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Mei Renjoji Creates Rose Guns Days Prologue Manga
Published by カリス on February 8, 2013 February 8, 2013
Ro se Guns Days is a visual novel which follows a branching plot line, depending on the decisions of the player during the fame. The plot progress in the unique direction as the user intends to, giving multiple options. This also allows users to enjoy minigames during the battle sequence, although it does not actually influence the progression.
Rose Guns Days is created by 07th Expansion, with scenarios and character designs created by other collaborative artists. So far, the story has already three manga adaptations published by Kodansha and Square Enix. However, this time, a new concept to the story will be added at the arrival of its prologue issue: Rose Guns Days Gaiden.
In the March issue of the Kodansha Monthly Shounen Sirius magazine, there has been an announcement that 07th Expansion and artist Mei Renjoji will produce a prologue manga series for the Rose Guns Days game. The story is slated for the June issue of the magazine, to be released on April 26.
07th Expansion, creator of the game, has written the plot to take place in Japan after the World War II. During the devastating defeat, the Japanese government has to comply with the reconstruction plan made by the Allies. Japan starts to recover from its loss after a few years, but two strongholds, America and China, divides control of the nation on many levels. Immigrants make the locals a minority in their own nation.
Rose Haibara, a girl who works at the Primavera club, lends money to the Japanese people to help them rebuild their lives. However, some people are taking advantage of her kindness. On the other hand, Leo Shishigami is known for his reputation of being a womanizer. Their lives change as they encounter each other in the spring of 1947.
Rose Guns Days Gaiden is set on an earlier year, following the lives of Rose and a group termed as “women of the night” after the war.
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Lady Lions Outlast Wilson College in Overtime
Middletown, PA — The Lady Lions of Penn State Harrisburg used a strong second half performance and great play off the bench to win a thrilling game against Wilson College, 61-54, Wednesday night at the Capital Union Building. With this North Eastern Athletic Conference victory it improves Penn State Harrisburg's record to 2-13 in the NEAC and 4-19 overall. The loss drops The Phoenix of Wilson College to 0-15 in the NEAC and 0-23 overall.
For most of the first half Wilson College controlled the play and their tough defense caused the Lady Lions to struggle to bring their game together. The proof was seen in holding the Lady Lions to just 17 points and 23% shooting in the first half. Despite finding points hard to come by the ladies of Penn State Harrisburg didn't get down and played great defense as well. This helped them stay in the game during the first half and eventually overtake Wilson College in the second half. The Blue and White made a late run in the first half to close the gap to just 24-17 by scoring the final four points.
The late run, it helped the Lady Lions start off very strong in the second half. They built off of their 4 unanswered baskets to end the first half and went on a 7-0 start for the second half. Krystal Miranda's (Bound Brook, NJ/Bound Brook) three pointer tied the game at 24 to cap off the 11-0 run with 17:50 left in regulation. The rest of the second half was back and forth with neither team jumping to anything more then a three or four point lead. Both teams made clutch baskets and sunk foul shots that either tied the game or gave their team the lead. Penn State Harrisburg had a two point lead late in the game with Sarah Engelsman making both her foul shots it tied the game at 48-48, and that is where the scoring ended in regulation.
The Lady Lions dominated the overtime period outscoring Wilson College 13-6. The Phoenix actually scored the first two points of the extra session, but Sandra Adames' (Pontiac, MI/Pontiac Northern) three point play with just under four minutes quickly gave Penn State Harrisburg the lead back. After Dana Bennett's turn around jumper Wilson College took the lead again, it was Katie Hollinger's (Mechanicsburg, PA/Cumberland Valley) three pointer on the following possession that finally finished The Phoenix off.
The Lady Lions were led in scoring by Miranda with her 17 points. Close behind was Adames who had 16 points and 15 rebounds. Also, it's key to note that Penn State Harrisburg outscored Wilson College 17-0 off the bench, and a lot of that was thanks to Brooke Conjar's Steelton, PA/Steel High) 10 points, all of which came in the second half and overtime. Wilson College was led by Alaina Hofer's 18 points and 12 rebounds. Dana Bennett had 14 points and 10 rebounds also for Wilson College.
Penn State Harrisburg's final game of the 2007-2008 season is this Sunday against D'Youville at the Capital Union Building at 1pm.
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India, on the way to Mars. Good.
India has successfully launched a spacecraft to the Red Planet - with the aim of becoming the fourth space agency to reach Mars.
The Mars Orbiter Mission took off at 09:08 GMT from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on the country's east coast.
The head of India's space agency told the BBC the mission would demonstrate the technological capability to reach Mars orbit and carry out experiments.
The spacecraft is set to travel for 300 days, reaching Mars orbit in 2014.
- bbc
Great! India is finally taking on the west in the latter’s game. But in running head to head with an upstart, don't forget your own unique soul. Winning is not upstaging a competitor, but in being all that you can be at your own game despite the competitor not bothering about it.
And as for those in the west who condemn India for not bothering about a fair bit of its impoverished population, well, the Indians don't have the benefit of colonising other states and ripping them off so that they can afford to journey to Mars and take care of their population.
This 'oversight' just bespeaks a subconscious tendency amongst the western masses to keep the non-white 'coolie' in her/his 'proper place' - like they did when they flung two atom bombs at the Japanese not too long ago for ousting the western overlord in his own game. So what they are actually saying is, 'You should just focus on taking care of your population and leave the advances to us' - whilst conveniently forgetting that much of their 'advances' were funded by colonised states and continuing exploitation of the non-western netherworld.
Western opposition to India’s space programme is not unlike a man in the patriarchal past who thinks his home-confined wife should just use his income to pretty herself or take care of household expenses instead of going on self-advancing courses.
Westerners do not oppose as much when it is their own state that is sending missions to Mars as it is their 'place' to do what others are not expected to. Or even when they do oppose their government's efforts to engage in such extra-terrestrial missions, it is because they feel that they have nothing to gain culturally over others as they have already won their 'superiority' during colonial times to the present.
Hence, that is why many constantly go on about the ‘aid‘ is sent to India and how India should take care of its population. Western opposition to India’s space programme is not unlike a man in the patriarchal past who thinks his home-confined wife should just use his income to pretty herself or take care of household expenses instead of going on self-advancing courses.
Without the Indians, almost the whole of s.e.Asia will fall under the fascist influence of the Chinese and the west will find it quite difficult to contend with such a numerous economic force marching under the same 'central land' banner. India will be the counterbalance. And hence, India has to rise.
It is a bit of a dillemma for myself, but to only focus on the population is to be perpetually subservient to the western overlord. Perhaps this step might do much addressing that, and to the benefit of their impoverished sector as well. India is doing quite well, despite being royally ripped off (pun intended) for more than a hundred years by the west.
It will also help counter and temper the temperament of the fascist and belligerent 'middle-kingdom'-minded Chinese in s.e.Asia as well. That will be in the interests of the west as it will counterbalance growing Chinese power in the region which will most certainly have knock-on effects on the west which no Charles Martell can deliver them from. Without the Indians, almost the whole of s.e.Asia will fall under the fascist influence of the Chinese and the west will find it quite difficult to contend with such a numerous economic force marching under the same 'central land' banner. India will be the counterbalance. And hence, India has to rise.
there should be more efforts to bring about a more egalitarian society in India lest whatever benefits that India reaps will still be a harvest of meagre proportions for the impoverished populace. Yes, the poor may reap more rewards because of the rise of India, but that just serves to justify the inequitable status quo in perpetuity and present the system as something that works as opposed to a system that works badly and inequitably.
That said, there should be more efforts to bring about a more egalitarian society in India lest whatever benefits that India reaps will still be a harvest of meagre proportions for the impoverished populace. Yes, the poor may reap more rewards because of the rise of India, but that just serves to justify the inequitable status quo in perpetuity and present the system as something that works as opposed to a system that works badly and inequitably.
With that in mind and trajectory,
Jai Hind!
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Sam Polansky Obituary
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Sam Polansky, 91, of Avon, beloved husband of the late Meta (Bromberg) Polansky, passed away, Saturday, May 29, 2016. Born in NY, NY, son of the late Abraham and Sadie (Simmons) Polansky, he was raised there and served in the US Army during W.W. II, entering right after high school. He served in Ardennes, Central Europe, and Rhinland and participated in the Battle of the Bulge. After his discharge in 1946, he was employed by United Merchants for 20 years before starting his own company ESS-PEE Textile Company, which he operated until his retirement in 2006. He and his wife lived in New Canaan for 23 years moving to Avon 20 years ago. Sam loved to travel both for his work and personally but most of all he loved spending time with his family. He leaves two daughters Laura Radocy (Craig) of Canton and Susan Polansky of Danbury; grandchildren Mark and Morgan Radocy; Jimmy Alexander, and Sara Zandri; two great grandchildren Sam and Amy Alexander; and several nieces and nephews. Besides his wife Meta he was predeceased by a son Jacob, daughter Amy, brother Murray, and sisters Celia, Rose, and Trudy. A graveside service will be held Friday, June 3, 2016, 11 am at New Montefiore Cemetery, Pinelawn, LI, NY. His family will receive friends at Laura and Craig's home, 11 Thompson Hill Road, Canton, from 5-8 pm on Thursday, June 2, 2016. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made in Memory of Sam Polansky, to the UCONN Foundation, 2390 Alumni Drive, Unit 3206, Storrs, CT 06269, for Nursing Scholarship Funds or a charity of the donor's choice that benefits our veterans. The Carmon Funeral Home & Family Center of Avon is caring for the arrangements.
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From “The Voice” to Belmont: Gracee Shriver reflects on her past, future in the music industry
Posted by Belmont Vision
Having already fulfilled her dreams of being a contestant on NBC’s “The Voice,” freshman Gracee Shriver is fulfilling another dream of hers — going to college in Nashville, Tennessee.
As a 16-year-old contestant on the competition show’s 17th season, the Oklahoma native worked with acclaimed artists such as country musician Blake Shelton and Taylor Swift, who Shriver said was a personal role model.
On the show, Shriver impressed the coaches and audience with performances of songs “Leave The Pieces” and “American Honey,” making it to the show’s live top 20 eliminations out of 48 contestants.
The experience she gained by being around so many different musicians made her time on the show special to her and gave her clarity as to what she wanted to do with her musical career, she said.
Shriver said “the exposure … to that side of the industry made me want to do it even more.”
And since her time on “The Voice,” she has already begun a successful solo music career, having commercially released three singles: “Innocent,” “Meant To Be” and “Game Over.”
Writing these songs, Shriver said, has proven a meaningful outlet for her.
Shriver said while she is a country singer at heart, she wants to subvert norms and stand out against her country contemporaries.
“I always wanted to be different than everybody else,” said Shriver of her music.
At Belmont, Shriver is pursuing a degree in music business.
Shriver said she hopes to learn more about a side of the industry “The Voice” didn’t introduce her to — as well as to create more music.
And despite the way COVID-19 has disrupted that goal, Shriver said she remains optimistic about the college years ahead of her — and encouraged other artists to keep creating during the pandemic.
“You can definitely still post covers — and writing songs, you can do that from anywhere. So I would encourage that, and social media as well, reaching out to people.”
Ultimately, Shriver looks forward to her next four years at Belmont.
“I’m really excited for this chapter and all of the connections I’m going to make.”
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Medium Air Tanker concept
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Patterns? What patterns?
Okay, this might be more of a 'scenario' but I've posted it here because I'm looking for more of a engineering critique.
In a nutshell (spoiler alert!), the concept is to revive the concept of land-based Medium Air Tankers (MATs) using the growing number of now-redundant early-model Dash 8 regional airliners. The idea is to use greater numbers of landing-based MATs capable of operating out of rural airstrips close to the action.
My sense is that the size of air tankers is being driven up, in part, by budgetary considerations - ie: if firefighting agencies lease small numbers of Large Air Tankers, it makes it more difficult for Government to cut their operational budgets.
A second component of the proposal is finding 'gainful employment' for these Medium Air Tankers outside of fire season. Surplus early-model Dash 8s are already being converted into cargo carriers. That seems a nature fit for work during the off-season.
The point of that 'extracurricular employment' is making the concept more fiscally palatable to both Government and wildfire response agencies. In this scheme for a Common Medium Air Transport, the agencies of Australia, Western Canada, and the Western US would be able to share interchangeable retardant tanks and ancillary air tank gear during their local fire seasons (although I'm aware that the respective fire seasons are beginning to merge).
I am hoping that this just might turn into an actual RW proposal. So, if you see any holes in the concept, let 'er rip!
Oversight of Firebombing in Australia - Fixed-Wing Air Tankers
For those who aren't familiar, waterbombers in Oz fall under the umbrella of the National Aerial Firefighting Centre (NAFC) but it is the Governments of each Australian State and Territory which is directly responsible for fighting bushfires. As NAFC puts it, "the aim is to facilitate resource sharing and cooperation between agencies across the country."
Up here in the Great White North, there is a similar arrangement through the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre in Winnipeg. As with NAFC, CIFFC began with a mandate primarily concerned with coordinating equipment-sharing among local wildfire firefighting organizations in Canada. The dissemination of fire management information naturally followed. And then, in common with any centralized bureaucracy, the dictating of 'standards' inevitably begins. This could be helpful but such organizations drop into following the latest in bureaucratic fads.
What if the bureaucracy is just wrong? According to NAFC: "Fixed-wing aircraft that are used for firebombing tend to be of the larger agricultural-style, specially modified for firebombing. These aircraft are sometimes referred to as SEATs (Single-Engined Air Tankers).
This type of aircraft particularly suits the conditions most often encountered in Australia where there are relatively few long paved runways, but plenty of agricultural airstrips." One follow-on sentence covers all other classed of air tanker, saying: "Larger fixed-wing aircraft have been used where appropriate and cost-effective." Really?
"Rum: Opinion is divided on the subject." - or Size Matters
That NSW just bought a 737 Fireliner suggests that the NAFC conclusion is far from universally accepted. A quick scan of the Aussie press and social media posts, reveals a lively debate about the appropriate size of fixed-wing air tankers for Australia. In the last federal election, the Labor Party advocated buying "six Large or Very Large Air Tankers". No aircraft types were mentioned but NSW refers to its Coulson 737 conversion as a Large Air Tanker (LAT) whereas 10 Tanker's borrowed DC-10s are considered Very Large Air Tankers (VLAT). Both are impressive - the LAT carrying more than 15,000 litres of retardant, the VLAT having more than twice that capacity at just over 35,500 litres. Indeed, one drop by a DC-10 Air Tanker is said to be "equivalent to 12 drops" by a propeller-driven Firecat. And that's the part that has me wondering about an air tanker category which is altogether missing in this debate.
What about the Medium Air Tanker category? In a 03 January 2020 radio interview, former NSW Fire Commissioner, Greg Mullins, said "... large aircraft don't put out fires ... if you had 20 to 30 of these medium-sized aircraft, that have rapid turn-around, you could make a material difference ...". Mullins' point about large aircraft is true of all air tankers. The purpose of firebombing is to "give firefighters on the ground an edge". The medium-sized aircraft Mullins refers to are the Canadair and Bombardier 415 'Superscooper' flying boats. But there is also a case to be made for land-based Medium Air Tanker.
Australia uses US aerial firefighting terminology and classifications. Under the latter, a mid-sized or Medium Air Tanker is classed as one capable of carrying 2,000-to-3,000 US gallons (7,500-to-11,500 litres) of fire retardant or water. So, what ever happened to the medium air tanker category? It seems to have been overshadowed by those smaller SEATs. A typical small air tanker - the AT-802F - carries 3,104 litres (the float-fitted Fire Boss is reduced to 3.028L). That compares well with typical old-school medium air tanker - the Conair Turbo Firecat conversion which could only carry 3,296L despite having almost twice the power. [1] According to Conair Group, the natural replacement for their old Firecat series is the Q400-MR. [2] France decided to bite and their Securite Civile now fields Q400-MRs to replace its Turbo Firecats. [3]
So, an airframe with a wing area of 64.00 m² instead of 45.06 m²; twin 5,071 shp turboprops instead of 1,220 shp; and an empty weight of 39,284 lbs/17,819 kg instead of 15,000 lbs/6,803 kg. I get it, Conair had to work with Bombardier and Bombardier was pushing its then-current production Q400 airframe (and offering a trade-in programme for older Q400s had obvious benefits for new Bombardier production). Fortunately, Bombardier has since pulled itself out of the equation. [4] I'm thinking that this may free up another airframe which Bombardier wanted to downplay.
The Conair/Cascade Q400-MR air tanker can carry 10,000 liters of retardant. It earns its 'Multi-Role' suffix by being about to revert to a passenger- (or cargo-) carrying role in a few hours. Of course, that long Q400-MR fuselage is mainly empty while firefighting. In other words, while acting as an air tanker, the Q400 airframe represents a lot of dead. That wouldn't be the case were air tanker conversions based upon the earlier-model Dash 8 airframes - what Bombardier redubbed the Q100 and Q200. [5] Those earlier Dash 8 fuselages are 10.26 metres shorter than the Q400. Eliminating added-on fuselage sections reduces airframe empty weight by 6,700 kg. [6]
(Caption: The sideview, below, shows a Securite Civile Q400-MR dropping water. The inset is to help give a better sense of the 'extra' airframe for the stretched Q400 series.)
(To be continued ...)
[1] The AT-802F has a 1,350 shp PT6A-67AG, the Fire Boss a 1,600 shp PT6A-67F. The Conair Turbo Firecat needed two 1,220 shp PT6A-67AFs to carry a similar load.
[2] The actual Q400-MR conversions were performed by a former Conair division - Cascade Aerospace (bought by IMP in 2012). As a result, Conair's Q400-MR is closely related to the Cascade Aerospace Q400-PF (Package Freighter) conversion.
[3] The 'FireGuard' package (retardant tank and associated plumbing) can be removed from the Q400-MR in a few hours. This is to allow the Securite Civile to employ its aircraft as passenger carriers in the off-season.
[4] Bombardier sold the rights for the Q400 to Longview/Viking in November 2018. Back in May of 2009, Bombardier had ended Q200 and Q300 production (which will not be revived in production, DH/Viking said in December 2019).
[5] Q100 and Q200 were marketing names, the proper designations remain DHC-8-100 and DHC-8-200 series. Simplified ICAO codes are DH4A and DH4B (with DH4C and DH4D being the longer Q300 and Q400, respectively). CASA sometimes just refers to these aircraft as an '8Q'.
[6] The airframe empty weight difference is based on 17,819 kg for the base Q400 versus 10,477 kg for the Q100/Q200 less the ~635 kg difference in dry weight between a of pair of PW123 and PW150A turboprops.
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Re: Medium Air Tanker concept
Common Medium Air Tanker - "... extracting happiness from common things"
All air tankers face the same 'business-model' conundrum - what to do in the off-season? An obvious answer is find other gainful employment. The Securite Civile Q400-MRs are used as agency transports outside of fire season. Meanwhile, the dismounted 'bulges' go into storage until next year. That's fine for agencies with enough transport work (and the wherewithal) but the retardant tanks sit idle while wildfires burn in the Southern Hemisphere. That need not be the case.
Large Air Tankers are already shared between Australia, Canada, and the western United States. That will continue but increased cooperation could benefit a new class of Medium Air Tankers. What if these three regions could agree upon a common aircraft type? Instead of air tankers transiting the entire Pacific Ocean, only their retardant tanks would need to make the trip. A point in favour of adopting early-model Dash 8s as the basis for a Common Medium Air Tanker is availability. Many air carriers - including QantasLink - are phasing out most of their short-bodied Dash 8s. [1] Were that choice of 'platform' agreed, all that would needed a decision on uniform modifications so that the same retardant tanks can be mounted on the Common Medium Air Tankers in any of the three jurisdictions.
That leaves the question of what role such a Common Medium Air Tanker could fill outside of fire season. One possibility is suggested by the early-model Dash 8's ability to land on shorter, unpaved runways. This makes it ideal for servicing smaller, remote destinations. If passenger services are in decline to more remote Australian towns, what about an air cargo service for such communities?
Couldn't Common Medium Air Tankers Carry Cargo to Communities?
Air freight opportunities can provide broader economic benefits to smaller communities. An increase in aerial freight services - perhaps in 'combi' passenger/freight form - would serve to back up Federal Government pledges of "reasonable access to services for regional communities." (Indeed, such flights would probably qualify for funding under Canberra's Remote Air Service Subsidy Scheme.) This would provide a raison d'être for our conceptual Australian Dash 8 air tanker outside of fire season. And, fortunately, cargo conversion kits for early-model Dash 8s are available.
Voyageur Aerotech of North Bay, ON, is producing a dedicated cargo conversion - the Dash 8-100PF. This is a windowless cargo conversion which uses the Dash 8's original baggage door - a 1.52 m x 1.27 m up-and-over type door on the portside [2] Collins Aerospace is marketing a similar concept as their 'Class E' freighter. This is based on a cargo conversion kit developed by a Collin's subsidiary, B/E Canada of Winnipeg . [3] The latter's large cargo door kit provides a Dash 8 with a 1.73 m x 2.75 m clear opening suitable for oversized freight. That allows Collins to market a 'Class F' combi-freighter with palletized passenger seat which can roll-on and roll-off.
A degree of co-ordination would be required on which cargo conversions to adopt for each jurisdiction's Dash 8s. After all, if internal retardant tanks were chosen, their installation would likely dictate the adoption of enlarged cargo doors for all Common Medium Air Tanker 'platforms'. (More on retardant tanks to follow.)
(Caption: The sideview, below, shows a hypothetical Common Medium Air Tanker in the 'off-season' operating as a Voyageur-style 'Package Freighter'. Original rear baggage door - and forward 'air stairs' - are shown open.)
[1] QantasLink’s contractor Eastern Australia Airlines continues to operate Q200s (and Q300s) where smaller passenger loads dictate. For some destinations - such as Lord Howe Island - shorter runways dictate the use of Q200s.
[2] There is also a smaller opening on the starboard side - the former 'galley services' door set just forward of the baggage door.
[3] The Winnipeg firm is subsidiary of Florida-based B/E Aerospace, Inc. which was bought by Rockwell Collins in 2017.
"And a dash of common sense!" - Smaller DHC-8-based Medium Air Tankers
Basing a Medium Air Tanker conversion on 'short' Dash 8 aircraft has two key advantages. First, as previously mentioned, an empty Q100 and Q200 airframes weighs 6.7 tonnes less than the larger Q400. Since the added fuselage space is irrelevant to the air tanker mission, why carry that dead weight? Second is availability since many air carriers - are phasing out short-bodied Dash 8s. [1] Ironically, it is the efficiency of the Q400 as a regional airliner which has prompted the retirement of the earlier-model Dash 8s. However, that Q400 efficiency depends upon flying higher and faster - hardly an apt description of typical air tanker operations.
'Big Sky Country' - An Almost-Was Air Tanker from Montana
The idea of turning early-model Dash 8s into air tankers isn't new. In 2004, Neptune Aviation of Missoula, MT, began exploring conversions of Q200s and Q300s to replace its aged Lockheed P-2 air tankers. (Neptune saw a slightly smaller retardant load as a reasonable trade-off for the Dash 8's superior stalling speed.) A single Q300 was bought to act as a prototype in 2005 but the project seems to have died as a result of cancelled US Forest Service contracts. [2] Although details are sketchy, the planned Neptune Q300 air tanker was to carry around 6,050 litres (1,600 US gallons) of retardant. So, Neptune's planned retardant load was just over half the capacity of Conair's Q400-MR air tanker.
Although there are few available details, the Neptune conversion presumably involved a tank inside the fuselage (as per Neptune's later BAe 146 air tankers). That has two implications. First, this would be a permanent modification - involving drop doors being cut into the bottom of the fuselage. Second, it would require an enlarged cargo door to install that big fuselage tank in the first place. That does not preclude removing the tank at the end of fire season - as demonstrated by Coulson's larger C-130Q Hercules conversion with its roll-on/roll-off retardant tank. If the cost of installing a cargo door is a downside to the Neptune scheme, the obvious upside is that the fully-internal retardant tank adds no drag to the Dash 8 airframe.
As noted before, fitting a single 6,050 litre retardant tank into the former passenger cabin of a Dash 8 would require the fitting of an enlarged cargo door. That may not been seen as excessive if 'off-season' employment was likely to include over-sized freight. It would also make the Common Medium Air Tanker capable of moving bulkier firefighting equipment in the lead-up to brushfire season. Operationally, it means that there is no major added on the airframe when the retardant tank is fitted.
Of course, there are alternatives to internal retardant tanks. That will be covered in the next post.
(Caption: The sideview, below shows a hypothetical Common Medium Air Tanker fitted with an internal retardant tank. Enlarged B/E Canada-style cargo door - handy for 'off-season' freighting - is shown in the open position.)
[1] Aside from the Lord Howe Island route mentioned in the previous post, QantasLink’s contractor Eastern Australia Airlines still operates out of some regional centres - such as Armidale - with a Q200-based air service.
[2] Neptune has since turned its attention to jet-powered RJs - using eight BAe 146-200s and a single RJ100 provided by Tronos Aviation of Summerside, PEI. Compared with Conair RJ air tankers, the Tronos conversions featured completely internal retardant tanks.
"And [Another] dash of common sense!" - DHC-8-based Medium Air Tankers
Bringing about something akin to Neptune's proposed Q300-based air tanker has its challenges. It is easy to imagine such an aircraft with a scaled-down version of the system used on the BAe 146 air tankers devised by Neptune and Tronos Aviation. But that is not quite the same thing as having a proven example on a similar airframe. But, of course, there is a proven air tanker system in use on a Q-series airframe - the Conair Q400-MR that we opened with. True, compared with the Q100 and Q200, the Q400 is much more powerful (perhaps too much so). And, to our mind, the Q400 suffers from an excess of airframe for the air tanker role. But, it exists.
'Strap-On' - Conair's Midriff Bulge Approach to Retardant Tanks
By contrast with the Neptune Aviation approach, the Conair/Cascade Q400-MR reveals a portly waistline. One advantage is that no enlarged freight door modifications are required. Nor is any cabin floor reinforcements needed to support a heavy internal retardant tank. And this add-on tank is easily removable - the Securite Civile using their 'de-bulged' Q400s to move personnel and equipment around at the conclusion of each fire season.
A similar approach could be used for the shorter Dash 8s. However, mounting a full-length Q400-MR tank on a Q100 or Q200 is probably a non-starter due to ground clearance issues. (To permit its extra long fuselage, the Q400 has a taller main undercarriage to match.) Total weight of a loaded, full-sized Q400-MR tank might also be a problem for the less powerful early-model Dash 8s. But that Conair tank has fore and aft sets of drop doors. What if Conair shortened their system to feature only a single set of drop doors?
Shortening the Q400-MR tank would better suit Q100 and Q200 airframes. A shortened tank gets around any weight issues or ground clearance problems - especially during take-off rotation. On that subject, early Dash 8s were specifically designed to operate from shorter, unpaved runways typical of more remote locations. This can be enhanced by add-on rough-field kits similar to those fitted to Dash 8 patrol aircraft being flown by Surveillance Australia Pty Ltd on behalf of the Australian Border Force. So, flying out of semi-prepared gravel airstrips would be no problem for Q100/Q200-based Common Air Tankers. This means that our conceptual Dash 8 air tanker doesn't need the higher transit speed of the Q400 - the short Dash 8 can stay closer to the action.
That gravel airfield performance would also be a boon outside of fire season. More remote airstrips are very unlikely to possess sophisticated cargo handling equipment. Using the original baggage door, non-palletized freight can simply be handed out to loaders at pickup (or 'ute') bed height and driven away.
(Caption: The sideview, shows a hypothetical Common Medium Air Tanker based on a Q100 or Q200 airframe fitted with a Conair-style 'midriff' external retardant tanks.)
The object here is not to advocate either of the retardant tank approaches. Both have their advantages and drawbacks. With either approach, rapid progress is key. The duration and intensity of wildfires is increasing in Australia and the West Coast of North America. Budgets are going to be strained but air tankers need to be built. As Greg Mullins said, the whole point of firebombing is to "give firefighters on the ground an edge".
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I love the idea but I think it makes way too much sense for governments to go with it (particularly the state government of California, IMHO). I could see a standardized airframe configuration with shared specialty gear as each area needs it.
An approach I could see for the US would be to take early LRIP MV-22Bs, bring them up to a common standard (much as the USMC is already doing), and outfit them with a downsized version of the MAFSS fitted to C-130's. Using the belly hatch, they could even reload from lakes or rivers in hover.
Having said that, your approach seems much more economically sound and practical; I suspect bureaucrats will hate it just for that reason.
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Like I mentioned in your other thread Stephen, there's not a lot of ground clearance on any of the Dash-8's, although the Q-400 maybe the better of the two. IMO, if you're going to convert small airliners into tankers, just use the cabin to hold the tanks like Coulson's do with their 737's
But then ----- there is this conversion ---
« Last Edit: January 09, 2020, 10:37:49 PM by kitnut617 »
Mind you, I think the various outfits that have tankers should work together, like working at Wing strength --- with a concentrated attack on one place at a time, and get that fire out before moving to the next one.
I've noticed here in Canada during wild fire season, you'll see a couple of the bombers working one fire, a couple of others working another, and meanwhile, the fire keeps on going while they go back to fill up again. What if they came at a fire in a large group, say twenty of them and just saturate the area, give the ground guys a chance to snuff out anything left over.
I know it's all down to money --- but how much money will they have to spend in the aftermath of a disaster ---
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Quote from: elmayerle on January 09, 2020, 11:17:24 AM
And here we see a justification for me to add another V-22 kit to the stash to do up as a fire bomber.
Thanks for the feedback folks!
Evan and LemonJello: I can easily see the V-22 as an air tanker ... as usual, in a category of its own.
There doesn't seem to be an existing, official category for the V-22 as a fixed-winged air tanker. Officialdom would probably class the V-22 as 'rotary-winged'. Were it to be seen as 'fixed-winged', I guess it'd be classed as a 'Small Air Tanker' - assuming a payload of 2,725-to-3,765 litres (720-to-995 US gallons).
Robert: Basically that's what the rural fire services have been advocating for several years. Those agencies' pleas were rejected by the Turnbull Government (IIRC) but the theme was picked up again by the Australian Labor Party during Australia's 2019 federal election.
BAe 146: Yep, not a lot of ground clearance on the Conair RJ tankers either IIRC, these (and the RJs) sit at the lower end of the Large Air Tanker category. If no common air tanker is feasible, the BAe 146 would be a good choice for Australia (based on availability, familiarity, and at least two of proven conversion options). The Neptune/Tronos conversions (BAe 146-200 and RJ100) is similar but has a completely internal tank.
Ground clearance: True for all high-winged transports. I was hoping that shortening the Conair tank would provide at least as much clearance as is available for the long Q400-MR tank. Personally, my preference would be for an internal tank but that pretty much dictates an enlarged cargo door and reinforced cabin floot with attending increases in conversion costs. Of course, in the current political climate, 'ScoMo' might now be willing to push a lot more money at the problem!
I was trying to avoid strongly advocating either of my two Q100/Q200 options. The main priority at this stage would be getting the system agreed to and conversion completed in a timely fashion. Until now, BC has had a pretty dry winter with little snow pack ... I've got a feeling that we're next
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His stash is able to be seen from space...
New build amphibian with air tanker capability should also be a thing. Beriev makes a very capable amphibian that has an air tanker capability.
"Every day we hear about new studies 'revealing' what should have been obvious to sentient beings for generations; 'Research shows wolverines don't like to be teased" -- Jonah Goldberg
Indeed. Viking keeps teasing with their CL-515 concept - 'SuperDuperScooper'? - while offering leases on CL-415EAF upgrades. Viking were supposed to make a decision on a CL-515 go-ahead in mid-2018. Things went ominously quiet until Viking announced a CL-515 deal with Indonesia at last year's Paris air show. Despite that, Dave Curtis is still being coy about an official CL-515 launch.
The Beriev Be-200 is an impressive aircraft - up to 12 tons of water outside the pressurized cabin! A Beriev could be waterbombing in the morning and doing tourist runs to Catalina later the same day. A pity that the BR715-powered version didn't go ahead - Western engines would've added value.
The proposed US-built Beriev has me scratching my head. A plan to build Be-200s in Santa Monica was announced in 2016. This was supposed to be part of Airbus' EADS Irkut Seaplane deal ... but the latter was cancelled by the end of the same year. US firms' name keep popping up in connection with Beriev - Seaplane Global Air Services (SGAS of Santa Monica, CA), International Emergency Services (IES of Santa Monica), and USA Firefighting Air Corps (USAFAC of Denver, CO).
Of those, USAFAC was to be the 2016 US manufacturer of Be-200s. Earlier, these guys were behind the A-10 waterbomber concept ... but their http://usafac.com website is now '404'.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150221015756/http://usafac.com/aircraft-manufacturing-2/
(Of the USAFAC principals, AFAIK, Chris Olson works for the Forest Service in Alaska; John Simmons is a Senator's aide in Colorado; don't know about Gerry FitzGerald.)
Seaplane Global Air Services is now said to have ordered four Be-200s with an option on six more. But trying to figure out who these guys are is like pulling hens' teeth. SGAS is classed as 'Foreign Stock' which I assume means listed of a foreign exchange. But where? I also note that the official contact agent for SGAS is David Ernest Baskett.
David Baskett also happens to be President of International Emergency Services Inc - which is meant to be a partner firm of Seaplane Global. So that circle closes quickly! So, is something shady going on here? Or are these guys just a bunch of entrepreneurs operating by the skin of their teeth? Dunno ...
« Last Edit: January 10, 2020, 12:28:56 PM by apophenia »
Thirty years ago I would have concluded that you were describing some kind of shadow organization hidden behind several layers of shell companies.
All just a dream until they actually have the item on the ramp handing over the keys and title to the end user.
Amphibian air service is still a viable option for small operations but only if there is a reliable product that can turn a profit and not be stuck in down time on the maintenance ramp.
The Be-200 would be an excellent choice for inter-island/intra-island transport in the Aleutian islands. Places like Adak, Alaska are remote and an amphibian could make a difference in places like that. Other communities such as Atka have no airfield so anything delivered to them is by small boat. Would be nice to see the Be-200 in production to fill that niche.
« Last Edit: January 10, 2020, 12:05:36 PM by Jeffry Fontaine »
Quote from: Jeffry Fontaine on January 10, 2020, 11:58:03 AM
Thirty years ago I would have concluded that you were describing some kind of shadow organization hidden behind several layers of shell companies. ...
And 'Santa Monica' would just be a cover name for 'somewhere in Virginia'
That's a very interesting notion! Just need to convince Beriev to based some product support at Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
I've been playing with a simplified variation on my Dash 8-based Common Medium Air Tanker.
http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=351.msg164545#msg164545
According to Bombardier, the Q200 has a 4,580 lb smaller payload that the Q300 (13,500 lbs vs 8,920 lbs) I'm having trouble understanding why this should be the case. Even the up-engined Q300s only have a total of 400 shp more power. How can that result in a one-third increase in payload for a physically-longer (and thus heavier) airframe?
Stephen, have a look at Carl's post of a Dash-7 in reply #3319 of the 'Cool Photos' thread. It has a cargo door shown open.
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When I first saw the title of this topic I thought it was going to be about a medium sized - say biz jet - air-to-air refuelling tanker.
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That might be a more plausible scenario Greg! I think I've got to knock this one on the head
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Any model will look better in RCAF, SEAC or FAA markings
Cut. Cut. Cut. Measure. Cut. Cut. Crap. Toss.
Conair to replace all of their L-188 and CV-580 air tankers with Q400s
The company has purchased 11 De Havilland Dash 8 Q400 aircraft which will be converted to air tankers
https://fireaviation.com/2021/01/14/conair-to-replace-all-of-their-l-188-and-cv-580-air-tankers-with-q400s/
Work in progress ::
I am giving up listing them. They all end up on the shelf of procrastination anyways.
User and abuser of Bothans...
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Why Netflix Customers Who Haven’t Bailed Probably Won’t
Netflix screwed up so badly this summer and fall that some of its subscribers left in a huff. So how do the ones who stuck around feel?
They’re less happy than they used to be. But they don’t seem to be going anywhere.
That’s the cautiously optimistic conclusion of a new survey Citigroup commissioned over the past few months. It finds existing subscribers still fairly pleased with the service Reed Hastings is offering: 57 percent say they’re either “extremely satisfied” or “very satisfied.” But Hastings’ good will has certainly eroded a bit: In May, a similar survey found 50 percent of his customers in the “extremely satisfied” category. That number is now down to 18 percent.
As Citi analyst Mark Mahaney points out, the survey is a bit skewed, since Netflix subscribers who were most disappointed with the service’s changes — a price hike, an ill-fated attempt to spin off its DVD business into a separate unit, and the loss of programming deal that gives the company access to Sony and Disney movies — have already bailed.
But a different survey question suggests one reason customers are sticking around with Netflix: They don’t see many other options.
While Amazon has been building up its catalog of streaming video, only 9 percent of Netflix customers said they’ve watched movies or TV shows there. And while 15 percent said they’ve used Hulu, that number is down from 19 percent in May. Apple’s iTunes comes in at 8 percent. (Perhaps the reason only 27 percent of Netflix subscribers say they use Netflix is because they’re distinguishing between apps and the site. But that seems like a fairly precise distinction for a large number of people to make, so who knows.)
The very big picture is that Mahaney still assumes Netflix will keep growing. He figures its DVD-only subscribers will drop by 800,000, to 9.9 million, over the next year. But he thinks streaming subscribers will increase 9.9 million, to 30.9 million, and that the company will add a few million more as it expands in Latin America and the U.K. He also thinks Netflix will become profitable again by the end of 2012.
But none of that is going to help anyone who bought Netflix stock earlier this year, when shares had climbed as high as $300. Mahaney has lowered his price target for NFLX, and is now hoping it climbs back to $80.
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There seems to be a lot of fuss about the 45th President of the USA...
C_D
Post by C_D » Mon Feb 13, 2017 5:02 pm
Trump. Deep State Actor or Renegade Loose Cannon? Or something else, entirely?
Fascinating, either way.
Re: There seems to be a lot of fuss about the 45th President of the USA...
Trump's 'draining the swamp' election promise is looking a bit hollow. Without having delved too deeply into specific appointees (note: must do), the concensus across alternative media (which to my mind very has few crossovers with the 'alt-right' scene), is that there are plenty of old-skool neocons, Goldman bankers, Military invasionists and General Toadies being given positions of power.
This makes me seriously question his credentials as a rogue element.
I maintain that Trump is exactly the kind of leader that America (corporate, industrial, military, monetary) has been heading towards since 9/11.
A country comprising 5% of world population that consumes 40% of the worlds resources, under pressure from an increasingly beligerant internal percentage of the population that expects all the toys but feels guilty about the requisite oppression of others required to keep it all going, needs a Corporatist leader to pull it all together. Ghastly, but is it really that surprising?
I retain the right to constantly change my mind, fickle being that I am.
semper occultus
Post by semper occultus » Mon Feb 13, 2017 8:48 pm
Nafeez Ahmed's take
It appears that there are common themes among the different groupings that comprise the Trump regime. Among them are experiences and recognition of crisis: Rex Tillerson and Steve Bannon, for instance, come from backgrounds acknowledging the reality of the planetary ecological crisis.
Energy interests linked to Murdoch believe in an imminent social, economic and political crisis due to peak oil.
Most Trump teamsters see their task as saving the fossil fuel industries from crises external to them, and now all ostensibly tend to deny the gravity of the industry’s environmental impacts.
All are worried about the profits of their friends in Wall Street.
A large number of Trump team associates have ties to John Tanton, whose proto-Nazi views are rooted in an eugenics-inspired belief that the environmental crisis is due to too many non-white people.
And now Trump’s national security team draws on the parallel views of the old Nixon era Kissinger team concerning the threat of overpopulated poor countries undermining US access to the world’s food, energy and raw materials resources — for which the solution could be to ‘cauldronize’ countries of strategic interest.
These crisis-perceptions, however, are not grounded in systemic insight: but are refracted through the narrow lenses of self-serving power. The crises are relevant only insofar that they represent a threat to their interests. But most importantly, their ensuing beliefs about how to respond to these crises end up being refracted through the ideological framework of the conservative-liberal polarity.
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence ... .wf4n4do2w
Post by deep state » Mon Feb 13, 2017 9:04 pm
I don't follow much of the current political debate, or any of it really, but it filters down to me of course; the main thing that interests me around this is the liberal reaction to Trump and the force and vigor of antifa emotions, and the behaviors that are being condoned as a result (probably the main reason we ended up posting about this here rather than you-know-where).
The notion that for Liberalism to conquer Fascism requires Liberalism becoming as forceful and uncompromising, as brutal and as bad as Fascism is very rich. Because of course, what kind if victory is it, if you become as bad as what you have defeated? Or rather, who is the real victor?
I enjoyed this guy's videos on the subject (guess we need a youtube button)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCEmk-U57zo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyC80feMcgU
^^ Yeah, Sargon's a big noise, now.
He pretty much mirrors my own exasperation at the current 'Left' (a position I have historically supported). It's the intransigent nature of their self-belief - that they are as correct as it can possibly be - and anyone who disagrees with the minutest detail is a fascist that automatically deserves de-platforming, a beating or death. Scary.
Trouble is, say someone believes in the social good - higher taxes, public healthcare, acceptance of colour or creed, better working conditions etc - but they want to see a reduction in immigration. I feel the 'Left' would brand them a Fascist and sentence them to a Gulag, if we had any. This polarisation can only make communication ever more difficult between those that want it all their own way and those that are more flexible.
We seem to approaching a point of no common ground - and having to make the uncomfortable binary choice of us against them.
I hope not, of course - but it's troubling.
Greenwald on Deep State
Post by C_D » Fri Feb 17, 2017 8:30 am
Greenwald: Empowering the "Deep State" to Undermine Trump is Prescription for Destroying Democracy 16 Feb 2017 Democracy Now
Some supporters of Trump, including Breitbart News, have accused the intelligence agencies of attempting to wage a deep state coup against the president. Meanwhile, some critics of Trump are openly embracing such activity. Bill Kristol, the prominent Republican analyst who founded The Weekly Standard, wrote on Twitter, "Obviously strongly prefer normal democratic and constitutional politics. But if it comes to it, prefer the deep state to the Trump state." We talk about the deep state with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, co-founder of The Intercept.
cont - https://www.democracynow.org/2017/2/16/ ... p_state_to
Fuck me, that Chuck Schumer (briefly, in the video) is creepy.
Post by deep state » Sat Feb 18, 2017 6:38 pm
I don't know how much truth is in this but it seems plausible, if Trump wanted to rout out some of his enemies and seize power, this would be one way to do it.
From here: https://steemit.com/crime/@mandireiserr ... e-via-blog
BigEyeTenor
Post by BigEyeTenor » Sun Feb 19, 2017 12:12 am
Today, we have an exclusive interview with a special DHS insider who has answered some critical questions we have on PizzaGate. Our insider prefers to call it PedoGate and what he told us blew our minds! We are so fortunate that members of the Intel community like our work and feel they can trust us. We have been trying to get to the bottom of PizzaGate for months and the answers we got from our DHS insider stunned and shocked us. Here we go!
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-1 ... versus-spy
Q. So, in the Intelligence community, how chaotic is the atmosphere now?
A. In my 34 years of Governmental service, I have never seen anything like it. It’s the bifurcation of the entire intelligence apparatus.
Q. It seems the intel community has it in for Trump – is this your feeling?
A. There are many Trump supporters within the FBI. The CIA, however, is against Trump because Trump threatens to ruin their game in the middle east.
Q. Can you elaborate?
A. CIA and Mossad work in tandem with British intel. The goal for the CIA was to replace Assad with a puppet and to topple Iran so we could access their oil. Israel works closely with it’s “sister”, Saudi Arabia, to help this dark cause.
Q. So it seems like the intel community has it in for Trump. How can he protect himself?
A. Trump has a tremendous opportunity here, but needs to circle wagons. The travel ban included 7 countries chosen by both Jared Kushner and Rudy. Why did it not include Saudi Arabia, or Pakistan, or Turkey or other countries that hate us? The seven nations mentioned were chosen by Israel, that’s why. And the unspoken alliance of Israel and Saudi Arabia should be exposed. They are brother and sister. Jared Kushner needs to be careful with what he says and to whom. But, the biggest thing Trump can do is expose PedoGate via Sessions. Big names will go down hard, and it gets the blood suckers drained from the swamp. There are as many pedophiles on the Republican side as there is with democrats, but Trump is in a unique position to truly “clean up Dodge”, so to speak. I can tell you that what is in Anthony Weiner’s hard drive, and what videos exist via Jeffery Epstein, WILL BRING massive arrests – in time. Trump’s legacy could be truly great if he was to purge the CIA, stop the extortion, prosecute the pedophiles and reinstate the death penalty for pedo’s convicted a second time. Pedogate is his path to greatness.
Q. How does Russia fit into all this?
A. The CIA and Israel are responsible for the creation of Isis. Isis was created specifically to weaken Iran and destabilize Syria. It worked for a while until Putin shored up Assad and bolstered Iranian Qud forces. The real reason you see such anti-Russian fever from both Schumer and McCain, Graham and Feinstein, is because the operation has blown up in our faces.
Q. Is Israel behind the anti Russian sentiment?
A. Yes. Israeli intelligence is furious with Trump, and will do anything to keep Trump from working with Putin. Understand that if Trump and Putin work together to defeat Isis, they are actually defeating a CIA/Mossad creation, and furthermore, Syria and Iran grow stronger, which the Saudis and the Israeli’s fear. Their goal was to divide Syria and ultimately destroy Iran’s regime. It is not just an oil grab, but a much bigger attempt at moving the chess pieces to allow Israel and Saudi Arabia to dominate the entire Middle East.
Q. So they demonize Putin and try to tarnish the Trump administration?
A. The Deep State is at war with both Trump and Putin. Understand that when Israeli intelligence hears “America first” from Trump, they go apeshit. Israel has bribed, extorted and intimidated our politicians for decades and suddenly this upstart billionaire threatens to ruin everything.
Q. You mention the word extort. Does that relate to Pizzagate?
A. PedoGate is only a modern term associated with a long history of Pedo-blackmail connected to both Israel and the Intel community. There is a full court press to stop PedoGate from being looked at because if people knew the true motives behind the pedophilia epidemic, they would do more than march on Washington. They could actually seed a revolution, with the spark coming from decent American parents who want to protect their kids. Our politicians are compromised. The senior analyst nicknamed “FBI Anon” alluded to this in his exchange with folks on 4chan and with you.
Q. What do you mean compromised?
A. Do you notice 2 central themes running through the MSM lately? Those themes are “Fear the Russians” and “#PizzaGate is fake news“. Both tropes come from the same place.
Q. Can you explain?
A. How do we exert power? Via fear. Do you ever wonder why both Democrats and Republicans fall all over themselves to kiss up to Israel? Odd, since Israel is the size of Rhode Island… The fact is, many of our politicians – on both sides – have been compromised by CIA and Mossad for years. It’s actually not admiration they are expressing for Israel, but fear. Notice Lindsay Graham and Chuck Schumer repeating the same salute when it comes to Israel. How does that even happen? The American people are finally seeing that there is no two-party system, but one big shadow Government pretending we have political dichotomy.
Q. So PedoGate is real and “they” have to get Americans to disbelieve it?
A. Let me explain how threatening PedoGate is… Who wins? Trump. Putin. Americans. Russians. The world…. Who loses? Israel, since they no longer can blackmail our politicians, the same goes for the CIA. The Shadow Government loses. But, the people win.
Q. Can you give me specific instances of politicians being compromised by Israel?
A. Sure. Lolita Island. Jeffery Epstein, a billionaire convicted of pedophilia received a soft sentence. His island was rigged with video recorders. Many politicians have been compromised. It was a Mossad/CIA operation. Contact ex-senior CIA CCS, Robert David Steele. Bob knows and has even spoken about this with numerous reporters.
Q. So an ex-CIA senior agent named Robert Steele is on record saying Epstein’s island was a honey trap to lure our most powerful politicians into a extortion scheme?
A. Yes. There are videos of some of the most powerful players in the most humiliating positions. If this gets out, not only are the politicians ruined, but the extortion game is over and suddenly, the influence CIA and Mossad wield over Washington, is gone.
Q. Wow ! Now its all making sense.
A. Yes. lets continue this conversation later.
The interview resumes
Q. So I checked out Robert David Steele, and he mentions Chuck Schumer being on Lolita Island. So does FBI anon. Is that why Schumer is targeting Trump’s cabinet picks?
A. Connect the dots.
Q. How many other politicians have been secretly extorted?
A. One in three, roughly. It’s not just the Island, its all of their activities. The reason #Pedogate terrifies the media, the CIA, the Israel Lobby, is because they are all part of this “shadow swamp”
Q. Former CIA agent, Robert Steele, says Mossad operated Lolita Island and CIA worked with them. That’s treason on all levels.
A. Yes, and its espionage. Just as these leaks from the intel community regarding Flynn. I expect that at some later moment, Trump will leak some of these videos
Q. Wait. Trump has videos of politicians in ‘delicate” situations?
A. No, But the Intel community has them, and Trump has strong support among certain players in the community. Trump has said he wants to “throw a spotlight on the cockroaches”.
Q. But Trump just met with Netanyahu and pledged the usual unbreakable bond with Israel.
A. Theatre. Netanyahu is desperate to both play Trump into attacking Syria,and hate Putin, and to convince him PedoGate is a conspiracy theory.
Q. That is what Robert Steele says, as well. So, exposing the Pedophiles diminishes Israel’s influence in American politics and also changes the map in a critical mass way?
A. The same media screaming “The Russians are coming” is the same media who says “Pizzagate is fake news” That’s CIA and Mossad talking points.
Q. How do social media giants like Facebook and Google fit in?
A. Facebook and CIA are literally the same petri-dish. Google became a Deep State organ courtesy of Eric Schmidt.
Q. Getting back to the Pedo stuff, FBI anon said in July of last year, that the Clinton Foundation sold secrets to foreign nations. Did they also engage in PizzaGate?
A. There are videos of WJC that would destroy him. FBI anon leaked weeks ago, on purpose. There was a reason.
Q. Ok, FBI anon gave Schumers initials, and Barnet Frank and others, but so far we have only seen low level arrests.
A . FBI anon did a “bank shot”. That’s a pool hall term we use. Ask Bob about it. FBI Anon rattled their cages as other DHS and local authorities rounded up all sorts of street-level human traffickers. The big arrests will come in time, but first the small fish are interrogated, and provide information that leads to larger fish. FBI Anon was firing a shot across the bow, much like you shake a beehive to infuriate the bees. Notice how blatantly hostile McCain, Schumer, Graham, and others are? It was what we call a “targeted trigger“.
It worked. By long-kniving Flynn, they exposed their hand. Now, Trump has full executive powers to investigate the CIA and Mossad. Notice how there is sound and fury about “Russian influence” and utter silence on “Mossad” influence in our power structure?
When FBI anon leaked in early July, the whole idea was to expose the Clinton Foundation,and to hint at the sale of “people” i.e. Pedogate. Look back at his exchange on 4chan. He is a gifted analyst, and knows just what stone to throw at Goliath’s noggin. By triggering the shadow Government, he helps citizen journalists ask the right questions and follow the right breadcrumbs, not the rabbit holes the Elite scum want you to follow.
Now, PedoGate victims are speaking out on their experiences! You just had a story on some lady who went through having her family abused by California-Deep-State-sponsored terrorism. If folks knew that CPS in California is tied into a huge racket that kidnaps children from parents, they would realize just how sick this is. Foster homes, CPS, etc… all get paid well to jail parents and then snatch their kids away. These kids suffer abuse, and perpetuate the growing cancer called pedogate. Politicians who have pedophile tendencies are groomed for power, because they can be later extorted and controlled. Meanwhile, victims have no voice- until now. Suddenly, we have citizen journalism, and it will end up saving the people, in the end.
I have to go, but please contact Robert David Steele, the former CIA agent we discussed. I am sure he would appear on your channel. You are providing a real service to the people and we hope you will continue to speak up for the regular folks who are concerned, rightfully, as to the state of our nation. Take care
'Mind Manipulations” to Influence Election Results
January 06, 2017 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46173.htm
"Hacking” to influence election results? Ridiculous! That may have been a thing of the past.
Or not even. It’s an evil invention of the evil losers of the evil Hillary camp, supported by a criminal departing President Obama, who will be leaving office, of course, not with a bang, not even with a whimper, but with a disgrace for his nation and for the truth loving people all around the world.
What a legacy the first African-american US President leaves behind – the architect of thousands of indiscriminate and illegal drone killings, by starting five new wars, being currently involved in seven unjustified and illegal armed conflicts around the globe, killing millions of people and, finally, as a miserable liar.
Already back in August 2016, NSA whistleblower William Binney stated on Aaron Klein Investigative Radio that
“the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) server was not hacked by Russia, but by a disgruntled US intelligence worker.” Binney went on to proclaim that “the NSA has all of Clinton’s deleted emails, and the FBI could gain access to them if they so wished.”
He concluded that there was no need for Trump to ask the Russians for the emails, he could just ask the FBI or NSA to hand them over.
So, one of President Obama’s last deeds in this illustrious office of the Presidency of the United States, is lying to the American people and lying to the world. – Bravo!
The truth behind Donald Trump’s ‘surprise’ election may lay somewhere else. It’s called Psychometrics, a method based on massive behavioral data collection of people to be targeted by propaganda, or more accurately expressed by mind manipulation. This PR technology has been marketed and applied by a small London-based data analysis firm, called ‘Cambridge Analytica’.
The research firm first worked for Republican Presidential Candidate Ted Cruz, U.S. Senator from Texas, who was little known by most Americans. Cambridge Analytica increased his popularity to 40%, but not enough to win the Republican nomination. The data analysis firm was then hired by Trump’s campaign team – successfully as it appears. In this 11-minute YouTube, Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, explains the method on the case of Ted Cruz.
https://youtu.be/n8Dd5aVXLCc
As reported by the Swiss newspaper, ‘Tagesanzeiger’ (TA), Psychometrics, or Psychographics, as such is not new. It was developed in the 1980s, as a scientific tool to help determine people’s personalities.
Psychologists concluded that every trait of a person’s character can be categorized into five personality dimensions. The system is called OCEAN, for Openness, Consciousness, level of Extraversion, Amicability (compatibility) and Neuroticism.
In this regard, Cambridge Analytica’s CEO claims that based on about 70 Facebook-Likes, they can determine with 95% accuracy whether a person is black or white, with 88% accuracy whether he/she is homosexual and with 85% accuracy whether he /she is a Democrat or Republican.
With 150 ‘Likes’ he knows a person better than his / her parents, and with 300, better than his / her partner. These are impressive claims. But Are they correct? Many critics dispute them, mainly arguing there is no proof that targeted people (i) actually do vote, and (ii) that they vote according to their profile. In any case, it would be difficult to verify to what extent Cambridge Analytica helped Donald Trump to win the elections. Cambridge Analytica also claims credit for the BREXIT vote.
Facebook entries are not the only input to “Big Data”. In addition to tens of thousands of ‘likes’ collected, data on peoples’ google browsing, eating and consumer habits, what cosmetics and rock bands they like, whether they are drug, cigarettes and / or alcohol addicts, or just users, what type of alcohol, brand or type of car they prefer, their banking customs, even the speed with which they remove their cell phone from their pockets when it rings – and-so-on – are also entered into “Big Data”. We are indeed living in the age of no holds barred as far as disrespect for privacy and universal data collection is concerned. As long as we let it happen, it will only get worse.
Hundreds of thousands of people are literally being ‘profiled’ for targeted and personalized propaganda messages to convince segments of people and individuals of think-alikes to vote for or against a candidate. The TA concludes, that’s why Trump’s campaign messages were often contradictory and confusing, difficult to establish a clear picture of where he really stands. This is still the case today.
According to Cambridge Analytica, in the ‘olden days’, social research firms had to get people filling-in cumbersome questionnaires, based on demographics. Today this approach is outdated. We have internet and Facebook. Not all women, blacks, Hispanics, gays, straights – vote alike. This false assumption was still used by Hillary’s campaign and demonstrated to be deceptive. Even though Hillary had about 2.7 million more popular votes, she lost the election by electorates. Cambridge Analytica worked on swing states. Within these States, they targeted specifically the ‘vulnerable’ or undecided, or motivated those with no intention to vote to get off their butts and cast their vote for Trump, or against Hillary, depending on their profile.
For example, Haitians in Florida, who had no intention to vote, but would have leaned Democratic, i.e. for Hillary, were targeted with propaganda describing the corruption of the Clinton Foundation and how the Clintons ruined Haiti’s economy. So – they went to vote for Trump as an anti-Clinton vote. At least this was the plan and apparently, it worked in sufficient cases to be effective.
Although we will never know for sure to what extent Cambridge Analytica has contributed to Trump’s election win, we can be certain that the method, inexpensive as compared to demographic profiling, will be used masively in the future, most certainly in the upcoming elections in France and the Netherlands (Spring 2017) and Germany (Fall 2017).
Thanks goodness for President Putin (I must have said this many times before) to give Mr. Obama and all the people around him, a lesson on how to behave like a statesman and not like a losing looney what he is.
President Putin did not retaliate Obama’s flagrant lie-based expelling of 35 Russian diplomats with families just before New Year’s Eve, in full preparation of year-end festivities. Instead he invited US diplomats in Moscow and their kids to celebrate the year-end festivities with their Russian colleagues. Obama’s act of cowardice was framed as ‘sanction’ for ‘Russian interference in US elections’ – a blatant lie. Mr. Obama, the master puppet of the deep state that pulls the strings on his lips and mind – he, (nominally) President Obama, knows it’s a sham.
Peter Koenig is an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a former World Bank staff and worked extensively around the world in the fields of environment and water resources. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed – fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe. He is also a co-author of The World Order and Revolution! – Essays from the Resistance.
Post by C_D » Tue Aug 22, 2017 12:32 pm
So, Trumps pre-election promise to pull back on foreign adventurism is bollocks.
The whole speech:
Thank you very much. Thank you. Please be seated. Vice President Pence, Secretary of State Tillerson, members of the cabinet, General Dunford, Deputy Secretary Shanahan and Colonel Duggan. Most especially, thank you to the men and women of Fort Myer and every member of the United States military at home and abroad. We send our thoughts and prayers to the families of our brave sailors who were injured and lost after a tragic collision at sea as well as to those conducting the search and recovery efforts.
I am here tonight to lay out our path forward in Afghanistan and South Asia. But before I provide the details of our new strategy, I want to say a few words to the service members here with us tonight, to those watching from their posts, and to all Americans listening at home. Since the founding of our republic, our country has produced a special class of heroes whose selflessness, courage, and resolve is unmatched in human history.
American patriots from every generation have given their last breath on the battlefield - for our nation and for our freedom. Through their lives, and though their lives were cut short, in their deeds they achieved total immortality. By following the heroic example of those who fought to preserve our republic, we can find the inspiration our country needs to unify, to heal and to remain one nation under God. The men and women of our military operate as one team, with one shared mission and one shared sense of purpose.
They transcend every line of race, ethnicity, creed and color to serve together and sacrifice together in absolutely perfect cohesion. That is because all service members are brothers and sisters. They are all part of the same family. It’s called the American family. They take the same oath, fight for the same flag and live according to the same law.
They are bound together by common purpose, mutual trust and selfless devotion to our nation and to each other. The soldier understands what we as a nation too often forget, that a wound inflicted upon on a single member of our community is a wound inflicted upon us all. When one part of America hurts, we all hurt.
And when one citizen suffers an injustice, we all suffer together. Loyalty to our nation demands loyalty to one another. Love for America requires love for all of its people. When we open our hearts to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice, no place for bigotry and no tolerance for hate. The young men and women we send to fight our wars abroad deserve to return to a country that is not at war with itself at home. We cannot remain a force for peace in the world if we are not at peace with each other.
As we send our bravest to defeat our enemies overseas, and we will always win, let us find the courage to heal our divisions within. Let us make a simple promise to the men and women we ask to fight in our name, that when they return home from battle, they will find a country that has renewed the sacred bonds of love and loyalty that unite us together as one.
Thanks to the vigilance and skill of the American military, and of our many allies throughout the world, horrors on the scale of September 11, and nobody can ever forget that, have not been repeated on our shores. But we must acknowledge the reality I am here to talk about tonight, that nearly 16 years after September 11 attacks, after the extraordinary sacrifice of blood and treasure, the American people are weary of war without victory.
Nowhere is this more evident than with the war in Afghanistan, the longest war in American history - 17 years. I share the American people's frustration. I also share their frustration over a foreign policy that has spent too much time, energy, money, and most importantly, lives trying to rebuild countries in our own image instead of pursuing our security interests above all other considerations. That is why shortly after my inauguration, I directed Secretary of Defense Mattis and my national security team to undertake a comprehensive review of all strategic options in Afghanistan and South Asia.
My original instinct was to pull out, and historically I like following my instincts. But all my life, I have heard that decisions are much different when you sit behind the desk in the oval office. In other words, when you are president of the United States. So I studied Afghanistan in great detail and from every conceivable angle. After many meetings over many months, we held our final meeting last Friday at Camp David with my cabinet and generals to complete our strategy. I arrived at three fundamental conclusion about America's core interests in Afghanistan.
First, our nation must seek an honorable and enduring outcome worthy of the tremendous sacrifices that have been made, especially the sacrifices of lives. The men and women who serve our nation in combat deserve a plan for victory. They deserve the tools they need and the trust they have earned to fight and to win. Second, the consequences of a rapid exit are both predictable and unacceptable. 9/11, the worst terrorist attack in our history, was planned and directed from Afghanistan because that country by a government that gave comfort and shelter to terrorists. A hasty withdrawal would create a vacuum that terrorists, including ISIS and al Qaeda, would instantly fill, just as happened before September 11. And as we know, in 2011, America hastily and mistakenly withdrew from Iraq.
As a result, our hard-won gains slipped back into the hands of terrorists enemies. Our soldiers watched as cities they had fought for bled to liberate and won were occupied by a terrorist group called ISIS. The vacuum we created by leaving too soon gave safe haven for ISIS to spread, to grow, recruit and launch attacks. We cannot repeat in Afghanistan the mistake our leaders made in Iraq.
Third and finally, I concluded that the security threats we face in Afghanistan and the broader region are immense. Today, 20 U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organizations are active in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The highest concentration in any region anywhere in the world. For its part, Pakistan often gives safe haven to agents of chaos, violence, and terror. The threat is worse because Pakistan and India are two nuclear-armed states, whose tense relations threat to spiral into conflict, and that could happen.
No one denies that we have inherited a challenging and troubling situation in Afghanistan and South Asia, but we do not have the luxury of going back in time and making different or better decisions.
When I became president, I was given a bad and very complex hand, but I fully knew what I was getting into. Big and intricate problems. But one way or another, these problems will be solved. I am a problem solver. And in the end, we will win. We must address the reality of the world as it exists right now, the threats we face, and the confronting of all of the problems of today, an extremely predictable consequences of a hasty withdrawal. We need look no further than last week's vile, vicious attack in Barcelona to understand that terror groups will stop at nothing to commit the mass murder of innocent men, women, and children.
You saw it for yourself. Horrible. As I outlined in my speech in Saudi Arabia, three months ago, America and our partners are committed to stripping terrorists of their territory, cutting off their funding and exposing the false allure of their evil ideology. Terrorists who slaughter innocent people will find no glory in this life or the next. They are nothing but thugs and criminals and predators, and, that’s right, losers. Working alongside our allies, we will break their will, dry up their recruitment, keep them from crossing our borders, and yes, we will defeat them, and we will defeat them handily. In Afghanistan and Pakistan, America's interests are clear.
We must stop the resurgence of safe havens that enable terrorists to threaten America. And we must prevent nuclear weapons and materials from coming into the hands of terrorists and being used against us or anywhere in the world, for that matter. But to prosecute this war, we will learn from history.
As a result of our comprehensive review, American strategy in Afghanistan and South Asia will change dramatically in the following ways: A core pillar of our new strategy is a shift from a time-based approach to one based on conditions. I’ve said it many times, how counterproductive it is for the United States to announce in advance the dates we intend to begin or end military operations.
We will not talk about numbers of troops or our plans for further military activities. Conditions on the ground, not arbitrary timetables, will guide our strategy from now on. America's enemies must never know our plans or believe they can wait us out. I will not say when we are going to attack, but attack we will. Another fundamental pillar of our new strategy is the integration of all instruments of American power, diplomatic, economic, and military, toward a successful outcome. Someday, after an effective military effort, perhaps it will be possible to have a political settlement that includes elements of the Taliban and Afghanistan, but nobody knows if or when that will ever happen. America will continue its support for the Afghan government and the Afghan military as they confront the Taliban in the field.
Ultimately, it is up to the people of Afghanistan to take ownership of their future, to govern their society, and to achieve an everlasting peace. We are a partner and a friend, but we will not dictate to the Afghan people how to live or how to govern their own complex society. We are not nation building again. We are killing terrorists.
The next pillar of our new strategy is to change the approach in how to deal with Pakistan. We can no longer be silent about Pakistan's safe havens for terrorist organizations, the Taliban, and other groups that pose a threat to the region and beyond.
Pakistan has much to gain from partnering with our effort in Afghanistan. It has much to lose by continuing to harbor criminals and terrorists. In the past, Pakistan has been a valued partner. Our militaries have worked together against common enemies. The Pakistani people have suffered greatly from terrorism and extremism. We recognize those contributions and those sacrifices, but Pakistan has also sheltered the same organizations that try every single day to kill our people. We have been paying Pakistan billions and billions of dollars, at the same time they are housing the same terrorists that we are fighting. But that will have to change. And that will change immediately. No partnership can survive a country's harboring of militants and terrorists who target U.S. service members and officials. It is time for Pakistan to demonstrate its commitment to civilization, order, and to peace.
Another critical part of the South Asia strategy or America is to further develop its strategic partnership with India, the world's largest democracy and a key security and economic harbor of the United States. We appreciate India's important contributions to stability in Afghanistan, but India makes billions of dollars in trade with the United States, and we want them to help us more with Afghanistan, especially in the area of economic assistance and development. We are committed to pursuing our shared objectives for peace and security in South Asia and the broader Indo-Pacific region.
Finally, my administration will ensure that you, the brave defenders of the American people, will have the necessary tools and rules of engagement to make this strategy work and work effectively and work quickly. I have already lifted restrictions the previous administration placed on our war fighters that prevented the secretary of defense and our commanders in the field from fully and swiftly waging battle against the enemy. Micromanagement from Washington, D.C., does not win battles. They are won in the field drawing upon the judgment and expertise of wartime commanders and frontline soldiers, acting in real time with real authority and with a clear mission to defeat the enemy. That is why we will also expand authority for American armed forces to target the terrorists and criminal networks that sow violence and chaos throughout Afghanistan.
The killers need to know they have nowhere to hide, that no place is beyond the reach of American might and American arms. Retribution will be fast and powerful. As we lift restrictions and expand authorities in the field, we are already seeing dramatic results in the campaign to defeat ISIS, including the liberation of Mosul in Iraq. Since my inauguration, we have achieved record-breaking success in that regard. We will also maximize sanctions and other financial and law enforcement actions against these networks to eliminate their ability to export terror. When America commits its warriors to battle, we must ensure they have every weapon to apply swift, decisive, and overwhelming force.
Our troops will fight to win. We will fight to win. From now on, victory will have a clear definition. — attacking our enemies, obliterating ISIS, crushing al Qaeda, preventing the Taliban from taking over Afghanistan, and stopping mass terror attacks against America before they emerge. We will ask our NATO allies and global partners to support our new strategy, with additional troop and funding increases in line with our own. We are confident they will.
Since taking office, I have made clear that our allies and partners must contribute much more money to our collective defense, and they have done so. In this struggle, the heaviest burden will continue to be borne by the good people of Afghanistan and their courageous armed forces.
As the prime minister of Afghanistan has promised, we are going to participate in economic development to help defray the cost of this war to us. Afghanistan is fighting to defend and secure their country against the same enemies who threaten us. The stronger the Afghan security forces become, the less we will have to do. Afghans will secure and build their own nation and define their own future. We want them to succeed. But we will no longer use American military might to construct democracies in faraway lands or try to rebuild other countries in our own image. Those days are now over. Instead, we will work with allies and partners to protect our shared interests.
We are not asking others to change their way of life but to pursue common goals that allow our children to live better and safer lives. This principled realism will guide our decisions moving forward. Military power alone will not bring peace to Afghanistan or stop the terrorist threat arising in that country.
But strategically-applied force aims to create the conditions for a political process to achieve a lasting peace. America will work with the Afghan government as long as we see determination and progress.
However, our commitment is not unlimited, and our support is not a blank check. The government of Afghanistan must carry their share of the military, political, and economic burden. The American people expect to see real reforms, real progress, and real results.
Our patience is not unlimited. We will keep our eyes wide open. In abiding by the oath I took on January 20, I will remain steadfast in protecting American lives and American interests. In this effort, we will make common cause with any nation that chooses to stand and fight alongside us against this global threat.
Terrorists, take heed. America will never let up until you are dealt a lasting defeat. Under my administration, many billions of dollars more is being spent on our military. And this includes vast amounts being spent on our nuclear arsenal and missile defense. In every generation we have faced down evil, and we have always prevailed.
We prevailed because we know who we are and what we are fighting for. Not far from where we are gathered tonight, hundreds of thousands of America's greatest patriots lay in eternal rest at Arlington national cemetery. There is more courage, sacrifice, and love in those hallowed grounds than in any other spot on the face of this Earth.
Many of those who have fought and died in Afghanistan enlisted in the months after September 11, 2001. They volunteered for a simple reason: they loved America and they were determined to protect her. Now we must secure the cause for which they gave their lives. We must unite to defend America from its enemies abroad. We must restore the bonds of loyalty among our citizens at home, and we must achieve an honorable and enduring outcome worthy of the enormous price that so many have paid.
Our actions and in the months to come, all of them will honor the sacrifice of every fallen hero, every family who lost a loved one, and every wounded warrior who shed their blood in defense of our great nation.
With our resolve, we will ensure that your service and that your families will bring about the defeat of our enemies and the arrival of peace. We will push onward to victory with power in our hearts, courage in our souls and everlasting pride in each and every one of you. Thank you. May God bless our military, and may God bless the United States of America. Thank you very much. Thank you
Strip out the references to what a crappy situation the previous administration has left him in and the speech could have come from the mouth of any ex-president of the last 30 years.
Hope & Change mk2
Post by C_D » Mon Sep 25, 2017 12:35 am
Oh, this is starting to get very interesting. The schism created by the system - and in the left corner, we have, weighing in at 100 million adults and their dependents, a movement that wants to see white people demoted to the second class carriage and a lot more non-whiteys in the driving seats of power, leading towards a bright new future of equality for all but no clear or defined way of getting there, except for the conviction that anyone who isn't on their side is a Nazi - and in the right corner, we have, weighing in at 100 million adults and their dependents, a beleaguered assortment of ex-malcontents, nationalists, status-quo lovers and anyone that finds the left corner a bit scary, who believed that El Trumpino was going to be different in policy, but have been sorely disappointed by his lack of any difference to any other Prez for the last 50 years.
It's always surprising where it will manifest itself next. The NFL kneel down - I tell you what, this might actually make sport a bit more competitive and interesting. You'll have teams from left-leaning cities that kneel, really wanting to kick the fuck out of right-leaning city teams because they're obviously Nazis. We should see some proper violence develop soon.
It can only be so long before the shooting starts. They do love their guns. Never ever seen a gun, myself. But I can imagine the fantasy that Hollywood projects about guns is very different to the reality. I bet it's a very messy business being shot, lots of crying and pain and probably screaming.
Will it be a very un-civil war, with no clear sides, or will it be war with a manufactured enemy to unite the American people against a common foe?
Whichever way, that sucker is going down. The die is cast. This has been a long time brewing. A gangster State acts like gangsters. Maybe it is a Russian plot. The Ruskies are very good at analytical thinking. And fighting dirty. And America is hardly the shining beacon it once believed itself to be. The best they could offer this time around was Trumpy or Clinty, ffs. LOL! Its little wonder the vultures are circling.
Wonder where the division will manifest next? Maybe in the US armed forces. Now, that will be interesting to see.
greycircle
Post by greycircle » Mon Sep 25, 2017 2:08 am
Come on man, don't make fun of big daddy, he is the most aerodynamic pres we ever had. And, he isn't orange anymore either! Gonna try to upload a pic, don't know whats gonna happen...
The thing that gives me comfort is knowing that the "extreme left" were largely bused in and paid to act stupid and scream "nazi."
Have you noticed since Trump became Pres we don't have fake "mass shooting of the week" anymore? That shit got boring anyway. Now we have "cars crash into crowds" and some folks actually got hurt. My guess is that these people, some of em anyway, are MK victims.
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exodus refugee
Post by C_D » Mon Sep 25, 2017 7:50 am
LOL at that golden ratio. There's something about Trump that makes him interesting to watch, for a short period of time. He doesn't pause when he's speaking, like so many politicians - as they take into account all other previous bullshit they have said and making sure it tallies up with what they're about to say - so it's no wonder that he puts his foot in his mouth quite often.
I totally agree that people who drive cars into crowds have mental issues, whether those issues were put there by MK or not - but there have always been people with just plain mental issues. Look at what happened to poor slad.
Politically highly-charged events like Charlottesville attract highly-charged individuals - and that can include psychos. Are you American, greycircle?
Are you American, greycircle?
Yep i'm amurikan.
I looked over there today for the first time in about three weeks. Oh man...Its worse than ever. I looked over the last couple of pages of the "Why Do People Apologize For Russia" thread. It was a toxic tragedy. The last two pages of the thread were slad holding court and lashing out at a few others with her passive aggressive toxicity. She treats that place like her own personal concentration camp. I guess thats really the same person behind that name but its hard to believe.
Slad used to have a lot of different eclectic metaphysical type subjects she posted about. Its like its been wiped from her memory because she never posts about that sort of stuff anymore. Its just gone from her personality, totally. She just sits there all day wallowing in propaganda and arguing with anybody that dares go against her narrative. Its sad. If thats really still the same person Trump drove her to rabid furniture leg biting insanity.
BeneGesserit
Post by BeneGesserit » Tue Sep 26, 2017 2:10 pm
C_D wrote: ↑
and in the right corner, we have, weighing in at 100 million adults and their dependents, a beleaguered assortment of ex-malcontents, nationalists, status-quo lovers and anyone that finds the left corner a bit scary, who believed that El Trumpino was going to be different in policy, but have been sorely disappointed by his lack of any difference to any other Prez for the last 50 years.
"ex-malcontents" indicates that these people are now .. contented. I don't see that.
"status-quo lovers" indicates that the ppl who voted for Trump liked things the way they were under Obama. that isn't logical.
"finds the Left corner a bit scary" The left of today is terrifying which is why many Liberals are left rudderless. They aren't suddenly 'right' or 'conservative' they simply aren't whatever the Left now is: fascist, totalitarian, illogical, communist
If you're going to demonize a group of people the least you could do is think about it for five minutes before you type.
Post by C_D » Tue Sep 26, 2017 2:40 pm
Yeah, I do generalise.
When I said ex-malcontents, I mean't less malcontented, now that the 'left' has gone batshit bonkers and the system in place doesn't seem quite so bad. Not that it isn't.
"status-quo lovers" - I have to assume you believe there is a difference between Obama and Trump. I do not see any differences whatsoever. Both are figureheads of an eternal deep state. I also assume that you believe voting decides who will be President (I do not) and that different Presidents have different policies. They do not. They merely continue what has gone before. Witness Trumps promises that won him an election - he will backtrack on all of them.
I know this. The point I was trying to make is that the left do not discern. They tar all with the same brush. Right-wing is anyone who isn't left wing. I think many of the SJW's have quite literally lost their minds. The deep state media that goads them on doesn't help.
Nice to meet you, too.
edited to add - I'm not American, never been there, only met a few Americans, see a lot of their news and share a lot of their concerns, frustrations etc but I have no idea what it's like to be an American. It must be weird at the moment though, judging by what I'm hearing.
Yes I see a difference between Obama and Trump and I'm not so far gone as to think voting is completely irrelevant.
I see the establishment freak out as more than simple theater, in this case.
Trump is a wildcard to a greater degree than anyone has been in a long time, IMO.
jakell
Post by jakell » Tue Oct 24, 2017 11:47 am
Styx's title might be a bit hyperbolic here, but he reigns that in with plenty of nuance in the actual video. I don't follow mainstream American politics very closely, but Styx does it pretty well so I don't have to get my hands too dirty, he was right about Trump last year and I tend to take notice of him.
Apart from Styx's observations here, it's noticable to even the casual observer that Trump hysteria has diminished somewhat and those who got feverish may even try to pretend that they didn't inhale. For an example just check out your local reliable Trump hysteric and take their temperature, they may even have moved on in search of fresher boogeymen**.
