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By Ostrovsky, Aleksandr Nicolaevich
Title: The Storm
Author: Ostrovsky, Aleksandr Nicolaevich
Subject: Literature & thought, Literature and history, Literature & philosophy
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Up to the years of the Crimean War Russia was always a strange, uncouth riddle to the European consciousness. It would be an interesting study to trace back through the last three centuries the evidence of the historical documents that our forefathers have left us when they were brought face to face, through missions, embassies, travel, and commerce, with the fantastic life, as it seemed to them, led by the Muscovite. But in any chance record we may pick up, from the reports of a seventeenth century embassy down to the narrative of an early nineteenth century traveler, the note always insisted on is that of all the outlandish civilizations, queer manners and customs of Europeans, the Russian?s were the queerest and those standing furthest removed from the other nations? and this sentiment has prevailed to-day, side by side with the better understanding we have gained of Russia. Nor can this conception, generally held among us, which is a half truth, be removed by personal contact or mere objective study; for example, of the innumerable memoirs published on the Crimean war, it is rare to find one that gives us any real insight into the nature of the Russian. And the conception itself can only be amended and enlarged by the study of the Russian mind as it expresses itself in its own literature. The mind of the great artist, of whatever race he springs, cannot lie. From the works of Thackeray and George Eliot in England and Turgenev and Tolstoi in Russia, a critic penetrates into the secret places of the national life, where all the clever objective pictures of foreign critics must lead him astray. Ostrovsky?s drama, ?The Storm,? here translated for the English reader, is a good instance of this truth. It is a revelation of the old-fashioned Muscovite life from the inside, and Ostrovsky thereby brings us in closer relation to that primitive life than was in the power of Tolstoi or Goncharov, or even Gogol to bring us. These great writers have given us admirable pictures of the people?s life as it appeared to them at the angle of the educated Westernised Russian mind; but here in ?The Storm? is the atmosphere of the little Russian town, with its primitive inhabitants, merchants, and workpeople, an atmosphere untouched, unadulterated by the ideas of any outside European influence. It is the Russia of Peter the Great and Catherine?s time, the Russian patriarchal family life that has existed for hundreds of years through all the towns and villages of Great Russia, that lingers indeed to-day in out-of-the-way corners of the Empire, though now invaded and much broken up by modern influences. It is, in fact, the very Muscovite life that so puzzled our forefathers, and that no doubt will seem strange to many English readers. But the special triumph of ?The Storm? is that although it is a realistic picture of old-fashioned Russian patriarchal life, it is one of the deepest and simplest psychological analyses of the Russian soul ever made. It is a very deep though a very narrow analysis. Katerina, the heroine, to the English will seem weak, and crushed through her weakness; but to a Russian she typifies revolt, freedom, a refusal to be bound by the cruelty of life. And her attitude, despairing though it seems to us, is indeed the revolt of the spirit in a land where Tolstoi?s doctrine of non-resistance is the logical outcome of centuries of serfdom in a people?s history. The merchant Dikoy, the bully, the soft characterless lover Boris, the idealistic religious Katerina, Kuligin the artisan, and Madame Kabanova, the tyrannical mother, all these are true national types, true Russians of the changing ages, and the counterparts of these people may be met to-day, if the reader takes up Tehehov?s tales. English people no doubt will find it difficult to believe that Madame Kabanova could so have crushed Katerina?s life, as Ostrovsky depicts. Nothing indeed is so antagonistic to English individualism and independence as is the passivity of some of the characters in ?The Storm.? But the English reader?s very difficulty in this respect should give him a clue to much that has puzzled Europeans, should help him to penetrate into the strangeness of Russian political life, the strangeness of her love of despotism. Only in the country that produces such types of weakness and tyranny is possible the fettering of freedom of thought and act that we have in Russia to-day. Ostrovsky?s striking analysis of this fatalism in the Russian soul will help the reader to understand the unending struggle in Russia between the enlightened Europeanised intelligence of the few, and the apathy of the vast majority of Russians who are disinclined to rebel against the crystallised conditions of their lives. Whatever may be strange and puzzling in ?The Storm? to the English mind, there is no doubt that the Russians hail the picture as essentially true. The violence of such characters as Madame Kabanova and Dikoy may be weakened to-day everywhere by the gradual undermining of the patriarchal family system now in progress throughout Russia, but the picture is in essentials a criticism of the national life. On this point the Russian critic Dobroliubov, criticising ?The Storm,? says: ?The need for justice, for respect for personal rights, this is the cry ... that rises up to the ear of every attentive reader. Well, can we deny the wide application of this need in Russia? Can we fail to recognize that such a dramatic background corresponds with the true condition of Russian society? Take history, think of our life, look about you, everywhere you will find justification of our words. This is not the place to launch out into historical investigation; it is enough to point out that our history up to the most recent times has not fostered among us the development of a respect for equity, has not created any solid guarantees for personal rights, and has left a wide field to arbitrary tyranny and caprice.? This criticism of Dobroliubov?s was written in 1860, the date of the play; but we have only to look back at the internal history of Russia for the last thirty years to see that it too ?has not created any solid guarantees for personal rights, and has left a wide field to arbitrary tyranny and caprice.? and here is Ostrovsky?s peculiar merit, that he has in his various dramas penetrated deeper than any other of the great Russian authors into one of the most fundamental qualities of the Russian nature?its innate tendency to arbitrary power, oppression, despotism. Nobody has drawn so powerfully, so truly, so incisively as he, the type of the ?samodor? or ?bully,? a type that plays a leading part in every strata of Russian life. From Turgenev we learn more of the reverse side of the Russian character, its lack of will, tendency to weakness, dreaminess and passivity: and it is this aspect that the English find it so hard to understand, when they 4 compare the characters in the great Russian novels with their own idea of Russia?s formidable power. The people and the nation do not seem to correspond. But the riddle may be read in the coexistence of Russia?s internal weakness and misery along with her huge force, and the immense role she fills as a civilising power. In ?The Storm? we have all the contradictory elements: a life strongly organised, yet weak within; strength and passivity, despotism and fatalism side by side. The author of ?The Storm,? Alexander Ostrovsky (born in Moscow 1823, died 1886), is acknowledged to be the greatest of the Russian dramatists. He has been called ?a specialist in the natural history of the Russian merchant,? and his birth, upbringing, family connections and vocations gave him exceptional facilities for penetrating into the life of that class which he was the first to put into Russian literature. His best period was from 1850 to 1860, but all his work received prompt and universal recognition from his countrymen. In 1859 Dobroliubov?s famous article, ?The Realm of Darkness,? appeared, analysing the contents of all Ostrovsky?s dramas, and on the publication of ?The Storm? in 1860, it was followed by another article from the same critic, ?A Ray of Light in the Realm of Darkness.? These articles were practically a brief for the case of the Liberals, or party of Progress, against the official and Slavophil party. Ostrovsky?s dramas in general are marked by intense sombreness, biting humor and merciless realism. ?The Storm? is the most poetical of his works, but all his leading plays still hold the stage.
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Dispersion of Revata s descendants: those of Dhrishta: those of Nabhaga. Birth of Ikshwaku, the son of Vaivaswata: his sons. Line of Vikukshi. Legend of Kakutstha; of Dhundhumara; of Yuvanaswa; of Mandhatri: his daughters married to Saubhari.
Parasara. Whilst Kakudmin, surnamed Raivata, was absent on his visit to the region of Brahma, the evil spirits or Rakshasas named Punyajanas destroyed his capital Kusasthali. His hundred brothers, through dread of these foes, fled in different directions; and the Kshatriyas, their descendants, settled in many countries 1.
From Dhrishta, the son of the Manu, sprang the Kshatriya race of Dharshtaka 2.
The son of Nabhaga was Nabhaga 3; his son was
[paragraph continues] Ambarisha 4; his son was Virupa 5; his son was Prishadaswa; his son was Rathinara, of whom it is sung, "These, who were Kshatriyas by birth, the heads of the family of Rathinara, were called angirasas (or sons of Angiras), and were Brahmans as well as Kshatriyas 6."
Ikshwaku was born from the nostril of the Manu, as he happened to sneeze 7. He had a hundred sons, of whom the three most distinguished were Vikukshi, Nimi, and Danda. Fifty of the rest, under Sakuni, were the protectors of the northern countries. Forty eight were the princes of the south 8.
Upon one of the days called Ashtaka 9, Ikshwaku being desirous of celebrating ancestral obsequies, ordered Vikukshi to bring him flesh suitable for the offering. The prince accordingly went into the forest, and killed many deer, and other wild animals, for the celebration. Being weary with the chase, and being hungered, he sat down, and ate a hare; after which, being refreshed, he carried the rest of the game to his father. Vasishtha, the family priest of the house of Ikshwaku, was summoned to consecrate the food; but he declared that it was impure, in consequence of Vikukshi s having eaten a hare from amongst it (making it thus, as it were, the residue of his meal). Vikukshi was in consequence abandoned by his offended father, and the epithet sasada (hare eater) was affixed to him by the Guru. On the death of Ikshwaku, the dominion of the earth descended to sasada 10, who was succeeded by his son Puranjaya.
In the Treta age a violent war 11 broke out between the gods and the Asuras, in which the former were vanquished. They consequently had recourse to Vishnu for assistance, and propitiated him by their adorations. The eternal ruler of the universe, Narayana, had compassion upon them, and said, "What you desire is known unto me. Hear how your wishes shall be fulfilled. There is an illustrious prince named Puranjaya, the son of a royal sage; into his person I will infuse a portion of myself, and having descended upon earth I will in his person subdue all your enemies. Do you therefore endeavour to secure the aid
of Puranjaya for the destruction of your foes." Acknowledging with reverence the kindness of the deity, the immortals quitted his presence, and repaired to Puranjaya, whom they thus addressed: "Most renowned Kshatriya, we have come to thee to solicit thy alliance against our enemies: it will not become thee to disappoint our hopes." The prince replied, "Let this your Indra, the monarch of the spheres, the god of a hundred sacrifices, consent to carry me upon his shoulders, and I will wage battle with your adversaries as your ally." The gods and Indra readily answered, "So be it;" and the latter assuming the shape of a bull, the prince mounted upon his shoulder. Being then filled with delight, and invigorated by the power of the eternal ruler of all movable and immovable things, he destroyed in the battle that ensued all the enemies of the gods; and because he annihilated the demon host whilst seated upon the shoulder (or the hump, Kakud) of the bull, he thence obtained the appellation Kakutstha (seated on the hump 12).
The son of Kakutstha was Anenas 13, whose son was Prithu, whose son was Viswagaswa 14, whose son was ardra 15, whose son was Yuvanaswa, whose son was sravasta, by whom the city of sravasti 16 was founded. The son of sravasta was Vrihadaswa, whose son was Kuvalayaswa. This prince, inspired with the spirit of Vishnu, destroyed the Asura Dhundhu, who had harassed the pious sage Uttanka; and he was thence entitled Dhundhumara 17. In his conflict with the demon
the king was attended by his sons, to the number of twenty one thousand; and all these, with the exception of only three, perished in the engagement, consumed by the fiery breath of Dhundhu. The three who survived were Dridhaswa, Chandraswa, and Kapilaswa; and the son and successor of the elder of these was Haryyaswa; his son was Nikumbha; his son was Sanhataswa; his son was Krisaswa; his son was Prasenajit; and his son was another Yuvanaswa 18.
Yuvanaswa had no son, at which he was deeply grieved. Whilst residing in the vicinage of the holy Munis, he inspired them with pity for his childless condition, and they instituted a religious rite to procure him progeny. One night during its performance the sages having
placed a vessel of consecrated water upon the altar had retired to repose. It was past midnight, when the king awoke, exceedingly thirsty; and unwilling to disturb any of the holy inmates of the dwelling, he looked about for something to drink. In his search he came to the water in the jar, which had been sanctified and endowed with prolific efficacy by sacred texts, and he drank it. When the Munis rose, and found that the water had been drunk, they inquired who had taken it, and said, "The queen that has drunk this water shall give birth to a mighty and valiant son." "It was I," exclaimed the Raja, "who unwittingly drank the water!" and accordingly in the belly of Yuvanaswa was conceived a child, and it grew, and in due time it ripped open the right side of the Raja, and was born, and the Raji, did not die. Upon the birth of the child, "Who will be its nurse?" said the Munis; when, Indra, the king of the gods, appeared, and said, "He shall have me for his nurse" (mam dhasyati); and hence the boy was named Mandhatri. Indra put his fore finger into the mouth of the infant, who sucked it, and drew from it heavenly nectar; and he grew up, and became a mighty monarch, and reduced the seven continental zones under his dominion. And here a verse is recited; "From the rising to the going down of the sun, all that is irradiated by his light, is the land of Mandhatri, the son of Yuvanaswa 19."
Mandhatri married Vindumati, the daughter of sasavindu, and had by her three sons, Purukutsa, Ambarisha, and Muchukunda; he had also fifty daughters 20.
The devout sage Saubhari, learned in the Vedas, had spent twelve years immersed in a piece of water; the sovereign of the fish in which, named Sammada, of large bulk, had a very numerous progeny. His children and his grandchildren were wont to frolic around him in all
directions, and he lived amongst them happily, playing with them night and day. Saubhari the sage, being disturbed in his devotions by their sports, contemplated the patriarchal felicity of the monarch of the lake, and reflected, "How enviable is this creature, who, although horn in a degraded state of being, is ever thus sporting cheerfully amongst his offspring and their young. Of a truth he awakens in my mind the wish to taste such pleasure, and I also will make merry amidst my children." Having thus resolved, the Muni came up hastily from the water, and, desirous of entering upon the condition of a householder, went to Mandhatri to demand one of his daughters as his wife. As soon as he was informed of the arrival of the sage, the king rose up from his throne, offered him the customary libation, and treated him with the most profound respect. Having taken a seat, Saubhari said to the Raja, "I have determined to marry: do you, king, give me one of your daughters as a wife: disappoint not my affection. It is not the practice of the princes of the race of Kakutstha to turn away from compliance with the wishes of those who come to them for succour. There are, O monarch, other kings of the earth to whom daughters have been born, but your family is above all renowned for observance. of liberality in your donations to those who ask your bounty. You have, O prince, fifty daughters; give one of them to me, that so I may be relieved from the anxiety I suffer through fear that my
it may be denied."
When Mandhatri heard this request, and looked upon the person of the sage, emaciated by austerity and old age, he felt disposed to refuse his consent; but dreading to incur the anger and imprecation of the holy man, he was much perplexed, and, declining his head, was lost a while in thought. The Rishi, observing his hesitation, said, "On what, O Raja, do you meditate? I have asked for nothing which may not be readily accorded: and what is there that shall he unattainable to you, if my desires be gratified by the damsel whom you must needs give unto me?" To this, the king, apprehensive of his displeasure, answered and said, Grave" sir, it is the established usage of our house to wed our daughters to such persons only as they shall themselves select from suitors of fitting rank; and since this your request is not yet made known to my
maidens, it is impossible to say whether it may be equally agreeable to them as it is to me. This is the occasion of my perplexity, and I am at a loss what to do." This answer of the king was fully understood by the Rishi, who said to himself, "This is merely a device of the Raja to evade compliance with my suit: the has reflected that I am an old man, having no attractions for women, and not likely to be accepted by any of his daughters: even be it so; I will be a match for him:" and he then spake aloud, and said, "Since such is the custom, mighty prince, give orders that I be admitted into the interior of the palace. Should any of the maidens your daughters be willing to take me for a bridegroom, I will have her for my bride; if no one be willing, then let the blame attach alone to the years that I have numbered." Having thus spoken, he was silent.
Mandhatri, unwilling to provoke the indignation of the Muni, was accordingly obliged to command the eunuch to lead the sage into the inner chambers; who, as he entered the apartments, put on a form and features of beauty far exceeding the personal charms of mortals, or even of heavenly spirits. His conductor, addressing the princesses, said to them, "Your father, young ladies, sends you this pious sage, who has demanded of him a bride; and the Raja has promised him, that he will not refuse him any one of you who shall choose him for her husband." When the damsels heard this, and looked upon the person of the Rishi, they were equally inspired with passion and desire, and, like a troop of female elephants disputing the favours of the master of the herd, they all contended for the choice. "Away, away, sister!" said each to the other; "this is my election, he is my choice; he is not a meet bridegroom for you; he has been created by Brahma on purpose for me, as I have been created in order to become his wife: he has been chosen by me before you; you have no right to prevent his becoming my husband." In this way arose a violent quarrel amongst the daughters of the king, each insisting upon the exclusive election of the Rishi: and as the blameless sage was thus contended for by the rival princesses, the superintendent of the inner apartments, with a downcast look, reported to the king what had occurred. Perplexed more than ever by this
information, the Raja exclaimed, "What is all this! and what am I to do now! What is it that I have said!" and at last, although with extreme reluctance, he was obliged to agree that the Rishi should marry all his daughters.
