framework of Kingdom Hearts III, Melody of Memory is going to be the fourteenth installment in the overall franchise of Kingdom Hearts.
The creator of the series, Tetsuya Nomura, had hinted at the game’s existence earlier this year in January 2020, and by June, the confirmation was also given. The game’s release was delayed due to the Coronavirus pandemic, which impacted the voice actor’s recordings. Developed by Square Enix Creative Business Unit I and indieszero Corp., the game has been produced by Ichirou Hazama, with Tetsuya Nomura and Masanobu Suzui serving as the directors.
Melody of Memory Promotional Picture
The game is going to have more than 20 characters from the series, which are playable, with four major party groupings. The first group, which is the ‘Classic’ Party, includes Donald Duck, Sora, and Goofy; while the second group known as the ‘Days’ party, will have Axel, Roxas, and Xion under it; the third group which is the ‘DDD’ party includes Riku with two Dream Eaters; while Aqua, Terra, and Ventus will be a part of the fourth group titled the ‘BBS’ party. King Mickey will be serving as a fourth party member for assisting, responsible for healing, and adding rhythm points when the ‘King’s Call’ item is activated. Other playable characters from Disney include Aladdin, Mulan, Beast, Peter Pan, Hercules, Ariel, Simba, and Stitch. Pixar and Disney’s characters will be included in the guest members’ list in their particular themed worlds, putting forward symbols and sounds into the gameplay.
Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory Gameplay
The upcoming game does not feature any new tracks; instead, it consists of all the pre-existing tracks, which are over 140, from the franchise and the Disney worlds. However, the game does feature new title and end credit tracks from the composer of the series, Yoko Shimomura.
The game features the Beginner Standard of the series, and Proud difficulties, with each stage having three play options— the first of which is Basic. The second option is One Button, which can eliminate button complexity and lets the party members auto-attack; the last option is the Performer, which puts on extra opponents and button sequences. Each stage consists of different tasks to complete, which grant materials to unseal new items and songs. When each level is cleared, the cinematic scene player and new music gets unlocked.
Illustrated by series director Tetsuya Nomura, we're proud to present the brand-new key art for #KingdomHearts Melody of Memory, coming to #NintendoSwitch, #PS4 and #Xbox One on November 13, 2020!
How many of the scenes behind Kairi do you recognize?
— KINGDOM HEARTS (@KINGDOMHEARTS) August 26, 2020
The most important single-player mode is titled ‘World Tour,’ which is basically the ‘story campaign’ of Melody of Memory. The multiplayer modes of the game feature— Double Play co-op mode, which allows the players to compete locally, playing as Sora and Riku together, in order to grab the highest collective score; COM versus, which lets the players play against the computer bots to win with high ranks, received three out of five times; and Versus mode, where the competitor will battle online against each other, or against local multiplayer (which is supported only by Nintendo Switch), to get higher rank in a best two out of three.
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The Growth of English Industry and Commerce
By Cunningham, W.
Title: The Growth of English Industry and Commerce
Author: Cunningham, W.
Subject: Political science., Economics and literature, Economic & political studies series
Collections: Economics Publications Collection
Publisher: Archive for the History of Economic Thought
Cunningham, W. (n.d.). The Growth of English Industry and Commerce. Retrieved from http://hawaiilibrary.net/
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CONTENTS. INTRODUCTORY ESSAY. 3 . A basis of comparison. An accurate survey of England iu given in Domesday Book. . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2. Industrial contrasts. The comparison of Domesday with modern England brings out contrasts in the relative importance of different industries and different districts. . . . . . . 1 3. Contrasts in conditions of life. It also shows contrasts in the character of town and country life. . . . . . . 2 4. Contrasts in social structure. Domesday puts before us great diffe~ ences in the social structure in legard to Capital, to Labour, and to Land. Additional difficulties in study are presented by the changes in the conno- tation of terus. . . . . . . . . . . . 4
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CAPE ARGUS | NEWSBy Mwangi Githathu | published Nov 9, 2020 The lack of a civil society representative on the National Nuclear Regulator’s board is ‘contributing to ongoing weak governance at the nuclear reactor’. Picture: Henk Kruger/African News Agency (ANA) Cape Town - Concerns by the Koeberg Alert Alliance and the Southern African Faith Communities’ Institute (Safcei) about the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy’s (DMRE) failure to appoint a representative of civil society to the National Nuclear Regulator’s (NNR) board have been dismissed by the government. The two lobby groups said in a statement that the lack of civil society representation on the board “is contributing to the ongoing weak governance at the NNR, whose role is to monitor and ensure regulations are followed for safety procedures and the prevention of nuclear accidents, resulting in poor oversight and a lack of transparency at the Koeberg Nuclear Power Plant”. Koeberg Alert Alliance’s Peter Becker said: “According to the NNR Act of 1999, one member of the board should be a representative from civil society. However, when the Cabinet announced a new NNR board on August 5 2020, no such representative was included. Since the beginning of September, I have repeatedly emailed the NNR and the DMRE asking about the process of filling the vacancy, but have not received any answers as yet.” Safcei’s executive director, Francesca de Gasparis, said: “It is entirely unacceptable that there is no civil society representative on the board of the NNR. “Affected communities such as people living near Vaalputs – a radioactive waste dump in the Northern Cape – have the right to have a representative on the board who will represent their community and their interests for a safe and healthy environment. It is not right that the minister has not appointed a representative as stipulated in the NNR Act.” Mariette Liefferink, who served on the NNR Board from 2009 to 2012, said: “Without an informed member of civil society on the board of the NNR to represent affected communities, their rights to human dignity, equality and an environment that is not harmful to health and well-being will continue to be violated.” In response to the concerns, department spokesperson Thandiwe Maimane said: “The process aimed at securing the appointment of the representatives of organised business and civil society is currently under way. “Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe has initiated a comprehensive consultative process with the National Economic Development and Labour Council and the South African National Civic Organisation aimed at identifying suitable candidates to be considered for the appointment. “Upon conclusion of this process, the identified individuals will be considered by the Cabinet prior to their appointment being effective, and their identities being made public.” Maimane dismissed claims about the constitutionality of the board as it stands, and said: “The NNR Board is legally constituted.” Original article here.
ENCA'S INTERVIEW WITH THE FSE ON "MOST RADIOACTIVE CITY ON EARTH /RADIOACTIVE JOBURG
Watch the interview with eNCA's Thulasizwe Simelane here.
Desperately seeking justice
Ill workers and families want the nuclear body to own up~ published in Canvas Life by Sheree Bega
Locks hold key to uranium exposure
AS UMESH Bhana was snipping customers' hair this week, he had a novel proposal for them: would they be willing to donate 4cm locks to be analysed for traces of uranium?
Hare wys dalk uraangevaar
Die antwoord op uraanbesmetting in die Wonderfonteinspruit en Soweto lê moontlik opgesluit in mense se hare.
Feedback in pictures
The Federation for a Sustainable Environment co-hosted the recent Nuclearisation of Africa Conference. The event brought together experts and interested parties on matters relating to nuclear energy, waste and mining of radio-active material.
Podcast: Mycle Schneider and Andreas Nidecker
Prof. Nidecker of Radiology, University of Basel, Switzerland. Past president and board member of PSR / IPPNW Switzerland is interviewed along with independent international consultant on energy and nuclear policy releases, Co-author of yearly world Nuclear Industry Status Report, Mycle Schneider. In this podcast they highlight topics and insights from the Symposium, "Nuclearisation of Africa".
Symposium highlights harmful effects of uranium mining
Federation For a Sustainable Environment « Nuclearisation of Africa » Symposium 19. Nov 2015 There is a clear global downtrend in the civil use of nuclear power, as documented by the annual World Nuclear Industry Status Report and as discussed at the international Symposium on « Nuclearisation of Africa » concluded on the 19th of November in Johannesburg.
“Nuclear waste ‘dangerous for millennia, even millions of years, cannot be shut off”.
Sheree Bega, a multi award winning journalist, of Saturday Star, South Africa’s leading weekend paper, wrote an excellent article titled “Nuclear waste ‘dangerous for millennia, even millions of years, cannot be shut off”. The article was published yesterday in the Saturday Star.
International Nuclearisation of Africa Symposium
The world has become sober to the unimaginable power of uranium after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the nuclear accidents at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and recently, Fukushima.A new set of serious health problems, collectively known as Gulf War Syndrome, and epidemiological data from the Wismut cohort have become available to researchers.
Nuclearisation of Africa
Uranium mining can have detrimental effects on the health of the miners and their families. An interdisciplinary team of doctors and scientists will report on this and on efforts of the nuclear industry to promote the civilian use of nuclear power in Africa at a Symposium in Johannesburg, South Africa from 16th to 19th November 2015.
NNR responds; FSE asks for more
On 25 June 2014 the National Nuclear Regulator (NNR) had a quarterly meeting with several Non-Governmental Organisations to discuss matters of concern. During this meeting, a presentation was made by Ms M Liefferink, Chief Executive Officer of the Federation for a Sustainable Environment (FSE). Ms Liefferink requested response from the NNR on a number of concerns previously raised. These were documented and the NNR provided a written response.
Contaminating livelihoods
Hundreds of thousands use Wonderfonteinspruit catchment area tainted by mining waste
One man's home is another man's uranium dump
With nowhere else to live, many seek refuge in the radiation wastelands in Gauteng, unaware of the deadly dangers the abandoned mining areas present.
Can we trust our nuclear watchdog
The immediate case of the disaster at Fukushima may have been a natural once, but the official report to Japan's parliament says the ultimate culprit was a weak regulation - a lesson South Africa cannot afford to ignore.
Women's toxic secret to beauty found in the earth
FACIAL TREATMENT: Patience Mjadu, 44 inside her shack in Tudor Shaft informal settlement, with her face smeared with toxic soil from mining waste mixed with skin lotion and water. Mjadu believes the soil helps with her pimples and protects her face from the sun.
Mine dumps - "toxic threat"
Despite intensive and extensive investigations undertaken and reports issued by several government departments several years ago into the health hazards associated with a toxic environment in the Johannesburg region, the situation persists with little to no remedial action taken to date.
Acid sludge poses a serious risk to Gauteng
Soweto, Johannesburg - Thousands of people face evacuation from greater Johannesburg in the Gauteng province - the economic heartland of South Africa - due to toxic sludge from abandoned gold mines laced with high radiation levels.
Residents use radioactive mud as an acne cure
Experts warn old mine dumps could cause birth defects and brain disorders Patience Mjadu can't bear the pimples that dot her face. So, like other women in her impoverished informal settlement, she has resorted to a novel but potentially dangerous form of treatment involving toxic and radioactive mining waste.
Radioactive spillages condemn farmland
In the wasteland that is Johan Kondos’s farm, a lush green field brings hope.“This is what a farm is supposed to look like,” he says, gesturing proudly to his prized lucerne crop, seemingly untainted by the surrounding mining pollution.This lone field, and a few beloved cattle, is all Kondos has left of his farm in Hartbeesfontein in the North West.
South Africa - 'not managing' impact of uranium mining
The government’s failure to address mining hazards is placing the lives of its poorest people at risk from large-scale toxic and radiological pollution, according to a new report.
The battle over uranium: Just how bad is it?
One of the most abundant heavy metals in the earth's crust, uranium is a known radiological element and toxin. It is also a major by-product of gold mining, historically one of South Africa's greatest economic undertakings. The country additionally began mining specifically for uranium in 1949, primarily for export to the United States and other nuclear-intensive countries throughout the Cold War. As the conflict between East and West subsided, uranium mining waned, with the gold output from the Witwatersrand reef also declining. Today, hundreds of thousands of tons of uranium by-product sit in mine dumps scattered across the country, with 100 000 tons of the heavy metal in Gauteng's Western Basin and Far Western Basin alone, according to Frank Winde of the North-West University at Potchefstroom.
Actions required by the Nuclear Regulator
The FSE has presented a proposal of recommended actions by the National Nuclear Regulator to deal with health risks and environmental hazards in the Witwatersrand Goldfields.
The Critical Question
What does it mean for us and our environment, if more and more countries produce energy from nuclear power plants?
Advanced Biochemical and Biophysical aspects of Uranium Contamination
Uranium has been considered both a radiological and also a heavy metal poison, following calcium in its distribution within the body, i.e. building up in bone, and with the principle target for toxicity being the lung and the kidney. Recently, it has been shown that uranium also targets the brain.
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Queens of Silence
The Enormity of Conformity
It's None of My Business
Victim Blaming
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Passive bystanders in the world of sex, drugs, and rock and roll
The "bystander effect"
Pluralistic ignorance
Evaluation apprehension
"Just world" fallacy
Ask a roomful of people whether they would act to prevent a sexual assault and nearly all of them will raise their hands.
Yet both real life examples and social psychological experiments show that when we witness a wrongful act with other bystanders most of us, in fact, do nothing. This isn't because we are bad people, but is due, rather, to a variety of factors that are often collectively referred to as the "bystander effect."
Some of these factors are external and situation specific. But most are hard-wired instincts that can turn even the most well-intentioned of us into passive bystanders when we most want to--and think we ought to--act.
In this talk, Jackie explains the psychology of bystander inaction and shows how we can overcome these instincts to become active bystanders. Just as importantly, she explains why people engage--even unconsciously--in victim blaming and what we can do to stop it.
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57 seniors named to school’s Cum Laude chapter, four seniors recognized for world language achievements
By Chronicle Staff on June 4, 2020 In Brief, News, News Archives
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the school canceled the annual induction ceremony, which celebrates the academic achievements of outstanding members of the senior class. 57 seniors who are ranked in the top 20 percent of their class were named to the school’s chapter of the National Cum Laude Society, based on their grades from their […]
Media-ting Justice
By Chronicle Staff on June 3, 2020 Opinion
Breonna Taylor: a black EMT who was shot fatally after policemen investigating a narcotics case confused her apartment with someone else’s. Ahmaud Arbery: an unarmed black man who was lynched by two white people solely for jogging in their neighborhood. George Floyd: an innocent, handcuffed black man who was choked to death by four police […]
Book Buy Back will take place online
By Chronicle Staff on May 19, 2020 Homepage News, News
Book Buy Back will be held online for the 2019-2020 school year due to the coronavirus pandemic. For more information, visit the Book Buy Back website.
Sports bring our city together
By Chronicle Staff on March 3, 2020 Opinion
There is no doubt that Los Angeles prides itself on its sports teams. From the college level to the professional level, sports are an integral part of Angeleno culture. With friendly rivalries—between the USC Trojans and UCLA Bruins, Lakers and Clippers and Dodgers and Angels—our city is filled with passion for athletics and team pride. […]
Entertainment or Entrancement?
By Chronicle Staff on January 29, 2020 Opinion
In the midst of awards season, it’s easy to find ourselves enthralled by luxurious designer dresses, velvet red carpets and captivating performances. Celebrities open envelopes to announce the winners of various award categories, with millions of people worldwide nestled on their couches, eager to hear the results. Oftentimes, we’re familiar with the nominees—the films, actors […]
Climbing the steps toward unity
By Chronicle Staff on December 11, 2019 Opinion
Haven’t we come a long way? Today, on the threshold of 2020, society enjoys more access to technology, traditionally underrepresented groups have made progress in both government and general society, and the economy rests comfortably on top of historically-low unemployment rates and a strong stock market. By the metrics, this past decade has been one […]
Giving thanks to our capeless heroes
By Chronicle Staff on November 18, 2019 Opinion
Gratitude and thankfulness are central themes of the fall season—Veterans Day just passed, and Thanksgiving is quickly approaching. During this time, it is commonplace to thank veterans for their service and to express our appreciation to close family and friends, but the current pessimistic state of affairs has made these actions all the more important […]
Letter to the editors: Response to Mapping Representation
By George R. Grube on November 15, 2019 Opinion
Dearest Editors— Am wishing you all well and would like—in my capacity as a most reliable reader of your precious publication—to forward this message which concerns itself with the article titled Mapping Representation. Peradventure more than one side was considered on the question of mandating Ethnic Studies curricula in Californian public schools (and, by cultural […]
Together through the college process
By Chronicle Staff on October 3, 2019 Opinion
With the end of first quarter approaching in early November, school is officially back in full swing. As the community settles into its normal routine, students’ workloads pile up higher and higher. Every year, seniors are forced to quickly adjust to courses and classmates as the endless wave of assessments and homework assignments flood their […]
Prioritizing important issues
By Chronicle Staff on August 29, 2019 Opinion
We live in a time when fewer and fewer people wake up Sunday morning to rolled-up newspapers, still damp from their sprinklers and delicately folded up on their driveways. Seemingly, technology brings the entire world to our fingertips with Apple News alerts pinging our phones regularly and trivial Daily Mail stories appearing on Snapchat. Though […]
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– an internet tribute
Daily Mail and Daily Mirror articles
Matt Monro news posts
New section with newspaper articles
We have added a new section with newspaper articles from The Daily Mail and The Daily Mirror courtesy of Alex.
Matt’s From Russia With Love album in Billboard
Advert for the Matt Monro album ‘From Russia with Love’ in Billboard dated May 2, 1964, as posted on the Facebook James Bond Music group.
https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/60s/1964/Billboard%201964-05-02.pdf
29 Febrary 2020
Matt Monro: ‘Stranger In Paradise – The Lost New York Sessions’ together with a new Best Of on 2CD and digital will be released by Capitol/Ume on March 13, 2020.
More here ….
Musical Genes – Matt Monro Jr
Repeat of programme with Matt’s son – bbc radio 4 extra:
Last on Wed 18 Sep 2019
Series 1 Episode 3 of 4 (BBC website)
Tom Morton meets the professional musician son of legendary singer Matt Monro.
Series searching for the true story behind some of our best loved musicians.
Producer: Deirdre Waldie
First broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in October 2008.
One More Time – documentary about 60s and 70s session players
One More Time is a work in progress documentary which tells the story of the musicians who worked on studio sessions during the sixties and seventies. Several former members of The JB7 have taken part.
Project director Alan Boyd would very much appreciate it if you would check out the website at
https://www.onemoretimedocumentary.com/
and also visit, like, and share the facebook page at
https://www.facebook.com/onemoretimedocumentary
https://jukeboxjury.uk/
We have started a new website https://jukeboxjury.uk/
Juke Box Jury was one of the BBC’s flagship programmes, which introduced viewers to Saturday evening viewing during the sixties. The hope was that having started watching JBJ, viewers would enjoy it and continue to watch the BBC programmes that followed, such as Dixon of Dock Green, The Billy Cotton Band Show, Perry Mason, etc., for the rest of the evening.
Since the BBC carelessly wiped all but two episodes, our long-term aim is for this developing website to be able to include the relevant details of all 400-plus programmes. This will feature not only the panellists and the records on which they voted, but also the identity of every mystery guest. A slightly less easy goal is to indicate a hit or a miss decision for each record played and discussed.
Clearly, especially to begin with, certain detail will be missing so we welcome contributions from everybody who might be able to help, from those who took part in the shows, or were in the audience, but also from those who watched, avidly.
Matt Monro in Manila poster added
We have added a Manila concert poster that we received courtesy of K.B. on the submissions page and concerts page
Book “Hit and Miss: The Story of The John Barry Seven” available
Our book “Hit and Miss: The Story of The John Barry Seven” is now available!
(plus add postage for your region)
For postage and packing please add:
UK = £2.95 (2nd class mail)
Europe = £10.90
Rest of World (Excluding Australia) = £16.30
Let us know if you aren’t able to do this and we’ll work out another way
The book’s cover price is £30
anybody ordering direct from us will receive a 25% discount
reducing the cost to £22.50.
Further discount if you want two or more copies – ask for details
We have a limited number of signed copies – let us know if you want one of these
Alternatively, send us an email message
and we will be in touch!
Thoroughly and painstakingly researched over a number of years, it will feature contributions from several ex-members of the band and from friends and relatives of John Barry.
Comprising of over 350 pages, it will also be packed with an array of rare photos of the band, and the singers they often supported, as well as some unique images of memorabilia and documentation from that era; some never previously published, many more seldom seen.
It will be of great assistance to the authors if you would indicate an interest in purchasing a copy of the book *now*, without obligation. We will then be able to notify you as soon as the book is available with details of cost and how to order and pay.
Just send us an email message and we will be in touch in due course. Visit our dedicated web page here!
Obviously your personal details will be kept secure and not shared with anybody else.
Matt Monro Jr. retirement tour underway
Matt Monro Jr. retirement tour – “goodbye to dad” gets underway.
Here is a long interview straddling news bulletin – 45 minutes approx, starting 14 minutes into show.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06kjr2l
submitted by Sebastian Melmoth.
Terry Parsons (Matt Monro) & Ned Sparks – Nine Dragons Club, Kowloon – 1952
My husband Alan and I are great fans of Matt’s. Alan’s uncle Neddy Sparkes and Matt were best of friends when Neddy (Robert Sparkes) and Matt, then Terry Parsons was in the Royal Tank Regiment in Hong Kong together. Neddy was in the in the Royal Artillery.
Both sang in the NAFFI and and both eventually were stopped from taking part in singing competitions. Matt in the BBC documentary The Man With The Golden Voice says “I was banned from competing because I always won, they said it was because my best friend was master of ceremonies, so it was probably true”, jokingly. “Trouble was when I was MC Neddy won”. The reason he won and this comes from Neddy was he was the best.
Any way we have some pictures of Matt and Neddy in Hong Kong together.
Jo Sparkes
The London Playlist
Every week BBC Radio London’s Robert Elms asks his listeners to pick their top London tunes.
Matt has been added too:
On Days Like These
Listeners are invited to submit their choices. We don’t know whether the list is finite or perhaps it will go on for ever?
We have received three new images of Matt, courtesy of Anthony Middleton who supplied them.
They are now on the Photos page.
Article added: “Hard luck, Matt!”
Article added: “Hard luck, Matt!” to the Articles page. Matt injured his right foot in December 1961.
Hard luck, Matt!
Articles added to site
While scanning for a new website called
http://www.ohboy.org.uk/thank-your-lucky-stars
I ran into several articles about Matt. We have posted them on our Articles page, at the bottom, for your convenience.
Matt Monro Jnr on new tour – link to newspaper review
“It’s lovely and for me, the highlight is when I’m singing with my dad again.” Matt Monroe Jnr tells us about his new tour
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Football coach ends contract with crisis-hit V. League club – VnExpress International
By Lam Thoa  December 16, 2020 | 08:10 am GMT+7
Coach Phan Thanh Hung (L) has left Than Quang Ninh after his requests that the club recruit more players and pay pending wages were not met by the club. Photo by VnExpress/Lam Thoa.
Coach Phan Thanh Hung has decided to leave the Than Quang Ninh club with one year left in his contract and take a break from coaching.
“I just got a contract release agreement with Quang Ninh. I love the club as well as the fans but this job is no longer suitable for me. So I decided to quit. For now, I will return home and stop coaching for a while,” Hung said Tuesday.
Quang Ninh’s main sponsor, the Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Group, pulled out suddenly earlier this year, plunging the club into a financial crisis. It has not paid players’ salaries and bonuses for five months, pushing key players to quit and move to other clubs.
At the moment, Quang Ninh’s first squad has just 12 players left, three of them injured.
Coach Hung had already given notice about quitting and said he’d wait 30 days for Quang Ninh’s response before finalizing his next move.
Last week, the Quang Ninh People’s Committee and club chairman Pham Thanh Hung had sorted out the financial solution for the club and invited the 60-year-old coach back.
In a Monday meeting, the coach requested the club to recruit more players and pay pending wages to the players so that they can focus on the new season. However, the club refused to do this, prompting Hung’s decision to end his contract.
Coach Hung is highly rated for his skills in developing young players and building an offensive playing style for the team during his spell at Hanoi FC before moving to Quang Ninh in 2016.
Under his management, Quang Ninh became a force to reckon with, always finishing in the top four and winning a National Cup. Last season, the club finished fourth.
The 2021 football season will begin January 9 with the Super Cup match between Hanoi FC and Viettel FC. The V. League 1 2021 will start a week later.
Football coach ends contract with crisis-hit V. League club - VnExpress International
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2009-05-23: Link Not Found, Or Is It?
Summary: Lorna preens! Owen and Erik talk! July appears! We run out of exclamation points!
Log Title: Link not Found, or is it?
Living Room - Xavier Mansion
It was a standard place to go, really, what with all the fuss about the school and elsewhere. It's late, but now that Lorna's been imbued with this new set of powers, she has little need to sleep. It's actually fairly annoying, partial as she is to a warm bed, crisp sheets, and a mountain of pillows to roll amongst in dreamy quiet. Now she's standing before the mirror at the far wall, staring at the reflection. "I look old," she worries to herself, tilting her head to one side then the other. "I look old, don't I?! No, wait." She touched her lower lip gingerly with an index finger as she gave the mirror a come hither look. "It's not so bad! It's sparkly, anyway. I dig sparkles. I mean, in moderation, but…" Recently, those green locks had gradually shaded a glittering, snow white; starting from their roots and now covering every strand. Her eyes remained green, but a very pale green, like an emerald lit from the inside. There was a brightness to her skin; not quite as visible as it could be in the lit
room, but the glow was there.
"No, Miss Dane, ya'll don' look old," Owen Folger, freshly showered and dressed in a loose t-shirt and pajama pants, reponds from the couch. "Ya'll look jus' as radiant an' beautiful as ya'll have always looked," he assures her with a smile. He's just trying to be polite after all and it is the truth. He' just sitting on the couch, trying to figure out where or to who he's feeling this odd link and tug that came with new powers.
Erik steps in from the outside with a big smile on his features, grinning and looking much more at ease than he has in a long time. His is the joy that Owen has been feeling, which is obvious to the younger man as he walks in the room and blinks, looking at the /other/ now white haired former magnetokinetic in the room.
July steps inside the Living Room frowning a bit, as if worried about something. She looks up when she hears people talking, and finds Lorna, Owen and Erik already there. "Hi." she waves shortly, before moving to sit on an empty spot at a table.
Lorna flusters slightly beneath the pale of her lit skin, but the flush of color quickly fades. "Well, of course," she replies perkily, and turns to strike a pose; hand upon a cocked hip, hugged by black capris. The cobalt blue of her capped camisole, broken at the midriff by a stark white sash, keeps matched by the laced up whites of her low gladiator sandals. The white of her hair, indeed, only seems to bring out a familiar line in the way her jaw is set. "Oh. Well, howdy," she says to Erik and July in joint greeting. Her brows form a worried line, then perk upon her following inquiry. "You two alright?" She relaxes her posture, but a finger fidgets and taps against her elbow when her arms cross.
Owen perks up when Erik enters the room, sensing the joy over the link even as his own transmits back. ~~What the?~~ he transmits to Erik unintentionally. "Howdy, Mr. Anderson," he greets. "And Howdy tah you as well, July," he greets. ~~What's this weird…feelin'?~~ he thinks to Erik again without intending to.
Erik shakes his head a little bit at…something before he looks to Lorna for a moment. "The White hair is an interesting change, Ms. Dane, although…somehow it suits you." He offers before he nods to July and puts a hand to his head for a moment and thinks ~Am I going insane?~
Lorna gives Erik a look; she squints at him, even. Then she smiles, jerking her head with a nearly haughty laugh. "You say that only by bias," she declares. "But thank you, Leif! I quite find it an interesting development! Though," she says, with a rather breathless break in speech, "I'm sure I'd miss the green at some point." Again, she glances at the mirror. "Yes. Hmm. I will have to tend to an update in wardrobe. I don't have quite enough blues to make it work. Hmmmm… OOoooh, perhaps some violets, yes? White, white, white… Not too much black, that's so 50's. Need some peridots. I think… If you'll excuse me, gentlemen, kiddo. Must stop preening and do what I came to." She gives a perky snap, and the room seems to lighten and fill with a cheering, energizing warmth as she passes for the door. Not quite the usual, dry humored and brooding Dane that has been about prior to the switches.
'Hearing' Erik's question makes Owen stare. ~~Only if Ah am too…~~ he trails off to the man, rather shocked. The shocked feeling goes right over then empathic link. ~~What's goin' on here? Ya can hear what Ah'm thinkin' and Ah can hear what ya're thinkin'?~~ he continues to ask, getting up off the couch. He blinks a few times then waves. "See ya, Ms. Dane and July…"
Erik blinks as the room empties, so now he looks over to Owen. "Ok, is that you in my head?" He asks, now that it won't sound quite so insane to say so.
Owen shifts his weight to his other foot and nods. "As long as it's you Ah'm feelin' in mah head," he replies, a touch confused. "Think…this has somethin' tah do with the green monster or the new powers ah got all of a sudden?"
Erik laughs a little bit. "Well unless you were psychic before and decided I was your new best buddy, I'd say yeah this is probably related." He says. He is working at keeping his thoughts blank, although you do hear one 'I so need the helmet…'
"What helmet?" Owen asks both verbally and mentally. He sighs. "So Ah guess this weird…feelin'…is part of these cool new powers. Guess there had tah be a downside…"
Erik shakes his head. "Magneto has a helmet specifically designed to block telepathy." Erik comments dryly. "Yeah…they must have been…linked somehow."
Owen blinks. "And jus' how would ya know…or even get your hands on that kinda thin'?" he asks, frowning slightly. The teen slowly approaches Erik, trying to figure something out judging by the confusion flowing over the empathic link.
Erik raises an eyebrow. "I would know it because, you know…I read?" He says with a shrug, unable to keep the phrase '…and I've worn it…' from filtering through his mind.
~~Alright…~~ Owen mentally sighs. ~~What's goin' on?~~. He frowns. "Ya'll have worn Magneto's helmet? When…where…why?"
Erik shakes his head. "Yes, I have. Also, I'm just one person so I can't technically be an all. And…somewhere a very long time away from here."
Owen frowns. ~~Makin' fun of the way Ah talk…~~ he mutters in his head. "So…why did ya wear it, Mr. Anderson? Costume party and showin' off ya got the real deal somehow? Ebay?"
Erik rubs his face. "Sorry." He says to the mental comment, shaking his head. "I doubt Magneto ever sold it on eBay. And technically it wasn't this Magneto, either…but it is a long story."
Owen shrugs. "So, jus' cause he never sold it don' mean someone else didn'," he chimes. ~~Ah got time for a story,~~ he adds mentally, smiling.
Erik shakes his head. "No, it has always been his. And I am not going to tell the story, because it is a small part of a much longer story." ~And I hardly know this kid~
Owen coughs. ~~Gonna be gettin' tah know eachother a lot better there, Mr. Anderson. Whether we want tah or not it seems. Dunno how long this whole power crazy thin's gonna last. And Ah'm not a 'kid' anymore…Ah'm 18…~~ he the currently-telekinetic trails off.
Erik shakes his head and runs a hand back through his hair. "Ok, we have to stop the talking in our heads, that…that is disturbing. And getting to know one another does not mean knowing each other's deepest, darkest secrets."
Owen takes a deep breath. "If ya have suggestions, Ah'm all ears. Telepathy ain' mah normal power. Ah dunno much about it," he says honestly. "And Ah dunno…what happens if this works when we're asleep or day dreamin' or somethin'? Might catch a lot more than we intended…"
Erik shakes his head. "I know about it but I don't have a lot of experience with…this kind of link." He says, trying to focus only on what he is saying, and not anything else. "So. We will just…deal with it, somehow. And…yeah, let's try to think /clean/ thoughts."
Owen blushes, a few images flashing to mind he quickly puts a stopper on. "Well…Ah'll do mah best there but…uh…gonna be a bit hard," he chuckles, embarassed.
"Well, we are trying to avoid things being a bit hard, but…well, neither of us is that old, and it will happen. I promise right now never to discuss any of those thoughts I see from you with anyone, I will take them to my grave." Erik offers.
Owen chuckles a bit, blushing and avoiding looking at Erik. ~~Hoo boy…this'll be …interestin'…~~ he mentally mutters. "Ah'll offer the same…even if Ah'd like tah stay away from the boneyard for a very long' time."
Erik nods. "Uh…yeah. So, I'll warn you straight up. You might see some pretty horrifying nightmares, and…thoughts about another teacher here at the school that are not rated G for families. First the nightmares…happened. Secondly…that is not the same teacher you know, but a…different version."
Owen bites his lip. "Can' say whether or not they'll be as horrifyin'…but…Ah got mah fair share of demons and ghoulies up here that like tah pop up at night," he says, tapping his head. An image of his Bat form pops to mind as he says this, followed by him shuddering. "And…whatcha mean different version?" pause a beat. ~~An' Ah'm no stranger tah R rated and higher thoughts 'bout people Ah know.~~
Erik licks his lips for a moment. "Well, you'll see me holding someone I loved very dearly as they die in my arms, and then it'll change to a room soaked in blood and a thousand bodies who look like they've exploded from every pore in their skin, like every cell in their body ripped its way out of them. Because it did." Erik says simply. "And I mean it is…not the teacher, not this one."
Owen cringes for a moment. "Yeah…the nightmares are alon' that line. Horrible monster tearin' people tah shreds…lots of people you'll recognize," he shudders again. ~~An' that's jus' cryptic and confusin'.
~You'll see it soon enough, won't make it any better to be expecting it. Just…yeah, remember. It isn't K…the teacher.~ Erik thinks back, sighing.
Owen crosses his arms. ~~K?~~ he sighs as well. ~~Seriously? If Ah'm gonna see it, why be so secrative 'bout the name?~~ he rolls his eyes, starting to walk by Erik to get to the other side of the room. As he does, Owen's shoulder accidentally brushes Erik and there's that surge of increased power shooting through them for a few seconds. "Woah…" he trails off.
Erik sighs a little bit and rubs his face. ~Because it is hard to say. Fine, Miss Pryde but not /this/ Miss Pryde.~ He sighs as he runs his hand back through his hair…and makes a trophy on the mantelpiece collapse in on itself into a tiny cube, from the brush. "Ack…"
Owen glances at a few floating objects and tries to set them all right. "Okay…that was weird," he says. "When we touch…we get stronger?"
Erik nods. "Apparently, and also someone can no longer claim to be able to prove they bowled a perfect game. Ah…yeah, powers are fun." He says…scooting away from the touching.
Owen unconsciously moves after Erik for half a scoot before stopping himself. "Ah'm sure it can be fixed…"
Erik nods. "Well…one hopes, I don't have any experience with gravitic powers…and I like…you know…mental personal space. Sorry, just…weird." He laughs and shajes his head. "Well…this will certainly be an interesting experience."
Owen frowns and shrugs. "Like Ah got any experience with telemindy weirdness. Ah was still tryin' tah figure out all the Dark Force stuff," he sighs. "And Ah like havin' mah head tah mahself too but seems like were' mental roomies for awhile," he says, now thinking about how he misses his old powers. "Yeah, interestin'…
Erik chuckles a little bit and nods. "Well…on the plus side we get to find out what other people's lives are like, walk a mile in their…amusingly telepathic shoes."
Owen chuckles as well. "Whoever they are," he says. "Ah gotta thank 'em though…Ah spent the day flyin'. Most amazin' experience Ah've had in awhile," he admits as images of his flight come to mind and sheer, unadulterated joy at the memory surges across their empathic bond.
Erik blinks a little bit and actually pales a little bit at that. "Wow, alright that is…awkward and intimate but I'm glad you enjoyed it…" He says, somewhat…shocked. "I also spent a lot of time using…words you shouldn't use in school, and for that I appologize…"
Owen blushes slightly. "Sorry…it's jus'…Ah always wanted tah fly ever since Ah knew what a mutant was and always hearin' people askin' about what it's like tah fly as the Bat when Ah can't remember anythin' that monster does…it just," he shrugs. "Gettin' up there, wind in mah hair…world rushin' by…was amazin'," he says more quietly. "An' don' worry about it. Ah heard a lot worse than that before."
Erik nods. "I used to be able to fly with my regular powers, before…something happened and it messed up my powers." ~I came here…~ "It…I missed it."
Owen blinks. ~~Coming here messed up your powers?~~ he asks mentally, wondering just what Erik's talking about. "Ah can see why ya'd miss it…first ten minutes up there and Ah knew Ah loved bein' able tah do it.
"Yet another chapter in a very long story I'm not going to tell right now." Erik says with a sigh before he nods. "Well..I am glad that you could…feel it. I can't promise you won't feel it a lot." Erik says, without contemplating how bad that sounds. "But I have to get in to town…we'll figure this out."
Owen starts to voice a complaint when just starts snickering. It then turns to full laughter. "Oh man…alright…okay…see ya later," he says. "Ah'm gonna catch some sleep."
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Технико-технологические исследования и реставрация картины Андре Дерена «Суббота»
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Journey of Girl on the Ball
The painting Girl on the ball by Pablo Picasso was sent to Paris for the exhibition "Picasso. Bleu et rose."
Transportation of early twentieth century paintings always involves certain difficulties. Picasso's masterpiece Girl on the Ball is a special case. The painting was executed by the artist on a previously used canvas: on its back side there is an unfinished image, and the paint layer on the front side is fragile and sensitive to changes in humidity and vibration. All this called the possible loan of the painting into question.
The Pushkin State Museum conservators developed a special system for mounting the piece, which provided its safety during the trip to Paris.
In its entire history, Girl on the Ball was loaned abroad only twice. The last time in 2011, to the Prado Museum in Madrid. Seven years later, thanks to the highly professional actions of the conservators of the Pushkin State Museum it was transported to Musée d'Orsay where it became a real jewel of the exhibition.
The exhibition "Picasso, Bleu et rose" will open in Musée d'Orsay tomorrow, September 18, and will continue through January 6, 2019.
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One American city’s model of policing reform means building ‘social currency’
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CAMDEN, N.J. (Reuters) – Zsakhiem James, a police captain in Camden, New Jersey – once considered the most dangerous city in the United States – sees every encounter with a resident as an opportunity to build “social currency” to prevent or solve a future crime.
That’s why during a tour this week of Federal Street, a main thoroughfare through Camden’s business district, he preached to two young officers the importance of forging personal ties on their beat.
“We try to meet people in the absence of crisis,” James told Reuters. “That’s one of the things that helps us build that social currency. We make those deposits in the community where when things happen we can make a withdrawal on that trust.”
Crime in Camden, a city of 74,000 on the Delaware River east of Philadelphia, has dropped since it dissolved its police force and rebuilt it in 2013 with a focus on community engagement. Officials are quick to point out Camden’s protests over the death of George Floyd remained peaceful, with some officers taking part, while there was looting in Philadelphia.
The force has earned plaudits from former U.S. President Barack Obama and is drawing attention as a possible model of reform after the death of Floyd in Minneapolis police custody on May 25. Proposals to rethink policing (here) range from banning chokeholds to dismantling police departments outright.
To be sure, some critics say the drop in crime in Camden has as much to do with the hiring of more officers than a softer approach, and that the force has not been fully transparent with its disclosures. One resident is suing the department after a video showed him being punched by an officer 12 times during an arrest.
Still, the statistics point to progress. The police reported 1,161 violent crime incidents in 2019, down 42 percent since 2012, the year before Camden County took over policing from the city. Excessive force complaints have also dropped. Three were registered for 2019, down from 65 in 2014.
That compares to a 2 percent nationwide drop in violent crime rates between 2012 and 2018, that latest year available for data compiled by the FBI.
The Camden County Police Department’s use-of-force policy emphasizes respect for “the sanctity of life” and techniques to reduce tensions. A training simulator used to teach cadets triggers red flags based on the tone of an officer’s voice.
While walking his beat on Federal Street, Alexander Baldwin, 28, recalled defusing a fight between two men over a woman by giving the main instigator space to “vent a little” After a year on the job, he says he has yet to draw his gun.
Police Lieutenant Commander Zsakhiem James speaks with local pharmacy manager Leo Rodriguez in Camden, New Jersey, U.S. June 11, 2020. REUTERS/Jessica Kourkounis
“Just trying to treat them as people and not as some sort of criminal helps a lot,” the officer said.
A MODEL?
More than 130 agencies and police executives have visited Camden’s command staff over the past four years, according to county spokesman Dan Keashen, a number that is likely to grow as cities respond to calls to “defund the police”.
Devon Jacob, a lawyer representing Edward Minguela in his lawsuit accusing Camden police officers of violating his civil rights during a 2018 arrest, says the punches delivered to his client’s head are proof Camden is not deserving of praise.
“Camden has not reformed itself,” said Jacob, who is also on the Floyd family’s legal team and sees parallels with Floyd’s case in that other officers at the scene did not intervene to stop the punching. “It’s not a model.”
Camden County terminated the officer and sought his prosecution, evidence of the force’s commitment to rooting out problems, Keashen said. The officer was prosecuted in a federal criminal case but was acquitted following two trials last year.
John Pike, 60, lives across the street from an apartment tower that about a decade ago was famously raided from the air. Officers, fearful of resistance on the ground, descended by helicopter onto the roof to make arrests.
Pike, who has lived in Camden for five decades, says the police are doing a better job of engaging with youth and are hiring better people, but that investments in charter schools and other factors are also behind lower levels of crime.
Camden’s police department has nearly doubled in size since its reformation to around 400, a factor that educator Keith Benson believes gets overlooked in all the praise being heaped on the force, along with the long-term decline in crime nationwide.
“You went from a skeleton crew by design to a fully staffed police force,” said Benson, president of a Camden teachers union. “The public narrative is really incomplete.”
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Camden still has problems. It has one of the highest crime rates in New Jersey and in January was ranked America’s 10th most dangerous city by neighborhoodscout.com.
But Lieutenant Gabe Rodriguez says the focus on community relations and limiting the use of force has paid off. He said he has drawn his gun hundreds of times since becoming an officer in 2003 but can’t remember doing it once in the last 6 years.
“De-escalate, de-escalate. That’s the key.”
Reporting by Nathan Layne; editing by Grant McCool
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Otto Rahn's Crusade Against the Grail
William Henry talks to Christopher Jones, who has translated one of the legendary ?hidden? books of our time, Otto Rahn's Crusade Against the Grail. Although Rahn wrote in 1933, it has taken 73 years for it to be published in English. Find out why, then listen to possible Sasquatch cries thanks to the intrepid Linda Moulton Howe!
Otto Wilhelm Rahn (18 February 1904—13 March 1939) was a German medievalist and an Obersturmführer (First Lieutenant) of the SS, born in Michelstadt, Germany. Speculation still surrounds Otto Rahn and his research. From an early age, he became interested in the legends of Parsifal, the Holy Grail, Lohengrin and the Nibelungenlied. While attending the University of Giessen he was inspired by his professor, the Baron von Gall, to study the Albigensian (Catharism) movement, and the massacre that occurred at Montségur. Rahn is quoted as saying that "It was a subject that completely captivated me".
Rahn in popular culture:
Rahn has been described as the inspiration behind the Indiana Jones film Raiders of the Lost Ark, although neither George Lucas nor Steven Spielberg has ever mentioned anything about his having inspired the film. Rahn appears as a minor character in Michelle Cooper's A Brief History of Montmaray and The FitzOsbornes in Exile. Rahn has been the object of many rumours and strange stories, including that his death had been faked, although all such speculation has failed to be substantiated.
He features as a character in the 2008 novel The Judas Apocalypse by Dan McNeil. In the novel, Rahn helps a fellow German archaeologist search for the lost treasure of the Cathars. He also figures in the "Berlin Noir" novel The Pale Criminal by Philip Kerr and Blood Lance by Craig Smith. In the Italian comic book Martin Mystère, Rahn fakes his death and joins the US secret service "Elsewhere".
Richard Stanley, cult director of such films as Hardware and Dust Devil, also made a documentary about Rahn and his fixation on the Holy Grail called The Secret Glory in 2001. Quotation "My ancient forbears were heathens, and my ancestors were heretics. For their exoneration I collect the pieces that Rome left over."
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Conservative Sample of Potentially Habitable Exoplanets
This is a list of the exoplanets that are more likely to have a rocky composition and maintain surface liquid water (i.e. 0.5 < Planet Radius ≤ 1.5 Earth radii or 0.1 < Planet Minimum Mass ≤ 5 Earth masses). They are represented artistically in the top image.
Optimistic Sample of Potentially Habitable Exoplanets
This is a list of the exoplanets that are less likely to have a rocky composition or maintain surface liquid water (i.e. 1.5 < Planet Radius ≤ 2.5 Earth radii or 5 < Planet Minimum Mass ≤ 10 Earth masses).
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Name - Name of the planet. This links to the data of the planet at the NASA Exoplanet Archive.
Type - PHL's classification of planets that includes host star spectral type (F, G, K, M), habitable zone location (hot, warm, cold) and size (miniterran, subterran, terran, superterran, jovian, neptunian) (e.g. Earth = G-Warm Terran, Venus = G-Hot Terran, Mars = G-Warm Subterran).
Mass - Mass of the planet in Earth masses (Earth = 1.0 ME).
Radius - Radius of planet in Earth radii (Earth = 1.0 RE).
Flux - Average stellar flux of the planet in Earth fluxes (Earth = 1.0 SE).
Teq - Equilibrium temperature in kelvins (K) assuming a 0.3 bond albedo (Earth = 255 K). Surface temperatures are expected to be larger than the equilibrium temperature depending on the atmosphere, which are currently unknown (e.g. Earth mean global surface temperature is about 288 K or 15°C).
Period - Orbital period in days (Earth = 365 days).
Distance - Distance from Earth in light-years (ly).
ESI - Earth Similarity Index, a measure of similarity to Earth's stellar flux, mass, and/or radius (Earth = 1.0). Results are sorted by this number. Planets more similar to Earth are not necessarily more habitable, since the ESI does not consider all factors necessary for habitability.
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The figure above shows all planets near the habitable zone (darker green shade is the conservative habitable zone and the lighter green shade is the optimistic habitable zone). Only those planets less than 10 Earth masses or 2.5 Earth radii are labeled. The different limits of the habitable zone are described in Kopparapu et al. (2014). Size of the circles corresponds to the radius of the planets (estimated from a mass-radius relationship when not available). Larger version here. Credit: PHL @ UPR Arecibo.
Location in the night sky of all the known stellar systems with potentially habitable worlds (some systems have more than one planet). Click the image to enlarge. Larger version here. Credit: PHL @ UPR Arecibo, Jim Cornmell.
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Year Zero: Our life timelines begin
In the next decade, Year Zero will be how big data reaches everyone and will fundamentally change how we live.
by Alistair Croll | @acroll | +Alistair Croll | March 3, 2015
Editor’s note: this post originally appeared on the author’s blog, Solve for Interesting. This lightly edited version is reprinted here with permission.
In 10 years, every human connected to the Internet will have a timeline. It will contain everything we’ve done since we started recording, and it will be the primary tool with which we administer our lives. This will fundamentally change how we live, love, work, and play. And we’ll look back at the time before our feed started — before Year Zero — as a huge, unknowable black hole.
This timeline — beginning for newborns at Year Zero — will be so intrinsic to life that it will quickly be taken for granted. Those without a timeline will be at a huge disadvantage. Those with a good one will have the tricks of a modern mentalist: perfect recall, suggestions for how to curry favor, ease maintaining friendships and influencing strangers, unthinkably higher Dunbar numbers — now, every interaction has a history.
This isn’t just about lifelogging health data, like your Fitbit or Jawbone. It isn’t about financial data, like Mint. It isn’t just your social graph or photo feed. It isn’t about commuting data like Waze or Maps. It’s about all of these, together, along with the tools and user interfaces and agents to make sense of it.
Every decade or so, something from military or enterprise technology finds its way, bent and twisted, into the mass market. The client-server computer gave us the PC; wide-area networks gave us the consumer web; pagers and cell phones gave us mobile devices. In the next decade, Year Zero will be how big data reaches everyone.
Content as a gateway drug
The battle for our digital lifelog is already well underway. You probably buy into Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, or a handful of others for your calendar, your email, and your media. Media was a gateway drug to a walled garden: your content is locked in, and the barriers to entry are simply too huge to leave.
“The reality is that once inside the walled gardens of GAFA [Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon], consumers will see the walls begin to rise. My music is in the cloud, but soon enough, courtesy of the gateway drug of the quantified self movement, my medical records will be in the cloud, my home security will be managed from the cloud, my banking and my energy needs too.
“If a consumer subscribes to one cloud service, then they are very likely to continue with all the extensions of that cloud service platform rather than mix and match. It becomes increasingly inconvenient to remain service agnostic. The dominant players nurture their ‘walled-gardens’ of creative content and other services tethered to their digital formats and devices.” – Jeremy Silver, Digital Medieval.
Alistair Croll’s Strata + Hadoop World keynote on Year Zero.
If this sounds far-fetched, consider two things.
We’re ready for the tech. Ten short years ago, the iPhone didn’t exist. Yet a decade later, we don’t know how to function without a prosthetic brain in our pockets. Today the Leapfrog Leap Band monitors the activity of three-year-olds, giving them rewards for activity and yelling at them if they stop. The Jibo home robot, which recognizes faces and acts as a family’s central tool for coordinating their lives, was so popular that it not only blew past its Indiegogo target, it shut down pre-sales. A BBC survey of futurists predicted that by 2019, many humans would permanently wear a device that records, stores, and indexes every conversation they have.
The timeline already exists. Far more importantly, the data lives in police records, bank history, and doctor’s visits. It’s tracked by phone companies, mapping tools, and credit card providers. It’s part of your bus pass, your income taxes, and your speeding tickets.
But — and this is a big but — it’s disparate. Nobody has the whole picture.
Some of this data we’ll collect ourselves, of course, through wearables and millions of smart devices. Some of it, like bank transactions, we’ll get easily through downloads and programming interfaces. And some of it — particularly that which is secretive, like watchlists, or that which is sold for profit, like credit history — will only be liberated through enlightened legislation.
We’re also at a turning point in human history because we’re digitizing everything. That means copies are free and analysis is effortless. Consider that music has metadata, leaving that industry in tatters, with power moving from publishers to those who can analyze consumption. Digital data changes everything it touches: Affectiva captures and quantifies emotions in real time from facial image processing; Sociometric Solutions does the same with tone of voice.
It’s here, and it’s a moral issue
This will become a flashpoint for digital rights. Others track you; at the very least, you should have access to that data. It’s your life, after all, and as regulation becomes increasingly data-driven we need a sort of data habeas corpus (more specifically, a confrontation clause): I have the right to see the data collected about me by others. In fact, we’ll have to update that right, too: I need the right to see the data my accusers present against me, using the tools of my accuser.
Ultimately, this is a profound social challenge, and one that I believe will become the moral issue of the next decade: nobody should know more about you than you do. Others might understand the data better — your banker understands your finances; your doctor understands your health. But you should be able to look at it because the tools that analyze and visualize it are improving rapidly and becoming agent-based.
Consider that IBM’s Watson went from diagnosing cancer at the level of a second-year medical student to being 40% better than doctors, in a few short years. As those kinds of tools become cheap — or even too cheap to bill for, the way Google is — computers will be as good as your banker and your doctor. But you’ll need your data.
Ann Wuyts explains that new European legislation around digital transparency could hasten this kind of thinking. Belgium’s Bart Tommelein wants to see an annual “privacy return” the same way income tax returns happen. But what format should this take? How do we send individuals only their own data when it is inextricably intertwined with that of everyone else’s? And what tools would enable the average citizen to explore it meaningfully?
What’s behind it?
This permanent life feed is the convergence of two big trends.
Enterprise resource planning (ERP): Most big companies use massive ERP platforms to coordinate their operations. ERP tools manage cash, employees, materials, and the way the entire company runs at scale. While ERP software is often seen as cumbersome and hidebound, it is also the nervous system that lets large organizations function consistently and predictably.
Today’s consumer already has access to a wide range of tools to manage their lives online and offline. Calendaring and messaging, once the domain of enterprise IT, are now so commonplace we take them for granted. Transaction-by-transaction billing is here, and it’s only getting more digital with Paypal, Apple Pay, and the foundations of cryptocurrency. From rentals by owner to dog-walking services to car sharing tools — all the pieces of the collaborative economy are made possible by a software foundation, and that software leaves a digital breadcrumb trail our life feeds can consume.
Armed with a life feed and the tools to analyze it properly, we’re ushering in an era of what Catherine Barr calls “Life Resource Planning”, or LRP, that lets people coordinate their lives both online and offline. It won’t look like ERP any more than the Facebook feed looks like the feed from a Bloomberg trading desk. But it will serve similar functions.
Big data: Despite being a horribly over-used term, big data is a fundamental element of this change. We think nothing of being able to consult the sum of human knowledge in seconds. This has already altered human behavior in significant ways. And computers are only now starting to be able to classify data themselves, forming smart categories and groupings that make it easier to retrieve information.
Big data isn’t really anything new; rather, it’s about the fact that analyzing huge amounts of varied information quickly has now become vanishingly cheap; so cheap, in fact, that we can’t even bill for it, so we subsidize it through advertising.
When we store information, we generally use a unique key — your social security number, for example, or your Costco member ID. But how can we consolidate information across all those sources in a coherent, consistent way?
Fairly easily, as it turns out. Interstellar aside, time is the primary key of the universe. And as long as we’re on our planet, we can pinpoint interactions by longitude, latitude, and altitude.
Knowing those four things is enough to create a basic index of all events in someone’s physical life; for online activity, we might need an IPV6 address or some kind of account, or visibility into the client or browser they’re using. But that’s probably sufficient for most things; machine learning and human intervention can successfully classify the rest of our lives.
But tying that to identity in reliable ways is challenging; it probably relies on intensely personal biometrics, from retina and heartbeat to even more invasive information. Biometric security is terrifying because the ways in which you hack it are terrifying, and because the more personal and invasive it is, the more likely it is to become a dangerously lucrative business.
Some consequences
It’s difficult to speculate from this side of Year Zero, but there are undoubtedly vast consequences for how humanity will change. For example:
It’s hard to hide. Consider the work of a secret agent today. No more Universal Exports; now it’s “Mr. Bond, I checked Facebook and you’re obviously a spy.” Alibis will change fundamentally, and we’ll see the emergence of forged lives. The need and demand for fake lives will never disappear.
Hijacking lives. With our lives connected to digital information, they could be hijacked.
Patterns are obvious. Correlation, alerting, and prediction will seem commonplace. Choosing what to share, with whom, will be a huge consideration. The history of those interactions will itself be both intensely private and hugely revealing — and potentially misleading, since so many interactions can and will be automated.
Thoughtfulness means less. How excited are you when someone remembers your birthday now that we all have Facebook? With attention a scarce resource, paying attention to them is a sign that they mean something to you. When an agent pays attention for you, remembering something is a sign that someone launched a task, or that they can afford a better agent.
How do we reinvent ourselves? If everything we’ve ever liked, and everyone we’ve ever met, becomes part of a documented history, how can we rewrite our own stories? How can we escape a stalker or create a new life for ourselves?
Prediction and over-optimization. When we go beyond predictive to prescriptive analytics, we’ll change how people behave. And that behavioral change will alter the conditions: when everyone goes to the hidden gem of a restaurant, it’ll be packed. To quote Yogi Berra, “Nobody goes there any more; it’s too crowded.” Lutz Finger makes the point that predictive analytics is already maturing fast.
Will it fuel its own growth?
On the one hand, once this timeline gets some data, it will want more. Machine learning is a hungry engine, and we’ll want to feed it, rewarded by ever-better cognition. Given a bit of information, it will infer more; no need to measure UV exposure directly when geographic coordinates, the UV index, and ambient light provide a reasonable proxy.
What’s more, once a few people use it, it’ll infect everyone, one meeting, doctor’s visit, or speeding ticket at a time. Once citizens realize that others know more than they do, and that it’s easy to correct that imbalance, they’ll demand access.
On the other hand, maybe it will plateau. Younger generations already value privacy above cognition. The fear of being judged by peers they don’t even know, for example, is a huge motivator for not sharing. Think about how scary it was to worry about what people in high school would think of your weird shirt, and multiply that by the chance that the photo of you in your weird shirt could become a negatively life-altering meme.
Get ready for real personal agents
With Life Resource Planning a ubiquitous reality, we’ll finally be ready for personal agents. Already Google Now, Siri, and Cortana are shifting how we use information from responsive to anticipatory, interrupting us wisely.
But tomorrow’s agents will go much further, plucked straight from science fiction: mobile learning apps like Lyka resemble the Diamond Age’s Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer. Startup Nara Logics is a personalization engine that wants to “save the world from an overwhelming ocean of data” — which sounds a lot like filmmaker David Cronenberg’s dystopian version of all-knowing personal agents.
An agent with true AI will become a sort of alter ego; something that grows and evolves with you. What rights will these agents have, and how can they be designed to protect us rather than reporting on us? That’s a far broader moral question than I’m considering here, but it’s one that must be considered. Can a personal agent invoke the Fifth Amendment?
I believe this life feed will shape the next decade of consumer technology. It’s easily a trillion dollars, just as home computers, or the Internet, or smartphones were. And it’s more than just a new market or new industry — it’s the start of a new species. Year Zero is the top of a slippery slope toward a singularity.
When the machines get intelligent, some of us may not even notice, because they’ll be us and we’ll be them. But since technology is never evenly distributed, for those left behind, or saddled with inferior technology, it won’t be a smooth transition.
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Searching for a Former Clarity – Killer Kross and IMPACT’s Petty Feud (Last Updated 9/5 at 1:27 am))
September 3, 2019 Chad
(*An Update*)
Mike Johnson has just posted this update, at about 11:30 or so on September 4th, clarifying some points below in the column. As this column you’re reading was posted on the 3rd, obviously some points now are a bit out of date.
Impact Wrestling sources have confirmed to PWInsider.com that Killer Kross is not booked for this week’s TV tapings. The company remains steadfast in their belief that they offered Kross a six-figure deal (we are told the six figures are in total over three years, broken down as $40K, $60K and 80K) in a new deal, which Kross declined and that he is being held to his existing deal, which has 18 months left. We are also told by Impact sources that Kross has hired an attorney and is using that attorney to facilitate all communication between the two sides. In regard to the blading issue, Impact sources claim that their side were the ones who offered the fake blood to Kross when he declined to blade and there was no issue with his choice. While conceding there were no doctors at the Slammiversary event, Impact sources stated they did have EMTs present at the show.
The minute you take a side, is the minute you decide that you know all the facts. No one, not even different sides in a conflict will know the facts to a situation. I respect Mike Johnson and Bill Pritchard quite a bit. I have no reason to doubt their reporting. I have a ton of reasons to doubt Sean Ross Sapp and others, but that’s not today’s point. I bring up Pritchard and Johnson because they broke a story today that needs to be told, needs to be explained and above all else needs to be approached from a neutral perspective.
All of the information for this write is found in Pritchard’s WrestleZone article and Jonshon’s PWInsider article, as well as just common sense things like dates and times that you, yourself, can search out. I’m reaching out independently to a few contacts but I doubt I’ll hear back from them until well after this has been posted.
On June 28th, IMPACT (via WrestleZone ironically) announced that Killer Kross and Eddie Edwards would engage in a First Blood match. This was all from stuff filmed in early June, on either the 6th or 7th of the month. Well over a month prior to Slammiversary. The angle that Kross and Edwards was shooting was building up to a first blood match. Everything was tying into it, even the promos. Most notably the one with Kross in the church, drooling fake-blood.
IMPACT had built up to this match for months, or at the very least a month, and it appeared that all things were going to plan.
Then Indiana was hit with a Hepatitis C outbreak.
To be accurate, Floyd County, Indiana was hit with a Hepatitis C outbreak. Dating back before February, local news agencies cite an opioid caused Hep-C outbreak that lead to increase results in positive testing throughout the area.
This all came to a head at a local indy promotion in southwest Indiana called Pro Wrestling Trainwreck, who put on an event called “Welcome to the Wreck Room” that saw just about every wrestler on the card bleed. The event was so bloody that the Health Department of Floyd County (where the show was held) issued a warning to those in attendance to get tested.
As of what I could find, this was not because of any positive tests from the talent prior to or after the show, strictly a precautionary measure considering the epidemic in that part of the state right now. The bleeding was so bad that that IMPACT affiliate – Ohio Valley Wrestling, had Chad Miller speak to WDRB 41 about the issue. Miller is a “business partner” of Gladiator Sports Network, OVW’s parent company. He slammed the promotion after it was reported the show was under investigation.
As of right now Pro Wrestling Trainwreck is still running shows; which means that there was much ado about nothing in regards to the show in Indiana. Except if you’re 842 miles away in Dallas, Texas.
As the report goes, Kross became concerned about the fact that there was, “no outside medical personnel on hand at the show in Dallas”. What does that mean exactly? Well according to Texas’ own state law, physicians need to be on hand for all combat sports events. Considering previous cases it’s fair to say that pro wrestling would be considered the same type of entertainment, so IMPACT would more than likely have to bring in someone to handle injuries and such.
Which means that Kross wasn’t happy about having to report to an IMPACT approved physicians. Paranoia or deserved concern?
The issue over the Hep C/Indiana wrestling show ended up being nothing. Kross, allegedly, cited this as a reason for why he didn’t want to blade. Something that was set up at least a full month in advanced.
It was only relayed to IMPACT, apparently, on the day of the show. According to Johnson of PWInsider, IMPACT was “scrambling” to find fake blood on the day of the show. I’d imagine with a week or two notice, that IMPACT would of had a much easier time in doing so, as Party City has a full jug of fake blood for only $5.
There’s really no excuse for that aspect of the story, that IMPACT was “running around” looking for fake blood the day of the show. The Wreck Room Debacle was nearly two weeks prior on the 23rd of June. It wasn’t like the day before. The news broke three or four days later, with the story hitting pro wrestling outlets around the 29th. Plenty of time to get fake-blood. So either Kross didn’t tell anyone or IMPACT is ran by clown-shoed, goofs. Neither is a good look.
Clearly Kross opted to change his mind last minute after weeks of build up because he got spooked, no other explanation. Kross had plenty of time prior to contact IMPACT or to just bring his own fake-blood if he was so unnerved by everything but instead threw a monkey-wrench into the plans the day of, causing a lot of heat by management.
On the flip side all reports are suggesting that Kross is taking care of a family situation in Toronto, that is apparently requiring a financial burden of some sort. This has been the crux of the reason for the desire to have a new contract, not that he’s looking to leave.
Or wasn’t looking to leave.
When Kross found out that he was in higher demand than he originally thought, despite already working for AAA, Kross asked for a raise and the two sides couldn’t come to a deal. This caused friction and continues to do so, and has even lead a talent or two to leave the promotion. Namely Scarlett Bordeaux.
So where does everything stand? Right now, nowhere. Either Don Callis, Scott D’Amore or Ed Nordholm are paying hardball right now for some reason. They’re not trying to give Kross a raise, which is their right, nor are they releasing him which just makes the promotion look just like the WWE; that is to say petty. Right now Kross is technically suspended, though he’s still working regularly – just not with IMPACT.
I see both points of view on this. I really do. IMPACT has every right to be pissed that Kross (apparently) opted to change plans day of show. That’s inexcusably. These things he’s worried about have been known about for centuries. Why wasn’t this a concern when the idea was first pitched? I also understand Kross’ desire to get paid, as a wrestlers career could be over in a heartbeat for any number of reasons.
It’ll be interesting to find out the details about this situation. Like, why the on cite medical crew wasn’t good enough for Kross? Why IMPACT refuses to pay the man or release him? What do they think they gain out of this? Wrestlers everywhere see how this is playing out, and are aware that it could happen to them. Creating a culture of success starts with the hardest of situations. IMPACT nor Kross have handled this the best.
If they did we wouldn’t be here talking about it.
There are other moving parts, like the alleged clause that prohibits talents from talking negatively about the promotion (though KM did that already, so that’s probably a lie), talent not getting merch payouts (despite many selling their own through their own stores) as well as a rumor regarding KM handling contract offers for talents who work with IMPACT, and more that just isn’t flushed out enough to comment on yet.
As the story evolves, we’ll address it further.
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MIAMI (AP) First baseman Jesus Aguilar agreed to terms Wednesday on a $4.35 million, one-year deal to remain with the Miami Marlins, an agreement reached just before the deadline for teams to offer contracts to unsigned players on their 40-man rosters.
First baseman-outfielder Garrett Cooper agreed to a $1.9 million, one-year deal. The Marlins declined to offer a contract to right-hander Ryne Stanek, who had a 7.20 ERA in 10 innings this year, allowing him to become a free agent.
Aguilar can earn $150,000 in performance bonuses: $50,000 each for 400, 450 and 500 plate appearances.
He rebounded from a poor 2019 season to bat .277 with eight homers and 34 RBIs this year, his first with the Marlins. An All-Star in 2018, Aguilar was selected off waivers by the Marlins from Tampa Bay a year ago.
Cooper can earn $250,000 in performance bonuses: $50,000 apiece for 300 plate appearances and each additional 50 through 500.
He batted .283 with six homers and 20 RBIs in 2020. The prospect of a DH in the National League in 2021 made the prospect of keeping both Aguilar and Cooper more appealing for the Marlins.
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Suddenly early spring has turned into full-on summer here on this part of the east coast of England. I think this may be reflected in this week’s choices of music.
Throw your cold drinks and towel in the back of the car, flip the roof down and let’s head for the coast.
Well, Coney Island (see pic) could be fun but right now I’d settle for a quiet pint somewhere on the relatively remote and undeveloped Suffolk coast.
Coney Island – Beast Make Bomb(Brooklyn, NY)
From their EP Sourpuss (self-released last week).
Formed as NYU students in 2009, Beast Make Bomb have toured the country in support of several acts, including Cold War Kids, Tokyo Police Club, and The Whigs. The band was also featured at Rolling Stone Magazine’s 2011 SXSW showcase, sharing the stage with Queens of the Stone Age. This year, the garage-pop quartet is returning to SXSW to play a string of dates in the midst of their southern tour. As the group puts it, “We are young spirited grungey transplants living in Brooklyn and we want the rawness and high energy of our live performances to spread far and wide so that when people read about us they feel like they must go to the live show to get the full picture of what Beast Make Bomb is.”
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Miss Marionette – The Perennials (Spokane, WA, USA)
The band formed as a duet with Pete and Amanda Wells and then soon expanded with drummer Aaron Hamel. Although additional members have come and gone, the three have remained the core.
Their unique sound capitalises on strong, vocally driven melodies layered with harmonies and supported by intricate guitar lines, hard hitting drums and delicately understated piano pieces.
theperennials.net/
Bright Whites – Kishi Bashi (New York, USA)
On SnC a couple of weeks ago (show 320) now a second track. Q&A interview with CMJ.
Kishi Bashi’s debut full-length album 151a is a bright and soaring avant-pop record written primarily on violin – his main instrument which has brought him to record and tour with the likes of Regina Spector, Sondre Lerche, Alexi Murdoch, of Montreal and more. The first two singles “It All Began With a Burst” and “Bright Whites” have already been getting attention from SPIN, Consequence of Sound and more.
The album really is worth a good listen. You’ll find it on Bandcamp and on Joyful Noise Recordings.
Q&A interview with CMJ at www.cmj.com/feature/qa-jishi-bashi/
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Where Is The Way – Ourlives (Reykjavik, Iceland)
Since the band’s formation in Reykjavik in 2005, Ourlives focused on recording as much music as possible in the quest to perfect their sound. With influences ranging from bands like Muse to Radiohead and Coldplay, the band continuously experiments with different sounds, and has refused to release an album until they are satisfied that it feels and sounds exactly the way they intend it to.
In 2008, they finally released the first single from what would become their Icelandic debut album, We Lost The Race which was well received by critics and music lovers alike.
With the release of the debut album behind them (as well as its subsequent follow up), the foursome have now set their sights on the US. The band’s debut US EP, Out of Place, which is available now on Seattle’s Spartan Records.
www.facebook.com/Ourlives.Iceland
Female Robbery – The Neighbourhood (Newbury Park, CA, USA)
The Neighbourhood is the band that I could tell you nothing about a couple of weeks ago and they’ve cropped up again. This time Amanda at their publicists The Musebox, sent a note:
By now you’ve no doubt done some (frustrating and nearly fruitless) digging of your own in an attempt to pocket a few rare nuggets of info. on the Newbury Park quintet who everyone is blogging about. Yes, we’re talking about The Neighbourhood. That band that you’re currently obsessed with sharing with all your friends but know next to nothing about.
Well, the good news is we not only have a sneak peek of their next single, “Wires,” which will be available 4/30/2012, but we’ve just received news that The Neighbourhood has announced the impending release of their debut EP, I’m Sorry, which will drop 5/7/2012.
After releasing “Female Robbery” on Zane Lowe’s BBC Radio 1 show, it quickly became apparent that The Neighbourhood would have no problem finding a home for their brand of infectious indie rock and hip hop expertly melded with youthful melodies and a soulful croon.
So now we know.
http://thenbhd.com/
Tete de Dinde – Sexy Sushi (Nantes, France)
Sexy Sushi is a French electroclash band formed by Rebeka Warrior and Mitch Silver.
Mitch Silver (real name David Grellier) born in 1979, is also the founder of the musical projects College and Valerie.
Their first albums were released as burned CD-R by alternative distributors like Wonderground. An EP and an album were then released in 2009 by Scandale Records. Their most recent album, Cyril was released in July 2010.
http://sexysushi.free.fr/
Potions – Sydney Wayser (Brooklyn, New York)
Sydney won our artist of the Month feature a couple of months ago and she’s got a new single out with a rather fetching video that was partly shot at a performance I was at in New York’s The Living Room last October. It is playing exclusively on Time Magazine’s site: http://entertainment-time.com/2012/05/14/sydney-wayser-potions-music/
Any excuse to play another track and to suggest that you pick up the whole album for yourself.
Sydney launched the Bell Choir Coast album in Los Angeles last week and will be doing so in New York tomorrow night at Joe’s Pub.
Sydney is also on Blitzen Trapper’s upcoming tiour kicking off in Denver on May 29th.
Check the dates on her site.
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No chance on Merci EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 03/21/2011
No chance on Merci
The plenary vote at the House of Representatives on whether or not to impeach Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez on Monday would be more about the fate of the Liberal Party (LP) at the legislature rather than Merci’s future in government service.
The crucial vote would be a test on the clout of Noynoy’s party where it should be exerting it, at the 284-member chamber that has as its Speaker also a member of the party. At stake are major legislative initiatives of Noynoy to push his supposed reform thrusts forward.
Merci, nevertheless, would be a key battleground for the LP since Noynoy and every partymate of his has been committed to her removal since the day Noynoy stepped into Malacañang.
The LP, heeding the voice of Noynoy, has considered Merci as a major hurdle in Noynoy’s vow to prosecute Gloria since they perceive that Merci will invariably favor Gloria in any case that will be filed against her..... MORE
Uncertain vote FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 03/21/2011
Uncertain vote
Bullying tactics are being resorted to by Noynoy and his boys in getting Merci Gutierrez impeached by the House on a plenary vote, and there appears to be strong proof of this threatening stance of the Palace occupant and his House lapdogs.
A threatening text message from Cavite Rep. Joseph Emilio Abaya has made the congressional rounds, the gist of which is that those congressmen who will abstain, or absent themselves, or vote no to the impeachment complaint in plenary will not be given their pork barrel. The pork barrel given was still that of last year, and the 2011 pork barrel is still being dangled by Noynoy.
It certainly looks like the Liberal Party, despite its boast of having well over 150 yes votes to impeach Merci, may not have the numbers at all, which is why Noynoy’s LPs reportedly are in a panic mode these days.
Abaya, LP’s secretary general, according to the text message that has been circulated among lawmakers, stated that it should be made clear to “LP and non-LPs” that “those who will vote no or absent/abstain on impeachment will get ‘0’ as in zero.”
“At least there should not be any blame laid that there was no forewarning,” Abaya’s reported text message in Taglish said..... MORE
From moving clouds to sowing crops, Chernobyl can help Japan focus 03/21/2011
From moving clouds to sowing crops, Chernobyl can help Japan
MOSCOW — From seeding clouds to reviving agricultural land, Moscow’s experience after Chernobyl can be used by Japan as it tries to contain damage from its quake-hit nuclear plant, Russian experts said.
Concerns have grown over the unraveling crisis at the Fukushima power station as Japan struggles to cool down nuclear fuel rods after cooling systems were knocked out by the devastating earthquake and tsunami.
While the scope of the catastrophe is not likely to reach the levels of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster under the Soviet Union, Russian experts said Japan could minimize damage by using its experience like seeding clouds and recultivating agricultural land.