Concerning this last, and in line with Styx's previous discussions of moral panics (on here) satisfying a particular psychological need, those Trump hysterics who are now finding his malevolence less triggering may find a new home in the antifa/SJW mindset, where the perception of evil is kept just vague enough (and with many sources) that it can't really be falsified.. there will always be Nazis under the bed - guaranteed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kuc1pEaeqQ
** One of my few concessions to Americanisms, over here we use one less 'o'.
Post by C_D » Tue Oct 24, 2017 9:56 pm
The System gave the malcontents a sop in Trump.
It's a simple play by the system - intentioned, but always fluid -
you're fed up with the system, eh?
ok - here's an alternative - he's a bit of a joke, he's still part of the system, but we'll make it look kind of as though he isn't, by pandering to a few conspiracy-minded topics - he hasn't got a chance, really - but it'll let us gauge just how many of you are actually pissed off enough to vote for any kind of change - fuck, he won! There may be trouble ahead.
but oh, he can't deliver any meaningful change because he's serving the system anyway - and you are realising you've been fooled
so - we'll make him look bad, very bad, worse than you could have imagined - we'll ridicule and debase him
make him the reason it's falling apart - and your fault too, you voted for him
nevermind the fact that our system is so rotten it's making many people mentally and physically ill
but ours is the only system that works and we're the smartest people in the room, we have the divine right to lead the herd
because you a herd, a herd of cattle with no direction without us
and soon, we shall offer you a bright, shining beacon that will seem to too good to be true - and it will be.
Post by jakell » Tue Oct 24, 2017 10:35 pm
I try to give equal credence to the possibility that some things are not a product of 'the system', that they can happen organically and are not a product of 'control'. Another version is to credit anything and everything to the 'Deep State' and I'm starting to roll my eyes every time I hear that.
That's still a whopping 50% allotted to traditional conspiracy tropes, which isn't a bad slice, but allowing that some things may 'just happen' does free my mind somewhat from the old 'puppet-master' archetype that seems to me a little too tempting.
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Kevin Murphy, December 14, 2020, Domain Registries
In what appears to be an almost unprecedented move, ICANN is to review Donuts’ proposed acquisition of rival Afilias at the highest level, raising a question mark over the industry mega-merger.
The org’s board of directors will meet Thursday to consider, among other things, “Afilias Change of Control Approval Request”.
It’s highly unusual for a change of control to be discussed at such a high level.
Every registry contract contains clauses requiring ICANN’s consent before a registry switches owners, and it has approved hundreds over the last decade. But the process is usually handled by legal staff, without board involvement.
The only time, to my memory, that the board has got involved was when it withheld consent from .org manager Public Interest Registry earlier this year.
It’s not entirely clear why Afilias has been singled out for special treatment.
It’s probably not due to its status as a legacy gTLD registry operator because of .info — when GoDaddy bought .biz operator Neustar’s registry business earlier this year, there was no such board review.
In addition, the .info contract’s change of control provisions are very similar to those in the standard new gTLD contract.
Could it be due to Donuts executives former ties to ICANN and the perception of a conflict of interest? Again, it seems unlikely.
While Donuts CEO Akram Atallah is former president of ICANN’s Global Domains Division, former ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé is no longer involved with Donuts owner Abry Partners, having jumped to erstwhile PIR bidder Ethos Capital this July.
Are there competition concerns? It’s a possibility.
Afilias holds the contracts for 24 gTLDs new and legacy, but supports a couple hundred more, while Donuts is contracted for over 240.
But between them, they have barely 10 million domains under management. Donuts isn’t even the market leader in terms of new gTLD registrations.
And ICANN avoids making competition pronouncements like the plague, preferring instead to refer to national competition regulators.
Could ICANN’s interest have been perked by the fact that Afilias is the back-end provider for .org’s 10 million domains, and the proposed Donuts deal comes hot on the heels of the failed PIR acquisition? Again, it’s a possibility.
But none of the dangers ICANN identified in the .org deal — such as pricing, freedom of speech, and the change from a non-profit to for-profit corporate structure — appear to apply here.
There could be technical concerns. Atallah told DI a couple weeks ago that the plan was to ultimately migrate its managed TLDs to its Amazon cloud-based registry.
But moving its clients’ TLDs to a new back-end infrastructure would require their consent — it would be up to PIR and its overlords at the Internet Society to agree to moving .org to the cloud.
I think it’s likely that a combination of all the above factors, and maybe others, are what’s driving the Afilias acquisition to the ICANN boardroom. It will be interesting to see what the board decrees.
Kevin Murphy, December 2, 2020, Domain Registries
Public Interest Registry has published its 2019 tax returns, revealing a top line of $97.1 million.
That’s a tad under the $101.1 million it reported for 2018, presumably due to the declining number of .org domains under management.
It lost roughly 200,000 names in 2019, bottoming out at 10.4 million, though it has since recovered in 2020.
The returns also reveal that back-end provider Afilias was paid $18.3 million for its trouble, and ICANN was paid $2.6 million in fees.
The Internet Society, which owns PIR and uses it for most of its funding, was paid $67.5 million, up from the $48.7 million given in 2018.
The form also list the salary and bonuses for 20-odd staffers and directors, for the salary voyeurs among you.
ICANN dissenter explains why she wanted .org sale approved
Kevin Murphy, May 22, 2020, Domain Registries
ICANN has finally published the dissenting statement made by one of its directors following the vote to deny Ethos Capital the right to acquire Public Interest Registry from the Internet Society.
Avri Doria was one of only two directors to vote against the majority on the April 30 resolution, and the only one to file a written statement for the record, which ICANN has now published (pdf). It reads:
Briefly, I believe that the contractual conditions have been met by PIR and Ethos and that they have gone beyond these required contractual conditions to offer significant public interest commitments currently missing from the current contract.
On balance after intense study of the proposal I have come to conclusion that the Public Interest of registrants and users is better served by the PICs offered by PIR, though they could
be stronger, than by forcing PIR to remain within ISOC without any guarantees on public interest related to data usage and freedom of expression.
In exchange for ICANN approval of the deal, Ethos had promised to cap its price increases at 10% for eight years and to create a largely independent stewardship council to monitor issues related to privacy and free speech in .org.
With ICANN voting to deny the acquisition, PIR is not required to live up to those commitments, but opponents of the deal feel that its not-for-profit status under ISOC control provide stronger protections against bad behavior.
ICANN said it rejected the deal on “public interest” grounds for a variety of reasons including the lack of transparency into Ethos’ ultimate ownership, distrust that Ethos would be able to service its debt, doubt over its management in the long term, and the sheer volume of dissent from the community.
Also playing a strong role was an objection from the California attorney general, who pulled rank and informed ICANN that it should reject the deal, reminding the organization that it was subject to his oversight. This has been described as a dangerous precedent.
ICANN’s .org decision was NOT unanimous, and it was made in secret
When ICANN announced its decision to deny Public Interest Registry’s request to be acquired by Ethos Capital at the end of April, I felt a little foolish.
I’d confidently predicted just days earlier that the decision by the board would not be unanimous, but ICANN, in announcing the decision, said “the entire Board stands by this decision”.
But it turns out I was right after all. Three directors voted against the consensus and one abstained.
The dissenting votes were cast by industry policy consultant Avri Doria, Serbian internet pioneer Danko Jevtović, and former Sudanese ccTLD operator Ihab Osman.
Doria and Jevtović voted against the first resolved clause, which rejected PIR’s request. All three voted against the second resolved clause, which would have allowed PIR to file a second request.
Sarah Deutsch, a private practice lawyer, abstained from both votes, presumably because she also sits on the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the civil liberties group that can, via California’s attorney general, probably be credited most with getting the transaction killed.
All three dissenters and Deutsch are Nominating Committee appointees.
According to the preliminary report of the April 30 meeting, “Doria indicated that she would be voting against the resolution and explained her views about how the public interest would be better served by ICANN granting its consent to PIR’s request.”
What her reasons were are not reflected in the record.
It also seems likely that any substantive minuting of ICANN’s decision is likely to be limited, as it appears to have been made at a different, off-the-books session at an unspecified earlier date.
The preliminary report notes the “the Board discussed and considered alternative draft resolutions for potential Board action as part of an earlier briefing”.
No such earlier meeting is listed on ICANN’s web site. The board’s previous formal meeting, two weeks earlier, had PIR’s request removed from the agenda at the last minute.
So it appears that ICANN’s board decided to reject the deal basically in secret at some point between April 17 and April 29, during a meeting of which ICANN has no obligation to publicly release the minutes.
Nice transparency loophole!
There’s always the Documentary Information Disclosure Policy, I suppose.
.org sale officially dead
Public Interest Registry has formally announced that its proposed $1.13 billion acquisition by Ethos Capital is dead.
The company told ICANN yesterday that it is withdrawing its request for a change of control under its .org contract and that it “will not be pursuing an ICANN Request for Reconsideration or taking any other action to try to revive the Transaction”.
In a statement, CEO Jon Nevett said that PIR is no longer for sale to any other party. It will remain under the Internet Society’s control.
He also pointed out that it’s not within ICANN’s power to arbitrarily transfer .org to another registry, as some critics have called for.
“Such a transfer by ICANN is a contractual impossibility under our registry agreement,” he wrote.
ICANN rejected the change of control request after deciding it was not in the public interest for .org to pass into for-profit hands.
Following the decision, ISOC had indicated that PIR was no longer for sale.
The .org deal may be dead and buried, but calls remain for PIR to lose its contract
Kevin Murphy, May 4, 2020, Domain Registries
The Internet Society has revealed that the .org registry operator PIR is no longer for sale.
The news came in a statement from ISOC chair Andrew Sullivan late Friday, less than 24 hours after ICANN withheld its consent for the proposed $1.13 billion acquisition by private equity firm Ethos Capital.
ICANN had held the door open for Ethos and ISOC to resubmit a change of control request, and Ethos had said Thursday that it was evaluating its options, but it appears the decision has been made to keep PIR under ISOC’s wing.
In his statement, Sullivan expressed his dismay that ICANN had acted as a “regulator” by evaluating the deal using a public interest test rather than simply rubber-stamping it as it has in all other cases of registry acquisitions. He wrote:
It should concern the Internet community that ICANN has shown itself to be much more susceptible to political pressure than its limited mandate would recommend.
Now that we know that ICANN believes its remit to be much larger than we believe it is, we can state this clearly: neither PIR nor any of its operations are for sale now, and the Internet Society will resist vigorously any suggestion that they ought to be.
But who would want to, or could afford to, buy it? While ICANN has made it clear that PE firms are welcome to acquire other TLDs, it wants .org to remain in non-profit hands.
During the last few months of controversy, one other embryonic effort to take over .org was announced, led by founding ICANN chair Esther Dyson.
Called the Cooperative Corporation of dot-org Registrants (CCOR), it had no intention of handing over a billion dollars for .org, it simply wanted ICANN to assign the contract to its control.
It still wants that, or something like that. In a statement Saturday, CCOR said it “calls upon ICANN to proceed with the established multi-stakeholder led open request for proposals for stewardship of the dot-org domain”.
Unless it can be shown that PIR has seriously broken the terms of its Registry Agreement, the chances of ICANN randomly opening up .org to tender is pretty much zero.
CCOR goes on to say that it is still worried about .org falling into private hands and that it will lobby for legally binding policies “including the preservation of privacy, diversity and human rights, and freedom from censorship”.
“Dangerous precedent” as ICANN rejects $1.13 billion .org buyout
In a decision that will shock many, ICANN won’t let Ethos Capital buy Public Interest Registry from the Internet Society.
Its board of directors yesterday voted to reject PIR’s request for a change of control of the .org contract, saying that “the public interest is better served in withholding consent”.
Ethos responded angrily almost immediately, saying the decision “sets a dangerous precedent with broad industry implications” and that it is “evaluating its options”.
The ICANN resolution, which was published overnight, is justified by setting out the case that .org is a unique case: a large legacy gTLD with a mandate to serve non-profit entities.
The Board was presented with a unique and complex situation – a request to approve a fundamental change of control over one of the longest-standing and largest registries, that also includes a change in corporate form from a viable not-for-profit entity to a for-profit entity with a US$360 million debt obligation, and with new and untested community engagement mechanisms relying largely upon ICANN contractual compliance enforcement to hold the new entity accountable to the .ORG community. ICANN is being asked to agree to contract with a wholly different form of entity; instead of contracting with the mission-based not-for-profit that has responsibly operated the .ORG registry for nearly 20 years, with the protections for its own community embedded in its mission and status as a not-for-profit entity. If ICANN were to consent, ICANN would have to trust that the new proposed for-profit entity that no longer has the embedded protections that come from not-for-profit status, which has fiduciary obligations to its new investors and is obligated to service and repay US$360 million in debt, would serve the same benefits to the .ORG community.
Essentially, ICANN is holding ISOC to the by-and-for non-profits commitment that it made when it inherited the registry from Verisign back in 2002. You may recall I went into some depth on the history of .org back in December.
While noting the broad criticism from various parties — which included domainers and non-profits — about the proposed acquisition, the resolution makes specific reference to the investigation by the office of the California attorney general, which had made vague threats of legal action against ICANN.
Some commentators, including Jonathan Zuck and Michele Neylon — are worried that the AG’s influence now means ICANN has a new boss, and that special interest groups in future need only lobby his office in order to override community-built consensus.
But ICANN did not single out one reason for its decision, saying withholding consent was “reasonable in light of the balancing of all of the circumstances”.
Ethos, while not calling out the AG directly, made the broader claim that ICANN has acted outside its mandate by succumbing to lobbying by outside parties.
Its statement, which I think contains hints at future legal action, reads in full:
Today’s decision by ICANN sets a dangerous precedent with broad industry implications. ICANN has overstepped its purview, which is limited to ensuring routine transfers of indirect control (such as the sale of PIR) do not impact the registry’s security, stability and reliability. Today’s action opens the door for ICANN to unilaterally reject future transfer requests based on agenda-driven pressure by outside parties. It allows ICANN to base its decisions on a subjective interpretation of what it deems to be relevant in these transactions, rather than following its own clear and specified legal directive.
This decision will suffocate innovation and deter future investment in the domain industry. ICANN has empowered itself to extend its authority into areas that fall well outside of its legal mandate in acting as a regulatory body. Today’s decision also creates an uncertain and unpredictable business environment, where the enforceability and value of the ICANN contract itself may be called into question now that the rules of transferring ownership are open to influence by outside interests. Ethos is evaluating its options at this time.
In the same statement, PIR called the decision “a failure to follow its bylaws, processes, and contracts” and ISOC said ICANN “has acted as a regulatory body it was never meant to be”.
While the decision could be chalked up as a win for domain investors and civil libertarians that had challenged the acquisition, it has implications that may not entirely please them.
Assuming the deal stays dead, PIR is no longer promising to only increase prices by 10% a year. It will be able to raise its registry fee arbitrarily, whenever it likes, subject to notice periods and the usual uniform pricing rules.
Domainers will have to hope there’s no sour grapes at ISOC, or they could be looking at big price hikes before long.
And for those interested in censorship, remember PIR is no longer committing to a Stewardship Council that would help protect free speech in .org domains.
The ICANN decision came in spite of a last-minute plea from former chair and ISOC co-founder Vint Cerf, who in a letter (pdf) described the deal as a “wedge issue” that could be leverage to force ICANN into an existential crisis, with outside interests such as the ITU pushing itself as a replacement.
ICANN also received eleventh-hour submissions from the German government (which was against the deal) and German trade group Eco (which was vague but appeared to be for the deal).
Decision on .org deal may come sooner than you think
Kevin Murphy, April 28, 2020, Domain Registries
If you’re against the acquisition of .org and are thinking about an objection or spot of lobbying at the eleventh hour, be aware: this is the eleventh hour.
The deal, which would see Ethos Capital buy Public Interest Registry from the Internet Society for over a billion dollars, is on the agenda for a meeting of the ICANN board of directors this Thursday.
ICANN and Ethos have agreed to a May 4 deadline for a decision, but is whispered that the board plans to give the deal the nod, or not, at the Thursday meeting.
Given how long it usually takes for ICANN to post the results of its board meetings, typically a few days, there’s a decent chance that PIR, Ethos and ISOC could be given formal approval before any opponents have time to react to the resolution.
I think it could go either way.
The one thing I have a fairly high degree of confidence in is that I do not expect a unanimous vote.
While I think ICANN’s institutional instincts are to approve, the breadth and depth of the outrage over the deal may be difficult for some directors to ignore.
If it were only domain investors objecting, approval would be a slam dunk. But here we also have non-profits, civil liberties groups and governments crying foul.
Perhaps most importantly, there’s the objection of the California attorney generalobjection of the California attorney general to consider.
He has power over ICANN because it’s a non-profit registered in his state, and he’s said “will take whatever action necessary to protect Californians and the nonprofit community”.
His last letter to ICANN is believed to have caused the board to remove the .org deal from the agenda at its last meeting and seek a deadline extension from PIR.
One plausible interpretation of that chain of events is that the board was ready to give Ethos the nod, but the AG’s letter gave it pause.
As ICANN meets to decide .org’s fate, California AG says billion-dollar deal must be rejected
Kevin Murphy, April 16, 2020, Domain Policy
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has urged ICANN to deny approval of Ethos Capital’s $1.13 billion acquisition of .org manager Public Interest Registry.
The call came in a letter (pdf) dated yesterday, just a day before ICANN’s board of directors was scheduled to meet to discuss the deal.
Becerra, who started looking into the deal in late January, wrote, right out of the gate:
I urge ICANN to reject the transfer of control over the .ORG registry to Ethos Capital. The proposed transfer raises serious concerns that cannot be overlooked.
Chief among his concerns is the fact that ICANN originally granted PIR the right to run .org largely because it was a non-profit with a committment to serve non-profits. He wrote:
If, as proposed, Ethos Capital is permitted to purchase PIR, it will no longer have the unique characteristics that ICANN valued at the time that it selected PIR as the nonprofit to be responsible for the .ORG registry. In effect, what is at stake is the transfer of the world’s second largest registry to a for-profit private equity firm that, by design, exists to profit from millions of nonprofit and non-commercial organizations
He’s also bothered about the lack of transparency about who Ethos is and what its plans are. The proposed new owners of PIR are hidden behind a complex hierarchy of dummy LLCs, and Ethos has so far refused to name its money men or to specify what additional services it might offer to boost its revenue.
Becerra also doesn’t buy the business plan, which would see PIR required to pay off a $300 million loan and, as a newly converted for-profit entity, start paying taxes.
He’s particularly scathing about the fact that ICANN approved the removal of PIR’s price caps last year despite receiving over 3,000 public comments opposing the changes and only half a dozen in favor.
“There is mounting concern that ICANN is no longer responsive to the needs of its stakeholders,” he writes.
Despite saying he “will take whatever action necessary to protect Californians and the nonprofit community”, Becerra does not specify what remedies are available to him.
But it looks like ICANN faces the risk of legal action no matter which way its board of directors votes (or voted) today.
Its current deadline to make a decision is April 20.
Ethos clarifies .org price rises, promises to reveal number of censored domains
Kevin Murphy, April 9, 2020, Domain Registries
Public Interest Registry and would-be owner Ethos Capital have slightly revised the set of promises they hope to keep if ICANN approves the $1.13 billion acquisition.
Notably, in updating their proposed Public Interest Commitments (pdf), they’ve set out in plain dollar terms for the first time the maximum annual price PIR would charge for a .org domain over the coming seven years.
Applicable Maximum Fee
$9.93 June 30, 2019 to June 29, 2020
$10.92 June 30, 2020 to June 29, 2021
Previous versions of the PICs just included a formula and invited the reader to do the math(s).
The two companies are proposing to scrap price caps altogether after June 2027.
If ICANN rejects the deal, under its current contract PIR would be free to raise its prices willy-nilly from day one, though some believe it would be less likely to do so under its current ownership by the non-profit Internet Society.
The new PICs also include a nod to those who believe that PIR would become less sensitive to issues like free speech and censorship — perhaps because China may lean on Ethos’ shadowy billionaire backers. The document now states:
Registry Operator will produce and publish annually a report… This report will also include a transparency report setting forth the number of .ORG domain name registrations that have been suspended or terminated by Registry Operator during the preceding year under Registry Operator’s Anti-Abuse Policy or pursuant to court order.
A few other tweaks clarify the launch date and composition of its proposed Stewardship Council, a body made up of expert outsiders that would offer policy guidance and have a veto on issues such as changes to .org censorship and privacy policy.
The PICs now ban family members of people working for PIR from sitting on the council, and clarify that it would have to be up and running six months after the acquisition closes.
Because .org is not a gTLD applied for in 2012, the PICs do not appear to be open for public comment, but post-acquisition changes to the document would be.
ICANN currently plans to approve or deny the acquisition request by April 20, just 11 days from now.
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COVID-19 Law Lab
Posted on 26/07/2020 28/07/2020 by Milutin
The COVID-19 Law Lab initiative is a joint project of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. It gathers and shares legal documents from over 190 countries across the world to help states establish and implement strong legal frameworks to manage the pandemic.
The goal is to ensure that laws protect the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities and that they adhere to international human rights standards. Well-designed laws can help build strong health systems; evaluate and approve safe and effective drugs and vaccines; and enforce actions to create healthier and safer public spaces and workplaces.
The COVID-19 Law Lab is a database of laws that countries have implemented in response to the pandemic. It includes state of emergency declarations, quarantine measures, disease surveillance, legal measures relating to mask-wearing, social distancing, and access to medication and vaccines. It will also feature research on different legal frameworks for COVID-19. These analyses will focus on the human rights impacts of public health laws and help countries identify best practices to guide their immediate responses to COVID-19 and socioeconomic recovery efforts once the pandemic is under control
The COVID-19 Law Lab is accessible following this link>>>.
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International Guidelines on Human Rights and Drug Policy
Posted on 29/03/2019 by Milutin
Responding to the harms associated with drug use and the illicit drug trade is one of the greatest social policy challenges of our time. All aspects of this challenge have human rights implications.
Drug control intersects with much of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In line with the 2030 Agenda, the UNDP Strategic Plan 2018 – 2021 and the HIV, Health and Development Strategy 2016 – 2021: Connecting the Dots, the International Guidelines on Human Rights and Drug Policy provide a comprehensive set of international legal standards for placing human dignity and sustainable development at the centre of UN member states responses to illicit drug economies. The guidelines cover a diverse set of substantive issues ranging from development to criminal justice to public health.
The guidelines were developed by a coalition of UN Member States, WHO, UNAIDS, UNDP and leading human rights and drug policy experts. The Guidelines are an example of the support provided to practically integrate international human rights commitments into national, regional and global policy and programmes.
The drugs issue cuts across the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and multiple Sustainable Development Goals, including ending poverty, reducing inequalities and, of course, improving health, with its targets on drug use, HIV and other communicable diseases. Goal 16 on peace, justice and strong institutions is particularly important, requiring attention to human rights across the Sustainable Development Goals. Since the late 1990s, UN General Assembly resolutions have acknowledged that ‘countering the world drug problem’ must be carried out ‘in full conformity’ with ‘all human rights and fundamental freedoms’. This has been reaffirmed in every major UN political declaration on drug control since, and in multiple resolutions adopted by the Commission on Narcotic Drugs.The reality, however, has not always lived up to this important commitment.
The Guidelines are based on both ‘hard law’ and ‘soft law’ sources – those that are legally binding and those that are authoritative but not binding per se. With very few exceptions, the general descriptions of rights are drawn from binding treaty provisions.
However, since very few human rights treaty provisions address drug control directly and since the application of general rights to specific groups requires a more in-depth analysis, much of the guidance presented throughout the document is based on UN resolutions and declarations, the general comments and concluding observations of UN human rights treaty bodies and the work of UN human rights Special Procedures. Findings of regional human rights courts and national courts are also cited. Such jurisprudence, which is binding for the relevant countries, is cited in the Guidelines as being persuasive of a particular application of a right.
The Guidelines are not a ‘toolkit’ for a model drug policy. The Guidelines are a reference tool for those working to ensure human rights compliance at local, national, and international levels, be they parliamentarians, diplomats, judges, policy makers, civil society organisations or affected communities.
This longer version of the Guidelines will be available on an interactive website where readers may search by specific rights, drug control themes, and other key words, as well as follow links to source material.
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62nd CND Session – Day 2
The second day of the 62th CND was full of side events and sharing with participants.
An overviews of the side events we participated in today includes:
Psychoactive substances and the Sustainable Development Goals – Towards a comprehensive approach in the era of the 2030 Agenda
Organized by the Government of Slovenia, Utrip Institute for Research and Development, the Pompidou Group of the Council of Europe and IOGT International. Jože Hren started his presentation reminding that for 20 years already the approach in Slovenia is that drug use is primarily a health problem and that possession of small quantities is a misdemeanour also since 1999. Those who are caught in possession of drugs get a fine of 40 Euro, but there is a process to change it to an oral warning or referral to treatment in more complex situations. Representative of the Pompidou Group spoke about the bi-annual prize the Group awards to innovative prevention programmes created by young people for young people. Another Slovenian representative presented their work emphasizing the need to invest in mental health programmes for adolescents. Cost of mental health disorders in Europe take 3 to 5 percent of GDP. There is a need for a reallocation of resources for more sustainable and impactful outcomes in tackling harmful substances and behaviours. Medical help is not enough – it has to be combined with comprehensive and long lasting prevention. They have a programme called “This is me”, which is in line with the Goal 3 of the SDGs. Kristina Sperkova, president of the IOGT International (international network of Templar organisations) works on prevention of alcohol and other drugs harm world-wide. Sanela from Utrip Institute advocated for a community approach to prevention. Notes from the side event are available at the CND Blog following this address>>>.
Leaving no one behind: People at the centre of a harm reduction, human rights and public health approach to drug use
Organized by the Netherlands and Norway, UNODC, UNDP, UNAIDS, WHO, IDPC, AFEW International, Harm Reduction International, INPUD, Open Society Foundations, Aidsfonds and Frontline AIDS. Ann Fordham from IDPC highlighted that the new UNADIS report indicates that 99% of people who use drugs doesn’t have a proper access to health services. WHO representative reminded that half a million people worldwide die of drug related deaths, mainly overdose and blood borne diseases HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C. People also suffer because they can’t access the medicines they need. The Netherlands has “put people first” in their approach to harm reduction. The right to health is fundamental to all people irrespective of whether they are using drugs. Drug policies should seek to reduce violence, promote the rule of law, support the most marginalized and vulnerable, lift up human rights. Prohibition and criminalization means a continuation of armed conflict supported by disproportionate spending. Naomi Burke-Shyne from HRI reminded that funding for harm reduction has flat lined from 2007 to 2016, which stands in shocking contrast to the estimated funding need by UNAIDS: existing funding represents only 13% of this estimated need. Judy Chang from INPUD stated that “Existing drug policies threaten security, democracy and the well-being of all, especially those most marginalized and vulnerable. The war on drugs and drug-free agenda undermines the SDG agenda.” Zaved Mahmood from UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights estimates that People who use drugs are not just left behind, they are kept out. The right to life includes the obligation to take measures where peoples’ lives might be threatened, including in relation to the use of drugs and HIV and hepatitis.
Drug prevention approaches that make a difference
Organized by the Governments of Iceland and Serbia, and the Pompidou Group of the Council of Europe. Serbian representative to the OSC made an introduction speech. The same like the Minister of Health on Thursday 14 at the Ministerial Segment, he said that the Drug Strategy has 5 chapters instead of 7, avoiding to say that Harm Reduction is one of them. Jelena Janković from the Ministry of Health presented the latest developments, including information about overdose deaths in 2018 and creation of the Ministerial Commission (for fighting narcomania in schools). She also presented the project the Ministry did with experiences and support from Israel. Iceland presented their project with are seen as the flagship project on prevention. Almost 2% of the alcohol and tobacco taxes go to prevention programmes! They see as the main risks and protective factors family factors, peer group effect, general well-being and extra-curricular activities and sports. Their learning is that the multidisciplinary collaboration is the key to success. The change thy achieved is different attitude of parents and society – don’t buy alcohol for children. It is not OK for adolescents to be drunk in public. It is not the amount of time that parents spend with their children – it is the quality of time. There are no unsupervised parties. Pompidou Group emphasised the role of police in prevention. Interventions from the floor were on offering more than just sports and having campaigns that cover illicit but also legal substances.
Other side events held today that may be of interest are:
Alternatives to incarceration: When are they useful, how much do they cost and how can member states best implement and monitor them?
Handling dangerous opioids: Keeping our officers safe!
The Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs (VNGOC) held regular Annual General Assembly. The Committee welcomed new members, reviewed and approved the VNGOC annual report and reflected on activities for 2018/19 including those of the Civil Society Task Force (CSTF), got information about the annual accounts for 2018, the latest financial status and audited accounts for 2018, Strategic Plan 2019-21 and Budget for 2019 and Voluntary Code of Conduct for NGOs at the CND and received an update on developments within UNODC. The Committee discussed the future organisation of the VNGOC, based on the background paper presented by the Board.
Following a governance review process undertaken in 2017, VNGOC agreed to stagger the elections for the VNGOC Board to ensure greater stability and continuity. In order to do this, three of the positions elected last year were given one-year terms, the other three positions were given the standard two-year terms. This year, the following three positions were up for re-election: Chairperson, Deputy Treasurer, Deputy Secretary. Our friend fro International Drug Policy Consortium Jamie Bridge was re-elected for the Chairperson. Congratulations!
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An interesting webinar on social contracting
Health Policy Plus, APMG, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, UNAIDS, UNDP, USAID and others hosted a webinar on 6 March 2019 to discuss social contracting for HIV care, treatment and support. Presenters from around the world discussed how to plan for social contracting as part of a long-term sustainability strategy and how to advocate for it, touching on policy and regulatory challenges, how to develop mechanisms to put social contracting in place and how to implement and monitor social contracting’s success.
To view the recording of the webinar, follow this link>>>>
Slides from the webinar are available following this link>>>>
Health Policy Plus also prepared a factsheet Social Contracting: Supporting Domestic Public Financing for Civil Society’s Role in the HIV Response from which you can learn more about social contracting and how it can support domestic public financing for civil society’s role in the HIV response. You can find the factsheet following this link >>>>
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Building Recovery: State Policy Guide for Supporting Recovery Housing
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Sustained Recovery Management
Drugs and the Sustainable Development Goals: A Guide for NGOs
A public health perspective
What does Universal Health Coverage mean for People Who Use Drugs: A Technical Brief
Manual on rehabilitation and recovery of drug users
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In the LGBTQ+ community and beyond, 2018 was the year of #20gayteen, and people were here for it. All throughout the year everyone shared their excitement with tweets, photos, and videos using the hashtag to show their pride.
It’s our year, it’s our time. To thrive and let our souls feel alive. #20GAYTEEN #expectations2018
— Hayley Kiyoko (@HayleyKiyoko) January 1, 2018
petition to rename 2018 to #20gayteen bc it'll be our gayest year yet pic.twitter.com/FmyUwlqItV
— Jayden (@PremiumCoffee_) December 29, 2017
As 2018 came to an end and New Years approached, I was excited to read on social media that 2019 was going to be known as #20BiTeen. However, I was recently scrolling through Twitter and discovered that the hashtag had been removed from the platform. Curious about what this meant, I typed #20BiTeen into the Twitter search engine. It was true—while tweets still show up, photos and videos have been blocked from users.
My initial reaction was confusion, but honestly? I wasn’t surprised. From the television show Glee claiming bisexuals are just those who aren’t fully out of the closet yet, to The Weeknd outing Bella Hadid in his song “Lost in the Fire” and then claiming he can “fuck her straight”, bisexuals are familiar with their identities or experiences being questioned—and ultimately erased—from the media.
For as long as I have been aware of my sexuality, I have also been aware of the disregard of those who identify as bi. Growing up in the digital age sure hasn’t made it easier when that was my only link to the LGBTQ+ community in the form of television, movies, music, and books. There has been an onslaught of bisexual erasure in the media for a long time.
One tweet pointed out that when you search #20gayteen millions of tweets, photos, and videos come up. There are plenty of stories of bisexuals being excluded from the LGBTQ+ community, and although this is not the community’s doing, it definitely contributes to bisexuality not being taken seriously as a sexuality.
Same thing happens with photos and news for #20BiTeen, but not #20GayTeen. pic.twitter.com/sqE2sOR4PE
— Bi-Trans Alliance (@BiTransAlliance) February 3, 2019
When you search up the hashtag, a statement from Twitter pops up that reads: “The term you entered did not bring up any results. You may have mistyped your term or your Search settings could be protecting you from some potentially sensitive content.” What sensitive content?
Another Twitter user stated the obvious: bisexuality is not a form of pornography. A sentiment that should be undeniable and yet for some reason still needs to be explained to some. This probably stems from a lot of annoying teen comedies in the 80s and 90s where straight girls would makeout in front of horny teenage boys to seem sexy. Before the rant fully comes out of me: a) straight girls, please stop doing this and b) bisexuals aren’t here for your pleasure. Also, while we’re over here discrediting bi stereotypes, just because someone likes two different genders, doesn’t mean they’re cheaters and/or sleep around. Okay, thanks.
#bisexuality is not pornography, @Twitter. The #20BiTeen tag has been blocked from displaying photos and videos for days now. Nothing from @TwitterSupport. @TwitterVideo, #BiTwitter pic.twitter.com/3rLzsHQgOy
— Larker Anthology (@LarkerAnthology) February 5, 2019
There’s a lot that contributes to the erasure of bisexuality in media, but the internet should be a place where everyone is allowed to express themselves however they see fit. I don’t understand why this hashtag was banned. This issue may seem insignificant to some of you reading this, but if every little ‘insignificant’ act towards erasing bisexuality was tallied, it would clearly add up to the much larger issue that it is. These small things ultimately tell us that society doesn’t think we exist, that our identities and experiences are invalid, and that can be detrimental to people’s mental health who might already struggle with their sexual orientation.
Twitter banning #20BiTeen is just the next nail in the coffin of bisexual erasure.
Danielle Howson
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Latest News - FATB 3
Catch-Up with FATB Online in Catch-Up Week Updated 18th October 2020
A return to Online classes and linked workshops with FATB since 28th September has seen performances galore in masterclasses on Telemann Fantasias and playing from memory as well as a range of free-choice pieces; the play-along classes - with a focus on pure fun - have included Schultze, Haydn, Beethoven and Loeillet to date, including a duet for alto flutes! We're also well into the course of linked classes on Poulenc's Sonata at present (ending next week)!
The one-off 45 minute classes range in topic from week to week, and The Singing Flute, Dances in 3-time and King Frederick the Great have been the subjects since September so far. Once in a while, however, we like to have a catch-up week to repeat some of the most popular workshops for those who missed out previously and Catch-Up Week is coming up again for the week of 26th September! This provides one further opportunity to take part in each of:
- Know the Score (sightreading and more!) on Wednesday 28th October 3.15 pm - “Brilliant workshop! Ten excellent points to remember and I'm going to pay particular attention to.” “Thank you for coming at this subject from all angles.”
- Playing in Colour (technique and uses of timbre changes) on Wednesday 28th October 6.30 pm - “This class was delightful. I liked that you offered practical guidance on how to touch the magic of expression in music. Lots to think about.”
- The Singing Flute (tone and melodic interpretation) on Saturday 31st October 10.00 am - “Brilliant - a really helpful reminder of what flute playing is all about and how best to achieve it! And the words of explanation that you use are just so meaningful.”
If you want to take read more about these (or any other) FATB Online classes or book your place(s) while there is still time, please click here.
FATB Online Is Back! Updated 21st September 2020
An exciting new programme of FATB Online classes is beginning the week of 28th September - and booking is now open! We're so excited to tell you about what's coming, which will include:
further terrific play-alongs in a range of musical styles, including one for those alto-flute lovers next month and some very curious pieces in November...
weekly friendly and supportive masterclasses for no more than four players, some with themes such as Telemann Fantasias, playing by heart, double-tonguing and more
in-depth linked classes (a week apart) on the world's best flute repertoire - Poulenc and Mozart are up next
changing weekly 45-minute classes on technique, style, interpretation, history or anything flute-y; we're kicking off with The Singing Flute, Dances in 3-time and King Frederick the Great and his Flute!
Classes are expertly presented by FATB Tutor Zoë Booth, with heaps of clear explanation, demonstrations, on-screen music and linked resources; after every workshop there is time for any questions and/or to connect with others. Places are limited to no more than five participants per workshop (and no more than four in the masterclasses and play-alongs) so don't delay and book now! You can read all about these classes, how to take part and more by clicking here.
The "New Term" with FATB Online Updated 5th September 2020
After 200 or so workshops, 26 weeks and 52 different classes - from technique workshops to play-alongs, classes with a focus on repertoire to performance masterclasses, and including two online Flute Days - FATB Online is going Offline on September 5th, for 3 weeks...
...but we'll be back from the week of 28th September, with a "new term" of exciting and varied online flute classes to enjoy! To find out about these first, do sign up to the FATB newsletter (from the homepage), as places always go quickly!
For now, this is the perfect opportunity to say a huge thanks to everyone for their support of FATB in 2020, for your passionate interest in all-things-flute and your wonderful company - see you again soon!
Ooh La La with FATB Online Updated 25th July 2020
It's not an easy time for anyone right now, and we hope you are staying safe wherever you are. Flutes at the Barns would usually be running residential courses and day events, however the prospect of flute players making music together still remains a little while off yet... but we're making the most of virtual opportunties nonetheless, bringing our community of players together socially, providing chances to rehearse and perform live - in both the play-along and masterclass workshops - and also to develop skills in the amazing array of workshop classes!
Alongside the masterclasses and play-along Mozart, Martinu and Quantz right now, there's a particular focus on French music. Flute players may know of the importance of Paul Taffanel, The French Flute School and development of the instrument, technique and repertoire associated with The Paris Conservatoire at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century; over a three week course, several classes of players have been developing their knowledge of this period, centred around learning the beautiful Fantaisie by Faure. Lots of tips to understand and develop skills playing this music abound, and there's even a French Flute School masterclass where the Faure Fantaisie will get performed alongside other associated works by Massanet, Cohen, Enesco, Ibert, Perilhou and not forgettting Faure's 'Morceau de Concours' too - good luck to all!
To keep up to date with a changing weekly timetable please visit the FATB Online web-page.
FATB Online goes Bach-ing Mad for Bach! Updated 13th July 2020
We've had a wonderful few weeks with a mixture of play-along, performance and inspiring workshop classes, but there's been a definite leaning towards J S Bach, which culminated in fantastic masterclasses on Saturday! Four classes of participants have been studying Bach's beautiful E minor Sonata - including lots of background and related information - over linked, weekly classes, some of them also practising along or taking part in the play-along class of W F Bach's Duet in Eb major during the first week of the course too! After enjoying all the details, appreciating Bach's skills and knowing a lot more about the whole work, those who enjoy a practical perspective took a movement each to perform the whole sonata - with tips and feedback from FATB Tutor Zoë Booth of course - in two masterclasses last Saturday! A huge congratulations to all the performers, who did themselves - and Johann Sebastian - proud!
During these strange times it has been amazing to see the flute players involved with FATB Online remaining so focussed on their music-making and development of skills, they'll be truly emerging with enhanced capabilities as we all thirst to get back to normal life when the time is right!
Thrilling Live Play-Along Sessions with FATB Online! Updated 7th June 2020
When FATB Online began, you could listen or you could perform, but we couldn't play music together.... that all changed a few weeks ago when the play-along classes first began! The participants have all had their own copies of the music at home to play from (sent upon booking, but visible on the website well before that) and we keep hearing how the online classes themselves (55 minutes) fly by as musicians across the UK - and further afield - rehearse live with FATB Tutor Zoë Booth playing the other duet part! Those taking part have had to have their microphones muted, so they can each hear themselves AND the other part, which is why these classes have had such a "real" feel to them! There have been lots of extra tips gleaned from watching the screen; as well as playing, Zoë has been guiding the class-goers through the ensemble of the piece as well as providing lots of style and creative ideas. By the time everyone has got to the final play-through there's been a feeling of knowing how it all works really well, so it's been an absolute thrill to give live performances in full! It's all about fun, no-pressure music-making, as no-one but those in the participants' households have heard the final result... however, we did receive feedback that family clapping has broken out on occasion!
Beethoven Duo in G, music from Mozart's "The Magic Flute", the 'Scherzo' from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by Mendelssohn are just some of the great pieces that have been covered so far; Telemann, Quantz, Gluck and Haydn too, and there are still more Mozart melodies coming up as well as delicious duets by W F Bach and Devienne! As well as sounding amazing, the Mendelssohn required a high standard of page-turning; the delightful Haydn 'Serenade' was a thrill to develop into a colourful performance at a gentle pace; there's just been nothing to dislike about the excellent writing from the masters Beethoven and Mozart! FATB Online hopes to welcome you to your own play-along workshop soon!
Online Flute Days with FATB Updated 25th May 2020
Flutes at the Barns should be in Croatia right now, having enjoyed several UK events and eagerly anticipating another in July - it seems the world had other ideas for us all in 2020. FATBers (as participants affectionately call themselves) are nothing if not creative and adaptable however - what more what you expect from musicians - so we've all made the switch to online life. Most recently, this includes the Online Flute Day of Sunday 24th May, the second event of this type. The time just flew! We've distilled the best aspects of the real-life flute day into the three sessions of the Online Flute Day, which are spread out across the Sunday. Participants started by warming up their skills in a live play-along session, which also included meeting (or reuniting with) each other in the virtual world! The middle session of the day was the masterclass, a way to keep up the performance skills (for those who wanted to), albeit from the relaxed environment of one's own home; we had beautiful Poulenc, Gaubert and even folk music this time, leading to a wide range of tips which were happily tried out in this supportive workshop. Finally, the play-along final session of the day was great fun, including the contrasts of jazzy music in swing rhythm alongside a lively Telemann piece! A huge thanks to the friendly group of musicians who took part, and congratulations on your performances on the FATB Online Flute Day!
FATB Online - Play, Perform, Engage Updated 17th May 2020
First of all we hope that everyone is safe and well in these strange times. We've now enjoyed the first eight weeks of FATB Online, featuring over sixty classes. A wide range of musical topics have been covered and and we've welcomed participants from all over; meeting virtually means that distance is no barrier to getting involved of course. If you've not kept up with the range of opportunities for adult flute players that FATB Online is offering, it could be worth signing up for the mailing list from the homepage (or emailing info@flutesatthebarns.com) for weekly updates. Here's what is currently in the calendar:
Classes with a particular focus (45 minutes): the topic changes each week: this week there's just one place left for "Free Your Playing" (Monday 18th May 6.30 pm); booking for "The French Flute School" has just opened for the week of 25th May. With time for Q & A at the end, FATB tutor Zoë Booth employs descriptions, demonstrations and resources to inspire the very next practice session.
Weekly Masterclasses (60 minutes): a chance to perform despite social distancing, pick up tips and repertoire ideas and connect with other players in a supportive atmosphere.
Play-along workshops (55 minutes): it's still possible to rehearse and make music live! We're working through the greatest flute duet repertoire - so far we’ve enjoyed Beethoven's Duo in G, Mozart’s "Magic Flute" and Quantz; this week we're excited to get into the Telemann Canon Sonatas! Check the website to book up for the amazing duet of Mendelssohn's Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as repertoire by Haydn, Gluck and more delicious Mozart (you can view the music before booking).
Repertoire workshops (45 mins x 1/2/3/4, held a week apart): the linked-classes allows in-depth discussion of a work, whether it’s already in your repertoire, you’re planning to learn in pace with the class or if it’s just for musical appreciation. Debussy’s Syrinx (over 2 weeks) is next, with Bach E minor Sonata (over 4 weeks) the next on the list.
Join a class (no more than four for any workshop) to connnect with others whilst indulging your love of music. Click here to read more and book your place.
FATB In Your Home - Musical Connections Updated 18th April 2020
First of all we hope that everyone is safe and well in these strange times. For just over three weeks now, FATB Online has been bringing musical connections and inspiration into the homes of flute players everywhere with live online masterclasses and workshops on breathing, solo repertoire, making the most out of practising and - this week - developing tone. Support and reception for the new project has been amazing and 100% positive, reflecting the "keep calm and carry on" attitude, that of looking for what we can achieve in these restrictive circumstances. If you want to take part click here to read about the exciting classes coming up (Fingers, Fingers, Fingers; Performance Skills; Flute Teacher Forum; Mastering Ornamentation; more Masterclasses)... and it could be a good idea to get onto the mailing list to be tipped off as soon as booking opens each week.
FATB Online Has Begun! Updated 28th March 2020
Flutes at the Barns Online has begun! Huge thanks goes out to those who have taken part in yesterday's and today's workshops on breathing ("And Breathe...") and for their positive contributions and feedback! It's amazing how being online still feels so like a class, with explanations, questions and comments, musical demonstrations and heaps of ideas (and free resources) to take away in use in further practice! Here at FATB we're already looking forward to the participants joining us for next week's classes, a choice from the last chance to catch "And Breathe...", the new topic "Music for One" (on solo repertoire) or taking part in an online masterclass - the last few places now available. Enjoy your playing, take care and click here to find out more.
FATB Online and Live In Your Home! Updated 22nd March 2020
It's strange and tough times for us all as we're told to stay apart from one another during this outbreak of Covid-19. Whilst this time at home leaves us with plenty of practice-time on our hands, at FATB we're well aware that the sudden emptying of our diaries and lack of personal contact with family, friends, neighbours and colleagues is unsettling. We're really keen to offer the FATB community the opportunity for musical experiences and social interaction that can be enjoyed despite social distancing; with that in mind, today sees the launch of online FATB workshops, a page with free online activities and articles to inspire your playing as well as the the chance to book for one-to-one lessons with FATB tutor Zoë Booth. Enjoy your playing, take care and click here to find out more.
Setting the Tone - February Flute Day with FATB Updated 2nd February 2020
Just a week since the last Flutes at the Barns Flute Day, here we were again with another amazing event for adult flute players! This Sunday the day remained on the same topic, Focus on Tone, although - with different players and music - it was entirely unique and wonderful. Huge thanks must go to the participants who travelled from far and wide to reinvent their sounds, covering the basic elements right up to advanced ideas for the practice developing colour, expression and communication. Flute choir was glorious, the pieces chosen to put all the workshop techniques to the test right away, whether playing flute, piccolo or alto. Individual performances by the players - and tutors - were enjoyed by all, giving everyone further chance to show their friendly support for one another. It's been great to start FATB's year so positively with such an important topic for flautists everywhere! When's the next one then? Click here to find out!
January FATB Flute Day 'Focus on Tone' Updated 26th January 2020
How we love our FATB Flute Days! We're on a high here at Flutes at the Barns HQ, after a brilliant Sunday with the theme of "Focus on Tone" at Trestle Arts Base - what a fantastic start to the year! After solidifying the basic principles of tone development, the day packed in specialised workshops, delicious flute choir and supportive masterclasses, pulling out ever-inspiring and advanced ideas for expressive sound and communication. There was time for friendship and laughter too, as flute players met from London, Hertfordshire, Kent, Oxfordshire, Birmingham, Staffordshire and Cumbria. A huge thanks to all the amazing participants and expert tutors Zoe and Mark - we're doing it all again next Sunday (2nd February), bring it on!
Applications Open Once More Updated 13th January 2020
Flutes at the Barns is now open for applications once again! Thanks for bearing with us during our digital difficulties, and apologies for the inconvenience; we are delighted to welcome your bookings once again! Please click here to open the application form and get your chance to grab your spot on one of our brilliant Flute Days in February and May or any of the forthcoming residential courses with availability!
A Technical Problem with Applications Updated 11th January 2020
Flutes at the Barns is sorry to tell you that - owing to technical circumstances beyond our control - we've just discovered that any applications made between Saturday 4th and Saturday 11th January 2020 have not reached us; this also applies to messages submitted via the website. We DO want to hear from you, so if you believe you submitted your application during this period, please email the course administrator on info@flutesatthebarns.com, explaining which flute event you are hoping to attend; it would also help if you could let us know when you sent in your application.
Apologies for the technical glitch, we are working to get this fixed as quickly as possible.
Happy New Year! Updated 1st January 2020
Festive wishes to you as we move from the excitement and over-eating of Christmas into the forward-looking and reflective change from one year to the next - welcome to 2020! The new year is always a busy time for Flutes at the Barns, and this year is no exception as, from January 1st, we proudly release details for and invite applications to four new events across 2020-21; there are also still places available on two further events this February and March!
February 2nd 2020 - Flute Day, Focus on Tone (please note the January Flute Day on this theme is now fully booked)
March/April 2020 - Flute Course, Derbyshire, UK *ONE PLACE NEWLY AVAILABLE!*
May 2020 - Flute Day, Fantastic Fingers *NEW COURSE, NOW OPEN FOR BOOKING* (please note that other residential courses for 2020 are fully booked)
April 2021 - Flute Course *NEW COURSE, NOW OPEN FOR BOOKING*
June 2021 - Flute Course *NEW COURSE, NOW OPEN FOR BOOKING* - Special Edition
July 2021 - Flute Course *NEW COURSE, NOW OPEN FOR BOOKING*
Places can go quickly, so don't miss out! In particular, check out the new Special Edition course for next June, which will be FATB's most exclusive course yet; limited to just six participants, and in a fabulous new venue too! 2020 already promises much, with two trips to Croatia planned, three return visits to favourite venues in the beautiful Peak District and our continued programme of amazing themed Flute Days in St Albans - whether this year or next, we look forward to welcoming you to Flutes at the Barns!
Aiming High - News of the Latest FATB Flute Day Updated 4th November 2019
On Sunday 3rd November Flutes at the Barns held its latest Flute Day at their artistic "home" of Trestle Arts Base in St Albans. These days are always special, owing, not only to the wonderful musicians attending, but also to the individual themes of each day which set them apart... and Aiming High was no exception! The focus of this day was rather unusual for FATB in its specificity to players working towards diploma qualifications and/or at that level, including a number of FATBers who are also instrumental teachers themselves. The day hit the ground running, beginning with warm-ups that pushed the standards, flute choir at a high musical level (featuring piccolos and altos too) and moving onto solo performances given by all, followed by masterclass coaching from tutor Zoe. A huge thanks to Mark, accompanist extraordinaire, and particularly to all those who attended and offered such focus, creativity, commitment and friendly support to one another throughout a busy and buzzy FATB Flute Day.
The next Flute Days - in January and February - are for adult players of any ability level, and the theme is Focus on Tone.
October 2019 Residential Course - News from Cruck'd Barn Updated 27th October 2019
Flutes at the Barns has just returned from a wonderful week away at FATB favourite Cruck'd Barn in the beautiful Derbyshire Peak District! After a delicious dinner on Monday evening, participants settled into the first workshop and flute choir before a peaceful night in their individual accommodation, all good preparation for the busy days to follow! The packed musical timetable of Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday included breaks for tea, coffee, chat and edible temptations, all of which helped the energy levels sustain through individual lessons and rehearsals, satisfying ensemble playing, masterclasses, workshops and concerts. With encouragement from one another and the course tutors, participants chose whether to perform individually, and the Thursday concert was the culmination of the weeks' musical achievements, bringing together solo playing and all the flute choir repertoire from the course - this time, this ranged from Telemann to Joplin, including some stylish Saint-Saens too! After a friendly and happy celebration and toast to the course on Thursday evening it was, sadly, all over... but with many returning participants, everyone has hopefully gone away with lots of ideas for their playing going forward and in preparation for their next FATB! A huge thanks to everyone who took part, as well as the excellent staff and tutors!
Booking Now - Themed Flute Days in November, January and February! Updated 3rd September 2019
FATB is delighted to open booking for the newest events recently added to the website, three wonderful Flute Days, to be held in November 2019 and the first part of 2020! Click here to read more.
In November, the theme is Aiming High, and this Flute Day is specifically targeted for those players of at least grade eight and above; those currently working towards diploma examinations may also be particularly interested to attend as we delve into performance, interpretation and technique matters related to advanced playing. The Flute Day in January - or, alternatively, catch this a week later in February - is dedicated to tone development and is for players at all levels as we continue to seek surer sonority across the instrument, a wider range of expressive colours, enhance projection and embellish sound stylishly.
Flutes at the Barns Flute Days are held in the beautiful Trestle Arts Base, St Albans, a former church now converted for use by those in the arts. Our excellent, regular accompanists - Mark and Rachael - are on hand to accompany those who choose to perform in the masterclasses for personalised tips and the days adress their theme through group warm-ups, workshops and flute choir repertoire, as well as through the individual repertoire selected by those who attend (maximum ten). Lunch is provided and St Albans is easily accessible as well as a lovely place to stay, whether to sightsee, catch up with flute friends outside of the FATB Day itself, or to attend (limited availability) an individual lesson with tutor Zoe Booth the following day.
Coming Soon - Flute Days in November and Early 2020! Updated 11th August 2019
Not long to go until FATB HQ releases details (and opens booking) for the next themed Flute Days in adults, to be held in St Albans in November and early 2020! Keep checking back here for more information, or - for a first look - make sure you're on the mailing list so that you can receive the newsletter with the latest updates as well as other Flutes at the Barns news and information.
Good Luck In Your Music Exam Updated 19th June 2019
Several Flutes at the Barns attendees have bravely entered for their music exams this term - here are FATB HQ we take our hat off to you and wish you all the best with your final preparations and for the exam itself! We know exams aren't for everyone and they can be nerve-wracking experiences; they are also a great chance to get independent feedback and push yourself to the next level, so go for it!
July Flutes at the Barns at The Mermaid Inn Updated 14th July 2019
What a terrific week of FATB we've just had in the beautiful Peak District! As you see these photos scroll through you can notice what a wonderful week it was of packed music-making (and all those successes in the individual playing and performing!), amazing views and sheep - what you can't see from the pictures is the warm, supportive atmosphere and all the delicious cooking which we enjoyed, so take our word for it! A huge thanks to accompanist Rachael, our chef David and those supportive guests of the participants who joined us, but the biggest thanks must go - of course - to the committed and inspiring participants who took part and offered up so much achievement in their playing and musicianship. The finale concert was particularly impressive, containing solos, chamber music and triumphant flute choir all together before our final night of celebration and fun to round off a friendly week!
A Wonderful Week at Lapwing Barns Updated 9th June 2019
The amazing venue of Lapwing Barns was only "discovered" by FATB flute players in 2017, but it has become a firm favourite very quickly, with last week's course no exception! Lapwing is very much a retreat from the world, with unspoilt views over the changing weather patterns (!) and a beautiful garden enjoyed by the birds and filled with birdsong, tea and friendly chat in our breaks... that is, when the flute playing stops for a brief moment!
It was such a special course last week, with inspiring performances and achievements from each of the eight participants. Flute choir was a real highlight, taking three very different pieces to a very high standard in a short space of time - the finale was a very fitting and explosive "William Tell Overture"! Chamber music gave everyone the chance to mix and discover a different way to play and listen, and there was ample time for working on solos with course tutor Zoe and accompanist Mark, towards the three performances and masterclasses; this all culminated in a brilliant concert (wonderful repertoire choices too!) on the final day, cheered on by fellow participants. Throughout the workshops and warm-ups there was great focus and improvement, whether taking on points about breathing, tone, fingers, articulation, support, projection, performance, interpretation or dynamics! Throughout, the attendees were taken care of in their luxury accommodation, with David - the private chef - providing excellent meals and enviable desserts! A huge thanks to the course tutors (for their tuition as well as their Thursday morning recital!), to chef David, photographer Dave and Georgia from All Flutes Plus for all their commitment and dedication; the biggest thanks goes to the FATB participants themselves, who brought so much to the course, gave even more and made Flutes at the Barns June 2019 a musical triumph!
April 2019 - The 55th Course Updated 12th April 2019
Well, what an amazing week that was! Flutes at the Barns has just returned from the sunshine of the Peak District and our wonderful week of music-making at The Crewe and Harpur. It was a really special course of musical successes in performance, inspiring ensemble playing together and great friendships forged over late nights, delicious treats and a busy schedule of rehearsals and practice! A huge thanks to everyone who took part, to the staff, - including musical tutors (Zoe and Rachael) and private chef, David - to the partners who also joined us for the last day of concerts and evening entertainment and, finally, to Beethoven and all the other brilliant composers featured throughout the week!
A Delicious Day of Low Flutes Updated 31st March 2019
FATB Flute Days are always special, but there is a something extra again about a day getting together the people who adore their alto and bass flutes! We've had a wonderful Sunday of indulging in the low sonorities of the low flutes, mostly alto flutes - including one player making their first start on one - but also including the added richness of two bass flutes. As well as group warm-ups specifically targeting the techniques (and peculiarities) of the largest members of the flute family, the musicians each played beautifully in the masterclass (accompanied by tutor Mark on the piano), sharing repertoire ideas and also providing a chance to receive personalised tips from FATB tutor Zoe. Near the end of the day, the FATB tutors gave a short, exclusive recital before everybody joined in together for one last performance of the Low Flute Choir pieces they'd been rehearsing throughout the day; what a delicious ensemble it was, covering music from the Renaissance right through to the James Bond theme "Skyfall" and others... we all very much hope "We'll Meet Again!" for another smashing day of Low Flutes soon! A huge thanks to our artistic venue of Trestle Arts Base, to the tutors and FATB staff and - especially - to the brave and inspiring musicians who shared their Sunday so warmly - we're always sorry to go home, but it was a satisfying and music-filled day focussed on low sounds... and it ended on a real high!
A Week of Flute, Fun and Sun on the February/March Course Updated 2nd March 2019
Flutes at the Barns has just returned from a wonderful week of music-making with a very special group of flute-players - you can see a few photos right here! Over a busy few days, the quiet retreat of Dale House near Buxton was transformed into a musical haven, as the atmosphere was filled with chamber music, flute choir and solo pieces, as well as some intensive group warm-ups and workshops. Across three concerts and two masterclasses, the participating musicians bravely performed and achieved new advances and experiences in their playing; in return, regular FATB tutors Zoe (flute) and Mark (piano) gave an inspiring tutor concert as well as spending time coaching group activities and individually. FATB wants to say a huge thanks to the musicians who took part, as well as the hard-working and energetic team of tutors and staff; together they all contributed to a week of music, satisfaction, inspiration, friendship, relaxation and delicious treats (for which we thank David, our amazing chef)! Uniquely: it was the first FATB visit to the beautiful Dale House - in the warm sunshine; FATB was also delighted to welcome regular friends All Flutes Plus to the course, with Georgia overseeing their tempting wares for the first time; there was a birthday to enjoy in addition to all the usual carousel of activities. It was sad to go home, but February/March 2019 will be certainly be remembered as a special FATB course!
Time, Ties and Tempo at Trestle! Updated 17th February 2019
The Flute Day with Flutes at the Barns on 17th February lived up to its reputation, once again, as a fun, busy and worthwhile Sunday of flute-playing! Participants spent the day at Trestle Arts Base focussed on the theme of "Time, Ties and Tempo"... and so much more. The masterclass pieces - offered by the brave attendees - and flute choir repertoire flitted between centuries, each providing the chance to focus on one - or more - of the key issues of advanced rhythms, such as tuplets, runs or subdivision. Group warm-ups and rhythm exercises widened and solidified rhythmic and tempo ideas, giving everyone loads of "tricks of the trade" to take further in their own playing now that the day, sadly, is over. A big thanks, as always, go to the amazing course tutors - Zoe (flute) and Mark (piano accompanist) - and ESPECIALLY to the inspiring musicians who entered into the day with their beautiful music, enthusiasm - sometimes in the face of a challenge - and their friendly support for one another and all the performances.
Time Flies on a FATB Flute Day! Updated 28th January 2019
You know what they say about time flying when you're having fun - 27th January proved to be a brilliant Flutes-at-the-Barns way to spend a Sunday! Flute players took part in a busy-busy day of music-making,trying out satisfying - sometimes challenging and thought-provoking yet always fun - ideas related to the theme of "Time, Ties & Tempo". There were tips galore to take back to use in their practice, as well as lots of friendly support for all those who braved the masterclass (ably supported by brilliant accompanist Mark Smith). Flute choir repertoire was specially chosen to promote further engagement with advanced issues of pulse, subdivision and stress. What a packed - and inspiring - day! A huge thanks to the great, regular course tutors, Zoe and Mark, photographer Dave, and to the wonderful flute players who travelled from London, Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Surrey, Birmingham, Worcestershire, Yorkshire and even Ireland to take part!
It was sad to go home... but luckily there are only three weeks to wait until we repeat this Flute Day again - why not join us next time?!
Join Us For The First FATB Events of 2019! Updated 12th January 2019
Here at Flutes at the Barns HQ exciting plans are being made for the first participant events of the year... and there is still the chance to join in! First, we have the Flute Day on Sunday 27th January, on the theme of Time, Ties & Tempo; expect all-things rhythmical (recommended grade six at least)! There is ONE FINAL PLACE newly available for this Flute Day, and the day is also being repeated on Sunday 17th February - come and join the friendly adult players and expert tutors! Furthermore, it is VERY RARE to be able to offer a vacancy this close to a residential course, however - on this occasion - there is one space looking to be filled on the first course this year - all others have been long-filled and the next available residential course place is not until April 2020! If you would like to take part, Flutes at the Barns February/March will be held from 25th February to 1st March in a beautiful new venue, Dale House, in the Peak District. Blow away those winter blues with a busy week of inspiring flute music!
As the new year prompts many of us to think ahead to our reinvigorated music-making, it is now customary here at Flutes at the Barns to bid the new year welcome by opening booking for tempting new courses and Flutes Days! Highlights of the new events added to the website today include:
three UK Residential Courses, to be held in the first half of 2020
a new Flute Day - for current players of low flutes, or those wishing to start - to be held in March 2019, in St Albans
Although there are still a few places for 2019 events (one residential place for the Feb/Mar course, and some Flute Day vacancies), those on the mailing list know that residential FATB courses (in particular), tend to book rather quickly, and most places are taken up shortly after booking opens. Even though we're looking ahead as far as 2020, please don't delay if you want to make sure that you get to reserve a place on the course of your choice. We've had a wonderful year of FATB in 2018, celebrating the 15th year, 50th residential course and with a terrific visit to Croatia as well as an inspiring array of UK courses and themed Flute Days - we can't wait to welcome you in 2019 and 2020! Happy New Year to flute players everywhere!
Playing with Freedom - An Inspiring Flute Day! Updated 19th November 2018
On Sunday 18th November participants enjoyed the latest Flute Day from Flutes at the Barns on the theme "Free Your Playing." What brave musicians they were, to embark on a musical day where they were mostly playing without a music stand! The results were inspiring however; "firsts" galore in performing solos by heart, learning by ear and improvising, all entered into happily with the gentle encouragement of FATB tutor Zoë Booth to push beyond comfort zones (and, at times, beyond the score!), resulting in instant enhanced self-expression and musical communication! With the backdrop of our new (climate-controlled) studio at Trestle, it was a friendly and musically varied day, learning a lot and with heaps of tips - and tunes - to take away too. Thanks to Mark to who accompanied the masterclasses (as well as in Zoë and Mark's mini-recital) and huge congratulations to everyone who took part!
Top Practice Tips... for FREE! Updated 16th October 2018
Don't forget - whenever you visit the Flutes at the Barns website - to check the latest FREE tips on better playing and practice from experienced FATB tutor Zoe Booth! You can access the page from the bottom of the homepage. This month there are lots of ideas on how to make your practice better, and recent tips have included tone, fingers, articulation, rhythm, vibrato, all sorts! Many include a page to download, print and use in your practice sessions too.
Celebrating 15 Years of Flutes at the Barns Updated 30th September 2018
October 2018 marks 15 years since Flutes at the Barns began - wow! If you want to read more about how it all started, the 53 (yes 53!) inspiring residential flute courses and16 happy Flute Days we've held since, you can do so on this website (just look for Our Story). You can also reminisce over the wonderful places we've visited both in the UK and overseas too. Central to FATB from the start have been the music, the successes and, not least, the numerous friendships which make FATB what it is here and now in 2018. A huge thanks to the amazing musicians who have all written their own chapter in this story over the years; wherever you are in the world, please join FATB in raising a glass - cheers!
Play Day September 2018 - A New Studio for A Packed Day of Playing Updated 16th September 2018
Thanks so much to the brilliant musicians who took part in the September Play Day, it was a busy day, bursting at the seams with flute ensemble pieces of different musical styles, instruments of all sizes, encouraging support in the warm-ups and workshops, and much friendly chat too! The players turned their hands to everything from baroque and classical through to film scores, getting a term's worth under their fingers in just one day. It was also the first Flute Day in our new, improved and climate-controlled studio (still at our creative home of Trestle Arts Base in St Albans) which was met with enthusiastic approval! We all left inspired, having put in a good day's playing and sad to say goodbye to one another...until the next one of course (which, as you asked, is in November!).
FATB September 2018 - Music, Friendship and Laughter in the Sun Updated 7th September 2018
Flutes at the Barns has just returned from the September Flutes at the Barns course, a wonderful week containing the essential FATB elements - inspiring music, warm companionship, moving performances, good food and much friendly chatter and laughing. The busy playing schedule was set against the peaceful setting of the beautiful Peak District, with musicians enjoying the chance, in their breaks, to enjoy the Derbyshire countryside as the glimpses of the late summer sun allowed. Individual lessons and rehearsals were enjoyed by all, and the participants took opportunities to perform in the masterclasses and concerts, culminating in a very special final concert on the last day where musically satisfying progress and accomplished musicianship were demonstrated. As well as friendly duos, trios and quartets, the whole group formed a flute choir which did a terrific job of developing their repertoire to a high level through focussed rehearsals. All in all, those relaxed evenings sharing a joke over amazing food (and an occasional glass of wine), were well earned. Sadly, that was the last FATB residential course of 2018, so everyone is already looking forward to the first visit back to the Peak District in February 2019... in the meantime, there are the Flute Days (in September, November, January and February) to keep up the inspiration!
Enjoying Playing All Day with FATB on September 16th Updated 19 August 2018
There are now four weeks to go until the next FATB Play Day in St Albans, and the final few vacancies are still remaining if you want to come and indulge in a wonderful day of music-making as a Flute Choir! Our new climate-controlled studio at Trestle Arts Base in St Albans is ready to welcome us; bring your flute, your friends and - if you want to - flutes of other sizes too. Everyone will get the chance to play a range of parts (sight-reading on the day, at your level), so there's no chance you get stuck on a boring part all day (unless you specifically ask for it!). There is a great wealth of musical styles on offer - without giving away too much, it can be revealed that music will include pieces from the Baroque, Classical, Twentieth Century and the world of film, some slow and expressive, some fast and exciting, something for everyone certainly! Our first Play Day in March was a busy and buzzy day, so come and join us! St Albans is easily served by public transport, parking is free, and lunch and all refreshments are taken care of, freeing up focus for a friendly day of fun and music.
FATB Returns from The Mermaid Inn, July 2018 Updated 13 July 2018
The "Team of July 2018" - including participants, tutors, chef David and guest Ian from All Flutes Plus - have just returned from a happy and successful week of Flutes at the Barns! The stunning views (and sunsets!) of The Peak District provided the inspiration for a week of rehearsals, lessons, classes, workshops and performances; the final concerts on Thursday were a fitting reflection of the participants musical achievements and their encouraging support of one another throughout the course. At the end of a good day's playing, the relaxed evenings included lots of cosy chats over delicious dinners, and a lot of laughter too. Thanks so much to everyone who took part, and congratulations to all the performers!
Tick Tock, Booking Opens on New Flute Events! Updated 7 July 2018
Booking has just opened on several new flute events, including three flute days in 2018-19, two additional UK Residential Courses for 2019 and two return visits to Istria, Croatia, both planned for 2020! Highlights of the new additions include; inspiring, themed Flute Days in November, January and February, to be held in our new climate-controlled studio in St Albans (places are still available in September for the Play Day too); with exclusively no more than ten places available on either, two new UK Residential Courses have been added into the calendar, including the first opportunity to try the wonderful new-to-FATB venue of Dale House in Feb/Mar, and a return to FATB favourite Cruck'd Barn in October 2019; following our happy and successful visits to Istria, Croatia, last month, there are now two return visits planned for the summer of 2020! To find out more click on the links, or navigate through the Forthcoming Events button, above.
Latest Plans, New Studio and Coming Soon Updated 1 July 2018
In between courses you may wonder what goes on at FATB HQ? Well, it's all about making exciting plans here - putting the finishing touches to the July course, making contact with the participants who will attend Cruck'd Barn in September and confirming bookings for the FATB Play Day, our second wonderful day dedicated to flute choir alone which will be held in September. On that subject, we're very pleased to reveal that the FATB Flute Days in St Albans will be using a new studio from September onwards; we're still going to enjoy the artistic environment of Trestle Arts Base, however we've upgraded to their newest studio, the reliably climate-controlled - and slightly more spacious - Drama Studio (which I'm vying to rename the Flute Studio!) which will remain warm in winter and cool even in these hot conditions! Finally, just a word to "watch this space" and make sure you are on the FATB mailing list, as exciting preparations for Flute Days, UK residential courses and even overseas visits will be released very soon.... the anticipation is building!
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SITC 2019 Scientific Highlights - Nov. 8
The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) is pleased to present scientific highlights from the Nov. 8, 2019, sessions of the 34th Annual Meeting.
Multiplexed ion beam imaging visualizes gastric irAEs
Gastric toxicity associated with PD-1 blockade therapy revealed by multiplexed ion beam imaging
Abstract O63
A gastric biopsy taken from a patient with nivolumab-associated gastroenteritis was analyzed using multiplexed ion beam imaging (MIBI) by Selena Ferrian, PhD (Stanford University) and colleagues. In order to develop a better understanding of the pathophysiology of this immune-related adverse event, twenty-seven labels were analyzed in a single upper gastric biopsy specimen.
The MIBI analysis visualized markers that were consistent with gastritis and revealed that interferon-gamma was being produced by gastric epithelial cells, rather than by immune cells. The tissue was characterized by a mixed inflammation profile, including both granzyme B-diminished/negative CD8 and FoxP3-diminished/negative CD4 T cells, with the majority of the T cells being CD4+. The investigators defined a set of features found in PD-1-associated gastritis, which included intense immune infiltrate into the lamina propria, interferon-gamma production by glandular epithelial cells, and high Ki67 expression by the epithelial cells as well. This in-depth study of a common immune-related adverse event may thus provide insight into the mechanisms of side effects and guide further immune checkpoint inhibitor development, through elucidating the mechanisms of inflammation and providing future drug targets.
CD27 T cell stimulation combination shows promise
Phase 1 study of an anti-CD27 agonist as monotherapy and in combination with pembrolizumab in patients with advanced solid tumors
An anti-CD27 antibody, MK-5890, was tested in solid tumor patients in a study presented by Ronnie Shapira-Frommer, MD (Oncology Institute, Sheba Medical Center). Patients received either MK-5890 monotherapy or MK-5890 and pembrolizumab combination therapy, and monotherapy patients were eligible for cross-over upon disease progression. Endpoints of this study included safety and tolerability, with a secondary evaluation of objective response rate.
Forty-four patients were enrolled in the study: 25 received initial MK-5890 monotherapy at doses from 2-700 mg, while 19 were allotted to MK-5890 (200 mg) plus pembrolizumab. Dose-limiting toxicities were observed in three of the monotherapy patients and one patient with the combination, all of which were related to infusion reactions. Over 90% of patients experienced some level of treatment-related adverse event, and grade 3-4 events were reported in 22.7% of the total population. In these initial cohorts, one patient in each group achieved a partial response. In monotherapy patients that then crossed over to the combination, adverse events were reported by 85%; at the same time, two of these patients exhibited a complete response, and another three partial responses with the median duration of the response not reached. Thus, costimulation of T cells through an anti-CD27 antibody may help improve anti-tumor activity of other therapies with further optimization, and the sequencing of CD27 stimulation appears to play a role in this efficacy.
PD-1-refractory patients may respond to TLR9 agonist
Durable responses in anti-PD-1 refractory melanoma following intratumoral injection of a toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) agonist, CMP-001, in combination with pembrolizumab
John M. Kirkwood, MD (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center) presented the results of a phase 1b study of pembrolizumab in combination with a TLR9 agonist, CMP-001, in patients with advanced PD-1 refractory melanoma. The majority of patients received combination pembrolizumab and CMP-001 (N=144), while a few were administered CMP-001 alone and allowed to cross-over (N=24). CMP-001, which is a CpG-A TLR9 agonist packaged into a virus-like particle, was intratumorally administered, and safety and efficacy were assessed.
The therapy was tested using a dose escalation/expansion strategy, with initial doses ranging from 1-10 mg CMP-001 (N=44), a first expansion cohort using 5 or 10 mg (N=69), and a second expansion using 10 mg (N=31). CMP-001 was also administered at two concentrations in the first expansion cohort. Overall, the treatment was well-tolerated, with the most common related adverse events being low-grade flu-like symptoms, and six patients discontinuing treatment due to adverse events. Across all cohorts, the ORR was 25%, while, among those receiving the diluted CMP-001 formulation, the ORR was 11%. Responses were noted in non-injected tumors, and, among those responding to the combination therapy, the median duration of response had not yet been reached. Response rates were similar whether a patient received monotherapy or the combination; however, the monotherapy responses were less durable. This combination therapy therefore holds promise to reverse PD-1 resistance in advanced melanomas, potentially through induction of an anti-viral immune reaction that is then able to eradicate tumors.
Prognostic B cell biomarkers identified
B-cell activated by checkpoint blockade immunotherapy and radiation improve overall survival in squamous cell carcinomas
The importance of B cells in responses to immunotherapy and other cancer therapies was emphasized by Sangwoo Kim, BA (University of California – San Diego). This study evaluated B cell responses and biomarkers in HPV-associated head and neck cancer patient samples as well as in preclinical models. Proteomics arrays and RNA sequencing were employed in human samples (data from the Cancer Genome Atlas), while murine B cell responses were analyzed using BCR sequencing, flow cytometry, and single-cell RNA sequencing after combination treatment with radiotherapy and anti-PD-1 therapy.
The combination therapy in preclinical models was found to impact many aspects of B cell activity: systemic B cell activation, T1 and T2-type B cells, memory cells, plasma cells, and antigen specificity were all altered after the treatments. Specifically, BCR sequencing showed that combination therapy increased the maximum productive frequency and clonality, and also modified the CDR3 length. Increases in B cell germinal center development were also noted through single-cell RNA sequencing, with increasing density resulting from increasing treatment: more cells with a germinal center phenotype were observed with combination treatment over each individual monotherapy. In patient samples, combination therapy was found to increase IgG levels. Traditionally, HPV+ patients have demonstrated enhanced outcomes over their HPV- counterparts; however, this significance was abrogated after CD19 (marker for B cells) was taken into account, indicating that B cells play a major role in responses. For these reasons, the role of B cells in cancer biology and immunotherapy responsiveness merits further investigation and consideration, and development of adequate mouse models will be critical to achieving that goal.
Urinary microbiome linked to BCG response
Variation in the commensal urinary microbiome is associated with response to Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunotherapy in early stage urothelial bladder cancer
The impact of the urinary microbiome on responses to intravesicular BCG therapy was investigated by Randy Sweis, MD (University of Chicago) and colleagues. Patients receiving BCG therapy experience a similar problem as has been observed with other immunotherapies: up to 50% of patients recur or progress within five years. Therefore, responsiveness to BCG therapy merits further investigation, as in this study. Sterile catheterization was employed to collect urine samples, and these samples were analyzed using 16S rRNA gene sequencing and shotgun sequencing for their microbial contents. Some samples were also analyzed for cytokine levels.
Thirty-one patients were enrolled and followed for a median of 12 months. In that time, 32% of patients recurred after transurethral resection and BCG instillation. Across all patients, the major phyla included Actinobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, Proteobacteria, and Tenericutes; however, distance matrix calculation revealed differences between patients with and without recurrence. Specifically, a higher abundance of Proteobacteria was found in recurring patients (P=0.035), with specific taxa showing even larger differences. At the same time, patients without a recurrence displayed higher levels of Firmicutes (P=0.049). Cytokine analysis in a subset of 13 patients revealed no significant differences between recurring and non-recurring patients. Therefore, the urinary microbiome may indeed have significant impact on the effectiveness of BCG therapy, just as the gut microbiome has been implicated with the effectiveness of other treatments.
CD73 antibody demonstrates immunomodulatory capabilities
Immunobiology and clinical activity of CPI-006, an anti-CD73 antibody with immunomodulating properties in a phase 1/1b trial in advanced cancers
Phase 1 studies of an anti-CD73 antibody, CPI-006, were presented by Jason Luke, MD, FACP (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center), both as a single agent and in combination with ciforadenant. CPI-006 was administered every three weeks to patients with progressive cancer at doses from 1 to 24 mg/kg, with ciforadenant at a fixed 100 mg orally BID. The immunomodulatory activity of CPI-006 was evaluated through blood analysis of lymphoid subsets, IgH sequencing, and immunohistochemical analysis of tumor biopsies.