Having then wedded, agreeably to law, all the princesses, the sage took them home to his habitation, where he employed the chief of architects, Viswakarman, equal in taste and skill to Brahma himself, to construct separate palaces for each of his wives: he ordered him to provide each building with elegant couches and seats and furniture, and to attach to them gardens and groves, with reservoirs of water, where the wild duck and the swan should sport amidst beds of lotus flowers. The divine artist obeyed his injunctions, and constructed splendid apartments for the wives of the Rishi; in which by command of Saubhari, the inexhaustible and divine treasure called Nanda 21 took up his permanent abode, and the princesses entertained all their guests and dependants with abundant viands of every description and the choicest quality.
After some period had elapsed, the heart of king Mandhatri yearned for his daughters, and he felt solicitous to know whether they were happily circumstanced. Setting off therefore on a visit to the hermitage of Saubhari, he beheld upon his arrival a row of beautiful crystal palaces, shining as brilliantly as the rays of the sun, and situated amidst lovely gardens, and reservoirs of pellucid water. Entering into one of these magnificent palaces, he found and embraced a daughter, and said to her, as the tears of affection and delight trembled in his eyes, "Dear child, tell me how it is with you. Are you happy here? or not? Does the great sage treat you with tenderness? or do you revert with regret to your early home?" The princess replied, "You behold, my father, how delightful a mansion I inhabit, surrounded by lovely gardens and lakes, where the lotus blooms, and the wild swans murmur. Here I have delicious viands, fragrant unguents, costly ornaments, splendid raiment, soft beds, and every enjoyment that affluence can procure. Why then should I call to memory the place of my birth? To your favour am I
indebted for all that I possess. I have only one cause of anxiety, which is this; my husband is never absent from my dwelling: solely attached to me, he is always at my side; he never goes near my sisters; and I am concerned to think that they must feel mortified by his neglect: this is the only circumstance that gives me uneasiness."
Proceeding to visit another of his daughters, the king, after embracing her, and sitting down, made the same inquiry, and received the same account of the enjoyments with which the princess was provided: there was also the same complaint, that the Rishi was wholly devoted to her, and paid no attention to her sisters. In every palace Mandhatri heard the same story from each of his daughters in reply to his questions; and with a heart overflowing with wonder and delight he repaired to the wise Saubhari, whom he found alone, and, after paying homage to him, thus addressed him: "Holy sage, I have witnessed this thy marvellous power; the like miraculous faculties I have never known any other to possess. How great is the reward of thy devout austerities!" Having thus saluted the sage, and been received by him with respect, the Raja resided with him for some time, partaking of the pleasures of the place, and then returned to his capital.
In the course of time the daughters of Mandhatri bore to Saubhari a hundred and fifty sons, and day by day his affection for his children became more intense, and his heart was wholly occupied, with the sentiment of self 22. "These my sons," he loved to think, "will charm me with their infant prattle; then they will learn to walk; they will then grow up to youth and to manhood: I shall see them married, and they will have children; and I may behold the children of those children." By these and similar reflections, however, he perceived that his anticipations every day outstripped the course of time, and at last he exclaimed, "What exceeding folly is mine! there is no end to my desires. Though all I hope should come to pass for ten thousand or a hundred thousand years, still new wishes would spring up. When I have seen my infants walk; when I have beheld their youth, their manhood, their marriage, their progeny; still my expectations are unsatisfied,
and my soul yearns to behold the descendants of their descendants. Shall I even see them, some other wish will be engendered; and when that is accomplished, how is the birth of fresh desires to he prevented? I have at last discovered that there is no end to hope, until it terminates in death; and that the mind which is perpetually engrossed by expectation, can never be attached to the supreme spirit. My mental devotions, whilst immersed in water, were interrupted by attachment to my friend the fish. The result of that connexion was my marriage; and insatiable desires are the consequences of my married life. The pain attendant upon the birth of my single body, is now augmented by the cares attached to fifty others, and is farther multiplied by the numerous children whom the princesses have borne to me. The sources of affliction will be repeatedly renewed by their children, and by their espousals, and by their progeny, and will be infinitely increased: a married life is a mine of individual anxiety. My devotions, first disturbed by the fish of the pool, have since been obstructed by temporal indulgence, and I have been beguiled by that desire for progeny which was communicated to me by association with Sammada. Separation from the world is the only path of the sage to final liberation: from commerce with mankind innumerable errors proceed. The ascetic who has accomplished a course of self denial falls from perfection by contracting worldly attachments: how much more likely
uld one so fall whose observances are incomplete? My intellect has been a prey to the desire of married happiness; but I will now so exert myself for the salvation of my soul, that, exempt from human imperfections, I may be exonerated from human sufferings. To that end I will propitiate, by arduous penance, Vishnu, the creator of the universe, whose form is inscrutable, who is smaller than the smallest, larger than the largest, the source of darkness and of light, the sovereign god of gods. On his everlasting body, which is both discrete and indiscrete substance, illimitably mighty, and identical with the universe, may my mind, wholly free from sin, be ever steadily intent, so that I may be born no more. To him I fly for refuge; to that Vishnu, who is the teacher of teachers, who is one with all beings, the pure eternal lord of all, without beginning, middle, or end, and besides whom is nothing."
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Amos: I’d like the .45 instead of the 9 millimeter
By Gina Harkins on March 13, 2014 Battle Rattle, Commandant, Marksmanship
A congressman told Gen. James Amos that Marines in his district would like to see their M9 service pistol replaced with a .45-caliber — and Amos replied that he would, too. Rep. Austin Scott, R-Ga., said he recently spent time with Marines during a wounded warrior function, during Wednesday’s House Armed Services Committee hearing on the proposed Navy-Marine Corps fiscal 2015 budget. Before the congressman launched into questions on the budget, he said there were a few those Marines asked him to speak up for. The first was the deadly A-10 Thunderbolt, which the Air Force flies to provide close-air support.…
Video: Larry Vickers discusses the new Marine Corps rifle sling he designed
By Dan Lamothe on January 20, 2012 Gear, Marksmanship
The Marine Corps made a significant change in the fall, deciding to adopt a new common weapon sling for service rifles. That sling, as Marine Corps Times reported here, is the Vickers Combat Applications two-point sling, made by Blue Force Gear, of Pooler, Ga. It’s designed by Larry Vickers, a retired special operator well regarded for his innovation in the marksmanship world. Rob Curtis, Military Times’ Gear Scout blogger, ran into Vickers at SHOT Show this week. They discussed several items on video, including the new Marine Corps sling. Check it out here: [brightcove video=”1401244280001″ /]
Your chance to read the Marine Corps' marksmanship program analysis
By Dan Lamothe on October 13, 2010 Marksmanship, Training
By now, you may have seen Marine Corps Times’ coverage of a controversial report filed last year by the service’s Operations Analysis Division assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the Marine Corps Marksmanship Program. As my story points out, Weapons Training Battalion, out of Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., took exception to some of the findings by OAD, which falls under Marine Corps Combat Development Command, also out of Quantico. Four major recommendations were made: Develop a new organization to oversee all marksmanship training, embark on a substantial range upgrade plan, remove rifle scores from the promotion process and overhaul annual…
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Boulder, Colorado: Leading Solar By Example
{ January 16th, 2012 }
By Tor ‘Solar Fred’ Valenza
Boulder, Colorado has been on my solar radar for a number of years. It’s one of the cities that I covered in 2009 when part of my job was tracking solar rebates. They were generous then—around $3/watt… less so now. But those generous rebates and other factors have created a beautiful and inspiring solar community, although it’s not a perfect solar world.
The last time I was in Boulder was about 20 years ago. Since then, it has grown from a progressive University and renewable energy research town (NREL is there) to an upscale, progressive, outdoorsy Denver suburb and bedroom community of about 100,000 people. For those in the San Francisco Bay area, think Burlingame with snow and lots of visible solar roofs.
Beyond the solar visibility, the town is just flat-out eco-friendly. There are bike lanes everywhere here. Some are in the roads and other paths are hidden behind homes in a tree-lined bike alley system. Although I arrived just after a December snowstorm, I continued to see Boulderites using those bike lanes, and as the snow melted, their numbers increased. (I’m told that the warmer months are especially filled with local bike commuters.)
Boulder’s commitment to the bicycle lifestyle despite potentially harsh weather is reflective of its commitment to solar and renewable energy. Yes, there’s snow, but that hasn’t dampened residential solar too much, though I do have one solar friend who wishes someone would create a device that could cost effectively remove snow-covered panels more automatically.
Beyond its residents, the City of Boulder has committed to 1.7 megawatts of solar, and their installs are very public. They can be seen on recreation centers and even on a huge municipal building on Boulder’s main shopping district, Pearl St. Here’s a shot of the public recreation center with rows and rows of solar thermal collectors.
The city’s installs are a great symbol of green energy commitment, but that wasn’t enough for Boulder residents. Though you have to credit Xcel’s initially generous rebates for part of Boulder’s solar boom, some residents thought the investor owned utility became half-hearted once they approached Colorado’s mandated RPS quotas. Many saw Xcel starting to get in the way of distributed solar (and growing solar jobs and businesses) through abruptly slashing rebates, attempting to limit net metering, or impose new solar interconnection fees.
Rather than constantly battle Xcel through the Public Utility Commission, petitions, and protests, Boulder residents recently voted to unplug Xcel and create their own municipal utility. Although residents were warned that their utility costs could rise as a result, Boulder citizens nevertheless decided to become energy independent with an emphasis on green power, though it wasn’t a unanimous decision. The new Boulder utility’s goal is to create an energy mix of 84 megawatts of natural gas with a mix of 40 megawatts or more of rooftop solar power, and about 55 megawatts of wind, thereby reducing the city’s coal power needs to zero.
I can’t tell you how common it was for me to see solar panels on so many homes. Many homes I saw had solar hot water panels as well as solar PV, despite solar thermal incentives being less. So, how did Boulder become such a robust solar town?
In some ways, Boulder’s rapid solar growth is a reflection of today’s solar PV consolidation. Initially generous incentives from Xcel, combined with a state RPS, and the introduction of the residential 30% Federal ITC inspired this already green-minded community to demand lots of solar.
New installation companies were born to meet the demand, and that competition drove prices down — way down. In 2009 — before modules prices hit their lows of today — it was not uncommon to see installed residential prices at around $5/watt, or even in the $4’s. Today, my solar friends tell me it’s still in that range.
That kind of lowest-priced competition was great for consumers, but not sustainable for new under capitalized solar businesses, and I’m told that several installers have closed their shops. Nevertheless, their installs remain.
From a marketing perspective, my solar friends tell me that neighbors greatly influenced each other. That is, once one house on the block went solar, neighbors became curious and got a quote for themselves, and then eventually installed their own, often with the same company.
It’s unclear whether Boulder’s success can be repeated in larger cities. This is by no means a formula, but in summary, here are the points that seem to have contributed to Boulder’s solar growth:
A green-minded community. Boulder’s citizens were already progressive and open to green energy. That’s not to say that less progressive communities aren’t also open to solar, but far more customer and community education is needed than for Boulder.
A green-minded state. States with a renewable portfolio standard (RPS) compel utilities to act. Clearly, Xcel responded to the letter of the law, providing generous rebates at first. However, their perceived reluctance to go beyond the law’s requirements made the majority of their citizens vote for their own utility. That’s very difficult for any community, especially larger cities. Nevertheless, Boulder made it possible. We’ll have to see how their green aspirations compare to the reality of owning and operating their very own green municipal utility.
Generous rebates and incentives. Studies have shown that solar has to make financial sense to be adopted. Cities may not need $3/watt rebates with the recent fall in solar module prices, but every incentive helps, and Boulder has a lot of them. For now, these subsidies are still needed for rapid solar growth and states, cities, and utilities need to support them as they did in Boulder.
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It really was inspiring to travel through Boulder and see so many solar roofs in such a concentrated area. There may be more solar installed here in Los Angeles, but the city is so spread out, it requires a sharp eye to catch a solar roof.
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“If there is constructive criticism, I will surely introspect, because that is the way to grow as an individual. I cannot say I know it all. No. As an actor, I am constantly working on the nuances in my performance, and the possibility is endless,” he added.
“I am the same actor who started from zero, I started with one scene, one dialogue… a small part. My aim is to make that single opportunity magnify. I will make you remember that one dialogue. Since I did not get success overnight, I do not have the arrogance. I could have, if I would have got success at the age of 30! I have crossed 45 now, and every achievement makes me humble and not arrogant,” explained the actor.
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“Again, I am not talking about the length of the role, but the credibility. Of course, I would also like to be part of stories in which, I am the central character, for example Kaagaz,” smiled Pankaj, referring to his new OTT-released film that streams on ZEE5.
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The studio albums, live releases, compilations and box sets
Re: Greatest Hits
Sat there with a pen, rewinding them.
I see the attraction of resurgance of vinyl. Looking back, cassettes at the time had an advantage of being portable, small and convenient, and the disadvanage of not being able to withstand heat, magnetism, they seize up and stretch the tapes, or being f*cking eaten by the machines that played them.
In fact they're absolutely hideous, and compared to minidiscs, cds, downloads and streaming, are largely pointless.
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Post by Generic username » Mon Jan 11, 2021 9:37 pm
Sir Didymus wrote: ↑Mon Jan 11, 2021 5:13 pm While it's certainly a niche market, there's definitely scope for a full set of Queen studio albums being reissued on cassette. I doubt I'd buy them myself, but they'd do enough business on them to justify it, I reckon!
Really? Something like 150,000 cassettes sold last year in the UK, and you think enough of those people might want a full set of Queen albums AND not already have them?
Post by Ray » Tue Jan 12, 2021 8:39 am
Kes wrote: ↑Mon Jan 11, 2021 5:37 pm Sat there with a pen, rewinding them.
Exactly. I was really surprised when I suddenly saw some cassettes in my local Saturn market last year, only about 20 of them, but still, and the "Bohemian Rhapsody" soundtrack was one of them. I grew up with cassettes and liked them at the time, but today I see absolutely zero sense in buying them except for the usual collecting for collecting's sake. It's the same as with VHS, just outdated in every sense.
Aside from that, I haven't heard to Greatest Hits in years. My first three Queen albums were "Live Killers", and then both GH 1+2. Not a bad start at all in general, the problem is though that after having three compilations it's weird to listen to the actual albums. You then have your GH and LK tracks there mixed with the still new other ones in between. It took me years to stop seeing the studio albums like that and actually see them now as album tracks alongside the others, not as "the song from GH/LK".
That's why I don't like compilation albums in general. They're good for the many "casual fans" who just want a collection of the big hits. But if I really like a band/musician, I want to listen to the actual albums, at best even in chronological order.
The only thing that still remains from the GH albums to me is the different version of "I Want It All" that I still prefer to the album version...the song just flows way better there than with that weird order of song parts on the album version. I always get a little annoyed when the solo doesn't yet start at the part where it "should" start...like I know it from the GHII version of the song.
Post by Kes » Tue Jan 12, 2021 9:06 am
If you look at the history of I Want It All in the US, One of the major releases was screwed up. I'm not sure if it was the first Capitol album issue, or the first Hollywood album issue. It had half of the first chorus chopped out.
To add in the confusion, there's a third version that's on Queen Rocks, which is a hybrid between the single and album versions, it's effectively the album version with the single's intro.
I guess I feel similar about the US 7" of Radio Ga Ga, it has edits, that just sound wrong to me, everywhere else got the full album version as a single release,, the US got an edit.
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Post by Sir Didymus » Thu Jan 14, 2021 1:38 pm
Generic username wrote: ↑Mon Jan 11, 2021 9:37 pm
100%. Because cassettes are incredibly popular with younger 'collectors' at present. And hell, if Bjork can sell a whole series of her albums reissued on cassette, I'm pretty sure Queen can, especially to newer fans who hopped on board with the film. Plus you have the collectors who just want a copy of everything, and the ebay scalpers who think they'll be worth reselling at inflated prices.