“The experience of Chernobyl should be used,” said Alexey Yablokov, a radiobiology expert and former environmental advisor to Russia’s first President Boris Yeltsin..... MORE
Nepal sisterhood tackles lecherous trekking guides focus 03/21/2011
Nepal sisterhood tackles lecherous trekking guides
POKHARA — When Nepal’s Chhetri sisters started their all-female trekking agency in the mid-1990s, the idea was so alien to local people that many thought it must be a cover story for a brothel.
For Nepalese women to set up in business was unusual enough. For them to venture out onto remote Himalayan trails, often for weeks at a time and in the company of strangers, was completely unheard of.
But if their compatriots in this conservative, majority-Hindu nation were initially shocked by the three women’s venture, the rest of the world’s reaction to their 3 Sisters trekking agency has been overwhelmingly positive.
Lucky, Dicky and Nicky have won international awards for sustainable tourism from the likes of National Geographic, and rave reviews on travelers’ Web sites such as TripAdvisor..... MORE
Call of the times SHE SAYS Dinah S. Ventura 03/21/2011
Call of the times
Dinah S. Ventura
With all the natural and man-made calamities inundating the world these days, it has seemed to me that our kababayans abroad have been forced to find their way back to the motherland, notwithstanding their reasons for leaving in the first place.
The situations in Egypt, then Libya, Bahrain and Japan have, in turn, pushed the Philippine government to act, and act fast, on repatriating Pinoys.
Overseas workers’ organizations, however, have observed (nay, complained loudly) about one thing through all the worldwide ruckus: the slowness and vagueness of concerned agencies in seeing to the needs of Filipino citizens.
Now nobody wants to criticize unduly here, but we have seen how the world has been shaken and stirred to awareness and action in the last few weeks alone. If anything, the recent events are an indication that things are changing, and changing fast — old ways are no longer acceptable, and new attitudes are being born..... MORE
Where to, Noy? HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 03/21/2011
Where to, Noy?
HE SAYS
Aldrin Cardon
Michael Salvador of San Fernando, Pampanga had his passport ready in the event of luck smiling his way. He wanted to work overseas, where at 25, it isn’t late yet to find his fortune that could build him a house, buy him a decent car, and start a small business once he settles back home after five or 10 years.
But his dreams crumbled in his face on June 30 last year, when the TSI manpower agency which had deployed him as a promotions merchandiser for one of the leading electronics firms in the country suddenly terminated his contract.
It was his stepping stone to finding a job abroad.
But worse, he claimed to have been forced to sign a cessation of employment form, with a demand that he could not work in another agency that would supply manpower to the same electronics firm, or he would face legal action if he does so..... MORE
Agnotological war DIE HARD III Herman Tiu Laurel 03/21/2011
Agnotological war
DIE HARD III
Herman Tiu Laurel
Agnotology is a neologism on the study of culturally-induced ignorance or doubt, particularly as this relates to the publication of inaccurate or misleading scientific data. And since the press and media shape 70 percent of what’s known to be culture and knowledge today, it would be more accurate to also include media-induced ignorance through their selective information and news.
In the three literally burning issues of the day, many problems in people’s understanding of the truth are symptomatic of the agnotological conditions perpetrated by news media and the dominant information system hegemonies of the world. From the Fukushima crisis in Japan, to the Libyan struggle in North Africa, to the pro- and anti-nuclear as well as the pro- and anti-Merci impeachment debates in our own setting, the deliberate inducement of ignorance have all led to adverse consequences for people everywhere.
In the nuclear fall-out crisis stemming from the Fukushima reactors’ failures and radiation emissions, we find a culturally-induced ignorance of the Japanese people toward complacency with regard to their authorities’ abuses and unreliability. Japanese power plant officials, for one, kept everyone ignorant of very vital information.
In the first few days, no one was given an inkling as to the enormity of the problem. It was only when one nuclear reactor after another gave way that a clear admission that at least four of them were in really serious trouble came out. Despite this, the Japanese continued to be very trusting of their nuclear authorities, even after threatening radiation levels reached beyond the 20 to 30-mile radius.
What we’re witnessing here is a case of “structured ignorance.” It took criticism from cultures less trusting of authorities against Japan’s niggardly crisis updates to alert everyone of the mortal dangers in this unfolding crisis. Still, this hasn’t been the worst of the lot.
In the case of Libya , where media-induced ignorance through blatant misinformation and disinformation are being used to justify a foreign-backed coup d’etat and eventual Nato oil and land grab, so-called “Allied” fighter jets are now pounding on Tripoli as of posting time.
Al Jazeera was at the forefront of this disinformation and misinformation campaign, starting with its unsubstantiated reports (and later proven false by Russian satellite monitoring) of Gaddafi forces and war planes mowing down unarmed civilian demonstrators. In all video docus from Libya I have seen, the anti-Gaddafi forces were always heavily armed. While there are those who see Al Jazeera as an alternative to CNN and BBC, it actually plays a complementary role through its more subtle information subversion as it appears to be less pro-West than it actually is.
Al Jazeera, for instance, pumped up demonstration casualties to “thousands,” even when these later turned out to be only over a hundred. Such exaggeration was especially blatant considering the fact that even as the turmoil in Libya entered its third week, with a full scale battle in the city of Misrata, the real casualty figure there numbered only 25.
By and large, Al Jazeera’s interviews and panel discussions hardly ever feature the side of Gaddafi or the voices of pro-Gaddafi people on the ground. And as the Gaddafi counter-offensive gained ground, it became clear, too, that the alleged “total loss of popular support” for the Libyan strongman was completely false.
Yet, Al Jazeera’s on-site reporters kept on annotating their news with a blatant anti-Gaddafi virulence.
One of the most obvious lies Western media and the anti-Gaddafi forces tried to foist on the world in the first week of the conflict was that the Libyan opposition movement abhors foreign intervention even to support its cause. But not long after Gaddafi’s counter-offensive successes and before the UN “No Fly Zone” resolution, the anti-Gaddafis in Benghazi were literally begging for it and jubilated when Nato promised to start arming them and bombing pro-Gaddafi Libyans for a grand bloodbath of Arab blood.
With Nato and monarchist anti-Gaddafi forces collaborating, an oil and land grab that will “Balkanize” Libya isn’t too far in the horizon. But more devastation will follow, just as what invading forces did to Iraq.
As the world continues to be kept ignorant of the systematic destruction of the cultural heritage and infrastructure of Iraq by its occupying forces, this is the crux of what Felicity Arbuthnot wrote in a recent article about Libya: The bombing of Libya will begin on or nearly to the day of the 18th anniversary of the beginning of the destruction of Iraq, 19th March (in Europe). Libya, too, will be destroyed — its schools, education system, water, infrastructure, hospitals, and municipal buildings. There will be numerous “tragic mistakes” and “collateral damage,” involving mothers, fathers, children, babies, grandparents, the blind and the deaf, and so on. And like the wonders of past empire’s remains, as with these nations’ rich histories (Iraq and Afghanistan), Libya’s, too, will be gone… forever.
Finally, let’s apply this agnotology to the Philippine setting: The debates between pro- and anti-nuclear power advocates, same with pro- and anti-Merci Gutierrez impeachment proponents simply reveal that both sides are wrong. In the former instance, all of them are all deliberately leaving out geothermal power in their discussions. This, despite a 2010 report by the World Geothermal Congress that total potential of the world for geothermal energy “…is equivalent to 40,000 GW while the total world energy demand (today) is equivalent to 15,000 GW.”
Both the pro- and anti-nuclear power lobbies are definitely creating ignorance of the only true alternative — geothermal energy, of which the Philippine has limitless potential.
Meantime, in the Merci impeachment moro-moro, the nation is being kept ignorant of the fact that both sides are similarly corrupted and will never work to sustain the “Rule of Law” when they all threw this away and resorted to the “Rule of Force” in the case of President Joseph Estrada.
Truly, the facts are there for all to see; and only an agnotological media will continue to befuddle the issues to the people’s detriment.
(Tune in to Sulo ng Pilipino, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 6 to 7 p.m. on 1098AM dwAD; TNT with HTL, Tuesday, 8 to 9 p.m., with replay at 11 p.m., on GNN, Destiny Cable Channel 8, on “Energy Futures;” visit http://newkatipunero.blogspot.com for our articles plus select radio and GNN shows)
(Reprinted with permission from Mr. Herman Tiu-Laurel)
Impeach dead in water after Noy ally miscues By Gerry Baldo 03/21/2011
IGLESIA NI CRISTO LOBBY CLAIM, TEXT THREAT
Impeach dead in water after Noy ally miscues
By Gerry Baldo 03/21/2011
The impeachment bid against Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez is all but dead after the unnecessary disclosure by Iloilo Rep. Niel Tupas Jr., chairman of the House committee on justice, of the Iglesia Ni Cristo’s (INC) alleged lobbying in favor of Gutierrez and the supposed “no impeachment, no pork barrel” threat through a text message on lawmakers, several legislators indicated yesterday.
Legislators viewed the twin strategies as an admission of defeat on the part of the pro-administration Liberal Party and other pro-impeachment solons, bolstering wide perception that the impeachment case against Gutierrez was weak and that the House may have a hard time convincing the Senate to convict her.
The impeachment complaint is scheduled to be put into a vote in plenary either today or tomorrow.
“Congressman Tupas’ going public on the alleged ‘calls of INC’ raises doubts on the strength of the basis of impeaching Merci,” Agham Rep. Angelo Palmones said in a text message to reporters..... MORE
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Western allies pound Libya; China, Russia express ‘regrets’ 03/21/2011
Western allies pound Libya; China, Russia express ‘regrets’
US, British and French forces hammered Libya from the air and sea, prompting leader Moamer Kadhafi to warn yesterday of a long war in the Mediterranean “battlefield” as Tripoli reported dozens of deaths.
China, however, expressed regret over the multinational air strikes, saying in a foreign ministry statement that it opposed the use of force in international relations.
“China has noted the latest developments in Libya and expresses regret over the military attacks on Libya,” the statement said.
Russia also issued a similarly worded statement in which it called for a ceasefire as soon as possible..... MORE
2,300 Pinay nurses stay behind in Libyan hospitals amid attacks By Michaela P. del Callar 03/21/2011
2,300 Pinay nurses stay behind in Libyan hospitals amid attacks
At least 2,300 Filipino nurses have refused to be evacuated even after the United Nations approved military strikes against Libya.
Acting Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario said the nurses, 2,000 of whom are based in capital Tripoli and 383 in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi, opted to stay following request from the Libyan government, which promised to increase their pay significantly if they remain.
“We have not received any request to come and provide transport so they can leave Tripoli,” Del Rosario said. “They feel safe being in a hospital and there’s nothing safer than being in a hospital.”
But if the situation worsens, he said the government can arrange another ship to pick them up. The government has ended its evacuation in Libya and has moved to safety some 13,000 Filipinos..... MORE
Military rocked by new ‘torture’ video 03/21/2011
Military rocked by new ‘torture’ video
The Armed Forces of the Philippines was rocked yesterday by a fresh “torture” video purporting to show troops abusing train-ees as it moved to cleanse its ranks of rogue soldiers.
The 14-minute video uploaded on Youtube showed soldiers beating a group of young recruits using ropes and sticks as loud screams could be heard in the background.
The military admitted that the video was taken during an “escape and evasion” training exercise three years ago in Pili, Camarines Sur, but stressed the painful hazing had already been outlawed and was a “thing of the past.”.... MORE
Death toll in Visayas, Mindanao rains rises to 11; 30,000 families displaced 03/21/2011
Death toll in Visayas, Mindanao rains rises to 11; 30,000 families displaced
The death toll brought about by continuous heavy rains in some parts of Visayas and Mindanao rose to 11 people while four others went missing as the number of the flood-affected residents increased to almost 30,000 families, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) reported yesterday.
Latest reports from the NDRRMC showed that two fatalities came from Sierra Bullones in Bohol province, one from Palo in Leyte while eight, including seven members of a family whose house was buried by landslide, came from Tacloban City..... MORE
Ex-solon disputes allegations Lanao Norte ‘unsafe province’ 03/21/2011
Ex-solon disputes allegations Lanao Norte ‘unsafe province’
Former Rep. Abdullah Dimaporo disputed the allegations made by the Philippine National Police (PNP) that Lanao del Norte is one of the “unsafe places” based on the survey conducted by the government-owned Philippine News Agency (PNA)recently.
The report was fed by PNP to police reporters and carried out by the reporters’ newspapers publications nationwide and even globally through its Web sites.
According to Dimaporo, the report was damaging to Lanao del Norte province as the province itself is generally peaceful and even peaceful as compared with Metro Manila. Of course, there were crimes committed by unlawful persons in Lanao del Norte but it happens everywhere either in provinces or in Metro Manila.
“How can you conclude that Lanao del Norte is one of the unsafe places based on the 19 percent out of the 1,161 respondents in 51 provinces during polls? And why peace should be based on elections when we know that polls period the candidates of every party are very hot and they try to outdo their rivals only to win the elections?” Dimaporo asked..... MORE
Uncle guns down actor Apacible 03/21/2011
Uncle guns down actor Apacible
Actor John John Apacible was gunned down by his uncle early yesterday morning in Cainta, Rizal after a heated argument.
Initial reports said Apacible was shot by his uncle when they had a heated argument during their drinking bout.
Apacible succumbed to two gunshot wounds in the chest.
Apacible’s uncle was identified as Armando Rustia Sabado..... MORE
Finance chief urged to reject BIR’s AIR circular, or else... By Charlie V. Manalo 03/21/2011
Finance chief urged to reject BIR’s AIR circular, or else...
A member of the House of Representatives yesterday bared they will summon Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima to appear in its Question Hour if he does not accede to the recommendation of Internal Revenue Commissioner Kim Jacinto-Henares to withdraw Revenue Regulation 02-2011 requiring certain individual citizens, resident aliens and non-resident aliens engaged in trade or business in the country to file their Annual Information Return (AIR).
Valenzuela Rep. Magtanggol Gunigundo made the manifestation for Purisima’s appearance in the Question Hour during the hearing of the House committee on ways and means on Tuesday on the controversial AIR regulation issued last March 1.
“It is a caveat, a manifestation that if the secretary of Finance does not approve the recommendation of the BIR commissioner to withdraw RR 02-2011, then we will proceed with the Question Hour. We will ask him to come here not just to attend a public hearing on RR 02-2011, but we will invoke the right of Congress to require members of the Cabinet to appear before the House under the Question Hour provisions of the rules of the 15th Congress as well as of the Constitution,” Gunigundo said..... MORE
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Year Two with Aaron Boone and his Coaching Staff [2019 Season Preview]
March 26, 2019 by Mike
(Presswire)
Overall, Aaron Boone’s first season as Yankees manager was a success. The ending was disappointing, there’s no doubt about that, but the club won 100 games despite injuries (Aaron Judge) and unforeseen performance issues (Gary Sanchez), and the Yankees seamlessly broke in high-end youngsters like Miguel Andujar and Gleyber Torres. I think we all would’ve signed up for that at this time last year.
Boone’s on-field managerial style was very similar to Joe Girardi’s. He built his lineups the same way, meaning he sandwiched a lefty between his big righty bats (or vice versa) even though the off-hand player’s production suggested it wasn’t the best idea. He employed set bullpen roles and also rested his players on a schedule no matter what they did the day before. Everything we complained about with Boone we also complained about with Girardi.
Brian Cashman and Hal Steinbrenner indicated the managerial change was made for communication reasons and, as outsiders, there’s really no way we can evaluate that. Boone is much better with the media than Girardi, which is not nothing, but it’s not what Cashman and Hal meant by communication either. They meant the behind the scenes work, including digesting and disseminating information provided by the front office.
As the Yankees prepare to begin the 2019 regular season, Boone no longer qualifies as a rookie manager but he’s not a grizzled veteran either. At the very least, nothing will be new to him. He’d been through Spring Training already, been through the grind of the regular season, and been through the postseason as well. Last year was the first time for everything. That isn’t the case now. Let’s preview the upcoming season to come in the dugout.
The Second Year Manager
The last time we saw the Yankees and Boone, he mismanaged the bullpen and the pitching staff in general to an embarrassing ALDS defeat. Starters were repeatedly left in too long and relievers were brought into situations that did not match their skill sets (Lance Lynn with the bases loaded and no outs? really???). There’s a pretty good chance the Yankees lose the ALDS anyway even with perfect managerial moves, but Boone was no help, and his moves left a real bad taste in everyone’s mouth.
“I hate to be too generic, but everything,” said Boone at the Winter Meetings when asked what he wants to do better going forward. “And I don’t know it’s so much self-evaluating as you go through the winter, every day is an evaluation. Every day you come in during the season, whether you won, whether you lost, whether a move worked out, you know, a decision made, hopefully you’re always taking stock of those things and evaluating, and putting into your experience and learning from it.”
Learning from those ALDS mistakes is imperative. We just won’t know whether it actually happened for a few months. Managing the pitching staff during the regular season is way different than managing the pitching staff during the postseason. Quick hooks and heavy bullpen usage works in October but not April through September. That’s a good way to burn everyone out during the summer. The regular season is a marathon, the postseason is a sprint, and they require different managerial styles.
“I think at times some of the (unpredictable) things that come across the desk almost on a daily basis, from minor things to things that are more serious, and how you handle those,” said Boone when asked what the biggest challenge was last season. “You never know how you’re going to handle those. And that’s a challenge. You’re never totally prepared, I guess, for all the different things that do come across on a daily basis. So I would say that’s the biggest challenge, the unknown of what’s around the corner … Things come up all the time that you’ve got to deal with in real time. That’s a challenge.”
I thought Boone was very good during the regular season. His on-field moves were almost indistinguishable from Girardi’s. They were so similar that I have to believe the front office has a lot of input into the day-to-day decisions. In the postseason though, Boone’s perceived inability to read the situation and react accordingly was impossible to ignore. It could be a learning experience and he’ll be better going forward, or it could be a sign his feel for the game is questionable.
As best I can tell, the players love Boone and the front office loves the way he and his coaches take the information they’re given and put it into practice. That was Girardi’s problem, apparently. With Boone, it seems everything went well in year one, and I bet things will go even better in year two now that he has some experience. What happens in the postseason? Who knows. That is a long way off, and yet it seems to be the only thing on everyone’s mind.
“As I sit here today, basically a little bit over a year after I was hired, and being at the Winter Meetings, last year I was learning people in the room’s names and what they did, and what are their values, who are they, how does this all work, who’s got a loud voice in the room, those kind of things. I have relationships with all these people now,” Boone added. “So hopefully I’m so much ahead of the game from where I was last year and hopefully we hit the ground running.”
The Same Ol’ Coaching Staff
Rothschild dresses like me when I go to the corner to get a bagel and coffee. (Presswire)
For only the second time in the last six offseasons, the Yankees did not make a single change to their coaching staff over the winter. Larry Rothschild returns for his ninth season as pitching coach, Mike Harkey is back for his fourth straight year (and tenth overall) as bullpen coach, and everyone else is back for year two. That includes bench coach Josh Bard, first base coach Reggie Willits, third base coach Phil Nevin, hitting coach Marcus Thames, assistant hitting coach P.J. Pilittere, and quality control/infield coach Carlos Mendoza.
There’s no good way to preview a coaching staff so I’m going to list some scattered thoughts instead. One, I’m curious to see what the Yankees and Rothschild have planned for James Paxton. He has a great fastball and he uses it a lot, but his curveball and cutter are pretty good too, so it seems like the potential for improvement with better pitch selection exists. The Mariners have no idea what they’re doing and I’m certain the Yankees acquired Paxton with the idea that they can help him be even better going forward. (Similarly, are any adjustments in the cards for J.A. Happ as he gets up there in age, especially if his fastball continues to lose spin?)
Two, will Nevin be any more aggressive or conservative sending runners? The Yankees were almost perfectly average across the board last year in terms of sending runners home. On one hand, you could argue Nevin should be more conservative going forward because the Yankees have so much power that they shouldn’t risk baserunners. On the other hand, there are bound to be times increased aggression would be worthwhile. It really depends on the situation. I think we might see runners held at tad more going forward.
And three, how much will the defense improve? Specifically Miguel Andujar at third base and Giancarlo Stanton in left field. Mendoza and Andujar work tirelessly on his third base defense. Stanton was much better in left as the season went on but there’s some room for improvement there. Giancarlo in left is a project for Willits. Ultimately, it’s up to the player to improve. Coaching only goes so far. That said, the coaches get praise and receive blame, so Andujar and Stanton will reflect on Mendoza and Willits.
It is basically impossible to evaluate coaches from the outside, so we wind up projecting player performance on to the coaching staff. Talent is the single most important thing and the Yankees have lots of it. They’re going to make the coaches look good. Boone could’ve used his talent better in the postseason last year, and I’m sure there are ways Rothschild, Thames, and the other coaches could help their players get more out of their ability. Seeing how (or if) it happens is part of the fun.
Filed Under: Coaching Staff Tagged With: 2019 Season Preview, Aaron Boone, Carlos Mendoza, Josh Bard, Larry Rothschild, Marcus Thames, Mike Harkey, P.J. Pilittere, Phil Nevin, Reggie Willits
The Coaching Staff [2018 Season Review]
Mike Harkey won Players Weekend. (Presswire)
Along with a new manager came a (mostly) new coaching staff in 2018. And similar to their new manager, the Yankees went young and inexperienced with their coaching staff. Veterans Tony Pena and Alan Cockrell were let go and Yankees lifer Rob Thomson was allowed to join the Phillies after being passed over for the manager’s gig. Five of the seven coaching positions were turned over — the five new coaches combined for six years of prior MLB coaching experience — and an eighth was added.
Evaluating coaches is almost impossible from the outside. Generally speaking, all we do is project player performance onto the coach. So much of a coach’s work — all of the coach’s work, really — takes place behind the scenes. With the manager, we look at lineups and bullpen moves. With coaches we look at, uh, player performance? That’s really it. And coaches are coaches, not miracle workers. They can do all the teaching in the world. Ultimately, it’s up to the player to listen and execute. So, with that in mind, let’s review the year in the coaching ranks.
The Holdovers: Larry Rothschild & Mike Harkey
Pitching coach Larry Rothschild and bullpen coach Mike Harkey were the only holdovers from Joe Girardi’s staff. The only holdovers who remained in the same role, I should say. I thought Harkey was a goner for sure. He and Girardi have been extremely close dating back to their days as players with the Cubs. They’re tight and I assumed — incorrectly — that Harkey would be shown the door once Girardi was cut loose. Instead, Harkey remained.
There was never any talk about replacing Rothschild. In fact, it was made clear Rothschild would remain pitching coach no matter who the Yankees hired as manager. The Yankees love the way he blends hands-on instruction with analytics. Rothschild has been the pitching coach since 2011 and, since then, the Yankees lead all teams in pitching WAR (+167.1) and they’re third in park adjusted ERA (93 ERA-). This season’s ranks:
ERA: 3.78 (10th in MLB)
FIP: 3.63 (3rd)
ERA-: 87 (4th)
FIP-: 82 (2nd)
K/BB: 3.31 (5th)
WAR: +26.6 (3rd)
Yankee Stadium is very hitter friendly — very home run friendly, more accurately — and that inevitably skews numbers. Adjust for the ballpark and the Yankees were again among the top run prevention teams in the game in 2018. They allowed the fifth fewest run in the American League this past season. Every year, without fail, the narrative is the Yankees need pitching. And, also every year, they manage to finish with some of the best run prevention numbers in the game.
Rothschild and Harkey are a team. The bullpen coach does a lot more than answer the phone. They both have a role implementing strategies — the anti-fastball plan is one of the most extreme pitching philosophy shifts in recent memory — and helping pitchers through inevitable bumps. Some struggles are uglier than others. Getting Luis Severino on track is a top priority going into next season. By and large, the Yankees get good work on the mound, yet much of the time all the talk is about the Yankees needing pitching.
The Promoted Coaches: Marcus Thames & P.J. Pilittere
The Yankees have been grooming Thames for their big league hitting coach job for years now. His playing career ended in 2011 and he joined the Yankees as a coach in 2013. His roles over the years:
2013: High-A Tampa hitting coach
2014: Double-A Trenton hitting coach
2015: Triple-A Scranton hitting coach
2016-17: Yankees assistant hitting coach
2018: Yankees hitting coach
Thames worked his way up the coaching ladder and along the way he worked with the organization’s top young players, from Aaron Judge to Gary Sanchez to Greg Bird. The same is true with Pilittere, who joined the Yankees as a coach after his playing career ended. He was the hitting coach one level below Thames these last few seasons and followed him up the ladder:
2012: Gulf Coast League hitting coach
2013: Low-A Charleston hitting coach
2015-16: Double-A Trenton hitting coach
2018: Yankees assistant hitting coach
The Yankees were second in baseball with 851 runs scored this season and they almost certainly would’ve been first (the Red Sox scored 876 runs) had Judge and Sanchez not missed so much time. The team’s park adjusted 111 wRC+ tied the Dodgers for the best in baseball. The Yankees combined baseball’s second highest walk rate (10.0%) with a league average strikeout rate (22.7%) and absurd power numbers this year. Why? Because of the players. Not so much the coaches. Thames and Pilittere have extensive experience with the team’s core young players and that’s an obvious plus.
The New Bench Coach: Josh Bard
Boone & Bard. (Presswire)
The Yankees hired Bard away from the Dodgers to be Boone’s right-hand man and he checked all the boxes. He’s a former player, he has front office experience (special assistant with the Dodgers from 2013-15), and he has coaching experience (Dodgers bullpen coach from 2016-17), so he’s done a little of everything. He can relate to players and fellow coaches on several different levels. Bard is seen as a rising star in the coaching and managerial ranks.
His first season as bench coach went … okay? I guess? How could anyone tell? There was some thought Boone would benefit from an having experienced bench coach, but if the Yankees wanted someone experienced pulling the strings, they would’ve hiring an experienced manager. The information that flows from the front office to the coaching staff has to be dissected and disseminated to the players. Some players like data. Some hate it. Bard helps provide that personal touch to get through to everyone. How’d his season go? Seemed okay to me. Shrug.
The New Third Base: Phil Nevin
Finally, a coaching performance we can kinda evaluate statistically. Nevin and Boone grew up together but this wasn’t a case of the Yankees hiring the manager’s buddy. Nevin managed several years in the minors and was the Giants third base coach last season. He’d interviewed for several managerial jobs in the past too. Nevin was more than qualified for the job.
So anyway, what does the third base coach do? He sends or holds runners rounding third, for the most part. There are some other job requirements but that’s the most visible one. The Yankees had 19 runners thrown out at the plate this past season and that was right in the middle of the pack. Fifteenth most in baseball. What about his holds and sends though? Some numbers:
MLB Average
Runner on second stops at third on a single 39.0% 37.3%
Runner on second scores on a single 57.3% 58.9%
Runner on second thrown out at home on a single 3.7% 3.8%
Runner on first stops at third on a double 53.3% 54.8%
Runner on first scores on a double 44.1% 42.5%
Runner on first thrown out at home in a double 2.6% 2.7%
Average across the board. A percentage point or two away from average in either direction equals average to me. It’s not a big difference. So, on one hand, Nevin did a good job not getting Yankees thrown out at home more than they should’ve. On the other hand, Nevin didn’t really get the Yankees any extra runs with his sends. He was, well, average.
A case could be made Nevin should be more conservative going forward, meaning he should hold runners at third at a higher rate than the league average because the Yankees sock so many dingers that it’s not worth the risk of having a runner potentially thrown out at the plate. Personnel obviously matters (Brett Gardner has a better chance to score from first on a double than Gary Sanchez, for example) but that’s the idea. Play it safe and let ’em swing away.
That said, we’re only talking a handful of baserunners here. Again, the Yankees had 19 runners thrown out the plate this past season. That’s not many in the grand scheme of things. Holding five or six of them might lead to a few extra runs over the course of a season, but probably not. Point is, the Yankees did not have an exorbitant number of runners thrown out at the plate in Nevin’s first season as third base coach. They were as average as can be.
Personally, my favorite Nevin moment came in April after the Joe Kelly-Tyler Austin brawl at Fenway Park. When asked about the brawl, Nevin said “I’m going to wear less layers tomorrow because geez I look fat with my sweatshirt, my jersey, and all that” after the game (video link). Love it. Others enjoyed Nevin laying into the team in the dugout for sloppy play in an August game. It didn’t do anything — the Yankees lost that game and the next four — but it was the thought that counts.
Nevin is an old school baseball dude. He is the ying to Boone’s and Bard’s yang. They’re the new age analytic types. Nevin is the opposite. It’s good to have that balance on the coaching staff, I think.
The New First Base Coach: Reggie Willits
Willits spent several years in the farm system as an outfield and baserunning instructor and the Yankees elevated him to the big league staff this year. The first base coach times the battery for basestealing purposes. He literally times the pitcher’s delivery. That combined with the catcher’s pop time tell you whether attempting to steal with a certain runner makes sense. The Yankees went 63-for-21 (75%) stealing bases this year. The league average stolen base success rate was 72.1%. So I guess Willits did a good job there.
Moreso than the stolen bases as first base coach, Willits had two big projects as the outfield instructor this year. One, he had to prepare Giancarlo Stanton to play left field. Stanton had some noticeable blunders early, thankfully all in meaningless Spring Training games, but by midseason he looked comfortable out there. I didn’t think it would take Stanton long to adjust and it didn’t. I’m sure Willits helped with that adjustment to some degree.
And two, Willits had to give Neil Walker a crash course in the outfield. Judge and Clint Frazier were hurt in August and Stanton was nursing his hamstring injury, plus Shane Robinson wasn’t cutting it, so the Yankees threw Walker into the fire in right field. He had 14 career games worth of outfield experience at the time, all in Triple-A in 2010. Walker did about as well as the Yankees could’ve hoped. He caught the balls he was supposed to catch and not much else. Willits was in charge of making it happen.
The New Quality Control Coach: Carlos Mendoza
The Yankees added a new coaching position this season. Officially, the title is Quality Control Coach/Infield Instructor. A few teams these days have a Quality Control Coach, whatever that is. The Yankees promoted Mendoza, their longtime minor league infield coordinator, into that role. Similar to Willits and Mendoza and Pilittere, Mendoza had been in a farm system for a few years and had worked with many young Yankees.
His primary focus this season was working with Gleyber Torres and Miguel Andujar on their defense. Gleyber was still relatively new to second base when he was called up and, well, Andujar needs a lot of help. Mendoza was out on the field every single afternoon working with Andujar. In my limited time as a BBWAA dude, I’ve never seen a player take that many ground balls before games. Mendoza was very persistent, if nothing else.
The entire coaching staff is coming back next season. Brian Cashman confirmed that a few weeks ago. Well, the Orioles still don’t have a manager or coaching staff (for real), so I suppose Baltimore could pry one the Yankees’ coaches loose, but it seems unlikely. Not much more to say than that, really. The Yankees were quite good this season and, as far as I can tell, the coaches did fine work.
Filed Under: Coaching Staff Tagged With: 2018 Season Review, Carlos Mendoza, Josh Bard, Larry Rothschild, Marcus Thames, Mike Harkey, P.J. Pilittere, Phil Nevin, Reggie Willits
The New Manager and Coaching Staff [2018 Season Preview]
March 27, 2018 by Mike Leave a Comment
Boone. (Presswire)
Managerial job security isn’t what it used to be. Joe Girardi, in his tenth season with the Yankees, led a team that exceeded all expectations to Game Seven of the ALCS last year. His reward? Unemployment. The Yankees cut ties with Girardi after the season and Hal Steinbrenner said he probably would’ve authorized the managerial change even if the Yankees had won the World Series. Ouch.
“We do not make changes at that level lightly, so it was a very difficult and challenging decision,” said Brian Cashman soon after it was announced Girardi would not be retained. “Easiest call would be plug and play and continue in safe harbor arena. I have never been safe harbor kind of person … Our issues and concerns were the ability to engage, fully communicate, and connect with the playing personnel.”
Rather than recycle an experienced big league manager or promote someone from within, the Yankees took a risk and named former Yankee Aaron Boone their new skipper. He has no prior coaching or managerial experience. None. Nada. Boone went from playing to the broadcast booth to managing. He reportedly blew the Yankees away during the interview and convinced Cashman & Co. that he’s the right guy for the job.
“I wanted this opportunity and I wanted this challenge. I wanted to be back on this side of things. I want to chase the prize,” said Boone to Mike Lupica earlier this month. “I’ll say it again, what pulled me back to this side of things was chasing that prize.”
That prize is, of course, a World Series championship, something Boone never won as a player. (The 2003 postseason was the only time he played in the postseason in his career.) And that’s the goal this year: Win the World Series. This is a win-now roster and a win-now organization. The Yankees brought a rookie manager into a situation where the goal is to be the last team standing, and, to be fair, they are not the only team in recent memory to do that. The Dodgers (Dave Roberts) and Nationals (Dave Martinez) both hired inexperienced managers in recent years.
Boone’s first Spring Training as manager went, well, like any other Spring Training. And that’s a good thing. It was business as usual. Nothing out of the ordinary happened — aside from that whole “forget to warm up Adam Warren” incident — and, to paraphrase Boone’s predecessor, that is what you want. A normal spring. By way of a preview, I have some thoughts and observations about the new manager.
1. Boone has a Torre-esque quality. Specifically his calm and the way he’s able to diffuse things with the media. Girardi was a great manager. He was not so great with the media, which is not insignificant. They can make your life miserable. Joe Torre’s best trait was, by far, the way he handled the media and diffused unfavorable situations. He was asked about whatever, he shot it down in a way that closed the book, and that was that. Girardi had a tendency to ramble and let things fester for a few days.
This spring Boone has been more Torre than Girardi when it comes to his daily briefings with the media. That Warren situation a few weeks back? It would’ve been easy for the rookie manager to blame someone else — calling down to the bullpen to tell a reliever to warm up is definitely something that gets delegated to a coach — but instead Boone took the blame, owned up to the mistake, and that was it. It was a non-issue going forward. Boone will be under the microscope all year and he could’ve shifted blame for that mistake. He owned it and that was that.
The Yankees hired Boone partly because of his communication skills, specifically his ability to interact with his players, but those communication skills also apply to the media. Torre was a master at keeping the peace and limiting distractions. Boone seems to have a similar quality, though, to be fair, he has yet to face a real crisis or even manage a regular season game. We’ll see if things change once the games start to count.
2. He’s willing to be open-minded. Everyone seems to be looking for the new Joe Maddon, that manager willing to be unconventional and try new things. Why? Because it’s different, mostly. Maddon has had success doing that but many managers have had success not doing that. To each his own. But many fans seem to want their team to hire the next Maddon. The next smart manager willing to think outside the box.
Boone, if nothing else, seems to be open-minded. He’s talked about batting Aaron Judge leadoff against lefties and Cashman confirmed that was a conversation initiated by Boone. Boone also said that, aside from Aroldis Chapman at closer, he plans to use his setup relievers interchangeably, rather than assign set roles or innings. He doesn’t want his speedy baserunners to risk outs on the bases because the Yankees have so much power. Who knows whether anything will actually come of this. For now, Boone is talking the talk. We’ll soon see if he walks the walk too.
Bard. (Presswire)
3. Let’s talk about the rest of the coaching staff. When the Yankees cut ties with Girardi, they also cut ties with much of his coaching staff. Joe Espada left to join the Astros, and Tony Pena and Alan Cockrell weren’t retained. Pitching coach Larry Rothschild stuck around, as did assistant hitting coach Marcus Thames and bullpen coach Mike Harkey. Otherwise the coaching staff is full of fresh faces:
Bench Coach: Josh Bard (had been Dodgers bench coach)
Pitching Coach: Larry Rothschild (retained)
Hitting Coach: Marcus Thames (promoted from assistant hitting coach)
Assistant Hitting Coach: P.J. Pilittere (promoted from Triple-A Scranton)
First Base Coach: Reggie Willits (promoted from player development staff)
Third Base Coach: Phil Nevin (had been Giants third base coach)
Bullpen Coach: Mike Harkey (retained)
Catching Coach: Jason Brown (promoted from bullpen catcher)
Quality Control Coach: Carlos Mendoza (promoted from player development staff)
Bard was Boone’s teammate with the Indians back in the day, and he spent time with the Dodgers (another progressive analytics driven organization) in both the front office and on the coaching staff, so has experience on both sides of the table. He’ll help Boone quite a bit, I imagine. Nevin is more old school and that’s a necessary balance. Sometimes you need that tough love.
The coaches who were promoted from within all have experience with the young Yankees on the roster. Willits, formerly the minor league outfield and baserunning coordinator, worked with Judge during his days in the minors. He also worked with Clint Frazier and Tyler Wade and others. Mendoza was the minor league infield coordinator, meaning he spent time with Wade, Gleyber Torres, and Miguel Andujar. Pilittere has been a hitting coach at various levels over the years and he’s worked with pretty much every young Yankee at some point.
Brown, interestingly enough, is making the jump from bullpen catcher to full-time catching coach, meaning he will be tasked with helping Gary Sanchez improve his defense. He and Cashman spoke to Billy Witz about this recently:
“Everything we do as catchers starts from that stance, that setup, whether it’s the receiving, the blocking, the throwing,” said Jason Brown, the Yankees’ new catching coach. “That’s the foundation. It’s more natural for smaller guys. For Gary, it’s something that he’s been working on.”
(Cashman) also said Sanchez was uncomfortable with the pregame workout routine that last year’s catching coach, Tony Pena, and manager, Joe Girardi, had implemented.
In the second half of the season, Sanchez returned to the pregame regimen he had used in the minor leagues.
Hmmm. Last year Sanchez went from eleven passed balls in his first 61 games at catcher to five passed balls in his final 43 games, so he went from one every 5.45 games to one every 8.60 games. That’s better! Whether it’s real improvement or just official scoring noise is another matter. Either way, Brown is now the full-time catching coach. He is in charge of helping Sanchez (and Austin Romine) improve his catching.
The Yankees made sweeping changes to their coaching staff over the winter, but because so many of the new coaches came up from the farm system, they already have a working relationship with many players. They’re not coming in blind. Also, Bard caught CC Sabathia with the Indians and Nevin managed both Didi Gregorius and Brandon Drury in Triple-A while with the Diamondbacks, so there is some familiarity there as well. Clearly though, the Yankees wanted some new leadership and new voices in the clubhouse. They have that in Boone and they have it with his coaching staff.
My fearlessly bold prediction is the Yankees will win a lot of games this season because they are incredibly talented, and Boone will look like a genius manager. He’s in position to get a lot of credit. And, when things inevitably go wrong, he’ll get the blame. The Yankees will lose three straight at some point. They’ll score like four runs in a three-game series at some point. That’s baseball. When it happens, fingers will be pointed at Boone.
That comes with the territory. You sign up to be manager of the Yankees, you have to take the good with the bad. Boone is a baseball lifer. He knows the game. I have no doubt about that. I also have no doubt that he’s passionate about the job, that he cares for his players, and that he understands the expectations. Girardi was a very good manager and keeping him would’ve been justifiable. The Yankees decided to be bold though, and while Boone has shown some promising traits, this season will be one giant learning experience. It’s all new to him.
Filed Under: Coaching Staff Tagged With: 2018 Season Preview, Aaron Boone, Carlos Mendoza, Jason Brown, Josh Bard, Larry Rothschild, Marcus Thames, Mike Harkey, P.J. Pilittere, Phil Nevin, Reggie Willits
The Coaching Staff’s Last Ride [2017 Season Review]
December 18, 2017 by Mike Leave a Comment
Thomson & Tony. (Presswire)
Our season review series has reached the point where it is time to do the impossible: evaluate coaches. No one has come up with a good way to do it, at least from the outside. For the most part we just project player performance onto coaches. Leo Mazzone was a genius pitching coach when he had Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, and John Smoltz. When he had Rodrigo Lopez, Kris Benson, and Daniel Cabrera? Not so much.
The 2017 season was the last season for this coaching staff as a unit. The Yankees parted ways with manager Joe Girardi after the season and they broke up the coaching staff as well. Most of it, anyway. New manager Aaron Boone will inherit at least one coach and possible more. Let’s try to review the season that was with the coaching staff.
Bench Coach: Rob Thomson
The 2017 season was Thomson’s 28th with the Yankees. He joined the organization as a minor league coach in 1990 and gradually worked his way up the ladder, holding a variety of coaching and front office positions along the way. This was his fourth season as Girardi’s bench coach (2008, 2015-17) and his tenth on the coaching staff overall. He spent the 2009-14 seasons as the third base coach.
Two things about Thomson’s season stand out to me, one good and one bad. Let’s start with the bad. Why didn’t he push harder for Girardi to challenge the Lonnie Chisenhall hit-by-pitch in ALDS Game Two? Argh. Girardi obviously did not trust Gary Sanchez enough to challenge it, but Thomson is his right-hand man, and a quick little “Joe we really need to challenge this” could’ve done wonders. Alas.
And two, Thomson received unsolicited praise from Girardi and Alex Rodriguez during the postseason. Girardi credited Thomson for his work with the team’s young players — “Rob Thomson, he stays on these guys all the time to make sure they’re in the right place and ready to go,” said Girardi during the ALCS — and A-Rod said something similar during a pregame segment for FOX. They both credited Thomson for working with the kids.
The Yankees did interview Thomson for their managerial opening, though I wonder whether that was something of a token interview, and a sign of respect for all his years in the organization. Thomson said he wanted to remain with the Yankees even if he didn’t get the job, and when he didn’t, he decided to take the Phillies bench coach job. It seems to me the Yankees decided to move on from Thomson, not the other way around.
Pitching Coach: Larry Rothschild
Once again, the Yankees had the most complained about great pitching staff in baseball. And it wasn’t only because of the bullpen. The bullpen was actually pretty shaky the first three months of the season. The rotation was very good overall. To wit:
ERA: 3.98 (5th in MLB and 2nd in AL)
ERA-: 90 (6th in MLB and 3rd in AL)
FIP: 4.18 (7th in MLB and 4th in AL)
FIP-: 92 (7th in MLB and 4th in AL)
K%: 23.7% (7th in MLB and 4th in AL)
BB%: 7.3% (5th in MLB and 3rd in AL)
GB%: 48.1% (5th in MLB and 2nd in AL)
fWAR: +15.2 (6th in MLB and 3rd in AL)
Luis Severino rebounded from a disaster 2016 season to become an ace in 2017, earning him a third place finish in the Cy Young voting. That happened because he worked with Pedro Martinez in the offseason though. Severino worked with Pedro then avoided Rothschild all season. CC Sabathia’s resurgence continued thanks to the cutter he learned from Andy Pettitte or Mariano Rivera last Spring Training. I dunno, it was probably one of those guys.
Masahiro Tanaka had a rough first half, which was Rothschild’s fault, then rebounded in the second half, because he figured some things out on his own, I assume. Dellin Betances walked a lot of guys this season, something he’s never done before in his career, and that is also Rothschild’s fault. Rothschild also convinced Tyler Clippard that throwing 90 mph fastballs middle-middle is great way to get outs. And remember when Aroldis Chapman credited Rothschild for helping him get over his issues by tweaking his fastball grip? He was crediting Rothschild out of pity.
The Yankees decided to bring Rothschild back next year — he is the only confirmed holdover coach at the moment — which I guess means Severino will have to avoid talking to him and Chapman will have to continue giving him pity credit for things. Looks like we’re in for another year of complaining about a very successful pitching staff.
Hitting Coaches: Alan Cockrell & Marcus Thames
A year ago the Yankees scored 680 runs. This year the Yankees scored 858 runs. They scored their 680th run this year on August 30th, in the 132nd game of the season. That’s pretty great! Of course, it helps to have a full season of Sanchez, for Aaron Judge to become literally the best power-hitting rookie in the history of the universe, for Aaron Hicks to break out, for Didi Gregorius to take another step forward, for Austin Romine to inexplicably hit .314 for a month while Sanchez was on the disabled list, plus a bunch of other things.
The single biggest reason the Yankees improved offensively this year was the change in personnel. A year ago the Yankees gave 1,173 plate appearances to A-Rod, Mark Teixeira, and Brian McCann, who combined to post a .301 OBP and a .380 SLG. Yeesh. Out with the old and in with the new. How much credit do Cockrell and Thames deserve for Sanchez doing what he did, and Judge doing what he did, and Hicks doing what he did? Impossible to say. Surely they had something to do with it. If nothing else, the players made Cockrell and Thames look good. But apparently not good enough to save Cockrell’s job. He is reportedly out with Thames taking over as the full-time hitting coach, though that has not yet been confirmed.
First & Third Base Coaches: Tony Pena & Joe Espada
As first base coach, one of Pena’s jobs involves timing the opposing pitcher to see whether attempting to steal a base makes sense. He literally times the pitcher’s delivery with a stopwatch, does the math with the catcher’s pop time and the runner’s speed, and determines whether running is worth it. I’m not joking. That’s part of what first base coaches do. Some team numbers:
SB: 90 (12th in MLB)
SB%: 80% (1st in MLB)
SB Attempts: 112 (16th in MLB)
SB Opportunities: 2,376 (1st in MLB)
SB Attempt%: 4.7% (20th in MLB)
The Yankees had the highest stolen base success rate in baseball, but they also ranked 20th in their attempt rate. Does that mean Pena didn’t do his job well because the Yankees should’ve run more? Well, no. Personnel matters, and it’s not just the guy on first base. Why would you send Brett Gardner when Judge and Sanchez are due up? Just let them hit with a man on base. The extra 90 feet isn’t worth the risk with those two dudes at the plate.
As for Espada, the third base coach, the Yankees had 20 runners thrown out at the plate this season, the fifth most in baseball. But! They also had 111 runners score from second on a single, the fifth most in baseball. On one hand, the aggressiveness paid off based on all those runners who did score from second on a single. On the other hand, having 20 runners thrown out at the plate kinda stinks, especially with the offense the Yankees had this year. Holding a runner at third and passing the baton to the next guy is a-okay with me.
Espada and Pena will not be back next season. Well, Espada won’t for sure. I thought he would get a chance to interview for the manager’s job, but that didn’t happen, and he is now the Astros bench coach. Pena? He did not interview for the managerial job and it doesn’t sound like he is coming back. I know Pena is a fan favorite — is it weird a coach is a fan favorite? I think that’s kinda weird — but it really seems like the Yankees are going for wholesale changes with their staff, not one or two tweaks, so Pena is likely out.
Bullpen Coach: Mike Harkey
Harkey really nailed answering the phone and waving his hat whenever a reliever was ready this season. Good response time, great hat-waving form. Knocked it out of the park. Harkey is a Girardi guy — they’ve been friends for a very long time, since they were Double-A batterymates in 1988 — and I figured that meant he would be gone as well, but apparently he will be back as bullpen coach next season. Huh. It hasn’t been announced yet, but multiple reports say so. Rothschild is coming back, Thames and Harkey are reportedly coming back, Thomson and Espada are gone, and Cockrell and Pena figure to be gone. It’s been a good run with that staff. Things will be different going forward.
Filed Under: Coaching Staff Tagged With: 2017 Season Review, Alan Cockrell, Jose Espada, Larry Rothschild, Marcus Thames, Mike Aviles, Rob Thomson, Tony Peña
Update: Yankees add Josh Bard, Phil Nevin, and Reggie Willits to coaching staff
Bard. (Dodgers Photog Blog)
Monday: Bard will be the bench coach, Phil Nevin will be the third base coach, and Reggie Willits will be the first base coach, Boone told reporters today. Also, George King says Carlos Mendoza will be the infield coach and in uniform for games. It’s likely Marcus Thames will be promoted to hitting coach and Mike Harkey will be retained as bullpen coach as well, says King. The Yankees have not yet officially announced any coaching assignments.
Nevin, 47 in January, has coached and managed throughout the minors in recent years, and has interviewed for several big league managerial jobs as well. He managed the Triple-A Reno Aces (Diamondbacks) from 2014-16 before spending last season as the Giants’ third base coach. Nevin and Boone were high school teammates, so those two have some history. (Nevin went to high school with Bret Boone, not Aaron. My bad.)
Last week we heard the 38-year-old Mendoza and 36-year-old Willits were under consideration for big league coaching jobs. Willits has been the organization’s minor league outfield and baserunning instructor for three years now while Mendoza has held a variety of minor league coaching and managerial roles since 2009, most recently serving as the minor league infield coordinator. Mendoza would give the team a Spanish-speaking coach. The Yankees seem to be going real young with the coaching staff next year, huh?
Sunday: According to Ken Rosenthal, the Yankees will name former big league catcher Josh Bard their new bench coach. Ken Davidoff says Bard interviewed last week and was impressive. The Yankees have not confirmed anything as of yet, and there’s no word on any of the other coaching staff positions.
Bard, 39, was new manager Aaron Boone’s teammate with the Indians in 2005. He spent the last five seasons in a variety of roles with the Dodgers, going from special assistant (2013) to scout (2014-15) to bullpen coach (2016-17). I suppose it’s possible, if not likely, Bard will take over catching instructor duties with the Yankees.
Last week both Boone and Brian Cashman said they weren’t necessarily looking for a bench coach with managerial experience despite Boone’s inexperience. They want who they believe is the right person rather than the most experienced person. Bard has some coaching and front office experience, but not much.
Bard will join holdover pitching coaching Larry Rothschild on the coaching staff. Boone still needs a hitting coach (and likely an assistant hitting coach), first and third base coaches, and a bullpen coach. Cashman admitted the coaching search could take weeks.
Filed Under: Coaching Staff Tagged With: Carlos Mendoza, Josh Bard, Marcus Thames, Mike Harkey, Phil Nevin, Reggie Willits
Yanks have yet to offer Cashman, Girardi, Denbo, or coaching staff contract extensions
September 13, 2017 by Mike Leave a Comment
(Brian Blanco/Getty)
Not much of a surprise here, but according to George King, the Yankees have yet to make contract extension offers to their front office and coaching staffs. General manager Brian Cashman, vice president of player development Gary Denbo, vice president of baseball operations Tim Naehring, manager Joe Girardi, and the entire coaching staff are unsigned beyond this season. I’m sure a bunch of others too.
The Yankees have, historically, waited until contracts expire before negotiating new deals. That used to apply to players as well, though the team came to their senses with that a few years ago and are now at least open to the idea of extending a player before free agency. The last few times Cashman and Girardi have been up for new deals, they became free agents and then worked out new contracts.
Denbo, who has helped turn the farm system into a player development machine, is reportedly under consideration for a position with the Marlins. He and Derek Jeter are very close — Denbo managed Jeter in the minors back in the day and was his big league hitting coach in 2001 — and it makes sense that Jeter would look to bring in someone he knows and trusts to run the team he’s about to purchase.
There were rumors circulating last month that the Yankees offered Denbo a big five-year contract extension — five-year contracts are pretty rare in the front office world, from what I understand — though King says that is not the case. The Yankees haven’t made him or anyone else an offer. Interestingly enough, Jeter’s purchase of the Marlins may take a while as the league reviews financial information. From Charlie Gasparino and Brian Schwartz:
“The owners told (Bruce) Sherman that the Jeter bid will get what amounts to a proctology exam,” said one baseball executive who spoke on the condition of anonymity and has direct knowledge of the owners meeting. “And they indicated that exam could take a long time.”
Front office and coaching staff contracts typically expire October 31st or at the end of the World Series. If the Marlins sale takes a while, it could give the Yankees a leg up on re-signing Denbo, who I can’t imagine will want to wait around for the Marlins sale to go final and leave his future uncertain. The Yankees could lock him up before Jeter fully controls the Marlins, which doesn’t sound imminent.
Of course, the Marlins could always approach the Yankees about Denbo after the sale goes final. Teams interview personnel under contract with other teams all the time. With permission, of course. The Yankees could deny that permission — they denied the Diamondbacks permission to interview scouting director Damon Oppenheimer back in 2010 — though most teams don’t when it involves a big upward promotion. Denbo could always push for having permission to interview elsewhere put into his contract. We’ll see.
For now, neither Denbo nor Cashman nor Girardi nor anyone on the coaching staff is under contract beyond this season. No one has a contract offer in hand either. I wonder if this will lead to some coaching staff changes? I guess it depends on Girardi. If he returns, which I think is likely, chances are his coaching staff will remain mostly intact. If Girardi leaves, all bets are off.
Filed Under: Coaching Staff, Front Office Tagged With: Alan Cockrell, Brian Cashman, Gary Denbo, Joe Espada, Joe Girardi, Larry Rothschild, Marcus Thames, Mike Harkey, Rob Thomson, Tim Naehring, Tony Peña
Joe Girardi and the coaching staff [2017 Season Preview]
March 28, 2017 by Steven Tydings Leave a Comment
New year, same coaching staff. For the first time in a little while, the Yankees didn’t tinker with the staff surrounding Joe Girardi and will go into their second straight season with the same coaches.
That means Larry Rothschild is still the pitching coach, Alan Cockrell and Marcus Thames handle the hitters, Mike Harkey is the bullpen coach, Tony Pena and Joe Espada man the bases and Rob Thomson returns as the bench coach.
This doesn’t mean the job will be easy for these guys just because they remain in their roles. Each of them may have their most challenging job yet with the Yankees promoting their youth throughout the roster.
Joe Girardi
Girardi is entering his 10th season as the Yankees manager. Only two managers — Mike Scioscia with the Angels and Bruce Bochy of the Giants — have been in their current jobs longer than Girardi, who was hired in October of 2007. Stability hasn’t always been a trademark for Yankees’ coaches, but this is the second straight manager to last at least a decade. Not bad.
This is a contract year for Girardi: his four-year deal ends after the season. As in past years, the team isn’t going to extend him early, which will lead to plenty of speculation that the Yankees will move on at manager. That seems unlikely: the Steinbrenners appear to be happy with Girardi’s performance thus far and that’s for good reason. Girardi has been solid as manager. Still, that storyline will play out this season, especially if the team gets out of the gates slow.
In his 10th season, Girardi has perhaps his toughest days ahead of him. In the past, he’s been surrounded by veteran players who know the “Yankee way” and can indoctrinate the few young players moving onto the roster. But now Mark Teixeira, Alex Rodriguez, Carlos Beltran and Brian McCann are all gone in one fell swoop. The Baby Bomber movement has taken over with plenty of rookies, or at least inexperienced, players taking key spots on the roster. Girardi’s main job is making sure that all gels in the clubhouse.
He has some veteran help with Matt Holliday’s addition or the continued presence of guys like Brett Gardner, Jacoby Ellsbury and co., but it’s still a challenge. For Girardi (and I guess Thomson), making sure inexperience doesn’t topple this team will be paramount to success. The one positive of having a younger roster is a lot less rest needed all around. Starlin Castro, for example, has played 151 games or more in five of the last six seasons. Fewer achy vets like A-Rod and Tex means more days with the team’s optimal lineup, whatever that may be.
Another change to the job will be instant replay. MLB has mandated that teams are quicker in requesting replays this season, so there will be less of the manager holding up play while the team’s replay people check it out. The Yankees’ guy, Brett Weber, will have a tougher job this year (NY Times profiled him last year) and the team may need Girardi to go with his gut on challenges. The Yankees were the second-best team at getting calls overturned percentage-wise last year (Royals), but they also requested the fewest challenges (just 28). Maybe Girardi takes more chances with it and risks being quite as efficient in 2017.
Finally, Girardi’s job comes down to the bullpen. He once again has a strong back-end with Aroldis Chapman and Dellin Betances. I expect Chapman will have the 9th, Betances usually just the 8th and Tyler Clippard and Adam Warren would then be dispensed for the middle innings along with maybe Ernesto Frieri? Don’t forget Tommy Layne as a LOOGY! Girardi loves to get the platoon advantage.
And that’s not a knock on Girardi. His bullpen management is his best trait and is likely why the Yankees consistently outperform their Pythagorean record. He both has strong relievers to utilize and then actually utilizes them well. I don’t expect anything different in 2017.
Hitting, hitting and more hitting
Cockrell and Thames return, but many of their disciples do not. The two have been handed some interesting projects this season. They won’t have to worry too much about the veterans like Matt Holliday. Instead, they’ll have to work with 6-foot-7 rookie Aaron Judge to keep his strikeouts down or with Greg Bird and Gary Sanchez to make sure their rookie performances aren’t just mirages.
It’s tough to ever pinpoint exactly where a hitting coach makes his mark — best example for the Yanks in recent memory is Kevin Long working to correct Curtis Granderson’s swing in the summer of 2010 — but any breakouts this year could come from Cockrell and Thames’ tutelage. Let’s hope they can make plenty happen.
Handling the pitching
Rothschild and Tanaka (Getty Images)
This season will be Rothschild’s seventh with the Yankees. Wow, feels like it’s been fewer but then you remember him working with big Bart in 2011 and others in the early 2010s. For the most part, Rothschild doesn’t have a new pitcher to work with this season. There are three veterans returning to the rotation, most of the bullpen was there at some point last season and even the guys fighting for the last rotation spot have big league experience (except Jordan Montgomery).
Rothschild will be judged on his ability to coax some solid seasons out of those back-end starters. Whether it’s Bryan Mitchell and Luis Severino or Chad Green and Montgomery, there’s a lot of work ahead for the Yankees’ pitching guru. Rothschild has been known to get pitchers to increase strikeout totals, but getting a guy like Severino or Mitchell to improve their command will be much tougher. It isn’t even necessarily on Rothschild if they fail. Sometimes, that’s just the way it goes with young pitchers.
What can you really say about the rest of the staff? If you have a hard time accessing the performances of the hitting and pitching coaches, it’s even tougher with the bench or bullpen coach. Harkey begins the second season of his second stint with the Yankees. Seems like he never left for the desert, eh?
Meanwhile, Thomson has been with the Yankees since Girardi came aboard and has been the bench coach in two stints sandwiched around his time as the third-base coach. The bench coach seems like both another person for the manager to bounce ideas off of and another voice to work with the 25 personalities populating the Yankees’ clubhouse. Either way, Thomson has been solid enough in his role to stick around for 10 years.
Tony Pena has been here even longer. This will be his 12th season as a Yankees coach, now the first base coach after fulfilling other roles under Girardi and Joe Torre. Pena seemed to do a solid job as the Dominican Republic’s manager during the WBC and one has to wonder if he’ll be in consideration for another managerial gig (previously with the Royals) in the near future. Pena has a new full-time guy in Sanchez to work with behind the plate, which surely has him excited.
And then there’s Espada. He’s been perfectly fine as the third base coach. Like anyone in that position, he gets a ton of notice when he makes a bad send but otherwise has been left alone. He served a similar role for Puerto Rico at the WBC. If anything has changed for him, it’s that there are fewer base-clogging veterans like McCann or Teixeira and maybe a little more speed in the Yankees’ everyday lineup. Not much, but some. May be to Espada’s advantage in sending runners.
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Girl Divided (The Binding Series Book1)
By Cordelia Michelsen
Ellis Calhoun and Vivian Parker share a lavish New York lifestyle, but their relationship is anything but conventional. Driven by his need for control, Ellis, a mysterious and sexy corporate raider, feeds off Vivian’s desire to submit, before she herself was even aware of that desire.
But soon, unexplained urges that aren’t her own begin to drive a wedge between them, challenging Vivian’s identity as Ellis’s subservient lover. Even stranger, she has no recollection of her moments of defiance. Vivian loses time and memories for no reason she can understand. But maybe there’s an explanation after all…Delphine.
Girl:Divided is Book One in The Binding Series, a story of what happens when the real world and the supernatural world collide. Enter into this realm of mystery, intrigue and kinky sex in this paranormal romance series.
Girl Divided is a dark romance about a girl who meets a dominant man and outside unforeseen force that will change their lives forever.
Vivian is a successful chef who owns a vegan restaurant in New York City. She probably drinks a little more than she should. And she really only has one friend.
Ellis is extremely successful in his own right. He has very little patience for anything out of his control. He also has a very dominant sexual appetite.
Delphine is somewhat of a mystery. She has a definite agenda and will stop at nothing to tear Ellis down and take control of Vivian.
I thought that Girl Divided started very strong. I was instantly drawn to Ellis and I loved Vivian’s spitfire attitude. But I felt that Ellis started playing a confusing game with Vivian with little to no communication. After Vivian’s accident he totally took over her whole life and it seemed everything that drew him to her disappeared. I’m still unclear the exact connection between Vivian and Delphine.
After the Delphine factor was introduced my anxiety went up. Ellis’s possession was out of his control and he didn’t like it. I felt sad for Vivian because she just wanted to be his perfect submissive and an outside force was going to make sure that didn’t happen. I wanted Vivian to still have a piece of herself before she meet Ellis and I wanted Ellis to love her which I’m not sure he did.
There were plenty of hot and steamy moments in this story. I liked where the story was going but one thing that I was missing was the romance. It just didn’t seem like Ellis was as interested in loving Vivian as much as possessing her.
Girl Divided
My Rating: 1/2
This entry was posted in Read by Christine and tagged 3 Hearts, Alpha Men, Domination, Emotional, Paranormal, Witches on October 31, 2016 by Christine House.
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What is the significance of mountains in Hinduism?
Mountains, which occupy an important place in Hindu mythology, are a symbol of strength when certain gods in their fury grow to resemble mountains, and of oppressive weight when they are torn up and used as missiles by gods or demons. The most important of these are of course the Himalayas, on the summits of which are the heavens. Mountains, especially the Himalayas were also important as it was amongst them that the holy men, the yogis and the sadhus lived doing meditation. It was here that the important ashramas of the gurus were located and many are still functioning. A person going on a trek in the Himalayas can easily find yogis doing meditation in caves amongst the high snow-capped peaks.
Some of the important mountains are:
MERU, which bears on its summit Brahma's heaven, and acts as a pivot for the three worlds around which the heavenly bodies revolve.
HIMAVAN, which took the form of a man when the gods wished Sati to be reborn, and became the father of first the Ganga, and then of Parvati.
MANDARA, which is a revered mountain in the Himalayas and was thought to be the only one mighty enough to serve as a pole in the churning of the milk ocean. It became the home of Durga.
MOUNT KAILASA, the home of Shiva, which became involved in a dispute between Indra and Kartikeya as to their relative powers and to settle the dispute they agreed to race around it. Kartikeya won but became angry when Kailasa gave the verdict in favor of Indra and hurled his lance at the mountain splitting it open, thus creating the Krauncha pass.
Some other holy mountains are
Malyagiri
Mahendrachal
Govardhan (Mathura)
Kamagiri (Assam)
Shaktiman (Madhya Pradesh)
Raiwatgiri (Gujarat).
Why are the rivers considered divine?
In India Rivers are given a divine status. The civilization of India was nurtured in the river basin of the Ganga and the Jamuna, which has been the heart of ancient India. The two rivers have been worshipped since ancient times. The Ganga has been known for its purity and divinity and the Hindus believe that a bath in her waters cleanses one of all sins. The river Jamuna is known for her devotion. The river Saraswati was worshipped in ancient times when the Aryans lived in Punjab. The Saraswati changed its course in later ages and gradually disappeared in the deserts of Rajasthan. Apart from these three, the other rivers considered sacred are the Godavari, Narmada, Sindhu (Indus) and Kaveri (Cauvery). Some other sacred rivers are Sarayu, Gomati, Gandaki, Sabarmati, Tamsa, Chandarbhaga, Shipra and Kratmala.
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8 Voices: Stakeholders on Report of Employer Cost Savings from Whole Practice Naturopathic Care
Written by John Weeks
8 Voices: Stakeholders on Seely-Herman Report of Canada Post Savings from Whole Practice Naturopathic Care for CVD
Summary: Readers from multiple stakeholders in integrative medicine responded to the findings on integrative naturopathic medicine entitled "Model Whole Practice Study Finds Treatment by Naturopathic Doctors Effective & Cost-Saving for Canada Post Employees with Cardiovascular Disease." The project, led by Dugald Seely, BSc, ND, MSc and Patricia Herman, MS, ND, PhD, was quickly recognized as useful in outreach to employers, policy makers, the mainstream delivery system and clinicians themselves. Some readers merely exulted. Here are comments received from university president James Winterstein, DC, employer consultant Chris Skisak, naturopathic oncology specialist Chad Aschtgen, ND, FABNO, hospital COO Richard Gannotta, NP, DHA, FACHE, North Carolina licensing leader Susan Delaney, ND, holistic doctor Kjersten Gmeiner, MD, Israeli hospital mind-body coordinator Nimrod Sheinman, ND and Foundations Project director Pamela Snider, ND.
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Care proved effective and cost-effective for firm's employees
Publication of this report on whole practice research on integrative naturopathic medicine (Model Whole Practice Study Finds Treatment by Naturopathic Doctors Effective & Cost-Saving for Canada Post Employees with Cardiovascular Disease) provoked a wide array of positive responses, from around the US and from South Africa and Israel, and across multiple stakeholder representatives. Do you have additional perspectives? How might this study have been better organized? What are the other applications for a model like this?
Winterstein: Long involvement in outcomes research
1. James Winterstein, DC: "Yes!"
Jim Winterstein, DC, is president of National University of Health Sciences in Chicago, a multidisciplinary institution with programs in chiropractic medicine, acupuncture and Oriental medicine, naturopathic medicine and massage therapy. (See Integrator feature on NUHS here.) Here was Winterstein's immediate response on reading the article:
"YESSSSS!"
Comment: Winterstein has earned a right to such brevity and enthusiasm. Through his work as a board member of Alternative Medicine Integration Group, an Integrator sponsor, Winterstein has played a leadership role in generating 2 of the most interesting and potentially useful practice outcomes sets in all of integrative care. One is the AMI pilot with HMO Illinois that found significant cost savings in an integrative primary care model and the second an integrative pain pilot project under a waiver with Florida Medicaid that includes services of licensed massage therapists and acupuncturists in a holistic nurse-managed care plan. "YESSSS!" captured my own response exactly. Why aren't we doing more of this work?
Skisak: Useful in reaching employers
2. Chris Skisak: "(For employers) only those who support their methodologies with empirical data will survive ..."
Christ Skisak is president of Houston-based Corporate Health Management Solutions which he describes as "an organizational health and productivity management company." The firm provides employers and their health management suppliers "with strategies and software tools to improve workforce health and demonstrate its direct link with business financial performance." Skisak and I have been in contact for several years, as he notes, typically when he is in need of evidence to support an economic case he wants to make to an employer relative to integrative care.
"I was pleased to see this type of research linked to CAM methodology. I remember asking you several years ago what types of controlled CAM studies existed. The answer then as now is the same: very few.
"This is a step in the right direction. I chair the Houston Wellness Association's Worksite Wellness Committee. I find that employers still approach health care with a bottom line cost mentality [focusing on how much a policy costs] rather than an outcomes based approach [the value from the type of policy]. This will not change until insurers, brokers, and employers have the data to support the ROI of traditional and CAM modalities.
"I am working toward the development of an employer/provider data consortium in Houston. The intent will be to benchmark integrated metrics. These will include absenteeism, presenteeism and healthcare costs associated with general and chronic conditions. Cohorts who are and are not participatory and compliant with specific health promotion and disease management initiatives will be compared. I think this type of approach which is similar to that of the Michigan Health Management Research Center will be essential as more and more traditional and non-traditional medical practices are introduced as ways to save cost and improve business performance. Only those who can support their methodologies with empirical data will survive."
Comment: If anyone wonders why I continue pressing NCCAM to push an outcomes agenda, it is the plaintive requests from people like Skisak who work to get an employer's ear then face the near wasteland of data amidst a plethora of claims. People like Skisak need to be armed.
Gannotta: Useful for clinicians and mainstream delivery decision-makers
3. Hospital COO Richard Gannotta, NP, DHA: "Seely, Herman study is significant ..."
Rick Gannotta, NP, DHA recently published a report in the Integrator entitled Perceptions of Medical Directors and Hospital Executives Regarding the Value of Inpatient Integrative Medicine Programs. Gannotta is COO of the Duke Raleigh Hospital. I asked him for his perspective on this report.
"The Seely-Herman study is significant. The incorporation of the cost effective modalities employed [in this study] should be seriously considered by all whole medical systems practitioners.
"In this case the fact that the study looked at treatment by naturopathic doctors, and the measures analyzed - clinical and cost outcomes - should be a signal to all integrative medicine researchers that the focus on cost effective treatments will further advance the incorporation of integrative medicine into the mainstream healthcare delivery system."
Comment: Gannotta's initial comment goes to the core of what good research advances: practice betterment. In the case of the naturopathic medical care captured by Seely and Herman, the recommended practice change for those at risk of CVD is toward a whole practice that focuses heavily on habit change. Echoes of Skisak's perspective can be heard in Gannotta's second comment. If integrative medicine researchers want to advance the incorporation into mainstream delivery system, Gannotta suggests, from his perch inside a hospital, the Seely-Herman methodology is a direction to consider. I do wonder at how many degrees of separation much research is from opening more options to human beings inside the mainstream delivery system.
Delaney: Useful with legislators
4. Susan Delaney, ND: Immediate value in pushing licensing legislation for NDs
Susan Delaney, ND practices in North Carolina where she has been engaged in the Sisyphisian task of pushing for a licensing law for her profession for roughly 2 decades. That's a lot of times to roll legislation up the actual Hill only to have it rolled back down at sine die every 2 years, then start over again. Delaney responded immediately from the heart of that work:
"I just saw the article you did on the Canadian study with whole practice naturopathic care. I was at that session [at the conference] and felt the excitement you obviously do as well. I anticipate that it will be of great value in our work for licensing. Thanks."
Comment: So, we have perspectives from respondents that these types of outcomes will be good in outreach to employers, in decisions regarding integration into the delivery systems, in bettering the care delivered by practitioners and here, in potentially moving public policy decisions of legislators. This is a powerful set of stakeholder that one set of outcomes may directly influence. Aschtgen, below, underscores this point and suggests some next steps for such a research strategy.
Aschtgen: Many applications for these research methods
5. Chad Aschtgen, ND, FABNO: Other chronic disease areas where methods like these might be replicated
Chad Aschtgen, ND, FABNO is a Seattle-based naturopathic physician who works out of one of the city's most significant integrative medicine facilities, the Institute of Complementary Medicine. Aschtgen is an integrative oncology specialist and also works out of Providence Integrative Cancer Care in Olympia, Washington.
"I quite agree with you; this type of research and these data are critically important as we continue to move forward in advancing the naturopathic profession and broader discipline of integrative medicine. The preliminary data from the Seely/Herman study certainly is something to be excited about and we should all look forward to seeing the final analysis as it gets published. Provided the ‘punch line' sticks, this research has the potential to really catapult our naturopathic community efforts forward in so many arenas- further scientific research, institutional and organizational collaborations, third party payments, state and federal policy and more.
"To your suggestion of 'a dozen such... studies,' I will look forward to seeing how the Naturopathic Physician Research Institute (NPRI) will facilitate exactly this within the ND community. Although I am not a research scientist, rather a clinician, I too expect that this type of study would be fairly easy to emulate with numerous other conditions. Consider COPD and asthma, the fourth most common cause of death in the United States, and diabetes, number six for mortality. Arthritis, kidney disease, pack pain and hypertension are among the top ten most costly diseases in the U.S. and would be amenable to such study. Although the research approach would likely require more notable modifications, I would like to believe that similar inquiry regarding integrative care with various cancer diseases and oncology treatment would also prove an area of improved clinical, financial and/or quality of life outcomes. Of course I have yet to mention what many consider to be a mainstay of naturopathic care, the varied aspects of gastrointestinal health!"
Comment: Yes, we do need to see the final, published study, as both Seely and Herman noted in their presentation. The present data are preliminary. As a board member with NPRI, I am doing what I can in that field to support the group of scientists we have convened to foster just the kinds of studies Aschtgen recommends. The key element may be in finding an employer and/or union that will respond to these data and be game to pilot something with their employees. I'm betting some of you have employer decision-makers in your networks.
Gmeiner: Pleased
6. Holistic doctor Kjersten Gmeiner, MD: More pleasure in the news ...
Kjersten Gmeiner, MD is a past board member of the American Holistic Medical Association. She was featured in the Integrator talking about the fit of "group visits' with holistic practice.
"TERRIFIC!!!!!!!! thank you for sharing!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Comment: After Gmeiner sent me this, I asked if I could publish it just as I had asked Winterstein, above. I comfortably project in both cases that pent-up demand propelled these gusts of enthusiasm for this Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine/Canada Post/Canadian Union of Postal Workers project.
