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Philippe Manoury – Trauermärsche (World Première)
by 5:4 November 6, 2014 • 21:33
written by 5:4 November 6, 2014 • 21:33
A recent new work permeated by the subject of death is Trauermärsche for chamber orchestra, by French composer Philippe Manoury. By tapping into the funeral march idea, Manoury sought to engage with what he has described as its dual character, “at the same time something tragic but also something derisory … and macabre”, elaborating how the use of the plural in the title—literally ‘Funeral Marches’—is “because it will be like several funeral marches mixed together so one can imagine that there are several orchestras, one appearing when another disappears, and then the first one comes back, etc.” Although he cites influences from both Mahler (the famous ‘Frere Jacques’ music in the third movement of his Symphony No. 1) and Webern, the music of Trauermärsche is most concerned with alluding to practices of processional, with the funereal processions of New Orleans especially in mind.
One of the work’s chief ideas is articulated via heavily accented muted piano notes, a rising 6th, invariably associated with dull bass drum thuds and clanging tubular bells; this recurring material establishes a sluggish, irregular pulse, the basis for the work’s deadweight momentum. The woodwinds are concerned with mournful lines that present a strong sense of descent, almost as though their melodic lines were sagging under their own weight or an external gravitational force. The strings shiver and tremble, later making stabbing gestures that cause the winds to respond with hard chords, immediately suggesting a different influence: Varèse. This moment of collision, the respective ideas meeting and interacting, is answered by repose and then rude outbursts, a cue for the brass to begin, ominous short phrases over restless suspended cymbal rolls. A brief hiatus, a restart, a sudden abrupt fanfaric sequence from the brass and what sounds like a chamber organ in duet with the winds leads to the work’s decidedly strange and unsettling conclusion. Some might deem Trauermärsche to be all mood and somewhat little substance, but i find both its restraint and the whole atmosphere Manoury creates to be utterly compelling—solemn, sullen, but compelling.
The world première, given at this year’s Witten New Music Days by the WDR Symphony Orchestra conducted by Peter Rundel.
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today handed over appointment letters for government jobs to the kin of two sportsmen in the state who died recently.
Announcing this here today after Banerjee handed them appointment letters, state Youth Welfare minister Arup Biswas told reporters that Salma Rahaman Baidya, wife of the double amputee swimmer Masudur Rahaman Baidya, would join as staff under the West Bengal State Council of Sports.
Deepak Keshri, brother of a promising Bengal cricketer Ankit Keshri, who recently died owing to an injury sustained during a Cricket Association of Bengal senior ODI knock-out match on April 17, has been asked to join as General Assistant under West Bengal Mineral Development Trading Corporation.
Appreciating the Chief Minister’s humanitarian face after meeting her at the state secretariat, both Salma and Deepak expressed their gratitude to Banerjee.
46-year-old India swimmer Masudur Rahman Baidya, the only man with amputated legs to cross the English Channel in 1997, died on April 26 after a cardiac arrest.
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AlEslah Club and then AlEslah Society took care of the culture and building of an aware educated Muslim generation. The library and the cultural project since inception were as important as the other fields of work of the Society. With the development of modern media and communication means, interest in libraries has been decreasing in recent years and the role of libraries has eroded over the years. Therefore, the Society has determined to revive the important role of the library and the writers. As a result, it has established in its headquarters this distinguished cultural center under the name of Mubarak Al Khater Library and AlEslah Museum, inaugurated during the 75th anniversary of the AlEslah Society in December 2017.
The project seeks to be a cultural spot and an attractive center for reading, research and knowledge of the society's heritage, history and thought, as well as openness to constructive human thought to contribute to the development of the Kingdom of Bahrain and the service of its people. It also aspires to spread the moderate thought and create a cultural atmosphere that respects dialogue and introducing ideas.
It is also keen to create a vibrant cultural environment in an atmosphere of dialogue and acceptance of the other opinion, through which free thought can be put forward and moderate culture can be disseminated, providing a broad environment for holding seminars, lectures, panel discussions, exhibitions and various cultural activities.
1. Collecting and preserving the heritage of AlEslah Society, which is part of the history of the Kingdom of Bahrain, including historical books and documents, rare photographs and audio and visual materials.
2. Collecting Islamic heritage books, manuscripts, rare photographs, selected publications and documents to be a reference for researchers and interested parties.
3. Establishing a technically advanced library connected to databases and advanced research centers.
4. Preserving and maintaining the heritage of the late Professor Mubarak Al-Khater and his literary and historical production.
5. Creating a cultural atmosphere that encourages reading, research and holding cultural events that foster dialogue and enrich visitors’ intellectual aspect.
Library Sections:
The project includes about 3000 titles, including large numbers of parts and volumes of saome of these books. Books were distributed in the library in several sections as follows:
First: The Qur'an and its Sciences: It includes everything related to the Holy Quran and its sciences including its interpretation, sciences of Tajweed and readings in addition to confuting many of the misconceptions that challenge the Holy Quran.
Second: Creed and comparisons of religions
Third: Seerah and Islamic history
Fourth: The Hadith and its Sciences: It includes the books of Hadith, the science of Hadith terminology, study of narrators, validating and invalidating narrators, and others
Fifth: Jurisprudence, Principles and History of Legislation
Sixth: Women, Family and Children: It includes a number of books dealing with the characteristics of Muslim women and their role in Islam and comparative studies between women in Islam and other doctrines in addition to fatwas related to women. It also includes books on sociology, family jurisprudence and the raising of children and a lot of writings in the field of children's literature.
Seventh: Rare and gifted books: books of heritage existing in the Society since the beginning of the library in AlEslah Khalifi Club in the 1940s, as well as books gifted by persons, entities or institutions inside and outside Bahrain.
Eighth: Da’wa: It includes books dealing with the origins of da’wa, its arts such as the art of public speaking, means of preparation of preachers and da’wa materials that can be presented to the public.
Ninth: Books of Islamic culture and thought.
Tenth: General culture.
Eleventh: Medicine, related sciences and alternative medicine.
Twelfth: Islamic Society and Sociology.
Thirteenth: Books and writings by Mr. Mubarak Al-Khater.
Fourteenth: AlEslah Publications: This section collects the Society’s books, pamphlets, brochures, magazines, and others.
Fifteenth: History of Bahrain and the Arabian Gulf.
Sixteenth: Palestine, the Palestinian issue and everything related to the issue of Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque from different aspects.
Seventeenth: Periodicals including magazines, publications of Bahraini, Arab and Islamic institutions.
Eighteenth: Arabic Language and Literature.
Nineteenth: Department of Education including the principles of education, educational curricula, how to formulate educational curricula, educational and school administration, teaching methods and methods of scientific research.
AlEslah Museum is attached to the library and it includes an archive containing all materials related to the history and heritage of the Society, minutes, reports, correspondence, rare photographs, films of the Society and Bahraini personalities who contributed to its events.
Those responsible for the project aspire to prepare an electronic library containing a huge storage capacity for the preservation of books, research, scientific theses besides audio and video aids contained in the library at the present time and those to be added in the future.
Why Mubarak Al Khater?
Mr. Mubarak bin Rashid Al Khater, one of the first members of AlEslah Society in Bahrain, has contributed to enriching the Society’s diverse activities since he was a young man until his death, may Allah have mercy on him. He offered the best of his thought to his religion, homeland and the nation through this society. The project was named after him in recognition of his contributions and as a kind of gratitude.
This project was a desire of Sheikh Issa bin Mohammed Al Khalifa for his companion. The project is a kind of loyalty to the two of them and recognition of the so much good they did for this Society and the nation.
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Alys Jackson Writer
The Land Belongs to Me
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Hi, my name is Alys Jackson and I'm an author and poet
based in Adelaide, South Australia.
My work has been published in books, magazines,
anthologies and online.
Some writers say they were born to write. I’m not one of those. My first published piece didn’t appear until I was in my forties. But stories have always been a part of who I am. I grew up in a family of writers and book lovers and have always preferred reading to partying – mostly.
My first passion, however, is the world in which we live, the great outdoors, and the more remote the better.
After studying Environmental Science in Scotland, I slipped on a backpack and took off on a trip of discovery that lasted twelve years and covered dozens of countries. To finance my travels, I taught English. Along the way, I learned Japanese and met my wonderful husband who shared most of my adventures. It was only when our daughter came along that we decided we’d better settle down.
In 2000, I arrived in Australia with a suitcase full of notes and have been writing ever since.
I still maintain a strong connection to the environment. I run an Adelaide Hills Community Veggie Swap which meets monthly. My garden is a microcosm of everything I love. I grow over forty types of organic vegetables and herbs, and have planted an orchard of seventeen fruit trees. I keep chickens and bee hives, and have taught myself how to preserve produce by freezing, bottling, pickling, drying, fermenting and cooking up dozens of jams, jellies and chutneys. My family are particularly fond of my ginger beer and limoncello.
In 2018, I won a grant to fund a series of workshops on Growing and Preserving Edible Produce which included speakers, Sophie Thomson and Malcolm Campbell from ABC Gardening Australia. These were a great success and reflected the growing interest in sustainability and self-sufficiency.
But most of all, my love of the natural world infuses my writing. My short stories and poetry reflect my travels, my respect for indigenous cultures and my concerns for the environment.
It was also the inspiration for my first picture book, The Land Belongs to Me. This is a story about sharing and respecting the natural world, and I like to think that, as well as being fun to read, it will generate thoughtful, inclusive conversation. Using a playful word chain and rhyming dialogue, I take a humorous look at how we often appear to be fighting over our natural environment instead of sharing what is a finite resource.
Published by Big Sky Publishing and illustrated by Shane McGrath, it is a gorgeous and colourful prod at what is a serious issue. I especially love Shane’s oak tree!
‘Who owns our natural world? With a strong, yet simple message we discover the answer in this beautifully-crafted picture book. The story is a thought-provoking delight!’ – Janeen Brian, author of I’m a Dirty Dinosaur.
CBCA SA – Instagram post: A gorgeous book we recommend you add to your collection. Launched today by @jacksonalys local author and poet. ‘The land belongs to me’ (Children’s Book Council Awards SA.)
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In November 2019, my debut collection of poetry, Wolf Ghosts, was published in New Poets 20 alongside collections by Julia Wakefield Houghton and Sharon Foulkes. Edited by Steve Evans.
I have two short stories included in a collection. Thrill Me, published by Glimmer Press, 2020.
Coming in 2021!
Hugo’s Runaway Legs – (picture book) due for publication in 2021 – by publisher Larrikin House.
Shortlistings and Awards
Winner of New Poets 20 - Wolf Ghosts published late 2019 (with Julia Wakefield and Sharon Foulkes)
The Utter Absence of Everything, Long-listed for The Wigleaf Very Short Fictions, 2019
Young Wife Gone Missing - Shortlisted, Alan Marshall Short Story Award, 2018
Chiyogami Fires - Highly Commended Henry Lawson Literary Society Award, 2017
A Single Breath - Harold Goodwin Short Story Award, 2017
Drought - Grenfell Henry Lawson Award for Prose, 2017
Hollow Bones - Shortlisted, Fiction Edition of the Big Issue, 2017
The Light in her Eyes - Shortlisted, Alan Marshall Short Story Award, 2017
The CWA Trip to Peru - Shortlisted, Alan Marshall Short Story Award, 2016
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Greek Παύλος; c. 5 - c. 67, originally known as Saul of Tarsus
RED WAS HIS FAVOURITE COLOUR
St. Paul, was probably born ten years later than Jesus. The place of his birth was Tarsus, a cosmopolitan city in southern Turkey. He was a Jew and a ‘Roman Citizen’, meaning that he spoke ‘Koine’ Greek, the household language of all educated citizens throughout the Roman empire. Well-educated, he was sent in his late teens to Jerusalem to be instructed in Judaism under the guidance of the eminent Rabbi Gamaliel. Paul, then known as Saul, became a respected Pharisee and understood the danger of the new movement arising from Jesus. He gave himself to eliminating it. While journeying to Damascus, he had an overwhelming experience which rendered him a powerful advocate of Christianity. He took the faith from out of its Jewish confines and planted it within the non-Jewish world. Travelling extensively, he came to Greece, planting churches in Philippi, Thessalonica, Athens, Loutro Elenis and Corinth and is known to have visited Veroia and Crete. He financed himself by being a tent maker. Paul kept in contact with the churches he planted by writing letters, some of which are in the New Testament. They are not carefully planned theological treatises, but speedily written missives addressing special circumstances arising in a church. Passionate, sometimes fiery and tempestuous, they were dictated at speed to a scribe. They are ‘applied Christianity’ rather than ‘systematic theology’. Nevertheless, they reveal the genius that lies in Paul’s thinking, and as such have been studied by the Church down the ages. Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonians is probably the earliest piece of literature in the New Testament, written in 50 AD.
Was red Paul’s favourite colour? We don’t know. Artists depict him wearing red, because he probably ended his days as a martyr. †
Saint Paul Delivering The Areopagus Sermon in Athens
(detail) by Rafael, 1515, Royal Collection, United Kingdom.
(detail) by El Greco c. 1612, Museo del Greco, Toledo, Spain.
(detail) by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, c. 1657, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA.
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Saint Paul Writing His Epistles
Attributed to Valentin de Boulogne, c. 1618, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Texas), USA.
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Ventspils barely escape Pyrinto's storm
26.02.2015, Povilas Baranauskas, BBL.net, Photo: bkventspils.lv
It was perhaps the most entertaining piece of basketball we witnessed in the Quarterfinals, as Latvian powerhouse Ventspils barely held on to victory against Pyrinto. The game was neck-to-neck for the lion’s share of the game, but the home side managed to get away with the 70-64 (20-19; 20-11; 10-21; 20-13) victory.
It was a nip-and-tuck battle in the first ten minutes and while Pyrinto did have a small advantage, halfway through the quarter, Ventspils responded with an 8-0 stretch to pull ahead by five. Nevertheless, by the time the period was over, the teams were separated by just a single point.
The home side managed to pull ahead in the second quarter, when they reached their first double-digit advantage. A 10-point wall was between them and the Finns and clearly, both coaches had something to talk about at halftime.
Right out of the gates, it seemed that Pyrinto was a completely different team, as they started operating extremely efficiently on both sides of the court. They managed to set up a 17-3 run and going into the final quarter, were already ahead by one.
Ventspils retook the lead just seconds inside the final frame. The margin had reached six, and then slid back down to just one. It seemed Pyrinto weren’t about to risk it all and were playing for the score instead of the win in the final minute, but Nikolaos Gkikas pushed the margin back to six with a dagger from downtown right in the defenders face.
Kristaps Janicenoks was the clear leader for the Latvians with 21 points in his account. Martins Meiers and Nikolaos Gkikas added 10 points and 4 rebounds each, while the Greek also dished out 7 assists.
Bryan Hopkins led Pyrinto with 14 points and 7 rebounds, while Tyrone Kent added 11 points. Damon Williams scored 10 points, secured 5 rebounds and recorded 4 dimes before fouling out. David Jackson ended the game with 9 points.
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Antipsychotics, mood stabilisers, and risk of violent crime
Dr Seena Fazel MD, Johan Zetterqvist MSc, Henrik Larsson PhD, Prof Niklas Långström PhD, Prof Paul Lichtenstein PhD
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)60379-2/abstract
Antipsychotics and mood stabilisers are prescribed widely to patients with psychiatric disorders worldwide. Despite clear evidence for their efficacy in relapse prevention and symptom relief, their effect on some adverse outcomes, including the perpetration of violent crime, is unclear. We aimed to establish the effect of antipsychotics and mood stabilisers on the rate of violent crime committed by patients with psychiatric disorders in Sweden.
We used linked Swedish national registers to study 82 647 patients who were prescribed antipsychotics or mood stabilisers, their psychiatric diagnoses, and subsequent criminal convictions in 2006—09. We did within-individual analyses to compare the rate of violent criminality during the time that patients were prescribed these medications versus the rate for the same patients while they were not receiving the drugs to adjust for all confounders that remained constant within each participant during follow-up. The primary outcome was the occurrence of violent crime, according to Sweden's national crime register.
In 2006—09, 40 937 men in Sweden were prescribed antipsychotics or mood stabilisers, of whom 2657 (6·5%) were convicted of a violent crime during the study period. In the same period, 41 710 women were prescribed these drugs, of whom 604 (1·4 %) had convictions for violent crime. Compared with periods when participants were not on medication, violent crime fell by 45% in patients receiving antipsychotics (hazard ratio [HR] 0·55, 95% CI 0·47—0·64) and by 24% in patients prescribed mood stabilisers (0·76, 0·62—0·93). However, we identified potentially important differences by diagnosis—mood stabilisers were associated with a reduced rate of violent crime only in patients with bipolar disorder. The rate of violence reduction for antipsychotics remained between 22% and 29% in sensitivity analyses that used different outcomes (any crime, drug-related crime, less severe crime, and violent arrest), and was stronger in patients who were prescribed higher drug doses than in those prescribed low doses. Notable reductions in violent crime were also recorded for depot medication (HR adjusted for concomitant oral medications 0·60, 95% CI 0·39—0·92).
In addition to relapse prevention and psychiatric symptom relief, the benefits of antipsychotics and mood stabilisers might also include reductions in the rates of violent crime. The potential effects of these drugs on violence and crime should be taken into account when treatment options for patients with psychiatric disorders are being considered.
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Home » Family » Marriage » Simon Cowell is Expecting His First Child at 52 with His Close Friend’s Wife!
Simon Cowell is Expecting His First Child at 52 with His Close Friend’s Wife!
August 1, 2013 by StayceeLuhrain91
Published in Marriage
But was it planned?
“Me and my lil Simey monster #simoncowell x” – Lauren’s Instagram
Back in 2009, Simon Cowell was asked if he ever wanted to have children and he said,
“God, no. I couldn’t have children. If I had them here drawing on the walls I’d go nuts.”
But, he told AOL Music last year,
“I do really, really like kids, because I can talk to them and listen to them. The problem has always been how much time you need to devote to bringing up kids. I’ve always dedicated all my life to work, and at 52, I’ve probably missed the opportunity.”
Looks like this hard-ass has turned into quite the softy and just in the nick of time, too. It has been reported that New York socialite, wife to Andrew Silverman – a real estate mogul in New York City -, Lauren Silverman, is pregnant with Simon’s first child and her second. She allegedly told Simon about the pregnancy around July 10. Rumor mill has it that Mrs. Silverman is planning to leave her husband for Simon.
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“Lauren and Andrew have been unhappy in their marriage for a while. As their marriage deteriorated, she and Simon became close.”
Aside from the whole sanctity of a marriage and the morals of committing adultery, there is a bro code that Simon seems to have ignored. No matter how close or not he was with Lauren – or Andrew for that matter -, she IS married to HIS friend. It doesn’t matter what shape the marriage is in when an affair happens. But, a child does not ask to be born so, I hope that these two can form a healthy relationship BEFORE the baby is born. They will have quite some time though because she is only 10 weeks pregnant. Supposedly, Andrew filed for a divorce 2 weeks ago and stated the affair with Simon (actually naming him). Hopefully the divorce process won’t be too stressful on these parents-to-be and maybe Simon and Andrew can salvage their friendship despite Simon’s actions.
But, it has been reported that Simon did not plan on having a child and Lauren “tricked” him into getting her pregnant. Sources say that “he assumed she was using birth control” and that their relationship was NOT a platonic one.
“Simon thought this was a casual relationship – Friends with benefits. The pregnancy was not planned.”
Friends of Simon’s have not shyed away their feelings about her or their relationship. One goes as far as to call Lauren a “gold digger” and saying “she has a thing for rich, powerful men” and that “she knows having Simon’s baby will mean he will always be in her life and he is a very wealthy and generous man”.
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A federal police investigation into a controversial government land purchase will look at whether disgraced former NSW MP Daryl Maguire was involved.
The federal infrastructure department in 2018 paid $30 million for land worth $3 million near the Western Sydney Airport.
The Australian Federal Police are investigating the deal after Auditor-General Grant Hehir referred it to them in July.
Two months later, Mr Hehir released an explosive report on the purchase.
AFP deputy commissioner Ian McCartney said the audit office was most concerned about the discrepancy between the land price and value.
“We haven’t identified any criminality in relation to the matter at this stage,” he told a Senate estimates hearing in Canberra on Tuesday.
“We can’t rule anybody out but we can’t rule anybody in either.”
The possibility taxpayers have been defrauded is at the heart of the probe.
The AFP intends to contact the NSW anti-corruption commission to check if Mr Maguire, a former Liberal state politician, was involved in the airport deal.
“That would be our primary focus of engaging the Independent Commission Against Corruption,” Mr McCartney said.
The AFP is looking at additional material provided by the Australian National Audit Office, with the investigation in its early stages.
Commissioner Reece Kershaw highlighted how rare it was for the auditor-general to refer matters to federal police.
“They could not find a previous referral within the last 20 years and therefore there was no established procedures on how to manage this,” he said.
Mr Hehir also acknowledged it was uncommon to contact police about matters uncovered through his audits.
“There was information that we found which we couldn’t explain and that was suggestive of the fact that the Commonwealth may have been defrauded,” he said.
“And having come to that view – as I said, we didn’t have direct evidence of that – I thought it was in the public interest for me to provide information to the AFP commissioner.”
Mr Hehir contacted the Australian Federal Police on July 10.
It was the first time he had done so since taking on the role five years ago.
Public Service Commissioner Peter Woolcott is satisfied with infrastructure boss Simon Atkinson’s move to launch independent audits, with two public servants under investigation.
“Clearly there are issues here which make for very grim reading in the auditor-general’s report,” Mr Woolcott said.
He does not believe there’s a “burning platform” of integrity issues across the public service, insisting checks and balances are working.
“Whether it’s confined to one particular work unit or wider than that, all of this will come out in the wash,” Mr Woolcott said.
One official has been stood down while being investigated, and another has been moved within the department as a result of the auditor’s report.
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Why ecosystem design?
Green design is everywhere these days, though there is a long way to go before it is the ubiquitous, normal way of doing business that it one day will be. My aim here is to focus on the plain, straightforward meaning of what the words “ecosystem design” imply–the design and building-growing of ecological systems. “Ecological design” has come be a synonym for green design, covering everything from solar collectors on the roof to sustainably harvested wood for floors. We’ll stick closer to biological systems, not that I have anything against solar collectors. We’ll be exploring the science of ecology–how living organisms organize themselves in space and time–as the basis for design, in John and Nancy Jack Todd’s provocative phrase.
But we won’t be too pure about it. In the broader sense we’ll also cover the design of human habitats as ecosystems, and the “ecology of mind” (Gregory Bateson) that links the natural and human worlds.
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Humans can use the technology they know to create sustainable outcomes that involve not only respect for nature but also a pragmatic action about it, not be afraid to change existing conditions (nature) or develop it into something useful, where the idea of leaving it alone for preservation’s sake can do more harm than good. These statements are rooted in the state of the world as it is now, not in nostalgia for a nature that does not exist. First, Second, Thrid Natures, we have destroyed first, second is all we have left and unless all we want is rats, pigeons, and black birds, we better make better environments.
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There becomes an “essential conflict whenever major social changes affect technology” (and nature), yet barriers are dissolved when societies work at solving problems. Andrew Feenburg is helpful to distinguish between economic exchange and technique, when there are times conflict results in an exchange, a trade-off occurs and hierarchies are established; but as Andrew Feenburg states “technical advances are made to avoid such dilemmas by elegant designs that optimize several variable at once,” an ecosystem is such an elegant design, doing many things at once, and helping us solve problems.12
Designed Ecosystems: The Expansionist’s View, Socio-Environmental Aspects in Sustainability.
Designed Ecosystems: The Expansionist’s View, Socio-Environmental Aspects in Sustainability…
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Position Paper III
In this position paper I am concerned with how the meanings assigned by our culture define social and environmental aspects of sustainability, and how we might begin to redefine the relationship between the two. First in this position paper I will examine deep ecology vs. shallow ecology: the two in terms of their respective perceptions of “humans vs. nature,” then address the issue of degradation of the earth via resource scarcity vs. ecological scarcity: how they “frame the problem.” Then look at the “social ecology” of nature, finding a more expansionist view point of sustainability that embraces a view of social and environmental aspects as connected and cooperative. Then proposing humans as “tools of nature,” creating a world where humans can be free to design their ecosystems to be ecosystem-like and ideas of a “perfect untouched nature” do not deter humans from doing so. [1] *
In “Green cities, Growing cities, Just Cities” author Scott Campbell states that planners need to reconcile the conflicting interests of “grow[ing] the economy as a measure to distribute wealth more evenly/fairly, and stop degrading ecosystems.” [2] Oftentimes social and environmental aspects of sustainability tend to not compliment each other, one is traded-in for the other, and it begs the question: Is there a better way to perceive or handle the two, one that would help in designing our world? We need to take a look at how to not pit these aspects against each other, changing our views of each and their values that we assign to them could do exactly what Campbell proposes in reconciling conflict.
HUMANS vs. NATURE
The environmental or bio-centric perspective that Nature is at the center and humans depend on it for knowledge, inspiration, and survival is representative of a ‘deep ecologist’ view; although this perspective is flawed by its inherent dichotomy—humans and nature, and nature as something unchanging, needing to be preserved. The social ecologist or “shallow ecology” perspective is that people start from an assumption, often unexamined, that human beings are the central species in the Earth’s ecosystem, and that other beings and parts of systems are of less importance or value. In its extreme manifestations, shallow ecology views other beings and features of the Earth as resources for human use, and fails to see their intrinsic value or their value to each other. The dichotomy within each of these view points—that there is separation of nature and humans, flaws there universality and allows for exclusion of one group. This separating of the groups creates hierarchies within each group, allowing for marginalization of one group over the other, instead of a view of equality and interdependence.
FRAMING THE PROBLEM
This concept of separation brings question to mainstream sustainability’s energy efficiency foothold, which is based in the idea of resource scarcity for dealing with degradation of the earth. This is mainly because the resource scarcity viewpoint does not encourage humans to re-describe their role as humans in the environment, in resource scarcity the most eco-friendly person is still a consumer. However, I do endorse energy efficiency and resource conservation because right now we are having a hard time producing energy (brownouts/increasing energy costs), so yes, I do endorse energy efficiency and resource conservation but we can do more.
By doing more I mean to pay attention to what contemporary design does not, the valuable processes that the bio-sphere of earth give us on a daily basis. This represents another mode in which sustainable design can take a foothold, in ecological systems, designing buildings that are in tune with the environment and actually increase bio-diversity. This way of building can have a greater affect on our future, because we can always find ways to make more energy–making species and ecological systems is much harder and complex. Yet the great ecological framework/network in which we lead our lives, is becoming increasingly frail, its ability to regenerate is being damaged by war, consumption, careless design, negativity, etc.
This lack of ability for the biosphere to regenerate itself leads to a lack of the ability to ‘clean’ the earth of toxins, pollutants, carbon absorption, regulate climate–things that we need more of as we produce more impact via pollution, consumption, etc–all ever-increasing. So what is the problem–that we consume? I think that is a bad way to look at it, since we need to consume to stay alive as humans, rather I think the problem is that we do not understand the value of bio-diversity in our built environment, this is partially because over the years ecosystems have been labeled as messy and challenging (man vs. nature idea, civilization and wilderness concepts–both false dualities). Further more, the appearance of many indigenous ecosystems and wildlife habitats violates cultural norms for the neat appearance of landscapes, and we fail to recognize the values of producing oxygen, transform nitrogen, creating habitat, and absorbing carbon, toxins, and pollutants.[3] So the problem with consuming is that it usually lowers ecological diversity and creates more pollutants, but what if we had a balanced world, where the pollution created was mediated and filtered by plants and non-humans and ecosystems, then consuming (which we do a good job at) would be more okay. This implies that the problem is not resource scarcity but ecological scarcity. We need to create buildings with the mindset of creating ecosystem-like structures and systems that actually increase biodiversity of a locality.[4] This will produce cleaner places for people, a balanced earth–one that has capacity to absorb pollution which is associated with excessive resource exploitation, which in turn re-describes the role of humans in the environment from consumers to nature propagators.
TOOLS OF NATURE
In a speech to the Bioneers in 2000 William McDonough states we should “leave bigger footprints not smaller ones, but our footprints should be wetlands,” this implies how humans can become “tools of nature.”[5] Author Steven Kellert in Building for Life brings another aspect to the concept of ‘doing more,’ where in his critique of resource scarcity he states that stopping degradation of the earth is not enough, calling out the importance of the relationship between humans and the biosphere, “though admirable, … [the resource scarcity paradigm] needs to be extended to include a greater emphasis on human experience, incorporating the recognition of how much people’s physical and mental well-being depends on their contact with nature.”[6] This pulls its weight from the concept of biophilia hypothesis, which purports that it’s the interaction with nature that proves most beneficial to humans, even if it is just representation of nature, or artificial, or second nature, or third nature;[7] just like Latour’s ANT (actor network theory) whose strength comes from ‘heterogeneously assembled actor networks of human and non-human entities.”[8] Much like Haraway suggests that nature (environmental) and social realms are contingent and artifactual constructions that emerge from the practical interactions of humans and nonhumans in the distributed, heterogeneous work processes of technoscience.’[9]
In The Cultivated Wilderness author Paul Shepheard’s epilogue points to our construction of nature as something separate but reasons that our separation is out of an admiration:
The wilderness is not just something you look at; it’s something you are part of. You live inside a body made of wilderness material. I think that the intimacy of this argument is the origin of beauty. The wilderness is beautiful because you are part of it.[10]
David Demeritt in What is the Social Construction of Nature? refers to many types of view points of nature, Demeritt notes when using the metaphor of the construction of nature “some use it in a nominalist vein to denaturalize ‘nature’ as always conceptually and discursively mediated, others in a more literal, ontologically idealist way to suggest that natural phenomena are literally built by people, while yet others use the construction metaphor to explore the ways that the matter of nature is realized discursively or through networks of practical engagements with heterogeneous other beings.”[11] I would identify with a phenomenological discursive construction where, “we exist primordially not as subjects manipulating objects in the external ‘real’, physical world, but as beings in, alongside and toward the world’, opposed to “merely a descriptive phenomenology concerned with disclosing empirically the preconceptions and social interactions necessary to construct a social problem as such.” [12] This point of view combined with a “seeking to diagnose the effects of those constructions and thereby also to change them”, leads to a phenomenological discursive constructive philosophy.[13]
In Against Nature, Steven Vogel says nature is dynamic and always changing, contrary to the idea of man vs. nature where the idea of preservation is put to the idea of nature, rather than a view point where humans can change nature for the better, using our judgment and choice. Vogel agrees that humans have responsibility to manage themselves and the earth, the human condition extends beyond being human, “to see socially constructed nature as something for which we are literally responsible.” [14]
In “We have Never Been Modern,” Bruno Latour points out that we have not separated ourselves from nature, our process of ontological being is linked with our politics, nature, and culture; creating a world where we hold nature up not for just being sacred, not for being separate, not for being rare, not for being unchanging, but for being part of us.
DESIGNER ECOSYSTEMS
There becomes an “essential conflict whenever major social changes affects technology” and nature, yet barriers are dissolved when societies work as solving problems, when these conflicts eventually are resolved. Andrew Feenburg is helpful to distinguish between economic exchange and technique when resolving conflict he gives the example: when there is an exchange, conflict results in an a trade-off creating hierarchies or an adversarial point of view; but as he states “technical advances are made to avoid such dilemmas (trade-offs) by elegant designs that optimize several variables at once,” an ecosystem is such an elegant design, doing many things at once.[15] Humans can use the technology to create sustainable outcomes that involve not only respect for nature but also a pragmatic action about it, not be afraid to change it or develop it into something useful, where the idea of leaving it alone for preservation’s sake can do more harm than good. We can design ecosystems to be healthier, more contingent to absorb our pollution and impact on earth. These statements are rooted in the state of the world as it is now, not in nostalgia for a nature that does not exist. By re-defining the role of humans in the environment, or shall I say of the environment, from consumers to propagators we can better accomplish our big goals of saving the Earth, by making it a better Earth.
[1] William McDonough, “William McDonough at Bioneers 2000,” http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7987612343225687713&q=william+mcdonough, accessed Novemeber 16, 2006.
[2] Scott Campbell, “Green Cities, Growing Cities, Just Cities: Urban Planning and the Contradiction of Sustainable Development,” in APA Journal (Summer 1996): p 296-312.
[3] Messy Ecosystems,
[4] Ken Yeang, Ecodesign: A Manual for Ecological Design. (London : Wiley, 2006).
[6] Steven Kellert, Building for Life: designing and understanding the human nature connection. (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2005): p 96.
[7] Stephen R. Kellert, The Biophilia Hypothesis . (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1993).
[8] David Demeritt, “What is the ‘Social Construction of Nature.’ A topology and sympathetic critique,” in Progress in Human Geography 26 (6): p 767-790.
[10] Paul Shepheard, Cultivated Wilderness: Or, What is Landscape? (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press 1997)
[11] David Demeritt, “What is the ‘Social Construction of Nature.’ A topology and sympathetic critique,” in Progress in Human Geography 26 (6): p 767-790.
[14] Steven Vogel, “Introduction,” in Against Nature: The Concept of Nature in Critical Theory (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996), p 1-12.
[15] Andrew Feenburg, “Subversive Rationalization: Technology, Power, and Democracy,” in Technology and the Politics of Knowledge, Andrew Feenburg and Alastair Hannay, Eds., (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1995).
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State Textbooks for Secondary Education Foster Recent Patriotism
State textbooks for secondary schools shape the patriotism of young Chinese generations, wrote Mrs. He Qinglian, a prominent writer on China. Mrs. He wrote that in the State textbooks for secondary schools, the Communist Party has defined the relationship between the Party and Chinese people as that between mother and children, the relationship between Communist authorities and oversea Chinese as that between motherland and oversea orphans. The article believes that the authorities’ deprivation of freedom of information has turned patriotism to loyalty to autocracy as shown in recent breakout of nationalism against western media on Tibet and the Beijing Olympics.
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1. How Work-Study System Operates in One Province
CHINA, with her large population and meager economy, faces many problems in developing education. One of them is the contradiction between the limited funds and the needs of rapidly building up a
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2. Progress in Sino-African Trade
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EVEN while he was a popular novelist and short-story writer, Shen Congwen had a passion for history and relics. He researched them as a hobby while he wrote his novel Frontier City and some 50 short
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LUYI COUNTY, located in eastern Henan Province, covers an area of 1,200 square kilometers and has a population of 1.03 million. Two thousand years ago Laozi, a great philosopher, thinker and the
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THE Baodian Coal Mine, under the Yankuang Group Co. Ltd., is the first large-scale, fully equipped mine designed and constructed without foreign assistance, and has an annual production of 3 million
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7. HARNESSING "LION SHOAL"
FIFTY-FIVE miles downstream from Chungking, the Yangtze River is joined by one of its tributaries, the Lunghsi, which flows tempestuously along a steep course. At Shihtzetan, the constant roar of the
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8. Combining Work and Study
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STANDING at the mouth of one of the main passes through the mountains from the north, the town of Yulin in north Shensi province was once an important fortress on the Great Wall. At the approach of
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10. Seeds of Friendship
I HAD long heard about the tree which in China goes by the name of mien chieh - meaning Burmese eggplant - and the stories connected with it. But only last July, when I visited Kaochou county in
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Netanyahu Indicted, Becomes More Dangerous
He might even decide to do something, like starting a big war, to prevent his removal from power
AL-BILAD: The Attorney General of Israel just indicted Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu in three cases. The announcement comes at a time of political stalemate. It might help to resolve it.
Israel had two parliament elections this year which both ended in a political stalemate. Neither Prime Minister Netanyahu of the Likud Party nor Blue and White coalition leader Benny Gantz managed to form a government. Both were unable to find enough additional votes to form a coalition and to gain a majority.
Now the parliament has 21 days to find a majority. It will likely fail and a third election seems inevitable.
It is curious that Israel’s Attorney General used this point in time to finally charge Netanyahu:
Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit announced Thursday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be charged with bribery, fraud and breach in three corruption cases, dubbed Cases 4000, 2000 and 1000.
In the most serious case Netanyahu is alleged to have changed regulations in exchange for more positive press coverage.
The charges have been known for quite some time and the timing of the official announcement seems political.
Netanyahu will now come under intense pressure to resign. It is very much his personality that blocked the forming of a new government. Should he be removed over the next 21 days it might be possible for the parliament to form a government and to avoid a third election.
But Netanyahoo will fight tooth and nail to gain and keep immunity. He will try to delegitimize the judiciary and he will use any available trick to stay in office.
That makes him even more dangerous than he usually is.
He might even decide to do something, like starting a big war, to prevent his removal from power.
Lebanon and Syria must watch out.
Case 4000 is considered the most serious, and revolves around an alleged bribery deal between Netanyahu and businessman Shaul Elovich, who controlled the Bezeq telecommunications company and the Walla News site. According to the indictment, Netanyahu and Elovich engaged in a quid-pro-pro deal in which Netanyahu – as communication minister – led regulatory steps directly tied to Elovich’s businesses and interests that yielded the tycoon some $500 million.In return, according to the indictment, Netanyahu and his wife Sara made consistent requests to alter the coverage on the Walla News website in order to serve the Netanyahus’ interests and target their opponents. Elovich allegedly pressed the editors of the website to comply with the Netanyahus’ demands.
Walla publisher Elovich as well as Arnon Mozes, publisher of the Yedioth Ahronot media group, will also be indicted for bribery.
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Marriage at Egremont
Edition: September 7, 1905 September 7, 1905
MARRIAGE AT EGREMONT.
On Tuesday Forenoon the marriage of Mr. Jos. KITCHIN (eldest son of
Mr. and Mrs. KITCHIN of the Cote Close Farm, Egremont, and underground manager
of the Gillfoot Park Mines), to Miss. RIGG (eldest daughter of Mr. George RIGG,
miller and corn merchant, Egremont), took place at the Parish Church, the
officiating clergyman being the Rev. John DEASON, Egremont.
Rain fell heavily during the forenoon, but in spite of this a number
of people assembled at the church and were greatly interested in the ceremony.
As the wedding party entered the church the organist, Miss. TOWERSON, played
Lohengrin's Wedding March, and as they were leaving the sacred building
Mendelson's Wedding March was played.
On the bridal party arriving at the church door they were met by
showers of confetti and rice. The bride who was given away by her eldest brother,
Mr. J. RIGG, was attired in a most handsome champagne-coloured silk dress,
trimmed with accordion-pleated chiffon and bebe ribbon and let in with silk
insertion, with elbow sleeves and transparent yoke, and had on a black chenille hat
trimmed with black ostrich plumes, and carried an exquisite white shower
bouquet, which, together with a gold brooch, set with pearls, were the gifts of the
bridegroom.
The bride was attended by two bridesmaids, Miss. S. RIGG, sister of
the bride and Miss. M. KITCHIN, sister of the bridegroom. The bridesmaids wore
lovely dresses of cream canvas voile flounced and edged with bebe ribbon, and
had green belts. They also wore green velvet hats trimmed with white ostrich
plumes, ospreys and silk to match. Each bridesmaid carried a lovely white shower
bouquet of lilies and chrysanthemums, carnations and roses, and wore gold
bangles, the gift of the bridegroom.
After the wedding breakfast, which was held at the home of the bride,
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couple, and these congratulations were acknowledged by Mr. KITCHIN.
Later on Mr. and Mrs. J. KITCHIN drove to St. Bees, where they took
the 12-35 train en route for Scotland, where the honeymoon is to be spent. The
brides travelling costume was a light grey cloth faced with velvet to match,
and she wore a grey hat, trimmed with plumes of cherry coloured ribbon.
Mr. and Mrs. J. KITCHIN have been the recipients of a large number of
costly and useful presents, including a Church Service, the gift of the Sunday
School in which the bride has taught for some years.
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Iowa Caucus News and Related Stuff
By PeraclesPlease on Wed, 01/13/2021 - 7:15am |
Response to "What is Progressive Realism" ["But the article was essentially about describing the differences between schools of thought while obviously giving evidence the author thought supported a different school than has predominated and was making a case for trying something different"]
Robert Wright in the 2nd paragraph makes "realist" a synonym for Kissinger's cynical "realpolitik", thus loading any "realist" with the baggage of Kissinger's policies in Vietnam, turning a blind eye to disaster in Indonesia, et al. A rather tawdry piece of smear and false equivalency. (To be clear, the level of human carnage in SE Asia and the expulsion of Commusts from Indonesia was huge - incomparable to the tolls we've seen in Mideast conflicts the last 20 years.)
But Wright pulls this off with a "Maybe McFaul had Kissinger in mind when he lamented the 'deaths and horrific repression' that past realists...." - or maybe McFaul didn't, and it's just Wright's fervent imagination leaping to smear by most distant association.
Wright leaves out McFaul's key sentence, "Realism is an ideology that produced millions of deaths & horrific repression over the centuries." - an expression that might include Mao's "to make an omelette you have to break a few eggs", efforts to "civilize" "backwards people" around the world, accommodate slavery in a new Constitution, Bismarck's approach to Europe & treaties, et al. Certainly not honed in on 1 particular Secretary of State from our Nixon years.
If this is Wright's "evidence" in "supporting a different school" (i.e. his version of "realists" before he trashes modern "progressive idealists", especially Biden appointees), he's off to a bad start. Note, the whole of McFaul's tweet:
In the debate about the future Biden foreign policy Im seeing people self-identify as "progressive realists." Where are the "progressive idealists"? Or the "pragmatic idealists?" Realism is an ideology that produced millions of deaths & horrific repression over the centuries.
— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) November 16, 2020
It's obvious by paragraph #6 that the real target of this is to bash the choices of Blinken and Sullivan (and Obama in general) as blinkered idealists with blood on their hands. You'd think Neville Chamberlain would come up as such an idealist before 2 apparatchiks within a much more limited alliance, failed or not.
As this piece progresses, we'll see that it's not really introducing a new framework, but using a purported framework to beat the old dead horse with once again. Let's take this framework 1 by 1:
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By Doctor Cleveland on Sun, 01/03/2021 - 5:00pm | Personal
One year ago last night, as my spouse and I were getting ready for bed, she complained that her waistbands were feeling tight although she hadn't gained any visible weight.
"Could you be pregnant?" I asked, and she told me that was ridiculous. She was probably right. We were too old. We had missed the window for having children and reconciled ourselves to growing old together as a childless couple. So I went to sleep.
One year ago today I woke at 5:30 in the morning and found my wife had already been awake for hours. My question had nagged at her until she dug an old home-pregnancy test out of the bathroom closet. Positive. A baby was coming.
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By PeraclesPlease on Sun, 11/08/2020 - 6:07am | Personal, Politics, Social Justice
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https://youtu.be/Un_VvR_WqNs
The one thing that hit me, with all the Kahnemann and Malcolm Gladwell I read this year, and other personal stuff going on, is all these people walking around, these bodies, me, are still 9/10 chemistry and raw emotions and psychological traumas and a bit of intelligent consideration, maybe a tiny bit of enlightened thinking thrown in, and perhaps humor or orneriness to scramble it up. I look at the Rayshard killing, and for 40 mins things were ok, and then in 15 seconds it went to shit. Most of these "Karens" videos (*not* the woman walking her dog in Central Park) are likely women running around doing thankless work, and someone with a phone catches them in their worst frustrating moments, situations that maybe they didn't understand or were too flustered to control, or had more of an explanation than we see. I have my moments, but no one so far has a camera in my face to record it for all time, all humanity. "Humanity" - we use that word to sound noble, but it's just one batch of troubles after another.
Though actually things aren't that bad. Aside from Covid, the Trump years have just been about pissing us off every minute of the day. But there were no gas ovens. There was no drawn out Iran-Iraq War killing millions (though Xinjiang is bad). There were no famines in Ethiopia with wasting away babies (though pictures of cages from the border are bad). Gladwell talked about how people in London during the Blitz became immune to fear and troubles and danger. And under Trump, we became rather immune to good news. That cop putting his knee on George Floyd's neck, strangling him, and pretty much the entire world thought that was evil, even our usual racists. And even *that* was more or less criminal negligence, vicious uncaring mistreatment, sure, but not the ending that cop expected, was trying for. Those girls in that Birmingham church when I was a kid - those guys were *trying* to kill them. Those activists disappeared in Mississippi - those guys actively killed them. And the whole community largely approved, covered it up, denied these poor murdered souls justice.
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Roanoke discovery gives clues to American mystery
By PeraclesPlease on Sat, 11/07/2020 - 4:02pm | Humor & Satire, Media, Politics
Recent archaeological finds on America's East Coast appear to have pinpointed remains of Roanoke settlers who apparently split up and secretly moved the colony to 2 new locations, thereby avoiding a Spanish fleet sent to destroy them.
The discovery could help political scientists determine the fate of North Carolina voters and election officials after the 2020 presidential election, when apparently the whole election infrastructure grew unresponsive and simply disappeared amidst one of the most heated electoral races of modern times.
More intriguing is the possibility that the 2 sides in the political contest may have engineered their own disappearance to avoid external threats, including the possibility of a never-ending series of recounts and a general loss of who-gives-a-shit, and perhaps may be peaceably hiding out in an undisclosed location even talking and working together.
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Now that Biden has defeated Trump, it's time to pretend none of this ever happened
By William K. Wolfrum on Sat, 11/07/2020 - 2:20pm | Politics
Joe Biden is the President-Elect and I'm feeling pretty good myself, as the saying goes. Biden's epic victory puts America back in steady hands. It means we can be proud of being Americans again. And it means we can start pretending that none of it ever really happened.
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America may survive the Trump sickness, but can it beat its diseases?
By William K. Wolfrum on Fri, 11/06/2020 - 7:49am | Politics
It is becoming more clear that America's first real experience with a populist demagogue is going to end in a historically satisfying way. Donald J. Trump's political career is about to look like this:
2016: Loses popular vote by 3 million, wins Electoral College.
2018: GOP loses 30+ House seats.
2019: Impeached.
2020: Loses popular vote by 6-8 million, loses Electoral College to Joe Biden to become a one-term President.
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By Doctor Cleveland on Mon, 10/12/2020 - 10:19pm | Politics
All statues, like all politics, are local. They're about the place where they are put up, and they change that place (which is to say, they're political). It's a mistake to think a statue is put up to represent some eternal truth; they're a local statement about the politics of the moment. So it is with Christopher Columbus, who got statues and a national holiday for political, and progressive reasons. Those statues don't seem progressive anymore, for a simple reason: they worked. So they've outlived their purpose.
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He Knows He's Losing: Trump as Mike Tyson
By Doctor Cleveland on Wed, 09/30/2020 - 5:30pm | Politics
The most obvious thing to me about last night's toxic sludge fire of a debate is that Trump knows he's losing. Bigly. And he has no idea what to do about it. Many pundits are confused on this point, because they treat Trump as a conventional politician or as a media figure rather than as a psychiatric patient. And if you don't view Trump through the lens of his maladies, you misunderstand him. Trump is not a serious politician. Comparing him to other Republican presidential candidates doesn't help you understand him. This is not Mitt Romney.
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The Shockingly Unbelievable Case of What the Man-Eating Monsters Ate
By William K. Wolfrum on Fri, 09/25/2020 - 11:37am | Humor & Satire, Politics
The town of Rock Springs, Wyoming has a violet past. Violent to the point it was long ago called "The Murder Capital of America," and it was a moniker deserved. The years have passed and the population has dwindled and with that, the violence has slowed down. Not stopped, mind you, as at least once a year someone shoots someone else for reasons fair or foul. But the residents didn't get shaken up about these sort of things. They had seen it all. At least, until the monsters came.
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The Mayor from Jaws Explains those Quotes he Gave Bob Woodward
By Doctor Cleveland on Thu, 09/10/2020 - 11:26am | Humor & Satire, Politics
Everyone knows I want to be a cheerleader for Amity Island, right? You want to project confidence. So while I might have told some reporter from the mainland that we were facing “a grotesque, Biblical monster of the deep,” “a bloody, churning nightmare of teeth,” or “a lean, mean tourist-eating machine,” there was no reason to tell the general public that. You don’t want to start a panic, fellas. Just think of the kids.
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By William K. Wolfrum on Mon, 07/27/2020 - 1:08pm | Personal, Sports
At the age of eight, I enjoyed being in school plays and funny things. I loved cartoons, especially off-the-wall ones like Heckle & Jeckle. I adored H.R. Pufnstuf, without knowing a thing about the obvious drug references. My childhood bedroom door was covered in silly and gross Wacky Package stickers. I wrote silly little plays and dialogues. And when my Dad asked me if I wanted to play Little League Baseball, I said no.
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U.S. Constitution hospitalized following suicide attempt
By William K. Wolfrum on Tue, 07/21/2020 - 1:39pm | Humor & Satire, Politics
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The United States Constitution, the long respected legal document of the United States government, is in serious condition at George Washington University Hospital, following a suicide attempt late last night. Sources close to the document say it despondently tried to shred itself in a nearby office shredder at approximately 11 p.m. Monday.
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A Word of Caution for Those Rushing Out to Celebrate Their Release From 'Captivity'
By librewolf on Thu, 05/21/2020 - 9:29am |
The pressure is on to "reopen" the economy (a misnaming of what needs to happen). The vision of what that means and the reality that will continue to evolve are in vast conflict. However, regardless of vision, there is a harsh reality that few seem to understand.
It is more dangerous to be out in public now than at any time since January 22, when we first became aware that there was one person with the virus in the U.S.
How many reading this are saying "Say WHAT!?"
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The COVID-19 Show on hiatus as ratings plummet and people leave their homes
By William K. Wolfrum on Mon, 05/04/2020 - 1:38pm | Health, Humor & Satire
Despite stellar early ratings and a cast of guest stars that included Tom Hanks and Idris Elba, The COVID-19 Show is being put on hiatus due to dwindling viewership and a general lack of interest in the ongoing pandemic. Producers of the show will now retool it's format, but promise that the deaths will continue.
“We feel that we can get interest in this virus back to where it was in the beginning,” said producer Michael Bay. “People are still in grave danger, but the plot just isn't pulling people in.”
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Trump COVID 19 Timeline, Updated
By NCD on Sun, 04/19/2020 - 7:40pm |
1/6 - Chinese first describe the new virus.
1/8 -CDC issues warning on virus, Intelligence community waving "red flags" as it "did before 9/11"
1/14 - Trump has campaign rally, New Hampshire.
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Living Clean and Reducing Risk of Infection
By librewolf on Fri, 03/27/2020 - 7:51am |
We are living in a dangerous time, dealing with something the majority rarely, if ever, even consider – Fighting a contagious, and possibly deadly, microbe. It is a virus known as Covid-19. Many will be sickened, few will escape unscathed, and some of us will die. How many don’t die largely depends on their being able to protect themselves, but more importantly, it depends on the vigilance of everyone else. If you are in my place (the highest risk group) your heart just sank. And every time you watch/read/listen to the news your heart drops a bit further.
I am not an expert, but I have been living with a double-lung transplant and suppressed immune system for going on 9 years. I also once worked for one of the largest sterilizer companies in the United States earlier in life. So here are my ideas, and what I am practicing, in these perilous times.
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Fear, Loathing, and Pandemics
By Doctor Cleveland on Sat, 03/07/2020 - 10:00pm | Politics
An epidemic turns out to be a rotten time to have a germophobe President. Trump's more obvious pathologies -- ignorance, narcissism, magical thinking, pathological lying -- have gotten the obvious attention, because those are all real dangers to public safety. But Trump's germophobia makes him fundamentally unsuited to a public health crisis. His focus on making sure that he, personally, does not get ill, is just the mindset that increases the number of people who will. Selfishness helps an epidemic thrive. The outbreak can only be defeated by cooperation.
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Wakeup: Trump Doesn't Need a Majority
By PeraclesPlease on Sat, 02/01/2020 - 3:20am |
Wakeup call: Hitler was named Chancellor after getting only 36% of the vote.
Gottwald in Czechoslovakia pulled a coup 2 years after the Communists got 38% of the vote.
Boris Johnson just led the UK out of the EU with only 43.6% of the vote.
Bush claimed a "mandate" after losing with only 47.9% of the vote, going to the Supreme Court to rubber stamp the vote theft.
Trump's Russian & other pals helped him "win" 3 Midwest states by super thin margins via voter repression & hacking, and then block the investigations.
Relying on the 2020 results to throw Trump out? Don't.
When a man shows you what he's made of, believe him.
Trump doesn't need to "win" - he just needs to stay in power. His cronies will help him do exactly that.
Danger, Will Robinson, Danger.
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Before you board that chopper...
By jollyroger on Thu, 01/30/2020 - 10:07am |
Amid the widespread grief over Kobe Bryant's death, a small lesson in the evils of "regulatory capture" is manifest, and the rich and powerful should pay attention.
Most of us are familiar with the alarms that sound when a plane is on a trajectory that in pilot-speak understatement, is designated "a controlled flight into terrain." As the situation grows more urgent, a voice will be generated shouting "PULL UP! PULL UP! PULL UP!"
The warning is generated by a device called a TAWS (Terrain Awareness and Warning System). It costs about $37,000, plus $7000 in lost revenue for the downtime required to install. If you were rich enough to own your own helicopter, you would certainly want it equipped with one. Bryant, evidently, did not own his own helicopter, but instead used charters for his frequent air commutes.
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Kobe Bryant: He Touched Every Line
By Danny Cardwell on Mon, 01/27/2020 - 4:34pm | Personal
I sat down to write about Kobe's life and contributions to the game, but a blank piece of paper kept staring back at me. I struggled to find the words to express the shock I felt. Watching the crowd in New Orleans pay respect to Kobe was emotional. Seeing the tears in the eyes of Celtics players was tough. I felt a sense of pride after seeing teams take 24 second shot clock violations. Trae Young's inspired 45-point performance while wearing the number 8 made me a fan of his for life. Those images are worth more than any words I could ever write.
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Episode 123 – UFC 249: Ferguson vs. Gaethje (RECAP)
May 12, 2020 May 20, 2020 cstRyan 0 Comments Anthony Pettis, Carla Esparza, Dominick Cruz, Donald Cerrone, Francis Ngannou, Greg Hardy, Henry Cejudo, Jairzinho Rosenstruik, Justin Gaethje, Michelle Waterson, Tony Ferguson
UFC 249 is in the books! Hosted in Jacksonville, FL, the UFC hosted their first Pay-per-view event since the pandemic forced cancellations of every sporting league in the United States. With a stacked card, the UFC treated the world with two title fights and a list of featured bouts that could be main events in any other card. Get our take on the Henry Cejudo announcement, the results from UFC 249, key headlines on this week’s news and our picks for the two upcoming cards this week.
Ryan Smith 0:07
Welcome to combat sports talk a podcast dedicated to UFC and bellator discussion, the MMA community and combat sports in general. I’m your host Ryan Smith. And joining me this week is the man with the keys to victory. JOHN keys.
John Keyes 0:23
Hello combat sports world we have survived. It is March 87th.
All right. Is it really March 87?
Somewhere along that we’re at level five to Ron’s number. Yeah, level five Jumanji? You know, murder Hornets. Things of that nature. Nature. Welcome.
All right. And you may not recognize this person because he is Santa beard and has added glasses. It’s malece Casey own Yay. Buchi
Kelechi Onyebuchi 0:52
What’s up, boy? obrigado bunchy Yeah, boom, no check. I forgot It’s evening. Yeah. Yeah,
yeah, this is this is absolutely Montgomery j frog. We were doing the live event. We were doing the live show we had someone come on the live show from Brazil and I’m like malece say something say something in Portuguese say something in Portuguese and he was like yeah, no say I don’t speak Portuguese and then now we can’t stop him from from the whole the whole battle is gonna be in Portuguese tonight.
I’ll switch it up switch to Spanish every now and again.
Alright, just yeah, just not English. I’m temporary. Anyway, we like Like you said, john, we did it. We saw UFC 249 it happened in Florida. As far as we know right now there was only one person who tested positive for COVID-19 I guess the two week wait to see if any other fighters who might have been exposed To Jukka Rae Sousa, who was tested positive for COVID-19, or at least the the virus that causes COVID-19. We’ll see if there’s any negative implications but as of right now it by all, by all perspectives, it looks like UFC 249 was a success.
That is what they’re saying so far, um, where they said to give it about a week, and then we’ll see if it’s truly been a success. And so far, it’s been a minimal impact. Okay. JOHN Korea hope he recovers. You know, God bless the man. But yeah, it turned out to be exactly what we thought it was going to be violence, mayhem, and a bunch of quick fights.
Mm hmm. They are who we thought they were.
Absolutely. So let’s go ahead and get into it. Let’s get into our headliner. The number one topic that we want to talk about tonight on the show This is our headliner.
All right, the headliner for tonight is hidden Risa Hutto. Triple C is retiring
couldn’t be happier.
Not not a negative way in the least bit. It’s the man has, as he said in the octagon, he he’s defended both his bells and has an Olympic gold like, what more is there for him to do?
Sure. And and I agree.
Unknown Speaker 3:34
Yeah, that’s just the send off. You want you don’t want an Anderson Anderson Silva who should have gone out on top, but now he’s continuing to fight to try to salvage his legacy like this is the way that a fighter ends his career. Like there’s no better scenario for this.
I mean, he was you know, yeah, Olympic gold medalist, two division champ 32
Division champ and then The other division of defense had the bell
belt that was handed to him. But not actually when the belt like you know, I know Collette you, you you have some experience with this being you really want me to break being handed a bell that you did not actually win.
That’s a great reminder that we do have a video component for those of you who are interested in seeing it. So at some point during the show, I will pull out the belt just to remind Ryan what it’s like to be a real champion.
Okay, so we’re gonna call this the bike ride cholesky factor. How long does it take to go into a show before this is and you can’t get over it?
Ever Ever I can’t get over is Henry saludo saying he’s a two division champ when when he was handed a belt from Demetrius Mighty Mouse Johnson that’s what I can’t get over. I’m a
over the night. So outside That would you say that he’s had an outstanding career to present in the
UFC? Let me let me just say this history pseudo, that what I can respect about Henry sudo is the fact that now that he has defeated he defeated Dominick Cruz. he retires in the ring goes in the post fight press conference, and he is a normal dude again. Yeah, if you go and listen to the post fight press conference of Henry son who does interview after he won his won the fight against Dominick Cruz. He’s a normal dude again and and that was the guy that I actually liked. Henry pseudo he’s he is a smart guy. He’s a he’s a dude that’s worked his entire life to be where he is. And he’s had tremendous success. So all of the persona that he had all of this king of cringe and all of the calling out of the female fighters and all that stuff. It was unnecessary to me and it just made me not want to like this person and not want to see him successful. So now that he’s retired, I you know, I got nothing to say but good things about him. all I’m gonna say is as far as that giving up the belt, you never leave it in the hands of the judges, which is also another storyline that we should be talking about on this UFC fight and we and we will and we will so I’m Henry sudo says that the retirement is real Dana but he also left the door open. He says Dana White knows the numbers that will bring him back. So there so you know, there was a professional wrestler known as Ted DiBiase. He was also known as the Million Dollar Man, he had a catchphrase that says everybody’s got a price. Interesting. Hutto clearly has a price. Dana White may or may not be willing to pay it to bring back Triple C
there’s there’s very little chance that Dana’s willing to pay that price that division, I mean, so who does save the division, but at the same time, maybe it’s just my own particular bias but guys fighting at 125 130 Five it is real real tough to be excited about those fights outside of Demetrius Johnson and maybe the magician like the rest of the fights it’s just like watching school kids yeah and I don’t mean that to be as much of a pejorative as it is
like realistic like oh my god
130 pounds like it’s it’s not the same factor is Francis and gunning six for 260 pounds right it’s just a different level of Mayhem that comes into the ring.
But let’s let’s look at it for what these fighters were fast these fighters Yeah, go. But there was no there was very little knockout power with these guys though. There was very little that I saw. They would always let it go to the judges. Finish it off. Okay, even in the you know, at 145 155 they were finishing them off. Okay, the majority.
Yeah, but Demetrius Johnson, he got submissions. He got knockout. Yeah, you know, Henry pseudo got a TKO. His last fight.
So let’s talk about those fighters he that
he landed a flying knee He got
hairy suta gets those knockouts. Right. JOHN Dotson gets those knockouts and submissions. The Meteor is mighty mouth. God gets those knockouts in submission. Demetrius Mighty Mouse is over in one FC where the rest of those little guys and I say little guys with the utmost respect, because I’m pretty sure you can jump up to six foot and kick me in the head. Those guys are getting those knockout from submissions over there. Okay. JOHN Dotson he wears yet he’s chilling right now.
Well he still he’s still trying to find his way between 125 and 135. He’s clearly a 125 pound fighter, but unfortunately there’s just not any action going on at 125 right now so
I know a place where there’s some action that well
not everybody go to one FC though right?
He will they might have too soon.
Yeah, yeah. They could be a great acquisition but that’s that’s just my opinion.
So I just want to say Dana White has said that he’s already got a challenger in mind for the vacant bantamweight title. He says Peter Yon and somebody.
And that’s insulting. That’s very insulting. Because he can’t say algae man. You can’t say algae me thoroughly and Pete again. Peter Yan is below algae main on the ranks. Okay. He couldn’t say his name. Say my name.
No. Wow. I mean, okay. You clearly have made a point. So for those of you who are watching right now, you can chat with us in the in your in your chat screen. We’ll put that on the screen. For those of you who listen to the podcast right now. You should join us live on on YouTube. That’s where we’re, we’re on right now. So respond to us. If you have a comment if you think Henry saludo is a if you think Henry pseudos departure is going to leave a vacuum in the back in the band. Wait world, let us know. I you know, let’s let’s, let’s finish this little segment off with what is your favorite Henry’s a Hutto moment
Unknown Speaker 10:11
when you were talking about him on the podcast making fun of the fact that he almost lost it. Well he did lose his metals in the fire so that was my favorite moment.
John Keyes 10:21
That’s cold blooded in the game. Yeah, I just
what Ryan’s heart really is like,
yeah, it’s cold is brittle as the summers warming up, he’s having to put ice around his chest. You know?
Have you gone back check me is that john?
Ryan Smith 10:43
JOHN, what is your favorite hitters to hit on moment?
Man. I don’t have one in particular. I mean, I was always I was always impressed by his fights. He was such he was just such a he was just such a force in the ring. I mean, let’s let’s put it out that we joke We kid, but who was doing it? Okay, who was doing it like he was doing it? Yeah. Yeah. God bless you, Henry pseudo. All right. Good luck in whatever you do next. Oh, if they if they got a commentator cheer for you.
I think Ryan pointed out something that was really apropos, which is that you had two different versions of Henry sudo. Like he had to play the game to get where he was to get to the belt. But to be able to leave that persona at home once he’s ready to retire. I think that it speaks to a disconnect that’s happened within the UFC, UFC that the the rankings don’t matter whatsoever. And it’s all about how you can sell yourself. And right now because no one’s getting good media training. The only way to sell yourself in the UFC is cringe and cringe is way too close to ww E or F i don’t even follow that but it’s too close to wrestling and it’s done. so poorly like they’ve tainted their product. Like it was so much easier to like a Henry sudo who’s the all American champ, but the only way that you get to be the title holder is if you play heel. It’s it’s a broken broken system. Well, you
know whose fault it is, don’t you? You know, Ryan’s no iPhone. Well, no, no, Brian, but that that’d be
that. Ryan burger. Thank you. Yeah.
You know, we have we have people like Conor McGregor. We have the chill sons who know how to do it. But the thing is not just like, just like Biggie Smalls. Not everybody can rap freestyle and make it sound good. Okay.
Yeah, that’s the thing is I can’t even fault Conor because Conor was being true to who he is like, Conor never came off as cocky. I mean, now that he’s kind of out of the game and trying to get back into it, but when he was coming up, like that attitude, felt like right in line he felt He fell into that heel slash hero row roll without any kind of like awkward pauses and like, Oh, is this really who this guy is like, after every fight, he just believed in myself and then we started believing it and Dana White kept hyping it. Yeah, but these other fighters who tried to mimic that it wasn’t true to who they were like they started off being this. I’m this all American good old boy. And now I’m a heel. Like, what? It’s too much of a turnaround. Yeah,
I mean, but it’s like you said it’s worked for some of these guys. I mean, we know now that Colby Covington saved his career by donning a magga hat. Yeah, you know, but I do think so. For me, my favorite hitters to hit a moment was the knockout of Wilson hice. That was probably the most that was a nice one. That was probably his most flawless victory. I it was. It was when I was like, wow, Henry sudo actually, he’s impressive. Because this was shortly after he bought Demetrius Johnson the first time Demetrius dispatched him with the quickness. And Henry went back kind of to the drawing board, started learning karate started learning striking because he was a pure wrestler. And that was really the first time that you saw his striking on display against Wilson High School. And I was like, that’s the dude that I’m gonna follow. And then, you know, it didn’t work out quite so for me the way that I wish that his career had gone. But at the end of the day, I’m glad that he had the success that he’s had. He’s had a great career, and I wish him all the luck and success in whatever he chooses to do. Next, let’s get into the official decision. Let’s talk about the fight that actually happened. And all the greatness that was UFC 249. This is the official decision.
All right, welcome to the official decision. This is where we talk about all of the all of the things that we were discussing at UFC 249. The event in Jacksonville, Florida at the what is it the vice star veterans arena? Is that what it’s called? by our veterans Arena in Jacksonville, Florida. This was UFC 249 Tony Ferguson versus Justin Gachi. And so, let’s go through the results here. We had Bryce Mitchell, who defeated Charles Rossa by unanimous decision. We have Vincent De Luca, who defeated Nico price by TKO in round three the eye in the eye injury that he that Nico price got it was was pretty awful. They said he looked like that dude on Harry Potter.
Oh, quick. You smell that? The nozzle Thomas Sure did. Wow.
I picked this since a Luca as well believed me that I picked both since a Luca and so on the show on the live broadcast during 249. I had to pull up the audio from last week. It was at one hour and four minutes and 33 seconds into last week’s episode, where you hear me say I got Vincent De Luca. So there goes shout out to Johnny burns, by the way, because Johnny is the one who’s like, you got to go with Vincent De Luca. Carla, the Cookie Monster Esparza defeated the karate hottie Michelle Waterson by split decision. I actually did not see Carla Esparza. No, actually, we thought that Carlos barse was gonna win that one. She she did she know takedowns
we all had karate on that one.
Yeah, yeah. And I yeah, we did cuz i like i like Carla
picked. Michelle Waterson but watching the fight. Oh, yeah. It was cool as far as it was. To win that fight.
Yeah. Cuz it was almost as if I hate that I keep referring to people by their, there’s stage names or whatever it Waterson there it is. She didn’t seem to show up at all, like her game was stalled she wasn’t pushing the action in any way shape or form for kicks looked a little bit lazy and she was being backed up the whole whole fight if it wasn’t the Waterson we’re used to see it.
100% Yeah, and Carla Esparza I mean, her striking has gotten way better. I mean, you both you and I collect you from UFC 185 when we saw her get destroyed by umdnj chick, I don’t think we’ve picked Carla Esparza to win a fight since because she’s out class. But I can say that her striking has gotten better because I remember Michelle Waterson I mean, she’s she’s a she’s a Muay Thai kickboxer. I mean she’s, she knows how to how to handle herself on her hands and feet and And for all I know that as far as a neutralize what she was what she was bringing to the ring, and then got those takedowns that really sealed the deal for indeed indeed Bri CEO for Doom was defeated by Alexei olynyk via split decision. Now this is one that you did have I think that this was highway robbery By the way, false reset for Doom one that fight. And, you know, this is when john was saying, never leave it in the hands of the judges for breach overdue and clearly won that fight.
You guys give way too much advantage to take downs at the end of around like, if you get a tape down to the last 10 seconds around. I don’t think that should steal it. And I think that’s for you. Where you see we’re due should have won because of his takedowns Well, he’s getting beat up at the start of every round
but the takedowns and the the fact that he was reversed Passing guard he had olynyk in in a Camorra threatening a camera and not just the way that they normally have it where it’s pinned under their body, but he had the arm all the way back. And, you know, he couldn’t get it over the top, but it was it was out there. So shout out to Alex Lee olynyk that just goes to prove that you don’t go against rule number one. Rule number one of combat sports talk. never bet against the Russians.
Like I got in before I
wait too long. I’m not gonna. I’m not gonna even leave the door open a little bit for you to say something. Rule
number one, always get Thin Mints.
What, what?
in the in the in the prelims feature five. Donald cowboys. Roni was defeated by Anthony Showtime Pettis via unanimous decision.
You know, that was a close fight. It was a it was a really good fight. The both of them were active. cowboy Sironi. I think the one that Yeah, cowboy Sironi.
I think we all had Anthony Pettis, I don’t think Did anybody have cowboys running after the 42nd? I don’t I can’t imagine I think initially, I initially called him as a potential show up, but I in the app in our verdict app, went back and picked pedis. Okay, so I just wanted to make that clear. Unless that come back up later.
On has me picking pedis.
Okay, cuz, uh, let’s see here.
Oh, yeah, I think I have pedis. I think I should.
Yeah, I had pedis had better decision. Boom. I’m hurt. Let’s see here. Well play. Alright. Um, so So in the main core real quick
Yeah, I would say that verdict for those listening verdict is an app where we pick the fights, who’s gonna win the fight, what round they’re gonna win and how they’re gonna win. So if you guys want to see how you do against us, check us out on the verdict app.
Yes. If you want to win.
Don’t get was right. Yeah.
Yeah, he is not in tune with the force yet. He will never get it pick. Pick. I say
I pick the opposite of what I say. That’s that’s how you do.
It’s Lion’s pick method is based on who he likes that day. Yeah, like a good smile. Yeah,
you know, I work. I can break down the fight. I can tell you what’s gonna happen. I just ignore all of those facts when I picked them. It’s like, Yes, I know that this guy’s never gone one round with someone, but I really like his nickname. So I’m going with that.
We’re gonna talk about that in the main event. Oh, Okay,
cardi versus Juergen de Castro, Greg Hardy defeated Juergen de Castro v unanimous decision 3027 all three, this was highway robbery for me. While I did have Greg hardy winning, I believe that you’re going to Castro was doing what he needed to do in order to win that fight. He did break his foot in the process. So you know, his his output, you know, decreased dramatically. And we’ll talk a little bit more about that fight at the end of the show. Because there were a couple of things that we’re going to talk about, about being in an empty in an empty arena. And some of the benefits of having no audience in the arena, but we’ll talk about that a little bit later. Jeremy Stephens little he then got dispatched by Calvin cater via TKO and what and what a fight that was. That was man, elbows and punches, man, all you need to elbow to the mouth. Just catch your breath. They’re in the mouth and then just bow
the punches. Yeah, that was brutal. Okay. Because not only I think the what was more devastating to see the punch in real time or to see it in slow motion because both times you saw his faces go walk it just it just walked like a warped and I’ll just like my god and didn’t see it in slow motion. It really worked. I was like well that’s I hope his dental insurance is up. Yeah that’s all I gotta say. He got mouthguard for sure. Yeah, man.
Francis in Ghana. defeated now.
No, no, no, no, no, he did not defeat him. It was destroyed. Okay destroyed him. All right. 20 seconds. Gone. We literally sat there if people if you actually go back to the to the stream the vodcast me We are learning like, Well, here’s starts up, and there it is. Alright, so moving on, and we clearly ignored it. Okay.
Yeah, I mean, it was like the the referee said, Go, and then I think Rosen struck through through. Yeah. And then that’s when God just went across the ring and he was just like, rocked him and it was like it was over.
You can see it on their face. Like, he knew it wasn’t gonna laugh cuz he’s like, man, he had that look like, man. I gotta jump in the middle of this. So
for context, Francis in Ghana, who what was that fight show he was on? Where they measured his strength.
Yeah, whatever it was. Yeah, but I don’t know what it what it what showed that it was called,
maybe fight history. Fight science or something. Yeah. Yeah. So Francis in Ghana has the strongest punch on record. When he hits things, they’re destroyed like, it’s, it’s hard to put, without seeing the fight itself. It’s hard to put it into words the destructive power that’s in his hands. But But what we’ve seen with Francis in Ghana from time to time is he’s well aware of his power, but he’s also well aware of his deficiencies. So he has a tendency to hang back with his power, afraid of getting taken down. But in this instance, he turned it all the way on he saw the leg kicks and saw a shoot coming and instead of letting that shoot happen, from Rosen struck, he just pushes forward and head Hi, worst technique you’ve ever seen. But when you got power like that, and the end the reach, no one has a chance against an A rushing gun. Like you can’t duck down fast enough to go go for a single leg, because he’s gonna catch you. Yeah.
And then after it was over and just settle in on your point is that he was standing over here. Like, please get that, please. Okay. He really was concerned because I think they both cried. Like I almost killed the man in the ring when it was.
It was bad. What’s funny to me is that the you know, the article that that was written about Francis in Ghana after the fact is that he was mad. He was like, man, it happened again. I, again, I didn’t get to show anything I just ran over here. Yes. What
I don’t know what to do is like, I want to show more of my skills. I want to showcase my whole game, but people can’t can’t withstand the first punch. So you know, Hey, I’ll take it. I’d rather be in the ring for 20 seconds and get paid money.
No, no, no, no. So let’s talk about that. Because there’s been, you know, people putting up there, you know, one punch from Francis and Ghana versus the worst things that could happen to your life and people are taking worst thing that can happen to your life. I think they were up to 10 years in prison. And one guy was like, he was like, Well, you know, I guess I’ll be, you know, picking up the soap and, and biting the pillow. I don’t know what that meant.
Getting hit by Francis in Ghana legitimately takes years off of your life. Yes. It legitimately takes years off of your life. Nothing will ever be copacetic after getting by him.
Yeah. I mean, we’ve seen two years in a coma. And one guy’s like, Hey, I could take two years in a coma and come out and continue on with life. Okay, rather get hit by Francis in Ghana. I mean, these guys, car wrecks. Yeah, I murder Hornets. I mean, they were really you know, they were really going for it. I’m just like, and I understand that because, like, like most people say when you get knocked out, you never feel it. You’ll never know it. But it’s the chance that you don’t get knocked out and you feel that that is the problem because I’m like, Oh no, no, I’m done. Yeah, okay.
I think I think it has something to do with the fact that they always tell you you know when you get knocked out you don’t feel it. But you got to wake up in my mind you don’t feel it going to sleep but you’re gonna feel it for next couple of days waking up. Francis gonna hit so hard the date have stopped calling it CTE. Now they just call it in gone, dude. Yeah. So now the NFL is just like, I gotta see if anybody has been in Ghana, you know. I’m concerned that I may have been in Ghana and not know it.
I’m just waiting for him to show up on Street Fighter, Street Fighter five at this point as a character.
I don’t really think the only thing holding his career back and it’s a shame that we’re in this kind of place. No, not
even close.
He would be the ultimate UFC hero if his English was better. I mean, the guy speaks French is his first language. He’s from Cameroon trains in Paris, like, and he struggles a bit on the mic. He’s been working on that clearly he’s gotten a lot better and he’s getting his online presence there. But could you imagine ganu with any blank for it’s even if he was cringe factor, Conor McGregor,
like if he if you put Conor McGregor’s voice in France and ganas body. I mean, it’d be kind of funny cuz you’d have a black Irish.
that exists don’t play. I actually
play a black Irishman in a play in my freshman year in high school. So yeah, it was Mr. Flannery. Anyway. Even though they don’t sound like that if you actually listen to a person from Ireland, they don’t sound like a leprechaun. It’s so funny.
American allegedly American representation of what a what a person from Ireland sounds like. It’s not even close but that’s
Oh, have you heard the James the American representation of like James Bond movies? were horrible. We are nothing but a bunch of content read Nick Hicks from Texas eating biscuits and gravy everywhere.
This isn’t gravy.
Oh, hold on, man.
JOHN is from Kentucky. So you know, you just you
just hold on hold on. that’s a that’s a misconception too. I was raised in Kentucky but I was born in Indiana. Alright, so I’m in real Texas.
So that’s that’s all we got to say.
Oh, hold on a now I feel it right here, people
here who was actually born in Texas.
I was born in Texas as well.
As where you were basically Louisiana though.
Yeah. No, I was not basic Louisiana. I grew up born and raised here in Texas. I’m a Texan. The border,
huh? Where was the border from where you were born?
From where I was born? Yeah, Holly about half an hour 45
not that’s driving
at 15 miles an hour, like three miles from the border.
And I was raised in Texas. I was raised. I came here in 1983. And this is where everything went down. I wasn’t even born
when I’m born.