Honestly, press 1,000 copies of each, sell them at £8 a pop, and watch them fly. Maybe do them in batches of 4-5 at a time... but they'll absolutely sell out in a matter of days. One look at the amount of tat that sells out on the QOL store can tell you that much.
I don't see the appeal either, and the only ones I've bought in the last decade have been ones that came as a 'bundle' with something else and I haven't bothered playing them... and yet, there they are, making easy cash for a lot of artists right now. IIRC, there were SEVEN different versions of Kylie's latest album on cassette (standard, deluxe, and then five limited edition covers) and all of them played their part in securing that #1 chart placing. Clearly from the looks of TM Store, there's enough of a market in cassettes now to make it worth it - they're cheap to produce and highly collectable til this bubble bursts... so why not have one last print run for them?
Post by BitterTears » Thu Jan 14, 2021 1:47 pm
They could definitely do a cassette version of the studio collection, make all the cassettes different colours etc and put them in a nice box.
I don't know how many they'd actually have to sell to break even though and wouldn't want to guess. I do sort of see the cassette revival stalling though as, unlike vinyl, there's not really as many reasons to actually want your music on cassette. With vinyl, you lose convenience but can argue you prefer the sound over digital alternatives. Not sure if as many people would argue the same about cassette.
Having said that, did anyone buy the Studio Collection on vinyl to listen to? I bought that purely for collecting, and wouldn't even risk those records on my turntable. I wonder if most people who bought it are the same or not?
Post by Ray » Thu Jan 14, 2021 5:58 pm
Sure, if they can sell perfume, socks and coins, they can as well sell cassettes. If Brain was into old home video stuff as much as he is into 3d photos, we would have Wembley even on Super 8 and laser disc...(better google quick)...lol, there even IS a laser disc of Wembley.
Post by Kes » Thu Jan 14, 2021 8:24 pm
Ray wrote: ↑Thu Jan 14, 2021 5:58 pm ..(better google quick)...lol, there even IS a laser disc of Wembley.
Apparently, still a very popular format in Japan.
Certainly every Queen home video release up to Queen Rocks is available on laserdisc.
Post by Ray » Fri Jan 15, 2021 7:35 am
Since we never had those, I was so surprised when I ever heard of them...giant CDs with movies on them.
So glad we have Blu-rays today. Also from Queen. I wish there will come the day we get all Greatest Flix on Blu-ray as well. The DVDs are still great, but for a band like Queen it would be the right thing to also bring those over to Blu-ray.
Post by Kes » Fri Jan 15, 2021 11:47 am
Being fair, the quality on them is a bit crap, but they had a few advantages over VHS tapes, sound quality being one of them. I've got a player for them, but probably haven't watched one in five years.
As regards Greatest Flix on blu-ray, you are one of many to wish for this, and many complain about things like the aspect ratio on the past DVDs GVH 1 & 2. Their best solution is to put as many formats on there as possible original aspect ratio, cropped, widescreen, original stereo, 5.1 surround, remastered stereo. Etc etc.
They were looking at chucking them out in 3D, not really neccessary in my view.
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Re: Season 2014/15
QPR = Quit please, Rodgers.
Quote from: Ed on May 02, 2015, 02:02:08 AM
I've also noted some buzz from certain quarters:
It's clear to me though that any honeymoon period Rodgers might have
enjoyed from the fans is now well and truly over. The problem for the
club is that this creates massive pressure on the manager - cup finals in
September. Under such circumstances it just seems unwise entrust another
transfer window to a lame duck? Do we need to reach crisis point next
Autumn or Winter. Then what?
if we let this motley crew of young dimwits (the Jolly Rodgers, Barry Hunter, Alan Pascoe, etc and Pam Ayres) get another chunk of cash to spend, we will be even further into the mire.
It is so frustrating, United are there for the taking this year.....so are City and even Arsenal.
A good manager would have won the league, with Suarez.....and would have easily cemented a top three position this year.
Rodgers has to go.
I think we all know that.
The problem is though, that the issues run far deeper than merely the Brentmaster General.
Quote from: the dude abides on May 02, 2015, 11:02:10 PM
Was that you up in that there aeroplane over Anfield this afternoon?
I agree regarding our problems Dude. It's likely, imo, they'll bring a DoF in
over the Summer to protect their interests and a transition should they
need to give Rodge the bullet early next season. I can't see them doing
nothing and there's no one with a clue about football matters for them to
consult with.
Seems bizarre that we need to reduce them to 10 and then have to summon
Stevie G to bring his cavalry over the mountains to rescue the points at home
against QPR in 2015...
A sad indictment of Rodgers reign. He starts to remind me a bit of Blair.
if they bring in a DoF, we will be even more in the mire, Ed......and will show that they are even more out of touch.
And the media all lick the posterior of Gerrard yesterday.....despite his missed penalty, and all the other madness that surrounds him. He brings nothing to the team these years.
And Carraghera called the aeroplane banner an 'embarrassment'............yeah, those senior people inside Anfield who brought about the overthrow of Rafa are THE embarrassment.
And no, Ed.....twas not Dudely Biggles flying the plane. I have an alibi.
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Jurgen Klopp Says Arsenal Play Like An Orchestra But He Likes Heavy Metal
The video above impressed me, because I had been under the impression that Klopp's english was non-existent, or not very good.
It is fine.
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THEY ignored the stuff that Rafa had to do to keep the club in the mix despite the carpetbaggers that was Hicks and Gillette. Sell and buy players...
Carragher and Gerrard were instrumental in that...and now look at us...begging for scraps at the table.
yes, the un-named senior muppets who worked behind Rafa's back at Anfield, and in some cases used their media friends, to undermine Rafa, and get him sacked, have no part to play in Liverpool FC.
they clearly have not got the slightest idea about football management.
as you say, Bart, Rafa brought success to the club DESPITE the turmoil of the time.
Alan Pascoe, etc and Pam Ayres
Dude showing his age. Pascoe wasn't too shabby at the hurdles if I remember.
I betcha Pam could put into a poem the frustration we're all feeling - maybe a re-wording of The Housewife's Lament.
I bet he has all the Scorpions and Accept LPs, maybe even the odd Michael Schenker one, but for such a great musician himself, Schenker always, without fail, surrounded himself with amateurs not worthy of sharing the same stage with him.
Klopp has both intelligence and personality, though still a risk.
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Quote from: Tes on May 05, 2015, 09:30:51 PM
Very good English indeed. I'm not sure what you mean when you say he's a risk. Care to expand on that one? In any case he's deffo a risk worth taking.
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Quote from: Martinmarx on May 06, 2015, 12:20:46 PM
His record prior to Dortmund is very poor. He's done well at Dortmund, building whilst having to sell his best player(s). However, after a few good seasons, last season (in comparison) and definitely this one has seen things dive. Has the cycle ended, has he lost his touch, have simply too many players been sold, just a temporary blip, or what?
Another season at Dortmund would have given us a better idea, so we'd be taking him not knowing whether it was because or despite him that Dortmund's fortunes have so dramatically dived, especially in das Bundesliga .
It is a risk I'm not averse to either, and I have a huge amount of time for Klopp, both as a manager and what I've seen of him personally.
Funny being an LFC supporter this time of year with
nothing, nada, happening football-wise while other
clubs contest for trophies.
Must be how it feels like to be a mid-table club - which we're becoming,
albeit with a higher league position.
Quote from: Ed on May 06, 2015, 03:05:03 PM
According to Lallana we're still playing for 4th, which seems an odd thing to say when the team we're competing with happens to have recently beaten us at home, and whilst that very same team has just lost three league games in a row, we still steadfastly refused to take advantage by actually winning our games. We seem more intent on keep close company with Spurs and Southampton than actually getting any nearer to the Mancs.
And to think, we finished 2 points ahead of them last season, two major signings for them later and they're now 21 points ahead of us. They've kicked on whilst we've kicked success back into the long grass.
Under Rodgers we're also-rans, Ed.
When you look at the likes of Barca, Real Madrid, Bayern...they dominate world football because they built strong balanced squads with the odd superstar thrown in. As they gain success all they have to do is enhance with 2 or 3 players and never have to buy 8/9 players as a panic buy.
It's a slow and steady process which ultimately pays off.
I have a great deal of time for FSG and how they've kept the stadium at Anfield and enhancing that atmosphere. The problem is, is that we're not enhancing the team itself.
I see that we're now in the top six superclubs in the world (world fan base, social media buzz) with real, barca, manure, citeh and chelsea...and yet look at us, praying that manure slip up and we can have a miracle against Chelsea.
We need to dump the buying kids and selling them milarky now. With agents involved nowadays then every 18 year old think they're Messi.
We need to go back to the old ways of Liverpool. No primadonna's, no ego's...just a strong balance team which plays until their lungs burst and kicks ass.
Ageing Stick Insect
BBC Radio 5 Live have just announced that Memphis Depay has signed for Man Utd.
Without possession of all the facts it's impossible to say why he chose them apart from the obvious that he gets the chance to play in 6 CL games - half against Euro-dross. And Utd probably threw stupid money at him. If LFC did that the club would be hammered by most who frequent this board I suspect.
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Hadal Sherpa — Hadal Sherpa
(Bandcamp SHERP-001, 2017, CD)
Hadal Sherpa is a relatively new progressive rock band from Finland wih an outstanding self-released first offering. From the city of Vantaa, they’ve been together as a band since the end of 2013 when drummer Ilja Juutilalen joined completed the current lineup, which also includes guitarist Ville Kainulailen, bassist and cellist Sauli Marila, keyboardist Matti Elsinen, and last but not least Vesa Pasanen who contributes guitar, keyboards, percussion, and bouzouki, the latter giving the band much of its unique middle-eastern character. Pasanen also writes all the band’s material and arrangements are done by the entire band. Guest players on flute, trumpet and percussion, track depending. round out the arrangements. It’s a challenge for any band to keep things interesting in the complete absence of vocals, but Hadal Sherpa succeeds in presenting eight solid tracks of purely instrumental progressive rock, with hints of jazz and the aforementiond ethnic influences that sow up first on the third cut “Chafa Azeno,” but right out of the gate on the two part “Nautilus,” they seem to show a bit of a Camel influence, with the flute out front over its near sixteen minute duration, though more aggressive and psychedelic than one might expect, building as it goes. The album’s centerpiece is actually the three songs “Ikaros,” “Heracleion,” and “Marracech,” (tracks 4, 5 and 6 respectively) which form a 27 minute non-stop continuum of music that shreds all the proggy-prog pretenses of the opener and cranks it into high gear Turkish flavored rock, with the follow-on “Abyss” offering some Floydian moves that could have been lost dreamy movements from “Crazy Diamond,” but the power, might, and aggression steadily increase over its ten minute duration, and before you know you’re running at a fast gallop straight into the desert sun of the Sahara. The album closer, “Black Elk,” brings back the flute as well as trumpeter and extra percussionist for one final seven minute trek through the Arabian sands with guitars blazing. A very impressive debut from a band I hope to hear more from!
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The classic Hughes & Kettner Rotosphere rotary pedal: true Leslie speaker sounds in compact form
Every guitarist (and keyboard player) knows the swirling sounds of the legendary Leslie speaker. The Rotosphere, which authentically recreates the Leslie vibe in stompbox format, is possibly the most fabled of the Hughes & Kettner TubeTools pedals, and it’s been a mainstay on the boards of such guitar luminaries as Jeff Beck, Joe Bonamassa, Warren Haynes and even Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner, among others. Here we give you the story of the Leslie’s success, and how the Rotosphere took things to a new level for guitarists, with an excerpt from our official company history, Into The Blue: A Brief History Of The Technology Of Tone.
When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars
Aquarius! Aquarius!
They keep giving Nobel Prizes to physicists, yet the great question of the universe has already been asked by that R&B genius Billy Preston: “Will it go around in circles?”
The answer is, apparently, yes. All things elementary want to revolve.
Electrons orbit atomic nuclei, planets orbit their sun, satellites orbit whatever celestial body in the neighborhood exerts the greatest gravitational force.
Well, we never thought we’d get to wheel this old chestnut out again! But truth, if needed, that everything guitar-related does indeed orbit something greater than itself.
But, as far as we know, no two orbits are identical (someone let us know if that’s not true in the comments down below please!).
The trajectories of protons, planets and other orbital protagonists usually vary wildly in speed, distance and angle of inclination.
Let’s go round again
Don’t worry, this gear blog is not about to morph into an examination of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle.
Instead, we’re going to explore how a device combines the same sort of chaos and revolution to serve up a swirling smorgasbord of satisfying sound for guitarists and keyboardists. (The latter usually go unmentioned in this space, but as much as it pains us to say it, they do come in handy sometimes.)
The origins of the Leslie speaker
A rotary loudspeaker-and-amplifier system developed by one Don Leslie in the 1940s first went by the name of Vibratone.
Taking on its inventor’s moniker, the Leslie cabinet soon became the go-to sound-sculpting tool in the arsenal of many a Hammond organist.
The Doppler Effect caused by the rotation of the loudspeakers, paired with the surround sound of reflections bouncing off all the walls, created an enveloping sonic image that seemed to come from everywhere. It’s also the foundation for an unbeatable party costume:
But, clothing-based woes aside, that immersive audio experience was its ticket to success.
Oscillations, modulations, and tone and volume fluctuations conjured an irresistible cloud of sound that continues to charm and delight those of us who like that sort of thing.
Join us on a journey Into The Blue
Perhaps inspired by the budding psychedelia genre, more and more guitarists discovered this effect later in the 1960s.
To put it in the patois of the day, that sound was “heavy, man”! And, crucially, it could not be properly reproduced by any other means.
Now we’re going to delve into Into The Blue – our official history tome – to tell you a little more about why the effect is so special, and just how much work it took to distill the tone of a genuine Leslie cabinet into a compact floor pedal – the Rotosphere!
This is it: the legendary Hughes & Kettner Tube Rotosphere pedal.
SRV and Gilmour – the first Leslie superstars
“Since the 1960s, various guitarists had borrowed a typical keyboard effect to conjure an effervescent sound that swirled like a cyclone and bubbled like witch’s brew.
In particular, two iconic guitarists – Stevie Ray Vaughan and David Gilmour – had made waves with their use of a Leslie.
The late Texan bluesman liked to kick it in towards the end of a solo to send the finale swirling into the stratosphere, while Pink Floyd’s guitarist used it to summon evocative soundscapes.
The two styles were worlds apart, but had in common that the effect could only be achieved with an original Leslie (or some other rotating speaker).
How to achieve those heavyweight Leslie tones?
That idiosyncratic tone was not easily generated.
To achieve it, a louvered drum called a rotor is mounted on the bottom of the cabinet. It then revolves in front of the Leslie’s speaker, while a top-mounted horn also spins, both driven by a motor and amp.
All this paraphernalia is heavy, cumbersome and a living hell for any roadie or tech.
An original weighs about 100 kg (that’s 220 lbs.!) and perhaps nobody will be surprised to learn that it also costs a pretty penny.
Yes, that’s how big and cumbersome an original Leslie cabinet is! Pictured here are Rotosphere creators (left) Thomas Blug and (right) H&K’s genius head designer, Bernd Schneider.
Effectively, this put the effect out of most guitarists’ reach, unless they stumbled across one on the off-chance in a studio.
Switchable motor speeds and a foot brake
It might have been maddening from a practical standpoint, but the Leslie was redeemed by its tone.
The motor has two switchable speeds – slow and fast – and one of the best aspects of this effect is that the speakers’ rotational speed can be adjusted on the fly using its brake circuit.
If you ride the brake hard, the speakers come to a standstill.
The positional relationship between the speaker and horn is ever-changing, creating a sense of movement and a sound that is constantly in flux, which is partly what makes the effect so fresh and compelling.
However, it also makes it hard to emulate with an electronic circuit, especially given that the rotational speeds of the woofer and horn are not the same.
To replicate that chaotic – if not entirely random – maelstrom of sound was a task to make most engineers quake.
The Doppler Effect
The effect’s different speeds stir yet another delicious flavor into the pot.
The Doppler Effect, whereby pitch is varied according to the speed at which the sound source moves towards and away from the listener, is responsible for the lion’s share of this sonic voodoo.
The constant to and fro between natural chorusing and tremolo causes a wild warbling, burbling sound that was thought at the time to be inimitable.
The late, great Jon Lord – of Deep Purple and many, many other classic rock mainstays – was a fervent Rotosphere fanatic.