Sheinman: Sent me by my hospital boss
7. Nimrod Sheinman, ND: Mind-body leader in Israeli hospital has report forwarded to him ...
Nimrod Sheinman, ND is a National College of Natural Medicine-educated naturopathic physician who completed a residency at Bastyr University in the late 1980s before returning to Israel where he currently works in a hospital-based integrative medicine program. He wrote:
"Your name appeared uninvited today in my e-mail box, through your recent report on the naturopathic contribution to postal workers in Canada. The report was sent to me by my 'boss' at the integrative medicine department, Davidoff oncology hospital, Rabin Medical Center where I'm head of the mind-body unit. Nice to hear from you!"
When I wrote back to Sheinman, he noted that his "boss" is Opher Caspi, MD, PhD one of the first fellows who came through the program at what is now the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine. Caspi runs integrative medicine at the Davidoff oncology hospital.
Comment: A pleasing sign of the impact of the Seely-Herman work is that an integrative medicine leader from across the great water sent the link out to his staff, even if that staff member happens to be a naturopathic physician. (It was also pleasing to be put back in touch with Sheinman, with whom I hadn't communicated in the better part of a decade. Thanks Opher.)
Snider: Counterweight to the preponderance of single agent evidence
8. Pamela Snider, ND: Corrective role of whole practices research for science-based natural medicine
Integrator adviser Pamela Snider, ND, executive editor for the Foundations of Naturopathic Medicine Project, sent a comment which touched on the relationship between this whole practice research and the naturopathic profession's drift toward "green allopathy" - the first line use of natural drugs. Snider referenced a description of Joseph Pizzorno, ND in the Integrator coverage of the 25th anniversary convention of the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians. I had written that Pizzorno's elevation of the concept of "science-based natural medicine" has stimulated the tendency among new naturopathic physicians toward focusing care on supplement prescriptions. Snider wrote:
"Joe has always been opposed actually to the overemphasis on ‘green drugs.' It's an indirect effect of his support for science based natural medicine.
"The [presently available] CAM/natural medicine research content is highly reductionist. The greatest percentage of this research falls into the ‘green drug' category, sad to say. It looks at a single green agent for a symptom or a conventional disease classification. So, without working our tails off to operationalize the soul of this medicine by researching what we actually do, voila.
"The allopathic drift begins with a drift to green drugs. Practitioners go where the ‘evidence' is. This is why Dugald's research is so critical, and Patricia Herman's. This is why NCCAM needs to fund a wider array of research approaches such as the AANP, the Association of Accredited Naturopathic Medical Colleges, the Academic Consortium for Complementary and Alternative Health Care, the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine and others have advocated. This is why the Naturopathic Physicians Research Institute is a vital part of the landscape."
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by evidence, many welcome this
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dominance of the data
of reduction and suppression.
Comment: Snider speaks to my favorite research-clinical conundrum. It is an ugly one, if simple. If a clinician can locate an exceptionally powerful evidence base on how to suppress the symptom of a condition with a drug, but has at best suggestive data on how to help the patient create health when living with that condition, what is the best, evidence-informed path to take?
While I typically frame this conundrum around pharmaceutically-funded and well-researched conventional pharma therapy versus a whole person protocol to help create health, Snider presents it wholly within a natural health context.
Part of the exultation in receiving these outcomes is escapist: In an integration dialogue shaped by evidence, many welcome this counterweight to the dominance of the data of reduction and suppression.
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Initially formed for nothing more than shits, giggles, and friends' sheer enjoyment, Summer Camp has morphed into quite a prosperous passion project band. Active on the Indie Rock scene since Fall 2009, Summer Camp was erroneously mistaken for "a group of seven Swedish friends, who made timeless, doe-eyed Lo-Fi Pop ." [Music Journalist] Elizabeth Sankey & Jeremy Warmsley 's debut long-player as "Summer Camp," Welcome to Condale , will see a Nov. 8th release; Like the majority of the group's compositions, the album's central story is set in the fictitious quaint, little suburb of Condale, LA . Welcome to Condale is the eventual follow-up to Summer Camp 's 2010 release, Young EP . Thusfar, a string of sample tracks have been release from the record: "I Want You," "Better Off Without You," and now... "Down." The Chris Boyle -directed music video accompaniment for the latter was released just the other
#BASED HALLOWEEN: Lil B & SALEM - "Slangin' Yayo" (Witch-Hop)
In an effort to spread the often-forgotten warm, creative spirit of Halloween ... Gouls & gals, it's my pleasure to present to you: Lil B & SALEM - "Slangin' Yayo." Essentially, an expanded version/sequel of Red Flame (mixtape), Evil Red Flame was quietly liberated to DatPiff on Thanksgiving Day 2010 along with this cryptic message: "This Is The Closing To The RED FLAME GENRE AND CLASSIC COLLECTORS ITEMS, EVIL RED FLAME IS THE KEY PIECE TO COMPLETE YOUR RED FLAME LISTEN... YOU MUST PEACEFULLY DOWNLOAD BLUE FLAME TO UNDERSTAND RED FLAME AND EVIL RED FLAME MIXTAPE!! COLLECT THEM ALL!" SALEM is in fact, a Michigan -based band made up of 3 creative 20-somethings: Jack Donoghue, Heather Marlatt , and John Holland . While originally jokingly conceived by Travis Edgy as a pseudo-genre, the members of SALEM have fully embraced and embodied the signifying "qualities" of Witch-House ... hence, fortifying it as a legitimate reality
A-Trak & Armand Van Helden (Duck Sauce) Are a Couple of Giant D*¢kheads: "Big Bad Wolf"
"[The concept behind] "Big Bad Wolf" is pretty simple, and it can mean anything, really, so we wanted the video to have its own narrative," says A-Trak , one-half of the dance duo Duck Sauce , along with DJ Armand Van Helden . "Remember when dance music videos used to actually be creative? Like when you think back to Aphex Twin , Fatboy Slim, and Daft Punk ... I don't know why the genre's videos became so generic in recent years." - Alain ("A-Trak") Macklovitch "When Keith [Schoffield] came up with this idea of "crotchfaces," we just thought it was hilarious," A-Trak continues. "He started coming up with all these gags and describing the characters living in this sort of parallel world, and we were sold. He wasn't sure if we'd be down to play the leads. But our take on this was, if we're going to do this, we need to go all the way. So, we played the dickheads, essentially."
AWKWARD SILENCE - VERY RARE MIXTAPE: "THE HAIR & THE HATHER" (2 x POWER-UP)
Completed and released just the other day (Sat-Sun. night), after a Tiger Blood -fueled 11-hour final recording session... Zombie Gang's landmark release: The Hair & The Hather is not unlike Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) . A division of the larger group, Awkward Silence is moderately comparable to Method Man & Redman . To be honest, my opinion is slightly skewed because Dylan A.K.A. "Dolla" and Pauly Patey are a couple of my buddies; But this mixtape is a great introduction to the crew - Housing features from the likes of James Vagabond, Squid , KiD CuDi, and Joe NO Say . Sound-wise, I'm reminded of The Cool Kids, Lil B, Atmosphere , Odd Future, Asher Roth , and early Beastie Boys . After a few complete listens, a few of my early favourites are "Swedish Fish" [UP], "Fer'shur" [DOWN], and "In for The Roux." In a nutshell, the sum of their amassed Greatest Hits can be described as: Cold Hard Hip-Hop, Anti-Auto-Tun
Buddy: So Nice You Gotta Say It Twice - "Awesome Awesome" (Pharrell)
18-year-old Simmie ("Buddy") Sims is a FRESH Compton -bred rhymesmith; One of the premier editions to Pharrell's newly-formed up-start label, i am OTHER . Sims has already managed to lace up a beat or 2 from the master chiefs themselves, Pharrell & Chad Hugo: The Neptunes . Legend has it that late one fateful evening, music supervisor/friend, Scott Verner randomly strolled on through "Star Trak Studios." Verner proceeded to show Pharrell a self-produced music video of a FRESH, up-and-comer, Buddy [then 16]... brutally massacring Craig Mack - "Flava In Ya Ear" (Instrumental) . Skateboard P. was reportedly so blown away, that he instantly set up a meeting with Buddy a mere few days later. Right off the bat, Pharrell saw something "special" within the young rapper, offered to become his mentor, imminently inked a recording contract... and the rest, as they say, is history [in the making]! Buddy's debut single, "Awesome A
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"As for Conversation B , It's a bit of a re-visioning of In Case I Don't Make It (ICIDMI). Some people tuned in to ICIDMI without any problem, but there were others it didn't really connect with. Conversation B pushes the picture that I created with In Case I Don't Make It through these other producer's filters. That changes the tone of the album but it also lends itself to a number of new interpretations. While I produced ICIDMI in it's entirety, "Maxell UR" is the only song I produced on this Conversation B . The rest of it was taken on by Exile, J-Zone, [Kev Brown,] Eric Lau, Oddisee , and [Apollo Brown] . It all takes on a completely separate feel this time around. Conversation B may be a good primer for people who were maybe blind-sided by how dark In Case I Don't Make It was. I hope that if this is your first time hearing a Has-Lo record, it'll make you want to go back and experience ICIDMI. That's part of the reason I m
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This cryptic message was packaged along with the 10/20-21 after midnight release of Cocaine 80s - GhOSt LaDy EP : " ...but one of the many had their soul forced from where it was once was, and realized it wasn't so scary floating there, just outside the norm... " Thus building off the loose story arc initialized with Cocaine 80s' 2 previous June 2011 efforts: "...and he sang softly to them, and told them that though their noses may bleed, there would always be tissue... (The Pursuit EP) ...and when they returned only a short while after, they were warmly welcomed back with promises of more dope...oh, so much more..." (Like a Fool - birdsong) . Once again, the gang's all here; A slew of earnest session musicians, singer-songwriters, studio engineers, etc: Common, No I.D. James Fauntleroy, Kevin Randolph, Rob "The Mixer" Kinelski, Steve Wyreman , and Makeba . Employing a similar Tweet -for-download promotional campaign, GhOSt LaDy EP is
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For nearly as long as I can remember, I've been an aficionado of any and all things Pop Culture : music, fashion, cinema, comic books, food, art, travel, etc. Rihanna has without a doubt been a Pop Culture mainstay since first assaulting the Billboard charts with "Pon de Replay" (2005). Since then, the Barbadian [Bajan] beauty has somehow managed to record and release 5 studio albums, 25 solo singles, and countless chart-topping features. A few of my personal favourites include: "Shut Up and Drive," "Disturbia," "Man Down," "Hard" and "Live Your Life." Gradually evolving and growing with each collection, Rihanna is now a mature Hard Rocking club hopper; She has surely seen her fair share of adversity, but always manages to prevail! With "We Found Love," Rihanna bravely explores the previously untouched genre destinations of Electro-House and Dance-Pop . The simple, Calvin Harris -produced tune i
Gonjasufi Recruits Blu & Mainframe for 9thinningEP
Gonjasufi is a true "gypsy" in all senses of the word - A yoga instructor by day, rapper by night. He has been actively involved in the music industry in various facets for an un-disclosed period of time. Prior to releasing A Sufi and A Killer (2010), Gonjasufi somehow managed to quietly assemble and circulate a limited number of mix CD's. Released under his government name Sumach [Ecks-Valentine] , 4 hand-made CD-R's were spread throughout the San Diego, CA area between 2002-07. Upon its release, A Sufi and A Killer was widely praised by critics and Indie Hip-Hop fans alike; Due in part to its unique mix of Hip-Hop, Middle Eastern stylings, and 60's era Psych/Acid Rock ... all the while, skillfully blended with Gonjasufi 's signature chant-like vocal touches. The bulk of the record was produced by The Gaslamp Killer, Flying Lotus , and Mainframe under Ecks-Valentine's own artistic direction. Contrary to popular belief, Gonjasufi has been
The Big Pink - "Stay Gold" (AraabMUZIK Edit)
While stylistically, Indie Rock and Hip-Hop really don't have all that much in common, the 2 genres are actually fairly similar... aesthetically. Since their now "ancient" inceptions, Indie and Hip-Hop have always been marked by D.I.Y. roots and word-of-mouth promotion; It also seems as though the various musicians and fans of the respective genres maintain a mutual respect for each other's craft. All the while (since about 1980), they've somehow managed to co-exist and thrive as separate, yet similar entities. So, when Indie/Hip-Hop just so happen to intertwine, it usually isn't THAT much of a shocker. Speaking with NME back in August 2011, The Big Pink mentioned that Hip-Hop was shaping up to be a major influence on their upcoming sophomore album, Future This ... more specifically, Dr. Dre . A few months later, Cordell-Furze and 4AD then proceeded to recruit MPC Instrumentalist [beatsmith], AraabMUZIK to re-work lead single, "Stay Gold.&qu
Dicing It Up "In The Kitchen" with Asher Roth & Chuck Inglish (The Cool Kids)
"For the past couple years, Asher Roth and Chuck Inglish have been 2 artists that we've been eager to create music videos for. The first time we heard Ash rock over a Chuck beat was in 2008 when The GreenHouse Effect (mixtape) was released and the remix to "Black Mags" was recorded. Here we are now, both artists have released albums since then, and what a better time for the 2 to team up and create [some] new material. When Chuck Inglish first sent ["In The Kitchen"] over to us, we knew a video had to be shot immediately. From kitchen to kitchen, we ran around New York City creating the above visual which we find as the perfect representation to the bass heavy banger. Look out for Asher Roth's Pabst & Jazz to drop soon on ILLROOTS ... Get excited!" - Waxx, Carson & Williams
Anthony (M83) Gonzalez - "Midnight City:" Short, Mutant-Based Film
Frenchmen, Antony Gonzalez has been artfully crafting Dream -tinged Pop music as "M83" since roughly 2001; Averaging nearly 1 full-length album every 1.66666666667 years. That would mean that this most recent M83 commercial offering (Hurry Up, We're Dreaming) is essentially Album # 6-7. "Midnight City," a track pulled from the Justin Meldal-Johnsen produced album, has been effectively pushed as lead single. Since intercepting the music industry in 1993, Meldal-Johnsen has flexed his bass-playing abilities on a string of Beck albums between Mutations-Sea Change ... Jamiroquai - "Black Capricorn Day" (1999), Black Eyed Peas and Michelle Branch 's respective breakthrough albums - Monkey Business/Hotel Paper , and Nine Inch Nails' 2007-09 Tours. While recently speaking with a few media outlets, Anthony Gonzalez has publicly cited a number of classic [double] albums including: The Beatles ("White Album") , Smashing Pumpki
"Girl, You Know It's True:" Milli Vanilli, Original Posers (1990 Grammy's)
Yonas Michael Wants to Be a "Surf-Hop" Superstar
"It's provocative, new, Surf-Hop , edgy & not safe. But yet oh so sexy for the women," says Yonas Michael of the ideology behind his newly-crafted Surf-Hop sound. The artist formerly known as "Y-O" of U-N-I is putting the finishing touches on his debut solo project, Lost In Hollywood . So far, eager fans have heard a handful of assorted album tracks: "House Full of Women," "Scorpio Lover" (Preview), "Open the Door" [below], and "PUNKS." The latter will be the last official album advance until it's quickly-approaching Halloween (Oct. 31st) release date. While actively creating Lost In Hollywood , Michael acquired beats from Ro Blvd. Mainframe, Faahz, Tony (Crimekillz) , AJ Subat, Polyester, Tae Beast, Alejandro Chal, and Klutch. In a recent emailed exchange, Yonas Michael stated that the primary focus throughout was to make a classic, great album... and that the signature "Surf-Hop" sound
BALAM ACAB - "videogamesrmx" (Lana del Rey)
Yes yes, like the majority of Web 2.0 World , I have indeed fallen delightfully in "love" with one Lana del Rey ... and I'll be the first to admit that I've indeed posted my fair share of assorted tracks and remixes centered around the sultry songstress. But as a die-hard Indie Rock/D.I.Y. fan, this most recent BALAM ACAB -produced "Video Games" re-work is by far the most interesting, compelling, and buzz-worth take presented thus far. It was mysteriously uploaded to the artist's personal Facbook account sometime over the course of this past weekend. The man behind the "BALAM ACAB" moniker is in fact Alec Koone , a 20-year-old Pennsylvania native, who was partially responsible for the ever-rapid rise of "Witch-House" as a LEGIT[imate] musical genre. Since breaking onto the Indie music scene in 2008, Koone has released 2 EP-LP's worth of J Dilla -inspired Experimental tunes to widespread acclaim: See Birds EP and Wander
"Bad Boys" Really Don't Belong In Pacha, †onigh†
Affectionately [genre] classified as "House/Club/Gym," We Don't Belong In Pacha is the latest source of musical output for Londoner, Johan Hugo . Very much like the Popular rhythmic stylings of Hugo's primary effort, The Very Best (Radioclit) , Pacha is undoubtedly groove-heavy and without a doubt highly dance-able. Since forming We Don't Belong In Pacha in 2010-11, Johan Hugo has somehow already managed to assemble assorted remixes for the likes of Britney Spears, Lana del Rey , CSS, and Coldplay . The collective release(s) of "Arab Spring" and "Bad Boy †onigh†" mark Hugo's initial foray into the world of originally-composed, proper "solo" material. The latter's primary sample was lifted from "Bad Boy for Life" - The lead single from P. Diddy & The Bad Boy Family 's 2001 joint-crossover album, The Saga Continues... It seems as though Johan Hugo just returned from Malawi; Where he was busy record
"Dia de los Muertos" with Kendrick Lamar
"Rigamortis" essentially serves as one of the final movements of Section.80: Kendrick Lamar 's 2pac -inspired concept album, centered around the alarmingly high [substance] tolerance level of Reagan Era Youth . Serving as Track #12 of 16, "Rigamortis" marks that last leg of the album. More often than not, a segment that ends up being a bit lackluster - Nope, not here. In addition to fitting in with Section.80 's overall concept... I personally believe that Kendrick Lamar 's original composition almost signifies him metaphorically "murking" [murdering] the entirety of Rap game's meager competition. Filmed and directed by The ICU, "Rigamortis"' companion music video basically features Lamar walking through New York City streets, stepping over bodies, rapping... backed by a small The Roots -esque pick-up band/funeral procession. Read a few Top Dawg fan reviews and purchase a copy of Section.80 over @ Amazon . Kendric
Chairlift Craft Something Weirdly Interesting for "Amanaemonesia"
I bet that many of you may be fairly familiar with Chairlift and don't even know it. For example, the Boulder, CO Synth Pop group's 2008 track, "Bruises" was used in one of the initial iPod Nano [Chromatic] commercials. Chairlift have been noticeably inactive since the release of their debut long-player, Does You Inspire You? (2008) and lost a founding member, Aaron Pfenning - Now in pursuit of a solo career as "REWARDS." Chairlift 's remaining 2 members have also been focusing on a number of side-efforts, as of late: Songstress Caroline Polachek appeared on Washed Out 's recent lead single, "You and I," in addition to Popular tracks from Flosstradamus and Acrylics . Multi-instrumentalist Patrick Wimberely seems to have struck up quite the friendship with the boys of Das Racist; PatrickWHAT produced 5 individual tracks [this including "Michael Jackson" ] and went on to Executive Produce the entirety of their debut al
Lil B for #BASED President, 2012 A.D.
I recently found myself describing Brandon McCartney as, "[ Lil B ]'s TOTALLY "mental," yet fucking genius! Like if Biz Markie was off his meds." With that said, let me clarify that I'm a long-time fan of both Biz and Lil B . I harvest a certain amount of respect for anyone who's able to get that un-hinged, honest, and revealing. 9 times out of 10, Lil B employs the "#BASED" [stream-of-conscious] rapping technique throughout his original compositions. Since the June release of "street album," I'm Gay, Lil B has somehow managed to release 2-4 mixtapes - Roughly one every 2-3 weeks. The Silent President is the latest mixtape liberated in this string of on-going releases. Highlighted here, for your listening pleasure, are "Great China Sea" and "Beat the Cancer:" Freestyles over Kanye/Jay-Z and Metallica -driven beats, respectively. If that sounds like it just might pique your interest... or if Lil B
Silky Johnson Takes "Advantage" of Lana del Rey
Full disclosure: This is like a "Dream Post" for us here @ The Witzard , as it includes 3 of my absolute favourite things... Indie Hip-Hop , voluptuous women [redheads], and cutting-edge sample sources. I really hope that all of my fellow Hip-Hop heads and crate-diggers , and of course our array of female fans thoroughly enjoy this assortment of tracks, too. The blending of Lana del Rey's sampled vocal riffs and go-to Hip-Hop stylings makes more sense than you might think... since Lana del Rey is in fact, a self-proclaimed Hip-Hop aficionado: "You're so fresh to death & sick as ca-cancer. You were sorta Punk Rock , I grew up on Hip-Hop ." I must admit that I'm really looking forward to seeing/hearing what this seductive songstress has in store next for the music industry! For starters, it should be noted that up-and-coming producer "Silky Johnson" is in fact named after Dave Chappelle 's infamous character of the same name, wh
10 Years of Rap As Journalism: sole - "Dispatches from The American Fall"
While I'll be the first to admit that I'm far from being labeled "politically active" and/or "politically conscious," I harvest a great deal of respect for people who are passionate about political issues. My friend and fellow [Pseudo-]Music Journalist-rapper, Tim Holland (sole) on the other hand, delivers passionate, lyrically-driven rapped tales; In essence, re-telling the gradual downfall of the nation. More often that not, sole somehow manages to convey these urgent messages in a slightly playful, yet genuine manner. All the while, always coming off fairly information-driven, thought-provoking, and never too "preachy." This most recent effort, Dispatches from The American Fall ... is more of a compilation album than a proper mixtape - As it spans the bulk of sole 's 10-year career, highlighting some of the more crucial issues. Aside from a batch of newly remixed tracks and "I Think I'm Ben Bernanke," the remaining 18-20
Black Noi$e & SKYWLKR Detroit-ize Death Grips "Ex-military" (mixtape)
Spent this past Columbus Day Weekend in Ocean City, MD with some friends; (W)reckless, little mini-vacation! Saw a fair share of sweet-ass classic cars, Hooters girls, Yuenglings , food dishes, surfshops , delectable legs, etc. While nestled away with 8 comapdres in a "3-person hotel room," [sans computer] I was still able to research a few solid leads... receive an advance zip file, random Indie Hip-Hop track, and learned about "what the kids are listening to." Without a doubt, a weekend for the books, if I do say so myself! One of those formative [rough] stories: Black Noi$e & SKYWLKR - "exexmilitary." For all intensive purposes, a Detroit -fueled Remix CD version of Death Grips' mixtape (Ex-military) . Making good use of Flat-Lander, Zach Hill , and MC Ride 's recently supplied Black Google stems, the Straight-Edge Rocker and Bruiser Brigade beatsmith created this here 8-track EP... often re-arranging, tweaking, chopping, exten
Lana del Rey - "Video Games" (Jamie Woon Remix) & "Blue Jeans" [Acoustic]
"[That's] what you do when it's time for your second record. I'd written everything I wanted to write. I'd liked what I'd done, I'd liked my first record; [Lizzy Grant] was autobiographical and beautiful. "Video Games" is a 5-minute ballad with no instruments... It was a downscale from what I'd been doing with a fucking live orchestra. It was synthetic harps and no drums. It was a perfect melody for me, I thought it matched me. When people liked it, it was my least commercial song, it wasn't even a song anyone wanted on the Internet . It was a baby." - Lana del Rey , speaking with Sean Fennessey (GQ) .
Yasiin Bey & Talib Kweli Are "Black Star" (Madlib)
Ladies and gentlemen of This Fine Green Earth, Dizzee Rascal has in fact "made it!" While Rascal has without a doubt experienced a moderate amount of past success(es)... I think we can all agree that being sampled by Madlib and then interpolated as the sole element of a Black Star hook is a whole 'nother level of "industry success." So it seems that the one and only "Beat Konducta" (Madlib) listens to Dizzee Rascal ; For what it's worth, I'm really not all that surprised. "Fix Up, Look Sharp" originally appeared on London 's very own Grime posterchild's 2003 debut, Boy In da Corner . The self-produced beat for Rascal's break-out hit notoriously samples segmented portions of Billy Squier - "The Big Beat" (1980). Following the truly senseless 1996-97 deaths of both Biggie and 2pac , up-and-comers Mos Def and Talib Kweli courageously banded together in an effort to spread a message of "peace and love
Boogie Down BBQ with The [Legendary] Stepkids
Once upon a time, I had a "Summer Kick-Off" Memorial Day 2011 BBQ. In preparation, I invited a motley crew of close friends including Wyatt Cenac , The Stepkids , and Kurt Braunohler . But of course, the last few additions to the guest list didn't end up showing; I'm sure they were probably off doing something better... like making the people of the world laugh infectiously. The Stepkids are made up of 3 multi-talented singer-songwriters: Tim Walsh, Jeff Gitelman , and Dan Edinberg . Together, they craft a unique blend of Hip-Hop, Psych-Funk , and Pop music - Sounds which can now be heard and enjoyed by way of The Stepkids' self-titled debut long-player (Stones Throw) . Tom Scharpling 's finely executed music video concept is in fact, fairly simple: It opens with a CD-peddling New York City street vendor (Wyatt Cenac) selling The Stepkids album to an off-duty "suit," Kurt Braunohler . Once the CD is unwrapped, a hazing purple mist steams up
Drake: Making "Headlines," Since 2006
Honesty is key in life, blogging, and music. With that said, I've been a moderate fan of Aubrey "Drake" Graham since the beginning; Keeping up to date with his assorted releases, for the most part... But I must admit, I strongly favor a handful of songs over the bulk of Drake 's backcataloged entries. I just wish that Mr. Graham would either stick with rapping or run with singing R&B stylings - As I, and other fans, would then indeed garner a lot more respect for him as an artist. From the looks of this newly-released Lamar Taylor & Hyghly Alleyne -directed video, it seems as though Drake has fully embraced a SWAGGER -filled "Rap" persona, as of late. Excluding "Over" (2010), "Headlines" is by far the strongest original Drake composition I've heard since So Far Gone 's break-out hit, "Best I Ever Had" (2009). Universal Republic is pushing this hard-hitting Boi-1da/Noah "40" Shebib -crafted b
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Jump with Jill
(From left) Andrews Elementary students Mason Carter, 5, Jagger Balch, 5, Alyssa Cole, 4 and LaKotah Kellermeier, 5, dance with Jill (Laura Brown), while DJ Nick Greene plays music during the “Milk Means More Jump with Jill Live Tour” at Andrews Elementary on Wednesday, Nov. 2. Andrews Elementary...
Longtime Nottawa Twp. Clerk passes away at 66
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Fun with makeup
Allison Schrock allows make-up artist Savannah Cale to begin creating a “gory wound” on her arm. The girls did a demonstration in Dorothy Brueck’s art class at Constantine Middle School on Monday, Oct. 31. Cale mixed latex and flour into a paste, which she applied. She covered the latex with make-...
Three injured in crash
WHITE PIGEON TOWNSHIP — Three people were injured in a single-vehicle crash Sunday, Oct. 30 around 12:10 a.m. on Fawn River Road near Lima Road, according to the Michigan State Police Marshall Post, White Pigeon Detachment. A westbound 2005 Chevy Equinox driven by Larry Krotzer, 26, of White...
Andrews on the Run
Andrews Elementary third-grader Gabrielle Kilbourn accepts a sno-cone from principal Ben McIntyre during a lap around the playground as part of “Andrews on the Run.” The school surpassed its goal of $8,000, as students raised money for the PTO and were rewarded with a half-hour run on the...
Major power outage in Three Rivers
THREE RIVERS — Power went out in Three Rivers around 9:30 a.m. and some areas did not have it back for several hours. A representative of Indiana Michigan Power called it a substation-level outage due to an equipment failure, and it affected about 5,000 customers. Due to the power outage, Three...
Lockport seeks fire, ambulance millage
LOCKPORT TOWNSHIP — Lockport Township will ask voters on Nov. 8 for millage increases to fund ambulance and fire services. The ballot requests that taxes be increased by 0.5 mills for 10 years for the purpose of funding ambulance and emergency medical services to the township, raising an estimated...
M-66 closed for repair
STURGIS — There will be a total closure of M-66 today through Friday, Nov. 4, according to the Michigan Department of Transportation. Northbound and southbound M-66 between E. Hatch and E. Main will be closed at the railroad crossing. The detour is E. Hatch to N. Prospect to E. Main to M-66.
Yearling inducted into Lions’ Centennial Circle
THREE RIVERS — John Yearling joined an elite group of Lions on Friday, Oct. 28. Surprised by a visit from his family and a dozen Three Rivers Lions Club members at Bowman Place Senior Living where he resides, he soon learned from past district governor Jeff Mayuiers that he was now a member of the...
Fueling ‘Kristen’s fight’
Family and friends of Kristen Borst of Three Rivers turned out in droves to Frankie’s By The Tracks for a pizza fundraiser Saturday, Oct. 29 to support her as she battles pancreatic cancer. The restaurant donated $5 for each large pizza ordered; as of 7:30 p.m., 94 pizzas had been recorded in the...
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Home / Latest Updates / One of seven Indians kidnapped in Afghanistan returns home
One of seven Indians kidnapped in Afghanistan returns home
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The seven Indian engineers were kidnapped by Taliban militants in the restive northern Baghlan province on May 6 last year. India has been requesting the Afghan government to secure release of the Indians.
AT Monitoring Desk
KABUL: Ten months after being kidnapped in Afghanistan’s Baghlan province, one of the seven Indians has returned to India, the External Affairs Ministry said.
It said India continued to work closely with the Afghan government for the safe and early return of the remaining six Indian nationals.
“One of the seven Indian nationals, who was kidnapped in Baghlan province of Afghanistan in May 2018, has safely returned to India,” the MEA said.
“We are grateful to the Government of Afghanistan for their support in securing the release and repatriation of the Indian national,” it said.
The Indian engineers were working on a project for the construction of a power sub-station and they were kidnapped by Taliban militants from the vicinity of Cheshma-e-Sher area.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj had taken up the issue with the Afghan government on multiple occasions.
India has been carrying reconstruction activities in the war-torn country. It has already provided at least USD 2 billion aid to Afghanistan.
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What LatAm cities can learn from the failures of Brazil's UPP policing model
The shift toward more "humane" policing was impeded by how heavily the institution had been shaped by military influence
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Community policing has become the go-to security strategy in the Americas. But as the case of the Rio de Janeiro's "pacification" policing experiment shows, its impact has been limited and short-lived. The UPP program was once welcomed by many in the marginalized favelas as a radical change from the traditionally heavy-handed and militarized policing approach reserved for the city's impoverished areas. Security gains proved short-lived. By 2015, homicides were again on the rise. Impunity toward police abuses and extrajudicial killings -- which was singled out in Rio -- constitutes a challenge to normative changes within institutions. (See also: Rio is burning, the first UPP was literally set on fire | Why police reforms rarely succeed: Lessons from Latin America)
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A Spectator’s Guide on GOP Bid for Senate Control
California plays no role in the biggest political story of the year, the Democrats’ desperate struggle to hold off a Republican takeover of the Senate. No matter: a handful of faraway national political battles carry enormous importance for the state, and the high stakes may be summed up with a few names and numbers:
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, age 82
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, age 78
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, age 78
Why it matters: At first glance, the high probability that Republicans will seize control of the Senate may seem to Californians with…you know, actual lives…little more than yet another partisan, inside-the-Beltway, tit-for-tat drama, of genuine interest only to elected officials, lobbyists, political hacks, professional media blowhards, plus assorted plutocrats and greed heads.
Conservative corporate interests, Tea Party populists and denizens of the right-wing “news” bubble have treated President Obama’s presidency as illegitimate from his first day in office, an obstructionist stance that greatly deepened when the GOP won control of the House in the 2010 mid-terms. With Republicans already effectively stonewalling and shutting down his every action, idea and utterance, reflexively and in lockstep, what practical difference would it make if they do so more loudly?
As David Leonhardt argues persuasively in “The Upshot,” however, a GOP takeover of the Senate portends escalating trouble for progressives everywhere, in at least three key ways:
–Climate change: Thwarted by science deniers in Congress in his bid for a comprehensive national strategy, Obama more recently has used executive actions to impose lower carbon standards on power plants and automakers. Republican Senate leaders are already crowing about undoing these moves through federal budget ploys and schemes.
–Rear guard actions – House Republicans became a staple of late night TV jokes by futilely voting to roll back the Affordable Care Act 54 times in four years – (Bill Maher: “The Republicans in Congress voted to repeal Obamacare for a 40th time today. It’s really now less a governing philosophy – it’s more like Charlie Manson applying for parole”). If the Senate joins their reactionary effort, not only against health care, but also by attacking the Dodd-Frank Wall Street and banking regulations, however, Obama would face a non-stop barrage of such efforts, with bitter political and legal trench warfare the most pleasant possible outcome.
–The judiciary. Actuarial tables suggest at least one sitting Supreme Court justice will die or retire in the president’s final two years in office, so it’s worth comparing the type of replacement Obama – or his successor — might get through the Democratic Senate with one able to win approval from a Republican-dominated, um, World’s Greatest Deliberative Body, at a time when the conservative court has moved the country ever further rightward on a host of ideological issues since it hijacked the 2000 presidential election. At least as important, Obama’s ability to populate lower, but crucial federal circuit and appellate courts with moderates would be thoroughly hamstrung.
Fun with numbers: At least four major political websites have developed elaborate computerized statistical models to track the day-to-day odds of a Republican takeover, based on the latest polls and events. Frankly, however, trying to keep up with it all requires a full-time commitment to sitting in mom’s basement in your jammies, staring into your Mac. We name no names.
The cheat sheet arithmetic is this: Democrats currently hold an effective 55-45 majority in the Senate, counting their members and two reliable Independents. This means that Republicans must win a net six seats in the 36 states with Senate elections next month.
Just trust us on the preliminary calculus; then the deal comes down to who wins in five states – Alaska, Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina and Kansas. If GOP candidates win two of those five, they are all but guaranteed to capture the Senate.
Writing in Beltway-speak, frenetic Washington Post political reporter Chris Cillizza, explains:
Of the quartet of Democratic seats, North Carolina — somewhat amazingly — looks to be the toughest pickup for Republicans. Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.), thanks at least in part to a spending edge on television over the last month or so, has managed to build a steady four-ish-point edge that state House Speaker Thom Tillis (R) has been unable to narrow. Republicans feel increasingly positive about Alaska — where the Chamber of Commerce released a poll this week showing Dan Sullivan (R), whom the group has endorsed, ahead of Sen. Mark Begich (D) by six points — and Colorado, where three straight polls show Rep. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) ahead. Iowa is, today, the purest toss up race in the country.
But for Republicans, Kansas has become a major headache. Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), having survived a contested primary in August, seemed to think reelection to a fourth term was ensured and stopped doing, well, much of anything. Meanwhile, independent businessman Greg Orman was spending seven figures on an August media buy that boosted him significantly. Democrat Chad Taylor’s decision to drop out of the race — and the subsequent legal ruling that his name could be removed from the ballot — further endangers Roberts by coalescing the anti-Roberts vote.
No animals were harmed in the production of those two grafs.
The Obama factor – As a practical matter, the GOP’s strongest weapon is Obama himself. Nearly every mid-term election boils down to a referendum on the president; this one’s job performance and personal favorability ratings have plummeted since his 2012 re-election, due to a long, sad and familiar list of setbacks and failures, from the flawed roll-out of the Affordable Care Act website, to a series of ginned up Fox News “scandals” – Benghazi! Benghazi! Benghazi! – and a growing perception of presidential weakness, confusion and uncertainty on roiling national security matters around the world.
The GOP Senate strategy is simple: “President Obama is not popular,” Cillizza writes, wading deep into the weeds to explore the historic relationship between a president’s stature and mid-term results. “The closer you can link a Democrat to Obama, the better.”
Closer to home: Although California Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer are not on the ballot, their political futures are very much on the line on November 4.
Through seniority, both have ascended to powerful positions in Washington, and at their ages – Feinstein, 81, and Boxer, 74 next month – would find returning to minority status a repulsive development. Rumors already are rife that Boxer will not seek re-election in 2016; Feinstein’s term ends in 2018.
In an assessment of the situation, Carolyn Lochhead, longtime Capitol Hill reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, writes:
Boxer, a key backer of the administration’s controversial plan to cut carbon emissions from power plants, would cede the helm of the Environment and Public Works Committee to climate-change denier Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma.
Feinstein would lose the chairmanship of the Intelligence Committee, where she has spearheaded a multiyear fight against the CIA to expose torture practices during the George W. Bush administration — a campaign that Republicans have boycotted.
Feinstein, who long has played a central role in California’s water fights, would also cede the chairmanship of the energy and water panel of the Appropriations Committee, which has given her outsize clout on water issues. The panel controls spending on every water project in the country.
So there’s that.
Can’t tell the players without a scorecard: For those eager to surrender the next four weeks of their lives to scurrying down deep, online rabbit holes in pursuit of endless factoids and trivia about the great 2014 fight for the Senate, here are the go-to sites:
Election Lab. The Washington Post’s computer model tends to be the most bullish on Republican chances.
The Upshot. The New York Times model strongly leans Republican.
538. The ESPN-owned site of idiot savant Nate Silver is recommended for serious gamblers.
Princeton Election Consortium. Princeton professor Sam Wang is an outlier, having consistently touted Democratic chances of hanging on to a majority; for junkies, his ongoing online feud with Silver on the subject is worth the price of admission.
Caveat emptor.
(A version of this column was published by the Santa Barbara Independent on Oct. 2)
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How Gov Candidates Sell Amid Doom and Gloom
Monday, February 1st, 2010
California’s candidates for governor face the gnarliest combination of public anger and economic distress in decades, making the 2010 race a text book case study in political communications: How does a wannabe governor effectively tell extremely pessimistic voters he or she understands the depths of their misery, without succumbing to despair, and while offering hope for the future that doesn’t over-reach or seem totally naïve?
Call it the Carter Conundrum, in homage to failed one term President Jimmy Carter, who simultaneously faced double digit inflation, huge unemployment and the first assault on America’s national security by violent Muslim fundamentalists. He famously screwed the pooch in that deal by tapping fully into the gloom and anxiety of voters about the seemingly intractable conditions they faced – and got walloped by a sunny and upbeat Ronald Reagan in 1980 for his trouble.
In watching the candidates for governor so far, Calbuzz sees markedly different approaches to the problem. Here are some rail bird observations on the strengths, weakness and holes in their strategies, at the first turn of the race.
What the candidates face. A few factoids to set the stage:
California voters have a most dismal view about the direction of the state, as both the Field Poll and PPIC show about eight in 10 voters saying we’re on the wrong track.
Part of it is the state’s higher-than-national unemployment rate, part the years of failed leadership, massive budget deficits and political gridlock in Sacramento. The Field Poll reported that 59% of voters, including 54% of Republicans, expect Gov. Schwarzenegger to leave the state in worse shape than he found it – along with near universal (95%) agreement that we’re experiencing bad economic times and the feeling among a significant strong majority of people (54%) that they’re personally worse off than they were a year ago.
Interestingly, the last high point for optimism, when Californians thought the state was clearly on the right track, was back in August 2000, as 59% of voters said they were better off than the year before and Gov. Gray Davis enjoyed a 59-35% right track-wrong track assessment.
Of course the economy was in far better shape and neither the Enron-induced energy crisis nor the 9/11 terrorists had struck yet.
As a political matter, however, there was another dynamic at play: Davis, consciously and conscientiously, chose NEVER to convey bad news, but personally only conveyed good news. If the Parks Department was going to cut fees, for example, that was an announcement for the governor. If the Parks Department was going to raise fees – that was an announcement for the Parks Director. It was at least part of the reason why his approval rating was around 60%, two years after his election.
To some extent, this is simply political Public Relations 101, which Schwarzenegger seemed not to understand, at least at first. He spent his first two years in office constantly decrying how bad things were in California. The result: People believed him.
After voters waxed his 2005 2004 initiatives, he re-emerged as Hopeful Arnold and his approval ratings went back up. That they’ve fallen again is mostly due to global, national and state economic woes, but also because he consistently focuses on problems and points the finger of blame – his State of the State speeches are notable exceptions – that remind everyone things are terrible with no way out.
The Jerry & Jeremiah show: Given Attorney General Brown’s duck-and-hide, Rose Garden strategy, it’s early to assess fully the themes he intends to stress on the campaign trail. Back in April, in his speech to the state Democratic convention, he was a thundering populist, railing against investment bankers and corporate power. In September, in a talk to Willie Brown’s power breakfast in San Francisco, he tried a new line – “optimism of the will” – that was one-part Joel Osteen and one-part Frederic Nietzsche, which combined with stock rhetoric about hope and the Golden State.
More recently, however, he’s devolved into full Jeremiah mode, recalling the biblical prophet of doom and gloom who played a central role in the aptly named Book of Lamentations.
“The state is profoundly screwed up,” Brown said on KGO the other day, “and anybody who thinks they got an idea, I would say, ‘Give me a call, I’d like to listen to it.’ Because I can tell you we’re in for blood, sweat and tears over the next four years no matter who runs.”
Putting aside the fact that, because it’s Jerry, we’re not entirely sure whether the blood sweat and tears reference was to Churchill or the guys who made “You Made Me So Very Happy,” the statement itself would have made his top political consultants wince, if he had any top political consultants:
Here’s the thing: People know the state is profoundly screwed up – they don’t need to elect somebody to tell them things are screwed up. What they’re looking for in a leader is someone to show them a way the state might not be screwed sometime in the pretty near-term future.
If Brown stays with the Jeremiah act, he’ll end up getting tossed into a cistern, just like the original guy. Especially with those Old Testament eyebrows.
eMeg and the culture of “I.” Meg Whitman’s message could not be clearer: “I will not let California fail.”
Echoing the Brown line, eMeg tells people, in her carefully controlled appearances , that California is screwed up, schools are lousy, we spend too much, state workers are greed heads who deserve to be fired and nobody in Sacramento knows anything.
Pivoting, she then essentially says that the only hope for the state is Meg Whitman – “I will not let California fail.” eMeg can turn things around because she has experience in the private sector, knows how to whack a payroll, cripple the unions and smack sense into the worthl ess Legislature.
She can do all these things, it seems, because she has “a spine of steel,” i.e. she’s got more backbone than Schwarzenegger, who made essentially the same arguments as her in winning the 2003 recall. So: She’s more muscular than Mr. Universe. Really? Will voters believe this?
Her diatribes about California being a mess may resonate, but what, really, can she do about it? Will voters believe that she has a clue how to get things done in the political hothouse of Sacramento when her only experience is being the Alpha Dog in a corporation where she yapped and everybody around her yelped? That’s not how politics works.
Poizner: Yes we can. Interestingly, Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner, who’s nowhere in the polls, is at present the only guy who’s selling a message of better days ahead.
Part of it is his strong focus on private sector expansion. Where eMeg aims her moral rectitude and disapproval at the need to inflict pain on the processes and politics of the Capitol, Poizner seems to view Sacramento as a side show and focuses his campaign critique on the need for economic growth.
Part of it, too, is the specificity of the solutions he offers. As a policy matter, we happen to think his prescription of radical tax and spending cuts is Flat Earth Society stuff, but at least he’s got a plan, which he presents in a soft-spoken but upbeat manner.
Poizner’s biggest problem is one of stature: He looks like a nerd, especially compared to the commanding figure of eMeg and the ascetic Brown.
But that’s not altogether a bad thing: If Californians have a history of electing charismatic governors – Reagan, Jerry Brown I and Schwarzenegger – they also have a tendency to course correct with low-key, pragmatic nerds – George Deukmejian, Pete Wilson and Davis come to mind. It’s no accident that Deukmejian just endorsed Poizner.
Poizner sells himself essentially as an engineer, a guy who wants to get under the hood and get his hands dirty fixing stuff. There are worse messages to try in the troubled political landscape of 2010.
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Watch as England was Re-Dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary - Now you can Pray at Home with the Official Prayers
On Sunday, March 29th, 2020 at 12pm noon, England was re-dedicated to Mary. Although the faithful could not be at their churches, there were and still can be part of the virtual congregation at home.
You can join, anytime, Virtually with the prayers below.
Why is England called the Dowry of Mary?
On the Feast of Corpus Christi 1381, King Richard II dedicated England to Mary in a ceremony at Westminster Abbey in thanksgiving for his kingdom being saved at the time of the Peasants’ Revolt.
England received the title ‘Mary’s Dowry’; meaning that England was ‘set aside’ as a gift – a dowry – for Our Lady under her guidance and protection.
Watch and take part… Pray the Re-dedication
You can join to pray the Angelus Prayer and the Act of Entrustment with Cardinal Vincent Nichols. Subtitles and signed version also available (BSL).
Today we’re invited to take part in the Re-dedication of England as Mary’s Dowry and to make a personal Act of Dedication. Let us unite in prayer and join Cardinal Vincent Nichols.
Our film has subtitles and, if you can read British Sign Laguage (BSL) we have a version of the Cardinal praying the re-dedication between the two prayers below.
The Angelus Promise
The Angelus Promise is a spiritual exercise created to assist us to embrace the message of Our Lady, as expressed in the Angelus. It invites us to ‘share in the joy of the Annunciation’ by following Mary’s openness to God’s call, through her faith-filled ‘yes’. Through our own faith-filled ‘yes’, the Lord will work wonders in our lives.
Angelus Promise – Behold 2020
R: The Angel of the Lord declared unto Mary
V: And she conceived by the Holy Spirit
As God once chose Mary to become the Mother of his Son through the message of an angel, so he chooses me this day, and invites me through the ministry of the Church or the example of another, to seek and do his will at this moment in my life. Hail Mary full of grace…
R: Behold the handmaid of the Lord
V: Be it be done unto me according to thy Word
Mary’s response to her invitation, ‘let it be done to me according to your Word’, opened her heart to God’s grace and all things became possible. Let my ‘yes’ today take away fear, as I embrace God’s will, and like Mary ‘ponder these things in my heart’. Hail Mary full of grace…
R: And the Word became flesh (Bow or genuflect)
V: And dwelt among us
At a moment in history, Mary’s faith-filled ‘yes’ conceived him, first in her heart, which then led to the birth of our Saviour. Through accepting him in my heart, enable me to recognise my role in bringing Christ to my sisters and brothers today. Hail Mary full of grace…
R: Pray for us most holy Mother of God
V: That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ
Let us pray: O Holy Mother of God, pray for us, and assist us as we dedicate ourselves this day. Your ‘yes’ at the Annunciation brought our Saviour Jesus into the world, and you invite us to contemplate the great mystery of the Incarnation, sharing your joy in announcing that ‘the Word was made flesh and lived among us.’ May our yes, this day, open our hearts to serve our sisters and brothers in this your Dowry, that they too may share our joy in the Good News that God walks among us. We make this prayer through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Act of Entrustment Based on Prayer of Erasmus 1532, Dedication of England to the Mother of God 1893, Prayer for England, Cardinal Griffin’s Act of Consecration 1948, Act of Consecration St John Paul 1982.
Act of Entrustment – Behold 2020
PrayerO Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God and our most gentle Queen and Mother, look down in mercy upon England thy Dowry and upon us all who greatly hope and trust in thee.
ResponseWe your faithful people assembled here offer you this country in which we live. Once it was yours, all its children were your children and you were honoured throughout England as its Protectress and its Queen. Again do we consecrate it as your Dowry, and entrust it to your maternal care.
PrayerBy thee it was that Jesus our Saviour and our hope was given unto the world; and he has given thee to us that we might hope still more.
ResponseTo you we entrust the Church, which invokes you as Mother. On earth you preceded her in the pilgrimage of faith. Comfort her in her difficulties and trials. Make her always the sign and instrument of intimate union with God and of the unity of the whole human race. To you, Mother of the human family, and of the nations, we confidently entrust the whole of humanity with its hopes and fears. Let it not lack the light of true wisdom. Guide it to seek freedom and justice for all. Direct its steps in the ways of peace. Enable all to meet Christ, the Way, the Truth and the Life.
PrayerPlead for us thy children, whom thou didst receive and accept at the foot of the Cross, O sorrowful Mother.
ResponsePray, O Holy Mother of God, for the conversion of heart of the people of England, restoration of the sick, consolation for the troubled, repentance of sinners, peace to the departed. Queen of Peace, pray for us and give to the world the peace for which all peoples are longing, peace in the truth, justice and charity of Christ. Give peace to the nations and to the souls of all, that in peace, the Kingdom of God may prevail.
PrayerIntercede for our separated brethren, that with us in the one true fold they may be united to the supreme Shepherd, the Vicar of thy Son.
ResponseMay your prayers bring back this country to the fullness of its ancient faith. May your intercession lead us to a closer union with your divine Son. We offer you all the people of this land, especially those who know you so little or not at all. May all in our country know Christ, the light of the world and its only Saviour.
PrayerPray for us all, dear Mother, that by faith fruitful in good works we may all deserve to see and praise God, together with thee, in our heavenly home.
ResponseMay we who follow your Son, be fruitful in the good work of building a culture of life in our world, where all human life is treasured and the gift of God’s creation is respected and cared for, so that all may share the fruits of Gods generous love.
V: Pray for us O Holy Mother of God: That we may be made worthy of the Promises of Christ.
O Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, and our most gentle Queen and Mother, look down in mercy upon England, thy Dowry, and upon us all who greatly hope and trust in thee. By thee it was that Jesus, our Saviour and our hope, was given unto the world; and he has given thee to us that we might hope still more. Plead for us thy children, whom thou didst receive and accept at the foot of the cross, O sorrowful Mother, intercede for our separated brethren, that with us in the one true fold they may be united to the Chief Shepherd, the Vicar of thy Son. Pray for us all, dear Mother, that by faith, fruitful in good works, we may all deserve to see and praise God, together with thee in our heavenly home. Amen.
Signed version (BSL)
Shell Rocha from the Caritas Westminster Deaf Service has kindly produced a British Sign Language (BSL) version of the Cardinal’s re-dedication prayers.
Source: https://www.cbcew.org.uk/
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Jason Arnett - May 6, 2016
Delos and his family sat around the kitchen table. Morning sun glinted off the polished tiles. He didn’t notice that neither his daughter nor his wife had eaten anything. Caroline cried while her mother stared at Delos. Oblivious to their distress, Delos wiped his mouth with the blue linen napkin from his lap.
“Time to go to work,” he said and rose from his chair. The napkin lay next to his clean plate.
He kissed Maureen on the cheek, told her to have a nice day and squeezed Caroline’s shoulder. “Good luck on that math test today.”
Outside, Delos walked three blocks to his bus stop, coincidentally last on the express line downtown. Birds sang along the way and he found himself smiling. It would take him half an hour on the express to get to his building and he would use that time to go over the details of the Cavanaugh deal. Not that it was complicated but he wanted to give his boss his best work. It was a big contract, after all.
“‘Morning, Bob,” Delos said as he boarded and paid his fare. Bob looked over his tablet at Delos without recognition but returned the greeting. Everyone else in the cabin ignored him.
He found a seat in the middle and opened his own tablet. Delos went over the details of the contract he was overseeing: the advance money was high but not out of line with other deals for celebrities. The terms were really in the firm’s favor though it didn’t look that way on the surface. Cavanaugh’s team of agents and lawyers would know this but the bidding was over so it would fly. The firm would own everything it needed to.
The bus passed into the shadows of skyscrapers giving Delos a sense of being deep in a canyon at the bottom of the ocean. When he got off the bus at the corner of 33rd and Roc he was as calm as an unbroken lake. He looked up to appreciate the clear blue sky above, framed like a widescreen movie by the towers trying to reach it.
Inside his building Delos waved his security key card over the scanner and smiled at Boston, the guard. The friendly beep of acceptance belied the concern on Boston’s face. It was like Boston had never seen him before. Delos shook the feeling off and caught the elevator just before the door closed.
He got off at the 36th floor and made a beeline straight for his office. Carly wasn’t at the front desk when he passed so he’d have to call her and find out if there were any messages when he got settled. The Cavanaugh meeting wasn’t until this afternoon and his calendar was clear until then. He paid no attention to the fact that he didn’t encounter anyone else on his way in.
Delos’ office was properly serene: everything in its place and perfectly placed for maximum effect; the dark woods of the desk and panelling lightened in the bright sunlight pouring through the window. A couch, three chairs with his the best and tallest made it a comfortable place. The art on the walls was tasteful and something he never would have chosen for himself but he liked it. His view of the city below was befitting his station as partner in this publishing firm. Delos himself was happy and content. It was going to be a good day. He brought up the contract and looked it over again.
Thirty minutes later the door to Delos’ office opened. He looked up.
“Oh,” an older gentleman said. He had silver hair, a thin goatee and a shocked look on his face. His dark suit and immaculate tie further contributed to his image as a reigning partner. He was barely inside the room. “I’m sorry I didn’t think you were back from…”
“Alan,” Delos said with great warmth and rose to walk around the desk. “Good to see you. I was hoping we could have a short chat before the Cavanaugh team came in.”
“Who are you?” Alan stepped back into the hall. “What are you doing in Delos Mason’s office?”
Surprised, Delos kept walking toward the older man. “What do you mean, Alan? This is my office.”
Alan retreated as quickly as Delos advanced on him. “You’re not Delos!”
His face darkened and Delos stepped over the threshold of the office. “Be quiet, Alan. There’s -“
“Stop right there,” Boston said. “I don’t know who you are, but you’re not Mr. Mason.”
Alan looked visibly relieved when Delos held up a finger as if to say just a moment then slowly turned to face Boston.
Delos smiled an easy, practiced smile, held out his hands in a welcoming gesture. “Of course I am, Boston, I’ve always been Delos Mason.”
Boston pulled his 9mm pistol and pointed it at Delos. “No sir, you’re not him. Put your hands behind your head and get on your knees. The police are on their way.”
“There’s no need for that,” Delos said. He took two steps toward Boston and was impressed that the man’s gun hand didn’t waver. He tried to reach out to Boston, to convince the guard that nothing was wrong. “There is really no need.” His voice was soft, his expression calm.
Delos was deafened by the sound of the gunshot. He whirled to his left and the lights went out.
Blurry waves of light and sound washed over Delos, gently waking him. There was a rhythm to the sound that he recognized as speech though the words were indistinct. He swallowed and it hurt, he moved his head to the left and it hurt. Delos stopped moving, waited for everything to sharpen up. He tried to swallow again but it was too painful. He began counting to himself.
It took one hundred forty counts for shapes to resolve themselves: a window, a curtain, a woman in blue scrubs. “He’s awake,” the woman, presumably a nurse, said. “You get five minutes.”
Another woman, this one older and more hardened by life, came into his field of vision. She squinted at him, studied him, then said, “I’m Detective Paula Garney. You have the right to remain silent, the right to an attorney and anything you say may be used against you in a court of law. If you cannot afford an attorney one will be appointed if you cannot afford it. If you answer my questions now you have the right to stop answering until you can speak to an attorney. Do you understand your right?”
She waited until he nodded then said, “Sir, what is your name?”
Delos’ mouth was dry and his throat still hurt. He wasn’t sure he could speak but he croaked some sounds then tried again. “Delos Mason. June 22, 2057. Palo Alto.”
“Sir, that’s the information for the real Delos Harmon, the man you killed last night.” She was very matter of fact. “His wife and child saw you do it. Then you held them hostage until this morning. Do you understand what I’m saying to you?”
“I’m Delos Mason,” Delos said.
“No sir, you are not. Why did you kill Mr. Mason?”
“I didn’t.”
The woman sighed. “Who are you?”
Delos felt stronger now. He heard the incessant, rhythmic beeps of the machines he was hooked up to, felt the cool air pushed into his nostrils by the cannula. “I told you, I’m Delos Mason.”
He watched the detective steel herself for further interrogation. He relished the opportunity to keep telling her what she didn’t want to hear but which was the truth.
“The body of Delos Mason was discovered in the basement of his home this morning,” Detective Garney said. “You murdered him around 9 PM last night in front of his wife and daughter.” She smiled.
“Let’s not presume anything, Detective.”
Delos tried to turn his head to see who had spoken, who the new arrival was, but it hurt too much. He winced in pain but saw Garney scowl.
“Who’re you?”
“Grassby. I’m his lawyer.” Grassby held out his card to the detective. “He won’t be answering any more questions for the time being. I need to confer with my client.”
Detective Garney snapped her little notebook shut, glared at Delos then left the hospital room, closing the door behind her.
“Mr. Grassby…”
“Tut,” Grassby said and stood right next to the bed. “You don’t know me. I’m here to take care of everything.”
“What – how?”
Grassby set his briefcase across Delos’ lap and opened it. “It doesn’t matter and you won’t care after it’s done. The good doctors of this hospital have already given you a strong paralytic with your sedatives. After all, you’re a dangerous man.”
“No,” Delos said when he saw the hypodermic in Grassby’s hand. “NO. No no no no.”
Each time Delos shook his head pain sloshed between his ears, liquid fire burning the inside of his skull; acid eating at the base of his brain.
“Come now, don’t struggle. The paralytic works harder when you thrash about and while you’re trying to fight it I’ve done what needed doing.”
Delos struggled but millions of tiny needles stabbed the insides of his arms and legs, threatened to push through into the air. He wanted to scream with the pain but he couldn’t open his mouth any more.
Grassby looked Delos in the eye. “It’s a matter of moments now before you’re gone. You’re not Delos Mason, no matter how much you want it to be true. Once you were Savion Rogers but you’ll never be him again, either. You’ll get your assignment when you return for reprogramming.
“The committee thanks you for your service.”
He smiled at Delos.
Delos knew, as the needles worked the inside of his skin, that he wasn’t really Delos but he didn’t remember being Franklin Reed. He couldn’t feel his toes any more.
He liked being Delos. Delos was respected and he wanted that to be important. He wanted that to be everything. Delos didn’t remember why he wanted to be Delos or how he’d become Delos. He had no recollection whatsoever of Savion Rogers. All that was fuzzy now and his lungs felt full.
It was hard to breathe.
He pulled as much air as he could in one big gulp, then heard it hiss between his teeth.
Jason Arnett
Jason Arnett is a storyteller living in Kansas and writing in the plains of the fantastic. Some of his work can be found at www.jasonarnett.com
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Category Archives: Bruins
Both the NHL 2021 season and the Bruins future are a mystery
By Kevin Flanagan
If there is one thing certain about the NHL’s return to regular season play in 2021, it is uncertainty. Like the rest of us, the league and the players are being held hostage by the resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic as winter approaches, and the case numbers once again begin to surge.
When will the season start? Where will teams play? How long will the season be?
This is everything we are hearing about the NHL's plans for 2021:https://t.co/DPY9GTJGce
— The Athletic Montreal (@TheAthleticMTL) November 14, 2020
No matter how closely the commissioner’s office and the NHL Players’ Association leadership continue to work together – and don’t fool yourself for a second, this will be a mostly revenue-driven conversation for both sides – there is no way to predict what we will be facing once the New Year rolls around.
“I don’t want to get into the specifics, but I do think the financial terms on which we play, whatever season we’re playing, have a lot of elements to them,” NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly said late last week describing the dilemma facing both sides. “Those are all going to have to be discussed and agreed upon between the owners and the players before we can move forward.
“But that’s always been the case. I want to avoid creating the impression there’s any controversial issues. All issues have to be agreed upon. I don’t view one issue to be isolated from all the other issues.”
And while there have been whispers about owners around the league looking to bypass a truncated season that will likely be without the fan attendance they rely on to pay their bills at least to start, The Athletic’s Scott Burnside reported on Friday that shutting the season down isn’t an option.
“I think we’re going to play,” one NHL governor said after Thursday’s call. “This whole, ‘We’re not going to play’ is off the table,” the veteran hockey scribe confirmed in his piece.
So does all this uncertainty give Bruins general manager Don Sweeney a safe fall back position to defend his pedestrian performance in the oddest of NHL offseasons?
I guess that depends on who you choose to believe.
On Friday, Burnside’s colleague Craig Custance at the above-mentioned site wrote about a survey he had shared with 21 NHL player agents across the league.
When asked what franchise still needs to make a significant move before the season begins, the Bruins headed the list.
One of those polled whose job is to have their finger on the NHL pulse said the following about the team that calls Causeway Street home.
“The thing with Boston is they want to do a youth movement on the fly. You can’t be a contending team where they’re at. You either have to go for it or not. They’re on the fence. Boston, what direction are you going to go?”
While a bit more complimentary and most certainly more optimistic tone, another responded with what could be a not so subtle warning of what the future may hold for the Black and Gold.
“I’m going to go with Boston. I think Boston is a very legitimate Stanley Cup contender. The Craig Smith signing is very good. It boosts what could be the best top-six forward group in the league. Maybe even top nine once they get Jake DeBrusk signed … But they lost Torey Krug, they need a defenseman. I do think their Stanley Cup window is open and will shut fairly soon. There is uncertainty with Tuukka Rask. They need to find a defenseman.”
The latest on Tuukka Rask, Dougie Hamilton and Sami Vatanen in today’s #NHL rumor mill. https://t.co/wYWmQ61gU9
— Spector's Hockey (@SpectorsHockey) November 13, 2020
No matter on which side of the argument that you fall on regarding the Bruins future – and based on the responses I get from those who wear black and gold glasses 24/7, I pretty much know who the sheep will follow – both that and the ’21 NHL regular season is shrowd in a fog no one can see through.
And that is the only certainty hockey fans – especially those in Boston – can currently be assured of in the near future.
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Destination mediocrity – The rhythmless beat goes on for the Bruins
This mystifying, oddly timed offseason has become increasingly more perplexing for Bruins fans who are seemingly watching their favorite team taking a Sunday drive on the road to nowhere with each passing day.
After rumblings that the B's brass was under an ownership enforced internal salary cap that Jeremy Jacobs was so famous for...
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If you have been a Bruins fan for any length of time and you wake up this Saturday morning surprised by the fact that your team has done absolutely nothing to improve in what is often the most crucial week of any offseason, there are only three words I have to offer.
Shame on...
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Hybrid transaction/analytical processing (HTAP) enables databases to perform transactions and analytics simultaneously, creating new business opportunities.
What does hybrid transaction/analytical processing (HTAP), a database technology that uses in-memory capabilities to perform OLAP (online analytical processing) and OLTP (online transaction processing) at the same time, have to do with the port authority of Hamburg, Germany?
One of the busiest ports in the world, it is expecting massive growth but expanding its physical footprint isn't an option amid a city of 1.7 million people. As many as 8,000 trucks pass through the port each day, and nobody wants those trucks just idling while they wait in a queue.
To handle growth, the port is undertaking a massive Internet of Things project that aims to coordinate traffic -- marine and road -- so that trucks arrive at the exact moment a crane can load a container onto the flatbed. The project involves 300 traffic sensors that track data such as how many parking spaces are available and whether open bridges have traffic stopped, then apply analytics to achieve these gains.
'Go-to Architecture' for Operational Analytics
IoT is one of the latest use cases for hybrid transaction/analytical processing, a moniker that Gartner coined for databases that can perform transactions and analytics simultaneously.
"It's pretty much the go-to architecture for operational applications; anything to do with the customer journey, anything omni-channel," said Timo Elliott, innovation evangelist for SAP.
"If you go to a website and want to recognize that this is the same person who's standing in your store checking the website to see if the price is different, you can bring up that person's purchase history and provide that to the sales assistant along with what product to recommend. The HTAP architecture is designed to do exactly that. Along with transactions, that information is immediately available," he said.
[Read more about operational analytics: Your Next Big Data Project? Operational Analytics]
HTAP Growth
"The real story is that HTAP is going mainstream," said Gartner analyst Massimo Pezzini.
While HTAP technology isn't new, adoption is accelerating, which Elliott attributes to falling costs and business imperatives. Adoption has long been far too expensive for anybody except financial services or tech companies.
"It's only in the past few years that the cost of these in-memory chips compared to hard drives has been a tipping point. There's still a cost differential, but it's completely outweighed by the business benefits -- being able to access that information up to million times faster," he said. "People want to do real-time everything, expect to do real-time everything."
Gartner doesn't have firm numbers on HTAP's share of the database market, which is still fairly small, but Pezzini said he found a recent survey telling.
When it asked companies the primary use case for buying a new database, 20 percent cited HTAP capabilities. That was surprising; he'd expected it to be 4 percent. But 40 percent put it among their top three factors.
HTAP Capabilities
HTAP typically is used to address process optimization, portfolio optimization, real-time risk management and security, according to Barry Morris, co-founder of NuoDB.
What inventory do I need to update? Which ad is the best one to serve next? Where are the "free" Uber cars at this moment? Which is the best computer for me to run my next application? These are the kinds of questions HTAP can address.
Traditional analytics systems often provide business insights too late, Pezzini pointed out. Financial institutions want to address potential fraud as it's happening, not days or weeks later.
Among the new capabilities that HTAP offers businesses:
The ability to adjust prices on the fly or update an online product catalog in real time based on the potential customer's search
As a sales person, creating simulations to determine which version of a product to sell to a particular customer
As a sales manager, monitoring your team in real time as the end of the quarter approaches
Plan shipments of goods based on a reaction to an event, such as a strike or snowstorm
How HTAP Handles Different Workloads
Combining the two types of workloads, OLAP and OLTP, is "by no means a trivial engineering effort," 451 Research analyst Matthew Aslett and Carnegie Mellon assistant professor Andrew Pavlo conclude in a research paper.
The two types of workloads have different processing needs. OLTP databases need rapid response times, handle many concurrent sessions and target specific records for reads/updates. OLAP workloads are the exact opposite: they use long- running queries, few concurrent sessions and large scans of whole tables.
Modern databases incorporate a number of innovations -- new concurrency schemes, storage flexibility, and elastic capacity -- that make HTAP possible, explained NuoDB's Morris.
For example, many historical databases use lock-based concurrency to prevent updates to any data being used in an analytical workload -- thereby blocking transactional workloads against that data. By using version-based concurrency models, modern databases can enable both processes to run without sacrificing consistency.
Similarly, the advent of databases that can adjust capacity on demand and have flexible storage systems enables organizations to add machines optimized for that workload, then redeploy -- or in the case of cloud, delete -- the specialized machines once the job is over.
HTAP Benefits
Gartner initially outlined four key HTAP benefits:
Data doesn't have to move from operational databases to data warehouses
Transactional data is readily available for analytics when created
Drill-down from analytic aggregates always points to fresh HTAP application data
You eliminate or at least reduce the need for multiple copies of the same data
Elliott also points to faster querying, strong data compression and flexibility to make changes among HTAP's benefits.
HTAP Challenges
But there are HTAP challenges, too, said Pezzini, including:
A skills problem. Finding developers and systems engineers with a deep understanding of this technology can be tough.
Adapting legacy applications. "If you have an existing application, engineering the application to HTAP is not simple. You have to do some significant work. It you want to take advantage of HTAP capabilities to the fullest, you may need to rewrite the application," he said.
A business mismatch: It's difficult for IT people to explain all of the technology's capabilities. "The technology can do more than most business people can figure out."
HTAP Vendors and Future Adoption
All the major database providers -- SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, and Teradata -- now offer this capability along with upstarts including VoltDB, NuoDB, Clustrix, MemSQL, Splice Machine, CockroachDB and others.
Pointing to the SAP ERP suite S/4HANA as an example, Pezzini foresees wider adoption as the major vendors embed HTAP into their core enterprise software products.
"The smaller players brought technology to market sooner than Oracle, Microsoft and IBM, but these big guys have an impact in the market," he said.
Legacy vendors have been producing systems designed 15 or 20 years ago; they need to differentiate and innovate, he said. They're doing so in ways such as moving applications to the cloud and adding support for mobile.
"I don't believe many organizations are going to build their own HTAP applications, but many of them will use HTAP in packaged applications and SaaS solutions," Pezzini said.
Susan Hall has been a journalist for more than 20 years at news outlets including the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Dallas Times Herald and MSNBC.com. She writes for The New Stack and FierceHealthIT, among other publications.