All right, let’s continue. The CO main event of the evening was Henry sudo. Versus dominant cruise inertia who defeated Dominick Cruz by TKO landed a beautiful knee and then followed up with some strikes at 458. In round two, there were a lot of people who felt like that that the calling of the fight was a little early. There are a lot of people who felt like this fight since it should have been a since it was a championship fight. And there was only two minutes, two seconds left in the round. The ref should have allowed it to go Even George was like, the ref knows that there’s tense you know, 10 seconds left. He could have let that fight continue going for two more seconds and saw what happened in the next round.
I’m gonna cut this off at the past before john jumps in with the all the gray seas will allow you to kill them.
Now, I do believe in the graces of hands on Gracie with a rep, he would have nine let that bell ring. Okay, but in this case here, there was there were 11 unanswered shots. Okay. My other bottle rules of MMA. You gotta stop it. Okay. Dominic did not defend any of those shots. As a matter of fact, three of those shots. Henry Henry had pretty much captured his his left arm and begin to really well on them. So there was none that the rep did the right call.
Yeah, bother the MMA and as far as I’m concern, you know, when he caught he because he caught Dominick Cruz interested who caught Dominick Cruz within the Dominick Cruz clearly fell backwards. And then that first punch that he came in with that fight was basically over after that. Um, then you have Dominick Cruz and and what I always look for whenever someone is saying that they the fight got stopped too early. Are your hands on the mat helping you to get up? Or are your knuckles on the mat? And as your head turned to the side, and if you go back and look at Dominick Cruz when he’s getting beat up by interested Hutto after that knee and the punch, it’s his knuckles that are on the ground. You don’t stand up like that. He says I was getting up. No, if you if you post up your hands and yours you have a strong base. Yeah, maybe we’ll we’ll give you a couple more seconds. But his face was sideways on the mat. His hands were not his paws. He was palms up in the ring. You You You You weren’t in that fight Dominick Cruz. And I don’t care what you say you you, the fight should have been called and I’m glad it did.
It’s hard to have acuity in that moment because you want to look back
and say listen, hold on. We got PERS acuity now
please, please continue. I’m on it.
another learning moment from malece only a Buchi.
Ward first acuity
first acuity first first you at
perspicuous.
So what was a normal word that he could have used instead of? acuity?
I guess you could have just said perspective to have the right perspective.
Okay, hold on. He could have just said lucid. perspicuous cute perspectives and an adjective An account or representation clearly expressed and easily understood. listed.
Yeah, it’s funny that they would make a complicated word like purpose cutie. That means easily understood.
Is that irony? Yeah,
that’s like that’s, that’s that’s like, you know, phonics, not having not being phonetic. Alright, continue these hard to have perspective. Go ahead.
It’s hard to have that right perspective right after the fight because every fighter believes that they had a chance, and there’s still that haze of you were just hitting the head. You just got wiped, but that’s why we have to have responsible corners there and responsible judges, because it’s really difficult for a fighter to give up unless you are I’m totally Brock Lesnar. Like there’s very few fighters who have given up in a fight and just said, Nope, I’m done. Because the reality is you went out there and you think that there is a puncher’s chance that you can come back and so It’s it’s hard when he gets leading questions like hey we saw this was an early stop it’s just not fair like don’t even lead him down that path because he’s he’s literally still in a haze. There is no lucidity to his thoughts. He’s just thinking like, give me another chance the adrenaline’s going like I just feel like the way that we frame up these early stoppages are not fair to the fighter to give them like just a clear vision of dude you were getting what like let’s go to the monitor real quick and
open Joe up he hates doing doing post fight interviews with people that have been knocked out like that are not alright like that.
So So here’s the thing though Dominick Cruz in his disgust of the stoppage of the fight claims are claimed that the referee Keith Peterson smelled like alcohol and cigarettes.
That’s what happens when just your your factories just get all discombobulated. Well, you know,
the guy smelled like alcohol and cigarettes and who knows what he was doing. I wish they drug tested them. I know herb Dean is. He’s one of the best reps immediately when I saw that Rep. I was like, man, is there a way to veto a rep and get a new one? I wonder that as fighters Do we have a choice. I wish we did. That sounds like sour grapes. That sounds like a sore loser. Dude, you got beat Henderson who don’t one.
You got to take that l better than that. That’s right. I am
taking that mortal word let you he takes ELS better than anybody.
And the world in the words of the immortal words of Captain Hook 4444
I wish I wasn’t at my desk right now.
Chalk that one up for me. I’m winning again.
All right, I mean, we might have to blackout my screen cuz I’m gonna walk away real quick.
Main Event, the main event. The evening Tony Ferguson was defeated by Justin he does Justin he defeated Tony Ferguson by TKO at 339 in round five in the fifth round. This was a great fight. This was a slobberknocker this was back and forth. You know, round two, Tony Ferguson landed an uppercut that nearly ended the fight if only there had been a little more time left in the fight. He might have been able to dig that one out, but unfortunately just engage he’s fought other than that one strike. He fought the perfect fight against Tony Ferguson.
Yeah, I was gonna say there’s there’s some bias that comes into play there because Tony Ferguson for all of this flash and grab the sand and blow it in your face like all of that with nothing because he got bullied from start to finish, he landed one shot, and it’s questionable of whether or not that would have been an Ender, because, like both of those fighters took some heavy shots and kept going
so well. The uppercut landed at the end of round two bell rung and and Justin he had a moment to recover. Like it was literally at the very end of the second round. Now why Tony Ferguson didn’t then capitalize on that and come out at the beginning of round three to see if he could potentially, you know, take advantage of any any cobwebs that Justin he might have had in his head. I don’t know why Tony Ferguson didn’t use more elbows and use the things that he has typically used. He sat there and stood in striking range of Justin he and just ate Apple sandwiches with subway.
Is it time to have the conversation about the efficacy of his fight style at this point, it’s too much gimmick not enough action.
ethicacy
now we’re good with that one. That’s just the
kid just say efficiency.
I took LSAT prep for I’m gonna use those words.
I agree. You know, I was one of the few fights that Dana has said. And Dana promised what was going to happen and it happened. My question is when are we going to stop going against Justin he at this point now now now, okay cuz he, he did he did he did some work in that range. It was a total bloodbath. Congratulations to Justin he I you know, congratulations on on Tony Ferguson living through that.
I think he’d My goodness,
made it 12 hours after so that’s a good sign.
No would have made it.
So Tony Ferguson also suffered a broken orbital during the fight and we know when it happened. Justin, he lands a huge strike and right under Tony Ferguson’s right I just swells up almost immediately. Joe Rogan called it out He’s like,
oh, the left hook that got him.
It would have had to been a left hook. Yeah. Coming from the left,
so many of those left hooks
then the question was whether or not the weight to weight cuts in three weeks hurt Tony Ferguson. So I was gonna I was gonna add nutrition so proud of that. What? No.
Yeah. Oh,
well, you mean last week I was awake. Yeah, I mean, I was. I was I was like, I am a Tony Ferguson fan. And so there’s a little that Tony Ferguson can do that that I’m not gonna celebrate. I’m a Tony Ferguson fan. So as a result him cutting weight when he didn’t have to was something to celebrate. But now, the question is because Dana White said that he looked a little bit listless and that he wasn’t as quick and fast as he’s normally been. Is it possible that having to cut weight twice in the course of three weeks? Something that was detrimental. It’s possible. I’m not taking anything away from Justin. He. I’m just saying That’s one of the storylines coming out of this fight.
I don’t want to hear it. He walked in that ring he said he was 100%
all I need to know so Justin he now is the is the next fight for Habib, American men off and you know Conor McGregor has been calling out both of those guys trying to get back into this fight. He wants the big fights, of course. So the Vegas odds have come out. Justin, he is a plus 200 to have even America Madoff’s minus 250 you think that’s a fair odds?
That means he is a minus 200 to the Margot Meadows plus 250 No, no, no, no, no. Otherwise the minus is no no no. He’s all he’s the face it backwards. Sorry. Sorry, world. Sorry, comments was I’m not a gambler. Yeah,
so nor am I just engaged to 100. So here’s what came out of this. JOHN Jones. tweeted about the outcome. Oh my god john Jones did that. He says Damn, beat that man like he broke into the wrong house.
Yes. JOHN is still
on your boy. Anthony Lionheart
evil man do it.
I know how there’s no point in that fight though cuz let’s be real. This is a one to Anthony Smith and when
I understand how Palpatine when he was closed his eyes like I feel your dark side. I thought feel that when he was talking to Anna Kip. I feel that about john Jones. I feel that dark side now and I’m proud of them. Embrace it do your dish.
Well, the last thing I want to talk about is you know, I like when a fighter loses a fight. I like to see how they recover. I like to see how they you know how they take losing the fight and in the in the hospital. After taking some significant damage from Justin he there is video of Tony Ferguson with his IV stand his the car whatever the that thing is. He’s dancing in his room. It’s that’s Tony. That’s not cringe.
It’s Chris christic is unnecessary. It was much like his fighting unnecessary movement.
It’s classic the class super proud of Tony Ferguson. Congratulations to Justin he I can’t wait for Gucci versus America man off.
It’s gonna be a great fight in gratulations Ferguson. All right.
All right, let’s get to finding the angles look at some of the headlines coming out of the wake of UFC 249. This is finding the angles
Alright, this is finding the angles This is where we look at the headlines that people are writing about and talking about in the wake of UFC two 49 and the first one is Joe Rogan who refused to interview UFC 249 fighters at a distance. Daniel Cormier said you threw a fit when they told you that you had to move away. I I’m happy that Joe Rogan was like, Hey, listen, this looks dumb. me standing on one side of the octagon yelling that back and forth at this person. I’m gonna stand up and and and interview these fighters. They’ve been tested. they’ve tested negative. what’s what’s what’s the concern?
Yeah, I feel it mostly because it affects his brand, right? Like he he’s got a certain way that he does things and people know him for that. And at this stage to affect that in any way would would take away from the overall product that they were going to get. I mean, personally, I wouldn’t want to be in that position, but I respect that. There were safety precautions in place, and it did make for a better product.
Absolutely it could you imagine him standing at six feet. Honestly,
the audio was pretty trash from start to finish like the audio from the when they’re ringside commentating was great. But the interview comments like just the stadium echo didn’t fit the moment.
Well normally you have the crowd cheering and you have you know, things going on which, you know someone was talking about possibly pumping that sound into the room. That was me. Oh, well, there you go.
My arms got smaller. So
I’m gonna keep going, john, I’m just gonna keep going. So, missing from missing from our trio tonight is the fourth voice on combat sports talk and that’s George g money Star Wars. And you know, I wanted to shout him out because we’ve got another George that that’s making the headlines. For you said trio. We are a trio. We are trio 123 missing from our trio trio
from the core nothing
missing from our quartet.
We’re not important right now we are a trio,
right? You’re a quartet missing a member, which
which makes us a trio. All right. I know that it’s hard to have what the right answer is.
Yeah, I know it’s hard to have acuity right now, but you’re not gonna get me on this.
It’s clearly
missing from our trio. We’re a trio right now and Miss Georgia money Star Wars. All I want to say is George St. Pierre got elected to the UFC Hall of Fame. Yes, that’s all I’m gonna say. named George. has an S attaches ga your other one has an S attached to is the first letter of his last name.
All I’m saying is in other news water is wet. We knew that was gonna happen, but
some people have been suspect appointees to the UFC Hall of Fame, namely Matt Sarah.
Oh, oh, Ah,
that’s like, Okay. All right. All right, I can.
No you can’t. There’s no there’s no cogent argument for Matt Serra being in the UFC Hall of Fame based on the history based upon him. Yes, yeah. What was it? What was the UFC history he made?
knocking out George St. Pierre, the guy that got elected into the Hall of Fame.
So he knocked out George St. Pierre. He went from regular fighter to Hall of Famer.
Yeah, um, if I knock out the heavyweight champion, I in Stanley become the most famous person in the world. That’s that’s how that works.
Yeah, no, I mean like, I mean, think about it like this
are we gonna bring up the belt again?
No, no, no, no, I’m not. Because clearly you didn’t knock out anybody. Um You got a you got a TKO loss on to your to your name. Oh my gosh people had to throw in the towel and save you but that we’re not doing
that during our fight.
Yeah, do it another fight. I was just saying.
Like was my corner for that right?
Who was my corner for that? I was in your corner for that fight. What was the advice I gave you and did you follow that advice?
Keep your hands up. No, it wasn’t keeping.
Pace yourself. This is a three round fight.
Right like you’re getting hit stop doing that
I remember looking over the corner like what
were boxing out here 90 degree
rise Tell me Stop getting hit
my corner right now.
No, no it was to keep your hands at that point you the reason why I say Keep your hands up and your chin tucked is because of you
but none of those shots were landing I just couldn’t lift my hands
I like 30 pound gloves on go Yeah,
they beat you basically at that fight you fight with pillows on your hands they were like 1816 or 18 ounce gloves and so oh
yeah, round one he looked like freakin world beater though. Let me just say collect you in round one.
Bloody my opponent immediately.
Yeah, at the very beginning. He blames one punch blood. He’s the dude and then it’s like Collette. He the Tasmanian devil. For the next 59 seconds yeah one minute rounds dude.
Look, I’m out of shape.
Get back to the fights guys.
Here elected elected to the UFC Hall of Fame. We were We were distant as I always do this Matt Serra’s elected election to the UFC Hall of Fame for beating George St. Pierre. That’s the only thing he did. Like seriously.
He got to that spot to be able to fight your St. Pierre. So he clearly wasn’t trash.
Exactly. How many title defenses did he did he have?
He did George St. Pierre have before he fought Sarah.
Yeah. And that just goes to show he think George St. Pierre had maybe three or four title offenses before he fought Sarah. And then, when he lost he had to fight two dudes in order to get back to Sarah. Nowadays Oh, UFC nowadays you get an instant title shot just because you’re the bigger draw.
I mean nowadays everybody wants to talk like they have something to say but nothing comes out when they move their lips
no stop there or else Warner Music Group gonna end up shutting us down because you’re
right here it seems like I’m pretty sure that’s why you got my my win over you removed from YouTube
I didn’t get it removed because it’s the only proof that I have that you don’t deserve the belt that you have at your house
Okay, so let’s just put it out there I’m just got said that Matt Serra once again was the own is the first American to ever gotten a black belt from the graces. Okay.
That’s all right. Oh, wait,
wait. That makes him a UFC Hall of Famer because he built from he’s applying there from the graces. Yeah, well, he’s a fine. Nothing to do. With did he get it did he get it during his during the fight in the ring? Why is that relevant? Why is it even relevant?
Because before it because if okay if you don’t know your history of the Gracie It was never the graces that started UFC okay let’s for that it was a Gracie says started the UFC to promote Brazilian Jiu Jitsu So yeah,
I understand that. And that’s why hoist Gracie should be in the UFC Hall of Fame. But
it was Gracie is in the UFC Hall of Fame because he beat people in the olden days. Okay when they when they were open, wait, like I love it bare knuckle.
Oh, he like
not grabbing and nard punching. You know, that’s what they were doing. Yeah,
yeah. So so here’s here’s the thing. Matt Serra beat George St. Pierre. Literally Matt Serra caught George St. Pierre and That’s that’s his whole claim to fame. Everything else that you can say about Matt Serra’s does being deserving of being in the UFC Hall of Fame has nothing to do with what he has done in the ring, except for that one
to round fight. Can I call this problematic in that we’re supposed to be celebrating George St. Pierre. And somehow we’re actually talking about Matt Serra
Dare you bring back in?
They are and I
am on my soapbox about why Matt Serra does not
who cares we guy who
came here was destined to be in the UFC Hall of Fame. We need to talk about it. When we talk about Matt Serra does not deserve to be in
the UFC. I will say that rush Honestly, it was George St. Pierre who first got me interested in the UFC was his fights. I remember, like I was in Canada for one of the fights with work and I was like, Oh my goodness, this is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Like he, like watching his training camps is what interested me most because he was a fighter who he would kind of train boxing but he was doing gymnastic stuff he was he was playing soccer in the gym. He was working on balance he was he was taking so many different disciplines and truly making it mixed martial arts versus a karate style or or Jiu Jitsu in there. He was truly mixing martial arts. And that’s, that, to me is his biggest legacy is he brought more eyeballs to the sport. He was a great champion. And he really changed the way that people thought he also was that guy who was a slow he would point you to death to make sure that he won, but and he kind of changed the way that people thought in that how champions fought too. So all around in every aspect of the fight game. George St. Pierre is a Hall of Famer is 100%
and I will tell you this combat sports talk this show combat sports talk comm was born because of George St. Pierre. And the reason why I say that my very first article that I ever wrote for the blog was in defense of George St. Pierre because people were complaining that he wasn’t knocking folks out anymore and I was trying to show and trying to argue that George St. Pierre’s wins over his the at the time like the last three wins that he had. Were all against elite fighters that you just can’t knock out. And so it’s it’s it. He’s always been that guy that I can say is been, you know, the prototypical champion that we all want to see in the UFC. He’s been respectful in the times that he was disrespectful. He’s gone back and apologized. Yes, you know, and and it’s he even one thing that I can say about yourself here, and by the way, john, if you haven’t looked at the clock, yet I was completely wrong about this show. When they say about George St. Pierre is he walked out in a fight wearing a Hayabusa ghee that had that had the Japanese war flag on it. And I remember the Korean zombie saying, Hey, listen, I understand that, you know that, you know, you’re from Canada and but that you wearing that, that that flag means something to me and the people that I represent, and I would prefer if you didn’t wear that flag, and Jocelyn Pierre was like, You know what, you’re right. I understand the history. I will not wear that flag. I apologize for wearing that flag and being disrespectful to the history. George St. Pierre is that seminal champion that we used to have in the UFC and it has long since gone, and it makes me sad, that that we’re kind of in the spot now because even as much as I like the trash talk, and Casey and I have gone back and forth. About the value of trash talk in the UFC. I can now say that having champions like George St. Pierre makes us better for it gives us something to look up to, as opposed to someone like john Jones or Colby Covington.
Indeed,
I’m my first. My first eyes on George St. Pierre was when he walked in the ring when after Matt Hughes had just won a title defense and told him that he was not impressed. not impressed by your performance. Exactly. And that was like, oh, wow, he’s a heel. And you know, then you see him going there. And beat beat the snot out of Matt Hughes, which I was kind of happy for that. But that’s a totally different conversation. And then he started showing us what he was about. He stopped talking more, stop talking, and start showing and that’s what we end like. That’s what we missed out of our champions.
Yeah. Like two days after He He walked to the ring and and called out Matt Hughes that way if he called Matt Hughes and apologize for having done that, like, yeah, it just wasn’t in his character to do that kind of thing.
Yeah. And that’s like that we we need more champions like that.
Well, you know, we need more champions like
Mike Tyson though
Have you seen the new video that Mike Tyson’s put out? Oh my god.
Yes. Oh my god like the latest one where it’s a compilation of all of his sparring sessions. Yeah. What’s impressive about this is like the before and after pictures of like, we saw mike tyson who’s letting himself go, he’s getting pudgy. This dude, at the end of his latest video says I’m back. And it’s in a way where I feel like he could be back. Yeah, he comes up. He’s like,
Sorry. There’s no there’s no s Is there anything that we can use? I’m back. I’m a static that people think that I was finished or not. I’m just I’m just getting my body back to the My fighting style is impetuous. So
Unknown Speaker 1:00:18
right now this is a method to sleep you right now.
Ryan Smith 1:00:22
Yeah, he hit me and I get in Ghana
John Keyes 1:00:27
so which one would you take a punch from in Ghana? Or a flurry from Tyson or 664 combo from Tyson
ah don’t want any of that
there’s no upside because both of these man hits you in a way that something will break
here’s a question Do I get Do I have to stand there? Can I move
you gotta move once he hits you with no
no no. Because you see the thing is is that I’m I might be able to to die. or roll from from Indiana. You’re not you’re not gonna have the reflexes. You’re not gonna have the reflexes to stop.
So you tell me Rosen’s just didn’t think to move. It was back.
Dude. Dude, his back is straight up. We know you don’t back up on the centerline. You got it wrong.
You You can’t roll off a freight train running.
moving left to right. Oh, you’re in survival mode
or it’s it’s Oh, Jesus. Oh, Jesus.
So we don’t end up with a show. That is two hours long. Let’s go rapid fire here. First reactions only. Okay, here we go. Alexander Vulcan offski Max Holloway to be excited about that.
Yeah, I’m kind of lukewarm on it. Max Holloway did not have anything for Alexander Vulcan offski. We haven’t seen anything. Both of these guys have been on the shelf. Why would we expect anything different? Um, let’s see. I’m gonna Skip the controversial UFC 249 waiver but if you haven’t gone and look that up the contract that the people had to sign in order to participate in UFC 249 you might as well just go ahead and assign your your firstborn child to the UFC.
They will say that Dana doesn’t know disparagement, like his definition, his legal definition of disparagement doesn’t pass them on.
Yeah, yeah, he was deflecting, they’re definitely Daniel Cormier says if Steve Emile chick won’t fight it’s gonna be me against Francis in Ghana for the title does Daniel Cormier really want that smoke or is he just trying to put the heat up on the pay me?
a CPA already responded so it was definitely a call into steep pay rather than he doesn’t want to cancel Sam’s from God. Nobody
wants any piece of that pie. Okay, trust me. That is that’s a danger right there. That’s all danger
danger. Drops
Last one, the Cinta Luca explains hearing Joe Rogan’s commentary during wild TKO when, and Greg hardy said that he overheard Daniel Cormier, his advice in the MT UFC 249 Arena, that is the advantage of being in an empty arena that you get to hear the commentators as they’re talking about what’s going on in the fight.
There’s also a downside, though, like I love that, first of all, but the downside is, if you watch the main event, you can hear Tony’s corner saying one, two, and it gave and Tony is an immediate responder. So he would say one, two, and also Tony didn’t throw enough jabs. But like your opponent can hear what your strategy is as well. So it changes things, but I like to look at like all the questions about how he’s going for the darce choke. I think it matters a lot more in the Jiu Jitsu thing because you can’t necessarily see what’s being set up. But if someone’s telling you what’s being set up now to change Just the way that I’m I’m in my guard, huh?
Yeah, I mean, I love this. So instead, instead of only having you know your side of the ring, it adds another side of the ring. That’s a friendly side of the ring. So if you’re an MTV venue and you’re fighting next to the cage, where the commentators are, you’ve got Joe Rogan going. Well, he’s taking a lot of damage here now. Oh, he’s setting up that he’s setting up a camera. what he needs to do is move his left hand. Oh, okay, move my left. Okay, now, now what?
I would love for that to happen like, john, what do I do now?
advice they gave is spot on. So like, legitimately it’s like getting professional corner men helping you out and that’s what Greg Harberger corner.
Yeah, and that’s what Greg Hardy was saying he was he was taking all of these kicks from the Castro. And then he heard Daniel Cormier going, he needs to start checking those kicks. And sure enough, when dent Greg hardy checks the kick, it breaks the card. Castro’s foot kick anymore.
They need to put a little soundproofing over at the Andre side where they’re at,
like this notion.
That notion of extra coaching coming in
a professional coaching call you got a got a wrestler coach, you got a striking coach there with Joe Rogan. And then we may and then the other color commentator, we might have Felder there you could have curly Cruz. You know, God if they had till Sunday that would be awesome.
Well, they need Chelsea Manning for the in the ring work. So whenever it’s like on the mic, then she’ll sounds like what he needs to say is I’m a high profile in styling.
No,
whoo.
All right, American Gangster
lat lat last thing, last segment of the show, that is the fight card. We’ve got more fights this week. Two more cards to be exact. We’re going to talk about Through them real quick make some flash fight pics, and then we’ll be out. Here we go with the fight card.
All right, this is the fight card. We’ve got two more cards one on Wednesday and one on Saturday. Smith Anthony Lionheart Smith vs Glover to share on Wednesday, May 13. At the vice star Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida. All of these cards are in Jacksonville, Florida, because that’s really the only place where the UFC can get a fight sanctioned is Florida.
So we’ve got to Florida we’ve got five
fights on the main card, Carl Roberson versus Marvin vittori you got Ricky Simon vs. Ray Borg, Alexander Hernandez vs. Drew Dober and the CO Main Event ovince St. prove his heavyweight debut versus Ben Rothwell and then our main event of the evening Anthony Lionheart Smith versus Glover to share We’re gonna make some flash fight picks, who you got open St. Prue versus Ben Rothwell? cholesky who you got
Rothwell?
All right. JOHN Key’s who you got open St. Prue versus Ben Rothwell?
I’m gonna go LSP I’m gonna give it to I noticed this is lopsided. I’m gonna pray that his speed will outmatch
Ben’s Well, you got a slow fighter adding weight, and you’re picking him for his speed.
not fast.
There he is. He is not fast at all. Okay, so
well I’m honorbound And so even though I’m wearing blue and white, I gotta go with my fraternity brother. ovince St. Prue. You know,
when I angry so bad, don’t come on.
Come on. You know how to get
Oh, Vince They prove I got him. I don’t like it when a fighter moves up to weight because they get surprised by the additional speed without the additional strength, the strength of the of the heavier weight class, I think oh Vincent Bruce gonna be in for it with Ben Rothwell. He is a big, huge monster. We’ll see what happens Anthony Lionheart Smith versus blower to share. JOHN who you got.
I got Lionheart in this one. I like Glover. I like his strike. He’s uh, he’s chuckling Adele close to the end. And Anthony is just too much. And this one. I’m giving it to Anthony
collection. I’m calling this you’ve been a fan. You’ve been a fan of Anthony Lionheart Smith for a long time does the fact that he was not able to be 155 pound college wrestler who stuck Why would you
do this? Let me
just open back up. Okay.
Just saying that does that. Does that give you any hesitation in choosing Anthony Smith. I know you’re a huge fan.
What it does for me is it makes me call Anthony Smith for the victory in the third round by Camorra.
not by Camorra really
Dan’s jujitsu. He’s been competing in Jiu Jitsu tournaments. On the regular.
Yeah, but my hair is a black belt in jujitsu.
Yeah, I’m still calling Anthony’s Smith with maybe not Kumar I’m going to armbar
Okay, I
Camorra’s a lot harder to get so I can see armbar even though I don’t think that Glover to share has been ever been submitted, maybe once I don’t think so. I got Anthony Lionheart Smith I think Glover to share his kind of like you were saying, john, at the end of his career, it would be a flash knockout if Glover does pull this out. But I like Anthony. I think he’s more technical. I think he’s gonna get it done. And then next Saturday, we’ve got overeem vs. Harris, Alistair overeem versus Walt Harris. This is Walt Harris coming back after his his tragic loss. Still at the vice star veterans Arena in in Jacksonville, Florida. We got five fights on that card song Good dog versus Marlin Vera. You got Eric. What?
It’s just a good name. Okay.
It looks so concerned.
Well, I thought I’d mispronounce it or something. Eric and versus Christoph dotco you got Danica Dan Inc. Versus Edson Barboza. Claudia dayla. Versus Angela overkill Hill. overeem versus wall Harris. We got three five picks. Dan ink versus Edson Barboza who you got Collette you
haven’t seen anything so I can’t really this this one doesn’t count against me so I’m going barbeau john
Oh, I’m sorry. Barbosa Yeah. Okay, by any high like,
Alright, and I I’m going to I’m gonna go with Barbosa, but part of me wants to just go wants to be contrarian and go with Dan and this is why you pick losers. All right, in the next fight, Claudia de la versus Angela overkill Hill, a
john who you know who you’re going with, no, you
know, honestly, these are two different fighters. They really are. But But as I said, I said a collection okay. Surprise.
jeweler Ronnie Stallworth is here.
I made it.
Made it.
We’re great.
All right. All right. All right. All right. So whatever. At the end
of the show. We’re 10 minutes over right now. We’re picking a Holic Adela versus Angela Hill. That’s what we’re doing right now.
After you pick Angela overkill he’ll Didn’t you haven’t picked yet
you gotta go with your home team or not
yeah I got oh come on girl you I have been I’m staying on this train I got on this
just responded to one of your messages Does that mean you got to ride that train
ride the train ride
right so I’m actually going hill here but I hate it because honestly I just feel like I hadn’t seen Claudia do a ton she’s been focused in other areas recently.
colleague Adele’s gonna win this fight I’m just going with
is gonna kill this fight. But Angela does have an opportunity to like head kicker into oblivion.
So so we’ll see. I’m picking Angela Hill. She’s been you know, I said that I was gonna pick her until she loses, so she hasn’t lost. She keeps taking these I’m gonna keep going with her. But Claudia della is a wrestler.
That just that she’s pretty gritty, really gritty. We’ll have to
see Yeah, she’s pretty great. Okay, dirty, gritty, whatever you want to call it, but she’s great. Like she will test himself
out. Yeah. And then finally, Alistair overeem versus Walt Harris. George, I’ll give you the first pick.
You probably should have done that. I’m gonna go a wall Harris at this point. I might make a different pick of verdict. But right now I’m going to walk. Let you he’s been through. He’s been through the fire right now. And I could just see him really coming out and like, unleashing some pent up built up things that many of us don’t understand. Yeah.
That stated I’m still gonna pick overeem to win. I hate I don’t like overeem in in any way, shape or form,
it’s the thing, like as a person, I don’t like what overeem stands for, as a fighter. I think he’s so seasoned that out barring like a random late strike from
was the guy who just bought ostrich
Rosenstein outside of a late hit there I think balusters just got the formula to just be a veteran fighter who knows how to stay out of trouble.
Wow. Yeah, that’s this is gonna be a hard one. On one hand we got a seasoned veteran who’s been there done it went through the wars. And we got a guy here who is gotten it was just went through a personal super personal loss here, and he’s gonna come in. Does he have the emotional fortitude Keep that compartmentalize why he’s punching on somebody and not lose it and become emotional and loses focus and therefore possibly lose the fight. Um, I give it to overeem this time All right.
I’m gonna go I’m gonna go a while Harris. I think over is coming to the end of his career to be honest. it this is you know, I keep watching over over him and he’s just he doesn’t seem like the same guy that oh he’s not. And so I think that time is gonna catch up to him and I think while Harris is going to be that guy that’s gonna cause us to start talking about whether or not Alistair overeem needs to start considering ending his career.
I need to amend my pic because of that insight. Looking back at the face of his Instagram posts are the things that make me believe he’s not gonna win. The moment you start posting about your wife and kids more than your training your careers done You almost have to have that dare until mindset of I don’t care about anything or anyone I’m here to fight again comes back to your statement because time and time again, it’s the guys because you’ll assume here like I was thinking about retirement and I want to spend more time with my family. Like that’s the death knell in this type of career like, you can’t afford to get into that headspace. And a week out he’s already posting can’t wait to go see my girls again. brah go fight. Yeah, they know you love them. Go fight. So yeah.
All right. So follow us on social media on Instagram. I am at combat sports talk, john.
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Best Fighting Movies Of All Time
Are you a crazy fan of Best Fighting Movies Of All Time?? Watch the Fighting scenes, dramas, Action and Challenges on this page. Here, we are providing you the list of Best Fighting Movies of All Time. Bored of watching Drama, Love, Comedy….now it’s the right time to enjoy best fighting movie, full of Supreme action. Every year a lot of Hollywood and Bollywood movies are released but only the most popular movies got the Success and make huge profit.
If you are a Fighting movie fan, then watch these Drama, Action, Fighting scenes and we assure you these movies will leave a long lasting impression in your mind. The twist and turns in these movies are unbeatable and will take your breath away. So, have a glance on these best fighting movies of all the time and you will not stop yourself from watching them.
# Undisputed 2: Last Man Standing (2006)
# Ong-Bag: The Thai Warrior (2003)
# Kill Bill: Vol.1 (2003)
# Five Deadly Venoms (1978)
# Once Upon a Time In China (1991)
# Tai Chi Master (1993)
# The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
# The Expendables (2010)
# The One (2001)
# Ong-Bak 2(2008)
# Undisputed 3:Redemption (2010)
# Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
# Warrior (2011)
# Blood and Bone(2009)
#Undisputed 2: Last Man Standing(2006)
Last Man Standing is one of the best fighting movie which is directed by Isaac Florentine, produced by Boaz Davidson. It was released on 11 April, 2006. Watch the movie with exciting scenes when Heavyweight Champ George “Iceman” is sent to a Russian Jail on trumped-up drug charges.
Directed by Isaac Florentine
Produced by Boaz Davidson, David Varod, Danny Dimbort,
Screenplay by James Townsend
David N. White
Story by Boaz Davidson
Starring Michael Jai White, Scott Adkins, Ben Cross, Eli Danker, Mark Ivanir, Ken Lerner
Music by Stephen Edwards
Release dates April 11, 2006 (Netherlands)
January 16, 2007(United States)
#Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior (2003)
Ong-Bak: Best Fighting Movies Of All Time ,The Thai Warrior, directed by Prachya Pinkaew is the most amazing movie. Meet the interested Stars like Tonny Jaa, Pumwaree Yodkamol which are full of Action. Here, the head of a statue sacred to a village is stolen is a thrilling scene of the movie. After that, Young martial artist went to the big city to retrieve it.
Directed by Prachya Pinkaew
Produced by Somsak Techaratanaprasert, Prachya Pinkaew
Written by Prachya Pinkaew, Panna Rittikrai, Suphachai Sittiaumponpan
Starring Tony Jaa, Petchtai Wongkamlao, Pumwaree Yodkaml
Music by Atomix Clubbing Studio
Release dates January 21, 2003
Budget $1,100,000
Box office $20,112,926
#Kill Bill: Vol.1 (2003)
Kill Bill Vol 1 is Best Fighting Movies Of All Time directed by the most popular director Quentin Tarantino. This movie was released on 10 October, 2003. Look at the best scenes of the movie like when the Bride wakes from four year coma. Watch the movie to know how he betrayed her.
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
Produced by Lawrence Bender
Written by Quentin Tarantino
Starring Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Michae Madsen, Daryl Hannah, David Carradine, Sonny Chiba, Julie Dreyfus, Chiaki Kuriyama,
Gordon Liu, Michael Parks
Music by The RZA
Release dates October 10, 2003
Budget $30 million
Box office $180.9 million
Five Deadly Venoms is a popular film directed by Chang Cheh. It was released on 12 August 1978. It is about five kung-fu fighters with unique and different animal styles like The Centipede, the Snake, the Scorpion, the Lizard, and The Toad. On Entertainment Weekly’s Top 50 Cult Films list, Five Deadly Venoms movie was placed at number 11. Must watch this popular movie and enjoy the full action and drama.
Directed by Chang Cheh
Produced by Runme Shaw
Written by Ni Kuang, Chang Cheh
Starring Chiang Sheng, Sun Chien, Philip Kwok, Lo Mang
Wei Pei, Lu Feng, Wang Lung-wei, Ku Feng
Music by Frankie Chan
Release dates 12 August 1978
Box office HK$1,814,610
Once Upon a Time in China was a 1991 best hit movie, directed by Tsui Hark. In this movie, Tsui Hark, starring Jet Li as Chinese folk hero named Wong Fei-hung. Tsui Hark was awarded as the best director and Macro Mak for Best editing film. Tsui in 10 years become master of the Golden Age of Hong Kong Cinema. The beauty of Tsui’s images cannot be explained in words. The film has earned HK$29,672,278.00 on the box office.
Directed by Tsui Hark
Produced by Tsui Hark
Written by Tsui Hark, Yuen Kai-chi, Leung Yiu-ming, Elsa Tang
Starring Jet Li, Yuen Biao, Jacky Cheung, Rosamund Kwan,
Kent Cheng
Box office HK$29,672,278.00
Tai Chi Master, is a 1993 Hong Kong Martial arts film, directed by Yuen Woo-ping. It was released on 18 November 1993. See how Junbao and Tienbo grows in a Shaolin Temple as monks and learnt the Martial arts. Just watch the battle where most of the rebels die and many more. The film was written by Kim Yip and William Wu plays a leading role in the music.
Directed by Yuen Woo-ping
Produced by Jet Li
Written by Kim Yip
Starring Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, Chin Siu-ho, Fennie Yuen,
Yuen Cheung-yan
Lau Shun
Music by William Wu
Release dates 18 November 1993
Box office HK$12,64,442
#The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
The Matrix Reloaded is the Best Fighting Movies Of All Time. Watch The Matrix Reloaded movie which is directed by Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski. It was released on 15 May, 2003. Here, you will see Neo who is a good omen for free Humans. Meet Zion who is prepared for the ultimate war and how Neo saves Trinity from dark fate in his dreams.
Directed by The Wachowski Brothers
Produced by Joel Silver
Written by The Wachowski Brothers
Starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Jada Pinkett Smith, Gloria Foster
Music by Don Davis
Release dates May 7, 2003(Mann Village Theatre), May 15, 2003(United States) May 16, 2003 (Australia)
Budget $127–150 million
#The Expendables (2010)
The Expendables(2010) is one of the best fighting movie directed by the most popular director Sylvester Stallone who also starred in the lead Role. This film was released on 13 August,2010. It is one of the best Action film in which there is a group of Elite mercenaries whose mission is to overthrow a Latin American dictator. Action Scenes are praised here as it is placed number one at the box office in the United States. It has been nominated for Golden Raspberry and Saturn Award.
Directed by Sylvester Stallone
Produced by Avi Lerner, John Thompson, Kevin King-Templeton
Screenplay by David Callaham, Sylvester Stallone
Story by David Callaham
Starring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren
Eric Roberts, Randy Couture, Steve Austin, David Zayas, Giselle Itie, Terry Crews, Mickey Rourke
Music by Brian Tyler
Release dates August 3, 2010(Los Angeles)
August 13, 2010(United States)
#The One (2001)
The One(2001) is the best action and Best Fighting Movies Of All Time. This movie directed by James Wong and written by Glen Morgan. It was released in United States on 2 November, 2001. The film focus on “What if there is more than one Universe”. All these universes are held together by energy which is reallocated equally to each surviving member. Mee the interesting Characters Jet Li, Gabe Law and many more.
Directed by James Wong
Produced by Steve Chasman, Glen Morgan, Charles Newirth
James Wong,Todd Garner, Lata Ryan, Tom Sherak, Greg Silverman, Happy Walters
Written by Glen Morgan
Starring Jet Li, Delroy Lindo, Carla Gugino, Jason Statham
Music by Trevor Rabin
Release dates November 2, 2001
Box office $72.7 million
#Ong-Bak 2(2008)
Ong-Bak 2 is one of the best action movie which is directed by Tony Jaa. It was released on 4 December, 2008. Just watch the best scenes where a young Thai Boxer learn the martial arts. The film earned $8,936,663 on the box office. Watch how the Noble Lord Siha Decho is betrayed by the Captain Rajasema. See the amazing scenes in the movie when the Tien is saved by Loyal Soldier.
Directed by Tony Jaa, Panna Rittikrai
Produced by Prachya Pinkaew, Tony Jaa, Panna Rittikrai
Akarapol Techaratanaprasert
Written by Ek Iemchuen Nonthakorn Thaweesuk Tony JaaPanna Rittikrai
Starring Tony Jaa
Music by Terdsak Janpan
Release dates December 4, 2008
Box office $8,936,663
# Undisputed 3: Redemption (2010)
Undisputed 3: Redemption is a fighting film which is directed by the famous director Isaac Florentine. It was released on June 1, 2010 in United States. Boyka is fighting in the inter-prison tournament with one knee. This movie won the Best Director Award and Best Fighting Choreographer in the year 2010. It earned $282,548 in the box office.
Produced by Israel Ringel
Written by David N. White
Starring Scott Adkins, Mykel Shannon Jenkins, Mark Ivanir, Hristo Shopov, Robert Costanzo, Marko Zaror
Music by Minos Matsas
Release dates April 17, 2010 (Action Fest)
June 1, 2010 (United States)
Budget US$3 million (estimated)
Box office $282,548
Ong-bak 3 is a film directed by Tony Jaa and Panna Rittikrai. It was released on May 5, 2010. Tien is captured and brought back to the Kana Khone Villagers. He learns how to deal with Karma. Meet Master Bua, Dan Chupong in the movie with full action and drama. Slant Magazine praise the film as “easily most brutal of all contemporary.
Produced by Tony Jaa, Panna Rittikrai
Written by Tony Jaa, Panna Rittikrai
Starring Tony Jaa, Dan Chupong
Release dates May 5, 2010
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is best film which is directed by Ang Lee. It was released on 6 July 2000 in Hong Kong, 7 July 2000 in Taiwan and 8 December 2000 in United States. Here two warriors in search of a stolen sword suddenly met Nobleman’s daughter. This film has won Academy Award and was nominated for Six other awards. Along with this, the film has earned $213.5 million in the box office.
Directed by Ang Lee
Produced by Bill Kong, Hsu Li-Kong, Ang Lee
Starring Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen
Music by Tan Dun
Release dates 6 July 2000 (Hong Kong)
7 July 2000 (Taiwan)
8 December 2000(United States)
Warrior is the Best Fighting Movies Of All Time (2011) is an American Sports Drama film which is directed by Gavin O’Connor and produced by Greg O’Connor. It was released on September 9, 2011. Tom hardy and Joel Edgerton act as two estranged brothers who joined the Mixed martial arts tournament. For best Supporting Actor for role of a father, Nick Nolte has been nominated for Academy Award. You must watch this movie as there are amazing scenes in it.
Directed by Gavin O’Connor
Produced by Gavin O’Connor, Greg O’Connor
Starring Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton, Nick Nolte,Jennifer Morrison, Frank Grillo
Music by Mark Isham
Release dates September 9, 2011
#Blood and Bone(2009)
Blood and Bone is the best fighting movie of 2009 which is directed by Ben Ramsey. It is an American Martial Arts film which was released on September 15, 2009. Watch how Ex-con takes the underground fighting world by storm. This film was edited by Dean Goodhill and Nicholas Pike plays a leading role in the music. Enjoy the thrilling twists and turns in the best action movie.
Directed by Ben Ramsey
Produced by Matthew Binns, Michael Mailer, Nick Simunek, Michael Andrews, John Duffy,Michael Jai White
Written by Michael Andrews
Starring Michael Jai White, Julian Sands, Eamonn Walker, Dante Basco, Nona Gaye, Shannon Kane, Michelle Belegrin,
Music by Nicholas Pike
Release dates September 15, 2009
Budget $3,700,000 (estimated)
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Re: SPAMM - it ain't pork it's imitation ham Tue, 8 Aug 1995 09:53:22 +0200
Re: Cool stores/clubs in (ins... Thu, 3 Aug 1995 10:01:18 +0200
EWHEB@aol.com
the ticket Thu, 31 Aug 1995 00:35:13 -0400
full length albums Thu, 31 Aug 1995 00:28:00 -0400
hip hop, my two cents Wed, 23 Aug 1995 12:51:50 -0400
anti-bash Thu, 17 Aug 1995 14:38:55 -0400
F-O-B
Re: New Karl Denson... Sat, 26 Aug 1995 20:16:20 -0500
Re: HIP HOP: QUICK FACT Fri, 25 Aug 1995 02:02:01 -0500
T.V. Toons Wed, 23 Aug 1995 22:55:40 -0500
Re: Breakbeats on the Web/FTP? Wed, 23 Aug 1995 18:25:54 -0500
Re: A man called Adam Sun, 20 Aug 1995 23:28:09 -0500
RE: Mo' Wax (& Red Snapper & ting) Sun, 20 Aug 1995 21:58:32 -0500
RE:Taudisymphonie Sun, 20 Aug 1995 21:11:38 -0500
Fischbarg, Victor
Take two: NY Acid Jazz Nights Tue, 29 Aug 95 17:57:00 EDT
new york's "Acid Jazz Nights" Mon, 28 Aug 95 18:09:00 EDT
Fly Rye
record stores in SF and bay area??? Tue, 29 Aug 1995 19:52:08 -0700 (PDT)
fogcity
JUST HEARD NEW GREYBOY LP Tue, 29 Aug 1995 01:56:45 -0700
Re: New Karl Denson... Sun, 27 Aug 1995 01:48:09 -0700
BUSTED!!! Sat, 26 Aug 1995 01:00:23 -0700
Re: SF Tonight Sat, 26 Aug 1995 00:34:22 -0700
Re: Greyboy Allstars and junk mail Thu, 24 Aug 1995 16:24:58 -0700
Re: Slagging off Bands: The Roots Mon, 21 Aug 1995 21:21:51 -0700
IS RAP DEAD? REPLY Mon, 21 Aug 1995 20:38:11 -0700
Re: The Roots in SF 8/20 Mon, 21 Aug 1995 13:49:35 -0700
Re: acid-jazz/hollywood rec. Mon, 21 Aug 1995 13:43:02 -0700
PLEASE ADD ME.... Mon, 21 Aug 1995 12:49:38 -0700
Here's a funky record for the real heads..... Fri, 18 Aug 1995 09:55:36 -0700
Re: hey Thu, 17 Aug 1995 17:11:22 -0700
VINTAGE KEYS FOR SALE!!! Thu, 17 Aug 1995 17:01:45 -0700
Re: Samplers? FISH IN THE HOUSE....... Thu, 17 Aug 1995 16:48:05 -0700
OPEN INVITE!!! Tue, 15 Aug 1995 01:07:53 -0700
Re: 1 crazy jazzy summer Mon, 14 Aug 1995 22:27:11 -0700
Re: US3 Fri, 11 Aug 1995 18:54:41 -0700
Fredpage@aol.com
Fredrik Garmelius
The Sound Gallery Volume One Thu, 3 Aug 1995 15:25:54 +0100
Gen M. Kanai
introduction... 31 Aug 95 12:58:46 EDT
Gerald Molumby
RE: the ticket Thu, 31 Aug 95 11:28:36 PDT
RE: Fat Sesame Etc. (Was Groove Collective) Fri, 18 Aug 95 13:32:03 PDT
Re: GROOVE COLLECTIVE Thu, 17 Aug 95 11:05:57 PDT
RE: mystery music and mathar Tue, 1 Aug 95 10:42:40 PDT
Gerry Villareal
Re: the ticket Thu, 31 Aug 1995 01:20:41 -0800
IMHO... Thu, 31 Aug 1995 01:09:22 -0800
SF Tonight Fri, 25 Aug 1995 16:24:35 -0800
Re: Breakbeats on the Web/FTP? Thu, 24 Aug 1995 11:11:16 -0800
Beating the dead horse Trip Hop Wed, 23 Aug 1995 10:30:31 -0800
Re: Samplers? [No AJ Content] Thu, 17 Aug 1995 15:03:57 -0800
Re: HELP: My vinyl's been ruined! Wed, 9 Aug 1995 02:07:58 -0800
Gibo
new sample Wed, 30 Aug 1995 21:51:00 -0500 (CDT)
Re: Advertising Sat, 26 Aug 1995 12:37:40 -0500 (CDT)
Re: Jazz Patterns Book Thu, 24 Aug 1995 10:42:12 -0500 (CDT)
Re:Fat Sesame Blah Blah Blah Wed, 23 Aug 1995 20:55:29 -0500 (CDT)
Re: Breakbeats on the Web/FTP? Wed, 23 Aug 1995 20:37:52 -0500 (CDT)
Re: Mo' Funk, Hip-hop and more Wed, 23 Aug 1995 20:32:02 -0500 (CDT)
Re: Looking for a critique...! Wed, 23 Aug 1995 19:51:10 -0500 (CDT)
Re: annoying message (fwd) Wed, 23 Aug 1995 19:37:29 -0500 (CDT)
Re: non aj CONTENT:(Fwd) Delivery Report (success) for SANDRO.TODESC Wed, 23 Aug 1995 11:15:52 -0500 (CDT)
Re: "The end of the hip-hop era"... Wed, 23 Aug 1995 11:06:27 -0500 (CDT)
Re: Hip Hop (a work in progress) Wed, 23 Aug 1995 03:17:30 -0500 (CDT)
Re: annoying message Wed, 23 Aug 1995 02:17:10 -0500 (CDT)
Re: The Roots: Where is that mystery bassist? Wed, 23 Aug 1995 01:53:37 -0500 (CDT)
Re: IS RAP DEAD? REPLY Tue, 22 Aug 1995 19:05:36 -0500 (CDT)
Re: "The end of the hip-hop era"... Tue, 22 Aug 1995 19:00:19 -0500 (CDT)
Re: guru, etc. (was: acid-jazz/hollywood rec.) Tue, 22 Aug 1995 18:36:40 -0500 (CDT)
annoying message Tue, 22 Aug 1995 18:26:58 -0500 (CDT)
Re: Slagging off Bands: The Roots Tue, 22 Aug 1995 18:31:23 -0500 (CDT)
Re: The Roots in SF 8/20 Mon, 21 Aug 1995 18:02:49 -0500 (CDT)
Re: unsubscribe Mon, 21 Aug 1995 00:42:47 -0500 (CDT)
guru, etc. (was: acid-jazz/hollywood rec.) Sat, 19 Aug 1995 22:34:10 -0500 (CDT)
Re: Mo' Wax Fri, 18 Aug 1995 18:50:55 -0500 (CDT)
Re: GROOVE COLLECTIVE Thu, 17 Aug 1995 17:53:28 -0500 (CDT)
Re: GROOVE COLLECTIVE Wed, 16 Aug 1995 19:28:00 -0500 (CDT)
Gordon Hurd
D Stands for Diesel Mon, 28 Aug 95 11:23 PDT
Re: acid-jazz/hollywood rec. Fri, 18 Aug 95 15:46 PDT
Gregory B Beuthin
Aloooooohaaaaaaaa Tue, 1 Aug 1995 17:13:36 -1000
Gustav Liden
(no subject) Fri, 11 Aug 1995 14:06:19 -0500
hfspc002@huey.csun.edu
Re: Ordering Japanese Stuff (was Re: little crappy demo? NOT!) Thu, 31 Aug 1995 13:02:32 -0700 (PDT)
Re: acid-jazz/hollywood rec. Tue, 22 Aug 1995 22:08:47 -0400
IMAI Kenichi
Peace Wired Thu, 31 Aug 1995 08:51:16 +0900
Vancouver/Seattle Wed, 23 Aug 1995 14:39:11 -0400
Shops In Toronto? Thu, 10 Aug 1995 10:10:29 -0400
J. Miguel de Tomas Fdez.
unsubscribe 17 Aug 95 06:42:17 EDT
James Kirchmer
Re: acid-jazz/hollywood rec. Sat, 19 Aug 1995 14:38:54 -0700 (PDT)
Re: bashing Thu, 17 Aug 1995 15:33:37 -0700 (PDT)
Re: Soul Makossa Wed, 16 Aug 1995 16:44:57 -0700 (PDT)
Re: Didgeridoo grooves? Tue, 15 Aug 1995 16:13:23 -0700 (PDT)
James.Perrett@soc.soton.ac.uk
Music Biz on the AJ list Thu, 31 Aug 95 12:15:14 BST
Re: HELP: My vinyl's been ruined! Fri, 11 Aug 95 09:40:32 BST
JASON BRANCAZIO
Future Sound of Jazz Vol. 1 29 Aug 1995 11:38:53 -0800
Greyboy 28 Aug 1995 18:27:37 -0800
breakbeats on web 23 Aug 1995 17:02:34 -0800
RE- smokin japanese babe 22 Aug 1995 10:32:31 -0800
hello funksters! 21 Aug 1995 11:03:17 -0800
Jason J. Brancazio
1 crazy jazzy summer Mon, 14 Aug 1995 04:16:49 -0400 (EDT)
Jason Robinson
JACKSOUL Wed, 30 Aug 1995 14:22:05 -0700 (PDT)
mixed tapes Fri, 4 Aug 1995 12:23:45 -0700 (PDT)
Jeff Slattery
new greyboy lp Tue, 29 Aug 1995 21:59:06 -0700 (PDT)
Re: Not a promoter: a personal introduction... Mon, 28 Aug 1995 00:35:28 -0700 (PDT)
Jeremy B Hollister
add jhollist@student.umass.edu acid-jazz Sat, 26 Aug 1995 22:07:08 -0400 (EDT)
jerome turner
Re:Fat Sesame Blah Blah Blah Wed, 23 Aug 95 14:24:45 PST
Jesse Chairez
C Charley Records? Thu, 3 Aug 1995 15:27:10 -36803936 (PDT)
Jim Ayson
Re: "Always There" Tue, 29 Aug 1995 01:59:46 +0900
Re: Fat Sesame Etc. (Was Groove Collective) Sat, 19 Aug 1995 14:08:33 +0900
Re: US3 Tue, 15 Aug 1995 01:56:45 +0900
Jim Dier
Re: bootlegging - your thoughts. Fri, 4 Aug 1995 13:28:14 -0400 (EDT)
Joachim Keim
(no subject) Tue, 29 Aug 1995 12:27:00 --100
(no subject) Mon, 28 Aug 1995 11:45:13 --100
joe prosser
A man called Adam Sat, 19 Aug 95 17:41:09 GMT
Re Soul Makossa Fri, 18 Aug 95 11:14:09 GMT
Re. whats happening in blah blah.... Tue, 08 Aug 95 09:57:42 GMT
Joe Spaeth
Re: i got it (fwd) Thu, 10 Aug 1995 16:39:29 -0700
JoHN aLeCK MeLLoN
7yearZIGZAG INVITATATION Sun, 13 Aug 1995 19:13:58 -0800
John Bas
New Karl Denson... Sat, 26 Aug 1995 15:54:45 -0700 (PDT)
john@saxroots.com
Reggae - with a twist of jazz! Sat, 5 Aug 1995 23:27:36 -0400
Jon Jung
RE: for james brown fans only Wed, 30 Aug 1995 10:13:49 -1000
RE: "Always There" Mon, 28 Aug 1995 10:06:07 -1000
RE: Fat Sesame Etc. (Was Groove Collective) Tue, 22 Aug 1995 08:17:47 -1000
Brian Auger Trinity? Thu, 17 Aug 1995 08:35:10 -1000
RE: Vinyl Review on Web! Wed, 16 Aug 1995 11:53:01 -1000
Rhymester/Mellow Yellow Mon, 14 Aug 1995 08:59:04 -1000
Bye for now..... Fri, 4 Aug 1995 09:44:35 -1000
Jonathan Hurwitz
props to On The One Wed, 30 Aug 1995 13:24:13 -0700
Re: Promo disc Wed, 30 Aug 1995 10:42:51 -0700
Sample Question - Mc Solaar Tue, 29 Aug 1995 12:27:57 -0700
Karl Denson's newest album? Fri, 25 Aug 1995 15:15:43 -0700
Advertising Fri, 25 Aug 1995 10:43:33 -0700
Gibo@too.many.posts.com Thu, 24 Aug 1995 12:02:09 -0700
Re: annoying message Tue, 22 Aug 1995 18:55:31 -0700
Fat Sesame Etc. Fri, 18 Aug 1995 12:03:09 -0700
Keziah Jones Thu, 17 Aug 1995 16:40:16 -0700
Chemical Brothers (Non-AJ related?) Thu, 17 Aug 1995 11:51:53 -0700
One The One/Luv N' Haight Compilation? Mon, 14 Aug 1995 11:55:27 -0700
Re: Rebirth of Cool - Phive Sun, 13 Aug 1995 13:20:41 -0800
Rebirth of Cool - Phive Sat, 12 Aug 1995 19:32:22 -0800
Re: AJ: Spearhead ? ;< -and- On The One Info Request. Tue, 8 Aug 1995 14:03:34 -0700
SPAMM - it ain't pork it's imitation ham Mon, 7 Aug 1995 12:11:41 -0700
Mica Paris - "one" Fri, 4 Aug 1995 10:17:04 -0700
Cool clubs in Papau New Guinea? Wed, 2 Aug 1995 12:57:34 -0700
JonnyHV@aol.com
Fwd: Fat Sesame Etc. (Was Groove Collective) Wed, 23 Aug 1995 09:08:55 -0400
Re: Taudisymphonie Mon, 21 Aug 1995 09:18:46 -0400
Re: acid-jazz/hollywood rec. Fri, 18 Aug 1995 18:22:46 -0400
Re: Red Snapper..... Fri, 18 Aug 1995 13:26:42 -0400
Re: "Heavy" acid-jazz....... Fri, 18 Aug 1995 09:58:20 -0400
Re: anti-bash Thu, 17 Aug 1995 18:03:28 -0400
Re: Slagging off Bands!! Thu, 17 Aug 1995 18:00:25 -0400
Jos\i Fontainhas
Info on QuietBoys Mon, 28 Aug 95 20:45:02 -0500
Jose Fontainhas
Re: Good vibes in Lissabon? Wed, 16 Aug 1995 14:09:07 +0000
Re: US3 Fri, 11 Aug 1995 18:12:00 +0000
Re: Michael Franti Wed, 9 Aug 1995 11:47:31 +0000
Michael Franti Tue, 8 Aug 1995 16:13:18 +0000
Joseph Jr!
Re:Fat Sesame Blah Blah Blah Wed, 23 Aug 1995 17:44:13 -0400 (EDT)
Jude Kelly
Re: JACKSOUL Wed, 30 Aug 1995 23:10:58 -0400 (EDT)
Re: "Always There" Tue, 29 Aug 1995 18:54:24 -0400 (EDT)
"Soul" acid jazz compilations Sat, 19 Aug 1995 00:36:12 -0400 (EDT)
Re: Cool stores/clubs in (insert city) messages Wed, 2 Aug 1995 21:25:32 -0400 (EDT)
KAALLI@aol.com
UNSUBSCRIBE Mon, 21 Aug 1995 15:33:14 -0400
Kathy Jenks
please add me to list. Mon, 7 Aug 1995 12:19:27 GMT + 2:00
Japanese Rare Groove Comps Thu, 31 Aug 1995 15:03:38 -0500 (EST)
lotsa stuff Wed, 30 Aug 1995 14:41:43 -0500 (EST)
Quiet Boys Mon, 28 Aug 1995 16:38:11 -0500 (EST)
hip hop Wed, 23 Aug 1995 13:49:59 -0500 (EST)
bashing Thu, 17 Aug 1995 16:31:03 -0500 (EST)
jamiroquai Thu, 17 Aug 1995 11:37:13 -0500 (EST)
omar Mon, 07 Aug 1995 14:15:14 -0500 (EST)
omar Tue, 01 Aug 1995 13:37:56 -0500 (EST)
Kevin Farnham
Re: Taudisymphonie Tue, 22 Aug 1995 17:17:02 -0700 (PDT)
Pot the Presses (long) (no AJ) Fri, 18 Aug 1995 20:38:48 -0700 (PDT)
Re: "Heavy" acid-jazz....... Fri, 18 Aug 1995 13:17:16 -0700 (PDT)
Re: i got it (fwd) Thu, 10 Aug 1995 16:44:10 -0700 (PDT)
kevin kiernan
Re: Fat Sesame Etc. (Was Groove Collective) Thu, 17 Aug 1995 23:41:08 -0400
Re: Brian Auger Trinity? Thu, 17 Aug 1995 23:25:20 -0400
whazzup in london sept 3-15? Wed, 16 Aug 1995 21:34:17 -0400
Re: Didgeridoo grooves? Mon, 14 Aug 1995 17:31:14 -0400
Kevin Whilden
Re: SPAMM - it ain't pork it's imitation ham Mon, 7 Aug 1995 14:50:31 -0700 (PDT)
SPAMM (was RE: cool clubs in...) Sun, 6 Aug 1995 09:17:31 -0700 (PDT)
KRRawlins@aol.com
Acid Jazz Mailing List Sun, 6 Aug 1995 13:52:45 -0400
Kumaran, Ranjith
RE: Mo' Wax Fri, 18 Aug 1995 12:58:17 -0600
LAILUNI@aol.com
Re: Cool stores/clubs in (ins... Wed, 2 Aug 1995 20:10:27 -0400
LAWFORD JEFFREY
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Sat, 26 Aug 1995 00:57:00 -0400
Metrosonic Y'all! Mon, 31 Jul 1995 19:59:37 -0400
Lisa Noguchi
SF goings-on?? Tue, 1 Aug 1995 16:41:41 -1000
lnelson
UNSUBSCRIBE Wed, 23 Aug 95 18:08:27 PST
Luke McKeehan
Mo' Funk, Hip-hop and more Wed, 23 Aug 95 11:30 PDT
Random notes from Vancouver Tue, 15 Aug 95 11:51 PDT
m-i-k-e totha bee
Re: Rebirth of Cool - Phive Mon, 14 Aug 1995 09:16:38 -0700 (PDT)
Re: Shops In Toronto? Thu, 10 Aug 1995 08:41:53 -0700 (PDT)
Re: Tricky Vs. The Gravediggaz - "The Hell E.P." Wed, 9 Aug 1995 12:43:27 -0700 (PDT)
Mangotree Music
Brazilian music. Thu, 10 Aug 1995 15:42:13 -0800
Marc Wright
Re: DJ Cam Sun, 27 Aug 1995 21:12:01 +1000
DJ Cam Sat, 26 Aug 1995 11:05:33 +1000
Re: No Commercial Posts Please (was Re: Who I Am.) Sat, 26 Aug 1995 07:03:17 +1000
You lot owe me money! Mon, 21 Aug 1995 21:49:17 +1000
Mo' Wax Fri, 18 Aug 1995 22:21:27 +1000
Eighth Dimension compilation Wed, 16 Aug 1995 21:28:01 +1000
marcus@holo.com
Re: Cool stores/clubs in (insert city (L.A.)) messages Fri, 4 Aug 95 18:55:11 PDT
Re: LP(Comp.):Rare Vol.1&2? Fri, 4 Aug 95 18:19:50 PDT
Mark Allerton
Re: "The end of the hip-hop era"... Wed, 23 Aug 1995 08:48:42 +1200
Re: Slagging off Bands: The Roots Tue, 22 Aug 1995 08:29:44 +1200
Re: SPAMM (was RE: cool clubs in...) Mon, 7 Aug 1995 18:49:57 +1200
Re: mo' money mark... Thu, 10 Aug 1995 10:06:19 -0500
Mark Robohm
Belizbeha on the whole East Coast Mon, 21 Aug 1995 14:21:59 -0400
Acid Jazz CDs For Sale Wed, 23 Aug 1995 20:13:18 -0700 (PDT)
Re: Didgeridoo grooves? Mon, 14 Aug 1995 16:22:16 -0700 (PDT)
internet cd shopping. Thu, 31 Aug 95 13:35:52 EDT
rebirth of cool Thu, 24 Aug 95 9:51:26 EDT
Matthew Robert Chicoine
ATTENTION NORTH CAROLINIANS IN RAL. AREA Mon, 7 Aug 1995 16:33:36 -0400 (EDT)
Michael Vanolden
HIP HOP: QUICK FACT Thu, 24 Aug 1995 02:59:43 -0700
Michal the Milkman
Re: "Always There" Wed, 30 Aug 1995 00:49:30 -0800
Mike Battaglia
Money Mark Wed, 2 Aug 1995 09:50:07 -0700 (PDT)
Mike Etheridge, Int'l Finc, SFO x8926
Re: props to On The One Wed, 30 Aug 1995 16:18:55 -1000
Monterey Jazz Fest Thu, 24 Aug 1995 13:06:11 -1000
miketull
RE: "Always there" My Fav Wed, 30 Aug 1995 13:59:28 -0500
RE:EC Wed, 30 Aug 1995 13:45:26 -0500
mineuchi taro
bellissima news 2 Tue, 15 Aug 95 13:24:33 -1000
Bellissima UK Mon, 14 Aug 95 05:06:13 -1000
Bellissima Records News Sun, 13 Aug 95 18:27:28 -1000
Nicolas Bamberski
Stuff (was Re: props to On The One) Wed, 30 Aug 95 17:03:38 CDT
Re: Sample Question - Mc Solaar Tue, 29 Aug 95 16:22:54 CDT
Re: Future Sound of Jazz Vol. 1 Tue, 29 Aug 95 13:07:51 CDT
Re: DJ Cam Sat, 26 Aug 95 10:31:31 CDT
No Commercial Posts Please (was Re: Who I Am.) Thu, 24 Aug 95 09:42:55 CDT
let's get a bit more electronic :) Fri, 18 Aug 95 14:08:23 CDT
Nigel Horrocks
Little Axe-recommendations please Tue, 8 Aug 1995 22:29:41 +1200 (NZST)
PartyHrd@aol.com
ACID JAZZ BANDS>>>> LIST??? Tue, 15 Aug 1995 03:08:06 -0400
Wondering on Jamiraquai Wed, 9 Aug 1995 19:05:59 -0400
Put me on your LIST please Tue, 8 Aug 1995 20:58:25 -0400
Paul E. Lopes
Re: "Always There" Wed, 30 Aug 1995 21:41:10 +0500
Re: US3 Sun, 13 Aug 95 12:19 EDT
New WWWs Thu, 3 Aug 95 12:36 EDT
Paul_Craven_at_MFI-SM@ccmail.mfi.com
Re: AJ: Spearhead ? ;< -and- On The One Info Request. Tue, 08 Aug 95 16:09:36 PST
Re[2]: Cool stores/clubs in (insert city (L.A.)) messages Tue, 08 Aug 95 15:02:03 PST
Re: Metrosonic Y'all! Tue, 01 Aug 95 10:51:38 PST
Re: Attention NYC-Area Net Peoples!!!! Metrosonic Tonight! Mon, 31 Jul 95 17:15:57 PST
Peter Szymczak
HELP: My vinyl's been ruined! Tue, 8 Aug 1995 20:10:31 +0000
Phil Mcmahon
Re: Chemical Brothers (Non-AJ related?) Tue, 18 Jul 1995 10:00:05 +0000
Phisst Records Corp.
national distribution Sat, 19 Aug 1995 01:11:16 +0000
PITBUL@aol.com
Re: KIDS...(the movie) Mon, 7 Aug 1995 19:05:22 -0400
R. William Morris
the rhythmn Mon, 21 Aug 1995 18:38:23 +0000
RCorpolong@aol.com
I apologize Thu, 24 Aug 1995 15:51:48 -0400
Jazz Improvisation books Thu, 24 Aug 1995 04:30:40 -0400
Who I Am. Thu, 24 Aug 1995 04:30:14 -0400
Jazz Patterns Book Thu, 24 Aug 1995 04:29:43 -0400
Richard Munday
Raw Stylus 14 Aug 95 06:08:23 EDT
Music Seminar Tokyo '95 IRC CHAT SESSION Thu, 31 Aug 95 19:08:15 JST
Music Seminar Tokyo '95 IRC CHAT SESSION Tue, 29 Aug 95 18:58:58 JST
satlink!redgemma.satlink.net!mrodcan@un1.satlink.com
I'm looking for Stereo Mc's (Connected Cd maxi) Fri, 25 Aug 95 09:14:53 EST
Scott Herskovitz
melbourne Fri, 25 Aug 1995 14:46:11 -0400
my thoughts Wed, 23 Aug 1995 20:11:28 -0400
Scummy000@aol.com
Sean Silcoff
stuff about bklyn fnk ssntls & roy ayers Tue, 29 Aug 95 23:58:43 EDT
for james brown fans only Tue, 29 Aug 95 23:47:30 EDT
SessomsMus@aol.com
AACM Homepage Tue, 1 Aug 1995 12:10:59 -0400
SHANNON BRIGGS
Re: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Wed, 30 Aug 1995 12:05:26 +1000
Re: melbourne Tue, 29 Aug 1995 13:28:20 +1000
Re: hip hop, my two cents Tue, 29 Aug 1995 12:55:51 +1000
Re: Brian Auger Trinity? Fri, 18 Aug 1995 09:37:58 +1000
DJ Vadim/MicrophonePager/Special ED Tue, 15 Aug 1995 11:44:36 +1000
krush Fri, 4 Aug 1995 09:38:44 +1000
Re: Photek Fri, 4 Aug 1995 09:31:02 +1000
Shojie@aol.com
A Web Site For Vinyl Junkies! Thu, 31 Aug 1995 03:13:35 -0400
Vinyl Review on Web! Wed, 16 Aug 1995 14:47:15 -0400
A New Web Site Tue, 15 Aug 1995 01:49:12 -0400
LP(Comp.):Rare Vol.1&2? Sat, 5 Aug 1995 02:43:05 -0400
Jon Lucien? Tue, 1 Aug 1995 20:33:24 -0400
Simon Grigg
Re: "Always There" Thu, 31 Aug 1995 10:10:17 +1200
skinnys@magna.com.au
mailing list Fri, 25 Aug 1995 19:38:41 +0000
SMRecords@aol.com
hey Thu, 17 Aug 1995 18:56:37 -0400
SRV89@aol.com
PsycheFunkaJazzadelic Sun, 13 Aug 1995 23:20:50 -0400
Stefano Ceccarelli
Steve Eisner
RE: Charlie Hunter Conference & other net stuff Tue, 29 Aug 95 15:38:22 TZ
Steve Sando
Re: crappy little demos Thu, 31 Aug 95 09:24:03 -0500
Promo disc Wed, 30 Aug 95 08:33:08 -0500
Re: GROOVE COLLECTIVE Wed, 16 Aug 95 09:18:21 -0500
sujay jayaram
Susan John
jazzmatazz 2 Thu, 24 Aug 1995 11:29:51 -0400 (EDT)
Re: Keziah Jones Fri, 18 Aug 1995 12:28:22 -0400 (EDT)
Teresa Wilmott
Not a promoter: a personal introduction... Fri, 25 Aug 1995 15:39:21 -0700
Greyboy Allstars and junk mail Thu, 24 Aug 1995 12:44:57 -0700
Re: US3 ... what's happening in New York this weekend? Mon, 14 Aug 1995 14:50:14 -0700
the 'REF'
subscribe Wed, 09 Aug 1995 09:47:45 -0500
The SCATMAN
"Always There" - The Final Tue, 29 Aug 1995 00:15:28 -0700 (PDT)
Re: Charlie Hunter Conference Mon, 28 Aug 1995 20:35:04 -0700 (PDT)
Re: Info on QuietBoys Mon, 28 Aug 1995 12:34:35 -0700 (PDT)
Re: "Always There" Mon, 28 Aug 1995 11:29:42 -0700 (PDT)
ID THIS SONG!!!!! Sun, 27 Aug 1995 22:22:21 -0700 (PDT)
The Quiet Boys Thu, 24 Aug 1995 09:34:23 -0700 (PDT)
Breakbeats on the Web/FTP? Wed, 23 Aug 1995 12:30:55 -0700 (PDT)
Re: Samplers? [No AJ Content] Thu, 17 Aug 1995 12:27:09 -0700 (PDT)
Re: GROOVE COLLECTIVE Wed, 16 Aug 1995 17:20:02 -0700 (PDT)
Whiners Mon, 7 Aug 1995 15:57:51 -0700
Tim G. Wagner
Re: Promo disc and Stuff Wed, 30 Aug 1995 19:27:08 -0400
Hip-Hop 2 Wed, 23 Aug 1995 03:15:37 -0400
Hip-Hop Wed, 23 Aug 1995 03:10:18 -0400
Re: You lot owe me money! Mon, 21 Aug 1995 12:27:30 -0400
RE: Red Snapper & Hookian Mindz Sun, 20 Aug 1995 23:54:47 -0400
Re: acid-jazz/hollywood rec. Sat, 19 Aug 1995 15:32:06 -0400
Auger-nisation? Thu, 17 Aug 1995 17:03:51 -0400
Jamiroquai (was re:Groove Collective) Thu, 17 Aug 1995 03:38:51 -0400
Re: Mufa or The Ropers? Mon, 14 Aug 1995 21:09:34 -0400
AJ: Spearhead ? ;< -and- On The One Info Request. Tue, 08 Aug 1995 15:20:25 -0400
Re: LP(Comp.):Rare Vol.1&2? Sun, 06 Aug 1995 15:30:34 -0400
Re: LP(Comp.):Rare Vol.1&2? Sat, 05 Aug 1995 13:40:24 -0400
Tyler Askew
spirit level lp Mon, 28 Aug 1995 21:05:52 GMT
FiX Mag: Swifty, Towa Tei Fri, 25 Aug 1995 21:02:09 GMT
Tyler Jennings Askew
Re: Samplers? [No AJ Content] Tue, 15 Aug 1995 13:05:09 -0400 (EDT)
KIDS...(the movie) Mon, 7 Aug 1995 17:56:14 -0400 (EDT)
Re: omar Mon, 7 Aug 1995 17:51:14 -0400 (EDT)
VinylExchg@aol.com
The Roots in SF 8/20 Sat, 19 Aug 1995 17:41:53 -0400
William Jon Curtis
Re: Promo disc and Stuff 30 Aug 95 23:05:48 EDT
Re: acid-jazz/hollywood rec. 18 Aug 95 21:12:02 EDT
Re: Didgeridoo grooves? 14 Aug 95 21:25:42 EDT
Re: SPAMM (was RE: cool clubs in...) 06 Aug 95 17:06:29 EDT
Re: bootlegging - my thoughts. 04 Aug 95 18:49:19 EDT
Re: Jungle slowed down... 04 Aug 95 01:46:18 EDT
Re: Cool stores/clubs in (insert city) messages 02 Aug 95 18:15:54 EDT
Xavier Llovet
Xlafe@aol.com
Help- Hedfunk Thu, 24 Aug 1995 23:19:21 -0400
Acid Jazz Thu, 24 Aug 1995 23:11:07 -0400
zzx
Re: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Tue, 29 Aug 1995 02:40:35 -0600 (MDT)
Re: Michael Franti Wed, 9 Aug 1995 02:32:43 -0600 (MDT)
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Dead Man’s Switch
), Maria McErlane (Matka), William Whymper(Otek), Alex Mallinson (Robot)
26 years ago, a team of scientists came to a moon to unearth the secrets of a long-dead civilisation. They were later found to have died in what the authorities called an anti-matter explosion. Alone and desperate, Bernice Summerfield will do anything to get back home. But where is home?
The capital world of Zordin seems to offer the only chance of answers, but that’s a long way away. The offer of a job could be her best way of paying for the voyage but… archaeology is illegal… and there’s a quarantine… and she’ll have to leap from a spacecraft in orbit. But what does that matter?
On a world guarded by armed satellites and patrolled by defence drones on the surface, Benny’s going to have to use all her knowledge, skill and wits. And that’s just to get there! Because it’s not the moon itself that’s the problem. It’s what happened there, what remains there, what might escape. What matters? Nothing.
Written By:John Dorney and Richard Dinnick
Directed By: John Ainsworth
was the fifty second Bernice Summerfield audio story released by Big Finish Productions. It was the fourth story of the eleventh season.
John Dorney and Richard Dinnick
John Ainsworth
Mat thew Cochrane
Cover Art:
Adrian Salmon
60′ approx
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Passion for Chinese martial arts grows in Turkey
( Xinhua )
A teacher with Jiangsu University tutors a student from Austria in tai chi. [Photo by Xu Wei/China Daily]
ANKARA-The wushu team of Ankara metropolitan municipality practices hard to win new medals and titles in Turkey, despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
Wushu, which means martial arts in Chinese, has grown in popularity throughout the country.
In a sports center located on the outskirts of Ankara, the Turkish capital, young athletes are training strenuously.
"We are committed to martial arts and there is a real interest in wushu, which incorporates different techniques. Our athletes are ambitious," Serkan Bakir, a well-known martial arts instructor and competitor, says.
Bakir explains that amid the global health crisis, wushu, which emphasizes quickness, power and relaxed movement, provides an excellent opportunity for people who wish to strengthen their immune and cardiovascular systems.
"There are many variations of Chinese martial arts. Tai chi, for example, can be performed by a toddler or someone who is 85 years old. It can help people stay in good shape. Everyone can benefit from it especially when we have to stay fit to fend off the coronavirus," he notes.
Standard wushu training concentrates on a core curriculum of eight major styles, whereas modern wushu consists of a variety of styles which can be divided into barehanded and weapon play.
A student with the martial arts team of the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing teaches wushu to visiting students from Russia's Confucius Institute in 2014. [Photo by Liu Hong'an/China Daily]
The team consists of bare-handed style athletes and most of them have won a local, national or an international title as part of the Turkish national team.
Beyzanur Karakaya, a 22-year-old woman, is currently seeking a master's degree in sports education at university in Ankara. Her goal is to improve in her field and eventually travel to China to master the art of wushu, which she has practiced for about 10 years.
"I have never been to China or competed against a Chinese athlete, but if I have the opportunity, I would love to go there and train with masters. That would be wonderful," she says.
Karakaya has won several Turkish and European medals and wants to take on new challenges within her team, which comprises some 100 athletes.
Wearing her traditional Chinese martial arts uniform, 13-year-old Fatma Ikra Ulukok says wushu brought mental enlightenment to her shy personality.