What made it even harder for would-be simulations is that the best-sounding Leslies owed their appeal to their speaker rotation units’ worn drive belts: a certain amount of slippage added another welcome element of random chaos.
Recreating the Leslie in pedal form
Naturally, then, the intrepid H&K R&D team wanted to have their own bash at a Leslie-type effect.
The main challenge facing them was to quantify all these myriad properties, render them with a device no larger than the original’s foot control, and ultimately create an electronic effect indistinguishable from the original for keyboardists who had grown up with this sound.
From the outset, it seemed like a herculean task, and so it proved: the team would take an intensive year of analyzing sounds, developing circuits, writing algorithms and A/Bing results before this magic could be distilled into the layout of a compact PCB.
Enter the Rotosphere
At last, the deed was done, and the team proudly introduced the Tube Rotosphere.
The name of this spellbinding little box was a portmanteau of ‘rotary’ (a nod to the original’s revolving speaker), and ‘sphere’ (the bubble of celestial sound it enveloped you in), prefixed by the ‘tube’ that shaped its overtones.
Finally, a standalone pedal had been created that took guitarists and keyboardists on the same psychedelic magic carpet ride as the original Leslie.
These days, the Rotosphere is becoming increasingly rare, and therefore extremely collectible, with prices for models in top working condition (and with power supply!) seemingly going higher by the month.
Since then, the Tube Rotosphere has become the go-to solution when producers and tone freaks worldwide want that spin-cycle sound without the hassle of chasing down the original behemoth.
It’s fair to say that no other device of a similar nature has captured this effect in such style.
Witness the glowing endorsement of Deep Purple’s Hammond maestro Jon Lord: a cherished friend of the company, who was a loyal devotee of the device until his passing on July 16, 2012.”
Fascination with the Rotosphere and the Leslie effect continues to this day.
With the advent of digital technology, something like that Leslie sound can be had in many effects and pedals, sometimes in impressive quality, for a scant few increments of your local currency.
Every guitarist who likes to indulge in a little chorus or flanger from time to time really should explore the Leslie effect. Try it; you may join the ranks of those of us who love it.
If you see one, buy it!
Sadly, the fully analog Hughes & Kettner Rotosphere is no longer made for a lack of components that are indispensable to its analog circuitry.
So, if you come across a second-hand Rotosphere somewhere, just bite the bullet and go for it!
You’ll be the proud owner of a bona fide classic pedal.
Guitar gods like Jeff Beck, Joe Bonamassa, Warren Haynes, Doyle Bramhall II, Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready, and Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner – as well as the aforementioned Jon Lord – have all got great use out of the Rotosphere over the years, and we’d wager that they’d second our opinions there!
Preowned prices can get pretty high these days, but perhaps your stars will align when the moon is in the seventh house and the universe will send an affordable Rotosphere your way.
More information on Into The Blue is here.
First published: August 02 2019. Most recent update: August 05 2019.
Into The Blue is the official written history of Hughes & Kettner, written by one of Blog Of Tone’s very own contributors!
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Milan on August 24, 2019 Reply
I own a tube rotosphere and have it connected to my hammon c2 organ. It is great and I really love it! The only thing I don’t like about it is that you cannot stop the rotation permanently but have to press the button for the whole time. Is there any way to alter this? I really love my rotosphere and do not want to give it away for something less great just because of this lacking feature. Are the switches still beg produced so I could simply change it?
Hughes & Kettner on November 5, 2019 Reply
Hi Milan. You must be running an original MK 1! The Rotosphere MK 2 had this change: the breaker was changed from a non-latching to a latching switch, and the electronics were changed in a way to make the rotors always stop in the same position. For you, exchanging the switch is an easy mod, but to make it stop in the same position is not possible. It would then stop in a random position. So, maybe see if you can find a MK 2 Rotosphere somewhere, and you’ll have all you need!
Team H&K
Kevin Smith on August 1, 2019 Reply
I spent years searching for a Rotosphere after I saw one on Bonamassa’s board! Finally picked one up used recently and it’s everything I wanted and more! The only way to get that Leslie sound without a real Leslie 🙂
Hughes & Kettner on August 1, 2019 Reply
Thanks for the kind words Kevin, and glad you found a Rotosphere at last! They’re getting rarer and rarer these days, so you got pretty lucky! Hang on to it and treat it well!
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August is Anal Pleasure Month!
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Construction to start in early 2020 on The Banquet and The CANADIAN ICEhouse – the future home to Edmonton’s largest rooftop patio
EDMONTON – September 30, 2019 – ICE District Properties is thrilled to announce the addition of two new restaurant concepts coming to ICE District. The CANADIAN ICEhouse and The Banquet are the latest additions to ICE District’s growing list of tenants. The two new eateries will be located in ICE District’s newest development, Block BG – formerly the Greyhound terminal site. Construction is expected to start in early 2020 and the public will be able to enjoy the new restaurant concepts in winter 2021.
The CANADIAN ICEhouse will bring a unique spin to the already well-known Canadian Brewhouse brand that people in Western Canada have grown to love, which opened its first restaurant in Edmonton in 2002. Fans can enjoy wall-to-wall sports coverage on a variety of screens, while enjoying their favourite cold beverage at the CANADIAN ICEhouse. ICE District will be the flagship location and will consist of three levels starting on the ground floor. Each level will have its own elevated look and feel. The top-level will span over 10,000 sq. ft. and will be Edmonton’s largest rooftop patio once completed. The patio will overlook ICE District Plaza and Rogers Place and will be fitted with fireplaces, outdoor games and much more. Restaurant guests who wish to skate at the soon-to-be-completed ICE District Plaza skating rink will also get the added benefit of having their skates sharpened while they eat, a complimentary service offered by the establishment.
In addition, visitors to The CANADIAN ICEhouse will enjoy an expertly crafted sub-zero vodka tasting in the ICE room, a room entirely composed of blocks of ice and snow. This immersive experience includes an in-house vodka expert, a diverse selection of unique vodka samples, and provides guests with a Canada Goose® parka to keep warm while in the ice room.
The Banquet will be Edmonton’s newest social playground where patrons can enjoy regulation-sized bowling lanes, shuffleboard, ping pong tables and more. Starting on the second floor, The Banquet’s two-level concept will add to Edmonton’s night life and game night crowd, providing guests an assortment of customized dishes and signature drink menu options, as well as an array of entertainment. ICE District will be The Banquet’s third location in Alberta.
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Both restaurants will have connectivity to downtown Edmonton through the fully indoor pedway system, providing convenient access to the LRT, as well as a vast amount of underground parking in ICE District Central Parkade, making it convenient for visitors and residents of The Legends Private Residences and SKY Residences in ICE District to live, work and play steps from their door.
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Full Name: Leslie Claude Deacon
Born: 22 December 1895
Came from: Devon County Went to: Devon County
First game: 18 March 1922 Last game: 29 December 1928
Appearances: 5 (5/0) Goals: 1
Deacon signed for his hometown team in Argyle's second season of League football, having previously represented Devon County. A seven-year spell at Home Park followed, but the half-back found it hard to break into the team, making just five appearances and scoring once, in a home draw against Brighton & Hove Albion in March 1923. Records show that Argyle was Deacon's only League club, although he did go on to play further matches for Devon County on leaving Home Park.
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September 9, 2018 News
Moving On!
A note from the content editor ~
Brant Guillory, 9 September 2018
If you frequent our forums, then you’ve probably seen the announcement that I’m leaving GrogHeads. This wasn’t an easy decision, but it’s the one I felt the need to make at this point in my life.
I’m leaving behind a fun, vibrant, exciting community that didn’t exist 7 years ago. Together, we took GrogHeads from “non-existent” to a serious site in the wargaming world. At one point we were one of the top 100k sites in the US, and were regularly killing our competition in some pretty neat measurables, like the time the average user spent on the site.
You guys rallied around your fellow community members like no other. One of our Wives of Grog™ got inundated with Christmas cards when they’d moved to a new base only weeks earlier, and he had to pack up for Afghanistan, leaving her with a newborn and few other kids in a new town for the holidays. Twice, you guys rallied to support Bayonet Jr getting to a major soccer tournament when I was un(der)employed. You pitched in for the community ranging from fighting childhood cancer to surprise birthday card avalanches to helping a young man fighting possible vision loss. We’ve had Grogs show up a funerals for folks we only knew through online interactions, with cards signed on behalf of the whole family.
That generous spirit is a key reason we had an active and vibrant thread just to donate extra copies of games to each other, usually digital codes, but often tabletop games, too.
And the annual family reunion that was Origins became a tentpole event for some people’s summer vacations.
We started a podcast, a video show, tried a few different recurring series, and peppered a variety of Civ AARs with unnecessary sexual innuendos. We wore our bowling shirts like a university history department tried to form a biker gang and ended up going out for tacos instead, and what started on a lark turned into 2500+ posts of puns to torture MetalDog.
It’s been a fun 6-1/2 years, but it’s time to pass the torch. Gus & Jarhead will be steering the ship now, and it’ll be exciting to see where they take it.
I’d tell y’all to give them the same amount of love you gave me, but that’s just kind of a mean thing to wish on them!
You guys take care, and remember that it’s all just one big, dysfunctional gaming family.
— Bayonet 06, Out.
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2018 – Looking Ahead to the Next Year in Wargaming
We also asked folks in the hobby to look into the next year and take a stab at predicting the future –
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Ty Bomba, Game Designer
I’m taking part in the founding of a new, 116-page, quarterly, one-topic-per-issue magazine from S&T Press to be titled Strategy & Tactics Quarterly. At least at the start, there won’t be any issue-wargame inside; instead there will be a full-size, two-sided, frame-able poster. At the same time, the 116-page format will allow us to get into each issue’s topics in such depth that most wargamers won’t be able to resist getting into them. My first two issue contributions will be: Stalingrad: The Whole Story, and Cold War World Wars: Armageddon’s that Might’ve Been, 1945-1991.
Alan Emrich, Victory Point Games
I predict the hobby will soldier on, but with a continuing need for more introductory wargames on topics that will send new players to learn more about the battles, campaigns, and personalities. Since they don’t do justice to history in schools as they used to, lighting that fire of passion in the next generation is vital.
2017 – Looking Back on the Year in Wargaming
We asked folks in the hobby what their biggest personal accomplishment was this past year. Here’s what we got from them –
Iain McNeil, Slitherine
That’s a tricky one as it depends if I use my business hat or my gamer hat. Battlestar Galactica Deadlock has been a huge project for us and is going really well on PC and just released on console, but from a personal point of view I love Field of Glory II. It’s not as commercial as BSG but I’m very pleased with how it has turned out and still enjoy playing when I get the time.
SURVIVING this year is my biggest accomplishment! 28 releases for a small company is rather astonishing. And also moving operations for Stronghold Games (and my residence) to Florida made this year very challenging to say the least.
However, if that’s copping out, then I’ll go with Terraforming Mars. While released in the latter half of 2016, the success of the game was truly realized in 2017. Getting out two expansions in 2017, “Terraforming Mars: Hellas & Elysium” and “Terraforming Mars: Venus Next” (releasing on 12/31/17 worldwide!), solidified its stature as one of the most significant hobby game releases of all time. Terraforming Mars is now ranked #6 (soon to be #5) on BoardGameGeek.com.
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A Look Back at 2017 from GrogHeads
2017 – What hath we wrought?
It’s been an eventful year here at GrogHeads.
We’ve expanded almost everything we do – more articles, more pictures in our articles, more traffic in the forums, more podcasts, more events at Origins, waaaaay more games to give away at Origins, more advertising partners to help us keep the lights on, more video features, and more members of our forums.
But none of that does much for us without you, the reader, to join us for the ride, and for that we are the most thankful. Our readership stats have gone up aross every metric: clicks, reads, time on the site, and reach with our social media.
So what’s coming next year?
Well, we’ve got a handful of things to work on. First, we’re going to updating some of our merchandise options, with new shirts and new products. We’ve got a podcast series already out there, and a new video series, too, but we don’t do much with live video, and we’ll look to start experimenting with some of that.
We’ve got some ideas getting more involved in the wider gaming community, too. We already plan, sponsor, and execute a bunch of events at Origins each summer, but that really only reaches the Grogs that can make it to Origins, so we’re going to look into some plans that can help reach our Grogience where you live and play – at your FLGS and smaller conventions. We’ve got some ideas about how to tie that into our social presence, too, but that’s admittedly a bit of a science project.
2017 By The Numbers:
– Over 200 articles
– Over 150 new members
– Over 30 Interviews
– 16 GrogCast Episodes
– 16 New Videos
– 68 Origins Events
– (20 just for kids!)
– 7 Conventions Covered
– 28 T-Shirts given away
Finally, we’re going to start experimenting with some new graphics updates on the site to go along with some new (Gus!) and reborn (GARPA) columns we’ll be putting back into rotation.
As with everything we work on – these are moving targets. We’re going to try something, and if it works (The GrogCast, #TBT ads) we’ll keep doing them, and if it doesn’t (Tuesday Screenshot, How To Make It In The Game Business) we’ll cut it out.
Most importantly, though, we’re going to try to have even more fun this coming year than last year, because ultimately that’s what this is all about, right?
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How Fashion Nova beats out Dior and Gucci to Become the Most Googled Fashion Brand in the World
Fashion Nova is a MASSIVE hit in the world of fashion:
Generated more than $400 million within just 18 months after launching their website.
A tailor-made Instagram brand with over 20M total followers on three different accounts. The value of Fashion Nova’s social media exposure is more than that of H&M and Zara combined.
Partners with more than 3,000 high-profile celebrities and top Instagram influencers like Kylie Jenner, Cardi B, Khloé Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian and Amber Rose.
Sure, you’re surprised by these numbers, but are you really all that shocked?
If the answer is no, this will shake you to your core…
Last year, Google released its 2018 Year in Search report, which showed that Fashion Nova is the most Googled fashion brand of 2018.
While your go-to budget fashion fave stands at the top of the list, timeless classic giants like Louis Vuitton, Versace, and Givenchy followed in second, third, and fourth place for search. Brands like Gucci, Alexander McQueen, Dolce & Gabbana, Dior, Moschino ranked in the remaining top 10 spots.
That explains why Fashion Nova gets a huge number of website traffic: 15M monthly visits per month — much higher than these luxe names I mentioned above.
Fashion Nova achieves the top spot by not doing any traditional marketing like others.
It means that “There was no runway show, no interviews, no press releases, no placements in magazines, and nothing with traditional marketing campaigns or SEO tactics.” — said Richard Saghian, Founder & CEO of the fashion blockbuster.
To figure out EXACTLY how Fashion Nova has grown so fast that they beat out fashion’s biggest luxe names, I completely decoded their business & marketing strategy in this blog post.
It’s the most strategic and detailed analytics you’ve ever found about Fashion Nova on the Internet.
Now, sit tight, sip your coffee nice and slow because you’re going to learn the best strategies from the most Googled fashion brand in the world.
Who (or What) is Fashion Nova?
[Tip #1] The “One Thing” Strategy: The strategy behind all strategies at Fashion Nova.
[Tip #2] Influencer Marketing Pyramid: How influencers bring Fashion Nova’s viral growth.
[Tip #3] Over-priced fashion is dead. It’s time for ultra-fast fashion.
I believe I don’t have to say much about this.
Because Fashion Nova is the viral clothing brand and a social media phenomenon that you can’t stop hearing about in the past few years — and for good reason.
Fashion Nova has been based in Los Angeles, CA since 2006. With only 5 physical stores scattered across Southern California, its globally insane popularity is the result of its work with high-profile influencers and its speed at delivering trend-led pieces.
Currently, the brand has over 20 million Instagram followers and an exponentially growing rate of 600% year over year.
The brand makes bona fide apparel, accessories and beauty business that’s attracted women with body measurements that don’t always fit within standard sizing.
Its target audience is women with shapes like Belcalis Almanzar, also known as Cardi B, or Blac Chyna — who have bulbous hips, round butts and spindle-like waists.
Fashion Nova’s clothing is revealing, tight, barely-there streetwear and club attire — but the company is not.
Richard Saghian — the millionaire Founder behind the fashion empire — largely avoids the spotlight as much as he can. He rarely does interviews. It’s partly because being interviewed makes him uncomfortable.
He even dismisses the idea of a portrait photograph for the very small number of interviews he accepted to join.