This article was originally published on August 30, 2016
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Genesis Lynea
Jack Nolan
Olivia D’Lima
Uriel Emil
Neet Mohan
Kerry Godliman
James Alexandrou
Jody Latham
Dudley Sutton
Rebecca Ryan
Maddy Hill
Joe McFadden
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Mark Letheren
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Neet Mohan : Previous Appearance
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1.02 Hide and Seek – 13/9/86
1.13 No Future – 13/12/86
1.03 Night Runners – 20/9/86
1.14 Suvival – 14/12/86
1.04 Jump Start – 27/9/86
2.02 A Drop of the Hard Stuff – 19/9/87
2.13 Peace Brother – 5/12/87
2.03 Shades of Love – 26/9/87
2.14 Burning Cases – 12/12/87
2.04 Cry for Help – 3/10/87
3.02 Desperate Odds – 16/9/88
3.03 Drake’s Drum – 23/9/88
3.04 Absolution – 30/9/88
3.05 Burn Out – 7/10/88
3.06 A Quiet Night – 14/10/88
4.2 Accidents Happen – 15/9/89
> Series 04
4.3 A Grand in the Hand – 22/9/89
4.4 Day Off – 29/9/89
4.5 Vital Spark – 6/10/89
5.12 All’s Fair – 30/11/90
5.2 Results – 14/9/90
5.13 A Reasonable Man – 7/12/90
5.3 Close to Home – 21/9/90
6.12 Pressure! What Pressure? – 29/11/91
6.02 Judgement Day – 13/9/91
6.13 Facing Up – 6/12/91
6.03 Dangerous Games – 20/9/91
6.14 Allegiance – 13/12/91
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27.44 Mistakes Happen – 20/7/13
27.43 Secrets and Lies – 13/7/13
27.42 A History of Violence – 6/7/13
27.41 Letting Go – 29/6/13
27.40 What Goes Up – 22/6/13
28.48 A Life Less Lived – 23/8/14
28.47 The Sicilian Defence – 16/8/14
28.46 The Love You Take – 9/8/14
28.45 First Impressions – 12/7/14
28.44 In the Name of Love – 5/7/14
29.45.1 WEBISODE Mrs Walker-to-Be – 22/8/15
29.46 Forsaking All Others (Part Two) – 23/8/15
29.45 Forsaking All Others (Part One) – 22/8/15
29.44 Knock Knock Who’s There? – 15/08/15
29.43 The Long Haul – 08/08/15
> Series 30 – Behind the Scenes
30.43 Sticks and Stones – 30/7/16
30.42 The Fear – 16/7/16
30.41 Where the Truth Lies – 9/7/16
30.40 What Lies Beneath – 3/7/16
31.44 One Shot – 29/7/17
31.43 Somewhere Between Silences (Part Two) – 22/7/17
31.42 Somewhere Between Silences (Part One) – 15/7/17
31.41 Man Up – 8/7/17
31.40 War of the Roses – 1/7/17
34.33 Code Orange – 26/9/20
34.40- 1/8/20
Jo Martin
Ramin Karimloo
Chan Woo Lim
Phoebe Pryce
Trieve Blackwood-Cambridge
Hannah Daniel
Marcus Griffiths
Hermione Gulliford
Salma Hoque
Jotham Annan
Louis Payne
Tilly Blackwood
Lucky Simpson
Josh Hudson
Skylar Bryce
Jeong Soo-Han
Louis McGerry
Leah Faulkner
Xavier ‘Zav’ Duval
Jason Haynes
John Gaskell
Fredrik Johanssen
Jo Martin : Previous Appearance
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1.02 Happy Families – 19/1/99
1.03 Kill Or Cure – 26/1/99
1.04 Love and Death – 2/2/99
1.05 Never Judge a Book.. – 9/2/99
1.06 Brave Heart – 16/2/99
2.02 Puppy Love – 2/12/99
2.13 Letting Go – 17/2/00
2.03 Destination Unknown – 9/12/99
2.14 Dispossessed – 24/2/00
2.04 You Can Choose Your Friends – 16/12/99
3.02 Too Much Too Young – 12/10/00
3.13 Choices – 30/1/01
3.24 Release – 24/4/01
3.03 The Right Thing – 19/10/00
3.14 Night Shift – 6/2/01
7.11 Casualty @ Holby City (Part Two) – 28/12/04
7.43 Dignity – 10/8/05
7.22 Total Recall – 15/3/05
7.02 Best Intentions – 26/10/04
7.33 Love, Life and Loss – 31/5/05
9.31 Trust – 17/5/07
9.10 The Good Fight – 19/12/06
9.42 Temporary Insanity – 31/7/07
9.21 The Borders of Sleep – 6/3/07
9.01 Before a Fall – 24/10/06
14.52 When Sacha Met Chrissie – 9/10/12
14.51 Blood Money – 2/10/12
14.50 Hold On Me – 25/9/12
14.49 A Crack in the Ice – 18/9/12
14.48 Devil’s Dance – 11/9/12
15.52 Like a Prayer – 8/10/13
15.51 The Cost of Loving – 1/10/13
15.50 Fredrik – 24/9/13
15.49 Contra Mundum – 17/9/13
15.48 The Kick Inside – 10/9/13
16.52 True Colours – 7/10/14
16.51 Inside Out – 30/9/14
16.50 Mummy Dearest – 23/9/14
16.49 Forgive Me Father – 16/9/14
16.48 Hoops – 9/9/14
17.52 Ever After – 6/10/15
17.51 Cover Story – 29/9/15
17.50 At First I Was Afraid – 22/9/15
17.49 Shockwaves – 15/9/15
17.48 An Eye for an Eye – 8/9/15
18.52 Snakes and Ladders – 4/10/16
18.51 Life in the Freezer – 27/9/16
18.50 Emotionally Yours – 20/9/16
18.49 Say a Little Prayer – 13/9/16
18.48 Brave New World – 6/9/16
19.64 Always Forever – 19/12/17
19.63 We Need to Talk About Fredrik – 12/12/17
19.62 Group Animal (Part Two) – 7/12/17
19.61 Group Animal (Part One) – 5/12/17
19.60 Hiding Places – 28/11/17
20.52 Best Christmas Ever – 27/12/18
20.51 Family Ties – 18/12/18
20.50 The Right Sort of Animal – 11/12/18
20.49 Love Is – 4/12/18
20.48 Hold my Hand – 27/11/18
21.53 Mothers and Their Daughters – 31/12/19
21.52 Be True, Be Brave, Be Kind – 19/12/19
21.51 Lemons – 17/12/19
21.50 Kintsugi – 10/12/19
21.49 Bell Jar – 3/12/19
22.31 – 15/12/20
22.30 – 7/12/20
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Amy Teo
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Max McGerry
Kian Madani
Chloe Godard
Cameron Dunn
Played by Wendy Kweh
S16 E24 ‘Green Ink’ – S17 E10 ‘Star of Wonder’
Consultant Pharmacist
Sensitive, loyal and kind, pharmacist Amy joins the team from S16 E24 and already received admiration from Harry. Although they’re at loggerheads over how best to treat a patient, Harry wastes no time in trying to charm Amy, which doesn’t go unnoticed with Raf. But when Harry suggests getting to know her better, Amy drops the bombshell that she’s married – and Harry finally realises she’s married to Raf! In S16 E26, Harry arrives at work full of swagger, having been invited to an exclusive black-tie dinner. But his mood is dampened when he discovers that not only is Raf the event’s keynote speaker but that his wife, Amy, is now working permanently on the ward. Harry tries to remain professional around Amy, after his attempts to make a pass at her, but is intrigued when he notices tension between Raf and his wife and suspects they’re not the happy couple they seem. Then, when Raf muscles in on Harry’s patient, an ex-glamour model with suspected appendicitis, a furious Harry decides to worm his way into Amy’s affections as a means of getting back at Raf. When an argument between Raf and Amy results in her fleeing the ward in tears, Harry sees an opportunity to comfort her. As he does so, Amy confides in him that she’s on her third round of IVF, which is putting a real strain on her marriage. Later, when Raf’s called onto an emergency case and is unable to take a dressed-up Amy to the dinner, a suited and booted Harry confidently tells Raf he’ll escort her. In S16 E27, it’s the day that Raf and Amy discover whether their final round of IVF has been successful. But Raf soon becomes distracted by a case – a patient who has been technically dead for several hours but whom Raf believes is a candidate for a Lazarus-like resuscitation. Torn between his wife’s emotional needs and cutting-edge medicine, Raf’s priorities are tested. In S16 E29, things are frosty between Amy and Raf when she’s keen to push ahead with another round of IVF, while Raf sees no reason to rush things. When Harry responds to Amy’s obvious distress by using his family connections to pull some strings at the IVF clinic, getting her and Raf shifted to the front of the queue, she’s ecstatic. But Raf is furious she’s discussed their private life with the colleague he loathes and, when pushed by Amy, he admits he doesn’t feel ready for children. Amy’s distraught at the realisation she may never have kids and, with Raf going off to a conference for the weekend, she drowns her sorrows at Albie’s bar, where Harry finds her. Drunk and at her lowest ebb, Amy reaches out to Harry – and they end up kissing. In S16 E33, Amy’s desperately trying to avoid Harry, following their night together, as she arrives at work with husband Raf. And it seems she’s feeling particularly sensitive as she’s very weepy and Mr Thompson‘s kipper breakfast is making her feel queasy. Suspecting she might be pregnant, Amy does a pregnancy test – and it’s positive! Amy’s overjoyed that she’s finally going to be a mum but the father of the baby could be either Raf’s – or Harry’s. Hopeful it’s her husband’s child, Amy breaks the news to Raf and he’s delighted. Wanting to leave Holby to protect her marriage, Amy encourages Raf to apply for a job abroad – but he’s adamant that, with a baby on the way, they should stay put. However, when Harry makes it clear that he’ll keep their affair a secret if she can help him work more closely with her husband, Amy realises he’s going to be in her life for a very long time. In S16 E34, Harry asks Amy if she’ll be his assessor for his upcoming specialist doctor’s exam, Amy accuses him of playing games but Harry suggests they both want the same thing: him out of AAU. Later, as Harry continues to feel undermined by Raf he warns Amy that, if Raf doesn’t change his ways, he will bite back. Fearing Harry will spill the beans about their affair, Amy decides to help him up the career ladder. In S16 E35, having agreed to assess Harry in his doctor’s exams to get him off AAU following their one-night stand, Amy reckons pro-footballer Andre would be a good case for Harry’s e-portfolio. When Amy’s pregnancy sickness strikes and she leaves without informing Harry of a change in Andre’s meds, Harry ends up giving Andre the wrong drug. Knowing an enquiry will prevent him from moving on, Amy takes the blame for Harry’s mistake to protect her marriage to Raf. In S16 E37, Amy faces Serena after taking the blame for Harry. Raf, gets suspicious when he realises her story contradicts Harry’s and, knowing his wife never makes mistakes, he confronts Harry while they operate on a patient. When Harry admits Amy did cover for his mistake Raf goes straight to his wife and demands the truth. But he gets more than he bargained for when Amy tells him the real truth – that she slept with Harry. In S16 E38, Raf’s devastated after the shock confession from Amy and that Harry could be the father of her unborn child – a baby they’d been trying so desperately to conceive. Knowing he needs to take control, Raf orders Amy to take a paternity test. He insists he’s not prepared to bring up another man’s child – especially Harry’s – then delivers an ultimatum: it’s me or the baby. Harry, meanwhile, is concerned with passing his end of year assessment but when he believes Raf’s deliberately trying to see him fail, Harry loses it and tries to pick a fight with him. But as Raf retaliates and Amy gets caught in the scuffle and tries to shield her stomach, Harry realises she’s pregnant – and it dawns on him that he could be the baby’s father. Later, Amy waits in obstetrician Mr Thompson’s office to carry out the paternity test – but doesn’t go through with it. She tells Harry that it’s not his baby. In S16 E39, Raf feels wretched about his dysfunctional marriage while having to work harmoniously alongside Harry. When a vulnerable patient poses as a threat to Amy, Raf instinctively goes to save her, which stirs up his true feelings. Later, Raf decides that, whether Amy’s baby is his or not, he wants them to be together. In S16 E41, Raf resolves not to let what happened between Amy and Harry destroy his marriage. However, when he’s asked to help advance Harry’s career, he struggles to be honest. In S16 E42, Raf gets a surprise when his younger brother, Giuseppe, turns up on AAU with busted ribs and plenty of charm. As Giuseppe talks about the importance of family, Raf decides to take the steps he needs to try and get his marriage to Amy back on track. In S16 E46, when Harry’s dad, Billy arrives on AAU to observe son Harry at work, Raf struggles not to let the Tressler family get under his skin. But when Raf, Harry, Amy and Billy find themselves thrown together at the charity gala, Raf struggles to keep his feelings hidden. In S16 E47, Raf crashes his new car, Amy fears her baby may have been harmed, so Raf takes her to see Mr Thompson, who gives Amy an ultrasound scan and reveals she’s expecting a baby boy. Amy’s delighted but Raf’s distant, especially when she tries to talk baby names and reminds him they liked Callum for a boy. Amy’s joy turns to sadness when she fears she’s losing the baby but when she suggests they visit Mr T again, Raf leaves her side to save a patient. When Raf then finds Amy in tears he thinks the baby’s died. Amy’s crying because everything’s OK – but it’s clear Raf’s still struggling with the idea the baby might be Harry’s. Amy reminds Raf that he’d said he could come to terms with her infidelity but she suggests he was relieved when he thought she’d lost ‘Callum’. Later, however, Amy drops the bombshell that she’s going to stay with her brother. In S16 E49, in light of Zosia’s recent erratic behaviour, Guy‘s concerned for his daughter’s health. But when he asks Amy to make an informal assessment, he’s resistant to her professional opinion. In S16 E52, Mary-Claire returns to Holby and she soon realises that all is not well on AAU. A lot has happened between Raf and Harry since she’s been in Ireland, but she doesn’t know the full picture. Mary-Claire can see something’s upsetting Harry, but she puts it down to him almost losing his job. Then, when Harry says he has Amy to thank for saving his career, Mary-Claire starts thinking Harry might have slept with Amy and could be her baby’s father. Mary-Claire persuades Harry to talk to Amy, especially when she finds out Amy has left Raf. Mary-Claire also guesses Amy’s lying about the baby being Raf’s. When Harry confronts Amy, she admits she didn’t do an in vitro paternity test after all.
In S17 E9, now 32 weeks’ pregnant, Amy knows she has to plan for the baby’s arrival, so she asks estranged husband Raf to be her birthing partner. But she gets a shock when he responds by asking for a divorce. But she doesn’t have time to dwell on things as, not long afterwards, Amy throws up – and it’s Harry of all people who takes her to see obstetrician Mr Thompson. Amy’s worried when he diagnoses high blood pressure – and stunned when he then confirms she’s in labour. With Amy’s blood pressure rising and the baby becoming distressed, Mr T says she needs a Caesarean. Although Raf and Harry don’t know which of them is the baby’s father, when they hear Amy’s in labour, they both make sure they’re by her side as a healthy baby boy arrives. As an overwhelmed Harry leaves, Amy develops complications but urges Raf to go and watch over the baby. Initially reluctant, Raf manages to bond with the newborn, believing it could be his son. Later, Raf visits a sleeping Amy and talks fondly about the baby and admits he suggested a divorce because he can’t forgive himself for the problems in their marriage. Little does he know, Amy’s heard it all. In S17 E10, Serena learns that Raf and Harry still don’t know which of them fathered Amy’s baby, Callum and she decides to lend a hand in getting the ball rolling. Amy confides in Serena that she wants to go ahead with the paternity test and Serena fast-tracks the results; the baby is Harry’s. As Harry comes to terms with becoming a father and tells her he will support them and be a part of his son’s life, Amy drops the bombshell that she is leaving Holby and moving back to Singapore.
S16 E26 – Harry offers to take Amy to a black-tie dinner when Raf pulls out
S16 E29 – Harry and Amy kiss
S16 E33 – Amy discovers she’s pregnant, but who’s the father?
S16 E37 – Amy admits she cheated on Raf
S17 E9 – Amy gives birth
S17 E10 – After learning Harry is the father of her baby, she decides to leave Holby
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Oak veneered with ebony; gilt-bronze mounts; enameled metal; ivory; glass barometrical tube
86.DB.632
123.2 × 24.1 × 4.8 cm (48 1/2 × 9 1/2 × 1 7/8 in.)
Many barometers produced in the 1700s have survived, which suggests that they were relatively common. Invented in 1643 by a pupil of Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), the barometer greatly appealed to the scientific spirit of the late 1600s and 1700s and soon became a popular and useful ornament for interiors.
On this barometer, the level of mercury encased in the glass tube rises or falls according to the atmospheric pressure, thereby indicating one of the possible weather conditions on the enamel plaque. In addition, two sets of readings could be compared using the two small moveable ivory hands on either side.
Tristão Guedes Correia de Queiróz e Castello-Branco, 1st marquis and 2nd comte da Foz, Portuguese, 1849 - 1917 (Lisbon, Portugal) [sold, property of Jose Guedes de Queiroz, Esq., Christie's, London, June 10, 1892, lot 65]
Caroline Schermerhorn (Astor) Wilson, American, 1861 - 1948 (3 East 64th Street, New York), upon her death, held in trust by her estate, 1948.
Estate of Caroline Schermerhorn (Astor) Wilson, American, 1861 - 1948 [sold by her executors, Rich Furniture & Other Works of Art Belonging to the Estate of the Late Mrs. Orme Wilson Removed from the Mansion 3 East 64 Street New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, March 26, 1949, lot 386]
Lucienne Marguerite Fribourg, Belgian, 1889 - 1968 (New York, New York) [sold by her executor, Important Eighteenth Century French Furniture & Works of Art, Collection of Madame Lucienne Fribourg, Parke-Bernet, New York, April 19, 1969, lot 189, to Alexander & Berendt Ltd.]
Alexander & Berendt Ltd. (London, England), sold to Johanna Maria Quandt in September 1970.
Source: Correspondence from Frank Berendt, February 10th, 1987, in the files of the Sculpture and Decorative Arts department, J. Paul Getty Museum.
Johanna Maria Quandt, German, 1926 - 2015 (Bad Homburg, Germany)
B. Fabre & Fils (Paris, France) and Jeremy Ltd. (London, England), sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1986.
Christie, Manson & Woods, London. Property of Jose Guedes de Queiroz, Esq. June 10, 1892, p. 10, lot 65.
Parke-Bernet Galleries. Rich Furniture & Other Works of Art Belonging to the Estate of the Late Mrs. Orme Wilson. March 26, 1949, p. 110, lot 386.
Parke-Bernet Galleries. Important Eighteenth Century French Furniture & Works of Art, Collection of Madame Lucienne Fribourg. April 19, 1969, p. 130, lot 189, ill.
"Acquisitions/1986." The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 15 (1987), p. 214, no. 108.
Bremer-David, Charissa, et al. Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum (Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1993), p. 91, no. 143.
Wilson, Gillian, and Catherine Hess. Summary Catalogue of European Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2001), p. 73, no. 143.
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University committee finds professor guilty of research misconduct [DOCUMENT]
Friday, February 24, 2012 - 1:12pm | C2M Managing Editor Adam Sylvain
Provost Stearns' statement to faculty
A university investigative committee has concluded that Mason professor Edward Wegman is responsible for misconduct in a co-authored study published in Computational Statistics and Data Analysis.
The committee’s findings were released Wednesday in a statement issued by Provost Peter Stearns to Mason faculty.
“The relevant committee did find that plagiarism occurred in contextual sections of the [Computational Statistics] article as a result of poor judgment for which Professor Wegman, as team leader, must bear responsibility,” said Stearns in the statement.
According to Stearns, the statement to faculty is one of three sanctions levied by the university in response to the findings—Wegman has also been asked to apologize to the journal and to retract the study. Additionally, “an official letter of reprimand” will be placed in Wegman’s file.
The “official letter of reprimand” is a document which outlines the results of the committee’s investigation and states Wegman’s responsibility for the misconduct, according to Stearns.
Throughout the course of the investigation and now following committee’s findings, Wegman maintains his position with the university as a professor in both the Department of Statistics and the College of Science.
“The conduct applied to introductory elements of an article not to the essential research findings of the article,” said Stearns. “Had it been a more serious case, the sanctions would have been more serious.”
Results of the investigation, noted in the statement, conclude that Wegman is responsible for misconduct in one of two separate reports called into question: a 2008 article appearing in Computational Statistics and Data Analysis and a 2006 congressional report critical of scientists’ reconstructions of past climate conditions.
According to Stearns, the investigation involved four committees total. Both charges were first brought to separate committees for inquiry. Once the charges of both actions were deemed to warrant investigation, each charge was moved to two separate faculty investigative committees.
The faculty committee responsible for investigating the 2006 congressional report unanimously concluded that no scientific misconduct occurred. The separate committee in charge of investigating the Computational Statistics and Data Analysis study found that misconduct did occur in “contextual elements” of that article. This was also a unanimous decision, according to Stearns.
Plagiarism allegations surfaced in 2009 when retired computer scientist John Mashey published an analysis of Wegman’s reports on the Deep Climate website.
Wegman responded to Mashey’s allegations in the fall of 2010, in an email to C2M.
"I will say that there is a lot of speculation and conspiracy theory in John Mashey's analysis which is simply not true," Wegman said. “We are not the bad guys…We have never intended that our Congressional testimony was intended to take intellectual credit for other scholars' work.”
Wegman called the charges against him “unprecedented in my 42 years as an academic and scholar."
The university began its investigation into plagiarism charges in 2010 following a complaint filed by University of Massachusetts professor Raymond Bradley. The complaint accused Wegman of plagiarizing one of Bradley’s textbooks and copying information from other sources, including Wikipedia.
In the faculty statement, Stearns addressed criticism by some who believe the university failed to render judgment quickly and was disinterested in the charges.
“While our procedure is indeed prolonged, in part because of federal requirements and in part to assure due process,” said Stearns, “any implication of lack of concern is entirely misplaced.”
C2M has reached out to Wegman for comment.
Correction: Tuesday, Feb. 28, 1:37 p.m.
It was originally reported that Professor Wegman has maintained his position with the university as a professor in the Department of Statistics. Wegman holds a 30 percent appointment in the Department of Statistics, but his 70 percent, majority appointment is in the School of Physics, Astronomy, and Computational Science in the College of Science.
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Modified from a post on Brontoforumus, 2015-09-23.
In honor of Banned Books Week, the latest Humble Books Bundle is made up of banned and challenged comic books.
It's not just a good theme, it is, in terms of quality content for your money, the single best collection of comics I have ever seen. I've got a couple caveats about the presentation, which I'll get to in a minute, but it's well worth the price of admission, whatever tier you choose to donate at.
Pay more than the average and you get Heartbreak Soup .
Heartbreak Soup is my all-time favorite comic. Your mileage may vary, but as far as I'm concerned, the list of Greatest Comics of All Time goes Heartbreak Soup , then Maus , then that Spider-Man arc where he has to lift the rubble off him as Doc Ock's underwater base collapses. (No, Watchmen is not in my top three.)
The bundle also has the first volume of Bone . Bone is phenomenal; it's an all-ages adventure story in the classic mold, with influences from Walt Kelly to Carl Barks to Don Martin; it's funny and it's gorgeously drawn. You should definitely get it if you haven't read it yet; it's at the first tier so it can be yours for a penny.
The bottom tier's also got Maggie the Mechanic , which is the other Love and Rockets vol 1. ( Heartbreak Soup is the first volume of Gilbert Hernandez's Palomar stories; Maggie the Mechanic is the first volume of Jaime Hernandez's Locas stories.) Maggie the Mechanic is great too, but for my money it's not as great as Heartbreak Soup , or as the other Locas stories that followed. ( The Death of Speedy is widely regarded as the best Love and Rockets story; it's in vol 2 of Locas , which is not included in this bundle.)
Bottom tier also has The Frank Book . Jim Woodring's work is beautiful, surreal, wordless, and incredibly detailed. I have six pieces of comic book art hanging on my walls. One is a Quantum and Woody poster signed by Christopher Priest; one is an Uncle Scrooge print signed by Don Rosa. The other four are Jim Woodring prints that my uncle gave me for my birthday after using them in a museum exhibit.
There's some other stuff in there that I don't know as much about. I like Chester Brown but I haven't read The Little Man ; I like Jeff Lemire but I haven't read Essex County . I suppose they're probably both pretty great based on their respective cartoonists' other work, but I don't know them.
And The Boys is in there. The Boys is not for me; I'm not a Garth Ennis fan. But if you like the sound of a bunch of asshole superheroes being taken down by a group of regular guys led by somebody who looks exactly like Simon Pegg, you'll probably dig it.
To summarize: it's a great bundle. It's worth buying for Heartbreak Soup , Bone , and Frank alone; I bought it mostly because I'd been wanting to pick up Frank , Essex County , and Information Doesn't Want to be Free by Cory Doctorow (available as an audiobook in this bundle; the only item that isn't a comic book).
So. Great bundle. But. As I said, there are some caveats with the format.
The first of which is, you're probably going to be reading these on a tablet. And some of these comics just don't look as good on a 10" screen.
I was especially worried about The Frank Book given the detail of Woodring's work; this stuff's meant to be read at 8.5"x11" size. But I was surprised to find it actually looks great on my tablet. The full-size book would be better, but it also costs $35 and weighs 3 pounds. And that's the paperback version.
Bone looks fantastic on my screen too.
Surprisingly, of the books I've thumbed through, the one that suffered most was Heartbreak Soup .
Part of that's to do with the ratio. The pages of Love and Rockets are shorter and wider than standard comic book pages.
Scaled to 325x500
Heartbreak Soup
So on a 6:10 screen like my tablet's, you're left with some major letterboxing and a picture that is uncomfortably small and looks a little jaggy, and text that can be hard to read. (If, on the other hand, you have a tablet with a 4:3 screen, like an iPad, I imagine the Love and Rockets -- and the other more square-ish comics in the collection -- will look a lot better, and you'll have the opposite problem with the more traditionally-sized comics in the set.)
Perfect Viewer also seemed to choke on the file a bit; after the first few pages, it started pausing for long periods of time on each page turn. At first I thought it was due to the file size (the CBZ version is 675MB), but The Frank Book is even bigger and Perfect Viewer didn't give me any trouble with it. So I don't know why it doesn't like Heartbreak Soup , but it doesn't.
In short, Heartbreak Soup is my favorite comic, but my 10" tablet is most definitely not the best way to read it. Again, your mileage may vary; you may have better luck on an iPad, as noted, or if you're cool with just reading it on a desktop computer monitor, it looks great on my 27" 2560x1440 screen. But if you're looking for comics to read on a widescreen tablet, well, there are still a lot of great books in this set that totally justify the purchase, but don't buy it just for Heartbreak Soup . All that said, though? It's still a great damn comic, it doesn't look that bad on my tablet, and if you don't want to look for it at your local library or pay full price for the paperback version, well, it's still worth a read.
There's another one I looked through that I have a visual complaint about, and unfortunately, it's an important one and the granddaddy of all challenged comics: Crime Does Not Pay .
Crime Does Not Pay is a classic. It's the first and most successful of the 1940's-'50's-era crime comics that led to Senate hearings and, eventually, the Comics Code and most of the industry going out of business. But, aside from simply being popular, controversial, and lurid, it's just plain good, with superlative work from the likes of Charles Biro, Bob Montana, and George Tuska.
It's also public domain. You can find most of the series for free on Digital Comic Museum (though if you can spare a donation to keep the site up and running, that would be swell too).
Given that, it's damned disappointing that Dark Horse did such a shoddy job on the colors.
The first image is a scan from one of the original 1950's printings of the comic. It's not pristine; the colors bleed, and if you look closely you can see right through the page to the panel grid from the opposite side. And there are marks on the left side of the page where the staples were.
But despite those flaws, it looks better than the second image, from Dark Horse's restoration. The colors in Dark Horse's version look garish.
And it's down to the paper stock. The scan looks the way it's supposed to, because those colors are supposed to be printed on newsprint. The background is supposed to look a little gray or tan, and the colors are supposed to soak in and blend together.
Dark Horse's version looks garish because they kept the original four-color printing process but put it on high-quality, glossy paper (or the digital equivalent of same). The colors look wrong.
But, in Dark Horse's defense, it could have been worse -- at least they didn't re-color it. Have you seen what they've done to their Conan reprints? Photoshop gradients everywhere. The horror. The horror.
"It could have been worse" isn't a great defense, though. When it comes right down to it, I'd rather read the Digital Comic Museum version, even if I can see the grid lines from the other side of the page.
The only problem is, the Dark Horse collection contains issues #22-#25 (don't let the numbering fool you; #22 is the first issue -- in those days it was common, when a publisher canceled a comic and started a new one, for the new series to continue the old series' numbering with a new title), and Digital Comic Museum doesn't have #23-#25. So while you can download DCM's superior version of issue #22 (and #26, and #27, and lots more, on up through #147), if you want to read #23-25 then you're stuck with the Dark Horse version, and you'd better be prepared for a hell of a lot of eye-searing bright yellow.
There are plenty of instances of publishers doing reprints of old comics right -- either by using newsprint or by scanning or photographing the original printed pages -- but this isn't one of 'em, and that's a shame.
But, all that grousing aside, this bundle? If you have never read a comic book in your life, this has three that I would rank as Absolute Must-Read, in Heartbreak Soup , Bone , and Frank . It's got one of the legitimate most important comics of all time in Crime Does Not Pay , even if I've got some gripes about the presentation and you might be better off grabbing a scanned version from Digital Comic Museum. And aside from those, it's got several more that may not be quite so high on the must-read list but still rank as Great.
If you like good comics, you should get it. And if you don't like good comics, you should get it anyway, because maybe you just haven't ready any comics this good yet.
The bundle runs for five more days.
Tags: Android, Apple, Censorship, Cory Doctorow, Dark Horse, Digital Distribution, Humble Bundle, Love and Rockets, Reviews, Storytelling
Free Comic Book Day Musings, 2013
2013-05-06, 9:54 pm
Categories: Comics, Stream of Consciousness
A highlight reel from the last couple days on Brontoforumus:
(Originally posted yesterday, 2013-05-05.)
The free Tick is pretty great but makes a basic storytelling mistake in not introducing the supporting cast. I know who Tick and Arthur are, but Bumbling Bee and Rubber Ducky aren't referred to by name until pages 12 and 13, and they never say Cod's full name, unless Cod is his full name.
I know there's a general backlash against techniques like the 1960's era of characters all addressing each other by name on the first couple of pages, and the 1990's method of just having each character's name appear in a caption when they first appear, but there are still ways to integrate it organically in the story. Arthur addresses Bumbling Bee as "Bee" several times in the first few pages, and she later tells Cod she wants to "meet up with Ducky". Those could trivially be changed to the characters' full names without seeming out-of-place.
And again, Cod is referred to as "Cod" exactly once in the story, and I assume that's one more shortened name.
For all that it's still a perfectly fun Tick comic. Arthur gets a vacation, Tick gets an undersea adventure, there are hijinx with the other heroes, and eventually Arthur gets to save the day. It's enjoyable. I would buy more Tick comics if they didn't charge seven bucks for 20 pages. And I heartily recommend the Complete Edlund collection, even though it is really pricey for its quality of materials. ($35 for B&W on newsprint -- but you will definitely get $35 worth of enjoyment out of it. I keep meaning to do a full writeup of it.)
The backup stories and prose sections aren't bad either. But given the latter's repeated reference to how this is bound to be some people's first Tick comic and be introducing people to these characters for the first time, it's that much more baffling that they dropped the ball on actually introducing the characters.
DC, of course, has spent the past two years on a big relaunch, where its continuity is fundamentally changed and all the characters are redesigned.
And so, for the Free Comic Book Day issue of Superman , which is likely the first Superman comic many people have picked up in years, if not ever...
...they reprint the Donner/Johns/Kubert issue from, what, 2006, 2007, that introduces Chris Kent.
Lois still knows Superman is Clark Kent. They're still married. His costume still has red trunks on it. And the story is best-known for the introduction of a character who was written out pretty soon after, who nobody really remembers, and who sure as hell doesn't exist in the New 52.
But we can't have Stephanie Brown appear in Smallville , because that might confuse people.
(Originally posted earlier today, 2013-05-06.)
The Free Comic Book Day issue is pretty much the perfect little Star Wars story: somebody for some reason decides it would be a great idea to fuck with Darth Vader, and then learns that it really isn't after all. Also Boba Fett gets to shoot some dudes.
I think it's Wood's best Star Wars comic yet; all of my complaints about the pacing-for-the-trade present in the main series are gone here, it's over and done in pretty short order.
It's so easy, after the last 4 movies, to think of Vader as a gigantic pussy. This comic doesn't just play him as a stone-cold badass, it actually uses his engineering talent cleverly too (spoiler: as he's crawling around the outside of the ship, his would-be assassin tries to jump into hyperspace -- but Vader's already destroyed the hyperdrive with his light sabre).
Anyway. It's free (though you've gotta sign up for an account); it's well worth reading. It comes with Avatar ( the Last Airbender ) and Captain Midnight , too; haven't gotten around to reading those yet.
Anyhow, for those who missed FCBD, Bleeding Cool has a list of freebies available at Comixology, the Dark Horse store, and elsewhere. No Tick , sadly, but definitely check out Star Wars .
Tags: Brian Wood, Comixology, Dark Horse, DC, Digital Distribution, Free Comic Book Day, Reviews, Star Wars, Storytelling, Superman, Tick
Best/Worst of Times, etc.
Categories: Comics, Movies, Stream of Consciousness
Yesterday I talked about Karen Berger's imminent departure from Vertigo, the disappointment I feel as a Vertigo fan, and the excitement I feel wondering what she'll do next.
And you know, that's kind of the perfect metaphor for what it feels like to be a comics fan in general right now. There's just so much bullshit -- but there's so much gold, too.
Since the 1940's, the American comics industry has gone through a regular, 20-year boom-bust cycle. We're in an odd-numbered decade, so if the pattern continues that means we've got another bust coming. And while I think Marvel and especially DC are full-speed-ahead on stupid management decisions to cause the next one, this one's not going to be like the others -- it's going to be smaller, it's going to be confined to those two major publishers, and it's going to happen even as their characters and brands increase in popularity.
Now, both companies seem dead-set on repeating most of the worst excesses of the 1990's -- variant covers, new #1's, big summer crossovers, increasingly muddled continuity reboots, Jim Lee -- and don't seem to get the idea that this is going to go much like it did in the '90's, with a brief boost to sales followed by a crash as everybody gets sick of this crap. DC, in particular, is currently being run by bean counters at Warner who think their best shot at relevance is pushing the Reset button on their universe again and putting out prequels to Watchmen .
Even still, DC's still managing to put out some great books. Dial H is fantastic, Demon Knights is a joy, and Animal Man and Frankenstein were both pretty great until they muddled into an unnecessary crossover. I really don't think it's a coincidence that the best books coming out of DC are the ones that are subject to the least corporate interference and are the least subject to the whims of shared-universe continuity.
And that's just DC proper. Take the the industry as a whole and there's a stunning variety of wild, beautiful, original books -- Saga , Chew , Manhattan Projects , The Massive , to name just a few. There are even some wonderful licensed books -- Adventure Time , Popeye , Godzilla: The Half-Century War . Prophet shows that even a 1990's Liefeld property can turn into a brilliant, offbeat science fiction series worthy of classic Heavy Metal . Dark Horse Presents demonstrates the depth and breadth of modern comics at its greatest, at 80 pages for $8 a month.
And that's just the new stuff. As far as classic comics, there's an embarrassment of riches. When I gave my cousin a copy of The Completely Mad Don Martin -- a collection of the cartoonist's entire Mad output, in two oversized hardcover books in a slipcase, weighing in at about 25 pounds -- my uncle looked at it and said "Did you ever think you'd see anything like this?" The mere idea that, in two generations, Mad has gone from being dismissed as trash to being given reverential treatment.
There's so much in print -- Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse , Carl Barks's Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge , exhaustive collections of Peanuts , Calvin and Hobbes , Bloom County , Terry and the Pirates , Dick Tracy , Prince Valiant , Mary Perkins On Stage , Pogo , Tintin . You can get the complete Bone in a single black-and-white volume or a dozen color trades from Scholastic. Love and Rockets is collected in paperbacks or hardcovers, pick your Poison River . The other day I was at the library and saw a huge hardback collection of Walter Simonson's entire Thor run (only the worthy may lift it). There are glorious hardcover collections highlighting the work of Kirby, Ditko, Wood, Davis, Kurtzman, Wolverton, Eisner -- the choices are staggering.
And that's just the stuff that's in print.
You wanna talk about digital? You can buy the entirety of Quantum and Woody right the fuck now (and there's a rumor of two finished-but-never-published issues on the way too). Sure, digital comics has its issues -- DRM and the inevitable platform fragmentation and compatibility problems that DRM causes -- but it's still early days and that stuff'll get ironed out.
And that's just the stuff you have to pay for. Head on over to a site like Digital Comic Museum and you can gaze upon thousands of public-domain comics, completely free of charge.
And that's just the stuff that's available legally.
You want a comic that, for various rights reasons, will never be reprinted? Jack Kirby's 2001 ? Moore, Bissette, Veitch, et al's 1963 ? The infamous Air Pirates Funnies ? Can't stop the signal; they're easier to find now than they were when they were in print.
So, all in all? It's plenty easy to get frustrated with the direction DC and Marvel are going in. It's easy to foresee their readership tanking and bringing on another crash and panic. But Avengers and Dark Knight Rises are still Hollywood blockbusters; their publishers aren't going away -- and even if they vanished overnight, there would be so much good stuff left to fill the vacuum that I, for one, wouldn't miss them...much.
Truth is, for all the bullshit, I don't think there's ever been a better time to be a comics fan -- not even the 1940's.
And I shouldn't have to say this, but just to be perfectly clear: I am absolutely not advocating illegally downloading comics that are commercially available. Support publishers you like. Support creators you like. Support your local comic shop.
And if you download a work that's out-of-print, or otherwise acquire a book that doesn't benefit the creators or their families, it's a good idea to buy something that does. You like 2001 (or, for that matter, any of Kirby's Marvel work)? Buy Kirby: Genesis and send some money his family's way. Like 1963 ? Pick up some Swamp Thing trades, and keep an eye out for Bissette's Tales of the Uncanny .
Or whatever it is you're into. Bottom line? Find something you love, support the people who make it happen, and tell your friends.
Tags: Alan Moore, Avengers, Batman, Brian Wood, Comixology, Copyright Law, Dark Horse, DC, Image, Jack Kirby, Karen Berger, Mad Magazine, Marvel, Piracy, Quantum and Woody, Rick Veitch, Rob Liefeld, Roger Langridge, Steve Bissette, Storytelling
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A few weeks back, I rented Hellboy: Sword of Storms . It was a neat little movie, and adhered pretty well to the the comics' folklore vibe. The highlight was a sequence adapting Heads .
And it occurred to me, you know, the best Hellboy stories are 8-page adaptations of folk tales, in which Hellboy himself plays only a minor role. Similarly, wouldn't it be great to see some 10-minute Hellboy animated shorts?
It's a real pity that both 8-page comic stories and 10-minute animated shorts have fallen by the wayside. DC, at least, seems interested in bringing them back: they've been doing 8-page "secondary features" in some of their popular titles, and next week's animated Crisis on Two Earths will also include a 10-minute Spectre short. Which is the perfect length for a Spectre story.
And of course all this has me thinking, Why 22 pages? Why 22 minutes? Why 6-issue arcs? Stories should take all the time they need; no more and no less.
Which isn't to say that rigid parameters can't foster creativity. The BioWare Writing Contest I participated in a few years back had some very tight guidelines -- only so many characters, only one location allowed, and that location has to be a pretty tiny square. But in a way, that stimulated creativity. Sometimes, you need parameters.
Douglas Adams is a favorite example. His best Hitchhiker's Guide work was written for radio, with a rigid three-act structure and length requirement for each episode, with the requisite pacing those things entail. Those episodes were adapted as the first two books of the Trilogy. The third, Life, the Universe and Everything , was adapted from an unused Doctor Who pitch, so it was conceived around a predefined structure as well. The last two books, where Adams took a more freestyle approach, tended to flail a bit; they were adapted by Dirk Maggs for radio a few years back and, for my money, worked much better with his judicious editing.
(The awesomeness of The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul does not fit my narrative as, to the best of my knowledge, it wasn't adapted from a radio or TV format. The first Dirk book was, though.)
There are plenty of writers who could benefit from tighter restrictions. Will Eisner put as much plot in a 7-page Spirit story as Brian Michael Bendis does in a 132-page Avengers arc. Sometimes I like longer, decompressed stories that spend more time on the scenery and the atmosphere. But there should still be a place for those weird little Hellboy stories.
I recently read Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall . Its pacing and form were noticeably different from the typical Fables books, because of its format: it was written as a graphic novel, rather than simply collecting 6 issues of a serial comic.
(A tangent on nomenclature: I absolutely despise the term graphic novel as it is commonly used, ie as a synonym for "comic book" used by people who think they're too cool for Spider-Man . However, it is a useful term when used in its original sense, ie a comic written in long form instead of being serialized in stapled, 22-page, monthly increments.)
Of course, 1001 Nights isn't a graphic novel so much as a graphic short story collection -- far from being a longform Fables story that takes its time, it's a series of stories which are shorter and tighter than a typical issue of Fables . So actually, it's more along the lines of those 8-page Hellboy stories I've been yammering about.
More in the "paced like a novel" vein would be DC's upcoming Earth One books. While it is obvious that these stories need to be published, as nobody has retold Superman's origin story in over three weeks, it's going to be interesting seeing them told with a little more breathing room, without the overwhelming, breakneck pace of Superman: Secret Origin .
I kid, but you know, the nice thing about constantly retelling Superman's origin is that now the Siegel heirs get a cut.
At any rate, once the rehashes are done, it would be quite nice to see DC tell some new stories with these characters in this format -- stories as long or as short as they need to be, at whatever pace suits the piece, without having to speed toward a cliffhanger every 22 pages.
V for Vendetta is actually a decent example -- yes, it was serialized, but its chapters don't fit into a consistent, forced length or pace. And while some of the chapters were climactic action sequences of V stabbing people a lot, others had him simply soliloquizing about anarchy.
(And funnily enough, the guy writing Earth One: Superman is J Michael Straczynski, the same guy whose The Brave and the Bold is currently the best 22-page superhero book that actually tells 22-page stories -- but whose run on Thor was decompressed, organic, and even meandering. Which is not a criticism, as I loved his Thor ; it's just a statement that the man can write very well in different formats.)
If the world is a just and beautiful place, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is a template for the future of television. It manages the rather neat trick of adhering to a rigid structure that also just happens to be noticeably different from the traditional structure of a TV show: three 13-minute acts, each itself featuring a beginning, a middle, an end, and four songs. It's similar to, but distinct from, the standard three-act structure and 44-minute length of an American TV show.
Even The Daily Show -- God, not a week goes by anymore but one of the interviews goes over. Which is swell, but the way this is handled online is completely boneheaded: if you go to Full Episodes on thedailyshow.com, or view an episode on Hulu, you get the broadcast episode, which shows the truncated interview, followed by an admonition to check out the website, followed by Moment of Zen and credits. I can see this as an unfortunate requirement for broadcast, but guys, Internet videos can be more than 22 minutes. Why in the hell do I have to click through to a different page on the site (or, if I'm watching from Hulu, a different site entirely) to watch the rest of the interview? It's viewer-unfriendly, especially if you use your PC as a media center hooked up to your TV. Cut the full interview into the damn episode. Add an extra commercial in the middle if you have to. (It would be swell if you didn't show the exact same commercial at every single break, but that's a separate presumably-silly-and-useless "rant".)
At least they've wised up a little and started showing just the first part of the interview in the broadcast episode and then showing the rest in the "Full Interview" link on the website. It used to be they'd show a chopped-up version of the interview in the broadcast episode, meaning that instead of the Full Interview link picking up where the show left off, it had five minutes' worth of the same content spread out across it.
You know, it seems like the youngest of the major media is also the one with the least rigid requirements for length. Video games can be anything from a three-second WarioWare microgame to a persistent world that players sink years into. People may grouse a bit that Portal or Arkham Asylum is too short, but it doesn't prevent them from being highly-regarded, bestselling titles.
Which is, of course, not to say that longer games don't have to function under tight restrictions. They're often very high-budget affairs with a hell of a lot of people involved (as Dragon Age tries to forcibly remind you with its absurdly slow credits crawl) -- programmers, writers, artists, and so on. The Mass Effect games have voiced player dialogue and let the player choose Shepard's sex, which means every single one of those lines has to be recorded twice. (And frankly that doesn't seem like enough variety -- I have a Samuel L Jackson lookalike who says "aboot".)
And those restrictions are probably why every dialogue choice in ME is broken up into a predictable paragon/neutral/renegade choice. That kind of very-unsubtle delineation is exactly the sort of thing western RPG developers have been trying to get out of (as in both The Witcher and Dragon Age ), but in the context of ME it works quite well -- I've even tried my hand at writing in a three-choices, no-hubs dialogue style and it works very organically. (For the ludicrous amount of dialogue in Dragon Age , there were places I could see the seams showing -- spots where I'd have three dialogue options and, as soon as the NPC spoke, knew that all three led to that exact same response. But that's probably a lot harder to notice if you've never written a dialogue tree yourself, and it's certainly an artform in and of itself, giving a response that works equally well for three different questions. I can only think of one occasion in the dozens of hours of Dragon Age where a writer screwed up and had a question hub that began with an NPC answering a specific question in a way that didn't make any sense if the dialogue looped back.)
And of course it's the medium that allows this kind of longform storytelling. Game length is no longer restricted by the arcade environment. Which is, of course, not to say that short-play games don't get made anymore -- Street Fighter 4 is a high-budget, "hardcore gamer" example, but Nintendo's entire business is built around games a casual player can pick up and play for ten minutes at a time. Ditto every Flash game on the Web, and most games on the iPhone.
And, indeed, Internet delivery is going to liberate other media from their restrictions. Eventually, we're bound to see shows like The Daily Show just run more than 22 minutes if they have to, and, God willing, we'll see more offbeat stuff like Dr. Horrible . The Web's given us comics as diverse as Achewood , Dr. McNinja , Templar, Arizona , and FreakAngels , and cartoons from Adventure Time to Homestar Runner to Charlie the Unicorn to Gotham Girls to the complete version of Turtles Forever . It's also allowed MST3K to continue in the form of the downloadable RiffTrax and the direct-order Cinematic Titanic .
Variety is the spice of life. I love comics -- and yeah, that includes mainstream superhero comics. But I'm sick of all of them having the exact same structure. Fortunately, I think we're on the edge of an age of experimentation.
Or another damn market crash. It is an odd-numbered decade now, after all.
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LACOT October Meetup – Los Angeles
November 2, 2012 by Dave1 Comment
Our latest LACOT meetup was at Hotel Wilshire conveniently located on “Miracle Mile” next to “Museum Row” and minutes from the popular Grove Shopping Center.
Capitalizing on the often pleasant weather year round, Hotel Wilshire has turned their roof into the centerpiece of their hotel. Appropriately named, the “Roof on Wilshire” is located here, along with a bar, plenty of views and a small pool.
The night was remarkably windy and superbly clear – unusual for this time of year.
It was great to catch up with friends including:
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@MelanieWaldman
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@ThatsVy
and have some new faces show – including @LegalNomads who popped in on her way to London, as well as prolific travelers, @lax2nrt and @RalphVelasco
The next day – catching up on some much needed museum visits, Syy, myself and @LATravelWriter headed down the street to catch the latest exhibits at LACMA and see one of their show pieces, “Levitated Mass” – a 340 ton giant boulder that was moved from Riverside County in early 2012 to its final resting place at the museum. Similar to the Endeavor which recently crawled through prior “prepped” streets of LA at a turtle’s pace, this behemoth could only travel a maximum of a few mph at night. You realize just how large this “rock” is when you see it close up – you can even walk directly underneath it!
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Walking under it was a little strange. Running threw my mind was “were the positive that they placed this correctly????” Of course it is and it is an awesome exhibit. Thanks for the post.
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Polly Gillespie - when truth matters
Hilary Butler - Monday, May 16, 2016
Polly Gillespie is not one for letting the facts get in the way of an emotive story, even when it concerns the tragic death of her sister. Polly got her sister’s cause of death wrong, her sister’s age wrong, the day she was admitted to hospital wrong, and the day she died wrong. In addition, Polly thought nothing of dishing out hate and literal threats of violence to individuals who dared to question the integrity of her story or don’t get vaccinated. If the provable facts were wrong, what information was correct in the article which was a jock-shock attempt to use emotion to get people to have an influenza vaccination?
The usual ‘skeptics’ accepted her error-ridden story as fact, and lauded her for her courage, perhaps unwittingly, embracing woo-science to promote their cause. Her flawed story was spun around cyberspace by so-called objective experts, such as staff at IMAC, in the hope of scaring a few more folks into having their annual shot at the flu vaccine altar.
On Monday 9 May, 2016, a formal complaint was lodged with the New Zealand Herald in the matter of three articles present on their website:
1) Twelve Questions: Polly Gillespie 1 May 2014 . . . . PDF
2) Polly Gillespie: Losing my Sister 2 May 2016 . . . . PDF
3) Polly Gillespie: Messages of Support over Flu Death 6 May 2016 . . . PDF
PDF of Detailed complaint to the Herald.
Why did I make the complaint? Because:
The Herald and Polly Gillespie, are supposed to be bound by the New Zealand Press Association standards. Both the Herald and Polly have breached those standards. Although there are three more working days left before the New Zealand Herald is due to reply (this blog made live on 18th May) , the Herald has not even acknowledged receipt of the complaint. If the Herald has not replied by 5 p.m. on Friday, or if they consider there is no basis to the complaint, an additional complaint will be laid with the New Zealand Press Association. Polly's incorrect Herald facts continue to be quoted by other publications as if they are the truth, so in the interests of the public, here are the facts relating to the three articles in the Herald.
Everyone who ran off and got vaccinated with the flu vaccine in a total emotional panic, because they believed Polly's columns, ... should wake up to the fact that not everything written in a paper upholding the New Zealand Press Association standards will meet those standards.
Most importantly, perhaps Polly embellished her story hoping that no-one in the crowd would use a mouse to check her facts, and relied on the crowd to believe every word that dropped off her pen into their heads.
Ever heard the statement that, "Crowds Lie. The more people, the less truth"? SØren Kierkegaard explored this theme from many angles in all his writings. On pages 320 - 22 of his book "Concluding Unscientific Postscript", he said that when we "admire and blubber" in the presence of what we regard as superior human achievement, we turn ourselves into spectators and connoisseurs and neatly avoid the call to live as humans ourselves. Admiration, in other words . . . can be a dodge.
Blind belief in the face of such admiration, can also suspend, or prevent critical thinking.
The third column by Polly is a chilling example of what happens when the gullible crowd chooses to admire someone being sparse with the truth. "But," you say, "what if we didn't know that a lie was told?"
On what basis should the crowd believe Polly? Because she has a big mouth, literally and metaphorically? ‘Buyer beware’, doesn't just apply to things obtained with money.
History through the ages is a sorry story of the unreliability of crowds to discern or even reflect the truth. You would think in an age when it's so easy to check people's facts, that the Herald, or its readers might have asked a few questions. Particularly from someone who admits to having such a creative imagination as Polly Gillespie, and who admits to being "naughty". But no.
Why does the participation by the majority in something - anything - , equate to uncritical legitimacy, and reduce the thinking of the crowd to mindless passivity?
Why does being a columnist, confer an impression of excellence, importance and pontifical scientific rightness?
Any student of history can show that truth can often be compressed to fit into a slogan, which is reflected in Churchill's quote, "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies."
Unfortunately, the issue of vaccination is also talked about with a "wartime" mindset, and is similarly attended by a bodyguard of lies.
On this occasion, Polly Gillespie is not an unwitting victim of those lies, though perhaps she might believe a complaint against her, makes her a victim. She was the creative perpetrator.
The victims who were abused by her articles, were not only the unwitting listeners who believed her lies, and rushed to the doctor for a jab . . . but her sister, and the anti-vaccinationists who were publicly villified by an extraordinary torrent of invective.
So let’s look at the problems here. In the last few years, Polly has publicly bared her soul about how her sister Jeanette, was her very best friend for life, the light of her life, - always there for her - paid her bills etc etc . . . the list of expanding extollations grows with every retelling.
The core point of Polly's stories have always been that if her sister had been vaccinated, she would never have died.
Jeanette, according to Polly, "caught the flu and died five days later."
In 2014, when this story first came to my attention, Jeanette died in her "early 30's".
In the Herald in 2014, according to Polly, Jeanette was 38 when she died.
In 2016, the graphic description of Jeanette's death, and a unbridled vicious raging at non-vaccinators, was exceptionally callous, so a warning light went on in my head.
Add to the warning light, the fact that in 2000, the year Jeanette died, the flu was pretty much non-existent, and nowhere in the official death databases was there such an influenza death in the 30 - 40 year age group.
Knowing that Polly's description did not match the clinical picture of a death from "influenza", OR the data, I researched Jeanette's death using various combinations based on known facts, and the web threw up an obituary, written by one of Jeanette's colleagues (who cannot remember who actually told him that Jeanette had the flu).
Jeannette's obituary dates informed me that she was 41 at her death, not 38. So I went back to the Health Department database for deaths from the flu in 2000, in people from 40 - 45, and still found nothing.
A search of Hamilton City council's cemetery records confirmed Jeanette's age to be 41 at death. Ah ha. Now, I had a proper date.
So I picked up the phone to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and ordered a certified copy of her death certificate which says;
I studied the manual written in 2000, directing doctors how to fill out the patient’s death certificate, and discussions with Ministry of heath staff confirm that had Jeanette had the flu, it would have been written on the doctor’s certificate, and on the top line of the death certificate.
Furthermore, even in 2000, if influenza had been suspected, Jeanette would have been tested, and the samples sent to ESR in Wellington.
Severe coinfection with flu and Staph. aureus is possible, as shown in a CDC publication dated
April 27, 2012: "Severe Coinfection with Seasonal Influenza A (H3N2) Virus and Staphylococcus aureus — Maryland, February–March 2012 " which described illness and death in three family members as a result of Staph. aureus and the flu:
"All three family members had confirmed infection with seasonal influenza A (H3N2) virus. Patients B and C had confirmed coinfection with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which manifested in both patients as MRSA pneumonia and bacteremia.... Two of the three had been vaccinated against seasonal influenza."
As you see, the flu vaccine did not prevent two of those deaths.
So what provable facts do you know now?
That according to her death certificate, Jeanette did not die of the flu, she was 41 at her death, the death certificate stating her birthday as 29th August 1959, not 28th August (no year) as asserted by Polly on her facebook page on the 4th May 2016 PDF
It seems that since the complaint was filed, Polly has played catch-up, and changed her sister’s birthdate to what it should be . . .
Polly was also very specific about some things, such as, " my sister's sudden fatal bout of influenza … She got sick on the Tuesday and was dead on the Saturday."
Except that published information shows that her sister got sick on Friday and died on Wednesday. So the above quote from Polly is also incorrect.
What else were we told?
"My sister was a brilliant artist too, who sold her work when we were in college together in the US, to constantly get my sorry ass out of debt. She would pay off my dental bills, and my rent. … and when she'd finished her fine arts degrees, became a scientist."
That didn't mesh with the time frame mentioned in her obituary. PDF Jeanette's obituary said that Jeanette was a dancer and tour guide for five years at the Polynesian Cultural Center at Laie, Hawaii. Jeanette enrolled in the University of Waikato in 1987, to study for a Bachelor of Social Science degree in Geography, and the following year converted her degree to a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Earth sciences. She graduated her BSc in 1989, taking the full three years.
Jeanette Gillespie then spent another three years to graduate with a Master of Science in 1992, and in 1993 enrolled for part-time PhD study, which seemingly had not been completed by 2000.
Surely someone with multiple degrees would have been cross credited, had time remitted, and those degrees listed in her obituary?
According to Waikato University, Jeanette never asked for, or received cross credits. Her colleague who wrote her obituary has no knowledge of any other degrees. Are arts degrees something to be hidden?
More research brought up public records of both Jeanette and Polly attending a Mormon college called Christ Church New Zealand at Templeview in Western Hamilton, and Polly’s passing School Certificate in 1977, which places Polly's birth year at around 1962.
Using clues from Jeanette's obituary, more research placed both Jeanette and Polly at the Mormon Brigham University in Hawaii, which is where the Polynesian Cultural Center was located . . . yet apparently there were no degrees which came out of this particular time period.
We were then told that: "I've seen the result of not getting a flu vaccination. Jeanette told me she didn't think she needed one because she was fit and healthy.”
Yet in this 2001 ESR report , we read:
Immunisation Coverage "In 1997 influenza vaccination was made available free to those ≥65 years of age, and in 1999 free vaccination was extended to risk groups <65 years."
In 2000, it was neither the norm, nor was it expected for healthy 40 year olds to have the flu vaccine.
Plainly, Polly disagreed with Jeanette . . . by implication. Does that mean that Polly who would have been around 39 at the time, had the flu vaccine, and disapproved of her sister’s comment?
Polly claims she was on air/in the studio (presumably in Wellington) when the call came through that her sister was very ill in hospital in Hamilton. It would have taken the best part of a day to make arrangements and get to Waikato Hospital, even if flying. Jeanette had pneumonia, Staph. sepsis, renal failure and coagulopathy for 5 days, and Polly said that Jeanette's body was on life support and being dialyzed:
"The wonderful staff at the hospital hooked her up to a machine that removed her blood, cleaned it, and pumped it back through her body."
So her sister's body was shutting down. She was bleeding from her eyes, nose and ears, her lungs were full of fluid, her hands and feet turning black. With Jeanette in an induced coma a skeptic would have to ask, when could such a rational conversation with Polly asking, “Why didn’t you have the flu vaccine” and Jeanette saying, “I didn’t need it”, have taken place?
Who told Polly this was "the flu"? It would be instructive to see the medical files, but those would only be released to the executor of the estate.
So instead of a factual representation of her sister’s death, the public was bombarded with a story, some of which is verifiably false, and some indeed implausible, in order to form some kind of authenticity and legitimacy to allow Polly to say this:
The last of the three articles was about the feedback from the rant above. Polly again ranted about wanting to send the anti-vaccine crowd for an IQ test:
And Polly was delighted to report that:
“People from the health sector thanked me for my responsible position. Cool. That felt good.”
Perhaps the health sector can go and look at Jeanette Lea Gillespie's hospital file, doctor’s certificate and death certificate, obituary, and research the case. Then maybe they can explain to me, exactly what is responsible about anything Polly has said about her sister since 2014.
Or is truth not important when it comes to needling people?
Seemingly, Churchill was correct. "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." Continue Reading
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Gallery Daytona International Speedway 1980 Firecracker 400 - Photos by John Gross
1980 Firecracker 400 - Photos by John Gross
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Cale Yarborough started from the pole but was the first car out with a blown engine on lap five...
Darrell Waltrip blew an engine finishing 31st...
he Wood Bros. prep Neil Bonnett's Purolator Mercury...
Richard Petty's crew prepares his Olds on the starting grid...
The King poses before the race...
Buddy Arrington drove his Dodge to a 10th place finish...
David Pearson finished second in Hoss Ellington's Oldsmobile...
Dave Marcis leads Lake Speed, Terry Labonte, Buddy Baker, Richard Petty and Jody Ridley out of turn four..
1980 Daytona 500 winner Buddy Baker started 4th and finished 4th in the Firecracker..
A broken crankshaft ended Terry Labonte's day on lap 102...
while Darrell Waltrip succumbed to a blown engine on lap 110...
James Hylton came in 24th...
Not sure who tried to qualify this former Marty Robbins Dodge but it did not make the field..
Dale Earnhardt leads Darrell Waltrip... Earnhardt finished 3rd..
Chuck Bown blows an engine on lap 41...
Baker leads eventual winner Bobby Allison, Parsons, Pearson and Petty...
Ignition Problems dropped Neil Bonnett to 34th at the end...
Petty finished 5th...
Richard Childress making a pit stop...
Roger Hamby hits pit road... he finished 27th...
Petty pits...
A pair of Dodge Magnums as Buddy Arrington leads Marty Robbins who was driving Frank Warren's car...
Baker and Earnhardt battled back and forth for 3rd late in the going...
Petty leads Benny Parsons... They finished 5th and 6th...
Phil Finney's car slides to a halt after a violent crash with just eight laps to go...
Finney was knocked unconcious...
The first rescuers arrived on the scene...
... as Petty drives through the debris....
Track crews continue to extricate Finney...
The Merritt Island, FL driver was taken to the hospital for observation suffering from plenty of bumps and bruises...
The inside guard rail was virtually destroyed by Finney's car...
It took two wreckers to get Finney's car back to the pits...
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HEART WG
What is the HEART?WG?
HEART (Health Relationship Trust) is a set of profiles that enables patients to control how, when, and with whom their clinical data is shared. The HEART model builds on existing state-of-the-art security and adds additional components to ensure that patient clinical data is securely exchanged. In addition to giving patients control over how their own data is shared, HEART defines the interoperable process for systems to exchange patient-authorized healthcare data consistent with open standards, specifically FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources), OAuth, OpenID Connect, and UMA (User-Managed Access).
Today, attempts to enable patients to electronically manage authorizations for sharing their data have only worked within narrow ecosystems, such as a single healthcare system. This is problematic for patients because it is difficult to share healthcare data with an external physician or with a healthcare system in a different region. It is problematic for organizations and providers because there are no processes, rules, or standards for ensuring that the clinical data being shared has been authorized by patients. This lack is likely to limit adoption and use of data-sharing APIs because it will be far more difficult to ensure that apps seeking to use APIs actually have the approval to obtain access to individual patients’ data.
The goal in developing the HEART profiles was to address these issues by creating best practices that accomplish the following practical tasks:
Enables organizations and other entities to electronically determine whether requests for data are valid (i.e., have been authorized by the patient) and what data the requesting entity is authorized to obtain.
Creates a protocol for managing both sharing of permissions and data that adheres to the highest levels of security and privacy. In the process, both patients and providers increase trust that the data is authorized and accurate.
Supports, and integrates with, systems that allow patients to set up permissions and authorizations for sharing their clinical data to ensure that their data is only shared with individuals, institutions, and apps that they choose.
HEART provides a standard to enable patient-mediated interoperability implementation through the FHIR APIs. To obtain the full benefit of open APIs, we need to enable the HEART standard and attain widespread adoption.
(You can find this overview as a standalone document.)
The?Vote to Approve Implementer’s Drafts of Four HEART Specifications?has closed and the specifications have been approved as of March 12, 2019. You can read about the vote here. The four specifications that were approved are:
Health Relationship Trust Profile for OAuth 2.0
Health Relationship Trust Profile for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) OAuth 2.0 Scopes
Health Relationship Trust Profile for User-Managed Access 2.0
Health Relationship Trust Profile for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) UMA 2 Resources
A complete list of HEART specifications produced (including previous Implementer’s Drafts) can be found in the group’s BitBucket repository.
There are two types of HEART specifications:
Mechanical?profiles:?These specify and tighten security parameters for using?OAuth 2.0,?OpenID Connect, and UMA, respectively, in the context of patient-controlled health data exchange.
Semantic profiles:?These prescribe usage of OAuth and UMA (for example, defining scopes and flows) in combination with health industry-specific APIs. The first set of APIs to have received this treatment is FHIR.
The US Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC for Health IT) lists HEART as a Health IT Standard to Watch, and sponsored a two-hour webinar/workshop on 23 April 2019. Slides and a?recording are available.
The HEART Work Group co-chairs presented on Emerging Identity Standards in Healthcare at the Identiverse conference in June 2018 (slides, video).
The group has written the following use cases to crystalize key needs in patient-directed health data exchange and how HEART can contribute to the solution:
Alice Shares Clinical Records With Her Spouse
Alice Shares Health Data With Her Spouse
Alice Electronically Shares Data From Her PHR
Patient Shares Data From Her Health IoT Device to Her Clinician
Additional information can be found on our Resources page.
The easiest way to monitor progress on the HEART Specification is to join the mailing list at http://lists.www.jxxdbx.com/mailman/listinfo/openid-specs-heart.
Please note that while anyone can join the mailing list as a read-only recipient and listen to the calls, posting to the mailing list or actively contributing to development of the specification itself (all spoken comments are considered contributions) requires the submission of an IPR Agreement. More information is available at http://www.jxxdbx.com/intellectual-property. Make sure to specify the working group as “OpenID HEART”.
Meeting Venue and Schedule ?
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Sedani (black bean flour) with garlic oil and chilli
RistorExpo “Wine and food Anarchy” 21/24 February 2016 Lariofiere – Erba (Co)
The 19th edition of RistorExpo was born from the need to develop, through a serious regional marketing efforts, the exchange of ideas and professional growth in the wine and food sector by meeting with about the 200 present companies, seminars, workshops, internships, etc. . At the official opening of this year, presented by Federico Quaranta (Rai Radio 2, La Prova del Cuoco, Decanter), were present Giovanni Ciceri, creator and curator of the project, James Mojoli, Design Thinking wine and food journalist, Marco Stabile , President of Jeunes Restaurateurs d’Europe, Davide Paolini Journalist of the Sole 24 Ore, and the chef David Scabin.
Vienna is a city marked by the slow movement of the Prater, from the time of Strauss waltzes that often you can hear from the artists who play in the streets. You can immediately get struck by the magnificence of its buildings that surround the city center, from the colors of Klimt’s paintings at the Belvedere and the story of the Princess Sissi, which for years has been idealized in the most masterful of interpretation by the beautiful actress Robin Sneider, but that actually hides a sad life of a young girl forced to marry in a man she did not love and to give up her life.Continua a Leggere
If you feel If you like you are lost and want to find an inner peace that for some absurd reason you have lost, the magic word is Vietnam. Everyone has a different taste: super crowded streets of motorbikes that, in waves, that invades, like bees in a hive, the streets of Ho Chi Mihn, people that opens at lunchtime small benches and sits there eating in wherever spot they are, the hunger and the poverty balanced by a strong sense of pride and inner peace that shines from their faces, and the strong sense of belonging to a land that gives and sustains them, and which is at the same the place where the body finds peace and rest after this earthly life and everything coexists peacefully together: the rice fields and the graves of the owners of those fields.Continua a Leggere
So why do I choose Paris to begin my trip with you?
Because I think that Paris is the most romantic city in the world. Everything in Paris has a slow and soft nature and it looks more beautiful in any month of the year: the streets leading to Montmartre, where you can get lost among in the endless colors of the paintings that are exposed by painters in the Place du Tertre; the scent of chocolate crepes that you can taste on the road while walking, looking at the shops along the narrow streets that still retain a bohemian atmosphere; the Pigalle district of the historic Mulin Rouge and sex shops are the most original in the world; and what do you think of San German de Prés with its streets full of trendy shops, the streets of the Latin Quarter teeming with students and tourist at the Sorbonne, and restaurants where the waiters invite you in with phrases such as “Italians? Here the best cousine!”
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- Gli ottimi croissant del bar "Square" di Cadorago (CO)
A sad looking city, but that enchants you with its elegant streets, its cafes at every corner, and the lake, how wonderful! The same atmosphere of the gatherings scratchy looks of people who show that nothing can scrap them: they look, listen quietly and then they tell you what they think, but gracefully, while remaining far apart enough and with a certain savoir faire.Continua a Leggere
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Da Piero: Interview With Award Winning Restaurateur
By: Mike Kiely BA (hons) - Updated: 28 Sep 2010 | *Discuss
Gazing wistfully from under their umbrellas, what the rain soaked inhabitants of the Wirral peninsula wouldn’t give for a little Sicilian sunshine. Well, the good news is that the warm glow of a linguine al limone is practically on their doorstep, at the local Italian Da Piero, which has racked up a series of rave reviews, following up the award of best new entry in the 2010 Good Food Guide with more compliments in the 2011 edition as well as featuring in the Michelin guide.
It’s all good publicity for chef Piero Di Bella and his wife Dawn, who runs front of house. Not so good for those looking to book a table. The word is out, and regulars from Merseyside, Manchester and North Wales are now battling it out with food lovers from further south for a prized place in the reservations book. “Last week I went to see my doctor for the annual check. When I opened the door, she said, ‘Oh you are doing very good with the restaurant.’ Why do you say that? ‘Because every time I try to come in, you’re fully booked.’, ” says Di Bella.
With only seven or eight tables and a maximum capacity of 22, the good doctor may be waiting a while yet, but Di Bella is only too aware how important the Good Food entry was for his business, both from a financial point of view and in terms of achieving his culinary vision. “The guide did a lot for me because now there are a lot of people that know the restaurant. But my target was not for that, it was just to please people and let them know that in Italy there is an interesting array of dishes. So many of them are simple, but balancing the few flavours is very important.”
Sea salt from Trapani
These few flavours can include Aberdeen Angus beef from Speyside in Scotland, mussels from Cornwall or scallops from the Orkneys. Apart from the meat, fish and vegetables, Di Bella sources all his ingredients from Italy. His standards, not surprisingly, are exacting. “When I opened the restaurant, I ordered 500 kilos of sea salt from Trapani, because salt is very important in Italian cooking.
“We use a lot of extra virgin olive oil which is really the soul of Italian cooking. If you use an inferior oil, you will have about 30 per cent less success in quality, in my opinion. So we use high-class ingredients to produce simple dishes; simple in terms of the number of ingredients, not in terms of the cooking.”
While dishes such as caponata, home-made salsiccia with lentils, and cannoli reflect Di Bella’s Sicilian roots, other regions are represented, too. What inspired these menu choices? "My mother was from northern Italy, born in Piacenza. They were farmers in the Lombardy region. This is why on the menu you can find ossobucco and cotoletta."
Lombardy is also represented on the wine list, alongside bottles from Tuscany, Veneto and Sicily. Piemonte is soon to gain representation, too.
Fresh pasta station
Future plans include an expansion of the kitchen to include a fresh pasta station. "A larger preparation area will allow me to do many things that at the moment I cannot do, such as ravioli. I love ravioli, I love making ravioli, indeed any type of pasta. When you serve fresh mushrooms, for example, you have to serve them with fresh tagliatelle, because they are delicate types of mushroom. It is very important."
And what about increasing the number of covers? "If we expand we will never make a restaurant with 50 covers because that is a different kind of organisation. But 30 people between me and my son, Alan [who qualified as a chef three months ago] is possible."
Da Piero’s doors are open from Tuesday to Saturday, although other days can be accommodated upon special request. For the Di Bella family, this means long hours. Not that the chef is complaining. "It is hard work. If you are not passionate, don’t do it because the passion is the driver of the restaurant. It is tiring but it is so satisfying when you get the compliments from people; then the tiredness goes away."
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Coronavirus pandemic planning Gets political weapon as deaths mount in US
For the initial 3 decades of the presidency, Donald Trump didn’t openly utter the words”pandemic” or even”preparedness.” Maybe not in speeches, his or her most news conferences, planned and impromptu.
However, on Friday, the White House pointed to extensive preparation exercises that the government reports and conducted it composed warning of this hazard in 2018.
However, Trump has said that the blame for the national government having insufficient stockpiles of crucial machines and supplies required to deal with an outbreak lie with his predecessor, Barack Obama.
Obama continues to be persistent transparency for Trump on quite a few problems, but in the event of preparation for the pandemic, he’s devoted little attention to the 69-page”playbook” in the Obama administration concerning the danger of a viral epidemic that may comprise Ebola or a cancerous respiratory disease like coronavirus.
Trump claims he endured a”busted, horrible” system from Obama. Critics counter that Trump had three years in office to prepare more than sufficient time to construct the pandemic strategies that he inherited.
Trump, in a midday event beyond the Oval Office, announced: “nothing. I inherited practically nothing in the preceding government, sadly.”
His spokeswoman, Kayleigh McEnany, afterward exhibited a replica of this Obama program dismissively through a briefing at the White House press area before devoting two binders of what she’s called the exceptional Trump plans.
Beth Cameron, who worked on pandemic preparation from the Obama government, stated the playbook the Obama government introduced to the Trump government” was granted, briefed and discussed together with the incoming government, specifically.” She stated it had been meant to supply the White House using a pair of questions it needs to ask early in an emerging outbreak or pandemic threat.
“It summarized who must come together to answer these questions and also to be ready to expect what was coming next… for going,” Cameron explained. She stated the Trump government was slow to react to Covid-19 and Obama’s playbook might have helped the government get before an emerging threat such as the coronavirus.
“They weren’t political.
She called Obama’s strategy as a”thin package of the newspaper” which has been replaced by”two comprehensive, strong pandemic response reports commissioned by the Trump administration”
She stated that in 2018 that the Trump government issued its pandemic catastrophe action program and final summer ran Crimson Contagion 2019, a simulation to check the country’s capability to reply to a large scale outbreak.
“This practice expounded upon — vulnerable instead — the openings in heritage preparation documents, which notify President Trump’s coronavirus reaction starting as early as January,” McEnany said.
Her remarks drew criticism from Ron Klain, that had been the U.S. Ebola response planner throughout the Obama government and today counsels Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden.
“Let us get to the most important thing,” Klain tweeted following McEnany’s briefing. “If their position now is that they HAD a strategy and that THIS was their strategy… I didn’t see how this is a beneficial argument about them at all.”
One of the numerous goals was strengthening preparedness to save lives through”medical countermeasures,” for example vaccines, ventilators, diagnostic evaluations, and personal protective gear such as medical gowns and masks which were in short supply from the first days of the outbreak.
Macy explained the country’s stockpile was inadequate but did not answer questions regarding why Trump did not function to restock it throughout his first 3 years in office. The White House said that the horn had just 28 percent of those things required during a pandemic and comprised significantly less than a one-month source of important items, but the government is upgrading inventories and the way they’re distributed.
Cameron said Trump had a lot to examine if he entered the Oval Office.
Bush took a keen interest in preparing the country for a flu pandemic following studying John M. Barry’s”The Great Influenza” concerning the 1918 flu that killed over 500,000 Americans and over 20 million people throughout the world.
He read the publication in 2005 while in his Texas ranch. A couple of months after, Bush gave a speech in the National Institutes of Health rolling out the initial modern-day national plan to prepare for a flu pandemic, detect outbreaks, expand vaccine manufacturing capacity and stockpile remedies.
“Unlike storms or floods, which strike in a minute and then recede, a pandemic can keep on spreading destruction in repeated waves that can persist for a year or even longer,” Bush stated from the November 2005 address.
Obama worked on the Ebola outbreak and H1N1 along with also the Zika virus.
There are dozens of additional pandemic planning novels on the shelves, for instance, Biological Incident Annex, that was upgraded by the Obama government and re-issued in January 2017 since Trump took office.
“President Trump was in office for more than three decades now, which will be more than sufficient to build on the pandemic plans he inherited,” said Lawrence Gostin, a public health specialist at Georgetown University who worked with the Bush and Obama administrations on international health problems.
“It is fairly obvious that whatever pandemic preparation was done throughout the Bush or even Obama administrations never made it into elevated levels from the Trump administration”
He believes Trump was only focused on other problems — which pandemic preparation was not a top priority to the president.
Gostin said that he had been startled when Trump initially said that nobody anticipated a pandemic such as Covid-19 to occur.
“Well, each international wellness specialist expected this to occur,” Gostin said. “We could not let you know when it would occur. We could not tell you just what the pathogen is, but we knew there was a large novel outbreak coming”
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An Evening Themed On Light
An exclusive event by Club 4 All
Club 4 All, a not for profit association, showed how important light is in people's lives. The group organized a Diwali Dhamaka 2005 on Oct. 18 at the Hilton on Peachtree Industrial to make its point.
For this show, the club, which has been in existence for almost two years, followed its popular format of an evening filled with food and entertainment.
The evening started off with a "social hour," followed by an entertainment program, dinner and a DJ who was complemented by a "dhol" player (traditional Indian drummer). The club members were present through every step, seeing off visitors with a box of sweets.
This year the club had encouraged participation from dance schools in metro Atlanta. The event also comprised of skit and dance performances by the club's members.
The participants in these performances included Sudha Malhotra, Phalguni Panday, Chandrika Laxminarayan, Uma Sharma, Ranjana Dhir, Indra Dattagupta and Parijat Chandra. Chandra and Malhotra were responsible for the show's programming.
Chandra also co-hosted the evening with Dr. Swaroop Nyshadham. The two kept the audience riveted with jokes and impersonations. A humorous skit was interwoven into the program, which kept the audience in splits as the characters would drop into the program without any notice.
The many manifestations of light were reflected in items that included a glow-in-the-dark dance, a shadow dance, an Arabian Nights-themed dance, Lodhi, mirror dance and more. The schools that participated in the show were Chandrika Chandran (Natyanjali), Smita Doshi, Savita Vishwanathan, Prem Rehman (Silent Killers), Shuchita Bharadwaj and Anushka Panday.
