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Research article 11 May 2015
Research article | 11 May 2015
Global warming increases the frequency of river floods in Europe
L. Alfieri, P. Burek, L. Feyen, and G. Forzieri L. Alfieri et al. L. Alfieri, P. Burek, L. Feyen, and G. Forzieri
European Commission – Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
Correspondence: L. Alfieri (lorenzo.alfieri@jrc.ec.europa.eu)
Received: 19 Dec 2014 – Discussion started: 23 Jan 2015 – Accepted: 25 Apr 2015 – Published: 11 May 2015
Abstract. EURO-CORDEX (Coordinated Downscaling Experiment over Europe), a new generation of downscaled climate projections, has become available for climate change impact studies in Europe. New opportunities arise in the investigation of potential effects of a warmer world on meteorological and hydrological extremes at regional scales. In this work, an ensemble of EURO-CORDEX RCP8.5 scenarios is used to drive a distributed hydrological model and assess the projected changes in flood hazard in Europe through the current century. Changes in magnitude and frequency of extreme streamflow events are investigated by statistical distribution fitting and peak over threshold analysis. A consistent method is proposed to evaluate the agreement of ensemble projections. Results indicate that the change in frequency of discharge extremes is likely to have a larger impact on the overall flood hazard as compared to the change in their magnitude. On average, in Europe, flood peaks with return periods above 100 years are projected to double in frequency within 3 decades.
How to cite: Alfieri, L., Burek, P., Feyen, L., and Forzieri, G.: Global warming increases the frequency of river floods in Europe, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 19, 2247–2260, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-2247-2015, 2015.
This work presents, to our best knowledge, the first pan-European assessment of the future hydro-meteorological hazard based on an ensemble of the new EURO-CORDEX regional climate scenarios. We propose a novel approach, which shows how the change in the frequency of future floods in Europe is likely to have a larger impact on the overall flood hazard as compared to the change in their magnitude. A consistent method is proposed to evaluate the agreement of ensemble projections.
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Why do some believe that ordinary persons like Mata Amritanandamayi or Sai Baba have extraordinary powers?
August 19, 2019 /0 Comments/in Q&A-Avatars & Saints, Q&A-on Amma /by C.V.Rajan
To answer this question, one must essentially delve deeper into the concept of Avatar in Hinduism. One must also try to understand the concept of Advaita in Hinduism. One must be able to grasp the grandest statement of Hinduism that everyone has the potential to attain Godliness. You may say, all these are essentially beliefs and say, “I can’t believe unless ‘scientifically proved’ ” , we will come to some amount of proving a bit later.
According to Hinduism, God takes up human form and comes to live among us to teach us the right dharma and show the way for spiritual advancement for earnest seekers from time to time. They also annihilate evil forces that tend to tilt the balance towards adharma and restore dharma — It is the Avatar.
Avatars, though by looks and physical behaviour will be like a human beings, they are NOT just ordinary mortals. So, fundamentally, Satya Saibaba and Mata Amritanandamayi are NOT just ordinary people. They are avatars.
The way they lead their lives, the way they demonstrate super-human capabilities right from childhood, the way they influence people who are truly attracted towards them through faith and surrender, the way they make miraculous changes in the lives of people (either overtly or covertly), the way they accomplish unbelievable tasks within unbelievable time-frame, the way they spread love and care on humanity cutting across all caste, creed and religious barriers, the way they create a massive revival of spirituality — are all beyond the comprehension of ordinary mortals.
Those who are skeptical,who think they are very rational, think they know all about human beings and God, think they are “scientifically oriented” , who declare themselves proudly as non-believers by closing their ears, eyes, nose, mind and heart and declare “No — these Godmen and Godwomen are all only frauds bent upon cheating and looting people” can only be deluding themselves from reality.
Now coming to the proof.
Thousands of personal experiences can be given by people who experienced changes in their lives by coming to Amma or Satya Sai. You will say “these are concocted stories spread by blind believers in vested interest”.
Just set aside some 20 minutes of your time by keeping your eyes and heart open and go through the following link that contains the historical record of what Mata Amritanandamayi has done in each and every year of her living in this world amidst us in the past 64 years:
Life Timeline of Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi) – with images
Some of the happenings are deeply spiritual about which I am sure you will not be inclined to even learn/digest. But there are also things done to the world. There are records and proofs. Then come to your own conclusion:
How are the grandest tasks accomplished?
They are accomplished by believers’ dedication and hard work; through the money people donate willingly; through the fees collected from institutions; through selling of products and services that the believing devotees (consisting doctors, scientists, teachers, professors, doctorates, engineers, pharmacists, writers, publishers, technicians, artisans, labourers and so on) contribute with love and dedication. A considerable percentage of the services are voluntary.
After all, people who do all these works (as instruments of the avatar) are human beings with their own limitations, deficiencies and inefficiencies too. So, along the side of grand things happening, you will also find some shortfalls, some imperfections, some little blunders and some wastages here and there. But if you look at the macro picture, the negatives will not too big. It is also a part of the divine maya. Nothing is 100% perfect in creation.
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What does Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi) say, as a woman saint, on the matter of allowing young women to Sabarimala Ayyappa temple?
August 3, 2018 /3 Comments/in Q&A-on Amma /by C.V.Rajan
Mata Amritanandamayi is a highly respected woman saint in Kerala with a huge following, who is popular across the globe for her expression of universal love and her social and philanthropic activities. She has been contributing in many ways, both spiritually and socially, in removing the inequalities that women have been facing.
As a woman saint, her viewpoint on this sensitive subject of allowing women into Sabarimala carries weight and requires a serious study. Below is the English translation of her Malayalam talk on this subject:
“In fact, there is no bar for ladies to visit and worship at Sabarimala temple and many ladies are indeed visiting and having darshan of lord at Sabarimala. The only thing is that as part of the procedures of austerity stipulated for devotees visiting Sabarimala, there is restriction for women of a specific age group to visit the place.
In Amma’s conception, God is beyond the distinctions of man and woman. But when we consider ‘God’ as a principle and God as a formally consecrated ‘deity’ in a temple, there is subtle difference that we must take into account. God is indeed an infinite consciousness. But a deity inside a temple is not exactly same.
There is a difference between the two — like the difference between fish in the seas and the ornamental fish carefully nurtured at homes in the glass tanks. If you don’t feed food at proper intervals for the fish in the tank, they cannot be sustained. But we don’t have to bother about feeding the fish in the seas; In the same way, for formerly consecrated temple deities, we have to conduct daily pujas, offer sanctified food, do special pujas on special occasions as per prescribed norms in the Shastras or else, the divine consciousness existing in the deities would get deteriorated.
On the other hand, God as an omnipresent and omniscient entity will not get affected anyway whether formal worship is done to Him or not.
Just like the different fish types in the glass tank require provision for oxygen and feeding of specifically formulated fish food, different deities in temples require different and specific mantras for worship and procedures for cleanliness and purity to be maintained in the temple. The mantras meant for a smiling deity would be different from the mantras of the same deity conceived in an expression of anger (rowdra bhava). Even though the same divine power permeates everywhere, the specific ways and practices in which the deities in specific temples have been conceived are different.
With regard to Sabarimala, the faith of the devotees of Lord Ayyappa is that the rules and procedures of austerities prescribed for the temple are based on the wish of Lord Ayyappa who undertook penance in the hills as a ‘Nitya Brahmachari’ (ever celibate) and prescribed the regulations before he entered into samadhi. It is based on this belief that ‘Malikappurathamma’ is still waiting outside and those devotees who follow the prescribed austerities and procedures can visit and have a darshan of the lord.
Since devotees follow such a strict regimen (including sense control) , it is not right to demand that young women should be permitted entry in to Sabarimala and olden practices and rules should be changed accordingly.
It is not right to demand that all the temple conventions should be thrown to dust. Such practices and conventions are like pillars holding the dharma.
If at all there is a such a need for change, actually it is the women, who are ardent devotees of Lord Ayyappa, are the ones to state their stand on this matter. After getting such an opinion, let the Government, temple shastra pundits and the priests sit together, discuss it and come to a decision. If there is really a need, then rules may be reviewed and changed; but is should not end up like bathing a child repeatedly for cleanliness with water and then throwing away the remnant water along with the child!”
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Mata Amritanandamayi – FAQ on Amma
March 19, 2018 /0 Comments/in Q&A-on Amma /by C.V.Rajan
Who is Amma?
Amma (meaning, mother) is Mata Amritanandamayi, a lady Hindu Saint, a God-realized (or self-realized) sage, a true knower of Universal Self (Brahma Gnyani) , who is considered an Avatar (God descended to earth in Human form, according to Hindu beliefs) and a Satguru (a spiritual teacher of the highest order) whose expression of divinity is through her unsurpassed expression of love towards all beings.
How old is Amma? What was her original name? Where was she born? Who are her parents? Where is her place?
Bhavatarini Kali Temple, Amritapuri Ashram
Amma is now 64 years old . Her original name was Sudhamani. She was born on 27/09/1953 in a fishermen community, at a remote village (Parayakadavu/ Vallikkavu) near the Arabian sea about 20 km away from Kayamkulam town in Kerala State, in South India.
Her father’s name is Sugunananthan and her mother’s name is Dhamayanti. Sudhamani was their third child. Sudhamani had 4 brothers (one elder and the rest younger) and 3 sisters (one elder and the rest, younger).
It is in this small village is her Ashram Mata Amritanandamayi Math is situated. This place is now called Amtitapuri. In the limited strip of land between the Arabian sea and back waters, the Ashram’s sprawling complex comprising of a temple, a large Darshan Hall and a few multi-storeyed residential apartments for all her disciples and devotees is situated.
Why is she called Amma?
The word Amma in Tamil and Malayalam means mother. She is considered the avatar of the Universal Divine Mother (varyingly called Parasakthi, Jagat Janani, Jagadamba, Rajarajeshwari, Parvati, Vaishnavi, Maha Maya, Kali and so on, who, according to holy mythology, is the divine consort of Lord Shiva). For Amma, every one in this world, irrespective of whether he/she is younger or older than her, is her child and all her children call her Amma. Amma’s love to her children is unconditional and she has no barriers of caste, color, creed, religion or anything else to express her motherly love to one and all. The young Sudhamani, who was later christened Mata Amritanandamayi by her devotees, thus became the mother of one and all and a “hugging saint” right from her 22nd age.
Why is Amma called the “Hugging Saint”?
In Hinduism, going and seeing a God in a temple or seeing a Saint is referred to as having a “darshsan”. Darshan means seeing. In India, it’s the practice that great Saints stand or sit at a distance and his devotees will go and prostrate before him/ her to express their reverence. Some Saints will permit touching of their feet by close disciples. In Hinduism it is the practice to touch the feet of holy and elderly people as a mark of reverence and this touching of the feet of a divinely person is believed to bestow us good spiritual fortune.
It is also believed that any bodily touch of the saint will transfer one’s sins to the saints and this way one gets purified, but the saint who has accepted the sins will have to go through the physical suffering for having accepted the sins of others. So, except on very special occasions or considerations, all and sundry will not be encouraged touch the saints.
Amma’s way of giving ‘darshan’ is to individually embrace each person.
That’s totally absent in Amma’s case. Amma, out of her unbridled love on all her children, gives “dashan” to every individual by embracing him/ her physically. Whether one is healthy, clean or unclean – as unclean as a leper whose skin oozes with pus, Amma embraces one and all.
Perhaps the term “hugging saint” was coined by western media when Amma visited USA first in the year 1987.
In Hinduism, isn’t it said that a Guru is needed for one to attain self-realization? If so, who is Amma’s guru?
Amma is a divine incarnation. She is a swayambu (self manifested); she is not of the normal class of spiritual aspirants who can seek the ultimate truth only through the guidance of a Guru.
But, Amma was soaked in the deepest divine bhakthi (love of God) right from her childhood. Her yearning to have a vision of her beloved God, Krishna was consuming her like a flame; she cried unceasingly for uniting with her beloved lord; her whole of waking consciousness was enveloped in that single thought. Songs praising her lord and begging for his darshan poured out from her lips involuntarily.
With all this at one side, she had abundant energy to do physical domestic work, which she did tirelessly for her family; her parents understood nothing of her divinity; they thought she was mentally insane. Her very dark complexion was a subject of distaste for them. They showed no interest to educate her formally. Apart from a little of primary education that enabled Amma to read and write in Malayalam (her mother tongue), Amma had no worthy “worldly” education to speak of.
This sort of unceasing and all consuming love of God, is called Parabhakthi in Hinduism. It is also known as Prema Bhakthi. Chaitanya Deva (a saint of Eastern India) had such a divine love for Krishna in the past. Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, another saint of the past from Bengal had this divine love on his beloved Holy Mother Kali.
Through this power of Prema Bhakthi, saints realize God. That’s how Amma realized Lord Krishna; Lord Krishna merged into her and became one with her. At her 20th age, Amma became a realized soul.
Then why is it said Amma is a divine incarnation of Universal Mother?
Amma, after realizing God in the form of Krishna (Purusha, the male principle) was then caught in a tempest of love on the Universal Mother (Prakriti, the female principle). It was her second phase of prema bhakti on God, now directed at the female principle. After going through a maddeningly intense “tapas” (severe spiritual austerities) to have the vision of her “true mother”, without virtually missing even a second to keep calling her “Amma”, amma realized her goal; she ultimately found Divine mother revealing her glorious form and eventually merging in her. It happened at her age of about 22.
Wait. You say, Lord Krishna merged in Amma. Then you say, Universal Mother merged in Amma. But you said earlier that Amma is a divine incarnation of the Universal Mother. Isn’t all confusing?
One requires a deeper understanding of Hinduism to grasp all these. In Hinduism, there is only one God, known as Brahman (also called Paramatman, the supreme Atman), who is all pervading, is without beginning or end, and is beyond name and form. But the same Universal being, when related to the physical realm of the world and the cosmos with names and forms, becomes the creater, sustainer and the destroyer. He, in this role, is attributed with names and forms and is amenable for worshiping as Ishwara (God). Hindus have the freedom to worship Ishwara in any form very dear to their heart.
A Hindu can worship God as Vishnu ( the protector), Shiva (the destroyer), the Shakti (the Universal Mother), or in any forms of divine incarnations like Rama, Krishna and so on. Ignoring names and forms, it is the same God who is the in-dweller in all beings as Atman, because the God and his creation are not two entities.
Depending on the extent of one’s self awareness, one perceives God as a separate entity as Ishwara (the Dwaita – duality concept) , or as Paramatman — the soul of the individual soul (Vishitadwaita – the qualified non-duality concept) and as Atman (one’s own Self, being the Absolute reality, with nothing second existing — the Advaita, non-duality principle).
All these 3 states are true in some way or other, depending on the extent of one’s realization of the ultimate truth. While Advaita, the non-dualistic state is the ultimate truth which is realized by a qualified seeker at an exalted state where the “I” consciousness becomes totally absent, the other states also become relative truths as one descends back to worldly consciousness — when “I” and “you” are perceived.
For a person of Amma’s level of attainment, Advaita is the state of attainment and state of being. But, purely out of compassion to serve the society and guide all earnest seekers to realize the ultimate truth, Amma descends to the mundane level and plays her divine act with all of us, like a person acting in a drama with different masks and makeup.
Amma, though, in her true state remains as Atman, with nothing secondary to it, she, at the relative level, sports a “bhava”, a divine mood. When, as a seeker, she loved the lord (Ishwara) in the form of Krishna (who is nothing but the all pervading Atman, but now worshiped with name and form), she realized her own Atman and it was experienced as if the Lord Krishna merged in her. The same explanation holds good for divine experience and mood –“bhava” as a divine mother.
Amma, though originally expressed her divine bhava as Krishna, she, later opted to express her bhava as Divine mother too. Still later, she opted to express only the divine mood as Universal mother – Devi Bhava and discontinued her Krishna Bhava.
It’s Hindu’s belief that God descends to earth to uplift mankind and show ways to salvation from time to time, based on the specific needs of the time. As Amma displays her divine bhava more as a mother, her devotees hail her as an Avatar of Universal mother.
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa says “Avatar is only for the sake of Bhaktas (lovers of God). Gnyanis (seekers of True Knowledge without sentimental emotion to forms of God) have no significance to the idea of Avatar”.
Thus from a bhakta’s viewpoint, Amma is an Avatar — the Avatar of the Universal Divine Mother. From the intellectual seekers’ view point, Amma is a Gnyani — Knower of Atman, a self-realized soul, a jivan mukta (one who has attained deathless state while being alive), or one who has attained, from a Buddhist viewpoint, Nirvana. For an earnest spiritual seeker looking for spiritual guidance, Amma is a Satguru.
8. Let her be God, Avatar or whatever. What is that she has done for the world? In what way has she contributed for the welfare of the mankind? People say she is now heading a multi-million dollar empire?
Amma’s every breath is for the welfare of the mankind. She sets examples; she inspires countless people to serve the world. Thousands of devotees from all walks of life come to her and join her with their money and resources to serve the world in so many ways. That’s how so many of her institutions have sprung up.
She has inspired thousands of young men and women to renounce worldly life and lead a life of brahmacharya, do spiritual practices and seva; countless householders have left behind their comforts of life to settle in the ashram and do service as well as sadhana.
Embracing the World is a global network of regional humanitarian organizations inspired by the Mata Amritanandamayi Math. Embracing the World exists to help alleviate the burden of the world’s poor through helping to meet each of their five basic needs — food, shelter, healthcare, education, and livelihood — wherever and whenever possible.
If you want to know what she has done to the world, here is a brief list:
Left: Post tsunami, houses constructed at Nagapattinam Right: Flats constructed for tsunami affected people in Sri Lanka.
2001 Gujarat Earthquake – Construction of 1200 earth quake resistant homes for the affected people.
2004 Tsunami in India and Sri Lanka – built 6200 Tsunami-resistant houses, supplied 700 new fishing boats, constructed an evacuation bridge (in case of similar future calamities) , providing vocational training to 2500 victims and so on.
2005 Hurricane Katrina relief in USA – donating $1 million to Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund
2005 Earthquake in Kashmir – Free food and medical supplies
2005 Mumbai floods, 2006 Gujarat floods, 2008 Bihar floods — Over $1.5 million spent in medical aid, food supplies and shelter.
2009 Cyclone Aila, West Bengal — medical care and food supplies
2009 Floods in Karnataka and Andhra –$10.7 million relief package including medical care, food, supplies and building of 1000 homes for displaced refugees.
2010 Haiti Earth quake — Mediacl supplies, blankets, providing scholarship to students
2011 Japan earth quake & tsunami — $ 1 million relief focusing on children orphaned in the disaster.
2012 LPG Tanker & Fireworks disasters in south India — Aid to families of dead and injured.
2013 Uttarakhand floods — Rs 50 Cr0re relief package to construct 500 houses destroyed in the Uttarakhand in 42 selected villages in the districts of Rudraprayag and Uttarkashi. Also cover educational scholarships, pension to widows and women empowerment activities.
2013 Typhoon Haiyan relief at Philippines — Mata Amritanandamayi Center, USA donates 1 million dollar aid for people affected.
2015 Chennai Floods — Supply of food and medicines, Rs 5 Crore donation to Chief Minister’s relief fund.
== Chennai Flood relief == Br. Abhayamrita Chaitanya distributing food packets to affected localities. Swami Ramakrishnananda Puri handing over cheque for Rs.5 Crores to TN Chief Minister Jayalalitha.
Free Housing
Completion of 45,000 homes for the poor throughout India
Other Aid Projects
Providing 41,000 scholarships to children of impoverished farmers, with a goal to reach 1,00,000 students.
Empowering 1,00,00 women by providing startup capital, vocational education and access to micro credit loan
Organic farming initiative to support 10,000 poor people to grow organic vegitables in their own land.
Orphanages for 500 children in Parippally, Kerala and 50 children in Nairobi.
Yearly feeding of over 10 million poor people inside India, 1,00,000 people outside India including 75,000 in USA via Soup kitchens
Pensions for 59,000 destitute women and the physically and mentally challenged, with a goal to reach 1.00,000 such people.
Running 4 care homes for the elderly in India
Prisoner-welfare project in USA provides solace for prison inmates
2015 — Rs.100 Crores donated for constructing toilets in the poorest villages surrounding the Ganges River as part of Swachh Bharat and Namami Gange project.
2015 — Another 100 Crore project for constructing toilets in the houses of the poor in Kerala.
2017 — Rs.200 Crore project of providing filtered and clean drinking water to 5000 villages in India, to benefit 10 million people in rural areas.
A typical filtering package set up in each village for providing clean, filtered water under Amrita’s Jivamritam scheme.
AMRITA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES (AIMS) (Ernakulam)
Not-for-profit 1,300 bed hospital (210 bed ICU) providing advanced health care to patients including free medical care for the poor.
serving more than 10 lakh outpatients and more than 70,000 inpatients annually. The massive healthcare infrastructure with over 3.33 million sq.ft. of built-up area, spread over 125 acres of land, supports a daily patient volume of approximately 3500 outpatients with 95 percent inpatient occupancy. There are 12 superspeciality departments, 45 other departments.
More than 2.6 million people have have received complete free treatment since 1998.
Telemedicine support for hospitals and more than 40 remote centres across India and parts of Africa.
Free health check up in remote areas providing preventive health care.
Five branch hospitals providing free care to the poor
AIDS care home at Trivandrum and Cancer Hospice at Mumbai
Free palliative in-home care for the terminally ill
Conducting more than 100 free medical camps annually throughout India
Providing 1,00,000 women with training to become in-home nurses in more than 6000 self-help groups
AYURVEDIC MEDICARE through Amrita School of Ayurveda (Amritapuri) with 160 bed hospital
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Amrita University) having 5 campuses with Schools of Engineering, Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Arts and sciences, Biotechnology, Business, Journalism, Ayurveda and Education. More than 20,000 students and 1,500 faculty members. (NAAC A grade University).
Amrita Research Labs and other research departments are continuously involved in developing innovations in communication, e-learning, computer sciences and Biotechnology.
30 leading Universities worldwide including Stanford, MIT, NYU, EPFL in Switzerland, VU in Amsterdam, TU Munich, Roma Tre, ETH Zurich and the University of Tokyo cooperate with Amrita University to enhance higher education and research in India.
Institute of People’s Education provides job training and community development.
United Nations commended literacy-training program for the tribal populations
47 Amrita Vidyalayam schools throughout India, providing value-based holistic approach to learning
A school for hearing-impaired children in Kerala
Spiritual, Cultural
Aerial View of Amritapuri Ashram 2017. The Arabian sea on the right, the TS Canal at the left and the middle strip of land is Alappad. Amritapuri Ashram is studded with multi-storeyed buildings. The Amrit Sethu bridge can be seen at the left.
Mata Amritanandamayi Math – Amritapuri Ashram (Kerala India) is the international headquarters for Amma’s service work, which is carried out through hundreds of branch centers and service groups world-wide.
The Ashram houses several hundreds of Brahmacharis, Brahmacharinis, Householder devotees, monks, hostel students, westerners and so on.
IAM (Integrated Amrita Meditation) Technique and Amrita Yoga are taught free throughout the world.
Spiritual books and magazines (‘Matruvani’) printed at the ashram in multiple languages are distributed to devotees across the country and world.
Regular shastra (scriptural teaching) classes are conducted in the Ashram.
AYUDH is the youth wing of Amma’s devotees and followers inspiring youngsters in leading a balanced life including spirituality and seva as part of worldly life.
GreenFriends initiative cutivates reference for Nature and has arranged and inspired planting more than 1 million trees since 2001.
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To watch Video on Amma’s global activities:
EMBRACING THE WORLD WITH HER ABUNDANT LOVE AND HUMANITARIAN ACTIVITIES
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Does Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi) give Mantra Diksha? If so, mantra of which God? When does she give Diksha?
Yes. Satguru Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (Amma) does give Mantra Diksha to her devotees and earnest spiritual seekers. She gives them selectively, at her own discretion, when a request is made to her while taking her darshan. She gives mantra diksha to householder devotees as well as to renunciates and Brahmacharis & Brahmacharinis. She selectively gives diksha to non-Indian, non-Hindu devotees too. Several of her western devotees have taken diksha from her.
What sort of mantra does Amma give?
Amma mostly gives diksha to devotees based on their existing Ishta (personal God) – It could be Shiva, Devi Parashakti, Kali, Rama, Krishna, Vishnu and so on). On some specific cases, she may give an alternative mantra (other than the seeker’s Ishta) too, as she knows the innate nature and tendency of the person whom she is giving Mantra.
There are also cases where a person has already taken diksha from elsewhere (like Sri Ramakrishna Math, for example) and may want Amma to give him mantra again. In some cases, Amma may advise the person to continue with the old mantra.
A lot depends on Amma’s assessment of a person’s samksaras. For some, she may ask to wait for some more time before asking for mantra.
When does Amma give Mantra?
A person who wants to take Mantra diksha from Amma has to request her when he/ she is taking darshan from Amma. If Amma agrees, the person has to wait till the darshan comes to the end on that night. Amma will give diksha at Amritapuri Ashram as well as at other places where she tours. Diksha will be given only on her darshan days and not on non-darshan days. When Amma is in Amritapuri, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays are the normal darshan days.
Depending on the crowd, Amma’s darshan may end at any time in night — before midnight, after midnight, early in the morning etc. Those who want to take diksha from her are expected to wait till the darshan ends at whatever time.
Announcement will be made in the TV screens calling the persons who are waiting to take mantra diksha to assemble at one designated place near the dais. Amma’s assistants will note down your Ishta Devata or your preferred God and hand over to you a Mantra card containing your mantra (to be kept secret with you and not to be disclosed to anybody) and the necessary instructions regarding preparations and practices of chanting the Mantra.
Before Amma leaves the stage after giving darshan to all the people, she calls the people who are waiting for receiving the mantra. Amma hugs each person and whispers the specific mantra meant for the person into his/her ear. She blesses them by sprinkling flowers on their head and giving them a prasad. Except for waiting for this time to arrive, there are absolutely no other procedures involved.
If one needs any clarifications or has any doubts, they can always approach the assistants and they will help you.
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We Just Got a Glimpse of Kate Middleton’s Most-used Emojis
Kate Middleton may be a future Queen, but that doesn’t mean she’s any fancier than the rest of us. At least when it comes to her choice of emojis.
In late November, the Kensington Royal Instagram account shared a video of the Duchess of Cambridge answering questions about “the Early Years” project and general questions around child-rearing, which Kate defined as pregnancy through age 5. For a split second, Kate flashes her phone toward the camera to show off just how many questions they received, and in doing so, inadvertently shared all her own favorite emojis.
According to eagle-eyed fans, Kate’s most recently used emojis include two girls holding hands, a pineapple, sliced-up cucumber, a gust of wind, a purple alien monster, a woman bowing emoji, the vomiting face, and the swearing face.
Of course, we have no way of knowing the context to any of those emojis, and this also assumes Kate uses her own actual phone when promoting the Kensington Royal Instagram account, but man oh man do we have some theories on why she uses these emojis so often. (Theories we won’t share here out of fear that the royal family will come for us.)
Though the focus of this Instagram post has been Kate’s love of emojis, the video does go on to share important insights around parenting and the Duchess’ passion for The Early Years, her first solo initiative, which launched in 2018.
According to Vanity Fair, Kate launched the program in collaboration with a group of child development experts in an attempt to address the mental and emotional wellness of children and the future of early childhood education.
“This isn't just about happy, healthy children,” the Duchess shared in the video. “This is about the society I hope we could and can become.”
Stacey Leasca is a journalist, photographer, and media professor. She’s convinced the “prayer hands” emoji is actually two people high-fiving. Send tips and follow her on Instagram now.
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Book review: Trigger Mortis by Anthony Horowitz (a 007 novel)
By: Brian Smith
Trigger Mortis (2015) – A (mild spoilers) review by Brian James Smith
Having read all forty continuation novels, I declare Anthony Horowitz’s Bond debut to be the best of them all. Trigger Mortis positions itself within the original continuity of Ian Fleming's series a mere two weeks after the events of Goldfinger (1959). The inclusion of Pussy Galore at the start of the story echoes Fleming’s From Russia With Love (1957) where we find out the fate of Tiffany Case, and gives closure to that particular relationship. It also shows Bond a little less sharp when on home soil, something that may be his undoing before the adventure is finished. These opening events serve as a precursor to the main storyline involving SMERSH’s attempts to raise the prestige of the Soviet Union, whether it’s in the glamourous world of Grand Prix racing or the space race.
Intelligence received indicates that a famous British motor racing champion, Lancy Smith, will be the target of a SMERSH operative during the Grand Prix at Nürburgring, Germany. This section of the novel is inspired by an unpublished Fleming short-story, Murder On Wheels - also the title of Chapter (Double-0) Seven - in which Fleming places real-life motor-racing legend Stirling Moss as the target of SMERSH. James Bond is dispatched by M to stop this inventive assassination and the chapter in which Bond receives his briefing from M and Bill Tanner has Ian Fleming’s own writing seamlessly intertwined with Horowitz’s own. Bond must undergo a crash course in motor racing before taking to the wheel of a Maserati in the Grand Prix. While in Nürburg, Bond spots his Russian racing opponent, Ivan Dimitrov, in the company of Vladimir Gaspanov, a high-ranking member of SMERSH and probable successor to Colonel General Grubozaboyschikov (last seen in From Russia, With Love) and Korean businessman Sin Jai-Seong, Westernised to Jason Sin.
Having dealt with the Grand Prix, Bond meets the mysterious Jeopardy Lane in Sin’s German castle and follows a lead to the United States where he uncovers Jason Sin’s SMERSH-backed plot to discredit the American space race with a wanton attack on New York City. Sin is a totally rounded character. His motivation stems from the real-life massacre of July 1950 at No Gun Ri, South Korea, where refugees, fleeing North Korean forces, were slaughtered by a combined U.S. ground and air attack. Not exactly their finest hour. However, it is Bond’s humanity, even as a trained killer in the service of Her Majesty’s government, which separates the two men. As one would expect, Bond must endure extreme mental torture and display superior physical stamina if he is to beat the odds.
Anthony Horowitz has genuinely come closest to capturing the style of the original books. To its credit, Trigger Mortis, is shorter than the recent efforts of Messrs Sebastian Faulks, Jeffery Deaver and William Boyd which immediately gives it the pace and readability of a Fleming original. Horowitz also successfully gets inside Bond’s head (perhaps the only other author to do so was Charlie Higson). The novel feels like a 1950s-written piece, with the descriptions of the foreign villains just on the right side of acceptability for the modern reader. Moneypenny is returned to the correct characterisation, not the pseudo-film character of recent efforts, helped, no doubt, by the return of Loelia Ponsonby. At its heart Trigger Mortis is the epitome of what the originals were all about – a straight pillow fantasy of the bang-bang, kiss-kiss variety that keeps you turning the pages. I hope the recent trend of hiring a different writer for the adult Bond novels is broken and we don’t see the ‘Trigger Mortis’ button pressed on Anthony Horowitz any time soon.
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The Tesla S comes to Menlo Park
by Chris Gulker on June 17, 2009
Tesla’s new all-electric $50,000 4-door sedan, the Tesla S, now graces the firm’s Menlo Park showroom on El Camino Real. The car is surprisingly large: the company claims five adults and two children can comfortably ride in the very green machine, which goes up to 300 miles between charges.
This model is actually a prototype built for exterior photography, so we couldn’t actually sit in the unfinished interior, much less drive it, but the car is promised for 2011 or 2012 delivery (you can reserve yours today).
Tesla, which announced that it has now shipped 500 of its $100,000, 2-seat roadsters, thrilled Menlo city fathers when it took over and nicely rehabbed one of the five vacant car dealerships that line the east side of El Camino.
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One Lying Director…
March 23, 2017 August 4, 2017 ~ internationalschoolsreview
..If things don’t go well between a teacher and a school director, historically we’ve seen directors who’ve used their position to destroy the teacher’s International Teaching career. Of course, there are two sides to every story, but when recruiting agencies automatically choose to consider only one side of the disagreement, that of the bigger-of-the-two paying-customers, it’s always to the teacher’s detriment.
..International Schools Review is the result of just such an incident. A teacher had a misunderstanding with his director. The director told his own version of the ‘truth’ and had the teacher blackballed. Letters of protest and explanation from the teacher were met by the recruiting agency’s standard phrase: “We weren’t there to witness the events which took place.” Translation? Your word isn’t worth a damn! Teacher’s response? We need a site to inform and support teachers. Translation? Welcome to International Educators keeping each other informed at International Schools Review!
..Today, fourteen years since the inception of ISR, we still find isolated cases of teachers being blackballed, based on a vindictive director’s claims. Here’s a case in point:
from the ISR Forum
Hello All, Our first international job landed us working for a terrible director and the relationship between us ended badly (as in we really did not like each other). When we tried to sign up with Search she outright lied about us, saying something to the extent that we were let go before the end of our contract for “conduct unbecoming of a teacher.” Based on her feedback, Search denied our application. From this same school we have SEVERAL outstanding peer and parent references.
Since that time we’ve had two other positions, completed contracts, and have great references from our administrators. So, we tried to apply to Search once again, only to be told that because of what this first woman said they can NEVER take us on as candidates.
I am upset that the words of one lying director can outweigh the multitude of positive words of other administrators. This seems wildly unfair!
Is our only recourse to go with ISS? Have you heard of a situation such as ours, and what did people do? Cheers and thanks for any feedback
..Beyond helping International Educators make the right choice of schools, ISR helps Recruiters to know what’s going on at various schools, and to realize that some schools and school leaders are literally a menace to educators’ careers. We have witnessed, since the inception of ISR, that when a conflict arises Recruiters are now more likely to take a fair and unbiased approach to reaching a resolution.
..Some people just aren’t cut out to be International Educators; but, when a vindictive director uses their position to punish Educators with whom they’ve had a disagreement, there’s a problem. Fortunately, teachers in such a position have taken it upon themselves to Share their experiences on ISR so others can avoid making the same errors. Don’t let a school director be a menace to YOUR career, or that of colleagues!
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34 thoughts on “One Lying Director…”
Munro says:
International schools are often structured on antiquated management structures with several catch-22s built in to what is meant to be a system of checks-and-balances. Boards, usually composed of parents with kids in the school, are not free to “do their job” in an environment in which a poor Director, with vindictive and autocratic tendencies does not hesitate to encourage his staff to “make life difficult” for the kids of board members. When schools allow teacher children and director children to attend the school, it creates a conflict of interest – the Director children depend on teachers for their grades
– the Director is the boss of the teachers and other staff – .
The points raised by different teachers in this discussion are not surprising and have been seen by us in a few international schools. This is particularly true in Austria. When you see the lack of institutional accountability in the US govt it is not so surprising that schools don’t have much.
In relation to teachers taking down a director
it is so incredibly hard to crack the protective walls around heads of school that
any time teachers actually bother to raise and signal the truth and base it in reality… there is likely to be a lot of truth to the allegations. Teachers are busy. The last thing they want to do is bring down a head with lies.
The Search “Associates” are nothing but leeches that will soon lose more of their market share. Over my twenty years in IE, I have seen countless teachers mistreated and screwed by directors who know they hold the power with Search. These teachers inform Scam Associates of what happens and then Search does nothing, but blacklist the teacher at the end of the conflict. I’ve seen teachers who did not get paid, not get their flights back, etc, leave their schools and then were told they broke contract.
The next year, these same lying schools will be at fairs. It is only after NUMEROUS complaints that Search will decide to blacklist these schools, but only if they think the school’s reputation is too badly damaged publicly; this has nothing to do with teacher safety or their careers.
And it’s only getting worse for teachers with this company. A friend of mine worked at a school for three years. During his final year, he had a nightmare principal who nobody liked (The principal eventually only lasted two years at this school.) Anyways, to get on Search my friend needed this woman’s reference, as did many other teachers that year. What happened? The obvious. She lambasted many of them and they did not get any interest. Did Search bother to see the common denominator? Nope. Why? This principle would be looking for 25 new teachers at a fair the next year.
As a school counsellor, I don’t depend on Search because there is a smaller pool of people competing for my job. I am lucky to circumvent these leeches through direct applications and networks. There are a few good Associates out there, from what I heard, but this business is bad for International Education, because of their money grubbing and corruption. They do have a nice website, though. But With improving technology and communication platforms, Search Associates should be out of the market in twenty years, anyways. I never understood why a school would pay so much money every year when there are so many internal application platforms available with confidential references.
Rik says:
The recent review of David Walsh, principal of Shanghai United International School, shows just how effective the International Schools Review is – and how dangerous can be the effects. Following the very negative review about David Walsh posted by a previously-employed ex-colleague there, there was a full-blown witch hunt. Computers were seized and checked, staff who had already resigned were suspended from work despite not a shred of evidence being found. Staff were told not to communicate with the suspended teachers on pain of dismissal. The careers of these ‘scapegoats’ are in ruins. As your contributors rightly comment, bad school leaders can be found everywhere. The really worrying thing is that the school’s executive simply stuck their collective heads in the sand and allowed the principal’s witch-hunt to continue. Rabbits caught in the headlights? Tough it out and the storm will die down and soon everyone will forget? Anyone thinking of applying for a teaching job at Shanghai United International School should think twice. I left the school 18 months ago and am pleased I did so. As there were many who left, I presume that they will not be able to identify me…
Esther Joseph says:
David Walsh is fast heading down a path of destruction – the pits he dug for others, he himself will fall in. I had a terrible experience with him a few years ago and he tried to bulldoze my career and reputation – well, it did not work. I still went back to China some time later. The replacement teacher they got only lasted a few months and that teacher too was eventually thrown out. After I left he hired and fired many others. David Walsh has earned himself the title of ‘Hitler of SUIS schools’. But a strategy is coming soon and he will be exposed globally on international TV news networks along with other Hitlers of international schools – after this, he will never get another job and hopefully he will find a hole to hide in and enough money to survive on, When things on an international scale hit him and his allies. I hope he has enough money for a lawyer but they say, when the Chinese deal with you, its brutal and this is how they will deal with this man. Things have come to a head – it’s time for global action to fight for our rights as professionals instead of allowing the same destructive cycles of brutal directors and owners to be repeated year after year. The time has come to act and fight.
powerinnumbers says:
I was told by a director, who I respect very much, that “they” have a group of over 300 professionals who will not share references with the person requesting to protect the integrity of letters. I understand and respect this. My idea is that ISR could start a system, a sub-service, whereby teachers can review Principals and headhunters. This is just a suggestion, but we have power in numbers and could begin by surveying leaders and others.
Done That says:
Isn’t that what the director and principal report section is for? Maybe they should add a recruiter report but I feel like the basic “sub-service” is already in place.
Dumpling says:
Too bad you can not elaborate on this situation.
Can you elaborate more on this situation?
Linda Deborah Healy says:
The best one can do might be to have a strong network of colleagues that work together in conscious, collective support of one another… Do this personally, on your own, and in consort with the likes of International Schools Review… Operate independently and outside the system… Chose your employers with the UTMOST care… Be the selector! This is the post-truth era…
A few years back I worked as a disillusioned junior administrator on a team where the Superintendent would instruct her team of heads to give the disruptive / non-performing teachers who had provided intent to leave “glowing” reviews as she wanted to be sure her school got rid of them. Her words:- “I want to make them someone else’s problem.”
On the flip-side, there was those who she ruthlessly blackballed. She attempted to tarnish the career of anyone who called her into question, challenged her idea’s or anyone she perceived as a threat. Needless to say I learned a lot about what not to do working for the lady.
Later it was with relief that I discovered the particular Superintendent I speak of had been marked as an unreliable referee. Her moves have been down the ladder rather than up.
On the upside, my dealings (recruiting and hiring) with the Services is that they do track patterns and they are extremely well-networked. In my experience they have only been supportive and well-intentioned and they do patterns.
Working with people is tricky. Whether interviewer or interviewee we all know the right thing to say. Teachers recruiting or administrators hiring, must take time, rushing brings 2 years worth of stress.
This is a small community with a multitude of tools (ISR included) which bridge us. Staying connected with one another is not just informative but fun. There need be no excuse. Six degrees of separation applies in International Education – it works, if you take the time.
Many years teaching says:
This has happened to me. A director made sexual advances. I politely said no and told no one.
They have not given me good references even though I worked hard and never caused any difficulties.
Very hard to prove but I caught him by having a friend in a hiring position at another school call him for a reference. He is a rotten egg.
Search is too quick to believe the employer. If a teacher has glowing recommendations for many years from all schools and there is 1 bad one, who should search believe?
And while we are talking about search, what about the crap search wrote about why they won’t conduct online job fairs???!!! Time to find alternatives to rotten egg directors and Search.
This is not an isolated case in any way shape or form. I have been to 8 international schools in my 16 years of teaching internationally and unfortunately I never found one place where the director was worth his beans. I feel that these directors are all big snake oil salesmen. They have no idea about education and could not care any less about teachers or staff in general. They want to pick up their big paychecks and sit in their ivory towers and look down on all us minions doing the grunt work. These people lie unabashedly about a lot fo things. THeir egos are way too big and they are basically overpaid ego maniacs. It is why I have returned back to North AMerica. I can not stand the hypocritical way intl schools are run and the lack of protection for teachers. These dishonest snake oil salesmen can get away with murder, and having teachers deported, put in jail, passports confiscated and other horrible things in countries where they have no rights, and go home with millions of dollars and sleep well at night. It is deplorable. When I tell my teaching colleagues now in NA they are appalled and can not believe some fo the things I tell them that directors and principals have done and continue to do internationally. Problem is they will keep getting away with it since they are not held accountable. School boards are a big joke. They do nothing and certainly do not have teachers best interests in mind, which is ignorant of them because if teachers are happy students are happy and things run smoothly. Honestly all of these admin types should be banned they are as a whole a horrible and corrupt bunch of people. Glad I am not around it anymore. Get out while you still have your sanity and reputation in hand.
This happens too often. The past principal at my last school would Google former teacher’s names and see which schools they were at. He then would email the schools to complain about the teacher. There are complaints in ISR about this principals at several schools and even one newspaper article but this guy is still able to get a leadership position.
WASC, CIS, NEASC, IB, etc., do not offer any support especially if you are a lower tier school where I think many complaints come from.
I personally have no faith in Search or other recruiting agencies. Their bottom line is money so of course they will stand by the schools and directors before the teachers.
Remainder says:
WASC are completely useless and their credibility has been challenged given some of the appalling schools that they accredit.
Absolutely agree with you about WASC. Their accreditation means very little to many teachers I have spoken with and yes, I have worked at “WASC” accredited schools that were horrific.
I worked for a director who either refused to write letters of recommendation or would write skimpy ones. No big deal. I went around him and never asked for a letter.
I had another principle, who I found out was giving me negative reviews. I had a friend call him pretending to be a principle. This is how I found out. Now I list the counselor as my supervisor. You just have to out think these idiots.
There are terrible principles and school boards in the states as well. There is no perfect world in education.
Michael Rossouw says:
I agree with Omgarsenal and Barbara’s comments, especially when Directors tell recruiters “I don’t want to say anything bad about anyone, so I won’t say anything at all.” This comment has cost me at least one position, which, I know that my previous director made to the recruitersdeliberately spoil my chances of landing that particular position. In my time at this school I believe that, when I left, I left as a teacher in good standing. Never once was I disciplined or reprimanded for any incident regarding unprofessional conduct nor anything related to incidents which may have warranted disciplinary action in terms of the school’s code of conduct.Despite this I have been hired (twice) since then, but the damage caused to a teacher by a former director making statements such as this can be irreparable.
Mills says:
Yes, it is too bad there is no way of retaliating against these ‘directors’ who give international education a bad name. I guess as someone else suggested, you could complain to your embassy – they won’t do anything but mud may stick and then of course, there is ISR… just because there is no review doesn’t mean that the director or school is good.
Ouch! says:
I was totally jacked by a director. The disgusting man tried to come on to me. I rejected him repeatedly. He eventually fired me citing as a reason that I didn’t display a professional appearance. I could have worn a paper bag and this perv would have harassed me. His secret is out on ISR. I’m still on the circuit. He is not.
awareness says:
I have been through both great and horrible leaders. Two schools ago the Director (Principal) told me to remove my title of Director of Student Services immediately because the only Director was him. Alarm bells went off, I could not prove my title was written anywhere on paper (lesson learned!), and I spent two years with my head down trying to avoid him and his ego and self-esteem problems. Recently I applied for a job with the same educational group and know that he gave me a bad reference that led to application failure. What was most hurtful was that the school I was applying to did not give weight to the other 5 reference provided that were positive.
My previous school had a brand new director that came to us not having finished her contract. She proceeded to get rid of me for “breaking the contract”. Never at ANY point in time was I actually given a reason. She has also continued to “get rid” of people. Prior to me our counselor and after me another teacher. This woman is unfit for her job and intimidates staff and forces them to lie. I have NO doubt that there are unqualified and unethical directors all over. This is the real world unfortunately.
I never listed her as my director and avoided any questions about the situation.
My experience with Search has been positive but it all depends on who your recruiter is. Bob Barlas (Canada) has been very supportive and actually sniffed out a false bad reference for me and my wife and also found a nice position for us the following year.
That said, since there is no accountability or any way to take these lying administrators to task,legally or administratively, one has to be clear about references, ask the reference about what they are likely to say and even ask to see the reference beforehand.
Lying administrators are common overseas since there are NO union protections in place (no unions!) and the old boys and girls club that are job fairs, allow them to badmouth and sabotage anyone’s career, even their fellow administrators.
We will NEVER be safe until there is an international syndical organization that overseas teachers AND administrators belong to that has sufficient power and prestige to confront such lyers, and their all too tolerant owners/boards.
I actually had a very good relationship with my administrator (the last one of 4 over a 2 year contract), but because I have seen said administrator give completely false and harmful references for other teachers who also finished their contracts in what they thought was good standings- And certainly never saw the negative references coming, I have not asked for a reference. It does make getting hired at a reputable school a bit harder, but not impossible. Sometimes schools do listen… But I also NEVER Bad mouth ANYONE- even when they emphatically deserve it.
catherine Blackmore says:
It happens quite a lot in International Schools. Lying about many things in fact that do not happen once you step inside the door of the school. There are many other very helpful recruiters who do not charge applicants so ask your friends how they were successful in obtaining their positions and give SEARCH A MISS
Hitchhiker says:
Agreed.SEARCH is not the only recruiter. In fact, most of my colleagues who are leaving a toxic secondary school this year (I left already) because of the lying, ineffectual little rodent disguised as a ‘director’ got well paid positions through a variety of other agencies. This pitiful excuse for a human being only reluctantly provided basic references that couldn’t be trusted and at the end of the day, anyone using him as a referee would be crazy. One teacher reported him to WASC and the American Embassy. Teachers circumnavigated him and got references from the curriculum director and counsellor instead. Two of the teachers plan on bailing out over the summer despite having signed contracts for next year. Retaliation for bad treatment.
Teexh says:
I was actually told by the Director of Search that they would not accept me because I had a Thai wife. Their loss I found a job a week after. Search treat teachers like dirt in my experience
Socrates says:
And if we are at the same school, other high school teachers are quietly doing the same thing. The ‘curriculum’ director is a title in name only for the particular teacher that hates the ‘director; and idiotic owner of the school as much as everyone else and is also leaving – guess he gave his counsellor buddy as his referee.
Prefer Not to Say says:
I’m currently in a similar situation. My director and head of studies have not provided references for me. When I tried to sign up with Search, I approached both of the director and head of studies with requests for references because I wanted to leave this particular country. Both of them initially agreed, but they never completed the references for Search after multiple reminders about their agreement to do it before the deadline. I tried communicating with Search about the situation, offering to provide multiple references from students, parents, and co-workers, but they would not accept them. To make it even better, at the time I was the CAS coordinator and head teacher for one of the grades in high school. Once the Search deadline passed, they took these responsibilities from me and gave them to two other people with no relevant experience. The new CAS coordinator could barely speak English (the language of the school and IB program), but just happened to be quite friendly with the head of studies during that particular year. The school sort of has a responsibility-based bonus system, so that was an unexpected cut in my pay. When I asked them about it, they said I was no longer reliable. This went on for two years.
This year, our school was inspected by the IB. The director and head of studies (also IB coordinator) were hysterical about this. We had training on how to respond to the inspectors’ questions, particularly about support from the admin. The inspectors demanded that the school start providing IB professional development support for us, so they bent and made a dramatic announcement in front of the inspectors that everyone was going to do workshops. During the inspection, and the professional development hysteria, I took advantage and asked them for a reference for entrance into another university diploma program. They said, “Sure, write your own and let us look it over before you submit.” So at least I have some sort of a reference.
This is part of my problem with international education. The industry lends itself to qualified teachers who come and go. But most application processes assume that directors and heads of studies are as virtuous are their marketing slogans.
Ferula says:
I am hearing more and more stories similar to this one. The only weapon that teachers have is to post on ISR and warn others. There are some very vindictive and insecure directors out there. I always ask for a reference after one year even on a two year contract as I say that I want to update my portfolio ..anything can happen before the end of a contract.
Ferula, I did the same, however so many recruiters now want a “blind” reference and it must be from current or last administrator in charge. They need to fill out the reference sheet sent by the school or recruiter. Which really leaves you stuck in some cases. My former school had more than 1 administrator who no matter WHO the teacher was and under what circumstances they left, would slam them in the references. There isn’t much you can do in circumstances like this.
mautio1 says:
i had that experience. i knew a former head mistresses was speaking evil of me. i had four letters from parents and a two page memo from at least 12 of my parents pointing out her negative attitude towards me and her unprofessional behaviour towards me. I have had to use it because I was dismissed and need to defend myself in future jobs. I refuse to lie about not working because that will come back to bite me. I refuse to not have integrity.
Hi. I did that. I posted on here of the treatment I was receiving at a school. A parent saw it, reported to the head mistress who threatened me with dismissal. She did not like my honest report. Four parents gave me glowing reference letters and my students’ parents wrote a scathing two page memo to the board regarding her behaviour towards me. She dismissed me 3 weeks before the end of the school year much to everyone’s dismay. she is evil.
catherineblackmore2 says:
The Directors want to keep their job so they are puppets of the Chairman or Owners etc. If they go against their demands there own position is at risk. Half of them are nothing but puppets looking for their next opportunity.
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First Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant Conducted At SKIMS
Observer News Service | November 27, 2020
Srinagar: The Department of Clinical Haematology at SKIMS Soura has for the first time in Jammu & Kashmir performed a matched sibling Allogenic Stem Cell/Bone Marrow Transplant for a patient suffering from Severe Aplastic Anemia.
An official statement said that this procedure is a highly advanced treatment and is done at only two other Government Hospitals in the whole of Northern India (AIIMS New-Delhi & PGIMER, Chandigarh).
Dr Javid Rasool, Professor and HOD Clinical Haematology said that “prior to this, our patients had to go outside J&K for the procedure of transplant which would cost them Rs. 20 Lacs to Rs 50 Lacs depending on the centre.”
“The success of Stem Cell /Bone Marrow Transplant at our Institute will provide new hope to the poor patients of Blood Cancer and other haematological disorders,” he said.
A sixteen-year-old boy from Ladakh (12th class student) came to the Department of Clinical Haematology at SKIMS and was diagnosed as severe Aplastic Anemia.
As his marrow stem cells were affected, the only curative treatment option for him was Stem Cell Transplantation.
https://kashmirobserver.net/2020/11/27/first-allogeneic-stem-cell-transplant-conducted-at-skims
“Fortunately, his sister’s bone marrow stem cells were found to be matching. So, the patient was taken for Allogenic matched sibling transplant. Presently, the patient is doing well and has been discharged in stable condition. This will open doors for the poor patients with Blood Cancer and other haematological disorders including immunodeficiency disorders,” he added.
The Director SKIMS & EOSG Dr A G Ahangar complimented the whole Department of Clinical Haematology including faculty members: Dr Sajad Geelani Addl. Prof, Dr Reashma Roshan Asstt Prof, Dr Afaq Ahmad Khan Asstt Professor and Senior Residents (both Clinical and Lab side), Resident staff as well as Paramedical Staff of Ward 5P, technical staff (lab. side) and office staff of the Clinical Haematology Department.
The Department of Clinical Haematology appreciated the Department of Blood Transfusion and Immunohaematology for their support.
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New and effective solutions to the problem of grain security: enhancing the development of the forage grass industry
WANG Mingli
During 2003–2014, China’s grain production had achieved the eleventh increase in a row. Meanwhile, China’s agriculture also faces the shortage of water and land resources, outstanding problems of quality and security of products, heavy pressure on the ecology, low production efficiency and other outstanding restraints. The traditional ideas must be reconsidered from a fresh and wide perspective for solving the problem of grain security. This paper suggests that grain security should be repositioned from the perspective of the entire food system. Currently, the problem of grain security in China is forage security in essence, namely, the sufficient supply, and quality and security of animal products. China’s agricultural structure has been adjusted basically every 20 years, namely, the monotonous structure of grain as the key link from the middle 1950s to the implementation of the reform and opening-up policy, the dual structure of grain crops + cash crops from 1978 to 1992, and the triple structure of grain crops, cash crops and forage crops from 1992 to the present. Now, China’s agricultural structure has entered another new period for adjustment. In the current planting structure of grain crops + cash crops + forage crops, the planting area of forage crops actually accounts for over 20%, but the planting area of forage grass keeps at around 1%, so the development of forage grass industry has long remained sluggish. The forage grass industry must be introduced to the agricultural production system to advance the quadruple planting structure of grain crops + cash crops + forage crops + forage grass, so as to increase grain production directly or indirectly, reduce consumption of grain directly or indirectly, and finally reach the goal of grain security by multiple solutions.
