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In Big Win for Trump, U.S. Sanctions Cripple Iranian Oil Exports
September 18, 2018 EnergyNow Media
Sep 18, 2018, by Javier Blas
(Bloomberg)
Aggressive and undiplomatic, certainly, but also extremely effective. With nearly 50 days to go before new U.S. oil sanctions against Iran enter into force, President Donald Trump has already managed to crush the country’s petroleum exports, dealing severe economic damage to Tehran.
Iranian oil exports have plunged about 35 percent since April, the month before Trump ripped up the diplomatic deal that Barack Obama negotiated to curtail Tehran’s nuclear program and announced new oil sanctions.
“Iranian oil exports are coming down pretty hard,” said Roger Diwan, a veteran oil analyst at consultant IHS Markit Ltd.
The bigger-than-expected reduction, with more to come, is a win for Trump, who made a tougher stance on Iran a cornerstone of his foreign policy and imposed the sanctions despite opposition in Europe and open hostility from China and India, the top buyers of Iranian crude. When the sanctions were first announced, their unilateral nature prompted many in the oil market to question their effectiveness.
Oil accounts for nearly 80 percent of Iran’s tax revenue, according to the International Monetary Fund, making petroleum the regime’s economic lifeblood. As oil exports have plunged, Iran’s currency — the rial — has dived 60 percent on the unofficial market, pushing up inflation.
While the success of sanctions will help Trump put pressure on Iran, there may be a less welcome side effect: higher oil prices for U.S. consumers in the run-up to November’s mid-term elections.
The sanctions are reverberating through the global oil market, pushing benchmark Brent oil above $80 a barrel last week. Even though Russia and Saudi Arabia, which have cooperated closely in oil over the last two years, have offset some of the impact by boosting their own output, traders are betting it won’t be sufficient to replace all the losses from Iran.
“The physical market has clearly tightened, reinforcing the bullish narrative on geopolitical and supply risks,” said Thibaut Remoundos, founder of Commodities Trading Corporation Ltd. who’s been trading oil for more than 20 years.
It’s not just the headline oil price that shows the market impact of U.S. sanctions. As oil refiners from China to France scramble to find alternative supplies, they are pushing up the prices of crudes that can substitute for lost Iranian shipments.
Russia’s Urals blend, for example, is trading at its highest premium to the Brent benchmark since the beginning of the year. Chinese refiners recently bought large amounts of Urals from the port of Rotterdam, an unusually long voyage. Oman crude is also unusually expensive, and Basrah Light of Iraq is selling better than usual.
The unilateral American sanctions, which formally only take effect on Nov 4., have scared buyers in Europe and Asia, including Japan and India. In the first two weeks of September, Iran sold an average of 1.6 million barrels a day, down from 2.5 million barrels a day in April, according to Bloomberg tanker tracking.
A group of oil-market analysts predicted in April that sanctions wouldn’t cut exports by more than 800,000 barrels a day.
Even though European countries opposed Trump’s actions, and have reassured Iran’s government that they want the nuclear deal to continue, European refiners have had little choice but to comply with sanctions. Washington can cut off access to the U.S. financial system for any company judged to be doing business with Iran.
With early indications that European nations and Japan will stop buying Iranian crude altogether next month, the country’s exports can easily drop another 350,000 barrels a day by November, down to about 1.3 million barrels a day. South Korea, a major importer of Iranian crude in the past, hasn’t shipped any oil from Iran for 75 days.
Iran isn’t just losing customers for its crude, like it did under earlier sanctions from 2012 to 2015, but also for condensate, a form of super-light oil used mostly in the petrochemical industry. With South Korea not buying any, total Iranian exports of condensate dropped in the first half of September to 175,000 barrels a day, down more than 40 percent from April.
The earlier-than-expected decline in both crude and condensate exports appears to be a reaction to U.S. banking and shipping insurance sanctions that went into effect over the summer.
“The first wave of sanctions in August sent the message to the market that the U.S. was serious, and I think has resulted in these early cuts to Iranian exports ahead of the Nov. 4 implementation of oil sanctions,” said Joe McMonigle, energy analyst at Hedgeye Risk Management LLC and a former senior official at the U.S. Energy Department.
Iran has tried to offset some of the impact by offering China and India, two countries likely to keep buying at least some oil, to ship the crude using its own tankers at no extra cost, effectively giving New Delhi and Beijing a small discount. So far, it doesn’t appear to be working: in the first two weeks of September, India has loaded just 240,000 barrels a day of Iranian oil, less than half the usual amount.
In the starkest sign that buyers are running away, Iran is now starting to store unsold crude in supertankers, a practice known as floating storage that it also used during the Obama-era sanctions.
According to Bloomberg tanker tracker data, Iran now has four supertankers carrying about 7 million barrels of crude anchored off its main export terminals for at least seven days. Another two tankers with 3 million barrels of condensate are anchored offshore the port of Jebel Ali in Dubai.
The dramatic decline in Iran’s exports will figure in the deliberations of ministers from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and other oil producers in the so-called OPEC+ group when they meet this weekend in Algiers.
Iran is a “very important producer and exporter” of oil, OPEC Secretary-General Mohammad Barkindo said on Tuesday. “When you have major producers facing supply challenges, it’s of concern” for OPEC and consumers alike, he said.
Saudi Arabia, OPEC’s largest exporter, is ready to accept oil prices above $80 barrel because of the sudden drop off from Iran, according to people familiar with the views of the country. Benchmark Brent traded near $79 a barrel on Tuesday in London.
Despite the initial success, the White House is still far away from its official aim of cutting Iran’s oil revenues to “zero.” But there are reasons to think exports could plunge lower still.
After Nov 4., even the countries that continue buying Iranian oil will struggle to transfer the money back to Tehran, potentially stranding billions of dollars in revenues overseas and forcing Iran into barter deals that swap crude for other goods, traders said. In that way, oil exports will remain above zero, but Iran will receive only a portion of the revenues.
“The loss of Iranian exports is gaining pace,” said Amrita Sen, chief oil analyst at Energy Aspects Ltd. “This has led to a rise in floating storage off Iran and onshore storage is nearly full.”
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Suits recap: Season 6, Episode 9
Harvey and Mike take care of Frank once and for all, and Louis' relationship with Tara takes a turn
By Chancellor Agard
September 07, 2016 at 10:33 PM EDT
Credit: Ian Watson/USA Network
Wow, Suits was really testing our patience tonight by dragging out Mike’s release until the very end of the episode. Look, I get that the show had stories it had to tie up like Frank Gallo and Kevin, but, if I’m being honest, those were things I didn’t really care about. Throughout the episode, I found myself thinking “Can Mike be released already so we can get back to sexy, fashionable lawyer time?” because we knew it was coming. But, let’s make like Louis when he goes mudding and dive right into tonight’s episode.
That’s right, the episode opens with Louis mudding with Donna to take his mind off of Tara, who is spending time with her boyfriend, Joshua. Louis knows that if he doesn’t find a way to occupy himself, he’ll do something stupid to ruin everything he has going with Tara. It’s important for him to realize that, at this moment, there’s still a chance things could go his way and there’s no point in stressing out about it.
Louis isn’t alone in feeling stressed about things out of his control. Mike’s release papers still haven’t gone through and each minute he remains in prison puts his life in jeopardy because someone can find out he informed on his roommate — which, in case you’ve forgotten, would lead to Mike getting a one-way ticket to Shiv City in prison. All Mike needs to do is keep his head down until the paperwork is filed… but, we all know Mike, and that’s something he cannot do.
Kevin tells Mike that Sean Cahill is coming after everything Jill has earned, which wasn’t part of the deal. So, Mike takes it upon himself to solve this problem and starts working on a plan to get Kevin out with him. Having a bleeding heart like Mike’s is all well and good until you start doing stuff that jeopardizes your own deal like. You know, like, threatening to sue Sean (a.k.a. the man who holds your fate in his hand) for abusing his power unless he backs off of Kevin. Instead, Sean threatens to pull Mike’s deal.
Meanwhile, Harvey is preparing for Frank’s upcoming parole hearing, which he’s half-heartedly working on to keep Mike safe while he’s still locked up. However, his old boss Cameron Dennis (guest-star extraordinaire Gary Cole) catches wind of the the hearing and does everything in his power to stop it from going through. He refuses to let a monster like Frank back out onto the streets. Harvey finds himself in a bit of a bind because the parole board wants him, as the man who put Frank away all those years ago, to take the stand and swear under oath that he believes Frank has been rehabilitated. So, his options are perjury or telling the truth and condemning Mike.
Lest we not forget, Jessica and Rachel are also fighting for a man’s freedom. They manage to convince the judge to reopen the case after Jessica, ever the badass that she is, strong arms Leonard Bailey’s public defender into admitting negligence during the first case. Not wishing to have another retrial, the prosecutor presents Leonard with a deal of only serving five more years.
NEXT: Free at last.
Now, Jessica is forced to decide whether or not to advise Leonard to take the deal or risk a jury finding him guilty on retrial and him being executed. Here is where Rachel and Jessica butt heads. Obviously, Rachel thinks Leonard needs to fight this, but Jessica has been through this situation before and doesn’t want to make the same mistake again. Experience vs. youthful passion for justice; it’s a similar dynamic to Harvey and Mike.
The day comes for Harvey to testify in front of the board, but a last-minute save from Mike protects him from perjuring himself. Cameron Dennis calls Mike to the stand and Mike tells the board about all of the crap Frank has been pulling since he got to prison. Obviously, the parole board is horrified by the details and denies his parole. In return for Mike’s testimony at the hearing, Cameron agrees to commute Kevin’s sentence.
Meanwhile, Leonard decides to go to retrial rather than take the deal because he wants to be able to tell his daughter he’s innocent. Moved by Rachel’s passion, Jessica tracks down Leonard’s daughter and brings her to visit her father before he goes to trial. It’s a rare moment of benevolence from Jessica.
The episode ends with two couples reuniting. Tara pays Louis a visit at the office and tells him that she turned down Joshua’s marriage proposal because her feelings for Louis were too strong. That’s music to Louis’ ears. Then, there’s Mike and Rachel. Mike is released from Danbury in the same suit he wore when he checked in, and he finds Rachel waiting for him outside of the gate.
How did you guys feel about Mike’s time in prison? At times, it was interesting, but it shook the show up a bit too much, so it’s good it’s ending where it did. I’m looking forward to seeing how Mike readjusts to his post-lawyer life.
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Useful Websites to Support Mental Health and Well-being
Devon Integrated Children’s Services (ICS): School staff and parents are encouraged to access the ICS Single Point of Access by phone (0330 024 5321) or look on the website (www.devon.integratedchildrensservices.co.uk) for any queries regarding the services, or referrals.
Directory of Devon services and organisations: This is a directory of Devon services and organisations supporting children and families (www.pinpointdevon.co.uk)
Support for feelings around suicide;
Papyrus - Prevention of Young suicide - including ‘how can I get help?’ and a help line. (www.papyrus-uk.org)
Hector’s House - Suicide support, links and advice, signposting for helplines, with a particular focus on supporting young men. (www.hectorshouse.org.uk)
Heads Together - promoting the benefits of talking about difficult thoughts and feelings as well a lots of other Mental Health resources. (www.headstogether.org.uk)
Building Self-esteem and Confidence;
Dove Self-Esteem Project - Confident Me, a set of free, evidence-based resources for teachers and schools to run body confidence workshops, aimed at 11-14 year olds. (www.dove.com/uk/dove-self-esteem-project.html)
Human Utopia - Primary school aged courses aimed at inspiring children to be ‘their own unique selves’. (www.humanutopia.com)
Self Esteem Team – Run talks in secondary schools promoting positivity and self-esteem. (www.selfesteemteam.org)
Counselling support;
Kooth - anonymous online counselling for secondary age young people, access to forums on relevant topics that are overseen by the Kooth team & advice and tips on staying mentally healthy (www.kooth.com)
Young Devon - Offering counselling support for secondary school aged children. (www.youngdevon.org)
Parental support;
Young Minds – A charity promoting awareness of and information about mental health difficulties in young people, with online information and resources for young people and parents and a parent helpline. (www.youngminds.org.uk)
CAFCASS - Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service, look after the interests of children involved in family proceedings. www.cafcass.gov.uk has information for young people and parents/ carers.
Bis-net Behaviour Support Service – Offering a range of workshops for parents and carers. (www.bis-net.org.uk)
Gingerbread – A charity for single parent families, running online forums, advice and single parent groups. (www.gingerbread.org.uk)
Depression and Anxiety Service for Adults – from Devon Partnership NHS Trust, including self-referral information. (www.dpt.nhs.uk/our-services/depression-and-anxiety-das)
Family Lives - Parenting and family support including online resources, forums and helpline. (www.familylives.org.uk)
Devon Family Group Conference Plus Team (previously Family Solutions Service) - (https://new.devon.gov.uk/educationandfamilies/family-support/family-group-conference-plus)
Helping families to access local services;
Home Start - A family support charity helping families with young children offering home visits, groups, and helping families to access local services. (www.home-start.org.uk)
Families facing Homelessness;
Exeter Community Initiatives - A charity in Exeter and Devon, helping people facing inequality, homelessness and coping on a low income. (www.eci.org.uk)
Families facing abuse and domestic violence support and systems;
SAFE (Stop Abuse For Everyone) - Helpful information and resources. (www.safe-services.org.uk)
SPLITZ (Devon Domestic Abuse Support Services) - A service to support families with Domestic Violence. (www.splitz.org/devon.html)
Child Assault Prevention UK - (www.safestrongfree.org.uk) Work to understand how to reduce children’s vulnerability to child abuse and build safer communities.
Operation Encompass - Police and Education early intervention safeguarding partnership which supports children and young people exposed to domestic abuse by reporting to schools before the start of the next school day when a child or young person has been involved or exposed to a domestic abuse incident the previous evening, in confidence to the school’s key adult. (www.operationencompass.org)
Local support groups for families;
The Project - An East Devon group based early intervention support for young people, parents and carers, together working towards better mental health. (theprojectyp.org.uk)
Haven Exmouth - Providing groups for young people and parallel support groups for parents/carers, promoting positive ways to look after your mental health, run through the Open Door project. (www.opendoorexmouth.org.uk/our-projects/haven)
Mental Health awareness/guidance, useful websites;
Mind – Provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem, including information about mental health, guides to support services, online community and links to local Mind support. (www.mind.org.uk)
Mental Health Foundation – Information about looking after your mental health. (www.mentalhealth.org.uk)
Time to Change – Movement to end mental health discrimination. (www.time-to-change.org.uk)
Youth Mental Health First Aid Training - Helps to identify need, and when further support may be necessary. (www.mhfaengland.org)
Gender Diversity;
Stonewall & Young Stonewall – Campaigning for everyone to feel free to be who they are. (www.stonewall.org.uk / www.youngstonewall.org.uk)
LGBT Foundation – A charity providing a wide range of support services to lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people, including a helpline and email support. (lgbt.foundation)
Mermaids - Support gender diversity and trans-gender children, with support and resources for young people, parents/carers and professionals. (www.mermaidsuk.org.uk)
Proud2Be - Support LGBTQIA+ people and their families; Through campaigning, delivering training, facilitating a youth project, a volunteer programme and groups and events throughout the year. (www.proud2be.co.uk)
Respite care;
CHICKS breaks - Free residential activity weeks for vulnerable primary age children who will not access another holiday that year, building confidence and self-esteem and giving respite from potentially challenging experiences at home. (www.chicks.org.uk)
Additional support for children with special educational needs;
Cygnet & Early Bird training courses for parents/ carers with a child with a diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Condition. Early Bird (2-5 years) and Cygnet (5-7 years). Early Bird is run in Exeter, Cygnet is run regularly at venues across Devon. Parents need to contact the centre where their child received a diagnosis for information on how to book onto courses.
Devon Information Advice and Support for SEND (DIAS) – Impartial advice for parents around processes to support children with special educational needs, and children’s rights. (www.devonias.org.uk)
Using Autism Standards from the Autism Education Trust, supported by the Department of Education. (www.aettraininghubs.org.uk/schools/national-autism-standards)
Drug and Alcohol support;
Together Drug and Alcohol Service - Supporting those over 18 who wish to address their drug and alcohol use; support previously given by RISE (www.edp.org.uk/together-drug-alcohol-service)
YSmart - A Devon drug and alcohol service providing individual and group support for young people. (www.y-smart.org.uk)
Specialist support for boys/men;
Boys to Men Project - Aims to reduce the numbers of young men who become perpetrators of domestic abuse, with research and free resources on. (www.boystomenproject.com)
Support and resources for schools;
Emotional Logic - Free session from Babcock for primary and secondary schools, focusing on helping students manage feelings and move forward in their lives with strength and resilience. (www.emotoinallogiccentre.org.uk)
We Eat Elephants (for Primary Schools) - Programme run in schools focussing on helping young children understand what they are feeling and helping them to deal with current issues they may be facing. (www.weeatelephants.com)
Thrive approach - Run across the whole school, which helps us understand the needs being signalled by our students’ behaviour, and give us targeted strategies and activities to help our students’ emotional learning. (www.thriveapproach.com).
NSPCC Pantasaurus Campaign - Keeping children safe and supporting them to ‘help seek’ (www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/underwear-rule)
Mentally Healthy Schools Website - From the Heads Together Campaign, including lesson plans, assembly plans, whole school resources, PSHE resources & small group work. (www.mentallyhealthyschools.org.uk)
Coach Bright - Attainment raising programmes for primary and secondary schools, run by the University of Exeter, working to enable children to become independent and resilient learners (www.coachbright.org)
Mind Up - Sessions run in schools, with all ages participating – lesson programmes teaching activities including how the brain works in an interactive way, gratitude, mindfulness, perspective taking, including ‘brain break’ breathing exercises; for primary and up to KS3. (www.mindup.org/u-k/)
MindEd website – Free educational resource with information on children and young people’s mental health for all adults (for professionals, volunteers, parents and carers), funded by the Departments of Health & Education. (www.minded.org.uk)
Living Life to the Full (LLTTF) - For Secondary aged Students, Please contact your EH4MH Practitioner for more information or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Charlie Waller Memorial Trust - Delivering talks & training to young people and those who work with them about how to stay mentally well, with resources for schools, young people and parents/ carers; resources approved by Dr Pooky Knightsmith. (www.cwmt.org.uk)
Support for those with a family member in prison;
Choices Consultancy Service – Offering support for prisoners and their families, including children & young people, centred around prisons in the south west. (www.choiceshelpsfamilies.org.uk)
Support for children and families with eating disorders;
BEAT Eating Disorders – Information about eating disorders, including recovery information and young people’s help lines and web chat. (www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk)
Young carer support;
Young Carers Organisation - Offering resources and support on the ground for children living with an adult who needs Mental or Physical support. (youngcarers.org.uk)
Kids Time Foundation - Provide information, resources and support for children and young people who care for, or are affected by, a parent or sibling’s mental illness. (kidstimefoundation.org)
Ethnic minority support;
North Devon Sunrise Group – Support for ethnic minority groups. (www.northdevonsunrise.org)
Bereavement Services;
Winston's Wish – Supporting children bereaved of a parent or sibling, their families and the professionals who support them, including a free phone national help line, email service and resources. (www.winstonswish.org)
Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide (SOBS) – Support including; helpline, email support and local support groups, with information for survivors and professionals. (www.uksobs.org)
Hospice Care - Support offered for families where a family member is terminally poorly. (www.hospiceuk.org)
Jeremiah’s Journey; www.jeremiahsjourney.org.uk (Plymouth, and surrounding area).
Balloons; www.balloonscharity.co.uk (Exeter East and Mid).
Cruse Bereavement Care; www.cruse.org.uk (Devon Wide).
Force; www.forcecancercharity.co.uk (Exeter and East).
Children and Families in Grief; www.childrenandfamiliesingrief.co.uk (South Devon).
Internet Safety;
Common Sense Media – including family guides, parent concerns, especially on issues about media, including independent reviews, age ratings, with parent and educator sections. (www.commonsensemedia.org)
UK Safer Internet Centre – Advice for young people, parents/ carers, schools and governors. (www.saferinternet.org.uk)
NSPCC Online safety advice – In collaboration with O2, including advice, phone support and school resources and ‘net aware’, guide to social networks children and young people use. (www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/online-safety)
Childnet International – Advice for young people, parents/ carers and schools regarding internet safety. (www.childnet.com)
Internet Matters – Helping parents keep children safe online, also with information for schools. (www.internetmatters.org)
Get Safe Online – Information for parents / carers. (www.getsafeonline.org/safeguarding-children)
Thinkuknow – The education programme of CEOPS, aimed at empowering children and young people aged 5-17 to identify the risks they may face online and know where they can go for support. It has information for parents/ carers. (www.thinkuknow.co.uk)
Anti-terrorism support;
Prevent (Part of the government’s anti-terrorism strategy) - Prevent is a multi-agency approach to safeguard people at risk of radicalisation, aiming to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. (www.preventforschools.org)
Channel - Early intervention scheme across agencies, working to support people at risk of being drawn towards terrorism or violent extremism, by offering help to make positive choices about their lives. (www.ltai.info/what-is-channel)
Mindfulness Resources;
Mental Health Foundation – Information about mental health, including looking after your mental health (www.mentalhealth.org.uk) & mindfulness site. (www.bemindful.co.uk)
Go Noodle - A website designed to help children to ‘get moving’ with in the classroom. (www.gonoodle.com)
‘Just Breathe’- Videos for children to explain about relaxation, especially useful for primary school aged children. (www.mindfulschools.org)
Headspace - A resource full of mindfulness and relaxation sessions. (www.headspace.com/headspace-meditation-app)
Calm - Meditation and relaxation aid, with guided music and stories. (www.calm.com)
Smiling Mind - A web and app meditation programme. (www.smilingmind.com.au)
Breathe - A website will simple self-guided mediation techniques; (www.stopbreathethink.com)
Mindfulness in Schools - Project and resources with research basis for using mindfulness in schools. (www.mindfulnessinschools.org)
Mind Up! - Mindfulness sessions online with lesson programmes and teaching activities, including how the brain works in an interactive way, gratitude, mindfulness, perspective taking, including ‘brain break’ breathing exercises; for primary and up to KS3. (www.mindup.org/u-k)
Ollee - Ollee is a digital friend for children aged 8-11 funded by BBC Children in Need’s A Million & Me initiative, which aims to make a difference to children’s emotional wellbeing. (https://app.ollee.org.uk/)
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Concerts at Tipitina's and Preservation Hall, JazzFest at the Fairgrounds, and the French Quarter.
The F650GS safely parked at the Hilton Garden Inn with the Lake Pontchartrain levee in the background.
Patti arrived via the airport shuttle van 10 minutes after me.
Saturday night at Tipitina's
Thirsty from the long flight - Abita Amber Ale
North Mississippi All Stars on the Acura Stage
Folks staked out a spot at the Acura Stage early in the day.
Gotta watch out for that southern sun!
Galactic on the Samsung Galaxy Stage. We were the 'old' people at this concert!
Our landmark to return to our spot at the Acura Stage
Eric Clapton (on the Jumbo-tron)
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Mipo Odubeko (F West Ham b.2002)
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Thread: Mipo Odubeko (F West Ham b.2002)
11/01/2021, 7:13 PM #1
tetsujin1979
Dublin, originally from Limerick
Odubeko named on the bench for West Ham, Randolph starts in goal
All goals, yellow and red cards tweeted in real time on twitter and facebook
Odubeko gets a few minutes at the end of the game for west ham
Just looking for basic info on him, I found these:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-7241059/Manchester-United-fail-tie-teenage-goalscoring-sensation-Mipo-Odubeko-new-contract.html
https://www.the42.ie/mipo-odubeko-we...67317-Oct2019/
Last edited by tetsujin1979; 12/01/2021 at 10:24 AM. Reason: deactivated link to the mail
Covid-negative, maybe; I haven't checked.
12/01/2021, 9:48 AM #4
youngirish
Odubeko looks to be a really good prospect. Unfortunately there's some doubt on here on whether the will want to play for us if he does turn out to be good enough for England.
Diggs246
was he born in Ireland?
Born and raised in Dublin - https://www.whufc.com/news/articles/...-isle-east-end
elatedscum
Cabra as far as I’m aware
Surely he will either play for Nigeria or us?
ColourfulPeanut
Originally Posted by Diggs246
He's eligible for England if he spent 5 years there before he was 18, which he did. The same way Oko-Flex dabbled with England.
It's purely paranoid speculation coming from my snooping, but he wiped his Instagram of Ireland photos and follows England's account but not Ireland.
He played with Crumlin and is for all intents and purposes a Dub, but there's no way of telling what his national allegiance will be. If he's not in the U19s in March then I'd be worried.
12/01/2021, 4:02 PM #10
He turned 18 in October, do we know when he moved to the UK?
He was with Manchester United in 2016 - https://www.fai.ie/ireland/news/unde...-double-header - so he's there at least four years
Olé Olé
Seasoned Pro
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
As I posted in the under 23 thread:
The last I can find of him playing for St Joseph's is in 2015: http://dairewalsh.com/?p=3630
He would have been 12 at the time as he turned 18 in October 2020. He could have been schooled in England for 15/16, 16/17, 17/18, 18/19 and 19/20 before turning 18 in October 2020.
He was at Man City before Man United so, he could have moved to Man City (his first English club) in time to begin the 15/16 school year. That is what this Nigerian website reckon- he relocated to England with family at 12 in time for the 15/16 school year: https://www.allnigeriasoccer.com/rea...76126419175533
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Exgrad
His last appearances for Ireland were for friendlies against Finland in the build up to the u17 Euros in Ireland in 2019. So did he not make the squad for the tournament or was there something else? There was an u18 friendly and u19 qualifiers in late 2019 which he wasn't involved in, but otherwise no other opportunities due to Covid. Looks like his social media accounts are run by a management company now, so wouldn't read too much into them.
CraftyToePoke
Originally Posted by ColourfulPeanut
This is not good, whatever way you spin it. Not beyond rescue hopefully but a nationality wipe is harsh.
Eirambler
I would definitely be concerned about this lads commitment to us. It was strange at the time that he didn't make that Under 17 finals squad, as though possibly he asked not to be selected but it was never publicised. Wouldn't be at all surprised if he went with England for a while at least, agents are filling young players heads with the potential riches associated with being an England international these days. If he was only here until age 12 his affinity towards us might not be strong at all.
I suppose the question then is could be switch back in a few years time - was it just friendlies he played for us or did he play in any qualifiers for that under 17 tournament?
Keane O'Shea Given Best Long Cox
We were hosts for that u17 tournament so no competitive qualifiers.
Might be a player to try and fast track, rather than have him knocking about with u19s etc.
seanfhear
Originally Posted by Exgrad
Maybe he doesn’t want to play for us. After Rice and Grealish maybe we need to have a bit more self respect. Those two played the system and when England came calling were orf. The Irish National Team has to command some respect from the Irish People and Not be some sort of finnishing school for players that really want to play for England / Other.
Good point - I forgot we didn't have to qualify.
I guess we'll find out either way in the spring. Although England announced some underage squads not too long ago at various age groups and he wasn't included in any of them. At least if he does indeed want to play for another country there's a route back if he sees the error of his ways!
Originally Posted by seanfhear
100% The appeasement of Rice was mortifying. We degraded ourselves with Bamford as well, and I would have vomited if we had Redmond in our team after he played for England
Odubeko was born and raised in Ireland though, so it's a bit different. Irish is his primary nationality and likely his only passport at present.
It's complicated for the Irish-Nigerian lads though, they are likely the first generation of their family who is Irish, it's understandable to have different levels of affinity to the country.
Chiedozie Ogbene was in the same school as me, amazing gaelic football player and as big a Cork man as they come. He was adamant about representing Nigeria until a few years ago and changed his mind last year. Completely understandable for Odubeko to be undecided and uncommitted as yet.
14/01/2021, 3:00 AM #20
Charlie Darwin
Banned. Children Banned. Grandchildren Banned. 3 Months.
I think we would probably all benefit from not obsessing over every dual-national that comes along. The James McCarthy thread was ridiculous for about two years.
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3 Examples of E-mails to MPs
Mine to Sheryll Murray 20.10.18
Dear Sheryll Murray
I went on the march yesterday for a Peoples Vote where the estimate is 700, 000 people turned up from all corners of the country, from all walks of life including a large group from Cornwall.
As well as walking for myself I carried nearly 200 names from people across Devon and Cornwall who could not attend the march.
We are demanding a Peoples Vote with an Option to Remain because the last 2 years have been a complete shambles with the Government’s own evidence revealing we will all be worse off economically.
This is not what the people of your constituency voted for.
People are finding out the facts despite sections of the media making it difficult but no one voted to be significantly poorer.
Not only poorer economically but poorer in terms of reputation as a Nation; human rights; social cohesion; openness and diversity and environmentally too.
I had fun yesterday but I did not march for the fun of it. I marched because the threat is real…we are heading for a cliff edge and Cornwall will go over it. It needs to stop. The people need a chance for a final say.
Jane Stevenson
From anonymous to her Berkshire MP:
I am writing to you to express my concern at the situation we are in as a country regarding the BREXIT negotiations and deal.
I was unable to attend the march on Saturday due to commitments, but support the views of the 700,000 people who were there. Myself and adults in my family would like to add our voices to the appeal for a Peoples’ Vote with an Option to Remain; the last two years have been a complete shambles with the government’s own evidence revealing we will all be worse off economically. I do not believe that this is what people voted for in the 2016 referendum. I do not believe that the government can keep quoting the phrase ‘the will of the people’ without going to the people to see what the majority view now is.
We therefore urge you to support a Peoples’ vote.
Adam Dadeby’s letter to Sarah Wollaston
Dear Sarah Wollaston,
This is just a short note to say Thank You for taking what I know is a brave stand to support a “ratification” vote to allow us to either to give our “informed consent” on the Brexit “deal” or to choose to stay in the European Union with the “deal” we already have.
It is clear now that the 2016 poll and its aftermath are doing tremendous harm to our country; damage I believe is unprecedented in more than one hundred years, damage which may take more than a generation to recover from.
• It has highlighted and emboldened an ugly fascist presence in our country.
• Our representative democracy has been undermined by it.
• Our ability to tackle global issues where international co-operation – environmental, security, AI/tech sector, the energy transition, criminal justice and organised crime – are all being weakened by it.
• Our rights as workers and consumers are threatened by it.
• Political discourse has been coarsened by it.
• Our economy and public services are being undermined by it.
• The demonstrable fairness of our democracy has been further harmed by the exclusion of millions of voters most affected by the outcome of it (the 3 million EU27 fellow citizens living here and UK citizens living long-term in the EU27 countries).
• The power and influence of our country globally has been reduced by it.
• The ability of the state to formulate coherent public policy has been further weakened by it: government bandwidth has been and will be consumed by fire-fighting Brexit impacts for many years.
• In fact, the very fabric of the country is being ripped apart by it.
• All the myriad benefits of being an important partner in the greatest peace project of all time (albeit one not without flaws – what human endeavour isn’t?), thrown away by that 2016 poll on an issue that was previously way down on most voters’ list of concerns.
Now more than ever, we need leaders and politicians like you that demonstrate through word and deed that they are putting the good of the country first. History will look more kindly on those of you that do. I don’t even think that putting the good of the country first is incompatible with loyalty to your right-of-centre politics. Brexit, if it happens, risks doing tremendous damage to the Tory party for many years to come. And I hope that a coherent, moderate, centre-right voice will emerge from the debacle that is Brexit. We need this, as much as we need a similar voice on the left.
Adam Dadeby
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Years, Age of Humanity, The Present Age, 14th century
Year of the Worm
Dale-
Cormyr
Tethyr-
North-
Netheril
Timesong
of Serôs
1356 DR 1331 CR 1568 TR 324 NR 5215 NY 1426 TS
Mulhorand
Shou
Kozakuran
Ulutiun
3492 MC −2 PR 2606 1430 1774 3906
1351 1352 1353 1354 1355 1356 DR 1357 1358 1359 1360 1361
Tarsakh
Mirtul
Kythorn
Flamerule
Shieldmeet
Eleasis
Eleint
Highharvestide
Marpenoth
1356 DR in conflicts
After unknown thieves steal the Tome of the Unicorn from the Green Library, Ruathym's forces sink a Luskanite caravel. In return, Luskan wipes out most of Ruathym's fleet, then invades the island of Ruathym. It is months before the islanders repel the invaders.[1]
Hammer - Tarsakh: The armies of Waterdeep, Amn, and Baldur's Gate besiege Dragonspear Castle and burn it down, defeating the baatezu within in a conflict known as the Dragonspear War.[2][3][1]
Ches: The Red Wizards of Thay open a portal to the Elemental Plane of Fire and summon forth a great number of fire elementals to assault their neighboring lands.[2]
Tarsakh: The village of Triboar is sacked and refugees flee north to Mirabar and Silverymoon.[4]
Mirtul: A roaming band of goblinoid forces, devils and dark mages ravage the Sword Coast. Baldur's Gate is under direct assault and overland traffic in northern Amn is closed altogether.[4]
Mirtul: A bloody battle takes place in High Horn between the Cormyrean forces and the orcs and hobgoblins of the Stonelands.[4]
Kythorn: Lyran the Pretender attacks Shadowdale,[1] and the Banite temple, the Dark Lord's Hand, is sacked.[4]
Kythorn: A flight of dragons over the Dalelands, Cormyr, and the Moonsea devastates these regions.[4] Syluné of the Seven Sisters dies defending Shadowdale from a large red dragon.[1] The Citadel of the Raven is largely destroyed.[5]
Flamerule: Lord Lashan Aumersair of Scardale conquers Harrowdale, Featherdale, and Battledale in the second inter-dale war and declares himself "King of the Dales".[5] Lashan is soon defeated though and disappears in the ruins of Myth Drannor in Marpenoth.[6][7][1]
Flamerule: Cormyr seizes Tilverton, claiming the need to protect the weakened Dalelands and the trade route of Tilver's Gap from the increasing threat of Zhentil Keep, though the move expands the Forest Kingdom's influence. Gharri the High Priest of Gond, serves as the Lord Regent of Tilverton.[5][1]
1356 DR in people
The Pereghost first appears at Darkhold.[8]
In Mithral Hall, Bruenor Battlehammer kills the shadow dragon Shimmergloom. Bruenor then drives the duergar that served the dragon, and claims his inheritance as the Eighth King of Mithral Hall.[1]
The assassin Artemis Entreri kidnaps the halfling Regis and escapes back to Calimport. Drizzt Do'Urden and the Companions of the Hall follow their friend to Calimport and rescue Regis, in the process destroying Pasha Pook's thieves' guild. However, Regis remains in Calimport to manage the guild's operations while the Companions return to Mithral Hall.[1]
Alturiak 15: Lune Lyrohair of Shadowdale is revealed to be a weretiger and is slain by Florin Falconhand.[9]
Hammer: Barach Hilthone and their adventuring company get into a battle with orcs south of Daggerdale. The servant of Gond discovers a magical sword and refuses to hand it over to his patron deity's church.[2]
Ches: Selfaril Uoumdolphin, High Blade of Mulmaster and Tharchioness of Eltabbar Dmitra Flass begin courting one another by exchanging gifts of a perfume-scented golden earring and a cloak made from pure-white yeti fur. Having done so, they can meet in person without fear of scandal.[2][10][1]
Ches: Marchyan the "Mad Witch" of the Thunder Peaks was found comatose in her personal fortress by a herdsman, the halls of her domain lined with dead orcs.[2]
Tarsakh: The adventuring company led by Mane travels in Thay for some time, and their leader is enslaved for a brief while.[11][12]
Eleasias: Alusair Nacacia Obarskyr, Princess of Cormyr and daughter of King Azoun IV, runs away from the royal place in Suzail. Signs of her whereabouts spring up in Tilverton, but she remains elusive from the king's forces who search for her whereabouts.[5][1]
1356 DR in magic
Alturiak: Wizards of Zhentil Keep discover new magic in the name of Lord Manshoon. They manage to conjure powerful illusions begin to summon and control wind walkers and xorn.[2]
Ches: Over 1000 Statues That Walk move once again in the Old Empire of Mulhorand. They begin wandering to the nearby lands of Unther and Thay. The deity Thoth denies having any involvement with the sudden reawakening of these stone constructs.[2]
1356 DR in environment
Demons dig a tunnel out of Hellgate Keep to the Nameless Dungeon.[1]
Mirtul: Reports of a group of "monkey-faced black-haired" creatures assaulting caravans on the East Way circulate throughout Sembia.[11]
Kythorn: The dead body of a githyanki washes up on the shores of the Moonsea, just south of Hillsfar.[4]
Nightal: Barroch's Hold is discovered in the Glacier of the White Worm by a band of adventurers. Two survivors, Yostur Ulhmond and Feenoch the Five-Fingered reach the settlement of Orm to tell their tale.[6]
Migrations in 1356 DR
Marponeth: The Company of the Dragon travels to the Elven Court to announce of the disappearance of nearly all the elves from the city of Hillsfar. Similar reports about the sudden vanishing of elves spring up in Sembia.[6]
Uktar: Luvon Greencloak of the Elven Court formally announces the Retreat of the elves of Faerûn to the island of Evermeet in a letter to the leaders of the Dalelands, thanking them for the years of good relations since the erecting of the Standing Stone.[6]
1356 DR in organizations
The Company of the White Star disbands.[13]
Tarsakh: A new merchant alliance, called the Iron Throne, declares their formation by sending letters to the leadership of Cormyr, Sembia and other cities such as Hillsfar. In the announcement, they state their goal of controlling all overland trade in the Eastern Heartlands.[11]
Mirtul: Thond of Wyvernwater emerges as the spokesperson for the Iron Throne and warns of sanctions against the shipment or use of any weapons in the Dalelands.[11]
Eleasias: The Company of the Hippogriff is formed by the mage of High Dale, Almontier.[5]
1356 DR in politics
Mirtul: Alassra Silverhand suddenly leaves her court in Aglarond, leaving governance of the magocratic nation to the Simbarch Council. Reports of a great magical battle over the Tower of Blades claim the Simbul was one of the combatants.[11]
Mirtul: As a result of the Dragonspear War, the prices of luxury items greatly increase in the city of Waterdeep.[4]
Kythorn: All elvenkind are banned from the lands of Sembia, under declaration of Raithspur, Captain of the Guard of the capital of Ordulin.[4]
Eleint: Following the destruction of the Moonsea, Lord Manshoon sends a decree to the leaders of Sembia, Cormyr, Scardale and Archendale stating that the combined lands north of the Moonsea are united in their protection of one another, and that any attacks against one of the cities will be met with the full power of their combined military might.[5]
Uktar: In preparation for the annual closing of the gates of Mirabar, the council convenes at the Hall of Sparkling Stones to decide where to sell the great amount of silver they had discovered and mined that year.[6]
Deaths in 1356 DR
The white dragon Icingdeath is killed by Drizzt Do'Urden and Wulfgar.[14][1]
Syluné of the Seven Sisters is killed in Shadowdale battling a large red dragon.[1]
Queen Yenandra of Dambrath, dying of old age and sickness, accepts her wizard daughter Hasifir's offer to be transformed into a spectral guardian, with the aid of a number of drow sorcerers. The transformation is a success, and Hasifir becomes queen.[1]
Fender Mallot and Grollo, warriors of Clan Battlehammer, are killed by the assassin Artemis Entreri in Bryn Shander.[15]
Selbryn the Sage publishes Musings From a Lonely Tower In Athkatla.[16]
The Far Anchor inn is built by a retired sea captain.[17]
Eleasias: Forces from Zhentil Keep begin reconstruction efforts on the greatly damaged Citadel of the Raven.[5]
Eleint: Reconstruction of the city of Melvaunt begins, focusing first on repairing their docks and getting their fleet of ships sailing once again.[5]
This year is known as the Year of the Drow in the Black Chronology.[18][19]
1356 DR in publications
The Crystal Shard ends.[20]
Streams of Silver[20]
The Halfling's Gem begins.[20]
Part of The Stowaway [21]
The Shadowmask begins.[22]
Realms of Valor, "The Lord of Lowhill"[20]
Swords of the Daimyo[23]
↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 Brian R. James and Ed Greenwood (September, 2007). The Grand History of the Realms. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 140, 142. ISBN 978-0-7869-4731-7.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Jeff Grubb, Ed Greenwood and Karen S. Martin (1987). Forgotten Realms Campaign Set (DM's Sourcebook of the Realms). (TSR, Inc), p. 36. ISBN 0-8803-8472-7.
↑ Steven E. Schend (1997). Lands of Intrigue: Book One: Tethyr. (TSR, Inc.), p. 38. ISBN 0-7869-0697-9.
↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 Jeff Grubb, Ed Greenwood and Karen S. Martin (1987). Forgotten Realms Campaign Set (DM's Sourcebook of the Realms). (TSR, Inc), p. 38. ISBN 0-8803-8472-7.
↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Jeff Grubb, Ed Greenwood and Karen S. Martin (1987). Forgotten Realms Campaign Set (DM's Sourcebook of the Realms). (TSR, Inc), p. 40. ISBN 0-8803-8472-7.
↑ Richard Baker (1993). The Dalelands. (TSR, Inc), p. 4. ISBN 978-1560766674.
↑ Jeff Grubb, David "Zeb" Cook, Bruce Nesmith (1990). Castles (Darkhold). (TSR, Inc), p. 7. ISBN 0-8803-8883-8.
↑ Jeff Grubb, Ed Greenwood and Karen S. Martin (1987). Forgotten Realms Campaign Set (Cyclopedia of the Realms). (TSR, Inc), p. 95. ISBN 0-8803-8472-7.
↑ Thomas M. Reid, Sean K. Reynolds, Darrin Drader, Wil Upchurch (June 2006). Mysteries of the Moonsea. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 94. ISBN 0-7869-3915-X.
↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 Jeff Grubb, Ed Greenwood and Karen S. Martin (1987). Forgotten Realms Campaign Set (DM's Sourcebook of the Realms). (TSR, Inc), p. 37. ISBN 0-8803-8472-7.
↑ R.A. Salvatore (March 2005). The Crystal Shard. (Wizards of the Coast). ISBN 0-7869-1606-0.
↑ R.A. Salvatore (June 2009). Streams of Silver (Kindle ed.). (Wizards of the Coast), loc. 3740. ASIN B002DO17Q2.
↑ Ed Greenwood (November 1999). The Temptation of Elminster. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 68. ISBN 0-7869-1427-0.
↑ Ed Greenwood (1994). Volo's Guide to the Sword Coast. (TSR, Inc), pp. 110–111. ISBN 1-5607-6940-1.
↑ Richard Baker, Bruce R. Cordell, David Noonan, Matthew Sernett, James Wyatt (2007). Cormyr: The Tearing of the Weave. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 159. ISBN 07-8694-119-7.
↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 James Lowder (August 1993). “Novel Ideas”. In Roger E. Moore ed. Dragon #196 (TSR, Inc.), p. 65.
↑ Geno and R.A. Salvatore (July 2009). The Stowaway. (Wizards of the Coast). ISBN 978-0786952571.
↑ Geno and R.A. Salvatore (November 2009). The Shadowmask. (Mirrorstone), pp. 92–93. ISBN 0-7869-5147-8.
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Tableau goes “Elastic”…and so do database models
Andrew Brust Sep 10, 2014 - 6:00 AM CDT
Apple may have used yesterday to make announcements about Apple Watch and its new iPhone 6 models, but data discovery darling Tableau used yesterday to announce its own iPad initiative. As covered rather comprehensively by Gigaom’s Derrick Harris, Tableau will be releasing an iPad-specific data visualization app sometime in 2015.
The project, named “Elastic” and announced at the annual Tableau Conference yesterday, is about creating an app conceived for the iPad from the get-go and aiming it at small business – or even individuals.
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The acclaimed naturalist offers an in-depth profile of the timber rattlesnake, from its unique biological adaptations to its role in American history.
The ominous rattle of the timber rattlesnake is one of the most famous—and terrifying—sounds in nature. Today, they are found in thirty-one states and many major cities. Yet most Americans have never seen a timber rattler, and only know them from movies or our frightened imaginations.
Ted Levin aims to change that with America’s Snake. This portrait of the timber rattler explores its significance in American frontier history, and sheds light on the heroic efforts to protect the species against habitat loss, climate change, and the human tendency to kill what we fear. Taking us from labs where the secrets of the snake’s evolutionary adaptations are being unlocked to far-flung habitats that are protected by dedicated herpetologists, Levin paints a picture of a fascinating creature: peaceable, social, long-lived, and, despite our phobias, not inclined to bite.
The timber rattler emerges here as an emblem of America, but also of the struggles involved in protecting the natural world. A wonderful mix of natural history, travel writing, and exemplary journalism, America’s Snake is loaded with remarkable characters—none more so than the snake itself: frightening, fascinating, and unforgettable.
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America's Snake - Ted Levin
America’s Snake
BOOKS BY TED LEVIN
Backtracking: The Way of a Naturalist
Blood Brook: A Naturalist’s Home Ground
Cactus Poems (with Frank Asch)
The Curious Naturalist (for the National Geographical Society)
Everglades National Park: A Tiny Folio (with Patricia Caulfield)
Liquid Land: A Journey through the Florida Everglades
Sawgrass Poems (with Frank Asch)
Song of the North (with Frank Asch)
Up River (by Frank Asch, with photographs by Ted Levin and Steve Lehmer)
The Rise and Fall of the Timber Rattlesnake
Illustrations by Alexandra Westrich
The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London
TED LEVIN is a veteran naturalist and award-winning writer whose essays have appeared in Audobon, where he’s a frequent contributor, Sports Illustrated, National Wildlife, Sierra, National Geographic Traveler, Yankee, OnEarth, Nature Conservancy, Attaché, Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, Chicago Sun-Times, Newsday, and numerous other print publications. His writing has been included in numerous anthologies, including The Best American Sports Writing 2003. He is the author of three critically acclaimed books: Backtracking: The Way of a Naturalist, Blood Brook: A Naturalist’s Home Ground, and Liquid Land: A Journey through the Florida Everglades, for the last of which he was awarded the 2004 Burroughs Medal for distinguished nature writing.
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
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Names: Levin, Ted, 1948– author.
Title: America’s snake : the rise and fall of the timber rattlesnake / Ted Levin.
Description: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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For Alcott
For our kind, rattlesnakes are coiled, tail vibrating, fangs at ready to poison us. It is as if we formed our entire knowledge of automobiles from head-on collisions.
CHARLES BOWDEN
1 An Introduction to Crotalus horridus
Part One. Egress: The Dangers of Leaving Home
2 A Quirky Subculture
3 Quasimodo in the Blue Hills
4 Live Free or Die
5 Zero at the Bone
6 A Long, Muscular Tube
Interlude: High Summer: On the Trail with Timber Rattlesnakes
7 The Dangers of Being Male
8 The Dangers of Being Female
9 A Commodity of Rattlesnakes: Snakes Today, Bibles Tomorrow
Part Two. Ingress: The Dangers of Coming Home
10 Chaos of Rocks
11 Among Rattlesnakes
12 Into the Abyss
13 The Very Last Rattlesnake
Epilogue: The Ambiguous World of the Timber Rattlesnake
A poisonous fluid secreted by certain animals, as in the viper, in a state of health, and which they preserve in a particular reservoir, to use as a means of attack or defense.
ROBLEY DUNGLISON, 1857
The venom immobilizes the prey quickly and in circulating through the bloodstream prepares it for the subsequent action of the snakes’ digestive juices.
JAMES R. KINGHORN, 1929
Venom in snakes almost certainly evolved as an adaptation for subduing prey. This remains its primary role in nearly all species; it serves secondarily as a defensive adaptation.
SHERMAN A. MINTON, Venom Diseases, 1974
It is important to again re-emphasize that the coincidental medical effects of snake venoms should have no role in their definition, as these were evolved long before humans.
SCOTT A. WEINSTEIN, 2015
An epithet applied to animals which have a secretion of venom, as the viper, rattlesnake . . . as well as to the venom itself; and, by some, to liquids in the animal body, which have been perverted by previous disease, that their contact occasions serious mischief in sound individuals.
rattlesnake |ˈratlˌsnāk|
a heavy-bodied American pit viper with a series of horny rings on the tail that, when vibrated, produce a characteristic rattling sound as a warning. • Genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, family Viperidae: several species.
Apple online dictionary
n: any of numerous New World pit vipers that have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp rattling sound when vibrated, that comprise two genera of which one (Sistrurus) contains small snakes (as the massasaugas and ground rattlesnakes) having the head covered with symmetrical plates and the other (Crotalus) contains usu. larger snakes that have scales instead of headplates, are rather thick-bodied, large-headed snakes of sluggish disposition which seldom bite unless startled or pursuing prey, and occur across most of America from southern Canada to Argentina—SEE CANEBRAKE RATTLER, DIAMONDBACK RATTLESNAKE, PRAIRIE RATTLESNAKE, SIDEWINDER, TIMBER RATTLESNAKE, WESTERN DIAMOND RATTLESNAKE
Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 1986
But above all, the crucial characteristic that distinguishes rattlesnakes from all other snakes—even from other pit-vipers—is the possession of the rattle. . . . All rattlesnakes have rattles, and no other kind of snake has them. No snake is a rattlesnake because it is shaped like a rattler, or because it has blotches like those of a rattler, or because it is venomous, or because it is found among rattlers, or because it will coil like a rattler, or because it will vibrate its tail as does a rattler. Many harmless or venomous snakes have some or all of these characteristics, but lacking rattles, they are not rattlesnakes.
LAWRENCE M. KLAUBER, Rattlesnakes: Their Habits, Life Histories, and Influence on Mankind, 1956
Rattlesnakes are distinctly American pit vipers that probably developed on the Mexican plateau and dispersed chiefly northward. Of the twenty-seven species of Crotalus and three of Sistrurus, only one has an extensive range south of Mexico, while fifteen occur in the United States.
SHERMAN A. MINTON AND MADGE RUTHERFORD MINTON, Venomous Reptiles, 1969
James Fenimore Cooper, 1827, was the first to use the term rattler in print in his book The Prairie.
Because I think they are beautiful.
CARL KAUFFELD
Why would Alcott Smith, at the time nearly seventy, affable and supposedly of sound mind, a blue-eyed veterinarian with a whittled-down woodman’s frame and lupine stamina, abruptly change his plans (and clothes) for a quiet Memorial Day dinner with his companion, Lou-Anne, and drive from his home in New Hampshire to New York State, north along the western rim of a wild lake, to a cabin on a corrugated dirt lane called Porcupine Hollow? Inside the cabin fifteen men quaffed beer, while outside a twenty-five-inch rattlesnake with a mouth full of porcupine quills idled in a homemade rabbit hutch. It was the snake that had interrupted Smith’s holiday dinner. Because of a cascade of consequences there aren’t many left in the Northeast: timber rattlesnakes are classified as a threatened species in New York and an endangered species everywhere in New England except Maine and Rhode Island where they’re already extinct. They could be gone from New Hampshire before the next presidential primary. Among the cognoscenti it’s speculated whether timber rattlesnakes ever lived in Quebec; they definitely did in Ontario, where rattlesnakes inhabited the sedimentary shelves of the Niagara Gorge but eventually died off like so many failed honeymoons consummated in the vicinity of the falls.
That rattlesnakes still survive in the Northeast may come as a big surprise to you, but that they have such an impassioned advocate might come as an even bigger surprise. Actually, rattlesnakes have more than a few advocates, both the affiliated and the unaffiliated, and as is so often the case, this is a source of emotional and political misunderstandings, turf battles and bruised egos. As you may have guessed already, Alcott Smith is a timber rattlesnake advocate, an obsessive really, who inhabits the demilitarized zone between the warring factions. How else to explain this spur-of-the-moment, four-hour road trip?
By the time Smith arrived, the party had been percolating for a while. Larry Boswell opened the door. As he spoke, a silver timber rattlesnake embossed on an upper eyetooth caught the light. Boswell owned the cabin and access to a nearby snake den, a very healthy one, where each October the unfortunate rattlesnake outside, following its own prehistoric biorhythms, had crawled down a crevice and spent more than half the year below the frost line dreaming snake dreams. Porcupines also favor sunny slopes, which likely is how the two met, one coiled and motionless and the other blundering forward. You’d think that after thousands of years of cohabitation on the sunny, rocky slopes of the Northeast, rattlesnakes and porcupines might have worked things out, but not so. No doubt, both animals instinctually took a defensive stance, and whether the snake struck and quills came out, or the startled porcupine lashed the snake with its pincushion tail, both had been severely compromised.
Without Smith’s help, the rattlesnake might have been doomed to starve as the quills festered. Ailing snakes die slowly, very slowly. One western diamondback is reported to have survived (and grown longer) in a wooden box for eighteen months without food and water, and a timber rattlesnake from Massachusetts lived twelve months (in and out of captivity) with its face consumed by a white gelatin-like fungus, a Quasimodo in the Blue Hills.
The cabin was small, dank, poorly lit. There wasn’t a sober individual in the group. Lou-Anne thought of Deliverance, and all evening she stood by the front door. Smith examined the snake and found fifteen quills embedded inside its mouth, which curled back a corner of the upper lip and perforated the margin of the glottis, gateway to the lungs, compromising both the snake’s breathing and its eating while protecting the outside world from the business end of the fabled, hollow (and grossly misunderstood) fangs. Essentially, the snake’s mouth had been pinned open.
Although this was a rattlesnake-tolerant (if not friendly) group, Smith wasn’t about to trust any of their less-than-steady hands to hold the animal. With imaginary blinkers on, Smith worked on a cleared-off coffee table in the middle of the cabin, with the overly supportive crowd keyed to every nuance. Smith gripped the head with one hand and pulled quills with the other, while the snake’s dark, thick torso sluggishly undulated across the coffee table. Slowly, methodically, he plucked each quill with a hemostat, and the men, who had tightened into a knot around the coffee table, cheered, toasted, chugged. After the last quill was pulled, the ebullient crowd roared approvingly, and the snake was returned to the hutch. Eight-years later, Lou-Anne, still jazzed by the potpourri of emotions, intensity, and images of that night, remembers feeling relieved to have left there alive as the couple returned home on the morning side of midnight.
The timber rattlesnake had been discovered several days before the tabletop surgery. Three of the unaffiliated herpetological adventurers—a couple from Connecticut and a man from northern Florida—had concluded an annual spring survey of the bare-bone outcrops behind the cabin. There, in the remote foothills above the shores of a narrow valley, where a wild brook strings together a run of beaver ponds, is one of the most isolated series of rattlesnake dens in the Northeast, perhaps in the entire country. (The word infested might come to more discriminatory minds.) For me, seeing those small, gorgeous pods of snakes basking in the October sunshine is stunning, a natural history right of passage, sort of like a bar mitzvah without the rabbi.
Beside the rattlesnakes, the trio found a fresh porcupine carcass in the rocks, unblemished, and on their way back down the mountain, they found the quilled snake, coiled loosely in a small rock pile one hundred fifty feet behind the cabin, last snake of the afternoon. The rock pile was at the base of a corridor, a bedrock groove in the side of the mountain that rattlesnakes use as a seasonal pathway from the den to the wooded shore and back. The cabin’s unkempt backyard is a veritable (and historic) snake thoroughfare. One of these three, a man who calls himself Diamondback Dave, thought he could pull the quills. Well known in the small, fervid circle of snake enthusiasts, Diamondback Dave maintains the website Fieldherping.com, where, among scores of photographs posted of himself (and a few friends) holding various large and mostly venomous snakes, you can view a full-frame picture of his bloody hand, the injury compliments of a recalcitrant banded water snake. You can also read synopses of field trips and random journalistic entries like this one:
I had a meeting with the director of a wildlife conservation society to discuss strategies on protecting rattlesnake populations in Eastern North America. What turned out was a weird combination of trespass warnings and a lengthy and unnecessary lecture on going back to school and finishing my degree, so that I could make 80,000 a year . . . welcome to the new age of Academic Wildlife Exploitation! . . . Business as usual.
Although in the spring of 2003, Diamondback Dave had never pinned a snake, a term that means immobilizing a venomous reptile’s head against the ground using any of a number of implements—snake hook, snake stick, forked branch, golf putter, and so forth—he convinced his two friends that he knew what he was doing. He did. Once the rattlesnake was pinned, Diamondback Dave directed his female companion to hold the body. Three visible quills protruded several inches from a corner of the snake’s mouth, fixed like miniature harpoons with their barbed tips. Dave’s efforts to pull them proved fruitless, however; not wanting to risk further injury to the snake, he released it.
On their way back to the car, they reported the incident to Boswell, who returned the following day and transferred the rattlesnake from rock pile to rabbit hutch. In his spare time, Boswell taught police officers and game wardens how to safely catch and relocate nuisance snakes, and he had been issued a permit by New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to harbor them on a temporary basis. This snake needed more than he could offer, though, so the next afternoon, Boswell phoned Alcott Smith.
After surgery, the timber rattlesnake recuperated in the hutch on Larry’s side of the bed. Three weeks later, when it was able to swallow a chipmunk, the snake was returned to the rock pile, where it immediately disappeared into a jumble of sun-heated stones. Today, the quilled snake can be found on Dave’s glitzy website among a host of other photographs. Just scroll down to the image labeled Spike.
The thing between timber rattlesnakes and me started in the late fifties. Although there used to be colonies from Brooklyn to Sag Harbor, by the end of World War II the only Long Island rattlesnakes were hanging as trophies in old farmhouses or submerged in specimen jars, their glassy eyes dulled by formalin. The last record of a Long Island rattlesnake came from the pine barrens of East Moriches in 1962, the year after my bar mitzvah. According to a 1915 article in Copeia, the journal of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, the rapid decline of the island’s rattlesnakes closely followed the eastward extension of the Long Island Railroad in 1895. The snakes adopted the fatal habit of sunning themselves on railroad embankments and lounging on the heated rails. As a kid, I laid pennies on those same tracks, under those same wheels, perhaps, innocent of the fate of these prior denizens.
There were other snakes in my neighborhood, all quotidian—garter snakes, ribbon snakes, northern water snakes, little brown snakes, milk snakes, black racers, even theatrical hognose snakes—every one of them cool in their own right, but certainly without the aura of a husky rattlesnake, dark as night or sulfur yellow and longer than I was tall. That timber rattlesnakes see in the dark through pits in their face and have rattle-tipped tails that send out a loud, monotonous insect-like buzz when they are afraid or annoyed, quickening one’s senses, as would a gunshot in the woods, adds to the allure. And, of course, there’s the venom.
My home on the South Shore was once part (a very small part) of a sprawling kingdom of potato farms. Before that, it had been a mixed coastal hardwood forest—black oak, scrub oak, black cherry, sweet gum, tulip poplar, tupelo; in low-lying areas grew Atlantic white cedar and red maple, and in flat sandy stretches, pitch pine. I lived a few miles from the ocean, closer than that to the salt marsh. Below a thin layer of humus, the soil was mostly sandy. Near the ocean, trees pruned by the salty onshore wind often assumed cartoonish shapes, their branches swept back from the sea like spiked hair. Nowhere on the island were there jumbles of sun-heated rock. No ledges. No scree or talus slopes. In fact, the only rocks I recall were boulders strewn about beaches on the North Shore or embedded in lawns and woodlands on the estates of northern Nassau County. Long Island may be composed of ground-down rock from mountain ranges to the north, but who or what would ever mistake its mostly flat and extremely permeable epidermis for the Adirondacks or the Taconics? Certainly not the island’s rattlesnakes. They likely lived like their kindred that still survive in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, having pared their social urges down to the basics: mating and sunbathing. There were no large communal dens on Long Island like the one behind Larry Boswell’s cabin. Coastal timber rattlesnakes hibernate in wetlands instead of on sunny, rock-strewn slopes, often alone in rodent burrows or in tunnels left by decayed tree roots. Getting below the frost line is all that really matters.
Wherever Long Island rattlesnakes passed the winter, they were long gone before I ever knew they were there. To see one, I’d go to the Staten Island Zoo. Carl Kauffeld, curator of reptiles and later director, had transformed the small zoo into a rattlesnake emporium. Kauffeld exhibited the finest rattlesnake collection in the world, all thirty-two species and subspecies occurring within the United States. I saw my first timber rattler there, a dark-phased adult collected in the mountains north of New York City. The snake was shedding (ecdysis, biologists call it), and I stood by the glass-fronted cage as it crawled out of its skin, one, long serpentine sleeve peeling back, inch by inch, inside out, like taking off a sock.
Kauffeld was well known outside Staten Island. The New Yorker had twice covered his exploits in Talk of the Town, and he himself had written three books, of which two, Snakes and Snake Hunting (1957) and Snakes: The Keeper and the Kept (1969), were eye-openers for a boy naturalist. Reading them, I realized that Major League baseball players were not the only men who made a living doing boy things. In these books, an exuberant Carl Kauffeld caught snakes across the ridges and ravines of North America. Unlike birders, who comb the countryside for birds, recording their achievements in life lists, state lists, even backyard lists, or watch familiar birds doing unfamiliar things, many snake enthusiasts hunt snakes and then take them home.
Kauffeld’s stories launched an army of youthful collectors, of whom some became prominent herpetologists, while others simply collected and collected and collected. Dealers ravaged the rattlesnake dens Kauffeld had so lovingly described. With a memorable chapter in The Keeper and the Kept, titled Life and Death in Okeetee, Okeetee, South Carolina, became an ophidian Mecca. The first March after the book’s publication, the unwashed began to arrive in Okeetee and bag every gorgeous corn snake they found— it is happily quite numerous, Kauffeld had written. No longer. Reptile clubs chartered buses, flooding Okeetee in such numbers that landowners posted their properties. Thirty years earlier, in 1939, a young Kauffeld had gained notoriety when he took a handful of snake people on an annual autumn collecting trip to the southerly slopes of Listening Mountain in the Ramapos. Over the years, the Hunt, as reported in the New Yorker, had produced fifty-nine specimens, including thirty copperheads, five blacksnakes, and fifteen timber rattlesnakes. All were brought back to the Staten Island Zoo to be traded like baseball cards to other institutions.
When it comes to eliciting empathy, it’s the back of line for rattlesnakes, creatures seemingly with, face it, not much personality. One could argue that our squeamishness at the sight of a snake began with the story of the Garden of Eden in the book of Genesis, but it also may be coded in our genes, suggests Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson. Humans, says Wilson, could be hardwired to fear snakes. In Africa, where our closest primate kin have multiple predators to fear, chimpanzees have been observed shadowing dangerous snakes at a safe distance, staring and hollering. Charles Darwin even weighed in on the issue of ophidiophobia: I took a stuffed snake into the monkey-house, and the hair on several of the species instantly became erect, he wrote in 1872 in The Descent of Man. Though timber rattlesnakes rarely harm humans or domesticated animals, Americans nevertheless have a long history of organized efforts to collect and eliminate them.
In 1680, a Massachusetts hunter could earn two shillings a day killing timber rattlesnakes, and beginning in 1740, Massachusetts chose one day each fall for a community-wide hunt, called a rattlesnake bee, which took place in towns across the state. In 1810, hunters in Pennsylvania strapped powder horns to rattlesnakes, lit them, and released them back into their dens; in 1849, in Madison County, Iowa, teams competed for the most snakes killed. The prize for the winning team: two bushels of corn. Bounties were paid for rattlesnakes in New York and Vermont into the early 1970s.
Twenty-five years ago, I visited a Vermont town clerk to examine old bounty records. Why, she asked, would anyone care? That was a hard question to answer. I had just driven an hour and a half to learn something about the snakes and the people of western Vermont, maybe something about the hard-rock ledges. I found it difficult to articulate what I was after. She pressed me again.
"It’s not every day someone comes here to talk about snakes. I don’t even know where that book is."
She apparently found it hard to say the word rattlesnake. I saw one this spring, crossing the road near the Blatsky River. I can’t stand to look at ’em.
A man in a three-piece suit walked into the clerk’s office. He was in a hurry.
Hey, Bob, the clerk said, this guy wants to know about rattlesnakes. Finally, she had said the word, hanging on to the a’s and t’s as though she were shaking a castanet. (Until that moment, I hadn’t thought of the word rattle or rattlesnake onomatopoetically.) Bob apparently didn’t like rattlesnakes, either. He said he had killed one in East Steeple, not far from Crystal Lake, a couple years previously. Whacked off its head with a hoe.
No one wanted to touch the bounty book, so I collected it myself. What I found was that between 1899 and 1904, two hundred forty-one timber rattlesnakes were bountied, a dollar a piece. The earliest bounty was paid on May 9, and the latest on October 19. Of the two hundred forty-one snakes listed, sixty-two were killed between May 9 and May 31, and one hundred fifty-four after August 21, when the snakes, including the young-of-the-year, had returned to their dens. This seasonal pattern confirmed that timber rattlesnakes go to bed early and wake up late.
One snake hunter, Andy Howard, collected the one-dollar bounty on one hundred ninety-six rattlesnakes during that five-year period. According to the town clerk, Andy liked liquor, and the bounty payments warmed the long, cold winters, so he made it his business to find snake dens. On September 13, 1902, he killed thirty-seven rattlesnakes.
Only twenty-five snakes were bountied from early June to mid-August. This is not too surprising. Timber rattlesnakes need the ice to melt and the soil to warm before they are ready to expend energy on growth, to leave the vicinity of their dens for the wooded ridge, where they lie in wait for mice and chipmunks. To find one in summer is a matter of chance. Great chance.
There were no records from 1905 through 1947. After 1947, sixty-four snakes were killed in a twenty-year period, ending in 1967. With so few snakes to record, the bounty book began noting the length of each snake and the number of rattles segments: the longest was four-and-a-half feet.
In some regions of the country snake killing is still sanctioned. As recently as 1989, Clairemont, Texas (now a ghost town), held its forty-first and final Peace Officers Rattlesnake Shoot, in which law-enforcement officials and other contestants competed for points by shooting live rattlesnakes. A shooter was awarded ten points for a head shot, five for a body shot; prizes were given for five categories: masters, first place, second place, third place, and guest.
Several years ago, Dartmouth College’s Hood Museum of Art in Hanover, New Hampshire, exhibited the watercolors of George Catlin, a native Pennsylvanian who traveled throughout the nineteenth-century American West painting the lives of Plains Indians. Catlin’s subjects engaged the landscape—hunting bison, praying and dancing, preparing food, pitching tepees in the shadows of great mountains and along the shores of winding rivers.
Not all the watercolors in the exhibit celebrated the West, however. In one painting, Catlin depicted his own home ground, the green woods and rocky ledges above the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania. The time is early May. Dozens of timber rattlesnakes lounge on the rocks, basking in the sunshine, while two men attack them with clubs and guns. A boy, perhaps the artist himself, stands in the background, screened by foliage, watching, waiting his turn. Catlin’s chance eventually came. On another occasion, the artist, known for his sensitivity to vanishing cultures, allegedly destroyed a Pennsylvania den by strapping a powder horn to the tail of a rattlesnake. He lit the fuse and released the snake into the talus, towing the bomb behind it.
More than one hundred fifty years have passed since Catlin painted the snake hunt, yet these timid serpents still evoke the same fear and loathing that motivated the destruction of America’s other predators. We’ve since made our peace with most of these—bald and golden eagles, wolves, and catamounts, the alligators and crocodiles, the silver-tipped grizzlies. Why not with the rattlesnake?
Decades ago, we stopped slaughtering hawks and owls. We welcomed gray wolves back to Yellowstone, red wolves to South Carolina, and black-footed ferrets to the Northern Plains. Today, we celebrate jaguars in Arizona, ocelots in South Texas, and great white sharks off Cape Cod, and we commiserate with the plight of polar bears swimming to exhaustion in the Beaufort Sea. But when the subject turns to timber rattlesnakes, we are collectively and decidedly pigheaded about their future; trying to sell an ophidiophobe the merits of rattlesnakes is as difficult as trying to convince a member of Red Sox Nation on the merits of the Yankees. Timber rattlesnakes are perceived as bad to the bone. Even those who care can’t agree on the best way to ensure survival of the snakes; worse, it is difficult for the different factions even to hear each other’s concerns.
Forty years after Kauffeld’s death, timber rattlesnakes, which are not inherently aggressive—just unforgiving of being mishandled—are still pursued by both collectors and persecutors, and face a litany of other problems ranging from isolated colonies, depleted gene pools, and inbreeding—a prescription for local extinction—to fatal fungal infections, climate change, automobile traffic, and political paralysis. Timber rattlesnakes, which are as American as apple pie, still live a short drive from Boston, Hartford, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Richmond, Saint Louis, and Minneapolis, which says something about their passive nature, their secretive ways, and the breadth of their evolutionary adaptations, which allows them to count among their immediate neighbors animals as geographically disparate as peccaries, alligators, and moose.
The story of the timber rattlesnake (America’s snake) is as much a story of human attitudes—good and bad, but rarely indifferent—and of places—pockets of wildness between the Atlantic and the west bank of the Mississippi—as it is the story of a snake.
In the autumn, I go to a certain talus slope above a wild brook to watch rattlesnakes, and I stay until cool weather ushers them underground for the winter. I wish I could lead a field trip to a timber rattlesnake den. While trekking around the remote pockets of wildness where they live, I want to educate people about the true nature of the snake, gregarious and docile, and to share the sense of wonder I feel as I watch the last of the Northeast’s apex predators. Sadly, this isn’t possible.
Lethargic and predictable, timber rattlesnakes remain vulnerable to vandals and collectors, and to a New Age group called field herpers, who handle snakes, digitally photograph them, and then post their exploits over the Internet. Even scientific research and repeated visits by naturalists (like myself) may cause snakes to bask less or to use less-than-ideal birthing sites. With the aid of a GPS and a subsequent website announcement, an Appalachian Trail hiker who stumbles onto a pod of rattlesnakes and then electronically broadcasts exuberance could be the unwitting agent of the snakes’ demise.
And that would be heartbreaking, because timber rattlesnakes are breathtakingly beautiful. They vary in base color from the blackest black to golden yellow. Some are mustard-colored; others are olive or brown, tawny or twilight gray. Neonates are the pinkish-grayish shade of exfoliated granite. Timber rattlesnakes have crossbands or chevrons or blotches (sometimes all three) that may be faintly rimmed in yellow or white, and range from black to charcoal, chocolate to tan or olive-yellow. Some snakes have a broken, rust-colored, dorsal stripe. Others are patternless black. Coiled in a bed of October leaves, a timber rattlesnake is hidden in plain sight unless it rattles, which is electrifying.
Here in the Northeast, den-site fidelity is the hallmark of their survival. Each fall, rattlesnakes return to their maternal den as precisely and directly as a Bicknell’s thrush might return to a particular hillside forest in Hispaniola. When a well-muscled rattlesnake migrates home it doesn’t undulate in loops and curves as it does when it’s swimming; it flows in a straight line rather like melting candle wax, belly scales caressing the ground, a thousand little pseudo-feet. Slow . . . slower . . . slowest. On a windless afternoon the vague sound of scales brushing against leaves gives them away.
I keep vigil at one particular den, counting, always counting snakes—a yellow morph, a black morph, a young-of-the-year, a three-year-old, an adult female with a broken ten-segment, untapered rattle, that sort of thing. I note air temperature, rock temperature, snake temperature, cloud cover, and wind speed and direction. This year, a few snakes returned to the den in late August; more arrived in September. And the number peaked in early October, when I tallied more than eighty.
One day, I followed two very big snakes through rock-studded woods to the base of a towering ledge and then watched them disappear down a crevice. Later that afternoon, I stood quietly in front of the main portal as more than a dozen snakes slowly passed by me and poured themselves over the stone rim, braided together in the foyer, and then one by one vanished into the abyss. Two weeks later, I found only three, including a newborn en route to the slumber party. And two days hence, after fallen leaves had slicked the rocks, two, of which one, a black male, coiled in the foyer. At fifty-four degrees Fahrenheit, he was the temperature of the rock, two degrees cooler than the air. And he moved his tongue in slow motion.
I don’t pass winter underground and I stopped basking decades ago, though sun-warmed rocks feel good to me, particularly when the air is cool and the day short. I go to talus slopes to watch rattlesnakes, and I stay until the rocks cool off and autumn’s last whit of heat draws them down below the surface. Like a rain of maple leaves or a flock of migrating geese, the doings of rattlesnakes in October mark a season in transition, the subtlest of autumnal tides.