Till now, there are only two memorable things about him we’ve found on the Internet:
Remember the breathtaking Hollywood Hills mansion of Swedish deceased DJ Tim Berge, also known as Avicii? Saghian is the one who bought it last year — for a huge sum of money — $17,500,000, to be exact.
The other memorable thing…Saghian once boasted that: “Fashion Nova is the fastest-growing women’s apparel company in the world.”
And I think he has a point about that.
[Tip #1] The “One Thing” Strategy: The strategy behind all strategies at Fashion Nova
Let’s define the strategy first.
“One Thing” strategy: You can achieve anything if you focus on ONE thing at a time.
At some point in life, you & I, can all relate to a situation that our desires are constantly changing. We pursue new things before we achieve old goals.
“We’re dealing with an invisible force that is always trying to confuse us. Instead of focusing on one thing at a time, we set multiple goals, and think we can multitask ourselves to achieving them.” – Darius Foroux.
The important part here is: It matters less with the number of goals you set, and matters more with the way you choose to execute those goals. Yes, you can achieve a lot of things… But just NOT at the same time.
Source: Darius Foroux
It’s a time-tested strategy that’s been shared by many successful people. And this time it’s proven by the Founder of Fashion Nova once again.
Richard Saghian applies the “One Thing” strategy to every area of his business. From the distribution channel, marketing strategy, to business’s goal and mission, etc.
1. Focus on one distribution channel
Saghian claims Fashion Nova’s physical stores have become tourist destinations in California. But he has no desire to open up a big flashy flagship store on Melrose or anywhere else for that matter.
At the Burbank Town Center Mall, the Fashion Nova store, which is about 3,000 square feet, isn’t picturesque or fancily decorated — think a lower-budget Rainbow or H&M for instance. But that doesn’t seem to matter with Saghian at all.
“I had a goal of opening 100 stores across the U.S. when I first started the business, but the effort it takes to launch a store is far harder than it is to increase revenue online,” said Saghian.
He added, “Why open up more stores when I can literally open up to more countries — with less effort?”
So instead of building out flashy brick-and-mortar stores, he and his team dedicated their energy on building the brand’s social media presence — especially on Instagram.
By updating their feed every 30 minutes and executing influencer marketing fluently, Fashion Nova becomes the Instagram blockbuster that every eCommerce brand dreams of.
Richard Saghian realized the power of Instagram very early on.
Celebrities like Kehlani, Kylie Jenner and Cardi B have changed the way customers react with advertisements and sponsored posts with an authentic feeling.
Their detailed strategy about how they use Instagram and influencer marketing to get the most traction will be revealed in the next part of this story. And it’s gonna be good.
2. Focus on one goal at a time
Folks said: “Profits are the only business of business.”
But Saghian said differently.
“A lot of my competitors have teams that work on a budget all day and are obsessed with profit margins,” said Saghian. “I don’t want to focus on that right now. I believe that as long as we focus on giving the best product at the best price and getting it to our customer fast, we will continue to grow.”
He shared that the only focus of the company right now is “getting as many people onto the platform as possible.” No matter the cost.
Keep reading, I’ll explain why he called his business a ‘platform’ in the later part of this blog post. It’s one of his secret sauces to run a wildly successful clothing brand.
3. Key takeaway
You can have multiple goals, multiple strategies, but just choose ONE THING to focus at a time.
You can’t build an online store, promote it via social media, magazines, emails, billboards or trade shows, etc. at the same time — especially when you’re just starting out and having a low budget. But you can test all those things in a business lifetime. As long as you don’t take it too slow.
The key is: If you saw something works for your business, stay true to it. Keep doing it and develop it as much as you can.
Just like how Poo~Pourri applies the hilarious and magical theme for their before-to-go-toilet sprays since 2013. Or how Levi’s takes the sustainability factor into every campaign they run and make it the official core value for their brand in… a century — as I’ve mentioned in our previous growth stories.
Remember: Don’t be afraid to set goals and aim for great things. Just achieve one thing after another.
[Tip #2] Influencer Marketing Pyramid: How influencers bring Fashion Nova’s viral growth
In 2018, Fashion Nova was Instagram’s top-performing brand in influencer marketing based on Earned-Media Value (EMV), according to InfluencerDB.
On the EMV chart, the brand stands first at $125.2 million, brands such as Zara and H&M come afterward at 59.5m and 39.1m.
Celebrity and mega influencer endorsements are one key factor to their success, and the brand is well-known for their close collaboration with high-profile celebs like Kylie Jenner, Cardi B, and Amber Rose.
Besides that, they’re also joining hands with thousands of micro-influencers and NovaBabes (it’s what Fashion Nova called their fans) to complete their marketing strategy.
1. Close partnerships with mega influencers
Fashion Nova has built an entire empire around a vast network of influencers. Very few brands are able to do the same.
It’s a difficult thing to coordinate and execute well. Because getting handfuls of social influencers to all work toward the same goal, with the same general branding style, is no easy feat.
Fashion Nova’s partnering with a network of 3000–5000 social media influencers who have a large following on Instagram.
These influencers create content on social media that looks no different than the content they would otherwise post on a daily basis.
The only exception is they are wearing a piece of Nova’s clothes, and sometimes — in the caption – they are providing their own unique discount code (which Fashion Nova can use to track conversions).
Fashion Nova as seen on Kylie Jenner
Cardi B mixed a $40 pair of jeans from Fashion Nova with her Versace blouse
And if you partner with a mega influencer whose family is also full of celebs like Kylie Jenner, the social media exposure is sometimes doubled without…no extra work:
Kylie’s brother, Rob, loves poking fun at his sister
$50,000.
That’s the extra sales driven to Fashion Nova in a few days after a single promotion photo was posted on Kylie’s Instagram. Saghian told The Cut in 2017: “A post from Kylie’s page is better than any Super Bowl ad.”
Let’s imagine…with 3,000 influencers — including Cardi B, Blac Chyna, Kourtney Kardashian and Nicki Minaj — create roughly 6,000 pieces of content about the brand each month, it’s not surprising that Fashion Nova become a social media phenomenon and the #1 popular brand on Instagram.
Quick question: Can you spot a pattern among those photos taken by Fashion Nova’s influencers?
Those celebrities are not featured in professional photoshoots, rather they are paid to take unprofessional photos or even mirror selfies — with their own smartphone or camera — to create an authentic sense of style.
This technique works to make the advertisement appear natural and genuine, even when the celebrity has been paid a great sum of money for their post.
When Fashion Nova reposts a celebrities’ advertisement photo on their own page, the number of likes is boosted up to around 80K on a single post.
Fashion Nova as seen on Valérie Cossette
And you know what…celebrities like Cardi B were paid $20,000 per month to wear Fashion Nova and promote it to her 46 million-and-counting-followers.
But wait…You’re thinking: “I don’t have thousands of dollars to work with A-list influencers like that!”
Good news: You don’t have to spend a huge sum of money on influencer marketing. In fact, a relevant influencer marketing strategy is to consider the influencer industry as…a pyramid. Just like how Fashion Nova does.
2. A breakdown of Fashion Nova’s use of influencer marketing
They use a model called Influencer Marketing Pyramid.
Much like Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the Influencer Marketing Pyramid is a motivational theory in marketing comprising a four-tier model of influencer marketing, often described as hierarchical levels within a pyramid.
The Pyramid divides consumers into four different levels. From top to bottom, the passion and interest for a topic decrease, while the size of the audience increases.
Source: InfluencerDB
This model helps define a methodology and an architecture to target your content and media efforts.
To better illustrate the model, I break down Fashion Nova’s influencer marketing strategy into a pyramid like this:
Fashion Nova’s 4 levels of influence:
The lowest level — I KNOW IT: This is the largest group of the pyramid. This level assembles all Fashion Nova’s followers and consumers who buy fashion for the sake of needing to get dressed, but without any actual interest in the fashion pieces they buy. They do hardly follow Fashion Nova’s trends and their style revolves more around “I need to buy something” than “I want to buy this piece”.
Level 2 — I LIKE IT: This group consists of thousands of #NovaBabe — who’re superfans of the brand. NovaBabes are consciously aware of their interest with the brand, spend time consuming it and might even see it as their hobby. They’re actively posting pictures about them wearing Nova’s items on social media for a chance to get featured on the page.
Before we jump to the two highest levels of the pyramid, let me explain this point further. Because it’s really worth noticing.
Instagram opens a new era of young men and women — the generation who needs to be seen, heard and validated — go to show off their best sides to the world.
And Fashion Nova’s success lies in that.
It lies in the brand’s willingness to give their fans — the opportunity to share posts, get attention & validation from millions of people around the world.
They encourage their followers to take provocative mirror selfies to showcase the clothing, which is not a technique used by many fashion brands such as Zara and H&M.
By this way, Fashion Nova has gained its own group of highly loyal brand ambassadors and advertisers literally…for free.
Photos of #NovaBabe
Level 3 — I LOVE IT: Assembles those influencers who depict fashion as their favorite hobby and their biggest passion. These influencers wear Fashion Nova to isolate themselves from others and have extensive taste and expertise in the topic. They spend a specific amount of time & effort to promote Fashion Nova. They can be both macro influencers who have paid and micro influencers — who get free items from Fashion Nova on a weekly/ monthly basis — to do this.
Level 4 — I LIVE IT: On the highest level, Fashion Nova finds the absolute experts in a topic, who live and breathe Nova’s style and best illustrate their visual. And you may guess, Fashion Nova joins hands with the American Rapper Cardi B even before she becomes a signed artist. Today Cardi B is considered as one of the driving forces for Fashion Nova’s paid as well as organic mentions. It is estimated that each of her posts delivers around $128,198 Earned Media Value for the brand.
“We were doing well before Cardi, but she definitely gave us some legitimacy,” said Saghian, Fashion Nova’s Founder & CEO. “She is one of our favorite partners because when she talks about Fashion Nova, she speaks from the heart.”
Cardi B makes a signature statement with Fashion Nova. She constantly states that she chooses the low-budget Fashion Nova over designer brands because it fits so well with her body measurements.
It turned out that this budget lifestyle sat well with her audience and Fashion Nova even transformed into a marketing campaign with Cardi B’s famous quote:
“I could buy designer but that #FashionNova fit.”
See the full video here
The quote appears in the lyrics of Cardi’s new song at that time — She Bad.
And right after that, Kylie posted a picture of her wearing a Fashion Nova’s black jumper on Instagram — with Cardi B’s lyrics in a caption:
It is not necessary that the influencers with the largest follower base will be most effective for a brand’s promotion.
Sometimes micro-influencers can give brands a better promotional boost, as compared to the big names.
Multiple numbers of strategically placed micro-influencers can provide a decent amount of organic brand and media value, upon consolidation.
You may not know: “Marketers have noticed that once an account is over a certain size, however, fewer people bother to engage questioning the value of a multimillion army of fans.
The ratio of likes and comments to followers peaks when an account reaches around 1,000 followers.” – Sidney Pierucci
Get more than 100,000 followers, then engagement starts to flatten out. The audience just isn’t keen to interact with a big celebrity compared to interact with someone they can relate to more closely.
Remember: Start small, then scale.
Saghian once said: “Over-priced fashion is dead.”
And he has a point when saying that.
Fashion Nova proved it right when it beats out all luxe names like Versace, Gucci, Dior, D&G and Louis Vuitton to become the most Googled fashion brand in the world.
Mostly because retail is dying, killed off by eCommerce and a post-recession preference for experiences over things.
Young men and women are now both into fast or even ultra-fast fashion like Fashion Nova. Why? They’re super easy to get. And how easy it is? To explain this, let’s talk about Fashion Nova’s business model first.
The Platform Business Model
There are two popular models in the business world today: Pipeline and Platform.
Pipeline is the one that dominant since most fashion brands are using that model to run their business.
They create stuff, push them out and sell them to customers. The core value is produced by the product itself and it represents for the whole company.
For example: We see pipes everywhere. TV, Radios and Blogs are pipes spewing out content at us. Our education system is a pipe where teachers push out their knowledge to children.
Unlike pipes, Platforms do not just create and push stuff out.
“They allow users to create and consume value themselves. It has resulted in a complex relationship in which producers, consumers, and the platform itself enter into a variable set of relationships.” (Parker, Van Alstyne and Choudary, 2016 p.6).
Competition is no longer only over who makes a better product, but increasingly over who builds a better platform.
Source: Praxent
Saghian is using Platform to run Fashion Nova.
Much like Facebook, Uber, Alibaba — the goal of Fashion Nova is to create communities and markets with network effects that allow consumers to interact and transact.
Consider the situation at Fashion Nova: Network effects occur when Fashion Nova becomes more valuable as more people buy & use it.
Simply put, if you are wearing Fashion Nova and no one else of your friends or family is, Fashion Nova has very little value. As more of your friends and family buy & wear Nova’s items, the more valuable the brand becomes to yourself.
And to create network effects like that, you’ll need as many people to sign up or go into the platform as possible. The more, the merrier.
Saghian executes this strategy by making the clothes super easy to get with two important advantages:
1. On top of them, being so cheap that everyone can buy
Fashion Nova items are surprisingly affordable — compared to a piece of designer clothes.
A pair of jeans costs around $40 on Fashion Nova’s site. Shoes are priced between $30 and $55. Dresses can be found for as low as $28, and no more than $50. Plus, there’s always a sale or discount code to take advantage of.
This rock bottom prices that come along with its speedy fulfillment firmly situate Fashion Nova amongst the likes of other fast-fashion giants, such as Forever 21, H&M, Mango, and Zara.
2. Deliver trends faster than fast-fashion brands
Saghian likes to say he’s turned fast fashion into ultra-fast fashion with Fashion Nova.
Note: “Fast fashion can be defined as cheap, trendy clothing, that samples ideas from the catwalk or celebrity culture and turns them into garments in high street stores at breakneck speed.” — Good On You.
Over 600 new items are released each week on its website.
“It’s important to have a lot of styles because our customers post so much online and need new clothes. We don’t want girls showing up to the club in the same outfit. We need 50 different denim jackets. Not just one.” Saghian told WWD.
Fashion Nova’s ability to speed up the supply chain because of its access to over 1,000 manufacturers, many of which are located locally right in the Los Angeles area.
Saghian told WWD that it takes the company just 48 hours to design and manufacture a product.
After 48 hours, the items are ready to be shot on models — who’re in the office from Monday to Friday to pose in the 600 items Fashion Nova releases each week.
This constant newness keeps customers coming back frequently to Fashion Nova, because they don’t want to miss a single trend.
“The devil works hard but Fashion Nova works harder”, read one viral tweet with screenshots of the brand’s products. It was liked by nearly 96,000 people on Twitter.
If you haven’t spent at least the same effort on the business model as on the product, you are only half prepared for the real world of business today. It’s hard to win by doing half the job, especially if that’s the easier half.
Defining one wisely, you get 50% chance to win.
It’s Fashion Nova’s growth story. Now, it’s time for yours.
Fashion Nova is defying a slump in fast-fashion industry by turning it to ultra-fast fashion.
They’re releasing 600 new looks every week and harnessing an army of 3,000 Instagram influencers around the world.
The brand has perfectly executed the art of instant gratification for a very specific customer persona: young men and women. The generation who consumes content on Instagram, know their angles and follow fashion trends from celebrities like the Kardashian – Jenners rather than fashion magazines or designer runways.
Now, my dear friend, using this Fashion Nova’s growth story as your inspiration, you can make this year your best year ever, whatever your goal is. Who knows, maybe next year, your own business journey will inspire us to write another eCommerce success story like this.
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Data Innovation: Generating Climate Solutions
UN Global Pulse and Western Digital Host Data for Climate Event at the 8th Sustainable Innovation Forum During COP23
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Global Pulse, the United Nations innovation initiative on big data and data science, and Western Digital Corporation will host an event on Data Innovation: Generating Climate Solutions, at the 8th annual Sustainable Innovation Forum during the United Nations climate change conference (COP23). The event, which will take place on November 12 in Bonn, Germany, will jump-start the Forum with discussions and examples of data-driven innovations to enable and accelerate climate action.
The public is invited to watch a live-stream broadcast of the event at DataMakesPossible.com/Bonn.
The event will kick off with an address by the UN Secretary-General’s Special Advisor on Climate Change, Mr. Robert C. Orr, and continue with panel discussions on how to advance big data for climate action through effective partnerships, engagement of all stakeholders and strategies for scaling of collective efforts. See the full agenda here.