The organizational cost, exclusive resources and the initiator’s control of the rural mutual financial cooperative
ZHU Qianyu;LUO Xing;MA Jiujie
This paper, based on theories of the organizational cost and exclusive resources, adopted the game theory and the method of case analysis to analyze and verify the initiator’s control of the RMFC at its beginning. According to its main conclusion, the organizational cost and exclusive resources put in by the initiators played an important role in the initiation and operation of the RMFC, which provided the initiators with a strong bargaining position, significantly heterogeneous to the common members. Without external intervention, the initiators tended to possess the residual claim and residual rights of control of the RMFC. When the RMFC meet external intervention, the initiators could still have control under soft restraints while chose to dissolve the organization or turned to moral persons under hard restraints.
Responses of the farm households to mortgaging operational rights to rural land and its influencing factors—a micro empirical analysis on the basis of the zero-inflated negative binomial model
CAO Li;LUO Jianchao
This paper adopted survey data of 1272 farm households from Tongxin and Pingluo counties in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region as well as the ZINB model to empirically analyze the farmers’ responses to, differences in and influencing factors on mortgaging operational rights to rural land under the market-dominating mode of Tongxin County and the government-dominating mode of Pingluo County. The study showed that the gender, ages and educational levels of household heads, proportions of labor force of the farm households, areas of operational land, operational types, social capital of households, enthusiasm for handling business of financial institutions, farmers’ borrowing experiences and differences in modes of mortgaging operational rights to rural land, all had significant effects on the frequency of responses to mortgaging operational rights to rural land. Farmers’ responses to loans under the market-dominating mode was more active than that under the government-dominating mode; meanwhile, the gender and age of the household head, any family member or relative as the village cadre and borrowing experience were common influencing factors on farmers' responses to mortgaging operational rights to rural land from the two regions. Among them, farmers’ borrowing experience was the most important influencing factor.
Influences of reforming the system of rural land property rights on the rural financial market—the mechanism and micro-evidence
ZHANG Longyao;WANG Mengjun;LIU Junjie
The new round of reforming the system of rural land property rights mainly includes the confirmation, registration and issuing certificates of the right to land contractual management, and granting the right power and functions as mortgages and guarantees. This paper established a theoretical framework for analyzinginfluences of reforming the system of rural land property rights on the rural financial market, and verifiedinfluences and the influencing mechanism empirically with data of 707 sample households in pilot and non-pilot regions. Results showed that effects on the credit supply of mortgaging rural land appeared preliminarily, and the credit supply of financial institutions for mortgaging rural land had a preference for scales. The confirmation of rural land right and the circulation of rural land improved rural households' nominal credit demand significantly, but due to legal restrictions and credit rationing of financial institutions, 43.24% rural households with nominal credit demand could not express their demand effectively, but rather transfer it into potential credit demand. Amending relevant laws that restrained mortgaging rural land, and improving the system of mortgaging rural land would help to improve credit terms for these rural households.
Non-household operation of large-scale farmland by household farms and specialized farm households: behavioral logic, operational performance and deviation from policies
SHANG Xudong;ZHU Shouyin
With rapid development of urbanization and the migration of massive rural labor force, the non-household operation of large-scale farmland by household farms and specialized farm households emerged. It was both logical behavior of the agricultural operators to maximize the total income and a miniature of governmental policies to guarantee steady grain production and cultivate the key force of farmers. In reality, since the operational performance was hard to achieve the expected saving of element input and profits based on scales, large-scale ploughing, sowing and reaping by agricultural machinery, employment-based operation, purchasing agricultural materials at low prices and so on pursued by the non-household operation of large-scale farmland could not compensate for the rising agricultural cost caused by the price premium of transferring large-scale farmland and the ratchet effect of employees' salaries under the Lewis turning point. Meanwhile, some problems during the operation, such as low efficiency of employees, the high supervising cost aggravated the disadvantage as Murphy's Law + Matthew Effect in the non-household operation of large-scale farmland by household farms and specialized farm households. In addition, due to decreases in the rate of land yield, behavioral logic of the operators tended to expand and pursue subsidies from the government against the objective of the governmental policy which was to support their development, guarantee supply of grain and other key agricultural products, which might increase operational risks of the agricultural operators as well as administrative and financial burden of the local government.
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Nintendo's Break From Constant Hype Is Refreshing
Toad and Toadette possibly working through their Switch backlog.
Image: Nintendo
The least-important problem of 2020 might be Nintendo’s newfound reticence to hype its games, but it’s still worth taking a moment to recognize how unusual—and even potentially positive—a situation this is.
At this time last year, Nintendo Switch owners were able to bank on at least one Switch-only game per month, from July through November.
Nintendo would’ve just released one exclusive game (July 19’s Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3), with another (July 26’s Fire Emblem: The Three Houses) slated for the end of the month. Then you could plan for a new game in August (Astral Chain), one in September (The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening; two if you count a port of Dragon Quest XI), one in October (Luigi’s Mansion 3; with a surprise second October exclusive, Ring Fit Adventure, announced later in the year), and one for November (Pokémon Sword & Shield).
In contrast, Switch owners are flying blind into the second half of 2020. Switch saw just one exclusive released this month (July 17’s Paper Mario: The Origami King). And announced for the months to follow? Nothing yet, other than some general idea that the externally developed No More Heroes 3 Bravely Default II will be out this year.
That is indeed weird. For years, Nintendo, a company that specializes in selling the future based on memories of the past, conditioned its fans to expect a Nintendo Direct presentation every other month or so, using those digital events to perpetually map out the next several months of releases. But Directs have been scarce since last September, and Nintendo skipped the chance to do its annual second-half line-up E3 presentation this year.. No E3, no showcase. Nintendo hasn’t done a Direct that featured its own games since March. Monday’s new “mini” Direct only showed other companies’ games.
This isn’t a bad thing, really. Arguably, this is a very healthy situation for a gaming population used to constantly being sold upcoming games. We don’t really need to know much about what’s coming next, right? There are countless games out now that are worth playing and discussing. There are possibly even more games to get to in all of our backlogs. Now is a chance to engage with the games already in front of us, without the distraction of theoretical games that are months away.
Plus, there’s the pandemic. Nintendo management’s indicated that it is adapting to work-from-home conditions and doing okay in the short-term, at least. Earlier this summer, Nintendo head of game development Shinya Takahashi said, “while product development is a little behind schedule in some areas due to the impact of covid-19, game releases planned for this fiscal year are currently not affected. However, if the impact of covid-19 is prolonged or becomes more severe, we may not be able to release future titles in line with existing plans.”
The ethical thing to do here, of course, is to accept any delays and refrain from rushing workers to make games faster at the risk of their health.
That’s not to say that this lapse in communication isn’t a little strange, especially because Nintendo probably does know if New Pokémon Snap is coming out this year, or if/when the rumored Mario game collection will be out. And it also probably knows if it’s running behind on certain projects, and may have to shift some existing dates around.
But here’s the other thing: Nintendo’s already released plenty of games this year. In the first half of 2019, Nintendo and its Pokémon partners released six Switch exclusives across the months of January, March, April, and June. This year, it’s released eight games—nine if you count Jump Rope Challenge, a tiny game Nintendo says its developers made for kicks while working from home. In other words, even without Directs, Nintendo’s delivered so far.
I get it. People want distractions during these miserable times, and a Nintendo Direct showcasing fun-looking, upcoming games could be a joyful, momentary escape for a lot of us. It would even be helpful to have a few dates to look forward to, same as we would all love to know when this nightmare of a pandemic will abate. We’ll get there, eventually.
For now, it’s probably for the best to not get too hyped about an uncertain future and, if you’ve got a gaming system with a game worth playing in it, to focus on that bit of brightness in the present. Nintendo will return to hype mode soon enough.
Editor-in-Chief. Playing: Watch Dogs Legion (need to get back to RDR2, Iconoclasts, Arkham Origins, Sushi Striker, Samus Returns, and Ghost Recon Breakpoint)
iceyweiner
I vehemently disagree with the sentiment of this article. The industry as a whole needs to become more transparent, not less; and during a time of great upheaval, it is always great to have something to look forward to.
Every other company has put on a digital showcase, there is no reason Nintendo shouldn't.
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The run-up to the statewide election of 2010 may have been, in retrospect, the first time the seismic shift in Tennessee from Democratic to Republican dominance became obvious. Then-Governor Phil Bredesen, a Democrat, had served for the maximum two terms and was about to vacate the office. The Democratic field that year was full of worthies, as you would expect with an open seat. So was the Republican field. There had been ample harbingers of the shift to come. In 2007, the venerable John Wilder, a nominal Democrat, had lost his speakership in the state Senate to the GOP’s Ron Ramsey, and a year later, the Republicans had captured a one-vote majority in the House. The changeover accelerated during the 2010 governor’s race, as the Democratic candidates, noticing a diminishing lack of enthusiasm for their cause, began dropping out one by one. Memphian Jim Kyle, then-leader of the state Senate Democrats and now a Shelby County Chancellor, commented at the time, “I kept looking for Yellow Dog [committed] Democrats, and kept finding Yellow Dog Republicans.” The race came down to three Republicans in the end — Ramsey, Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam, and Chattanooga Congressman Zach Wamp. Haslam, regarded as the more moderate of the three, won, and Wamp, who waged a credible race as an Everymanstyled conservative, finished second. The Chattanoogan’s subsequent political history is, by the standards of Tennessee politics, somewhat unusual. Still regarding himself as a conservative and a Republican, he has been at pains to present himself as a “post-partisan truth-teller.” Which means that Wamp and his son Weston, who has made efforts to establish a political career of his own, have regarded themselves as free to publicly criticize Donald J. Trump. Wamp has of late been actively tweeting in favor of acceptance of the presidential election results — an act surely unique enough among Republicans to merit special mention. A recent Wamp tweet, rebutting the no-surrender Trumpians: “What? Com-
mon [c’mon?] guys. Truth matters. Get real. Quit making stuff up and misleading people. Conservatives must stand for truth. #CountryOverParty.” Another one, directed at current national GOP chair Ronna McDaniel, a vocal defender of the Trump holdout: “I was working my butt off to elect conservatives before you were a grown-up. Today I am ashamed of your service as Chair of the RNC. Time for you and your ilk to go. Truth matters. Your lies hurt our cause.” And yet another: “The National Council on Election Integrity is spending $2 million on an ad urging a transition. On the board of this org: @GOP like Michael Chertoff, Dan Coats, Bill Frist, @BillHaslam and @zachwamp. Get to Work.” Meanwhile, as was noted here last week, Tennessee’s outgoing U.S. Senator, Lamar Alexander, is — however circumspectly — advocating for acceptance of the election results and the need for an effective transition. In a recent interview with the Tennessee Journal, Alexander cautioned: “What we have to watch for is that what happened to the one-party Democratic Party doesn’t happen to the one-party Republican Party. … Middle Tennessee was grabbing all the power and leaving East Tennessee and Memphis out. … And now we’ve gone full circle, where we have a one-party system, which again is starting to concentrate power in Middle Tennessee. … We RepubliZach Wamp cans have to watch out for being self-satisfied, not broad enough in our thinking. We don’t want to develop the flaws the Democratic Party started to develop in the 1960s.” Meanwhile, the aforesaid Democratic Party will be looking for new leadership as of January, as Mary Mancini, who has headed the state party for the last six years, is stepping down. Potential successors are beginning to emerge, and more of that anon. Under Mancini’s guidance, Democrats were able to increase the number of competitive races, including several in Shelby County. One of their winners, new District 96 state Representative Torrey Harris, replaced former Rep. John DeBerry, who was disallowed as a Democratic candidate by the state party and forced to run as an independent. DeBerry has been compensated for his pain by receiving a new job — annual pay, $165,000 — as an assistant to GOP Governor Bill Lee. That’s outreach and then some!
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BY THE BOOK Eight new tomes by Memphis authors.
ell, the weather outside is, if not exactly frightful, certainly shading toward cold, blustery, and gray. Time-tested local pastimes like porch drinkin’ and riverside running are getting a little less comfortable. The good news? Books exist, and Memphians, from Shelby Foote to Katori Hall, have a certifiable knack for storytelling. Not to go all LeVar Burton’s Reading Rainbow on you, but a book really is the least expensive ticket to another world, a new perspective. In this issue, we’ve turned the page on eight new books by Bluff City authors. They each represent a chance to visit a new place, be it the Memphis music scene of yesteryear, the British Isles in World War II, a fictional dystopian future, or the life and times of a real rock-and-roll legend (a moral giant, if you will). So, whether you’re in search of a gift for the bookworm in your family or a cold-weather social-distancing activity for yourself, we’ve got you covered. Trust me; I’ve been social distancing since Scholastic Book Fair, 1992. Read on. — Jesse Davis
I Die Each Time I Hear the Sound by Mike Doughty Hachette Books, $17.99 I now know exactly what not to say to 10 Mike Doughty, thanks to his new book. I’ve seen him around. You probably
have, too. He’s lived in Memphis now for a few years. I’ll see him occasionally at Fresh Market, and we stood in the same line to vote this year. I love his music, but it’s distasteful to brace a guy when he’s picking produce or a president. In I Die Each Time I Hear the Sound, Doughty describes the unique unpleasantness of fans telling him how they discovered his old band, Soul Coughing. Many of those stories basically boil down to “my roommate had the CD.” Duly noted. It’s an honest insight into a particular moment, unique to an internationally known musician who makes unique music that appeals to a unique audience. The book is filled with these distinctive insights, delivered with a lot of warmth and humor. But Doughty’s also nakedly honest about anxiety, depression, and shame. The mix of these gives I Die Each Time I Hear the Sound a fresh, broad appeal. It’s a rock-and-roll book about a real person. For example: How would you feel if David Letterman complimented your guitar — not your music — on national television? What if you responded with snark and he walked away? What if you found out later that Letterman compliments a lot of people’s guitars on the show and was trying to be personable? The book is filled with honest stories from the road, talking to Little Richard in a Los Angeles elevator, eating McDonald’s in Tokyo, meeting a drunken Evan Dando at Glastonbury, and arguing/not arguing with his estranged band over the liner notes of a compilation album. But the book is most brilliant when Doughty describes music, drawing an incredibly accurate atlas of the sounds as he hears them. Here’s how he describes Steven Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians on a drive through Washington State: “It was like those undulant marimbas rose from the yellow hills. The melodies change as if you’re passing them: a note materializes at the end, a note on the top disappears.” Here’s Doughty on “These Arms of Mine”: “When Otis Redding sang the word mine — the second repetition, when the note gets higher — the word
mine becomes a glowing flower, which expanded into the sky, then the sky opened into the cosmos beyond the cosmos.” — Toby Sells
Paper Bullets by Jeffrey H. Jackson Algonquin Books, $27.95 Rhodes professor Jeffrey H. Jackson couldn’t have known how timely a subject he picked when he began his research into French artists and romantic partners Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe for the book that would become Paper Bullets. Resistance, the key motif of Jackson’s just-released (and already lauded) tome, has become something of the watchword of the contemporary era, certainly of the last four years, making Jackson’s telling of two lesbian artists who put all their considerable talents to use to resist the Nazi occupation of the English Channel island of Jersey a story wellsuited to the cultural moment. Known in the art world as Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, Lucy and Suzanne operated a covert campaign to demoralize the German occupying army, striking at their psyche with their “paper bullets” — notes hidden in magazines and surreptitiously slipped into pockets, photo collages, poems, anything that might make the invaders doubt the morality of their position.
Before their resistance in Jersey, their relationship made Lucy and Suzanne outlaws, of a sort. “Their relationship was not their only secret,” Jackson writes in Paper Bullets. “According to Jewish tradition, Lucy would not have been considered Jewish because her mother was not a Jew. However, Nazi racial law made no such distinction.” In Paris, before the war, surrounded by artists and entrepreneurs who were anything but stereotypical and enmeshed in radical politics, Lucy and Suzanne were at the cutting edge of a conventiondefying moment in art history, in a Paris still reeling from the heavy losses sustained in the first World War. It was the perfect training ground. As women working in a male-driven field, as women who loved each other, Lucy and Suzanne had practice viewing the world from a different perspective — and often having to fight for their right to participate. Lucy, too, suffered from chronic illnesses that set her apart from many of her fellows. Their status as unconventional artists working with Dadaists and Surrealists taught them the power of art as a way to subvert expectations. The bulk of the action in Paper Bullets takes place on the island of Jersey, as Suzanne and Lucy begin to fight back against the occupation, steadily employing more sophisticated methods in their two-woman PSYOPS campaign. This is no dry history; rather, Paper Bullets almost hums with the tension of a tightly plotted thriller. Jackson deftly balances the narrative, though, giving the reader a taste of the romance that fueled the resistors’ relationship, the art scene that honed their skills, and the war that compelled them to find a way to fight. Paper Bullets has it all — it’s a tale of romance in spite of the odds, a slice of art history, and an inspirational World War II story. It is, simply put, nearly impossible to put down. — JD The Ballad of Ami Miles by Kristy Dallas Alley Macmillan Books, $17.99 The more things change, the more they stay the same. While the world as we
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It Came From Memphis by Robert Gordon Third Man Books, $19.95 Robert Gordon’s 1995 opus, It Came From Memphis, quietly but quickly grew into a cult classic, a must-read for any music aficionado wanting learn about the gritty, Black and white roots of rockand-roll in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s — and the city where they were planted. Gordon’s cast of characters was as wild and eccentric as the river town that made them: Dewey Phillips, Sputnik Monroe, Sam Phillips, Furry Lewis, Mud Boy and the Neutrons, Bill Eggleston, Booker T., Tav Falco. Not to mention a supporting cast of midget wrestlers, motorcycle gangs, and all-around weirdos. Iconic Memphis musician and Zeliglike guru Jim Dickinson knew many of the characters and their backstories, and he is a primal force in ICFM. His insights, along with Gordon’s extensive research, many invaluable interviews, and avid storytelling, give the book its authentic juice, chapter after chapter. There are plentiful you-are-there tales from the city’s iconic music studios — Stax, Ardent, Sun. There are long nights, inspired bouts of musical brilliance, booze and blunts and pills,
bizarre escapades, and more than a little madness. Now there’s a new 25th anniversary edition of It Came From Memphis, published by Jack White’s Third Man Books (the imprint that earlier this year published Memphian Sheree Renée Thomas’ Nine Bar Blues). And better yet, it’s not just a reprint. Much has been added: all-new photos, updated stories and interviews, and fresh opinions and perspectives from Gordon and others, including Peter Guralnick. The original classic book is still there. It’s just been enhanced — and beautifully so. As Gordon admits in his preface, the original was something of “a guy book,” so he has brought more women’s voices and influences into this version. It’s a seamless and welcome addition. As the cover blurb notes: “Vienna in the 1880s. Paris in the 1920s. Memphis in the 1950s. These are the paradigm shifts of modern culture. … Memphis embraced black culture when dominant society ignored or abhorred it. The effect rocked the world.” That it did. It Came From Memphis is essential reading for anyone who wants to deepen their understanding of this city and its musical history. — Bruce VanWyngarden
Baron of Love: Moral Giant by Ross Johnson Spacecase Records, $15 Like the author himself (a friend and erstwhile bandmate of mine), this slim memoir (published by Spacecase Records) is a pulsating mass of contradictions that somehow selfassemble into a sentient whole. As such, it captures the way most of us live in fits and starts, and with good humor; but in Ross’ case, the fits and starts happened between the buccaneering world of rock-and-roll and the library shelves, first landing you backstage with Iggy Pop and the New York Dolls, then sending you “collapsing into a spiral of self-contempt and regret.” The common thread is Ross’ keen eye, sharpened from an early age. With echoes of his father, a journalist in Little Rock, this book is bursting with vivid, keenly observed moments. The memories unfold
in a chaotic jumble of brief vignettes, so the evocative tales of rock writing and rock drumming, with which the author made his name and honed his taste, rub shoulders uneasily with snapshots (both literal and figurative) of Ross’ youth and the dramas of adulthood. All are rendered in the clean prose of a reporter turning his investigative eye inward as well as outward. And some turns of phrase, be it “toilet club” or “mental patient rock,” are sheer poetry. Without prejudice, Ross objectively notes the brazen racism of his Arkansas childhood, his ex-girlfriend’s career as a groupie, the fascistic roots of Alcoholics Anonymous, and the size of Iggy Pop’s schlong. Every chapter title might be a line from “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall,” as our hero rattles off the wonders and horrors he’s seen: “Who’s Alex Chilton?,” “Roland Janes,” “Creem Magazine Saved My Life,” “Swerve Into Perv,” “Charlie Feathers,” “The Klitz,” “Guiltabilly.” Through it all, his time with the Panther Burns, the band he co-founded with Chilton and Tav Falco, weaves in and out of the narrative like a tipsy driver you just can’t shake. And “Baron of Love,” the inspired song/seance he cut with Chilton in 1978, hangs over the highway like a harvest moon. What saves the book from being mere barstool boasting is Ross’ reflective instinct. Dollops of cultural studies and politics inform his musings on the ethics of the sexism, racism, and rockism at play in every scene. It may be more of a moral microscope, but if this be gossip, it’s gossip with a heart, and gossip with a brain. — Alex Greene
LGBTQ+ Revolution 2.0 by Jill Fredenburg New Degree Press, $16.99 With the craziness and hopelessness some have felt in the last four years, it can be easy to forget how far we have come as a country in terms of social issues. In just continued on page 12
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know it is broken in Kristy Dallas Alley’s debut novel, The Ballad of Ami Miles, many issues that plague our current society are all too rampant. Sixteenyear-old heroine Ami Miles has grown up in relative safety at her family’s survival compound, but when she receives a clue about her long-vanished mother’s whereabouts, she sets out to learn more about herself, and the world outside the compound. Ami grows up at Heavenly Shepherd, a survival compound run by her grandfather, Solomon Miles. The America she knows has drifted into a post-apocalyptic collection of small communities after a virus rendered most of the population infertile. Any woman who does have the ability to bear children is quickly gobbled up by government “C-PAF” agents. That fear prompted Ami’s mother to flee when she was a child, leaving her daughter to fend for herself in Solomon’s controlling environment. And her grandfather, the worst kind of bigoted evangelical, sees Ami as nothing more than a vessel to continue on the Miles lineage. When he invites a man to the compound to impregnate Ami, all bets are off. Her aunt provides her with directions to her mom’s last known location and sends Ami on her way with supplies. While Ami Miles might have the YA label, Alley doesn’t treat her readers with kid gloves. A post-apocalyptic America doesn’t mean societal issues have gone away, and Ami tackles racism, homophobia, and plenty of other prevalent social issues for the first time after escaping Heavenly Shepherd. And it’s not all smooth sailing for the good-natured protagonist; Alley expertly weaves in a constant thread of deprogramming along Ami’s journey. Having basically grown up in a cult, it’s hard for Ami to jettison the thoughts and “values” that have been pounded into her since day one. Even as she learns more about the world, even as she makes new friends, and even as another young woman catches her eye, her grandfather’s directive to find a man and make a baby sits uncomfortably in the back of her mind.
The Ballad of Ami Miles is an ode to many things: self-growth, finding new experiences, welcoming in ideas that aren’t your own. Every step of her journey, Ami is up for the tough challenges that lay in her path. Reading from 2020’s perspective, where so many are insulated in their thought bubbles by algorithms, social media, and the like, Ami Miles is the perfect tonic. With a brave face, there’s always room for growth and new experiences. I’m not sure I’m the target demographic for The Ballad of Ami Miles, but Alley’s electric pacing kept me hooked until the last page; ultimately, I blazed through in just two sittings. Through Ami, Alley never puts a foot wrong while crafting her narrative. Hard to believe this is a debut. — Samuel X. Cicci
continued from page 11 50 years, we have gone from segregating people based on the color of their skin to allowing true freedom of marriage. Reflecting on this can be astounding. Jill Fredenburg’s LGBTQ+ Revolution 2.0, to me, is a product of the successes that we have made as a country in recent years. The book, which is structured as a collection of narratives sharing experiences and stories from people on different spots of the LGBTQ+ spectrum, tells the struggles, triumphs, and dayto-day lives of those who are in the LGBTQ+ community. Over 21 chapters, Fredenburg discusses all permutations of the LGBTQ community. It’s not an easy read. At times I found myself angry and frustrated by the injustices faced by those that Fredenburg wrote about. Other times I felt hopeless to help. Fredenburg creates a connection between the reader and those featured in the book so that you can truly understand their lives, and the effect is immediate and intense. For all the sad stories and times of struggle there are also stories of triumph. But in that work Fredenburg also finds hope and strength in the knowledge that the LGBTQ movement is stronger than ever. “I started writing this book with the hope that the process would help me understand how experiences like Cassandra’s and my own fit into the
larger movement surrounding LGBTQ+ identity,” Fredenburg writes in her introduction. “What I discovered has made me excited for the next wave of LGBTQ+ rights.” Fredenburg’s book LGBTQ+ Revolution 2.0 is not an easy read, but it’s a needed one. She speaks for the silent other who is often ignored and left out of the conversation, showing the good and the bad, then inviting others into the conversation. Her work is important reading for everyone, and she ends her book with a reminder that I think all people can live and learn by: “Who will you be, who and how will you love, without shame?” — Matthew J. Harris Emergence by Shira Shiloah Salty Air Publishing, $15.99 Dr. Shira Shiloah is a local anesthesiologist who decided she’d get into the world of writing medical thrillers. Her debut novel is Emergence, set in Memphis and with ample description of familiar sights in and around Downtown. Shiloah also gives us a strong female anesthesiologist (beautiful, highly competent, owns a dog, touched by personal tragedy), a suitably wicked surgeon (an arrogant platinum blonde, owns no dogs, coked-up misogynist), and a sensitive resident doctor (thoughtful, supportive, easy on the eyes, owns a dog). And there is plenty of lab-coat-
ripping romance slathered throughout like a medical grade lubricant. In fact, Emergence rocks back and forth between incisions and intercourse, blending romance and thriller genres. Allow these excerpts to speak for themselves: “She could make out the silhouette of his muscular torso. His jeans were as loose as his smile. There were no blood or drapes between them tonight, just clear skin and healthy hormones. His gaze took her in.” And: “He took the knife and expertly sliced him at the level of the jugular vein.
The man screamed and struggled to get away, but with one sweep of his hand D.K. stabbed his cricoid, his voice box, so he’d be silent.” If those passages appeal to you, then it must be just what the doctor ordered. — Jon W. Sparks Memphis Mayhem by David A. Less ECW Press, $16.95 If the title Memphis Mayhem sounds like it could be describing either a crime wave or a chip-on-the-shoulder attitude or an era of public turbulence, the new book by Memphis music historian David Less concerns all of those things, but mainly it is history and memoir of the various strains of music that have percolated out of Memphis and defined the river city in its seminal relationship with the outer world. As the author himself, a writer and archivist and third-generation Memphian, describes his work, “It is a story of a city and a culture and fosters independent thinking in the midst of a strict, conservative society. There is a spirit of self reliance in Memphis. It is born of the poverty and oppression shared by Blacks and whites here, who have nothing to lose and everything to gain.” Parts of Less’ narrative are familiar from other sources, but Less does not content himself with a roster of luminaries and a catalogue of styles.
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His treatment of Memphis’ early blues masters, for example, is against a backdrop of the gambling, desperate chance-taking, and crazy optimism that characterized Beale Street and its antecedent neighborhoods. He tells his tale in an episodic style that at first seems somewhat disjointed but is more accurately revealed to be the mosaic that it is. Almost in the manner of a jigsaw puzzle, the pieces ultimately fit together — Yellow Fever; the band rivalry between two Black high schools, Manassas and Booker T. Washington,
and the dispersing into the world of the innovative results; the laboratory of Black and white music sources that was Sam Phillips’ Sun Studio; and the serendipity of a second commercial-music wave stemming as much from the self-seeking curiosity of white Messick High students like Steve Cropper and Donald “Duck” Dunn as anything else. Less explains why it is that Memphis music tends to be “behind the beat,” and he notes the importance of landmarks — like West Memphis’ Plantation Inn, where white Memphis high-schoolers learned their musical ABCs from innovative Black performers, and the Lorraine Motel, important as a honing place for white and Black musicians before it became a site of infamy and a shrine to the great MLK. It’s all here — the jazz masters of the Crump-ordered “clean-up”period, Daddy-O Dewey, Ardent Studios, Chips Moman, Willie Mitchell, Al Green. And all of it pegged to the hard-boiled but generous local populations that lived in ever-treacherous and sometimes ominous times. (It is surely no accident, by the way, that much of the narrative of Less’ book derives from interviews with veterans of the Memphis music wars now living in the plusher confines of Nashville, which has a kind of finishingschool or retirement-home relationship to the dangerous but lively city on the Mississippi.) — Jackson Baker
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two more wins would make it seven seasons in a row with eight victories for the Tigers. (If COVID testing allows, the Tigers should play three more games, including a bowl contest.) The University of Memphis has a history with more valleys than peaks, but we are witnessing a golden era, one that now stretches across three head-coaching administrations. Fans tend to get lost either in the past or with what’s to come (recruiting is everything, remember). If you wear blue and gray in these parts, you’d do well to pause, raise a glass, and salute the now of Memphis Tiger football. • Ten thousand is a big number … also well earned. With 88 passing yards at Tulane, Brady White will become only the second Memphis quarterback to top 10,000 yards for his career. (Danny Wimprine’s record is 10,215.) White’s 2,602 yards this season are eighth in the country and
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he Memphis defense can win a game. You have to go back a quarter-century — October 28, 1995 — to find a game the Tigers won without scoring more than 10 points as they did last Saturday at Navy. In Rip Scherer’s first season as coach at the U of M, the Tigers edged Tulsa, 10-7, at the Liberty Bowl. The win improved that team to only 3-5, though, and it would not win another game that year. The 2020 Tigers are not Rip Scherer’s defense. Even after shutting down Navy, Memphis ranks 106th in the country (out of 127 teams), allowing 457 yards per game. But last weekend in Annapolis, that defense rose when it had to, in particular sophomore safety Quindell Johnson. The New Orleans native delivered a fumble-causing hit behind the Navy line of scrimmage on fourth down to end one secondquarter drive with the game tied at 7. Then, on the next Midshipman drive, Johnson stepped in front of a Tyger Goslin pass for an interception with Navy already in field-goal range. Rare is the defensive playmaker in modern college football. But Johnson, Morris Joseph (two tackles for loss), and Sanchez Blake (forced a Navy fumble) made key plays last weekend to earn Memphis a third straight victory. “It isn’t easy coming to Navy’s home field and beating them,” said Johnson after the win. “We all had fun, flying around, just playing together, communicating. We lead as a defense when we play like that.” • Seven is a lucky number … and well earned. Should the Tigers beat Tulane this weekend, it will mark seven straight seasons with at least seven wins for the Memphis program. It would extend an already unprecedented stretch, as the longest streak of seven-win seasons before the current one was four years (from 1960 to ’63 and 1973 to ’76). Better yet,
Quindell Johnson and the Memphis defense held firm.
his 24 touchdown passes this year are tied for fourth. The superlatives will keep coming for a few more weeks for the Ph.D. candidate, now with a record 26 wins to his credit as Tiger quarterback. It will be interesting to see how NFL scouts view White’s credentials. His two predecessors — Paxton Lynch and Riley Ferguson — also put up big numbers, but fell short of signal-calling duty on Sundays, even with Lynch having been drafted (by Denver) in the first round. White is blessed with physical tools, but not the size or arm strength of most men you see winning Super Bowls. He’s also skilled between the ears and, simply put, knows how to win. Here’s hoping he gets the chance to compete for an NFL job in 2021. He won’t be intimidated by the challenge.
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Sit down with a cabernet for the cabaret. Until last week, Hattiloo Theatre’s production of A Holiday Cabaret was only open to patrons and Season 14 and 15 subscribers, presented as a series of six limited-seating shows. The unfortunate consequences of our COVID predicament changed things a bit. A post from the Hattiloo Theatre Facebook page broke the news: “We planned to perform this musical before a few live patrons over six performances, but because of the increasing number of COVID-19 cases and fatalities, we have canceled all live shows. Still, we are excited to gather virtually and celebrate the season with this perfect blend of holiday music, jokes, and stories.” The unique Black repertory theater has generously opened this show — for free — to the public. Show some love for the talented performance artists and venue by purchasing a season subscription for when things open back up again. Subscriptions start at only $105. In the meantime, the show must go on, and in this case it will be a live performance recorded and streamed from the theater’s stage. The production, written by Ekundayo Bandele, founder and CEO of Hattiloo Theatre, is a gathering of four friends for the holidays. The friends will sing traditional carols, tell stories, and share the merriment of the season in a family-friendly atmosphere. What better way to bring joy to Memphis than celebrating with friends during A Holiday Cabaret.
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“A HOLIDAY CABARET,” ONLINE FROM HATTILOO.ORG, FRIDAY, DEC. 4, 7 P.M., FREE.
The Pie Folks’ mincemeat pie is a holiday treat. Food, p. 24
Senator Lamar Alexander (above), people remember the last thing you do. The Last Word, p. 31
VARIOUS DAYS & TIMES December 3rd - 9th
Community Read and Author Talk: Myia Goldberg Online from jccmemphis.org, Thursday, Dec. 3, 7 p.m., free with registration Author reads and discusses Feast Your Eyes via Zoom. The book traces the path of a fictional mid20th-century photographer, Lillian Preston.
Hollywood Feed University: Online Puppy Training Course Online from hollywoodfeed.com, Thursday, Dec. 3, 8 a.m., noon, and 5 p.m., free Learn from certified trainer Amy Lear as she discusses basic puppy obedience to ensure your puppy learns good behavior from positive reinforcement at an early age.
Virtual Resident Artist Talk Online from crosstownarts.org, Thursday, Dec. 3, 6 p.m., free Featuring presenting artists Laura Ann Samuelson and Maeve Brophy. RSVP by email to attend, residency@crosstownarts.org.
Holly Jolly Holiday Celebration Beale Street, Downtown Memphis, Friday, Dec. 4, 4:30-6:30 p.m., free Join the holiday fun in Handy Park, featuring Santa, holiday music, and hot chocolate.
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Tunes & Trivia memphislibraryfoundation.org, Friday, Dec. 4, 6-7:30 p.m., $20 Know trivia, earn prizes. Benefiting Memphis Public Library Foundation. A Christmas Carol: Charles Dickens’ Dramatic Premier Reading in Boston Tennessee Shakespeare Company, 7950 Trinity, tnshakespeare.org, Friday, Dec. 4, 8 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 6, 3 p.m., $15-$25 It is December 2, 1867. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and other notables await the arrival of Charles Dickens and his inaugural United States reading of his ghost story.
Peter Pan Desoto Family Theatre, 4560 Venture, Southaven, MS, opens Friday, Dec. 4, 7 p.m., and continues Wednesday-Sunday through Dec. 17, $20 Broadway’s timeless classic musical whisks you away to a place where dreams are born and no one ever grows up. Boxlot Holiday Market Boxlot, 607 Monroe, Friday, Dec. 4, 3-8 p.m., and Saturday, Dec. 5, 1-3 p.m., free-$5 Enjoy virtual shopping on Friday and shop in person on Saturday for $5. Receive $5 Boxlot Bucks when you arrive to go toward a purchase.
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The secret origins of 901 Comics have their roots in the P&H Cafe.
Comic Relief More than babies are born after a few beers at the P&H Cafe. Sometimes two drunk guys mutually consent to the birth of a comic book store. “I worked at the P&H Cafe for six or seven years,” says Jaime Wright, co-owner of 901 Comics. “Shannon and I conceived 901 Comics on a few bar napkins over more than a few beers.” Wright’s business partner Shannon Merritt also owns 901 Games with his wife Erin. According to Wright, Merritt opened a lot of doors for him, including a job working with Stan Lee. The P&H Cafe is a very important part of their lives. When they heard the news, they had to help. The P&H GoFundMe page states, “Due to some inconvenient and unforeseen circumstances, the P&H Cafe is unfortunately having to move to a different location.” The new location is thus far undisclosed; rumor has it that the Crosstown area might be the lucky location to welcome the beloved dive bar. Wherever it moves, it’s going to cost a lot of money. In addition to the GoFundMe, a benefit is planned for this Saturday. Twenty percent of all 901 Comics sales will be donated to the cause. Enter to win a Stan Lee signed comic book, participate in auctions, and enjoy live music at the Cooper-Young Gazebo featuring Switchblade Kid. This is a socially distanced benefit. Cosplay attire is encouraged. Wear your superhero mask. A BENEFIT FOR THE P&H CAFE, 901 COMICS, 2162 YOUNG, SATURDAY, DEC. 5, NOON-6 P.M., FREE.
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Letteressence: The Fundamentals of Broad-Edge Calligraphy Online from dixon.org, Saturday, Dec. 5, 1 p.m., $15 members, $25 nonmembers Take part in the video workshop with local graphic designer and calligrapher Beth Mitchell. Register online. Supply kits delivered locally.
Animal Rights Online from memphis.edu, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2 p.m., free How can changing what we eat save the planet and end mass suffering? Join Tracey Glover online to find out. LGBT Legends Awards Black Lodge, 405 N. Cleveland, Sunday, Dec. 6, 6 p.m. Enjoy the red carpet event at 7 p.m. and awards ceremony at 8:30 p.m. as the light shines on the LGBT community’s past, present, and future.
Starving Artist Social Distance Marketplace Starving Artist Market, 4258 Rhodes, Monday, Dec. 7, 2-7 p.m. Featuring Foxy Robot Design, The Ginger’s Bread & Co., PostTraumatically Stressed Feminist, and more. Food available from Dinner by Dan. Breezy Lucia will be taking holiday portraits. Wear your festive clothes and bring your pets. The Children’s Ballet Theater Nutcracker Malco Summer Drive-In, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 6:15 p.m., $35 This fundraiser film tells the timeless tale of Clara and her beloved nutcracker doll as she is transported through time.
cityCURRENT Virtual Breakfast Online from citycurrent.news, Friday, Dec. 4, 9 a.m., free Zoom event featuring brand marketing expert Bruce Himelstein, credited with leading some of the travel and hospitality industry’s most prestigious domestic and global brands.
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MUSIC By Alex Greene
New Vibes
Chinese Connection Dub Embassy embraces dancehall and hip-hop.
he cover of Crew Vibez, the fresh album that Chinese Connection Dub Embassy drops this Friday, has a portrait of brothers Joseph and David Higgins in shades of red, gold, and green — rather appropriate, given that they are Memphis’ premiere purveyors of reggae. But among the faint letters in the background, nestled among words like “irie” and “truth,” is the name Omar. As their fans know, that’s their eldest brother, who founded the band with them (along with the hardcore punk band Negro Terror) and passed away unexpectedly in April of last year. The fact that the brothers carried on with the project is a testament to the entire family’s love of music. “My dad was a drummer; my mother was a saxophone player,” David tells me. “And our mother was West Indian as well. We came from New York to Mississippi and Memphis. We were more about the Jamaican reggae and skinhead culture. Working class, for the people, by the people.” And some tracks on the new album reflect this directly, such as politically charged songs like “Dem A Callin’ (Flodgin’)” and “Warzone.” But this is an album full of surprises, and the biggest may be the group’s embrace of other styles beyond the classic reggae they’ve purveyed in the past. As Joseph says, “It’s a compilation of different kinds of reggae, from dancehall to straight-up roots. Some feel-good tunes. We’re even tapping into a little bit of Memphis hip-hop with some of our friends. We still pay respect to reggae as a whole, but we wanna give a Memphis vibe to it. I think this project will really open peoples’ minds.” And while the group typically opens minds with their unique brand of consciousness-raising roots music a la Peter Tosh, this new work aims to open hearts as well. Many of the tracks, from lead single “Honey” to “Melanin Queen” or “So Grateful,” explore a sound that combines classic “lover’s rock” with drum-machine-heavy dancehall beats. As executive producer Ryan Peel notes, the two surviving brothers are “reinventing Chinese Connection Dub Embassy. Joseph and Dave know what I do. I’m a pop producer more than anything. Usually that lands in the realm of rap and R&B. They wanted a newer element in the sound, but also someone
who understood the history and the different rhythmic choices for each of those sub-genres. So that’s how we moved into it being dancehall heavy.” Peel has known the Higgins brothers for years, and has often drummed for them in the classic roots reggae style they perfected. But this time around, he was programming beats, not playing them. “I wanted it to sound like a hip-hop record, but with the music itself being dancehall and reggae,” he says. Indeed, the album features several local rappers and R&B singers as guests. “Tia ‘Songbird’ Henderson is on one track. ‘Warzone’ has the rappers SvmDvde and Hannya Chao$, who’s really guttural and primal. And Harley Quinn, R.I.C.O. Tha Akronym, Webbstar, and Sebastian Carson are also featured.” While David has always been the guitarist of the group, this album doesn’t feature much of that. “One song, ‘Never Gonna Break Your Heart,’ starts out with flamenco guitar,” says Peel. “And he smashed it in one take! But I don’t think David was necessarily thinking of himself as a guitarist on this record. I think he was thinking, ‘I’m a lead vocalist now.’ I was like, ‘Damn, dude! Where have you been? You should have been out here! Omar should have let you sing more!’” For most of the songs, Peel says, “Joseph would write the chords and a basic drum part, then I’d soup it up.” Once the beats were sequenced, Joseph, a keyboardist, would flesh out the arrangements, starting with the bass. “He’s the sub-bass king! He killed it. It’s almost like Joseph said, ‘All right, what would Omar do? Let me pull out my synth-bass version of Omar on this.’ As a drummer who played with Omar for years, I feel that in my heart. It feels right. For people who knew CCDE with Omar, this isn’t going to be too alien to them.”
WE’VE GOT THE CURE.
Go ahead and crank up some B.B. tunes to get primed for this perfect day trip of enjoying fabulous meals from unique restaurants as well as shopping for locally produced gourmet food items. We can almost guarantee that the real blues will be the prescription you need.
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You can start at the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center—where social distancing is easy—and understand the tough road B.B. King traveled before becoming one of the most beloved musicians of all time. Ranked by Trip Advisor in the Top Ten Percent of all listed properties, the museum features films and exhibits that weave a fascinating story of an icon and his birthplace. Make sure to also stop at nearby Mississippi Blues Trail markers that further explain the important music heritage of the area.
Being cooped up inside can cause a real case of cabin fever and the 2020 Blues, so load up the family or friends and head this way for a dose of the good kind of blues.
CALENDAR of EVENTS:
December 3 - 9
Playhouse on the Square
T H EAT E R
Playhouse on the Square at Home, a series of digital content through POTS website and social media platforms. View past performances, engage in quizzes, enjoy digital playwriting, and more. Free. Ongoing.
Hattiloo Theatre
Sarafina!, past production about human rights in the 21st century, written by Mbongeni Ngema. Ongoing. God’s Trombone, enjoy the original production of inspirational sermons by African-American preachers reimagined as poetry, reverberating with the musicality and splendid eloquence of spirituals. Free. Ongoing. Iola’s Southern Fields, enjoy an online past performance drawn from the writings of Ida B. Wells. Free. Ongoing. A Holiday Cabaret, celebrate the season with a perfect blend of music, jokes, and stories to get you in the mood for the holidays. Virtual presentation of the performance. Sundays, 2 p.m., and Fridays, Saturdays, 7 p.m. Through Dec. 13. 37 S. COOPER (502-3486).
Kudzu Playhouse
66 S. COOPER (726-4656).
Tennessee Shakespeare Company
A Christmas Carol: Charles Dickens’ Dramatic Premier Reading in Boston, salon curated and read by Dan McCleary. tnshakespeare.org. Fri., Dec. 4, 8 p.m., and Sat., Sun., 8 p.m. Through Dec. 20. 7950 TRINITY (759-0604).
Theatre Memphis
The Nutcracker at Memphis Botanic Garden, Sunday, December 6th, 3:30 & 4:30 p.m. information. Ongoing. P.O. BOX 47 (888-429-7871).
Kudzu Playhouse Virtual, join Kudzu social media for donation-based classes, games, scholarship opportunities, and more. Download the app for more fun theater activities and
Landers Center
Peter Pan, a timeless Broadway classic musical that whisks you away to a place where dreams are born and no one ever grows up. $20. Fridays, 7 p.m., Saturdays, Sundays, 2 & 7 p.m., and Wednesdays, Thursdays, 7 p.m. Through Dec. 17. 4560 VENTURE, SOUTHAVEN, MS (662-280-9120).
Bene�iting Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
PINK PALACE WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG
Send the date, time, place, cost, info, phone number, a brief description, and photos — two weeks in advance — to calendar@memphisflyer.com or P.O. Box 1738, Memphis, TN 38101. DUE TO SPACE LIMITATIONS, ONGOING WEEKLY EVENTS WILL APPEAR IN THE FLYER’S ONLINE CALENDAR ONLY.
The Orpheum
Orpheum Virtual Engagement, join Orpheum staff, artists, and students for activities, interviews, and more on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. Visit website for more information. Ongoing. 203 S. MAIN (525-3000).
Online on Stage, a Theatre Memphis Facebook group that serves as a clearinghouse for performers wanting to share their talents. Featuring storytime, readings, or performance art. Ongoing. A Christmas Carol On the Air, experience the full joy of the holidays and relive memories of Christmases past in the convenience of your own home. theatrememphis.org. $20. Through Jan. 3, 2021.
OT H E R A R T HAP P E N I N G S
Through Dec. 24.
3484 POPLAR, FORMERLY SPIN STREET MUSIC, 3484 POPLAR (327-8730).
Letteressence: The Fundamentals of BroadEdge Calligraphy Video workshop with local graphic designer and calligrapher Beth Mitchell. Register online. Supply kits delivered locally. $15 members, $26 nonmembers. Sat., Dec. 5, 1 p.m.
THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS, 4339 PARK (761-5250), DIXON.ORG.
Make Your Own Holiday Wreath with Joanna Bernardini
Create a custom holiday wreath. All materials included. No experience necessary. $85. Tues., Dec. 8, 6-9 p.m. ARROW CREATIVE, 2535 BROAD.
Memphis Flyer Coloring Book Order your book today benefiting local artists and journalism. $35. Ongoing.
MEMPHISMAGAZINESTORE.COM.
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HOLIDAY EXHIBIT November 21 - December 31. Photos with Santa, Holiday Movies & Planetarium Shows.
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Memphis Modern Market Crafts Fair PopUp Shop Featuring MAC Artists Angi Cooper, Jan Shivley, and Jana Wilson. Fridays, Saturdays, 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sundays, 12-5 p.m. Through Dec. 27. MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362).
Metal Museum Online
Peruse the art and craft of fine metalwork digitally. Featuring past gallery talks from previous exhibitions, interviews with artists, and demonstrations. Free. Ongoing. METAL MUSEUM, 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).
Orpheum Mini Golf
Putt on nine socially distanced Broadway-themed holes, including Hamilton, The Phantom of the Opera, The Color Purple, Memphis, and more. $10. Sat., Sun., 10:30 a.m.-10:30 p.m. Through Dec. 6. THE ORPHEUM, 203 S. MAIN (5253000), ORPHEUM-MEMPHIS.COM.
The Peace Project
Hear the peace offerings made up of artists voices, instruments, ambient noises, and reverberations in a healing space, featuring work by Hank Willis Thomas. Ongoing, 6 a.m.-6 p.m. MEMPHIS PARK (FOURTH BLUFF), FRONT AND MADISON, MEMPHISRIVERPARKS.ORG.
Pinch District Art on the Patio Artists’ Market
First Sunday of every month, 2 p.m. WESTY’S, 346 N MAIN (543-3278).
Virtual Resident Artist Talk
Featuring presenting artists Laura Ann Samuelson and Maeve Brophy. Email RSVP. Free. Thurs., Dec. 3, 6 p.m. CROSSTOWN ARTS AT THE CONCOURSE, 1350 CONCOURSE, STE. 280 (507-8030), CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.
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Arrow Creative
“On Your Mark,” exhibition of works by Shelby Brown in the virtual Mary and Mike Conley Gallery. arrowcreative.org. Through Dec. 31. 2535 BROAD.
Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)
“Africa: Art of a Continent,” exhibition of African art from the Martha and Robert Fogelman collection. Ongoing. “IEAA Ancient Egyptian Collection,” exhibition of Egyptian antiquities ranging from 3800 B.C.E. to 700 C.E.
142 COMMUNICATION & FINE ARTS BUILDING (678-2224).
ArtsMemphis
“Unfolding: The Next Chapter in Memphis,” exhibition of visual art by local Memphis artists, curated by Kenneth Wayne Alexander. artsmemphis.org. Ongoing. 575 S. MENDENHALL (578-2787).
Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School
“Magellan’s Medicine,” exhibition of hand-painted ceramics by Dr. Malini Gupta. Through Dec. 14. 60 N. PERKINS EXT. (537-1483).
Clough-Hanson Gallery
“Quarantine Couple,” exhibition of work by Art 260: Curation in Context artists Lacy Mitcham Veteto and Gregory Allen Smith. Curated by Ben Aquila. Visit Facebook page to view virtually. rhodes.edu. Ongoing. “Second Life, Third Life,” exhibition of work by Art 260: Curation in Context artists Meredith Potter, Melissa Wilkinson, and Emily C. Thomas. Curated by Roland Donnelly-Bullington. Ongoing. “Interiors: A Study of Domestic Quarantine,” exhibition of work by Art 260: Curation in Context artists Paula Kovarik and Sophia Mason. Curated by Jenna Gilley. Ongoing. “playground,” exhibition of work by Art 260: Curation in Context artists Elizabeth Alley and Susan Maakestad. Curated by Dresden Timco. Ongoing. “Home is Where the Art Is,” exhibition of work by Art 260: Curation in Context artists Nick Peña, Ryan Steed, and Nancy Cheairs. Curated by Julia Conway. Ongoing. “Eyesolation: Seeing and Looking in Quarantine,” exhibition of work by Art 260: Curation in Context artists Melissa Dunn, Alexander Paulus, Emily C. Thomas, Mary K. VanGieson. Curated by Katie Clark. Ongoing. “Landscapes in Isolation,” exhibition of work by Art 260: Curation in Context artists Clare Johnson, Maysey Craddock, and Susan Maakestad. Curated by Caroline Koch. Ongoing. “All by Myself,” exhibition of work by Art 260: Curation in Context artists Jesse Butcher and Emily C. Thomas. Curated by Marlo Morales. Ongoing. RHODES COLLEGE, 2000 N. PARKWAY (843-3000).
David Lusk Gallery
“Woebetide,” exhibition of visceral gouache paintings of ephemeral landscapes that examine dualities and mysteries of nature by Maysey Craddock. Through Dec. 23. 97 TILLMAN (767-3800).
The Dixon Gallery & Gardens
“Made in Dixon / Hecho en Dixon,” exhibition of artwork by Dixon program participants of all ages, diverse cultural backgrounds, and interests. Through Dec. 20. “Illuminating the Word: The
Saint John’s Bible,” exhibition of the first handwritten Bible that interprets and illustrates scripture from a contemporary perspective. A reflection of a multicultural world and strides in science, technology, and space travel. Through Jan. 10, 2021. “The Beauty of Calligraphy,” exhibition by the Memphis Calligraphy Guild celebrating calligraphy and the resulting gestural art. Through Jan. 3, 2021. 4339 PARK (761-5250).
Fratelli’s
“Rawlinson Atelier Studies,” exhibition of watercolors from demonstration studies. Through Jan. 21, 2021. 750 CHERRY (766-9900).
Bartlett Art Association, exhibition of works online by BAA members. wkno.org. Through Dec. 30. WKNO STUDIO, 7151 CHERRY FARMS.
Jay Etkin Gallery
Permanent Collection: “The Flow Museum of Art & Culture,” ongoing. 942 COOPER (550-0064).
Memphis Botanic Garden
Plein Air Exhibition, Dec. 5-Jan. 2. 750 CHERRY (636-4100).
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
“Arts of Global Africa,” exhibition of historic and contemporary works in a range of different media presenting an expansive vision of Africa’s artistry. Through June 21, 2021. “Drawing Memory: Essence of Memphis,” exhibition of works inspired by nsibidi, a sacred means of communication among male secret societies in southeastern Nigeria by Victor Ekpuk. Ongoing. 1934 POPLAR (544-6209).
Memphis College of Art
“Intrepidly Yours,” exhibition of Spring 2020 BFA work by last graduating class. mca2020bfa.com. Through Feb. 28, 2021. 1930 POPLAR (272-5100).
Mid-South Artist Gallery
Jon Woodhams, through Dec. 5. Becky McRae, exhibition of works by featured artist. midsouthartist-gallery.pixels.com. Ongoing. Michelle Lemaster, exhibition of works by local featured artist. Ongoing. Sandra Horton, exhibition of works by featured artist. Free. Ongoing. 2945 SHELBY (409-8705).
Tops Gallery
Luther Hampton, exhibition of 17 sculptures made between 1968 and 2000. By appointment. Through Dec. 31. 400 S. FRONT.
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Showcase of handcrafted works by regional artists. Mondays-Thursdays, Saturdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sundays, 12-5 p.m., and Fridays, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Through Dec. 25.
Author reads and discusses Feast Your Eyes via Zoom. Free with registration. Thurs., Dec. 3, 7 p.m.