The snakes at my study site ignore me, and I never touch them. I bear witness; my movements ratcheted down to mere heartbeats and breaths. For the most part, they treat me with indifference. One even glided over my boot. A few rattlesnakes living here were born the summer the Beatles released Hey Jude ; at least one forty-five-year-old still bears young. For their continued survival I did for this book what never occurred to Kauffeld; I fictionalized the names of several people and places, especially recognizable roads, bodies of water, and mountains. I also changed the names of a few towns and states. To paraphrase the narrator of the 1950s television show Dragnet: Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to read is true. Only a few names and locations have been changed to protect the innocent: in this case, the timber rattlesnake.
An Introduction to Crotalus horridus
She strongly resembles America in this, that she is beautiful in youth and her beauty increaseth with her age, her tongue also is blue and forked as the lightning, and her abode is among impenetrable rocks.
I have seen timber rattlesnakes before, mostly on the sun-baked talus of western Vermont—dark, with vague markings, or mustard-colored and distinctly banded to merge into the forest floor, but never an incandescent yellow one in the Northeast. The snake stretches out in the morning light, basking on the stone foundation of a building preempted by trees in a forested hillside in western New York. Chocolate-colored bands stain the yellow areas and loop its body from head to vent; the tail is as black as obsidian. And like most timber rattlesnakes I’ve seen, this one is content. No rattling. No threatening coil. No retreat. Not so much as a glance in my direction. Lidless eyes focus on the all or nothing of a New York morning, golden spheres each slashed by a vertical black pupil—eyes of the night.
At fifty-two inches and just over three and a half pounds, Hank is big. Of all the rattlesnakes I’ve encountered in the Northeast, only Travis, Hank’s hillside neighbor, a black morph recumbent beneath the overhang of a bramble a quarter of a mile away, is bigger: fifty-two inches, four and a half pounds, and thick as the sweet spot on a baseball bat.
I’m in the field with Rulon Clark, a Utah native who completed his doctorate at Cornell University in nearby Ithaca with a dissertation on the communal habits of timber rattlesnakes and is now assistant professor in the biology department at San Diego State University. Although it was once widely believed that snakes led rudimentary lives of solitude, Clark discovered that timber rattlesnakes lead surprisingly rich social lives. Because they dwell in a different temporal realm than people, very slow and methodical, rattlesnakes live within a formerly unmapped wilderness of patience.
To understand timber rattlesnakes, you must learn to think like them, which means spending an inordinate amount of time on the ledges and in the woods. And you must also be a master of technology. According to Clark,
Rattlesnakes have adapted to live in such a way that they do things more slowly than we do. We’re too quick for them in some ways; we don’t recognize important things that could be going on. You really have to either be very patient or set up experiments in such a way that you see results regardless of your timescale.
During the six years that he studied rattlesnakes in Pennsylvania and New York, Clark unveiled a sisterhood of snakes, in which female timber rattlesnakes from the same litter entwined with each other more than with unrelated females, the first demonstration of kin recognition for any species of snake. In fact, Clark determined that female littermates separated for two years after birth immediately (in snake time) recognized each other.
As a child, Rulon Clark was attracted to non-fleeing predators (like rattlesnakes) and sponsored public feedings with his menagerie of reptiles and arthropods. I had tolerant parents, he recalls. I had tolerant parents as well, but their level of tolerance was governed by the social codes of suburban Long Island. They accepted my boyhood passion for bringing home snakes, and would find me whenever anything unusual happened in a terrarium. Once my father prevented a garter snake from consuming its own young by tapping the snake on the head with the buckle on the dog’s leash. My parents would likely have drawn the line against keeping a venomous pet, but since Long Island timber rattlesnakes had already been extirpated, this never became an issue.
Through the years, Clark’s boyhood obsession grew. He examined eleven hundred timber rattlesnake museum specimens from collections all over the United States, and summarizing their dietary information made him an expert in the identification of half-digested mammal parts. Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t get practical skills out of a PhD.
Clark’s audience also grew. The March 2005 issue of Natural History featured his essay The Social Lives of Rattlesnakes, which was how I tracked him down. The week before I arrived in Ithaca, David Attenborough and a BBC film crew had visited Clark to film the hunting strategy of a wild timber rattlesnake (essentially waiting) for the final episode of the landmark two-part series Life in Cold Blood.
When I google Rulon Clark I find newspaper stories about pregnant rattlesnakes sun-bathing at a picnic area along a major highway in south-central New York. Clark advised the state to close the rest area until the snakes either give birth (sometime in late summer) or are relocated to an alternative basking site. When asked if the snakes pose a threat to travelers, Clark responded, People are more likely to be killed by a drunken driver veering into the rest area than they are by a basking rattlesnake.
Radio-tracking enables Clark to eavesdrop on timber rattlesnakes during the four or five months when they’re away from the den and fanning out for miles across the countryside. Earthly pulses and species-specific biorhythms, formerly understood only by the snakes themselves, govern the movement of these reptiles. Using a remote-sensor video, Clark films rattlesnakes as they wait hours, or even days, to ambush the small mammals that are their principal food. He learns where they eat, when they eat, what they eat, and how they eat, as well as what they do between meals (lounge and digest and eventually wander to their next ambush station). Clark’s work dispels myths, confirms scientific speculation, and illuminates unknown aspects of rattlesnake behavior. It also adds a sense of wonder to the forested hillsides of the Northeast, a glimpse into the secret life of a reptile whose continued presence is a marvel of adaptation and concealment, for timber rattlesnakes are the very last of a short list of potentially dangerous pre-Columbian predators that still survive in the twenty-first century on the virtual (and sometimes real) doorstep of the urban Northeast.
Rattlesnakes belong to the subfamily Crotalinae, the pitvipers, of the family Viperidae, perhaps the most advanced family of reptiles in the world. Of the approximately three hundred species of viperids, one hundred ninety-nine are pitvipers, the most advanced of the vipers. And rattlesnakes, the most recently evolved of the pitvipers, sit alone on the pinnacle of serpentine evolution, cold-blooded state of the art. The timber rattlesnake is one of thirty-eight species (and eighty recognized subspecies) of rattlesnakes, all restricted to the Western Hemisphere, as emblematic of the New World as maize and beans. Rattlesnakes evolved two to five million years ago on the grassy plains of north-central Mexico, still their epicenter of diversity, and have left their fossils—mostly vertebrae, but with occasional ribs, fangs, and skulls bones—in the gypsum and limestone caves of the Southwest and the tar pits of California. Thirty-six species belong to the genus Crotalus, the mailed rattlesnakes, the most recently evolved genus. Each has numerous small scales (as well as a few large ones) on the top of the head suggesting the overlapping rings or loops of chain mail worn by Elizabethan knights. The remaining two species, in the genus Sistrurus, sport nine large skull plates instead of tiny scales: the pygmy rattlesnake of the Southeast, and the massasauga, whose odd diagonal distribution runs from northern Mexico to the southern edge of the eastern Great Lakes, where they barely survive in wetlands outside Rochester and Syracuse, New York.
Arguably the most novel appendage in the animal kingdom, the rattle evolved after gradual changes to the distal tail spine sparked the retention of the cone-shaped, terminal scale whenever the snake shed its skin. Made of keratin (like our fingernails and hair), the rattle is laterally flattened, thick and hard, hollow and musical when vibrated, and is so similar among rattlesnake species that biologists believe it arose just once from the common ancestor of the entire tribe. If you examine the shed skin of a rattlesnake, you’ll see an opening at the tail tip where the terminal scale stayed behind with the snake to become the first rattle segment. In all other species, the shed terminal scale remains with the old skin. The base of the rattle—called the matrix—is the living end of the snake’s tail. When a rattlesnake sheds, the skin of the old matrix pushes back to become the newest segment of the rattle, though the length of the rattle is not a precise indication of its of age. Each pagoda-shaped rattle segment, pinched into two- or three-tiered lobes, interlocks with its neighbor; the narrow end of one segment fit loosely into the wide base of the distal segment. The deep, transverse constrictions that create the lobes and the shallower, longitudinal grooves that run laterally along both sides of the rattle internally fasten the segments together. The entire rattle is referred to as the rattle string, which can be either complete or broken, tapered or untapered.
A newborn rattlesnake, or neonate, has a prebutton rattle, a single, unconstricted lobe that covers the tail tip and is lost during the snakelet’s first shed. Once that initial shed has been completed, the neonate is now a young-of-the-year, and its tiny rattle, or button, is a single constricted segment that looks like an itsy-bitsy replica of Abraham Lincoln’s hat, and will remain the last segment of a complete string until broken off. As a snake grows, so too the matrix, and up to a point (about the tenth segment) each new rattle segment is slighter bigger than the one that preceded it. Because older snakes grow less dramatically than younger snakes and because rattles break, matriarchs and patriarchs sport untapered rattles. An ideal rattle length is approximately ten segments; many more would make the resonance of the rattle less efficient. The largest rattle string I’ve ever seen was eighteen segments, a broken, untapered rattle carried around by a big yellow male, but I’ve heard of wild snakes with more than twenty segments, which would be like lugging a tuba around when a bugle would be sufficient.
Like an asymmetric eight, a rattle is smaller and tilted forward above the longitudinal grooves, larger below, which prevents it from drooping, lessoning the opportunity for abrasion on rocky terrain. Instead, the rattle is held either parallel to the ground or tilted upward when the tail is lifted slightly, the standard crawling posture. In front of my keypad sits a ten-segment, complete rattle string, an inadvertent souvenir from a New York snake. The tiny button is top-hat obvious; the gradual increase in the size of successive segments, also obvious, echoes the growth of the snake. I see the asymmetry on either side of the longitudinal grooves; and when I hold the rattle right side up (the way the snake would), it extends straight out, parallel to the ground; when I turn it upside down, it droops like a flaccid hose when the water is shut off. Sound is produced in the larger, lower loop of the figure eight, where so much empty space amplifies rattling. Using my entire arm as a lever, no matter how vigorously I shake the rattle, it sounds no louder than an anemic cricket or a couple of pebbles bouncing around in a tin can.
The timber rattlesnake, of course, doesn’t have this problem and is equipped to play the instrument. The muscle that shakes the rattle (the shaker muscle) is richly endowed with blood and oxygen and capable of sustained contraction as a human heart in fibrillation. The warmer the snake, the more rapidly the shaker muscle contracts. The faster the contractions, the faster the rattle vibrates. A rattlesnake warmed to ninety-five degrees Fahrenheit can vibrate its rattle eighty-six cycles per second, a visual blur capable of running uninterrupted for up to three hours; chill the snake to fifty-five degrees, however, and the vibrations slow to twenty cycles per second. According to a University of Washington physiologist, if human leg muscles were as efficient at using oxygen as a rattlesnake’s shaker muscle, we could complete a twenty-six-mile marathon in less than nine minutes.
Hearing an unexpected rattlesnake is a full-body experience, and the chills that metastasize down our spines give significance and density to the fear of God. One evening on the outskirts of Tucson, in the late eighties, when my son Casey was not yet three years old, I carried him upside down as I followed behind a squat, lumbering Gila monster that had just emerged from a pile of rust-colored rocks. The lizard was in no particular hurry. Consequently, neither were we. Where it went, we went. Over rocks, around cacti, across an arroyo. Suddenly, after the sky had darkened lumen by lumen from rose to violet, a chunk of reddish sandstone came alive beneath the lizard’s feet. The delirious rattlesnake went crazy, buzzing. Never flinching, the Gila monster plodded on. I straightened as though I had touched an electric fence, and by the time I regained my composure, the lizard had vanished, and Casey, whose face had been a mere two feet or so above the ground, was totally jazzed as though I had planned the diversion. Driven by demonical fury, the snake held its ground, threatening to strike—its upper coil rising, its tail a wild blur. I stepped back instinctively, levering Casey into the upright position, and then followed the arroyo back down the canyon, accompanied by the sound of an acutely disturbed rattlesnake.
In the Northeast, rattlesnakes are just as easy to overlook, though more equanimous, often not as quick to rattle. The first time Alcott Smith scrambled up a rockslide in search of a den, he had followed the directions of an armed acquaintance, who, for fear of snakes, proceeded no further than the base of the slide. Scrambling around the rocks, Alcott stumbled on to the threshold of Vermont’s largest den, setting off a chorus of half a dozen snakes before he had laid eyes on one. He froze, stone stiff for some time until he figured where the snakes were, half hidden in rocky alcoves. Hearing one is a bit unnerving the first time. And the second . . . the third . . . and so on and so forth, which, of course, is why the rattle evolved in the first place. It’s a sound you never fully get used to, a sound that demands attention, like an unexpected blast of thunder or the roar of a hidden lion.
Timber rattlesnakes that live on hard rock granite of the Adirondack foothills tend to have shorter rattles than those that live on soft sandy loam of the New Jersey Pine Barrens. No matter where the snake lives, however, rattles are fragile. They wear and tear and pop off like snap-on beads. Alcott Smith once knocked the rattle off a snake he was examining and snapped it back on. When Smith realized the drooping rattle was upside down, he quickly caught the snake and made the necessary adjustment. And, one hot July afternoon, in lower New York State, Randy Stechert, who monitors rattlesnakes for the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), drove past a thirty-nine-inch snake with an eight-segment, complete rattle string. Since Stechert hadn’t planned on marking snakes and didn’t have a snake bag, he caught the rattlesnake and held it out the open window of his car, pinching its head between his
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1From John Adams to Joseph Delaplaine, 8 June 1813 (Adams Papers)
There are several things abroad which are reported to have been intended as pictures of me; some of them drawn by persons who never saw me. others by persons who never saw me to whom I never sat and others and others by painters who requested me to sit. I pretend not to be a judge of the merit of any of them. But there is not an approved likness among them. The least approved of all is one...
2From John Adams to Joseph Delaplaine, 17 December 1815 (Adams Papers)
I have recd, with pleasure your obliging Letter of the Sixth. Accept, Sir my cordial Thanks for the Portraits of my Friends Rush and Jay. The latter appears with proper Dignity in his Robes of Chief Justice and the Likeness of the Countenance is correct. What Shall I Say of the former? Dr Rush the last time I Saw him in March 1801, was as upright as a Reed and his Countenance no less animated...
I have received your favour of Decr 24th. I have Settled the Plan with Mr Morse. You ask a Sketch of my Life. I was born Octr 19. 1735 in Quincy then the North Parish in Braintree, my Father was John Adams, born in the same Parish My Grandfather was Joseph Adams Junior born in the same Parish, My great grandfather was Joseph Adams senior, and my Great Great grandfather was Henry Adams who came...
4From John Adams to Joseph Delaplaine, 17 January 1816 (Adams Papers)
His Excellency Samuel Adams late Governor of Massachusetts was born in Boston in 1722. His first Education was in the celebrated public Latin School in that City where he was prepared for the University at Cambridge to which he was admitted in 1736. He received his degree of Batchellor of Arts in 1740 and his Degree of Master of Arts in 1743. After his first degree, he entered the store of...
You request a Service of Some difficulty, and more delicacy. The Number of Revolutionary Patriots in Massachusetts Patriots of the Revolution was not Small; and all have left Posterity and Connections to dispute with me. But if you demand my Opinion upon honour, I will give it, as it lies in my present Recollection. Samuel Adams, James Otis Junior, Major Hawley of North Hampton, Major General...
6From John Adams to Joseph Delaplaine, 5 March 1816 (Adams Papers)
your letter of 27th Feb, has surprised me. Of the writer of the anonymous letter to you I have no knowledge. The portrait taken by mr Stewart is the property of John Quincy Adams my son, taken by his order, often repeated, for six years, from St Petersburg & paid for by his property; I have no right in it, or power over it. Most certainly it will never go from under my roof, with my consent,...
7From John Adams to Joseph Delaplaine, 5 January 1817 (Adams Papers)
I have recd your Letter of 24th. of Decr. with the Pamphlet. I am Sorry to see in our American Reviewes an affectation of imitating European Reviewers. They generally discover an unnatural Appetite for Sour Plums: more Sagacity in discovering little faults than great Merits. I will now for a Moment undertake the Office of a Critic, not for publication: but between you and me. In my Opinion you...
8From John Adams to Joseph Delaplaine, 31 August 1818 (Adams Papers)
I have not been able, till this moment to acknowlege your Letter of the 11th. You have my full consent to publish whatever you please concerning my Character. My Life can never be written, not even by myself; for it would take me as much time to write it, as it has to live it. You enquire for “Sources:” I know of none better than American Journals Newspapers and Pamphlets; next to them the...
9From John Adams to Joseph Delaplaine, 12 March 1822 (Adams Papers)
I thank you kindly for the Portrate of Mr Jay, which I very much admire, it is a great likeness it is stamped with wisdom sagacity, and benevolence as they have been, stamped upon his Countenance and Conduct, all his Life time.—I have delivered your formal letter to Mr Charles Shaw, to Mr William Smith Shaw the superintendent of the Boston Atheneaum and I shall deliver that inclosed with Mr...
10From John Adams to Joseph Delaplaine, 23 April 1822 (Adams Papers)
Portraits or Busts, of Men or Women taken in Old Age, which as Ossean says, and says truly is dark and unlovely are always disagreeable; much more so are those taken after Death or in Articulo mortis The Portraits of Dr Franklin taken when he was eighty four were no more like him, in the middle of his Age or even when he was seventy years Old than they resembled those of Voltair I delight to...
Portraits, or Busts, of Men or Women taken in Old age which as Ossian says, and says truly is dark and unlovely, are always disagreeable, much more so are those taken after death, or in articulo mòrtes The Portraits of Dr Frankline taken when he was eighty four, were no more like him in the middle of his Age or even when he was seventy years old, than they resemble those of Voltair. I delight...
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I Found my HEA on the Internet by Kristin Rockaway
By: Frolic
[Note from Frolic: We are so excited to have author Kristin Rockaway guest post on the site today. Take it away, Kristin!]
In the opening scene of my latest book, How to Hack a Heartbreak, Melanie Strickland is sitting alone at a bar, staring at the bottom of her empty cocktail glass, waiting for her date to arrive.
She’s never met this guy before. All she knows about him are a few filtered facts he entered into his profile on the fictitious dating app, Fluttr. She’s not really sure what he looks like, either; the selfies he posted were flattering, but maybe the guy just knew his angles. Right now, he’s twenty minutes late, and even though she’s scared he might be blowing her off, she tries to remain positive, deciding to order another drink and wait it out.
There are so many variables, so many ways for her night to go horribly wrong, but she still holds out hope that it could end in a happily ever after.
Like Mel, I’ve been the woman sitting alone at the bar, waiting for an internet date to arrive, wondering if he was gonna sweep me off my feet or stand me up. In fact, when I wrote this scene, I was thinking about my very first date with the guy who’s now my husband.
Yes, I met my husband on the internet.
This was fourteen years ago, pre-App Store, when most people still carried flip phones in their purses and the word “tinder” was rarely uttered unless you were actively trying to start a fire. Back then, internet dating required a computer and a mouse and a keyboard and, usually, an ethernet cable. There was no swiping involved.
Our love story began on an old-fashioned website. The site doesn’t exist anymore, in any form, but it was similar to early versions of Match.com. You filled out a profile, posted a couple of not-terrible photos, then searched for potential love interests who met your criteria – in my case, guys who were at least six feet tall and lived within a 10-mile radius of Downtown Brooklyn. When you found someone who seemed promising, you could send them a message.
The catch? Messages weren’t free. To establish contact with someone for the first time, it cost a dollar. In today’s world of ubiquitous free messaging, that may sound bonkers, but there were actually a lot of benefits to this system. First of all, the quality of interactions was generally pretty high. If you were spending a buck to contact a potential date, you needed to hook them with something more charming than, “Hey.”
Another perk was that the messaging system was text-only, so guys weren’t popping into your inbox with random dick pics.
The pay-per-message model also encouraged you to spend a bit of time evaluating a person’s profile before you decided whether or not you were interested. Even though the monetary investment was small, it still raised the stakes. You were thoughtful about who you contacted, and when you received a message, you were more inclined to give the sender a fair chance. After all, they must’ve seen something they really liked in your profile to spend the buck on you, right?
Contrast that with swipe culture, where every flick of the thumb is free, and it’s not uncommon to make split-second decisions based on the relative attractiveness of a single selfie.
Which leads me to believe that if my husband and I had been dating in the time of Tinder, we never would’ve met. Because I’ve gotta confess something: when I first saw his profile, I wasn’t so sure about him. In today’s world, that would’ve meant a left swipe. (Sorry, babe.)
See, this was a guy who did not know his angles. The answers to the questions in his profile were fairly generic, and though he’d uploaded three photos, they didn’t properly showcase his face. In one of them, he was posing with his arm around another woman. (Clueless!) In another, he had clearly cropped a woman out. If it hadn’t been for the action shot of him playing rugby in teeny-tiny, ultra-flattering shorts, I probably would’ve deleted his message unread.
Needless to say, I’m glad I didn’t.
Instead, I messaged him back, and then we chatted online for a couple of days before deciding to meet up in person. Nothing serious, just a casual Thursday night drink at one of my favorite spots on the Lower East Side, Verlaine. I slid into a barstool at our agreed-upon meeting time of 8PM, then ordered a half-price lychee martini and waited for him to arrive.
And waited.
Twenty minutes later, and I was staring at the bottom of my empty cocktail glass, just like Mel. No word from my would-be suitor, but I remained positive, holding out hope for a happily ever after. I’ll give this guy ten more minutes, I thought, then ordered another martini. I sipped it slowly, staring at the front door, willing him to appear.
A moment later, he did.
And he was way better looking than his photos.
In How to Hack a Heartbreak, Mel’s date never does show up. It turns out to be a blessing in disguise, though, because in walks Alex Hernandez, her secret office crush. They strike up a flirtation, and suddenly, Mel’s plans for the rest of the evening take a hard left turn. Alex is there, in the flesh. To Mel, that’s so much better than a virtual Fluttr match.
There are still so many variables, so many ways for her night to go horribly wrong. (Spoiler alert: The night goes horribly wrong!) But through it all, Mel never gives up hope for her happily ever after.
Besides, if things don’t work out with Alex, she figures she can always go back to swiping for love
Kristin Rockaway is a native New Yorker and recovering corporate software engineer. After
working in the IT industry for far too many years, she finally traded the city for the surf and
chased her dreams out to Southern California, where she spends her days happily writing stories
instead of code. When she’s not working, she enjoys spending time with her husband and son,
browsing the aisles of her neighborhood bookstores, and planning her next big vacation.
Her second novel, How to Hack a Heartbreak, will be released from Graydon
House/HarperCollins on July 30, 2019. Her debut, The Wild Woman’s Guide to Traveling the
World, is in stores now.
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#170 | Album Review | Coffin Apartment – Coffin Apartment
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Though formed in early 2018, the moniker of the Portland-based progressive metal trio, Coffin Apartment, reads a bit like a fragment of a prophecy given the current circumstances around the globe. We’ve been shut away in our respective abodes for about one-quarter of 2020 thus far and the Groundhog Day syndrome has yet to alleviate. Granted, Connor’s and my own day-to-day existence was quite mundane before all of this transpired, but rambling about music has become a sort of mental oasis amidst the tides of tedium. And when the self-titled debut from Coffin Apartment hit my inbox in mid-April amidst the turmoil, we thought it to be an odd coincidence. Thus we acted upon it.
Coffin Apartment is actually a reference to subdivided housing units found in Hong Kong and other densely populated cities that are just large enough to fit a single bed for its resident. Their flavor of progressive metal can mostly be encompassed under the sprawling canopies of death metal, sludge, punk, hardcore, and a dash of psychedelia. A sundry of other timbres permeate their bludgeonings, but on the whole, you can anticipate a raw deluge of trenchant riffs and jolting tempo shifts made murky by infernal wails. Their kinetic transitions are potent and airtight, and these even offer up some deranged hooks to make the shellacking a titch more palatable. Furthermore, the dynamic fervor exuding their tracks comes as little surprise given that each Coffin Apartment member originates from relatively long-established bands in the Pacific Northwest region (A Volcano, Polst/Toim, Same-Sex Dictator). Though their debut dropped back in February 2019, we were both dumbfounded by the grottiness entombed therein. Since we are also at wit’s end, we thought it to be a perfect opportunity to embrace entropy and chat about a record that suitably embodies how we both feel about our respective ramshackle dwellings. Thank you so much for tuning in.
Note: We recently learned that Coffin Apartment’s debut LP was sent off for mastering this past weekend. Its title is currently unknown, but it will contain seven fresh tracks! Expect digital and vinyl formats in the months ahead.
You can snag a digital or physical copy (cassette) of Coffin Apartment via the band’s Bandcamp page. You can follow the trio on Instagram too to stay in the loop on new developments from them.
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Gist: NICK CANNON TO SUE VIACOMCBS FOR $1.5 BILLION OVER ‘WILD ‘N OUT’
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Nick Cannon is firing back at ViacomCBS in a billion-dollar lawsuit.
The multi-hyphenate reportedly intends to file suit against the media conglomerate after he was terminated last month for making anti-Semitic remarks.
According to The Shade Room, Cannon plans tMUSIC: Chiké – Insecure (Sarmy Fire Remix) Download Mp3o sue ViacomCBS for $1.5 billion, claiming ownership of the “billion-dollar brand” he created with his popular MTV and VH1 series “Wild ‘N Out.”
“It is just that simple, ‘Wild’N Out’ belongs to Nick!” his team said in a statement. “The show was created by Nick Cannon with his idea and original thought. ‘Wild’N Out’ has brought billions of dollars in revenue to Viacom since 2015. And Nick deserves and has earned everything it is worth.”
“From the platforms he provides for other entertainers, the jobs he creates for Black youth, the time he gives to mentoring incarcerated men and women, to the money he gives back and puts into communities, homelessness, and people less fortunate. He is constantly evolving both spiritually and mentally, as well as, taking action in learning, education and bridging the gap within the Jewish and African-American communities, so that it will allow us to build relationships, work together and learn from each other in order to move forward in equality.”
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#TSRExclusive: #NickCannon has been the face of #WildNOut since its conception, and now that #Viacom has chosen to terminate its relationship with him, Nick is taking legal action to take back his show! _____________________________________ #ViacomCBS decided to sever ties with Nick following his statements regarding the Jewish community, which many have deemed as controversial, and we have just learned that Nick plans to sue the company for $1.5 billion. _____________________________________ "It is just that simple, 'Wild'N Out belongs to Nick!," his team says in an exclusive statement. "The show was created by Nick Cannon with his idea and original thought. Wild'N Out has brought billions of dollars in revenue to Viacom since 2015. And Nick deserves and has earned everything it is worth." _____________________________________ "From the platforms he provides for other entertainers, the jobs he creates for black youth, the time he gives to mentoring incarcerated men and women, to the money he gives back and puts into communities, homelessness, and people less—click the link in our bio to read more! (📸: @gettyimages)
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Cannon plans to use proceeds from the suit to invest in education in underserved communities, create psychological programs and youth organizations, and develop inner-city communities.
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“If Viacom believes in growth, equality, education, then Viacom will do what is right and pay Nick what they owe, and giving him his $1.5 brand,” added his team.
ViacomCBS severed ties with Cannon followinMUSIC: Crayon – Sometime (Download Mp3)g comments he made on his “Cannon’s Class” podcast where he discussed conspiracy theories about Jewish people and praised Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan for anti-Jewish comments.
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In an open letter posted to Facebook, Cannon slammed the media giant, claiming it “swindled” “Wild ‘N Out” away from him.
“I created a billion-dollar brand that expanded across a multitiered empire that is still Viacom’s biggest digital brand, touring business, talent discovery and incubation system and successful restaurant franchise. Based on trust and empty promises, my ownership was swindled away from me,” he wrote. “For Viacom to be so deceptive is no surprise; they have been mistreating and robbing our community for years, underpaying talent on their biggest brands like Love & Hip Hop, all of BET programming and of course, Wild ‘N Out.”
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Retro gaming has recently come to the fore again, with more gamers than ever opting to enjoy a good dose of nostalgia by playing some titles from yesteryear. Old school arcade games are now the in-thing, with developers also taking traditional games and giving them a facelift, just as mFortune have done with Fruit Machine. Some classics are better enjoyed in their original form though, and that’s precisely what can be found in the online world today.
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Pac-Man, which debuted in 1980, is one of the most recognizable games and characters to ever make it in the gaming world. Many would suggest that Pac-Man was the first ever proper gaming character, and this is what helped to make the game a huge success. Moving away from sports games and shooters, Pac-Man brought to the fore a whole new type of game and one that both sexes could enjoy. Pac-Man, which can still be played in its original form online, is still going strong today, with revamps made over the years.
Pong is a game everyone will have heard of and many people reading this will have played it at some point in their lives. It’s one of the first video games to ever be created, making its debut as a cabinet arcade game in the early 1970s. While the premise of the game was simple, this is what made the game so successful, and it has continued to be ever since. The hugely addictive title was developed by Atari, with the game making the move to console a couple of years after release.
Super Mario is one of the most loved game characters of all time, and he’s still going strong to this day. Then the Super Mario, as a franchise, has been on an epic journey since its inception, with people first enjoying Mario Bros. as an arcade game since the early 1980s. The game was then repackaged, made Super, and released for a console, with the journey continuing ever since. Again Super Mario Bros is seen by many as one of the greatest games of all time, so it’s great news that it can be enjoyed in all its original glory, complete with soundtrack, online.
Like Super Mario, Zelda is a game character who is instantly recognizable today, just as he was over 30 years ago. Created by Nintendo, the Zelda game series is one of the most successful in gaming history, and it’s one of the most unique too. The Legend of Zelda game managed to change the face of gaming by combining elements such as puzzles, combat, and role-playing superbly, and this is one of the reasons as to why the original 1987 NES release was so successful. Being able to play the original release online offers gamers the chance to experience where the journey began for this much-loved game character and gaming series.
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The 50 year celebration continues as the all-time MEAC Volleyball team has been released by the conference. Here’s the list.
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NORFOLK, Va., Nov. 30, 2020 – As the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) continues to celebrate its 50th anniversary during the 2020-21 academic year, the conference office now announces the Volleyball All-Time Team, presented by The Home Depot, comprised of 50 outstanding student-athletes throughout the conference’s history.
Nearly 900 votes were cast for the Volleyball All-Time Team, with fans, media representatives, institution sports information contacts and others taking part.
To be considered on the ballot, players must have been named to one of the following: First Team All-MEAC, MEAC Player of the Year, AVCA All-America or All-Region or a MEAC Hall of Fame inductee.
The All-Time Team, listed in alphabetical order by players’ last names, features three MEAC Hall of Famers.
Nicole Abreu, Florida A&M: 2017 First Team All-MEAC; 2016 MEAC Co-Rookie of the Year.
Maria Andronova, Florida A&M: 2006 MEAC Player of the Year; Two-time First Team All-MEAC (2005, 2006); 2005 MEAC Tournament Outstanding Performer.
Christine Anthony, North Carolina Central: 2012 First Team All-MEAC; 2012 MEAC Rookie of the Year.
Vania Blake, North Carolina A&T State: 1998 MEAC Player of the Year; 1998 First Team All-MEAC; 1998 MEAC Tournament Outstanding Performer.
Jovana Blazeski, Florida A&M: 2009 MEAC Player of the Year; Two-time First Team All-MEAC (2007, 2009); 2009 MEAC Tournament Outstanding Performer; 2007 MEAC Rookie of the Year.
Edie Brewer, North Carolina A&T State: 2019 MEAC Co-Player of the Year; 2019 AVCA South Region Honorable Mention; 2019 First Team All-MEAC.
Dorothy Buford, Morgan State: Two-time First Team All-MEAC (1998, 1999).
Valentina Carrasco, Florida A&M: Two-time First Team All-MEAC (2017, 2018).
Miajavon Coleman, Coppin State: 2018 MEAC Rookie of the Year; 2019 First Team All-MEAC.
Assata Conway, Howard: Two-time First Team All-MEAC (2013, 2014).
Gazelle d’Artois, Howard: Two-time First Team All-MEAC (2008, 2009).
Tamia Dockery, Howard: 2018 MEAC Player of the Year; 2018 AVCA East All-Region Honorable Mention; Two-time First Team All-MEAC (2016, 2018).
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Thumbs Up or Down: How Would You Rate Florida A&M’s Halftime Show vs. Tuskegee?
The Florida A&M Marching 100 performed at halftime of Saturday’s 5th Quarter Classic football game between the Rattlers and Tuskegee University in Mobile, Ala.
It was the first time in 20 years since both programs faced each other on the gridiron. Tuskegee won the football game by a score of 20-17.
Unfortunately, we could not find video of Tuskegee’s halftime performance, but we managed to find video of FAMU’s.
Take a moment to watch the halftime show of the band we ranked No. 6 in our preseason poll. Then take a moment to rate the performance in the poll below.
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Parents Seeing Diaper Shortage Caused by Coronavirus 'Panic Buying'
Not being able to provide the essentials to take care of your child can be stressful for any parent.
Amid the coronavirus outbreak, many parents have begun seeing diaper shortages similar to the toilet paper shortages a few weeks ago.
Many of the shortages have been caused by bulk buying by parents who have the means to do so, which leaves lower-income parents at a disadvantage.
"Many families who typically experience diaper need are in precarious jobs such as hospitality and retail that have been suddenly eliminated," Audrey Symes, a New York City mom who contributes to donating excess diapers for the GOOD+ Foundation told Good Morning America.
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"Especially early in the month, when benefits are paid out, it’s really helpful to those families to be able to purchase stock. The rashes and infections that result from overuse of disposable diapers could overwhelm the medical system right now."
"They [people with low-income levels] don’t have the resources to buy in bulk, so they depend on consistent stock availability," she added.
The National Diaper Bank Network reveals that about one-third of American families cannot afford the diapers needed for their children.
As many people get laid off and furloughed, that number will surely increase as organizations do their best to help with a limited supply.
Bridget Cutler from the New Jersey-based Moms Helping Moms Foundation diaper bank told GMA they’ve seen a huge uptick in diaper requests since the coronavirus hit and it’s increasing everyday.
"We are doing our best and happy that we are open, helping the public and keeping our employees working. However, we will not be able to keep up with this demand without additional funding,” she said.
She revealed people need to do their part by not overbuying, contacting local diaper banks in their state for their needs, and donating to the diaper banks if they’re able to.
"We can use those to purchase diapers through our channels at 1/3 of the retail cost," she said.
With disposable diapers in high demand and flying off the shelves because of “panic buying,” cloth diaper companies have also seen a spike in purchases.
Liz Turrigianio, co-founder of companies Diaperkind and Esembly, told TODAY that their “revenue has grown by 300% in the past five days."
She said many customers have expressed struggles buying diapers online and in stores.
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Free will astrology for the week of Aug. 19
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “We never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough,” said Aries singer Billie Holiday. I don’t think that applies to everyone, although it’s more likely to be true about the Aries tribe than maybe any other sign of the zodiac. And I’m guessing that the coming weeks could be a time when you will indeed be vivid proof of its validity. That’s why I’m issuing a “Too Much of a Good Thing” alert for you. I don’t think it’ll be harmful to go a bit too far and get a little too much of the good things; it may even be wise and healthy to do so. But please don’t go waaayyyy too far and get waaayyyy too much of the good things.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus author Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) took many years to write The Human Comedy, an amalgam of 91 intertwined novels, stories and essays. For this vast enterprise, he dreamed up the personalities of more than 2,000 characters, many of whom appeared in multiple volumes. I bring this to your attention, Taurus, because I believe that the next 15 months will be an excellent time for you to imagine and carry out a Balzac-like project of your own. Do you have an inkling of what that might be? Now’s a good time to start ruminating.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Not until the 19th century did humans begin to take organized actions to protect animals from cruelty. Even those were sparse. The latter part of the 20th century brought more concerted efforts to promote animal welfare, but the rise of factory farms, toxic slaughterhouses, zoos, circuses and cosmetic testing has shunted us into a Dark Age of animal abuse. I suspect our descendants will look back with horror at our barbarism. This problem incurs psychological wounds in us all in ways that aren’t totally conscious. And I think this is an especially key issue for you right now. I beg you, for your own sake as well as for the animals’, to upgrade your practical love and compassion for animals. I bet you’ll find it inspires you to treat your own body with more reverence.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian literary critic Harold Bloom bragged to The New York Times that his speed-reading skills were so advanced that he could finish a 500-page book in an hour. While I believe he has indeed devoured thousands of books, I also wonder if he lied about his quickness. Nonetheless, I’ll offer him up as an inspirational role model for you in the coming weeks. Why? Because you’re likely to be able to absorb and integrate far more new information and fresh experiences than usual—and at a rapid pace.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible,” says Leo politician Carol Moseley Braun. I agree with her, but will also suggest there’s an even higher magic: when you devise a detailed plan for achieving success by challenging the impossible, and then actually carry out that plan. Judging from the current astrological omens, I suspect you’re in an unusually favorable position to do just that in the coming weeks. Be bold in rising to the challenge; be practical and strategic in winning the challenge.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances,” writes author Frederick Buechner. What he doesn’t say is that you must be receptive and open to the possibility of joy arriving anywhere and anytime. If you’re shut down to its surprising influx, if you’re convinced that joy is out of reach, it won’t break through the barriers you’ve put up; it won’t be able to land in your midst. I think this is especially important counsel for you in the coming weeks, Virgo. Please make yourself available for joy. P.S. Here’s another clue from Buechner: “Joy is where the whole being is pointed in one direction.”
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “I transformed stillnesses and darknesses into words,” wrote Libran poet Arthur Rimbaud. “What was unspeakable, I named. I made the whirling world pause.” In accordance with current astrological potentials, I have turned his thoughts into a message for you. In the coming weeks, I hope you will translate silences and mysteries into clear language. What is unfathomable and inaccessible, you will convert into understandings and revelations. Gently, without force or violence, you will help heal the inarticulate agitation around you with the power of your smooth, resonant tenderness.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Your desires, whether or not you achieve them, will determine who you become,” wrote author Octavia E. Butler. Now is a fertile time for you to meditate on that truth. So I dare you to take an inventory of all your major desires, from the noblest to the most trivial. Be honest. If one of your burning yearnings is to have 100,000 followers on Instagram or to eat chocolate-covered bacon that is served to you in bed, admit it. After you’re through tallying up the wonders you want most, the next step is to decide if they are essential to you becoming the person you truly want to be. If some aren’t, consider replacing them with desires that will be a better influence on you as you evolve.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If you can manage it, I recommend taking a break from business-as-usual. I’d love to see you give yourself the gift of amusement and play—a luxurious sabbatical that will help you feel free of every burden, excused from every duty, and exempt from every fixation. The spirit I hope you will embody is captured well in this passage from author Okakura Kakuzo: “Let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle. Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.”
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Rapper Eminem advises us, “Never take ecstasy, beer, Bacardi, weed, Pepto-Bismol, Vivarin, Tums, Tagamet HB, Xanax, and Valium in the same day.” What’s his rationale? That quaffing this toxic mix might kill us or make us psychotic? No. He says you shouldn’t do that because “it makes it difficult to sleep at night.” I’m going to suggest that you abide by his counsel for yet another reason: According to my analysis, you have the potential to experience some wondrous and abundant natural highs in the coming weeks. Your capacity for beautiful perceptions, exhilarating thoughts and breakthrough epiphanies will be at a peak. But none of that is likely to happen if you’re loaded up with inebriants.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Everyone who has ever built a new heaven first found the power to do so in his own hell,” declared philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. That’s a rather histrionic statement! But then Nietzsche was a Maestro of Melodrama. He was inclined to portray human life as a heroic struggle for boldness and liberation. He imagined us as being engaged in an epic quest to express our highest nature. In accordance with your astrological potentials, I propose that you regard Nietzsche as your power creature during the coming weeks. You have a mandate to adopt his lion-hearted perspective. And yes, you also have a poetic license to build a new heaven based on the lessons you learned and the power you gained in your own hell.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Here’s some knowledge from author John le Carré: “In every operation there is an above the line and a below the line. Above the line is what you do by the book. Below the line is how you do the job.” According to my analysis, you have, at least for now, done all you can in your work above the line. That’s great! It was crucial for you to follow the rules and honor tradition. But now it’s time for a shift in emphasis. In the coming weeks, I hope you will specialize in finessing the details and massaging the nuances below the line.
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The inalienable right of return that keeps Israel from sleep
By Nour Qudeimat- Badil Resource Center
Right to Return
Badil Resource Center on Monday launched a Palestinian Youth Conference titled “Right of Return: Towards Practical Approaches,” which discussed the inalienable right of return (194) for Palestinian refugees, in hopes to turn this right from theoretical speech into practice, using a political, legal and humanitarian approach.
The conference, characterized by a significant participation of local and international youths and activists, hosted speakers specialized in refugee rights, international law and human rights.
Palestinian Historian & lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies, Dr. Johnny Mansour put the spotlight on the ongoing Israeli displacement of Palestinians since the 1948 Nakba (catastrophe) and the 1976 Naksa, where it used the policies of forced displacement in order to settle Zionist colonizers in the homes of those who became refugees.
While Israel still blocks Palestinians from returning to their homes, it still sees the Palestinian existence in the occupied lands, and the call for the inalienable right of return, as a threat to the Zionist project.
“Israel not only denies this issue but also tries to brush it off its shoulders and throw it onto the lap of the international community and countries hosting refugees,” Mansour said.
BADIL Executive Director Nidal Al-Azza, said that the activities of this conference are the culmination of a number of activities and programs implemented by BADIL for years, which focus on youth and enhance their role in realizing the right of return and developing a program to make return a liberation issue through its implementation.
Alazza said the conference workshops discussed permanent solutions to the issues of return and the Israeli position on it, which were presented by expert Terry Rempel, a Canadian academic researcher specializing in the Palestinian refugee case and the founder of the BADIL Research Unit.
Rula Nasser, a Palestinian woman displaced from the occupied city of Bisan, living in Nazareth, said that the conference is important for her as a refugee, since she seeks to restore the right of return and consolidate it at this critical time at a national level.
Tawfiq Nasser, a Palestinian youth living in the occupied 1948 lands, stressed that there will be no solution for the Palestinian freedom without the return of refugees from camps around the world to their homes according to resolution 194.
This conference suggests launching awareness campaigns in order to educate the international community, particularly the hosting countries, of the Palestinian right of return and the rights of refugees, in addition it stressed the need to hold Israel accountable for its crimes of displacement and colonization. It also called on Palestinians to continue to visit displaced villages and learn about them, for them not to be forgotten.
In addition, it called on the international community to deal with the Palestinian cause as a political, rights, humanitarian issue, and not look at it with empathy and pity.
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What is "The History of Khorinis" and what is the nature of the project?
The History of Khorinis is the PREQUEL of the Gothic game, which takes place over 10 years before the events of the Gothic I and BEFORE the creation of the magic barrier.
The whole project is a NON-PROFIT - characterized by great attention to compliance with the plot of the Gothic 1-2 games saga and great attention to detail.
While creating the Story, we do not take into account Gothic 3, the third installment in the series. Only events and characters from the following games are considered canonical: Gothic I, Gothic II and Gothic II: Night of the Raven.
To know more about the project, check out the videos below.
When is the premiere?
Due to the COVID-19 epidemic and our dubbing and music recording sessions were blocked (and other problems with our team due to the pandemic), the release date was suspended until the situation normalized. We keep you updated on the situation on our social media, which we encourage you to follow.
At what local level is production currently taking place?
Details of our progress are presented in the last summary of the work, you can watch it here:
How many years has the project been created?
The project in its current form has been created since mid-2018, while its genesis and first concepts and ideas date back to 2008. In its current form, the game significantly differs from its original assumptions.
Are we planning to produce other mods for Gothic?
Only the second part of the History of Khorinis modification is planned - it will be a direct continuation of the first part and takes place on the island of Khorinis in its heyday.
Are we going to release a demo of the mod?
No, we only plan to publish the finished production.
Will the modification be supported after the release?
Yes, the modification will be supported as long as it is necessary.
Will there be a multiplayer option in the History of Khorinis?
It will not be possible because the nature of the project is focused only on the single-player mode.>
How will the mod be installed?
A dedicated launcher will be released for modification, which will install the modification itself. However, it will also be possible to install the modification manually - especially for Windows systems older than Windows 7.
Does Piranha Bytes know about your venture?
They have not contacted us about this, but we can confirm that they know about the project. Among other things, their official Facebook profile liked ours in the past:
Will there be professional dubbing in the game?
Yes, we will hear voice actors known from Gothic I and Gothic II: Night of the Raven.
Will the modification be paid / free?
It will be completely free and available for download from our website.
Do I need Gothic 2 to play?
Yes, installation will require the full version of Gothic 2 with the Night of the Raven expansion pack.
Will there be any graphic improvements? What will the hardware requirements be?
The game will be somewhat improved compared to the original, but the hardware requirements will not change significantly. In a word - the modification can be launched on any equipment that has Gothic II: Night of the Raven without any problems.
Will The History of Khorinis run on older hardware?
You will play on any configuration that supports the basic Gothic II: Night of the Raven (in extreme cases, taking into account the lowering of the graphics settings of the game - f.e. the viewing distance of the area).
How many languages will the mod be released in?
Initially, the modification will be released in Polish, then in English (several months after the Polish premiere). In turn, other translations (Czech, Italian, German and Russian) will be created on the basis of the English version.
Can I also play on Steam / GOG?
Yes. Each version of Gothic, including the one from Steam / GOG, will be supported by the mod - however (for better stability) we recommend the version from GOG.com.
Will the cheat console be locked?
The codes will be blocked for about the first month after the release of the game - but we will restore it in one of the first post-release patches.
How big will the world in the modification be?
The surface of Vaduz Island is the size of Khorinis Island - excluding Jarkendar and Valley of Mines.
Is Vaduz canonical?
The island of Vaduz is not canonical, although we keep the information contained therein as canonized and in good taste as much as possible.
What is the climate of the island of Vaduz?
The atmosphere is similar to that of Gothic 2, and it was Gothic 2 that was the 'design model' in creating the world of our production.
Will we be able to visit the areas known to us from Gothic I or Gothic II: Night of Raven?
Such a possibility will appear in the second part of modification - already taking place directly on the island of Khorinis.
Will there be a Monastery of Fire / Water Mages on Vaduz?
On the island of Vaduz, we will have the opportunity to visit the Adanos Monastery - which has a significant role in the plot of the game.
Will we meet characters known from Gothic I and Gothic II Night of Raven on Vaduz Island?
Yes, but apart from 12 mages, there will only be 2 other people.
Will there appear a character similar to the Mud?
No, but there will be other characters - including one with an equally interesting personality.
Will we add any new animals (f.e. a pig)?
Pigs, hares and bears will definitely be added. Other animals are also contemplated.
Do giant monsters such as the black troll or dragons appear?
Trolls will definitely appear, but we do not plan such creatures as dragons or black trolls.
What is the political system in Vaduz?
The western part of the island is governed by the governor appointed by the king, and the eastern part, Margrave - a feudal nobleman and owner of the eastern lands of Vaduz. Despite the division of the island, the margrave and the governor have the same range of powers and are equally accountable to the king (not being able to give orders to each other).
What ideologies will the people of Vaduz hold?
Similar to those of the inhabitants of Khorinis in Gothic II: Night of Raven - with a different view on the situation of the kingdom.
Will there be different factions of the Paladin Order?
No, the law was always one and the same. However, we have restored the feudal chivalry heard in Gothic.
Are there orcs living on Vaduz?
We won't be able to meet orcs on Vaduz.
Will goblin shamans emerge?
Yes, they will appear, but in a completely new version.
Will there be all kinds of Gothic I and Gothic II: Night of Raven plants?
Those from Gothic II: Night of Raven will be extended with new models.
Will there be closed underground locations like the old and new mine from the first part of Gothic series?
Yes, there will be two large mines and a few smaller locations, but they will be integral parts of the world (so they, the loadings screens) will not appear .
Will there be dungeons full of undead in the modification?
Yes, there will be places like this.
Will there be a brothel on Vaduz?
Yes, there will be one building on Vaduz with the same function as the famous Red Lantern in Khorinis.
How many main playable factions will there be?
There will be two factions: the city guard and the mercenaries of the merchant guild.
Will it be possible to become a water / fire mage / necromancer?
No. The only type of magic intended for the player is teleportation scrolls and runes.
Why can't we become a magician?
Lars is an ordinary human, not a chosen god like The Nameless One, so it would take much longer for him to master the magical arts. The second reason is that the possibility of becoming a mage would conflict with the story concept of the History of Khorinis.
Will there be ways to move around the world faster?
Yes, these will be teleportation runes that the main character can receive from other characters or buy back.
Will there be side guilds?
Yes, there will be two such guilds.
What is the planned playing time?
At the moment, it is not possible to provide such a value, it will be possible only after thorough testing. Nevertheless, we plan that it will last a similar amount of time as the story in the original Gothic II with the Night of the Raven expansion.
Will the plot be divided into chapters?
Yes, the game will be divided into chapters (acts), although they will function on slightly different principles than those we know from other parts of the series. For example, if you change an act, the killed monsters won't come back to life.
Will the modification have multiple difficulty levels? How is the difficulty level different for genuine parts?
At the moment, these questions cannot be answered, it depends on the results of internal testing and beta testing.
Will the combat system change?
No, we are not making any changes to the combat mechanics of the original Gothic II.
Will there be a fight with two weapons, the so-called dual wielding?
No, as we consider it unnecessary.
Will there be more weapons?
Yes, the player will have more weapons to choose from than in Gothic I and Gothic II: Night of the Raven.
Will there be any new armor in the History of Khorinis?
The number of available armor in the History of Khorinis will exceed a hundred, while most of it will not be available to the player.
Will there be any armor from Gothic Sequel?
Yes, because the official position of Piranha Bytes does not prohibit the use of any assets from the Gothic Sequel, the History of Khorinis will include, inter alia, armor of the Royal Guard from the same project.
Will there be difficult moral choices in the game?
Yes, but not too often.
Will there be quests relating to the gods of Gothic?
Regarding gods - yes - but the quests will not be "commissioned" by the gods as was the case in Gothic 3.
Will there be investigative threads or any puzzles in the game?
Yes, there will be both kinds of these activities.
Will it be possible to move around the island of Vaduz without worrying about spoiling an important quest?
Yes, the tasks will be written in such a way that they do not overlap - or that the death of an important character will not block the future plot (of course, only on the condition that the player will play 'fair').
How much will the dialogue options be developed?
Naturally, in many cases, the main character will be able to answer questions or requests in more than one way. The ability to intimidate will only appear as it was in the original Gothic and Gothic II - but not as a skill.
Will there be crafting using trophies obtained from animals (scales, fangs, claws)?
Yes, but only available for crafting from specific NPCs.
Will there be additional skills?
Yes, but there won't be many of them.
Will the NPCs react to our decisions made during the game or comment on them in a different way?
This will look identical to the original Gothic and Gothic II.
Will there be any additional interactions available to the player, such as mining for ore?
There will be interactions like cooking, digging pits, and some other minor interactions.
Will it be possible to use ladders without fear?
Yes, none of the players will have to fear death due to their use anymore :D.
Will alcohol have an effect on Lars, even in the form of an effect on the screen?
Yes, there will even be a new dedicated animation.
Will swamp herb appear in the modification?
Yes, but only in the form of a plant for alchemical use. It will not be possible to prepare joins from it. Regular tobacco will be available for smoking.
Will there be horse riding?
There will be no such possibility.
Can we expect a lot of easter eggs?
Easter eggs will appear, but their number will not be exaggerated - so as not to overwhelm (and not spoil!) the gameplay and the plot.
Will there be easter eggs related to future events in Gothic?
There will be only single such references.
Will there be a musical easter egg in the modification (such as the performance of In Extremo in Gothic)?
There will be no In Extremo performance, but we are preparing some other musical easter eggs.
Will there be focus stones in the modification?
Yes, but we don't want to reveal any details about it.
Will the Demon Hunters appear?
Yes, but only as a curiosity.
Are there any curses in the History of Khorinis?
We make every effort to ensure that the atmosphere of the History of Khorinis brings to mind the original Gothic game - that's why there will be curses, but limited only to those from the original series..
Will we hear the old Gothic soundtrack in the game?
Yes, there will be both old cult songs from two parts of Gothic series, but there will also be brand new ones created for the History of Khorinis by our musicians.
Are we going to use unrealized ideas from original parts?
Yes, some of them will be used in such a way as to fit the storyline of two parts of the Gothic series and the History of Khorinis.
Will there be legendary lyrics like "Say, is that a face you have at the front of your head, or is it a butt?"
Yes, but there will only be a few such references.
Will there be any cutscenes during the game? Will there be animated intros?
Both of these things will appear.
Will the characters known to us from Gothic and Gothic II: Night of the Raven that we meet in The History of Khorinis look adequately younger?
Yes, but it's only 10 years and the effect will not be noticeable (especially on such an old engine as ZenGin - the Gothic game engine).
Will you be able to influence the appearance of the hero? Change of hairstyle, tattoo, etc.?
No, we consider it unnecessary and not appropriate to the nature of the modification.
Will we see any new NPCs faces in the modification?
Yes, at the moment we have over 300 new face textures ready - and over a dozen new, additional 3D models of heads.
Will there be any changes compared to Gothic 2 in terms of city life? Any more interesting animations, new paths to move, diagrams during the day and night of the secondary and third-party characters?
Yes, NPCs will have more new activities (e.g. moving crates or repairing flat surfaces such as roofs). NPCs will also have more elaborate routines, which will make their lives even more interesting.
Will there be trialogues (conversations of more than two characters)?
Yes, there will be times when more than two characters will talk to each other.
Will there be throwing objects in the game?
No - we considered this function redundant.
Will there be new spells? Will Water Mages stop using fire magic?
There will be new spells, while Water Mages will not stop using fire magic (because they used them in Gothic 1 and Night of the Raven for a reason - elemental magic was simply never closely related to their use by mages from specific circles).
Will the hero be able to have pets?
No, it won't be possible.
Will you improve on the poor agility system with Gothic and Gothic II?
Yes, we are rebuilding this attribute in such a way that developing it brings more benefits.
Will the record system be fixed? Will I still have to make multiple entries?
The save system will be tweaked as much as possible, but making multiple saves will still be advisable.
Does the engine allow higher quality models to be placed than the original?
It is possible, but due to the limitations of the ZenGin engine, we use it with caution, taking a correction for optimization aspects.
Will there be Linux support?
Support for Linux is planned and the ability to run Gothic II and the History of Khorinis in native mode.
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Hockey in Society / Hockey dans la société
Exploring critical social issues in hockey
Hockey in Puerto Rico, Part II: Re-building and growing hockey in Latin America
courtneyszto / December 26, 2018
Puerto Rican flag. Photo from The Hill.
In February this year, I published an interview with Philip Painter (Director of Hockey Puerto Rico) about the state of hockey on the island after Hurricanes Irma and Maria. In the months after Hurricane Maria (September 2017), hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans fled the island “for lack of jobs, housing and healthcare.” According to the Washington Post, approximately 25% of island residents say their lives remain disrupted from the aftermath of Maria. Some residents in the eastern region of the island had to live without power for over 6 months, and “tens of thousands of people are still living under the blue tarps that were installed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency [FEMA] on houses that had their roofs blown off during the storm.” As of August 2018, the official death toll reported from Maria was 2,975.
The hockey rink in Aguadilla played a central role in Puerto Rico’s relief efforts. As Painter explained in our original piece from February:
Our rink in Aguadilla played a major part of the first response. We diverted our industrial diesel generator into the disabled power grid to fire up essential services and hospitals. The central location of the rink also served as an emergency supply depot. We were able to disperse emergency supplies, water, food, medical supplies and so much more. We also served as an information post as most of the radio towers were destroyed so there was no public information available.
The rink itself suffered wind and water damage having its solar panels blown right off. Over a year after devastation hit the tiny island, Painter explains that more than 6000 miles of new electricity lines have been installed. Painter and Mayor Carlos Mendez agreed that “the arena is doing just what it was meant to be — a local meeting place for the community.” Re-building the rink was secondary to ensuring that the island got back on its feet. Now that daily life is closer to normal for many (but certainly not all) Puerto Ricans, Painter is able to concentrate on building the finest hockey arena in the Caribbean.
Rink supplies ready to be loaded in Wisconsin.
There are no hockey stores on the island so anyone who wishes to participate needs to bring gear to the island or has to rely on donated equipment. The Poppy Waterman Arena located in Lake Delton, which is a village (that’s right, I said village) with a population of 2,995 in Wisconsin came through big time to help with the rebuild. Aaron Kirby and Damian Newlon donated a shipping container of rink supplies filled with a set of used rink boards, safety glass, and netting. Evidently, Wisconsin has a large Puerto Rican presence – who knew?
Those working on the re-build claim that this rink will soon be on every skaters bucket list. “There’s nowhere else like it. You can skate, surf, scuba dive, sport fish, salsa and whale watch without moving your car. And to top it off, you’ve got a cliffside golf course overlooking the whole bay 5 miles away. It’s all here,” says Ron Robichaud of the Florida Sled Hockey League who ran some clinics at the rink in 2017.
The shipping container left Wisconsin by truck and headed for Chicago, Illinois where it travelled by train to Jacksonville, Florida. It then hopped on a boat to San Juan, Puerto Rico and then back onto a truck for the last leg to its new home in Aguadilla.
Anyone call for a rink?
Henry Ramos, a volunteer helping with the re-build efforts explained, “My 10 year-old daughter [Isabella] has wanted to play ice hockey after watching the Winter Olympics on TV. And now she can have a chance to learn.”
Zamboni – check! Just need some ice…
The re-building of the rink in Puerto Rico is, in many ways, symbolic of the growing presence of hockey among Latinx/Hispanic communities. Mexico has been on the NHL’s radar for the last couple of years as a target area for fan growth. Both the Florida Panthers and Chicago Blackhawks now host Spanish langue commentary for games. The success of Cuban-American goaltender Al Montoya between 2013-2017 helped garner Latinx fans in Florida; however, now that he has been demoted to the AHL, a lot of that player outreach will likely fall on the shoulders of superstar Auston Matthews and up-and-comer Matt Nieto. And, in the women’s game, Julie Chu has easily been the strongest connection to Puerto Rico (on her maternal side) but Claudia Tellez also made waves for Mexican hockey when she became the first Mexican woman to be drafted into the CWHL (by the Calgary Inferno) in 2016. She also participated in a development camp with the LA Kings this fall.
Just last month, the Florida Panthers helped host the inaugural LATAM Cup, a tournament for the national teams of Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil. Tickets and parking to the event were FREE! Colombia was crowned the inaugural champion when all was said and done. As Juan Carlos Otero, one of the founders of the Amerigol Miami International Hockey Association contends, “I think it’s important that the NHL looks at being more active in this region in developing talent. Fifteen years down the line, you’re going to want to have more ‘Hernandez,’ ‘Fernandez,’ ‘Gomez,’ and ‘Lopez’ on the back of jerseys if you want to grow as a sport.”
Last year, Puerto Rico hosted the first ever para ice hockey event south of Florida. Karina Villegas, took part in the Grow the Game Tour and she was also the only Latinx player named to the 2016-2017 US Women’s Sled Team. It is her post-retirement goal to make para hockey accessible in Venezuela (the country where she was born and raised) and other parts of Latin America. Increasing access and opportunity for the disabled in Latin America is important because the reality is that, while able-bodied sports have their own diversity issues, para sports are even less racially representative because of class barriers. Bantjes and Swartz (2017) have found in their research:
that economic factors play a major role [in determining success and participation at disability sporting events]. Affordability influences the extent to which countries can participate in different events. Athletes from low and middle income countries – particularly women – are at a distinct disadvantage. These differences were particularly marked in events that had a high cost of participation. (para. 4)
It’s not a coincidence that para hockey has been dominated at the Paralympic Games by wealthy nations: Canada, USA, Russia, Norway, and Sweden (Japan managed to snag a silver medal in 2010 and Korea won a bronze at home this year in Pyeongchang). A new para hockey sled can easily cost $600-$800 (CDN) and sticks and blades from $40-$180 (CDN). Still, $800 for a sled is peanuts compared to $10,000 for a Paralympic triathlete bicycle, $7000 for a Paralympic-grade wheelchair for kayaking, and $5000 for a pair of prosthetic running blades (the kind that Oscar Pistorius made famous). Disability comes with additional costs and to be a para athlete is a class (and geographic) privilege that is out of the reach of far too many. Liam Hickey joined the Canadian national para hockey team two years ago and he explained to the CBC that, because he is not always centralized with the team, he pays about $150 an hour for ice time, three to four times a week! There aren’t many people out there who can afford to drop $450-$600 for ice time every week, able-bodied or otherwise. The media may frame it as noble or patriotic to pay to represent your country but the opposite side of that “patriotic” coin is the concession that our current pay-to-play method eliminates many players from the talent pool.
So, if you are looking for a way to give back this holiday season, please consider making your next equipment drive in support of the youth of Puerto Rico. Hockey4All will be ready to accept donations as soon as the rink is ready to host play. Also, consider hosting a tournament or clinic in Aguadilla to take advantage of that rare sand and ice combo. And, if you would like to help with Puerto Rico’s ongoing re-building efforts Painter directs people to The Ricky Martin Foundation.
Big thanks to Philip Painter for his help with this piece and for the photos!
The Aguadilla re-build crew.
The Aguadilla transport crew.
December 26, 2018 in Blog posts. Tags: Aguadilla, Argentina, Colombia, Hispanic, Hurricane Maria, Karina Villegas, LATAM Cup, Latinx, Mexico, para hockey, Philip Painter, Poppy Waterman Arena, Puerto Rico, Venezuela
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Andrey Kukushkin, center, leaves federal court, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, in New York. | Craig Ruttle/AP Photo
A businessman facing federal charges over an alleged plot to trade political donations for help obtaining marijuana licenses around the country was working on a medical cannabis research deal with the Department of Veterans Affairs just weeks before his indictment.
Andrey Kukushkin, a Ukraine-born cannabis investor whose multistate marijuana projects and political donations were allegedly illegally funded by a Russian national, was set to partner with the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center in September on a five-year research and development agreement to study medical cannabis therapies for cancer, according to a copy of the proposed agreement reviewed by POLITICO.
But the proposed partnership, which was set to go into effect on Jan. 15, 2020, and continue until Jan. 14, 2025 with a budget of around $650,000 per year, appears to have been scrapped after Kukushkin was indicted by the Southern District of New York in October for alleged campaign finance violations.
Kukushkin was indicted alongside the businessmen Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman—who have for unrelated reasons become central players in President Donald Trump’s impeachment—and their associate David Correa. All four men have pleaded not guilty. Kukushkin’s lawyer was not immediately available for comment.
The VA’s proposed Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, known as a CRADA, with Kukushkin’s company, Oasis LLC, has not been previously reported. National security experts say the arrangement raises red flags, given the level of access Kukushkin and his alleged Russian funder would have had to government scientists, including one who does work with the Pentagon.
It also suggests that the VA, which has long been seen as stymieing cannabis research, has considered studying the plant’s effect on cancer growth with at least one private marijuana business. The agency appears to have stopped publicly listing its CRADAs in 2017.
A spokesperson for the San Francisco VA Health Care System said in a statement that the proposed agreement was rejected by the system’s research review work group. “The San Francisco VA Health Care System does not have a relationship with the group in question,” said Deputy Public Affairs officer Jason Dominguez.
But the proposal was signed by a top researcher at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, Dr. Yuichiro Tanaka. In a Sept. 18, 2019 email to Kukushkin, obtained by POLITICO, Tanaka attached the research proposal and said he was looking “forward to working on our project.”
Copied on the email was Dr. Rajvir Dahiya, a senior research scientist at the VA and a scientific reviewer and chairman for the Pentagon’s medical research programs in prostate, breast and ovarian cancer, according to his UCSF biography.
Oasis LLC, which lists Kukushkin as its manager, has promoted its research with the VA in the past. When the company was denied a permit in late 2017 that would have allowed it to cultivate medical cannabis at the address listed on the research agreement with the VA, it cited its “leading edge technology and our Veterans Administration CRADA for cancer research at UCSF” in its appeal.
It’s not clear where the cannabis extract for such an agreement would come from. The government keeps a stockpile of marijuana for medical research purposes at the University of Mississippi, and it is the only source allowed for researchers who want to conduct Food and Drug Administration-approved tests. But the proposed agreement between the VA and Oasis LLC does not mention U-Miss.
There are signs that Kukushkin intended to grow it on his own: In March 2019, months before receiving the proposed research partnership from the VA, Kukushkin submitted a detailed plan to the Alameda County board of zoning adjustments to build a 34,213- square-foot greenhouse building with a 22,000-square-foot cannabis canopy and a 6,480-square-foot processing building.
The proposed agreement is surprising to those familiar with cannabis research, as those trying to study the drug run up against federal barriers to research.
Dr. Sue Sisley, who is conducting the first FDA- and DEA-approved clinical trial on cannabis, has criticized federally approved marijuana as subpar. Researchers like her are barred from studying marijuana available on the in-state markets because those businesses violate federal drug laws.
If the VA researcher indeed intended to use marijuana grown by a California cannabis company, “it’s all but certain that it’s illegal,” said Shane Pennington, an attorney who represented Sisley in a lawsuit against the DEA for holding up medical marijuana research.
Researching controlled substances requires sign-off from the DEA, Pennington noted.
According to federal prosecutors, Kukushkin’s marijuana projects—which he was pursuing with Parnas, Fruman and Correia—were funded by a Russian national who has since been identified in press reports as Andrey Muraviev.
Kukushkin had been working with Muraviev to break into California’s cannabis market for at least a few years before his indictment, according to the New York Times. But there is no evidence the VA was aware of Kukushkin’s relationship with the wealthy Russian cement magnate before it proposed partnering with him on the cannabis research project.
Muraviev is the former president and CEO of Sibir Cement, one of Russia’s top cement producers. He is now the president of Parus Capital, a Russian investment fund.
The men “planned to use” Muraviev as “a source of funding for donations and contributions to State and federal candidates and politicians in Nevada, New York, and other states to facilitate acquisitions of retail marijuana licenses,” according to the indictment, which refers only to the person reported to be Muraviev as “Foreign national-1.” But Kukushkin sought to hide Muraviev’s involvement because of Muraviev’s “Russian roots and current political paranoia about it,” prosecutors say.
Experts say that any hidden funding, especially out of Russia, raises the prospect of an intelligence operation. And the burgeoning legal cannabis industry is a “great angle to get intel hooks into people,” said one former national security official, because it provides opportunities to legitimately interact with high-value targets.
“Anything involving Russia and something under the table, such as secret funding, is always suspect and worthy of further investigation,” said another former official.
Kukushkin’s lawyer, defense attorney Gerald Lefcourt, has alleged that intelligence files exist on his client, as well as on Parnas, Fruman and Correia, according to a letter he wrote a federal judge in December—especially because the indictment quotes from conversations they had with each other.
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Mike and I met at work. It was my birthday and he was craving something sweet, so when we came to wish me a happy birthday, his ulterior motive was to score a piece of birthday cake. When I told him my work colleagues had not gotten me cake, he felt bad and got me a donut from the cafeteria that day, with the promise of a better tasting donut the next morning. I chuckled as I tucked his promise in the back of my mind for safe keeping. I was very specific on the type of donut I wanted and I was not really expecting him to remember or go out of his way to get me a donut. The next day, TWO donuts were waiting for me at my office. That was a good morning. We kept talking throughout the day, but I didn’t think anything would come of our friendship. I had a strict no dating co-workers rule I had been very good at keeping to. As fate would have it, about two months later, we started dating. By this time, we had already been friends for a while and, like friends do, we talked and got to know each other. So, when I met him for our first date, I wasn’t as nervous, and I knew what to expect.
What I didn’t expect was the instant chemistry I felt during the date. In a more intimate setting, away from any distractions, we were simply two people into each other. At the end of the night, he kissed me and I felt the stuff that books tell you fairy tales are made of. Fast forward a little less than two years, and we still feel just as lucky as we did the first time we went out.
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We had planned a trip to Europe for one of his buddy’s birthday, and our birthdays, since they are all within a month of each other. I wanted nice photos of us while we were over there since we are horrible at taking anything other than selfies *insert face palm emoji*, so I found a photographer in Instagram and I fell in love with his photos. After a few emails, I had a photo shoot planned for our third night in Paris, at the Louvre and the Palais Royal. I had picked out the perfect dress, perfect shoes, and perfect boyfriend for this thing. He had just gotten new shirts, slacks, and shoes, so it was all aligning perfectly. We. Were. Ready.
Five days before we were supposed to leave, Hurricane Irma hit and we lost power. Thankfully we had minimal property damage, but we had no AC or running water for six days, the dress I had bought was in the mail with no update, and tensions were running high.
Now, every time we have traveled together, it is usually me who has the carry-on bag. He likes to travel light, and he normally takes minimal stuff with him on the plane, so he gives it to me for safekeeping. This time, he had his carry-on packed before I even got home. I was too tired and rushed to ask why the sudden change, so I just let it go and thanked him for all he had done that day to get us ready. Having no power, no running water, and being in the dead heat and muggy weather of Florida was really getting to us, so we packed as fast as we could, hoping we had not forgotten anything. Talk about not being able to wait for vacation to start!
So, with renewed spirits, we started our vacation. When we got to Paris, we took two days to do some sight-seeing, and on our third night we were getting ready for our photo shoot. When we were ready, we met the photographer and started the shoot. We had a lot of fun. Then he showed the photographer something in his phone, so I asked if everything was OK. He told me he had showed him a pose he liked and the photographer just nodded to him and said we could do that. So, we got back into posing.
Minutes later, he got down on one knee, said something I couldn’t make out through my sobs and tears, and (according to him) asked me to marry him. After an additional 10 minutes of crying, puffy eyes, and many kisses, I said yes to the man of my dreams in the most romantic city in the world!
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Wittiest Game Day Signs
There is no better pairing than good-spirited trash talk and sports.
During any given baseball, football or basketball game, the actual competitions happening at any given moment go well beyond the field of play. Indeed, the fiercest of battles are waged between the fans—and those happen to be our favorites. Instead of a sub 4.2 forty, the athleticism of a fan is measured in the written word. Or, for the purposes of this blog, they're measured by their sharpness of wit as laid out on a large, ideally very visible piece of poster board. Isn't it the best when you can see these shining beacons of brilliance in the background of an ESPN interview or on College GameDay? Or sometimes they can be found in the parking lot—or even streaking across the field. (FYI, we don't promote such behavior. But we'll give it to you, it's gutsy). So in the spirit of appreciation of these amazingly funny, witty and often biting placards, we're running down the list of some of our favorite sign concepts in action. And for good measure, we're also sharing a few tips we've picked up along the way to help you create your own.
STEAM ROLLING
Alabama. For. The. Win. Alabama fans are in a different category, for sure. They just crush it whether they are on the field or in the stands. And nothing says "burn" like a genius concoction of professional football, college football, star quarterbacks and lawsuits. This is a dig of epic proportions indeed. For all it's got going on, we call this poster tactic The Multitasker.
THE CLASSIC IRISH BURN
The Classic Irish Burn There's no crying in baseball. And you know what? There isn't any in football either—with one exception if you ask this Tigers fan. And that's the Irish. (The school, not the people who originate from the country of). This represents an excellent use of weaving weather conditions into a Division 1 A dig. Better keep those golden helmets on for that one. We call this one The Rainmaker.
NO ONE IS SAFE
This is a classic example of the nouveau-millennial sign. It likely will whizz right over the heads of Hungry Fans who still remember watching Bo Jackson crush it at two professional sports, so we'll break it down for you. Nowadays, Tinder is pretty much the lowest rung of the dating app ladder. Or in other words, it's a late-night-swipe kind of app. So paying for the premium version of Tinder would essentially brand someone a big creep—and doubly-so if this person is already a known quantity (aka a famous person). We call this one The Savant.
Like a flea-flicker on the first play of the game, some of the wittiest sign makers play the long game in an effort to thoroughly confuse their opponents. This sign comes straight out of Harvard, so we're just assuming it is a genius dig at someone on the opposing team. We really have no idea so we'll call this one The Touché.
THE PACIFIST
Sometimes you want your sign to absolutely obliterate the confidence of the opposing team. Other times, you just want to have a funny sign that people will point at and laugh. "I just hope both teams have fun" will definitely have people rolling, except maybe during bowl games and Rivalry Weekend. That's when you decidedly will not get love from friend or foe. We call this one The Peacemaker.