Twenty-four patients received CPI-006 monotherapy, while sixteen received the combination. All-grade adverse events occurred in 75% of patients on both regimens, and grade 3-4 events in less than 17% of patients in both groups. A maximum tolerated dose was not determined. Through tissue occupancy studies, sustained CD73 occupancy in the periphery was found at doses at or above 6 mg/kg, and full tumor occupancy at 18 mg/kg or higher doses. Levels of circulating B and T cells were diminished 30 minutes after infusion, with B cells partially returning three weeks later, and T cell levels fully recovering. In alignment with a humoral immune response, the returning cells had a higher level of memory B cells than before treatment. In patients receiving at least 6 mg/kg CPI-006, tumor reductions were noted in 4/9 patients with RCC, NSCLC, or mCRPC, while no responses were noted in cancers without previous demonstration of sensitivity to these treatments. In addition to its therapeutic potential, the authors hypothesized that treatment with CPI-006 may provide opportunities for identification of novel anti-tumor antibodies due to the induced B cell dynamics.
EGFR-mut NSCLC patients may benefit from neoantigen vaccination
Neoantigen vaccination targeting shared epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations induces clinical and immunological responses in non-small cell lung cancer patients
Gregory A. Lizee, PhD (MD Anderson Cancer Center) presented a phase 1 trial of personalized neoantigen vaccination in non-small cell lung cancer patients. Peptides for vaccination were selected from predicted mutation-encoding neoantigens amongst 508 screened cancer-associated genes. Each of the 24 enrolled patients received at least 12 weekly immunizations in combination with topical imiqimod, and, if EGFR mutation positive (N=16), also had the option to continue on EGFR inhibitors.
Clinical responses were observed in seven patients on the study, all of whom were EGFR mutation-positive. Of these responses, 5/7 displayed T cell responses specific to EGFR neoantigens, and three also had responses to the L858R driver mutation. The treatment regimen was well tolerated, and no adverse events of Grade 2-5 were observed. For EGFR mutation-positive patients, continuing on EGFR inhibitors was strongly associated with longer overall survival (13.8 vs 7.6 months for continuing vs stopping therapy, P=0.038), indicating a possible synergy between vaccination and EGFR inhibition. Therefore, vaccination may be able to overcome resistance to EGFR inhibitors in NSCLC patients.
Novel CD4+ T cell-DC interactions may lead to increased T cell activity in virally induced cancer
Intratumoral CD163+ DC amplify the type 1 immune response of CD4+CD161+ T cells in HPV16-associated cancers and are associated with better survival
Several immune cell subtypes were analyzed in HPV16-associated cancers by Chantal Duurland, PhD (Leiden University Medical Center) and colleagues. HPV+ patients have increased survival compared to HPV- patients, thus the role of the immune response to these cancers should be better elucidated. High levels of CD4+CD161+ infiltrating T cells have been found in HPV+ tumors; therefore, the authors used a multi-level approach to understanding the importance of this unique subset of CD4+ T cells in the HPV+ tumor microenvironment. The authors also described a population of CD14-CD33-CD163+ cells, which were identified as dendritic cells (DCs). This subset of DCs was found to associate with strong T cell infiltrates and improved patient survival, similar to CD4+CD161+ T cells. Thus, there was an effort to understand the crosstalk of these two immune subsets in HPV+ disease. Further analyses demonstrated that activated CD163+ DCs generated higher levels of both IL-12 and IL-18 compared to their CD163- counterparts, which in turn induced a type 1 immune response by T cells. Likewise, supplementing patient-derived HPV16-specific CD4+ T cells with IL-12 and IL-18 enhanced their ability to produce interferon-gamma, and this was enhanced compared to the CD4+CD161- T cells. Thus, IL-12 and IL-18 produced by CD163+ DCs can increase stimulation of CD4+CD161+ T cells within the tumor microenvironment, which could ultimately contribute to the improved outcomes of patients with virally induced cancers. This study emphasizes the importance of studying other immune subsets in patient tumors that may ultimately lead to novel immunotherapeutic combinations.
Activated natural killer cell therapy may help Merkel cell patients
Final results from a phase 2 study using off-the-shelf activated natural killer (aNK) cells in combination with N-803, an IL-15 superagonist, in patients with metastatic Merkel cell carcinomaimaging
Shailender Bhatia, MD (University of Washington) discussed a study of activated natural killer cells (aNK) in patients with Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC). The cellular therapy employed in this trial originated from a rare NK cell lymphoma, and required on-site expansion and activation by irradiation prior to administration. While MCC often responds to PD-1 blockade, nearly half of MCC patients display downregulation of MHC-I or other immune evasion mechanisms, causing them to be refractory to immune checkpoint therapy. Therefore, this group explored the use of aNK cell therapy in this population, as this treatment option is effective even in the absence of MHC-I.
Seven patients were treated – three with aNK therapy alone, and another four with aNK and N-803 (an IL-15 superagonist) combination therapy. The therapy was well-tolerated, without any treatment-related adverse events over grade 2. Two of the seven patients experienced objective responses. One patient, refractory to pembrolizumab, achieved a complete response on aNK monotherapy; however, after six months, the patient then relapsed. Re-challenge with pembrolizumab after this relapse resulted in a complete response ongoing at 36 months. These promising initial findings have led the investigators to begin other trials related to the aNK therapy as well, without the requirement for on-site processing to aid in the treatment’s feasibility.
Single-cell RNAseq links T follicular helper cells to improved outcomes in HNSCC
Transcriptional dissection reveals antitumor role of T follicular helper cells in head and neck cancer
Anthony R. Cillo, PhD (University of Pittsburgh) and colleagues performed single-cell RNAseq analysis of more than 130,000 CD45+ cells sorted from PBMCs and TILs of immunotherapy-naive HNSCC patients both with and without HPV infection, as well as samples from healthy donors.
A unique T follicular helper (TFH)-like gene expression signature was observed in CD4+ Tconv cells in TILs from HPV positive patients whereas a mainly effector-memory signature was detected in TILs from HPV- patients. Immunofluorescence analysis showed tertiary lymphoid structures in HPV+ patient samples, further implicating a role for TFH in HNSCC. Analysis of patient data from the cancer genome atlas revealed that a high TFH signature was associated with extended progression-free survival, even after an multivariate analysis controlling for 9 covariates (hazard ratio=0.041, p=0.02). The increased understanding of the immune microenvironment of HNSCC from this study may provide guidance for development of future immunotherapies.
By Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer at November 09, 2019
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JITC Letter from the Editor - November 2019
SITC 2019 Scientific Highlights - Nov. 10
President's Message - November 2019
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Year of Shakespeare: Re-Making ShakespeareYear of Shakespeare
MonikaSmialkowska
This post is part of Year of Shakespeare, a project documenting the World Shakespeare Festival, the greatest celebration of Shakespeare the world has ever seen.
‘Re-Making Shakespeare’, Northern Stage, Newcastle, Saturday 14 July 2012.
By Monika Smialkowska, University of Northumbria
‘Re-making Shakespeare’, co-organised by Northern Stage, the School of English at Newcastle University, and the RSC, was billed as ‘an all-day event for theatre-makers, theatre spectators and theatre educators’. As an academic, one could be forgiven for expecting a conference. However, it proved to be much more than that – as Peter Reynolds, Professor of Theatre at Newcastle University, summed up, it was ‘One of those whole days at a theatre’. True, it included academic presentations by Ralph Cohen, Director of the New Blackfriars Theatre in Virginia and Michael Dobson, Director of the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford. However, it also incorporated a discussion with Lotfi Achour and Anissa Daoud, the director and one of the leading actors of Macbeth; Leïla and Ben, running at the time at Northern Stage, and it culminated with a live (and lively!) performance of Tim Crouch’s one-man play, I, Malvolio. We were at a theatre, experiencing it first-hand, not just talking about it.
This was particularly appropriate to the day’s focus on re-making – as opposed to passive consumption or reverential worship – of Shakespeare. All contributors had their own story of ‘re-making Shakespeare’ to tell, from a staggering variety of angles. Jacqui O’Hanlon, RSC’s Director of Education, gave us an insider’s view of the mammoth venture that is the 2012 World Shakespeare Festival. Tim Crouch reflected on ‘exploring and reclaiming’ Shakespeare’s minor characters in his creative retellings of the plays for young audiences. Erica Whyman, Chief Executive of Northern Stage, provided an insight into Newcastle’s dynamic relationship with Shakespeare. Roxana Silbert, RSC and Director Designate of the Birmingham Rep Theatre, shared her unique experiences of directing Shakespeare’s plays. Ralph Cohen made us all feel like setting off immediately to see Shakespeare performed at the New Blackfriars Theatre in Virginia – a working replica of an early modern indoors theatre. Michael Dobson gave a lively account of amateur productions of Shakespeare in contexts ranging from aristocratic coteries to WWII prisoners of war. And Lotfi Achour and Anissa Daoud provided a fresh perspective on Shakespeare by telling us how they adapted Macbeth to address contemporary Tunisian politics.
What these accounts had in common was an understanding that ‘Shakespeare’ is not a static and ever-fixed entity, but rather a dynamic phenomenon, which gets constantly reworked and adapted to fit diverse historical and cultural contexts. Accordingly, the key questions underpinning the day’s discussions were: ‘Who (if anybody) owns Shakespeare?’ and ‘What makes Shakespeare a unique platform for constructing and debating cultural identities?’ We didn’t find easy and conclusive answers. While we felt that Shakespeare is a global phenomenon (as witnessed by the wide range of countries involved in the World Shakespeare Festival), it was less clear whether this is due to his ‘essential’ qualities or to his sustained promotion by governmental, educational, and official cultural institutions. Jacqui O’Hanlon brought up an interesting statistic: for at least 50% of schoolchildren all over the world, Shakespeare is a compulsory part of their education. Does this mean that he has become part of the establishment? Is it still possible to engage with him in radical or subversive ways? Of course, Shakespeare scholars have debated these issues at least since the ‘theory wars’ of the 1970/80s (and we are no nearer resolving them now than we were then), but perhaps this constant dialogue is more important than finding definitive answers.
And ‘Re-Making Shakespeare’ provided just that – a space for dialogue. Moreover, this dialogue was open not only to academics, but also to teachers and theatre practitioners from different cultural backgrounds. As a result, one of the most important insights of the day was that Shakespeare should be understood not primarily through disembodied intellectual contemplation, but rather through active participation: ‘doing’ or ‘re-making’ Shakespeare as one’s own. Much discussion centred around the involvement of the audiences in producing meanings. To paraphrase Hamlet, it became clear that ‘the audience is the thing’. Fittingly, then, the last event of the day – Tim Crouch’s I, Malvolio, was an interactive performance, which questioned our ideas of what Shakespeare is – or should be – in physical terms. While the audience was told to sit up straight and berated with the words: ‘You big bullies’, ‘Is that the kind of thing you find funny?’, it was impossible not to question our reverence for the classics such as Twelfth Night and our attitudes to theatrical experience on the whole. And when hapless individuals were called out on stage to kick Malvolio’s backside or help him with his planned suicide, that experience – while funny – was also uncomfortable and challenging. It may sound strange that a bit of backside-kicking should provide an insightful conclusion to a day of ‘global conversation about Shakespeare’, but somehow it did. Well, that’s ‘re-making Shakespeare’ for you!
What do you think about this approach to Shakespeare? Add your thoughts to the comments below!
To read more reviews of the performances and events that are a part of the World Shakespeare Festival, visit Year of Shakespeare.
Author: MonikaSmialkowska
Monika Smialkowska is a Senior Lecturer in English at Northumbria University. She specialises in Early Modern literature and appropriations of Shakespeare.
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Tag: Wendelin Fraser
alberta election candidate update – january 2012.
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As an election approaches, Alberta’s political parties are busy nominating candidates across the province. Listed below are some of the most recent updates made the list of nominated candidates, including recent Progressive Conservative nominees in Calgary-Fish Creek, Calgary-McCall, Calgary-West, Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre, and Sherwood Park.
Nominated Alberta Election candidates by region - January 23, 2012
Shiraz Shariff
Calgary-West: Former MLA Shiraz Shariff surprised political watchers by defeating past Alberta Heath Services Chairman and former Member of Parliament Ken Hughes and Calgary Police Officer Mike Ellis to win the Progressive Conservative nomination contest. Mr. Shariff served as the PC MLA for the northeast Calgary-McCall from 1995 until 2008, when he was defeated by Liberal Darshan Kang.
Wendelin Fraser
Calgary-Fish Creek: Mount Royal University’s former Dean of Business Wendelin Fraser defeated political blogger Joey Oberhoffner to win the PC nomination. Ms. Fraser will face off against Wildrose MLA Heather Forsyth, who crossed to the Wildrose in 2010 after serving as a PC MLA since 1993. The election contest in Fish Creek will be a gauge of both PC and Wildrose popularity in the next election.
Mohammad Rasheed
Calgary-McCall: Engineer Mohammad Rasheed defeated a crowded field in the PC nomination contest that included candidates Khandaker Alam, Deepshikha Brar, Afzal Hanid, Amtul Khan, Jamie Lall, Aslam Malik, Ravi Prasad, Jagdeep Sahota, and Jangbahadur Sidhu. Mr. Rasheed will face Liberal Mr. Kang in the upcoming election.
Ty Lund
Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre: Six-term PC MLA Ty Lund defeated challenger Jimmy Clark to win his party’s nomination. Mr. Lund was first elected in 1989 and served in a number of cabinet portfolios during Ralph Klein‘s Premiership. He began his occupation of the Tory backbenches when Ed Stelmach because Premier in 2006. His main competition in the upcoming election is expected to be landowners rights advocate and former Green Party leader Joe Anglin, who is now running for the Wildrose Party.
Cathy Olesen
Sherwood Park: Former Strathcona County Mayor Cathy Olesen narrowly won the PC nomination against Matthew Bissett, Brian Botterill, Helen Calahasen, Murray Hutchinson, and Susan Timanson. Ms. Oleson served as Mayor from 2004 until 2010, when she was defeated by Councillor Linda Osinchuk. Ms. Olesen will be the second former municipal official to serve as this constituency’s MLA. Retiring MLA Iris Evans served as Reeve until she was elected as an MLA in 1997.
Calgary-Glenmore: Former MLA Craig Cheffins is expected to seek the Liberal nomination. Mr. Cheffins’ briefly served as the MLA for Calgary-Elbow after winning a by-election, which was triggered by Premier Klein’s resignation in 2007. Under the new electoral boundaries, his neighbourhood of Lakeview will now be located within the boundaries of Calgary-Glenmore. Mr. Cheffins’ entry into the election will add an interesting mix to a contest which will include Wildrose MLA Paul Hinman (himself elected in a 2009 by-election) and the eventual PC nominee. Lawyer Byron Nelson and Linda Johnson are seeking the PC nomination, scheduled for January 26, 2012.
Edmonton-Calder: First reported on this blog, former Public School Trustee Bev Esslinger and current Trustee Cheryl Johner are seeking the PC nomination in this constituency following the surprise announcement by MLA Doug Elniski that he will not seek re-election. Wendy Rodgers, former Executive Assistant to Hector Goudreau, is also expected to enter the contest.
Edmonton-Castle Downs: Jeff Funnell has been nominated as the Alberta Party candidate.
Edmonton-Glenora: Perennial City Council candidate Don Koziak is the nominated Wildrose candidate. Mr. Koziak most recently ran in the 2010 Edmonton municipal election, placing second in a close race against Councillor Kim Krushell.
Edmonton-Mill Creek: Mike Butler has been confirmed as the Liberal candidate. This will be Mr. Butler’s fourth attempt at political office. In 2008 he was provincial NDP candidate in Edmonton-Rutherford and federal NDP candidate in Edmonton-Mill Woods-Beaumont. In 2010, he was the federal Liberal candidate in Edmonton-Mill Woods-Beaumont.
Edmonton-Strathcona: At the recent deadline for candidates to enter the PC nomination contest, no qualified candidates had entered the contest. The constituency is currently represented by NDP MLA Rachel Notley.
Peace River: High Level town councillor Al Forsyth has been nominated as the Wildrose candidate.
Tags Afzal Hanid, Al Forsyth, Amtul Khan, Aslam Malik, Bev Esslinger, Brian Botterill, Byron Nelson, Cathy Olesen, Cheryl Johner, Craig Cheffins, Darshan Kang, Deepshikha Brar, Don Koziak, Doug Elniski, Heather Fosyth, Hector Goudreau, Helen Calahasen, Iris Evans, Jagdeep Sahota, Jamie Lall, Jangbahadur Sidhu, Jeff Funnell, Jimmy Clark, Joe Anglin, Joey Oberhoffner, Ken Hughes, Khandaker Alam, Kim Krushell, Linda Johnson, Linda Osinchuk, Matthew Bissett, Mike Butler, Mike Ellis, Mohammad Rasheed, Murray Hutchinson, Paul Hinman, Rachel Notley, Ravi Prasad, Shiraz Shariff, Susan Timanson, Ty Lund, Wendelin Fraser, Wendy Rogers
alberta’s super saturday – tories voting in hotly contested nomination races today.
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Supporters of Joey Oberhoffner, who is running for the Progressive Conservative nomination in Calgary-Fish Creek, rap for their candidate in this YouTube video.
Mr. Oberhoffner is facing former Mount Royal University Dean of Business Wendelin Fraser in today’s nomination vote. Fish Creek is currently represented by Heather Forsyth, who joined the Wildrose Party in 2010 after sitting as a PC MLA since 1993.
The PCs are also holding hotly contested candidate nomination votes today in Calgary-McCall, Calgary-West, Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre, and Sherwood Park. Click here to see a full list of candidates nominated and running for nominations across the province.
Tags Heather Forsyth, Joey Oberhoffner, Wendelin Fraser
alberta election candidate update – december 2011 (part 2)
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The list of candidates nominated to stand in the next provincial general election continues to grow.
Nominated Alberta election candidates by region. December 15, 2011
Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock: Westlock Town Councillor David Truckey is the first candidate to enter the Progressive Conservative nomination contest in the constituency being vacated by long-time MLA Ken Kowalski. The PCs have held this constituency since 1967.
Calgary-Currie: Lawyer Norm Kelly has announced his intention to seek the Alberta Party nomination in this south central Calgary constituency. Currie is currently represented by Alberta Party MLA Dave Taylor, who will be retiring when the next election is called.
Calgary-Fish Creek – Wendelin Fraser, former Dean of the Bissett School of Business at Mount Royal University, has declared her intention to seek the PC nomination. This constituency is currently represented by PC-turned-Wildrose MLA Heather Forsyth.
Calgary-Hawkwood Farouk Aditia and Chris Roberts have entered the PC nomination contest in this new constituency. Mr. Adatia was the Chief Financial Officer in Premier Alison Redford‘s recent leadership campaign.
Calgary-McCall: Muhammad Rasheed is seeking the PC nomination. The constituency is currently represented by Liberal MLA Darshan Kang.
Calgary-West: Calgary Police Sergeant Mike Ellis is seeking the PC nomination. Incumbent MLA and current Finance Minister Ron Liepert recently announced that he would be retiring when the next election was called.
Chestermere-Rockyview: Nathan Salmon is seeking the yet to be scheduled NDP nomination.
Edmonton-Meadowlark: Former MLA Bob Maskell is seeking the PC nomination in this west Edmonton constituency. Mr. Maskell represented this constituency from 2001 to 2004. Also seeking the nomination is Richard Guyon, who was the Wildrose candidate in this constituency in the 2008 election. Meadowlark is currently represented by PC MLA turned Liberal Party leader Raj Sherman.
Edmonton-Mill Woods: Sohail Qadri is one of two people challenging incumbent MLA Carl Benito for the PC nomination.
Edmonton-Whitemud: Jim Graves defeated Muriel Stanley Venne to win the NDP nomination.
Leduc-Beaumont: Locomotive engineer and saskatoon berry farmer William Munsey is seeking the Alberta Party nomination in this constituency south of Edmonton. Mr. Munsey was the Green Party candidate in the Vegreville-Wainwright riding in the 2011 federal election.
Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre: School Principal Jimmy Clark is challenging incumbent MLA Ty Lund for the PC nomination. The 73-year old Mr. Lund has represented the constituency since 1989.
Sherwood Park: Former Strathcona County Mayor Cathy Oleson and County Councillor Brian Botterill are seeking the PC nomination.
First reported on this blog last week, Mike Shaikh has confirmed his entrance into the PC Senate candidate nomination contest. Also entering the PC Senate nomination contest is former NAIT President Sam Shaw, who announced his candidacy at the 408 Tactical Helicopter Squadron Christmas Dinner last weekend.
Tags Alison Redford, Bob Maskell, Brian Botterill, Carl Benito, Cathy Oleson, Chris Roberts, Darshan Kang, Dave Taylor, David Truckey, Farouk Aditia, Heather Forsyth, Jim Graves, Ken Kowalski, Mike Ellis, Mike Shaikh, Muhammad Rasheed, Muriel Stanley Venne, Nathan Salmon, Norm Kelly, Raj Sherman, Richard Guyon, Ron Liepert, Sam Shaw, Sohail Qadri, Wendelin Fraser, William Munsey
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Child I
Steve Tasane
(Faber & Faber)
192pp, FICTION, 978-0571337835, RRP £6.99, Paperback
10-14 Middle/Secondary
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A chewed apple-core, thrown away into a rubbish bin by a Guard – that’s a present to treasure on your tenth birthday. A single white stork’s feather, saved from the sludge and stink of the Camp, is beyond price; you can tuck a feather behind your ear, tickle someone under the chin with it, dream of using it as a quill pen. If you own nothing, you make the most of what you can find. The children in Steve Tasane’s refugee camp do just that. They have no parents, no home but a rickety wooden shack, no regular food. There is no room for more than a few children each day at the Camp school, where they can’t understand the language of instruction anyway. They have no documents, no passports, no names. The Guards identify the children by letters. Child E and his sister, Child L, are the friends of our narrator, Child I – the boy who found the apple-core. They share the hut – until it’s bull-dozed into the mud. The new Youth Club, built by volunteers, is flattened too. “For your own good,” they are told. Conditions are a danger to health, a threat to life. Refugees can’t fight Guards armed with clubs, rubber bullets, tear gas and water bazookas. E and L lose their only link to their past and their family – a photo album – as the wreckage of their shed is churned into the mud.
Tasane makes no attempt to locate his Camp in a specific place. We are not somewhere like the razor-wired reception centre on the northern coast of Australia, crowded with long-term Rohinga refugees from Myanmar in Zana Fraillon’s The Bone Sparrow. We don’t witness anything like the shipwreck and drowning of refugees from Ghana as they attempt to cross the Med. to Spain in Yaba Badoe’s A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars. As a consequence, Child I gains in universality to become more of a fable than a novel drawing directly on contemporary wars or politics; Tasane’s choice means there are losses too, for a real-world context makes for convincing and horrifying reading when we can see it echoed on TV news bulletins.
Tasane insists, though, that “all the events described in this story are real events which have happened to real children in real camps across the world, in recent months” – though his optimistic conclusion in which an aid worker (named Charity) drives a double-decker bus crowded with children through a gap in the Camp’s fence to take a road which is “always going forward” sadly doesn’t read like a plausible factual event in those real-world camps. Tasane might well say that something like this did happen – but it’s hard for an informed reader to credit. In an afterword (which is expanded in information supplied to reviewers), he tells us that his impulse to write this short book (around 20,000 words, attractively spaced on the page) was very personal. He is the son of a refugee, his father having fled from Estonia after World War II. When Tasane was only 4, his father left his wife and their four sons. Tasane has never forgotten the sense of life being broken – his home, his cultural identity. He defined himself as a boy who had free school meals, sneered at by his fellow pupils. His “shattered upbringing” now prompts his empathy with the broken lives of young refugee children. He is clearly moved not only by the suffering, but also – despite everything - the creativity, the need to belong, to be nurtured, the longing to laugh and play. Above all, the generosity and compassion these children show towards each other. Such are the qualities which may well remain in the thoughts of readers of Child I.
Geoff Fox
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The Meeting will take place at the Mathematics Department of the Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal.
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Portela Airport (Lisbon) is an international gateway with flights departing and arriving from almost anywhere in the world and is only 7 km away from the centre of Lisbon, and just a few km from the venue at IST and the hotels nearby. There are various connections to the IST area by bus (link Carris), Aerobus (link), and taxi.
When arriving by train get off at the station Gare do Oriente, from where you can take the underground metro to Alameda, near IST. When arriving by coach, you may arrive at a terminus also in Gare do Oriente, or you may arrive at the coach station coach in Sete Rios. From Sete Rios there are connections by underground metro or suburban train (to Entrecampos near IST).
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Inside Google’s firing of a top AI researcher, and the scholastic paper that began the battle: ‘People are seriously pissed’ (GOOGL)
Summary List PlacementTimnit Gebru, a co-lead on Google’s ethical-artificial-intelligence research study group, tweeted late Wednesday that she had been ousted from the company. Outdoors observers were stunned and baffled: Why would Google terminate among its top AI principles figures who was likewise a highly appreciated name in the field?
Inside Google, stress had actually been installing for numerous days, beginning with a research study paper co-authored by Gebru, which was sent to an academic conference and was crucial of biases being developed into artificial intelligence. According to Gebru and other employees familiar with the matter, management asked Gebru to either retract the paper or remove the names of all co-authors who were Google employees. Gebru later on aired her aggravations to a worker listserv for women at Google, slamming the business’s treatment of minority staff members.
The next day, she was fired.
It’s the most recent example of tensions between the company’s corporate interests and employees’ ethical concerns. The shooting also drew the attention of others in the AI research study field, while it left many Google staff members puzzled over the seemingly-aggressive reaction.
On Thursday, Google’s AI chief Jeff Dean told staff members in an email gotten by Service Insider that Gebru’s shooting was a “difficult minute.”.
According to a staff member knowledgeable about the situation, Google was dissatisfied with the research paper, which analyzed the ethical dangers of language models. Gebru subsequently pushed back on Google’s demand to redact author names or withdraw the paper totally, asking management to provide more details on their reasoning.
If you can fulfill them fantastic I’ll take my name off this paper, if not then I can work on a last date. That is google for you folks.
The day before she was fired, Gebru sent an e-mail message to an internal Google Brain Women and Allies group on, venting disappointments over her experience and contacting members to find new methods to find “management accountability.”.
According to another staff member who belongs to the group and asked to remain anonymous, the email group is usually utilized for mentorship and “allowing members to feel empowered to lean in to the office.” Considering that the group had actually become moderated, they said, conversations had ended up being more restricted. “Discussion and threading is seriously restricted,” they said.
Gebru’s message made a huge splash.
” What I wish to say is stop composing your files because it does not make a difference,” composed Gebru in a message, a copy of which was released by Casey Newton’s Platformer. “There is no way more files or more conversations will achieve anything.”.
The day after she sent that e-mail, Gebru said in a tweet that she received a message notifying her that she was being dismissed. We appreciate your choice to leave Google as an outcome, and we are accepting your resignation,” it read, according to Gebru.
The exact same message likewise referenced the email sent to the research study group the previous day, described as “irregular with the expectations of a Google supervisor,” and used as grounds to expedite her termination.
” Our company believe the end of your employment ought to happen faster than your e-mail shows since certain elements of the e-mail you sent last night to non-management workers in the brain group reflect habits that is irregular with the expectations of a Google manager,” checked out that e-mail, according to Gebru.
Stochastic parrots.
The fiasco has actually raised concerns over the nature of the research paper, which Google states was submitted before the business gave it approval.
The paper, titled ‘On the risks of stochastic parrots: Can language models be too big?’, examined how major language models trained on large quantities of data bring predispositions and bring the threat of ethical harms.
In the paper, a copy of which was examined by Company Insider, the authors determine a variety of costs and risks related to what they describe as “the rush for ever larger language designs,”.
” The paper doesn’t say anything surprising to anybody who works with language models,” stated one worker acquainted with the subject who examined it. “It generally makes what Google’s doing appearance bad,” stated another, keeping in mind that the conclusions of the paper were largely critical of work being performed in AI.
However Google argues that the paper was not authorized because it didn’t follow the correct treatment and “neglected excessive appropriate research study.”.
” Regrettably, this specific paper was just shared with a day’s notice before its due date– we require two weeks for this sort of review– and after that instead of waiting for customer feedback, it was approved for submission and sent,” stated Google’s AI lead Jeff Dean in an email to workers sent out Thursday, and obtained by Organization Expert..
” A cross practical team then evaluated the paper as part of our regular procedure and the authors were notified that it didn’t meet our bar for publication and were offered feedback about why,” he included.
The occasions have triggered issue and frustration amongst lots of staff members. “People are seriously pissed,” said one, noting that Dean’s email did not appear to justify Gebru’s shooting, and failed to acknowledge the e-mail that Gebru claims was utilized as premises for her dismissal. “People are looking for out why the response was so severe.”.
Vijay Chidambaram, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, tweeted that the stated factor for obstructing the paper in Dean’s e-mail was “practically BS.”.
” This is the task of conf reviewers, and not the task of Google,” he stated.
The ordeal has actually just raised more issues over Google’s treatment of AI ethics, and how its desire to get ahead is clashing with employee worths. Last year, Meredith Whittaker, a worker at the time, alleged that Google had pressured her to abandon her work with the AI Now Institute, a proving ground, cofounded by Whittaker, which is concentrated on the social ramifications of artificial intelligence.
” Waking up, still shook by the way Google’s dealing with Timnit, and thinking about how urgently we need to face the racist history and present of the AI field,” Whittaker tweeted on Thursday.SEE ALSO: Fulfill the 15 executives in Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s relied on inner circle who are leading the business’s most vital services.
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Teen Choice Awards 2014 Winners
Teen Choice Awards 2014
Published August 11, 2014 | By Curator
Everyone has been talking about Teen Choice Awards 2014 lately. We thought we would add our own take on it.
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Metal lathe
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By bahrami
The design of lathes can vary greatly depending on the intended application; however, basic features are common to most types. These machines consist of (at the least) a headstock, bed, carriage, and tailstock. Better machines are solidly constructed with broad bearing surfaces (slide-ways) for stability, and manufactured with great precision. This helps ensure the components manufactured on the machines can meet the required tolerances and repeatability.
Headstock with legend, numbers and text within the description refer to those in the image
The headstockhouses the main spindle speed change mechanism and change gears . The headstock is required to be made as robust as possible due to the cutting forces involved, which can distort a lightly built housing, and induce harmonic vibrations that will transfer through to the workpiece, reducing the quality of the finished workpiece.
The main spindle is generally hollow to allow long bars to extend through to the work area. This reduces preparation and waste of material. The spindle runs in precision bearings and is fitted with some means of attaching workholding devices such as chucks or faceplates. This end of the spindle usually also has an included taper, frequently a Morse taper, to allow the insertion of hollow tubular (Morse standard) tapers to reduce the size of the tapered hole, and permit use of centers. On older machines (’50s) the spindle was directly driven by a flat belt pulley with lower speeds available by manipulating the bull gear. Later machines use a gear box driven by a dedicated electric motor. A fully ‘geared head’ allows the operator to select suitable speeds entirely through the gearbox.
The bed is a robust base that connects to the headstock and permits the carriage and tailstock to be moved parallel with the axis of the spindle. This is facilitated by hardened and ground bedways which restrain the carriage and tailstock in a set track. The carriage travels by means of a rack and pinion system. The leadscrew of accurate pitch, drives the carriage holding the cutting tool via a gearbox driven from the headstock.
Types of beds include inverted “V” beds, flat beds, and combination “V” and flat beds. “V” and combination beds are used for precision and light duty work, while flat beds are used for heavy duty work.[citation
When a lathe is installed, the first step is to level it, which refers to making sure the bed is not twisted or bowed. There is no need to make the machine exactly horizontal, but it must be entirely untwisted to achieve accurate cutting geometry. A precision level is a useful tool for identifying and removing any twist. It is advisable also to use such a level along the bed to detect bending, in the case of a lathe with more than four mounting points. In both instances the level is used as a comparator rather than an absolute reference.
Feed and lead screws
The feedscrew is a long driveshaft that allows a series of gears to drive the carriage mechanisms. These gears are located in the apron of the carriage. Both the feedscrew and leadscrew are driven by either the change gears (on the quadrant) or an intermediate gearbox known as a quick change gearbox or Norton gearbox. These intermediate gears allow the correct ratio and direction to be set for cutting threads or worm gears. Tumbler gears (operated by) are provided between the spindle and gear train along with a quadrant plate that enables a gear train of the correct ratio and direction to be introduced. This provides a constant relationship between the number of turns the spindle makes, to the number of turns the leadscrew makes. This ratio allows screwthreads to be cut on the workpiece without the aid of a die.
Some lathes have only one leadscrew that serves all carriage-moving purposes. For screw cutting, a half nut is engaged to be driven by the leadscrew’s thread; and for general power feed, a key engages with a keyway cut into the leadscrew to drive a pinion along a rack that is mounted along the lathe bed.
The leadscrew will be manufactured to either imperial or metric standards and will require a conversion ratio to be introduced to create thread forms from a different family. To accurately convert from one thread form to the other requires a 127-tooth gear, or on lathes not large enough to mount one, an approximation may be used. Multiples of 3 and 7 giving a ratio of 63:1 can be used to cut fairly loose threads. This conversion ratio is often built into the quick change gearboxes.
The precise ratio required to convert a lathe with an Imperial (inch) leadscrew to metric (millimeter) threading is 100 / 127 = 0.7874… . The best approximation with the fewest total teeth is very often 37 / 47 = 0.7872… . This transposition gives a constant -0.020 percent error over all customary and model-maker’s metric pitches (0.25, 0.30, 0.35, 0.40, 0.45, 0.50, 0.60, 0.70, 0.75, 0.80, 1.00, 1.25, 1.50, 1.75, 2.00, 2.50, 3.00, 3.50, 4.00, 4.50, 5.00, 5.50 and 6.00 mm).
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Hammarica.com Daily DJ Interview: MARCO BAILEY
January 30, 2013 DANCE MUSIC PROMO 0 EDM NEWS, INTERVIEWS,
Marco Bailey from Belgium is one of the busiest techno DJs around. Touring every weekend, hitting each continent and managing his ever so popular label MB Elektronics known for its prolific output of quality techno. February 11th marks the release of his new artist album High Volume. Therefore, we are honored to have him for an exclusive interview!
Marco, you are about to release your new album by the name of High Volume in February. Could you tell us what we can expect, your vision behind the album and how long it took to make?
Of course, the main theme of the album is techno. It’s the sound I’m known for and the sound I love to play around the world because of its relentless energy. Yet, my love for music goes way beyond techno and I love to show that on my albums. I’m a big fan of guys like Boards Of Canada who influenced me to make Grolzham, the opening track of High Volume. I also like Tech House and pumping/energetic quality House. That’s why the album contains one Tech House tune by the name of Funk That Groove.
I recorded High Volume over a period of 6 -7 months. Not every day because of my touring it’s not always possible to do so. But I do use my laptop on the road to capture ideas. Then, when I’m back in the studio I finalize all these ideas into complete tracks. I wanted my album to build like a DJ set. Deep and a bit slower at the start.. Then in the middle peak time material such as THE FALCON & THE FOX and ending in beauty with the emotional piano track SHE LEAVES.
What was your most enjoyable gig from 2012?
Definitely Club Space on Ibiza! I played there together with Carl Cox. IT WAS MASSIVE. We played for 8000 people or so.. The vibe, the energy it is like nothing else. Also Ageho, Tokyo was one for the books. I gig quite often in Japan and have been going there ever since 2000. Every time I go there to play it is always packed. It’s a good feeling when you play for a crowd that moves from the very beginning til the end. They have lots of respect for the DJs that come there to play. Often I see them wearing my label shirts and holding glowsticks with my name on them.
You know, Japan is a really great country. All the people are very polite.. It is very different as opposed to countries in the West.
I also cannot forget about the fans from Argentine. I recently had gigs @ Pacha, Buenos Aires and Lotus, Rosario. The people are very extravagant.. crazy.. I really like that vibe and always love to play there.
So you really love places like Ibiza, Japan and South America.. Have you ever considered moving to another country?
As a matter of fact, I have a plan to move to Ibiza eventually. I love the Island. But there is no rush.. say five or six years would be realistic. Of course there is the language issue where everyone on the Island mostly speaks Spanish.. Also, Brussels has a really great airport with fast connections to a lot of different places. Ibiza’s airport has its limitations in that sense. But yes, eventually I will make the move.
Which DJs have been your biggest supporters over the years?
Hands down my biggest supporter would be Carl Cox. I did multiple releases for his label Intec, he supports most of my material and last Summer I rocked his stage at Tomorrowland. It’s one of the biggest festivals in the world for dance music.. 80.000 people in attendance daily over a period of three days. The Carl Cox stage had an audience of about 10.000. Crazy! I loved every second of it!
Other than Carl Cox I also receive great support from guys like Dave Clarke, John Digweed, The Advent, Umek, Adam Beyer and Sharam (Deep Dish). I did quite some releases for the guys mentioned. Just as an example, my previous album was released on John Digweed’s famed Bedrock label.
Do you have time to go out yourself to listen to other DJs play?
I have gigs every weekend so it is not always possible. But when I can, I do go out to check out other DJs. A couple of months ago I went to La Rocca – a great club in my home country of Belgium. Dubfire was playing so I had to go and say hello. It was a great set!
How would you describe the Belgian dance scene at the moment?
The scene here is good, but some areas could be better. In Belgium, people want all the big names, but there is hesitation when it comes to ticket prices. The people don’t want to pay extra. So for instance in Holland if the same popular DJ is booked, the ticket price will be double and people will be ok to pay it. They understand the costs that are involved with booking the talent.
Also, Belgian promoters book too many styles on one night and there is not a logical progression in line ups. In Belgium, a line up can go anywhere from house to techno to even dubstep.. I think it would be better to keep a night into onestyle of music and not go all over the place.
Belgium used to be a lot better with weekends that started at Thursdays and it would go on until Tuesday nights. That was nice, but it stopped somewhere around the early 2000’s.
How do you like dubstep?
Personally, I am not that into it. You know I’m a techno, house and chill guy.. But to each their own style. Yet, I got to give it to people like Netsky from Belgium who have great success with their dubstep all around the world.
Name some of your favorite labels
MB Elektronics , Intec , Bedrock, Drumcode , Respekt , Cocoon , Plus 8… There are quite some good ones out there.
Regarding your own label MB Elektronics, what can we expect in the coming months other than the album?
Mr bizz, a very young guy makes lots of good stuff.. Johnny Kaos and Mattew Jay, Redhead, Filterheadz, Tom Hades.. I try to support quality music on my label as much as I can.
Thousands and thousands of tracks are coming out on a daily basis. Do you like the change from Vinyl to MP3?
The good thing is that it’s very easy to play new tracks. You can create something in the studio, and play it out in the club just a few hours later. With vinyl that process was much more complicated. I do miss going to the record store to find new tracks and have a chat with the people there.. Selecting music from the computer is quite a different process.
How much time do you take to listen to new stuff?
Half a day per week the least I’d say..
When it comes to your sets, do you only play the newer stuff or do you also dig in your collection to play the older tracks?
I like to play both, but it does depend on the crowd. When the crowd has a good vibe, I try to play varied and play build up a story with older and newer tracks. When there are only young kids that could be a bit more difficult, but then I will search to see what I can play and cannot play.
How do you like the US dance scene?
Love it! Ultra Festival where I played twice was a great experience. Dance is still very new to a lot of people here so it is different than other parts of the world. Whereas in Europe everyone attending an event will know you, in the US not everyone knows you beforehand. So as a DJ, you need to take that in consideration.
I just arrived here again for a tour and I look forward to play a couple legendary places in the US like Cielo in New York, Mansion Miami and Smart Bar Chicago. I will also return to Ultra Music Festival in March and very excited for that!
Upcoming releases:
Marco Bailey : the new Album : “High Volume” out on MB Elektronics
Release date: 11th February 2013
Marco Bailey vs Filterheadz on John Digweed’s Bedrock label “Mansion EP”
02 Feb: Colombia
10 Feb: Ahava Festival, Mexico City, Mexico
12 Feb: Cielo, New York, United States
16 Feb: Afternoon BE@TV Livestream Album Launch Party, London, UK
16 Feb: The Egg, London, United Kingdom
02 Mar: I Club, Schwetzingen, Germany
09 Mar: Groove, Madrid, Spain
16 Mar: St. Petersburg, Russia
27 April: Replay Festival, Belgium
27 April: Mayday, Dortmund, Germany tbc
4 May: UG Bulach, Zurich, Switzerland
18 May: Borderline, Basel Switzerland
19 May: Freiburg Germany
Worldwide bookings: Joe Christie blueprintartists.com | bookings@blueprintartists.com | +44 208 912 4570
www.marcobailey.com
www.facebook.com/officialmarcobailey
www.discogs.com/artist/Marco+Bailey
www.soundcloud.com/marco-bailey
Tags: dance music news, high volume, marco bailey, mb elektronics, techno
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November 11th, 2020 09:46 AM #5301
Monquito
Drillin' Dragon
aayyy lmao!
I wish Twitter had everyone's IP address public, so we would know everyone else who's doing this.
Handsome Swashbuckler
That gave me so much physical cringe.
I bet he hopes the ground would just swallow him up.
Not that we'd complain if it did.
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November 11th, 2020 12:41 PM #5303
starlalilymoon
Originally Posted by Demon Rin
Y'know, I was hoping there would be more time after Biden Won where I could just feel happy but here we are only a few days after Pennsylvania is called and the Anxiety is tricking back in and all I can do now is wonder WHICH underhanded thing they're trying is going to give Trump the presidency again.
Will one of the lawsuits actually go through? Will they somehow convince enough faithless electors?
I just want it to be over... can it please be over already?!
Don't worry, everything will be okay Demon Rin. Just breath slowly. Take a break from the news/Twitter/etc till 20 Jan. 2021. I would recommend some anxiety-reducing coping skills that can help with stress. I struggle with bad anxiety too, and I have been trying to avoid the news for my mental health, though it is hard. Make sure to take care of you and your well-being. Just remember everything will be okay, it really will.
Here are some distress tolerance skills you can use that can help you Demon Rin, my therapist gave me this to help, and I think it can help you too:
https://www.skylandtrail.org/survive-a-crisis-situation-with-dbt-distress-tolerance-skills/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAhZT9BRDmARIsAN2E-J22EF8QarQ9Ol6vwJL7AKaOvg_HtoaaLsmmFbojCeXVp_LyjLX 00EwaAiUaEALw_wcB
My AniList: https://anilist.co/user/starlalilymoon/
Discord: starlalilymoon#3489 | Steam: starlalilymoon
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KageKageKing
Just Chilling.
Originally Posted by pariston_hill
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...44aa8fe550.jpg
I like how Pochita is reacting to that tweet, lol.
Originally Posted by Green_vs_Red
I had some fun with a guy on disqus who for some incredibly stupid reason held out hope that Trump could make a comeback in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona, & Wisconsin or somehow get those results overturned. Once I pointed out that there was No chance of them flipping back in addition to the fact that if Nevada was called for Biden it was a wrap he oddly went silent.
Also apparently not conceding in elections you lost isn’t only for Trump.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/martha-mc...214413176.html
These people are beyond stupid.
It's not about being stupid, it's about people starting to believe in alternate realities. And this won't end well when our reality and theirs will come to clash.
The GOP going along with this shit is not good at all. But at least 80% of Americans seem to believe Biden won according to a poll, so it could be worse.
"The election was rigged with fake ballots, but only the ones for president. The ones for House and Senate are real. Even if they share the same piece of paper." - GOP logic, 2020.
We joke that the Simpsons predicted this or that, but the sad reality is that we allowed our society (worldwide) to become more of a parody than a freaking adult cartoon.
Demon Rin
Poorly Written Pandering
The Proud Boys are in the middle of an internal Civil War after a leadership shakeup, one of the old leaders took back over and decided he's sick and tired of pretending they aren't Nazis.
Remember, these are the guys our Lame Duck "President" just told to "Stand back and stand by" in one of the debates.
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History of calling the election for president (minus 2016 and 2020):
Note: Republicans used to be labeled as blue and Democrats as red, it was not what it was what we use today till the 2000 election I believe.
Green_vs_Red
Originally Posted by DemonX
I believe in multiversal theory too but really.
Originally Posted by Ubiq
I've often wondered about that myself; seems like being supported by people who only want you there so the world can end in fire (with you going to Hell in the process) would be somewhat off-putting
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I found the exit polls really interesting: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...lection_recirc
And they gave me more argument against organized religion
The potential coup probably has like a 1% chance of success maybe, but that's still enough for me to lose sleep over it... plus as others have said the longer this nonsense goes on the more the institutions and democracy get eroded. On the one hand Biden not taking it seriously could be good in that it lends no credence to the coup. He wants to combat polarisation but I wonder how much that's possible if 70% of republicans already think the election wasn't free and fair, meaning Biden's an illegitimate president. I would've preferred a golden middle ground; "yes, there is an attempt at a coup but it's a very incompetent one and as your president I won't allow it so don't worry about a thing". Though maybe it really is best to not give it any attention so it and republican fervor blows over. Hopefully the Biden administration has a concrete, realistic plan to protect the institutions and stop polarisation. Being nice to the GOP doesn't cut it. There's some good news so far regarding the polarisation part.
What really needs to happen though is for the dems to hold the GOP's feet to the fire and tell them to denounce Trump's actions. They need to tie the other republicans to Trump to force them to pick a side. Right now they're half-heartedly siding with Trump to save their asses while still giving them room to wash their hands of him later. Every GOP senator partaking in and getting away with this is more institutions eroded and another obstructionist in congress 2 years later. The dems can't seem to make anything stick to republicans and that needs to change.
Last edited by DoctorPhil; November 11th, 2020 at 03:28 PM.
These are the people that reserved the four seasons landscaping parking lot instead of the hotel. They're not competent enough to pull off a coup. Because they had the setup to DO IT and no one would have known.
If Trump hadn't openly demonized the mail in votes and then split the voters? Because studies months already showed Dems were going to do 65% mail in and Reps 65% walk in anyway.... which is why Trump started attacking mail ins in the first place. If they'd just seen that stat, and kept it close to their vest? but still appointed Dejoy in May.
Then, instead of Dejoy breaking everything immediately all at once, where it was obviously sabotage and everyone could see that, prepare for it, and work around it.... what if he had done all the things he did, but slowly? So it seemed like incompetence, rather than intentional destruction? Or what if he'd done it in mid-October instead of mid-August, so there was no time to figure out they were doing that and come up with ways to avoid the problem?
That would have been subtle and they would have succeeded. (Also it wouldn't lead to the discrepencies where like 80% of remaining votes are one sided and so you can math out a winner easier) But Trump had to rant constantly about undependable mail in ballots and Dejoy had to do his sabotage all at once so everyone caught on.
They had a legitimate(albeit evil) plan that would have actually WORKED if they'd just kept quiet about it. But they couldn't help themselves and they're just not that subtle or clever.
Or you know, Trump could have handed Covid over to scientists and been an actual leader during a crisis and got a bump like ever other world leader handling it and he would have easily won legitly, if he was able to get this many people to go for him even after everything.
Same thing now. ""Well what if they send in illegal electors?" Well, by broadcasting that plan, its covered. And Dem states are the ones choosing whats important, so its not happening.
"Trump won't concede and give Biden any funds!" Well duh. Biden (and everyone) knew that in advance, that's why Biden put together his transition team months ago.
I know its scary and dangerous to see these loons still spouting shit, but by announcing their plans so loudly in advance they just make them that much easier to deal with. They don't have the support of the military, and they don't have enough of the population, (including the rest of the world) and too many people know the election results are legit, for them to get away with anything. Trump is desperate because he knows he's fucked when its over, so he'll do anything and everything he can, and they're trying to fleece money and make last minute power plays while they can, but they're not going to pull off a coup by overturning 150,000 votes in multiple states or lining up nearly 40 faithless electors from Dem states (who have to announce in advance if they're going to change.)
Last edited by Robby; November 11th, 2020 at 05:15 PM.
Would it be going too far to like seeing literal Nazis trying to kill each other?
Originally Posted by KageKageKing
Nope, killing fascists and Nazis is the reason WWII FPS are the true kings of their genera.
sgamer82
Someone call for Zeidoktor
Middleton, ID
https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday...1/11/day-1392/
Day 1392: "Covid hell."
1/ U.S. COVID-19 hospitalizations reached an all-time high of 61,964, as new daily cases passed 139,000 for the first time. The previous record for hospitalizations was 59,780 on April 12. The U.S., meanwhile, recorded more than 1 million new coronavirus cases in the past 10 days and is averaging more than 111,000 new cases a day – a record. More than 1,440 new deaths were also reported, pushing the the seven-day average to more than 1,000 new deaths a day for the first time since August 19. Public health experts, meanwhile, warn that the U.S. is heading for a “dark winter,” a “Covid hell,” and the “darkest days of the pandemic” – aka the next few months of the coronavirus pandemic will be unlike anything the nation has seen yet. (New York Times / CNBC / The Guardian / Bloomberg / Wall Street Journal / Washington Post)
Two more people who attended Trump’s Election Night party at the White House have been diagnosed with the coronavirus, bringing the current tally of COVID-19 cases from the event to at least five. (CNBC)
😷 Dept. of “We Have It Totally Under Control.”
Global: Total confirmed cases: ~51,927,000; deaths: ~1,281,000
U.S.: Total confirmed cases: ~10,362,000; deaths: ~241,000
Source: Johns Hopkins University
Live Blogs: New York Times / Washington Post / USA Today / CNBC
2/ Election officials in 45 states representing both political parties said there was no evidence of voter fraud or irregularities. State officials and secretaries of state in four of the five remaining states reported no major voting issues. Officials in Texas did not respond when asked whether they suspected or had evidence of illegal voting. (New York Times)
Election Live Blogs: Washington Post / New York Times / The Guardian / NPR / Bloomberg / Wall Street Journal
3/ A Pennsylvania postal worker admitted that he fabricated the allegations that a postmaster instructed postal workers to backdate ballots mailed after Election Day. Richard Hopkins told investigators from the U.S. Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General that the allegations of widespread voting irregularities were not true, and he signed an affidavit recanting his claims. Hopkins’s claim was cited by Lindsey Graham in a letter to the Justice Department calling for a federal investigation. Attorney General William Barr subsequently authorized federal prosecutors to investigate credible allegations of voting irregularities and fraud before results are certified. The Trump campaign also cited Hopkins’s allegation in a federal lawsuit seeking to prevent Pennsylvania election officials from certifying the states’ results. (Washington Post)
Georgia will conduct a statewide hand recount of ballots cast in the election amid baseless accusations of election fraud from Republicans. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said the hand recount, which will likely be both less accurate than a machine recount and more costly, “will help build confidence.” Meanwhile, Georgia’s Lieutenant Gov. Geoff Duncan, a Republican, said there have not been “any sort of substantial instances” of voter fraud in the state. (NPR / CNBC / CBS News / CNN)
The Trump campaign filed another lawsuit in Michigan challenging the election results over alleged irregularities, seeking to stop the state from certifying results that show Biden leading by about 146,000 votes. (Bloomberg)
4/ The Office of the Director of National Intelligence won’t provide Biden with intelligence reports until the General Services Administration recognizes that Biden won the election. GSA chief Emily Murphy has yet to sign the letter of “ascertainment,” which allows Biden’s transition team to begin the transfer of power. As a result, Biden is not receiving the President’s Daily Brief and it’s not clear whether any of his top advisers are getting access to any classified material at all. (NBC News / New York Times)
5/ Trump made his first public appearance in six days to visit Arlington National Cemetery for a ceremony commemorating Veterans Day. He did not speak at the event. Trump’s official schedule has been devoid of public events since Biden surpassed the 270 electoral votes. (Associated Press / CNN)
6/ Trump named three loyalists to top Pentagon jobs a day after firing Defense Secretary Mark Esper. James Anderson, who had been acting undersecretary for policy, resigned and was replaced by Anthony Tata, a retired Army one-star general and former Fox News commentator who failed to get through Senate confirmation earlier this year. Joseph Kernan, a retired Navy vice admiral, stepped down as undersecretary for intelligence, and was replaced by Ezra Cohen-Watnick, who becomes acting undersecretary for intelligence. Trump also named Christopher Miller as defense chief. (Associated Press)
poll/ 86% of Trump voters don’t think Biden legitimately won the election, but can’t provide any evidence to support the claim. (Washington Post)
Waldorf: You know Statler, after watching the last nine hundred episodes of One Piece, I think I've come to a conclusion.
Statler: No you haven't.
Both: DOHOHOHOHOHO!
It's officially a grift (because of course it is)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKBN27R309
"Donate money to us so we can pay the lawyers to fight this illegal election!*"
*Any donations under 8K go directly into Trump and the GOP's pockets and will not actually be used for legal purposes.
What a difference 4 years makes
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/bri...es-since-2016/
They should also do a supercut of all the conservatives who were also going on about how Liberals need to get behind and support Trump who’re either not opposed to him or opposed to Biden’s win.
killerbee1000
I'm enjoying the maga meltdowns far more than I thought I would.
Just search maga cope on youtube. It's well worth it.
maxterdexter
Right behind you
https://theweek.com/speedreads/94954...-fight-theater
Disgusting piece of shit, undermining democracy for theatre, I hope he gets to enjoy the benefits of what he’s sowing in this life. How to manage to cut the funding of this new venture?
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zachary knowles, “cherry wine”
by Madi Toman | Apr 2, 2020 | singles, wolf tracks | 0 comments
Rising indie singer-songwriter Zachary Knowles (I’m not hip to any knowledge of relations to Beyonce but I encourage you to form your own conspiracies) has recently released his newest offering to the world, a single entitled “Cherry Wine”, which serves as the centerpiece on his forthcoming EP, Magnolia (Out May 2020). The Texas-bred artist has released a hypnotic new music video to accompany the single as well.
“Cherry Wine” sees Knowles gently glide across a brightly picked acoustic guitar track with his angelic and carefully placed falsetto. In similar fashion, the music video shows him floating through landscapes, first pedaling a bike and then sprinting through forests and fields, softened by the sweet and constant presence of slow motion. Knowles only stops when he reaches a tumultuous seascape.
Of the track he explains, “The meaning behind “Cherry Wine” is super personal. I wrote about what life looked like before I was dating the girl I love. Before we started dating I was crazy about her (at the age of 14 haha that’s crazy to say) but didn’t know if she felt the same. I wanted to capture what that time of my life felt like.” Tranquil and sweet like simple syrup, the delicately crafted single showcases Knowles’ ability to build a sonic haven around himself that transcends the harsh borders of the outside world.
“Cherry Wine” is out now and Magnolia will be available for your consumption in May of 2020.
Madi Toman
Writer/Photographer at Imperfect Fifth
Madi has been immersed in music for as long as she can remember, both as a creator and a consumer. She’s worked in digital marketing and advertising from a young age and has been in love with all things digital media since. She has always had a passion for writing and photography, especially when the subject is music. In her (not so) free time you can often find Madi wandering around Kansas City, or, when she gets bored of that, the United States of America in her (not so) trusty truck, Bruce.
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March 2018 Writer and artist Lauren Velvick on the informal discussion around spaces for play between Emily Speed and architect Lee Ivett, in the recently Grade II listed ‘bubble’ classroom at Kennington Primary School. At the start of Emily Speed’s ‘What do we need in a space for play?’ event she outlined why play in particular had [...]
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Stephanie Cottle introduces Precarious Landscape, an excursion with artists Ian Nesbitt and Ruth Levene to the western bounds of Preston on 8th December 2017. Participant and writer Lauren Velvick reflects on the experience. Continuing their exploration of Preston’s boundaries, Precarious Landscape saw Ian and Ruth invite an audience on an immersive journey, visiting four sites the artists [...]
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Writer and artist Lauren Velvick reflects on the second Expanded City Network event, Routes In, Routes Out, held at Avenham Park Pavilion in Preston on 27 July 2017. Gavin Renshaw’s Expanded City research and output continues to oscillate between instrumentalised cycling advocacy and an artistic investigation of landscape that takes into account socio-political and cultural influences. In [...]
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By admin in Uncategorized September 8, 2020
Get Person Against Vladimir Putin
Background. Respect to the people of russia for protesting against a corrupt regime that does not represent its citizens. Vladimir putin has lost the plot over ukraine, according to the german chancellor, angela merkel.
What Putin Got From The Trump Zelensky Phone Call Politico Magazine from static.politico.com
Media captionas the bbc's bridget kendall reports, there is still no explanation for president putin's 10 day absence. A former kgb officer, he has had a longstanding cult of personality in russia, and has been garnering reputation as a badass on the internet. As experts point out, our childhood makes us the person we are.
Владимир владимирович путин, vɫɐˈdʲimʲɪr vɫɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ ˈputʲɪn (listen);
A former kgb officer, he has had a longstanding cult of personality in russia, and has been garnering reputation as a badass on the internet. Владимир владимирович путин, vɫɐˈdʲimʲɪr vɫɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ ˈputʲɪn (listen); Vladimir putin's exact net worth is unclear, although it's certain that he does not subsist off his an icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. Putin pictured with alina kabaeva who reportedly gave birth to the russian head honcho's twins.
Source: www.nydailynews.com
I see enough people here to take the kremlin and government house right now.
Source: jamestown.org
Vladimir putin has lost the plot over ukraine, according to the german chancellor, angela merkel.
Source: cdn.i-scmp.com
Vladimir putin often meets and hold negotiations with leaders of other countries.
Source: static.independent.co.uk
Vladimir putin's mother, maria shelomova, was a very kind, benevolent person.
Source: www.gannett-cdn.com
When putin arrived, only 2 per cent of the.
Source: cdn.cnn.com
As experts point out, our childhood makes us the person we are.
Source: cdn1.i-scmp.com
In 2015, on request of the syrian government, putin authorized russian.
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MAYBE BLOGGING WILL HELP
"All these things happening... confusing me. Can't concentrate! Can't use the power of my brain!" --Jean Grey, X-Men #5
Updated weakly.
John P. has a PATREON. / King-Cat 79 is OUT.
A HISTORY OF THE WHITE BUFFALO GAZETTE, Pt. 1
The White Buffalo Gazette is long-running, very obscure, underground comics and art zine that's been published intermittently since 1994. I've been corresponding with its founder Max Traffic for many years now, and recently he mentioned that the upcoming new issue would mark 30 years of small-press momentum.
Max wrote:
"I have also spent a lot of thought over the years on the idea of a book that gave a serious overview of the obscuro era of small press comix. I am considering doing a book that chronicles the WBG network of artists. After 16 years, and numerous editors, there have been hundreds of people involved in it. Also, when I started WBG, I took over the mailing list from the City Limits Gazette from Steve Willis.....It was pointed out to me that this new issue of WBG is actually a 30th anniversary issue of the network of artists.
I would have called WBG the City Limits Gazette, but Bruce Chrislip, who started the title in 1980 said that he preferred that I start my own title. Not sure why, perhaps because I was a relative newcomer to the scene, perhaps because in my younger days I was too much of a provocateur. ( I did piss off a few people in my early days ...just too much of a wise ass, when I look back on it. Funny, but it was Jeff Zenick who first clued me into the fact that I was being kind of an asshole....and did so kindly.)"
I hadn't been aware of it before this statement, but the origins of the White Buffalo Gazette lie in the legendary small-press comix publication City Limits Gazette, which had begun publication in 1980, under editor Bruce Chrislip (and was later edited by Steve Willis).
The White Buffalo Gazette itself has gone through several different editors and runs: After Max's original stint as editor, Ed Bolman and Cat Noel took over for a few years, followed by Jeff Zenick, Larned Justin, and then back to Max in the early-2000's.
As I began compiling this information, it occurred to me: let's talk to as many people as possible and get a sense of three decades of small press publishing. So over the past month or so I conducted email interviews with Max Traffic, Bruce Chrislip, Steve Willis, Larned Justin, Jeff Zenick, Edward Bolman, and Cat Noel.
What follows is sort of an "oral history" of the White Buffalo Gazette, Part One (of Three): "City Limits Gazette."
BRUCE CHRISLIP is the founder and original editor of the City Limits Gazette, an offshoot of his earlier underground publication City Limits Comix.
JOHN PORCELLINO: You began City Limits Comix in 1979? Where did City Limits Gazette come from? Was CLC more comics, and CLG more networking/news etc? Were they published concurrently?
BRUCE CHRISLIP: To begin before the beginning, I graduated from high school in 1973 and enrolled at Youngstown (Ohio) State University the next fall. I quickly fell in with a group of cartoonists and, before I knew it, we were publishing comix and holding comic book club meetings and putting on comic book conventions. I met cartoonist Topper Helmers and we both saw a minicomic on the YSU campus about October 1973 that fellow student Joe Zabel had produced. (Yes, the same Joe Zabel that later drew many of Harvey Pekar’s American Splendor comix.) The minicomic was called Tales of the Enemy and on the back cover there was a blurb about how cheap it was to produce a minicomic. Much enthused, we got in touch with Joe and he showed us how to do our own comic.
That Christmas break, Topper and I set to work on Fresh Comix - a semi-underground comic that debuted in the spring of 1974. Fresh Comix was half-legal size and had been drawn in the paper master offset process.* It was great getting our work out in front of other art students. They thought it was a big deal that we had produced our own comic book. Other cartoonists I met over the next few years included Daryll Collins, Rick Magyar and Bud Perkins. Some of them ended up being in City Limits Comix.
City Limits Comix #1 came out in February 1979. It was a digest-size comic and the intent was to publish cartoonists from my local area (Youngstown, Ohio). I moved down to Cincinnati, Ohio before the second issue was published in the spring of 1980 – so it featured Cincinnati artists and cartoonists from around the country. There wasn’t to be another issue of City Limits Comix until #3 came out in November 1989 (ten years after the first issue). I wrote a fairly extensive article about City Limits Comix that can be found on Richard Krauss’ Midnight Fiction website:
http://www.midnightfiction.com/history/bruce_chrislip.htm
The City Limits Gazette came along in November 1980. It was a 4-page digest and was strictly an attempt to promote/publicize my own work and that of a few friends – like Joe Zabel and Michael Roden. I moved from Cincinnati to Seattle right before the second issue was published. (Notice a pattern here of moving between issues?) CLG quickly expanded, issues got bigger, and I was soon covering the underground and newave comix world in more depth.
JP: For how many issues and for how long did you publish CLG?
BC: The City Limits Gazette was published from November 1980 to 1986. There were fifteen issues. I published about three more City Limits Gazette newsletters in the next few years but they were all 4-page digests – sort of going back to where I had started. Unfortunately, I never managed to produce another full-size issue of CLG. So there was a gap before Steve Willis started publishing his version of the City Limits Gazette.
JP: Can you describe what you were doing with CLG, what it was like? Did you intend it to serve kind of the same purpose that Factsheet Five later did? As a resource/connecting place for those making/interested in self-published comics?
BC: I’ll answer your last two questions first. Yes, it was a resource/connecting place for comix/minicomix. It was similar to the later Factsheet Five in that we reviewed and listed a lot of comix but we also featured news, interviews, letter columns and articles about the comix world.
What I was trying to do with the City Limits Gazette was express myself and my interests in comix. I liked Harvey Pekar’s work – so I interviewed him in CLG #7 way back in the spring of 1983. Other interview subjects included Wayne Gibson, Gary Larson (“The Far Side”), Jim Valentino and Joe Zabel.
What was the City Limits Gazette like? It was sort of like Artie Romero’s Cascade Comix Monthly except that I interviewed minicomix artists in addition to underground cartoonists and generally gave as much (or more) space to the small press as I did to underground comix. Before and after Jay Kennedy’s The Official Underground and Newave Comix Price Guide came out in the summer of 1982, I published letters from Jay discussing the Guide. Other readers and cartoonists also offered their insights.
Cartoonists would send me their new comix for review and send along news about their upcoming projects. It all went into the City Limits Gazette. When Peter Bagge moved to Seattle in 1984, I met him a few weeks later and interviewed him for CLG on the same day. (I remember asking for permission to print a news item about his then-upcoming comic book Neat Stuff.) People like Denis Kitchen and Jay Lynch would send me letters and news items. I sent copies to R. Crumb, too. It was all great fun and for a while it felt like I was at the center of the comix network.
JP: How would you describe the evolution from the classic UG comics of the 60's-70's to what you and your peers were doing in the late 70's early 80's?
BC: It was all part of the same thing, more of a continuation than an evolution. George Erling, Grass Green, Doug Hansen and Jim Valentino all appeared in underground comix. Robert Crumb, Howard Cruse, Denis Kitchen, Jay Lynch, Bil Stout, John Thompson and many other underground cartoonists had art in our minicomix and digest comix. Later on in the 1980s, there was a similar cross-pollination in the pages of Weirdo – underground comix people and newave comix people all mixed in together. Artie Romero published a nice line of minicomix and he also published underground comix like Animal Bite.
We were doing all those minicomix because there wasn’t much of an underground comix scene left to break into after about 1973. Most of us were trying to “break into” undergrounds at the time. We were later surprised to find out that nobody ever made much money in underground comix. Beginning in the early 1970s, most of the underground cartoonists were trying to break out into bigger markets – like mass circulation magazines. So at the same time us minicomix guys were trying to break in, they were trying to break out!
JP: Can you name some of the artists involved in CLC/CLG?
BC: We’ll start with City Limits Comix. Joe Zabel drew the covers for the first two issues. As mentioned, Joe later spent a ten-year stint working with Harvey Pekar as one of the American Splendor artists. The cover to City Limits Comix #2 was pencilled by Joe and inked by his friend, the great William Messner-Loebs. It’s a beautiful drawing and I still have the original art. Others who contributed to City Limits Comix included the late Jamie Alder (Tales Too Tough for TV), Daryll Collins (nowadays a very busy advertising cartoonist), the late Grass Green, Rick McCollum (who went on to draw the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Dave Patterson, Bud Perkins, Jim Valentino (one of the founders of Image Comics), Bob Vojtko (great gag cartoonist and minicomix guy, too) and Gary Wray.
Artists who contributed to City Limits Gazette include most of the people I already named plus Chester Brown, Don Donahue, George Erling, Matt Feazell, Brad Foster, Wayne Gibson, Brian Horst, Tom Holtkamp, Jack Jaxon, Jeff Kipper, Steve Lafler, George Metzger, David Miller, Clifford Neal, the late (and great) Michael Roden, Alan Rose, Mike Streff, J.R. Williams and Steve Willis.
JP: What made you decide to hand over the reins to Steve Willis in 1991?
BC: It was Steve’s idea. Actually, it was a zine exchange program. I had taken over the Outside In mini series from Edd Vick in 1990. There had been a series of revolving editors/publishers of Outside In since Steve had originated the title back in 1983. Outside In was this great self-portrait gallery in minicomix form. Most of the contributors were newave minicomix people but there were also underground cartoonists, other artists, poets, writers, bon vivants.
Steve published the first fourteen issues of Outside In, then Michael Dowers took over for the next eight issues. Edd Vick and Hal Hargit published nine issues up to #31 and then the title languished for awhile. I took it over in the summer of 1990. So Steve figured that if I was now doing his old zine, maybe he could take over my old zine. The wackiness of the idea appealed to me so I gave him the go ahead and was amazed at how many issues he produced (on a twice a month schedule). There were way more issues in the Steve Willis era of City Limits Gazette (starting in February 1991) than the fifteen I published.
JP: How do you feel about the way the spirit of CLG/WBG has continued on to today?
BC: It’s a joy and a delight. It’s very gratifying to think that I have influenced or inspired the White Buffalo Gazette in any way. I have the greatest respect and admiration for past publishers Jeff Zenick and Ted Bolman. The White Buffalo Gazette kind of combines the best aspects of my City Limits Gazette and the Steve Willis City Limits Gazette while adding a lot of great touches. It’s the place to see some of the finest and most interesting comix art and artists. Current publisher Max Traffic is a great artist as well and I hope I get to finally meet him at SPACE this year. I’m also looking forward to seeing the new issue of White Buffalo Gazette.
JP: Any other thoughts or comments would be great to hear! And again, if this is just annoying, please let me know!
BC: On the contrary, I enjoyed doing this interview and had fun looking back over my stack of old minicomix to put it together.
Everybody reading this, please come to SPACE in Columbus on March 19 and 20! Minicomix are a great medium and this will be your chance to spend an afternoon with a lot of great, creative cartoonists and see lots of great comix, too.
STEVE WILLIS is an underground comics legend. His iconic Morty the Dog has been a mainstay of the comix world for decades. Steve was also the second editor of City Limits Gazette, the pre-cursor to the White Buffalo Gazette.
JOHN PORCELLINO: Bruce Chrislip founded the City Lights Gazette in 1980, and you took it over in 1991... is that correct? What were the circumstances of you taking over publishing it?
STEVE WILLIS: Bruce had taken over a minicomic series I had started in 1983 called Outside In, I believe he was the 4th and last editor. So I felt he should let me revive his moribund CLG, since I had been bugging him about bringing it back.
Header of CLG # "Mermaid, mermaid, have you ever seen blood? (9/92) by Chad Woody
JP: Can you describe what you were doing with CLG under your tenure? What was a typical issue like? How often and for how long did you publish it?
SW: It was published every two weeks, without fail, from Feb. 1991 to Sept. 29, 1993. I knew it would be one of the last of the networking tools in hardcopy. I wanted to make it a freewheeling place for obscuro comix artists to talk, promote, vent, make deals, argue, pass along the news. Always in folded legal size, the publication grew into a monster, with interviews and feature articles. It was all hammered out on my electric typewriter.
JP: Who were some of the artists involved in CLG during those days?
SW: Contributors included Bruce Chrislip, S. Minstrel, Jay Kennedy, Mark Campos, Dennis Pimple, Lynn Hansen, Wayno, Bruce Sweeney, Jerry Riddle, Randy Scott, Steve Lafler, Dan W. Taylor, Mike Culpepper, Bruce Bolinger, Michael Neno, Ted Bolman, Mel. White, Hank Arakelian, Troy Hickman, Matt Feazell, Jim Danky, Tim Ereneta, Clark Dissmeyer, Jeff Nicholson, Brian Rainville, Jamie Alder, Brad Foster, Maximum Traffic, Jim Ryan, Bob Vojtko, Chad Woody, Bob Richart, Nils Osmar, A.P. McQuiddy, Ted Delorme, Scott Johnson, Ryan Eifert, Randy Reynaldo, David Chrislip, Mike Lee, Ben Adams, Michael Stengl, William Dockery, Tristan Sill, Robin Coder, Jeffrey Kipper, Clay Geerdes, Mary Longo, Michael Dowers, Robert Lewis, Toivo Rovainen, Gary Usher, Jeff Snee, Ricardo Nancy McJacksonstein, Bill Donahue, Jeff Zenick, Edd Vick, Randy H. Crawford, Russell Rose, Bryan Willis, Kel Crum, Andrew Roller, Matt Love, Bruce Semans, Dusty Rhodes, Mary McLaughlin, Dave Szurek, Bob Moulton, Crad Kilodney, Jeremy Pinkham, Maurice Harter, R. Seth Friedman, Spaz, Asa Sparks, Ken Clinger, Greg Stomberg, Jacques Boivin, Peter Pavement, Lance Jacobs, Matthew Kelleigh, Michael Drummond, Sean Wilson, Bil Keane (I'm not kidding), Andrew M. Ford, Sasa Rakezic, Michael Vance, R.A. Jones, Mark Cunningham, David Lasky, Robert DuPree, Tommy Hojager Olesen, Bill Miller, Jonathan Tegnell, Randy Paske, Jenny Zervakis. There were many others, and quite a few print lurkers. The publication was much more text oriented than graphic.
JP: When you were done, you transferred the mailing list to Max, and he began publishing under the new name White Buffalo Gazette... Why did you decide to cease editing it yourself?
SW: I can't remember why I stopped. I think the title had grown to exceed room capacity and it was either invest more time or jump ship. Actually when CLG's final issue rolled out, there was no one waiting to take over. I think there was a bit of a short lag before Max started WBG.
JP: Did you give Max any advice or suggestions as to how to run things, or was it more just you gave him your blessing and let him roll?
SW: I probably told him he was going to have a blast and wished him well. At least I hope I did. Max has enough energy to light a city for a month. WBG was very different than CLG, it was more visual and wild. The fact that Max is totally insane does help.**
Final Willis-edited CLG, Sept. '93
JP: How do you feel about the fact that the CLG/WBG lineage has survived now for 30 years or so?
SW: Actually I saw myself continuing not only Bruce Chrislip's CLG, but also Clay Geerdes' Comix World/Wave, which started in the early 1970s. Yes, Clay was still publishing his newsletter in the early 1990s, but he was already withdrawing from the network. CLG was like a bigger and more interactive version of Clay's great networking publication. I was so happy he came out to play and joined us in CLG. Clay, Bruce, me, Max, we were passing the baton of the same universal desire for promoting a place for free expression, creativity and originality in comic art.
JP: Anything else you'd like to add?
SW: Thanks for the questions, John. Check out my website for more CLG info and Newave history, including the Newave Reader (a history I compiled in the 1990s):
http://www.mortythedog.com/ [Editor's note: this site is the absolute motherload! Please be sure to spend some time checking it out!]
*I asked Bruce to explain this "paper master offset process," and here's what he said:
"Here's the paper master offset printing process in a nutshell. Topper Helmers and I actually drew on the paper printing plates that were used to print Fresh Comix. It was a waxy surface paper, legal size, and we used litho pencils and a special kind of litho pen to draw with. Each sheet/plate consisted of two pages of our printed/folded comic book. Topper drew the first half of the comic and I drew the second - so we drew our two parts on the same sheet. For example, he drew the front cover on the right half of a sheet and I drew the back cover on the left half. And so on. The sheet was perforated and would attach to the printing press that way.
Joe Zabel used the same process on his Tales of the Enemy comics. He was nice enough to supply us with the paper and put us in touch with his printer."
** Max Traffic responds:
"Ha! Imagine Willis calling me insane . His cartoon dog talks to God, and is killed off by Willis with a clockwork regularity! He invented floating baby heads with a theme song that borrows from an old Doors tune. I could fill pages with his obscuro madness."
NEXT -- Part Two: MAX TRAFFIC interview
Photos were snagged from the following sources:
http://www.midnightfiction.com/
http://www.mortythedog.com/
http://www.poopsheetfoundation.com/
http://www.spaceguy13.blogspot.com/
Posted by John Porcellino at 12:14 PM
Labels: bruce chrislip, city limits comics, city limits gazette, max traffic, steve willis, white buffalo gazette
The psychedelic blue cover at the top is by John Miller, with Jeff Zenick's lettering, I think. John needs to be tracked down.
Thanks for putting this together. If CLG is sort of a continuation of Comix World, then maybe WBG is sort of 37 years old, as well as sort of 30 and sort of 17. I'm glad somebody noticed it.
pax tecum, e
Jason T. Miles February 9, 2011 at 6:12 PM
Richard February 9, 2011 at 7:18 PM
Thanks for this lovely slice of obscuro comix history!
Troy Hickman February 9, 2011 at 8:56 PM
Oh, man, this brought back so many memories. I remember when I'd get the new CLG and I'd immediately go sit on the porch swing and read it (this, of course, was a hardship during Indiana winters).
The flare-up between Steve and Max reminds me that WBG was not about comics, or even Obscuro Art, so much as it was about the juxtaposition of a certain set of distinct, often eccentric voices.
Year of the Cat February 10, 2011 at 7:40 AM
Floating baby heads. Is there a problem?
Actually I am very normal as evidenced by the fact I have a coffee cup with the word "Norm" on it.
http://www.mortythedog.com/2010/09/phone-photo-20.html
John Porcellino February 12, 2011 at 5:07 PM
Thanks everyone. That is indeed the great John Miller on the cover at the top, from Zenick's big 2000 AD millennial issue, I believe. More to come!
Borpo Deets February 12, 2011 at 8:24 PM
The WBG cover shown by John Miller was hand-silkscreened, I think the only one that was.
I sent him a t-shirt with that design on it as
a sort of lame-ass "payment". John was a kind of genius. I hope he is well, been out of touch for a while.
Chad Woody March 1, 2011 at 10:58 PM
Awesome. Thanks for your studiousness. I was rewarded handsomely with spots in the graphics. Just when I thought "Fishy Ribbits Roulette" was lost to the ages!
Will Dockery September 2, 2014 at 1:51 AM
Great look at the old times before the internet age, thanks.
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“Jack Benny was arguably the funniest person on network radio,” says Dr Charles Laughlin. “He got laughs doing anything or nothing. A facial gesture, heard on radio, a well-timed pause or a slight shift in vocal tone was enough to put me in stitches.
“Trips down to his Vault were masterpieces. There was a toothless alligator in the moat, an old guard, Ed, and creaking doors. The Vault verged on the surreal, leaving the audience aching from too much laughter,” says Laughlin.
Benny was his best saying nothing. Media silence is a cardinal sin in the USA and surreal. In silence, Benny found the longest, loudest laughs.
“Benny was most adept at the drawn-out, slow, silent take,” says Howard Lapides, the LA-based talent manager. “No one caused such hysteria, with only a look. He’d turn to the audience; his look, always tranquil, part hurt feelings and part perplexity.”