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How can changing what we eat save the planet and end mass suffering? Join Tracey Glover online to find out. Free. Sun., Dec. 6, 2 p.m. MEMPHIS.EDU.
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Featuring brand marketing expert Bruce Himelstein via Zoom. Fri., Dec. 4, 9 a.m. CITYCURRENT.NEWS.
Hollywood Feed University: Online Puppy Training Course
Basic puppy obedience course. Free. Thurs., Dec. 3, 8-9:30 a.m., 12-1:30 & 5-6:30 p.m. HOLLYWOOD FEED, 2013 UNION (591-1795), HOLLYWOODFEED.COM.
Turner: 3rd Annual Talk True
Candid dialogue about pivoting companies in a COVID-19 environment and the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion in business. Free. Thurs., Dec. 3, 3:30 p.m. TURNERCONSTRUCTION.COM.
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Gifts of Green at the Garden
Seasonal pop-up shop inside the Botanic Garden’s newly renovated visitors center. Through Dec. 30, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100).
Holiday Artisan Market Shop Levitt Shell-inspired works from local makers. Through Dec. 31. LEVITT SHELL, 1928 POPLAR (272-2722), LEVITTSHELL.ORG.
Starving Artist Social Distance Marketplace
Featuring Foxy Robot Design, The Ginger’s Bread & Co., *four eyed girl*, Tedy Treats, PostTraumatically Stressed Feminist, and more. Food available from Dinner by Dan. Breezy Lucia will be taking holiday portraits. Wear your festive clothes and bring your pets. Sun., Dec. 6, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., and Mon., Dec. 7, 2-7 p.m. STARVING ARTIST MARKET, 4258 RHODES.
Virtual Crafts Fair
Featuring artists and brands from Memphis and the surrounding areas. From paintings and home decor to jewelry and candles. Through Dec. 12. MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362).
Aim to Maintain
Determine your own goal for yourself, whether it is monitoring your weight, physical activity, limiting sugar intake, or something else. Get tips and challenges and check in weekly for random drawing entries via the Kroc Center of Memphis Facebook page. Through Jan. 3, 2021. THE SALVATION ARMY KROC CENTER, 800 E. PARKWAY S. (729-8007), FACEBOOK.COM/KROCMEMPHIS.
Luckydog Barrel Race Thur.-Sun., Dec. 3-6.
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Wolf River Group Run
All paces welcome. Run 3-5 miles along the Germantown Greenway or the Wolf River Trails. Free. Wednesdays, 6 p.m. Through Feb. 10. BREAKAWAY RUNNING GERMANTOWN, 1223 S. GERMANTOWN (754-8254), BREAKAWAYMEMPHIS.COM.
LGBT Legends Awards 2020
Enjoy the red carpet at 7 p.m. and awards ceremony at 8:30 p.m. as the light shines on LGBTQ past, present, and future. Sun., Dec. 6, 6 p.m. BLACK LODGE, 405 N. CLEVELAND (272-7744).
“The Negro Motorist Green Book”
Exhibition highlighting an annual guide started in 1936 that helped African Americans travel the country and was a resource for the era’s Black-owned businesses. $10. Through Jan. 3, 2021. NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM, 450 MULBERRY (521-9699).
Prison Fellowship’s Angel Tree
Sponsor area children of incarcerated parents in the Greater Memphis area. Through Dec. 23. PRISONFELLOWSHIP.ORG.
Tunes & Trivia
Know trivia, earn prizes. Featuring a Memphis music artist, benefiting Memphis Public Library Foundation. $20. Fri., Dec. 4, 6-7:30 p.m. MEMPHISLIBRARYFOUNDATION.ORG.
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Shop local artists and makers for the holidays. Through Dec. 23. ARROW CREATIVE, 2535 BROAD.
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Churches from the Presbytery of the MidSouth: Sunday Worship Livestream Combined livestream worship. Visit website for more information and livestream link. Sun., 11 a.m. IDLEWILDCHURCH.ORG.
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Weekly Zoom gathering for anyone 18+ who identifies as a member of the trans or GNC community. For login information, email ahauptman@outmemphis.org. Tuesdays, 6 p.m. OUTMEMPHIS.ORG.
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A Benefit for the P&H Cafe
Help the P&H Cafe get restarted in their new location. Twenty percent of all 901 Comics sales will be donated to the cafe. Enter to win a Stan Lee signed comic book, auctions, raffles, sales and more, plus live music at the Cooper-Young Gazebo. Cosplay encouraged. Sat., Dec. 5, 12-6 p.m. 901 COMICS, 2162 YOUNG, 901COMICSMEMPHIS.COM.
HappiDog Holiday Pop-Up Shoppe
Featuring wine and appetizers, a huge selection of items at bargain prices, and swag bags with every purchase, benefiting HappiDog Animal Rescue. Free. Sun., Dec. 6, 5-8 p.m. COLETTA’S, 2850 APPLING (383-1122).
Be a Santa to a Senior
Carriage Crossing will be collecting gifts for senior citizens. The tree with ornament wish lists will be in the Wonderland Experience lobby. Shop and return unwrapped gifts to the tree. Through Dec. 12. CARRIAGE CROSSING, HOUSTON LEVEE & BILL MORRIS PKWY. (854-8240), SHOPCARRIAGECROSSING.COM.
Boxlot Holiday Market
Virtual shopping on Friday or shop in person on Saturday for $5. Receive $5 Boxlot Bucks when you arrive to go toward a purchase. Free-$5. Fri., Dec. 4, 3-8 p.m., and Sat., Dec. 5, 1-3 p.m. BOXLOT, 607 MONROE.
The Children’s Ballet Theater Live Nutcracker
Live holiday performance with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the Botanic Garden. $25, Free for kids ages 2 and under. Sun., Dec. 6, 3:30 & 4:30 p.m. MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (921-0388), BALLETCHILDREN.COM.
The Children’s Ballet Theater Nutcracker
This fundraiser film of the classical ballet. $35. Tues., Dec. 8, 6:15-8 p.m. MALCO SUMMER 4 DRIVE-IN, 5310 SUMMER (921-0388), BALLETCHILDREN.COM.
Delight at Concourse
Enjoy local pop-up dining areas and rock out to live music popups. Through Jan. 31, 2021. CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE, 1350 CONCOURSE.
MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362).
Folk All Y’all: Holidaysin-the-House Show with Barnaby Bright Virtual holiday house concert. $20. Sat., Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m. FOLKALLYALL.COM.
Holiday Wonders at the Garden
Activities at three venues: Snowy Nights in My Big Backyard, Under the Stars Outdoor Lounge, and City of Memphis Christmas Tree. Through Dec. 27.
Millington Christmas Parade
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Brings the spirit of the season to life on select nights with displays featuring more than 3.5 million lights. $16-$35. Through Jan. 3, 2021.
Virtual Christmas concert benefiting Orpheum Memphis. $40-$125. Sun., Dec. 6, 6 p.m.
Stop by and grab your favorite treats, a great gift to drop off to a local loved one. Thursdays-Saturdays, 10 a.m.5 p.m., and Sundays, 12-4 p.m. Through Dec. 20.
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Featuring Santa, holiday music, and hot chocolate. Fri., Dec. 4, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Visit on select nights. Zoo Lights closed Dec. 2, 3, 9, 10, 24, and 31. $10. FridaysSundays, 6-9:30 p.m. Through Jan. 3.
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Letters to seniors initiative encourages customers to set aside one or more of the greeting cards they plan to send this holiday season and drop it off in the mailbox by Barnes & Noble. Through Dec. 13. CARRIAGE CROSSING, HOUSTON LEVEE & BILL MORRIS PKWY. (854-8240), SHOPCARRIAGECROSSING.COM.
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Stroll, dine, shop in Memphis’ brightest and most beautifully lit neighborhood for the holidays. Through Jan. 31, 2021, 4 p.m.-midnight. SOUTH MAIN HISTORIC ARTS DISTRICT, DOWNTOWN.
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Audrey Anderson offers a hard-to-find pie.
es, you can get a homemade mincemeat pie locally. And you don’t have to be from the North to like it. Audrey Anderson makes them at her bakery, The Pie Folks, in Cordova. But first, here’s why mincemeat is my favorite. In addition to its tantalizing taste, a lot has to do with nostalgia. My dad was born in Minneapolis, so our Christmas and Thanksgiving dinners didn’t include cornbread dressing, candied yams with marshmallows, and other Southern fare. We had bread dressing or stuffing with raisins and boiled, mashed rutabagas with butter. We had pumpkin pie, but we also had mincemeat pie. My mom used None Such mincemeat, which still is available, to make her pies, but she added four peeled, cored, and sliced apples to the mixture so she could make two 9-inch pies. I still use None Such, but I’ve tried other ways to get mincemeat pies in and around Memphis. Chef Josh Steiner surprised me on my birthday one year with a mincemeat pie he made from scratch at his old Strano! restaurant. It was fabulous. Christine Martin, a friend who is a cashier at Carlisle’s Cash Saver in Holly Springs, gave me a mincemeat pie recipe from her mother-in-law, the late Ollie Martin. In beautiful handwriting were listed 11 (!) ingredients, which included a half pound of chopped suet. I am going to try making that one of these days. But, for now, why not order one from The Pie Folks? Anderson began making mincemeat pies about five or six years ago. “I had not heard of a mincemeat pie until we started getting calls around the holiday time,” she says. “I went online to see what it was and try a few of the recipes and come up with one that was good.” Then, she says, “The recipe I found online that I made, I tweaked it with different spices to where I could eat it.” Most people who requested the pie were from “up North,” Anderson says. “It is not common in the South. Most people who buy it are older people. I’ve never had a younger person.” Her mincemeat pie fans are “60 and above.” To make them, Anderson begins with raisins, but, she says, “You have to let those raisins swell in water. I don’t use straight raisins. I let them kind of swell. It makes them softer.” A mincemeat pie consists of “a lot of spices,” including cinnamon and nutmeg.
“It’s spices that make it good.” She also uses some meat. “Some people put lean beef in, but I don’t like that texture. I like to use ground beef.” Her 9-inch mincemeat pies, which sell for $27.99, are more popular around Christmas. “I make them any time, but people only request them during the holidays.” And, she says, “The people who get them, usually I do them for them every year. They will be back.” Kirk Hevener bought his first Pie Folks mincemeat pie this year for Thanksgiving. “My dad passed away a couple of years ago, but mincemeat pie was his favorite pie and we always had it at Thanksgiving,” he says.
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The Pie Folks owner Audrey Anderson and her mincemeat pie
His family ate mincemeat pie “usually just Thanksgiving. We didn’t really go all out for Christmas.” Mincemeat pie, which his dad bought somewhere each year, was just one of several pies served. His dad, Gene Hevener, “was born in Ohio. Maybe that’s where he picked it up. I never realized maybe it’s a Northern thing. I was really happy to discover The Pie Folks had it, even though it was a specialorder pie.” Hevener, an assistant professor at the College of Pharmacy at UT Health Science Center, says just he and his wife, Dionne, celebrated Thanksgiving. They did a “virtual Thanksgiving this year via TVs and Zoom.” Hevener’s eaten mincemeat pie “30, 35 years. I’m in my 40s now. I’ve been eating it since I was a little kid.” And, he says, “I like mincemeat pie. It’s an interesting pie. I like to put a little vanilla ice cream with it and it’s awesome.” The Pie Folks is at 1028 N. Germantown Parkway in Cordova; (901) 752-5454.
BREWS By Richard Murff
Apple Time ’Tis the season for a cider … or two.
In wines and champagne, I tend toward the dry side of things, so Woodchuck amber was a little sweeter than I’m used to, but it’s crisp enough that I don’t mind it. What’s more, apple cider fits the environment, which really is half the battle when you’re stepping out of the usual well-worn habits and trying something different. It’s fall — sure it’s about to be winter, but it’s going to keep feeling like fall until January. The leaves are still turning is what I’m getting at here, and that always provokes a rash of almost historical Johnny Appleseed pieces on the Sunday-morning shows. Which is where I learned that until prohibition the vast majority of apple production in the United States was for booze, not the heart-healthy, keeps-the-doctoraway varieties of the fruit we cram down our children’s throats. This was always a struggle with Littlebit, who didn’t like apples — until
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No bad apple — Lakeland’s Long Road Cider makes a stiff drink with Pommaux.
now. So for the craft beer set sneering at the cider, this isn’t a new fad but a tremendous patriotic backflip of a century and a half. I’m glad she suggested it because I forgot how much I like the stuff. It doesn’t have a foamy collar like a beer, but there is enough fizz to give it a little bite, which is what makes cider so refreshing. It goes down pretty easy, and to judge by the way I outpaced Littlebit, a little too easy. Not the sort of example I need to be setting. Now that we’ve launched ourselves into the eatin’ season, it’s good to know that cider pairs well with roasty fall dishes — and you’d be hard-pressed to find a better beer to quaff with a roast turkey or a grilled chicken than a crisp, well-made apple cider. Woodchuck is made in Vermont — and they seem like the sort to be good at this kind of thing. For a more local option, there is the Long Road Cider Company located in Lakeland, also available around town if you don’t want to make the trip. Besides, some of their ciders pack a wallop, so the return trip from out there can get swirly. They also have a 19-proof hard cider called Pommaux that isn’t exactly liquor — but it is great for making an interesting twist on the Wassail-type hot-spiced holiday mug. True, it rarely gets cold enough to require it, but it sure as hell gets damp and clammy enough. If you want to take a six-pack home, you’re better off with Nashville’s Diskin Cider — which sounds suspiciously like a pecker joke. At any rate, on a recommendation I tried their Daydream Prickly Pear Rosé Cider. Well, I try my best to be positive here, and for that matter I also try not to be sexist, but … This rosé pear cider seems to be ringing the same bell that wine coolers rang back in the ’90s. The sweetness borders on Jolly Rancher territory, and pears don’t have the crisp bite to counterbalance it. In short, I know what market they’ve targeted, and why said market likes the stuff. But I am not that market. For the record, Littlebit recommends Bold Rock Cider, which claims both Virginia and North Carolina as home. Alas, you’ve got to head up into the mountains for a pour.
nd so it was that Littlebit came down from atop the mountain and said unto me: “Verily, Father, I really haven’t the taste for beer, so I’ll have an apple cider.” Or words to that effect. Sewanee has wrapped up a very nearly plague-free semester and sent its charges home to take their exams. Judging by some of the Instagram feeds, exactly how they stayed very nearly plague-free is God’s own private mystery, but here we are. At any rate, that’s how I found myself hoisting a pair of Woodchuck amber ciders with the gal.
FILM By Chris McCoy
Blame the Victim
Is Hillbilly Elegy the year’s most depressing film?
Wikipedia entry lists his occupation as “venture capitalist.” He was born into a working-class family, but he’s not exactly someone for whom the American dream was “out of reach.” He succeeded! Maybe that’s why Hillbilly Elegy seems so vacant and shallow. It wants you to have sympathy for the hard lives of these characters, who are all based on Vance’s real family, but it cannot bear to turn its gaze on the deeper question begged by all the scenes of violence, drugs, and squalor — what has gone wrong here? Why are these people so screwed up? From the start, the dialogue reveals a tin-eared writer. “Where you goin’?” asks the grizzled old redneck. “Swimming hole,” says teenage J.D. (Owen Asztalos). “Don’t get bit by a cottonmouth!” The Grapes of Wrath this ain’t. A few minutes later, J.D. is getting bullied by three local boys who hold him under the water until he almost drowns. Now this looks more like the hillbilly life I remember! Turns out, J.D. Vance isn’t even from the mountains of Kentucky — he’s from suburban Middletown, Ohio, and the actual hillbillies hate him. His
i, my name’s Chris, and I’m an authentic hillbilly. I grew up on a farm in the Appalachian foothills of Tennessee. I watched Hillbilly Elegy on Netflix so you don’t have to. The film is based on the book by J. D. Vance, which is subtitled A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. The book became a bestseller during the run-up to the 2016 election, and became a political touchstone for pundits trying to explain the appeal of He Who Must Not Be Named to the white, rural voters who put the Orange Menace in the White House and the country on what we now know was the road to ruin. The story begins in Jackson, Kentucky, in 1997, with a tinny voice on the radio declaring: “In an age of prosperity, the American dream seems out of reach.” But here’s the thing: Vance is an Iraq War veteran and graduate of Yale Law School whose
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(above, l-r) Haley Bennett, Gabriel Basso, and Amy Adams star in Hillbilly Elegy, based on the book by J.D. Vance; (bottom left) Glenn Close as Mamaw grandparents moved from Kentucky to get jobs in the Ohio steel mills, which are closed now. There’s Mamaw (Glenn Close), J.D.’s mom Bev (Amy Adams), and sister Lindsay (Haley Bennett). A nostalgic sense of loss hangs over the family. Two generations ago, they were peasants pursuing opportunity in the big city. Now, they’re the suburban poor with nowhere else to go. Mom did well in school, but got pregnant young and found herself stuck in a cycle of failed relationships, struggling to keep food on the table for her two kids while she’s slowly being eaten away by the opioids she pops for stress. “We were all different in Middletown,” J.D.’s voiceover intones. “Something was missing. Maybe hope.” And yet, there are no scenes in this two-hour film showing us the good things about rural life. It can be very beautiful, and the rhythms of the farm can be peaceful. Least authentically of all, not once does anyone step foot inside a church. The plot, such as it is, revolves around grown-up J.D. (Gabriel Basso) trying to juggle career weekend at Yale with his mother’s latest addiction crisis back in Ohio. Much of the actual conflict involves Mom and Memaw’s access to healthcare, which is the film’s most authentic and relatable aspect. In The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck doesn’t shy away from the causes of his Okies’ miseries. It’s the banks that foreclose on the family farm during the Depression, the orchard owners who pay starvation wages for backbreaking work, and the thugs who beat
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the union organizers into submission. When Bev, fresh off an OD, is kicked out of the hospital because she doesn’t have health insurance, it’s treated as another example of her moral failure, and an inconvenience for J.D., who has to be back in New Haven, Connecticut, for a job interview at a corporate law firm the next day. The real bad guys — the pharmaceutical companies who knowingly marketed highly addictive opioids to a population who are being worked to death by rapacious capitalists — are nowhere to be seen. Directed by Ron Howard, Hillbilly Elegy is a deeply unpleasant watch. Everyone professes that “family is the only thing that means a goddamn thing,” but they only seem to communicate by shouted insult. The cinematography is
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The Last Thing You Do … The long and sad goodbye of Lamar Alexander. Senator, this is perhaps the third time I have written to you publicly in 2020, the final year of your third term as our state’s senior senator. Like many Tennesseans, I have always considered you an excellent representative of our state, and a dedicated public servant. Unfortunately, 2020 was not America’s greatest-ever year. Nor was it yours. I read with interest the interview you did last week with the Daily Memphian and paid close attention to your comments about Donald Trump, now the lame-duck president of these United States. This was the digital headline in the DM:
Alexander to Trump: ‘People remember the last thing you do’ That statement is certainly true, Senator, particularly when the “last thing you do” is particularly good or particularly bad. But did the thought not cross your mind that people might well remember the last things of consequence you have done as our outgoing senior senator? Many Tennesseans know exactly what’s happened during this, your last year in office. Many of us will always remember what you did and didn’t do in 2020. Indeed, last week’s Daily Memphian headline might just as well have read:
How ironic, sir, that you will always be remembered for what you did and did not do in 2020, the year in which you announced your retirement. Ironic, in the sense that you first became our governor in the dying days of 1980, 40 years ago, when your predecessor, Ray Blanton, was removed early from that position, on account of his awarding pardons to all kinds of scoundrels. (Apparently, Donald Trump is now doing the same kind of thing, but that’s another story for another day.) I interviewed you in Nashville in 1981, a month or two after you took office. Clearly, you were a vast improvement over Blanton. How sad, then, after such a long and illustrious career in our state and in Washington, D.C., that you too will be remembered now for the last things you did, carrying water, time and time again, for Trump, all the while endorsing, aloud or in silence, the wretched policies of this worst president in our nation’s history. Last January, you helped make sure that the president, under impeachment, would not be convicted in the Senate, declining to bring John Bolton forward as a witness before the Senate Chamber. And for the next 10 months, after Trump’s acquittal, you said next to nothing about this de facto mob boss in the White House, who, in 2020 alone, came close to destroying our country, ignoring the coronavirus, all while time and again challenging America’s democratic institutions. As best I can tell, Senator, you said nothing whatsoever about Trump’s ongoing failure to deal with the pandemic. You said nothing at all about his absurd focus on golf, glitter, and Twitter. Perhaps, as chair of the Senate Health Committee, you suggested privately that Trump might meet more regularly with the Coronavirus Task Force, but if so, that suggestion was never made public. Month after month, you said and did nothing about this president’s penchant for fiddling while America burned, putting the country’s economy, its institutions, and its public-health systems through the ringer. Last week, when you spoke to the Daily Memphian, you gave Mr. Trump advice you apparently never had given to yourself. Why did you wait until November 23rd to make that headline observation, that Trump had screwed the pooch, when such an observation might have made a real difference six months ago? Don’t worry, many of us will always remember the last year of your last term as our senator. At least you’re retiring shortly. Perhaps you’ll have plenty of time to think about how different things could and should have been, had you used your final year in office to try to make America great again. Instead, you chose to be part of the problem, making no real attempt to be part of the solution. That’s a tragedy, for us all. Kenneth Neill is the founder and publisher emeritus of the Memphis Flyer.
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OR Tambo outlines what happened when the power went out
Management, technical and engineering staff of OR Tambo International Airport have completed an assessment of the circumstances that led to power disruptions at the airport on Sunday 12 January.
OR Tambo GM Bongiwe Pityi-Vokwana has released a statement as follows:
As a National Key Point, the airport is licensed and regulated by the South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA). We adhere to global standards for critical infrastructure systems back-up to ensure the safety and security of passengers going through our airport.
We have 45 generators which can operate for three days. We also have a large number of uninterruptable power supply (UPS) units that keep engineering and IT systems running when power is disrupted, giving generators the time required to start up.
In spite of the power interruption, the airport ecosystem handled 571 flights with more than 71 000 passengers and 39 000 departing bags processed. Twenty flights and 530 bags were affected by the power interruption, with delays averaged at 30 minutes for the flights concerned.
The sequence of events
A total loss of power from Eskom was reported at 10.24am. Our business continuity plans were activated. Back-up generators took over and various engineering and IT systems were reset at this point, the equivalent of rebooting.
Critical services such as fuelling, baggage handling, water supply, instrument landing system and aircraft navigational aids were not affected. The airside network comprising of airfield ground lighting systems, supplied by separate UPS systems and generators, was not affected.
The process of restoring Eskom loads ran from 12.40pm to 13.05pm. The transition from generator to mains and back is not seamless as loads are restored in phases. Some systems require 30 minutes and more before they are again fully operational.
Impact on systems
Back-up generators supplied uninterrupted power to the following areas:
* Domestic terminal and critical systems necessary for passenger processing;
* Airport fuelling system;
* Airfield navigational aids;
* Instrument landing system and aircraft navigational aids;
* Weather observation systems;
* Airfield ground lighting systems;
* Some people movers for vertical circulation and parking management systems; and
* Emergency lighting.
The following systems were partially affected during the interruption:
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* People movers not on essential supply;
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* Retail outlets such as banks, restaurants and shops;
* IT systems and some related wire centres;
* International baggage handling system; and
* Public address system.
Every realtime disruption reveals some fresh challenges that cannot be anticipated in business continuity plans. Therefore, as part of adapting our responses, the airport will now do three things.
First, run more simulations of longer power outages to understand the impact on infrastructure; second, re-assess all systems and areas that are regarded as essential services with a view to providing additional capacity from back-up generator supply; and third, re-evaluate the synchronisation and sequencing of generators to mains power during supply restoration.
Management of OR Tambo International Airport understands the frustrations of people at times such as this and we thank passengers and airport visitors for their understanding.
We are also most appreciative of the support provided by everyone working in the airport environment. Their efforts helped to mitigate the effects of the disruption and enabled the efficient return to normal operations once power had been restored.
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"He Spewed Himself Into Her": Re-Reading The Conqueror
Irin Carmon
Sadie's trashy reads series and revisiting of the rapey romance novel inspired me to reread a rape-laden book that scandalized me in my adolescence. This one was called The Conqueror, and it had Fabio on the cover.
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How, you asked, could we neglect solid-gold trashiness like Harold Robbins! And Jilly Cooper! And…
Why scandalized? First of all, the fact that it's set during the Norman conquest apparently gives license to use fun Anglo-Saxon words like cock, tits, and fuck. And more to the point, scene upon scene of attempted rape and completed rape, specifically referred to as such but eventually ending in love.
Whereas the romance novels I'd gotten my hands on in long, featureless summers (a shamefaced habit that started somewhere on the road back from Gone With The Wind) tastefully faded to black during the sex scenes — Rhett carrying Scarlett up the stairs and then nothingness — this one was graphic, with pages and pages of sexual detail. There is the word "impale" used for penetration. And there are the allusive phrases used to indicate a male orgasm, including, "like a ripe plum, he burst within her," and the significantly less appealing, "he spewed himself into her." (There are lots of phrases for when they come at the same time all along the lines of "their world shattered brilliantly, as one.") The preferred word for female genitalia is simply "her femininity."
There are more blunt, minute-by-minute check-ins with Rolfe de Warenne's cock, which is obsessively transfixed by one Ceidre, the bastard half sister of Edwin and Morcar, Saxon lords whose fiefdoms are being conquered. The golden-haired Ceidre, of course, is spirited, independent, and unbelievably beautiful, but also a shunned outsider — she has an occasionally lazy eye and an affinity for herbal medicine that gets her called a witch. As part of the land deal, Rolfe is being given Ceidre's half-sister Alice as a wife. (You know she's a bitch because she's a brunette and doesn't like sex, although eventually she later proves to be a masochist.)
The first time Rolfe sees Ceidre, he tries to rape her, but is held at bay by the lie that she is actually Lady Alice, his intended. Interestingly, the book is full of Rolfe' perspective, first as he dismounts his horse to rape her, and then later as he is tormented by her sensuality, and even later as he learns to fall in love with her out of sheer admiration for her spirit. In the opening scene, we are asked to identify with the rapist, or at least see things through his eyes:
Every muscle of Rolfe's body was taut with tension and expectation. He was hard and throbbing beneath his undertunic. He could almost feel her soft woman's body beneath his, the stick heat of her sheath around him. She screamed as she fell, looked back, saw him.... He had to have her, and now. He caught her braid by the nape, and even as he leaned over to claim her lips, he was shoving her gown and tunic up to her waist.... He kneed her thighs wide apart.
Still obsessively attracted to her, he attempts to rape her numerous more times — this is the word that is used — throughout much of the book. Ceidre at first hates him for taking over her brother's fiefdom, eventually fighting her burning attraction to him. At one point, he jerks off watching her bathe in a creek, and she sees it.
250 pages or so later, he eventually finishes what he started, droit de seigneur on her wedding night to his trusted deputy. The second time that night, though, she's totally into it and has an orgasm: "He had raped her violently, and moments later she had attained the fiercest of desire, and the most agonizing of ecstasy, in his arms."
The trick is that consent is explicitly part of this: when she realizes she is attracted to him but also sleeps with him to spy for her brothers, he is exultant: "He could barely believe what had happened. She had come to him. She had wanted him. She had responded to his passion as fiercely as he had given it."
The final climax, so to speak, when he comes to her in love despite her betrayal, is when he lowers his head to go down on her, much to Ceidre's extreme shock and eventual pleasure. (Was there cunnilingus in the eleventh century? Who cares.)
Still, in mutual consent lies the terror of emasculation. The second half of The Conqueror sees Rolfe struggling to fight his new emotional vulnerability (and yeah, the fact that Ceidre is actively trying to orchestrate a coup to restore her brothers doesn't help.)
"You unman me, Ceidre."
"You are not unmanned to feel happy, my lord."
"No? What is happiness? A commander has no place in his life for such emotions... A man who caters to all humors ceases to be a man.
There is a careful balance here: on the one hand, the reader is repelled by the hero's proclivity for rape, but on the other hand, it's 1066, so marauding conquerors weren't exactly asking nicely. And there is the suggestion here that it is an intoxicating thing, first to be so irresistible that a man simply cannot help himself, and then so much so that the brute is so charmed by your indomitable spirit that he changes into a loving man who is begging for your consent. And says things like, "If this is love, than I have been smitten."
But in the midst of this teary reunion, she "feels his sex, thick and hard," and he says, "'Tis a sign of my love." I tend to think that's what this book is really about.
The Conqueror (Dell Historical Romance)
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"The golden-haired Ceidre, of course, is spirited, independent, and unbelievably beautiful, but also a shunned outsider — she has an occasionally lazy eye…"
Her lazy eye is only lazy occasionally? Well, that's just…lazy.
(I'm sorry. I couldn't help myself. And this just cracked me up, because really? That's why she is shunned? Too funny.)
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Khloé Kardashian and Lamar Odom Aren't Getting Divorced After All
Following Lamar Odom’s near fatal overdose at a brothel in Las Vegas, the former LA Lakers player and his estranged wife Khloé Kardashian have decided to call off their divorce and give love (and who knows—maybe even their reality show) another go. According to one source, “Khloé thinks this was the right thing to do right now.”
E! News reports:
E! News confirms the 31-year-old Keeping Up With the Kardashians star and the 35-year-old former NBA player are calling off their divorce. The two both signed divorce papers in July but, due to a file backlog, the judge had yet to sign off, so the pair are still legally married.
Khloé’s attorney Laura Wasser went into court this morning and asked the judge to withdraw the divorce petition that was awaiting a judge’s signature. The judge granted the petition and the divorce case is now over.
Odom has a long recovery ahead of him. As another “source” tells E!:
“Every day he is getting a bit better, but he is continuing to have extensive tests on his cognitive and motor functions, so no one can make a definitive diagnosis yet. He is more coherent day by day.”
Meanwhile, Khloé’s ex French Montana made a public statement in support of Khloé and Lamar at the TIDAL X: 1020 Amplified concert in Brooklyn last night. (A private text will do, French!)
“Shout out to Khloé. I am really proud of her for being by his side,” he said. “It’s a beautiful thing to see cause I know she has a good heart like that.”
Modeliste magazine (???) did some heavy photoshopping on Zendaya and she was rightfully pissed.
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Is Kate Hudson boffing Nick Jonas? The world may NEVER know! “I mean, my agent [MICHAEL KIVES] has been my mystery man maybe 25 times,” Hudson told Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live. “You can’t hug someone or talk to someone without it end up being a thing.” That’s not a no, Kate! [NYDN]
Cool guy Jeremy Renner on helping fix the Hollywood pay gap: “That’s not my job.” [Business Insider]
Kylie Jenner shit her pants. [Author’s note: This story is not as good as you think it’s going to be.] [POPSUGAR]
There’s some new One Direction coming your way. [Billboard]
The emphasis in this headline about Sandra Bullock is pretty funny. [Gossip Cop]
Drew Barrymore suffered from postpartum depression. [E! News]
Kim Gordon clarified her earlier “why doesn’t she just off herself” comments about Lana Del Rey:
“I was basically just trying to point out it was a persona, and offhandedly said what I said just kind of laughingly… I suppose I could have articulated the whole thing a lot better because I really just wanted to talk about persona and I was just thinking about what is the next leap after Madonna, who was not nihilistic. To me, all this stuff all stems from consumerist culture.”
[Billboard]
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Is the this development surprising? It doesn’t necessarily have to do anything with whether they want to stay together as a couple long term. Even if he’s conscious, it will probably be some time before he’s independent again, to whatever degree he will be. Divorce would affect all kinds of aspects of both of their lives. It’s really only sensible to delay it until the situation is at least more stable.
The alternative would involve finding someone who was equally willing and able to make medical decisions when Lamar couldn’t, for starters. That’s particularly troublesome if he isn’t in condition to specify an alternative person - the default if he were divorced would be a parent, and his mother is dead and his father is not really a good choice.
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who can belong in our cities will determine what our cities can become
Julian Agyeman
Author | Speaker | Educator
Teaching & Advising
Moving Beyond the Sharing Economy: The Case for ‘Sharing Cities’.
By Julian Agyeman | July 10, 2014 | 0
© CUNY 2012 The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture
What can be bad about an economy that’s called ‘sharing’? Sharing is the antithesis of our current dog-eat-dog economy right? With a booming global population and mass-migration to cities, surely anything that encourages getting-along with each other is a good thing?
But the sharing economy is under attack – though surprisingly not from market-is-gospel neoliberals. It’s being rejected by people who put ‘all for one and one for all’ at the center of their politics. The sharing economy, they say, is nothing more than sly companies profiteering from the skills, possessions and spaces that people would otherwise never think of making money from. Let’s take a closer look at why we must move beyond the current concept of a sharing economy and make the wider case for Sharing Cities.
In our forthcoming book Sharing Cities: A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities (McLaren and Agyeman MIT Press 2015), when we talk of Sharing Cities, we deliberately embrace the ambiguity of the verb and adjective of ‘sharing’. We argue that a reinvention and revival of sharing in our cities could enhance equity, rebuild community and dramatically cut resource use. With modern technologies the intersection of urban space and cyber-space provides an unsurpassed platform for more just, inclusive and environmentally efficient economies and societies rooted in a sharing culture. In the book we set out a case for moving beyond the bounded and ultimately limiting concept of the ‘sharing economy’ to both understanding whole cities as shared spaces, and acting to share them fairly. In brief outline, our case for Sharing Cities runs as follows.
Humans are natural sharers.
Sharing is, by all accounts, an evolutionary trait (Schmidt and Sommerville, 2011). Shared efforts allowed our ancestors to band together to hunt, farm and create shelter, and reciprocal forms of altruism arose naturally from repeated interactions in such collective groups where reputation matters for survival (Ridley 1996). Hunter-gatherer societies depended on sharing and cooperation and this behavior instilled a natural preference for fair shares and broadly equal outcomes (Tomasello and Warneken 2008). The earliest cities developed in a number of places, from Mesopotamia to Asia to the Americas and were always about sharing, with their public spaces serving as focal places of exchange, encounter and entertainment. One of the largest with around 50,000 inhabitants at its peak was Mohenjo-daro, in present day Sindh Province, Pakistan. It existed from about 2600 BCE, and had a population of 50,000 or more. It had a marketplace, shared well, a communal housing structure and public baths.
Traditional or ‘socio-cultural’ sharing, as happened in hunter gatherer societies and early cities, still happens everywhere in both the global North and South, but it has largely broken down in modern cities in the face of ‘bling’ culture, commercialization of the public realm, the increasingly rapid pace of economic and technological change, the rise of our competitive nature and the destabilization and fragmentation of human identities these trends have engendered. Writer and entrepreneur Margaret Heffernan (2014) suggests that rather than stimulating innovation and inspiring us to do better, competition can generate fraud, cheating, stress and inequality whilst suffocating creative instincts. The problems of competition are exacerbated in todays globalized markets, cultural industries and sporting contests, where a ‘winner takes all’ structure (Frank and Cook 1996) awards the lion’s share of the rewards to a very few elite participants who gain celebrity status and advertising endorsements that multiply their direct earnings many times over.
The future of humanity is urban.
Nowhere in human culture is the centrality of collaboration and sharing more obvious than in the city. The city is not just a venue for the sharing of spaces, ‘things’ and services, but is historically a shared entity in itself; the product of shared creation or co-production. Demographic, economic and cultural forces are bringing us together in larger and larger urban regions, particularly in the global South. Around 53% of the world’s population currently lives in cities (World Bank 2012). According to The Economist (2012) this will rise to 64.1% in the developing, and 85.9% of the developed world by 2050.
Contrary to what many might argue, this is not a disaster for humanity, as the physical nature of urban space facilitates – and in some ways, necessitates – sharing: of resources, infrastructures, goods, services, experiences and capabilities. The effects of population density and highly networked physical space are converging with new digital technologies to drive and enable sharing in cities – particularly in novel ‘mediated’ forms. All three come together to provide critical mass in both demand for, and supply of, shared resources and facilities. New opportunities for collaboration and sharing are arising at the intersection of urban space and cyberspace.
While San Francisco is at the forefront of the modern wave of collaborative consumption with high-tech sharing companies, new sharing start-ups and the development of new norms amongst Millennials, Seoul, South Korea is one of the first global cities to officially endorse the sharing economy, but also, to move beyond. The city, which is home to more than 10 million people living within 234 square miles (Johnson, 2013), is striving to cultivate a sharing culture and build the public’s trust in sharing enterprises and activities. Seoul’s mayor, Park Won-soon, a political independent and long-standing human rights activist, is a strong driving force behind this official embrace of sharing. In September of 2012, the Seoul Metropolitan Government announced its plan to promote a sharing vision through “Sharing City, Seoul” (Ejang, 2013). This city-funded project aims to make sharing activities accessible to all citizens by expanding physical and digital sharing infrastructure, incubating and supporting sharing economy startups, and putting idle public resources to better use. According to Kim Tae Kyoon, director of Seoul’s Social Innovation Division, Sharing City could help citizens regain some of the community that rapid urbanization and industrialization have lost. He told Shareable that the ultimate goal of the project is to “share lives among dispersed people, recover trust and relationships, and shape a warm city in terms of people’s heart (Johnson 2013).”
Sharing Cities prioritize social justice.
While there is a growing realization that with new opportunities for sharing we have new opportunities to enhance trust and rebuild social capital, the sharing economy is also creating new spaces in which commercial interests can casualize labor, privatize public services and capitalize on growing land values through gentrification.
David Golumbia argues:
“Siding with upstart venture capital is not my idea of giving ordinary people “a leg up.” The “sharing economy” doesn’t have much to do with individuals. Instead, it represents corporate capital doing what it typically does: Monetizing parts of the social world that have previously avoided it” (cited in Burns 2014).
Similarly, SolidarityNYC:
“There’s a spectrum of sharing economy groups, from cooperatives to private companies like Airbnb. Airbnb is portrayed as helping cash-strapped individuals, which may be true in some cases. But in the long-term, it will likely exacerbate New York City’s housing crisis, by allowing landlords to charge more in rent because their tenants can turn to this secondary market to make up the difference” (ibid).
In such ways the emerging sharing economy can deepen inequalities and deliver injustice. City leaders therefore need to support and emphasize communal models of sharing that build solidarity and spread trust. In other words, social justice doesn’t simply happen; sharing systems must be designed around equity and justice: these cannot be retrofitted. In Medellín, Colombia’s second city, architect Alejandro Echeverri worked with former mayor Sergio Fajardo on the city’s transformation, which came out of the department of urbanismo social (social civic planning or social urbanism). During the mid-1990’s, Echeverri explains: “a small group began to think in terms not of top-down policy, but of one that would begin with the poorest neighborhoods…it was both a concept and a physical strategy” (cited by Vulliamy 2013). Social urbanism focuses on spatial justice: striving to bridge the city’s socio-spatial divide and achieve inclusion through prioritizing historically neglected neighborhoods on the urban agenda. For Medellín, this has meant a substantial shift in public investment in the form of infrastructure, and public services, buildings and spaces, all of which have received high quality architectural design.
Increasing trust and collaboration
Like any other practice, sharing with equity and justice, can naturally shift cultural values and norms – in this case towards trust and collaboration. Benkler (2004 341 citing Kahan 2002) argues: “Both analytic models and empirical evidence support the proposition that as kind, sharing, and reciprocal behavior increases in society, so does the tendency to trust others, reciprocate, and behave pro-socially”. In other words, “by practicing sharing people come to value it more, or come to learn to trust other participants” (ibid). Trust in strangers, say Botsman and Rogers (2010), is not an abstract unfounded naivety, but a product of the right circumstances and transparency. Rating systems online provide the equivalent of personal recommendations, and, in a world where only 14% of us trust advertisers, but 78% trust peer recommendation (p203), this is incredibly powerful.
A Right to (remake) The City
This can deliver a further dividend, in that increased trust increases the motivation for social investment in public goods and the public realm or urban commons (common resources, managed and sustained by our collective activities). Such an enhanced public realm can in turn directly facilitate more and more efficient sharing, with significant democratic benefits. This requires seeing beyond a ‘sharing economy’ to seeing whole cities as shared entities with shared public services such as healthcare, childcare, education and libraries; shared infrastructural resources such as shared streets, mass transit, electricity, water and sewerage and shared spaces, such as public spaces and green spaces. But we need go further in seeing not only a ‘Right to the City’ and to the urban commons but a right to remake them (Harvey 2012) as being fundamental to any form or urban social contract worthy of the title ‘sharing city’.
Through various methods of urbanism – guerilla, DIY, tactical, pop-up, and open-source to name a few – city dwellers are reimagining and redefining their environments. By their nature, such movements interpret the collective urban commons as a shared space, but rather than accepting places as they are, they are redefining what they can become (Massey 1995). Indeed, space as possibility (Agyeman 2013) is another way of framing a Right to the City, a recognition of Harvey’s conclusion that such a Right should be seen not as “an exclusive individual right, but a focused collective right” (2011 137).
Transforming the political domain
Increasing trust and collaboration also establishes a precondition and motivation for collective political debate which recognizes the city as a shared system. The same measures that enable sharing online, also – if civil liberties are properly protected – enable collective politics online. We see the increasingly blurred nexus between urban- and cyberspace enabling transformation – this time in the political domain. These spaces are fundamentally important for forms of participation invented and controlled by the people. However, at the same time as neoliberalism is forcing a a ‘trenchant reregulation and redaction of public space’ (Low and Smith 2006 1), it is also threatening the same in cyberspace. Net neutrality is essential to the Sharing City. It is based on the principle of equality: that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and governments should not discriminate on the basis of (legal) content or introduce different charges, whether by type of user, particular content, particular site, platform, application, type of equipment, or mode of communication.
Towards a sharing paradigm
It is in the anticipation of such transformations that we suggest that the ‘Sharing Cities’ concept should become the guiding purpose of the politics, planning and policymaking for the future city. Adopting what we are calling the ‘sharing paradigm’ offers cities the opportunity to lead the transition to just sustainabilities. The sharing paradigm is based on the fundamental understanding that our wellbeing depends on building and developing human capabilities for all, and the fundamental resources we have available to do that – from breathable air to education, and from energy resources to health-care – are better conceived and understood as shared commons than as private goods.
We may collectively decide that the best way to manage and allocate certain resources is through market economies, or perhaps through public management, but our starting point is the recognition of their collective, shared nature. The sharing paradigm therefore foregrounds ways of thinking based on sharing resources fairly, rather than by ability to pay; treating resources and the environment as the common property of humankind; nurturing the collective commons of human culture and society and stimulating human flourishing by establishing and enabling the expression of individual and collective capabilities.
Leadership for Sharing Cities
City authorities are essential actors in such a transformation. Sharing advocates such as Janelle Orsi et al (2013), April Rinne (2014) and Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers (2010) have all suggested a range of actions cities might take. Here we summarize and elaborate on their suggestions to paint a picture of the leadership role of the city authorities in a Sharing City.
A Sharing City will need a public commitment to its vision, backed by the necessary strategies, institutions and resources.
It will need also to systematically map the assets owned by the city to identify those that could be shared, and opportunities for community engagement; and review all operations and policies to identify where it utilize collaborative economy platforms to meet its needs or goals (also including shareability criteria in local procurement tenders and other municipal contracts).
It will actively invest in public services and enable co-production in city-led services, protecting and enhancing of public common resources and services, from libraries to public spaces, and from health to education.
It will need to develop appropriate indicators for the city as a whole and its districts – such as a ‘neighborhood shareability index’, and establish means of monitoring progress, perhaps piggybacking on smart city investments.
It will engage the public in governance, for example, through participatory budgeting. It will also design and ‘police’ the public realm in ways that enable participation and create physical, virtual and psychological spaces for insurgent counter-cultures and interculturalism.
It will enable collaborative economy operations in the city, reviewing and reforming regulation and policy as necessary across areas such as taxation, planning and zoning, insurance and licensing; and investing its own capital in the sharing ecosystem, to support incubators and accelerators, research, capacity-building and shared infrastructure; and particularly to provide finance for non-commercial approaches to sharing.
And it will act as a ‘meta-intermediary’ or sharing hub, publishing online directories, linking sharing activity operators together with one another and with citizens, perhaps also aggregating and guaranteeing reputation for its citizens, underpinned by enabling open, affordable high-speed (mobile) internet access for all residents.
The Sharing Cities concept offers a radically different vision compared with a global race to the bottom to attract footloose investment capital that many cities are currently engaged in. It redefines what ‘smart cities’ of the future might really mean – harnessing smart technology to an agenda of sharing and solidarity, rather than one of competition, enclosure, deepening inequality and division.
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Shelter in Place: A Living Room Vaudeville
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The Song of the Earth – Art, Science, and Humanity
Composer Gustav Mahler wrote Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) near the end of his life and in fact never heard it performed. Inspired by Chinese poetry of the seventh and eighth century and written for vocalists with orchestra, the work delves into themes of life and eternity and is considered iconic in the Western classical music canon. This evening—in collaboration with the Illinois Emerging Digital Research and Education in Arts Media (eDream) Institute and the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology—musical moments will be woven together with big science presentations by distinguished faculty, followed by a unique rendering of Mahler’s masterpiece enhanced by imagery and movement conceived by Tai Ji master Chungliang Al Huang. Performers will include baritone Nathan Gunn and pianist Julie Gunn.
Krannert Center Presents: Cabaret!
Wilkommen! Bienvenue! Welcome! This joint production celebrates Krannert Center’s 50-year partnership with the School of Music, Lyric Theatre @ Illinois, Illinois Theatre, and Dance at Illinois. Come to the Cabaret and see the sexy, seedy Kit Kat dancers, doomed lovers Frau Schneider and Herr Schultz, and the inimitable Sally Bowles. With classic songs (“Maybe This Time,” “Two Ladies,” and of course the title song), fresh choreography, and an emphasis on the humanity of life in the Weimar Republic, this collaboration is sure to enchant.
Julie Gunn, conductor
Gulfshore Opera Gala
Julie and Nathan Gunn are the featured artists for Gulfshore Opera’s signature fundraising event. Joined by GO’s Professional Artists in Residence during the first half of the program, they will present popular opera scenes Including Mr. Gunn’s famous Papageno Suicide scene. in the second half, Nathan and Julie Gunn will perform American music. Join us for the concert only or the Gala Package which includes the concert, Meet the Artist Reception, and Gala dinner at The Club at the Strand.
Sensorium Ex
Join us Friday, December 6th at 5pm in Krannert Center’s Colwell playhouse for a workshop presentation of Paola Prestini’s new opera, Sensorium Ex.
Sensorium Ex is a new opera in progress, commissioned by the Atlanta Opera and Beth Morrison Projects for composer Paola Prestini and librettist Brenda Shaughnessy. The full-length piece is in the research/development/writing stage and is slated to premiere in 2021. Prestini and Shaughnessy are immersed in a deep exploration of the question—to be answered in music, words, storytelling, drama—of what it means to be fully and essentially human, connected and thriving in a web of communities both domestic and scientific. The inquiry and storyline of the opera is currently finding shape, arc, and vitality at the dynamic intersections of disability studies, neuroscience, computer-science, robotics, AI, and machine-learning technology. Sensorium Ex is developed and produced by Atlanta Opera and Beth Morrison Projects in association with Arizona State University, EnactLab, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Lyric Theatre @ Illinois.
Julie and Nathan Gunn Present DRYTOWN: An Living Room Vaudeville
Where did you get your start? It’s a question often asked of Krannert Center’s incredible array of artists, including Julie and Nathan Gunn. For Julie Jordan Gunn, things began in part in Drytown, California, a gold-mining-town-turned-summer-theatre-destination where, as Julie was growing up, the Jordan family would join the Claypipers performance troupe to present comedic melodramas and a special Labor Day children’s showcase featuring none other than Julie and her two younger brothers. Things built from there for Julie—and the story eventually included Nathan, too. Now the Gunns invite you to pull up a chair for a charming living-room style cabaret, complete with a small band and filled with their own family stories; friends old and new singing and playing songs old and new (including numbers by the witty and wise Susan Werner); and special guests who will offer a unique window into where great artists come from.
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Lyric Studio/Lyric Scenes
Join us Wednesday, May 1 at 7:30pm in the Tryon Festival Theatre for our semester presentations of Lyric Studio and Lyric Scenes. Taught by Sarah Wigley and Michael Tilley, Lyric Studio presents “Tin Pan Alley and Bel Canto Opera” featuring scenes from the beloved musicals of the 1920’s and 30s and bel canto opera favorites. Directly following will be Lyric Scenes, music directed by Dr. Julie Gunn. Lyric Scenes will present an evening of opera scenes ranging from Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites to Rossini’s Barber of Seville and will culminate in a performance of Elizabeth Gartman and Susan Bywater’s new opera, The New Motive Power.
Music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin
Book by Ken Ludwig
Sarah Wigley, director
“It is heaven on earth. Everything an American musical comedy should be.” That’s how The New Yorker describes Tony Award-winning Crazy for You, the story of young, rich Bobby Child, sent from New York City to Deadrock, Nevada, in the height of the 1930s Depression to foreclose on a broken-down theatre. Bobby meets Polly Baker, spunky daughter of the theatre owner, and the rest is . . . singing, dancing, romance, and laughter! This endearing, vivacious show features unforgettable songs from American music masters George and Ira Gershwin, including “Shall We Dance,” “I Got Rhythm,” “Nice Work If You Can Get It,” and more.
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“A Grand Night for Singing” at the Allerton Mansion
MARCH 7TH AND 8TH: Lyric Theatre @ Illinois presents “A Grand Night for Singing”, an intimate night of dinner, theatre, and song at the Allerton Mansion. Featuring masterpieces from the era of Rodgers and Hammerstein, this sparkling night celebrates the golden age of musical theatre, and is sure to delight and enchant.
Dinner starts at 6pm. Seating is limited.
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Music by Benjamin Britten
Libretto by Ronald Duncan, based on André Obey’s play Le Viol de Lucrèce
Julie Jordan Gunn, conductor
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It’s a tale as old as time. In Benjamin Britten’s 1946 chamber opera set in ancient Rome, a woman is a pawn in a power struggle between men and pays the ultimate price. Department of Theatre Head Kirsten Pullen and Lyric Theatre Co-Director Julie Gunn lead a female production team to explore how sexual violence resonates across the centuries.
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Musco Center Presents: An Evening With Nathan and Julie Gunn
Concert followed by a Master Class with students of Chapman University.
Selections include (subject to change):
“Largo al factotum”, from Il barbiere di Siviglia (Gioachino Rossini)
I love a piano (Irving Berlin)
The piano has been drinking (Tom Waits)
Two little flowers (Charles Ives)
Papageno Suicide Scene from Die Zauberflöte (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
“This is the Life” from Love Life (Kurt Weill)
Black Max (William Bolcom)
Captain Hook’s Soliloquy from Peter Pan (Leonard Bernstein)
General William Booth Enters into Heaven (William Bolcom)
Music by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger
Donald Schleicher, conductor
Nathan Gunn, director
From the freezing garrets to the festive streets of 19th-century Paris, the story and soaring music of La Bohème capture the joyful essence—and the heartbreaking realities—of young love. Through the everyday world of a group of artists living the Bohemian life, the opera reveals timeless truths about passion and friendship, material poverty and richness of spirit. Internationally acclaimed baritone, University of Illinois Swanlund Chair, and professor of voice Nathan Gunn returns as director after his spring 2018 debut; he is joined by conductor Donald Schleicher, chair of the School of Music orchestra division, for what many consider the world’s most popular opera.
Nathan and Julie Gunn and Friends: An Evening on Broadway
Nathan and Julie host an Evening on Broadway with exciting young talent in selections from Street Scene, Carousel, Guys and Dolls, Parade, Fun Home, and more!
Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival
in memory of Leonard Bernstein, 100 years old this year
Bravo Vail! gala
The Annual Gala
Guests will enjoy an exclusive performance by Grammy Award-winning Nathan Gunn and his wife Julie at the piano for an unforgettable evening of glamorous cabaret, with music by iconic composers from Leonard Bernstein and Cole Porter to Tom Waits and Billy Joel.
Schmidt Vocal Institute
A three day residency with young talent at the University of Miami
The William E. Schmidt Vocal Institute (SVI) nurtures and mentors the development of talented, young singers who wish to pursue studies in music performance and/or education. The curriculum focuses on training singers to have a healthy technique, improved musicianship, and outstanding performance skills.
Music by Jerry Bock Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick Book by Joe Masteroff
Conducting Sunday, April 29th at 3pm.
LTI Preview Series with American Opera Projects, Black Square and the Illinois Modern Ensemble
Lyric Theatre @ Illinois Preview Series.
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts with Beth Morrison Projects and American Opera Projects.
Wallis Annenberg Center, Beverly Hills, CA: Cabaret Evening
Nathan Gunn, among the most in-demand baritones of his day, along with his wife, pianist Julie Gunn, perform an evening of cabaret by iconic composers ranging from Leonard Bernstein and Cole Porter to Billy Joel and Tom Waits. The concert joins Leonard Bernstein at 100, the worldwide celebration of the 100th birthday of one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history.
The internationally acclaimed baritone and School of Music faculty member Nathan Gunn will be making his directorial debut and will be joined by Filippo Ciabatti, beloved Florentine conductor, to bring this dramma giocoso to life.