"Since I started practicing this, I became more confident. So it has helped me both physically and mentally, and I plan to improve my abilities in the coming years and excel in the sport with self-discipline," the young girl says.
Ulukok adds that she admires the Chinese culture and would like see it for herself in the future.
The sentiment was echoed by her teammate, 16-year-old Cetin Ciloglu, who has reached the podium at the European championships before, saying he was attracted by Chinese culture that produced such a form of combat.
"I eventually want to become a wushu world champion," Ciloglu says.
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Pixel Scroll 1/13/21 The Scroll Is A Harsh Mistress
Posted on January 13, 2021 by Mike Glyer
(1) OVERVIEW OF THE NEW LOTR SERIES. Amazon just unloaded Parler but now they’re bringing back Sauron? What are they thinking? io9 has the story: “Amazon Reveals Lord of the Rings TV Show Details—Sauron Returns”.
…Confirmed via a synopsis provided to TheOneRing.net, Amazon Studios revealed that the series—currently filming in New Zealand with a cast that seems about as large as the population of a small country on top of that—is indeed set in the Second Age, “thousands” of years before the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The show will concern itself with characters “both familiar and new” as they reckon with the fact that the Dark Lord Sauron has returned to cast shadow and flame across Middle-earth.
(2) WORLDCON HOTEL NEWS. “Owner of DC’s Wardman Park Hotel files for bankruptcy” reports WTOP. The hotel is where DisCon III, the 2021 Worldcon, would be held if an in-person 2021 Worldcon is possible:
Wardman Hotel Owner LLC, an affiliate of Pacific Life Insurance Co., has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and has ended its management contract with Marriott International.
The 1,152-room Wardman Park, one of the largest hotels in D.C., opened in 1918, during the Spanish Flu pandemic.
Pacific Life permanently closed the hotel just before filing for bankruptcy protection, and is seeking to sell the property, which could clear the way for the property’s redevelopment.
The Chapter 11 petition was filed Jan. 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
Marriott and Pacific Life have been locked in legal disputes since shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic led to the hotel’s temporary closure in March 2020.
…The owner’s bankruptcy filing Monday came the same day that neighboring historic hotel the Omni Shoreham reopened.
The DisCon III committee hasn’t posted a response to the latest development, but last October they did address their plans for an alternative to the Wardman Park if needed. The chairs wrote in the convention’s newsletter [PDF file]:
As you can imagine, we have uncertainty related to the Coronavirus but planning and activities continue. The status of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel is unclear. Litigation between the owners was filed 2 September and settled at the end of September. At the start of October, Marriott filed a lawsuit against one of the entities that owns the hotel. What a mess! The hotel itself does not have an official statement at this time, and we are in close touch. Our Facilities team does have the room blocks for both the Marriott and the Omni Shoreham set up, and our current plan is to release those in January 2021.
(3) BOOM BOOM BOOM. James Davis Nicoll names “Five Books Featuring Space Travel Powered by Atomic Bombs”. Strange that I’ve read four of these but only remembered the nukes from one of them.
Nuclear explosives can be used to address many urgent issues: a shortage of mildly radioactive harbours, for example, or the problem of having too many wealthy, industrialized nations not populated by survivors who envy the dead. The most pressing issue—the need for a fast, affordable space drive—wasn’t solved until the late 1950s. Theodore B. Taylor and others proposed that the Bomb could be used to facilitate rapid space travel across the Solar System. Thus, Project Orion was born….
(4) SOMETHING ELSE THAT’S SURGING. “Online D&D provides relief during the COVID-19 pandemic” – the Los Angeles Times profiled D&D players.
… Players and scholars attribute the game’s resurgent popularity not only to the longueurs of the pandemic, but also to its reemergence in pop culture — on the Netflix series “Stranger Things,” whose main characters play D&D in a basement; on the sitcom “The Big Bang Theory”; or via the host of celebrities who display their love for the game online.
Liz Schuh, head of publishing and licensing for Dungeons & Dragons, isn’t surprised by the game’s reanimated popularity. Revenue was up 35% in 2020 compared with 2019, the seventh consecutive year of growth, she said.
Many newcomers purchase starter kits packed with character sheets, a rule book, a set of dice and a story line. New dungeon masters may buy a foldable screen to hide their rolls and anything else they’d like to keep from the player-characters. Once the introductory journey ends, players pore through other adventure books for sale — or conjure an original odyssey.
“The first few days of news [of the virus] coming out globally, at the top of every hour all the alarms were going off at the company,” said Dean Bigbee, director of operations for Roll20, an online tabletop gaming platform. “The amount of new account requests were so high that the systems thought that we were under a denial-of-service attack. But they were legitimate. They were accounts from Italy, and then France, following the paths of lockdowns across the world.”
(5) FORTIES SF’S POWER COUPLE SPEAKS. G.W. Thomas at Dark Worlds Quarterly put together a fine link compilation: “In Their Own Words: Interviews with Leigh Brackett & Edmond Hamilton”, who married in 1946 and put Kinsman, Ohio on the map.
Here are some interviews given by Leigh Brackett and Edmond Hamilton. They range from artsy film magazines to the cheapest of fanzines. My favorite is the audio clip from Youtube when Leigh and Ed were the guests of honor at the 1964 (PacifiCon) WorldCon. It is somehow revealing to hear what their voices sounded like and to glean a little of their personalities beyond the printed page….
Included are Q&A’s conducted by one of fandom’s best interviewers, Paul Walker, such as his Leigh Brackett interview from Luna Monthly #61 [1976] [Internet archive link].
(6) STRAIN OBIT. Actress Julie Strain, whose genre resume is mostly erotic horror movies, has died reports Joblo.com: “R.I.P.: Julie Strain, B-movie legend and Penthouse Pet, has died at age 58”. This is the third time her death has been announced, however, news sources are satisfied this time the news is accurate.
Last January, it was mistakenly announced that B-movie legend and 1993 Penthouse Pet of the Year Julie Strain had passed away. The announcement was quickly retracted – but in a sad twist of fate, friends and family are confirming that Strain has passed away almost one year to the day after that erroneous report. She was 58 years old.
(7) MEMORY LANE.
1991 — Thirty years ago at Chicon V, Lois McMaster Bujold‘s The Vor Game as published by Baen Books wins the Hugo for Best Novel. Runners-ups were David Brin‘s Earth, Dan Simmons’ The Fall of Hyperion, Michael P. Kube-McDowell’s The Quiet Pools and Greag Bear’s Queen of Angels. It would nominated for the HOMer as well. A portion of this novel had appeared in the February 1990 issue of Analog magazine in slightly different form as the “Weatherman” story.
(8) TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS.
[Compiled by Cat Eldridge and John Hertz.]
Born January 13, 1893 – Clark Ashton Smith. Poetry, prose, graphic art, sculpture. One novel, two hundred thirty shorter stories, seven hundred poems; a dozen covers, a hundred thirty interiors; five dozen posthumous collections. Pillar of Weird Tales with Howard and Lovecraft. “I make use of prose-rhythm, metaphor, simile, tone-color, counter-point, and other stylistic resources, like a sort of incantation.” (Died 1961) [JH]
Born January 13, 1933 – Ron Goulart, age 88. Eighty novels, a hundred fifty shorter stories. Book reviews for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and Venture. Comic-book stories and prose about The Phantom; scripts for Marvel. Inkpot Award. Detective fiction, including half a dozen books featuring Groucho Marx. Nonfiction, e.g. The Great Comic Book Artists, Comic Book Encyclopedia. [JH]
Born January 13, 1937 – George Barr, age 84. Decades-long career as a fanartist; here is a cover for Amra; here is one for Trumpet; two Hugos as Best Fanartist; Fan Guest of Honor at Westercon XXVI, at MidAmeriCon the 34th Worldcon. Also developed a career as a pro. Here is The Dying Earth. Here is the Sep 86 Amazing. Here is Adventures in Unhistory. Artist GoH at ConAdian the 52nd Worldcon. Fifty illustrated limericks for Weird Tales. Fan and pro, two hundred covers, seven hundred interiors. Artbook Upon the Winds of Yesterday. [JH]
Born January 13, 1938 — Charlie Brill, 83. His best remembered role, well at least among us, is as the Klingon spy Arne Darvin in “The Trouble with Tribbles”. And yes, he’ll show in the DS9 episode that repurposed this episode to great effect. He was the voice of Grimmy in the animated Mother Goose and Grimm series, as well having one-offs in They Came from Outer Space, The Munsters Today, Sliders, The Incredible Hulk, Wonder Woman and Super Train. Not even genre adjacent but he was a recurring performer on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In. (CE)
Born January 13, 1945 — Joy Chant, 76. Chant is an odd case as she only wrote for a short period between 1970 and 1983 but she produced the brilliant House of Kendreth trilogy, consisting of Red Moon and Black Mountain, The Grey Mane of Morning and When Voiha Wakes. Her other main work, and it is without doubt absolutely brilliant, is The High Kings, illustrated lavishly by George Sharp and designed by David Larkin with editing by Ian and Betty Ballantine. It is intended as a reference work on the Arthurian legends and the Matter of Britain with her amazing retellings of the legends. I’ve got one reference to her writing Fantasy and Allegory in Literature for Young Readers but no cites for it elsewhere. Has anyone actually read it? (CE)
Born January 13, 1957 – Claudia Emerson. Five poems for us in Son and Foe. Eight collections. Poetry editor for Greensboro Review. Pulitzer Prize. Acad. Amer. Poets Prize. Poet Laureate of Virginia. Elected to Fellowship of Southern Writers. Donald Justice Award. (Died 2014) [JH]
Born January 13, 1960 — Mark Chadbourn, 61. I’ve read his Age of Misrule series in which the Celtic Old Gods are returning in modern times and they’re not very nice but they make for very entertaining reading. It’s followed by the Dark Age series which is just as well crafted. His two Hellboy novels are actually worth reading as well. (CE)
Born January 13, 1968 — Ken Scholes, 53. His major series, and it’s quite worth reading, is The Psalms of Isaak. His short stories, collected so far in three volumes, are also worth your precious reading time. He wrote the superb “The Wings We Dare Aspire” for METAtropolis: Green Space. (CE)
Born January 13, 1972 — Una McCormack, 49. She’s the author of The Baba Yaga and The Star of the Sea, two novels in the delightful Weird Space series. She’s also written myriad Trek novels including a Discovery novel, The Way to the Stars, and the first Picard novel, The Last Best Hope. She’s also a writer of Who novels having five so far, plus writing for Big Finish Productions. (CE)
Born January 13, 1979 – Bree Despain, age 42. Six novels, a couple of shorter stories. Took a semester off college to write and direct plays for inner-city teens. Felt she wasn’t special enough to be a writer, decided to study law. Hit by a pickup truck. Thought it out again. First book sold on 6th anniversary of collision. [JH]
Born January 13, 1980 — Beth Cato, 41. Her first series, the Clockwork Dagger sequence beginning with The Clockwork Dagger novel is most excellent popcorn literature. She’s fine a considerable amount of excellent short fiction which has been mostly collected in Deep Roots and Red Dust and Dancing Horses and Other Stories. Her website features a number of quite tasty cake recipes including Browned Butter Coffee Bundt Cake. Really I kid you not. (CE)
Born January 13, 1981 – Ieva Melgave, age 40. Her “Siren’s Song” has been translated from Latvian into English. Interviewed (in English) in Vector 281. [JH]
(9) COMICS SECTION.
Frank and Ernest meet a star who thinks he’s a star.
(10) ALIENS OMNIBUS. Marvel invites fans to jump on the Aliens Omnibus when the volumes arrive in April and August.
Cover by Mahmud Asrar
The classic comic book tales set in the iconic—and terrifying—world of the Alien franchise are being collected in brand-new hardcover collection starting in April with Aliens Omnibus Volume 1. And in August, fans of the iconic franchise can enjoy even more of these thrilling comic book stories with Aliens: The Original Years Omnibus Vol. 2.
A rogue scientist’s genetic experiments create a horrific new alien king! A ragtag unit of Colonial Marines battles a xenomorph infestation on a space station — and the survivors face a pack of bizarre hybrids! An investigator must solve a murder on a deep-space alien-research station! But what dread music will a deranged composer make with an alien’s screams? And can a synthetic xenomorph rebel against its sadistic creator? Plus: Flash back to an alien attack in the 1950s! And witness the fate of England as aliens overrun the Earth! This rare collection includes: Aliens: Rogue #1-4, Aliens: Colonial Marines #1-10, Aliens: Labyrinth #1-4, Aliens: Salvation, Aliens: Music Of The Spears #1-4 and Aliens: Stronghold #1-4 — plus material from Dark Horse Comics #3-5, #11-13 And #15-19; Previews (1993) #1-12; Previews (1994) #1; and Aliens Magazine (1992) #9-20.
Exclusive direct market variant cover by Paul Mendoza
(11) THE REAL SPACE COMMAND. “U.S. Space Command to be headquartered in Huntsville, Ala.” reports station WAFF.
The permanent headquarters of U.S. Space Command will be located at Huntsville’s Redstone Arsenal.
According to a statement from the Secretary of the Air Force, Huntsville was confirmed as the preferred location for the U.S. Space Command Headquarters.
The Department of the Air Force conducted both virtual and on-site visits to assess which of six candidate locations would be best suited to host the U.S. Space Command Headquarters. The decision was based on factors related to mission, infrastructure capacity, community support and costs to the Department of Defense.
(12) AUDIOBOOK NARRATION. In AudioFile’s latest Behind the Mic, narrator Joniece Abbott-Pratt shares her thoughts about recording Jordan Ifueko’s Raybearer, on AudioFile’s list of the 2020 Best Young Adult Audiobooks.
Listeners meet Tarisai as a lonely younger girl growing up with a distant mother, and we feel her astonishment when she’s brought to the palace in Aristar and meets the prince — and discovers her new friend is the person her mother cursed her to kill. This vibrant and multilayered fantasy audiobook comes to life with Joniece’s evocative narration.
“You watch her save the world… and that was really cool, to be inside of a story of a young woman that got to stand in her truth and in her power. You watch a princess mature into a queen.”—Narrator Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Read AudioFile Magazine’s review of Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko.
(13) COOK BOOKS. Get stacks of Glen Cook novels via this new Bundle of Holding deal.
Adventurer! This Glen Cook Bundle presents novels by fantasy and science fiction author Glen Cook from Night Shade Books. Best known for his Black Company dark military fantasies, Cook has also written the eight-book Dread Empire epic fantasy series, the Starfishers and Darkwar trilogies, and many free-standing novels. This all-new fiction offer gives you nearly two dozen Glen Cook novels in both ePub and Kindle ebook formats for an unbeatable bargain price.
For just US$7.95 you get all five titles in our Glen Cook Sampler (retail value $69) as DRM-free ePub and Kindle ebooks
… And if you pay more than the threshold price of $25.97, you’ll level up and also get our entire Complete Collection with eight more titles…
(14) ON SECOND THOUGHT. He’s a busy man, you know.
Just to follow up from my weekend tweet, I'd say after getting some feedback and food for thought I'm leaning against running for the SFWA Board of Directors, probably at least 60-40. I have a lot of work to get caught up with, and there' only so many hours in the day.
— Lou Antonelli (@LouAntonelli) January 13, 2021
(15) HELICONIA WINTER. Richard Paolinelli handed out the 2021 Helicon Awards [Internet archive link] yesterday, some to bestselling sff writers, two to L. Jagi Lamplighter and Declan Finn, but if you want to know what’s really on Richard’s mind look at this entry on the list:
John W. Campbell Diversity in SF/F Award – J.K. Rowling
Paolinelli also presented awards named for Melvil Dewey and Laura Ingalls Wilder, which he created after their names were removed from two American Library Association awards in recent years.
(16) VIDEO OF THE DAY. In “Honest Game Trailers: Cyberpunk 2077” on YouTube, Fandom Games says that Cyberpunk 2077 is “the most anticipated release since Cup And Ball 2″ and that it lets gamers wallow in a world which is “not cool, not fun, and everything’s broken.”
[Thanks to JJ, John King Tarpinian, Martin Morse Wooster, Mike Kennedy, Cat Eldridge, John Hertz, Michael Toman, James Davis Nicoll, and Andrew Porter for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Anna Nimmhaus.]
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Festival SHOWS
BIO Debra Ann Byrd
BIO Dathan B. Williams
BIO Voza Rivers
OTHELLO: The Moor of Venice
SYNOPSIS // SHAKESPEARE'S OTHELLO
Period written: 1604
First known performance: November 1, 1604 (Whitehall Palace, London)
Provoked by Iago, a jealous Roderigo tells Brabantio of Othello’s secret affair and marriage to his daughter Desdemona. Othello is brought before the Duke, where he explains how he wooed Desdemona, and she is brought to the chamber to confirm her willingness to marry him. Othello is then sent to defend to Cyprus against the Turks. He prepares to leave, entrusting Desdemona to his ensign, Iago. Iago tells Roderigo that he will obtain Desdemona for him, and persuades him to come to Cyprus, along with his money. Iago reflects on his hatred for Othello, and plots a way of destroying him.
Cassio, Othello’s lieutenant, arrives in Cyprus, followed by Iago and Desdemona, and then by Othello. The Turkish fleet is reported lost in a storm, and during the celebrations Iago persuades a reluctant Cassio to drink, then prompts Roderigo to start a fight with Cassio. Cassio becomes angry, and also attacks Montano, the Cyprus governor. Othello is roused, and removes Cassio from office. Iago advises Cassio to work his way back into Othello’s affections by speaking to Desdemona.
Cassio asks Iago’s wife Emilia to arrange a meeting with Desdemona, and she agrees to do what she can. Iago puts the thought of Desdemona being unfaithful into Othello’s mind, and hints at Cassio’s role in the infidelity. Emilia finds a handkerchief that Desdemona has dropped and passes it to Iago. Othello’s jealousy grows and he asks Iago to prove his suspicions. Iago suggests that Desdemona has given Cassio the handkerchief. Othello asks Desdemona for it and is angered when she is unable to produce it. Cassio meanwhile has found the handkerchief in his chamber and he asks his mistress Bianca to have it copied.
Iago arranges for Othello to overhear a conversation between himself and Cassio, joking about Cassio’s mistress Bianca—but making the conversation appear to be about Desdemona. Bianca appears with the handkerchief and returns it to Cassio. This enrages Othello, and he hits Desdemona, much to the dismay of his kinsman Lodovico who has arrived from Venice with letters ordering Othello to return. Othello asks Emilia about Desdemona’s unfaithfulness, but she denies any knowledge of it. He then accuses Desdemona to her face, leaving her distraught.
Iago convinces Roderigo that Cassio must die to keep Desdemona in Cyprus. Roderigo attacks Cassio, but is wounded by him. Iago wounds Cassio. Hearing Cassio’s cries, Othello thinks Iago has killed him, and leaves to deal with Desdemona. Iago then kills Roderigo. Othello kills Desdemona, strangling her in her bed. Emilia discovers her body, and tells Othello that she was innocent, and that Iago had lied to him; she is stabbed and killed by Iago. Letters are revealed telling of Iago and Roderigo’s plot to kill Cassio. Othello, realising Desdemona was innocent, laments, then stabs Iago, but only wounds him. Lodovico gives Cassio power to rule in Cyprus, and is about to arrest Othello, when Othello commits suicide.
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Elise Henry celebrates 110 years with family
Published:Friday | February 2, 2018 | 12:00 AMPaul H. Williams/Gleaner Writer
Paul H. Williams
Elise Henry feeds herself while one of her caregivers, Yanique Crawford, looks on.
Elise Henry of Havendale, St Andrew, was born in 1908. On Sunday, January 21, family members and other loved ones, some travelling from abroad for the occasion, gathered around the beloved matriarch to celebrate her 110th birthday.
This significant milestone was brought to the attention of Family and Religion by her grandniece Althea Byll-Cataria, and when our team visited, the only noticeable impairment was her inability to hear clearly. But her caramel skin, which has been cleansed by Palmolive and pear soap over the years, glowed like that of a newborn babe.
And though the memory of the wheelchair-bound elder ebbs and flows, she still remembers some details. In a clear and strong voice she listed the full names of her parents and siblings, even the ones, such as "bright eye" Laura, who died in infancy.
"And then Edna Louise. When I was three weeks old, she was three years old, and she died, and they call me Loula's killer, and the killer stick with me," she recalled. And with her characteristic dry wit, she continued, "And a kill off the whole a dem." Yes, she has indeed outlived them all.
Her parents, Nora Clementina Francis and Uriah Manassah Henry, lived in downtown Kingston at 94 Charles Street when she was born at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital. The hospital delivery happened after the maternity nurse who was on her way to attend to her mother met in an accident.
She said her father was a well-educated man who worked as a sanitation inspector, but did not like his name. So he signed all his documents UM Henry. Her parents were strict, but not "over strict" she said. Her father died aged 52, while her mother made the transition in her mid-40s, while she was nine years old. An older sibling took care of her from then.
Henry attended Chetolah Park Elementary School and recalled that in her days, girls did not fight, only boys did. So, her brother would do the fighting. After Chetolah Park, she attended Kingston Technical High School.
She spent a great part of life in the United States, where she worked as a private/companion nurse for 40 years, and another 10 years in England, before returning to the US. There, she retired for a while before repatriating to Jamaica in 1992. "She has been working all her life," Byll-Cataria said.
Henry said she does not know why she lived to this ripe age, and when her youngest caregiver, Yanique Crawford, asked her about any special diet that could have contributed to her longevity, she said cynically, to much laughter, "Same thing that everybody eat." Henry then listed rice and peas, rice and ackee, cow foot, cow nose, tripe and beans as some of the things she had eaten over the years.
So, if it is not the food, then what? Could it be the fact that she was never married and has no children?
She smiled when she was asked about marriage. Without a tinge of regret, she blurted, "No. Nobody never ask me to married them." She then put her hand to her cheek and laughed infectiously.
Henry might not have children of her own, but she has four generations of nieces and nephews, and other relatives who adore her.
"She is very proud of being a black woman ... My husband recorded her already talking about the trade union, the black movement. She used to push us to learn folk songs, Patois, very conscious of her Jamaican-ness," Byll-Cataria said.
AMAZING KNOWLEDGE
Ahlyn Byll-Cataria, who said Henry accepted him as one of her grandnephews, is amazed by her knowledge of and passion for African history, especially that of East Africa.
But how did she acquire all of that information? Family and Religion was told that this Garveyite was an "avid reader" and has taught herself for the most part. "She has been able to draw links and parallels between different periods of history to what is happening now," Byll-Cataria said.
Part of her legacy is her strong family values, and respect for all. She is one who treats everybody equally.
"Every member of the family she has touched in some way, and has helped us along with our trials," another grandniece, Jean MaCalla, added.
Joan Green, a caregiver, said Henry is very loving, and she gets good treatment from her family, and that is why she has been with them for 16 years, and from the looks of things Elise Henry will be dishing out more love for many more years.
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What better to celebrate the summer than with some Friday Questions?
Keeper Of Records gets us started.
With Atlanta being such a hotbed of production lately, and Fallon bringing The Tonight Show back to New York after 40-some years, LA seems to have lost a lot of its cachet. The rise of Youtube and online video means you can be famous no matter where you are. So how much does "Hollywood" really matter in this day and age?
Quite a bit because shows may be produced in Vancouver and Atlanta but the decisions to make them are made in Hollywood. Screw the cameras. That's where the power is.
Plus, don’t kid yourself – there’s still a lot of film and TV production going on in Glitter City. If you don’t believe me, just drive somewhere in Los Angeles when you’re in a hurry and you’ll find a traffic snarl due to some Goddamn filming.
Mark asks:
Being outside the profession, I've assumed that a writer's room would have a variety of talents just like a bullpen will have a variety of talents available (set up guy, hard throwing left-hander, a Jamie Moyer type, etc). Like a writer who maybe can't write a script but comes up with great jokes, or can edit really, really well. Someone who comes up with great stories but isn't great with dialogue. Writer's can't do it all so what deficiencies would you accept, and is it like a bullpen in that regard?
Putting together a writing staff is like putting together a baseball team. There are some players who can field but not hit, or hit but can’t run, or can just pitch to lefthanders, etc. Then there are the rare “five tool” players. They can hit for average, hit for power, field, run, and have great throwing arms. But since there are precious few of those, you sign players who bring certain strengths.
Same is true on a writing staff. Ideally, you want a writer who is a whiz with story, turns out great drafts, and is a joke machine in the room. But realistically, you might hire someone because he’s very funny in the room but weak on drafts, or someone who turns out terrific scripts but is very quiet during rewrites. You might want someone who is extremely clever when it comes to plotting stories or fixing stories but he’s not a good joke man.
The key is accepting that not all writers are five-tool guys. This is why a lot of comedy writers team up. They combine their strengths and minimize their weaknesses.
Cheryl Marks queries:
Stage version of Cheers, good idea or bad?
Depends on whether I get royalties.
Seriously, I’m not sure it is a great idea. Audiences will be comparing the cast of the stage version to the “reallys” and at best they’ll be decent mimics.
It's not like a play where everyone does Hamlet. There’s really only one Sam Malone and that’s Ted Danson. And even he can't play Sam Malone anymore.
My other concern is the content. The book writer will be cutting and pasting from existing scripts I understand but if he doesn’t really understand the characters, tone, or style of what we were going for he’ll likely miss the mark. Seems to me it would have been much smarter for the producers to seek out actual CHEERS writers. Not everyone can write this show. And just watching and studying the episodes doesn’t mean you figure it out.
But who knows? This guy could do a spectacular job.
Still, it’s a gimmick, trying to capitalize on a franchise. I wish Broadway and the theater scene would develop more new material instead of remaking movies and TV shows.
Unless I get royalties. Then I think someone should do “MASH: the Musical.”
From Hamp:
What's your take/thoughts on all the "after the show" talk shows like Talking Dead, After the Black, and After the Thrones?
Anything that adds to fan interest in a show is a good thing. And if the recap show is sponsored it gives the network a chance to recoup a little of the cost of the show.
That said, most of these shows bore me. It’s generally cast members and showrunners fawning all over themselves about how great they are. And the hosts are giant toadies.
There’s usually a lot of inside laughter and clichéd answers. Rarely do I get genuine insight.
Too bad they didn’t have shows in the ‘80s. Would have loved to have seen AFTER-AFTERMASH.
Way more fun is watching bonus tracks on DVD’s when Vince Gilligan is doing them. I actually learn things.
Justin Russo said...
I highly recommend "GAY OF THRONES" on Funny or Die for hilarious recaps of the latest "Game of Thrones" episodes. It's a solid 3-5 minutes each week of a hairdresser and his rotating customers dishing dirt.
My Friday Q:
I sometimes wonder what sort of TV/home entertainment set-up people who work in the industry have at home. For example, I would assume Spielberg and Cameron have the most expensive and state of the art equipment for watching TV and movies.
What do you have? An HD TV or have you already upgraded to a 4K TV? A DVD player or a Blu-Ray player or 4K Blu-Ray player?
Someone out there is a sitcom Bryce Harper, and someone less a sitcom LOOGY. I wonder who...
The best "revisit" of a classic TV sitcom was the Brady Bunch movies and play. The casting was spot on, the "inside jokes" worked, and it was a send-up and parody.
That doesn't seem to be the case with Cheers.
Magic in a bottle is hard to reproduce...but let's see if they can.
If it will get people to rewatch original episodes then that would be great.
One show that would work as a play would be Frasier, same actors, just older. Any chance the 5 original actors (not sure if John Mahoney would be up for it) would do it?
Loved the answer about the "after the show" talk show. I can appreciate good critical analysis of a show, but the self congratulatory tone of shows like Talking Dead fill me with boredom. And that goes back to when I actually liked the show, around the first/second season; I stopped watching it a few years back, and even at that point, seeing Chris Hardwick get so fanboy-excited over every episode made me think that some sort of controlled substance had to be involved.
So who is a five-tool writer?
Andrew said...
"Stage version of Cheers, good idea or bad?"
This has already been done. There was an episode of Frasier where Diane wrote a play and performed it in Seattle. The character based on her - Marianne - was what kept the bar together. It pissed off Frasier though. :-)
On the subject of actors fawning over their shows, if you have never heard the DVD commentary to the Breaking Bad episode "Bug" (S4 E9) do yourself a favor. Watch that episode with the commentary turned on. Dean Norris is one of the commentators, and he spends the entire time mocking the concept. "Oh, that looks so good. Great job! Shout out to the visual guy. You're so great!" "Thanks for writing this episode. It's like poetry. Such a privilege. It's so great!" Vince and the others get a little annoyed, but it is absolutely hilarious. At the end it turns out Dean was in a bad mood because doing the commentary caused him to miss a game he wanted to watch.
Bob Zirunkel said...
Ken, a Friday question with a preamble:
The best advice I received but did not heed was from a seventh-grade guidance counselor who told our class that now was the time to start developing disciplined study habits, skills that would serve us well in school and beyond.
How did you develop the discipline needed to succeed in so many areas - writing/directing/producing/sports announcing/DJ'ing/parenting?
So you write a blog post. Two days later, a paid newspaper columnist takes EXACTLY the same idea, rewrites it somewhat (but not that much), and puts it up as her own column.
http://www.torontosun.com/2016/07/13/rick-moranis-and-10-other-actors-who-should-come-out-of-retirement
Is this something that vexes you? Or do you shrug it off and say "that's life"? And did/does anything similar happen in the world of TV?
Friday Question:
Is Supergirl still on?
"The rise of Youtube and online video means you can be famous no matter where you are."
Yeah, uh, I've been producing content on YouTube for nearly nine years now, and I'm certainly not famous, and in fact, YouTube has been doing all it can to sweep me - and other small channels - under the rug, in favor of all these big partner channels.
YouTube, and the internet in general, is very picky-choosy about who it will allow to be seen by whatever masses there are out there, and believe me, for some people out there like myself, it's a struggle just to be seen. Back when I first started, and YouTube really was YouTube, I usually got upwards of 100 views and up to 10 or more comments on a new video within 24-hours of upload; since 2013, I'm lucky if I get up to 20 views and maybe 3 generic comments within the first week of uploading a new video.
If you even look at YouTube right now, notice there's a pattern among what videos and channels are popular right now: they're all reviews. Whether it's standard entertainment reviews like Nostalgia Critic, or countdown videos (top 10 reviews), Let's Plays, or trivia videos, those are the big thing on YouTube right now. And, of course, the channels for TV talk shows, and explicit music videos always get promoted out the wazoo.
So yeah, YouTube may be on the right, but it's no guarantee that you can become successful that way. I'm tankin'.
Ken, I was just on the IMDB home page and saw a movie that opens today in the States which you might want to check out. It's a baseball comedy called Undrafted. Surprisingly, it's written and directed by Joseph Mazzello, best known for playing the annoying boy in Jurassic Park.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3172126
Though, having had a quick look online, it doesn't seem to be getting great reviews.
Hiram Bithorn said...
Speaking of baseball.
I'm a fan of the 2001 film "Bleacher Bums".
Then I found this rare Chicago performance for their local WTTW channel 11, starring the writer, Joe Mantegna and actor Dennis Franz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siVUq-NGNzk
I read somewhere that Jane Leeves wasn't really interested in a revival. (I don't know where I read that, but if I'm wrong, then good.)
A Friday question.
When pitching a story for a show how much of it do you generally have? Do you come in with a few beats? The act breaks? A very fully detailed outline of the A, B, and C stories? Or somewhere in between? If you're having trouble breaking a story on your own do you ever bring the three sentence pitch to the room to help flush out an idea? Or is that inappropriate? Does it differ depending on the show or the show runner?
THE AMERICANS had some excellent post-show podcasts this year, done by Slate.
Peter: years ago the drama critic Walter Kerr had a home screening theater (film!), and one of his friends gave him a row or two of genuine old theater seats that had been ripped out. It looked great - you can see pictures online because he and his wife, the comic writer Jean Kerr, had one of the wackiest houses ever known, and when it went up for sale the local paper did a huge article about it, with a full complement of pictures of its most notable features.
I dunno--people get used to other actors playing parts when they're exposed to it. Everybody plays Hamlet, but "everybody" plays Sherlock Holmes, too. James Bond was Sean Connery, but enough actors have played him that people don't bat an eyelash every time the part gets recast. Lemmon and Matthau were Felix and Oscar, until it became Randall and Klugman, and it was Carney and Matthau first. And there's the Sunshine Boys. and and and and and.
If you had a Cheers play, there would be comparisons, but after awhile people would just accept it, especially after the first few groups broke the ground.
Are you doing undercover work for the Mariners? If so, it's a little obvious when you leave an identifying calling card:
Diekman hits DL after cutting finger on 'Cheers' mug
http://www.thescore.com/news/1059775
MikeK.Pa. said...
"And the hosts are giant toadies."
When I read the word toadie, I immediately envisioned Scut Farcus's little sidekick, Grover Dill, all grown up and hosting one of these shows. Maybe still as Scut's wingman on the couch.
Pat from Salem said...
Friday Question: What are your thoughts about actors receiving royalties for having their character mentioned in an episode even if they don't actually appear? For instance, if Frasier refers to Lilith doing something in an episode, and even though Bebe Nuewirth doesn't appear in that episode, I still get to enjoy her "performance" because I can't really imagine any other actor in that role. Its almost like she did perform in that episode.
Charles H. Bryan said...
Re: Vince Gilligan. I have listened to his commentary tracks and the podcasts that are available on iTunes (hosted and wrangled by editor Kelley Dixon) for both BREAKING BAD and BETTER CALL SAUL. I have learned a lot about production, but mostly I've learned that Vince is a charming, funny,and modest guy who eagerly gives credit to his colleagues. Cool damn dude.
This has nothing to do with Friday questions but I was so excited when I saw that my favorite podcast How Did This Get Made was doing Mannequin 2. I immediately thought of you and almost sent out my first ever tweet to alert you to see if you could contribute. I'm so excited to read your interview for the companion slash film piece as I feel my fave blog and podcast worlds are colliding. I can't wait to hear or read what you have to say
Not a Friday question but was so excited to hear that my favorite podcast How Did This Get Made was doing Mannequin 2. I was going to send my first ever tweet to you in the hopes you could chime in and then was so excited to see that their companion piece slash film is doing an interview! I feel like two of my favorite worlds are colliding!
Dan B. said...
Those after-the-show panel discussions: Four people sitting around and, aside from a few seconds of clarity here or there, they're all shouting over each other. Whatever they're saying must be hilarious because they love to laugh at whatever it is they're saying. Occasionally an actor or staffer from the show will be there, in which case they're all shouting all over each other in the direction at their guest-hostage. I guess people like this, there must be an audience, there's so many of them. They seem pointless to me.
Last year, we were spending a weekend in Vancouver and we noticed a stage version of Fawlty Towers. We were not particularly familiar with the show, but we watched it that weekend online and then went to the show. It was fun. Mind you, it was a small theater, though a professional Equity theater, with an audience where, I suspect, we were the least familiar with the show. Everyone had a great time.
There was a play made of "Yes, Minister" in the UK that led to a reboot of the series after three decades, with the London play's cast.
It'll be on the CW this Fall.(Why do we call it "the CW"? We don't say "the HBO".)
Production is moving to Vancouver, creating international concerns about fewer appearances by Calista Flockhart.
First, Ken, a thank you for blog. You post every day and it's always enjoyable. (And you pull reposts from a few years back, so they can be fresh looks for new readers.) It's a regular part of each day, and it would be easy to take it for granted. So thanks.
A couple of potential Friday Questions:
You mention five tool writers. I'd love (as another poster asked) to hear who you think fits that description, but also which tools do you think you're weakest in and what you or other writers could do to build those into strengths.
I just bought the boxed set of IT'S GARRY SHANDLING'S SHOW, which is almost absurdist (but entertaingingly, to me) in it's self-reference as a TV show. I think of it in the same way as I think of early Letterman. I was just curious about your views on that approach.
Albert Giesbrecht said...
You should watch the Archie Luxury Channel on YouTube. High quality content that is!
Joseph Scarborough Said:
"Back when I first started, and YouTube really was YouTube, I usually got upwards of 100 views and up to 10 or more comments on a new video within 24-hours of upload; since 2013, I'm lucky if I get up to 20 views and maybe 3 generic comments within the first week of uploading a new video....
So yeah, YouTube may be on the right, but it's no guarantee that you can become successful that way. I'm tannin'."
Uh... I was around when YouTube was first getting going, and was acquainted with quite a few people who became pretty darned successful. I know one guy who dominated youtube just taking still photos on his cell phone. He was a talented comedy writer, and his stuff shined. Everyone loved him. He got shitloads of views from the get-go.
If you only managed to get 100 views, and ten comments back in the day, either your video's sucked, or you had zero skills on how to work YouTube world. Or maybe a little of both.
I'm not trying to be obnoxious, I'm just telling you the truth.
There are strategic ways to get views, if you pay attention to what's going on around you, you can figure some of it out. Again, that's assuming your vids don't suck. If they do, then the problem isn't being seen on YouTube. Your problem would be actually BEING seen on YouTube.
Again, one of the main problems is YouTube clearly caters to the big partner channels, and not the smaller channels like mine. For instance, YouTube retired tags (keywords) a couple of years ago, so that's a blow right there, because no matter what keywords you tag on your uploads, they won't show up in search results. That's one problem. Really, like anything else, it mostly all boils down to money: you put money in YouTube's pocket, they'll promote and advertise you; otherwise, you're essentially nonexistent on YouTube. And I'm not about to put any money in their pocket, considering they're owned by Google, and Google's the Hitler of the internet - they've been screwing us over for too many years to get any support from me.
Johnny Walker said...
"This is why a lot of comedy writers team up. They combine their strengths and minimize their weaknesses."
Do you and David have any strengths and weaknesses that complement each other? And if you don't now, did you when you started?
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Robin Hood launches fund for nonprofits led by people of color
New York City-based Robin Hood is launching a new fund dedicated to supporting nonprofits led by people of color, CNBC reports.
Robin Hood CEO Wes Moore told the business news channel that the Power Fund will work to catalyze a shift among business and philanthropic leaders, encouraging them to support smaller nonprofits working to address poverty and racial injustice and not just the mainstream organizations already in their portfolios. Data show that only 10 percent of philanthropic dollars currently go to organizations led by people of color. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic — which has disproportionately impacted people of color and the poor — and the nationwide protests following the killing of George Floyd, the new fund aims to support more such nonprofits.
According to Moore, Robin Hood already has committed $10 million in seed capital for the fund, which has attracted support from at least two financial institutions, Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan. The fund's board members include Blue Ridge Capital founder John Griffin (chair), former Goldman Sachs Foundation president Dina Powell McCormick (vice chair), and Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon.
Goldman recently created a Fund for Racial Equity with an initial commitment of $10 million to "support the vital work of leading organizations addressing racial injustice, structural inequity and economic disparity."
"We are going to put a real focus [on identifying] organizations that could be in our portfolio, they just haven't been on our radar screen," said Moore. "How do we expand our horizon? How do we expand our thinking when it comes to what makes an organization ready to be part of our portfolio?"
In a statement shared with CNBC, Powell McCormick said that the new fund will assist leaders who are looking to make an impact in underserved communities. "We are very proud to launch the Power Fund, which will invest in a generation of leaders of color who affect change in underserved communities. The data is clear that organizations led by diverse leaders are underresourced and yet they more deeply and effectively understand the needs of the communities they serve."
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Brian Schwartz. "Robin Hood foundation launches new initiative aimed at funding nonprofits run only by people of color." CNBC 06/30/2020.
Subjects: Advocacy; African Americans / Blacks; Civil / Human rights; Minorities; Nonprofits; Philanthropy / Voluntarism; Racial equity; Social justice
People: David Solomon; Dina Powell McCormick; John Griffin; Wes Moore
Organization: Goldman Sachs; J.P. Morgan; Robin Hood Foundation
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Good Charlotte interview
Jacob Schofield talks to Paul Thomas about the Case of the Ill-advised Leap
Published on February 2nd 2011.
JmS (Jacob Schofield): How you doing?
PT (Paul Thomas): Not bad, was my day off yesterday so just been chilling out.
JmS: It's my day off my normal job today.
PT: Ahhh, your ‘normal’ job yeah?
JmS: That's right, the one where I don't speak to famous people.
PT: Ok, enjoy.
JmS: So, I understand you'll be in the UK to headline the ‘Kerrang Relentless Energy’ tour.
PT: We will be very soon, yeah. Kerrang is one of our favourite magazines, so it’s great to have their backing.
JmS: How does it feel to be headlining the tour? Kerrang have always been big supporters of you.
PT: Not only have they been big supporters but, it's also one of our favourite magazines to read. Rock wise, it has all the bands we're interested in and we really enjoy the magazine.
JmS: Have you met the bands who are supporting you? How do you feel about them?
PT: We've only met Framing Hanley but they've been amazing, yeah. We've not yet met Four Year Strong and Wonder Years, will be great to see them and get to know them over a drink.
JmS: Always the best way to get to know someone 'eh?
PT: Drinking is always great fun and a great way to bond, who doesn't love it? You get a lot less flack in England for drinking, you can have a drink with your lunch over here and not get any funny looks.
JmS: Are we too hardcore for you Americans?
PT: You really are, I drink so heavy over here when compared to in the US that I spend my days off just recovering.
JmS: Haha, I've spent about £600 going out over the last 3 weeks.
PT: Woah! Bout £5,000 haha.
JmS: How do you feel about your old label releasing greatest hits?
PT: It would've been nice if we were a part of it, there was no involvement on our behalf at all. I think it's a bit soon to be honest. We've got mixed feelings about the whole thing, we aren't going to promote it to our fans but in the same vein we aren't going to stop people from buying it. I'd be happy for people to obtain it alternatively, it's all about the fans.
JmS: So you’re not bothered about people getting your music in a more shady manner?
PT: Doesn't really bother me, kind of like it, it means only the good music gets through because it makes the market so saturated. We aren't too old to be speaking to each other and sharing albums over computers. CD sales are not as important as they used to be, you can’t fight the future.
JmS: You say it's too soon to be making a Greatest Hits, but you have released five albums?
PT: I suppose you're right there. We have enough, during live shows we have one hour of just singles. So it's of course possible but I think when a Greatest Hits is released the band never has much to do with it, it's just the label releasing it for their own reasons. We want to be doing this for another 10 years so maybe like the Beetles who did a 60s and a 70s greatest hits we could have another in the future.
JmS: So no signs of slowing down, you're definitely looking to continue?
PT: Oh definitely, our shows are better than ever at the moment and we've just joined a new label who are giving us the kind of support we have never had before, so definitely looking to continue.
JmS: You have cited bands such as Greenday as influences and they are still going strong so there’s a precedent.
PT: Yeah that’s true , but also people compared us to Blink when we first arrived which we took as a compliment and they were also a huge influence. To have outlasted people like them is amazing, we are just a great group of guys and we are very lucky to have found each other and still be going strong. And like you said, Greenday are still doing it.
JmS: But Greenday did re-invent themselves with the ‘American Idiot’ album.
PT: That's true to an extent but it's not like they became unrecognisable, they were still very much Greenday just with a slightly different sound.
JmS: What you said about sticking together does bring me onto a point I have about a friend of mine, he's really talented but he always bails out of any band he's in, he is very much a loose cannon. Have you got any advice for him?
PT: Oooo haha, some people are just like that. It can be very hard for a talented person to check a big ego for the greater good of the band. You just have to look at the big picture and be a team, let some things slide.
JmS: We've talked about your influences and such, what's your favourite pop-punk, punk-rock album?
PT: It'd have to be ‘Dear you’ from Jawbreaker.
JmS: I've never heard of it, not going to lie, haha.
PT: Haha, it was a very short-lived album, the band broke up very quickly afterwards. If you want something more popular, Greenday, ‘Dookie’.
JmS: And finally, what's the daftest thing you've done on tour?
PT: I broke my ankle jumping off the drum riser in Australia, spent the rest of the tour playing bass out of a chair.
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Jillian McDonald Something Wicked (This Way Comes)
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EXHIBITION | 05 January – 17 February 2018
OPENING RECEPTION | Friday 05 January, 7:00 PM
ARTIST TALK | Saturday 06 January, 2:00 PM
PLATFORM centre is pleased to announce Something Wicked (This Way Comes), a solo exhibition featuring the work of Jillian McDonald (NY). The show runs from 05 January – 17 February 2018 with an opening reception scheduled for Friday 05 January at 7 PM. McDonald will give an artist talk at 2PM on 06 January. Both events are free and open to the public.
At PLATFORM centre Jillian McDonald presents five videos shot in Scotland that suggest paranormal events and an unspecified horror.
Inspired by the growing horror film sub-genre that allegedly includes found footage, The Hatch is a two channel video filmed in Northeast Scotland and starring a real-life “bunker buster”, a recreational Cold War enthusiast who travels the Scottish countryside tracking, breaking into, and exploring scores of identical abandoned bunkers. A series of bunkers are under siege.
Four additional videos share a suspended tension familiar from horror films. This work represents a new direction in McDonalds’s work. Festival flags, strung from a stone clock tower flutter in the wind, a line of fog creeps across wintry landscapes, crows cry out and congregate at dusk, the rooms of an abandoned house seem to breathe in the breeze. In these videos, there are no human characters, plot, or other typical storytelling elements. In these nearly still scenes, slight movements become remarkable and strange. The images pay homage to traditions of landscape painting and photography.
The artist wishes to acknowledge that this work was possible due to The Glenfiddich Canadian Art Prize and International Residency, Signal Culture, The Canada Council for the Arts, and Pace University. McDonald also gives a very special thanks to Andy Fairgrieve. Soundtrack for Spirit by Keri Latimer.
Originally from Winnipeg, Jillian McDonald lives in Brooklyn and goes north at every opportunity.
Recent solo shows were held at AxeNéo7 in Gatineau, the Esker Foundation in Calgary, Air Circulation in New York, Centre Clark in Montréal, Atkinson Gallery in Santa Barbara, and UWAG in Waterloo. Her work was featured in group exhibitions and festivals at ISIS Arts in the UK, New Media Space in New Westminster, BC, The Edith Russ Haus for Media Art in Germany, The International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Venezuela, The Sundance Film Festival in Utah.
A feature length documentary called Valley of the Deer on CBC’s IDEAS profiles her work, which was also reviewed in The New York Times, Art Papers, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, Border Crossings, and Canadian Art. She appears in books including The Transatlantic Zombie (2015) by Sarah Juliet Lauro and Deconstructing Brad Pitt (2014), edited by Christopher Schaberg.
McDonald received grants and commissions from The New York Foundation for the Arts, The Canada Council for the Arts, Turbulence.org, and The New York State Council on the Arts. She received the Glennfiddich Canadian Art Prize in Scotland, and attended other residencies including the Arctic Circle Residency in Svalbard, the Headlands Center for the Arts in California, Lilith Performance Studio in Sweden, Klondike Institute of Arts and Culture in The Yukon, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace in New York.
Opening reception 7:00pm Jan 05, 2018
Closes Feb 17, 2018
Images from Something Wicked (This Way Comes)
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Andres Gimeno
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Spanish tennis player
Andrés Gimeno
(1937-08-03)3 August 1937
9 October 2019(2019-10-09) (aged 82)
1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Int. Tennis HoF
2009 (member page)
787-473 (62.4%) [1]
Grand Slam Singles results
F (1969)
W (1972)
4R (1969, 1972)
Tour Finals
RR (1972)
Professional majors
US Pro
Wembley Pro
French Pro
F (1962, 1967)
Grand Slam Doubles results
QF (1959)
Andrés Gimeno Tolaguera (3 August 1937 - 9 October 2019) was a Spanish tennis player. His greatest achievement came in 1972, when he won the French Open and he remains the oldest first-time Grand Slam champion of the Open era at 34 years of age.[2]
Andrés came from a family which loved tennis, and his father Esteban supported his efforts to play the game. Esteban had been a good tennis player and he became Andres' coach. They practiced at Real Club de Tenis Barcelona. At an early age Andres started to become a really good tennis player, winning some important tournaments in his region. At age sixteen, he won the U-18 Championship of Spain. In 1954, he won the Championship of Spain in the doubles category playing with Juan Manuel Couder.[3] At the same time, he stopped studying to focus on his tennis career.[]
He was not only a successful tennis player in Spain, but also represented his country throughout Europe. He played in the Galea's Cup, the European Championship U21, and won it in 1956 and 1957.[4] He was the runner-up in 1958. After that, he decided to go to Australia to play with the man who was considered the best tennis coach in the world, Harry Hopman.[] He improved his tennis level and soon, he had two important victories in the championships in Perth and in Sydney.[]
Tennis career
Gimeno went back to Spain in 1960 where he then had his best year as an amateur, winning the titles in Barcelona, Caracas, Monte Carlo, and at Queen's Club.[3] In Barcelona, he became the first Spanish player to win the Torneo Conde de Godó, beating the Italian player Giuseppe Merlo. That same year he reached the doubles final of the French Open too, losing to an Australian duo.[3] After that year, he joined the professional group World Championship Tennis,[5] where Jack Kramer offered him $50,000 for three years, and more money for each victory. The group consisted of some of the best tennis players in history such as Rod Laver, Pancho Gonzales and Ken Rosewall.
Gimeno won the Poertschach pro tournament in August 1963 beating Rosewall and Frank Sedgman.[6] He also won the Genoa Pro in September 1963 beating Laver and Rosewall. Gimeno won the College Park Pro in May 1964 beating Lew Hoad in the final.[7] He won tournaments in Noordwijk and Munich in August and September 1964 beating Laver and Rosewall in both events.[8] Gimeno won the Milan Pro in September 1965 over Laver and Rosewall and beat Laver in the final of the pro event at Port Elizabeth in October 1965.[9] Gimeno won the US Pro hardcourt event at St. Louis in June 1966 beating Laver in the final.[10] He won the World pro championships in Oklahoma City in July 1966 beating Laver and Rosewall.[11] He also won the Geneva and Barcelona pro tournaments in September 1966 (both over Laver).[12] He won the Cincinnati Pro in July 1967 beating Laver and Rosewall.[13] In September 1967, Gimeno won the Border Pro at Selborne (over Rosewall and Fred Stolle) and the Eastern Province Pro at Port Elizabeth (over Laver and Rosewall).[14]
Gimeno's best Grand Slam results as a singles player came in 1968 when the Open era started and the professional could participate in Grand Slams. His first good result was the final in Australian Open[15] in 1969, where he lost to Rod Laver in three sets.[16] Gimeno won events at Barcelona, Cologne and New York in 1969, Dallas in 1970 and Hamburg in 1971.[17]
Gimeno's best year was in 1972, when he was a finalist in Brussels and in Paris, and he won in Los Angeles, in Eastbourne,[18] in Gstaad, and the French Open. The Catalan won his first and only Grand Slam in 1972. He holds the record for the oldest male player to win the French Open (at the age of 34). In the final, he beat the French player Patrick Proisy in four sets. In addition, he reached the semifinals at Wimbledon in 1970.[19] In 1973, he reached the final of the Dutch Open in Hilversum, where Tom Okker beat him in five sets.[20]
Gimeno was an active Davis Cup player, recording an 18-5 singles record and 5-5 doubles record.[21] His debut was in the match that Spain played against Egypt with one of the most important players in Spain, Manuel Santana. He could not play the competition while he was a part of the professional group, but he participated as coach in 1966. In 1973, he injured his meniscus and decided to quit playing tennis. He became the tennis coach in the RFET, Tennis' Spanish Federation and then in the Suisse Federation.[22]
After retiring from tennis
After his professional career, he decided to join the tennis circuit for retired players called Legends Championship. He also founded a tennis club in 1974 called "Club de Tenis Andres Gimeno" in Castelldefels, Barcelona.[23]
He was elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2009, becoming the fourth Spanish tennis player in it, after Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Manuel Alonso and Manuel Santana.[24][25]
Gimeno married Cristina Corolla in 1962 and together they had three children: Alejo Gimeno, Andres Gimeno Jr. and Cristina Gimeno.[26] In 2011, Gimeno lost all his money,[27][28] and some of the best Spanish tennis players such as Rafael Nadal, Tommy Robredo, Feliciano López and David Ferrer played an exhibition tennis tournament in Palau Blaugrana to raise funds for him.[29]
Gimeno died following a long illness, on 9 October 2019, at the age of 82.[30]
Grand Slam finals
Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
Loss 1969 Australian Open Grass Rod Laver 3-6, 4-6, 5-7
Win 1972 French Open Clay Patrick Proisy 4-6, 6-3, 6-1, 6-1
Doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups)
Loss 1960 French Championships Clay José Luis Arilla Roy Emerson
Neale Fraser 2-6, 10-8, 5-7, 4-6
Loss 1968 US Open Grass Arthur Ashe Bob Lutz
Stan Smith 9-11, 1-6, 5-7
Stats per ATP website bio
Career finals (Open era)
Tennis Masters Cup (0)
ATP Tour (4)
Singles (5 wins, 5 losses)
Loss 0-1 Jan 1969 Australian Open, Australia Grass Rod Laver 3-6, 4-6, 5-7
Loss 0-2 Jun 1970 Casablanca, Morocco Clay John Newcombe 4-6, 4-6, 4-6
Win 1-2 May 1971 Hamburg Open, Germany Clay Péter Sz?ke 6-3, 6-2, 6-2
Win 2-2 Feb 1972 Los Angeles, USA Hard Pierre Barthes 6-3, 2-6, 6-3
Loss 2-3 May 1972 Brussels, Belgium Clay Manuel Orantes 4-6, 1-6, 6-2, 5-7
Win 3-3 May 1972 French Open, Paris Clay Patrick Proisy 4-6, 6-3, 6-1, 6-1
Win 4-3 Jun 1972 Eastbourne, England Grass Pierre Barthes 7-5, 6-3
Win 5-3 Jul 1972 Gstaad, Switzerland Clay Adriano Panatta 7-5, 9-8, 6-4
Loss 5-4 Oct 1972 Paris, France Hard (i) Stan Smith 2-6, 2-6, 5-7
Loss 5-5 Jul 1973 Hilversum, Netherlands Clay Tom Okker 6-2, 4-6, 4-6, 7-6, 3-6
Source: ATP[31]
Performance timeline
W F SF QF #R RR Q# A NH
(W) Won; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent; (NH) not held. SR=strike rate (events won/competed)
Open Era
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Championships/Open A A A QF A banned F A 2R A A 0 / 3 6-3 66.67
French Championships/Open 1R 3R 4R A QF banned SF QF A A W 2R 1 / 8 24-7 77.42
Wimbledon 3R 1R 2R 3R 2R banned 3R 4R SF 1R 2R A 0 / 10 17-10 62.96
US National Championships/Open A A A A A banned 1R 4R 1R A 4R A 0 / 4 6-4 60.00
Win-Loss 2-2 2-2 4-2 4-2 4-2 n/a 7-3 14-4 5-2 0-2 11-2 1-1 1 / 25 53-24 68.83
Year-end championships
The Masters not held A A RR A 0 / 1 0-3 0.00
Win-Loss n/a n/a n/a 0-3 n/a 0 / 1 0-3 0.00
Professional Grand Slam
US Pro Championships A SF A A SF A SF F 0 / 4 4-4 50.00
French Pro Championship QF QF F 1R SF QF SF F 0 / 8 10-8 55.55
Wembley Championships QF QF QF QF QF F QF SF 0 / 8 8-8 50.00
Win-Loss 2-2 2-3 4-2 1-2 2-3 2-2 2-3 7-3 0 / 20 22-20 52.38
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The British brand distances itself from the far-right group and stops selling black and yellow polo shirts in North America.
British fashion label Fred Perry decided to stop selling a black and yellow polo shirt in North America after right-wing Proud Boys group adopted it as a uniform.
The Proud Boys, a self-described “Western chauvinist” group that rose to prominence following the election of President Donald Trump in 2016, also used the laurel wreath logo on flyers promoting a rally in Portland, Oregon over the weekend.
Fred Perry said in a September 24 statement: “If you see Proud Boys materials or products that contain our laurel wreaths or items in black / yellow / yellow, they have absolutely nothing to do with us.”
The Proud Boys’ rally on September 27 was relatively peaceful, as the right-wing group and their supporters encountered counter-protesters.
Hundreds of Proud Boys supporters gathered in black and yellow polo shirts and body armor to end the so-called “domestic terrorism” in democratically run Portland.
The group had forecast a crowd of at least 10,000, but police said fewer than 1,000 were in attendance.
A supporter of the far right group Proud Boys reacts at a rally in Portland, Oregon [Leah Millis/Reuters]Since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody in May, demonstrations against police brutality and racial injustice have continued every night in Portland.
The demonstrations have become violent at times, especially in the summer when some demonstrators repeatedly surrounded the federal court, at times attempting to break and even set it on fire.
The Trump administration responded by sending federal agents into the city who, among other things, “kidnapped” protesters in unmarked vans.
Trump, who made “law and order” a major theme of his re-election bid, identified Portland as one of several democratically-run cities that he says are “anarchist jurisdictions” whose federal funding should be cut.
The Justice Department has threatened to cut funding from the cities of New York, Seattle and Portland, where protests against Black Lives Matter have been ongoing in recent months.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a group that tracks down “extremists” in the US and advocates legal assistance, said Trump’s actions had encouraged far-right actions.
“Groups like the Proud Boys have been encouraged by President Trump’s recent announcement that Portland, NYC and Seattle will be labeled” anarchist jurisdictions, “” Cassie Miller, senior research analyst at SPLC, said in a statement.
The Pro-Trump and Pro-Gun Right-Wing Proud Boys publicly denounce violence, but members often argue with left-wing opponents at rallies.
The male-only group describes itself as a fraternal organization that is “anti-racism” and “anti-political correctness”.
The SPLC classifies the Proud Boys as a hate group and cites the anti-Muslim and misogynistic rhetoric of their members.
While the Proud Boys continued to wear the yellow and black shirts at the rally on Saturday, Fred Perry referred to a 2017 response from Chairman John Flynn when asked if they supported the group: “Fred was the son of a working class Socialist MP who became world tennis champion at a time when tennis was an elite sport. He started a business with a Jewish businessman from Eastern Europe … No, we do not endorse the ideals or the group you are talking about. It goes against our beliefs. “
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A US man in Thailand arrested for posting a negative hotel review will avoid legal action and jail time.
Wesley Barnes had published several reviews allegedly accusing the Sea View Resort of “modern slavery”.
He was then arrested and charged under Thailand’s strict anti-defamation laws.
Police said Mr Barnes and the resort managed to reach an agreement that included an apology to the hotel and the Thai Tourism Authority.
He was also asked to send a statement to foreign media organizations that had previously written about his possible arrest at the time, including BBC News.
In it, Mr Barnes said that he apologized for his “repeated false and untrue statements … that were made to maliciously defame Sea View. These reviews were written out of anger and malice”.
The statement added that he regretted his actions and that “the hotel has forgiven me and agreed to withdraw the complaint”.
Colonel Kitti Maleehuan, superintendent of the Koh Chang Police Station – the island on which the resort is located – told AFP that the two parties met during a mediation session monitored by the police.
Mr Barnes also “has to give an explanation to the US embassy,” AFP said – although that was not specified.
The hotel had announced that it would withdraw its complaint against Mr Barnes if he met all of these conditions.
Before the mediation session, Mr Barnes told Reuters that he wanted to “end this case once and for all”.
If found guilty, he could have faced up to two years in prison.
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Mr. Barnes, who works in Thailand, stayed at Sea View Resort earlier this year.
He is said to have argued about him with employees who wanted to bring his own bottle of alcohol to the restaurant.
A hotel statement said he “caused a stir” and refused to pay a cork fee, which was eventually waived when the manager intervened.
Since leaving, Mr Barnes posted several negative reviews of the property, prompting the hotel to sued him for defamation.
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The hotel said the reviews were “false” and “defamatory”.
The hotel has claimed its reviews were “fictitious, repetitive and malicious” with a TripAdvisor review accusing the hotel of “modern day slavery.”
However, Mr Barnes had previously informed the BBC that this particular post would never be published because it was against TripAdvisor’s guidelines.
He also said he had already lost his job because of the incident and expressed concern that the advertising his case had received would make it difficult to find new employment.
The hotel told the BBC that after the reviews were published, it had received cancellations and requests for treatment from staff.
The Thai tourism sector has been hard hit by the aftermath of the global coronavirus pandemic.
“Receiving multiple false and defamatory reviews over a period of time can be extremely damaging, especially during these incredibly difficult times,” the hotel said.
They added that they tried repeatedly to contact Mr Barnes before filing the lawsuit.
“We chose to file a complaint to act as a deterrent, understanding that he will continue to write negative reviews week after week for the foreseeable future,” they said.
“Despite our multiple efforts to contact him to resolve the matter amicably for over a month, he completely ignored us. He did not respond to us until he was informed of our complaint by the authorities.”
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Başakşehir Çam & Sakura City Hospital Project is Turkey’s third largest health investment project under a Public Private Partnership (PPP) agreement model initiated by the Ministry of Health and will provide services to İstanbul and its neighboring provinces. The project covers a total area of 790 thousand m2 in Başakşehir district of Istanbul province in the northwest of Turkey.
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The Başakşehir Çam & Sakura City Hospital comprises a 2,354-bed Main Hospital, a 200-bed Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Hospital and a 128-bed Psychiatric Hospital. The main hospital facility consists of six buildings surrounding a shared core building and includes the following hospitals:
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OXFORD, Mississippi — The last time the Air Raid offense was paired with a dynamic, dual-threat quarterback in the SEC, it sent shock waves throughout the conference.
Texas A&M went 11-2, and Johnny Manziel won the Heisman Trophy.
Could Ole Miss’ new offensive coordinator, Phil Longo — an Air Raid disciple — and budding star quarterback Shea Patterson — a Johnny Football clone — replicate that success?
“It could be a match made in heaven,” Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury said.
Kingsbury would know. He was the offensive coordinator for Manziel in 2012, when the Aggies cannonballed into the SEC, then beat Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl.
The only problem is Ole Miss won’t be playing in any bowl game next season. The SEC’s most exciting football could come from the one school with nothing at stake because of a self-imposed bowl ban. But the Rebels will still be must-see TV because the combination of Patterson and Longo should be one of the most explosive in college football.
Longo’s offensive roots began elsewhere.
In his early coaching days, Longo rummaged through the great offenses developed by the likes of LaVell Edwards, Norm Chow and Joe Tiller and put different parts of them together. It left Longo with a hodgepodge of schemes that left him unfulfilled.
A game-film hound, Longo spent countless hours in the 1990s watching different games he taped on his VCR. One team’s offense stood out to him: Kentucky. Hal Mumme was the head coach, and Mike Leach was the offensive coordinator.
“It was obscure, and it was not mainstream at all,” Longo said. “When I came across this Kentucky stuff, it just made perfect sense to me.”
So one spring, Longo — a high school coach in New Jersey at the time — got into his Toyota 4Runner and made the trek to Lexington for a clinic. He couldn’t persuade one of his assistant coaches to join him and didn’t have enough money for a hotel, so he slept in his car and showered at “a couple of different interesting places.” The objective: pick Leach’s brain. By the time he left, he found his new offensive identity in the Air Raid.
“I left there believing that this makes a lot more sense to me than anything that I’d seen or evaluated or talked to people about,” Longo said. “So I just made the decision then that I’m going to master this and see how it goes.”
Ole Miss freshman quarterback Shea Patterson threw for 338 yards and two touchdowns in his college debut and led the Rebels to a comeback win over Texas A&M. Troy Taormina/USA TODAY Sports
For the next 18 years, Longo took it to every level he coached, which is just about every level of college football in existence. After his high school stint in New Jersey, he made stops in Division III (William Paterson University), Division II (Minnesota-Duluth and Slippery Rock), the FCS (La Salle, Southern Illinois, Youngstown State and Sam Houston State) and even junior college. Wherever Longo went, his offenses piled up yards and points and set records.
His latest stint — as Sam Houston State’s offensive coordinator — opened eyes. The Bearkats made consecutive appearances in the FCS semifinals in Longo’s first two seasons there. In 2016, his final season there, quarterback Jeremiah Briscoe threw a nation’s-best 57 touchdowns and won the Walter Payton Award, which goes to the top offensive player in the FCS.
Why has Longo been successful?
“He does a good job of lots of different personnel, lots of different formations,” Kingsbury said. “He’ll mix in the tempo, he does a good job of being creative with play-action stuff, the RPO (run-pass option). His quarterbacks are well-trained on that, when to throw, when not to throw, when to hand it off. You can just tell it’s a well-oiled machine.”
Kingsbury and Leach — both of whom Longo visits annually — described Longo as dedicated.
“He’s a real focused student of the game,” Leach said. “Most waking hours, football is right on the surface.”
Now, after canvassing the country at multiple levels, Longo gets to try his hand in the SEC. Don’t expect his offense to change just because he’ll be going up against elite defensive talent, though.
“The biggest thing is I learned that the X’s and O’s don’t change,” Longo said. “Football is football. … We didn’t run plays at a lower level … just because we could get away with it. If it didn’t work against the best team in the league, then we didn’t run it.”
Longo took the job at Ole Miss because he believed in Hugh Freeze. But he’d be lying if he told you Patterson didn’t play a role in the decision.
What college offensive coordinator wouldn’t want to work with one of the most dynamic quarterbacks in college football the next two years? If Longo was on the fence, the tape from last year’s Texas A&M game might have been enough to sell him on Oxford, Mississippi.
It was Patterson’s collegiate debut. He and Freeze had agreed to pull his redshirt when Chad Kelly suffered a season-ending knee injury with three games remaining, and his first start just so happened to come at Kyle Field in front of over 100,000 crazed Aggies fans. To this day, he doesn’t remember taking the first snap.
“It was a blur,” Patterson said.
But once he settled in, the true freshman started to take the game over. He was running around the field making plays off sheer athleticism and talent — that’s where the Manziel comparisons really took off — and by the time it was over, he had led Ole Miss back from a 21-6 halftime deficit and secured the win 29-28.
“I think the A&M success is a true barometer of what he’s capable of doing athletically,” Longo said. “Because he went into that game — and I don’t know this from talking to him, but I just know it from experience and coaching guys in that situation — you go into that game with no fear because you’ve got nothing to lose and with very little preparation. And you play on instinct and athletic ability. You saw that.
“But there’s more to being a successful quarterback than just being a good athlete. Now he has spring ball. He has the entire summer. He’ll be well-prepared when the season comes.”
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Investigate Sexual Assault Claim
University of Wisconsin-Madison police said a first-degree sexual assault was reported near the Memorial Union late Friday. The victim told police that sometime between 10 p.m. and 10:40 p.m., three unknown men held her down against her will with a knife and sexually assaulted her.
The victim was unable to provide a detailed description of the suspects, according to the report.
Peter Hyatt as Statement Analysis Blog at 1:44 PM
Uh oh...the infamous liars number
She cannot provide descriptions? Three? I do not even need to know anything else - this is a hoax.
I think 3 attackers IS possible, but not being able to provide any details about any of them? Combine the "3" and the fact she can't give any identifying info on her attackers is what makes this attack sound unlikely. I hate second-guessing reports of sexual assault because there has to be times when an account sounds unlikely but is true nonetheless. However, there's no evidence that any assault took place at this point.
Hey Jude said...
It's not clear if that is how the woman related it, or if that is how the police are describing it, as there are no actual quotations. Who said 'unknown' and 'against her will'?. If it was the woman, it would already be assumed by the listener that it was against her will to be held down by three men who had a knife - there would be no need to say it, so that would be unexpected. Also, three men cannot hold a knife, only one can hold a knife. Why 'unknown' ?- that would be assumed too, unless she said she knew or recognised them. Still, without knowing whose description it is, whether it was added to, reworded, by police and/or reporter, I would not rush to an opinion. Three rapists are possible - three of anything is possible, but it is also a figure which features when people lie. If she has all her senses, one woukd expect some description, even if only of age estimate, speech, accent, colour, hair length, any smell - alcohol, tabacco, sweat, garlic, cologne - clean or less so; three men can't not have at least some trace of odour amongst them. Fabric - leather, denim, fleece - there would be something. It does not say she did not provide any description at all - she was unable to provide a detailed description, so she may have said one of those things.
To avoid confusion - my definition of rape:
http://content.met.police.uk/Article/Definitions/1400008450549/1400008450549
As there were three, allegedly, and a knife, allegedly, I would presume their intentions were serious.
Jude, you're good at this SA stuff. ��
Police hunting ‘shoeless drunk’ who snatched ‘angel’ baby
Police are searching for the shoeless man who allegedly snatched 15-month-old Sanaya Shaib from her pram before murdering her.
The little girl’s body was found in a creek in Heidelberg West at 2.45am yesterday, nearly 17 hours after her mother Sofina Nikat, 22, reported a “shoeless stranger smelling of alcohol” had abducted Sanaya.
Nikat said she was pushing Sanaya’s pram in Olympic Park, a popular area in Melbourne’s North-East when the man – described as being of African appearance, between 20-30, 6ft tall and dressed in all black – approached and snatched the baby, described by Nikat’s brokther Habib Ali as “an angel”
“She was a very cute, a very good little girl,” Ali told the Herald Sun. “Her mother is devastated. It’s very frightening.”
Nikat said she chased her baby’s abductor for a while, but couldn’t catch him so returned to her home with her empty pram to contact authorities.
Police visited Nikat’s nearby home yesterday, searching for clues to the little girl’s death. Detectives went through rubbish and searched the home, and are attempting to get access to the CCTV footage of a number of homes in the area that might provide information about what happened.
They also searched the home of Nikat’s brother.
Nikat was escorted away in an unmarked police car but police stressed she wasn’t being arrested but removed for “welfare purposes”.
Police say the only confirmed suspect was the alleged abductor, but said police were keeping an open mind.
Detective Senior Sergeant Stuart Bailey said local parents should be extra vigilant.
“This is obviously extremely concerning for Victoria Police if this is a random abduction,” he said.
“We think it’s completely random at this point in time.
“We need to be careful and alert, given what’s taken place at this present time.”
http://www.aww.com.au/latest-news/news-stories/police-hunting-shoeless-drunk-who-snatched-angel-baby-26456?adbsc=social_20160410_60364716&adbid=10153722272813621&adbpl=fb&adbpr=349591763620
More on the above OT:
Uncle of a toddler found dead in creek says her unknown killer is a coward
Fifteen-month-old Sanyana Sahib was found in Darebin creek in Melbourne early on Sunday morning, after her mother said she was grabbed from her pram
The uncle of a Melbourne toddler who was found dead in a suburban creek after being snatched from her pram has branded her unknown killer a coward.
Fifteen-month-old Sanyana Sahib was found in a shallow, reedy section of Darebin creek early on Sunday morning, about 17 hours after her mother said she was grabbed from her pram in a park.
“She didn’t deserve it … such a cute little kid … whoever done it, shame on him, he’s a coward and … shouldn’t have done what he had done,” her uncle, Habib Ali, told reporters outside his West Heidelberg home on Monday.
Sanaya’s mother Sofina Nikat, 22, told police Sanyana was snatched from her pram at Olympic Park about 10am on Saturday by a man who smelt of alcohol and was not wearing shoes.
Nikat said she was pushed to the ground by the man of African appearance who ran off with her daughter towards a nearby shopping centre. She said she gave chase, but raced home to alert police once she realised she could not catch him.
Sanyana’s body was found by another family in the neighbourhood, who volunteered to search after hearing the child was missing.
Ali said his sister was hysterical over her daughter’s death and was being cared for by social workers at another location.
Cont..
“She’s quite disturbed and shocked and she’s crying a lot,” he said. “My entire family is in grief and shocked and we just don’t know what to do.”
He said the police were doing a great job and the family believed justice would be served.
“They didn’t take much away, a bit of clothes and things,” he said.
Ali said the family had not received the autopsy results and did not know what had happened to his niece.
“It is very frustrating and whoever is out there, whoever has done it, I hope he is caught as soon as possible and dealt with.”
He thanked the family who found his niece’s body and asked for his family to be left to grieve in peace.
Earlier, assistant commissioner Stephen Leane was asked whether people should be worried that a potential killer was on the loose.
“We’ve certainly got more police out in that area – out at Heidelberg and around the parks – today and probably for the rest of this week just to reassure the community that we are there and that we’re taking every step we can to keep the community safe,” Leane told 3AW.
Four childcare centres within 2km of the park told Guardian Australia they would review their usual security provisions, but said no parents had voiced concerns about a potential threat to their children.
Fairfax radio host Tony Jones said the apparent calm did not make sense.
“As it stands now we have got a kidnapping, murdering madman on the run,” he said. “And it’s something that we should be screaming from the rooftops, there should be some sort of hysteria in this town at the moment. But I’m not sensing any of that – are you sensing any of that?”
Flowers, teddy bears and messages were left near the creek-bed, bearing messages of support for Sanaya’s family. The Banyule city council mayor, Craig Langdon, said the community was “grieving greatly” and wanted “an explanation that we could relate to”.
“A random act would be a terrifying thing for all of us … that would be the worst outcome,” he told ABC radio on Monday. “It would be a tragic loss to any family but to find a child like that in the Darebin Creek ... I can’t imagine what they are going through,” he said.
Detectives have scoured the crime scene, retraced the steps of the girl’s mother and searched the Ali home where the mother and daughter had been staying on a visit.
They declined to comment on the case on Monday.
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/apr/11/uncle-of-a-toddler-found-dead-in-creek-says-her-unknown-killer-is-a-coward
Paramedics treated murdered toddler Sanaya Sahib a week before death
AN ambulance was called to treat murdered tot Sanaya Sahib just a week before her shocking death, her grieving uncle has revealed.
The 15-month-old was treated for a “seizure” when paramedics attended the Heidelberg West home on Sunday, April 3.
It comes as a post mortem reveals the little girl died of smothering.
Her mother, Sofina Nikat, who says a shoeless stranger smelling of alcohol snatched her beloved baby, was last night staying with social workers at an undisclosed location.
She was said to be in a “hysterical state of mind”.
Homicide squad detectives have examined hours of CCTV but it is understood no evidence of the mystery man has been found.
The Herald Sun understands paramedics aired concerns the episode was triggered because the youngster had been smothered, causing her to fit due to a lack of oxygen.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/paramedics-treated-murdered-toddler-sanaya-sahib-a-week-before-death/news-story/dc80cb991351f812e52aa876bbd6e63e
John, the uncle spoke about the baby in past terms before her body was found, and all his statements have red flags since. I expect he will be arrested.
Hi Anon @ 9:08
Do you have his initial statement, before she was found dead.
Hi John I read about the case and i thought it sounded suspicious then.
A shoeless man smelling of alcohol (drunk)? i think they need to be looking at the mom.
Why are baddies almost always described as being dressed all in black?
If he was smelling of alcohol and carrying her child how was he able to run away and her not being able to catch up with him?
Nikat said she was pushed to the ground by the man of African appearance who ran off with her daughter towards a nearby shopping center. She said she gave chase, but raced home to alert police once she realized she could not catch him.
Oh Dear, did she not have a cell phone on her which she could have used to call LE?
Was there no one else around who she could have yelled at for help to catch the Alleged abductor or at least to call LE?
Why did she race home to call LE and not into the shopping Center where there would have been phones, possibly even security men?
Did he go into the shopping center and she decided to run home to call LE?
Where is the creek in relation to the park she was allegedly snatched from?
What about CCTV?
The fact Sanaya was seen by paramedics the week before is a red flag.
Did she have repeated visits to doctors for health issues?
As it stands, I wonder if the mom has mental health issues or couldn't cope.
Her story isn't believable as it currently stands.
The obligatory random black man dressed 9in bad guy black (is there a shop that bad guys go to to buy the latest in criminal clothing?)
No mention is made of anyone else being in the park from the mom and the police don't seem to be concerned about a stranger abduction.
According to the mom in the statement above it was just her and her daughter and the alleged abductor.
There is not even a description of a suspect.
Hi Tania,
there is nothing to suggest foul play from family members at this moment in time. Red flags, yes...
Dead toddler grew up in 'dysfunctional environment'
The Uncle praised LE.
Mr Ali said he wanted the person responsible for his niece's death to be caught as soon as possible.
"I appreciate what police are doing, they're doing a very great job and I'm pretty sure they'll come to a quick conclusion and justice will be served," said Mr Ali.
"It's very frustrating and whoever is out there, whoever has done it, I hope that he is caught as soon as possible and dealt with.
"Whatever happened shouldn't have happened, she didn't deserve it. She's such a cute little kid, she was so attached to me. I don't know why this happened. Whoever done it, shame on him, he is a coward."