It will also showcase the winners of the Data for Climate Action (D4CA) challenge, an unprecedented data innovation competition to leverage big data and analytics for social good. The challenge was launched earlier this year, with support from the Skoll Global Threats Fund, and called on innovators, scientists and climate experts to use data to accelerate climate solutions. Western Digital will be donating awards for the challenge winners.
Learn from speakers from Orange, Earth Networks, Planet, Tableau, Twitter, the World Resources Institute and more for an exciting afternoon of data visualizations, big data analytics and impactful panel discussions.
Find out more about the event and how to attend in person: http://bit.ly/2ylRs0w
Find out more about the Data for Climate Action challenge: dataforclimateaction.org
Watch a live-stream broadcast of the event at: DataMakesPossible.com/Bonn
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Global TraPs
Beijing 2013 Presentations
About Td and HES
MLS & DS Forum
Documentation of Global TraPs project finished – follow up activities visible
Global TraPs terminated formally at the end of 2013. The Global TraPs Newsletter NL13 (March 2015) includes a brief summary and comments of the practice leader Amit Roy (IFDC) and of Roland Scholz (Fraunhofer IFDC). Newsletter NL 13 also includes a complete documentation of all four workshops and the Global TraPs World Conferences, seven Global TraPs case studies, eighteen chapters and spotlights included in the Global TraPs book (Springer), six peer reviewed scientific papers, two book chapters, three strategic papers, eight master theses as well as the booklets from the Mutual Learning Sessions oft he 2013 Beijing conference.
In order to properly utilize the achievements of Global TraPs, a proposal was launched for transitioning Global TraPs phosphorus initiative to UNEP Global Partnership for Nutrient Management. This proposal was positively dealt with at the third Steering Board Meeting of the GPNM, held on December 10 and 11, 2014 in Washington, DC. For more information see the final Global TraPs Newsletter NL 13 which includes a documentation of all publications and activities of the Global TraPs project. Arnoud Passenier (Dutch Ministry of Environment), Amit Roy (IFDC, USA), Rolnad Scholz (Fraunhofer IGB, Stuttgart) and some others will be members of the GPNM phosphorus task force.
For more information see the final Global TraPs Newsletter NL 13 which includes a documentation of all publications and activities of the Global TraPs project. Further, the Global TraPs work is utilized in the current work oft he UNEP International Resources Panel, in particular in ist efforts to protect the marine environment.
A special issue on Losses and Efficiencies in Phosphorus Management of the Elsevier Journal Resources, Conservation, and Recycling (editors R.W. Scholz and T. Hirth) will appear in November. As special feature on the topic The Reality of Transdisciplinary Processes (editors R. W. Scholz and G. Steiner) will be published in the Springer journal Sustainability Science October 2015. This special feature will include some papers which report on and analyze the experience with transdisciplinary discourses gained in the Global TraPs project.
Closed-Loop Supply–Demand Chain Management as a means of sustainable phosphorus management
Closed loop supply-demand management and closed cycle economics are key concepts of industrial ecology and prerequisites for sustainable phosphorus management. Both approaches need a differentiated and reliable knowledge about the flows- Chapter 1 of the Springer book (Scholz, Roy and Hellums, 2014) included a global phosphorus flow analysis for the year 2011. Please click at the icon to get access. If you want more information about how these flows have been assessed, please contact Debbie Hellums "Debbie Hellums (dhellums@ifdc.org) or Roland Scholz. (roland.scholz@igb-extern.fraunhofer.de)
This figure is taken from: Scholz, R.W., A.H. Roy, and D.T. Hellums, Sustainable phosphorus management: A global transdisciplinary challenge, in Sustainable Phosphorus Management: a Global Transdisciplinary Roadmap, R.W. Scholz, et al., Editors. 2014, Springer: Berlin. p. 1-113.
Vision for sustainable phosphorus in tomorrow’s world
The Global TraPs project identifies critical questions and develops visions and orientations on sustainable phosphorus management
News of the Global TraPs project: Terminating project work at the end of 2014
TraPs officially started on February 6, 2011. Originally planned as a five year project to address sustainable phosphorus management, through a transdisciplinary process, the project will conclude on December 31, 2014.
Integral to Global TraPs, was participation of over 200 key stakeholders of the phosphorus supply-demand chain openly sharing their knowledge and experiences on prevailing concerns associated with current phosphorus management practices. While the first phase of the mutual learning process on sustainable phosphorous use went exceptionally well, unfortunately, additional funding to finance the final phase related to proposed policy recommendations to support sustainable phosphorus was not acquired.
Thus, the leaders of the project, Dr. Roland Scholz (Senior Advisor, Fraunhofer IGB, formerly Professor ETH) and Dr. Amit Roy (President and CEO, IFDC) determined that the project will be terminated on December 31, 2014.
To properly utilize the various outcomes and achievements of Global TraPs and for continuing transdisciplinary activities in sustainable phosphorous management, the following discussions are underway:
Transferring Global TraPs in a more permanent structure
Global TraPs proposed to the Steering Board of the Global Partnership for Nutrient Management (GPNM), the launching of a GPNM led Phosphorous Initiative (the exact name yet to be determined) (IPI), similar to the International Nitrogen Initiative (INI). If this action is approved, it will maintain the knowledge base gained in Global TraPs as well as the network of representatives from the private and public sectors. Under this proposal, Global TraPs’ knowledge could be transferred into a more permanent structure. The initial proposal was positively received by the Steering Board of GPNM in Bhubaneswar, India, this March. However, before reaching a final decision, the Board commissioned a group of practitioners and scientists to prepare a white paper to detail out the objectives, goals, and modus operandi of this new phosphorus initiative taking into account lessons learnt from the Global TraPs initiative.
Various publications at the end of case studies and activities
Global TraPs will close-out the various case studies which were launched after the 4th Global TraPs workshops. The project will provide the latest information via the Global TraPs Newsletter 13, which will appear later this year, and the results of these case studies will be published soon. First results from the SMAP-Kenya case study on Smallholder Access to Phosphorus will be published next year in a special feature of Sustainability Science with the title “The Reality of Transdisciplinarity.” Those who want to provide another paper to the special feature please contact Roland Scholz (roland.scholz@igb-extern.fraunhofer.de) and Gerald Steiner (gsteiner@wcfia.harvard.edu), both editors of the journal .
Global TraPs Newsletter 12 now available
You may find the Global TraPs Newsletter 12 below in the Newsletter section or click here.
The summaries of the Mutual Learning Sessions and Dialogue of the 1st Global TraPs World conference are now available on the MLS & DS 2013/2014 page.
Response of the Global TraPs Project (“Transdisciplinary Processes for Sustainable Phosphorus Management”)
The present response is based on feedback of Global TraPs’ leaders, steering board, and members. The Global TraPs project includes representatives from all key stakeholder groups of the key nodes of the supply-‐demand chain, i.e. Exploration, Mining, Processing, Use, Dissipation and Recycling as well as Trade and Finance. Global TraPs’ primary feedback – besides stressing the role that the EU may take in global phosphorus management – related to inaccurate data and resulting conclusions.
The following persons have provided input from a Global TraPs perspective:
John H. DeYoung Jr. (USGS, Reston, VA, USA), Debbie T. Hellums (IFDC, Muscle Shoals, AL, USA), Ludwig Herrmann (Outotec, Germany/Finland), Christian Kabbe (Kompetenzzentrum Wasser, Berlin, Germany), Kees Langeveld (ICL Europe, The Netherlands), Mike McLaughlin, (University of Adelaide, Australia), Armin Reller (Fraunhofer IWKS and University of Augsburg), Terry Roberts (IPNI, USA), Rainer Schnee (Budenheim, Germany), Simone Röhling (BGR, Germany), Gerald Steiner (Weatherhead Center Harvard University, Cambridge, USA), Olaf Weber (University of Waterloo, Canada), Friedrich-‐Wilhelm Wellmer (formerly BGR, Hannover, Germany)
A global transdisciplinary roadmap for sustainable phosphorus management
A main product of the first half of the Global TraPs project is a comprehensive book with the title Sustainable Phosphorus Management – A Global Transdsiciplinary Roadmap. There are 53 contributing authors, including 19 practitioners (mostly from private sector industry) and 24 scientists from public science institutions (mostly from universities). The book has been edited by Roland W. Scholz (Fraunhofer IWKS and ETH Zurich), Amit H. Roy and Deborah T. Hellums (IFDC), and Fridolin S. Brand and Andrea E. Ulrich (ETH Zurich). Global TraPs is grateful for the support of the institutions.
Provides a comprehensive, supply-demand chain-based analysis of phosphorus flows, use, trade and finance, developed during a two year transdisciplinary process,
Describes options for improving phosphorus management along the supply-demand chain (e.g. exploration, mining, processing, use, dissipation and recycling,
Identifies case studies and proposes a research agenda for critical questions of sustainable phosphorus management.
The first draft of the chapters focused on the nodes of the supply chain (exploration, mining, processing, use, dissipation & recycling) and the cross-cutting issues of trade and finance were discussed at the 4th Global TraPs Workshop in El Jadida, Morocco in May 2012. However, the review process and the elaboration of a comprehensive system analysis which is presented in chapter 1, as well as the supplementing spotlights which deal with topics which promoted vivid discussion (e.g. phosphorus losses or the health dimension of phosphorus), are now presented in 10 spotlights.
Below, we present the list of contents and a description of the book. The book has entered the layout department in this October, but may be ordered now for your personal use or your library at Springer publisher or amazon.
Look at the list of contents
The following institutions supported the editing of this book
More than 170 people participated in the 1st Global TraPs World Conference in Beijing June 18-20
The Global TraPs 1st World Conference, which will be held in Beijing, People’s Republic of China June 18-20, 2013. This conference was jointly organized was hosted by the China Agricultural University and the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture. The conference was jointly held with the fifth conference on the Global Partnership for Nutrient Management (GPNM).
Day one of the conference was shaped by Mutual Learning and Dialogue Sessions on Chinese cases (e.g. manure management in the peri-urban region, avoiding fertilizer overuse in vegetable gardening). Days two and three provided a comprehensive system analysis on the phosphorus and nitrogene cycle. More than 170 people, more than half from abroad, attended excellent presentations and valuable discussions.
For developing policy options a set of case studies and discourses among the key stakeholder was launched.
Group picture of the participants of the first Global TraPs World Conference and the fifth Conference on GPNM
Look at the Orgchart of Global TraPs (PDF)
The Phosphorus Challenge: Managing a Resource With Complex Patterns
In recent years issues related to phosphorus (P) management and sustainability are becoming a concern and have repeatedly generated serious discussions and debate among different stakeholders. Two major issues that have particularly received increased attention are:
the finite nature of phosphate resources vis-à-vis their essentiality in all biological systems and food and fiber production and
the increasing water contamination caused by excessive P use and/or poor management practices. Off-site P losses cause negative environmental impacts by triggering surface water runoff and soil erosion.
While Global TraPs (Transdisciplinary Processes for Sustainable Phosphorus Management; 2010–2015) focuses on these two issues, it has additional, important emphases:
Focusing on sustainability of future P use, Global TraPs will bring together researchers from various disciplines with an interest in phosphorus („Science“) and producers and users of P, along with those facilitating their efforts, such as extension and development organizations („Practice“) to work in „nodes“ organized around the global P supply chain (i.e. from exploration of P resources to its utilization and recycling) to answer the project guiding question:
Phosphorus has a tremendous positive impact on food and fiber production (essential component of food security and human health), but much can be done to improve this impact. Sustainability of P resources has become a serious, worldwide concern and therefore needs attention.
A great deal of knowledge exists on ways to manage P without causing adverse effects to the environment. However, in many places, P management leaves a great deal to be desired.
Given the central role of P in food security and human well-being, and the low use of P among some smallholder farmers, access to P by the resource –poor producers has to be improved.
„What new knowledge, technologies and policy options are needed to ensure that future phosphorus use is sustainable, improves food security and environmental quality and provides benefits for the poor?”
Message from the Project leaders »»
NL 13 – 2015,
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Ibrahimovic agrees sensational deal with big Italian club worth €7m
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– Zlatan Ibrahimovic will be 39 years old by October 3 and he is still playing topflight football
– The Swede has agreed a fresh one-year deal for him to remain at Italian club AC Milan
– Ibrahimovic is expected to return to the club ahead of their new season
Zlatan Ibrahimovic who turns 39 in October has agreed a new €7million deal at Italian club AC Milan for him to remain at the club until the end of the 2020/2021 season.
The Swede posted an image of himself in the club’s no.11 shirt and provided an epic caption “I’m just warming up” to hint he is not ready to quit the game despite his age.
Italian outlet Gazzetta Dello Sport are reporting that the lanky striker is expected back at the club on August 29 ahead of their the stat of the new Serie A season, same day he first signed for the club in 2010.
Ronaldo Delima tops list of highest goalscorers at 21 for club and country (see where Messi and Ronaldo are)
The goal machine returned to Milan after leaving LA Galaxy during the January transfer window on a six-month contract worth €3.5 million with the option for an additional season.
The Swedish forward had a huge impact on Stefano Pioli’s side, scoring 11 goals to help the Rossoneri to a sixth-place finish after languishing in the bottom half of the table before his arrival.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic agrees €7m deal at AC Milan. Photo Credit: Getty Images
Meanwhile, Thiago Silva has finally joined Premier League giants Chelsea after ending his spell with Champions League finalists Paris. Saint-Germain.
The Brazilian center-back spent eight seasons with the Parisians winning seven Ligue 1 titles in the process. The 35-year-old was unveiled by the west London club after signing a one year deal having the option of a further year.
Silva becomes Chelsea’s fifth signing of the season after Hakim Ziyech, Timo Werner, Ben Chiwell and Malang Sarr.
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Leather Skins, Unchained Hearts
Sub Saharan female Heavy Metal fans
by Paul Shiakallis
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If one was to picture a typical Heavy Metal fan, it would most likely be a young guy with a strong resemblance to James Hatfield circa 1982… Blowzy pimpleface, layered long hair, a cut-off denim or leather vest with a plethora of patches, skinny jeans and klunky basketball sneakers. Also with an unwitting association to a rocker type male Caucasian.
But never underestimate the power of music. There’s an underground minority forming a Heavy Metal subculture in orthodox Botswana. It’s called “Marok” which means “rocker” in English. Surprisingly enough, there are female Marok too. The Marok have their own language of fashion, merging different style influences. A main influence is the cover of Motorhead’s 1980 published record Ace of Spades. Then there are Botswana’s bikers with their tasseled leather jackets and black boots, plus the cowboy gear worn by many of the country’s farmers. The Marok scene is small, so Botswana’s metal bands like Crackdust, Skinflint, Overthrust or Amok only play shows every other month. It’s like a tribe gathering and Marok from all over Botswana show up, even if they have to travel hundreds of kilometres.
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South African photographer Paul Shiakallis first became aware of the Marok phenomena when a friend invited him to a rock show in Gaborone, Botswana, in 2010.
“I saw mostly men dressed like cowboys in black leather. There were not a lot of people that attended the festival, so they were very easy to pick out from the crowd.”
In 2014 he shot the series “Leather Skins, Unchained Hearts” documenting the female Maroks.
They call themselves Queens and break down stereotypes of a male dominated subculture. What makes it even tougher for them is the patriarchal society they live in. Some of the Queens expose their metal identity only on facebook.
Paul Shiakallis explores and shows the strain between Botswanan patriarchy and nonconforming self-expression. His portraits of the female Marok are a look into their stray away from the limits of convention and family life for these women.
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Most of the portraits are shot in the homely environment of the protagonists. This creates a powerful contrast to the subject of Heavy Metal. Please give further insight why you’ve chosen this staging.
From my experience, the Marok mostly come from lower income bracket households. It was important to show that they did not come from a life of luxury. Leather is expensive, and for them to spend money on it, shows that they are truly dedicated to the movement.
You said that "every portrait I took almost never happened. Sometimes, the Queens' boyfriends or husbands would thwart the shoots since they didn't want their partners to be photographed by, or even in the presence of, another male.“ Why is that and how difficult and maybe even dangerous is it for these brave women to partake in the scene?
Botswana has a patriarchal society. Some men feel like they have ownership over their women; they dictate what she does, where she goes and who she talks to. This is a bit ironic because part of being a metal head is the freedom and independence it should afford you. The Queens that are single have much more freedom than the ones who have boyfriends. Some of the boyfriends of the Queens are not rockers and they do not appreciate their women being part of such a scene; I met a couple of Queens that would go to rock shows in secret, either against their parent’s or their boyfriend’s wish.