McCallum Theatre, Palm Desert, CA: Cabaret Evening
Joined by his wife, pianist Julie Gunn, Nathan will perform a versatile program of music from the American Songbook, ranging from Irving Berlin and Cole Porter to Leonard Bernstein and Ned Rorem to Leonard Cohen and Pearl Jam.
Western Michigan University: Cabaret Evening
Nathan Gunn’s cabaret program with wife and pianist Julie Jordan Gunn includes an eclectic mix of standards and other favorites from composers as diverse as William Bolcom, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, Tom Waits, and more.
Thomasville, Georgia: Cabaret Evening
Musical theater and opera star Nathan Gunn, together with his wife Julie, lends his trademark charisma and powerful baritone to a soaring cabaret program featuring works by Berlin, Porter, Lerner and Lowe, Joel and Bernstein.
Masterclass, Vanderbilt University
We will be working with students from the Blair School of Music, and it’s free and open to the public.
Recital, Vanderbilt University
Julie and Nathan bring their long beloved Schubert song cycle Die Schöne Müllerin to Ingram Hall.
Julie and Nathan will be working with the students of the Florida State University College of Music on American Songs and Arias.
Bravo! Vail Gala
Nathan and Julie will celebrate with Bravo! Vail Music Festival at their Annual Gala. What a beautiful place to celebrate…
Sunday Serenade
Julie and Nathan bring a cabaret show to the opera house! Folk songs, show tunes, and opera arias will all come together for a magical afternoon.
Opera America New Works Forum
Joining Opera America’s Laura Lee Everett and Beth Morrison (BMP) to talk about new operas and their relationship with higher education:
Many fruitful collaborations occur between opera companies and educational programs in the development of new works, and the number of these relationships is on the rise. This session features examples of projects that drew effectively on the unique resources of academic and training programs.
Krannert Center on-the-road
Filippo Ciabatti, conductor Tom Mitchell, director Philip Johnston, choreographer
Central Illinois Children’s Chorus
Music by Engelbert Humperdinck Libretto by Adelheid Wette
Krannert Center on the Road
DeBartolo Center at University of Notre Dame
Nathan Gunn remains one of the most exciting and in-demand baritones performing today. Drawing from the Great American Songbook he and wife Julie Gunn perform their favorite cabaret program in the Leighton Concert Hall.
“Title of Show” at Allerton Park
Recital in the park. An LTI co-production.
Highlands Opera Studio
August 7 – 20, 2018
Interlochen Center for the Arts
Popular opera star Nathan Gunn has developed a reputation as being one of the most exciting and in-demand baritones of the day. Here he teams with his illustrious wife Julie Gunn, the famed pianist and Director of Lyric Theatre Studies at the University of Illinois, for an emotionally charged and artistically impressive operatic performance.
The Gunns will be in residence at Interlochen during the final week of Camp, July 31-Aug. 5. During the residency, the Gunns will host coachings, master classes and workshops for high school vocal artists and will present a recital on Aug. 2 at 8 p.m.
With Nathan Gunn.
Light in the Piazza
Dawn Harris, director
Julie Jordan Gunn and Michael Tilley, musical directors
Book by Craig Lucas
Music by Adam Guettel
Based on the novella by Elizabeth Spencer
With Nathan Gunn. Program includes the premiere of Tom O’Bedlam: a Concert Ayre for Baritone and Chamber Ensemble by English composer Iain Bell.
Viva Verdi!
Great moments in Italian opera conducted by Maestro Donald Schleicher and directed by theatre artist and scholar Kyle Thomas.
The Cliburn
Nathan Gunn, baritone and Julie Gunn, piano. Schumann, Quilter, Moore.
Tulsa Performing Arts Center
With Nathan Gunn. Selections from Nathan and Julie’s cabaret show.
Krannert Center
With Nathan Gunn and the Jupiter String Quartet.
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January 7, 2019 by Kenneth Russo –
Real Salt Lake added some veteran depth to its squad, acquiring Brazilian midfielder Everton Luiz on a season-long loan from Società Polisportiva Ars et Labor (S.P.A.L.) in Italy’s Serie A for the 2019 season. He will join RSL in preseason, pending receipt of his International Transfer Certificate (ITC) and US work Visa.
Luiz joins RSL in preseason. He has made 21 appearances during the calendar year of 2018.
Luiz, 30, is a defensive midfielder who’s career has taken him through the ranks in Brazil. This will be the sixth different country he has played in. In Brazil, he has passed through Ponte Preta, Palmeiras, Marília, Bragantino, CRB and Criciúma. He has also played in Romania ( for Gloria Buzau), in México (for San Luís), Switzerland (for FC Lugano and St. Gallen) and Serbia (with Partizan Belgrade).
That led to a transfer to S.P.A.L., where he helped the club avoid relegation from a Serie A in the 2017-18 season.
He has scored seven goals in 155 league matches and ten goals in 246 matches across all competitions.
“Over the past several years we have restructured our roster with a young core. Now is the right time to complement our young core with more experienced players in order to challenge for greater results. Everton is the type of player that we feel can assist in helping us mature beyond being a competitive team and into one that challenges for bigger and better things,” RSL General Manager Craig Waibel said. “He fits into the culture we are creating and is the type of player that our fans will enjoy watching as his on-field commitment is a standard they will surely appreciate. His playing resume speaks for itself and his addition will allow the coaching staff to explore more options in squad selection each week.”
Disse o jogador Éverton Luiz:
“A Major League Soccer tem crescido muito e está cada vez mais competitiva. Chego a um clube estruturado e com muito potencial para chegar cada vez mais longe. Consegui realizar meu sonho de jogar em uma das ligas mais respeitadas e dividir o campo com grandes jogadores. Não estava jogando tanto quanto eu queria. Procurando novos desafios, decidi, junto aos meus empresários, trocar de time, e vi no Real Salt Lake uma grande oportunidade de seguir crescendo na carreira.”
“MLS is a league that is growing a lot and becoming more and more competitive. I am coming to a structured club that is full of potential to go further,” Luiz said. “I’ve reached my dream of playing in one of the biggest leagues on the planet and share the pitch with many of the best players. I wasn’t playing as much as I wanted and I’m looking forward to new challenges and saw in Real Salt Lake a huge opportunity to keep growing in my career.”
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New York-Based Kenyan Singer Maya Amolo Shares Brand New Single “I Know”
Maya Amolo is a Kenyan, New York-based R&B/Alternative Singer/Songwriter Her refreshingly unique sound delves into the complexities of love (of both the self and the other), dissecting its duality as something both beautiful and ugly, healing and hurtful.
Maya started by collaborating producers on the internet to create “sad-gal” tunes on SoundCloud, including “U Wanna” and “Where Tornados Flew” as well as Lo-Fi voicemail with “North Star (part 1&2)” and “Rainy Daze”. With delicate harmonies and carefully structured melodies Maya quickly amassed a dedicated listenership and garnered the attention of local artists, producers and musicians, among whom was Kenya’s famed R&B artist Karun, who featured Maya on her, “Favourite 5 Underground Female Kenyans Artists” article for Bonafide Magazine, where she describes Maya as “a free-flowing human being transcending space and time.”
In her new single “I Know”, Maya merges her raspy vocals and soft melodies with a hard bass to talk about being jaded at the end of a relationship and recognizing your self-worth, but also the difficulty of removing oneself from a place that was previously considered home.
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Amer Safaee was born into a poor family in Daykundi in 1980. From young, he knew he didn’t want to be stuck in the cycle of poverty, and he worked hard to get to where he is today. Eventually, he founded Bama Security Group, a business specializing in network security, software and hardware sales and services. Upon local success, Amer expanded his firm’s reach into 10 different countries including Tajikistan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Germany and much more.
In the running of Bama Security Group, Amer has had to fulfil many different roles ranging from sales to marketing and logistics. Amer’s displays a distinct ability to learn quickly and problem-solve.
In addition to this, he decided to diversify his investments. Being a big fan of fashion and beauty, he decided to invest in ZAZZ, a beauty and fashion company based in 5 different countries.
In order to achieve all of the above, Amer follows some of his own business principles. One of these is not to be scared of risk in business. This lack of fear helped him to make important business decisions that ultimately led his business to success. Furthermore, Amer believes ethics should be followed in business, and your business should not damage and be unfair to anyone.
The final principle that was key in his success was to never give up from a failure. Two times in his life, his investments have gone wrong, and he had lost a lot. Through perseverance, he was able to ultimately find success.
Amer’s story should be inspiring for many people no matter who they are, whether they have experienced poverty or not. Amer simply demonstrates that through perseverance and genuine hard work that you can get ahead of those who are doing the bare minimum and become a force to be reckoned with in the business world.
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Rene Escobar is a proud third-generation jeweler. His company, Rene Escobar Jewelry, is based in South Florida. Rene's team is committed to authenticity, originality, and the endurance to the beautiful art of hand-made jewelry.
Rene's love affair with the world of jewelry began at an early age. The fascination of watching his father, a master craftsman, create intricately beautiful pieces quickly developed into a passion. In the early 1980's amidst the uncertain social climate of his native Nicaragua, Rene was sent to South Florida to attend college in order to pursue an education unavailable to him in his home country. However, his innate attraction to the art of jewelry making impelled him to seek out a career as a goldsmith.
Jewelry making is in his blood, but his passion is personal, he got his first position as a jeweler when he was seventeen. For the next few years, Rene had the good fortune of working alongside some of the most skillful jewelers in South Florida allowing him to refine his craft. In the early 1990s, Rene formed Rene Escobar Inc., a studio, where for nearly twenty years, he created one-of-a-kind pieces for some of the finest collectors throughout the southeastern United States.
As a private jeweler Rene has always drawn inspiration from keenly observing his clientele, in 2008 motivated by these clients, he created a collection of 18K gold, diamonds and colorful gemstone earrings, that he exhibited for the first time at The Jewelers of America Summer Show in New York City, the collection was a success, since then his collections have been attracting art galleries and select jewelry stores.
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Down North Pizza is lowering recidivism rates one slice at a time
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By Yaroslava Bondar 2 months ago
“You know, pizza’s pizza.” CEO and Co-founder of Down North Pizza, Muhammed Abdul-Hadid is seated just off-camera, the phone aimed at the ceiling. “However, the impact we’re trying to make is bigger than pizza.”
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Abdul-Hadid, Philly born and based, is the CEO and co-founder of Down North Pizza. This new mission-led, for-profit pizza restaurant aims to employ formerly incarcerated people and fight recidivism rates. All while serving fresh, hot “Philly style pizza” to communities in Philadelphia.
Early beginnings…
Down North, which opens later this month, is not a one-man organization. Its co-founder Kurt Evans is a chef who has been involved with projects such as End Mass Incarceration dinners, a dinner series aimed to raise funds and engage in discussions around efforts to end mass incarceration.
The idea for Down North pizza came to Abdul-Hadid at one of these dinners.
“It kind of dawned on me, you know, what can we do to reduce recidivism and mass incarceration,” Abdul-Hadid said. “So from that we’ve kind of brainstormed [and we] came up with the idea of Down North pizza.”
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According to a 2018 study by the Philadelphia Reentry Coalition, Philadelphia’s recidivism rate is about 34%.
Down North Pizza’s fight against recidivism
By bringing Down North to neighborhoods such as Strawberry Mansion and providing people with food, culinary career opportunities, and a fair wage, Abdul-Hadid and Evans hope to lower these numbers and change the justice system.
Abdul-Hadid, who has a criminal justice degree from Temple University, sees the issues with the criminal justice system. “This is a big issue, and it’s gonna take time and a lot of focus, and a lot of support for us who kind of acted as though the system needs to be abolished, and kind of rebuilt,” he said.
“I don’t think there’s a reform for a system that is working (…) the way they wanted it to work, so I feel like a total abolishment of the system is the ultimate goal.”
– Abdul-Hadid, CEO and Co-founder of Down North Pizza
Abdul-Hadid explained that it was crucial to place the business within the community instead of outside of it. “It kind of empowers the community from within,” he said.
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“We want the pizza to become a second. The community empowerment and reducing recidivism is what we want on the forefront.”
The plan to involve the local youth
“We’re planning on doing pizza for the kids, the third Saturday of the month, where we bring kids from the neighborhood (…) and (…) we provide them with all the ingredients to make a pizza and we’ll let them design their own pizza.”
This competition for the best pizza design would take about six weeks. “We’ll put [the winning] pizza on the menu for a certain period of time and provide like different prizes for that person,” Abdul-Hadid said.
While lowering recidivism rates is one of the main focuses, Down North is also about good food. “There’s like a food desert in those inner-city urban communities,” Abdul-Hadid said.
“With the ingredients that we use, we’re going to kind of get them back into that mindset of eating good food.”
Abdul-Hadid’s ambition for helping the community doesn’t stop with the physical pizza restaurant. “We have a whole rollout of programs that we intend on doing for the community,” he said.
They’re planning to turn empty lots into community gardens that can grow the very ingredients used for the pizzas.
Down North Pizza is working closely with local organizations
“We’re working with the city to set up a plethora of programs that filter formerly incarcerated individuals through like a database,” Abdul-Hadid said. “So, they will be referring a lot of formerly incarcerated people to us.”
“We also have two apartments on top of the actual restaurant that we will be housing individuals that are in need of housing that are going through this kind of cohort program with down north,” Abdul-Hadid said.
One of the programs they’re working with supplements the rent for formerly incarcerated people for the first six months as long as they’re employed.
“This is kind of another way that we can tackle two problems because recidivism is one problem and the other problem is stable housing for people returning to society…”
Abdul-Hadid is already looking at the future of Down North pizza. “The goal is to take this same idea, same strategy to other cities around the United States that need it as well,” he said.
“We’re not stopping here. This is step one, we plan on taking this thing on a roll.”
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Michigan State’s basketball game at No. 5 Iowa on Thursday night has been postponed because of COVID-19 issues with the Spartans.
Michigan State center Mady Sissoko and guard Steven Izzo have tested positive, and the school said there was an additional positive test Wednesday afternoon.
“I’m really disappointed, but it just goes to prove that this can affect anyone,” coach Tom Izzo said. “I feel so comfortable that me, my son and my players did everything possible and followed every protocol as best we could. I’m really, really impressed with the way they have conducted themselves. This virus does not discriminate and I can’t emphasize enough how important it is to wear a mask, wash your hands and follow protocols.”
MLS Players Association executive director Bob Foose says delaying the start of the 2021 season would be the “best solution” for Canadian teams given the pandemic-related border issues.
Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver were forced to relocate south of the border for much of the 2020 season because of travel complications caused by COVID-19. Toronto headed to East Hartford, Connecticut; Montreal moved to Harrison, New Jersey; and Vancouver went to Portland, Oregon.
Foose said on a conference call “the last thing we want to do is repeat that experience this year.”
MLS Commissioner Don Garber said Tuesday the league plans to start the season in mid-March.
Garber said while he felt for the challenges facing the Canadian teams, the league had to abide by made-in-Canada health guidelines.
The Green Bay Packers have placed offensive tackle Jared Veldheer on the reserve/COVID-19 list just one day after announcing they had signed him off the Indianapolis Colts’ practice squad.
The reserve/COVID-19 list is for a player who either tests positive or COVID-19 or has close contact with someone who’s infected.
Veldheer was the Indianapolis Colts’ starting left tackle for each of their last two games, including a 27-24 AFC first-round playoff loss to the Buffalo Bills last week.
The Colts had activated Veldheer from their practice squad for game day rather than officially signing him to their 53-man roster. That enabled the Packers to sign him this week.
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Louisville instead will host Florida State on Sunday in a second rescheduling from Feb. 23, which pushed back from its original Dec. 17 meeting.
Also, Thursday night’s Southeastern Conference women’s basketball game featuring No. 12 Kentucky at Auburn has been postponed because of positive tests, contact tracing and quarantining within the Tigers’ program.
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Stefanski jokingly called himself “probable” when asked if he’ll be back as the Browns get ready to face the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday.
The 38-year-old Stefanski tested positive with the virus last week and couldn’t be with his team when the Browns won their first playoff game in 26 years by upsetting the Steelers.
Stefanski watched the game from his home’s basement in Rocky River, Ohio, and admitted to pacing in front of the TV during the telecast. Stefanski said he’s lost his sense of taste but had mostly mild symptoms during his illness.
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Browns top cornerback Denzel Ward is back with the team after missing Cleveland’s past two games — one of them a playoff win — with COVID-19.
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Illegal behavior encouraged by Leftist group offering to cover legal fees for protesters against the new tax reform bill
01/02/2018 / By Jayson Veley
Remember when the liberals tried to make it seem as though the Tea Party movement was made up of a bunch of angry, violent Americans who were pissed off at the government? Well, the ironic thing is that as time goes on, it is becoming more and more clear that it’s the progressives that believe in the use of violence as a political strategy, not the conservatives.
According to a report put together earlier this month by Judicial Watch, a Leftist nonprofit organization called Housing Works, which describes itself as a “healing community of people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS,” has pledged to pay for the legal fees of anyone who showed up at a big demonstration in Washington D.C. to protest the Republican tax plan.
An internal email that was obtained by a D.C.-based news publication reveals that Housing Works actually encouraged its supporters to commit illegal acts at the demonstration:
“We will transport, house and feed you, and deal with all legal support,” the email says. “Caveat: if you are far away from DC and expensive to transport, we can probably only fly you if you can risk arrest.” Housing Works described the protests as follows: “The Rs voted and fled the room, but were snagged by reporters in the hallway, surrounded by bird-doggers, and shamed for their disgraceful votes.”
Of course, no one is trying to deny Housing Works the right to protest the Republican tax plan – such a move would not only be unethical, but also wholly unconstitutional. But what’s so disturbing about the way in which Housing Works is operating, has to do with the fact that a significant amount of the tens of millions of dollars the group receives from the federal government each year is going towards transportation and legal fees for anti-Republican demonstrators. (Related: Groundbreaking research on the thought process of terrorists accidentally reveals how liberals justify violence and intolerance against their political opponents.)
Furthermore, it’s hard to imagine why anyone would be so opposed to the tax plan proposed and passed by the Republicans in congress, especially considering the fact that President Trump has already had an incredibly positive effect on the economy as a whole. The stock market is on the rise thanks to increased consumer confidence. Businesses are increasingly able to grow and expand as a result of fewer regulations and burdensome taxes. These new tax cuts that the Republicans have put in place will only bolster this growing economy even more, and put more money into the pockets of millions of Americans.
That being said, why are groups like Housing Works so opposed to it? (Related: Read about what the Republicans’ tax reform plan means for the Health Ranger Store.)
Perhaps it simply comes down to misinformation. According to a recent poll by CBS News, far more Americans believe that their taxes will go up as a result of this Republican-led tax overhaul than would actually experience an increase, and contrarily, far fewer Americans expect a tax cut than the new law will actually deliver.
The nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation’s assessment of the Senate bill found that 61.7 percent of all taxpayers will see their taxes decrease by at least $100 in the year 2019. But the CBS poll found that just 22 percent of Americans think their taxes will decrease. The committee also estimated that 8.1 percent of taxpayers will see their taxes rise, while the poll found that 44 percent of Americans expect to see their taxes go up.
Obviously, there is a significant amount of misinformation being spread about the Republicans’ tax plan, which could be why so many groups – including Housing Works – are so opposed to it.
Regardless, the use of violence or unlawful acts in political protests should never be tolerated, and Housing Works should be ashamed that they even implied to their followers that breaking the law was okay.
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The journey of Nepali cinema in the UK has been a slow yet experimental one. From films being screened at community centres independently to the new trend of screening in UK cinemas, Nepali films are slowly capturing the interest and attention of more from the diaspora community. Unsurprisingly, the creative, experienced and enthusiastic have come together repeatedly to organise mini-film festivals and create various film projects. UK based Nepali director LB Subba’s upcoming film BLACK SUMMER sees the union of the creative, young and experienced from Nepal and the UK. With the grand premiere of the film only a few weeks away, lexlimbu.com has been getting to know the team behind BLACK SUMMER.
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Using the words “fascinating” and “thought-provoking” is how the young biomedical scientist described her BLACK SUMMER experience. Shrestha emphasised on team work and the quality of being adaptable when filming in often unpredictable conditions in the British outdoors. The weather was not alone in posing a challenge as it took getting used to for Sapana to be comfortable with the camera. “I developed the skills and confidence needed to overcome this problem. There will be challenges whatever you do in this industry but you just have to find a way to resolve it”, she says.
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December 18, 2013 12:00 am Published by Faysal Mikdadi Leave your thoughts
Carol Anne Grayson’s ‘Nelson Mandela: Lest we forget “Madiba” was supported from a Britain which is still riddled with prejudice and racial inequalities’ (LPJ Friday 13 December, 2014) evoked so many memories of my own life in Britain since the late 1960s. Grayson is undoubtedly right in feeling so uneasy at what she had experienced of Britain’s racism.
After reading her excellent article, I found myself visited by endless images of what we all considered as ordinary behaviour in the sixties, seventies and eighties. Indeed, even at my grand old age of 65, I still can not understand why we put up with such arrant racism. But we did. Was it the position of a vulnerable minority that could not stand to a powerful majority? Was it because I, as a Palestinian refugee, half believed that my race was indeed of less significance than the white races whose success I so wanted to emulate? Were we so busy with the daily battle for life to see anything wrong with the endless obstacles that racism sprang on us always unexpectedly? I still do not know the answer.
The racism I am talking about is not the nasty physical attacks that one was subjected to. I was beaten up in London in 1968 because as a “Paki” I really thought that “I could do better than the white folk”. I remember lying on the pavement hearing that refrain and hoping that they would leave me alone. I was lucky because they pushed me down the stairs into a basement flat and ran off laughing. A kindly elderly lady cared for me in the flat as she incessantly apologised for her “peoples’ cruelty”. I remember thinking that her kindness showed how decent the majority of British people were. There were other unsavoury incidents. I survived each tolerably because in each case someone was decent to me: a police officer, a nurse, a bank employee, a teacher outside a school…
These were not the memories that came pouring out as Grayson described each phase of her own anti racist development. The memories were of the insidious polite racism that never went away. Indeed it is still there today although I can deal with it better.
I remember my girl friend describing her mother’s shock when told about me. The girl friend told me how she put her mother’s mind at ease by telling her that I was not very black. Indeed, she told me that she resorted to filling several cups with coffee and then slowly adding milk till she got the nearest colour – which apparently put her mother’s mind at ease. Subsequent events proved that this was not the case since her parents’ polite racism hounded me for years thereafter.
Another image that came to mind was my landlord in Eastbourne giving me notice because I was sleeping with a white woman. He felt that his house could not be used for the purpose of “fornication by white women with your lot”. I left quietly as one did in those days.
I had many other images coming back to me. Being complimented by a headteacher after doing particularly well who then told me that “I was as good as a white man my boy… As good as a white man…”. As he stood towering over me sitting in his office with his thumbs in his waistcoat in the melodramatic style of Sir Winston Churchill. A new girl friend’s mother warned her daughter that Arabs like me could not control their sexual urges and that such people particularly enjoyed “bestial intercourse” that was prohibited by the Holy Bible.
These were but a few memories that went side by side with Gayson’s own recounted memories. I found myself wishing that I had met persons like her. Of course, I was not likely to do so. She lived in cities. And I was terrified of cities after the London beating. I was also desperate to live in very “English” areas because I so wished to be “white”. I did not scrub my skin with bleach. But I scrubbed my very soul with a worse substance – pure Uncle Tom cowardice.
It was very late in life that I learnt to ‘deal’ with racism – intentional or otherwise. I have written elsewhere about my awful experiences at work both in Suffolk and Wiltshire. I fought when I could and I mostly lost because racism is notoriously difficult to prove. By its nature, it is not public. When a particularly vicious line manager told me that writing any articles about Palestine would lose me my job in the Local Education Authority, I really learnt to fight. He did this despite my employers giving me ‘permission’ to write a bibliography on Margaret Thatcher, another on Gamal Abdel Nasser and many other works. But not Palestine. My boss, a born again Christian, threatened me and I fought. And lost my job, suffered a severe break down and became a self employed consultant.
And I learnt to fight when I needed to do so. But, commendable as this may sound, it is no good. Fighting racism often fills the victim with negative feelings of anger, hatred, desire for vengeance…etc… This is where Mandela comes in. And it took me several years to get here.
Where is ‘here’?
I will forgive. I will patiently explain when I can. And I will remove myself away from those whose racism continues in a world of denial. Consequently, I have a quieter life. I also have a slightly closed circle of ‘acquaintances’ or, even, family friends. For sadly, unbelievable as it sounds, racism also comes from family members.
But then, I am quite happy not to see such family members as I am very happy not to see many of my old employers or colleagues.
Racism hurts the victim badly but I dare say s/he survives and moves on. Racism, though, always diminishes the perpetrator and continues to do so well after the event.
Thank you Carol Anne Grayson for another small Road to Damascus experience.
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Fourth album by London based Street Punk quartet Booze & Glory, their first for the Burning Heart Label. Ian Canty hears echoes of the past in the punk of the future.
Booze & Glory formed in 2009 and since that time have gone through a few bass players and drummers, with co-singer/guitarists Mark and Liam being the mainstays of the band. Recording three albums and a number of EPs during the last eight years, they’ve steadily rose up the ranks to a prominent position on the street punk scene, carving out a niche as an exciting high-energy live act.
Mixing in the early Oi! sound of the Upstarts etc with the kind of hugely chorused singalongs Rancid came up with early on (and perhaps a pinch of late ’90s catchy Euro Punk that the likes of Bombshell Rocks perfected), they have gone from strength to strength with anthems that detailed the kind of universal problems anyone not born with a silver spoon in their gob could identify with. They also have often critiqued the Punk/Oi scene’s obsession with the past, defended the youth’s right to have their time today.
With this, their fourth album, they’ve looked to broaden their appeal by embellishing their sound with a bit of keyboards and even a banjo at one point, whilst maintaining their dynamic, rock-solid punk rock & roll.
I have to say when I first listened to this LP I was struck by parallels to the Clash’s Give Em Enough Rope. Now I know that record has pretty much been looked down upon since its release in 1978, what with Strummer and Co getting in BOC producer Sandy Pearlman (though it occurs to me now what exactly was wrong with getting someone at the desk you who would make your record sound great? Anyway I digress), the general self-aggrandising and the look at issues a world away from Garageland, but it also has some bona fide classics in Safe European Home and Tommy Gun and bar a couple of dodgy tracks the rest isn’t bad either.
Booze & Glory do sound great on here – clear, powerful and mighty. Harking back a little to the Clash comparison, whilst I certainly wouldn’t go as far to say they seek to emulate Strummer’s lyrics, the guitar playing on here is up to Mick Jones standard and the band’s honesty and emotion in their approach is there for all to see. The track For The Better Times even has a little bit of old timey pub piano, like on Julie’s Been Working For The Drug Squad!
Don’t get me wrong, Booze & Glory do not aim to mimic the Clash or that particular record, but for me listening to Chapter IV it has the same feeling of time running out, the same mixture of hope and desperation, the same determination to struggle on whatever life throws at you. There is a little of Sham’s That’s Life thrown in, but make no mistake this is a thoroughly modern punk record filled with stories of the day to day dramas of ordinary people. Though not polished, there is a sure touch to their song-writing that just rings true – this isn’t Phil Collins going on about Another Day In Paradise while he’s on his yacht or whatever, this lot are living it.
The album begins with Days, Months, Years, which sets out toting a Celtic folky piano intro, which may well lull people into thinking we’re due some Father Ted/James Galway/Dropkick Murphys hokey journey to the Emerald Isle, but we’re swiftly introduced a very catchy and anthemic song about the problems of someone trying to settle in foreign shores. An idea worth considering in the modern day.
Their Oi roots show on No Rules, straight-forward and no nonsense, ably propelled by some infernal bass playing and mob vocals. It also is the first sign of the see-saw between despair and hope that characterises the lyrical message here – a human condition that is reality for most of us, the pin-balling of emotions between knowing we’ve got all the cards stacked against us occasionally balanced out by the odd pleasure or victory.
The theme is expanded upon in The Time Is Now at the outset, though the brightness of the music contrasts with the subject matter, freewheeling Punk Rock with a little of Eddie And The Hot Rods’ ebullience in there somewhere. This is not mere wallowing in misery though because in the end the song turns round, finding strength through hitting rock bottom, not letting it beat you.
The actually anti-violence Violence And Fear is an absolute stormer replete with a great hook-line – live I expect this really ratchets things up a notch. Blood From A Stone has some appealing female vocals working well with the rough pipes of B&G themselves – it is the story of clock-punching that working people almost anywhere would identify with and musically the closest we get to a ballad here (but not that close). It really works very well.
For The Better Times has the great line “for the nights we can’t remember with the friends we’ll never forget” – a bittersweet dual sense of loss and celebration, tied to a great “Wooh, hoo, hoo” refrain and a near Pistols style backing. In a final echo of Give Em Enough Rope set closer Start Believing ends things on a melancholic note, there is the same “learning a hard lesson through experience” feeling to it that All The Young Punks had.
I can see Chapter IV winning the band new fans without incurring the wrath of long-time supporters, being musically spot on and stuffed with catchy numbers, with those wary of the Oi! tag resting easy as there is no macho bluster here, just inclusive honesty. Also I have to say that I’ll be watching their next step with interest because they are making progress in a slow and steady fashion and it could well be in the next few years they will come up with their best stuff. For the time being though, this album is more enough to be going on with and a “state of the nation” address for 2017 to be proud of.
Chapter IV is a series of snapshots of humdrum life, frustration, failure, conflict, joy and finally good times making the struggle worthwhile, all set to some molten lava-hot driving Rock ‘n’ Roll. Booze & Glory emerge, as we all hope to, Bloodied But Unbowed.
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peter March 20, 2017 At 07:57
I’m not an expert but for me last two albums actually are going into something similar to Cock Sparrer. At least how it sounds to me. Not saying it’s bad, rather pretty cool :)
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In control of Satoshi's group, we make our way back to the extending hallway. We technically could have done this a little while ago, but we'd just hit another immediate dead end anyway.
-- Use the [Iron Lever]? --
We use the iron lever to smash a hole in the wall. The lever is not removed from our inventory.
And it takes us to the Music Hall of Rotten Flesh, which is an absolutely enormous room.
We start working our way around it, and we encounter a door. We head inside.
A strange room with strange statues.
The skeleton offers helpful advice and then ceases to exist.
After talking to it, we head over to investigate the statues.
-- Place [Marble Statue] in his arms? --
We did it. The other statue is female and also has a space in its arms for something, but we have nothing to put in them.
Our work here is done for now, so we head back out.
And we continue making our way along the Music Hall of Rotten Flesh.
Talking to the spirit shown in the above screenshot causes it to disappear wordlessly.
And at the end of the hall is a piano. If we try to approach it, however, a mysterious force pushes us back.
Since there's nothing else to do here, we loop back around and exit the music hall.
Music: Main Theme
And the hallway has expanded once again! We continue down the hall.
And at the end, we go around a corner and start heading north.
The hallway ends in a single door. We enter.
Music: Horror
And now we've arrived in the principal's office.
The general layout of this room and how you access it seems to have served as the inspiration for the chapter 5 infirmary in the remake.
...Save me! ...SAVE ME!!...
...Stop it! STOP IT! It wasn't my fault! I didn't kill you! STOP TORTURING ME!...
There's a red flash, and...
...The girl appears.
...Kyahahaha...How disgusting. How wretched. It's all you self-absorbed adults' fault!...How about I break you until you can't give any more empty apologies?...
...Please! F-Forgive me! I can't take it anymooooore!...
...Ahahahahaha! You fool!...
The principal's spirit dissipates and reforms, screaming in pain.
...You think you can apologize for what you did?! You pathetic puke stain! I will torment you for all eternity!...
...GYAAAAH!...
Again, the principal's spirit dissipates and reforms.
...SUFFER!...
...MORE, MORE...
...Pl-please... s-stop...
...Stop what?...
Isn't he telling you to stop?!
The girl in red teleports across the room.
...You twerp. What gives you the right to tell me what to do!? I'll torment him as I please!...How about this? One time offer. You leave, and I let you live...
I'll MAKE you listen!
...How nice! The tiny worms think they're giants!...I'll kill you all!...
I don't think words are gonna work, Satoshi. We need to run. NOW!
Uwaaah!
Our party flees as the floor collapses behind them.
And we exit the room.
It's pointless...
It's like all that existed was hatred...
Big brother, do you think we can really go back home?
No way we can win against something like that...
We're put back into control, and we re-enter the principal's office.
Some floor has been restored. Enough that we can reach the desk.
-- Open the drawer? --
Acquired [Embryo Statue]
I like the icon for the Embryo Statue. Cute little red baby.
Anyway, now that we have this statue we backtrack back to the Music Hall of Rotten Flesh.
And go back up into this room.
Even though the [Marble Statue] was placed earlier, it's now rolling on the floor...
Acquired [Marble Statue]
I have no idea why they make us go through this effort again, but we place the Marble Statue a second time.
Like seriously, what is the point of dropping it on the floor and making you pick it back up and place it a second time?
And we give the female statue the embryo.
A door appears in this room!
Then both of the statues fly away and vanish because why not?
Predictably, the door leads us right across to the opposite side of the wall.
Acquired [Small Gold Key]
I think this is a piano key. We have one like this at home.
You own a piano?
What? Is that illegal?
N-Not at all. It's kinda surprising.
Let's go, Yuka.
Yuka and Satoshi go back through the door.
Is playing the piano so unlike me...?
Naomi's ability to play the piano is just not mentioned at all in the PSP games. I guess they dropped that character trait after this game because Naomi needed to be more boring.
Anyway, we head east and loop around the corner of the music hall.
And now we're able to approach and investigate the piano in the southeast corner.
A piano...
Why would anyone put a piano here?
Unfastened piano with [Small Gold Key]
Think I should play a bit?
You know how?
You don't believe me? I said I owned a piano!
Music: Elegy
Naomi starts to play the piano, and there's a bright flash of light...
...And a lot of spirits appear!
Uwah!?
Kyaaa!
Don't tell me these are all...
Are they... souls of those who died here?
No way! That's awful.
There's another flash, and...
A line of spirits disappear, and the floor expands.
Are they... guiding us?
Walk down the path.
Turn back.
I think they're trying to help us.
Big brother! Wait for us!
Satoshi's group heads across the invisible walkway, and the screen fades to black...
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Let’s Talk About Kashmir
Rashmi Sinha December 7, 2019
On August 5, Article 370 was read down.
Even though I am not an expert on Kashmir, I have a keen interest in politics. I had mixed feelings when I heard the news. I couldn’t understand why politicians in Kashmir spoke in favour of Article 370 when it was apparently the only thing that ‘separated Kashmir from the rest of the country’.
Soon after, I read that all former chief ministers had been detained (they still are) including Farooq Abdullah, who is a current member of parliament.
I waited and then 100 days passed.
No one was talking about Kashmir. The internet was shut down and phone lines were disconnected for a long period of time.
In the meantime, the media had many things on its plate to be busy with.
So nothing happened.
Inspired by Gandhi, who had once said “be the change you wish to see”, I decided to host a small gathering to talk about Kashmir. Six people showed up.
Arunima is a senior research fellow in Mumbai University, Jugal is a journalist with Kashmir Observer, Sunil works with a non-profit organisation, Tejendra is a student at IIT-Bombay, Manasee is a teacher and Surabhi is a BPO employee.
All of us, including me, were in need of a space to talk about Kashmir.
When we met, Jugal shared his experience of his time in the Valley as a journalist. He talked about society’s collective consciousness and its general lack of empathy towards the people of Kashmir.
Arunima recounted talking to Kashmiri students at a protest.
Everyone engrossed in the discussion. Image credit: Rashmi Sinha.
“Hum kya kar sakte hain. Dekh rahe hain ke kya ho raha hai (what can we even do? You can see by yourself what is happening),” a student said.
Surabhi told us about meeting a Kashmiri couple in Rajasthan who told her that they never leave their house without their Aadhaar cards.
Sunil shared his concern with the ‘We vs Them’ narrative. “Why are we creating this distinction when we talk?” he said.
Manasee had a lot of questions with the regard to the detention of the former CMs, the usurping of the freedom of speech of Kashmiris, the constitutional ethos, and so on.
Is the lockdown going to help the Kashmiris to decide to anything? What is Azadi really? Can’t we do anything to put an end to the unrest first? What about the constitution of the country? Why and how was it not applicable to Kashmir when the three former CMs were under detention and were being asked to sign bonds to not speak about Kashmir for one year? Is this trade of exchange of freedom to speak in lieu of freedom to be a democracy? And now that Article 370 has been read down, how is it okay to detain politicians without any charge? And till when? It’s been 110 days.
The media narrative, Tejinder said, has been built to keep news from Kashmir away amidst the discussions around the National Register of Citizens and the Ayodhya verdict. These issues, according to him, cut short the reaction time to what was and is still happening in Kashmir.
People are grappling with news one after another with no time to react and respond. There is a certain level of undercurrent othering that has been happening for a while now. This has led to people mellowing down, taking whatever is coming their way. My issue is with the lack of protests. There are always two sides to a coin but here, only one side is getting the leverage while the other side is dissolving into oblivion. Whenever there is friction, there is negotiation and eventually comes a better deal for both sides of the coin.
Jugal, a journalist himself, rued that many media houses today are pro-government – in plain sight.
“Kashmir ranks one in the world for the number of internet-shutdowns. There is no access to the internet till date, and the Kashmiri media organisations are dying a slow death. The schools are open with very less number of students turning up for classes. How are people mentally coping with so much restraint for such a long time, with no end in sight?” he said.
In my opinion, the country has a right to know what is happening in Kashmir.
Our final wish is to know more about our fellow Kashmiri citizens, their heartbreaks, their pain, their joys and their lives right now.
We desperately want a stronger media and more information to flow.
So let’s keep talking.
Rashmi Sinha is a mother of two, a freelancer and she is passionate about politics, books and movies. She has worked in the social sector for the last couple of years
All images provided by the author
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“... or representing of war, but the waging of war by means of publicity and representation. Oliver Stone’s JFK is the perfect cinematic coda to such a year. I want to compare two melodramatic scenarios that captured the imagination of American spectators in 1991, and to analyse the impact of these representations on public discourse. The Kennedy ...”
There’s Daddy
Michael Wood, 13 February 1992
Flying in to Love
by D.M. Thomas.
Bloomsbury, 262 pp., £14.99, February 1992, 0 7475 1129 2Show More
directed by Oliver Stone.
“... have a history and a context. But this is not the sort of answer we get from either D.M. Thomas or Oliver Stone. Their suggestion is simpler. There is no paranoia, or paranoia is everywhere. For Thomas, this means anything goes (‘since fiction is a kind of dream, and history is a kind of dream, and this is both’). For ...”
Unaccommodated Man
Christopher Tayler: Adventures with Robert Stone, 18 March 2004
Bay of Souls
by Robert Stone.
Picador, 250 pp., £16.99, February 2004, 0 330 41894 7Show More
“... Robert Stone was born in August 1937, nine months after Don DeLillo and three – we’re told – after Thomas Pynchon. Dog Soldiers, his second novel, made his name in the mid-1970s, and since then he has stubbornly held his ground on the upper slopes of American literary life. Fellowships, prizes, grants and commissions have rarely been in short supply, and his later books – from A Flag for Sunrise to Damascus Gate – have been much admired ...”
Rutrutrutrutrutrutrutrut
Theo Tait: Tom Wolfe’s Bloody Awful Novel, 6 January 2005
I am Charlotte Simmons
“... the Tolstoy or Dickens sense, but it’s not Tom Clancy or Dan Brown either. He’s more like the Oliver Stone of American letters: crass, hectoring but passionately interested – and occasionally touched by genius. Charlotte Simmons resembles a very bad Oliver Stone film. Unfortunately, at 676 pages, it lasts ...”
My Kind of Psychopath
Michael Wood, 20 July 1995
by Quentin Tarantino.
Faber, 198 pp., £7.99, October 1994, 0 571 17546 5Show More
Faber, 113 pp., £7.99, November 1994, 0 571 17362 4Show More
Faber, 134 pp., £7.99, January 1995, 0 571 17593 7Show More
Faber, 175 pp., £7.99, July 1995, 0 571 17617 8Show More
“... tacked to the fridge. Even in Natural Born Killers, written by Tarantino and directed by Oliver Stone in 1994, which is by far the most brutal of these movies, the violence mainly suggests that everyone and everything is out of control, that no rules apply, and chaos is come again. What interests Tarantino, it seems, is not violence, but ...”
Christopher Hitchens: On the Original Non-Event , 20 April 1995
“... concept. When Richardson writes that ‘the only big-canvas film-maker of stature we have today is Oliver Stone,’ he meant it to sting. His essay is full of good lines. (A Hollywood publicist tells him that when he goes out to push a new movie, he feels ‘like the emperor’s new dry cleaner’.) It also contains a fine John Huston joke: ‘These two ...”
Lorna Scott Fox: Reality in the Aguascalientes, 23 January 1997
“... will abandon his job and family to take up arms. The EZLN risks its gravitas when celebrities like Oliver Stone queue up to visit Marcos; humourlessry the Government had Nixon pulled from the cinemas. There’s nothing cornier than the foreigners’ congas in the Oventic Aguascalientes, or the EZLN calendar for 1997 with the Thoughts of Sub-comandante ...”
All I Did Was Marry Him
Elaine Showalter: Laura Bush’s Other Life, 6 November 2008
American Wife
by Curtis Sittenfeld.
Doubleday, 558 pp., £11.99, October 2008, 978 0 385 61674 4Show More
“... gap between the public and the private person, American Wife is being contrasted with the Oliver Stone movie, W., in which Bush is portrayed by Josh Brolin as a drunken buffoon who turns his life around, becoming a sober, powerful and born-again buffoon. Sittenfeld, a Democrat and a liberal, may be doing more to humanise the Bush administration ...”
Subject, Spectator, Phantom
J. Hoberman: The Strangest Personality Ever to Lead the Free World, 17 February 2005
Nixon at the Movies: A Book about Belief
by Mark Feeney.
Chicago, 422 pp., £19.50, November 2004, 0 226 23968 3Show More
“... students, he droned on about football and Neville Chamberlain, unable to make eye contact. For Oliver Stone, who dramatised the event in his clumsy 1995 biopic, this was the moment Nixon received the revelation of what Stone called ‘the Beast’: even though he, the president, may want peace, the system won’t ...”
Fanfaronade
Will Self: James Ellroy, 2 December 2010
The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women
by James Ellroy.
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Belfryful of Bells
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The Blue Guitar
by John Banville.
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Andrew O’Hagan, 14 December 1995
Oswald’s Tale: An American Mystery
by Norman Mailer.
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Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist
by Elizabeth Goldring.
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How to Survive Your Own Stupidity
Andrew O’Hagan: Homage to Laurel and Hardy, 22 August 2002
Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy
by Simon Louvish.
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Scene and Heard: Scene's News Blog
National Climate Change Report Says Lake Effect Snow Could Get Worse, Could Just Become Lake Effect Rain Once It's Too Warm for Snow Anymore
by Daniel McGraw
Lake Erie ice coverage satellite image, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
The Fourth National Climate Assessment by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, released last week, details the frightening effects of global warming. It also, briefly, addresses how climate change specifically might affect the Midwest. So if you were vaguely aware of its existence but mainly wondered something like, "Well, will Rocky River still get two inches of snow while Chardon gets two feet while everything else in the world goes haywire thanks to climate change?", well we have an answer for you, of sorts.
Lake effect snow happens when the air is cold and the lake is warmer than the air, but not yet frozen. The storms go over the lake, pick up the warm water molecules rising from it and then drop those water molecules in the form of snowflakes over the cold land, often in feet not inches. Common sense says if the air and Lake Erie both get warmer, then the lake effect snow goes away.
But not so fast on all that. It might be one of those "things will get worse before they get better" scenarios.
The USGCRP study say this about lake effect snow: “Along the Great Lakes, lake-effect snowfall has increased overall since the early 20th century. However, studies have shown that the increase has not been steady, and it generally peaked in the 1970s and early 1980s before decreasing. As the warming in the Midwest continues, reductions in lake ice may increase the frequency of lake-effect snows until winters become so warm that snowfall events shift to rain.”
So are we heading toward “lake effect” rain? According to the US National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), ice coverage in the Great Lakes from 1975 to 1997 had 7 years below average and 16 above; but from 1998 to 2017, it was 16 below average and 5 above. But less ice actually means more snow, right? Or at least that’s how the climatologists figure it.
This all might be the weather forecasting confusion we love so much. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s meteorologist and climate guru Tom DiLiberto calls it the “The Paradox of Lake Effect Snow.”
"When higher-resolution weather models are run to simulate lake effect precipitation with warmer lakes and less ice-coverage, the end result was an increase in lake effect snow downwind of the Great Lakes and farther inland, which is consistent with both theory and other studies,” he wrote last year. “So an increase in lake-effect snow is possible… for a while. Of course, in the end, any period of increased lake effect snow would be a temporary one. Eventually, the snow turns to rain as our thermometers continue to march upwards with greenhouse gas concentrations.”
Scene takes it this way. We might have more or less snow from climate change, depending if climate change is a big or little or medium temperature change. Rocky River and Chardon may have the same amount of snow or maybe not the same amount. Dick Goddard will be asked un-retire and weigh in. Film at 11.
Scene & Heard Weather Climate Change Snow
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Race to refine: the bid to clean up Africa’s gold rush
01/15/2020 | 05:43am
In a refinery just outside Uganda's main airport, workers slip bars of freshly refined gold into clear plastic bags sealed with a sticker of the national flag - black, yellow and red - and the label "Ugandan's Treasure."
Uganda produces little gold of its own. Alain Goetz, who set up the refinery, says that by branding gold from abroad as Ugandan, the operation is merely imitating others - for example, the Swiss don't mine the gold they refine in Switzerland.
A pink building guarded by dogs at Entebbe on the shores of Lake Victoria, the refinery, African Gold Refinery (AGR), is part of a trend across Africa. Small-scale mining is booming, and new gold refineries are opening by the dozen, to process metal produced by informal diggers in Africa and beyond.
The refineries, which often win high-level political backing, can be positive because they offer miners and states a way to extract value from their own mineral wealth rather than just exporting raw commodities. But if not properly controlled, they risk adding to problems of smuggling and funding conflict.
Some of Africa's new gold refineries are in South Africa, a major gold producer with an already large refining industry. There, authorities granted 19 refining licences in the year to March 2019 - as many as in the previous three years combined.
Elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa - where until 2012 there were only a handful of refineries - as many as 26 are now either operating or under construction across 14 countries from Mali to Tanzania, including in states which mine little gold at home, a Reuters survey of public reports found. Officials in at least three more countries including Madagascar and Ivory Coast have publicly said they are interested in hosting a refinery.
Governments of gold-producing countries in Africa have long complained that the precious metal in their rocks is being illegally produced and smuggled out on a vast scale, sometimes by criminal operations, often at a high human and environmental cost.
By refining gold - in some cases obliging producers and traders to sell their gold to home-grown refineries - states hope to capture value that is being lost. Some new refineries have invested in systems to ensure they process gold from legal and environmentally responsible miners.
"The only way to stop (smuggling) is having multiple refineries in Africa," said Frank Mugyenyi, head of the minerals unit at the African Union.
But because informal miners already often operate through smuggling networks to avoid tax and scrutiny, officials and industry sources say some refineries risk inevitably joining these shadowy channels.
With so many refineries competing for gold to process, each has scant incentive to check where its gold comes from.
Just 13 of them – those for which Reuters was able to obtain data – state they can handle more than 1,400 tonnes of gold a year, worth around $70 billion. That means they could treat around twice Africa's estimated total gold production, and nearly a third of the world's supply.
Of 22 refineries surveyed by Reuters, 14 did not respond to requests for more information about the size and nature of their business.
Two responses to the survey showed a lax approach: One small operator, Bupe Chipando who heads Alinani Precious Metals Ltd in Kenya, said he does not yet purify gold, but just melts blocks of impure metal together and ships them overseas. Officials said they knew of at least two other African refiners who did the same thing.
Another, Robert Baker, the CEO of Bekora Miners in Cameroon, said most of the gold his refinery processed was not declared to customs, in order to avoid paying tax on metal it exports. Cameroon's government did not respond to requests for comment.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has developed global sourcing standards against which it recommends refineries are audited. Outside South Africa, no African refineries have yet followed that recommendation, said Louis Marechal, an OECD expert on responsible business conduct at who has travelled widely in Africa consulting with governments and companies on how to regulate and source gold responsibly.
The new refineries offer an important outlet for millions of individuals who dig for gold using basic technology.
Industrial mining companies usually fly metal they produce in Africa to large refineries accredited by the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA), the industry's standard setter. All but one of these are outside the continent. Concerned about the risks of rights abuses, crime or conflict in the supply chain, LBMA-accredited refineries typically steer clear of metal from informal miners.
Six of Africa's new refineries - in Cameroon, Kenya, Mali, Rwanda and Uganda - shared output data with Reuters. With combined annual capacity for around 270 tonnes, they currently process around 41 tonnes of gold a year worth some $2 billion. For comparison, refineries in Switzerland handle around 2,500 tonnes of gold a year, worth $120 billion at current prices.
Some people in the industry concede that it is hard for Africa's new refiners to be accepted as mainstream suppliers. Large banks, jewellers and electronics makers generally only accept gold from refineries accredited by groups such as the LBMA. LBMA rules require a refinery to operate for at least five years and process large amounts of gold before it can be accredited.
Neil Harby, chief technical officer at the LBMA, said several refineries in countries including Ghana are partnering with LBMA-accredited refineries, which support their efforts to control sources and offer an outlet to the global market by re-refining the gold they produce.
This helps to improve miners' livelihoods by lifting them out of the shadow market, he said. But it is time-consuming and expensive, and requires close regulation, such as a requirement that gold is exported via a refinery.
"MORE TRANSPARENT"
In Uganda, AGR has already established itself as a major player. It said it exported more than 17 tonnes of gold worth around $800 million in 2019; it is listed in the supply chains of more than 200 U.S. companies' regulatory filings for 2018.
It is surrounded by a manicured lawn and palm trees. Inside, men in fireproof masks and aprons process metal through mills, furnaces and cooling drums.
Founder Goetz, a Belgian whose family has traded gold for two decades in Africa's Great Lakes Region, said he set up the refinery in response to informal approaches by unidentified government officials in the region in 2014. They saw "a need to make the supply chain more professional, more transparent by setting up a refinery," he said.
In a landscape where new refiners compete for metal to treat, AGR has taken risks with the sourcing of its metal. Last year, it processed gold from Venezuela, where the state-run gold industry has been sanctioned by the United States since 2018 to try to prevent the government from using it to earn hard currency.
Ugandan authorities said in March they were investigating AGR's Venezuelan gold imports worth $300 million (230.40 million pounds) on grounds it may have been smuggled.
The Attorney General dismissed those allegations but the same month, U.S. Assistant Treasury Secretary Marshall Billingslea travelled to Uganda to ask authorities about the fact AGR accepted gold from Venezuela, a U.S. official said. Investigators have returned twice since, the official added.
AGR says all the Venezuelan gold it refined was declared to the relevant Ugandan authorities, who declined to comment further.
Uganda has long been a conduit for gold worth billions of dollars mined in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. The trade fuelled regional wars, funded rebel fighters and led to United Nations sanctions on traders involved, to try to staunch the flow.
Uganda's official gold exports grew to $116 million in 2006/7, according to central bank data. Then sanctions were imposed and official exports collapsed, averaging under $17 million a year until 2014/15, the data show.
Once Uganda's refineries started up, the country's official exports rose again. Since AGR launched in 2016, they have jumped to $1.1 billion for 2018/19 - nearly triple the country's earnings from coffee.
Congo's own official exports of informally mined gold remained negligible, which Congolese officials say shows much of its metal is being smuggled out.
AGR was one of four refineries to which Uganda's tax authority wrote in September. The letter, seen by Reuters, complained of "rampant cases of fraud in the gold trade business including forgery and misrepresentation of customs documents, stamps and signatures." It did not specify details, and the tax authority declined to elaborate.
AGR says its raw gold comes mainly from the region, but is not smuggled. "We have turned down a considerable number of individuals and companies who did not have the relevant documentations and whose source of gold is from (places) considered as high risks or sanctions areas," an AGR spokesperson said.
Goetz said he recently stepped down as CEO of the refinery to spend time on charitable work, sold his shares to an unidentified investor from the Gulf, and now acts as a consultant to the refinery. Asked who ultimately owns AGR, neither Goetz nor the refinery's spokesperson would comment.
"RACE TO THE BOTTOM"
Africa's new refiners operate amid networks of buyers who are willing to pay extra for gold. These include smugglers taking advantage of tax differentials between African states, or looking to slip gold out of the continent.
Smugglers typically sell gold abroad for hard currency such as dollars, which they can use to purchase goods including cars, electronics or local currency that are in high demand in Africa. These they sell.
By not paying tax and avoiding the banking system, they can pay above market price for the gold and pocket the profit they make on the resale of the goods.
One refinery in Mali says it is struggling to compete with smugglers. Kankou Moussa Refinery has been in operation since 2015 and says it plans to invest more than 400 million euros ($445 million) to create a network of centres which will buy gold and educate miners on how to work safely.
But smugglers and money-launderers pay up to three percent above market price for gold, said Dario Littera, its president.
"They are losing ... on the gold, but they are paid in hard currency that they take back and buy local currency for a profit," he said.