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/dead-toddler-grew-up-in-dysfunctional-environment-20160411-go3pzi.html#ixzz45WbFbwAX
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This echoes much in truth.
The number three must not be over thought. It is just something we notice; nothing more or less, when one seems to need to choose a number.
After that, much in sexual abuse cases comes in the cloud of passivity, guilt (whether appropriate or not) and even through the lens of PTSD and disassociation.
Having said that, the lack of any identification could be a signal of deception, or, given modern media, it could be code for the "language police" who will not allow such identification lest it harm their narrative.
She could be a real victim where the "report" is not reported due to race or religion of suspects (Islam), or it could she is deceptive.
There is not enough to discern.
Lisa21222 said...
http://www.mamamia.com.au/father-catfished-daighter/?CRE=Plista&CRE_W=sidebar
"Nikat said she chased her baby’s abductor for a while, but couldn’t catch him so returned to her home with her empty pram to contact authorities."
No rush then?
"It's very frustrating and
whoever is out there,
whoever has done it,
I hope that he is caught
as soon as possible and dealt with."
"Whatever happened
shouldn't have happened,
she didn't deserve it.
She's such a cute little kid,
she was so attached to me.
I don't know why this happened.
Whoever done it,
shame on him,
he is a coward."
It's very frustrating
Whoever has done it .. whatever happened
shouldn't have happened, she didn't deserve it
She's such a cute little kid, she was so attached to me.
Whoever has done it, shame on him, he is a coward.
1. How does he know that whoever has done it, whatever happened that shouldn't have happened, is a coward?
A baby snatching and smothering, shoeless, drunk Negro on steroids sounds like a real maniac to me! What would he have done differently had he had more courage?
2. How does he know that she didn't deserve it? What did she do?
3. "I don't know why this happened." Why? This? Happened?
Lis said...
Interesting he says "her mother" not "our mother"- are they half siblings?
His statements concern me.
"...and I'm pretty sure they'll come to a quick conclusion and justice will be served," said Mr Ali.
Justice is not served by "quick conclusions" in SA or in police investigations!
However, a thorough investigation of his many leaks would be a solid start.
Like others noted, I'd like to know which words are direct quotes of the subjects - did she say she "returned home with the empty pram," or was the speaker trying to inject more drama into a tragedy that needs none?
The uncle pulls a DeOrr Kunz, and quickly turns the focus onto himself, also, talking about how much she was attached to him.
Yet, no words about how attached he was to her. When he said her mother loved her and is devastated, I would expect "we" loved her; "we" are devastated, especially when he just said how attached she was to him, and went on about how she didn't deserve "whatever" happened.
Maybe the shoeless African man is the elusive bushy-headed stranger who framed poor, conspiracy victim Diane Downes for the assault on her three children, killing one of them?
Woman charged over murder of toddler Sanaya Sahib
THE mother of slain toddler Sanaya Sahib has been charged with her murder.
Sofina Nikat, 22, faced an out of sessions hearing this afternoon.
The court heard she had made a “full confession” regarding the murder of her daughter.
She was remanded in custody to face court again tomorrow.
Footage has emerged of a woman pushing an empty pram near Darebin Creek, where Sanaya was later found dead. The CCTV footage was obtained by Seven News.
The 14-month-old’s body was found in Darebin Creek, Heidelberg West, early Sunday after Ms
Nikat claimed a man of African appearance snatched her daughter from her pram at Olympic Park the day before.
Her mum said she gave chase but, unable to keep up with the offender, returned home with the stroller and raised the alarm.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/woman-charged-over-murder-of-toddler-sanaya-sahib/news-story/1b01d8bcc8ad6bd9f449787ad14e4a3b
UW-Madison police continue to investigate reported sexual assault
The victim of an alleged sexual assault near Memorial Union on Friday night is not a UW-Madison student and did not initiate the reporting of the crime, police said.
Instead, the woman, who is in her early 20s, was approached by a campus police officer who saw her sitting on a curb near the Alumni House, 650 N. Lake St., about 10:45 p.m. Friday. She appeared to be upset.
“The officer involved found her and looked and realized she may be a person who needed help,” UW-Madison police spokesman Marc Lovicott said Monday.
Lovicott declined to say where the woman was from. She was on campus for the weekend visiting friends, he said.
The woman told police that three strangers held her down at knife point and assaulted her sometime between 10 p.m. and 10:40 p.m. near Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St. She was unable to describe the men or the location in greater detail to the officer on Friday or to police since then, Lovicott said.
It’s also not clear to police how many of the three men allegedly raped the victim.
“She’s been reluctant” to say much, Lovicott said.
Lovicott said officers continue to follow leads, talking to acquaintances of the victim and looking through security camera footage from the area.
“We scoured a lot of the area already,” he said. “There was not a lot of information that was able to be conveyed to us (by the victim). We don’t even have descriptions (of the assailants). The location is also very vague.”
UW-Madison police continue to ask anyone with information to contact them at 608-264-2677. People who were in the Memorial Union area about the time of the incident Friday who noticed anything that seemed out of the ordinary also are encouraged to call, he said.
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/crime-and-courts/uw-madison-police-continue-to-investigate-reported-sexual-assault/article_3061d918-4894-5f9e-8721-66e29119e26a.html
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-11/sanaya-sahib's-uncle-speaks-about-tragic-death-of/7316752
Video [6:14] Sanaya Sahib's uncle speaks about tragic death of niece
"Anonymous Lis said...
April 11, 2016 at 6:31 PM"
Because he is the baby's uncle. The baby's mom is either his sister or sister-in-law. She is 22. It would not be likely she'd have a child old enough to be interviewed.
I had a suspicion the brother might have been covering for his sister, but I couldn't say why and I still don't know why. However, his statements were even more suspect which led me to believe HE was likely responsible.
Wreyeter72 said...
I don't understand why colleges investigate claims of sexual abuse, (a police matter) or why incidents of sexual abuse are blamed on colleges because they happen between students, or in a dorm room, or in this case "near the student center." How is a college responsible for the actions of its students on their personal time? How is a college to prevent them from behaving however they like anywhere outside of a classroom? It's time to lay the blame and the responsibility squarely in the lap of the molesters - not the colleges.
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Episode 26: Interview with Drew Avera on Indie Publishing and Freedom
Jul 4, 2017 | Unscrambled Authors | 0 comments
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On this week’s show, which airs on the fourth of July, I interview science fiction author Drew Avera on why he chose independent publishing, the joys of being indie pubbed, and his books.
Drew Avera is an active duty Navy veteran and bestselling author of The Alorian Wars. Growing up in Mississippi, Drew often dreamed of living in the big city, or a space station orbiting Mars. After joining the Navy at the age of seventeen, he has deployed across the world four times and has spent more than three years of his life out on the open ocean. Outside of writing, Drew enjoys playing guitar and learning how to paint. He lives in Virginia with his wife and two daughters. Both children are currently learning the ways of the force.
Website: www.drewavera.com
From the Amazon bestselling author of The Dead Planet Series comes a space opera that pits an empire against the rest of the galaxy! For the first time, grab the first three books of The Alorian Wars in a single volume!
Dead planets litter the Alorian Galaxy in the wake of interstellar war…
Ensign Brendle Quinn has spent five years loyally serving the Greshian Empire in their relentless quest to dominate the Alorian Galaxy. But, as his ship decimates planet after planet, he finds his sympathies swinging toward their defeated enemies.
Sergeant Anki Paro, a Luthian Marine, has been anxiously awaiting the call to deploy. As the last line of defense against the crushing Greshian forces, she hopes the time has finally come for her world to stand against tyranny. However, as her society prepares for imminent destruction, questions of misplaced loyalties lead Anki to wonder if the world she is trying to save has any real intentions of surviving.
As Brendle’s and Anki’s worlds collide, they find themselves in an unlikely alliance to try to stop the full might of the Greshian Empire before there’s nothing left to fight for.
A stolen ship, a mission on the line, enemies at every turn…
After four months in hiding, Brendle Quin can’t delay his mission any longer. His ship, the Replicade, is held together with failing patches, and he needs to make repairs in a port. Unfortunately, the nearest world with proper facilities is situated deep in Greshian-owned enemy territory.
The Greshian colony of Farax is a safe hold for piracy in the region, and none is more vile than Crase Tuin, a man known for trafficking people and weapons across the Alorian Galaxy. He has a reputation as the only pirate never to lose a ship–with the exception of the Replicade.
When Crase finds the Replicade, he vows to claim the lives of those who stole her. But Brendle won’t go down without a fight.
Nothing has stopped the Greshian Empire’s expanse, but all hope isn’t lost…
The illusion of peace shrouds a hidden darkness. Just as the crew of the Replicade are getting settled on a seemingly tranquil world, they encounter a young girl with special abilities–and she’s being hunted by a secret, powerful organization that will stop at nothing to have her.
When Anki and Brendle intervene to help the girl, they are caught in the organization’s crosshairs. The crew must make a decision: give into the looming threat of the organization, or die fighting to protect her.
Meanwhile, Lieutenant Commander Ilium Gyl has taken command of a Greshian scout ship. A breach in protocol raises questions of his loyalty to the Greshian Empire, leading to a power struggle as a rebellion sparks in a distant sector of the Alorian Galaxy. His ambitions may cripple the Greshian Fleet, or he might just be the empire’s savior.
The Alorian Wars is a space opera series, filled with political intrigue and shrouded in mystery, is sure to please fans of “The Expanse”, “Dark Matter”, “Firefly”, and “Killjoys”. Join the war today!
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The Curse of Windows-powered Sub-notebooks
Posted in GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Windows at 3:34 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: SJVN calls it “the fall of Microsoft” and attributes much of it to GNU/Linux (mostly on sub-notebooks)
BURIED in the news was this interesting nugget of information which suggests that Microsoft’s UMPC partner could be in its deathbed. The emergence of low-cost sub-notebooks which run GNU/Linux could not have done OQO any good.
Atom UMPC first casualty of OQO money woes?
UMPC maker OQO has canned its latest model, if rumours fed by Twitter tweets are to be believed. It has also been claimed that pre-orders have been cancelled.
Who would pay for a high-end UMPC when far cheaper options exist? And actually, Microsoft suffers from this too. Its net earnings dived 32% and Microsoft will surely blame “netbooks” (it won’t use the “L” word because that would give it publicity), but it’s clearly to do with GNU/Linux, which is killing Microsoft in sub-notebooks (financially). SJVN has just published “The fall of Microsoft,” in which he explains why this is indeed the big fall.
For the stockholders among you that means Microsoft’s diluted earnings per share were down 30% over last year and well below what the 39 the analysts were expecting…
It’s more than [the economy] For starters, I blame Microsoft’s management. They’ve been sloppy and lazy for years now.
…instead of focusing on what Microsoft does well — strong-arming hardware vendors into installing Windows software — he’s been distracted by picking dumb legal fights with open source and buying Yahoo.
Or, considering my low opinion of Microsoft, I guess I should be saying, “Please, please keep Ballmer in charge. He’s the man!”
Another major reason is that Microsoft may own the lion’s share of the netbook market now but it did so by cutting its profits to the bone and beyond. Worse still, if you like Microsoft, this new talk of Windows 7 Starter Edition, which is junkware by any standard, being the Windows for netbooks will alienate customers. Microsoft will have a fit trying to hold onto its current netbooks predominance at changes ripple through this market in the rest of 2009.
According to one person, the “Windows division” brought $2.5bn in profit (out of $2.98bn in total profit). That is 84% of the total profits. So it’s true that almost all the valuable income still comes from very few products. We already knew this. Judging by the looks of Vista 7, Microsoft’s biggest troubles are still ahead. █
“LH [Longhorn] is a pig and I don’t see any solution to this problem. If we are to rise to the challenge of Linux…”
–Jim Allchin, Microsoft
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Tag: Resurrection of the Daleks
Covers Revealed for New Target Novels of Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Doctors Stories
The Pirate Planet, Resurrection of the Daleks, and Revelation of the Daleks are released on 11th March 2021.
Cutaway Comics Unveil New Comic Series, Orcini, by Eric Saward (But It Needs Your Support)
David Traynier
The Cutaways Comics Kickstarter has raised over £8,000!
Cutaway Comics Launch Range Featuring Characters from Doctor Who, Including Lytton by Eric Saward
Further stories include Omega: Vengeance and a return to Paradise Towers.
7 New Target Novelisations Revealed for Summer 2020
Seven new Target novelisations will be released in July 2020, consisting of stories for the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth,
Eric Saward Signing Revelation of the Daleks This Thursday
Former Doctor Who Script Editor, Eric Saward is to appear at the Forbidden Planet megastore in London this Thursday (14th
Little Green (Business) Man: Classic Villain Returns in Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor
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Reviewed: Doctor Who Season 21 – All My Love To Long Ago
It can seem churlish to compare Doctor Who stories to Shakespeare, as if I’m trying to argue that The Romans
Resurrection and Revelation of the Daleks to FINALLY Be Adapted by Eric Saward
The only two remaining Classic Doctor Who serials never to be released as Target books are to be novelised by their
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The actor Leslie Grantham, who has died at the age of 71, had just a minor role in Doctor Who
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European Trademark Office Says Pinterest Doesn’t Own ‘Pinterest’ – Social News Startup Premium Interest Does
Pinterest raised a $225 million round in October 2013 to help fuel its international expansion, but a recent ruling in Europe could prove to be a hiccup in that strategy. The U.S.-based social networking site has lost a challenge it made to claim the Pinterest trademark in the region, with a European trademark court ruling in favor of the current owner, a London-based social news aggregation startup called Premium Interest and its founder Alex Hearn.
It means that if Pinterest wants to continue to do business in Europe, “Pinterest will have to change their name if they don’t get a licence from him,” according to Adam Morallee, a partner at law firm Mishcon de Reya, which represented Hearn and his company. Hearn also owns similar rights on the Pinterest trademark in other markets such as Australia.
A spokesperson for Pinterest says the company will be fighting the case. “We plan to appeal the recent decision,” he told TechCrunch.
For now, however, the ruling — made by the European Commission’s Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market, Trade Marks and Designs Division — notes that Pinterest’s claim was “rejected in its entirety.”
Part of reason why, it seems, has to do with timing: Pinterest was already active by the time Premium Interest filed for a trademark in January 2012, but it had yet to formally enter the European market, let alone file a trademark. In fact, Premium Interest filed its trademark in Europe some two months before Pinterest had even gotten its act together in the U.S. to file for a trademark there, notes the blog Mark Matters.
The decision, which is dated November but was only made public last month, also notes other issues that must feel like frustrating oversights for Pinterest at this point.
For example, Pinterest provided documents to support substantiation of its earlier, non-registered mark. But it did so several months after the OHIM’s submission deadlines had passed, rendering them invalid.
The OHIM also determined that documents that were submitted within deadline only proved that the media was buzzing about Pinterest — but not that the general public in the UK or elsewhere in Europe were — or simply didn’t provide enough detail to show they supported the relevant timeframes.
The ruling — embedded in full below — will mean that Pinterest needs to pay court costs (€300, or $409) but no trademark infringement damages as yet.
Pinterest could still get an opening in the case on an appeal — when it would presumably not miss the submission deadline and provide documents that more clearly proved that it was already a well-enough-known entity in the UK and elsewhere in Europe before January 2012 (when Premium Interest first filed its mark).
Done correctly, such documents could help Pinterest work around the “first to file” rule that was the decider this time around. But there is a catch here, too.
“Pinterest may well appeal but the rules of OHIM are that no new evidence can be put forward,” Morallee tells us. “To win the case they have to show they had rights before Premium Interest in Europe. OHIM refused that on the basis of the evidence [Pinterest] put forward. The fact they are well known in the U.S. is not relevant. What matters is their rights in Europe. And they didn’t have any at the relevant time.”
Pinterest has been a strong defender of different aspects of its branding, from its Pin-it button through to its curvy P logo that looks a bit like the P that social networking app Path uses. It’s also actively discouraged any partners to use any variation of the words “pin” or “pinterest” as puns in their names. So you can imagine that it will not give up its trademark on “Pinterest” across Europe so lightly.
On Premium Interest’s side, Hearn says filing the Pinterest mark was “standard practice to protect intellectual property once we start to work on it.”
“We do have great respect Pinterest Inc’s worldwide rights, but also we respect our rights too!” he says. “There is no mistake their growth has been rapid over the past 18 months, from unknown to megastars, and this has posed the problem in trademark use we have today in the EU and beyond.”
Hearn would not comment directly on questions of whether he would accept a licensing settlement. “I hope there is a route through, as no-one likes good businesses to be impeded! But also it is difficult when there is a rapidly expanding company to waive your protected rights, especially when its your baby,” he says.
What’s ironic is that while Pinterest really has been rapidly growing and gaining traction with consumers, Premium Interest has yet to launch, or use any variation of the “Pinterest” trademark that it owns.
Premium Interest, according to its site, has been “developed by a team of individuals based in London, UK who are dedicated to providing a new way to view news, ranked and selected by the reader, not the editor… The vision is that only the most imaginative news and debates will be captured, giving a wholly different insight on traditional news sourcing.”
Hearn tells me that he first coined the use of Pinterest in late 2009/2010, when he and colleagues started to work on some of the early experimental algorithms. But it wasn’t until 2011/2012 that the site appeared online. “We have been very busy the past year developing the mobile apps for launch [this year],” he tells me. Premium Interest’s website, Hearn says, is “acting as a test concept site.” For its interface, it happens to use a similar mosaic-style flow to Pinterest’s.
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Sultan Street: A look at its changing character
Jalan Sultan, (detail) watercolour by Victor Chin
Jalan Sultan is one of the early streets of Kuala Lumpur. In the 1900s most of the buildings were mainly shophouses, whether single- or double-story. This confluence of the Klang and Gombak Rivers which we now know as Kuala Lumpur soon became the commercial centre of the then-Malaya which was under British rule.
The largest group of residents were the Chinese from China followed by the Indians from India. These groups of workers worked in the tin mines and later, the rubber estates. Many of these migrant workers later set up homes here.
The local Malays were mainly happy in their kampongs but soon many of them became civil servants in the colonial government offices in the towns. Lumpur is like many of the other Malaysian towns, built mainly on the wealth of the tin and rubber industries which were mostly owned by the European companies, the Sultans and a few local Chinese at one time. Most of the streets in the old business district were built between the two World Wars (1915 and 1945) when Malaya was the world’s largest producer of tin and rubber.
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Home / News / Are Wine Alternatives a Segment to Explore? Acid League Believes So
Are Wine Alternatives a Segment to Explore? Acid League Believes So
By Miles Smith on January 8, 2021
Who said you need to sell wine to offer a wine club?
Toronto-based food and beverage maker Acid League, which is known for vinegars, condiments, spices and other specialty foods, recently debuted three wine alternatives that are sold directly to consumers.
The products were derived from Acid League’s diverse lineup of vinegars, which include unique ingredients and go beyond the usual apple cider, white wine and balsamic types that line your grocery store shelves.
“It’s not about marketing the product itself, but the different experience you’re getting from wine proxies compared to other wine alternatives,” said co-founder Scott Friedmann. “They’re not wines that have been stripped of alcohol; they’re layered, complex blends of unique ingredients that create a beverage that’s an experience all on their own.”
Friedmann said his company saw a business opportunity that led to the creation of the wine proxies that are available through Acid League’s new wine club.
“Conventional non-alcoholic wines are made by stripping the alcohol out of wine, and usually cheap bulk wine at that, which ends up tasting next-to nothing like the real thing because they’re sweet, lack complexity and don’t pair well with food,” Friedmann said. “As the popularity of low- and no-alcoholic beverages continue to grow, we saw an opportunity to create something new and different with wine proxies.
“There are plenty of non-alcoholic spirits and craft beers, but nobody is really addressing wine. Restaurants are limited to serving non-alcoholic cocktails with meals, but drinkers don’t typically have cocktails with their food — they have wine. So instead of dealcoholized wine, we craft layered blends of juices, teas, spices, bitters, and more to create a new type of beverage that looks, feels and drinks like wine but doesn’t have alcohol. They have acidity, texture, tannin, and spice, and pair really well with food, just like traditional wine does.”
Because the products are non-alcoholic, Acid League is not limited by alcohol regulations.
“We could live on the shelves of any number of stores but wine retailers and restaurants obviously remain a natural fit as well,” Friedmann said.
The company markets its wine club to non-drinkers, casual drinkers or people simply looking for something new to try.
Through its new club, Acid League is offering three unique, rotating bottles per month, launching with Blanc Slate, a take on white wine that pays homage to Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc; Cuvée Zero, a French-red-inspired beverage, and a play on orange wine, Zest Contact. Orders, which begin shipping this month, are $60 per month with a subscription or $70 for one month without a subscription, with additional availability to follow throughout 2021.
Future proxies in the line are set to include takes on saké, Gewürztraminer, Champagne, rosé, and big, bold reds.
Acid League plans to make versions of its products for sale in restaurants and stores later this year. When it makes that move, it won’t face the obstacles that present themselves to alcoholic beverage makers.
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Introducing cryomilling for reliable determination of resin content and degree of cure in structural carbon fibre reinforced thermoset composites
Fereshteh-Saniee, Nessa, Reynolds, Neil, Kelly, Catherine A., Wilson, Peter R., Jenkins, Mike J. and Kendall, Kenneth N. (2018) Introducing cryomilling for reliable determination of resin content and degree of cure in structural carbon fibre reinforced thermoset composites. Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 107 . pp. 197-204. doi:10.1016/j.compositesa.2018.01.004
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Available under License Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives 4.0.
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesa.2018.01.00...
A novel material preparation method is presented that facilitates accurate measurement of the degree of cure and resin content within carbon fibre reinforced polymer composites (CFRPs). When using conventional specimen preparation for standard thermal analysis, it is demonstrated that the experimentally-obtained enthalpy of reaction and resin content varies significantly between analyses. Measurement uncertainties arise because small specimen volumes are extracted from materials that exhibit both macroscopic inhomogeneity and physical discontinuities. To address this issue, representative sample volumes of aligned CFRPs were first cryogenically milled to develop a homogeneous powder before smaller specimens were extracted. The variation in obtained enthalpy of reaction between analyses was reduced from 23% (for conventional specimen extraction) to 1% following cryomilling. The accuracy in measurement of degree of cure for the compression moulding parts was improved 7 times. Further, subsequent FTIR analysis proved that cryomilling did not affect the final chemical structure of the cured material.
T Technology > TP Chemical technology
Carbon fiber-reinforced plastics, Thermosetting composites, Thermal analysis, Machining, Low temperature engineering, Enthalpy, Epoxy resins
Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing
Pergamon Press
April 2018 Published
6 January 2018 Available
5 January 2018 Accepted
10.1016/j.compositesa.2018.01.004
HVM CATAPULT program Innovate UK http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100006041
Institute of Advanced Study (Summer Research Fund) University of Warwick http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000741
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Bell’s Light Hearted has all the heart of Two Hearted but only 110 calories, 3.7% Alc/Vol.
The eagerly awaited Light Hearted Ale is now available!
A Low-Cal IPA with only 110 calories, Light Hearted is the newest year-round release from Michigan’s largest independent craft brewery.
With a 3.7% ABV, it is the latest addition to Bell’s Hearted family (Two Hearted is available year-round; Double Two Hearted will return in August).
“We did not just set out to make a lighter version of Two Hearted. We wanted to brew the best tasting, low-cal IPA we could. It all begins with quality ingredients. Balance, hoppiness and aroma are all there,” said Larry Bell, Bell’s president and founder.
While Light Hearted may not share the exact ingredient list as Two Hearted (Bell’s flagship IPA is brewed with 100% Centennial hops), it does share many of the defining characteristics that make Two Hearted what it is.
“One thing we did not do, was take a shortcut; no corn and no rice. Our goal was to deliver the same quality you would expect from a Bell’s beer, but with a lower ABV and with less calories,” Bell said.
Light Hearted is brewed with Centennial and Galaxy hops with only 110 calories per 12 oz. serving. It cuts down on the things many beer drinkers don’t want, but keeps everything about Two Hearted they love.
This new year-round beer was the first release in Bell’s General Store Exclusive Series; limited, small batch releases only available at Bell’s pub, the Eccentric Cafe, and its General Store. Focused on innovation, the GSE series serves as a testing ground for new recipes, small batch re-releases of fan favorites and other experimental brews.
Light Hearted is now available in cans (12 oz. packaged in 6-packs and 12-packs) and on draft. Fans in Michigan will also be able to purchase 12-packs of 12 oz. cans later this month.
Bell’s Two Hearted Ale, the brewery’s flagship IPA, has been named the No. 1 Beer in America three years in a row by members of the American Homebrewers Association. It has been at the top of numerous “Best of” lists and consistently ranks as one of the most popular craft beers on the market.
Keep an eye on here on the Bell's website and our social media channels for the latest information and release updates. You can also check out our Events Calendar and our Light Hearted merch!
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About Light Hearted
Style: Lo-Cal IPA
Tasting notes: Citrus and pine aromas; easy-drinking
Description: Made with Centennial and Galaxy hops, and a variety of specialty malts, Light Hearted is aromatic, balanced and incredibly easy-drinking. This IPA has only 110 calories, yet all the Heart.
Nutritional information & specs
ABV: 3.7%
Carbs: 8.7g
Fat: 0g
Packages: Draft and cans
Two Hearted
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Mechanic Grove, AL to Mercer County, OH
Mechanic Grove, p-o., Clarke co., Ala., 126 s. Tuscaloosa, 918 W.
Mechanicsburg, p-b., Cumberland co., Pa.. 9 e. Carlisle, 6 s. w. Harrisburg, 105 W. It contains a church, and about 100 dwellings. Incorporated in 1823. It has 4 stores, cap. $25,000; 1 tannery, 3 distilleries, 1 printing office, 1 weekly newspaper, 9 flouring m., 6 saw m. Cap. in manufac. $14,845. 4 sch. 200 scholars. Pop. 670.
Mechanicsburg, p-v., Goshen t., Champaign co., O., 36 w by n. Columbus, 429 W. Situated near the head of Little Darby cr., and contains 5 stores, 1 grist m., 1 saw m., 35 dwellings, and 258 inhabitants.
Mechanicsburg, p-v., Giles co., Va., 248 w. Richmond, 308 W.
Mechanicsburg, p-v., Sangamon co., Ill., 15 E. Springfield, 765 W. Situated in a prairie, near Clear cr.
Mechanics Falls, p-v., Cumberland co., Me.
Mechanics Hill, p-o., Moore co., N. C, 79 s. w. Raleigh, 353 W.
Mechanicstown, p-v., Frederick co., Md., 89 N. w. Annapolis, 60 W.
Mechanicstown, p-v., Fox t., Carroll co., O., 135 e. n. e. Columbus.
Mechanicsville, p-v., Rutland co., Vt., 82 s. s. w. Montpelier, 465 W.
Mechanicville, p-v., Stillwater t, Saratoga co., N. Y., 19 n. Albany, 389 W. Situated on the w. side Hudson r. and contains 2 churches, 5 stores, 1 cotton fac, 1 grist m., 1 saw m., and 1 plaster m. The Champlain canal passes through lit.
Mechanicsville, p-o., Bucks co., Pa., 104 e. Harrisburg, 166 W.
Mechanicsville, p-v., Louisa co., Va., 70 n. w. Richmond, 114 W.
Mechanicsville, p-v., Sumter dist., S. C, 78 E. Columbia, 504 W.
Mechanicsville, p-v., Jasper co., Ga., 45 w.
Milledgeville. 652 W. Situated 1½ ms. e. of the Ocmulgee r.
Mechanicsville, p-v., Rutherford co., Tenn., 10 s. e. Nashville, 680 W.
Mechanicsville, p-v., Kemper co., Miss.
Mechisses, pt., Washington co., Me., 157 e. by n. Augusta, 743 W. Situated on both sides of e. Machias r. which affords extensive water power. The v. at the falls is at the head of tidewater, and contains various mills, and Washington Academy, which has an edifice 50 by 38 feet, 2 stories high, a library and philosophical apparatus, and a productive fund of $14,000. The t. contains 12 stores, cap. $50,000; 1 fulling m., 1 tannery, 2 grist m., 14 saw m. Cap. in manufac. $46,150. 1 acad. 161 students, 8 sch. 50 scholars. Pop. 1,395.
Mecklenburg, County, Va. Situated in the s. part of the state, and contains 640 sq. ms. Staunton and Dan rivers unite in the w. part of this co., form the Roanoke r., by which, and its tributaries, it is watered. Meherin r. forms its n. boundary. Capital, Boydton. There were in 1840, neat cattle 13,933, sheep 14,109, swine 31,988; wheat 77,444 bush, produced, Ind. corn 472.345, oats 224,107, Potatoes 25,107, tobacco 121,131 pounds, cotton 19,054; 30 stores, cap. 503,400; 1 furnace, 4 tanneries, 17 flouring m., 32 grist m., 19 saw m. Cap. in manufac. $45,925. 1 college, 80 students, 7 acad. 186 students, 15 sch. 334 scholars. Pop. whites 7,754. slaves. 915, free col'd 1,055; total, 20,724.
Mecklenburg, county, N. C. Situated toward the s. w. part of the state, and contains 900 sq. ms. Catawba r. runs on its w. border, by branches of which it is watered. Surface undulating, soil, very productive. It contains several rich gold mines. Capital, Charlotte. There were in 1840, neat cattle 18.541, sheep 19,519, swine 33,065; wheat 78,315 bush, produced, rye 2,005, Ind. corn 586,928, oats 61,407, Potatoes 14,442, cotton 1,595,327 pounds; 32 stores, cap. $179,788; 2 smelting houses for gold, 9 tanneries, 15 distilleries, 11 flouring m., 23 grist m., 32 saw m., 1 printing office, 1 bindery, 1 weekly newspaper. Cap. in manufac. $16,600. 1 college, 31 students, 5 acad. 181 students, 25 sch. 475 scholars. Pop. whites 11,850, slaves 6,322, free col'd 101; total, 18,273.
Mecklenburg, p-v., Hector t., Tompkins co., N. Y., 174 w. by s. Albany, 307 W. It contains 3 churches, 1 Presbyterian, 1 Baptist, and 1 Methodist, 3 stores, 1 grist m., 3 saw m., 1 clothier's works, 1 tannery, 1 pump fac, 1 buckskin mitten and glove fac, 50 dwellings, and about 350 inhabitants.
Mecklenburg, p-v., Knox co., Tenn., 12 e. by s. Knoxville, 188 e. Nashville, 503 W. Situated on the e. side of Holston r., a little above the junction of French Broad r.
Mecosta, County, Mich. In the central part of the state, drained by the Maskegon r. and branches. It is unorganized.
Medfield, pt., Norfolk co., Mass., 21 s. s. w. Boston, 425 W. Watered by Charles and Stop rivers. Chartered in 1650. The v. contains 1 Congregational, 1 Unitarian, and 1 Baptist church, and about 40 dwellings. One mile e. of the v. is one of the oldest houses in New England, which was known to be standing when most of the t. was burned by the Indians in 1676. It is one story high, with a steep roof, sufficiently high for 2 other stories. It is a curious relic of antiquity. The t. has 2 stores, cap. $3,000; 6 grist m., 5 saw m. Cap. in manufac. $6,000. 3 sch. 190 scholars. Pop. 883.
Medford, pt., Middlesex co., Mass., 5 n. w. Boston, 445 W. Situated at the head of navigation, on Mystic r. The soil is fertile and highly cultivated. It contains many fine country seats. It has considerable ship building. The v. contains 4 churches, 1 Congregational, 1 Unitarian, 1 Methodist, and 1 Universalist. The Middlesex canal passes through the t. There are 9 stores, cap. $27,600; 2 lumber yards, cap. $35,000; 1 tannery, 1 distillery, 1 pottery, 1 grist m., 2 saw m., 1 oil m. Cap. in manufac $117,007. 1 acad. 48 students, 8 sch. 579 scholars. Pop. 2,478.
Medford, p-v., Evesham t., Burlington co., N. J., 31 s. e. Trenton, 155 W. It contains 1 large Friends church, 4 stores, and about 40 dwellings.
Medicinal Springs, p-o., Walker co., Ga., 209 n. w. Milledgeville, 630 W.
Medicine Creek, p-o., Livingston co., Mo., 151 n. w. Jefferson City, 1,045 W.
Medina, County, O. Situated in the n. part of the state, and contains 425 sq. ms. Drained by the head waters of Black and Rocky rivers. The surface is moderately uneven, and the soil is fertile. Capital, Medina. There were in 1840, neat cattle 10,265, sheep 31,450, swine 20,939; wheat 219,433 bush, produced, rye 5,339, Indian corn 188,460, buckwheat 5,320, barley 3,175, oats 133,563, Potatoes 112,664, sugar 325,501 pounds; 31 stores, cap. $103,900; 1 furnace, 8 fulling m., 1 woolen fac, 17 tanneries, 1 distillery, 14 grist m., 51 saw m., 2 printing offices, 2 weekly newspapers. Cap. in manufac. $107,928. 2 acad. 99 students, 97 sch. 3,743 scholars. Pop. 18,352.
Medina, p-v., Ridgeway t., Orleans co., N. Y., 262 w. by n. Albany, 397 W. Situated on the Erie Canal, at the junction of Oak Orchard cr., which is used as a feeder. Incorporated in 1832. It contains 5 churches, 1 Presbyterian, 1 Episcopal, 1 Baptist, 1 Methodist, and 1 Roman Catholic, 15 stores, 6 warehouses, 3 flouring m., 3 saw m., 1 tannery, 1 brewery, 1 furnace, 1 clothier's works, 130 dwellings, and about 800 inhabitants.
Medina, pt., and capital of Medina co., O., 117 n. E. by e. Columbus, 351 W. The v. is situated on a commanding eminence, and contains a handsome brick court house, in which the public offices are kept, a brick jail, 2 churches, 10 stores, cap. $34,500; 1 fulling m., 1 distillery, 3 grist m., 4 saw m. Cap. in manufac. $1,200. 2 sch. 147.scholars. Pop. 675. There are in the t, exclusive of the v., 1 store, cap. $1,000; 2 fulling m., 1 woolen fac, 1 distillery, 5 sch. 199 scholars. Pop. 896.
Medina, pt., Lenawee co., Mich., 81 s. w. Detroit, 510 W. The soil is fertile, adapted to grain. It has 3 stores, cap. $8,700; 1 distillery, 2 grist m., 4 saw m. 6 sch. 165 scholars. Pop. 760.
Medon, p-o., Madison co., Tenn., 146 w. s. w. Nashville, 831 W.
Medway, pt., Norfolk co., Mass., 28 s. w. Boston, 418 W. Watered by Charles r., which affords good water power. The v. contains 3 stores, 3 cotton fac, 1 woolen fac, and 40 dwellings. The t. contains 4 churches, 2 Congregational, 1 Unitarian, and 1 Baptist. Incorporated in 1713. The t. has 8 stores, cap. $12,850; 6 cotton fac. 2,859 sp., 4 grist m., 8 saw m. Cap. in manufac. $86,800. 3 acad. 150 students, 8 sch. 495 scholars. Pop. 2,043.
Medway, v., Liberty co., Ga. Situated on the stage road from Savannah to Darien, and contains a church and several dwellings.
Medybemps, p-o., Washington co., Me.
Meegisse, county, Mich. Situated on the e. of Grand Traverse Bay. It contains several lakes and small streams. (Unorganized.)
Meek's Hill, p-o., York dist., S. C, 86 n. Columbia, 437 W.
Meesville, p-v., Roane co., Tenn., 142 e. by s. Nashville, 551 W.
Meherin, r., Va., rises in Charlotte co., and running e. through several counties, enters N. C, and unites with Nottaway r. to form Chowan r.
Mehoopany, p-o., Luzerne co., Pa., 160 n. w. Harrisburg.
Meigs, County, O. Situated in the s. E. part of the state, bounded e. by Ohio r., and contains 425 sq. ms. Watered by Shade and Leading creeks. Organized in 1819. Capital, Chester. There were in 1840, neat cattle 9,747, sheep 16,860, swine 12,427; wheat 93,595 bush, prod., Indian corn 193,327, oats 72,059, Potatoes 34,903; 35 stores, cap. $44,350; 1 fulling m., 9 tanneries, 1 distillery, 2 flouring m., 21 grist m., 39 saw m. Cap. in manufac. $106,720. 82 sch. 2,601 scholars. Pop. 11,452.
Meigs, County, Tenn. Situated in the s. e. part of the state, and contains 215 sq. ms. The Tennessee r. bounds it on the w. Surface, hilly; soil, fertile. Capital, Decatur. There were in 1840, neat cattle 5,163, sheep 4,242, swine 17,141; wheat 26,926 bush, produced, rye 2,108, Indian corn 307,789, oats 51,362, Potatoes 4,038, tobacco 19,565 pounds, cotton 10,778; 12 stores, capital $30,550; 1 forge, 7 tanneries, 28 distilleries, 15 grist m., 9 saw m. Cap. in manufac. $25,708. 14 sch. 245 scholars. Pop. whites 4,493, slaves 2S4, free col'd 12; total, 4,794.
Meigs, t, Adams co., O. Situated a few miles N. E. of West Union. It has 5 stores, cap. $4,200: 1 furnace, 1 flouring m., 2 grist m. Cap. in manufac. $1,450. 1 sch. 24 scholars. Pop. 1,063.
Meigs Creek, p-o., Morgan co., O., 78 e. by s. Columbus, 338 W.
Meigsville, p-v., Jackson co., Tenn., 82 e. by n. Nashville, 639 W. Situated on w. side of Cumberland r.
Meleck's Mills, p-o. Perry co., O., 54 e. Columbus, 365 W.
Mellonville, p-v., Claverack t., Columbia co., N. Y., 37 s. Albany, 349 W. It contains 1 church, 1 store, 2 flouring m., 1 carpet fac, and a few dwellings.
Melmore, p-v., Eden t., Seneca co., O., 82 n. Columbus, 416 W. Situated on the n. bank of Honey cr.
Melrose, p-v., Clarke co., Bl., 152 e. s. e. Springfield, 686 W. It contains about 20 dwellings.
Meltonsville, p-v., Anson co., N. C, 160 s. w. by w. Raleigh, 454 W.
Meltonsville, p-v., Marshall co., Ala., 169 N. e. Tuscaloosa, 687 W.
Melvin Village, p-v., Strafford co., N. H., 49 e. by s. Concord, 530 W.
Memphis, p-v., Shelby co., Tenn., 230 w. s. w. Nashville, 915 W. Situated on an elevated bluff on the Mississippi r., immediately below the mouth of Wolf or Loosahatchy River. It is regularly laid out, and contains 4 churches, 1 Presbyterian, 1 Episcopal, 1 Methodist, and 1 Roman Catholic, 1 academy, 3 printing offices, each issuing a weekly newspaper, 53 stores, 550 dwellings, and 3,300 inhabitants. Its commerce is extensive, being equal to that of any town between St. Louis and New Orleans. A railroad is in operation to Lagrange, a part of the Charleston and Memphis railroad.
Memphis, p-v., Lewis co., Mo., 184 n. by E. Jefferson City, 951 W.
Memphremagog, lake, Vt., is between 30 and 40 miles long, and from 2 to 3 miles wide, and lies mostly in Canada, only 7 or 8 miles of the s. end being in Vt. It covers about 15 sq. miles in Vt., and receives Clyde, Barton, and Black rivers. Its waters are discharged through St. Francis r. into Lake St. Peters, an expansion of St. Lawrence r., 15 miles below the mouth of Sorell r. On an island, 2 miles within the Canada line, is found a quarry of novaculale, known by the name of "magog oil stone," which is in high repute.
Menallen, pt., Adams co., Pa., 48 s. w. Harrisburg, 89 W. It has 6 stores, cap. $12,500; 1 fulling m., 1 distillery, 8 flouring m., 8 grist in. 23 saw m., 1 oil m. Cap. in manufac $5,000. 11 sch. 440 scholars. Pop. 2,269.
Menallan, t., Fayette co., Pa. It has 3 stores cap. $5,300; 1 tannery, 1 pottery, 3 grist in., f saw m. Cap. in manufac $3,870. 5 sch. 169, scholars. Pop. 1,377.
Menan, Petit, or Little Menan Island, Me, lies off the harbor of Steuben, in the Atlantic, 3 s. s. e. Goldsborough harbor. It has a light house, the tower of which is 25 feet high. Grand Menan, a large island, lies off Passamaquoddy Bay, and is in the British dominions.
Menases Gap, p-o., Warren co., Va., 136 n. by w. Richmond, 79 W.
Menard, County, Ill. Situated a little n. w of the center of the state, and contains 260 square miles. Drained by Sangamon r. and its branches. Capital, Petersburg. There were in 1840, neat cattle 7,096, sheep 6,244, swine 23,000; wheat 21,671 bush, produced, Indian corn 399,900, oats 55,150, Potatoes 13,352, tobacco 2,190 pounds: stores, cap. $25,300; 2 woolen fac, 3 distilleries 3 flouring m., 7 grist m., 10 saw m. Cap. in manufac. $20,100. 17 sch. 407 scholars. Pop. 4,431
Mendham, pt., Morris co., N. J., 56 n. Trenton, 230 W. The surface is hilly, and on the n. mountainous; soil, clay and calcareous loam. Drained by head waters of the n. branch of Raritan r., and by branches of Whippany r. The v. contains 1 Presbyterian Church, a boarding school for boys, 3 stores, 1 grist m., and about 50 dwellings. There are in the t. 4 stores, cap. $8,200; 1 fulling m., 1 woolen fac, 1 cotton fac. 308 sp., 2 tanneries, 4 distilleries, 2 grist m., 1 saw m. Cap. in manufac. $29,800. 3 acad. 95 students, 5 schools 183 scholars. Pop. 1,378.
Mendon, t., Rutland co., Vt., 8 e. Rutland, 47 s. Montpelier. The surface is mountainous; soil, cold, and adapted to grazing. Incorporated in 1804, by the name of Parkerstown. Drained by branches of Otter Creek r. It has 1 tannery, 9 saw m. Cap. in manufac. $19,075. 6 sch. 185 scholars. Pop. 545.
Mendon, pt., Worcester co., Mass., 33 s. w. Boston, 406 W. The surface is hilly and broken; soil, generally fertile. Watered by Mill and Blackstone rivers. There are 9 churches, 3 Congregational, 2 Restorations, 1 Freewill Baptist, 2 Friends, and 1 unoccupied. The v., at the center, contains 3 churches, and about 50 dwellings. It is on a commanding eminence, with a fine prospect to the e. The t. is the oldest, except Lancaster, in the co., having been chartered in 1667. Blackstone canal crosses the s. w. part. It has 10 stores, capital $17,800; 5 fulling m., 4 woolen fac, 6 cotton fac. 19,008 sp., 1 printing office, 1 weekly newspaper, 5 grist m., 6 saw m. Cap. in manufac. $420,075. 2 acad. 58 students, 10 sch. 215 scholars. Pop. 3,524.
Mendon, pt., Monroe co., N. Y., 12 s. Rochester, 210 w. by N. Albany, 356 W. The surface s undulating; soil, argillaceous and calcareous loam. Drained by Honeoye and Irondequoit creeks. The v., situated on the latter, was incorporated in 1833, and contains 1 Presbyterian and 1 Baptist church, an academy, 3 stores, 1 grist m., 35 dwellings, and about 250 inhabitants. There are in the t. 7 stores, cap. $27,000; 1 fulling m., 2 woolen fac, 1 furnace, 2 tanneries, 1 grist m., 6 saw m. Cap. in manufac. $117,616. acad. 309 students, 22 sch. 1,178 scholars. Pop. 435.
Mendon, p-o., Mercer co., O., 123 w. n. w. Columbus, 495 W.
Mendon, p-o., Lenawee co., Mich., 75 s. w. Detroit, 515 W.
Mendon, p-v., Adams co., Ill., 116 w. Springfield, 894 W.
Mentor, pt., Lake co., O., 169 n. e. Columns, 355 W. Situated on the s. shore of Lake Erie. First settled in 1797. It has 2 saw m. Cap. in manufac. $1,135.13 sch. 556 schl's. Pop. 1,245.
Menomonee, r., Mich., rises in the country s. Lake Superior, and runs e. by s. about 100 ms. and enters Green Bay. It forms the s. boundary of the upper peninsula, separating it from Wisconsin.
Menomonee, t., Milwaukee co., Wis. Pop. 59.
Mentz, t., Cayuga co., N. Y., 8 n. n. w. Auburn, 156 w. Albany. The surface is undulating; soil, a fertile gravelly and sandy loam, watered by Owasco inlet and Seneca r., which bounds it w. and n. The Erie Canal passes rough its center, crossing Owasco inlet by a stone aqueduct. Montezuma salt works lie a little n of the canal, and are connected with it by a side cut. It has 25 stores, cap. $65,450; 2 mission houses, cap. $4,000; 4 fulling m., 2 pollen fac, 2 tanneries, 1 distillery, 3 grist m., aw m. Cap. in manufac $135 052. 20 sch. 1,326 scholars. Pop. 4,215.
Mequanego, t., Milwaukee co., Wis. It has 2 stores, cap. $5,500. Pop. 172.
Mequon River, p-o., Washington co., Wis., 97 e. by n. Madison, 819 W.
Mercer, County, N. J. Situated in the w. part of the state, and contains 260 sq. ms. Delaware r. bounds it on the s. w. Drained by Assunpink cr. and its branches, which flow into Delaware r., and by a head branch of Millstone r., which flows into Raritan r. Capital, Trenton. There were in 1840, neat cattle 8,086, sheep 8,642, swine 12,758; wheat 43,486 bush, produced, rye 48,399, Ind. corn 179,739 buckwheat 32,852, barley 1,767, oats 216,888, Potatoes 57,581; 106 stores, cap. $397,950; 8 lumber yards, cap. $62,500; 3 furnaces, 5 fulling m., 4 woolen fac, 7 cotton fac. 6,500 sp., 4 dyeing and printing estab., 13 tanneries, 11 distilleries, 1 brewery, 1 pottery, 1 rope fac, 9 flouring m., 28 grist m., 22 saw m., 3 oil m., 3 paper fac, 6 printing offices, 4 binderies, 3 weekly and 1 semiweekly newspapers. Cap. in manufac. $997,355. 8 acad. 279 students, 49 sch. 1,472 scholars. Pop. 21,502.
Mercer, County, Pa. Situated in the w. part of the state, and contains 850 sq. ms. The surface is uneven; soil, fertile, adapted to grain, but better to grazing. Watered by Shenango cr. and its branches, by Mahoning r., and by Deer, Sandy, and Slippery Rock creeks. Capital, Mercer. There were in 1840, neat cattle 63,387, sheep 47,006, swine 47,006; wheat 310,015 bush, produced, rye 89,877, Ind. corn 254,218, buckwheat 112,817, barley 1,324, oats 442,865, Potatoes 331,655, sugar 121,214 pounds; 95 stores, cap. $217,193; 1 lumber yard, cap. $1,200; 19 fulling m., 5 woolen fac, 35 tanneries, 12 distilleries, 3 potteries, 3 printing offices, 3 weekly newspapers, 1 flouring m., 73 grist m., 128 saw m. Cap. in manufac. $66,545. 2 acad. 150 students, 207 sch. 7,746 scholars. Pop. 32,873.
Mercer, County, Va. Situated toward the s. w. part of the state, and contains 540 sq. ms. New River runs on its e. border. Drained by Blue Stone, and East r., and Lick cr., which flow into New r. Capital, Princeton. There were in 1840, neat cattle 2,999, sheep 3,825, swine 5,166; wheat 13,229 bush, produced, rye 4,711, Ind. corn 56,254, buckwheat 1,175, oats 28,265, Potatoes 7,901, tobacco 3,373 pounds, sugar 8,242; 1 store, cap. $4,500; 13 grist m. Cap. in manufac $65,395. 1 sch. 24 scholars. Pop. whites 2,127, slaves 98, free col'd 8; total, 2,233.
Mercer, County, Ky. Centrally situated toward the e. part of the state, and contains 225 sq. ms. Drained by the head waters of Salt r. The soil is very fertile. Capital, Harrodsburg. There were in 1840, neat cattle 16,778, sheep 29,052, swine 49,032; wheat 99,305 bush, produced, rye 36,431, Ind. corn 3,397,406, oats 181,039, Potatoes 23,531, tobacco 64,747 pounds, sugar 12,314; 35 stores, cap. $187,650; 1 fulling m., 1 woolen fac, 3 cotton fac 1,040 sp., 9 tanneries, 6 distilleries, 1 powder m., 9 flouring m., 49 grist m., 21 saw m., 1 printing office, 1 weekly newspaper. Cap. in manufac. $163,299. 2 colleges, 24 students, 3 acad. 140 students, 30 sch. 726 scholars. Pop. whites 13,061, slaves 5,286, free col'd 373; total, 18,720.
Mercer, County, O. Situated in the w. part of the state, and contains 576 sq. ms. The surface is level; soil, very fertile. Stones are rarely found on the surface. Drained by St. Mary's and Wabash rivers, and their tributaries. Capital, Celina. There were in 1840, neat cattle 4,224, sheep 1,449, swine 6,907; wheat 18.596, bush, produced, Ind. corn 156,698, oats 31,937, Potatoes 11,948; 24 stores, cap. $35,720; 1 woolen fac, 2 tanneries, 2 grist m., 6 saw m. Cap. in manufac. $14,000. 12 sell. 400 scholars. Pop. 8,277.
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The incoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee says Attorney General nominee William Barr has confidence in special counsel Robert Mueller (MUHL'-ur) and will let Mueller finish his Russia investigation.
Sen. Lindsey Graham says Barr has a "very, very high opinion" of Mueller.
The South Carolina Republican was among the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee who met with Barr on Wednesday as Barr made the rounds on Capitol Hill before his confirmation hearing next week.
President Donald Trump pushed out Attorney General Jeff Sessions last year and nominated Barr to replace him.
Trump's critics have warned that Barr may try to curtail Mueller's investigation, given that the president has repeatedly called it a "witch hunt."
And Barr wrote an unsolicited memo to the Justice Department last year critiquing Mueller's investigation
Graham also commented on President Trump's speech Tuesday night from the Oval office.
"I thought the president did a good job of explaining the humanitarian problem," said Graham.
"I think the president is open minded to a deal, he's firm on the idea he needs border security money, including money for barriers, but I believe and hope he's open to a deal."
Washington DC - 9 January 2019
1. Cutaway of Attorney General nominee William Barr walking down the hall and into Sen. Lindsey Graham's office
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Lindsey Graham, (R) South Carolina, Incoming Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee:
"I think the main thing people want to know is what's his view of the Mueller investigation. And I can assure you based on what I've heard, that he has a high opinion of Mr. Mueller, believes that Mr. Mueller is doing a professional job, will do a professional job. Be fair to the president of the country as a whole and has no reason for Mr. Mueller to stop doing his job and is commited to allowing Mr. Mueller to finish."
"As to President I ask him, he said some pretty tough things. Mr. Barr said he's the one on the receiving end of this, he is sort of the accused and from the president's point of view, I think he believes it is a witch hunt and doesn't believe he did anything wrong and I can remember the Clinton days, when Ken Starr was part of a right-wing conspiracy. That is just sort of the way these things go."
"He had absolutely no indication he was going to tell Bob Mueller what to do, or how to do it. He is confident that Mr. Mueller will pursue the facts and the law."
"The memo, that was his opinion about the slippery slope of obstruction of justice charges against a president who wants to terminate a political appointee. He has got to believe that is a dangerous precedent to set and his memo was shared
with other people, he wanted their input. And we will share with the committee all the folks that Mr. Barr talked to and shared the memo with and we will give you an explanation to the committee as why he wrote it."
"He has a high opinion of Rod, they talked. Mr. Rosenstein mentioned him when they first met, I think that two years would probably be enough. He has some ideas of a deputy. I told him to pick somebody you are comfortable with and the president can approve and I trust his judgment to find a worthy successor to Mr. Rosenstein."
"I thought the president did a good job of explaining the humanitarian problem on both sides, those who are coming here, the abuse that women go through, the children to get to the country, what happens when the criminal illegal immigrants are allowed to come back time and time again. And I thought it was a pretty persuasive case that we need to secure our border and we need to realize illegal immigration is a human tragedy at multiple levels."
"To my Democratic colleagues I don't believe you're going to get much traction that the president is manufacturing a crisis because all of you, including me have voted for billions of dollars to secure the border very much like the president is proposing."
"Toward the end of the week, there'll be some ideas emerging from the Senate that would have some bipartisan buy-in. But here's what the Democrats are going to ask, this is a good question - will the president sign it? And I think the president is open minded to a deal, he's firm on the idea he needs border security money, including money for barriers, but I believe and hope he's open to a deal on the wall."
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President Donald Trump said Friday he is "not reversing course" in Syria with the decision to authorize about 200 U.S. troops to remain there.
In December, Trump announced he was pulling all 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria, but European allies insisted on some U.S. forces remaining on the ground.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office during a meeting with the Chinese trade delegation, Trump reiterated his claim that 100 percent of the Islamic State group's caliphate has been defeated and said his administration has "did more in the last three or four weeks than people have done in years."
He said the two-thousand-plus troops that have been stationed in Syria will now go to "different parts of the world," including Iraq.
Asked if he has spoken to Attorney General Robert Barr about Robert Mueller's special counsel report that many believe will be released soon, Trump said he has not, adding that the entire investigation is "one of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated on" the U.S.
Trump also pledged a veto if Congress passes a resolution blocking his use of a national emergency declaration to fund a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Trump told reporters he would "100 percent" veto the resolution introduced by House Democrats earlier in the day.
The Democratic-controlled House is sure to pass the measure, and the GOP-run Senate may adopt it as well despite Trump's opposition.
Any Trump veto would likely be sustained, but the upcoming battle will test Republican support for Trump's move.
Asked about Amazon's recent decision to drop its plans for a new headquarters in New York, the president called it "a big loss" for the city.
He also blamed what he's calling "radical left" thinking, which he says isn't good for jobs or the economy.
Amazon abruptly dropped plans last week to build one of its new headquarters in Long Island City, Queens, which could have delivered 25,000 jobs.
On his summit next week with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Vietnam, Trump said he expects a successful meeting, saying the U.S. and Pyongyang have "such a great relationship."
Trump said if he were note elected president, "you would have been in a war with North Korea. We now have a situation where the relationships are good."
Washington, DC - 22 February 2019
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, US President:
"Reporter question: What about the charges against (New England Patriots owner) Bob Kraft? He's a friend of yours.
Trump: Well it's very sad. I was very surprised to see it. He's proclaimed his innocence, totally, but I'm very surprised to see it.
Reporter question: Have you spoken to (Attorney General) Bill Barr about the release of the Mueller report? Have you spoken to him about that?
Trump: No. I have not.
Reporter: Do you expect to?
Trump: At some point, I guess I'll be talking about it. But you know the nice part? There was no collusion. There was no obstruction. There was no anything. So that's the nice part. There was no phone calls, no nothing. We have a, I won the race. You want to know why I won the race because I was a better candidate than she was and it had nothing to do with Russia. And everybody knows it's a hoax. It's one of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated on this country. So I look forward to seeing the report. If it's an honest report it will say that. If it's not an honest report it won't."
"Reporter question: Mr. President, on troops in Syria, why are you reversing course?
Trump: I'm not reversing course. I have done something that nobody else has been able to do. In another short period of time like hours, you'll be hearing, hours and days, you'll be hearing about the caliphate. It's 100 percent defeated. Nobody's been able to say that that. That doesn't mean there aren't some very bad people walking around and strapping on bombs and all of these things. But we've done a job that nobody else has been able to do. I heard Lindsey Graham this morning congratulating me on having defeated the, you know the caliphate. And frankly, I'm getting a lot of congratulations. At the same time, we can leave a small force along with others in the force, whether it's NATO troops or whoever it might be so that it doesn't start up again and I'm okay. It's a very small tiny fraction of the people we have. And a lot of people like that idea and I'm open to ideas. But the 2,500 people that we've had there will be going to different parts of the world. They may be going over to Iraq where we have a very powerful base, a base that cost billions of dollars to build frankly and that we'll be using. But we have had tremendous success in defeating the caliphate and now everybody's admitting I did more in the last three or four weeks than people have done in years and it's been very successful. But we want to make sure it stays that way."
"Reporter: Will you veto that resolution that was introduced today that would block the national emergency if it passes?"
Trump: On the wall? Will I veto it? 100 percent. 100 percent. And I don't think it survives a veto. We have too many smart people that want border security so I can't imagine it could survive a veto. But I will veto it. Yes."
4. Cutaway of Chinese delegation and Cabinet officials
"Reporter: We haven't gotten your response yet to Amazon pulling out of New York City, your home city, your home state...
Trump: I think it's a tremendous loss to New York City. I think it's a big loss. I think it's, if you look at the deal, the deal was not a great deal from the standpoint of they could have made a better deal than that, a much better deal. But still, I think it's a loss for New York City. And the three billion dollars wasn't a check, it was a form of taxes over a period of time that now they'll never see because you know, they were going to take in a lot of jobs, they were going to take in a lot of taxes. So I think it's a big loss for New York City. It's the kind of thinking that our country is going to on the left, on the radical left, but ultimately it's not good for jobs and it's not good for the economy but it was a big loss for New York City. I come from New York City, I love New York City. I think it was a big loss for New York City."
6. Wide shot of Trump listening to reporter question
"Reporter: On North Korea, your own administration officials say that Kim Jong Un has not actually decided yet whether he wants to denuclearize. So how can you meet with him if he doesn't even want to...
Trump: "We have had such a great relationship and China has helped us a lot with North Korea and with Kim Jong Un since I got to office. If I were not elected president, you would have been in a war with North Korea. We now have a situation where the relationships are good, where there's been no nuclear testing, no missiles, no rockets. We got our hostages back. We have many of the remains back and coming back rapidly, the remains of our great warriors from many, many years ago and the families are so thrilled and so happy. We've had a great relationship. The Singapore was a tremendous success. Only the fake news likes to portray it otherwise. We would have gone, we would have been, we would have literally been in a war with North Korea in my opinion had I not been elected."
8. Wide shot of Trump ending spray
Government and politics , Executive vetoes , Legislation , Legislature
North Korea government, United States military, United States government
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US Trump Mueller Syria NKorea (Lon NR)
Trump: 'Not reversing course' in Syria on troops
Bob Barr , Robert Mueller , Kim Jong-un , Donald Trump , Lindsey Graham
United States military, United States government, North Korea government, Syrian armed forces, Syria government
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US Barr Senate
Barr testifies as Mueller's criticism made public
ASSOCIATED PRESS , POOL
Rudolph Giuliani , William Barr , Robert Mueller , Jared Kushner , Lindsey Graham , Dianne Feinstein
US Attorney General William Barr is defending his handling of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation report.
Barr was testifying on Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
His appearance comes hours after it was revealed that Mueller had sent the Justice Department a letter objecting to the way his findings were portrayed.
Mueller told Barr that Barr's summary of the Russia probe's findings caused "public confusion about critical aspects" of the investigation.
A copy of Mueller's letter to Barr was released on Wednesday.
Mueller's letter is likely to be a central focus at Wednesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with Barr.
Barr's prepared testimony shows he plans to defend his handling of Mueller's report.
++NOTE GRAPHIC LANGUAGE IN SOUNDBITE #4++
Washington DC - 1 May 2019
1. Various of US Attorney General William Barr entering the hearing room and taking seat
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Senator Lindsey Graham, Chairman Judiciary Committee:
"But the Attorney General will be testifying here in a bit about the Mueller Report and I want to thank him for coming to the committee and giving us an explanation as to the actions he took and why he took them regarding the Mueller report and here is the good news. Here is the Mueller report. You can read it for yourself. It is about 400 and something pages. Can't say I have read it all, but I have read most of it. There is an unredacted version over in the classified section of the Senate. A room where you can go look at the unredacted version and I did that and I found it not to change anything in terms of an outcome."
3. Cutaway Barr listening to Graham
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Senator Lindsey Graham, Chairman Judiciary Committee, reading messages between FBI agents : ++NOTE GRAPHIC LANGUAGE ++
"'October the 19th, 2016. Trump is a fucking idiot. He is unable to provide a coherent answer.' Sorry to the kids out there. These are the people that made a decision that (Hillary) Clinton didn't do anything wrong and a counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign was warranted. We are going to, in a bipartisan way, I hope, deal with Russia. But when the Mueller report is put to bed, and it soon will be, this committee is going to look long and hard at how this all started."
5. Various views of letter Mueller sent to Barr
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat, California:
"More than once the report documents that legal condition can, excuse me, conclusions were not drawn because witnesses refused to answer questions or failed to recall the events. In addition numerous witnesses including but not limited to Jared Kushner, Sarah Sanders, Rudolph Giuliani, Michael Flynn, Steve Bannon and John Kelly all stated they could not recall events. The president himself said more than 30 times that he could not recall or remember enough to be able to answer written questions from the special counsel."
7. Side view of Barr listening
"And contrary to the conclusion that the special counsel's report did not find evidence of communication or coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia, the Mueller report explicitly states and I quote 'a statement that the investigation did not establish particular facts does not mean there was no evidence of those facts.' Volume 2., page 2. Let me conclude with this, Congress has both the constitutional duty and the authority to investigate the serious findings contained in the Mueller report. I strongly believe that this committee needs to hear directly from Special Counsel Mueller about his views on the report in his March letter. I also believe senators should have the opportunity to ask him about these subjects in questions, directly. I have requested this to our chairman to authorize a hearing with Special Counsel Mueller and I hope that will happen soon. Thank you Mr. Chairman."
9. Mid view of senators
Legislature , Government and politics , Special Counsel investigation into Russia's interference in 2016 U.S. Elections , Judiciary
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US Barr Senate (Lon NR)
William Barr , Rudolph Giuliani , Robert Mueller , Lindsey Graham , Jared Kushner , Dianne Feinstein
Attorney General William Barr is defending his handling of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation report.
Barr testifying Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
A copy of Mueller's letter to Barr was released Wednesday.
Washington - 1 May 2019
1. Various, Attorney General William Barr entering the hearing room and taking seat
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sen. Lindsey Graham, Chairman Judiciary Committee:
3. Cutaway, Barr listening to Graham
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sen. Lindsey Graham, Chairman Judiciary Committee, reading messages between FBI agents : ++NOTE GRAPHIC LANGUAGE ++
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Democrat - California:
Legislature , Government and politics , Judiciary , Special Counsel investigation into Russia's interference in 2016 U.S. Elections
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US Senate Barr Hearing
US Attorney Gen nominee: 'Important' Mueller finishes work
Robert Mueller , Donald Trump , William Barr , Lindsey Graham , Dianne Feinstein
President Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general told senators Tuesday "it is vitally important" that special counsel Robert Mueller be allowed to complete his Russia investigation
William Barr said at his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing that it is in "the best interest of everyone...that this matter be resolved," adding, "the country needs a credible resolution to these issues."
Barr said he believes Congress and the public must learn the results.
He also insisted that Trump never sought any promises, assurances or commitments before selecting him to be the country's chief law enforcement officer.
The top Democrat on the committee raised questions about a memo Barr wrote criticizing the Russia investigation and saying it showed a determine effort to undermine Bob Mueller.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, said she's also troubled by Barr's expansive view of presidential powers since he will be overseeing the special counsel's investigation into whether President Donald Trump or his associates coordinated with Russian election interference.
Barr has defended the memo. He says it was narrowly focused on a single theory of obstruction and didn't touch the broader questions surrounding Russian election interference.
Barr revealed Monday that he had sent the memo to White House lawyers and lawyers for Trump.
1. Various shots of William Barr approaching witness table
2. Shots of Barr taking oath before testimony
3. Cutaway of committee chairman, Senator Lindsey Graham
"It is the attorney general's responsibility to enforce the law even handedly and with integrity. The attorney general must ensure that the administration of justice, the enforcement of the law is above and away from politics. Nothing could be more destructive of our system of government, of the rule of law or the Department of Justice as an institution than any toleration of political interference with the enforcement of the law."
5. Wide shot of Barr testifying
"If confirmed, I will serve with the same independence I did in 1991. At that time when President Bush chose me, he sought no promises and asked only that his attorney general act with professionalism and integrity. Likewise President Trump has sought no assurances, promises or commitments from me of any kind, either express or implied, and I have not given him any other than that I would run the department with professionalism and integrity."
"I believe it is vitally important that the special counsel be allowed to complete his investigation. I have known Bob Mueller for 30 years. We worked closely together throughout my previous tenure at the Department of Justice. We've been friends since and I have the utmost respect for Bob and his distinguished record of public service. And when he was named special counsel I said his selection was good news and that knowing him, I had confidence he would handle the matter properly and I still have that confidence today. Given his public actions to date, I expect that the special counsel is well along in his investigation. At the same time, the president has been steadfast that he was not involved in any collusion with Russian attempts to interfere in the election. I believe it is in the best interests of everyone, the president, Congress and the American people, that this matter be resolved by allowing the special counsel to complete his work. The country needs a credible resolution to these issues and if confirmed, I will not permit partisan politics, personal interests or any other improper consideration to interfere with this or any other investigation. I will follow the special counsel regulations scrupulously and in good faith and on my watch Bob will be allowed to finish his work."
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Democrat, California:
"Your memo also shows a large, sweeping view of presidential authority and a determined effort, I thought, to undermine Bob Mueller even though you state you have been friends and are in the dark about many of the facts of the investigation. So it does raise questions about your willingness to reach conclusions before knowing the facts and whether you prejudge the Mueller investigation and I hope you'll make that clear today. It also raises a number of serious questions about your views on executive authority and whether the president is in fact above the law."
11. Wide side shot of hearing
Legislature hearings , Legislature , Government and politics , Government appointments and nominations , Cabinet appointments and nominations , Cabinets , Cabinet appointments and nominations , Judicial appointments and nominations , Judicial appointments and nominations , Judiciary
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US Barr Senate 3
Barr, Mueller's traded barbs over probe go public
William Barr , Robert Mueller , Donald Trump , Hillary Clinton , Sheldon Whitehouse , Patrick Leahy , Lindsey Graham , Richard Durbin
Private tensions between Justice Department leaders and special counsel Robert Mueller's team broke into public view in extraordinary fashion Wednesday as Attorney General William Barr pushed back at complaints over his handling of the Trump-Russia investigation report and aimed his own criticism at the special counsel.
Testifying for the first time since releasing Mueller's report, Barr said he was surprised Mueller did not reach a conclusion on whether President Donald Trump had tried to obstruct justice, and that he felt compelled to step in with his own judgment that the president had committed no crime.
The airing of disagreements over the handling of the report was notable given the highly secretive nature of the special counsel's investigation and the public appearance for at least most of the probe that the Justice Department and Mueller's team were unified in approach.
But Barr sought to minimize the rift by suggesting the special counsel's concerns were largely about process, not substance.
Barr's appearance Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee gave him his most extensive opportunity to explain the department's actions, including his news conference held before the Mueller report's release.
It was also a forum for him to repair a reputation bruised by allegations that he's the Republican president's protector and by the emergence of a private letter from Mueller that criticized his handling of the report.
Democrats seized on the daylight between the two men to attack Barr's credibility and accuse him of unduly spinning Mueller's report in the president's favor.
They also pressed him on whether he had misled Congress last month when he professed ignorance about complaints from the special counsel's team. Barr suggested he had not lied because he was in touch with Mueller himself and not his team.
"Mr. Barr, I feel your answer was purposely misleading, and I believe others do too," said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.
While Democratic senators bluntly questioned Barr's actions, Republicans, in addition to defending Trump, focused on the president's 2016 Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton's email and campaign practices and what they feel is a lack of investigation of them.
Neither side broke much ground Wednesday on the specifics of Mueller's investigation, though Barr did articulate a robust defense of Trump as he made clear his firm conviction that there was no prosecutable case against the president for obstruction of justice.
Barr entered the hearing on the defensive following reports hours earlier that Mueller had complained to him in a letter and over the phone about the way his findings were being portrayed.
Two days after receiving Mueller's report, Barr released a four-page letter that summarized the main findings.
Mueller's letter, dated March 27, conveys his unhappiness that Barr released what the attorney general saw as the bottom-line conclusions of the special counsel's investigation and not the introductions and executive summaries that Mueller's team had prepared and believed conveyed more nuance and context than Barr's own letter. Mueller said he had communicated the same concern two days earlier.
Once Mueller submitted his report, his work was done and the document was "my baby," Barr insisted defiantly.
"It was my decision how and when to make it public. Not Bob Mueller's," he said.
1. Wide, Senate Judiciary Committee
"The conclusions in your page four page summary, you think, accurately reflect his bottom line on collusion. Is that correct? (Barr: Yes) And you can read it for yourself if you got any doubt. As to obstruction of justice, were you surprised he was gonna let you decide?"
3. SOUNDBITE (English) William Barr, Attorney General:
"Yes, I was surprised. I ... I think the very purpose the function he was carrying out the prosecutor of investigative and prosecutor function is performed for the purpose of people. (Graham: How many people did he actually indict, do you know?) I can't remember off the top of my head. (Graham: It was a lot.) Yeah."
4. Mid, Barr listening
"Thing that was confusing to me is that the investigation carried on for a while as additional episodes were were looked into, episodes involving the president. And so my question is or was why were those investigated if at the end of the day aren't going to reach a decision on them? (Graham: So did you consult Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein about the obstruction matter?) Constantly. (Graham: So, was he in agreement with your decision not to proceed forward?) Yes."
6. Wide, Barr listening
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Patrick Leahy, Democrat - Vermont:
"What really struck me, Mr. Mueller wrote that your letter threatened to undermine a central purpose for which the department appointed the special counsel to ensure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigation. Why did you testify on April 9th that you didn't know the concerns being expressed by Mueller's team, when in fact you had heard those concerns directly from Mr. Mueller two weeks before?"
"Mueller had never told me that that might that the expression of the findings was inaccurate. But I did then volunteer that I thought they were talking about the desire to have more information put out, but it wasn't my purpose to put out more information."
"Mr. Barr are you ... I feel your answer was purposely misleading and I think others do too. May I ask you another one? You said the president is fully cooperating with an investigation, but his attorney had told a defendant he'd be taken care of if he didn't cooperate with the investigation. Is there a conflict in that there are conflict in that?"
10. SOUNDBITE (English) William Barr, Attorney General:
"I'm sorry, could you just repeat that? (Leahy: Both Mr. Manafort and Mr. Cohen we're told by Trump's personal attorney they'd be taken care of if they did not cooperate. You said that the president was fully cooperate. Is there a conflict there? Yes or no.) No."
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Dick Durbin, Democrat - Illinois:
"No I'll just say this Mr. Barr if you received a letter from Bob Mueller a few days after your March 24th letter, it was clear he had some genuine concerns about what you had said and done to that point. Can we move to another topic?"
"Yeah, his concerns was he wanted more added and I would analogize it to this my ... you know after, after a months long trial if if if I wanted to go out and get out to the public what the verdict was pending preparation of the full transcript and I'm out there saying here's the verdict. And the prosecutor comes up and taps me on the shoulder and says, 'well the verdict doesn't really fully capture all my work about that great cross examination I did or how about that third day of trial where I did that. This doesn't capture everything.' My answer to that is I'm not trying to capture everything. I'm just trying to state the verdict. (Durbin: No you just absolutely use the word summarize though in your letter.) Summarize the principal conclusions. (Durbin: Principle conclusions which most people would view as a summary.)"
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat - Rhode Island:
"You described the report in four pages and it's a 400 page report, I don't know why you're cavalier about whether it is a summary or not?"
"Because, as I state in the letter that I'm stating the principal conclusions. You know Bob Mueller is the equivalent of a U.S. attorney. He was exercising the powers of the attorney general subject to the supervision of the attorney general. He's part of the Department of Justice. His work concluded when he sent his report to the attorney general at that point it was my baby and I was making a decision as to whether or not to make it public. And I effectively overrode the regulations, use discretion, to lean as far forward as I could to make that public and was my decision how and when to make it public not Bob Mueller's."
15. Wide view of hearing
Legal proceedings , Law and order , General news , Criminal investigations , Crime , Criminal investigations , Government and politics , Judiciary , Legislature
United States Senate, United States Congress, United States government, U.S. Democratic Party
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US Barr Senate 2 (CR)
Robert Mueller , Donald Trump , William Barr , Lindsey Graham , Patrick Leahy , Hillary Clinton , Richard Durbin , Sheldon Whitehouse
"Mr. Barr are you ... I feel your answer was purposely misleading and I think others do too."
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Dick Durbin, Democrat - Illinois:
"No I'll just say this Mr. Barr if you received a letter from Bob Mueller a few days after your March 24th letter, it was clear he had some general genuine concerns about what you had said and done to that point. Can we move to another topic?"
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat - Rhode Island:
"Because, as I state in the letter that I'm stating the principal conclusions. You know Bob Muller is the equivalent of a U.S. attorney. He was exercising the powers of the attorney general subject to the supervision of the attorney general. He's part of the Department of Justice. His work concluded when he sent his report to the attorney general at that point it was my baby and I was making a decision as to whether or not to make it public. And I effectively overrode the regulations, use discretion, to lean as far forward as I could to make that public and was my decision how and when to make it public not Bob Mueller's."
Government and politics , Legal proceedings , Law and order , General news , Legislature , Crime , Criminal investigations , Criminal investigations
U.S. Democratic Party, United States Senate, United States Congress, United States government
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US Senate Barr Hearing (Lon NR)
AG nominee: Mueller must be allowed to finish work
William Barr , Robert Mueller , Dianne Feinstein , Donald Trump , Lindsey Graham
Legislature hearings , Legislature , Government and politics , Judicial appointments and nominations , Government appointments and nominations , Judicial appointments and nominations , Judiciary , Cabinet appointments and nominations , Cabinets , Cabinet appointments and nominations
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US Barr Senate 3 (NR LON)
Donald Trump , Robert Mueller , Sheldon Whitehouse , Richard Durbin , William Barr , Lindsey Graham , Patrick Leahy , Hillary Clinton
Government and politics , Criminal investigations , Crime , General news , Criminal investigations , Law and order , Legal proceedings , Legislature , Judiciary
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US Senate Barr Hearing 2 (CR)
AG nominee: Mueller not involved in 'witch hunt'
Robert Mueller , Donald Trump , Lindsey Graham , William Barr , Dianne Feinstein
President Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general says he doesn't believe special counsel Robert Mueller (MUHL'-ur) "would be involved in a witch hunt."
Barr made the comment Tuesday at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Trump has repeatedly decried the special counsel's investigation as a "witch hunt" and has suggested he is being targeted by the Justice Department.
Mueller is investigating potential ties between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign.
Barr also says it would be an "abuse of power" for Trump to intervene in an investigation he "has a stake in."
William Barr said Tuesday at his confirmation hearing he believes such an action would be a breach of the president's constitutional duties and could violate federal law depending upon the circumstances.
Barr was responding to questions from California Sen. Dianne Feinstein (FYN'-styn), the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, in light of a memo he wrote criticizing special counsel Robert Mueller's obstruction-of-justice investigation.
Barr has said the memo was intended to be narrowly focused on one of Mueller's reported interpretations of obstruction. Barr also says his memo was based solely on public reporting and not any confidential information.
Washington - 15 January 2018
1. Wide of hearing
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen Lindsey Graham, (R) South Carolina:
"Are you familiar with the January 11th New York Times article about FBI open inquiry into whether Trump was secretly working on behalf of Russians."
3. SOUNDBITE (English) William Barr, Attorney General Nominee (off camera):
"Yes Mr. Chairman."
"Would you promise me and this committee to look into this and tell us whether or not, in the appropriate way, a counterintelligence investigation was opened up by somebody at the FBI slash Department of Justice against President Trump."
"Yes, Mr. Chairman. I think there were a number of investigations as I understand it going on in the department."
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen Lindsey Graham, (R) South Carolina (off camera):
"You ever heard of such a thing in all the time you've been associated with the Department of Justice."
"I have never heard of that."
"Are there rules about how you can do counterintelligence investigations?"
"I believe there are Mr. Chairman."
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen Lindsey Graham, (R) South Carolina (off camera):
"So if you want to open up one against the president. are there any checks and balances?"
"Not outside the FBI."
"OK well we need to look at that."
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen Lindsey Graham, (R) South Carolina:
"Mueller. You say you've known Mueller a long time. Would you say you have a close relationship with Mr. Mueller?"
"I would say we were good friends."
"Would you say that you understand him to be a fair minded person?."
"Absolutely."
"Do you trust him to be fair to the president and the country as a whole?"
"When his report comes to you, will you share with us as much as possible?"