When Benny boasted, too much, Mary Livingstone might say, sternly, “Oh, shut up.” Benny would gaze, silently, at the audience; his hand, perhaps, to his left cheek, his eyes screaming, “Why me.” “The laughter would go on for twenty seconds, which is a long, long time,” says Laura Leibowitz.
The studio audience saw his reaction. Radio listeners imagined it. Either way, Benny caused much laughter and pleasure.
“Knowing when to speak is good,” said Benny. “It’s best to know when to pause.”
Benny is unique for taking, not giving, a punch line that got a huge laugh. “The laugh Benny got was in his reaction,” says Burt Dubrow. “Few stars, then or now, take punch lines, as expertly as did Benny,” says Leibowitz. “Yet, he never became a punching bag.”
“Besides,” says Burt Dubrow, “Jack Benny never stole a line. He didn’t believe he had to get the laugh.” On other shows, script re-writes made sure the star got the laugh. “The laugh came on the Benny show. That was enough,” says Lapides.
Benny built a team of writers, actors and players that created a world. The audience had to learn how to hear the show. “Benny,” says Lapides, “was an inside job: learn to navigate the show, get the jokes and laugh.” “Frasier” was much the same.
The team created, Benny decided. He decided whom to hire, such as writers, actors and players. He approved the storylines or running gags as well as the guests on his shows. These were critical decisions. Benny eagerly bore the weight other stars declined.
Rarely mentioned, Jack Benny created Johnny Carson, who hosted the “Tonight Show” for thirty years before Leno, Conan and Leno. “Carson idolized Benny and Benny loved Carson,” says Burt Dubrow. “Carson adapted much of Benny for his own ends, most notably, the look of bewilderment. This got Carson huge laughs from calculatedly mediocre jokes.”
“Carson wasn’t only a great television comedian,” says Dick Summer. “He was the grand master because of Jack Benny. Both remembered and revered, today, as in their heydays.”
Jack Benny started in vaudeville, says Laura Leibowitz (above), “as did most entertainers of his time.” She’s President and Founder of the International Jack Benny Fan Club (IJBFC). “His first brush with vaudeville came at the Barrison Theatre, in Waukegan, Illinois.” Benny worked as an usher. Later, he played violin in the orchestra, in the pit, accompanying touring acts that played the theatre.
Born Benjamin Kubelsky, on Valentine’s Day, 1984, in Chicago, Illinois, he grew up in Waukegan. His father, Meyer, run out of the tavern trade, owned a haberdashery. His mother, Emma Sachs, encouraged him to play the violin, with hopes of a career in classical music.
At 6 months, 14 and 16 years old '
The Barrison was a small, neighbourhood vaudeville theatre, one block from where Benny lived, in Waukegan, Illinois. “It had maybe 100 seats,” says Leibowitz. Waukegan likely had one or two such theatres. “Variety,” says Leibowitz, “listed no such theatres in the town.”
There wasn’t much nightlife in Waukegan, a small, Midwestern town. The city is thirty-three miles north of Chicago, near the Wisconsin border. About 16,000 lived in Waukegan, in 1911, when Benny began at the Barrison.
Benny left school at age sixteen."The principal called him into his office," says Leibowitz. "He suggested that Jack pursue other things. If he decides to return to studies, he will be welcomed back."
His friend, Julius Sinykin, helped Benny get a job at the Barrison. Sinykin had an interest in show business. He wrote a few short plays performed at the Barrison. The owners liked Sinykin and took his advice about hiring Benny.
The money wasn’t bad, for the day, either. Seems Benny worked about thirty hours a week for $7.50. In 1911, a union worker, in Chicago, earned $21, about 43 cents an hour, for a 48-hour workweek.
Benny was not a typical pit musician. Pit musicians are often jaded. They aren’t the best influence or the best musicians. They play the same music, repeatedly, for the same acts, which soon blur into one.
He enjoyed the acts and developed an addiction to the smell of grease paint. “Jack often laughed, uncontrollably, at the antics of comedians, which was his hallmark,” says Leibowitz. George Burns caused it to happen better than did anyone.
Once, at a party given by singer, Jeannette MacDonald, Burns said to Benny, “Now, you know someone is going to ask Jeannette to sing, probably right after dinner. When she starts singing, I don’t want you to laugh.” As soon as MacDonald began to sing, Benny began to laugh, uncontrollably. He had to leave the party.
In 1911, Benny met the Marx Brothers. They played the Barrison as the “Four Nightingales.” From the pit, Benny laughed uproariously at their antics.
At the time, the Brothers lived in Chicago, giving them ready access to three major vaudeville circuits, the Gus Sun, Pantages and Considine and Sullivan. Their mother, Minnie, managed the act. "She offered Jack a job," says Laura Leibowitz.
Minnie deserves explanation. Born Minna Schoenberg, in 1864, she was sister to Al Shean, of “Gallagher and Sheen,” a top vaudeville act around 1900. She, too, tried vaudeville, but flopped. There was little call for a harpist who yodeled in several foreign languages, said son Groucho.
Around 1905, Minnie developed an act featuring her sons, Chico, Harpo and Groucho. She sometimes used the name Minnie Palmer. The act flopped, but they keep trying. In time, the new act becomes the Marx Brothers.
From the orchestra pit of the Barrison, Benny is “almost bleeding laughter, at the antics of the Marxes,” says Leibowitz. Minnie says, “Great! Why don’t you join our tour? You play the violin for us. We love your laugh. We’ll have a great time.”
Minnie Marx thinks she’s found a built-in audience. Benny asks his parents, Emma and Meyer Kubelsky. They’re Orthodox Jews, already deeply concerned about the crazy boys and wild women their son meets at the Barrison. If he goes on tour, his parents don’t know what will happen to him.
“No,” says Emma, “you will not go on tour with the Marxes.” Benny is 17 years old. His parents are sure touring in vaudeville will lead to his final corruption. They won’t hear of it. Minnie Marx likely wasn’t someone Emma or Meyer Kubelsky found reassuring.
Although he didn’t get to tour, Jack did meet Zeppo Marx. They became friends. Zeppo was the bridge to Sadye Marks.
In 1912, Emma or Meyer Kubelsky let Benny tour vaudeville, with Cora Salisbury. As Benny says, “The Barrison closed suddenly and Salisbury, who’d taken me under her wing, decided to go back to work.” Salisbury needed a partner. Benny needed a job. They developed an act.
Salisbury convinced Emma and Meyer Kubelsky to let him join her on tour. “She knew his parents,” says Leibowitz. 'Salisbury told Emma, “I’ll make sure he gets plenty of rest, eats right and doesn’t run around.” Salisbury was older, 45; maybe she presented as more protective than did Minnie Marx.
The deal was a three-month trial. In September 1912, age 18, Jack took the train, with Salisbury, to Gary, Indiana. They had a three-day booking, a split week.
Left, Cora Salisbury and Benny, about 1912.
Right, sheet music for an earlir hit by Salisbury
As Benny said, “We were killing the audience, with simple, flashy moves. They thought I was doing something impossible. I pantomimed to suggest the terrible struggle I had playing these difficult numbers.”
During this first tour, there was turmoil about his name. “Jack was using his birth name, Ben Kubelsky,” says Leibowitz. A well-known concert violinist, Jan Kubelik, was performing in the same area, as Benny, at the same time. He complained about the likeness of names.
A lawyer, hired by Kubelik, wrote to Benny. He claimed Jack was deliberating misleading the public. Benny changed his name to avoid a lawsuit. “Salisbury and Kubelsky” became “Salisbury and Benny.”
“Years later,” says Leibowitz, “Jack was working as Ben K Benny, in an act called, "Fiddle Funology." Ben Bernie, a well-known bandleader, demanded Jack change his stage name.” Again, Benny complied.
"It appears," says Leibowitz, "Jack was mis-identified, in a listing in weekly "Variety"; it called him Ben Bernie. I don’t know if [bandleader] Bernie actively demanded a change or if Jack was frustrated at the confusion. He changed his name shortly thereafter." Either way, Jack Benny stuck.
The “Benny” is obvious, as his birth name is Benjamin Kubelsky. His friend, Benny Rubin, claims “Jack” was a word sailors used to point out anyone. “Hey, Jack, can you hand me that anchor,” much the way the working class use “Bud” or “Pal,” today.
Benny had recently left the Navy. Jack Benny became his stage name. In the late 1940s, he changed his name, legally.
Benny saw many vaudeville acts from the pit of the Barrison Theatre, but “he caught the performing bug earlier in life,” says Laura Leibowitz, of IJBFC. Benny received his first violin, a half size, when he was six, the birth-year of his sister, Florence. He started lessons, right away, moving along quickly; going up the ladder of teachers.
“Many recognized his had talent,” says Leibowitz, “but he didn’t have enough self-discipline.” The violin needs more discipline than do most instruments. Jack couldn’t sit and practice scales, for example, hour after hour; he'd look out the window and get lost in a daydream.
Yet, if relatives or friends visited, Jack arranged a show, in the living room, starring him. He loved performing, but the violin was too demanding. Jack, instead, honed his comedic acting, as a way to get attention.
Jack Benny, the performer, seems born, more than made. “Yes,” says Leibowitz, “but events fall his way. He shows talent, playing the violin. He’s encouraged to put on shows at home. He leaves school, Julius Sinykin advises him. The Barrison Theatre is a block away from his home. Cora Salisbury uses him in her act. Audiences love ‘Salisbury and Benny.’”
After two years touring, Cora Salisbury retired from vaudeville, returning to Waukegan to care for her ailing mother. Jack wants to continue performing. He teams with Lyman Woods
They tour using much the same act as “Salisbury and Benny”; Benny calls himself “Ben K Benny” or “Bennie K Benny. By 1914, “Benny and Woods” are working for $400 a week, split evenly. They had steady work. “That’s vaudeville success,” says Leibowitz, “steady work.”
In 1917, Benny and Woods were booked at the Palace, in New York City. “The Palace was the top vaudeville theatre in the USA, its gold standard,” says Martin Gostanian, the maven of pop culture. “Other theatres booked ‘Palace Acts,’ sight unseen. Playing the Palace was money in the bank, for months afterwards.”
The same awed tones usually go with talk of the Winter Garden Theatre as well as the Palace. “The Winter Garden has its charm and mystic,” says Gostanian, “but the Palace was more impressive. Bert Williams broke the colour barrier, at the top of vaudeville, by headlining the Palace. I don’t think headlining the Winter Garden would have broken the colour barrier or not as easily.”
“Benny and Woods got a lukewar review for the Palace show,” says Laura Leibowitz. Benny went back to Waukegan. After his mother died, in 1917, and Woods had moved on, Benny joined the US Navy at Great Lakes (above). He applied for the theatrical company, where he teamed with Elzear “Zez” Confrey. They did a standard vaudeville act, flashy musicianship, rolling eyes and related pantomime.
Dave Wolff, producer of “Great Lakes Review,” for the Navy, asked Jack to audition to speak two lines. “I knew nothing about comedy,” Jack said, “but Wolff liked my reading. I won the role of ‘Izzy There,’ the Admiral’s Disorderly.”
Reading two lines launches a major career. “It’s his first comedy appearance,” says Laura Leibowitz. “Intuitively, he knew what to do. The revue and Jack get good reviews; he’s a natural.”
How does comedy slip into his act? “To this point,” says Leibowitz, “the act was musical. Jack rolled his eyes or made faces at flashy antics. Otherwise, he did all musical acts.”
When Benny performed in naval revues, he discovered comedy. During a revue, he played a violin number, the crowd is numb, there’s no reaction. Someone says to Benny, “Talk to them.”
He says, “I was arguing with Admiral Saltwater, the other day, about whether the Irish Navy or the German Navy is bigger. I said I thought the Jewish Navy was bigger than both of them put together.”
The audience thought it hilarious. Ellis Island, in New York City, jammed with Jewish immigrants, disembarking from ships. The brief story was topical, satirical and widely understood, part of what Sarah Blacher Cohen calls, "Yidn to Yankees," the use of comedy to help assimilate Jews into American society.
Comedy eases into his act, with Zez Confrey. Jack plays ‘Izzy There’ in another naval review. “Now, he wants to do comedy,” says Leibowitz.
Benny expected to work vaudeville, with Confrey, but different naval release dates quashed the idea. When Confrey got out of the Navy, he joined the QRS piano roll company, as a composer. He had a huge hit' with “Kitten on the Keys,” in 1921.
Unable to wait for Confrey, Benny developed a solo act. His act included some music and some comedy. As with most of his career, Benny took his time, moving from music to comedy: no great leaps for him.
“The solo act opened with music,” says Leibowitz. Then Jack talked, a bit, sang, offered a few jokes, some about his fictional “Dumb Dora” girlfriend, and played more music. He ended with the flashy flourish reminiscent of “Salisbury and Benny.”
Slowly, comedy becomes more important. Music fades from his act. Yet, it doesn’t vanish, always available to help him through a bad audience.
In 1922, Jack had his picture on the front page of the sheet music for “Why Should I Cry Over You?” Written by Nathan “Ned” Miller and Chester Conn, “Cry Over You” was a huge hit. It’s probably equivalent to a million downloads, today.
The publisher likely thought Benny would attract more attention than Miller or Conn, who were new to music publishing. It’s also possible Benny didn’t charge a fee for use of his photograph. He likely hoped for larger vaudeville audiences after the sheet music published.
"Ned Miller was the unofficial partner of Jack, for many years,” says Leibowitz. Miller performed supporting roles, for Benny, in vaudeville. Later, Miller played supporting roles on radio and television, too.”
In the early 1920s, Miller worked as a shill for Benny. He took a seat in the audience, an act or two before Benny came out. Miller would heckle, on cue from Benny. He and Benny would go back and forth, with Benny saying, “Got sit by the wall, it’s plastered, too,” and so forth.
Eventually, Benny would become flustered and say, “Oh, if you’re so talented, why don’t come down here and sing a song.” Miller would oblige. He’d sing, beautifully. The audience believed it was true.
Jack Benny about 1920, 1925 and 1927 '
By the early 1920s, Benny no longer sang or played violin, much. He was the “Aristocrat of Humour,” the best actor using humour. “Still, he takes a violin with him, on stage, needing the security of the prop,” says Leibowitz.
Violin in his left hand, bow in his right hand, Benny talked about generic issues. He told long stories, again, often about fictional girlfriend, “Dumb Dora.” His act closed with a brief flash of “Tiger Rag,” played on the violin.
Benny earned about $450 a week. He often was the next to closing act,' the most coveted spot in a vaudeville show. He was a star.
Now, Benny had money to buy material for his act. He used two writers, Harry Conn and Al Boasberg. His act improved.
Meeting Sayde Marx
At Passover, 1921, Benny and the Marx Brothers were on a bill at the Orpheum, in Vancouver, British Columbia. “Zeppo Marx asked Benny if he wanted to go to a wild party, with many hot women,” says Leibowitz. Benny agreed. The wild party, in fact, was an Orthodox Seder dinner, at the home of a someone Zeppo knew, Henry Marks.
Benny, 27, found 14-year-old Sadye Marks annoying. The feeling was mutual. Next day, Sadye and three of her friends sat in the front row, at the Orpheum Theatre, staring blanking at Jack, during his act.
In 1924, Benny played the Pantages Theatre in San Francisco. As he left the theatre, one night, a young woman tried to get his attention. Thinking she was a “Stage Door Janie,” a groupie, he ignored her.
This was Sadye Marks, all grown up, 17 years old. The Marks family had moved from Vancouver to San Francisco. Two years later, the Marks family lived in Los Angeles, where Jack worked a show with the “Bernovici Brothers.”
Al Bernovici had married Ethel “Babe” Marks, older sister of Sadye. “Jack ran into Babe, backstage,” says Leibowitz, “and accepted an invitation to dinner, with her, Al and her younger sister, Sadye.” Jack claims not to remember Sadye.
During dinner, Benny was smitten with Sadye. “Love at third sight,” he calls it. She claims he ignored her, again.
Sadye worked at the May Company, a large department store, in downtown Los Angeles. The next day, Benny went to the store to talk with Sadye. He siad he bought hosiery, endlessly, so he could talk with her.
Benny continued touring in vaudeville, but stayed in touch with Sadye. At the time, Mary Kelly and Benny were deeply in love; they had a long-standing, if off-again, on-again, romance. She was Roman Catholic. He was Jewish. Marriage was thus unlikely.
After fifteen years or so in vaudeville, Benny wanted new challenges. He wanted a chance to get away from touring. “Vaudeville isolated performers,” says Leibowitz.
“He’d travel to a booking. Someone would put up his card, on stage right. He’d perform. The audience applauded. Someone took down his card.”
Four, five or more times a day, one vaudeville act followed another. Acts rolled across the stage, as overnight trucks on the inter-state, in isolation. There was no continuity.
“Vaudeville was a cafeteria,” says Laura Leibowitz. Each show had a song, a dance and a little seltzer down your pants, to borrow a line from David Lloyd. The goal was to make easy money for the theatre owner.
This frustrated Benny, but revues or follies had continuity. The likes of Florence Ziegfeld, the “Ziegfeld Follies,” produced shows around effortless transitions between acts, a general theme and flow. Ziegfeld didn’t ask the audience to pay top dollar for a string of isolated acts, no matter how great each one.
Around this time, Frank Fay was developing a new character, the wisecracking emcee. Always nattily dressed, the emcee provided comedic transitions between acts. If the audience didn’t care for an act, the emcee could reinvigorate the mood before the next act appeared.
Fay also had a stylistic walk. “Fay didn’t walk onstage,” says Laura Leibowitz, “as much as he glided. His stride was confident and commanding, with an air of smugness.”
Many performers copied the Frank Fay walk. Most notable, among those who copied his walk, were Jack Benny and Bob Hope. Today, few remember or use the Frank Fay stage walk.
“For Jack,” says Leibowitz, “the walk was faux smugness. He cascaded on stage, as the main course to dinner table, saying, ‘Eat me up.’” The sashay walk fit his radio character, nicely.
The idea of transition became important, too. An emcee introduced acts and ensured each show flowed. This took much flare and audiences enjoyed it.
The emcee talked with an act, to promote it or fill time. He could interrupt the act, under, say, the guise of an important announcement. He might conduct an impromptu interview to cover a costume or scenery change.
The emcee role appealed to Benny. He had the flare. He could be part of the complete show, say, two or three hours, weaving in and out, providing the flow and getting much attention. This is the germ of the ensemble idea Benny used on radio; you can hear the emcee in his radio show.
In 1921, Frank Fay had the idea for a revue, “Fables,” that revolved around the emcee. The acts played supporting roles. This experiment didn’t get off the ground, due to financial problems, but Fay gave life to the idea.
Benny wasn’t up for “Fables,” that was for Fred Allen, says Martin Gostanian. In 1926, the Shuberts offered Benny a role in ‘The Great Temptations.’ He took their offer, at $600 a week, although the show featured nudity and some crudeness.
Mostly, Benny emceed “Temptations.” He had a few small roles, as a secondary character in sketches. His main purpose was transition and flow.
Sadye Marks now re-enters his life. “When ‘Temptations’ played Chicago,” says Leibowitz, “Jack ran into Babe Marks-Bernovici. She told him Sadye had become engaged to a wealthy fellow from Vancouver. Jack decided to act.
“Babe called her sister and handed the phone to Jack.'He said, to Sadye, ‘You're too young to marry.’ Then he persuaded her to come to Chicago to talk and rethink her marriage plans. She did.
“Jack took Sadye to Waukegan. She met his father, who approved. When Sadue asked about her being too young to marry, Benny said, ‘Too young to marry him, but not to marry me.’” She ended her engagement.
On Friday 14 January 1927, Jack and Sadye married at the Clayton Hotel, in Waukegan, Illinois. It was an Orthodox Jewish ceremony, conducted by Rabbi Farber. Present were Florence, younger sister of Jack, and his father, Meyer; Babe and Al Bernovici, Julius Sinykin and Sidney Bloch, Assistant State’s Attorney for Illinois. As Jack stomped on the glass, at the end of the ceremony, Sadye fainted.
Benny continued with “The Great Temptations.” Still, he left before the show moved to Broadway. “A famous incident led to Jack leaving 'Temptations',” says Leibowitz.
We may think of the 1920s as grandmother quaint, but “‘Temptations’ featured topless women, jiggling their way across the stage,” says Leibowitz. The content of "Temptations" likely didn’t bother Jack, but later, he let people believe it did.
“When Jack and Sadye married, in 1927, she wasn’t in show business. She spent much time waiting for Jack, as he performed or rehearsed. There were many good-looking women, mostly dancers, around Jack, which Sadye didn’t like.
“During the preview of ‘Temptations,’ in New Haven, Connecticut, a dancer played a prank on Jack," says Leibowitz. "She used lipstick to paint a pig on her left breast. Then she burst into the dressing room that Jack used, flaunting her breast in his face and yelling, ‘Oink, Oink.’”
Benny laughed it off. What’s he to do. Until recently, he was a single man and didn’t have his husbandly reactions down pat, yet.
“Sadye fumed from behind the open door,” says Leibowitz. “Jack didn’t notice her at first. The young woman did and made a hasty exit.
“Jack sees Sadye, eyes raging, daggers coming at him. She goes after him. She scratches his face, deeply, with her fingernails, leaving bloody furrows in his left cheek.'
“A few minutes later, Jack goes onstage. He’s holding his left hand to his cheek, to cover the scratches made by Sadye," says Leibowitz. That becomes his trademark posture.
“I give credence to the showgirl story," says Leibowitz. "It's backstage. Everyone is doing high-jinx to ease nerves or pass the time. Still, the young woman did it in front of Sadye.”
When Benny left “Temptations,” he knew he couldn’t leave Sadye home, while he toured in vaudeville. He developed a new act that included Sadye, using the name Marie Marsh. By the end of their first year touring, she was a hit.
Sadye sang well. She played the “Dumb Dora” character, popular at the time, well. She had superb delivery.
On the last leg of their vaudeville tour, movie producer Irving Thalberg saw them. He wanted Benny at Metro-Goldwyn Mayer (MGM). Benny took up the new medium and its challenge, right away, as well as the $750 a week salary for six months.
His first role was in "Chasing Rainbows," which, most sources agree, floped. “Hollywood Revue” was next, in 1929. “Revue” a series of appearances by actors signed to MGM. Benny played himself in a weak skit, with Conrad Nagel; weak.
Two movies and four shorts, in two years, wasn’t enough for Benny. He asked Thalberg to release him from his contract, even after receiving a contract extension and pay raise. He and Sadye moved back to New York City.
Benny on Broadway
In 1930, Benny had an offer to play Broadway. “Earl Carroll signed Jack for his ‘Vanities,’” says Laura Leibowitz. “Jack emceed, did a long monologue and acted in several sketches, including portraying Abraham Lincoln.”
In one sketch, Benny enters a farmhouse, carrying a young woman in his arms. “I just resuscitated your daughter,” he says to the farmer.
The farmer replies, “By golly, then, you’ve got to marry her.”
Blue for the time, maybe, it wasn’t the “The Great Temptations.”
In another sketch, Benny portrayed a private detective. The script called for him to smoke a cigar. At 36-years-old, Jack had never smoked.
During rehearsals, the cigar made him ill. He pleaded to stop using the cigar. The director prevailed.
Eventually, “Jack came to like cigars,” says Irving Fein. “For the rest of his life, he smoked the occasional cigar. Yet, Jack never developed a taste for expensive cigars; he always smoked the cheap ones.”
Benny earned $1500 a week for “Earl Carroll’s Vanities.” A typical worker, in 1930, earned $15 a week and the unemployment rate was 25 percent. Jack Benny was a star.
The Network Radio Ago
Benny left “Vanities” early in 1932. “The show was going on tour,” says Leibowitz. “Sadye didn’t have a part in ‘Vanities,’ but she had a small career of her own, such as working with Benny Rubin on a radio show pilot. Jack didn’t want to leave her home.” He left "Vanities," saying he wanted to stay in New York City to try radio.
No one knows, for sure, what Benny did to break into radio. There are rumours he recorded a pilot show. He likely made the rounds: networked. in a literal and figurative sense.
“On Tuesday 29 March 1932," says Leibowitz, "Jack made his first radio appearance on the ‘Ed Sullivan Show.’ It's interesting that Sadye debuted on radio before Jack. In 1929, Benny Rubin used her as his partner in a pilot that an advertising agency bought.”
Ed Sullivan, a former boxer, was entertainment writer for the New York “Evening Graphic.” He also hosted a show on WABC-AM, now WCBS-AM. The show featured new talent, which is another way of saying low pay or unpaid audition.
Benny wanted to make a great first impression. He hired Al Boasberg, one of his vaudeville writes, to help work on the monologue for the “Sullivan Show.” Benny opens with, “This is Jack Benny. There will now be a slight pause while everyone says, ‘Who cares?’”
Radio was corny in 1932. “Yes,” says Leibowitz, “but Douglas Coulter, of N. W. Ayer advertising agency heard Jack and liked him. The next day, the story goes, Coulter convinced Canada Dry to use Jack for its new show promoting Ginger Ale. A few weeks later, Monday 2 May 1932, the ‘Canada Dry Program’ airs on the NBC Blue Network.”
The Canada Dry show featured Benny, bandleader George Olsen and his wife, Ethel Shutta. Ed Thorgenson was the first announcer. Sadye Marks joined for the 3 August 1932 show.
Listening to the first show for Canada Dry, Jack seems more emcee than headliner. The music leads. Jack has a few minutes between musical numbers, songs and commercials.
The show moved to CBS on 30 October 1932. Ted Weems and a string of other bandleaders replaced George Olsen, Ethel Shutta left and Sadye Marks became Mary Livingstone. The 15-minute show ran Sunday at 10 pm and Thursday at 8:15 pm, both original episodes.
Newspaper radio editors voted Benny the “Most Popular Comedian on the Air,” for 1932. He won against strong competition: Eddie Cantor, Ed Wynn, Fred Allen, Burns and Allen, Jack Pearl, as Baron Munchausen, and the Marx Brothers. Yet, after the CBS run, Canada Dry dropped Jack.
“[It] didn’t like Jack kidding the product,” says Leibowitz. On one show, Benny told a story. “While walking through the desert, I came across a caravan of explorers who had been lost in the Sahara for six weeks. Their water supply was gone. They were dying of thirst. Quickly, I rushed to them and gave each one a bottle of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. Not one of them said it was bad drink.”
“Listeners loved the kidding,” says Leibowitz. After a seven-week break, Jack returned to NBC, with a new sponsor, Chevrolet. His 30-minute show aired Friday at 10 pm until the summer break. It returned 1 October 1933 at 10 pm on Sunday.
For Chevrolet, Frank Black was the bandleader. Benny added a tenor to the cast: first, James Melton, then Frank Parker. Howard Clooney was the announcer until the end of the year, when Alois Havrilla took over. Mary Livingstone was on the show, too.
On 6 April 1934, the show changed name and sponsor, again. For “The General Tire Show,” Benny added announcer Don Wilson and bandleader Don Bestor. Mary and Frank Parker stayed.
Starting in fall 1934, General Foods used Benny to promote Jell-O. The first “Jell-O Program” aired at 7 pm, east coast time, on Sunday 14 October 1934,” says Leibowitz. Mary and Don continued. A new tenor, Kenny Baker, joined in 1935.
Phil Harris joined the cast, in 1936, as the supposed bandleader. It’s his character and no more, although he may have worked with the orchestra from 1936 to 1938. Still, “Harris had his own orchestra, unrelated to the show, and several hit records," says Leibowitz.
“Mahlon Merrick was the de facto music director from 1938 or so until the 1950s. When the radio show toured, Harris pretends he’s leading the band. On the show, Merrick does the heavy lifting.”
A valet, “Rochester,” portrayed by Eddie Anderson, debuted in 1937. “Bill Morrow and Ed Beloin, the writers, intended ‘Rochester’ as a one-time character,” says Leibowitz. As many of their ideas, "Rochester" became a pillar of the show.
Anderson did a dance act in vaudeville. On the Benny show, he was an instant audience favourite. He joined the show, permanently, six weeks after his first appearance.
In search of a new tenor, in 1939, Jack ventured to New York City. During the audition for Owen Patrick Eugene McNulty, they took a break. When Jack reconvened the audition, McNulty was talking with his accompanist.
Jack yelled, “Owen; oh, Owen McNulty.” From across the hall McNulty says, “Yes, please.” This broke up Jack. He couldn’t stop laughing. McNulty got the job and a name change, to Dennis Day.
Mary Livingstone, Don Wilson, Phil Harris, Eddie Anderson, Dennis Day
Benny, the vain, tone-deaf and untalented violin player, becomes a running gag, about 1935. “When you see Jack playing, says Leibowitz, “on television, he is playing the violin. Radio was different. To play, Jack had to put down the script, pick up the violin and settle it, under his chin, before he could play. After he played the violin, he reversed these steps.
“The set up and take down took time. It was hard to write-around the setup, which disrupted the flow of the show. On radio, Jack playing the violin was rarely feasible.
“Larry Kurkdjie usually played the violin for Jack. He was in the orchestra on the show. For a while, Kurkdjie gave Jack formal lessons, off air.
Jell-O was not a major product until General Foods attached it to Benny. Invented in 1897, Jell-O moved through several owners, until landing at General Foods. It languished far behind Knox Gelatin for want of attention.
Users added a flavour to Knox. Jell-O came prepared, in six flavours. This was an exploitable advantage.
“In 1934,” says Leibowitz, “General Foods decided to sponsor Jack. He became the spokesperson for Jell-O, much the way Bill Cosby was forty years later. Don Bestor wrote the J-E-L-L-O jingle that rose over a five-note scale. When Jack appeared, he’d say, ‘Jell-O Everybody.’”
“Jack and Jell-O fit as a glove,” says Leibowitz. He increased sales of Jell-O, significantly, and kept sales high. Still, the Second World War soured the relation between General Foods and Benny.
Jell-O is gelatin. Gelatin comes from boiled bones, connective tissue and animal intestines. The basic ingredients of Jell-O were among the first items rationed during the war.
“General Foods couldn’t meet the demand for Jell-O,” says Leibowitz. It cut back on advertising Jell-O to bring demand in line with supply. There was no rationing of breakfast cereals. Sales of Grape Nut Flakes, a breakfast cereal, could increase endlessly. As of 1942, Jack was the spokesperson for Grape Nut Flakes.”
In 1944, Lucky Strike cigarettes involved a total change of style for Jack. “Oh yes,” says Laura Leibowitz. "George Washington Hill ran the American Tobacco Company from 1925 to 1946. He was a pill. Lucky Strike used hard-sell commercials.”
Hill built Lucky Strike on a strategy of making it acceptable for women to smoke, in public. His only tactic was hard sell. Yet, he took to the comparatively mild-mannered Benny, fast and well.
The General Foods advertisements were calm and genuine. Try Jell-O, you’ll love it. Lucky Strike rammed cigarettes into the lips of listeners.
Leibowitz attributes the best description of the Lucky Strike commercials to Martin Gostanian, the maven of pop culture. “He says, ‘You hit the dog on the nose with the newspaper. You hit dog on the tail with the newspaper. You pet the dog on the middle.’”
That’s the format of the Lucky Strike spots. Basil Ruysdale, an auctioneer, opened the Benny show, in hard sell. “Sold, American,” he said. Lucky Strike buys the best tobacco. Kenny Delmar says, “Right.”
There’s a similar spot at the end of the show. “ There you have two whacks with a newspaper,” says Leibowitz. “In the middle of the show, the ‘Sportsmen Quartet’ sings a comedy commercial; a novel arrangement of a popular song reworked into a Lucky Strike commercial. That’s petting the muzzle.”
Benny parted with General Foods in 1944. “Jack left General Foods,” says Leibowitz, of the IJBFC, "not the other way round. During the early 1940s, his audience shrunk. There were many more shows, more choice. Wartime controls hurt radio shows, in unseen ways.” Benny couldn’t mention the weather, for example, other than in a most generic way: it rained, the other day.
These and other stresses worried Benny; what were the prospects for his show. Doubt made him a bit edgy. Slowly, he introduced changes in the show. “To change sponsor, too, made sense,” says Leibowitz.
Maybe the hard-sell success of Lucky Strike boosted his confidence. The company sponsored another highly popular show, “Your Hit Parade.” Lucky Strike was the top-selling cigarette, in 1944, too. Nor were its executives beneath stroking the Benny ego.
Benny also had a run in, of sorts, with an executive from General Foods. “On a train trip,” says Leibowitz, “Jack and [the] executive talked. The executive said to Jack, ‘You should watch it.’ Jack thought it a reference to the slight slippage in his ratings.”
Maybe, Benny thought, General Foods was losing confidence in the show and him. He was making much money for General Foods. It took him off Jell-O because it couldn’t keep up with the demand, due to wartime rationing.
Benny was creating much of the demand for Jell-O. If General Foods worries about his ability to sell its product, maybe he should look for a more confident sponsor. He did.
Lucky Strike doesn’t fit Benny. Did he take what he could get? “Possibly,” says Leibowitz. “Still, although he slipped to fifth spot, in the ratings, his audience was huge. Many sponsors courted Jack. Lucky Strike won.”
Benny went with the sponsor he thought wanted him most. George Washington Hill talked with Benny, personally, about the deal. So, too, did many company executives.
Lucky Strike expressed strong belief in Benny. Its advertising agency, Ruthrauff and Ryan, changed the “Sold, American” auction theme, of the commercials, for Benny. It was hard to resist the Lucky Strike bid.
Why did the hard sell strategy work on the softer-toned Benny show? “Timing is one answer. His audience peaked in the 1941 season, with a share pg 36.2. About 43 million women, children and men listened to Jack each Sunday at 7 pm.”
Forty-three million is about twice a most-viewed “American Idol” episode, today. It’s half the audience of a typical “Superbowl.” An average episode of “Two and a Half Men,” with Charlie Sheen, had an audience of fifteen million.
“By 1944, Jack slipped to 26 share and the show ranked fifth,” says Leibowitz. “The audience hovers at that level for three years. The show slowly grows routine, safer. I think Jack senses a need for change. The taste in comedy was changing, which explains the rise of Bob Hope. Jack needed a way to get his large audience back.”
In practice, Lucky Strike didn't change the show that much. “If you remove the opening and ending commercials, ‘The Lucky Strike Program’ doesn’t seem much different from the Jell-O version,” says Leibowitz. Benny worked between the hard sell commercials. After “Speedy” Riggs, F. E. Boone and Kenny Delmar hard sell the opening, jovial Don Wilson introduces the show. The comedy commercial was enjoyable and interesting. Many listeners tuned out or went to the washroom as the end-of-show commercial began.
“The smaller audience, in 1944, and changes in the show are coincidental, not causal,” says Leibowitz. Previously, the cast worked as a group, a strong ensemble. In 1938, it was typical to involve two or three characters, at one time. Benny, Andy Devine, Don Wilson and Mary Livingstone engage in conversation, leading to a punch line about how Benny can’t find a girlfriend.
In the early 1940s, it seems fewer characters engage at one time. Benny talks with Don Wilson, to open the show. Then Mary comes along and Don fades. Phil Harris might join Mary and Benny, but they fade when Dennis Day shows up to sing.
In later years, Benny talks to the characters one at a time, often Don, Mary, Phil and Dennis; a guest arrives, after Dennis sings, a skit is performed. “The characters are in a revolving door,” says Leibowitz. “It strikes me as mechanical.”
This is the first half of the show. “Yes and the format hastens when Dennis and Phil get their own shows, in 1946,” says Leibowitz. “The Phil Harris and Alice Faye Show” follows Jack. Phil must leave Jack by 7:15 pm, to warm up the audience for his show.” The recording and touring career, of Dennis Day, takes off after the war; he’s busy and sometimes absent.
By the late 1940s, the show could air in sitcom mode, completely. During the first half, Benny works through the characters. A song by Dennis bridges to the second show. The second show is often a movie satire, maybe, involving a guest promoting his or her movie, record and so forth.
Mary and Don most always work the sitcom. Add Benny and the guest, there are four characters. Listeners hardly miss Phil and Dennis.
"You wouldn't be so smart if my writers were here,"
said Jack Benny to Fred Allen
during a seering exchange of ad-libs.
The Benny radio shows moved through eras, linked to writers. “Yes,” says Leibowitz. “Eras seem important for Jack. The Harry Conn era ran from 1932 to March 1936; Mary and Don joined during this time. Convinced he was the sole reason for the success of the show, Conn made outrageous demands. When Jack didn't meet the demands of Conn, he, Conn, abandoned the show, without a script.
“Bill Morrow and Ed Beloin replaced Conn. During their time, April 1936 until June 1943, Phil Harris, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson and Dennis Day joined the show. Al Boasberg, Howard Snyder and Hugh Wedlock contributed during these years, too. These writers formed a solid base for Jack.
“The war years had a different feel, maybe due to censorship and such. In 1943, four new writers took over, Sam Perrin, Milt Josefsberg, George Balzer and John Tackaberry.” Perrin and Blazer stayed with Jack for the rest of his life.
“Morrow and Beloin get the blue ribbon from me,” says Laura Leibowitz, President of the International Jack Benny Fan Club. “They are the most involved writers; both play small roles on the show. Al Boasberg is helping, too, punching up the lines.
“In the 1930s, radio was new and open to ideas. The show didn’t have the mantle to carry that it did from the middle 1940s onward. The stage fright, which overtook Mary later, wasn’t obvious, in the 1930s.
“‘Rochester’ is a new character in 1937. In 1939, Dennis Day is a fresh character. Both help Morrow and Beloin reinvigorate the show.”
By the 1940s, the stakes increased. The sponsor changes twice. The audience ratings wobble during the war. Stage fright overtakes Mary; she opts out of many shows, at the last moment. There are wartime limits. Dennis joins the Navy; he’s gone for two years.
After the war, television comes into play. Phil Harris and Dennis get their own radio shows, but stay with Benny, which causes some issues. The 1940s were tighter, less spontaneous than the late 1930s. There were different challenges and higher stakes.
On radio, Benny relied on writers 'more than, say, did Fred Allen. Benny used writers in vaudeville, but didn’t rely on them. In vaudeville, Benny told Bob Thomas, of the Associated Press, “You didn’t have to worry about writing [all the time]. If you got a good act together, you could play it for seven years. You were in a different town every week.” When you returned to a town, the audience had forgotten your act.
On radio twice a week, in 1932, Benny filled about 12 minutes of time. In effect, he needed a new vaudeville act each week. Thus, Harry Conn helped with the writing.
Benny offered strong comedy for Canada Dry. It was a good balance with the music. Benny never faced the huge writing challenge, alone. He built an ensemble that included writers, cast and “things,” such as his car, the Maxwell, voiced by Mel Blanc, and his Vault.
“Jack was successful, in radio, mostly because he used writers, well,” says Leibowitz. Interestingly, Fred Allen pushed Jack to use writers, although he didn’t make much use of them, himself. George Burns, of “Burns and Allen,” pushed Benny in this direction, too.
As Burns told Bob Thomas, in 1974, he and Benny told stories more than jokes. One line led to another. The story was funny, not only the lines. This called-for writers.
For Benny, the show, especially in the 1930s, told a story. The characters, Jack, Mary, Phil, Don and Dennis, traversed a storyline. Exchanges among the characters made the show interesting and funny.
To flush out the characters, find storylines and make the show more than a string of jokes, took focus and imagination. This wasn’t a task for one person. Developing continuity and flow took an ensemble of writers and actors.
Benny kept his writers much longer than did almost any other performer. The Bob Hope style, rat-a-tat topical jokes on different subjects, pushed him through writers as a hot knife through butter. Milt Josefsberg, for example, stayed with Benny for ten years, Sam Perrin for twenty-five.
The stability and loyalty Benny gave his writers, his ensemble, was a huge part of his success. It bolstered his confidence and theirs. If the writers were uncertain about their relations with Benny, the “I Can't Stand Jack Benny” contest would not have happened.
Mel Blanc, Benny Rubin and Benny with Sheldon Leonard as "The Tout"
The Benny radio shows had many defining moments. “On the 7 January 1945 show,” says Leibowitz, “three notable ideas appear for the first time. I call this the Nirvana show.
“Mel Blanc, train dispatcher, says ‘Anaheim, Azusa and'Cucamonga.’ The line gets a huge reaction; it becomes a running gag.The break between ‘Cuc’ and ‘Monga’ comes later.
"The Vault appears, too; previously, Jack had a safe. From 7 January 1945, the Vault has a combination lock and a guard, portrayed by Joe Kerns."
"His trips down to his Vault were masterpieces,” says Dr. Charles Laughlin, doyen of network radio and Neuro-Anthropologist of considerable note. "There was a toothless alligator in the moat, an ancient guard and creaking doors. The Vault verged on the surreal, leaving his audience arching from too much laughter.”
"Finally," says Leibowitz, "this show introduced ‘The Racetrack Tout,’ who gave Jack unsolicited advice about odds.” He’d say, “Hey, Bud, Bud, come here,” at the racetrack, in a grocery store or near a bank of elevators. “White potatoes are three-to-one over the sweet kind, today” or “Elevator two is six-to-four over elevator three to make five floors without a stop.” Benny Rubin originated the role of "The Tout"; Sheldon Leonard may be most remembered, as he played the role on radio and television.
"'Why I can't stand Jack Benny,'
that's what we'll do," said Benny.
"Not in twenty-five words, but in fifty words."
In 1946, a daring idea pushes Benny back on top to stay. '“The ‘I Can’t Stand Jack Benny’ contest is a huge part of renewing the show,” says Laura Leibowitz, “and the character. Using his left hand to cover the scratches Mary inflicted is a most defining moment in the career of Jack Benny. The contest showed how confident he was in his radio character and is thus defining.”
George Balzer told Leibowitz the story, of the contest. “When we got off-air on Sunday night,” he said, “we never knew what we were going to do for the next [show]. Somehow, by Tuesday, we had an idea. Well, Tuesday, 20 November 1945, came and we hadn’t thought of anything.
“Wednesday morning we, Perrin, Josefsberg, Tackaberry and I, went to see Jack, at his home. We said, ‘Nothing is happening.’ Maybe, if we all sit here together, for a while, something will come up.’
By noon, Wednesday, we still had no show. [Perrin] said to [Jack], ‘Why don’t we have a contest where we ask listeners to write lyrics for a song.'Merrick can put a melody to them. Then, we’ll have a contest.’
“Jack says, ‘No, I don’t want to go through that.’'We’re thinking a little bit more and I said, ‘Jack, here's an idea.'You know, we hear so much on the radio, [such as] I like so-n-so toothpaste in twenty-five words or less to win a prize. You like so-n-so potato chips in twenty-five words or less.
“Why don’t we ask people to write in and say, “I can’t stand Jack Benny because,” in twenty-five words or less. We give the best one a prize.’ There’s total silence in the room.'
“The other three writers look at me. Benny looks at me. I don’t know what to do.
“[Benny] gets up from his chair and walks across the room. He puts his hand on my shoulder and says, ‘That’s it. That’s what we’re going to do.’
“We said, ‘Jack, you can’t.’ He said, ‘It’s what we’re going to do and not in twenty-five words or less. We’re going to give 50 words or less.’
“We did it.'We were looking for one show.'We ran the idea for eleven weeks.
“‘I Can’t Stand Jack Benny” played on Benny as victim. We stroked each of his character traits over three months: vanity, violin playing, his boasting and so forth. The ratings spiked.”
The decision to go ahead took much nerve. “Yes,” says Laura Leibowitz. “The judges for the contest were comedian and writer, Goodman Ace, actor Peter Lorre and Fred Allen.” On joining the judging panel, Allen said, “I’m the greatest living authority on Jack Benny. I’ve seen him reach for his pocketbook.”
The contest received 277,000 entries, about one for every thousand listeners, which was unprecedented. It took four weeks to decide on a winner. The ratings skyrocketed.
Carroll P. Craig, of Pacific Palisades, California, won the contest. Second prize went to Charles S. Doherty, of Cleveland, Ohio. Joyce O’Hara, of Detroit, Michigan, won third prize.
Ronald Colman and his wife, Benita, were regular guests on the show. Coleman read the winning entry, on 3 February 1946. “I can’t stand Jack Benny because ‘he fills the air with boasts and brags, and obsolete, obnoxious gags. The way he plays the violin is music’s most obnoxious sin. His cowardice alone, indeed, matched by his obnoxious greed. And all the things that he portrays show up in my own obnoxious ways.”
Craig captured the character Benny played. As Colman said, after reading the winning entry, “The things we find fault with in others are the same things we tolerate in ourselves.” We find the character, Jack Benny, one way or another, in ourselves.
The contest fit the character Benny portrayed, well. “Jack built the show focusing on his faults,” says Leibowitz. Another story fits here.
“One show, in September 1949, involved a Hollywood bus tour. Jack only appears in the last five minutes.
“The tour guide says, ‘Now, on your right, we’re now passing the home of Jack Benny.’ Jack says, ‘This is where I get off, driver.’
“A phone call, from William Paley, who ran and mostly owned CBS, at the time, came immediately after the show. Paley says, ‘Jack, you have [guts] for appearing so little on your show. It was a debut show, too.’
“Jack says, ‘It was a good show. It got many laughs. Tomorrow, people will say wasn’t the Jack Benny show funny last night.’”
No matter who gave the punch line on his show, Benny got credit for the laugh. The ensemble worked to his benefit. Most comedians find it difficult to allow others to evoke the laughter. Benny, a comedic actor, found it easy.
“There are many stories about other radio comedians that reveal the opposite,” says Leibowitz. “During a rehearsal for, say, Eddie Cantor, a line, spoken by a secondary player, might get a huge laugh. When the show airs, Cantor says the line and gets the laugh. There are similar factual stories about most comedians, but not Jack.”
Frank Nelson always got a huge laugh for saying a stretched, “Yes?” in response to Benny. As Benny told Paley, the audience is laughing at something heard on my show. Around the water cooler, at work, the next day, their saying, “Did you hear Frank Nelson on ‘The Jack Benny Show,’ last night?”
A live show, at the Palladium, in London, England, revealed how confident the Jack Benny character had grown. “Frank Nelson told me the story,” says Laura Leibowitz, of the IJBFC. “Jack is playing the Palladium for the first time. Supposedly, after a brief introduction, he sauntered out, using his characteristic gate. He stood, in the middle of the stage, looking at the audience. He didn’t say a word.
“Someone laughed. Others began to laugh. Finally, everyone in the theatre was laughing, uproariously.
“Nelson said the laughter continued for two minutes, growing more intense by the second. Jack would look into the wings and give a shrug, saying, in a look, ‘I don’t know why they’re laughing.’ Eventually, someone from the second balcony yelled, in a Cockney accent, ‘For gawd’s sakes, Mr Benny, say something.’”
Jack denied, up and down, the yell came from a plant, a shill, in the audience. Using a shill wasn’t beyond Jack. He worked this angle, with Ned Miller, in the 1920s.
"We won't use him,"
was a typical Benny comment about a potential on his,
who didn't like the script or rehearse enough.
Irving Fein suggests Benny didn’t use many guests, on radio, at least until the war years, because of his search for excellence. Typically, guests rehearsed the show once or twice. Benny didn’t think he could get a strong enough performance, with such little preparation.
“It took time for Jack to get rolling on guests,” says Leibowitz. “The ‘Mills Brothers,’ were guests in the 1930s, as was Frances Langford. Otherwise, in the earlier days, guests were far between.”
A story about Grouch Marx makes point about Benny and guests. "The idea fell flat," says Leibowitz, "and may reflect what Fein claims." Early in the week, Groucho read a draft of the proposed script. He panned every idea, every word, and not in a nice way; he wanted to use his own material.
"The writers talked with Jack about the changes Groucho wanted. The comedy of Jack Benny, says Stephane Kanter, 'was as circumscribed as a minuet.' Grouch would use the Benny writers or not appear.
Grouch refused. "We won't use him," said Jack, referring to Groucho. "Jack wasn’t going to get what he needed from Groucho," says Leibowitz. Why waste time, when you can do something else as effective.
A few years later, Groucho guested with Benny. Groucho approved the script, with no trouble. It wasn’t a great show, the script keeps too tight control on the eccentric Groucho.
During an exchange, Groucho alluded to his earlier exclusion. He said to Benny, “Why am I never on your show?”
Benny said, “Because you’re difficult.”
Then, referring to the handwritten ideas, offered by the writers, years before, Groucho said, “I read anything they print for me.”
A search for perfection likely led Benny to have fewer guests other shows.
“By the 1950s,” says Leibowitz, “guests became expensive for radio. Once Jack is on television, regularly, the number of guest stars on radio drops. One budget paid for radio and television. As well, by 1951, Jack and the show were in transition, trying to move viewers and sponsor, smoothly, from radio to television.”
Benny was a perfectionist, when it came to the show. “He fine-tuned each show,” says Leibowitz, “as if a high-performance sports car. If anyone, Jack, a cast member or a guest, messed up, he fumed.”
He didn’t fume often, but he fumed. “Gisele Mackenzie (above) was a frequent guest on the show,” says Leibowitz. “Once, after a show, Jack blows into her dressing room and says, ‘When you delivered [such-and-such] line, you were off by a tenth of a second!’
“She looks at him and says, ‘A tenth of a second! My gawd; you know, how important is that!’ He cowers a bit and says, ‘Well, it was wrong.’”
Benny noticed everything about the show and spoke out when a performance wasn’t as perfect as he wanted. Maybe a tenth of a second is stretching. Still, the MacKenzie anecdote makes the point.
Frank Nelson and with Benny, on television
Yet, Benny allowed the ad-libbed “Drear Pooson” line. “ Frank Nelson told Laura Leibowitz the “Drear Pooson” story. “Early in a show, announcer Don Wilson blew a mention of the newspaper columnist, Drew Pearson. He called him Drear Pooson.
“Nelson said, ‘No one had come up with a line for me on this show. After Wilson blew the Drew Pearson name, the writers called me into the production booth. They said, ‘When Jack asks you if you’re the door attendant, say, ‘Well, who do you think I am, ‘Drear Pooson.’’
“‘No,” said Nelson, ‘you don’t ad-lib with Jack Benny.’ The writers said they’d take the fall for the ad-lib. I read it.
“‘When I delivered the line,’ said Nelson, ‘Jack began to laugh. His eyes got like big saucers. He grabbed the microphone pole, slide all the way down and pounded on the floor. Jack staggered all over the set, in hysterics.’”
In a tightly timed live show, ad-libbing is costly. Fred Allen knew the trickiness of timing. Many network comedy shows ran over. time "Sorry folks, we’re out of time," was not an unusual sign-off. More than once, mistimed laughter led the network to cut the Benny show before the skit finished.
The timing of a show includes laughter and applause. If they guess a line will get five seconds of laughter, but gets 15 seconds, the show runs over. Fifteen seconds expands, as the show moves along. One delay leads to another.
On radio, Benny worked silence to evoke laughter. When a robber said, “Your Money or your life,” Benny took several seconds to answer, as the laughter built. The robber, portrayed by Eddie Marr, had to provoke a response, saying, “Look bud, I said your money or your life.”
Jack Benny and Fred Allen feuding, 1937
The Jack Benny and Fred Allen feud is an endless fascination. It’s a pop culture relic. Yet, the facts of the feud are often mistaken.
“In December 1936,” says Laura Leibowitz, “Fred Allen began the feud, which lasted twelve weeks. An unscripted part of the Allen show, “Town Hall Tonight,” featured a 10-year old violinist, Stuart Canin. He played ‘The Bee,’ by Shubert, masterfully. After the performance, Allen said, ‘A little fellow, in the fifth grade at school and already he plays better than does Jack Benny.’
“Allen made this comment on the east coast version of his show. In 1936, a network show was performed twice, once for the east coast and, later, for the west coast. The networks wanted to maintain a sense of immediacy and spontaneity for listeres on the west coast. The cast and crew would do a show, live, for the east coast, say, at nine pm. They’d return at midnight to do it again for the west coast.
“Therefore no one knows exactly what Allen said on the west coast version that Jack heard. No recording exists." Later, Jack claimed Allen said, "[Jack Benny] should hide his head in shame. The horsehairs in his bowstring want to crawl back under the tail of the horse. The cat-gut, of his violin strings, wants back into the cat."
“At the end of that show, Jack says, ‘Mary, take a letter to Fred Allen. Tell him I’m not ashamed of my playing. I could play ‘The Bee.’’’
Jack aired at Sunday 7 pm on the east coast. Allen aired Wednesday at 8:30 pm. There was ample time for each to work up a good response. Each week, Allen egged on Benny.
In 1954, Allen said, about the feud, “I didn’t plan anything. I didn’t want to explain how [it] was good for [my show]. With our smaller audience, it would take an academy award display of intestinal fortitude to ask Jack to participate. I’d be hitching my gagging to a star. All I could do was hope Jack would have some fun with the idea and that it could be developed.”
“Allen and Benny went back and forth,” says Leibowitz. “In March 1937, Jack took his show to New York City, where the Allen show originated. Jack and Fred Allen stage a boxing match, at the Pierre Hotel, to settle the feud.
“The match never took place. Jack and Fred go out into the hall to settle matters, immediately. They return, arm in arm, singing the song, ‘Friends.’”
Allen saying he hitched his gagging to a star sums up the reasons for the feud, best. Benny finished that season in second place; Eddie Cantor had a strong number one show. Allen was far behind.
Allen had nowhere to go but up and the feud served no special purpose for Benny. “True,” says Leibowitz, “but Jack sowed the germ of a feud. His 5 April 1936 show featured a sitcom called, ‘Clown Hall Tonight.’ Jack supposedly wore a clothespin on his nose to mimic Allen; he starts laughing, uncontrollably, as the sitcom begins.
“By the way, ‘Clown Hall’ was the first show scripted by Ed Beloin and Bill Morrow. They hit their first show out of the park. It was a great start for them.”
On a lost show, from 1936, there’s an extended sketch about the feuding Hatfields and McCoys. The allusions are clearly to Benny and Allen. The idea existed before the Canin incident, if only in half-baked form.
Allen quietly hoped Benny would go along. “He figured Jack would catch on,” says Leibowitz. “At the least, it gave Morrow and Beloin material to focus their writing. The publicity didn’t hurt either show, even if Allen benefited more.”
The feud fits the “Charlie Brown” character Benny portrayed. “The late Eddie Carroll,” says Leibowitz, “likened Jack to ‘Charlie Brown.’ We laugh at adult foibles in the actions of children. Jack was an adult Charlie. ‘Bluffing and blustering his way through life,’ said Carroll, ‘somehow making it.’
“Mary saying to Jack, “Shut up,” is akin to ‘Lucy’ pulling the football away, just as ‘Charlie’ sets to kick it. ‘Linus’ and Dennis Day are alike, too. On radio, the character, Jack Benny, succeeds, not on strengths, but despite flaws, as does Charlie.’”
Each listener succeeded much the same way. “We see ourselves in Jack or ‘Charlie,’” says Leibowitz. “There is the appeal. I think the characters are general and slip across cultural lines, easily, and across time, too.”
During the feud, Fred Allen played “Lucy” to the hilt. He holds the football. Benny, as “Charlie,” takes a long run to give the ball a good boot. Allen pulls the ball away as Benny kicks at it.
Allen says Canin plays better than does Benny. Benny says he can play “The Bee.” Allen says Benny should put the strings of his violin back in the cat and the horsehair in his bow back on the horse. Benny says the bags under the eyes of Fred Allen make him appear as a butcher looking over two pounds of raw liver. Allen says Benny isn’t cheap; he has short arms and keeps his money low in his pockets.
“They went on this way for three months,” says Laura Leibowitz. “Neither gets the upper hand. Two evenly matched sides: the writers for Jack against the wit of Fred Allen.
“It was great radio. The audience loved it. Allen got a ratings boost.”
Eventually, Allen wins. “In May 1946, Jack guests with Allen. The show ends with Jack stripped to his boxers, yelling, ‘I’ll get you for this. You haven’t seen the end of me.’ To which Allen says, ‘It won't be long, now.’”
Back to CBS
As of 4 January 1949, Benny moved back to CBS from NBC. This is a defining, telling moment in entertainment history. To help promote the move, CBS temporarily changes it name, from the Columbia Broadcasting Company to Check Benny Sundays.
Irving Fein says, in 1944, Benny re-signed with Lucky Strike for two years. The deal paid him $22,000 a show. From this money, Benny paid the cast, writers, a musical arranger and bandleader, 17 musicians and for sound effects or other materials necessary to produce a complete show.
Lucky Strike provided and paid-for broadcasting facilities. NBC and Lucky Strike had a separate deal for airing the show. Benny earned about $2000 a show.
That’s much money. The average wage was less than $30 a week, at the time. Minimum wage was 43 cents an hour.
“Yes, it is good money,” says Leibowitz, “but not as much as other radio stars were making. Jack had the number five show. Lucky Strike considered him the best sales person on radio.
“Arthur Lyons, his agent, hadn’t negotiated a big enough deal. Jack needed more money. He took matters into his own hands.”
Earlier, the Music Corporation of America (MCA) turned “Amos and Andy” into a corporation, which increased their earnings, substantially. That impressed Benny. He took action.
Benny talked with Taft Schreiber, the top agent at MCA and company Vice-president. Schreiber says MCA wants to work with Benny, but not if he has another agent. Benny pays off Lyons and signs with MCA.
“Immediately,” says Leibowitz, “MCA forms a corporation, Amusement Enterprises, Inc., to produce radio shows or movies and such. The company, not an individual, puts together the show, negotiates with Lucky Strike and NBC. Jack gets a separate deal, with Lucky Strike, for his services.
“Schreiber asked Lucky Strike to re-open the contract. A clause in the 1944 deal gave Lucky Strike an automatic 3-year extension, if it wished. Schreiber asked Lucky Strike not to act on the extension.
“Surprisingly, Lucky Strike wants to re-do the deal, with Jack. He’s called their greatest asset. The company wants to lock him in for more than three years.”
Lucky Strike offers to pay Benny separately from the cost of the show. He gets $10,000 a show for his services, through 1953. A separate corporation forms to produce the weekly show; it gets $27,500 for each radio show.
“This was a hefty increase all around,” says Leibowitz. “Lucky Strike didn’t mind. Its need was for the ‘comedy commercial’ to be a fixed part of the show. Lucky Strike paid about one million dollars, in 1945, to produce 35-to-39 new radio shows a season.
“There was likely some profit from producing the weekly show and the company produced other entertainment, such as movies. In another context, some suggested Jack earned $12,000 a week. MCA made a great deal for Jack. NBC and Lucky Strike didn’t care as long as Jack showed Sunday at 7 pm.”
David Sarnoff, of NBC; Benny and William S. Paley, of CBS
A few years later, in late 1948, anyone who baulked at the 1946 deal was a genius. “Yes,” says Leibowitz, “Jack sells Amusements to CBS, where the show moves. If he doesn’t have the separate agreement with Lucky Strike, for his personal services, selling Amusements, the show and the move were not possible.
“Prior to forming Amusements, Jack was little more than an employee of Lucky Strike and NBC. His marginal tax rate was 77%. The company, Amusements, paid him dividends and capital gains taxed at about one-third the wage rate.
“Jack got $2.26 million from CBS for Amusements,” says Leibowitz. Robert Metz suggests CBS was willing to pay $3.2 million. NBC offered $2.26 million, but wanted a few days to mull over the deal and didn’t ask Benny to hold off on other bids, while it pondered.
“Paley, at CBS, got wind of the delay,” says Laura Leibowitz. “He and his legal team flew to Los Angeles. They give the NBC offer a quick read and accept it as written, on 11 November 1948.
“Lucky Strike stayed out of the negotiations, expressing no network preference. Its position was clear. Lucky Strike went where Jack went.
“The first CBS show aired 4 January 1949, a week after the last show on NBC. The average rating for the show, on NBC before Jack left, was 24. Paley promised Lucky Strike a $3000 refund for every rating point Jack lost on CBS. Jack was a huge hit; the show went up 3 points in the ratings.”
The refund offer to Lucky Strike was a gambit. Paley put Benny on each of the 400 stations in the CBS network. Alaska heard him live, for the first time, on CBS.
NBC aired Benny on about 225 stations. Almost doubling the number of stations carrying Benny cut the risk for Paley and CBS. It was a clever move.
More than dollars and cents led Jack to sell and move. “NBC showed little interest in buying Amusements. Why buy what it already had?” David Sarnoff, who ran NBC, saw talent as, “A lot of sweet air,” says Metz.
Paley, at CBS, respected and enjoyed talent. “Jack didn’t know Sarnoff; they met and that was about it,” says Leibowitz. One evening, Paley spontaneously called Benny to discuss the move.
“The lawyers, accountants and agents discussed the deal,” Paley said to Jack, “but we haven’t.” They talked. Paley flew to Los Angeles and met with Benny, at his home. This turned the tide, in favour of CBS. Paley profited from respecting talent.
CBS invested, heavily, in Benny. Paley believed listeners tuned to talent, not stations; at NBC, Sarnoff took the opposite position, favouring technology over on-air talent. Benny said he’d urge his friends to move to CBS and did.
Poor human relations cost NBC. “Yes,” says Leibowitz. “The Paley style likely made the deal. Jack had a sweet spot at NBC. There were many reasons for him to stay at NBC.”
The Internal Revenue Services (IRS) challenged the CBS deal with Benny. When Benny claimed the CBS deal as a capital gain, the IRS charged Amusement Enterprises was a personal property holding company, not eligible for capital gains. Benny fought the IRS to the Supreme Court and won.
The floodgates opened after this ruling. “Most NBC talent left for CBS,” says Leibowitz. “Among the top radio stars at NBC, only Fred Allen along with Phil Harris and Alice Faye stayed. Milton Berle stayed, but his radio career was minor; he was the first major star of television, though, on the NBC Television Network.”
Paley made a personal plea that motivated Benny, not unlike what Lucky Strike did in 1944. It was more the Paley style than simple strategy. Still, there was there another reason for him leaving NBC.
“John T. Cahill may have been the final insult,” says Leibowitz. “Sarnoff hired Cahill to act for NBC in its negotiations with Jack. He, Cahill, had history with Jack.
“In 1939, Jack and George Burns bought jewelry, while in France, from a charming fellow who turned out to be a con man. The seller insisted there was no need for Jack or Burns to pay the customs duty. He had a diplomatic pouch to bring the diamonds into the USA.
“Customs officers caught the con man. He involved Jack and George Burns. Jack and Burns pleaded guilty, hoping to avoid publicity. The judge levied a fine and suspended sentence.
“Jack had to appear in court, in New York City. The judge treated him as a deplorable criminal; Jack felt humiliated. The judge wondered, aloud, how a man that earned [so much money a] week could fall for such an unscrupulous scheme. When Jack slouched, in shame, on the back of a chair during reading of the facts into the record, the judge snapped at him to stand up straight.”
It was terrible for a revered person to engage in a tawdry crime. Making it worse was that Benny was generous, endlessly helping new talent and charities. The district attorney that prosecuted the case was John T. Cahill.
Paley was personable. Benny liked that. Sarnoff, distracted by technology, misplayed important circumstances.
Benny and Television
Benny did his first television show after moving to CBS. “It was a pilot, filmed in 1949,” says Leibowitz, “an experimental show filmed in the CBS radio studios. Time swallowed the show, but we know the guests were Isaac Stern, ‘Lum and Abner,’ the Andrews Sister and Eddie Anderson as ‘Rochester.’
“The pilot confirmed Jack could take his style and content to television. On 28 October 1950, he did a live show from New York City. CBS recorded it for airing on the west coast. His opening line was, ‘I’d give a million dollars to know how I look.’”
The first television show ran 45 minutes. Benny believed an hour was too long. After that, his shows were half an hour; except for specials, which he did after his weekly show ended.
Benny eased into television. “In 1949 and 1950, Jack did one television show each year, but he did three shows in 1951,” says Laura Leibowitz. “Part of his pace was budget. Radio and television shared the same budget: each television show cut deeply into the radio budget.
“As well, after the move to CBS, Jack pre-recorded more of the radio shows. Now, he could repeat shows, not only scripts. This opened more time for touring and television, not to mention earnings.
“Jack had much to lose, as he moved to television. His radio show was now permanently number one. It could likely have gone on another five years, without losing money.”
Television is far more demanding than is radio. The technology is complex. Watch the credits at the end of any television show to see how large the crew.
A minor change in television leads to many other changes, some major and time consuming. Relighting may be necessary or new camera angles and makeup. It may take hours for small changes to take effect.
Radio was fast. Don Wilson misspoke the name, Drew Pearson. Moments later, the writers penciled in a back-reference for Frank Nelson to say, Drear Pooson. Such a response is mostly impossible on television.
Television time is expensive. Jack couldn’t stand and look at the audience for more than few seconds. A 30-second laugh cost the same as a 30-second commercial.
Fred Allen complained about television technology breaking the flow of a show. “No doubt,” says Leibowitz, “but as Allen also complained, television ate ideas and scripts ten times faster than did radio. Television is a demanding medium. It calls-for more learning and rehearsing.
“Jack wisely took baby-steps into television because he didn’t want to undermine his number one radio show. Milton Berle and Sid Caesar jumped right in to television; neither had much of a radio presence to protect. They could bet the farm on television and did.”
Both Berle and Caesar were phenomenally successful. In a few years, both were gone from weekly network television, never to return. Benny had a regular network television show for 15 years: “Jack took time to learn about television and fit his style to it,” says Leibowitz.
The radio show ended on 22 May 1955, with no fanfare. “It was the last radio show of the season,” says Bobb Lynes, co-host of “Don’t Touch that Dial,” on KPFK-FM, in Los Angeles, California. “I’m not sure anyone realized it was last weekly radio show, ever.”
Benny with Eddie "Rochester" Anderson; "in-one" with Johnny Carson
There was a huge difference between radio and television for Benny. “On radio, Jack relies on the ensemble,” says Leibowitz. “It’s the 'Lucky Strike Program, starring' a core of five actors and a player or two, such as Frank Nelson and Bea Bernadet. On television, Jack is the centre, with actors playing roles around him.
“Yes, Don Wilson is on every television show and 'Rochester' is on frequently. Dennis appears, sometimes, Mary rarely and Phil Harris never. Jack carries the television show, usually with a guest. He’s able to succeed without the ensemble.”
Most Benny television shows open “in one.” That is, Benny works alone, in front of the curtain, delivering a brief monologue; the last vestiges of vaudeville. Many of his television shows end this way.
A sitcom show might involve Benny, “Rochester” and a guest star. Walt Disney guested, on a later colour special, to promote “Mary Poppins.” Jack wants tickets for his friends. When Disney discovers Jack is trying to sell the tickets, he sends his pet tiger after Benny, who opens an umbrella and sails away, Mary Poppins style. On another shows, Jack dreams he and Marilyn Monroe take a sea cruise.
For another version of the television show, Benny does a monologue. The guest, say, bandleader Bob Crosby, comes out. They talk, maybe sing, dance or perform a brief sketch. Though there might be a player or two in these shows, the focus is on the guest star and Benny.
“Television scripts often came directly from radio scripts,” says Leibowitz. “Someone steals his car, the Maxwell. Jack goes to the Beverly Hills Police Department, to report the theft, and discovers the police dogs are standard Poodles, not German Shepherds. This storyline appeared twice on television.
“Jimmy Stewart and Gloria Stewart replace Ronald Colman and Benita Colman on television, using the radio scripts. Another borrowed script involved Jack going shopping and his radio nemesis, Frank Nelson, is the grocer. The television show ends with Nelson pushing Jack out of the store, in a grocery cart.
“There was a legacy of material, from radio. Scripts used on television were often fifteen years old. Adding visuals made old story lines new.
Benny with Humphrey Bogart, 1955; Marilyn Monroe, 1953
“It’s worth noting how open Jack was to working with his guest stars,” says Leibowitz. Bogart and Monroe made their first television appearances with Benny. “Jack made television less scary for many top stars from movies, theatre and radio,” says Leibowitz.
“Jack also worked well with newcomers, as if they were old hands. He let Shari Lewis steal a show. Jack worked with Lambchop and her other puppets, superbly. Lewis dances and sings, showing the breadth of her talent.
“On one show, Dennis Day had a singing competition, of a sort, with a new group, “The Lettermen.” Jack worked with Frankie Avalon, who was trying to record a new hit: Jack’s envious and keeps interrupting the session until he gets to play on the record.
In 1962, a Filipino group, “The Rocky Fellers,” performed “Long Tall Sally,” with Jack singing back up, wearing an Elvis wig and swiveling his hips. “About the time colour television begins,” says Leibowitz, “Jack has a special featuring the ‘Beach Boys’ singing ‘Barbara Ann.’ Another special featured ‘Gary Pucket and the Union Gap’ singing its hit, ‘Young Girl.””
It was humour through generational opposition. “Yes,” says Leibowitz. Funnier, perhaps, and more daring was having the "Smothers Brothers" on the show, in 1965. Non-conformists, they outwit every attempt by Jack to fit them into a straitjacket comedy formula. For their effort, the “Smothers Brothers” guest on the final weekly “Jack Benny Show,” in 1965.
His flexibility showed most with the Marquis Chimps (above). “Yes, two shows featuring the Marquis Chimps got his highest ratings on television,” says Leibowitz. Benny sits on a small, chimp-size chair. When he starts playing the violin, the chimps leave the stage, in obvious disgust.
“The television show wasn’t only about old hands, such as George Burns or Bob Hope," says Leibowitz. Jack willingly passed the torch. Many others did not.”
“I’m too young to know Benny on radio,” says Burt Dubrow, creator of the “Jerry Springer Show” and “Sally,” “but I know him on television. He was unlike any other comedian, probably ever. Benny never gave himself the joke.
On radio, Frank Nelson gave a 25-second laugh line, Drear Pooson. Bob Hope got a 17-second laugh calling Dennis Day “an E-flat idiot.” The laugh was 32 seconds long, when Andy Devine closed the show, calling it the “new Jelly series.”
“On television,” says Dubrow, “Benny would take the punch line and look at the camera. In effect, Benny was saying, ‘Why me? How’d I get in the middle of this mess?’ Why am I the punch line? 'His reaction got him laughs, probably bigger laughs than anyone else on the show.”
On radio, listeners imagined the Benny reaction as the punch line hit. Viewers saw it in his remarkably hilarious eyes. Although the effect varied, by medium, the result was the same: uproarious laughter.
“At the end of the 1963 and 1964 season,” says Laura Leibowitz, “CBS Television didn’t renew the show.' [Jack] signed for one-year, with NBC, which aired his show at 9:30 pm on Friday.
“CBS aired ‘Gomer Pyle, USMC’ opposite Jack. ‘Pyle’, a spin off from the hugely popular ‘Andy Griffith Show,’ was a surprise monster hit. It swamped the competition, including Jack.
" Jack Benny Hour," with Smothers Brothers
and Phyllis Diller, 1966
“On 16 April 1965, the ‘Smothers Brothers’ guested, with Jack." says Laura Leibowitz. "It was his last regular television show. Jack was 71 years old.' There would be specials, but the fall of 1965 was the first season without a regular Jack Benny show, on radio or television, in 33 years.”
To eulogize Benny, in late 1974, William Paley, founder and head of CBS, made a rare on-camera appearance. “I can never see another Jack Benny coming along,” he said. Benny was a strong role model, other entertainers, those who understood how he prepared … knew, from him, “that to produce a successful show, [especially] a comedy, took a great deal of work.
“Jack,” said Paley, “had a great respect for his audience. He regarded them as adults who appreciated good humor [and were] sophisticated. [Benny] never talked down to his audience.”
“Gags die,” said Jack Benny, “humour doesn’t.” Gagsters, such as Milton Berle or Bob Hope needed new jokes, daily. The rooms where their writers toiled had revolving doors.
The Benny character relied on a stable ensemble of writers, actors and players, running gags and oddities. The oddness of his character was the target of the running gags. He was vain, tone-deaf, boastful, stingy and forever 39 years old.
Benny was a confident actor. He took a punch line well. Early in his vaudeville career, Benny realized pantomime, with a desperate tone, made a simple musicial number seem difficult and increased audience enjoyment. Radio and television audiences laughed, hard, at what seemed endless humiliation and frustration by his cast; it was a subtle extension of his vaudeville pantomime and it happened on his show.
There’s a little of everyone in the character, Jack Benny. Carroll Craig, who won the “Why I Can’t Stand Jack Benny” contest, in 1946, said it best. Benny’s a blend of our impossible ideas and intolerable habits.
We share his flaws: vanity, penny-pinching and self-important boasting. We share his strengths: hope, persistence in hard work and generosity. We share his frailties; innocence, often mistakenly trusting others, as Eddie Carroll notes when comparing Benny to “Charlie Brown.” '
“Listening to ‘The Jack Benny Show,’ you learn much about us,” says Laura Leibowitz, President and Founder of the International Jack Benny Fan Club. “We’re gregarious and egotistical, sentimental and loyal, pompous and modest. We are, as is Jack, a bundle of contradictions.”
The support of others is important. Benny was always encouraging. Listening or viewing his shows evinces his encouraging nature: Benny rarely gives the punch line; the big laughs go to other cast members.
“Jack took the punch line for every joke line,” says Leibowitz. “Yet, he wasn’t a punching bag. As he told William Paley, listeners laugh with what happens on my show.
We dearly embrace generosity. Few of us have the confidence to follow through on it, as did Benny. He never stole a laugh from another actor.
Guests, actors and players got the best lines, on Benny shows. When Ronald Coleman mentioned the “Phil Harris Orchestra,” his wife, Benita, got a 31-second laugh for saying, “Please, Ronnie, not while I’m eating.” When “Rochester” tells a psychic medium to slip a message from a ghost under the door, the laugh is 23-seconds long. Frank Nelson got the longest laugh, 35 seconds, when he announced he finally unfastened his suspenders.
Benny was happy making room for others, his guests, ensemble and players. Few celebrities fluidly work with new talent, as did Benny, with Sherri Lewis. Such generosity is rare.
On the Muscular Dystrophy Labour Day Telethon (MDLT), which Jerry Lewis hosted for 45 years, new talent got little notice. Lewis, the venerable fool, fought to keep the older guard in place. For this, among many reasons, the MDLT displaced Lewis, in 2011, without notable effect.
On television, technology replaced the ensemble that supported Benny on radio. Lighting, make-up and camera crews, among others, worked for the production more than for the actors. Content gave way to technology: the medium was the message. Yet, through his content, the “Why me” stare, for instance, Benny evoked untethered laughter.
We need to laugh. Laughter is a form of permission. We utter a little laugh after doing something embarrassing. It’s a way we say we hope others won’t chastise us too much.
We laugh with our family and friends, but laugh at others. We tease those we care for and taunt those we don’t like. Audiences laughed with Benny, as friend, as part of his family and radio ensemble.
“Laughing with Jack gives permission for his flaws,” says Leibowitz. “We allow him his vanity, miserliness or failed attempts to bully the ostensibly dim-witted character expertly portrayed by Dennis Day. Our laughter is permission for us to have faults, too.”
Forgiveness is a big part of laughing. Benny, says Hilmes, violates western ideas of masculinity. His character is stingy and talentless, a romantic failure.
Western ideas of manhood are remarkably absurd. When we laugh at the lack of manliness shown by Benny, in this sense, we admit the silliness of the root ideas. Through Benny, we admit the folly of falling for a stereotype, which does us disservice, and self-forgive.
Benny is a perfectionist. He works hard, fine-tunes his script and acting. “My best ad-libs,” Benny said, “are the ones I rehearse most.”
Perfectionism often masks a lack of confidence, but not for Benny. In him, roots confidence. His willingness to persist, to forge ahead, to do his best, is the hallmark of our species. Mostly, we succeed by leaning forward, winning less by strength, as Eddie Carroll noted, than despite flaws.
Too often overlooked is the decisiveness of Jack Benny. He chose to leave a soft job, in Earl Carroll’s “Vanities,” to try radio. When writer Harry Conn made outrageous demands, in the middle of a radio season, Benny let him go. He replaced Conn with Bill Morrow and Ed Beloin, perhaps his best career decision. He eased out of radio and into television, when others, such as Milton Berle and Sid Caesar, leapt, hit fast and faded quickly; the length of the Benny television career, 15 years, is mostly matched late-night network talk show hosts.
The work of Jack Benny is highly regarded. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, the regard for Benny is exceptional. Many television shows, some airing decades after Benny passed, try to develop, say, running gags to bring viewers back week after week. “M*A*S*H,” “Cheers” and “Frasier” had some success; none lasted 33 years.
The work of Jack Benny is of the highest quality. As he emphasized human flaws, say, vanity or penny-pinching, Benny was industrious and decisive. His work captured and balanced the best and worst of humans; his prestige earned and deserved.
Jack Benny leads us to a fuller understanding of others and ourselves. Fred Allen did much the same, but in his moment. The Benny themes, universal in appeal, transcend time and space.