With high profits from smuggling and weak oversight pushing vast quantities of gold into the informal economy, there is little incentive for the new refineries to play by the rules, said the OECD's Marechal.
He said he had seen at least one case when individuals implicated in large scale gold-smuggling in one West African country set up a refinery in another.
Without better and more consistent regulation, he said, competition between the new refineries may degenerate into a "race to the bottom."
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Australia’s Jocumsen Leads Day One of Costa FLW Series Championship on Lake Guntersville
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Texas’ West Leads Co-angler Division
November 2, 2018 • FLW Communications • Press Releases
GUNTERSVILLE, Ala. – Pro Carl Jocumsen of Queensland, Australia, caught a five-bass limit weighing 20 pounds, 2 ounces Friday – the only 20-plus-pound limit of the day – to grab the lead after Day One of the Costa FLW Series Championship on Lake Guntersville. Jocumsen will bring a slim 3-ounce advantage into the final day of the event, which was shortened to two days after inclement weather moved through the area Thursday. The full field will fish again Saturday with the winner being determined by their two-day cumulative weight.
The Costa FLW Series Championship, hosted by the Marshall County Convention & Visitors Bureau, features anglers from across the world casting for a $95,000 prize package in the Pro Division, including a new Ranger Z518C boat with a 200-horsepower Evinrude outboard and automatic qualification to the 2019 Forrest Wood Cup – the world championship of bass fishing.
“I started out by jumping around. We’ve been off of the lake for two days [due to a mandatory off day and a cancellation day due to severe weather] so I knew I’d have to go fishing a little bit,” said Jocumsen. “I picked up a big glide bait and a pretty decent-sized swimbait and just kind of went for it.”
Jocumsen said that he went one-for-one with his co-angler, Jared West, (who leads the co-angler race) throughout the day, which made it difficult to pinpoint what the fish were doing. After the two logged catches with a few different baits, and with four good keepers in the livewell, Jocumsen said he decided to commit to the glide bait for the final two hours of the day.
“I usually wouldn’t pick up the glide bait with two hours to go, but everything was right and I’d gotten some awesome bites on it Saturday [my best day of practice],” said Jocumsen. “I went for it and a 5½-pounder crushed it beside the boat. Once that happened, I never put it down. With about 35 minutes to go, I caught another 5-pounder and got rid of a 2½-pounder – that put me at 20 pounds.
“This year, for me, has been ‘the year of the glide bait’,” continued Jocumsen. “It has pulled me out of some really bad situations. I’ve been dialing in on it for about four or five years, just trying to put it into my tournament arsenal rather than just have it be a bait that you throw for giants. I’ve sort of figured out how to do that and it’s paid off.”
Jocumsen said that tomorrow, he’s going to have to make some major adjustments in order to follow up his big day.
“I had some of the worst practice days ever Tuesday, Monday and most of Sunday and tomorrow is supposed to be the same conditions as those days,” said Jocumsen. “I’m going to have to adjust like crazy. I couldn’t get them to eat the glide bait in sunny conditions without wind. It had to be cloudy, rainy, windy, nasty weather, and that’s what I had today.”
The Texas pro went on to say that while the weather may not play into his hand Saturday, there is still a chance the glide bait could produce some big bites for him, saying that stain in the water could mimic cloud cover and trigger some bites.
“If everything goes to plan I can get on that early morning bite and get five by 10 o’clock, and then I can pick up the glide and things could get pretty scary,” said Jocumsen. “I think I need to get two big bites, but I don’t think I can get five. These fish are the smartest fish I’ve ever fished for right now.”
The top 10 boaters after Day One of competition on Lake Guntersville are:
1st: Carl Jocumsen, Queensland, Australia, five bass, 20-2
2nd: Kyle Walters, Grant Valkaria, Fla., five bass, 19-15
3rd: Bryan Thrift, Shelby, N.C., five bass, 18-3
4th: Cole Floyd, Leesburg, Ohio, five bass, 18-2
5th: Casey Smith, Macedon, N.Y., five bass, 17-8
6th: Dennis Shawn Perrigo, Rienzi, Miss., five bass, 17-6
7th: Terry Tucker, Gadsden, Ala., five bass, 16-6
8th: David Hudson, Jasper, Ala., five bass, 16-3
9th: Brandon Perkins, Counce, Tenn., five bass, 15-7
9th: Troy Gibson, Mountain Home, Ark., five bass, 15-7
A complete list of results can be found at FLWFishing.com.
Competitors qualified for the Costa FLW Series Championship through five U.S. divisions – Central, Northern, Southeastern, Southwestern and Western – and an International division that features anglers from Canada, China, Italy, South Korea, Mexico, Portugal, South Africa and Spain. The highest finishing pro from each U.S. division and the International division will qualify for the 2019 FLW Cup. A total of six FLW Series boaters will advance to the 2019 FLW Cup, which will be held at Lake Hamilton in Hot Springs, Arkansas, Aug. 9-11.
Jared West of Mont Belvieu, Texas, caught five bass weighing 17 pounds, 15 ounces, to lead the Co-angler Division, followed by Roger Stubbs of Locust Grove, Georgia, in second place with five bass weighing 16-1.
The top 10 co-anglers on Lake Guntersville are:
1st: Jared West, Mont Belvieu, Texas, five bass, 17-15
2nd: Roger Stubbs, Locust Grove, Ga., five bass, 16-1
3rd: Brad Hostetler Jr., Franklin, Ind., five bass, 13-15
4th: Alex Redwine, Cincinnati, Ohio, four bass, 13-11
5th: Jeremy Johnson, Kansas City, Kan., five bass, 13-1
6th: Robbie Bartoszek, Hampshire, Tenn., four bass, 12-9
7th: James Callaghan, DeBerry, Texas, five bass, 12-7
8th: Robert Olivier, Amanzimtoti, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, five bass, 12-5
9th: Glenn Mason, Alpharetta, Ga., four bass, 12-3
10th: Scott Bern, San Rafael, Calif., five bass, 11-3
Co-anglers are casting this week for a top award of a Ranger Z175 boat with a 90-horsepower Evinrude outboard and $5,000 if Ranger Cup guidelines are met.
Anglers will take off Saturday from Guntersville City Harbor, located at 201 Blount Ave., in Guntersville, at 7:30 a.m. CDT. Saturday’s final weigh-in, originally scheduled to take place at Cabela's in Huntsville will now remain at Guntersville City Harbor, and will begin at 3 p.m.
Area youth are encouraged to attend the free FLW Foundation Unified Fishing Derby at Guntersville City Harbor on Saturday, Nov. 3, from 1-2:30 p.m. The all-inclusive event is open to youth (18 and under) and Special Olympics athletes (all ages). Tackle, bait and expert assistance will be provided. Registration begins on site at noon.
In Costa FLW Series competition, each U.S. division consists of three regular-season tournaments with competitors vying for valuable points that could earn them the opportunity to compete in the season-ending Costa FLW Series Championship.
For complete details and updated information visit FLWFishing.com. For regular updates, photos, tournament news and more, follow the Costa FLW Series on FLW’s social media outlets at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat.
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FLW is the world’s largest tournament-fishing organization, providing anglers of all skill levels the opportunity to compete for millions in prize money in 2018 across five tournament circuits. Headquartered in Benton, Kentucky, with offices in Minneapolis, FLW and their partners conduct 286 bass-fishing tournaments annually around the world, including the United States, Canada, China, Italy, South Korea, Mexico, Portugal, South Africa and Spain. FLW tournament fishing can be seen on the Emmy-nominated “FLW" television show, broadcast to more than 564 million households worldwide, while FLW Bass Fishing magazine delivers cutting-edge tips from top pros. For more information visit FLWFishing.com and follow FLW at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat.
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Marijuana Has Been Deemed ‘Essential’ — But Essential for Whom?
As the coronavirus spread across the country in March, and stay-at-home orders began to go into effect, every state with a regulated cannabis system allowed weed sales to continue in some form, deeming medical-marijuana businesses essential during the pandemic, along with groceries and pharmacies. This, The New York Times declared, was “official recognition that for some Americans, cannabis is as necessary as milk and bread.”
This is a triumph for marijuana advocates. However, the patchwork of emergency orders during coronavirus has been confusing and difficult to navigate for recreational, or adult-use, cannabis businesses, projected to hit $12 billion in retail sales in the U.S. this year. Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Barker issued an order allowing medical-marijuana dispensaries to stay open, but halted recreational sales. In Colorado, recreational pot shops are limited to curbside pickup, while medical dispensaries can stay open. In Nevada, adult-use sales are only allowed through home delivery. It’s tough to keep track, since laws vary widely from state to state.
Despite the widespread acceptance of medicinal marijuana, some business owners are pushing back against the distinction between medical and recreational. The distinction can be frustrating, since all cannabis products are derived from the same plant — it’s simply the purpose of using it that differs. Some people smoke a joint to get high. Others depend on it as prescription medicine. Yet for countless others, their reason for use falls somewhere in between.
Anyone over the age of 21 can buy recreational cannabis in 11 states that have legalized adult-use. In the 33 states with medical marijuana (MMJ) laws, though, there’s considerable variation on what conditions qualify a patient to receive a doctor’s recommendation. Some states, like Delaware, allow for MMJ use to treat autism and PTSD, while others, including New York and New Jersey, have a much more limited list of approved conditions. Fourteen states restrict the level of THC, the psychoactive component in cannabis, while acknowledging the efficacy of cannabidiol (CBD) to treat seizure disorders, particularly in children. The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) updates its site frequently to keep up.
The distinction gets even more complicated when you take into account that plenty of people shop on the recreational market for medical cannabis, says Morgan Fox, media-relations director for the National Cannabis Industry Association. “Whether a patient’s registration gets too expensive, or they don’t have one of the qualifying conditions in their state — or maybe they forgot and didn’t get their medical card renewed,” Fox says, “a lot of people depend on the adult-use system to get their medicine.”
Additionally, Fox says, there’s the concern that denying consumers access to legal weed during the pandemic will push them to buy from the illicit market: “There are untested, unregulated products that are potentially dangerous, and they could be obtained in an unsafe manner.” Buying from a licensed cannabis shop ensures products are safer for consumers — state laws mandate accurate labeling with dosage and lab-tested levels of THC and CBD, residual pesticides, mold, mildew, and other unwanted contaminants.
Cali Manzello, general manager at the Apothecarium cannabis dispensary, wears gloves when holding a marijuana sample. Photo by Jeff Chiu/AP/Shutterstock
Despite COVID-19, data shows that consumers continue to shop for weed, with edibles capturing a bigger market share than usual — smoking may have dropped due to the threat of coronavirus respiratory infections. Cannabis sales spiked at the outset of the pandemic when people rushed to stock up, says Liz Connors, director of analytics for cannabis data intelligence company Headset. “When I look at the March data for Washington state, it looks like there were two 4/20s,” says Connors, referring to the unofficial weed lovers’ holiday. “Just before the shelter-in-place order, we had days that were over a 100 percent increase in sales from the prior day.” Now, she says, most markets have stabilized, and are ringing in just under average sales.
Multistate cannabis company Viola has operations in Colorado, Oregon, Michigan, and California, and plans to expand into three more states by the end of 2020. Viola’s Chief Marketing Officer Ericka Pittman saw the March spike in sales as a natural response to the pandemic, dubbing it the “toilet-paper factor”: “People get nervous, so they overstock. As we start to adjust, they’re realizing dispensaries are still open. They are recalibrating on how and when they want to shop, and it’s starting to normalize.”
Fox concurs. “Ensuring continued access to legal cannabis has cut down on panic buying and stockpiling,” he says. “We’re in a situation where our health care systems are already overtaxed. It doesn’t make any sense to interrupt people’s health care during the midst of a crisis like this.”
Fox also points out that the cannabis industry faces more financial burdens than almost every other industry due to heavy taxation and strict regulations, and no access to federal funding. State-legal marijuana businesses were mostly shut out from receiving grants or loans through the $2 trillion federal stimulus package. He’s hopeful that the legal-weed industry will survive, and evolve, by working with state officials to provide safe, uninterrupted access for cannabis consumers. “It puts us on a really good footing for potential progress, as soon as things start to get normalized,” he says.
No matter how you choose to use it, cannabis has medical applications that even recreational users benefit from, says Andrew DeAngelo, cannabis-industry consultant and co-founder of the Harborside dispensary chain in California. “It’s good for things like introspection, reflection, meditation, prayer — any of those things that we all do to help ourselves when we’re in a situation like we are in today. It’s self-care.” And, he says, people need access to legal weed now more than ever. “We’re all suffering, and we are all patients right now.”
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Weatherford City Jail serves to provide custody of prisoners awaiting trial. The Weatherford City Jail is located at 201 South West Main Street, Weatherford, OK, 73096 in downtown Weatherford adjacent to the courthouse. The current Weatherford City Jail was opened in June, 1979, replacing an antiquated facility built in 1915 which was located on the top floor of the old courthouse.
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The last option, the slowest option, is to send a money order via the mail. The money order should be made out to the Weatherford City Jail Inmate Fund. In the memo field, clearly print or type the name of the inmate. Never send cash through the mail.
Like many other jails, Weatherford City Jail uses Securus Technologies to facilitate phone calls with inmates. While inmates cannot receive calls, they can make phone calls. It’s best for family and friends to set up an account with Securus or call them for at 580-772-7791.
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Chocolate Lovers, Rejoice! Belgian Tableya Now Exists—And It Was Created By A Filipina!
Hershey Neri
Migration, marriage and missing home.
These three circumstances greatly influenced Filipina entrepreneur Myey Moens to start the world’s first Belgian tableya. Her why was simple: to celebrate one’s roots, marrying the flavors of her native heritage and her new home in Belgium.
After finding true love almost two years ago and nurturing a long distance relationship for months, the petite Filipina made the huge decision of moving to the charming city of Gent—all to begin her happily-ever-after with her husband Matthias.
And just like that, a cross-cultural romance gave birth to a cross-cultural tableya—Theo & Brom—that would definitely make your Valentine’s Day sweeter.
A cross-cultural romance gave birth to a cross-cultural tableya
Today, Myey has sold hundreds of batches of hand-crafted, melt-in-your-mouth tableya rounds, using cacao sourced from the Philippines. Word of her business venture has already spread like wildfire across continents! And to think, her success story began one afternoon back in 2018 in the comfort of her living room.
As Myey and Matthias sat on their couch and listened to a webinar one afternoon, the speaker emphasized, “Your business idea need not be as innovative as an iPhone. It can be something very simple, but gives great value to your audience.”
As ideas gushed through her head, Myey turned to her husband and asked, “Do you like tableya?”
“Apparently, it was his first time to hear about it, and to my surprise, there isn’t much about it on Google either. That triggered the whole idea,” Myey quipped. “We were in Belgium, and it’s known for its chocolate-making expertise. And I’m also Filipino—we have an amazing age-old recipe for a chocolate beverage. We had to create the world’s first Belgian tableya.”
Staying true to her mantra of celebrating one’s roots, Myey thought of naming her chocolate business Theo & Brom, inspired by the scientific name of cocoa: Theobroma Cacao.
The world's first and only Belgian tableya was created Pinay entrepreneur Myey Moens
The birth of Theo & Brom
Myey quickly acted on her lightbulb moment, pitching her idea to chocolatiers and manufacturers in Belgium. “They were all cold pitches — all sent to the email addresses listed on their websites. Some replied, many more didn’t, but for those who responded, everyone politely declined,” the Filipina shared. But she believed in her idea—and nothing could stop a woman who was driven. “I was disheartened but I kept sending more emails.”
As fate would have it, a YES finally came through—on the exact day she ran out of people to send messages to.
The e-mail came from Dr. Zoi Papalexandratou, the co-founder of cacao consulting agency ZOTO. Call it coincidence or fate, but it’s hard not to believe that the universe was conspiring to make all these happen. Just a week before Myey sent an e-mail, Dr. Zoi was in the Philippines to talk on post-harvest protocols with local cacao producers. “In her e-mail, she even recognized the recipe I was trying to describe, and asked if I was referring to tableya,” Myey added.
“I will never forget that moment. On my list of contacts, arranged alphabetically, her name was the last. And just when I was about to lose hope, she said ‘yes’ to help me make my project come to life.”
Dr. Zoi, known in the industry for optimizing post-harvest processing of fine cacao, believed in Myey’s idea. And she wanted to be part of the story, too. Today, she is Theo & Brom’s Lead Cacao Advisor. “She is very well-known and respected in the industry, and I am happy to be learning from a mentor like her,” Myey quipped.
Dr. Zoi Papalexandratou, Theo & Brom’s Lead Cacao Advisor
In an exclusive interview with Metro.Style, Myey gives us the low-down on everything you need to know about the world’s first Belgian tableya.
Metro.Style: What makes the Belgian chocolate-making process special?
Myey Moens: Belgium became famous for the invention of the praline, a confection with a hollow cocoa shell and a sweet filling inside. Chocolatiers are in almost every corner of town, and many are small family-owned businesses. This craft takes years of mastery and experience, and dates back centuries, when it was first introduced by the Spanish. The Belgian chocolate-making traditions have always kept a very high standard on ingredients and quality, giving them a reputation of producing fine chocolates.
MS: Who creates the Theo & Brom tableya?
MM: Our Belgian tableya is handcrafted by Mario Vandeneede, an award-winning chocolate maker. In the book Belgian Chocolate: Bean-to-bar Generation, Mario is described as “one of the most important chocolate-makers in Belgium.” He is also a professor at the HK Hotelschool Ter Duinen, renowned for producing numerous Michelin-star chefs.
Theo & Brom tableyas are handcrafted by award-winning chocolate maker Mario Vandeneede
MS: How did you incorporate tableya into this product?
MM: We are part of the bean-to-bar generation, which simply means our chocolate-making process starts with actual cacao beans. Our debut batch featured 65% single-estate De La Serna cacao beans from Davao, Philippines. We also used 30% muscovado to give it a raw, unrefined sweetness mixed with the cacao, and 5% cacao butter to make the mouth-feel smooth. From roasting to rounds, Mario crafts each batch of Belgian tableya with his artisanal expertise.
MS: What sets this Belgian tableya apart? What distinct flavor can people expect?
MM: We made sure our recipe made a final product that satisfies both preferences: melt-in-your-mouth or melt-in-your-drink. The mouth-feel of our Belgian tableya is unrefined yet delicate enough to qualify as smooth, taking on the fine chocolate texture Belgian chocolate is known for. Distinct flavors of the De La Serna blend feature nutty, fruity, and caramel notes.
Would you look at that steaming, magnificent ooze. ???? Let’s warm up your tummies, shall we? . . . . . #belgiantableya #theoandbrom #chocolademelk #beantobarchocolate #drinkingchocolate #bestofbothworlds #artisanalchocolate #beantobar #beantoround #ikkoopbelgisch #madeinbelgium #cocoalover #hotcocoatime #hotcocoabar
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MS: How did you get into the business of creating chocolates? What made you want to pursue this industry?
MM: My friends have been asking this as well because I am no dessert fan. I didn’t pursue the industry per se. Instead, I pursued the idea. My gut feel told me it had huge potential and it would be a waste if I didn’t follow through. Many people believe that in starting a business, your product should be your passion. This isn’t always true, at least for me. My passion is driven by the pursuit of great ideas, and making sure I stop at nothing to make it happen.
MS: How do you envision your brand 10 years from now?
MM: A decade from now, I see Theo & Brom as a brand recognized globally for its mission of celebrating cross-cultural connections. The Belgian tableya is a part of our journey’s beginning, and it’s proof of that core mission. That is the core of our craft.
The Metro.Style experience
The Theo & Brom tableya rounds were directly shipped to us in a dainty cardboard box. Inside were four rounds of tableyas, packaged in chic, monochromatic paper.
One round (60 grams) can make 2 to 3 cups of piping hot tsokolate. We followed the recipe, melting one round with milk on low to medium heat, stirring constantly until thick.
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As expected, Theo & Brom was an equal mix of home and novelty. The dark, rich flavors reminded us of our own tsokolate, the one we’ve grown to love. But at the same time, it was the perfect balance of dark and sweet, rich and smooth. Indeed, Theo & Brom was able to marry the best of both worlds: the Philippines’ flavorful cacao beans and Belgium’s expertise in creating the finest chocolates.
One box of four rounds sells for 35 Euros (1,999PHP), which includes international shipping from Belgium to your doorstep. For the Metro.Style team, it’s a steal, considering that each tableya is not only a sweet treat, but also a masterpiece of an award-winning chocolatier.
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Arctic Monkeys – Nottingham Trent FM Arena, Sunday November 22.
Posted in Capital FM Arena, gigs, Nottingham Post by Mike A on November 23, 2009
Two nights on from Beyoncé’s dazzling, effects-laden extravaganza, it was time for the diametric opposite: a frill-free, no-nonsense, back-to-basics rock gig, from another act at the top of their game. In contrast to the R&B star’s numerous declarations of love, a taciturn Alex Turner offered not much more than a couple of gruff checks that we were “all right, Nottingham?” Formalities dispensed with, he kept his head down and got on with the show.
The simple but effective lighting bathed the band in strong, single colours, alternating between scarlet, turquoise, orange and mauve. The colour scheme was echoed by the screens on either side at the stage, which relayed shadowy, film-like images of the individual band members, silhouetted in tinted monochromes.
Obscured behind shaggy, shoulder-length, centre-parted curtains of hair, the three-man front line – Turner, guitarist Jamie Cook and bassist Nick O’Malley – matched each other for unreadable inscrutability, rumbling and twanging their way through the set with impressive cohesion and control. More storyteller than showman, Turner casts himself as one of life’s observers: the quiet kid in the corner with the notepad on his lap, taking it all in with a quizzical eye, and relaying it back with a snappy, sardonic turn of phrase.
Four years ago, the Monkeys exploded onto the scene, grabbing everyone’s attention with two chart-topping singles and a debut album that was hailed as an instant classic. Three albums down the line, they’ve toned down some of that early precociousness, settling into a comfortable – and some might say conservative – niche. Their newest songs might lack the instantly anthemic qualities of the older hits, but you sense that Turner and his band are in it for the long haul: sturdy, dependable reliables, with a loyal fanbase who have learnt every word off by heart.
Notably more subdued during an extended stretch of lesser-known album tracks, the crowd burst back into life for a rip-roaring rattle through When The Sun Goes Down. An explosion of translucent ticker-tape then brought the main set to an unexpectedly showy conclusion. (Perhaps Ms Knowles had left a box or two behind on Friday night?) It was the one nod to spectacle, at the end of a curiously austere and uninvolving performance. The sweaty moshers down the front might have gone home happy – but for the stranded souls towards the rear, who strained to make sense of the blurred visuals and the muddy sound, the verdict seemed altogether less clear.
Dance Little Liar
Brianstorm
This House Is A Circus
Still Take You Home
I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
Poison Approaching
My Propeller
Crying Lightning
The View From The Afternoon
If You Were There, Beware
Pretty Visitors
The Jeweller’s Hands
Do Me A Favour
When The Sun Goes Down
Fluorescent Adolescent / Mardy Bum
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Friends and Family Rally Around Johnny Depp Amidst Abuse Allegations
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The complicated and contentious divorce between Amber Heard and Johnny Depp has recently become more muddied, as family and friends of Johnny Depp have rallied behind him amidst allegations that he abused his wife of 15 months.
Last week, Heard filed for divorce from Depp just three days after Depp's mother passed away. It was revealed that at around the same time, Heard asked for, and was granted, a restraining order from Depp after he allegedly threw an iPhone in her face. Heard was granted the restraining order after she showed up to court with visible bruises around her eyes.
Depp, through his lawyers, has maintained his innocence through the ordeal.
In a social media post by Depp's daughter Lily Rose Depp, the 17-year-old actress and model came to her father's defense and also shared a photo of him pushing her around as a toddler.
"My dad is the sweetest most loving person I know, he's been nothing but a wonderful father to my little brother and I, and everyone who knows him would say the same," she captioned in the throwback photo.
Depp's ex-girlfriend, French model and actress Vanessa Paradis, also reportedly penned a letter in support of Depp's character. The letter, posted by TMZ, has not been verified yet.
“Johnny Depp is the father of my two children,” Paradis writes. “He is a sensitive, loving and loved person, and I believe with all my heart, that these recent allegations being made are outrageous.”
"In all the years I have known Johnny, he has never been physically abusive with me, and this looks nothing like the man I lived with for 14 wonderful years."
Actor and comedian Doug Stanhope has also come to Depp's defense, claiming that Heard is using "blackmail" with Depp in order to get what she wants out of the divorce.
In an op-ed to The Wrap, Stanhope writes, "Bingo [Stanhope's girlfriend] and I were at Johnny’s house for most of that Saturday until just before the alleged assault. We assumed initially that his dour mood was because of his mother’s death the day before. But he opened up in the most vulnerable of ways that it was not only his mother, but that Amber was now going to leave him, threatening to lie about him publicly in any and every possible duplicitous way if he didn’t agree to her terms. Blackmail is what I would imagine other people might put it, including the manner in which he is now being vilified."
"Johnny Depp got used, manipulated, set up and made to look like an a–hole. And he saw it coming and didn’t or couldn’t do anything to stop it."
"I stand up for my friends and I tell the f—ing truth," he concludes.
Heard's lawyers have since sent a statement claiming that Stanhope's allegations of blackmail are "unequivocally false."
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MS Patient and Advocate ‘Longhaulpaul’ Raises $18,500 for Disease Research and Patient Support
by Mary Chapman
As his moniker suggests, multiple sclerosis (MS) patient Paul Pelland is in it for the long haul. Known as “Longhaulpaul,” Pelland recently set a world motorcycling endurance record — his third — on a dynamometer while raising $18,500 for MS research and patient support.
Pelland rode his Yamaha Star Venture for 24 hours straight — no stops — for the education and information site MS Views and News and its Ride to Reach Rural America, an initiative created with Pelland to reach MS patients in remote and rural areas.
Pelland’s feat took place March 29-30 at a Gardner, Massachusetts facility. The roughly 1,674-mile ride used a dynamometer, a stationary testing platform used in motorsports that allows a vehicle to drive or ride at high speeds while being tested or tuned.
Longhaulpaul’s “Nonstop to Nowhere” event was broadcast live on Facebook. Photo credit: Yamaha Motors USA
The “Nonstop to Nowhere” event was shown live on Facebook in a telethon-style broadcast. Pelland was nothing if not entertaining: his bike’s engine revving at 90 mph, he took donors’ calls, sang and played guitar, ate a variety of bugs, got his hair washed and nails painted, and had a razor shave. The 24-hour nonstop on the platform was a world record, according to a press release.
The event included $3,600 in raffled prizes. At the conclusion, Pelland and his team noshed on barbecue with 50 supporters.
The expedition was part of Pelland’s six-year quest to ride 1 million miles for MS. Traversing the nation while sharing his story, Pelland so far has logged almost 360,000 miles and raised $150,000 for charity. He’s shared his story with more than 250 audiences.
“I recalculated my life’s road by deciding to share and chronicle my life’s journey, the difficult challenges I have faced and how I overcame them, my lifelong passion of long-distance motorcycling, and for the first time, openly discussing and dealing with everyday challenges brought on by having the often disabling diagnosis of multiple sclerosis,” Pelland said on his website.
To help defray costs, he sells T-shirts, mugs, and other items. His blog “Mile Posts” chronicles life on the road, and he’s a prolific poster on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter.
Beyond raising funds and awareness, his hope, he said, is to inspire others facing life challenges.
Last year, Yamaha Motors USA became a ride sponsor.
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Nova shares the love in new multi-platform marketing campaign
October 25, 2019 3:03
by Hannah Blackiston
Nova Entertainment will launch a new multi-platform marketing campaign this weekend, showcasing the station’s on-air talent in Sydney.
The high impact campaign will promote Nova 96.9’s strong and consistent on-air lineup, and focus on the station’s music offering and dedication to live entertainment.
Nova 96.9’s talent will be highlighted in the new campaign
The new TVC will be an evolution on the Love Nova series, featuring a number of the station’s stars including Ryan ‘Fitzy’ Fitzgerald and Michael “Wippa” Wipfli, Kate Ritchie, Tim Blackwell, Marty Sheargold (or, Kate, Tim and Marty), and Kent ‘Smallzy’ Small, alongside some international music talent.
For the first time, Miley Cyrus, the Black Eyed Peas, Amy Shark and Guy Sebastian will appear in the campaign, alongside returning artists Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, Shawn Mendes and Chris Martin.
The campaign will run across free to air (FTV), out of home (OOH), an array of digital sites, social and cinema.
The Fitzy & Wippa breakfast show, Smallzy’s morning and evening programming and Kate, Tim & Marty’s drive show, which has held the position as the number on national drive show for 22 consecutive surveys, will all feature in the OOH campaign, alongside promotions for Nova’s authority on music and entertainment.
For the first time, the Fitzy & Wippa creative will feature the broader on-air team, Matt De Groot (news journalist), Sarah McGilvray and executive producer Tom Ivey, to visually represent the team listeners hear.
Paul Jackson, NOVA Entertainment’s chief programming and marketing officer said, “The continued involvement of the world’s biggest artists in Nova’s marketing campaign, reinforces Nova as the number one music network in Australia. Combined with our consistent and leading on-air line ups, and significant media investment, we are committing to delivering our audience the best on-air experience.”
Nova 96.9’s new marketing campaign launches Sunday 27 October.
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Hannah Blackiston was the deputy editor of Mumbrella. She worked with the company from March 2019 to November 2020.
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Save your money Nova or inject some personality. Safe and boring. I’ve already forgotten it
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BioDirection, Inc. Announces Move of Corporate Headquarters to Southborough, Massachusetts
Concussion diagnosis and management company has established its commercial base of operations in Massachusetts
Boston, MA – BioDirection, Inc., a privately held medical device company developing cutting-edge and rapid point-of-care products for the objective diagnosis and management of concussion and other traumatic brain injuries, today announced that the company has leased a 5,000 sq. ft. facility in Southborough, Massachusetts for its new corporate headquarters. The facility will house executive offices as well as finance, marketing, sales, customer service and business development functions.
“Our new facilty is now fully operational. We anticipate staffing at this location will reach as many as 30 employees (within the next two years) as we prepare to launch our first product in 2020 pending regulatory clearance,” said Sharad Joshi, President & CEO of BioDirection. “Relocation of the corporate headquarters from Tuscon, Arizona is a critical step in establishing roots in one of the country’s leading med-tech center concentrations. Availability of highly trained and experienced medical technology field personnel was a key motivating factor in our decision along with access to leading clinicians and physicians in the field of traumic brain injury and inflammatory disease.”
BioDirection’s new corporate address is:
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The company’s Tbit System is based on a proprietary nanotechnology biosensor to rapidly detect and accurately measure protein biomarkers that are released from the brain immediately following a head trauma or jolt to the body. The portable system allows for testing to be initially performed in the emergency department and eventually, after potential receipt of further FDA clearances, at the point-of-injury. Early diagnosis of a brain injury can support more appropriate treatment decisions while potentially reducing unnecessary head CT scans.
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Facebook and Twitter censor Biden bombshells weeks after execs join his transition team
Following the publication of the New York Post’s bombshell story about the Biden family’s business dealings in Ukraine, Facebook and Twitter worked hard to suppress the story across their platforms. The censorship comes just weeks after executives from both firms joined the Biden transition team. (Article by Lucas Nolan republished from Breitbart.com) Breitbart News recently reported on […]
Fox News obtains email sent to Hunter Biden requesting his help as Ukrainian gas company was being probed
Hunter Biden was asked by an adviser for Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings whether he could “use your influence” as son of Vice President Joe Biden to help stop “politically motivated actions,” according to an email obtained by Fox News. (Article by Sam Dorman, Mike Emanuel, Brooke Singman republished from FoxNews.com) “We urgently need your advice on how […]
Sen. Josh Hawley calls for investigation after Facebook egregiously censors news of Hunter Biden’s email scandal
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is calling for an investigation after a Facebook executive announced earlier today that the platform would be egregiously censoring a report detailing Hunter Biden’s leaked emails. (Article by Shane Trejo republished from BigLeaguePolitics.com) [email protected] I want to know on what grounds you are actively censoring a news report about potentially illegal corruption by […]
Election interference? Facebook and Twitter suppressing New York Post bombshell story of damaging Hunter Biden emails
Facebook has reduced the distribution of a New York Post story containing bombshell information indicating that — contrary to his previous denials — Joe Biden allegedly did meet with an adviser to the board of Burisma while he was vice president, arranged by his son Hunter, who was then working as a lobbyist for the company. Twitter followed suit […]
Colorado Dem operative Kris Jacks: ‘2020 is a political revolution’ … ‘want to change this country with violence’ … ‘there’s only one way to do it’ … ‘guillotines, mother f**ker’ … ‘killing random Nazis in the street’
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Nolte: WaPo buries news BLM supporter allegedly tied to Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot
The far-left Washington Post buried the news one of the alleged plotters in the scheme to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) is a Black Lives Matter supporter. (Article by John Nolte republished from Breitbart.com) You have to trudge through more than a dozen paragraphs to find this: One of alleged plotters, 23-year-old Daniel Harris, attended a Black Lives […]
New York Times publishes treasonous op/ed calling for United Nations takeover of United States
A recent New York Times op/ed has argued that “America may need international intervention” from the United Nations to effectively end U.S. sovereignty. (Article by Shane Trejo republished from BigLeaguePolitics.com) Opinion contributor Peter Beinart made the argument to give away the U.S. to foreign powers – exactly what the fake news hacks at the Times and other left-wing propaganda […]
Activist courts in several swing states that approved changes to election law were acting unlawfully against the Constitution – will likely be overturned
Original source: Doug Ross – an important message we’re sharing with all As if Democrats weren’t already fomenting enough chaos with their brownshirts — Antifa, BLM and the like — the Supreme Courts of several battleground states have decided to pile on. In Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, Democrat activists dressed in black robes have fundamentally rewritten state election laws. […]
The disturbing intersection between Antifa, BLM, and public-school teachers
Commentary As violent protesters have begun to diminish for the time being in areas such as Portland, it is time to reflect upon exactly who is perpetrating the street violence in Portland and other places. Not only who these people are (we’ll get to that in a moment), but what is the trigger that is inciting […]
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CNN likes to portray Jeffrey Toobin as the network’s senior legal analyst, but a more accurate description would be just another Democratic hack paid by CNN. On Monday’s CNN Newsroom, Toobin was on to talk about his Saturday column in the New Yorker where he called on Democrats to stack the Court, add states, and abolish the filibuster should […]
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Guest Post by Rabbi Seth Winberg
(Asher Lopatin writes: Rabbi Winberg touches on some of the same critiques that I have of Rabbi Shaul Magid’s response to Rabbi Dov Linzer’s Op Ed in the New York Times).
Guest Post from Rabbi Seth Winberg who received rabbinic ordination at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, and an M.A. from Yeshiva University. Rabbi Winberg is currently Assistant Director at the University of Michigan Hillel.
Poor Rabbi Dov Linzer. I am honored to have been a student of his remarkable erudition and emotional sensitivity. Reacting to unconscionable behavior in the name of Torah by some Jews in Israel, Rabbi Linzer’s op-ed, “Lechery, Immodesty, and the Talmud”, appeared in the New York Times late last month. A full analysis of talmudic sources appeared on his blog a month before the op-ed. The upshot of Rabbi Linzer’s argument is that the Talmud “places the responsibility for controlling men’s licentious thoughts about women squarely on the men.”
Professor Shaul Magid quickly responded in an open letter to Rabbi Linzer: “To instantiate your reading of the Talmud would require you to act decisively to abolish all the legal mandates that objectify women’s bodies and put the onus on the men to take full control of their libido and desire.” Rabbi Linzer did not go far enough for Professor Magid in promoting liberal values.
Rabbi Avi Shafran, Director of Public Affairs for Agudath Israel of America, also attacked Rabbi Linzer. According to Rabbi Shafran, Rabbi Linzer exploited the violent behavior directed at women and children in Israel to further his ideological agenda. Rabbi Shafran implies that Rabbi Linzer’s reading of talmudic texts is wrong. But Rabbi Shafran offers no evidence for this claim. Perhaps Rabbi Shafran will soon share his reading of the talmudic sources.
Until then, Rabbi Shafran provides no substantive objections to Rabbi Linzer’s reading of sources. Instead he resorts to name calling. Rabbi Linzer’s ideology, says Rabbi Shafran, is “redolent of the Conservative movement’s early days.” (Professor Magid, the rabbi of a Conservative synagogue, would surely disagree with Rabbi Shafran for two reasons: (1) for Professor Magid, Rabbi Linzer is too Orthodox to be Conservative and (2) because for Professor Magid “Conservative” is not an insult.)
Professor Magid’s open letter to Rabbi Linzer at least provides substantive arguments for us to consider. Unfortunately, the letter contains inaccuracies about halakhah. Let me provide two examples. First, Professor Magid claims that “traditional Jewish law” does not allow women to say kaddish in the presence of men. What “traditional” source says women cannot say kaddish with men? The first halakhic source I know of which condemns women saying kaddish is from the 1600s long after the Babylonian Talmud (see Havot Yair, 222). That source does not mention modesty as a concern. And as Rabbi J. Simcha Cohen has pointed out, Havot Yair’s objection was a minority view at the time in Amsterdam, and he agreed in principle that women could say kaddish in the presence of men.
One need only point to a responsum of the late Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, of blessed memory, to show women may say kaddish in the presence of men (see Iggerot Moshe, Orah hayyim, vol. 8, #12).
The most troubling inaccuracy in Professor Magid’s open letter is about mehitzah, the partition which separates men and women during public prayer. He asserts that the purpose of a mehitzah is to prevent men from seeing women. The more commonly accepted purpose of a mehitzah is to prevent intermingling of men and women in the context of public prayer (see Iggerot Moshe, Orah hayyim, v. 1 #39 and #41, and Seridei Esh, v. 1, #8, p. 19 which reports Hasidic opposition to Rav Moshe’s view). Contrary to what Professor Magid says, the mehitzah is not put up to prevent sight-lines. Professor Magid’s vague language also suggests that the mehitzah is of talmudic origin. In fact, there is no discussion of mehitzah in pre-modern halakhic literature, let alone talmudic literature. (See Rabbi Dr. Alan J. Yuter’s “Mehizah, Midrash, and Modernity: A Study in Religious Rhetoric” in Judaism 28 (1979): 147-159.)
Professor Magid may consider these the quibbles of an Orthodox rabbi. (I do not.)
A final broader comment about Professor Magid’s open letter. Rabbi Linzer demonstrates a pattern of attitudes (not laws) regarding modesty in the Talmud (not post-talmudic halakhic literature). Professor Magid responds with examples of rabbinic law (overwhelmingly post-talmudic) that he does not like for ideological reasons. Surely Professor Magid realizes that an Orthodox rosh yeshiva is not going to abrogate normative halakhah on the basis of a pattern of attitudes regarding modesty.
Rabbi Linzer is trying to have a real conversation about important values. If Rabbi Shafran and Professor Magid take Torah and ideology seriously, perhaps in the future they will engage in relationship building with their liberal Orthodox colleagues and leave polemics for other situations.
The larger challenge in this discussion is the extent to which the entire conversation is dominated by men. (I am guilty as charged.) I am pleased to see Rabba Sara Hurwitz adding her perspective. I pray that other women–students and graduates of Yeshivat Maharat, the Drisha Scholars Circle, GPATS, and similar programs–will add their voices too.
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2 Responses to Guest Post by Rabbi Seth Winberg
While I appreciate the substantive engagement with this issue, Winberg’s response to Magid misses the forest for trees. Magid’s major–and important–point is that the Talmud and Jewish law/tradition (that is, what follows from the talmud over multiple centuries — perhaps he wasn’t clear enough for Winberg on that point) is, at heart, a misogynistic text. This isn’t shocking, given when it was written and compiled. But it is often glossed over or, worse, refused to be acknowledged.
Winberg ducks Magid’s major point: “To instantiate your [Linzer’s] reading of the Talmud would require you to act decisively to abolish all the legal mandates that objectify women’s bodies and put the onus on the men to take full control of their libido and desire.” Winberg wants to dismiss this by claiming that “Surely Professor Magid realizes that an Orthodox rosh yeshiva is not going to abrogate normative halakhah on the basis of a pattern of attitudes regarding modesty.” Really? From where does normative halakhah come? Last I checked the Talmud, and centuries of interpretation, codification, and responsa based on both the specific law and “patterns of attitudes” in the Talmud. Even if the mechitzah isn’t Talmudic per se, the enforcement of it takes on the authority of Talmud. And if non-Talmudic matters should be of no concern to Magid, why shouldn’t Winberg and Linzer call for the abolition of the mechitzah or make kol isha a non-issue? Responsa looks at “patterns of attitudes” as much as it looks at the law itself. If you can’t take those “patterns of attitudes” seriously (which Winbergs language suggests he can’t), then it’s very easy to overlook and thus validate misogyny. Try taking Magid seriously and looking at the legal infrastructure and codes of the Talmud. Do you really not see misogyny? Are women really treated with respect?
Garnel Ironheart says:
The problem is that Rav Linzer came close to making a really good point but stopped just short.
There is certainly some onus on women to participatae in not creating uncomfortable situations for men. But in the end the man is responsible for looking away. What, am I forbidden from walking down the street of my city which is in golus because scantily clad women might walk past? I have a responsibility to look away even if the local women don’t feel a responsibility to dress appropriately. God, in His infinite wisdom, will judge me according to my actions and them according to theirs. If I want to walk on the street staring in any direction I choose and then shout “sinners” at those who offend me, then I am worrying more about their cheshbon then mine which is quite wrong.
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Gadkari lays foundation for India's first multi-modal logistic park in Assam
Guwahati, October 21 (IANS): Indias first Rs 694 crore international Multi-Modal Logistic Park (MMLP) would be set up at Jogighopa in western Assam under the Bharatmala Project of the Union Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways. According to the officials, the first MMLP at Jogighopa, which would be connected to road, rail, air and waterways, would be developed in 317-acre land along the Brahmaputra River, and would provide direct or indirect employment to nearly 20 lakh youth in
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Gadkari lays foundation stone of Rs 3K-crore highway projects in Manipur
IMPHAL, AUGUST 17 (PTI): Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday laid the foundation stones of Rs 3,000-crore highway projects in Manipur and said the government will soon take up additional projects worth Rs 16,023 crore in the state. Laying the foundation stone of the 13 highway projects and inaugurating a road safety project in a virtual ceremony, the road transport, highways and MSME minister promised to also expedite the ongoing Rs 2,250-crore highway works in the state an
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On a Clear Day You Can See the Revolution From Here
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From the lush and green grass of the Kazakh Steppe to the glorifying architecture of its capital, from its giant open-air mines to the traces of invisible nuclear power, Kazakhstan is here captured in fragments. A fake observational film, but a genuine geographical and historical journey, through the remnants of the Soviet past and the contemporary capitalist ambitions of the country.
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.youtube and .lol May Be Coming Soon
By Ed Carrasco
10:55 am June 4, 2012
Posted on... 10:55 am June 4, 2012
Written By Ed Carrasco
Coming soon to a URL near you: .lol
While many of would laugh out loud at this notion, it’s no laughing matter to Google, who is also trying to register .docs, .google and .youtube as top-level domains. The company applied for these top-level domains through the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which manages the Internet address system.
In the company blog, “Chief Internet Evangelist” Vince Cerf said that the company has applied for more TLDs given the slow increase in TLDs over the last 28 years.
“We’re just beginning to explore this potential source of innovation on the Web,” Cerf wrote. “By opening up more choices for Internet domain names, we hope people will find options for more diverse – and perhaps shorter – signposts in cyberspace.”
However, some companies like General Electric and Coca-Cola are opposed to expanding the top-level domain program, noting that it would increase costs and promote internet fraud.
ICANN has been working on bringing more TLDs as part of its plan to “increase competition and choice” and its recent application window that closed May 31 saw more than 1,900 applications to the TLD Application System. ICANN is hoping to release the list next week.
[Source: SFGate, ICANN]
Ed Carrasco has been in the journalism field for nearly a decade. Some of his photographs/articles have been featured in publications such as the Guardian, LA Weekly, OC Weekly, the Fullertonian, Cerritos-Artesia Patch and Orange Coast Magazine. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English from UCLA and a master’s degree in Journalism from Kingston University in the United Kingdom.
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Get culture right, the rest will follow, says Homecoming keynote speaker
September 19, 2016 —
Education Homecoming’s keynote speaker says that teaching is about more than imparting facts and knowledge, it’s about inspiring positive change.
To Wayne Davies, creating positive change boils down to one thing: “The culture of your school is the foundation. It is the bedrock. If you don’t get the culture right, you don’t get everybody pulling in the right direction, you’re not going to get very far with everything else.”
Davies, best known as the founder of the Guitar Works B.O.S.S. program, saw students at Ecole Selkirk Junior High build guitars, get them signed by celebrities and auction them off, raising $175,000 to 65 charities from 2010 to 2013.
The initiative also saw the former principal named by Toronto’s Learning Partnership as one of Canada’s top 40 Principals in 2014,receive the University of Manitoba Distinguished Alumni Award for Community Service in 2015, and a Selkirk Rotary International vocational service award in 2012.
Ironically Davies, who now serves as vice-principal at Steinbach Regional Secondary School, says the BOSS program arose out of a low point in his career.
In 2010, Ecole Selkirk Junior High was making national headlines for two critical incidents.
“The kids came to me because they were upset about how the school was being portrayed in the media. … My response was, ‘What are we going to do about it?’ ” Davies said, insisting the students had to be part of the solution.
“Being a kid who had walked in their shoes—I had grown up in that school—I knew how they felt.”
Industrial arts teacher Kris Hancock and Grade 8 social studies teacher Scott Sampson offered to teach students how to build guitars. At first, 17 students showed up but every year, the program grew.
“Staff jumped onboard, students got part-time jobs out of it. They developed skills in the shop, developed connections to the school. And then we asked: How do we involve all of the kids in the school?”
Eventually, 300 students created posters and centrepieces for the auctions, helped to set up the facilities, almost every teacher and staff member was volunteering, changing the culture of the school.
“Our attendance was up, our suspensions were down… we had way fewer disruptions. We had more kids connected. We found kids who were artistic who didn’t know they were. We found kids who were musical who didn’t know they were. We found kids who connected with the school, who otherwise would have drifted for three years,” Davies said, citing Selkirk City Coun. Kelly Cook, who said at the time: If you were from Selkirk, you have to rethink Selkirk Junior High. And, if you were from Winnipeg, you had to rethink Selkirk.
Davies calls culture-changing initiatives like this “front-loading the future,” where students attitudes are changed toward school with the intention that they’ll pass that onto their children.
“What I am hoping is that 10, 20 years from now, you’re going to have a bunch of kids who roll into Selkirk Junior High who say, “My mom and dad thought that this place rocked, and I do, too.”
Although most well known for his achievements at Ecole Selkirk Junior High, Davies also boosted parental involvement and volunteerism at Selkirk’s Robert Smith School, raising the number of volunteers to 125 from four.
“We really began to celebrate the culture of the school, and make it one that people really wanted to get involved with. We had more people than we knew what to do with,” Davies said, adding that the parent councils became functioning, well-attended, meaningful instruments of discussion about what mattered to the students’ education.
“All of these different things were happening because we got the culture right. We built the foundation for good things to happen and then kids started to believe, ‘Hey, I am at a great school.’ ”
Charlie McDougall
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Home News Politics NDC to build ultramodern market complex in Bawku – Mahama
NDC to build ultramodern market complex in Bawku – Mahama
Mr John Dramani Mahama, Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has promised the chiefs and people of Bawku that the NDC administration will build an ultramodern market for the area.
This, he said would enable traders in Bawku to have a better place to ply their trade.
Mr Mahama made a promise at a mini rally in Bawku, as part of his four-day campaign tour of the Upper East Region.
Former President Mahama urged the people of Bawku to vote massively for him and Mr Mahama Ayariga, the NDC Parliamentary Candidate for Bawku Central in the December 7 polls for him to come back to restore the good policies of the NDC.
He recalled that in 2016 he made a promise to the people of Bawku that when the NDC wins the election, they would build an ultramodern district hospital for them, unfortunately, they didn’t win the election.
“But I know that come December 7, NDC is going to win the election, and I am making that promise again that, we are going to build a brand new district hospital here in Bawku.
“And when we say it, we mean it, because we have done it before. We have built hospitals before.”
He said the NDC was coming back to power to continue its national development agenda for Ghanaians, adding that it was only when the NDC was in Government that Ghanaians witnessed monumental development across the country.
The NDC Presidential Candidate, therefore, appealed to Ghanaians to vote massively for the NDC in the December 7 polls for it to come back and continue its national development projects that they started.
“There are many communities that we were connecting to the national electrification grid, we didn’t finish before we left office. As soon as we left office all that came to a standstill,” he said.
“I promise you that NDC is coming back to power and for all the communities that doesn’t have electricity, we will come and extend electricity to you.
“When we were in office, we started building the Tamne Irrigation Dam, we didn’t finish before we left office. After we left that project has come to a standstill, and that project was supposed to irrigate 3,000 hectares of land for dry season irrigation farming,” he said.
Mr Mahama said when the NDC regains power, “we will construct larger irrigation dams in farming districts”.
Prior to addressing the rally, the NDC Presidential Candidate also paid a courtesy call on Zugraana Naba Asigri Abugrago Azoka II, Bawku Naba at his Palace in Bawku to seek his blessings ahead of the December 7 polls.
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Isaac Davis wears his crown in a game of badminton on Thursday, November 12. Davis was crowned homecoming king earlier in the week during the annual coronation. Taking Thursday’s purple and white dress-up day as an opportunity to show off his crown, Davis wore it to his classes. “I just had to let everybody know who’s really in charge at this school,” said Davis. (Joey)
Isaac Davis wears his crown in a game of badminton on Thursday, November 12. Davis was crowned homecoming king earlier in the week during the annual coronation. Taking Thursday’s purple and white dress-up day as an opportunity to show off his crown, Davis wore it to his classes. “I just had to let everybody know who’s really in charge at this school,” said Davis.
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Centre for Doctoral Training in risk and mitigation; using big data
Number of notional studentships awarded: ten per year for three intakes.
Academic partners: the universities of Cranfield (academic lead partner), Birmingham, Cambridge and Newcastle.
Other partners: EU Joint Research Centre, Esri (UK), British Geological Survey, Bluesky Ltd., Cefas, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Atkins, Anglian Water Ltd., Infrastructure UK, Willis, ARUP, JBA, Northumbria Water Ltd., Newcastle City Council, Defra, East Suffolk Council, Severn Trent Water plc., Ordnance Survey, Environment Agency, Herbert Smith Freehills commercial lawyers, Lloyds Register Foundation, Marine Scotland, Milton Keynes Council, British Antarctic Survey, Willis, Willis Research Network, Marine Management Organisation, Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, Public Health England, Birmingham City Council, Scottish National Heritage, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, James Hutton Institute.
The Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in risk and mitigation; using big data was awarded to the Data, Risk & Environmental Analytical Methods (DREAM) consortium.
The aim of the consortium is to produce a cohort of researchers who can use large or complex datasets to understand and ease the risks posed by a range of societal and environmental changes, such as a rapidly expanding population, limited natural resources, and natural hazards.
NERC and the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) have invested about £2·5 million to support this CDT and academic and industry partners have committed to support additional training activities. Two of the studentships in the 2016 cohort will be interdisciplinary and co-funded by ESRC and NERC. The CDT will provide training between 2015 and 2021.
The CDT will support 30 postgraduate students over three student intakes between 2015 and 2017.
Research areas and training
The PhDs supported by this CDT will address research questions in the following areas:
Approaches and tools for the identification of sources of risks, their drivers and impacts within complex systems.
Robust methods to quantify and analyse risks and their drivers including sound mathematical and statistical approaches.
Tools for developing, managing and analysing 'big data', to understand risk better, and to apply modern cloud computing approaches.
Utilisation of multiple models and integrated modelling (for multi-hazard modelling and to combine environmental hazard models with information about vulnerabilities/exposure of a population).
New tools and approaches to multi-hazard assessment and interconnected risks (cascade effects).
Security and legal issues for handling data and information as it relates to risk management.
Measurement, characterisation and handling of uncertainty, including within model chains.
New approaches to visualise and communicate risk, including the public, to enable decision-making.
Risk perception, communication, decision making and management.
In addition to undertaking scientifically challenging research, students will gain advanced technical skills, be regularly brought together as a cohort to share ideas and skills, and have the opportunity to take part in partner-based secondments.
For further information regarding the CDT in risk and mitigation; using big data, please contact the NERC Talent & Skills Team at researchcareers@nerc.ukri.org.
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Posted by netgeekzcayman September 15, 2017 Digital Marketing, News, Social Media
Twitter also has a problem with ads targeted towards hate speech
‘The Daily Beast’ was able to buy and post ads targeting keywords like ‘wetback.’
ProPublica found that Facebook allows ads to be targeted at users based on antisemitic keywords and BuzzFeed has reported that Google similarly allows ads to be targeted through racist and hateful phrases. So, it probably shouldn’t be a surprise at this point that it turns out Twitter is laden with similar issues.
The Daily Beast reports today that its staff was successful in launching ad campaigns on Twitter using terms like “wetback” and “Nazi” to target particular audiences. When purchasing ads, Twitter’s platform asks advertisers to select keywords that aid in helping the site place ads in front of relevant users. When Daily Beast reporters typed “wetback” into this feature, Twitter informed them that 26.3 million users might respond to that term. Similarly, it said 18.6 million accounts would probably be interested in the term “Nazi.” After confirming that their ad campaigns were successful, The Daily Beast terminated each of them.