The biggest obstacle that the Queens face is public opinion. Botswana is quite religious, 70% of the public are Christian, and about 90 % of their TV channels are church programs. Black leather is never really seen in a good light by the locals; they tend to think the Marok are some unruly satanic cult. The Botswana expect their females to be decent, lady-like and subservient, anything out of the ordinary is shunned. It’s much harder to be a rocker as a female than it is as a male. I wouldn’t say it is dangerous to be in the scene, once you are in and you are accepted by the others, you are considered part of the family. Anything that involves metal music, socialising, drinking, funerals, is done together with the men.
Text: Erik Hüsken
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The Other Miss Bridgerton
She was in the wrong place...
Fiercely independent and adventurous, Poppy Bridgerton will only wed a suitor whose keen intellect and interests match her own. Sadly, none of the fools from her London season qualify. While visiting a friend on the Dorset coast, Poppy is pleasantly surprised to discover a smugglers’ hideaway tucked inside a… (more)
Fiercely independent and adventurous, Poppy Bridgerton will only wed a suitor whose keen intellect and interests match her own. Sadly, none of the fools from her London season qualify. While visiting a friend on the Dorset coast, Poppy is pleasantly surprised to discover a smugglers’ hideaway tucked inside a cave. But her delight turns to dismay when two pirates kidnap her and take her aboard a ship, leaving her bound and gagged on the captain’s bed…
He found her at the wrong time...
Known to society as a rascal and reckless privateer, Captain Andrew James Rokesby actually transports essential goods and documents for the British government. Setting sail on a time-sensitive voyage to Portugal, he’s stunned to find a woman waiting for him in his cabin. Surely, his imagination is getting the better of him. But no, she is very real—and his duty to the Crown means he's stuck with her.
Can two wrongs make the most perfect right?
When Andrew learns that she is a Bridgerton, he knows he will likely have to wed her to avert a scandal—though Poppy has no idea that he is the son of an earl and neighbor to her aristocratic cousins in Kent. On the high seas, their war of words soon gives way to an intoxicating passion. But when Andrew’s secret is revealed, will his declaration of love be enough to capture her heart…?
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The Groundbreaking of New Chandra Asri Petrochemical Factory in Cilegon
by Sebastianus Epifany Tuesday, February 6, 2018 - 10:45
CILEGON - PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical Tbk (CAP), Indonesia's largest and most integrated petrochemical company, has conducted the groundbreaking of a new Polyethylene (PE) factory with a capacity of 400 kilotons per annum (KTA).
The ceremony was held at the CAP petrochemical complex in Cilegon, Banten, where the new factory will be built. Symbolically, the groundbreaking of the project was marked by the signing of a banner of commitment by CAP management represented by Mr. Erwin Ciputra - President Director, and representatives of EPC contractors covering Toyo Engineering Corporation (Toyo-Japan) by Mr. Tomohisa Abe - Director, Toyo Engineering Korea Limited (Toyo-Korea) by Mr. Toru Osanai - President & CEO, and PT Inti Karya Persada Tehnik (IKPT-Indonesia) by Mr. Eiji Hosoi - President Director.
The new plant facility will produce High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE), Linear Low-Density Polyethylene (LLDPE), and Metallocene LLDPE (mLLDPE). Some product applications for LLDPE and HDPE include blown film, rice bag, toy, bottle cap, shopping bag, household appliance, rope, tarpaulins, pipe, container box, etc.
The rapid growth of the plastics and packaging industries in Indonesia encourages CAP to be more alert to anticipate the high demand of PE in domestic scale. As quoted in pressrelease.id (6/2/18), Erwin Ciputra, President Director of CAP explained, "The current PE market demand in Indonesia is estimated to be around 1,4 million TPA and will continue to grow in line with the country's GDP. Our news PE factory will become an additional source of domestic PE products as import substitution and reduce foreign exchange outflows."
The total investment cost for this project is estimated at US $ 350 million. Project completion is targeted at the end of 2019 and is expected to commence operations in early 2020. Currently, the Company operates a PE factory with capacity 336KTA. Therefore, the construction of a new PE factory with a capacity of 400KTA will increase the production capacity of PE CAP to a total of 736KTA.
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Female Shepard/Garrus Vakarian
Garrus Vakarian
James Vega
Jeff "Joker" Moreau
Steven Hackett
Karin Chakwas
EDI (Mass Effect)
Liara T'Soni
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Chapter 21: My Future In Your Eyes
We are still kids but we're so in love
Fighting against all odds
I know we'll be alright this time
Darling, just hold my hand
Be my girl, I'll be your man
I see my future in your eyes
Baby, I'm dancing in the dark
With you between my arms
Barefoot on the grass
Listening to our favourite song
When I saw you in that dress
Looking so beautiful
I don't deserve this
Darling, you look perfect tonight
Both Shepard and Garrus didn't sleep very well the first night in the apartment. Something about it was too dissimilar to a ship or small research station. They traded sleeping in short bursts and tried to occupy themselves with vids or whatever they could find on their omnitools.
Shepard was browsing Citadel news, trying to stay familiar with the current happenings, with Garrus snoring beside her as the artificial sunlight started filtering in through their window. Then a brand new article caught her eye.
Vakarian Back-- with a "Special Friend"?
She clicked it, and sure enough, there was a picture of her and Garrus still at the docking terminals. She looked closer and studied where they were, where the camera must've been... it was taken shortly after they'd said goodbye to Joker. She only skimmed the article; it didn't have much. It referenced Garrus's run in with Hyatt as the last eventful thing he did on the Citadel, his arrival on Palaven, and even a visit to a classified Council station. She frowned; someone was well-informed.
Garrus suddenly rolled over and nuzzled his mandibles into her hair, but noticed her rigidity. He opened one eye and Shepard raised the omnitool screen to show him. He tensed also but stayed snuggled close, his arm over her abdomen.
"That didn't take long," he grumbled.
"No, it didn't. Someone was waiting for us at the docks," she said.
"Anti-syns?" he asked.
"It's possible Xanossi told Hyatt, who leaked a rumor to a reporter that you'd be returning with a special someone," she agreed.
"Do they say anything about who you are?" His mandibles were twitching now.
"No. Not even my new name. It's very vague, other than the picture. Even if Hyatt knows it's me, he might be just keeping his cards close for now," she said, frowning again.
"I'll have the Councilor check Hyatt's associates for anyone in journalism, maybe get some extra surveillance there," he decided, closing his eye again.
"I guess this means I could go with you to Spectre Status without worrying about the public's initial reactions, though," she added with a hopeful smile, and gently nudged him. He groaned and rolled over onto his back, stretching to wake himself up further.
"How about we start with sparring first?" he suggested, then took on a teasing tone. "We need to make sure you can still handle yourself in a fight."
"You're on, Vakarian," she retorted, and rolled out of bed, ready to go.
"...wait, you mean now?" he moaned from the bed.
"Why not? Come on, do I need to splash some cold water on you?" she teased.
After some more grumbling, Garrus eventually got up. They decided to use the empty bedroom. It had the most clear space, but the hard vinyl floor would be a lot less forgiving than a mat. They agreed to try and lessen any blows that would send the other to the floor.
Despite all her talk, once they were ready, standing across from each other, Shepard froze. Her brow furrowed as they both held a solid stance, Garrus watching her and waiting.
"...what is it?" he asked gently.
"...I don't know how Shepard fights," she admitted, her tone having lost all the boldness she had before. She watched Garrus hesitate, unsure how to reply.
"Don't try too hard. You said it felt natural before," he offered, but sounded unsure. Shepard still felt frozen, and Garrus couldn't bear the lost expression on her face. After another long pause, he stepped forward and prepared a swing, but he watched as something instantly clicked within her. Shepard adjusted to move away from his momentum and thrusted forward to aim for his shoulder, then his legs. She connected and he almost lost his balance, but was able to easily stabilize again.
From there Garrus continued to initiate, and Shepard always had a response. Finally, he didn't wait for one. Shepard blocked several before being backed against the wall. He stopped and Shepard let her arms fall to her sides, her chest heaving as he simply studied her.
"Let's go again," she eventually panted, and they returned to the center of the room.
Several more rounds went the same way. She could always get some good hits in, but eventually Garrus would overtake her, and she couldn't recover.
"Didn't I used to win some of these?" she huffed as he easily deflected her blows.
"You tell me," he said calmly. His relaxed demeanor upset her, and she gritted her teeth as she tried to find the right combination of speed, force, and trajectory.
Two hours passed. She couldn't beat him. Garrus was getting more concerned, but stoic, and Shepard was getting more upset and less proficient.
"You haven't had any water yet today," Garrus reminded her for the third time after backing her into a corner once again.
"I don't want water," she snapped, and gave him a shove to get him back into a starting position.
"We should make breakfast."
Shepard ignored him and lunged forward again without even catching her breath. By now she was tired and sloppy, and before she knew it Garrus had simply sidestepped, gently taken her hand, and rested his other hand in the small of her back. He spun them both and suddenly was leading her in a slow, gentle dance that Shepard couldn't bring herself to resist. He began humming a tune she was too frustrated to recognize.
"Did peacetime turn you into a lover, not a fighter?" she grumbled, covering her own insecurity with a tease.
"I was always a lover," he corrected, his voice soothing. "The universe just needed my fighting more during the war. It doesn't now."
"I suppose you're right," Shepard chuckled, letting her body relax into his. "Which am I? What was Shepard?" she whispered.
"You don't need me to tell you that," he purred confidently.
"But I don't remember..."
Garrus hummed a flourish and led her into a spin, but her legs were tired and she fumbled at the end. He managed to recover and lowered her into a dip as he hummed the end of the song.
Before bringing her back up, he whispered, "You will, Shepard. You will."
The rest of the day almost played out like a dream.
After breakfast, Garrus suggested they watch a vid. Shepard suspected he was just trying to distract her from initiating another sparring match, but was tired enough to concede. She dozed in his lap, and could tell Garrus wasn't at all offended by her lack of interest in the show.
When she woke she felt calmer, but also restless. She managed to talk Garrus into wandering around the Citadel; they'd already been spotted and reported on, anyway. They set out and browsed tech shops, visited a Spectre museum (that had a large area focused on her, which they didn't stay at long), got lunch, and wandered through a park that had tall, thick foliage. Vrilakir did a fairly good job of keeping enough distance to not seem like a third wheel, and was discreet, but seemed to enjoy watching them. Garrus practiced calling Shepard by the name of Roxanne, but struggled to do so comfortably. At least it wasn't too difficult for her to respond to it.
It was dinner time when they arrived back at the apartment building, having ordered food to be delivered again; Garrus always met the courier in the lobby to prevent anyone from knowing their exact residence. A package was also waiting for them in the lobby, which caused Garrus to grin.
"What is it?" she asked, watching him tuck the box under his arm.
"A gift for you," he purred. "Let's eat first and then you can take a look."
Shepard stared at the box for most of dinner, and definitely noticed Garrus staring at her with a smirk. He was enjoying her anticipation. Shepard finished her meal first and, without waiting for an invitation, quickly cleared her mess and then grabbed the box, slicing at the adhesive with a small knife that was handy. She opened one flap, pulled back some packing paper, and golden, shimmering fabric shone up at her.
"Oh!" she exclaimed. Without another thought she recklessly removed her glasses, shirt, and jeans, ignoring Garrus's chuckle from where he still sat at the table. She lifted the dress from the box and carefully stepped into it. She remembered it; long sleeved, floor length, but with slits up to her thighs to allow for plenty of movement. Garrus had imagined her in it at Councilor Lyric's party, which had caused her to also imagine herself in it.
The back had a zipper, and before she even attempted to reach for it, Garrus was behind her and pulled it up with reverence, causing the shape to hug her abdomen perfectly. Then she heard music. Soulful, sappy music that dripped of romance with a melody that threatened to sweep her away itself.
She shuddered as Garrus took a moment to purr into the back of her neck. Her eyes were still closed as he took her hand and led her into the living room where there was a bit more space. They swayed close together; nothing fancy, just two bodies melting and moving together, exhaling thoughts of anything but that moment.
Garrus shifted his hand position and straightened his posture, and Shepard knew what that meant. His steps became deliberate now, and she went rigid as she struggled to find the proper steps that matched. Her brow furrowed deeper and she huffed after her second misstep.
"Garrus, I don't remember. I'm not what you want me to be right now. I don't know if I'll ever--"
His chuckle cut her off and she narrowed her eyes at him.
"You are exactly as I remember," he purred.
"But I don't remember how to do this," she snapped, beginning to pull away but Garrus kept her close.
"We've never done this," he said pointedly, his eyes taking on an earnest look that she knew well. "It's a new routine. I don't know it perfectly myself. And you started to give up at the same point you always do." His mandibles twitched in a small smirk before pulling her back into the rhythm, and she let herself follow.
"Dancing is the only thing you ever became a defeatist about," he continued, his tone light as a purr rumbled from his chest. "Always, at some point, you'd give me that look of consternation and try to convince me it was too complicated for you," he chuckled again. "Sometimes more than once. But you enjoyed being close to me enough to keep trying, and soon, before you knew it... you were masterful."
He was right; she had been following effortlessly since they started again. As if to prove it to her, he added in a flourish that spun her away from him and back, and she didn't miss a beat as she returned.
"...I'm not as different from my old self as I think I am," she realized quietly.
"Exactly," he assured her, bringing his mandibles close to her ear. "Things may be foreign right now. You haven't had your body for over a year, so it may not seem the same to you... but I never forgot it. It's just as warm, just as strong... just as alluring."
His purr deepened as one hand drifted down her hips and his fingers slipped under the slit in her dress, gently gripping the skin of her thigh and causing her breath to stutter. Their swaying became more subtle as he brushed the side of her neck with his mandibles and mouth. Shepard's mouth parted as she exhaled and leaned her head back with her eyes closed.
"Your back still arcs in my favorite way," Garrus breathed huskily, accentuating the curve in her spine as he held her close. Unfortunately, the more the rest of Shepard's body became aroused, the more her head hurt.
"Mmm... but you're still more confident in it than I am," she mumbled, feeling the dull ache in her head grow.
Garrus paused and took note of her hesitation. She wasn't entirely tense, but she wasn't fully participating either; her arms were around his neck but they stayed there, unadventurous. He thought about all the tantalizing ways she used to reciprocate his teasing that must be gone from her mind. He cleared his throat and loosened his hold just slightly, but gently stroked her back still.
"You're right," he conceded with a smile. "I know you want to feel ready. I know how to be patient," he assured her. "But I won't pretend it's easy." He ran a hand through her hair and gave her waist a quick squeeze as his purr deepened again. Shepard laughed and trembled slightly before melting into him once more.
"I think that's fair," she replied with a grin. The song playing on Garrus's omnitool ended and she looked away thoughtfully with a small laugh.
"This day has been almost too perfect. I don't know what to do with this much contentment," she mused.
"You wouldn't be feeling that way if the battles of the Transcendant War weren't still a part of who you are. Perhaps that's making it more difficult for you to feel like yourself again," he pointed out, then smirked. "Should I go offend some krogan?" Shepard laughed.
"Hopefully such drastic measures won't be necessary," she replied. "In the meantime... want to go try sparring again?" Garrus laughed at her eagerness to master herself further.
"And take the dress off already?" he asked, tilting his head and nearly whining. "How about a few more dances first?"
"Mmm, that sounds fair too," she replied with a smirk. Garrus quickly selected a new song and Shepard took the time to place a long, slow kiss on his mouth before allowing him to lead her again.
Later, Garrus was up in the night again. He hadn't been quite as restless, but was wide awake for whatever reason now. At least Shepard seemed to be getting quality rest. They'd sparred again for a couple hours before bed, and she managed to best him several times. Not quite as often as she used to, but enough for her to gain some confidence back, which he was thrilled to see.
Giving up on sleep for the time being, he picked up his omnitool and began aimlessly browsing. There were a couple of brief articles about their day out, but it was purely pointless "celebrity" gossip, nothing threatening or substantial.
He saw he had a message from Admiral Hackett and opened it.
Vakarian,
Councilor Lyric informed me of the developments on her project. Sometime when we can be discreet, I'd like to discuss the results.
Garrus's mandibles twitched at Hackett's excessive vagueness. He guessed Hackett was talking about seeing Shepard again after they weren't quite as in the spotlight as they were now. Visiting with the Normandy Elect with "Roxanne" could be written off as Garrus introducing his new girlfriend to his friends, but introducing her to Admiral Hackett would definitely appear odd, so it made sense to wait.