Benny built a cast of characters that played against his traits. Sharp-tonged Mary Livingstone said, “Oh, shut up,” to deflate the boastful, status seeking Benny. Jovial announcer Don Wilson took jabs from Benny about his extra weight, but won their verbal duels because he represented the sponsor. Phil Harris, playboy musician, constantly needled Benny for his lack of romantic success. Dennis Day innocently deflected bullying by Benny.
Other shows, such as Bob Hope or Fred Allen, avoided character development, especially on the Benny scale. Combining comedy with character, Benny took the best from successful radio shows, including “Amos and Andy” and “The Rise of the Goldbergs” as well as comedic shows, such as Eddie Cantor or Ed Wynn. Later shows, such as “Fibber McGee and Molly” and “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet” found success in the deep characterizations pioneered by Benny.
The most important character built by Benny wasn’t on his show. “You must remember,” says Burt Dubrow, “Johnny Carson idolized Benny,” perhaps beyond imagination. In the early 1980s, Frank Nelson, who endlessly needled Benny, had a recurring role on the “Tonight Show,” as homage to Benny.
Carson hosted the “Tonight Show” for thirty years before Leno, Conan and Leno. Almost twenty years after he left the “Tonight Show,” he remains widely known and respected, admired and adored. Carson is the standard every television comedian aims to achieve.
“Benny invented Carson,” says Dick Summer, podcaster and radio legend, now honoured in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. “When a joke bombed, as did many, Carson did his version of the Benny “take” or look. Carson diverted his eyes to sidekick Ed McMahon, and slowly turned to stare right into the camera. His eyes said, ‘Why aren’t you laughing.’ This got the laugh, every time, even two or three times in one monologue.”
When a guest, on the “Tonight Show,” said something outrageous, Carson used the stare. He stared at bandleader, Doc Severinson, and slowly moved to the camera. As with Jack Benny, everyone got the message, “What do I do?”
Imagined or viewed, the silent look, of Jack Benny, arms akimbo, his left hand, perhaps, on his cheek, inspired the Carson stare. “If there were no Jack Benny,” Dick Summer says, “Carson would be a television giant, but because of Jack Benny, Carson is the Grand Master.”
Benny and Carson got laughs with silent takes, looks or stares. In most cultures, the authority of silence goes unquestioned. Americans obsessively need to fill the void. Media dead air is the archenemy defeated with noise. Yet, Benny, then Carson, got their biggest laughs silently, not once, but thousands of times, over sixty years.
Their feud made Jack Benny and Fred Allen the ying and yang of network radio. Feuding wasn’t a new idea. In 1927, Nils T. Granlund and Harry Richman feuded on radio. Ben Bernie, the bandleader, and Walter Winchell, the divulger of secrets, feuded most infamously.
Bob Hope and Bing Crosby also feuded, though less memorably. This feud based in how much Hope envied Crosby, his talent, success and wealth. Crosby, in retaliation, called Hope, “Dad,” to imply advanced age and how Hope was over the hill.
The leitmotif of the Hope and Crosby feud, was that almost every big success for Hope came when he was second or third choice. For “The Big Broadcast of 1938,” a hugely successful revue movie, Hope got the starring role after Jack Benny declined. Hope and Crosby were third choice to star in a hugely successful series of road movies, in which Hope played second banana.
For Havig, the Benny and Allen feud was a barrage of insult comedy, which misses the point, grossly. Friends tease and enemies taunt. Best of friends, Benny and Allen teased, relentlessly, for 50 million listeners to enjoy.
The Benny and Allen feud was a sophisticated battle of wits. Listeners understood it was all in fun. If the feud was factual, if Benny and Allen didn't like each other, if the insults were intended to harm, the audience for shows would have crashed and the feud wouldn't linger as a relic of pop culture.
In part, the feud endures as a metaphor for how lives are lived. Benny worked in the private realm, as do we all. Allen worked in the public realm, as do we all.*
Benny and Allen came up, recently, in a media sociology seminar I give. Their importance, missed by most, stirred the interest of one student. Her grandfather, 80, whom she adores, raves about Benny.
She wanted to find out more to grow closer to her grandfather. Eventually, my detailing of Benny glassed her eyes. I suggested a website where she could listen to the show.
She listened to a show. “Everyone made fun of him,” she said, “and he was odd, supposedly spending three weeks looking for a golf ball.” How, she wondered, did her grandfather, with his great stature in her life, become enthralled with Benny?
Listening to one show, few find Benny interesting. I suggested another website, where she could find more shows. “Try listening to ten consecutive shows,” I said.
She did. Now, Benny was hilarious. She laughed, hard, thinking about him and the show. How lucky is her grandfather?
Jack Benny, the character, lived in a private world, formed by writers and actors around a great many peccadillos. Once you learn the grammar of Jack Benny, the Maxwell and the Vault, Mary and Don, Phil and Dennis, Frank Nelson, Mel Blanc and Bea Bernadet, the show is uproarious, the silence deafening. This private world, reflected in the success of running gags, needs learning, as listeners knew and a granddaughter learned.
Benny isn’t the only comedy show to work the private realm. “Frasier” took several episodes to learn. Once learned, the slightest offhand comment or suggestion became hilarious. As Benny, much of “Frasier” is for the insider, the viewer who took time to learn about that world.
Fred Allen worked the public realm. His satire was topical. He impaled inept bosses or politicians, greed and arrogance, calling network executives barnacles or molehill people.
Most anyone listening to Allen, even once, found something to amuse. The laughter or entertainment depended on awareness of cultural reference points; every listener had an inconsistent boss or knew of political scandals. The wider the range of cultural reference points, held by the listener, the funnier was Fred Allen
Accessibility to Allen and Benny was different. Allen, urbane and satirical, demanded general and topical awareness; he appealed mostly to non-rural listeners. Benny had a wide, family appeal, strengthened by the investment made to learn about his radio world before fully entering.
Benny was a serial. There were running gags and storylines taking weeks to play out, such as the “Why I Can’t Stand Jack Benny” contest, the effort to retrieve a lost golf ball or the feud with Allen. Though often alluding to past shows, Allen was episodic; each show self-contained. The Benny and Allen shows were akin to “Frasier” and “Saturday Night Live.”
"He [Benny] was the nicest man you want to meet," says Mel Brooks. "True," says Dick Cavett. "When I wrote for Jack Parr, I used to take the main elevator down to the ground floor, right after the show. I wanted to hear what audience members thought of the show.
"One night, Jack Benny, who guested on Parr that night, was in the elevator, with members of audience, when I slipped in between the closing doors. Benny was asked, "Are you really a miser?" "Do you have a valut below your house in Beverely Hills?" Are you married to Mary Livingstone. Benny graciously answered each question.
"As we got off the elevator, I asked Benny if the fans and the same questions, over and over, ever got to him. He put his hand on my should and said, "Sometimes, you know, kid, you just want to tell them to fuck off."
Benny endures, whereas Allen and others do not. Today, anyone who listens to, say, ten Benny shows enters a private world. Benny thus picks up new fans, all the time.
“Family Feud” is a long-running five-day-a-week television game show. Two families compete in guessing the answers one hundred women or men gave to an innocuous question. The questions and answers form a huge repository of cultural reference points.
On an episode of “Feud,” host John O’Hurley asked for the top answers to this question: “Name a celebrity who is as or more popular after their death than when she or he was alive.” The top answer was Elvis Presley. Other answers included Marilyn Munroe and Heath Ledger. **
The number seven answer startled. It was Jack Benny. Thirty-five years after his death, survey respondents said Benny was more popular after death than in life.
' These photographs courtesy of the International Jack Benny Fan Club.
*Hilmes uses a similar idea, in a different way.
**Ledger passed away on 22 January 2008. The last show hosted by O’Hurley was 28 May 2010. The question eliciting the Benny answer appeared during this time.
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Jack Benny and Joan Benny, “Sundays at Seven: the Jack Benny Story,” published by Warner Books in 1990.
Laurence Bergreen, “Look Now, Pay Later: the rise of network broadcasting,” published by Mentor Books in 1980.
Eddie Carroll, “Backstage,” published in the “Jack Benny Times: 2000-2005,” on pages 286-288.
Sarah Blacher Cohen, "Jewish Wry: essays on Jewish humour," published by the University of Indiana Press in 1987.
Alan Havig (1990), “Fred Allen’s Radio Comedy,” published by Temple University Press, is a study of radio humour.
Michele Hilmes, “Radio Voices” published by the University of Minnesota Press in 1999.
Stefan Kanfer, “Grouch: the life and times of Julius Henry Marx, is published by Vintage.
Dr Charles Laughlin is a Neuroanthropologist, with a passion for old time radio. His newest book is "Communing with the Gods: consciousness, culture and the dream brain," published by Daily Grail (2011).
Laura Leibowitz, “The Jack Benny Times: 1984-1989,” was published by the International Jack Benny Fan Club in 2007.
----- “The Jack Benny Times: 2000-2005,” was published by the International Jack Benny Fan Club in 2005.
Mary Livingston, Hilliard Marks and Marcia Borie, “Jack Benny,” was published by Doubleday, in 1978.
Robert Metz, “CBS: reflections in a bloodshot eye,” published by Playboy Press in 1975.
Joe Morella, Edward Z. Epstein and Eleanor Clark, “The Amazing Careers of Bob Hope: from gags to riches,” published by Arlington House in 1973.
Gerald Nachman, “Raised on Radio,” published by the University of California Press, in`1998.
Robert Taylor (1989), “Fred Allen: his life and wit,” published by Little, Brown.
Bob Thomas, “No Joke, They’re Pals,” from the Associated Press and published in the Sunday “Record,” Bergen County, New Jersey, on 22 December 1974.
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2476-762X(eISSN)
Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention (아시아태평양암예방학회)
Significant Correlation between Salivary and Serum Ca 15-3 in Healthy Women and Breast Cancer Patients
Laidi, Fatna (Oral Biomechanics and Biotechnology Research Unit, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Mohammed 5th Souissi University) ;
Bouziane, Amal (Department of Periodontology Faculty of Dental Medicine, Biostatistical, Clinical and Epidemiological Research Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Mohammed 5th Souissi University) ;
Lakhdar, Amina (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ibn Sina University Hospital Rabat) ;
Khabouze, Samira (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ibn Sina University Hospital Rabat) ;
Amrani, Mariam (Pathology Department, National Institute of Oncology) ;
Rhrab, Brahim (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ibn Sina University Hospital Rabat) ;
Zaoui, Fatima (Oral Biomechanics and Biotechnology Research Unit, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Mohammed 5th Souissi University)
https://doi.org/10.7314/APJCP.2014.15.11.4659
The tumor marker CA 15-3 is one of the most import reliable for metastatic breast cancer monitoring. While it is generally assessed in serum of patients, blood sampling is an invasive method compared to saliva sampling which is simple and could be an alternative to blood according to many studies. The aim of this investigation was to assess the relationship between serum and salivary concentrations of the protein CA 15-3 in patients with breast cancer and healthy asymptomatic volunteers. A case-control study was conducted with 60 women: 29 breast cancer patients from the Maternity Hospital Souissi Rabat (Morocco) and 31 healthy asymptomatic women. The CA 15-3 concentrations in saliva and serum samples were assessed using an enzyme immune assay (EIA kits) and comparison between cases and controls was made by the Mann-Whitney test. The correlation between serum and saliva CA 15-3 concentration was tested using Pearson correlation. The comparison result of CA15-3 concentration in saliva and serum level in cases and controls was not statistically significant (p>0.05). However, the correlation between salivary and serum CA 15-3 concentration was positive and statistically significant (r=0.27, p=0.03). In conclusion, the positive correlation between salivary and serum expression found in our study suggests that saliva could be an alternative to blood sampling to help breast cancer monitoring.
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This Week on Mars: NASA Confirms Flowing Water
Posted by Krypton Radio | Sep 28, 2015 | Sci / Tech, Space Sciences
As usual, NASA is hedging its bets. Until some human being goes to Mars, finds Hale Crater and sticks a finger in the soil and feels the damp salty sand for himself, what we’ll have to be satisfied with is “best evidence yet.” That said, the images and other telemetry from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars.
Let’s break it down and make it simple.
Dark streaks appear to ebb and flow ever time on various slopes where the temperatures get up to -10 degrees Fahrenheit (that’s -23 Celsius), and disappear when it gets colder than that. If you go with the idea that Mars once had abundant oceans and fresh water, and that most of it was lost along with much of the atmosphere, whatever water was left behind is going to be very very salty – so salty you’d have to call it brine.
Brine freezes at a much lower temperature than fresh water does. It’s the salt in the water that makes it possible for the little water that’s left to flow under certain conditions, so when it’s “hot” during the summer, this brine can melt and flow. The NASA scientists are pretty darn sure that this is what’s causing these dark streaks. Since they’re seasonal, the NASA mission scientist can observe this change over time. The only explanation for this is some kind of fluid that makes these streaks wetter during the Martian summer, and the only fluid that would be active at these temperatures is – you guessed it – water.
“Our quest on Mars has been to ‘follow the water,’ in our search for life in the universe, and now we have convincing science that validates what we’ve long suspected,” said John Grunsfeld, astronaut and associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. “This is a significant development, as it appears to confirm that water — albeit briny — is flowing today on the surface of Mars.”
This briny water is flowing downhill and making these streaks. The spectrographic data shows that these are hydrated salts on the slopes. The scientists think it’s pretty likely that the water is a subsurface flow, with enough water wicking to the surface to darken up the streaks on the hillsides. Of course they have to make up a TLA (three letter acronym) to describe them – that’s something space scientists tend to do. In this case the term is Recurring Slope Lineae (RSL), which essentially just means lines on hills that keep showing up. When the streaks disappear, so do the hydrated salt readings. It’s kind of a no brainer to assume that what we are seeing is salt water soaking through the sand on the hillsides.
Dark narrow streaks called recurring slope lineae emanating out of the walls of Garni crater on Mars. The dark streaks here are up to few hundred meters in length. They are hypothesized to be formed by flow of briny liquid water on Mars. The image is produced by draping an orthorectified (RED) image (ESP_031059_1685) on a Digital Terrain Model (DTM) of the same site produced by High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (University of Arizona). Vertical exaggeration is 1.5.
Credits: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
“We found the hydrated salts only when the seasonal features were widest, which suggests that either the dark streaks themselves or a process that forms them is the source of the hydration. In either case, the detection of hydrated salts on these slopes means that water plays a vital role in the formation of these streaks,” said Lujendra Ojha of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta, lead author of a report on these findings published Sept. 28 by Nature Geoscience.
Ojha first spotted these features as an undergraduate student at the University of Arizona in 2010, using images from the MRO’s High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE). HiRISE observations now have documented RSL at dozens of sites on Mars. The new study pairs HiRISE observations with mineral mapping by MRO’s Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM).
The spectral analysis performed by Ojha and his co-authors appear to show that the streaks are actually hydrated minerals called perchlorates. While they can’t tell exactly what substance are made up by the elements they detect, the most likely combination is a mixture of magnesium perchlorate, magnesium chlorate and sodium perchlorate. Some perchlorates have been shown to keep liquids from freezing even when conditions are as cold as minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 70 Celsius). On Earth, naturally produced perchlorates are concentrated in deserts, and some types of perchlorates can be used as rocket propellant.
Perchlorates have previously been seen on Mars. NASA’s Phoenix lander and Curiosity rover both found them in the planet’s soil, and some scientists believe that the Viking missions in the 1970s measured signatures of these salts. However, this study of RSL detected perchlorates, now in hydrated form, in different areas than those explored by the landers. This also is the first time perchlorates have been identified from orbit.
MRO has been examining Mars since 2006 with its six science instruments, helping project scientists to piece together the history of Mars and what appears to have been a very wet world hundreds of thousands of years ago. Extremophile organisms on Earth can survive in harsher conditions than this, so the discovery of liquid water on the surface of Mars is a pretty exciting development. It means that there is still hope for finding existing life on what we had supposed was a barren, dry, lifeless rock.
“It took multiple spacecraft over several years to solve this mystery, and now we know there is liquid water on the surface of this cold, desert planet,” said Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA’s Mars Exploration Program at the agency’s headquarters in Washington. “It seems that the more we study Mars, the more we learn how life could be supported and where there are resources to support life in the future.”
For a time in the late 19th century, it was believed that there were canals on Mars. The Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, who observed Mars in 1877, was the first to describe, name, and lovingly illustrate mysterious straight lines along its equatorial regions, which he called “canali”. Schiaparelli was actually describing optical artifacts caused by the crappy lenses in his telescope, but it was such an exciting, romantic notion that people would rather talk about the canals as being a real thing.
We are reasonably certain that there are no Tharks on Mars, but this discovery opens the possibility that there may be something alive there, and the human spirit almost demands that we find it if it is.
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Historic Sites of Manitoba: Lennox School No. 317 (Goodlands, Municipality of Brenda-Waskada)
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Lennox School No. 317 was established formally in July 1884 and a school building was erected at Goodlands in what is now the Municipality of Brenda-Waskada. In 1965, it became Goodlands Consolidated School No. 2431 when it consolidated with Croydon School No. 823. Three years later, it became part of the Antler River School Division. The school closed in 1976 and remaining students went to Deloraine. The present building is now used as a community centre. A monument was erected beside the former school building at a reunion in July 1985.
Ralph Ernest Mayes (1891-1969)
Elsie McLean
Alex M. Baxter
Michael Rehaluk
James Harvey Dow (1925-1999)
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Lennox School (no date) by George Hunter
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 22.
The former Lennox School building and monument (October 2011)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Goodlands Heritage Park (Goodlands, Municipality of Brenda-Waskada)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Goodlands School No. 1007 (Municipality of Glenella-Lansdowne)
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
One Hundred Years in the History of the Rural Schools of Manitoba: Their Formation, Reorganization and Dissolution (1871-1971) by Mary B. Perfect, MEd thesis, University of Manitoba, April 1978.
Napinka School, Souris Street, Napinka, Manitoba Historic Resources Branch.
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Midlands Whisky Festival 2015
by Mark March 30, 2015 April 16, 2015
It was my birthday on Saturday (I’m 34, thanks for asking.) And what else can you do to drown the sorrows of ageing (or should I speak in terms of maturation?), but go to a whisky festival. So I trekked across to Stourbridge, near Birmingham, to attend my second Midlands Whisky Festival, hosted by Nickolls and Perks.
An hour before, I met with a few very lovely people – Scott and Lucienne (who writes for Vinspire), and Dean who’s a brand ambassador for independent bottler Murray McDavid. Dean loaded me up on a few samples of forthcoming releases from Murray McDavid, which I’ll get around to reviewing soon. Suffice to say that range looks impressive. All great people, and it’s nice to shoot the breeze before a day of focussed drinking – because all so often once you’re inside a festival, you’re drifting on a river of whisky.
I enjoyed the event a lot last year. I won’t dwell again on the location and venue, but suffice to say that it doesn’t matter if you drink your whisky like Richard Paterson and throw it all over the floor – no one’s going to notice the stains around here. But the place has a lovely charm, and it’s a grand old building for a whisky festival. It feels just about right: not too swish and shiny like them posh London shows, and not exactly a bus station toilet. Somewhere between.
I was a devotee ticket holder this year, after jealously eying those who had that ticket last year. It meant I got a fancy crystal festival Glencairn and a selection of ‘dream drams’ to take home with me. The drams were pretty much the sole reason for me paying the extra, as it’s great to sample some of these splendid whiskies in the luxury of your own home, which is what I intend to do. However, the devotee ticket also meant I attended what was one of the most incredible whisky-tasting line-ups I’d ever seen – and a trip back in time…
Stephen Rankin, one of the family members of legendary bottlers Gordon & MacPhail, led a tasting of incredibly old whiskies from the independent bottler. Ordinarily a 1976 Benromach would be a highlight, but not when it’s up against a 1957 Strathisla. Or even a 1949 Glen Grant. That was one incredibly glamorous whisky, classy and complex, sort of like Helen Mirren oozing about in a Glencairn frock.
What I liked about this event wasn’t just because of the old whiskies, but Stephen’s narrative of the family, and putting Gordon & MacPhail in the context of whisky history. Legendary whisky writer Michael Jackson had once commented that if it wasn’t for Gordon & MacPhail bottling single malts, when everyone else was largely interested in churning out blends like their was no tomorrow, then we might not have the whisky industry as it is today. A thoroughly entertaining and educational talk that got right to the heart of this blessed spirit, with some breathtaking drams to boot.
Were there any interesting whiskies on the day? Well, they’re all interesting in their own particular way. I think part of the problem – if indeed it is problem – with festivals in general is that you can be a little overwhelmed. There’s so much to choose from, so much to taste, and after lunch your senses become a bit numbed by alcohol. There was a shortage of spittoons, too, which meant by about 4pm there were a few folk lurching about from stand to stand, their dialect having spiralled to that of Rab C. Nesbitt.
What did I buy? That’s probably a better question. I came away with a 2003 Glenfarclas Family Cask, which was bottled for Nickolls & Perks’ 215th Trading Anniversary. I also bought an interesting whisky from independent bottler Highland Laird – they’re newish a family run operation, with a curious range of single malts. I bought the 18 Year Old from The Speyside Distillery, which struck me as great value for money at £50. I was impressed by the quality of the other samples, and there’s something about championing new indies. So basically, when presented with tons of fancy whiskies, it was the classic Speysiders that appealed. I think that’s my mood of late: I’m all about the traditional stuff. I’m practically drinking whisky in a kilt these days.
I managed to meet a few people from last year’s show, including Paul of Dalmore and Ardbaggie, who was working bravely behind the scenes (though made time for the Glen Grant 1949 pit stop); and many new faces (hi Mike!). Also it was great to meet Ben Cops, of the very fine Ben’s Whisky Blog. (I might have persuaded him about the dark delights of Dalmore.) And I finally got to have a natter with esteemed whisky writer Ian Buxton, a splendid chap who signed me a copy of his new 101 Legendary Whiskies book (it’s a cracking read so far).
Suffice to say that the more of these festivals you go to, it becomes far less about the whisky and more about the community around it. I was there for hours, but it felt like barely enough time to talk to everyone I wanted to. And perhaps I’ve become so exposed to so many whiskies that I’m less inclined, or less desperate, to try them all, and instead I’d rather get the chance to talk to others about the whisky. I feel like I’m making a lot more friends in the whisky community, and that sort of thing can be forgotten about in the whirl of new releases and promotion. That sentiment is called #WhiskyFabric on Twitter, but it’s certainly what was going on out here, in the real world.
This is the seventh year of the Midlands Whisky Festival. I think the guys at Nickolls & Perks continue to do a fantastic job. To make things seem smooth on the surface involves a lot of very hard behind the scenes, so my hats off to them all. You get some special whiskies and tastings. It’s all very down-to-earth and relaxed. I like it a lot, and I suspect I’ll be returning for the autumn show – yes, it’s twice a year. You should go too.
Here are a few more photos from the day.
glen grantGlenfarclasgordon & macphailhighland laird
I work as Head of Communications for Waterford Distillery and Renegade Rum Distillery. I've written about (and reviewed) whisky for Whisky Magazine, among other publications, and have been a whisky judge for competitions including the World Whiskies Awards. I've done other writing too: several mass market genre novels, a few short stories, including for BBC Radio 4. Follow me on Instagram.com/MrMarkNewton/ or Twitter.com/MrMarkNewton.
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“The function of mushrooms is to rid the world of old rubbish,” wrote John Cage, composer and founder of the New York Mycological Society. He was talking about the Buddha being killed by a poisonous mushroom.[2] This comment seems very Cagean: humble, irreverent, funny.
Another Cage-mushroom anecdote has Cage struggling to find an adequate translation to a Basho haiku about mushrooms. A composer friend, Toru Takemitsu, suggested, “Mushroom does not know that leaf is sticking on it.” Three years later Cage himself came up with two translations: “that that’s unknown brings mushroom and leaf together,” and, his favorite, “What leaf? What mushroom?”[3]
What Cage appreciated in the haiku, besides the oblivious — or nonexistent — mushroom, was the multiplicity of meanings contained in its seventeen syllables — a multiplicity made possible by the haiku’s ambiguous syntax. If destabilizing syntax could admit so many divergent readings, what would happen if one destabilized — or eliminated — words? Syllables? Letters? How many more meanings would be possible? Cage explores these possibilities in his 1974 work Empty Words.[4] In it, he uses aleatory methods, that is, chance operations, to systematically disassemble the journals of Henry David Thoreau.
Empty Words is both text and score: It was designed to turn language into music. Each of its four parts, or “lectures,” is composed of at least four thousand chance events dictated by throwing the I Ching. The first lecture eliminates sentences; and contains only phrases, words, syllables, and letters. The second lecture eliminates sentences and phrases; and contains only words, syllables, and letters. The third lecture eliminates sentences, phrases, and words; and contains only syllables and letters. The final lecture eliminates sentences, phrases, words, and syllables; and contains only letters.
Cage intended the performance of the work to last overnight, with three half-hour intermissions between lectures for the audience to eat. The final lecture would be accompanied by projected images from Thoreau’s journals (also selected and placed in the text according to chance operations), and would be timed to coincide with the dawn. The doors would open and the ambient sounds of the morning would mingle with the linguistic “music” of Empty Words.
Cage’s methods may have been chance-determined, but his choice of Thoreau could not have been more deliberate. (Cage himself grants that, had he applied the same aleatory procedures to Finnegan’s Wake, or to a non-English text, the resulting work would have been very different.[5]) In the journals, Thoreau’s observations exhibit a disciplined clarity that evokes the wide, non-judging perception associated with Zen. He describes the eyes of an owl and the patterns made by the first frost of the season. In summer, he notes the flowering of the white vervain, checkerberry, spikenard, orchis.
As linguistic material, Thoreau’s journals are no less attentive, no less earth-bound. In Empty Words, we recognize over and over allusions to the cardinal directions (“santwh cur of gen M. more ingSouth them,” “neighborhood youaou is ngdspruongrwestd!” “makingGod on the southeast slopes on”), and to colors (“star quite handsome orange,” “greenness trifolia sky,” “ingray-brown pull nover high ofa e”). Thoreau is just as scrupulous about noting times of day (“notAt evening,” “morning oldgolden andbubble ground,” “noonOthasndry sn nglth e Dr. B the I ee tw”) and Latin species names (“Lysimachia lanceolataare,” “amtheleavesand andFringillareawakened,” “Lechedtyon Vi the terin theoth y”).[6] Oaks, white maples, and blackberries haunt the text, becoming more and more indistinct as the work progresses.
“Meaning,” determined as it is by linguistic and cultural conventions, begins to shimmer. Take, for example, this stanza:
beneathboards in militsvexground
comes hawk
within some Isoff owlafiftythem[7]
Like the hawk itself, traditional meaning appears, and then gradually, through the chance-driven compounding of words, flies off. Rather than being compulsory, it is merely a point our attention moves toward, and returns from.
We witness this movement on the syntactic level, too:
to which of the fire
overfelt mebut yet mingled red and green
about a three espassing over it[8]
Here, a relative clause abuts a prepositional phrase, neither of which has any discernible antecedent. Does “red,” placed after “mingled,” function as an adverb or a noun? What does “it” — nested so deeply within what are ostensibly clauses — refer to? Cage attempted to “demilitarize” language by releasing it from syntax, but it is, on the contrary, the insistence of syntax that makes possible so many divergent readings — that paradoxically liberates it.
Consider the following, taken from the fourth lecture:
h opls e ar as
a eolsstr eu rSp
dsbyM h n l re R s ny
n pr tt Tk sn r ndl llth ksshd
e inat tnthrn ts oe iai twsh. M es o rm
ck tl hchm eihe
re y r
Stro thndB e
a e kP. M. Tho e
rse h u ca i
i s, s r
ing ymbf Chdh llk
n o n
stwn r dyd ntly,
thhtlytr a
e[9]
In performance, units that evoke ocean (“oea / ann”) and star (“eolsstr”) are separated by long periods of silence, in which ambient sounds might intervene, and the mind might wander, before being brought back to attention by Cage’s articulation of the next sound. (In his performances of Empty Words, Cage sometimes lets minutes go by in this kind of apparent silence.) In “twsh” and “ksshd” we hear the snap of a sheet drying in the wind, the sound of a boot breaking through the crust of ice that has formed on a puddle. The mind moves from the particular instance to the idea, or chain of ideas, the word evokes. In the voiceless fragments “eihe” and “h,” the sound is the sense: breath.
Given Cage’s method and his theoretical concerns (which he articulates in the introductions that precede each lecture), it is fairly straightforward to identify some of the ways in which Empty Words — both as text and as score — means. But might there be another, more arcane valence of meaning revealed by Cage’s meticulous process?
Ferdinand de Saussure devoted three years and ninety-nine notebooks to research on anagrams. The French title of the published notes, Les mots sous les mots, suggests that the process was like excavation, looking beneath words to find hidden meanings. Central to his research was the concept of the poetic hypogram, a fragmented version of a “theme word,” usually a name, which is dispersed and circulated throughout the text. In the line of Saturnian Latin verse, “Taurasia Cīsauna Samnio cēpit,” for example, Saussure uncovered “Scīpio,” the name of the man (Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus) the lines honor.[10]
“The hypogram,” Saussure writes, “is very much concerned with emphasizing a name, a word, making a point of repeating its syllables, and in this way giving it a second, contrived being added, as it were, to the original of the word.”[11] This implies that there is a link between the constituents of a word and the word itself; that, in the poetry Saussure studied, phonemes retain vestiges of the names they were once a part of — an idea that is as revolutionary as it is fanciful.
Saussure never conclusively proved this theory; nor did he conclusively fail. What matters to us is the fact that “he isolated a particularity of poetic functioning: that supplementary meanings slip into the verbal message, tear its opaque cloth, and rearrange another signifying scene.”[12] It may be a stretch to consider the text of Empty Words to be the hypogrammatic “residue” of all fourteen volumes of Thoreau’s journals, but we can nonetheless draw on Saussure’s ideas to determine, for example, what “r h nt rt nyncy” could possibly mean — and, perhaps more importantly, how it could possibly mean.
Baudrillard compares the operation of the poetic hypogram to annihilation: “The name of God, torn limb from limb, dispersed into its phonemic elements as the signifier, is put to death, haunts the poem and rearticulates it in the rhythm of its fragments, without ever being reconstituted in it as such.”[13] To him, each fragment — hypogrammatic or not — reminds the reader of what has been lost. (Even though the name of God is torn apart, the specter of God remains, and haunts the poem.)
In Empty Words, it is tempting to attribute the phonemes’ multiple possible meanings not to any hypogrammatic alchemy, but to Cage’s process. After all, he set out deliberately to break down Thoreau’s language (and to tell us that that is what he is doing): of course the fragments are going to suggest the words they came from. However, it must be stressed that Saussure never proved that poets used hypograms as a method of composition. What matters, then, is not the “why,” but the simple, observable fact that the fragment suggests meaning beyond itself.
the er think three – rind-in the
oftheshaldol ifis andhard Coloingdis
Monto ahisgold in de weeds should in and
oncealedso with asun lyby sim Pond[14]
Might “Co” in “Coloingdis” have originally been part of “Concord”? Or “Thoreau and Company,” pencil makers? Perhaps. For those listening to the performance (on whom the initial capital would be lost), it may suggest “cottage,” “cloudy,” or “factory” — all likely possibilities given Thoreau’s lexicon (and Cage’s process).
Likewise, “oncealedso” could be a composite of “once a led so,” “onc[e] [s]ealed so,” or “[c]oncealed so.” (Unless we have read the entire journal, though, the “lost meaning” we recover, or, rather, the lost meaning each fragment suggests, is not the journal itself, but our idea of it.)
So the text, especially in its earlier sections, asks the attentive listener to hold different ways of meaning and different chronologies of meaning in a kind of negative capability, in disciplined Zen attention. Empty Words becomes a palimpsest, with all possible meanings leaving their traces on the text.
Indeed, if the fragment can contain links to a presumed “original” whole, why could it not contain links to every whole it might possibly be? In
cm orv rthtnhu t strs ws
art ainS o nt in
sh chi htndSpsca[15]
“strs” could originally have been starlings, streams, stutters. Could it not also be stairmasters, strippers, stoplights? And why limit our readings to English? “t u as glass”[16] and “leaf oneRain aler”[17] have lovely possibilities in French.
I am not asking these questions to be perverse. Rather, I am asking whether the possible signification of Cage’s text is limited by the text from which it is drawn: do the words in Thoreau’s journals describe the boundaries of Empty Words, or do they open the text to a multitude of possibilities? And if this is the case, might reading be less like murder and more like reassembling the body of Osiris?[18]
I think it is both. One would be hard pressed to look at the unit “nt” and claim that it does not seem to be missing something. So on this level, yes, the fragments emphasize their own incompleteness. However, I would venture that this very incompleteness gives the text its meaning. The fragment, according to Steve McCaffery, “contaminates the notion of an ideal, unitary meaning and thereby counters the supposition that words can fix or stabilize in closure.”[19]
On first read, McCaffery’s conclusion seems overly ambitious. If the fragment is indeterminate, must it necessarily follow that the word from which it originated is also indeterminate? In Empty Words, yes. Cage’s process, in the way that it systematically divides and combines units of meaning, reminds us that words themselves are configurations of interchangeable parts, assembled according to phonetic conventions. Just as the ostensibly incomplete words (“nt,” “de”) allude to all of their possible “wholes,” the hybrid words (“oneRain,” “oftheshaldol”) allude to all of the possible words they comprise. Just as Co could be Concord, so too could Concord be Co, acorn, raccoon. And because it could be any of these, it must be none of them — it must remain open.
“A,” then, is above all a symbol of indeterminacy. The fragments in Empty Words, by retaining links to words they comprise, words they may have been, and words they may yet become, keep the text porous — so much so that when the work dissolves into “emptiness,” it is, paradoxically, full of inchoate meaning.
When Cage performed parts of Empty Words at the Naropa Institute in 1974, people jeered and threw things. When he performed it in Milan in 1977, the audience of 3,000 divided into camps: some audience members tried to destroy the slide projector Cage was using; others fought them off. One person smashed the bulb in Cage’s reading light; another screwed a new bulb in. Someone even took off Cage’s reading glasses then, on second thought, placed them carefully back on Cage’s face.[20] One can see why audiences may have felt threatened: Empty Words can justifiably be described as pretentious, a work accessible only to an educated coterie. Visually and sonically, it is hostile to conventional notions of sense and harmony. Yet Cage did not intend only to provoke.
“The word at the center of [Cage’s] appreciation of sound is beauty,” writes David Revill in Roaring Silence.[21] Indeed, Cage famously used the word “beautiful” to describe the sounds of traffic and the sound of a table being dragged across the floor. But his is not the kind of essentializing beauty by whose simplistic definition the sound of traffic would be considered discordant — ugly, even. Beauty for Cage admits uncertainty and change, chance and imperfection. Conceived this way, it “[troubles] unquestioned categories, values, and generalized truth …. Beauty troubles sameness because it embodies difference.”[22]
Other poets and scholars who have been talking about beauty recently take a similar tack, pointing out the ways in which beauty is fraught, while affirming that it is nonetheless something real, charged, potent. Karla Kelsey suggests that it is a movement of mind, a way of perceiving.[23] Elizabeth Robinson offers this definition: “beauty is by definition imperfect: partial, transitory, and yet willing to embrace the valuations that are intrinsic to the pleasure we take in perceiving beauty.”[24] There is a wonderful double meaning here that I am sure she intended: beauty is partial in that it can never fully be realized; and beauty is partial in that it is biased — it is connected to ideology. Robinson implies here that qualities like “imperfection” and “value” can coexist.
The sound of traffic may have been beautiful to Cage because it did not seek to “mean”; it sought only to be. Likewise the sound of a table being dragged across the floor. Unlike the table, however, Empty Words is entirely dependent on traditional habits of meaning-making. The distinctions among sentences, phrases, words, syllables, and letters delineate each of its four lectures, thereby constituting the framework of the piece. Syntax, phonics, sound, process, and even the obscure signification of Saussure’s hypograms all become more pronounced as the mind attempts to impose their rules and conventions on Cage’s text.
Yet it is not the rules themselves, but their “failure” that gives Empty Words its artistic energy. The furtive, unruly fragments in Empty Words resist containment and preclude definitive interpretation. They activate multiple registers of sense at once, generating myriad shifting, partial meanings. Perhaps most importantly, they destabilize our notions of sense and closure by exposing the mechanics of our different systems of meaning-making. Here, then, is the subversive beauty that Robinson and others describe.
Joan Retallack asks us to consider the implications of the beautiful, radical shifts Empty Words requires of us: “Might it be possible to move through our lives in other ways, guided by other processes and structures, perceiving connections, even constellations lost to our habitual grammars, seeing the side streets, getting lost and discovering something new?”[25] In a linguistic universe dominated by the cant of politics, religion, war, and commerce, this task is increasingly urgent — a poethical imperative. When reading the paper, shopping for groceries, passing by a billboard, we would do well to remember Cage’s translation of Basho’s haiku: “What leaf?” he asks. “What mushroom?”
1. Lucy Kavaler, Mushrooms, Molds, and Miracles: The Strange Realm of Fungi (New York: John Day, 1965), 45.
2. John Cage, Silence (London: Marion Boyars, 1994).
3. Kenneth Silverman, Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage (New York: Knopf, 2010), 261.
4. Cage, Empty Words (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1979).
5. Richard Kostelanetz, Conversing with Cage (New York: Routledge, 2003), 150.
6. Cage, Empty Words, 8, 20, 28, 25, 18, 37, 12, 37, 61, 30, 49, 62.
7. Ibid., 18.
10. Jean Starobinski, Words Upon Words (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980), 16.
11. Ibid., 18.
12. Julia Kristeva, “Towards a Semiology of Paragrams,” in Tel Quel Reader, ed. Patrick French and Roland-François Lack (London and New York: Routledge, 1998), 293.
13. Jean Baudrillard, Symbolic Exchange and Death, trans. Iain Hamilton Grant (London: Sage, 1993), 199.
14. Cage, Empty Words, 52.
18. Starobinski, Words Upon Words, 20.
19. Steve McCaffery, Prior to Meaning: The Protosemantic and Poetics (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2001), 196.
20. Kostelanetz, Conversing with Cage, 130–133.
21. David Revill, The Roaring Silence: John Cage, a Life (New York: Arcade, 1992), 123.
22. Steven Taylor, “Beauty Trouble: Identity and Difference in the Tradition of the Aesthetic,” in Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action, ed. Anne Waldman and Lisa Birman (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2004), 389.
23. Karla Kelsey, “Attention in the Garden: Beauty as an Act of Mind,” Five Fingers Review no. 23.
24. Elizabeth Robinson, “The Ecology of Beauty (And the Vulnerability of the Perceiver),” Not Enough Night (Fall 2006).
25. Joan Retallack, The Poethical Wager (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004), 223.
aleatory music
(Un)Disciplining the ethnographer's body
The poetics of opacity in Renee Gladman's Ravicka series
Angelica Maria Barraza
Detail from ‘Couriers reporting to the emperor,’ via Wikimedia Commons.
The racialization — and weaponization — of “sociology,” “social,” and “social science” as descriptors for poetry by people of color is particularly crude; at its foundation it suggests that their/our poems are merely collections of empirical observations, that they are self-referential expressions of social particularity largely devoid of stylistic elements such as rhythm, metaphor, etc. Stripped of poetic markers the poems cease to be poems; they become a sort of personal testimony, autoethnographies, that elicit from critics further reductive descriptors such as “cultural” and “identitarian.”
Renee Gladman’s Ravicka series almost didn’t get published. Dalkey Archive Press planned to publish the first two installations, Event Factory and The Ravickians, but then didn’t. Danielle Dutton, a consultant for Dalkey, couldn’t understand why not.
'I make these collages and write'
Alice Notley's visual art
Nick Sturm
Alice Notley reading from ‘When I Was Alive’ at her MoMA PS1 show. Photo by/courtesy of Monica Claire Antonie.
Alice Notley’s one and only exhibition of her visual art in the United States was in 1980 at MoMA PS1. The press release, written by Notley, notes that her collages are made “of paper (potential trash) from the poet/artist’s life, pieces of illustrations from favorite cheap books, sidewalk discoveries, and things she could see on the floor, from her chair, and was too lazy to throw away.”
Alice Notley’s one and only exhibition of her visual art in the United States was in 1980 at MoMA PS1. The press release, written by Notley, notes that her collages are made “of paper (potential trash) from the poet/artist’s life, pieces of illustrations from favorite cheap books, sidewalk discoveries, and things she could see on the floor, from her chair, and was too lazy to throw away.”[1] Notley’s nonchalance toward her materials should not be mistaken for a lack of aesthetic intensity.
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Raphael Rubinstein
Strolling around in language
translated by Daniel Owen
Afrizal Malna
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Ídolos among us
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Antonio López
The dead and the living
Hugh Seidman’s late poems
Burt Kimmelman
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Notes on nonsense
Omar Baig
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Peter Valente
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Lauri Scheyer (Ramey)
Emails to Lauri Scheyer (Ramey), 2005–2014
Tom Weatherly
Sited
On Jenny Xie and the fate of the flâneur
Tom Kozlowski
Lineated time
Some thoughts on the line in poetry
Raymond de Borja
Janky materiality
Artifice and interface
Jeff T. Johnson
Weatherly's words
A tribute to Tom Weatherly
Rosanne Wasserman
These poems are loaded
M. G. Stephens
On Tom Weatherly, February 2017
Aram Saroyan
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sodium chromate (CAS 7775-11-3)
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ammonium dichromate (CAS 7789-09-5)
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School of Communication Studies - Te Kura Whakapāho
Being ‘Afrikaans’: a contested identity
Theunissen, PS
Abstract ICA Afrikaner identity MAY2015.pdf (413.1Kb)
Afrikaner Nationalism under the National Party was the vehicle for maintaining Afrikaner identity for most of the 20th century. To achieve this, a set of master symbols was developed. This qualitative pilot study investigates to what extent— if any—these master symbols are currently renegotiated. A discourse analysis was undertaken on discussions around Afrikaner identity, attempting to answer how participants might construct their identities in public. Four key themes were identified: 1) the Afrikaner as a homogenous group, 2) Afrikaans as a requirement, 3) ‘whiteness’ of the Afrikaner, and 4) shared a heritage and history. In particular, Afrikaner homogeneity was strongly disputed as well as ‘whiteness’ as a requirement. This could potentially pave the way for those of colour to identify themselves as Afrikaners. However, it is postulated that the moderate Afrikaner has fallen silent in the presence of a strong out-group presence.
Paper presented at the International Communication Association Annual Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico. 21-25 May 2015.
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Level 8 spells.
Lightning storm.
(Evocation).
Components: V,S,M.
Range: .40 yds. +10yds./level.
Save: 1/2.
Duration: 1 round.
Area of Effect: 70'-diameter sphere.
This spell creates electrical discharges within a spherical area. Bolts of lightning leap repeatedly about within this area, regardless of the presence or location of metal, water, or other conductors. All beings within this area take 6d12 points damage (unless immune to electrical damage), and all items must make a saving throw against electricity. The magic prevents lightning from travelling along conductive paths out of spell range; a man in full armor and a bather in a moat, both just outside the spell's area of effect, will be unharmed.
The caster of a lightning storm is unharmed by the spell (even if he stands in the center of the storm) or by any other electrical attacks or effects during the spell's duration. The material components include a shard of glass, a scrap of fur, a piece of silver, and a flint.
(Necromantic)
Components: V,S,M
Range: Touch
CT: 8
Duration: Special
Save: Neg.
Area of Effect: 1 creature/2 levels of the caster
By casting this spell, the wizard draws upon the Negative Material plane and surrounds himself with a shroud of negative power. While the spell-caster suffers no ill effects from this magical energy, it may have dire consequences for anyone who comes into contact with him.
To activate the deadly power of this spell, the wizard must touch his victim by successfully rolling an attack roll against his target. Any creature touched must immediately make a saving throw versus death magic with a -4 penalty. If the roll is successful, the victim is unharmed. If the save is failed, a black haze will form about the victim, draining 20% of his current hit points each round until the unlucky individual dies at the end of the fifth round. The deathshroud also protects the wizard; anyone who touches the spellcaster or attempts to strike him with any hand-held object or weapon must make a saving throw versus death magic at normal chances or be affected by the deathshroud in the same manner.
The following spells remove the deathshroud from an affected inclividual: cure critical wounds, heal, limited wish, wish, or a successful dispel magic spell. As a last possibility, if the afflicted individual is somehow able to reach the Positive Material plane within five rounds, the negative energy of the spell will be destroyed and the victim will be saved. Once a being has successfully saved against the effects of a particular deathshroud, that being cannot be affected again during that spell's duration.
The deathshroud remains in effect until the wizard has attacked or been attacked by a number of creatures equal to one-half of his level (round down), or the spell's duration of two rounds per level of the wizard has elapsed. Creatures from the Outer Planes and undead beings are not affected by this spell; if an undead creature is attacked with a deathshroud, it immediatety gains 1 HD and the wizard must save against death magic or suffer the effects of the spell himself.
In order to cast this spell, the spell-caster must have the following material components available: a mixture of crushed black opal and diamond (worth 5,000 gp), dust from either a vampire or lich, and a piece of smoky quartz.
(Necromantic/Alteration)
CT: 5 rounds
Duration: Permanent
ST: Neg.
AE: Two creatures
Explanation/Description: This spell is similar to the empath spell, except that it allows the caster to transfer a hit-point disability (of up to 2 hp/level of the caster) between any two creatures, excluding the caster. The magic-user must be able to grasp both the creature with the disability and the creature about to receive the disability without having to make to-hit rolls, so the two beings involved must either be willing to undergo the spell or else be sleeping or unconscious. The recipient of the disability is entitled to a saving throw vs. spells if unwilling. If the recipient's saving throw succeeds, the exchange is incomplete and nothing further happens.
If the recipient fails the saving throw, the disability passes through the magic-user, inflicting him for an instant. If such a wound would normally place the magic-user below zero hit points, it immediately does so, and the spell ceases; the creature that first bore the hit-point loss is healed, and the recipient is unharmed.
The material components for the spell are the same as the empath spell, except for a ruby (worth at least 5,000 gp), which is shattered as the disability passes through the caster. If the risks of some of these spells seem to outweigh the benefits, remember that these spells deal with life and death - dangerous territory for magic-users. But these spells offer new options in role-playing. Empath and life force transfer allow magic-users to perform heroic acts of self-sacrifice without stepping on the hem of the cleric's cloak. Arnvid's unseen limb allows limbless victims to limp along until a high-level cleric can be found. With exchange, black wizards can trade lives and white wizards can save them.
Mage-Killer
Range: 10'
Effect: Creates Mage-Killer
This nasty, provocatively-named spell was devised by a reclusive, chaotic Blackheart-based wizard known as "the Ebon Cowl"; it creates a short-lived simulacrum, whose sole purpose is to kill one particular wizard. The spell requires the caster to sculpt a candle in the shape of the mage he wishes to slay. This requires pure, virgin beeswax, crushed amethysts, rare spices and other esoteric ingredients (the total cost of the candle should be between 5,000 - 10,000gp), plus a strand of hair or nail clipping from the victim. A Save vs. Spells (or, if you use skills in your campaign, a successful skill roll) must be made upon completion; if it fails, the candle is useless, and the caster must start again. The spell itself takes 12 hours to cast (another Save vs. Spells to see if the caster falters), then the candle is lit; a Mage-Killer will form from the smoke in 1d4+3 rounds. When first created, a Mage-Killer is a brutish, mindless, unformed creature, driven by instinct to seek out its prey; as it draws closer to the victim, however, its mental link with the victim enables it to gain both intelligence and appearance approximating that of its target. The Mage-Killer has three major advantages in combat; firstly, its strength (18 in oD&D, 18/00 in AD&D), which few
wizards can match; secondly, the Mage-Killer has access to the entire spell selection of its foe at the moment it was created (so the creature will probably retain more spells than its adversary); thirdly and most importantly, the mental link allows the Mage-Killer to know its opponent's plans the moment they are formed, and can counter them accordingly. The Mage-Killer vanishes in a puff of smoke once it has killed its opponent; it also vanishes if the candle which created it is snuffed out, or burns out - a Mage-Killer candle burns for exactly three days from the time it is first lit.
The Ebon Cowl is currently the only wizard with knowledge of this spell. He (or she) has successfully used it to kill other wizards five times in the last 10 years. Since the use of this spell counts as a Wizard's Duel, it is possible that the Cowl is using the spell to help complete his/her Task in a bid for Immortality. PCs might come into conflict with the Ebon Cowl, and gain awareness of the spell, if hired to protect a paranoid Blackheart wizard who fears for his life, or perhaps they are hired by said mage's executors to quietly solve the mystery of his murder. Once they have their hands on this information, of course, they have a decision to make; do they destroy the information to keep it out of the hands of other evil wizards, sell it to the highest bidder (which might result in more assassinations at a later date), or keep it for their own use (which could be very dangerous if powerful enemies learn of the spell's existence...)
(Note: Since the Mage-Killer's form is so dependent of its target, I haven't bothered to work up stats for it; if you use it in your campaign, the creature should have maximum human strength (see above), dexterity at least 1 or 2 points above its opponent, and +1 to its saving throws (to reflect its foreknowledge of its victim's battle plan). All other stats, hp, spells, innate powers, etc. are as per the target mage, but the creature has none of the target's magical items.)
Contribution from:CQuaif@aol.com
Rebirth by Valdemar
Area: the caster and a woman
My long research on reversing undeath brought me to this spell. The way is long and hard, but there is this way back. Rebirth must be cast by an undead to a fertile, willing woman. Effectively, the spell makes the woman pregnant, and places the soul of the necromancer to the unborn baby, thus leaving the caster's body uninhabited. When the baby is born, it has no memories of it's previous life, but it has all the mundane skills it had. Thus, there might be a baby very adept in babbling in arcane languages. The personality is also the casters. As the baby ages, every month he remembers five months of his previous life, regaining also his character, arcane abilities, maturity and personality. When the child is physically ten years old, he probably is very potent mage again.
A contribution from Markus Olavi Montola.
Soul Surge by Morphail Gorevitch-Woszlany
Area: one victim
The Soul Surge removes the soul of one person from the body, and lets the necromancer transform it to an overwhelming surge of power. The first victim gets to save vs. death magic, if he makes the roll, the spell is cancelled. If he fails, he dies as the soul is drawn from the body and absorbed in a great flash of light. Note that the body doesn't die, but the person inside does. The necromancer will get one point of power per victim's level for the duration of the spell. A power point may be either used to fire black bolts of lightning (one target only, save for half, maximum of 20d6 per bolt) for d6 per expended power point, or to temporarily increase the caster's level for one level per two power points, or to instantaneously re-memorize one spell level per two power points. The victim can never be raised. The burning energies of the Soul Surge cause one hitpoint of damage to the necromancer per victim's level.
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artist salary per hour
Entry-level Fine Artists and Painters with little to no experience can expect to make anywhere between $20020 to $31750 per year or $10 to $15 per hour. On the other hand, a tattoo studio owner can earn an annual salary of up to £36,725, which is also equal to their contractual and permanent employees. “But … that’s just one or two hours a month, right?” Guess again. Employer name has been removed to protect anonymity. The top 10 percent made more than $54.56 per hour. Based on recent job postings on ZipRecruiter, the Storyboard Artist job market in both Boydton, VA and the surrounding area is very active. hourly. $12. They can grow to as much as $90,000 per year, even higher for senior or lead positions. 10+ years experience. £62K - £66K. If you'd like to figure out your exact hourly wage from your annual salary, you again need to figure out how many hours a week you work. Game Artist Salary: Factors. 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Statement by the PPG in response to NHG recent press release
We note the recent publication in the press of the email (dated 16 July 14) which NHG sent to the PPG members explaining their position with regard to continued working with the PPG. We feel we should explain the context of this letter and allow us to fill in the gaps that led to the PPG being dissolved, the Practice having withdrawn their support to the PPG in its current elected form.
The Practice previously raised concerns as to the adverse publicity generated at PPG public meetings and following the AGM on the 23rd April the Practice discussed this issue with the PPG chair. (To note, at the AGM the decision was taken to continue with public meetings and the new PPG committee was elected with Dr Baker from the Practice presiding over the election vote.) Immediately after the AGM Dr Baker and Barbara Graham discussed the public meetings issue with the Chair and expressed their concern for how the meetings were being managed and how they would be reported.
The Chair subsequently made repeated attempts to meet with the Practice to discuss these concerns and other PPG business with a meeting being arranged for 30th June when the Practice asked the Chair to resign as they felt they had lost confidence in him, citing a ‘loss of trust’ however this has not been adequately explained nor articulated in writing.
A meeting between the Practice and the PPG was arranged for the 2 July where a number of issues were brought forward by the Practice as justification for their position. These issues related to:
administration of the PPG and some of our activities which could be improved;
adverse press coverage, which in turn has led to a reduction in staff morale, staff resignations and finally;
an adverse effect on clinical care;
leading to a loss of confidence in the Chair and their call for his resignation.
A robust and passionate discussion took place between the PPG and the Practice around the Practice’s approach to issues raised and their handling of issues such as the management of change. It was also pointed out to the Practice that whilst they had previously mentioned some of these issues in the past they had not taken the time to allow them to be tackled in a formal manner.
Discussions around a partnered approach took place which included an offer of goodwill from the PPG to postpone our next public PPG meeting which was scheduled for the 15 Jul in Ardersier. In the end the Practice wanted to know if the PPG was prepared to support the Chair to which the PPG replied unanimously that we would continue to support the Chair. The Practice suggested a period of reflection but no end date was agreed for this.
Following this the PPG convened to discuss next steps, which were:
Develop a partnered constitution for discussion with the Practice;
Develop a roadmap to success to achieve a working partnership with the Practice;
and write a letter explaining our position offering to work in partnership with the Practice for the betterment of healthcare services for patients.
The PPG sent a 20140711-Letter to Practice Stating PPG Position along with a 20140711-PPG Roadmap – V1.0 and a draft constitution to the Practice on Fri 11th July pointing out our strengths as a group, our position on the call for resignation of the PPG Chair, our postponement of the public meeting as a gesture of goodwill, the drafting of a new partnering constitution and a roadmap to allow us to operate together in the future. We reiterated our commitment to helping the Practice improve provision of Healthcare Service to the patients and looking forward to getting through the challenging patch in our relationship. We also asked for a written explanation of the issues raised in the meeting on the 2 July.
This letter was answered with Barbara Graham’s email on the 16th July which reiterated their position for the resignation of the (publicly elected at a meeting presided over by the practice) Chair and their refusal to move on this despite our goodwill gestures of postponing the PPG meeting and the production of a draft partnering constitution and a roadmap to see us through this.
Overall, the PPG has been disappointed in the approach of the Practice in dealing with issues, especially when we were prepared to postpone public meetings and make efforts to provide a new partnering agreement. The Practice has not been prepared to place in writing the issues they have articulated to us nor have they provided evidence to support their claims. It is also disappointing that they have not even considered mediation to repair this ‘breakdown in trust’ between the Practice and the Chair. We can only conclude that they were not happy with the way that they were being portrayed in the press and have not had a effective strategy to deal with the press and public. What is even more disappointing is that the PPG could have helped the practice in these matters and indeed offered in private to help.
Ultimately the common aim of the PPG and the Practice should be ‘To improve the healthcare of the patients in the NHG by working in partnership with the Practice to identify and implement service improvements.’However we feel that the Practice really only wants to do this on their own terms and are not prepared to be transparent and work to with the PPG to better the healthcare of the patients in the Practice population.
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Why judging a club based on the amount of supporters they attract is ludicrous
Natter Football on 11th March 2014
Trends within British football supporter culture are not new. Every season sees new behaviours, attire or attitudes; all influenced by a myriad of social and cultural developments and fashions. One trend that I hope passes in to the annals of time as quickly as it arrived however, is the penchant of many supporters to judge a club based primarily on the amount of supporters which that club attracts.
This sort of behaviour isn’t actually new, of course. Supporters up and down the land have for decades sung such witty reposts as, “is that all you bring away?!” and, “you couldn’t sell all your tickets!” as part of the standard banter that is typically exchanged between fans during a match. However, whereas in the past this usually formed nothing more than harmless mickey-taking, a new school of thought seems to have recently developed; one that actively seeks to judge and assign levels of deservedness to a club based on nothing more than its supporter base. Clearly, this is ridiculous, but such has been the level of nonsensical, pontificating bile that I’ve seen surrounding this subject in the past couple of seasons, that I felt the need to join the debate.
As the current season nears its climax, fans and pundits alike will begin to predict those teams who will be relegated and those who will survive; along with those who will promoted from the league below. The basis for these predictions is largely based on things such as form, fixtures and general opinions surrounding a side’s mental fortitude in the face of their end-of-season run in. However, some fans also add ‘size of club’ and ‘supporter numbers’ to this equation.
Fulham, a club steeped in history, but perpetually involved in recent relegation scraps and historically drawing small away followings have born the brunt of much of the criticism this season. The primary accusation appears to be that because Fulham cannot regularly draw high away attendances, this should be used as a stick with which to beat them (down to The Championship) with.
“They’re a disgrace!” , the naysayers shout, “they only brought 300 fans to Everton! I hope they go down this year.”
This is nonsense. It simply does not equate that because a team does not draw 2000 raucous supporters for each away match, that they are not deserving of success and that the fans who do attend should be continually mocked. Wigan were similarly dogged by criticism of their attendances, both home and away, during their time in the Premier League, with some even going as far as to label Wigan as not being a “proper club”. That’s the same Wigan who were founded in 1932.
Other fans have pointed to clubs such as Leeds, Sheffield Wednesday and Nottingham Forest; all sides who draw large and vocal away followings, as sides who they would like to see replace the teams (your Wigans, Fullhams, Boltons, etc) who are deemed not worthy enough of gracing the upper echelons of the football ladder. This is also ridiculous. Although it often does add something to the atmosphere of a match when both sets of supporters are in good voice; to say that a club deserves success at the expense of another, purely because of the level of their support, goes against every “small team done good” tale throughout football history. Why should those fans who do attend their sides’ matches be denied the opportunity to experience football at the highest level, simply because they aren’t many in number?
The judgment of clubs based on attendance also ignores a range of historical and current social and economic factors that play a massive role in the way in which individuals choose to watch football; if indeed they choose to watch it at all.
Taking Wigan as example: they are a long-established club, but one who have risen through the local leagues of the North West, in to the Football League and then the Premier League. This has been achieved in an area of the country where the saturation of the football landscape in terms of sheer number of clubs is one of the highest in the country; along with being in a town that historically favours rugby league as its sporting outlet of choice. When faced with these set of circumstances, is it any wonder that their average attendances are lower than that of say, Everton; a big club from a major, football-obsessed city? Surely fans should be encouraging others to attend their smaller, local sides (and praising the ones who do) as opposed to looking down from their ivory towers and baulking at the fact that they had to send some tickets back to the home club ahead of their forthcoming away fixture?
The economic factors in this issue also cannot be ignored. If you’re not aware of the recent debate and increasing furore over ever exorbitant ticket prices (something not restricted to the Premier League) then you must either have been living under a rock, or be so wrapped up in the ‘brand’ that subscription television pushes that you simply don’t care. In ultra-simplistic terms; many, many fans are being priced out of attending live football. Now, I am not for one second suggesting that because someone supports Manchester City their income mirrors that of their club, but it is simply not coincidence that less successful clubs, particularly in those areas of the country hit hardest by recent and historical economic downturns are finding it difficult to maintain high attendance numbers. True, clubs could be doing more to make football accessible to those with lower incomes, but it is also extremely galling to see fellow supporters act like snobs towards sides who possess fans who simply cannot attend due to financial restrictions.
In another troubling observation of those holding such unpleasant opinions on other clubs’ support, it often appears to be those who do not regularly attend live matches who are the ones doing the mocking. A quick glance at Twitter during any given Saturday will reveal hundreds of moronic posts regarding supporter numbers. These are usually from the accounts of the type of banter loving cretin who believes “Tubes” from Soccer AM to be the height of comedy and who are pandered to so often by the aforementioned television companies. Now, I accept that many of these idiots may be similarly priced out of attending their side’s games, but if this is the case; actually especially if this is the case, why the hell are they so quick to put down fans of clubs with low attendances? You’re not at your team’s match yourself mate; so what gives you the right to mock a group of fans who have forked out a significant portion of their wages and made a 300 mile round trip in order to watch the team they support lose 3-0? I’m not glamorising the latter fans, but a little solidarity wouldn’t go amiss.
I suppose this latest trend of passing judgement can be put down to lazy tribalism towards other clubs, but in my opinion it reveals a distasteful side to many supporters. A major way in which prices in football are going to diminish and allow more fans to attend is for all fans to support one another; campaigns from the likes of the Football Supporters Federation and Spirit of Shankly have already highlighted this. I’m not suggesting an end to the ingrained, often jovial chants mentioned earlier in this piece, but this snide judgemental aspect needs to stop, because it is not only ludicrous; it could also prove harmful and divisive at a time when we need more cooperative thinking and action.
By Thomas Uden – Norwich fan – @_thomasej/www.goodfeetforabigmanfanzine.bigcartel.com
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Walter 11th March 2014 at 11:58 am
Love this. I’m a Wigan fan who’s been subjected to this sort of ‘banter’ on a regular basis. We’re a small club and we love it that way.
Sam Keown 11th March 2014 at 4:56 pm
Spot on. The fans who mock the smaller sides are clearly ignorant and out of touch with the roots of the game and the traditional clubs that have played a huge part in English football history. So what if a club has a small following? If anything supporters of that side are valued a lot more instead of just being a number/customer at the bigger clubs.
Micky Fynn 11th March 2014 at 5:59 pm
Great piece. I support AFC Wimbledon. Relatively speaking we have little support compared to Premiership clubs, but, hey, look at what we’ve achieved in just 12 years!
Malar 18th March 2014 at 9:12 pm
The little clubs are irrelevant. *Hides*
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Brian Auster, MD
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Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, Doctorate in Medicine, 1993-1998
New England Eye Center (Tufts University School of Medicine), Boston, Massachusetts Research Fellow in Computers & Ophthalmology, 1996-1997
Brandeis University , Waltham, Massachusetts, BA Economics, cum laude, 1989-1993
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Residency: Diagnostic Radiology, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, 1999-2003
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”Multifocal ERG, Visual Fields and Optical Coherence Tomography in Normal andGlaucomatous Eyes” Leonardo J. Velazquez-Estades, B.S. et al, Brian Auster,M.D submitted to the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalomogy (ARVO), SanFrancisco, California, 2001
“Correlation of Multifocal Electroretinography, Humphrey Visual Fields, and Optical Coherence Tomography Using Global Indices”, L.J. Velazquez-Estades, et al, Auster, at the American Academy of Ophthalmology Conference, 2000
“Multifocal Electroretinography and Humphrey Visual Field Correspondence” at the American Academy of Ophthalmology Conference, S.C., So, J.S., et al, Auster, at American Academy of Ophthalmology Conference, 1999
“Online Training in Nuclear Scanning vs. Anatomical Imaging of Common Liver Lesions” Auster, B., Oates, E., at the Society of Nuclear Medicine, Greater New York and New England Chapters Convention in 1997
“A Computer -Based Patient Simulation Designed to Develop Problem-Based Learning and Problem Solving Skills” Auster, B., Daousi, P.R., at Baystate Medical Center, in honor of The Department of Emergency Medicine, 1995
“A Computer-Based Patient Simulation Designed to Develop Problem-Based Learning and Problem Solving Skills”, Auster, B., Daousi, P.R., at the Innovations in Medical Education Exhibits at 1994 Association of American Medical Colleges Conference, 1994
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Developed website for New England Eye Center, 1996-2000
Designed and programmed “Patient Simulation Library” for windows & Internet, 1994-1999
Designed website for “Online Training in Nuclear Scanning vs. Anatomical Imaging of Common Liver Lesions’, 1997
Developed website for “Training in Clinical Research via the Internet”, 1997
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Dr. Teresa Stuart Guida specializes in communication strategy development for behaviour and social change, advocacy and social mobilization and its research, capacity development, management, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, documentation and reporting of results. Her development focus include: MDGs, child and maternal health, family nutrition, agriculture and natural resources, environment, livelihoods, gender and governance.
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Expertise in the design of country specific and research-driven C4D strategies for development and humanitarian settings, including preparation of programme guidelines, action plans and protocols for community-based implementation, management, monitoring and evaluation and reporting. Experience in technical backstopping and effective collaborative work with multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary teams in the UN, international NGOs, academe, national and sub-national authorities and local stakeholders, the private sector, civil society organizations and the media. Initiated numerous community managed communications systems, community radio and audio towers in hard to reach communities.
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ISLAMABAD: Former State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) governor Dr Shamshad Akhtar has refused to join the cabinet of Prime Minister Imran Khan due to her differences over the allocated portfolio of special assistant on public-private partnership.
On July 11, the Cabinet Division had notified Akhtar as the special assistant to the prime minister on public-private partnership – a department that practically does not exist. Despite a lapse of almost three months, she did not join the cabinet.
“I have decided not to join the federal cabinet,” said Akhtar while talking to The Express Tribune on Saturday. She refused to divulge reasons for her decision of not joining the 48-member cabinet that has 20 unelected members.
Akhtar has served in the past as the SBP governor and caretaker federal minister for finance in the last caretaker government formed to hold the 2018 general elections.
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St Austell railway station was opened by the Cornwall Railway on on the hillside above the town centre.This, along with other factors, led to St Austell becoming one of the ten most important commercial centres of Cornwall.Work began in 1963 on the pedestrian precinct which included shops, offices and flats: the design was by Alister Mac Donald & Partners and the materials reinforced concrete with some stone facing.Named after Saint Austol (Saint Austell is mostly unrelated), one of the earliest references to the village of St Austell is in John Leland's Itinerary, where he says "At S.Austelles is nothing notable but the paroch chirch".
A Brewery Museum and Visitor Centre is situated on the site of the St Austell Brewery in Trevarthian Road.
The town has two weekly newspapers Radio St Austell Bay is a local radio station which broadcasts from studios at Tregorrick Park.
In August 2007, developers David Mc Lean and demolition team Gilpin moved onto the town centre site to complete the preparation, with the Filmcentre which was originally an Odeon cinema dating back to 1936, being demolished in late September/early October.
In October 2007, the South West of England Regional Development Agency (SWRDA) announced the new development would be named White River Place.
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Dispute within the Christian Right over the Supreme Court’s April 18 decision upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act has led to the apparently inadvertent admission by a Focus on the Family official that the ruling could endanger women by forcing doctors to use a more dangerous procedure.
Focus on the Family vice president, Tom Minnery, told the Washington Post, “The old procedure, which is still legal, involves using forceps to pull the baby apart in utero, which means there is greater legal liability and danger of internal bleeding from a perforated uterus. So we firmly believe there will be fewer later-term abortions as a result of this ruling.”
The paper failed to comment on the striking admission that the court’s decision jeopardizes the health of women. In noting the slip, The Rev. Dr. Katherine Hancock Ragsdale, Executive Director of Political Research Associates, commented, “It’s not surprising that Focus on the Family and other anti- choice advocates are willing to pursue their agenda at the expense of women’s health. It is, however, chilling, even horrifying, to see them cavalierly admit to such a strategy.”
The dispute that prompted Minnery’s remarks is among those who, like Focus on the Family, support incremental steps to eventually ban all abortion and believe that this ban will reduce the number of late- term abortions by making them riskier for the women who need them and other anti-choice leaders who think the ruling will only effect the method, but not the number, of late term abortions and who insist that only more comprehensive bans are acceptable.
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Home Newswire Salisbury plot thickens, questions without answers multiply — RT UK News
Salisbury plot thickens, questions without answers multiply — RT UK News
Sep 5, 2018: 10:33 pm
Britain has shown images of the people allegedly responsible for the Skripals chemical weapons saga and claimed there were Russian military spies. As the case moves forward, questions remain unanswered about the British narrative.
Right from the start the poisoning attack of Sergei Skripal, a retired double agent, in Salisbury was shaped by the British establishment as a barbaric and reckless attack by the Russian government on a perceived traitor under protection of the British crown. The assertion was a political one, not based on actual evidence. Russia’s request for access to the investigation – a reasonable request considering two of the victims hold Russian citizenship – was stonewalled and any doubts about the narrative dismissed as mere obfuscation.
The latest development on Wednesday went along the same lines. While the investigators themselves were careful to stress that there was no evidence linking the two alleged perpetrators with the Russian government. Prime Minister Theresa May didn’t hesitate to bump up her cabinet’s level of certainty in the Kremlin’s guilt from ‘highly likely’ to ‘certainly’, based on classified intelligence.
The public of course is not allowed to test the validity of this intelligence and has to trust May that the two men were indeed officers of the Russian intelligence service GRU acting on an order from the highest echelons of the government, as she claims. After all, it’s been over 15 years since the public was told to trust their government on Saddam’s WMDs, so who would doubt the intelligence?
Here are some of the lingering questions, which put the dent in the prevailing British narrative of the case.
Poor choice of weapon for assassination
The “weapons-grade nerve agent Novichok” used to poison Skripal and four other people in Britain seems to be a remarkably poor tool for the job. It claimed one life – not that of its presumed intended target – and was swiftly identified by the British authorities, who didn’t wait long to cry “Russia did it” based on its nature.
Soviet Union did develop various poisons, including those that could be used by assassins. Novichok is the nickname given to some, developed under a program called Foliant. There were numerous “Novichoks” developed. Other nations, including Britain, are in possession of samples of the same chemicals that once were researched in the USSR. But the link between Novichok and Russia in the public eye was long established before the poisoning in Salisbury – it even featured in thriller shows.
So the GRU sends agents armed with a faulty weapon that would inevitably be considered Russian after a Russian defector? Well, General Korobov does look somewhat like Mike Myers’ Dr. Evil, so it seems plausible, right?
Fake perfume bottle
So the highly-trained Russian assassins planted their Novichok gel or whatever from the fake Nina Ricci bottle to the handle of the Skripal house door, confirmed that their mark contacted the poison and now need to quickly flee the country. What they do with the murder weapon? Do they throw it into the Avon River, which is right there in Salisbury, or use some other crafty way to get rid of the incriminating evidence for good?
No, they throw it somewhere to be found two months later by a struggling couple living in Amesbury, one of whom, Dawn Sturgess, sadly did die from the poison. It seems the executors of the operation were as sloppy as its planners were thick.
It is interesting though that there is no way to tell whether the poison in the fake perfume bottle came from the same sample as the one that was used against the Skripals. It’s the same chemical, for sure, as confirmed by the OPCW, but a number of factors “do not make it possible to draw conclusions as to whether the samples are from the same synthesis batch,” the chemical weapons watchdog reported. So are the investigators certain that the bottle is actually the weapon, as common sense suggests?
Russian nationals, false personas
The British police used CCTV footage to thoroughly track down the movements of the suspects in Britain. They arrived from Moscow by plane under what is presumed to be false identities, stayed in a hotel room (where they somehow left traces of Novichok) went twice to Salisbury, one for reconnaissance and one for the actual hit and then flew back to Moscow.
It doesn’t seem like the Russian assassins bothered about covering their tracks, right? Why pose as a gay Finnish couple on a honeymoon during a clandestine mission that would land you in jail for life if caught, when you can simply be Boris and Natasha, sorry, Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov?
However, if the identities were fake, what makes them Russian nationals, yet alone GRU agents? Why not Ukrainians or some other ethnically close nationals or just some white guys who can deliver a good menacing Russian accent? And if the British intelligence did positively identify them, names and rank included, why this call on the public to tell the police who this guys are? Oh, sure, “to protect sources and methods” – the usual mantra of the intelligence community when asked to produce evidence in the latest assessment on Russia’s bad deeds.
Motive, anyone?
Motive is often the weak part of a criminal investigation. People do strangest of things for all the wrong reasons. But the GRU is an organization, which is supposed to act rationally, especially under on order from the Russian government. So what was the goal of this bizarre operation?
May’s explanation is that Russia wanted to send a signal to Russians living in the West not to mess with Moscow, or something. The message is presumably “we can take any amount of damage to our reputation to get a random double agent, who no longer poses any threat to our nation“. It seems like a geopolitical equivalent of the Tide pod challenge.
The British prime minister would not be baited on Wednesday into naming President Vladimir Putin as personally responsible for ordering Skripal’s death, but let’s not be coy about it. Putin, who indeed has a lot of authority in Russia, is perceived by many in the West as a dictatorial all-controlling figure. So it’s natural that the public is not offered any other explanation in the Scripal case.
Organized crime getting their hands on a Novichok poison? No way, even if it happened in the past. Rogue agents? Certainly not. A false flag operation, which carefully aligned all the evidence to point at Russia? How preposterous!
There can be only one scenario.
Via RT. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News with permission or license.
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Nico Jordan surveyed the front of the ranch-style house where his half brother’s widow lived, and scowled into the frosty morning air. She’d left him for Kent and this pretentious piece of real estate?
Well, to be fair, Kent’s personal fortune had probably bought Beth several houses besides this one, and jewels by the bucket—things Nico wouldn’t have been able to afford back when he was twenty-four.
Things had changed in the last five years.
More things than he cared to remember.
But Kent was dead, Beth was now a widow and Nico had a job to do. He rolled up the pages in his hand and knocked on the door with a clenched fist. He’d volunteered to finalize the paperwork in person regarding his dead brother’s share of the family vineyards because he had to see Beth one more time. To have her in his bed one more time.
Despite his best efforts, he’d never managed to control his craving for the woman who’d betrayed him.
He lifted his fist to knock again but the door opened with a whoosh of warm air and then Beth stood there, more beautiful than he remembered, her so-familiar Cupid’s bow mouth open, her sapphire blue eyes wide.
Suddenly he was transported back five years to the last time they’d made love among the pinot noir vines on his family’s estate in Australia. They’d both pledged undying love that day—the day before she’d left the country to marry his brother.
“Nico.” She sounded breathless, as if she’d been running, but there was no flush on her cheeks. In fact, she looked pale.
Her strawberry blond hair was shorter, in a pixie cut now, which only made her heart-shaped face sweeter. His gaze swept down—she’d lost some weight, leaving her a little too thin, but that didn’t stop the pull of dark desire that flooded his system.
Yet he offered her no more than a cynical smile. “Good morning, Beth. I’ve come to offer you the family’s condolences on the loss of your husband, and to talk about some inheritance issues.”
Beth’s eyes darted to the side and she turned, hurriedly scanning the lavish room. He could see through to a living room beyond—also decorated in tasteful elegance. Then she stepped out onto the porch, closing the door firmly, but quietly behind her. “Thank you for the condolences. That was thoughtful of…your family.”
There was no love lost between his family and Beth—his father blamed her in part for Kent moving here to New Zealand to manage these minor vineyards and cutting most family ties. That wasn’t the crime Nico held her accountable for, however. “No trouble at all for the widow of our dear Kent.”
She had the grace to look unsettled. Though she should feel worse than merely “unsettled” after the anguish she’d caused him.
Her eyes slid to the windowpane in the door then back to him. “Surely any paperwork can be handled by attorneys? You didn’t need to come all the way from Australia.”
He leaned one arm on the closed door, dipping his head several inches closer. “Oh, bella, but I did.”
She flinched at the use of the endearment, the one he’d whispered so often on lazy afternoons in her parents’ hammock, or in the heat of passion when she lay under him.
“If we have to talk, then not here. I’ll meet you somewhere.” Her voice betrayed nerves—and determination.
“Are you telling me I’m not welcome in my own brother’s house?” He didn’t bother to hide the irony in his tone—he knew his brother would have stabbed him in the back rather than invite him into his home. Their lifelong, bitter rivalry had reached its peak after Kent’s marriage to Beth. She had been immediately whisked overseas to sever all ties with her past, but even worse, to maintain the estrangement, Kent’s son had never seen his grandfather or his Uncle Nico. A situation Nico intended to rectify.
He ran his gaze over Beth again. Kent had probably been wise to be paranoid about his wife. Had Beth strayed across Nico’s path after her marriage, he wouldn’t have thought twice about poaching on his brother’s territory. Kent hadn’t bothered with those rules.
But Kent was gone.
Beth darted another look inside and raised a hand to circle her throat. “Nico, do this for me. If we have to talk, meet me another day, somewhere else.”
What was she hiding? Was she continuing Kent’s plan to keep his son from his family? Or did she have a lover stashed away? Perhaps both.
“Five minutes alone and you’re already asking favors, bella.” Nico let his hand fall from the door, considering his options. Despite his determination to harden his heart, the plea in her eyes tugged at him, made it almost impossible to refuse her anything. But he must remember she was a good actress. This was the woman who’d strung him along for eleven months and then left him as soon as she got a better offer from his richer half brother.
Deciding to grant this one favor, Nico blew out a breath. “I’m here only for the weekend, so we’ll talk today, in one hour. At my hotel room.”
“In one hour?” She reached behind and grasped the door to support herself. “That will be difficult. Perhaps tomorrow?”
He’d conceded enough. He turned to go. “If you’re not there in one hour, I’ll be back. I’ll also make a petition to the court that your son has access to his grandfather. The papers are drawn up and in the car ready to be lodged.”