Twitter’s ad policy notes that it prohibits the promotion of hate content and says that advertisers are responsible for their own ads. And while in its policies for keyword targeting, Twitter states that racial or ethnic origin categories can’t be included, hate speech isn’t specifically mentioned.
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SpaceX nails historic first space rocket landing
By David Szondy
SpaceX nails historic first sp...
The Falcon 9 made history's first controlled landing of an orbital space rocket
The Falcon 9 carried 11 communications satellites
Falcon 9 on the launch pad
Falcon 9 lifting off
The Falcon 9 booster touching down
A new era of spaceflight began today with SpaceX successfully making the first landing of an orbital space booster rocket. At 8:39 pm EST at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida a Falcon 9 first stage rocket booster made a controlled, powered touchdown on land after delivering 11 communications satellites into low Earth orbit for the Orbcomm-2 mission.
The landing occurred 10 minutes after the 8:29 pm EST launch of the Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 40. The evening launch took place under partly cloudy skies with winds at about 10 mph (16 km/h). One minute after lift off, the rocket reached Max Q or the point of maximum stress and the first stage shut down at the two minute 20 second mark with second stage separation and firing occurring four seconds later. The protective payload fairing jettisoned at three minutes, the second stage engine shut down 10 minutes into the flight, and at 15 minutes the first of the satellites began deployment with the final satellite released at 8:49 pm.
Meanwhile, the Falcon 9 first stage, instead of crashing into the Atlantic Ocean, re-oriented itself and executed a "boostback" burn to kill its suborbital hypersonic velocity, followed by a re-entry burn four minutes later to further slow it down. As it re-entered the atmosphere, A set of vanes deployed on the top of the booster and acted as rudders to guide the rocket down.
About 10 minutes after liftoff, the engines fired for a final time to bring the Falcon 9 in for a soft landing at 8:39 pm at Landing Zone 1, which is the previous Space Launch Complex 13 last used in 1978. According to SpaceX, the entire landing maneuver was carried out by the booster's autonomous guidance computer. As the rocket touched down, mission control broke out in cheers and chants of "USA."
According to SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk, the launch was postponed 24 hrs to provide a 10 percent greater chance of success. As a further precaution, local communities were warned of a sonic boom as the rocket returned. This increase in the safety margin was a considerable factor because today's launch also marked the first flight of a Falcon 9 since the CRS-7 was destroyed when a strut broke in the second stage, causing an oxygen bottle to overpressurize and the rocket to explode.
The 11 Orbcomm satellites delivered now complete a 17-satellite, low Earth orbit constellation for Orbcomm and is designed to provide machine-to-machine communications to and from remote locations.
You can check out the historic touchdown in the video below.
Source: SpaceX
30-sec TECH: SpaceX makes history
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David Szondy is a freelance journalist, playwright, and general scribbler based in Seattle, Washington. A retired field archaeologist and university lecturer, he has a background in the history of science, technology, and medicine with a particular emphasis on aerospace, military, and cybernetic subjects. In addition, he is the author of a number of websites, four award-winning plays, a novel that has thankfully vanished from history, reviews, scholarly works ranging from industrial archaeology to law, and has worked as a feature writer for several international magazines. He has been a New Atlas contributor since 2011.
mhpr262 December 22, 2015 03:27 AM
Elon does it again. A genuine, real-life Iron Man!
Daishi December 22, 2015 04:22 AM
Well done and an amazing achievement. Between SolarCity, Tesla, and SpaceX I am constantly impressed by what Musk's companies are doing.
I hope the US keeps tax incentives around for solar panels and EV's. There is so much progress being made it seems crazy to pull the plug on supporting those efforts now.
Teaser-Trailer.com December 22, 2015 05:01 AM
Impressive! The guys at SpaceX are real heroes! Let's hope they will get us to Mars and beyond!
MattII December 22, 2015 07:21 AM
Well, this is good news all around, not only has it been proven, but the rocket can be taken apart for study, and possible revamp.
Bob Stuart December 22, 2015 11:10 AM
All I really notice is fuel being wasted. A rocket at low speed looks sillier than Monty Python. We don't need ICBM launch times for space work, we need wings in use as far up as they are useful.
bobcat4424 December 22, 2015 01:52 PM
The world got to witness a sea change in outer space launches. With reusability, suddenly the expense of a launch gets so low that a whole new world of options becomes available for manned spaceflight. e.g., the problem with shielding astronauts on long space flights was a problem because the protection was highly correlated with weight. Now heavy shielding is seriously less expensive to loft. Another example is that the extremely expensive sea recoveries will soon be history as well.
A solid vision and an innovative spirit can work wonders. Go SpaceX!
BTW, Jeff Bezos: You are not a member of "the club." The X-15 is and the Space Shuttle is, but Blue Origin is not. The Falcon is doing real work for real money and making a profit. BO is creating an extremely dangerous toy for rich kids --- and you and Virgin Galactic are in that "club" ---- one with a very low bar. In fact the bar is almost exactly 1/900th the height of the Falcon 9.
Psyclo December 22, 2015 02:10 PM
Bob, the fuel is an insignificant expense. That 15 story 1st stage rocket and the 9 engines on it is extremely expensive, so being able to save and reuse it will save SpaceX a lot of money and enable them to reduce the cost to orbit for all of their clients, including NASA. You seem to be suggesting that we use airplane technology to get cargo high up before using something else to get to orbit. That would use a lot more fuel than a rocket, be more expensive to build and be very time consuming to launch. This think took less than 10 minutes to deliver a payload to orbit and come back down for a landing. That is amazing!
steveraxx December 22, 2015 02:56 PM
Are you kidding me is all I could think. Wow! Seeing this, and seeing it executed so well is simply stunning. Cannot even imagine the maths that goes into something like this.
Awesome accomplishment guys, simply awesome!
Douglas Bennett Rogers December 22, 2015 05:15 PM
This is the real beginning of commercial space!
Lbrewer42 December 22, 2015 05:37 PM
Yankee ingenuity at its finest. The current government leader gets rid of the Shuttles to make us dependent on other nations for our space activities and kill our lead in space exploration. So the private sector takes over and hits a home run. Get rid of the red tape, bureaucrats, and self-minded politicians and look what is accomplished. Let's take a lesson from this shall we?
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The discussion of the COVID-19 vaccine rises just as the holidays are around the corner. An online survey found that 75 per cent of those who support a total ban on holiday gatherings expressed their willingness to get the vaccine once it’s available. Photo by: Thirdman from Pexels.
Most Recent Immigrants Intend to get the COVID-19 Vaccine
As the Canadian government rolls out its COVID-19 vaccination plans, what do Canadians think of taking the vaccine as it becomes available?
Minu Mathew December 10, 2020 No Comments
A recent ACS-Leger survey about vaccine hesitancy found out that a majority of recent immigrants (75 per cent) intend to get vaccinated while only 63 per cent of those Canadian-born say they are likely to take the shots.
The WHO lists vaccine hesitancy as one of the top 10 health threats. Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer says it’s extremely critical to capture the hesitant group. “It’s really important to get as many people vaccinated as possible to protect themselves but also others who are at high risk.”
The looming hurdle in the race to end the COVID-19 pandemic: vaccine hesitancy. pic.twitter.com/zaRmNciJmo
— CBC News: The National (@CBCTheNational) November 28, 2020
As per public health statistics, up to 35 per cent of Canadians are unsure about getting a COVID 19 vaccine when it’s available.
For three-fourths of the respondents, fear of getting the virus is a driver for getting vaccinated. One-in-11 surveyed believe that vaccines are dangerous and should not be taken or given.
The online survey conducted between Nov. 22 – Nov. 29 included 1,516 adult Canadians.
Who Intends to Get Vaccinated?
Mara Rada from Ottawa who is a business owner and start-up advisor, says she intends to take the vaccine. Rada says as the mRNA vaccine is a new method of immunization, she understands why many are worried.
Even as the government and public health officials continue to communicate the importance of taking the vaccine once it becomes available, Rada says she fears that this unscientific anti-vaccine current might prevent us from achieving herd immunity.
A CBC report quoting Dr. Scott Halperin of the Canadian Immunization Research Network says that with no other health measures in place, around 70 per cent of Canadians would likely need to be vaccinated to stop the virus from spreading.
Stressing the need for sustained public communications, Rada says, “The scientific data showed high efficacy and no noticeable safety concerns, and I hope that sustained public communications campaigns will succeed in translating sometimes complicated scientific language into more understandable terms.”
82 per cent of respondents with advanced degrees intend to get vaccinated while only 59 per cent of those with a high school education or less intend to get vaccinated.
Abhilash Kuriakose intends to take the vaccine however has some concern about possible side effects.
Abhilash Kuriakose, a cybersecurity, and digital forensics professional said he will take the vaccine approved by the government. However, Kuriakose said he is a little bit worried about side effects as he is not sure about the adequacy of clinical trials.
The top reason why Canadians will not get the COVID-19 vaccine is that they feel the vaccine hasn’t been tested or tested long enough. A significant percentage also worries about the vaccine side effects.
While the majority of B.C. residents (72 per cent) intend to get vaccinated, only 61 per cent of Ontario residents said yes. 89 per cent of those in the 75 and above age group said they would get vaccinated while the lowest intent (52 per cent) is among the 25-54 age group.
Who is Changing Plans this Holiday Season?
A majority (72 per cent) of those who have changed their plans for the holiday season due to the COVID-19 situation intend to get vaccinated.
Rada, who used to visit friends and family in Europe every year for Christmas says she wouldn’t this year. “I’d rather make a sacrifice now to make sure we all stay safe and don’t contribute to spreading COVID-19 to dear ones and risk losing them to this horrifying disease.”
Mara Rada’s holiday plans have changed this year due to COVID-19.
Rada said her spouse’s brother-in-law, a physician in the U.K., spent 5 weeks on a ventilator after contracting the virus. “Luckily he recovered and is now safe, but our family knows well what this disease can do.”
Kuriakose said he was to travel to India in August 2020 for his wedding but missed it due to the pandemic. He said he will miss traveling home for Christmas and is hoping to do so once the pandemic is under control.
Getting into the spirit
75 per cent who support a total ban on holiday gatherings expressed their willingness to get the vaccine once it’s available. The intent to get vaccinated is significantly lower among respondents who haven’t changed their holiday plans (47 per cent).
Who wouldn’t like to get into the spirit of Christmas a bit early on? The intent to get vaccinated is significantly higher (71 per cent) among respondents who are getting into the holiday spirit early by adding lights and decorations outside their home or putting their Christmas tree up earlier than usual.
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Judas Priest’s Glenn Tipton Is Working on Riffs for New Album
Joe DiVita
It's been half a century since Judas Priest formed, first under the name Freight. They'd change the name a year later and after countless world tours and 18 full length albums, there's still more to come as guitarist Glenn Tipton has already started working on riffs for the next record.
In recent weeks, Rob Halford confirmed that the follow-up to 2018's Firepower was "definitely" coming. Things have become a bit more concrete as the singer told Do You Know Jack? that fans can "absolutely" expect a new album in the not-too-distant future. "In fact, Glenn's back in the U.K. now making riffs and going through… We have massive archives of riffs. It never stops," stated the Metal God.
"That's the joy of Priest in terms of creativity — we never seem to slow down," he went on, adding, "And when you get a successful record like Firepower, that motivates you even further. Any band will tell you that. You feed off the energy of what your fans are giving you. You wanna see your fans again and you wanna bring your fans something different next time. So that means making another metal song, which, amplify that by 10 ideas, and you've got another album. So that's the plan. There will be another album from Priest in the very near future."
It's also a good sign for fans who were wondering what Tipton's role would be regarding a new album as he stepped away from his live role in the band due to complications from Parkinson's Disease. Firepower co-producer Andy Sneap was brought in on live duties and bassist Ian Hill recently weighed in on how long this role could last.
In June of last year, the Glenn Tipton's Parkinson's Foundation was launched, with the "No Surrender" T-shirt proceeds going to the cause.
Catch Judas Priest on their North American tour with Uriah Heep at the following dates:
May 03 - Hollywood, Fla. @ Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
May 06 - Nashville, Tenn. @ Nashville Municipal Auditorium
May 08 - Atlanta, Ga. @ Fox Theatre
May 09 - Biloxi, Miss. @ Beau Rivage Resort & Casino
May 12 - Washington, D.C. @ The Anthem
May 14 - Huntington, N.Y. @ The Paramount
May 16 - Uncasville, Ct. @ Mohegan Sun Arena
May 18 - Albany, N.Y. @ Palace Theatre
May 22 - Milwaukee, Wis. @ Riverside Theater
May 25 - Rosemont, Ill. @ Rosemont Theatre
May 28 - Austin, Texas @ ACL Live at The Moody Theater
May 31 - Dallas, Texas @ The Bomb Factory
Jun. 01 - Little Rock, Ark. @ First Security Amphitheater
Jun. 03 - St. Louis, Mo. @ Stifel Theatre
Jun. 05 - Colorado Springs, Colo. @ Broadmoor World Arena
Jun. 08 - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan @ SaskTel Centre
Jun. 10 - Lethbridge, Alberta @ ENMAX Centre
Jun. 11 - Edmonton, Alberta @ Rogers Place
Jun. 13 - Dawson Creek, British Columbia @ Encana Events Centre
Jun. 14 - Prince George, British Columbia @ CN Centre
Jun. 16 - Kelowna, British Columbia @ Prospera Place
Jun. 17 - Abbotsford, British Columbia @ Abbotsford Centre
Jun. 19 - Airway Heights, Wash. @ Northern Quest Resort and Casino
Jun. 21 - Kent, Wash. @ Accesso Showare Center
Jun. 22 - Portland, Ore. @ Moda Theatre of the Clouds
Jun. 24 - San Francisco, Calif. @ Warfield Theatre
Jun. 27 - Los Angeles, Calif. @ Microsoft Theater
Jun. 28 - Ontario, Calif. @ Citizens Business Bank Arena
Jun. 29 - Las Vegas, Nev. @ The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel
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We kiwi’s* are a pretty ingenious bunch, really. Bailing twine is probably our favourite tool, being used for almost everything, from hanging fences to holding up trousers. This same ingenuity was what encouraged our Creator Director Ilana Cheiban to pick up the rope and knot her way through her first halter in 2008, when quality gear was scarce and the need to support her family insistent.
The first time she sold anything was at a local horse and tack auction that had been organised by a few colourful characters. ‘I sold 17 halters for 23 dollars each’, Ilana said, ‘I remember realising that there was a market for the gear that I was making for my family; that there was something I could provide and a way to keep us afloat.
Like any good business, we were born out of a backyard shed, supported enough to eventually risk quitting the day job. What started with halters soon branched out into rope and leather reins, headstalls and breastplates. Ilana began to be drawn towards the aesthetic of the Californian style; the art of the discipline and the unity created between horse and rider that “looked one and the same”. Californian style gear such as the loping hackamore was added to her repertoire, but the specialisation of the gear meant that would not lend itself to construction so easily.
With a background in fine arts, a talent for using her hands, and a keen willingness to learn, Ilana managed to get a foot in the door of the mecate-making craft, after the purchase of a hand twister off eBay in 2014. It took a solid year of trial and error to develop the ‘recipes’, as we like to call them, for each mecate. It took three people to make a mecate. Every weekend we would spend walking the length of the verandah of our house, twisting up mecates which often indulged in being difficult and obstinate. We spent many frustrated hours on that verandah! What we produce now are six strand mecates and have a core of twisted wool. They are one of a kind, bespoke mecates that are durable yet soft in your hand and have a wonderful life to them.
A few years into this journey, Ilana discovered a great great grandfather, ‘Grandpa Lee’s’ , who was a rawhide braider and whip maker in Santa Barbara in the 1920’s. This discovery inspired her to learn the craft of rawhide braiding, so she set about procuring hides from local famers and learning how to prepare them in the Hawkes Bay sun. “I couldn’t help laughing”, said Ilana, “when my daughter asked why I couldn’t just have a normal job like a normal mother when we were stretching out hides one day”. Soon afterward we were plunged into lockdown, but the isolation facilitated the time to begin building bosals, the first of which took around three weeks to make. Ilana would sit at home in our lounge/workshop braiding until late.
We are constantly finding new things to put our minds to. Lately we have been focused on learning the art of braiding Argentinian Halters and Whip Making.
We are very proud of all we have managed to accomplish with the aid of nothing but a few books, youtube, and our wit. Over the years we have been honoured to be able to sponsor prizes for various equestrian events, from the Teton Valley Ranch Roping and Early Californio Skills of the Rancho to New Zealand Polocrosse international carnivals and New Zealand Extreme Cowboy Challange. We would like to thank everyone who has supported us over the years and made it possible for us to spend everyday doing something we love.
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Aleksej Pokusevski 'very excited' to land with OKC Thunder
by Joe Mussatto
Published: Fri, December 4, 2020 6:30 AM
Aleksej Pokusevski had been connected to the Thunder prior to the NBA draft, but Pokusevski wasn’t predicting where he would land.
“Before the draft we didn’t have any contacts,” Pokusevski said. “I didn’t talk to anyone. I was shocked that I was chosen at No. 17 and drafted to OKC. I was shocked. I didn’t know that it was going to happen, and I was very happy about it.”
Pokusevski arrived at Thunder training camp this week, and he met with local media Thursday for the first time. The 18-year-old Serbian native, who played professionally in Greece since he was 13, is still settling into his new city.
“Guys from the club are perfect,” Pokusevski said. “Great guys. They are warm. It's like a family.”
General manager Sam Presti traded up on draft night to select the 7-foot center who plays more like a guard. The Thunder, in a three-team deal with the Timberwolves and Knicks, sent Ricky Rubio and the No. 28 pick to Minnesota, and the No. 25 pick to New York.
Oklahoma City received James Johnson, a 2024 second-round pick, and most importantly, the 17th pick in the draft.
That’s where Pokusevski was picked.
Pokusevski, who won’t turn 19 until Dec. 26, said he was equally shocked at the slot where he was selected, and the team that selected him.
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“I had expectations of first round, but I didn’t know it was going to be first 20,” Pokusevski said. “And then OKC showed up there. We were very excited.”
Pokusevski and the Thunder should be a natural fit given their similar timelines.
Listed at 7-foot and 190 pounds, Pokusevski will need time to develop. The Thunder, heading into Year 1 of what figures to be a lengthy rebuild, has no incentive to rush its first-round pick.
“They are a team that has a process all the time,” Pokusevski said. “They have a great history with young players.”
Pokusevski seemed prepared when asked about his physical readiness to play in the NBA.
“Everyone says that I'm weak or stuff like that,” Pokusevski said. “I'm just trying to work on everything, being physical on the court, and being tough are some of the main things. Just getting stronger, being every day in the weight room and just work there.”
That could be the key to unlocking the tools Pokusevski possesses. He has a 7-foot-3 wingspan and a 9-foot-1 standing reach, yet NBA draft experts gushed about his ball handling, passing and perimeter shooting.
But Pokusevski is far from a proven prospect. He primarily played for Olympiacos B in Greece’s second division. He averaged 10.8 points and 7.9 rebounds last season, shooting 40% from the floor and 32% from 3-point range.
“He has a rare combination of attributes,” Presti said. “Does that mean he's going to equate into being a very good NBA player or an effective NBA player? We don't know the answer to that.”
Presti said it will depend on how much Pokusevski is willing to work, and if he buys into the team’s plan.
“I have no reason to think he won't,” Presti said. “But working with Mark (Daigneault) and his coaching staff, you just can't skip steps in development. There's no way around it.
“You're going to need some opportunity … because opportunity is where you learn where your deficiencies are, limitations are, and where you experience failure. Failure is the engine to improvement.”
It’s too early to say what Pokusevski’s role will be as a rookie.
Training camp started Tuesday, but so far players have been limited to individual workouts. Team practices won’t begin until Sunday at the earliest.
The whole offseason has been condensed, giving rookies less time to adjust.
“We’re just not gonna rush to any conclusions with a player like him, that’s as young as he is and that’s game can go in a lot of different directions,” said Daigneault, the first-year Thunder coach. “He’ll be in camp, he’ll go through the drills and compete and learn, and we’ll figure out where his starting point is.
“And even when we know that, it’s not predictive of how his career will unfold.”
Aleksej Pokusevski (20) is oozing with potential, but the Thunder will have to be patient with its first-round pick. [AP FILE PHOTO]
Joe Mussatto
Joe Mussatto joined The Oklahoman in August 2018 to cover OU football, men’s basketball and softball. He previously covered University of Kentucky football and basketball for SEC Country. Mussatto is from Oklahoma City and lives in Norman. Read more ›
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Tag: Speed Velocity and Acceleration Formulas
Difference Between Speed and Velocity
Motion in One Dimension
Motion in One Dimension-
Before you go through this article, make sure that you have gone through the previous article on Motion in One Dimension.
We have discussed-
In one-dimensional motion, particle moves along a straight line.
It is also known as rectilinear motion.
Various parameters related to motion are-
In this article, we will discuss about speed and velocity.
Speed-
Rate of change of distance of a particle is called as its speed.
Distance covered by a particle per unit time is called as its speed.
Mathematically,
A particle moves in a circular path of radius 7 m.
It starts its journey from point A and ends at the same point in time 11 seconds.
Then, Speed of the particle
= Distance covered by the particle during its motion / Time taken
= Circumference of the circle / Time taken
= (2 x 22/7 x 7) / 11
= 4 m/s
Characteristics-
The characteristics of speed are-
It is a scalar quantity.
Speed is always positive. It can never be negative.
Speed can increase or decrease with time.
Speed is never zero for a moving particle.
The SI unit of speed is meter per second (m/s).
The dimensional formula of speed is [M0L1T-1].
Also Read- Distance Vs Displacement
Types of Speeds-
There are mainly following four types of speeds-
Uniform Speed
Instantaneous Speed
1. Uniform Speed-
A particle is said to be moving with uniform speed if it covers equal distances in equal intervals of time.
A particle is said to be moving with uniform speed if it moves continuously with constant speed.
It is worth remembering-
The direction of motion of the particle may change while moving with constant speed.
2. Variable Speed-
A particle is said to be moving with variable speed
if it covers equal distances in unequal intervals of time or unequal distances in equal intervals of time.
3. Average Speed-
The average speed of a particle is that constant speed with which the particle covers the same distance
in a given time as it does while moving with variable speed during the given time.
It is the ratio of total distance travelled by the particle to the total time taken in which the distance is travelled.
If Δx is the distance travelled by particle in time Δt, then average speed is given by-
4. Instantaneous Speed-
Instantaneous speed is the speed of particle at a particular instant of time.
Instantaneous speed is the limiting value of average speed as the time interval becomes infinitesimally small.
If Δx is the distance covered by a particle in the time interval Δt, then-
Velocity-
Rate of change of displacement of a particle is called as its velocity.
Rate of change of position vector of a particle is called as its velocity.
Its direction is same as that of displacement.
Velocity of the particle
= Displacement of the particle / Time taken
= 0 / 11
The characteristics of velocity are-
It is a vector quantity.
Velocity can be positive, negative or zero.
Velocity can increase or decrease with time.
Velocity may be zero for a moving particle.
The SI unit of velocity is meter per second (m/s).
The dimensional formula of velocity is [M0L1T-1].
Types of Velocities-
There are mainly following four types of velocities-
Uniform Velocity
Variable Velocity
Average Velocity
Instantaneous Velocity
1. Uniform Velocity-
A particle is said to be moving with uniform velocity if it covers equal displacements in equal intervals of time.
A particle is said to be moving with uniform velocity if it moves continuously in the same direction with constant speed.
2. Variable Velocity-
A particle is said to be moving with variable velocity
if it covers equal displacements in unequal intervals of time or unequal displacements in equal intervals of time.
A particle is said to be moving with variable velocity if either magnitude of velocity or direction or both changes during its motion.
3. Average Velocity-
The average velocity of a particle is that constant velocity with which the particle undergoes same
displacement in a given time as it undergoes while moving with variable velocity during the given time.
It is the ratio of total displacement of the particle to the total time interval in which the displacement occurs.
At any time t1, the position vector of the particle is .
At time t2, the position vector is .
Then for this interval, average velocity is given by-
4. Instantaneous Velocity-
Instantaneous speed is the velocity of particle at a particular instant of time.
Instantaneous velocity is the limiting value of average velocity as the time interval becomes infinitesimally small.
If Δr is the displacement of particle in the time interval Δt, then-
Difference Between Speed And Velocity-
Some important differences between speed and velocity are-
Speed Velocity
Rate of change of distance of a particle is called as its speed. Rate of change of displacement of a particle is called as its velocity.
It is a scalar quantity. It is a vector quantity.
Speed is either positive or zero. It can never be negative. Velocity can be positive, negative or zero.
Speed is never zero for a moving particle. Velocity can be zero for a moving particle.
Speed tells nothing about the direction of motion of the particle. Velocity tell the direction of motion of the body.
Important Points-
It is important to note the following points-
Point-01:
According to convention,
If the particle moves upwards or towards right, its velocity is taken positive.
If the particle moves downwards or towards left, its velocity is taken negative.
Velocity tell the direction of motion of the particle as-
If the velocity is positive, particle must be moving towards positive direction.
If the velocity is negative, particle must be moving towards negative direction.
If motion takes place in the same direction, then average speed and average velocity are same.
This is because distance and displacement are then same.
The magnitude of instantaneous velocity is always instantaneous speed.
Instantaneous speed and instantaneous velocity differs only by direction.
However, magnitude of average velocity is not always average speed.
Speedometer of an automobile measures instantaneous speed of the automobile.
To gain better understanding about Speed and Velocity,
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Is Sustainable Packaging the Key to a Circular Economy?
Collaborate Innovate Accelerate
Tim Sykes visited Dow's Pack Studios in Horgen, Switzerland, to find out why the world's number one producer of polyethylene is positioning itself as a hub for packaging innovation - and whether this represents a fresh model for industry collaboration.
"Our vision is to become a solution provider, not just a producer," says Javier Constante, (commercial VP, Packaging & Speciality Plastics, Europe, Middle East & Africa). "Therefore, we need to work closer to the end of the value chain, working from the end consumer backward." This is the crux of Dow's big move into packaging, symbolised by the company's first - and certainly eye-catching - appearance at interpack last year and more substantively by the rolling out of a series of global Pack Studios facilities over the last two years.
The backdrop to this strategic shift is a packaging market in which global megatrends is driving demand for innovation, yet where industry pressures put the brakes on risk taking. Macro trends such as population growth, urbanisation, ageing populations and growth in single occupant households, in addition to pressures such as sustainability, give rise to a heightened need for new packaging solutions: portion packs, easier opening, lighter materials, easier recycling.
On the other hand, in a fiercely competitive market governed by tight margins, converters can be wary to break cover. "As industry becomes more and more fragmented, there is less opportunity for smaller companies to risk committing to an innovation," remarks Apurva Shah (market development manager, Packaging & Speciality Plastics EMEA). "The rewards for introducing a successful innovation are plain but for a smaller business the consequences of failure mean they have to be cautious about any investment."
Pooling value chain intelligence
It is this predicament that the Pack Studios concept was set up to address. Dow describes Pack Studios as an international network of experts, equipment and testing facilities, 'intended to enhance the collaborative development of better packaging'. Under the umbrella of its 'Value Chain' group, Pack Studios brings together stakeholders such as brand owners and retailers, with whom Dow has not traditionally interacted, along with packaging converters, Dow's direct customers, to pool their respective insights. Similarly, Dow is able to enlist internal and external specialists - equipment manufacturers, packaging designers, experts in prototyping and resin - to work on particular innovation projects.
As well as the centre in Horgen, Switzerland, Dow has opened Pack Studios in Freeport, Texas, Shanghai, São Paulo and, as recently as April 2015, Mozzate, Italy. The facilities are complementary, each possessing its own focus and associated technologies. Freeport specialises in logistic packaging, with an emphasis on stretch hood, while in Switzerland the spotlight is on primary packaging. The focus of the Shanghai centre is on sachet packaging (a major market in China), São Paulo's is on thermoforming, and Mozzate's on the adhesives portfolio.
Faster commercialisation
Each centre comprises a Collaboration Room, laboratory facilities and equipment for fabrication and testing. Together this provides space for collaboration all the way from analysis of market needs to fine tuning product development. "The intention of Pack Studios is to change the mindset," comments Carlos Lopes (marketing director EMA, Food & Speciality Packaging Adhesives & Functional Materials). "It is all about moving downstream in terms of knowledge and breaking down silos. By doing so we can facilitate faster commercialisation of new packaging. Our motto is 'Collaborate - innovate - accelerate'."
A striking early example of this approach is PacXpert™, a pack format devised as a flexible alternative to the rigid containers used for relatively high volume liquid products, such as windscreen cleaner fluids. Being collapsible, the pack can be stored and shipped flat, meaning it delivers space and energy savings within the supply chain, as well as using significantly less raw material. The switch to flexibles has also given rise to an innovation in functionality - the incorporation of a second handle on the base of the pack which enables the consumer to dispense the contents with two hands, and therefore with greater ease and control.
It is an innovation that not only addressed the environmental megatrend of transitioning from rigid to flexible packaging. Thanks to the insights of the Value Chain group, Dow was able to identify that PacXpert™ was a product in which real value resided and for which there would be demand on the part of consumers. Designed by the US-based Smart Bottle Co, the invention was bought up by Dow with a view to commercialising for a variety of applications. Bringing together prospective licensees, Pack Studios' R&D facilities and the input of brand owners, Dow was able to advance the product development at an impressive rate and has already reached the point of commercialisation.
"I think we have found the recipe for accelerating innovation and introducing it to the market," says Fabrice Digonnet (new business development leader, Packaging & Speciality Plastics EMEA), who took a leading role on the project. "PacXpert is just one example of an innovation that reached the market in 18 months. If you talk to a machinery manufacturer, you'll hear that there are new ideas all the time coming from converters who want machinery solutions to produce a new type of package. But how many of these do you see each year taking the leap to the mass market? We are able to fulfil the function of supplier of innovation to the value chain. You could say Dow is becoming a consulting arm of the value chain."
Extensive facilities
A key ingredient in that innovation recipe is being able to devote substantial resources to product development projects that ensue from Dow's value chain deliberations.
"Coming in with a lot of resources and making them available to our customers is a game changer," asserts Apurva Shah. "Mistakes are very costly for our customers. As a resin manufacturer, we have access to the raw materials to conduct research. In addition, we've partnered with the right machinery manufacturers through sponsorships and donations to bring the costs of development down."
Indeed, it is hard to conceive of a business other than one of Dow's size and Dow's position in the supply chain being capable of bringing together stakeholders from across the value chain or making the necessary investments to facilitate innovation on such an ambitious scale. In addition to the Collaboration Room - a futuristic meeting environment - Pack Studios in Horgen devotes the kind of floor space that a medium-sized converter might possess to laboratories and manufacturing lines solely for testing and product development.
Dow works on a scale that enables it to acquire an array of testing devices - such as the leak testing and seal testing equipment shown during my tour of the premises - that most of its customers do not possess. As the tour went on the magnitude of Dow's investment in packaging was gradually brought home: a succession of packaging lines across two floors featuring machinery such as a Sealpac tray sealer, a Bosch vertical Form-Fill-Seal line, and a horizontal Form-Fill-Seal pouch machine from SN Maschinenbau - all set aside for perfecting the next innovation.
"Investing in packaging lines with state of the art machinery is all about gaining knowledge of what works," comments Marco Amici (EMEA marketing manager). "We are able here to replicate our customers' manufacturing processes and to test new combinations of materials under varying conditions. For instance, we can look for the sweet spot between easy peelability and tear resistance or barrier reliability when combining new polymers and adhesives."
Another area of R&D currently being undertaken at Pack Studios is the work aimed at pushing forward the capabilities of ultrasound technology. This particular project is a fine example of the way Dow is bringing together coalitions of stakeholders whose combined input make it possible to reach solutions faster: partners in the project comprise Hermann Ultraschall, Amcor, Bosch, the Technical University of Dresden and the Fraunhofer Institute.
"Pack Studio is an open platform for collaboration across the industry," says Marco Amici. "This approach pools knowledge to identify technical solutions quicker. At the other end of the scale, having a very close relationship with brand owners helps us understand market trends and needs. We learn a great deal from this process - also through our failures. It's great to always succeed but that means you don't take risks. The important thing when you fail is to fail quickly and learn the lessons."
There are already signs that Pack Studios is breaking down barriers. "It has been a step change in how we approach the market - not just our customers, but the brand owners and retailers," comments Fabrice Digonnet. "Stakeholders further down the value chain now want to work with us, whereas in the past they would not have seen the point in talking to a resin manufacturer. The innovations we are coming up with set the tone for a very collaborative environment. They see we are not here to sell resins, but solutions."
A further advantage is that Dow's involvement offers reassurance to brand owners who are interested in packaging innovations but reluctant to commit to a single supplier. The Pack Studios model raises the opportunity of making new technologies and formats available to multiple licensees, who can implement them together with Dow into the value chain.
Managing cooperation
Working with the entire value chain, along with internal stakeholders such as Dow's strategic marketing, new business development, sustainability and R&D specialists, implies a formidable organisational task. Is the process weighed down by its own breadth of ambition? According to Marco Amici, it is not. "Although Dow is a huge company, it is democratic in character. We have clear stakeholders involved in decision making and the number limited to 10-15 people to take key strategic decisions - you don't need to get permission from 25 layers of management. Individuals take the lead on respective projects, soliciting broad input from around the company but reporting to one person with a global purview. This means we can act quickly."
"Setting a business development strategy is a complex task," adds Apurva Shah. "We look across the whole value chain right from the end consumer level and the chain comprises so many levels, on each of where there may be different responses of a trend and how Dow can impact in terms of innovations and material sciences. Ultimately, there are probably hundreds of different ways one can interpret an end-consumer trend such as easy opening. It's an exciting challenge to be able to interact with so many different areas of the market and try to pull it all together."
The way Dow approaches this challenge is to put together a solid network. Apurva Shah continues:
"First, we put our tentacles out into the market, investing a lot in engaging with OEMs to understand performance requirements in detail and how to make our materials work on the wide variety of packaging lines out in the marketplace. We also put our tentacles into academia to conduct more experimental research and explore the possibilities in future coatings, materials and technologies."
One example of collaboration with academia is a partnership with a US university studying shelf impact using scans tracking retina movement. This has made it possible to identify and measure the negative impact of the glare reflecting off packages under the bright fluorescent lighting in grocery stores. This in turn has contributed to the refinement of Dow's OPULUX™ portfolio of matte finishes, which have been especially devised to produce a luxurious appearance in supermarket conditions.
Innovation projects are categorised as Horizon One (most near term), Two or Three (most long term). Dow's R&D teams work along the spectrum from blue-sky research, taking managed risks, to groups working with customers to effect minor improvements to existing products.
"The longer-term, strategic part of our organisation is growing as we become more market focused," says Apurva Shah. "We recognise that taking chances in innovation is important to the stewardship of the industry. In terms of Horizon Three, we are looking at things such as refining data collection and computer modelling to the extent that we could eventually skip the first 90 days of product development and go straight into trials. An example of a longer term, Horizon Two type project is to develop a coating that improves the thermal resistance and printability of PE. One of the reasons PET is often used in flexible packaging is its superior performance in these respects. Our objective, applying our knowledge from our coatings and adhesives business, is to develop a solution to bridge this gap."
Thanks to its vast portfolio, Dow operates in every major area of packaging, apart from print. Putting Pack Studios at the centre of collaborative innovation within the industry, Dow is placed to foster innovation that responds to most kinds of demand. This could entail developing solutions that respond to a global need such as making sustainable packaging solutions affordable to consumers; devising higher performance sealants to serve the faster lines required for smaller pack formats; or helping converters achieve more margin with products such as the AGILITY™ LDPE resins designed to get more output from the same volume of material.
It could be said that Dow is positioning itself as a one stop shop in packaging: creating a space where the needs of the value chain can more easily be met.
"When customers want to innovate, they have a long checklist to tick off - consulting with raw material producers and machinery manufacturers, thinking about IP, agonising over the business case - before they can take a decision to invest," Fabrice Digonnet concludes. "Dow is making a big move by investing in packaging technologies in order to facilitate a step change in the industry. If we can engage in innovation and encourage our customers to follow suit, the result will be to accelerate the introduction of new and better packaging products to the market."
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Inside Meghan McCain and Ben Domenech’s wedding
By Francesca Bacardi
November 23, 2017 | 3:01pm
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The McCain family went all out for Meghan McCain‘s nuptials to Ben Domenech Tuesday.
Meghan looked gorgeous in a white beaded and lace wedding gown teamed with a white fur stole, while Ben donned a navy blue suit for his big day with a boutonniere fastened out various florals inside of a shotgun shell.
The pre-Thanksgiving wedding, which took place at the McCain family ranch in Sedona, Arizona, featured a massive tent filled with antler-style chandeliers, hardwood floors and leaf-covered branches decorated with twinkle lights. “American Idol” winner-turned-politician Clay Aiken serenaded the couple as they danced in front of 100 of their closest family and friends.
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The bride and groom later cut into a 6-tier wedding cake — each tier a different color.
A band clad in cowboy hats performed throughout the evening, as guests, which included Meghan’s former Fox News colleague Katherine Timpf, conservative commentator and columnist S.E. Cupp, “Kennedy” host Lisa Kennedy Montgomery and “The Art of the Donald” author Christopher Bedford, watched and danced.
Prior to her wedding, Meghan shared a picture of her white Minnie Rose slippers that read “I Do!”
Earlier this month, Page Six exclusively revealed that McCain was engaged to Domenech, whose identity had been a secret.
She later said they got engaged at the Mayo Clinic, where her father, Sen. John McCain, was having a scan, “because we decided to sort of celebrate life and celebrate being alive and all these things.”
John McCain was diagnosed with brain cancer in July.
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Thomas Scheibitz was born in 1968 in Radeberg, Germany, and studied alongside Frank Nitsche and Eberhard Havekost at Hochschule für Bildende Künste (HBK) in Dresden. Developing his skills within ...
Thomas Scheibitz was born in 1968 in Radeberg, Germany, and studied alongside Frank Nitsche and Eberhard Havekost at Hochschule für Bildende Künste (HBK) in Dresden. Developing his skills within the influential Dresden painting tradition, he uses symbols of contemporary culture to create canvases that exist between abstraction and figuration.
In 2005, the artist collaborated with Tino Seghal to create the German pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale. Recent group shows include Construction New Berlin, Phoenix Art Museum, USA, 2006; Radar: Selections from the Logan Collection, Denver Art Museum, USA, 2006; The Artist's Dining Room Level 2 Gallery, Tate Modern, London, UK, 2007; Less is more - more could be Less, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, 2007 and Zuordnungsprobleme, Johann König, Berlin, 2008. Scheibitz has also shown widely with solo exhibitions: Brot & Spiele, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery New York, USA, 2004; Casa Amalia Index, Gallerie Sprüth Magers, Cologne, Germany, 2006; Low Sweetie # Omega Haus, Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Germany, 2006 and about 90 elements/ TOD IM DSCHUNGEL, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK and Musée d' Art Moderne Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 2008.
The artist lives and works in Berlin.
June 17, 2013 ONE-Time Pad at Baltic
26 July 2013 – 3 November 2013
In 2013 BALTIC will present an exhibition of recent work by Thomas Scheibitz, one of the leading German artists of his generation. Investigating the boundary between figuration and abstraction, Scheibitz draws upon motifs and themes from the everyday and popular culture in the form of film, literature, music and advertising as well as architecture. He also takes inspiration from art historical imagery such as Renaissance paintings or medieval engravings which he places in new perceptual contexts. This large-scale presentation will retrace the conceptual and painterly development of Scheibitz’s career with a particular focus on the human figure, and the determination of form between figuration and abstraction. The exhibition will comprise over two hundred works across BALTIC’s Level 3 and Level 4 galleries, including painting, sculpture, drawing and works on paper.
November 5, 2012 One-Time Pad in Frankfurt
September 29, 2012 – January 13, 2013
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
February 3, 2012 A Panoramic VIEW of Basic Events
Until 18th February 2012
Thomas Scheibitz & Mat Collishaw at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
For his seventh solo show with the gallery, Thomas Scheibitz continues to draw from classical painting and architecture, the contemporary urban landscape, and the influence of popular culture. Filtering these sources through his own lens, he creates evocative and powerful pieces that blur the line between abstraction and figuration.
February 2, 2011 Thomas Scheibitz at Collezione Maramotti
A new exhibition by Thomas Scheibitz will open this Sunday at the Maramotti Collection in Italy’s Reggio Emilia. The exhibition, titled Il Fiume E Le Sue Fonti (The River and its Source) will feature three large paintings and a sculpture by one of Germany’s most well-known contemporary artists.
February 15, 2010 Curious? Private Collectors' Exhibition
Curious? Art in the 21st Century from Private Collections, 29 January–2 May 2010
For the first time since its inauguration in 1992, the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany is honouring the commitment of private collectors with a major exhibition presenting a selection of 145 works by 57 artists from 15 private collections in Germany, France and Switzerland. Thomas Scheibitz features in this large group show held in Bonn.
January 9, 2010 100.Exhibition - Group show
Autocenter, Berlin, Germany
Studio Visit: Thomas Scheibitz
Thomas Scheibitz talks about his studio practice Studio Visit: Thomas Scheibitz from Frieze on Vimeo.
Transcript of an interview with Thomas Scheibitz
IV: Interviewer
TS: Thomas Scheibitz
IV: I am really interested in how a studio of the twenty-first century works, and what is the studio system? Is there a studio system?
TS: Yes. Well, the studio system in my case is that I actually divided it in a rather equal way – the painting and the sculpture. Also in terms of space, they lie in close proximity. But the point is that in the painting studio no one can actually assist me or support me. I tried it, but as I try to build up a picture and all the things associated with the picture, it is actually almost impossible to assist me in this. As to the sculptures, I would differentiate again what is a work-of-art sculpture and what is more of a sculpture or an object…There I do need someone to help me, or to manufacture the things.
IV: What is the role of drawings? Does drawing connect the two?
TS: Well, drawing is again a middle step…I absolutely need my sketchbook to begin with – a digital camera and then really an actual sketchbook, as we know it, where I register or put down ideas or suggestions, similar stuff that catches my eye, which turns into a drawing or drawings. The dimensions are always the same, it is always this A4 or this…this standard US letter format and everything is first…put into the same dimensions and then in turn placed next to one another, more or less based on content, to create a filter or evaluations of them, of the things – whether these things are more for a small sculpture or an outside sculpture or inside…
IV: And next to the drawings, a further sort of tie, if you wish, between sculpture and painting is collage, which is very much related…The drawings therefore go also into the book, into this art book [Film, Music and Novel, London: Other Criteria, 2006]…with pasted pages of a book or alphabets or holiday photos or excerpts from an encyclopaedia. One has the feeling that it is somehow a sort of great picture collection.
TS: Yes. Well, the archive is more or less…Well, at the beginning it was very organised into portfolios and folders and such. However only I can look up what was in 1969 and what is collected someplace in 2000. But in the meantime, it collected in big boxes or big graphics cabinets, drawing cabinets, and I…keep them and judge them worthwhile to collect or to discard them. Then I take a drawing or sketch or something and constantly work much closer with it – this photo or a newspaper always in front of me and I always use it or pin it to the wall somewhere and look at it constantly and perhaps it gives me inspiration or something…
IV: And what role does the text play in this archive?
TS: It naturally is related to the text. It comes a bit out of, again out of my studio system, that naturally the title of a work plays a decisive role…or I try to keep the role so that I, the work, the picture or the sculpture can control the text, well the title, and not vice versa, where the title controls the work. There is still another phonetic point of reference, whereby this phonetic aspect sometimes is closer or pleases me more than the actual meaning. To this extent, if we take now as an example from German the word ‘Himmel’, in English one can say ‘sky’ or ‘heaven’, the way ‘sky’ looks optically or ‘heaven’ looks optically with the things from everyday culture that we could add to it…then I can use it purposefully if the titles are in English. And in German I am very interested in particular letter combinations put together that actually remind you of something from collective memory or some advertisement – stuff that you know from somewhere but still in connection the picture presents another, completely other effect…
IV: There are always books or theories or ideas that are a toolbox for the artist. Hence, my question is what are toolboxes?
TS: Yes. Well, toolboxes to me are perhaps the things that are definitively my own, my appropriated space, that which I set myself, I would say, this genre, painting or sculpture…So, I rather let myself be inspired by books or films, naturally, or by music, like at the moment I want very specifically to go into the late Renaissance period…I have naturally also a classical aspect in my work, where I also really like, or shall we say researched, classical art. But in the end the things are, well, an elbow by Michelangelo or a label from my mineral water bottle here on the table. The comparison starts at the same level. So, in fact it plays the same role and then afterwards, later, I think of what I can possibly use for me…I do not draw a distinction between high culture or…low culture or however one should call it. And there is always…a changing list of the top three or five films or pieces of music…
IV: What is the top list now?
TS: There was once a list that…had to do with age – how, at a certain age the people did something – and that was at the age of twenty-six. Then Electric Ladyland by Jimmy Hendrix was for me…on the same spool as Citizen Kane by Orson Welles and the one from Hollywood, Steven Spielberg with Jaws. These are, well, three things that I consider really good or that one can watch, and I was astonished as to the age when it happened. So, there are such lists…From the world of music it is often, shall we say, more in the extreme music corner…I search for things without a verse and a refrain and all these genre-typical things that adhere to such a thing so that each track is three minutes and so. So, I try to find things that try to abstract from the typical stuff – the genre, the radio stuff. But not obsessively in fact…
IV: Could we perhaps speak more about the book and where these classifications [Film, Music and Novel] come from?
TS: There are a few A4 pages tightly filled with pictures with titles that I collected from all places possible, when I invent a special name or a special technical message or whatever. It is, of course, all collected and then contrived onto one page for practical and also optical purposes, or again phonetic cross-references. These are, of course, almost surreal means or methods that one perhaps knows from Surrealism, how things are combined there...that we build a context that is not immediately legible on the surface…These are three things that I thought about – film, music and novel – which I respect greatly, or from which much input comes, in a way. But these are, of course, the things that I do not create or probably could never create, you know.
IV: One can say that it almost is about understanding more of your own practice…
TS: As I already said, the greatest motivation comes actually from things…When I have the occasion to speak to a film director, about how he has to organise or arrange his stuff, or also move parts before some night shots that actually come after a scene at the beach in the film, or some such. It is extremely interesting how one can combine or organise all of this and one needs…a great ability to abstract as a creator of the whole…so that one knows where he needs to add and where he can proceed. This, again, is perhaps a cross-reference to a structure that one needs. Otherwise, I would probably somewhere lose myself…So, I categorically need such structures or such connections. And, of course, I have great respect for writers who work on large manuscripts for three or four years that remain in boxes in front of them, so that one sort of visually sees the work, what comes where and for directors it is, of course, exactly the same.
IV: Is there a dialogue with writers?
TS: No. Actually not…
IV: It brought me to the idea that it perhaps would be good to speak about film a little more. I saw in this one work, that was, I believe in a group exhibit, a video about films…
TS: It started when I was sort of interested in certain scripts or in…There is also a small…a small connection or a small article that I have indeed misplaced or lost that deals with the heading, the emergence of the script…That in the earlier times masons or typecutters did try to record the ideal measurements and to establish a standard so that we can differentiate between scripts, old German or Greek or some such. The things have a sort of structure or a standard. However, today’s man deals with script so that it can also be on the borderline of legibility or…one recognises it as a logo or that the things, let’s say, are used almost visually…When I take something and distort it or scramble it and set it in another way it is almost a visual process and the script…well the script is as symbols of course…
IV: There is this very interesting text by Dieter Schwarz…from 2001, View and Plan of Toledo [Thomas Scheibitz: View and Map of Toledo, Richter Verlag, 2002] also establishing this connection to the map…Could we perhaps speak more about this?
TS: Well, the View and Plan of Toledo is a late work of El Greco…I was very much taken by the principle or the structure, because…when one takes in that at the time a picture had also the task of documenting, the documentation of the city of Toledo was somewhat abandoned for the sake of a composition. For me, it is about the palace that actually stands on the border of the city set in the middle of this picture…In a three-dimensional landscape, the two-dimensional picture opens this plan almost as a document, so that the plan is in this case the documentation…One says ‘Okay, that is Toledo and the picture had the task of representing it as precisely as possible’. This is different today. Today, if I had a portrait or a city landscape with the theme of Toledo, I wouldn’t necessarily have to maintain this similarity factor or documentation factor…Rather, one could then approach it differently, from another view and that should sort of be the starting point…
IV: It would perhaps be interesting to know a bit more about the studio system…How, how is it present? How is the studio system at the moment, in August 2006?
TS: Yes. The studio system is actually brimming with things that are, as I tried to explain, all in a sort of blank stage that they reach relatively quickly with the work of employees…One must understand the blanks in this way: they come, they will be built as different things, all static, whereby I do not have to deal with them at all…So, they are waiting practically for completion, one could say.
IV: Yes.
TS: And in terms of paintings, it is imperative and always has been that I prefer a parallel working method. So, I have ten or fifteen relatively large paintings always visually available. Well, they stand next to each other and I work on them at the same time, always for a particular project. And the next project, actually, is Dublin with Rachel Thomas in the museum there – a relatively large task to realise a big exhibit, where possibly also for the museum there, in the courtyard, an outside sculpture can come to be.
Hercules, 2006, oil on canvas, 300 x 190 cm
Depot, 2007, oil on canvas, 305 x 188 cm
Kapital III, 2007, oil on canvas, 280 x 160 cm
Portrait Mike, 2008, oil on canvas, 250 x 170 cm
Silleben 25, 2008, oil on canvas, 295 x 185 cm
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Dems Shouldn’t Defend Bad Policies Just to Resist Trump
by Robert Borosage | Jul 27, 2018 | Blog | 0 comments
When Trump strikes a populist tone, expose him as a fraud - don’t back the corporate stance.
Last week on CNBC, President Donald Trump upbraided the Federal Reserve for raising interest rates. “I don’t like all of this work that we’re putting into the economy and then I see rates going up,” he said.
The president’s remarks elicited a furious response in the financial press. “Attacking central bank is one more step in what seems like a Presidential strategy of turning the United States into a banana republic,” tweeted Larry Summers, Clinton’s former treasury secretary and wannabe Fed Chair.
In a lead editorial, The Washington Post scolded the president for once more trampling a presidential norm: “Presidential respect for the independence of the Federal Reserve is an unwritten rule but vital to modern American governance.”
No question, Trump was once more busting an unwritten presidential norm. But tradition aside, why should the Federal Reserve, dominated by bankers and their servitors, be insulated from the democratic discourse?
The decisions the Fed makes on interest rates—in this case, raising them to preempt anticipated rising inflation—are inherently political judgments about values and priorities. Is future inflation such a concern that it is necessary to raise interest rates, slow the economy, and throw people out of work in order to get in front of it? Or after years of wage stagnation, is it better for the Fed to give the economy its head, even put up with a little inflation, hoping that as workers grow scarce, companies will be forced to raise wages?
Nightmares about inflation galloping out of control are largely fanciful inventions of creditors worried that debtors will gain an edge. Progressive economists have long argued that allowing the Fed to control these decisions rigs the rules against working people in favor of Wall Street. As the economist Dean Baker wrote, “The outraged reporter gang might want to study up some on the meaning of democracy.”
The tempest over the Fed illustrates what is becoming a repeated syndrome. In his chaos presidency, Trump clearly relishes disrupting established convention and institutions. Often—as in his vile slander of immigrants, his racist pandering to neo-Nazis, his incessant attacks on “fake news”—he spreads poison and division, seeking to delegitimize checks on his misrule. But in some areas—particularly those central to his populist posturing—he challenges entrenched institutions and policies that are long overdue for transformation. In many cases, his targets are those that progressives have criticized for years.
His questioning of NATO and calls for greater burden sharing mirror critiques issued by the peace movement and progressive foreign-policy reformers. His call for rebuilding America’s decrepit infrastructure—though quickly shelved—mimicked a central theme of progressive candidates, including Bernie Sanders.
Trump’s challenge to China and his insistence on renegotiating NAFTA and the Korean trade deal echo demands made by progressive Democrats and labor unions for years. Early reports suggest that NAFTA negotiators are considering elimination of the noxious Investor-State Dispute Settlement system that gives multinationals a private legal system, and impose a $17 minimum wage for autoworkers across the region.
In these cases, reflexive “resistance” to Trump is used by establishment forces hoping to defend the old order: the corporate trading system, the “rules-based” international order, a NATO alliance flailing about for a purpose after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Trump is in the White House in large part because these institutions have been failing most Americans. In his noxious and narcissistic presidency, Trump fares best if the choice is between his chaos and more of the same.
Progressives cannot fall for this trap. The folly of Trump’s trade wars—for example, isolating the United States by taking on China and allies at the same time—is no reason to embrace the old corporate trading order. Trump’s churlish behavior at the NATO and G-7 meetings doesn’t justify rising to the defense of institutions seemingly intent on reinventing the Cold War.
That’s why the thrust provided by Senators Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and the progressive wing of the Democratic party is so important. The answer to Trump isn’t to defend what’s failed but to lay out a bold agenda of change that challenges the rigged rules and offers real alternatives that help address the pressing needs of working people.