The finale item of the evening was choreographed and orchestrated by Kumud and Sandeep Savla of Nritya Natya Kala Bharati. It was performed with the help of songs (classical, folk and film), music, visual effects and a recorded voice over by a "sutradhar" (Parijat Chandra). This item tied in every conceivable manifestation of light in our lives, and started with Raga Deepak perhaps an apt choice for an evening themed on light. . .
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Day of Remembrance 2017
Dana S. Mar
Community members with King County Council members. Photo by Ned Ahrens, King County.
By Shihou Sasaki, Dana S. Mar and Mao Osumi
The Seattle area presented various Day of Remembrance events to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 (EO9066), which resulted in the mass incarceration of people of Japanese descent along the West Coast, toward the current political and social injustice situations around the nation.
A special program entitled, “How Could Concentration Camps Happen?” was held at the University of Washington (UW) Kane Hall, gathering about 600 audience members to discuss and learn about mass incarcerations in comparison through histories and their social backgrounds.
Speakers included Dee Simon, the Baral Family executive director of the Holocaust Center for Humanity, and Tetsuden Kashima, professor emeritus of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington and Lorraine Bannai, professor of lawyering skills and Director of the Fred T. Korematsu Center at Seattle University.
Sponsored by the UW American Ethnic Studies, the Consulate-General of Japan in Seattle, the Nisei Veterans Committee, the Holocaust Center for Humanity and the Japanese American Citizens League Seattle Chapter, the commemoration was a part of the three-event series to examine the history and similarities between the Japanese American incarceration and the Holocaust during World War II. The next events will be held in April.
“Never Again: Japanese American WWII History and American Muslim Rights Today,” a presentation and discussion about Japanese American incarceration during World War II and its correlations to persecutions faced by American Muslims, was held on Sunday at Fisher Pavilion, Seattle Center.
According to an event organizer, about 1,500 attendees joined to mark the 75th anniversary of the Japanese American incarceration and learn about the circumstances of American Muslim children and families today.
Densho presented the event in partnership with CAIR-WA, The Seattle Public Library Foundation and ACLU of Washington. Featured speakers included spoken word poet Troy Osaki, Mayor Ed Murray, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, Tom Ikeda, executive director of Densho and Arsalan Bukhari, the Director of CAIR-Washington State.
“I really liked this intergenerational atmosphere because connecting dots between past and present is very important,” Osaki said.
“Today marks not just a memorial about the past, but the message that we are never going there again,” commented Seattle Mayor Ed Murray.
The Minidoka Pilgrimage Planning Committee (MPPC), an all-volunteer committee dedicated to honoring “generations that were at Minidoka by sharing stories of their imprisonment,” also held its annual Day of Remembrance Taiko Fundraiser at Seattle University. Local taiko groups Inochi Taiko, Okinawa Kenjin Kai Taiko, UW Taiko Kai, Kaze Daiko, Seattle Kokon Taiko and Seattle University’s newly formed SU Hidaka Taiko performed with high energy at Pigott Hall.
The event successfully attracted about 350 attendees through the MPPC’s hard work and contributions from the community. All of the proceeds from the fundraiser go to the Elder and Youth scholarship program to help recipients attend the Pilgrimage.
This year, members of the Muckleshoot Canoe Family, who historically shared close ties with the Nikkei community, gave a performance that offered solidarity to the community and honored those who endured the incarceration.
Minidoka Pilgrimage Scholarship recipients Melia Lawrence and Marie Johnston gave their project presentation in which they jointly photographed and interviewed participants while on site this past Pilgrimage.
The event also welcomed international student Kholood Alabdullatif, who related a story from Nazanin Zinouri who visited family in Iran and was denied reentry to the US. Alabdullatif earned her Masters in Educational Administration and is currently pursuing an Educational Doctorate in Educational Leadership at SU.
Yosh Nakagawa also attended as the keynote speaker to impart his hopes for the community. “Today, I want all of you to give thanks to each other because your story is so essential. America needs good news again,” he said, “good news from you.”
Despite the rain, around 30 people attended a vigil held at the Japanese American Remembrance Garden on campus following the program.
On Tuesday, both the King County Council and the Seattle City Council declared proclamations in remembrance of EO9066 and those who subsequently suffered under its effects. Densho Director Tom Ikeda read the King County Council proclamation just moments before receiving the Seattle City Council proclamation read by City Council President Bruce Harrell.
Dozens of community members observed the sessions in which local politicians recognized the historic injustices done to the people of Japanese descent.
Bill Tashima of JACL noted that many Issei and Nisei have passed in the last 75 years. Tashima expressed the importance of recognizing those who were directly affected by and who struggled with the incarceration.
Karen Yoshitomi, executive director of the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Washington, shared her comment that the political representatives should never forget how the Executive Order 9066 was issued with three causes, “race prejudice,” “war hysteria” and “failure of political correctness.”
At City Hall, Bruce Harrell spoke of his personal connection through his mother who was among those incarcerated. The proclamation recognizes the injustices done to the people of Japanese descent and promises the City of Seattle will welcome immigrants and refugees with equity and inclusion.
“We realize what happens when fear seems to govern the day and not kindness or rational thought,” said Harrell.
Tom Ikeda also gave a brief speech. Consul General Masahiro Omura and Wing Luke Museum director Beth Takekawa also attended for the remembrance proclamation.
Washington State Legislatures held its annual Day of Remembrance session last Wednesday where it passed two resolutions.
(From left to right, middle row) Seattle City Council President Bruce Harrell presents the proclamation to Tom Ikeda. “Never Again” panel discussion. SU Hidaka Taiko founder Yukiyo Mitsuishi at Minidoka Taiko Fundraiser.
(From left to right, bottom) About 600 attend UW Day of Remembrance lecture. George Takei’s “Allegiance” shown at local cinemas. Gordon Hirabayashi’s diary.
Photos by Shihou Sasaki, Dana S. Mar, Mao Osumi and Geraldine Shu
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Iron Solomon :: Monster
From the name you might think Iron Solomon was a member of the Wu-Tang Clan’s extended fam; and in his bio Solomon does mention them as one of his artistic inspirations. He also credits N.W.A. and Nirvana as influences along with “New York City’s multi-cultural patchwork.” It probably goes without saying that he’s got a diverse range of influences. It might also go without saying that he’s caucasian, something you might not immediately pick up on while listening to “Monster,” but if you Google his name looking for a Wiki page one of the first hits you get is “Action Bronson and be done with it. Solomon is a serious emcee collaborating WITH serious emcees like Talib Kweli on songs like “The Empire”:
Iron Solomon: “I’m from the home of the hustler, born with a mean mug
Talk fast and we walk fast, keep up
Step with a different rhythm; try to make the most
of what little we’ve been given by the city that we live in
where the Wall Street intellect and street smarts intersect
Dogs eat dogs, beef law, that’s in effect
Try and make it even for the odds that we overcomin
so we can hear the sirens from the coppers – but no one’s runnin
No matter what we facin we don’t turn a cheek”
Now I don’t know about “way better than Eminem” per se, but I’d be willing to put him at or above Asher Roth, who I find relatively enjoyable but occasionally lacking the competitive cojones his urban counterparts have. Iron Solomon might be a N.W.A. fan, but he sounds like the New York City that he comes from, both in accent and in his attitude. Even though he’s diversified enough to include a cameo from Paul Wall on his “Follow Me (Remix),” most of the guests on “Monster” also reflect a New York vibe, including Cassidy on “Rule #4,081.” The chorus sardonically suggests the following method to success:
“If you want to make it in hip-hop, you gotta start beef
Gotta be iced out, gotta hold heat
Follow the lifestyle, gotta get locked
To make it in hip-hop, you gotta get shot
Gotta be Big Pop’, or gotta be ‘Pac
Gotta make big hits, gotta go pop
If you a big shot, you gotta rap sheet
If you got it like that, then you ain’t gotta ask me”
That suggests Iron Solomon is willing to buck convention, and even to mock other rappers who would follow it to be successful, but it doesn’t mean that Solomon lacks respect for those who came before him. In fact he even does a tribute to Run-D.M.C. on “Sucker MC’s,” which actually features a contribution from Darryl McDaniels himself. He does the honors on the chorus, while Solomon carries the verses:
“Sucker MC’s, all teeth and gums
And the fans ain’t hearin it cause we ain’t dumb
In the school of hip-hop my degree came from
Graduated with +Honors+ no +VH1+”
I also had to laugh when he promised to “send Diddy’s ass on a cheesecake run.” Iron Solomon definitely has the moxie for the rap industry, but as “Monster” is decidedly anti-pop it reminds me of another slept on artist with an album of the same name – that would be Killer Mike. After watching him be critically acclaimed for the last eight years yet still be in relatively the same spot he was then, I wonder if the future doesn’t hold something similar for Solomon. It’s not that he doesn’t have the flow or the skill, but he spends so much time telling everybody to “Get On My Level” it might be a challenge for the listener to get on his. Even the more musically friendly whistling songs have titles like “Cold War,” and I doubt it will get anything other than college radio spins even if it gets a radio edit.
In short I like Iron Solomon. I can see myself listening to “Monster” more than once, because he’s got the personality and swag to carry an album. On the minus side though, the beats don’t really reach out and grab me. He does a lot of his own production on this album, including two of the featured tracks leaked to the masses before release: the aforementioned “Empire” featuring Talib Kweli and the song “Breathe.” It’s not that either song is bad – in fact they were two of the best choices to put out to get people hyped up – it’s just that over time you start to wonder if Iron Solomon could have diversified as much in production as he does in his influences. “Monster” starts to become background music – it all blends together in an inoffensive way. It’s not bad, it’s just not inspiring. I’d like to see him do a whole album with Statik Selektah or Primo next. I just hope for Solomon’s sake he doesn’t get typecast as the underground emcee who’s the local favorite but not big nationally. It’s clear from his lyrics he thinks his songs can make a difference for hip-hop, but the irony is they have to reach the masses to do it.
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Browsing Revolt Library By Tag : lords
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Awakening Starvelings, The, by Alexander Berkman
Ideas are true liberators. Ideas as distinguished from so-called reason. For in our work-a-day world there is much reason and too little thought. It is given only to the seer and poet to conceive liberating ideas - impractical, wild thoughts that ultimately light the way of practical, blind man to better and higher endeavor. To "practical" minds the regeneration of the world is an empty dream. To transform the cold winter of our age into the warmth of a beautiful summer day, to change our valley of tears and misery into a luxurious garden of joy is a vain fantasy lacking reason and sanity. But a William Morris sees in his mind's eye a world of comradeship and brotherhood rejoicing in the plenitude of earth's bounty, and he challenges "pract... (From : Anarchy Archives.)
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Awards Salient CRGT $21.5M Prime Contract for Enterprise IT and Communication Systems Support
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FAIRFAX, VA – October 9, 2018 – Salient CRGT, Inc. was awarded a $21.5 million prime contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Transatlantic Division to provide enterprise-wide support of infrastructure information systems that support USACE’s users in Afghanistan.
Under the Information Management/Information Technology (IM/IT) Support contract, Salient CRGT will develop and deploy IM/IT solutions to improve and maintain systems for current and future mission priorities. The Salient CRGT team will perform installation, modification, development, configuration, testing, integration, repairing, maintenance, help desk support, IM/IT management, cybersecurity, SharePoint development, user training, and additional IT support as required. This contract allows USACE to manage programs and projects that support a full spectrum of regional activities for multiple security forces, agencies, and commands operating in Afghanistan.
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at 5:00 am Posted by Kyle
Dr Manhattan Edit: There were practical problems with the breadth of the original legislation, and it has no undergone a nip-and-tuck in the Justice Legislation Further Amendment Bill 2010. The Explanatory Memo to this omnibus legislation can be found here.
Last year in Going Digital my colleague discussed what is now the Justice Legislation Miscellaneous Amendments Act 2009, which will insert new provisions in the Crimes Act 1958. It has received Royal Assent, but is yet to commence operation.
Section 464JA will provide in part:
(2) A person must not knowingly possess an audio recording or an audiovisual recording unless the person—
(a) is the suspect; or
(b) is a legal practitioner representing the suspect; or
(c) is an authorised person acting in the performance of his or her duties; or
(d) has possession of the recording in a sealed package in the course of his or her duties as a person engaged by a person referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) to transport the recording to that person.
Penalty: Level 8 imprisonment (1 year maximum).
Note The maximum fine that may be imposed on a body corporate found guilty of an offence against this subsection is 600 penalty units: see section 113D of the Sentencing Act 1991.
(3) A person must not play an audio recording or an audiovisual recording to another person unless—
(a) the recording is played for purposes connected with the prosecution or defence of, or legal proceedings relating to, a charge to which the recording relates; or
(b) the recording is played for purposes connected with an investigation of a death or a fire or an inquest held by a coroner; or
(c) the recording is played for purposes connected with disciplinary action against a member of the force within the meaning of the Police Regulation Act 1958; or
(d) the recording is played for purposes connected with disciplinary action against a legal practitioner; or
(e) the recording is played in accordance with the direction of a court under section 464JB; or
(f) the recording is played in accordance with section 464JD; or
(g) the recording is played by an authorised person acting in the course of his or her duties.
(4) A person must not supply or offer to supply an audio recording or an audiovisual recording to another person other than—
(a) the suspect in relation to whom the recording was made;
(b) a legal practitioner representing the suspect;
(c) an authorised person acting in the performance of his or her duties;
(d) a person engaged by a person referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) to transport the recording.
(5) A person, other than an authorised person acting in the performance of his or her duties, must not copy the whole or any part of an audio recording or an audiovisual recording or permit another person to make such a copy, unless the person is acting in accordance with the direction of a court under section 464JB.
(6) An authorised person must not knowingly or recklessly tamper with, modify or erase (in whole or in part) a recording, except in accordance with the direction of a court under section 464JB.
(7) A person must not publish or cause to be published the whole or any part of an audio recording or an audiovisual recording except in accordance with the direction of a court under section 464JB.
Penalty: Level 7 imprisonment (2 years maximum).
Note The maximum fine that may be imposed on a body corporate found guilty of an offence against this subsection is 1200 penalty units: see section 113D of the Sentencing Act 1991.
(8) An offence against a provision of this section is a summary offence.
The Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee raised a few concerns about these provisions, and in Alert Digest 4 of 2010 at pp 51 – 55 published them and the Minister's response.
Sub-section (4) seems to be the most problematic, and on its face prohibits disclosure of co-suspect interviews to suspects or practitioners, or release of an interview to an expert or to non-legally-qualified advisers or confidants.
I won't reproduced all of the material here, but the nub of it is that the Minister says these new provisions affect disclosure of recordings themselves, but not the transcripts or summaries of them. Because the prosecution is obliged to disclose all material it intends to rely on, the accused isn't disadvantaged.
Although this is true as far as it goes, it doesn't seem to consider that such material might be used by an accused for exculpatory purposes, not just by the prosecution for inculpatory use.
It also seems contrary to the prosecution's ethical obligation of disclosure of all relevant material, exculpatory and inculpatory: Mallard v The Queen (2005) 224 CLR 125; Cannon v Tahche (2005) 5 VR 317 at [57]–[59], [77].
There is a general directions power for courts in s 464JB, but it's not clear if that allows a summary court (which possesses only those powers expressly conferred by statute or by necessary implication) to override or modify the effects of s 464JA.
Labels: human rights, law reform, legislation, procedural fairness
Nanny State said...
This is very problematic. In summary prosecutions where there are more than one accused, the police will often refuse to provide copies of a co-accused's record of interview recording on the basis that "they arent obliged to" or that it is irrelevant (both positions which I might add are totally misconceived - but try getting that through to some police prosecutors). This new legislation will only act to enforce the often taken police position. Also note thet the minister's response about the provision of "transcripts" or "summaries" is (not surprisingly) totally misconceived as transcripts are usually not prepared up until just before the Contested Hearing. At Geelong, they are often not prepared at all.
Jeremy Gans said...
Supply is actually permitted to a co-accused's legal practitioner (as s/he is an 'authorised person'). But, weirdly, supply is not permitted to the co-accused him/herself (even by the co-accused's lawyer) without a court order!
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A man walks into a surgery: The role of storytelling in pharma marketing
Communicating through stories can make your brand messages more meaningful, memorable and persuasive
“Call me Ishmael.”1
“In a hole in a ground there lived a hobbit.”2
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”3
You may recognise these as first lines of famous stories. But what have they got to do with pharmaceutical marketing? Not a lot, you might argue.
There’s a lot of noise about the role of stories in consumer marketing and communication. ‘Storytelling’ has become almost as big a buzzword as ‘disruption’. But the pharma industry is too serious for such trivial matters. We are scientists; we leave the flights of fancy to artists and creative types. In our minds, stories are associated with childhood and with fiction, whereas we are concerned with hard facts and clinical evidence. Agreed?
In fact, storytelling has always played a big part in medicine. The most important tool in medical education is the case study, which is simply a description of events in narrative form. A doctor taking a patient’s history is actually asking them to describe their medical autobiography, highlighting key events.
The whole process of diagnosis can be viewed as a detective story: looking for clues, eliminating suspects and finally identifying whodunnit. It’s no surprise that the inventor of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) was a doctor, and Holme’s analytical approach was inspired by Joseph Bell, a Scottish surgeon who taught the author. The fictional diagnostic genius Dr House is based on Sherlock Holmes, who in turn was based on the real MD Joseph Bell, bringing the medical connection full circle.
Medical knowledge advances not just through clinical trials but through anecdotal reports, which are slices of life containing human interest.
Medical stories may not include classic story elements like heroes and villains, plot twists and a neat moral message. But the essential format is the same: linking individuals and events together in a coherent pattern that helps us to understand things better.
The history of medicine is itself full of stories of serendipity, struggle against adversity, sudden insight and blind luck. Vaccination originated from Edward Jenner’s observation that milkmaids rarely contracted smallpox, because their contact with cattle gave them immunity. The antibiotic era began when Alexander Fleming left a culture dish on a windowsill and realised he’d found a cure for infection. Viagra started as an unassuming angina medication, until patients reported an unexpected bonus in the trouser department.
Scratch the surface of any medicine and you will find a story relating to its discovery or lifecycle. Our agency worked on the first omega-3 treatment indicated to prevent heart attacks, which originated from the finding that eskimos have a low incidence of heart disease, despite consuming high levels of fat. We worked with the British company that invented intraocular lenses, thanks to an ophthalmologist who noted that RAF pilots whose screens had shattered in crashes were not blinded by the shards in their eyes, but their vision was altered. We also worked on a successor to thalidomide, a drug that was initially tainted with tragedy and scandal, but achieved redemption when it was found to have a lifesaving role in cancer patients.
Stories like these deepen our appreciation of the brand and open our minds to creative possibilities. In fact the first question our agency asks when we receive a brief is “What’s the story?”
Why does storytelling matter in marketing?
It provides simplicity
Expressing information as a narrative condenses a complex situation to the essentials. Concentration adds power without necessarily taking anything away. The novelist Ernest Hemingway once won a bar-room bet about who could write the shortest short story, with an entry just 6 words long: "For sale: baby shoes. Never worn." But those few words express a whole back-story and pack a big emotional punch.
It focuses on what’s important
Storytelling is a lens that identifies and magnifies what really matters. This is vital in marketing, where we often struggle to select key brand attributes and market factors. Once you decide what to focus on, it’s easier to organise facts and link cause and effect, which supports decision making.
It provides meaning
Searching for meaning is a fundamental human need. The Uses of Enchantment, a book by Bruno Bettelheim, concluded that the psychological purpose of folk tales is to help us make sense of the world. Stories can help us to understand the forces that motivate people and drive events - and to come to terms with the randomness of life.
It provides emotional engagement
Advertisers have long been aware that emotional arguments are more persuasive than rational ones, even in people who consider themselves rational. This is supported by cognitive psychology and behavioural economics, which show that most of our decisions are based on emotion, then justified with logic. Information is more effective if it is affective. Luckily, there is enormous emotional capital in healthcare brands, which can enhance or even save people’s lives.
It is more memorable
When absorbing information, we are more likely to retain ideas when they are presented as stories. If you have read the Bible, you probably struggle to recall all the stuff about who begat who, but you remember the parables and stories, like Noah’s Ark, David and Goliath and Jonah and the Whale. Linking topics together as a story or journey is also a recognised mnemonic technique that helps us to embed facts in memory.
Stories are universal. They cross cultures and disciplines. The Golden Bough - a comprehensive study of myths and religions across the world - found that the same fundamental stories and creation myths crop up in different cultures that are widely separated geographically. This is echoed by more recent studies which conclude that in all art and literature, there are only about 9 basic storylines or plots. All other stories are variations on those themes. It seems we are all wired - perhaps hard-wired - to seek similar patterns of events and behaviour, and respond to the same ideas and themes.
So how can marketers harness the power of storytelling?
As the previous examples demonstrate, every brand has a story. A brand development workshop can help to explore different options. A good starting point is to identify your brand's 'personality archetype'. This involves thinking about it as a human protagonist or story character. Not every brand is a Leader or Pioneer, but describing your brand as a Maverick, a Rebel or a Magician opens up a wider range of possibilities, because these are more complex characters.
Then you need to consider what story fits your brand. You should not just bolt on an existing story, but develop one that is unique to your brand. There are many possible trajectories - a journey, a struggle against adversity, a tale of discovery or an intellectual puzzle. You can take the viewpoint of any stakeholder: the company, like the lens manufacturer; a doctor struggling to find a solution, like Fleming; a patient story rooted in tragedy, like thalidomide; a patient story with a happy ending, like Viagra; or the story of the brand itself. And you can use any genre - epic, sci fi, thriller, mystery, whodunnit, tragedy, love story, road trip, drama-doc, biography or cautionary tale.
Once you have a story that resonates with you and your stakeholders, you can think about how to use it in your marketing.
The story does not have to be explicitly communicated to customers in advertising and sales materials. It may be internal and implicit - a way for internal stakeholders to think about the brand - or a springboard for creative or strategic ideas. It may simply be a rallying point that defines your brand and expresses its values.
However, there is an obvious role for storytelling in the selling process, which is often described as a ‘sales story’. In truth, there is little variation in the sales structure adopted by different brands and companies. They nearly always follow the same pattern of setting out the problem, presenting the brand as the solution, providing supporting evidence, and finishing with a summary and call to action. There is rarely any deviation or dialogue, even though digital detail aids allow a nonlinear and interactive structure.
So why not change the sales story? Start from the perspective of a different stakeholder. Change the order of events. Add a twist to the story flow. This can be refreshing for both the salesperson and the customer (who rarely sees anything different) and may result in more productive sales calls. If you are nervous about this approach, trial different options and compare them by A/B testing.
Stories can also be used in patient literature to explain risk and benefit to people who are not statistically literate, and to help patients and carers make informed decisions.
If you are unconvinced about the role of storytelling in our business, consider how widely we use anecdote and personal experience to get a point across. The reason TED talks are more popular than slide shows is that they are conversational narratives delivered by human beings. And think how many sales conferences and business presentations start with a story to break the ice and gain rapport.
You don’t have to be a master storyteller or orator to benefit from these techniques. Just using vivid words and images makes communications more powerful. We all use rhetorical devices like metaphor and allusion to bring our messages to life. Sales and marketing theory is full of military metaphors (attack, defend, outflank). When talking about customers we use the language of relationships (loyalty, support, commitment). When talking about market conditions we borrow terms from biology and ecology (landscapes, niches, ecosystems).
At a pharma sales conference we attended, the sales director presented a slide showing a pie chart with a large bite taken out of it. He could have said “Our chief competitors have taken 20% of our market share by selectively targeting our customers”. What he actually said was “Our enemies are eating our lunch. What are you going to do about it?” The salesforce left the meeting well informed, and more importantly, raring to go. This demonstrates that the goal of storytelling in our field is not to entertain, it is to inspire action. To quote David Ogilvy: “When Aeschines spoke, they said, ‘How well he speaks.’ But when Demosthenes spoke, they said, ‘Let us march against Philip’”.4
If you still don’t buy the idea of storytelling - if you think it is just the latest brand of marketing BS - don’t think of it as storytelling. Think of it as a working tool to stimulate lateral, insightful ideas, or a different way of thinking about the challenges you face.
So next time you are facing a marketing problem, ask yourself what every journalist asks when confronted by a mass of unorganised facts: What’s the story? Once you start seeing a problem as a thread of connected events, it’s easier to visualise the solution.
1. Moby Dick. Herman Melville.
2. The Hobbit. JRR Tolkien.
3. A Tale of Two Cities. Charles Dickens.
4. Ogilvy on Advertising. David Ogilvy. [According to other sources, the quote relates to Cicero, not Aeschines].
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The series of books is divided into districts of the county.
Volume I covers Districts 1223, 1447 & 1518. Cemeteries that are in book are:
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Aizawl, Feb 22 : Election watchdog for clean polls and anti-corruption movement organisation, People’s Right to Information and Development Implementing Society of Mizoram (PRISM) has asked the voters in Chalfilh constituency bye-elections not to vote for the Congress candidate.
This follows the recent PRISM call on the Mizoram Congress party to nominate another candidate as Dr Ngurdingliana was not acceptable as a candidate for the State Assembly having willingly participated in be-fooling the people of the State by staging a fake kidnapping of himself and other candidates in the 2003 Assembly elections.
The organisation also said that the incident had defamed the two factions of the Hmar People’s Convention (HPC) as they were accused of the kidnapping while the winner of the then polls, Lalsangzuala was hounded to resign by the Central Young Mizo Association (CYMA) based on that fake incident. All along they had kept quiet with the truth only coming out after public pressure forced a police inquiry which was hidden by the government till a local weekly had accessed the report through RTI and published it.
The Congress had stated that the candidate had already apologised to the party for his misdemeanor and he had been forgiven and that should be the end of it. Several student organisations in the constituency also has asked the Congress not to field the man.
Meantime, the Church- based election watchdog, Mizoram People’s Forum (MPF) public platform for candidates in the constituency was boycotted by over seven local students organisations for refusing to give the independent candidate space at the public platform on Tuesday.
The students said that if this is the way MPF conducts its ‘election watch’ they are going against the tenets of democracy in which all have the right to participate equally whether it is as voters or candidates. The MPF have no right to reject any candidate on any ground to participate in a public forum, the students said.
The MPF secretary and spokesman, Lalramthanga, however, remained adamant saying that “the MPF had signed an agreement only with the political parties” and if independent candidates were to be part of their agreement they would have to discuss it in the MPF.
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The British Royal Air Force bombed the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and their allies in southeast Syria last month, the Sunday Times reported this morning.
According to the Sunday Times report, A Royal Air Force Typhoon fighter jet dropped a 500 pound laser-guided bomb on the Syrian Armed Forces near the Syrian-Jordanian border last month.
“As an act of collective self-defense, RAF Typhoons … dropped a single [bomb] on the position, which successfully removed the threat to our coalition partners,” Britain’s Ministry of Defense said in a statement, as quoted by the Sunday Times.
One Syrian Arab Army officer was killed as a result of the attack, the report added.
The British Ministry of Defense called the attack on the Syrian Armed Forces a “wholly proportionate response”, as they viewed it as a threat to their forces in southeast Syria.
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Spring loaded for Spendthrift
Written by Bren O’Brien for www.tdnausnz.com.au
The first signs of B. Wayne Hughes’ increased interest in the Australian thoroughbred scene came when he turned up at the 2014 Easter Yearling Sales and brought three yearlings under the Spendthrift brand. Twelve months later, he had bought an entire farm – the old Yallambee Stud at Romsey outside of Melbourne – setting up Spendthrift Australia and installing local bloodstock expert Garry Cuddy to head up the operation.
Fast forward to 2018, and with all of the required parts in place, the breeding, racing and sales arms, the goal remains the same as it did back in 2015.
“The priority for us is to become that household name, especially down here in Victoria,” Cuddy told TDN AusNZ.
“We are not here to be second best. We want to be the best and however we can get there as quickly as we can, that’s what we are going to do.”
All the pieces in place
With the foundations in place, the coming season is a crucial time for Cuddy and his team at Spendthrift Australia.
The first Australian two-year-olds bred from their foundation stallions, Hampton Court (Aus), Jimmy Creed (USA) and Warrior’s Reward (USA), are ready to hit the track, the first foals from Swear, the Redoute’s Choice colt they bought as a yearling back in 2015, have arrived and another Spendthrift yearling purchase, the multiple Group winner Overshare (I Am Invincible {Aus}), is embarking on his first season at stud.
Both Swear and Overshare were Group 3 winners as 3-year-olds giving them the credentials to stand at Spendthrift as part of a strategy to find one of their own colts each year to go to stud.
“The success on the racetrack is a major achievement,” Cuddy said.
“We are only buying a limited number of yearlings each year for the first few years and we are lucky enough to have had a colt retire to stud from each of the crops.”
“We had Swear, which was the first one. Overshare was the next one and we race a pretty handy one called Irukandji (Dundeel {NZ}) who is just a 3-year-old at the moment,”
Irukandji was a Group 3 winner at two and is currently on a path towards the major spring 3-year-old races.
“We are hopeful that there will be something bigger and better for him in the coming months, or even the autumn,” Cuddy said.
The new boys on the farm
Overshare and Gold Standard (Sebring {Aus}), are the new stallions at Spendthrift this season and Cuddy said both have been received very well by the market.
“When you have a multiple-stakes winning son of I Am Invincible that walks out and is the dead-spit of his old man, it helps,” he said in reference to Overshare.
“He’s got such a lovely front end, such a deep shoulder and big girth on him. He moves so well as well. I’ve said all along, he ticks all the boxes. He’s the horse that we are very excited to have on board.”
Spendthrift Australia has a strong broodmare band to support Overshare, as they did with Swear in his first season last year.
New Spendthrift Australia sire Overshare
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The foals from those matings with Swear have been hitting the ground at the farm.
“We sent a lot of our own mares to him. I think half of our ten foals are by Swear and we are really happy with what we’ve seen,” Cuddy said.
“He’s a lovely big good-looking son of Redoute’s Choice and he is stamping his stock well.”
“We’ve got a few more to come but we are quite happy with where we are at so far. We are also getting really good feedback from people who have supported him.”
There are also strong reports on the two-year-olds of Hampton Court, the G1 Spring Champion S winner entering his fourth season at Spendthrift.
“We’ve had a few reports that there are some in the stables now and heading in the right direction,” he said.
Spendthrift sire Swear
“There are a couple coming up in the breeze-up sales (Magic Millions) that are going through the ring on the Gold Coast. So if they are doing enough to be in sales like that, let’s hope there’s a few out there ready to hit the track early.”
Spendthrift Australia’s stallion operations have been supported by incentive programs like Breed Secure and Share the Upside, which have been popular with breeders.
“Breed Secure has been a massive hit since we introduced it in our second year,” Cuddy said,
“Breeders love the way that Mr Hughes is willing to take the hit with the breeder if the hit comes. At the end of the day, he just wants everybody to be successful.”
Spendthrift Australia
Doubling it up at the sales
The biggest crop yet of 2-year-old colts snapped up by Spendthrift at the yearling sales are also ready to make an impact.
“This year we ramped it up and we have double the number of two-year-olds in the stable. We are quite happy with the crop that we’ve got and I guess the more yearlings we buy, the more chances we’ve got of getting that stallion prospect,” Cuddy said.
The multi-faceted strategy has also seen Spendthrift active at the broodmare sales, looking for good matches to support Overshare and Gold Standard.
As always, the Kentucky operation is providing plenty of support, especially when it comes to the strength of Spendthrift’s broodmare band.
“We’ve imported mares from Kentucky in foal to Southern Hemisphere time to Into Mischief (USA) and Malibu Moon (USA.) We traded a few of those mares and we retained a few of those mares to add to our broodmare band,” Cuddy said.
“The positive for us is that Into Mischief is a phenomenal stallion and if we can get a couple of his foals down here to hit the track and get running that opens up plenty of new doors for us for us in the future.”
Support from HQ
And the support doesn’t stop there, Cuddy says Mr Hughes is utterly committed to making the Australian operation a success.
“Having someone like Mr Hughes to learn from is a wonderful thing. He is a man that is always thinking one step ahead of the game.” he said.
“We are well guided by and always in communication with Eric Gustavson (Spendthrift President) and Ned Toffey (General Manager, Spendthrift USA). We are always looking to build on our brand and replicate the success of the American division since Mr Hughes took over Spendthrift in Kentucky.”
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2019 Honda Model Year Changes
By: Withan Lemmon Category: Honda Created: 2018-08-01 Tags: 2019, Accord, Accord Hybrid, Changes, Civic, Civic Si, Civic Type R, Clarity, CR-V, Insight, Odyssey, Passport, Pilot, Ridgeline
All of the changes for the 2019 model year Honda models will be right here! Bookmark it and stay tuned. So far: everything except Clarity.
Edited 12/4/2018: Added Passport.
The Civic gets a mild refresh and a realignment of its trim levels. On the Sedan for instance, LX, EX, EX-T, EX-L and Touring become LX, Sport, EX (1.5 Turbo), EX-L and Touring. The Sport trim is not new for the Civic, but it is for the sedan; surprizing is that in the Civic Hatchback the Sport is the top level trim (except for Type-R) and it had a more powerful 1.5 Turbo engine than the rest of the Hatchbacks. Here the Sport gets the less powerful non-turbo engine.
Honda Sensing becomes a standard feature on all models: Forward Collision Warning, Collision Mitigation Braking, Lane Departure Warning, Road Departure Mitigation (detects leaving the road and helps steer back), Adaptive Cruise Control, Lane Keeping Assist and Auto High Beams.
Civic EX-L and Touring now have a HomeLink Remote System to operate owner's garage doors and other remote functions.
Above all, the radio gets a separate knob for volume once again.
No changes. Fuel Cell version is suspended for the 2019 model year.
Navigation is no longer offered on EX-L; you must get a CR-V Touring, where it is standard.
Automatic High Beams are now part of the Honda Sensing® Package. Price increases by $15 on all models.
The HR-V undergoes a refresh for 2019. Included are a new grille, new projector headlights, new bumpers and taillights. Overall length is up almost an inch-and-a-half as a result. Interior dimensions are unchanged.
The tiniest of Honda sport utes loses its manual transmission (#SavetheManuals). The Continuously Variable Transmission is now standard on all trims; it includes paddle "shifters" on all but LX trims.
Speaking of trims, the reach of the HR-V is increased. Honda adds a "Sport" trim in between LX and EX. At the top their's a new "Touring" trim, which gets LED headlights, Homelink remote system and a power driver's seat. The Touring inherits the EX-L's navigation and Voice Command System; you'll have to step up for those. The Touring is almost $2000 more than an all-wheel drive EX-L. The Touring doesn't come in front-wheel drive.
Active Noise Cancellation is new, standard on all except LX. This feature uses microphones placed around the cabin to measure engine and road noises and then sends out a matching noise out of phase to cancel out the original noise.
The rear suspension on all-wheel drive models is no longer a simple twist axle but a semi-independent deDion design. In addition, the steering ratio on all models is now faster.
On the safety front, frontal collision warning with Collision Mitigation Braking System, Lane Departure Warning and a Road Departure Mitigation System are offered for the first time on the HR-V, standard on EX, EX-L and Touring. Adaptive Cruise Control with Lane Keeping Assist are part of the package as well, and Honda's unique Lane Watch are also standard on those same models.
This third generation of the Honda Insight is rated by the EPA at 55 city and 49 highway MPG. With 151 horsepower, the Insight should handily out-acceleration the 121-horsepower Prius. With 97.6 cubic feet of passenger space, active noise cancellation and dual zone air-conditioning, it should also be more comfortable.
You will remember the Passport. Just not fondly. The Passport was Honda's first attempt at both badge engineering and a sport utility. Built by Isuzu, the Passport was easily discernible as not a Honda both by its bicky exterior and its red ink on Consumer Reports reliability charts.
The new Passport is designed to leave a wholly different impression. This is a mid-sized crossover for younger families with few or no children that see themselves with an active lifestyle; camping, fishing, hiking. Snugged between the CR-V and the Pilot in size, it is much more Pilot than CR-V. The Passport uses the V6 engine and the nine-speed automatic from higher-trim Pilots. The all-wheel drive system is lifted from the Pilot as well, optional on lower models, standard on Passport Elite.
The Pilot gets refreshed looks, front and rear with a new grille, headlights, fascias, taillights and wheels.
Adaptive Cruise Control, Automatic High Beam Headlights, Collision Mitigation Braking System, Road Departure Mitigation System, Lane Departure Warning and Lane Keeping Assist are now standard on all models. Blind Spot Monitoring and Rear Cross Path Warning are now standard on all but LX, replacing Honda's unique blind spot camera system.
LED headlights with automatic on-off operation are now standard on all models. Heated mirrors now standard on front-wheel drive EX models. Elite models get automatic dimming side-view mirrors.
Hands-free access has been added to the power liftgate on the Pilot Touring and Elite: kick your foot below the rear bumper to open or close the liftgate if you have the key in your pocket.
EX now has standard heated front seats (in addition to EX-L, Touring and Elite). EX-L now has memory driver's seat and mirrors (in addition to Touring and Elite). Touring now has second-row heated seats (in addition to Elite).
The 9-speed automatic transmission in the Pilot Elite and Touring has been retuned for smoother driving and improved acceleration.
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Technical University of Denmark News Three ERC Consolidator Grants to DTU researchers
Technical University of Denmark News Three ERC Consolidator Grants to...
Three ERC Consolidator Grants to DTU researchers
Wednesday 09 Dec 20
by Tore Vind Jensen
Jakob Kibsgaard
jkib@fysik.dtu.dk
Leticia Hosta-Rigau
Groupleader, Associate Professor
leri@dtu.dk
Nika Akopian
DTU researchers receive three out of nine Danish Consolidator Grants from the European Research Council.
327 researchers from all over the world have received EUR 655 million for ground-breaking and high-risk independent research in connection with the awarding of the Consolidator Grants from the European Research Council (ERC).
Denmark has received a total of nine of these Consolidator Grants. Four grants go to University of Copenhagen, two to Aarhus University and three, then, to DTU. The individual researcher typically receives EUR 2 million for independent research for up to five years.
The recipients from DTU are:
Associate Professor Jakob Kibsgaard from DTU Physics.
He receives two million Euro (approx. DKK 14.9 million) for the project ‘Discovering New Dual and Triple Atom Catalysts’, where he enters a largely unexplored area and has to research catalysts with only two or three atoms. This should lead to more so-called "Dream Reactions", which can help to ensure that the transition to sustainable energy has greater impact.
Read more about Jakob Kibsgaard's grant (article in Danish).
Associate Professor Nika Akopian from DTU Fotonik.
He receives 2.6 million. Euro (approx. DKK 19.4 million) for the project ‘Multi-Qubit Photonic Devices’. The project focuses on researching a new type of quantum structures - so-called crystal phase quantum dots - which have the unique ability that they can be used to produce quantum devices with ultimate accuracy in a single atomic layer. With this technique, it will be possible to build quantum devices with several quantum dots, which will be groundbreaking in quantum technology and have an impact on e.g. the development of the quantum internet.
Read more about Nika Akopian's grant.
Group leader and lecturer Leticia Hosta-Rigau from DTU Health Technology.
She receives two million. Euro (approx. DKK 14.9 million) for the project ‘A Modular Approach to Multifunctional Red Blood Cell Mimics’.
Read mor about this year's Consolidator grants in the press release from the European Research Council.
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Kaitou Saint Tail episode 43
Episode Title Saigo no Tatakai! Asuka wo Sukue
Air Date 1996.09.12
Summary by Kevin Lew, 2003.07.20
Meimi was dreaming about herself as Saint Tail and Asuka Jr. In her dreams she said, "I don't want anything... Because you're the only treasure that I want."
Asuka Jr. had not returned to school. Nobody knew where he was. His father couldn't be informed because he was working undercover on some case. Meimi was worried, and thought about how he may have been missing since the time she raided Rosemary.
Meimi thought about it, and realized that Maju said the other night that Asuka Jr. wouldn't come for Saint Tail. She also thought about how she barely escaped from being caught. She realized that Rosemary was going to fulfill her revenge by using Asuka Jr. Meimi said that she was going to get him back.
Seira said that if she did that, Asuka Jr. would know who she really was. But Meimi didn't care and transformed without Seira's help. St. Tail said that maybe this was going to be the last theft that she would ever do. But she said that even if Asuka Jr. hated her, all she cared was getting him back. Seira understood, and she prayed to God saying, "God, Meimi has never stolen anything for herself. For this one time, please keep Meimi and Asuka Jr. safe."
Rosemary and Maju were hiding in an abandoned church just outside town.
St. Tail had Ruby deliver the note to Maju saying that Saint Tail would come to steal Asuka Jr. from them. Rosemary read the note. She wasn't nervous at all. She hoped Saint Tail would come for her. When the police came to investigate what the note meant, Maju used the dust on them and told them to go home and forget everything.
Meanwhile, Asuka Jr. was kept locked somewhere. He was treated well, but he kept thinking about how Meimi was really Saint Tail. He wondered if she did it because she had fun screwing with his head. He was very confused about his emotions.
Maju gave Asuka the note. He saw that the note mentioned him as the target. Asuka didn't know what this meant. Maju said very arrogantly, "Are you that stupid? That's not a note, that's a love letter."
Asuka thought about all the notes that Saint Tail had delivered to him. Then he remembered her saying once, "I want to be caught by you".
Saint Tail busted in a window and told Rosemary to give back Asuka Jr. But Rosemary just laughed and asked if she thought if she was going to just hand him to her. Then she released the magic jade dust. Rosemary was better than Maju, and St. Tail was hypnotized. She imagined that she was being strangled by a monster, and then it threw her out the window.
St. Tail was lying on the ground when Rosemary appeared. Rosemary didn't attack and instead made her an offer. She said that Maju wasn't her real daughter, and they were just partners because they had similar goals. She wanted St. Tail to join them, and they could become the greatest thieves that ever lived.
Meimi got mad and said, "What are you talking about?!"
Rosemary then said that it was over for her. She used the dust and Meimi imagined that she was drowning in bottomless water. But Meimi used her silk hat and shot hundreds of butterflies out of it. The illusion vanished while the butterflies flew around the area. Rosemary said that the butterfly powder was interfering with the jade dust, and she couldn't do anything.
At that point, Asuka had decided that he wasn't going to be a victim anymore. He remembered saying to Saint Tail, "Don't get caught by anybody else, because I'll be the one to do it."
He said that he wasn't a princess locked in the castle. Just then, the clock tower's bell (which should have been broken) started to ring. Maju covered her ears because it was so loud. Then Asuka tackled Maju and took away her keys so he could escape.
Meimi heard the bell and realized that this must be God's way of telling her that Asuka Jr. was in the clock tower. She used her balloons from her hat to float up the tower.
Asuka Jr. opened the first doorway that he saw and he stepped out. However, the walkway that used to be there had long since crumbled away. He slipped his footing and started to fall. St. Tail couldn't get there in time, so she used her magic wand to create balloons so it would break his fall.
But Maju was near St. Tail. She yelled, "You should be more concerned about saving yourself!" Then she threw a dagger and it popped the primary balloon that held St. Tail. St. Tail was falling and her silk hat flew out of her hands. On the rooftop below, Asuka Jr. saw this and raised his hands to catch her. He caught her, but the impact caused him to crash through the roof. They landed (somewhat unbelievably) onto one of St. Tail's balloons so they weren't hurt.
Meimi started to cry. She said, "I'm sorry... Asuka Jr., I'm really Saint--"
Asuka Jr. then hugged her tightly and said that he didn't want to know anymore.
Rosemary and Maju were watching. Rosemary said to Maju, "Let's go."
Maju asked, "But what about your revenge?"
"I'm not interested in it anymore." Rosemary turned away. "Back then, if I had a boy that loved me no matter who I was, then maybe I would have..." She stopped in mid-sentence.
"Let's go to another town and make us rich," she said to Maju. Then they left.
Eight years later, Asuka Jr. (who wasn't called "Junior" anymore since he was an adult) was now running his own private detective agency. He was visiting Seira, who was now a full nun at the church. She said that "Saint Tail" was inside.
Asuka went inside and Meimi was at the altar. Meimi, as an adult, now has short hair. Asuka then pulled out a diamond ring and put it on her left hand.
Seira, who was narrating, said that Saint Tail never did appear again. "After all," she said, "she had been caught."
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Sony’s Pandemic Edition PS4 Pro Offers The Last of Us II and IPA Beer
PlayStation has revealed a The Last of Us Part II PlayStation 4 Pro bundle.
The bundle includes a limited edition engraved PS4 Pro, DualShock 4, and the game itself with a number of accessories available separately.
PlayStation has also teamed up with the Boulevard Brewing Co. for a special The Last of Us Part II-themed beer.
If you’ve been putting off grabbing a PlayStation 4 before the generation’s end, then now’s the time. PlayStation has unveiled a stunning limited edition The Last of Part II PlayStation 4 Pro just in time for Naughty Dog’s latest effort.
Limited Edition The Last of Us Part II PS4 Pro
The Limited Edition The Last of Us Part II PlayStation 4 Pro bundle will be available on the very same day that The Last of Us Part II launches – June 19. It will set you back a steep $400, though.
As Sony explains in a PlayStation Blog post sharing the news, the PS4 Pro features a customized matte finish engraved with a replica of Ellie’s tattoo design. As for the inspiration, Naughty Dog’s art director, John Sweeney, says:
When the opportunity arose to create a custom PS4 Pro for The Last of Us Part II, I worked with our graphic designer at the time, Angel Garcia, and we considered a few different ideas, but we kept coming back to Ellie’s tattoo. By that point, it had become a symbol of the game and for the community–much like the Firefly logo in the first game. It was the clear choice, but we wondered: what if it could be engraved? It hadn’t been done before, so we weren’t sure it was even possible, but thanks to the incredible efforts of the teams at PlayStation, we found a way.
Alongside the console itself, would-be owners receive a Limited Edition DualShock 4 wireless controller in the same matte finish with white detailing on the buttons, the fern tattoo engraved on the right grip, and The Last of Us Part II logo on the touch pad.
Source: PlayStation
Of course, the bundle also includes the game, although it’s only the standard edition. If it’s any consolation, PlayStation is throwing in a digital code to redeem digital content, including a dynamic PS theme.
Themed Beer
For those that want to go all in on The Last of Us Part II theme, PlayStation is also launching a limited edition gold wireless headset and licensed Seagate 2 TB hard drive.
There’s a The last of Us Part II Seagate branded hard-drive. | Source: PlayStation
Finally, PlayStation is also teaming up with the Boulevard Brewing Co. to brew up special edition Space Camper Cosmic IPA six-packs. Beer and one of the year’s most anticipated games, not bad.
Source: Boulevard Brewing Co.
With The Last of Us Part II releasing in June and Ghost of Tsushima a month later, there’s no better way to experience the last days of the PlayStation 4 era. You’ll also be able to tap into PlayStation’s stacked roster of exclusives, which in most cases benefit from the performance boost of the Pro version of the console.
This article was edited by Samburaj Das.
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NextStop Theatre Company Announces 2019/2020 Season
Beehive: The 60’s Musical ● Pride and Prejudice ● The Mountaintop
Ordinary Days ● Noises Off ● In the Heights
Producing Artistic Director Evan Hoffmann announces NextStop Theatre Company’s seventh professional season of theatre in Northern Virginia. Our 2019-2020 Season at NextStop brings our most diverse and ambitious programming yet to our community.
“I could not be more excited about the collection of stories and artists that we have gathered for next season,” says Hoffmann. “These shows run the gamut of theatrical styles and periods. But through them all, we will elevate and celebrate the voices we most need to listen to right now, while making sure that the work is polished, deeply engaging, and always simply entertaining!”
To kick off the season is Beehive: The 60’s Musical, a tribute musical about the women of 1960’s rock, pop and soul music—from the Shirelles to the Supremes, from Diana Ross to Aretha Franklin, from Tina Turner to Janis Joplin—this musical celebrates the talent, soul and power of the women who helped define a decade. Beehive was created by Larry Gallagher and will be directed by Monique Midgette.
In the fall comes a fresh adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. In this spirited new script by Kate Hamill, Jane Austen’s beloved story about the intersection between love, marriage, and social status is funnier than you ever thought possible. After directing 2018’s smash hit production of 45 Plays for 45 Presidents, Megan Behm returns to direct this romantic literary classic.
In time for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day will be the civil rights drama The Mountaintop by Katori Hall. Before the great tragedy on April 3, 1968, room 306 of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis is just another motel for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In this bold reimagining of history, Dr. King is visited by an enigmatic young maid who can unveil the humanity and vulnerability of America’s larger-than-life icon. Full of vivid theatricality, poetic language, and surprising twists, this drama takes us to the summit of a man’s historic life and offers a stunning new view of his dream for our nation. The intimate, two-actor drama will be directed by Kevin McAllister.
Next February and March NextStop will present the charming chamber musical Ordinary Days by Adam Gwon. Ordinary Days tells the story of four young New Yorkers, whose lives intersect in strange and unexpected ways as they search for love, beauty, and purpose in this big and unforgiving world. The play asks, is it possible that the smallest acts can have the most profound effects on your life? Jay Brock, director of 2017’s Assassins, returns to lead this production.
In the spring of 2020, Producing Artistic Director Evan Hoffmann will direct Noises Off by Michael Frayn. Widely considered to be the best farce ever written, Noises Off is a play-within-a-play following the on- and off-stage antics of the members of a touring company as they blunder through an ominously bad dress rehearsal and a spectacularly disastrous performance. With forgotten lines, love-triangles unravelling, and sardines flying, if it can go wrong, it will go wrong in Noises Off. Right in the center of the 2020 election season, Hoffmann suspects audiences might just be ready for a little sheer theatrical silliness.
Closing out the season is the original hip-hop musical, In the Heights. From the creator of the international mega-hit, Hamilton, comes the show that launched Lin-Manuel Miranda’s career. From his Washington Heights bodega, Usnavi follows the nonstop rhythm of his friends and family as they navigate their hopes and dreams, loves and losses, fortunes and fates. Experience the heartbeat of a community through infectious Latin and hip-hop beats, in this life-affirming musical about the ties that bind us all together. In the Heights will be directed by Elena Velasco.
In addition to these six mainstage productions, NextStop will mount three Theatre for Young Audiences productions during the 2019-2020.
“The only thing more exciting than next season’s shows are the artists we will be welcoming into the theatre to help guide and create them,” said Hoffmann. “Through a mixture of past collaborators and new faces, we are proud to report that 50% of the seasons directors are women, and 50% are artists of color. Those percentages will be even higher for the performers.”
NextStop offers flexible subscription options for the 2019-2020 season. Season packages are on sale now, with pricing beginning at $119 for all six productions. Benefits of subscribing include first choice of performances, savings over individual ticket prices, and fee-waived ticket exchanges. Season subscriptions are available by calling OvationTix at 866-811-4111 or by visiting www.nextstoptheatre.org/packages.
Beehive: The 60’s Musical
Musical Revue
Created by Larry Gallagher
Literary Classic
By Kate Hamill
Adapted from the novel by Jane Austen
This will be the family event of the year! Tickets start at $40.
Based on the beloved Roald Dahl novel, this Broadway musical is about an extraordinary little girl decides to fight back against tyrannical adults. Producing Artistic Director Evan Hoffmann will direct, with music direction by Elisa Rosman. NextStop is doing a search for local students to be in this professional production alongside our adult cast members.
Historical Drama
By Katori Hall
Intimate Musical
By Adam Gwon
Backstage Farce
By Michael Frayn
May 28 – June 21, 2020
Hip-Hop Musical
Music and Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Book by Quiara Alegria Hudes
Conceived by Lin-Manuel Miranda
NextStop Theatre
269 Sunset Park Dr.
NextStop’s 2019/2020 Season is sponsored by AutoScandia.
NextStop is supported in part by generous grants from ArtsFairfax, The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia—Seeley Fund, The Council for the Arts of Herndon, The Nelson J. & Katherine Friant Post Foundation, The Ruth & Hal Launders Charitable Trust, The Town of Herndon, and The Virginia Commission for the Arts
Tickets are now available to season package holders. Season packages are available at www.nextstoptheatre.org/packages and OvationTix: 866-811-4111.
NextStop Theatre is accessible to persons with disabilities. Wheelchair accessible seating may be purchased online or by calling the box office.
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Instagram: @NextStopTheatre
Photos by Lock and Company
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Comic Books Like Donuts: Matt on Annuals
Hey, this post is late because I am bad at adulting. As a result, it pushed down some terrific reviews from Jeff that are actually thoughtful and smart and stuff. You should be sure to read those also, probably before you get to these.
I’ve always been prone to shameless, embarrassing nostalgia. If a song reminds me of someplace specific, or of a particular group of friends, I will like that song more. Period. It’s not something I’m proud of — it feels like an incredibly basic bit of reacting, devoid from any real introspection or thought — but it’s also kind of pointless to ignore.
And, let’s be real, most readers of superhero comics in my age cohort are probably keeping their hobby gassed up with 93 octane nostalgia, so it’s not like I’m alone. But reading review copies of the DC books triggers all-new, all-different nostalgia than “regular” comic reading. It’s taken me some time to work out why that is, but I think it finally crystallized as I read the five annuals that DC sent around this week, and ironically it kinda hearkens back to my first post here on Wait, What?.
That was a nostalgic ramble (cf. me as a basic nostalgia beast, above) on the first comic that got me reading DC books regularly, and an attempt to dissect what made it so sticky for me. What I mentioned in passing but maybe should’ve focused on was that I read it because I was at summer camp and didn’t have anything else.
Which brings me to annuals. I’m going to write the following without doing even the most cursory internet research, because this is one of those times where I think my perception of truth is more relevant than whatever the actual truth is, so here are some things that I remember to be true about the superhero (mainly Marvel) comic book annuals of my youth:
They came out in the summer
They contained one thick, generally self-contained story
The tone of that story was often wildly different from the regular tone of the book
They were rarely by a book’s entire regular creative team, but were instead often by the regular writer with an unusual artist (and, much different from today, that artist was often a BIGGER name than the regular book’s — an Art Adams or an Alan Davis, say, who maybe couldn’t keep up a monthly schedule but who was perfect for this sort of one-off)
As a result of the last three items, you could read the annual of a book even if you had never read the series before
Again, the summer thing is key. Annuals weren’t something that really fit into my allowance-based comic-buying budget. But on summer vacations out to the delightfully trashy Maryland shore, my parents would be more willing to buy things like extra comics, and I’d be more willing to choose whatever the hell was on the spinner racks at the weirdly understocked beach-town bookstores, and anyway an annual was perfect for being on vacation because you could read it without needing to pre-read a bunch of earlier issues, and if you accidentally left it in the rental beachhouse, well, it didn’t REALLY leave a hole in your collection.
(It’s probably not coincidental that my interest in annuals totally fell off when Marvel started using them for TERRIBLE line-wide crossovers, thus eliminating the “free-standing slab of comics” element that made them so perfect in my eyes. As usual, The Evolutionary War ruined everything.)
Thinking about the annuals that stick in my memory — New Mutants annual #3! X-Men annual #10! The crossovers betweeen Avengers and West Coast Avengers! — the other thing that keeps coming to mind is the taste of donuts. Not just any donuts, but fresh-baked, custom-dipped donuts from the Fractured Prune, then (years before an ill-fated attempt to franchise) unique to Ocean City, Maryland, and the kind of splurge junk food my family only ever ate on vacation. That association probably just means that I sat around reading comics during breakfast, but it also kinda feels like a decent food metaphor for how I think of annuals in general.
ANYWAY, this is all a lengthy preamblish way of saying that I’m predisposed to love annuals but I also never, ever seem to buy them, because doing so would intrisically undermine what I remember loving about them. Nostalgia is a complicated, stupid thing, and gravity always wins.
Soooooooooooooooooo how would I feel if a bunch of annuals just randomly showed up in mid-summer, mainly for books I don’t follow faithfully? Let’s see!
Gotham By Midnight Annual #1, by Ray Fawkes, Christian Duce, Lee Loughridge. Using the nostalgic rambling above as sort of informal criteria for judging the success of an annual, this is a pretty darned good one. The detective/procedural story is well-suited for episodic standalones (cf. like 80% of what’s on network TV), and this is no exception. It’s a brisk, pleasantly sleazy game of supernatural cops-and-robbers with added comic book elements (the Spectre, played here as a sort of divine version of the Hulk) for texture.
For the annual, the art steps away from Ben Templesmith’s style ; Christian Duce still manages to be atmospheric while being much more generic and accessible. (In my imaginary “bought this at the beach on a whim” scenario, that’s probably a positive.) A solid, standalone extra-length story — basically the comic book equivalent of a beach read (or Airport Book??!?).
Lobo Annual #1, by Cullen Bunn, Robson Rocha, Guillermo Ortega. I can’t figure out this incarnation of Lobo at all. When the original Lobo worked, it was because he was pitched at a berserk tone of dark comedy. (His defining stories were drawn by Simon Bisley, for god’s sake.) The violence was extreme in the name of satire, not in the name of actual cool, and really they probably could’ve just drawn a line under the whole concept after his fistfight with Santa Claus.
Which is to say that I have trouble engaging with this comic on a real, fundamental level, because any nostalgic attachment I have to the old Lobo doesn’t convey to this reimagining, and the new version himself does nothing in particular to earn my interest now. He’s a fairly nondescript space assassin whose narrative captions tend toward genre-standard fare like “He’s even more confident than I am … and that’s saying a LOT. I turn that confidence against him.” He’s also stuck in a very post-Guardians of the Galaxy version of space, which is not exactly a tonal match.
And all of that is a shame, because the idea of Lobo trying to assassinate Sinestro is a fun one, and somewhere underneath the book that’s actually here is a much livelier, more entertaining book trying to get out. To its credit, the book does a good job simultaneously telling a mostly complete story while still setting up plot points for the ongoing series, but in the end the whole thing feels too rote to really excite.
The art from Rocha and Ortega evokes a similar reaction: it’s perfectly cromulent (a word I learned from Jeff Lester! I feel like a real Wait, Whatter now!) sci-fi art in the current DC house style, but it’s miles away from what I want from a Lobo comic (which is, let’s be honest, Simon Bisley). As a Lobo story, this isn’t close to what I want; as a kinda generic DC sci-fi book, it’s fine. Would’ve killed off an inoffensive 15-ish minutes on a bad beach day and then been forgotten forever.
The Flash Annual #4, by Van Jensen, Bong Dazo, and Norm Rapmund. Two classic annual tropes at play here: the gathering of a team across time and/or space, and the annual that doesn’t feature the title hero at all but instead provides background for (presumably) a story that’s coming up in the main book. It’s a smart approach, because it lets you use the space of an annual to tell a full story while still staying tied directly into what you have going on in the monthly title. The gathering of a team of bad guys is pretty familiar at DC these days (there was a point where it seemed like every issue of Green Lantern featured at least three recruitment scenes), but Jensen does a yeoman’s job of it here.
The art from Dazo and Rapmund isn’t quite up to selling the different timeframes Jensen’s story asks for — a character who’s meant to be a Maori woman from 1957 looks almost indistinguishable from a Warren Ellis character from 1999 — and also doesn’t always do a great job establishing physical space, which is a problem in a story that prominently features superspeed as a plot device. Interestingly (at least to me!), a lot of panels have detail elements (and a generally static look) that reminds me of Ian Churchill, which makes me wonder how much frequent Churchill inker Rapmund is responsible for things I thought I didn’t like about Churchill’s art.
The book didn’t quite do the job of getting me personally interested in whatever it is that Zoom is planning to do to the Flash, but I can at least sort of see what they’re going for here. A potentially smart use of the annual form, even if the execution was somewhat disappointing.
Deathstroke Annual #1, by Tony Daniel and James Bonny, Tyler Kirkham, and Arif Prianto. Was it on a recent Wait, What that one of the guys was explaining how in a Star Trek tie-in comic set between the second and third film, the creative team resolved the cliffhanger from Star Trek 2, told an extended story, and then managed to reset things so the cast was in an all-but-identical cliffhanger situation heading into Star Trek 3? Or was it another podcast? Or am I making this up altogether in my addled head?
It doesn’t really matter, except that I’m pretty sure that’s exactly what’s happening here: I think this issue starts after the last issue of Wonder Woman (or maybe Deathstroke?), sends them off on a related-but-inessential journey of the mind/spirit, and then returns them right back to the start of the issue again, functionally unchanged. So if you’re reading the series without the annuals, maybe you just never know this happened? I’m guessing?
Whatever the reasoning behind it, this was a book that requires a level of caring about Deathstroke as a character and a concept that I simply don’t possess. A more well-crafted annual, faced with that problem, might MAKE me want to know more about the character and drive me to the solo book.
This is not that annual, but maybe it’ll do something for you if you’re really into New 52 Deathstroke.
Batgirl Annual #3, by Cameron Stewart and Brenden Fletcher, Bengal, David LaFuente, Ming Doyle, Mingjue Helen Chan, Gabe Eltaeb, and Ivan Plascencia. This, on the other hand, is just about a perfect annual. Told in four chapters, each with a separate guest star, each with a top-notch artist, this is a book that not only made me want to read more about this version of Batgirl (I’m behind on the series, although I’m trying to keep up), but it uses its increased length to feature extended appearances by Dick Grayson (in his role from Grayson), Spoiler, Batwoman, and the cast of Gotham Academy — and made me want to know more about where each of them stand in current DC continuity.
(Well, except for Grayson, but that’s just because Grayson is one of my favorite books going at the moment and I didn’t really need any further incentives.)
All of the art teams were terrific, although I’m especially fond of Bengal’s work, which somehow (to my eyes) manages to marry Takeshi Miyazawa with Kyle Baker. The book’s plot, although not particularly complicated, is engaging enough. It provides reasonable excuses for its guest stars to appear, manages the connective tissue between the chapters well, and resolves itself sufficiently to feel self-contained. This was great, all the way around.
If I’m going full-nostalgia (and at this point, why the hell not), I found this weirdly reminiscent of one of my favorites of the beach-purchased annuals that prompted this whole stupid post: Avengers Annual #16, also split into chapters, also with each chapter featuring different guest stars and a different top-tier art team of the era.
(Romita Jr./Siekiewicz, as seen above! Guice/Nowlan, as seen below! Rogers/Layton, as not seen here but man is it glossy!)
That stupid beach-week purchase actually deepened my interest in Marvel’s characters AND a bunch of their artists, and I kind of think this Batgirl annual would’ve done the same thing. Somehow, all these years later, despite the inevitable march toward entropy and doom, a really well-executed superhero comic book annual still manages to taste just like really good donuts. Go figure.
It Happens Once A Year: Graeme Takes On Some Recent DC Annuals
Ghosts of Comics Past: Graeme Remembers The Festive Annuals Of Old
Tricks and Treats: Jeff Gabs About Fantastic Four Annual #19 and Avengers Annual #14
How To Hook Me On A Comic: Matt Accidentally Writes About Justice League International #23, For Some Reason
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5 comments on “Comic Books Like Donuts: Matt on Annuals”
LAndrew Aug 4, 2015
That Avengers Annual was so crazy. Funnily enough, I had read CONTEST OF CHAMPIONS, but when I read the follow-up Annual, I don’t think I drew the conclusion that they were tying up Contest of Champions.
. . .and man, those were some interesting artist/inker combinations. I always felt sad Kevin Nowlan never got a chance to do a Marvel Dracula comic.
Matt Terl Aug 4, 2015
Plus, the definitive moment for that incarnation of Hawkeye! That was a dumb fun comic.
A carny to the end. :)
tim rifenburg Aug 4, 2015
I have always liked the Annuals for all the reasons you mention. The self contained aspect and the giant size aspect of the story and the book itself. There was always something appealing about the chunkiness of the story and the fact that the story was different from the regular book. I always liked that there were guest stars or a new villain or hero was introduced. Today when i rummage through bargain boxes and the cheapo bins it is the annuals or one shots I grab first. The self contained component makes them must buys.
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CRY 104FM A Community Radio Youghal
Community Radio Youghal is an independent, non-profit community radio station. They seek to stimulate, entertain and educate their audience; to reflect the diversity of the local and online community, and to provide a channel for individuals, groups, issues and music that may be overlooked or under-represented by other media.
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Broadcasting to Youghal Town and the surrounding area
CRY 104FM Mission Statement
Community Radio Youghal is an independent, non-profit community radio station. We seek to stimulate, entertain and educate our audience; to reflect the diversity of the local and online community, and to provide a channel for individuals, groups, issues and music that may be overlooked or under-represented by other media.
The board, staff and volunteers of community Radio Youghal are committed to collaboration with each other and the local community
About CRY 104FM
Broadcasting to Youghal Town and the surrounding areas of East Cork and West Waterford on 104fm, Community Radio Youghal went on air in October 1995. It was one of eleven stations licensed by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland under the pilot scheme for community radio stations and in 2008 we were granted a ten year broadcast license. Like all community radio stations, we are a not for profit organisation and rely heavily on the goodwill of the community and businesses in the area to provide us with funding and other resources.
From our studios in Nagle House, we broadcast 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year.
Our programming includes Current Affairs (mainly local issues but including national issues that have a local impact), Sport, Inclusiveness, the Arts, Women’s Issues and items of Local Historical interest. We also broadcast a range of specialist music programmes including Classical, Country & Irish, Traditional Irish music, Jazz, Pipe Bands and much much more.
We also provide live coverage of major local sporting events, St Raphael’s Open Day and outside broadcast from special events from time to time. Listeners are also kept up to date with reports of Youghal Town Council meetings.
Our signal reaches Ardmore, Ballymacoda, Clashmore, Kinsalebeg, Knockanore, Killeagh and Inch amongst other places.
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CRY 104FM Programme Schedule
Monday on CRY 104FM
12:00 Yawl Ready For This. Light, chat based programme, with music, features and interviews.
13:00 News @ 1
13:15 Yawl Ready For This contd.
14:00 The Benchwarmers
16:00 Gael Taca
Irish language programme, specially produced in Cork weekly for CRY 104FM.
17:15 Yawl at 5
Daily magazine programme, looking at, and reporting on, the topics of the day, with emphasis on the local. Includes live interviews, vox pops, recorded interviews, traffic news and bites from the papers.
18:15 Yawl at 5 contd.
18:30 The Monday Documentary
JR Country Show with John Russell in association with Youghal Kia
Country & Irish Music with interviews & giveaways.
22:00 Closedown
Tuesday on CRY 104FM
Yawl Ready For This with Chris Regan
Light, chat based programme, with music, features and interviews.
This Week with Pat Reilly (Repeat)
Current affairs, community news, financial and Social Welfare advice, competitions, music, traffic news, travel times, weather reports, sports updates, interviews with tourists etc.
20th Century Classics with Sean Healy
Yawl at 5 with Orla Riordan
18:30 Gaeilge On GaelScoil
Sounds From The Underground/Rebel Revolutions with Claire Regan
The Country Show with John Parker
Wednesday on CRY 104FM
12:00 Yawl Ready For This with Trevor Nangle
14:00 The Afternoon Show with Maura Joyce
16:00 Midweek Matters with Marita Kelly & Linda Carroll
17:15 Yawl at 5 with Eddie Hannon
18:30 Perspectives with Rosarii Griffin
19:30 DJ Kodexx
21:00 Kieran Curley
Thursday on CRY 104FM
12:00 Yawl Ready For This with Orla Riordan
14:00 The John Cunningham Show
Traditional music and ballads.
15:00 The Margaret Carey Hour
Easy listening mix of MOR music
16:00 BallyQuinn Light with John Kennedy (Repeat)
Light Classical & local chat.
18:30 Youth on 104FM
19:00 That Radio Show
19:30 CCR Rocks with Chris Bailey
Rock show with local live gig link-ups…
21:00 Tom Radio with Tom O’Keefe
Friday on CRY 104FM
12:00 Yawl Ready For This with Justin Maher
14:00 My Kind of Music with Paddy Lane
Pipe band and eclectic music.
15:00 Mixed Grill with Jim Coleman
Easy listening classical.
16:00 Perspectives with Rosarii Griffin (Repeat)
17:15 Sport at 5. Sports preview featuring interviews, opinion, results.
18:15 Sport at 5 contd.
18:30 GAA This Week with Michael O’Brien
19:30 Travel Bites
20:00 Jazz on 104 with Tony Sheehan
Specialist jazz programme with a selection of classic and experimental contemporary jazz music.
21:00 Topic Thunder with Simon McKeown
Saturday on CRY 104FM
07:00 The Best of Both with Tom O’Keefe
Snippets of the week’s shows.
07:30 The Breakfast Show with Mick Sheehan
09:00 Take The Floor with John Cunningham
A selection of requests and ceili music and the occasional interview with a fellow musician Sometimes even live music is on offer so why not sit back relax and join in if you want to.
10:00 Rural Report with Noel Cronin
Noel Cronin and a cast of thousands. Local news programme featuring news from around the rural parts of CRY104fm franchise area. Includes gardening & shipping news.
12:00 The Joyce Country Show & Irish Show with Margaret Carey/
14:00 Hits and Memories with Rose Curtin
Hits, memories and interviews with famous artists.
15:00 This Week with Pat Reilly
17:00 Deise Diary with Eddie Maloney
News and events diary from across the river Blackwater in West Waterford. The show carries requests and dedications from listeners in the West Waterford area and East Cork.
18:00 The programme’s music content reflects Tim’s involvement with Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann, with music from folk and traditional artists from the local and national music scene. Some of the programme is presented as gailge.
19:00 Every Grain of Sand with John Roche
A relaxing half hour of music and meditation that gets the listener in the mood for Mass at 7.30pm.
19:30 Mass from Holy Family Church, Youghal
Sunday on CRY 104FM
09:00 Ballyquinn Light with John Kennedy
10:00 The Sunday Show with Jim Flanagan
Music to suit everybody from chart hits to classics from the 30s, 40s and 50s. Phone in with your requests and greetings.
12:00 Sounds Classical with Jim Coleman
Classical Music.
13:00 Feelgood with Paddy Lane
15:00 Nostalgia Time with John Russell
17:00 Reflections with The programme is a mixture of contemporary and easy listening Christian music with interviews and requests. Biblical readings also form an integral part of the show.
18:00 Bandstand with Seamus Murphy
A look at some of the best composers of brass and military band music from the best bands in the world. Covering local bands as well as international bands, from the mining villages of England to the concert halls of Vienna all you would ever want to hear with Seamus.
19:00 Country Gospel with John Morrisson
Spiritual Country music.
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Youghal Food and Mackerel Festival @ Youghal
Aug 15 @ 7:30 pm – Aug 17 @ 8:30 pm
Under the auspices of Youghal4all, a foodie festival swimming with the very best Youghal has to offer. This unique festival sees Mackerel cooked, grilled and bar-b-qued in the open air by local chefs. Food fair,[...]
Mervyn Scott – A Farewell
Aug 22 Friday, 8:00 pm
Honor Heffernan Sings the Blues @ The Mall Arts Centre
Aug 22 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
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Aug 24 Sunday 12:00 pm
Youghal Medieval Festival @ St. Mary's College Gardens
Aug 24 @ 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm
The annual award winning medieval festival, now in its 8th year, will happen at St. Mary’s Medieval Gardens, in what will once again be a day to remember. Battle Enactments, Court Jesters, Youghal Pipe Bands,[...]
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Killeagh GAA Newsletter 4th August 2014
Killeagh GAA NEWSLETTER FOR W/C August 4th 2014.
Club Lotto Results;
Details for our latest Lotto draw are as follows:
Numbers drawn on Tuesday July 29th were 4, 17, 18 and 25.
There was no winner of this week’s jackpot and the jackpot for our next draw will be €10800.
Lucky dip winners were Mary Landers, Mary Seward, Carmel Barry and Eoghan O’Horgan.
Thanks to everyone who supports our weekly lotto draw.​ Lotto draw takes place in clubhouse every Tuesday night.
Social Night;
There was a great night in Kennedys Bar, Killeagh on Saturday evening last, August 2nd where the new Development Contribution Scheme (DCS) draw was held. Good music, good food and great chat were the order of the night in the sumptuous surroundings of Kennedy’s Bar. The annual, limited draw was held where there were ten prizes given out: 1st prize was €2000 and was won by Billy Smiddy, 2nd prize was €1000 and was won by Andy Leahy. There were eight further prizes of €250 and they went to Sheila Spillane, Arthur Murphy, Pat Walsh (Snr), John Walsh, Tracey Kennedy, Sean Crowley, Michael O’Neill and Dermot Sheehan. Club chairman Kieran Scully welcomed and thanked everyone for their attendance and, most importantly for their continued, valuable support to Killeagh GAA Club. He was helped in performing the draw by DCS steering group members Tim Crotty and JJ Fennelly.