He and this small boy were the only family his father had left, which was tragic for a family man like Tim Jordan. Nico had always been exceptionally close to his father and he’d do whatever it took to bring some joy to the older man, especially now he was so ill.
“Nico, you don’t understand—”
Her voice, fraught with panic, didn’t move him. He had no time to listen to her excuses.
“One hour, Beth. I’m staying at The Imperial.” He strode toward his car, not looking back.
One hour later, Beth stood outside Nico’s penthouse suite, barely able to get her fuddled brain to think clearly.
Nico, the only man she’d ever loved, was back. The man she’d protected by sacrificing her own hopes for happiness.
As soon as his car had left her drive, she’d run to find her son and taken him to her parents’ house nearby. Kent had bought the place for them, not out of the goodness of his heart, but to ensure she had no reason to visit Australia again. They were already set to have him for the night and following day, allowing her to attend the launch of Kent’s final white wine blend this evening. They’d been thrilled to have the extra morning with little Marco—or Mark, as Kent had christened him.
Only she called her four-year-old son by the name she used in her heart.
Her parents must have guessed her baby’s true parentage, though—her reddish blond hair and fair skin mixed with Kent’s ruddy complexion could never have made a child with strong Mediterranean coloring. Marco’s olive skin, chocolate eyes and dark hair were so obviously the coloring Nico had inherited from his own mother. However Beth’s parents had never said a word and she’d silently thanked them for that.
But if Nico saw him…
No. Not yet. Beth wrapped her arms around her waist. She couldn’t let him near his own son until it was safe. The consequences for Nico were still too great to tell him. She just needed to keep the secret while he was here on this trip. It wouldn’t be long before she could come clean about everything.
In the meantime, convenient or not, if Nico wanted to see her today, then she’d go along with it. She knew what the stakes were—he didn’t.
With a heavy heart, she rapped on the door.
She heard footfalls across tiles, then the door dragged open.
He stood there, tall and broad and darkly beautiful, and her pulse raced into overdrive without him doing a single thing. His face gave her no indication of his thoughts, no encouragement, but she needed none. The mere sight of him made her a little dizzy with joy, just as it had an hour ago. As it always had when they were younger.
“Give me your coat.” He held out a strong bronze hand.
Beth untied the belt of her long black coat and let it fall to her wrists. He took the garment and hung it from a hook on the wall, then heat flared in his dark eyes as he surveyed her thoroughly. Finally, he smiled in satisfaction and his gaze rested on hers.
She glanced down at her loose, ankle-length, woolen pink dress. Her clothes were all similar—none were fitted, none accentuated her as a woman. For five years, she’d avoided calling sexual attention to herself. For five years…ever since she’d lost Nico.
Although, the hunger in his glittering eyes now seemed to make a mockery of her efforts to disguise herself.
He opened the door wider and let her through.
As she walked across the opulent room to the window, the hair at the back of her neck stood on end and she knew he’d watched her progress. She’d always known when Nico was looking at her. She turned slowly from the bird’s eye view of the wintry vineyards to find him blatantly staring. Her skin tightened and her breasts begged for his skilled touch—but too much was at stake to be swayed by her body’s physical responses. Nico could lose his inheritance, his career, even his identity.
He held up a bottle of champagne. “Drink?”
Now of all times, she needed a clear head. “No, thank you.”
He poured something from the bar for himself. If his tastes hadn’t changed, it’d be a pinot noir.
While he was distracted with his task, she drank in the sight of him—the thick, dark hair she’d once slid her fingers through; face a little too long to be symmetrical, but still more dear to her than anything…except the same face in miniature. Their precious son.
Oh, God, she couldn’t stand this tension one minute longer—she had to know. “Tell me what you came to New Zealand to say, Nico.” Being able to say his name again gave her heart wings, but she wouldn’t let herself forget what she risked by being here.
Seemingly relaxed, he leaned a hip on the galley-kitchen counter. “I want several things, but let’s start with my nephew.”
Her heart stalled and she felt the blood drain from her head. “You want Mark?”
Nico looked down his proud nose, appearing every inch the Italian aristocrat that his mother had been. “He’s of my blood and he’s lost his father. I’d like to build a relationship with the boy.”
For a crazy moment, she’d thought he wanted to take her son away. But—she swallowed—this was almost as bad. “You know that’s not what Kent would have wanted. You two had sworn to never set eyes on the other again.”
It’d been the breach that sent Nico off on his own for three years—making his own millions on the stock market, becoming a tabloid darling as one of Australia’s richest playboys. She’d tormented herself by reading the magazines, insanely jealous of any woman photographed on his arm, yet praying he was happy.
“What Kent wanted is irrelevant at this point. Do you think he wanted to die and leave his son fatherless?” He waved away her protest. “I will see the child and I will become an uncle to him.”
As much as Nico may believe that, if she allowed the contact, the truth would come to light too soon, and he wouldn’t thank her for the consequences. He would more likely resent her, possibly blame her.
“He might be fatherless, but he has his mother. Decisions about who my son will know, and when, are mine. He’s happy with his life here and he’s close to his grandparents and friends.” She bit the inside of her cheek hard, knowing she had to be cruel to be kind, but still hating saying the words. “He doesn’t need you.”
Nico took a deliberate sip of his drink then rested his glass on the bench he still leaned on. “Regardless of whether he needs me or not, he has a heritage. His family has been in the wine industry for generations, it’s in our blood, in our DNA. Mark will inherit his share of that business one day and he needs to grow to understand it.”
It’s in our blood, in our DNA.
Beth flinched. Nico believed it was in his blood.
How often had she heard him talk of his heritage this way when they were together? It would destroy him to know the information detailed in letters Kent had obtained, that Nico was an illegitimate son—not a son at all. The vineyard was no more in his blood than it was in hers.
And it would crush him to find he had no biological connection to the father he loved. She’d always thought Nico and Tim seemed more like brothers as they worked together on their estate. Their love and admiration for each other was beautiful to see.
When Kent had ambushed her with the letters—using them to blackmail her into marriage—she’d known she had no choice. Tim Jordan had suffered three major heart attacks only eight months earlier and the whole family had been cautioned by the medical staff that he needed to avoid stress.
If she’d refused to comply, Kent would have released the pages, maybe even splashed them through the tabloids. Nico would have been destroyed and Tim’s stress at finding out Nico wasn’t his son could have brought on another heart attack. She’d known Kent didn’t care about jeopardizing his own father’s life—he was still bitter that Tim had divorced his mother for Nico’s more than twenty years earlier.
Kent had never forgiven any of those involved—Nico and Nico’s mother, or their father—for the marriage that had usurped him and his mother, Minnie. The marriage that had seen them moved from the main house to a cottage next door.
It had been up to Beth to stop Kent the only way she could—by agreeing to his proposal.
That very day, she’d left the country without a word to the man she loved like no other. The man standing before her.
But everything was different now. Kent was dead. She hadn’t yet found where he’d hidden the letters, but that was only a matter of time.
From this point on, decisions were hers alone.
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IWGB welcomes new Vice Chancellor
Although Universities like to present themselves as centres of enlightenment, when it comes to their relationship with workers who provide vital services to them, things are rather different. Unions including the IWGB have a long record of fighting and eventually winning battles against intransigent university managements for the London Living Wage and for better terms and conditions of service.
The IWGB, supported by other unions, after a series of protests and strikes in the ‘3 Cosas’ campaign won improved sick pay and holiday pay for outsourced workers at the University of London (Central Administration). But outsourced workers employed by contracting companies to work for the university are still under far worse conditions than those directly employed by the university, and often subject to poor and bullying managers, and a new campaign began in 2017 to bring them into direct employment.
Actions by IWGB members and its supporters – including many university students and staff – forced to the University to make a committment to bring the workers in-house, but a year later this promise was still to be kept, with only 12 receptionists having been brought back to direct employment
This action followed a failure of the newly appointed University Vice-Chancellor Wendy Thomson to reply to the IWGB’s request for a meeting to discuss the issue. Instead of talking with the IWGB union about their demand for all the workers to be taken into direct employment without delay the University has been spending large amounts on buying in extra security staff.
Although the great majority of the staff involved are now IWGB members, the University continues to take advantage of our immoral trade union laws which enable them to ignore the union and instead only officially talk and negotiate with a union which has no or very few members among the workers involved.
To their great shame our larger established trade unions collude with this practice – and even often claim the credit for concessions which have only been won because of the work of the IWGB and other grass roots unions who similarly remain unrecognised by the employers. Workers have a right to choose who should recognise them, and this is something that the unions once fought for but now too often refuse to support.
The 12 receptionists were given new contracts in May 2019, but these were negotiated with another union “behind their backs and behind the back of their chosen trade union, the IWGB“, and 7 of the 12 have brought grievances against the university, some of which involve a breach of transfer of employment (TUPE) regulations.
Since this protest, the University have also set a timetable to bring the security officers in-house in May 2020 and cleaners in-house in November 2020, but have refused to bring the gardeners also involved back in house.
The IWGB are continuing to demand that the gardeners are also brought back in house and that any new contracts should be made in consultation with the union to which the workers belong and be approved by them.
More about the protest and more pictures at IWGB welcome new Vice Chancellor
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Regardless of ideology, political affiliation, or any assessment of whether emergency orders and legislation in its wake have been good policy, the Covid-19 pandemic has stretched our existing legal
architecture; strained the rule of law and notions of separation of powers; and placed in broad relief the need to rethink and modify emergency powers to better fit the next phase of this crisis or the next crisis. When, in March 2020, Governor Baker issued an executive order purporting to allow Open Meeting proceedings to occur remotely, practitioners began asking and considering an obvious question: this is a great and perhaps completely necessary idea from a public health perspective, but can a governor, in effect, alter statutory text via executive order, without the Legislature’s blessing?
The Governor’s legal team, likely, shared the same concern, as the General Court moved extremely expeditiously at his petitioning, among others, to codify his March 12, 2020 Executive Order, in the enactment of H.B. 4598, which Baker signed into law on April 3, 2020. No harm, no foul, at least on the score of this potential legal overreach, since it lasted all of about three weeks. However, this was not the only example of well-entrenched and likely constitutionally-required respect for separation of powers being formally ignored, albeit for exceptionally good policy reasons, during the pandemic.
Section 17 of the Zoning Act requires that an appeal be brought “within twenty days after the decision has been filed in the office of the city or town clerk”, and that “[n]otice of the action with a copy of the complaint shall be given to such city or town clerk so as to be received within such twenty days.” “[R]eceipt of notice by the town clerk is a jurisdictional requisite for an action under G. L. c. 40A, § 17, Garfield v. Board of Appeals of Rockport, 356 Mass. 37, 39 (1969), which the courts have ‘policed in the strongest way,’ Pierce v. Board of Appeals of Carver, 369 Mass. 804, 808 (1976), and given ‘strict enforcement,’ O'Blenes v. Zoning Bd. of Appeals of Lynn, 397 Mass. 555, 558 (1986).” Konover Management Corp. v. Planning Bd. of Auburn, 32 Mass. App. Ct. 319, 322-323 (1992). In sum, generally-speaking, in real estate litigators’ line of work, a zoning appeal and the clerk’s notice absolutely must be filed within 20 days; the 20-day deadline is a drop-dead date. An abutter’s stage coach will turn into a pumpkin on the 21st day.
The Supreme Judicial Court, however, issued a series of emergency orders during the Covid-19 crisis, the most recent of which was entered on June 24, 2020, was effective as of July 1, 2020, and includes a provision that purports to toll “all deadlines set forth in statutes . . . that expired at any time from March 17, 2020, through June 30, 2020” to a date on or after June 30, 2020, based on a calculation formula. (Emphasis added.) On its face, this order seems to apply inter alia to G. L. c. 40A, § 17’s 20-day deadline, notionally supplying potential plaintiffs in zoning appeals with a period of time considerably in excess of the 20 days prescribed by the statute. This is unprecedented in MA land use practice, based on existing appellate law on this issue.
It is true that decisions, such as Konover, supra, show that “strict enforcement and strong policing” do not require “inflexible literalness”, i.e., some marginal exceptions to statutory requirements have been allowed. 32 Mass. App. Ct. at 323. However, “[t]he key element of these decisions relaxing the rigors of strict compliance with the zoning appeal statute is that within the mandatory twenty-day period the clerk is actually notified that an appeal -- i.e., a complaint -- has in fact been timely filed.” Id. at 324-325 (footnote omitted). “The statutory purpose is then served, because ‘interested third parties [can] be forewarned [by the clerk] that the zoning status of the land is still in question.’” Id. at 325, quoting Carr v. Board of Appeals of Saugus, 361 Mass. 361, 363 (1972).
This rationale for loosening the standards would appear to be absent when considering, and inapplicable to, the Covid-19 crisis, even though there is a different, arguably even more powerful, policy rationale for such loosening under the SJC’s emergency orders, at present. That said, however, the emergency orders also reflect a loosening of standards beyond any prior point—no one has been permitted to file and give notice beyond the 20-day mark before, not even on the 21st day. See Planning Board of Falmouth v. Board of Appeals, 5 Mass. App. Ct. 324, 325, 328 (1977). But, at least based on present human memory, the courts have also never effectively been closed before (only emergency matters were being heard for a considerable period of time over the spring).
Equitable principles, asserted to extend the deadline, such as reliance upon faulty advice from a town clerk, have been rejected by the SJC, in this area of law, on this precise type of issue. See O’Blenes, 397 Mass. at 556-559. Equitable tolling, sparingly applied to statutes of limitation, which this deadline arguably is not, has never been applied in this context before. And, the number of decisions, in which the SJC has held and reasoned that, regardless of its own perceived policy preferences, it has no authority to graft more language upon, or alter, statutory text, are legion. Generally-speaking, it is the job of the Legislature to enact laws, and the courts to interpret them, not to amend or change statutory language, including extending statutory deadlines, even if there were exceedingly good policy reasons for doing so. But, again, the body that ultimately makes the rules and decides if MA law has been broken or violated, the SJC, apparently has ordered this deadline “tolled”. It speaks, and generally we must listen. Who are practitioners to appeal to, if the SJC has violated its own rules? On matters of MA State law, the SJC has the final word.
Having taken an informal poll of colleagues—names will be withheld to protect the innocent—the consensus appears to be that, yes, these orders appear to apply to the 20-day appeal period under the Zoning Act, and yes, this type of extension seems at a minimum to be unprecedent, if not violative of separation of powers, but what is a practitioner going do about it? For the reasons already stated, it would be an apparent fool’s errand to try to convince the SJC that it had acted ultra vires during an extreme public health emergency. Doctrinal purity must bend to practical exigencies. And, who wants to be that attorney—the one who complains about finite, though potentially illegal, extensions granted during a serious crisis? To avoid this type of conversation, quarrel and issue, practitioners appear to be advancing from the premise that, where possible, it would be preferable to continue to comply with the 20-day deadline, and only seek to take advantage of the emergency orders’ extensions, when/if Covid-19 truly, practically prevented an appeal and notice from being filed within the 20-day appeal period otherwise prescribed by the statute.
Regardless of how it should be practically approached, this matter of the interplay between the SJC’s emergency orders and the 20-day appeal period under the Zoning Act is a microcosm of what has been happening more broadly, throughout the country. Our rule of law is not particularly set up or suited to handle emergencies of the type that we have been enduring. Enactment of broader emergency powers can be scary and dangerous, because other polities have seen such powers abjectly abused. But, the present crisis demonstrates that it would be doctrinally cleaner, and perhaps better for the long-term health of the rule of law, for the legislative branches of Federal, State and local governments to grant executive and judicial branches the express latitude needed to meet emergency challenges, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, rather than force them to act arguably illegally. Norms, rules and separation of powers matter. They should be respected, lest they be set asunder.
Nick Shapiro is a shareholder at Phillips & Angley. Nick joined the firm as an associate in 2011. His focus and practice areas are concentrated on zoning, land use, real estate and telecommunications, counseling real estate developers, private land owners, neighbors and abutters, and institutional/corporate clients throughout the Commonwealth. Nick is a member of the REBA Board of Directors and serves as co-chair of the Association’s Land Use and Zoning Section. Nick’s email address is nshapiro@phillips-angley.com.
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Brain regional vulnerability to anaesthesia-induced neuroapoptosis shifts with age at exposure and extends into adulthood for some regions
by SmartTots | Jan 24, 2014 | Research Articles
Br. J. Anaesth, January 2014.
Deng M, Hofacer R, Jiang C, Joseph B, Hughes E, Jia B, Danzer S, Loepke A.
Background: General anaesthesia facilitates surgical operations and painful interventions in millions of patients every year. Recent observations of anaesthetic-induced neuronal cell death in newborn animals have raised substantial concerns for young children undergoing anaesthesia. However, it remains unclear why some brain regions are more affected than others, why certain neurones are eliminated while neighbouring cells are seemingly unaffected, and what renders the developing brain exquisitely vulnerable, while the adult brain apparently remains resistant to the phenomenon.
Methods: Neonatal (P7), juvenile (P21), and young adult mice (P49) were anaesthetized with 1.5% isoflurane. At the conclusion of anaesthesia, activated cleaved caspase 3 (AC3), a marker of apoptotic cell death, was quantified in the neocortex (RSA), caudoputamen (CPu), hippocampal CA1 and dentate gyrus (DG), cerebellum (Cb), and olfactory bulb (GrO) and compared with that found in unanaesthetized littermates.
Results: After anaesthetic exposure, increased AC3 was detected in neonatal mice in RSA (11-fold, compared with controls), CPu (10-fold), CA1 (three-fold), Cb (four-fold), and GrO (four-fold). Surprisingly, AC3 continued to be elevated in the DG and GrO of juvenile (15- and 12-fold, respectively) and young adult mice (two- and four-fold, respectively).
Conclusions: The present study confirms the findings of previous studies showing peak vulnerability to anaesthesia-induced neuronal cell death in the newborn forebrain. It also shows sustained susceptibility into adulthood in areas of continued neurogenesis, substantially expanding the previously observed age of vulnerability. The differential windows of vulnerability among brain regions, which closely follow regional peaks in neurogenesis, may explain the heightened vulnerability of the developing brain because of its increased number of immature neurones.
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Bugatti Type 57 Grand Prix – A Celebration
by Neil Max Tomlinson
“In letters to his son, Ettore often expressed his dissonance by referring to the Type 57 as ‘. . . a Buick made in Molsheim,’ so it should have hurt Jean deeply to have his efforts put down by his father like this.”
Jean Bugatti had been groomed from childhood for a leadership role in the firm Ettore had built so “dissonance” in their relationship and over this model would have been bad enough but history also records that Jean was killed in a T57—not the car’s fault, but still ironic.
Over 700 T57 road cars were built 1934–1940, including the famous Atlantic and Atalante. Though drawing on parts and techniques from earlier models they introduced innovative technical and design solutions and were very much suited to turning the company’s fortunes around. But racing being the costly enterprise it is, it was no longer a priority for Bugatti and so only very few racing versions of the T57 were made—known as Tanks for their slab-sided bodies—and this book is their long overdue story.
Early on the book says it “celebrates the Bugatti T57 Grand Prix racing cars: their origins, triumphs, failings, trivia, trinkets, and a little about the personalities behind them, all interwoven with the social and political influences of those times.” If the book did only that, and it does, it would have earned its place on the bookshelf. But wait, there’s more.
Anyone with an interest in racing, technology, and design in general and Bugatti history in particular will recognize that this book offers much useful detail about what Hugh Conway in his Foreword refers to as “a little-known area of activity.” While it seems pedantic to point out, there actually are people who mistake this H.R.G. Conway, the current chairman of the Bugatti Trust, with his father Hugh Graham Conway who founded the Trust and was a world-renowned expert on the marque. It is stating the obvious to say that the Conways know their Bugatti history better than most so take note of the fact that HRG [a] wrote the Foreword at all and [b] specifically singles out some of his colleague’s more radical suppositions as plausible before you attribute some parts of the book to an overactive imagination.
Tomlinson, a member of the Trust since its inception who has produced much noteworthy work, certainly needed an active imagination in order to consider new answers to old problems. For instance, over the three seasons of their racing career, only three Tanks ever appeared in one place at one time whereas company records showed four cars being built. In the past, the discrepancy has been chalked up to shoddy record keeping, certainly an explanation with precedent. Bugatti experts will want to start with Chapter 16 in which Tomlinson makes his case for a fourth 1936 car, based on a fresh interpretation of well-known photos and period sources. This has wide-ranging implications on the micro (cf. the 1937 Le Mans Tank must be a G-spec car) and the macro level (Jean Bugatti considered the T59 the real racing version of the T57). What makes him see things that others have not and, more importantly, what allows him to make deductions others have not, is probably his professional training as an engineer in various motoring-specific disciplines. Thinking out loud, he guides the reader through a forensic analysis connecting a wide array of disparate data points. You may not want to agree with his findings but you’ll have a hard time coming up with better arguments. Seeing such shopcraft in action is alone worth the price of the book! As thorough as the explanations are, they are also complex so pen and paper will come in handy. If there is a weakness it is that oftentimes specific photos are referenced but without giving their page number (two famous photos showing three Tanks together are, for instance, over 100 pages apart).
Tomlinson’s approach also allows him to assign specifics to the famous hushed-up Tank crash at Montlhéry, leaving only one question remaining: who was the driver? He allows that his answer (Jean B.) is “pure speculation” but, again, his ability to reshuffle known data and extrapolate a different answer is remarkable.
All the foregoing gives merely a hint of the qualities of this book. The first 10 chapters discuss the years 1936–39 in detail, ending with Jean’s fatal road accident. Another five chapters deal with specific components and chassis adding some previously unpublished drawings to the printed record, and a final chapter summarizes key findings and shows Tank model cars (kits, scratch, ready-made). The award-worthy Table of Contents should be adopted as a universal model; the lack of Tank-specific literature in the Bibliography leaves no doubt why the world needs this book; and, lastly, an Index helps navigation just enough.
Tomlinson spent 40 years mulling this subject over; let’s hope he had other irons in the fire so we won’t have to wait that long for the next book!
Copyright 2015, Sabu Advani (speedreaders.info).
Veloce Publishing, 2015 [In US: Quarto]
176 pages, 158 color & b/w photos, hardcover
List Price: $85 / £50
Bugatti Type 57 Grand Prix: A Celebration (Hardcover)
Posted Under: Automobiles, French, Racing, Rally | Author: Sabu Advani | 1 comment
Hi Speedreaders
Thank you for kind book review. I put the two well-known car line-ups on pages 36-37, mentioning how they compare, ACF to the Marne, showing that they are the same three cars known. The other well-known ACF line-up photo was shown in the more controversial chapter, assuming the reader had already studied the earlier chapters. I clearly overlooked the possibility that readers might advance directly to chapter 16 first (more especially after recommendation). Thanks for your comments regarding chapter sub-headings, which makes it easier to cross reference chapter details with the index.
I have not neglected other Bugatti Types over the years, and have found other anomalous car histories, even from the earliest models. Unfortunately, It is not easy to re-write Bugatti history without a certain amount of critical opposition from deeply entrenched and established historians and experts. Thank you for your generous comments though.
Kind regards NMT
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CAJE is back, with an online tribute to Debbie Friedman
CAJE was a beloved institution in liberal Jewish education that, if I understand correctly, quietly dissolved recently. A lot of Jewish musicians on the song-leader circuit built their audiences at CAJE events. CAJE is back, though, in the form of NewCAJE. Right now, it looks like NewCAJE is kicking off with an ongoing online webinar series. The next one up will be Reform Rabbi Anne Brener and musician Julie Silver presenting "Tachat Canfei (Under the wings) of Shechina: Reflections on Life, Death and Debbie Friedman z"l" on Feb 9, 2011 at 8pm Eastern. They're looking for donations to attend, but are leaving the donation amount up to you. The money raised is going to support new Jewish music and musicians at future NewCAJE events. Here's there blurb...
"Debbie Friedman z"l transformed Jewish life. She channeled a subterranean current of life and joy into the post-holocaust world of silence, frozen emotion, and rote liturgy, bringing us a "new song to sing unto God," and helping us to thaw and to turn our "mourning into dancing." And now, we mourn Debbie.
Let us come together to remember Debbie and to explore the impact of her music and its feminism and theology upon the way we live as Jews today. We will listen to some of her music together sung by her friend Julie Silver, exploring her understanding of the relationship between life and death that may be revealed in her music. In the process, we will learn more about Jewish understandings of death and the afterlife and hopefully find some consolation.
Following the formal presentation and questions, there will be an open hour in which people will be able to share their stories of Debbie and thus explore Judaism's insistence on the power of the community to bring healing.Rabbi Brener will raise many questions in her presentation including:
What was the world like at the time that Debbie began to sing?
What impact was she able to have on that world?
What does Judaism teach about the relationship between body and soul?
What does Judaism teach about the afterlife and what are some of those teachings?
How did Debbie's use of female imagery and role models help to transform the role of women in the Jewish world?What is the theology that might be mined from Debbie's music"
Jim Ball said...
Jack: CAJE itself dissolved two years ago for lack of funding. It was actually reborn this past summer with the first NewCAJE conference which took place in Boston in August. Educators, cantors, song leaders and Jewish musicians perform(ed) and were able to get gigs through the conference. The online piece is a new activity. Rabbi Sherri Koler-Fox was one of the organizers of NewCAJE. PS-enjoy your blog.
Jim...thanks for the update. I'm glad to hear that NewCAJE is continuing where CAJE left off.
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Brett & Wendy
About ToI
TOI’s most outstanding characteristic is visual storytelling. Kim Carpenter’s experience of working with American visual theatre doyen, Robert Wilson, in New York inspired him to found TOI in 1988 as a visual theatre company.
A new Australian work, a collaboration between Kim Carpenter’s Theatre Of Image & Legs On The Wall. Brett & Wendy’s tumultuous life together – from when he was 17 and she 15 – is filled with incredibly stark highs and lows. It’s a great love story bound by art.
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A podcast from the editors of VIE Magazine. Hosted by Founder/Editor-in-chief of VIE, Lisa Marie Burwell. Listen below or subscribe to never miss an episode.
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Episode 9: “A Dynamic Duo: Living an Adventurous Life” – A Conversation with Romona Robbins and Shane Reynolds
We welcome you to the ninth episode of VIE Speaks: Conversations with Heart & Soul, a podcast and limited video series from the creators of VIE magazine. Our host, VIE founder/editor-in-chief Lisa Burwell, has been friends with the dynamic husband-and-wife creative duo, Romona Robbins and Shane Reynolds, for many years, working with them on various projects for VIE and its publisher, The Idea Boutique. As world-class photographers, filmmakers, producers, and more, Shane and Romona have traversed the globe—both above and below the water’s surface—telling stories and creating content for National Geographic, Travel Channel, VIE, Connemara Life, Lonely Planet, and more. Join them for a chat about life, love, family, and adventure!
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Episode 8: “Art on the Spectrum: Seeing What Others Cannot” – A Conversation with Nathan Alan Yoakum
In the eighth episode of VIE Speaks: Conversations with Heart & Soul, a podcast and limited video series from the creators of VIE magazine, our host, VIE founder/editor-in-chief Lisa Burwell, catches up with artist Nathan Alan Yoakum. A heartfelt and candid conversation follows detailing Nathan’s stunning resin sculptures and pop art, as well as his personal journey of living on the autism spectrum and how it has shaped his life and career. Through art, Nathan finds his creative niche and thrives in a world where he can see what others cannot. His visions become a beautiful story for his audience and collectors. Find Nathan’s work at isidro dunbar Modern Interiors in Miramar Beach, Florida, Jay Etkin Gallery in Memphis, and Chic Evolution in Art in Atlanta.
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Episode 7: “Life Is a Battlefield” – A Conversation with Geoff Speyrer
Welcome to episode seven of VIE Speaks: Conversations with Heart & Soul, a podcast and limited video series from the creators of VIE magazine. Our host, VIE founder/editor-in-chief Lisa Burwell, talks with US Army veteran and fitness competitor Geoff Speyrer. His recent SET 22 Challenge—a grueling strength, endurance, and training event that took place over Memorial Day weekend in 2020—raised over $10,000 for Mission 22, a nonprofit helping veterans with treatment for post-traumatic stress, traumatic brain injuries, and substance abuse along with promoting suicide prevention. Geoff discusses his own experiences fighting on the battlefields of the military, addiction, self-harm, fitness, and rebuilding his life through hard work and dedication.
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Destin Athletic Club
Episode 6: “Fit for Life” – A Conversation with Zoltan “Zoli” Nagy
Welcome to episode six of VIE Speaks: Conversations with Heart & Soul, a podcast and limited video series from the creators of VIE magazine. Our host, VIE founder/editor-in-chief Lisa Burwell, sits down with health and fitness expert Zoltan “Zoli” Nagy. This former professional hockey player, now the owner and lead trainer at Destin Athletic Club in Destin, Florida, is also a VIE cover gent. Join Lisa and Zoli as they discuss the importance of keeping both your body and your mind strong and healthy, everyday fitness tips, and more.
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The Repertory Theatre – Seaside, Florida
Episode 5: “Love The REP” – A Conversation with Brook Stetler
Welcome to a new episode of VIE Speaks: Conversations with Heart & Soul, a podcast and limited video series from the creators of VIE magazine. Our host, VIE founder/editor-in-chief Lisa Burwell, sits down with Brook Stetler, the executive director of The Repertory Theatre in Seaside, Florida. This small local theater company makes big waves throughout the year with a robust lineup of productions for adults and children, concerts, film series, and more. Lisa caught up with Brook to chat about The REP and the value of supporting the arts in your community.
Jordan Staggs, Managing Editor
VIE magazine
Episode 4: “VIE Adventures, Part II” – A Conversation with Jordan Staggs
This episode of VIE Speaks: Conversations with Heart & Soul, a podcast and limited video series from the creators of VIE magazine, features our host, VIE founder/editor-in-chief Lisa Burwell, and managing editor Jordan Staggs. Join us as they recount some of VIE’s most memorable photo shoot moments from the past several years, the joys and struggles of making a monthly magazine, and their love of all things Hamilton in this installment of “VIE Adventures.” Stay tuned for more adventures with the VIE staff on future episodes of VIE Speaks.
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Episode 3: “Pivot with Your Tribe” – A Conversation with Brittney Kelley
On the third episode of VIE Speaks: Conversations with Heart & Soul, a podcast and limited video series from the creators of VIE magazine, Lisa Burwell sits down with Brittney Kelley. As the cofounder, CEO, and designer for Tribe Kelley lifestyle brand along with her husband, Brian Kelley of country music duo Florida Georgia Line, Brittney has become an influential creative voice in her community and online. She shares information on her partnership with mental health advocacy program PIVOT Relational Alignment, what’s coming up for Tribe Kelley, and more.
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Episode 2: “VIE Adventures, Part I” – A Conversation with Tracey Thomas
In the first installment of “VIE Adventures,” our host, VIE magazine founder/editor-in-chief Lisa Burwell, chats with creative director Tracey Thomas about the history and vision of VIE. Join us for a special episode of VIE Speaks: Conversations with Heart & Soul as they share behind-the-scenes tidbits about working with fashion designer Christian Siriano on a massive cover and lifestyle shoot at Ballynahinch Castle Hotel in Ireland, traveling the world for stories, and the inspiration and evolution behind VIE’s brand for the past twelve years.
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Alaqua Animal Refuge
Episode 1: “Rescue Me” — A Conversation with Laurie Hood
Welcome to the first episode of VIE Speaks: Conversations with Heart & Soul, a new podcast and limited video series from the creators of VIE magazine. Our host, VIE founder/editor-in-chief Lisa Burwell, sits down with Laurie Hood, the founder of Alaqua Animal Refuge and the Florida state director for Animal Wellness Action. In this heartfelt and candid conversation, they discuss Hood’s mission for giving animals shelter, safety, and second chances, along with the ups and downs of running a nonprofit no-kill animal refuge with over 400 volunteers.
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SoundSelf Promises A VR Trip Into Consciousness
I see you: New VR experience SoundSelf could give you a new perspective.
Austin-created VR experience offers a virtual reality trip into consciousness.
Two things bringing people much-needed respite as they shelter at home are technology (Zoom went from niche tech to late-night punchline in about a week) and meditation (anyone with a British accent saying "breathe" will do). Combining those two lifelines is a new "video game" that creates a mindful, relaxing, and maybe even psychedelic mind state.
SoundSelf is the brainchild of local video game experimentalist Robin Arnott. The soothing software isn't a response to the coronavirus stress: He and his small team at Andromeda Entertainment have reimagined and tweaked the project for eight years. "I think it's crazy synchronistic to have this game, which is a radically new approach to what a game can do, wrapping development just in time to really help people come back to stillness and inner peace in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic," Arnott explained via email.
But what is it exactly? The press release describes it somewhat elusively as a "technodelic." More concretely, it's a game that uses imagery and sound to help you achieve a deeper meditative state. Utilizing your computer's microphone, SoundSelf feeds a combination of the player's own voice, musical elements, and moving visual patterns back to them. The effect is uniquely powerful and might be just the kind of self-care you need to boost that inner peace that's so elusive right now. "Meditate on your breath for a few minutes before going in, and then treat the game as though it is something sacred!" Arnott recommends. "It will absolutely respond to the intention you bring into it."
If you really want to turn the experience up to 11, try it with a VR headset and let the sights and sounds surround you. The experience was effective enough to get the attention of the NeuroMeditation Institute, whose tests found that SoundSelf induced brain activity similar to those found in psychedelic states. If you prefer your meditation a little more serene than trippy, then just let your computer screen do the work.
Designed to calm, SoundSelf couldn't be a more extreme departure from Arnott's previous creation, Deep Sea, that involved donning a custom gas mask with the visor blacked out and retrofitted with headphones. Players were tasked with listening for (and hopefully pinpointing) a malevolent sea creature. The problem? Every breath taken in the mask was monitored and triggered a loud bubbling sound that obfuscated the would-be swimming attacker. The effect was one of sensory (and oxygen) deprivation that made removing the mask feel like a metaphorical and literal breath of fresh air.
SoundSelf also looks to affect people's perception, but this time by engaging the senses instead of depriving them. It hopes to be that breath of fresh air its predecessor withheld. Opening up space, both within the mind and in virtual reality, during these claustrophobic times might be one of the new endeavors you picked up during the pandemic that you continue to explore when we come out the other side of this. Making sourdough probably won't.
SoundSelf: A Technodelic comes out April 22 for Macs, PCs, and VR.
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Quinton and Tangakwunu - Save Our Planet, Part 3 of 3
In our first 2 parts, polar bears Quinton, and his single dad Tangakwunu were captured by a fishing boat. They were sent to a zoo, where they met their caretaker, Kate, who is a vegan animal lover. In order for the public to realize the dire situation that the animals in slaughter houses are facing, they escaped and traveled to a slaughter house. What are they going to do next? "This event is really to raise public awareness about the impact of veganism on the climate crisis situation." "Unfortunately, we don't have a lot of time. More researchers are now saying that the Arctic ice could be gone entirely, not by 2050, but in four or five years. We are an inch away from the point of no return, and we desperately need the mighty influence of governments and the media to change the outcome. It is threatening our only home, the planet Earth, and we must save it for ourselves and our future generations." "The event held last week, ‘Be Veg, Go Green, 2 Save Our Planet’ has sparked demonstrations in major cities throughout the world, urging government leaders to take actions immediately to stop global warming. They are also demanding every government in the world to convene at the United Nations before it is too late." "During the 11th Emergency Special Session, all meals served will be vegan. A resolution has been approved and passed. That's more than two-thirds of all member nations." "Slaughtering and consuming flesh is unbecoming to human dignity. We must embrace a nobler way of living. I've witnessed what goes on inside a slaughterhouse. Some may say there is a humane way of slaughtering animals, but there is no such thing as a humane killing of ANY being. The word ‘humane’ cannot be accompanied with ‘killing’ or ‘slaughtering’. We animals have emotions, feel pain, and fear being killed. Dear Benevolent Humans, saving the animals will save yourself and our planet. Sincerely with love, Tangakwunu on behalf of your co-inhabitants."
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Climate change is accelerating. The United Nations report warned of global warming causing emissions that come mainly from animal livestock. The livestock industry is responsible for greenhouse gas emissions that are more potent than that of all cars, trucks, boats, airplanes, and trains in the world combined. A worldwide shift to an animal-free, vegan diet would reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by more than 80%. If the world goes vegan, there will be so much positive change, for the animals, the environment, and human health. The ice is melting fast. Go vegan now. "See Quinton, this is the best thing we could do with our fame, to show humans the truth. This will be all over the news, and everyone will see who they are eating, and hopefully change their diet to include only plant-based foods." "We don't belong in the zoos, We belong in the sea. In the Arctic, we live usually so happily, But climate change is changing, melting our lands so quickly. There is a solution, It's really so easy, Be Vegan, We promise it will help all earthlings The animals, the health of all the human beings The environment, the oceans and all the cute fishies. Be Vegan, Be Vegan, earth needs your helping hand. Climate change is melting all of our ice lands. It's the best solution, for you and for me Be Vegan, Just eat fruit and veggies."
Welcome to Part 1 of the 3-part series, “Quinton and Tangakwunu – Save Our Planet.” Somewhere in the Arctic, a polar bear cub, Quinton, and his dad, Tangakwunu, are living a peaceful life, until an “icequake” strikes. The iceberg they are on falls apart and drifts them away from their home. “What happened?” “Where are we going?” “I don’t know. I’m more concerned that this iceberg will melt if we head further south. And we may bump into humans.” “Mom taught me that it’s not right to take the lives of other beings. We have other things to eat! There’s kelp and other sea plants.” “Okay, kelp it is.” “Something’s coming towards us.” “Humans?” “Must be.” “Dad, what now?” “I’m not sure, but whatever happens, stay close to me.” “Well, so... Quinton's mom, her life was taken by hunters, and I was traumatized… I just couldn’t get over it... So I went to see a guru called Wahkan. Some say he surrendered his ego and became the Spirit of the Arctic... He knew I was coming. Before I turned around to head out, he looked at me once…He was all... love and... that moment I felt like I was connected with... something all powerful.” “The ancient Atlanteans used crystals for everything; communication, healing, weather control, and to increase psychic and supernatural abilities.” “I think the greatest achievement in human history is the establishment of human rights. I know there are still lots to be done, but when it comes to animals... We don't have any rights, alive or dead. Humans are allowed to catch us, eat us, breed us, and lock us in zoos.” “We don't like being locked away in zoos, and in small areas that are not really our home.” “I have a plan. Follow me out. You just have to trust me and be very very quiet.” “Kate, where are we going?” “You’ll see. Somewhere awesome.”
The Beloved Mexican TV Animations: “Cantinflas Show” and “Cleo & Cuquin”
The first one is called “Cantinflas Show.” It was a television series produced by Televisa, and created by Mario Moreno, better known as Cantinflas. He is Mexico’s most beloved comedian. What I like about Cantinflas is that he is friendly, easy-going, funny, creative, and a good representative for the people of Mexico! Cantinflas traveled to many interesting places around the world, met all kinds
Vegans Are Cool, Part 2 (INT Korean)
Today, in part 2 of our, “Vegans Are Cool” series, we’ll introduce you to two young Korean vegan artists who are sharing their inspirations with the world. First, let’s meet Si-a in Wanju County, North Jeolla, Korea. Si-a has shown great interest in painting and pottery since she was young. She even published a picture book at the age of 10. The book is titled, “The Meaning of Words” and was part
Come Outside to Play with Us
Haha! Would you like to learn some interesting games that kids from different countries have been playing? Welcome to our show, “Come Outside to Play with Us.” The first game we would like to introduce to you is a traditional game called “Egrang.” To play this game, the participants each need a pair of stilts made with bamboo. The participants then must perform different tasks while using the stilts. Dancing and racing are some of the most common tasks. This game can train the participants to balance, walk gracefully, and build courage. Another one is called rangkuk alu, or tinikling. which is a traditional game played by people in Indonesia, the Philippines, and other countries around the world. It is a form of traditional dance involving two or more people beating, tapping, and sliding bamboo poles on the ground. They compete against each other in coordination with one or more dancers, who step over and in between the poles. There are a lot of benefits to spending time in nature either to play or just hanging out. A study conducted in the UK concluded that after spending time in nature, most children showed improvement with their school work, and became more capable of taking on challenges. As a result, they felt more confident in themselves, and had better relationships with their classmates and teachers. The great scientist, Dr. Albert Einstein, said, “Play is the highest form of research.” Play is the vehicle of children for learning, exploring, developing new skills, and connecting with others. Recent research also indicates that spending time in nature may bring other physical and mental health benefits. Exposure to new environments boosts our immune system, which means we won't get sick as easily. Sunlight provides vitamin D and boosts happiness. By playing outside we can also acquire blessings, along with positive energy from trees, grass, and all the plant life surrounding us. Supreme Master Ching Hai has also mentioned the spiritual blessings we can receive from Nature. “The sun cures your aches and pain, it eliminates toxins through sweat – when it’s hot, you sweat – and also it cures some of the diseases or other ailments. The sun gives benefits to all, bad or good. The sun would glorify the whole Earth that we live on and it gives life to all beings: plants, minerals, animals, etc. The sun gives also people happiness, carefree feeling. The sun is necessary for all on Earth.”
The Happiness Magnets
What are “happiness magnets” you may wonder. Well, these are the things that can attract happiness into our lives. Have you ever noticed that some people always seem to be happy and lucky, while others always seem miserable, complain about everything, and experience bad luck? Our story today, “The Two Travelers,” will illustrate this effect. Once upon a time, there was a tailor who could make the best clothes in town. Everyone liked him, not only because of his skills, but also because he was always cheerful and willing to help others. The tailor had a neighbor, the shoemaker, who seemed to be the exact opposite. He was never happy. He was always jealous of others, and wore a long, sour face every day. One day, the tailor decided to go to the capital city to find work. Along the way, he met the shoemaker. They resumed their journey across the forest to the capital, where the royal family lived. Some months later, the two bumped into each other in the street. The shoemaker was satisfied that he was doing better than his old neighbor, and did not offer him any assistance. Eventually the tailor’s sewing shop became prosperous. Eventually, the royal family heard of him and appointed him as their royal tailor. When the shoemaker heard the news about his old neighbor, he became discontented. He then told the king blatant lies about him. One day, the king ordered the guards to bring the tailor before him. “Tailor, I order you to find the crown as you have claimed. If you fail, you must leave this city forever.” Thanks to his duck friend, the tailor delivered the crown to the king the very next day. The king ordered the guard to bring the tailor before him once more. “Tailor, I heard that you have claimed that you could make a miniature sculpture of this palace from wax within 24 hours. I order you to prove your claim.” “Worry not, my friend. My family and I will help you.” The next day, the tailor returned to the forest and found a perfect wax miniature of the palace made by the bees. He brought it to the king right away. In the end, the tailor went on to enjoy a prosperous, happy life, while the shoemaker remained miserable, even though they both lived in the same palace. So, you see, our optimism and virtue attract good things into our lives. They are the happiness magnets. This is a beautiful lesson from the story.
Heal the World with Love, Part 2 of 2
Despite all the loss and grief inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic, people across the world have taken actions to spread joy, strength, and healing where it is most needed. SOS From the Kids, a children’s choir from the United Kingdom, became famous for singing about the climate crisis on Britain’s Got Talent. The choir has been honored with a Shining World Hero Award by Supreme Master Ching Hai. During the lockdown, they recorded another song, “Stand As One” via Zoom for all the healthcare workers on the front lines. The proceeds of this song will be given to NHS Charities Together & “Masks For NHS Heroes.” In British Columbia, Canada, 6-year-old Callaghan McLaughlin set up a “drive-by/walk-by joke stand” at the end of his driveway, offering free laughs to lucky neighbors and passersby. He said, "There's a lot of stress in the world, and I kind of want to get some smiles on people's faces." On top of spreading joy and positivity, many children and teens have held fundraisers and donation events for good causes! Tony Hudgell, a five-year old boy with prosthetic legs from the United Kingdom, has raised more than £1 million for the hospital that saved his life. Despite having both legs amputated, Tony was determined to walk 6 miles (close to 10 kilometers) to fundraise for Evelina London Children’s Hospital for saving his life. He was recognized by Supreme Master Ching Hai as a Shining World Compassionate HERO Award laureate. Four siblings from the Pilkington family in Australia, used their own money to donate gift bags to doctors and nurses. Inside each gift bag, they also put their own loving poem to encourage “Superheroes in Scrubs.” These kids generously share whatever they have with others. What a blessing to have so many angels grace our planet.
Despite all the loss and grief inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic, people across the world have taken actions to spread joy, strength, and healing where it is most needed. In our two-part show, we want to highlight some of the noble children and teens who have gone above and beyond for the greater good. Two boys from India, Jashith Narang and Ayush Sankaran, took advantage of the precious lockdown time by developing a Smartphone app, called “Climate catastrophe – Earth in Dearth in only seven days.” Users can calculate their carbon footprint based on their daily activities. It also has two games; one is about deforestation and the other is about renewable energy. Their app won an award in the App Inventor Hackathon 2020, held by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Stephen Wamukota, a nine-year-old boy from Kenya, independently built two simple devices from wooden window frames; these contraptions help people wash and sanitize their hands, without worrying about frequently touched surfaces, like faucet handles and soap dispensers. His invention won him the Presidential Order of Service, Uzalendo (Patriotic) Award from His Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta. A 12-year-old boy from San Francisco, USA named Mizan Rupan-Tompkins invented a smart tool to help people avoid germs. He was inspired with the idea when he noticed his parents were struggling to open doors using their sleeves. He used a 3-D printer to make hook-like devices called, “Safe Touch Pro” in order to minimize interacting with high-touch-surfaces. High-touch-surfaces are objects people interact with frequently to get around, such as door handles, elevator buttons, and ATMs! A 13-year old Canadian boy named Warren Richmond made face shields for health care workers. My young friends, what’s a good deed that you plan to do? What can we do with our “Two Hands”?
Vegan Kids Got Talent! Part 2 of 2
Did you know that tomorrow, October 25, is Supreme Master Ching Hai Day? Kids’ Wonderland would like to dedicate Part 2 of, “Vegan Kids Got Talent!” to our beloved Supreme Master Ching Hai. We have budding singers, dancers, and musicians from around the world who are not only talented, but also have one thing in common: they’re vegan! Let’s get right to our show today by meeting an amazing harpist
Today is Part 1 of Vegan Kids Got Talent! We are delighted to present you with incredible talents from Indonesia, Âu Lạc, also known as Vietnam, and California, USA. Traveling now to the beautiful nation of Indonesia, we have a teenage singer named Kentdy, singing a traditional Batak song called, “Alusi Au.” “We humans have various ideals The expectations of each person are so different. Wealth, success, and dignity are what some people are searching for. For others, fame is the most important thing. My ideals are a bit different from others, so are my hopes. Even though it is kind of silly, please do not make fun of me. Everything that I just mentioned, I achieved none. My ideals are very different from others. It’s really your love that I aspire for. It’s really your friendliness that I yearn for. You’re compassionate, dear, please don’t let me down. How does your heart feel? Please tell me, answer me.” In Âu Lạc , also known as Vietnam, some vegan friends put together a fun dance! Let’s watch! We have one more talented vegan to meet for this episode. She is a teenager from California, USA! Let’s sit back and enjoy Jessica’s performance. “I love writing and my teachers always say that I'm very passionate about what I write and I'm very articulate (with) my words. I normally write about pressing matters such as climate change, and movements that are going on.” “Being vegan will solve so many problems that this world has. The world I dream of is a vegan world where there's no discrimination based on color, ethnicity, or the way you talk. My dream world is somewhere where animals are free to go wherever they want to. And for every kid to have the equal opportunity to excel in school and into anything that they put their hearts to.”
The Girl Who Listens to Her Heart
The tale begins with a young Ethiopian girl named Aida. After her father passed away, her mother was always busy working and caring for the family’s basket weaving business. This left Aida and her sister Fana to take care of all the housework. However, Fana didn’t like to do chores and refused to help. She only cared about her beauty and was too preoccupied with looking at herself. Aida then took on the responsibility of cleaning and cooking for the family. She helped her mother weave baskets in her free time too. One day Aida finished her housework early, and went to the roof of the house to work on a beautifully woven basket with colorful threads. But suddenly, a gust of wind blew her basket off the roof and into a neighbor’s yard! "My father’s basket! I must go and find it!" "Please pardon my intrusion Āyatē, my basket fell from my roof and into your garden and I would like to retrieve it, if you don’t mind." "You may get your basket if you do some chores for me." Aida was not afraid of hard work, and she was happy to help the old woman. The old woman took her into the kitchen. …Aida did what the old woman told her and was given back the basket at the end. When she got home, she was very worried that her mother would be angry that she was late. But Fana and her mother didn’t know who the beautiful girl at the door was! "It’s me! Aida. Why don’t you recognize me?" "Aida?! How have you become so beautiful?" After Aida told them about the old woman and everything she was asked to do, Fana was eager to become beautiful too. She decided to go and do the same. She went home excited and knocked at the door. "Who are you? How can we help you?" "Mother, it’s me!" "Why are you so ugly? What did you do?" "Mother, I did all of it! I destroyed the kitchen, uprooted the garden, and I cut off all the hair of the old woman, exactly like I was told to do." "Aida! Can you explain this?" "I am sorry, Fana. That Āyatē did ask me to destroy her kitchen and garden and also to cut her hair - but I didn’t do those things. I listened to my heart instead, and I did what I believed was the right thing to do." Years later, after the old woman died, some people in the village plunged themselves in the pools and discovered the secret. It turned out that the pools made a person look on the outside the way they were on the inside. They remembered Aida – the girl who listened and understood the hearts of others. She showed her loving kindness and cared for those in need. Aida’s true beauty shines from within.
Billie Eilish, Vegan Musical Prodigy
“I am Billie Eilish, from Los Angeles.” Billie is a multi-talented musical genius from the United States. The 2019 Grammy awards were a revelation for Billie, as she took home 5 Grammys including Best New Artist, Album of the Year, and Song of the Year. She became the youngest artist to ever be nominated in all four main Grammy categories in the same year, and also won them all! Her Brother Finneas also won the Grammy for Producer of the Year. They both have a long list of awards for their studio album, “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” including ones from the American Music Awards, MTV, GAFFA awards, and many others. At the American Music Awards, Billie wore a t-shirt that said, “No Music On A Dead Planet,” showing her support and solidarity to combat and solve the climate change crisis. Billie and her family also adopted the vegan diet! Their mother, Maggie Baird, raised both Billie and Finneas on a vegetarian diet. In 2014, the entire family became vegan, out of compassion for our animal co-inhabitants. Not only did it help their conscience, the entire family saw immediate improvements in their health. Billie frequently uses both her talent and her wide-reaching voice to support noble causes. She joined Lady Gaga to perform at the One World: Together at Home concert, which promoted social distancing, and raised US$128 million for coronavirus healthcare workers. Billie and Finneas also played a concert on Pay It Forward Live, by Verizon to raise money for Support and Feed. Support and Feed was started by their mom Maggie, in order to support vegan restaurants by buying food from vegan vendors, and donating it to those in need. We hope you have learned something about the talented young musician Billie Eilish, her passion for music, as well as her compassion for the planet.
Vegans Are Cool, Part 1
Welcome to “Vegans Are Cool” where we proudly present some of our young Association members and friends from around the world. These multi-talented kids demonstrate what it means to follow a loving vegan lifestyle while pursuing their passions. A vegan lifestyle is one that doesn't involve eating and using animal products. These youth are compassionate, heroic, smart, and cool. They are role models of peace and love. First, we are traveling to meet two young vibrant vegans, Juanita and Angelina, in the beautiful city of Brisbane, Australia. ‟Hi, I'm Juanita and I'm 12 years old. I've been vegan since birth. Yes, her name is Lucky. And she's a dog. She surfs. I noticed when Lucky sleeps with me, I only have good dreams. I don't eat meat because I care for the animals, and they have feelings too.” One of Juanita's hobbies is poetry and she has written this beautiful poem about dolphins. Our next talented guest is from Hong Kong. ‟My name is Oliver. I'm 8 years old. Animals are our friends; we shouldn't hurt them. They are just different from us, like skin colors. For example, horses, they sleep while standing, they are living beings. But some of them won't grow up because people kill and eat them." Just like his mother, Oliver also enjoys practicing yoga and baking vegan cupcakes! Next up, we are meeting up with compassionate 11-year-old Seung-hyeon from Jeonju, Korea. ‟I thought it wasn't right to eat meat after watching a meat processing clip on Supreme Master TV. I don't think my friends know that a meat diet is crueler than we thought. When I eat a lunch box at school, my friends want to eat my lunch box rather than the school lunch, and they say the veggie meat is more delicious.”
The Lorax - The Environment Protector
“The Lorax” was written by one of the most well-known American children’s book authors. Since its publication in 1971, “The Lorax” has been named as one of “Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children” and one of the “Top 100 Picture Books” by the School Library Journal. In “The Lorax,” that dull and filthy area used to be a beautiful place, filled with fresh air, green grasses, and lots of colorful Truffula Trees. Many animals used to play happily in this earthly paradise. But everything changed after the arrival of one person, Once-ler. With an axe, one swing was all it took for the tree to fall down. On the freshly cut-stump, a man came out. Once-ler couldn’t wait to use the soft tuft, and knitted a Thneed, while talking to this strange man. The Thneeds became more and more popular, and more people came to buy it. Even railroads were built. Tree after tree, Once-ler’s business grew bigger and bigger. The Lorax kept asking Once-ler to stop chopping down trees. “I am going to continue to speak for the trees.” Sadly, Once-ler wouldn’t listen to him. Eventually, there were no more trees left. Along with them, gone were the clean air, fresh water, fruits and plants, and the animals who lived on them. At the end of the story, the Lorax departed the dark and lifeless place in despair; however, he left something behind, a pile of rocks placed to spell out the word “UNLESS,” which puzzled Once-ler for a long time. But he figured it out one day after talking to a boy. “Because UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” Once-ler threw a seed at the boy and told him to plant the last Truffula seed. Every one of us can be like that boy, to start caring about the environment, to start growing things, and to be a protector of nature. We can stop eating meat, so that trees wouldn’t need to be cut down for raising animals; we can use recycled paper for crafts, we can use a cloth towel instead of paper towels, so that less trees will be cut down to make them. There are many ways to save, recycle and reuse natural resources. Many children around the world have been taking actions to plant trees and protect the environment. You are welcome to join too!
Good Habits of Cleanliness
That’s right, when we sneeze or cough, we should always cover our mouth, or sneeze and cough into our sleeve. This will prevent our friends from getting ill. That’s the first tip of cleanliness. You should also make it a habit of washing your hands when you enter your home to prevent spreading germs that you may have come into contact when you were outside. This will also help to protect your family and friends from getting sick. 1) Wet your hands 2) Lather with soap 3) Rub your fingers 4) Rub your knuckles 5) Scrub your fingernails 6) Lather for at least 20 secs 7) Rinse your hands 8) Dry your hands. We have to be careful of each step, so that your hands will be free from germs. But sometimes washing hands is not enough. After a day out and about, going to school, or running around, we can get really dirty and smelly! What should we do? That brings us to tip number three, which is… taking a bath or shower. The fourth thing we should do is brush our teeth in the morning, in the evening, and after each meal. Supreme Master Ching Hai has shared these useful tips on how to brush our teeth properly. “Brush carefully, or teeth will decay. Not like this. This way. And brush your tongue as well. Since we are talking about tooth-brushing, let me tell you one more secret. Don’t use too much toothpaste.” Keeping our environment clean is the next essential step. Our living spaces include our bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, and our work areas. When we walk into a clean and tidy room, we feel peaceful and calm, while stepping into a messy room can make us feel agitated, right? We are affected by our environment, and our environment is a reflection of us. Supreme Master Ching Hai explains more. “My work, you see how I take care of the environment. That gives you the idea, okay? That's how you learn to live your life, the way you want. But it's just an example of beauty and cleanliness. Because that represents Godliness within you. That represents Heaven.” Lastly, when there are too many unhealthy viruses, like COVID-19, flying around, we have to do something extraordinary to stop it from spreading, by wearing masks when going outside. Remember friends, the six good habits of cleanliness, 1) cover ourselves when sneezing or coughing, 2) wash our hands with soap, 3) take frequent baths or showers, 4) brush our teeth, 5) keep our environment clean, and 6) wear a mask when necessary. Let’s keep ourselves and our living spaces clean and beautiful. If everyone will do it, we might just turn the whole world into a clean and beautiful place!
Anna and Her Animal Friends
Today, we have a story about a 6-year-old girl named Anna and an adventure that changed her life. Anna followed the animals to a large fig tree. As everyone held hands, Gloria Rabbit clapped twice and commanded, “The Garden of Eden opens! The Garden of Eden opens!” Lo and behold, an opening appeared at the base of the fig tree. Anna could see a tunnel path beyond it. Multi-colored lights shone brightly as they trekked their way through the tunnel, and out to a beautiful garden covered with giant trees, exotic plants, and wild flowers. A huge rainbow arched across the entire garden, sending out brilliant rays of colors. “So beautiful! This is like Heaven!” As Anna was absorbing all the wonders in this magical place, a carpet flew over her, and hovered in the air. Gloria Rabbit helped Anna aboard. Together, they went for a ride through the entire garden. It was magnificent! Anna saw many things that she had never seen before, such as a bright blue tomato patch, pumpkins bigger than herself, and rainbow-colored radishes. Eventually, they stopped in front of a cozy cabin where a group of animals awaited. “I am Tom Turkey, the best chef in the Garden. Come Anna, I have prepared a nutritious vegan meal. Please join us.” “What’s vegan food?” “Vegan foods are purely plant-based. It’s food that doesn’t contain any meat from animals.” “We are all vegans here, Anna. We don’t eat our friends.” All the animals sat around a big wooden table outside, and enjoyed Tom Turkey’s delicious feast. There were vegan breads, multicolored plant-based jelly, all sorts of nuts, and an herb and fruit salad. Anna’s favorite was the blue tomato juice. “We are delighted to have you here in the Garden of Eden, Anna. Please take care. See you soon!” One moment Anna was in the Garden of Eden, and the next instant she was back sitting by the fig tree. Her mother, Hong, was looking for her. “Anna, where have you been? It’s almost lunch time. Let’s go in.” As soon as they stepped into the kitchen, Anna saw Uncle Tom Turkey tied up on the counter, struggling. “Help, help!” “Please let the turkey go! He’s my friend. His name is Tom, and he is a great vegan cook. Let him go! We don’t need to eat him or other animals.” “Anna! What is the matter with you?” “I don’t want to eat my animal friends. Please don’t ever serve me meat again.” “But if you don’t eat meat, how will you have enough nutrition to grow big and strong?” “I can still grow big and strong. Gloria Rabbit, Tom Turkey, and other animal friends have shown me just how wonderful plant-based foods are. And how can I face my animal friends in the Garden of Eden again if I eat them as food?”
Bob Love - Be An Open Positive Vegan
Today we are meeting with Bob Love, owner of the vegan online store “ETHCS,” and YouTuber from London. His YouTube channel is called, “Family Freedom,” and it features his plant-based family going on all sorts of adventures! Together with his wife Katie, and their three children, JoJo, Jamie, and Sam, Bob has travelled all over the world to places like Miami and Paris, while enjoying delicious regional vegan foods in the process. Bob and his family work together to find delicious vegan food wherever they go! “We didn’t have many challenges in the foods or adopting the lifestyle. It’s more with the people. I find that you expect people to adopt it and receive it in the same way that you did. We thought people like our friends and family, they’re going to get it, but they didn’t.” “I think you have to recognize that you don’t need them to accept it. If they are your friends and family, and you’re just simply letting them know a change you’re doing in your life, and it doesn’t have to affect them.” Bob highly recommends using websites and documentaries, in order to help those close to you, understand why you have made the decision to be vegan. “If there are other people who are vegan, connect with them. Whether you can, in real life go out together, or online in forums, do that because it’s like a support forum with each other.” “Not only be positive in the way we communicate, but be a positive example. Keep yourself healthy, so that’s a good example to them. Be happy as well. As long as you’re positive, you’re eating good food, you’re showing off good aspects of the lifestyle, creating a persona which they can essentially be attracted by and want to adopt that lifestyle.”
Vegan Actor, Musician and Environmental Activist - Aidan Gallagher
There are so many troubling issues currently plaguing our planet today, such as global pandemics, impacts from climate change, environmental destruction, and animal extinctions. That’s why so many of them are rising up and getting their message out to the world. We are so excited to introduce another such hero, 17-year-old Aidan Gallagher, an American actor, singer, and songwriter. On top of being a brilliant artist, Aidan is at the forefront of championing environmental protection. After researching on his own, he became aware of the environmental and ethical aspects of meat consumption. After joining in with his family on Meatless Mondays, he eventually transitioned to a healthy plant-based diet. On his dietary choice, Aidan tweeted in March 2019, “I was not always Vegan. I started 4 years ago for the environment. As the leading cause of climate change I decided I had to lead by example.” In September 2018, Aidan discussed climate change impacts during the Global Climate Summit, hosted in San Francisco, USA. “I am honored to be here representing our world’s youth, who will be affected the most by climate change. We are all here because we value life, not only human life, but the lives of millions of species with which we share this world.” For our planet and for our animal friends, we hope everyone, young and old, can join Aidan in transitioning to the vegan diet, which is the easiest and the most effective way to make a positive change.
Jonah and the Whale
Today, we will start with a story taken from the Book of Jonah. It is a book of the Nevi’im (Prophets), in the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible as well as in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. The main character of the story is Jonah, who was an Israelite. Because of his pure and kind heart, God also trusted him and asked him to carry out Hiers work. “Jonah, the people of the great city of Nineveh have been living immorally. I want you to go there and preach to them, and instill goodness into their hearts. They must obey My Words and repent for their sins.” After listening to his assignment from God, Jonah left town. Do you know where he went? Instead of heading to Nineveh, he packed up and set off for the city of Joppa, in the opposite direction of Nineveh. At sea, while Jonah was sound asleep below the deck, a big storm broke out. The ship was rocked back and forth by the storm. The lives of all the passengers were in grave danger. At that moment, Jonah realized that by going against the will of God and running away from his destiny, he had brought on the storm and put others in danger. To everyone’s amazement, as soon as Jonah fell into the sea, the storm ceased. A large whale swam by and swallowed him up whole! Jonah stayed alive in the whale’s belly. Filled with gratitude and regret, Jonah prayed to God for forgiveness for three days and three nights. As God is merciful and loving, He readily forgave Jonah. Soon the big whale had indigestion and spit Jonah out onto dry land. Jonah cleaned himself up, and headed straight for Nineveh. Standing in the middle of the town square, he began preaching. Jonah brought God’s message to the people of Nineveh, and awakened them from their slumber. Many of them examined their own hearts, repented, and mended their past mistakes. Even the king asked Jonah how he could change so that he can set a good example for his people. Under Jonah’s patient guidance, Nineveh was transformed into a peaceful, loving community. With his mission accomplished, Jonah left the city. In spite of all of this, his heart was not at ease. “What troubles you, Jonah?” “My Lord, I trust Your wisdom and judgement. But I can’t forget how my people suffered because of what the people of Nineveh did to us. This is not fair. They should be punished for their wrongdoings.” “Jonah, the people of Nineveh were ignorant of their inner divinity. After heeding My message, didn’t they repent with all sincerity, and change for the better? They are now My people, and your brothers and sisters. I love all My children equally.” We saw that God is always forgiving and loving. What else did we learn? Hmm, we should listen to God’s words, and forgive others like God forgives us. And we should live a virtuous life. If we do something wrong, then we should repent and change for the better.
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The nearest airports to Khanty-Mansiysk are Tyumen, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Surgut, Nizhnevartovsk. The air company «Utair and «Transaero» make the regular flights from Moscow to Khanty-Mansiysk.
«Utair» company performs daily flights from Moscow to Khanty-Mansiysk and back according to the following schedule (local time for each airport):
UT-351 Moscow (Vnukovo) 20:15 – Khanty-Mansiysk 01:10
UT-352 Khanty-Mansiysk 07:40 – Moscow (Vnukovo) 08:55
«Transaero» company performs the flights from Moscow to Khanty-Mansiysk and back according to the following schedule (local time for each airport):
UN-185 Moscow (Domodedovo) 23:45 – Khanty-Mansiysk 04:30 (2, 6)
UN-186 Khanty-Mansiysk 06:00 – Moscow (Domodedovo) 07:25 (3, 7)
You can book and buy the air tickets of «Utair» company on the sites: www.utair.de , www.utair.ru, and the air tickets of «Transaero» – on the site www.transaero.ru/en
Detailed flight schedule you can see:
on the site of air company «Utair» www.utair.ru
on the site of air company «Transaero» www.transaero.ru
on the site of international airport Domodedovo (Moscow) www.domodedovo.ru
on the site of international airport Vnukovo (Moscow) www.vnukovo.ru
on the site of Khanty-Mansiysk airport www.ugraavia.ru
Contact telephone numbers in Khanty-Mansiysk:
Airport ticket office, Khanty-Mansiysk: +7(3467)39-44-24
Information office of the air company «Utair», Khanty-Mansiysk: +7(3467)33-08-56, 33-33-78
Information office of Khanty-Mansiysk airport, Khanty-Mansiysk: +7(3467) 35-42-60
By railway
The nearest railway stations to Khanty-Mansiysk are Pyt-Yah (260 km from Khanty-Mansiysk), Surgut (300 km from Khanty-Mansiysk) and Demyanka (240 km from Khanty-Mansiysk). You can get the railway station by train and then take a minibus or a shuttle bus to Khanty-Mansiysk.
The schedule of passenger trains you can see on the official site of “Russian Railways” www.rzd.ru
The railway ticket office in Khanty-Mansiysk +7(3467)33-08-10, 39-56-90 (Khanty-Mansiysk, Komsomolskaya str., 28)
Every day buses and minibuses depart from railway stations Pyt-Yah and Surgut to Khanty-Mansiysk with interval 2-3 hours. Travel time is about 3 hours.
More detailed schedule you can find at:
Ticket agency in Khanty-Mansiysk +7(3467) 32-98-49, 32-18-76 (www.tahm.ru)
Information office in Khanty-Mansiysk +7(3467) 33-31-13
Transfer between airports in Moscow
IF YOU GO VIA MOSCOW YOU CAN ORDER THE TRANSFER FROM ONE MOSCOW AIRPORT TO ANOTHER IN THE AGENCY WHERE YOU HAVE TOOK THE AIRTICKETS.
Taxi order by Internet:
To book the transfer from one airport in Moscow to another you can contact Moscow Transfer Service www.go-to.ru. On this web-site you can fill in an application, make payment, and the managers of this company will meet you in any airport in Moscow and transfer you to another airport in a convenient way.
You can get to Domodedovo airport by public transport in the following way:
Aeroexpress train
Aeroexpress train is a comfortable high-speed train that goes non-stop from Moscow, Paveletsky railway station, to Domodedovo airport and back.
Time of journey: 40-50 minutes.
You can buy the tickets for Aeroexpress in the airport, in Paveletskiy railway station (passenger terminal) and on the site www.aeroexpress.ru
Commuter Train
This train goes from Moscow, Paveletsky railway station to Domodedovo airport and back with all the stops during the route.
Time of journey: 1 hour 10 minutes.
Express Buses
Modern Scania, Man, Mercedes busses go non-stop to Domodedovo airport from «Domodedovskaya» underground station.
Timetable: from 06:00 to 00:00.
Departure time: every 15 minutes.
Mini busses run between «Domodedovskaya» underground station and the airport.
Nighttime schedule (from 00:00 to 06:00): every 40 minutes.
More detailed information about how to get to Domodedovo airport you can find on the site: www.domodedovo.ru
You can get to Vnukovo airport by public transport in the following way:
Aeroexpress train is a comfortable high-speed train that goes non-stop from Moscow, Kievskiy railway station, to Domodedovo airport and back.
You can buy the tickets for Aeroexpress in the airport, in Kievskiy railway station (Aviacentre) and on the site www.aeroexpress.ru
Regular busses № 611 (with all stops) and № 611С (express) run between the airport and «Yugo-Zapadnaya» underground station.
Mini bus № 45 runs between the airport and «Yugo-Zapadnaya» underground station.
More detailed information about how to get to Vnukovo airport you can find on the site: www.vnukovo.ru
You can get to Sheremetyevo airport by public transport in the following way:
Aeroexpress train is a comfortable high-speed train that goes non-stop from Moscow, Belorusskiy railway station, to Sheremetyevo airport and back.
Time of journey: 35 minutes.
You can buy the tickets for Aeroexpress in the airport, in Belorusskiy railway station (Aviacentre) and on the site www.aeroexpress.ru
Regular busses № 851 (with all stops) and № 851Э (express) run between the airport and «Rechnoy vokzal» underground station.
Time of journey: 40-50 minutes. Timetable: Bus № 851 from 05:35 to 00:49; bus № 851Э from 06:27 to 07:56.
Regular bus № 817 runs between «Planernaya» underground station and the airport.
Time of journey: 40-50 minutes. Timetable: from 05:22 to 00:08
Mini bus № 949 runs between the airport and «Rechnoy vokzal» underground station.
Timetable: from 06:45 to 21:45. Time of journey: 30-40 minutes.
Mini bus № 948 runs between «Planernaya» underground station and the airport.
More detailed information about how to get to Sheremetyevo airport you can find on the site: www.svo.aero
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Television Collision
CC2K
The Nexus of Pop-Culture Fandom
Criminal Macabre: They Fight by Night
Written by: Laura Hong-Tuason, CC2K Comics Editor
Are you tired of the same cop dramas that networks keep pushing out on TV? Me too. But have I got a cop drama for you that you don’t want to ignore! Actually, drop “cop drama” and throw in “Detective Comics” (sorry, not Batman) and “monsters”. That’s right, it’s Dark Horse’s “Criminal Macabre: They Fight by Night”.
Writer: Steve Niles
Artist: Christopher Mitten
Let me introduce you to Cal McDonald, a detective who fights monsters such as vampires and werewolves alongside his ghoulish sidekick, Mo’Lock. By “ghoulish”, I mean a real ghoul. Yes, Cal’s pretty tight with the ghouls. You know who Cal’s really not tight with? Cops. But that’s okay because I don’t like cop dramas.
“Criminal Macabre: They Fight by Night” is a one-shot comic in which you don’t need to know the background of the series to enjoy it like I did. The story begins with Cal settling into his new life after being killed and resurrected as a ghoul. Mo’Lock shows him a recording of a councilman candidate who is decapitated on live TV. Cal deducts instantly that this was the act of a monster and that a war is brewing. He therefore sets off with Mo’Lock to get answers, teaming up with another detective along the way. Can they catch the culprit and get to the bottom of the decapitation, or is there an even bigger problem just up ahead? Read this one-shot and find out.
Normally I don’t like one-shots since they tell me things I already know, but “Criminal Macabre: They Fight by Night” is a good one to read. Cal is an entertaining fellow. He’s got a sarcastic attitude and acts rather nonchalantly before stirring up a fight. He’s a straight-to-the-point kind of guy who never seems fazed out by a bad situation. Fortunately he’s also paired up with the equally amusing, but levelheaded and collected Mo’Lock. Lost his gun? No problem, Mo’Lock uses his hands.
While the one-shot storyline does conclude in a way, it also leaves things open. That’s because it is a prelude to “Criminal Macabre: Final Night – The 30 Days of Night Crossover #1”. This crossover is four issues long, with the first issue to be released on December 12, 2012.
“Criminal Macabre: They Fight by Night” satisfied my appetite, but I am quite thirsty. I don’t know about you, but I’ll need to quench my thirst come December.
Author: Laura Hong-Tuason, CC2K Comics Editor
Laura is a writer from the San Francisco Bay Area, but currently resides in Southern California. She drinks too much milk tea, talks too much about Green Lantern, and would marry Barry Allen if he were real.
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1. The Pardoner's Tale in The Canterbury Tales resembles the film A Simple plan in a number of ways. In five paragraphs(intro, 3 body, conclusion) analyze where the plots, themes and characters align and diverge.
2. The Canterbury Tales Prologues introduces an array of very distinct characters on a pilgrimage. As seen on modern day competition reality TV(The Duel, Survivor, Big Brother, Top Chef, etc.), the characters are pointedly different to enable a more dynamic narrative as the voyage ensues. In a five paragraph essay(intro, 3 body, conclusion) analyze 3 characters from the Prologue in relation to an analogous 3 characters on a competition reality program you are familiar with. Identify how these characters are comparable, while also noting the most significant differences.
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Dog Barks At Babysitter, So Mom Installs Hidden Camera
by creepyworld January 12, 2021
Strange Behavior
Dogs are known for sometimes exhibiting strange behavior during storms and even during supernatural activity. But Killian acted way stranger in front of the family babysitter — it was almost like a horror movie. Something wasn’t right and the family knew it.
They had to be quick and shrewd in order to get the truth. When it came time to play back the audio, what they found made them call the authorities.
Joyful Family
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Hope Jordan and Benjamin Jordan were a typical couple. After getting married, they felt they were finally in a happy place in South Carolina. They had two other members of the family, their sweet seven-month-old son, Finn, and their loyal Canine, Killian.
They felt they couldn’t be happier. But while they were keeping their dream alive by working hard, the family was unaware of what sinister things were going on in their house.
Both parents were working very committed jobs, so they decided it was time they got a babysitter for young Finn while they couldn’t be at home.
They thoroughly looked into Alexi Khan before hiring her. When they found nothing, they decided she suited them perfectly. They should’ve checked to see how Killian reacted around her.
Unusual Behavior
Youtube/Dog Dynasty
The family dog, Killian, was a very sweet companion. Most notable was how good he was with their son — he just made them so happy to have him. He was a sweet but definitely not heroic pup, so he was never put on guard duty.
Killian was the perfect playmate for young Finn, but they didn’t know that soon he would start acting extremely out of character. His personality took a sharp turn.
One night, Benjamin was confronted by their sitter. Alexis said that she would quit if they didn’t do something about their dog. Apparently, as soon as they would leave her alone with Finn and Killian, their pet would start growling at her.
He would also get in her way while she was attempting to look after Finn. “I am scared of that dog,” she exclaimed, “And what about Finn’s safety?” Benjamin and Hope didn’t know what to say, they were so surprised.
Benjamin attempted to dispel his doubt. Killian had never given him any reason to worry about Finn’s safety around him, he was only sweet to Finn. “He would never…” he said under his breath.
After imagining the worst, Benjamin told himself it was all nonsense. But after Alexis complained about Killian more and more, he knew that if it wasn’t the dog that was the problem, then what about the sitter?
Easy Answer?
After speaking to other dog owners, he was told that it was probably just the way Killian acted in front of people he didn’t know. But why would this only have developed now?
Maybe Killian was envious of their child. Finn never seemed to have a problem with the other family pet, though. As a matter of fact, Finn was more secluded in recent days. What could it be that the parents just weren’t noticing?
A few months passed and the situation escalated beyond control. Alexis said nowadays their dog would become frantic and try to attack her if she did as little as moved.
The Jordans couldn’t take the 22-year-old’s word for it, they couldn’t even see it first hand. But with their babysitter complaining so much they had to figure out what the problem was. This is when they thought about an idea that had never crossed their minds before now — it was a last resort.
A Mother’s Intuition
The Jordans didn’t want to have to go find another sitter on such short notice. Before this Alexis seemed perfect, so they thought maybe keeping Killian separate from their sitter could be a good plan.
But after running this idea by Hope, she had another idea. If their pet would only go nuts in front of Alexis when they weren’t around, maybe Killian wasn’t the one in the wrong. Maybe Killian was trying to tell them something about Alexis?
Things Didn’t Make Sense
Hope gave the situation more and more thought. The more time she spent looking at the situation, the more it didn’t make sense. Before Alexis, Killian had always been well-trained and had never shown aggression, even as a puppy.
The only thing Killian had shown for their family was concern and protectiveness, especially with their baby, Finn. Was Alexis the one not being honest?
Hope suggested they hide an iPhone under the couch to see if they could shed some light on the situation. Because when it came down to it, they trusted Killian with their child and never saw him as a threat.
But Benjamin had a better idea that would allow the concerned parents to get to the bottom of what was going on in their home.
Benjamin planned and built a tiny hearing device. The next morning, Hope carefully attached it to Killian’s collar, underneath his hair.
This would allow them to listen to exactly what was going on. Hopefully, it would shed some light on what was triggering their normally-placid dog while they were away during the day.
That evening, Benjamin and Hope arrived back home from a long day at work. And, as usual, Alexis immediately began to complain about Killian. Hope scooped Finn up and readied him for bed.
Then, she detached the recording device from Killian’s collar and sat down with her husband to listen to what it had recorded. But when they heard the playback, the horrified couple could only stare at each other in disbelief.
Chilling Sounds
The tape “started with cussing,” Benjamin said in his statement. And it only got worse. The couple could clearly hear Alexis shouting at Killian to “get out” while his growling intensified.