Trump’s Achilles heel is that, for all of his populist posturing, his actual agenda—mostly drawn from the right-wing shibboleths of the Republican Congress—offers no answers for working people.
He rails against offshoring, but the Republican tax bill he touts gives multinationals a permanent tax incentive to shift jobs abroad. With his own pen, he could penalize offshoring companies in government procurement, but he has refused to act.
Despite his expressed doubts about our interventions across the Middle East, he’s doubled down, adding troops and expanding the use of drones in conflicts that offer no victory and no end. He claims to be for working people, but his administration systematically undermines workers’ power—attacking the minimum wage, sabotaging labor unions, rolling back worker-safety and environmental protections—and seeks to undermine Medicaid, Medicare, food stamps, and virtually the entire shared security system for working people.
The answer to Trump’s disruptions isn’t an embrace of the failed policies and institutions of the past. It is to be clear about what progressives stand for, while relentlessly exposing Trump’s false promises.
First published in The Nation.
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Dog Show makes great fun for dog lovers
Written by Christopher Boutte’
The first Kingwood Westminster Dog Show, held recently at Westminster House, brought together some of the most well-behaved and well-groomed dogs around in the community. Westminster House is a full-service senior living community located in Kingwood. Among the many adorable dogs in attendance were “Miss Tattie” the Shih Tzu of Harriet Denning, “Kitty Dollar” belonging to Jason Dollar, “Buddy” the Pomeranian of Tanja Barton, and “Scottie” of Carroll Hebert. These contestants were very excited to be able to showcase their little angels to the ballroom of spectators of the competition. “This is an extension of the community to the residents of Westminster House,” said Jennifer Thomas, head marketing coordinator. “We are appreciative of the sponsors who made this event possible. Next year, the dog show will be bigger and better.” “Every dog that comes here is a trophy dog. It reinforces the love that Westminster House residents have for their dogs,” said Denning. The open community event had four categories of rating, from oldest dog, to youngest dog, to the best behaved dog, and finally, the cutest dog. Ribbons and trophies were made ready for the most deserving dog in each category. Also, Good Dog pet photography was present to act as “paparazzi” for the pampered dogs. Tanja Barton, a resident at Westminster House, and her Pomeranian dog “Buddy,” were happy about the event. “I’ve had Buddy for eight years after rescuing him,” said Barton. “This is the first thing I participated in since I got here.” “Scottie,” a Collie dog, was present with Carroll Hebert and participated in the competition for both fun and exposure. Scottie is available for adoption. “He is a great family dog who loves to play and is very well behaved,” said Hebert. He is being represented by the Houston Sheltie Sanctuary and is looking for a responsible family to care for him. For more information about “Scottie” and the Sheltie Sanctuary go to http://houstonsheltiesanctuary.com. For more information about Westminster House, visit www.kwvestates.com/. Photos: (Top) Carroll Hebert and her Collie dog “Scottie” strike a pose at the Westminster Dog Show. (Bottom) Tanja Barton and her Pomeranian dog “Buddy” enjoying the Westminster Dog Show. Photo by Christopher Boutte’
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Funeral Services Planned for Edwards Family
Local News Schools
Eleven-year-old Brendan Edwards and his mother, Melissa, were killed in a car accident on Nov. 10. Mountain Valley Middle School Principal Dustin Davisson said the Canyon Lake community can support the Edwards family by donating funds or making meals.
Funeral services for 11-year-old Mountain Valley Middle School (MVMS) student Brendan Edwards and his mother Melissa Edwards, who were killed in a car accident on Sunday, are scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 7 at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church in Canyon Lake.
A rosary ceremony is set for 9:30 a.m. that morning, to be followed by a mass at 10 a.m. A formal memorial service at the school is planned for some time next semester.
MVMS Principal Dustin Davisson said financial donations for the family can be made at Branch of First United Bank, 20480 Hwy. 46W, Spring Branch. After regular hours, use the night drop box and write “Edwards Memorial Fund” on the envelope.
Checks must be made payable to Kenneth Edwards, the title on the account, which was set up solely to receive contributions. Donations also may be made through apps called Bravo Tip or Pay. Search “EdwardsFamilyMemorialFund.”
To support the family by providing meals, visit https://mealtrain.com/8y8g05.
The Edwards, along with 93-year-old Walton Walker, a relative, were killed in a fiery car crash on FM 306 just before 7 p.m. on Nov. 10.
San Antonio-based Department of Public Safety (DPS) Sgt. Gus Moreno said 40-year-old Dave Michael Estes of New Braunfels was traveling eastbound on FM 306 when his 2015 Nissan Altima struck Edwards’ 2018 Ford Escape, which was traveling westbound between Purgatory Road and River Chase Drive.
Moreno said investigators have yet to reach any official conclusions as to the cause of the accident, but will post their findings to texas.gov. According to the site’s Crash Records Information System it can take up to 14 days from the crash date to appear online.
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Rachael Alsup November 17, 2019
So sorry Ken. I was a very good friend of Melissa’s father. Walt Sr. Loved his grandkids. They all will be missed.
Barbara Hendry November 16, 2019
Prayers are with the rest of the family.
Emma Hofmann November 19, 2019
He was one of my bffs in 2 and 3 grade before he moved. If remember him being so happy going back there… 😔. Miss them all.
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Krause Signs Mask Order, Warns of Alarming Rise of COVID-19 Cases in Comal County
Coronavirus COVID-19 Local News
Comal County Judge Sherman Krause's order takes effect immediately and expires on July 15. Enforcement begins on Friday.
Citing an alarming rise in COVID-19 cases, Comal County Judge Sherman Krause today signed an “unwelcome” order requiring all businesses in the county to develop safety plans that include wearing of face coverings for all employees and customers in their establishments.
The order takes effect immediately and expires on July 15. Enforcement begins on Friday. The fine for non-compliance is $1,000.
“The alarming rise in cases across the county, from New Braunfels to Bulverde to the south side of Canyon Lake, and the stress it has put on our local health care system has made this unwelcome step necessary to protect the lives and public health of Comal County residents,” Krause said. “Face coverings and social distancing are vitally important to slowing the spread of coronavirus and protecting the most vulnerable in our community.”
Since the beginning of last week, the south side of Canyon Lake has seen cases spike in COVID-19 cases from 15 to 40. Case numbers in New Braunfels rose from 314 to 573 while cases in Bulverde grew from 58 to 125.
The county’s total number of confirmed and probable cases has risen from 240 on June 16 to 778 today, and the rate of tests coming back positive has more than doubled in that time, from 5.66 percent to 12.17 percent, despite an increase in testing.
Active cases have spiked from 97 on June 16 to 496 today, and hospitalizations have also increased, from six on June 16 to 35 today. Comal County today also reported its eighth death since the pandemic began.
The order was issued as part of the ongoing public health emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic described in the county’s disaster declaration, issued March 18 and extended by Commissioners Court on March 24. The declaration remains in effect until rescinded by Commissioners Court.
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Rancholoco July 1, 2020
It’s about time but please get these people out of the river! Then they go into our gas stations stores etc & spread their cooties!
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sales@patrickpagemagic.co.uk+44 (0)20 8378 5105
Patrick Page Magic
Magic Tricks, DVDs & Props
Pat Facts
Patrick Page Products Available Direct
Please visit our shop to see all of Patrick’s Products Currently Available.
Patrick Page Magic is run by Patrick Page’s daughter Janette Page and her husband Philip.
We know that these are troubling times for everyone and especially for performing magicians. We are still able to post items worldwide. We try, wherever, possible to post items the next business day.
Thank you for your patience in these difficult circumstances and PLEASE KEEP SAFE
The late Patrick Page was recognised the world over as one of magic’s greatest teachers. His knowledge, experience and willingness to share what he knew made him a cherished and much missed figure on the magic scene. It seems hard to believe that he died over 8 years ago (February 2010)
He was a very modest man and many were not (and are not) aware of the immense contribution that he made to the world of magic. Over more than 50 years in the entertainment business, he worked on shows, films and television programmes across the world, and was consultant to many magicians. There will be few magicians who are not performing at least one trick invented by Patrick Page, or using at least one of his moves.
Many know Patrick Page because of his generosity of spirit in sharing magic with magicians all over the world – through audio tapes explaining how to perform magic effects, later videos and DVDs, his many books that have inspired countless magicians (including his last ever book Magic Page by Page which is exclusively sold by Patrick Page Magic on this website), and of course his lectures to magicians throughout the world and the time that he always seemed to find to share his knowledge with others.
Patrick believed in making sure that knowledge of magic was not lost and was passed from generation to generation. So much of his work has been preserved for posterity and through Patrick Page Magic we continue his work and make it available at sensible prices.
One project that Patrick worked on was interviews with his friends from the world of magic back in the 1970’s. Patrick knew that some of his friends were getting on and their knowledge and secrets would be lost for ever if someone did not preserve them. That someone was Patrick. He recorded interviews with some of the greats of magic (and some not so well known but no less interesting people from the world of magic).
Patrick was a great interviewer and knew the questions to ask. He also dared to ask them. Some of the interviews were released by Patrick but most were not. He always intended to get around to releasing them but somehow it never happened. We have spent a lot of time since his death 10 years ago cleansing the original reel to reel tape recordings of the interviews and removing extraneous noise and digitalising them to create MP3 files. We have also added other magic recordings that we thought might be of interest to the magic community, a video recording of Patrick performing his clown act and an interview with Patrick’s son and daughter Jeremy and Janette talking about growing up on “Planet Page” and with their dad. This work which we are calling “The Patrick Page Audio Archive” is available for immediate download (audio MP3 files only) for an INTRODUCTORY price of only £50 from www.patrickpagearchive.com
More information on the content of The Patrick Page Audio Archive is on www.patrickpagearchive.com website. The archive is proving to be very popular and everyone who has listened to it has been very positive about the material.
For more information contact Patrick’s daughter Janette at philippound@yahoo.co.uk
We are always trying to add new Patrick Page material. Well, it is not new of course but it is material that many are not familiar with.
We have added two “new” magic effects:
1) The Ten Second Paper Tear and
2) Coins Through Table Effect – No Lapping.
Both effects have a great WOW factor and are easy to perform for experienced magicians and beginners alike. The effects are on the Products Page of this website. The Ten Second Paper Tear effect is Patrick’s version of the Torn and Restored Newspaper. It requires no glue, paper clips elastic bands or metal strips and can be prepared in ten seconds – hence the name. It takes a little longer to perform the effect.
Patrick Page worked with Simon Drake on UK Channel 4’s ground breaking Secret Cabaret, with Wayne Dobson on UK ITV’s A Kind of Magic, and was a source of inspiration to magicians across the world. He was a consultant to magicians, and a consultant to magicians’ consultants!
Some of his later work included a cameo performance as a German magician doing a cigarette swallowing routine in the film “The Magicians”, and providing advice to Derren Brown for his Enigma show.
Many household names from the world of magic would pick up the phone and talk to Patrick Page when they were looking for ideas. He was always keen to share his knowledge.
He wrote many books, produced many teaching videos and DVDs and toured the world lecturing magicians sharing his knowledge with others. Magic Page by Page was his last book and one that he managed to finish just before he died in February 2010.
Magic Page by Page will be part of Patrick Page’s legacy to the world of magic.
Patrick was particularly helpful to beginners. He coached Colin Rose to win the Magic Circle’s Young Magician of the Year award and his lifelong friendship with Wayne Dobson started when he provided advice to him whilst working behind the counter of Davenports opposite the British Museum in London.
At Patrick Page Magic we are keen to continue Patrick’s work in helping young magicians, beginners and enthusiasts, and are making available effects that Patrick invented at affordable prices. Most effects include a short DVD of Patrick Page himself explaining how to perform the effect.
Sadly it is more than 8 years ago that Patrick died. Patrick Page was a permanent feature at the annual Blackpool Magic Convention held in February. He loved to be at the Blackpool Magic Convention. It is hard to believe that with Patrick Page Magic we were at the 10th convention that he will have missed. His memory lives on and we at Patrick Page Magic have been uncovering and making available effects that many are not even aware that he devised. Some are more than 60 years old, but not for that are they any less impressive. We are making them available at modest prices.
Keep looking at our website as we are now constantly updating the list of products available.
As mentioned above, we have included two new Patrick Page Master Class DVDs – all you need to perform the Ten Second Paper Tear Effect (Patrick’s version of the Torn and Restored Newspaper Effect) and the Coins Through Table Effect. We are particularly grateful to Obie O’Brien for letting us include footage of Patrick performing the Coins Through Table effect at the FFFF Magic Convention in Batavia, USA in 2007.
We are keen to keep the memory of Patrick Page alive and ensure that his contribution to the world of magic is appreciated both by old and new magicians. Janette and Philip have given a presentation on Patrick Page at magic clubs up and down the country in the UK and are preparing to visit the USA to talk at magic clubs there. The presentation is a unique opportunity to learn how Patrick first got interested in magic, what is was like for Janette to grow up in a magic household and learn about Patrick’s involvement in the best selling magic books , The Big Book of Magic and Magic Page by Page. It is also an opportunity to see private images of Patrick and some videos of him performing. No charge is made for the presentation. Janette and Philip are based in South London and where an overnight stay is necessary we ask you to provide accommodation. We have now given talks at more than a dozen clubs in the UK. If you are interested in Janette and Philip talking at your magic club, please send an email to Janette Page at sales@patrickpagemagic.co.uk.
We try not to bore you and leave you hopefully wanting more
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Can Santa really climb down the chimney?
by John Fuller
Image Gallery: Christmas Could Santa have perfected miniaturization technology in order to fit into a chimney? See more Christmas pictures.
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By the time the holiday season is in full swing, curious, knowledge-seeking children have lots of questions about Santa Claus and Christmas. How does Santa make it around the world in one night? Do reindeer really fly? Why do people keep giving us fruitcakes?
One of the most difficult questions that parents are faced with has nothing to do with reindeer flight or the physics of Santa Claus's flight path -- it's a practical matter concerning a chimney. After all, according to Christmas folklore, when Santa drops by your house to deliver his presents, he doesn't knock on your door or break any windows in the process. Instead, after landing on your roof, Santa climbs down the chimney, stuffs your stockings, places gifts under the tree and takes a quick milk-and-cookies break before climbing back up the chimney.
But how does Santa get down your chimney in the first place? Can he even fit into a chimney? Does he drop straight down, or does he use special climbing equipment? And what happens if you don't even have a chimney? Does that mean people without chimneys don't get any presents at all?
Although no one may ever know for sure just how Santa operates, we at HowStuffWorks have what we think is the most logical explanation for how the big guy might be able to navigate a small space: science, in the form of miniaturization technology. What does this mean? It's actually as simple as it sounds -- Santa could use this technology to actually shrink the size of his body.
Michael C. LaBarbera, a professor of organismal biology and anatomy and geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago, believes that reducing the distance between molecular bonds could do the trick. There's a lot of empty space between the nucleus of an atom and the electrons surrounding it, so moving everything closer together could potentially decrease the size of an object. The mass of the object stays the same, of course, so that may explain any loud crashes that might come from the fireplace if Santa slipped [source: University of Chicago].
But what about Santa's suit? If he compresses his body to a small enough size to fit through the chimney, wouldn't the suit just crumple into a pile since it isn't a part of him? Santa's suit would need to be threaded with carbon nanotubes. This would allow the suit to compress as Santa himself compresses. His belt would also be equipped with a grappling hook, making his descent into your living room a bit smoother.
If there's no chimney, of course, he could just open your front door and walk right in -- sometimes you have to go low-tech. But a chimney entrance would be preferable since it's the most direct path from the roof to the Christmas tree. Plus, there's the show-off factor -- what else would you expect from a guy who can travel around the world in one night?
For more information on Santa's technology and Christmas-related articles, visit the next page.
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metroid prime: federation force review
Beyond that, most of your time in Metroid Prime: Federation Force is going to be spent hopping back and forth between alien planets, solving challenges and fighting off bosses with their own unique patterns and vulnerabilities … and unlocking doors, of course. When you kill a difficult, time-intensive midboss, only to face an even more difficult section shortly afterwards, death becomes frustrating as you repeat the cycle, over and over again.
You can play alone--using an item that boosts your strength to help even the odds--but you're highly encouraged to team up with other players locally or online. I hit a wall about a third of the way through the game when playing alone and eventually teamed up with a coworker.
Metroid without Samus, without that sense of exploration and lonely adventure? This site © 2020 Gamer Network Limited. He participated in a half-dozen matches of Blast Ball, and chalked every one of his goals up to luck. It turns out the single stick approach is the perfect tool for playing first-person games on a handheld, supplemented here with a little Splatoon-style gyro control that allows you to fine tune your aim (a more traditional dual stick first-person shooter style system is available for those with a New 3DS, though the smaller nub doesn’t seem up to the task it’s been handed). It was that game that made me realise that games were more than just toys to idly while away time - they were capable of being masterpieces. Maybe they call this person just to prove that they can, then hand the phone over and grant you the most awkward and forced interaction of your entire life. You can even play with friends by creating a lobby for friends only, but you can’t directly invite others from within the game, so you’ll have to organise your co-op sessions externally. You’ve got to entice new customers, while making sure you touch on all the things that your in-built fanbase wants to see. In these moments Federation Force is all limits and no joy. }, Your email address will not be published.
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}(window, t = b.createElement(e); Perhaps you’re a professional cosplayer who is searching for the perfect burger, or maybe you’re just interested in high-end tech and Netflix binging. Get a group together and Federation Force can be great fun, but the likelihood of getting four people together to play is slim at best, with the online option a decent substitute that suffers somewhat from the lack of voice chat. Missions are bolstered by their variety, with objectives rarely repeating themselves and each mission always with some new trick at hand to share; from shepherding colossal ice titans into cages, pushing carts through storm-battered temples or escaping your mech suit for a stealth-fuelled search of a pirate-infested factory. Save for an item that boosts your damage output and armor, you're granted no meaningful advantage when playing alone. document, 'script', '//connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js');
Federation Force seems like it wants to stand on its own, yet its attempts to tap into familiarity with the Metroid franchise come off as desperate. status: true, Comments for this article are now closed.
© 2020 Vox Media Inc. all rights reserved • Kann der 3DS-Shooter trotzdem mit seinem kooperativen Konzept punkten? ref.parentNode.insertBefore(js, ref); August 18th, 2016 by Kyle Hanson. Boss fights can be exciting with the right number of players. oauth: true n.queue = []; And the winners of our The Last of Us Part II hampers are…, Cyberpunk 2077 needs some beefy hardware to enable ray tracing on PC, Deadpool 3 lands Bob’s Burgers writers, will reportedly still be R-rated, Among Us is getting a new map and a dashing monocle, Here’s what Cyberpunk 2077 looks like on PS5 and PS4 Pro, Nintendo has officially discontinued the 3DS, Metroid Prime: Federation Force was reviewed on New Nintendo 3DS.
That’s not necessarily a bad thing.
Next Level Games’ effort may suffer from the lack of that DS game’s more traditional campaign, but it benefits from a more approachable control system and a few more ideas of its own, and it deserves to see through the storm around it to find some appreciation.
These mini-challenges typically involve shooting balls with your gun to roll them from one end of a map to another, navigating around obstacles and incoming fire along the way. Federation Force is a slow game.
// Load the SDK Asynchronously And this is how Nintendo has elected to break six years of silence for one of its most celebrated series: a co-op shooter with chibi visuals in which Samus Aran, the stoic bounty hunter who's fronted every Metroid to date, is relegated to the sidelines. On surface level it’s a streamlined Rocket League powered by charge shots, though it’s got a personality of its own, its power-ups and frantic scoring bringing to mind Next Level Games’ work on the Mario Strikers games. It’s a control scheme I found awkward and cumbersome, but others swear by it. Simple things, like taking out all of a specific creature or finishing the level within a specified time add a dash longevity. n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments) Rather than walk in the footsteps of its forebears and thrust you into another adventure as spacefaring bounty hunter Samus Aran, Federation Force puts you in the boots of a no-name foot soldier and tasks you to complete nearly two-dozen short missions. Equipping the more powerful (and helpful) items that weigh even more consequently means sacrificing a significant portion of your limit to do so. If you manage to somehow land in a mission with the appropriate number of people, boss fights in particular can feel exciting, but you shouldn't be penalized for playing with a squad of any size when the game casually allows it. FIFA, Fußball, Korruption - Die Flamme erlischt, FIFA, Fußball, Korruption: Die Flamme erlischt, Langweiliger Start der nächsten Generation. Are you a hardcore gamer who also enjoys a night out at the movies? But if you can set aside your preconceptions of what Metroid game is, you'll find a more than competent first person shooter that’s fun to play - even if it is let down by some odd design decisions and a lack of checkpoints. n.push = n;
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In these moments, Federation Force is all limits and no joy.
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‘If the players lose belief, it’s a double defeat’ – Stuart Baxter confident of turning Odisha FC’s fortunes around
The British coach believes that Odisha have not defended poorly but isolated decisions are hurting the side…
Odisha FC, languishing at the bottom on the Indian Super League (ISL) table, are the only side yet to win a match this season.
With just two draws in eight matches, they have just two points to show for their efforts. However, coach Stuart Baxter is imploring his players to continue believing in themselves as a crucial game against Kerala Blasters comes up on Thursday.
He admits that making the players continue believing in themselves is his biggest challenge in this tough period for the club.
“The biggest issue that we have at the moment is that despite playing well in most games we have not turned that into results. This is the critical phase of the game. In some of them, we have even dominated. This can damage your belief and confidence. These are the things we have been speaking about,” he said.
The British coach revealed that they are working on several tweaks as they prepare for an important game but the paramount factor is the players’ belief. He feels that all that they need is one result to go their way.
“I wish I could put it (the solution to Odisha’s woes) in a bottle and make the players drink it. It would be a lot easier. The first thing that needs to happen that the players do not lose belief.
“My father, he was a coach in Aston Villa, said that if you lose and if you lose your belief then that’s a double defeat. But if you lose and retain your confidence then that’s a half defeat. So we are trying to do that.
“We are aware of the tweaks that we need to do. We are doing that and hence we are improving. When the momentum changes, it will change strongly.
“The players must not attract negativity. They must believe strongly. Like Jerry (Mawihmingthanga), he can re-run the pass in his head and know the solution (most of the times). The positive thing is we know the solutions and put them right in our heads and then just carry on.”
Odisha’s defending has come under the scanner in their winless start to the season. More often than not, they have conceded cheap goals at crucial times and it was evident in their last defeat, a 3-1 loss to East Bengal who were also struggling at the start of the campaign.
However, Baxter feels that Odisha have not defended poorly. Rather, it has been a case of individual mistakes and not collective poor defending.
“People sometimes equate defensive errors to bad defending. Well, bad defending is for me is when there is no balance or when the distance between the defenders is poor and who goes to the ball and bad decisions. But that’s not the case with us.
“In the middle of a period where we are defending well one of our players makes poor decisions and they make individual mistakes. The functional part I can change but the individual part leaves a scar mentally which produces more mistakes. We have to ensure that we are making strong decisions so that the mistakes do not creep in again. That’s the big battle we have.”
Kerala Blasters, Odisha’s next opponents, have also not been in great form. They have just one win to show from eight games and have just six points in their kitty. Baxter feels that Odisha can pick something from the game and trouble Kibu Vicuna’s men.
“Every opponent we have, we can potentially get a good result against them. Every game I see is very competitive. It can go any way depending on referee’s decision, or a bad passage of play. Kerala Blasters is exactly the same. A lot of their games have been tight. They could have been further up the league. I think it is going to be a competitive game. We are going into this game knowing that we can win this game.”
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Caroline Farrow, CitizenGO UK director, asks Disney’s CEO to stop LGTB indoctrination in their entertainment parks
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CitizenGO released a petition in 2019 with the support of around 650.000 people asking Disney CEO, Bob Chapek, to stop the LGTB indoctrination at their diversion parks.
Caroline Farrow, CitizenGO UK director: “We will continue defending our kids in spite of the fact that companies as influential as Disney want to indoctrinate children with LGBT content”.
RALEIGH, APRIL 29th, 2020. The international platform CitizenGO was present at the annual Disney shareholders’ meeting that took place on March 11th, 2020 in Raleigh, North Carolina. During the event, the UK campaigns director of CitizenGO, Caroline Farrow, spoke to the entertainment company’s CEO, Bob Chapek, about the introduction of LGBT content in their theme parks as well as in some of their well-known products.
During Caroline Farrow’s intervention where she spoke about the petition launched by CitizenGO and signed by 653.557 citizens asking the company to stop LGTB indoctrinating activities, the CEO of Disney made clear that the entertainment company will not stop producing or sponsoring events that promote the LGTB agenda around the world.
Bob Chapek, Disney’s CEO remarked: “At Disney we strongly believe that we should reflect in our creative content the diversity that we find in our audience,and I believe that that will continue with an increased commitment as we move forward”. To see the video of the full intervention, click here.
Here is the album and the video with the images of the signature delivered at Disney Shareholders meeting.
At the shareholder meeting, CitizenGO also delivered more than 650,000 signatures garnered since the petition was launched in 2019. In addition, the non-profit organization held a performance at the Duke Energy Center, where the meeting was taking place. To see the photos of the performance, click here.
Caroline Farrow, CitizenGO UK campaign director, summarizes: “We are here to be the voice of thousands of people who want to defend their children from LGTB ideology. Now that we know Disney’s position in this regard, we have no choice but to boycott their products and continue fighting against those who attack our children with this type of ideology”.
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Auditing and design evaluation of building automation and control systems based on eu. bac system audit–Danish case study
Jacob Alstrup Engvang, Muhyiddine Jradi*
*Kontaktforfatter for dette arbejde
SDU Center for Energy Informatics
Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Instituttet
Improving the energy performance of buildings will prove vital for countries worldwide to reduce their energy consumption and emissions. A key player in reaching this goal is building automation and control, as having well-designed and operated building automation and control systems (BACS) provide large capabilities in optimizing the energy performance of different systems. In this regard, building owners and planners must be able to assess and evaluate the current status of their BACS and identify potential improvements. While there has been a large block of work done in Denmark along with regulations aiming to audit the overall building performance and individual systems characteristics, very little has been done in the field of auditing the building automation and control system and evaluating its structure and operation patterns. This lack of systematic BACS auditing and evaluation in Danish buildings is addressed in this work with the first implementation and evaluation of the eu.bac System methodology in a university office building. The building was found to comply with the lowest automation and control class E. Two BACS retrofit packages were proposed and evaluated, and energy savings up to 28.5% are reported. The preliminary assessment results reported demonstrate the potential of building automation and control retrofit measures in a combined holistic improvement package alongside building envelope upgrade. In addition, the impact of the eu.bac System improvements and labeling on the building's classification based on the recent Danish building regulation BR18 is evaluated. The study discusses the feasibility of eu.bac System tool implementation in Danish buildings and suggests improvements. It also correlates and compares the eu.bac System audit to the upcoming European SRI instrument. In light of the huge efforts to digitalize the Danish energy sector, ensuring proper design and operation of BACS is of great importance. Thus, a systematic and methodical BACS auditing and evaluation methodology will be a crucial part of buildings’ initial and retro-commissioning platforms.
Energy and Built Environment
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbenv.2020.06.002
Udgivet - jan. 2021
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Engvang, J. A., & Jradi, M. (2021). Auditing and design evaluation of building automation and control systems based on eu. bac system audit–Danish case study. Energy and Built Environment, 2(1), 34-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbenv.2020.06.002
Engvang, Jacob Alstrup ; Jradi, Muhyiddine. / Auditing and design evaluation of building automation and control systems based on eu. bac system audit–Danish case study. I: Energy and Built Environment. 2021 ; Bind 2, Nr. 1. s. 34-44.
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Tickets available for Night of the Super Sleuths / new CDs
Reserve or buy your tickets now for this month’s Summer Radio Mystery show, (Except When It’s a Matinée) ! Perfornances are July 17, 18, 23, 24 and 25, with both a matinée and an evening performance on Saturday the 18th. You won’t want to miss the latest adventures of Hercule Poirot in “Death Wears a Mask”, Lady Molly of Scotland Yard in “The Frewin Miniatures”, and Sherlock Holmes in “The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton”! The show’s event page has more information. This is going to be a great show and we can’t wait to see you there!
But that’s several days away! Whatever will you do until then? Fear not, last year’s adventures by the same three detectives are all now available for purchase (as digital downloads) in our CDbaby store. So listen to Hercule Poirot, Lady Molly, and Sherlock Holmes through headphones now, and come listen to them live later this month!
Read more about Tickets available for Night of the Super Sleuths / new CDs
Call for scripts: radio-drama adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
This Hallowe’en, The Post-Meridian Radio Players will present Monster in the Mirror — a two-part show, featuring new adaptations of Jekyll & Hyde and Frankenstein ! These are stories we have wanted to tell for a long time, and we are so, so excited! For this show, we are putting out a call for original adaptations (or extant public-domain adaptations) of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Submissions are due by midnight, July 15th, and you can read the full call for scripts here (or Read more) to learn more about the script process, licensing terms, and our requirements for the show.
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This was a reprise of PMRP’s gender-swapped take on the classic Star Trek episode “The Wrath of Khan”, featuring Capt. Jane Kirk, her half-Vulcan science officer Ms. Spock, and the crew of the starship Enterprise , originally performed at the 2015 Arisia science-fiction convention.
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Audition for Night of the Super Sleuths!
Ever wanted to try voice acting? Or live sound effects? Come audition for our next thrilling summer mystery show, Night of the Super Sleuths , featuring three new tales of the adventures of Hercule Poirot, Sherlock Holmes, and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard! Audition slots are available on Monday, May 18, and Tuesday, May 19 (with possible callbacks on Thursday, May 21). For all the details, including links to the signup form, see our auditions page, and sign up now!
If you’d rather enjoy the show from the audience, performances will be in July, and you can learn more on the Night of the Super Sleuths page.
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Congratulations to the cast and crew of our Spring Adventure Spectacular, featuring original adaptations of The Mysterious Traveler and The Scarlet Pimpernel . You can find them listed on the newly updated Spring Adventure Spectacular 2015 page.
Better yet, you can come see and hear them in person in our thrilling performance! Tickets are now available on our tickets page! You can either buy your ticket in advance or reserve a spot and pay at the door.
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If you're auditioning for our spring show, you’ll want to take a look at the audition sides which are now available in our audition documents folder. The full audition process is described on our Auditions page, and while walk-ins are welcome as time permits we strongly recommend making an appointment.
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Auditions for the Spring Adventure Spectacular
We are delighted to announce auditions for our first Spring Adventure Spectacular, featuring original adaptations of Maurice Leblanc’s “The Mysterious Traveler,” in which Leblanc’s gentleman thief Arsène Lupin engages in intrigue on a train journey, and Emma Orczy’s The Scarlet Pimpernel , the famous novel about a seemingly foppish and slow-witted English baronet rescuing people sentenced to the guillotine during the Reign of Terror in postrevolutionary France. Auditions are January 5 and 6 (with callbacks, if needed, on the 8th), and you can be a part of these adventures, as a voice actor or Foley sound-effects performer! Update:Paper audition forms are now available to download and print. You’ll want to print these and bring them to your audition.
See our auditions page to learn more or sign up for an audition slot!
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Auditions for our Arisia 2015 show
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The Post-Meridian Radio Players are thrilled to announce that they are seeking actors to perform in their next gender-swapped Star Trek: The Original Series episode — “Space Seed”! In “Space Seed”, the Enterprise discovers an ancient spaceship carrying genetically enhanced superwomen from late 20th century Earth, and their enigmatic warlord leader: Khan Noonien Singh.
For more information on the three rôles we’re seeking to fill and contact information to sign up for an audition, see our Auditions page.
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Early October Deal!
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It’s so close to October! If only there was a way to make more October! Alas our lawyers say we can’t actually increase the calendar. Phooey.
So we’ll just sneak in some early October this way: Anyone who purchases a subscription to The Library before October 2nd will get an extra month added. So it will go from Oct 1st 2014 until Nov. 1st 2015. 13 months of PMRP goodness including both this year AND next year’s Halloween shows!
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Fantastic Noise
A podcast about podcasts (featuring Ben Green and Eva Krysiak)
This episode is all about podcasts. Joining Terry is co-host Carlota Larrea (UoB website link),the Head of the School of Culture and Communications at the University of Bedfordshire. She is also Terry's boss...
They hear from; Award-winning podcast producer Eva Krysiak (https://www.everyoneelse.org/), The 'Podcast Master', Muddy Knees Media's Ben Green (or Producer Ben Green as he's commonly known - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Podcast-Master-Ben-Green-ebook/dp/B01720U5QE), and the University of Sunderland's Senior Lecturer in Radio Richard Berry (https://www.sunderland.ac.uk/about/staff/media/richard_berry) who has recently co-authored an acadmeic text about podcasting - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Podcasting-Aural-Cultures-Digital-Media/dp/3319900552.
We'll also hear from Dr Lawrie Hallett, Senior Lecturer in Radio and Journalism (Dr Lawrie Hallett), in his radio surgery. And do some jargon busting with our 'radio word of the week'.
Fantastic Noise is a podcast about making radio. Recorded in the Radio LaB 97.1FM studios in the University of Bedfordshire. Produced and presented by Terry Lee.
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In the final episode of our 'Coping through COVID' run, and indeed this series of Fantastic Noise, Terry speaks with Deputy Managing Editor of Radio X, Neil Fearn, to find out more about how one of the biggest commercial radio brands in the UK responded to the coronavirus pandemic. This was recorded in late summer 2020, before the announcement of 'lockdown 2'. Fantastic Noise is a podcast about audio production. Recorded partly at Terry's home, partly in the Radio LaB 97.1FM studios at the University of Bedfordshire. Produced and presented by Terry Lee. You can follow Fantastic Noise on facebook.com/afantasticnoise, instagram.com/afantasticnoise & twitter.com/afantasticnoise or email us fantasticnoise@beds.ac.uk. Let us know what you think. Our art work was produced by Stoo Elvin (facebook.com/iamstooelvin/), and our theme music is by Liam Ayton, remixed by Daniel Potter.
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In this episode of our 'Coping through COVID' run, Terry speaks with Pippa Sawyer, who at the time of recording was the Managing Director of Wycombe Sound, to explore how the Community Radio movement in the UK has adapted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fantastic Noise is a podcast about audio production. Recorded partly at Terry's home, partly in the Radio LaB 97.1FM studios at the University of Bedfordshire. Produced and presented by Terry Lee. You can follow Fantastic Noise on facebook.com/afantasticnoise, instagram.com/afantasticnoise & twitter.com/afantasticnoise or email us fantasticnoise@beds.ac.uk. Let us know what you think. Our art work was produced by Stoo Elvin (facebook.com/iamstooelvin/), and our theme music is by Liam Ayton, remixed by Daniel Potter.
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Amazon Prime Day Puts Retailers on the Defensive
Amazon’s Prime Day, potentially the biggest gift buying period of 2020, is running into intensified retail competition.
Kohl’s, J.C. Penney, Walmart, Target and Bed, Bath & Beyond are among those retailers triggering huge savings, new products and conveniences like contactless curbside pickups, and speedy deliveries, either in tandem with the Amazon promotion or a few days ahead, all to encourage consumers to get some holiday shopping done early, and distract them from the savings lure of Prime Day.
They’re also reminding consumers about the safety precautions being undertaken to reduce the risk of getting infected by the coronavirus. This year, consumers are most concerned about contracting the virus while inside stores. But they are also worried that retailers will run out of the gifts they want to buy most, since many retailers have bought conservatively for the fourth quarter, and that they won’t get their gift purchases delivered on time for the holidays.
Mostly retailers are promoting decorative home, cozy and comfortable casual clothes and accessories; home office supplies, home entertainment, kitchen-related products, electronics, games and computer equipment because of the lifestyle changes as a consequence of COVID-19. While showcasing their discounted items, retailers are reminding consumers of the safety precautions they’ve installed to make their stores safe to shop.
Due to the pandemic, Amazon this year reset Prime Day to Tuesday and Wednesday this week, as opposed to July, when it has been staged since 2015. It’s for Amazon Prime members only. Due to the delay closer to Christmas and the profound and continuing shift toward online spending, versus spending at brick-and-mortar stores, Prime Day is expected to generate robust double-digit growth this year. It’s been a key impetus to the earliest-ever onset of holiday gift promoting across the retail industry. In recent years, the holiday push for many
JPMorgan puts $30b toward aiding Black, Latino homeownership
JPMorgan Chase said Thursday it will extend billions in loans to Black and Latino homebuyers and small business owners in an expanded effort toward fixing what the bank calls “systemic racism” in the country’s economic system.
The New York bank said it is committing $30 billion over the next five years toward programs that include earmarking more money for getting Black and Latino families into homeownership and providing additional financing to build affordable rental housing units.
“Systemic racism is a tragic part of America’s history,” said JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon in a statement. “We can do more and do better to break down systems that have propagated racism and widespread economic inequality.”
The bank, which has $3.2 trillion in assets, said it expects the $30 billion to help finance 40,000 additional mortgages for Black and Latino households, another 20,000 loans that will refinance mortgages and help construct 100,000 affordable rental units. Additional funds will go to finance 15,000 small business loans to Black and Latino-owned businesses.
There will also be programs to place 1 million customers in low-cost checking and savings accounts, partly by opening new branches in minority-majority neighborhoods.
Black households are several times more likely to be what is known as unbanked, meaning they do not have a primary checking account with a traditional bank, or underbanked, where households still rely on high-cost financial services like check cashing, pawn shops and payday loans.
Since the death of George Floyd, a Black man killed while in police custody in Minneapolis in May, large US banks have made public efforts to address the disenfranchisement of Black and minority communities within the financial system.
In the immediate aftermath of Floyd’s death, JPMorgan announced a commitment of $1.75 billion toward programs they said would help address racial inequalities. But since then,
10pm curfew puts 800 out of work as Greene King shuts 79 pubs
Greene King called on the government to provide support to prevent further pub closures and job losses. Photo: PA
Pub company Greene King has announced plans to axe around 800 jobs and shut 79 of its pubs after business declined due to the introduction of 10pm hospitality curfew.
A spokeswoman for Greene King said: “The continued tightening of the trading restrictions for pubs, which may last another six months, along with the changes to government support was always going to make it a challenge to reopen some of our pubs.
“Therefore, we have made the difficult decision not to reopen 79 sites, including the 11 Loch Fyne restaurants we announced last week.
“Around one-third will be closed permanently and we hope to be able to reopen the others in the future.”
WATCH: What are the new COVID-19 measures for pubs?
The UK’s largest pub retailer and brewer runs about 1,700 managed pubs and 1,000 tenanted venues across the UK. The company said they are “working hard with our teams to try and find them a role in another of our pubs wherever possible.”
Greene King called on the government to “step in and provide tailored support to help the sector get through to the spring and prevent further pub closures and job losses.”
UK prime minister Boris Johnson faced a barrage of warnings over the threat to firms and jobs after he unveiled fresh COVID-19 measures for England including a 10pm shutdown for hospitality venues.
UK pub owners expressed their anger with the government, as more than 1,000 publicans signed an open letter to chancellor Rishi Sunak pleading for more support and urging the government to rethink the 10pm curfew.
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Germany Puts First Auto Boss On Trial Over ‘Dieselgate’ Fraud
Five years after “dieselgate” emissions cheating revelations rocked the car industry, ex-Audi CEO Rupert Stadler on Wednesday became the first top executive to stand trial in Germany.
Stadler, 57, appeared before the Munich district court to answer charges of fraud, falsifying certifications and false advertising.
He wore a face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus as he arrived but then took it off in court.
With him in the dock are former Audi and Porsche manager Wolfgang Hatz and two Audi engineers, all charged with fraud.
German car giant Volkswagen — whose subsidiaries include Porsche, Audi, Skoda and Seat — admitted in September 2015 that it had installed software to rig emissions in 11 million diesel vehicles worldwide.
No senior executive has been convicted so far in connection with the ‘dieselgate’ scandal in Germany Photo: AFP / RONNY HARTMANN
The so-called defeat devices made the vehicles appear less polluting in lab tests than they were in real driving conditions when they spewed out toxic gases way beyond the legal limit.
Not a single senior executive has been convicted over the scam in Germany, although two VW employees have received jail terms in the United States.
Intense media interest in the Stadler case coupled with social distancing requirements led court officials to move proceedings to a larger room in a justice building outside the city centre.
The complex trial is expected to last until December 2022.
Prosecutors opened the proceedings by reading aloud the indictment, which is more than 90 pages long.
If found guilty, the accused face up to 10 years in jail.
Former Audi chief executive Rupert Stadler denies accusations that he knew of plans to defeat pollution testing devices Photo: AFP / CHRISTOF STACHE
Volkswagen has always insisted that the diesel trickery was the work of a
Germany Puts First Auto Boss On Trial Over ‘Dieselgate’
Five years after “dieselgate” emissions cheating revelations rocked the car industry, ex-Audi CEO Rupert Stadler on Wednesday becomes the first top executive to stand trial in Germany.
Stadler, 57, faces charges of “fraud, falsifying certifications and false advertising”, according to the indictment that will be read out before the Munich district court.
He will be in the dock alongside former Audi and Porsche manager Wolfgang Hatz and two Audi engineers, all facing the same charges.
German car giant Volkswagen — whose subsidiaries include Porsche, Audi, Skoda and Seat — admitted in September 2015 that it had installed manipulating software in 11 million diesels worldwide.
The so-called defeat devices made the vehicles appear less polluting in lab tests than they were in real driving conditions, allowing the vehicles to emit toxic gases far beyond the legal limit.
Intense media interest in the Stadler case coupled with coronavirus precautions have led court officials to move proceedings to a larger room in a justice building outside the city centre.
Volkswagen has always insisted that the diesel trickery was the work of a handful of lower-level employees acting without the knowledge of superiors, although prosecutors dispute this.
Stadler had been Audi’s chief executive for 11 years when he was arrested in June 2018.
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The celebrated Chronicles of England, or "Brut Chronicle", is the earliest prose chronicle in English and was the most popular history of England in the Middle Ages. The Chronicle traces the history of Britain from its earliest (mythical) time (Albinia), including stories of legendary kings such as Brutus of Troy (hence its name), Lear and Arthur, and is quite detailed for the period starting with the reign of Edward I. The medieval prose Brut is a legendary and historical chronicle of England named after its first hero, Brutus, a descendent of Aeneas and the epic founder of Britain. Espousing chivalric ideals and celebrating the deeds of knightly heroes, the Brut resembles aristocratic chronicles in content. History and romance are at times difficult to distinguish, especially in its earlier sections, which include the stories of King Lear, Merlin, Arthur, and others of legend. Yet even the descriptions of Edward III and Henry V are suffused with a concern for the noble and heroic. Later parts of the Brut draw much of their material from the urban chronicles of London, which were addressed to a different audience, and this material tends to reflect the political and practical concerns of wealthy merchants and civic leaders rather than those of the nobility. It is these sections that have received the most modern attention, primarily from historians seeking contemporary accounts of historical events, and yet the entire chronicle was no doubt read by its earliest audience as in some sense accurate history. The prose Brut survives today in several different forms. Current scholarship argues that it was first composed in Anglo-Norman sometime after 1272 by an anonymous compiler working from Latin sources. This Anglo-Norman version was later extended to 1333 and then, in about 1400, translated into English. The English version in turn received its own set of continuations, some extending as late as 1461. Most of these later additions, especially those of the fifteenth century, represent original English composition.
University of Michigan MS 225 is a text of the Middle English Brut. It is an unruled paper manuscript measuring 288 x 205 mm. with no discernible watermarks. The writing block, roughly 210 x 130 mm., fluctuates slightly in size, each folio side typically consisting of 34-35 long lines. MS 225 contains only the Brut, which runs 135 leaves, though not carrying over to the final verso. The manuscript hand mixes Secretary and late Anglicana forms. Initials (usually 2-line) and rubrics in red begin unnumbered chapters. Space for initials and rubrics is left unfilled on folios 111r-v and 112r. Folios 92v and 93r are blank. Eleven folios (verso) have catchwords in the far lower right margin. The first 33 folios have frequent marginal references and notes in a more modern hand; thereafter, a few sporadic notes and pen trials. The four final leaves (136-139) contain various signatures and ownership inscriptions, the most legible names being Thomas Marshe, L. Philippus, and C. Howes. There is also an inscription on folio 111r. Two parchment leaves at the beginning and one at the end may have been part of the original binding. The name Thomas Marshe also appears on the recto of the second parchment leaf. The manuscript is presently in a nineteenth-century binding.
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Cynthia Slivonik
By Riverhead News-Review
Cynthia Slivonik of Aquebogue died June 17 at Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead. She was 70.She was born July 8, 1948, in Greenport to Ann and William Kozenka.
Ms. Slivonik graduated from Riverhead High School in 1966. She married Wesley Slivonik on July 8, 1975, in Riverhead and was a homemaker.
She was a member of St. Isidore R.C. Church in Riverhead, the St. Isidore Altar Rosary Society and Polish Hall Ladies Auxiliary. Her family said she enjoyed arts and crafts and “loved to try her luck at the casinos.”
Ms. Slivonik is survived by her husband, of Aquebogue; her son, Christopher Corwin of Locust Valley; her sister, Carol Roberts of Port Jefferson; and two grandchildren.
A memorial Mass will take place at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 22, at St. Isidore R.C. Church, followed by interment at the church cemetery. Cremation was private. McLaughlin Heppner Funeral Home in Riverhead assisted the family.
Memorial donations may be made to the church.
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150 years of women’s suffrage: During Cheyenne’s rough-and-tumble Wild West days, the town’s women were the toughest of the bunch
Wyoming's annual Cheyenne Frontier Days festivities give a glimpse into the state's past of historic firsts
By Shoshi Parks
Photo: Shoshi Parks
In its early days, Cheyenne, Wyoming was savage. It was a ruthless, lawless town—a real-life Hell on Wheels—at the crossroads of the brand new Union Pacific Railroad.
With all the violence, gambling, and hard drinking, Cheyenne was no place for a lady. But women on the Plains were different from New England society gals and Southern debutantes. In a town that should have chewed them up and spit them out, Cheyenne’s women instead grew tough skins and loud voices.
By 1869, before suffragettes had begun marching on the East Coast, Wyoming women had won the right to vote. Before most U.S. states had granted women the ability to own property, Wyoming women were homesteading and ranching. The infamous Calamity Jane, an occasional resident of Cheyenne, allegedly quipped, “A girl with a husband can be limited in what she can do, a girl with a rifle ain’t got that problem.”
Suffragettes in the grand parade. | Photo: Shoshi Parks
Cheyenne’s women took to ranching culture with fervor. They broke wild broncos, roped steers, and branded calves. Most could ride a horse before they could walk. In that regard, Wyoming hasn’t changed much. Just ask Lisa Murphy.
Miss Rodeo Wyoming
My first introduction to Murphy is at the Cowgirls of the West Museum in downtown Cheyenne. She’s not there when I visit but her red leather chaps with silver fringe are, along with a red-and-black horse collar embroidered with the words “Miss Rodeo Wyoming.” In a promo photo, a fresh-faced, bright-eyed young woman tips her white cowboy hat to the lens of the camera.
“My grandfather taught me to ride horses when I learned to walk,” Murphy tells me later. “I was a junior barrel racer, a dandy for Cheyenne Frontier Days, and then I competed for Miss Rodeo Wyoming.” For the title, Murphy had to excel at skills including horsemanship, speech and interviews, and congeniality. Winning, she says, was the opportunity of a lifetime.
Lisa Murphy chaps and breast plate at Cowgirls of the West Museum. | Photo: Shoshi Parks
Two of this year’s dandies, goodwill ambassadors for CFD. | Photo: Shoshi Parks
That was 1988. Thirty years later, when we meet in person at Cheyenne Frontier Days (CFD), a rodeo, carnival, music festival, and parade all rolled into a 10-day event, Murphy is just as lovely and just as badass, wearing the blue plaid button-up, jeans, and cowboy boots that identify the event’s more than 2500 volunteers. Created 123 years ago as a one-day cattle roundup and cowboy competition testing essential ranching skills, CFD has blossomed into the country’s largest outdoor rodeo—aptly nicknamed the “Daddy of ‘em all.”
For the women of Cheyenne, this year’s Frontier Days is extra special; it coincides with the 150th anniversary of Wyoming women’s right to vote. Murphy, the first woman to serve as chair of the festival’s board in 2017, is the perfect behind-the-scenes guide at the arena. We walk through rows of pens, each containing muscular horses with shining coats and massive bulls lounging in the sun. Below the stadium seating at the arena, competitors in cowboy hats tape up their elbows and ankles in a metal-fenced, outdoor green room. Injuries are par for the course in rodeo sports; more than one cowboy offers us a tale of lacerated internal organs.
A woman warms up a horse before the rodeo begins. | Photo: Shoshi Parks
This year the CFD has added a new women’s event: breakaway roping. It’s a heart-pounding, high-speed horseback chase to rope a running calf (the rope breaks apart quickly after the calf has been lassoed). The competitors must not only be skilled horsewomen and ropers but absolutely fearless; even this relatively non-contact sport can get a rider thrown from her horse at 55 miles per hour without a helmet.
If the rodeo is Cheyenne Frontier Days’ most adrenaline-fueled event, the Grand Parade is its most folksy. This procession—which includes highschool drill teams, military units, state officials on horseback, and hundreds of other Cheyenne-ites in carriages and vintage cars—happens not just once, but four times during the 10-day celebration.
A bull rider at the rodeo. | Photo: Shoshi Parks
Wyoming governor Mark Gordon in the Grand Parade. | Photo: Shoshi Parks
Bulls resting before the CFD rodeo. | Photo: Shoshi Parks
Competitors mingle and prep in the waiting room behind the arena. | Photo: Shoshi Parks
Horses run through the rodeo arena during the CFD opening ceremonies. | Photo: Shoshi Parks
By the time I arrive the morning of the first parade, it seems everyone in town is already here, either participating or watching from the sidelines. Even Wyoming’s governor, Mark Gordon, rides by on a handsome, prancing buckskin horse with a lasso coiled at his side. There’s something about the hominess and heritage of this event that moves me to tears.
Suffragette city
The suffragettes appear midway through the procession: women in white shirts, long black skirts, and purple-and-yellow-edged ribbon sashes. They carry homemade signs with phrases such as “150 years of women’s suffrage in Wyoming.” To say that Wyoming was the first state to grant women the right to vote is a bit misleading since it was still a territory in 1869. In fact, it was the transition to statehood two decades later that was the true test of Wyoming’s suffrage.
For Wyoming to join the Union, Congress demanded that the territory rescind women’s right to vote. Local lawmakers were on the fence and, as they debated the path forward, one woman, heavily pregnant and dressed in 22 pounds of corsets and fabric, went to work. Theresa Jenkins hitched up her horse and buggy and went door-to-door urging women to assemble and demand their rights. If the U.S. wouldn’t accept the rights of Wyoming’s women then, by golly, they’d stay a territory. By the end of the day, hundreds of ladies had gathered at the Capitol Building, their heavy, frilly dresses filling the downtown area with color. It’s rumored that Jenkins’ voice was so powerful that women four blocks away could hear her call to action.
Downtown Cheyenne. | Photo: Shoshi Parks
A mural in downtown Cheyenne. | Photo: Shoshi Parks
Cheyenne Capitol Building. | Photo: Shoshi Parks
The plan worked, at least in part, says Pope. “The legislature was a little leery to change their vote when they had all those women out front carrying on.” Wyoming upheld the voting rights of its women and was still accepted into the Union, becoming the first state where eligible women could fully participate in the democratic process (Native Americans and Chinese immigrants were still not allowed to vote). Her objective achieved, Jenkins returned home that afternoon and went into labor, giving birth to a daughter she named Agnes.
Winning, and keeping, the right to vote wasn’t the only political first attributed to the women of Cheyenne, and Wyoming as a whole. The first woman to serve as a justice of the peace in the U.S., Esther Hobart Morris—a “tough old broad” nearly six feet tall, according to Pope—sat on the bench for nine months in South Pass City in 1870. One of the first things she did? Have her husband arrested as drunk and disorderly.
Then there was Estelle Reel, the first woman elected to federal office in 1894 as the superintendent of public instruction. Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first female governor in the U.S. after winning a special election in 1925, following the death of her husband, then-governor William. The following decade Ross broke through yet another glass ceiling: securing an appointment as the first female director of the U.S. Mint.
The toughest woman in the land
For every Cheyenne woman who made the history books, there were hundreds of others whose feat was simply to survive in harsh prairielands where men outnumbered women six to one and violence was a way of life. “The women of the West were strong stuff. When you think about coming out here in wagons, and all these crazy characters with guns. I mean, they couldn’t keep all the ruffians under control,” says Pope. And among those ruffians: Miss Calamity Jane, the roughest, toughest woman in the land.
There are so many legends about Calamity Jane that it’s hard to parse fact from fiction. What we do know is that she dressed as a man, worked as a military scout on the frontier, played sidekick to folk hero Wild Bill Hickok, and told stories in the Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show.
1885 photos of Calamity Jane. | Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Calamity Jane wearing buckskins. | Photo: Wikimedia Commons
A notorious alcoholic, Jane was well-known in Cheyenne’s saloons. “Women weren’t really allowed in the bar but she’d go in all the time, belly right up with the guys,” Pope says. “She’d shoot up the mirror backs behind the bar, and they just loved it.” Stumbling out drunk late at night, Jane had a habit of stealing whatever horse was standing around. One time she stole a horse and buggy and made it all the way to Fort Laramie, around 100 miles away from Cheyenne, before being stopped by authorities.