THE ODE TO STAN LEE (RIP)
For all of you out there that have tailgated outside of Comic Con, you must agree that the adversary of the University of Iowa who crafted the sign above is half-man, half fan, with a sprinkling of geeky-genius. Most kids fall in love with sports and comic books at the same time, so the reference within the sign was built for multi-generational appeal. Way better than The Savant Sign, we'll call this one The Stan Lee.
THE MOVIE BUFF
We happily admit that this sign gave us a case of the chuckles. The ones that last for a bit. (Actually still chuckling while writing this fan sign review). You've got to hand it to him; the fan holding this sign really went for it with the full banana costume and the gruesome deadpan stare. Good for him, and again, too bad for Notre Dame. We call this one The Movie Buff.
We will be making this an ongoing series and we want to see what YOU can come up with. Send us your favorite game day sign pics via DM on Instagram or email us at hello@hungryfan.com.
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Theater to Table: A Baseball Lover’s Guide to Food
If you cook it, they will come…
The aroma of the barbecue pit beyond the right field bleachers as it tickles your nose; the nutty crunch of Cracker Jacks in your mouth and the sweetness they leave on your tongue; the refreshing quench of an ice-cold beer, cooling you down one drop at a time. These are just some of the immensely satisfying game day sensations that allure thousands of fans through baseball stadium turnstiles across America each season.
Ballpark promises of delicious delights and icy refreshments bring us about as much satisfaction as do baseball films, which invite our souls to pull up a chair to a table where fantasy meets reality.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of two of the most iconic baseball films ever made, Field of Dreams and Major League. Incidentally, the site of Ray Kinsella's diamond in the cornfields of Iowa and the base paths of Willie Mays Hayes' steal happen to also play host to some of the best food and drink spots in the country. So below we've pulled together for you some of our favorite instances of when baseball on film pairs perfectly with yummy eats in real life. Call this a GPS for a culinary home run.
Field of Dreams site in Dyersville, Iowa. Shot by JoeyBLS.
MOVIE: Field of Dreams
LOCATION: Dyersville, Iowa
FOOD: Great American Popcorn Company, located at 110 S Main Street, features more popcorn flavors than there were ballplayers emerging from the cornfields! There's everything from bacon and cheddar to cheesy garlic bread and cherry cheesecake.
BEER: Visit the Textile Brewing Company (opening July 2019) located at the site of the Dyersville Gasoline Engine Factory for some local craft beer selections.
FUN FACT: Other than Iowa, Field of Dreams was also filmed in Boston at the historical Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox.
PRO TIP: If you have the urge to "go the distance" like Ray Kinsella in the movie, a Fenway Frank is the traditional hot dog of choice at "America's most beloved ballpark."
MOVIE: Major League
FOOD: Dante's Inferno Pizza on Old River Road in "Believeland" is home to the "Inferno" Pizza, which is topped with kalamata olives, hot peppers, pepperoni, sausage, chili flakes and basil. It will taste like heater from the "Wild Thing."
BEER: Wash your pizza slices down with a Dortmunder Lager from Great Lakes Brewing Company located on Market Avenue in Cleveland.
FUN FACT: The baseball scenes in the first two Major League films were shot in Milwaukee (County Stadium) and Baltimore (Oriole Park at Camden Yards) respectively.
PRO TIP: If the cuisine on the shores of Lake Erie don't entice your taste buds, head to Baltimore and try some Maryland crab cakes with a "Loose Cannon" from Heavy Seas Beer.
MOVIE: A League of Their Own
FOOD: Get your day started 1940's-style with a tasty selection from the all-day breakfast menu at Johnny Pamcakes, a classic diner located in Rockford on East State Street.
BEER: If you're thirsty following your trip back in time, check out Prairie Brewing Company in downtown Rockford on the banks of Rock River.
FUN FACT: The try-out scenes for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League were filmed at fictitious "Harvey Field," or as you may have recognized, the real-life Wrigley Field in Chicago, IL.
PRO TIP: If you should find yourself trekking through the Midwest, be sure to take a pit stop in the Windy City for some deep dish at D'Agostino's Pizza and Pub in Wrigleyville!
MOVIE: The Natural
LOCATION: New York (filmed in Buffalo, NY)
FOOD: You cannot escape Western NY without indulging in your favorite flavor of chicken wings. As the story goes, Buffalo Wings were (allegedly) invented in 1964 at the famous Anchor Bar, located at 1047 Main Street in Buffalo.
BEER: As your body temperature rises with the consumption of each hot wing, you'll need to cool off with one of the 38 beers in the Big Ditch Brewing portfolio, We recommend the Hayburner (American IPA) or the 100% NY (New York State Pale Ale).
FUN FACT: The baseball scenes in The Natural were shot at War Memorial Stadium and All-High Stadium in Buffalo. War Memorial Stadium was the former home of the Buffalo Bills (NFL) and Buffalo Bisons (AAA – Toronto Blue Jays). All-High Stadium doubled as Wrigley Field in the film.
MOVIE: Fever Pitch
FOOD: Seafood is the cornerstone for any foodie visit to "Beantown," even if Bostonians claim so much more as their own. A deep bowl of clam chowder (pronounced "chowdah") from any of these top chowder spots is a good starting point before taking the "T" to Fenway Park.
BEER: First introduced in 1984, Samuel Adams (Boston Beer Company) became one of the early leaders in the craft beer revolution. Beat the "summah" heat with pint of Boston Lager or Sam Summer Ale, from the official beer of the Red Sox.
FUN FACT: The ending of the movie was rewritten after Game 4 of the 2004 World Series in St. Louis. Fox TV cameras spotted Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore rushing the field to celebrate with the Red Sox. This scene, which fans may have noticed live on the broadcast, was later added to the film to commemorate the famous (losing) "curse" being broken.
MOVIE: Bull Durham
LOCATION: Durham, North Carolina
FOOD: Carolina barbecue is the only way to start your night before catching a game of the Durham Bulls, the beloved local Minor League team. To get your BBQ feast on, try Hog Heaven Bar-B-Q, located at 2419 Guess Road, which serves up homestyle favorites six days a week.
BEER: Bull City Burger and Brewery has variety of European inspired beers, including ciders and even smoked beer!
FUN FACT: Kevin Costner has appeared in four baseball related films besides Bull Durham, including the aforementioned Field of Dreams, For Love of the Game, and Chasing Dreams. We'd argue that his depiction of "Crash" Davis in Bull Durham could be one of sports movies' most memorable.
MOVIE: Mr. Baseball
FOOD: Since Jack Elliot's career began with the Yankees, it seems only fitting to seek out some of the best and most authentic Japanese food in the Big Apple, New York City. And if you're going to do it, go all the way with an authentic omakase. One of our favorites is any of the Sushi of Gari locations throughout the city—the city which happens to hold 29 World Series titles (Yankees 27, Mets 2).
BEER: If flying to Japan provides the authenticity you crave, then you have to try Japan's most popular beer, Asahi Super "Dry," which has been quenching the thirsts of the Japanese since 1889. (Technically, the predecessor of Asahi Breweries, Osaka Beer Brewing Company, was founded then and it used time-honored German brewing techniques to introduce Asahi Beer. Eventually the beer came to be known as Asahi, which was quickly embraced as a top-quality domestic beer and by 1903 had become the best-selling beer in Japan).
FUN FACT: Tom Selleck, often remembered for wearing a Detroit Tigers hat in the TV series Magnum, P.I., portrays the New York Yankees' veteran first baseman "Jack Elliot" in Mr. Baseball. He would later wear another iconic style uniform for baseball scenes shot in Japan. Note that the Chunichi Dragons threads look eerily similar to the Los Angeles Dodgers…
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The Rookie (2002, Texas)
The Bad News Bears (1973, Southern California)
Little Big League (1994, Minnesota)
Moneyball (2011, Oakland/Bay Area)
61* (2001, New York City)
Eight Men Out (1998, Chicago)
42, (2013, Montreal and Brooklyn)
Angels in the Outfield (1994, Anaheim)
…and one our absolute personal favs: The Sandlot (1993, San Fernando Valley, CA)
And there you have it. Not only does the film depiction of spectacular events on an Iowa cornfield and others like it inspire us movie goers to take a trip deep into the depths of our souls—but the locations that inspired these movies will also transport you to some of the best game day eats you'll on either side of the Mississippi.
Happy Game Day and bon appetit, Hungry Fans!
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From CKWS News March 01, 2011.
WHEN CONTACTED AT HOME, MORRIS REFUSED TO BE INTERVIEWED BY CKWS BUT HE DID RELEASE A BRIEF STATEMENT…. EXPRESSING SURPRISE OVER HIS SUDDEN DISMISSAL.
“I AM INCREDIBLY SURPRISED BY THIS DEVELOPMENT ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING THE OVERALL RATING OF “VERY GOOD” I RECEIVED FROM THE TOWNSHIP ON A FORMAL PERFORMANCE EVALUATION CONDUCTED IN OCTOBER 2010.’
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” I AM SEEKING FORMAL LEGAL ADVICE ON THIS MATTER. ”
For the fourth time in five years, the Township of Leeds and the Thousand Islands is in the market for a chief administrative officer.
The municipality is looking for a replacement for Malcolm Morris, who took over as CAOni in May 2010.
On Friday, a notice appeared on the township’s website stating “Effective February 25, 2011, Malcolm Morris is no longer with the Township of Leeds and the Thousand Islands as our CAO.
“Our structure has been under review and this will be a high priority for council to complete.”
The notice did not give a reason for Morris’ departure.
No one is saying why the position became vacant so suddenly. A message left at Morris’ home on Monday was not returned. Messages left with Mayor Bruce Bryan were not returned, either.
Council held a special meeting in camera Thursday night to discuss, according to the council agenda, “personal matters about an identifiable individual, including municipal or local board employees as it pertains to human resources.”
Council then went into open session and passed a resolution stating “Council approved the confidential discussion regarding the position of CAO as presented.”
The notice about Morris’ departure appeared on the township’s website the next morning.
Morris left his position as director of transportation with the City of Kingston last spring to take the CAO job. He was one of 46 candidates who applied to replace former CAO Stephen Clark, who was elected MPP for Leeds Grenville in a byelection earlier in the year.
“I am delighted and honoured to be here,” Morris said following his hiring. He said he was looking forward to a “fun ride” and “making the township the very best it can be.”
Morris was hired by a search committee that included all seven members of council, five of whom were replaced in last October’s municipal election.
Former mayor Frank Kinsella, who was defeated by Bryan in the election, was on the search committee.
Kinsella sent a letter to the Whig-Standard on Monday expressing his concern over what he called a “dismissal.”
“Many area residents are shocked to hear that the Council of the Township of Leeds and Thousand Islands dismissed the Chief Administrative Officer, Malcolm Morris,” he wrote.
“This is stunning news because Mr. Morris has an outstanding reputation from his previous work for the City of Kingston, he was given a very positive performance review for his work in this Township on October 21st, 2010, and community groups and residents attending Council meetings have observed that Mr. Morris has shown himself to be balanced, knowledgeable and (a) professional representative on municipal matters.”
The new council members who worked with Morris for the past four months are Bryan and councillors Heidi Conarroe, Harold Emmons, Brigitte Lesage-Tye and Wendy Merkley. Only Tom Lawler and Velma Kelsey remain from the previous council.
Morris was the latest through the township’s revolving door of CAOs. Clark took the post in the summer of 2009, replacing John Theriault, who left in May of that year to become CAO of Champlain Township, east of Ottawa. Theriault held the Leeds and Thousand Islands job for three years after replacing John Trudgeon.
The Township of Leeds and the Thousand Islands, which has a population of approximately 10,000, is bordered by Seeleys Bay to the west, Lyndhurst to the north, Lansdowne to the south and Charleston Lake to the east.
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This is Ingenious! How a Short Film shot on Zoom became the #1 Movie in America
Christian Nilsson will forever have the bragging rights that he had a number 1 movie in America
WESTHAMPTON BEACH, NY — An enterprising young Long Island filmmaker had the No. 1 movie in America last week — despite theaters being closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. And the story of how he did it is not only brilliant but a reminder that everything can be hacked.
“Want to hear something absurd?” Christian posted on Facebook. “Last week, I had the #1 movie in America.”
It all started when Nilsson and YouTuber Eric Tabach were chatting about how movie theaters across the country were closed due to the pandemic. “We joked any film put in a theater would instantly top the box office,” Nilsson said. “Realizing the unique situation presented a loophole, we hatched a plan.”
The pair decided that if they rented out a theater in what the film distribution world calls “four-walling”, they could keep every dollar they made from ticket sales. “If we bought every seat, the money would funnel right back into our own pockets,” Christian said.
The next day, Nilsson wrote a short horror film titled “Unsubscribe.” He shot it a week later, completely over Zoom. The plot of the film centers on five YouTubers who join an online video call and find themselves haunted and hunted by a mysterious internet troll. The film stars Charlie Tahan (“Ozark”, “I Am Legend”) and several notable YouTubers including Tabach, Michelle Khare (HBO Max’s “Karma”), Zach Kornfeld (“The Try Guys”), Thomas Brag (“Yes Theory”) and others.
“Last week, Eric and I bought out a theater in Westhampton Beach and screened to an empty audience,” he said. “The next day, it was the number one box office movie in America, as reported by ‘The Numbers.'”
Initially, IMDb told him it wouldn’t post the film because “they couldn’t verify we actually got the cast,” Nilsson said. “But in the days since, they’ve included it. So now Box Office Mojo, the widely-recognized box office tracker, has us at #1,” he said.
Describing the experience, Nilsson said: “We saw an absurd loophole in the system that at any other time would be impossible to exploit and thought it would be funny. Last year, the number one film at this time was ‘The Secret Life of Pets 2’. This year, it was a $0 budget horror film made over Zoom.”
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Unfortunately, Keanu Reeves’ John Wick: Chapter 4 and Keanu Reeves’ Matrix 4 no longer scheduled to open the same day.
Lionsgate dropped a number of ridiculous new release dates yesterday. Because they did this while I was doing “dad’s work,” think of this as the “yesterday’s news today” post. Yes Before the war now scheduled for 21 August 2020, only a week after Wonder Woman 1984. And yes, as feared, Guards of Hitman’s Wives has been moved from 28 August 2020 to 21 August 2020. Meanwhile, Lionsgate does not have the courage to move Spiral: From the Book of Saw until 30 October 2020 and will instead schedule it for May 21, 2021 instead. To be fair, they put a new thriller Deon Taylor Fatale (starring Michael Ealy and Hillary Swank) that Halloween weekend, so it was a relative victory. Unfortunately, ever since Spiral now scheduled for next May, John Wick: Chapter 4 was moved to May 27, 2022.
The bad news is we now have to wait one more year for the next John Wick installment. The good news is, consider it also not delayed from the May 21, 2021 slot, Warner Bros. ‘ Matrix 4 no longer playing chicken with Lionsgate John Wick 4. Yes, Warner Bros. dropped the sequel directed by Lana Wachowki into the frame of the same pre-Memorial Day weekend that was occupied by John Wick 4. It makes sense for both franchises. Reloaded Matrix broke the record in 2003 with the debut of Fri-Sun $ 91 million / $ 134 million Kam-Sun on the main release date. John Wick: Chapter 3 opened with $ 56 million last May in the same frame before reaching $ 171 million domestically. Needless to say, we won’t really get the first two opening “Keanu Reeves” on the same day.
Idea about Matrix 4 and John Wick 4 opening on the same day is about possibility Batman v Superman open together with American civil war captain in May 2016. And since then Matrix 4 was in the middle of production when the coronavirus pandemic caused and halted production throughout the industry, temporarily John Wick 4 (best) In initial development, a sci-fi franchise will always be open before the franchise action. Of course, it’s always possible Warner Bros. has to delay Matrix 4 and move the big budget sequel to May 27, 2022 too. Or maybe Matrix 4 will stick to the summer slot of 2021 while Orion moves Bill and Ted Facing Music until May 21, 2021. Okay, now I’m just annoying just to amuse myself.
I will note that Lionsgate’s big release date randomly shuffles leaving Aneesh Chaganty Run undated, which is bad news for people who eagerly await the next film from the person who directs the dynamite Looking for, but don’t try. Heck, at this level the delay and rescheduling (bye bye Batman and Spider-Man 3), Matrix 4 might end up being one of the biggest films of the summer by default, along with Marvel Shang-Chi and the Ten Ring Legend, Lighting Waiter 2 and (if still a course) Universal Jurassic World: Dominion. But the great battle of Keanu Reeves vs Keanu Reeves will not take place, as far as has ever happened. We have to wait until 2022 until the next one John Wick film. Hopefully we still get Matrix movie next year.
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TORONTO, Feb. 21, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MediPharm Labs Corp. (TSXV: LABS) (OTCQB: MLCPF) (FSE:MLZ) (“MediPharm Labs”), a leader in specialized, research-driven cannabis extraction, distillation, purification and cannabinoid isolation, is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary, MediPharm Labs Inc. (“MediPharm Labs” or the “Company”), has entered into its first definitive international sales agreement, dated February 20, 2019, with AusCann Group Holdings Ltd. ("AusCann") to supply private label purified, pharmaceutical grade cannabis oil concentrates, or resin, from MediPharm Labs’ own inventory of oil for export to Australia. AusCann will use MediPharm Labs’ concentrates to manufacture hard-shell cannabinoid capsules to address the medical patient demand and critical need for precision and consistency of dose in cannabinoid medicines.
“MediPharm Labs has quickly established a global reputation as the go-to producer of high quality, pharmaceutical grade cannabis concentrates at commercial scale. We are thrilled to have been selected by AusCann as a supplier of choice for their medical products and clinical trials,” said Patrick McCutcheon, Chief Executive Officer of MediPharm Labs. “As the first extraction-only LP to begin exporting to Australia, this agreement marks an important milestone that accelerates our expectations for future growth. Looking ahead, we expect to begin supplying additional international markets to build our robust global distribution platform.”
“MediPharm Labs’ significant market share combined with proprietary methodology ensures reliable supply of pharma-grade cannabinoid extracts and AusCann’s continued ability to develop and deliver quality cannabinoid medicines for distribution in Australia,” said Dr. Paul MacLeman, Interim CEO of AusCann. “Critical to our process is repeatability in manufacturing, reliable dosing, and purity assurance. MediPharm Labs’ concentrates will form an important foundation to our products that will allow delivery of effective, trusted and safe medicines for the treatment of chronic pain.”
This marks the Company’s first international export agreement and establishes MediPharm Labs as the first extraction-only licensed producer in Canada to commence exporting pharmaceutical grade cannabis oil to Australia. To date, MediPharm Labs has completed 5 private label sales agreement since receiving its sales license in November 2018. The first export of cannabis concentrate is expected be completed in the coming months, subject to regulatory requirements. The agreement has a two-year term. The Company expects to continue expanding its international distribution of its proprietary cannabis concentrate products for resale globally on a private label basis for medical markets. Initially this demand will be serviced from its wholly-owned, leading facility in Canada, and once its Australian laboratory, now under construction, is fully licensed and operational, Australia and Asia-Pacific demand can be addressed regionally.
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AusCann Group Holdings Limited (ASX:AC8) is an Australian-based pharmaceutical company that is working to produce high quality, economical, and clinically validated cannabinoid medicines. AusCann is bringing together leading expertise and operations across all aspects of the medical cannabis value chain, beginning with cultivation and production, through to manufacture and distribution of products. Through partnerships with industry experts, existing leading market participants and doctors, AusCann is building operations and educating the medical community about the benefits of cannabinoid medicines. Incorporated in 2014, AusCann holds all necessary licenses to grow and manufacture cannabinoid medicines in Australia. The company is initially targeting medications for neuropathic and chronic pain in Australia and Chile, whilst exploring global export opportunities.
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Founded in 2015, MediPharm Labs has the distinction of being the first company in Canada to become a licensed producer for cannabis oil production under the ACMPR without first receiving a cannabis cultivation licence. This expert focus on cannabis concentrates from our cGMP (current Good Manufacturing Practices) and ISO standard clean rooms and critical environments laboratory, allows MediPharm Labs to produce purified, pharmaceutical-grade cannabis oil and concentrates for advanced derivative products. MediPharm Labs has invested in an expert, research-driven team, state-of-the-art technology, downstream extraction methodologies and purpose-built facilities to deliver pure, safe and precisely-dosed cannabis products to patients and consumers. MediPharm Labs’ private label program is a high margin business for the Company, whereby it opportunistically procures dry cannabis flower and trim from its numerous product supply partners, to produce proprietary cannabis oil concentrate products for resale globally on a private label basis. MediPharm Labs was recently named START-UP OF THE YEAR at the Canadian Cannabis Awards.
Through its subsidiary, MediPharm Labs Australia Pty. Ltd., MediPharm has also completed its application process with the federal Office of Drug Control to extract and import medical cannabis products in Australia.
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I believe Mel Brooks once said: “There are only three gags in the world. Everything comics do relies on three jokes.”
Apparently I’m the only one who ever heard him say it because two online sites of famous Mel Brooks quotes had no reference to it.
However, I digress.
Segueing what Mel said into the plots chosen by US film makers one wonders if the entire spectrum of American movies are made up of only three ideas:
Boy meets Girl. Loses Girl. Gets her back again
Loner/individual takes on the government/CIA/richest man in town and wins
Hapless Mother/Father unites with adorable Daughter/Son to form the kind of relationship they should have had since the child’s birth.
The Confirmation (2016) fits into Category 3 and has an added twist with perhaps a fourth plot idea: Shamelessly remake European films with an American background.
Walt (Clive Owen) is a reforming drinker asked to look after eight-year-old son Anthony (Jaeden Lieberher) for a weekend while ex-wife Bonnie (Maria Bello) and new boyfriend Kyle (Matthew Modine) go to a couples’ seminar organised by their local church.
Anthony is poised to make his confirmation and, despite being mystified by the church and its goings on, seems happy to do it for his Mum.
DOWN ON HIS LUCK: SON WITH FATHER, JAEDEN LIEBERHER AND CLIVE OWENS
The movie is book-ended by scenes of Anthony making his confession. While under Bonnie’s care he genuinely has nothing to confess; after a weekend with Walt his revelations are extraordinary.
Early in the action, Walt accepts a much-needed job where his craftsmanship and vintage woodworking tools are all he needs. However, the tools are stolen from the back of his pick-up.
The Confirmation is about a down-on-his-luck good man and his angelic, smart-as-a-whip son trying to get them back. The Bicycle Thief (1948), an Italian film by Vittorio da Sica had the same plot. In post-WWII Rome, a man accepts a job for which he needs a bicycle. When his is stolen he is devastated and, with his young son in tow, hunts the city to get it back.
“The sequence resonates for anyone who has seen “The Bicycle Thief.” Such films stand outside time. A man loves his family and wants to protect and support them. Society makes it difficult. Who cannot identify with that?” – Roger Ebert
Ebert’s quote could well be describing The Confirmation. As the film progresses you feel for Walt and the bad luck that keeps him from getting justice. He loves his family and would give anything to protect and support them. But society makes it difficult.
We are shown by writer-director Bob Nelson (Nebraska) another side of small-town American life. It’s very tough out there and often good people do bad things because they’re desperate. The man who is eventually shown to have stolen the tools is at the end of his tether and his wife tries to explain his actions by saying “We’re going back to Idaho to stay with my parents” – a fate she makes sound even more terrible than the poverty they are already in.
Along the way, Walt and Anthony meet some colourful people all trying to do their best in Battlersville, USA. The most engaging is Drake (Patton Oswalt), a chirpy nutcase who has a list of leads that lead the trio to challenge a Boeing engineer in the leafy side of town, then two brothers who look menacing but who know and understand Drake’s foibles.
Oswalt (perhaps well-known from TV series Veep, Two and a Half Men, United States of Tara and The King of Queens) is just oneof a handful of talented actors who we all know is familiar but cannot quite place from what roles make them so familiar.
For me, the strangest of these was Modine, who is a well-known name to many moviegoers but, apart from one of his early roles in Full Metal Jacket (1987) hasn’t got a great CV.
The kids – Lieberher and Spencer Drever (as Allen) – play their roles well in what is a fair-to-middling movie about redemption.
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Gautam Hans
on criticizing the culture of criticism in the Columbia Spectator. Gautam is a very regular reader and commenter here, a well-read Columbia senior who has interned at the Village Voice and Soft Skull, two institutions (can I call Soft Skull an institution?) dear to my heart; expect great literary things from him in the future. (Thanks to the Literary Saloon for the link.)
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Nick Mamatas interviews Poppy Z. Brite at the Voice website.
The limbic system stands up for its rights
Last night I felt strangely weary and determined on going to bed much earlier than usual (i.e. midnight rather than 3am, sleep is not my happiest topic), and yet it was clear I wouldn't be able to fall asleep at once so I picked up a random non-fiction book someone recently loaned me (I needed to read it so as to give it back, and in general I find non-fiction better bedtime reading than novels as being easier to pick up and put down again rather than reading all at once). It was both the wrong book and the incredibly right one, I read for several hours last night and have just now finished it and am again illicitly and decadently blogging during what should be real work hours (this is part of the point of having a sabbatical, I tell myself guiltily, that one should be able to indulge oneself like this) because it was so wonderfully good and stimulating--everyone who writes or for that matter does any other kind of imaginative work like painting or composing should read it at once!
The book is The Midnight Disease : The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty. I remember reading about this when it came out in 2004 and making a mental note that it sounded interesting; it's really remarkably good. It's not a self-help book for writers, it's not a popular science book about writer's block, it's a grippingly interesting and highly stimulating book by an appealingly intellectual and scientific-minded neurologist whose personal experiences radically overturned her understanding of the relationship between reason and the emotions.
She remains the intellectual and science-minded person she was before, in other words (perhaps more than she realizes), but her understanding of her own relationship with language and perception and writing is remarkably enriched by a painful personal history of bereavement and mental illness. In this sense the book is reminiscent of others I have also liked very much, most obviously Kay Redfield Jameson's An Unquiet Mind (and all of KRJ's books are very good reading though sometimes uneven) and The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon (if you haven't read the latter, do get it and read it, it is fascinating and excellent for many reasons and somewhat unexpectedly includes a really stellar chapter on poverty and depression in which Solomon hits on the kind of stuff you more readily associate with writers like Katharine Boo and Adrian LeBlanc).
Flaherty isn't a miraculous sentence-writer, I think this book is rather less well-written at that level than, say, Oliver Sacks's stuff, and the first half of the book has a few too many paragraphs that sound stilted and textbook-like; but she is a clear and interesting and extremely engaging writer who is really visibly thinking with every sentence, and in my opinion these are the best books of all, these ones where the energy and mental stimulation carry you along with the writer through a huge range of important topics. (She does have that slightly annoying sense of humor I associate with Steven Pinker--introducing the throwaway Woody-Allen-type line as an aside at the end of a paragraph, to illustrate a point--but then this is always a blind spot for me, it made me have to stop reading a book I should have loved, Mary Roach's Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers--Roach is a smart and imaginative investigator but her jokes struck me as intolerably whimsical--on the other hand sometimes jokes become so genuinely awful they are funny again, I am thinking in this case of a book I adore that is studded with the most truly awful and groan-worthy jokes, a book I also recommend on topics related to the main ones at hand in this post: V. S. Ramachandran's wonderful Phantoms in the Brain.)
I had a slight superstitious sense that it would be unwise to pick up a book about writer's block when I wasn't obviously blocked myself, but that quickly vanished as I found myself immersed in Flaherty's imaginative world. (Though she perceptively points out that writer's block and hypergraphia are less opposites than symptoms of a more generally disordered relationship with writing, I am obviously--at least 90% of the time, there's always the other 10% when things are considerably more difficult--more afflicted with the too-much of reading and writing than the too-little. This entry is going to be excessively long.) I don't think I can do anything better here than provide some of the passages that most struck me, and encourage you to get hold of a copy and take a look for yourself.
Here's one from early on where I was laughing with the sense of self-recognition (and Flaherty is appealingly self-conscious and humorous even when it's at her own expense, you see the tone here):
[A] sense of vocation doesn't guarantee happiness at work. Nor does it guarantee being good at the job. Perhaps it merely gives its possesor a subtle feeling of megalomania, a sense of being in some manner chosen for a higher goal. Sense of vocation as disease. How is vocation related to workaholism, and is hypergraphia a special case of either? To some extent "workaholism" is a term others use to describe people who prefer to describe themselves as having a vocation. The others are saying that he doesn't enjoy himself as much as he thinks, that he works to relieve anxiety, not for pleasure or a goal. Yet even those with a true vocation never feel only the joy of work without occasionally feeling its terror. When your work is part of who you are, and you feel you are working badly, you become foul to yourself. This is part of the tight link between hypergraphia and writer's block. (57)
And again:
When others' obsessions are not ours, we are sad for them, and we talk of how empty their lives will be if they don't achieve their empty goal: the gymnastics prize, the firm partnership. But there is a monomania in which it is the focus, the sense of transport, that is the real pleasure. The kind of compulsive reading in which you lose yourself, which brings no medals or talk-show appearances, is one example of that. (177)
As part of a reflection on disordered relationships with reading among different populations:
Whether compulsive reading in normals is related to hyperlexia in autism is not clear. Most likely it is a combination of innate predisposition and learning and, occasionally, the desire to escape into a different world. One writer tells of seeing a four-year-old boy who tried to climb inside a large picture book. He opened it to his favorite page, spread it open on the floor, and stepped in. When nothing happened, he cried in bewilderment. Some of us spend our lives trying to climb inside books, often rather successfully. It is a passion that can extend from nearly the cradle to the grave. The poet Leigh Hunt said he "wanted to be caught dead while holding a book." He was. (175)
On writing and gender (or more generally the way that personal experience may or may not feed into more obviously impersonal forms of scientific writing):
Why was I writing a female-style book full of unsolicited personal confessions about how emotions and childbirth and PMS and choosing daycare centers . . . had changed my writing? Why couldn't I have written a purely objective scientific treatise, or chosen a less female topic--fly fishing, perhaps? Of course, it's possible for women to write like men; my own first book was clipped and distant. Yet I have the disturbing feeling that something has been turning me from a writer into a woman writer. Is it the hormones in the pregnancies? The activity of raising young children? Part of me wishes that whatever is doing it would stop. But part wonders why scientists are uspposed to hide the reasons why they care about their reseaech. And why fly flishing is considered of general interest, anyway. (133)
(Elsewhere, though, she admits that the dry neurology textbook is itself a record of three joyful years as a neurology resident; and this rings true for me, that the pleasure of a particular project may not always be evident in the form it takes.)
And after a set of reflections on reason and the emotions that covers ground from Paul Ekman and Darwin on the emotions to William James, Antonio Damasio and Martha Nussbaum on emotions and decision-making:
Decreasing the exaggerated opposition between "rational" and "emotional" writing might make scientists write differently. An economist who cloaks his deeply felt personal beliefs in dry technical prose might be at once more honest and rhetorically more effective if he let some of his passion show through. Would the reverse cross-pollination help writing in the humanities? It might not benefit lyric poetry, with its explicit concern for "true for me" rather than "true." But in other genres, even the most devoted disciple of someone like Lacan (and I admit to a secret fondness for him) must sometimes wish for a thread of logical argument in his writing. (195)
And the passage from which I drew the title for this post:
Before my postpartum break I saw the unnaturalness of scientific thought as beautiful, a way to escape the limitations of the messy brain not only by the discoveries that the brain generates, but through the way the very activity changes the brain's shape, like a dancer going en point. Now that my limbic system stands up for its rights more, I suppose the same image still applies, but part of me draws the opposite conclusion. Who would want to do that to her poor feet? (227)
The deliberate bloodlessness of scientific writing now seems less a necessary imperfection in the search for objectivity than a crime against humanity. (235)
And in conclusion, the book's credo:
The scientist in me worries that my happiness is nothing more than a symptom of bipolar disease, hypergraphia from a postpartum disorder. The rest of me thinks that artificially splitting off the scientist in me from the writer in me is actually a kind of cultural bipolar disorder, one that too many of us have. The scientist asks how I can call my writing vocation and not addiction. I no longer see why I should have to make that distinction. I am addicted to breathing in the same way. I write because when I don't, it is suffocating. I write because something much larger than myself comes into me that suffuses the page, the world, with meaning. Although I constantly fear that what I am writing teeters at the edge of being false, this force that drives me cannot be anything but real, or nothing will ever be real for me again. (266)
About Octavia
Ed has a really wonderful musing about Octavia Butler at Return of the Reluctant; and if you scroll down to the bottom, you'll find a lot more links.
Oh, I was really hoping this terrible news
would be fictitious, like I was just imagining I'd seen it, but now Justine as well as Ed have blogged it (and the original report comes from Steven Barnes's blog). Octavia Butler is dead. But she was much too young! It is an injustice. Butler is one of those special writers for me, I remember first reading Parable of the Sower and being just startled with a sense of recognition: this is my kind of writer. I don't have it that often, actually; I mean, obviously, I love a ton of different kinds of books, but what I'm talking about here is different, it's seeing something (I don't know what to call it; perhaps some combination of intellectual energy and storytelling and sensibility?) that is exactly, exactly what I aspire to get myself in my writing. The idea that we will not have the five or six or seven more novels that surely Butler would have written--oh, it is too sad to contemplate.
Here's Ed's recent podcast interview with Butler, anyway, which I haven't listened to yet but seems to cover an amazing range of topics. Here's me loving her last novel Fledgling in December, and here's the Amazon link for Fledgling (which has my highest recommendation, it is a wonderfully good novel--with vampires).
Amazing recollections of Samuel Beckett
at the Guardian. Here, for instance, is the actress Billie Whitelaw ("In Not I (1973) she was covered in a hood, shrouded in black and placed high up in a chair on a podium. It was a very demanding role and on one occasion she collapsed"):
Sam and I used to work in the afternoon at my home. We used to go back and say [the play] together all the time. I'll tell you what, in my emotional memory, happened when I collapsed at rehearsal. It was nothing to do with Sam, nothing to do with Not I; it was to do with sensory deprivation. If you are blindfolded and have a hood over your face, you hyperventilate, you suffer from sensory deprivation. And I hung on and hung on until I couldn't any longer. I just went to pieces because I was convinced I was like an astronaut tumbling out into space. That's when I fell down; I couldn't go on. They lifted me down and, I think Jocelyn [Herbert, the designer] or Robbie [Hendry, the stage manager] or somebody, got me a brandy and milk, and I remember Sam walked down the central aisle of the Royal Court saying, 'Oh Billie, what have I done to you, what have I done to you?' And I drank the brandy and milk and said, 'OK, that's another barrier cracked. Back up in there, but can we have a little slit in there and a little blue light so that I know I'm here, because I can see that?' So the reason for the breakdown had nothing to do with the play or the rehearsal, it had to do with the pure technicality of being blindfolded, hooded, speaking at great speed and hyperventilating.
1. Something like that once happened to me when I was acting (only less dramatic of course), it was a two-person play written by my friend David Gammons and loosely based on Jeffrey Dahmer's story with cross-gender casting. Tanya Selvaratnam played the killer, I played the victim; in an ideal world, we would have switched off on alternate nights, but in the actual world we had only a couple weeks for rehearsals and the killer had the lion's share of the lines and Tanya has an uncannily good memory (of the read-it-over-twice-even-if-it's-thirty-pages-long-and-she-can-say-the-lines type) whereas I have a normal one and am lazy about memorizing, so it was obvious we would do it that way. I spent most of the first half tied to a chair with my mouth duct-taped shut, and on the opening night I really had a scary fit of hyperventilation (I have never experienced such a thing before or since, normally I am ridiculously sturdy), I was afraid I was having a stroke or something (the intense heat and lights, the claustrophobic over-populated underground theater space--yes, it was the Kronauer Space in Adams House, if you happen to know it)--and when the duct tape came off, I could barely speak, my facial muscles were temporarily paralyzed. Very scary; but very effective on stage, I am told, and even at the time I was aware that it was playing well.
2. I saw the altogether amazing Marian Seldes as Mouth in Not I and was blown away by it, it was my very favorite part of the superb Beckett/Albee show a few years ago. The thing you don't think of when you read it on the page: that you will get to see so much of the dental work of the performer. Seriously, though, the glinting metal and the voice and the bit of mouth that you can see through the hole in the curtain: completely mesmerizing. That night was on my short list of best theater experiences ever. Aside from everything else, there's a fun moment in Albee's Counting the Ways, which was performed as the second half of the evening, where the performers step forward and speak out of character and off the top of their heads. Marian Seldes modestly introduced herself and spoke for a minute or so, then handed over to Brian Murray, who gloweringly tore into an audience member whose cellphone had unfortunately rung at a particularly exposed moment at the end of Murray's performance of A Piece of Monologue (another one of the Beckett shorts in the first half). Then he got a demonic grin on his face--it was the day of the California recall election--and said, "And I've got two other words for you." We all waited somewhat in terror--he really had seemed very angry with the cellphone guy, who was no doubt cowering in his seat (he had audibly exclaimed "Shit!" when it started going off). "GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER!" And the play resumed. (Addendum: I think Marian Seldes is the best actress in New York; and Kate Valk is the other best actress in New York. I would like to see the two of them perform together.)
3. I am promising myself a good long Beckett-reading session in the not-too-distant future. I've been thinking of him a lot recently, especially his fiction but also his plays (I saw a wonderfully funny and moving production of Endgame last year at the Irish Rep, I think that remains my favorite). Maybe not this calendar year, I've got too much other stuff lined up, but next. Promise.
It gives me a pang to let them go
but I have spent my spare time over the last few days immersed in the world of Naomi Novik's Temeraire trilogy, and regretfully have now finished volumes two (Throne of Jade) and three (Black Powder War), they are lovely but of course they make me want more. It's a series, really, rather than a trilogy (I hope they will publish these three together in a boxed set--I am very fond of that format, and really it's appropriate here because LOTR-style they're sort of like one long book split up into three parts); the ending of the last one is quite provisional though temporarily satisfying, and the story is clearly far from over.
The first one in the series is His Majesty's Dragon, and it will be released in late March (with the second and third to appear in April and May respectively, it's a lovely and ingenious publishing scheme whose genesis is described in a fascinating pair of short essays by Novik and her editor Betsy Mitchell at Writer's Digest (no subscription required).
Here was me a few weeks ago basically going crazy with love for the first one (everybody should read it!). The second and third are very enjoyable too, Novik is a remarkably confident and articulate writer who manages the global sweep of the narrative (Laurence and Temeraire and crew travel by sea to China, overland to Turkey, then on to Jena and the massed armies of Prussia meeting Napoleon's, etc. with culminating grand battle scenes) with impressive skill, but if I can for a moment resuscitate the Anne McCaffrey-meets-Patrick O'Brian conceit (which Novik must be completely sick of by now, though the sheer genius of the "Napoleonic Wars--with dragons!" thing makes it irresistible), I adored the first one partly because the McCaffrey was outweighing the O'Brian, and here the balance tips the other way. Which is undoubtedly in better taste, and O'Brian is addictive too (god, I remember reading those books my fourth or so year of grad school, I had been postponing it because I knew they would hook me at once and then I got the first two from Cross-Campus Library and basically for the next four days all I did was read, race back to campus to the library, check out the next four or five, read them all very quickly and race back for the next, until really about five days later I had read them all, it was a slightly sickening but very enjoyable experience), but I missed the charms of the dragon-inflected bildungsroman thing that you get in the first one. Also there is rather a shortage of female characters, though I trust they will be more prominent again in subsequent volumes. I will eat my hat, though (if I had a hat, and if it was edible), if this trilogy isn't the hugest thing for a long while--they are such good books, and the potential audience is enormous. Highly recommended.
The New Yorker cover
that wasn't. Take a look; it's beautiful and very moving. (Link courtesy of Neil's blog.)
Mitsuko Uchida
started collecting eighteenth-century porcelain in order to get a feel for the great classical composers (interviewed by Erica Jeal for the Guardian):
Apart from her pianos - three Steinway grands, plus a couple of 18th-century instruments - she has few obvious indulgences. She has a passion for English porcelain but doesn't let it gather dust. Visitors sip the finest Darjeeling, gingerly, from irreplaceable 18th-century cups. Her first piece was bought as an attempt to draw nearer to the world of the classical composers. 'I wanted to handle it day after day, to get the feel of 1758. And of course it didn't help at all!' As so often, her voice begins in a conspiratorial whisper before shooting off the scale into an exclamation, and then a bellow of laughter: Uchida talks as she plays, conscious of sound rather than self.
The angel at his back
John Banville at the Guardian on the footage (from Blunt's press conference the day after Margaret Thatcher outed him in parliament as the fourth member of the Philby-Burgess-Maclean spy ring) that inspired his novel The Untouchable:
Blunt, in tweed jacket and corduroys, was seated on a small chair at one end of the room, while at the other a scrum of journos was getting itself ready with pens and notebooks and flashbulbs. It was obvious that Blunt did not know that a camera off to his right was already rolling, for although he remained for the most part motionless and impassive, at one point, as he watched his interrogators fussing with their implements of persuasion, the faintest ghost of a smile passed across his face. What the smile said was: Do these people really imagine they will get anything of consequence out of me, a man who has spent decades being grilled with scant success by the best spycatchers in the land? It was at that moment that I knew I would have to base a novel on this man.
The Untouchable is a remarkably good novel, the only one of Banville's that I really have loved (I read two or three all in a rush in 1994 or so on the recommendation of someone whose judgment I think very well of, and concluded with reluctance that they were just not for me--there is an attenuated quality to the worlds he makes which in conjunction with the heightened language leaves me relatively unmoved--and I don't like very much of Michael Ondaatje either, for some reason I associate the two of them, the Ondaatje book I love is Running in the Family and I did like Anil's Ghost but I actively disliked The English Patient with its awful lushness--oh, and there's the link that made me associate them, I was just thinking "Wait a minute, why on earth did I get Banville and Ondaatje connected in my head, their prose styles could hardly be more different?" but it is the thief Caravaggio who reminds me by association of Banville's art-obsessed protagonists): something dramatic happens here, something to do with character and voice that I haven't seen in the others and that made me really fall for this one. I've got The Sea here waiting to be read, I'm looking forward to it, and yet it is never quite the book I want to pick up next. Perhaps this will spur me to read it this weekend?
now I'm at home & followed up on that link I mentioned below, it is really the funniest thing I ever saw (all right, perhaps not literally, but worth a click), really adorable and slightly bizarre and not at all pornographic: Japanese Cat Feeder.
I don't usually link
to things over at BoingBoing because I figure that everyone who likes that stuff's reading it already, but I couldn't resist this story about a Japanese TV show about a cat that loves human milk (my computer crashes when I try to link to the video, but I'm going to try again later at home)--it resonates bizarrely/appealingly with all my eighteenth-century stuff about animals and humans and the blurry lines between them (Monboddo! I love that guy, he really believed that what he called orangutans and we would call chimpanzees were human--homo sylvestris) and also with my increasingly strong desire to write a novel in the Cat People vein. I've been accumulating books about cougars recently, I think that's the specific subspecies of great cat that it's going to have to be; upper Manhattan setting, c. 2015. Not sure quite where I'm going to find the time for this project....
An interesting literary interview
Robert Birnbaum talks to Andrew Delbanco about his recent biography of Melville; here's a short excerpt:
AD: I have always been finicky about my prose. I just think-this sounds corny-I reached deeper into myself and found ways to express sensitive matters, and I had some nuance, and most of all, I think I gave the book some momentum, some drive. And that is really hard to do when you write about the sorts of topics I tend to write about. History of ideas and cultural history. Another editor whom I greatly respect and said something to me many years ago, when I told her I was writing a book about the theme of evil; she listened respectfully and she seemed to think that was OK, and then she said to me, 'How are you going to tell this as a story?'
RB: Right.
AD: And ever since she asked me that question, I realized I had been kind of groping for that insight into writing-that no matter what you're writing, you really have to find way to turn your subject into a story if you expect anyone to read it.
RB: Which is basic to having talented teachers present subjects-they bring those subjects alive with stories and their own passion.
AD: That's right. And there is a great hazard of academic life. I love the academic life in some ways, and I am very lucky to have a job that can't be taken away from me, but there is a temptation to just write for people who already know a lot about the subject and are going to read whatever you write because they need to, not because it's pleasurable or exciting. But that is not exactly writing. Writing is a form of communication that persuades people to keep on reading. So, I felt I did that better in this book than I had ever done, and I am not sure I could do it again to the same degree. But maybe I'm just feeling drained at the moment.
And here's the link if you want to buy the book at Amazon; Andy is my colleague at Columbia, I've got the book and it looks excellent and I am feeling rather remorseful for not having read it yet, but I think it is going to have to wait a while & then I will read it and use it as a prompt to reread Moby Dick, which is a novel I loved when I read it (I was like "How come nobody told me to read this book before?!?" I was twenty-three or -four and an obsessive & wide-ranging novel-reader who mistakenly thought it was some kind of a dull sea story and as soon as I actually picked it up and started reading--the summer after my first year of graduate school, out of the sense that as a graduate student in English literature this really was a book I should be ashamed not to have read--I was fuming that nobody told me how great it was!) but have only read once, and in this case once is clearly not enough.
Actually I have been having a yen to reread some other classics I don't know well from multiple rereadings (as opposed to the novelists like Austen and Dickens and Eliot and Trollope that I have read over and over again), especially Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Maybe this summer?
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Cool NYT piece
about a new dictionary of historical statistics (though I secretly wish that in the paragraph below the author of the piece had picked less politically loaded facts and more just plain old peculiar ones, that's what I really like; this is a bit Harper's-Index-y):
Fewer than 1 in 10 black children under 5 live with both parents; workers with the highest hourly wages now work the longest hours; there are more religious workers (also bartenders, gardeners and authors) than ever recorded, and more shoemakers than at any other time since the Civil War; only half of Americans have access to fluoridated water; a growing share of poor people live in the suburbs; philanthropy compared with the gross domestic product has been declining since 1960; more Protestants and Jews say they attended religious services within the last week than at any time in the last 50 years; the nation is producing record amounts of broccoli; it took four days on average to travel between New York and Boston in 1800; attendance at horse-racing tracks peaked in 1976, but rodeo attendance is at an all-time high; and the proportion of people who have no opinion in presidential approval polls is the lowest in a half century.
An obituary for Sybille Bedford
in the Guardian: "One remembers a sturdy, trousered figure, bright blue eyes, effective and observant, the clipped voice quickening at an ungenerous remark or deference to some fashionable fraud. Always she treasured 'that sense of lighter heart, deep-grooved pleasures, daylight and proportion'. Her memoir, Quicksands (2005), revived interest in the writer, and her elegant, insightful work. Sybille Bedford, novelist and writer, born March 16 1911; died February 17 2006." I really love Bedford's writing, this will prompt me to go and get all her books from the library and read them through again (and I haven't read the memoir yet, either). She is a remarkable writer; Alan Hollinghurst had a great essay about her last summer in the New York Review of Books, not online I think, but here was my post about it.
Bedford notwithstanding (I think I can make an exception), my real resolution is not to let any more books into my house that I have no immediate plans to read for work or pleasure. Usually I unscrupulously accumulate books and do not worry about buying new ones when I haven't read all the ones I have already, but the temporary nature of my current circumstances mean that I must start reading up the things I have, as you might eat up the canned food in the cupboards before a move. I've got three more months here--that sounds blissfully short!--twelve and a half weeks--something like ninety days which is good because that means I will get a lot of work done before I go. But I must read some of these library books and return them, and read and then give away the books I've bought. My father kindly helped me move up here and will drive me and my stuff back down to New York when the time comes, but it was a pretty tight fit in his Golf GTI coming up here and it will not be good if I'm trying to fit in a lot more books. So I am due a period of stringent book-consumption; I've also got a lot of work reading to do in the next couple months, I'll post the occasional quotation from that stuff that I think may be of broader interest but it is possible that reading-related posting may be lighter than usual for the next little while. Hard to say, really.
I like getting anticipated books in the mail
but getting a really good and unexpected one is even better, the latest instance of this was on Friday when I opened up a small package (forwarded from my New York address) that turned out to be Bust, the noir collaboration by Ken Bruen and Jason Starr that will be released in May by Hard Case Crime. It's very violent and very funny, more Starr than Bruen I'd say but with the occasional unmistakable Bruen touch (the Irish hitman is all Bruen, as is the NYPD detective whose child has Down Syndrome and the one-off old indented four-adjective thing as a wink to the faithful and most of all the epigraphs).
The epigraphs make it clear how playfully self-conscious the whole enterprise must have been; of course it's impossible to know if something really was enjoyable to write, I enjoy almost everything I write but occasionally have to sweat something out in blood & grit my teeth afterwards when some reader says "Oh, it must have been so fun to write, I can really tell you were enjoying yourself," but in this case surely it really was a very good game for them fitting in all the (what will I call them?) peer-group noir writers. Charlie Williams, Ray Banks, Charlie Stella, Vicki Hendricks, Victor Gischler, etc. etc.: they're all here (even Charlie Stella's Average White Band gets a shout-out), I don't think not knowing this inside stuff would mar the reader's experience but it undoubtedly adds a fillip of something. Very fun.
My only complaint, admittedly completely arbitrary and unfair, is that the picture on the cover--a red-tinted image of the adulterous couple within the round lens of a camera, very appropriate for the book's theme and plot and classic noir-pulp cover art in the Hard Case style--strangely reminds me of the red uterus in which tiny-upside-down-naked-Steve-Coogan is suspended in Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story.
Anyway, look out for this book when it's published in May, it's very enjoyable. (And in the meantime you can whet your appetite by reading some Bruen, maybe The White Trilogy or one of the Jack Taylor novels. Ken Bruen is one of my favorite writers in the world, the appeal of his fiction is powerful--irresistible to me--it's got a great combination of intellect and humanity and unbelievably perverted violence, his books aren't like anyone else's. I've only read one of Jason Starr's books, Cold Caller, and was impressed with his skill and style but almost physically pained by the unlikeableness of the main character--it's very funny, though, if you like that extremely dark thing. I think I must be a sentimentalist at heart, really I like the noir heroes who are secretly soft-hearted and mess everything up by accident rather than because they are morally contemptible.)
My dear friend & college roommate
Amy Davidson (no relation, but it's fun having the same last name) interviews David Remnick at the New Yorker website; the conversation covers a wide range of topics related to his piece on Hamas in this week's issue of the magazine.
Elizabeth Young's Pandora's Handbag
left by a commenter on an earlier entry of mine: the obituary in the Guardian from March 2001. Pete Ayrton of Serpent's Tail gave me a copy of Pandora's Handbag, Young's remarkable posthumous collection of critical essays, and I basically devoured it & fell in love with its author and her personality and critical intelligence. (I gave the book away immediately and then bought several more copies and gave those away too, I think I am going to buy it again & give it away again as soon as I find the right person.) It's very much like the collection I would want to write myself, indeed; I realize that I may cheapen my recommendations here by my very free use of superlatives, but this book really is one that you must look at if you want to write about contemporary literature and are interested in seeing a supreme example of the critical voice and mind in perfect harmony in prose. It's fascinating and funny and highly readable. Young should be much, much better-known and more widely read, in the US (she had a particular passion for American literature, especially the Dennis Cooper-A. M. Homes-Poppy Z. Brite sort of nexus--the literature of decadence) as well as the UK. (Buy Pandora's Handbag at Amazon US or Amazon UK.)
And here's a host of other links: John Sears on the book at PopMatters; Roz Kaveney; Nicholas Lezard in the Guardian on Young as "a critic who was funny as well as right"; and a sort of meta-roundup of links that includes truly gorgeous pictures plus Will Self and Boyd Tonkin in the Independent.
The diary of a misanthrope
Adam Mars-Jones on John Fowles' journals in the Observer.
Truth, love, sex, death
are the things Leslie Farber was interested in, I've just read back through his essay collection The Ways of the Will and am basically just staggered by its force and perceptiveness, it's one of those rare truly mind-blowing books, recommended to me a year and a half ago by a person who saw much sooner than I did or could that my new academic book is really about the will.
There aren't many books like this around--this one has my very highest recommendation--books whose authors are not afraid to leap in and talk about really important things: its satisfactions are like those of the best novels, or at least of the kind of novel I love most (it has come clear to me in the last few years that my love for novels by Rebecca West, James Baldwin, George Orwell has a lot to do with their being essayists as well, there is a certain intellectual temperament that all these writers share that is what I most like & aspire to emulate when I am older & wiser than now). Farber shares with those writers the deep & rich condition of being both of & against the enlightenment in a particularly pressing and painful and yet productive way.
A few bits of Farber, in any case, the ones that just shake me with their insightfulness (there are essays here on jealousy and envy that are quite startling in what they see and say, and a scathing essay against the culture of death that makes him sound like he's channeling Swift and Burke only for the 1970s, he really hates Kubler-Ross and Masters and Johnson and the desire for scientific mastery of nature, I really cannot recommend this collection highly enough):
The realm of causation is treacherous ground for a man interested in the truth about himself. Although it is certainly probable that most phenomena of this world, human and otherwise, do have causes of one sort or another, an absorption with the role of causation in human affairs may lead to an habitual reduction of any human event to its postulated cause. It is apparent how such reduction promises refuge to a man beset by the necessity to "confess": once he turns his attention to cause, his personal responsibility (whether he acknowledges it or not) is diminished, along with any undue stress or discomfort he may have felt in facing what he believes to be his absolute worst. No matter what scandalous detail about himself he may reveal, he follows such revelation with "I am this way because . . .," and everyone relaxes.
Most of us, I imagine, can recall the times when we talked rather than had the sex we wanted, such talk concealing our true desires, and, in the same spirit, the times when the poverty of real talk provoked us into sexual consolation--or, to put the matter simply, when the lust for talk was obligingly transformed into sexual lust.
And a tiny parenthetical aside like "(what causes humiliation and the fall of self-esteem in the jealous person is not the wound of his loss, but his jealousy itself)" gives you the feel of his style as a thinker and observer and writer. Or his conclusion about envy, very much in line with the first quotation above (and here he has a bit the flavor of Judith Shklar): "[In] his absorption with historical origins, [the patient] may find it all too easy to locate a 'first cause' for his envy somewhere outside himself; this established, a few simple operations of logic can lead him to a deterministic reconstruction of the whole development of envy in him, guaranteeing his escape from the responsibility with which possible freedom of choice, past and present, would burden him. It seems to me that the most pressing concern, for the patient or for ourselves, in regard to so damaging and disturbing an affliction as envy, is not so much to ponder when, or even why, it may originally come into being, as to discover it now where it is, to outwit its distractions and disguises, to measure its fear of being called by name."
There's one essay here that really bothers me, "He Said, She Said." It contains many things I agree with and yet depends on a set of assumptions about men and women and the ethical centrality of the man-and-woman relationship that seems to me dated at best and actively poisonous at worst. This isn't just kneejerk political correctness, I am in many ways in sympathy with Farber's sadness about the fallout of the 1960s, but he says things here that make me very unhappy. Its inclusion in the volume--and yet of course I would rather know he wrote this than not...--gives a more polemical cast to the collection than I think it could have in its own time; I hate the idea that Farber is closed off to many readers because of his alignment (I'm not talking here of his intentions or of his politics, just of how the book seems to be oriented towards a variety of contemporary positions) with a certain strand of dogmatic cultural conservatism.
And yet this is supremely a book about listening: LF's widow Anne quotes another of his essays in the afterword, an essay on Martin Buber and psychoanalysis that includes the sentences "'listening requires something more than remaining mute while looking attentive--namely, it requires the ability to attend imaginatively to another's language. . . . Actually, in listening we speak the other's words. Or, to put it another way, the analyst is able to hear only what he, potentially at least, is able to say.'" Words to live by, eh?
Also recommended: Emily Fox Gordon's Mockingbird Years: A Life In and Out of Therapy, a wonderfully well-written and intelligent memoir that includes an account of, really, her salvation by way of therapy with Farber (but she doesn't gloss over the impossibility and violence of the whole enterprise, either; seriously, this book is a must-read, in some ways it's more accessible than Farber's and is certainly a great way into his stuff). And here was me a year ago raving about Farber and Gordon (and Peter Temple also, I can't believe that was only a year ago that I first read him).
Paul Collins has uncannily good taste
in books, or at least taste highly congruent with my own: check out his essay in the Voice on Patrick Hamilton's Hangover Square. This is actually a book I haven't read but have been trying to get hold of for a while now (I can't remember where I first saw the recommendation, but it was from someone on the Derek Raymond/Iain Sinclair axis of likings), now I can just order this lovely Europa reissue from Amazon (here's the Europa site)
Novels novels novels
Working through the haul from Porter Square Books. First I read one I quite liked except for my feeling that really it had originally been written as second in a series and somehow hastily edited into being first but with references to backstory only awkwardly integrated, then one that I actually had to stop reading, it was so much not my kind of book (I was in a mass-market-paperback dark-fantasy kind of mood, it looked just right, but it was written in these long wordy blocky paragraphs like you would not believe, Tom Clancyesque almost, with such flat characters that I couldn't stomach it).
I have sometimes thought that if I ever have a much larger readership for my blog than I do now (i.e. if I moved from hundreds to thousands), I will have to stop saying bad things about books I don't like; meanwhile I continue to indulge the critical streak, but I have no urge to put a small bad thing into the day of the author idly googling her own name so when I really have nothing good to say I think it is better to hold my tongue. But I link in case you're curious. And I reserve the right to say bad but true things about books that I think have been treated unduly kindly by reviewers and/or throngs of purchasers.
Then just now this evening a really lovely novel, a novel of brilliance and of consolation, Mockingbird by Sean Stewart. I've read one or two of his others & really liked them, but this one blew me away: it's great. It's been reissued by the excellent Small Beer Press, I must get a lot more of their books and read them. (Actually I have a fantasy of them publishing my novel, but I think they only publish a pretty small amount of stuff so that is not likely.) Anyway, here's the link if you want to order it directly from the press which I strongly recommend.
Alan Hollinghurst on Lytton Strachey's letters
in the New York Review of Books (no subscription required):
The letters throw some light on historical usage in this vaguely embarrassed matter. When such love dared to speak its name, it was not always quite sure what to call itself. The word 'homosexuality,' newfangled in 1892, and spread by the burgeoning literature of psychology, makes its first and only appearance in these letters in 1929. 'Sodomy,' with its resonance of biblical anathema and perhaps of the Wilde trials, is the preferred term at the Cambridge stage; the blunter 'buggery,' as a metonym for the whole homosexual condition, comes later, and has a certain Bloomsbury defiance to it--cheerful, straightforward, but with some residue of awkwardness in its bluntness. (Virginia Woolf gives a revealing account of 'the atmosphere of buggery' around Lytton, which made on her 'a tinkling, private, giggling, impression. As if I had gone in to a men's urinal.')
In Strachey's letters, actual sexual descriptions are greatly outnumbered by hints and fantasies about young men seen on the train or in the street. Levy prints a rapturous letter to Leonard Woolf describing sex with Duncan Grant on Hampstead Heath: 'I had hardly believed so much was possible; to be embraced so passionately, to be kissed so often, and not to know whether one was buggering, or being buggered!' One feels one would, as a rule, have a pretty clear idea about that, but perhaps he is using the word in some looser way, or referring to a commonplace uncertainty about sexual roles. The rapturous note is only heard again in the letters to Roger Senhouse, the much younger boyfriend of Strachey's last years ('Dearest Monster,' 'Dearest angel,' 'Dearest of divine creatures'), with whom sex was sadomasochistic, and again with an uncertainty about roles, the dominant and donnish Strachey gratefully submitting to various mild tortures and an apparently enjoyable crucifixion.
Here's the Amazon link for Paul Levy's edition of Strachey's letters; and here's the link if you feel like buying a copy of Eminent Victorians, which I found entertaining but slight the last time I read it. (And I am sorry to confess that at home I have Michael Holroyd's updated biography of Strachey but found it almost unreadably dull. But then I am out of sympathy with the Bloomsbury thing in general--all that ridiculous self-dramatizing!--so this shouldn't stop you from getting and reading it if you feel that Strachey may have been a fascinating figure and all that. That's not sarcasm, by the way, just an acknowledgment that tastes differ.)
I read this last week
and loved it, but wasn't near a computer to link at the time: so belatedly, if you haven't read it already, let me commend to your attention a really lovely story about names and love and monkeys, Haruki Murakami's "A Shinagawa Monkey" in the New Yorker.
An absolutely delightful book
definitely it will be on my best of 2006 list, Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos. It's funny, I don't often read novels about love (in order, I am definitely more likely at any given moment to be reading about murder, depression, suicidal teenagers, twisted sex, the eighteenth century, the future, magic, dragons, etc. etc. with love coming about fourteenth on the list well after sport and substance abuse), but as soon as I read something about this one and sampled the first chapter online I could see it was exactly what I would like. Even though really noir is the literature of my heart it is occasionally good for the health to read a life-affirming book with really endearing and good characters and a heartwarming ending. Also this one is beautifully well-written, the author is a poet as well as a novelist & the attention to language shows in the best possible way. The first-person voice of the main character is particularly well-done. (The opening paragraph: "My life—my real life—started when a man walked into it, a handsome stranger in a perfectly cut suit, and, yes, I know how that sounds. My friend Linny would snort and convey the kind of multipronged disgust I rely on her to convey. One prong of feminist disgust at the whole idea of a man changing a woman’s life, even though, as things turned out, the man himself was more the harbinger of change than the change itself. Another prong of disgust for the inaccuracy of saying my life began after thirty-one years of living it. And the final prong being a kind of general disgust for the way people turn moments in their lives into movie moments.")
I have now forgotten where I first saw mention of this book, surely it was either The Lipstick Chronicles or else Joshilyn Jackson's very funny blog (and this novel definitely has an air of Jackson's also-very-appealing gods in Alabama). It's got even more of the feel of Eva Ibbotson, whose novels I adore with unmatched fervor. I picked a copy of Love Walked In up (that's picked up in my hands, not picked up in the metaphorical shopping sense) a week or two ago at the Harvard Bookstore and put it down again with some reluctance feeling it to be an unjustified extravagance to buy a hardcover novel I would read in a couple hours. Then last night, unexpectedly free after my Boswell-related engagement evaporated at the last minute, I realized that I was under a mysterious and on the whole unstoppable compulsion to go and buy things at Porter Square Books. The Harvard Book Store is my favorite bookstore ever, I have loved that store ever since I was a literary-theory-and-Pynchon-obsessed maniacal seventeen-year-old, but the Porter Square one really nicely complements it and is a particularly good one to go to if you are wanting really thoughtfully chosen fiction esp. on the fantasy/young-adult end. (And now is a good time to stop by and buy something, horrifyingly an SUV crashed through the front of the store this weekend which must have been quite awful.) And I couldn't resist this second time round, it had been lingering with me as an obscure object of desire.
Also en route I saw Becca and her daughter waiting for the bus, and we had a very satisfactory conversation about matters literary and un-. (There is an E. L. Konigsberg zeitgeist thing going on right now.) So it was all good.
Backwards novels
are a thing I love, and Jenny Turner's LRB essay "Charging about in Brogues" confirms the sense I've already gotten that I can't wait to read Sarah Waters' The Night Watch:
Because the novel tells its story backwards, its point of origin comes right at the end, in a short series of little explosions, moments of compressed heat and intensity, during the first, apocalyptic Blitz of 1941. These explain the condition we found our protagonists in at the beginning, wandering in circles, picking at broken pieces. The backwards movement also allows what might otherwise have been a formless and depressing story to close on a moment of joy, as something 'fresh and unmarked' is discovered, miraculously, at the centre of one horrible big bang. There is something of Mrs Dalloway in this ending; something, too, of Cornelia Parker's exploded shed. There is nothing at all of Martin Amis's Time's Arrow, although both novels share an interest in seeing broken things swooshed back and made whole.
I must see if I can get an advance copy from the US publisher, it is only being published in late March here....
Giving new meaning
to the cliched phrase "whippet-thin": "An extensive dog hunt was begun yesterday at Kennedy International Airport when a prize-winning whippet from the Westminster Kennel Club show escaped from her cage yesterday afternoon, officials of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said."
Thiswas the travel-and-animal story I really liked, from the beginning of December; I'm pasting in the whole thing cause it was so cool, there was a good little picture in the print edition too.
A cat from Wisconsin who disappeared two months ago and wound up traveling across the Atlantic boarded a flight at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris and flew home. The cat, Emily, flew business class after Continental Airlines offered her a ride home and provided a company escort. An airline spokeswoman said the cat passed up peppered salmon filet and "opted for her French cat food." Emily apparently wandered into a paper company's distribution center near her home in Appleton and crawled into a container of paper bales. The container went by truck to Chicago and by ship to Belgium before the cat, thin and thirsty, was found on Oct. 24 at a laminating company in Nancy, France. Workers there used her tags to phone her veterinarian. Her owners, Donny and Lesley McElhiney, greeted Emily as her flight landed in Milwaukee. "She seems a little calmer than she was before," Ms. McElhiney said. "Just a little quieter, a little, maybe, wiser."
The last Shelter column
from Toni Schlesinger in the Voice. Thanks to The Dizzies for the link. Her book Five Flights Up (a collection of Shelter columns) will be published in May; I will have more to say about it elsewhere, so content myself for now with observing that if I were teaching a writing class next year, I'd use it as the textbook.
I spent the day
reading Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides With Samuel Johnson for a discussion this evening that was then canceled, leaving me with an unexpected chunk of light reading time. Boswell is rather delightful, though ("I was elated by the thought of having been able to entice such a man to this remote part of the world. A ludicrous, yet just, image presented itself to my mind, which I expressed to the company. I compared myself to a dog who has got hold of a large piece of meat, and runs away with it to a corner, where he may devour it in peace, without any fear of others taking it from him. 'In London, Reynolds, Beauclerk, and all of them, are contending who shall enjoy Dr. Johnson's conversation. We are feasting upon it, undisturbed, at Dunvegan'").
So I had an excursion to the bookstore (about which more shortly, it's a really nice store) and bought some stuff that seemed irresistible but really just ended up coming home and finishing a library book I had begun the night before, The Burning Girl by Mark Billingham. This book is of a kind I like but don't love--a very dark London police procedural series, of the mainstream rather than whacked-out indie kind (of course I secretly prefer the latter, I can't explain the difference other than to say you know it when you see it, the bestseller kind can be very good too but it is constrained by rules of decorum both stylistic and violence-wise and the indie ones aren't)--but I was marvelling throughout at what a good writer Billingham is. Really, really excellent writing here. I thought this was up to the standard of the very best few of Michael Connelly's Bosch books, in a similar vein only darker.
I have been smitten with Billingham's writing ever since I got his first one (I am 95% sure it was one of those 3-for-2 specials in the WH Smith shop at Kings Cross where I often drop in en route to the British Library, I remember at any rate reading it with dropped jaw & general enthrallment). It's a great book, but more particularly it's set in lots of parts of north London I know especially well. I think it's that one (or possibly the next one) that features multiple scenes in a place I know and hate, the Whittington Hospital just up the hill from the Archway tube station. My grandmother spent a lot of time there, it's got a Dickensian workhouse sort of Gustave Dore-type feel; I am sure the staff are all very good, but it is a chaotic and Kafkaesque place (I remember once racing round the hospital--it really could take you half an hour from one end or another--trying to find my grandmother, she was no longer where I had last seen her and not on the ward they subsequently sent me to and I was of course secretly convinced she had died and been whisked away elsewhere and when I finally found her--really perfectly OK--visiting hours were almost over and I could only stay for a few minutes...). And Billingham particularly well brings to life those seedier elements of the Kentish Town-Archway-Finsbury Park nexus. Book-biz readers will be interested to know that a number of important scenes in this one happen only minutes away from the Serpent's Tail offices.
A funny and rather appealingly bizarre essay
by William Leith in the Observer, on abs, the Atkins diet and relations between the sexes.
Larkin tapes discovered
The story's in the Guardian: "The tapes date to the early 1980s, when Larkin had lived in Hull for about 30 years. Born in Coventry, he retained an accentless 'received pronunciation' voice, with no trace of the broad Yorkshire vowels."
There really is something uncanny about the fact that we can listen to the voices of the dead.
My heart was hardening
for the first half or so of Stephen Booth's The Dead Place; I read all of Booth's mystery novels in a fit of great enthusiasm a few years ago (before I was blogging I think), liked the characters and the high-quality writing and the good Derbyshire landscape stuff & recommended them to various friends including M. who recently loaned me this one. But somehow it didn't win me over at first--I found myself wondering whether it's weaker than the others, or if my tastes have changed & I wouldn't like the earlier ones now either, or if perhaps I have just hardened my heart in general against series crime fiction (like Tod Goldberg).
Two minor details symptomatic of my irritation, each given twice rather than once which drew my ire:
(1) "personal stereo." Yes, this book is written in fairly impersonal third-person narration, with two point-of-view characters we alternate between. But in this case (and of course there are always exceptions, this is just the basic rule) the language needs to be fairly close to the way the characters are perceiving things, and both of these two are, say, latish twenties or early thirties. "Personal stereo"--ah, that's completely out of date! Maybe it was once standard usage in England, surely it never was in America (you always would say walkman or discman even if it was the off-brand), and now wouldn't you say iPod or MP3 player or whatever? It is the way an older person might speak of something completely foreign to him, it is hardly the phrase a 28-year-old English cop uses to name/conceptualize the thing the teenager's got on his head or whatever. Dowdy.
(2) I am admittedly a hyphenation freak, I love hyphens and have inflexible theories as to how they should be used, but not only is the phrase fine-tooth comb a cliche, it should NEVER be given (especially not TWICE!) as "fine tooth-comb." That shows someone just not attending to the meaning of words.
And there are a few other continuity glitches of a kind that particularly annoy me (a woman's wearing jeans on one page, corduroys on the next, that sort of thing).
However I found the second half more gripping than the first, so perhaps it really was just my mood? Or perhaps the second half is a return to original form. We will never know, but other opinions on Booth are welcomed in the comments.
A fascinating table
of details about what various (romance) publishers pay, Show Me the Money! at Brenda Hiatt's site. (Thanks to Gwenda for the link.)
I have strong opinions
and this is a vice as well as a virtue; I had decided of this book (as I have of, oh, David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas--though I keep on having second thoughts about that one too and feeling I must read it even if I am sure I won't like it) that it wasn't the kind of thing I would enjoy, these very cerebral-sounding novels never produce rabid drooling book-desire in me. And yet there I was in the bookstore & I idly picked this up and as soon as I saw how it actually looked and read the first few sentences I was absolutely hooked.
The book is Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman, and I completely loved it. It is a page-turner/novel-of-ideas hybrid and really highly readable and not nearly as pretentious as the title led me to imagine. (It's not the title I would have picked, especially as I'm not sure it's really apt either, for the reason sketched out below.) Here's Tyler Cabot's review for Esquire (via Powell's Review-a-Day, here's Keith Gessen absolutely hating it in New York Magazine, here are Daphne Merkin loving it in the Times and Kate Kellaway loving it even more in the Observer.
So I found the book pretty gripping, and it also gave me that great buzzing-in-the-back-of-the-head feeling I get when I read certain things (a little voice that's saying "oh, cool, i can't believe he did that this way, i bet i could do something sort of like that but even better--what if...." even as you're also completely immersed in the narrative). But almost everything I have the urge to say about the book is a criticism or cavil! I urge you to buy and read it if you like long philosophical thrillers at all. My reservations should not stop you, it really is an excellent book.
First off, things you might want to know as context for my list of complaints. (Not too many spoilers, I hope.) Seven sections narrated by seven different characters. Main story concerns Simon--obsessed ex-boyfriend of Anna, who is now married to Joe--kidnapping Anna and Joe's son Sam. Narrators (in some cases it's mainly transcriptions of conversations between the particular character and the shrink, etc., and in each case the addressee matters almost as much as the speaker): Alex Klima, Simon's psychiatrist and a central player in events (the "you" voice in which he addresses Simon in the opening chapters is particularly sinister and striking, I believe a version of this was published in Granta); thuggish stockbroker Joe; prostitute 'Angelique', farfetchedly (a) obsessed with Simon (b) sleeping with Joe for money (c) diagnosed with MS and (d) later love object of ....; Dennis Mitchell aka Mitch, a stock analyst who works with Joe; Simon himself; Anna; and Dr. Klima's grown-up daughter, who is in love with Sam.