Then, they heard another sound that chilled them to the bone. Without a word, Benjamin picked up his phone and dialed the police.
The recording revealed that Alexis had been cursing and screaming at the baby. The police listened to it attentively and sympathized with the Jordans. But they weren’t sure an audio recording would hold up in court.
Then Benjamin played them another part of the audio that sent chills down their spines. Is this really who they had trusted to take care of their son?
“I wanted to reach through the audio, go back in time and just grab him up,” said Benjamin through the tears.
But now that they knew what had been going on whenever they left the house, something had to be done to stop it. Benjamin and Hope wanted to make sure that Alexis got exactly what she deserved.
Building A Case
But the police were still worried the audio alone might not be enough to prosecute Alexis.
Benjamin and Hope tried to build a stronger case but in the end, there was only one thing they could do to stop the aggressive woman from doing this to another child.
Behind Bars
When a Charleston City Police detective laid down the accusation, Alexis was quick to confess. She was sentenced to between one and three years in prison and forced to sign a register.
“That is fantastic news to us,” Benjamin said. “To know that maybe Finn’s ordeal has possibly saved another child’s life in the future.”
“To know that for five months I had handed my child to a monster,” said Benjamin, regretfully. “Had our dog not alerted us to the trouble, had my wife’s instincts not said, ‘We need to make something happen…’” he added, trailing off.
He did not even want to think about what might have happened then.
Killian The Hero
If background checks don’t alert us to dangerous people, can we really rely on our dogs to warn us that we might be inviting evil into our homes?
Killian certainly proved himself to the Jordan family. After the incident, local newspapers published the story, and it wasn’t long before Killian was hailed a hero and he even made a few celebrity appearances. What a good dog!
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Rwanda advises citizens against travel to Ebola-hit areas in DRC
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KIGALI, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- All travels to Ebola-hit areas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) should be avoided due to the Ebola outbreak in the country, Rwandan Health Minister Diane Gashumba said Thursday.
"Unessential travels to eastern DRC, including cross-border trade should be highly avoided. Rwandans should think twice before crossing to DRC just to buy or sell a few pair of shoes or a few food stuff items," said Gashumba while addressing a press conference in Rwandan capital Kigali.
She reiterated that Rwanda's border with DRC remains open, adding that the government would issue a statement in case of a temporary closure at the border.
Traffic at the border slowed down on Thursday morning as measures were put in place to reinforce screening procedures and public safety at entry points, she said.
The minister also cautioned against illegal crossings from or to DRC.
She emphasized the need of seeking immediate medical advice when falling ill during or immediately after traveling to DRC.
The presidency's office of DRC said in a statement earlier on Thursday that Rwanda has closed its border with its western neighbor after a man died of Ebola in the eastern DRC city of Goma, which borders Rwanda to the east.
The man, in his 40s, has tested positive for the deadly virus and died on Wednesday in the populous city of Goma. He was the second confirmed Ebola case in the city.
The DRC health authorities announced late Wednesday night the confirmation of a third case in Goma.
This week marked one year since the start of the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the DRC that has already killed more than 1,700 people, making it the second worst Ebola outbreak in history.
Rwanda has a detailed National Preparedness Plan for Ebola in place and has trained health workers in early detection and response, educated communities about Ebola, vaccinated health workers in high-risk areas, equipped health facilities, and continues to conduct simulation exercises to maintain a high level of readiness.
Screening for Ebola symptoms at points of entry has been ongoing since the beginning of the outbreak in DRC, and has been reinforced since the confirmation of a case in Goma.
An Ebola Treatment Center was put in place in the country and 23 isolation units are being prepared in hospitals in 15 priority districts. Ebola response simulation exercises are on a regular basis within the community, borders, airport and treatment center to test Rwanda's preparedness in response to a case, which includes emergency operations center activation, active surveillance, case management and laboratory testing.
About 3,000 health workers in high-risk areas have been vaccinated as a preventive measure, and over 23,000 people including doctors, nurses, hospital staff, community health workers, religious leaders, Red Cross volunteers and security organs have been trained. Enditem
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Barcelona Football Blog
February 3, 2010 / Kxevin / Team News
What’s Dani worth, a.k.a “Pay the man!
Money! Yeeeaaah, that's what I want!
The price of success can almost be quantified. Whether justified or not, every player involved in that success, if they have a contract that is anywhere in the realm of being up for renewal, wants more money. Mo, mo, mo, mo.
Dani Alves is no exception. We have fiscal complexities at every turn. Gerard Pique is up for a renewal, and we have to deal with the kids. But also, we have our Brazilian Hummingbird who, dependent upon who you read, is either unsettled or not going anywhere.
At present Alves, whose contract is up in 2012, makes something around 3.5m per annum, a number he would like to see raised when he renews his deal. BritPress is saying that Alves wants to double his dough, to 7m, to match what he has allegedly been offered by the likes of Chelski, who were in the running for him initially, and Citeh, who weren’t and probably still aren’t, since Dani Boy has been spoiled by a rain of silver the likes of which he may never see again in his already stellar career.
Crikey, that was one hell of a long-ass sentence, wasn’t it?
My view meshes with that of Xavi, which, as our midfield maestro was quoted as saying after we thumped Valladolid, “Having Dani Alves in our team is priceless.” Dude is easily worth 7m per annum, because we’re getting one of the world’s best right backs, and one of the world’s best right wingers. He defends, leads breaks, steals balls, takes free kicks, crosses, passes, vexes, harangues and plays matchaftermatchaftermatch with an unerring reliability.
Even at 7m per, he’s a bargain. The talk is of a two-year extension, which I think is about right. Not only is there value in having him nice and wrapped up for Guardiola (or whomever) next season, but right now, he’s one of the hottest commodities in world football because he’s never awful, and he’s durable. People often say that Maicon is a better right back. Maybe, but not for our club. There’s only one man for that job, and we have him.
So pay him. It’s a bargain at 7m. No, a player shouldn’t be allowed to dictate his own terms, and who even knows if those press reports are true. But even if they aren’t — and I fully realized that absurdity of saying that a guy is underpaid at 3.5m per — he deserves a big, giant, fat raise. Because he is essential to our success.
Put it like this: We’re paying Messi something in the neighborhood of 10.5m, if you believe published reports. Ibrahimovic takes home something in the neighborhood of 9m. I would argue that Dani Alves is every bit as essential to our championship success as either of those two players.
So pay the man.
–Oh, yeah …. this took place at our practice yesterday in Palagrufell, at which thousands of Blaugrana fans turned up.
Not surprisingly, the douchebag had the flag upside down.
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By God, are the renewals ever going end?! 🙂
that was a perfect word for that e.e. fan. He looked like he was so ashamed he didn’t even hold it up for 2 seconds.
I think everyone in the team should be paid the same, 7 mil across the board.
El Tel
I’ll second that!
Couple things:
1. I think Maicon would be so solid for our team. His offense is good, and having a RB as good (or better) at defense as the rest of our backs would make us quite the defensive force. Defense is arguably our worst position right now (if only because we’re the best in the world everywhere else).
2. 7m a year for Alves is not a “bargain.” I can understand the argument that it is a “fair price,” but he is NOT Messi (nor Ibra), so I wouldn’t say he’s worth more than that. There are some talented RBs out there making far less.
barca96
dude, why are you talking about maicon?
he is not our player
Blow-Granite
I would say Dani deserves 7 mil a year. He brings a lot to the team. His wide play on the right is essential for Barca opening up the middle of the pitch so the goals come. Just two of his crosses are worth the 7 million salary. 1. The cross he made during the last classico, on which Ibra scored against the EE. 2. The cross he made against Chelsea in the dying minutes, which we all know where it ended.
These are just a couple. Bottom line is that he is priceless. Give the boy the $7 Mil.
auld super
You can’t give them all 7m I think he’s maybe worth 100,000 a week but no more. ? And sorry now but never awful? Did you see the game at Stamford Bridge against Chelsea, he was shocking but that was only one game in fairness.
Ah! The Madridista trolls. They have to show up everywhere dont they!!! Love the upside down flag.
cliveee
can’t agree more, PAY THE DUDE THE MONEY HE DESERVESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!! 7m is a bargain! PAY HIM!!!!
Yeah Cliveee!!! Way to put your word in. I Seconddddddd thatt. Yessssssss!!! Give the boy 7m he is worth it.
7m is too much. 5-6 is where he belongs.
By the way, could you guys maybe post something once every 2 days, or atleast only once in 24 hrs? Too many posts that cut off flowing conversations at the comment section. Sometimes even cuts off the ability of your own posts being explored to the fullest. Just a suggestion…
Kxevin
ky, we tend to react to events/news in our world. The complexity of a new post “killing” the one below it is something that our readers have the power to fix, by continuing to post/visit. A new post doesn’t make the ones below it dead, though I know that it seems like it does. We wrestled with that same thing over at The Offside. We still don’t have an answer. 😀
As for the “Alves isn’t quite worth it comments,” I dunno. When I think that we have a great right back AND right winger, who not only works beautifully with our midfield, but can put the ball on a dime, I say he’s a marquee player. Even this season, he’s been crucial. And recall that his pass vs the EE means we won, instead of drawing that match.
And I didn’t think he was that awful v Chelsea. Below average, for sure.
How much is Iniesta and Xavi getting paid? As a rule, no one besides the front line diva’s should get more than those two. We have a pay schedule that we should stick to.
We can get as much barca ‘fix’ from ensuing comments. Some of the somewhat un-newsworthy stuff can be in the comments section, it keeps good discussions going.
Besides, it might be less of a burden and give the moderators a little space to relax and not be over taxed! 😉
Something that would require a bit more work for you guys to set up would be a forum type system like NSNO (http://www.nsno.co.uk/news.php) uses. News posts on the front page are actually entries in the forum. The discussion about news can take place in those threads while others occur concurrently.
sorry ky, but I have to disagree with you here. with Barca only playing once a week right now i NEED my Barca fix and this site does it better than anyone by providing insightful, intelligent commentary on my favorite thing in life. I need at least a post a day from this place to keep myself from going insane. cutting it down to once every 2 days or one in 24 hours would send me comatose. in fact, i would welcome 10 posts a day if Kxevin, Hector, and Isaiah were robots whose sole purpose was to type about Barca ; )
Wait, they’re not robots?!?!?! jk…
I second that, I would welcome any new post. If someone wants to keep a discussion going they can just reintroduce it in a new post.
recently I was thinking about our best games this season. and when I thought about them I realized that in all those games (typically) alves was on fire in that game. He is PRICELESS and only Maicon can be held in the same regards as him. When he plays well he makes our team nearly unstopable, and what he does in tandem with Messi is invaluable. Remember last Saturday? With Puyol as a right back or winged attack fell virtually flat. 7 million is a bargain, because honestly who else could do a better job than Alves? I’d like one serious suggestion and don’t say Maicon.
Also, does anyone else find it strange how little (I say that in very relative terms) soccer stars get paid? For example, Peyton Manning arguably the best NFL player and one of the NFL’s biggest stars gets paid 21+ million a season!! Messi the best football player in the WORLD – and mind you football has much more of a worldwide reach than the NFL – only gets paid 10.5m??? NFL players only have a 16 game season, albeit a very hard, punishing one, but still with champions, la liga, and copa barca is playing some 70+games this season, and then most of them will be off to world cup. It’s just so weird to me the disparage between the two pay scales. Although not that any of it matters, they are all filthy stinkin’ rich.
American sports have more money, mainly by great marketing and huuuuge tv rights. And soccer has many more teams and players, so the money gets spread. And no bargaining agreements in soccer where around 50% of revenues are guaranteed to go to players like nfa and nba.
Setting aside ones opinion of Alves’ worth (full disclosure: I think he’s worth it), how does such a pay raise for him and others fit into the overall budget?
The recent reports stated that Barcelona netted US$11 million in 2009. That may sound like a lot, but compared to their operating budget, it’s just a minor fraction. If we bump Alves by around US$3 million and Pique similarly and then a few others, we will rapidly consume that profit. Adding in the fact that this year we may not make as much due to a lingering recession, less cup play (i.e. we are no longer in Copa del Rey), and the costs of the election, I begin to wonder about our financial state. We can of course take on loans since even in this current credit market a commodity like Barcelona can find a favorable line of credit, but I would hope that we work hard to never get into the kind of situation facing Real Madrid and Manchester United and others.
So, I hope that the players are able to negotiate fair and reasonable contracts, but I also hope that the election bonanza does not drive us to make unwise long term financial commitments just to meet short term goals.
SoccerMom
The man is worth his weight in gold and then some.
He was the Scary Factor @ Sevilla.
Nobody tiki taka w. Messi like Dani.
Nobody not even Xavi kicks a cleaner cross.
Nobody work harder run faster play d-to-o and back again.
Plus he is never ever too tired / too injured / to play-ed out no matter who / what / why the match.
Plus he’s a bit of an *&%$#. And we miss that aprés Deco.
Anyone else down on Dani gets a time-out.
Tyler, the reason for the financial disparity between the paychecks of world class football players and top level NFL players has to do with the socially accepted paradigm.
In American sports, inflated paychecks were pioneered through baseball, which ultimately led to a unified player’s union across all athletic fronts. Once the players realized they could hold out for so much and get it, why would they settle for less.
While the NFL is much less popular on the international stage, the amount of money poured into the NFL per average citizen in the U.S. is, I do believe, MUCH higher. Peyton’s contract is about 14 million per year, whereas Alex rodriguez and Manny Ramirez make over 20 million a year. Perhaps they are better examples of this ridiculousness.
In American sports, the individuals are bigger than the sport itself. I hate it. The average american hates it, but it’s the reality of sports in the U.S.
I don’t feel like that is the case in Euro football, at least for now. No player is bigger than the game of futbol, and they players who try to think so usually fall off the scope. (Maradona) I think a large reason for that is because of the international popularity and emphasis on redemptive hope offered to countries through tournaments such as the World Cup and the ACN.
very good points, I guess you also have to consider t.v. advertising during an nfl game. After watching so much soccer these days, its hard to sit through an NFL game cuz every two minutes is a five minute commercial break. what should be a two hour game turns into a four hour ad fest, whereas a futbol game is wrapped up nicely in less than two hours usually.
also another topic of interest: champions league drew more viewers than the super bowl in 2009 for the first time ever!
*http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE60U0G220100131
I remember reading recently that if you take away all the pre-snap motions and going-on’s, an NFL game has in the vicinity of 10 minutes of actual action (i.e. from snap/kick to whistle). Don’t get me wrong, I like NFL and NCAA football but that’s just insane.
I read that too Hector. If you remove all the stoppage time, in your average football game, only 12 minutes of actual gameplay take place.
\/http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704281204575002852055561406.html
Here’s the link to the article talking about the fact that NFL games have 11 minutes of gameplay in a 3+ hour broadcast.
Hey, Sid Lowe says pay the man, too! 😀
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2009/jan/26/dani-alves-barcelona-leo-messi
And just to prove that he’s consistent (Sid Lowe again …. )
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2007/mar/05/europeanfootball.sport3
Thanks for digging that up Kxevin. That is awesome!!!
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Henry is training again today, but more interestingly Muniesa and Dalmau were called up to train with the team. Dalmau typically plays as a marauding right back, while Muniesa can play as a center back or left back. It also seems Abidal has sustained a few niggles and may be questionable.
I really liked Dalmau during his pre-season cameos. I hope he has a good time in practice.
Assuming that both those guys go back to Athletic and now that Thiago, JDS, and Gai are back, how sick does Luis Enrique’s line-up look?
Montoya/Dalmau, Bartra, Fontas, Muniesa
JDS, Sergi Roberto, Thiago
Gai, Rochina, and Riverola
Not bad at all.
How do you think that team would do in the first division? I beat the wouldn’t finish last.
damn you, Spain, for your abundance of good-looking women.
incidentally, looks like that man Suarez is tearing it up in Holland:
\\http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/feedarticle/8929583
Suarez is quite a bit overrated. He is doing well in Holland where the quality of play is not as high as in the big 3 Eng, Esp or Ita. This is the same team where Huntelaar comes from.
On the other hand, both Ronaldo and Romario were playing in Holland and came to play here to great success. And Luis Suarez is not a one-season wonder, as he has been a consistent goalscorer in the 2 previous seasons. And i still rate Huntelaar as a great player, just having a bad year in Milan.
My order of preference for signings next season:
1)Luis Suarez
2)Rooney
3)Ribery
4)Fabregas
Besides, i think Suarez is not a striker like Huntelaar, but a winger, and it would be sweet to have a winger scoring that number of goals, like Henry did last season.
agreed, somehow football in holland creates illusions… but Suarez had scored 4 goals in a game many times… it just can’t stop making people wonder how this type of player will do elsewhere.
As a possible future post can on of you guys investigate what Luis Enrique is doing with his young talents? I’m a big fan of Enriques, he is my all time favorite.
I posted on my facebook account that I officially announced that I did NOT want Cesc fabregas this transfer window, and then all my EPL buddies starting making remarks about it. It was quite the time. I would encourage you to do the same if you have a good footy community on your facebook list.
Yeah JMo!!! He can stay at Emirates and up his Arse…nal.
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not even the madridistas want to see madrid practice.
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pls txiki & co dis worth 7mil coz of is workin rate & d potencial he pocess
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October 30, 2013 October 30, 2013 Mary
Dusk ’til Dawn 50 miles (part 4)
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Checkpoint 5 – the END:
The Cat & Fiddle pub at Checkpoint 5 had been at mile 27.6 miles, and chatting to someone new helped the next 1.4 miles to Checkpoint 6, a self checkpoint go really quickly. We were headed uphill, through fields and over stiles, but at much less of an incline than previous hills had been at.
The sweeper (a different one) caught us up whilst the four of us were clipping here, wanting to remove the checkpoint and continue with the route. This checkpoint spot came back to haunt me though…
(Picture taken from DtD Facebook page).
As the Sweeper passed he told us unless we ran the whole way from there to the following checkpoint (approx 5 miles) we would not make it before cut-off as there was only just over an hour to make it there. The boys took off almost immediately and Vicky and I also began to jog on, although soon slowed our jog as we came across large slabs laid onto the ground. This was labelled as a ‘fast four mile section’ of the route. The slabs were very uneven, wet and muddy though and by this point the wind had gotten up, blowing us both across the path repeatedly. No more than 200 metres onto the slabs, the fog seemed to lower around us and we dropped to a power-walk, for large portions of the route not being able to see further than our feet. I did not enjoy this section. I’m not sure if it was knowing I was only going to make it as far as the next checkpoint or the not being able to see where I was going, or the utter isolation we both felt, despite travelling one behind the other for several miles – not being able to hear what the other was saying. I lost all GPS signal on my handheld so my Garmin was useless by this point. We guessed that they organisers wouldn’t lead us off from the path without obvious markings though.
Eventually we hit a road, and in the distance we could see a town lit up at the bottom of a hill. This lifted our spirits and further down the hill ahead I thought I could spot the headtorches of the boys. I headed right along the road to look for a path and Vicky headed left. I spotted a footpath over a stile and shouted to Vicky who also shouted that she could see tape ahead. The stile on her side of the road (the side we had just come from) clearly had the race tape wrapped all around it. It must have been the right way, but it felt so wrong, climbing back up along the hill we had just come along slightly further round. Vicky led off this time, although the fog was still horrific and after running into fences a few times I came across another large path of slabs so we lept onto this and I led the way again. We ran for what felt like forever. It was incredibly cold now and I was really looking forward to getting down out of the wind. All we could do was follow the path infront of us. It was too foggy to make out any landmarks and the Garmin was still not registering where we were. We followed the path for about 70 minutes, attempting less and less to make conversation over the wind as we got colder and colder. Eventually, the path stopped and we came into a clearing. The fog had also lifted. But I recognised the clearing. It was where the last self-check point had been! We had left there two hours ago! My heart dropped but we quickly made a plan, knowing that we couldn’t keep still in the wind for very long. We knew there was no chance of making the next checkpoint before cut-off now and if we attempted to head back across the windy slabs again there was a good chance we could get lost again. We also knew that we were within two miles of the last manned checkpoint, the Cat & Fiddle pub. Even if the marshals had packed up by the time we arrived (strong possiblity) we would be able to let the team know where we were. Reluctantly we continued back the way we had come hours before. All reflective tape had since been removed and we didn’t make it quite the same way back onto the road this time, instead coming out not far from what looked to be a large barn. I ran nearer, hoping for a name on the barn so that we could get directions to the pub over the phone. It turned out that it was a Tearoom, and when I rang Richard to say that we had gotten ourselves severely lost and returned in a circle, he told me that it was just 300-400 metres up hill on the road to reach the pub, where we would be more sheltered until a lift could pick us up.
It took us about 15 minutes (much further than 400 metres!) to reach the pub and crawl onto a step at the side. The next 35 minutes we gradually got colder and colder, tireder and tireder and for the first time that night I could feel my stomach growling. Eventually, after our heads shooting up every minute at every passing car, a minivan arrived and we both bundled into the back where I promptly fell asleep after a brief chat with the driver about the winning men who had just come in as she had left to collect us. The winning time was 9 hours and 20 minutes. An average of just over 10 minute miles! Super speedy over that terrain!
We were about a 25minute drive from the hotel and I woke as we were were heading through the streets of Castleton again, to see the first lady and a couple of the lead men heading up towards the finish. Still running strong! As we got out of the minivan my legs crumpled underneath me and my walk up to the finish was incredibly slow – my legs had really stiffened up. As we arrived two men ran through the finish and one promptly threw up on the floor infront of the line. It was another 45 minutes until breakfast would be served and all I really wanted by that point was bed. I had been shivering uncontrollably since sitting on the step by the pub. Vicky had no where to stay after the race, so knowing that we had two spare top bunks in our room I offered one up for her. We tried to not make any noise heading in but our lights woke a startled Sarah, who told us that she had had to pull out at Checkpoint one following waterproof issues with her coat. I had intentions to shower, but at the end of the day we were both too tired so caught up on the race gossip from Sarah whilst changing into fresh hoodies and jeans and leaping under the covers of our beds making plans for breakfast the following morning. It was already after 4:30am. In my tired state I questionned if we would be allowed breakfast which the others found hilarious. They reassured me that we would not be denied breakfast just because we did not complete the race and I slept soundly through until just before 8am when the others stirred for food.
Walking was something I found I had to ease myself into but the breakfast was worth it when we arrived.
When I checked out though, the large picture behind the desk I felt taunted me from the night before. There were the slabs…going off into the distance…with no end in sight!
The following day was a write-off. I began my blogging extravaganza and Chris, the editor of Women’s Running rang me for a telephone interview about the race. I also got this lovely email from the race organiser.
I have the first 6.62 miles of Garmin data stored on my watch, but I must have hit the button whilst climbing over a stile at this point, as it wasn’t until 7-8 miles later when I realised my watch had stopped and I started it again to record another 22.76 miles of data. Very frustrating. Although not as frustrating as not finishing! But I have already declared that I shall be back in 2014 to complete my unfinished business!
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10 thoughts on “Dusk ’til Dawn 50 miles (part 4)”
Nooo, so near and yet so far!
You ran an incredible race though. It’s only the conditions that stopped you, and atrocious conditions they were. Under any normal circumstances I have no doubt whatsoever that you would’ve finished within the cutoff time with change to spare.
Thanks for a truly epic series of recaps Can’t wait for the recap of the full 50 in 2014 😀
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I was so gutted to know I was so close to the final checkpoint, yet not close enough. Gah!
I shall definitely be back for DtD 2014!
Well done on getting so far- those conditions sound horrendous. As the letter says (and what a lovely letter it is) you still completed an ultra distance, and managed much further than others. Plus helping out another runner (well a couple really) is so important.
Hopefully you have picked up loads of tips and will be able to put them into practise on your next go.
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I’ve been writing down all of the tips I was given which I shall read through again before DtD 2014!
Sarah F says:
Wow wow WOW!! You’re now an ultra runner!! Congratulations!! 30+ miles makes you an ultra runner!
So sorry it didn’t go to plan but stopping to help an injured runner shows what a hero you are!! The weather consipred against you on this occasion but if you can produce such a brilliant result on such a challenging night, just think what other amazing things you’re going to be capable of! Congrats Ultra Runner Mary!!
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Thank-you! I KNOW I’m capable of more and next year I shall be back to prove it!
AnnaTheApple says:
Congratulations! I think you did amazingly. Honestly I am so bad at directions – on foot, in the car…I just get lost! Major kudos to you in doing this – you are amazing! And what a great email as well Such an achievement!
Haha! I’m normally OK at directions, but rubbish with a satnav in a car. They always confuse me by adding in the distance “In 500 metres turn left”, and then I turn left straight away!
Lucy @ Lucy On The Lookout says:
LOVED reading all these posts – from start to finish! Congrats Mary! Also, after reading various accounts about how some runners don’t look out for each other, the help you showed that contestant (whilst risking your place in the race) is a true testament of how there are plenty of lovely runners out there who are willing to act in a selfless way. Love it
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Thank-you! One of the things I loved about trail running/ultra running is how friendly everyone is. There’s no way I would have left Phil sat on the side of the road with his broken phone and no clue where we were on the map. I would hope someone would have stopped if it was me!
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All Your Hate
Roses and Baths
*4 months later*
I had moved into Andy's apartment two weeks after he had proposed. His apartment was bigger than my own, and also closer to the city. All my things had been moved and I had said an emotional goodbye to Alexa, whom I had been living with ever since we graduated high school, about 4 years ago.
Sammi had been helping me with the wedding plans, because the date had been decided and the wedding was only a week away. I couldn't wait, but at the same time there was a part of me that was so nervous. I knew, however, that as long as I had Andy by my side, things would be fine.
Speaking of Andy, I hadn't seen him for about a month and I missed him so much. I sighed, looking at the calender. It was February 23rd now, and he had left on January 26th. It was the longest we had been apart ever. Black Veil Brides was just finishing a small tour to promote their new album which was going to be released in July. They had decided to write another album quite quickly, because Wretched and Divine was such a success. He was supposed to be coming home today.
I was sitting on our bed, a tub of Ben and Jerry's next to me, watching TV and waiting for him to come back. I heard keys being put into a lock and the front door open, an all too familiar deep voice calling my name. I jumped off the bed, running out the door. I saw Andy, all of his luggage by the door, looking tired but his face lighting up when he saw me. I ran towards him and he lifted me up, my legs wrapping around his waist and my lips crashing onto his.
"Andy, I've missed you so much," I breathed. He chuckled.
"I know babe, me too. I can't stand being away from you for so long," he said. Putting me down, he eyed the outfit I was wearing. "Love the shirt, by the way," I blushed.
I was wearing one of his BVB shirts which was so big it reached just above my thighs. This one had his scent on it and I needed it so I had put it on today.
"Thanks, but I have no idea who this ugly guy is in the middle, do you know?" I smirked, pointing to his face. He gasped, offended.
"That 'ugly' guy happens to be wanted by millions of people around the globe because of his sexiness and amazing singing voice," he said.
"Oh really?" I asked, raising an eyebrow. "Well millions may want him, but I'm the lucky one that gets him," I winked, pecking his cheek.
"Now I happened to have missed a special day while I was gone," he said.
"Which one?" I asked.
"I believe they call it Valentine's day. And it was our first one together as a couple, but I was stuck somewhere in Texas and I couldn't reach you. So I've decided that we celebrate our own Valentine's day right now," he said.
"Okay?" I replied, curious. He just smiled.
"Go lie on the bed," he said. I just shrugged and walked to our room.
"Close your eyes," I heard him say from the door. I rolled over and closed my eyes. I heard him carrying something to the bathroom, and I heard the water turn on. I had no clue what he was doing.
After about 20 minutes of hearing him walk around and a continuous flow of water probably filling up the bathtub, I felt arms around my waist, picking me up and taking me to the bathroom.
"Andy?"
"What the hell are you doing?" I asked.
He laughed. "Stop asking, you'll see in a sec. You'll love it, trust me."
And he was right. The whole bathroom was lit up with what seemed like hundreds of tiny candles, and there were rose petals everywhere, a trail leading from the floor to the full bathtub which had bubbles floating everywhere. He knew how much I loved roses and bubble baths, and so I was in awe at this.
"Andy..." I whispered. "I don't know what to say..."
"Then don't say anything," I heard him whisper, wrapping his arms firmly around my waist from behind and leaving kisses down my neck. His hands found their way to my shirt, fingers teasing me as he slowly pulled it up. He spun me around to face him, the shirt lay discarded on the floor, and held his breath as he looked me up and down. His hands traced over my red lace bra, eyes darkening with lust.
"I don't know how you're so perfect," he said, making me blush.
"Shut up, Andy," I said.
"No, I'm not kidding. You're the most perfect human being I've ever laid eyes on."
My hands were now at the hem of his shirt, slowly pulling it up and exposing the tattoos all down his chest. I saw my name on his arm and smiled, tracing it with my finger. He picked me up and lowered me into the water, it was warm and perfect and I sighed happily. He leaned over and kissed me on the lips, then breaking away to remove the rest of his clothing and stepping in next to me. We continued making out for a while, and then his hands moved to my back and unclasped my bra, throwing it onto the floor along with my matching underwear.
He was definitely in the mood, I could tell. But so was I, we had been apart for a month and none of us had had any sexual contact with another human being for that long, who could blame us?
His lips trailed down my chest, going down to my navel and then he kissed all over my collar bones and neck, leaving marks everywhere. He pulled me closer so that I was straddling him, staring into my eyes so deeply it felt like I was being x-rayed.
"Are you ready babe?" he asked.
"I was born ready, Biersack," he smirked.
After an hour, we were both exhausted and ready to sleep. I crashed down onto our bed and felt him lie down beside me, pulling the covers over us.
"I love you so much," he said, taking my body and holding me in his arms.
"Never let me go," I mumbled in response, to which he only held me tighter.
It was the morning after Andy had come back, we had eventually gone to bed after his wonderful surprise. I woke up to the sound of my phone ringing, it was Sammi saying she would be over in 15 minutes to go over some last minute plans. I groaned as I read the text.
"Sammi again?" I heard Andy say.
"Yeah," I said. I had told him about her frantic planning for our wedding over Skype.
"She's making more of an effort than you are," he said jokingly, sticking his tongue out at me.
I bit his tongue lightly making him wince. "You're so mean, I'm just... lazy," I said.
"We all know Sammi, she loves being in charge. It's fine though, we all love her," I said. I got changed and was eating breakfast just as the doorbell rang, Sammi coming in.
"Hey! Alright, great news, the wedding dress arrived at my place this morning, two days early! Isn't this great? It's gorgeous by the way, you have to see it-"
"Hello to you too Sammi," I heard Andy say from the doorway. "And what's gorgeous?"
"Oh hey Andy, and it's the wedding dress we've gotten for Scarlette."
"Can I see?" he said, excitedly.
"Absolutely not! The groom can't see the bride's dress until she's walking down the aisle. Scar, I'm taking you to my apartment now, I still need you to review some things. Jinxx is coming up now, he's going to stay with Andy so that he doesn't get lonely. And no calling Scarlette, Andy, we don't want her distracted," she said, pulling me out the door.
"Love you!" I just managed to say before she shut the door. I heard Andy reply but it was muffled, and Sammi was already dragging me down the steps and to her car as fast as she could.
"Okay, so I'll need you to pick the cake from the selection the bakery has, I have a booklet for that, also you said red and black for the main colours but is that really traditional, I don't know, whatever, it's your choice, and about the dress, it's the most gorgeous thing, I'm sure you'll look amazing and Andy will love it, oh and..."
She kept talking and I sighed, a smile on my face. This was going to be a long day, but it was all going to be worth it.
you guys have permission to punch me and shout at me and i'm so sorry, okay. it's been way too long since i've updated! i promise i'll try my best to update more frequently! thank you for all your comments, they always make me smile :)
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Reverse Engineering the Amazon Dash Button’s Wireless Audio Configuration
Update: I’ve learned a bit more and as such, see the bottom of the post for an update. I’ve been slow to update this but now that it’s seeming to be gaining a lot of traffic (leading up to 33c3…hmmmm ;)), I want the info to be accurate and fresh.
During the great Amazon Dash Button Hype of 2015, I saw a few of the early teardowns and blog posts and decided to order a few dash buttons of my own to play around with and reverse engineer. Since the hype has burned off, there hasn’t been much in the way of new information about the inner workings of the button.
Photo credit: Matthew Petroff
The Amazon Dash button is a neat little IOT device which contains an STM32F205 ARM Cortex M3 microcontroller, a Broadcom BCM43362 Wi-Fi module, a permanently attached (boo!) Energizer Lithium AAA battery, an Invensense I2S digital microphone, some serial flash, and assorted LEDs and SMPS power supplies. For the $5 price tag, the Dash Button packs some serious punch! Just the components are worth a considerable amount more than $5.
Playing around with the button, the setup process on iOS quickly caught my attention. It (apparently*) differs from the Android setup process considerably due to differences in the inner workings of iOS. The Android setup involves connecting to the button via a network called “Amazon ConfigureMe”, while the iOS app appears to use ultrasound-esque audio to transfer information to the button for the initial setup.
*I don’t actually have an Android device on hand to test this with, hence the “apparently”.
Without even opening the button, I put together a basic theory on how the button was setup from the iOS app: The app sends a carefully crafted “audio” packet using the iOS CoreAudio Framework, which is then picked up by the Dash Button’s onboard mic and parsed for Wi-Fi config info. If the Wi-Fi credentials are correct, the button phones home to the Amazon configuration servers and the setup continues, but with further config info being sent directly to the button over the Wi-Fi.
I immediately ripped apart the button in search of a way to piggyback on the ADMP441 digital microphone’s I2S bus. I figured it would be trivial to toss a logic analyzer on the bus and decode what I2S data was being sent to the STM32. Since I2S is a very commonly used and extremely well documented audio protocol, I counted on this being a relatively quick task.
While I was impressed with the density of the design, I was most definitely not impressed with the lack of a visible testpoint on the board for the digital microphone’s data line. The EN (enable), SCK (clock), and WS (word select) lines are easily available, but the SD (data) line is nowhere to be found. I poked around for a bit but didn’t see anything that looked promising. I quickly came to the realization that I was probably going to have to analyze the audio protocol as it came out of my iPhone rather than sniff it on the board. This was about the same time that I also realized this was not going to be the quick and dirty analysis I was expecting…
Armed with my RØDE shotgun mic, I took a new approach. Using Electroacoustics Toolbox, I performed some basic audio analysis on the packets coming from the Amazon iOS app. Based on Matthew Petroff’s Dash Button Teardown, I initially expected some sort of Frequency-Shift Encoded (FSK) modulation scheme. Using the Spectrogram tool, I could see that the configuration data was definitely coming in bursts of 20 packets in a try-retry scheme. It also looked like the frequency of the audio was spread out between 18kHz and 20kHz, which is on par for an audio FSK implementation.
Spectrogram capture of an entire configuration transmission.
Things got interesting, however, when I took an FFT of an entire transmission. The FFT showed an obvious frequency spread near 19kHz, but lacked the characteristic “double peak” indicating frequency occurrences at both the mark and space frequencies.
FFT of entire configuration transmission.
FFT of FSK modulated data. Note the very obvious “double peak” at the mark and space frequencies.
As I examined the FFT, it became clearer and clearer that the configuration data was not being transmitted with an FSK modulation scheme. At this point, I switched to the basic audio oscilloscope tool to try to figure out what was going on. After the first capture, it was pretty obvious that the data was being Amplitude (AM) modulated, with a carrier frequency of 19kHz.
The data was so clearly AM modulated that I wished I had just popped open the scope to begin with (note to future self)! Here’s a scope capture with a few repeated packets coming through.
After “configuring” a few different dash buttons and examining the transmitted data, I was getting confused as to why there was so much variation in the peak levels of the packets. I checked for ground loops and background noise before transmitting, and confirmed that the noise floor of my microphone setup was far below the variations in peak amplitude I was seeing. After staring at a few captures, I started to notice that the “variations” were consistent in their amplitudes. Looking some more, I realized that it wasn’t noise at all: the data was intentionally being sent with four distinct amplitude levels!
Clever, clever Amazon is using Amplitude-Shift Keying (ASK) modulation with 4-level binary to send the data across to the Dash Button.
The big benefit to this modulation scheme is that it’s got a 2-to-1 compression ratio, so the packet length is theoretically half of the length of an FSK packet. The downside, however, is that the Signal-to-Noise Ratio is halved. This isn’t really a problem, since the data is sent 20 times, and the transmitter (iOS device) can be closely physically located to the receiver (Dash Button).
After these discoveries, I came to a few conclusions:
The data is being sent from the iOS app using an ASK modulation scheme, with a carrier frequency of 19kHz. It’s resent 20 times before moving on.
Each “bit” (really, two bits) has a nominal bit time of 4ms. There are four levels of bit amplitude and there is no true zero. Every bit level, including 00, has some amplitude associated with it.
The first chunk of data is always the same. It looks like a simple calibration sequence, allowing the button to set the decoding thresholds for later down the road.
There appears to be both a start and stop glitch on all of the packets. This could be a byproduct of how Amazon is building their ASK packets in-app, or the hardware codec starting and stopping on the iPhone. This glitch isn’t harmful, because the transmission is stable by the time any meaningful data is coming through.
The packets are not of a fixed length. Entering a longer SSID or passphrase results in a longer packet.
Now that I had a rough idea of how data was transmitted, I wanted to give decoding some known data a shot. This is where things got really interesting for me, because I’ve got basically no experience in data transmission or communications theory. Luckily, I have a decent eye for patterns, which helped considerably in figuring out what data was represented where in each transmitted packet. I began by choosing an SSID and passphrase that were fairly easy to recognize. I ended up using 7’s and *’s in various combinations and orders. I quickly started to recognize the waveforms of each coming through in the data, but it wasn’t immediately clear how the characters were being translated from their ASCII representation.
Packet containing both 7 and *.
I was getting nervous that some type of encryption was being used on the characters to prevent bored nerds like me from easily snooping on the packets.
In an effort to bruteforce whatever translation was taking place, I sent the characters 1 through 9 in the password field. I assigned amplitude level “1” on the received data as binary 00, level “2” as 01, level “3” as 10, and level “4” as 11. I recorded the ASK levels of each character, and busted out a table of what the received binary data looked like in comparison to the known ASCII value of each character. The first thing that was clear was that the binary representation of each character definitely related to the next, which was good news. This ruled out any sort of encryption or lookup-table based character set. The next observation was that the binary data was decrementing, rather than incrementing as the transmitted ASCII characters should be. It was also evident that it was somehow scrambled or flipped from the known representation.
After a bit of bit order manipulation, I arrived at three conclusions:
The levels I picked (level “4” as 11, and level “1” as 00) were incorrect. Flipping these levels yields non-inverted bits, which then results in upwards-counting binary data.
Each 8-bit ASCII representation of a character was actually being transmitted “backwards” from how I expected, with the first 2-bits transmitted representing the LSB end of the ASCII character. Characters themselves are transmitted in the order they are entered.
Each block is 4 pulses long, which represents a total of 8 bits of data.
Armed with the encoding info, my final task was to write a piece of software which would listen to the audio sent by the iOS app and decode it into various representations. Doing it by hand was fun for a bit, but got tedious quickly. I rather arbitrarily settled on MATLAB, mostly because it’s easy to interface with audio components, manipulate WAV data, and filter and analyze datasets. I also figured it would be a good way to sharpen up my MATLAB since it’s been a bit since I’ve fired it up.
With a few hours of coding, I’ve got a script that can listen via my external mic, trim the acquired data to a single packet (albeit semi-manually), and separate and decode each block into it’s decimal, hexadecimal, and ASCII representations. It then saves this as a CSV file.
To to this, the MATLAB utilizes the built-in MATLAB AudioRecorder function. It then waits for user input in regards to the bounds of a single packet. With these, it trims the data and performs some simple filtering and peak detection. The peak detection is done using a Hilbert Transform (a very common and useful digital peak detection method). It then finds each subsequent peak and indexes them based on their amplitude to find the corresponding binary data.
Captured and trimmed audio data displayed in MATLAB.
The same packet after filtering and peak detection. Each level of peak is indicated with a different colored symbol.
I also (for no good reason) wrote a tool that goes in the reverse: punch in an array of 4 levels (1/2/3/4), and out comes a psudeo-ASK representation of it.
Because why not?
Using these software tools and a several packets, I discovered a few things:
The first two blocks of hypothesized “calibration sequence” is definitely that. They’re 10 bits each, which doesn’t match the rest of the packet. I’ve looked at hundreds of packets and they all start the same way. My MATLAB code actually uses these to find out where to start looking for real data. Handy!
Block 3 (Decimal rep) is the total length of the data which will come after it, in “number of blocks”.
Blocks 4-9 in every packet appear to be some sort of UDID/CRC. I’ll come back to this later.
Block 10 (Decimal rep) is the length of the SSID, in blocks.
Block 11 (ASCII rep) is the first char of the SSID. In this example, it’s only one character long.
Block 12 (Decimal rep) is the length of the passphrase. This isn’t always block 12, it’s dependent on whatever the length of the SSID is. It’s also always present immediately after the SSID, regardless if there’s a passphrase or not. If there isn’t, it’s just decimal 0, indicating that there is no passphrase.
Block 13 (ASCII rep) is the first char of the passphrase, if it exists. It’s also only one char long in this case.
Various blocks numbered by order of occurrence.
Hypothesized purpose of each block of data.
The last real question remaining is: what are blocks 4-9? In every packet I sent, they were different. I immediately thought some sort of CRC but the packet changed at times when I didn’t change the SSID or the passphrase, so it’s hard for me to tell. I’m leaning toward a on-demand Unique Device identifier (UDID) generated in the iOS app, potentially in combination with a CRC. With 48 bits to spare, a 32 bit UDID along with a 16 bit CRC seems more than reasonable.
With this scheme, device setup would look something like this:
User logs into their Amazon account from the app. This takes place every time a Dash Button is configured. Amazon then generates a “short” (<=48 bits) UDID for the Dash Button which associates it with an Amazon Account. They also store this somewhere on their servers.
The SSID and passphrase for the Wi-Fi connection are sent via audio packet to the Dash Button, along with the UDID that was just generated.
The Dash Button parses the data and attempts to connect to the Wi-Fi network. If it’s successful, it phones home to the Amazon servers with the supplied UDID. The Amazon servers “register” the button as active and tell the iOS app to continue setup.
From here, any further configuration data is sent to the button over the network, including what account is registered to the button (likely with more sophisticated verification than I’m alluding to*), what product the button is ordering, and shipping preferences.
*Just looking at the string dumps from the Dash Button firmware show that there is more sophisticated authentication taking place, it’s just hard to say when. I’m tempted to decompile the firmware just for fun, but I’ve already spent enough time looking at this damn $5 button…
And of course, here’s the final outcome of my efforts:
I’ve attached my MATLAB code in the off chance anyone wants to try this at home. It’ll probably take some tweaking for your specific setup.
Here’s the MATLAB code on GitHub.
That’s all I’ve got so far. I’m still curious in figuring out the six mystery blocks: if you’ve got any thoughts on it feel free to let me know. I might make another followup post taking a look at the firmware using IDA or something in the future, we’ll see. And of course if any Amazon employees want to get ahold of me and tell me how far off I was, I’d be okay with that too 🙂
Thanks to Matthew Petroff, GitHub user dekuNukem, and anyone else whom I may have forgotten to credit.
EDIT: It’s been pointed out to me by a few looking deeper into the button’s internals that the modulation scheme actually IS FSK with four carriers at 18130, 18620, 19910, and 19600Hz. I believe the reason why it so strongly resembled ASK when I observed the audio packets is because of the awful frequency response at the higher end of my phone, my mic, or both. A linear attenuation right at the top of the audible spectrum would explain the highest frequency being measured as lower amplitude. That being said, all encoding and modulation schemes still apply, with the highest frequency encoding representing binary 11.
In addition, there is in fact a CRC16 attached to each packet. It’s the first two bytes after the packet length declaration. Also, that length byte includes the length of the two bytes of CRC. That leaves 32 bits for the UDID, which is POSTed to the Amazon servers at http://dash-button-na.amazon.com/2/r/oft?countryCode=XX&realm=XXAmazon where XX us US for the United States, DE for Germany, etc. This jives quite strongly with my initial guess of button registration. Thanks to Benedikt Heinz (@EIZnuh) for sharing some of his research into the button’s firmware!
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The Harmful Side Effect of Drug Prohibition by Randy Barnett
There are so many reasons why drug prohibition is objectionable, it is hard to enumerate them all. In my Utah Law Review article, The Harmful Side Effects of Drug Prohibition, I try to systematically survey just the “consequentialist” arguments against this socially-destructive social policy. If I were to revise this article today, I suppose I would emphasize even more than I did how destructive the “War on Drugs” has been to the black community, perhaps especially because of the incarceration of thousands of black men, depriving their children of fathers, but also because of how the black market profits from the illicit drug trade supports the gang structure that preys upon the community and sucks up its kids. […]
But, as I said, the problem with assessing the War on Drugs is that there are so many harmful “side effects” of drug prohibition that it is difficult even to know where to begin. This article is my effort to be as comprehensive about these effects, yet still be accessible.
Won’t you please come to Chicago, show your face by Digby
It really doesn’t take much imagination to realize that militarizing the police and outfitting them as if they are about to mount an assault on Fallujah (when they are really just manning a political protest) might lead them to adopt the attitude that they are at war against their fellow citizens.
Under Asset Forfeiture Law, Wisconsin Cops Confiscate Families’ Bail Money by Radley Balko.
Nothing new to us here, but important for the rest of the world to wake up.
So Greer and her family visited a series of ATMs, and on March 1, she brought the money to the jail, thinking she’d be taking Joel Greer home. But she left without her money, or her son.
Instead jail officials called in the same Drug Task Force that arrested Greer. A drug-sniffing dog inspected the Greers’ cash, and about a half-hour later, Beverly Greer said, a police officer told her the dog had alerted to the presence of narcotics on the bills — and that the police department would be confiscating the bail money.
“I told them the money had just come from the bank,” Beverly Greer says. “We had just taken it out. If the money had drugs on it, then they should go seize all the money at the bank, too. I just don’t understand how they could do that.”
Congressmen Seek to Lift Propaganda Ban
There’s been a ban?
May 20th, 2012 by Pete | Permalink
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what gets me is that conviscations were based entirely on “dog alerts” and there was no forensic analysis: the dog says this is drug money. they might as well have a glove puppet “oh look, sooty says youre guilty”
In the case of American currency it’s rather far fetched to claim that the dog alerts are faked. I think everyone here is familiar with the fact that not much less than 100% of it is saturated.
Hey, can we get a dog to sniff Kevin Sabet’s pocketbook? “Hey Mr. Sabet, the dog says your cash is drug money! You got some splainin’ to do.”
well yes obviously the cops know currency is largely drug tainted thats why im surprised they havent even bothered with the fig leaf of chemical analysis. as i said the dogs have become their glove puppet to prop up their hijacking as balko puts it
JamesNseattle
you mean… “you got some spinning to do!”
Telling them to bring cash and then confiscating the bail money? That’s got to be a new low.
Fingers crossed that it backfires. Verifiable EFTs sure don’t support the cops claims and completely discredits their dogs ability to differentiate “clean” money from “dirty” money. It certainly appears to me that these assholes went to far. Give a man enough rope…?
BTW unless things have changed or Wisconsin is different the Courts just don’t take checks for bail. Now it’s been so long since I looked that they may indeed take debit cards but think about it…how many people, particularly those inclined to abscond anyway, might consider writing a bad check to get out of jail?
Oh my word, the situation with teens is even worse that we had feared! The results of the semi-annual Vermont Youth Risk Behavior Survey are out and reveals that teens aren’t eating their vegetables. It also shows that youth are less inclined to engage in physical fitness. Apparently, eating healthy food, exercise, and avoiding video games are the true culprits that cause youth to experiment with merrywanna, drinking alcohol, and cigarettes. The association is plainly demonstrated in these results:
In 1999, 13 percent of respondents said they smoked marijuana before turning 13. In 2011, that number is down to 4 percent.
…in 1999, 30 percent of students said they drank alcohol before turning 13. In 2011, that number is down to 17 percent…
In 1997, 62 percent of Vermont high school students said that [they] had smoked an entire cigarette. In 2011, that number is down 38 points to 24 percent.
…the number of students attending a physical education class once a week has gone from 53 percent in 1993 down to 38 percent in 2011.
More than one-third of Vermont high school students said they spend more than three hours every school day playing video games. (an increase of 100% since 1974!)
There you have it gentlemen, what more evidence do we need? Get out the cupcakes, go sit on the couch and play lots of video games!
But no loud music!
Blasting music tied to drinking and drugs: study
In the report from The Netherlands, researchers found that teens and young adults who spent a lot of time listening to loud music — already risky because of the long-term chance of hearing loss — were also more likely to smoke marijuana, binge drink and have sex without a condom.
So let’s see if we’ve covered everything:
Sex? check
Drugs? check
Rock and Roll? check
Yep, that’s everything. (remember, keep the volume low!)
“Congressmen seek to lift ban on propaganda”
It’s going to take me a few minutes to digest that. Leaving aside the fact that propaganda is only effective if you deny, deny, deny the fact that it IS propaganda…
This just makes no sense on so many levels. Are Congress critters REALLY that stupid? The more I think on that, the more it makes my head hurt.
I can’t even begin.
Here’s the link to the Congressmen Seek to Lift Propaganda Ban story.
Matthew Meyer
“…another program being developed by the Pentagon would design software to create “sock puppets” on social media outlets.”
I think this software has visited The Couch.
Not likely.
The Thornberry-Smith amendment gives the military industrial complex the same propaganda powers currently possessed by the ONDCP (Office of National Drug Control Policy), a requirement to lie based on Title VII Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 1998: H11225.
Where prohibition is concerned, the ONDCP anti-drug/pro-police propaganda targeting legalization has been a complete failure. Marijuana is heading toward legalization, and more than half the country knows the drug war itself was lost decades ago.
Perhaps the Thornberry-Smith amendment is meant to convince Americans that an unending war across the globe is a good thing, or that the military can do no wrong, which implies the state can do no wrong; always a futile task.
The inevitable result of passing the amendment will be the same as it was for prohibition: as with drugs, few thereafter will believe a single word the U.S. government says about its military ventures. Reliance upon foreign news sources for information about U.S. military operations will become the norm for Americans. Fraud and illegal activities by the U.S. government will be more easily concealed. New threats to democracy will arise. The amendment will eventually emerge to have a far bigger effect, one more harmful than the sum of its parts.
(Extended version of posting cross-posted at http://www.juancole.com/2012/05/congress-wants-the-department-of-defense-to-propagandize-americans.html#comment-108625 )
big rig butters
trevon was found throwing gang signs and breaking into houses.trevon aperently had a gun and started bust caps at zimmerman for calling the police.then trevon started rapping about bitches and hoes.and the zimmerman had no choice but to waste that monkey scum.racism i think not. this is the outcome of lifting segragation.giving different ethincys rights has brought traditional values down.and these ebonics groups refuse to work and say everything needs to be handed to them.cause they were wronged a 100 years ago.which is not the case.theyre propagAnda created by the civil rights movent.which is nothing but a bunch of racist monkeys who dont wanna work and just smoke crack and abandon their kids.
Go away, Wiggles.
C’mon wiggle dude, why in the world would Trayvon be rapping about your mother and sisters?
New Jersey Legislature appears to be seriously considering the decriminalization of the petty possession of cannabis. I haven’t heard if their too big to fail Governor has issued a public opinion on the idea.
In other news, Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees is no longer qualified to perform that bands classic song, “Staying Alive”.
Their Governor probably suggested it after he saw how high arrests are in NY for simple possesion! He learned the wrong lesson from the NYPD example. Maybe soon there will be a class action lawsuit against the NJPD too!
They must still be working out the kinks. Wiggles has a very “Beta” feel to him.
A well known problem in bot detection and AI happens right at the line of distinction, to borrow a phrase, “between sophisticated bots and unsophisticated humans”.
HenryScarsdale
Penn Jillette doesn’t appear to be totally thrilled with Obama’s hypocrisy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wWWOJGYZYpk
Fuck France
Penn Jillete is my hero. The world needs more people like him.
What do prohibitionists do in their spare time? Well when they’re annoyed by a rat they invent an amazingly complex rat trap. Like any prohibitionist, this guy is good at trapping, but not so good at identifying his target:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvfXprhENoY
OT (with apologies to anyone who has seen it before)
Video from 2007 showing where Romney stands on MMJ treatment for MS patients… first patronize, then just walk away.
Sound like anyone else running for president?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNv7lY-ZhKA
Ron Paul speaking to the same MMJ patient:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CHVI8Q-OXQ
Yeah, this cash seizure for bail is brilliant! Cops can be as creative as anyone else in any other profession, but this police department must be sampling the acid in the evidence room.
Seriously, though it is stuff like this which proves their department (but certainly not ALL departments) have become the enemies of the people they supposedly serve. As Glen Reynolds would put it, “Tar. Feathers.”
And maybe a ride on a rail out of town. That town should fire those cops.
And can’t they also arrest the folks who brought in the “dirty” money? And then when THEIR friends and family come to bail them out, they can seize THAT cash and arrest THEM, and so on…
Channeling the movie “Jaws”: “we’re gonna need a bigger jail.”
News like the bail story just make me want to literally explode. I can’t stand even reading things like this anymore.
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1825: Odysseus Androutsos
Add comment June 5th, 2020 Headsman
On this date* in 1825, Greek revolutionary Odysseus (or Odysseas) Androutsos was summarily executed as a traitor by his comrades.
Fruit of Ithaca like the immortal hero of the same name, Androutsos joined the uprising that became the Greek War of Independence and repelled the numerically overwhelming forces of the cruel Ottoman governor Ali Pasha that had lately crushed Athanasios Diakos.
This upstart victory at the Battle of Gravia Inn might have been decisive in saving the independence bid from being destroyed in its cradle. In its day it established Androutsos as one of the major commanders of the revolution, good enough for unprincipled English rogue and Lord Byron crony Edward John Trelawny to fall in with long enough to marry Androutsos’s sister.**
According to the Scottish historian George Finlay — another British interloper in this war — many of the warlords who prosecuted Greek’s revolution are best viewed in the perspective of klephts or hajduks: an archetype combining anti-Ottoman insurgent and opportunistic brigand, making for themselves on treacherous terrain. “Odysseus never attached any importance to political independence and national liberty,” Finlay opines. “His conduct from the commencement of the Revolution testified that he had no confidence in its ultimate success. He viewed it as a temporary revolt, which might be rendered conducive to his own interests.”
Installed in eastern Greece, it was only natural that such a figure would consider cutting deals with the Ottomans. Androutsos’s brief and little-harmful defection was prosecuted as treason by his comrades — his execution on Athens’s Acropolis conducted by his former second-in-commannd, Yannis Gouras — but countrymen down the years have been quite a bit more understanding. The Greek government reconsidered its malediction and in 1865 reburied Androutsos with honors; his grave is never since to be found without the garlands of admiring posterity.
* June 5 is the Julian date, an exception from our normal Gregorian preference in the 19th century because, well, it’s a national hero of an Orthodox polity. Nevertheless, the Gregorian June 17 can be found mentioned here and there, including even on Androutsos’s cemetery stele.
** Trelawny dumped her when his Greek holiday had run its course, and he returned to England a bachelor.
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1688: Constantine Gerachi, the Siamese Falcon - 2015
1919: Eugen Levine, Bavarian Soviet leader - 2014
1573: Meister Frantz Schmidt's first execution - 2013
1318: John Deydras, aka John of Powderham - 2012
1963: Nora Parham, the only woman hanged in Belize - 2011
1723: Margaret Fleck, with a fresh dempster - 2010
1935: Pat Griffin and Elmer Brewer - 2009
1568: The Counts of Egmont and Hoorn, insufficiently Inquisitorial - 2008
1817: Policarpa Salavarrieta, Colombian independence heroine
1896: Chief Chingaira Makoni, Rhodesian rebel
1815: José María Morelos, Mexican revolutionary
1863: Zygmunt Padlewski, January Uprising rebel
1816: Joaquim Camacho
1897: The Nineteen Martyrs of Aklan
1819: Antonia Santos, Bolivarian revolutionary
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1825: Tahvo Putkonen, Finland’s last peacetime execution
1 comment July 8th, 2018 Headsman
Finland’s last peacetime execution occurred on this date in 1825: the instrument was an axe.
Farmhand Tahvo Putkonen, deep in a blue gap celebrating both Christmas and his December 26 name day in 1822, went off his rocker at the party he was hosting because of a guest’s actual or imagined transgression against good manners.
The drunken Putkonen suddenly attacked that guest, farmer Lasse Hirvonen, until this ill-tempered host got kicked out of his own house by the rest of the celebrants. Once he’d convinced everyone that he’d calmed down, he got back in the house and mortally bashed Hirvonen over the head with a firewood log.
Putkonen spent a long-for-the-time 2.5 years appealing against the legal proceedings before they finally struck off his head. So pedants take note: although he has the distinction of being the last peacetime execution, his was not the last peacetime crime that led to execution: one Abraham Kaipainen managed to commit murder (July 31, 1823) and reach the headsman’s block (October 30, 1824) all while Tahvo Putkonen was still fighting his sentence.
The very last executions in Finnish history took place in 1944, during the Continuation War — Finland’s local installment of World War II, fought against the Soviet Union.
Capital punishment is today formally abolished in Finland.
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1941: Alexandru Bessarab, fascist artist - 2019
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1949: Antoun Saadeh - 2015
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1938: Anthony Chebatoris, in death penalty-free Michigan - 2011
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1839: William John Marchant - 2009
1999: Allen Lee "Tiny" Davis, the end of the road for Old Sparky - 2008
1796: Mastro Titta’s first execution of many
1823: Dr. Edme Castaing, the first to kill with morphine
1810: Tommaso Tintori, the first guillotined in Rome
1879: Takahashi Oden, dokufu and she-demon
1889: Auguste Neel, on St. Pierre
1889: The first executions in French-occupied Tunis
1830: Agnes Magnusdottir and Fridrik Sigurdsson, Iceland’s last executions
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1825: El Pirata Cofresi
Add comment March 29th, 2018 Headsman
I have killed hundreds with my own hands, and I know how to die. Fire!
-Last words of Roberto Cofresi
A monument to Roberto Cofresi rises from the water in his native Cabo Rojo.
On this date in 1825, the Puerto Rican pirate Roberto Cofresi was publicly shot in San Juan with his crew.
The family of “El Pirata” — his father was an emigre who fled Trieste after killing a man in a duel — bequeathed him the upbringing and honorific (“Don”) due to a gentleman without any of the money. Dunned by multiplying creditors, he took to the sea to keep his finances afloat and for a time made a legitimate living in the late 1810s as a piscator and a ferryman. Soon, the crises in Puerto Rico’s economy and governance prodded him into more adventurous pursuits, beginning with highway robbery around his hometown of Cabo Rojo. Wanted posters testify to his landside notoriety; soon, he would combine his vocations as a buccanneer.
In his brief moment, about 1823-1825, he became one of the Caribbean’s most feared marauders, and one of the last consequential pirates to haunt those waters. His career plundering prizes and evading manhunts is recounted in surprising detail on the man’s Wikipedia page, which is in turn an extended summary of an out-of-print Spanish-language book. Given the development of maritime policing by this point it was an achievement to extend his career so long … but everyone has to retire, one way or another.
Norwich Courier, April 27, 1825
A proclamation issued justifying the execution testifies both to the example authorities wished to be understood by his fate, and their awareness that they contended with a strain of sympathy for the outlaw. This is as quoted in Southern Chronicle (Camden, South Carolina, USA), July 2, 1825:
The name of Roberto Cofresi has become famous for robberies and acts of atrocity, and neither the countryman, the merchant nor the laborer could consider himself secure from the grasp of that wretch and his gang. If you ought to pity the lot of these unhappy men, you are bound also to give thanks to the Almighty, that the island has been delivered from a herd of wild beasts, which have attempted our ruin by all the means in their power. You are also bound to live on the alert, and be prepared, in conjunction with the authorities to attack those who may hereafter be so daring as to follow their example.
His throwback profession, his acclaimed charisma, his talent for eluding pursuit, and a purported streak of Robin Hood-esque social banditry all helped to make him a legend that has long outlived the forgotten Spanish agents who hunted him. With his threat to the sea lanes long gone, he’s become a beloved staple of literature, folklore, and popular history in Puerto Rico and especially his native Cabo Rojo. Again, a lovingly curated Wikipedia page on this posthumous career awaits the curious reader.
Label for a Ron Kofresi-brand rum, which one might use to toast his memory with a piña colada: it’s a drink he’s alleged to have invented.
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1720: Charles Vane, an unsinkable pirate - 2008
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1803: Johannes Bückler, “Schinderhannes”
1401: Klaus Stortebeker, Victual Brother pirate
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1715: Lips Tullian, outlaw and comic hero
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1825: Louis August Papavoine, An Execution in Paris
Add comment March 25th, 2017 Robert Macnish
(Thanks to Dr. Robert Macnish, a young Scottish surgeon, writer, and polymath whose wide-roaming intellect earned him the nickname of “the Modern Pythagorean.” While resident in Paris, Macnish witnessed the public beheading of a French murderer on March 24, 1825 … an experience he rendered into the essay below. The crime which occasioned this spectacle was notorious in his brief day; Victor Hugo refers to Papavoine by name as “the horrible madman who killed the children with a knife to the head!” in The Last Day of a Condemned Man. -ed.)
AN EXECUTION IN PARIS.
In the month of March 1825, Louis Auguste Papavoine lost his head. He was guillotined at the Place de Greve for the murder of two children in the Bois de Vincennes. The man was mad, beyond all doubt, and in Great Britain would have been sentenced to perpetual confinement as a lunatic; but the French criminal court refused to admit the plea of insanity, and he was given over to the executioner: the Cour de Cassation having rejected his appeal from the decision of that which tried him.
To my shame be it spoken, I wished to see an execution by the guillotine. There was a sort of sanguinary spell attached to this instrument, which irresistibly impelled me to witness one of its horrid triumphs. When I thought of it, the overwhelming tragedy of the Revolution was brought before my eyes — that Revolution which plunged Europe in seas of blood, and stamped an indelible impression upon the whole fabric of modern society. There was something appalling in the very name of this terrific engine. M. Guillotine, its inventor, was also one of its victims — he perished by his own contrivance. [this popular legend is untrue -ed.] Let no man hereafter invent an instrument of punishment. Perillus contrived the brazen bull, and was among the first to perish by it. Earl Morton, who brought the “Maiden” to Scotland, underwent a like fate; and Deacon Brodie was hanged upon his own drop.
The day on which Papavoine suffered was beautifully fair; and, profiting by this circumstance, the idle population of the French capital flocked in myriads to witness his exit. It was calculated that there were not fewer than eighty thousand spectators. The Place de Greve was literally paved with human beings. A person might have walked upon their heads without difficulty; and so closely were they wedged together, that had any object larger than an apple been thrown among them, it could not have found its way to the ground. Men, women, and children, were clumped into one dense aggregate of living matter; and as the huge multitude moved itself to and fro, it was as the incipient stirring of an earthquake, or as the lazy floundering of the sea, when its waves, exhausted by a recent storm, tumble their huge sides about, like the indolent leviathan which floats upon their surface. There was no spot of the Place unoccupied save immediately around the scaffold, where a portion was squared off, and kept clear by a strong body of mounted gendarmerie, who kept back with their horses the living wall, which was every moment threatening to break asunder by the pressure behind, and intrude its animated materials into the proscribed area. Nor was the Place de Greve the only spot so crowded. The quays along the Seine were equally peopled, and even the opposite banks of that broad stream were filled with multitudes. Notre Dame shone with spectators, who had mounted its beetling towers to catch a dim prospect of the sacrifice; and every window and height, which afforded the most distant view, were similarly occupied.
In Paris, as in London, it is customary to let out those windows where a good view can be obtained; and on any occasion of particular interest — as the present happened to be — considerable sums are asked, and given. Sometimes half a Napoleon is demanded for a single place; and the sum varies from that to half a franc, according to the eligibility of the situation. Many of the windows are so near to the guillotine, that a very favourable prospect of the painful spectacle can be obtained; and these, of course, are crowded with persons who can afford to pay well for the gratification of their curiosity — if there be, indeed, any gratification in witnessing the instantaneous and sanguinary death of a fellow creature. Yet the view, even from the best windows, is not equal to that from within the open area. But into this space, it is no easy matter to get a footing; the few who are admitted being military men, and such of their friends as they choose to bring along with them. Indeed, at this time, there were few or no officers of any rank within the opening. It was mostly occupied by the gendarmes, who were there upon duty; and by a few dozens of common soldiers, whom curiosity or idleness had brought together. This, however, was the spot to which my wishes led me; and under the guidance of a young French officer of hussars, I was led into the area, and placed in front of the guillotine, not ten feet from its dreadful presence. But dreadful as it is from association, and from its destructive rapidity, this machine is by no means so appalling to look at as the gallows. The same feeling of horror does not attach to it; nor is the mind filled with the same blank dismay, or the same overpowering disgust, which are universally felt on beholding the gibbet, with its looped rope, its horrid beam, and its deceitful platform, which, slipping from beneath the feet of its victim, leaves him dangling and gasping in the winds of heaven. Somehow the same strong idea of disgrace is not connected with the axe as with the gibbet; but this may be from the thought that the noble and the good have shed their blood in torrents beneath its edge, thus giving it a sort of factitious interest, and deadening even with the most criminal the ignominy of its punishment. Nor is it coupled with such inveterate disgust, and such decided outrage to the feelings of humanity. Prolonged physical suffering is at all times revolting; and to see a human being struggling with a violent death — writhing in agony, and perishing like a dog — is the most detestable sight in existence. The guillotine distracts the fancy with no such sickening imagery. Whatever agony is sustained, is the more noble and enduring agony of the spirit, previous to the fatal hour. There is no struggle here with the grim tyrant — no painful encounter between life and death — no tortures like those which wrung Laocoön and his miserable offspring. From perfect life, the individual is transported to as perfect annihilation. He does not enter eternity by slow, unwilling steps: the spirit does not quit its fleshly mansion painfully and tardily, but leaves it with a sudden bound, and plunges at once into a new existence, there to be saved or lost, as its fate chances to be decreed in the Book of Life.
At the period of my admission, it was two o’clock — one hour exactly from the time of execution; and I had, therefore, abundant leisure to contemplate the engine of death, and to witness the behaviour of the vast multitude around it. Things were as quiet as could well be expected in so great an assemblage. There was plenty of talking, but much less disturbance than would have occurred in England upon any similar occasion. In truth, the only quarter which manifested tumult, was in the immediate neighbourhood of the area, which threatened every moment to be broken in, not so much by the fault of those directly in front of it, as by the immense pressure of those in the back-ground. Every now and then its square proportions were destroyed by a portion of the crowd which bulged inwards in a solid mass; and almost at the same moment, this violation of the straight line was repaired by the gendarmes, who kept riding along the square, and pressing back the intruding body into its proper place. The recklessness and fierce temper of the French soldiery were manifest, and formed a strong contrast to the good-humoured forbearance of our own troops. No ceremony was used towards intruders. Whoever came, or was forced into the square by his rearward companions, was thrust back with wanton violence. Where the pressure of the horses was resisted, the gendarmes made use of the flat sides of their sabres, and belaboured the crowd without mercy. The whole scene presented a strange picture of the fearful and the ludicrous. While it was distressing to witness the terrified crowd recoiling before the soldiers, it was amusing to witness the dexterity with which the latter treated the refractory — sometimes pushing them back with their steeds, sometimes beating them with their swords, and sometimes dexterously pitching off their hats into the assemblage. When any unfortunate fellow lost his chapeau in this manner, or received a salutary blow from the weapon of a gendarme, a loud shout of laughter was set up among the spectators. In fact, the whole, except thosewithin reach of punishment, were in excellent humour, and seemed to have come together more to enjoy a farce than witness the horrors of a public execution. Things continued in this state till the hour of three, which, pealing from the clock of the Hotel de Ville, announced the approach of the criminal. Scarcely had the fatal sounds swung upon the air, than the whole host was hushed into silence. They knew that the destined time was at hand, and that Papavoine was on his way to the scaffold; — and every man held his breath with deep interest, and felt, in spite of himself, a solemn awe fall over his spirit. But this dreadful silence did not continue long — for far off, in the direction of the bridge over which the criminal must pass, there was seen a heaving among the assemblage, which moved as if borne on the bosom of a vast wave; and murmurs like the half-suppressed voice of a remote volcano, were heard to proceed from this moving multitude. It was now evident that the procession approached; and every eye was turned towards that direction, and every ear wrought to its keenest pitch to catch the strange sounds which denoted its coming. Each moment the noise became louder, and the motion of the crowd more general. At last the trampling of horses was heard, and a troop of gendarmes, forcing a path through the recoiling people, were seen to approach. Behind them came a cart drawn by two horses; and in this cart sat Papavoine and an old Catholic priest. To the rear of this a second body of gendarmes brought up the procession. The criminal was a small, thin man, of about five feet six. He was dressed in a shabby blue surtout, and brown trowsers, and wore a fur cap upon his head. His arms were pinioned behind him, not by the elbows as with us, but by the wrists. He had no neckcloth on, nor shirt; and the collar of his surtout was drawn some way over his shoulders, so as to leave the neck quite bare and ready for the axe. Though pale and death-like, and seemingly impressed with the marks of sorrow and bad health, he exhibited no signs of terror or dismay. His demeanour was quiet and composed; and to the exhortations of his spiritual adviser he appeared to pay deep attention.
Now, here a scene took place which baffles description. No sooner had the wretch entered the area appropriated for his fate, than a shout of deafening execration arose from the hitherto silent multitude. No preparatory murmurs of hatred and revenge preceded this ebullition of feeling. It sprung up simultaneously, and as if those from whom it proceeded were animated with one soul, and felt one pervading vengeance thrilling through their hearts. “Wretch!” “Villain!” “Miscreant!” “Assassin!” arose in a wild swell from the crowd; and above the deeper voices of the men were heard the shrill imprecations of females, denouncing, with even more bitter wrath, the murderer. Had it been for almost any other crime, the women would have felt towards him more kindly than his own sex; but that for which he was to suffer was one of all others the most heinous to a maternal heart — and the natural fountains of woman’s tears were no longer free to flow in their wonted channel.
But Papavoine did not seem to hear the imprecations which were poured like vials of wrath upon his head — nor did he even appear sensible of the presence of those who so bitterly reviled him in his last moments. The cart stopped at the foot of the scaffold, and descending firmly, he conversed for one moment with the old priest, previous to mounting the fatal steps. I was at this time only a few yards from him, and marked him most distinctly. His look was perfectly calm and composed, and, had he died in a better cause, it would have been impossible not to admire his steady heroism. He said a single word in the ear of the priest who kissed him on the cheek, and left him, apparently much affected. Papavoine now ascended the guillotine rapidly and firmly, and committed himself to the hands of the executioner and his assistant satellite. At this part of the scene the loud execrations of the people had melted into breathless awe. Not a whisper was heard, nor even a movement among the vast and silent assemblage. The whole spectacle was dreadful — the very stillness of the crowd had something appalling in it; and the systematic dispatch with which the executioners proceeded among such universal silence, was sickening to the last degree. While gazing upon the victim, my respiration was almost totally suspended — my heart beat violently, and a feeling of intense anxiety and suffocation pervaded my frame.
The process was incredibly short. In a few seconds Papavoine was bound to a board which stood upright, and reached to the middle of his breast. The board moved on a pivot, and as soon as the malefactor was buckled to it, it was depressed, and shoved with its burden towards the groove of the guillotine, at the top of which hung the axe, ready to descend, on the pulling out of a small peg which kept it in its situation. A moveable piece of wood being now drawn down upon the root of the neck, to prevent all attempt at motion, and everything being ready, the executioner pulled a cord, and with the impetuosity of lightning, down came the axe upon its victim. Papavoine was annihilated in a moment. I saw his head slip from the body and tumble into a basket ready to receive it, while the blood spouted forth in little cataracts from the severed trunk, and dyed the scaffold with a purple tide. From the time when he appeared upon the guillotine till the head was severed, only twenty-five seconds elapsed — such is the appalling, yet humane rapidity of a French execution.
I looked attentively to observe if there was any motion in the trunk — any convulsive start at the instant of decapitation, but there was none. It lay from the first perfectly motionless, nor exhibited the slightest shudder — the least quivering — or the faintest indication that, the moment before, it was part of a sentient being, instinct with all the energies of life. This I did not expect. I conceived that a strong muscular spasm would have convulsed it at the fatal instant: and such, I am told, was the case with Brochetti, an Italian, executed some time before, and whose trunk sprung violently from its situation, and shook with universal tremor.
The momentary silence which pervaded the crowd previous to the axe’s descent was now broken, and an instantaneous movement ensued among its before tranquil numbers. The windows were deserted by their occupants; the doors poured their population into the streets; and the house-tops and black Gothic towers of Notre Dame were rid of the crowds which sat perched like eagles upon their lofty summits. But long ere this assembly had melted away, the guillotine had disappeared from the Place de Greve. Two minutes were allowed to elapse, that the head and body of the criminal might part with their blood.
They were then thrown into a long basket, and sent in the cart — which brought them alive — to the Ecole de Medecine for dissection. And the scaffold, after being cleansed of the gore, by having several buckets of water dashed over it, was taken to pieces, and deposited in the Hotel de Ville, till its sanguinary services were again required. The execution, together with the process of cleansing and dismantling the guillotine, did not occupy above seven minutes.
Next morning, the same curiosity which led me to witness this revolting sight took me to the Ecole de Medecine, to witness the remains of Papavoine. There were a number of scientific men present — among others, the celebrated Doctor Gall, who was employed in investigating the developements of the head, and pointing them out to several of his pupils. [A topic of great interest to Macnish, who also wrote a book about phrenology. -ed.] There was no portion whatever of the neck remaining attached to the trunk. It, as well as the head, had been severed from the body. The axe had struck at its very root, and even grazed the collar bone where it is fixed to the sternum. This is not in general the case, the neck being in most instances pretty accurately cut through the middle — one half of it adhering to the head, the other to the trunk.
I am not sure that I had done right in making such a scene as the above the subject of an article. There is something in the minute details of an execution, at which the mind shudders; and it is probable the reader may think that my impressions of the spectacle just related, should have been confined to my own bosom instead of being made public.
(For writerly firsthand accounts of the guillotine in action in the 19th century, compare to Tolstoy or Turgenev. -ed.)
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Tags: 1820s, 1825, louis papavoine, march 24, paris, place de greve, robert macnish
1825: Angelo Targhini and Leonidas Montanari, carbonari
Add comment November 23rd, 2015 Headsman
On this date in 1825, alleged carbonari plotters Angelo Targhini and Leonidas Montanari were guillotined by Papal executioner Mastro Titta.
This excommunicate revolutionary secret society was spending the 1820s — a decade in-between revolutions — harrying the restored crowned heads of Italy and France with assassination plots.
It was accordingly much-harried in its own turn, to the repeated profit of this grim chronicle.
The pair we feature today were casualties of all that cloak-and-dagger, specifically the latter.
The story (Italian link) goes that the Carbonari became convinced (correctly) that one of their number, a Filippo Spada, was informing against them; thereupon, our Angelo Targhini — very much the impressionable young zealot — was tasked with stabbing the turncoat to death in an alley. The victim, known familiarly as “Spontini”, survived the attack. Montanari, a physician, was one of the first on the scene but arriving policemen perceived that the “treatment” he was applying to the victim was actually deepening his wounds, and seized him as a conspirator.
Montanari admitted nothing of the kind and was accused solely on the impressions of police plus the information of another informant. But he was in no position to impeach this information because it was a secret court of the automcratic Pope Leo XII that condemned both men for treason — solicitous of neither defense nor appeals.
In his diaries, as detailed here as ever, the headsman Mastro Titta reports receiving death threats. Security on the Piazza del Popolo, “thick with people, as I never saw her,” in Titto’s words, was extremely tight — but no public disturbance or carbonari raid disturbed proceedings. That was left only to the prisoners, who declined to receive the sacrament of confession or acknowledge themselves assassins.
“All attempts to persuade them to repent came to nothing,” Titta laments. “They invariably replied only: ‘We have no account to render to anyone. Our God plumbs the fathoms of our conscience.'”
The young men are the subjects of the 1969 Luigi Magni film Nell’anno del Signore.
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Entry Filed under: 19th Century,Arts and Literature,Assassins,Attempted Murder,Beheaded,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Execution,Guillotine,History,Italy,Papal States,Public Executions,Revolutionaries,Terrorists,Treason
Tags: 1820s, 1825, angelo targhini, carbonari, cinema, leonidas montanari, luigi magni, mastro titta, november 23, piazza del popolo, pius xii, rome
1825: Peggy Facto, Plattsburgh infanticide
On this date in 1825, a woman named Peggy Facto was hung on Plattsburgh, N.Y.‘s Broad Street Arsenal Lot.