"Consistent with the regulations and the law, yes."
"Do you believe Mr. Mueller would be involved in a witch hunt against anybody?"
"I don't I don't believe Mr. Mueller would would be involved in a witch hunt."
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Dianne Feinstein, (D) California:
"Will you commit to no interference with the scope of the special counsel's investigation?"
"I will--the scope of the special counsel's investigation is set by his charter and by the regulations and I will ensure that those are maintained."
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Dianne Feinstein, (D) California (off camera):
"Will you commit to providing Mr. Muller with the resources, funds and time needed to complete his investigation?"
"Will you commit to ensuring that Special Counsel Mueller is not terminated without good cause, consistent with department regulations?"
"If special counsel Mueller makes any request, for instance, about the scope of his investigation or resources for his investigation will you commit to notifying Congress if you deny that request?"
"I think the regulations require notification of Congress if there's a disagreement."
"Will you commit to making any report Mueller produces at the conclusion of his investigation available to Congress and to the public?"
"As I said in my statement I am going to make as much information available as I can, consistent with the rules and regulations that are part of the special counsel regulations."
"Will you commit to making any report on the obstruction of justice public?"
"That's the same answer."
"Your 2018 memo, in it, you stated and I quote 'the framers plan contemplates that the president's law enforcement powers extend to all matters including those in which he had a personal stake' end quote. Please explain what you base this conclusion on."
"Here's the Department of Justice right here and within the Department of Justice, enforcement decisions are being made. The president's over here. And I think of it as there are two categories of potential communications. One would be on a case that the president wants to communicate about that he has no personal interest in no political interest in. Let's say the president is concerned about Chinese stealing trade secrets and say I want you to go after this company that's being, you know, that may be stealing trade secrets. That's perfectly appropriate for him to do, to communicate that, but whether it's bona fide or not, as I said in my statement, the Department of Justice's obligation and the attorney general's obligation is not to take any action unless we reach, we, the Department of Justice and the attorney general, reach their own, independent conclusion that it is justified under the law. And, regardless of the instruction and that's my quote that everyone is saying you know siccing you know it's OK for the president to direct things. All I said was it's not per se improper for the president to call on the department for doing something, especially if he has no personal or political interest in it. The other category of cases and let's pick a you know an easy bad example would be if a member of the president's family or a business associate or something was under investigation and he tries to intervene. He--he's the chief law enforcement officer and you could say well he has the power. But that would be a breach of his obligation under the Constitution to faithfully execute the laws. So in my opinion if he attempts, if a president attempts to intervene in a matter that he has a stake in to try to protect himself that should first be looked at as a breach of his constitutional duties whether it also violates a statute depending on what statute comes into play and what all the facts are."
Legislature hearings , Legislature , Government and politics , Government appointments and nominations , Cabinet appointments and nominations , Cabinets , Cabinet appointments and nominations , Judicial appointments and nominations , Judicial appointments and nominations , Judiciary , Statutes , Legislation , Confirmation hearings , Criminal investigations , Crime , General news , Criminal investigations , Law and order , Checks and balances , Separation of powers , Political issues
United States Senate, United States Congress, United States government, U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Department of Justice
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US Senate Graham Barr (CR)
Donald Trump , Lindsey Graham , Jeff Sessions , William Barr , Robert Mueller , Ken Starr
1. Cutaway of Graham and Barr in his office
++SEPARATED BY WHITE FLASH++
"As to the President I ask him, he said some pretty tough things. Mr. Barr said he's the one on the receiving end of this, he is sort of the accused and from the president's point of view, I think he believes it is a witch hunt and doesn't believe he did anything wrong and I can remember the Clinton days, when Ken Starr was part of a right-wing conspiracy. That is just sort of the way these things go."
Legislature , Government and politics , Cabinet appointments and nominations , Cabinets , Cabinet appointments and nominations , Government appointments and nominations , Judiciary
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US Senate Leaders (Lon NR)
Republicans downplay Mueller testimony
Mitch McConnell , Lindsey Graham , Robert Mueller , Donald Trump
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he doesn't intend to watch former special counsel Robert Mueller testify before Congress on Russia's interference in the 2016 election.
The Republican told reporters Tuesday the public already has a "pretty full picture" of Mueller's report.
McConnell said he doesn't know "how many times we want to see this movie again." He said the public has "moved on past" it.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham told reporters that he's heard all he needs to hear from Mueller and he doesn't think it will change the public's mind.
The former special counsel is set to appear Wednesday in his first extended public remarks since being appointed more than two years ago to lead the probe.
Mueller's 448-page report released in April did not establish that Trump's campaign conspired or coordinated with Russia. But the special counsel did not exonerate President Donald Trump of wrongdoing in obstructing the investigation.
Washington - 23 July 2019
1. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell walks to speak with reporters
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sen. Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader:
"The Americans have got a pretty full picture of it and I believe the Mueller report came out sometime back. No, I don't intend to be watching (Mueller's testimony)."
3. McConnell listens to reporter question on whether there is anything he wants to hear from Mueller
"We've already heard from him. It seems to me - I don't know how many times we want to see this movie again - but I think the American people have moved on past this."
5. McConnell departs
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sen. Lindsey Graham, (R) South Carolina:
"It won't reshape my dynamic. I've heard all I need to hear from Mueller. I've read his report. I accept the findings. I don't think it's going to change public opinion. Having been involved in the Clinton impeachment if the public's not with you, you'll pay a price and I don't think anything Mueller can say that's going to change anybody's mind. (Reporter: Why don't you want to bring him before your commitee?) Because I've heard all I need to hear."
Legislature , Government and politics , Political parties , Political organizations
United States Senate, United States Congress, United States government, U.S. Republican Party
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US Senate Leaders (CR)
Mitch McConnell , Donald Trump , Robert Mueller , Lindsey Graham
1. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell listens to reporter question
Government and politics , Legislature , Political parties , Political organizations
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US Senate Leaders
US Republicans downplay Mueller testimony
Donald Trump , Mitch McConnell , Robert Mueller , Lindsey Graham
US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he doesn't intend to watch former special counsel Robert Mueller testify before Congress on Russia's interference in the 2016 election.
Mueller's 448-page report released in April did not establish that Trump's campaign conspired or coordinated with Russia. But the special counsel did not exonerate US President Donald Trump of wrongdoing in obstructing the investigation.
Washington DC - 23 July 2019
1. US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell walks to speak with reporters
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US Sen Graham Mueller Reaction
Graham eyes FBI use of dossier in Russia probe
Robert Mueller , Donald Trump , William Barr , Carter Page , Lindsey Graham
The Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee says his panel will "unpack the other side of the story" of special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into President Donald Trump and his campaign.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, who spent the weekend with Trump in Florida, said his committee will investigate the actions of the Justice Department in the Russia investigation, including the FBI's use of a dossier compiled by British spy Christopher Steele.
Graham spoke Monday after Attorney General William Barr reported to Congress on Mueller's findings. Barr said Mueller found no evidence that Trump or his associates conspired with Russia. Mueller did not make a determination on whether Trump obstructed justice.
Graham said he will be speaking with Barr at noon and wants him to testify before his committee.
Washington, DC - 25 March 2019
1. Wide shot of Lindsey Graham walking into the Senate press gallery
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina:
"The Mueller report is complete. I have a phone call with Attorney General Barr at noon about what's next. What's next, I hope, will be that he will come to the committee, release as much as possible of the Mueller report."
++BLACK BETWEEN SOUNDBITES++
"It's clear to be from the 4-page summary by Attorney General Barr that the Russians did in fact hack into the DNC, the Podesta emails. It was the Russians. There wasn't some 300 pound guy sitting on a bed somewhere. And the conclusion was firm, without equivocation, that no one on the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians when it came to the 2016 election."
"So I hope soon to have as much of the report released as possible and what happens next? What happens next is that I have been talking since 2017, the end of 2017, about the other side of the story and nobody much appeared, appears to care, but I hope you will find some interest now. That the FISA warrant issued against Carter Page, based on a dossier prepared by Christopher Steel,e is at a minimum disturbing. Whether or not it's a legal I don't yet know. So I'm going to get answers to this."
"(Reporter question: Is it your belief that the Russians were trying to ...?)
Absolutely. I think, there's things I can't tell you. They were out to get us all. Here's what I told Trump for whatever it's worth. I think the dossier, a lot of it came from the Russian intelligence service. If you just think Russia just likes Trump and hate Clinton you're missing the point of what they're trying to do. They're trying to divide all of us against each other and done a pretty good job of it. They're still at it, by the way, they're still doing this. And one of the things I want to take away from this whole endeavor is to try to find ways to fix it. Critical infrastructure before this debate was power companies, financial services. Now it's got to be the political system. Parties need to realize that they're subject to being attacked, that the vote vote tallying process needs to be hardened, that the social media outlets that we all rely upon and enrich our lives can be co-opted to spread lies to pit one American against the other. If we don't take that from this investigation that the Russians tried to do it and they're going to keep trying then we missed a real big point."
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The Real Population Bomb
by Colleen Carroll Campbell on Aug 05, 2011 in Columnists, Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
In 1968, Stanford biologist Paul R. Erlich opened his bestselling book, “The Population Bomb,” with this declaration: “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can be done to prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate….”
Erlich’s doomsday scenarios never came true. Nor did his wish for a strict population control program in the U.S., one enforced “by compulsion if voluntary methods fail.” Today, demographers fret about a catastrophe Erlich never saw coming: a global birth dearth that threatens to transform much of the world into an economically depressed geriatric ward.
But don’t tell that to Simon Ross of Britain’s Optimum Population Trust, a population-control group that recently blasted millionaire celebrities David and Victoria Beckham as “bad role models” for welcoming their fourth child into the world.
“One or two children are fine,” Ross told Britain’s Observer last month, “but three or four are just being selfish.”
Father of four Al Gore apparently agrees — at least, when it comes to other people’s families. In June, he touted “fertility management” as an answer to our global woes and recommended that we ‘stabilize the population” and “empower women” by discouraging baby-making.
Nancy Pelosi, a mother of five, shares Gore’s enthusiasm for limiting the size of other people’s families. In 2009, she defended the inclusion of taxpayer funding for birth control in her party’s proposed $825 billion stimulus package because, she said, “contraception will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.”
Pelosi’s remarks sparked criticism from many fiscal experts, who noted that a nation’s economic strength depends on maintaining a workforce large and productive enough to pay its bills — including bills for those social welfare programs that Pelosi and her colleagues love to create and expand. If Pelosi gets her wish and America’s birth rate drops precipitously, who will pay the debts that Washington politicians are racking up these days? And who will support tomorrow’s retirees if there are too few young workers to keep Social Security afloat and too few children and grandchildren to provide privately for the nation’s exploding population of elders?
It’s true that global population remains on the rise: We are expected to hit the 7 billion mark later this year and the world’s population will grow by about a third over the next 40 years. But as demographers such as Phillip Longman and Nicholas Eberstadt have noted, that growth will be driven by declines in mortality and an increase in elders, not children. And it will not continue forever. Both Longman and Eberstadt predict that falling birth rates eventually will translate into worldwide population declines — potentially irreversible ones — that Longman says may prove more drastic than the growth rates that so alarmed activists like Erlich in the first place.
The possibility of such demographic decline may sound appealing in theory: Fewer babies mean more wealth for the rest of us, right? Not so fast, says Longman.
“Population growth is a major source of economic growth,” he writes in his 2004 book, “The Empty Cradle.” “More people create more demand for the products capitalists sell, and more supply of the labor capitalists buy. Economists may be able to construct models of how economies could grow amidst a shrinking population, but in the real world it has never happened and businessmen know it.”
Businessmen may know it, but too many politicians and anti-natal activists do not. So they continue to brandish their tattered copies of “The Population Bomb” and harangue parents of large families for contributing to what they consider the ultimate form of environmental pollution: human life.
In their zeal to preserve the planet from the scourge of babies, these activists overlook the fact that humans are problem solvers and producers as well as consumers. They forget that the solution to poverty is not to eradicate poor people, but to use human creativity, innovation and solidarity to create a broader distribution of the Earth’s resources and to reform the corrupt political structures that stop citizens in developing nations from accessing basic necessities.
Although Erlich’s acolytes may be hopelessly locked in the 1960s when it comes to their population views, more demographers and economists are recognizing the truth our ancestors knew well: that children are not burdens but blessings, keys to our future prosperity and guarantors of our social safety net. For a nation on the brink of insolvency, that’s reason enough to congratulate the Beckhams and the millions of parents like them who are making sacrifices today to raise up a new generation that will benefit all of us tomorrow.
Colleen Carroll Campbell is a St. Louis-based author, former presidential speechwriter and television and radio host of "Faith & Culture" on EWTN. Her website is www.colleen-campbell.com and her latest book is My Sisters the Saints: A Spiritual Memoir. This article originally appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and is used by permission of the author.
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Mother-to-be told she would never fall pregnant will keep baby even though it could paralyse her
Posted byBig Wife May 11, 2012
Woman with rare condition to have baby even though labour could trigger a lifetime of pain
Pregnant woman has complex regional pain syndrome which causes chronic pain and swelling following a minor injury
12:07 GMT, 11 May 2012
Debbie Mills with her partner Dan Hamlett are worried giving birth could make Debbie's chronic pain condition worse
A young mother-to-be who was told she would never become pregnant due to a rare condition has decided to keep her miracle baby even though the birth could leave her experiencing labour-like pains forever.
Seven months pregnant Debbie Mills, 23, was diagnosed with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) in October 2009.
CRPS is a chronic disease of the
autonomic nervous system which causes extreme pain and swelling and for
which there is no cure. The condition varies in severity but is
progressive in some patients like Debbie, spreading to different parts
of the body after an injury.
sufferers are injured or undergo surgery they are left with pain in
that area often for the rest of their lives. Debbie's condition began
at the site of an old injury in her right foot, which suddenly became so
swollen and painful doctors told her they may have to amputate it
before eventually diagnosing her with CRPS.
As a result, the slightest knock could leave Debbie in pain permanently
which means she faces prolonged agony from the labour.
However, Debbie is determined to go ahead saying her unborn child with partner Dan Hamlett, 23, is a miracle.
Mills from Chellaston, Derbyshire, said: 'When I first found out I was
pregnant I was completely shocked as I had always been told it was
impossible because of my condition.
'My
first thought was whether I would even be able to have the baby and the
doctors were not able to tell me anything because they had never seen
anyone my age, with CRPS, get pregnant before.
'But it never for one moment crossed my mind not to have the baby. As far as I am concerned he is a little miracle and I can't wait to meet him.
Debbie's symptoms first began in September 2009 when all of a sudden she stood up from the sofa to go to bed and felt a sharp pain in her foot. /05/10/article-2142345-1304A326000005DC-882_306x339.jpg” width=”306″ height=”339″ alt=”Debbie Mills at her 21st in her wheelchair ” class=”blkBorder” />
Debbie Mills at her 21st birthday in a wheelchair (left). The condition CRPS has caused chronic pain and swelling to her right foot (right)
Over the course of the next week, Debbie
was on crutches while medics attempted to diagnose her problem.
Eventually she was admitted to hospital for eight days and tested for
everything from cancer to arthritis.
During this time, her foot had become so
swollen and black with bruising that she was told she might lose it.
She said: 'It was the most unimaginable pain. At times it felt like I
was being stabbed over and over in the foot. My skin was so sensitive
that it hurt to even have my toes touching each other and I would push
them apart with little bits of tissue paper.'
Eventually doctors diagnosed her with CRPS, a condition in which the nervous system becomes so sensitive that patients experience extreme, incurable pain and swelling, often at the site of old or new injuries.
Debbie, who was studying for a degree in fine art at Staffordshire University at the time, had broken her foot twice before and doctors believe this old injury might have been the trigger for her CRPS, but the condition often presents with no known cause.
Baby joy: Debbie is delighted to be pregnant despite the possibility the birth could leave her in severe pain
She said: 'When they first told me about
CRPS, I couldn't believe it was happening to me. I couldn't quite get
my head around the fact that my life was now going to consist of
constant pain and that there was no cure.
'I had always been so active and I
loved agility training with my dogs and I had danced tap, latin and
ballet since the age of five. I can't do any of those things now.
'Then,
when they said I wouldn't be able to have children I don't think it
really sank in because of everything else they were telling me. I had
always imagined I would be a mother someday, I was crushed.'
CRPS: Complex and poorly understood
Doctors say complex regional pain syndrome is poorly understood.
It is triggered by a minor injury in 90 per cent of cases, but the cause is unknown in the rest. The main symptom is a burning pain felt around the injury site, which gets worse rather than better over time.
It is thought to be a result of abnormal sympathetic nerve healing
following trauma, although how this happens is a mystery.
CRPS can affect men and women and people of any age although it's more common in females and those aged 40 to 60.
It may occur as often as in five per cent of all injuries,
but the true amount of cases is hard to establish as many cases are not
diagnosed and resolve spontaneously.
Currently doctors put prevalence at one in 50,000 but the severity of the condition varies widely. It may become so painful that patients beg the doctor to amputate the affected limb. Patients often feel the limb does not belong to them.
It is called complex because many patients experience other symptoms including swelling, sensitivity in other areas of the body, stiff joints and skin colour and temperature changes.
If treated quickly with pain medication and physiotherapy the condition can often go into remission. However, if allowed to spread to the whole limb the change can become irreversible.
Debbie spent the next three months in a
wheelchair and had to teach herself to walk again unaided over the next
Told by a consultant that she would have to use her leg “or lose
it”, she was determined to get walking again and over many months taught
her body how to operate despite the pain.
During this time, she began seeing Dan, a rail engineer, who she had known since her school days.
Debbie said: 'I was hanging out with some friends from home at weekends off from uni and my relationship with Dan just grew over time.
'I was struggling to get my independence back and having to hobble about on crutches all the time but Dan helped me to be myself and was always loving and supportive.
'I told him very early on that we might not be able to have children together and that doctors had said my only option would be IVF but he just said, 'If that's what we have to do, that's what we'll do'.'
However, the couple were greeted with a joyous surprise in November last year when, having felt unwell for some time, Debbie took a pregnancy test just to be sure. To her amazement it was positive.
Their excitement turned to
apprehension when they realised doctors had no idea how Debbie might
respond to the pregnancy or to the birth. CRPS can spread to any other
areas that become injured over time as Debbie discovered when doctors
were forced to operate on an old knee injury that was causing her
problems in October last year.
Debbie now suffers from pain all through her leg and right arm and
fears the labour – or even a caesarian section – could leave her in
agony for the rest of her life.
She said: 'There's also the chance
that I could be paralysed. My mum has started having nightmares about
the possible things that could happen and I admit I'm scared too.
'I might suffer the pains of labour for years after the birth or maybe forever – no one can tell me.
'Dan
wants to take a month off for paternity leave because we don't know how
able I will be to care for the baby myself when it arrives.
Still smiling: Debbie pictured after her knee operation (left) which caused pain to spread throughout her leg. A foot injury (right) left her on crutches
'As the pregnancy has gone on I have been suffering more and I can't take any of my medications. Plus I've become a bit more clumsy the bigger I get which is not a good thing at all.
'I do worry. I can't ride my bike anymore because I can't risk falling off it and injuring myself and it occurred to me the other day that I will never be able to go on a bike ride with the little lad.
'But I try not to think about. My determination has got me this far and I know it will all be worth it in the end.'
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Omar Vizquel's Weak Hall of Fame Case
UPDATE: I have taken an updated and more thorough look at Omar Vizquel's Hall of Fame credentials here.
Rob Neyer links to a column by Henry Shulman of the San Francisco Chronicle suggesting that some writers might be thinking of voting Omar Vizquel into the Hall of Fame, once he's eligible. Shulman says he conducted "a small straw poll of hall voters" which probably means he asked two guys while they were sitting in the press box together, covering the same game.
Let's hope so. If not, the Hall of Fame is about to lower its standards a bit.
Shulman says that Vizquel's credentials as the all-time leader in games played at shortstop, plus his 11 Gold Gloves and his 2700+ hits (by the time he's done) should make him a solid Hall candidate. Neyer argues that the fact that the man was never considered a great player, not just defender, should mean that the writers wouldn't even consider voting for him. Sure, he got all those Gold Glove votes, but when it came down to it, he only got any votes for the MVP once, finishing a distant 16th in 1999. This despite anchoring the infield defense of half a dozen playoff teams with the Tribe in the late nineties and early oughts. Also, he's not much of a singer.
Here are the 23 current players whom the Hall considers shortstops, with their Baseball Prospectus career WARP3 totals, which is Wins Above Replacement Position, adjusted for all time, encompassing offense, defense and even pitching.
Shortstop WARP3
Luis Aparicio 91.2
Luke Appling 127.9
Dave Bancroft 82.2
Ernie Banks 119.9
Lou Boudreau 110.1
Joe Cronin 112.6
George Davis 130.3
Travis Jackson 73.9
Hughie Jennings 76.3
Pop Lloyd ???
Rabbit Maranville 92.9
Pee Wee Reese 105.8
Cal Ripken 173.1
Phil Rizzuto 75.3
Joe Sewell 91.5
Ozzie Smith 132.5
Joe Tinker 81.2
Aarky Vaughan 131.5
Honus Wagner 203.0
Bobby Wallace 112.8
Monte Ward 83.7
Willie Wells ???
Robin Yount 132.0
Average 111.4
Omar Vizquel currently sports a total of 100.3 WARP3.
It should be noted that some of these guys spent significant amounts of their careers at other positions. Ernie Banks actually played more games at first base than he did at short. Yount played almost half his career as an outfielder. Boudreau and Cronin were, in addition to being very good players, managers for a long time, with some degree of success.
Wells and Lloyd were both presumably very good players in the Negro Leagues, but we don't really have any credible numbers for them. Monte Ward was also a pitcher, and a pioneer in the early days of major league baseball. Joe Tinker was elected by a suddenly generous Veterans Committee in 1946, right after a World War, when they were feeling especially nostalgic, apparently.
But even if you throw all of those guys out, the average for the remaining players stays almost exactly the same, 111.3, instead of point four. So don't worry about that.
Vizquel's WARP3 number fits in rather nicely with the career marks of several of these guys. It's more than Rabbit Maranville, Joe Tinker, Joe Sewell, Dave Bancroft, Travis Jackson, Hughie Jennings or Luis Aparicio. It's also more than Rizutto, and almost as much as Pee Wee Reese, but still way less than Aarky Vaughan, Lou Boudreau or Luke Appling, all five of whom lost time to the War.
If you go by the argument of pointing out the existing bar, which is down there somewhere in the neighborhood of Travis Jackson or Phil Rizutto, even accounting for the war, it's obvious that Omar has done more in his career than those guys, despite never being great in a single season. But it's also obvious to most observers that those guys shouldn't be in the Hall in the first place, so that's not a terribly convincing argument.
Even if you want to use the benchmark of where the average is, it would seem that Vizquel would at least reasonably maintain, if not raise the standard of MLB HoF shortstops. Of course, so would Bill Dahlen, and I don't see anyone clamoring for his candidacy.
This type of argument is something of a slippery slope. It's not a bad starting point to only enshrine players whould maintain or even raise the standard of the existing crop at a given position, but that's not enough, in my mind. We ought to want to make the Hall more exclusive, and therefore more impressive, not less.
Sure, we can put Omar Vizquel in. he's better than Travis Jackson, right, even though he doesn't have as cool a first name? Then we've got to let Ron Santo in, too, though, since he's better than George Kell, right? And what about Harold baines, since he has the most games and hits and what-not as a Designated Hitter? Shouldn't he be considered Hall-worthy?
If you think instead about where the bar should be, instead of where it is, I think you have to leave Vizquel out of the Hall. Not everyone in the Hall has to be Honus Wagner or Cal Ripken, but "appreciably better than Gary Gaetti" doesn't seem like such an outlandish requirement to me.
We've had more than 125 years to see what great players look like, and to paraphrase Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, I think we should know them when we see them. Omar Vizquel is not one of them.
Posted by Travis M. Nelson at 5/23/2008
Ron Rollins said...
That's great stuff, against the all-time greats. But my theory is, a guy should only be compared to the people he played against. Different eras, different philosophies, etc. Look at who was hitting against the same pitchers, and playing on the same fields in the same stadiums.
I'll bet you look at the numbers for only the SS who played during the same time span, he's a top 5 player at his position. Maybe still not a HOFer, but pretty good, I'll bet.
And in my opinion, if you're in the top 5 of everyone you played against, you should get some serious consideration. But he should be compared to his contemporaries, not guys who played 100 years ago.
Travis M. Nelson said...
Thanks, Ron.
Again, the numbers I quoted are already adjusted for all times, so that you can compare across eras, at least to some degree.
Your comments are not a bad place to start either, but it opens the door for someone who just happens to dominate a weak class. That's the kind of logic that says that Jack Morris should be in the Hall because he was the winningest pitcher of the 1980's. (Not that I think you'd make that argument.)
Yes, if a guy dominated his own era, even if his numbers don't look all that impressive compared to today's players, you'd have to say he should get serious consideration. Lefty Gomez, for example, only won 189 games, but did so mostly in the offense-inflated 1930's.
Similarly, if a guy was obviously very good, but happened to be stuck playing in an era when there was someone else better than him at the same position, I don't think that should be held against him. Just because Alex Rodriguez is a Hall of Fame thirdbaseman doesn't mean that Chipper Jones is not.
Vizquel, however, has both of those things going against him.
His numbers are only impressive compared to historical shortstops on the merits of his longevity. Anyone who plays for 20 years at one position is going to be among the all-time leaders in some stats at that position. That's a notable feat, but it doesn't make him a Hall of Famer.
And neither are his numbers impressive when compared to his peers. A-Rod, Jeter, Ozzie Smith, Ripken, Trammell, Garciaparra, Larkin, Rollins and others were all more significant players during Vizquel's career, if not in the same ways or for very long. He's really not among the top 5 at his position in his career. I would say that (in no particular order) Ozzie, Jeter, Ripken, Trammell, A-Rod, Miguel Tejada, Barry Larkin and even Edgar Renteria were (or are) better than Omar during his own career.
Looking at the names listed, I see you point about Vizquel not being a HOF'er. I was never really sure about him, anyhow.
But I do stand by my point that candidates should only be looked at based on what their contemporaries did. Judging Vizquel on Ripken, Trammell, Tejada, etc is appropriate. Judging him against Wagner, Rizzuto, Appling, etc just doesn't seem like a fair comparison. At least to me.
Still not saying he is deserving, but a better question is, if they don't put some people in based on defensive ability, or relievers, aren't they just admitting that its only about the ability to hit the ball and none of the other factors of a game really matter. Seems to me someone could still be a HOFer without a high average or a load of homeruns, based on what they did on they field. But just an opinion.
It's an opinion with which I happen to agree, but I do think that defense is a less significant part of the game than offense,and therefore that you should be truly outstanding at defense if you're not even an average hitter (Vizquel's career OPS+ is 84, 16% worse than an average hitter during his career) to compensate.
Ozzie Smith did that, and you could argue that Bill Mazeroski did, too, though I would not have put him in the Hall, personally. Omar, however, has a reputation that far exceeds his actual skills, and so I don't think he should make it on either front.
He got 11 Gold Gloves because the people who vote for the Gold Gloves really don't know what the hell they're doing. They think because he can make a running stab at a grounder or catch a ball off the back of his glove and throw a guy out, he must be great. A better shortstop could have positioned himself better and made the play with less flair, and more importantly, made more plays.
If you look at Omar's FRAA (Fielding Runs Above Average, another Baseball Prospectus stat) he comes out at +61 for his career, he compares poorly to Ripken (+185), Smith (+254), Trammell (+109), and winds up about the same as Barry Larkin (+58) despite playing in over 400 more games. Ozzie Smith twice racked up more than 61 FRAA in spans of just three seasons! Wouldn't you think that a great shortstop, playing more games than anyone ever played at the position, ought to have had more defensive value than anyone else, or at least be close?
I agree with you, in principle: There is room in Cooperstown for players who were excellend defenders, but only so-so hitters, or excellent relief pitchers, even if they would not have made good starters (Goose Gossage and Mariano Rivera come to mind), but if there are both historical and contemporary examples of guys who were better players at the same position, and not all of those guys should eb Hall-worthy, then this one can't either.
The "if x, then y" argument applies when you cherry pick one guy out a large group, i.e. if Jim Rice then Albert Belle, if Albert Belle then Juan Gonzalez, etc.
This isn't one guy that Vizquel scores better on in the WARP3 test. It's 7 guys. That's a very large percentage of the HoF SS population, especially when you consider than Banks and Yount weren't even career shortstops.
People say Omar is Ozzie without the backflips, but that's false. In reality, he's a superior Scooter without the rings or Yankee mythos to help him. 1,000 more games played than Rizzuto isn't chump change. You even admit yourself than Vizquel probably wouldn't lower the SS standards of the HoF, and even if he did, wouldn't that just make it easier for sabermetric mancrushes like Larkin and Trammel to eventually get in?
You say that his longevity alone doesn't make him a HoFer. Unfortunately for you, the Hall voters don't really agree with you. Every other games played leader for their position is in the Hall. Aparicio was a HoFer pretty much solely because of his longevity, and Vizquel will be too. Even if he somehow goes 15 ballots without making it, he's the kind of guy that the VC absolutely loves. Omar *will* end up in the Hall, and in the meantime people can sit at their desks and weep with impotent rage that he is in and Trammel and Bill Dahlen aren't in, nevermind that no one arguing for Dahlen ever saw the damn guy play.
It's not exactly true that every positional games leader is in the Hall. Harold Baines has the most games at DH, and he only got a handful of votes the first two years on the ballot. He amassed 2866 hits, but never hit 30 homers in a season, nor 40 doubles, nor scored even 90 runs in a single year. He led the AL in slugging in 1984, but never got particularly close to the top in anyting else, ever.
Jesse Orosco has pitched more games than anyone else, but he's not going in, not with 87 wins and 144 saves. Being a closer for 5 or 6 years and a LOOGY for 15 is not enough.
And the other positional games played leaders (Brooks Robinson, Craig Biggio, Ty Cobb, Carlton Fisk, Eddie Murray) are all there because they were great players as well, not just becuase of their longevity.
I don't like to compare players to Phil Rizzuto because he's such an odd case. He was so talented, obviously so to the writers of his day, but he lost a lot of time to the war, and his skills took a while to come back after he returned form the rigors of combat duty. His hitting doesn't look all that impressive compared to today's stats, but Win Shares suggests that he was a deserving MVP in 1950, and a much better player than people realize. Bill James ranked him something like 16th among all shortstops in the 2001 Abstract, even considering all of that.
And it's hardly fair to say that Aparicio only got in because of his longevity. He was a RoY, got MVP votes in 10 of his 18 seasons, finishing as high as 2nd once, and was a 10-time All Star. He was thought of as a great player, at least for much of the time he was actually playing. The Writers didn't just wake up one day years after he retired and decide he was really good.
By contrast, Omar's gotten three MVP votes in 10 years. While he has made three All Star teams, these days you have to have someone appointed from each team, so that's not as impressive a feat. Sean Casey and Luis Castillo have each made three All-star teams. Paul LoDuca has been on four of them, and even if those guys stick around for 20 years, they won't be Hall of Famers.
The distingtion here is really between if he should get into the Hall, or if he will. I agree that he may get in, perhaps by the Veterans Committee or something, but I don't think he should.
I'm very late to this thread, but I just thought I'd point out one flaw in your argument, though I do agree that he should not be in the Hall. You mention that it wasn't impressive for him to make the All-Star teams that he did because every MLB team needs representation these days. That would only be a valid argument if he was the only Indian selected to those All-Star teams. However, on 2 of the All-Star teams he made, there were several other Indians selected.
In 1998, he was 1 of 6 Indians. In 1999, he was also 1 of 6. This would have made it more difficult for him to make the team, given that the weaker AL teams needed to be represented. And in 2002, although he was the only Indian selected, his first half numbers were admittedly impressive.
While I admit he is not a Hall-of-Famer, it would be wrong to take these achievements away from him.
That's a good point, Mike. I hadn't looked into that, but you're right that he was a good enough player to make All-Star teams when he already had teammates on the squad.
My rebuttal to that though is twofold:
1) The perceived value of having made an all-star team is diminished overall, given the rule. Hall of Fame voters won't necessarily goback as you did and check who else from his team made the squads.
B) Omar was never elected to start, and one of those (1998) years Vizquel made the team because his own manager picked him. He hit .302 with zero home runs in the first half, in a year in which all kind of home run records fell. He did make it as the 5th SS on the team in 2002, but then Joe Torre has made some bizarre managing decisions over the years.
Ron, you might not know what it takes to be in that level for 20+years. Vizquel has the same or better numbers that your "best shortstop" Ozzie Smith, and I am not talking about defense, because everybody knows that he has been the best, and his numbers for a shortstop with more than 1000 games will show it to you.
More than 2700 hits, more double plays, 1st in games played in shortstop (he still playing at 42), 2nd in number of hits as shortstop. Last year he was challenged to play 3rd and 2nd and in both played better than everyday players. Should I mention that he can bat lefty and righty and he is an exceptional bunter?. Tell me about other shortstop that can play with the same grace, style, quick hands and footwork, and by the way with the least amount of errors.
He did not hit the ball as A-Rod, Tejada, or Garciaparra. But where are they now? Playing any other position, not mentioning the *.roids stuff
Even Mr. Ripken says that Vizquel is Hall of famer, and Ripken has a batting average similar to Vizquel’s, so how can you say that he should not be there?
It is not just about the numbers, is what the guy brings to the table in every team that he plays, there are the heads up plays, the good running on the bases, the good at bats, the confidence that gives to the pitchers knowing that they have somebody that can actually can turn everyday plays. That you cannot measure!
What else does he have to do to show that he is one of the best shortstop that have ever played in MLB?
Albenis
My name is Albenis, and my last post was not for Ron, was for Travis
Albenis, thanks for clearing that up. I would have responded earlier but I never know if an anonymous commenter ever comes back to read my responses.
Anyway, I can't argue with your so-called unmeasurable attributes. Thos things, by definition cannot be proven, and therefore cannot be disproven either. But the measureable stuff is a different story. Vizquel, when you adjust for eras and ballparks and such, has not been as good a hitter as Ozzie was, over their careers. Smith's career OPS+ was 88, while Omar's is just 82. Neither is great, but sompared to his leagues, Smith was better. And he was a measurably better defender as wll. Omar lives in a time of ESPN and highlight reels and stuff, so the flashy plays he used to make garnered him a lot of attention, but SMith actually made a lot of plays, which is really what you need a defender to do. He got to evething. Omar's not that good. Omar has mde only three all star teams, and got an MVP vote only once. Aparicio, by contrast, made 13 All-Star teams, got MVP votes in 10 different seasons, and led the league in steals a bunch of times. Luke Appling got votes in 11 seasons, and won a couple of batting titles. Maranville got MVP votes eight differnet times, finishing in the top 10 in five different seasons. Ozzie even got MVP votes six times, finishing as high as second once. Vizquel has almost never been considered by the baseball writers as one of the 20 or so best players in the league, despite having played on several playoff teams.
The fact that he has stuck around for 20 years is a credit to him, and he has amassed a lot of counting stats because of that, like the 2700+ hits you mention, but he's also made more outs than all but 13 players in history and is 19th in career times caught stealing.
Though he is nominally a switch hitter, he's been pretty terrible hitting efty over the course of his career, with just a .652 OPS, so it's not like it helps much. I suppose he may be a good bunter, which would explain why he;d led his league in sacrifices four times and currently tops the active list in that stat, but that really just means that he was not a good enough hitter to let him swing in situations where they have a man on base, right? Anyway, bunting is hardly something on which to build a Hall of Fame case.
He's been pretty good, a useful player over the course of his career, but 20 years of "useful" don't make a Hall of Famer, in my opinion.
Randall said...
"a useful player" with 11 Gold Gloves? Sounds like you are just a hater.
Best defensive shortstop of his generation. Hit well enough. Had a long productive career.
As for All-Star selections, he had the misfortune of playing in a league with guys named A-Rod, Nomar, and Jeter. I doubt even Ozzie would have cracked too many All-Star squads against guys with those offensive numbers.
The arguments about his hitting relative to the time he played in seem a bit naive (not to mention pointless) given what we know about the steroid situation.
What's wrong with having arguably the second best defensive shortstop ever in the Hall? How could this do anything but upgrade the position?
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(Branson, MO April 2018) Bringing the unique and extraordinary to the stages of Silver Dollar City, The Festival Of Wonder opens April 11 at the 1880s theme park with larger-than-life performances and acts of curiosity. Designed as “A Most Amazing Entertainment Experience,” the festival features performances that are as unexpected as they are entertaining, from a harp that spans the entire length of a theater to athletes performing flips and flying stunts on pogo sticks.
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Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE on Savoie Child Abduction Case and Japan’s “Disappeared Dads”
Posted on October 6, 2009 October 19, 2009 by Debito Arudou, Ph.D.
Hi Blog. Here’s the JT version of my column with links to sources. Arudou Debito in Sapporo
The Japan Times, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009
JUST BE CAUSE
Savoie case shines spotlight on Japan’s ‘disappeared dads’
By DEBITO ARUDOU
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20091006ad.html
Making international (and to a lesser extent, national) news recently has been the Savoie child abduction case. Briefly: After a couple divorced in America, ex-wife Noriko Savoie absconded with their children to Japan. Then ex-husband Christopher, who had been awarded custody in the U.S., came to Japan to take the kids back. On Sept. 28 he tried to get the children into the American Consulate in Fukuoka, but was barred entry and arrested by the Japanese police for kidnapping.
The case is messy (few divorces aren’t), and I haven’t space here to deal with the minutia (e.g. Christopher’s quick remarriage, Noriko’s $800,000 divorce award and ban on international travel, both parents’ dual U.S.-Japan citizenship , etc.). Please read up online.
So let’s go beyond that and focus on how this case highlights why Japan must make fundamental promises and reforms.
In Japan, divorce means that one side (usually the father) can lose all contact with the kids. Thanks to the koseki family registry system, Japan has no joint custody (because you can’t put a child on two people’s koseki). Meanwhile, visitation rights, even if mandated by family court, are unenforceable. This happens in Japan regardless of nationality. (I speak from personal experience: I too am divorced, and have zero contact with my children. I’ve seen one of my daughters only once over the past five years.)
Standard operating procedure is the three Ds: Divorced Daddy Disappears. Add an international dimension to the marriage and it’s stunningly difficult for a non-Japanese parent of either gender to gain child custody (as foreigners, by definition, don’t have a koseki). Add a transnational dimension and the kids are gone: Many left-behind parents overseas receive no communication whatsoever until the children become adults.
There is no recourse. Although Japan has ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), it has not signed the Hague Convention on Child Abductions (the only holdout among the G7 developed countries). If brought to trial in Japan, our judges do not honor overseas court orders granting custody to the non-Japanese parent. In fact, according to the documentary “From the Shadows,” an estimated 300 such children are abducted to or within Japan each year, and none has ever been returned by Japanese authorities to a foreign parent.
Until now this issue received scant media attention. However, with the Savoie case, Japan has earned a worldwide reputation as a safe haven for abductions. This is, given the inhuman North Korean kidnappings of Japanese, an ironic position to be in.
Before we get relativistic, be advised there is no comity here. Although few (I know of none) foreigners have ever won repatriation rights or even custody in Japanese courts, the converse is not true in, for example, American courts. The U.S. recognizes the Hague-mandated concept of “habitual residence,” even if that doesn’t mean America. The most famous abduction-then-repatriation case involved Elian Gonzalez from Cuba.
According to court transcripts, Noriko Savoie did have a fair hearing abroad. The judge heard her out, believed her sworn testimony that she would not abduct the kids, and lifted the restraining order against her. She and the kids could travel to Japan briefly to explore their Japanese heritage.
Then Noriko broke her oath. And Christopher boarded a plane.
The point: Regardless of any extenuating circumstances in this messy affair, the lack of a post-divorce legal framework to prevent abductions, secure joint custody and guarantee visitation rights forced Christopher to take the law into his own hands.
Needless to say it’s the children that get hurt the most in this tug of war. If Japan’s policymakers would secure the right of the child to know both their parents and heritages, this nonsense would cease.
But as with all social problems left to fester, things are only getting worse. U.S. Congressman Chris Smith announced Sept. 29 that reported child abductions have increased “60 percent in the last three years.” No doubt contributing to this rise is the grapevine effect among expat Japanese — a quick Web search shows that all a potential abductor needs do is board a plane to Japan and they’re scot-free.
Injustice breeds drastic actions. How long before a vigilante parent takes the law so far that somebody gets injured or killed?
Japan wants to avoid a demographic nightmare as its population drops. International marriage is one solution. But this threat of abduction is now a prime deterrent to marrying any Japanese. One domestic spat with a threat to kidnap the kids and conjugal trust is permanently destroyed.
But just signing the Hague convention won’t fix things. Japan has, after all, inked umpteen international treaties (like the above-mentioned UNCRC), and ignores them by not enacting enforceable domestic laws. I don’t anticipate any exception here: Japan giving more parental rights to non-Japanese through treaties than they would their own citizens? Inconceivable.
What’s necessary is more radical: Abolish the koseki system so that legal ties can extend to both parents regardless of nationality after divorce. In addition, our authorities must create more professional domestic-dispute enforcement and mediation mechanisms (consider the farcical chotei pre-divorce process).
Inevitable problems arise in that complicated institution called marriage. Anyone, including Japanese, must have recourse, remedy and redress. Without it people will take matters into their own hands.
There are plenty of times when adults just won’t act like adults. But their children should not have to suffer for it.
Reforms are necessary not just to prevent future cases like the Savoies’; Japan also needs more secure family laws for its own long-suffering, disappeared Japanese parents.
Debito Arudou coauthored the “Handbook for Newcomers, Migrants and Immigrants.” Twitter arudoudebito. Just Be Cause appears on the first Community Page of the month.
BONUS STATISTICS, Courtesy of RedJoe the Lawyer:
In [Japan] divorces finalized in 2007, fathers got custody 15% of the time, while women got custody 81% of the time. So the system is clearly biased, but men win in a significant (if not fair) number of cases. Interestingly, men used to get custody more often than women. The sexes reached parity in the late 60s and women reached their current ~80% success rate around 2000. Stats are here: http://www.e-stat.go.jp/SG1/estat/List.do?lid=000001032162
US Census figures from 2004 (http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/p70-114.pdf):
58.3% of kids live with both married parents
29.5% live with their mother but not their father
4.7% live with their father but not their mother
Granted, a lot of single-mother families in the US are not formed by a divorce, but rather by the father being incarcerated. Still, that doesn’t account for a 25 percentage point difference across the whole population.
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25 comments on “Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE on Savoie Child Abduction Case and Japan’s “Disappeared Dads””
RedJoe’s Japan data don’t show how often GAIJIN (or naturalized Japanese) fathers are awarded custody. Betcha that number’s a lot lower than 15%.
Also, the issue is not so much custody as it is enforceable visitation rights. I am sure a lot of the divorced dads out there would be able to handle the pain of losing custody of their kids if only they were allowed to visit them regularly. In Japan, they may not get to ever see their kids again until the kids reach the age of majority.
E.P.Lowe says:
Here’s something that would be of vital importance to the fight against the unjust nature of parental custody law in Japan:
How do the abducted children actually grow in these conditions?
Judges do what they do because they say:
“It’s for the good of the children”
They ‘know’ it’s for the good of the children because ‘society’ says so – there seem to be no evidence of check-ups by legal authorities.
But how many abductees end up as Hikikomoris? Freeters? How many kill themselves? How many are abused in their ‘perfect environment’?
great story debito, too bad it wont be translated and put in a japanese newspaper where it needs to be. see we get it, but they dont.
There has been a lot of talk/complaining about how NJ can’t get a fair shot at child custody in Japanese courts. While the anecdotal evidence seems clear I wonder if there is any data out there on the largest J/NJ married group and how custody is split up after they divorce. I am speaking of course of J men and NJ women particularly from China/Korea/Philippines. I have to imagine that their divorce rate would be similar to NJ men J women so has anyone managed to compile any research on how the two groups compare?
I have always been curios as to what happens overall to the children that are abducted by their mothers? I am referring to the acclimation process. How long do these women stay underground on average before it is “safe” to resurface? Also, is there a certain time frame or limitation as to when the children need to register for school? Are they checked by social services? If anyone has any data about these questions, please let me know.
Regarding comment #4 above, I also would be interested to see custody stats on J-NJ divorces. I knew an American woman who had custody of her son here, although as far as I know the Japanese father didn’t WANT custody in that case. The child was still probably on his father’s koseki and I don’t know what her rights would have been if the father had decided he wanted his son back, but at least when I worked with her, her son lived with her and did not see his father much.
I wonder as well, in how many of the 81% of cases in which the mother got custody did the father actually FIGHT for custody? I don’t know many divorced women in Japan, but the few that I do know ALL have custody of their children, and none of them even made it to the chotei stage of divorce, they just put their hanko on the paperwork and took the kids, and dad was either okay with that, or just resigned to it. Of course it’s hard to turn emotions into statistics, we can’t come up with a definite number of apathetic dads vs. dad who wish they could have custody but don’t think they have a shot and give up, vs. dads who tried to get cutody and failed.
I thought the article was strong on the ‘Disappeared Dads’ argument but weak on the Savoie side. I think it would have come off better if it hadn’t sort of tried to argue both at the same time.
Hi Frodis,
Let me try to elaborate something you might know.
I believe most of ppl who are aware of this kind of issue already know the root cause of these disasters, which is the injustice/unfair 19th century Japanese family law. For years, japanese kids are used to the life without dad after divorce, and few ppl feel the pain of the kids felt. That is why we see to have affair outside marriage is tolerant by wives, as long as he brings the paycheck every month.
We have seen and read so many Savoie’s cases already and it is time to deal with the root cause ,to urge Japan join the civilized industry world, not only material wise, but more human rights and morality.
Kakui Kujira says:
I did not realise how lucky I am. My ex-wife is, admittedly by my own account, a horrible person, but at least she let’s me see my boys!
I don’t get your point. Sorry. I said I thought the article was good on the underlying issues and not so good in relation to Debito’s take on the Savoie case and you attempt to school me on the underlying issues. What is the point you are trying to make with me that you feel I obviously didn’t get?
Jcek says:
I think this topic shows how the Japanese government is quick to please the international political arena, but it shows how far behind they are at following up such policies on their domestic side. This topic brings to light so many other issues that are affecting mostly foreigners living in Japan.
Japan should seriously consider how it’s domestic issues are tainting their international reputation. Such issues if addressed would do heaps of good for everyone involved here.
Hoofin says:
Responding to Joek,
I don’t think the Japanese government (Jiminto up until last month), has been “quick to please” the international community at all.
My feeling is that Japan signs international treaties and then promptly ignores them. But it by no means rushes to sign anything that can be construed as disadvantageous or a submission, so to speak, to foreigners. The old regime hadn’t quite gotten over September 2, 1945 (when they gave it all up except the Emperor.)
The good this news is doing is that its creating an environment that the Japan’s Children Rights Network, that I blog about today
http://wp.me/pAT5P-Ut . The people behind that group have been on the issue for years now, and more than the Savoies, I feel they deserve attention about how the overall issue endures.
I agree that more attention should be given to how these matters play out in reporting in other arenas. But I think that’s one of the satisfactions,/i> to the Old Guard within Japan. They get to say, “see, we’re spiting these international conventions that do no benefit to Great Japan!”
Since the mother fled the US in contravention of an agreement with the judge, I suppose it’s possible he will issue a bench warrant for her arrest for contempt of court. I’d like to see what the local police will do then!
— Local police where? If you mean Japan, nothing.
Eamon says:
It would be nice if factual errors and distortions of logic were not needed to drive home a point about how screwed up Japan is…
1. Noriko Savoie is not a US citizen, she was (not sure about her status now) a permanent resident. It doesn’t make a big difference but in this case only Christopher Savoie took on a second nationality when legally required to drop his previous nationality. In addition, I don’t think what either of them did was right but it could be argued that she broke the law of a country she wasn’t a citizen of while he broke the law of a country in which he was. He tried to get into the Consulate but they wouldn’t let him in. He wasn’t blocked by the police he was turned away by the Consulate guards.
2. You say it’s ironic that Japan allows parental abductions when they have had citizens abducted by North Korea? How is that ironic at all? North Korea did not have anything to do with birthing or bringing up the children it took from Japan. They were snatched from the street, not taken while in the custody of a parent. It’s more ironic (not particularly ironic, just more than your example) that the United States protests Japan following its own family laws when the US allows its citizens to keep their citizenship when according to Japanese law they were supposed to revoke it.
3. It would be nice to see some facts to back up the claim that parental abductions have jumped 60% in the last 3 years. As we all know, a politician saying it doesn’t make it true.
4. “She and the kids could travel to Japan briefly to explore their Japanese heritage.” Explore their Japanese heritage? They grew up in Japan. They’d been in the United States for a year. This kind of statement propagates the mistaken notion that this was their “home”.
You say the case is messy and you don’t have the time to get into the details, but you did have the time to mention things (some accurate, some not) that make her out to be the bad guy. While she broke US law (and he broke Japanese law) and took her kids to Japan without notifying the father (coming from a broken home I don’t think that was right) there is no reason to try to make a point with incorrect information and generalizations.
— Read the source materials more closely (I linked to them). Not to mention my article more carefully, please.
Dunno if anyone saw or posted this yet, but there was an interesting Yahoo article this morning. It’s mostly about J fathers but mentions the Savoie case, as well. J and NJ “disappeared dads” should work together on this issue:
Divorced fathers in Japan fight to see children
http://www.magicvalley.com/news/world/asia/article_5b1d958d-1928-5d28-a4b3-00408a07264b.html
TOKYO – On Christmas Eve two years ago, Masahiro Yoshida returned to his home to find it empty. His wife had fled with their 2-year-old daughter, seeking a divorce.
Since then, he’s rarely seen his child because Japanese law grants custody to only one parent — almost always the mother. His wife has refused to allow him regular visits, accusing him of emotional swings and past verbal and sometimes physical abuse.
Yoshida, a 58-year-old musician, is among a small but growing number of divorced or separated fathers who have turned to the courts to get custody, or at least gain a right to see their children. More broadly, many are demanding a change in Japanese law to allow joint custody, as is the case in most developed countries.
“I think about my daughter all the time. I can’t believe the courts allow this,” said Yoshida, who admits hitting his wife twice but otherwise denies her claims. “This is a country that allows kidnapping.”
The law was thrown into the international spotlight last week when an American was arrested for allegedly snatching his children from his Japanese ex-wife as they walked to school in southern Japan. Christopher Savoie, a 38-year-old Tennessee man, remains in custody in the city of Fukuoka while prosecutors decide whether to press charges.
His case has received little attention in Japan, a reflection of how widely accepted it is that young children should remain with their mother in divorces or separations. The law doesn’t explicitly say mothers should get custody — only that one parent should, and by cultural default, that’s the mother.
“In Japan, nobody thinks it’s a problem if a mother takes away her children without consent,” said Hideki Tani, a lawyer who has taken on cases of fathers seeking access to their children. “Here, it’s common for either parent to completely lose contact with children, but people outside Japan find it outrageous.”
Tani did acknowledge a need to address problems like domestic violence that can contribute to broken families.
Lately, the number of custody battles has risen as overall divorce cases have climbed and more men have become involved in child-rearing and homemaking. Divorced men also say that children should have a right to see their fathers — and that too often the kids’ interests are neglected.
“Nobody thinks about children’s well-being,” Yoshida said. “They are the victims.”
Last year, there were more than 20,000 child custody cases in Japanese family courts, up from less than 17,000 in 2000, Ministry of Justice statistics show. About 90 percent of those decisions favored the mothers — as in Yoshida’s case.
In December, a court ruled against his petition for custody of — or rights to visit — his daughter, now 4, who lives with his ex-wife and her parents.
“I’m outraged by a society that allows this,” Yoshida said.
His ex-wife, Akemi Kurahashi, 44, says she left Yoshida because she and her child needed legal protection from an abusive husband. She says most of it was verbal, but that once her eardrum burst when he hit her.
She twice left Yoshida, but returned when he begged and apologized, she said. Worn down, she eventually fled with their daughter that Christmas Eve when he was out performing with his jazz band.
Kurahashi says she is willing to consider letting him visit once a month on the condition he is emotionally stable and the visit takes place in public and in her presence. She is even open to the principle of joint custody in Japan, though she said the law must guarantee protection against domestic violence.
“I will swallow my own feelings if my daughter is happy seeing her dad,” she said. “But I still fear he may end up hurting me or her someday.”
There have also been a few cases of fathers forcibly keeping children away from their ex-wives. In June, a 48-year-old man was arrested in Tochigi prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, after refusing to hand over his 3-year-old son to his wife, who had left them, despite a court decision that the son should be legally in the care of his former wife.
Yoshida has banded together with other divorced fathers to form a support group, one of several that have sprung up in recent years.
A few lawyers and lawmakers have showed support for their cause. A bar association group is studying parenting and visitation arrangements in other countries such as Australia.
Japan also faces a growing number of international custody disputes. The U.S., Britain, France and Canada have urged Japan to sign the 1980 Hague Convention on International Child Abduction, which has been signed by 80 countries. It seeks to standardize laws among participating countries to ensure that custody decisions can be made by appropriate courts and protect the rights of access of both parents.
Japan’s government has argued that signing the convention may not protect Japanese women and their children from abusive foreign husbands. Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada said this week that officials were reviewing the matter.
Divorced fathers say that joining the Hague convention would be a major step toward bringing the possibility of joint custody to Japan because it would require a major overhaul of the country’s family laws.
“For us it’s not a diplomatic issue. It’s a problem at home that Japan should correct,” said Mitsuru Munakata, a 34-year-old freelance writer who has seen his 3-year-old daughter only twice in the last two years.
Although he recently won court permission for a two-hour meeting with his daughter every other month, he is concerned because his ex-partner is now remarried — and if she dies the custody right would go to her new husband.
“Then I’m totally out of the picture,” Munakata said. “When I have an urge to see my daughter, I worry that I might get arrested someday.”
Fukuoka i Family Network says:
Just saw this on the Mainichi Daily, “Divorced fathers in Japan fight to see children” http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20091008p2g00m0dm002000c.html
TOKYO (AP) — On Christmas Eve two years ago, Masahiro Yoshida returned to his home to find it empty. His wife had fled with their 2-year-old daughter, seeking a divorce.
(snip, this article was posted here earlier today; the fact that it hit the Mainichi is good news)
(Mainichi Japan) October 8, 2009
Eamon,
The children have duel nationality, as the father is an American, so japan is part of their culture and heritage, just as the US is.You are playing on words.Poor form and it goes against the goodwill that the judge was showing.( I don’t think a Japanese judge would pass the same judgment,would you?)Their home is where the family/ caregiver is,and the judge ruled that that is in the US.
The point Debito is making is how can japan take the high road on kidnapping regarding its nationals, and yet allow Japanese to kidnap their children against the laws of the country they reside in. I think the pot calling the kettle black comes to mind.
“Read the source materials more closely (I linked to them). Not to mention my article more carefully, please”
I DID read the source materials. Before I found my way here in fact. I’ve read court transcripts, and articles from pretty much every source I can find on this issue. It would be nice if you pointed out what in my comment was inaccurate compared to either the source or your article. I completely understand what you are saying in your article. But a lot of people take what you write as the truth without looking into it themselves. My 1st and 3rd points were factual errors. You link to sources that are incorrect or don’t back up their assertions. Once again just because a politician says it’s so doesn’t make it so. My 2nd and 4th were about generalizations and misconstruing of details.
I agree completely that the law should change in Japan. I don’t agree that it is OK to use factual errors and generalizations to rile emotions.
— 1) a) CNN said Noriko was a dual national, if you’d follow the provided link. The error, if any, is theirs first, made at the time I was writing this article. Take it up with CNN and get it corrected if it is incorrect.
b) Add a comma (which was taken out in the editing process) between “but was barred entry, and was arrested by the Japanese police”). He was barred entry. And he was arrested.
2) It is ironic. That is my opinion.
3) That is the claim made by a public official on the public record, whom I assume did his homework. If you have an issue with it, take it up with the source. If that source is proven incorrect, I will issue a correction. How can you claim it is a factual error when you have no proof that it is?
4) Read the court transcript, as that is the context of the paragraph. I am quoting the judge’s opinion when he lifted Noriko’s restraining order (pp 119-120).
Again, as I said, read my article and the source materials more carefully. And make fewer assumptions and quibbles.
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Finally I saw this on Japanese news this Evening to my surprise when I was passing the TV section in my local Best Denki here in Fukuoka. At about 6:30pm it was on a news program, It ran for about 10min or more complete with little illustrations about dual custody in the U.S. and one parent in Japan. It Showed all the parties involved, but only Mr.Savoie’s was not blurred out the rest were, I had no Idea if it told the truth or something else.
Meat67 says:
Just about to leave for work, but I saw on CNN that Savoie’s lawyer is accusing Japanese police of depriving his client of sleep and health care and that this amounts to torture. Seems like just another day for the Japanese police.
Meat67 – saw that myself. What’s noteworthy is that the story is still at the top of the page this evening.
Link: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/10/12/japan.savoie.custody.battle/index.html
Might be an idea to send CNN some info on the Valentine, Tucker, Per Brodner, Peter Brasor cases.
Mumei says:
Regarding Noriko’s US citizenship, as Debito already pointed out, this is according to CNN. There is conflicting or at least unequal accounts in the media coverage so it is hard to be sure either way. Precise details may also be lost in interpretation between two different languages as well.
But this is a type of error that I have personally run into many times, at least in Japan. There are three major categorizes:
1) Common belief that permanent residency (永住権) or the US greencard is equivalent to naturalization (帰化).
2) Common believe that marrying a Japanese citizen automatically gets to permanent residency and hence naturalization.
3) Common belief that foreigners whose name is in kanji (->registered alias) have naturalized.
Needless to say here that none of these are true, but I have had countless conversations with Japanese friends and colleagues who believed otherwise. But then it is a little much to expect your average citizen who has not gone through immigrations to fully understand all of these things. I certainly do not know too much about US immigration.
Perhaps there is similar confusion and misinformation occurring in the media as well.
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Early in his career Elvis Costello declared that the only emotions he understood were "guilt and revenge". Listening to his venomous early albums, this made sense. Then came Get Happy!!, where the remorse-ravaged revenger added a new kind of humour to his repertoire. Featuring some of his most tricksy and skilful songwriting — both lyrically and musically — Costello visited his dark places with a newly deft engagement of both hurt and despair. Then he coated it all with an upbeat soul-inspired sound.
"The decision to change was not exactly agonised over," Costello explains. Having returned from touring in America and demoed a few new songs with the Attractions in their usual punky style, Costello quickly realised a new course was needed.
"It took a few drinks and a handful of old Stax singles," Costello recalls. "We went to the pub and said, 'What are we going to do? Why don't we all try playing some of these songs slower, and use more rhythmic accompaniment, rather than these tricky, nervy kinds of backing that we'd been using?' And it all just fell into place."
Retreating to a studio in Holland, the names of soul legends were freely bandied about as Costello and the Attractions, overseen by regular producer Nick Lowe, crafted a direct, heartfelt record.
With the new direction and irony-tinged title in place, the Get Happy!! artwork twisted the knife. "Barney Bubbles did all our artwork until 'Imperial Bedroom'," Costello explains. "He had a mind like an art encyclopedia. He would borrow from different periods quite shamelessly, in a very witty way."
Bubbles, real name Colin Fulcher — who had been working on record sleeves since the late 1960s and was highly influenced by the visual style of soul imprints Stax and Atlantic — found a snugly-fitting generic look for the cover which meant that the LP could happily sit alongside the 20-year-old sleeves of Percy Sledge and Booker T & The MGs. However, as with all his work, Bubbles brought a unique take to the design.
Heaping on the irony, the particularly garish colour scheme and sharp polygons amount to a pop-art pile of broken glass, while Costello appears complete with tie and winter coat, looking more like an accountant than a glamorous soul legend. The finishing touch was the worn coffee cup mark on the middle of the record. Thus, even a brand-new record arrived soiled and slightly corrupted, neatly reflecting the record's sentiments. Early British pressings even featured a real stain, a gag that had a few record-buyers returning to the record shop to complain.
Get Happy!! also stood out by being 20 tracks long, requiring extra care in the pressing process. This prompted Nick Lowe to continue the soul spoof by aping a "Your friend, the producer"-styled sleeve-note explaining how the tight squeeze would not effect sound quality.
The sad addendum to the story is that Bubbles, hounded by self-doubt about his work, took his own life in 1983. As the photographer and Bubbles associate Brian Griffin notes, "Barney had some strange ideas about himself. He always believed he wasn't a very good artist. He always thought he took others' ideas and merely embellished them, which is clearly nonsense -everything he did had a unique quality."
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The lasting appeal of Mr Bubble's artwork.
A playful approach to packaging was a constant theme of the work Bubbles produced for Elvis Costello.
"If a thing amused me when I saw it, I didn't ponder the significance of it," Costello explains. "When you buy a box of cornflakes, you eat the cornflakes, you don't eat the packet. It's the same with a record. We wanted to catch people's eyes. If people looked at This Year's Model [left] and asked 'Why is it off register?' it was because we wanted them to ask exactly that. It meant they'd pause just that little bit longer in front of our sleeve."
On the follow-up Armed Forces (left top), it was the shape of the packaging that was warped, Folding out into a large cross designed to be "as impractical and ghastly as possible", it was also supposed to fall apart quickly.
"Although it wasn't my idea, exactly the same thinking was behind me changing my name," says Costello of the various sleeve tricks, "it stopped people dead in their tracks."
Q Special Edition - 100 Best Record Covers Of All Time - March 2001
Get Happy!! is included in Q's 100 Best Record Covers Of All Time.
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2 Joy Division, Closer
3 Nirvana, Nevermind
4 The Who, The Who Sell Out
5 The Stone Roses, The Stone Roses
6 Bob Dylan, Bringing It All Back Home
7 New Order, Blue Monday
8 The Beastie Boys, Licensed to Ill
9 The Clash, London Calling''
10 The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
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12 U2, Boy
13 Suede, Coming Up
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17 Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Relax
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24 The Beatles, Yesterday... And Today (Butcher sleeve)
25 Kraftwerk, The Man Machine
26 Small Faces, Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
27 Björk, Post
28 Led Zeppelin, Houses of the Holy
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30 David Bowie, Diamond Dogs
31 Buzzcocks, Orgasm Addict
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40 Happy Mondays, Pills N Thrills and Bellyaches
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42 The Stooges, Raw Power
43 Durutti Column, The Return of the Durutti Column
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51 Echo & the Bunnymen, Porcupine
52 Pet Shop Boys, Actually
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54 Dead Kennedys, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
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71 Meat Loaf, Bat Out of Hell
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73 Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack
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75 Human League, Dare
76 Pixies, Surfer Rosa
77 Cream, Disraeli Gears
78 Bob Marley, Catch a Fire
79 The Verve, This Is Music
80 Badly Drawn Boy, EP1
81 Joni Mitchell, The Hissing of Summer Lawns
82 Underworld, Dubnobasswithmyheadman
83 Basement Jaxx, Remedy
84 Aphex Twin, Come to Daddy
85 Add N to X, On the Wires of Our Nerves
86 Tommy Boy's Greatest Beats
87 The Jam, Setting Suns
88 Eric B & Rakim, The Microphone Fiend
89 Age of Chance, Don't Get Mad Get Even
90 Mr. Lee, Pump Up London
91 Beach Boys, Surf's Up
92 Isaac Hayes, Black Moses
93 Half Man Half Biscuit, This Leaden Pall
94 Alliance, We Could Get Used to This
95 Queen, A Night at the Opera
96 Daft Punk, Homework
97 The Pogues, Rum, Sodomy and the Lash
98 R.E.M., Green
99 Now That's What I Call Music 44
100 Cabaret Voltaire, Microphonies
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GCF of 20, 58, 19 and 3
GCF of 15 and 108
GCF of 28, 19 and 62
GCF of 90, 83, 3 and 10
GCF of 48, 20, 60 and 12
GCF of 54, 20 and 8
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2. Write all numbers as the product of its prime factors
Prime factors of 727 = 727
3. Choose the common prime factors with the lowest exponent
Common prime factors: 727
Common prime factors with the lowest exponent: 7271
4. Calculate the Greatest Common Factor or GCF
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GCF = 7271 = 727
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Molokai Ranch: Protesters to Cash in with Takeover Plan?
By Andrew Walden @ 2:49 PM :: 15392 Views :: Maui County, Agriculture, Greenmail
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” -- George Orwell, Animal Farm
by Andrew Walden
Molokai’s largest private employer is closing operations. With unemployment already at 7 percent, 120 more Molokai residents (on an island of just over 7,000 residents) are losing their jobs. In a state where politicians pretend to be obsessed with “saving agriculture,” cattle ranching will end on the 1/3 of the island owned by Molokai Ranch.
Gov. Linda Lingle says the damage is equivalent to the loss of 23,000 jobs on Oahu. She is dispatching a team led by Abbey Mayer, a Molokai resident she nominated as State Planning Director. Mayer’s “Rapid Response Team” will deal with unemployment -- but also with issues such as the 1,000 Molokai residents who rely on the Ranch for water, the closure of West Molokai’s gas station and general store, and the future of West Molokai’s only public school.
But not everybody is saddened. In a news release sent out within hours of the Ranch’s announcement, Molokai activist leader Walter Ritte enthuses about building an “economic engine that supports our people.” Ritte’s associate, Karen Holt, Executive Director of the Molokai Community Service Council (MCSC) chimes in: “(The) announcement that Molokai Ranch is shutting down … provides our island and its people the real opportunity to control its own destiny.” These so-called “grassroots activists” sent their news release out via the high end Honolulu public relations firm, Hastings and Pleadwell.
The Honolulu Advertiser on March 25 compares the Molokai Ranch shutdown to the attacks the Big Island’s Hokulia development. Hokulia was blocked temporarily by activists demanding tens of millions in “settlement” dollars for themselves and for their Office of Hawaiian Affairs-backed native Hawaiian Legal Corporation attorneys.
There is a similarity, but the Molokai dispute is more akin to the battle over Punaluu, Kau. It is not an anti-development battle. It is a fight between two developers.
One developer is a traditional corporate entity, Singapore-based Guoco Leisure Ltd, owners of Molokai Ranch. The other developer pretends to be an anti-development group -- albeit one backed by $50 million from Massachusetts-based multi-national energy corporation UPC Wind Energy Partners. And nobody explains this better than Holt and Ritte.
Holt says in her news release: “Nine months ago, MCSC initiated a move to purchase the Ranch. We hope we can continue this effort….(The) MCSC campaign to buy Molokai Ranch is attempting to raise funds for the purchase. MCSC is working with the community to create a new entity to own the lands after the purchase.”
The sharp observer will note that “the community” is divided, and many are afraid to speak out in support of the Molokai Ranch.
As an earlier wave of protests by these same people swept Molokai, the “friendly” island witnessed the 1995 arson attack on the recently renovated Ranch House at Kaupoa, the 1994 fence cutting and poisoning of the Ranch’s exotic African Safari animals, and the 1996 destruction of five miles of Ranch water pipes. More recently, opponents vandalized signs supporting Molokai Ranch’s Laau development, which included plans for 200 luxury homes at Laau Point. But “the community” is expected to fall in line with the protesters—or else.
As Holt explains: “Opportunity often comes out of crisis. Now that the Ranch has abandoned its own controversial plans, we need to join together to chart the island's future for ourselves. And that future must include bringing ownership of Molokai back home to the people who live here.”
Her scheme could put Ranch ownership in the hands of “a new entity” -- which MCSC is creating.
Ritte’s backers cried long and loud that Molokai lacks the water to support the 200 luxury homes at Laau Point. Perhaps a new water source has been discovered? According to the Hawaii Tribune Herald on March 25, Ritte now says instead of developing Laau Point, it would be preferable to build “hotels, golf courses and townhouses” on ranch land where infrastructure is installed and permits have already been approved.
MCSC is raising capital to buy the ranch at a price they estimate at $200 million. Molokai Ranch owners have estimated the ranch’s value at $300 million, but the price would likely be lowered by the activist opposition Ritte, Holt, and others have created. The $100 million discrepancy between the two valuations may reflect the value of the protests -- a lucrative capital formation technique, which will be the future of Hawaii until the U.S. Department of Justice Anti-Trust Division and Civil Rights Division step in.
Issues of trust aside, investors may be attracted to a proposal spearheaded by those who control the demonstrators -- especially if multiple protest-free golf courses, hotels, and town homes are in the offing.
While protests may benefit MCSC’s bottom line, they certainly worked against Ranch finances. As Ranch CEO Peter Nichols explains: “Unacceptable delays caused by continued opposition to every aspect of the master plan means we are unable to fund continued normal company operations.” Ranch operations are claimed to have lost $37 million dollars from 2001 to 2006.
Last November, Ranch representatives predicted in an environmental impact report what would happen if their project was delayed: "Under this doomsday scenario, (Molokai Ranch) essentially closes down ranch operations and land banks the property for the future. These reductions, along with lost tourist expenditures, will in turn severely affect local businesses at Maunaloa (West Molokai) and elsewhere. These losses in local jobs and probable business failures will in turn increase the need for county and state social services."
They were then forced to withdraw their application under threat of denial.
Molokai’s County Councilman Danny A. Mateo called the closure “... a mean-spirited conclusion to punish a community... .” Perhaps Mateo thinks Guoco would agree to lose another $37 million while the competing groups argue over how to carve it up?
Molokai Ranch won the support of Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) Molokai Trustee Collette Machado. Ritte is a close associate of ousted former OHA trustee Senator Clayton Hee. On the Big Island, Punaluu is faced with an effort by OHA-backed thugs to force out a developer and take the land for their own development scheme. Molokai is witness to a conflict between two different OHA-connected factions: Each backing its own development plans, each seeking power over Ranch property.
Molokai Ranch’s desire to develop 500 acres on Laau Point—the southwest tip of the island—may have been forced by Ritte’s decades-long protest campaign. In a futile attempt to placate protesters, the Ranch’s “Master Plan” proposal also included 26,000 acres to be turned over to the Molokai Land Trust for conservation as well as another 10,000 acres to be preserved as open space and 14,390 to be preserved as agricultural land with preservation easements to prohibit future changes in land use. According to the Ranch, the capital raised by lot sales would have been used to re-activate the long-shuttered Kaluakoi Hotel and return visitor counts to 1990s levels.
Under normal conditions, Guoco would have been able to raise money on the capital markets, fixed up the hotel and re-opened it. Complicated self-financing plans like the Ranch’s “Master Plan,” waste time and money and would be required only if outside lenders are unwilling to risk their capital—for instance in an environment where it might easily be stolen such as Zimbabwe, Kona, Venezuela, Kau, Nicaragua or Molokai.
Now, not only will Molokai be unable to get the Kaluakoi Hotel reopened, but it will also lose about 60 rooms in two other Ranch tourist facilities slated for closure. The Ranch shutdown, loss of tourist dollars, and increase in unemployment will hit small businesses island-wide causing additional job losses.
But not to worry, in the ninth paragraph of Ritte and Holt’s news release, they finally get around to mentioning that, “We are certainly concerned about the Ranch's employees, and expect that our community will pull together to support them….” In this sentence, “our community” likely translates as “others”—because HCSC has got a deal to close.
What does all this mean? Pansy Medeiros of the Big Island explains it best. According to the then-76-year-old Mrs. Medeiros, on March 13, 2006, the day before the Hokulia settlement on the Big Island was announced, her son, Hokulia plaintiff Jim Medeiros, stormed into a Hawaii-County-mediated family hooponopono session and announced: “I oki (divorce) from you ma -- I don’t need you bitches any more, I’m into the money now!”
Since several of the Medeiros family members present that day had been part of the fight against Hokulia, this should be a warning to those who are not central leaders of the protests against Molokai Ranch.
As Ritte explained in the March 25 The Honolulu Advertiser: "It was set up to end this way."
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Pansy Medeiros:
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?7e52ffff-0a6b-47ea-abf5-074329197298
Punaluu, Kau:
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?bfa78325-c5d4-49bb-a911-1f7bd5ab16cf
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?53ee7d13-5158-4325-b7b0-7b4d10801e96
Felony attacks on Ranch:
http://starbulletin.com/97/05/07/news/story2.html
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Two Indicted in ‘Wonder Blunder’ Concert Scam that Targeted the University of Hawaii
Jim Dooley and Malia Zimmerman
HUBBARD: Falsely claimed to represent Stevie Wonder and Alicia Keys.
Marc Hubbard
BY JIM DOOLEY AND MALIA ZIMMERMAN – Federal officials today announced the indictment of two Mainland men for their alleged involvement in the $200,000 “Wonder Blunder” fundraiser scam at the University of Hawaii.
(See the full video of the press conference here)
Charged are Marc Hubbard, 44, of Mecklenburg, N.C., and Sean Barriero, 44, of Miami.
A grand jury today indicted Hubbard, who is already facing unrelated state criminal charges in South Carolina, with wire fraud.
Barriero, who is cooperating in the investigation and will appear in federal court here this afternoon, was charged with illegal interstate transportation of money obtained through fraud.
Hawaii U.S. Attorney Florence Nakakuni said Hubbard is “in the live concert business” and Barriero “aspires to be in that business.”
Hubbard falsely claimed to have connections with singer/songwriter Stevie Wonder and offered to arrange a fundraising concert by Wonder here that would benefit UH intercollegiate athletics programs, according to federal officials.
“Mr. Hubbard had no such connetions and was never in any position to secure Stevie Wonder’s appearance here in Honolulu,” Nakakuni said.
The arrangements were made through local entertainment promoter Bob Peyton, who was not charged in the indictment. Peyton separately lost $50,000 in the failed concert venture.
Late last month, South Carolina officials charged Hubbard with fraudulently obtaining $700,000 based on false promises to promote a 2008 concert by entertainer Alicia Keys.
Hubbard was arrested by FBI agents in Chartlotte, N.C., this morning and a hearing is scheduled in federal court there next week about transporting him to Hawaii to face the new charges.
Sean Barriero
Nakakuni said Barriero, acting at Hubbard’s direction, “falsely represented to a UH official” that $200,000 paid by UH as a deposit for the concert had been sent to Stevie Wonder.
Instead, according to the federal government, the money was spent by Hubbard and Barriero on personal and business expenses.
Federal agents last month seized a 2010 Mercedes Benz automobile purchased by Barriero’s fiancé and business partner, Sannise Crosby, with $25,000 of UH’s money.
That automobile is heavily financed and Vida Bottom, Special Agent in Charge of the Honolulu FBI office, said it is unlikely that the university will recover much, if any, of the $200,000.
University officials today did not say if they intend to file civil law suits against Hubbard, Barriero or others involved in the concert fiasco.
The university said today that it “welcomed” news of the indictment.
“The university expresses its sincere thanks to the United States Attorney and the FBI for their diligence in this matter,” said UH spokeswoman Jodi Leong.
Sannise “Sunny” Crosby of Epic Talent LLC
Hawaii Reporter previously disclosed that Barriero and Crosby had formed Epic Talent in Miami just this year and were operating the business from a Miami postal box.
Crosby, who is not charged in the federal case, has unpaid federal tax liens pending against her in Florida. A Florida car dealer last year repossessed a 2002 Ford Taurus from her.
Her home address listed in Florida business records is a house in a dilapidated Miami suburb where many of the homes are wrapped with bars on their windows and doors.
Barriero listed his business address at 14359 Miamar Parkway in Miramar, Florida, but that location is actually a UPS store with more than 400 private mailboxes. A clerk there told Hawaii Reporter that he had never heard of Barriero.
Barriero is a principal in several other businesses that appear to be operated either from mailbox drops or his home in Miami Gardens, Florida.
Barriero is also listed as an assistant vice president for CTN-J Investments, CTN-J Group or CTN-J Inc, depending on the business filing.
FBI Special Agent Tom Simon said today that Barriero is a British citizen who has spent much of his life in this country.
Barriero voluntarily flew to Hawaii to face the criminal charge against him. He is represented by Federal Deputy Public Defender Sean Coutain, who declined comment on the case this morning.
FBI agents stressed that both men are presumed innocent until proven guilty. If convicted, Hubbard could spent up to 20 years in prison and Barriero as many as 10 years in prison.
KEY PLAYERS IN THE WONDER BLUNDER SCAM
Helen Williams
Helen Williams of Elite Entourage Management
Helen Williams of Elite Entourage Management located in Spain was the point of contact for Robert Peyton, the local promoter in Hawaii.