1. I do not see why all these reviewers trumpet the Rashomon aspect! Frankly, these characters all understand things more or less the same way. We're not getting any of the thing that, say, Susan Howatch does so well, with interlocking perspectives that can't be reduced to a single narrative. (Howatch is better known in the UK than the US, deeply unfashionable I think for her Christianity, but really a superb novelist of character and point-of-view. Just an aside.) In any case, here it is always fairly clear what happened, and (see title for this post) I had no trouble deciding who was right and who was wrong and losing patience with the "oh, but those actions are justifiable if we approach them from another point of view" thing.
2. The voices also all really do sound pretty much the same; this wasn't a stumbling-block for me, for various reasons that have to do with Perlman's intelligence & unobtrusive prose style & the general satisfyingness of the book. It's more painful when it comes to the female characters, though; I thought he'd have been better off sticking with male voices.
3. Which leads me to my central objection. I absolutely hated Simon, and I found Alex almost equally offputting. Simon in particular comes across as creepy, unintelligent, self-satisfied, controlling, in short absolutely horrible. It is another one of these books where we are told of a character's charm (like Zadie Smith's Howard Belsey) without seeing it. It is true, I particularly hate this type of guy, and in that sense am not the ideal reader for book. But I couldn't stop wondering whether any of this ambiguity was calculated or whether really the text had spun out of Perlman's control. I feared the latter, obviously it is fruitless to speculate but I can't say I thought that Perlman would be very happy to hear what I thought of his dear Simon. The book also seems to let Simon completely off the hook. The man is a STALKER. And a KIDNAPPER. It seems absolutely implausible to me that Anna would not be ready to KILL him after that. (Anomalously confessional aside: I found myself at the receiving end of stalking-type behavior at one point and it was certainly the most unpleasant experience of my adult life, uniquely unpleasant in ways you cannot begin to imagine unless it has happened to you. So this seemed personal to me, this novel's failure to reckon with the creepiness of men stalking women in the manner of Simon's fixation on Anna.) I am not a huge fan of Ian McEwan's, but I thought Enduring Love really was an excellent depiction--much more psychologically plausible--of stalking from the point of view of the stalkee (in that case male on male); this novel has something of the feel of Enduring Love, only much larger in scale.
4. Just to give a more general example of the awfulness of these two guys (so smug in their liberal-humanist anti-market-critique self-satisfiedness, their conviction that having good taste and reading William Empson and Allan Ginsberg and such makes up for completely nightmarish behavior in every other respect & feel a messianic urge to educate beautiful lower-middle-class young women & inculcate these tastes in them in ways that make them painfully insecure), I especially hated the scene where Alex and Simon talk about Empson and Derrida and deconstruction. This is obtuse, not intelligent; it reproduces a particularly annoying version of the liberal-humanist argument against deconstruction in a way that makes me actually hate both of these characters.
5. Perlman's writing strongly reminds me of George Eliot, for better and for worse. This novel would be readable by a nineteenth-century novelist even though the techniques (the multiple narrators, etc.) would be unfamiliar. It's got a grand social critique going, a sometimes slightly forced set of connections between the rise of the ideology of the market and a stock-trading plot about managed care that is heavy-handedly integrated with the personal fates of various characters major and minor and while I don't mind that, I'm also not convinced it's the best way to put things together. (I thought of Kurt Andersen's novel Turn of the Century for instance which I really liked but which had a slightly ephemeral or dated quality almost even as it was published.) George Eliot always sounds sort of the same even when she's talking about different characters--no, I'm not a philistine, I do really love George Eliot but there is something a bit deadening about the way her prose sort of plumps up the characters into the same stocky roundness. Perlman has some of this quality. Interesting, striking, stimulating; not perhaps altogether appealing.
I am told I have been blogging too prolifically recently! So will stop here, if you have made it so far. Plus one afterthought below. Don't let all this stop you from getting Perlman's book, though. It really is pretty great. Look how riled up it got me....
(I haven't read Empson's book of the same name since graduate school, but I did reread the appealingly titled Some Versions of Pastoral a few years ago and had the disconcerting experience of finding it not at all the same book I thought I remembered. In short, it is written in an idiolect so peculiar as to be almost surreal; while reading you are fully persuaded of its brilliance, and yet I found its insights exceptionally un-portable, which is to say they resisted me using them for my fell purposes which are of course altogether different from Empson's.)
I dragged several companions with me
to see Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story and while I'm not sure how much either of them liked it, I really loved it: it's fluff, sure, and Sterne's novel isn't at all my favorite of the eighteenth-century biggies, but the adaptation part is delightful and the Steve Coogan-Rob Brydon stuff is absolutely hilarious. (Alice has a better post than this one about the film's charms that includes a segue onto a particularly favorite topic of mine, the Ink and Incapability Blackadder episode, which I always show to the students in my "manners & morals in the 18th century" lecture course as a reward for their having seriously read the preface to Johnson's Dictionary.)
Just got back from an extremely good if in the end rather snowy (but I must have a several-months-moratorium-at-least on complaining about Amtrak, it was true the 7:15am train was delayed by almost 3 hours but I had a ticket on the 10:00am and was able to use it on the earlier-one-that-was-actually-now-leaving-at-the-time-I-expected and got back here around 4:15, very reasonable) few days in NY. Columbia stuff was very good, Rutgers workshop absolutely excellent (what a great place; there must have been eighty people all thrilled to be there to discuss Swift!).
I hit the excellent Barbara's Bestsellers kiosk/mini-store in South Station on the way down, which meant that I was lugging around more books than is really sensible but I enjoyed E. L. Konigsberg's The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place on the train ride down to NY (oh, and I see it is a sort of prequel, can't wait to read the one that came before--I am surely overdue a spending spree in a really good children's bookstore). Konigsberg is basically a total genius, I look back through the list of all her books & think I must have read my favorite four or five of them literally hundreds of times when I was a kid; From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler remains the absolute classic (and a reason the name Claudia is a particular favorite of mine), but A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver was another favorite at one point and also About the B'Nai Bagels and most especially Father's Arcane Daughter, a genuinely haunting novel that every mystery writer would do well to read. It's her first-person voices that are really so exceptional, plus the fact that the children in the books are fully plausible (and intelligent) in a way that even many of my most-loved children's and young-adult's fiction can't live up to.
The other novel I got there has mesmerized me in every spare moment between Wednesday afternoon and right now when I've just finished it, and so it deserves its own post (above).
In the TLS
Daniel Karlin has a scathing but very funny (and also rather informative for the would-be historical novelist, these are questions I have thought about many a time...) essay in the TLS on D. J. Taylor's Victorian mystery, no subscription required. It concludes with this sentence: "The real mystery of this 'Victorian mystery' is - as Trollope might have said - Why Did He Do It?" (No sign of this book on US Amazon, I guess it is having UK release only for now?)
I must take issue
with this generally entertaining profile of Ayelet Waldman by Regis Behe: "When Waldman decided to quit her job as a public defender in Los Angeles in order to raise her children -- more evidence that she's not the evil mother as portrayed by her detractors -- she sought another outlet for her talents." So, uh, it is evil for a woman to have children and also a demanding full-time job?!? Some editor should have caught this, how awful.... (Thanks to Sarah for the link.)
More posts to follow later this evening.
Frenzy!
I've been working like a maniac, thus relative lack of posting round here; and I'm off shortly to New York for more work stuff, so no posts till Sunday evening.
Miscellaneous minor announcements:
I'm not sure this is exactly open to the public, but I'm speaking on Thursday evening at 7:30 at a small event sponsored by the Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism (511 Philosophy, if you're a Columbia person inclined to stop by). My (half-joke, half-serious) title, whose provenance I will explain at the beginning of the evening: "Living the life of the mind--for sixty hours a week." Autobiography and advice for aspiring writers and critics.
On Friday I'm participating in a workshop at Rutgers (New Brunswick campus) (click on the link for details, it starts at 9:30--I'm actually on the morning panel rather than the afternoon one), open to the public as far as I know, that is a day-long discussion of one of my favorite works of English literature, Swift's Tale of a Tub.
Book recommendation of the week (I'm reviewing this elsewhere, so won't say more, but I am seriously planning on buying at least five copies of this for various people who I think must have it, it's really something exceptional & you should definitely preorder it or keep an eye out for its publication in April): Five Flights Up by Toni Schlesinger; it's a collection of her Shelter columns for the Village Voice.
One other book recommendation: I'm only half through it, but am absolutely loving a novel I saw recommended at Jeff VanderMeer's blog, London Revenant by Conrad Williams. It's very good indeed, a bit Neverwhereish but with a prose style more reminiscent of my absolute-favorite Iain Banks, sort of a horror-noir hybrid. (And on a related note, have you seen the Derelict London website? Link courtesy of Weekend Stubble.) I've got the attractive Do-Not Press edition; when I checked it out from the library the young woman at the desk did a double take as she stamped the book and spotted the words "The Do-Not Press, Fiercely Independent Publishing" on the facing page, it was pretty funny.
This is gruesome and non-book-related
(except that I bet at least a dozen people are writing novels somewhere inspired by it, no?) but compelling: French Woman Shows Off Her New Face. I can't believe they actually have a picture!
I am still not quite sure
what I really think about James Sallis. I just finished reading Eye of the Cricket (the fourth Lew Griffin novel, I believe? though it is difficult to tell their order; I'm just reading them by the dates on the spines of the library copies, I can't seem to find a chronological list).
Sallis must be one of only a handful of writers I can think of who write better second halves than first ones; the jumping-around-in-time in which Lew (narrator as well as protagonist) indulges is at the very least disorienting and sometimes quite maddening. But just as I'm most annoyed & feeling that the philosophical stuff is verging on pretentious (i.e. I've partially disassociated from the reading experience & am thinking too much "well, I like Sallis, this must be good" rather than actually feeling about the sentences I am reading that they are the thing gripping me) he totally turns it round; the last third or so of this novel is exceptionally good. There's a self-conscious chapter about this problem exactly (it's chapter 20, if you're curious, and includes the rather charming sentence "Moments ago I pulled out a legal pad and, reading back through these two hundred-some pages, tried to plot out, tried to untangle and write down sequentially, the sequence of events"; inevitably the narrator gives up and calls it instead "a kind of temporal plaid"). And near the end Lew calls the book his autobiography and says he "quit trying to finesse the failures and forfeitures of [his] life into fiction": "Quit trying to force patterns, however comforting and fetching and artistic these patterns might be, onto the catch-as-catch-can of what I actually lived, the rigorous disorder of my days." I still can't decide if this is a cheap trick (a way to avoid rewriting the manuscript!) or an entirely consistent narrative gambit for this particular narrator. A bit of both, I suppose: and will refrain from speculating about authorial intention and that sort of thing.
Oh dear, I have had a failure of sensibility
Just finished Stona Fitch's Senseless. It seems to have been absolutely glowingly reviewed, it was sent to me by that brilliant man of impeccable taste Ken Bruen (who sends the best packages, full of good books and just plastered with cool Irish stamps--in this case a lot of Song Thrushes), cool premise about a man held hostage and deprived of his five senses one at a time by terrorists broadcasting the whole thing over the internet (vaguely Videodromesque only more about politics and the EEC and American economic imperialism and less about sex). And yet I found the whole thing overblown and humorless and silly! Actually it's--presumably inadvertently--pretty funny (best line: "Removing an eye is easy. All it takes is a confident man and a coffee spoon"). A goodish read, but not perhaps in quite the way intended.
Reading Delany on writing makes me more able to say what didn't work for me than I might have been otherwise. There's a very artificial flashback structure--man in captivity reflects back on his life story!--and the language is curiously abstract; the book's failure to provide particular detail thus makes the torture scenes silly instead of profound. My fact-checker-type brain objected, too, to the mechanics of several of the torture scenes. I don't think the cauterizing thing described here would really work to deprive a person completely of smell; I didn't believe that Fitch had really clearly thought through or visualized the physiological mechanics. Even if you're a torturer you don't pop the glass eye into the socket right after you've taken the eye out with a coffee spoon; you have to wait for it to heal a bit. This kind of distracting inconsistency detracts from the force of the would-be-Kafkaesque fable. It's not stylized enough to make you stop caring about accuracy. And perhaps the most serious problem: not much of a sense of the ridiculous on display here.
Anyway I am clearly in the minority on this, so don't let this stop you reading it if it sounds your cup of tea. (Yeah, yeah, I know I've just given a ton of "spoilers," but I couldn't help myself, I really am interested in the gory mechanics of this stuff. On which note, let me say that Lionel Shriver's We Need To Talk About Kevin has what is surely the best eye-gouging-and-glass-eye thing EVER.) It did remind me of Ian McEwan, it's just that I don't really like Ian McEwan; and it also reminded me (rather too much--they seem to have been published the same year, must have been the zeitgeist) of a novel by Rupert Thomson I sort of half-read and then had to return to the library (not very regretfully) before I could quite finish it, The Book of Revelation.
Some thoughts on Samuel R. Delany's About Writing
Justine Larbalestier has posted several times recently about the excellence of Samuel R. Delany's About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, and Five Interviews, and so I requested it from the library and began salivating at the thought of its arrival.
And then it came in at the library and I rushed there and picked it up and rushed home and sat down with it at once assuming that I would be immediately transported (I suppose I was vaguely thinking of Stephen King’s On Writing—which is very good indeed, a really gripping read, more memoir than manual).
Fifty pages in, though, I realized that not only was I not being transported, I was full of irritation.
At the book designer who thought it was a good idea to print the text in a small typeface with narrow margins and a non-standard page size that didn’t seem to me to augment the reading experience in any way.
At Delany for being undeniably brilliant but also far from concise (and actually, my advice is that while I think you will be well-advised to get this book and read it if you’re a fiction-writer of any ambition, there is no reason to start with the introduction and plough through the book from start to finish; you will be better off dipping in here and there and seeing what catches your eye, then going back to read the introduction afterwards). In other words, I didn’t sufficiently attend to the collection’s subtitle. Which makes it quite clear that this is a miscellany or hodgepodge or whatever you want to call it. Fair enough.
Most of all I was ready to kill the proofreader who fell down on the job. I quite see why Delany (I assume it’s his choice rather than just house style) would have wanted to print the dates of lifespan and/or publication after names of authors and books. I’ve done this myself in my academic writing, I think it makes a lot of sense. But once you make that choice, you set yourself up for a whole extra level of fact-checking that just didn’t happen here. I was fuming (I am a proof-reading maniac, my eye jumps to the error before I’ve even read the page; that said, my novel had a number of embarrassing typos that I can’t believe I didn’t catch, including the awful “deep-dried” for “deep-fried," so let me not imply I am immune from this awful problem, it is rampant among small-press publications and only really inexcusable in a big-budget corporate blockbuster which this is clearly not). Amy Hempel was not born in 1851. The last name of the novelist who edits The Believer is Julavits rather than Julawitz. Balzac’s first name is Honoré, not Henri. The last name of the author of the excellent High Cotton is Pinckney, not Pinkney. Beckett’s novel is Molloy, not Malloy. And so on and so forth.
However another fifty pages in, the book was bristling with post-its and I was in the grip of intellectual excitement and writerly stimulation of a kind that made me want to liken this to a favorite book of mine that is also invoked by Delany, another must-read: Ezra Pound’s ABC of Reading. That book and Confucius to Cummings were my bibles when I was fifteen or so (a book having been published by New Directions was enough to make me buy it—the bookstore at my school weirdly had almost all their books & as they had been printed in most cases several decades earlier and I suppose just never returned to the publisher, the cover prices were remarkably low, indeed astonishingly and implausibly affordable).
So let me give you the lowdown on what really struck me here (the book is full of useful and interesting things and each person who reads it will have their own commonplace-book-like mini-anthology of wise observations).
Delany is very good on the three things most likely to afflict the beginning fiction-writer (clutter, thinness and cliché) and on the way that when a writer has internalized models enough to use them in his or her writing he/she doesn’t remember that model any more in terms of a particular example or text “but experiences it, rather, as a force in the body, a pull on the back of a tongue, an urge in the fingers to shape language in one particular way and avoid another,” something experienced “through the body.”
He gives lots of appealing and irascible sound-bites, including a short and effective explanation of why reviewers shouldn’t use the rhetoric of “transcending the genre” when they discuss science fiction (or more broadly any kind of ‘genre’—Delany calls it “paraliterary”— fiction).
What I most appreciate is the strength of the case Delany makes for writers’ need to be wide-ranging readers. I am deeply devoted to this ideal, which seems to me generally ill-realized both among literary scholars in the academy and among contemporary fiction-writers and teachers of writing. I strongly identify with the readerly self on display here, and I have noted a number of Delany’s arguments for use the next time I get into an argument about this.
Delany says that “[i]t is only relatively wide-ranging readers who can respond to writerly talent, because they alone can experience what it is different from”: “People who read only mysteries, or, indeed, only eighteenth-century novels, are not likely to have much input into the contestatory dialogue about which contemporary works are worthwhile and which works aren’t.” YES! I can’t remember the last time I read something I so strongly agreed with.
And here’s his amplification of a related idea in another essay in which he explains what he means when he says he wants “to see academic critics approach the new and the old.” He doesn’t want works by, say, Walter Pater and Djuna Barnes and John Keene to be “judged by the same ‘objective’ standards”:
I want to learn, rather, what kind of education is necessary to form an aesthetic sensibility (or, what kind of political savvy it requires, should you be more comfortable with that idea: as I said, on the level I’m speaking about, they’re all but the same thing) that can appreciate, enjoy, and be deeply moved by all three. I think, today, I’m probably more likely than not to find this from a writer who has had some affiliation with the academy. As a reader, I’m probably going to be able to hear it a bit more easily from a writer who feels at least somewhat comfortable with the ideas, if not the rhetoric, of the theoretical developments in criticism since (arbitrarily) 1968 broadly called critical theory. But the fact is, I don’t find it with any regularity. And the academics who never sharpen their analytical teeth on a current work that speaks to them seem to me somehow to be shirking the full employment of the sheer power (constituted as largely by disinterest as by bias; by both blindness and insight) their position and their concomitant educations bestow.
He also gives the best description I have ever seen of what it feels like to revise a novel (this is actually uncannily close to the way I was formulating it to myself as I worked on the latest version of Dynamite No. 1, which involved some fairly substantial re-imagining of various plot and character points). I love the idea of writing as notation; it seems extraordinarily apt to me, and he amplifies the idea in several different places here:
When writers get (from readers or from themselves) criticism in the form “The story would be more believable if such and such happened” or “The story would be more interesting if such and such . . .” and they agree to make use of the criticism, they must translate it: “Is there any point in the story process I can go back to, and by examining my visualization more closely, catch something I missed before, which, when I notate it, will move the visualization/notation process forward again in this new way?” In other words, can the writers convince themselves that on some ideal level the story actually did happen (as opposed to “should have happened”) in the new way, and that it was their inaccuracy as a story-process practitioner that got it going on the wrong track at some given point?
In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in the mind like a piece of overheard gossip or a bit of intriguing tattle. The story process is like taking up such a piece of gossip, hunting down the people actually involved, questioning them, finding out what really occurred, and visiting pertinent locations. As with gossip, you can’t be too surprised if important things turn up that were left out of the first-heard version entirely; or if points initially made much of turn out to have been distorted, or simply not to have happened at all.
Best advice: “It is almost impossible to write a novel any better than the best novel you’ve read in the three to six months before you began your own. Thus, you must read excellent novels regularly.”
Funniest footnote (on a sentence in which Delany has used the construction “any writer faced with explanations to be gotten across in dialogue may find themselves in the midst of something like [the following]”): “The official term for the lack of agreement between the singular ‘writer’ and the plural ‘themselves’ is ‘the sexually aspecific demotic exemplary’—if anyone ever asks.”
Best description of writing one of his early novels: “Getting it down on paper was like pulling three of your own abscessed teeth at four on a February morning with nothing but a pair of pliers, a hammer, an ice pick, and a flashlight, using a shard or [sic] mirror nailed to an outhouse wall behind a barn.”
Most outrageous (but also apt) opinion: “All civilized people write poetry from time to time. Both its reading and its writing are necessary to a civilized mind. But, in most cases, we should be civilized enough to keep it—at least the writing part—to ourselves.”
Best critique: an absolutely scathing (but also very fair) account of why Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye is “a bad book.” It includes all sorts of extremely-useful-to-the-novelist tips about detail and accuracy as well as an amazing and no doubt extremely controversial statement about identity politics:
Morrison’s novel aligns itself with the Fantasy Police. Reading it, I find myself asking: What’s wrong with wanting to be different from what you are? The assumption that wanting to be other than you are means that you hate yourself is pathological and patently absurd. A much clearer and more articulate argument might be posed that to desire effectively to be different, actually to expend energy to bring that difference about (to become surgically a woman if you are born a man; to become surgically a man if you are born a woman; to reconstruct your foreskin if you were circumcised before you could consent to it; to straighten your hair if you don’t like it kinky; to wear blue contact lenses if you have brown eyes and dark skin; to wear dreadlocks if you were born with straight blond hair; to pierce, or tattoo, or decorate your body in any way at all; to exercise or diet or contour your body toward whatever ideal you set yourself) requires much more self-confidence and a clear sense of who you are than those who never question or wish to adjust their bodily reality at all.
(On a related note he elsewhere offers a powerful demonstration of the problems with Helen Vendler’s reading of Rita Dove.)
The thing of which I am most immediately persuaded is that I must get hold of whatever’s the best translation of Flaubert’s L’Education sentimentale and reread it; I read it in French a long time ago, but perhaps for that reason it hasn’t stayed with me and Delany convinces me that it is absolutely essential.
And the other thing he’s persuaded me of is that I have been a complete idiot always to have thought so poorly of Walter Pater without having read him properly; Plato and Platonism sounds like an absolutely delightful book that I must also get and read at once.
Finally, it’s many years since I read one of Delany’s own novels; I was a great fan of his as a teenager, but haven’t picked one up since then. That must be remedied at once.
In sum, an extremely stimulating read. Highly recommended.
Thoughts on (hand)writing
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Excellent literary stuff
Really excellent literary stuff
I am excited to see
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Drives multi-rear axle truck for transporting freshly mixed concrete from central mix plant to roadway/projects.
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Drive truck from the ready mix plant to jobsites while loaded with ready mix concrete while maintaining the integrity/viability of the ready mix concrete product.
Make normal operating adjustments to equipment; maintain clean vehicle interior and exterior.
Perform other duties related to or including operating of chute to assist with pouring.
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Minimum high school or general education degree (GED) required.
Previous related experience in the construction field, preferably in or closely related to delivering ready mix concrete.
Safely operate a multi-axle ready mix truck delivering ready mix concrete to customers as directed. Safely placing the mix in appropriate locations as directed by the customer, assuming that may be accomplished safely in the judgment of the driver and his supervisor.
Strictly adhere to safety requirements, policies, and procedures as outlined in the employee policy manual.
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Work in a team environment and assist co-workers or supervisors/managers with other duties as required.
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Travel and work away from home when necessary.
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Drive a truck with a valid CDL B heavy straight with necessary endorsements. Air brake skills test required for all vehicles that have air brakes.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Climb: ascent/descend three point entry into cab of truck; ascend/descend a ladder using both hands and feet while grasping handrail to the top of the mixer drum.
Lift: exertion of physical strength to move objects (40-70 lbs.) from one level to another.
Carry: hold or rest weighted objects (50 lbs.) directly on hands, arms, shoulders, or back while walking from one location to another.
Bend: flexion of the upper trunk forward while standing and knees extended or knees flexed when sitting.
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Reach: extend the hands and arms in any direction.
Kneel: maintain the body in an erect posture while resting body weight on one or both knees.
Stoop: flexion of the upper body forward at the waist with partial flexion of the knee while standing.
Twist: using hand tools such as wrenches and screwdrivers.
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Fumes: vaporous emissions, usually odorous, thrown off as the result of combustion or chemical reaction.
Gases: carbon monoxide and ozone.
Dust: airborne particles of any kind such as dust.
Hazards: closeness to moving mechanical parts; slipping while ascending/descending ladder; exposure to high temperatures during the summer and cold temperatures during the winter.
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The Eight Species of Gaymen. A Non-Scientific Study by The Pink Agendist
In my many years out, I’ve been conducting entirely non-scientific (anti-scientific, even) research to identify and inform society of the many species of gaymen they may come into contact with during their lives. My findings conclude we are divided into eight different species:
Ingenugay
Ingenugay (pronounced engine-you-gay) has just come out of the closet wearing pink-tinted sunglasses and a tiara made of daisies. He’s radiant, he’s innocent, he’s In-gen-u-gay. He thinks all the other gays are his friends. Wake-UP!!! All they want is to get you into bed first. You’re fresh meat. They don’t want your flower tiara they just want to de-flower you. Ingenugay is more of a phase than a species. One day he ends up on youtube crying, with his mascara running down his cheeks as he realizes he’s no longer Ingenugay and has to move into one of the other categories.
TipiGay
Tipigay is the most common category. He’s sweet & fun. He doesn’t watch sports but has a crush on Tom Brady. He’s well dressed, good looking and women everywhere consider him their best girl-friend (who just happens to have a penis). You can take him to dinner with your parents and your mom will just love him. Your father will tell you he barely noticed the guy was gay. He’s a natural born agony aunt and women far and wide call him for relationship advice in the middle of the night and fashion advice during the day. He loves to go shopping with his girlfriends.
Cruella de Gay
Cruella is mad and out for blood!!! He didn’t respond well to his Ingenugay break-up. He keeps a hanky in his pocket to wipe the venom away from the corners of his mouth after he speaks, otherwise it would corrode his own skin. The only time Cruella stops spewing evil is when he’s got a penis in his mouth. Beware, you might be his next victim, he’s got an eye on your boyfriend (even if you happen to be a straight girl.) Never leave your boyfriend alone with him and make sure to watch your drink so he doesn’t slip something into it! Physically, this variety tends to be thinner and taller than the others. They also generally end up writing blogs about celebrities.
FaGay
There aren’t noticeable physical characteristic for this specimen, he comes in all shapes and sizes. The one identifiable trait is his high pitched voice, particularly when he says words that end in OUS. Fabulous, marvellous, fantabulous, glamorous, überfabulous. He’s also prone to referring to himself and other gay men as she/her. His arms move around so much when he speaks he could probably power a generator. The only two women he loves are Cher and his mother.
AthletiGay
As if straight men didn’t have a tough time already, here comes Athletigay. He spends more time doing exercise than most people spend awake. Females gasp when they find out he’s gay and mutter “what a waste”. Suburban women fantasize about him when their fat husbands touch them in bed . AthletiGays are usually a little homophobic, they don’t mix with other categories and only socialize and sleep with other AthletiGays. They are obsessed with being “straight-acting” and end up living in the suburbs where they go on bike rides and hike with their adopted children.
ProteGay
The Protegay has watched All About Eve way too many times. He’s observant and knows just what to say to get into your life. He’s characterized by incessant flirtation. If it has a wallet, he’ll flirt with it. He’s also characterized by arriving at your door-step in the evening with two suitcases and a sob-story. Beware, the Protegay does not discriminate by sexual orientation when he’s choosing one of his victims. He might come in the form of a butler to a wealthy lady (Ask Doris Duke), or he might be the younger guy who’s soooooo impressed by your career. He organizes his own clothes by colour. When he asks to organize your clothes by colour, say no, move to another city and change your cell phone number. If you’re already straddled with a Protegay, make sure he doesn’t have access to the IV by your deathbed.
Denial O. Gay
Denial O. Gay is of the closeted variety. Closeted in that he wrongly believes nobody thinks he’s gay. At night he stands in front of the mirror practicing his straight face, straight smile, straight laugh, straight scowl. When he goes out, he always has a lady on his arm. He has a boyfriend who he met on grindr who he introduces to people as his colleague, but his boyfriend is never invited to his birthdays. His porn collection is bigger than any of the other species. He’s also into kinky casual sex, but has to drive hours away from home to get it. He wouldn’t risk being outed! What he doesn’t realize is that everyone and his mother know he’s gay. Straight men didn’t cry after every single episode of Oprah’s last season and don’t squeal when they’re watching America’s Next Top Model.
Gayd E. Nial
This species is similar to the previous species as they’re neighbours at numbers 23 and 24 on Closet Lane, Short Hills, NJ. The main difference is however that Gayd E. Nial is married, religious and a registered republican. Denial O. Gay says he’s a republican but actually votes democrat. This species also has a propensity towards public homophobia whilst having a gay porn collection almost as large as the previous species. They only have gay sex when travelling and tend to do it in airport bathroom stalls or with rent-boys. This species is quite common in Catholic and Muslim countries and in conservative circles worldwide.
Susans
Now I couldn’t write a post about Gayman types without mentioning the Susans. Every individual Gayman and every individual gay bar has a Sue. She’s trapped in a vicious circle. She hasn’t had a boyfriend in years but she only goes out to gay clubs and only has gaymen as friends. She lives vicariously through gaymen and is a little bit too interested in the details of our sex-lives. When she gets drunk she gets handsy. Susans are invariably overweight and often depressed, but gaymen everywhere tell her she looks fab, so she doesn’t feel the need to go on a diet or take Prozac. As she ages she starts collecting cats and will eventually appear on an episode of Animal Cops: Detroit, when her neighbours start complaining the smell emanating from her home is unbearable.
If I’ve left anyone out, or your own non-scientific research has led you to identify other species of Gaymen, please, do share!
44 comments on “The Eight Species of Gaymen. A Non-Scientific Study by The Pink Agendist”
Thank you! Now I have I guide to use when I go searching for my new BGF (Best Gay Friend).
lmao – oh you evil man. Does this mean I’m going to have to stop coming here? I have the cats already. 😦
p.s. reblogged on Meeka’s Mind. 😀
I also have a cat…& I need to shed some weight : -(
-wail- We’re doomed!
Reblogged this on Meeka's Mind and commented:
Okay, I simply couldn’t let this one past without reblogging it. Pinky and I have been friends for a couple of years and he has the sharpest, funniest wit of any man I know, gay or straight. So if you are shy, homophobic or easily shocked, please look away now.
Over to you, Pinky. 😀
🙂 You are too kind 🙂
Haven’t laughed this much in years!
Pink, I couldn’t stop laughing while reading this. It is one of your very funny pieces.
It’s from the PinkAgendist days, but I decided to bring it back out.
Thank yo, my dear 🙂
So which are you? And Mike? 🙂
We’re Post-Gay. Much like many long-term couples who are Post-Caring 🙂
I no longer collect cats ( we are down to five from 21), and after reading this every one in the family is banned from introducing any more … ever.
Do not call me Susan.
Hilarious piece. Loved it.
Susanaten?
Although hinted at with the AthletiGay, I think the Brazil Gay needs it’s own category: married men, aggressive homophobes, who just so happen to frequent male bathhouses.
Sounds a lot like the Britgay, only he wears a bowler hat – even in the bathhouse. [Don’t ask me how I know.]
A bowler hat in the bathhouse, that’s commitment.
Ah, that’s Bluebloodgay 😉
On his head?
That variety exists in all latin countries!
Two Britgays off to the Bathhouse:
I don’t doubt that.
This had me laughing out loud. I have a friend who doesn’t fit these very well. Maye a bit Tipi, but if you were just looking at him, he looks like any plump nerd.
Plump nerds sort of fall into the Susans category 😀
Well there are the gay bears…big, burly guys who look like construction workers (but moisturize their faces, spend too much time grooming their facial hair, and have more and better skin care products than most women). As a woman who likes big guys (maybe because my father’s a big guy…I said it, and we’re moving on) the gay bears are confusing. From afar, a gay bear looks like a cute, big guy…then I go up to him to flirt and he introduces me to his husband or his boyfriend. And I think “Well great, now there’s two of them I can’t sleep with”.
And then there’s the curious case of a cousin of mine. He played dress up in his mother’s evening dresses well into his teens…when the Internet was new he used it to cruise gay chat rooms. As a man in his 30s, he has a wife and two children, he works for a homophobic, anti-gay rights Republican New York State senator; the “best man” at his wedding is his secret lover, and he ran (and lost) for City Council as the Republican “family values” candidate amid widespread rumors (spread by a local tabloid called The Gay Blade) that his sexuality wasn’t as straight as he claimed it to be. The man’s my cousin but not only am I not sure which subset of gay man he is, I’m not even sure what planet he’s from.
What about the Domestigay? The utterly boring openly gay man in a stable long-term relationship who has mostly straight friends and attends the episcopal church?
Take out the church and that’s ME! You bastard.
A fine specimen of homosexualis domesticus.
I dunno, where is Regular Gay?
He’s just like Regular Straight, except he is married/coupled with a man instead of a woman.
Doesn’t speak with a lisp, works out a little but isn’t obsessive, married, homeowner, and trying to get ahead in his career. Doesn’t call other men, “she” or “her,” enjoys a good Broadway show now and then but is not obsessed with musicals. Has good relationships with family, friends and co-workers and is not out of balance in having more female than male acquaintances. Thinks about home improvement and decorating the same way a straight man does. Likes to plan and take nice vacations to destinations that are of cultural or historic or natural interest, doesn’t plan gay destination vacations, instead goes to Yellowstone or Paris, or London. Fights and makes up with husband/boyfriend like straight couples. Doesn’t shop just to shop, shops because they want/need something.
Okay maybe a few more moisturizers than a straight man on the bathroom shelf. Dresses well when called for otherwise wears khaki pants to the office.
I don’t see Regular Gay in here.
Regular doesn’t exist. There’s no regular straight person, or regular gay person 😉 Didn’t Franzen spend all of The Corrections proving that?
I only know a TipiGay (& it took me ages to realise he was gay). One of my son’s friends, who sadly doesn’t fit the usual gay stereotype of someone who is clean & tidy around the house.
I’m also appallingly untidy!
-comfort- But you cook so there’s hope for you yet. :p
I’m looking for a gay redneck. I’m wondering if they exist? You know, the moody, silent type who wear camouflage trousers with really old T-shirts and spend most of their spare time in the woods. They smell like woodsmoke and survival skills. Because I don’t find any of the types you’ve described at all attractive, but campfires are almost unbearably erotic.
There’s everything! Redneck, camouflage, country types, city types… The classic stereotypes (not the joke ones above) were in part tribal mechanisms we developed and used to identify members of our group when being gay was kept mostly hidden.
Niche professions, dress codes, speech pattens, adherence to certain types of music- it all made finding other lgbt people easier. But the world is changing. People don’t need to conform to stereotypes in the same way anymore, which means your redneck is out there 🙂
The frustrating thing is that my friends trend older, so most of the people I meet got their gender performance rules thirty years ago, when apparently there was only one way to be gay. It’s frustrating.
Oh! By the way. I’ve always loved the fact that you use the picture of Penn Badgley from Easy A in this post, because when I watch the movie I want him to be gay, yet you’ve chosen the scene where he admits his feelings for Emma Stone and she turns him down temporarily.
Joshua Ryan "Jammer" Smith
Is there a title for young bisexual men who are still finding their queer selves?
My archetypes are from nearly 20 years ago. Fortunately it’s starting to look like people can just be themselves without having to adopt a specific identity/role 😉
To be fair I recognized a few of the people in your essay. People don’t change that much.
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In Celebration of the release of The Chocolate Maker’s Wife – here’s some background on the writing of the novel and what’s between the covers…
This is an edited excerpt of what appeared in the ARC copy of the novel.
Official release date: 18 February in Australia/NZ. Out in the USA and UK August 2019.
The Chocolate Maker’s Wife, a tale of tragedy, triumph and sensual delight in Restoration London, is my twelfth book. It’s also the fourth time I’ve used the same basic premise to explore humanity and history through fiction by focussing on women in trade. So many historical fictions are about the gentry and nobility and they’re fascinating. What captivates me even more is what ordinary folk – well educated or not, rich or poor – did to survive in business, sickness, health, love and loss. In previous novels, I’ve tackled a candle-maker-cum-courtesan, a brewer, a lock-pick/spy and due to a timely visit to Hampton Court in 2014, I’ve my latest book.
Not only was chocolate a decadent drink introduced to England from Europe – Spain (via South America) – around the 1660s, coinciding with the restoration of Charles II to the English throne and all that his reign heralded in terms of hedonism and decadence, but it was associated with a range of naughty behaviours and benefits. Touted for its health-giving properties, chocolate was also considered an aphrodisiac. While there were those who sought to ban it, there were many more who relished the wicked things it signified. Just like the new, bitter drink of coffee, entire “houses” were opened where men could gather and quaff, smoke and exchange news.
While this is a Georgian coffee or chocolate house, Rosamund’s in my novel would have been similar.
The new-fangled and troublesome (for king and court) profession of journalism was also burgeoning. The collision of new ideas, political protest and the ability to read what was happening as people’s literacy grew, spelled both dramatic change and disorder. Debates, gossip, plots, plans, arguments, gambling and all other manner of licentious conduct happened – and was encouraged – under the roof of the debauched, marvellous chocolate house.
As you can tell (because I could go on), I simply adore doing the research!
The Chocolate Maker’s Wife focusses on the first of these chocolate houses to open in London and with a woman at the helm. With great business acumen, young and lovely Rosamund – someone with a past both uplifting and utterly wretched – arrives in the capital. Rosamund makes a deal with the devil and learns all there is to know about chocolate, serving men who would both bed and wed her. Through chocolate and the people it brings into her orbit, her life undergoes an extraordinary transformation.
A glass chocolate pot – note the molinillo (the stick in the lid) and he handle out the side for pouring.
But one cannot serve “sin in a bowl” and expect their reputation to remain unsullied. Nor at a time when war is brewing, plots against the crown are thick, laws tightening, plague and then fire threatening, never mind lustful men and jealous women, can Rosamund expect to remain safe – especially when those plotting against her are the same who promise her security.
The Chocolate Maker’s Wife is filled with real historical figures, rich in historical detail and facts as well as a healthy dose of imagination and a great deal of luscious chocolate. I hope in reading it, like Rosamund, you’ll find damnation has never been so sweet.
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An Armenian Named Hitler
Jirair Tutunjian, Toronto, 21 April 2016
This is an abridged version of “DARJEELING” (Globe and Mail).
When I looked down, I noticed the little girl had emptied the contents of her stomach into my lap. Her mother apologized, but her words were drowned in thunder. We were flying towards the Himalayas through monsoon skies.
The script was all wrong: it wasn’t supposed to be this way. According to my neatly-typed itinerary, I was supposed to have completed my journey and departed India a full week before the monsoons. They hit India too soon: practically everywhere I went heavy rains had already drenched the countryside. “Sahib, you should have come last week; the weather was jolly good,” was the line everywhere.
At Bagdogra airport, I met Chang, the Nepalese driver who was to take me to India’s premier hill station, Darjeeling, fifty-six miles away. As I sank into his battered, made-in-Calcutta Ambassador, Chang explained that we couldn’t take the main road through Kalimpong because bus drivers were on strike. A day earlier, some passengers had roughed up a bus driver. In protest, the handful of drivers who provided service on the treacherous mountain road between Bagdogra and Darjeeling had not only gone on strike but had also blocked major intersections.
“Udder road is longer. Four, five, maybe six hours to Darjeeling,” Chang explained as we started to climb the winding narrow road through dark green tea estates. The car wheezed, coughed and rattled as we kept climbing. Blanketed in fog, the black sedan seemed airborne. The wind whistled through window crevices, the radiator made anthropomorphous sounds and Chang took blind corners as if we were on a flat country road. His hand stiff on the steering wheel, a hand-rolled cigarette in his mouth, he looked as expressive as a cigar-store Indian.
Through the fog, I glimpsed slogans painted on the slopes–DRIVE LIKE HELL AND THERE YOU ARE; BETTER LATE THAN NEVER; DRIVE IN PEACE, NOT IN PIECES; LIFE IS PRECIOUS, LET’S PRESERVE IT. I was glad Cool Hand Chang couldn’t read these Chinese-cookie gems at hairpin bends. His only concession to safe driving was to honk at every curve.
When I woke up four hours later, we were parking in front of the Oberoi Mount Everest Hotel. I had missed Bari, Ponkhabari, Kurseong, Sonada, Ghoom and several other mist-swathed villages.
Chang said good night and reminded me that we were to leave for Tiger Hill observation point at 4 a.m. to watch sunrise over Mount Kanchenjunga. At 8,556 meters, it is the third highest peak in the world. Sunrise over its peak was supposed to be a spiritual experience, according to veteran travel writers.
Unpacked, refreshed and hungry, I was at the dining hall within 30 minutes. A middle-aged magician called Sunil De amused the Indian guests with card tricks and sleight of hand. He beamed with pride every time the overfed children applauded and their parents shouted “bravo.”
I couldn’t take the show. I wandered to the reception area. A middle-aged man, with a slim moustache and pitch-black hair was manning the desk. He was the manager. I asked him about the hotel’s history. He said that it was built in 1914, and during British rule was the hub of Raj social life. I then asked for the name of the builder and the architect. He said that it was built by a Calcutta architect called Hitler.
I had become used to similar outlandish pieces of intelligence from Indian hotel and lodge managers. Another of his tribe had informed me a few days earlier that Indian scientists had discovered atomic energy 6,000 years ago but had decided not to proceed because it was a destructive force. Another had given me anti-diarrhoea pills which, I later discovered, had been banned by the Indian government because they caused blindness.
Since what the Darjeeling hotel manager had told me sounded unlikely, I asked him whether I could see newspaper or magazine article clippings from the hotel’s archives. He said that he would check the archives and show me the file upon my return from the Tiger Hill trip next day.
I headed for my suite with its inviting fireplace, white Victorian furniture, flowers, heavy curtains, high ceilings, and a hot water bottle under the blanket.
As I was checking my next day’s itinerary, the telephone rang and a male voice asked if I would care for a massage. “I will massage you in your room for 45 minutes. Only two dollars, Sahib.”
I said: “Come on up.” Half-way through the massage, I went to sleep and dreamed of mule-limbed Hindu gods walking all over me.
Another telephone call. “Good morning, sir. It’s 3.30 a.m. sir. The driver is here for Tiger Hill, sir.”
Tiger Hill is the first attraction most travel writers mention when they wax poetic about Darjeeling. It’s a promontory (2,547 meters) from which tourists can view sunrise over the sacred Mount Kanchenjunga.
Although Tiger Hill is only six miles from Darjeeling, it took our Land-Rover twenty-five minutes to climb the rutted road to the peak.
It was freezing and pitch-dark, but the observation point is already crowded with expectant tourists wrapped in long shawls. As darkness slips away the onlookers gasp in expectation…sixty second passes but there is no sun. Thick cloud has blanketed the Himalayan peaks. It’s a Turner sky in grey.
Some Indians start chanting hymns to coax the sun out of hiding. The sounds blow away in the wind. After twenty minutes of false expectations, the dejected crowd dispersed. An American lady teaching in Hyderabad quips: “They should have built Kanchenjunga closer to Darjeeling.”
On the way back to the hotel, I noticed a shoe-less urchin standing at the edge of the milky abyss selling tea. All he had was a kettle and three soiled cups. Enveloped in darkness and mist, the boy seemed like a ghost. The sugarless tea was the best tea I had ever tasted: it was also the cheapest.
Back at the Oberoi, the manager was waiting for me in his office with a pile of old newspaper and magazine clippings spread on his desk. The second or third article mentioned the man who had built the hotel a year before the start of the First World War when the sun never set on the British Empire.
The builder was a Calcutta real estate baron who had come with his family to Darjeeling to flee the summer heat of India’s biggest city. During British rule it was customary for the British sahibs and memsahibs to escape in palanquins, camels and mules to the serene and cool hill stations such as Darjeeling in the same manner many Beirutis flee in the summer the sweltering capital of Lebanon for mountain villages like Alei, Bikfaya, Dhoor Shwair and Khnchara.
The Calcutta mogul was the owner of that city’s swanky Grand Hotel on the fashionable Chowringhee Road, in addition to the ritzy Stephen Court. Lord Kitchener of Khartoum was a frequent guest at his mansion.
The realtor had come to Calcutta at the age of 20 with barely a hundred rupees (2 pounds) in his pocket. He had apprenticed at a jeweller’s shop for a hundred rupees a month and eventually became a prominent jeweller. He wore a monocle and had one of the world’s best collections of china.
He had tried to find accommodation at the Windermere Hotel, the top hotel of the summer resort. He was refused accommodation (“British Only”) because he was not Anglo-Saxon. He had tried several other hotels with the same result. To get even with British racism, the irate real estate baron had decided to build a hotel in Darjeeling: a hotel which would be bigger and more sumptuous than the ones which had refused to admit him. Within a year he had his hotel. The British sahibs and memsahibs soon made a bee-line to Mount Everest Hotel as Stephen’s property became the new hot spot of the resort town.
The real estate kingpin’s name was Aratoon (Haroutiun) Stephen. Born in 1880, he was Armenian, originally from New Julfa in Isfahan. Many Southeast Asian and Far East Armenians of the era changed their name to avoid discrimination. How in the hotel manager’s insouciant mind Aratoon had transformed into Hitler was a mystery.
Darjeeling means the Place of Thunderbolt. Aratoon Stephen had given the British colonial high society a taste of the Armenian thunderbolt.
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Need a Laparoscopic Hysterectomy Procedure? Just Say No!
Do you need a laparoscopic hysterectomy procedure?
Perhaps you have uterine fibroids or there is some other problem with your uterus and you've been told you need to have a laparoscopic hysterectomy procedure done; please, first read the following story!
How Many People Have To Die To Show A New Surgery Technique Isn't Worth It?
A mother of 6 kids under 12 years old, also an anesthesiologist, followed the conventional medical advice to have a laparoscopic hysterectomy procedure to remove uterine fibroids, after trying unsuccessfully to get her surgeon to do the traditional open abdominal procedure…
Here are a few excerpts from the Prevention article:
This year, more than half a million women in the United States will undergo hysterectomies. The majority will be between 40 and 55 years old, and, like Reed, most will have the surgery for uterine fibroids, benign growths in the uterus that can cause pain, bleeding, and other symptoms. Five years ago, only about 12% of these surgeries were performed laparoscopically, done through incisions just big enough to fit a scope and tiny camera. Last year, nearly 30% were done that way, and the numbers were considered likely to rise.
Last fall, a routine hysterectomy seeded cancer throughout Reed's abdomen. The hysterectomy didn't cause the cancer, but it very likely transformed it from stage 1 disease, with a 60% 5-year survival rate, to stage 4 disease, with a grim prognosis. About 85% of women like Reed are dead 5 years after diagnosis.Compared with traditional open abdominal procedures, laparoscopic surgeries were said to result in shorter hospital stays (and, therefore, lower costs for insurers), faster healing, less pain, fewer infections, and smaller scars. Still, when Reed first discussed hysterectomy with her surgeon, she asked for an open operation, despite the larger incision and longer recovery time. “I said, ‘I'm an anesthesiologist. I know how they operate. I'd rather have them see what they're dealing with and not mess around with little holes,' ” she recalls. “Laparoscopic surgery's not all it's touted to be sometimes.”
Muto said no surgeon would do what she wanted. You're young and healthy, Reed remembers being told; there's no reason in the world to have this done as an open surgery. “Dr. Muto wears a nice white coat with the Harvard emblem on it,” says Noorchashm, sitting across from Reed. “He's my colleague, and we trust our own establishment.” He pauses, and then corrects himself. “I trusted the establishment.”
So Reed had MRIs and biopsies to check for cancer, as is standard before a fibroid operation, and went ahead with the laparoscopic hysterectomy. She went home that afternoon, and everything was fine until the surgeon called 8 days later to say that the pathology report showed leiomyosarcoma, a cancer in her uterus. And nothing has been fine since then.
Imagine a hive filled with angry bees flying this way and that, buzzing, darting, stingers at the ready. Now picture that hive inside a woman's belly, where at any moment the bees could explode through the body, wreaking the deadliest kind of havoc. The hive, says Noorchashm, is a good metaphor for a sarcoma, a kind of cancer that can grow anywhere in the body. He's operated on sarcomas and knows that the way to handle them is to carefully remove them in one piece. Now imagine inserting a long spinning saw—something like a handheld blender—into the hive while it's still inside the woman's body and cutting it up into tiny pieces. “What's going to happen,” says Noorchashm, “is a million bees are going to come out and you're dead.”
That saw is called a morcellator, and over the past 10 years or so, it's become standard procedure in laparoscopic surgeries to remove fibroids, the uterus, or both. “Morcellation prevents you from having to make a larger incision,” says Larry Kaiser, dean of the Temple University School of Medicine. “You couldn't take the uterus with fibroids out through these small ports used for the camera and instruments.”
The trouble is, some cancers—like leiomyosarcoma—don't show up on biopsies or MRIs done before surgery. If a woman's uterus is morcellated inside her body, cancer cells are spewed around the abdomen, where they cling to internal organs and, inevitably, grow. Even benign tissue that's morcellated can implant in the abdomen and trigger pain, bowel obstructions, and other problems.
Morcellation is what Reed and Noorchashm want to stop, arguing that it's unacceptable if there's any chance of hidden cancer—and there's pretty much always a chance. “It's flawed surgical procedure,” says Noorchashm. Some ob-gyn surgeons say morcellation is safe if it's done in a containment bag, something like the bag inside a vacuum cleaner. Noorchashm disagrees. Bags can break, he says, especially when you're using a rotating power saw. Instead, he and Reed want surgeons to remove the whole, unmorcellated uterus vaginally when they can, and do the old-fashioned open surgery when they can't.
Noorchashm and Reed were asking for a huge shift in medical practice, and physicians, especially surgeons, can be slow to change, says Brian Van Tine, a physician who heads the Sarcoma Program at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. Part of the resistance was likely financial. If, say, half of the women who have hysterectomies have abdominal surgery rather than laparoscopy and must spend an extra day or two in the hospital, that's a lot of extra costs for insurance companies to cover. “Morcellation saves money,” Van Tine says, “and these surgeries are a huge moneymaker.”
Noorchashm is a realist; he knows that odds are he will lose his wife sooner rather than later. He may also lose his career, but he's not worried about that just now. He's focused on the moment, the here and now. This fight he and his wife are immersed in, a fight not of their choosing.
Of course there are two sides to every story, so read the entire heartbreaking article here where the whole picture is presented, including the risks both ways.
However, even the FDA now agree on this:
In a safety communication notice issued today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration discouraged the use of laparoscopic power morcellation for the removal of the uterus (hysterectomy) or uterine fibroids (myomectomy) in women because, based on an analysis of currently available data, it poses a risk of spreading unsuspected cancerous tissue, notably uterine sarcomas, beyond the uterus.
Laparoscopic power morcellation is one of several available treatments for uterine fibroids. It is a procedure that uses a medical device to divide the uterine tissue into smaller pieces or fragments so it can be removed through a small incision in the abdomen, such as during laparoscopy.
Based on an analysis of currently available data, the FDA has determined that approximately 1 in 350 women who are undergoing hysterectomy or myomectomy for uterine fibroids have an unsuspected type of uterine cancer called uterine sarcoma. If laparoscopic power morcellation is performed in these women, there is a risk that the procedure will spread the cancerous tissue within the abdomen and pelvis, significantly worsening the patient’s likelihood of long-term survival. (Source)
One thing that isn't touched on in that article is this: what about other laparoscopic procedures?
There are SO many surgeries done laparoscopically these days. What if there is some unknown cancer in another area of our body that also shouldn't be ground up and spread all over when parts are removed? Personally, I see this as just one more reason not to blindly follow any medical advice, but to instead (broken record here) thoroughly do your research first!
Now tell me, what would YOU do, since both procedures have risks? Would you opt for the laparoscopic hysterectomy procedure, or the traditional open procedure?
UPDATE: They've pulled this tool off the market!!!
Warning: Hang On To Your Uterus
Hysterectomy Risks – Has a Hysterectomy Ruined Intimacy for You?
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Sandra Hornsby White says
The problem with women who do not feel well……become powerless victims of un-neccessary procedure and cannot utter the words, ” No.” So, go through it. I talked to my good friend until I was blue in the face and took care of her post op and really she had a rude awakening when they cleansed the drugs out of her system and then sent her home to Self Medicate with what she had on hand or over the counter. I think many GYN’s are misogynist and cause a source of torture on unsuspecting women.
Just to add more info/clarify a bit here…. Not all laparoscopic hysterectomies involve morcellation, which is where tissue is first broken up into small pieces before being removed. The uterus and also ovaries can be detached laparoscopically, but then removed fully intact vaginally. I think patients need to dialogue about the procedure with their surgeons before moving ahead with it, to ensure that morcellation will not be used in their case, but not to refuse ALL laparoscopic procedures across the board.
Very good clarification, Jill, thank you!
I actually had a laparoscopic partial hysterectomy (I have my ovaries) about 10 years ago when I was in my 30s. I should preface this by saying that I was born with a birth defect and have had over 40 surgeries so in general they don’t scare me. I also know what questions to ask and how to find the best surgeons for the particular procedure. Because I was thorough and picked the right doctor, I did wind up in surgery two hours longer than anticipated causing the doctor to have to reschedule other surgeries and push others off. Why? Because he was dealing with a tumor much larger than expected and he knew the various risks of laparoscopic surgery. He took his time and did this right so as not to harm me or cause any issues. As a matter of fact, I had to beg him to let me out of the hospital earlier than he wanted because I was tired of being there. There are pros and cons to everything in life, it is our responsibility as the owners of our body to decide what is right for us, do our research, and ask lots of questions before jumping into something. Also, that wasn’t my only laparoscopic surgery.
I totally agree, we have to figure it all out on our own, knowing our own bodies better than anyone else.
Melissa Chandler via Facebook says
This is good info! Thanks for sharing it! I had uterine cancer 16 years ago (at 22yrs old) and my doctor opened me up and took everything including my appendix. I am alive because the doctor did a thorough job and got all the cancer out of my body. It breaks my heart to hear that $ is preventing other women from getting proper treatment and even causing them great harm and death!
Maria Rickert Hong via Facebook says
I wonder if the same logic applies to biopsies.
Lori Kantonen via Facebook says
I insisted on a abdominal incision to remove my fibroids. My recovery was longer, but I didn’t want to take any chances!
Kelly, thank you for posting this.
I suffered horribly with fibroids for years and was told I had NO choice but to have a hysterectomy (yes, as described above). I flat out refused. Two doctors told me I would die without the procedure. Right.
I have near-zero faith in the medical community after my years-long experience with many doctors for my condition. No one would even discuss alternatives …hysterectomy was offered as my only option.
(And when I say suffered, I mean that I was transfused 6 times over three years ….yet somehow the medical community could find no way to stop the bleeding. It took a long conversation and advice from a professor-friend neuroendocrinologist to get my bleeding under control with bio-identical cream, amazingly, within a couple of weeks.)
Further, upon hearing my refusal to submit to the procedure, I actually had one female gyno throw the speculum across the room, declaring that my life was in my hands and my refusal meant my certain death.
I am 100% serious.
There’s way too much we are never told. Articles like this are alarming and should serve as a warning that we should never place our full faith and trust in the medical community (as our parents tended to do). No.
Thanks for sharing that, wow, just some cream and you were fixed, THAT is amazing, and think of the money the medical establishment would lose out on if they tried more of that!!!
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Soil moisture study area at Brightwater Creek, southern Saskatchewan.
Two-step data assimilation framework from brightness temperature to soil moisture. Note that TB denotes brightness temperature, and “TB assimilated soil moisture” is a product of assimilating brightness temperatures from the satellite and LPRM simulation.
A time series of the observed in situ soil moisture dataset that was used to evaluate the two assimilation procedures. The error bars represent one standard deviation from the mean daily soil moisture.
Time series of daily soil moisture (5-cm depth) estimates from LPRM, CLASS default, and assimilation for data periods 27 Sep–31 Oct 2007, 1 May–23 Jun 2008, and 21 Aug–28 Oct 2008. CLASS default denotes estimate from the calibrated CLASS model.
Time series of daily ensemble mean soil moisture (5-cm depth) and its interval, and mean network (in situ) soil moisture for time periods 27 Sep–31 Oct 2007, 1 May–23 Jun 2008, and 21 Aug–28 Oct 2008.
Time series of daily soil moisture (20-cm depth) estimates from CLASS default and assimilation for data periods 27 Sep–31 Oct 2007, 1 May–23 June 2008, and 21 Aug–28 Oct 2008. CLASS default denotes estimate from the calibrated CLASS model.
Validation for daily soil moisture at 20-cm depth. Comparison between two soil moisture estimates CLASS default and CLASS-LPRM validation for data periods 27 Sep–31 Oct 2007, 1 May–23 Jun 2008, and 21 Aug–28 Oct 2008. CLASS default denotes estimate from the calibrated CLASS model.
An Integrated Framework for a Joint Assimilation of Brightness Temperature and Soil Moisture Using the Nondominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II
Gift Dumedah 1 , Aaron A. Berg 1 , and Mark Wineberg 2
1 Department of Geography, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
2 Department of Computing and Information Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-10-05029.1
This study has applied the Nondominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II) in a two-step assimilation procedure to jointly assimilate brightness temperature into a radiative transfer model and soil moisture into a land surface model. The first assimilation procedure generates a time series of soil moisture by assimilating brightness temperature from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) into the Land Parameter Retrieval Model (LPRM). The second procedure generates assimilated soil moisture by assimilating the soil moisture from LPRM into the Canadian Land Surface Scheme (CLASS). Note that the assimilated soil moisture was generated by merging two soil moisture estimates: one from LPRM and the other from the CLASS simulation. The assimilated soil moisture is better than using the soil moisture determined either from the satellite observation or the land surface scheme alone. This method provides improved model state and parameterizations for both LPRM and CLASS with the aim to facilitate real-time forecasts when satellite information becomes available. Application of this framework to the Brightwater Creek watershed in southern Saskatchewan illustrates the utility of the joint assimilation framework to improve a time series of soil moisture estimates. The estimated soil moisture datasets were evaluated over an agricultural site in southern Saskatchewan using in situ monitoring networks. These results demonstrate that soil moisture generated from assimilation of brightness temperature could be improved by incorporating it into a land surface model. A comparison between the assimilated soil moisture and in situ dataset demonstrates an improvement in accuracy and temporal pattern that is accomplished through the assimilation framework.
Corresponding author address: Aaron Berg, Department of Geography, University of Guelph, Guelph ON N1G 2W1, Canada. E-mail: aberg@uoguelph.ca
Keywords: Soil moisture; Data assimilation
Soil moisture is an important component of the hydrological cycle as it plays an integral role in mass and energy exchange between the land surface and the atmosphere. As a result, accurate estimation of soil moisture can improve weather and streamflow forecasting in climate and hydrological models (Berg and Mulroy 2006; Reichle et al. 2007, 2008). Remotely sensed soil moisture data have become readily available from a variety of satellite platforms such as the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for Earth Observing System (AMSR-E). Assimilation of these datasets are necessary to integrate the surface soil moisture into the deeper soil layers. The technique of data assimilation (DA) is an analysis method for merging uncertain model predictions with imperfect observation data in an optimal way that is consistent with the physical descriptions of the system to better estimate and reduce uncertainty (Liu and Gupta 2007; Reichle 2008).
DA methods have been used widely in meteorology and atmospheric sciences (Reynolds et al. 2002; Burgers et al. 1998; Trenberth and Guillemot 1998; Hodur 1997; Schubert et al. 1993) to improve weather forecasts. The methods have focused largely on state estimation or the estimation of initial conditions for atmospheric models. In hydrological applications, DA methods in atmospheric sciences have been adapted and are not only limited to state estimation but also the estimation of errors when merging uncertain data with imperfect hydrological models. DA methods have been used to integrate ground-based, airborne, and satellite observations of near-surface soil moisture and temperature into land surface models (LSMs). Studies have ranged from the assimilation of surface energy flux (Caparrini et al. 2004a,b, 2003; Schuurmans et al. 2003), soil moisture data assimilation (Alavi et al. 2010; Reichle et al. 2007; Reichle and Koster 2005; Reichle et al. 2004, 2002a,b, 2001; Dunne and Entekhabi 2005; Walker and Houser 2004; Walker et al. 2002; Crow and Wood 2003; Crosson et al. 2002; Houser et al. 1998), and streaflow prediction (Moradkhani et al. 2005; Aubert et al. 2003; Troch et al. 2003). The studies have used complex DA methods such as inverse modeling (Wöhling et al. 2008; Vrugt et al. 2003), Kalman filter (Moradkhani et al. 2005; Aubert et al. 2003; Crosson et al. 2002), extended Kalman filter (EKF), ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) (Reichle et al. 2007, 2002a; Crow and Wood 2003), variational data assimilation (VDA) (Caparrini et al. 2004a,b, 2003; Reichle et al. 2001), and genetic algorithms (Ines and Mohanty 2009, 2008; Chemin and Honda 2006).
The above methods are advanced DA techniques with clear and standard concepts. But the estimation of model state are usually conducted under the precondition of a perfect model structure and accurate model parameters or, at least, under the condition that model structure remains stationary or constant across different time periods. From a general systems standpoint, uncertainties in LSMs can arise from model state, model structure, and the parameterizations of the model (Liu and Gupta 2007). Other sources of uncertainty include inaccuracies in input data (e.g., precipitation) and observation datasets (e.g., soil moisture). It is apparent that these components of model uncertainty can affect the accuracy of model forecasts, and that DA methods should incorporate these uncertainties in their operations.
In assimilating soil moisture, many DA methods have aimed to either determine the Kalman gain function (denoted K) or to minimize the cost (or penalty) function (denoted J) by finding the optimal least squares estimator (or the best estimate) based on the observation dataset, the model estimate, and their associated uncertainties. The determination of K and the minimization of J are usually conducted in a statistical framework using large matrices, and are aimed to integrate errors from model inputs, the model structure, and observation dataset. While several parameter sets are usually evaluated for specific time periods, the resulting solutions do not usually represent an equally competitive set of solutions. That is, it is possible that the resulting solution set has solutions that perform better than other solutions.
Typically, satellite soil moisture data are retrieved using microwave radiative transfer model in an inverse modeling approach. The model associates or relates land surface parameters such as surface temperature, vegetation water content, and soil moisture to the observed brightness temperature (TB) (Njoku et al. 2003; Njoku and Li 1999). Because of uncertainties in land surface parameters in the retrieval algorithms, the satellite TB are sometimes assimilated into LSMs to improve soil moisture estimates (Reichle et al. 2008; Galantowicz et al. 1999).
This study uses an alternative DA method based on genetic algorithms (GAs). GAs employ the concept of natural evolution where candidate solutions to a problem compete among themselves, and the fitter (or high performing) solutions are varied to generate new ones. The competition between solutions and the continuous variation of fitter solutions, which are evaluated under changing conditions, usually results in high-performing solutions to a problem. GAs have been applied in DA studies to estimate soil hydraulic properties by inverting soil moisture (Ines and Mohanty 2009, 2008), explore irrigation water management (Ines et al. 2006; Ines and Honda 2005), and to quantify water consumption by monitoring evapotranspiration (Chemin and Honda 2006). While the study in Ines and Mohanty (2009) explores soil moisture assimilation, the application of GA in a two-step DA framework for improving soil moisture datasets from a satellite-based estimate and a land surface model have not been thoroughly investigated.
Our study applies the Nondominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II) in a two-step assimilation procedure to jointly assimilate satellite TB into a radiative transfer model and soil moisture into a land surface model. Our framework generates two sets of soil moisture datasets. The first soil moisture dataset was created by assimilating satellite TB into the Land Parameter Retrieval Model (LPRM)—a microwave radiative transfer model. The assimilated soil moisture data from LPRM are merged with soil moisture simulations from the Canadian Land Surface Scheme (CLASS) to determine an improved soil moisture data.
The rest of the paper is organized as follows. The next section broadly covers materials and methods, which includes a description of the genetic algorithm method and an outline of the joint data assimilation framework for TB and soil moisture. The results of the joint assimilation framework and a time series of the soil moisture data are reported and analyzed in the results and discussion section. The paper concludes with a summary of our findings, a discussion about the effectiveness of our joint assimilation framework, and the utility of the genetic algorithm to improve soil moisture from satellite observations.
The microwave radiative transfer model used, LPRM, was developed by Owe et al. (2001) and was applied in Owe et al. (2008). The LPRM solves for surface soil moisture and vegetation optical depth simultaneously using a nonlinear iterative optimization procedure. The nonlinear iterative procedure employs a forward modeling approach to partition the surface emission into its primary source components—the soil emission and the canopy emission—and then optimizes on the canopy optical depth and the soil dielectric constant. The surface temperature is derived by a procedure using brightness temperature at 36.5 GHz (Holmes et al. 2009). The LRPM requires no field observations of soil moisture and no canopy biophysical properties for calibration purposes. As a result, the LPRM has no regional dependence and is applicable for different microwave frequency channels that are suitable for estimating soil moisture. Assessment of the LPRM over Canada is provided in Champagne et al. (2010). Table 1 shows information about the satellite brightness temperature data and model parameters for the LPRM. Detailed description of the LPRM can be found in Owe et al. (2001, 2008) and Holmes et al. (2009). The satellite observation data used were the AMSR-E, which was provided by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC 2008). The AMSR-E dataset has a mean spatial resolution of 56 km, which is completely contained within our study area.
Information about the AMSR-E data, and model parameter values for the LPRM.
The land surface model used, CLASS, was developed at Environment Canada by Verseghy (1991), and has been updated by Verseghy et al. (1993) and Verseghy (2000). CLASS integrates the energy and water balances of the land surface forward in time from an initial starting point, making use of atmospheric forcing data to drive the simulation. Data required to run CLASS include atmospheric forcing data, surface vegetation data, soil data, and initial values for prognostic variables. At the beginning of the simulation, initialization is conducted for several variables including the temperatures and the liquid and frozen moisture contents of the soil layers; temperature, density, and albedo of snowpack if present; the temperature and intercepted rain and snow on the vegetation canopy; the temperature and depth of ponded water on the soil surface; and an empirical vegetation growth index.
State variables that are modified between different modeling time steps are shown in Table 2. Soil moisture for the initial time step has a low value because moisture recharge in the soil typically occurs on shorter scales than soil moisture loss. Additionally, Table 3 shows CLASS model parameters and their descriptions. These parameters are modified in the subsequent modeling time steps as part of model calibration and data assimilation steps to be described below. Note that upper and lower bounds of forcing variables were determined based on the distribution of weather stations in the study area. Forcing data were obtained from eight stations—Elbow, Last Mountain, Lucky Lake, Moose Jaw Airport, Moose Jaw, Outlook Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA), Saskatoon Diefenbaker International Airport, and Watrous East—and averaged using inverse distance weighting. Data from these stations were collected from the National Climate Data and Information Archive available from Environment Canada.
CLASS state variables that were initialized between time steps (TS).
CLASS model parameters, their intervals and description. The parameter intervals are defined using the CLASS manual and based on the soil, vegetation, and meteorological conditions in the study area.
The CLASS output includes surface energy fluxes and associated state variables describing temperatures and moisture conditions. CLASS estimates the volumetric water content at each time step for each soil layer. The standard operational configuration for CLASS consists of three soil layers at depths 0.10, 0.25, and 3.75 m. The layer thicknesses can be changed to suit the needs for a specific application. In this study, we are interested in the near-surface soil moisture, which approximates to the top 5-cm thickness. As a result, the soil layers in CLASS were modified accordingly to generate soil moisture data at depths 0.05, 0.20, and 0.50 m.
This study was applied in the Brightwater Creek (BWC) watershed (location: 51.9°N, 106.6°W) in Saskatchewan (Fig. 1). The study area has 16 in situ monitoring stations with continuous soil moisture measurements at 5-, 20-, and 50-cm depths established over a 60 × 60 km2 area (Champagne et al. 2010). The site is generally flat (representative of the Canadian Prairie) and the installed sensors capture the expected variability (elevation, vegetation, soil, and landuse types) suitable for passive-microwave-derived soil moisture. In situ data were collected for growing seasons (April–October) in 2007 and 2008.
Citation: Journal of Hydrometeorology 12, 6; 10.1175/JHM-D-10-05029.1
Our DA method uses a genetic algorithm applied in a multiobjective fashion. Multiobjective genetic algorithms are analysis tools that are capable of evaluating multiple objectives simultaneously while searching through a population of candidate solutions to a problem. One such tool is the NSGA-II. NSGA-II was developed by Deb et al. (2002) and is a widely applied algorithm (Dumedah et al. 2010; Wöhling et al. 2008; Confesor and Whittaker 2007; Tang et al. 2006; Khu and Madsen 2005; Madsen 2003) with advanced and standard concepts capable of providing diverse solutions to a problem. Typically, the outcome to multiobjective problems is a set of solution(s) usually referred to as Pareto set (or Pareto frontier), which forms a trade-off between objective functions under evaluation (Deb et al. 2002; Deb and Goel 2001; Deb et al. 2000). The Pareto set is a set of incomparable solutions, as each solution has a competing accuracy when compared to other solutions and a distinct trade-off between the objectives.
In this study, the soil moisture DA problem is aimed at finding several optimal solutions for each simulation period and evaluating these solutions for subsequent simulation periods to provide a better model state for future simulations. The distribution and deviation of simulation from observation are used as a penalty function to properly merge background information with the observation dataset. To address the soil moisture assimilation problem, the task is threefold. First, estimate model parameters for a simulation period—for example, using bias [in Eq. (1)] and root-mean-square error (RMSE) [in Eq. (2)] to tune model parameters. A good parameter estimation will provide an improved model state for future simulations. Second, apply a DA procedure to improve model estimates by using the distribution and the deviation of simulation from observation as a penalty function. Third, merge background information with observation based on information from the penalty function and known uncertainties from both observation and background information using J [Eq. (3)]:
where xb,i is background value (e.g., soil moisture) for the ith data point in the current window, xo,i is observed value (e.g., soil moisture) for the ith data point in the current window, is error variance of xb,i for the ith data point in the current window, is error variance of xo,i for the ith data point in the current window, xi is the analysis (i.e., the searched) value (e.g., soil moisture) for the ith data point in the current window that minimizes J(xi), and k is duration of the current time window or number of data points in the time window.
The evolution of several solutions is important as information from competing parameter sets could provide unique properties about simulation–observation dynamics for other modeling periods or be used to improve future model states. Usually, one optimum solution is inadequate to provide information about simulation–observation dynamics for different modeling periods all at the same time. Information about several solutions that are equally competitive for different simulation periods are needed to properly merge simulation with observation.
Our method uses a two-step assimilation procedure (shown in Fig. 2) to generate an improved soil moisture data from microwave satellite observation. First, we assimilate satellite TB into LPRM to provide a time series of soil moisture data. The independent assimilation of TB has no input from the LSM; as a result, it generates a soil moisture dataset that is subject to errors only from the satellite TB and the radiative transfer model. Second, we merge the estimated soil moisture from TB assimilation with soil moisture simulation from the LSM to provide an improved soil moisture that is better than using the individual soil moisture estimates either from the satellite observation or the LSM alone.
The NSGA-II uses advanced and standard multiobjective concepts such as incomparability, also known as nondominance. Incomparability assumes that when two or more independent objectives are optimized for a problem, there exist some solutions that are not comparable as it is uncommon to find a single solution with the best performance across all objectives. As a result, the solution to such problems is usually a set of incomparable solutions representing trade-offs between the objectives being optimized. The set of incomparable solutions is usually called the Pareto-optimal set. To draw comparison between solutions, the concept of nondominance is applied by comparing two candidate solutions to determine if one solution dominates the other or not. A candidate solution x1 is said to dominate solution x2 for a problem with k objectives if and only if (Deb et al. 2002, 2000; Deb and Goel 2001)
solution x1 performs as well as x2 in all objectives, and
solution x1 performs better than x2 in at least one objective.
Incomparability and nondominance are applied in NSGA-II to assign candidate solutions to different nondomination frontiers. Solution x1 is placed at a greater or more fit nondomination frontier as it dominates solution x2 in our description above. In cases where neither solution dominates the other—that is, solution x1 does not dominate x2, and x2 does not dominate x1—then the two solutions are incomparable and they are placed at the same nondomination frontier.
The NSGA-II method has been applied in the calibration of hydrological models (Dumedah et al. 2010; Wöhling et al. 2008; Confesor and Whittaker 2007; Tang et al. 2006; Khu and Madsen 2005; Madsen 2003). The NSGA-II method uses evolution and natural selection to solve problems that are based on stochastic trial-and-error or generate-and-test problems (Eiben and Smith 2003). The dynamics of randomly selecting and evolving a population of candidate solutions through time is appealing to the computational mechanics of DA.