Club Shop;
The Club shop is open on Saturday mornings from 10.30am to 11.30am. Plan a visit to your club shop where you can choose from a wide selection of sports accessories in your club colours. Replica jerseys (all sizes), shorts, training clothing, etc. are available for all ages Please support your club by purchasing from the club shop.
Fixtures / Results:
Cork SHC: Killeagh versus Courcey Rovers, Relegation Final, August 23rd, Further details TBC.
Golf Society:
Killeagh GAA Golf Society have their next outing at Castlemartyr Resort on Thursday August 14th 2014. Tee times and further datails available from Ray Rochford on 0872330054.
Juvenile News:
Fixtures/Results:
U-21Hurling C’ship: Cloyne 0-17 v Killeagh-Ita’s 1-17 played in Castlemartyr on Saturday August 2nd at 7pm
Minor Hurling C’ship: Killeagh-Itas versus Douglas in CIT on Wednesday August 6th at 8pm
U-13 HL; Killeagh v St. Colmans in Cloyne (new pitch) at 7pm on Monday Aug 4th
U-21Hurling C’ship:
A large crowd supporting both clubs attended this game which was played in Castlemartyr on Saturday at 7pm. It was a beautiful evening at the ever improving facilities in Castlemartyr. While the game itself was not a classic performance by either team there were, on occasions, some great individual displays especially in the art of free-taking. Killeagh-Ita’s had a number of players who were carrying niggling injuries but they played through the pain barrier to eke out a victory and set up a semi-final clash with Carrigtwohill. They got off to the ideal start with a pointed free from Mathew Murphy. They edged further ahead by three points before Cloyne opened their account with a pointed free also. The rest of the half was very much a display of free-taking as very few scores came from open play. At the break Killeagh-Ita’s led by 0-10 to 0-08 but suffered a hammer blow just before half-time when the heavily strapped Mathew Murphy had to leave the field through injury. His replacement in the second half was Cork minor hurler Eoghan Keniry and what a start he had to his game. With the second half only four minutes old he had 1-01 from open play on the scoreboard to stretch Killeagh-Ita’s lead to five points. His goal came from a slick move down the left hand side where he combined with Gary Leahy to score a truly wonderful goal. However Cloyne stuck to their task and worked away at reducing the deficit. Their cause was helped by some silly frees given by the Killeagh-Itas team in front of goals. Cloyne chose to score points and began to put the boys in green under pressure. As the game entered the final five minutes it was there for the taking and Killeagh-Itas made the most of the opportunities given. They scored three points without reply to emerge victorious on a scoreline of 1-17 to 0-17.
Team: C Walsh, D Murphy, B McCarthy, S Treacy, David Cahill, C O’Brien, Dara Cahill, A Keniry, S McCarthy, M Murphy, D Walsh, D O’Brien, D Coleman, G Leahy, S Smiddy,
Subs Used: E Keniry, D Long and D Landers.
Fé 11 Iomáint Watergrasshill 4-3, Killeagh-Ita’s 4-3
A very entertaining game of hurling was played in Felix Sarsfields Park in Watergrasshill on Tuesday evening last. Our team was short a number of regulars so a few Under 10s were drafted in and they played really well. In this 13-a-side game, both sides got fine scores and hurled the ball quickly up and down the field. David Buckley was very brave in goals, George Walsh and Rory Lynch were solid at the back, while Evan Lane did really well at centre back where he was ably assisted by Under 10 wing backs Rory Motherway and Darragh O’Leary. Ben Budds and Eoin Brenner covered loads of ground at midfield, while our most impressive line was our half-forward line. Daniel Walsh and Conor Meade, both U-10’s caught some great ball and got a goal each while Jack Flanagan, David Buttimer and Colm Landers also did well up front. David got the score of the game, finishing off a fine move with great passes from Eoin Brenner and Conor Meade. Having led by 2-1 to 1-3 at half time our boys had to play against the wind in the second half and held a 2-goal lead with time almost up, but two goals, the second a bullet, brought our hosts level and a draw was the final, and the fairest, result.
Team: David Buckley, George Walsh, Rory Lynch, Rory Motherway, Evan Lane, Darragh O’Leary, Eoin Brenner, Ben Budds, Conor Meade, Daniel Walsh, Jack Flanagan, Colm Landers, David Buttimer.
Weekly Maritime News Roundup
Published by CRY 104FM
THIS ISLAND NATION
Weekly Maritime News and Comment
By Tom MacSweeney, Marine Correspondent
Dateline – August 11, 2014.
THIS WEEK: Has the Government overcome “sea blindness”? Shipping Challenges; The World’s Biggest Bottle stolen by pirates… and much more…
This weekly service reports and reviews maritime news and opinion and includes a digest of material from other THIS ISLAND NATION outlets about maritime matters.
1,352 people read THIS ISLAND NATION ON FACEBOOK last week.
THIS ISLAND NATION MONTHLY HOUR-LONG RADIO PROGRAMME AUGUST EDITION is now available as a Podcast from www.cry104fm.com and can be heard on www.afloat.ie/blogs/island-nation Programme items include: The Soviet take-over of Cork Harbour Board; Interviews with the builders of the first Longboat on the Shannon; the latest lifeboat, angling and water safety news and much more.
DAILY MARITIME NEWS is provided on TWITTER: @TomMacSweeney
THE LATEST MARITIME NEWS AND COMMENT
The sea moulds the Irish coastline; it lubricates the nation’s economy; its exploration is a resource for scientific investigation; it provides adventure and leisure. The sea which surrounds us also has the potential to be a cradle for national resources, with the power to feed and provide energy. A national strategy, “Harnessing Our Ocean Wealth,” was launched in 2012, intended to position Ireland to gain advantages from the global marine market, particularly for seafood, tourism oil and gas, ocean energy, to a predicted value of €1.2 billion. The Naval Service has got a new ship, another is under construction. There is a National Maritime College and the Beaufort Centre of IMERC, the Irish Maritime and Energy Resource Cluster, on the College Campus at Ringaskiddy to “promote Ireland as a world-renowned research and development location, that will unlock Ireland’s maritime and energy potential,” according to its own description. These are some of the positive developments.
So has the Government overcome the “sea blindness” which has pervaded national policy for many previous years?
In relation to last week’s report about the proposal to the United Nations that Ireland should have an Oceans Minister, why is it that an island nation does not have a dedicated maritime department of government and that aspects of the marine sphere are spread around so many departments that the importance of marine affairs has been so diffused? This despite pre-election promises by the present Coalition parties, Fine Gael and Labour, that maritime affairs would have the highest priority and be brought under one Department.
Over 95 per cent of all exports and imports to this island are moved by sea. Every import and export has to cross the sea, even the small percentage carried by air. Nothing can enter or exit the country without crossing over the sea.
What do you think? Is the maritime sphere given its proper place as a primary focus of national economic policy?
Your views are welcome. Email to: thisislandnation@gmail.com
WHICH IS BEST FOR NATIONAL SAIL TRAINING?
FROM TOM HARDING, Bosun on Asgard II and on Jeanie Johnston and an experienced sailor on tall ships – in response to last week’s item WHICH IS BEST FOR NATIONAL SAIL TRAINING? in which I reported the suggestion by traditional boat enthusiast and supporter, Hal Sisk, that a fleet of Bantry Longboats would be better for national sail training purposes than Ireland having a tall ship for the purpose.
Tom Harding writes: “A fleet of Bantry longboats would, indeed, be a national asset but could never equal the benefits of a square-rigged tall ship. Working aloft, fisting and handing sail is a uniquely life-enhancing experience and puts balls on even a sissy!”
Just to remember that taking care of a ship, especially a wooden one, is a lot of work. Here is Tom Harding, oiling the wood with a brush. A little more about Tom, who is someone special, a really fan of tall ships and has sailed a lot on many of them. I first met him on HMS Rose in 1996 (the Rose is an American ship, a replica of a British frigate of the Independence war, which was rebuilt at the time of the Bicentennary commemoration and used for the movie ‘Master and Commander’. Then I saw him two years later on the Russian Kruzenshtern, where he was leading a group of members of Tall Ships Friends UK. And I had the surprise to meet him on Asgard II and the even greater surprise that he remembered me by name when I came on board. So this picture is dedicated to Tom Harding.
• Digested and photo tribute to Tom Harding from the website www.trekearth.com/gallery
MAERSK WARNED ABOUT CONTAINERS
French maritime authorities have told Maersk Line that 517 containers lost overboard from the 7,226 TEU capacity Svendborg Maersk last February must be found by the end of the Summer. It is understood that 80 per cent of the containers were empty and the remainder contained dry, non-hazardous goods, including cigarettes. Thirteen containers were located floating on the surface by French support ships. Others were reported to have washed-up on the South-West coast of England. Maersk is being faced with fines of €250,000 resulting from the containers being lost. A sonar survey of the seabed in the French sea area where they were lost is being carried out to ascertain whether they could be a risk to fishing boats if their nets became snagged.
SAILING FACES CHALLENGES
‘A man must be obsessed about something and a boat is as good as anything.’ That quote from E.B.White, an American editor and writer has often been used to summarise the spirit of sailing which appears to be under a degree of challenge at present, though it seems from talking to clubs and groups around the coast that the picture is not gloomy everywhere. However, there is an undeniable loss of numbers in quite a few clubs, a few of them major ones and racing seems to be taking the brunt of this. The future of sailing is under examination by the sport’s national association, the Irish Sailing Association and recommendations for change in the Association’s approach to promotion of the sport are expected. The drop-out of younger sailors appears to be at the core of difficulties in several clubs, where keeping them involved is proving difficult. Perhaps it is the variety of boats or the lack of a pathway in the sport other than the higher competitive levels, or are some younger sailors being driven too hard towards trying to achieve winning as the only mark of being successful? It will be difficult to resolve these questions but the sport needs to do so and particularly to ensure the involvement of younger sailors.
So, what is the ‘spirit of sailing’?
•Read more about this debate on www.afloat.ie/blogs/island-nation
• The views of readers on this issue are welcome. Email to: thisislandnation@gmail.com
KERRY AND OMAN
Damian Foxall from Kerry, one of the world’s top sailors, is involved in a national sailing programme which is pledged to teach 70,000 Omani children to sail by 2020 at eight sailing schools, four of which are already operational. It is that country’s national initiative established in 2008 which “uses the power of sport to contribute to the development of the Omani people,” the Oman government says. It is an “equal opportunity project” which runs sailing programmes “for thousands of young Omani men and women, aimed at inspiring a new generation to discover sailing, encompassing a national sailing squad and high achieving inshore and offshore racing teams, all of which benefit from world-class coaching and whose ultimate objective is to win an Olympic medal for Oman.”
“The goal is to rekindle Oman’s maritime heritage while raising the country’s regional and international profile as a high-end tourist and foreign investment destination, through competitive sailing at home and abroad,” says the Omani Government. “Oman Sail seeks to instil confidence and to teach valuable, transferable life skills to a generation of Omanis.”
Wouldn’t it be marvellous if this island nation had such a State project and saw its national maritime traditions in such a manner?
Damian Foxall is co-Skipper of Musandam-Oman Sail which is part of the project. The Skipper is Sidney Gavignet of France. The Oman MOD 70 is competing in the Round Britain and Ireland race this week.
THE SOLO BOTTLE JOURNEY
The world’s largest message-in-a-bottle was launched into the sea by a Norwegian soft drinks company, Solo, at Tenerife in Spain in March of last year. It was a 2.5 tons replica of a soda bottle, fitted with solar panels, a camera, and tracking technology. A public contest was launched to guess the location where the bottle would end up. But after 145 days in the ocean, the connection with the bottle was lost. The 26-foot long message-in-a-bottle was stolen by pirates somewhere east of Barbados. Thirty-five days later, last September, the Venezuelan Coast Guard found the bottle drifting in the Los Roques archipelago, 100 miles north of the Venezuelan mainland! In a better public relations story for Maersk Line, it has returned the bottle to Norway.
“Some types of cargo do not fit into the standard box. Maersk Line used ‘special cargo’ capabilities to ship the world’s largest bottle from Venezuela to Norway so that the campaign could reach its final closure,” Maersk says.
FAVOURITE FISHING SPOT
Sent to from Sea Fishing Ireland via Twitter @seafishingire is the fishing ‘selfie’ photo reproduced this week on THIS ISLAND NATION FACEBOOK, with the message: “My kinda grassy knoll. Fishing selfie at Hook Head, Wexford.”
ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC TOLL
Thirty-three per cent of all hull and machinery claims for damage encountered by ships in heavy weather occur in the Atlantic and Pacific. Of these claims, 48 per cent relate to containerships, 27 per cent bulk carriers and 15 per cent for ro-ro vessels. These figures have been released by the Swedish P&I Club shipping insurers in a new guide to ‘Heavy Weather’ which is intended to cut the number of insurance claims. “It provides seafarers with advice on how to avoid the many problems associated with adverse conditions, including check lists about securing cargo, guidance on course and speed and managing ballast conditions in heavy weather,” says the company. “Warnings about serious weather are usually available day before the weather arrives, but we see examples of crews not managing to avoid the heavy weather, not slowing own or altering course to avoid large waves pounding the vessel.”
• Digested from www.afloat.ie/blogs/island-nation
SHIPPING MUST RESPOND TO CLIMATE CHANGE
The Secretary-General of the International Chamber of Shipping has said that climate change will force re-thinking about the way ships are designed and regulated. Peter Hinchcliffe of the ICS said the industry is becoming subject to “enormous pressure to become greener and cleaner.”
RORY GALLAGHER DONATION KEEPS BALLYCOTTON AFLOAT
Dónal Gallagher, brother of the late Blues guitarist Rory Gallagher has presented Ballycotton RNLI in County Cork with a donation of €11,000 raised from sale of the star’s memorabilia. “Rory was very fond of Ballycotton, he loved walking the cliffs and found inspiration for his songwriting there – songs such as ‘A Million Miles Away’ and ‘Lost at Sea’, said Donal Gallagher.
•Digested from the Marine Times website www.marinetimes.ie
SAILING ACCIDENTS
On Monday a major emergency rescue operation was launched on Strangord Lough in County Down when high winds drove sudden squalls onto the GP14 World Championships being raced from the East Down Yacht Club outside Killyleagh. Reports said that many dinghies were capsized, six sailors had to be taken to hospital for treatment for minor injuries. Lifeboats and helicopters were called to help when some 60 dinghy sailors were thrown into the water, All were accounted for according to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.
On the same day on the Solent in the UK the death of a yachtsman was reported after he was hit on the head by his vessel’s boom. The yachtsman was reported to have been on the way from Southampton to Yarmouth and diverted to the Isle of Wight to shelter from high winds.
My other maritime blogs and columns which you might be interested to read:
THIS ISLAND NATION WEEKLY BLOG on AFLOAT magazine:
http://afloat.ie/blogs/island-nation
‘SEA ECHOES’ column each Wednesday in the Cork Evening Echo
SAILING NEWS weekly page each Thursday in the Cork Evening Echo
THE MARITIME FORUM each month in THE MARINE TIMES newspaper
Pride of Place 2013
Community Radio Youghal (C.R.Y.104fm) is delighted to have been nominated by local Development Company, South and East Cork Area Development Ltd (SECAD) for the 2013 Pride of Place Awards. The Pride of Place is an Annual competition, run by Co-operation Ireland in conjunction with local authorities.
C.R.Y.104fm was nominated for the Community & Arts category within County Cork. Cork County Council then shortlisted the station to represent County Cork at the national awards in that section. The Awards acknowledge the selfless work being done by people in communities all over the island of Ireland. It is an opportunity to celebrate the vital contribution that community groups make to society and it demonstrates what local groups can achieve when they come together to shape, change and enjoy all that is good about their local area.
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Personally guided walking tours of Penarth.
Explore a part of South Wales that many travelers overlook—Penarth—during this local-led, small-group walk. Benefit from their insider insight and learn more about the history of the local area than you could alone, while touring places such as the Cardiff Bay Barrage and Penarth Head Park. Plus, take advantage of your guide’s knowledge and ask for recommendations for the rest of your stay.
Historical Walking Tour of Conwy Town with a Welsh Lady Guide
This is a history tour made interesting with plenty of stories for young and old alike led by a lady in traditional Welsh costume - tall black hat and all. We visit all the main attractions in Conwy hearing the about past and present inhabitants - real and ghostly alike. Your guide is a resident of Conwy so you'll get a real insight into what it is like living in the town today as well as in the past. Also provided is a receiver so you can remain apart from others and not miss a word of the guides commentary
Guided Historical and Local Food Tour of Conwy with Tastings
This tour is a splendid mixture of history spiced up with visits to specialist food venues. Beginning outside the famous world heritage castle we'll hear about the Norman conquest of Wales then we tour the medieval streets learning it's fascinating history. We'll pop into venues such as the chocolatiers who supply Harrods, award-winning butchers, or the renowned local ice-cream maker whose family came from Italy a few generations ago. When you get thirsty we'll visit the winner of the Best Independent Off-license in Britain or the only pub in Britain owned by a consortium of microbreweries. We'll stroll down to the quayside amidst the lobster and prawn pots learning all about Conwy mussels and their traditional harvest methods. Of course, we'll make a photo-stop at the Smallest House in Great Britain. I'll point out the best of our local restaurants and food outlets so you can decide between fine-dining local mussels or fresh fish and chips eaten watching the boats.
Essential Caerphilly: Explore the town’s history on a self-guided GPS audio tour
Take a self-guided GPS walk with local resident Suzie Rees and find out more about the fascinating history of the town surrounding the famous castle. Starting at Coffi Vista on the Twyn, you'll walk the streets of Caerphilly while Suzie takes you back to the past. On the way, you'll meet kings and lovers, tyrants, comedians, musicians and one of the most eccentric people ever to live in this famous town. You'll visit the oldest building in Caerphilly, take a walk through glorious parkland and, if you feel like it, you can also stop to feed the geese and ducks who are always happy to say hello. The final leg of your tour takes you in full view of the largest castle in Wales while telling you some of the stories and legends connected with it. The final stop takes you right up to the main entrance to the castle and the tour finishes with a story about the most remarkable Welshman in Victorian Britain.
40 minutes to 1 hour
Guided Walking Tour of Conwy Town, Castle and Town house
We'll meet outside the Post Office where we'll get to know each other and then we'll walk on a short section of the town walls and then we'll enjoy the spectacle of this magnificent UNESCO world heritage site building where you'll learn the historical background. I'll have the tickets and then we'll go in and explore it. We'll wander around the defensive structures and learn what life was like living in such a castle. We'll climb up a tower and walk along the wall walks. (Those not wanting to do this will be advised where they can rejoin the tour). After about an hour in the castle we'll walk through the old walled town past the interesting churchyard and down to the quayside to see the oldest building in Conwy and the Smallest House in Great Britain. The tour ends outside the fascinating Plas Mawr - one of the finest Elizabethan town houses in Britain. Your tour includes entry to this and the audio commentary. Allow at least another hour for this visit.
Medieval Walls Walking Tour in Conwy
The tour encompasses the whole of Conwy Town Walls and Quayside including climbing up to the top of the highest tower (weather conditions permitting) and finding our way through the medieval streets to get the best views of the Castle and defensive walls as well as the river and mountains.
Conwy Self Guided City Tour (NEW self Distance)
This is for adventurous travelers, this self guided tour shows you all the highlights in Conwy, Llandudno and around. We don't take you by the hand and lead you, we let you discover everything for yourself and tell you the history and stories associated with the location. Once activated you have 48 hours access ideal to take your own time and enjoy your travels.
Cardiff Private Walking tour
When visiting the capital of Wales you come upon an exciting tourist destination, rich with historic sights and places to visit. The city center is one of the best places to get to know Cardiff from the inside out, due to the number of cultural locations and other amenities in this particular place. Get an insiders view from Cardiff, while we take you on an exploration of the key attractions of this city.
Wales Full-Day Private Sightseeing and Adventure Tour
The premier sightseeing and outdoor adventure tour of South East Wales. Specialised driver guiding.
Withlocals Your Way: Cardiff 100% Personalised City Tour with a Local
Borough Market is one of London’s most famous foodie hotspots, where you can find everything from tasty street food to artisan delicacies and traditional British dishes. This walking tour will give you a local’s view of the market, visiting shops, stalls, and restaurants, and sampling a variety of foods and drinks, including artisan cheeses, cider, samosas, cakes, and handmade fudge.
Private Walking Half-Day Walking Tour of Cardiff
Our Private Half-Day Tour of Cardiff is the best way to quickly get to know the Welsh Capital. Whatever your reason for visiting, this is the best way to discover as much as you can of this stunning city in half a day. Led by a Cardiffian, this trip allows you to see the best bits of Cardiff, hear what it is like to live in the city and discover some of the local hidden gems that only a local knows about. Because our guides are locals, they know all the best places to eat, drink, and how to experience all the best bits of the city including those places that are away from the usual tourist trails. Starting in the city, and including a brief visit the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff's civic centre, the tour will finish 'down the bay' where you are able to visit some of Wales newest and most iconic buildings and learn how the city (and Wales) has changed in the last 100 years.
Private Day Tour of Cardiff, including Cardiff Castle, St Fagans, & Cardiff Bay
Our Private Day Tour of Cardiff, including Cardiff Castle, St Fagans and Cardiff Bay is the perfect tour for anyone who wants to quickly get to know the Welsh Capital. Whether you are here for a holiday, a flying visit, or are looking to get to know the capital for any other reason this day tour is the best way to discover as much as you can, in a single day. Led by a local Cardiffian, this day-trip allows you to see the best bits of Cardiff, discover its history, and hear what it is like to live in the city. Best of all, because our guides are locals, they know all the best places to eat, drink and explore that are often away from the usual tourist spots. While this tour is usually only available for groups up to 3 people, we are able to offer tours for larger groups of up to 30 (please contact us for more details). This means that should you want to explore with a group of friends, or a college or university group, you can knowing that you will get exactly the same amazing tour.
Private Day Tour of South Wales, including Cardiff & Caerphilly Castle.
This day tour is the perfect way to see the city of Cardiff and three of South Wales' most important castles - Cardiff, Caerphilly, and Castell Coch. Starting at Cardiff Castle this tour, led by one of our expert and fun-loving local guides, offers you the chance to see some of South Wales' most iconic and historic landmarks, uncover their history, and explore the culture of Wales all in one day. After exploring Cardiff Castle, you will be taken on a walking tour of the city where you will have the chance to see some hidden gems, that are not often visited by other tours including Cardiff's historic market and covered arcades. After exploring the city you will have time to explore one of the best art galleries in the UK, before being whisked off to the largest castle in Wales where you can explore this medieval marvel. Finally, you will be taken to one of the prettiest castles in the UK where you will be able to see inspirational interiors and breathtaking views of of Cardiff.
Day Tour - Castles, Mountains & More
Our tour takes in three of the principal castles of South Wales, beginning with a drive around Cardiff castle, a site of historical strategic importance. We then visit the enchanting ‘fairytale castle’ Castell Coch, followed by Wales’ largest castle, the imposing Caerphilly castle. The tour then continues with a drive through the mountain scenery of the Brecon Beacons National Park and a chance to explore the market town of Brecon. This tour is perfect for anyone who wants to explore some of South Wales’ finest castles, enjoy scenic mountain views and experience a historical market town.
Taste of North Wales - 6 Hour Private Tour from Bangor
Enjoy touring without the crowds with your very own exclusive private tour of North Wales. If you are here on a time precious visit, then this tour will help you capture the very best of the region. Your tour is operated by a local professional driver guide who lives in the area. (We don't subcontract to outside driver guides). During your tour we will introduce you to the unique culture of Wales, it's amazing history and some of the best scenery in the country. During the tour we make visits to the medieval walled town of Conwy, visit the town with the longest name in Wales and Britain, Caernarfon Castle for a photo stop, tour through the Snowdonia National Park glacial valleys with lakes and the stunning mountain passes. We also stop off at Swallow Falls (entrance £2 per person) and visit the pretty Welsh village of Betws-y-Coed and the riverside town of Llanwrst. We are flexible to provide a custom designed tour based on the duration booked and the agreed pick up locations.
Taste of North Wales - 6 Hour Private Tour from Betws-y-Coed
Taste of North Wales - 6 Hour Private Tour from Llandudno
Enjoy touring without the crowds with your very own exclusive private tour of North Wales. If you are here on a time precious visit, then this tour will help you capture the very best of the region. During your tour we will introduce you to the unique culture of Wales, it's amazing history and some of the best scenery in the country. During the tour we make visits to the medieval walled town of Conwy, visit the town with the longest name in Wales and Britain, Caernarfon Castle for photo stop, tour through the Snowdonia National Park glacial valleys with lakes and the stunning mountain passes. We also stop off at Swallow Falls (entrance £2 per person) and visit the pretty Welsh village of Betws-y-Coed and the riverside town of Llanwrst. We are flexible to provide a custom designed tour based on the duration booked and the agreed pick up locations.
Walk the beautiful River Wye Valley to Tintern Abbey
Tintern Abbey is widely considered the jewel in the crown of the beautiful Wye Valley, and there’s no better way to reach it than on foot. On this tour, begin with pickup at your Cardiff or Newport hotel and spin into the Wye Valley by air-conditioned vehicle. Follow your guide along winding hiking trails along the banks of the River Wye, and admire uninterrupted views over historic Tintern Abbey.
The mythical west Wales tour.
On this tour you are accompanied by a historian with a deep passion and knowledge of Wales. You will learn some Welsh, sample traditional Welsh food and learn about the ancient history and culture of Wales. Gareth, your guide is a fluent Welsh speaker and he will give you an insight into Wales that wouldn't be available with a standard tour operator. The area we will visit is dotted with quaint old towns and picturesque villages which seem untouched by time. The South West is the home of Pembrokeshire coast national park, and is an area renowned for the beauty of its beaches and coastline. For the lovers of castles there many to discover with Carreg Cennen, Pembroke and Kidwelly being three of the most impressive. An example of a tour could be a visit to the wonderfully preserved Norman Castle at Pembroke, then lunch in the beautiful medieval port of Tenby followed by a stop off in Laugharne, the former home of the poet Dylan Thomas.
The Wandering Bard Tour of South Wales
There's no better way to explore South Wales than in the company of a historian, and native Welsh speaker, who is passionate about the country. This tour, which provides a deeper insight into Welsh culture than any other, takes you to neolithic sites, Roman ruins, Norman castles, and into the atmospheric valleys that have so inspired Welsh culture.
The mythical West Wales tour
Explore the mythology and magic of west Wales on this adventurous sightseeing tour from Cardiff. Following pickup at your hotel, spin into the Welsh countryside by private vehicle and enjoy sweeping views over the pretty scenery. Explore traditional old towns and charming villages where time stands still, discover attractions like Kidwelly Castle and the Dylan Thomas boathouse, and gain insight into local Welsh folklore.
Cardiff & Vale Tour
Our Cardiff & Vale tour takes you around the highlights of Cardiff and The Vale of Glamorgan, and will show you as many of the attractions and sights around Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan. The tour does not stop for any significant amount of time at any of the locations, and no entry to any of the attractions are included, how ever there will be plenty of opportunities throughout the tour to get out of the car, stretch your legs and take photos if you wish
Cardiff City Tour
Explore Cardiff City centre this city sightseeing tour is a must for first time visitors to the city. Your driver guide is an expert on Cardiff, and will show you the main attractions, and some of the more not so well known sights. Being a driven tour you can save your feet as there is no walking involved. This means we can show you more in less time. Your guide will be available to you and only you, to answer any questions you may have, and even amend the tour as it progresses, so you can see more of what interests you, and less of what doesn't.
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Fake Indians
Thu Aug 23rd 2012 by abagond
Fake Indians are people who claim to be Native American but are not. Unlike Blacks or Asians, many Natives are too mixed to “look” Indian, leaving an opening for fakes.
While many Americans are part Native by blood, very few belong to an Indian tribe that they call home. The American government knows which are the true tribes and each tribe knows who belongs. That simple.
Fake Indians want the advantages – like coolness points, affirmative action, book deals, casinos and parts in films. But without the disadvantages, like having no money, not enough heat or food, poor schooling, poor health, being thrown in prison and substance abuse.
And seeing one’s culture mocked and opportunities taken by fake Indians.
Fake Indians have to play to stereotypes to seem “real”, which strengthens the racism against Indians. The only real American Indian I have ever met did not play to stereotypes – because she did not have to.
Fake Indians also make it hard to know much about true Indians. Which makes being fake even easier!
Some fake Indians:
Almost every Cherokee tribe – only three are real:
Cherokee Nation (Oklahoma)
United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians (Oklahoma)
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (North Carolina)
Carlos Castaneda – made up the research for his PhD thesis and for “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge” (1968). Lost his degree – but sold millions of books.
Douglass Durham – put in charge of security by AIM (the American Indian Movement) at their 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee. Was working for the FBI.
Ward Churchill – former Chair of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado. Fired for plagiarism, fabrication and falsification. Author of several books on Indian issues. Wrote about the FBI undermining AIM but is suspected to be FBI himself! Calls Carlos Castaneda “the greatest hoax since Piltdown Man.” Claims to belong to the Keetowah Cherokees, which they deny.
Jamake Highwater – author of “Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey” (1973), which won a Newberry, “The Sun, He Dies: A Novel About the End of the Aztec World” (1980) and “The Primal Mind: Vision and Reality in Indian America” (1981), which became a PBS documentary. He fooled the New York Times and the National Endowment for the Humanities, but not Susan Sontag!
Hyemeyohsts Storm – author of “Seven Arrows” (1972), which the Cheyenne say misinterprets their sacred practices.
Iron Eyes Cody – appeared in over 200 Hollywood films and the iconic “Keep America Beautiful” ad where he cries.
Margaret B. Jones – pen name of Margaret Seltzer who wrote about her fake childhood as a half-white, half-Indian foster child in a black ghetto in “Love and Consequences” (2008). Both a fake Indian and a wigger!
Nasdijj – author of “Geronimo Bones” (2004) and other fake Navajo books.
Forrest Carter – wrote about his fake Cherokee boyhood in “The Education of Little Tree” (1976), which sold millions. Outed in 1991 as Asa Carter, Klansman and speechwriter for Alabama Governor George Wallace.
Some of these books won awards. Some are still in print!
– Abagond, 2012, 2015.
Update (July 1st 2015): Removed Winona LaDuke from the list. I confirmed that she is a member of a federally recognized tribe. Thanks to Troy Felsman for the correction.
Sources: Dean Chavers: Racism in Indian Country, An Open Letter To The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post In the Form of a Last Chapter on Jamake Highwater, Slate: David Treuer: Going Native
BIA: List of federally recognized tribes
Notes on how not to write about Native Americans
Margaret Seltzer
wigger
BET Fallacy – the fallacy that blacks are somehow in control of their image. This is way less true for Indians.
Tasadays
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 12:13:26 Jefe
Indeed, fake Native American tribal affiliation is definitely exploited for personal gain.
But, isn’t it possible to realign yourself with another ethnic identity after birth — I don’t think the ethnic identity of your parents is the sole determinant of your ethnic identity. Isn’t some sort of ethnic conversion or realignment possible?
I do not support people who are obvious fakes, but I don’t fully begrudge people who make an honest decision to engage themselves directly into any particular ethnic group.
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 12:15:11 B. R.
Wow, hahha about some of these fakers…..they need to get a life…I guess some got the money…you can get the money and still be pathetic…Ward Churchill stands out in my mind
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 12:15:27 leigh204
I remember Iron Eyes Cody in that “Keep American Beautiful” environmental campaign. He was so into his “native” heritage, he even helped pen his autobiography claiming he was part Cherokee and part Cree. The thing is, I was surprised to learn he was actually Italian-American. Imagine that.
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 12:32:29 sam
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 12:40:40 positiveblackstereotype
@Jefe
Except its appropriation, not to mention if what your appropriating is based on stereotypes and falsehoods than your doing the group you so call “admire” a disservice. And the fact is, no matter how much one would like to be part of another ethnic group, they will never actually be part of that group because they simply weren’t born into that group. Most people who pretend to belong to another group do so because they have very defined ideals of what a member of said group is supposed to be like even if these ideals would offend members of said group. In many instances people who engage in this sort of behaviour are incredibly racist, they just are too confused to realize how racist they really are. If one has to claim a group, chances are they don’t belong in that group, whereas if someone is born outside of an ethnic group but identifies with said group having been emerged in the culture, etc the group more often than not will claim that person as one of them without the person having to do so themselves. More often than not, people who are claimed by other ethnic groups know who they are and are proud of who they are, but realize they aren’t quite like others within their own respective ethnicity.
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 13:42:47 truthbetold
This is shows us that whites are not happy being white. Anything to align themselves with a long suffering group will make them feel better about their European heritage.
I used to wonder why whites would lie about having “black blood”. Why attach yourself with a group that is marginalized? Because deep down, they want attention, money and are desperately trying to distance themselves from their past.
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 15:43:33 Sondis
I don’t think, they want to distance themselves from their past, than to just want sympathy, something white people only get from their own, group.
The only people in America, that can “legitimately” receive sympathy, are black people and other people of color.
So I think they seek out sympathy by trying to claim a minority entity, when they are impoverished.
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 16:14:40 SomeGuy
Findians.
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 16:23:52 satanforce
No. Not Ward Churchill. Not Ward Churchill.
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 16:32:50 Cornlia
One thing that chocked me from when I was a child, was why and who you “disguise” yourself into “another person”, not even a “character”. I have NEVER understood how my friends could disguise themselves as “Chinese person” or “an African” or “an Indian” at Carnival. I could never have done it. If I did when I was very little (I don’t remember, I was disguised by someone else. It wasn’t my choice). I would have felt ashamed because I felt it was totally wrong somewhere.
Now I understand it was because I could not get it why someone would want to “possess” another human being to the point of being him or her. Take away his or her being and make it a joke…
ThruthBeTold, I don’t think it is because they are not happy with being themselves. They are ultimate narcissists, they love their own selves like crazy. I think it’s more like what I said here^^.
They want to possess everything and everyone, decide for everyone who they really are, name everything and everyone, classify everything and everyone, know what everybody think and wishes t be able to stop them from getting it, hide and transform everything and everyone that they imagine could be seen as better than them. (The Mysteries of Africa/Egypt. Cleopatra…)
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 16:47:11 chulanowa
Espera DiCorti (Iron Eyes Cody) at least “walked the walk.” He and his wife – she was Native American – adopted several Indian children, donated a great deal of time and money to Indian causes, and very much tried to be respectful members of the greater Indian community.
I don’t know whether it was a mental thing or something… but he really, honestly believed he WAS an Indian. It wasn’t quite like “I’m in it for the cool and hopefully government goodies” like some of the others on the list. Espera was an honestly decent guy, even while being a Wannabee.
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 17:15:22 Kushite Prince
This is a very interesting post. I used to work with a white guy that was a real redneck. He was an older man with grey hair and blue eyes. Once in awhile the subject of race would come up and he would always mention his great grandfather that was Native American. It was very strange to me. From time to tome he would make racist remarks about Asians and Mexicans. Yet,he would always bring up his Native American ancestry as if to show he identified with people who are discriminated against. It was all a bunch of horse manure! These white folks just want to distance themselves from the racist past that they’re ashamed of.
Agreed Bulanik. That is indeed how far it goes.
(Can you tell me how you “quoted” me ? I still haven’t figured out how to do that…
lol @ Cornlia I’ve been trying to figure that out, since I first joined this blog.
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 17:28:43 Stop Along The Way
Well said. It’s exactly the reason I cringe when another word or phrase from the African-American lexicon is appropriated by white culture at large.
Btw- when I was in high school I was too naive to hear the imitation of the Native American voice in “The Teachings of Don Juan”. I actually thought I was learning something.
@someguy:
Actually findians are not fake indians, they are mixed folks up in Minnesota and there abouts, mix between mainly chippewa and finns who lived next or among them. Reason was that the only white guys who actually wanted to live in remote forests etc. were finns who had lived that way back in their home land. But findians do not try to tell anyone they are pure native tribe etc. at all. As far as I know.
Sorry about that. Please follow the example on the top picture here:
but substitute “blockquote” instead of “i”.
Let’s see if it works… Thanks Bulanik.
Kushite Prince,
These white folks just want to distance themselves from the racist past that they’re ashamed of
unfortunately, I think that a lot of them are not ashamed…
They don’t feel shame. This is what allows them to continue the same BS all over. This is what astonishes non-racists and makes it so difficult to fight them.
Shame is a feeling, they have none. They don’t care about the past. They just don’t want to have to talk about it, it bothers them to have conversations about it.
In France, they shout against “the call for repentance” that they think is what people who want that history to be taught are asking for. They don’t see anything wrong with it, so they don’t see what the point is talking about it. They want other people to feel guilty, not them.
“If it happened to you, it’s for a reason, you were looking for it. It’s the consequence of something you did or who you are”.
“We brought civilization but you don’t know what to do with it”..
Blah blah. Bible stories. From the beginning.
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 17:56:44 Delwin
There is another group of people who have been determined to entitlement of Indian staus. That would be anyone, of any race, who has been raised in a traditional Indian culture. This could be by adoption, for example. These individuals encounter the same cultural clash with the dominant culture and can be discriminated against because of their cultural upbringing.
@positiveblackstereotype
they will never actually be part of that group because they simply weren’t born into that group
How about the case of adoptees? Unless the adoptive parents are of the same exact ethnic heritage as the adoptee’s parents, the adoptee will be raised in a different ethnic group than he/she was born into. And the ethnic group of the adoptee’s biological parents will probably never accept them into that ethnic group either. I believe that the adoptee will most likely adopt the ethnic group of the adopted parents. In rare cases the adoptee may try to reinsert himself / herself into the original ethnic group with limited success, or even may try to find a 3rd ethnic group to align with.
How about the case of biracial or multiethnic persons? They may have grown up in early childhood identifying with one of the parents’ groups, and then realign themselves with the other one later in life. Even having a parent who had a prior identity with a particular ethnic group does not mean that the child was necessarily “born” into that ethnic group or accepted as part of that group from birth. And, they might find themselves better accepted into an ethnic group that neither parent claims.
How about the case of interracial / interethnic / interfaith marriage? In some societies or cultures, one of the spouses (typically the wife) must realign herself to the other spouse’s (eg, the husband’s) ethnic group in order for the marriage to be valid and they would have to raise any children in that culture. In that case, the spouse has realigned the ethnic affiliation.
In none of these cases do I believe that the individual is “pretending” to be part of an ethnic group. They might be just honestly trying to “find” an ethnic to participate with.
Not that I am saying that most of these fake (American) Indians are being honest.
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 18:22:52 Kwamla
“…They want to possess everything and everyone, decide for everyone who they really are, name everything and everyone, classify everything and everyone, know what everybody think and wishes t be able to stop them from getting it, hide and transform everything and everyone that they imagine could be seen as better than them. …”
I think as Bulanik has commented there is a hidden unacknowledged history and practice of cultural appropriation. Stemming from the days of colonialism and imperialism.
But I agree with Truthbetold:
“…This shows us that whites are not happy being white…”
There is a deep unacknowledged dissatisfaction here. Which only makes itself known in the presence or company of POC. Its when they are made to go through the mental process of comparing and contrasting. themselves a feeling of emptiness can emerge. Of course its easy to hide and disguise this in the alternative world of “superior white society” thats already been set up and created for us ALL to forcibly or freely dissolve ourselves into. But even this is not enough hence the need to fake a different “minority” or other than white identity.
Surely this type of psychosis should have a label?
@Leigh204 When I was a teenager I used to go to a comic book shop with some of my friends. The owners of the shop were a white couple. I remember the wife always bragging to me and my friends that Iron Eyes Cody was her grandfather and she was so proud of being part Native American. Hmmm…..I wonder if she knows he’s Italian. Or maybe she just didn’t want to tell us that little bit of information.lol
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 18:55:04 Jared
I noticed the same cultural appropriation thing is happening in the Orisha religion , where a couple whites have been initiated into the priesthood.
now they have websites and are writing books about the Orisha.
When white people do this, it’s possible because the history that enables that cultural appropriation to happen – through violence – has been erased.
@ Cornlia I see what you’re saying to a degree. They probably don’t feel much shame or guilt. If they truly did feel guilt,they would stop mistreating people of color. But why do you think some white people do bring up they’re racial mixture? What’s the point? They always have a motive for everything they do. Don’t you agree?
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 19:05:42 Herneith
How about crackeritis?
@ Kushite Prince:
Or, maybe she couldn’t handle the truth that her grandfather, that is, if Iron Eyes Cody was actually her grandfather, was a fraud.
BINGO!!You maybe right.lol
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 19:57:02 brothawolf
I remember seeing Iron Eyes Cody. That guy had us all fooled about who he really is.
I wonder if this pathology is why several sports teams have named themselves after Native Americans like the Atlanta Braves, or is there something else at work.
Actually findians are not fake indians, they are mixed folks up in Minnesota
I didn’t even know there was such a thing. I just combined “fake” with “Indians”.
Bwahaha!
“I feel that the white people who engage in the “fake Indians” thing, etc., may choose to believe they are disconnected from the forms of oppression that their ‘appreciation’ and ‘celebration’ reinforces, but even their sense of entitlement to have their experience of ‘other’ cultures prioritized is symptomatic of white supremacy!”
Very well stated.That just about sums it up. I can’t add anymore to that.
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 20:49:29 Fiamma Blu
The Washington “Redskins” also comes to mind. Its not confined to sports teams, either, lest we forget the Jeep “Cherokee” and the Mazda “Navajo” (as well as the Volkswagen “Touareg”, the named of which was approriated from the Tuareg / Touareg “Berber” people of Africa).
Jefe, my personal opinion is, anyone who has any trace of real Indian blood in their veins, has their own personal right to identify on the inside with their origins, and can research and seek out or not seek out….as long as they dont get out of joint if a tribe has official laws of how to be considered one of the members..they have to accept those physical realities
My son has some traces of Indian blood in him, its not nearly as big as the Afro Brazilian or European , but maybe as much as I have German blood…but he isnt looking to find his long lost tribe, but, I see how he can relate and I think its just fine…dont let anyone influence you from seeking out the truth in your life that you want to find out…I could hardly care less what anyone thinks my son can or cant do about discovering and identifying what his roots are
I just think people using fraud to bring it out in public, especialy to make money, are low. Or people who wear it on their sleeve .
I also think that all humans have something inside that makes them fascinated by other cultures ( as well as a side that is repelled by strangers) , with elements of wanting to asimilate things about those cultures…I might go out to an Indian (from India) or a Japanese restaurant , and, indulge in their marvelous cooking and feel like for a small instane Im immersing myself in their culture, and, actualy have a great respect for those cultures even just on the basis of tasting their cooking and imagining what it would be like living there and eating the foods and soaking up that atmosphere…
But, being false or patranising is negative, and brings a lot of negative baggage with it
The truth is, culture doesnt have a cutoms gate you have to pass to get stamped to give somebody the right to seek out and learn and apreciete someone elses culture…and it is human to want to do that and there are huge examples of humans everywhere in the world learning and assimilating other peoples cultures. Imagine thinking Wynton Marsalis shouldnt play European Classical music because he isnt from that culture…that is total bs…the truth is if someone really pays the price of discipline and has the will and affinity, they can assimilate into someone elses culture …we all are sucking on all each others culture far more than we know
Who am I to criticise some white hippies who go down to New Mexico to set up a teepee and try to do their version of Indian culture. I may think its silly and the real Indians may think its silly and not like it, but, I dont care , who am I to criticise them
Its the exploitation of cultures, of wiping them out and then falsly representing them in history books or movies, burying them, making them seem like they are less than Western culture, making money off them by white people who push it as though its theirs or that they invented it . Or pretending they are that like these fake Indians…That is where the real problem begins
Iron Eyes Cody huh? Who would have thought….? haha
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 23:05:41 mary burrell
Iron Eyes Cody was Itatalian? What! Man you learn something new everyday.”Wow”. Anyway good post Abagond.
on Wed Aug 29th 2012 at 23:30:50 M
Iron Eyes Cody was Italian? Wow..did nt have any idea that he wasnt Native American.
Fiamma,
True, true.
Can someone verify, if Mexicans are Indians?
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 00:19:27 titibop
you should post about young asians acting like black people.
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 00:22:02 Sondis
@ titibop
Why should there be a post about Asians, “acting” black? you are obviously white…
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 00:59:44 Oyan (@Oy_aN)
1.) I like what ‘Cornlia says @ “on Wed 29 Aug 2012 at 16:37:03
2.) I don’t know if ‘titibop’ is being facetious, but there are a lot of the KPop entertainers who have utilized a lot of ‘urban black’ culture as part of their act;even to the point of getting ‘afro-perms’, ‘black-face’, etc.
3.) I have family in New Orleans, who have claimed ‘Indian’ membership/ancestry for generations. They have huge festivals, wear intricate ‘outfits’ representing the ‘Tribe of the Yellow Pocahontas”, which dates back to the 1800’s. They are not an ‘official’ ‘nation, but have a strong cultural link to the native culture of Louisiana. I’m unsure if this is cultural appropriation…
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 01:04:17 SW6
…you can get the money and still be pathetic…
Jefe, my personal opinion is, anyone who has any trace of real Indian blood in their veins, has their own personal right to identify on the inside with their origins, and can research and seek out or not seek out…
The truth is, culture doesnt have a cutoms gate you have to pass to get stamped to give somebody the right to seek out and learn and apreciete someone elses culture…and it is human to want to do that and there are huge examples of humans everywhere in the world learning and assimilating other peoples cultures.
Wynton Marsalis shouldnt play European Classical music because he isnt from that culture…that is total bs…the truth is if someone really pays the price of discipline and has the will and affinity, they can assimilate into someone elses culture …we all are sucking on all each others culture far more than we know
B.R. thank you so much for what you’ve said thus far in this thread. Your comments are beautiful and true. You’re asserting the individual’s freedom to choose and explore, while respecting him/herself and the culture they are exploring or developing affinity for. You’re highlighting the importance of coming to learn about one’s self and doing so in fellowship with others. Self exploration can be a solitary activity but not indefinitely; it must include others and “their world” at some point.
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 01:26:24 Linda
“Sondis
Mexico has a large mestizo population–mixed native Indians (Amerindians indigenous to Southwest US) with Spanish (European) and depending on area, mixed with African. There are also unmixed Amerindians living there, I believe Mayans and other groups.
http://www.cabosanlucasvillas.net/mexico/about/
http://www.voanews.com/content/a-13-2007-11-16-voa47-66528207/553747.html
also many native Indians live today throughout Mexico and Central American and South America…In the Caribbean, they did not die out as US/western history likes people to believe, they intermixed, that’s why the Dominican Republic insists that they are also mixed with native Amerindian, and Puerto Ricans were found to be majority Amerindian mixed with Spanish and/or African.
http://www.indigenousportal.com/es/Herencia/15-of-Dominicans-have-Ta%C3%ADno-DNA.html
http://www.centrelink.org/KearnsDNA.html
This is why I think it is wrong to tell Caribbean/South American Latinos (no matter the phenotype) to choose between black and white, because depending on the country they are from, also determines the mixture.
Majority are mixed-raced, no matter how much they like to push their Spanish European ancestry
Sondis, this has come up (very tangentially) before on this blog. I’m interested in the question too; more importantly the answer interests me.
Have a look at this, it’s very interesting:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e6ChgL1EC4)
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 01:37:53 King
I don’t think I understand this question.
Can someone (who knows their shit!) say a little about who/what the Carib Indians are? Is anyone aware of a concise but good history of the Caribbean prior to the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
Are the Carib Indians essentially just Indians of the Americas (but located far South), just as the more well known North American Indians are understood as Indians of the northern region of the Americas?
Oh sorry, Linda already answered it.
SW6, I believe that the pre-Columbian “Indians” found in the Caribbean islands were the product of the same trans-Siberian migration across the Bering Straight that all native people’s of the New World come from. They are basically Asians, far removed from their origins.
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 02:22:54 Jefe
@BR
my personal opinion is, anyone who has any trace of real Indian blood in their veins, has their own personal right to identify on the inside with their origins, and can research and seek out or not seek out….as long as they dont get out of joint if a tribe has official laws of how to be considered one of the members..
At what point does “Identifying on the inside with their origins” become “wearing it on their sleeve” and interpreted as being fake?
For example, President Obama can confirm that he is actually the descendant of ante-bellum black slaves (on his mother’s side, no less), and he were to go out and become famous by raising money to make redresses to descendants of black slaves based on his own ancestry, would he be fake (since he does indeed have black slave ancestry, but his recent black (ie, “sub-Saharan) ancestry is not at all traced to black slaves)?
This might sound like simply a rhetorical question, but there is some reality to this problem. Personally, I had ample direct contact with both my mother’s and father’s families growing up, knew all of my grandparents very well, and felt like I should be entitled to identify with the cultural background of my grandparents. Yet, time and time again, I have AT BEST been treated as “fake” by both sides, but more often as simply not entitled. I have had contact with other persons who have mistaken me as members of their ethnic group, even after knowing me for years. I have indeed entertained the thought of whether it might be easier to realign myself with a different ethnic group where I am less considered to be a “fake” even though technically, I would be.
Certain tribes have rules about tribal membership probably just to control for “fakes”. It is likely that no such rules existed when such tribes were still intact.
I think it is abhorrent to claim fake ethnic heritage to exploit for personal gain, but given my current situation, I can’t totally condemn others. I have my own problems about being “fake”. :-\
Thank you King. If the rest of you know some more, please share.
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 02:48:18 BadWolf
White people like to add group X because they perceive it to their advantage and what does that say about racism In America today? It’s not psychotic it’s $$$
There is a marked difference between appropriation and imitation.
We all may imitate things from other cultures all of the time. That’s not a problem in my book. BUT appropriation is taking things and trying to pass them off as your own, or at the least not acknowledging where it comes from originally.
For example, wearing Native American jewelry is fine IMO. However, saying that I’m one fifth Cherokee just to make myself seem like I’m more exotic while I’m wearing it would be wrong.
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 03:04:29 Cornlia
Bulanik, B.R. Kushite Prince, Brothawolf and others…
very interesting points.
I will re-read all this and try to answer or at least express a thought on Kushite Prince’s question.
But why do you think some white people do bring up they’re racial mixture? What’s the point? They always have a motive for everything they do. Don’t you agree?
Just a quick thought. I think the constant inversion of facts (and that includes “disguise” being the others that we despise) that we notice in white-minded/white people’s attitudes, behavior, actions, policies, etc… stems from the very fact that, if Narcissistic Personality Disorder (Perversion Narcissistique in French) is actually one of the foundations of the troubled personality they display, one of the key symptoms of that disorder is that they constantly invert/reverse/put things upside down. After a while, and several consecutive reversals, they find themselves at a loss to explain their own selves.
From their point of view it would be : Are they full of pride or empty ? Are they superior or looking for ways to feel so ? Do they need others or do they despise them ? Is/Are their culture/s superior or do they need the input from others ?
After trying so hard to distanciate/dissociate themselves from nature and their own selves, they keep trying to steal from others’ own nature and selves. But constantly remind these others that they don’t need them. that they know better and that they must lead.
I don’t know if this makes sense… Difficult to make sense of nonsensical attitudes and ideologies…
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 03:09:30 Randy
… Chicago Blackhawks, and,
the Washington Redskins?
Is it to ‘honour’ a defeated people? To remind us that “they” fought, but failed?
This paradox doesn’t make sense unless the idea of the Native American is stripped bare and seen for what it represents: a malignant presence to be wiped out, or kept under control, or depicted as a form of local “wildlife”.
How about sports teams with the following mascot names:
– Trojans
– Spartans
– Fighting Irish
– Cavaliers
– Vikings
I suppose if you’re determined to find offense you’ll nearly always succeed.
PS: Howdy King!
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 03:24:26 B. R.
King, I think you are saying what I think, except, for example,my son, who may be 10 percent Indian, mentions about doing something artistic , using paint to put on in an Indian style , exactly because he feels something in himself that has those origins in his blood (at the same time doing things that ackowledge the other parts of his origins , like the Afro Brazilian side). And, I absolutly see no harm in any way if he wants to do that to explore that side of himself…
SW6, I just dont get some kind of over pshyco analysis of why some people might want to dress up and for what ever reason, fantasize and go out side of themselves…I mean, we might as well over psycho analyse every actor and actress who exists because that is just what they want to do…get outside of themselves..I mean we can go after white people who do at as Indians now, next week its going to be the next person for wanting to dress up…I dont want any part of that mentality….I beleive very powerfully in creativity and flights of fantacy
We the thread is talking about people who purposefully deceive the world around them with false claims of who they are and then, some of them make money and comercialise it…..or as I said and as King points out, and apropriating and not ackowledging where it comes from originaly , the rip offs, the burying of the other culture, the not trying to tell the real story, the deceit and comercial gain from that deceit , the absolute media distortion…that is something to condemn
thanks for your ackowledgement
@ Kwamla
I was the one who said that and Bulanik went further
I think the “psychopatic racial personality” (see Abagond post) and the related Narcissistic Personality Disorder would start to answer your question.
I have a question: what do you make of those people who are classified as white in the racial vision of humanity but do not classify themselves as such ?
Let me explain: I do not define myself as white. Does that make me an unhappy white, or a person who has no problem with her own self and doesn’t care about the system some of her ancestors’ built to make themselves feel better about their own selves, while in the process forcing everyone they encountered on their path to enter that system ?
In other words, is a light-skinned non-racist / not suffering from Narcissistic Personality Disorder person viewed as “an unhappy white”, since that person refuses to be labeled as “white” ?
Do you see what I mean ? Finally, I think that it all depends if your question occurs in a totally racially-defined world or if you acknowledge that there are people, of all origins, who do not define themselves inside the frame of race (while at the same time recognizing its impact on society(ies) and their obligation to comply with many aspects of it in their actual life, in spite of their not adhering to the idea).
I am trying to develop on this following your remark, because it either means that you envisage “whites” as a racial natural reality of light-skinned people (all of them suffering from inherent and innate “unhappiness” and there really is no hope…), or you omitted the fact of self-determination and therefore possible self-happiness…
Jefe, it seems you are mentioning both aspects I talked about, your inner thoughts about it versus the physical reality…
If you go inside yourself to find the answer or to ask yourself the truth, you dont have to deal with anyone’s regection. You have to live with yourself and the truth….you cant let other people, even family , accept or reject what you need to know about the truth of yourself , inside…but, you will have to deal with the physical reality of their truth and desician not to accept you…
I dont have any hang ups about Obama…I know the klan would regect him..that is all I need to know…the bottom line is what he does. How people want to define it, is up to them
Oyan, very interesting you mentioned your family that dresses up as Indians in Carnival in New Orleans, because , “being Indian” may only be the surface rationalisation, there may be other origins to this practice underneath that are hidden
There is a parrallel custom in Pernambuco Brazil…They call them selves “Cabocolo de Lanca”, and , while part of it is mixed with Indian custom, part of it is unmistakingly African in origin.They only come out in Carnival, just like the “Indians” of New Orleans
The costumes are elaborate , with richly dressed headdresses and scarfs underneath, they drink a mixture of buckshot and cachasa,and carry giant lances. They have costumes that use a lot of feathers , the beats are more African, they call it “Maracatu Rural”…
But, I noticed that the “Indians” of New Orleans Carnival, have costumes that sort of mimick Indian costumes but they have other charactoristics also, and, some of those remind me of the Cabocolos
Ill try to bring in a picture to show you, It just takes me awhile to do google and I wanted to tell you this now
@Cornelia
Yes, I agree more with your view Cornelia. What you said reminded me of a fucking snot of a woman that Jane Elliott encountered in England. The woman I’m talking about is the blonde schoolteacher (shudder).
A couple of salient timestamps in the video:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgxKfjijWGc)
They want to possess everything and everyone, decide for everyone who they really are, name everything and everyone, classify everything and everyone, know what everybody think and wishes t be able to stop them from getting it, hide and transform everything and everyone that they imagine could be seen as better than them
Here she is again as the poster child of what you say above:
she starts up at 3:54
(she does not get it and she doesn’t need to, that’s pretty much her message. A “schoolteacher” for God’s sake.)
I’ll end with something pleasant. Contrast the obstinate ignorant woman with the woman who directly precedes her just before 3:54. That woman understands life is change. She understands the ideas that B.R. expressed.
check this out Oyan and tell me what you think
Hey there Randy!
@ B. R.
I generally see nothing wrong with children playing make believe and incorporating other cultures into their play whether they actually share any blood with the heroes of their imaginations or not If kids want to be Persian princes, Gypsies, Barbary Pirates, English Butlers, Chinese Kung Fu Monks… whatever, I say let them.
Now the tricky part comes in when it’s no longer a question of just pretend. things can get complicated. For example, a lot of Blacks are just as guilty of Native America appropriation as Whites are. Notice I say APPROPRIATION not PERSECUTION. Too many Blacks that I know have never had any serious research done to verify their family rumors, and yet will swear on a stack of Bibles that they are 1/24th Cherokee! We’ve all seen this.
But then the example with your son begs the question, just how Indian do you have to be before you’re a “real Indian?” Is it the one drop rule? What do the tribes themselves say? Interesting 🙂 I’d like to know what others might think?
Jefe, I think each person , who might face your dilema , has to know at what point they are wearing it on their sleeve as oposed to dealing with it on the inside…are they leading with that in their conversations, bragging about it, using at “look at me”?
Or are they really searching for the truth inside themselves, prepared to not be accepted or not deemed worthy , by family even . But, secure enought to know that the only person who really counts in knowing what is true for them is looking at themselves in the mirror…
King, I think he doesnt want to do it to be accepted by a “tribe”, or think that that is his total identity…by the way , he is 24, so, its not a kids thing but it is an artistic thing he wants to do…he is a performer. He knows that the Indian part of him is only a part, and a smaller part compared to other parts ….but, he will also dress up on stage in a Lampion hat, which were bandits in the Noerhteast of Brazil with an infamous reputation…he definitly isnt that , but, is using that identity in his performance as a tribute to the Northeast and its culture…
Interesting what you said about other black people that you know and their Indian notions….I think that for sure there is a certain amount of Indian blood in some black Americans. In Brazil, which is 50 percent Afro descendant, maybe 60 percent of the people have some kind of Indian blood , for sure some much smaller than others. And, I think the black American community plays out in a somewhat similar way, maybe not the exact percentage, but as an undelying presence
Indian influence on our cultures is much more subtile than we perceive. Its all over our dinner table, and, the musical aspects are very subtile and not as dominate as the African rhythms and the European harmony, but , it is in there. I perceived this with some Brazilian carnival expresions like “Caboclino” which is a referance to the Indian culture in Brazil but has more of an African groove. Indians just dont have the same groove,and, their “one , one one” time feel seems to be similar from American Indians down to Brazilian Amazon Indians, even if the way they do it looks differant, the beat concept is very similar….to my ears
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 04:16:46 Fiamma Blu
“Puerto Ricans show an approximate 61% contribution of Taíno mitochondrial DNA”
The whole DNA thing is a little tricky. I had an mtDNA test done about 5 years ago. I am no expert by any means, however, from what I do know, mitochondrial DNA does not reveal “race’, but rather it reveals one’s early, direct female maternal origins. Mitochondrial DNA is passed from women to all their offspring. In other words males receive mtDNA, but they do not pass it on to their own offspring. Men pass on Y-DNA, but to their sons only
So, what the above quote means is that a direct maternal early female ancestor of 61% of Puerto Ricans was Taino. That the ‘race’ of one of our early, though direct, ancestors was Amerindian, it cannot be taken to mean that her present day descendants are also genetically Amerindian being that mtDNA only accounts for a small percentage of one’s total DNA. We all have lots and lots of ancestors who are not accounted for by this fraction of our genetic profile.
I myself have epicanthic eye folds, high cheek bones, longish torso / shortish legs, shovel-shaped incisors (a feature of ‘Sinodonty’, which is also common among East Asians), second toe longer than the big toe — all features which are said to be Amerindian traits. I have been mistaken for (or told that I appear to be): East Asian, South Asian; a Sabra, ” an Italian with a tan”, Sicilian, Egyptian, Hawaiian and Puerto Rican. Yet, my own mtDNA originated with one woman who lived in East Africa 70,000 years ago My more recent ancestry definitely includes sub-Saharan African, but it also definitely includes indigenous North American and European as well.
The test to find out one’s own genetic breakdown as to ‘race’ (ie, the race of one’s more recent ancestors), I believe is referred to as an ‘autosomal DNA’ test.
Its funny, My family moved from Chicago, after I left hme, and they moved to New Mexico , and the house they bought, which is up for sale now since my Mom died, is right next to some immence Indian land. So when I would visit them, i would be right next to Indian life. And, I also always felt an Indian curse on me , saying “get out, this place is not for you…” . Not because Im white, just because of what is…because where I live now, they discovered a very very old Indian site , very close by right on the beach, and , I always felf very welcomed by those spirits…they love me, they gather around me and give me hugs
Ah… forgive me. I should have asked how old your son was. But again, the stage is a magical place or make believe as well. However, when you’re an adult I think the requirements for due diligence are more pressing. He doesn’t need my advice, of course, so I’m just stating my opinion.
– When performing in portrayal of another culture, I think it’s necessary to do thorough research. Know the culture you are enacting and know it from the source–actual people from that culture. Get the history right, cross check with as many academic sources as possible.
– Explain to everyone what you are doing, where you got it from, and why. Be sensitive to response to your portrayals and allow yourself to be teachable, particularly by the members of that culture.
– Take the time to be authentic. If you want to reflect another culture, then respect them enough to learn their ways—don’t try to short-cut it with YOUR VERSION of their ways.
– Be humble, and don’t ever consider yourself to be an “expert” on somebody else’s culture – No matter how much you think you know about it.
I think that by keeping things like this in mind, one can avoid the trap of appropriation and redefinition of other people’s culture.
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 05:39:05 sam
I guess we see here some signs of very old way of seeing ones enemies. That is, the romans respected the germans for their military prowess and actually emplyed them as mercenaries (in imperial guard for example) even though they did not like them as a people or culture. They respected the celts of Ireland and High Lands as warriors even though they saw them only as savages etc. Tacitus writes many times positively about the enemies IF they were brave enough.
In 1346 blind duke of Luxemburg was litterally dragged into the killing field in the battle of Crecy between the english and the french under his orders. He wanted to use his sword one more time and the only way was that this blind man was escorted directly to the melee. He was killed but after the battle the english washed his body and escorted it to the enemy in honorable manner with all the shows of a hero. In their mind he had been an enemy to be killed but he had been a brave warrior so all the respect.
In very early stage of the conquest of North America, some whites began to see the natives in romantic light, even though less human or as the Other. This developed into a weird cultlike phenomena where some believed that the natives were like Adam and Eve like figures living free and happy life in the Nature. Thus was born the romantic savages. Fenimore Cooper is perhaps the best known of this, The Last of the Mohicans etc. There are good and bad natives and noble and savage natives, cruel and the brave, honorable and devilish etc. BUT there is the Hawk Eye, the best native of them all, who was adopted into the tribe BUT is a white man living like a native.
Some european settlers who had lived in the most remote areas of Europe before moving to the colonies got along pretty well with the natives because the way of living was recognisable for both, but pretty quickly these comparisons were wiped out from the records and those living too close the native style were branded as renegades or “gone native” by the officials. The idea was not to assimilate but to conquer and replace.
The idea of assimilation in to the native culture did not dissappear though. It lived on and since many native nations could and did adopt white children etc.the romantic idea never dissapeared. It live on and still lives on. Some how, for what ever reason, it is this romantic idea which fuels the whole phenomena of fake indians. It has nothing to do with the reality but everything to do with the romantic idea of the Native Americans some how representing the Real spirit of USA, which of course is the country that stole their lands, killed them and their culture and destroyed whole ways of life.
Airborne troops still yell Geronimo when they jump from the planes, because their idea is that Geronimo did what they do, that is fight directly among the enemy on the hostile ground surrounded by the enemy and still be victorious. That is, of course, a load of poop, since Geronimo fought on HIS land against the invaders, not vice versa. But he was the tuffest enemy the whites knew and while being a murderer and dangerous savage in their eyes, he also gained respect, particulary after he surrendered in desperation.
Somehow there is the whole tradition of romantizising ones enemies, reflecting ones own rebellious or counter culture ideas on them, and this older tradition of respecting the enemy warriors who put up a good fight. Perhaps…
I mean, how many of us when playing as kids wanted to be indians, not those boring soldiers or others? What was our idea of indians that made us to do so? I, for one, always wanted to be the guy who sneaked in the woods without a sound like shadow and run around the clumsy soldiers.
Did I reflect my own wishes in to that and how, and more importantly, where did I get those wishes and ideas which I placed on the indian I was playing so seriously that I slept outside on our self made teepee in a small patch of forest in the edge of the city with my friends?
What was the image of the indian that made me think, few thousand miles away, that they were the good guys? In western they attacked and were the enemy but we cheered them on. We wished that they would win in at least one movie, but of course, they never did. Why we were seeing them like that? Where we did get that idea of romantic warrior?
I guess we see here some signs of very old way of seeing ones enemies. That is, the romans respected the germans for their military prowess and actually emplyed them as mercenaries (in imperial guard for example) even though they did not like them as a people or culture.
Well… eventually yes. But there was a very looooong history from the first Germanic campaigns to the Gothic Wars where the Romans were simply cutting down the Germans like they were grinding sausages. Eventually the Germans learned to be much better warriors as a direct result of their exposure to centuries of lopsided defeat at the efficient hands of the legions. It was either adapt or be completely wiped out, so they were able finally to develop weapons and armor that were capable of competing with Rome. However, it is usually noted that the Germans at their peak would have been no match for the Empire in it’s heyday. Nevertheless, however crude they were, the Germans were always brave in battle.
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 08:41:32 kind of like the mona lisa
There’s something mythical about NA culture, and everyone wants a piece. It’s an ancestry whites can claim without diluting their whiteness, and blacks can claim to dilute their blackness. While I think a lot people do have it, it’s harder to fact check someone’s claim that they are NA, than some other races.
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 09:15:31 Yawn
“Fake Indians are people who claim to be American Indian but are not.”
Of course they’re not, American Indians don’t exist. Indian Americans and Native Americans do though.
At least forgo “indian” for native american and or aboriginals. Tired of hearing that stupid term.
@Kind of like the mona lisa
‘It’s an ancestry whites can claim without diluting their whiteness, and blacks can claim to dilute their blackness.”
BAM, hit the nail on the head to be honest. Back in the 20s/30s/40s/50s/60s being Native or half was deemed undesirable, something that stained your white heritage. Now a days though it’s been completely reversed, now NOT being of partial Native heritage (or any heritage really, but mainly Native) is seen as dull, bland and not with the “times”.
It’s sad really.
I can’t really comment though towards the “blacks can claim to dilute their blackness.” as I don’t have many black friends, and the ones I do are mainly non mixed.
@Truth
Of course not, how can they be if they’re condemned on a daily basis for being white? In this day and age being seen as strictly “white” is to be looked down upon, hence the stupidity of massive tanning even though it’s killing them.
They’re not happy being seen as white, take a gander why. Hence the other need to embrace foreign cultures to the point of they wish they were them and not white. You see some people around the world who aren’t white, wanting to be white but god forbid some poor bastard feels the opposite and happens to be white.
Which is why no one is ever going to be happy, not even when most of the West is so damn diverse that whites are pushed out. In the end it’s better to NOT be white, and to embrace the darker kin, because in the end whites will go extinct, well figuratively of course. They’ll be around, just a darker shade than before.
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 09:46:49 Matari
“Of course not, how can they be if they’re condemned on a daily basis for being white?”
The condemnation is not about being “white.” The condemnation is about being DELUSIONAL and RACIST … embracing WHITENESS (aka the White Racial Frame). Just ask Zeke…
“The condemnation is about being DELUSIONAL and RACIST … embracing WHITENESS”
But I was called out for “embracing” whiteness when I’ve never ever heard such a term used in my life, nor would I even know what that is.
“embracing WHITENESS (aka the White Racial Frame). Just ask Zeke… ”
So in essence, “I don’t dislike white people, I dislike people who think and act white (as abagond so put it) but is that statement no different then the motto of white racists who like blacks who are more like them? (for example, Thomas Sowell) who many call an uncle tom (something I find childish).
Isn’t embracing BLACKNESS just as equally wrong?
And who’s Zeke?
All well and good , King, your opinion, but, how is your opinion going to stack up against this giant celbration in Recife about the Indians?
What do you have to say to all these people , who are celibrating Indian culture, but, they obviously have very little valid information or any true referance to the Brazilian Indian culture? Are you going to condemn them all ? How does your opinion stack up about my son doing the James Brown and copping the splits in his performance ?
Those people in that celibration have about the same ratio mixture of my son as far as Indian blood…the beat they are doing cant be found in real Brazilian Indian celibrations…there is absolutly no attempt at being authentic…or brining any real attention at the plight that Indians have faced in Brazil and Brazil has a real ugly history past and present at dealing with Indians also.
King, again, respecting your opinion, I have to go back to art doesnt really make you stamp a passport to go through cutoms to be able to express it….how are we going to deal with Jim Maplerthorpe’s peeing on the crucifix foto? Does he offend? Absolutly…is it still art and expresion?…Absolutly
Is writing a book pretending you are someone else art or valid? No. Its done with false pretence, lying and making comercial profit with those lies
I have to seperate that and building a teepee in the back yard and sleeping in it
My son, would not be trying to bring attention to Indian problems and authenticity…he is expressing something about himself that is inside of him and he has every right to do that…in my opinion..without having to pass out broshures or have a big explanation about what he is doing at every concert or on a record cover
check out this gigantic celibration in Brazil about Amazon folk culture…its so un authentic as far as really being true to the Braziian Indian culture of the area…but they are expressing themselves…what are we suposed to make of that?
I just dont really like scrutinising art and culture too much to psycho analyse all the motives behind it…which I consider differant than a media barrage that constantly feeds lies and misrepresents the history and reality of a people
Like I said, I think hippies building a teepee and doing Indian culture in Taos, isnt my cup of tea, but, just maybe a couple of them might go a little farther and discover that Indians in New Mexico are extremly poor and have really high incidences of alcoholism and maybe a couple f them might try to make a differance because of their affinity for them. Having affinity is the first step towards discovering the humanity of a people and could lead to the next step of what to do to help them
So who am I to scrutinise them and critisize these white hippies for doing what they do? Its just not what I would do, although, I did play cowboy and Indian as a kid , being the Indian as much as the cowboy…heck, I grew up in a state with an Indian name and live in a city now with an Indian name…Indian names have always been around me in the Americas
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 12:13:10 Kwamla
@ Cornlia
I wasn’t directly attributing your quote to Bulanik but commenting on Bulanik’s development of it. Nevertheless, I take your point as it could easily be misconstrued. You do however raise some interesting questions regarding my own comment.. Lets start with this one:
I personally look to how they seek to define themselves first irrespective of how I might be tempted to define them. You can experience this many times when coming across various shades Black people and you learn not to make the basic assumptions based solely on what you physically see.You can have a extremely light skinned person who will immediately identify or associate themselves with the culture of Black – in all manners verbally and behaviorally.
Then you can have a very dark skinned person, who one might assume would identify as Black, who through the same mannerisms – verbally and behaviorally – would eschew association and identification with the culture of Black indirectly associating and identifying with the culture of white.
So the answer to the question is not so much what do I make of people of any description but what do they make of themselves. I prefer to allow people to make their own choice then I work with that.
“..I am trying to develop on this following your remark, because it either means that you envisage “whites” as a racial natural reality of light-skinned people (all of them suffering from inherent and innate “unhappiness” and there really is no hope…), or you omitted the fact of self-determination and therefore possible self-happiness…”
This is a good point. Yes you are right. I omitted this last part of the possibility of self-determination and self-happiness. My reason being, generally speaking, when engaging in these discussions about the many hidden and unacknowledged pathological disorders of white people (the topic of this post being one of them) it almost seems impossible to get to a stage of acknowledgment and acceptance that this is actually an issue worth studying. Just like so many debates on the various multifaceted ways in which the living phenomenon of racism manifests itself but can still be denied the reality of an existence.