According to Peyton, she claimed to be Wonder’s international agent.
Peyton negotiated the Stevie Wonder contract with Williams.
Because he did not want to transfer money to a foreign account, she proposed using Sean Barriero of EPIC Talent LLC.
Peyton’s company BPE entered into an agreement with Elite and Epic Talent to bring Stevie Wonder to Hawaii in May 2012. The agreement included two shows.
The total fees were a $50,000 binder, and $325,000 deposit due June 22, and a $355,000 deposit due August 1. Those fees were for the shows on Oahu and Maui. The total cost for the show at UH was $450,000 and a $250,000 deposit and binder were required.
According to federal documents, Williams, listed as just “H.W”., did receive two wire transfers from Barriero: $8,750 and $11,250.
Williams has not been charged with a crime or arrested.
Marc Hubbard, 44, of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, is a concert promoter and club operator.
He’s operated multiple companies including Sports Dimensions Inc. (aka Club Deep Oros) in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Club Hush (aka Club Vision) that operates in both North Carolina and South Carolina.
Before being indicted for wire fraud related to the theft of $200,000 from the University of Hawaii, Hubbard was in trouble with the law.
On October 27, Hubbard was arraigned in South Carolina on one count of securities fraud and one count of forgery after he was accused of soliciting more than $700,000 in exchange for staging Alicia Keys concerts that he had no authority to arrange.
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson said: “He (Hubbard) acquired approximately $700,000 from the victim without using those funds for that purpose, and without evidence that he ever had contacts or the ability to deliver the concert.”
Previous to that, in 2009, the South Carolina Securities Commissioner issued a “cease and desist” order, demanding Hubbard stop taking funds for the Alicia Keys concerts.
His alleged concert scams have spanned several states including South Carolina, North Carolina, California and Nevada.
Hubbard has been in financial trouble. He declared bankruptcy in 2006. He also had two federal tax liens filed against him for a nearly $750,000 in 2008 and 2009.
On March 5, 2007, the North Carolina Secretary of State’s Securities Division issued a Final Order to Cease and Desist to Sports Dimensions, Inc. and Marc Hubbard, according to the secretary of state web site in North Carolina.
The site said: “The Summary Order ordered Sports Dimensions Inc. and Marc Hubbard to cease and desist immediately from offering for sale, soliciting offers to purchase, or selling securities in the form of investment contracts and promissory notes or selling any securities of any issuer in violation of §§78A-24, and 78A-36 of the North Carolina Securities Act.”
In 2005, the North Carolina Alcohol Beverage Control Commission cited him for selling alcohol without a proper permit.
Most recently, Hubbard was in the news in September 2012. He paid $15,000 to fly in reality star Kim Kardashian from New York to Charlotte, North Carolina, so she could host a party after the Democratic National Convention.
Radaronline declared the event a flop, claiming just 50 people attended the event, but Hubbard maintained that number was more like 250 people.
Kardashian’s boyfriend, Rapper Kanye West, introduced her to Hubbard, according to Hubbard who features a photo with Kardashian on his Twitter page.
Sean Barriero, 44, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on the charge of transporting $200,000 taken by fraud. He lists himself as the head of EPIC Talent LLC in Miami, Florida. According to UH officials, the UH wired $200,000 to Barriero’s account in Florida at the direction of local concert promoter Robert Peyton. Peyton also wired $50,000 as a binder.
Barriero then dispersed the $50,000 as follows: $27,500 to Marc Hubbard in North Carolina; $8,750 to Helen Williams of Elite Entourage Management in Spain; and Barriero kept $13,750. Barriero also distributed the $200,000 as follows: $120,000 to Hubbard; $11,250 to Helen Williams and he kept $68,750 for himself.
Barriero has no affiliation with Stevie Wonder and no authority to collect money on Wonder’s behalf.
Epic Talent LLC is nothing but a mailbox drop in Miami, Florida. There is no worldwide headquarters as Hawaii Reporter confirmed with a visit to the address listed on the Epic Talent web site.
Barriero lists his business address at 14359 Miamar Parkway in Miramar, Florida, but a separate visit to that location revealed it is actually a UPS store with more than 400 mailbox drops in that location, none of them belonging to Barriero, according to the store clerk. The store clerk confirmed he had never heard of Barriero.
The head of that company is Charles West, 33, of Miami Gardens, who lives just 0.8 miles from Barriero’s fiancé, Sannise Crosby. Sannise Crosby lists herself as a principal in EPIC Talent LLC on the company’s web site.
West also owns All American Casket Supply, which operates from the same phone number as the CTN-J group of companies that Barriero is a part of.
Sannise Crosby
Sannise Crosby, account executive for Epic Talent, has not been charged with a crime at this time.
She is the fiancé of Sean Barriero, according to her own Facebook page, on which she displays her engagement ring.
Sannise lives at 18800 NW 29th Street in Miami Gardens, Florida. Her house is in a dilapidated suburb outside Miami where many of the homes are wrapped with bars on their windows and doors.
The Crosby family home’s mustard yellow walls were in need of paint, a detail that is notable because also listed at that address is Divine Painting, Inc. and Divine Painting Properties, Inc., two companies headed by Sannise’s father, Gamal Crosby, for which she serves as the executive.
Legal filings in Miami-Dade County, Florida, list pending federal tax liens of $84,867 against Sannise Crosby and $23,565 against Divine Painting. The lien against Sannise Crosby was filed last year and the Divine Painting lien was filed in 2010.
Last year, a Florida used car dealer filed repossession papers for a 2002 Ford Taurus driven by Sannise Crosby and financed by Gamal Crosby, Dooley reports.
In a brief conversation, Sannise confirmed Epic Talent LLC has no office in Miami and operates out of a mailbox drop.
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J Arthur Rath III November 8, 2012 at 2:54 pm
Thanks for your diligence in pursuing and putting up for viewing this cast of characters who outwitted "all" and unofficially earned their own UH DD degrees–Doctorates in Duplicity. Dear old UH, not wary, not chary, just dupes. Auwe!
Adam September 25, 2013 at 3:54 am
In seminars and the meetings from the discussion one can learn many new things and those are the creativity in man comes from many new topics from many peoples. Slow Democracy inclusion takes creativity is very unique thing happening now a day. Mostly democracy is our need but on this time people want a free life and the politician making our life just like hale. So people becoming very creative in nature and makes our life suitable also.
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Aggie Boy 1991 April 21, 2014 at 8:44 pm
Sounds like Barriero is snitching to save his own skin, but he is connected to all of the money. This seems to be a 'witch hunt', as Williams and Crosby did not receive any charges. This is some bull@%$#.
B.E.D fan May 28, 2014 at 3:57 am
Wonder Blunder would work great in my country. Someone should try it, if he'll avoid Hubbard's mistakes!
Bag Scam August 26, 2014 at 1:19 am
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Ermek Mamaev is a senior lawyer at Kalikova & Associates and a member of Mining & Exploration, Oil & Gas Practice Groups. Ermek has extensive experience in the areas of exploration and development of natural resources, contract law, licensing, labor and migration regulation. Ermek contributed to the drafting of the medium- and long-term mineral development strategy of the Kyrgyz Republic by making recommendations to the Kyrgyz Government for improving mining law.
- advised mining companies on subsoil licensing issues, including legal due diligence of validity of licenses;
- advised and represented a gold mining company in Kyrgyz courts on mining issues of the largest gold deposit in the Kyrgyz Republic;
- continuously counseled local and foreign companies and well-known international non-commercial organizations operating in the Kyrgyz Republic on labor and migration issues;
- advised a major international tobacco company on tobacco regulation issues in the Kyrgyz Republic;
- advised the right holders regarding inclusion of trademarks in the Customs Register of Intellectual Property of the Kyrgyz Republic;
- filled in an extensive legal questionnaire for a global nutrition, weigh management and skin-care company in connection with potential activities of its local distribution network in the Kyrgyz Republic.
Kalikova & Associates (since 2012);
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* hardcover: ISBN 0-684-87287-0, paperback: ISBN 0-684-87288-9. He retired to East Hampton with his wife, Manette, and never again granted an interview. They would be picked up at the airport or train station and taken to Tuxedo Park in his limousine. Loomis was married to Ellen Farnsworth for over thirty years, she was beautiful, delicate, and often suffered from debilitating depression. Once the crash of the stock market had bankrupt most speculators, he became even wealthier as Wall Street floundered, by purchasing stocks cheaply after they had plummeted in value and few had the cash to invest again. Alfred Lee — can refer to:*Alfred Lee (basketball) (b. His first cousin was Henry Stimson, who held cabinet-level positions in the administrations of William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, and Harry S. Truman. She was reputed to be “the prettiest girl in Boston, and typical of her day and social class: intelligent, educated—she could read French, Latin, and Greek—but impractical. Eventually, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences for his work in physics. NOTOC A *Ernst Karl Abbe Germany (1840–1905) *Derek Abbott Australia (1960 ) *Marek Artur… … Wikipedia, We are using cookies for the best presentation of our site. At 24, Loomis married Ellen Holman Farnsworth, 2 years his junior, a delicate beauty from a distinguished Boston Brahmin family and the sister of a Harvard classmate, Henry Watson Farnsworth. Many of these from the 20th and 21st centuries are found on the list of recipients of the Nobel Prize in physics. Ellen Holman Farnsworth was two years older than Alfred Lee Loomis and they got married 22 June 1912 in Deadham, Massachusetts.
He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, where he won a gold medal in the 6 metre class with the boat Uanoria, together with Herman Whiton, James Smith, Michael Mooney, who later married his daughter, Nancy, and James Weekes. Loomis also made a significant contribution to the development of ground-controlled approach technology, a precursor of today's instrument-landing-systems that used radar to permit ground controllers to "talk-down" airplane pilots to safe landings when poor visibility made visual landings difficult or impossible. 1956), sometimes known as Butch Lee, Puerto Rican basketball player *Alfred Lee (bishop) (1807–1887), American Protestant Episcopal bishop *Alfred McClung Lee (1903–1992), American sociologist, past… … Wikipedia, Loomis (surname) — Loomis is a surname.
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Mangalwedha
Shri Sant Kanhopatra
Kanhopatra (15 th century) is a female Hindu Varkari poet-saint. Kanhopatra wrote Marathi abhanga compositions, which deal with her devotion to Vithoba, the patron deity of the Varkaris and her struggle to balance this with her profession. Not much is known about the historical Kanhopatra's life. Much of the legends that deal with her life concentrate upon her death when she chose to surrender to Vithoba rather become a concubine of the king of Bedar. Kanhopatra was a daughter of a courtesan named Shyama, who lived in the town of Mangalwedha. Kanhopatra was forced in the courtesans's life, though she detested it.Later, Kanhopatra withdrew from society and lived in Pandharpur, where the chief temple of Vithoba stands. She spent rest o f her life singing and wrote ovi style poems as well as abhanga poems dedicated to Vithoba.Upon hearing the tales of Kanhopatra's beauty, the king of Bedar ordered her to be his concubine. When she refused, the king sent his men to get her by force. Kanhopatra took refuge in the Vithoba temple of Pandharpur, the central shrine of god Vithoba. Kanhopatra died there in mysterious circumstances. Though legend says Kanhopatra merged with the central image of Vithoba in form of marriage with Him, other theories suggest possible suicide or homicide for rebelliousness.According to legend, as per Kanhopatra's last wishes, her dead body was laid at feet of Vithoba and then buried, near the southern part of the temple. Here, a mysterious tree rose, which is worshipped by pilgrims today.Kanhopatra's dating to c. 1428 CE is related to dating to a certain Bahamani king of Bedar, who though never explicitly named in legends, is often association with Kanhopatra's legend.Kanhopatra's patron deity: Vithoba.
Kanhopatra's abhangas frequently portray her struggle between her profession and her devotion to god Vithoba, the patron deity of the Varkaris. Only 30 of her abhangas or ovis survive today. Twenty verses of her poems are included in the anthology of Varkari saints called Sakal sant-gatha. Kanhopatra speaks of her banishment from society owing to her family profession and social stature. She talks of voluptuous thoughts of others. She feels that perhaps she was beyond "scope of God's love". She acknowlegdes her God as the saviour of the fallen and tells him to save her too:
O Narayana (a name of god Vishnu, who is identified with Vithoba),
you call yourselfsavior of the fallen...
My caste is impure
I lack loving faithmy nature and actions are vile.Fallen Kanhopatraoffers herself to your feet,a challengeto your claims of mercy.
Kanhopatra is formerly included in the list of Sants, meaning saints in Marathi. Mahipati devotes a entire chapter in his text Bhaktavijaya extolling her devotion to Vithoba. She is cited as "an example of the real downtrodden and deserving people, persons that are saved by the merciful God". Kanhopatra's life is also retold in a 1937 Marathi film written and directed by Bhalji Pendharkar as well as a popular Marathi drama both named "Kanhopatra".(Source : Wikipedia.org)
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Speech by Karen Friedman at the Breaking Through Power Conference (May 23, 2016)
Hello everyone and good morning!
I am so happy to be here on the opening day of “Breaking Through Power.” What an amazing event! First, I want to thank Ralph Nader and all the hard-working staff at the Center for the Study of Responsive Law who put this together.
I’m here today to tell you about how the Pension Rights Center has been breaking through power for 40 years. And how it has paid off.
So what is the Pension Rights Center?
We’re a national consumer rights group that has been working since 1976 to promote and protect retirement security for workers, retirees and their families. We make sure when people leave the workforce, they have enough to pay their bills, pay their medical expenses – and continue to be productive citizens. And if people have adequate income, they’re more likely to be able to continue fighting for justice their whole lives.
The Pension Rights Center’s mission hasn’t changed in 40 years – but the challenges and some of our strategies have. This is what I’m talking about today.
The Pension Rights Center was started 40 years ago by Karen Ferguson when Ralph Nader said to her, “go make pensions an issue. Here’s a check to help you do it.” Forty years later, Karen Ferguson hasn’t stopped. She’s still the director the Pension Rights Center.
I’m Karen Friedman and I’m known as Karen 2. When people talk about the Center they typically talk about the Karens. We’ve been working together roughly about 25 of the 40 years the Center has been existence. I have a passion for making sure people receive the pensions they have earned, and I hope that at end of this speech you will, too.
Now, many of you have probably seen the new movie, Superman Batman: Dawn of Justice. It’s actually a pretty awful film. The reason I bring it up is because we in this country are obsessed with superheroes that fly in to conquer evil and solve our problems, but here’s the truth, folks: There’s never one person who does everything.
Leaders inspire, but everyone is needed in the fight.
I am here to say that we are the superwomen and super men who together can solve this country’s problems.
So, after this conference, I propose that we write and produce our own movie: “Super Activists: Dawn of justice, How Ordinary People Saved the World.” That’s what this conference is about.
The Pension Rights Center has a strong mission and a small budget, but lots of passion. Passion that has helped change laws and regulations, and in some cases, we’ve been able to change how companies and pension plans operate.
Why was the Pension Rights Center created?
To answer that question, we’ll have to go back to the year 1976 when disco music was filling the airwaves and Jimmy Carter had just been elected president. To put it in perspective, Angela Jolie was still in diapers.
But, most importantly, it was also two years after the passage of the new federal private pension law, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, or ERISA, which was intended to protect the reasonable pension expectations of workers and retirees.
This landmark law was developed by a bipartisan Congress, signed into law by Republican President Gerald Ford, and called the most important social legislation since Social Security by Republican Senator Jacob Javits.
Before ERISA, tens of thousands of people were losing their pensions because there were few laws regulating pension plans, meaning that companies pretty much could do what they wanted.
Companies could require people work until retirement age to get their pensions and then fire them two days before their 65th birthday. Bye bye, pensions. Employers could invest the plan’s money in bogus casinos in Vegas without facing consequences. And, if a company went bankrupt, workers could lose everything.
ERISA created basic standards to protect pension promises by creating a pension insurance program to protect people in bankruptcy, developing investment and funding rules, and setting minimum rules on how long people needed to work to earn a pension.
But like all laws that were duked out between different parties and stakeholders… ERISA wasn’t perfect.
There were many gaps in the law. Congress couldn’t envision all the problems that might occur. And this is where the Pension Rights Center stepped in.
From its earliest days, the Pension Rights Center helped people understand their rights under the law. We began hearing from people who had been left out of the law, and we documented those issues. There were widows and divorced spouses who learned they weren’t eligible to get their husbands’ pensions – even if they had been married for decades. There were corporate raiders, like Carl Icahn who rose to fame in the 1980s by finding ways of looting so-called “surplus” pension assets to finance his takeover schemes. There were folks who worked Nine years and 8 months but lost their jobs before the 10 years they needed to earn the right to a pension.
To solve these and other problems, the Pension Rights Center did what it now considers to be its stock and trade. We identified and documented problems; we used our technical know-how to develop workable solutions; and we mobilized affected citizens and women’s organizations, labor unions, retiree groups in a coalition for passage of laws.
We were then, and consider ourselves now, to be the great catalysts for retirement income reform.
Throughout the Pension Rights Center’s history, we have been instrumental in the passage of six federal laws and the implementation of numerous regulations that have expanded benefits and rights for widows, former spouses, low-income wage earners, short-service workers, and in the creation of a legal network of pension counseling projects that provide free legal assistance to 30 states.
But what were are the strategies to get these laws passed? What we did then is still relevant now. We at the Pension Rights Center have learned that it takes more than facts and know-how. You also need to get creative, especially when your organization is small and under-resourced.
To explain, I want to share a few stories of how the Pension Rights Center has gotten laws passed in our first decades:
Back in the 1980s, our persistence was able to secure a slot on The Phil Donahue Show for some of the widows and former spouses who had been left out of ERISA. At the time, The Phil Donahue Show was the hottest talk show host in the country meaning that this appearance generated tons of public buzz.
We used the power of these stories in Congress. For instance, we arranged for Pat Tice, 54, to testify before the Ways and Means Committee about how women would lose survivors’ pensions if their husbands died before early retirement age. She said “I came today because I thought I could be helped by the new law to protect widows, but it’s too late for me. My husband died this morning. I showed up today help others.” You could have heard a pin drop. Suffice to say, Congress soon passed the Retirement Equity Act.
To draw attention to pension looting, we delivered cookies to key members of Congress with the following message: “Stop companies from stealing from the pension cookie jar.”
In the late 1990s, when IBM tried to cut its workers’ benefits, employees flew a blimp over football field with the message, “IBM stole my pension. Is yours safe?” Faced with a public relations nightmare, IBM stopped its cuts for certain employees. And then Congress changed the law to address the worst abuses.
So when you think about social change, think facts, think solutions. But also think creativity. In this media-saturated market, that’s even more important today.
Now, let’s move to the present:
As you can imagine, 40 years later, the retirement landscape has changed and there are more challenges than ever. But as you’ll hear, the Pension Rights Center’s strategies and tactics, while updated, are fundamentally the same.
Let’s talk about the importance of Pensions.
At $16.5 trillion, pensions are one of the world’s largest sources of private capital.
And we as taxpayers subsidize the private system of pensions and 401(k)s to the tune of $132 billion.
So for that much money, the pension system should be doing a good job right?
While policymakers talk incessantly about the budget deficit in this country there is little talk about the huge and growing Retirement Income Deficit which is now standing at $7.7 trillion. The Retirement Income Deficit, which was calculated by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, is the gap between what people have saved as of today and what they should have saved to meet their basic retirement needs.
So, what has caused this Retirement Income Deficit?
About half the private workforce has no pensions or savings to supplement Social Security, which provides only about $16,000 a year for the average retiree – and even less for women and low-income workers.
Employers are dropping, cutting back or freezing good old-fashioned pension plans, which promise a specific benefit at retirement, in favor of 401(k) plans, which do not provide adequate retirement income for most Americans.
In fact, half of all households with 401(k) plans have only $59,000 accumulated in their accounts. For people approaching retirement, it’s about $103,000 – not enough to make it through retirement. Consider this: for all households, not just those with retirement accounts, the amount saved in 401(k) plans is about $2,500. Studies show that workers of color are much less likely than whites to be covered by employer-sponsored retirement plans.
National opinion polls reflect America’s anxiety. A recent Gallup poll shows that Americans are more worried about not having enough money for retirement than any other economic issue – including paying for health care, their mortgage, or their kids’ education.
The Pension Rights Center is working every day to try to develop solutions to increase retirement savings and protect against broken promises.
To address the lack of pension coverage in this country, the Pension Rights Center has called for a new national universal, secure and adequate pension system on top of Social Security. The Center strongly supports the expansion of Social Security and we also support new and creative approaches to expand coverage being pioneered in the states.
We also are ensuring that retirees’ and workers’ already-earned pensions and protected.
We’re seeing new trends every day in which consulting firms advise corporations on how to cut pensions and other benefits, by taking advantage of loopholes in the law. Some of the companies have off-loaded their pension plans to insurance companies, and we’re even seeing nonprofit hospitals do the same. Some of these hospitals have a loose connection with a church or synagogue and have discovered that a loophole in the law allows them to convert their federally-protected pension plans into unprotected “church plans,” endangering pensions of millions of worker and retirees. Fortunately, the Pension Rights Center’s research has served as a basis for 12 lawsuits, many of which have been decided in workers’ and retirees’ favor.
I am going to spend the last part of my speech talking about two recent 2016 victories in which the Pension Rights Center and its allies stood up to power and won.
Lots of people say it’s impossible to have victories in today’s divided Congress. Well, with grassroots support, and enough stakeholders, we’ve shown that legislative victories are possible. We’ve also seen great things come out of the regulatory process. We had two big successes this year.
The first victory dealt with stopping predatory practices in the financial advice industry. The Pension Rights Center and allies, including AARP, the Consumer Federation of America, the AFL-CIO and others, joined together in the Save Our Retirement coalition to stand up to the multi-million dollar lobby of the financial industry. And we won a great victory for American consumers.
For the last five years, brokers and financial institutions fought vigorously to stop the Department of Labor from releasing a common ground rule to ensure that brokers and financial advisers who give advice on investments in retirement accounts must do so in the best interest of their clients – not just to line their own pockets. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, this type of conflicted advice was costing American consumers $17 billion per year. And of course the industry didn’t want changes that would stop them from making them big bucks.
But we fought the industry and won.
How? By building a strong consumer coalition, coordinating technical comments, meeting with editorial boards, educating policymakers, utilizing social media and simply by being persistent.
The battle isn’t over because the financial industry is still lobbying Congress to water down the rule – but we are confident that we can overcome this opposition.
What is perhaps the Center’s biggest victory, we were able to help protect the pensions of more than 270,000 retired truck drivers in the Central State Pension Fund who faced pension cuts of 40 to 70 percent because of a terrible law Congress passed at the end of 2014.
Congress, in the dead of the night, attached a bill called the Multiemployer Pension Reform Act to an end-year spending bill. This bill allowed certain severely underfunded multiemployer pension plans to slash the benefits of retirees in order “fix” underfunded plans. These cuts would have been unprecedented and torpedoed fundamental protections of ERISA. Suddenly, retirees who had done everything right and who had given up wages and vacation pay in exchange for a lifetime pension learned that these “unbreakable” promises were about be broken and their lives devastated.
We knew these cuts had to be stopped.
So, working with thousands of truck drivers, spouses and widows, certain unions and AARP, we developed a campaign to both try to change the law and also to influence the Treasury Department, which was given authority to review these cuts. We used the tactics we always have – but updated for the 21st century. We analyzed the law and posted plain- English summaries on our website. When Thousands of retirees from across the country contacted us, we helped provide them with information and encouraged them to start their own Facebook pages – and now they’ve organized themselves into 60 powerful committees in 30 states.
In April, retirees organized a rally outside the U.S. Capitol building right here in D.C. with 2,000 retirees, spouses and widows calling for the Treasury Department to reject the Central State Pension Fund’s application and for Congress to pass a bill to stop these cuts.
In an amazing victory, the Treasury Department, after receiving thousands of comments from retirees, the Pension Rights Center, labor and retiree advocates, REJECTED the application for sound legal reasons.
So while Congress passed a law in 2014 that failed retirees, the regulatory process protected them. This is democracy at work.
And now we and the retirees are working for repeal of the bad 2014 law and pushing for a bill like the Keep our Pension Promises Act, introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Marcy Kaptur that would stop these plans from cutting retiree benefits. The amazing thing about all of this is that thousands of former truck drivers are now effective citizen activists – inspiring US to work harder for change.
And remember my story about Pat Tice from 1984?
Well 32 year later, Rita Lewis, a widow from Ohio, testified before the Senate Finance Committee and really changed hearts and minds.
Rita, whose late husband, Butch, earned a Purple Heart in Vietnam and later drove a truck for 40 years, testified how 40 percent proposed cuts to her survivors’ pension would force her to sell her home, stop her from taking care of her dad with stage IV cancer.
She was so effective you could hear a pin drop.
Her testimony was called the “most powerful” members had heard in the committee… and led to a commitment for Senators of both parties to work together toward bipartisan legislation.
Retirees know that if these cuts aren’t stopped, it would be setting a dangerous precedent that could lead to retiree cuts in corporate pension plans, in state and local plans – and in Social Security.
So we all are the supermen and women of the citizen action movement.
Join with the Pension Rights Center in a larger movement for Retirement Security for All – for today’s and future retirees:
Protect pensions made to people in all pension plans.
Protect and increase Social Security.
Work with us to repeal the Multiemployer Pension Reform act
And help us create a universal, secure and adequate pension system.
Let’s keep fighting! Thanks!
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PHSA Constitution (PDF) and PHSA Bylaws (PDF).
PHSA Constitution and Bylaws outline how the PHSA is constituted under the BC Society Act. (For a copy of the Society Act, visit the BC government website, https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/).
The PHSA Board of Directors approved Terms of Reference to govern the committees of the Board. These Terms of Reference confirm the PHSA Board's commitment to leading practices.
Terms of Reference - President and CEO
Terms of Reference - Board Chair - PHSA
Terms of Reference - Board Chair - BCEHS
Terms of Reference - Director - PHSA
Terms of Reference - Director - BCEHS
Terms of Reference - Audit Committee
Terms of Reference - Finance Committee
Terms of Reference - People and Human Resources Committee
Terms of Reference - Quality and Access Committee
Terms of Reference - Officers of the Board - PHSA
Terms of Reference - Officers of the Board - BCEHS
Terms of Reference - Board of Directors - PHSA
Terms of Reference - Board of Directors - BCEHS
Terms of Reference - Research Committee
Auditor Independence
Board Meeting Guidelines
Board Record Retention Policy
Board Operating Guidelines
Board Committee and Chair Evaluation Process Policy
Code of Conduct & Conflict of Interest Guidelines for Directors
Commitment to a Culture of Patient Safety
Committee Guidelines
Critical and Non-Critical Patient Safety Event Review
Disclosure of Patient Safety Events
Loans to Related Members
Long Term Board Renewal Plan
Orientation and Education of New Board Members
Performance Evaluation Process - President & CEO
Research Conflict of Interest
Safe Reporting Policy
“Stop the Line”: Authority to Intervene to Ensure Patient Safety
1. Board Compensation & Succession
a) The board is made up of individuals who, collectively, have the required competencies and personal attributes to carry out their responsibilities effectively.
b) Unless specified otherwise in the governing legislation, board members are independent from management and have no material interest in the organization.
PHSA Bylaws, Section 2, Clause 2.6
c) The board has a committee that develops director selection criteria and identifies and evaluates potential candidates.
d) The board has a competency matrix that is updated annually and when vacancies arise. The competency matrix is used to identify competency “gaps” on the board and direct the search for new candidates.
ActivityPlannerGovHRCtee.pdf
Board Member Criteria Outline
e) The board has a board succession plan to recommend to Government the orderly turnover of directors.
f) The board publishes the name, appointment term and a comprehensive biography for each director.
2. Board responsibilities
a) The board publishes a charter that details its roles and responsibilities and the governance processes used to fulfill them.
Terms of Reference - Board of Directors
a) The board has committees that address the Finance, Governance, Human Resources and Compensation, and Audit functions as well as other committees relevant to board operations.
PHSA Board Committee Membership
Terms of Reference: Governance & HR Committee
Terms of Reference: Quality & Access Committee
Terms of Reference: Finance Committee
b) Each board committee has written terms of reference that are available publicly and that outline the committee’s composition and responsibilities.
see above terms of reference
c) Each committee keeps informed about emerging best practices in corporate governance relevant to its functions.
Board Committees Best Practices
d) Every board task force and working group established to address board needs has written terms of reference outlining its composition, responsibilities, working procedures and termination date.
none currently in existence
4. Audit Committee
a) Audit Committee members are financially literate and at least one member has accounting or related financial management expertise.
The Chair of the Audit Committee has confirmed thatcurrent members of the Audit Committee are financially literate and at least one member has accounting or related financial experience. This disclosure requirement will be applied when selecting future members of the Audit Committee
Remaining items under Guideline 4 are addressed in the following two documents:
Terms of Reference, Audit Committee
b) Members of the Audit Committee are independent from the external auditors.
c) The Audit Committee has written terms of reference that set out its roles and responsibilities.
d) The Audit Committee annually reviews its terms of reference and assesses its effectiveness in meeting the needs of the board of directors.
e) The external auditor reports directly to the Audit Committee, not to management.
f) The Audit Committee has an auditor independence policy or reviews and pre-approves all non-audit services to be provided to the organization or its subsidiaries by the external auditor.
g) The Audit Committee periodically reviews the need for an internal audit function
The PHSA employs an internal assurance director
h) If the organization has an internal audit function:
i) the internal audit group reports functionally to the Audit Committee and administratively to the Chief Executive Officer;
ii) the Audit Committee oversees the work of the internal audit group.
i) The Audit Committee meets from time to time with the external and internal auditors without management present.
j) The Audit Committee reviews any proposed changes to the position of the organization’s chief financial officer.
k) The Audit Committee has the authority to engage independent counsel and other advisors, with prior approval from the board chair.
5. The Board Chair
a) The positions of chair and CEO are separate
Terms of Reference - Board Chair
Terms of Reference - President & CEO
b) The board publishes a position description that sets out in detail the responsibilities of the chair.
See Terms of Reference - Board Chair (above)
c) The chair and the responsible Minister communicate regularly to build their working relationship.
Regularly scheduled chair to chair meetings
6. Individual Directors
a) The board publishes a charter or similar document for directors that details the expectations of individual board members.
Terms of Reference - Directors
b) The board develops and publishes minimum attendance expectations for directors and makes public the directors’ attendance records.
Attendance expectations -PHSA Bylaws, Section 3, Clause 3.6
Attendance records
c) As part of public sector transparency, the organization annually discloses the amount of compensation paid to each individual director for the preceding year.
This information is posted to our website every September for the preceding fiscal year. Budget & Financials.
7. The Chief Executive Officer or President
a) The board has a job description that sets out in detail the
responsibilitiesof the CEO.
Terms of Reference - Chief Executive Officer
b) The board establishes annual performance expectations
for the CEO.
Performance Evaluation Process for CEO
c) The board annually assesses the CEO’s performance against
the position description and the performance expectations.
see Performance Evaluation Process above
d) The directors regularly meet together without management
An in-camera Board meeting is held in conjunction with regular Board meetings without the CEO in attendance.
8. Officers of the Board
a) The board has a position description that sets out in detail the responsibilities of officers of the board.
Terms of Reference - Officers the Board
9. Code of Conduct and Ethics
a) The board has adopted a Code of Conduct and Ethics that is consistent with the Standards of Ethical Conduct for Public Sector Organizations.
Code of Conduct and Conflict of Interest Guidelines for Directors
PHSA Code of Ethics and Standards of Conduct policies
b) The organization publishes its Code of Conduct and Ethics.
See Code of Ethics above
10. Board Orientation and Professional Development
PHSA Board Self Assessment Tool
Guideline 10 - Orientation and Professional Development Response
a) The board has a comprehensive orientation program
for new directors.
This guideline is met by these two documents:
Orientation for new Board members
PHSA Health Symposium
b) The board has a culture that encourages new directors to
participate fully and effectively in board activities as soon as possible.
c) The board provides ongoing educational opportunities for
directors to learn about the organization, its sector and its
corporate governance practices, and maintains a policy encouraging
directors to take advantage of these opportunities.
11. Board, Committee & Director Assessment
a) The board annually assesses its performance and the performance
of each of its committees against their respective charters or
terms of reference.
b) The board annually assesses the performance of the chair against
the chair’s position description.
Note:The Board conducts one evaluation each alternate
year between the Board as awhole and individual directors/chair
c) The board annually assesses the performance of individual directors
against the directors’ charter of expectations.
12. Communications Strategy
a) An appropriate communications strategy is in place that meets the
needs of all stakeholders, employees and Government and reflects a public sector organization’s requirement for transparency and accountability.
Financial informationis reported quarterly on the PHSA website
Media and Issues Management Policy.pdf
b) The board chair is the authorized spokesperson for the board and the CEO is the primary spokesperson for the organization.
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Guns N' Roses' Top 18 Songs
There's a lot of bad stuff in this group's repertoire. Try, for example, starting a 10-mile bike ride listening to Chinese Democracy. Kinda gets you pumped for the first few minutes, but quite painful by the time you reach your destination.
Nevertheless, the good stuff is really good.
18. "14 Years," Use Your Illusion II, 1991
17. "Breakdown," Use Your Illusion II, 1991
16. "So Fine," Use Your Illusion II, 1991
15. "Estranged," Use Your Illusion II, 1991
14. "Rocket Queen," Appetite for Destruction, 1987
13. "Civil War," Use Your Illusion II, 1991
12. "It's So Easy," Appetite for Destruction, 1987
11. "Night Train," Appetite for Destruction, 1987
10. "November Rain," Use Your Illusion I, 1991
09. "Mr. Brownstone," Appetite for Destruction, 1987
08. "Don't Cry," Use Your Illusion I, 1991
07. "One in a Million," GN'R Lies, 1988
06. "Paradise City," Appetite for Destruction, 1987
05. "Yesterdays," Use Your Illusion II, 1991
04. "Used to Love Her," GN'R Lies, 1988
03. "Patience," GN'R Lies, 1988
02. "Welcome to the Jungle," Appetite for Destruction, 1987
01. "Sweet Child O' Mine," Appetite for Destruction
Interesting you chose today to post this because last night I happened to catch a bit of the Brett Michaels story on E! When Poison was being formed Brett really pushed to have Slash as their guitarist. Slash refused to put on make up and, thus, the other 2 members outvoted Brett to keep Slash out. What we would have missed out on, huh? I had never heard this before last night.
On topic, my personal favs are Welcome to the Jungle and It's So Easy.
Pop Culture Lunch Box March 12, 2009 at 11:39 PM
Good story. Thanks for sharing.
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Book review: A Passionate Love Affair with a Total Stranger by Lucy Robinson
My edition: Paperback, to be published on 31 January 2013 by Penguin, 434 pages.
Description: Charley Lambert has put considerable effort into achieving a perfect life. She has The Job. The Wardrobe. And The Flat. Her womanising, junk food-loving housemate Sam lowers the tone a bit but that aside, things are peachy.
Then she breaks her leg in three places, watches her unrequited love propose to someone else and - worst of all - is forced to hand over her job to her nasty deputy while she recovers. Workaholic Charley fears that she will soon go mad.
Desperate for something to do, she discovers her talent for helping the lovelorn online. And then William arrives in her inbox. Within hours of his first email, her world starts to change. Helpless, she watches herself fall in love with this man and begins to realise that she's not who she thought she was. But will she be brave enough to turn her back on her old life - all for a total stranger?
"Relaxing" is not a word that appears in workaholic Charley Lambert's vocabulary. If she isn't all consumed by her demanding job, she's organising an engagement picnic for one of her best friends or out running at an ungodly hour in the morning to stay fit.
So it's no surprise that when she has a tumble and breaks her leg in three places, forcing her to take time off work (literally, she tries to work from the hospital bed but her employer gives her a few weeks off despite all her protests) she's unsure what to with the unexpected free time handed to her. She can't run, she can't work, and since she has no other half, she can't pester them either. So she decides to do what anyone with some spare time on his or her hands would come up with in her position... start up her own business.
Through flirting with her boss, John, over the messaging service at work and ghost writing her best friend's emails to help her friend get a boyfriend Charley had already discovered she was excellent at online banter. And as she reads a news article about a US company that ghost writes emails for people with online dating profiles that lack the ability to write a sensible email to those they want to approach, she decides to set up something similar in the UK.
Soon her inbox is flooded with emails from people who want her help. But as Charley embarks on the mission to get suitable dates for all her clients she comes across the profile of "William" and within hours of striking up an online conversation with him, she's fallen head over heels for her client Shelley's potential date...
Admittedly it took me a little while to warm up to the main character of Charley. She's very focused on her job and because of that her friends and family seem to get neglected in the process. This wouldn't be an issue in itself but from the descriptions of her work, and the boss she's been flirting with for the past seven years, I couldn't understand the importance of her job nor did I grasp what she expected in the long-term from her skewed relationship with John.
Thankfully about one third into the novel there's a nice twist to her email exchange with William, which really got me interested in where the story would go from there. Add some fantastic minor characters, such as Charley's always supportive twin sister Ness and straightforward business women Shelley, and A Passionate Love Affair with a Total Stranger quickly turned into a somewhat predictable yet still very satisfying read.
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Hezbollah retaliates against Israel with a missile; Israel fires back at Lebanon
By James McAuley, Liz Sly and Ruth Eglash - Washington Post - 9-1-19
RE: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...?noredirect=on
Video link on site only.
JERUSALEM — Hezbollah fired antitank missiles into northern Israel on Sunday, prompting Israel to fire volleys of artillery against three villages in southern Lebanon in a sharp escalation of already high tensions.
Both sides of the border had been bracing for confrontation after a threat by Hezbollah to retaliate for the killing of two of its commanders in an Israeli airstrike in Syria the previous weekend. The Hezbollah strike, which targeted an Israeli military vehicle, fulfilled that threat, Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV station said.
The encounter was intense but limited, and abated after about an hour. Neither side reported casualties, and there were no immediate indications that a further escalation was imminent. After Israel announced that it had stopped firing on Lebanon, there was relief that the widely predicted confrontation appeared to have been contained.
The exchange nonetheless showed the risk that long-running tensions between Israel and Iran, Hezbollah’s chief sponsor, could erupt into all-out war. It was the first exchange of fire across the tense Lebanese-Israeli border since Hezbollah and Israel fought a month-long war in 2006, and it threatened the fragile cease-fire that has held since then.
At stake is a wider competition being waged mostly in the shadows in which Iran is seeking to supply its ally Hezbollah with precision missiles capable of striking Israel and Israel is seeking to prevent it from doing so. In recent weeks, Israel has struck targets in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon in an attempt to prevent sophisticated weapons or parts that could be used for making them from reaching its borders.
Photo link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/resiz...PSHOPBNYKU.jpg
“I tell the Israeli army on the border — be prepared and wait for us,” Hasan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s leader, said last Sunday in the aftermath of an apparent Israeli drone strike on a Hezbollah office in the southern suburbs of Beirut. (Al-Manar TV/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
Sunday’s encounter suggested both sides want to be seen as holding their ground while avoiding a larger conflict.
Hezbollah said two of its brigades had launched missiles against a tank and caused deaths and injuries among Israelis. Israeli military spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus said the target was an unmarked military ambulance and there were no casualties.
The discrepancy in the accounts might be explained by claims in Israeli media Sunday night that Israel used decoy dummies splattered in red paint to convince Hezbollah that its strike had killed or injured Israelis. The claim, originally reported by public broadcaster Kan TV, was accompanied by footage showing the apparently injured Israelis on stretchers arriving at a hospital. Conricus declined to comment.
Conricus said Israel retaliated by firing about 100 shells into the area of southern Lebanon from which the attack was launched, in the vicinity of the town of Maroun al-Ras. Video footage from the area showed plumes of smoke rising from the mountainous countryside, suggesting most of the shells had landed in empty land.
The confrontation appeared to be over, Conricus said, but he said Israel would be on guard against any further Hezbollah retaliation in the coming days.
“The strategic situation is still ongoing,” he said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces a contentious round of elections Sept. 17, appeared to taunt Hezbollah, boasting that the strike did not achieve its desired effect.
“We have no casualties, no injuries, not even a scratch,” he said in a statement.
Hezbollah, however, hailed the strike on Israel as making good on the threat to retaliate by its leader, Hasan Nasrallah. Jubilant supporters took to the streets of Beirut’s Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs in celebration, waving photographs of the two Hezbollah fighters whose deaths were avenged.
Nasrallah has threatened to retaliate separately for a drone attack on its stronghold in Beirut’s southern suburbs the previous weekend in which an exploding drone detonated and a second one crashed. Hezbollah has blamed Israel for the attack, which Israel has not denied.
Hezbollah will respond to that incident by shooting down an Israeli drone, Nasrallah said.
In a speech Saturday night, however, Nasrallah indicated that Hezbollah is in no hurry to take revenge for the drone attack, which came hours after the Israeli strike on Syria. He said Hezbollah had no intention of downing all the Israeli drones that almost constantly overfly Lebanon because to do so would “erode the defenses of the resistance.”
“We choose the time, we choose the place, we choose the circumstances,” he said. “But they should know this is a new phase and their unmanned planes are subject to being taken down.”
Lebanese politicians appealed for restraint and de-escalation. Prime Minister Saad Hariri called U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and an aide to French President Emmanuel Macron requesting their intervention to stave off further violence.
The United Nations, whose peacekeepers police the cease-fire in southern Lebanon, expressed concern that the flare-up risked unraveling a 13-year truce. However, the U.N. force said in a statement, “at this time calm has returned in the area.”
Sly reported from Beirut. Suzan Haidamous contributed to this report.
Personal note: This has been long in coming. I'd say its long over due. The friction between these two sec's has been brewing and soon will come to an all out confrontation.
Sad but its bound to get real messy.
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Our Table: Chop Suey Books, November 2013
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Here's our table from our book launch at Chop Suey Books in Richmond, Virginia this past weekend. More about our two new anthologies here...
Welcome to our staff blog, where you can learn more about The Quail Bell Crew.
Christine Stoddard conceived the idea for Quail Bell in late 2009 after writing a children's story by the same name, and launched the website as a college blog in 2010. In June 2013, Christine and former art director Kristen Rebelo officially launched Quail Bell Magazine as a global web magazine. Read our editorial mission statement to learn more.
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Christine Stoddard, Founding Editor
Art, media, and language have enchanted Christine Stoddard since the days of her early upbringing in Arlington, VA. While still a mere fairy flutter from D.C., Christine dove into creative activities, hoping that her artistic talents would distract her teachers from learning of her mathematical inability. Luckily, her plan worked. Her non-math skills have been recognized by regional and national organizations. In October 2011, Style Weekly Magazine named her one of the "Top 40 Under 40" in Richmond, VA, while she was still a VCUarts student. Christine currently lives and works in her native Virginia. Email her at: cstoddard@quailbell.com.
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Batchelor of Education Hons, 1979-1983; former NTU RL player and coach
Currently working for Nottingham City Council as a project officer in Public Transport. John still enjoys his rugby league with the Outlaws as a spectator and committee member and keeps in touch with colleagues around world who he has met through the greatest game.
“I got involved with the Trent Polytechnic Rugby League team soon after it started. Being the Clubs and Societies Officer on the Students Union might have helped cut a few corners and a further 2 years as a Sabbatical Officer stabilised the club being one of the best run and performing in the Institution and local area.
“The Trent side also assisted in the formation of the Nottingham Foresters/Crusaders in 1984, and later in the formation of Nottingham Outlaws. The link between the university teams and the community clubs has always been strong.”
George Strachan – Secretary
BA Hons Political Studies, 2003-2007; former NTU RL player and current Head Coach
George currently works delivering PE to primary schools in Nottingham and coaches rugby. He is also player coach for Nottingham Outlaws RL.
“My first experience of rugby league was with NTU RL, thanks to it only costing £5 to join as opposed to the ££££ it took to play some other sports. I fell in love with the sport and have played it ever since.
“I hope the TRLAA and its members can provide current and future players with a great start in the game and assist in taking NTU RL to the next level.”
Matt Ross – Treasurer
BEng Civil Engineering, 2013-2017; former NTU RL Captain and President
Matt is currently a Graduate Civil Engineer for BWB Consulting in Leeds. After playing for England in the Student Rugby League World Cup, he is now back in training with his hometown club Keighley Cougars with the aim of gaining a regular first team place for 2018.
“My time with NTU RL helped me develop social and management skills that I wouldn’t have gained from my course. It also helped me break into the semi professional ranks as I was able to develop physically in order to prepare for playing at a higher level.
“I hope the association can provide opportunities for additional funding to the club and help with recruitment at the club to keep NTU RL a top 6 University side in the country, and also to support students with the rising cost of playing our game.”
Oliver Dale – Director
BA Hons Politics & International Relations, 2007-2012; former NTU RL Captain
Oliver is currently Nottingham Outlaws First Team Captain, and works as a social worker in Nottingham.
“Trent Rugby League gave me the opportunity to try a completely new sport, which I loved. I brought into the coaching and ethos and eventually captained the side. The skills I learned from TRL have allowed me to play rugby league in several places around the world as well as meet some lifelong friends.
“I hope that the TRLAA provides a forum for past TRL heroes to keep in contact and try try and help resource the current NTU side so that they can have the same great experiences that we had.”
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Where many judges are corrupt, like in Michigan, he who represents himself in court keeps crooked lawyers unemployed.
Viggers v. Pacha
Viggers v. Maria de la Merced Viggers
MCOA 336419, the PPO against Maria de la Merced Viggers
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Response/comment to LegalNews.com article
I became aware of a recent article at LegalNews.com regarding the lawsuit I filed against Al-Azhar Pacha and which currently is in the Michigan Supreme Court. The article states that I could not be reached for comment, although in reality I was not approached. I just posted my comment, which has been submitted for review. I trust the site will be impartial and post my comment. Regardless, hereby I reproduce beforehand my comment 'as is':
I am the plaintiff/appellant in this lawsuit. I was never approached for comment on this topic, but I will be happy to dismantle some of the egregious inaccuracies authored by the Michigan Court Of Appeals (and of course, by defendant Al-Azhar Pacha).
Neither my communications to Al Pacha contained any threats whatsoever nor is it true that Al Pacha "interpreted" my communications as such. The opinion released by the Michigan Court Of Appeals is replete with errors of law and distortion of the facts.
Case law explains that the qualified privilege is premised on moral and social obligations. The privilege is not intended for advancing a defendant's pecuniary ambitions. The typical scenario where qualified privilege is applied is that where the publisher of defamatory statements does not have any business ambitions regarding the prospective employer. When a defendant has business ambitions on the entity to which the publication is made, the qualified privilege is stricken. See 360 Construction Co. Inc. v. Atsalis, 915 F.Supp.2d, 883, 897, 899 (E.D. Mich. 2012). In my lawsuit, the courts unduly ignored Al Pacha's incentive to defame me: At the same meeting where Al Pacha calumniated me, he offered the client/university to provide it with a replacement who would perform the functions for which the university had made me the offer of employment.
The Court Of Appeals unduly trivialized matters for the sake of perpetuating Al Pacha's unlawful conduct. An elaboration of the facts and legal context is essential in order to realize the blatant fraud committed by the Court Of Appeals. As the saying goes, "the devil is in the details". The public is welcome and strongly encouraged to read the latest briefs of the case as well as the transcript of Al Pacha's deposition testimony. These files are available at http://www.oneclubofjusticides.com/p/viggers-v-pacha_74.html. Other records of the case are available upon request.
LACK OF MICHIGAN'S APPELLATE INTEGRITY
Unfortunately, not all offenses of defamation by an employer can be averted by the employee's count to 10. Some rotten employers resort to defamation unjustifiably, and that was the situation here.
My lawsuit against Al Pacha is strikingly similar to Mareck v. Johns Hopkins University, 60 Md.App. 217 (1984); 482 A.2d 17. In Mareck, after failed negotiations between the parties, co-defendant Galambos defamed Mareck by allegedly "interpreting" Mareck's statement "as a hostile threat [...] with a clear negative thrust". Al Pacha went beyond that by falsely imputing to me specific statements of threat without even framing his narrative as "interpretation".
I praise the Maryland Court of Special Appeals for its integrity in its comprehensive review of a case that presents overwhelming analogies with mine. By contrast, here the Michigan Court Of Appeals distorted and omitted crucial facts while also ignoring the applicable law. The Michigan Court Of Appeals rendered the Michigan judicial system embarrassingly subpar to that of Maryland and several other jurisdictions I cite in my brief in the Michigan Supreme Court. The opinion released by the Michigan Court Of Appeals is a textbook case of judicial fraud.
The Michigan legislature enacted in MCL 423.452 all the conditions that an employer has to meet in order to be immune from civil liability for his defamatory disclosure. The Michigan Supreme Court has made it clear that when the legislation prescribes in detail the conditions, parties, things affected, specific limitations, and exceptions, that statute in the legislature supersedes its common-law counterpart (source: Hoerstman Gen Contracting, Inc. v. Hahn, 474 Mich. 66, 74; 711 N.W.2d 340 (2006), cited on page 17 of my brief in the Michigan Supreme Court). MCL 423.452 is more recent, much more specific, and detailed than the blurry and incomplete elements of common-law "qualified privilege".
Here, Al Pacha violated the vast majority or all of the conditions in MCL 423.452 when he made his defamatory statements. For obvious reasons, Al Pacha's attorneys dislike the application of MCL 423.452 in this lawsuit. However, counsel Brouwer was utterly unable to articulate in her appellate brief how being:
"immune from liability under the common-law qualified privilege defense to claims of defamation and tortious interference" (Al Pacha's Appellee's Brief, page 27, in the Court Of Appeals)
is any different from the enactment in MCL 423.452 of being:
"[conditionally] immune from civil liability for the disclosure".
Whether under MCL 423.452 or under a common-law qualified privilege, one key issue is whether the defamer genuinely believed the communications he or she uttered; not what the judges' personal interpretation thereof is. Courts are tasked with assessing circumstantial evidence to ascertain the defendant's mental state at the time he or she made the defamatory statements: if evidence supports a finding "actual malice", the privilege or immunity is void. Here, the Court Of Appeals impermissibly ignored a multitude of inconsistencies and fraudulent acts that Al Pacha incurred during his unlawful acts and thereafter.
As explained above, courts strike a qualified privilege when the defamer is motivated by pecuniary interests or other ulterior motives. Here, Al Pacha met with the university to calumniate me and simultaneously he offered the university to provide it with a replacement for what the university selected me. Thus, it is noteworthy that Al Pacha could not even dissimulate his ulterior motive: a continued profit from the university's funds.
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE OF AL PACHA'S ACTUAL MALICE
Unlike the Mareck court, here the Court Of Appeals neglected to assess the context with seriousness.
My dissatisfaction with Al Pacha was not because of how the green card process "was being handled". It was because Al Pacha demanded conditions which were unreasonable, given his being erratic, dilatory, and deliberately ignorant during the "green card" negotiations. Had Al Pacha had to deal with an uncooperative employer like him back when he was not yet an immigrant, today he would be stuck in his native India. The irony of Al Pacha's vexatious conduct prompted my mention of the proverb "what goes around comes around".
Al Pacha made no reference whatsoever to the proverb "what goes around comes around" when he spoke to the university employees. Instead, Al Pacha uttered false statements of fact to portray me as a person willing to violate one of the university's guidelines regarding the university's vendor contracts decision-making. A review of my emails demonstrates that Al Pacha made his defamatory statements with actual malice, for he knew that his narrative to the university was false.
Another circumstantial aspect that proves actual malice is what courts call "[the defendant's] purposeful avoidance of the truth". It is inaccurate for Al Pacha and the Court Of Appeals to portray as mutually exclusive my two options (H-1B with the university and green card with Al Pacha). During the "green card" negotiations in 2015, I directed Al Pacha's attention to a recent decision by the USCIS Administrative Appeals Office. The AAO's decision states that a professional is eligible for a "green card" regardless of the number of offers of employment he or she retains and even if each of those offers of employment is from different employers. Instead of considering the AAO's decision -or at least forwarding the URL link to his attorney for validation purposes-, Al Pacha hung from his attorney's wrong or outdated advice as "legal ground" for his false accusations with the university. Because the true and updated information was readily available to Al Pacha and he deliberately ignored that information, Al Pacha purposefully avoided the truth so that he could build upon his fallacious "legal" context the false accusations he made. The Court Of Appeals turned a blind eye to Al Pacha's purposeful avoidance of the truth.
Al Pacha always knew of -and admitted in writing- my impeccable ethics, and therefore he could not genuinely "interpret" my emails in year 2015 as "direct threats". My frustration (or what Al Pacha calls "disgruntlement") prompted me to send him one or more emails in year 2011 with a similar tone of my two emails in 2015. Al Pacha didn't interpret the email(s) from 2011 as "threatening". The fact is that a year later it was me, not him, who decided to end the employment relationship. Back then, I didn't commit any "act for which ALPAC may be held liable". Not back then, and not ever during my employment with Al Pacha. The fact is that six months later I was rehired by him upon request by the university.
Why would Al Pacha falsely accuse me in 2015 of "threatening" him? Because Al Pacha in 2015 was unable to lure me into declining my prospective position at the client/university (the aforementioned failed negotiations), whence Al Pacha's only option consisted of defaming me for the sake of preserving his source of revenue from the university.
Al Pacha did not even express to the university his alleged "concern" that I "may sabotage the university's systems". Al Pacha's belated "sabotage" argument is what his lawyers spoon-fed him in preparation for his overdue deposition. However, there is no actual evidence of him having or expressing to the university his alleged "concern". Regardless, it is inept and disingenuous for Al Pacha to speculate or "fear" that I would risk my prospective employment at the university (by sabotaging the university's systems) so that this unimportant intermediary could be held liable to my prospective employer.
It is false that Al Pacha "explained" me on July 30, 2015, that the termination was because of his "fear" that I "would to something to do harm his business with the university". Al Pacha barely mentioned "the string of emails" and the proverb "what goes around comes around" on July 30. That was all his explanation. Moreover, while terminating me, Al Pacha called the university to announce my termination "effective immediately". During the phone call, Al Pacha made comments falsely suggesting that his decision was made impromptu. That was Al Pacha's theatrical stunt to prevent me from discovering that in the prior days he had made defamatory statements and subsequent arrangements with the University of Michigan. Al Pacha's theatrical stunt reflects his consciousness of guilt, which constitutes additional proof of Al Pacha's actual malice.
It took me over three months to discover that Al Pacha had defamed me. Then in court, Al Pacha avoided his deposition for three months. When I was finally allowed to take his deposition, I gave Al Pacha several opportunities to articulate his alleged "interpretation" of the proverb "what goes around comes around", as this was his belated pretext for his defamatory statements. Al Pacha's answers regarding his "interpretation" were: "I don't recall", "I don't know", "[I] explain it to a kid at the age that the kid can understand and comprehend that phrase", "Right now I don't have a kid here so I don't know", and "You are not a kid". These incompetent answers disprove counsel Brouwer's allegation that Al Pacha waited 20 days because "he wanted to make a thoughtful decision".
SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES
Apropos of Al Pacha's delay of 20 days, Al Pacha uttered his false and defamatory statements within six hours of Law Enforcement serving upon my stepmother, María Viggers, the Personal Protection Order I requested against her.
The stepmother María Viggers had been harassing and threatening the university employees since March of 2015 in her attempt to sabotage my employment. María Viggers' course of conduct prompted the university to indefinitely suspend in April of 2015 my process for H-1B visa sponsorship and therefore my hire process. While calumniating me with the university, María Viggers insisted to gather from the university who my direct employer Al Pacha) was.
The stepmother María Viggers has a notorious history of violating restraining orders and interfering with others' employment. It is very possible that right after receiving the Personal Protection Order (1) María Viggers may have contacted my employer, and/or (2) María Viggers may contacted the university, thereby prompting arrangements between the university and Al Pacha for a cover up of the situation to make it look like an employer-employee conflict. It would be otherwise unflattering for the university to admit that it severs its relations with a central victim (me) of harassment as opposed to reporting the harasser, María Viggers, for violation of the Personal Protection Order against her.
The strange coincidence in the timing of the events (six hours) outweighs Al Pacha's pretext for waiting 20 days (the "thoughtful decision"), more so given his omission of the proverb when speaking with the university and his subsequent inability to articulate his interpretation of the proverb. The University of Michigan has not been forthcoming in my lawsuit against María Viggers either: the University of Michigan repeatedly made fraudulent statements; produced perjurious and/or amnesic witnesses; produced many blank and heavily redacted pages to hide crucial evidence; and disavowed a court ruling that authorized me to take the deposition testimony of a central witness whom the university terminated few months later. Also in the lawsuit against María Viggers, the Michigan Court Of Appeals resorted to a variety of severely flawed excuses to deprive me of justice.
ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE OF AL PACHA'S ACTUAL MALICE
A defamer's refusal to retract defamatory statements that have been proved false constitutes proof of actual malice. All the university employees at deposition testified that Al Pacha attributed to me an elaborated statement of threat. The university employees consistently testified to those same details. The statement of threat that Al Pacha attributed to me during that meeting is objectively verifiable as false.
During Al Pacha's deposition, I asked him to confirm whether he made that statement. Al Pacha's answer was "Not that I recollect". Hence, it is inexplicable why at all times Al Pacha has been refusing to retract that statement despite my requests therefor. Here, not only the Court Of Appeals ignored Al Pacha's inexplicable refusal as proof of actual malice, but the Michigan courts have been disavowing their moral duty to protect the good name of law-abiding civilians.
Proof of actual malice is also inextricably linked to the concept of fraud. The Michigan Supreme Court in Bank of Am. v. First Am. Title Ins. Co., 499 Mich. 74, 878 N.W.2d 816 (2016), defined "silent fraud" as the suppression of facts "where circumstances establish a legal duty to make full disclosure. Such a duty of full disclosure may arise when a party has expressed to another some particularized concern or made a direct inquiry". When I made a direct, particularized inquiry to Al Pacha (few days prior to discovering his defamatory statements), Al Pacha concealed from me a number of interactions he had with the university in preparation for terminating me.
The Court Of Appeals simply took dictation of the unsupported allegations Al Pacha's attorneys made in court. That sort of secretarial job by the Court Of Appeals falls short of being an actual "appellate review". By ignoring so much evidence, the Court Of Appeals and the trial court ended up treating a qualified privilege as an absolute one.
OBSCENELY BIASED JUDICIARY
An interesting fact is that few minutes before the trial court closed my lawsuit, the presiding judge Carol Kuhnke lectured me that Michigan loves employers "and anybody who's powerful, okay? [...] if you're not in those groups, then you just kinda have to try and stay out the way" (hearing transcript of August 17, 2016, page 21, lines 7-12). Judge Carol Kuhnke made her impudent remark four months after she denied my motion for recusal.
Judge Carol Kuhnke's rogue expression on the bench is the extreme opposite of the "equal protection of the laws" enacted in Article I.2 of the Michigan Constitution. Judges with this aberrant mindset are morally unable to recognize when a qualified privilege has been abused.
The judges incurred several other irregularities in my lawsuit. For brevity, in this comment I am only addressing some of the items discussed in this article.
The points presented here illustrate (1) the extent to which some courts suppress Michigan laws and the evidenced facts so that those courts accommodate a perpetrator's unlawful conduct, and (2) the importance that everybody be acquainted with the laws so as to pinpoint when the judiciary indulges in flagrant fraud.
My litigation experience in Michigan courts leaves me wondering how many seemingly "trivial" cases are in fact grossly mischaracterized by certain appellate panels.
Alfonso Ignacio Viggers
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Forum Index » Soviet Culture » Back in the U.S.S.R. (life in the East) » Soviet Imperialism [ Go to page ][ Previous ][ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ][ Next ]
Soviet Imperialism
Ideology: Democratic Socialism
So what are you saying now then, that from 1945 to the day before the Hungarian invasion there was no Soviet imperalism, but after there was?
Ideology: Marxism-Leninism
Yami wrote:
No, in 1956 the revisionists were still in the process of capitalist restoration. What was clear in Hungary was that they were getting rid of proletarian elements and bringing reactionaries to the fore. Khrushchev welcomed the rise of Imre Nagy, who was a supposed "victim of Stalinism" and friendly to Tito. When Nagy began to move away from the Soviet revisionists and into the arms of US imperialism, the revisionists boosted Kádár, originally a Nagy associate and fellow "victim of Stalinism," to replace him. All the while both the Soviet and Hungarian revisionists were denouncing Rákosi and liquidating the Hungarian Workers' Party. Under the leadership of Kádár, loyal to the Soviet revisionists, capitalism was restored in Hungary. The Soviet revisionists blamed Rákosi for the counter-revolutionary revolt of 1956.
By 1968 capitalism had been restored in the USSR, it had become a social-imperialist superpower. There was no counter-revolution against socialism going on in Czechoslovakia, since by that time capitalism had been restored in Eastern Europe (sans Albania.) Brezhnev had welcomed Dubček's rise to power until Dubček, as with Nagy, moved away from the sphere of the Soviet revisionists. The Soviet social-imperialist aggression against Czechoslovakia was a demonstration that the USSR was a social-imperialist superpower, they had literally no pretext or justification to invade except that Dubček's foreign and domestic policy was not to their liking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uprising_o ... st_Germany
Sorry comrade not by 1956...but by 1953 you mean! It keeps going back and back.
Are you seriously trying to suggest that between 1917 – 1956 there was socialism in the USSR?
Production was for use and not for profit? The state was withering away?
If that was the case why did they need the rouble?
Oh comrade please!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uprising_of_1953_in_East_Germany
There's another SE poster who would know more about this, but Stalin had warned the East German leadership in regards to economic policy. Instead this leadership ignored Stalin. This same leadership went along with the Soviet revisionists in slandering Stalin, and Ulbricht personally denounced Hoxha in 1960-61.
Not from 1917 to 1934, but afterwards yes. The Soviet leadership under Stalin, following Lenin's instructions, built socialism in the main.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/18/world ... evolt.html
Seriously, the uprising happened because the barons in E. Germany were obeying Stalins’ orders.
Between 1935 – early 1960 the state and the rouble ceased to exist in the Soviet Union and production was for use and not for profit? Evidence please!
There are three works which compare the Soviet economy under Stalin, and that economy under Khrushchev and Brezhnev.
* http://www.oneparty.co.uk/html/book/ussrindex.html
* http://marx2mao.com/Other/RCSU75.html
* http://www.bannedthought.net/USA/RU/RP/RP7/RU-RP7.pdf
Knock yourself out.
And no, the East German leadership was not following Stalin's orders. Again, there is another poster (DSCHBACH) who would know more. You should contact him.
Unfortunately capitalism does not care who is in power, it follows its own logic regardless of who sits in the Kremlin/White House/10 Downing Street etc. But then if you’d read the works of Marx you’d know that.
Politicians cannot control capitalism; it controls them.
It is true, that under Stalin, the Soviet economy did have impressive growth figures. But and it’s a big but, they were industrialising from a very low base and the growth rates were achieved at a cost of millions of lives.
No one claimed that capitalism was restored the second Stalin's heart ceased to beat. In Albania for instance Alia pursued a course to the right of Hoxha, but actual capitalist restoration weren't until 1990.
No one is mentioning growth rates either.
EdvardK
Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 08 Aug 2011, 22:59
Ismail wrote:
In Albania for instance Alia pursued a course to the right of Hoxha, but actual capitalist restoration weren't until 1990.
The great leader of Albania, comrade hoxha kicked the bucket sometime in 1985 - lo and behold, only 4,5 years later "capitalism" is restored. What does that tell you about the truly magnificent nature of the great leader of albania, herr hoxha? How strong and permeated was socialism in albanians that it couldn't withstand more than 4,5 years?
EdvardK wrote:
Apparently Yugoslav "socialism" was much stronger, managing to survive 10 years after Tito died?
According to your (flawless, of course) historical analysis from other threads, SFRY did not have socialism at all even during the marshall Tito era. So your argument is flawed either now or in other threads. How can SFRY go to capitalism if - according to you - it already was there while marshall Tito was alive and kicking?
Second (which should be first, actually), you are retorting to pointing a finger towards others (such as Yugoslavia) to get away from the fact that hoxhaist albania perished back in 1985 when he kicked the bucket. You actually did not respond to that fact at all.
You see, this is what happens when you live in a fairy-tale world of make believe. I truly wonder how you'll get out of this one now
According to your (flawless, of course) historical analysis from other threads, SFRY did not have socialism at all even during the marshall Tito era. So your argument is flawed either now or in other threads.
I put the word "socialism" in quotation marks for a reason, you illiterate.
No I'm not, it's a stupid argument to claim that just because socialism was overthrown on a certain date, this proves that socialism didn't exist in the country. After all, you hold that the USSR under Stalin went against Lenin's policies, does this mean that, in your view, there was no dictatorship of the proletariat under Lenin because it would mean that such a DOTP was overthrown less than 10 years after his death?
Please, explain - it was *not* socialism but "socialism"? That is very revisionist of you because Marx never talked about "socialism". Are you inventing some kind of a different term for socialism which is not socialism at all, but "socialism"? Can you quote your source on that, please?
I also have to disappoint you about my alleged illiteracy - while 20x larger SFRY (in which I'm proud to say I lived) had a high degree of literacy, tiny Albania was still struggling with litraci..litecari...littercay... literacy.
No I'm not, it's a stupid argument to claim that just because socialism was overthrown on a certain date, this proves that socialism didn't exist in the country.
You have serious issues with logic, pedro.
After all, you hold that the USSR under Stalin went against Lenin's policies,
It is a well known fact, pedro. Which part of the sentence "Lenin was for NEP whereas Stalin effectively abolished it" you don't understand?
does this mean that, in your view, there was no dictatorship of the proletariat under Lenin because it would mean that such a DOTP was overthrown less than 10 years after his death?
Your questions show how little you understand the beginning of the Soviet Union, thinking that Lenin was alpha and omega of everything and that no one else (Trotsky etc.) had anything to say. It just shows your black&white understanding of the world which - in your head - is especially focused around the bastardized abuse of the word SOCIALISM and COMMUNISM, as direct consequence of your stalin idolatry. I know, I know, this is hard for you to read about yourself, but someone had to tell it to you.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scare%20quotes
Illiteracy among those below the age of 40 was done away with by 1955 in Albania, whereas into the 70s Albanian youths in Kosovo still struggled with illiteracy, according to Yugoslav sources.
And what's with your usage of "pedro"? Are you chauvinist against Spanish-speaking countries as well?
Which part of the sentence "Lenin was for NEP whereas Stalin effectively abolished it" you don't understand?
Stalin was for NEP as well (which the Trotskyists opportunistically attacked him for in the mid-20s.) Then the NEP fulfilled its goals and it was done away with. Lenin was also for "War Communism" as well, until its goals (win the Civil War) were fulfilled.
And yet the Trotskyist position is that the so-called "Stalinist bureaucracy" took power after Lenin's death.
It's pretty much not worth talking to you because you post as if you were mentally incompetent. You either cannot or will not respond to my posts in any normal manner. Yami may be an imbecile, but he can at least recognize what he's replying to.
that is no source. is that the source you base your stalinist hoxhaist ramblings on?
here's one for you then http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/narrowminded
you must be a rabid fairy-tale reader. In 1955, albania's literacy was 34% among the adult female population, and slightly better for males (47%).
Do you know what the goals of NEP were and how they could be fulfilled under your glorious stalin who abolished all private incentive and initiative? Please, google, read, think, and THEN come back to me.
Is there a pattern that you cannot comprehend here? You seem to label anyone and everyone who's view is not the same as yours as an incompetent or an imbecile. Childhood must've been really tough on you to have such an attitude. It's been over a year now - can you already name five accomplishments?:)
you must be a rabid fairy-tale reader.
Actually I got that statistic from multiple bourgeois sources, such as James S. O'Donnell and Peter R. Prifti, so no.
In 1955, albania's literacy was 34% among the adult female population, and slightly better for males (47%).
Do you have a source?
Your logic only makes sense if you believe NEP was never implemented. The goals of NEP were met by 1929, after having been in effect for 8 years.
I am ready to disclose it as soon as you provide an UNBIASED and internationally valid source for your outrageous claims of 100% literacy amond population below 40 in 1955. Mind you, Albanian politburo is not a credible source in this respect.
Mark Harrison, Why Did NEP Fail, p57-67. eat it, pedro!
The claim put forward is made in various books. A more definite statement on the overall literacy rate during the socialist period can be found in the entry by Nicholas C. Pano in The Columbia History of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century, published in 1992: "By the end of the Hoxha era illiteracy in the country had been eradicated." (p. 48.)
In those 10 pages you can't give me a single example of how Stalin supposedly prevented the NEP from operating?
socialist period can be found in the entry by Nicholas C. Pano in The Columbia History of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century, published in 1992: "By the end of the Hoxha era illiteracy in the country had been eradicated." (p. 48.)
Sorry, pedro, this time i'm not letting you off the hook - you claimed eradication of illiteracy of population under 40 in 1955. Provide a solid proof for that. Here you provided a "proof" about the end of hoxha era. 1955 is NOT THE END OF HOXHA ERA. It's like claiming that Albanians landed on the Moon and then providing a source on Albania taking part in an international satellite launch.
In those 10 pages you can't give me a single example of how Stalin supposedly prevented the NEP from operating?[/quote]
Yes, I can - read the damn book! I just gave you the exact pages. and start reading. i'm done with you
Actually you claimed that illiteracy was high in Albania even by the end of the Hoxha era, hence why I brought it up.
I already mentioned that James S. O'Donnell, Peter R. Prifti, and various other authors cite the elimination of illiteracy among those aged 40 and under by 1955. Even Yugoslav sources considered it accurate.
I just gave you the exact pages. and start reading. i'm done with you
Keep in mind that there are anti-communists that falsely claim NEP was inaugurated by Lenin because he supposedly "realized communism doesn't work." Then there is the fact that Gorbachev, Deng, and other pseudo-communists cited the NEP in trying to carry out their own polices. Then you have the apologists for the Bukharinists.
Maurice Dobb's Soviet Economic Development since 1917 points out that the NEP was a temporary policy that had achieved its goal of stabilizing relations between town and countryside by 1928.
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Leading independent publisher Bloomsbury and industry consultancy Publishers Communication Group (PCG) today announce an exclusive sales, marketing and customer service partnership for Bloomsbury’s two newest ventures, the Churchill Archive and Drama Online. The two digital collections will launch during 2012 under the Bloomsbury Academic imprint of the London-based literary and reference publisher.
Specializing in the humanities and social sciences, Bloomsbury Academic publishes more than 1,000 books each year, maintains a backlist of about 20,000 titles, and is aggressively expanding its online portfolio of digital resources with collections such as Berg Fashion Library, Churchill Archive and Drama Online.
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The Churchill Archive makes accessible nearly one million documents amassed by Winston S. Churchill throughout his life. Published electronically in collaboration with the Sir Winston Churchill Archive Trust and Churchill Heritage Ltd, and previously only available on microfilm, the collection is designed as a research and teaching resource documenting Churchill’s engagement in national and international affairs over six decades of public life as soldier, journalist, wartime leader and historian. Drama Online aggregates the most studied, performed and critically acclaimed plays from the last two and half thousand years from the Methuen Drama, Arden Shakespeare and Faber lists. The collection meets the full range of drama teaching needs, incorporating critical analysis, contextual information, performance and practitioner texts from theory to backstage and acting guides coupled with video and audio material.
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Americans Have a Great Day at Farr 40 Europeans
Plenty and Barking Mad are sitting pretty after two races
Porto Rotondo, Italy 30 September 2010
Day One of the Farr 40 European Championship 2010 saw the ten competing yachts complete two windward-leeward races in light and tricky conditions. Jim Richardson’s Barking Mad (USA) with Hamish Pepper onboard calling tactics leads the provisional overall. Behind Richardson is Plenty (USA), owned by Alex Roepers and with Chris Larson picking the shifts who is equal with Massimo Mezzaroma in the third.
After a long wait off Porto Rotondo during which the fleet got in some practice starts, Race One of the series finally got off to a start at 3:00 p.m. in light 7 knot oeast south-easterly breeze. Plenty dominated from the off and was followed round the windward mark and the leeward gate by Nerone, current Farr 40 World Champion with Vasco Vascotto calling tactics. On the second upwind leg both Plenty and Barking Mad chose the left and at the mark Barking Mad had climbed up the fleet to second place ahead of Nerone, all three held their positions to the finish.
By the start of Race Two the area’s prevailing Mistral wind was blowing off the coast at approximately 12 knots. Once again Plenty was hot off the mark but the top end of the fleet remained compact as they rounded the windward mark with Roepers leading Struntje Light (GER), owned by Wolfgang Schaefer, Barking Mad and Andrea Canavesio’s Mangusta Risk (ITA).
Nerone and Fiamma (ITA) with ETNZ's gun tactician and one of the sport's hardest working yachtsmen onboard, were over the start line early and the resulting penalty left them buried in the fleet. The wind swung right for the second upwind beat and Barking Mad rounded firstt pushing Mangusta Risk into second with Alberto Rossi’s Enfant Terrible in third, while Plenty had slipped back to sixth. Mangusta Risk took the lead on the final downwind leg but it was a real dog fight as Barking Mad snuck across the line within inches of the Italian boat. Enfant Terrible, with Pietro D’Alì on tactics took third while Nerone recovered to finish fourth after fighting their way back from ninth place on the first upwind leg.
Jim Richardson, owner of Barking Mad, was beaming dockside after the first day’s results.
“It was very shifty, sometimes there was good breeze and sometimes there wasn’t, but we did a pretty good job of sailing the shifts and being in the right place on the course and it worked out pretty well," he said.
“In the second race, we rounded the leeward gate fourth with Plenty leading Struntje and Mangusta. Struntje and Mangusta then went to the left hand side of the course and we went right, Mangusta came back with us and Plenty tacked off and went right and the left filled in with pressure and we got around all of them. Then we had a run to the finish line neck and neck with Mangusta the whole way and we just nipped them at the finish line.”The Hip Young Brits onboard Hooligan VI don't have Stuey from The Family Guy as their (inflatable) mascot this year but tactican Aaron Cooper said the vibe is very positive amongst their young camp. "We've improved over the last year and posting a seventh today in the first race was awesome for our team's morale," Cooper said. Racing is scheduled to continue tomorrow, Friday October 1, at 11:00 am. North-westerly winds of 12 to 14 knots are predicted.
Provisional results
1 USA 50455 BARKING MAD James Richardson, (1) 3.0 2 1
2 USA 60059 PLENTY Alex Roepers, (9) 7.0 1 6
3 ITA 1972 NERONE Massimo Mezzaroma, (8) 7.0 3 4
4 ITA 4003 MANGUSTA RISK Andrea Canavesio, (3) 12.0 10 2
5 ITA 40091 ENFANT TERRIBLE Alberto Rossi, (6) 12.0 9 3
6 ITA 252 FIAMMA Alessandro Barnaba, (4) 12.0 5 7
7 GER 40 STRUNTJE LIGHT Wolfgang Schaefer, (10) 13.0 8 5
8 DEN 2007 MONICK David Holm, (7) 14.0 4 10
9 MON 69 CHARISMA Nico Poons, (2) 14.0 6 8
10 GBR 7400 HOOLIGAN 6 Edward Broadway, (5) 16.0 7 9
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Plenty of Breeze at Farr 40 Europeans in Porto Rotondo
Nerrone will have their work cut out for them if they are to successfully to defend their Farr 40 2009 European title.
There is some serious sailing talent amongst this fleet and while Terry Hutchinson is absent from Jim Richardson's Barking Mad this week due to commitments on Quantum Racing in Valencia, the current world champions have snared Kiwi tactician Hamish Pepper.
Ed Broadway and his young and hungry team on Hooligan VI are back for another crack at it, while rising bowman Morgan Gutenkunst, fresh from finishing fifth at the Melges 32 Worlds in San Francisco last week, will sail on Plenty, also his ride for the Farr 40 Worlds in Sydney next February.
Photo: Lulu Roseman
Noticeably absent this year is Vincenzo Onarato and the Italian Rascals, Mascalzone Latino, which has had to switch focus to the 34th America's Cup and competing in the RC 44 Class who have their Worlds in Lanzarote next week.
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Let the debate continue - Is San Fran venue to host the 34th America's Cup?
Check out this story in the San Francisco Chronicle. We checked out the proposed venue in San Francisco on the other side of the Bay Bridge last week during the Melges 32 Worlds and it's not that grim.