In a DA context, a candidate solution is any single parameter set or a possible model state, and a population represents a number of possible parameter sets or ensemble of model states to evaluate. The computational procedure of DA involves a repeated search through massive combinations of parameters and model states for scenarios that provide a better merge between model outputs and observation data for different simulation periods. To address this task using NSGA-II, the randomized selection of model states–scenarios enables stochastic properties and capabilities, whereas the evolution of the population ensures that high-performing model states–scenarios survive to reproduce for subsequent populations.
Additionally, the NSGA-II has an adaptive capability to accommodate complex and nonlinear relationships under varying conditions caused by several model states–scenarios for the different simulation periods. The adaptive capacity of the NSGA-II method is most appealing in DA operations because the distribution and deviation of simulation from observation are used continuously to update the penalty function to properly merge future simulation to observation. In sum, the stochastic and adaptive capabilities of the NSGA-II and its memory capacity to search using population-based analysis makes the NSGA-II method suitable for applications in DA.
Our DA framework is designed to find an optimal estimate of soil moisture that is consistent with two soil moisture datasets. To achieve this objective, the framework uses NSGA-II in two separate assimilations. The first assimilation generates a time series of soil moisture through the assimilation of satellite TB into LPRM. The second assimilation merges two soil moisture estimates—one estimated from LPRM and the other simulated from CLASS—to determine an improved soil moisture that is better than using either LPRM or CLASS alone. These two assimilations are described in detail in the following sections.
This component assimilates satellite TB into LPRM to generate a time series of soil moisture. The time series is based on a sequence of data points where each data point represents one day. For any data point, the NSGA-II randomly generates r number of solutions (for LPRM), which constitute a population (denoted Pr). For this study r = 20 was used; the NSGA-II actually evaluates 2r parameter sets for each iteration where both parent and child solutions compete for survival. Note that Pr represents an ensemble of LPRM solutions composed of unique parameter sets (or unique model parameterizations). The candidate solutions in Pr are evaluated using the objective functions: bias, RMSE, and J. The bias and RMSE minimizes error in daily TB (satellite observation and LPRM simulation). The LPRM uses an inverse modeling approach to simulate TB by optimizing for soil moisture. The J merges TB for satellite observation and LPRM simulation while incorporating uncertainties from observation (i.e., satellite TB), model (i.e., LPRM), and background information (i.e., first guess from LPRM). Note that although LPRM does not simulate state variables, the assimilation procedure ensures that soil moisture for previous day and current satellite TB are incorporated into determining the assimilated soil moisture. That is, the assimilated LPRM soil moisture cannot be worse than using either the satellite TB alone or the previous parameterization of LPRM.
The result is a Pareto set of TB found in objective space and the corresponding values in parameter space and soil moisture values that produce the TB. The m (where m ≤ r) number of soil moisture values (in the Pareto set) for the current data point are used to estimate the average soil moisture and its error variance. At the current data point, the parameter values in the Pareto set are used to predict m number of TB for the next (i.e., future) data point. The m number of TB values for the current data point are used to estimate the average TB and its error variance. The average TB and its error variance are used as background information for the future data point. These procedures are repeated to assimilate satellite TB into LPRM, and to generate soil moisture values and its error variance for subsequent data points.
The result is a time series of soil moisture values and their error variances, which represent the retrieved soil moisture from the satellite observation to be merged with soil moisture simulated from CLASS. It is worth noting that the m number of soil moisture values retrieved for each data point represent an ensemble of solutions that are generated based on different parameterizations of LPRM, and are equally competitive and consistent with past predictions (i.e., background information) of LPRM. These procedures are applied to estimate soil moisture using LPRM (results in section 3a).
This component assimilates the estimated satellite soil moisture (from LPRM) into CLASS. Using the generated time series of soil moisture from LPRM and a simulation of soil moisture from CLASS, the NSGA-II method merges the two soil moisture datasets. The merging procedure incorporates errors from observation (LPRM soil moisture), simulation, and CLASS inputs. The procedure is conducted over a moving time window that is defined as a series of data points—for example, 20 data points for one time window. That is, the framework chooses a size for a moving time window, w (e.g., w = 20 days), where t1, t2, t3, … , tn denote the first, second, and third time windows to the nth time window. To make the time windows a truly overlapping moving window, the windows are separated by (w/2) such that if t1 starts from 1 to 20 then t2 will start from 10 to 30. The overlapping moving window ensures that soil moisture for each data point is estimated twice, starting from all data points in the second window to the penultimate window.
The NSGA-II randomly generates a population of solutions (denoted Pq) of size q specifically for CLASS. Again, NSGA-II evaluates 2q parameter sets of CLASS for each iteration; q was set to 50. The Pq is an ensemble of CLASS parameter sets (defined in Table 3), each of which produces an estimate of soil moisture. For any time window, Pq undergoes evolution to merge the two soil moisture datasets by estimating model parameters and inputs for CLASS through the minimization of three objectives: bias, RMSE, and J. As in the assimilation of TB, bias and RMSE minimize the error in daily soil moisture, whereas J determines a soil moisture that provides an optimal compromise between soil moisture estimates from LPRM and CLASS. The J incorporates uncertainties from observation (LPRM soil moisture), model (CLASS) and its inputs, and background information (i.e., first guess from CLASS). Note that the background soil moisture and its error variance for the first time window is based on a default (open loop) run of CLASS. For subsequent time windows, the background soil moisture and its error variance are determined from the previous model state and parameterizations (i.e., the best solutions obtained so far). For each time step, state variables for CLASS remained unchanged but are updated between time steps, whereas CLASS model parameters are optimized to minimize the objectives within time steps.
The resulting output is a merged soil moisture value for each data point in the current time window, and a Pareto set with z (z ≤ q) number of solutions representing a competitive ensemble of solutions for initiating CLASS. These solutions are carried over as seed population for the next (or future) time window: t2. Before simulation for the next time window begins, the Pareto set for the current time window, t1, is used to predict for the future time window: t2. The prediction for t2 generates z number of soil moisture values for each data point in the future time window; these are used to compute the average soil moisture and its error variance for each data point. This information is used as the background for the next time window: t2.
At t2, the above procedure for t1 is repeated to generate a time series of soil moisture values for t2 by first assimilating satellite TB into LPRM to estimate soil moisture. The LPRM-estimated soil moisture is merged with simulated soil moisture from CLASS. This is achieved through the evolution of the population Pq to minimize bias, RMSE, and J. This integrated procedure of jointly assimilating TB and soil moisture is repeated for subsequent time windows until the last time window tn or the referenced number n of time windows is reached.
In combination with the first assimilation, the key output of this framework is twofold. First, the framework generates a time series of soil moisture values retrieved specifically by assimilating satellite TB into LPRM. Second, a time series of soil moisture values is generated by merging two soil moisture estimates—one from LPRM and the other from CLASS—such that the assimilated soil moisture is better than using either LPRM or CLASS alone. Note that the final assimilated soil moisture is based on improved model state and parameterization of CLASS.
This study has estimated surface soil moisture using two different models: one through the assimilation of satellite TB using LPRM and the other through the assimilation of the retrieved soil moisture from LPRM into CLASS. These soil moisture estimates are compared to in situ data. Note that the in situ dataset has not been used in either assimilation procedure. A time series of the in situ dataset is shown in Fig. 3, where the error bars represent one standard deviation from the average daily soil moisture. The in situ dataset has three continuous time periods: 27 September–31 October 2007, 1 May–23 June 2008, and 21 August–28 October 2008. As a result, the two assimilation procedures are evaluated specifically for these periods where in situ data were available. Note that the assimilations are run continuously from August 2007 to October 2008, and results are evaluated over the periods where the in situ data is available.
Radiative models for retrieving soil moisture from satellite TB usually generate varying outcomes based on the satellite acquisition time either ascending pass [about 1330 local time (LT)] or descending pass (about 0130 LT). We evaluate the AMSR-E dataset for both ascending and descending passes to determine which overpass to include in this case study for future assimilation into CLASS. A suitable satellite pass time was identified based on its comparison to the in situ soil moisture. The 6.9-GHz frequency was used to retrieve the soil moisture (using horizontal polarization). Note that radio frequency interference (RFI) was not detected in our study area for the period of data used and only the 6.9-GHz brightness temperature was used. If RFI were detected, we would have to had a second simulation and an assimilation of brightness temperature at 10.7 GHz so as to include this data as a replacement for the data at 6.9 GHz.
The NSGA-II uses the LPRM to retrieve soil moisture by assimilating TB for the two orbits. The assimilation for ascending orbit is denoted LPRM-AssimAsc, and descending orbit is denoted LPRM-AssimDesc. Results from the default approach of retrieving soil moisture using LPRM for both ascending and descending passes are also compared. The comparisons between the retrieved soil moisture values and the in situ data are shown in Table 4 for various evaluation measures.
A comparison between soil moisture [m3 (m3)−1] estimated through the assimilation of satellite TB into LPRM and soil moisture from LPRM default using both ascending and descending passes. Here, R = pairwise correlation coefficient, = degree of agreement, and xs,i and xo,i denote simulated and observed soil moisture for ith day.
The evaluation results show that assimilation of TB has improved soil moisture estimates compared with the ones generated from the LPRM by default, denoted LPRM-Asc for ascending orbit and LPRM-Desc for descending orbit. Overall, the LPRM-default has the highest error ranging from 8% to 12% and has very low correlation to the in situ soil moisture. Note that the LPRM-default soil moisture dataset was generated for our study area based on the study by Owe et al. (2008). As a result, our study has no control of the parameterizations of LPRM that were used to generate this dataset.
The comparison between ascending and descending passes is not straight forward. Generally, the descending pass has a better accuracy but with a low correlation to the in situ data. The ascending pass, in contrast, has a temporal pattern more similar to the in situ soil moisture (based on correlation coefficient) but with a higher error margin. For the purpose of this study we used LPRM-AssimDesc in the LPRM to retrieve the soil moisture by assimilating TB.
The evaluation measures in Table 4 have illustrated how the assimilation of satellite TB into LPRM has improved soil moisture estimates. To quantify the differences between the estimated soil moisture datasets, we test their residuals from the in situ dataset. The residuals of each estimated soil moisture dataset were compared to determine whether the means of the residuals are the same using analysis of variance (ANOVA). The residuals are determined as the difference between the in situ soil moisture and each of the four soil moisture datasets: LPRM-AssimAsc, LPRM-AssimDesc, LPRM-Asc, and LPRM-Desc. The comparisons have a significance of 0.000 [degrees of freedom (df) = 3596 and F = 72.28), suggesting that at least one of the datasets is different.
To identify which means of the residuals are different, Tukey’s test was conducted on the residuals. The Tukey’s test (using mean differences) showed that LPRM-AssimDesc has the lowest residual, followed by LPRM-AssimAsc. Using the significance, soil moisture estimates from LPRM-AssimDesc and LPRM-AssimAsc are statistically similar (p = 0.160) but LPRM-AssimDesc has an added benefit of being closer to the in situ dataset. Both LPRM-AssimDesc and LPRM-AssimAsc are statistically different from LPRM-Asc and LPRM-Desc, with p < 0.0001.
This section presents outputs for the joint assimilation of TB and soil moisture for LRPM and CLASS using the NSGA-II framework. The results are presented for the assimilation of TB into the LPRM (LPRM-AssimDesc) to retrieve soil moisture, and for the merger of soil moisture estimates from LPRM and CLASS.
A time series comparison of estimated soil moisture (at 5-cm depth) between various models is shown in Fig. 4. The assimilated (or merged) soil moisture data points are closely located to the in situ soil moisture when compared to individual estimates from LPRM and CLASS default. As a merger between LPRM and CLASS soil moisture estimates, the assimilation framework simultaneously combines both estimates and incorporates model state from previous assimilation periods. Performance of the assimilation in the spring season (May–June 2008) is noticeably improved even though it generally overestimates the observation. The assimilation (and simulation from other models: LPRM and CLASS) overestimates the observation in the summer–fall season. Although the assimilation overestimates the in situ data in all three periods it provides an improved data compared to estimates from LPRM and CLASS default. In other words, when presented with the three output options, one would choose the CLASS–LPRM output. The ensemble mean of the assimilation and its daily standard deviation are shown in Fig. 5 in comparison to the network (i.e., in situ) mean soil moisture.
Furthermore, we compared soil moisture data at 20-cm depth for the default simulation from CLASS and the estimate from our evaluation to the in situ dataset. The comparison is shown in Figs. 6 and 7 for the two soil moisture estimates. Both datasets are well distributed around the in situ soil moisture, but the evaluation dataset shows a better match as its plotted points spread closely to the in situ soil moisture. In contrast, the estimate from CLASS default is scattered far away from the in situ dataset. The estimate from CLASS default has been calibrated based on the information in the study area. As a result, CLASS estimates (both at 5- and 20-cm depths) were not any random model output but finely tuned as best as possible to the study area.
An evaluation for the various models is shown in Table 5. Generally, as assimilation period increases the various models have consistently improved their performance. This is partly due to an improved estimate of the model state from past periods, which is incorporated into merging the two soil moisture estimates. The merged soil moisture from LPRM and CLASS (referred to as “assimilated” in Table 5) is better than the individual soil moisture estimates generated from either model. The assimilation shows improvement in the evaluation measures including accuracy, bias, degree of agreement, and a better temporal pattern that is more similar to the in situ soil moisture. The level of accuracy for soil moisture estimates from LPRM and CLASS have a direct impact on the level of improvement in the assimilated soil moisture. Particularly, improvement in soil moisture retrieval from LPRM has considerable influence on the assimilation as the penalty to the LRPM estimates is generally low for most time steps compared to the penalty for CLASS simulations.
A comparison between soil moisture [m3 (m3)−1] estimates generated from LPRM, CLASS default, and assimilated (merged soil moisture). The assimilation framework is validated for soil moisture at 20-cm depth. Here, R = pairwise correlation coefficient, = degree of agreement, and xs,i and xo,i denote simulated and observed soil moisture for ith day.
Based on Figs. 4–6 and Table 5 it is clear that the assimilated versions of CLASS and LPRM are improving through time. Note that the assimilations were run continuously over and between the three evaluation time periods with consistent assimilation of data. Therefore we should expect some continuous improvement to the assimilated version of the modes as more data is available. Whether these model improvements through time are an artifact of differing micrometeorological conditions or caused by different vegetation stages is difficult to isolate. However, it is worth noting that improvement through time is limited to the assimilated models (LPRM and CLASS) and is not reflected in the LPRM and CLASS default simulations.
The results in Table 5 have demonstrated the performance of the assimilation framework to improve soil moisture estimates. However, it is important to show that the soil moisture datasets are statistically different and that the improved soil moisture generated from the assimilation framework is not due to some random effect. To illustrate that there are differences between the soil moisture datasets, we evaluate the residuals of each of the soil moisture datasets from the in situ dataset. ANOVA was applied on residuals of the soil moisture datasets to determine whether the means of the residuals are different. The residuals are computed for the three soil moisture datasets: the assimilated soil moisture (i.e., Assim), LPRM-AssimDesc, and the CLASS simulation. The residuals were determined by finding the difference between the in situ soil moisture and each of the three soil moisture datasets. The comparisons showed p < 0.0001 (df = 2447 and F = 9.574) where at least one mean of the residuals is different.
Tukey’s test was applied on the residuals to specify which means of the residuals are different. The Tukey’s test (based on mean difference) revealed that the Assim has the lowest mean of the residuals while the CLASS soil moisture estimate has the largest residual. Residuals from Assim and LPRM-AssimDesc are statistically identical (p = 0.42) but the Assim is much closer to the in situ dataset as indicated by its small residual.
As exemplified in the above results, our method provides an integrated approach and an improved estimate of soil moisture. Note that our assimilation framework has been illustrated for a single study area: Brightwater Creek watershed. The method can be easily adapted to multiple sites (or grids) with varying physiographic conditions in large scale applications. In particular, the continuous estimation of model state and parameterizations of both LPRM and CLASS would facilitate real-time soil moisture forecasts when satellite data becomes available. Future study should explore robustness–sensitivity of parameter sets obtained from the assimilation results following work conducted by Dumedah et al. (2010, 2011), which examines model parameterizations and solution robustness using evolutionary strategies.
This study has illustrated a two-step assimilation procedure to jointly assimilate satellite TB into a microwave radiative transfer model and soil moisture into a land surface model. The first assimilation incorporates satellite TB from AMSR-E into LPRM to generate a time series of soil moisture data. The second procedure generates a time series of improved soil moisture by merging soil moisture estimates from LPRM and CLASS simulation. We have demonstrated that the assimilation of TB can improve soil moisture retrieval for microwave radiative transfer models (e.g., LRPM). The retrieved satellite soil moisture has been shown to be accurate and has a temporal pattern that is more similar to the in situ soil moisture. The two satellite acquisition passes—ascending and descending—were evaluated for retrieving soil moisture using LPRM for our study area. The assimilation of satellite TB into LPRM for both passes has been shown to improve the soil moisture dataset compared to the estimate from LPRM default.
The soil moisture from LPRM retrieved independently by assimilating TB was incorporated into an assimilation framework that merges the LPRM soil moisture to the soil moisture generated from CLASS. The assimilation incorporates independent errors from both LPRM and CLASS to generate an improved soil moisture that is better than using either model alone. Our results show that an improvement in the assimilation of TB for LPRM has a direct impact on the merged soil moisture, emphasizing the importance of assimilating TB. The method demonstrates that soil moisture generated from assimilation of satellite brightness temperature could be improved by incorporating it into a land surface model.
Application of this framework to the Brightwater Creek watershed in Saskatchewan illustrates the utility of our joint assimilation framework to improve a time series of soil moisture estimates. The retrieved soil moisture dataset was evaluated over an agricultural site in Saskatchewan using in situ monitoring networks. A comparison between the assimilated soil moisture and in situ data demonstrates an improvement in accuracy and temporal pattern that is accomplished through our assimilation framework. These improvements were based on improved estimate of model state and parameterizations for LPRM and CLASS, which are important drivers for efficient forecasting systems.
This work is supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences. The authors acknowledge the work of all people involved in installing and maintaining the soil moisture monitoring networks, particularly Jonathan Belanger, Ingrid Volet, Haily Ashworth, Matt Reid, Mark Cliffe-Phillips, Kristian Imgrund, and Brenda Toth. The authors thank Gordon Drewitt for providing the meteorological forcing data, Bruce Davidson for providing information about CLASS, and Thomas Holmes and Richard de Jeu for providing source code for the Land Parameter Retrieval Model (LPRM). We thank the anonymous reviewers for their comments.
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Crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis of α-amylase from Bacillus subtilis
Changsoo Chang, Kyeong Kyu Kim, Kwang Yeon Hwang, Myung Un Choi, Se Won Suh
Large crystals of α-amylaae from Bacillus subtilis have been obtained at room temperature using polyethylene glycol 6000 as precipitant. They grow to typical dimensions of 0.25 mm × 0.3 mm × 2.0 mm in five days. The crystals belong to the orthorhombic space group P212121, with unit cell dimensions of a = 85.46 AÅ, b = 166.5 AÅ and c = 332.7 AÅ. The asymmetric unit seems to contain eight molecules of α-amylase, with crystal volume per protein mass (Vm) of 2.69 AÅ3/Da and solvent content of 54.3% by volume. Despite a very long c-axis, the crystals diffracted to about 2.2 AÅ Bragg spacing using the rotating anode X-rays and were resistant to damage by X-rays. Thus they are suitable for structure determination by X-ray methods at high resolution. X-ray diffraction data have been collected to 3.4 AÅ Bragg spacing from a native crystal.
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Chang, C., Kim, K. K., Hwang, K. Y., Choi, M. U., & Suh, S. W. (1993). Crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis of α-amylase from Bacillus subtilis. Journal of Molecular Biology, 229(1), 235-238. https://doi.org/10.1006/jmbi.1993.1020
Crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis of α-amylase from Bacillus subtilis. / Chang, Changsoo; Kim, Kyeong Kyu; Hwang, Kwang Yeon; Choi, Myung Un; Suh, Se Won.
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Chang C, Kim KK, Hwang KY, Choi MU, Suh SW. Crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis of α-amylase from Bacillus subtilis. Journal of Molecular Biology. 1993 Jan 5;229(1):235-238. https://doi.org/10.1006/jmbi.1993.1020
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The perpetrators appear to be American but they are covert agents in a vast network of terror, selected and trained for one purpose only: the complete annihilation of America.
The search for terrorists has escalated into an all-out witch hunt. All four of Cameron’s novels; National Security, Act of Terror, State of Emergency, and Time of Attack feature Jericho Quinn. Quinn is a hybrid of the best law enforcement agents.
He is quick, smart, fast and often ruthless. He is effective in his job as an agent. Quinn is an Air Force Academy graduate who is super-trained in the art of war.
Terrorism is, in the broadest sense, the use of intentional violence for political or religious purposes. It is used in this regard primarily to refer to violence during peacetime or in the context of war against non-combatants (mostly civilians and neutral military personnel).
The terms "terrorist" and "terrorism" originated during the French Revolution of the late 18th century but gained. From coast to coast, the nation is witnessing a new wave of terror--suicide bombers incite blind panic and paralyzing fear, a flight attendant tries to crash an airliner, a police officer opens fire on fans in a stadium, and at CIA headquarters, a deputy director goes on a murderous rampage.
ISBN: X: OCLC Number: Notes: From coast to coast, the nation is witnessing a new wave of terror--suicide bombers incite blind panic and paralyzing fear, a flight attendant tries to crash an airliner, a police officer opens fire on fans in a stadium, and at CIA headquarters, a deputy director goes on a murderous rampage.
The perpetrators appear to be American--but they are covert agents in a vast network of terror, selected and trained for one purpose only: the complete annihilation of America.
Special Agent Jericho Quinn has seen the warning signs. An Act of Terror. likes. The true story of Virginia Christian, a year-old African American girl accused of murder in the Jim Crow South. AN ACT Followers: An ACT OF TERROR by Andre Brink and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at A massive apartheid thriller centred on a plot to blow up none other than the State President outside the gates of Cape Town Castle Brink at his robust and imaginative best' - Adam Low, Daily Telegraph.A profound novel set in South Africa that combines compelling action with an intellectual confrontation of the author's poitically volatile home country/5().
Weighing in at pages, AN ACT OF TERROR, Andre Brink’s ninth novel, is a long but not overlong story which focuses on the days leading up to a car-bomb attack on the South African president. From coast to coast, the nation is witnessing a new wave of terror--suicide bombers incite blind panic and paralyzing fear, a flight attendant tries to crash an airliner, a police officer opens fire on fans in a stadium, and at CIA headquarters, a deputy director goes on a murderous rampage.
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Two, National Security and Act of Terror, are narrated by Tom Weiner, State of .Act of Terror: Marc Cameron: Paperback: Thrillers - Espionage bookBrand: Kensington Publishing Corporation.
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Jonathan Steinberg, 20 October 1983
Kissinger: The Price of Power
by Seymour Hersh.
Faber, 699 pp., £15, October 1983, 0 571 13175 1Show More
“... suffer the indignity of having his phone tapped. The lessons of court life are quickly learned. As Roger Morris, one of Kissinger’s original bright young men, put it, in describing the irresistible rise of Al Haig: ‘ “Al was the ultimate special assistant,” he says. “There’s a whole culture in the Defence Department and in the White ...”
Dear Lad
Penelope Fitzgerald, 19 March 1981
The Simple Life: C.R. Ashbee in the Cotswolds
by Fiona MacCarthy.
Lund Humphries, 204 pp., £7.95, January 1981, 0 85331 435 7Show More
Philip Mairet: Autobiographical and Other Papers
edited by C.H. Sisson.
Carcanet, 266 pp., £7.95, February 1981, 0 85635 326 4Show More
“... and is said to have been cut off with £1000. At Cambridge, where his closest friends were Roger Fry and Lowes Dickinson, he was passionately open to influences, as to the winds that blow. In 1886, Edward Carpenter came on a visit, and ‘after supper we had a delightful walk through the green cornfields in the afterglow. He unfolded to me a wonderful ...”
Knucklehead Truman
Douglas Johnson, 2 June 1983
The Eisenhower Diaries
edited by Robert Ferrell.
Norton, 445 pp., £15.25, April 1983, 0 393 01432 0Show More
The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy: A Biography
by Thomas Reeves.
Blond and Briggs, 819 pp., £11.95, June 1983, 0 85634 131 2Show More
The past has another pattern
by George Ball.
Norton, 544 pp., £14.95, September 1982, 0 393 01481 9Show More
Torn Lace Curtain
by Frank Saunders and James Southwood.
Sidgwick, 361 pp., £7.95, March 1983, 0 283 98946 7Show More
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power
by Robert Caro.
Collins, 882 pp., £15, February 1983, 0 00 217062 0Show More
The Politician: The Life and Times of Lyndon Johnson
by Ronnie Dugger.
Norton, 514 pp., £13.25, September 1982, 9780393015980Show More
Years of Upheaval
by Henry Kissinger.
Weidenfeld/Joseph, 1312 pp., £15.95, March 1982, 0 7181 2115 5Show More
Richard Nixon: The Shaping of his Character
by Fawn Brodie.
Norton, 574 pp., £14.95, October 1982, 0 393 01467 3Show More
Haig: The General’s Progress
by Roger Morris.
Robson, 458 pp., £8.95, October 1982, 9780860511885Show More
Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President
by Jimmy Carter.
Collins, 622 pp., £15, November 1982, 0 00 216648 8Show More
Crisis: The Last Year of the Carter Presidency
by Hamilton Jordan.
Joseph, 431 pp., £12.95, November 1982, 0 7181 2248 8Show More
Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Adviser 1977-81
by Zbigniew Brzezinski.
Weidenfeld, 587 pp., £15, April 1983, 0 297 78220 7Show More
“... only knew a few politicians’). What emerges from the Kissinger and Brzezinski memoirs, and from Roger Morris’s hostile account of Haig’s career, is not only the extent and the seriousness of the in-fighting that accompanies the process of nomination: the ensuing struggle for access to the President takes on a life, and a reality, all of its ...”
Forster in Cambridge
Richard Shone, 30 July 2020
“... in the large, high-ceilinged room with its mass of Victorian furniture, books and pictures against Morris-style wallpaper, curtains drawn, softly lit by table lamps. Then I discovered Forster in a cushiony chair by the fireplace, glass of red Cinzano in hand. He offered me one and we settled down. It wasn’t immediately easy but after some pleasantries (and ...”
Rosemary Hill, 5 December 1991
Gertrude Jekyll
by Sally Festing.
Viking, 323 pp., £17.99, October 1991, 0 670 82788 6Show More
People’s Parks
by Hazel Conway.
Cambridge, 287 pp., £49.50, August 1991, 0 521 39070 2Show More
The History of Garden Design: The Western Tradition from the Renaissance to the Present Day
edited by Monique Mosser and Georges Teyssot.
Thames and Hudson, 543 pp., £45, May 1991, 0 500 01511 2Show More
“... London offered some curious sights in the 1840s. To the north in Epping Forest the infant William Morris could be seen riding out in a toy suit of armour, while down in Surrey, in the Tillingbourne Valley, little Gertrude Jekyll was learning to make gunpowder. In the event it was Morris who became the political ...”
Nicolas Freeling: On Missing the Detective Story, 11 June 1992
“... monument; would make a fine pyramid of skulls but who would be bothered? ‘Who cares who killed Roger Ackroyd?’ shouted Edmund Wilson, exasperated, but it would barely be a mutter today. For who, sleepless in the guest bedroom in even the dankest of shires, is going to pounce gleefully upon Freeman Wills Crofts? But in 1930 – name to conjure with. Does ...”
At Pallant House
Rosemary Hill: Victor Pasmore, 20 April 2017
“... like Boulogne. The spell of France, transmitted through Bloomsbury by Clark and the criticism of Roger Fry, was compounded by Pasmore’s overly cerebral approach. He read Van Gogh and Cézanne and, concluding that ‘their theories were far in advance of what they were actually painting’, decided to apply their ideas to his own work. This growing interest ...”
Peter Pulzer, 20 February 1986
The Redefinition of Conservatism: Politics and Doctrine
by Charles Covell.
Macmillan, 267 pp., £27.50, January 1986, 0 333 38463 6Show More
Thinkers of the New Left
by Roger Scruton.
Longman, 227 pp., £9.95, January 1986, 0 582 90273 8Show More
The Idea of Liberalism: Studies for a New Map of Politics
by George Watson.
Macmillan, 172 pp., £22.50, November 1985, 0 333 38754 6Show More
Socialism and Freedom
by Bryan Gould.
Macmillan, 109 pp., £25, November 1985, 0 333 40580 3Show More
“... the dominant figures are far removed from the Methodism, or the cultural critique of Ruskin and Morris, that was once the ethical basis of the Labour movement. What of the anti-revolutionaries? Neo-liberals are not particularly concerned to beat down the legacies of 1789 and 1848, and they view even 1917 with equanimity, given their faith in the power of ...”
Christopher Hitchens: The Wrong Stuff, 7 January 1999
A Man in Full
“... of Atlanta, Wes Jordan (get it?), as he shoots the shit with the upwardly mobile black attorney Roger White II, who is known to homeboys (get it?) as Roger Too White: ‘But you, Wes? As I remember, you used to laugh at all this Afrocentric business. I remember one night – when was it? – ’87 – ’88 – you made ...”
Hegel in Green Wellies
Stefan Collini: England, 8 March 2001
England: An Elegy
Chatto, 270 pp., £16.99, October 2000, 1 85619 251 2Show More
The Faber Book of Landscape Poetry
edited by Kenneth Baker.
“... School and eventually to qualify as a teacher, later moving to leafy Buckinghamshire, where young Roger grew up. But Jack Scruton nursed a vivid sense of the grievances of his class. He was not just Old Labour, he was Paleo-Labour: the country was in the grip of a ruling class whose comfortable way of life rested on the exploitation of the workers. Scruton ...”
Wild Hearts
Peter Wollen, 6 April 1995
by James King.
Hamish Hamilton, 699 pp., £25, September 1994, 0 241 13063 8Show More
“... direction’ that could have been developed further. The Pre-Raphaelites had a similar impact on Morris. With Bloomsbury, Sharratt said that we might look at the avenue Keynes opened up by connecting economic theory with psychoanalysis. Sharratt’s argument was that though these groups might have been re-absorbed, they always left a subversive residue, a ...”
Nudge-Winking
Terry Eagleton: T.S. Eliot’s Politics, 19 September 2002
The ‘Criterion’: Cultural Politics and Periodical Networks in Interwar Britain
by Jason Harding.
Oxford, 250 pp., £35, April 2002, 9780199247172Show More
“... pedigree and civility, it has little in common with Eliot’s benignly landowning, regionalist, Morris-dancing, church-centred social ideal. Even so, there are affinities as well as contrasts between Fascism and conservative reaction. If the former touts a demonic version of blood and soil, the latter promotes an angelic one. Both are elitist, authoritarian ...”
Paul Laity: Henry Woodd Nevinson, 3 February 2000
“... and William Roberts – and a revolutionary moment in British art. Even to express support for Roger Fry’s Post-Impressionist exhibitions was daring and radical. Nevinson, having seen a contemporary art show in Venice, knew he was ‘bored with the old Masters’. He was ambitious and keen to be liked, but socially difficult. A photo survives of a Slade ...”
Sexual Politics
Michael Neve, 5 February 1981
Edward Carpenter, 1844-1929: Prophet of Human Fellowship
by Chushichi Tsuzuki.
Cambridge, 237 pp., £15, November 1980, 0 521 23371 2Show More
“... The now semi-legendary Thompson announced in 1955 that Carpenter (unlike, of course, William Morris) represented the cosy intellectualism of those ‘whose aspirations are satisfied today by comfortably converted old cottages on the rural fringes of great towns, a goat in the paddock, and an occasional bout of classless bonhomie and darts in the village ...”
Francis and Vanessa
Peter Campbell, 15 March 1984
by Michel Leiris, translated by John Weightman.
Phaidon, 271 pp., £50, September 1983, 0 7148 2218 3Show More
by Frances Spalding.
Weidenfeld, 399 pp., £12.95, August 1983, 0 297 78162 6Show More
The Omega Workshops
by Judith Collins.
Secker, 310 pp., £15.95, January 1984, 0 436 10562 4Show More
The Omega Workshops 1913-1919: Decorative Arts of Bloomsbury
Crafts Council, 96 pp., £6.95, March 1984, 0 903798 72 7Show More
The Omega Workshops: Alliance and Enmity in English Art 1911-1920
Anthony d’Offay Gallery, 80 pp., £4.95, February 1984, 0 947564 00 4Show More
“... studies to start chomping through the Omega files and spinning a story from them. Omega was Roger Fry’s creation. The Omega style was a response to Post-Impressionism. Fry not only organised the 1910 and 1912 Post-Impressionist exhibitions, he invented the very name. He was a publicist of genius. The workshops would not have lasted the six years they ...”
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Watson Farley & Williams to open in Düsseldorf with eight-lawyer Pinsent Masons team
Dancingdice; Shutterstock
Fourth German office to house energy team, including partners Thorsten Volz and Torsten Wielsch
Watson Farley & Williams is set to open a new office in Düsseldorf as the firm seeks to expand its German energy practice.
The move follows the arrival of new partners Thorsten Volz and Torsten Wielsch and a team of six other lawyers from Pinsent Masons in Düsseldorf. Volz specialises in regulatory and M&A law in the energy and transport infrastructure sectors, while Wielsch focuses on energy and corporate law from a regulatory perspective. The new office, which opens in January, is the firm’s fourth in Germany.
Lothar Wegener, WFW’s managing partner, said: “While WFW has long been recognised as one of the leading law firms in Germany for energy and infrastructure expertise, our focus has historically been on finance, M&A and projects-led. Thorsten Volz, Torsten Wielsch and their team joining us represents a major expansion of both our energy expertise and regulatory practice in Germany.”
Other members of Volz and Wielsch’s team include real estate and infrastructure lawyer Thomas Wolfl and construction and projects specialist Christoph Benedict, both of whom join as of counsel. The team also includes managing associate Britta Wissmann, who specialises in energy trading, and senior consultant Alexander Loos, who advises on project and plant constructions.
Volz brings with him 16 years of experience in the energy sector, most recently as head of Pinsent Masons’ German energy practice and head of the firm’s Düsseldorf office, where he spent almost five years. Prior to that he was a partner and head of energy and natural resources at KPMG Law, and before that an energy lawyer at Hogan Lovells.
Volz said: “WFW is the ideal platform from which Torsten and I can contribute to the continued growth and expansion of the service WFW provides across the energy sector. We especially look forward to establishing WFW Düsseldorf and working with our new colleagues in Germany and across the firm’s international network”.
Wielsch also spent almost five years at Pinsent Masons, following Volz from KPMG Germany where he worked as a senior manager. He was previously an associate at German management consultancy firm RolfsPartner.
Earlier this month, Mayer Brown hired a team of five competition lawyers from Baker McKenzie in Düsseldorf and in October Noerr secured a four-partner team of corporate lawyers from Latham & Watkins, also in the manufacturing hub.
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Posted on May 24, 2019 June 5, 2019 by VoidHerald
– Six Months ago, somewhere in Kyushu, East Asian Protectorate (formerly Japan).
Kari stared at the pale human corpse with her silencer pointed at it and fired. She shot the skull into broken bits, worms, and rotten brains.
“Again,” Uncle said, lining up another corpse against the tree’s bark; this time, a hobgoblin rather than a man.
Uncle had robbed a grave, stealing the corpses and lining them up against trees, to teach her how to shoot other humans. He also had had her butcher one animal a day for a month so she would lose her fear of blood. She cried the first time, and he comforted her, but he still made her do it.
She could recount the day with clock-like precision. Physical exercise at six; hand to hand combat at seven. Firearms and explosives from eight to twelve. Eat for fifteen minutes, then small unit tactics until three in the afternoon. History, geography, and conversation training until five. Forgery, accounting, and origami until six. Animal skinning, then body disposal techniques. Uncle had let her pick a discipline for eight in the evening, and she picked music—she would have imploded without it. Finally, free time for one hour before bed.
She had shot twenty-one corpses and twenty-five animals since they had arrived at the compound and disposed of all of them by severing their limbs and dropping them in acid.
“This will be your first mission in the field with me,” Uncle Toshiyami droned. He had grown frailer over the years due to age and stress, his hair graying at the edge. He always wore his old commando uniform when he trained her, his sullen, whitening eyes betraying his grim resolve. “You mustn’t hesitate for one second. One second is the difference between life and death. In the field, you can rely only on yourself.”
That way she wouldn’t freeze when she would shoot at real targets. She had shot at humans in video games her Uncle had purchased for her, but never real ones.
Uncle had, though. One of the corpses he brought back, he had shot them first; she recognized him on the news, saying he was missing. A local official who sold out to the dragons during the War.
They didn’t have a home. They never stayed in the same place for too long, never left a trail. Even the compound Uncle had rented under a false name. It was harder to stay on the run, as the dragons replaced more people with machines, tightened their grip on the country with cameras and Gearsmen.
One day Uncle would get sloppy, and she would be alone.
Uncle had told her all about her family’s history. How they descended from Hattori Hanzo himself, how they had served shoguns and emperors. She herself doubted half of those stories were true, but Uncle believed in them enough to mystify her.
While she could recount her clan’s history up from the Warring States era, she didn’t remember her parents much. She remembered the fires that consumed them, and her old house, more vividly.
While he spoke a lot about their family’s past, Uncle didn’t tell her much about his own. He had been in the JSDF, killed foreigners abroad for the Ministry of Defense, and lost a daughter and a son during the War of Dragon Aggression. He didn’t speak about her cousins and grew cold and silent when she mentioned them. Kari didn’t even know their names.
Kari didn’t know many people.
She didn’t have friends, not really. She had penpals, online, especially that American girl, Sam, whom she had met on a music forum. Uncle let her post and chat on forums, as long as she remained careful to leave nothing that could allow Governor Blightspawn’s forces to implicate Uncle. Otherwise, she could do whatever she wanted.
Kari stopped before she pulled the trigger.
What did she want?
She knew she should have cared about freeing Japan and avenging her blood, the same way Uncle did. But she didn’t. She didn’t care.
She didn’t care about anything.
“Shoot,” Uncle ordered, bringing her out of her daydreaming. She pulled the trigger and didn’t miss.
Kari did her exercises for the day, but her heart wasn’t in it anymore. The question ate at her the entire time. By noon, Uncle noticed, and cut her music and free time in half as punishment.
She knew what Uncle wanted. Kill all the dragons and their lackeys, free Japan, and have Kari finish the mission if he died beforehand. The last decade he spent preparing her to inherit his dream. His dream.
Not hers.
Kari didn’t have a dream of her own. Kari liked music since it helped her blow off steam from the training because it made her nostalgic of kinder, older times. She liked origami a bit, and she would have wanted a cat if Uncle had allowed it.
If Uncle died, if she succeeded in freeing Japan somehow… what would she do afterward? The lack of answer, the sheer void within her soul, frightened her more than Uncle’s wrath.
That evening, in her half an hour of allocated time, she resolved to look at self-help forums instead of discussing things with Sam Brown, like usual. Instead, she found an email invitation, from an address she never contacted before.
“Magik Online Invitation.”
She heard the Gearsmen land outside her window, and then the gunshots.
Everything was a blur afterward, as if her memories, her time, had been eaten. She could barely remember fleeing flames, watching the Gearsmen shooting the farm with Uncle still inside, and one of those machines impale her Uncle with his own sword when he ran out of bullets.
But she clearly remembered Uncle’s screams, as his corpse rose from the ashes, a black shadow of himself. She remembered the darkness seeping out of him, the metal tearing his flesh apart to reveal the horror underneath the skin, the rattle from beyond.
“Kari… Kari…” it rattled, his sword still midway through his chest as the Gearsmen circled him. “Please… it’s me…”
For the first time in her life, succumbing to fear, Kari Matsumoto disobeyed to her uncle for the first time.
She fled.
“You left me to die.”
The words hurt deeper than the backslash of her spells undone. “I wasn’t ready…” Kari pleaded, struggling for breath. Her heart hammered in her chest like a bomb. “I wasn’t ready…”
“You had that power…” Toshiyami condemned her, shambling towards her. Shroud wriggled in pain nearby from losing his spells. “You had that power, but you kept it for yourself… even when the machines ground my bones to paste… while you watched…”
All of the facade of strength she had built over the last months, ripped away. Uncle made the world colder just by walking towards her, sucking the heat, the warmth, the joy. He had become the void incarnate.
“I’m sorry, Uncle…” she prayed, her head down in shame. “I shouldn’t… I should have helped…”
“You should have… yes, you should have… when you heard them coming for me… I was blood…” He touched her face with his cold, dead hand, raising his black blade above her head with the other. “There is only one way to forgiveness… blood washing blood…”
“Uncle, please…”
“This is a gift, Kari…” Toshiyami insisted. “A gift from the gods, so I can continue my mission… I can give it to you… extinguish the light of your soul, leave nothing behind… cleanse you in the same way I have been. Together again… forever.”
A shadow lunged at Toshiyami.
Mathias. Grabbing a glass shard, aiming for his neck in a desperate, foolish attempt to save his teammate.
“Recursion.”
Time is broken.
Toshiyami dodges the shard, now devoid of sorcery. He worried the blow could have destroyed him. He was mistaken.
The sorcerer could not win. No one could win against him. Not even death. He had been chosen by the heavens to fulfill his mission, and no one would stop him.
He loathes that boy with every fiber of his being, as he hates all living beings. He envies his vibrant youth, his heat, his warmth. He wants to drown his light in darkness, to make him an echo of his own despair.
He could cut off the glass man’s head in one blow, but a shred of the man’s former self still feels remorse at taking a human life, especially one loyal to the cause. He knows Kari will never forgive him if he dealt the killing blow, and he still loves his niece.
But offenses must be punished.
The arm that would hurt him, he cuts it away with one strike from the shoulder down. His Null Blade cuts through the molecules, erasing them from existence. The limb falls, spraying Kari with sweet warm blood.
Mercy. This was mercy.
Time is unbroken.
Drops of blood fell on Kari’s cheek, while Mathias’ limp, left arm fell onto the roof.
Mathias didn’t scream, but he went into shock, looking at his own limb and then at the bleeding hole in his shoulder, completely despondent. “Did she tell you?” the corpse that had once been her closest thing to a parent told Shroud; unaware, or uncaring, he couldn’t understand him in his current state. His voice echoed with that of his human life but sounded more like a broken record. “How she let me die?”
With a strong kick to the chest that made ribs break, Toshiyami kicked Mathias out of his way and towards the edge of the roof.
“Please, Uncle!” she begged the monster. “I accept death… just leave him be… please.”
Who was she deluding? Mathias would die from the bleeding within a minute without medical care, and he could no longer cast spells. But at least, Uncle—whether out of madness or mercy—left him alone.
“We will kill the Ryu and their spawn, and return the Earth to its former beauty… Nippon abandoned its guts, its honor… its people must be cleansed away, too.” The deranged ghost kept going, unable to stop rambling. “And the Americans, and the Chinese, and everyone. We will go to the stars and extinguish the Ryu… one by one… until all is black… alone in a quiet world.”
This was a nightmare, and she couldn’t wake up.
A form leaped on the roof. Kari looked at it, hoping for it to be Sol-san.
It was Lugh.
Drenched in blood, but unharmed.
“Martel. You made me kill Failinis.” Kari found no trace of his previous friendly sportsmanship in his voice. Just cold fury. “You made me wound my own hound.”
He stood on the roof, swinging his spear, with only eyes for Shroud. “Lugh memorized your Flux scent, Martel. I can track you anywhere. I do not sleep, I will not tire. I will hunt you, but Lugh will not give you a worthy death. He will scalp you first—”
The hunter suddenly noticed Toshiyami, his eyes widening in disgust. Lugh knew what Uncle was, what horror he would unleash if left alone. Lugh faced a threat far worse than the Dragonslayers. For a brief second, Kari saw the hesitation in his eyes. She thought them saved, that the hunter would make the right choice.
But he didn’t.
Lugh’s anger was stronger than his honor. “Martel’s life is mine to take,” the hunter said. “Not yours.”
Toshiyami hissed, still possessively shielding Kari.
“Keep the girl. Stay out of Lugh’s way, and Lugh will stay out of yours.” Uncle stood silent, appraising the words; then he turned back to face his niece. Lugh took it as an agreement and moved towards Shroud to deliver the killing blow.
“Ace… Ace… Ace…” Mathias whispered. “Load…” But nobody came, and Kari lost all hope.
Lugh would kill Mathias and then Toshiyami would kill her. Maybe Sol and the others had been killed by the other hunters already. They would all die on this cold, foreign world, never to see Earth again.
Then, before Lugh could reach Shroud, someone fired a warning shot.
Stitch. Entering the roof through the door instead of climbing, the undead doctor wielded a strange, coiled rifle seemingly made of living matter and pulsating flesh. “I apologize for my tardiness,” Stitch said, pointing the rifle towards Toshiyami first. “I had to bring this out of storage. Very hungry and rebellious, this one.”
Stitch fired faster, a green projectile impacting on Toshiyami’s face and covering the metal mask with thick mold. The horrible matter suddenly grew like a bloated mushroom, intent on crushing the unliving’s face. Her uncle held his face with both hands, his dark blade nullified.
Stitch then aimed at Lugh, who threw his spear at him first. The weapon pierced Stitch’s cloak and chest, hitting the spot where the heart should have been. Without slowing down and the weapon halfway through him, Stitch merely fired another shot at the hunter. The mold hit Lugh’s skin, who willed his spear back to his hand. As he raised it and tried to stab the growing mold, lightning stuck the spear, causing the hunter to let out a scream of pain.
“Make that one off my tab, nerd,” Maggie said, as she leaped on the roof. She had put the guns back in her holsters, but her fingers crackled with lightning. “Actually, if I saved you and Matsumoto, does that make it double?”
Shroud was too busy bleeding out to answer, which made Stitch sigh. “Your affinity for violence surpasses mine,” the doctor said dryly. “If you could take care of the hunter, I could fulfill my doctor’s oath and save our leader’s life.”
“Sure, Boneface.” Lugh, still reeling from the thunderbolt, let out a wail of rage, leaving Shroud alone to charge at Maggie with his spear up. Maggie pointed her fingers at him and snapped them. Her lightning shocked Lugh through his silver spear.
“Hello? Silver? Best electricity conductor?” Maggie taunted him as she kept Lugh screaming and immobilized through electroshocks. “I was always bad at chemistry but even I remembered that.”
Stitch reached Mathias, dropping his gun and bringing scalpels out of his torn coat for an emergency operation.
By then, Uncle had drained the mold of life and turned it to dust; his mask was breached, oozing darkness and oil. Kari looked into the darkness and dim light where the eyes should be.
– Evermarsh Beach, One week and a half prior
Side Quest: Family Matters
Difficulty: Dot Three
Sponsor: Administrator
Your uncle Toshiyami still haunts the living, neither dead nor alive. One day he will lose control of himself and hurt innocents. Send the dead back to death.
Rewards: Oversoul upgrade (⅓)
YOSHIKAGE: You are cruel.
ADMINISTRATOR: Side-quests are automated, even if I am credited as the sender, but it doesn’t surprise me.
YOSHIKAGE: I refuse. I thought about it, I cannot fulfill it. It is my fault he is this way.
ADMINISTRATOR: No, Kari. It is his fault. He led you both into an impossible situation hoping to take his pain out on everyone else.
YOSHIKAGE: I let him die.
ADMINISTRATOR: You couldn’t have helped. There is a reason we never approached your uncle to become a Player and instead chose you. He was mad and broken long before he turned into a monster.
YOSHIKAGE: What is he? A yuurei?
ADMINISTRATOR: Concordia calls them Pandorians, after Pandoria, a world which they overwhelmed and consumed. They are bugs in reality, people who are alive and dead at the same time. Sorcery made that contradiction possible.
YOSHIKAGE: Like ghosts?
ADMINISTRATOR: No. Undead are dead, but their soul is anchored to the living world by Yellow sorcery. Ghosts are aware on some level that they died; Pandorians deny their death with such willpower that they create a glitch in reality. They are alive and dead at the same time. That paradox allows a vicious force to seep inside our reality, giving them the power to maintain their unnatural existence, for a price.
YOSHIKAGE: He radiates darkness. Like Oversoul. But black.
ADMINISTRATOR: Black, yes. The eighth color. The anti-color, the color of paradox. So dangerous the Sponsors are still fiercely debating whether or not to make it available to Players.
YOSHIKAGE: Can Uncle be cured?
ADMINISTRATOR: I’m sorry, Yoshikage, but no. Your uncle is gone for good. That thing may behave like the human he was, but it is a force of annihilation now. Even Concordia’s Gearsmen have an entire subroutine dedicated to their destruction on sight. They are that dangerous.
YOSHIKAGE: Even if I fully unlock Oversoul? If I gain knowledge, I could save him.
ADMINISTRATOR: Kari, this is a fool’s errand. The only way you will save your uncle is by putting him down and allow him to rest.
YOSHIKAGE: There has to be a way. He’s following me. I can see him at the edge of my vision, sometimes; but he runs when I get too close. He looks in pain.
ADMINISTRATOR: He is. A Pandorian’s existence is unending torment. But they will never let themselves be helped because the alternative is death. Pandorians need Flux to power their unnatural existence, but the void within them is never satisfied; in time their hunger consumes them. That man is at war with the darkness, and one day that man will lose. He will come after you.
YOSHIKAGE: I… I can’t.
ADMINISTRATOR: Even if he hurts innocents?
YOSHIKAGE: I can’t kill my own family.
ADMINISTRATOR: Then, what do you want?
She asked herself this question, as a familiar notification popped up before her eyes.
Magik back online!
Bug patched!
She glanced at her teammates, who risked their lives to save her.
She glanced at Lugh, whom Maggie’s assaults had forced to abandon his spear to pursue her on foot with impressive speed.
Then she glanced at her uncle, who wouldn’t stop until everyone, everywhere, was dead.
She knew what she wanted.
Even if Oversoul was still down, she felt a surge of purpose and confidence. “Killer Sense,” she said, reactivating her spells. “Peak.” Kari moved to fight her uncle, looking at her Magik Account for Dot Two Spells.
Kinetic Choke
Affinity: Red
Dot: 2
Price: 10
Activation: Passive, Thought.
The caster creates four invisible “hands” of telekinetic force, with a five meters radius. Those hands possess enough force to lift roughly two hundred kilograms each, and can manipulate objects with the same dexterity as hands of flesh and blood.
That would do.
She stared at uncle with Killer Sense, trying to find the opening in his metal skin as invisible tendrils manifested around her. She looked at him with the same lack of mercy he showed her teammate.
New Hack created!
Hands of Slaughter
Components: Kinetic Choke + Killer Sense
Activation: Passive, App Switch.
You can summon dozens of ghostly, telekinetic hands, each with a five-meter range, with the speed of bullets, and immense strength. These hands are not under your control and possess a will of their own, and will automatically strike to kill any perceived threat within range to protect you. Hands of Slaughter will act even if you are unaware you are under attack.
“You are betraying me… after everything… I raised you…”
“I’m sorry, Uncle,” Kari said. The second she was within five meters of him, ghostly crimson hands sprung from her back, assaulting Uncle with the fury of a Gatling gun. “That is why I must let you rest.”
“Not until… the dragons are dead…” The Pandorian, who seemingly could see the hands as she did, prepared to cast a spell. “Disrup—”
The hands moved like bullets and hit him in the face before he could cast. As they impacted on the metal, they failed to pierce it… but they made the bones below crack.
And they didn’t stop. They kept pummeling Uncle without giving him any opening until the steel of the roof bent under the onslaught. Even if she could feel a little of the hands vanish with each blow, she carried on.
The shadow retreats into the darkness, trying to blind his niece with his obscured time; to regain control of the battle’s tempo, to set the beat and regain the initiative.
The crimson hands reach for him, acting on their own even as his niece moves unaware. They can perceive him inside the erased time, react to his movements. For the first time since he found the path to that quiet, silent world, the shadow finds himself challenged there.
He finds no opening and feels his embers drained by the hungering darkness. He decides this is not worth maintaining.
Instead, he would meet force with force.
Uncle coated his hands with shadowy blades, cutting through the hands and attempting to do the same with his niece. She dodged around, matching him blow for blow; with her offense automated, she could fully focus on agility and defense.
Meanwhile, Maggie struggled with Lugh, who had tossed his spear aside and instead attempted to punch the girl’s head off. Maggie radiated lightning, her costume shining with power. The lightning extended from her finger to her body, coating her flesh with thunder.
“Huh?” Maggie said, her agility increasing to the point she seemed to leave electricity afterimages behind her as she moved. “Sweet, new Hack!”
As Lugh raised both his hands, intent on smashing the entire roof down, Maggie unleashed lightning from her body with enough output to fry the Reaver even without a silver lightning rod. “Matsumoto!” she called out, “Help, I can keep him busy but he won’t stay down!”
Kari would have liked to help, but Uncle kept her firmly occupied. And if he undid time again…
A violet flash brightened the night, coming from right next from Shroud.
“Sorry, sorry!” Ace said as she materialized at the flash’s epicenter. “Lots of bullshit on my end, what did I miss?” She took a second to scan the area, from the bleeding Shroud at her feet, whose condition Stitch seemed to have under control, to the two duels happening nearby. She quickly put two and two together.
“Lugh,” Ace didn’t hide her disgust, as Lugh pushed Maggie away with a backhand. “You’re fighting side by side with a Pandorian. A Pandorian. Even Mammon wouldn’t sink that low.”
“I will hunt him after washing my honor with Martel’s blood,” Lugh replied. “Leave, Ace. This doesn’t concern you.”
“You won’t, and it does,” she replied, searching for something under her coat. “Rainmaker.”
The wetness in the air gathered into clouds above them, a thin rain starting to fall over the roof. Ace brought out a dozen, sharp throwing knives, wielding them with both hands. “Splash.”
Without a signal or warning, she teleported out of sight. A second later, a volley of knives hit Toshiyami in the back, throwing him off balance and offering Kari’s hands an opening to punch him backward a few meters. Other blades hit him before he could even stabilize himself.
To Kari, Ace moved so fast her eyes could barely see her. She didn’t move as much as she teleported around. A Violet spell? No. She used the raindrops to move, leaving an Orange glow behind. Not a single color.
A Hack.
This woman was one of them.
Realizing the rain-drenched Lugh was wet, Maggie renewed her lightning assault with greater ferocity, keeping the Reaver down with such voltage, the light from his fried fur was almost too blinding to look at. The Reaver fell to his knees unable to move.
“Negafield,” Toshiyami said, his body turning into a sphere of darkness, sucking in the light around it. The sphere charged at Kari like a rolling boulder, the ground disintegrating beneath it. The Hands of Slaughter and Ace’s knives impacted on it and were consumed for their trouble.
Kari had no choice but take a few steps back, the sphere rolling around in a circular fashion without rhyme or reason. If this void sucked even light and sound into itself, then maybe Uncle couldn’t see within it.
Switching places with a raindrop, Ace teleported right in front of the sphere. “Accel Switch,” she said, glancing at Lugh.
In a flash of purple light, both the Reaver and Ace had switched places. Before the hunter could dodge, Toshiyami’s black hole form hit him head on, vaporizing his entire body but his hands, which fell on the roof.
The devastating attack made no sound, shed no blood; not even fumes went out of the wiggling hands. Lugh had disappeared, erased by the darkness in an instant.
Believing he had hit one of his foes, Toshiyami regained his natural form. Maggie immediately hit him with a lightning bolt, frying his metallic flesh, but doing little damage.
In fact, the influx of energy seemed to recharge him. “The Black Tower… I have seen the end beyond… beyond chaos…” Toshiyami said, lost in his own nightmare. “Pandoria will consume everything… bring merciful oblivion to this sick world…”
“Any idea how to put him down?” Ace asked. “I don’t have many offensive options.”
“I do,” Kari replied, as she reached a decision. “Forgive me, Uncle.”
“Feather of Ma’at, Toshiyami.”
As soon as she uttered the fatal words, the faint image of a white feather appeared right before her eyes, before collapsing to dust. Golden, ghostly gates of phantasmal substance materialized right behind Toshiyami. A flash of yellow illuminated the cold night, although it seemed only Kari and Toshiyami could see the doors.
A deep, thundering voice uttered a judgment.
“Guilty!”
The doors opened behind Toshiyami who cast a spell before Kari could see what lay beyond. “Recursion!”
The shadow escaped the jaws of oblivion, as he did before. Retreating in the darkness, where time itself is no more. Where he can escape even death.
“Nothing escapes death, mortal.”
The shadow stops as he sees Death looking at him from within the broken time. A jackal-headed watcher, the inexorable death that waits for all.
“Not even time.”
The darkness no longer feels safe.
“Not even you.”
The gods will not be denied.
The shadow tries to turn into a living void again, but no one runs away from Death forever. The jackal grabs him, his hand firm and his hold unbending. He drags Toshiyami, kicking and screaming, through the doors of Duat and into the afterlife.
A kinder, warm darkness welcomes the shadow, but his torment is far from over.
Uncle was gone.
So were the ghostly doors.
Kari felt a pang of sadness, but more than that, she felt closure.
But then, she noticed Lugh’s hands had melted together in a pool of golden ichor when time had skipped. The puddle quickly expanded back into the shape of a man.
Within seconds, Lugh regenerated back to full health, unharmed, and angered. He raised his right hand, his spear flying back to it. “That was painful,” he told Ace, furious. “It almost worked, too. Cost me many points. But Lugh has enough of them to die a dozen times.”
“Matsumoto, you got a second feather?” Maggie asked, sounding slightly afraid. “‘Cause I’m out of options.”
“I can get us out of there,” Ace said, while Kari shook her head.
“I will find you,” Lugh said, walking forward. “I will…”
He suddenly stopped, as he sensed another presence on the scene, at the edge of her vision. Another attacker?
No. A shadowy woman, the most beautiful Japanese geisha Kari had ever seen, emerging from the darkness as a siren from the ocean. The Shadow Queen.
“Enough,” she said, calm and regal. “Your tantrum against my guests ends right now, spoiled prince. Be quiet or be quiet.”
“You do not wish—”
“Quiet, I said,” She waved her hand dismissively, her eyes shining with a golden light. “Pierce Shadowbind.”
Lugh fell on the ground with a loud sound and went numb, as his shadow emerged from the ground; a perfect replica of Reaver in his prime.
Kari froze astonished by that display of Yellow sorcery. She had snuffed out his soul without a fuss. “You killed him.”
“Half so, but he will wish he fully was soon,” the shadowy woman replied, while Lugh’s shadow glanced down at his own corpse with a sliver of horror on his face. “You fought very well, Dragonslayers, although you should have called for my help. Will Mathias recover?”
“Yes,” Stitch said, having patched up an unconscious Shroud’s wounds.
“Good. Your last opponent fled at my presence so you may call this your victory.” Then, as everyone looked on, Lugh’s shadow grabbed his former spear and offered it to the shadowy woman. She lifted it, unaffected by the heat of the electrified metal.
“I believe,” she told the group, “this should convince the locals to stop troubling you. Ace, would you kindly return this spear to Lugh’s estate on the Upside? His father will want to recover a memento from his departed son.”
Clearly, the woman would have rather disobeyed, but wisely kept her mouth shut as the sinister entity handed her the spear. “I believe this stern scolding should make the point across for the Reavers,” the Shadow Queen continued. “If not I will send a message to Mammon, who will not be so gentle with them. Do not disappoint me, Dragonslayers.”
Then the Queen vanished into the darkness, not even wasting a glance at Lugh’s remains. The hunter’s own shadow followed her, a silent, ghastly trophy.
“The fuck just happened?” Maggie asked.
“She got what she wanted,” Ace replied ominously.
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The picture is pretty much how I see Toshiyami (picture property of Benedick Bana, whose work you can check out here), a being irradiating darkness and making it difficult to see his features.
CategoriesChapter, Magik Online, The Night of the Seven, Volume II TagsChapter, Fantasy, Magik Online, Night of the Seven Story Arc, Sci-Fi, Volume II, Web Novel, Web Serial
6 Replies to “Chapter 38: DLC: The Fog of War”
K3l3K says:
Huh. Wtf are the reavers? Regeneration through Points? I thought those points were just them keeping score for their weirdass murderous competitions.
VoidHerald says:
They are used to keep score, but are also used as currency for special privileges.
IRUN says:
STAND POWER, or how Kari hacked in a punch ghost.
I see that Manah can do an excellent impression of Glaistig Uaine, albeit without the death touch limitation. It also confirms the theory that her appearance is dependent upon the viewer, which might imply that her true form still resembles Quelaag. Overall, a very interesting chapter. Wonder if there will be Black spells in the Sorcery Codex in the future. Perhaps the point system is some kind of species-spanning spell cast by Revel? He is supposed to be an archmage after all.
Good catch for the “reflect the viewer” aspect of Manah.
Maybe they are, if you look hard enough…
The point system and its consequences aren’t a natural effect, no.
I have probably looked hard enough.
Strangely I got asked for a password.
Sadly, ‘12345678’ didn’t work…
You need to guess the password to access it, but it does have one of those numbers in it.
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New York Times is using Google’s AI to expand online comments
Google's AI is teaming up with 'The New York Times.'
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By Nicole Gallucci 2017-06-13 14:57:02 UTC
Google is helping the New York Times expand its online article comments with an advanced tool designed to fight internet trolls.
Using Google's Perspective — an API created by Jigsaw (a subsidiary of Alphabet) — the Times lets readers post comments on all top stories and opinion pieces during business hours.
SEE ALSO: Google rolls out its new tool to fight disgusting internet trolls
Previously, readers were limited to commenting on about 10 percent of articles due to a having just 14 human moderators to review the online publication's nearly 12,000 daily comments, Recode reported.
But now, the moderators are getting some much-needed assistance from a machine-learning algorithm that Google first first released back in February.
While no comment will be automatically rejected by the algorithm, the technology will allow human moderators to more quickly detect offensive hate speech, online harassment, or anything defined as "toxic," thus helping them easily determine whether or not a comment is appropriate to post.
"It's become too easy for trolls to dominate conversations online. People are either leaving the conversation entirely or comments sections are being shut down. The power of machine learning offers us an opportunity to tip the scales and reverse this trend," Jared Cohen, CEO of Jigsaw, told Fortune. "This is why we built Perspective, technology that puts the power of machine learning into the hands of publishers and platforms to host better discussions online."
According to Recode, with the help of the tool, moderators will now be able to screen around 25 percent of Times' comments. And the publication reportedly set a future goal with hopes that 80 percent of all stories can eventually include comments.
To see Perspective's comment filtering in action, check out the video below:
While this may be a small step for human moderators, it's a positive leap for comment readers everywhere.
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330 Famous Friendship Quotes 2020 Collection [Part 2]
Posted by Daniel Rodriguez
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.
Carroll O’Connor
Friendship’s the wine of life: but friendship new… is neither strong nor pure.
Girls get competitive, as though there’s only one spot in the world for everything _ but that’s not true. We need to stick together and see there’s more to life than pleasing men. It’s important not to cut yourself off from female friendships. I think sometimes girls get scared of other girls, but you need each other.
My father, Birch Bayh, represented Indiana in the Senate from 1963 to 1981. A progressive, he nonetheless enjoyed many friendships with moderate Republicans and Southern Democrats.
Evan Bayh
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Charles Kingsley
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
Clifton Fadiman
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often – just to save it from drying out completely.
I despise shows that present friendship where you’re always there for each other and really strong because I don’t know anyone like that. I mean, I’ve got great friends, but I can go months without seeing them because I think, ‘I just can’t deal with having to give you anything.’
Sharon Horgan
Friendships are among the most fundamental of human needs.
Tom Rath
I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.
We became friends as we became a band. Our friendship evolved as the band evolved. It had its ups and downs, but it was mostly ups for the four of us. We got along well almost all of the time. Hey! We liked each other and we still do.
Dave Blood
A lot of women, when they’re young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It’s easy to be friends when everyone’s 18.
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
I don’t think it’s more important to preserve female friendship than a marriage. But I think that there’s a place for female friendship that’s really important in the lives of all the women I know. As I’ve gotten older, it’s become much more important to me.
Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.
Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?
Anna Freud
I’m calling my book series the ‘with God series.’ And this next ‘with God’ book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of ‘better’ on this planet.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they care about has a victory, it increases love and friendship and decreases the probability of depression.
Martin Seligman
Growing up, I was blessed to be part of a great church. This is where I met many friends who have encouraged me in my life to live strong for Christ. My church is a place where I can develop friendships with others that will encourage me in my walk with Christ.
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
I’m really interested in how people feel out new friendships, and at the start of college, that’s really important.
There is no debate that social media is a great tool for networking with others in our industry. It can lead to friendships, support, and serendipitous connections with reviewers, agents, reporters, or editors.
M. J. Rose
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.
Robert Southey
Shows like ‘Sex and the City’ got women involved again in a political way. They were drawn into the personal stories of the four women who together make up one complete cosmopolitan woman. We want to have community, and the show filled that void in our lives: friendship between women.
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
Being known as a writer did change the relationships I had with directors. The rap on actors is that they always want to inflate their parts. But when directors know you write screenplays and have a different view of things, you really get invited into the huddle in a much fuller way. And those collaborations end in friendships.
When people have compassion, friendship, and unity, they speak and think in a constructive way to ensure national independence and prosperity.
Bhumibol Adulyadej
I’ve enjoyed my time in the American League, the fans of Southern California and other friendships.
Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.
Mason Cooley
The bracelet says ‘Fear Nothing.’ It was given to me by my friends, and it was made for me and my friends during the period of time that I was going through chemotherapy. And I still wear it, because it’s a great reminder of friendship and how my buddies and others came together in my time of need.
Joseph J. Lhota
I have got some fantastic friendships that I have had for a long, long time.
I feel like I’ve exhausted guys and male friendships.
Irvine Welsh
A traitor is a betrayer – one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the American cause, he attempted to injure it. An open enemy, however criminal in other respects, is no traitor.
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
What does being a woman today mean? Is there a right way of doing it? Is there a wrong way of doing it? Different kinds of women, female friendships: It’s all pretty funny, and worth making fun of.
Elizabeth Meriwether
Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
Jean de la Bruyere
Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I’d probably choose success.
I’m fiercely loyal to my friends, and I really cherish my friendships.
When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.
There was a time when I thought dudes had friendship all figured out. The focus on eating things in front of giant screens, pretending to punch one another, competing over who can utter the grossest and most profane personal insults imaginable – this struck me as the very apex of human social exchange.
Lynn Coady
I realized that everything I had to do I could not do on my own, and so I was almost obliged to put myself in God’s hands, to trust in Jesus who – while I wrote my book on him – I felt bound to by an old and more profound friendship.
Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
I really wasn’t even aware that Batman and Superman had this kind of grudging friendship.
Mark Valley
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
Eugene Kennedy
Without a doubt, my richest relationships are my long-term friendships with musical partners, because we make music together. That’s what we love to do with our lives.
I think what ‘The Hobbit’ and Middle-earth deal in are quite universal and timeless themes of honour and love and friendship… so they’re things that do resonate with people.
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
Randolph Bourne
Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.
You know, real life doesn’t just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can’t just say, ‘She’s my best friend.’ That’s not a given, it’s a process.
Sport is one of the few spaces where people can learn about different cultures in a spirit of trust and friendship.
Richard Attias
I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.
I think faith helps me a lot. God wants you to be where He wants you to be, and that’s where I want to be. If I do not get a part, I understand that maybe I needed to be home at that time, maybe in school; there’s always a reason. My faith is also where my core friends are, at my church, a faith-based friendship.
It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.
But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost.
Life is funny, and a lot of times, the people that I’ve met have really gone past anything that I’ve ever dreamed of, so I’m really grateful. My friendships really go from the West to the East. You’d be amazed at some of the people I call friends.
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all.
As far as an actor-director connection, I think those can develop, and when they do, they’re really great, and you just cultivate it like you would any relationship or friendship. If you find that something special, it helps down the line when you want to do more projects with each other.
Taylor Handley
I gave Mitt Romney some donations for his campaign because he was a friend, and friendship came first. I’ve always been a Democrat, and I’ve had different views than Mitt Romney. I’m not Mitt Romney, and I think people will realize that when they meet me out there.
Stephen Pagliuca
A lot of ink is given over to mythologizing female friendships as curious, fragile relationships that are always intensely fraught. Stop reading writing that encourages this mythology.
Most of my good friends are my friends from high school or childhood, and they’re not actors – they have 9-to-5 jobs. But I’ve obviously, over time, developed friendships with actors. It’s two completely different worlds.
In 1962, I wrote a series about 42nd Street called ‘Welcome to Lostville.’ One result was that the young Bob Dylan read it and invited me to his first concert at Town Hall; the result was a kind of friendship that years later led to my liner notes for ‘Blood on the Tracks.’
Pete Hamill
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Ann Landers
If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!
Marie de France
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
Your most important friendships should be with your own brothers and sisters and with your father and mother. Love your family. Be loyal to them. Have a genuine concern for your brothers and sisters.
Ezra Taft Benson
The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn’t.
Greg Louganis
Richard Donner’s friendship and guidance showed me that there’s more to life than being an actor.
Jeff Cohen
Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.
Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has heft to it, as a gold-piece does and a gambling chip does not.
The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.
I’ve always wanted to be a mom because I want to give a kid all of the magical gifts my mom gave to me, such as love and friendship. She and I had this incredible connection that was so unbelievable.
French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation; my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.
Ali Abdullah Saleh
The word ‘sister’ evokes an ideal of connection and support, like the friendships that made Rebecca Wells’s ‘Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood’ and Ann Brashares’s ‘The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants’ into best-selling novels and successful films.
Deborah Tannen
I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business.
I sacrificed a lot, in terms of friendship and family, from working so much at such a young age, but I wouldn’t be where I am if I hadn’t.
One hopes, of course, that a relationship grows and becomes a deep and wonderful marriage and friendship that lasts forever. But that’s not always the case.
The Savior encouraged brotherhood. He was not a long-distance leader. He walked and worked with those whom he led. He was not afraid of close friendships. He spent many hours with his disciples, and his relationships with them were intimate.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings; it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did.
Randy West
Friends confront each other sometimes, and sometimes the friendship lasts, and sometimes it doesn’t.
Brooke Elliott
The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.
William Shenstone
Tony, Stacy and Jay really looked at life completely different and that played into everything that they did, whether it was skating or with their friendships. And for the three of us, we had such a close relationship off screen, that it was so easy to have that on screen.
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they’re really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.
You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.
I experience for the American officers and soldiers that friendship which arises from having shared with them for a length of time dangers, sufferings, and both good and evil fortune.
Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I’ve been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family.
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
006 was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters.
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.
Let me be very clear: my friendship with my friends ends where the interest of the country begins.
I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly… that’s what I call true friendship.
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I’m going to get them out of my way.
The first two lessons, which we learned early in our efforts to be good member missionaries, have made sharing the Gospel much easier: We simply can’t predict who will or won’t be interested in the Gospel, and building a friendship is not a prerequisite to inviting people to learn about the Gospel.
I’m loyal, and I like my friends. Friendship enriches your life and makes it more interesting.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
I play- it’s kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what’s their friendship like, and what’s their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.
Faced with stress, too many people feel they have nowhere to turn to, that they don’t have access to the kind of friendships or communities where they can easily and openly share their problems and worries.
Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.
Mariella Frostrup
During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
J. Paul Getty
My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
Baltasar Gracian
We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent’s birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend’s important anniversary.
I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I’d dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, ‘What’s wrong with you? Gross!’
Mae Whitman
I was bullied from grade one to six. Even middle school was tough for me. Everyone had these pre-existing friendships, and I was the new kid, who was acting, so that didn’t help much either. It was really tough.
When you think back in history about producers and artists or writers who’ve had good synergy, a lot of times they date, or they’re married, or there’s a friendship and a kinship.
There have been some friendships lost over this. That’s the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved.
Donald Johanson
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.
Amity Shlaes
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for they do not know what friendship is. If they are united, it is by the common bond of a desire to attack their world.
Haniel Long
When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you’re suddenly eager to know him or her even better.
For many, long-term friendships, rather than family ties, are the foundations for sustainable lives.