Facto — or “Facteau,” which variant recalls the French influence here on the shores of Lake Champlain — started her way to the gallows the previous autumn when some neighborhood dogs unearthed the remains of a human infant. It had been partially burned in a fireplace, and when found it still had fast about its throat the cord used to choke it to death. (Plus, of course, the dogs had done their own damage.)
This hideous discovery led back to our day’s principal character, the local mother of two [living] children whose husband had abandoned her due to her affair with a guy named Francis LaBare. Both Peggy and Francis were indicted for “being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil” to murder their inconvenient bastard immediately after birth.
They faced separate trials for the crime, just hours apart on January 19, 1825, on very similar evidence. Witnesses established the discovery of the body, and an acquaintance named Mary Chandreau testified that she had seen Peggy Facto in an obvious late stage of pregnancy that August. This woman also visited Peggy Facto in jail before trial, and testified that Peggy admitted to having taken a string from one of her gowns to furnish the strangulation-cord.
While this evidence was sufficient to condemn Peggy Facto upon mere minutes of juror deliberation, the same case against Francis LaBare resulted in an acquittal. The mother, who did not testify at her own trial, did take the stand at LaBare’s trial, claiming (according to the notes of the judge), that immediately after she delivered the child, Facto
asked [LaBare] to go find her mother & he refused. She then asked him to go find Mrs. Chandreau & he refused, and next asked him if he meant to let her die there & he said the damned old bitch, I can do better than she can. She then requested him to help her & he did & then the child was born & he took it out and went off & was gone an hour, and when he returned … he came towards her with a knife & threatened her life if she said anything about it.
This quote, and much of what is known about Peggy Facto generally, comes via the research of Plattsburgh judge Penelope Clute. See here and here for HTML versions of the article, or here for a pdf.
It’s difficult to account, on the face of it, for the wildly differential outcomes of these trials; the all-male juries might have something to do with it.
At any rate, while LaBare walked, judge Reuben Walworth* pronounced Facto’s fate with enough fury for two … and a distinct disbelief in Facto’s attempt to blame LaBare:
there are very strong reasons for the belief that your own wicked hands have perpetrated the horrid deed. And if there was any other guilty participator in the murder, that your own wickedness and depravity instigated and persuaded him to participate in your crime. To the crime of murder, you have added the crime of perjury, and that in the face of Heaven, and even on the very threshhold of eternity. I am also constrained to say, it is much to be feared, that you will meet more than one murdered child, as an accusing spirit at the bar of Heaven.
Wretched and deluded woman! In vain was the foul and unnatural murder committed under the protecting shade of night, in your lone and sequestered dwelling, where no human eye was near to witness your guilt.
Facto’s only “appeal” after her half-day trial was the clemency consideration of Gov. DeWitt Clinton, a petition that ended up garnering a great deal of popular support, on three stated grounds:
doubts with many as to the guilt of the convict
as to this being a case that requires a public example
As to the policy of executing any person for the crime of murder when the public opinion is much divided on this subject
Even Judge Walworth ultimately supported this appeal, despite his confidence “that the woman was perfectly abandoned and depraved and that she had destroyed this child and probably the one the year previous, not for the purpose of hiding her shame which was open and apparent to everybody that saw her but for the purpose of ridding herself of the trouble of taking care of them and providing for their support.”
The governor disagreed, arguing that the sort of enlightened people who signed on to death penalty appeals were out of touch with the rank terror necessary to keep the criminal orders cowed.**
So on March 18, 1825, an enormous crowd (fretfully many of them women) summoned from all the nearby towns slogged through spring-muddied roads to be duly cowed by the execution of the infanticide. The condemned, visibly terrified, barely made it through her death-ritual without fainting away, but she managed to re-assert her innocence from the gallows. (Some of the firsthand newspapering is here.)
After execution, Peggy Facto’s remains were turned over to the Medical Society for dissection. “A great many went to see her body, although it had been agreed that it should not be seen,” one woman later recollected in her memoirs. “Many young men went. So much talk was made of this that they said that no other body should ever be given to the doctors.”
* Walworth was a man of illustrious descent; one ancestor, William Walworth, was the Lord Mayor of London who killed Wat Tyler.
Judge Walworth would later become, for two decades, New York’s highest-ranking judicial officer; Walworth, N.Y. and Walworth County, Wisc. are named for him. But the American Walworths were bound for a tragic end … including a scandalous murder.
** “Their excellent character elevates them above those feelings which govern the conduct of the depraved … if terror loses its influence with them then indeed the life of no man will be secure.” For more on the evolution of the idea of “exemplary deterrence” as the death penalty’s raison d’etre, see Paul Friedland.
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Tags: 1820s, 1825, adultery, clinton dewitt, francis labare, march 18, peggy facteau, peggy facto, plattsburgh, reuben walworth
1825: Stephen Videto, Indian giver
2 comments August 26th, 2012 Headsman
On this date in 1825, Stephen Videto was hanged in Franklin County, New York, for murder.
This History of Clinton and Franklin Counties misstates the execution date but otherwise sums the matter up nicely. Videto found himself yoked to an engagement he’d come to regard as disagreeable.
Rather than just break the thing off,* he arranged — so the jury found, though Videto always denied it — to kill the poor woman. (Literally poor. Her last husband had left her, abandoning her penniless.)
Videto contrived a whole scenario where the colored man was lurking around his house … the red-colored man, in this case. Scary Indians.
Claiming to be spooked by encounters with mysterious native prowlers, Videto armed himself up; sure enough, one night soon, an Indian shot into his bedroom and started a firefight. The perennially discarded Fanny Mosley was killed in the crossfire.
For the apparent calculation that went into this cover story, Videto was awfully careless about the details. As rudimentary as crime scene forensics were in 1825, it was still self-evident that the glass in the window had been shot outward, not inward; and, that the ball causing Mosley’s fatal wound had likewise originated from within the house, not without. And come to think of it, the “Indian footprints” outside that window looked an awful lot like Videto’s own. And nobody else had ever seen these Indian stalkers Videto was on about — not that night, nor in his buildup of the preceding days.
The evidence might be circumstantial, but those were a whole lot of circumstances. The jury took 15 minutes to convict him, although Videto maintained his innocence to the last — even waving a written declaration of such to the onlookers after the trap fell, while he was strangling to death.
We have a letter from a witness to this hanging, a Vermont silversmith named William Ransom Vilas:**
After a large concourse of people had assembled which was estimated at six or eight thousand, [Videto] was then taken from his place of confinement and conducted by the sherif and guard of seven independent companies to the place of his execution. Then, with 2 assistants, he ascended the gallows, where a discourse was delivered by Elder [Nathaniel] Culver from Luke 13th 23, in which he pointed out to him awful situation and then he protested his innocence of the crime alledged against him and likewise stated that he was no way accessory. Then after giveing a parting hand to each one of his attendants and to a Brother, which was all the relation of his present, his hands were then bound; the rope about his neck was then fastened, and the moment was at hand. The fatal stud was then nock-d out, and now, do not you see him in your imagination hung & strangling. O twas a solemn sight, but the laws must be put in execution.
Although he protested his innocence, it (is) generally believed that he was guilty but protested innocence on account of the conexions. Thus it is that we see man snached from the hand of existence by the Executioner, thus we may justly say “the wicked do not live out half their days.” He (had) a long trial and without doubt an impartial one. But we are frail mortals all hastening to our Mother, ____our joys are like the morning dew before the morning sun. They pass we know not where and we are led to reflection:
Mortals behold the hour glass.
And leave your wordly care
It shows how swift our minutes pass
And bids us all for death prepare.
* Possible motivation for preferring homicide to a breakup: his “beloved” was pregnant.
** As a Vermont Vilas, we suppose that this writer was probably related to politician Levi Baker Vilas and to his (future, at this point) son, eventual U.S. Senator and Secretary of the Interior William Freeman Vilas.
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Tags: 1820s, 1825, august 26, dumb criminals, fanny mosley, stephen videto, william vilas
1825: Isaac, Israel, and Nelson Thayer, in Buffalo’s only public hanging
1 comment June 17th, 2011 Headsman
Given that the great city of Buffalo, New York has raised its hangmen all the way to the White House, it might come as a surprise that the Queen City has hosted only a single public hanging day.
This is the anniversary of that day, which saw droogish brothers Isaac, Israel, and Nelson Thayer turned off from the same gallows for the murder of John Love — the Thayers’ former boarder, turned considerable creditor, turned potential forecloser.
The very enjoyable blog Murder by Gaslight, whose beat is America’s 19th century crime scene, has the story of the Thayer brothers fully narrated — along with a separate post featuring a very ungainly murder ballad.
Then the judge pronounced thare dredful sentence
Whith grate candidness to behold
You must all be hanged untell your ded
And lord mursey on your souls
Well, we can’t all be Oscar Wilde.
1751: Thomas Quin, Joseph Dowdell, Thomas Talbot, and five others at Tyburn - 2020
1771: Daskalogiannis - 2019
1581: Christman Genipperteinga - 2018
2008: Tsutomu Miyazaki, the Nerd Cult Killer - 2017
2015: Dok Macuei Marer, South Sudan assassin - 2016
1660: Jan Quisthout van der Linde condemned to drown in New Amsterdam - 2015
1800: Suleiman al-Halabi, assassin of General Kleber - 2014
1930: 13 Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang cadres, for the Yen Bai mutiny - 2013
1842: Charles Stoddart and Arthur Conolly, Great Game diplomats - 2012
1939: Eugen Weidmann, the last public beheading in France - 2010
1795: The last Montagnards - 2009
1747: Mary Allen and Henry Simms, Gallows Lovers - 2008
1888: Jochin Henry Timmerman, “don’t let them take you alive”
1896: Fred Behme, evangelical Methodist
1845: John Tawell, the man in the Kwaker garb
1846: The last civil executions in Portugal
1896: H. H. Holmes, America’s first serial killer
1923: Nathan Lee, the last public hanging in Texas
1879: John Blan, panicked
Entry Filed under: 19th Century,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Execution,Hanged,History,Milestones,Murder,Public Executions,USA
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1825: Joaquim do Amor Divino Rabelo, Frei Caneca
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On this date in 1825, Portuguese divine Joaquim do Amor Divino Rabelo e Caneca — more popularly and succinctly known as “Frei Caneca” — was executed along with seven others in Recife, Brazil for a short-lived revolt against the newly independent state.
This revolt unfolded against the backdrop of Brazil’s successful war of independence against Portugal.
You’re heard “meet the new boss, same as the old boss”?
It was literally true in this case.
The heir to the Portuguese crown,* Pedro I, made the unusual career choice of declaring Brazil’s independence from his own dad, costing the House of Braganza a good deal more than is usual for family therapy.
And of course one so often grows up into a belated appreciation of one’s parents’ formerly objectionable characteristics.
For Pedro’s new South American polity, there ensued the age-old conflict between federalism and centralization: having promised the one when in need of popular support for his revolution, Pedro delivered the other when securely lodged on the Brazilian throne.
And this triggered the short-lived breakaway attempt of the so-called Confederation of the Equator, centered in Pernambuco, an ornery northeastern province that had likewise abortively rebelled against Portuguese colonial administration in 1817.**
Liberal Carmelite intellectual Frei Caneca — “Father Mug”; here‘s his Portuguese Wikipedia page — had done four years in the clink for his support of that earlier revolt, but he did not hesitate to throw in with Manuel de Carvalho (Portuguese again) when the latter proclaimed independence from Brazil.
Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil, found this sort of behavior much less appealing done to him than by him.
What are the demands of the insults from Pernambuco? Certainly a punishment, and such a punishment that it will serve as an example for the future.
Having a lopsided advantage in the balance-of-force department, Pedro soon got the opportunity to set that example. (Though not on Carvalho, who escaped the roundup and long outlived his king.)
The story goes that Frei Caneca was doomed to hanging — the fate suffered by his fellow-martyrs this day — but so beloved was he that nary a Pernambucano could be found willing to stretch the friar’s neck. It’s a nice 19th century liberal-man-of-the-cloth twist on that ancient hagiographic trope, the “holy man (or woman) who defeats the execution device”.
Unfortunately for Father Mug, that’s usually only a one-device-per-execution deal. In this case, Brazil did locate personnel willing enough for a firing squad’s worth of guys to shoot Caneca dead.
This lyrical end was set to verse in “Auto do Frade” by Brazilian poet João Cabral de Melo Neto.
* Pedro would inherit the Portuguese throne in 1826 on his father’s death, briefly and theoretically uniting the realms, but power players in the motherland gave him the boot within weeks.
** The flag of the 1817 Pernambucan Revolution is Pernambuca’s state flag today.
1928: Earle Nelson, the Dark Strangler - 2020
2011: Leroy White - 2019
1400: Thomas le Despenser, for the Epiphany Rising - 2018
1973: Lt. Col. Mohamed Amekrane, no asylum - 2017
1864: Private Samuel Jones, in retaliation for Private Daniel Bright - 2016
1809: Seven Valladolid ruffians, by Napoleon - 2015
1869: William German, surprising Klan lynch victim - 2014
1979: Pin Peungyard, Gasem Singhara, and (twice) Ginggaew Lorsoungnern - 2013
1943: Jarvis Catoe - 2012
2010: Liu Lieyong and Chen Xiaohui, Hubei gangsters - 2011
1759: The Tavora family - 2009
1871: Kawakami Gensai - 2008
1826: The Decembrists
1849: Not Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1966: Sayyid Qutb
1859: John Brown’s body starts a-moulderin’ in the grave
1885: Louis Riel, Metis leader
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Café Irani Chaii International Film Festival ends on a successful note
Yashpal Sharma with Prof. Dr. Ashouri, Mr. Alikhani, Santosh Barne, Mohan Das, Bhupen Vyas & Dr. Mansoor Showghi Yezdi
The Café Irani Chaii International Film Festival 2020 which took place at the Culture House of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Mumbai on 12th & 13th March 2020 ended on a successful note last evening. Given the recent developments around coronavirus, which has had sweeping effects in all sectors including the entertainment industry, many festivals across the globe had chosen to either call off the festival or postpone it to a later date sometime in the same year. Those included reputed festivals like IFFLA, Tribeca Film Festival, Prague Film Festival, Sarasota Film Festival, Istanbul Film Festival, Belfast Film Festival, Beverly Hills Film Festival, Cleveland Film Festival, New York Children’s Film Festival, the KinoFilm Festival and many others. As festival organizers, even team CICIFF had the same two choices - postponement or cancellation. But team CICIFF chose to downscale the event and limit audiences in auditorium instead of cancelling the same.
“But cancel we did. It was our grand Awards event which we had to cancel and it’s a decision that we did not take lightly,” said Dr. Mansoor Showghi Yezdi, Chairman & Festival Director, CICIFF. “Considering this was our first year, we had planned for a grand Awards event at a leading star hotel. However, the well-being of our esteemed guests, festival partners, film enthusiasts and our team was paramount and hence we called the event off,” he added. The Awards event was conducted later in the evening followed by a networking get together at the same venue after the screenings for the day ended on day 2. “We know it was no substitute for the grand awards event with its unique and fantastic audience, but at least it’s some way to honour these amazing film makers for their wonderful films that made its way to our festival.”
Our esteemed guests, celebrities & eminent filmmakers...
The awards evening took off with Dr. Mansoor taking the stage to speak about the festival and why it was named as the Café Irani Chaii International Film Festival. He also went on to mention that the Chaii has two “i”s in the name of the festival that symbolizes the relationship between the two countries. “I’ve added the two “i”s - one for India and the other for Iran,” he says with a sparkle in his eye. He also enlightened the guests about his documentary by the same name that attempts to trace the history of the Irani cafés through the cities of Bombay, Pune and Hyderabad.
Though scaled down, the awards event still did see the presence of Bollywood actor Yashpal Sharma, Flora Saini, Rekha Rana and Rohan Mehra of ‘Bazaar’ fame. Honouring the esteemed presence of Yashpal Sharma at the festival, his Excellency Consul General of the I.R. of Iran Mr. Alikhani as well as the Hon’ble Prof. Dr. Ashouri Director Culture House of the I.R. of Iran, Mumbai awarded him with the CICIFF “Excellence in Cinema” award. A film actor and theatre artist, Yashpal Sharma is best known for his roles in Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, Lagaan, Gangaajal, Ab Tak Chhappan, Apaharan, Singh Is Kinng, Aarakshan, Rowdy Rathore as well in the Haryanvi film ‘Pagdi the Honour’ which has been conferred with two National Awards.
Mohan Das with Rohan Mehra & Yashpal Sharma. Actress Flora Saini with her team...
The incredibly versatile Yashpal Sharma says he is ecstatic on receiving the CICIFF ‘Excellence in Cinema’ Award. "I'm humbled and honoured for this recognition. I’m really ecstatic as this is not an acting award; it’s an achievement award. It’s such a morale boost and shows that you are being appreciated for what you do.” Speaking about his love of Indian and Iranian cinema, he went on to praise Iranian films he’s completely in awe of. He mentioned that one of his best loved Iranian language films happens to be Majidi’s “Children’s of Heaven” as well as Abbas Kiarostami’s “Where is the Friend’s Home?”
Later Dr. Mansoor requested Yashpal Sharma along with members of jury Bhupen Vyas and Santosh Barne to honour his Excellency Consul General Mr. Alikhani as well as the Hon’ble Prof. Dr. Ashouri for their esteemed support to the festival. The winners of the festival were later announced collectively by Chairman Jury Mohan Das and Dr. Mansoor. While the Best Feature Film went to B M Giriraj’s Kannada film “Amaraavati”, the Best Short Film went to Ishaan Raisinghania’s “Purdah”. The Best Documentary award went to Junichi Kajioka for his documentary “Sugihara Survivors” from the UK. The other winners included Seema Biswas for ‘Idam’ (Best Actress Feature), Divya Dutta for ‘Zuni’ (Best Actress Short), Rohan Mehra for ‘Hum’ (Best Emerging Actor), Rekha Rana for ‘Tara - The journey of love & passion’ (Best Emerging Actor), Saurabh Sharma for ‘Unpredictable’ (Best DoP), Nilesh Naik for ‘Woh Pal’ (Best Children Film), Ram Kamal Mukherjee for ‘Rickshawala’ (Best Emerging Director) and Ajay Mahendru for ‘Dastak’ (Best Actor Jury) amongst others. Short film ‘Unpredictable’ that took home the Best Cinematographer award is produced by actress Flora Saini who will soon be seen in the upcoming film “Darbaan”.
Speaking to a cross section of the filmmakers and audiences, Ashu Dhaliwal, producer of the short social film ‘Manav Bomb’ says she is happy that at least the festival was conducted and her film screened too. “We do understand the organiser’s predicament at such a time of international calamity. While we didn’t as much get the festival experience, the awards celebrations and red carpets as one is used to, but we did get an opportunity to be recognized for our film, which was the silver lining,” said Ashu.
Neeraj Awchat with esteemed guests & celebrities...
“Yes, even I do agree. It’s so unprecedented for not being able to stand up there with my cast and present this film. But given the situation, this was the best thing to happen than not doing at all,” said Jyoti Bajaj, co-director and writer of Zuni that took home two awards - Best actress for Divya Dutta and a Best editor award as well.
Neeraj Awchat who took home the Best Story award for his short film ‘Block’ says, “It’s heartening that the festival is committed to ensuring the health and safety of the public while also supporting friends, filmmakers and storytellers who look to such film festivals as a platform to showcase their work to audiences. What else can one ask for?”
Despite its limitation, the Café Irani Chaii International Film Festival will surely be looked forward to from the viewpoint of a movie enthusiast who wants to see some of the best cinema at such a festival. And CICIFF did provide them an array of wonderful films. “Cinema is the most powerful medium and telling specific stories that connect you with realities you had no idea or connection is a weapon these makers have. Being at a film festival reminds me of this power of film, the power that the story can make you see things. ‘Purdah’ was one short film that had the capacity to keep you riveted with a masterfully executed screenplay and earnestly shows us the beauty of good cinema. Another film that I liked was ‘Carbon Monoxide’ that showcased the brutal reality of carbon monoxide deaths,” said Arbind Mishra who travelled all the way from Bengaluru just to watch good cinema.
Another film enthusiast Chandrashekhar Bhide who was religiously present on both days right since morning watching wonderful cinema says, "It is an inspiring experience that is vastly different from other film festivals. What sets it apart is the warm and wonderful welcome accorded to even the film loving audience. This is what one needs to learn from these festival organisers. The best part was the Irani brun maska pao and chaii during breaks. No wonder, I’m going to come every year now.” Its inspiring to know that Chandrashekhar is a B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering from IIT Bombay as well holds an MBA degree from IIM Ahmedabad.
“I totally agree with this gentleman” said Jitendra Diwakar an aspiring film maker from Mumbai. “Their completely genuine intimacy permeated throughout the event and this sensibility I'm certain it comes from the top. I came just for the love of Iranian cinema and to see some of its best works here. I’m glad, I could make it.”
Jury Chairman as well as additional Chairman & Festival Director Mohan Das says, “It’s such a strange thing to conceive, get ready to deliver and not give birth. We preferred delivering what we envisaged, albeit on a smaller scale as this was a difficult situation for us all. We are grateful for our film fraternity’s understanding, loyalty, and continued support during this challenging time. Same time we thank all our sponsors and participating partners for their understanding at this difficult time.”
As the evening proceeded on, the festival organisers thanked everyone for making time to be present and chose to end the festival with a group photograph of all the film makers with the esteemed guests, jury and film makers. This was followed by a networking get together at the Culture House of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mumbai with a promise by Dr. Mansoor Showghi Yezdi to come back with more wonderful films at the next edition of the show.
Posted by Films & TV World at 1:26 PM
Sandesh Gour & Sheetal Tiwari to feature in "Roothe Chahe Rab" for Tips
Tips Music's next Bollywood Music Single "Roothe Chahe Rab" will soon be on air with Sandesh Gour and Sheetal Tiwari who were earlier seen in the Marathi film "Jhing Premachi" together as a lead Star Cast. Like all major music videos, this too is based on romance. However, due to some serious medical issues the girl faces, she leaves her lover by lying but ends up with an accident. While the song has been sung, composed and written by Sonu Singh (SP) who is debuting with this single, it is produced and directed by Jitendra Singh Tomar.
Sandesh Gour who was part of shows like Saraswatichandra, Pratigya, Tarak Mehta ka Oolta Chashmah and Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya, debuted in Bollywood with Meeradha as well as a couple of Marathi films. Speaking about this music video, he says it was a fun filled experience. "Though the video is pretty emotional, we had a great time shooting it.," he said. Sheetal Tiwari who was last seen in Balaji's web series Baarish with Sharman Joshi says, says Yaari was her recent music video. “When I heard this song for the first time I got goose bumps and I ended up saying yes instantly. Not only are the lyrics and music fabulous, but I loved the way the video has been shot,” she added.
Café Irani Chaii International Film Festival starts on a good note
With a growing number of cultural, film based and other events are being cancelled as infections with the new coronavirus spread, Café Irani Chaii International Film Festival 2020 which started today preferred to downscale its festivities. Trying to constantly monitor the situation of the Corona Virus epidemic and keeping a low scale plan to keep the festival going, the CICIFF 2020 started on a low key today. Shifting from a bigger auditorium to the Culture House of the Islamic Republic of Iran, this strategy has actually been working for good as the festival had limited yet quality audience.
The festival started off today on a good note screening as many as 25 films from across the globe. The festival which is in its first year received more than 135 entries from across the globe including Iran, UK, USA, Turkey, Australia, Spain, Canada, Chile, China, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Poland, South Africa, Sweden, Syria, Zimbabwe and many other countries. With the Irani chai - a true fusion of Indo-Persian culture, Dr. Mansoor Showghi Yezdi, Chairman and Festival Director and also the vice president of the Indo-Iranian Friendship Society preferred to serve his film maker guests and audiences the specially brewed Irani chai (tea) and brun masko pao (a bread bun spread with dollops of butter) and other snacks. “This is our roots. I am a true chaiwalla [teaboy,]” says Dr. Mansoor who nicknamed the festival with the Iranian culture and his own café in Mahim, Mumbai.
Though the corona virus has just been declared a pandemic by the WHO today, Team CICIFF remained reasonably optimistic in the hope that the effects of the epidemic will not reach Mumbai and that they would not have to worry, but they were not oblivious either. Dr. Mansoor says, “Preparations to downsize the event and limit audiences in auditorium to even cancelling the grand Awards event over corona virus fears was not a decision we have taken lightly. This is an unprecedented situation, and given the vast amount of preparation that we had put into designing the festival, which was to be conducted on a big scale it was indeed a difficult but not a hasty decision. To us, the health and safety of our film makers, audiences, visitors and our team is our top priority, and working on the advice of our core team, we feel we have taken the best course of action.”
Although coronavirus has just been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, “instead of postponing the festival, we thought it would be best to downscale it and let it happen,” says additional Chairman and Festival Director, Mohan Das. “We thank all our participating film makers, sponsors and partners for their understanding at this difficult time. As our grand Awards event has been called off, the awards function followed by networking dinner will currently go ahead at the same venue where films are being screened in a low scale.”
The festival ended with the screening of the Iranian feature film “Daughters of Winter” with a promise to screen some more amazing films tomorrow the 2nd day of the festival. Presented by the Royal Hometel Suites (A Sarovar Group Venture) in association with the Culture House of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Café Irani Chaii International Film Festival 2020 is happening in Mumbai at the Culture House of the Islamic Republic of Iran on 12th & 13th March 2020. The Awards event will be happening after the screening on 13th March 2020 in the evening followed by a networking get together.
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Fluid Radio – Experimental Frequencies
Felix Gebhard
by James Catchpole
Gone For Walks
The concrete jungle can appear to have no end. The daily commute is a grind through rough subway tunnels as black as the eclipse of a nightly sun. The air, once breathable for a select few – the true subterranean creatures – hits the senses through the carriage fans, with the scorching smell of electricity working its way through the stations and the dusty, dry heat of the underground an invasive presence. Not only does this frequently prompt the need for the nearest escape route, but it substantially increases the feeling of sublime peace when the escape eventually arrives, as if the sensation itself were a late train pulling into the terminal (11:12am). It’s a sure and appreciative state of mind when the only noise left is that of silence.
Escape the grind.
An excursion away from the chaos can drop the rising blood pressure, promote positive thinking, help us to appreciate the natural beauty that is all around – the beauty can be found in the skyscraper sparkle that reflects off the clear glass architecture, but it will forever be counterfeit to the real, intended beauty of nature. The urban landscape is, in the scheme of things, contemporary, succumbing to decay and rust as new shoots push their way to the surface. Excursions can make you feel good about life. It’s rejuvenating, and it’s also important to re-focus on the things that really matter.
The city can wear our hearts down. Gone For Walks confronts this problem, but it does so carefully – through a deeper message of self-renewal, inflating the heart once again with a thankful pause for breath. It’s an introverted, feel good listen that re-connects with your deeper self; it’s the reason you get away when the opportunity presents itself. Pollution doesn’t splutter into the smog-fuelled air, smothering itself over every living thing with a dirty sheet of clouded vapour. Out in the country, there is no rush like that of the urban and its pursuit of inner city ozone annihilation.
Sedately, the field recordings are instant in their evocation, containing a very real quality due to their authenticity, and they make for beautiful, clear images of largely untouched terrains, the population in the hundreds instead of the millions, alongside the acoustic guitar and Felix Gebhard’s fingerstyle approach.
The touchstone for authentic, natural sound, field recordings are unrivalled in their evocation of place, and Gone For Walks inserts them generously. Arpeggios are, at times, stretched out through the effect of tremolo, constantly fading in and out repeatedly as if they too are taking in the fresh air, in need of some deep breathing.
In the inner city, the untouchable sense of peace can be elusive. Germany’s Felix Gebhard has lived in many cities himself, song-writing and playing guitar since he was a teenager. With only his guitar for company, Gebhard leaves the city etched on the faraway skyline. The fraught tension of the city and the stress that is the rush hour commute is exchanged for a natural sanctuary. Gone For Walks takes a trip to a village in Wendland, a rural region by the Elbe River on the former East and West Germany border.
The localised field recordings hazily blend into his beautifully clean guitar melodies, birdsong and string as one. Because of this, there’s a beautiful, rural quality to the sound – the texture of rough sawdust as a wooden gate creaks open; the small churchyard a resting place for departed souls and the green fields on the horizon contrasting the endless blue sky above. The furry buzz of the birds and the bees enter along with the melody (with no commercials promising the fiction of instant love). As the sky darkens, so too does the music.
A chained fence rattles like a shuddering train on ’03.27’, with an almost alien wave of synth pulling you into its grasp. During the night, you experience dreams that never quite allow you to escape the city. It’s the kind of dream – or nightmare – where running doesn’t get you anywhere, leaving the destination in the distance. Slowly but surely, the pebble-strewn country path starts to invert, reeling you back towards the city. The peace vanishes with a growl of cutting distortion. It’s the noise of the industry; the red-to-yellow-to-green of the traffic lights, the rumble of heavy vehicles and the stream of car headlights, a blur of turbulent, white-bright gridlocked graffiti. The same could be said of the flesh as you enter the crowded carriage. The stranger presses close to you: missed you so much.
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Schwarzenegger Is a Climate Cuckoo, Not a Climate Hawk
by William Yeatman on October 28, 2010
Last week, David Roberts at Grist coined the phrase “Climate Hawk,” to describe “people who understand climate change and support clean energy but do not share the rest of the ideological and sociocultural commitments that define environmentalism as historically understood in the U.S.”
Of course, a “hawk” in political jargon has long referred to policymakers who are bullish on the use of military might to advance American interests. The national security overtones are meant to impart a seriousness to global warming alarmists otherwise conflated with hippy-dippy granola environmentalists. According to Andrew Leonard at Salon, Roberts’s term is “a brilliant jiujitsu move of rhetorical framing.”
Roberts’s new meme was adopted quickly by the green journo beat. Today, for example, both Joe Romm (of Climate Progress) and Brad Johnson (at the Center for American Progress) refer to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as a Climate Hawk in the wake of a recent interview he did with Diane Sawyer, in which he said,
“We need to go to Washington and say, “Look what happened. You, because oil companies have spent money against you, they have threatened you, you backed off the energy policy and the environmental policy in Washington.” What wimps. No guts. I mean, here, you idolize and always celebrate the great warriors, our soldiers, our men and women who go to Iraq and Afghanistan, and they’re risking their lives to defend this country, and you’re not even willing to stand up against the oil companies?”
Those are tough words, but are they appropriate? After all, Schwarzenegger hasn’t actually implemented any difficult climate policies. Indeed, AB 32, California’s Global Warming Solutions Act, doesn’t kick in until after the Governor leaves office. Moreover, Schwarzenegger in 2007 actually tried to delay early action climate policies under AB 32, in order to protect the construction industry, which had been a big donor to his 2006 reelection campaign. What “guts” has the Governator evinced?
Rather than “climate hawk,” a more appropriate bird metaphor for Arnold Schwarzenegger is “Climate Cuckoo.” The Cuckoo is a parasitic bird that lays its eggs in other nests, in order to be reared by other birds. That’s a pretty good parallel for what the California Governor is doing with respect to climate policy. He helped birth a climate law full of sacrifice that his successor will have to shoulder.
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If you use our services while you are outside the EU, your information may be transferred outside the EU in order to provide you with those services.
We keep this Policy under regular review. This Policy was last updated in May 2018.
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Customer EU Data Processing Addendum
This Data Processing Addendum ("DPA"), forms part of the Agreement between The Rocket Science Group LLC d/b/a MailChimp ("MailChimp") and The Joseph Gallagher Group ("Customer") and shall be effective on the date both parties execute this DPA (Effective Date"). All capitalized terms not defined in this DPA shall have the meanings set forth in the Agreement.
"Affiliate" means an entity that directly or indirectly Controls, is Controlled by or is under common Control with an entity.
"Agreement" means MailChimp’s Terms of Use, which govern the provision of the Services to Customer, as such terms may be updated by MailChimp from time to time.
"Control" means an ownership, voting or similar interest representing fifty percent (50%) or more of the total interests then outstanding of the entity in question. The term "Controlled" shall be construed accordingly.
"Customer Data" means any Personal Data that MailChimp processes on behalf of Customer as a Data Processor in the course of providing Services, as more particularly described in this DPA.
"Data Protection Laws" means all data protection and privacy laws applicable to the processing of Personal Data under the Agreement, including, where applicable, EU Data Protection Law.
"Data Controller" means an entity that determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data.
"Data Processor" means an entity that processes Personal Data on behalf of a Data Controller.
"EU Data Protection Law" means (i) prior to 25 May 2018, Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of Personal Data and on the free movement of such data ("Directive") and on and after 25 May 2018, Regulation 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of Personal Data and on the free movement of such data (General Data Protection Regulation) ("GDPR"); and (ii) Directive 2002/58/EC concerning the processing of Personal Data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector and applicable national implementations of it (as may be amended, superseded or replaced).
"EEA" means, for the purposes of this DPA, the European Economic Area, United Kingdom and Switzerland.
"Group" means any and all Affiliates that are part of an entity's corporate group.
"Personal Data" means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
"Privacy Shield" means the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework self-certification program operated by the U.S. Department of Commerce and approved by the European Commission pursuant to Decision C(2016)4176 of 12 July 2016 and by the Swiss Federal Council on January 11, 2017 respectively.
"Privacy Shield Principles" means the Privacy Shield Principles (as supplemented by the Supplemental Principles) contained in Annex II to the European Commission Decision C(2016)4176 of 12 July 2016 (as may be amended, superseded or replaced).
"Processing" has the meaning given to it in the GDPR and "process", "processes" and "processed" shall be interpreted accordingly.
"Security Incident" means any unauthorized or unlawful breach of security that leads to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of or access to Customer Data.
"Services" means any product or service provided by MailChimp to Customer pursuant to the Agreement.
"Sub-processor" means any Data Processor engaged by MailChimp or its Affiliates to assist in fulfilling its obligations with respect to providing the Services pursuant to the Agreement or this DPA. Sub-processors may include third parties or members of the MailChimp Group.
2. Relationship with the Agreement
2.1 The parties agree that DPA shall replace any existing DPA the parties may have previously entered into in connection with the Services.
2.2 Except for the changes made by this DPA, the Agreement remains unchanged and in full force and effect. If there is any conflict between this DPA and the Agreement, this DPA shall prevail to the extent of that conflict.
2.3 Any claims brought under or in connection with this DPA shall be subject to the terms and conditions, including but not limited to, the exclusions and limitations set forth in the Agreement.
2.4 Any claims against MailChimp or its Affiliates under this DPA shall be brought solely against the entity that is a party to the Agreement. In no event shall any party limit its liability with respect to any individual's data protection rights under this DPA or otherwise. Customer further agrees that any regulatory penalties incurred by MailChimp in relation to the Customer Data that arise as a result of, or in connection with, Customer’s failure to comply with its obligations under this DPA or any applicable Data Protection Laws shall count toward and reduce MailChimp’s liability under the Agreement as if it were liability to the Customer under the Agreement.
2.5 No one other than a party to this DPA, its successors and permitted assignees shall have any right to enforce any of its terms.
2.6 This DPA shall be governed by and construed in accordance with governing law and jurisdiction provisions in the Agreement, unless required otherwise by applicable Data Protection Laws.
3. Scope and Applicability of this DPA
3.1 This DPA applies where and only to the extent that MailChimp processes Customer Data that originates from the EEA and/or that is otherwise subject to EU Data Protection Law on behalf of Customer as Data Processor in the course of providing Services pursuant to the Agreement.
3.2 Part A (being Section 4 – 8 (inclusive) of this DPA, as well as Annexes A and B of this DPA) shall apply to the processing of Customer Data within the scope of this DPA from the Effective Date.
3.3 Part B (being Sections 9-12 (inclusive) of this DPA) shall apply to the processing of Customer Data within the scope of the DPA from and including 25th May 2018. For the avoidance of doubt, Part B shall apply in addition to, and not in substitution for, the terms in Part A.
Part A: General Data Protection Obligations
4. Roles and Scope of Processing
4.1 Role of the Parties. As between MailChimp and Customer, Customer is the Data Controller of Customer Data, and MailChimp shall process Customer Data only as a Data Processor acting on behalf of Customer.
4.2. Customer Processing of Customer Data. Customer agrees that (i) it shall comply with its obligations as a Data Controller under Data Protection Laws in respect of its processing of Customer Data and any processing instructions it issues to MailChimp; and (ii) it has provided notice and obtained (or shall obtain) all consents and rights necessary under Data Protection Laws for MailChimp to process Customer Data and provide the Services pursuant to the Agreement and this DPA.
4.3 MailChimp Processing of Customer Data. MailChimp shall process Customer Data only for the purposes described in this DPA and only in accordance with Customer’s documented lawful instructions. The parties agree that this DPA and the Agreement set out the Customer’s complete and final instructions to MailChimp in relation to the processing of Customer Data and processing outside the scope of these instructions (if any) shall require prior written agreement between Customer and MailChimp.
4.4 Details of Data Processing
(a) Subject matter: The subject matter of the data processing under this DPA is the Customer Data.
(b) Duration: As between MailChimp and Customer, the duration of the data processing under this DPA is until the termination of the Agreement in accordance with its terms.
(c) Purpose: The purpose of the data processing under this DPA is the provision of the Services to the Customer and the performance of MailChimp's obligations under the Agreement (including this DPA) or as otherwise agreed by the parties.
(d) Nature of the processing: MailChimp provides an email service, automation and marketing platform and other related services, as described in the Agreement.
(e) Categories of data subjects: Any individual accessing and/or using the Services through the Customer's account ("Users"); and any individual: (i) whose email address is included in the Customer's Distribution List; (ii) whose information is stored on or collected via the Services, or (iii) to whom Users send emails or otherwise engage or communicate with via the Services (collectively, "Subscribers").
(f) Types of Customer Data:
* (i) Customer and Users: identification and contact data (name, address, title, contact details, username); financial information (credit card details, account details, payment information); employment details (employer, job title, geographic location, area of responsibility);
* (ii) Subscribers: identification and contact data (name, date of birth, gender, general, occupation or other demographic information, address, title, contact details, including email address), personal interests or preferences (including purchase history, marketing preferences and publically available social media profile information); IT information (IP addresses, usage data, cookies data, online navigation data, location data, browser data); financial information (credit card details, account details, payment information).
4.5 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Agreement (including this DPA), Customer acknowledges that MailChimp shall have a right to use and disclose data relating to the operation, support and/or use of the Services for its legitimate business purposes, such as billing, account management, technical support, product development and sales and marketing. To the extent any such data is considered Personal Data under Data Protection Laws, MailChimp is the Data Controller of such data and accordingly shall process such data in accordance with the MailChimp Privacy Policy <https:> and Data Protection Laws. </https:>
4.6 Tracking Technologies. Customer acknowledges that in connection with the performance of the Services, MailChimp employs the use of cookies, unique identifiers, web beacons and similar tracking technologies ("Tracking Technologies"). Customer shall maintain appropriate notice, consent, opt-in and opt-out mechanisms as are required by Data Protection Laws to enable MailChimp to deploy Tracking Technologies lawfully on, and collect data from, the devices of Subscribers (defined below) in accordance with and as described in the MailChimp Cookie Statement.
5. Subprocessing
5.1 Authorized Sub-processors. Customer agrees that MailChimp may engage Sub-processors to process Customer Data on Customer's behalf. The Sub-processors currently engaged by MailChimp and authorized by Customer are listed in Annex A.
5.2 Sub-processor Obligations. MailChimp shall: (i) enter into a written agreement with the Sub-processor imposing data protection terms that require the Sub-processor to protect the Customer Data to the standard required by Data Protection Laws; and (ii) remain responsible for its compliance with the obligations of this DPA and for any acts or omissions of the Sub-processor that cause MailChimp to breach any of its obligations under this DPA.
6.1 Security Measures. MailChimp shall implement and maintain appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect Customer Data from Security Incidents and to preserve the security and confidentiality of the Customer Data, in accordance with MailChimp's security standards described in Annex B ("Security Measures").
6.2 Updates to Security Measures. Customer is responsible for reviewing the information made available by MailChimp relating to data security and making an independent determination as to whether the Services meet Customer’s requirements and legal obligations under Data Protection Laws. Customer acknowledges that the Security Measures are subject to technical progress and development and that MailChimp may update or modify the Security Measures from time to time provided that such updates and modifications do not result in the degradation of the overall security of the Services purchased by the Customer.
6.3 Customer Responsibilities. Notwithstanding the above, Customer agrees that except as provided by this DPA, Customer is responsible for its secure use of the Services, including securing its account authentication credentials, protecting the security of Customer Data when in transit to and from the Services and taking any appropriate steps to securely encrypt or backup any Customer Data uploaded to the Services.
7. Security Reports and Audits
7.1 Customer acknowledges that MailChimp is regularly audited against SSAE 16 and PCI standards by independent third party auditors and internal auditors, respectively. Upon request, MailChimp shall supply (on a confidential basis) a summary copy of its audit report(s) ("Report") to Customer, so that Customer can verify MailChimp's compliance with the audit standards against which it has been assessed, and this DPA.
7.2 MailChimp shall also provide written responses (on a confidential basis) to all reasonable requests for information made by Customer, including responses to information security and audit questionnaires that are necessary to confirm MailChimp's compliance with this DPA, provided that Customer shall not exercise this right more than once per year.
8.1 Data center locations. MailChimp may transfer and process Customer Data anywhere in the world where MailChimp, its Affiliates or its Sub-processors maintain data processing operations. MailChimp shall at all times provide an adequate level of protection for the Customer Data processed, in accordance with the requirements of Data Protection Laws.
8.2 Privacy Shield. To the extent that MailChimp processes any Customer Data protected by EU Data Protection Law under the Agreement and/or that originates from the EEA, in a country that has not been designated by the European Commission or Swiss Federal Data Protection Authority (as applicable) as providing an adequate level of protection for Personal Data, the parties acknowledge that MailChimp shall be deemed to provide adequate protection (within the meaning of EU Data Protection Law) for any such Customer Data by virtue of having self-certified its compliance with Privacy Shield. MailChimp agrees to protect such Personal Data in accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Shield Principles. If MailChimp is unable to comply with this requirement, MailChimp shall inform Customer.
8.3 Alternative Transfer Mechanism. The parties agree that the data export solution identified in Section 8.2 shall not apply if and to the extent that MailChimp adopts an alternative data export solution for the lawful transfer of Personal Data (as recognized under EU Data Protection Laws) outside of the EEA (“Alternative Transfer Mechanism”), in which event, the Alternative Transfer Mechanism shall apply instead (but only to the extent such Alternative Transfer Mechanism extends to the territories to which Personal Data is transferred).
Part B: GDPR Obligations from 25 May 2018
9. Additional Security
9.1 Confidentiality of processing. MailChimp shall ensure that any person who is authorized by MailChimp to process Customer Data (including its staff, agents and subcontractors) shall be under an appropriate obligation of confidentiality (whether a contractual or statutory duty).
9.2 Security Incident Response. Upon becoming aware of a Security Incident, MailChimp shall notify Customer without undue delay and shall provide timely information relating to the Security Incident as it becomes known or as is reasonably requested by Customer.
10. Changes to Sub-processors
10.1 MailChimp shall (i) provide an up-to-date list of the Sub-processors it has appointed upon written request from Customer; and (ii) notify Customer (for which email shall suffice) if it adds or removes Sub-processors at least 10 days prior to any such changes.
10.2 Customer may object in writing to MailChimp’s appointment of a new Sub-processor within five (5) calendar days of such notice, provided that such objection is based on reasonable grounds relating to data protection. In such event, the parties shall discuss such concerns in good faith with a view to achieving resolution. If this is not possible, Customer may suspend or terminate the Agreement (without prejudice to any fees incurred by Customer prior to suspension or termination).
11. Return or Deletion of Data
11.1 Upon termination or expiration of the Agreement, MailChimp shall (at Customer's election) delete or return to Customer all Customer Data (including copies) in its possession or control, save that this requirement shall not apply to the extent MailChimp is required by applicable law to retain some or all of the Customer Data, or to Customer Data it has archived on back-up systems, which Customer Data MailChimp shall securely isolate and protect from any further processing, except to the extent required by applicable law.
12. Cooperation
12.1 The Services provide Customer with a number of controls that Customer may use to retrieve, correct, delete or restrict Customer Data, which Customer may use to assist it in connection with its obligations under the GDPR, including its obligations relating to responding to requests from data subjects or applicable data protection authorities. To the extent that Customer is unable to independently access the relevant Customer Data within the Services, MailChimp shall (at Customer's expense) provide reasonable cooperation to assist Customer to respond to any requests from individuals or applicable data protection authorities relating to the processing of Personal Data under the Agreement. In the event that any such request is made directly to MailChimp, MailChimp shall not respond to such communication directly without Customer's prior authorization, unless legally compelled to do so. If MailChimp is required to respond to such a request, MailChimp shall promptly notify Customer and provide it with a copy of the request unless legally prohibited from doing so.
12.2 If a law enforcement agency sends MailChimp a demand for Customer Data (for example, through a subpoena or court order), MailChimp shall attempt to redirect the law enforcement agency to request that data directly from Customer. As part of this effort, MailChimp may provide Customer’s basic contact information to the law enforcement agency. If compelled to disclose Customer Data to a law enforcement agency, then MailChimp shall give Customer reasonable notice of the demand to allow Customer to seek a protective order or other appropriate remedy unless MailChimp is legally prohibited from doing so.
12.3 To the extent MailChimp is required under EU Data Protection Law, MailChimp shall (at Customer's expense) provide reasonably requested information regarding the Services to enable the Customer to carry out data protection impact assessments or prior consultations with data protection authorities as required by law.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this DPA to be executed by their authorized representative:
The Rocket Science Group LLC d/b/a MailChimp
Name: Daniel Kurzius
Title: CCO/Co-founder
The Joseph Gallagher Group
Name: Tony Matheson
Title: Commercial Director
Annex A - List of MailChimp Sub-processors
MailChimp uses its Affiliates and a range of third party Sub-processors to assist it in providing the Services (as described in the Agreement). These Sub-processors set out below provide cloud hosting and storage services; content delivery and review services; assist in providing customer support; as well as incident tracking, response, diagnosis and resolution services.
Entity Name Corporate Location
Akamai Massachusetts, USA
Amazon Washington, USA
E-Hawk New York, USA
El Camino California, USA
FullContact Colorado, USA
Google California, USA
Neustar Virginia, USA
R.R. Donnelley Illinois, USA
Slack California, USA
TaskUs California, USA
Zendesk California, USA
Annex B – Security Measures
The Security Measures applicable to the Services are described here https://mailchimp.com/about/security/ (as updated from time to time in accordance with Section 6.2 of this DPA).
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Balarama and Krishna with the gopis, gopas, and cows
The Supreme Person appears in innumerable forms to enjoy transcendental relationships. Some of His expansions are tiny, dependent beings, like us, and some are complete and omnipotent beings like Himself.
Balarama, or Baladeva, is Krishna's primary all-powerful expansion.
When Krishna desires to appear in this world as an avatar, Balarama arranges for that appearance by expanding Himself into more forms of God. During Krishna's pastimes on earth, Balarama was present as His elder brother. The Srimad-Bhagavatam describes Their superhuman activities in the village of Vrindavan and the city of Dwaraka.
(Pictured are Balarama and Krishna with Their friends and cows in Vrindavan.)
QT Balarama
Source Notes
Balarama, A Biographical Sketch
- part of a list of introductions to many prominent personalities in the Srimad-Bhagavatam.
Krishna's Expansions; Other Forms Of God
- Krishna expands Himself into many forms to enjoy unlimited relationships and manage the universe.
We like to quote our sources. This page is based on the following:
Chaitanya Charitamrita, Madhya-lila 20.173, Purport:
"In the Vedas it is stated that the one becomes many (eko bahu syam). The Supreme Personality of Godhead expands Himself in various forms — vishnu-tattva, jiva-tattva and shakti-tattva."
Bhagavad-gita, 10.37:
"Krishna is the original Supreme Personality of Godhead, and Baladeva is Krishna's immediate expansion. . . He is the original source of all incarnations. . . The immediate expansions of the Lord are called svamsha (personal expansions), and there are also expansions called vibhinnamsha (separated expansions)."
Srimad-Bhagavatam, 1.3.23:
"In the nineteenth and twentieth incarnations, the Lord advented Himself as Lord Balarama and Lord Krishna in the family of Vrsni [the Yadu dynasty], and by so doing He removed the burden of the world."
Srimad-Bhagavatam, 1.3.23, Purport:
"The specific mention of the word bhagavan in this text indicates that Balarama and Krishna are original forms of the Lord. . . Lord Krishna is not an incarnation of the purusa, as we learned from the beginning of this chapter. He is directly the original Personality of Godhead, and Balarama is the first plenary manifestation of the Lord."
Srimad-Bhagavatam, 1.11.16-17, Purport:
- this purport gives biographical highlights for various important personalities, Balarama among them.
Narration: Lord Balarama Visits Vrindavan
- from the book Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Narration: The Glories of Lord Balarama
- from Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
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On this day 3rd September
1822 – 43rd – Left Ireland for Gibraltar.
1901 – 2nd Bn OXF LI – 947 new rifles (Lee Enfield Mark 1*) received for re-armament of the Regiment to replace the Lee-Metford Mark 1* issued in 1893.
1916 - 6th Bn OXF & BUCKS LI - heavily engaged Battle of Guillemont (Somme);
0110 - Dvina forces 0800 received cancelling 0784. All Russian troops to be concentrated at BERESNIK by 1800 4th.
0235 - 0804 received one 3 inch gun despatched UST VAGA to cover approaches
1030 - Orders received for whole “B” Coy 46th R.E. to be concentrated at UST VAGA.
1145 - Lt. Gibbons and 1 platoon “C” Coy. left by left bank road for KOSLOVO from UST VAGA.
1300 - 2 platoons “B” Coy. 46th R.F. sent down to UST VAGA by PINEGAR.
1640 - Hd. Qrs. & No 8 Coy. 46th N.R.R. marched from UST VAGA to BERESNIK.
1730 - No. 7 Coy. N.R.R. 1st Russian Field Battery with 4 18-pdrs and 53 horses marched from left bank opposite SELTSO to UST VAGA.
N.B. Russian troops on Dvina and Vaga have gone back to take up a line at NIKOLSKAYA about 15 Versts S of EMETSKOE.
0630 - A SAILOR OFFICER ARRIVED TO CHOSE A SITE FOR MINE LAYING.
Point selected between SELTSO and KOSLOVO left at 1000 hrs.
3.09.19. CAPT MEADE’S DETACHMENT.
1500 - Company embarked and arrived SKELETSKOE 0730 4th.
1919 –2nd Bn, OXF & BUCKS LI – CORK, IRELAND.
Major H. L. Wood took over his own Company (D). Lieut. G. P. B. de Pass, on arrival, was attached to A Company, and Lieut. J. Burns to C Company.
The following S.R. officers received orders to embark to join the Armies of the Black Sea on 7th inst. :--
Major A. V. Spencer, D.S.O., Captain C. A. Fowke, M.C, Lieut. R. L. McConnell, Lieut. W. A. Ramsay, Lieut. W. A. Cox, Lieut. H. V. Smith, Lieut. H. Vaughan, Lieut. F. W. Taylor, Lieut. F. J. Stephens.
(Orders cancelled on 25th September and the officers demobilized.)
1939 – Great Britain declares war on Germany.
1939 – 4th (TA) Bn OXF & BUCKS LI – OXFORD.
By 0900 hrs. on the 3rd September thirty officers and five hundred and sixty-six other ranks had reported. The outlying detachments at Kidmore End, Thame and Dorchester had joined their respective companies, B, C and D.
On the afternoon of the 3rd September the colours of the Battalion were handed over to the safe keeping of the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, and were eventually hung on a pillar in the Regimental Chapel, not far from the pillar on which they were hung during the First World War, 1914-18. The colour party on this occasion consisted of Second Lieutenants J. A. R. Forster and H. C. S. T. Barrett, Serjeants H Simms and R. Wiley and Lance-Serjeant C. Sammons. An escort of fifty rank and file, under the command of Captain M. C. Wiggins, with the band and buglers, was provided by H.Q. and D Companies.
1946 – 1st Bn OXF & BUCKS LI – AUSTRIA.
Advance party arrived at Treviso.
1947 – 2nd Bn OXF & BUCKS LI – EGYPT - UK
Battalion leaves BTD Suez and embarks at Port Said on HMT Clan Lamont.
On September 3rd, 1947, the battalion now reduced to 6 officers, 2 WOIIs and 88 ORs embarked on the HMT Clan Lamont, a converted cargo boat of some 10,000 tons.
1949 – 1st Bn OXF & BUCKS LI (43rd & 52nd) – SOBRAON BKS, SALONIKA.
Carrier Platoon moved to Khortiatis camp in their new Oxford Carriers.
Much interest shown in these new fighting vehicles.
Mortar Platoon returned to barracks from camp.
1956 – 1st Bn OXF & BUCKS LI (43rd & 52nd) - CYPRUS
Lieut. B. W. Balls was granted the temporary rank of Captain.
2nd Lieut. R. W. S. Ball rejoined the Regiment from a course in England.
A draft of 10 other ranks arrived.
1958 - 1st Bn OXF & BUCKS LI (43rd & 52nd) – CYPRUS.
Letter ‘A’ Company assisted 34 L.A.A. Regiment R.A. in an operation at Monagroulli. Seven men were arrested.
1959 – 1st GREEN JACKETS (43rd & 52nd) – JELLALABAD BKS, TIDWORTH
A football match versus 27 Command Workshops R.E.M.E. was won 15—0.
2nd Lieut. R. P. Radcliffe was appointed officer i/c cycling.
1962 - 1st GREEN JACKETS (43rd & 52nd) – MINDEN BKS, PENANG, MALAYA.
Lieut.-Colonel H. J. Sweeney, m.c., reassumed command of the Regiment.
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Rohit Shetty does special appearance in Shreyas' Marathi film
Submitted by Gurpreet Singh on Thu, 07/24/2014 - 14:23
Mumbai: Director Rohit Shetty will be seen in a special appearance in actor-turned-producer Shreyas Talpade`s upcoming Marathi film `Poshter Boyz`.
Choreographer-turned-director Farah Khan also has a special appearance in the film.
"Both Rohit and Farah are close to me and are very successful directors and I love watching their movies which are out-and-out entertaining films. When I decided to produce `Poshter Boyz`, being in the same entertainer space I knew I had to have them in the film," Shreyas said in a statement here.
"Both (Rohit and Farah) are so sweet that they immediately agreed to be a part of the film, no questions asked, true friends I can completely count on," he said.
Shreyas earlier worked with Farah in `Om Shanti Om` and was part of Rohit`s films `Golmaal Returns` and `Golmaal 3`. Produced under Shreyas and Deepti Talpade`s banner Affluence Movies Private Limited, `Poshter Boyz` is set to hit the silver screen on August 1. (PTI)
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Hiddleston brushes off questions about Taylor Swift
Submitted by Shamsher Singh on Tue, 07/12/2016 - 09:29
Queensland, July 12 : British actor Tom Hiddleston has laughed off questions about his girlfriend Taylor Swift. He is here to start shooting "Thor: Ragnarok", in which he reprises his role as Loki, and has been joined in by Swift.
The "Avengers" star was jogging along Broadbeach on Australia's Gold Coast when a journalist approached him to ask him some impromptu questions about his pop star girlfriend, reports femalefirst. co. uk.
Hiddleston, 35, seemed embarrassed when the journalist asked: "Is Taylor Swift the one?"
He then laughed nervously before replying: "I would rather just talk about my work if that's alright."
Hiddleston was then asked by the reporter how Swift was enjoying her time in Australia, to which he responded: "I'm not going to answer that if that's alright."
The duo, who started dating last month, were also spotted enjoying a romantic meal at Italian restaurant Gemelli on the Gold Coast.(IANS)
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September 29, 2015 in Dr Who, Guest Blogs by GuestBlogs
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Last week I was more positive about Doctor Who than I had been in a while, I thought that The Magician’s Apprentice was an incredible episode and I still think it is. It’s not flawless by any means but it was a solid start and I was looking forward to seeing how they’d continue with what they’d set up here. Fast forward to now and I am, unfortunately, disappointed with how The Witch’s Familiar turned out. While it’s not a bad episode by any means I just feel that it fails to live up to my expectations which were understandably high after The Magician’s Apprentice. Let’s start off with the elephant in the room, the Doctor usurping Davros from his chair. While a story this dark does require comic relief I feel that it could’ve been done in a better way than this. It undermines Davros as a villain, it doesn’t move the plot forward whatsoever and it takes time away that could’ve been used to flesh out that conclusion. Admittedly the dodgems line was funny but the scene was so jarring tonally that it just left a bitter taste in my mouth. Also, the Doctor just took away a dying mans life support so that he could go for a joy ride, that is not in character for him at all. Admittedly we did have a similar scene last week with the Doctor playing a guitar but I felt that worked better as it didn’t undermine the villain and didn’t seem too out of character for the Doctor.
Anyway, let’s be a bit more positive now and talk about what did work such as Missy. Still not the biggest fan of hers but it felt like this episode knew what to do with her. She was downright evil but you couldn’t help but love her for it. She wasn’t trying to take over the universe or anything like that, she was just messing with the Doctor but in a far better way than in Death in Heaven. Trapping Clara in a Dalek and then trying to get the Doctor to kill her was genius and was the most tense scene I’d experienced in Doctor Who for a long time. My heart was racing and the Doctor had a look in his eye that showed he could’ve done anything. It was also a nice call back to Asylum of the Daleks and it was wonderfully played by Jenna Coleman. Clara and Missy also had quite a nice double act going on earlier but the comedy didn’t jar with the tone unlike a certain other scene which I won’t go on about again.
The Dalek sewers were an interesting idea and the sequences in them were quite well done. The design as great too and the way that Missy defeated the Dalek down there was quite cool too. Not so sure about her accent there though. I also think it was nice that they weren’t just a background detail and that they actually came into play in a big way at the end there, being a key part of the resolution itself. Plus, the revolting sewers line was great. The only problem with their involvement in the resolution is that it makes Davros seem rather foolish to have overlooked them. That and the fact that the Daleks can fly so most of them could have easily escape the destruction of the city. Another minor problem is Colony Sarff really intriguing last week but this week there was no explanation as to what exactly he was and he’s ultimately a repeat of the Whispermen, a very good idea but nothing really beyond that.
Another thing that annoyed me is that the episode never tackled the moral dilemma that should’ve been at the heart of it all: is it right to kill a child who will grow up to be a mass murderer? The last episode set that up so nicely but this episode threw that idea away. The older Davros scenes seem to have slipped too. Last episode Steven Moffat understood Davros perfectly and his speech about the Daleks at the end proved that. This episode, he doesn’t completely ruin him by any means but he misses the potential that was there from last time and makes this feel like just another Davros episode as there are no real consequences. Davros makes a full recovery and what was that whole thing about the Daleks getting regeneration energy? The threat there was never really explored because too much time was being wasted and because of this I just ended up not really caring. The Daleks honestly posed no threat at all here and their plan only really came in to play right at the end of the episode, quite shocking given that it’s the second part of a two part story. We never got an explanation as to why there were classic Daleks there either which is annoying. Then there was a prophecy randomly thrown in there which I totally missed the first time around. I mean what in the world was that all about? Hopefully it’ll be explained at some point as part of an ongoing arc or something.
Overall, The Witch’s Familiar has a lot wrong with it and while it pains me to do this I can give it no higher than a six-out-of-ten. It was too disconnected from the previous half and failed to live up to it as well. The two parter as a whole felt like Steven Moffat was just throwing too many ideas at a wall and seeing what would stick and so what we end up with is a rather poorly constructed but somewhat enjoyable story. Hopefully Toby Whithouse can do better next week with the first of another two part story, Under the Lake. With ghosts and time travel it certainly seems promising but until we see it next week be sure to sound off your thoughts on the episode in the comments below.
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3 thoughts on “Doctor Who: Initial Reactions to The Witch’s Familiar”
Darth_Namialus says:
I liked the episode, even though it did have some flaws. Especially Colony Sarff. When the episode finished I was confused about what the point of him was. I guess I expected more from him than I should have, and maybe he was JUST meant to be a cool background plot point to Davros, but it seemed like there was going to be more with him.
Missy was the highlight as always. Her dialogue is so witty. And I agree that the scene with her telling the Doctor to kill Dalek-Clara was really awesome and tense. But I feel like the Doctor would have caught her lying sooner…
As for the Daleks getting regeneration energy, I bet we’ll see this again. The episode ended with a scene between Missy and the Daleks and Davros not dying. I don’t think this story arc is completely over yet and we’ll probably see it again in the finale, I hope.
Hevy782 says:
It would be interesting to have the two part finale play into this and almost end up being a four part story in spirit.
That’s what I think too. A return of Missy and the Daleks in the finale, with possible ties to Gallifrey.
Kind of like what they did in Season 6, when it all tied back in the finale.
IDK, I just think the story with Davos and regeneration energy and all is far too big for just what happened in these two episodes, especially with the Missy cliffhanger.
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author PP date 05/08/16 venue BETA, Copenhagen, DEN
Today is the opening day of what has become an annual tradition of sorts, the Dirty Days of Summer festival, which takes place in and outside of BETA in Copenhagen. The square in front of the venue opens early each day with outdoor DJs, a bar, and tasty food, plus plenty of seating, ensuring cozy surroundings that make for an ideal way to spend your afternoon and early evening provided the weather holds. Afterward, most people head inside for a set of solid bands booked after a theme each night. Tonight, we're in hardcore mode, with three very different sounding foreign bands on the menu: melodic hardcore stalwarts Defeater from the US, up-and-coming hardcore punkers Giants from the UK, and post-metal influenced atmospheric hardcore group Young Mountain from our neighboring Sweden have all lined up to open the festival in a piercing manner.
At this point, I have to also send an extra bit of kudos to the venue because having the opening band start at 19:15, and the headliners at just past 9pm is something we should be seeing more often in Denmark. It's simply awesome that you are left with all options open when the headliner is done at a little over 10pm. Wanna go for drinks somewhere else? Go ahead. Stay at the venue to talk about the shows for an hour or two? No problem. Wanna head straight to bed? Also possible.
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Tonight's first artist is Young Mountain from Gothenburg. As the stage baths in dark blue light, they quickly make clear they are not your ordinary hardcore band. With considerable influence from post-metal and screamo, the band's brand of atmospheric hardcore is best characterized by its immersive soundscapes and lengthy buildups that lead into climactic moments of energy. The screams - which echo 90s screamo bands like Orchid and Saetia - are loud as fuck, and together with expansive guitar melodies ensure those without earplugs are in for a rough night. On stage, their vocalist is engaged in a waving back-and-forth movement with his body during the (relatively) calmer verses but goes mental when the buildups are released in intense explosions of post-metallic melody. Kneeling down in one moment, waving the mic stand during next, he ensures Young Mountain's performance is as intense as it comes in this genre. In an even smaller venue, late at night, this would've been epic. Tonight, as the opening band, there's too few people to appreciate their music or what they are trying to achieve. A commendable effort, that suggests we'll hear much more to these guys in the future.
GIANTS are arguably the most different band out of the three tonight. Having just released their debut album "Break The Cycle", these guys first appeared on the UK scene back in 2012 with "These Are The Days". They play relatively straight up hardcore punk Comeback Kid style, just with plenty of clean vocals in place of the screamed lead vocal style. "Come closer, I can't see your faces", their vocalists asks early on, and we happily oblige, given the high-energy opening they've just shown us. Their guitarist is throwing scissor kicks in every direction; rest of the band is following suit though not in quite as spectacular fashion. A few songs later, however, their set begins to take a more generic flavor. Not only does the vocalist look exceptionally tired (long tour?) and like he is on autopilot, but their songs are kind of samey and blend together too easily on first listen. The intensity factor is surprisingly low considering how fast their hardcore punk is, especially compared to the heartfelt and passionate performance by Young Mountain just before. As a result, the set rapid descends into one of those altogether decent, however, forgettable displays of another day in the office.
There was so much potential with this song. 75% packed venue, and from the opening moments Defeater vocalist Derek Archambault sings a capella without the microphone and finds himself within the audience, La Dispute style. In normal circumstances that should provide a spark to the crowd and result in an intense dynamic where pits erupt left and right, people throw themselves against the stage in desperate attempts to scream a few lyrics into the mic at Archambault's grace. Yet despite the band's passionate, high-energy performance on stage, that dynamic is noticeably missing throughout the show, with only "Empty Glass" seeing any action describable as such, with people otherwise mostly standing still. On a Friday night as well! What is going on here?
In the meantime, the band is doing their very best to put on a display of melodic hardcore at its best. The slower songs like "Unanswered" shine with their quirky vocal rhythm patterns that echo La Dispute's poetic hardcore, whereas "Bastards" draws a small chant along from the crowd. Looking at Archambault on stage, it's very clear this guy lives and breathes hardcore from the way he performs and paces left and right while eager to share the mic with anyone who wants to come up front. One fan joins for "Dear Father" - which also sees a brief chant along from the crowd - but again it is "Empty Glass" that is the highlight of the set with fans rushing to the front of the stage, followed by "The Red, White and Blues" starting a small circle pit up front. At 40 minutes, however, the set feels awfully short, especially with zero interaction from the band members in between songs. And without interaction, the mood in the crowd is resigned, leaving behind a set that feels anonymous, and at the very least fails to highlight the reasons why Defeater are a great melodic hardcore band. Comparing the atmosphere here to some of their peers - say Touché Amoré, Comeback Kid, or even The Ghost Inside - on their respective shows in Copenhagen, those have been totally different in terms of intensity than tonight. Shame.
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Please find a biography on each of our three extension officers below, with a fourth extension officer likely to be contracted in the coming months.
Tim Johnston joined the VSTWP as Extension Officer for the Southern Corangamite region in June 2016. He has a Bachelor of Agricultural Science (LaTrobe University) and a Post Graduate Certificate in Climate Change (University of Melbourne), and 17 years of employment at the Department of Primary Industries (1995-2012) as a research scientist, project manager and extension officer.
His main work area has been soil and water science and grain crop agronomy in south west Victoria, with particular emphasis on the management of waterlogged soils and soil health.
Since leaving the department, he began his own environmental consultancy to provide research and extension support, technical skills and advice to farming groups, government and like-minded community organisations in soil and land management.
Based in Geelong, he has developed wide-ranging networks within Agricultural and Natural Resource Management based groups in the south-west Victoria and has a good rapport with landholders. Tim is passionate about promoting more sustainable Australian agricultural systems through improved soil and land management practices.
For recreation Tim enjoys cruising the coast of the Bellarine Peninsula on his road bike, meandering down some muddy tracks on his mountain bike or walking along the Barwon River with his dog and kids in tow.
Roger MacRaild
Roger MacRaild is the most experienced extension officer at the VSTWP and has been running his environmental consultancy for over 5 years. He has a diverse range of skills and experience, including contracts with the Moorabool Landcare Network Facilitator, Victorian Serrated Tussock Extension Officer, Melbourne Water Stream Frontage Assessor and the Rowsley Landcare Group seasonal project officer.
Prior to consulting, Roger was with the Department of Primary Industries (now Ag Vic within DEDJTR) for over 5 years as an Incursions Controller for High Risk Invasive Plants, and Biosecurity Leader for Serrated Tussock. Roger also has experience as a Bushland Team-leader in the City of Whittlesea, Bush Firefighter with DSE, with various spray/revegetation companies, and as a research assistant at Deakin University.
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Ivan joined the VSTWP as the Executive Officer whilst working for the Department of Primary Industries in Kyneton in 2011-2012. Since leaving the State Government, Ivan has begun a private consulting business and has been contracting as an Extension Officer for the past four years with the VSTWP. During this time, he has conducted extension projects in Clarkfield, Riddells Creek, Sunbury, Gisborne and Bullengarook and provided one to one extension to over 1000 land owners for serrated tussock infestations.
Having studied his undergraduate Applied Science degree at Federation University, he completed a post graduate masters degree at RMIT in Environmental Planning and Sustainability. He worked for the Department of Primary Industries for seven years before leaving to start consulting in Environmental Projects across the State, including Community Engagement Officer at the VSTWP and Wildlife Surveyor with Wombat forestcare.
Ivan has represented the VSTWP at many events, conferences and field days across the state and has an in depth understanding of the biological and treatment options available for serrated tussock. He has produced TV Commercial, Radio Advertisements and conducted evaluation on behalf of the VSTWP and currently manages the VSTWP website and communication activities.
His other interests include gardening, soccer obsessions and getting out into the wilderness as often as possible.
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How tennis got its scoring system from the clock
As you watch the games rack up at Wimbledon this week, do you ever wonder why the scoring goes 15, 30, 40, rather than 15, 30, 45? I remember watching my first ever game as a child, confused as to why a player's third winning shot was deemed less valuable than their first two. One of those things you just learn to ignore - but it turns out there's a very timely explanation ...
It all goes back to the game's origins in medieval France. Computerised dot-matrix display boards being something of a rarity back then, the score was kept by moving the hands of a clock. Your first point got you to quarter past, your second to the half hour, your third to quarter to, and when you finally got back to the top of the hour you'd won the game. These first three scores, then, were given the values 15, 30 and 45.
But then the rule was introduced about having to win by two clear points. So the 45 was moved back to 40, and the new ‘advantage' point was inserted at 50 (or ten to the hour). The word ‘deuce' (40 all) comes from the French ‘a deux le jeu', meaning ‘to both the game' - in other words the scores are level.
‘Love', meanwhile, derives from ‘l'oeuf' - because a zero is egg-shaped. Very similar to the explanation for the term ‘duck' in cricket - a batsman who gets out without scoring has just earned himself a duck egg.
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A London double decker bus can lean further from the vertical without falling over than a human can. What a great way of learning about centres of gravity. The reason a Routemaster can lean so far is that there's a great long strip of pig-iron welded to its base, keeping you top-deckers safe as you go round corners. If you want reassuring photographic evidence, click here
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Xiangqi (Chinese Chess) Matches with English Commentaries
Written by Jim Png
One of the best ways to learn Xiangqi is to see how the experts conduct their games. If there were commentaries to help explain the moves or even better, the line of thought behind each move, it would be a pleasure to view a good game that has been played. It would also be the best way to pick the mind of a master or grandmaster and see how he/she approached a particular position.
While there are literally tens of thousands of matches with commentaries in Chinese, matches with English commentaries are still a relative rarity in Xiangqi. This issue is one that the Webmaster has strived to change for the past decade to the best of his abilities. Over the years Webmaster has translated the commentaries for dozens of actual matches over the years.
The work that the Webmaster has done translating Xiangqi commentaries into English is presented into two versions: the CCBridge (interactive version) and videos which also have been posted on Youtube.
Interactive Xiangqi Boards (CCbridge Version)
The Xiangqi boards listed in this version are interactive. It means that you can view the games by pressing on the arrow buttons below the viewer. If there is a comment, it will appear on the box on the right. Variations and subvariations can be viewed on the right lower box if they exist.
This form of learning is best suited for folks who want to slowly appreciate and savour each game like a delicacy.
Note: For mobile users, it is best to view the Xiangqi CCbridge boards horizontally for the best viewing experience. The Webmaster apologizes for the fact that he does not know how to change the width or internal settings of CCbridge.
The links below will lead to pages full of commentated games by the Webmaster. It is perhaps the largest collection of commentated games in English on the Web. Click on to enjoy!
Uploads from 2012 (71 boards uploaded): 01 02 03 04 05 06 07
Uploads from 2013 (63 boards uploaded): 01 02 03 04 05 06
Uploads from 2014 (25 boards uploaded): 01 02 03
Uploads from 2015 (35 boards uploaded): 01 02 03 04
Selected best 5 games from 1959-1983.
Uploads in 2020: 01
Annotated Games by IM Chao Ifan
There are still several files of commentated games that the Webmaster has done but has yet to find at this point. These games with precious commentaries will be uploaded when they are located.
Short videos with English Commentaries on Youtube
For people who prefer to just sit back, munch on popcorn and just watch, the videos on Youtube with English Commentaries would be the best option.
Making a video takes up much more time than just showing the boards so there is much less content here.
There is also a video playlist on Youtube which is given below. The list of commentated videos will grow. If you like the work that the Webmaster has done, please give a thumbs up and like the videos so that he will have a direction or know what type of videos to better prepare!
What happens after watching the videos or CCbridge viewers?
For questions on openings, be sure to check out the Opening Section which the Webmaster is trying his best to fill in content.
For questions on endgames, please check out Tu Jingming's endgame dictionary on this website.
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Angels pitcher found dead in Texas hotel room
ARLINGTON, Tx. – Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs passed away earlier Monday, July 1, in Texas.
Skaggs has been with the Angels since 2012 and is from California.
The Southlake Police Department responded to a call of an unconscious male in a room in the Hilton hotel at 1400 Plaza Place.
The deceased was identified as Skaggs, 27.
At this time, no foul play is suspected and the investigation is ongoing, according to police.
The Angels organization released a statement Monday.
“It is with great sorrow that we report Tyler Skaggs passed away earlier today in Texas. Tyler has, and always will be, an important part of the Angels family. Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife Carli and his entire family during this devastating time.”
The Angels were set to play the Texas Rangers on Monday but since was postponed and will be rescheduled at a later date.
The Angels had another pitcher, Nick Adenhart, that died 10 years ago. He died in April 2009 in a car crash, just hours after being the starting pitcherin a game.
Skaggs pitched Saturday night against the Athletics.
Skaggs posted on Instagram Sunday, June 30, after the team made it to Texas.
tskaggs45 Howdy
Man’s body found in harbor off Bayshore Park in Charlotte County
New law aims to stop street racing in its tracks
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Circus bear attacks handler during show
10:10 AM EDT, Fri October 25, 2019
CNN – A circus bear attacked its handler during a show in Russia Wednesday, with spectators sitting nearby.
The traveling show took place in the town of Olonets in the Republic of Karelia, a region in northwest Russia, according to state-run news agency TASS. The muzzled bear was performing in a circus tent full of seated spectators, including children, in an act called “Clubfoot and the Garden Wheelbarrow,” according to state broadcaster Vesti News.
Video taken of the attack shows the bear pushing a wheelbarrow, then following its handler across the mat, walking upright. Then it lunges, knocking the handler to the ground, CNN reports.
Another circus staff member rushes over, kicking the bear in the flank and shoulder. There are screams from the audience members, who are sitting close to the ring with no barrier in between.
The bear was subdued, TASS reported. Neither the handler nor the audience members were injured.
A spokeswoman from the circus said the bear belonged to the handler, and that the act was cut from the show.
“There is nothing serious, the artist is alright, the bear is alright, nobody killed the bear because the animal is not to blame,” She said, according to TASS.
Circus representatives also suggested to TASS that the bear could have attacked because it was frightened by flash photography from the audience.
Karelia officials are investigating the incident. Gennady Saraev, Karelia’s human and children’s rights commissioner, told TASS he would examine the existing legislation surrounding public safety at events like these.
Circus animal acts have come under scrutiny in recent years, with many accusing the shows of animal exploitation and abuse. Many parts of the United States have banned animal acts outright.
Animal circus shows have a long history in Russia and remain popular today. Still, a city mayor in southern Russia banned circuses that use wild animals in May for ethical reasons, according to state-run newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
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Former UC Irvine student accused of impersonating doctor at Orange County hospitals
By ABC7.com staff
ORANGE, Calif. (KABC) -- A former UC Irvine student has been charged with impersonating a doctor. Authorities said the 23-year-old posed as a doctor at two Orange County hospitals.
The Orange County District Attorney's Office said Ariya Ouskouian diagnosed a patient about a growth on his neck on May 3 at a consult room at the UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange.
When hospital staff members became suspicious and requested verification of his doctor status, Ouskouian allegedly provided the name of a UCI personnel, the DA's office said.
Ouskouian is also accused of impersonating a doctor at Children's Hospital of Orange County seven different times between April 23 and June 4.
According to the district attorney's office, Ouskouian told CHOC security personnel that he was a doctor and claimed he lost his hospital badge to get a temporary one to gain access to restricted floors of the hospital.
UCI released the following statement:
"UCI cooperated with the Orange Police Department and the Orange County District Attorney's Office in this investigation. There is no indication the person impersonating a physician compromised UCI Health patient records or saw patients at UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange or at UCI Health outpatient physician offices. This person was not affiliated in any way with UCI's school of medicine or residency program."
CHOC also released a statement:
"We notified California Department of Public Health and several law enforcement agencies, as well as assisted in alerting area hospitals when we discovered an individual was trying to pose as a resident. During limited time on our campus, we believe this individual did not interact with any of our patients. The individual did not have any access to patient health information. Out of deference to the prosecution and defense of this matter, we will not provide any additional details."
Ouskouian was charged on Tuesday with the following counts: providing medical diagnosis while impersonating a doctor (a felony); and 8 counts of misrepresenting oneself as a licensed medical practitioner (misdemeanors).
If convicted, Ouskouian faces up to 11 years in prison. The case is being investigated by the Orange Police Department.
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