It could work really well depending on budget, design and a major increase in infrastructure. Like in Valencia, at this stage of the game this is where the focus of the event is on property rather than yacht racing. But if these guys get it right we could see not only one of the most spectacular yachting events ever staged but one that will change the face of our sport forever.
The Mayor's Office and the City of San Francisco have got a tough battle ahead of them to have their proposal accepted by Larry, Russell and Co.
Clink on this link for the article:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2010%2F09%2F28%2FBAV61FKTG8.DTL#ixzz10rLSbtI8
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Slingo nominated for ISAF Rolex World Sailor Of The Year Award
Australia's Tom Slingsby has been nominated for the ISAF Rolex World Yachtsman of the Year which will be announced in Athens on the 9th of November, 2010. Over the last 12 months Slingsby, a three time Laser World Champion, has racked up some very impressive results.
He started the nomination period with a win at Skandia Sail for Gold 2009 and repeated the result at the 2010 regatta. In the meantime he has won almost every event he has raced in.
He kicked of the 2009 Australian summer season in his Laser by winning Sail Sydney and the Australian National Title. He went on to take out the Etchells National Title and the Farr 40 National in March.
As tactician onboard the Farr 40 Transfusion, he helped his team to a second overall at the Rolex Farr 40 Worlds in the Dominican Republic in April before returning to the Laser and the European circuit of the ISAF Sailing World Cup. He sailed at three of the 2009-10 regattas and won them all: Delta Lloyd, Kieler Woche and Skandia Sail for Gold. He also picked up the bronze medal at the Laser Europeans in Estonia.Between gold medals in the Laser,
Slingsby travelled to Howth in Ireland with his Etchells team of America's Cup winning skipper, John Bertrand and Olympian, Andrew Palfrey. They took charge from the second day of racing and with five race wins from the nine race series, they were able to sit out the final race and still be crowned 2010 World Champions. His most recent score was in the Laser World Championship at Hayling Island, UK where again he dominated and snatched his third Laser World Title with a 36-point margin over the silver medallist.
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Loki wins the Bird Island Race
Photo: Andrea Francolini
Stephen Ainsworth's RP 63 Loki has racked up another win as Australia's top IRC yacht taking out line honours in the Bird Island Race.
Loki has won the 2009/2010 Audi IRC Australian Championship, the Audi Sydney Gold Coast Race and Audi Hamilton Island Race Week IRC Grand Prix in August and now the the first race of the Blue Water Point Score. Loki is without a doubt the boat to beat.
Bob Oatley’s R/P 66 Wild Oats X, with recently appointed AC34 Regatta Director, Iain Murray at the helm, claimed line honours, finishing on Saturday morning at 07.26.08am in the time of 12 hours 26mins 8secs.
Loki finished the 85 nautical mile race next at 07.46.26am, with Syd Fischer’s TP52, Ragamuffin, third home, just over three hours later.
On finishing, Loki’s helmsman, Gordon Maguire, was convinced they didn’t have a chance of winning.
“I’d suggest it’s not a big boat race, but Ragamuffin was doing really well, the best of the big boats,” he said. Fischer had obviously wiped off the jetlag after only returning from the 12 Metre America’s Cup Legends Reunion in Rhode Island earlier in the week.
The excitement will build when RAN arrives from Italy to fight it out with Loki for overall handicap honours in the Rolex Sydney to Hobart later this year. RAN consider the race to be unfinished business, so Maguire might have to watch his back.
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Matador Win The Audi MedCup Sardinia Trophy
Matador, the 2009 TP52 World Champions, have won the Audi MedCup Region of Sardinia Trophy Regatta a clear 13 points ahead of Audi A1 powered by All4ONE.
The wind in Cagliari was a consistent at 25 knots for the last day of the Audi MedCup and while Emirates Team New Zealand have nailed the series, the real battle was between Quantum and Matador for second place overall. These two were neck on neck on the start line of the day's only race with Quantum leading Matador down the first beat on the right hand side of the racecourse.
Photo: Nico Martinez/Audi MedCup
But ETNZ had good boat speed and powered their way up the first beat and these conditions are perfect for the Kiwis. The weight is all at the back of the boat and they are hiking out but Team Origin picked up some good pressure on the the left grab the lead at the windward mark first.
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The Kiwi's Nail It in Cagliari
Emirates Team New Zealand have won the MedCup 2010 series for the second year running.
Photo: Stefano Gattini_Studio Borlenghi/Audi MedCup
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Italians Do It With Style at Melges 32 Worlds
The weather was perfect today for the final two races of the Melges 32 Worlds in San Francisco but no one, not even Russell Coutts, could stop the Italians.
Photo: Chris Ray
Luca Lalli, 25, and his crew on B-Lin have achieved quite a lot in the last nine days. First the won the Melges 32 division at Rolex Big Boat and today they have been crowned the 2010 Melges 32 World Champions.
Top Ten Results (After 10 races, 1 discard)
1.) Luca Lalli/Lorenzo Bressani, B-lin Sailing; [15]-6-1-8-8-2-7-4-9-3 = 48
2.) John Porter/Jonathan McKee, Full Throttle; 3-[23]-10-4-4-11-4-2-4-17/ZFP = 59
3.) Jeff Ecklund/Harry Melges III, STAR; 6-[19]-9-13-1-8-1-10-5-10 = 63
4.) Andy Lovell/Johnny Lovell, Rougarou; 2-4-3-25-13-6-8-6-1-[31] = 68
5.) Steve Howe/Morgan Larson, Warpath; [33/DSQ]-9-17-5-12-1-11-7-13-2 = 77
6.) Alex Jackson/Rob Greenhalgh, Leenabarca; 10-5-4-21-6-5-[24]-21-8-1 = 81
7.) Doug Douglas/Russell Coutts, Goombay Smash; 13-1-14-1-[25]-9-9-16-20-4 = 87
8.) Joe Woods/Paul Goodison, Red; 7-20-5-9-10-[33/DNF]-6-8-11-5-6-17 = 88
9.) Pieter Taselaar/Jeremy Wilmot, Bliksem; [23]-12-2-14-2-13-16-22-11-5 = 97
10.) Yukihiro Ishida/Tony Rey, Yasha Samurai; 4-21-11-16-11-[24]-17-5-2-12 = 99
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Bronco takes a big bite out of RED at Melges 32 Worlds, San Francisco
In the final race yesterday Bronco and Red were involved in a collision and thanks to the right connections both boats will race today. Red hoisted their protest flag however neither boat was at fault and the protest was dismissed.
Photo: Courtesy of DCM Enterprises
A team from DCM Enterprises worked on both boats all night so they can rejoin the fleet today.
Morgan Gutenkunst who does the bow on Warpath said: "It's very fortunate that the guys had resources handy to repair the damage and get back out on the water. With two days of racing left it would have been a real bummer to lose two teams."
Photo: Sarah Proctor
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MedCup Racing Postponed Today
It's raining cats and dogs in Cagliari and with wind shifts of 180 degrees on the racecourse it is not going to be possible to run any racing today in the Audi MedCup.
But the big news today is that in 2010 the Soto 40 will join the Audi MedCup circuit, replacing the GP42 class and Brazil's five time Olympic medalist Toben Grael has bought one of these yachts.
For all the news visit http://www.medcup.org/news/soto-40-joins-for-the-2011-circuit_4091
San Francisco Turns on The Sunshine for Coutts and Co
It was another awesome day of racing in San Francisco at the 2010 Melges 32 World Championship, hosted by the St. Francis Yacht Club. Three heats resulted in three different winners in absolutely stunning conditions. Overnight leader Andy Lovell on Rougarou was toppled by Luca Lalli's B-Lin Sailing now in first place overall, while Alex Jackson's Leenabaca remains in third.
The last and final race of the day took place around 4:30 pm in the best breeze of the day with another five-legged upwind finish. First around was Steve Howe on Warpath with a solid set taking him to the gate firmly in the lead.
"Today was great." said Warpath tactician Morgan Larson. "We finally got around the course quite well." Howe dominated that late afternoon racing scene with Lalli grabbing on for second place position, chasing for the top spot. Kip Meadows and his roXanneMelges 32 had a much better day taking third. All finished in respective order.
After six races and a discard, Lalli now leads the competition, moving him three notches to take first place, easing overnight leader Andy Lovell into second. Alex Jackson remains in third, Porter moves up five spots for fourth and Jeff Ecklund's outstanding performance today edged him up three places to finish fifth overall.
Top Ten Results (After 6 Races 1 discard)
1.) Luca Lalli/Lorenzo Bressani, B-lin Sailing; [15]-6-1-8-8-2 = 25
2.) Andy Lovell/Johnny Lovell, Rougarou; 2-4-3-[25]-13-6 = 28
3.) Alex Jackson/Rob Greenhalgh, Leenabarca; 10-5-4-[21]-6-5 = 23
4.) John Porter/Jonathan McKee, Full Throttle; 3-[23]-10-4-4-11 = 32
5.) Jeff Ecklund/Harry Melges III, STAR; 6-[19]-9-13-1-8 = 37
6.) Doug Douglas/Russell Coutts, Goombay Smash; 13-1-14-1-[25]-9 = 38
7.) Pieter Taselaar/Jeremy Wilmot, Bliksem; [23]-12-2-14-2-23 = 43
8.) Steve Howe/Morgan Larson, Warpath; [33/DSQ]-9-17-5-12-1 = 44
9.) Kip Meadows/Andy Horton, roXanne; 17-7-13-6-[19]-3 = 46
10.) Jean Francois Cruette/Christian Ponthieu, Teasing Machine; [22]-17-6-3-16-7 = 49
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Sydney San Francisco, CA, USA
Stir Fry... Simon Fry Says...
Simon Fry the trimmer onboard Matador shares his thoughts:
On the briefing this morning and whether they discussed how to avoid a repeat of last season's error:
“As you can imagine that played a little part in the discussions this morning about how far we should be off that headland. It was a different breeze, approaching with the A3 at speed rather than in a dying breeze with the Code Zero, it was a different scenario.
Photo: Ian Roman/Audi MedCup
“We duked it out at the pin with Artemis, but to be fair they probably did a better job at the start but Guillermo did a really neat job, a skinny build, living off them. Then three or four minutes into the race Audi had double tacked up off the start line and we were almost up to their line, we started to let it rip, a small left shift and then we had a lucky lane and that was it.
"But to be fair, the boat is really, really strong in 12 knots. This is down to the optimisation, the way the boat is set up, where Rolf Vrolijk pitched the boat and how Flipper (Paul Westlake) trims the main. It all just fits together. We have always been strong in these conditions. The boat is virtually unbeaten in Palma and these are Palma style conditions. The coastal races have never been our real strength but today things just came together.”
by Audi MedCup Media Team
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Matador Wins Coastal Race at Cagliari
In a light to moderate sea breezes, which built to 12kts midway through the race, the start was critical, setting the order for the windward mark, where Matador lead.
On the long reach across the Bay of Cagliari towards ‘that’ point, the Capo St Elia to the east ofCagliari, Matador were the only team among the leading group to set and hold on to an A3 reaching kite while their pursuers used jibs. That decision gave Matador a small boost and allowed them to extend their lead on the run down into the Bay of Angels, to the leeward turning mark off the beach at Poetto.
On the second run back to the same leeward mark Quantum Racing overhauled second placed Jochen Schuemann’s Audi A1 powered by All4One - which had movie actor Jean Reno, star of the Da Vinci Code, Leon, the Big Blue and Mission Impossible - riding at the back as a guest.
Quantum takes the lift ahead of Team Origin and Artemis Photo: Ian Roman
The 2008 champions Quantum then held off a spirited attack from Artemis, with owner Torbjorn Tornqvist (SWE) back on the wheel this week. On the final sprint under reaching gennakers into the harbour mouth, taking second just ahead of the team which won the coastal race here last year.
With a sold fifth place Synergy hold on to second place in the Region of Sardinia Trophy Regatta standings only 2.5 points ahead of Terry Hutchinson’s crew on Quantum Racing. But with two days and four races still scheduled of this event, no one is going to catch the Kiwi's, but the other podium positions are wide open.
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Boom Crash Bang..Ouch...
Audi A1 powered by All4One unfortunately smacked into the aft quarter of Bribon during Race 6 at Audi MedCup in Cagliari yesterday, ending the Spanish boat's regatta and their 2010 MedCup series.
It was a huge mistake by Jochen Schuemann in what was a classic/port situation at the first top mark, where Audi A1 on port was preparing to duck behind Bribon who were coming in on starboard. Audi A1's bow sprit pierced Bribon's hull and knocked their tactician Ian Walker clean off his feet. Luckily no one was injured.
After yesterday's collision with AudiAll4One, Bribon will not be able to compete in the rest of the regatta. The Spanish team was not at any fault in any way and have been granted redress. Bribon has been scored third place in Race 6, been credited eight points for today's coastal race and 5.3 points in Races 8, 9 and 10.
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Kiwis Continue Their Domination at MedCup in Cagliari
Photo: Ainhoa Sanchez/Audi MedCup
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New Boat for Hutch and Co
Quantum Racing will start the 2011 season at Audi Med Cup with a brand new boat. The 52 Series designed by Botin Carkeek, is currently being to built by Chimo Lopez Longitude Zero in Burriana, Spain.
The new Quantum Racing will be ready for launch and testing early in the new year. Currently they lie in second place overall behind Emirates Team New Zealand for the 2010 series and will round off their European summer by competing in the 52 Series Worlds in Valencia next month.
The Spanish Are Firing on All Cylinders in Sardinia
Photo: NIco Martinez/MedCup
José Cusi’s Bribón stole the show from the leading pair Emirates Team New Zealand and TeamOrigin to win the practice race for the TP52 Series off Cagliari in a light sea-breeze today.
Although TeamOrigin (GBR) lead Audi MedCup title holders Emirates Team New Zealand (NZL) around the first windward mark, Bribón (ESP) proved to be serious contenders.
Approaching the first turn on port tack, tactician Ian Walker (GBR) prudently chose to have helm Gonzalo Aurajo (ESP) duck behind the leading pair to be safe, rounding third just ahead of Audi A1 ALL4ONE (FRA/GER).
The French-German team were quick downwind and got up to third, but Walker astutely called the extra new breeze on the final run, holding left, which allowed them to steal across the front of Emirates Team New Zealand. TeamOrigin chose not to cross the finish line.
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Turning up the heat at MedCup
While we freeze through another foggy day in San Francisco, there were two practice starts today at Audi Med Cup in Cagliari, Sardinia which allow the teams to get used to the conditions and refine their starting, before the Practice Race itself.
After a Mistral day yesterday, with fantastic conditions very typical of the Gulf of Cagliari – flat waters and powerful, fast sailing – there is some residual Nor’easterly Mistral around this morning. But the sun is out, the seas inviting and after a cool early morning there is a good chance of thermal breeze coming in for the early afternoon.
That means an initial fight, with 4-10 knots of E-ESE’ly breeze resulting around start time of 1300hrs, and through the afternoon it should average out to around 8-12 knots.
Emirates Team New Zealand were the top team on the water yesterday in informal practice, but the winds are going to be slightly gentler.
The final regatta of the 2010 season has attracted ten TP52 Series.
Italians Rule San Fran to Win Commodores Cup
After four days of racing in conditions that ranged from breezy to light air to being so foggy the fleet struggled to find the marks, Luca Lalli and his crew on B-linhas won the Commodores Cup at Rolex Big Boat Series. The Melges 32 division was the Pre-Worlds for the Melges 32 Worlds which starts here in San Francisco tomorrow.
Photo: Daniel Foster/Rolex
With only one point separating the Italians from Star going in to the final day's competition it was a nail biter as they had to keep an eye out for Bilksem. But when Star mysteriously pulled out (we all know that old sailor's tale that it's bad luck to win the pre-Worlds or as in this case the series), Bilksem was the boat Lalli had to beat.
But the Milanese sailor and his all Italian crew were having none of that superstitious thought process.
"You have to believe in your potential and make all you can for a win" Lalli said. Winning a Rolex watch was the icing on the cake and will replace the leather/rope braided bracelets on his left arm. "Really? That is so great as I was needing to buy a watch."
Rolex Big Boat Series 2010
Day 4 (after seven races)
Melges 32 (One Design - 27 Boats)
1. B-lin sailing, Melges 32, Luca Lalli, Milano, ITA - 5, 3, 4, 3, 18, 1, 1, ; 35
2. Bliksem, Melges 32, Pieter Taselaar, Scarsdale, NY, USA - 2, 1, 8, 2, 19, 7, 2, ; 41
3. Red, Melges 32, Joe Woods, Torquay, Devon, UK - 1, 12, 6, 5, 14, 5, 7, ; 50
J 120 (One Design - 8 Boats)
1. Dayenu, J 120, Donald Payan, Hillsborough, CA, USA - 3, 1, 5, 1, 2, 1, 2, ; 15
2. Mr. Magoo, J 120, Stephen Madeira, Menlo Park, CA, USA - 7, 2, 1, 3, 1, 4, 3, ; 21
3. Desdemona, J 120, John S. Wimer, Half Moon Bay, CA, USA - 1, 5, 2, 4, 3, 2, 7, ; 24
Express 37 (One Design - 8 Boats)
1. Golden Moon, Express 37, Kame Richards / Bill Bridge, Alameda, CA, USA - 2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 1, ; 11
2. Eclipse, Express 37, Mark Dowdy, San Francisco, CA, USA - 1, 4, 3, 3, 1, 3, 4, ; 19
3. Elan, Express 37, Bill Riess, Oakland, CA, USA - 4, 2, 6, 1, 2, 2, 7, ; 24
J 105 (One Design - 24 Boats)
1. Arbitrage, J 105, Bruce J. Stone, San Francisco, CA, USA - 1, 4, 2, 3, 5, 7, 5, ; 27
2. Blackhawk, J 105, Scooter Simmons, Belvedere, CA, USA - 5, 1, 4, 11, 1, 10, 1, ; 33
3. Mojo, J 105, Jeff Littfin / John Case, San Mateo, CA, USA - 4, 2, 7, 4, 12, 5, 7, ; 41
IRC A (IRC - 5 Boats)
1. Vincitore, RP 52, James Mitchell, Zurich, Switzerland - 1, 1, 3, 2, 2, 3, 4, ; 16
2. Patches, TP 52, Jorge Ripstein, Naucalpan, MEX - 2, 6/DSQ, 1, 1, 1, 1, 5, ; 17
3. Flash, TP 52, Mick Shelns / Mark Jones, Diablo, CA, USA - 3, 2, 2, 4/SCP, 5, 2, 1, ; 19
IRC B (IRC - 7 Boats)
1. Soozal, King 40, Daniel Woolery, Alamo, CA, USA - 4, 1, 2, 3/SCP, 1, 2, 1, ; 14
2. Kokopelli2, Santa Cruz 52, Lani Spund, Los Gatos, CA, USA - 5, 2, 5, 5, 3, 1, 2, ; 23
3. Flyer, Reichel-Pugh 47, Rob Sjostedt, Foothill Ranch, CA, USA - 2, 4, 1, 3, 7/SCP, 4, 3, ; 24
IRC C (IRC - 6 Boats)
1. Wasabi, Kernan 44, Dale Williams, San Francisco, CA, USA - 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, ; 7
2. Double Trouble, J 125, Andy Costello / Peter Kreuger, Pt. Richmond, CA, USA - 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 2, 4, ; 18
3. August Ice, J 125, Richard Ferris, Tahoe City, CA, USA - 3.5, 3, 3, 2, 2, 3, 2, ; 18.5
IRC D (IRC - 7 Boats)
1. Electra, J 109, Thomas Brott, Cypress, CA, USA - 4, 8/DNF, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, ; 19
2. Tupelo Honey, Elan 40, Gerard Sheridan, San Francisco, CA, USA - 1, 4, 3, 4, 1, 2, 5, ; 20
3. Hawkeye, IMX-38, Frank Morrow, San Francisco, CA, USA - 3, 1, 2, 6, 3, 3, 3, ; 21
One Design 35 (One Design - 6 Boats)
1. Dark and Stormy, 1D35, Jonathan Hunt, oakland, CA, USA - 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, ; 8
2. Ebb Tide, 1D35, Masakazu Toyama, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, JPN - 2, 1, 5, 4, 2, 5, 5, ; 24
3. Zsa Zsa, 1D35, Stanley Glaros, San Francisco, CA, USA - 5, 3, 3, 5, 3, 2, 3, ; 24
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Vincitore Win Rolex Big Boat
In IRC A, at Rolex Big Boat in San Francisco, it was a full-on match race between Vincitore and Patches and with Kiwi Chris Dickson on the helm, Vincitore took home the watch. The plan was just to get a good start ahead of Patches, sail fast and keep them behind.
Luca Lalli owner of B-lin (Melges 32) with Vincitore's owner Jim Mitchell
“Usually you plan it all out and it doesn’t happen like you want it to,” said Dickson, an America’s Cup veteran and multiple World Match Racing Champion.
“But this was one of those times that it worked out. Having said that,they still had a good shot at it. At the last mark (only five minutes away from the downwind finish), with all that work done, we still needed 10-15 seconds on our time to beat them. We ended up with about 30 seconds.”
Vincitore finished fourth to Patches’s fifth, making it a one-point difference in total scores for each.
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BF named as America's Cup Regatta Director
The Big Fella glams it up at 2010 Hamilton Island Race
Australia's Iain Murray, aka the Big Fella, has been appointed as the Regatta Director and CEO of the independent organisation, America's Cup Race Management, for the 34th America's Cup.
'I think the technology we saw in the 33rd America’s Cup makes it hard to go backwards. The trick we’ll have is to marry the commercial demands of modern sailing with the principles of the America’s Cup,' Murray said.
'It’s hard not to be impressed by the commitment BMW ORACLE Racing, Russell Coutts and Larry Ellison have made to fix this thing,' said Murray. 'This is very dear to my heart. I’d move mountains to be involved.'
Patches and Vincitore tied
It will be a real battle today in IRC A at Rolex Big Boat Regatta in San Francisco. Jim Mitchell’s (Zurich, Switzerland) RP 52 Vincitore is tied on points with Jorge Ripstein’s (Naucalpan, MEX) RP 52Patches, which again won both races yesterday.
When asked if he’d put his match racing skills into play as tactician of Patches, America’s Cup veteran Peter Holmberg (St. Thomas, USVI) said, “Why wouldn’t I?”
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America's Cup News - AC72
AC72 design rule published
The box rule for the 34th America's Cup weapon is revealed
The draft rule for the new AC72 Class of solid wingsail catamarans to be used for the 34th America's Cup has been published (download on the article page).
AC72 design parameters:
LOA: 22.0 meters (72 feet)
Beam: 14.0 meters (46 feet)
Displacement: 5,700 kilograms (12,500 pounds)
All-up weight: 7,000 kilograms (15,500 pounds)
Wingsail area: 260 square meters (2,800 square feet)
Wingsail height: 40 meters (130 feet)
Wingsail chord: 8.5 meters (28 feet)
Sail trimming: Manual grinders
Configuration: Twin-hulled catamaran
Crew: 11
Sail trimming: No mechanically powered systems
Sail area reduction: Removable top sections/leech elements
Appendages: Maximum of 2 rudders, 2 daggerboards
Construction: Minimum 600 grams/square-meter outer-skin;
High-modulus carbon-fiber permitted in wingsail spar
The AC72 Class Rule was drafted by a distinguished group of consultants, chaired by Pete Melvin, on behalf of US Sailing.
Melvin, formerly a designer of aircraft for the McDonnell Douglas Corp. is a champion multihull sailor, having twice won the A Class Catamaran World Championship. Morrelli & Melvin Design & Engineering, Inc., also designed the record-setting maxi catamaran PlayStation.
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Adios Amigos, Patches Smoke the fleet
The foggy San Franciscan weather might be hiding the city's iconic bridge, but spirits are high on the water in the second day of the Rolex Big Boat Series.
The IRC A fleet kicked off racing when the AP flag came down and Mayhem gave current point score leader Vincetore a run for their money but the Mexican boat, Patches, sailed flawlessly and got the gun.
Goombay Got Smashed
Though today’s two opening races at the 46th annual Rolex Big Boat Series were partly shrouded in fog, it did nothing to dampen the spirits among 98 teams competing on San Francisco Bay. Over 1000 sailors have converged on St. Francis Yacht Club for the four-day event, including world champions, America’s Cup and Volvo Ocean Race veterans as well as California’s top names in sailing. The IRC division of 25 boatsis split into four classes, while the 73 teams in One Design division are divided into five classes: Melges 32s, J/105, J/120, Express 37 and One Design 35.
Pieter Taselaar’s (Scarsdale, N.Y.) Bliksem, the 2009 Melges 32 world champion, showed its winning form with a 1-2 today in what is serving as the 2010 Melges 32 Pre-Worlds. (Twenty-seven of the 32 teams expected to compete next week at the World Championship are on the line.)
“We had a really good fight back in the first race after a bad start,” said Bliksem’s pit man Mike Coxson (Sydney, Australia). “In the second race, we hit the first couple shifts just right and then we had Alcatraz Island in the middle and had to decide ‘do we go left or right?’ We were happy to go right and when we saw some of the local boats do the same we knew that was a good sign.” Coxson said the fog made it difficult to find lay lines but the 12-17 knots balanced that difficulty with “good fun on the downwind legs,” of which they had two on twice-around windward leeward courses, each between 10 and 12 miles.
Doug Douglass’s Goombay Smash, a Melges 32, had a tough day at the office suffering damage after a T-bone incident with Stuart Simpson’s Team Barbarians at the weather mark in the first race. A simple port-starboard incident left the hot-to-trot “Smashers” limping into the harbour with a nasty gash, but with repairs, the boat is expected back on the water tomorrow.
Rolex Big Boat Set to Rock San Fran
The big guns are expected to be firing on San Francisco Bay tomorrow when the 99 strong fleet week hit the water for the first day of the Rolex Big Boat Series.
The Melges 32 class are using the event to stage their pre-Worlds ahead of next week's Worlds and some of North America's top IRC and one design classes will also be competing.
The forecast is for south westerly winds to peak at 25 knots over the four day event known as North America's premier yachting regatta.
The Australian sailors who will be racing include Nathan Menzies, Nathan Outteridge Jamie Wilmont, Nathan Wilmont, Kyle Langford, Alex Cooke, Michael Coxon and Sydney's Dallas Kilponen will again be onboard last year's overall winner,the RP-52, Vincitore,
Sydney's Darren "Twirler" Jones is racing with Phillipe Khan's Pegasus-MotionX who will also compete next week in the Melges 32 Worlds. Let the action begin.
The 34th America's Cup will be raced in 2013 on AC72 Catamarans
Are We Ready For a Gnarly Boat, Edgy Media Coverage and Cooler America's Cup? The 34th America's Cup will be raced on a new class of boat, an AC 72, a catamaran with a 40 metre wing sail.
The vision is for the 34th America's Cup is for the event to be a true multi media experience in order to capture the imagination of a wider audience. Part of this new initiative includes having camera operators onboard during racing to provide live streaming of the action and transmitting in 3D is also being explored.
Pete Melvin of is in charge of the design and he believes the acceleration will be incredibly fast and very exciting.
BMW Oracle Racing's Russell Coutts reckons the AC72 is a seriously cool boat and not only will crew numbers be reduced by six, from 17 to 11 but they will be more exciting for both sailors and spectators.
Another boat, an AC45, a baby sister to the AC72 will be built and used in the Pre-Regattas that will commence in June 2011 at a European venue yet to be confirmed.
A Youth America's Cup Regatta Circuit wil be established on AC45's to attract the best of the next generation of sailors. This circuit is likely to commence in 2012.
The courses will designed in consultation with the teams and the as yet to be appointed Regatta Director. The first AC45 boat will be launched in New Zealand in December 2010.
Rumours persist but all will be revealed later today
Photo: Jill Mantz
Word on the street is that the new yacht class for the 34th America's up will be a 70 foot multi-hull, because two are currently under construction at a boatyard in Warkworth, New Zealand.
But all will be revealed today at 1:00pm in Valencia (9:00pm Sydney, EST) when BMW Oracle's CEO, Russell Coutts holds a press conference to announce the new boat, the new format, the rules for competitors and what year the Cup will be held.
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RAN Rack Up Another Victory....Next Stop Sydney
Photo: © Carlo Berlenghi/Rolex
Rolex Maxi Worlds: Porto Cervo - Saturday 11 September 2010
The most surprising result at the Rolex Maxi Worlds was in the Mini Maxi division when the Judel/Vrolijk designed seventy-two footer Rán put her troubles of yesterday aside and scored two bullets to steal the World Championship from under the nose of Andres Soriano’s Alegre (GBR), which had led the series from day one.
The first hour-long race was relatively straightforward. Rán winning by over a minute on corrected time from Hap Fauth’s Bella Mente (USA). Significantly, Alegre were down in fourth. The pressure was on. A four-point lead over a supposedly wounded opponent had been reduced to just one. The north wind appeared to be looking after its own.
The second race saw a huge left-shift and the boats were over the line early and an apparent massive pin-end bias all culminated in an abandonment before the windward mark. Deep breath all round, before trying a second time.
Rán had a game plan, which took some nerve to maintain, according to her stand-in strategist, Olympic medallist, Thierry Peponnet.
"On the second race we wanted to be to leeward of our opponents because we expected the wind to go left. At the start there was a right shift which didn't help us. It did go left eventually, but very later and only once we were at the top mark. Shockwave was leading at this point and doing a very good job. Fortunately we were very fast downwind and I was really impressed by the boat speed," Peponnet said.
For Ran's owner, Niklas Zennstrom the result is a dream come true after what has been a challenging week.
"I am very, very proud of the team. It has been hard. We had a dreadful start on the first day, lost our strategist Tim Powell through a land-based injury and then hit a rock. It has been a struggle," Zennstrom said.
“Before yesterday, we were behind by only one point. It went pear-shape when we hit the rock and had to pull out. We knew it was still possible to win, but only if we won both races and Alegre had two poor races..”
Rán’s physical shape was uncertain. There was no where to lift the yacht last night and properly check the damage, so there was some finger-crossing onboard the largely British crewed boat.
“We didn’t know this morning if the keel would stay on and it was quite a lumpy sea. We made the decision that if we heard anything we would bear away quickly. Before the start we sailed upwind, hit a few big waves and thought ‘the keel is still hanging on so let's still go for it’.”
MAXI YACHT ROLEX CUP - PROVISIONAL FINAL STANDINGS
Maxi (Racing & Racing/Cruising)
1) Esimit Europa 2, Igor Simcic, 1-2-1-1-(DNC 7), 5.0 points
2) Highland Fling, Irvine Laidlaw, (2)-1-2-2-1, 6.0
3) Singularity, Deniy Yacht Mngmt, (4)-3-3-4-2, 12.0
Supermaxi/J Boats
1) Ranger, R.S.V. Ltd, 1-1-1-(2)-1, 4.0 points
2) Velsheda, Tarbat Investment, 2-3-(7)-1-2, 8.0
3) Hetairos, Rockport Ltd, (8)-2-3-3-4, 12.0
Supermaxi
1) Hetairos, Rockport Ltd, (8)-2-3-3-4, 6.0 points
2) Gliss, Marco Vogele, 3-(7)-4-2-1, 10.0
3) Visione, Hasso Plattner, (4)-3-1-3-3, 10.0
1) Y3k, Claus Peter Offen, 2-2-2-1-(4)-1, 8.0 points
2) Magic Carpet 2, Lindsay Owen Jones, (5)-1-3-4-2-4, 14.0
3) Indio, Andrea Recordati, (4)-3-4-2-3-3, 15.0
Mini Maxi Rolex World Championship
1) Ran, Niklas Zennstrom (GBR), 6-2-1-2-2-2-DNF(25)-1-1, 17.0 points
2) Alegre (GBR), Andy Soriano, 1-1-4-1-1-4-3-4-(5), 19.0
3) Shockwave (NZL), Neville Crichton, 2-3-2-(5)-5-3-4-3-2, 24.0
Mini Maxi Racer-Cruiser
1) Aegir, Brian Benjamin (GBR), 8-8-13-8-(140-9-2-6-9, 63.0 points
2) Stig, Alessandro Rombelli (ITA), (14)-7-8-14-11-13-7-13-6, 79.0
3) Charis, Fabio Mangifesta (ITA), 11-13-(18)-13-9-10-5-7-14, 82.0
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Carnage on the race course at Maxi Worlds
Photo: Carlo Borlenghi/Rolex
Shockwave (NZL) was the first Mini Maxi to cross the line. Owner Neville Crichton viewed this as positive, but his overall result as a disappointment after a promising start. Shockwave was the only boat to reach Monaci before the 30.5 metre Esimit, no doubt a satisfying achievement for the blue boat’s former owner. Had she not been stymied subsequently by the wind, Shockwave would have been odds on favourite to reach the next turning mark in the lead too, so much was she in control.
Crichton described his day, “we were leading all the way to Monaci. Then the boats behind carried the breeze up and three passed us. We had to fight our way back through coming down Bomb Alley. We got back in the lead, but only marginally, about ten lengths on Alegre, I guess. We needed the racetrack to keep going, but it did not work that way. It was a good day, though. At least we led from the beginning! With Rán hitting the rock, I’d say we’re back in for a crack at second (overall) tomorrow. Not first; Alegre just needs one good race to close it out.”
Licking their wounds in Mini Maxi are Container and Rán. At press time Udo Schutz’s Container is the worse off. Her racing series is definitely over after her encounter with the rocks off Isola del Bisce. According to the crew it was a total surprise to strike the hard stuff, the chart showed them to be in at least 10-metres of water. Perched on the mystery outcrop, the German mini maxi formed a temporary mark warning the passing fleet of the perils of Porto Cervo in a graphic manner.
For RAN the extent of the damage has yet to be determined and she is headed to Palau to be lifted and inspected. Tommaso Chieffi, who is as familiar with these waters as anyone, explained what happened, “going round Spargiotto, it was very light. We had just done a peel from Code Zero to A2 and were coasting past the island in a good puff. The navigator felt we had room to hold our course, but there is a little rock that sticks out a long way from the shore. We came to a sudden halt and it was that rock. It is fairly big but with the swell left over from the south-easterly we hoped we might lift over it. After hitting the ground three or four times, we decided to motor off in reverse. We’re not sure how bad it is, but we are hoping it can be fixed overnight and we can go sailing tomorrow.”
Source: Regatta News
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Bella Mente pips RAN in Mini Maxi's Coastal Race at Rolex Maxi Worlds in Porto Cervo
Bellamente Photo: © Carlo Berlenghi/Rolex
For the Mini Maxi class, consisting of 24 boats ranging from approximately18 to 24 metres, today was their first coastal race after completing five windward-leeward races on the first two days. Conditions were close to ideal with approximately 20 knots of westerly wind and Hap Fauth’s Bellamente (USA) took her first bullet of the week in real and corrected time.
Second place in corrected time went to Niklas Zennstrom’s Ran (GBR) and Neville Crichton’s Shockwave (NZL) came in third. Bill Koch’s Titan 15 (USA), which had a hard-fought battle with Ran for much of the race and crossed the finish line fourth, slipped back to sixth on corrected time. The overall classification after six races - and with a maximum of three more scheduledsees Alegre lead Ran by just one point while Shockwave sits a further six points back.
“Just a great day, really fun,” commented Hap Fauth. “We had a good start, in the top three at the first mark. We had a little sail that really worked for us, a fractional code zero. We threw that boat on the plane and we were gone…gone…shot out of the cannon. It was a fun day.”
Alegre Photo: © Carlo Berlenghi/Rolex
Tomorrow will be a lay day for the competing owners and crews and racing is scheduled to recommence on Friday 10th September at 11.30 a.m
Mini Maxi - Summary Results - as of 08-09-10 at 18:30 (with discard)
Place, Boat Name, Helmsman, Owner, Nation, R1-R2-R3-R4-R5-R6-Points
1. ALEGRE (R) Andy Soriano, GBR,1,1,4,1,1,4, 8.00
2. RAN (R) Niklas Zennstrom, GBR,6,2,1,2,2,2, 9.00
3. SHOCKWAVE (R) Neville Crichton, NZL,2,3,2,5,5,3, 15.00
4. BELLAMENTE (R) Hap Fauth, USA,5,5,5,3,4,1, 18.00
5. CONTAINER (R) Udo Schutz, GER,4,6,3,4,3,5, 19.00
6. TITAN 15 (R) William I Koch, USA,3,9,6,6,17,6, 30.00
7. JETHOU (R) Peter Ogden, GBR,7,4,14,7,15,7, 39.00
8. AEGIR Brian Benjamin, GBR,8,8,13,8,14,9, 46.00
9. GRANDE ORAZIO Massimiliano Florio, ITA,10,14,7,12,8,19, 51.00
10. STIG Alessandro Rombelli, ITA,14,7,8,14,11,13, 53.00
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Latest news from 2010 Rolex Maxi Worlds in Porto Cervo
What had the makings of a mammoth encounter between the dark side of mother nature and the maxi yacht class, on day three of the 2010 Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, turned out to be far happier collision than expected, following some quick thinking by the Race Committee. The forecast weather for today was always tainted with unpredictability. With yachts on the racecourse heading for an unannounced swiftly forming violent thunderstorm, Peter Craig made the call to abandon racing and take refuge until the forty-knot squall had passed through. What a call to have to make. Vindication came in the 25-nautical mile race sailed later in the day by all classes in bright sunshine and a 20-knot westerly that brought the crews home grinning from ear to ear.
Ranger Photo: © Carlo Berlenghi/Rolex
Today’s lucky stars were: Bella Mente (USA) in Mini Maxi; Esimit Europa 2 (SLO) in Maxi; Gibian (GBR) in Wally, and, Visione (GER) in Supermaxi, with Ranger (CAY) top of the J Class.
A coastal race was always on the menu for the whole fleet. First thing this morning conditions seemed remarkably benign after an orchestral, but silent electrical storm in the northern sky had entertained Porto Cervo residents last night. By race time we had a building breeze from the northwest but some very dark clouds on the horizon. Not black enough to foretell doom, but certainly time to put on the foul-weather gear. The Mini Maxi Division, starting the sixth race of its projected nine race series Mini Maxi Rolex Worlds, got underway in 15 knots and an unsettling lumpy sea. Rán (GBR) led the drag race fetch to Capo Ferro, entering ‘Bomb Alley’ with Shockwave (NZL) immediately behind and Container (GER) on the right hand wing.
It was at this point that news of a postponement of the Maxi Division start filtered over the radio, closely followed by the abandonment announcement that took sometime to reach the frontrunners. The return to Porto Cervo was a dignified scurry. Forty-nine maxis hurriedly trying to dock in a confined harbour requires good sense from boat captains and some skill from the marina staff. The buffeting arrived on cue, but was short-lived.
By 1330 CEST, the situation had improved sufficiently for the fleet to return to the field of combat and embark on short coastal course that involved a beat into the channel at Capo Ferro, a sharp right turn onto a reach at Secca di Tre Monti, another right turn at Monaci and a huge reach down to Mortoriotto to the south of Porto Cervo. From there it was back on the wind again and a fetch up to Golfo Pevero and on to the finish.
Highland Fling Photo: © Carlo Berlenghi/Rolex
In the Maxis, Igor Simcic’s Esimit burnt up the strip in rather dismissive one hour forty-one minutes. Irvine Laidlaw’s Highland Fling (MON) followed her home some thirteen minutes later, to correct out three minutes behind. Esimit is in overall control of this class, but only one point separates her from Fling, so she is a long way from certain victory. Olympic silver medallist and America’s Cup winner, Peter Holmberg is tactician for the week on Highland Fling; he felt that some key sail calls were the difference between a good result or not, “it went well for us today. A good beat up into the passage, cross-tacking in 20 knots. Then the first test was the reach across the top. It was two-part: broad to start and getting tighter. The big decision was asymmetric sail or jib reach. We put up our A3 and the boat speed shot up another 4-5 knots. We tightened up around the gybe mark (Monaci) and had the long run back down to the bottom of the course. We faced another decision [on this leg] over jib or A-sail, we waited a while and when we deployed it we wished we had done so eight-minutes earlier because we just took off – a great, exciting blast with 27, 28 knots of boat speed.”
Mike Toppa is another America’s Cup winner onboard Highland Fling, “this was the most fun racing I’ve done in a long time. Lots of reaching off the wind: that is when this boat really lights up. We talked ourselves into putting up a bigger sail than the range suggested for the first beat to avoid having to change at the first mark. We kept it up all race, putting up other sails around it and you rarely do that!” Toppa explained a little of the philosophy behind Fling and why she motors in these conditions like few others her size, “she’s only a year old. Irvine (Laidlaw) wanted a boat that would plane like other grand-prix boats, but it had to have to have an interior. So it’s got four staterooms and teak decks, but it gets up and planes. It’s got chines on the sides for stability and two rudders for more control. The big bonus is that it is just a really nice boat to sail.”
For once, king of the heap in the Wallys proved to be a relative unheralded combatant. Gibian (GBR) has been to Porto Cervo twice before, never winning a race. Her owner, Armando Grandi, has though tasted success here previously albeit with a different boat. Today Gibian did enough for her maiden Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup victory, correcting out 20 seconds ahead of the highly competitive Y3K, whose second-place gives her a perfectly ordered series score line of 2,2,2. If Claus Peter Offen’s crew continues with that level of consistency, none of the chasing pack will be able to outdo her. Grandi, though, was delighted with today and despite one hiccough. “These boats are meant to be sailed,” said Grandi, who is 83 and enjoys cruises extensively in between bouts of racing. “We had a very good day, although unfortunately we tore our gennaker. It happened on last leg at Mortoriotto. We were taking down the gennaker and made a little mistake. The sail fell in the water and tore. We hope we can borrow one to continue racing!” After today’s brief brush with glory that is a heartfelt hope for the crew that includes three generations of the Grandi family.
In the Mini Maxi Rolex Worlds, Hap Fauth’s Bella Mente outplayed all of her bigger rivals to win on the water and handicap. Two minutes ahead of Rán (GBR) at the finish is as comprehensive as it gets in this class. For the time being, Andres Soriano and Alegre (GBR) retain the overall lead, but the wolves are circling. The lead is now down to one point, after Alegre’s fourth place today.
Fauth is renowned for a big grin and it was in fine form this evening, dockside, as he described the race, “just a great day, really fun. It was the normal jungle course. Long first beat, reach, long reach down, tight reach and then a windward beat to finish. We had a good start, in the top three at the first mark.” Here too, sail selection was a key part of the exemplary performance, according to Fauth, “we had a little sail that really worked for us, a fractional code zero. We threw that boat on the plane and we were gone…gone…shot out of the cannon. Full tilt, fill the main up, get on the rails and go! It was a fun day…”
Amongst the Mini Maxi Cruiser/Racers, Brian Benjamin’s Aegir (GBR) was not the best performer today – that honour went to Riccardo De Michele’s H20 (ITA) – but Aegir’s series results so far appear to give them a slim lead over Grande Orazio (ITA).
Tomorrow is a layday at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup. A day to recharge the batteries and lick wounds, all the time making ready for two more days of highly charged racing. The Mini Maxi Rolex Worlds fleet expects to return on Friday with a coastal race on their schedule, before the final showdown windward/ leewards on Saturday. The Supermaxis and Maxis have two more coastal races to complete their programme. The Wallys, meanwhile, have one coastal race and a day of windward/leewards to close out their Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup series. Shockwave is seven points off the pace and Neville Crichton’s team will be scratching their heads hard to find some answers. Crichton is too competitive to concede this event with three races to go.
The 2010 Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, organized by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda in conjunction with the International Maxi Association (IMA), runs from 5 to 11 September. Racing recommences on Friday and with racing scheduled for Saturday too, the prize giving on Saturday will be the culmination of an intense week of big boat competition. From the most luxurious, through the most traditional, to the most advanced monohulls afloat today, the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup is nothing if not an astonishing line up of sailing power.
Provisional Standings after Day 3
Maxi Racing & Racing/Cruising
1) Esimit Europa 2, Igor Simcic, 1-2-1, 4.0 points
2) Highland Fling, Irvine Laidlaw, 2-1-2, 5.0
3) Singularity, Deniy Yacht Mngmt, 4-3-3, 10.0
1) Y3k, Claus Peter Offen, 2-2-2, 6.0
2) Magic Carpet 2, Lindsay Owen Jones, 5-1-3, 9.0
3) Indio, Andrea Recordati, 4-3-4, 11.0
1) Ranger, R.S.V. Ltd, 1-1-1, 3.0
2) Velsheda, Tarbat Investment, 2-3-7, 12.0
3) Hetairos, Rockport Ltd, 8-2-3, 13.0
1) Alegre (GBR), Andy Soriano, 1-1-(4)-1-1-4, 8.0
2) Ran, Niklas Zennstrom (GBR), (6)-2-1-2-2-2, 9.0
3) Shockwave (NZL), Neville Crichton, 2-3-2-(5)-5-3, 15.0
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Remixes and Revelations
OSR: Monk
Monks have been a fascination of mine ever since I started playing Dungeons and Dragons. I thought the idea of playing a foreign martial artist who fought with only kicks and punches was crazy, even compared to some of the other classes you could play as. As such, I've been working on trying to make Monks fit more into the standard OSR mode. For the longest time, I failed.
Then I had my revelation. After I came to the conclusion that all casting classes were just GLOG Wizards in increasingly stupid hats, I decided I wasn't going to write anymore casting classes. The only thing left to do then was to convert the Monk to a GLOG Caster. So that's exactly what I did.
Also, if you need more Monks in your life, try the Sword Mage from Library of Attnam, or the Renunciates over at Against the Wicked City, or the Void Monks from Goblin Punch.
The Foreign Priests of No God
Monks are not from Around Here. They are Outsiders from Foreign Parts, strange purveyors of philosophy and spirituality. Most Around Here wouldn't even know they were casters at all, considering them more like wandering prophets, teachers or soothsayers. Foreigners could tell you differently though. In Foreign Parts, on the other side of the Empty Lands, you will find Monks acting as advisors and bodyguards to Priest-Kings, acting as elite troops in war, or governing their own principalities as divinely appointed governors.
To determine what Order of Monks you belonged to, make one up, or roll on the tables below.
I came from...
1- The Brotherhood
2- The Fraternity
3- The Order
4- The Society
5- The Union
6- The House
7- The Temple
8- The Army
9- The Family
10- The Followers
of the...
1- God-man
2- Five Seasons
3- Indomitable Soul
4- Steady Hand
5- Empty Palm
6- Whispered Word
7- Winter's Heart
8- Spring's Fire
9- Sons of Summer
10- Way of Solar Righteousness
In my Order, we...
1- Didn't eat certain things. Roll 1d6 to see what that was: [1= certain types of meat; 2= all meat; 3= mixed-grain bread; 4= fish; 5= eggs; 6= the flesh of anything we didn't personally kill.]
2- Didn't drink or smoke.
3- Swore oaths of poverty.
4- were taught how to garden and write poetry.
5- Went to funerals to appreciate the brevity of life.
6- Allowed prostitutes to live with us, but were never allowed to touch them.
7- Were allowed to get married and have children, as long as the Grandmaster approved.
8- Acted as the local constabulary.
9- Organized hunting expeditions for monsters terrorizing the area.
10- Assassinated people for money.
11- Practiced Humans Sacrifice.
12- Had a Deity who lived and dwelt in the monastery with us.
"My Teachers taught me poetry, etiquette, moral philosophy, and how to reach Heaven through violence."
Monk is just a sub-class of the Base GLOG Magic-User/Wizard class, which can be found here. For anything else about the class, see below.
Power: You are trained in martial arts, and can use your unarmed strikes as a weapon. Unarmed strikes do 1d6 damage. For unarmed strikes, you may add twice your DEX modifier to your attack roll. You may also calculate your AC as 10 + 2 times your DEX modifier.
Alternatively, you may use a weapon approved of by your order. Speak to the Referee at character creation if this is what you desire.
Drawback: You may not wear any armor or use any weapon not approved of by your order. If you do, you cannot cast spells until you speak to your Teacher/Mentor or the Master of your School and seek his forgiveness. You will also probably have to perform some act or quest in penance for your violation of your holy vow.
Monk starting Spells
1- All Journeys Begin and End with One Step
2- Empty Palm Vanquishes the Wicked
3- Fear of Rain Clouds is Advised
4- Fortune shakes the Proud, but the Humble endure
5- Green Woman is easily rebuffed by the Chaste
6- Light is Foreign, Darknesss is Native
7- Meshi Meshi Meshi Meshi Meshi Meshi Ora!
8- Pain is the Curse of Living
9- Rain Parts for the Wise
10- The Gale shatters the Oak, but the Willow survives
11- The Wise Student fills the Tea Cups
12- Virtue is a shield against Tragedy
13- If you meet God on the Road, Kill Him
14- Sin brings Death, but the Path of Righteousness is Life
Legendary Spell: Suffering is the path to Divinity
All Journeys Begin with a Single Step
R: self T: self D: one moment
Move up to [dice] x your movement speed as a free action. Your movement is so fast it appears instantaneous.
At 1 [die], you ignore pressure plates (or similar mechanisms) and dangerous or difficult terrain. At 2 [dice], you may move up a wall or over the ceiling, as long as you end your movement in a place where you can normally stand. At 3 [dice], you may move over surfaces that couldn't normally support your weight (surface of water, twigs and leaves, weapons held by your enemies). At 4 [dice], you may move through impossibly tight squeezes without being slowed (between prison bars, through a keyhole).
You may also cast this spell as a reaction to any melee attack against you, even outside your turn.
This spell is borrowed from here. Mr. Kangaroo came up with it first. He deserves the credit, not I.
Empty Palm Vanquishes the Wicked
R: 30' T: object D: [dice] minutes
As an action, you fire a gigantic hand (about the size of a refrigerator or a pony) made of blue life-force from your own hand. The hand can be used to strike anyone within range for 1d6+[dice] damage, or it can do anything else a giant hand could do. It cannot fly or really move, but it can hold things or lift things up. It has a STR of 13+[dice] and HP of [sum]. It disappears after time runs out or it runs out of health.
Fear of Rain Clouds is Advised
R: self T: self D: one action
You may make 1 ranged attack with a shuriken, throwing knife, or small thrown projectile (1d6 base) of the sort. This projectile is then multiplied many thousands of times over, doing normal damage +[sum]. If the creature you targeted had any creatures standing adjacent to them, the amount of damage taken is divided evenly among those creatures.
Fortune shakes the Proud, but the Humble Endure
R: touch T: creature D: one action
Make a melee attack against a creature within melee range. On a hit, that creature must save, with a penalty to their save equal to [dice]. On a failure, that creature is stunned, and cannot take any actions for [dice] rounds.
If you cast this spell with 2 or more [dice], then the creature also cannot move on a failed save. If you cast this spell with 4 or more [dice], the creature must make an additional save, regardless of what they rolled on the first one. If they fail their second save, they die.
Green Woman is easily rebuffed by the Chaste
R: 30' T: creature D: [dice] minutes
This spell makes the person it is cast on light as air. They take no fall damage, can jump a number of feet equal to their STR score, and can run along walls for far longer than is humanly possible, though they will still fall down.
Light is Foreign, Darkness is Native
R: self T: self D: [dice] rounds
For the next [dice] rounds, the caster exudes a thin aura of light. This light illuminates [dice]*10' around the caster. If they strike anyone with a melee attack, they do an extra +[dice] holy damage to that person. If this spell is cast with 4 or more spellcasting dice, the light exuded by the caster has the properties of natural sunlight.
Meshi Meshi Meshi Meshi Meshi Meshi Ora!
R: self T: self D: one round
You may make [dice] bonus attacks on your next turn. If you cast this spell using four or more spellcasting dice, you may choose to instead do [sum] bonus attacks.
This isn't mine either, Dan from Throne of Salt made it first, here.
Pain is the Curse of Living
You take [dice] damage. One creature you touch regains [sum] HP. You can also use this spell to regenerate the bodies of Undead, bringing them "back to life". If this is done to an Undead, they must save. On a success, they are still Undead, but now with restored bodies that will swiftly begin rotting. On a failure, their bodies are filled with the power of their soul and restored to life, similar to the way a defibrillator can restart a stopped heart.
Rain parts for the Wise
R: self T: [dice] projectiles D: one action
This spell can be cast as a reaction. When you do, you can reduce the damage [dice] projectiles do by [sum]. If you reduce the damage to 0, you catch the projectile. This spell only works on projectiles that could be conceivably caught, unless you invest four or more projectiles, then the spell works on any material projectiles.
The Gale shatters the Oak, but the Willow endures
R: touch T: object D: [sum] minutes
Use any object as if it could cut, from grass to your own fingers. The enchanted item counts as a sword and deals damage based on [dice] invested (plus Str mod).
1 [die] 1d6
2 [dice] 1d8
3 [dice] 1d10
Mr. Kangaroo came up with this spell here, I am just borrowing it from him.
The Wise Student fills the Tea Cups
R: self T: self D: concentration
This spell is a free action to cast. Once cast, the caster can spend a round meditating, and doing nothing else. If they do this, one person within 100' regains [dice] HP. The caster may continue doing this for as many rounds as they like, but if they stop meditating, the spell automatically ends. Additionally, if they take damage or suffer a significant shock or scare, they must save. On a failed save, they let go of the spell and it ends.
Virtue is a shield against Tragedy
When you cast this spell, it consumes your next action as you prepare yourself. Then, when next attacked or affected by an opponent's ability, you may take an action to counter it. If their ability or attack required an attack roll, then you must contest their roll with one of your own and roll higher than them. You get a +[dice] bonus to this. However, if the ability would have automatically affected you, or done so if you failed a saving throw, then no additional roll on your part is required.
If you have successfully matched the roll or otherwise met the conditions, then this spell takes effect. The attack or ability you used it against does not affect you, and instead is redirected back at the person who used it, affecting them instead. Additionally, the effect of their attack or ability is multiplied by [dice].
For example, if it was an attack that did 4 damage, it would do 4*[dice] damage to the person who made the attack.
If you meet God on the Road, Kill Him
R: self T: everything D: one action
When you cast this spell, select an event that just occurred. This event could be the result of a roll, saving throw or something else that occurred where you could witness it. This event no longer occurs and never occurred. Instead, reality is rewritten so that event didn't happen. Reality shifts to show the new events that occurred but so in the smallest way possible. For example, if you chose the event of one of your party members getting shot with an arrow, instead the arrow stuck into his shield.
If this spell is cast with 1 [dice], you may undo an event that occurred up to 1 turn ago. If this spell is cast with 2 [dice], 1 round ago (all the way through the initiative order and then back to the top). If this spell is cast with 3 [dice], one day ago. If cast with 4 [dice], one week ago.
Sin Brings Death, but the path of Righteousness is Life
R: 50' T: creature D: [dice] rounds
One creature within range suddenly has every indignity, humiliation and injury they've inflicted on any other creature poured out upon them. The Referee should make a ruling on the creature's moral standing. Righteous or heroic creatures take only [dice] damage, as no one is perfect. Middling creatures take 2[dice] damage. Immoral or corrupt creatures take [sum] damage and the truly wicked take [sum] damage once a round for [dice] rounds.
This damage takes the form of lacerations from invisible blades that begin to peel the skin off its body, nonexistent arrows punching holes in the creature's chest and immaterial bludgeons cracking bones and bruising organs.
After you cast this spell, you will not be able to regain any spellcasting dice until you say a prayer for the fallen, and make sure their body is respectfully interned in a crypt or tomb. You need not bury them yourself, but it certainly would be polite.
by Wonderis
Chaos and Corruption of the Monk:
When you roll doubles, roll on the Chaos table. The spell still goes through. You receive 1d3 Doom Points.
When you roll triples, roll on the Corruption table. The spell automatically fails. You also receive 1d4 Doom Points.
At 10 Doom Points, you invoke the Doom of Fools.
At 20 Doom Points, you invoke the Doom of Kings.
At 30 Doom Points, you invoke the Ultimate Doom.
Chaos of the Monk:
1- Spellcasting Dice only return to your pool if you rolled a 1-2 for 24 hours.
2- You take 1d6 damage.
3- Random mutation for 1d6 Rounds, then Save with a -4 penalty. Permanent if you fail.
4- The next person you touch takes damage as if you hit them with an unarmed strike, even if you touched them gently.
5- You are blinded for 1d6 Rounds.
6- Your fingers become sharp as swords for 1d8 hours. Anything you touch that is soft, easily cut-able or fragile is cut exactly as if you poked it with a sword.
Corruption of the Monk:
1- A giant hand of blue energy emerges from your hand. The hand has 1d6 HD AC 10 STR 13(+1), can fly and wants to break valuable objects. It will fly around for 1d6 rounds, stealing valuable objects and attempting to break them.
2- Your skin starts glowing like a bonfire. During the day, this is merely bright, but indoors in the dark, it is obvious for 1d6*100' around.
3- One non-virtuous person near you must save. On a failed save, they suddenly die in a freak accident. On a successful save, they are merely injured, possibly seriously. Example freak accidents include, but are not limited to, being kicked by an unruly horse, being hit in the head with a carelessly thrown or dropped object, the roof collapsing on their head, being struck by lightning, or etc, etc.
4- The next person you touch must save or suffer a heart attack. They must then make a second save. If they fail their second save, they die.
5- For the next 1d10 rounds, if you move faster than a walking pace, you light on fire. This fire is non-magical and does 1d6 damage a round.
6- A Living Weapon and its Chariot appears before you and demands that you become its new chariot. If you refuse, it will try to fight you. The Living Weapon and its chariot disappear after 1d10 minutes.
Dooms:
Doom of Fools- A former classmate of your suddenly shows up. He demands that you return with him to the monastery, claiming that one of the former senior students has returned, having learned black, forbidden techniques from unknown sources. All students of your monastery must return immediately, to protect the Grandmaster and the secret knowledge in the Monastery.
There is a 50% chance your classmate is telling the truth. If he is, you two will be attacked shortly thereafter by Assassin-Monks working for the former senior student. If he is not telling the truth, he is actually a traitor who wants to test your loyalty to the monastery. If you prove loyal, he will try to kill you. If you are not, however, he will tell you to stay lost and not come back.
Doom of Kings- A former Teacher at your monastery suddenly shows up. He has a 50% of being a survivor who escaped the monastery when it was seized by the former senior student, or he is working for the student to spare his own life.
If the former, he is being pursued by a posse off Assassin-Monks who serve the former senior student. When the Assassin-Monks arrive, they will try to kill him and anyone else associated with the monastery. If you promise to come with them and swear fealty to the former senior student, they will let you live. If you resist, they will kill you and anyone else who stands in the way of killing the former Teacher.
If the latter, then he will demand you return to the monastery to swear your allegiance to the new Grandmaster. If you resist, he will try to beat you into submission and drag you back in chains. He will kill you, though he'd like to avoid that, if possible.
Ultimate Doom- The Former Senior Student himself suddenly arrives, accompanied by a group of his body-guards and supporters. He will demand you swear your allegiance to him and do something dangerous, unpleasant or degrading for him. If you refuse, he will kill you.
This Doom can be avoided by hunting down the former Senior Student and killing him, or by crafting a disguise convincing enough that no one from your former monastery can recognize you.
By Yami Bakura at January 20, 2019 8 comments:
Labels: Character Class, OSR, WIZARDS
API: The Seven Deadly Enemies of Mankind
The Seven Deadly Enemies of Mankind are some the strongest enemies the players in any of my games are ever likely to face. They are powerful, yes, but that is not why they are the most dangerous. A high number of HP does not make someone dangerous. The Seven Deadly Enemies are most lethal because of their ruthlessness. As such, this will require a small change in my style.
To explain, usually, when I am acting as Referee and playing out the enemies' actions, I am magnanimous, taking care to distribute the damage evenly. I also don't coup de grae fallen players, and generally try to be fair. However, I will not be doing this when playing as the Seven Deadly Enemies.
This is for two reasons. Firstly, I want to convey their true lethality, the danger that they represent. Secondly, I believe that unless you are playing a highly lethal game, player characters should not be killed by "small-time" enemies. It's okay if the Gnoll Champion to splatter the Wizard, but generally I wouldn't let a bunch of 1 HD Gnolls rip apart a band of adventurers. That is not to say I never would, exceptions do exist, but generally that is how I conduct myself as a Referee as a rule.
However, the Seven Deadly Enemies are anything but "small-time". If you are fighting them, you are officially in the big leagues.
All of the Seven Deadly Enemies are Outsiders, using the base statblock found in this post. Consult that for further information. The specific powers of the Enemies is listed below.
by BrunaGonda
T'Char, the Ten Crowned, the Herald of Envy
"I see you laying on the floor of a dark basement, dying in agony, struggling to keep your innards inside your body. In that moment of sublime pathos, you look up to Heaven and beg God, asking with bloody lips, 'Why?' I stand above you in that moment, and call you a fag."
Omens:
About an hour before he is summoned or arrives through some other means, strange things begin to happen.
First, strange storms full of multi-colored lightning blanket the area he is set to appear in, filling the sky with brilliant purples, greens and yellows.
Secondly, a person in the area suddenly snaps and attempts to kill his or her family. If not stopped or noticed, the person will kill his or her family then him or herself.
Then, he will arrive. A door will fling open, revealing an alien world for a split second, and then he will stalk through.
T'Char will transform any Host he is granted into a handsome man with brilliantly colored eyes and hair of a similar lurid hue. He will usually ask for a suit and tie to be prepared for his Host to wear before he arrives, but if these arrangements have not been arranged and he has the time, his first move will be to acquire one.
True Form:
T'Char will only assume his true form if he is sufficiently aggravated, is attacked, or he feels it would be funny in this current situation. If one of the aforementioned occurs, he will transform.
T'Char is a white-skinned humanoid in his True Form, pure as new-fallen snow with stripes of bright green running across his flesh, like those of a tiger. He has four eyes, each one as brightly colored as a Christmas ornament. He also has thirteen arms, but they shift in and out of his body, changing with his mood and activity level. When he is calm, they glide in and out of his flesh, taking the place of his existing limbs, which slowly slide back into his torso. When he is agitated though, the change occurs much faster and more erratically. He also has ten crowns on his body, these former marks of kingship converted into rings, bracelets or bangles. These crowns drift in and out with his limbs, but they never appear on his head, no matter what.
by chuu-art
T'Char is a laughing, freakish monster. He finds the struggles and trials of mankind endlessly amusing. He thinks that the suffering of others is hilarious, mocking you as you bleed and die. He thinks himself incredibly smart and witty, and if he has the time, he will compose some ironic poetry about terrible subjects, such as children dying young, how your wife is cheating on you and your children don't respect you, or what he's going to do to you.
Weakness:
T'Char desires things he does not have. If he sees something valuable, such as a rare magic item, a sentimental object, or even a physical feature, he will become seized by a desire to possess it. He will then try to acquire if, through whatever means are most expedient, whether that means bargaining, threatening or killing the owner and taking it by force.
from Tumblr
Statblock Changes:
T'Char has a Damage Threshold of 4.
His AC is 14.
His attack bonus is +3. He makes two attacks that each do 1d8 damage on a hit.
He fights with two alien blades made of a maiden's lost innocence and a boy's forgotten childhood.
Along with the usual powers of an Outsider, he is super fast, always going first in the initiative order unless surprised, and having a DEX score of 19(+4).
He is also able to inspire fear in those people who fight him. The first time they see him move, the first time he does more than 10 damage to one person or every time he kill someone, they must save. On a failed save, they take 1d6 CHA damage each round they continue to fight him. If this CHA damage ever equals or exceeds the person's CHA score, then they must flee, and gain the Conviction, "I don't know what that was, but I am never fighting it again, if I have another choice."
by LoLo-0
Tyche, the White Pillar, Minister of Sloth
"You speak of the greatness of mankind, but what have you really achieved? Destruction of countless lesser beings? Mounds of hideous, impractical creations? New and more innovative ways to kill each other? Frankly, even if you don't trust me, I can't see the harm in giving us our planet back. After all, we could hardly do worse than what you've accomplished in a few short millennia."
About a week before he is summoned or arrives by some other means, strange things begin to happen.
First, strange lights are seen at night, bright white balls that dance and pirroute through the air, before vanishing.
Secondly, some people nearby where he is due to arrive begin suffering from similar, horrible nightmares. They dream of a terrible creature made of white plastic and polished chrome that hunts them through an endless labyrinth that reeks of antiseptic.
Then, when he arrives, clouds cover the sky and acid rain begins to fall. This isn't enough to do damage, but it irritates the skin and damages historic monuments.
Any Host Tyche is given, he will transform into a inhuman looking thing, tall and thin, made of translucent, glass-like flesh, with stingers present on its middle fingers.
Tyche will only assume his True Form to fight, or if assuming his True Form could benefit him in some other way.
When he transforms, a brilliant light floods the area, a spot light to truly display his form. His true form is tall and legless, with a lower-body like a great worm. His skin is white as snow, with no blemishes or marks. He has two eyes and 19 arms. A pair of dark eyes are the only relief from his monotonous color-scheme, which is dazzling in the light.
by draledede
Tyche is slow to move and slow to act. He relies on the judgements of others, preferring to allow others the honor of the first move. He is cautious and pragmatic, and known to think deeply on many topics. He is a philosopher of a sort, very interested in mortal perspectives on most issues. He is not kind of gentle, but he is rational, and sometimes that is all you really need.
Tyche is slow to move. He is loathe to take risks, preferring to wait until he has all the information possible. As such, if you flee, you are almost certain to escape. If you set a trap for him, he will never be caught in it, but you could use a trap as a double-bluff, so that while he was investigating a possible trap you could attack him from the rear, if you were feeling clever.
from Monster Vault
Tyche has a Damage Threshold of 5.
He makes one attack with a +4 bonus to the roll. He does this by stretching out one of his many arms. Anyone hit by his attack takes 1d10 poison damage and is grappled. Tyche will then reel the person back and keep them near him. Each round they are grappled by Tyche, they take an additional 1d10 poison damage as he keeps injecting it into them.
Tyche also has the power of regeneration, able to recover 1 SHP a round.
Sin, The Maid of Lust, The Glass Harlot, The Bottomless Crone, The Infinite Mother
"They say I know nothing of valor, of honor. They say that because I am so strong, I need fear nothing, and thus, I cannot understand courage. For the sake of argument, let's say that is correct. Tell me, who will teach me about courage? Who will teach me the true nobility of the human spirit? Who will prove to me that it is the humans that kill the monsters? Come now, step forward! Come and show me who is truly stronger!"
A few days before she is summoned or arrives by some other means, strange things begin to happen.
First, the clouds in the sky begin surging and glowing, seeming to fold in on themselves, shining with bright, white flashes that look like lightning, but with no thunder.
Secondly, time begins to slow to a crawl. You will feel you've been working on a project for hours, only to check the clock on the wall and find its only been ten minutes.
Then, when she arrives, "Shadilay" begins playing from an unseen source, filling the air for a while.
Sin is subtle, and keeps her Host looking exactly as they did before she took over their body.
Sin will only assume her true form if she is attacked, if it would benefit her, or she feels it would be funny in this current situation. If one of the aforementioned occurs, she will transform.
Sin's true form, from a distance, resembles a naked, buxom, black-skinned woman with six arms and no eyes. However, as you get closer, you realize that her skin is very odd. It is actually closer to translucent grey, resembling a sheet of cloudy glass with a female form visible behind the "glass". However, as you look closer, you see more and more layers of glass in the way, endlessly refracting this vague female form from many many layers back. The deeper you look, the more layers you see, as Sin's body is apparently infinitely deep.
Sin seems to love and enjoy everything about the world. She sees beauty in everything, from the horrible to the small. To her, a field of broken corpses is as beautiful and interesting as a teacup full of jasmine is. She is endlessly interested in the small eccentricities of our world, from pain to starbucks to money to the small zaps of static electricity. She is also passionately interested in sex, and will likely try to seduce you. However, she is not likely to be successful, as Sin conducts herself with all the grace of a stampeding herd of wildebeests. Her idea of flirting is to fling herself at the object of her affections in the most obvious way possible and hope they notice.
Sin has absolutely no impulse control. If she sees something sexy (Sin has a wide variety of features she finds sexy) she will try to seduce that person. If she sees something interesting, she will want to touch and examine it. If she sees something tasty looking, she will want to eat it. If not stopped, Sin will go after it without hesitating for a second.
Sin has a Damage Threshold of 8.
She has an AC of 10.
She fights by stealing your weapons and attacking you with them.
She makes four attacks with these weapons with a +6 bonus. Each successful attack does 1d8 damage.
Sin can also, instead of making four weapon attacks, make 1 stinger attack with a +6 bonus. Anyone stung by her stinger must save or die.
Sin is immune to non-magical weapon damage.
She can also, as a full action, turn intangible. While intangible she cannot affect physical objects, but they cannot affect her either.
Plague, the Firstborn of Death, the Knight of Gluttony
"I will devour your limbs. I will make of you a banquet of suffering. The blood will flow unending. Your fear is the garnish for your flesh. I will eat you all alive! Kill! Kill! KILL!"
Yesterday, before he is summoned or arrives through some other means, strange things begin to happen.
First, a bunch of people began having similar dreams. They were all slightly different, but they all were centered on the theme of being chased by a giant horror that wanted to eat them, rotting from the inside, being a walking corpse, or being stuck next someone with a persistent cough for an 18 hour flight.
Secondly, someone carries out a biological terror attack on a nearby public place.
Then, prey animals will scatter and hide, falling silent. Domesticated animals will hide or flee, attacking people and going berserk if they are prevented from escaping. Then he will arrive, and it will be too late.
Plague makes any Host he is given into its ideal form, handsome, free of blemishes, unsightly marks, making them beautiful, whole and healthy.
Plague is a great, doglike beast with a slavering muzzle, overflowing with razor sharp teeth. He is quadrupedal, with four forelimbs and two rear ones. He also has a fifth forelimb that comes out underneath his chin. That one ends in another mouth, one with fangs that bites anyone who gets too close to it. The rest of his forelimbs end in four-fingered hands. He could choke you, if he wanted to. His body is made of a scintillating, black material, a substance that resembles black mercury. Its properties are unknown, but it is known that wherever Plague goes, water is contaminated, plants die, and anyone who ingests any of the fluids coming off Plague sickens and dies. The only relief from the flowing, liquid nature of his body is his three eyes, all which are bright orange, and glow when he wishes them too.
by nachtwulf
Plague is a feral creature, highly intelligent, yet one who seems to place no value on higher concepts. If he wished, he would behave as a beast does, rutting, sleeping and eating whenever he pleased. He kills and hunts, not out of hatred, but because that is what predators do. He is completely amoral, never stopping to consider the moral implications of what he is doing. To Plague, things like morals, manners and laws are not worth considering. They are mere fancies, to be ignored unless absolutely necessary.
Plague loves to eat humans. He finds them delicious. If he has the opportunity, he will try to eat any humans he can find, living or dead. It takes 1d3 humans to fill him all the way up. After that, if he feels it safe, he will find a quiet place to nap and sleep off his lunch.
by inshoo1
Plague has a Damage Threshold of 6.
He has an AC of 12.
He makes two bite attacks with a +5 bonus, each one doing 1d10 damage on a hit.
Plague can turn invisible as a full action.
Plague can inspire strong emotions in people. As a full action, all people within his field of view must save. On a failed save, those people take 1d6 CHA damage each round they are still within his field of view. If this CHA damage ever equals or exceeds the CHA score of any one of those people, then that person becomes overcome with the emotion of Plague's choice. For example, if he choose fear, they must flee. If he choose psychotic rage, they must make an attack each round. If he choose crushing sadness, they get -1 to attack and damage. If he choose rapturous joy, they must save or be unable to continue fighting. All these emotional effects last for 1d10 minutes, or until something that doesn't fit the mood happens.
Plague can also spew clouds of toxic smoke. He can only use this ability every 1d4 turns. The Cloud covers a 50' square area and can be dispersed by rain, spraying water, or wind. Anyone in the cloud takes 3d6 damage when they first enter it, then an additional 1d6 damage each round they are still in it. If you are wearing a gas mask or other protective gear, save to take half damage. If you are wearing a full biological chemical warfare hazard suit, you take no damage from this attack automatically.
Uniris [You-near-iss], Woman Scorned, Harpist of Hell, Singer of Doom
"You think I don't understand how you feel? You think I'm some unsympathetic bitch? Well guess what, you're goddamn right! I don't care about you at all. Actually, scratch that, I do care about you. I hate you so much, I hope there's a God, just so I can know he's going to shove you in a metal coffin and light you on fire for all eternity, you stupid, sinning ape!"
About a week ago, before she is summoned or arrives through some other means, strange things begin to happen.
Firstly, some people near where she is due to arrive start suffering from bouts of amnesia, forgetting large chunks of their day.
Then, those same people begin suffering blackouts, night terrors and terrible dreams they barely remember. All these dreams involve being on a date with an attractive woman, hanging out with a female friend, or meeting the woman their (son/male friend/etc) has been dating. These dinners always go terribly, and someone usually ends up being shot or dying violently.
Finally, when she arrives, time begins flowing at an accelerated rate for a brief period. Eventually, the flow of time returns to normal, once she stops using her powers.
Uniris will change any Host she is given into a beautiful female humanoid thing, with full lips, a fine body, long, shimmering hair, and anything else she thinks is attractive. She will also change their clothes for something sexier. However, despite her obvious physical attractiveness (when have you seen an ugly shape-shifter?) she can never truly be hot. She's too nervous usually, constantly looking over her shoulder and fidgeting. There's also the problem of her personality, but we'll hold off on that for a second.
Uniris will only assume her true form if she needs to fight, or she's angry. Otherwise, she will remain in her current form. But if she needs to fight or you tick her off, she will transform.
Uniris a three-eyed, four-armed, legless monster. She is covered in white and grey scales, so colored that she could camouflage herself against a modern cityscape. She is constantly moving and twitching in this form, bubbling with nervous energy.
by monpuasajr
Uniris is a paranoid wreck. She always shoots first, and never shows any mercy. She never lets people live. Uniris lives by the mantra of the Origin of Species, "Survival of the Fittest". She knows that the strong do as they will and the weak suffer what they must, and she knows she is weak. Thus, Uniris does not practice any form of mercy or fair-play.
You might think that Uniris' weakness would lead her to be more accepting, more generous, and more accommodating of others. You would be totally wrong. Uniris is vicious, hot-blooded and has an explosive temper. Any jokes about her being weak, small, pathetic or of lower status than any of the other six Deadly Enemies, or god forbid, any other life form will make her explode and attack that person. Uniris never attacks people in melee combat, unless she is angry.
by titi-artwork
Uniris has a Damage Threshold of 3.
She makes three attacks at +2, each attack doing 1d6 damage.
She can fire three shots from her Harp Guns, or she can draw her Selenium-Swords and hack at her opponents in melee range.
Uniris is super fast. She always goes first in the initiative order, unless surprised, and has a DEX of 19(+4).
Darrel Kevin Smith, The Speaker for Darkness, the Mouth of Avarice
"Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got myself into this situation. Well, it's really a funny story. You see, it all started when I downloaded this magic spell off the internet..."
About a week ago, before he is summoned or arrives through some other means, strange things begin to happen.
First, people begin having strange dreams of sitting opposite a monster, who asks them to make a saving throw, whatever that means.
Secondly, small animals begin dying. Cats, older dogs, fish, hamsters, rabbits, etc.
Finally, when he arrives, pictures and statues of people begin to weep blood.
Darrel Kevin Smith is a great, legless, surging mass of gelatinous flesh colored white, black and orange. He has three eyeballs floating amidst his blobby body, and 22 arms moving and shifting freely across his body. In size, he is large enough to fill large hot tub, and cover the floor of at least one room of a dungeon (a small room, though).
Darrel Kevin Smith is a pudgy male human. He is light-skinned with bottle-green eyes and black hair. He also has a wispy mustache.
Darrel Kevin Smith is quite insecure about his position among the Seven Deadly Enemies. He realizes how new he is to the team, and seeks to prove himself. He is hungry for honor, to prove himself. As such, he takes to his work with great zeal. He takes time to joke with his enemies, to mock and tease them for their ineptitude. Though unless you're directly standing in his way, he really has no problem letting you go.
He also has a great passion for many nerdy things, such as Star Wars, Cowboy and Western movies, horror of all forms (especially Stephen King books) and military history.
Darrel Kevin Smith needs to accomplish his objectives. He cannot fail, he is terrified of the possibility. As such, if there is any chance he might win, he will take it. He could be easily trapped, if you knew this.
Darrel Kevin Smith has a Damage Threshold of 7.
He makes three attacks a round with a +6 bonus to his attack rolls, each attack doing 1d8 damage on a hit.