Never was a man further from a partiality for Spain than I am. But I think I now have left them in a sincere and steady intention to cultivate the friendship of America.
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
One of the great things personally coming to Hawai’i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.
Dan Fouts
I think I’d probably be really good friends with Hulk Hogan. I think we’d get along, and I’d, like, chill him out because he’d be all rambunctious and rowdy, and I’d be like, ‘Chill out, Hulk Hogan. Everything will be okay.’ And he’d be like, ‘Thanks, Ron.’ And then we’d form a friendship.
Ron Funches
As far as friendships go, things change even without the fame. People start moving on. I have a few friends that are married and are starting to have kids and I’m like, ‘Oh my goodness gracious – that’s so insane.’ I also have friends who are just doing their own thing, which is cool.
Friendship and sentiment and the giving of one’s words are very important.
For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he’s another creative person who works as hard as I do.
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner’s foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.
Whenever people reach out the hand of friendship towards me, I am not going to refuse that hand.
Martin McGuinness
When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
Sam Brownback
I’m quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It’s such an art, so delicate.
Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II.
The biggest lesson from Africa was that life’s joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time.
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
Most people are enduring a marginalized isolation. One of the great obstacles to modern friendships is the ‘religion of rush.’ People are rushing all the time through time. Friendship takes time.
I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.
So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.
In a basic sense, ‘A Little Life’ is a homage to how my friends and I live our lives. I wanted to push past the definitions of how we typically define friendship. It’s a different version of adulthood, but it’s no less important and no less legitimate than anyone else’s.
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.
My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.
Stephanie Tubbs Jones
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
William Wycherley
I was desperate for a friend, and I used to lie in bed at night thinking about what it would be like. My younger brothers and sisters had friends, and I used to watch them playing to try to work out what they did and how friendship worked.
It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There’s not a lot of love going around.
Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.
It’s always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people’s feelings.
Abby Wambach
I mix talents and friendship, which is not very professional, but it’s my way of thinking. So I love Azzedine Alaia, because I’ve known him for 30 years, and he’s making my dresses most of the time.
Any friendship or relationship is about a language.
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
I want to know what it is to build the foundation of the friendship for real, to have my best friend and not because we’re just intimate, but because we’re mentally intimate. So I’m waiting for that person to come into my life.
LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
I do make some conscious efforts to write female friendships, intergenerational female friendships. I make a conscious effort to include things that I see as important real parts of my life that are not reflected as much as I think they should be in popular culture. We very seldom have the opportunity to see women compete and remain friends.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I’d abused.
Luke Ford
Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
Malcolm Arnold
The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.
Armistead Maupin
It is one thing to train officers on fighting crime. It is a whole other thing to train them to build friendships and relationships, which are integral to fighting crime. This takes time, effort, and patience on the part of police officers.
Rahm Emanuel
I’m friends with Taylor Swift, and I am tired of people asking me questions about our friendship. When I post a picture of us on Instagram, I’m posting a picture of me and my friend.
I’ve learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.
We are already seeing the creation of a new kind of network based on friendships: Startups, which are often founded by friends, are the beginning of something that could reshape social relations.
I don’t know if I’ve ever been in a clique. The older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit.
Aimee Teegarden
I really like people and I keep friendships. I have people from all parts of my life.
I came to know Gore Vidal in the mid-1980s, when I was living in southern Italy, virtually a neighbour, and our friendship lasted until his death in 2012. Needless to say, he was a complicated and often combative man.
Jay Parini
I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.
People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
I’ve learned from my dealings with Johnny Carson that no matter what kind of friendship you think you have with people you’re working with, when the chips are down, it’s all about business.
Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and agreeing about the misdemeanours of men… mild, soft, nurturing relationships.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.
Alvin Dark
The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.
Galina Vishnevskaya
I find, in film, we’re always making things and having these intense friendships and then losing track of people. When I first start a job, I’m quite nervous, and it takes me a while to find my place, and then it feels like I’m just really loving it and feeling great, and it’s all over.
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
I got a regret: That I started acting so late. I was 27, and guys who start at 18 or so, there’s this kinda continuity of friendships they form in the profession by startin’ young, I’ve never had that.
True friendships don’t fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.
Kent McCord
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
Mortimer Adler
A band is a good way to break up a friendship.
I’m not super nostalgic for friendships I’ve lost along the way. I feel like, if they were truly meaningful and really special, they would still exist. I think we grow and change, and that’s okay.
I did not find that writing a diary with a lead male character differed in any essential way from writing one with a female character. They all had the same challenges in terms of attempting to establish an identity, coping with loneliness, friendships, relationships.
Kathryn Lasky
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.
Friendships are the family we make – not the one we inherit. I’ve always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
I welcome every chance I get to interact with fans. I’ve made some very close friendships amongst fans, and I look forward to seeing them.
Keeping score is for games, not friendships.
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
When it comes to Pakistan, the first word that comes to the mind of the Chinese is ‘iron brother.’ To us Chinese, Pakistan is always a trustworthy friend who is as solid as iron. Actually, Chinese netizens refer to Pakistan as ‘Iron Pak.’ This testifies to the strength of China-Pakistan friendship.
Li Keqiang
Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy.
Jason Epstein
The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Among young people, often a key factor in them committing suicide is the trauma of transient relationships. They throw themselves into a friendship or network of friendships, then it collapses and they’re desolate.
Vincent Nichols
I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.
As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we’re all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we’ve done all our lives pointless.
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
I believe people think as a group more often than we might realize or care to admit. We like to believe that we act as individuals and nothing more, but time and again – in corporations and business, in politics and religion, in fashion and culture, and in friendships and social circles – we think and do as one.
Joshua Ferris
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
Francis Marion Crawford
Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
Anna Deavere Smith
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
If I’m right, the only reason our species is still around is because of our friendship with the canines.
Bruce Cameron
It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.
James F. Byrnes
The biggest direct influence on my career is Ben Edlund, who gave me my first real professional break and, through his friendship and example, turned me into a writer and a more critical thinker in general.
Christopher McCulloch
I think women are amazing and women’s friendships are like a sisterhood and we should see more of it in television and film.
Allowing a friend to careen toward self destruction is not friendship. That is a habit the United States needs to break as it pursues a richer and more deeply supportive relationship with Israel.
I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won’t do is change the essence of my work.
When I read ‘Stand By Me,’ it was like, ‘This is a look back at the same time period when I was growing up, and it was about kids, but it really felt like what it was like to have those powerful feelings of friendship at age 12.’ That’s what got to me.
We want ‘Doll & Em’ to be something we’re proud of. We’d love to do another series, but it’s not the be-all and end-all. Our friendship is the be-all and end-all.
One sure way to lose another woman’s friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.
I told God, ‘I don’t want a man. I don’t want more gold albums. The only thing I want is the love, friendship, and presence of my mother.’ And God gave it to me.
Families have become models for public life, constructing friendships between individuals of different temperaments, ambitions and ages, even if they are often unsuccessful. People now want, above all, appreciation of their uniqueness.
There is no friendship in trade.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
There is a mutual interest between Israel and the United States of America. It is more than friendship – it is friendship plus mutual interest, and it is bipartisan.
Tzipi Livni
I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can’t get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That’s in friendship, that’s a deal, that’s a commitment. Don’t give me paper – I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that’s for life.
You just don’t luck into things as much as you’d like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities.
As I grow older, I think friendship between women is a thing to cherish.
Susan Glaspell
I regret not working harder to create true friendships with other couples, not seeking out people with whom to go do things and go places – people with whom to have a few crazy, memorable bonding adventures.
Robin Marantz Henig
If Reagan had intelligence information that showed that the upheaval in Egypt is actually Democratic in spirit, then he would have, I believe, turned his back on Mubarak, even though there’s a long friendship between the United States and Egypt.
Douglas Brinkley
I didn’t have any Indigenous friends until I was in my 30s, and I’ll always remember and be inspired by the remarkable friendship I had with Connie Bush, an outstanding Indigenous leader from Groot Eylandt on who was on the National Women’s Advisory Council with me.
Quentin Bryce
I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music – should there be any left – would go mad with joy.
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships.
Your Majesty may rest assured about my conduct towards the Comtesse de Provence; I will certainly try and gain her friendship and confidence, without going too far.
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
The friendships I made on ‘L.A. Law,’ with the cast and Steven Bochco and David Kelley were really wonderful.
I have a very close friendship with the skaters.
Eric Heiden
I’m in Delta Delta Delta, otherwise known as Tri-Delta. I’ve developed some great friendships, and it’s enabled me to have a little bit more of a normal college experience.
And I tell you that’s one of the reasons why I didn’t have the friendships with the media, maybe like I could have. But I had to do what I had to do to make myself successful.
Eddie Murray
To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It’s when you make your best friends – I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.
To embrace the whole world in friendship is wisdom. This wisdom is not changeable like the flowers that bloom and fade.
Thiruvalluvar
Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person’s thoughts.
I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good – the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself… Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!
Love has been defined, analyzed, explained and excused. It has been the cause of wars, feuds, heroism, martyrdom, inordinate passion, and beautiful friendships. It pulls two people of opposite temperaments together into a married state and permits them to live happily. It makes friends understand each other without the necessity of words.
Mother Angelica
Since the Korean War, U.S. and South Korea have established an enduring friendship with shared interests, such as denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, combating aggression abroad and developing our economies.
Charles B. Rangel
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
Francis Quarles
I feel friendship towards philosophers, but towards sophists, teachers of literature, or any other such kind of godforsaken people, I neither feel friendship now, nor may I ever do so in the future.
Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.
Here’s a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That’s not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm’s way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship – and it goes so much deeper than friendship.
Eric Massa
Love is friendship set on fire.
The quickest way to be a little bit happier and more engaged in your job is to spend some time thinking about developing closer friendships.
Don’t flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I had friendships with two people in my life who, when I attempted to do my habitual behavior of building a case to break up with them, wouldn’t allow me to do it. They both said to me, ‘I’m not going anywhere.’ And that moved me so deeply.
Jane Lynch
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare – and precious as a pearl.
We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others’ needs at some level or other.
I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got asked. I would track them and keep them in categories. Like body image, school, family, friendship, you name it, the emotional life of a teenage girl.
Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It’s also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.
David Elkind
At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.
Li Peng
To all my political opponents, all and sundry, not only the presidential bets, I would like to offer my hand to friendship.
The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel – I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship.
Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
You don’t just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.
I’m single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that’s me.
Joel Edgerton
The enemies cannot destroy the king who has at his service the respect and friendship of the wise men who can find fault, disagree, and correct him.
I firmly believe, only because I’ve been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don’t get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It’s hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
You can’t build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.
I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn’t mean I follow anyone’s agenda.
Najib Mikati
Sweat makes good friendship cement.
I loved the whole idea, first of all, of what friendship is. Very often, there are people that somehow you don’t know how to declare that you are their friend, but you are their friend. That happens in a lot in high school. And outside of high school.
Winnie Holzman
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to what people consider to be more important relationships: once you find a partner or when you have kids.
I’ve got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn’t going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you.
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
I’m losing friendships over forgetting to get back to people. But you can’t keep up with everything. I’ve got a 13-year-old, a nine-year-old and a baby.
Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me.
Friendships that don’t fit my life anymore have faded away, and new ones have come in.
Amanda Lindhout
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images.
Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
Both for my wife and myself, the personal friendships that have grown out of scientific contacts with colleagues from many different countries have been an important part of our lives, and the travels we have made together in connection with the world-wide scientific co-operation have given us rich treasures of experiences.
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class. I was encouraged and continued. I even wanted to write my memoirs at the age of ten. At twelve I wrote poetry, mostly about friendship – ‘Ode to Friendship.’ Then my class wanted to make a film, and one little boy suggested that I write the script.
Eugene Ionesco
What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.
But it’s amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.
Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
I take friendship very seriously.
But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Select your friendships carefully. Gather people around you who will reinforce your lifestyle.
Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
I’m blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that’s almost never what our friendships are about. And every writer I’ve ever read, living or dead, has in one way or another helped and inspired. I have a feeling it’s important not to mix the two up.
The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.
I am a super social person. I’m an only child, so I thrive on social settings and being around my friends because I make them my siblings. When I’m not acting or singing or working on anything, I am making new relationships with people because, to me, my friendships are very important.
Hayley Orrantia
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
I want to use my connections with coaches, players, celebrities, whomever, and if I can take that friendship and use it to help someone else, I’m going to take advantage of that. I’m not going to apologize for that.
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don’t mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.
Marilyn Hacker
I also appreciate the lasting friendships I’ve made while working with our great sponsors through the years, including Miller Lite, Shell and Dodge.
There’s such an array of brilliant roles for young women. You read all these amazing young women going through different stages in their life – different stages, different fascinations, different textualities, different friendships.
Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
Robin Morgan
I’m just talking specifically of women’s friendships. If two women go to a bar and they are fighting over men, it makes it much easier for the men. If two women are very close and they act as it makes it very difficult for the men to pull one over on anybody.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn’t want to kill it.
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
Charles Caleb Colton
Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking; you can’t buy friendships.
Lindsay Fox
As an American, and especially as a Christian, I am convinced that a love for our own people is not a bad thing, but love doesn’t stop at borders. Love is infinitely boundless and all about holy trespassing and offensive friendships.
The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It’s the ones that become the friendships that last.
And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.
I probably like being isolated more than many people do, but I’m lucky to have the friendship of many fine people, and they keep me from becoming very isolated. The world of my mind is certainly a populated and warm place, too. It’s difficult for me to become too isolated with such resources.
Jesse Ball
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
It’s the most exciting thing to watch God work when I’ve asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It’s like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.
When David Fincher called me up a few years ago and said, ‘Hey, I’d like you to score this film ‘The Social Network,’ I said, ‘I’m flattered, but I really don’t have any real experience scoring films, and I’d rather not screw it up on a high-profile project. And I like you and I don’t want to compromise our friendship.’
Opposition is true friendship.
It’s quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It’s a difficult balance.
When I was working on my first novel, ‘The Quilter’s Apprentice,’ I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women’s friendship and how women use friendship to sustain themselves and nurture each other.
Jennifer Chiaverini
I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.
Being a scientist is a special privilege: for it brings the opportunity to be creative, the passionate quest for answers to nature’s most precious secrets, and the warm friendships of many valued colleagues.
Stanley B. Prusiner
To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it’s a thrill to start a friendship even up.
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother.
Jimmy Carl Black
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
I did a lot of my school on set. Some years I went to a private school for a couple of hours, and then I’d always finish up with a tutor. I couldn’t do full days, but I tried to maintain my friendships and some normalcy while doing a show.
Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious – friendship and learning.
Jane Harrison
That’s a job that it makes a few friendships, but it probably breaks more.
I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that’s involves business and friendship – and the business part comes to an end – things always get a little blurry.
I got to sing with Placido Domingo… I got to sing with Aaron Neville, who is one of my favorites. Got to sing with Brian Wilson, one of the great high tenors. And Ricky Skaggs, a bluegrass tenor. I’m also proud of my musical friendship with Emmylou Harris.
Yes, exes can be good friends, but after a certain time. Though no break-up is a good break-up, time heals everything, including broken friendships. It also depends on the kind of people they are, their mindsets and the reasons for the break ups.
The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that’s gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly.
Tim Finn
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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The Memo theatre which includes our 4k digital cinema hosts our programme alongside a multitude of hire projects; including community, and commercial productions and events, as well as large private events too.
When you hire the Memo, you not only benefit from access to our facilities and resources, but we also provide our expertise to ensure your production or event is fully supported by our, technical, operations and FOH team to help you create a successful event every time you hire us.
Get in touch to let us know your requirements and we will provide a quote [The Theatre is hired subject to programme suitability and availability, and is not a dry hire venue]
ENQUIRE NOW or contact the Hires Team on 01446 400111
The theatre features a non-raked proscenium stage, with variable seating capacities from 100 up to 856, and 1300 for a standing/seated concert.
The stage is suitable for small and middle scale theatre productions and live music concerts, with eight dressing rooms backstage that comfortably accommodate 150 performers.
We welcome community theatre and amateur dramatics groups to the arts centre and can provide a professional box office service for your event.
The venue also benefits from multiple spaces ideal for performance pre-production and rehearsal, technical rehearsals, TV and filming, including an on-site car park for production bases.
We work with partners in different ways, including co-productions, co-promotions and receiving. Read more here
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Connecticut police to test ‘pandemic drone’ that monitors health of residents
Police in Westport, Conn., said they will be testing a “pandemic drone” that can scan the body temperatures of residents to determine if they have fevers or other health symptoms in an effort to combat the coronavirus. Aerospace company Draganfly announced in a news release the drones will be equipped with a specialized sensor and computer vision systems that can display heart and respiratory rates. They can also detect people coughing in crowds, police said. “One of the major problems for cities and towns like Westport in managing and responding to a pandemic like the COVID-19 virus, is finding out who could be infected and how widespread the disease has spread,” said Westport First Selectman, Jim Marpe. “One way to do this is to look for underlying symptoms.”
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MXA’S WEEKEND NEWS ROUND-UP: AMA WITHDRAWS TEAM USA FROM MXDN
AMA WITHDRAWS TEAM USA FROM THE 2020 MOTOCROSS DES NATIONS
AMA press release: The American Motorcyclist Association will not participate in the 2020 Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme Motocross des Nations, Sept. 25-27, in Matterley Basin, Great Britain, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
“The health of our racers and staff is paramount, and current and future global travel restrictions make our involvement in an international event impossible at this time,” said AMA Supercross Manager Mike Pelletier. “The U.S. team effort to attend the Motocross of Nations each year is extensive, both financially and logistically. Even in normal times, preparing our best effort at this point in the season would be difficult. The AMA takes great pride in competing in the Motocross of Nations each year, and we appreciate the commitment of the athletes chosen to represent the United States on the world stage. The AMA looks forward to returning to the Motocross of Nations in 2021 and bringing the Chamberlain Trophy back to U.S. soil.
The FIM-sanctioned Motocross of Nations is a world championship team event. It features three-rider national teams competing for a combined score to determine the overall championship-winning country. The U.S. team has won the Motocross of Nations 22 times and is the all-time leader in FIM Motocross of Nations overall team victories. All of those wins took place under the direction of AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame Legend Roger DeCoster. The most recent time the U.S. Team won the Motocross of Nations was 2011.
In addition, with the recently announced postponement of the 2020 Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship, rescheduled National rounds likely will conflict with the Motocross of Nations event.
ALL-NEW AMA NATIONAL MOTOCROSS RACE SCHEDULE— FOR THIS WEEK
For more information go to www.promotocross.com
AARON PLESSINGER DISLOCATES HIS WRIST—SURGERY REQUIRED
HUSQVARNA MOTORSPORTS AND BOBBY HEWITT FILE FOR DIVORCE
Bobby Hewitt will be leaving his own team.
Husqvarna press release: After more than five years of working together, it was announced that Husqvarna Motorsports, Inc. and HRH Racing, Inc. have mutually agreed to conclude their business relationship for the remainder of the 2020 race season and beyond. As a result of this new agreement, HRH Racing, Inc. owner, Bobby Hewitt, will no longer serve as Team Manager of the Rockstar Energy Husqvarna Factory Racing Team. Husqvarna Motorsports, Inc. would like to thank Bobby Hewitt for his commitment to the race team over the past five years and wish him the best in his future endeavors.
MITCHELL HARRISON’S 2020 GRAND PRIX SEASON KAPUT DUE TO COVID-19
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Bud Racing press release: Following the restrictions to travel between Europe and USA, Team Bud Racing Kawasaki and Mitchell Harrison will not be able to continue the end of the MX2 GP season together. Mitchell who lives in California can’t come back in Europe due to Covid19 and regulations between Europe and USA.
Both parties, Bud Racing and Mitchell have agreed to parts ways, so everybody can try to find solutions to finish the season in best condition. Bud Racing Kawasaki will soon announce a replacement rider to finish the season in Europe together with riders Pierre Goupillon and Quentin Prugnieres. We wish Mitchell the best in finding a ride in USA to finish the 2020 season.
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(1) New graphics with updated color scheme for a Ready to Race appearance.
(2) New mapping adds low-end power to drive out of corners, enhancing the SXF’s already light feel.
(3) New updated WP Xact front forks with new internals—designed for refined performance, comfort and handling—feature extended oil and air bypasses to reduce pressure peaks while a new mid-valve damping system improves damping control for exceptional feedback and feel. Performing in concert with the nNew air bypass, a smaller rebound spacer in the air leg increases air volume in the negative chamber for a more linear spring curve, emulating the behavior of a spring while keeping all the benefits of an air fork.
(4) New reworked WP XACT shock with a new O-ring for the link piston to reduce fading and improve consistency over long motos.
(5) New suspension settings front and rear compliment the new hardware for better traction, improved comfort and confidence-inspiring feel. (6) New “low-friction” linkage bearing seals made by SKF provide noticeably freer linkage action, offering better suspension feel and performance throughout the shock stroke.
(7) New Dunlop MX33 tires provide superior grip in a wide variety of terrain along with enhanced durability.
(8) Compact DOHC (double overhead camshaft) engine with cutting-edge cylinder head featuring titanium valves and super-light finger followers with a hard DLC coating. Bore/Stroke: 95mm x 63.4mm. (9) High-tech, lightweight chromoly steel frame with carefully calculated flex parameters provides a great blend of comfort, stability and precision.
(10) Hydraulic Brembo clutch and brake system offers highly controllable modulation and light operation.
MXA AD OF THE WEEK: THE ULTRA-GENIUSES OF YAMAHA
Can you name the three “Ultra-Geniuses of Yamaha” depicted in Yamaha’s 1995, 12-page, comic book-style, YZ ad.
ULTRA-GENIUSES ANSWER: (From left to right) Keith McCarty, Ed Scheidler and Don Dudek. At the end of the comic book was the “YZ Warrior Oath.” It read, “On my honor, I do hereby swear to be a guardian and upholder of smart engineering, the Yamaha Way, and all else that is good and right in the world! I promise to be loyal, steadfast and true, and to always be sympathetic and respectful of the sick and elderly — especially those who finish behind me.”
MXA PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: BOLT HARDWARE BRAND-SPECIFIC BOLT KITS
Bolt offers a self-contained kit that stockpiles the most commonly used bolts for Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki, Kawasaki, Husqvarna and KTM offroad bikes (and vintage bikes). Each kit is specially designed to include special bolts for each brand. Every Bolt kit comes in an 18-compartment plastic box, which slips easily under the front seat of a truck. What can we say about the performance of a bolt kit. It works. The retail price is $54.95-$64.95 (Pro Packs), $19.95 (56-piece Track Packs) and $15.99 (bodywork only). For more info go to www.boltmotorcyclehardware.com
10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE 2021 HONDA CRF450
The 2021 CRF450 features engine updates focused on low- to midrange performance, a newly designed chassis with revised rigidity and a slimmer overall package. The combination yields a machine that performs at a high level for the duration of a tough moto.
(1) The triple clamps have been changed for more flex and the bottom triple clamp is now 6.1mm higher. The 49mm Showa coil spring forks have 5mm more travel (310mm) and the front axle has its stiffness increased. The shock’s piston has been enlarged and the shock spring is 200 grams lighter.
The 2021 Honda CRF450 is 70mm thinner than the 2020 model.
(2) The seat is shorter, lighter and 10mm lower at the back. Maintenance has also been simplified as the number of 8mm bolts on the bodywork has been reduced from 6 to 4 per side. The 2021 CRF450 is 70 mm slimmer (50 mm on the left side because of the lack of a left-side muffler, 20 mm on the exhaust side). The seat is now bolted up front with a bolt from each side (just below the rear of the gas tank). Speaking of the gas tank, it is still titanium, but it doesn’t have the cheesy black plastic tank cover anymore.
The black plastic cover that previously covered up the Ti gas tank has been 86’ed for 2021,
(3) The head angle is 27.1° (previously 27.4°). The ground clearance is increased by 8mm to 336mm,. The dry weight is reduced by 4.2 pounds (which would make the CRF450 weigh approximately 234 pounds).
(4) The radiator shrouds are one piece instead of two plastic parts. The stock handlebars at Renthal FatBars. The top triple clamp has two bar mounts that allow the handlebars to be moved back and forth 26mm .
The seat bolts are at the front of the saddle (in the notch in the radiator wing just above the frame) and the hook is on the back.
(5) The front brake caliper has 30mm and 27mm piston diameters and a 260mm wave disc is used. A rear single-piston brake caliper works in conjunction with a 240mm rotor.
(6) The frame weighs 1 pound, 9 ounces (700 grams) less than the 2020 frame. The subframe saves 11 ounces (320 grams). Torsional rigidity is unchanged, but lateral rigidity has been reduced by 20%. The aluminum swingarm has a new rigidity balance that is tailored to the frame, with narrower tubes. The Pro Link shock linkage rising rate also been revised.
(7) There is a significant increase in peak power above 5000 rpm with more noticeable torque at low rpm. Some of this is because of the larger airbox, which is now easily accessible by removing the side panel. The engine has a new, lighter 46mm throttle body. It optimizes the efficiency in the intake tract and actively uses the latent heat of vaporization that arises in the intake ducts. The all-new hydraulic clutch delivers reduced manual force. There is a smaller fuel pump and lightweight magnesium valve cover. The seat is now smaller and lower in the rear.
One bolt accesses via the removable left side panel and the air filter is clips in.
(8) The injector angle has been increased from 30° to 60°, which means that the fuel is sprayed in the opposite direction of the intake air. The decompression system is new and the counterweight is shifted from the right side of the camshaft to the left.
(9) The biggest change is to the exhaust system. The exhaust outlet is oval instead of round. The previous dual exhaust system has been replaced by a single pipe and muffler that is 2-1/2 pound lighter than the 2020 dual system. The manifold is also mounted 74mm closer to the center axis.
We didn’t think it could be done, but Honda’s engineers made their electronic controls even more complicated. This is the new left side switch. It has five buttons and there is still another button on the right side of the bars
(10) The electronic controls (start control display, the EFI warning, the EMSB mode button, HSTC traction control button and the LED display) are located on the left handlebar. Pressing and holding the HSTC button for 0.5 seconds switches the system to the next mode, whereby a green LED display – one flash for mode 1, two flashes for mode 2 and three flashes for mode 3 – confirms the selection. The HSTC system can also be switched off completely. When the engine is switched on, the system uses the last selected setting.
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GLEN HELEN’S 10-HOUR & 24-HOUR ENDURANCE RACES ANNOUNCED
Glen Helen’s 3Bros-sponsored 10-Hour and 24-Hour off-road race have been scheduled for August 8 and November 21-22. This year the 10-Hour race will start at 4:00 p.m. Saturday and end at 2:00 a.m.Sunday morning. It is open to 4 riders per team and two bikes. The 25-Hour of Glen Helen will begin on November 21 at 10:00 a.m. and end on Sunday, November 22 at 10:00 a.m. The amateur teams can have 6 riders and two bikes, but the Pro teams can only have 4 riders and must finish the 24 hours on the one bike. Headlights are required for the 24-hour only, but recommended for the 10-Hour. For more info go to www.glenhelen.com.
NEW 2020 CANADIAN NATIONAL MOTOCROSS SCHEDULE
Is it better to post new race schedules and then cancel them or wait until you are sure that the races will be held? Canada posted two different National schedules in the same week.
Professional racing is under incredible pressure to organize and hold their 2020 seasons. With both the AMA 250/450 Nationals and FIM World Motocross Championships delaying the start of their seasons virtually every other week, the Rockstar-sponsored 2020 Canadian Motocross Nationals are prepared to get under way on the weekend of July 25-26 at Gopher Dunes. But, this isn’t business as usual, as there won’t be any spectators.
The 2020 Canadian National Motocross schedule has been changed in the last three days. Moto Park on August 1-2 is off the schedule and Walton Raceway will get back-to-back National rounds on August 8-9 and again on August 16.
To read the complete rider handbook for the Rockstar Triple Crown Series CLICK HERE. For additional information go to www.rockstartriplecrown.com.
TEN THING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE 2021 HUSKY FC450
For 2021, Husqvarna Motorcycles offers a complete line of full-size two- and four-stroke motocross machines. The TC125 and TC250 two-strokes and FC250, FC350 and FC450 four-strokes benefit both first-timers and seasoned racers alike with easy-to-use features and the latest technological advancements.
(1) FRAME: The hydro-formed, laser-cut, robot-welded, chromoly steel frame features scientifically calculated parameters of longitudinal and torsional flex for optimal rigidity.
(2) COMPOSITE CARBON FIBER SUBFRAME: Husqvarna’s composite subframe is a Husqvarna exclusive. Using a matrix of 70-percent polyamide and 30-percent carbon fiber, the two-piece subframe weighs less than 2-1/2 pounds.
(3) WP XACT FRONT FORK: The 48mm split air fork features a capsulated air spring and pressurized oil chamber for progressive and consistent damping. For 2021, there is an extended oil and air bypass to reduce pressure peaks, 10mm-shorter internal cartridges and outer tubes, a new mid-valve damping system, and click-style rebound dampers that can be adjusted by hand. The 22mm-offset, CNC-machined triple clamps have a rubber damper system to reduce handlebar vibration. A three-position handlebar adjustment is standard, and the front number plate integrates a yellow triple clamp guard to protect it from wear.
(4) WP XACT REAR SHOCK: With updated 2021 settings and new low-friction linkage seals, the WP Xact rear shock uses a pressure balance system to offer consistent damping throughout its 300mm of travel.
(5) MAGURA HYDRAULIC CLUTCH: The hydraulic clutch features a Magura master cylinder and clutch slave unit. The feel of the Magura clutch is seamless and easier to pull than any other hydraulic clutch. The clutch itself is a German-made system that features a maintenance-free steel clutch basket with Belleville washer diaphragm actuation that constantly compensates to keep the pressure points and function identical in cold or hot conditions.
(6) BREMBO BRAKES: The Husky motocross models come with Brembo calipers and master cylinders on a 260mm front rotor and 220mm solid rear rotor. These are considered to be the highest-quality brake components made.
(7) PROTAPER HANDLEBARS & ODI GRIPS: All 2021 Husqvarna motocross models come with ProTaper handlebars in a proprietary Husky bend. The ODI lock-on grip on the left side does not require gluing, while the vulcanized throttle grip features changeable quick- and slow-turn cams.
(8) BLACK BOX ECU: The Keihin ECU has a faster processing speed and is smaller. It integrates two maps, launch control and traction control on a handlebar-mounted multi-switch. The ECU also has a gear sensor that offers a different map for each gear. All four-stroke machines have 44mm Keihin throttle bodies. The injector is uniquely positioned to offer the most efficient fuel flow into the combustion chamber. The throttle cable is mounted directly, without the added complexity of a throttle linkage.
(9) FOUR-STROKE EXHAUST SYSTEMS: The four-stroke head pipe on the FC250, FC350 and FC450 features an integrated resonance chamber and a design that allows the rear shock to be removed without having to remove the pipe first.
(10) COOLING SYSTEM: The high-strength aluminum radiators use CFD (computational fluid dynamics) technology to channel air efficiently through the radiators for optimal cooling in any condition. The radiators are mounted on the optimal center of gravity, while smart radiator protectors not only protect the radiators from flying debris but also act as radiator braces.
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FIVE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE 2021 YZ450F
(1) The YZ450F’s engine gets combustion chamber geometry with steeper valve angles, more aggressive cam profiles, and a high-compression piston with low-friction rings, a longer connecting rod, larger exhaust head pipe connector, a high-flow air filter, better breather system and more, all while fitting under a smaller and lighter magnesium valve cover.
(2) The 2021 YZ450F gets an updated engine, cylinder head, frame and Launch Control System. The revised Launch-Control System optimizes engine output for quicker, smoother race starts every time by boosting controllability out of the gate.
(3) Racers can adjust the ECU straight from their phone using the onboard WiFi Yamaha Power Tuner App.
The black and blue 2021 Yamaha YZ450F Monster Energy Yamaha Racing Edition.
(4) To stand out from the crowd. The 2021 YZ450F now come in new Monster Energy Yamaha Racing Editions. With a factory team-inspired color and graphics package, riders can feel as if they too are part of a Yamaha championship-winning Supercross team.
(5) The suggested retail price is $9399 (blue) and $9599 (Monster Energy Yamaha Racing Edition).
2020 GREAT PLAINS VINTAGE MOTOCROSS SERIES: JULY 19, AUG. 9 & OCT. 11
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THE 32:1 PREMIX CLASSIC COMING TO LAST CHANCE RACEWAY ON SEPT. 11-13
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2020 WISECO WORLD TWO-STROKE MOTOCROSS CHAMPIONSHIP WILL BE HELD ON OCTOBER 3, 2020
For more information go to www.glenhelen.com
40TH ANNUAL CZ WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP RESCHEDULED FOR OCTOBER 9-10 AT MARYSVILLE
Dating back to 1980 when MXA’s Jody Weisel, Ketchup Cox and Pete Maly talked Saddleback Saturday promoter Jim Beltnick into holding a CZ race, the CZ World Championship is now on its 40th anniversary in 2020. For more information go to www.czriders.com
36TH ANNUAL WORLD VET MOTOCROSS CHAMPIONSHIP ON NOVEMBER 6-8: START PLANNING NOW
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AIM EXPO CHANGES ITS DEALER SHOW FROM OCTOBER TO JANUARY, 2021, IN COLUMBUS, OHIO
The American International Motorcycle Expo (AIMExpo) will change the date of the 2020 motorcycle show from October 2020 to Jan. 21-23, 2021. It will be held at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio. The 2021 show will now focus on retailers over three days instead of four. For 2021, AIMExpo will become a trade-only event. The transition to trade-only will bring more focus on industry needs and education. AIMExpo hope to educate dealers on improving efficiency, staying competitive and enhancing the bottom line.
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TEN THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE 2021 KAWASAKI KX450
The Kawasaki KX450 returns as the flagship model for 2021 and boasts a proven 449cc, liquid-cooled, four-stroke engine with improved engine power, slim aluminum perimeter frame, Showa A-Kit technology suspension, redesigned hydraulic clutch and electric start are the ultimate combination. For 2021 the KX450 receives engine updates for increased performance, a new coned disk-spring hydraulic clutch and a new oversize Renthal FatBar handlebars.
(1) The Kawasaki KX450 engine uses finger-follower valve actuation, which enables larger-diameter valves and more aggressive cam profiles. The intake and exhaust valves are titanium, while a bridged-box piston has a new dry film lubricant coating on the piston skirt reduces friction.
(2) The close-ratio fiv speed transmission is paired with a new Belleville washer hydraulic clutch for 2021. The clutch’s coil springs have been replaced with a Belleville washer, resulting in lighter clutch actuation when the lever is pulled in, and a wider clutch engagement range to help facilitate control. Larger diameter clutch plates, revised friction material and offset segments help promote clean separation of the discs and reduce drag when the clutch is pulled in.
(3) Kawasaki’s slim aluminum perimeter frame is constructed of forged, extruded and cast parts. It uses the engine as a stressed member to adds to the frame’s rigidity balance. A lightweight alloy swingarm is constructed of a cast front section and twin tapered hydro-formed spars. The swingarm pivot was located in alignment with the countershaft sprocket to help balanced handling.
(4) The 49mm Showa coil spring forks feature large diameter inner tubes that are the same size as those found on the machines of Kawasaki’s factory racing team (KRT). The forks enable the use of large damping pistons for smooth action and firm damping.
(5) The revised Uni-Trak shock linkage system is designed to work in conjunction with the Showa shock, aluminum frame and swingarm. The Showa Compact Design rear shock boasts A-Kit technology with large diameter compression adjusters, improving on the high frequency movements found on today’s motocross tracks.
(6) The front brake has an oversized 270mm, petal-shaped Braking rotor, while the rear brake used a 250mm petal-shaped Braking rotor.
(7) The handlebars are 1-1/8th inch Renthal Fatbars that are lower and closer to the rider. Additionally the handlebars feature four-way adjustable mounts. The multi-position handlebars offer two mounting holes with 35mm of adjustability, The footpegs have dual-position mounting points that allow the pegs to be lowered 5mm.
(8) The four-stroke, single cylinder, DOHC, water-cooled 449cc lightweight engine package utilizes input derived directly from the Monster Energy Kawasaki race team, producing peak power and a torque curve that makes it easy to get on the gas early. The potent KX450 engine features an electric start, which is activated by the push of a button and powered by a compact Li-ion battery.
(9) The 2021 KX450 features aggressive styling along with in-mold graphics on the radiator shrouds and sleek bodywork has been molded to match the V-mounted radiators and narrow chassis design.
(10) The suggested retail price is $9399.
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THE EVER CHANGING 2020 RACE SCHEDULES
Under the current plan, the 2020 AMA National series will start on August 15 and feature 9 rounds—counting two back-to-back races at Red Bud on a Saturday and the following Tuesday.
TENTATIVE AMA NATIONAL MOTOCROSS CHAMPIONSHIP
Aug. 15…Hurricane Mills, TN
Aug. 22…Washougal, WA
Aug. 29…Crawfordsville, IN
Sept. 5 (Saturday)…Red Bud, MI
Sept. 8 (Tuesday) …Red Bud, MI
Sept. 19…Millville, MN
Sept. 26…Jacksonville, FL
Oct. 3…Lakewood, CO
Oct. 10…Pala, CA, NY
REVISED 2020 FIM MOTOCROSS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Mar. 1…Matterley, Great Britain (Held)
Mar. 8…Valkenswaard, Holland (Held)
Aug. 9…Kegums, Latvia
Aug. 12…Kegums, Latvia
Sept. 6.…Afyonkarahisar, Turkey
Sept. 16…Faenza, Italy
Sept. 27…MXDN, Matterley, Great Britain
Oct. 4…Mantova, Italy
Oct. 11..Arroyomolinos, Spain
Oct. 18…Lommel, Belgium
Nov. 1…Trentino, Italy
Nov. 8…TBA, Indonesia
Nov. 22…Neuquen, Argentina
2020 FIM MOTOCROSS DES NATIONS
Sept. 27.…Matterley Basin,Great Britain
REVISED 2020 CANADIAN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
July 25-26…Courtland, ON
Aug…8-9…Walton, ON
Aug. 16…Walton, ON
Aug. 29-30…Sand Del Lee, ON
Sept. 5-6….Deschambault, QC
REVISED 2020 AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL MOTOCROSS CHAMPIONSHIP
Aug. 9…Connondale. QLD
Aug. 6…Maitland, NSW
Sept. 16…Newry, VIC
Sept. 12…Horsham, VIC
Oct. 4…Gympie, QLD
Oct. 11…Coolum, QLD
2020 AMA NATIONAL AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP
Aug. 3-8….Hurricane Mills, TN
2020 WISECO WORLD TWO-STROKE CHAMPIONSHIP
Oct. 3…Glen Helen, CA
2020 MONSTER ENERGY CUP
Oct. 10…Carson, CA
REM OCTOBERCROSS
Oct. 31…Glen Helen, CA
2020 DUBYA WORLD VET MOTOCROSS CHAMPIONSHIP
Nov. 6-8…Glen Helen , CA
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Cozy Tapes Vol. 2: Too Cozy is the second studio album by American hip hop collective ASAP Mob. It was released on August 25, 2017, by ASAP Worldwide, Polo Grounds Music and RCA Records. The album features guest appearances from Big Sean, Playboi Carti, Pro Era, Quavo, Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Yachty, Chief Keef, Gucci Mane, Schoolboy Q, Frank Ocean, Jaden Smith, Smooky Margielaa and Flatbush Zombies.
ASAP Mob’s Cozy Tapes Vol. 2 Album (Zip Download). Out now, stream ASAP Mob’s new compilation project Cozy Tapes. Of course, fellow mob members like ASAP Rocky, Ferg, Nast, Ant & Twelvyy will also be making their respective appearances as well, but that should go without saying.
Author: Brendan Varan. If Vol. 1 was cozy in the sense of wearing a robe with slippers, Vol. 2: Too Cozy feels like trying to stack on a sherpa hoody and bubble coat overtop the robe and realizing you still have bare feet; too much going on without enough focus on the most important ingredients (comfy shoes/the best artists).
Peep the tracklist below. 1. "Skool Bus (Skit)" 2. "Perry Aye" Feat. Frank Ocean, Future, Gucci Mane, Migos, Quavo, ScHoolboy Q, the Creator, Tyler.
You could expect that ol' Flaco, a lot of guest appearances, and you can expect that ignorant young turn up music.
On the businesslike Cozy Tapes Vol. 2: Too Cozy, Rocky and his acolytes convene for a rundown of trends worth exploiting; as such, it often sounds like a Migos album as interpreted by 16 clueless New Yorkers. This is a DJ Khaled album in disguise, but at least Khaled understands that. ASAP Mob drop Cozy Tapes Vol. 1: Friends: Stream/download.
1 Skool Bus (Skit)
Featuring, Lyrics By – Donterio Hundon
2 Perry Aye
Featuring – ASAP Nast, ASAP Rocky, Jaden Smith, Playboi Carti
3 Please Shut Up
Featuring – ASAP Rocky, Gucci Mane, Key!
4 Blowin' Minds (Skateboard)
Featuring – ASAP Ant, ASAP Nast, ASAP Rocky, Chief Keef, Playboi Carti
5 Black Card
Featuring – ASAP Rocky, Smooky MarGielaa
6 Walk On Water
Featuring – ASAP Ant, ASAP Ferg, ASAP Nast, ASAP Twelvy, Playboi Carti
7 BYF
Featuring – ASAP Ant, ASAP Rocky, Smooky MarGielaa
8 Get The Bag
Featuring – A$AP TyT, ASAP Ant, ASAP Ferg, ASAP Nast, ASAP Rocky, Playboi Carti, Smooky MarGielaa
9 Bahamas
Featuring – ASAP Ferg, ASAP Rocky, ASAP Twelvy, Key!, Lil Yachty, Schoolboy Q, Smooky MarGielaa
10 Principal Daryl Choad (Skit)
Featuring, Lyrics By – John C. Reilly
11 Frat Rules
Featuring – ASAP Rocky, Big Sean, Playboi Carti
12 FYBR (First Year Being Rich)
Featuring – ASAP Ant, ASAP Ferg, ASAP Rocky, ASAP Twelvy, Key!, Playboi Carti
13 Feels So Good
Featuring – ASAP Ant, ASAP Ferg, ASAP Nast, ASAP Rocky, ASAP Twelvy
14 Coziest
Featuring – ASAP Twelvy, Zack
15 What Happens
Featuring – Joey Badlotto, Kirk Knight, Meechy Darko, NYCk Caution, Zombie Juice
16 RAF
Featuring – ASAP Rocky, Frank Ocean, Lil Uzi Vert, Playboi Carti, Quavo
17 Last Day Of Skool (Skit) 1:31
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Barbados eyes January start for medical cannabis industry
Published December 18, 2020 | By Matt Lamers
Barbados has set January 2021 for the launch of its medical cannabis sector as the country looks to gain a competitive edge over other Caribbean nations planning to capitalize on the nascent industry.
The Eastern Caribbean country will regulate activities related to medical marijuana cultivation, processing, dispensing and export by empowering the Medicinal Cannabis Licensing Authority as the main regulatory body.
Addressing a public forum on the upcoming industry, Minister of Agriculture and Food Security Indar Weir promised an orderly launch in January, saying, “the industry must get started … People will be allowed to enter, (but) not everybody is going to be able to start at the same time.”
Weir said potential economic benefits are “something that we cannot turn a blind eye to. We have to capitalize on any opportunity that confronts us now because later on it will not be here.”
“There will be too many other options. We have to leverage our position now,” he said, according to the Barbados Government Information Service.
The minister also made assurances that the medical cannabis industry will not be a repeat of the sugar industry.
Weir said only finished products will be exported, keeping most of the value chain in the country.
“We created a complete value chain so that at any part of that value chain we can enter,” he said.
Barbados finalized the legal foundation for the medical cannabis industry one year ago.
Barbados is among a number of nations in the Caribbean and North Atlantic that either have started medical cannabis industries or plan to.
Some countries have come across unexpected hurdles.
Elected British Virgin Islands representatives passed a medical cannabis law six months ago, but the United Kingdom has thus far refused to give the pending law its stamp of approval – typically a routine procedure for Overseas Territories.
The U.K. broke its monthslong silence over the brewing issue this month, citing United Nations treaty obligations and narcotics licensing authority as the cause of the delay.
Bermuda, another Overseas Territory, took steps last week to formally lay the legal groundwork for a regulated adult-use and medical cannabis industry.
However, that country also requires the U.K. to sign off on its laws, so the bill faces an uphill battle.
Jamaica has the region’s most developed medical industry, but the country’s Cannabis Licensing Authority so far has not answered requests from Marijuana Business Daily to disclose monthly sales.
The Medicinal Cannabis Industry Bill, 2019, is available here.
The Sacramental Cannabis Bill, 2019, is available here.
Matt Lamers is Marijuana Business Daily’s international editor, based near Toronto. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Biometric Undershirt to Monitor Race Car Driver Biometrics
A pair of auto manufacturing companies have teamed up to put biometric sensors in a fire-retardant undershirt to capture the vital data of race car drivers.
As Autosport’s Adam Cooper reports, Marelli and OMP Racing announced that they have been granted approval by the International Automobile Federation (FIA) to develop what will be known as the Vital Signs Monitor, or VISM, to provide the real-time measurements. These measurements will allow race officials to monitor a driver’s stress and fatigue levels by analyzing biometric data like heart rate and breathing via sensors embedded within the fabric.
According to Marelli and OMP, VISM’s three main applications will be to collect data for performance monitoring, safety initiatives — via the constant monitoring of vital signs — and for training purposes.
“VISM is a tool for professional drivers to monitor biometric data,” said Riccardo De Filippi, CEO of Marelli Motorsport. “It is designed with a direct interface to the data acquisition and telemetry systems of a race car and includes end-to-end protection of sensitive data, giving the user full control of its use.”
“The cooperation with Marelli is that kind of teamwork that makes you bless the moment you decided to pick up the phone and propose the project,” Paolo Delprato, OMP Racing CEO, said. “It’s a mutual enrichment and it has produced a great device, which combines safety and performance, ” he added.
This isn’t the only case of racing companies looking to introduce biometrics into racing gear. Formula 1 racewear manufacturer Alpinestars recently announced it was looking into ways to incorporate biometric sensors into the overalls worn by drivers in order to collect and monitor biometric data such as pulse rate and blood/oxygen levels.
Additionally, in 2018, Formula 1 announced plans to introduce biometric sensors stitched into every driver’s gloves after testing the technology with a few racing teams. The purpose of those sensors is to help medics in their assessments of a driver’s condition following an accident by looking at their pulse and oxygen rates, with more sensors planned for the gloves down the road.
As for VISM, further plans and a timeline on its testing stages have yet to be revealed, however the companies did share that the confidentiality and privacy of any data they collect will be of high importance.
De Filippi also noted that the team behind the project may look into commercial applications as well, saying, “We believe this experience is a major step forward in the development of safety systems as well as active driver aids, for passenger cars too.”
Source: Autosport
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AusAID Scholarships Australia China Alumni Award 2012
Published September 24, 2012 September 28, 2012 AuthorContributed
Caption R to L: Vice Chancellor Professor Ian O’Connor presents Dr Pan with his AusAID Scholarships Australia China Alumni Award at the Griffith Alumni event in Beijing recently. Pictured also is Edward Smith, Founder and Steering Committee member of the ACAA
Dr. Pan is an Adjunct Professor at Griffith’s School of Public Health and is currently a Professor at the Peking University Health Science Centre. Dr. Pan completed an Australian Leadership Award (ALA) fellowship at Griffith University where he was in priority areas such as climate change and health to advance regional policy objectives and increase institutional capacity of Australian partner countries such as China.
Dr. Pan has 20 articles published in high impact environmental health and climate change internationally refereed journals; an international grant titled: “The study for interactions between air particles and climate change with relation to health effects of population in China”, funded by the Natural Science Foundation of China (2010-2012); nine graduate student supervisions in his research team with projects focused on climate change, air pollution and related health effects in China; and one PhD and two Master of Public Health supervisions in 2010.
Dr. Pan Xiaochuan – Professor at the Peking University Health Science Centre Winner of AusAID Scholarships Australia China Alumni Award
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North Korea’s Kim: US ‘our biggest enemy’
SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for more advanced nuclear weapons and said the United States is “our biggest enemy,” state media said on Saturday, presenting a stark challenge to President-elect Joe Biden just days before he takes office.
Washington’s hostile policies would not change regardless of who occupies the White House but dropping those policies would be key to North Korea-US relations, Kim said, according to state news agency KCNA.
“Our foreign political activities should be focused and redirected on subduing the US, our biggest enemy and main obstacle to our innovated development,” Kim said during nine hours of remarks over several days at a rare party congress in Pyongyang.
“No matter who is in power in the US, the true nature of the US and its fundamental policies towards North Korea never change,” Kim said, vowing to expand ties with “anti-imperialist, independent forces.”
Kim’s remarks were one of the most ambitious outlines of North Korean national defence and nuclear matters in some time, said Ankit Panda, a senior fellow at the US-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
US TALKS STALLED
There was no immediate comment from the US State Department. A spokesman for the Biden campaign declined to comment.
Last month Kurt Campbell, the top US diplomat for East Asia under Obama and considered a contender for a top Asia policy position under Biden, said the incoming US administration would have to make an early decision on what approach it will take with North Korea and not repeat the delay of the Obama era.
Besides US and defence policy, Kim spoke at greater length on proposals for a five-year economic plan due to be announced at the congress, which he said would continue a focus on building an independent economy.
Kim criticised South Korea for offering cooperation in “non-fundamental” areas such as coronavirus aid and tourism, and said the South should stop purchasing arms from and conducting military drills with the United States.
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Six Virunga Park Rangers Killed In Eastern Congo Ambush
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo: Armed men on Sunday killed at least six rangers and wounded several others in an ambush in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park, a sanctuary for endangered mountain gorillas, the park said.
The identity of the assailants was not immediately clear, said Olivier Mukisya, a Virunga spokesman. Previous attacks against the rangers have been blamed on various militias who fight to control land and natural resources in eastern Congo.
“We confirm this sad news. A group of armed men attacked our positions in the region of Nyamitwitwi in the middle of Virunga National Park,” Mukisya told Reuters.
More than 200 rangers have been killed in the past, including 12 last April in the deadliest such attack in recent memory.
Dozens of armed groups operate in eastern Congo, many remnants of militias that fought in civil wars around the turn of the century that resulted in millions of deaths from conflict, hunger and disease.
Virunga sits on the forest-covered volcanoes of central Africa and is home to over half the global population of mountain gorillas.
It is Africa’s oldest national park and largest tropical rainforest reserve, covering 7,800 sq km (3,000 sq miles).
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Science & Spirituality|Jan 14, 2009 10:09 AM| by: Alok
Is Man Truly Great?
Legends speak of the three strides of Vishnu*. The first two strides cover the sky and the earth. Yet, these two outer conquests remain incomplete without the third stride. It is the stride of God that conquers man. Or shall we say, fulfils God in man.
The last three decades have seen man’s growing conquest over material nature and the biophysical forces that move him. His gaze has extended far and wide into outer space. He can determine the lifespan of a star. Yet what eludes him still is his own destiny. What escapes his grasp are the unseen forces that possess and move him. What remains for him to explore are the inner spaces of his soul.
We have learnt the power of the spoken word. But the unspoken word still eludes us. The mystery of the silence behind life lies hidden by the clamour and noise of our surface mind.
We have learnt the science of defining things but not the art of experiencing them. We have amassed information but missed the wisdom that truly knows. We have craftily manipulated the surface of man but his depths remain unfathomed. We have been taught about the maladies that afflict his body but know little about the fevers that rage in his mind and ravish his soul.
Our textbooks are satisfied with defining health and normalcy but who will give us the experience of health? There is an abundant description of the normal and the abnormal. The supernormal is still a fantasy and a myth, because it is not common. Just as an ape would not have recognized himself in the forthcoming man so too, in man the superman lurks unseen. The greatness of man is not in his superiority over other animals. It is in his capacity to surpass himself.
* Hindu tradition has it that Vamana, the fifth Avatara of Vishnu, arrives at the court of the mighty King Bali just as he is about to perform a sacrifice for the conquest of the three worlds. Having extracted a promise from the great king to offer land worth three strides, Vamana, the dwarf, goes on to measure the three strides. With the first, he covers the earth; the second covers the skies and heavens. As he looks for a place to take his third stride, Bali offers his head.
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Author: Alok Dr. Alok Pandey has been working in the field of psychiatry with a spiritual approach for more than 15 years. He has developed a working concept of integral health and integral psychology which he is using in his life and practice. He is one of the founders of SAIIIHR.
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Why inequality hawks (and their opposites) frustrate me
Paul Krugman’s June 1 New York Times op-ed “On Inequality Denial” makes me mad.
In it, he criticizes Financial Times editor Chris Giles for his allegedly flawed critique of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century. He writes,
We have two sources of evidence on both income and wealth: surveys, in which people are asked about their finances, and tax data. Survey data, while useful for tracking the poor and the middle class, notoriously understate top incomes and wealth — loosely speaking, because it’s hard to interview enough billionaires. So studies of the 1 percent, the 0.1 percent, and so on rely mainly on tax data. The Financial Times critique, however, compared older estimates of wealth concentration based on tax data with more recent estimates based on surveys; this produced an automatic bias against finding an upward trend.
Interesting. I haven’t evaluated Krugman’s claim myself. I haven’t read Giles’ critique. I haven’t even skimmed Piketty’s book. For all I know, Giles could be dead wrong and Krugman spot on.
But what frustrates me about inequality hawks like Krugman is their habitual unwillingness to consider how anything other than tax policy contribute to growing inequality (whether such a trend exists or not). At the end of the post, he writes,
…taxes and benefits don’t greatly change the picture — in fact, since the 1970s big tax cuts at the top have caused after-tax inequality to rise faster than inequality before taxes. This picture makes people uncomfortable, because it plays into the populist demands for higher taxes on the rich. But good ideas don’t need to be sold on false pretenses. If the argument against populism rests on bogus claims against inequality, you should consider the possibility that the populists are right.
If I had time, I’d sift through every other post on Krugman’s blog to mark every mention of how tax breaks for the wealthy and a general lack of state intervention on behalf of the poor contribute to growing income ineaquality. I’d compare these with his mentions of how inflation, bank bailouts, crowding out and regulatory capture make life more expensive all around, thereby harming the poor most of all. I can’t be sure, but from my many years of reading Krugman’s blog, I’m sure the former would outnumber the latter by something like one million percent.
I’m not in the inequality debate for kicks and giggles. I’m not in it to unilaterally defend the 1 percent, corporate America or “right-wing” economics. I’m in it because much of what I read is dead wrong and not enough people are saying the right things.
What the inequality debate needs is less lopsided analysis from the likes of Krugman (and many right-wing economists, for that matter) and more equitable commentary that examines not only how tax rates and loopholes contribute to skyrocketing wealth at the top, but also how existing government policy — QE infinity, inflation, unemployment insurance, minimum wage, etc. — exacerbates the problem. Is that not a compromise partisans are willing to make?
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Pataki accuses De Blasio of denying schoolkids choices
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March 10, 2014 | 2:44am
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The father of New York’s charter-school movement says Mayor de Blasio is committing an “outrageous abuse of political power” by snatching away educational choice and opportunity from kids.
Former Gov. George Pataki — who pushed through the initial charter-school law in 1998 — ripped de Blasio’s assault on the publicly funded, independently run alternative schools and appealed to state policy makers to undo the damage.
“De Blasio is cutting charter schools off at the knees,” Pataki told The Post. “It’s unfathomable that he would do something that endangers the education of students and parents.
“It’s an outrageous abuse of political power.”
Pataki is no stranger to the war on charters. He faced enormous resistance when he first pushed charter-school legislation in the 1990s — and persuaded state lawmakers to pass it by linking the measure to a long-sought legislative pay raise. Many considered Pataki’s leadership in the charter struggle as one of one his finest hours as governor.
The three-term GOP governor said he feels compelled to re-enter the fray because de Blasio is attempting to “roll back the progress” that charter schools have provided in educating mostly poor and working-class minority children in New York City and other urban areas.
Pataki said he’s dumbfounded that de Blasio snatched $210 million in building funds from charter schools, aborted space-sharing arrangements for three schools and vows to charge some charters rent for operating in city-run facilities.
“This is about empowering the educational monopoly and the bureaucracy at the expense of the children. They see charter schools as a threat to their monopolistic power,” he said, referring to de Blasio and the union-dominated public school system.
“If they cared about the education of the children,” Pataki said, “they wouldn’t take this choice away. It’s about politicians wanting control. It’s about the political left trying to control everything.”
De Blasio defended his decisions on charter school co-locations as fair and equitable — noting he actually approved 14 of 17 applications.
“The administration is already taking steps to resolve concerns we have received by some parents. In our decisions, we set consistent, objective, commonsense standards—most importantly protecting students with disabilities. We remain deeply committed to the rights of all students, and ensuring every child has access to a great education,” said City Hall spokesman Phil Wolzak.
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Equinor and more than 60 other oil companies are launching a new partnership to strengthen the control of emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane.
A total of 62 companies have joined the new partnership.
Its goal is to establish a new “gold standard” for reporting methane emissions from oil and gas extraction.
The 62 companies account for 30% of the world’s oil and gas production.