A cowboy rides a bucking bronc at CFD. | Photo: Shoshi Parks
For better or worse, Cheyenne’s bar scene is a bit quieter today than in Calamity Jane’s day. On Friday night at the 26,000-square-foot Outlaw Saloon, couples two-step beneath laser lights and patrons throw back shots of whiskey and bottles of beer. In 2019, there’s only one way for a gal to show her mettle here—the mechanical bull. Whether it’s Calamity Jane on my shoulder or the Bud Light in my glass, it’s a challenge I eagerly accept.
I saunter up to the bull operator, pay ten dollars, and wobble across the bouncy house floor to the headless creature. Throwing my leg over its soft hide, I scramble into the saddle and adjust my skirt, a poor clothing choice for this rodeo adventure. I last exactly 22 seconds before toppling off, cowboy boots in the air, laughing loudly.
“Not too bad for my first time,” I decide as I gracelessly stumble to my feet and curtsey to the hooting, hollering witnesses. I know if Calamity Jane were here, she’d be laughing, too.
The Cheyenne Frontier Days—the “world’s largest outdoor rodeo and Western celebration”—take place every year in July.
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Shoshi Parks
Shoshi Parks is a Bay Area writer specializing in stories about travel, history, and food. Her work has appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, NPR, Atlas Obscura, Fodor's Travel, and elsewhere.
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With her background in engineering, architectural design, and business strategy, she has developed a specialty in phygital (physical + digital) transformation implementations (most recently within the built environment). Jenna comes from spending 20 years consulting for industry at large firms, including Accenture and Booz Allen, and at smaller firms that specialize in digital transformation in the built environment. Before joining QUT, Jenna founded the consultancy firm Eudae Group to advise clients on how best to curate flourishing environments that enhance occupant health and precipitate organizational success. She continues to consult on designing for health and well-being with clients and certification bodies across North America, Europe, and Australasia.
Thesis Title: Co-designing with Older Adults to Define Eudaemonic Design
Jenna’s research and advisory work are based on the neo-Aristotelian concept of Eudaemonia (that is literally defined as eu (good or health) + daimon (true self)—being one’s best self) and the applied psychology construct of Eudaemonic Well-Being (EWB) to understand how to Design for EWB in the built environment. As a PhD candidate who has come from industry, she has recognised the propensity for companies to design wastefully for “the art of the possible” or frugally when considering “the mighty dollar”, oftentimes forgetting occupant interests. Her PhD research aims to challenge these tendencies.
This doctoral research focuses on exploring what occupants want and need in spaces that support EWB—or flourishing physical, mental, and social health. Jenna seeks to gain this understanding by co-designing with older adults, within the context of their home environment. By working with this demographic, she endeavours to establish Eudaemonic Design as a design paradigm for optimal health and well-being while also addressing population ageing concerns. The result of her research will be a Eudaemonic Design framework with design guidelines that will characterize Eudaemonia-supportive environments for older adults and potentially other demographics.
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Estimated Completion Date: February 2023
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This Week's Program: November 20th, 2009
Sweeter dreams
Glenn Oclassen, CEO & President of Transcept Pharmaceuticals, describes his company and the work they are doing in Richmond to promote sound sleep.
Last MEETING: November 13th, 2009
President Glenn Daggs opened the meeting and asked Jerry Feagley to lead the “Pledge to the Flag.” Past President Herb Cole asked the members for a moment of silence for peace and freedom in the world. And, Henry Kelman, in his thought for the day, reminisced about the inclusion of women in Rotary—the controversy and apprehension that preceded it and the positive benefits that resulted.
Visiting Rotarians included Past District Governor Jim Campbell with wife Linda, Assistant District Governor Gary Boyles, El Cerrito Rotary President Tracy Giles, and David Englehart from the Orinda Rotary Club.
Henry Moe had as his guests Janet Wilkes and John Castro, both members of the Salesian High School faculty.
President-Elect Alan Baer encouraged sign-ups for the Rotary holiday party at H’s Lordship’s on December 19.
Sid Chauvin promoted the Reno Intercity train excursion on January 24/25, 2010.
Club Treasurer David Brown thanked the members who contributed $100 each to assist teachers with out-of-pocket classroom expenses at Peres Elementary School.
April Jordan thanked those members who signed up to read to students at Peres next Wednesday and encouraged other members to participate.
Past President Mark Howe announced a sail on his boat this coming Sunday for those who purchased the privilege at last year’s auction.
Tracy Giles had an announcement about Foundation Day at the Races at Golden Gate Fields on Saturday, December 5. A race will be named in honor of our Club if at least eleven members sign up. The cost is $32 per person which includes valet parking, Turf Club seating and a prime rib buffet. The track will donate 10% of Rotary ticket sales to the Rotary International Foundation.
Past Presidents Don Lau and Jim Beaver promoted participation at the annual Holiday Auction on December 4. This auction succeeds only when everyone participates. Contact Don today with your auction item description!
PDG Jim Campbell commended Past President Erle Brown for his efforts as Club Foundation Chair and presented a certificate to President Glenn recognizing our clubs Foundation contributions to the tune of $222.18 per capita.
Club Secretary Jon Lawlis expressed thanks to Jim and Linda Campbell for the past contribution of hand-made bears to the Richmond Rotary Teen Moms program. He also called everyone’s attention to a new selection of bears which were displayed around the room.
Jim Beaver recognized Don Lau who celebrated a birthday while in New York City attending a Building Blocks for Kids conference. Don also mentioned that his father recently celebrated his ninety-third birthday.
Sid Chauvin appeared to be happy that there are 41 days until Christmas.
Jon Lawlis was happy about a “fabulous” night at Past President Leslie Levy’s.
Josh Genser expressed happiness about the state of college football in the Bay Area, which in turn provoked responses from Erle Brown and Herb Cole.
Past President George Egan was grateful for an impending or completed patent process.
Ted Abreu expressed pleasure at having attended a District 5160 Interact conference the previous Sunday at El Cerrito High School. 423 Interacters were present.
A man and his ever-nagging wife were on vacation in Jerusalem, when the wife passed away. The undertaker told the husband, "You can have her shipped home for $5,000 or you can bury her here in the Holy Land for $150." The man thought about it and told him he would just have her shipped home. The undertaker asked, "Why would you spend $5,000 to ship your wife home when it would be wonderful to be buried here and you would spend only $150?" The man replied, "Long ago a man died here, was buried here, and three days later he rose from the dead. I just can't take that chance."
Sid Chauvin drew a white ball.
The Shot Spotter
President Glen introduced the speaker for the day, Sergeant David Harris of the Richmond Police Department, who spoke about the Shot Spotter System now in place in parts of the city of Richmond. With the aid of a slide-show presentation, he described how this amazing technology works. Sensors distributed around the area are calibrated to recognize and pin point, through triangulation, the location of gun shots, enabling police dispatchers to direct officers to the scene. The system is advertised to have accuracy to about 25 meters, but in reality it is much more precise. The benefits of this technology, which is wireless, are numerous, including accelerated response to gun shots, increased likelihood of apprehending perpetrators, and quicker medical response for victims. Experience has shown that the system has also contributed to increased cooperation from citizens in providing descriptions and location of perpetrators. The technology also provides data which can assist in the prosecution of crimes. Sergeant Harris noted that there will be further expansion of the system into other “high crime” areas, but it is not intended for city-wide installation.
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A look at South Africa’s massive new wind farm that just launched in the Western Cape – 8 October 2020
Author: Staff Writer
A look at South Africa’s massive new wind farm that just launched in the Western Cape
Renewable power company Lekela has announced the start of commercial operations at its Perdekraal East windfarm in the Western Cape.
The windfarm will add 110MW to South Africa’s national grid and is the first wind farm from round four of the renewable energy Independent Power Producers Procurement Programme to begin commercial operations.
It commenced its 20-year Commercial Operations period starting Thursday, 8 October 2020.
Situated in the Witzenberg Municipality near Matjiesfontien in the Western Cape, Perdekraal East has 48 turbines generating approximately 360 GWh of energy each year – enough to supply power for 111,000 South African homes.
It has a 20-year power purchase agreement with Eskom. Lekela co-owns the project with the local community which has a shareholding though a community trust.
“Every renewable project which reaches completion means South Africa gains more advantage from its abundant sustainable resources,” said Lekela Power chief executive Chris Antonopoulos.
“More vital power flows into the national grid with all the concomitant benefits for the country and its citizens.”
Antonopoulos said that the facility will eliminate approximately 410,000 tons of CO2 emissions annually compared to traditional fossil-fuel power-plants.
He added that the 140MW Kangnas windfarm in the Northern Cape will reach its commercial operations date later in the year.
It will use 61 turbines, each producing 2.3MW to add around another 500 GWh each year of clean, economic and renewable energy to the national grid.
Perdekraal East and Kangnas will join Lekela Power’s three other South African operations already in operation: its 80MW Noupoort, 140MW Loeriesfontein 2, and 140MW Khobab windfarms, all in the Northern Cape.
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Today as part of my week-long series about books that I’ve put out with Publishing Genius (all of which [except two] are half off with the coupon code “backagain”), I thought I’d talk about Craig Griffin’s cookbook-slash-epistolary novel, EAT, KNUCKLEHEAD!
People often ask me, “Adam, what’s a cookbook-slash-epistolary novel?”
It’s a normal cookbook, with about 100 recipes for (mostly) vegetarian food—healthy snacks, entrees, desserts—and it’s broken down into sections, like food to make for a Superbowl party, or how to impress someone, how to make breakfast in bed. There’s even a chapter on cooking with weed, for you people in Colorado.
These recipes are all fitted into a narrative about a father who needs to teach his young son how to cook, otherwise the kid is going to eat fast food for the rest of his life. So the dad (who is unnamed, as is the son) sends him these letters, explaining the background of their family meals. In that way, you learn a lot about the family, and also about the kid as he grows up.
He graduates from college. Meets a girl and they date for a while, but then break up. They get back together (I think, but Craig Griffin told me that the woman is not necessarily the same person) and get married (I think, but Craig told me this also isn’t necessarily so). The guy learns how to cook a meal suitable to impress her parents.
He also learns a lot about his dad, who once charged across the field at Wrigley Park with his rowdy friends.
The reason I wanted to publish this book
The reason I wanted to publish this book goes back to Bukowski’s, a bar in Boston across the street from the convention center where AWP was going on. I was having lunch there with Michael Fitzgerald. We were talking about how valuable it is to be able to write well, and naturally. This conversation also led to my growing conviction that good poetry is extremely marketable (just look at the Old Spice commercials). We veered into what books are marketable and Michael pointed out that cookbooks are profit leaders for most publishers. I think he jokingly said I should do a cookbook. He probably remembers all this better than me. Because, like, AWP.
It wasn’t long after I got home that Craig Griffin told me about his idea for a cookbook, and that was that.
Working with the author
I’ve known Craig since college. We were writing partners for a while, and we did a series of impromptu plays for our friends called “Vicarious Lovers.” I always thought that, of the two of us, Craig is the better writer, more natural, funnier, with snappier sentences. I remember reading a story he wrote about all the times he’d punched someone and I laughed and laughed.
So Craig set about writing the story and working up the recipes. A lot of the dishes come from our mutual friends, who factor prominently in the book, though anonymously (Craig told me these characters aren’t our friends, but I know they are). I paid him a minuscule advance so he could buy ingredients for his test kitchen.
I’ve made a lot of the dishes in the book—not all or even half, but a lot of them. They’re great, and they’re meant to be simple, so any Knucklehead can make them. I like the vegetarian sloppy Joes.
Craig also illustrated the book, with elegant line drawings that show how to snap the ends off of beans, or how to boil an egg. The drawings are my favorite part.
One idea was to make the drawings corny, like this mockup Craig made.
Instead we opted for a more realistic approach.
Craig lived in a huge warehouse in Chicago when he wrote EAT, KNUCKLEHEAD!, and one time I went to visit him and saw that he had every page of the book hung up along the walls of his house. It was inspiring to see so much work done so meticulously. And when we had the launch party there during Pitchfork 2014, he painted a wall of the place to match the book cover.
One time we went to a bookstore to look at cookbooks and see how they’re made. Obviously cookbooks usually have a ton of production conventions, like big full color pictures, heavy and glossy paper, maybe some tabs distinguishing the sections. We decided that would be cost prohibitive, so instead we designed the book to play up the novel aspect of it. But it was also important to me that it be functional as a cookbook, so it’s really easy to use, with wide margins around the recipes, and a variety of typefaces so readers can tell what’s what at a glance. And there’s an index in the back that references the recipes by what kind of food it is.
You might notice that there’s no author name on the cover. Isn’t that weird? We did that to shine a light on the epistolary aspect of the book, I guess, since it just says “Love, Pa.”
One of our original intentions was certainly to hit it big with the book. It seems like the kind of thing that should be on “Good Morning America,” right? But then I told Craig that, because of the cooking with weed chapter, maybe it wouldn’t be appropriate for a morning show, and he said, “No, but it’s great for Letterman” (Letterman still had a show at the time).
Well, he hasn’t even been on Jimmy Kimmel’s show yet. Can you help with that? And if you can’t help with that, maybe you’ll want to buy a copy, and a second one for whatever knucklehead in your life needs to learn some kitchen basics?
If you do, use coupon code “backagain.”
Adam Robinson lives in Atlanta and runs Publishing Genius Press. He is the author of two poetry collections, Adam Robison and Other Poems and Say Poem.
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Nashik civic body collects Rs 87.67 crore property tax between Apr-Oct 2019
This year, till October, the civic body has collected Rs 87.67 crore as against Rs 86 crore during the corresponding period in the year 2018.
Tushar Pawar
NASHIK: The property tax collection of Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) has increased marginally by Rs 1.67 crore from April to October this year in comparison with the same period last year.
Owing to the recently introduced amnesty scheme, the NMC has collected around Rs 28 crore in the past one-and-a-half month.
In the last financial year (2018-19), the NMC had collected Rs 112 crore as property tax and it was for the first time that the collection target had touched Rs 100.
Now, the NMC has set a property tax collection target of Rs 250 crore for the current financial year 2019-20, but it has so far collected only Rs 87.67 crore.
Interestingly, the NMC’s property tax collection till July 4 was only Rs 20 crore. Taking serious cognizance of this, municipal commissioner Radhakrishna Game directed the officials concerned to start stern recovery drive against the defaulters.
After the issuance of public notice for auctioning of properties of tax defaulters, people started clearing their dues. The NMC collected Rs 38 crore in just one month between July 04 and August 04, taking the total tax collection to Rs 58 crore.
The NMC had also issued warrants to over 1,000 defaulters thereafter in August, giving them a deadline of a month to pay their dues or face seizure of properties. But before taking action against the defaulters, the NMC launched an amnesty scheme in September.
The NMC recovers 2% fine per month on the tax dues from the last day of paying taxes. Moreover, it also recovers expenses of notices and warrants issued to the defaulters.
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But as per the scheme, rebate was given to defaulters in penalty, warrant and notice fees if they cleared their total dues. “We recovered around Rs 28 crore through amnesty scheme. This has led to marginal rise in property tax collection during the April-October period, as compared to the corresponding period last year,” an NMC official said.
“We will soon start a drive against property tax defaulters in a bid to achieve property tax collection target for the current financial year,” he added.
Nashik East division has garnered the highest property tax collection of Rs 17.25 crore among six divisions, followed by Nashik West division with Rs 16.41 crore.
Radhakrishna Game
nashik municipal corporation
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Tie a string in a loop and slip it over a ruler. The other end should twist into a loop and slide over the handle of a hammer resting at the end of its rubber grip. Place the ruler's edge with the hammer head underneath on the edge of a table. The hammer handle should rest against the other end of the ruler. What happens? Why?
The tank
Stored energy, friction and the reduction of it with the candle, and also if the cotton reel needs to be roughened up to make it grip the "ground". Back to the enquiry| Back to the index
Why the comeback tin comes back
The rolling tin stores energy in the elastic, because the weight always hangs down as the tin rolls in one direction. This works best on the sort of coffee tin that has a metal lid that clips into the top of the can. Try making a second one in a clear plastic container, to see how it works. Back to the enquiry| Back to the index
The inertia bricks
A thick pile of newspapers in a box on the floor will make this a whole lot quieter and safer!! The idea of inertia is also behind the trick where you take a potato and soak it in water (to make it nice and crisp), then you can spear a drinking straw into it, because of the inertia of the potato. Back to the enquiry| Back to the index
Resonant pendula
The principle of resonance causes the energy to be transferred from one pendulum to the other, and then back again, provided they are the same length. I have never tried this, but a pendulum should also influence one a quarter of its length (i.e., with half the period), but there should not be the chance to "return the compliment". This is a simple toy which can give you hours of pleasure.
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Coupled pendula
Because the two pendula have the same length, this means they have the same frequency. So when the swinging pendulum pulls gently on the other pendulum each swing, it does so at just the right speed to keep transferring energy across. Think of the timing you ahve to use when you are pushing a child on a swing. Back to the enquiry| Back to the index
Torsion pendulum
The torsion pendulum has a constant period, regardless of the displacement: try varying the weights, or their placement, and see what the period (one full cycle from stop, through turn through stop through turn back through to stop again) is. You can also try heavier beams on the bottom. References: There are only a few of them, but Coulomb developed the theory so he could carry out other experiments, somewhere back around 1820. John Michell used the torsion pendulum to plan an experiment that would weigh the earth -- in the end, the experiment was done by Henry Cavendish. The idea, as Coulomb explained it, is that a very thin wire, which delvers a very weak restoring force, will allow even small forces to be measured. And the beautiful part is that you can use simple mathematics to calculate the restoring force associated with a deflection of just a few degrees! In the late 1990s, a torsion pendulum was used to prove the existence of something called the Casimir effect. You will have to hunt this one up for yourself. Back to the enquiry| Back to the index
Lissajous figures
I haven't got round to this one yet. Look it up, write a good explanation, and i will put it here with your name on it :-) Back to the enquiry| Back to the index
There is a great deal of room for experimentation: lichens can be used for colours, blenders can be used to do the grinding and chopping, and it may be that you can do some useful work with a
microwave. Try fern stems and fern roots, and experiment with small amounts of vinegar or lemon juice (acid) or dilute ammonia (alkali) to change the colours, as most dyes work as "indicators". Oak bark is a traditional European and American source, but what about the acorns, or the barks of gums and wattles, or other trees that grow where you live? Many wattles were used in the past as a source of "tanbark", bark from which tannins could be extracted to be used in tanning leather. You might also like to investigate other mordants, and try the dyes on different types of cloth: what works on wool may not work on cotton, and vice versa. Back to the enquiry| Back to the index
The cutting wire
Standard explanation:
The pressure of the wire causes the ice to melt beneath it. The wire sinks easily through the melted ice, while the ice above the wire, which is no longer under pressure, refreezes. This scientific principle also applies to ice skating. The pressure that your skates exert on ice causes a layer of water to form under the blades, creating a slick and slippery surface for sliding. (But see "Reality" below.) The glass of the bottle and the cork are both insulators, so they stop the ice block from melting too fast. The wire, on the other hand, is able to conduct heat (warmth) from the outside. By the way, you need to do this on a cold day: if the temperature is more than about 10 degrees C, the ice block will melt too fast, and it will probably not freeze again! But on days like that, you can probably still get a result with a larger ice block, and a piece of wire with 5 kg weights on either side. Research problem: would there be a temperature below which you would not see this effect at all? How would you find out if you are right?
Reality:
The change in melting point due to the pressure is so small that the main melting effect in this demonstration comes from heat conducted into the ice along the metal wire. To test this claim, you would need to replace the wire with string or cotton, and maybe try to see what happens at temperatures close to freezing, when the pressure effect will not be changed, but conduction will be reduced to a minimum. So if the pressure thing doesn't happen that way, why do the skates work? Well, contrary to what most books say, scientists now believe that there is always a thin fluid layer on the surface of ice, so you don't need the "pressure effect". Here is a link to more information on this. Back to the question
Hero's carton
Newton's Third Law states that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Water
shoots out the holes, and pushes back on the carton with equal force. A turbine is formed as the energy of the moving liquid is converted into rotational energy. This principle was known to Hero of Alexandria (also known to us as Heron of Alexandria). You can also do this experiment with an aluminium drink can. Make holes near the bottom in about four places with a nail, and in each case, lay the nail over, so the hole will squirt sideways. Cut the top off the can carefully with scissors and hang the can, using fishing line and a fishing swivel, under a flow of water. Back to the question
The swinging record
The simple answer is that the record has something called gyroscopic inertia, the same thing that stops a toy top from falling over while it spins. To a scientist, gyroscopic inertia is the property of a rotating object to resist any force which would change its axis of rotation. Once the record is set spinning at an angle perpendicular to the string, it will resist any forces (such as gravity) that try to change that angle. By the way, I have tried doing this with several Barry Manilow records, and they just don't swing at all. Back to the question
The supportive eggshells
Arches even those made of eggshells are strong because they exert horizontal as well as vertical forces to resist the pressure of heavy loads. The crown of an eggshell can support heavy books because the weight is distributed evenly along the structure of the egg. Back to the question
Why the potato went floppy
Through osmosis, water moves from areas of low salt concentrations to areas of high salt concentrations. Adding salt to the water creates a higher salt concentration in the dish than in the potato. Consequently, water in a potato that is soaking in salt water migrates out, leaving behind a limp spud! People often make celery and strips of carrot go crisp by soaking them in fresh water. What happens if you soak these vegetables in salt water? There are more experiments with living things at this link. There is also an experiment on diffusion which will help you understand osmosis a bit better. Back to the question
One side of the Mbius strip
Your piece of paper is called a Mobius strip, which is a shape described by a branch of mathematics called topology. When you twisted your strip, the inside and outside became one continuous surface. And when you cut the strip, it became one longer chain but still had only one continuous surface. Try the experiment again and give the paper a full twist. Then try one and a half twists, and see what happens. See what you can discover about Klein bottles. Back to the question. Or you can look at some more number things.
Why does the bird appear to be in the cage?
It appears to be caged because of how your eyes and brain work. When you see the image of the bird, your brain holds onto the image for a short time--even though the image appears and disappears quickly. The same thing happens with the image of the cage. The two images actually overlap in your brain so the bird appears to be in the cage. The technical name for this effect is persistence. It is what lies behind every movie and every TV program that you see. Back to the question Here is a link to sight and light , where these ideas are explored further.
Why does the starch do this?
The molecules in the starch are very large compared with molecules of water or other ordinary molecules. When you slap the surface quickly, the get tangled in each other, and this stops them splattering. In this way the mixture behaves more like a solid. If you move them slowly, or let them flow, they can run past each other, and so the starch behaves like a liquid. You can also use custard powder for this experiment, but watch out, because the custard leaves yellow stains if you spill it on anything. (Custard powder is mainly corn starch.) Check to see if this yellow colour is an indicator for acids and alkalis. Back to the question
What puts out the candles?
When vinegar reacts with baking soda, carbon dioxide gas is produced. This gas is heavier than air so it sinks to the bottom of the bowl and slowly begins to fill up the bowl as though it were water. When the level of carbon dioxide has risen to the level of the flame, the flame will go out from lack of air. Did you notice which candle went out first? Does this suggest anything about how the gas filled the bowl?
When you burn a candle, carbon dioxide is produced, yet this carbon dioxide does not put the candle out. Can you suggest why that might be? Back to the question
Why do the different liquids stack in layers?
The liquids have different densities. The most dense (golden syrup) will be at the bottom, the least dense (oil) will be at the top, with the water in between. Each object will sink to the level of the liquid that has a greater density than the object. The object will then float on that layer. The water and golden syrup will mix, which is why you add the oil first, so the water just drifts down and sits on top of the syrup. The syrup will slowly diffuse into the water over time, and vice versa. Back to the question
Why do the raisins bob to the surface?
Soda water contains dissolved carbon dioxide gas that collects on the irregular surfaces on the raisins. Once enough bubbles have collected, it will actually lift the raisins to the surface where the gas is released into the air, causing the raisins to sink once again. There are more experiments with bubbles Back to the question
Why does the pen cap sink?
By squeezing the bottle, you increase the pressure inside, thus forcing more water up into the pen cap. The added water in the cap increases its weight and causes the cap to sink. You can make this sort of diver in other forms. A partly water-filled eye-dropper will work, and so will a drinking straw, blocked at the top with color and weighted around the outside of the bottom with a larger piece of Plasticine Back to the question
Why does the egg go into the bottle?
The flames heat the air in the bottle. As the heated air expands, some of it escapes out the bottle. When the matches go out, the air inside the bottle cools and contracts, thus creating a lower pressure inside the bottle than outside. The greater pressure outside the bottle forces the egg into the bottle.
Break up the egg with a skewer to get it out of the bottle again, unless you can think of a safe way to make it pop out in one piece, remembering that thick glass sometimes shatters if it comes in contact with very hot water. Back to the question
Why won't the paper go into the bottle?
In trying to push the paper into the bottle, you are aiming the air stream at the mouth of the soda bottle. The hair dryer pushes air into the bottle, filling it with slightly compressed air. In fact, the bottle is so full of air that there is no room for anything else to enter -- not even a little ball of paper. If you turn off the hair dryer or aim it away, the air can escape the bottle and there is room for the paper. Back to the question
How did the coin disappear?
We see objects because light rays reflect off them and into our eyes. But light bends each time it hits a substance of a different density. The light reflecting off the coin must pass through air, glass, and water (all with different densities) to get to your eye but the light bends so many times that by the time it gets to your eye, it looks like it's somewhere that it's not! Back to the question
Why did the empty jar win?
At first, the water-filled jar moves down the ramp faster than the empty one. This happens because its weight is evenly distributed throughout its volume, thanks to the water inside it. The empty jar's weight is all in the glass outside so it doesn't roll quite as fast. But as the jars begin rolling on the flat surface, the greater weight of the full jar causes friction between the jar and the floor as well as friction between the water and the inside of the jar. The full jar slows down, allowing the lighter, empty jar to take the lead! A half-full tin of golden syrup will roll down the same slope in a most surprising way. Make sure the lid is firmly on, and make sure the tin is only half-full, or less. Back to the question
Why couldn't I get any water from the jar?
When you drink from an open glass of water, air pressure allows the water to travel up the straw. When you reduce the pressure inside your mouth (by sucking on the straw), the surrounding air pressure pushes down on the water and forces the liquid up the straw. But when air pressure on the water is blocked (when you seal the jar lid), there is no air pressure to help push the water up your straw. The air can't get to the water to
push on it, so it doesn't go up the straw. Regardless of how hard you suck, the water stays where it is! Back to the question
Why did the coins land at the same time?
The coins start from the same height off the ground and are the same mass and shape, so gravity and air resistance worked on them in exactly the same way. Even if an object is thrown straight out, it will fall to the ground in exactly the same amount of time as an identical object that is dropped - the acceleration toward the ground that the objects experience as a result of gravity causes them to hit at the same time. Back to the question
Why does air appear at the end of the stem?
There are holes in the leaf called stomates and tiny tubes called xylem which run down the stem. The leaf and stem act as a straw for the plant. As you drew air out of the plant, more air was drawn into the bottle through the stomates and xylem. This is the same system that plants use to move water around. There are more experiments with living things here. Back to the question
How does the hovercraft work?
The air flowing from the balloon through the hole forms a layer of air between the hovercraft and the table. This reduces the friction. With less friction, your hovercraft scoots across the table. As a rule, this model works best when you use a thin sheet of laminated material like Formica or Laminex, because the "card" needs to be very flat and quite stiff, although most books listing this experiment say to use carboard. The cork is lighter than a cotton reel, which makes it better. There could be a good science fair project here for anybody who could work out how to mount a fan-driven blower on this "craft".
Give yourself a lift! An old-fashioned vacuum cleaner, where you can attach the hose to the "blow" end, can be used to make a hovercraft that will lift a person. You will need a piece of hardboard about 60 cm square, some heavy-duty plastic sheet, a hole saw, the right sort of vacuum cleaner, and some sticky tape. Drill a hole in the centre of the hardboard to take the vacuum cleaner nozzle. Attach a "skirt" of plastic sheeting, about 10 cm wide, all around the edge of the board: this is used to contain the
pressure below the board, allowing the craft to rise higher. Fit the vacuum cleaner and switch on. Fiddle for better results. This size lifted me when I weighed about 60 kg! For better results, shape the skirt and attach it to the underside, so that it can not blow out on one side, spilling the air pressure. I used masking tape to hold it in place, but there must be better ways: research how they do it on a real hovercraft. Another thought: try using a cooler fan from a computer, but get some advice about the correct voltage to use (and find out if they use AC or DC), think about why helicopters have a tail rotor, and then think about using four fans. Back to the question
Why does the paper spiral twirl?
The energy from the light heats the air above it. Warm air is lighter than cool air, so as the air heats up, it rises above the lamp. Cool air moves in to replace the warmer, lighter air. This "convection current" causes the spiral to twirl. Back to the question
Why did the temperature rise?
The vinegar removes any protective coating from the steel wool, allowing the iron in the steel to rust. Rusting is a slow combination of iron with oxygen. When this happens, heat energy is released. The heat released by the rusting of the iron causes the mercury in the thermometer to expand and rise. Back to the question
Why do the cups move?
Bernoulli's principle states that in areas where air moves rapidly, pressure is low. Blowing between the cups drops the pressure so the higher air pressure of the surrounding air pushes the cups together. Back to the question
Why does the balloon inflate into the bottle?
The warm water heats the bottle which, in turn, heats the air inside the bottle after the water is poured out. When the bottle is placed in the cold water, the air inside cools and contracts, causing outside air to be drawn in, pulling the balloon in and inflating it inside the bottle. Try sitting the bottle back in the hot water again.
Another way to try this uses a balloon, a plastic drink bottle, some plastic tubing, rubber glue, a bicycle pump with the valve of the piston reversed (to suck instead of blow), and a drill. You will have to drill a hole in the side of the bottle near the bottom, choosing a size which will just take the plastic tubing, and then glue the tubing in place. Hook this up to the pump, or use the connector from an old inner tube, but with the valve removed. Then push the balloon down through the neck of the bottle, and reverse the neck of the balloon down over the outside of the bottle neck. When air is drawn from the bottle, atmospheric pressure is greater, and the balloon "blows up" inside the bottle. The main problem will be finding a bicycle pump which allows the valve to be reversed. The modern plastic variety does not allow this, so look for and old relic, with a metal barrel which can be unscrewed. Yet another variation: Try shaking a small amount of very hot water in a bottle to heat the air inside, then quickly fit a balloon to the neck. Then wait a few minutes for things to cool down before you sit the bottle in an ice bath. Some of the pressure inside the bottle will have been a result of water vapour, which now condenses. Back to the question
Why does the hammer balance?
All objects have a centre of gravity that acts as if all the weight of the object were balanced there. The centre of gravity of the ruler is in the middle, but the hammer moves the centre of gravity of the system to under the table's edge which keeps it from falling.
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Taking the Plunge
A few days ago, we watched as three little house martins took their first flight. Two months earlier the parent birds had been busily building their nest under the eaves of our house. In the last couple of weeks, they were getting really busy with three growing chicks to feed. And for several days we had watched their little black and white faces as they looked out at the open skies that would soon be their world.
We were watching the last one that hadn’t quite plucked up the courage to launch out and trust its wings. One of the parents came with food and, seconds after it had left, the youngster suddenly took the plunge and was off.
That little bird, like its parents and siblings, had everything it needed to live as it was created to live. For about three weeks it had depended on its parents to feed it. But now it could fly and fend for itself. Within the next few weeks, it will be setting off for its long flight to Africa.
Throughout our lives, God will ask us to do things we’ve never done before; to respond to challenges we have never faced before. When He does this, He gives us ‘everything we need’. The little house martin had never flown before. It had never caught insects in flight. But it was already equipped with wings to fly with, eyes sharp enough to see insects in flight, and reactions quick enough to catch them. Its brain is no bigger than a pea. But not only will it be able to feed itself, it will find its way to Africa and back again next spring. It really does have everything it needs. And so do we.
We don’t just have everything we need for life. God also gives us everything we need for godliness. There are so many times when the temptation to compromise our Christian standards is almost overwhelming. But when we put our hand in God’s, He’ll keep us on the right path. The house martins didn’t fall out of the nest, they flew. When the challenges come, God will keep us from falling (Jude 1:24).
Prayer: Father, thank You that You promise to keep me from falling. Today I commit all that I do and all that I am to You. Thank You that You have given me all that I need to face the challenges of the day. I now choose to trust You and commit myself to draw on Your resources for life and godliness. Amen.
His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and virtue
2 Peter 1:3. Tree of Life Version.
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There is more monologue than dialogue in this play.
Another aspect of his character appears in the remarkable "Song of Solomon"... Still another phase is represented in the monologue of Ecclesiastes.
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If you want to get a "friend relationship" going with her (probably a good idea before you ask her out) but you're too nervous to speak to her-you need to find a way to shut off that inner monologue that goes "Oh god, here comes dreamgirl.
During the monologue, Spears (who served as guest host) discussed the gossip while her breasts seemingly took on a life of their own - the monologue was met with applause and laughter.
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Posted byAndrea Miller August 11, 2020 August 11, 2020 Posted inweek 2Tags:week 2
Most people go through life without understanding how much power they actually have and the level of change they can make just by choosing to take action. I’m a citizen lobbyist which means I decided one day that I wanted to influence legislators. I didn’t ask anyone if I could be a lobbyist, I just decided in my mind that was what I was going to do. I asked a friend who was a lobbyist to take me with her when she was on Capitol Hill asking legislators to support HR 676 – Medicare for All. I spent the day with Donna and like the Peggy Lee song, I thought is that all there is?
My favorite legislative power story is about the Equal Rights Amendment; it was a Federal Constitutional amendment that needed to be ratified by three more states. I started going back to the Hill every month joining lobby group working on a wide range of issues. I figured out the dynamics and rules of the Hill and came into my own when friends asked me to help with the Equal Rights Amendment, specifically removing the ratification deadline. By then I had learned to look at the historical list of cosponsors through services like govtrack.us and congress.gov. I knew that getting 100 cosponsors on any piece of legislation meant that a bill would be seen as having a lot of support; I could see that our bill had never had more than 47 cosponsors. We needed to build perceived power to push a bill that had languished for 10 years with virtually no support and no Senate companion bill.
The Equal Rights Amendment is 24 simple words penned by Alice Paul
If it sounds familiar substitute the word “race” for sex and you will recognize it as the 15th Amendment. Women are the majority of the population, yet are not guaranteed equal rights under the law by the Constitution. Obviously, there were serious “power” issues when the majority cannot enact a simple rule. Legislatively you have a power problem when you have a bill in only the House with no Senate companion. I stopped in to see Sen. Sanders (this was pre-Presidential Bernie) and he said, “you need to go see Sen. Ben Cardin and tell him I sent you. Sen. Cardin wants to be the justice Senator and this is definitely a justice issue.” There is a lot of power in the recommendation of a respected and trusted colleague.
When you need to build any type of power, you immediately build your power map. Who supports your cause, who opposes your cause and who seems neutral. The more people you can put in the neutral area, the greater the probability that you can build enough power to get what you want. Power is all about making demands!
We built power by expanding the coalition from women’s groups to multi-issue progressive groups. Washington, DC is a town filled with progressive groups and no progressive groups were talking about the Equal Rights Amendment let alone actively supporting it. So the first order of business was to let all the progressive groups know there was a huge social injustice exists right under their noses and they weren’t even talking about it. Build a coalition of progressive groups and they will find more progressive groups and so on.
I learned early on that if Daily Kos took up an issue, it was an “issue” that others would want to join. In 2013 social media was still relatively new but people were joining and following. Memes targeting Members of Congress who were not supporting equality and justice for women got immediate shares and often calls from reporters. We chose one new target every week and built the number of cosponsors from 47 to 104. And then our lead sponsor left Congress under a cloud of scandal and we needed a new sponsor and were back to 0 cosponsors. I said I wanted Rep. Jackie Speier because I knew her history as Rep. Leo Ryan’s LA and I wanted someone who would join us in “fighting” for the bill and building cosponsors. We also still had the problem of getting 3 more states (out of 15 possibilities) to introduce and pass a Constitutional amendment. It was delightful to find that there were still local groups in states that were interested in ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment. Members had grown older but had not lost their passion for the issue.
We built the power that we needed in three states (Nevada, Illinois and Virginia). When our legislation failed in the 2019 session, we decided we needed to replace 4 members of the Virginia House with Delegates who would support the amendment. We won 8 seats in 2019 (2 Senate seats and 6 House seats) and I was asked to make the closing argument for ratification on HR 1 making Virginia the 38th state to ratify and opening the door for the 28th Constitutional amendment. As I looked around the House chamber, I saw the smiles of delegates that had heard me speak for 8 years on why we needed to pass the amendment. I saw the smile on the face of freshman Delegate Shelley Simonds who had lost in 2017 by one vote and a coin toss. She would be part of that historic delegation that would put Virginia in the history books as a ratified state as one of the candidates I had helped elect.
Published by Andrea Miller
Andrea Miller is an elections and GOTV strategist working to change dominant institutions. She is a Federal and Virginia state lobbyist working on climate, voting rights, mass incarceration, Medicare for All. She chairs the Democracy and Governance Working Group of the Virginia Green New Deal. She is founding Tri-Chair of the Virginia Poor People's Campaign. View more posts
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6 thoughts on “The Power to Amend”
philipdreeves says:
Andrea – Thanks so much for the piece and it was great to hear you color some of this in our peer group. I was struck by the line “The more people you can put in the neutral area, the greater the probability that you can build enough power to get what you want.” What do you think is more important as we build this Shared Ownership coalition, that we turn the opposition to neutral or that we turn neutral parties to supporters? What have proven to be some ways of accomplishing either in the past?
I can tell from your story that you have a deep passion for the work, which seemed critical given the timeline and setbacks you experienced along the way. How do you stay engaged for the long term? How can others learn to do the same?
The idea that you “just decided in [your] mind” to become a lobbyist is amazing to me. Many (read me) may feel a fear of failure or imposter syndrome along the way as they create change. How did you cultivate a mindset that seems to have missed those obstacles altogether?
Andrea Miller says:
I decided to become a lobbyist after my Congressional run in 2008. I realized I could either spend most of my time trying to raise money for my political campaign where I as a single member of Congress could try and move the other 534 members or I could become a lobbyist, recruit and train others and become a force on the Hill.
At the time, I hated raising money and refused to do it (I only raised $38,000 for my Congressional race) and managed 40.7% of the vote. I preferred to spend my time at county fairs directly meeting people and having conversations about what they thought their representative in Washington should do for them.
After the election, I realized, I could simply drive to Washington, walk into Congressional offices and ask them to support bills that did the things that folks I spoke with wanted. Lobbying your fellow citizens or elected officials is understanding the “spin” that makes people want to say yes. The first question you ask yourself is, “would I say yes if someone came to me with this? When you lobby, you’re selling a concept and explaining why this is good and helpful to each individual’s goals. How does it help the member of Congress get re-elected? Is this something popular that they can put in their toolbox? When you are talking to your friends, you’re explaining how this helps them and their family.
The most effective lobbyists are children; they are consistent and persistent in their ask. They don’t beat around the bush it’s a straight request/demand and they know when to shut up and not talk themselves out of a yes.
Alison Powers says:
“I’m a citizen lobbyist which means I decided one day that I wanted to influence legislators. I didn’t ask anyone if I could be a lobbyist, I just decided in my mind that was what I was going to do.”
I loved this line and it really resonated with the concept of taking power. I only started doing hill visits a few years ago- it is not a big part of my job but I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. I felt powerful. There is such a mystique to the halls of power and yet you can just walk in with an appointment and a purpose.
When I was reading I had a similar question as Phil- how have you gathered the patience and determination to win these long battles? I see policy as such a key piece to to the success of shared ownership, how do we collectively come up with a list of demands? How broad does support have to be for these demands? It seems the more people you include than the more diluted the demands become- how do you balance this dynamic?
I have been working for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment since I was 12 which means I have been involved for 54 years.
When I work with legislation, I look at the history of who has supported it, opposed it and ignored it. I then determine how much energy will it take to disarm the opposition, where can we find immediate powerful support (both in numbers, numeric multipliers
We built our talking points and identified those where there would be no compromise (ERA was NOT an abortion bill and we were not going to tolerate any group that wanted to say that equality guaranteed reproductive rights) Reproduction is where men and women are most obviously different. We did not invite any reproductive rights groups into the coalition that we were building (in the early days that meant that we kept Terry O’Neill (National NOW) and Ellie Smeal (Feminist Majority) at more than an arms length. In our power map, the fight for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment was now only women’s groups who had very little power. We decided to invite social and economic justice groups that weren’t dedicated to women’s issues; we said this was an economic issue that had a positive impact on everyone and especially helped women of color. Historically, the women’s movement had primarily been a movement of middle class white women, who periodically had refused to make room at the table for women of color. Since I was now setting the table, we reached out to southern and western women of color to show them how they could be the main beneficiaries of the revived Equal Rights Amendment. Our initial meme showed 5 women in silohuette with a wage comparison by race https://peopledemandingaction.org/campaigns/equal-rights-amendment.
Once you have a compelling leadership group now you can bring folks who have been working on similar and related issues to join you as supporters (your first targets are groups that have more than a million people on their email list). You work with them to develop an email ask to educate people about the issue, and give them something to do (sign a petition in support). Then you offer grassroots training and build additional leadership always widening your network. Then you bring in challenger candidates looking for a “new” issue that will grab attention. Then you bring in the incumbent candidates because this issue will help them get re-elected.
If I was building this coalition today, I would also bring in Faith institutions like we did on Trade and now Voter Suppression/Elections.
One of the things I have learned from conservatives is that they often have a multi-year if not a multi-decade plan for how they are going to accomplish their goals. Writing and passing legislation is a marathon that has a couple of sprints (when your bill is coming up for a vote).
danielcardozo says:
Wow, this story was riveting from start to finish. I think part of what I loved about this piece was the time scale of it. You traced the development of an issue over the course of years without even mentioning who the president was. Because he wasn’t relevant yet. The thing that was needed was to get the thing through Congress and the states. It’s inspiring and sane-making to remember that not everything that’s important is impossible when there is such a loathsome president.
The other inspiring thing about the post is the steady, drum-beat like progress. Oh, you encountered obstacle A? I know that obstacles. Just do thing B until obstacle A goes away. I think about that quote from Shawshank Redemption, “Geology is the study of pressure and time.” The way you portray it, political change can work the same way. Apply the right pressure and keep pushing, and the change will come. Especially if you’re in the right (at least I hope).
What are YOUR conclusions about the story? I feel like the lessons are there for the taking but aren’t quite spelled out. Is the moral of the story that anyone, even a beginner or an outsider to the process, can make a difference if they try hard enough and understand how power works? Is the moral about the need for patience and persistence? I think this already compelling piece would be even stronger if you helped the reader along in interpreting the meaning and import of the events you relate.
We worked on neutralizing the opposition first (there were 2 paths to ratification – starting over and getting 3 more states); in the beginning the strongest and most vocal opposition was people supporting the start over option. We immediately started a meme saying 3 is less than 38 meaning if we started over not only would we need to move everything through Congress, we would also need to get 38 states to ratify. There was no arguing with the fact that 3 is significantly less than 38 when you are looking at introducing and passing legislation in a multitude of states. I counted 16 states that would ratify immediately. Lobbying is about both the short game and the long game. Your strategy is really about how much power does the opposition have (in this case very little since it was other groups working on the same issue) and how quickly can you build support among the powerful (elected officials).
When I’m lobbying I live in a transaction world; if you do this for me, I’ll do that for you. Every legislator has a bill that they want/need to have promoted. Because the organization I led at the time was multi-issue and we were initially moving progressives onto the bill, it was easy to say support this and I’ll help you with that. We went from a bill that normally had less than 50 cosponsors to a bill with more than 100. Once we reached 100, that meant that the soft opposition we faced from other groups began to dissipate and when we had 5 states introduce ratification legislation even Congress members started taking things seriously. We were working a Federal strategy interwoven with a multi-state strategy.
Talking points are key to lobbying; they need to be simple, memorable, relevant and powerful. If people can’t say it, they can’t lobby on it! We got people started having simple conversations with their friends. We asked women college students if they got a 20% discount on their college tuition since they were going to make 20% less than their male counterparts throughout their working life. We asked husbands if they were content to lose 20% of their household income because their wives/partners earned less because they were women. We made equality about economy and household stability. The Equal Rights Amendment was defeated in the 80s because it became tied to reproductive freedom. We argued that Roe v Wade was decided on privacy NOT equality adding that even a 5 year old could tell you that boys and girls were different below the waist. Equality was about aspiration and what was in your mind – in short it was above the neck. The decoupling of abortion from the ERA made it possible to bring on major Republican support and in Virginia one of our biggest and most stalwart champions had introduced an anti-abortion bill; she joined us in stating that if women earned more, there would be far less economic need to terminate an unexpected pregnancy. Equality was now firmly tied to economy and nothing else. If you can turn your strongest opposition into your strongest supporter, life just got a lot easier. You have also now proven your power to convert and that now means other people will want to know how you did it.
That argument was used successfully in Nevada in 2017; Nevada became the first state in the 21st century to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. Nevada made strong use of our argument that the Equal Rights Amendment was purely an economic bill. In 2018 Illinois followed with a Republican pro-life Senator leading the charge saying that pro-life means being pro economic security and equality. Virginia attempted to ratify again in 2019; the bill successfully passed in the Senate led by our pro-life Senator. In the House the Chair of Privileges and Elections refused to docket the bill even though we had enough support to pass it.
We needed 2 House seats to take Control of the Virginia legislature and get a new Chair of P&E that would bring the bill to a vote. We identified 20 House seats that included 3 potential pickup Senate seats (this had become a power play) and we honed in on 12. As grassroots organizers we made sure that equality was on everyone’s lips (men, women and children). In 2018 we had rolled out the VA Ratify ERA Bus and in 2019 we rolled out the I Scream for Equality ice cream truck. We texted, made phone calls, drove the ice cream truck to almost every college campus in Virginia and on election night 40% of Virginia voters turned out to vote in a state only election (up from 29% in 2015). We won 2 Senate seats and 6 House seats including the seat for Shelley Simonds, the woman who lost by a coin flip in 2017. The Equal Rights Amendment was docketed in the Senate as SB1 and in the House as HB1. On January 15th, 2020 Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. Senator Jennifer McClellan and Delegate Jennifer Carroll-Foy (sponsors of the Equal Rights Amendment) are now both running to be the first woman and community of color Governor of Virginia
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Simon the Coldheart
Perfect period detail and rapturously romantic from one of the best known and beloved romantic novelists.
Even as a fourteen-year-old orphan, Simon Beauvallet knows his own mind. Later, friend and foe alike will know better than to cross the flaxen-haired mountain of a man whose exploits in battle have earned him knighthood, lands and gilded armour.
After Agincourt, he has no equal save the king himself in generalship - until his legendary prowess is baulked by a woman. In Normandy, the icy rage of Simon the Coldheart must melt - or quench Lady Margaret, spitfire of Belremy.
'Every girl, whatever her age, needs her own complete set of Heyer titles. More than romantic they are witty, elegant, stylish and the best comedies of manners since Jane Austen. Required reading for everyone.' - Diane Pearson
Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is the best-known and best-loved of all historical novelists, making the Regency period her own. Her first novel, The Black Moth, published in 1921, was written at the age of fifteen to amuse her convalescent brother; her last was My Lord John. Although most famous for her historical novels, she also wrote eleven detective stories. Georgette Heyer died in 1974 at the age of seventy-one. Also available soon in Arrow by Georgette Heyer:
Publisher : Random House
Imprint : Arrow PB
Author : Georgette Heyer
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Author(s): Susie Steiner
In this brilliant crime novel from the author of Missing, Presumed, a detective investigates her most personal case yet: a high-profile murder in which her own family falls under suspicion.
" Susie] Steiner populates this hot-button narrative with achingly human characters, but no one compares to the hormonal, mordantly funny mom-cop who will stop at nothing to save her son."--People (Book of the Week)
As dusk falls, a young man staggers through a park, far from home, bleeding from a stab wound. He dies where he falls, cradled by a stranger, a woman's name on his lips in his last seconds of life.
Detective Manon Bradshaw handles only cold cases. Five months pregnant, in pursuit of a work-life balance rather than romantic love, she's focused on being a good mother to her two children: her adopted twelve-year-old son, Fly Dent, and the new baby.
But the man died just yards from the police station where she works, so Manon can't help taking an interest. And as she sidles in on the briefing she learns that the victim, a banker from London worth millions, is more closely linked to her than she could have imagined. When the case begins to circle in on Manon's home and her family, she finds herself pitted against the colleagues she once held dear: Davy Walker and Harriet Harper.
Can Manon separate what she knows about the people she loves from the suspicion hanging over them? Can she investigate the evidence just as she would with any other case? Persons Unknown shows acclaimed author Susie Steiner writing her most intricate, suspenseful novel yet.
Praise for Persons Unknown
"A police procedural as concerned with the mysteries of human hearts as with who stabbed a banker to death at a park in Cambridgeshire. Full of] winning prose, sympathetic characters and an appreciation of life's joys as keen as a knowledge of its dangers."--The Wall Street Journal
"Susie Steiner blends the police procedural and the human drama perfectly."--The Charlotte Observer
" Steiner] has created a masterful mystery within an engaging narrative perfect for Kate Atkinson fans. Readers will be astonished by the unexpected turns at the conclusion, which will leave fans eagerly awaiting the next book. This series needs to be snapped up by the BBC or PBS."--Booklist (starred review)
" An] engrossing stunner, incorporating social justice issues into the narrative, along with superb plotting, dark humor, and excellent characterizations."--Library Journal (starred review)
Praise for PERSONS UNKNOWN: 'Susie Steiner goes from strength to strength: Persons Unknown is by turns tense and tender, gripping and moving, and always beautifully written. I didn't read this book so much as live it: DI Manon Bradshaw is so convincingly human that I often wonder what she's up to now' ERIN KELLY, author of He Said, She Said 'Missing, Presumed was one of the best crime novels I've read in years - Persons Unknown is even better. Susie Steiner writes so brilliantly, creating characters who take possession of your mind and your heart. This is a compelling, gripping novel, a superb continuation of a series that is taking crime fiction into new and exciting territory' Jane Casey, author of LET THE DEAD SPEAK 'The best new crime series in years' SARAH PERRY 'Superb storytelling - a joy to read. I am hooked on Manon Bradshaw' RENEE KNIGHT, author of Disclaimer 'Stylish, literary fiction at its very best' PETER JAMES 'It's even better than Missing, Presumed. It's ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT. It's the best thing I've read in months and months. So intelligent about men and women and children, and love or the lack of it, and about LIFE... and the writing!' INDIA KNIGHT
Susie Steiner began her writing career as a news reporter first on local papers, then on the Evening Standard, the Daily Telegraph and The Times. In 2001 she joined the Guardian, where she worked as a commissioning editor for 11 years. Her first novel, Homecoming - described as 'truly exceptional' by the Observer - was published by Faber & Faber in 2013. She lives in London with her husband and two children.
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Author : Susie Steiner
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Society of Fear
Author(s): Heinz Bude
From the rise of terrorism to the uncertainties associated with economic crisis and recession, our age is characterized by fear. Fear is the expression of a society on unstable foundations. Most of us feel that our social status is under threat and our future prospects in jeopardy. We are overwhelmed by a sense of having been catapulted into a world to which we no longer belong.Tracing this experience of fear, Heinz Bude uncovers a society marked by disturbing uncertainty, suppressed anger and quiet resentment. This is as true in our close relationships as it is in the world of work, in how we react to politicians as much as in our attitudes towards bankers and others in the financial sector. Bude shows how this fear is not derived so much from a 'powerful other' but rather from the seemingly endless range of possibilities which we face. While this may seem to offer us greater autonomy and freedom, in reality the unknown impact and meaning of each option creates a vacuum which is filled by fear.What conditions lead people to feel anxious and fearful for themselves and others? How can individuals withstand fear and develop ways of making their fears intelligible? Probing these and other questions, Bude provides a fresh analysis of some of the most fundamental features of our societies today.
" 'Fear, ' writes Heinz Bude, 'reveals the direction in which a society is moving.' Rather than analyzing the symptoms of angst today - proliferating in blogs, self-help literature, and anxiety disorders - Bude masterfully explores the existential, political, and generational experiences that create the conditions for a 'society of fear.'"John Borneman, Princeton University "Fear," writes Heinz Bude, "reveals the direction in which a society is moving." Rather than analyzing the symptoms of angst today - proliferating in blogs, self-help literature, and anxiety disorders - Bude masterfully explores the existential, political, and generational experiences that create the conditions for a "society of fear."John Borneman, Princeton University
Heinz Bude is one of the leading sociologists in Germany today. He is a fellow of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and Professor of Macrosociology at the University of Kassel.
Preface Thanks Fear as a principle Longing for a non-terminable relationship Unease with one's own type When the winners take it all The status panic of the middle class Everyday battles on the lower rungs The fragile self Rule by nobody The power of emotion The fear of others Generational lessons Bibliography Notes
Publisher : John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint : Polity Press
Availability date : January 2018
Author : Heinz Bude
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