He attacks by freezing parts of his liquid substance and spitting them at people. They do 1d8 poison damage on contact, as they re-liquefy and seep through the skin.
He can also spray a blast of acid from one of his mouths. He can only do this every 1d4 rounds. The acid hits a 30' cone that is 30' long and does 3d6 acid damage on a hit, save for half if you have no shield, save to resist all damage if you do.
He can also fire up to four lasers from his eyes. He can only do this every 1d4 rounds. The lasers each do 1d6 damage on a hit, and can hit separate targets.
He can also turn intangible. While intangible, he cannot be affected by physical objects, but they can't be affected by him either.
He is immune to cold and cold damage.
He can also give his Demonic Gifts to others, if he so chooses.
The First Enemy
Now, the other six Deadly Enemies can show up without the need for further foreshadowing beyond their omens. The others are minions. The Prince though, he is different. The Prince is the boss of bosses, the final culmination of an adventure or a series of adventures. He is strong, yes, but he is also intelligent, charismatic, and pure, absolute evil. The other Deadly Enemies are mere children compared to him. He is their leader, their Father, their God. They worship him.
The Prince allows them to serve him, working on completing his own grand, master plan. His plan should vary to fit whatever campaign you are running, but it should always be simple enough not to be foiled and evil enough that it should be stopped. Also, I've gone ahead and given the Prince a sub-objective, something to complete while other adventures are happening. The Prince is trying to acquire the Sovereign's Sacred Treasures, and once he acquires them all, he will be all but invincible. Not that he really needs the help right now.
"Don't listen to your Dad, he's a liar."
"Beware the Glowin Guy."
"All Hail President Light!"
- Occult Graffitti cleaned off various subway stations, bathroom walls, or squatter's nests
"Question what the TV tells you, question what a pop star sells you. Question Mom and Question Dad, question Good and question Bad."
- Marina from Marina and the Diamonds, in her single "Sex Yeah"
Alternate Titles: Dawn-child, The Glowin Guy, Brightstar, Son of the Morning, King of the Golden Lands, Overlord of Solar Radiance, Man in the Highest Office, President Light, Hardcase-in-Chief, Master of Mistresses, Dominator, Prosecutor, Challenger, The Rival, Man of the New World, Father
The Prince is heralded by:
Dreams of a man framed in light, a beautiful man whose face you can never see. He will speak to you of innocuous things, or of gifts he wishes to give you. You always wake up unsettled, despite how peaceful the dreams seem.
Feathers left around where he has been, or floating on the breeze. They are soft and downy, white but speckled with brown.
Murmurs and rumors in bars and pubs. "Dad's comin', they say. Whoever that might be." Or "I hear the Rival's in town. Whose he a rival to again?" To which someone responds, "Everybody, I think."
Make sure to draw out the Prince's arrival. Torment the players with dreams for a long time. He should be a long shadow on the wall, like the Walkin Dude in The Stand, or Shai'tan in the Eye of the World, a creature that chases and hounds the players for ages, teasing and mocking them, but never getting close enough that they might strike at him. Then, when they're least ready, have him walk in through the front door, prepared for the fight of his life.
Looks like:
A man in faded jeans and a denim jacket, wearing a Greenpeace button and a Steven Universe pin. He's handsome, with long, unbound hair, a bit of stubble, and warm eyes, with only the slightest of bags under them. He smells of sweat and masculine grit, but in a good way. He doesn't seem to own anything but the clothes off his back and a small backpack that he carries everywhere with him
Do not look upon the Prince with your Sight Beyond Sight. If you do, save. On a failure, you go stark, raving mad. On a success, there is a 90% chance you repress the memory. If you are the 1-in-10 people who see him and stay sane, you will be extremely reluctant to talk about him. But if you must, you will.
Here's what you will tell them:
"I saw the kings of the world, bowing at his feet. I saw he was as tall as the sky, big as godzilla, walking across the globe, footsteps across the world, crushing cities beneath his tread. I saw him chatting with white nationalists in an isolated cabin in Nebraska. I saw how he knew the Feds were going to shoot them, and how he was going to enjoy that. I saw how he sat in meetings with Assada Shakur, chanting and cursing out the cops with the rest of them. I saw how he rides first class and chats with CEOs as he flies across the world, discussing stocks and carbon tax. I saw how he kills, easily and casually, like swatting a fly. I saw how he hates me, personally, viscerally, but not as he hates what I am. I also saw, how he saw me."
He has a Damage Threshold of 6.
He is immune to blunt damage (including bullets) along with heat and fire damage.
He is also wearing the Plate of Protection, which is currently disguised as a denim jacket.
He makes two attacks with a +5 bonus, each one doing 1d10 damage on a hit.
He attacks with his pistol, a massive, silver automatic that fires enormous silver slugs. It's clearly a pistol of alien manufacture, even if the design is familiar. He can summon this gun to his hand at any time, and make it disappear at will.
If he doesn't want to shoot you though, he can just punch you. He is super strong, his punches doing 1d6+4 damage. He has a practical STR of 19(+4).
If none of that will satisfy him, he can also touch you with his Hand of Glory. He makes his left hand glow a brilliant gold, translucent flames wrapping around it. Anyone he touches with this must save or die.
Finally, he also has Telekinesis, and is able to manipulate objects with his mind alone.
By Yami Bakura at January 19, 2019 1 comment:
Labels: Adventuring in a modern occult setting, Apocalypse Prevention Inc., Monsters, semi-unique monsters
The Sovereign's Sacred Treasures
These are the Sovereign's Sacred Treasures, six treasures created for a long-dead King called Hashezzar, the Overlord of Solar Radiance. This man was a real, if obscure historical figure, though whatever setting you're in, he's been dead for a long time. Further research will reveal that Hashezzar supposedly had six sacred treasures, each one incredibly valuable, and supposedly, possessing strange, mystical properties. These sources are right. Each the Sacred Treasures a powerful magical item.
These magical items are among the most dangerous tools that someone could acquire, right up there with a suitcase nuke and a vial of highly contagious, weaponized influenza. The Sovereign's Sacred Treasures are the magical equivalent of raw plutonium, dangerous by themselves, but if combined properly (or improperly) they could unleash a catastrophic amount of death and destruction.
Base Powers:
Stat Increase: All Sovereign Magic Item boost their associated Stat to 16, unless you had one that was already higher, in which case the Stat will instead be boosted to 18.
Sensing: As long as they are within the same universe, the owner of a Sovereign Magic item can sense the presence of the other items, unless they are outside this universe or besides a ludicrous amount of radiation shielding.
The Amulet of Allspeech
A King's Authority.
Appearance- A steel Aquila necklace, heavy and ornate, the eagle's feathers each tipped with a small gemstone, everything from a tiny ruby to a clear diamond to a moonstone and a pearl and everything in between. It feels warm to the touch, and radiates magical power.
Power- Allows you to speak any language. You may also give an order X times per day, where X is the number of the Sovereign's Sacred Treasures you possess, and all who hear it must save or obey, if they have less than or an equal number of HD when compared to the wearer's level. Those with higher HD may simply pass.
Stat Increased- EGO (or INT, if you still use it).
Curse- Those who wear the Amulet of All-Speech who are not of royal blood, whether through birth, marriage or adoption will quickly suffer the Amulet's curse, and that is promotion. The Amulet's wearer will quickly find that authority figures trust them and turn over power to them much easier. They will suffer a meteoric rise, then usually fall just as quickly. Those of royal blood do not suffer this curse.
The Crown of Courage
A King's Leadership.
Appearance- A circlet of silver and white gold wire, heavy with geodes and gemstones. These gems seem to subtly glow when the crown is being worn.
Power- As an action, X/Day, the wearer may select any number of people that they can see. Those people must then save, if they wish to. Those who fail their save will then become either immune to fear for as long as they are within 100' of the wearer or able to see him, or they must immediately check morale or flee. Even if they pass their morale check, they take 1d6 Fear (CHA for player characters) damage a round. If the Amount of Fear damage they've taken equals or exceeds their morale (or total CHA score), they flee, no matter what.
The wielder may activate this ability X times per day, where X is the number of the Sovereign's Sacred Treasures that they hold.
Stat Increased- DEX.
Curse- The wearer becomes unable to know how much HP they have left. They do not track their HP, the Referee should do it for them. This curse does not apply if the wearer finds a courageous person and kills them, then eats their heart.
The Helm of Health
A King's Blessing.
Appearance- A Corinthian helmet made of gilded steel and studded with pearls and moonstones around the eyes. Has a sideways crest of royal purple and tassels of white that dangle down from it. It smells of good soil and ripe wheat, and makes you remember a home that never was. It radiates magical power.
Power- Allows you to instantly heal anyone up to full health if you touch them. Can also banish diseases and flush poisons with a word.
Stat Increased- CON.
Curse- The wearer may not heal use the Helm's power to heal themselves. This curse does not apply if the wearer has cast aside their old name and identity, as well as renouncing all previous obligations to their name. Referee's discretion on what "Casting aside" means.
from Goblin Slayer
The Plate of Protection
A King's Mandate.
Appearance- A suit of white plate armor straight from the High Middle Ages. Warm to the touch and fantastically detailed with all sorts of symbols, both familiar and alien. Radiates magical power.
Power: As an action, the wearer can make him or herself invincible for X rounds. During this time they cannot be hurt by anything. Bullets bounce off them, fire tickles and poison gas tastes as sweet as fresh spring air. This invulnerability only lasts for X rounds, after which the Plate of Protection is only a strong suit of armor, and the ability cannot be used until the next day/after the next long rest.
The number of rounds this ability can activate for, X, is equal to the number of the Sovereign's Sacred Treasures the wearer possesses.
Stat Increased- STR.
Curse- The Plate of Protection fuses to anyone who wears it. It is effortlessly comfortable, weighing less than air and filling the wearer with power. But each day they wear it without taking it off for an equal amount of time that they have worn it, they take 1d4 WIS damage. As this damage accumulates, the wearer becomes more and more paranoid of the dangers they might face. If this WIS damage ever equals or exceeds the wearer's WIS score, then the wearer will refuse to take the plate off. At this point, the plate fuses to their body, and it cannot be taken off without killing them. They treat the plate as their own body, and the plate responds, bleeding when cut and moving as they breathe. It loses some of its metallic sheen and begins to resemble bone. This curse does not apply if the wearer captures one of his or her enemies and convinces them to join the wearer of their own free will. For this choice, the arm-twisting and rough treatment is permitted, but if the Choice is made while the enemy is under the effects of sorcery, such as Charm Person, for instance, it does not count.
from Kill Six Billion Demons
The Sword of the Satan
A King's Responsibility.
Appearance- A broken hilt with a gilded, hand-carved handle of dense wood, wrapped in sharkskin.
Power- As a full action, a phantom blade of pure spirit will emerge from the hilt. This sword can cut through anything, and hurt anything. It does not do damage by rolling dice, but instead it deals damage equal to the wielder's CHA score + his or her STR modifier.
Stat Increased- WIS.
Curse- Every time the Sword is used to make a successful attack, it reduces the wielder's CHA by 1. These CHA points will naturally restore themselves at a point of 1 a week, or 1d6 if the wielder murders someone and claims their soul. This curse does not apply if the wielder has betrayed and murdered a member of their family or a blood-brother.
from Homestuck
The Ring of Resurrection
A King's Duty.
Appearance- A ring of gold, with an inscription on the inside. "Be raised Imperishable, oh Son of the Morning."
Power- As long as the wearer is wearing this ring, they cannot die. They will still be damaged, but their soul will leave their body.
Stat Increased- CHA.
Curse- Every time the wearer would die, someone nearby suffers their fate. For example, if they were shot and would have been killed by the bullet, a stray bullet randomly blows a hole in someone's head. No save. This curse does not apply if the wearer sacrifices a child in a dark ritual, under the full moon.
By Yami Bakura at January 14, 2019 No comments:
Labels: sweet loot
Dragon Generator 2: Electric Boogaloo
I made a Dragon generator a long time ago. It was alright. But now I'm back, this time with my definitive take on Dragons. Hopefully. Credit to these people for inspiring me, and for further reading, check out Dragons as "radioactive moon aliens", Dragons as pinatas, and Dragons as people (part 1, part 2).
by gerezon
"Dragons are dragons because humans can't beat 'em."
- Godo, Berserk
Dragons are superior beings. On the Great Chain of Being that rises from Stones to Gods, Dragons sit much higher than mortals. They are divine sparks, pieces of eternal flame, wrapped in meat and magic, given power beyond your ken. They are unbreaking and plastic, mad and inspired, crippled and divine.
As Dragons are all "servants" of Chaos, they are all unique. Roll on the tables below to see what this particular specimen is like.
How large is it?
Size is determined by strength. Roll on the "how strong are they?" below.
What color is it?
1- Red
2- Blue
3- Green
4- White
5- Black
6- Purple
7- Pink
8- Grey
9- Yellow
10- Gold
12- Bronze
13- Brass
14- Copper
15- Tin
16- Lead
17- Opal
18- Diamond
19- Fractal-patterned
20- The Dragon's scales mimic the Heavens above. During the day it shines golden, and at night it is black and covered in swirling constellations and shining stars.
What is this Dragon's name?
All Dragons name themselves after the greatest item they own. For example, Brightsoul the Dragon named himself after the ring of the same name after he stole it from the Emperor of Merciful Light. Similarly, a Dragon's titles are self-adopted, and they don't always make sense. Mostly, Dragons choose what they think sounds cool at the time. Brightsoul's title is the Dragon of Stars and Rings, so his full name is Brightsoul, the Dragon of Stars and Rings.
What is this Dragon's Title?
Is there anything odd about this Dragon?
1- It is Mutated. Roll here, or on your favorite table.
2- It has 1d4 extra limbs.
3- It has a second sets of Wings
4- It is more Humanoid, and can stand on two legs like a person.
5- It has eyes of two different colors.
6- It is covered in scars.
7- It has 1d6 extra eyes.
8- It's tail is tipped in a wicked spike, barbs, stinger, etc.
9- It has a crown of fire, stars or light constantly floating over its head.
10- This Dragon has a magic sword embedded in its flesh.
11- This Dragon is visibly sickened/poisoned by some hideous disease or poison. It might die, it might not, either way, it is sick and miserable.
12- This Dragon's roar is something unusual. Instead of a terrifying, screeching reptile roar, it is 1d6 [1= A choir of voices; 2= The sound of an air-raid siren; 3= The screaming of the damned in Hell; 4= The shattering of a million windows; 5= The cry of a thousand eagles; 6= The howl of a massive wolf-pack]
13- This Dragon's eyes have permanent Dragon vision.
14- This Dragon is constantly as hot as an oven, touching it burns you.
15- This Dragon is armed to the teeth, constantly carrying weapons of a sort.
16- This Dragon is blind, 80% chance it has a method to compensate for this that could be disabled, 20% that it just as dangerous now as it was when it could see.
17- This Dragon cannot fly
18- This Dragon can tunnel through the earth.
19- This Dragon can breathe underwater.
20- This Dragon is addicted to Dagra Wood.
What Madness afflicts this Dragon?
This Dragon, like all Dragons, is mad. Roll on the table below to see what demented chain of logic it has bound itself up with.
1- One piece of its hoard is actually a forgery, and the Dragon is desperately searching for it
2- That it knows you, and you were hired to a job for it. The Dragon will mis-remember the job every few minutes. It expects results.
3- That their are rats in the walls, who are spying on it. It wants you to find the one controlling the rats, and kill them.
4- That it is actually a human, hiding in a cave from a Dragon. It will ignore the fact that it is actually a massive lizard.
5- That it is being hunted by the Shadow of a Tiger it once killed. The Shadow is stalking the Dragon, waiting for it to weaken. The Dragon is hallucinating, and sees the Tiger's Shadow everywhere.
6- That the Sun is actually a great, glowing jewel. The Dragon desires to possess the Sun, and is currently using its Drakencult to build some sort of fantastically elaborate and doomed device to reach the Sun, so it might claim the treasure for itself.
7- That the Stars are spying on the Dragon. It refuses to fly at night, except for in the most desperate circumstances, and tries to only go out during the day.
8- That its minions are incompetent. It will demand your help, then when you fail to meet its high and ever-changing standards, it will turn on you
9- It is having strange, prophetic dreams. Interpret them for the Dragon, and you will receive a boon. But if you interpret them in some way that the Dragon does not like, the Dragon will eat you.
10- The Dragon believes it is actually a destined child of prophecy, and one day it will receive the summons that demand it to come forth and fulfill its' destiny.
11- The Dragon believes and acts like it fills some important position of power, such as a King, Chancellor, etc. It issues useless decrees and has decorated its lair like a Palace worthy of the position it believes it fills. If the Dragon was ever sufficiently motivated to go actually check, it would find an usurper in its place, and that its totally sensible and useful declarations were not being followed. This would make it quite mad.
12- The Dragon believes that you are here to kill it. It will plead with you and make a few requests of you, and try and talk you out of fighting it. It doesn't expect you to accept though. Any attempts to deny that you are here to kill them will be met with arguments and suspicion.
13- The Dragon believes everyone is out to steal their hoard. If you deny this fact, then you are really out to get them, as why would a person without malicious intentions lie?
14- The Dragon has recently heard of morality, and now feels incredibly guilty for the things it has done. It considers itself evil. Refusing to acknowledge how evil the Dragon is will force the Dragon to "prove" how evil it is by roasting you alive.
15- The Dragon has more names and identities than you can imagine. It shifts personalities from scene to scene, and seems to possess at least 1d8+2 different personalities.
16- The Dragon believes its' lair is haunted, and is currently engaged in a fruitless ghost hunt, tearing the place apart in search of any sign of a haunting
17- The Dragon is cursed. They're sure of what. Any evidence at all is evidence of a curse. The Dragon will claim it is cursed with different things, but it knows it is cursed.
18- The Dragon believes it is surrounded by madmen who need soothing and comfort. It will attempt to pacify you, and treat you like a feral beast. Attempting to resist or insist you are not a madmen will only be met by patronizing affection from the Dragon, and an insistence that you comply.
19- The Dragon believes it is blind. It can clearly see, but it is "pretending" not to be able to. It registers what it sees on a subconscious level, but there is no conscious recognition of what it sees
20- The Dragon is a fanatical convert to a pre-existing religion, and will attempt to convince everyone who comes upon the Dragon of the truth of the Dragon's scriptures.
Who serves this Dragon?
All Dragons are Kings and Princes, and thus, have servants. These servants are known as a Drakencult, a bunch of religious zealots who revere the Dragon as a deific figure. They vary in form and function, some merely servants and valets, while others fight, spy or do anything else the Dragon requires.
1- Horrible old men. Lead either by a Warlock or a Manticore.
2- Beautiful women in sparkly dresses. Lead by the most beautiful one of them all.
3- Identical Twins. They all dress like their twin, and have a lot of fun messing with people. Lead by a trio of identical triplets that no one, not even the Dragon, can tell apart, except by what they talk about.
4- Dozens of clones of the same person. They go by numbers and scar each other, to differentiate themselves. They are lead by #0, the first clone, a deformed freak who guard's the original's body, who is in stasis in a concealed pod.
5- Wives. 50% of being the Dragon's wives, and a 50% that they are someone else's wives, that the Dragon stole. Led by the First Wife, who is never seen but often spoken about, usually with great trepidation.
6- Folk. They are bound to the Dragon through long chains of debt, obligation, and oaths of servitude. The Dragon is an excellent negotiator. Led by a Faerie.
7- Amazons. Led by a Matriarch who idolizes the Dragon.
8- Royalty. The descents of a kidnapped prince or princess. They act like nobles, with the Dragon as their immortal King. They may have plans to retake "their" kingdom one day, for their beloved Sovereign. Led by the eldest male descendant of the original royal figure.
9- Tough street urchins who regard the Dragon as a sort of parental figure. Led by One-Eye Nick, a tiny, twelve year old kid whose tougher than most men twice his age.
10- Warriors, berserkers, former knights, ronin or dudes with tattoos and axes. Lead by an insane warrior-priest whose tattooed from head to toe with scenes of slaughter, and enjoys quoting scripture as he kills people.
11- Actors. They wear masks and wander around, putting on plays and performing improv with anyone nearby. Lead by a man called the Director, who seems to have mysterious powers.
12- Musicians. They play music. Some of them may be able to weave magic into their songs. Lead by Frankonin, a sexually deviant bard hopelessly in love with the Dragon, though he conceals this fact.
13- Thieves and Spies. They will pretend to be normal servants, but expect to be missing your pocketbook and most of your jewelry by the time you leave. They fight like Scoundrels, but they prefer not to. Led by Black Hat McCoy, a master of assassination and stealth, a man who serves the Dragon with superstitious respect and awe.
14- Ancient people displaced from their time of origin. They could be cavemen or squatting primitives, or people from long-fallen empires, kept in the dark about how much time has passed. They are led by Galwan, the Uncrowned, their former King who refuses to wear a Crown or sit upon a Throne until his people's lands are restored to them.
15- Undead. They are bound to the Dragon with magic. They know no pain, fear, or hesitation. They burn in the sunlight, and flee from holy symbols. The Undead have no real need for a leader, but the smartest among them is an Undead who has descended into feral madness yet named Butcher.
16- Lepers or those with the plague. Or perhaps, the Plague. They are led by a Toxic named Gilheart, a semi-dead knight with the Velox Vector.
17- Troglodytes, or Starving Men. They speak no language and have no real culture. They are deformed and dangerous. They are vicious and cut-throat to the extreme, possessing only bone thomahawks and stone knives, but these are more than sufficient to kill you with. They are led by Chief Rockrib, an unlettered savage that stands a head taller than all the others.
18- Vampire Cultists. They need blood, but have few Vampiric powers. They are lead by Scaleson, the boldest of their number, who drank the Dragon's blood and was changed.
19- Philosophers. Ever loyal, every mad. Non-violent. They will challenge you to rhetorical debates and entrap you in chains of logic. You can just kill them, but if you do, aren't you proving them right? They are lead by a madman named Prince Sulvaine, who rules nothing but the shrubs outside the Drakencult's compounds.
20- Magic-Users. A bunch of level 1 Magic-Users, lead by a level 1d3+1 Wizard named Ulric Northwind, a Calcomancer of some skill, who is fond of freezing people to death.
What does this Dragon hoard?
All Dragons hoard things. It is how they determine their self-worth, and how they build their massive egos. All Dragons hoard different things, as they all assume that all objects of that type belong to them. This doesn't necessarily mean they want them, but if you walk into a Dragon's lair with a fancy sword and that Dragon collects swords, the Dragon might want that sword. But it wouldn't necessarily want your swords if they were notched or well-used, though the Dragon might prefer such seasoned pieces over display quality toys.
This Dragon's Hoard consists of?
1- Gold
2- Jewels and/or Jewelry
3- Art of some variety. Roll on sub-table A to see what this Dragon prefers.
4- Clocks and time-keeping devices.
5- Books
6- Religious Relics
7- Figurines or statues
8- Clothing
9- Armor
10- Weapons
11- Skulls and/or Bones
12- Animals of some variety. Roll on sub-table B to see what this Dragon prefers.
13- People of some variety. Roll on the Drakencult table to see what this Dragon prefers.
14- Secrets
15- Prophecies
16- Toys
17- Historical artifacts from a time period the Dragon is obsessed with
18- Dreams
19- Taxidermied Animals
20- Broken things. Snapped swords, unsteady chairs, cracked pottery, three-legged cats, cripples and mutants.
sub-table A:
1- Portraits, busts, and other works focusing on realistic faces
2- Paintings, any
3- Statues
4- Frescoes
5- Murals
6- Reliefs
7- Jewelry and worked, jeweled things
8- Modern art. Whatever the cutting edge is, the Dragon favors that. The latest pieces are clearly displayed, while the rest are stowed in back rooms.
sub-table B:
1- Cats
2- Crows
3- Ravens
4- Big Cats
5- Wolves
6- Guinea Pigs
7- Boars
8- Crocodiles
9- Bears
10- Bees
This Dragon's treasure is cursed. Anyone who steals it will suffer...
1- "A terrible, debilitating fear of the dark." The Cursed will be terrified of the Dark, and will avoid all Dark places, such as outside at night, caves, etc. This curse is broken by descending into the Veins of the Earth and returning alive.
2- "A ravenous desire to consume human flesh." The Cursed will develop a compulsion to eat human flesh. Eventually, they will dine exclusively on it. They will then eventually become a Wendigo or some other sort of once-human supernatural cannibal. This curse is broken by cutting off a limb and feeding it to someone else.
3- "An early, hideous death." The Cursed will die soon, and automatically fails all saves against death. Additionally, if they are reduced to zero HP for any reason, they die, no save. This curse is broken by someone sacrificing themselves for the cursed.
4- "By having the ghosts of those they kill haunt them." Anyone the Cursed kills now will pursue them as a Hungry Ghost, seeking to slay them and drag them down to Hell.
5- "By being pursued by a shadowy, implacable predator." The Cursed is now being relentlessly pursued by a cold, invisible intelligence that only they can see. The Predator cannot use tools or vehicles, but it never, ever stops. This curse is broken by passing the Predator off on someone else, by getting someone to steal one of your possessions.
6- "By being fated to perish in flames." You take double damage from fire. This curse is broken by killing a Dragon, or serving one for a year.
7- "By being rejected by their friends." All friends of the Cursed now begin to subtly resent them, and after some time, will cast them out and reject them. People who do not know the Cursed are not affected by this, but as soon as they start to know the Cursed, they will become affected by this. This curse is broken by performing a selfless act toward someone you don't know.
8- "For they will never be seen again." The Cursed's body becomes invisible. None of their equipment does. They also become blind, because sunlight passes right through their retinas. This curse is broken by giving away all your possessions, and not retrieving any of them.
9- "For they will lanquish in darkness, forever." The Cursed becomes unable to see natural light. To them, the sun and stars vanish, leaving the world lit only be fires and other, artificial lights. This curse is broken by speaking to a powerful Fire Elemental, and making a pact with them.
10- "For they will burn in the sunshine, as it reveals their sin." The Cursed takes damage from sunlight, as if they were a Vampire. This curse is broken by being set on fire.
11- "By being forever aware that I am in pursuit, and will never allow them to escape." The Cursed comes under the Delusion that the Dragon is right behind them. They will see signs of the Dragon's pursuit, hear its servants spying on them, see its shadow in the night, etc. They will develop an incurable and crippling paranoia. And the Dragon is pursuing them, but now they develop a nervous compulsion and paranoid delusions. This curse is broken by the Cursed changing their name and identity.
12- "By being unable to control to control their rage." The Cursed now cannot control their wrath, and flies into a rage whenever appropriate. I would recommend using something like this. This curse is broken by forgiving someone who doesn't deserve it that has wronged the Cursed, and giving them a chance at redemption.
13- "For their sword will fail them when they need it most." The Cursed, when they most need to strike a fatal blow (Referee's discretion) will miss. This curse is broken by sparing the next person the Cursed would have killed.
14- "By being transformed into a deformed freak." The Cursed is transformed into a piteous caricature of themselves, with a CHA/EGO of 3. They are pitiful, ugly, and strange, like the Hunchback of Notre Dame. This curse is broken by cutting off your face and having a new one attached.
15- "For under the light of [A celestial body significant to the Dragon], they will transform into a monster and rampage through the town, hunting their own kinsmen for food." As it says on the tin. The monster will have a malevolent intellect and personality separate from the Cursed, but will be as strong as them, and have their abilities. This curse is broken by being annointed by a Priest, Angel or Spirit.
16- "For they will forget everything, except for their crime." The Cursed immediately suffers total amnesia, with the exception of the fact that they stole Dragon treasure.
17- "By being branded with my seal." Any who bring their bones to me will be rewarded handsomely. The Cursed is branded with the Dragon's seal. Evil beings near them will know they can kill the Cursed and deliver their bones to the Dragon for a reward. This curse is broken by selling yourself into slavery.
18- By becoming immortal. This based on Death becomes Her logic. The Cursed is immortal as long any part of their body remains intact, and their soul cannot depart from it until not a scrap of them remains. Their body cannot heal except based on its usual properties, and the curse does nothing to dull pain or fear.
19- "By transforming into a child once more." The Cursed is de-aged until they are a child again. Their mind will follow the body, and within a few months, they will have forgotten everything about their life from before they returned to their youth. This curse is broken by getting married.
20- "By being pursued by storms." The Cursed is pursued by storms wherever they go. These storms bring constant rain, hail, lightning, and other terrible weather phenomena. This curse is broken by making a pact with a Lord of the Earth.
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base Dragon statblock
SHP X
AC (see below)
Atk (see below)
Mor 11
Saves 7+X or less is a success
All Dragons are immune to [X], which is the damage that their Breath Weapon does
Damage Threshold X: All Dragons have a Damage Threshold. They only take damage from sources if the amount of damage equals or exceeds their Damage Threshold. If a source of damage cannot equal or exceed the Threshold, instead ignore it, as if it did no damage. To determine the Dragon's Damage Threshold, consult the table labeled "How strong are they?" below.
Fear: Whenever you enter combat with a Dragon, a Dragon kills one of your friends, or the Dragon does something else intimidating or breath-taking, save vs fear (CHA save in my system). If you fail your save, you take 1d6 CHA damage. If the amount of CHA damage ever equals or exceeds your Charisma (CHA) score, then you become overcome with fear and must flee at the first opportunity. You also gain the Conviction, "I will never fight that Dragon again, as long as I live."
Breath Weapon: All Dragon's Breath Weapons do 6d6 damage (if they do damage), permit saving throws (sometimes) and are only usable every 1d4 turns. They strike a 60' cone, and have a 60' range.
Flight: All Dragons can fly, unless otherwise listed that they cannot.
Tactics:
- Be clever
- Never fight a battle on the opponent's turns
- Circle Strafe
- Exploit your advantages
How strong are they?
1: Child. Damage Threshold 4, AC 16, Atk(+3) Claw 1d6/1d6 + Bite 1d8+3. This Dragon is a child. It is possible for a Dragon wyrmling to be abandoned, but very rarely, in the same way its odd to find a human child alone in the woods. There is a 10% that the Wyrmling is abandoned, its parent was killed, or it is lost and cannot find its way back home for some reason. However, there is an 80% chance that an Adult Dragon is right around the metaphorical corner, and will be here either soon, or the child knows how to get to them. There is also a 10% chance that this wyrmling's parent is not only alive, but a Great Wyrm, and very, very close.
2: Adult. Damage Threshold 6, AC 15, Atk(+4) Claw 1d8/1d8 + Bite 1d10. The rank and file. What people think of when they hear the word, "Dragon".
3: As "2", but with a Damage Threshold of 7.
4: As "2", but with a Damage Threshold of 8. This Dragon also has 1 Draconic Blessing.
5: As "2", but with a Damage Threshold of 9. This Dragon also has 2 Draconic Blessings.
6: Great Wyrm. Damage Threshold 10, AC 12, Atk(+6) Claw 1d8/1d8 + Bite 1d20. This Dragon has 1d3 Draconic Blessing. A Dragon that seems as large as a castle. A Dragon that breathes fire fit to melt stone and reduce fortresses to ruin. A Dragon that brightens the night with its glory and blocks out the sun with its wings. A Dragon that snatches stars from the Heavens to serve as handmaids. A Dragon that remembers the first moments of Creation, a Dragon that feels the divine spark in the center of its flesh, of fire untamed bubbling within. A Dragon that makes Divinity tremble. Do not fight this Dragon, for if you challenge it, you have already lost.
What is their breath weapon?
1- Fire. Save for half damage, or if you have a shield, save to avoid all damage.
2- Burning, sticky Tar. As fire, but the fire sticks around. Your shield is now covered in sticky, burning goo, and will be gone soon.
3- Clouds of Grit. Does slashing damage. Reduce the damage done by your AC-10. Ex: if you have an AC of 17, subtract 7 from the Damage the Dragon does. Also, this permanently reduces the state of one's armor by 1 each time it is used, so after the Breath Weapon is used, the "you" I mentioned above, with an AC of 17, has their AC reduced to 16.
4- Arctic Wind. Does Ice damage. Reduce the damage taken if the people fighting are wearing thick winter clothing or some other gear that could protect them from cold weather. Otherwise, they take full damage.
5- Acid. Does Acid Damage. Reduce damage done by AC-10, but unless your armor is made of plastic, glass or enchanted to be nigh-indestructible, your AC is reduced by 1 each round until you take an action to wash off your armor by diving into a river or something like that. Additionally, when your AC drops to 10 or below, your armor breaks, and you begin taking 1d6 acid damage a round, until you take an action to clean it off yourself.
6- Toxic Sludge. Does poison damage. Absorbed through the lungs, eyes, and skin. If you are wearing a gas mask, respirator or some kind of hazard suit, you can avoid all damage. Otherwise, save to take half damage.
7- Poison Gas. Roll on sub-table A to see what kind of poison gas it is.
8- Mushroom Dust. This stuff is highly radioactive. It does radiation/energy damage. Armor made of lead, water, stone or enchanted to keep out other "energies" can reduce damage as per "3". Otherwise, save to take half damage. Also, save vs cancer, though it won't manifest for 1d4 years.
9- Ultra-Violet Radiation. Invisible. The only sign that the Dragon is even using it is the corona of light that appears around the Dragon's mouth when it uses it.
10- Swords. Does slashing damage. Save as per shield, but it destroys any shield that is used against it. Also, each time this is used, the Dragon leaves 3d6+20 swords just lying around.
11- Giant spheres of stone or iron. Instead of hitting a cone, this sphere hits one person and anyone immediately adjacent to them.
12- Snakes. Does no damage, but spawns 1d100*1d10 snakes. Walking through these snakes does 1d6 (exploding) poison damage as dozens of the snakes bite you as you step on them or pass them by (unless you're wearing plate or something impossible to bite through). Most of these snakes flee within 1 round, but 1d6+1 of them will stick around. These will be brightly colored vipers that bite for 3d6 and are permanently under the control of the Dragon, and will follow its orders.
13- Drakes. Does no damage, but spawns 1d10 (exploding) Drakes. See below for the statblock. These Drakes are permanently under the control of the Dragon, and follow its orders faithfully, to the death.
14- Desert Wind. Sucks the water from you. Instead does 1d8 CON damage, save for half, minimum of 1. If the amount of CON damage taken ever equals or exceeds your CON score, you die. You can only reduce the damage if you've made a sacrifice to a God of the Desert and your sacrifice was accepted.
15- Negative Energy. Negative Energy is pure entropy. It plucks at your genome, seeking to unwind it, breathing on your soul, seeking to snuff it out. Hollows you out while you're still alive, then it kills you. Anyone killed by this, or any corpses exposed to Negative Energy rise as Undead permanently under the Dragon's control.
16- Green Rays. A cone of green light that burns and makes your muscles slither and bulge. Instead does 1d8 EGO damage, save for half, minimum of 1. If the amount of EGO damage you've taken ever equals or exceeds your EGO score, you transform into a giant, green monster made of rage and tumors and start rampaging around, attacking anyone in sight.
17- Wounds. Does slashing damage as wounds from invisible weapons open all over your body. This damage can only be reduced by wearing warded or enchanted armor.
18- Insanity. When exposed to this Breath Weapon, you take 1d6 WIS damage, no save. If the amount of WIS damage you've taken ever equals or exceeds your WIS score, you gain an insanity of the Referee's choice.
19- Sin. When exposed to this Breath Weapon, you take 1d6 CHA damage, no save. If the amount of CHA damage you've taken ever equals or exceeds your CHA score, you become infected by one of the Dragon's mortal sins. Roll on sub-table B to see what sin it is. You feel the need to immediately engage in a sinful act, and until you do, you get -4 to do anything. However, if you do not indulge and fight the rest of the battle similarly impeded, you will find the temptation has passed you by.
20- Doom. Does no damage. Instead, when exposed, you take 1d6 STR damage, no save. If the amount of STR damage you've taken ever equals or exceeds your STR score, you die.
What gas is it?
1- Laughing Gas. All within the gas must save or start laughing uncontrollably.
2- Tear Gas. All within the gas must save or start weeping uncontrollably.
3- Vile Gas. All within the gas must save or start vomiting at the incomprehensibly bad odor produced by this gas.
4- Mustard Gas. All within this gas take 1d6 damage a round.
5- Suffocating Gas. All within this gas start suffocating, as it is heavier than air, and pushes it all away.
6- Hallucinogenic Gas. All within this gas have vivid hallucinations that last 1d6 hours, no save.
What sin is it?
1- Lust. If you indulge in this sin, you gain the Conviction, "I am a sex fiend, I will attempt it with anyone I find even the slightest bit attractive. I have very low standards."
2- Wrath. If you indulge in this sin, you gain the Conviction, "I cannot control my temper. If insulted, [I must save] or fly into a rage."
3- Sloth. If you indulge in this sin, you gain the Conviction, "I find it hard to do anything. If something is not immediately important, I will ignore it, unless [I pass a save]."
4- Gluttony. If you indulge in this sin, you gain the Conviction, "I cannot control my desires. If allowed to indulge, I [must save] or I cannot stop myself from digging in."
5- Greed. If you indulge in this sin, you gain the Conviction, "I love money more than anything. If there is a chance for me to acquire some more, [I must save] or I'll take it."
6- Envy. If you indulge in this sin, you gain the Conviction, "I am never satisfied. What other people have, I always is better than mine. I want it."
7- Pride. If you indulge in this sin, you gain the Conviction, "I am glorious and magnificent. There is no way I could lose to such lowly creatures."
8- Roll Twice, and take both outcomes. Treat another roll of "8" as Pride.
Atk Bite (+2, 1d6 + Grapple)
Mor 7
Saves 8 or less is a success
- Rush in
- Sneak attack
- Grab someone and fly up, then drop them
Do they have any Draconic Blessings?
1- Dragon is psychic- it can read minds. For the Referee, assume the Dragon can hear the player's table-talk, though anything the players say that references out-of-game events will be translated into something the Dragon can understand, or is omitted.
2- This Dragon is a spellcaster. The Dragon is a level 1d6+2 Magic-User.
3- This Dragon can shapeshift. Changing shape doesn't change its stats.
4- This Dragon can see the future. As a Prophet.
5- This Dragon can grant wishes. It can only grant one wish a year, and will try to twist the wish, as per a malicious/mischievous Genie.
6- This Dragon can summon Elementals. It has 1d4 of them from the Various Courts somewhere in its lair.
7- This Dragon can summon Outsiders. It has 1d3 somewhere in its lair.
8- This Dragon is actually Undead. Add the Undead Vulnerabilities and the Undead Powers to the Dragon's statblock.
9- This Dragon's spirit tries to possess the closest mortal possible after death, transforming them into a Dragon Saint. Roll for the Possession as per an Outsider. See "8" for the rules for that.
10- This Dragon can make unbreakable pacts with anyone who agrees to it. These are exactly like Demonic Contracts, except the Dragon doesn't care about your soul.
11- This Dragon's blood, if drunk, grants the gift of madness and prophecy. If bathed in, it makes you stronger and mutates you.
12- This Dragon has a lesser Demonic Gift.
13- This Dragon has a greater Demonic Gift (see above).
14- This Dragon is actually infected with some kind of plague (ex: the Amirani virus). This disease isn't strong enough to kill the Dragon, but if you caught it, it certainly would kill you.
14- This Dragon can fire bolts of light from its eyes that pursue one or two target unerringly. When they strike something, they each do 3d6 heat damage. They can split up to follow two targets, if the Dragon wishes. They are fast as arrows, but can be dodged, but they will loop around to try again. You can block or stop them, but it will require cleverness.
15- This Dragon can speak to animals.
16- This Dragon can fly through unworked stone like it is air.
17- This Dragon regenerates 1 SHP a turn.
18- This Dragon can devour magic spells by snatching them "out of the air", thus nullifying them. It may do this once per round, immediately after a spell has been cast, as a free action.
19- This Dragon's blood, when exposed to air, does 1d4 [1= does 1d6 acid damage to anyone it splashes; 2= Anyone struck by it must save or mutate; 3= Induces incredible pleasure in anyone who absorbs it through their skin, save or become addicted; 4= It is highly explosive, save or take 1d6 damage.]
20- This Dragon's fear effect is so strong, it actually induces the opposite reaction. Instead of fear, the effect is so strong it subconsciously encourages the affected to give it to the Dragon, and feel joy at its presence, in the same way a child feels joy after being reunited with their parents after an absence. If the amount of CHA damage done by the Dragon's Fear Effect equals or exceeds a person's CHA score, if the Dragon has this Draconic Blessing, the person will give in and ask the Dragon if they will accept him or her as a servant.
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INTRODUCING BETH & HERBERT LEVINE | 1949 - 1975 | PT. 2/2
1960 | Herbert Levine Days!
Source: The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle
INTRODUCING BETH & HERBERT LEVINE
Beth Levine never stopped designing smart and elegant shoes but her brand soon became known for introducing the boot into elegant outfits. Eventually, her boot designs led Herbert Levine, Inc. to winning their first Coty Award in 1967 (1).
Everybody thought it was a big joke when Beth Levine designed a pair of white boots and wore them in 1953 when she made a whole collection of them. It was only a few years later that Courreges brought out his white boots in Paris, and you know the rest of the story.
Boots have been so big that it was hard to believe the fashion can last another year. The husband and wife team of Beth and Herbert Levine know the right answer, though. What else can women wear when winter is cold and skirts are still short? Almost one third of their production this fall will be boots.
Eugenia Sheppard
Corpus Christi Caller Times | August 20, 1967
1967 | Beth & Herbert Levine
The Glitter Boot
Source: The Herald Statesman | Yonkers NY November 20, 1967
This is how Beth Levine explains the boot appeal:
The boot is interesting, not because of the fashion, but because of the feeling. The first time I did a high-heeled leather boot, I had this beautiful leather I could not stand to cut, so I made it into a seamless boot. It was comfortable, even though you had to pull the boot on. The last boots I made had the lightness of weight and the comfort of a nylon stocking. I believe that the boot in some form will always be in style because it is comfortable and a bad leg can look good in it.
Beth Levine | June 1978
Footwear Technology Symposium | Gaithersburg, Maryland
For the record, the Levines received another Coty Award (1973) - two years before they closed doors - the only shoemakers to be awarded twice.
September 1970 | Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
Beth's Boutique - Beth's Bootery
The boot business was so successful that Beth and Herbert created three new labels at the end of 1969: Beth Bootery, Beth Boutique and Lafitte. Forann, named after their daughter Ann (2); was established in 1965.
Tony The Shoemaker - named after Tony Acuti, production manager at Herbert Levine, Inc. was the first off-shot brand active since 1963. (3)
1965 | Tony The Shoemaker
Source: Buffalo Courier Express | May 2, 1965
IN BETH'S opinion, "Never before have boots been such an integral part of the entire costume as for this midi conscious season." One of originals, the laced boot, is getting enormous attention from fashion savants. "Lacings reflect a definite nostalgia and also fit perfectly into the concept of softened clothes," Beth said. "It takes a little longer to dress, perhaps, but it is, in itself, an enjoyment of dressing."
Utica, NY | September 14, 1970
The Levines joined forces with all the major American designers of their time “to do shoes and boots for their collections. They are keenly aware that shoes come first - that without the right shoe a beautiful design effort can end in disaster. The designers worked with the Levine’s months ahead of their openings to assure the right shoe to complete their looks. They concur with Beth on the importance of working from the ground up.
The Levine’s did shoes for the collections of Geffrey Beene, Seymour Fox, George Halley, Victor Joris, Kasper for Joan Leslie, Adele Simpson, Richmond Tarn, Jacques Tiffeau, Pauline Trigére, b.H. Wragge and the furriers Maximilian and Revillon.” (4)
Add to the list Oscar De La Renta, Emilio Pucci, Halston, Bill Glass … Not that it is important, but feel free to find yourself a celebrity list of Herbert Levine enthusiasts as it is widely available everywhere.
1974 | Herbert Levine
Vinylite Pump
Source: The Post Crescent | February 7, 1974
By 1975, the exorbitant price of making shoes in the United States along with the budding popularity of sneakers, led Herbert Levine, Inc. to stop production. Herb had had enough: he took care of his employees’ pensions and severance, and then he proceeded to shut the doors forever.
Although the Levines had had several offers to licence their name, they felt they would lose control of the quality, which was, to them, unthinkable. Herb felt that no licensing arrangement had ever succeeded and pointed to Schiaparelli as an example: “It was just royalties for a name.”
Helene Verin,
Beth Levine Shoes (Steward, Tabori & Chang, 2009)
Funny how the Schiaparelli reference is so contemporary.
Filed November 26, 1976 | Granted December 27, 1977
Betherb, Inc. Patent of a two-portion boot
As soon as they closed production Beth and Herbert founded Betherb, Inc. and kept operating within the industry as consultants; an article from August 1976 - when their designs were showcased at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts - placed them working with producers of shoemaking machinery. Betherb, Inc. also had a few patents under their belt.
Herbert Levine died of lung cancer in 1991, while Beth passed away in 2006, aged 91, also of lung cancer. She was still involved in collaborations with well known designers.
The brand Herbert Levine was briefly resurrected in 2008 by Dennis and Lynne Comeau (5), another husband & wife team, but it didn’t last and the label is now owned by an investment group whose Facebook page is dormant since May 2012.
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Helene Verin | Beth Levine Shoes (Steward, Tabori & Chang, 2009)
Helene Verin attributed the birth of Tony The Shoemaker at the end of 1969, but advertisements of the brand can be seen starting from May 1963; Forann closed its doors in March 1973.
The Daily Press | Utica, NY - September 14, 1970
Dennis Comeau is a shoe designer who practised under the late Bandolino designer Enzo Angiolini. Along with his wife Lynne, he gave new life to historical brand Bernardo. Bought and sold in a few years, they tried the same with Herbert Levine with a less successful outcome. Side note: Dennis Comeau was actively involved at the beginning of the highly influential New York punk scene although details are fuzzy.
1970 | Beth & Herbert Levine For Tony The Shoemaker
The Challis Boot
Source: The San Bernardino County Sun | December 7, 1970
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Anna Furse
Director and co-founder of Blood Group
Below is an outline of the topics covered in our interview with Anna Furse in 2013, recorded to assist with the construction of the Blood Group company webpage.
Anna’s Unfinished Histories interview is now deposited with the British Library Sound Archive, V&A Theatre Collections and Sheffield University. Please see Viewing Interviews for further details.
Company: Blood Group
Interviewer: Phoebe Ferris
Interview content includes: Anna Furse (AF) asked Suzy Gilmour to join her in forming Blood Group, 1981. Ran until 1986. Anna Furse couldn’t find an outlet for the work she wanted to do so formed own company. Wanted to find a language for ‘feminine unconscious’ about how women were felling at that time and how it could be translated into performance form. Central company themes – violence and power. All work devised (except Clams). ‘Women’s physical visual theatre’. Work at Rose Bruford at same time. Designer Kate Owen. Projects developed over a long period. Usually toured over a year, London, UK & Europe. Worked collectively. Project-based company. Lot of support from Oval House. A Barricade of Flowers. AF choose topics to be developed. Deborah Levy’s Clam; Dirt; Cold Wars. Company finished when AF became Artistic Director of Paines Plough. Ventriloquies; Nature.
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Tim Cook says Apple is ‘bullish about future tablet market’, now at 13M iPads into education worldwide
- Jul. 22nd 2014 2:39 pm PT
During Apple’s earnings call today for its fiscal Q3, the company shared an update on iPad sales into the education market noting that it’s now up to 13 million iPads sold worldwide. That’s up from the 8 million units worldwide it reported in February of last year meaning the company sold 5 million iPads into education in just over a year. Apple last year noted that it also sold 4.5M iPads into the U.S. education market. This year, the company said it currently has 85% share of the US education tablet market.
Apple also seemed to address speculation about weaker iPad sales and the future of the category with Tim Cook noting that the company remains “bullish about the future of the tablet market.” Cook noted that the new deal with IBM is one catalyst for growth in the tablet category and also went over some numbers about penetration in the enterprise including iPads in 99% of Fortune 500 companies and 93% of the global 500. “When we dig into it though our market share in the commercial sector in the US is good, it’s 76%, the penetration in business is low, it’s only 20. If you looked at the penetration of notebooks in business it would be over 60. We think there is a substantial upside in business…”
Cook also noted that more than 50% of the iPads Apple is selling are going to someone who is a first time tablet buyer, many of which are coming from countries outside the US where tablet sales are growing faster: “The market is bifurcated on iPad. In the BRIC countries, iPad did extremely well. The growth was very high. China it was in the 50’s, the middle east it was in the 60’s. In the developed countries like the US, the market is clearly weaker there…”
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The main prize of the 48-hour cinema creative challenge is awarded to the film «Cirtenis»
The main prize – 1000 euros (before taxes) donated by Tukums municipality was awarded to the team “Dzīļi vīlies” (eng - Deeply Disappointed ) for the short film “Cirtenis”. In turn, the jury decided to split the award of the technology and entertainment company “Tet” – purchase and screening of films on the entertainment platform “Shortcut” worth 500 euros: two films “Cirtenis” with the screening of 300 euros and team A53 presentation of EUR 200.
“The event is proof that in 48 hours it is possible to create a work of art that may be more original or as original as the works that people have been working on for years.
The film “Cirtenis” convinced the jury with a masterfully told cinematic idea, good cinematic language, witty details, sincerely involved residents of Tukums, well-chosen locations of Cineville, originality and moments of surprise. It was interesting to watch all the time, ”admits Laima Graždanoviča, the chairman of the jury and the representative of the organizers of the film community, the program director of the 2ANNAS International Short Film Festival. The jury decided to split the Tet Prize for two films, as it also wanted to welcome the short film NEXT GEN, which convinced the jury with a concise story, great special effects, dynamic camera movement, successful locations and the ability to show on screen so much.”
The short film “NEXT GEN” also won the Audience Award – an opportunity to implement a cinematic idea in the cinema city “Cinevilla”. The material representation of the award – a symbolic sword that will help in the fight for a place in the film industry – was given to the filmmakers by the producer and director, a representative of the jury Andrejs Ēķis.
“Cinema community – bringing young filmmakers together in one sprint is a colossal idea! I hope to be able to participate in this event next year as well. Our team consists of three film directing students of the Latvian Academy of Culture (LCA), and winning this competition is a great way to start the new school year with a full charge of creative energy, ”admits Emīls Alps, a student of the winning team” Deeply Disappointed ” .
The short films were judged by a jury of audiovisual art professionals: Laima Graždanoviča, director and artist of the 2ANNAS program of the Riga International Short Film Festival, Katrīna Neiburga, artist and set designer, film director Juris Poškus, screenwriter Lote Eglīte, as well as producer and director Andrejs Ēķis.
31 creative teams applied in the cinema community, from which the 10 strongest teams were selected for further participation.
The cinema community is organized by the leading short film festival in Latvia – Riga International Short Film Festival 2ANNAS and Tukums Municipality in cooperation with the cinema city “Cinevilla”, but a special prize is provided by the technology and entertainment company “Tet”.
According to the organizers’ plans, “Tukums 48h Cinema Community in Cineville” will be an annual international event with a prestigious jury and filmmaking teams from different countries. The aim of the municipality is to promote creative cooperation, shooting new, innovative films, to popularize Latvian architecture, natural landscape and environmental design, as well as Tukums region as a destination for tourism and film industry.
Photo: Arnis Kalnins / Winners of the main prizes and the “Tet” prize
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Local Running Club Launches Virtual Training Programs For 5K, 10K and Half Marathons
Jessica Engen May 14, 2020 Lifestyle + Culture
bRUNch Running, a popular running organization and creators of the bRUNch Run in Denver, has launched new training programs. These programs are to get your body moving, help improve your running techniques and keep you accountable.
Photo Courtesy of bRUNch Running on Facebook
Alexandra Weissner and Cortney Logan the founders of bRUNch Running came up with the food-centered running club after participating in multiple marathons and races. The duo had become disappointed with the food fare that was presented at the finish line of the races they had been running. This disappointment sparked an idea for the two – a running group that combined a workout with an ending of tasty bites.
Logan states, “I was talking about how we could do this, we could do it better. Our biggest thing with races is you spend all this time training and you spend a lot of money. It’s all this hype and then you’ve crossed the finish line and then it’s here’s your bagel and here’s your half banana and see you later. And it’s lackluster. There’s all this buildup and you’re kind of disappointed. So what we wanted to do was make it be a celebration. The run is really important but so is the after reward as a kind of congratulations and we’ll never say that you need to earn your brunch. We say live your life and we’re finding [that people] enjoy the reward.”
This was the birth of bRUNch Running Club. The group slowly morphed from running to different brunch spots around the Denver Metro area to gaining more and more runners to the club. Now the two have dove into the land of training.
“We’ve definitely kind of evolved a little bit more and now we’re more of a running community and we have the community-run which we run out monthly from Denver Milk Market and those are always three events. We do other run community runs with different other restaurants. We also now have an online training program and then we have our own timed 5k and 10K race in October every year in Denver, this year is the seventh annual year,” said Weissner.
The pair, who are certified running coaches, got the idea from members of bRUNch Running Club.
Logan explained, “[During the] conversations we were having during our run and at brunch, training kept coming up. So we did a six-week training program through the holidays that was free for anyone to participate. And then we are launching later this year in the first quarter K training program to be done online. Training will be a big focus for us for this year and also preparing for the annual brunch run.”
bRUNch Running now offers a myriad of training plans for those who want to prep for the official race or just step their running game up. The training programs are $14.99 – allowing runners of all levels to increase their abilities. Even if you are just starting out or are a seasoned runner, the five programs will help to continue your running journey.
The programs include 5K, 10K and half marathon training with daily run and cross-training workouts, weekly check-in emails, a weekly schedule, access to the Strictly bRUNchatarians community and more. bRUNch Running plans to add in more workouts and plans over the next weeks to give you even more choices.
Unfortunately due to the current ban on dining-in at restaurants, the monthly bRUNch Running club events that occur at the end of each month have been postponed until further notice.
The seventh annual bRUNch Run will commence on October 11 this year. You can register for the race here.
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David Brooks Would Like Obama to Top Paul Ryan With Something Big
David Brooks, keeper of Burke’s reanimated corpse and devotee of madcap monarchism, is disappointed in Obama:
President Obama is an intelligent, judicious man who can see all sides of an issue. But every once in a while he tries to get politically cute, and he puts on his Keith Olbermann mask.
I suppose it’s to his credit that he’s most inept when he tries to take the low road. He resorts to hoary, brain-dead clichés. He wanders so far from his true nature that he makes Mitt Romney look like Mr. Authenticity.
That’s pretty much what happened this week in Obama’s speech before a group of newspaper editors. Obama’s target in this speech was Representative Paul Ryan’s budget.
Yes, the one time that Obama indulges in the rhetorical flourishes that commonly seep from the hemorrhoidic buttocks of the Republitards he is decidedly worse than Gaius Julius Mittensus Caesar, Emperor of Romneyland and Bearer of the Gold Standard of American Meritocratic Failure. Worse still, his target was Paul Ryan, the handsome little man with the big fat plan!
But before Brooks delves too deep into the pit of right-wing ideological adulation, he wants to remind us of his philosophical centrism:
It should be said at the outset that the Ryan budget has some disturbing weaknesses, which Democrats are right to identify. The Ryan budget would cut too deeply into discretionary spending. This could lead to self-destructive cuts in scientific research, health care for poor kids and programs that boost social mobility. Moreover, the Ryan tax ideas are too regressive. They make tax cuts for the rich explicit while they hide any painful loophole closings that might hurt Republican donors.
You see, don’t you?! Brooks acknowledges the difficulties with Ryan’s plan! He’s a true philosopher! Sadly, though the difficulties that he outlines are actually quite convincing, he betrays his argument and goes on to prop up Obama’s reasonable whinging as a dancing straw man (if he only had a brain!):
But these legitimate criticisms and Obama’s modest but real deficit-reducing accomplishments got buried under an avalanche of distortion. The Republicans have been embarrassing themselves all primary season. It’s as if Obama wanted to sink to their level in a single hour.
Again, Brooks equates Obama’s rightly spoken criticisms with the entire Republitard campaign’s rhetorical fracas. So not only does Brooks cast a straw man in his Théâtre de l’Absurde, but he proceeds to light it on fire! Zut alors! Brooks also found Obama’s “tone” to be unacceptable, as well as his use of 80s liberal clichés (paging Ronald Reagan, would Ronald Reagan please report to EVERY FUCKING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE’S STUMP). He then reminds us, in true Brooksian fashion, of his familiarity with the Great Books curriculum:
Social Darwinism, by the way, was a 19th-century philosophy that held, in part, that Aryans and Northern Europeans are racially superior to brown and Mediterranean peoples.
And for those of you following along on your “How to Write an Essay By David Brooks” rubric, now comes the moment when Brooks cites studies to demonstrate his wonkishness and objectivity:
There are, indeed, real differences, but in the short term they are not a chasm. In 2013, according to Veronique de Rugy of George Mason University, the Ryan budget would be about 5 percent smaller than the Obama budget, and it would grow a percent or two more slowly each year. After 10 years, government would be smaller under Ryan, but, as Daniel Mitchell of the Cato Institute complains, it would still take up a larger share of national output than when Bill Clinton left office.
If only Obama had cited the Cato Institute he wouldn’t have lost all his credibility.
But Brooks isn’t done with Obama yet, because Obama had the temerity to assault Ryan’s asinine Medicare revamp (you know, the one that’s a giant giveaway to the insurance industry, and will likely lead to poor old bastards dying on the street or in their shabby trailers—but fuck them, right? Hahahaha!).
Obama claimed that Ryan’s plan “will ultimately end Medicare as we know it.” Which seems accurate, as that is the ostensible goal of the reform: ending the bloated entitlements and denying the fat coverage that’s bankrupting the nation. But alas, Brooks doesn’t care for that phrasing, most likely because it accurately reflects the plan’s intentions, and so he reminds us that such claims were voted on by the Internetz and were deemed false.
For Brooks, Obama’s rhetoric is a symptom of the pervasive disease: Democrats refuse to do the things that Republicans want them to do without complaining about it. However, it seems as though Brooks’ outrage is the outrage of an assclown; that is to say, he takes Obama to task for something that every Republican has been doing since the beginning of the primaries. According to Brooks, “Obama shouldn’t be sniping at Ryan. He should be topping him with something bigger and better.”
“He should be topping him with something bigger and better…” I see now that I’ve completely misunderstood this piece! Clearly we’ve merely wandered into one of Brooks’ sexual fantasies. Sorry, Dave! But maybe next time leave a fucking tie on the door or something!
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New Ash For Evil Dead?
We all know that they are remaking The Evil Dead, we can’t stop it and most of us don’t like it. However, as usual we have to know what is going on. Will it be a shot for shot remake? Will someone else be playing Ash? Will it make our heads explode with murderous fan boy rage? The deadite killing anti-hero himself; Bruce Campbell has answered some of those questions for you on his twitter account.
Most of us already know that the script is being penned by Diablo (Juno, Jennifer’s Body) Cody, which has garnered mixed reactions, but the question that plagues us is Who will play Ash? Well Brucey has now clearly stated that there will be no Ash in this new Evil Dead movie and that it will be taking on a bold new direction.
“No Ash character currently. Twitter fails when info gets fragmented. Last statement: ED remake is a re-telling. All bets are off & all involved love the new approach.”
So instead of being a remake it will be a “retelling”, removing one of the most popular and unique aspects of the film and changing the story. Will the name be all that remains? There are alot of films out there about a group of twenty somethings getting trapped in the woods with an evil force. It was the unique characters, effects, sound design and cinematography that made The Evil Dead a cult Icon. They cant have an Ash in the movie because the fans will hate them forever by disrespecting their idol but they cant have an Evil Dead film without him. Maybe they can find a new way to make it exciting and unique, or maybe it will end up having no soul to swallow.
Mr. Campbell likes the new approach (whatever it maybe be) should we just trust him?
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It has admitted that it searched tax applications for words like “Tea Party” and even “patriot.” Once it found those groups, it made intrusive and unconstitutional inquiries, demanding answers “upon penalty of perjury.”
IRS targets included pro-life and conservative groups in swing states before the 2012 election. This ongoing IRS abuse continues today, as the ACLJ represents dozens of these targeted groups. Using the government for partisan advantage violates a sacred trust.
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What is Spagyria and what has it got to do with Alchemy ? The word spagyry in Greek means to separate and recombine. Spao meaning to draw out, to divide; and ageiro, to gather, to bind, to join. These two steps or operations are the foundation of every true and genuine alchemical work. The below statement of Paracelsus has long been stated centuries before Paracelsus’ time in slightly different words in the “Emerald Tablet of Hermes”. Hermes has said that we should learn how to “ Separate the fire from the earth, subtle from the gross, gently and with great sagacity”. This is the separation.
“Therefore, learn Alchemiam, otherwise called Spagyria, which teaches you to separate the false from the true.”
-Paracelsus
Hermes has also said that after the separation, it, “ from earth ascends to heaven and descends again new born to earth, having acquired the powers of what belongs to heaven and also of that which belongs to earth”. In this statement we find the union and the recombination as the alchemical conjunction. The secret of this operation that Paracelsus was referring to has also been expressed by the alchemists in the well known Latin phrase ,” solve et coagula, et habebis magisterium” . Dissolve and combine, and you will have the magistery.
This separation as is expressed in the spagyrics process is a vital part of the alchemical process and is a most important step that needs to be taken in our work in order to achieve the desire purification of our alchemical essentials. This work of the separation is known as a Spagyric technique. Companies who produce herbal tinctures, use this technique. However to use this technique is not necessarily an alchemical work as we shall see. It is part of the alchemical work and we will see that commercially produced herbal tinctures are not alchemical at all. We can even say that these commercial tinctures are not even fully a spagyric product, let alone alchemical. Because spagyrics and alchemy share common concepts and methods, they are often confused with each other. Spagyrics is regarded as a part of alchemy, however there is a difference between them in intention as well as in the method used in the practice. A spagyrics product in effect deals with the health of the physical body. Alchemy on the other hand is an initiatory pursuit, and deals with the medicine of the soul. The true goal of alchemy is initiatory. Working on a spagyrics product does not require a specific state from the operator. In alchemy, however, the psychic quality of the operator is very essential.
The attunement and relationship between the matter worked on and the operator becomes very strong. A sympathetic attunement is achieved with one’s matter that sets off a certain resonance of energies that are being manipulated and raised in vibrations. This resonance, being between one’s matter and the operator, is as an intimate relationship. That is why it is said that no one will transmute anything if he hasn’t transmuted his or herself first.
There is yet an other important difference in principle between spagyrics and alchemy. Spagyrics, like homeopathy, does not regard healing to be as a result of some chemical reaction, but believes that certain energies which are contained by the body as a vessel carry out the healing process. Homeopathy attempts to eliminate the vessel in order to activate the energies. Spagyrics purifies the vessel to create in the body a resonance that raises the vibrations of the energies. Alchemy also does all that, that is, it purifies the matter worked with and raises its energies. However it does something above and beyond spagyrics and homeopathy. Alchemy accelerates the evolution of matter. This is the essential difference. Alchemy transforms and converts, it transmutes and accelerates the evolution of being both physically and spiritually. Matter and spirit go hand in hand.
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{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1093681"], "description"=>"*<p>Sample size n out of total of N = 227 for MSM and N = 69 for FSW (seeds not included)</p>†<p>Population estimates computed using RDSII/DA estimator method <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0066701#pone.0066701-Volz1\" target=\"_blank\">[30]</a></p>‡<p>Respondents who know where they can get tested for HIV and who have been given condoms through outreach service, drop-in centre or health facility in past 12 months</p>|<p>Respondents who could show at least one condom to interviewer</p>**<p>Respondents who know that a healthy-looking person can transmit HIV, that the transmission risk can be reduced by having sex with only one faithful, uninfected partner, and by using condoms, and who reject the misconceptions that HIV can be transmitted by sharing a meal with someone infected and through mosquito bites.</p>††<p>Respondents who would be willing to share a meal with a person who has HIV or AIDS, would be willing to care at their house for a male or female relative who is ill with HIV, who would buy food from a shopkeeper or food seller who has HIV, who thinks a student infected with HIV, but is not sick with AIDS should be allowed to attend school, and a teacher who is infected with HIV, but is not sick should be allowed to continue to teach.</p>‡‡<p>Respondents who have been refused health care, employment, education, restaurant service or police assistance</p><p>E1 = <i>Equilibrium</i> reached at 1% level, E2 = <i>Equilibrium</i> reached at 2% level</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["epidemiology", "Epidemiological methods", "Infectious disease epidemiology", "Social epidemiology", "Survey methods", "Global health", "Infectious diseases", "Sexually transmitted diseases", "aids", "Viral diseases", "hepatitis", "Hepatitis B", "Hepatitis C", "hiv", "HIV epidemiology", "HIV prevention", "Infectious disease control", "Non-clinical medicine", "Health services research", "Public health", "Behavioral and social aspects of health", "preventive medicine", "Political science", "Political aspects of health", "attitudes", "MSM", "fsw"], "article_id"=>725684, "categories"=>["Medicine", "Sociology"], "users"=>["Joseph J. Valadez", "Sima Berendes", "Caroline Jeffery", "Joanna Thomson", "Hussain Ben Othman", "Leon Danon", "Abdullah A. Turki", "Rabea Saffialden", "Lusine Mirzoyan"], "doi"=>["https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0066701.t004"], "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>0, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Access_to_services_knowledge_and_attitudes_related_to_HIV_among_MSM_and_FSW_in_Tripoli_Libya_2010_/725684", "title"=>"Access to services, knowledge and attitudes related to HIV among MSM and FSW in Tripoli, Libya, 2010.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>3, "published_date"=>"2013-06-19 01:34:44"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1093682"], "description"=>"*<p>Sample size n out of total of N = 227 where not indicated otherwise (seeds not included)</p>†<p>Population estimates computed using RDSII/DA estimator method <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0066701#pone.0066701-Volz1\" target=\"_blank\">[30]</a></p>‡<p>OR: Odds Ratio showing association between the characteristic and testing HIV positive (based on Fisher’s exact method).</p>|<p>Insufficient data to compute reliable 95% CI (Confidence Interval)</p>**<p>Variable was derived from reported ages at first intercourse with a man and a woman</p>††<p>Respondents who had unprotected sex with a woman at least once in the last 6 months, and who have had unprotected anal sex with at least one other man in the last 6 months</p>||<p>Odds ratio could not be computed due to zero cell count(s)</p>***<p>p-value <0.001</p><p>n<sup>POS</sup>, n<sup>NEG</sup> = Number of HIV positive and negative participants for this row</p><p>E1 = <i>Equilibrium</i> reached at 1% level, E2 = <i>Equilibrium</i> reached at 2% level</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["epidemiology", "Epidemiological methods", "Infectious disease epidemiology", "Social epidemiology", "Survey methods", "Global health", "Infectious diseases", "Sexually transmitted diseases", "aids", "Viral diseases", "hepatitis", "Hepatitis B", "Hepatitis C", "hiv", "HIV epidemiology", "HIV prevention", "Infectious disease control", "Non-clinical medicine", "Health services research", "Public health", "Behavioral and social aspects of health", "preventive medicine", "Political science", "Political aspects of health", "behaviour", "MSM"], "article_id"=>725685, "categories"=>["Medicine", "Sociology"], "users"=>["Joseph J. Valadez", "Sima Berendes", "Caroline Jeffery", "Joanna Thomson", "Hussain Ben Othman", "Leon Danon", "Abdullah A. Turki", "Rabea Saffialden", "Lusine Mirzoyan"], "doi"=>["https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0066701.t002"], "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>0, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Sexual_behaviour_and_risk_factors_for_HIV_infection_among_MSM_in_Tripoli_Libya_2010_/725685", "title"=>"Sexual behaviour and risk factors for HIV infection among MSM in Tripoli, Libya, 2010.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>3, "published_date"=>"2013-06-19 01:34:45"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1093683"], "description"=>"*<p>Sample size n out of total of N = 69 where not indicated otherwise (seeds not included)</p>†<p>Population estimates computed using RDSII/DA estimator method <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0066701#pone.0066701-Volz1\" target=\"_blank\">[30]</a></p>‡<p>Multiple answers possible</p>|<p>Insufficient data to compute reliable 95% CI (Confidence Interval)</p>**<p>Took at least two of the following actions: sought care at public health facility, sought care at private health facility, told sex partner about symptoms, stopped having sex, used condom during sex</p><p>n<sup>POS</sup>, n<sup>NEG</sup> = Number of HIV positive and negative participants for this row (Note: one participant is missing HIV status)</p><p>E1 = <i>Equilibrium</i> reached at 1% level, E2 = <i>Equilibrium</i> reached at 2% level</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["epidemiology", "Epidemiological methods", "Infectious disease epidemiology", "Social epidemiology", "Survey methods", "Global health", "Infectious diseases", "Sexually transmitted diseases", "aids", "Viral diseases", "hepatitis", "Hepatitis B", "Hepatitis C", "hiv", "HIV epidemiology", "HIV prevention", "Infectious disease control", "Non-clinical medicine", "Health services research", "Public health", "Behavioral and social aspects of health", "preventive medicine", "Political science", "Political aspects of health", "behaviour", "fsw"], "article_id"=>725686, "categories"=>["Medicine", "Sociology"], "users"=>["Joseph J. Valadez", "Sima Berendes", "Caroline Jeffery", "Joanna Thomson", "Hussain Ben Othman", "Leon Danon", "Abdullah A. Turki", "Rabea Saffialden", "Lusine Mirzoyan"], "doi"=>["https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0066701.t003"], "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>0, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Sexual_behaviour_and_risk_factors_for_HIV_infection_among_FSW_in_Tripoli_Libya_2010_/725686", "title"=>"Sexual behaviour and risk factors for HIV infection among FSW in Tripoli, Libya, 2010.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>3, "published_date"=>"2013-06-19 01:34:46"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1093684"], "description"=>"*<p>Sample size n out of total of N = 227 for MSM and N = 69 for FSW (seeds not included)</p>†<p>Population estimates computed using RDSII/DA estimator method <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0066701#pone.0066701-Volz1\" target=\"_blank\">[30]</a></p>∧<p>Level of education is defined as follows: “less than higher” means 1–9 years of school, “higher” means 10–12 years of school, and “above higher” corresponds to undergraduate and postgraduate education.</p>‡<p>Data missing due to laboratory error</p>|<p>Insufficient data to compute reliable 95% CI (Confidence Interval)</p><p>E1 = <i>Equilibrium</i> reached at 1% level, E2 = <i>Equilibrium</i> reached at 2% level</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["epidemiology", "Epidemiological methods", "Infectious disease epidemiology", "Social epidemiology", "Survey methods", "Global health", "Infectious diseases", "Sexually transmitted diseases", "aids", "Viral diseases", "hepatitis", "Hepatitis B", "Hepatitis C", "hiv", "HIV epidemiology", "HIV prevention", "Infectious disease control", "Non-clinical medicine", "Health services research", "Public health", "Behavioral and social aspects of health", "preventive medicine", "Political science", "Political aspects of health", "prevalence", "infections", "MSM", "fsw"], "article_id"=>725687, "categories"=>["Medicine", "Sociology"], "users"=>["Joseph J. Valadez", "Sima Berendes", "Caroline Jeffery", "Joanna Thomson", "Hussain Ben Othman", "Leon Danon", "Abdullah A. Turki", "Rabea Saffialden", "Lusine Mirzoyan"], "doi"=>["https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0066701.t001"], "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>0, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Socio_demographic_characteristics_and_prevalence_of_HIV_and_other_infections_among_MSM_and_FSW_in_Tripoli_Libya_2010_/725687", "title"=>"Socio-demographic characteristics and prevalence of HIV and other infections among MSM and FSW in Tripoli, Libya, 2010.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>3, "published_date"=>"2013-06-19 01:34:47"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1093685"], "description"=>"<div><p>Background</p><p>Publications on Libya’s HIV epidemic mostly examined the victims of the tragic nosocomial HIV outbreak in the 1990s and the related dispute about the detention of foreign medical workers. The dispute resolution in 2003 included an agreement with the European Union on humanitarian cooperation and the development of Libya’s first National HIV Strategy. As part of this we conducted Libya’s first bio-behavioural survey among men having sex with men (MSM) and female sex workers (FSW).</p><p>Methods</p><p>Using respondent-driven sampling, we conducted a cross-sectional study to estimate the prevalence of HIV, hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and related risk factors among 227 MSM and 69 FSW in Tripoli (FSW recruitment ended prematurely due to the political events in 2011).</p><p>Results</p><p>For MSM we estimated an HIV prevalence of 3.1%, HBV prevalence of 2.9%, and HCV prevalence of 7.3%, and for FSW an HIV prevalence of 15.7%, HBV prevalence of 0%, and HCV prevalence of 5.2%. We detected high levels of risk behaviours, poor HIV-related knowledge, high stigma and lack of prevention programmes. These results must be interpreted in the context of the political situation which prohibited reaching an ideal sample size for FSW.</p><p>Conclusion</p><p>There is urgent need to implement an effective National HIV Strategy informed by the results of this research. The risk of transmission within different risk groups and to the general population may be high given the recent military events that led to increased violence, migration, and the disruption of essential HIV-related services.</p></div>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["epidemiology", "Epidemiological methods", "Infectious disease epidemiology", "Social epidemiology", "Survey methods", "Global health", "Infectious diseases", "Sexually transmitted diseases", "aids", "Viral diseases", "hepatitis", "Hepatitis B", "Hepatitis C", "hiv", "HIV epidemiology", "HIV prevention", "Infectious disease control", "Non-clinical medicine", "Health services research", "Public health", "Behavioral and social aspects of health", "preventive medicine", "Political science", "Political aspects of health", "measuring", "prevalence", "men", "workers"], "article_id"=>725688, "categories"=>["Medicine", "Sociology"], "users"=>["Joseph J. Valadez", "Sima Berendes", "Caroline Jeffery", "Joanna Thomson", "Hussain Ben Othman", "Leon Danon", "Abdullah A. Turki", "Rabea Saffialden", "Lusine Mirzoyan"], "doi"=>["https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0066701"], "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>0, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Filling_the_Knowledge_Gap_Measuring_HIV_Prevalence_and_Risk_Factors_among_Men_Who_Have_Sex_with_Men_and_Female_Sex_Workers_in_Tripoli_Libya_/725688", "title"=>"Filling the Knowledge Gap: Measuring HIV Prevalence and Risk Factors among Men Who Have Sex with Men and Female Sex Workers in Tripoli, Libya", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>3, "published_date"=>"2013-06-19 01:34:48"}
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Auhentic Amami Oshima Tsumugi Silk Pongee
Manufaturing Process
Culture in Amami
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Tonari Orimono
The factory considers communication and coordination are important in a manufacturing environment where a large number of complex processes are involved.
The president always focuses on making the tasks easier for the craftsmen and craftswomen. While inheriting the tradition and skills from the previous generation, the factory aims to expand the potential of the pongee beyond the traditional Japanese kimono.
Yumeorinosato
The factory’s motto runs as: “Tradition is always made of new challenges.”
The factory started silkworm breeding a few years ago. The workplace now is surrounded by the sounds of silkworm eating the leaves and the looms in operation.
Hajime Shoji
Seeking new potentials of Oshima Tsumugi, the factory has rolled out its original brands: Amamifu and Crystal Oshima Tsumugi.
With “Creating new with Amami’s tradition and skills” as their main theme, the factory cultivates and addresses various demands by combining silk and other materials and developing wider Tsumugi looms for western clothes.
Maeda Tsumugi Kogei
The youngest Tsumugi producer in his 30s has been making efforts to repay many craftsmen and craftswomen for their great contribution to the industry. Starting from the design, the factory aims to pass the tradition of the world’s most detailed Oshima Tsumugi silk pongee to the following generations.
The factory aims to open the doors for the bright future of Oshima Tsumugi with new values. Maeda Tsumugi Kogei has focused on deepening its understanding on binding as the core process among a number of Oshima Tsumugi manufacturing processes.
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Richard Churchill
The Life of Richard
Richard Churchill was born in 1514, in England, United Kingdom. He married Sarah on 1 May 1629, in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son.
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Marriage: 1 May 1629
Charles Churchill
Female1517– • Female
Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
English: habitational name from any of various places named Churchill, for example in Devon, Oxfordshire, Somerset, and Worcestershire. Most were probably originally named with a Celtic element crūg ‘hill’ (which early on was reinterpreted as Old English cyrice ‘church’), to which was added Old English hyll ‘hill’.
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Richard Churchill, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "
Richard Churchill in entry for Robert Churchill, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
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