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LAB: Battelle Columbus DIPROPYLENE GLYCOL DATE: 05/15/01
TEST TYPE: CHRONIC CAGES FROM 0000 TO LAST CAGE PAGE: 1
CONT: N01-ES-55388 ROUTE: DOSED WATER NTP C#: C88031
PATHOLOGIST: RYAN, MICHAEL CAS: 25265-71-8
Final#1/Mice
TEST TYPE: CHRONIC CAGES FROM 0000 TO LAST CAGE
IN THE ANALYSIS OF DIPROPYLENE GLYCOL
Adrenal Cortex Hyperplasia Focal
Hypertrophy Focal
Islets, Pancreatic Hyperplasia
Kidney Metaplasia Osseous
Liver Clear Cell Focus
Eosinophilic Focus
Mixed Cell Focus
Preputial Gland Inflammation
Seminal Vesicle Atrophy
Stomach, Glandular Inflammation Chronic
Blood Vessel: Aorta Inflammation Chronic
Brain Hydrocephalus
Liver Infiltration Cellular Lymphocyte
Lung Thrombosis
Lung: Bronchus Foreign Body
Inflammation Acute
Nose Inflammation Acute
Statistical Analysis of Non-neoplastic Lesions in Mice(B6C3F1) - DIPROPYLENE GLYCOL
Terminal Sacrifice at 105 weeks
|Dose | 0.0% 1.0% 2.0% 4.0% |0.0% 1.0% 2.0% 4.0% |
| Hyperplasia Focal |
|OVERALL (a) | 7/50 (14%) 4/50 (8%) 1/50 (2%) 0/49 (0%) |1/50 (2%) 1/50 (2%) 2/49 (4%) 0/50 (0%) |
|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) | 15.2% 9.1% 2.2% 0.0% |2.2% 2.2% 4.5% 0.0% |
|TERMINAL (d) | 7/40 (18%) 4/39 (10%) 1/35 (3%) 0/34 (0%) |1/37 (3%) 1/38 (3%) 2/38 (5%) 0/33 (0%) |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 729 (T) 729 (T) 729 (T) --- |728 (T) 728 (T) 728 (T) --- |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.004N** P=0.274N P=0.048N* P=0.016N* |P=0.398N P=0.756N P=0.509 P=0.523N |
|POLY 3 | P=0.002N** P=0.285N P=0.032N* P=0.011N* |P=0.417N P=0.758N P=0.486 P=0.527N |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.002N** P=0.280N P=0.031N* P=0.010N* |P=0.402N P=0.758N P=0.490 P=0.518N |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.004N** P=0.274N P=0.048N* (e) |P=0.398N P=0.756N P=0.509 (e) |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.003N** P=0.262N P=0.030N* P=0.007N** |P=0.367N P=0.753N P=0.492 P=0.500N |
| Hypertrophy Focal |
|OVERALL (a) | 28/50 (56%) 24/50 (48%) 23/50 (46%) 15/49 (31%) |3/50 (6%) 3/50 (6%) 2/49 (4%) 1/50 (2%) |
|POLY-3 RATE (b) | 28/45.94 24/44.49 23/46.38 15/42.07 |3/45.83 3/46.33 2/44.02 1/40.09 |
|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) | 61.0% 54.0% 49.6% 35.7% |6.6% 6.5% 4.5% 2.5% |
|TERMINAL (d) | 28/40 (70%) 23/39 (59%) 20/35 (57%) 14/34 (41%) |3/37 (8%) 3/38 (8%) 2/38 (5%) 1/33 (3%) |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 729 (T) 619 518 710 |728 (T) 728 (T) 728 (T) 728 (T) |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.027N* P=0.297N P=0.431N P=0.026N* |P=0.226N P=0.651N P=0.488N P=0.346N |
|POLY 3 | P=0.009N** P=0.320N P=0.182N P=0.012N* |P=0.237N P=0.657N P=0.518N P=0.355N |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.008N** P=0.315N P=0.191N P=0.010N* |P=0.224N P=0.657N P=0.513N P=0.338N |
|POLY 6 | P=0.010N* P=0.306N P=0.179N P=0.014N* |P=0.249N P=0.659N P=0.522N P=0.370N |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.014N* P=0.327N P=0.257N P=0.026N* |P=0.226N P=0.651N P=0.488N P=0.346N |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.007N** P=0.274N P=0.212N P=0.009N** |P=0.195N P=0.661N P=0.510N P=0.309N |
Statistical Analysis of Non-neoplastic Lesions in Mice(B6C3F1) - DIPROPYLENE GLYCOL
|OVERALL (a) | 47/50 (94%) 46/50 (92%) 44/50 (88%) 42/49 (86%) |48/50 (96%) 49/50 (98%) 49/49 (100%) 48/50 (96%) |
|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) | 95.7% 94.7% 89.6% 89.1% |96.6% 99.1% 100.0% 96.3% |
|TERMINAL (d) | 40/40 (100%) 37/39 (95%) 31/35 (89%) 31/34 (91%) |36/37 (97%) 38/38 (100%) 38/38 (100%) 32/33 (97%) |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 416 405 518 416 |193 494 406 20 |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.390 P=0.563 P=0.421 P=0.447 |P=0.121 P=0.576N P=0.542 P=0.192 |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.128N P=0.663N P=0.241N P=0.224N |P=0.621N P=0.551 P=0.241 P=0.667N |
|Adrenal Medulla |
|OVERALL (a) | 0/50 (0%) 2/49 (4%) 0/50 (0%) 0/49 (0%) |1/50 (2%) 0/49 (0%) 1/49 (2%) 0/50 (0%) |
|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) | 0.0% 4.6% 0.0% 0.0% |2.2% 0.0% 2.3% 0.0% |
|TERMINAL (d) | 0/40 (0%) 1/39 (3%) 0/35 (0%) 0/34 (0%) |1/37 (3%) 0/37 (0%) 1/38 (3%) 0/33 (0%) |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | --- 710 --- --- |728 (T) --- 728 (T) --- |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.440N P=0.234 (e) (e) |P=0.426N P=0.500N P=0.756N P=0.523N |
|POLY 3 | P=0.422N P=0.228 (e) (e) |P=0.426N P=0.502N P=0.752 P=0.527N |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.417N P=0.228 (e) (e) |P=0.420N P=0.502N P=0.754 P=0.518N |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.425N P=0.228 (e) (e) |P=0.426N (e) P=0.756N (e) |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.408N P=0.242 (e) (e) |P=0.405N P=0.505N P=0.747 P=0.500N |
|Blood Vessel: Aorta |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 729 (T) --- --- --- |--- --- --- 728 (T) |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.327N P=0.505N P=0.527N P=0.532N |P=0.037 * (e) (e) P=0.213 |
|POLY 3 | P=0.298N P=0.508N P=0.504N P=0.518N |P=0.040 * (e) (e) P=0.209 |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.301N P=0.506N P=0.502N P=0.513N |P=0.042 * (e) (e) P=0.218 |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.327N (e) (e) (e) |(e) (e) (e) P=0.213 |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.308N P=0.500N P=0.500N P=0.505N |P=0.046 * (e) (e) P=0.247 |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | --- --- --- --- |728 (T) 585 --- --- |
|Bone |
| Fibrosis |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 729 (T) --- --- --- |641 728 (T) 728 (T) --- |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.129N P=0.238N P=0.262N P=0.269N |P=0.072N P=0.629N P=0.640N P=0.088N |
|POLY 3 | P=0.108N P=0.241N P=0.236N P=0.253N |P=0.083N P=0.643N P=0.616 P=0.081N |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.109N P=0.240N P=0.234N P=0.247N |P=0.072N P=0.639N P=0.628 P=0.074N |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.129N (e) (e) (e) |P=0.076N P=0.639N P=0.627 P=0.069N |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.114N P=0.242N P=0.242N P=0.247N |P=0.054N P=0.643N P=0.643N P=0.059N |
|Brain |
| Hydrocephalus |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | --- --- --- --- |--- --- --- 395 |
|LIFE TABLE | (e) (e) (e) (e) |P=0.039 * (e) (e) P=0.218 |
|POLY 3 | (e) (e) (e) (e) |P=0.042 * (e) (e) P=0.214 |
|POLY 1.5 | (e) (e) (e) (e) |P=0.043 * (e) (e) P=0.221 |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| (e) (e) (e) (e) |P=0.098 (e) (e) P=0.319 |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | (e) (e) (e) (e) |P=0.047 * (e) (e) P=0.247 |
|Brain: Hypothalamus |
| Compression |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | --- --- --- --- |--- 728 (T) --- 395 |
|LIFE TABLE | (e) (e) (e) (e) |P=0.121 P=0.505 (e) P=0.218 |
|POLY 3 | (e) (e) (e) (e) |P=0.126 P=0.498 (e) P=0.214 |
|POLY 1.5 | (e) (e) (e) (e) |P=0.131 P=0.498 (e) P=0.221 |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| (e) (e) (e) (e) |P=0.214 P=0.505 (e) P=0.319 |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | (e) (e) (e) (e) |P=0.141 P=0.495 (e) P=0.247 |
| Granuloma Sperm |
|OVERALL (a) | 2/50 (4%) 1/50 (2%) 0/50 (0%) 1/49 (2%) | |
|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) | 4.3% 2.3% 0.0% 2.4% | |
|TERMINAL (d) | 1/40 (3%) 1/39 (3%) 0/35 (0%) 0/34 (0%) | |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 556 729 (T) --- 710 | |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.411N P=0.513N P=0.257N P=0.552N | |
|POLY 3 | P=0.374N P=0.518N P=0.244N P=0.535N | |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.373N P=0.514N P=0.241N P=0.525N | |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.364N P=0.478N P=0.242N P=0.472N | |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.372N P=0.500N P=0.247N P=0.508N | |
|Gallbladder: Epithelium |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | --- 729 (T) --- 729 (T) |693 728 (T) 728 (T) 728 (T) |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.119 P=0.495 (e) P=0.209 |P=0.087N P=0.101N P=0.102N P=0.137N |
|POLY 3 | P=0.131 P=0.492 (e) P=0.224 |P=0.082N P=0.100N P=0.114N P=0.136N |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.134 P=0.493 (e) P=0.229 |P=0.079N P=0.099N P=0.111N P=0.124N |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| (e) P=0.495 (e) P=0.209 |P=0.097N P=0.101N P=0.115N P=0.147N |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.139 P=0.500 (e) P=0.247 |P=0.072N P=0.102N P=0.107N P=0.102N |
| Cytoplasmic Alteration |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 729 (T) 729 (T) --- --- |728 (T) --- --- --- |
|POLY 3 | P=0.100N P=0.515N P=0.237N P=0.250N |P=0.294N P=0.498N P=0.510N P=0.527N |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.100N P=0.512N P=0.235N P=0.246N |P=0.299N P=0.498N P=0.508N P=0.518N |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.117N P=0.509N (e) (e) |P=0.317N (e) (e) (e) |
|Heart |
| Cardiomyopathy |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 729 (T) --- 729 (T) --- |728 (T) --- --- --- |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.106N (e) P=0.354N (e) |P=0.317N (e) (e) (e) |
|Heart: Myocardium |
| Inflammation Chronic Focal |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 729 (T) 729 (T) 729 (T) 729 (T) |728 (T) --- --- 687 |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.466N P=0.509N P=0.547N P=0.557N |P=0.500N (e) (e) P=0.554N |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 724 --- 645 --- |570 687 693 565 |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.213N P=0.248N P=0.528N P=0.279N |P=0.481 P=0.497N P=0.513N P=0.617 |
|POLY 3 | P=0.193N P=0.247N P=0.504N P=0.258N |P=0.510 P=0.499N P=0.521N P=0.646 |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.191N P=0.245N P=0.502N P=0.252N |P=0.523 P=0.498N P=0.515N P=0.662 |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.193N P=0.246N P=0.499N P=0.268N |P=0.611 P=0.536N P=0.500N P=0.660N |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.191N P=0.247N P=0.500N P=0.253N |P=0.555 P=0.500N P=0.508N P=0.691N |
|Intestine Small, Jejunum: Peyer's Patch |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 729 (T) 729 (T) 729 (T) --- |--- --- 484 728 (T) |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.466N P=0.756 P=0.258 P=0.532N |P=0.071 (e) P=0.240 P=0.213 |
|POLY 3 | P=0.444N P=0.751 P=0.299 P=0.518N |P=0.064 (e) P=0.232 P=0.209 |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.433N P=0.753 P=0.303 P=0.513N |P=0.070 (e) P=0.234 P=0.218 |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.466N P=0.756 P=0.258 (e) |P=0.095 (e) P=0.238 P=0.213 |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.416N P=0.753N P=0.309 P=0.505N |P=0.086 (e) P=0.247 P=0.247 |
|Islets, Pancreatic |
|OVERALL (a) | 40/50 (80%) 41/50 (82%) 39/50 (78%) 43/49 (88%) |31/50 (62%) 29/50 (58%) 29/50 (58%) 33/50 (66%) |
|TERMINAL (d) | 37/40 (93%) 35/39 (90%) 30/35 (86%) 31/34 (91%) |27/37 (73%) 25/38 (66%) 25/38 (66%) 23/33 (70%) |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 556 224 494 416 |570 494 543 395 |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.026 * P=0.393 P=0.274 P=0.035 * |P=0.111 P=0.361N P=0.377N P=0.186 |
|POLY 3 | P=0.230 P=0.539 P=0.407N P=0.241 |P=0.243 P=0.357N P=0.457N P=0.351 |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.214 P=0.517 P=0.442N P=0.223 |P=0.253 P=0.370N P=0.441N P=0.355 |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.121 P=0.345 P=0.538N P=0.078 |P=0.154 P=0.392N P=0.519N P=0.258 |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.205 P=0.500 P=0.500N P=0.220 |P=0.330 P=0.419N P=0.419N P=0.418 |
| Hydronephrosis |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | --- 588 575 --- |--- --- 340 --- |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.492N P=0.232 P=0.500 (e) |P=0.581 (e) P=0.245 (e) |
|POLY 3 | P=0.490N P=0.230 P=0.499 (e) |P=0.515 (e) P=0.233 (e) |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.482N P=0.231 P=0.500 (e) |P=0.541 (e) P=0.236 (e) |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.440N P=0.256 P=0.455 (e) |P=0.636N (e) P=0.216 (e) |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.466N P=0.247 P=0.500 (e) |P=0.595 (e) P=0.247 (e) |
| Infarct |
|OVERALL (a) | 7/50 (14%) 14/50 (28%) 10/50 (20%) 9/49 (18%) |4/50 (8%) 7/50 (14%) 9/50 (18%) 8/50 (16%) |
|POLY-3 RATE (b) | 7/45.94 14/45.32 10/45.78 9/42.93 |4/45.83 7/46.64 9/44.84 8/40.09 |
|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) | 15.2% 30.9% 21.8% 21.0% |8.7% 15.0% 20.1% 20.0% |
|TERMINAL (d) | 7/40 (18%) 11/39 (28%) 7/35 (20%) 6/34 (18%) |4/37 (11%) 6/38 (16%) 7/38 (18%) 8/33 (24%) |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 729 (T) 501 645 533 |728 (T) 643 599 728 (T) |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.482 P=0.059 P=0.270 P=0.322 |P=0.085 P=0.265 P=0.104 P=0.123 |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.526 P=0.070 P=0.298 P=0.376 |P=0.167 P=0.262 P=0.117 P=0.178 |
| Metaplasia Osseous |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 729 (T) --- --- --- |728 (T) 641 --- --- |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.058N P=0.126N P=0.146N P=0.151N |P=0.174N P=0.316 P=0.495N P=0.523N |
|POLY 3 | P=0.043N* P=0.126N P=0.122N P=0.135N |P=0.171N P=0.312 P=0.508N P=0.527N |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.044N* P=0.125N P=0.120N P=0.131N |P=0.164N P=0.311 P=0.504N P=0.518N |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.058N (e) (e) (e) |P=0.167N P=0.307 (e) (e) |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.048N* P=0.121N P=0.121N P=0.125N |P=0.153N P=0.309 P=0.500N P=0.500N |
|OVERALL (a) | 38/50 (76%) 37/50 (74%) 34/50 (68%) 36/49 (73%) |12/50 (24%) 8/50 (16%) 15/50 (30%) 12/50 (24%) |
|POLY-3 RATE (b) | 38/46.76 37/44.60 34/45.79 36/44.72 |12/46.00 8/46.33 15/45.81 12/40.84 |
|TERMINAL (d) | 37/40 (93%) 34/39 (87%) 32/35 (91%) 29/34 (85%) |11/37 (30%) 8/38 (21%) 12/38 (32%) 10/33 (30%) |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 416 661 616 451 |683 728 (T) 406 542 |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.168 P=0.613N P=0.556 P=0.243 |P=0.244 P=0.203N P=0.347 P=0.458 |
|POLY 3 | P=0.435N P=0.526 P=0.272N P=0.573N |P=0.241 P=0.219N P=0.319 P=0.459 |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.429N P=0.560 P=0.262N P=0.549N |P=0.278 P=0.218N P=0.324 P=0.502 |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.416 P=0.550 P=0.302N P=0.461 |P=0.239 P=0.215N P=0.305 P=0.407 |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.410N P=0.500N P=0.252N P=0.477N |P=0.378 P=0.227N P=0.326 P=0.592N |
|Kidney: Papilla |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 575 --- --- --- |--- --- 728 (T) --- |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.127N P=0.250N P=0.254N P=0.270N |P=0.683 (e) P=0.505 (e) |
|POLY 3 | P=0.109N P=0.249N P=0.244N P=0.260N |P=0.635 (e) P=0.492 (e) |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.111N P=0.246N P=0.240N P=0.253N |P=0.654 (e) P=0.496 (e) |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.109N P=0.205N P=0.240N P=0.204N |(e) (e) P=0.505 (e) |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.116N P=0.247N P=0.247N P=0.253N |P=0.694 (e) P=0.500 (e) |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.240N P=0.509N P=0.646 P=0.275N |(e) (e) (e) (e) |
|POLY 3 | P=0.218N P=0.514N P=0.688 P=0.258N |(e) (e) (e) (e) |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.212N P=0.511N P=0.691 P=0.252N |(e) (e) (e) (e) |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.240N P=0.509N P=0.646 (e) |(e) (e) (e) (e) |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.204N P=0.500N P=0.691N P=0.253N |(e) (e) (e) (e) |
|TERMINAL (d) | 2/40 (5%) 4/39 (10%) 2/35 (6%) 0/34 (0%) |0/37 (0%) 0/38 (0%) 0/38 (0%) 0/33 (0%) |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 729 (T) 729 (T) 729 (T) 582 |--- 641 --- --- |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.529N P=0.325 P=0.646 P=0.648 |P=0.600N P=0.504 (e) (e) |
|POLY 3 | P=0.487N P=0.318 P=0.688 P=0.669 |P=0.573N P=0.504 (e) (e) |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.480N P=0.323 P=0.691 P=0.675 |P=0.570N P=0.503 (e) (e) |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.478N P=0.325 P=0.646 P=0.666N |P=0.535N P=0.466 (e) (e) |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.466N P=0.339 P=0.691N P=0.684 |P=0.567N P=0.500 (e) (e) |
| Angiectasis Focal |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | --- --- 672 729 (T) |728 (T) 728 (T) 654 728 (T) |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.214 (e) P=0.220 P=0.468 |P=0.320N P=0.295N P=0.492N P=0.346N |
|POLY 3 | P=0.219 (e) P=0.234 P=0.482 |P=0.319N P=0.301N P=0.514N P=0.355N |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.227 (e) P=0.236 P=0.487 |P=0.308N P=0.301N P=0.509N P=0.338N |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.229 (e) P=0.238 P=0.468 |P=0.334N P=0.295N P=0.516N P=0.346N |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.241 (e) P=0.247 P=0.495 |P=0.279N P=0.309N P=0.500N P=0.309N |
| Basophilic Focus |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 729 (T) 729 (T) --- 610 |728 (T) --- 728 (T) 728 (T) |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.289 P=0.509N P=0.268N P=0.439 |P=0.536N P=0.232N P=0.491N P=0.540N |
|POLY 3 | P=0.323 P=0.514N P=0.241N P=0.465 |P=0.522N P=0.235N P=0.513N P=0.546N |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.326 P=0.511N P=0.239N P=0.474 |P=0.516N P=0.235N P=0.508N P=0.531N |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.320 P=0.509N (e) P=0.483 |P=0.536N (e) P=0.491N P=0.540N |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.330 P=0.500N P=0.247N P=0.490 |P=0.500N P=0.247N P=0.500N P=0.500N |
| Clear Cell Focus |
|OVERALL (a) | 26/50 (52%) 24/50 (48%) 31/50 (62%) 12/49 (24%) |5/50 (10%) 5/50 (10%) 2/50 (4%) 8/50 (16%) |
|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) | 55.6% 52.9% 66.3% 28.5% |10.9% 10.8% 4.5% 19.0% |
|TERMINAL (d) | 25/40 (63%) 22/39 (56%) 27/35 (77%) 11/34 (32%) |5/37 (14%) 5/38 (13%) 2/38 (5%) 5/33 (15%) |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 416 491 494 710 |728 (T) 728 (T) 728 (T) 452 |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.024N* P=0.472N P=0.052 P=0.014N* |P=0.156 P=0.615N P=0.205N P=0.218 |
|POLY 3 | P=0.009N** P=0.481N P=0.192 P=0.007N** |P=0.175 P=0.623N P=0.232N P=0.223 |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.007N** P=0.474N P=0.200 P=0.005N** |P=0.185 P=0.622N P=0.226N P=0.238 |
|POLY 6 | P=0.013N* P=0.467N P=0.176 P=0.008N** |P=0.168 P=0.625N P=0.236N P=0.211 |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.009N** P=0.499N P=0.177 P=0.009N** |P=0.194 P=0.615N P=0.205N P=0.279 |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.005N** P=0.421N P=0.210 P=0.004N** |P=0.213 P=0.630N P=0.218N P=0.277 |
| Eosinophilic Focus |
|TERMINAL (d) | 14/40 (35%) 23/39 (59%) 15/35 (43%) 9/34 (27%) |19/37 (51%) 12/38 (32%) 12/38 (32%) 13/33 (39%) |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.145N P=0.007 ** P=0.198 P=0.409N |P=0.525 P=0.055N P=0.192N P=0.442N |
|POLY 3 | P=0.059N P=0.004 ** P=0.351 P=0.298N |P=0.502N P=0.062N P=0.222N P=0.399N |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.054N P=0.004 ** P=0.347 P=0.286N |P=0.467N P=0.062N P=0.213N P=0.359N |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.067N P=0.004 ** P=0.312 P=0.315N |P=0.518 P=0.061N P=0.243N P=0.441N |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.053N P=0.007 ** P=0.335 P=0.266N |P=0.371N P=0.069N P=0.204N P=0.268N |
|OVERALL (a) | 0/50 (0%) 0/50 (0%) 0/50 (0%) 0/49 (0%) |30/50 (60%) 39/50 (78%) 35/50 (70%) 30/50 (60%) |
|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) | 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% |64.9% 80.7% 76.4% 71.9% |
|TERMINAL (d) | 0/40 (0%) 0/39 (0%) 0/35 (0%) 0/34 (0%) |27/37 (73%) 34/38 (90%) 31/38 (82%) 27/33 (82%) |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | --- --- --- --- |683 494 484 452 |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| (e) (e) (e) (e) |P=0.260 P=0.038 * P=0.096 P=0.159 |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | (e) (e) (e) (e) |P=0.324N P=0.041 * P=0.201 P=0.581N |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 724 710 661 416 |728 (T) 543 543 452 |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.474 P=0.463N P=0.571N P=0.557 |P=0.212 P=0.171N P=0.375N P=0.383 |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.353N P=0.475N P=0.347N P=0.401N |P=0.463 P=0.261N P=0.530N P=0.568N |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.486N P=0.491N P=0.493N P=0.496N |P=0.112 P=0.275N P=0.494 P=0.243 |
| Mixed Cell Focus |
|OVERALL (a) | 15/50 (30%) 20/50 (40%) 21/50 (42%) 7/49 (14%) |14/50 (28%) 19/50 (38%) 21/50 (42%) 15/50 (30%) |
|POLY-3 RATE (b) | 15/46.88 20/44.79 21/45.91 7/41.99 |14/46.24 19/46.64 21/44.12 15/42.53 |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 546 491 575 729 (T) |683 643 728 (T) 501 |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.075N P=0.171 P=0.070 P=0.099N |P=0.342 P=0.221 P=0.112 P=0.355 |
|POLY 3 | P=0.049N* P=0.149 P=0.123 P=0.075N |P=0.369 P=0.200 P=0.067 P=0.392 |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.038N* P=0.162 P=0.135 P=0.064N |P=0.412 P=0.205 P=0.081 P=0.422 |
|POLY 6 | P=0.066N P=0.141 P=0.105 P=0.089N |P=0.334 P=0.192 P=0.055 P=0.367 |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.043N* P=0.160 P=0.129 P=0.073N |P=0.298 P=0.199 P=0.066 P=0.399 |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.028N* P=0.201 P=0.149 P=0.050N |P=0.530 P=0.198 P=0.104 P=0.500 |
| Necrosis Focal |
|OVERALL (a) | 7/50 (14%) 5/50 (10%) 5/50 (10%) 5/49 (10%) |2/50 (4%) 2/50 (4%) 2/50 (4%) 1/50 (2%) |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 603 661 616 582 |651 711 728 (T) 501 |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.370N P=0.398N P=0.376N P=0.387N |P=0.361N P=0.695N P=0.687 P=0.448N |
| Vacuolization Cytoplasmic Focal |
|OVERALL (a) | 3/50 (6%) 3/50 (6%) 4/50 (8%) 2/49 (4%) |4/50 (8%) 10/50 (20%) 9/50 (18%) 10/50 (20%) |
|POLY-3 RATE (b) | 3/45.94 3/44.10 4/45.14 2/42.41 |4/45.94 10/46.93 9/45.08 10/43.28 |
|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) | 6.5% 6.8% 8.9% 4.7% |8.7% 21.3% 20.0% 23.1% |
|TERMINAL (d) | 3/40 (8%) 3/39 (8%) 4/35 (11%) 1/34 (3%) |3/37 (8%) 8/38 (21%) 7/38 (18%) 5/33 (15%) |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 729 (T) 729 (T) 729 (T) 610 |699 543 406 501 |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.448N P=0.647 P=0.496 P=0.527N |P=0.090 P=0.078 P=0.111 P=0.059 |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.472N P=0.652 P=0.427 P=0.529N |P=0.131 P=0.077 P=0.114 P=0.093 |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.431N P=0.661N P=0.500 P=0.510N |P=0.117 P=0.074 P=0.117 P=0.074 |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | --- 729 (T) 708 688 |570 728 (T) 654 395 |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.347 P=0.495 P=0.475 P=0.475 |P=0.545N P=0.492N P=0.503 P=0.556N |
|POLY 3 | P=0.355 P=0.492 P=0.497 P=0.483 |P=0.549N P=0.500N P=0.470 P=0.556N |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.364 P=0.494 P=0.499 P=0.488 |P=0.527N P=0.498N P=0.477 P=0.538N |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.367 P=0.495 P=0.498 P=0.499 |P=0.454N P=0.505N P=0.489 P=0.437N |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.379 P=0.500 P=0.500 P=0.495 |P=0.480N P=0.500N P=0.489 P=0.500N |
| Inflammation Granulomatous |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | --- 729 (T) 729 (T) 729 (T) |728 (T) 641 --- 228 |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.341 P=0.495 P=0.473 P=0.468 |P=0.514 P=0.316 P=0.495N P=0.474 |
|POLY 3 | P=0.354 P=0.492 P=0.496 P=0.482 |P=0.515 P=0.312 P=0.510N P=0.462 |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.363 P=0.494 P=0.498 P=0.487 |P=0.529 P=0.311 P=0.508N P=0.475 |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| (e) P=0.495 P=0.473 P=0.468 |P=0.567N P=0.307 (e) P=0.612 |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.379 P=0.500 P=0.500 P=0.495 |P=0.555 P=0.309 P=0.505N P=0.500 |
| Metaplasia Focal Osseous |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | --- --- 616 729 (T) |--- --- --- --- |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.216 (e) P=0.230 P=0.468 |(e) (e) (e) (e) |
|POLY 3 | P=0.218 (e) P=0.235 P=0.482 |(e) (e) (e) (e) |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.227 (e) P=0.237 P=0.487 |(e) (e) (e) (e) |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.241 (e) P=0.247 P=0.495 |(e) (e) (e) (e) |
| Thrombosis |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 592 --- 729 (T) --- |193 --- --- --- |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.432N P=0.513N P=0.746 P=0.523N |P=0.053N P=0.123N P=0.124N P=0.144N |
|POLY 3 | P=0.415N P=0.510N P=0.754 P=0.520N |P=0.044N* P=0.121N P=0.132N P=0.150N |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.412N P=0.508N P=0.757 P=0.514N |P=0.045N* P=0.120N P=0.130N P=0.140N |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.396N P=0.429N P=0.762 P=0.424N |P=0.016N* P=0.187N P=0.110N P=0.056N |
|Lung: Alveolar Epithelium |
|TERMINAL (d) | 2/40 (5%) 3/39 (8%) 4/35 (11%) 2/34 (6%) |2/37 (5%) 1/38 (3%) 1/38 (3%) 1/33 (3%) |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 546 729 (T) 729 (T) 661 |641 728 (T) 728 (T) 728 (T) |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.469 P=0.645 P=0.435 P=0.592 |P=0.277N P=0.298N P=0.306N P=0.356N |
|POLY 3 | P=0.506 P=0.637 P=0.484 P=0.617 |P=0.269N P=0.304N P=0.326N P=0.357N |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.522 P=0.644 P=0.492 P=0.630 |P=0.261N P=0.303N P=0.321N P=0.340N |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.520 P=0.660 P=0.499 P=0.664 |P=0.282N P=0.303N P=0.318N P=0.346N |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.547 P=0.661N P=0.500 P=0.651 |P=0.243N P=0.309N P=0.316N P=0.309N |
|Lung: Bronchus |
| Foreign Body |
|LIFE TABLE | (e) (e) (e) (e) |P=0.002 ** (e) (e) P=0.051 |
|POLY 3 | (e) (e) (e) (e) |P=0.002 ** (e) (e) P=0.051 |
|POLY 1.5 | (e) (e) (e) (e) |P=0.002 ** (e) (e) P=0.053 |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| (e) (e) (e) (e) |P=0.012 * (e) (e) P=0.103 |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | (e) (e) (e) (e) |P=0.003 ** (e) (e) P=0.059 |
| Inflammation Acute |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | --- --- --- --- |704 --- --- 542 |
|LIFE TABLE | (e) (e) (e) (e) |P=0.020 * P=0.500N P=0.505N P=0.146 |
|POLY 3 | (e) (e) (e) (e) |P=0.024 * P=0.498N P=0.511N P=0.156 |
|POLY 1.5 | (e) (e) (e) (e) |P=0.024 * P=0.498N P=0.508N P=0.161 |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| (e) (e) (e) (e) |P=0.068 P=0.500N P=0.507N P=0.262 |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | (e) (e) (e) (e) |P=0.028 * P=0.500N P=0.505N P=0.181 |
|Lymph Node, Mesenteric |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | --- --- 729 (T) --- |--- 728 (T) --- 687 |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.673 (e) P=0.473 (e) |P=0.119 P=0.500 (e) P=0.211 |
|POLY 3 | P=0.670 (e) P=0.499 (e) |P=0.127 P=0.502 (e) P=0.216 |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.679 (e) P=0.502 (e) |P=0.132 P=0.502 (e) P=0.224 |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| (e) (e) P=0.473 (e) |P=0.119 P=0.500 (e) P=0.216 |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.694 (e) P=0.505 (e) |P=0.143 P=0.500 (e) P=0.253 |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | --- --- 729 (T) --- |728 (T) --- 515 --- |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.673 (e) P=0.473 (e) |P=0.201N P=0.238N P=0.490N P=0.258N |
|POLY 3 | P=0.670 (e) P=0.499 (e) |P=0.197N P=0.235N P=0.495N P=0.260N |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.679 (e) P=0.502 (e) |P=0.194N P=0.235N P=0.494N P=0.252N |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| (e) (e) P=0.473 (e) |P=0.158N (e) P=0.491N (e) |
|Lymph Node: Lumbar |
| Infiltration Cellular Plasma Cell |
|OVERALL (a) | 0/1 (0%) 0/0 (0%) 0/0 (0%) 0/0 (0%) |2/5 (40%) 0/3 (0%) 0/1 (0%) 0/2 (0%) |
|POLY-3 RATE (b) | 0/0.98 0/0.00 0/0.00 0/0.00 |2/4.99 0/2.47 0/0.29 0/2.00 |
|TERMINAL (d) | 0/0 (0%) 0/0 (0%) 0/0 (0%) 0/0 (0%) |1/3 (33%) 0/1 (0%) 0/0 (0%) 0/2 (0%) |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | --- --- --- --- |704 --- --- --- |
|Mesentery: Fat |
|OVERALL (a) | 7/8 (88%) 9/10 (90%) 1/1 (100%) 0/0 (0%) |11/11 (100%) 13/18 (72%) 11/13 (85%) 13/14 (93%) |
|POLY-3 RATE (b) | 7/8.00 9/9.03 1/1.00 0/0.00 |11/11.00 13/17.55 11/12.56 13/14.00 |
|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) | 87.5% 99.7% 100.0% 0.0% |100.0% 74.1% 87.6% 92.9% |
|TERMINAL (d) | 7/8 (88%) 8/8 (100%) 0/0 (0%) 0/0 (0%) |9/9 (100%) 10/13 (77%) 7/8 (88%) 9/10 (90%) |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 729 (T) 710 727 --- |570 494 515 452 |
|POLY 3 | (e) P=0.487 P=0.878 (e) |P=0.499 P=0.080N P=0.342N P=0.548N |
|POLY 1.5 | (e) P=0.536 P=0.878 (e) |P=0.484 P=0.075N P=0.304N P=0.548N |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.747 P=0.469 (e) (e) |P=0.478 P=0.071N P=0.317N (e) |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.828 P=0.706 P=0.889 P=1.000 |P=0.470 P=0.072N P=0.283N P=0.560N |
|Nose |
| Angiectasis |
|OVERALL (a) | |3/50 (6%) 0/50 (0%) 5/50 (10%) 2/50 (4%) |
|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) | |6.5% 0.0% 11.3% 5.0% |
|TERMINAL (d) | |2/37 (5%) 0/38 (0%) 5/38 (13%) 2/33 (6%) |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | |683 --- 728 (T) 728 (T) |
|LIFE TABLE | |P=0.482 P=0.120N P=0.365 P=0.560N |
|POLY 3 | |P=0.453 P=0.117N P=0.334 P=0.562N |
|POLY 1.5 | |P=0.481 P=0.117N P=0.343 P=0.542N |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| |P=0.452 P=0.119N P=0.330 P=0.579N |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | |P=0.544 P=0.121N P=0.357 P=0.500N |
|OVERALL (a) | |12/50 (24%) 11/50 (22%) 15/50 (30%) 14/50 (28%) |
|POLY-3 RATE (b) | |12/45.83 11/46.92 15/45.21 14/41.04 |
|TERMINAL (d) | |12/37 (32%) 10/38 (26%) 13/38 (34%) 12/33 (36%) |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | |728 (T) 543 543 501 |
|LIFE TABLE | |P=0.164 P=0.470N P=0.347 P=0.279 |
|POLY 3 | |P=0.169 P=0.474N P=0.308 P=0.284 |
|POLY 1.5 | |P=0.202 P=0.479N P=0.315 P=0.321 |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| |P=0.153 P=0.491N P=0.280 P=0.231 |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | |P=0.293 P=0.500N P=0.326 P=0.410 |
| Hemorrhage |
|OVERALL (a) | |2/50 (4%) 0/50 (0%) 0/50 (0%) 0/50 (0%) |
|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) | |4.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% |
|TERMINAL (d) | |0/37 (0%) 0/38 (0%) 0/38 (0%) 0/33 (0%) |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | |599 --- --- --- |
|LIFE TABLE | |P=0.133N P=0.242N P=0.255N P=0.289N |
|POLY 3 | |P=0.110N P=0.238N P=0.249N P=0.272N |
|POLY 1.5 | |P=0.111N P=0.237N P=0.244N P=0.260N |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| |P=0.085N P=0.276N P=0.231N P=0.199N |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | |P=0.115N P=0.247N P=0.247N P=0.247N |
|OVERALL (a) | 3/49 (6%) 3/48 (6%) 2/49 (4%) 1/49 (2%) |6/49 (12%) 8/49 (16%) 6/49 (12%) 5/49 (10%) |
|TERMINAL (d) | 3/40 (8%) 3/39 (8%) 2/34 (6%) 1/34 (3%) |5/37 (14%) 8/38 (21%) 6/38 (16%) 3/32 (9%) |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 729 (T) 729 (T) 729 (T) 729 (T) |641 728 (T) 728 (T) 452 |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.251N P=0.652 P=0.574N P=0.365N |P=0.455N P=0.407 P=0.608N P=0.594N |
|POLY 3 | P=0.213N P=0.632 P=0.513N P=0.334N |P=0.450N P=0.375 P=0.580 P=0.591N |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.205N P=0.636 P=0.506N P=0.323N |P=0.420N P=0.380 P=0.593 P=0.565N |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.251N P=0.652 P=0.574N P=0.365N |P=0.433N P=0.380 P=0.583 P=0.495N |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.192N P=0.651 P=0.500N P=0.309N |P=0.345N P=0.387 P=0.620N P=0.500N |
|Preputial Gland |
|OVERALL (a) | 31/50 (62%) 32/50 (64%) 34/50 (68%) 34/49 (69%) | |
|POLY-3 RATE (b) | 31/47.25 32/45.40 34/49.31 34/44.74 | |
|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) | 65.6% 70.5% 69.0% 76.0% | |
|TERMINAL (d) | 27/40 (68%) 28/39 (72%) 22/35 (63%) 28/34 (82%) | |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 556 501 494 416 | |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.061 P=0.431 P=0.170 P=0.078 | |
|POLY 3 | P=0.176 P=0.388 P=0.446 P=0.186 | |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.197 P=0.414 P=0.405 P=0.220 | |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.150 P=0.383 P=0.333 P=0.154 | |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.232 P=0.500 P=0.338 P=0.287 | |
| Inflammation |
|OVERALL (a) | 5/50 (10%) 3/50 (6%) 0/50 (0%) 0/49 (0%) | |
|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) | 10.7% 6.8% 0.0% 0.0% | |
|TERMINAL (d) | 4/40 (10%) 3/39 (8%) 0/35 (0%) 0/34 (0%) | |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 416 729 (T) --- --- | |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.011N* P=0.374N P=0.045N* P=0.047N* | |
|POLY 3 | P=0.008N** P=0.389N P=0.034N* P=0.041N* | |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.007N** P=0.381N P=0.032N* P=0.038N* | |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.007N** P=0.349N P=0.032N* P=0.025N* | |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.008N** P=0.357N P=0.028N* P=0.030N* | |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 708 --- --- 729 (T) | |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.212 P=0.510N P=0.525N P=0.445 | |
|POLY 3 | P=0.237 P=0.509N P=0.504N P=0.468 | |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.239 P=0.507N P=0.502N P=0.477 | |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.220 P=0.506N P=0.502N P=0.458 | |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.241 P=0.500N P=0.500N P=0.492 | |
|Seminal Vesicle |
| Atrophy |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | --- --- --- 710 | |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.038 * (e) (e) P=0.205 | |
|POLY 3 | P=0.042 * (e) (e) P=0.218 | |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.043 * (e) (e) P=0.223 | |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.039 * (e) (e) P=0.213 | |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.045 * (e) (e) P=0.242 | |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | --- 588 --- 729 (T) | |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.583N P=0.061 (e) P=0.468 | |
|POLY 3 | P=0.564N P=0.056 (e) P=0.482 | |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.555N P=0.057 (e) P=0.487 | |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.545N P=0.062 (e) P=0.468 | |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.538N P=0.059 (e) P=0.495 | |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 729 (T) 729 (T) 645 --- | |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.383N P=0.756 P=0.500 (e) | |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.372N P=0.753N P=0.500 P=0.505N | |
|Spleen |
| Hematopoietic Cell Proliferation |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.391N P=0.386 P=0.535 P=0.492N |P=0.477N P=0.168N P=0.234N P=0.416N |
|POLY 3 | P=0.289N P=0.379 P=0.536N P=0.412N |P=0.307N P=0.166N P=0.239N P=0.262N |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.269N P=0.388 P=0.519N P=0.391N |P=0.295N P=0.177N P=0.252N P=0.253N |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.225N P=0.442 P=0.499N P=0.325N |P=0.392N P=0.187N P=0.327N P=0.348N |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.234N P=0.415 P=0.500N P=0.349N |P=0.237N P=0.212N P=0.274N P=0.212N |
|Spleen: Lymphoid Follicle |
|TERMINAL (d) | 5/40 (13%) 6/39 (15%) 2/35 (6%) 6/34 (18%) |8/37 (22%) 3/38 (8%) 5/38 (13%) 1/33 (3%) |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.266 P=0.467 P=0.526 P=0.287 |P=0.361 P=0.399N P=0.411N P=0.461 |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.476 P=0.596N P=0.563N P=0.485 |P=0.256N P=0.448N P=0.357N P=0.387N |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.355 P=0.500 P=0.595N P=0.385 |P=0.500 P=0.405N P=0.405N P=0.592N |
|TERMINAL (d) | 2/40 (5%) 1/39 (3%) 3/35 (9%) 1/34 (3%) |7/37 (19%) 8/38 (21%) 5/38 (13%) 6/33 (18%) |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.543N P=0.509N P=0.439 P=0.557N |P=0.508 P=0.523 P=0.483N P=0.528 |
|POLY 3 | P=0.506N P=0.514N P=0.492 P=0.531N |P=0.509 P=0.509 P=0.519N P=0.523 |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.496N P=0.511N P=0.496 P=0.522N |P=0.539 P=0.510 P=0.511N P=0.552 |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.543N P=0.509N P=0.439 P=0.557N |P=0.493 P=0.523 P=0.528N P=0.514 |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.482N P=0.500N P=0.500 P=0.508N |P=0.500N P=0.500 P=0.500N P=0.613N |
|Stomach, Forestomach |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 729 (T) --- 645 729 (T) |193 728 (T) 728 (T) 728 (T) |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.215 (e) P=0.500N P=0.426 |P=0.215N P=0.258N P=0.147N P=0.234N |
| Inflammation Focal |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 708 --- --- --- |--- --- --- 728 (T) |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.132N P=0.248N P=0.269N P=0.275N |P=0.181 (e) (e) P=0.477 |
|POLY 3 | P=0.110N P=0.247N P=0.241N P=0.258N |P=0.181 (e) (e) P=0.473 |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.111N P=0.245N P=0.239N P=0.252N |P=0.187 (e) (e) P=0.482 |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.122N P=0.246N P=0.244N P=0.261N |(e) (e) (e) P=0.477 |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.116N P=0.247N P=0.247N P=0.253N |P=0.198 (e) (e) P=0.500 |
| Ulcer |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | --- --- 575 610 |193 --- 693 687 |
|Stomach, Glandular |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 729 (T) --- --- --- |728 (T) 728 (T) 728 (T) --- |
|POLY 3 | P=0.043N* P=0.126N P=0.122N P=0.135N |P=0.343N P=0.758N P=0.752 P=0.527N |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.044N* P=0.125N P=0.120N P=0.131N |P=0.333N P=0.758N P=0.756 P=0.518N |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.058N (e) (e) (e) |P=0.335N P=0.756N P=0.756N (e) |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.048N* P=0.121N P=0.121N P=0.125N |P=0.311N P=0.753N P=0.753N P=0.500N |
| Mineralization Focal |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | --- 729 (T) --- 729 (T) |728 (T) 728 (T) 576 --- |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.297 P=0.117 (e) P=0.203 |P=0.122N P=0.324N P=0.508 P=0.078N |
|POLY 3 | P=0.317 P=0.111 (e) P=0.218 |P=0.135N P=0.332N P=0.487 P=0.079N |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.327 P=0.113 (e) P=0.223 |P=0.121N P=0.332N P=0.492 P=0.073N |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| (e) P=0.117 (e) P=0.203 |P=0.116N P=0.324N P=0.491 (e) |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.344 P=0.121 (e) P=0.242 |P=0.095N P=0.339N P=0.500 P=0.059N |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | --- --- --- --- |--- 494 --- 504 |
|Stomach, Glandular: Epithelium |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | --- --- 729 (T) --- |--- --- --- --- |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.560 (e) P=0.209 (e) |(e) (e) (e) (e) |
|POLY 3 | P=0.557 (e) P=0.233 (e) |(e) (e) (e) (e) |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.571 (e) P=0.236 (e) |(e) (e) (e) (e) |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| (e) (e) P=0.209 (e) |(e) (e) (e) (e) |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.591 (e) P=0.247 (e) |(e) (e) (e) (e) |
|Testes: Interstitial Cell |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 729 (T) 729 (T) --- --- | |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.218N P=0.491 P=0.527N P=0.532N | |
|POLY 3 | P=0.200N P=0.486 P=0.504N P=0.518N | |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.196N P=0.489 P=0.502N P=0.513N | |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| P=0.218N P=0.491 (e) (e) | |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.191N P=0.500 P=0.500N P=0.505N | |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | --- 729 (T) --- --- |728 (T) 728 (T) 543 728 (T) |
|POLY 3 | P=0.581N P=0.484 (e) (e) |P=0.173N P=0.099N P=0.518N P=0.132N |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.579N P=0.487 (e) (e) |P=0.159N P=0.099N P=0.514N P=0.120N |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| (e) P=0.483 (e) (e) |P=0.164N P=0.096N P=0.518N P=0.130N |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.573N P=0.495 (e) (e) |P=0.132N P=0.102N P=0.513N P=0.098N |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | --- 729 (T) --- --- |728 (T) 728 (T) --- 728 (T) |
|LIFE TABLE | P=0.593N P=0.495 (e) (e) |P=0.329 P=0.756N P=0.495N P=0.460 |
|POLY 3 | P=0.578N P=0.492 (e) (e) |P=0.339 P=0.759 P=0.508N P=0.457 |
|POLY 1.5 | P=0.576N P=0.494 (e) (e) |P=0.348 P=0.759 P=0.505N P=0.473 |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| (e) P=0.495 (e) (e) |P=0.329 P=0.756N (e) P=0.460 |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | P=0.571N P=0.500 (e) (e) |P=0.362 P=0.747 P=0.500N P=0.492 |
|Tooth |
| Malformation |
|OVERALL (a) | 26/26 (100%) 22/22 (100%) 20/20 (100%) 7/7 (100%) |0/0 (0%) 0/0 (0%) 0/0 (0%) 1/1 (100%) |
|POLY-3 RATE (b) | 26/26.00 22/22.00 20/20.00 7/7.00 |0/0.00 0/0.00 0/0.00 1/1.00 |
|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) | 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% |0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% |
|TERMINAL (d) | 24/24 (100%) 19/19 (100%) 13/13 (100%) 6/6 (100%) |0/0 (0%) 0/0 (0%) 0/0 (0%) 0/0 (0%) |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | 556 491 575 668 |--- --- --- 395 |
|LIFE TABLE | (e) (e) (e) (e) |(e) (e) (e) (e) |
|POLY 3 | (e) (e) (e) (e) |(e) (e) (e) (e) |
|POLY 1.5 | (e) (e) (e) (e) |(e) (e) (e) (e) |
|LOGISTIC REGRESSION| (e) (e) (e) (e) |(e) (e) (e) (e) |
|COCH-ARM / FISHERS | (e) (e) (e) (e) |(e) (e) (e) (e) |
|Uterus |
|FIRST INCIDENCE | |570 494 484 452 |
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Works by Thomas, David Richard, 1948‒  as editorial director | 4
Christian-Muslim relations : a bibliographical history
2009 Single work ➥ Monograph : Editions | 12
Christians at the heart of Islamic rule
The chapters in this volume, which come from the Fourth Woodbrooke-Mingana Symposium, cover aspects of Christian life in and around Baghdad in the early centuries of 'Abbasid rule. The authors explore both broad themes, such as the place of monasteries in Muslim cultural life, accusations of Islam as crypto-idolatry, and Muslim responses to Christian apologetic arguments, and also specific topics... more
The chapters in this volume, which come from the Fourth Woodbrooke-Mingana Symposium, cover aspects of Christian life in and around Baghdad in the early centuries of 'Abbasid rule.
The authors explore both broad themes, such as the place of monasteries in Muslim cultural life, accusations of Islam as crypto-idolatry, and Muslim responses to Christian apologetic arguments, and also specific topics, such as a Nestorian's explanation of the Incarnation, a Jacobite's purpose in composing his guide to moral improvement, and the development of Christian legends about the caliph al-Ma'mun.
The volume illustrates the vigour of Iraqi Christian life in 'Abbasid times, and helps show that relations between Christians and Muslims, although strained at times, were often beneficial to followers of both faiths.
The encounter of Eastern Christianity with early Islam
2003 Aggregating work ➥ Monograph : Editions | 1 ; Translations | 1
The polemical works of ʿAlī al-Ṭabarī
Acknowledged as a leading medical expert in his day, and secretary to a succession of caliphs in the mid-ninth century, the Nestorian Christian ʿAlī ibn Rabban al-Ṭabarī converted to Islam around the age of 70. He then wrote Radd ʿalā l-Naṣārā, a recantation of his former faith, and Kitāb al-dīn wa-l-dawla, a defence of the Prophet Muḥammad based substantially on biblical proof-texts. The range of... more
Acknowledged as a leading medical expert in his day, and secretary to a succession of caliphs in the mid-ninth century, the Nestorian Christian ʿAlī ibn Rabban al-Ṭabarī converted to Islam around the age of 70. He then wrote Radd ʿalā l-Naṣārā, a recantation of his former faith, and Kitāb al-dīn wa-l-dawla, a defence of the Prophet Muḥammad based substantially on biblical proof-texts. The range of arguments he produced against the soundness of his former faith in these two works influenced sections of Islamic scholarship for many centuries.
These new editions and translations of his works are based on all the available evidence for the texts, accompanied by extensive introductions and studies of their place in Islamic thought.
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Data Analysts are Crucial as SMBs Pursue “Frictionless” Customer Experience
Stephen Woodman
Complicated checkout procedures, hidden shipping costs and software that fails to remember personal details across platforms all contribute to low conversion rates in e-commerce. Nearly 70% of online shoppers abandon their cart before completing the transaction, according to Bolt, an e-commerce checkout platform. Customers today demand hassle-free experiences across a spectrum of touch points including desktop sites, email, apps, SMS and live chat.
But building a frictionless customer journey can be difficult for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). With the Covid-19 pandemic straining budgets, many companies are struggling to personalize and integrate customer experience across channels.
Given that dilemma, Nearshore outsourcing could be a logical option for smaller companies. The key is to pick a trustworthy provider to manage the customer experience. That third-party outsourcer must become an empowered part of the team, responsible for collecting customer data while implementing changes in response.
José María Beltramini, the CEO and managing partner of Summa Solutions
“These [technologies] are truly global,” said José María Beltramini, the CEO and managing partner of Summa Solutions, a digital commerce agency headquartered in Buenos Aires. “Obviously, there are really good agencies and options in Latin America. They could definitely be an option for companies in the United States looking for an enterprise-class experience with a reasonable budget.”
A recent study by Walker, an experience management services firm, maintained that customer experience would overtake both price and product as the critical competitive differentiator by the end of the year. The same study found 86% of buyers would pay more for a better customer experience.
“As a customer I don’t want to feel that I am jumping between different channels”
A Frictionless Customer Journey
For SMBs grappling with the economic fallout from the pandemic, customer experience management could be the difference between prosperity or bankruptcy. But defining a great experience is notoriously difficult. Customers themselves can rarely even identify the solution they are seeking.
Beltramini believes that a great customer journey is dependent on the “360-degree vision” of the seller.
“As a customer I don’t want to feel that I am jumping between different channels,” he said. “I might be starting my interaction with the brand online and then visit a store. I might be generating a purchase before calling customer support… Regardless of the interaction point, [I need to] feel that I am talking with the same brand, that shares the same culture and the same message. Every touch point should know me on a 360-degree level.”
For SMBs making their first moves online, the path towards a frictionless customer journey can be fraught. Many of these companies were forced into digitization by the pandemic and had little time to develop a strategy. But Beltramini says SMBs must view the crisis as an opportunity to cultivate new relationships.
“Hopefully, once the pandemic is over, most of those new [customers] that started buying through e-commerce channels for the first time… will stay,” Beltramini said. “Next time [their purchases] will be based on convenience and not necessity.”
Data-Driven Transformation
Data is the foundation of modern customer experience management. If offers crucial insights into customers habits and any “pain points” they have encountered while interacting with the company across digital channels.
“The good news is that most of that data is basically free to access,” Beltramini said. Most SMBs, he added, encounter obstacles when it comes to processing and interpreting their data.
In the past decade, many companies have adopted a multifaceted approach to customer experience. That means information streams are increasingly complex – with websites, e-mail, mobile and social networks all generating data.
For that reason, Beltramini believes that Nearshore data analysts could prove invaluable to SMBs.
“When looking for a Nearshore partner, it is important to not just look for technological savvy,” Beltramini said. “You need to find an agency or a company that really has industry-specific knowledge.” He added that companies must enter the relationship understanding that it “will require a lot of interaction, back-and-forth and co-discovery.”
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SMBs should also pick a Nearshore provider that they are willing to empower, Beltramini said. Full digitalization often means revamping the entire organization. When hiring Nearshore analysts to collect and interpret customer data, executives should be willing to transform their company culture.
“SMBs are not naturally data-driven,” Beltramini said. “The first challenge is switching mindset to start managing based on data.”
Despite these cultural barriers, SMBs are also at a significant advantage when it comes to making the most of data.
“Starting this process is less complex for SMBs,” Beltramini said. “There is not so much bureaucracy to go through and that gives them the ability to fail. You can fail fast, you can adapt, you can learn and you can try again. In that sense, [SMBs] are in a good position when compared to large enterprises.”
What does it take achieve great outcomes in Nearshore services? If you would like to share an exciting case study or news story drop me a note — Steve Woodman, Managing Editor
Analytics Data e-commerce José María Beltramini SMBs Summa Solutions
Stephen Woodman is an independent journalist based in the Mexican city of Guadalajara. He has six years’ experience covering business and culture in Latin America. Stephen has been published in numerous international media outlets, including The Financial Times, BBC News and Reuters. To share story ideas, drop him a note here
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McEnany Warns Democrats 'There Are Consequences’ Amid Soaring Crime In Their Cities
WH press secretary blasts Dems for pushing the 'defund the police' movement
By: Jack Murphy |@NeonNettle
on 5th August 2020 @ 2.00pm
'We’ve seen a 94 percent increase in homicides compared to last year in Minneapolis,' McEnany said as an example of soaring crime
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany blasted Democrats for pushing to “defund the police” while allowing their cities to succumb to skyrocketing violence.
McEnany noted the escalating violence in predominantly Democrat-run cities like Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and New York.
“I would like to end just by highlighting a troubling trend that I think we’ve seen play out across the country, and I believe we have a few graphics to illustrate this," McEnany said.
"It pertains to the ‘Defund the Police’ movement,” McEnany added.
“And when you look at, across the country, the ties of defunding the police with increases in violence, it’s a cause for concern. As we saw in the beginning of this administration, violent crime was starting to come down, and then bring in the ‘Defund the Police’ movement.”
“In Los Angeles, you had L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti proposing a cut of $150 million from the LAPD. L.A. Mayor Garcetti said this: ‘It starts someplace, and we have to say we are going to be who we want to be, or we’re going to continue being the killers that we are,’ was his quote, in support of the defund movement,” McEnany said.
'When you defund the police, there are consequences,” McEnany said
“And as a result, we saw a 14 percent rise in homicides this year over last year,” she added.
Neon Nettle reported in June that the Los Angeles Police Department reported a 250% rise in homicides and a 56 percent increase in shootings.
“In Minneapolis, the ‘Defund the Police’ movement was afoot as well, with a unanimous vote in Minneapolis City and their council to dismantle the police.," she continued.
.@PressSec outlines the disturbing trend of crime increases in areas whose leaders have decided to “Defund the Police”. pic.twitter.com/ZU8DDSgbDl
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) August 4, 2020
"And you had Minneapolis City council member Jeremiah Ellison saying, ‘This is one action of many that we need to take on the road to a more equitable and just system that keeps people safe.’"
"In fact, it did not keep people safe,'” McEnany said for her second example.
“We’ve seen a 94 percent increase in homicides compared to last year in Minneapolis.”
McEnany slammed New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, whose city has become plagued with soaring gun crime
McEnany then called out New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, whose city has become plagued with soaring gun crime amid calls to defund the police and protests following the death of George Floyd.
Currently, there have been 600 shooting incidents in New york.
In 2019, the shootings in the city were at 365.
Earlier this month, an $88.1 billion budget was passed by the New York City Council, following $1 billion in cuts to the NYPD with support from de Blasio.
"You had the New York City Council voting to cut police budget by $1 billion. You had Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez saying, ‘Defund the police means defunding the police. It does not mean budget tricks or funny math,'” McEnany said.
“So it wasn’t enough for AOC. But you did have New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said, ‘We think it’s the right thing to do.’"
"It was absolutely not the right thing to do, as we’ve seen a 177 percent increase in shootings from July 2019 in New York.”
“When you defund the police, there are consequences,” McEnany concluded.
“And that’s where the Democrats of today stand. And, unfortunately, we’ve seen a corresponding rise in violence in these Democrat cities, and it’s not acceptable.”
Another example McEnany did not mention was the city of Chicago.
Police departments revealed that in July, Mayor Lori Lightfoot's city went down in history as the city's deadliest month.
On Monday, Police Superintendent David Brown said his department released statistics that revealed the month had been one of the deadliest in the history of the city.
Brown was again repeating what has become a grim ritual of recounting the death of a child in the Democrat-led city.
This time, the top cop was telling the story of young Janari Ricks.
Lightfoot is another example of Democrat leaders who are choosing to virtue signal with pushing the defund the police and the Black Lives Matter movement instead of tackling violence in her city.
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If there’s one thing we’re still REALLY hoping we get in the near future, it’s the “Dredd” offshoot series “Mega City One.” Publishing house Rebellion even bought a damn studio facility in order to sort of jumpstart the process, with Netflix onboard for a continuation of Pete Travis‘s 2012 “Dredd” film starring Karl Urban.
This brings us to filmmaker Duncan Jones– who is helming another 2000 AD property’s film adaptation with “Rogue Trooper“- and his…challenge…on Twitter.
Judge Dredd. Fight me. pic.twitter.com/RhfeyaaQ1a
— Duncan Jones (@ManMadeMoon) September 3, 2020
On the surface, this is just the normal run-of-the-mill “this person is cool” tweet that could possibly mean Jones’ wants to see Josh Brolin pick up the helmet for “Mega City One.” Sure, he’d be an ok choice, but, someone else needed to point out something on this thread.
Urban showed up and threw some serious shade Jones’ way, posting the Rotten Tomatoes score for “Warcraft,” which Jones directed to….strained….audience and critical reception.
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— Karl Urban (@KarlUrban) September 3, 2020
Back in March, Urban commented on whether or not we’d ever see more Dredd in a film while doing press for Amazon’s “The Boys“ at C2E2’s March 2020 event.
“Listen, I would love to make it, I’m on the record saying that a bunch of times. I don’t know if that’s gonna happen. I think that the guys that own the rights to Dredd, Rebellion, I think they’re developing something called ‘Mega-City One’ and it would just be great to see more Dredd, whether it’s with me or not, it doesn’t matter. I’m a fan of Dredd and there’s so many great stories there. I’d love to see them. And I have no doubt that, someday, someone will make it. It’s just a matter of time.”
Last we heard about Mega City One, Rebellion CEO Jason Kingsley stopped by our friends’ V2A’s (hi guys love you!) Emergency Broadcast System live-show and shared some pretty good news.
“I want there to be a sequel. We’ve got the rights back so we can do it, we’ve just got to get rid of this virus thing that’s going on at the moment, and then hopefully things can kick off in all sorts of different areas of making film and TV. It’s all very messed up at the moment for everybody. A lot of work has been done on all sorts of different scripts actually.
So Mega-City One the TV show. Basically, we can’t go into production because of the [situation] and we’ve got scripts and everything is ready to go but the problem is, because of the [situation] and everybody’s funding changes and everybody’s shifting around.”
We want it. A lot.
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Austin Jackson’s Future
By Neil Weinberg on November 30, 2013 | 3 Comments
Austin Jackson turns 27 about two weeks before Spring Training begins in February and that’s significant because more players have their best season at 27 than at any other age. Austin Jackson has already turned in four solid to great big league seasons and macro level aging curves tell us that Jackson should be heading into his peak year. We might not see the best Jackson has to offer in 2014, but it’s worth considering exactly what kind of player he is two years ahead of free agency.
2010 151 675 103 4 27 6 .293 .345 .400 .745 102
2011 153 668 90 10 22 5 .249 .317 .374 .690 88
2012 137 617 103 16 12 9 .300 .377 .479 .856 129
2013 129 614 99 12 8 4 .272 .337 .417 .754 103
4 Yrs 570 2574 395 42 69 24 .278 .344 .416 .759 105
162 Game Avg. 162 732 112 12 20 7 .278 .344 .416 .759 105
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 11/30/2013.
Jackson had a strong rookie campaign before crashing back to Earth in 2011, but bounced back extremely well in 2012 as he was one of the top centerfielders in baseball. 2013 was a solid year, even if it did look disappointing next to the season that came before. Let’s go beyond the basic numbers.
Season PA BABIP wOBA wRC+
2010 675 0.396 0.329 101
2011 668 0.340 0.305 87
Season PA BsR UZR DRS WAR
2010 675 6.0 5.3 13 3.9
2012 617 -0.8 3.5 5 5.2
2013 614 5.6 -3.8 3 3.1
Jackson was always criticized as a guy who had a high BABIP that couldn’t be sustained, but we’ve seen enough to know that he’s always going to be a high BABIP guy. You won’t see .390 on any sort of consistent basis, but .330-.350 seems entirely reasonable going forward based on his batted ball profile. He’s a terrific baserunner even if he didn’t steal a ton of bases in 2013 and he’s somewhere just better than average in centerfield defensively overall. All told, he’s contributed 14.6 WAR in four big league seasons.
Jackson is, at worst, a solid MLB regular or, at best, a potential superstar. You’re happy with either of those outcomes, but which do we think is more likely? Let’s consider his game in three dimensions.
The league average centerfielder hit .253/.324/.395 in 2013 with a 99 wRC+. Jackson hit .272/.337/.417 with a 107 wRC+. In his worst season, he hit 13% worse than league average and has been as good or better than league average in each of his other three seasons. Jackson probably isn’t the hitter he was in 2012, but even if we pull him toward his career averages, he grades out better than the average centerfielder at the plate.
Jackson has cut down on his strikeouts since his first two seasons and the power has picked up over the last two seasons as well. At his best, Jackson can be a dynamic force in the lineup, but also has a tendency to go through funks when his timing starts to drift at the plate. When he keeps his swing short, you start to dream about All-Star Games, when he doesn’t, you think he might need to head to the bottom third of the order.
Jackson clearly has the physical tools to succeed at the plate, but the key for him is to fine tune his approach and maintain consistent swing mechanics, which are two skills that shouldn’t decline as he ages. That means he should get better at the plate over the next couple of seasons, or at least not get worse too quickly.
Jackson probably figures as a player who will hit 10-15% better than league average in 2014, which makes him a valuable bat in center.
Jackson grades out as a tremendous baserunner. In two of his four big league seasons he’s been worth more than five runs on the bases with the other two seasons being close to average. He’s stolen fewer bases every year of his career, but even with only 8 steals in 2013 he added 5.8 runs with his legs.
He takes the extra base at an above average rate and seems to pick up steam as he rounds second on singles and doubles hit by his teammates. He doesn’t have the best basestealing instincts, but it’s also hard to judge simply because the Tigers have limited incentives to send runners given their impressive offense. Baserunning value peaks early, so we shouldn’t expect Jackson to get dramatically better, but it’s entirely reasonable to assume he’ll be worth 3-5 runs on the bases in 2014.
You got a chance to see Jackson’s DRS and UZR in the table above, but I also like to look at RZR, which simply measures the percentage of balls in his zone he turns into outs. Jackson’s career mark in CF is .939 which is solidly above average for that position.
People rave about Jackson in center, but his skills are somewhat divergent. His range is excellent and he’s a pretty good route runner, but his arm is definitely below average. Additionally, Jackson never dives and occasionally gets caught in between as a result and turns easy outs into hits. That is both frustrating and promising. If you can get Jackson to learn to dive or at least make better late route decisions, you might be able to improve his already stellar range.
It’s probably safe to count on Jackson for 5 runs above average in centerfield over each of the next two years..
Back of the envelope calculations put a player like we’ve just described somewhere in the 3-4 WAR range depending on how much he stays on the field. I think 600 PA is safe even if you expect him to miss two to four weeks with an injury and he’s likely to bring in something like five runs above average in each of the three dimensions of the game. Factor in position and replacement level and you’re looking at a 3-4 win player.
Jackson has shown the ability to play better in each of those dimensions, but if we’re being conservative, he’s probably more like an above average player than a great player. If you filter centerfielders by ages 23-26, Jackson ranks 51st all time in WAR, two wins behind Matt Kemp and 3.4 wins behind Carlos Beltran. I wouldn’t compare Jackson to those players for several reasons, but I don’t think it’s out of the question to suggest Jackson’s going to pick up $15 million per season in free agency if he keeps his performance on par with his career averages.
I suggested the Tigers could probably pick up five years of Jackson for $55 million last offseason and that number has likely stayed reasonably consistent because he’s added another year of service but also come down from his 2012 peak. The Tigers have more pressing contract needs, but now would be a good time to lock up their centerfield.
Jackson looks like he has a few more 3+ WAR seasons in him and a five year deal right now would buy out two arbitration years and three on the free agent market. Something like 5/$60M would be a good place to start before he has a chance to have another great year or salaries start to inflate.
In general, we’ve seen enough of Jackson to recognize that he’s one of those players who is above average everywhere and probably not a superstar anywhere. Those are vital pieces of a championship core and if fans have the right expectations, he’s should be a joy to watch roam center.
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How Much Will The Tigers Infield Defense Improve?
One of the knocks on the recent versions of the Tigers was that they were terrible at infield defense. It’s hard to argue with that very stringently. Cabrera was bad. Fielder was bad. Peralta and Infante were somewhere around average for their position. Together, that isn’t a great group and the estimated cost of that group compared to a perfectly average bunch is in the neighborhood of 30 runs or three wins per season. Those estimates aren’t perfect, but they are a reasonable starting point.
This is an exercise, not anything definitive, so take the precision with a grain of salt. In 2013, Cabrera was about 17 runs worse than average at third, Fielder was something like 5-10 runs below average, and Infante and Peralta were both within four or five runs of average depending on the stat you prefer. The defensive metrics I’m referencing are Defensive Runs Saved or Ultimate Zone Rating, which each assign run values to defensive plays relative to the performance of a league average player at that position. Zero is average for the position and every ten runs above or below average is roughly equal to a win.
What we’re after here is how the Tigers defense will look in 2014 with a new player at every position. Cabrera will be back at first, Kinsler will play second, Iglesias at short, and someone at third – potentially Castellanos and potentially Mr. Outside Hire. Let’s develop a range of estimates for each player and then combine them to get a sense of what we might be dealing with. These ranges are my estimates based on UZR/DRS data from the last three years and additional information gathered using defensive efficiency numbers and visual scouting.
Miguel Cabrera – First Base
Cabrera is an interesting case because of the injury, but I’ll assume that he’ll be healthy by the time the season starts. During his career at first base, Cabrera rated out as a slightly below average fielder with fluctuations on both sides of zero. His ability to turn batted balls into outs was below average, but he became reasonably good at turning double plays from the position and brings a pretty good set of hands to the position. We have to factor in that he’s two years older, but also that he has been working to get better at a tougher position.
Run Estimate: -8 to +5
Ian Kinsler – Second Base
Kinsler’s story is interesting because UZR and DRS can’t seem to agree if he’s an average defender or a pretty good one. Kinsler has solid range but probably misplays balls a little bit too often. Thirty is in his rear view mirror, but he remains a solid athlete who shouldn’t be in for a rapid decline.
Jose Iglesias – Shortstop
Iglesias is a wizard with the glove, but we have very little major league data with which to judge him. UZR loves him at short with DRS thinking he’s around average. Neither loved him at third, but again, we’re dealing with 1,000 sporadic innings at multiple positions. The scouting reports on Iglesias are sparkling giving him plus marks for range and elite grades on his arm and hands. I’ve heard plenty give him 80 grades (the highest possible) for his defense and my personal observations concur. He’s one of the best in the game right now. I asked Mark Anderson of BP and TigsTown if he thought he was better than Andrelton Simmons, and his answer was an emphatic, “Absolutely.”
Run Estimate: +5 to +15
Nick Castellanos/Someone Else – Third Base
We don’t really know who will man third base, but the leader right now is Castellanos. The most recent evaluations of his defense at the corner weren’t great, but enough people said they thought he could stay there that I’m not going to estimate a crazy, disaster number. He has some raw skills, but his footwork needs improvement and he hasn’t played there in over a year. With some effort, I can easily see him getting himself to Cabrera or better levels in 2013. It’s hard to judge an unknown, so I’ll simply tack on a few positive runs to account for the possibility they sign a good defender at the position.
Run Estimate: -15 to +3
Totaling those estimates up, we find a range of -20 to +31 runs. That’s a wide range, but these are the outer bounds of the estimates. The Tigers infield was something close to -30 last season (-20 if we’re being generous), so this looks to be a ten run upgrade even if things don’t go terribly well. At the outside, it could be a sixty run improvement, which is about six wins in the standings, but even at the lowest estimate, they’re most likely getting better.
Granted, we’re dealing with estimates based on imperfect measures, so you have to look at this skeptically. It’s possible that the Tigers have added somewhere between one and six wins of value by improving their defense. They will certainly be giving some of that away on the offensive side as they drop from Peralta to Iglesias and Fielder to Castellanos, but it’s hard to imagine a world in which the defense doesn’t get better.
The Tigers starters are strikeout pitchers so infield defense isn’t as valuable to them as it is to others, but Fister and Porcello put the ball on the ground a lot, which means better defense should bring their RA9 or ERA numbers closer to their true talent FIP numbers in 2014.
League average BABIP on ground balls in 2013 was .241. For the Tigers it was .266. For Fister it was .295. For Scherzer it was .280. Defense isn’t something we can break down into tiny samples with great success, but the Tigers allowed way more hits on ground balls than average last year and that number is probably going to go down in 2014. There are a lot of moving parts, but the Tigers defense should be better off having made the big trade.
Getting To Know Ian Kinsler, Detroit Tiger
Over the last few days we’ve had many discussions about the merits of the big trade, and the view from the first inning is that the Tigers made a good move for the long run with the short run value left a bit up in the air based on how they spend their financial savings. We think Prince is likely to bounce back a little bit and Kinsler will continue on his current path which places him somewhere around 3 wins if he plays most of the 2014 season. It’s kind of hard to say anymore about the deal as a whole without knowing what Dombrowski is up to next, but we can start to think about Ian Kinsler in a Tigers uniform because there’s a pretty high probability that’s actually going to happen. I mean, unless those Robinson Cano private jet to Willow Run rumors are true…
Kinsler is entering his age 32 season and has eight years of big league experience almost exclusively at second base for the Texas Rangers.
2006 120 474 65 121 27 1 14 11 4 .286 .347 .454 .801 105
2008 121 583 102 165 41 4 18 26 2 .319 .375 .517 .892 134
2010 103 460 73 112 20 1 9 15 5 .286 .382 .412 .794 110
2012 157 731 105 168 42 5 19 21 9 .256 .326 .423 .749 97
2013 136 614 85 151 31 2 13 15 11 .277 .344 .413 .757 105
8 Yrs 1066 4791 748 1145 249 23 156 172 42 .273 .349 .454 .804 110
162 Game Avg. 162 728 114 174 38 3 24 26 6 .273 .349 .454 .804 110
Those numbers can give you a basic sense of his career path, but we’re obviously going to dig a little deeper to understand the type of player he is.
AT THE PLATE
Year PA BB% K% ISO BABIP wOBA wRC+
2006 474 8.40% 13.50% 0.168 0.304 0.345 102
2007 566 11.00% 14.70% 0.178 0.279 0.35 108
2010 460 12.20% 12.40% 0.125 0.313 0.355 114
2011 723 12.30% 9.80% 0.223 0.243 0.364 123
2013 614 8.30% 9.60% 0.136 0.288 0.334 105
Kinsler’s declining walk rate is a concern, but he also doesn’t strike out very often. His power has really been up and down throughout his career as has his BABIP. You’ll notice with a more complete number like wRC+, he’s been a league average hitter or better in every season of his career with a couple of big years in which he hit for more power. If we’re thinking about Kinsler heading into his Tigers years, there is really no way we can expect that pop to return. Looking at an average to slightly above average bat with a wRC+ somewhere between 100-110 probably makes sense heading into 2014.
Kinsler has always been known for his home/road split. Texas is one of the best parks in which to hit, but it’s important to note that Comerica Park is becoming for hitter friendly over time.
tOPS+
Home 538 2399 85 .304 .387 .511 .898 .311 123
Away 528 2392 71 .242 .312 .399 .710 .252 77
For his career, the split is pretty significant and in 2013 there’s still plenty about which to be worried.
Home 68 301 5 .292 .371 .408 .779 .302 107
Away 68 313 8 .263 .317 .418 .735 .273 93
You’ll notice Kinsler slugged better on the road in 2013 despite getting on base much less frequently. Generally speaking, we should expect Kinsler to hit worse at Comerica than he did in Arlington, but everyone hits worse in Comerica than they do in Arlington. The adjustments he makes will be important.
There’s also some concern that he doesn’t use the right side of the field very effectively, but that’s always been part of his game so it’s not like our view of him going forward should change very dramatically. He has three career homeruns to the right-side of second base, though, which is crazy.
All in all, Kinsler is a solid major league hitter. In 2013, the average second baseman hit 9% worse than league average. Kinsler hit 5% better. For reference, Infante was 17% better but that was also Infante’s best season ever.
Kinsler has been a very strong baserunner in his career both with respect to taking extra bases and stealing bases efficiently. Here are his overall baserunning runs above average:
Year PA BsR
2006 474 0.7
2013 614 -0.5
His 2013 didn’t look great and that was mostly a function of getting caught stealing much more than normal.
XBT%
2006 11 4 73% 6 45%
2013 15 11 58% 7 61%
8 Yrs 172 42 80% 41 55%
Until last year, Kinsler was one of the most successful basestealers in the game. The rule of thumb is that you need to have a success rate of 70% or better for it to be worth it and Kinsler had some seasons in the high 80s and 90s. It’s unclear if 2013 is a blip or a trend, but given how rough the Tigers are on the bases, he can only be an upgrade. That is especially true when it comes to his extra bases taken percentages as league average is 39% and he has been above 50% in each of his last four seasons.
It’s important to realize that Kinsler is only going to get worse on the bases as he ages, but he’s coming down from a very high peak. There’s no question he makes the Tigers a better baserunning team and should be able to provide at least a couple of runs above average in that department in 2014.
Season Inn DRS RZR OOZ UZR UZR/150
2006 1032 -3 0.827 20 -8.1 -8.5
2007 1136.2 4 0.845 53 -8.7 -9
2009 1258 22 0.835 47 10.1 10.1
2010 905.1 7 0.854 23 3.3 6
2011 1269 18 0.872 38 16 17.3
2012 1265 1 0.770 66 -0.3 -0.1
2013 1095.1 11 0.836 34 -1 -1.2
The report on Kinsler’s defense is a little bit mixed, but it tells a pretty clear story if you know what to look for. DRS likes Kinsler more than UZR over the course of his career, but both have him as something better than average. The question isn’t if Kinsler is good, it’s if he’s a little better than par for the course or if he’s great. RZR tells you the percentage of balls in his zone he’s turned into outs and his career mark of 82.9% puts him solidly above average at second base. Kinsler has great range, but occasionally boots a few to many balls. That’s nice to see in the data, because that’s exactly what I thought about him based on my own observation.
Kinsler isn’t going to be another Iglesias, but he’s going to be a solid defensive player who can stay at second base at least for a couple more seasons.
THE ENTIRE GAME
So Kinsler has an above average bat for the position and adds positive value on the bases and in the field. He’s a little bit injury prone, but he’s been a solid major league regular or better in every year of his career regardless:
Year PA WAR
Kinsler is leaving his prime years, but there’s no reason he can’t produce a could more 2-3.5 win seasons if he stays reasonably healthy. Kinsler is one of those players who is above average everywhere but great nowhere. Those are very useful players, especially when the Tigers already have plenty of players who are really good at certain things and not so good at others. Kinsler adds nice balance to the team and should earn a good portion of the salary he has coming his way.
The Tigers likely aren’t doing wheeling and dealing this offseason, but the first big move netted them some financial savings and pretty nice player to boot.
Talking Tigers on Clubhouse Confidential
By Neil Weinberg on November 23, 2013 | 1 Comment
If you didn’t get a chance to see it, I joined Brian Kenny on Clubhouse Confidential to talk about the Fielder-Kinsler deal on Friday. Here’s a link to the conversation. If you’re looking for my initial take from the night of the deal, you can find that here, along with some thoughts about what this might mean about big contracts going forward.
We should also have some follow up analysis on Kinsler coming this afternoon or this evening.
Tigers Swap Fielder For Kinsler
That escalated quickly. Heading into the offseason the Tigers were expected to look to move Prince Fielder’s 7/$168M contract, but it didn’t look like there were going to be any takers. Fielder, even if he aged extremely well and bounced back to his pre-2013 levels, was barely going to be worth the contract. If he ages at a pretty normal clip and never goes back to his 5 win ways, we were looking at something like $70M in dead money. Maybe not anymore.
News broke on Wednesday night that the Tigers and Rangers agreed to a one for one swap of Prince Fielder and Ian Kinsler that gives the Rangers their power bat and frees up a spot for Jurickson Profar while the Tigers get salary flexibility and a new second baseman. The deal is amazing because if you squint really hard, it looks really good and really bad for both sides. It’s a challenge trade, but it’s also about position.
The Tigers had three guys who should be playing 1B and DH and now they have two. The Rangers had three middle infielders and now they have two. Kinsler will cost 4/$57M with a $10M/$5M buyout for year number five, plus something like $30M in cash. The Tigers are saving some cash in this deal that could prove to be extremely valuable when it comes time to extend Max Scherzer or Miguel Cabrera, but they’re also probably straightening out their defensive situation. Cabrera can go back to first where he belongs and Nick Castellanos can get into the lineup a little easier. Maybe Peralta gets back on the radar. It’s too soon to tell.
Kinsler had an insane 7 win peak in 2011, but looks a lot more like a 2-3 win player going forward. He’s a league average or slightly better bat with a history of running the bases well. The defense is a bit unclear because DRS loves him and UZR thinks he’s meh. Either way, you’re looking at solid player who is probably just a bit overpaid at $16M per season, plus however you want to allocate the $30 million
This trade has moving parts. If Kinsler is a 2 win player at 2B, Cabrera moves to first and is league average at the position defensively, and then the Tigers use Castellanos at 3B for about 2 wins, you’re looking at something like 11 wins for something like $40-44M. Re-signing Infante for $10M would put them somewhere around 12-13 wins for $54M. That’s a small improvement financially especially if it softens the risk later on in the deal.
I think this trade makes the Tigers worse in 2014, but it also gives them more financial resources to get better. They’ll save a few extra million that they can spend on a LF/RP/3B and they’re much better off in later years of the deal. Kinsler doesn’t look like a great player, but he’s good enough to probably make this work.
What we don’t know is how much of this momentum towards a deal came from the comments Fielder made after the season and his performance in the postseason. If the Tigers traded him because there were hard feelings, this is silly. If they traded him to save a little extra money that could be better allocated, it looks a lot better.
To be perfectly honest, I don’t have a strong opinion about this move. I think it makes a lot of sense for Texas and it’s a giant freaking question mark for the Tigers. Fielder probably bounces back in 2014 and beyond, but the trade saves them more money than it is likely to cost them in overall on field value. It’s a smart long term deal that might bite them in short run. Which means we really can’t judge this deal until we know how Dombrowski is going to spend the savings. That’s the key. Saving money is good, but you save that money so that you can spend it elsewhere.
I enjoyed rooting for Fielder and watching him slide, and had absolutely zero problem to his comments after the postseason ended. I’m sorry to see him go, but happy to welcome Kinsler. It’s hard to tell if this is an overreaction or a smart calculation, which is what makes it so interesting. Sorry to leave you hanging, but I don’t know what this one’s going to end. This won’t be the last thing I write about it, but my initial take is that this is probably going to work out for the best.
Brad Aumus’ Abraham Lincoln Impression
By Neil Weinberg on November 20, 2013 | Leave a comment
Stay with me here. This is going to be short and to the point. Brad Ausmus is pulling an Abraham Lincoln move right now and it’s worth noting. I’m not comparing the two, I’m saying Ausmus is borrowing a leadership tactic at which Lincoln was very skilled. This week, after hiring Matt Martin to be his defensive coordinator, Brad Ausmus told the Free Press that Martin is “a baseball guy” and “not a number cruncher” and “not a sabermetrician.” The manager doth protest too much.
There are two obvious points here, ones that Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller argued on today’s Effectively Wild Podcast. First, Ausmus is going out of his way to sell Martin as “one of the guys.” This is Ausmus wrapping serious changes in a conservative cloth. This is Ausmus channeling Lincoln.
The key is that Martin’s job is weird and new and baseball players as a group tend to be slow to adapt. Columnists and writers tend to be slow to adapt. The Detroit media environment as a whole has been slow to adapt. If you start seeing the Tigers shake up defensive positioning – as Martin is likely to do – then Ausmus has already set the table to answer the questions. Martin isn’t some nerd who looks at spreadsheets, he’s a baseball guy with lots of “real” credibility. Lincoln was a master at this. Instituting massive change and convincing people it wasn’t massive change. That’s what this is. This position didn’t exist as a coaching position until three weeks ago when the Nationals created it. Now the Tigers and Angels have one too. More are likely coming.
What’s so great about the sales job is that it’s so obviously a deke. I doubt that Martin is programming is own algorithms, but he’s obviously going to be looking at the sabermetric data we’ve all been talking about for a while now. There simply isn’t another way to do that job. You can’t watch the last 100 at bats of every player on the opposing team and eye-ball the shift you need to employ. This requires batted ball data – the kind of data that sabermetricians use all the time.
I don’t know if Martin knows how to run and interpret regression analysis, but I’m fairly confident he knows how to employ the information readily available to all major league front offices. You don’t have to crunch the numbers to use the numbers, but you do have to get the players and local media to go along with it. That’s Ausmus’ job. Ausmus is selling the idea and Martin is implementing it.
They’re wrapping a newfangled position with fancy numbers in the cloth of an old set “of baseball eyes,” as Ausmus put it. The Tigers didn’t have this position a few days ago and no one had one in 2013. To suggest this isn’t a analytic innovation is silly, but that’s exactly how you have to sell it to get most people to buy in. That’s how you effectively institute change – by convincing people it isn’t really change at all. The hiring of Brad Ausmus looks better and better every day.
The Modernization Of The Detroit Tigers
It was pretty exciting to hear that the Tigers hired Omar Vizquel to be their first base coach and infield instructor given his reputation for strong defense and good instructional ability. With all due respect to Vizquel, his hiring was completely overshadowed when we learned today that the Tigers also hired Matt Martin to be their, I’m not making this title up, “defensive coordinator.” Oh boy.
The idea behind the position is pretty simple. Martin will be in charge of shifting and positioning the infield against specific hitters and will work with the advanced scouting group to prepare for this kind of decision-making. He’ll be joining with Vizquel to form a super-infield-defense-academy. In other words, the Tigers are about to get shifty.
This is big news for a couple of reasons. First, it’s one of the biggest leaps into the future that the Tigers have taken, at least in public, in many years. This is a big jump forward into analytics for the Tigers who have leaned much less on their statistical analysis team than many others in the industry. It also tells us that Ausmus is a believer as well because they wouldn’t bring someone like this in if the manager wasn’t on board. Leyland didn’t have a DC on staff, Ausmus does. This supports the idea I floated when Ausmus was hired that he’s going to be very receptive to analytic information when it comes to macrolevel decisions about his team.
But this hiring also tells us something else; it tells us the Tigers are going to get better. Well, it doesn’t really guarantee that, but if the Tigers are really going to go all-in here they stand to benefit more than almost any other club in the league. They have serious range issues in the infield and shifting is going to tighten up some of those holes. There’s no perfect answer, but if you look at the massive shifting integration the Pirates employed in 2013, it’s hard not to get excited. The Tigers probably won’t move that far, but we’ve seen the potential for BABIP payoff if a team is willing to make the move.
Finally, the specific hire looks extremely promising. I love the position in general, but Gabe Kapler, former Tiger and friend of the movement, speaks extremely highly of Martin.
No disrespect to Omar Vizquel but the difference maker on defense for the #Tigers will be Matt Martin. Incredibly bold and innovative hire.
— gabe kapler (@gabekapler) November 18, 2013
@gabekapler Do you know Martin personally or just commenting on the position in general?
— Neil Weinberg (@NeilWeinberg44) November 18, 2013
@NeilWeinberg44 I know him very personally.
Kapler also followed up with a link to something he wrote for Baseball Prospectus in August about Martin and coaching in general which lays the praise on pretty thick.
A couple of coaching hires doesn’t change a whole lot about the Tigers chances in 2014, but they send very positive signals about the future of the organization that seems to be growing more comfortable with modern thinking by the day. It’s too soon to tell what kind of impact these moves will have on the team, but they’re moves in the right direction. The Tigers have clearly had success without a lot of love for sabermetrics; imagine what they could do with even better information.
We’re about to find out.
Brief Thoughts On Being A Tigers Fan And Sabermetrician Today
I’ll keep this relatively short because I’m of the mind that these awards don’t really matter that much. They are a fun intellectual exercise and often an occasion for comedy, but they are of little real value beyond that. It’s nice to honor individual achievement with a plaque, but the fact that one player wins and one doesn’t changes nothing about the seasons or the players. It’s just a thing that an exclusive group of writers says.
But I also find myself in an interesting place because the player on my favorite team was the player who won the award that, in my mind, was handed out to the wrong guy. I’m thrilled for Miguel Cabrera personally and I’m really glad he had a great year. I’m thrilled for Scherzer, whom I didn’t vote for but considered a much better Cy Young candidate than Cabrera an MVP candidate. But on the other side, I’m a fan of smart, rational decision-making and good analysis and the MVP voting that helped Cabrera was lacking in that department. I have yet to see a rational case for why Cabrera was the AL’s best player. Or most valuable, if for some reason you think those two words mean different things. If you have a rational case for Cabrera, I want to hear it. Post it in the comments section or e-mail me at NewEnglishD@gmail.com. Maybe I’ll even publish it.