The first stage is acknowledgement and acceptance there is an issue that needs to be addressed. Getting to this stage still remains the toughest hurdle.But let me make some comments on what I believe the next stage to be for those white people successfully (and there are many to be found) navigating this first hurdle.
The second stage is about owing up to your true past history with all its negative and positive accomplishments.Acknowledging and realizing that the negative accomplishments have been purposely and intentionally hidden away from you to give you a false feeling of fullness, superiority, privilege and purpose. Rejecting this as the cause of a great feeling of present emptiness and instead of trying to fill this with more negative accomplishments – fake ethnic identities, cultural appropriations etc…simply because you can – No. Seek to fill this with positive accomplishments like giving back to and crediting those peoples you believe have been cruelly robbed of their accomplishments in the past. Seeking to fill that void of emptiness by challenging what you now see as an artificially controlled and imposed imbalance in a society which seeks to elevate the superiority of white people over every other peoples.
So yes there is hope and the possibility of self-determination and therefore possible self-happiness for white people but only if they can make it to the second stage!
One other point which I think is worth mentioning in this discussion about imitating other ethnic groups. We need to move past this false notion of pure races. Its a scientific and intuitively false idea of our being. We all have the memories of multiple peoples encoded in our DNA. The type science refers to as “junk DNA” and we can all draw on this to recall past lives experienced as many different peoples. Obviously accepting this reality will require major readjustments into how we ALL see ourselves.
Perhaps if we accepted and were ready to come to terms with this there would be no need for fake ethnic identities or cultural appropriations.
By the way, King, I think in many essences, I am in total agreement with you, I just bring to your attention my differance on artistic expresion because I think its wrong to start putting arbitrary goal posts on what is ok in artistic expresion and isnt…Dont let other people make you think you have to set some arbitrary goal posts because they are over pshyco analysing why an artist is doing something and whether they have some kind of “right ” to do so or not, or some kind of permision or rules about whether they should or not….
And, if we are going to start scrutinising people who dress up as Indians, then, since this title of the thread doesnt mention any one country, it is absolutly anemic and weak if we dont analyse an immence country like Brazil. Look at all those people who dress up as Indians, maybe have a little Indian blood in them, but, sure dont belong to a tribe, they are about as authentic as an Idaho white high school doing a play and having people dress up as Indians, yet the Brazil celibrations are just enormous in size in comparison. The beats both those huge celibrations have are much more African, there is a huge comercial market around the Amazon area celibration I brought in and they sell songs made over those African style beats…and sell huge amounts of clothes for the celibration, Im pretty sure they dont go to the Indian tribes on the reserve areas in Brazil
I just distance myself from arguments that over scrutinize what rules an artist has to adhere to , to make self expresion
I remember touring Germany with a black Puerto Rican. We were sitting at a bar , and he started getting really deep and saying that he knew he had been here before, when he never had traveled there before…he knew something inside himself that “felt” something very deeply about being there, a deep affinity that I with my little 10 percent or less German blood ( I was just tickled to discover German dark beer) didnt feel at all….did I think it was not cool for him or that he should ask permision to feel that way or express it in his art? Of course not, he can take that affinity as far as Im concerned and express it any way he wants…sure, we have the right to say we dont like it because its too aggresive ,or, not our taste, or express why we might think its wrong, as the Christians certainly will do with Maplethorpe…but, I think we have to look at art and artists and expresion in people even if they arent profesionals, differantly than we are going to scrutinize people who deceive us that they are something they are not and lie about it and comecialise it to make money..or media trends that perpetuate lies and bury cultures and dismiss them or dont give credit to the true innovators.
“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUIADOumshQ”
actualy, a comment is in moderation so here is the absolutly enourmous celibration in Partins in the Amazon area, an enormous celibration that people dress up as Indians who have about the same percentage as my son and dont belong to a tribe , and are about a authentic as my son is in what he would do..if my son has to follow some kind of rules of expresion for sure all these people have to come under the same scrutiny
this should link up better
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 14:10:28 truthbetold
@ Aba
This discussion and reading these comments have proven to me what I’ve long suspected:
Whites are always willing to distance themselves from their “whiteness” when it suits them because their white privilege ALLOWS them to do so. When it’s convenient, they use the skin colour advantage for their betterment, for money and fame and for attention.
when desperately trying to dodge a racist comment/ action, they bring out that “Indian Grandpa in the Closet” for deflection. Can you imagine how absurd it would be if blacks did that? What if I, a mixed woman with brown skin, denied my African heritage? Not only would I be branded an outcast but the term Tragic Mulatto comes to mind. Tiger Woods anyone?
The reason why this phenomena occurs, is because of the white skin colour privilege that allows whites to slip in and out of whatever they wish when their discontent of themselves hits too close to home.
@Kwamla
I am totally with you on this. I think “stage 1” cannot be completed without “stage 2” in your description.
Adhering to “whiteness” automatically means denying the negative and the cruelty towards others in the European expansion. “Why do we have to constantly go back to the past ?” they say.
I began to consciously know about my “absence” of adherence to whiteness when (I was a teenager) I started asking myself questions about “how come they want me to believe that Egypt is not in Africa ?” and all the rest that goes with it (including Queen Tiye being “a leucoderm”) and “what does it means to be an “explorer” and a “discoverer” when you are “exploring” and “discovering” places that are already occupied by other people ?”
It had to imply that you do not consider your own self on the same level as those “others”…
Questioning the whole culture is, I think, a necessary step.
Thanks for the interesting insight.
Your welcome Cornlia!. Thanks for posing some valuable questions.
@ B.R. The info you’re providing and the feelings you are expressing are very interesting in the sense that they show you belong to a syncretic society. The epitome of it being the sentiments you express as to your links with the souls of the ancient dwellers of the place you now live in. You don’t possess the place, you obviously consciously share it.
You are showing that the use of “costumes” is definitely linked to “customs” (as the etymology shows) and is different from the use of “disguise” which is the negation of “customs”.
Both words mean “in the means of”, “in the ways of”, “-wise”, but “costume” is positive, as in “in accordance with the person/way you imitate”, whereas “dis-guise” is the negation of the “manner” you are copying. In French and English, and I guess there are similarities Brazilian, “dis-guise” means “modify to deceive”.
What you are describing is “costuming” (re-viving customs in a respectful manner), whereas what Abagond’s post is referring to is “disguising” as in “hiding truth”…
My etymological references are from “Le Robert, Dictionnaire Historique de la Langue Française”, my own translation.
I had this “intuition that there was something there that, again, participate in the deception inherent in racism…
Words are never “innocent”.
Oh and by the way,
in French, we use both words at carnival, but somehow, “costume” seems to be the piece of clothing when it is not worn, in its box, and “déguisement” when people have it on…
Also, “un costume” is “a suit” that men (and now some women too) wear as a uniform to go to work, hé hé.
How interesting…
Yes, the Tainos (Arawak, Lokono) and Carib Indians are/were native Amerindians who lived in South America and came up north and populated the islands in the Caribbean and these were the people who Columbus met.
Before Columbus, the Caribs (who called themselves Kalinya, Kalihna or Galibi) were strong military-wise and they would raid the Arawak villages for the women. Because they were strong fighters, they managed to come through somewhat intact against the Spanish and other European invaders.
The Caribs still live in South America, like in Suriname, Brazil, and Guyana, and the Caribbean, the island of Dominica as an intact indigenous ethnic group, living in their own territories (and they intermixed with other groups)
http://www.mona.uwi.edu/dllp/jlu/ciel/pages/kalihna.htm
Both the Tainos and Caribs, helped the Africans in Caribbean and South America to escape and fight against the Europeans (the Maroons)
The Maroon nations still carry the names of the original African ethnic groups that formed them back in 1600’s and they still follow the customs of the original Africans.
In Suriname, there are Maroons and Amerindians still living in their own territory. They’ve been autonomous since the 1700’s, the Europeans got tired of the guerilla wars and signed treaties, seperating European controlled land from the Maroons and Amerindians.
but currently, they are having a hard time because they are being persecuted by outsiders and the government, who want to take their land.
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/ourpublications/csq/article/the-suriname-maroon-crisis
http://www.lab.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1356:land-rights-of-the-kalina-and-lokono-indigenous-peoples-of-suriname&catid=66&Itemid=39
Thanks for the info Linda.
on Thu Aug 30th 2012 at 19:28:32 Mel
Abagond, I think Taylor Lautner (Twilight) should be added to the list. In Australia, it’s crime. There are people who look like Nicole Kidman who claim to be Natives and are rewarded for it with Literary awards, grants, etc.
Maybe that’s the most insulting part. The real Natives get no benefits for being Natives, but the fake ones get fame, money and book deals for it.
Cornlia, I get that the thread is about fake Indians and not about people who dress up as Indians…
And I want to make it clear, I wasnt really arguing Kings points , I was making the point to all about my son, scrutinising art or play, and, also, that if we are going to scrutinise people who dress up as Indians, Im sorry, these people are doing the same thing. They are the mix of my son, not in a tribe , there is comercialism in these events that doenst go to the reservation, and , no , I dont really see the differance…and I dont condemn white people for dressing up as Indians, I condemn fake Indians who lie and deceive the public and try to make money off of it or status.I condemn a media that in general purpetuates the lies, and not giving credit to the real innovators and covers up other real cultures and just doesnt show them…that is a crime to me, not an artist dressing up,
You see, Cornlia, if we start dogging white people for dressing up as Indians, who is going to be next to get dogged for dressing up as someone ? I dont like the logic behind it..
Its all for the sake of discusion , right, just want to point out again, you are kind of getting hung up on semantics.
I wasn’t commenting against what you were saying, B.R., but the thing is you may not have seen the way some people “play” out their disguise… I don’t think it’s as “respectful” as the celebrations you are referring to…
on Fri Aug 31st 2012 at 05:08:39 Lurgy
@King “They are basically Asians, far removed from their origins.”
Haha, no. If anything, Indians were from an ancient Eurasian group, much like modern-day Asians and Europeans descend from ancient Eurasians and are therefore their own people. We’re all Africans far removed from our origins. Better yet, we’re all primates far removed from our pre-human origins.
on Fri Aug 31st 2012 at 05:11:12 King
By the way, King, I think in many essences, I am in total agreement with you…
And I, for my part, am not saying that your son should not perform his art. I’m just giving general guidelines on the subject.
I just bring to your attention my differance on artistic expresion because I think its wrong to start putting arbitrary goal posts on what is ok in artistic expresion and isnt…
Well, I wouldn’t say “arbitrary.” This isn’t just random rules and considerations. There is thought, respect, reverence, and kindness, guiding these suggestions.
Dont let other people make you think you have to set some arbitrary goal posts because they are over pshyco analysing why an artist is doing something and whether they have some kind of “right ” to do so or not, or some kind of permision or rules about whether they should or not…
I can’t see how you can avoid it.
What if some White artists decided to perform a blackface play called “Jigaboo” where the main character was a jolly Negro called “Porch Monkey?” Would you say: “Well, normally this would be offensive, but since we’re calling it “Art,” it would be dangerous for anyone to speak against it?” If that is true then we must all apologize for all of the stereotypes we’ve fought against for so many years as most of them were portrayed in the the name of Art of some kind.
However, I’m also not saying that every time someone dresses up like an Indian, it’s offensive, but what I AM saying it that in every case, it should be The Indians themselves who decide if the portrayal of their culture is offensive or not. And if they have never really been asked, then the number of people who participate in the costume party cannot legitimize it. If the Indians are, by and large, OK with it, then there’s no problem.
@ Lurgy
So then you are suggesting that Asians were descended from Europeans? Or do you just mean that they share the same supercontinent?
on Fri Aug 31st 2012 at 07:05:20 sam
I think the essence of this thread is not weather some one dresses up as some one else, acting or dancing or what ever, but the fact that some claim that they are whom they imitate. In opera for example people dress up as Othellos and Romeos and Julias but nobody gives a toot because we all read that code. We all know: ok, this is opera and that fat lady screaming on top of her lungs is not actually japanese geisha and that fat tenor is not actually egyptian etc. We can read that cultural code.
Just look at how russians have been portrayed in american films, litterature, tv, commercials, comic books etc. all trough the ages! And yet, nobody gives a poop about that. Why? Because they are white? No. I think it is because we all can see that those are not real russians.
BUT if someone dresses up as native american and claims to be one, then he is no longer acting or playing etc. That individual is actually claiming the whole culture as his/hers, the whole identity with everything it contains. And that is whole another ball game indeed.
Of course natives and africans etc. can say that this is not right in a film, that this is not who we are or this is not our culture, and in many cases it is more than correct to do so. Of course, if any art is racist, it should be pointed out. There is racist art and has been, we all know that. But if I wear a bonnet and war paint, not a single person takes me seriously because no matter how serious I am, everyone can see that I am not native american. BUT if I insist, claim, that I am, then I become a fake indian. Faking it. Stealing the cultural heritage and everything else. And that is what this thread is all about: faking.
on Fri Aug 31st 2012 at 09:41:00 Kwamla
@Cornlia & Bulanik
I agree with both of you on the power and usage of words. But I would say this in reference to Bulanik’s comment:
“…I would go further and say, that those who wish to use the medium of words – but generally do not care too much about words, or their impact, much – reveal they know what they say is not “innocent”, but say it anyway, all the time pronouncing ” it does not matter.”
This is not only insulating, stubborn, and also — aggressive….”
More often than not people use words in ignorance rather than aggressive knowledgeable intent. And even when they do use it in this way they do so still from a place of ignorance not fully appreciating or comprehending their real meaning. This is not to say that people who use words in this way should be let off or their usage ignored. It means those of us more finely attuned to the power and usage of words need not be so personally offended or threatened.
Words in themselves are neutral. Their power comes from the meaning we collectively give to them and how we take that meaning to personally apply or not apply to us. .
“Culture never exists in a vacuum, it’s never been“pure”, nor should it be. It’s ever-changing and evolving.”
“Have you noticed that Indian (not Native American) culture seems to be the current “flavour” to imitate and “commodify” at the moment?”
Yes, now as well as back in the 1960s, I believe.
“The Artist is not a special breed of person!
And, “Art” is not the escape-hatch to wriggle into and slide away from normal responsibilities and accountability. It is not a shield to stand behind, either.”
Art should be free to critique society, but society should be equally free to critique art—It’s a two way street. Artist should be protected in the sense that soldiers will not break down the doors of their studios, confiscate their paintings, and burn them in the public square. Singers should not be arrested and dragged offstage for singing lyrics that criticize the government or predominant religious institutions.
However, artists are not, and should not be immune from Art criticism. People should be free to decide for themselves what is Art and what is not. The artist does not get to define what is Art for everyone else. Artists can use their gifts to pressure societies to change. However, society can also exert the pressure of criticism upon the artist to affect change, if her work is deemed to be offensive, unfair, abusive, or inaccurate.
The right to criticize and define what is Art is just as important a freedom as the right to create Art. But many artists don’t understand this and believe that they should exist in an environment free of criticism, rules, or pressure of any kind.
on Fri Aug 31st 2012 at 12:04:11 B. R.
Here is my take on it….lets look at “black face ” and “minstrel”…it was some kind of expresion…what becomes valuable about it is, it does give us a great insight into the mind of the people who did it..in that sence, its invaluable…like looking at what the kind of art that was championed in Nazi Germany…you can see the shallowness of it , yet, we have to recognise the depth of Wagner
When we find out these writers are fake, their expresion becomes shallow, they lose all the depth that their deceipt tried to portray as valid..
Intent is everything….I already said Chritians have the right to hate Maplethorpe and criticise it…that isnt the question
I look at this debate we are having and think of Jefe, and his dilemna, and here is what I say, yes, he wont be accepted by a tribe he thinks he belongs to, yes, his family wont accept him, he has to live with that.
But, if he knows deep inside that he has Indian blood, what is the only thing he has left after he looks in the mirror and can accept who he is on the inside ?
Self expresion, He can write a poem, he can write a song, he can paint a picture, he can make a video, he can wear something that will give him some feeling of identity, not to go in front of his family and say “look at me”, but, to take it into his personal life to feel himsefl inside . He can surround his living space with Indian art…
What I wont do is hold people up to doubel standards, condemn some white hippies in Taos for building a teepee but saying the celibrations in Brazil get a pass…They are both ok in my eyes.
Jefe would have a right in my eyes to dress up as an Indian if he wants to
Im much more concerned about the way the media has a small group of people sitting around in a meeting saying they arnt going to produce some honest work about Indians and theiir culture and contributions because “it wont sell”
But, I distance myself from the finger pointing pshyco analysis about what people can express in their own self expresion, this kind of arbatrary making up the rules about what is ok and what is not for how people should express themselves
(continuation)….is not what I want to be about
This isnt about looking at someones self expresion and saying they dont like it…its about some people here want to point fingers and say its “wrong” and shouldnt be done…without having really forged it in a struggle like Malcom X forged “black” into a new meaning based on that struggle…What? the struggle of whether dressing up as an Indian is right or wrong? Something Ive proved without a doubt that happens in a big way in Brazil, not being authentic, with comercialism being involved by people who most of them arnt in a tribe…all the things used as criticism of the Americans who might have some Indian blood and want to self express themselves and the white people who might want to have some affinity for a moment?
Its arbatrary criticism .these same people want to judge people on what words are to be used, just out of the whim of how they personaly feel about it, not on some international referendum on it…
That just makes it a personal opinion that I happen to disagree with
And then look at Oyan, who, because some people here took this thread about fake Indians and turned it into a criticism of “dress up”, comes in and sais maybe his family involved in the “New Orleans Indian” tradition, might be an example of that….
When in fact, the traditions his family are doing might also be linked to African traditions and have similarities to a traditoin going on in Recife Pernambuco
So he has to feel that something might be wrong or that it is an “apropriation ” of Indian culture when it may be much more than that…this is the danger I feel in just arbitrarily deciding we have to condemn ” dressing up as Indians”….There may be much more involved than some surface criticism can evaluate….intent of each situation is what needs to be examined..not just blanket make up the rules
on Fri Aug 31st 2012 at 12:46:52 Cornlia
Yes, everything is relative. To culture, to opinions, to policies, to attitudes, to history…
Then what do we agree on ? Do we continue doing thing that hurt others (even though we KNOW it does ?) for the sake of art ? Is “art” more important than how people feel when their own being is at stake ? (Take for example Makode Linde’s cake)
I’m just asking the questions, I’m not criticizing. I think it’s a very interesting and profound topic.
Also, even “art” is all relative. “Art” in Africa, at least in the past, now it is being increasingly considered in the same perspective as in Europe (I don’t know about art in other cultures). is/was part of life, part of every day actions, part of making things… It adds a sacred aspect to life. Dancing was (and still is) a way of expressing/accompanying many things in every day life. There is/was no “stage” or “room” for art, art was part of it all. The masks that Europeans/Americans now keep (HIDE) in their museums were not works of art per se, but spirits of/in the cultures, part of it, and such an important part. Taking them away was one of the worst things Europeans did to the cultures they invaded and colonized. You can find the masks in Carnival, but where has the whole meaning gone ? At least in Caribbean and Brazilian carnivals, there might be something there that remains of the original spirit(s)…
The modern (or not so modern ?) European take on art is to separate it from life, to make it something outside of things. Classify it, like everything else. Everything in its box.
As a matter of fact, they do worse than hide masks. They SHOW them. For instance, there is a mask in the Branly museum in Paris that belongs to a Bamileke village in Cameroon. That mask should never have been seen or exposed, it should have remained inside the “Chefferie” and had a role in there. Nobody except the Chief and notables should have access to it. Now they expose it as “Bamileke art”, which it is NOT. It is a SPIRIT.
Also, a few years ago, I saw this doc about a couple of people from an island in the Pacific (French-speaking but I can’t remember which one – so it’s not just Africa that is concerned here-) who had learnt that one of their culture’s masks was inside a box in the back rooms of the Musée de l’Homme in Paris. They asked to come and have a look at it. Which they were “allowed” to do (that’s where I start boiling inside). When they finally see it, the curator insists on staying with them BECAUSE THEY MIGHT BREAK IT ! They wanted to perform a ceremony and they also asked to bring it back where it belongs. It was rejected on the ground that “they will not be able to take proper care of it”.
What the …. ???? What ? Their OWN spirit ??? No. I mean, this is the type of stuff that gets me totally infuriated. I always write to those people, but rarely get a reply, or if I do, it’s “we have taken your remark into account”…
Here we have the conflict between “customs” and “disguise”, but in another light.
on Fri Aug 31st 2012 at 15:41:38 deepdkchocolate
The Cherokee tribe is run by a bunch of white perpetrator’s who expelled real black Cherokees from the tribe.
I think “fake impresions ” of Indian culture in the media and burying the real thing is more damaging than anything…
Americans have no idea of the depth of Indian culture is on their dinner tables….If you just look at corn and understand how much food we buy at a supermarket is made of corn or corn extracts, all of us Americans should dress up as Indians once a month and have a day of honor , corn is really immense in our culture
For me, it was never the fact that the white Americans copied black American culture , the truth is, we all copy each other and assimilate things from differant cultures into our own…its the fact the white man copied it, lied and said it wasnt black culture, comercialised it, made more money off of it, and buried and hid the real geniuses of the culture…and , on top of that, dished up racism, discrimination, Jim Crow, Klan, lynchings and so on…but, it was never about being bad because white people copied black culture
So , for me, its not that white people want to assimilate some things Indian, its the fake impresions from the main media and the major cultural ommisions that do far more damage
I want to say this , I can say it directly to you Cornlia, I dont think the people who are mentioning the “dress up as Indians ” are being negative, I basicly think the intent is good..I just dont agree, and, it relates directly to how I feel my son can do anything he wants to self express himself about what part of him has Indian blood, until it directly offends or is in major conflict with someone else, and then its case by case situation
Ha, I absolutly catagoricly regect the idea that public criticism has some kind of moral high ground over the artist…
Do you people have any idea how many great artists have been ridiculed and rejected by public criticism , banished to obscurity and after they died they were “discovered” and found to have incredible vision and clarity and humanity in their art
Mind boggling and perplexing some of the atitudes Im seeing on here
Even more reason I give my son unconditional support to find his vision and express himself the way he wants to
Artists create and express
critics critique
the public buys or not
only time tells if there is great depth and something of lasting value or shallow drek
Artists should be free to create…
I think what Cornila has said here accurately describes a clear distinction in the way we’ve been taught to perceive art from a Western perspective – Separate, devoid of spirit or consciousness as a thing unto its self. This alone explains why its become OK to “mix and match” and take for granted other peoples sacred cultural expressions. From a Westerner’s perspective they just become things, objects of desire, exotic displays or decorative appendages…fashions like new dance steps…etc..
Yes this can be viewed as a form of Western arrogance. But its also ignorance too. More often than not when people display arrogance. They do so based on assumptions they believe are beyond question. – The great white inventor – to use as just one example. The people who would choose to make this argument may do so out of a conscious intent to boast and remind everyone of the superiority of Western cultural people. And they may well proclaim this arrogantly and aggressively to anyone who would dare even challenge it.
But this wouldn’t matter because it still would be built on questionable assumptions and the foundations for those assumptions would always be built on the ignorance of what they don’t, or couldn’t be bothered to, know about.
Its arrogance but its based on ignorance too
Because if it were really true and they were right it wouldn’t be just arrogance. It would be smugness too!
(actualy, I have no desire to make it sound like Im addressing anyone personaly on these points Im making, they are points made to the arguments not the people, sorry for any apearance of personal reaction to anyone….Im thinking more of how I feel in reguards to my son and these arguments, which makes it close to home )
on Sat Sep 1st 2012 at 01:28:38 Cornlia
Personally, I did get that… (you were commenting from a perspective that takes your sons work into account and your multiple cultures).
I am also expressing things generally, asking questions mostly.
Except on the sacredness of masks. That, I have no patience or acceptance of explanation too. I think it is ignoble. To keep spirits in boxes or in glass walls. I have no words to express how it makes me feel.
There are two things I really hate: museums (the “collections of ancient artifacts” ones, not the “art” ones) and zoos.
I think they reflect exactly what “whites” / the west has done for several centuries:
– steal
– use
– remove from nature
in order to possess,
make other cultures look small.
make themselves believe they are the greatness they keep in their walls.
If we were to return all those things to their homes, that’s when we would see the greatness of those cultures, the “masks cultures” would have their spirits back and would be stronger (they know very well why they took them away).
If they (the others) were to come and take from whites/Europeans what is great and/or sacred in their countries (pieces of buildings, the bodies of saints in churches…) , they would all shout “sacrilege !!!” but that’s what they have done to others. Others would say: “oh, but you should react like this really, all we are doing is protect them from you, because your civilization is not strong enough to keep those secure.” “Plus, we want to show how great you are.”
btw, the MET in NYC has a room for African arts (mixed with others, which gives the impression that Africa is really small) and a room for Egypt.
Egypt is not in Africa. Not yet. Maybe one day. Maybe one day they’ll put “African art” and Egyptian art in the same side of museums, so we can see the similarities.
Museums are a huge disguise.
on Sat Sep 1st 2012 at 01:52:52 Oyan (@Oy_aN)
Greetings ‘B.R. for sharing. Here are the ‘Mardi Gras’ ‘Indians.
on Sat Sep 1st 2012 at 10:03:52 B. R.
“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4Yt6wpXJVI&feature=related”
Oyan, thanks for blowing my mind !! Ive seen Mardi Gra Indians on video before, but, these shots are spectacular and prove how unbeleivably similar these two celibrations are , yet, they are so far apart as far as distance , absolutly mind blowing ….I hear right away the grooves the New Orleans Indians are doing is very similar to a groove in Recife called “coco”. Its very Afro diasporic . I would say the last thing you need to worry about is if the New Orleasns Indians are doing something wrong , or apropriating Indian culture…this is culture , as much Afro diasporic as anything, that is extremly valuable and needs to be demonstrated…and that is a very powerful argument as to why no one should be too eager to vamp on “dressing up as Indians”
my link above of more shots of Maracatu Rural showing the very interesting parallels to the Mari Gra Indians
Cornlia, interesting take on masks and museums. I hadnt thought of that before , but, I think you are right that seeing them in live celibrations in Brazil is the real way they are meant to be worn , and lots get lost in seeing them in a case…
So just to find some ground of agreement here, yes, I think someone prancing around dressed up as an Indian and claiming to be part of a tribe when they arnt, is what is wrong…like these fake Indians that are what the thread is about
Im just concerned about the situation of a person like Jefe, or my son, who have some Indian blood , arnt members of a tribe, but, have a need to express something very real inside of them. And, how Oyan , might even think for a second that possibly the incredible rich Mardi Grau Indians could be classified as apropriating Indian culture when that isnt true at all, its a unuque powerful rich culture that stands on its own even if it uses the title of Indian …
This is why I debate these points, anytime there is a sweeping moral judgement about what is right or wrong about art or expresion, someone gets hurt in the process
I just saw a docu yesterday about really incredible sculptures and masks from Tibet that were all destroyed in the Chinese cultural revolution, because they thought these religious artifacts were so against their moral judgements….heartbreaking
The Talaban destroyed beautiful statues that they deemed moraly wrong
And even close to home, in the black revolution of the USA in the late 60’s, the great black American art of tap dancing was thrown under the bus and deemed to Uncle Tom and too shuffling and smiling for the white man…this unbeleivable AFrican American art has never quite recovered , inspite of Herculean efforts of Gregory Hines and some new young guys like Glover (forgot his first name)..it just has never quite gained respect again for the high art it is….Louis Armstrong was also thrown under the bus for being too Tom in the eyes of the policy makers, thank God, Wynton Marsalis and the Ken Burns docu on jazz helped to shine a bright light on his contributions and genius to restore his honor
It just shows, no matter how noble the aspirations of moral judgements on art and expresion are, they can cross a fine line of posibly doing more damage than good, if they repress and over judge art and the value of its expresion
on Sat Sep 1st 2012 at 13:39:10 King
But it’s a mirror image. The public could just as easily state that they absolutely and catagoricly reject the idea that the artist has some kind of moral high ground over the general public.
“Do you people have any idea how many great artists have been ridiculed and rejected by public criticism, banished to obscurity and after they died they were “discovered” and found to have incredible vision and clarity and humanity in their art”
Then by who’s estimation have these artists become “great?” Many “great” artist are people who the public (or by proxy, the art critics) at some point rejected and then many years (or decades) later accepted and brought to prominence. But their eventual acceptance was just as much dependent on the reaction of the public as was their initial rejection.
Art is relative. The very use of the term “great artist” implies a hierarchy of criticism above creation. After all, every artist who ever created could deem his own talent to be the acme of artistic achievement. However, “greatness” is decided later on by who the public eventually recognizes. There are great artist and not so great artists, That perception itself is the result of artistic criticism and judgement.
Bamileke masks. These ones you can see. Important ones because they are the chief’s honoring his father. There are all kinds of secret and sacred aspects to those, that only knowledgeable people recognize.
A people in South Africa has similar red inverted hats. The dance is not just “dance” as spectacle too.
The way the earth is stomped sometimes makes me thing of Native American dances…
The ones inside the chief’s house (mind the gleaming white pyramids as roofs) you will never see. Unless they are the ones stolen and put in museums.
I am pretty sure there are similarities with Caribbean, Louisianian and Brazilian Carnivals here. In the way they move, dance… I imagine there have been comparative studies of this…
on Sat Sep 1st 2012 at 14:42:17 Kwamla
“…I simply don’t think that “white privilege” was something an artist like Sinead O’Connor was prepared to see IN HERSELF, or relinquish, because of that stubborn and addictive need to put herself above all else….”
I understand what you are saying here, Bulanik, with an artist like Sinead as an example. She is basically speaking from her own position and privilege. Which is what she knows. So why would we expect her to speak from any more of an informed position?
That can only come from other more knowledgeably informed Black Artists whom she could then take the lead from. Unfortunately these are not widely known in her knowledge of the Black public arena. I have no doubt after making that statement she would have probably been introduced to a few!
I do’nt know that much about my ‘Mardi Gras’ ‘Indian’ heritage, just what I learned online, and from speaking with relatives who participate in the ceremonies. I think, after viewing many of these Black American ‘Mardi Gras Indian’ celebrations, and examining white/white American appropriation of Indian culture, I think what Abagond is pointing out is the difference between ‘cultural con artists’, and actual cultural participants of a given cultural dynamic/aesthetic.
White/White American appropriation of Native/Indian culture may, be akin to whites dressing up in ‘black face’ for frat parties, holidays etc. For example, a few years ago at the University of California, San Diego, there was a furor when it was discovered that many students were hosting parties that were specifically designed for them to come as stereotype caricatures of urban/hip-hop members. All of the white students were in ‘black face’, wearing ‘urban gear’, afro wigs/braids or ‘dredlocks’; females dressed as ‘video butt shakers’, many/most carrying 40 ounce bottles of alcohol etc. The images of these folk was horrific; I think that this is partly where Abagond is coming from.
“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDaS_oBsjfM&feature=related”
Great, Cornlia , love that, love the drum beats , in heavy 6/8…here are some of the direct roots of the influence of West African drumming and religion on Brazil, through the slaves brought from Africa…you can see some masks and a similar beat, with a slight differance
Oyan, absolutly, this thread is about fraud..You shouldnt have to feel any problem at all about the Mardi Gras Indians having done anything wrong or like they are apropriating Indian culture….The Mardi Gras Indians are a more Afro Diasporic expresion with amazing parrallels in Recife , Pernambuco , Brazil, that just blow my mind with the similarities..and it is valuable black American culture
For me, the militant stance that some American Indians have taken, that you hear some of that represented here, is only being hypocriticle if they dont include what is going on in Brazil, and, if they are going to condemn ( which I have read the literature of one American Indian blog so I know this is what they say) someone with some Indian blood for wearing Indian clothes or jewelry , they have to condenm those celibrations in Brazil, which are comercialised, done by people who mostly are not members of a tribe, and are not authentic. Ive even seen some of the comercial musics done on TV with the women dressed in American Indian stereotype costumes with a feather sticking up….and I absolutly dont condemn these Brazilian ceremonies in any way…as I dont condemn my son for expressing what is inside of his blood in anyway that he wants to.
Even I would be skeptical of a white person opening up a teepee, and selling a Shamon cerimony bath for 50 dollars, yet, they have white Brazilians who took over the Santa Daime , ayuasca halucingenetic ceremony , for sure they arent giving anything back to the Indian community…and isnt that the same thing, even on a bigger scale? But, I dont feel I have to condemn that…
I dont walk lock step with just any militant stance that comes down the pike, I dont walk in lock step with womens militant feminism, militant religious fundamentalism, American nationalistic militant views or Brazilian ones…I respect the views of any group and dont judge them as wrong, I just dont agree with anything that comes down the pike….
The truth is, time will tell if people dressing up as Indians is something to be frowned on and scrutinised in a negative way,or if it will be one of those things that has too much grey area to deserve to be cristalised as set in stone…I think there are too many differant ways people do it and each differant way will judge whether it is something shallow or something that isnt demeaning
King, I would never say the artist is above the public or critics, I just absolutly say the public and critics dont have the high moral ground …no one does
The truth is , the way it really goes down is , an artist has tremendous success from the public , and, 50 years after his death, its obvious that his work was shallow and not worth . Its usualy not the case that someone recognised later on gets huge public acceptance, its usualy the experts in the feild that judge that that person’s work is valuable and then it starts getting studied…the major public usualy doesne really care…they arent going out and buying Louis Armstrong records in millions after we find out how much he really did influence all of American culture with his playing and singing…
And, it even shows the value of having artists create works that are filled with stereotypes and racism, that is how we look back and see that Birth of a Nation or Jazz Singer have horrible stereotypes, that make you say ” what was wrong with them…” and at least you can see it blatently. Look at the plethora of films that show the Indians in the worst stereotypes, and this is my opinion as the worst offenders, the major comercial media and the desicians they put out on all of us.
The funny thing is , people look back and see minstrel shows and black face are ridiculous, but they cant see what that is today. Mick Jagger goes out and does a minstrel show , and makes the most money, and no one cares…I sure dont say he is wrong and shouldnt do it…by all means, I want freedom of art , I just dont like it, like I hate Sinead O Connor, Im not surprised she put her foot in her mouth saying what black people ought to do…
King, there is one area that I think Im in agreement with you, if a tribe is in the same area as a school and they protest that there is a demeaning Indian name for the teams or something like that. If a tribe files a petition to have it changed, I could accept that…
But, I just cant buy into blanketing every situation of wearing Indian jewelry or clothes items as demeaning or especialy trying to say my son cant express something that is inside of him because the militant wing of a few group of people make some rules that may need to be taken back to the drawing board and tweaked , anyway.
this part is only a thought of my son, its not even a part of his present show and you can beleive, he has lyrics that will offend some people , but, I hardly think he has to stifle his art just because something he is going to say is going to offend someone…
I mean what if he offends the racist people ?Is the offence then OK?
who is going to be the judge of what is offensive or not? I wouldnt trust many people to be the judge of that who have atitudes Ive seen
Artists should create and time will tell if they are shallow or have something of real value
B.R. I think you may be missing my point. I really have no objection to anyone wearing Indian jewelry! I mean 90% on the jewelry is sold to non-Indian tourists these days for just that purpose. I also don’t have any more objection to people wearing Indian Halloween costumes than I do people dressing up as medieval knights or Egyptian princesses.
Like we’ve all been saying (including yourself) the original post wasn’t about dress-up, its about faking being a Native American for the sake of either making money or exoticize oneself.
The way I see it on the “Art side” is as follows:
1) Celebrating a certain day(s) as an accepted local tradition by dressing up as Indians? Just as harmless as dressing up like an Irishman for St. Patricks Day.
2) Doing your own take on Native American costume and face painting? OK, so long as you’re clear in saying. “This is my own design, inspired by the original Native American traditions.” (In that way it’s not appropriation or redefinition.)
3) Replicating actual Native American designs? Check with the tribe, ask to use their traditions, and ask them if there are any restrictions or requirements. Have the courtesy to respect them enough to allow them to control the use of their own traditions.
4) Don’t allow your own “right” to do what you want become more important than their right to protect what they have.
That’s all I’m saying. It’s really not that onerous, it’s just being polite and respectful, and it doesn’t stop people from being able to perform.
And, Ill tell you, artists become artists because they have something deep inside that they have to say , more than anything in the world thay have to express themselves no matter what the reaction around them.
An artist can not censure themselves or you will not have great art…or actualy any real art. An artist has to express, and that is on any leval, no matter how small or large the scale .I will never ever be a judge of what artists are suposed to say or not , even if I want the right to say I dont like it and why….yes, let the public , and, critics have their say and then let time tell if it has any value
Even more reason to look at the real villain in this story, the major media , since Birth of a Nation, has fostered the worst stereotypes on us all. And its not a fair game .
Where are the Indian voices in the media? Where are their stories ? Its the absence of the Indian voice that sais more than anyone wearing Indian clothes , as the real problem . Amazing how that gets lost to the little indivudual finger pointing and psycho analising.
They will always lie and say that “it wont sell” or some other rationalisation…Its not even for the money, because they could make money on the real Indian stories..its pure power back stabbing politics
King, your post came in after this last of mine was finished being typed….
I mean, that is totaly how I could feel , that what you said….
I am mostly pontificating about my son, I dont think Im in disagreement with you
Yes, I’m an artist myself.
I paint, I sculpt, I write, I’ve even done some theater.
I’ve got nothing against artistic expression, believe me. I just don’t hold it to be any ‘holier’ than any other expression. We artists are important, we’re just not more important. If that makes sense?
King, absolutly it makes sence…and, I cant tell you and every one else how much it means to discuss these ideas with you , and, you personaly, King, who have always been a wonderful inspiration…
I apologise for indulging this defence for my son…Im so into seeing him find himself….I really enjoyed you mentioning your artistic endeavers , I didnt mean to dwell on it just from an artistic concept.
What I could say is, he also has three tatoos , one Indian, one African, and , one Euro ( for Gods life of me, I have no idea of the meaning and origins, its what he sais…)…so we dont have to make it about art…that kind of makes it permanent on that end….haha
I really liked the definitions you mentioned of where you are coming from
Absolutly,the USA is very bad in its history of represion , as dirty as it can get
actualy, “militants” was an error on my part , its because the extreme party’s on the right or left, the more vocal extremes, are refferred to as “militantes do PT ” (for, example)…I realise that was my error now…I forgot the term in English
Not at all B.R., I certainly take no offense. I think I agree with most of what you said, and have learned as much as anyone from the discussion.
My very best wishes for your son, who no doubt will do great work, based on stirring his inner passion. Forgive me if I in any way led you to think that I was not in full support of his creative process/journey.
@ Bulanik — yes we ‘creatives’ must be somehow drawn to Abagond’s cerebral honey. 🙂
on Sun Sep 2nd 2012 at 01:39:42 vanishing point.
@B.R.
As a white person, I thought a lot of what you have been saying was off the wall, such as “YOU PEOPLE” , which I find very offensive…Also, this idea that what is offensive is somehow subjective as an artist, but does not take into account the impact of the object of derision..or whatever you decide to call it..
on Sun Sep 2nd 2012 at 01:51:53 B. R.
Vanishing point,some people like you are trying so hard to find some kind of hiddon psychotic racism in what Im saying that it is almost painful to watch….The people talking on this thread are a wide variety of people, saying “you people” pretty much has no conotation of identity….ecept to address the people on this thread
I sure dont want you to be in charge of who is going to be deemed to express what….I sure dont want to be in charge of that
these kind of points of view only feed my desire to encourage my son to find his own way…you keep probing, Vanishng point, maybe some day you will find somthing that will stick
LOL, I don’t need to keep probing with B.R… as you are too easy.. A man who has not investigated his own racism..but asks me to probe mine..glad you are free, B.R… keep on posting to yourself…freedom..
on Sun Sep 2nd 2012 at 04:56:22 King
That point your trying to make here might have been more effective if you actually waited for someone to say something that was truly offensive. As it is, it just looks like you’re pressing a ridiculous point that’s obviously lacks any real substance.
Vanishing point, Im much more willing to look at my racism than you might think .I am very much in agreeing with what Abagond has said about being raised in an American envirnment brings a lot of baggage.
But , the truth is, the last time you actualy came into this blog was trying to acuse me of something racist , when my defence , mistaking a word somebody said, was exactly what you did, mixing up names.You put your foot in your mouth , in a big way, so, Im very skeptical of your acuasations. Its funny, I cant make a statement without getting labled the opressor. Its interesting, I live intimitly with two people who have mixed Indian blood, and, Im responding to the extreme political agenda that a few blogging Native Americans ( which I have seen but not brought in here, and doesnt represent a national Native American position) have put out there to tell people who have some Indian blood what they should do or not…I beleive I have a right to answer that, and, I have brought in youtubes that provide some compelling evidence that there is some room for debate on this subject. Yet, I get dogged by you and classified as the “opressor” by another person, with a vague referance to a Sinead O Connor statement that I am starting to think was directed at me. Which, in the light that if you look at any statement on this blog I have ever made , I have never once told black people what they ought to do , seems strange to me….
I apreciete the observation, King, and only hope to aspire to live up to not saying something offensive
on Sun Sep 2nd 2012 at 13:50:45 Cornlia
If anything, Vanishing Point illustrated one thing: that people who have nothing to say or not much on a certain topic tend to criticize people instead of ideas.That apparently allows them -maybe- to feel that they have said something and argued on a specific point. It’s a pattern.
The next stage is insults as a response to the targeted person’s reply, which they think “must be upset” (as they attempted to indeed make that person upset). Even if that person’s reply showed no anger or anything, they will find it somewhere (invent it). People who find themselves in those discussions for the first time usually don’t realize it’s pure provocation from ignorance.
on Sun Sep 2nd 2012 at 14:17:49 Yawn
“I live intimitly with two people who have mixed Indian blood, and, Im responding to the extreme political agenda that a few blogging Native Americans ( which I have seen but not brought in here, and doesnt represent a national Native American position) have put out there to tell people who have some Indian blood what they should do or not…I beleive I have a right to answer that”
Keep at it, I might not fully agree with you some times but I side with you on this fully.
I’ve been in the same situations, and it gets tiresome.
That’s true Bulanik. I’m at the disadvantage of taking comments only at face value for the time being. I’m not aware of personal history or individual squabbles. Thanks.
Thanks for the info Bulanik.
That means that we should all try to stick to debate and using arguments, as I imagine we don’t necessarily have time to read every other thread on this blog to know “who’s who”. Which we will never as this is the internet, plus even in “real life”, you never really know who someone is. I learned it the hard way.
on Sun Sep 2nd 2012 at 18:03:03 winchinchala
@abagond, do you have a source for the Winona LaDuke info? I’ve never heard that about her, although all of the other pretend Indians you mention are non-Native. The movie Reel Injun has an interesting interview with Iron Eyes Cody’s son, who lives on the Navajo reservation and speaks fluent Navajo.
Here is some info on White Earth: http://www.indianaffairs.state.mn.us/tribes_whiteearth.html
Hey , lets be upfront, Bulanik acused my of belittling her as a black woman ( I thought she said black girl and repeated it back, and got some strange acuasations, and the 2 people even mixed up names the same way I mixed up “woman” and ” girl” making their acuasations look ridiculas)
I have always been deeply perplexed at this since I always showed the greatest of respect to Bulanik , I have profusly complimented here in the past..she is a wizard at links, if she wants to point directly where this is ( I am not talking about the “woman” “girl” part , Im talking about where I belittled her as a black woman) , Id be happy apologise or try to reasure her of what I really meant…Ive been waiting and waiting..instead all that gets built up is drama…
why not clear this up once and for all ?
Yawn, I dont understand why the person with mixed blood has to take the worst of this…
Example, my wife is maybe 25 percent Indian blood, and she tried out as a dancer at a very young age, for one of the known Bloco Afros in Salvador Bahia.They told her she was too light (?!) My wife is nut light brown and her hair is an afro if she doesnt straihten it, she is obviously Afro Brazilian with ad mixture…
So, because of her Indian blood, she cant be accepted in an Afro organisation, and, according to the extreme political agenda of some small group of Native Americans, she cant wear Indian clothes or Indian jewelry because she doesnt have enough Indian blood…
working for almost slave labor as a maid, and got humiliated very badly for it….Thank god she went on to be a two time Billboard charting artist and even up to now , she dances on the stage all over in places like Rio, New York, Sao Paulo, Miami….and had her songs played on over 200 radio stations…but what obsticles and discriminations put on her every step
That is why I wont lock step with any extreme political agenda that comes down the pike
It seems for being mixed Indian blood, she just gets punished worse, on top of that, she had brutal racism against her for being black
…its perplexing that Bulanik would acuse me of belittling her as a “black woman”, I honestly dont even know what her real ethnic background is…
All I say, why keep some mystery and drama going when we can easily clear this up right away? Is it to someones advantage to keep the impresion that I am some racist going here ? Without getting to the basic fundimental facts and reality to really find out?
I am more than prepared to be set up as an example of someone racist if there really is some truth to it…but dont condemn me on flimsy witch hunt mentality…all we have to do is go to the link where I have belittled Bulanik as a black woman….and I can aplogise , or explain what I really meant, or both….
on Sun Sep 2nd 2012 at 20:08:19 Hannu Lipponen
Hello, King, long time no post…that is, I haven’t been very active myself for the longest time…
An artist, you say? How convenient, so am I. Anyways, for you to make proper conclusions of words said and assumptions made, I suggest you jump in the blogospheric time-machine and read posts of old…
Oh common now Hannu, why dont you just admit you were one of the people who laid into me about mixing up “girl” with “woman” something I thought I was repeating back of what somewhat one else said( that petty nothingness is all on the Open Thread), and then you actualy mixed up some peoples names…you never did say that maybe you were a little hasty in your judgement…vanishing, you too….you did the same thing..then the only next post you make on here is now coming in dogging me…that is trollish
What really gets strange is , you all are so upset over what really is an innocent mix up on my part that I said was sloppy on my part…why arnt you interested in the part where Bulanik is so sure I belittled her as a black woman ? That is the real question here…that is what I want to find out….like I said, I need to see it so I can either apologise or reasure Bulanik what I meant
Why the drama for nothing, when this all can be cleared up ? Ive had nothing but the greatest respect for Bulanik on here, even when we bash heads…other wise this is just little cyber games witch hunting going on
You know , its great when the force upstairs smiles on me, and, when two people are dogging me for what I claim to be me mixing up what someone said, mixing the words up , and, then these two people absolutly trying to be rude and gross and call me a racist…do the exact same thing and mix up some names…..I mean, fate doesnt cut me breaks like that often…too bad its on an internet blog and not about getting me some big record deal
Of course I laid it into you.
You are either accidentally or deliberately oblivious to your choice of words. If you cannot understand why people, including me, reacted the way they did, I cannot help you. And why exactly do you yourself participate keeping the ‘drama’ alive? And why exactly does Bulanik’s ethnicity bother you so much? You are the only person probably ever on this blog to be so bizarrely fixated on something like that.
Bulanik’s or anybody else’s lineage has absolutely nothing to do with her or their arguments. If she wishes not to reveal her personal life here, you should be a gentleman and RESPECT that wish. Just leave her alone, you are getting mighty tiresome.
By Jupiter’s balls.
Hey Hannu! What’s up?
Oh, ups and downs, you know…trying to put a comics project together and have it published. Done it before, need to do it again and in a bigger scope.
Really sorry to hear about your loss. My deepest condolences. I unfortunately have a case of terminal illness in my family, just waiting for the chips to fall.
Nice to hear from you again. Don’t be stranger, stranger. 😀
ps. I’ll leave my e-mail address on Abagond’s doorstep, it’s there for you to pick up if you ever feel like doing so.
Alligators, crocodiles and somesuch creatures…
Sounds like and interesting project. Comic or Graphic novel? Hand drawn or computer assisted? Who’s doing the writing?
Wow Hannu, really sorry to hear about your family illness, but where there is life, there’s hope. Don’t give in to death until you’re sure you have to.
I’ll pick up your email from Abagond. I think I might have had it before… but everything’s a bit of a haze.
There you go, Hannu ( sorry for your family situation, by the way) trying to imply i care about Bulanik’s ethnicity, when I stated I dont know why she would think I belittled her as a blackwoman….because I dont even know her ethnicity….that doesnt mean her ethnicity is important to me
That is really stiff on your part
Oh, don’t pretend like you don’t know or remember what you said in the past. Your fixation with Bulanik and her background was bordering on perversion.
But alas, I must go. This hasn’t been nearly as amusing or insightful as I had hoped.
Just stick to your drumsticks. And save the last dance for meeeeeee….
Cheers, Hannu
on Sun Sep 2nd 2012 at 21:24:01 abagond
I just forwarded you Hannu’s email address.
…Sure ,Hannu, I did say I was curious about who she was, as well as Im curious about a lot of people on here, its not like I have some fetish about Bulanik and her ethnicity…puleeese
Ive been acused of racism, which Id be happy to examine to find out if its true or not..maybe we can all learn something if it is…but, until we see the conversation where I suposidly belittled Bulanik as a black woman, this is all manipulative cyber petty games for nothing….it sure isnt about me being curious about what people are like in real life here….gees, this is really hilarious….we could clear this up so fast if we wanted to….I guess its more fun for you if we dont
Yeah, get me back to my drumsticks
Don’t you think it’s interesting that two white people have told you that your choice of words is offensive, and yet you feign innocence? Lots of white people like to say, “just an innocent mix-up”. Maybe that is one of the top excuses for being oblivious to the IMPACT of your words, such as just recently, you said,”you people” on this blog.
Also, it’s strange that you constantly cloak yourself in your wife and child’s ethnicity, like some sort of costume. Have you thought about that?
And in this thread, your logic was something like, well, white people in Brazil dress up like Indians, therefore it must be ok. That just doesn’t even make any sense to me..
I read this blog daily, why? Because I learn so much every single time I come here. And yeah, I don’t have a lot to contribute because there are so many more here who do have the knowledge that I lack and I appreciate it, even if it sometimes makes me feel uncomfortable or some other emotion. I appreciate that and am sorry if I worded things wrong.
http://www.neiu.edu/~lsfuller/Poems/bridge.htm
This poem influenced why I think it’s important that white people point out white racism to other white people. Hope this clarifies how I think.
Well , Vanishing point, at least you are trying to discuss this….No , I dont cloak myself in my wife and son, their story was very relevant to this thread…I dont talk about them every thread…but, I find some of the subjects here relevant to their story….if there is another thread relevant to their story, I wont hesitate to bring in it up…but, I dont bring it up on every thread…
I have a big objective to not get banned on this blog…Im not trying to win any award for congeniality, to be honest, and I dont think I look to attack people, but, I will defend , at times ferociously.Im not trying to be accepted and I have great respect for individuals on here who I have learned from, which is why Im here , but, just take a look at the BWE thread and understand I dont think anyone is looking for quarter here, you take your lumps and try to play by the rules, this isnt suposed to be pretty
About Brazil, if you want to be a provincial country bumpkin sitting on a log naive to the ways of the world , dont talk about Brazil, because in terms of all the things that are mentioned on this blog, its all happeining in a very big way in this marvelous country of close to two hundred million people , and you could learn so much about exactly these issues by spending some real time down here. And, exactly because of this, I have contributed in a great way to bring the attention of some of the problems that are extremly relevant to these discusions , that would really be off most peoples radar..not that everyone would agree with me, I have had epic battles with a guy living in Brazil as long as I have and we went to war o n here.
Two white people telling me ? Mean anything ? Why should it? Its your opinion , I just think you are wrong…”you people”…there was people I knew were white in there….what is your point? “you people that think that critics and the public hold the moral high ground over the artist….” was the context, do you have an objection to that?
About the mix up, then should we grill you and Hannu for your mix up, I mean what was your psycho logical problem to mix up Bulanic with Truthbetold? Is there some deep trauma in your past that would make you do that ? Could that be that you have some kind of psycho in denial they all look alike thing?
Im just teasing, but do you see what Im saying
on Mon Sep 3rd 2012 at 01:04:56 Cornlia
Blood.
What does “our” blood say about us, what does it make us say ?
Does the blood we have inside (as if poured into us by some superior entity’s counting hand -1/4 of this, 1/5 of that, 1/3 of this…) makes us do ?
Is it the blood ?
Is it the culture ?
Or is it me, again, with “semantics”. Words that ‘mean nothing out their context” or can they *never* mean something ?
Is a person Indian by “blood” ? By culture ? By choice ? By obligation ?
How does an African-American who has always thought he/she had “Indian blood” think and feel when, he/she learns that his/her family has never had the slightest drop of it (as shown in Pr Gates documentary, he himself being the direct descendent of an Irish king) ?
How does it feel when you have always thought you were someone, and really really felt it deep inside, but it so happens that you were not ?
Is it genetics or culture that tells you who you are ? Is it politics ? Policies ? Masks ? Disguise or costumes ?
Is it yourself who tells you who you are, or is it others ?
Do you build yourself against others or by ignoring them ? By obeying them or by rejecting them ?
I have no idea who my ancestors really are, apart from Alsatian, Swiss and from Normandy (so maybe Northmen/women). But as has often been the case, there maybe be “others” from very far too, whom I’ve never been told about, because this is a secret.
I happen to prefer some aspects of other cultures to mine. Does it mean I *may* have those cultures’ blood in my veins ? Of course not. Because blood is not culture, culture is not blood, but we were told it might be.
Interesting how age-old concepts still traverse our societies, minds and cultures…
Well, I think its absolutly complex
I do beleive that the Indian tribes have a right to make their rules about who is admitted and accepted in the tribe….
For me, breaking the media open ( we can dream a little) is the key to getting enough Indian voices and stories and real culture and contribution across . Then, those can become real influences , not the phony stereotype
And, being on the look out for phonies like mentioned here…who write books like they are real and make a prophet
Interesting Bulanik.
When I read “Aryan” and think “Nazi” and “Hitler” it always strikes me how that man CONTROLLED the minds of his audience and people. What did he have his OWN looks that corresponded to the “Aryan” ideal ?? Nothing…
I just finished reading this book on racial colonial rules and their influence on the constitution of the populations of some islands in the Caribbean… It is crazy how many categories they invented to correspond to the “percentages” or “fractions” of “blood” people were supposed to “contain”.
Same as for Hitler, when you how many people were actually the descendents of “unknown fathers”… it would be laughable if it wasn’t so tragic.
on Mon Sep 3rd 2012 at 18:10:01 SW6
thank you. My Grandmother was a Carib. But this word is not a good descriptor, it is like saying i am black, which nominally i am but as we ought to understand, these words are like place holders for information. What do I mean? I spoke about it with Bulanik a little while back:
https://abagond.wordpress.com/open-thread/#comment-134679
“not a good descriptor,” what else do I mean? I need to investigate my family tree one day.
It’s in French: “La Couleur comme Maléfice, Une Illustration créole de la Généalogie des Blancs et des Noirs” by Jean-Luc Bonniol, Albin Michel, 1992. He is an anthropologist and the goal of the book was to try and understand how “color” in phenotype seems to “stick” so well in the choice of partners in generations in colonial and neo-colonial settings, and more largely, in today’s larger world with the resilience of “color” as a marker of self.
I am actually beginning to read extensively and intensively on this after years of thinking by myself, observing and reading novels… I had all those books in my library that I am now opening one after the other and often together… I’m also taking sociology classes targeting “race” and “cultures” to broaden my access to references. I hope I can then really work on that and do narrowed research… To hopefully find some tools to fight the beast…
I have been listening to a series of radio programs on “Western” and “Eastern” (Occidentaux, Orientaux) Jews on France Culture radio. The Jews’ story is so complex. First, before the 19th century, they were absolutely not “one” people. They spoke all kinds of languages, were accepted or persecuted, rejected or integrated, allowed to do this or that, … the French revolution and then Napoleon in France forced them to unify so that the “Republic” could control them as a religious group… and at the same time they helped them emancipate, etc… But that’s only in France. All over Europe there was a wide range of treatments.
Where is “blood” in all this ? Just like “race” it is a simplifying factor.
on Tue Sep 4th 2012 at 00:32:18 vanishing point.
@B.R. what is the difference between you, me, Randy, and a Fake Indian.. take your time…I want an answer but if you are not up to the task, I will understand…
on Tue Sep 4th 2012 at 01:23:38 B. R.
Where are you from , Vanishing point? Why dont you just tell me the answer since I cant read minds and Im sure you have one ready to tell me
Down in Brazil, there are so many words for the differant mixtures:
morena clara, morena escura, mestico , negra, pretinha, caboclo , branco , mameluco , pardo,mulata ( like or lump it , its a word used in Brazil frequently…), sarara criolo,indio, criolo,japa ( yes they call any japonese “japa”)
People arnt uptight about admiring the differant mixtures…its as much a national past time as watching the women virtualy naked on the beach.It would be absurd to be uptight wondering what a person’s background is. They will take DNA tests and talk about the differant blood mixtures , nothing uptight about that
They just past quotas for the universities classifying people based on race. They had to, or the white Brazilians wouldnt have ever given up the power
I lived in Chicago, New York, a little in L A, never ran into the one drop rule ever , I never read about it as a marker for a court case in those cities or a marker for anything..I think its really strange to just define the USA as though its crawling with the one drop rule…
Im wondering if any of my black American colleagues who lived in those cities I mentioned , ever ran up against the one drop rule?
No matter how you slice it, most of the major problems mentioned here are happening in Brazil also…
on Tue Sep 4th 2012 at 02:28:36 Linda
KSW6
thank you. My Grandmother was a Carib. But this word is not a good descriptor, it is like saying i am black, which nominally i am but as we ought to understand, these words are like place holders for information. What do I mean? I spoke about it with Bulanik a little while back”
SW6, you’re welcome.
As a descriptor, it’s not too bad because “Carib” describes your grandmother’s ethnic group, if you are familiar with the different ethnic groups of Native Indians in the Caribbean, then you could easily figure out which island she came from.
the Caribs and Arawak Tainos were the largest ethnic Amerindian groups in the Caribbean.
I believe the Carib-descendents lived/live mostly in the lower Antilles (ex. Trinidad and Tobago. Guadalupe, Dominica, etc). Since there are many Indians (from India) living in the Caribbean, someone saying that they are “Carib” Indian would definitely describe who they are and possible where they come from, as well as their ancestral origins.
Before Colombus, the two groups had lived seperate from each other, islands & territories marked–the Caribs often crossed the threshold to go raiding. Tainos were peaceful (until Colombus came along) and the Caribs were warriors, great hunters and sailors.
It was mostly the men who had travelled up from South America and island hopped; they killed the Taino men, took over the village, and married the Taino women (they also did this with the Igneri people)
“Karibna” was the original name of the “Caribs”, and as usual, the Spanish and other Europeans mispronounced the name, and the word “Carib” stuck.
The different “Carib” nations call themselves (depending on location) – Kali’na and Kalinago.
Like many other indigenous people, they are trying to take control of their history and their cultural identity, which got hijacked by the Europeans and their tendency to re-name whole groups of people and re-write history.
The Garifunas in Central American (Belize, Honduras) still speak the Carib-language but they longer have the stereotypical “Indian” look like the Kalinagos. I believe in Dominca, the Kalinago have lost the language and are trying to revive it.
Currently, the biggest problems for the Dominican Kalinagos are severe poverty, brain-drain, and intermarriage with non-Kalinagos.
There is a lot of resentment between the Kalinago Indians and the creole Afro/Euro-descended population of Dominica. The Kalinagos naturally want more of their territory back (probably the whole island) and want the “foreigners” out of their existing territory.
There has been so much intermixing in the past, that there are not many “pure” blood Kalinagos left.
So, the ruling Chiefs are/have tried to convince and encourage the remaining group members to keep it all in the family and not marry outsiders, so they can lessen the dilution of the group, revive their nation, and keep their heritage/culture alive.
http://zeroanthropology.net/2008/05/10/dominica-carib-chief-seeks-legislation-barring-intermarriage/
http://news.discovery.com/human/native-tribe-survival-carib.html
The Garifunas in Central American (Belize, Honduras) still speak the Carib-language but they longer have the stereotypical “Indian” look like the Kalinagos.”
I meant to say, “the Garifunas no longer had the stereotypical “Indian” look like the Kalinagos.”
Linda, great information, and, with that information and if you look at the information I brought in about Brazil, it looks like we in the AMERICAS have lots of names to describe ourselves.
I would challenge anyone here to go into the names I brought in about Brazil and seperate which names were from the “white slave owner” and which were self identified names. Just as I brought in a link about the implication that some black Americans who were there in times of slavery actualy chose to be called “black” or “African”, it seems there are words all over the Americas that came into being to describe the mix of people there.
This is why it would be wise to look at the whole picture of the Americas before just atributing things to only the USA.
Black Americans demonstrated by their sheer will and self determination, that they could change how the whole country refers to them, practicly eliminating terms like “colored” and “negro”from normal everyday interaction
I dont think it all boils down to racists white Americans labeling and making up all these words that describe people and the implication that it is all “wrong”
People have to look at the whole picture in the Americas to understand the dynamic that is going down
(of course, in the Brazilian words like “mulata”, its obvious it came from the slave master, but,there are a bunch of other words there that definitly cant be described as that)
on Tue Sep 4th 2012 at 14:16:03 abagond
All your comments about mikveh were getting caught in my spam filter because I once had a troll named Mik. I unblocked that.
on Wed Sep 5th 2012 at 14:12:18 B. R.
The truth is, “extreme political agendas” ought to be scrutinised as much if not more than artistic expresions. It works the same way, it takes years to find out if an extreme political agenda can really bring value to the table or not…unfortunatly, when it goes wrong , extreme political agendas can do huge damage, it can actualy lead to death and destruction.
Look no furthar than Jim Crow Laws, an extreme political agenda that murdered and lynched people, put unrealistic mandates and objectives out that demanded people had to follow, and has huge lasting consequences also, up to church bombings in the 60’s and filters into the political agendas of the right in the USA now
Look at Iraq as an extreme political agenda that caused horrible concequences
Look at communism as an extreme political agenda that has caused as much suffering and misery and death in the world as anything. People who can recite American aggresions around the world in great detail rarely bring up or mention at all that millions and millions and millions of people have been just eliminated and killed under communist regimes that have failed miserably when practicing pure communism, the Chinese are authoritarian capatalism now.
The concequences of lock stepping with just any “extreme political agenda”, whether right , left or center, if it isnt well thought out, can really leave long term damage. Where as something thought out that stands the test of time against the struggle are the ideas that mean something, not arbatrary mandates ready to say who is wrong if they dont lock step on them.
What I find going on a lot is some people are indulging in “instant extreme pollitical agendising”…people are engaging in instant extreme political agendising ” about the use of the word black”, something Malcolm X forged in the heart of the real struggle , in blood and guts (which is an example of an extreme political agenda that worked), or about “Africans dont call themselves black”, or” all the terms Americans use” “or America is the only country with race quotas”, when it is obviously a dynamic going on in places like Brazil. Its great if people know the history of Europe, the migrations of Asia and the Islamic rules of slavery, but, if they cant also see the whole dynamic of slavery and race in the Americas and weigh it against a country like Brazil, they are only seeing one part of a complete picture…”blood” gets instantly politicly agendised, and muddies the problem with why certain extreme Native American political postions about people that are only part blooded Indian shouldnt be expressing themselves in certain mannors of dress..
Tie in words like “opressor” or “racist” with these other “instant extreme political agenda” positions and its all you need to not really face what are the problems that are the most detrimental to Indian issues and shut down valid arguments that need to be addressed. Which most certainly pertains to media impresions that we all have been subjected to throughout our lives about Indians
on Wed Sep 5th 2012 at 22:31:15 Linda
“B. R.
Black Americans demonstrated by their sheer will and self determination, that they could change how the whole country refers to them, practicely eliminating terms like “colored” and “negro” from normal everyday interaction”
BR, I see where you are trying to go with this but Here comes the “but”
No, I don’t think that black Americans or Brazilians continuing to label themselves by colour is similar to the Carib Indians wanting to be called by their real ethnic name “Kalinago” – this is a group of people who know their True ethnic identity.
The only thing the Caribs have in common with the afro-descents in the Americas, is that it was the Europeans who chose to label both groups of people as they (Europeans) saw fit and both groups fought to gain respect and rights in their own countries.
The Kalinagos are not choosing a “label” out of thin air or upholding a racial classification system based on phenotype that they did not create.
The Kalinagos never forgot their Ethnicity or lost their true Ethnic name, they did not lose their culture or heritage–they are just trying to set the record straight finally after bending over for so many years and letting history be written by the victor.
Unfortunately, many African descended people in the Diaspora don’t know their full ancestral history – the African ethnicity was lost due to slavery and it’s agenda of de-humanizing the Africans.
As a black or brown person of the Caribbean, North or South America, it doesn’t matter what non-white people call themselves–at the end of the day, our respective histories in the Americas is what now defines us–black Americans are Americans, black Brazilians are Brazilians. etc
So black/negro, brown, coloured, morena, mulatta, pretinha, caboclo, trigueno, biracial—all these labels do, is signify that the person is African descended and mixed with European and/or other races – it is a vague label that describes only a part of that persons ancestral heritage.
Ancestral ethnicity needs to have more of a definitive meaning for African descended people.
Most black/brown people can tell you what continent their ancestors came from—Africa (and/or Europe/Asia) because that’s the obvious answer based on features – but what exact country, ethnic group, or region of the continent—who knows? That information was lost for so many people.
Many mixed-race people in the Caribbean and South America can probably tell you what part of Europe their white ancestors came from because their ancestors made sure to pass that information down the line–and that in itself, is the real crime
Instead of saying “I am American and I am black”, wouldn’t it be nice if a black American could say: “I am American with Yoruba, Igbo, English, and German ancestry.”— since most white Americans have this privilege of reciting their ancestral ethnic backgrounds; black Americans (any afro-descendant really) should have this privilege as well.
Thanks to people like Henry Louis Gates, it is now possible to find out what region your ancestors came from in Africa, Asia, or Europe…by finding out this information, blacks/browns in the Diaspora can then make an effort to reclaim their true ethnic identity just like the Kalinago.
on Thu Sep 6th 2012 at 00:26:32 B. R.
OK Linda , thanks for clarifying …i dont want to make any assumptions about where you come from and by the way, Im not saying all Brazil is in agreement . The range of differant opinions there is as big as the country, Im just telling you about things I know are true , that they did just nationaly start quotas in universities and there are Brazilians who call them self “black”..On our recent business trip to Salvador, Pelourinho , my song heard someone say to a woman …”oi Morena …” and she said happily “Nao , eu sou Negra..” ( hi morena…no im black ) , and that has always been my point that, its not just the USA that has these paramaters of description and laws in place that define people by race…Dont you think its important to clarify that ? In a discusion where a mandate coming from an activist blog from some Native American Indians ( by the way, their total right and more power to them, I just dont have to agree with everything they say , and I do agree with plenty of other stuff they say) saying that even people with some Native Indian ancestry, shouldnt dress up in Indian clothes or wear Indian jewelry , when there are enormous celibrations in Brazil where most of the people are part black and white and Indian, dressing in Indian costumes , making a comercial enterprise and not authentic, dont you think its important to bring that to the attention of people who are willing to put it out as a mandate ?
Brazil is so big that so many dynamics go down inside its borders. Some one mentioned the lightening theory, that is what was done in Brazil. They imported lots of immigrants from Germany and Italy and encouraged them to mate with all kinds of the Brazilians there…for exactly this theory mentioned..that is why there is tremendous mixture in Brazil, it is a laboratory of mixture, many definitions of people are needed because there is so much mixture down here..is it as simple as you put it , Linda ?
I think, in my opinion, what can be learned from comparing countries like the USA and Brazil, two enormous countries , shaped in very individual ways , by similar historical backgrounds , are the things that ring similarities in actual solving the problems , and, what things actualy would not be right for one , or the other, or ,would be hypocritical to have for one and say ,no, the other one cant do that.
Like finding that , even though quotas are bad in one way and can be arugued against, eventualy, the political climate in Brazil, starting to realise it had to make a change, made racial quotas for universities legal in Brazil. They would never do that to copy the USA, they would hate to do that, they did it, because they came to the same conclusion, that to bring any kind of chance of oportunity for black Brazilians, they had to make laws , because the white Brazilians just would never give up the power…like in the USA….
These places have to learn for themselves how to deal with their problems. I would never say Brazil should copy the USA, but, they sure are going to have to face the same problems that the legacy of discrimination and slavery have left in their wake..
Its some mandates that wont transfer, and, those mandates are what are worth looking at , also, to see if they are valid..like how people dress, who they can date or go out with, how a person can express themselves…those things dont transfer well..and its good to compare other countries and models as a referance
on Thu Sep 6th 2012 at 01:03:32 Linda
Im just telling you about things I know are true , that they did just nationaly start quotas in universities and there are Brazilians who call them self “black”.”
Good for them. I come from a country that used to have Colourism as bad as Brazils–it’s gotten better but it’s still there on the fringes.
Coming from a society where the white/light brown members want to treat people based on their skin tone, It’s important for African descendents to love themselves and their features
so if standing up and saying that “they are black” and not mulatta, triguena, etc, gives them a “sense of self”, then that’s great.
My point was that it doesnt’ really matter, as black/brown people, what colour we call ourselves — our real African ethnic identities are lost– so if self-determining by colour gives people a sense of power, then I support that–whatever it takes to have a sense of self –but it is not our “true” Ethnic identity.
Calling ourselves “black vs morena” doesn’t help us as African descendants to regain that actual link back to the continent of our ancestors, the same way that the Amerindians in Brazil are linked to their ancestral lands in South American continent. They’ve retained their actual ancestral heritage and want to reclaim their heritage and what they stand for as a people. I support that as well.
Question: how much are those University quotas are based on Brazil’s classism versus it’s colourism?
From what I’ve heard, having money in Brazil means alot, it can even by a black person into the “white” category on paper.
Having to force the lighter class to be more inclusive with the darker class is not something new for countries that have a white/brown minority ruling class.
Recently in Jamaica, companies were called out for trying to go back to old times–hiring brown (mixed race, mestizo, moreno) people and not hiring anyone black.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20111002/lead/lead5.html
So, Brazil is not alone–Colourism is still a problem in Caribbean, as well as Central/South America.
Some one mentioned the lightening theory, that is what was done in Brazil. They imported lots of immigrants from Germany and Italy and encouraged them to mate with all kinds of the Brazilians there…for exactly this theory mentioned”
I mentioned it to you in the “psychopathic racial personalities” post
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/psychopathic-racial-personality/#comment-142083
My opinion, the “black” Brazilians just need to keep doing what their doing and demand their rights.
It needs to be hammered home to the white/brown class that they also have African heritage but unfortunately for countries like Brazil, colourism is tied firmly with classism. Typically, Light = upper class/ middle class and dark = poor
As long as money and privilege is linked to skin tone, it’s going to be difficult to change the mindset.
Linda, from what I understand, there are definitly questions about racial background, about how the person describes themselves.Of course the detractors mention how so many people can cite black blood in their background and that it will not be fair, but, in my opinion , at least a certain amount of phenotype black people will get through to give them a chance…
Because, if you get down to the nitty gritty, its how many phenotype people do you see at the universities, in the media , in politics , at the gates waiting for flights, at hotels traveling…there are so many phenotype black people in Brazil , the low numbers in so many places is painful…and, prison numbers are high and conditions frightening, and people getting shot by the police, the black and brown numbers are high
And, Brazilian Indians are not well represented in the media also…of course there is as much mixture of Indian in the population as Afro , but, if you look at a novela, you wouldnt know it…and the mixture of Indian and Afro isnt well represented…except, look at the National Soccar selection…that is the real Brazil, and, yes, if you have money and are famous, you can get what you want…remember, Brazil had the mixture policy, but, it doesnt play out in society as much as you would think for the men especialy , I beleive, mostly because of class at that point , but, subconcious things at play in the white Brazilians that wont let brown and black in the elite sociey easily.
Interesting about your article, this is what Im saying at least, you have to try to get to know all the Americas to at least make judgements about how any one country is going about their dynamic of genocide to Indians, African slavery and colonising Europeans
There also may be questions on the forms about income and financial background , I dont know
Im also , in no way an expert on Indians in Brazil, but, Ive seen enough documentaries and news reports to know how they look and what some of their culture and music sounds like .