I’ve written about this race at Beyond The Box Score and I wrote about the same battle a year ago in these pages. I don’t have a lot else to say on the subject. Trout was better. The award should go to the best player. Therefore, Trout should win the award. Those three statements are important for this discussion. Let’s consider them briefly to illustrate a point.
Trout was better.
I touched on this above and in the first link, so I’ll keep this short. Mike Trout was the better baseball player in 2013. He had more plate appearances and was Cabrera’s equal when you combine baserunning and hitting and was much better on defense. A lot of the people who voted for Cabrera even admitted to this point. Okay, good.
The award should go to the best player.
This was the talking point this season. Lots of writers argued that in order to be valuable, your team has to be good because there’s no difference between the 70 games the Angels would have won without Trout and the 80 games they did win with him. That’s a silly thing to give out an individual award for, however. What is the value of handing out an award to the best player on a good team? Forget for a moment that the description explicitly says that the winner doesn’t have to come from a playoff team and just ask yourself this. Why would we want to give an award to the best player on a good team? What is that proving? That suggests that an individual award is contingent on the performance of one’s teammates, which means it isn’t an individual award at all.
Therefore, Trout should win the award.
If Trout is better and the award should go to the best player, then Trout should have won. That’s a little obvious, but also important to say. If we aren’t going to give the awards to the player who deserves to win, what’s the point of even giving out the award or caring about it at all?
So here’s the punch line. And this is going to sound strange. The fact that Cabrera won each of the last two MVP awards actually diminishes his accomplishments. I’m a Tigers fan before I’m a baseball writer and I’m actually more upset about this part of it than anything. The MVP has become a bit of a joke, so it’s less meaningful to me that he won it this year. It cheapens Verlander’s award, which I think was more justified. It’s a less prestigious award because of this process. I would be prouder of Cabrera finishing second in an award that matter than finishing first in one that doesn’t.
Several people have mentioned to me that I’m one of the few Tigers writers who sees this thing objectively. I appreciate that, but it also speaks to another important issue. Beat writers, many of whom are great and smart, don’t watch enough baseball to really provide a good vote. The Tigers guys know the Tigers, but they don’t stay up late watching the west coast games because they’re still busy covering the Tigers and going to bed so that they can cover them again. Part of the problem is that some writers are hopelessly lost, but a lot of them just don’t have the exposure to enough players because they don’t have the time. I think that’s another flaw in the system that isn’t any of the voters’ fault.
The rational analyst in me is unhappy with the result, but so is the Tigers fan. Cabrera didn’t deserve the award and the fact that he won anyway makes it less special as an institution. I’m not losing sleep, but I do wish we did a better job on things like this. I mean, we have to do something until they start playing again.
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Sizing Up The Tigers Second Base Options
One of the strengths of the 2014 Tigers is that most of the 2013 version is locked up through at least the upcoming season. Seven of the nine starting position players and all five starting pitchers are under contract going into next season so the main focus will be on the bullpen and the bench. The two starting spots to consider are second base and left field. We covered left field a few days ago which means it’s now time to turn our attention to the keystone.
IN HOUSE CANDIDATES
The Tigers aren’t blessed with a lot of big league ready talent up the middle, so the two leading candidates are Danny Worth and Hernan Perez. I think both are perfectly capable of keeping their heads above replacement level thanks to solid to above average defense and good baserunning, but neither provides much of a boost offensively. Perez was seriously over-matched during his time at the plate in 2013 and gave us one of the most incredibly terrible swings of the year:
Needless to say, Perez might need some work. We know what Worth brings and I suspect he could offer 0.5-1.0 WAR if given the job. Not great options, but options that are good enough to keep you from doing something stupid.*
*Maybe not!
THE FREE AGENTS
So obviously, Omar Infante is the guy the Tigers are after. He’s coming off four straight seasons of 2.0+ WAR and just completed his career year entering his age 32 season. Something in the 2/20 to 3/30 range makes sense for both sides and the Tigers are likely to snatch him up if big spenders don’t drive up the price.
Only three other free agents make any kind of sense for the Tigers. First, is Brian Roberts – who doesn’t really make sense either. Roberts was great about four or five years ago and has struggled to stay healthy, but if you can get him for next to nothing, I’d be interested in the upside play.
Robinson Cano is the prize of the class and is likely to command something in the 8/200 range. He’s a 5-6 win player in the near future and a 3-4 win player a few years beyond that, so he’s a legitimate upgrade over Infante and the rest of their in house options. The price is quite high given the amount of money they have to allocate to Verlander, Fielder, Sanchez, and whomever they want to extend. There’s a way in which they can make Cano work financially, but it’s a Hail Mary. You’re talking about adding $20 million to the payroll over last year in addition to the arbitration raises and keeping that on the books long-term. I think it works if you’re willing to let Cabrera walk after 2015 or if you can find someone take the Fielder deal off your hands. The second option is tricky because you’d have to eat some money, which means it would be about $30 million per year for Cano compared to $20 million for Fielder. I’m not sure Cano is $10 million better than Fielder, but I’d consider going down that road if another team would let you.
The final free agent is Mark Ellis, who strikes me as the ideal Plan B if Infante walks. He’ll be cheap on a 1-2 year deal and can be counted on for 1-2 WAR with some nice defense in an infield that needs it. Not a sexy option, but one that will work.
The only second baseman that’s an upgrade and could be on the market is Howie Kendrick. He’d work for me, but the prospect cost and salary seem high enough that Infante would be cheaper. I mean, if you can pry Matt Carpenter from St. Louis….hey wait this isn’t talk radio.
THE RECOMMENDATION
I thought about this a lot and there are four realistic scenarios. The first is to go in-house for free and punt on 2B offense. You have good glove men and the money can be spent elsewhere. Option two is re-signing Infante for $10-$12 million a year so you can keep the band together. Option three is to take a mild hit and go for Ellis at $6-$7M on a one year deal.
Option four is the big one, and I guess it’s not quite as crazy as it sounds. You have to ask yourself how much Mike Illitch is willing to pay to bring a title to Detroit. Cano doesn’t guarantee it, but it’s big deal. It’s three wins on top of Infante’s peak for $20 million extra. The math works out if the payroll does. It’s a big upgrade for a reasonable price relative to the cost of a win. You’re in at $25 million but out at $30-35 million. The question is what that means in the long-run. I don’t think they can keep Cabrera, Fielder, and Cano into their late 30s, but I think it can work in the short-run. Maybe it’s time to throw caution to the wind and think about winning now. If it sinks the 2018 Tigers, so be it.
If you could move Fielder at a financial loss, you can put Cabrera back at first, move Castellanos to third, and bring Cano in to play second. That works on a lot of levels because it improves the defense and doesn’t hurt the offense. You’re paying a premium to do it, but that could work too. I can envision a world in which the Tigers grab Cano. It would have to come from Mr. I because it’s expensive however you go about it. I wouldn’t recommend it, but I think you could talk me into it. It’s not likely, but it’s not crazy on the face of it.
Infante is the right choice. He’s still pretty young and has really improved his overall game in the last few years. A 2 win second baseman is hard to find hanging around the market and it won’t preclude other moves. Ellis is a nice backup plan, but re-signing Infante is way to go. That is, unless the owner wants to invest his children’s inheritance on one more crazy idea.
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Sizing Up The Tigers Left Field Options
By Neil Weinberg on November 8, 2013 | 1 Comment
One of the strengths of the 2014 Tigers is that most of the 2013 version is locked up through at least the upcoming season. Seven of the nine starting position players and all five starting pitchers are under contract going into next season so the main focus will be on the bullpen and the bench. The two starting spots to consider are second base and left field. Second base looks like it will be Infante if the price is right and a future post if the price is too high. Left field remains a more interesting question.
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The Tigers ran through the 2013 season predominantly using an Andy Dirks and Matt Tuiasosopo platoon who combined for 2.5 WAR across close to 700 total PA (some at DH and RF). All told, the Tigers LF hit .259/.325/.383 in 2013 and the league average LF hit .259/.323/.412. Not quite as much power as the average left fielder but essentially identical when it comes to AVG and OBP. The Tigers had more or less average offensive production from their left fielders when their left fielders were Dirks and Tuiasosopo.
Ultimate Zone Rating loves Dirks in LF, ranking him 3rd in baseball last season at 9.4 (DRS had him 6th). Tuiasosopo isn’t around anymore, so his average-ish ratings aren’t too relevant. In general, the Tigers worked a couple of wins out of left field with average offense and solid defense for next to nothing. They have that option again.
Dirks will be back with the team in some capacity and they have the option of handing him the job again in 2014. Dirks has about 1000 career PA and ranks just above average offensively (103 wRC+) with a .276/.332/.413 line. In 2011 and 2013 he was in the 85 wRC+ neighborhood with his 2012 season much higher at 132. It’s unclear exactly how good he would be over a full season, but it’s safe to say he’s somewhere in that range. An average OBP for a LF with a little less pop and a lot more glove is a pretty reasonable bet. If healthy, that’s about a 2 win player.
The Tigers could also hand the job to top prospect Nick Castellanos. Castellanos has 18 big league PA so we’re going to have to judge him based on his minor league numbers and scouting reports. He tore up AAA as one of the youngest players at the level in 2013 (.276/.343/.450) after crushing at three of five stops along the way from 2010 to 2012. Scouts love his bat and think the power will come with age. No one loves his feet or his defense, but plenty think he can be good enough not to warrant a DH spot. I’ve heard some scout/writers like Keith Law hang “future all-star” on him. Maybe the Tigers give the job to Nick and see if he’s ready.
It’s also possible, maybe even likely, that they use some sort of job share between the two. They won’t make Castellanos the weak half of a platoon, but they may find a way to use him for 110-120 games as they ease him in against big league pitching and full contact defense. If the Tigers want to stick with their in house options, it’s very likely they can match the production they received this season, which was plenty considering the talent they have elsewhere – even after a down year at times from Fielder, Jackson, Martinez, and Avila.
FanGraphs has a leaderboard that includes 32 free agent outfielders that’s worth examining. Let’s limit our search to players who have some chance of being worth two wins in 2013 and don’t have a giant red flag (Franklin Gutierrez) or a huge price tag (Jacoby Ellsbury).
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Granderson, Beltran, Choo, Chris Young, Marlon Byrd, and David Murphy.
You can click the link and view their statistics and you’ll notice that none of these players are ideal fits. Granderson makes a good deal of sense but the Tigers will need to commit to more than the $14 million qualifying offer waiting in his inbox and then subsequently more than the Yankees are willing to offer in addition to the loss of a draft pick. Granderson has had five seasons of 3.5 WAR or better in his career, but on the wrong side of 30 and coming off two down years (injuries included), I’m not sure he’s worth the money and the draft pick compared to what the Tigers have in house.
Beltran remains a great hitter but is approaching DH status, comes with the QO, and is even older than Granderson. This would be like signing another Torii Hunter if Hunter was better. Beltran is still a great hitter but his diminished defense isn’t really something the Tigers can absorb given the price he’s likely to command.
Choo would be a strong fit entering his age 32 season considering the fact that he’s among the best dozen or so offensive players in the sport and that his defense would look much better in a corner than it does in CF. The key variable with Choo is cost. He doesn’t come with the risks that Grandy and Beltran do, but that will also make his price tag harder to handle. The floor of a Choo deal is 4/60 and the final number will probably be higher. The Tigers aren’t likely to add that kind of money to their payroll given the coming raises, but if they do have the cash, he makes the most sense.
Young and Murphy are the wild cards because they are coming off down years and might be available for cheap. Young is a great defender with power and Murphy until recently was an excellent hitter against righties with some nice balance mixed in. Neither are great, but both are interesting if their market disintegrates. Byrd would never have been on my radar if he hadn’t just had a four win season. I don’t think it happens again, but for the right price, you talk.
Only two names jump out as legitimate upgrades that wouldn’t cost an arm and a leg that could be on the market this offseason. The Padres’ Chris Denorfia and the Rockies’ Michael Cuddyer. Denorfia is on a cheap deal and will be a free agent after 2014, so if the Padres admit they aren’t going to catch the Dodgers, they may be willing to part with their underrated outfielder. He’s routinely been an average to above average hitter across varying playing time and showed promise defensively last year. He’s not an automatic upgrade over Dirks/Castellanos, but he might provide some depth and stability at the position without mortgaging the future.
Cuddyer has the potential to be an impact bat at a cool $10.5 million if the Rockies are will to part with him. The prospect cost might be a touch higher, but Cuddyer is coming off his best season at the plate with a career 113 wRC+. The high BABIP and resulting stats are partly Coors aided but Cuddyer was no slouch on the road last year either. He’s not the kind of upgrade that you’re really going to notice, but he’s probably a safer bet to produce than Dirks and Castellanos.
Given a sparse market and a weak trade crop, it’s hard to suggest the Tigers do anything but play the hand they were dealt. Test out Castellanos and have Dirks there to back him up. It would be a great idea to sign a right-handed bench bat like Reed Johnson or something to fill in if Castellanos needs some time in AAA, but there really isn’t a better option that wouldn’t be pretty expensive. Granderson, Beltran, and Choo are reasonable upgrades but they come at a cost. Dirks and Castellanos are going to cost the Tigers next to nothing and those players would also add $10 to $18 million to the yearly payroll. That might be worth it in a vacuum, but considering the other needs that money is better spent keeping Infante and stocking the bullpen.
The Tigers have to figure out how to make the money work going forward with Verlander, Fielder, Sanchez and whomever they wish to extend into the future. It’s hard to see how paying more than ten million dollars right now on a LF who might improve the team by 2 wins is truly worth it. If there was a great option out there, they should go for it, but there doesn’t appear to be anything worth doing. Dirks is underrated and Castellanos could be a star. This is the year to find out what those two can do.
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When It Comes To Turkey & Syria, Is Robert Wright Right?
Date: October 11, 2012Author: ottomansandzionists 9 Comments
Robert Wright has been keeping an eye on developments between Turkey and Syria, and unlike me, he thinks there is at least a 50/50 chance that the two countries end up going to war. Wright’s argument boils down to the fact that events on the ground are rapidly spinning out of both Turkey’s and Syria’s control and Turkey is facing serious refugee and Kurdish problems, so that “both of these issues–refugees and Kurdish nationalism–could lead Turkey to conclude that the sooner the Syrian civil war ends, the better.” In addition, Wright believes that the U.S. and NATO may get involved, and that the Turkish-Syrian border is not going to quiet down since Syria cannot afford to ignore it and because Turkey is basically poking Syria in the eye by arming the rebels.
With one exception (the point about the U.S. and NATO), all of these things are arguably correct to some degree, but Wright is overlooking a bunch of other factors that either mitigate or cancel out completely the variables that he has pointed to as reasons a full blown war may happen. First and most importantly is that Turkey does not necessarily have the ability to intervene in Syria in such a way as to end the civil war. As friends of O&Z (and superb guest posters) Aaron Stein and Dov Friedman persuasively argued in the National Interest yesterday, Turkey’s military options in Syria are actually quite limited. Ankara does not have the intelligence capability to carry out extensive target selection, its air force faces a challenge in the face of Syrian air defenses, and its months-long bluster has not been backed by equivalent action, destroying its ability to use credible threats to deter Syrian provocation. In short, Turkey has been exposed as a paper tiger when it comes to Syria. Despite General Özel’s constant tours of the Syrian border and the military buildup, this appears to be similar to what Turkey did following the downing of its F-4 during the summer, when it made a show of force but ultimately did not use it. This is the double secret probation strategy, in which Turkey keeps on ramping up the threats to punish Syria to the point of absurdity. Wright’s argument is that Turkey will end up intervening in Syria in order to put a swift end to the civil war, but the inconvenient reality here is that Turkey might not have the capability to do so, which has obviously been affecting Ankara’s calculus this whole time. In addition, even if Turkey did have the capability to step in and put an end to the sectarian fighting in Syria, Wright assumes that this would put a damper on Kurdish nationalism, but in fact it might very well have precisely the opposite effect. Once the Assad regime falls, the PYD and other Syrian Kurdish groups are likely to try and carve out their own autonomous sphere within Syria, and Turkish intervention on the side of the rebels could accelerate this process.
Wright’s argument about NATO arrives at a similar dead end. He writes that “helping fight it [the Syrian civil war] could help end it–especially if Turkey’s fellow members of NATO help out. Speaking of NATO: The fact that a Turkish-Syrian war could draw America into the conflict will make such a war more attractive to some backers of American intervention.” There is, however, no way that NATO is going to get drawn into this war. There is zero appetite for it among NATO countries not named Turkey, and while NATO may be willing to convene an Article 4 meeting any time Turkey requests one and issue strongly worded condemnations of Syria, that is as far as NATO is going to go. The same goes double for the U.S., which is also going to sit this one out no matter how much Turkey begs and pleads. Wright is buying into the Turkish pipe dream that an international coalition is eventually going to be shamed into intervening in Syria, but I don’t see any plausible way that this happens.
Finally there is Wright’s point about the shelling along the Syrian border and Turkey already essentially fighting a war against Syria by arming and training the Free Syrian Army and other rebel groups. The tit-for-tat shelling has been going on now for a week, yet despite this Syria has shown no inclination to ramp up its military activity, and Turkey has been making a big show of force while essentially standing pat. Wright asks, ” If Syria doesn’t want a war, and Syrian shells that fall on the Turkish side of the border could start a war, why doesn’t Syria quit firing shells anywhere near the border?…The answer is simple: The Syrian regime is fighting for its life, and along the Turkish-Syrian border lies the lifeline of its enemy.” There is another simple calculation in play here as well though, which is that Syria is not targeting Turkey with its shelling but is targeting the rebels on its own side of the border, and Syria knows that Turkey knows this too. Intervening in Syria is a potential nightmare for the Turkish army given the sectarian issues and the fact that Turkey will be fending off attacks from not only the Syrian army but Kurdish fighters well. When Syrian artillery misses, as it is bound to do, and kills Turkish civilians, then Turkey is forced to respond, but Turkey does not want to go into Syria on its own and will do nearly anything to avoid such an outcome. By the same token, Turkey has been arming rebel groups now for months, yet Syria is not deliberately shelling Turkish military positions because it too does not want to draw the Turkish military across the border. I get that there is a logic of unintended consequences at work here with the potential to spiral into a war, but Wright’s arguments for how this will happen ignore that there is a very powerful set of incentives on both sides to avoid such an outcome.
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Harriet Redding says:
What would be your reaction to the low-key assurances that both members of the FSA at large and the northern Syrian Kurdish-influenced FSA have given Turkey re. that they are willing to offer a crackdown on PKK activity and Kurdish nationalism in return for Turkish support? It does not seem, in my humble opinion, to be an empty offer.
ottomansandzionists says:
I don’t think it is an empty offer at all, but it gets complicated because you need to have Barzani on board and the PYD is now part of his umbrella group but is still closely linked to the PKK.
Corey Feldman says:
Interesting counter arguments.
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How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love Midge Ure
Posted on September 30, 2016 by postpunkmonk
It’s officially happening – we see Midge Ure in two weeks…
Well, after much deliberation and weighing in with my wife and friends as well as commenters on PPM, the decision was made to accentuate the positive and put to rest my angst regarding Midge Ure. I’ve come to the realization that it seemed petty of me to grouse about him to the extent that I have. Kind of small of me, really. If I haven’t enjoyed much of his last 30 years of work, that must weigh against the first five years of it where he was one of the brightest lights in my musical universe. His accomplishments between the years of 1976-1985 should rightly be the stuff of legend.
teen pop stardom in the UK with the prefab group Slik – 1976
New Wave band The Rich Kids formed after Glen Matlock got the ouster from the Sex Pistols – 1977-78
Visage formed as studio project to refine nascent New Romantic sentiment into dancefloor fillers – 1978-1982
Fronting a Foxx-free Ultravox who achieved widespread success [except in America] – 1980-1986
Band Aid Trustee #2 who was Bob Geldof’s right hand man on that project – 1984-current
I’ve passed up earlier Ure appearances in Atlanta. In 1993 he opened for Howard Jones, but I had no idea of this, or else I would have driven there for it. As late as January 17, 2015, he was playing Eddie’s Attic in Atlanta with Murry Attaway [!] opening but I could not muster the trip for Midge Ure with acoustic guitar. Even after all of these years and not seeing him. Besides, driving on a trip from my home in the dead of winter is no game to be playing. Getting stranded in or out of town would be disastrous. When I saw that this time he was touring with a band, then was when the idea began forming that maybe I should finally see this guy who is on about 250 discs in my home!
The knowledge that he was playing music from his entire career electrically, meant that I would probably love at least half of it. There’s even the possibility that I might like some of the later material in new arrangements for his backing band this time out. Hearing material live and electric from “Vienna,” “Visage,” “Rage In Eden, and “Quartet” will undoubtedly be justification for attending right there. I have a feeling I will be there with a big dumb grin on my face as he hits the Midge Ure sweet spot. And quite frankly, the song that I am most wanting to hear from Mr. Ure now is not even on those albums. It’s his 1986 non-LP single “Call Of The Wild” that after deciding to attend this show, I simply cannot get out of my cranium!
Recently, I played my digitized copy of the awe inspiring 12″ single mix of this cut for about an hour and I’m still not quite sated. Hopefully he will have this one in the set list. The first show on this 2016 leg of his North American Tour begins tonight at the Revolution Bar + Music Hall in Amityville, NY. I’ll be interested in peeking at the set lists that surface inevitably on the web once that tour gets underway. Join us later for more Midge Ure coverage. This has been a long time coming for me and I’m beginning to get a little excited at the notion of seeing him.
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20 Responses to How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love Midge Ure
I was on more or less the same page as you regarding all things Ure (with the sole exception of the fact that I kind of like Answers to Nothing), and was lo thinking that I should go see this tour since I’ve never properly seen the man live (I glimpsed him performing Fade to Grey through a slit in a fence in like 1991… long story). But he’s only touring with a bassist and a drummer this month. Not sure how those old Ultravox tunes are going to go down with a beat box and the drummer playing synths (or whatever they decide to do with the arrangements).
JT – For some reason your comment got caught in the spam filter. For that matter, so did a comment I was just I the middle of making [see below], which is how I found it!
I just now saw a clip online of rehearsals from 2 days ago: “All Stood Still” with Midge on guitar, synth player [doubling on bass], and drummer. Sounded pretty good! In fact, I’m getting excited. You should go! You’ve never seen him live either [apart from the long story I’m interested in hearing]. Especially since you won’t incur several hundred dollars in travel expenses. You only need $25 and a few hours free. Okay, I just checked out live clips. Against my policy! “Passing Strangers.” It was kind of exciting seeing just the three guys trade off, just like the early days of Ure in Ultravox. All guitars at first. Sequenced synth riff middle eight and Ure switched from guitar to keys to play the the solo only to rip back into guitar at the climax of the middle eight. MIDI and ProTools can make concerts kind of perfunctory these days, but grind it down to three guys and it’s still can get exciting. Ure is still using split second timing to pull this off and for me, it was the most exciting aspect of pre-MIDI Ultravox clips I’ve seen. Sure, he could show up with a laptop and still sound good, but it’s great that he isn’t.
Echorich says:
I’m afraid the 2009 Ultravox Rage In Eden Tour would have been the last time I might have wanted to see Ure or the band. For the original band to focus on that period of their Imperial Period would have been a treat, but Ure on his own has never really troubled me. I’ve never really cottoned to the idea of one member of a band taking on that band’s music in a solo arena. I’m sure there are some that can do it well, but it’s more a curiosity and sometimes a musical car crash.
Echorich – I have softened my stance on Ure due to the fact that I felt like I was overcompensating in my negativity. I felt like I was bullying the guy, and while he had done almost nothing in 30 years that I liked, I felt that the first five years of my history with him should still count for something. At the time he was a huge thing for me.
Besides, unlike yourself, I never saw Ultravox. Midge Ure singing what should at least be a third of his set list from that material will still count for something to me. We’ll see how much in two weeks. If it’s a car wreck, I’ll discuss my thoughts on it honestly. At worst, I’ll have something to reflect on, but I won’t waste any further energy in piling on the guy. That’s giving him too much pull, frankly.
At best it could be something that could resonate significantly even as I’ve discounted the Ure era of Ultravox for several decades. This represents unfinished business and having the flexibility to meet it halfway is healthy personal growth for me. I gain nothing in being rigid. Quite the opposite. Of course, I still reserve the right to discount his [or Simple Minds’] descent into busking! A man’s got to know his limitations!
Congrats Monk on going.You made the right decision.Having now seen the set list,it is nearly all Ultravox and a decent selection at that,including Call of the Wild.His voice is in strong form based on video.Rooms are full.The three of them seems to be doing their best with the limited instruments they have,the basics.
Echorich.I sort of know how you feel,seems a bit cheap.A band is the sum of its parts but the fact is the singer/songwriter always seems the be the focus point and that allows him or her to go solo and still perform band songs in a successful way.In most cases,you can remove the bass player or drummer and people would not care.Some examples where I have been satisfied going to a show but without all the original full band:
Kraftwerk (Only Ralf) ,David Gilmour solo,Roger Waters solo,Chameleons Vox (Only Mark) Dave Gahan.
Now do not get me going on the SM acoustic CD.Very sad.Although it is well known that nearly all songs start on an acoustic guitar or piano.For me,SM was always about the electronics and power.I stopped with them in 1985.
Jordan – I totally credit our Ure conversations over the last few years for my change of attitude. Thanks for making the effort.
Hi, received your reply on NWO but thought I’d comment here – for more replies :o)
Actually I wanted to advise you to go see MU but seeing your decision made (and explained this thoroughly) I can only applaud. I’m rather envious as well, having missed Ultravox (reformed one, of course) on two occasions and having no illusions about Midge ever visiting Russia, especially in thу current political climate. The live video recordings are the only way for me, it seems.
Fully understand your decision to miss the acoustic MU shows – I think he wasted so much of all this precious time troubadouring across the UK and Europe. I know it was for financial reasons first and foremost but still, there were ways to do something more interesting. And while this acoustic thing may be great for several concerts or a tour or even as a sideline activity, to commit to it wholly is just a wrong way of going. Too cosy and unadventurous, especially with the CV as illustrous as his. Just shows how lost he was (and maybe still is) without a cunning and sympathetic manager.
He seems to have his sights on America for some time, though, so you may be lucky to see him much more often now. With Ultravox seemingly dead and buried now maybe at least he’ll be treading more electrified waters now – it’s actually better for him as, I think, acoustic performing demands a better vocal range that he has (which is much more suited for a raw rock thing).
Anyway, hope you won’t be disappointed with the show – and am looking forward to reading your thoughts on it :o)
Vlad – You make a cogent point with acoustic sets. It’s a novelty, really for electronic rock bands like Ure/Ultravox or Simple Minds. What makes me break out in a cold sweat is when it becomes the dreaded “new direction.” And bands like that moving in an acoustic direction usually happen strictly because of money. It is -cheap- to busk with an acoustic guitar. But for artists such as these, who stood in opposition to the mainstream, it represents a capitulation that rubs me the wrong way, because the reason why I liked those bands in the first place is that they were not reflecting [boring] mainstream musical values. They reflected left-of-center values like my own.
Smart musicians who have en electric/electronic rock reputation can get away with dabbling in the acoustic format. Bowie. Ferry. Even Heaven 17. The latter do an acoustic “Geisha Boys + Temple Girls” that sounds great, but that’s one song in their set. I never have to fear these artists moving in what I see as a fraudulent direction because they have integrity. Whereas Simple Minds, I think, will do anything that makes them money, no matter how ill-conceived I consider it to be. And if it’s a direction that requires little investment of capital, watch out! They will FULLY COMMIT to this horrific end even after 5-6 years of nearly dragging their collective carcasses back from ignominy and almost attaining something akin to greatness again. As their new album proves irrevocably.
Midge has played acoustic for far too long. I don’t know why he chose to do another tour of North America with a band this time, but I’m excited that he did. It might just be a reaction to his last one-man tour! Hopefully, this will be a new leaf for The States and Midge Ure. With bi-polar Billy Currie going off in a huff, if Midge wants to be the standard bearer of Ultravox in their absence, more power to him.
Tonight’s gig in Chicago:
7 Ultravox tunes (six of which I approved of… Dancing With Tears in My Eyes is a lame song and it sounded like shit live).
5 solo tunes.
1 Visage tune (guess).
1 cover (the sole encore).
Crowd of about 150 people or so, maybe less. Closest thing to a deep cut was New Europeans. Midge was really struggling on some of the vocals, particularly on Hymn. The two band guys were a couple of pudgy scruffy kids in jeans and t-shirts who looked like they were just plucked out of a garage somewhere. They were mediocre players. They got the job done, but they were never impressive and never really grooved. One guy played drums, one played mostly bass and a little synth, and Midge did mostly guitar and a little synth. I really really really missed Billy Currie’s solos on more or less all of the Ultravox songs. Midge clearly can’t be spending a lot of money if he’s only drawing 150 people in Chicago, but he needed to have invested in a keyboard player and better musicians overall. That said, he was friendly and charming on stage, and if you told me when I was 16 that I’d be watching Midge play from literally eight or ten feet away, I’d have died on the spot. But tonight… eh. It was fine. Just fine.
JT – Tough on “Dancing With Tears In My Eyes.” He really had to reach on that one back then and now it must be exceptionally difficult for him to sing, but it remains probably his standard-bearer in the US market. I know it was the only Ultravox single I ever saw US Chrysalis ever release by the band with a picture sleeve. There was a “Reap The Wild Wind” 7″ commercially, but everything else [and there wasn’t much] was promo only.
Surprised that a Chicago crowd was that modest. I see shows all the time with far fewer attendance. In fact, any gig I go to is usually criminally under attended. That said, I live in a smallish, mountain burg. Not the Third City. If Ure draws 150 in Chicago, he might ask himself some tough questions.
It’s safe to say that the middle eight on “Passing Strangers” changed my life 36 years ago. Only Currie could do that justice and even then, only in the studio with Plank. Any live version I’ve ever heard [even with Currie] has paled in comparison. I realize going into this that it’s not going to be 1980 but it’s probably going to be my only Ultravox-esque event. I’m sure it will generate quite a discussion afterward. The Ure thread will certainly displace the current one come next week.
negative1ne says:
i debated about posting this news here,
or in the hall of shame post. well, this
one won out.
i’m a gigantic fan of his, and like his music
a lot more than you do. although i’m not
found of the last few albums, or acoustic
tracks.
for fans of earlier midge ure solo works:
the following 3 singles are now on
itunes and other digital sites:
remastered and with artwork
– No Regrets
1 No Regrets (2010 Remaster) 4:02
2 Mood Music (2010 Remaster) 3:30
– If I Was
I I Was (Extended Mix/2010 Remaster) 6:41
2 Piano (2010 Remaster) 2:26
3 The Man Who Sold the World (2010 Remaster)
– After A Fashion (with the Mick Karn)
1 After a Fashion (Extended Version)
by Midge Ure & Mick Karn 5:44
2 Textures 3:24
After A Fashion is the first time that the
extended version of the song has legally
appeared in any digital form
negative1ne – You did the right thing putting it here! After seeing Ure [twice] he’s such a good guy I felt bad for writing that piece in the Hall of Shame but I want it still out there since it was honestly how I felt when writing it. To scrub it would be cowardly of me.
I highly approve of 2/3 of these singles. Do you know how many mixes there are of “The Man Who Sold The World?” I think the “Party Party” [which I have on LP and German CD] differs from the one that Midge has used on any Chrysalis/EMI releases like the “If I Was” 12″ or the compilation of the same name. To say nothing of all of the other comps [several of which I have]. I should ask Vinny Vero about that. He compiled the US Midge Ure/Ultravox “If I Was” compilation that included that cut. I had already bought the UK and Japanese CD versions [as well as the UK LP] when the US edition appeared almost a year later and blew the others out of the water!
You are correct sir, about ‘the man who sold
the world’, on the party party soundtrack.
Thats the only other one i know of.
I also had several of those compilations,
and many more since then.
you may want to track down a few other
odds and ends at some point:
x-perience and midge ure – personal heaven
(cd singles), disco boys and midge ure
– voice (remixes), and the movie class of
1999, with ‘come the day’, which has
never appeared on cd, and no soundtrack
was released either. the latter being the
best track thats hard to track down.
theres also a spoken word project with music
called the bloodied sword, where he did the
music, and maxwell langdown did the spoken word.
https://img.discogs.com/FpnpjAyuy0AQ6KXPnmtwM3MG8So=/fit-in/300×300/filters:strip_icc
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also of note, is a recent live performance,
where interestingly, he did a cover of
thin lizzys ‘the boys are back in town’,
with paul young. its excellent. great guitar
work, and vocals.
negative1ne – I have two copies of “The Bloodied Sword” to one day digitize. Interesting album. I remember seeing it in a Trouser Press dealer ad listed as a “Midge Ure” solo album, so when I saw it I called my local emporium to see if they had it and they did. Got it forthwith. It was not really a Midge Ure album, but as I said, I found in very interesting.
Theres a very good interview with midge ure
on ewwetube. search for jonesys jukebox,
it appeared a couple of days ago, and is about
40 minutes long. covers his history here and
there. recommended.
About ten years ago Midge Ure’s website had all sorts of things like that, some of which were free downloads. He had this career history video that was uploaded in parts and remember waiting and waiting for the last part and ultimately giving up. Too bad, it was a good documentary.
Tim – A Midge Ure documentary hosted on his website? Was it from the late 80s?
This came out in 1990 and I have it on Japanese LD. A nice little hour long look at his career at just the right time as it was peaking just then. It covers everything from Slik/Rich Kids/Visage/Ultravox/Band Aid which was a hell of a 15 year run. Rusty Egan, Bob Geldof, Paul Gambaccini, and Kenny Hyslop all figure in the commentary.
When it comes to giving up waiting for parts of interviews, I’d have to say that the king of the hill for me is the in-depth Warren Cann brain dump on Jonas Warstad’s website. Cann covered Tiger Lily to “Vienna” and I’m withering on the vine waiting for the “Rage In Eden” chapter! But it’s been 15-ish years since this was updated.
KeithC says:
So has this LD been transferred to DVD somewhere in Monkland? Or on YTube? %^)
KeithC – Uh, not yet! I have dozens and dozens of music LDs that I have not converted to DVD since the LD player is an industrial model that still works just fine. I don’t YouTube. Allergic to Google products.
That sounds exactly like the documentary. I was downloading all the chunks, I think there were 8 altogether and he hit 7 and never updated it, or I gave up checking after months and just seeing part 7 sitting there..
He also used to rotate audio file downloads of demos, mixes, live tracks. Not sure what I still have but it was nice to go there and look around.
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Underwater Operation: A pusher needs to work perfectly at depth, without letting water into the watch. This technological challenge has been met head-on by OMEGA. All pushers on our divers’ chronographs are completely functional underwater.
Antimagnetic: Magnetic forces in electronic devices used on land, on deck and even under the sea, can throw a divers’ timepiece out of synch. What’s more, diving equipment often includes magnetic devices. So it is a force that must be resisted.
Shock & Scratch Resistance: Diving is filled with unforeseen hazards, especially when exploring caves, shipwrecks and reefs. OMEGA’s ‘NIVACHOC’ system protects the watch’s regulatory organ, so that it remains functional even if knocked against hard surfaces. Protecting the dial is the scratch-resistant sapphire crystal.
A Deep Commitment to Preservation
Omega’s connection to the sea has made them acutely aware of how fragile our oceans are and the damage we have done as a species. OMEGA’s partnership with GoodPlanet Foundation and its founder Yann Arthus-Bertrand led to the award-winning documentary film Planet Ocean. The Planet Ocean film presents outstanding aerial and underwater ocean views and shows how we can all help improve their health. 10 aerial cameramen and 13 underwater cameramen were sent all over the world to capture the beauty above and below the ocean’s surface for the documentary Planet Ocean. OMEGA organized a number of screenings around the world and with GoodPlanet Foundation, also made it available on YouTube. In Planet Ocean, Yann reveals the mysteries of the seas and sounds a warning about the urgent need to protect.
Now they have collaborated on “Time for the Planet”, two conservation projects in Indonesia. GoodPlanet Foundation and OMEGA have set up two projects for the restoration and conservation of the Indonesian coast. These three-year projects, carried out in collaboration with local conservation activists, are designed to maintain an outstanding natural heritage and preserve local economic activities. The projects have been implemented in the northern region of Sulawesi, which has one of the richest ecosystems on the planet. This ecosystem and its coral reefs are threatened by the overexploitation of resources.
Using a participative community approach, the project proposes to restore and preserve the damaged ecosystems in the region, advancing the understanding of the role mangrove forests and seagrass beds. The GoodPlanet Foundation and OMEGA are working with local communities and authorities to consolidate the protection of the shorelines and raise awareness of the issues among local players. The projects are using focused teaching resources to increase primary and secondary school students’ understanding of the fragile ecosystem and the importance of their local natural resources.
Honoring a Partnership, Supporting the Seas
The Seamaster Planet Ocean 600M GoodPlanet features a bold blue lacquered dial with applied indexes. The bright orange GMT scale on the bezel ring and central GMT hand make it possible to track two separate time zones, ideal for the frequent traveller who enjoys taking in the beauty of the oceans, lakes and rivers first-hand. The caseback, engraved with “GoodPlanet Foundation”, features a scratch-resistant sapphire crystal, making it possible to see the exclusive OMEGA Co-Axial calibre 8605 within. This cutting-edge mechanical movement performs with such reliability and accuracy that the watch comes with a full four-year warranty.
A portion of the proceeds from this watch help fund projects to preserve the mangroves and seagrasses in Southeast Asia and educating the local population about conserving these important natural resources.
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The shaping and reshaping of Kosovo identity
Kosovo’s leaders should focus on understanding the role ethnic identity plays within Kosovo’s borders, and bring down the walls that divide Kosovo’s ethnic groups.
Kosovo’s heavily politicized context is again seeing a surge of ethnic and national debates in light of the issue of “border adjustment” with Serbia.
Coined recently, the idea rests on the premise that an ethnically-based land swap between the two countries would see Serbian-inhabited areas in northern Kosovo join Serbia, while the Albanian-inhabited areas of southern Serbia would join Kosovo.
The political effects have been well analyzed, but less has been said about how such a recipe would affect those that matter most – the people.
As a social psychologist, I believe this is where the heart of the matter lies, as it is among people that post-conflict hardships persist.
While political leaders might find a quick-fix solution appealing, they need to consider the costs that this has on the reconciliation process in the longer run.
What are the costs? First, narratives that focus on border adjustment on ethnic lines risk harming already fragile inter-ethnic relations between Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo.
By treating people exclusively as members of ethnic communities, they are deprived of a sense of citizenship. It amplifies group boundaries, suggesting that Albanians and Serbs as ethnic groups have irreconcilable differences that can only be solved if clean ethnic lines are drawn between them.
Contingent on socio-political factors, group boundaries are important; they play a central role in how people perceive themselves and others, and how they behave towards one-another. They provide a psychological experience through which the social world is categorized and treated.
For example, when ethnic belonging becomes salient (or is activated) in a given social environment, it creates a tableau on which people are categorized into “us” (in-group) or “them” (out-group) terms.
Evidence in Kosovo shows that for both Albanians and Serbs, ethnicity constitutes a dominant form through which group boundaries are drawn.
That is, for an ethnic Albanian or Serb in the Kosovar context, the key defining feature by which the “other” is perceived and evaluated rests on which ethnic background the “other” belongs to.
The stronger these ethnic lenses are, the more negative attitudes towards the ethnic out-group are, the less people support anti-discriminatory policies, and the less they are willing to establish inter-ethnic contact with outgroup members.
This is not to say that having a worldview that is ethnically nuanced is wrong. However, politicizing and institutionalizing ethnic belonging in an already negative inter-ethnic setting, like this one, is.
Not only is ethnicity an important social filter in Kosovo’s intergroup context, it is also an essentialized identity.
This is what a young Serb in North Mitrovica claimed, discussing his ethnic identity: “The fact is that I am a Serb, I cannot change it even if I wanted to. I was born a Serb and that’s it”.
Likewise, in the capital, Prishtina, an Albanian participant similarly concluded that (Albanian) “identity is important. Can you genetically change yourself?…No you can’t because you can’t genetically change the fact that you’re Albanian”.
This primordial conceptualization of ethnic identity implies that members of ethnic groups cannot change, and excludes the option that group identities, including ethnic ones, are socially constructed.
Perceiving ethnic identity in fixed terms suggests the following: If Albanians or Serbs inherit their Albanian or Serb genes and they each perceive the other ethnic group as evil and untrustworthy, the perceived evilness of the “other” group will always be there.
Telling people who have such deep-rooted identity conceptions that an ethnic border land-swap should occur signals that ethnic groups will never learn to coexist with one-another, and that we are all better off if we get settled with our own kind.
Importantly, it frames ethnic identity as something that people need to defend and erroneously threatens it in an already threatening environment, identity-wise.
A threatened identity makes people show an even stronger attachment to it, and a stronger (ethnic) identification provides the basis for possible derogation of others along ethnic lines.
Instead of augmenting this cycle, political leadership needs to acknowledge and recognize ethnicity as a valued identity. It needs to show that it is OK to be a Serb, an Albanian, a Turk or a Bosniak in Kosovo, and that all groups are equal citizens of this country.
Drawing national borders along ethnic lines does the opposite. It scapegoats this.
Secondly, presenting the Kosovo-Serbia border issue along ethnic lines not only diminishes attempts made over the past two decades to improve relations between Albanians and Serbs, but strips away the hope that a functional civic, Kosovar identity will ever develop.
If citizens continue to be treated only on the basis of ethnic lines, why should they bother to see beyond those lines?
It is evident that the civic (national) identity in Kosovo has limitations and is not yet the inclusive multi-ethnic overarching identity that was envisioned back in 2008.
Some of our studies show that the Albanian majority see the Kosovar identity as just another form of their Albanian ethnic identity, i.e, highly representative of their own ethnic group and exclusive of Serbs.
To Serbs who feel that the Kosovar identity does not include or represent them, it provides only a vague platform with which they can potentially identify.
Despite these limitations, however, evidence also suggests that when Albanians are able to perceive the Kosovar identity in more inclusive terms, and acknowledge that it includes all ethnic groups living in Kosovo and not just Albanians, it improves their perception of Serbs.
And although Serbs show little identification with the Kosovar identity, when they do, their evaluations of Albanians likewise improve.
This shows that, although limited in its current form, the new Kosovar identity has the potential to work, if efforts are made to develop it in inclusive terms.
Third, instead of playing the ethnic card, political leadership should provide narratives that help develop this inclusiveness and do not exacerbate the existing exclusiveness.
Unlike other countries in the region, where a sense of citizenship has existed for a longer time, we have an unprecedented opportunity to intervene in the way the Kosovar identity develops, and political leadership needs to play a helpful role in this.
A focus on building symbolic ethnic walls along the border draws the spotlight from where it should focus: on breaking down the walls that already exist within the country.
Two decades since the end of the conflict, Albanians and Serbs still live segregated lives and continue to develop their own parallel universes.
The young, born and raised after the conflict, perceive inter-ethnic relations as tense. The ethnic gap is widening as this cohort of citizens has little or no interaction and cannot even speak the language of the other ethnic group anymore. As much as 50 or even 70 per cent of young Albanians in two samples in Prishtina and Mitrovica say they have never had any contact with a Serb.
One can imagine the kind of attitudes the young develop if everything they know about the “other” comes from war stories, biased political narratives and the media.
Lack of inter-ethnic contact creates a pool in which prejudice grows, as people have no opportunity to question their negative beliefs about the “other”.
The Kosovo political leadership needs to break away from the paradox where it claims to aspire to a borderless European Union but speaks about borders in a damaging manner; where it seeks European integration but ignites divisions between ethnic groups within the country.
The leadership needs to help bring down the walls that have been built within the country, not create new ones that lie along ethnic borders. It needs to make people feel secure about who they are, not threaten them with yet another identity struggle.
It needs to cherish ethnic differences but also point to the commonalities that ethnic groups share as citizens of this country.
The fact that there is animosity between Albanians and Serbs need not be politically amplified as an eternal condition that cannot be changed. It can be.
We need a forward-looking agenda that is not based on patching quick political fixes but addresses the concerns and needs of people.
The debate about borders with the outside should shift to the boundaries on the inside.
The latter may be less visible, but they are much more profound in the meaning they constitute for Kosovo’s people and for the quality of their lives.
Edona Maloku is a social psychologist specializing in identity and intergroup relations. She is a research member of Utrecht Groups and Identity Lab in The Netherlands and a lecturer of Psychology at RIT Kosovo (A.U.K).
The opinions expressed in the opinion section are those of the authors only and do not necessarily reflect the views of BIRN.
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Unique business-zoned Clifton site to go on auction
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1st Beach, Clifton, - the business zoned site on auction for the proposed hotel.
Local and international developers will be virtually bidding on a Clifton business zoned site on the 8th of October for what could become the only luxury hotel on the Atlantic Seaboard with its first hostelry in almost forty years.
Plans for an eighteen-suite boutique hotel spread over several floors above ground and a further three basement levels have been drawn up for the 543m2 site on the mountain side of Victoria Road opposite 1st Beach says Director of High Street Auctions, Rodney Beck.
“A major design feature of the hotel plan is a fully-automated parking garage for twenty-one vehicles with seamless hydraulics performing an intricate valley behind glass walls to shift luxury vehicles in and out as needed” he says.
“A further 235m2 has been incorporated into the plan for entertainment, dining, and reception spaces as well as back-of-house facilities. There is also a retail element on the ground floor, ideal for a coffee shop or a private concierge lobby.”
Beck says that years have been invested in planning and application processes to bring this unique hotel project to the point of fruition.
“The property has been rezoned to General Business 1; a demolition certificate has been obtained for the old cottage that remains at the rear of Erf 337 and excavation of the front portion has already begun. The Council has granted approval for a portion of Erf 145, measuring 76m2 to be sold to the owners of the adjacent Erf 337 for a price of R3.5 million, escalating at 8% per annum from the 1st of September 2018. This portion must be consolidated with Erf 337.”
Beck says that although this acquisition is not compulsory, it allows the developer to build a bigger scheme with more parking and a larger footprint. He has revealed that the new developer will for the first time have the option of purchasing a smaller vacant erf on the Apostle Stairs, adjacent to the right rear portion of the proposed hotel site.
“This lots has always been privately owned. It is currently zoned Single Residential 1, but the possibilities are endless for a developer looking to extend a hotel’s leisure facilities over an additional 445m2. The chances of these two tandem lots ever coming to market at the same time again are slim to none.”
According to 2020’s SA Wealth Report published in April by New World Wealth, the stretch of Victoria Road through Bantry Bay and Clifton where the planned hotel site is located, is ranked as the most expensive street in the country, with pre-Covid-19 real estate prices averaging out to around R80 000m2.
The report also noted that Clifton takes the top ranking as the most expensive suburb in South Africa.
Joff van Reenen, High Street Auctions Director and Lead Auctioneer says it is precisely this exclusivity attracting international investors’ attention to the virtual auction.
“Clifton is the French Riviera of the southern hemisphere. It is a global hotspot to see and be seen, which does not render it impervious to overall downward trends in the real estate sector but does increase its desirability as a safe harbour investment in very turbulent times”.
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The Palm Tower Guide Contents
The Palm Tower (St. Regis Dubai The Palm)
Mixed-use building, Palm Jumeirah, Dubai
Updated 3rd Dec 2020
The Palm Tower Key Information
Mixed-use building
Floors below ground
St. Regis Dubai The Palm
226 one-bedroom apartments
10 two-bedroom apartments
2 three-bedroom apartments
290 hotel rooms
Companies Associated with The Palm Tower
Hotel Operator
Cost Consultant
RSP Architects Planners & Engineers
Al Wasl Al Jadeed Consultants
WME Consultants
Trojan General Contracting
The Palm Tower is a 52-storey mixed-use building under development on Palm Jumeirah, Dubai.
The development will contain an estimated 722 units.
The building will contain a mix of studios, one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments as well as 290 hotel rooms.
The estimated handover date was 2017 which has since been revised to Q1 2021.
Construction began in 2014.
The project is being developed by Nakheel PJSC.
The hotel will be operated by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide.
The design contract was awarded to RSP Architects Planners & Engineers.
Trojan General Contracting has been appointed as the main contractor.
Other companies involved with The Palm Tower include Rider Levett Bucknall, WME Consultants and Al Wasl Al Jadeed Consultants.
The substructure contains three basement levels which are dedicated to parking.
The project is located on plot PJTRVC001.
From The Palm Tower it takes roughly 18 minutes to drive to Dubai Mall, six minutes to Palm Jumeirah, 13 minutes to Burj Al Arab and 13 minutes to The Walk JBR.
This hotel and residential building is situated on the trunk of Palm Jumeirah and is part of the Nakheel Mall complex.
The St. Regis hotel occupies the first 18 floors of the building.
The 432 luxury apartments are all fully furnished.
The studios and one-bedroom apartments occupy floors 19 to 45. The two- and three-bedroom apartments are on floors 46 and 47 and each have a maid's room and private balcony.
There is a rooftop restaurant, infinity pool and viewing deck. Visitors can reach the restaurants via a high speed elevator directly from the food and beverage plaza on Nakheel Mall below.
The infinity pool is one of the highest in the world. It holds 930,000 litres of water and covers an area of 775 square metres.
The Palm Tower provides direct access – via a bridge and walkways – to Palm Jumeirah’s beach clubs, including Nakheel’s Club Vista Mare and Palm Promenade West Beach projects.
Residents of The Palm Tower have direct access to Nakheel Mall via the residences' lobby. The Mall has 350 shops and restaurants plus a multi-screen cinema.
The monorail links the tower directly to both the mainland and the Atlantis Hotel.
The 50th floor is home to a 360-degree infinity pool. The pool is part of the St. Regis hotel and borders all four sides of the 52-storey tower.
The View at The Palm is a unique public observation deck on the top floor that allows visitors to see a full panorama of the sea, the Palm and the mainland from 200m above ground.
The building's design was inspired by the shape of a palm tree.
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The Palm Tower Milestones
Estimated Handover Date
Revised Estimated Handover Date
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The Palm Tower Construction Progress
Main structure
Topped out
In early stages
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Please note that our progress updates are visual estimations only and should not be confused with official progress reports issued by the government regulator.
Concrete work is 80% complete as of February 2018.
In January 2019 construction work began on the rooftop infinity swimming pool.
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Apostle Ivory L. Hopkins is the founder and overseer of Pilgrims' Ministry of Deliverance, Inc. in Georgetown, Delaware, which he and his wife, Evelyn, founded in 1983. Apostle Hopkins travels extensively throughout the United States and foreign countries ministering in his own special, unique way resulting in thousands of changed lives. He flows powerfully in the ministry of Deliverance, the Prophetic and in Church structure.
The first church he was Pastor/Minister of was Holy Grounds PCOG in Milton, Delaware and worked along with Divine Life Mission founder Bishop Wallace Waite in Dover, Delaware. He was saved and began his Spiritual walk under Welcome Full Gospel Holiness Church under Bishop Winfred Gregory.
Apostle Hopkins holds a Doctorate Degree from Rapha Deliverance University, Redlands, California, and a Masters of Christian Ministry Degree from Chesapeake Bible College and Seminary in Ridgely, Maryland. He has authored several books on deliverance and various other Christian topics. He is also Chancellor RDU of East Coast (Rapha Deliverance University).
In addition to traveling, ministering and writing, Apostle Hopkins has an online bookstore where he sells his books, manuals and MP3's. He is also featured on a number of Internet Radio Broadcasts including www.omegamanradio.com. Heoversees several churches and is on the advisory committee for many others.
Apostle Levin Bailey as Pastor of Pilgrims Ministry of Deliverance Inc. near Georgetown, Delaware. He is a graduate of North Hampton Senior High School of Eastville Virginia. He received his Master of Christian Ministry Degree from Chesapeake Bible Seminary College Ridgley Maryland. Apostle Bailey is a teacher of faith, counselor and has and trained many sons and daughters for the work of the ministry. His lovely wife, Rose, is, an ordained minister who works closely beside him in ministry and performs many duties. The Bailey have three children, seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
Head Elder Therman Hopkins - Became a citizen of the Kingdom of God in 1996 through a supernatural deliverance session. He now serves as Head Elder at Pilgrims’ Ministry of Deliverance, Inc. in Georgetown, Delaware under Overseer/Founder, Apostle Ivory Hopkins and Pastor, Apostle Levin Bailey.
He is a graduate of Indian River High School in Dagsboro, Delaware. Elder Hopkins served 10 years in the US Army. He received his Rapha Deliverance University of Practical Ministry Instructor’s Certification in 2012 and now serves as RDU East Coast Head Instructor at PMOD.
Elder Hopkins has a strong Deliverance mantle with a prophetic flavor. He has a Grace on his life for Deliverance and he loves to see
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Elder Hopkins has been married for 16 years to his lovely wife, Rosalind Hopkins, who is the apple of his eye. Therman and Rosalind have six children and five grandchildren.
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Wave and meteorological site characterization for the Wave Energy Research Centre in Lord’s Cove Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
View final version: Wave and meteorological site characterization for the Wave Energy Research Centre in Lord’s Cove Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (PDF, 1 MB)
Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.13140/2.1.2945.2483
Search for: Graham, Michael; Search for: Boileau, Renee1
ICOE 2014 - International Conference on Ocean Energy
5th International Conference on Ocean Energy, 4-6 November 2014, Halifax, NS
wave-powered pump; wave energy converter; test facility; site characterization
This paper describes the wave and me- teorological environment at the newly cre- atedWave Energy Research Centre in Lord's Cove NL (46o 52'43"N 55o 40'10"W). The data were obtained from near-shore surface and sub-surface wave measurement devices and a shore-based meteorological station col- lected over a two year period. Water depth at the measurement site was 25 m. The high- est waves (~10 m) were recorded in fall storms and late summer hurricanes, with late spring and early summer having the calmest water (significant waves typically between 0.5 and 1.5 m). Winter weather was considerably more energetic, with significant wave heights in the 3 to 6 m range. Sustained winter winds were frequently above 60 km/hr, with storm gusts commonly up to 120 km/hr . As might be expected from typical storm tracks in the region and the site's exposure, the highest winds and largest waves were from the southwest. Although hindcast models predict an offshore wave power density in the region of 20 to 25 kW/m, the average power density we detected (within 1 km of shore) was 10.7 kW/m, with peak power of 278 kW/m. It is concluded that the site is sufficiently energetic to assess full scale wave energy device performance and to provide extreme challenges to structural and moor- ing system design.
Oceans Energy Systems
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The near wake of a freely flying European starling
Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4807064
Search for: Kirchhefer, Adam J.1; Search for: Kopp, Gregory A.; Search for: Gurka, Roi
National Research Council of Canada. Aerospace
The wake of a freely flying European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) has been measured using high speed, time-resolved, particle image velocimetry, simultaneously with high speed cameras which imaged the bird. These have been used to generate vector maps that can be associated with the bird's location and wing configuration in the wind tunnel. Time series of measurements have been expressed as composite wake plots which depict segments of the wing beat cycle for various spanwise locations in the wake. Measurements indicate that downwash is not produced during the upstroke, suggesting that the upstroke does not generate lift. As well, the wake velocities imply the presence of streamwise vortical structures, in addition to tip vortices. These two characteristics indicate similarities between the wake of a bird and the wake of a bat, which may be general features of the wakes of flapping wings.
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Locally recurrent rectal cancer: prognostic factors and long-term outcomes of multimodal therapy.
Pelvic recurrent rectal cancer is still a challenging clinical problem, and patients generally have a dismal prognosis and a poor quality of life. Surgical resection represents the only potentially curative treatment; neoadjuvant treatments are presently being taken into consideration to increase the resectability rate and to improve long-term survival. METHODS: Among 157 patients observed with recurrent rectal cancer, a series of 58 patients who underwent surgical exploration with curative intent for isolated local recurrence at a single referral institution was retrospectively analyzed. Demographic, pathologic, and therapeutic factors were evaluated to assess long-term prognosis and local control. RESULTS: Forty-four (75.9%) of 58 patients underwent surgical resection. The overall 5-year survival rate for patients who underwent surgical resection was 54.2%, whereas none of the unresected patients lived 5 years (P < 0.001). Patients with R0 resection showed a statistically higher 5-year overall survival and local control rate (72.4 and 70.2%, respectively) compared to R1 patients (37.5 and 31.2%, respectively). At multivariate survival analysis, feasibility of a surgical resection and radicality of excision proved to be independent positive prognostic factors. In contrast, increased presalvage carcinoembryonic antigen serum levels, back pain at diagnosis, and an increasing degree of fixation of recurrent disease to the pelvic wall at preoperative computed tomographic scan were statistically significantly linked to decreased overall survival. Preoperative chemoradiation and radicality of the surgical excision independently influenced the local control among surgically resected patients. CONCLUSIONS: Surgical resection still remains the most important therapeutic and prognostic factor for patients with locally recurrent rectal cancer. Multimodal treatments can be safely performed by an experienced team in referral tertiary centers and can result in a safer outcome, better local disease control, and even long-term survival in carefully selected patients.
Pacelli, F., Tortorelli, A. P., Rosa, F., Bossola, M., Sanchez, A. M., Papa, V., Valentini, V., Doglietto, G., Locally recurrent rectal cancer: prognostic factors and long-term outcomes of multimodal therapy., <<ANNALS OF SURGICAL ONCOLOGY>>, 2010; 17 (Gennaio): 152-162 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/28424]
Pacelli, Fabio
Tortorelli, Antonio Pio
Rosa, Fausto
Bossola, Maurizio
Sanchez, Alejandro Martin
Papa, Valerio
Valentini, Vincenzo
Doglietto, Giovanni
Titolo: Locally recurrent rectal cancer: prognostic factors and long-term outcomes of multimodal therapy.
Abstract: Pelvic recurrent rectal cancer is still a challenging clinical problem, and patients generally have a dismal prognosis and a poor quality of life. Surgical resection represents the only potentially curative treatment; neoadjuvant treatments are presently being taken into consideration to increase the resectability rate and to improve long-term survival. METHODS: Among 157 patients observed with recurrent rectal cancer, a series of 58 patients who underwent surgical exploration with curative intent for isolated local recurrence at a single referral institution was retrospectively analyzed. Demographic, pathologic, and therapeutic factors were evaluated to assess long-term prognosis and local control. RESULTS: Forty-four (75.9%) of 58 patients underwent surgical resection. The overall 5-year survival rate for patients who underwent surgical resection was 54.2%, whereas none of the unresected patients lived 5 years (P < 0.001). Patients with R0 resection showed a statistically higher 5-year overall survival and local control rate (72.4 and 70.2%, respectively) compared to R1 patients (37.5 and 31.2%, respectively). At multivariate survival analysis, feasibility of a surgical resection and radicality of excision proved to be independent positive prognostic factors. In contrast, increased presalvage carcinoembryonic antigen serum levels, back pain at diagnosis, and an increasing degree of fixation of recurrent disease to the pelvic wall at preoperative computed tomographic scan were statistically significantly linked to decreased overall survival. Preoperative chemoradiation and radicality of the surgical excision independently influenced the local control among surgically resected patients. CONCLUSIONS: Surgical resection still remains the most important therapeutic and prognostic factor for patients with locally recurrent rectal cancer. Multimodal treatments can be safely performed by an experienced team in referral tertiary centers and can result in a safer outcome, better local disease control, and even long-term survival in carefully selected patients.
ANNALS OF SURGICAL ONCOLOGY
Citazione: Pacelli, F., Tortorelli, A. P., Rosa, F., Bossola, M., Sanchez, A. M., Papa, V., Valentini, V., Doglietto, G., Locally recurrent rectal cancer: prognostic factors and long-term outcomes of multimodal therapy., <<ANNALS OF SURGICAL ONCOLOGY>>, 2010; 17 (Gennaio): 152-162 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/28424]
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Vol. 7 No. 2 (2020): Fall/Winter: Partnership-Based Models of Government Programs /
Learning to Ally: Partnerism and the Portland Protests
Leah Baker Fort Vancouver High School Center for International Studies (teacher) and CIIS (PhD student)
https://doi.org/10.24926/ijps.v7i2.3440
partnership, partnerism, allyship, Black Lives Matter, Portland protests, federal agents, justice center, Portland OR
While the Black Lives Matter protests in Portland, Oregon have been largely portrayed in the media as destructive, violent, chaotic, and without focus, many participants experienced something entirely different. This article shares one white person’s experience in a number of racial justice gatherings and protests in Portland from June until August 2020, on the ground and on the “front lines” – in the spirit of and with a focus on social justice, community, and caring, and through a partnership studies (partnerism) lens.
Baker, L. (2020). Learning to Ally: Partnerism and the Portland Protests. Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies, 7(2), Article 8. https://doi.org/10.24926/ijps.v7i2.3440
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PMC to unclog soc sewage
PMC to unclog soc sewage ‘in days’
ByVijay ChavanVijay Chavan / Updated: Oct 30, 2020, 06:00 IST
The civic body had for three months said that the unclogging work could not be done. Now, it has promised to do it within two days; PIC: RAHUL DESHMUKH
Residents of Lokpriya Nagari, Dhanori, had decried inaction on drainage flooding their basement since July
What was made out to be a Herculean task earlier has overnight steered towards a resolution, with a team from Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC’s) drainage department visiting Lokpriya Nagari Housing Society on Dhanori Road and figuring out that the society’s sewage line can be connected to the main line of the civic body, which runs along the society’s compound wall. The work, which could not get done in three months, will now be completed in two days, say civic body officials.
On Thursday, Mirror published ‘Basement flooding irks soc’, highlighting the plight of the 400 residents of the society who’ve been living with clogged sewage lines spilling into their premises since July, courtesy PMC’s inaction. Despite knocking on several doors, they’d to contend with excuses about the difficulties in working the line as it ran through a slum and the alternate route impeded by grown trees. Yet, the local corporator had posted a ‘work in progress’ board outside the society adding to their angst.
On Wednesday, the residents vented their frustration taking down the offending board and holding a peaceful demonstration outside the office of the corporator. On Thursday, not only had the civic authorities finally taken cognisance of their situation, doing a spot visit, but also issued an explicit assurance that the work would be completed in two days with the corporator providing all the machinery and ensuring permissions for the contractor to get on with project.
This follows PMC’s deputy commissioner (Zone-I) Vijay Dahibhate assuring on Wednesday that the task will be taken up without delay if indeed there had been a deliberate attempt at putting it off as was alleged by the residents. “We’re thankful to Mirror for drawing attention to the issue. The officials have now assured us the work will be done in a couple of days, while pumps will also be deployed to flush out the filthy water logged here,” said advocate Deepak Gaikwad, a resident of the society.
Welcoming the development, Datta Raut, manager of the society, observed, “We’re happy PMC has embarked on a permanent solution. But it is also surprising how a solution emerged within a day.” The residents have been living with the sewage water from the neighbourhood submerging their parking lot, five feet deep, since July this year. With the sewage line running through a slum PMC officials claimed they were not being allowed to work on it by the dwellers.
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Davis County County, Utah | Drinking Water Utility Company
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The vicinity drinking water of North Salt Lake City Water System may be tainted with several pollutants such as Monochlorobenzene (chlorobenzene), Silver and Chlorodifluoromethane, and may suffer abnormally high levels of water hardness. North Salt Lake City Water System supplies the area with drinking water that sources its water from Purchased surface water.
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About North Ogden PrintFeedbackShare and BookmarkPress Enter to demonstrate all alternatives, press Tab go to next optionFont Size:+-Among the main individuals to abide in the North Ogden region were Native American Indians. A large portion of these individuals were Shoshone, having a place with clans, for example, the Paiutes, Utes, Shoshones, Goshutes, and Bannocks. These groups drove a traveling way of life with their yearly developments driven by the accessibility of water, eatable vegetation, and wild game. The Shoshone called the zone "Opecarry," which meant "stick in the head." Their trails associated the North Ogden domain with zones presently known as Liberty, Huntsville, Eden, Ogden, and Cache Valley, Utah. European Americans originally visited the North Ogden zone in the mid 1820s. They were essentially trappers who were progressively inspired by the rich gather of beaver hides than in building up changeless settlements. The primary record of a visit to "Ogden Hole" (presently known as North Ogden) was in 1821 by a trapper named Etienne Provost, who cultivated the zone alongside others until around 1844, when trapper Miles Goodyear obtained the vast majority of the land from Ogden Canyon to North Ogden Canyon. The Ogden name got from Peter Skeen Ogden of the Hudson Bay Company, who was once thought, erroneously, to be one of the main trappers in the region. In 1848 Miles Goodyear offered his property to Captain James Brown of the Mormon Battalion. The price tag was $3000 and the zone gained stretched out from the Wasatch Mountains on the east to the Great Salt Lake on the west, and from the Utah Hot Springs on the north stretching out 20 miles toward the south. Jonathan Campbell Jr. also, his nephew Samuel Campbell were among the main pioneers in North Ogden, just as John Riddle and his child Isaac. They moved north from Ogden in the fall of 1850, however withdrew to Lorin Farr Fort when strain heightened with Native Americans. Returning in the spring of 1851, the Campbells and Riddles planted yields and set up ranches. They were trailed by around 18 extra families by October, 1851. In 1852 the Weber County Court set up a common government in North Ogden, with Jonathan Campbell as boss, Crandall Dunn as equity of the harmony, and Franklin G. Clifford as constable. As debates with Native Americans proceeded, Brigham Young guided the North Ogden occupants to construct a stone divider around the town for security. In the end, harmony was made before the divider was finished. In 1856, the Utah region was compromised by the U.S. Armed force, which was directed to "assume control over the domain and crash the Mormons and their heathenistic rehearses." Brigham Young arranged the individuals to leave their homes to help ensure the Salt Lake zone. North Ogden inhabitants made a trip south to Spanish Fork until Brigham Young arranged a quiet settlement with the military. Throughout the fall of 1855, the greater part of the yields were cleared out by a plague of crickets, leaving the pioneers shy of nourishment. Winter set in ahead of schedule with abnormal force, which murdered the vast majority of the domesticated animals. The domesticated animals were nourished tree limbs and the straw from sleeping cushions, yet many died. Individuals depended on social affair thorns and lily bulbs for their own endurance. Early pilgrims in this desert district had to build water system frameworks to redirect water to their rural terrains. During the 1800s and mid 1900s, numerous North Ogden occupants developed harvests for business resale just as for individual utilization. They raised animals, chickens, honey bees, fish, and planted enormous plantations and nurseries. A handling and canning plant was worked for the sugar beet industry. A spike from Ogden's railroad framework (The "Spurious Line") was developed to move the beets, products of the soil to sell on the interstate market. A grist factory was built on Cold Water Creek in 1854. The timber business began in 1856, a stick plant was developed in 1863, and the trade business started in 1863. Block making and the freighting enterprises likewise began during the mid-1800s. A lime furnace worked close to Cold Water Canyon. Numerous families worked mines throughout the winter a very long time after yields were gathered. Different ventures included well penetrating, blacksmithing, and with the improvement of autos, administration stations were basic along 400 East. After the Great Depression in the mid 1930s, the region started to change as the populace expanded. Pioneer farmlands and plantations vanished as private and business properties created. North Ogden was consolidated as a town in 1934, choosing David G. Randall as the principal city hall leader. The primary Cherry Days festivity was hung on July 14, 1932, with the aim of extending the cherry market all through the states. The festival turned into a yearly custom a while later, with moves, ball games, horse-pulling challenges, marches, and free sacks of fruits. North Ogden was officially announced a city in 1950. During the next decades, city board individuals and occupants effectively sought after the objectives of empowering family-arranged living. North Ogden was one of the principal urban communities in Utah to choose an arranging commission and embrace an end-all strategy. Municipal structures and offices have been developed and improved during the time with a library, pool, parks, senior focus, exhibition hall, and nature trails. Schools have been developed, improved, and extended. "The Stump" has been recreated in Centennial Park, offering free, reviving, artesian well water for all to appreciate. Numerous organizations flourish in North Ogden, including eateries, banks, grocery stores, comfort stores, practice offices, cleaners, beauticians, wellbeing and dental centers, and that's only the tip of the iceberg. Streets have been produced for simple access to thruways, roads, and the Frontrunner. Numerous homes have been built throughout the years, some single-family homes and some condos and loft structures. Statistic Trends and Characteristics North Ogden's populace demonstrates an unobtrusive increment in the course of recent years. In 2010 the number of inhabitants in the city wa.
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Poppy Harlow CNN, Age, Husband, Salary, Net Worth, Wedding, Real Name
Date Updated: January 15, 2021
Birth Date May 2, 1982
Birth Name Katharine Julia Harlow
Nickname Poppy
Birth Place Saint Paul, Minnesota, US
Residence Brooklyn, United States
Age 38 years 8 months
Height 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 m)
Weight 55 kg (121 lbs)
Relationship Status Married
Husband Sinisa Babcic (m. 2012)
Katharine Julia Harlow popularly known as Poppy Harlow is an American journalist. She is an anchor of CNN Newsroom and is well known for reporting at Forbes too.
Poppy Harlow is an American journalist born on May 2, 1982, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, US. Her nationality is American. She belongs to white ethnicity. Her religion is Christianity and her zodiac sign is Taurus.
She was born to her father James Lee Harlow and her mother Mary Louise Baird. Her father died when she was just 15. She graduated from The Blake School in 2001, which is a private co-educational college preparatory school. She later graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor's degree in political science and middle eastern studies. After interning at CBS while she was in college, she continued working for CBS Marketwatch and after graduation, she started working as an assistant producer for CBS Newspath. After that, she became an anchor for NY1 News' Local Edition. She was hired by Forbes video network in September 2007 where her area of coverage expanded to fashion, entertainment, and business. Later, she joined CNN in 2008 and worked as an anchor and reporter for CNN. She was named as a New York-based CNN correspondent in April 2012. She has also won the Gracie Award for the best online investigative program and SABEW's Best in Business award.
She is currently living in Brooklyn, United States.
Personal Life; Wedding, Husband, Children
Poppy Harlow is a happily married woman. She was married to Sinisa Babcic on September 1, 2012. The two met when Poppy was visiting her family in Minnesota after she graduated from Columbia. Their wedding location and engagement date are not known to us currently. We will soon update it.
Her husband Sinisa Babci is an acclaimed journalist and also a business analyst.
Poppy and Sinisa are blessed with two children (a son and a daughter). Their daughter Sienna Babcic was born on April 11, 2016, and two years later on February 6, 2018, their son Luca Babcic was born.
Poppy Harlow with her husband and children | Source: Poppy's Instagram
Net Worth, Salary
Poppy Harlow’s net worth is estimated to be around $6 Million. She earns a huge huge salary of $2 Million every year and is living a cool lifestyle.
Height, Weight, Measurements
Poppy stands at a height of 5 feet 5 inches (1.65m) and weighs around 55kgs (121 lbs). She has an attractive look with blonde hair and hazel brown eyes. She has a fine body measurement of 34-25-36 inches. Her shoe size is 7(US) and her dress size is still unknown.
Profession, Education & Net Worth
Profession Anchor, CNN Newsroom
High School The Blake School
College Columbia University
Active Years 2005 - Present
Net Worth $6 Million (Estimated)
Salary $2 Million Per Year
Detailed Physical Stats
Body Measurements Breast - 34 Inches
Waist - 25 Inches
Hips - 36 Inches
Dress Size N/A
Eye Colour Hazel Brown
Hair Colour Blonde
Sinisa Babcic (m. 2012) (Husband)
Wedding Date: September 1, 2012
Wedding Location: Will Update Soon
Engagement Date: Will Update Soon
Started Dating: Will Update Soon
First Met: Will Update Soon
Poppy Harlow with her husband, Sinisa Babcic. | Source: Poppy's Instagram
Father James Lee Harlow (Attorney)
Mother Mary Louise Baird
Children 2; (One Son & One Daughter)
Luca Babcic
Date of Birth: February 6, 2018
Sienna Babcic
Self: Caucasian
Unknown Facts about Poppy Harlow
Poppy Harlow was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, US
Her husband name is Sinisa Babci who is a journalist and a business analyst
She has 2 kids; Sienna Babcic( Age: 4 years old) and Luca Babcic( Age: 2 years old)
Her zodiac sign is Taurus.
She stands at a height of 5 feet 5 inches.
Her estimated net worth is around $6 Million
She currently lives in Brooklyn, United States
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