I know there are some tribes that havent met white people yet…and, there are clashes with gold miners and loggers with land and dam building projects that threaten Indian land
I saw a documentary about the history of Indians in my state and there were brutal massacars, so obviously, the Brazilian story is a brutal one also
There were communitees of run away slaves all over Brazil called Quilombos, and Indians would come in with them. There are certain areas in the Amozon where there is more of an Indian mixture, but, it is with everyone. That is where one of those celibrations I brought in takes place, but, its definitly mixed people dressing up as Indians
Yes , thanks Linda, you and ex poster Thad, who broke it down from the author “Freyre”
on Thu Sep 6th 2012 at 02:15:05 Cornlia
@ Linda, to your comment on the 5th at 22:31:15 (I don’t want to quote it all here !)
I think it would be interesting if so-called “white” also acknowledged their African ancestry in the US, and the Caribbean, where they still live by themselves with ridiculously archaic mindset.
“Mixity” doesn’t go one way, though of course, in a colonial white supremacist setting it was meant to go one way.
So maybe “whites” should also know about their “true ethnic background”. It would probably make things a little easier…
on Thu Sep 6th 2012 at 02:29:04 fiamma blu
In a discusion where a mandate coming from an activist blog from some Native American Indians ( by the way, their total right and more power to them, I just dont have to agree with everything they say , and I do agree with plenty of other stuff they say) saying that even people with some Native Indian ancestry, shouldnt dress up in Indian clothes or wear Indian jewelry….
Well, I’ve worn quite a bite of Native jewelery in my time, including silver & turquoise earrings and beaded bracelets. Have even considered ordering a pair of beaded moccasin boots to wear with my jeans. Never donned the head band though, as the appearance of it on others always struck me a laughable for some reason.
Never had anyone approach me in real-life to demand that I cease and desist wearing Native-related items. Still, I await the day with bated breath.
Linda, one thing Id like to ask you in relation to names. Maybe the Indian tribe you were talking about is one thing, but, are you telling me Jamaicans dont have names that identify and self identify that distinguish color and ethnic differances ? And, here is my point about the names, which is pertinant to pointing out that it is not only the USA that has these breakdown in names, including “black” to self identify, and they are not all names from the white slave master.
I dont know about Jamaica, but in Brazil,the black Brazilians affected the language immensly, like in the USA. Lets face it, there are so many words in USA popular culture that have influence from black culture it would be foolish to think it didnt go on in slavery times also, just like the banjo got adopted by country and western picking.And where Indian words are not used in popular culture as much, many places in the Brazil and the USA still have Indian names. I honestly beleive some of those names from Brazil I named, came out of self identification or just the slang of the language as it developed.
The truth is, so much doesnt get talked about as far as the total relationship in the Americas that the Indian genocide, African slavery and European colonisation have in common. The African slave , was actualy resisting all the time to being a slave. They would hide their real culture behind Catholic Saints, and this stretches from Brazil with Candomble, to Haiti with voodoo to Cuba with Santera all the way up to the black Ameirican church and how some of the frequenters would “get the feeling” and go into a trance…Im wondering if Jamaica has this , the celibration of West African religionous practices woven into a local culture ? I have thought they do but I dont know what it would be called. Only to show that there are things all over the Americas that relate to its developement and clash of 3 differant cultures, forced into existance through brutal conquest and slavery . Things that affect all the places where this dynamic was played out in the Americas
Do we really know the origins of all those names ? Couldnt some of them been self identifying slang that seeped into the popular language ? I raise all these points in the face of arguments that just break these things down as only some white American phenomenon, this would be misleading
Linda, I was typing my question when the other question came in, dont mean to over inundate you with questions
Flammablu, I mean, sure, why do people put out mandates that just are going to fail in the first place ? Maybe that is what they want…It certainly isnt a national Native American agenda…
Well, Vanishing point, where did you go? You asked me a leading question, and never got back..since you had “fake Indian” in the question , at least it relates to the thread so, Ill try to give you an answer, but always when someone does this on a forum on the internet, its a leading question meant to trip someone up….but, Ill try to answer
The differance between you , me, Randy and a fake Indian…
I certainly think differant than Randy, I am not a fake Indian,and, I dont know anything about you so I cant compare…now, you can tell me the answer you already have in mind
on Fri Sep 7th 2012 at 04:25:00 Linda
@ Linda, a small question
Do you have an opinion why “Indian” as a descriptor is still preferred and used as the name for the native Americans/first nations of the Americas?
Of course people realize that Columbus made a mistake – but I’m curious why “Indian” has stuck and the alternatives rejected, to this day.”
Bulanik, Since I am getting back to you so late, I believe Abagond answered your question in his newest post.
My opinion, I think the term “Indian” stuck because the Indigenous American people of the past never stood up and said “hey, we want to be called xyz”
From what I’ve seen lately, many groups are trying to rectify this now and are active in their civil rights.
They would hide their real culture behind Catholic Saints, and this stretches from Brazil with Candomble, to Haiti with voodoo to Cuba with Santera all the way up to the black Ameirican church and how some of the frequenters would “get the feeling” and go into a trance…Im wondering if Jamaica has this , the celibration of West African religionous practices woven into a local culture?”
Of course, in Jamaica, our version of old world religion married to folk magic is called “Obeah”…as you mentioned, this type of mysticism is what most of the islands have in commom that the Africans brought over similar to Voodoo and Santería.
In the Jamaica (and I’m sure the other islands in Caribbean as well), many aspect of the African culture/language had survived and helped to create our culture. Jamaican patois contains many Igbo and Akan words that have retained their original meaning (like the word “duppy” which means “ghost” in English). Many of our foods also retain their original African or Spanish derived names.
In Jamaica, everyone (black/brown/white) is very aware that our culture is derived from Taino, African, European, and Asian and this mixture is celebrated openly, hence our National motto ‘Out of Many One People’.
This knowledge of intertwined/shared old world cultures doesn’t stop the colourism and the class divisions that exists; and I am sure this is also the case in Brazil.
The unfortunatel part, is that because of slavery, with many of the African traditions and customs that we have retained in our culture, the true meaning behind the practices has become lost, example
We celebrate during Christmas time a festival called “Jonkonnu” — no one really knows how it got started, all that’s known is that possibly:
a Chief named “Prince Jean Konnu or he was called “dzon’ku nu” (which meant a “sorcerer” and “nu” meant “man”) demanded to hold a celebration with his people after being brought to Jamaica during slavery — no one knows the true meaning anymore.
Lets face it, there are so many words in USA popular culture that have influence from black culture it would be foolish to think it didnt go on in slavery times also, just like the banjo got adopted by country and western picking.And where Indian words are not used in popular culture as much, many places in the Brazil and the USA still have Indian names”.
The problem the US has is that it does not acknowledge the contributions that the African descendents made to it’s society. This is where the main problem lies.
You have kids today (both black and white) who don’t realize that things like “rock music” originated from black musicians and don’t want to listen to it because they think it’s “white peoples” music. Nothing will change until subjects like this becomes common knowledge and not relegated to 1 month out of the year.
Ignorance is bliss in US society.
Many cities/rivers in Florida retain the actual names given by the Native Indians such as Ocala and Lake Okeechobee, which comes from the Hitchiti words “oki” (water) and “chubi” (big) — this is information that has not been lost, so their true meaning and it’s relevance in connection to it’s origins, should be taught and not brushed over.
Linda, my comment to you is in moderation.”
OK, but I’ll probably have to get back to you tomorrow, I’ve got 1 eye open 🙂
on Fri Sep 7th 2012 at 09:57:34 B. R.
Linda, thanks for that education on Jamaica, it just adds to the bigger picture of the truth about what was going on.
In my opinion, there is so much lost in the slave period about what was really going on with the black people brought over as slaves. WE just dont know enough about it. Brazil is about as rich a country as anywhere as seeing living photographs of what the culture might have looked like back then, there are so many referances (buried treasure , though, the average person knows nothing of this) of folkloric cultures that can give somewhat of an idea. The USA of course banned black culture from developing in slavery…but you know it did develope anyway
“Food”, oh my gosh, absolutly down here in Brazil that is seriously in effect, and, I live with a person with incredible knowedge in the kitchen…my favorite dish of all time is the AFro Brazilian dish , “muceca”
When I was a kid, I had a big thing for Jamaica and Calypso. Im not such a big reggae fan, but, I loved Calypso, and always dreamed of going to Jamaica. For sure the Harry Belafonte records I listened to werent authentic, but, it fed my fantacy of Jamaica in a big way, that and some films like Dr No
on Fri Sep 7th 2012 at 14:51:51 vanishing point.
@B.R., sorry in getting back to you so late! Here is a link to a great essay, I hope you read it is a few times over, I think it will help in trying to get my point across.:)
http://zuky.tumblr.com/post/903970904
Vanishing point…Great, I dont see myself in that, I dont like labeling myself a liberal or anti racist, I dont like to be backed in a corner
While you and the other white person you mentioned think you have me pegged as a racist, Ive already scoped both of you are naive and new to really confronting the dynamic of racism and how it affects black people and white people in everyday life.
That little tight feeling in your chest and anxiety you feel trying to look at the realities in our racist society, how “lets just all be freinds” just doesnt work in the face of the anger and frustration that black people have to feel at the hands of violence , discrimination and obsticles thrown in their path at every step, Ive been facing in myself for decades…maybe you arnt even new to it, but you sure havent been dealing with it as long as I have…and , I dont mean ” I was in the Civil Rights movement and you werent”..I mean in everyday real life in much the same way you may be…When I see you came charging in so sure that I am a racist, when you havent quite analysed the situation or really read things I have said throughout the blog, it becomes really obvious you got your nervous exitment up thinking you had found some liberal closet racist to out for everyone to see…
The truth is, what I havent seen from one white person on here , including the well meaning ones, is some testamony that black people in their life have actualy inspired them to be better people, I dont mean a spouse, or iconic figure, Im talking about everyday growing up life. Some indication that there were black people who they admired as individuals who helped them to grow and understand life.
That is what is missing, and Ill tell you something else, not one white person on here can really define what is the genius and contributions and culture of the Afro Diaspora. Not even Bulanik can do that.
They dont know how to put in a concise tangeble statement what the value of the culture of ancient sub Sahara Africans is and how it affects most of us in the world today..Many white people here can talk about migrations, arceological findings, history, but, they are really mute on what is the gift of how to go about life that the Afro Diasporic culture is so rich at. Other black people on here have talked about it, Kwamla, Satanforce, Wilson, and other black people on here like Matari and Brothawolf and Truthbetold , instead of attacking semantical dead ends, have gone into “wrapping oneself with their whitenes” as the real problem, which actualy makes real sence in getting to what the problem is instead of semantical crusades as though that is the solution
Those are some pretty important things to understand if you ask me. You will never really know what the battle is about and what is at stake if you cant really look at things like that….the black people in your life that inspired you by setting an example in just everyday life, to help you grow as a person, some people you admired and inspired you . And if you cant really see the genius of the people who are discriminated against , and cant articulate it, you will never know why it is so disgusting and horrible that a people that has offered so much to humanity and civilisation has to be subjected to such disgusting treatment..its a whole lot more than “they are just people too”
And, Vanishing point, where plenty of people in here are brining in intimite details of their lives, on a regular basis, I think its strange that you single out the fact that I mentioned my wife and son . Its like you are trying to sniff something in me that other people are doing but you think you have my number because of some words in a peice you read…Even the blog owner has mentioned his situation with his wife and kids….but, you have to single me out…
Ive chosen to be transparent on here, me my wife and son are entertainers and have done many tours, we are out on the streets, we almost got attacked by a gang (that happened to be white) in South Beach walking home from a presentation. Our names are out there and we are in public to be scrutinised and face the good with the bad…mentioning them on a blog like this is not anything that is going to bring in anything worse than being exposed on the streets and the stage and I sure dont need them to hide behind to talk about race
on Sat Sep 8th 2012 at 01:20:16 vanishing point.
@B..R.
Lots of thoughts but I don’t want to derail this thread, but I will say this… I am trying to help you because other’s have helped me..and if you look back, I never once called you a racist….Of course, I am not in a position to help you, as I am on a learning curve myself..
on Sat Sep 8th 2012 at 10:08:52 B. R.
No Vanishing point you did imply am I aware of my racist tendencies , and, judged things about me that you didnt judge other people doing the same thing
I want to help you too, and Im on my learning curve also
I totaly question your analysis of me
the truth is, Vanishing point, you saw something in my personality you dont like and then are trying railroad it into impling its not being aware of my racist tendancies..I dont trust your judgement..and the way you are barreling ahead about it and not really trying to find out the truth sais a lot about you
Plenty of white people have come in here saying black people didnt contribute anything to the world..
Where are the white voices to counter that bogus claim? Where are the white voices that can speak to that claim and be able to answer back on the tip of their toungue what the contributions of black people to humanity and civilisation and the world are?
Plenty of white people come in here saying “this black person did something bad to me..black people are like that”
Where are the white voices to come in and say “no , I have had black people inspire me,teach me (outside of a politicly active racial dynamic mode since you better listen to a black person about that, anyway) and I admire those individuals because of how they helped me out in regular life and just learning how to grow” ?
I have seen political agendas ,rhetoric and dogma and pseudo psycho analysis come down the pike for decades now, and this relates to the issues we are discussing here about the blogging American Indians putting out their political agenda about what everyone else should or shouldnt do..
Ive seen the wrong turns and the political activist agendas that worked and the ones that didnt, that dashed on the rocks and has fallout into today, Ive studied it in differant countries, and seen the atutudes and agendas that failed miserably and ruined lives …if you are in this for the long haul, you better beleive there is a lot to learn
on Tue Sep 11th 2012 at 17:34:32 Cornlia
You know B.R. some are here, even though, like me, they do not accept the “white” labeling, simply they are not white-minded. And I don’t care, really, what people think of this political statement, because it is a political statement, and as such, is subjective. And I *think* it preferable to call myself who I am than to validate the frame of reference of race. Why should I, really ?
That said, an African man (probably Senegalese, but I was too little to remember) taught me to swim. Sounds trivial, right. But, Africans were not (and still are) not supposed to be “natural swimmers”. The people who say that have seen met Douala people. They may have met Bamiléké people who have that cultural fear of water due to the spirits they believe live in rivers.
Sounds trivial, still so. But what is not so trivial in my case is that that man was hired by my grandpa who was the public swimming-pool director at the time.
So in one movement, I DIDn’t learn what society would have taught me: that Africans have a certain range of capacities (one), which don’t include swimming, that my grand father was not supposed to be hiring a “black” man because he was supposed to be doing things like others -not hire a black person- (two) and that an African can’t teach anything to a French person (three). All in one, I couldn’t thereafter be taught that it wasn’t possible because I had experienced the opposite personally.
My grandma (that grand-father’s wife), when I was probably about the same age, didn’t allow for prejudice to enter my head. She told me the story of how she saw her first car ever, when she was little herself. It was in her village of Gouville on the Normandy coast, in the summer. A doctor (first event in the village of fishermen) came to stay at the village’s auberge with is family, driving a brand new car (second event) and the doctor was a French west-indian, so-called “black” man (third event).
My grand-parents basically didn’t allow for racism to settle in me.
All the stereotypes were broken, and that never goes reversed.
And then I learned much more, from and with dark-skinned Africans and Afro-descendents. And it seems just “normal”. Has always.
I meant “have NEVER met Douala people” ^
on Sun Sep 23rd 2012 at 11:59:52 B. R.
Cornlia, absolutly…
There is nothing trivial at all about telling that you were taught to swim by a black person…it is exactly what we need to see more of, white people saying that they learned from black people ,….because we are hearing so much crud going in the other direction, “black people havent contributed to civilisation”, “black people arent as smart as blah blah”…we dont hear enough from white people saying that they learned from black people, that they admired and were inspired by black people in their lives to make them better people…because the hypocracy is unbeleivable how big it is
Yes, Im lucky, in the face of white flight, my parents moved our family when I was very young into an integrated neighborhood , and Im eternaly thankful to them for that
on Sun Oct 7th 2012 at 17:58:36 restlesstextuality
I think this is an interesting post, Abagond. There is something here which can be seen between many cultures, not just between ‘whites’, ‘blacks’, and ‘Indians’. As a first generation immigrant, I never knew my birth-country, I grew up with a Russian family in a starkly different Canadian environment. While I spent almost my life here, there was always a heavy disconnect with my Russian cultural identity because of the distance and alienation, but I could not identify with a Canadian identity. Many immigrants face the issue of claiming a distinct identity, especially when growing up. I am sure there are often some confusing feelings, like guilt, associated with trying to claim a solid basis in one or another.
What is frustrating and certainly even more confusing, is why someone who has deep roots in one country, lives in this country, and whose entire being is tied to this country, why they would claim an identity of another country? In a way, I think this is a viral flaw in Canada and the U.S. (at the very least). Without a sense of true pride and connection to a culture and its prevalent characteristics, be they even stereotypes, this person might resent their own culture and seek something “more interesting”, or “more appealing”.
The only solution to this is for them to be educated about their own cultures and reclaim their own place. I have often met many Canadians who learn about others being of a different culture, and then either express how much more ‘cool’ that seems than being Canadian, or read off a list of their German, Native, Spanish, Australian and three-quarters Irish-immigrants to Macedonia heritage…. This is confusing, ignorant, and misplaced. I think we need to re-examine how we learn about culture, what heritage is, and how we can establish an identity in societies that do more to destroy, alienate, and appropriate identity.
With regard to individuals who claim to be of a different culture for image or money, there will always be nutcases.
on Mon Oct 8th 2012 at 08:03:13 Legion (formerly SW6)
on Tue Oct 16th 2012 at 15:53:47 Cornlia
Saw this on Facebook. I thought it was an interesting illustration to the conversation here.
on Tue Oct 16th 2012 at 17:21:56 Legion
I very much like what he said also.
on Tue May 14th 2013 at 04:07:43 Jim
You should see all the fake Indians running Foxwoods casino many are just there for the money but have no respect for the employees that helped build their now sinking empire.
on Sat Aug 3rd 2013 at 07:16:54 Aaron
Wynona Laduke is not a member of a fake tribe,her dad, Vincent Laduke , also known as Sun Bear was an actual Chippewa Tribal member who started a fake tribe: “…Sun Bear (Gheezis Mokwa) , 1929-1992, Chippewa,
Sun Bear, who was born Vincent LaDuke, was a writer and actor who is probably best known for founding the Bear Tribe in the 1970’s in Washington.”
on Sun Sep 15th 2013 at 01:36:45 hucipher
Do you have any links to the history of the “$5 dollar” Indians? Supposedly when the government was granting Indians and people with actual Indian heritage land and other government assistance(sometime in the late 1800’s early 20th century I believe) many Whites who wanted this government assistance would bribe the government official who was in charge of stamping ones papers as Indian or non Indian with $5.00(a lot of money back then but well worth it)
on Thu Sep 19th 2013 at 05:17:31 Stephanie Williams
Add Jay Tavare to that list of pretendians. He claims to be navajo and apache which he clearly isn’t. He is of Persian/Iranian heritage.
on Fri Oct 25th 2013 at 07:07:02 Asplund
I don’t really get the point of hostility here.
If a white man is 1/16 Cherokee, he’s 1/16 Cherokee. Don’t really get all the speculation regarding the motives of whites with Indian ancestry. I could just as easily speculate that the folks here don’t like whites having Indian ancestry because it legitimizes their presence in N.America, something attacked in other threads.
As far as I go, I don’t identify as Indian but my father does. Technically I’m a Choctaw citizen. However, I’m a mix of Choctaw and Finnish. Finnish is extreme N European genes. My dad’s close to a light skin black in coloration but my mother is the fairest person I know, and I take after her 90 percent.
I don’t really get how rednecks being prejudiced against blacks invalidates Indian blood. I’ve known full Choctaw who have hated all sorts. If you remember a few years ago there was controversy because descendants of freedmen previously owned by Cherokee wanted the courts to force their citizenship into the nation, even though they had no claim in the Dawes Rolls and thus no blood. I remember some full Cherokee being pretty hostile during that time.
Also keep in mind, these benefits everyone thinks exist often have extreme stipulations attached, and mosr of the federal money goes to Western nations who are struggling. Those nations are least likely to have many white or black citizens.
on Fri Oct 25th 2013 at 12:59:24 Brothawolf
Asplund,
Analyzing, critiquing and deconstructing racism is not hostile.
on Wed Jan 8th 2014 at 22:33:56 Lone Warrior
Other fakes include Jay Tavare whose real name is Jai janini and he is persian and/or Iranian, who had many native parts. He claimed to be Apache of the Deer Clan, well, guess what, there is no apache deer clan. Rudy Youngblood who claimed at least 3 different tribes from North America (he starred in Apocalypto via Mel Gibson.lol.) and he is actually from South America via Texas. His mother and sister and girlfriend told a native american producer the truth that he is NOT of the 3 tribes he claimed. He actually claimed he had relatives who died at the Battle of the Little Big Horn and at Wounded Knee! which really ticked many Sioux off. Rick Mora, another actor has no Tribe either. Kelly Two Wolves, a psychic and artist among other money-making schemes, claims Oglala. When asked how she is Oglala she merely exclaims that she just is. Johnny Depp has actually black roots not native american roots. After his movie the Lone Ranger failed miserably he tried to bring more attention to himself saying he would by Wounded Knee from the owner of the land and give it to the Sioux. He even made an appearance down there!LOL. He never spent a dime down there when he was there. Many will say they don’t want to honor the government by having an ID but the fact is it’s the Tribe, people who give the ID. Reverse racism doesn’t work on the rez. I’m from the Rez and can spot a fake a mile away.LOL.
One more comment about Iron Eyes Cody. It is irrelevant that he walked the walk which he didn’t because no matter if you marry native or do all kinds of native causes the fact remains he still was not and never will be Native. He was conveniently asked to remove himself from a room during a National Congress of American Indians conference just before the opening ceremony because to them he WAS SIMPLY NOT NATIVE. The nerve of some people. No disrespect intended here.
on Thu Jan 9th 2014 at 21:35:13 Herneith
We have the same type of fake Indians here in Canada except they are more mundane as they are not famous in some sort of way. It especially comes in handy when you call them a racist. They will allude to some remote First Nations ancestry as to why they can’t be!
on Thu Jan 23rd 2014 at 16:53:30 Naomi S
Hmmm i know this chick. She looks white and is some kind of ”alternative model”. In some her shoots she’s barely dressed, wearing fake regalia fit for carnival. She claims to be 70% indian and that she’s showing her pride with those photographs. And of course most of her fans buy this bullshit HAHAH!
Now, why would a woman who has some self-respect show pride for her heritage by running around like a clown? That only lets me draw the conclusion that she’s lying. What a shame.
on Thu Mar 20th 2014 at 06:36:19 Legion
I think cultural appropriation is on topic for this thread. The following is not about Fake Indians but fake Arabs, if you will. If you deem it off topic Abagond, please say so early.
http://www.salon.com/2014/03/04/why_i_cant_stand_white_belly_dancers/
I laughed out loud at the title of the piece but I read the piece too and the subject is serious. (I still get a kick out of the title though.)
A comment from the Salon comment section:
That is racist and stupid. I have the right to dance however I want. If I wanna swing naked from the ceiling in a thong, you better believe Im gonna do it, and I dont have enough GAFs to go around, so yeah. Bellydance is very spiritual and healing for me as a woman and as a PTSD survivor and I should be denied that based on my skin color? Ah Hell no. End the race bainting, were all one human race. PFFT!
This commenter has a point. However, I smell oversimplification at work too.
There is a sequel!
http://www.salon.com/2014/03/18/i_still_cant_stand_white_belly_dancers/
I have not read the author’s embedded links but the article itself is very good. She says this:
…one person can’t stop anyone from doing anything: White women will continue to belly-dance. What I’m asking is, when you are part of the dominant culture and live in a country that subsidizes the theft of land and resources from Arab people; in a country that supports and financially aids Arab governments that silence and even imprison democratic protesters; in a country where kids don’t feel safe telling schoolmates that they’re Arab-American – maybe think twice before you put on some genie pants and kohl and call yourself Samirah Layali?
it serves as one kind of answer to the quote of the commenter above.
I was particularly disgusted by two comments, to the sequel, that I came across:
blue 9 hours ago
I’m sorry I clicked this and read still more of this writer’s utter contempt for anyone outside her own ethnic background and leanings. Bigotry being presented as something moral and righteous is nothing new, of course. That’s what FOX news is all about. This writer is in the same ilk as Anne Coulter in my opinion. Shrill, dogmatic and proud to be mean spirited and divisive. The writers and thinkers I respect are those who recognize the humanity in everyone and address particular issues without blanket blame for anyone who happens to be in the neighborhood.
Serai1 9 hours ago
I just realized how fitting it is that both the pictures that accompany these articles are of one body part only, and it’s not the women’s faces, as Jarrar also refuses to consider the humanity of the women involved, and sees them only as icky offensive bodies moving to music to which she presumes to claim ownership.
The sophistry of the second comment is so ingrained it would be easier to extract a melted ice cube from a drink than to ever get through to this calculating, icy, holier than thou and pseudo humanitarian commenter.
on Sun Jul 27th 2014 at 20:31:31 Mark Swift
Lumbee tribe of north Carolina is the Biggest fake tribe made by politicians during jim crow for votes ,they started out as mulattos of scuffleton,NC an Immemorial homogenous free negro settlement,A home where the yellow(mulattos)gathered by 1900 they changed their name to the Lost colony croatans ,then Cherokee of robeson county when that failed they got through lobbying more politicians for a casino and free HUD money to pose them as a Lost tribe that forgot its language,customs,history and anything Indian(Lame excuse to cover up no indian culture)They copy plains Indians or anything off tv and try too hard to convince you they are real Indians yet having no indian genealogies ,treatys,culture or language,they all appear white,black white mixed and lack any significant native American Dna results.
Intensive modern genealogical research has been done by Prominent Drs Heinegg and Demarce and have come to the conclusion the lumbee are an invented tribe who ancestors migrated to Robeson county from tidewater Virginia same as all other colonist and their ancestor are all listed as Black,white or mulatto never as Indians or tribal people.
on Wed Nov 19th 2014 at 08:37:22 Moanika
Hipster Racists, Pretenders and Race Benders love playing the five dollars Indian game for rape romantic, exotic appearance points and gov freebies. It’s scary to see people stealing another people’s blood and land. It kinda hurt my soul to see this full level of chaos towards the First Nation. Same way like the Aboriginals and other people caught into the bloodshed homicidestorm. The worst event in my life is seeing a person celebrating Thanksgiving, Christopher Columbus and other manmade holidays while claiming their victim’s bloodline. Same time by disliking them behind their backs.
on Wed Jan 7th 2015 at 03:18:24 b hand
I know a woman that pretends to be native American just so more people will buy her Native American reproduction art, her name is Supaya Gray Wolfe, she calls her business Many Tears, she uses this fake name so people will buy and spend more on her art, whereas she would most likely do fine if she were honest about her heritage, she seems to do better with her fake personallity.
on Wed Jan 7th 2015 at 13:47:00 Naomi S
that is just disgusting woah! there are a lotta people like that out there. Would be cool to expose all of them in public…hmmm
on Tue May 12th 2015 at 19:58:31 bahesmamam
Yeah, I think Winona La Duke is actually enrolled Chippewa as was her father who did start his own Rainbow-type tribe. I argued with him once on the radio when I was a kid. But she does a lot of good work with the tribes and IEN. Her dad was more about his guru-thing and I seem to recall she grew up separately from him.
on Tue Jun 30th 2015 at 14:31:43 Troy Felsman
Winona LaDuke is enrolled White Earth Ojibwa. That status cannot be denied. I would recommend if you are going to call somebody a phony Indian you should be more careful in your research. A tribe that has been around longer then her father was alive. Her mother was Jewish. Do the right thing and take her down from this website as she is Native American, look up her father Vincent LaDuke who is without a doubt native.
on Wed Jul 1st 2015 at 21:13:47 abagond
@ Troy Felsman
Thank you for the correction.
I confirmed that she is not fake and removed her from the list. Unlike the others on my list, she is not mentioned in any of my sources, so I do not know where I got that idea.
on Wed Jul 1st 2015 at 21:27:05 Lone Warrior
Her father tried to create his own tribe, the Sun Bear clan which was based on new age or fake spiritualism as compared to established native spiritualism. There were many alleged violations against women by him and his associates in these so-called ceremonies which mixed any and everything from Plains ceremonies to eastern philosophy.
@ Lone Warrior
Thanks. That is probably how I got the idea she was fake.
on Thu Jul 2nd 2015 at 18:36:06 OnTheReservation
It says something that 3 years after the date of this original blog that people are still responding. First, it’s clear that some people will manufacture a false identity purely for purposes of financial profit as with various authors and speakers who are selling a book or a “solution”. However most of the “Pretendians” and “Fauxchontases” I encounter seem to be doing it for personal reasons though I’m not sure why anyone would feel so inadequate and insecure about themselves that they would have to engage in fiction to compensate but they do. I think some people might start out with an innocent “white lie” (no pun intended) of “Yea I’m 1/8th Cherokee” perhaps simply because someone in their family said so. And over time the lie builds and evolves into a self-accepted “truth”. (By the way, why is it ALWAYS Cherokee when there are over 560 Federally recognized tribes ? At least mix it up now and then).
With the advent of cheap DNA testing a person could *easily* determine if and to what extent they have “Indian blood”. For example the company 23andMe will charge you around $100 and in return provide a detailed lineage report. The price will only get cheaper as time goes by so I expect the fakers to be fewer since people will either have to “put up or shut up”. In the end I don’t care what lies a person tells themselves or what deceptions they perpetuate to friends and acquaintances but if you go public with it and try to tell me you are Indian (when it’s really clear that you aren’t) then I’m going to ask you to prove it. Get mad if you want “bro” – get defensive if you want but if you are trying to horn in on a culture that is NOT yours then I’m going to push back on that.
Lastly, one of the lamest variations on the whole Pretendian thing I’ve heard lately was a white woman who claimed that “past life regression” revealed that she was an “Indian Princess” in her past 2 lives. (not a worker or an average person but a PRINCESS). So she claimed that this should qualify her for tribe membership.
on Thu Jul 2nd 2015 at 19:48:26 Lone Warrior
Yes. There are many reasons for claiming. There is the mystique or romanticism of being someone they try so hard to believe or identify with. There are also fake medicine men who will tell them, mainly white females, that they were native in a former life.lol. Purely for ‘hookup’ purposes or to make themselves feel important. Still many think nothing of truth, only of where there’s a will to lie, there’s a way that others will listen.LOL.
on Wed Dec 30th 2015 at 16:19:42 txcherind
While most of what you said was true, you put in one stereotype that plagues Indian Country. NOT ALL REAL TRIBES ARE FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED. Are you saying that the Pamunkey, recognized in 2015 were fake before that? Were the Jena Choctaw, recognized in 1995, fake before that? No, you are just reinforcing bigotry. Most groups calling themselves tribes are fake and everything you said is true about such fraudulent groups. However, there are groups that are not Federally Recognized that have never had that relationship with the US government, or they are now in the legitimate pursuit of it, that are REAL historical tribes, real Natives.
A few examples: The Kansas Wyandot Nation, has an 1896 Federal roll, they are legit but not recognized. They have an issue with continuity of government after the death of their traditional Chief, George Zane, but they are still REAL INDIANS;
The Mount Tabor Indian Community in east Texas formed in 1844 in part by an Executive Order of US President Polk, mentioned in numerous books (Cherokee Cavaliers and Genealogy of Old and New Cherokee Families to mention two, not to mention the Indian Papers of Texas, and a number of college papers), although known by different names, has existed as a political entity from historical times to present. It is the only group that is Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Creek (The name comes from one of the founders John Adair Bell, a Cherokee, in a letter to Stand Watie in which he calls his place “Mt. Tabor”. Further, if you know anything about the Cherokee during the Civil War, most families that left Indian Territory (CSA supporters) did so for Rusk County, Texas (aka Mount Tabor). Today the group is made up of six families that never left after the Civil War. All well documented American Indians, through the Guion Miller roll and Old Settler roll, 1832 Creek Census for Horse Path Town, 1818 Chickasaw Annuity Roll and Dawes Commission cases such as the William C. Thompson et al vs Choctaw Nation case.
Then finally you have the Miami Indians in Indiana. Although turned down for recognition on a technicality, they are legitimate American Indians according to the BIA and may still gain recognition through the courts.
These are but a few of the tribes still being held back and now discriminated against by people like you. Maybe you, the writer should do a little more research as well to get the real picture of Indian Country. The fakes truly hurt the non-recognized legit tribes/bands more than any others making people like you lump them all together. For the record, there is NO LEGITIMATE Cherokee tribe beyond the three federally recognized. Mount Tabor, although beginning as a Cherokee group, was made up of refugee Creeks, Yowani Choctaws and a few Chickasaws by the 1850 US Census. Most were mixed bloods, but they are not Cherokee only, making the three federally recognized Cherokee tribes, the only legit groups in the USA. No others can trace their history/government from historical times to present as a single entity. There are some individual families that are really American Indians and not part of recognized tribes, but 1 family does not make a tribe. Do a little more research.
on Thu Dec 31st 2015 at 06:30:08 jefe
@txcherind
I will concur that I also have an issue with this statement by Abagond:
The American government knows which are the true tribes and each tribe knows who belongs. That simple.
It certainly is not that simple. There are many Native American groups that are not recognized by Federal or State governments. Some that pushed for even state recognition often spent many decades doing it. Some tribes had been recognized for centuries, then had it taken away from them.
I alluded that it is a thorny issue determining which American Indians are genuine and which are fake, and in general, that has not helped their cause. It is an ongoing issue, and the impetus from Congress and corporate interests is to BLOCK their recognition.
(https://abagond.wordpress.com/2015/08/08/american-indians-legal-recognition/)
Are you saying that the Pamunkey, recognized in 2015 were fake before that?
You must certainly be aware that their recognition was rescinded in October 2015 by an appeal from Stand Up California, which advocates that they are not authentic Pamunkey. So, at least some members of society still claim that they are fake.
I mentioned it here:
(https://abagond.wordpress.com/2015/11/06/the-native-peoples-of-the-chesapeake-bay-region/)
This is despite the Pamunkey
– holding reservation land since early colonial times (some 350 years)
– paying their annual tribute (consisting of deer, turkey, animal skins) to the Commonwealth of Virginia every single year without fail ever since the treaty with the Virginia colony set aside reservation land for them.
– being forced to be reassigned as “colored” under Walter Plecker’s enforcement of the Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act.
– being forced to attend Indian schools designed to strip them of their culture and identity
The Pamunkey have kept up their end of the bargain since colonial times. The US and Virginia governments have not. Still the Bureau of Indian Affairs considers (frivolous in my opinion) appeals from lobbyists representing white corporate interests to rescind their recognition. If it were solely in the hands of Congress, all of these appeals for federal recognition would be thrown in the waste bin.
on Thu Dec 31st 2015 at 15:14:27 Lone Warrior
Like they say when citing truth. If it wasn’t written down it never happened. So for the gov’t’s purposes, if a tribe isn’t federally recognized it doesn’t exist to the gov’t. lol. js.
on Thu Mar 17th 2016 at 08:01:23 Douglas
Add the Bruchac family to the list! Lewis (Haplo: R-M269) Henry Bowman’s Y-DNA Markers:
12-23-15-10-11-17-12-12-13-14-13-30-15-9-10-11-11-24-15-18-28-14-17-17-17-10-11-19-23-15-15
Louis (Haplo: Q1a3a1) Napoleon O’Bomsawin’s Y-DNA Markers:
13-23-13-10-15-17-12-12-12-14-14-31-14-9- 9-11-10-27-14-21-30-13-18-19-20-12-11-19-23-15-16
NOTICE that the Y-Marker’s highlighted DO NOT MATCH between Bowman and O’Bomsawin.
This PROVES that the two men ARE NOT RELATED. Lewis Henry Bowman Sr. CANNOT BE …
… As Joseph Edward Bruchac III’s has written his ancestor’s narrative.
The repeatedly published and spoken Bruchac about “his Bowman grandfather and great-grandfather was an Abenaki” narrative is now genetically proven wrong.
on Thu Jul 14th 2016 at 21:12:41 Quanah Parker Brightman
Response to Pennie Opal Plant’s “Open Letter” Regarding Quanah Brightman. — at Gathering Tribes.
on Wed Sep 21st 2016 at 23:19:27 Afrofem
Professor Andrea Smith should be added to the list of fake Indians.
She was outed over a year ago in various media outlets, among them Indian Country Today.
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/07/01/four-words-andrea-smith-im-not-indian
Some of her work is featured in this Abagond blog post:
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2013/11/02/the-three-pillars-of-american-white-supremacy/
on Mon Sep 26th 2016 at 16:45:13 Naomi S
all of this fakery makes me feel sick. makes me want to vomit
on Mon Sep 26th 2016 at 20:08:44 Lone Warrior
Yes…they should all be proud of whatever it is they have in their bloodlines. We are NOT a club.LOL.js.
on Tue Sep 27th 2016 at 02:09:56 Douglas Lloyd Buchholz
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8yrW0_JXZQ) FAKE FRAUDULENT VERMONT State Recognized “Abenakis…. (DO NOT LAUGH TOO MUCH AT THIS) It’s really pathetic… (Are those real Eagle Feathers on a non-federally recognized Nulhegan “Cowasuck” “Chief” ???
on Thu Sep 29th 2016 at 00:20:13 naomi s
lool the funny thing is. everytime i meet such a person, their hair is dyed black (with blonde or brown roots CLEARLY visible) and a fake tan (to a lesser extend)
on another note. I can´t believe how long it has been. this article was posted 4 years ago and we´re STILL dragging these wierdos through the mud hahahahaha
on Sun Dec 18th 2016 at 21:25:46 nomad
“Iron Eyes Cody lived and worked as an Indian for all his adult life; he labored for decades to promote Native American causes, and was honored by Hollywood’s Native American community in 1995 as a “non-Native” for his contribution to film.”
Lived life as a Native American. Somehow I don’t consider that fake. I consider it honorable and honorary.
on Sun Dec 18th 2016 at 22:32:14 Solitaire
@ Nomad
Yes, if you look around, you’ll find there’s more mixed opinion in Indian country about Iron Eyes Cody than these other people — because he walked the walk. He married a Native woman, adopted and raised Native children, supported Native causes both financially and with his time. But he still lied about his racial background for decades while taking paying jobs that otherwise would have gone to Native actors. He built his entire acting career on a lie and received more industry recognition and public acclaim than actors who truly were Native.
on Mon Dec 19th 2016 at 15:00:43 Arlen Lee
There is no argument here. I’m full blood and no one can live “as a native.” It’s in our dna. No one has our unique experiences as Original Inhabitants of Turtle Island. No one has our Red Road in the Black Hills of South Dakota and so many other distinct issues and oral histories common only to us. Many people will say they were native spiritually…no. You have to be native in the blood. That is where no one can go unless they are native to Turtle Island.
^ I understand that it is kinship, more than blood per se which determines the native connection (although blood quantum is of course among the rules of membership in many tribes). Relationship by blood is the more common kinship arrangement, but others are possible (e.g., adoption). I know of some cases.
on Tue Sep 17th 2019 at 00:29:09 John Holmes
I was told by my mom when l was 14 l had Cherokee blood.l when on a journey l mean a journey.l when from Rez to Rez from the buetful people to the original people.l have seen the young die the old drunk the hopeless faces,the far away look no l am only part a small part but the best part of me is CHEROKEE!!.
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In New York last week I was up early each morning in order not to miss the true star of NBC’s Today show, namely Willard the Weatherman. The way Willard has turned weather into an all-absorbing issue is a lesson to everyone in the land of the media.
British weathermen are confined to small booths elsewhere in the building and often on the other side of the city — their connection with the main news studio is purely electronic. Recently they have tended to break out in checked sports coats and blow-dry hair-styles, but there is a limit to how far they can assert their personalities.
Willard is right in there with the main presenters, sitting at a desk alongside them and often standing in front of them. He is large — somewhere between Eddie Waring and Cyril Smith. He is loud. There is something artificial about his hair, a fact he readily admits, because the admission (he calls his toupee a ‘toop’) gives him more air-time. He avowed concern is with what he calls ‘the Whacky World of Weather’.
Willard talks about the Whacky World of Weather as if the Whacky World of Weather governed your entire life. If nothing much is happening that morning in the Whacky World of Weather, Willard will still refer to the Whacky World of Weather. ‘This morning there’s nothing too unusual to report from the Whacky World of Weather.’
The main presenters turn to Willard if some such issue as the deployment of cruise missiles or a further downturn in the automobile industry might have something to do with the weather. Willard rises from his desk and crosses to a chart. Occasionally he crosses to another desk and starts selling cat-food.
This last, of course, is, for the visitor, the most riveting Willardian activity of all. It would be impossible to imagine in Britain and is hard to take even in America, where the sheer intensity of the sales-pitch has left very few areas of the media free from the clamour of hucksters barking their wares. But until the advent of Willard his fellow-Americans had some right to expect that the weatherman would not try selling food to their cats.
I was in the Today studio myself towards the end of the week and took the opportunity to check out Willard’s bowl of cat-food where it stood temporarily unattended on its special desk. It didn’t smell very real but perhaps it had been injected with something in order to withstand the hot lights.
Malcolm Muggeridge was already reminiscing when I left Heathrow and was still at it when I got back. The series is called Muggeridge Ancient and Modern (BBC2) and is the television equivalent of an unputdownable book. From all serious angles Muggeridge is hard to admire, but he somehow ends up cherishable, like an old boiler that doesn’t heat the water, but wins your heart by the way it goes boink-boink in the night.
The latest episode covered the years 1945-56 and was headed by an excellent Trog cartoon in which Muggeridge was to be seen recoiling in fastidious horror from a television image of himself. Thus was neatly encapsulated the theme of the programme and indeed of Muggeridge’s whole life — that he has spent most of his life reprehending the very pursuits to which he has been most actively devoted.
These have included, by his own admission, fornication, journalism and television. Nobody but a gossip would dream of mocking Muggeridge with his own lust if he had not made such a heavy point, in his later years, of warning the rest of mankind about the futility of carnal desire. Similarly his fulminations about the despicability of political journalism lose some of their fire when you consider, as you had ample opportunity to do during this programme, that he spent some of his best years engaged in manufacturing the very product he was inveighing against, and not a very exalted form of it either. As for going on television to insist that going on television is not worthwhile, all it can do is remind you of the Cretan who said all Cretans were liars.
With those caveats entered, it can still be admitted that it was good to have the ugly Mugg dredged up again. The present Muggeridge was reverently interviewed on the subject of the past Muggeridge, whereupon the past Muggeridge would appear in his own person, by dint of resurrected BBC television programmes which preserve him in atmospheric black and white.
The past version, it became clear, was no more scrupulous a writer than the present one. He got his reputation by bending a cliché just far enough to convince the gullible that they were listening to vivid language. ‘They also serve who only sit and sleep.’ ‘In the beginning was the news.’ ‘Give us this day our daily story.’ In a context where nobody else could write at all, writing like this might have sounded like good writing, but in retrospect you can’t help wondering why he didn’t try harder. The real mystery of Muggeridge’s life is that he must know that most of what he is saying is tripe, yet he says it anyway.
Nevertheless the personality shone through. He was one of the first television performers to demonstrate that all you have to do on television is be yourself, always provided that you have a self to be. It was fun to see him giving Bertrand Russell a bad time, and more fun still to hear about the floor-manager who held up a card saying ‘Be controversial’. Muggeridge’s ebullience, which seems to have grown no less with age, is enough by itself to take the sting out of his message that the world is getting worse.
The world is too complicated a thing to get worse in any appreciable way except by blowing up, but one doesn’t have to be Malcolm Muggeridge to admit that in certain specific aspect human life might not necessarily be beer and skittles. Open Secret (BBC1) dealt with child abuse. Granted that we all harbour these impulses, it follows that in the right — i.e., the wrong — circumstances they would come out, with shattering consequences for nearby children. Tots who die of cruelty are commemorated by booklets enshrining official reports of what went wrong. The child’s name is on the front. CARLY TAYLOR. There is a little picture.
Newsnight (BBC2) had a story on the Atlanta killings and TV Eye (Thames) gave a whole programme to the same dreadful subject. Newsnight had the little pictures. CURTIS WALKER. Curtis was thirteen years old. DARRON GLASS. Ten years old. 4 ft 9 in. 75 lb. TV Eye had the analysis: Atlanta’s official leadership is predominantly black and there is thus a good chance that the town will be able to take it if it turns out that the killers are white. Perhaps because so many blacks have been elected, unelected vigilantes are not wanted. The Guardian Angels were shown being turned away. There was footage of the Ku Klux Klan engaged in military training with modern automatic weapons. Everybody talked about racial hatred and nobody mentioned the inadvisability of making machine guns available to nutters.
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Anxiety and executive functions in mid-to-late life: the moderating role of sleep
Elliottnell Perez, Joseph M. Dzierzewski, Adrienne T. Aiken-Morgan, Christina S. McCrae, Matthew P. Buman, Peter R. Giacobbi, Beverly L. Roberts, Michael Marsiske
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Objectives: The goal of the study was to examine the influence of sleep efficiency on the relationship between anxiety and executive functions. Method: Secondary data analyses of 82 community-dwelling middle-aged and older adults were performed (M age = 63.00, SD = 8.64). Anxiety was measured using the trait anxiety subscale of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. Sleep efficiency was measured using one-week of sleep diary data. Two executive functions, cognitive flexibility and inductive reasoning, were measured using the Trail-Making Test and Letter Series task, respectively. SPSS PROCESS macro software version 2 was used to assess the moderating role of sleep efficiency in the relationship between anxiety and executive functions. Results: Sleep significantly moderated the relationship between anxiety and inductive reasoning. Among middle-aged and older adults with high anxiety, those with good sleep efficiency displayed significantly better inductive reasoning than those with poor sleep efficiency after controlling for age, gender, and education (ΔR2 =.05, p =.017). Sleep efficiency did not significantly moderate the relationship between anxiety and cognitive flexibility. Conclusion: Sleep efficiency weakened the association between anxiety and inductive reasoning in middle-aged and older adults. Evidence from the study suggests better sleep may limit the negative effects of anxiety on executive functions in mid-to-late life. Further research is needed to elucidate the impact of anxiety and sleep on executive functions in clinical populations with anxiety.
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Perez, E., Dzierzewski, J. M., Aiken-Morgan, A. T., McCrae, C. S., Buman, M. P., Giacobbi, P. R., Roberts, B. L., & Marsiske, M. (2020). Anxiety and executive functions in mid-to-late life: the moderating role of sleep. Aging and Mental Health, 24(9), 1459-1465. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2019.1663492
Anxiety and executive functions in mid-to-late life : the moderating role of sleep. / Perez, Elliottnell; Dzierzewski, Joseph M.; Aiken-Morgan, Adrienne T.; McCrae, Christina S.; Buman, Matthew P.; Giacobbi, Peter R.; Roberts, Beverly L.; Marsiske, Michael.
In: Aging and Mental Health, Vol. 24, No. 9, 01.09.2020, p. 1459-1465.
Perez, E, Dzierzewski, JM, Aiken-Morgan, AT, McCrae, CS, Buman, MP, Giacobbi, PR, Roberts, BL & Marsiske, M 2020, 'Anxiety and executive functions in mid-to-late life: the moderating role of sleep', Aging and Mental Health, vol. 24, no. 9, pp. 1459-1465. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2019.1663492
Perez E, Dzierzewski JM, Aiken-Morgan AT, McCrae CS, Buman MP, Giacobbi PR et al. Anxiety and executive functions in mid-to-late life: the moderating role of sleep. Aging and Mental Health. 2020 Sep 1;24(9):1459-1465. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2019.1663492
Perez, Elliottnell ; Dzierzewski, Joseph M. ; Aiken-Morgan, Adrienne T. ; McCrae, Christina S. ; Buman, Matthew P. ; Giacobbi, Peter R. ; Roberts, Beverly L. ; Marsiske, Michael. / Anxiety and executive functions in mid-to-late life : the moderating role of sleep. In: Aging and Mental Health. 2020 ; Vol. 24, No. 9. pp. 1459-1465.
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"There is no place like Louisiana on this earth, and I think that when my days are over, I’ll find heaven to be no different from Louisiana – maybe a little bit cooler in the summer. "
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The Louisiana elections are now history. Governor John Bel Edwards bested businessman Eddie Rispone and indirectly President Donald Trump who campaigned heavily for the Republican candidate.
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As both the decade and the 2019 election cycle comes to a close, JMC would like to analyze the results through the prism of the December 2002 runoff that saw Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu re-elected, as there are similarities between that race and Governor John Bel Edwards’ successful re-election race (that comparison was also made in this prior article).
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Man seen wielding two large knives in East Vancouver now in custody on breach of court order
Allison Hurst Multi-Skilled Journalist, CTV News Vancouver
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Published Thursday, November 26, 2020 6:31AM PST Last Updated Thursday, November 26, 2020 8:20PM PST
VANCOUVER -- A man recorded on a doorbell camera with two large knives that appear to be a machete and meat cleaver is in custody, according to the Vancouver Police Department.
“We have had dealings with him in the past,” said VPD spokesperson Const. Tania Visintin.
She said there were three different 911 calls Wednesday, from three separate homes, reporting a suspicious man wandering around the neighbourhood near Rupert Street and 41st Avenue, carrying large knives.
When he was taken into custody, he didn’t have any weapons and “was no longer posing a threat to the public,” Visintin said, adding that officers took him home. A few hours later, he was back in custody.
“The same man walked into the Vancouver court community corrections office, where he was found to be breaching his court ordered conditions,” Visintin said. “He’s in custody, remaining in jail until his next court date.”
“It’s not uncommon that we release people pending further investigation,” she added.
Thursday afternoon, while raking her yard, 79-year-old Rajinder Garcha came across two large knives sticking up out of her flower pots. She lives just two doors away from the home that captured the video.
“I saw the knife and my body shake, and I say forget the (leaves),” she told CTV News.
The knives were stuck in her two flower pots in her front yard. She immediately called her daughter.
"I go, ‘If you think it was knives, why’d you touch it? Maybe we need to call the police,’” said her daughter, Angela Bhagria.
They did, and officers picked up the knives late Wednesday. Bhagria said she was baffled that police hadn’t seen the knives sooner, since the pots are visible from the sidewalk.
“I think they should have just checked a couple of houses, you know, two or three houses to see if there’s anything they can find. But I guess they didn’t,” she said.
The man remains in custody and police say their investigation is ongoing.
A man recorded on a doorbell camera with two large knives that appear to be a machete and meat cleaver is in custody, according to the Vancouver Police Department.
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Vancouver pop choir's new pandemic parody video gives Mariah Carey some Christmas competition
David Molko Senior Reporter, CTV News Vancouver
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Published Wednesday, December 2, 2020 6:54PM PST Last Updated Wednesday, December 2, 2020 7:18PM PST
VANCOUVER -- Mariah Carey glammed it up with countless costume changes, a Rockette-like pyramid of peppermint-wielding backup dancers, and plenty of children with Christmas twinkles in their eyes.
But now, last season’s glittery music video revamp for her 1994 Christmas hit “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” has some competition from a Vancouver pop choir.
Of course, given it’s 2020, that means the performance, or rather, the 70+ performances are all virtual.
“With COVID everything changed,” said Rebecca Lam, the co-founder and creative director of Vancouver-based Chorus Studio. “Singing is now a dangerous activity."
So for the last two months, the members of YVR Pop Choir, which has gone virtual during the pandemic, have written, recorded, and pieced together a clever, parody version of “All I Want…” with the signature chorus line transformed to “I will social distance from you.”
“Our message is wear a mask. Socially distance. And spread joy this Christmas, not the coronavirus,” Lam said.
And the group has managed to walk a fine line between that serious message, and its other goal: sparking joy.
For example, they’ve re-written most of lyrics:
“I don't need to hang my stocking - There upon the fireplace - Santa Claus won't make me happy - With a toy on Christmas Day.”
The verse has now become decidedly PG-13, bleeping and asterisks included:
“I won't even hang my stocking - I've boarded up my fireplace – Santa you're a super-spreader - Get the f*** out of my face.”
And the song’s iconic bridge, which used to be “All the lights are shining so brightly everywhere,” now reads:
“All of 2020 has been a steaming dump,” with toilets and poop emoji included.
Bathroom humor aside, including some scenes of running out of toilet paper, and championing lazing in front of the TV with no pants, the singers who make up YVR Pop Choir say their message is sincere.
“I just want to bend the curve, for the people that I “lurve,” said member Nastassja Dortich, referencing one of the lines. “We love each other and we love our community, and we want to keep people safe,” Dortich said.
Samantha Wyer said she finds singing helps burn stress no matter what kind of day (or year) she’s had, and she wanted the song “to rejuvenate people or give people hope.”
And Cynara Geissler, who features prominently throughout the video, said the message was about putting people, including those you don’t know, first.
Physical distancing aside, the members of YVR Pop Choir, which include nurses, doctors, and even a firefighter, mostly between the ages of 25-45, said making the video has brought them closer.
“It was hilarious just to have this creative project that we all got to do individually and collectively, said Dorotich.
Chandra Chisholm added: “It’s such a tiring and sad and scary time. I think people just want little moments of joy.”
And in that spirit, CTV News asked Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.’s provincial health officer, what she wanted for Christmas.
Henry laughed, then said “for this to be over,” before turning to a more serious request for everybody to stay home, “so that we can get through to the next year.”
“Thank you for not asking me to sing,” Henry said, when told about the virtual choir, “because it would be horrific. It’s not one of my skills!” she quipped.
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Are Komodo dragons' mouths deadlier than cobras' venom?
Komodo Dragon Teeth: The Deadliest Bite?
A Komodo dragon runs on Komodo Island, Indonesia.
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With nearly 60 teeth, serrated like a shark's and about 0.4 inches (1 centimeter) long, the Komodo dragon is a brutal predator. The real brilliance in the Komodo's system, though, lies in the guarantee of a meal.
An animal that doesn't die in the actual attack will almost always die within a few days. The Komodo waits patiently, following it for miles in a leisurely fashion, and then locates the dead animal by its smell. Like most lizards -- and snakes, for that matter -- Komodo dragons have a very good sense of smell. But it's not the kind of smell most of us are familiar with. Like a snake, a Komodo "smells" by collecting air with its forked tongue and then depositing it on receptors on the roof of its mouth. Using this method, it can detect a dead animal up to 5 miles (8 kilometers) off [source: Honolulu Zoo].
Why, exactly, an animal dies after the fact is a subject of some debate.
Until recently, scientists were sure that it was a Komodo dragon's oral bacteria that killed the prey within days after an attack. It's a very good explanation. A Komodo dragon's saliva can contain anywhere from 50 to 80 different bacteria [sources: National Geographic, BBC News]. With that much deadly bacteria entering the bloodstream through a bite, bacterial infection and death are guaranteed. But recent research suggests there may be another possibility as well.
In 2005, scientists concluded that komodo dragons (actually all monitor lizards, as well as iguanas) produce venom, not just a deadly supply of bacteria [source: New Scientist]. Venom is a toxin that's secreted by special glands and injected into an animal by a bite or sting. The researchers started looking specifically for venom in Komodos because they believed it was unlikely a bacterial infection could kill an animal in as little as a day or two. Now that at least one study has concluded that there's venom suspended in Komodo saliva, some believe this venom, and not a powerful bacterial cocktail, is what makes Komodos so reliably lethal.
Which brings us back to the question: cobra or Komodo? The comparison is kind of like pitting Alien against Predator -- it only works in the movies. And even in the 2005 B-movie "Komodo vs. Cobra," you don't find out who wins. Which bite is more potent is fairly clear: A Komodo bite will kill an animal within several days, while an animal bitten by a cobra only lives for a few minutes [source: National Geographic]. But a Komodo dragon's mouth is still undeniably fatal.
Komodo dragons, like cobras, are immune to their own poison. Like all biological defenses, this has possible applications in medical research. If scientists can find the antibody in Komodo blood that renders it immune to its own bacterial cocktail, it could lead to a new class of hardcore antibiotics.
In 2004, scientists discovered the antibody in cobras that blocks the effects of cobra venom. They believe that understanding how the venom receptors are blocked in these animals could lead to improved treatments for heart attacks, strokes and cancer [source: National Geographic].
For more information on Komodo dragons and related topics, prowl through the links below.
A Komodo dragon only leaves about 10 percent of its prey uneaten. For comparison, a lion usually leaves about 30 percent behind [source: Smithsonian]. In addition to the usual parts (and the not-so-usual parts, like intestines) it also swallows hair, bone, hooves and horns. It can’t even digest that stuff. So what happens to it? After a meal, the dragon coughs it up in a disgusting-smelling ball known as the gastric pellet.
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BBC News: How dangerous is a komodo dragon? - June 9, 2008.
National Geographic: Komodo Dragon
Smithsonian National Zoological Park: Komodo Dragon
Cobra Venom. National Geographic. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/02/0220_040220_TVcobra.html
How dangerous is a komodo dragon? BBC News. June 9, 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7443648.stm
Komodo Dragon. Enchanted Learning. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/reptiles/lizard/Komodoprintout.shtml
Komodo Dragon. Honolulu Zoo. http://www.honoluluzoo.org/komodo_dragon.htm
Komodo Dragon. National Geographic. http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/reptiles/komodo-dragon.html
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BEPPLE – Time for some fresh faces on our currency; who should it be?
Posted on July 17, 2019 in Bepple, Local Voices, Page One // 2 Comments
Britain’s new Alan Turing £5 note.
THIS WEEK’S ANNOUNCEMENT by Britain that their £50 note would bear the likeness of Alan Turing was heartening for so many reasons.
Turing was an extraordinary mathematician. His concepts are some of the underpinning of software and computing science, upon which so much of our modern world depends. His ideas are studied to this day around the world by budding software programmers.
Within his own lifetime, he was a key player in cracking enemy codes during World War II.
He is also remembered by many for the persecution he endured and the criminal conviction and imprisonment he received in 1952 for being gay. He died by suicide two years later in 1954.
From helping the war effort, to standing up for his own rights, he has a place on the British £50 note. A fitting tribute.
Two weeks earlier in the first week of July, all the Bank of Canada could do was issue a warning to people to stop defacing the $5 Laurier Canadian banknote with the likeness of Spock from Star Trek. An announcement not quite as stirring as Britain’s news this week.
It got me thinking as to how Canada stacks up with other countries on who we depict on our money.
We do have Viola Desmond on our $10 bill, giving recognition to her fight against racial segregation in Nova Scotia in the 1950s.
Other than that, though, the faces on the current issues of our money are politicians, more politicians, and the Queen. There is Prime Minister Wilfred Laurier (aka Spock) on our $5 banknote. John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first prime minister, is on the $10. Queen Elizabeth II is on the $20 bill. Prime Minister Mackenzie King is on the $50, and Prime Minister Borden is on the $100.
Countries around the world depict a range of people on their banknotes.
For example, Denmark has a painter, a Nobel Laureate, and an author. Czech Republic has an economist, writer and historian. Japan has a scientist, an author, and an industrialist. Both Denmark and Japan have monarchs, but they are not the figures on their banknotes.
New Zealand includes a Maori leader, a suffragette, and a physicist, plus one bill with Queen Elizabeth II.
Canada’s $5 Spock note.
There are some countries that favor monarchs and politicians on their banknotes. Pakistan portrays its governor general, and Mozambique depicts a previous prime minister. All but one of Nigeria’s notes depict politicians. Bhutan depicts past and current monarchs, as does Swaziland.
For myself, I favor the path of New Zealand and Japan, where recognition is paid to a range of achievements, rather than favoring royalty and politicians above all others.
So if we were to do away with dead politicians and monarchs on Canadian currency, who should be on our currency instead?
For arts and culture, Emily Carr, Pauline Johnson, Chief Dan George, Tom Thompson are possible figures. There’s also singer and poet Leonard Cohen, pianist Oscar Peterson, and writers Gabrielle Roy and Richard Wagamese.
In the field of science and medicine there’s Alexander Bell for inventing the telephone. Also Charles Herbert Best, and Frederick Banting who discovered insulin, or Ursula Franklin, a physicist who discovered ways of time-dating fossils, as well as being an activist for human rights.
Metis leader Louis Riel, runner Terry Fox, humanitarian Jean Vanier and suffragette Nellie McClung and Mary Shadd Cary, the first black newspaper editor in North America all are deserving of recognition.
This list is by no means complete, but more to illustrate that there are many in Canada beyond dead prime ministers and current monarchs who are worthy of recognition.
It’s clear that people have grown weary of Laurier on our $5 bill. It’s time that the Bank of Canada boldly goes where they have not gone before. It’s time for fresh faces on our currency, not just penned in depictions of Star Wars’ Spock.
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Grouchy 1 // July 17, 2019 at 4:24 PM // Reply
Honestly, who really cares ?
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Guide to art scene Tel Aviv, Israel – New York Times
Posted by artradar on November 17, 2008
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ART CITY ISRAEL
While Jerusalem is home to Israel’s major museums, Tel Aviv is its contemporary arts capital. It is a livelier, more progressive city, where young artists live, work and show their wares in more than 30 contemporary galleries, a third of which opened in the last two years.
Unlike art hubs like Berlin or even Dubai, Tel Aviv still feels intimate and undiscovered says The New York Times . Moreover, the emerging art displays a strength and seriousness that is undoubtedly informed by Israel’s entrenched contradictions and intractable conflicts. Art in this beachside city, it seems, stands for something.
“In Tel Aviv, it feels like every conversation, gesture, project and event has a sense of meaning to it that I’ve never felt in such concentration elsewhere,” said Shamim Momin, a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, who visited Tel Aviv for Art TLV. “Yet at the same time this place feels remarkably joyful and — dare I say — decadently laid back.”
But one thing the city’s art boosters are not laid back about is their plan to make Tel Aviv’s art scene, and Israeli artists in general, known to the world. Art TLV, started by a cadre of art dealers and curators, including Irit Sommer, Rivka Saker, Yehudit Shapira Haviv and Shifra Shalit-Intrator, was a rigorous five-day marathon that included lectures, openings, dinners, museum and home tours, private screenings and hourlong jaunts to Jerusalem.
MANY galleries are clustered along Rothschild Boulevard, Tel Aviv’s most elegant street, lined with Bauhaus buildings, banks and the former mansions of the city’s founders. Running down the middle is a shaded pedestrian path dotted with tiny cafes and boules courts where old men play. As the art events got under way, it became a veritable runway for gallery-hopping curators and collectors.
A steady stream made its way to galleries like the Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, a narrow two-story space on a palm-lined side street known for provocative and often amusing works, mostly by Israeli artists. On exhibit were a series of lushly colored photographs and time-lapse video still lifes by an Israeli, Ori Gersht.
But Tel Aviv’s sunny and casual art scene, like everything else in Israel, is tempered by Middle Eastern politics and bloodshed. Only four years ago, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a cheese shop near the intersection of Rambam and Hacarmel Streets, less than a mile from the galleries, killing three and injuring more than 30.
That peculiar way of life — a laidback Mediterranean vibe salted with an ever-present fear of violence — infuses the best of Tel Aviv’s contemporary art. At Dvir Gallery in the city’s north, large-scale photographs by Pavel Wolberg, a Russian-born photojournalist who lives in Tel Aviv, depict masked Palestinian youths with slingshots, Orthodox Jewish weddings and tense and often poignant interactions between Jews and Muslims. His images are defiant scenes of a young nation struggling to contain contradictions and honor traditions.
Other darlings of the Tel Aviv contemporary art scene include Rona Yefman and the sculptor Ariel Schlesinger. One could see Ms. Yefman’s grainy video “Pippi Longstocking, the Strongest Girl in the World, at Abu Dis,” which depicts a red-braided girl dressed as Pippi Longstocking beating on the wall that divides Israel and the Palestinian territories. The video is pitch-perfect in its razor-edged absurdity and was among the most talked-about works that week.
Mr. Schlesinger, an Israeli who lives in Berlin and shows with Dvir Gallery, makes absurdist sculptures like “Bubble Machine,” a messy if poetic scaffold of wood, wire, a drill and whirring metal parts. It’s a useless appliance whose sole purpose is to emit a bubble that drops, every few seconds, onto a searing grill. On impact the bubble bursts into flames, only to be repeated again in a vicious circle that evokes the combustible politics of the Middle East.
Similarly, the country’s nascent contemporary art institutions are both high-minded and risk-taking. The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, once a dusty cultural center and war memorial on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, is now a serious art venue art with a socio-political bent. Its curator, Dalia Levin, champions Israeli artists like Sigalit Landau, who infamously videotaped herself bloodying her naked body with a Hula Hoop fashioned out of barbed wire.
During Art TLV, a new art fair, the London-based curator Andrew Renton brought a smattering of art cognoscenti to Israel for the first time. Many attended the opening night party for “Open Plan Living,” Mr. Renton’s sprawling group show at the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, part of the Tel Aviv Museum and widely considered the city’s most prestigious art venue.
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Follow “The Penguin” to the mountain – Tobias Berger on the NJPAC show
Posted by artradar on August 24, 2010
KOREAN CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS EMERGING ARTISTS
“The Penguin that goes to the Mountain“, an exhibition of contemporary art by young and emerging Korean artists, recently finished up this month at the Nam June Paik Art Center (NJPAC). It took the viewer on a journey from the ordered and well-known to the broken-up and disastrous. Embracing works beyond the visual arts, the exhibition presented practitioners that produced critical and demanding work often relating to the surreal and fictional. Below, Art Radar presents you with images from the exhibition and an interview with NJPAC curator Tobias Berger.
The Nam June Paik Art Center, established to celebrate and illuminate Nam June Paik‘s avant-garde spirit, finished running “The Penguin that goes to the Mountain” last week. The exhibition displayed various methods of expression, including the visual arts, stage productions, media, theatre and animated films from 23 emerging and relatively unknown artists and artist groups. These include:
Mano AHN, Sungeun CHANG, Eunphil CHO, Yeoja DDAN, Subin HEO, Intergate, Jaechoul JEOUNG, Dokyun KIM, Kimoon KIM, Minkyu KOH, Jihoi LEE, Jinwook MOON, Moowang MOON, Sohyun MOON, Adjong PARK, Seungwon PARK, post-EAT, Jinwoo RYU, Rhee SEI, Joonghyup SEO, Mongjoo SON, Hojun SONG, Vaemo, Donhwi YOUN
"The Penguin that goes to the Mountain", an exhibition held at Korea's Nam June Paik Art Center this year. Image courtesy of NJPAC.
Focusing on the concept of “intermedia”, the exhibition proposed imaginative alternative ways to look at artistic production. Deconstructing the art center’s existing space and previously defined exhibition criteria this exhibition pushed the boundaries of the working methodologies of all those involved in its preparation and reception – from the artists and curatorial and technical staff, to the gallery assistants, and even the audience.
The title comes from Werner Herzog‘s 2007 documentary film made in Antarctica called “Encounter at the End of the World“. The film chronicles the story of a penguin that leaves its normal habitat for the unknown world of a mountain. The idea for the exhibition came from the fact that pioneering artists such as the late Nam June Paik dared to explore new territories, combining many often unrelated genres.
Art Radar Asia spoke to Tobias Berger, Chief Curator of Nam June Paik Art Center, to find out more about the exhibition.
What prompted “The Penguin that goes to the Mountain”? What is the mission of NJPAC and how does this show fit with that mission?
It was the need to show some young, edgy new work by professionals from different disciplines; the try out of new curatorial concepts by using some ideas from theater productions; to blur borders between the different disciplines. These are all the parts of the misson of what the Nam June Paik Art Center is showing. Paik wanted this to be ‘the house where his spirit lives on for a very long time’ and showing interdisciplinary young works is certainly Paik’s spirit.
Moowang MOON, 'Neurogenic Plything', 2010. Image courtesy of NJPAC.
Can you tell us about how “The Penguin that goes to the Mountain” is organised? What are the themes?
We took a very strong curatorial approach to the exhibition and it’s basically a voyage from the rather clean and not minimal. The further you go through the exhibition, the more chaotic it becomes and the more difficult it becomes to navigate. There’s a chaotic room, where two walls in the middle are falling down and the works are very tied together … We tried to put in a more kind of theatric setting.
Are there styles or mediums which predominate in “The Penguin that goes to the Mountain”? Why do you think that is?
… we have sculpture to video to photography to big installations. As usual in contemporary art you do have quite a lot of videos.
Sohyun MOON, 'Poisoning of Light', 2007. Image courtesy of NJPAC.
How did you select the artists for “The Penguin that goes to the Mountain”? What characteristics were you looking for?
I think we looked for artists that really went to the edge or over the edge. That is the idea of this penguin that goes to the mountain. It’s a penguin that leaves the others and just goes this way. We more collected different works. It was not a show where we selected ten artists and asked them to do new works. It was more a show where we saw certain works that fitted into the idea of ‘The Penguin’ or into our curatorial context.
Which of your artists has drawn the most interest at “The Penguin that goes to the Mountain”?
There are some controversial video works that are quite challenging. One is talking about the subject of sex, which is a little bit of an interesting subject in South Korea. The other one is an animated video, where [the subject] kind of begins to cut off her fingernails and then her fingertips and then her fingers. It’s an animation, but it’s also quite visual. I think these works are quite controversial, but also in a good way controversial.
Mongjoo SON, 'The Animals Were Gone', 2008. Image courtesy of NJPAC.
The artists in “The Penguin that goes to the Mountain” are all emerging or young artists. What problems do you see for young artists compared with older generation artists working today? In what ways are young artists fortunate, as compared with older artists?
They all have problems and challenges. It’s going to be interesting, how do we justify and how do we not justify them? How do we relate to the art of the older generation? How do we look at it and how do we look at the artist in their mid-career. How do we judge them? You need curators, writers and critics that can evaluate different types of art. Museums can be stiff and kick out the most avant-garde. Maybe because they’re not commercial, maybe they’re a bit too challenging, maybe they’re too critical. So it is the question of the entry into the galleries or the museums or the institutions. A lot of times, the most interesting artists don’t find galleries because if you’re a media artist or performance artist your work doesn’t sell as easily as a painter. But you’re still certainly a much more interesting artist than a certain painter. How do we find a way to deal with that problem? So it has nothing to do with older or younger. It has more to do with genres.
How do you find dealing or working with young artists as opposed to established artists?
They are certainly much more involved in the process and much more interested in what’s going on, more than the established artists that have done big shows in museums many times. For [the young artists], it’s the first time to do an institutional exhibition and that brings a certain tension, but it’s basically good tension that brings out new works and quite interesting work.
Does NJPAC intend to feature other works from students, graduates or emerging artists?
In [“The Penguin that goes to the Mountain”], we cared if the work fitted into the context of the exhibition. Certainly we didn’t care if it was a young artist or an established artist, or if he’s Asian or European. But sure, we will in the future invite students or just-freshly-graduated artists again.
Hojun SONG, 'G.O.D.', 2009. Image courtesy of NJPAC.
Have there been any unusual, unexpected or interesting responses to “The Penguin that goes to the Mountain” from the viewers and critics?
It’s Paik Art Center. People expect tough or different art…. I think the people who come here know what they can expect. There was nothing surprising or unusual, because people expect the surprising and unusual at Nam June Paik Art.
“The Penguin that Goes to the Mountain” ran from 5 June until 22 August this year at South Korea’s Nam June Paik Art Center.
Tobias Berger also spoke with us about the Korean contemporary art scene: how accessible it is to non-Korean speakers; the current worldwide popularity of Korean art; the innovative non-profit art spaces in Korea. We will present this interview on Art Radar in the coming weeks.
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Related Topics: Korean artists, museum shows, interviews, installations
27 contemporary Southeast Asian artists featured in ASEAN-Korea photo exhibition – July 2010 – this post names the artists and has a number of images of their work
Art about curators: Korean artist Yang Ah Ham’s No Nonsense solo show – April 2010 – links to some articles and videos on the show
Four Asian artists nominated for NYC Pulse Award – March 2010 – Korean artist Shin Duk Kang among the nominees, contains biographical details and links
Korean Eye exhibition in Saatchi Gallery London extended due to popularity – August 2009 – Simon de Pury comments on why the show was extended
Troubles for Korean art at home, better reception abroad – Korean Herald, New York Magazine – January 2009 – article summary, Korean artists move into the global market
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