Still, Hackett sounded like he didn't feel the communication was secure. Had something been compromised? Garrus kept reading.
Your discovery from just before you visited Palaven has disappeared. We had a team doing what they could, but the information and the green wave is just... gone. This happened three hours ago.
I don't know what this means, but thought it may be a piece of your puzzle. It's possible someone else unraveled it before we did, which I imagine means trouble.
I'll be in contact again soon. Wait for me to reach out.
Admiral Steven Hackett
The rest of that message confirmed that something was absolutely compromised and Garrus found that very unsettling. He put his omnitool away and turned to watch Shepard beside him. Part of him was still amazed she was truly there next to him... and the other was painfully aware of how incomplete she felt, and therefore behaved.
The "green wave" that claimed to be her on his scanner, gathering in the last place anyone knew she was... what was it really? Was it just some ethereal leftover energy from the Cynosure? Or could it have held some pocket of information, perhaps the information Shepard was missing?
Someone unraveled it before we did...
Garrus thought back to Hackett's message and a small growl escaped him at the thought of someone else claiming whatever might have been meant for Shepard. If so, it had to be the anti-syns. They could have had a mole on that team the same way they had Xanossi on Councilor Lyric's... but what was their plan? Would they soon make demands?
"Garrus?"
His growl, louder than he realized, cut short as he blinked and caught Shepard gazing at him, looking groggy and concerned.
"Is something wrong?" she asked.
"Ah... no," he grumbled, then cleared his throat. He covered his face with one hand and took a deep breath, reminding himself to not let his imagination or worries get away from him. "Just... a bad dream."
He felt Shepard shifting beside him and then her hand on his cheek as she placed a kiss on his forehead. He was immediately purring, which only got stronger as her hand moved to the back of his head and gently pulled it down against her chest.
"Don't worry. I'm here to keep you grounded," she whispered.
Being careful not to scratch her with his face plates, he nestled his head as close to her heartbeat as he could. He knew Shepard probably didn't remember, but she'd held him this same way when he'd told her about his mother's death. He took in a deep breath of her scent as comfort washed over him.
"Mmm... I know."
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Argothestarchild on Chapter 21 Thu 13 Feb 2020 04:06PM EST
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SilkenFerocity on Chapter 21 Fri 10 Jul 2020 12:30AM EDT
That could mean any number of things and they are all valid. :P Thanks for reading!
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General_Jinjur on Chapter 21 Sun 17 May 2020 02:48AM EDT
I was just thinking about this story, and I hope you're staying safe and healthy.
Thank you! I'm glad to hear this wasn't forgettable and I appreciate you checking in. I've been working hard again to get all the pieces together for this! I also appreciate the concern about my health. I (as well as my husband and 4 children) are doing well. My only excuse is that I had a baby, but I really wasn't planning on a hiatus this long. Making humans sure sucks up a lot of creative energy. Thank you for being a fan! <3
spacesamurai on Chapter 21 Fri 03 Jul 2020 01:47PM EDT
Please keep writing! I love your interpretation of the post synthesis ending.
And Garrus should finally fuck Shepard!
Well goodness, how can I say no to that?! Hahaha! Your comment made my day. I don't write any really intense romance, but stay tuned for a couple more chapters (that may already be written) and perhaps it will be satisfying enough. :D
TrueWarrior98 on Chapter 21 Mon 06 Jul 2020 03:29AM EDT
I can't wait to see what happens to Shepard and Garrus
Thank you for reading! I appreciate the comment. <3
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WING CHUN KUNG FU FOR LADIES, MEN & CHILDREN! Excellent for Exercise, Self-Defence & Socializing! Wing Choon Kuen originally was part and parcel of Shaolin’s Buddhist theoretical studies. It stressed mainly the formation of one’s personal character and ethics. Kuen Faat (martial techniques) was initially human’s imitation of the movements of animals and birds. After a long period of in-depth study and trails, those movements were arranged into a series of movements we call forms. The original founder of the series of Wing Choon Kuen was an intelligent, innovative female disciple of Shaolin called Ng Mui Shi Tai. She studied diligently and humbly at Shaolin and eventually became one of the top Kungfu masters. The objectives of her martial techniques were not only to inculcate the high morality of the learner, but also to provide ample physical exercise for fitness and health, through a series of nimble movements. In addition to building up a strong and tough body physically, it also aimed to prevent diseases and defend oneself against any attack from wild animals. Our forms - Providing different energies Intermediate Forms • Kwan Do (春秋大刀) • Subdue the Tiger Trident (伏虎大耙) • Willow Leaf Double Broadsword (柳葉雙刀) • Bench • Spear (梅花槍) • Broadsword and Rattan Shield(单刀籐牌) • Broadsword and Rattan Shield vs Subdue the Tiger Trident (单刀籐牌對拆伏虎大耙) • Subdue the Tiger Empty Hand Form (伏虎拳) • Small 5 Animals Empty Hand Form (小五形拳) Advanced Forms • Iron Elbow - Empty Hand • Rope and Weight (飛鉈) • Twin Butterfly Knives (蝴蝶雙刀) • 3 Section Staff (三節棍) Our Core Forms - The DNA of Yip Kin Wing Chun Core Forms Empty Hand 1. Small Flower Fist (小花拳) This is the first form of the Yip Kin Wing Choon system and it introduces the practitioner to the basic hand, body and footwork movements and positions. It also contains the road map on how to practice the other forms to achieve the best results. It can be broken into 8 sections, each focusing on a specific footwork, body positions, structure and energy. The techniques are put into "points" so the practitioner can focus him/herself on the essentials of the Yip Kin Wing Choon system. 2. Big Flower Fist (大花拳) This second form simplifies the movements of the first form and adds new combination/techniques to the practitioner. It is also a power form where you build your strength and stamina to cope with the stresses and needs of a fight situation. It also teaches you to fight from impossible/odd positions such on the ground and in twisted positions. 3. Wooden Dummy (木人樁) Practical applications, positioning in relation to an enemy, power application and footwork in relation to a person is taught here. You will also learn how your structure corresponds to an opponent in a particular situation. It requires both soft and hard energy to be able to get your self around the dummy. The dummy only has 2 arms that is pointed to the practitioner's centre (throat and belly button) and a leg. 4. Sticky Hand Form The sticky hand form provides a bridge between the empty hand forms and free fighting. Techniques are applied to a partner in a sequence which resembles two person fighting with the hands in almost constant contact. Students learn to attack and defend according to Wing Choon principles in a safe environment with a partner. However, unlike the empty hand forms, the movements are not executed by the practitioner but based on input by his/her partner. At advanced levels, the attacker has the choice to follow the form or change the sequence by changing the energy he/she applies into the attack. His/Her partner must interpret the energy he/she receives and acts accordingly using the proper principle and/or techniques that will best correspond with the attack using minimal movement and energy. Later, this will flow into a free flow fighting technique by both practitioners. Weapons 1. Plum Blossom Staff (楊梅棒) The basic weapon and what practitioners of Yip Kin Wing Choon believe to be the TRUE Wing Choon weapon. The pole is held with both palms pointing away from the practitioner. ALL the the Wing Choon principles can be applied using this weapon and all the movements are almost exactly like empty hand techniques learnt in the first and second forms. Using this pole, practitioners also learns to apply Lien Siu Tai Ta (linking offense into defense) and footwork for their empty hand techniques. 2. Six and a Half Point Pole (六點半棍) This is a unique pole form which has six and a half techniques combined and repeated over six and half directions together with its variations according to usage and needs. 3. Yin Yang Ba Gua Pole (陰陽八卦棍) This form is almost similar in terms of techniques and content to the Six and a Half Point pole but applies the techniques to Eight (8) directions using a slightly different footwork. 4. Partnered Plum Blossom Staff (楊梅棒對拆) This is a partner form learnt after the practitioner has finished learning the Six and a Half Point pole. It's objective is to teach the applications of the Plum Blossom Staff together with introducing the practitioner to stick fighting and fighting using a medium range weapon. 5. Partnered Six and a Half Point Pole (六點半棍對拆) This partner form is learnt after the practitioner has finished learning the Yin Yang Ba Gua Pole. Its objective is to introduce the practitioner to using the Six and a Half Point pole in a combat situation, fight using a long weapon and to sticking pole (Chi Kuan) exercises. Basic Training - To get you started Stances and Footwork There are 6 different types of footwork launched from 5 basic stances. All the stances are interchangeable with each other with only at maximum one or less movement in between. Qigong Consist of 6 static postures which a practitioner must hold for a period of time. Its objective other than for health is to develop Qi for use in combat. 7 hands These are separate techniques like those in 40 point Wing Chun and the San Sik of Yuen Kay Shan Wing Chun. Other than teaching a specific technique, they also teach the basic principles used in Yip Kin Wing Choon. 8 legs Taken from the 3 empty and forms and 1 wooden dummy form, it is a way to practice the kicks separately for practical use in fighting. Our Methodology - How we make you excellent! Yip Kin Wing Choon Kuen's training system is a traditional model. During the Basic Training stage, the basics required for application of Wing Choon techniques are drilled into the student, imparting the skills required for proper execution of the forms. Thereafter, from the first form Sai Fa Kuen (Small Flower Fist), until the last, the training methodology becomes iterative. Each and every form contains the entire system. Thus the first form is akin to a "executive summary" of the entire Yip Kin Wing Choon Kuen system. It starts with simple techniques executed with fairly large movements to make it easier for the student to practice while developing the correct principles. Subsequent forms modify the same movements, blending and/or simplifying them, whilst adding more complex movements and applications. These extend also to every weapon form in the system, which use the exact same energy and movement as the empty hand forms. The student is taught the same movements in increasing levels of complexity throughout the course. The different weapons, while using the same movements as the empty hand forms, also each has a different focus and seeks to impart some new, essential skill or energy into the student. Sometimes these changes are felt immediately, for example, a student may do chi sao exercise, do a weapon form, and if he does chi sao after with the same partner he had before, the difference in feel will become immediately and overwhelmingly apparent. Besides adding advanced techniques, subsequent forms in the system also provide feedback on the student's abilities or development during the earlier forms. For example, if the student's footwork is even slightly in error for some reason or another in an earlier form, the more advanced forms will show this error clearly, allowing a student to make corrections and thus also improve his earlier forms. The highly integrated nature of the Yip Kin Wing Choon Kuen system allows this. PRINCIPLES Hit With Borrowed Energy All the techniques, movements and principles of Yip Kin Wing Choon are designed to achieve this principle. China is famous for its battles and wars which lasts weeks on end. In order to be effective in a battlefield, the soldiers had to find ways to conserve their energy and the best way to do so is to use the enemy's energy. Energy Energy is only applied where there's contact and a need. For example, when a punch is launched, it is largely useless until it hits the enemy. Therefore, energy used is only to move the fist to its intended target. It is non committal and its speed and direction is changeable. When it finds its target, a second energy is released in an explosive manner. This allows the practitioner to conserve energy and use it only when it matters most. Economy of Action The only objective of Yip Kin Wing Choon is to hit/subdue the opponent in the shortest time possible using the most minimal amount of movement, strength and energy. However in a fight situation, there are more instances where the hands/feet and/or other parts of the body comes in contact with the opponent. 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Al Hurricane Sr. bids farewell
(Photo courtesy: Al Hurricane, Jr.)
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By Ernest Gurul�
egurule@lavozcolorado.com
As hurricanes go, no matter how bad or devastating, in time, their memory fades. The same, however, cannot be said of another kind of �hurricane� whose very name causes grown men and women to not only look forward to it touching down in their town but counting the days until it arrives.
After nearly sixty years of life on the road � playing every imaginable venue, from honky-tonk to the Hollywood Palladium � this unique force of nature, known formally as Alberto Nelson Sanchez but more intimately to his fans as Al Hurricane, is winding down a career � and what a career! Never a wallflower, this musical legend, known by many as �The Godfather of Latino Music,� is leaving the stage not with a whimper but with a high-octane pachanga.
The 79-year-old Mexican-American troubadour, recognized for his signature eye patch and pompadour, is in the midst of yet another tour. Almost every week for the rest of the summer, Hurricane and his band will be playing somewhere in New Mexico or Colorado. New Mexico stops include Albuquerque, Farmington, Las Vegas and Socorro. The Hurricane then hits Colorado with gigs in Alamosa, Colorado Springs, Trinidad and, on August 29th, the Adams County Fair.
With a career that began before most of his fans were even born, Hurricane could not be blamed for calling it a day. But, taking it easy just isn�t his style. From his home in Albuquerque, Hurricane looked back on the journey, one that could have gone in a completely different direction.
�Fats Domino offered me a full time job,� said Hurricane. It was tempting. How could anyone turn down a job with Domino? At the time, the New Orleans superstar sat comfortably atop the charts with his iconic �Blueberry Hill.� In the end, it was an offer he could � and did � refuse. �They were going on a six-month European tour,� remembered Hurricane. �I just couldn�t see leaving my family for that long.�
Over the years, Hurricane�s played gigs with some of music�s biggest names. Chuck Berry, Chubby Checker, Marvin Gaye and Tina Turner all counted on his musical skills. �They were always happy when I would tour with them, but I decided I wanted to stick with what I had here.� But what exactly did he have? What was it that made Hurricane a wanted man with so many big names and in so many places?
�His appeal, his style of music has always been one that took the talents around him and combined them so that when you hear them, you know it�s Al,� said Flo Hernandez Ramos, former General Manager of Denver�s KUVO. KUVO and Ramos originated �Cancion Mexicana,� a Sunday morning show featuring a liberal dose of Mexican-American music and musicians. Hosting the show also meant getting requests � sometimes several times an hour � for Hurricane�s songs. She understands its natural appeal. �You just latch on to it as your own.�
What she isn�t so sure about and what many others who know Hurricane�s music so well aren�t sure about either, is why such an amazingly talented musician and showman never jumped to a bigger stage. �It�s bittersweet,� said Ramos. �He deserves that kind of national prominence.�
Hurricane got an early start in music. His father, Jose, a miner and musician, taught him the guitar basics at age five. Young Al was a natural and music came easy. But the part his mother, Bennie, a registered nurse, played in his musical life cannot be understated.
As the young guitarist, later saxophonist, trumpeter and occasional accordion player was polishing his craft and making a name, his mother was making sure he was getting the right bookings. She put nursing on hold to become his full-time manager as president of Hurricane Productions. She also became something of a regional legend as a concert promoter, booking acts like James Brown, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles and Little Richard. She also gets credit for the name �Hurricane.� She gave it to him because of his inability as a child to get through a room without breaking something.
As a performer, Hurricane may have also broken a few other things, like the record for playing more towns in the Southwest than just about any other performer. He�s sold out shows from Reno to Roswell and Pueblo to Pacoima. But wherever he�s played, he finds his audience, even when he took the band to Europe.
�When we played Malaga, Spain,� he recalled, �there were no Americans.� It was one of the few times he had no idea how the gig would go. �Once we started playing the music, �La Bamba,� �El Rey,� they got into it and started chanting �Hurricane, Hurricane.� We won them over.� Hurricane has also won over fans in shows in Argentina, Germany, Holland and Paraguay.
Today Hurricane�s role is mostly observing the band. He often sits as his son, Al, Jr., takes the lead. Of course, Junior, isn�t the only blood in the band or the family, for that matter. Hurricane�s brothers, Tiny Morrie and Baby Gaby have also carved out their own niche in the industry. The siblings have also performed together on a number of albums. And then there are his children. Hurricane has a total of eight from two marriages. One, a daughter, died in childhood. Several of his children are prominent members of his band.
Junior, a dead-ringer for a younger Hurricane, does most of the vocals. �I�ve been (performing) with him for 43, 44 years,� he said as his father took a break from the interview. But, after four decades, the road can be a grind. �I�m looking forward to taking some time off.�
But the younger Hurricane, who does double duty on trumpet and keyboard, does admit, this tour has taken on a different vibe. �Yes, people are still buying tickets. But, lately, you see people in the audience crying. I guess they don�t want to say goodbye to us.� He says that from time to time, he�ll also hear voices from the audience pleading, �please don�t quit.� �It gets really emotional.�
But in the music world, you can�t get too satisfied or too emotional, he says. That�s why when he sings his father�s signature song, �Sentimiento,� a song he�s sung a nearly infinite number of times, he sings it like it�s new. �You do what people want. That�s why they�ve supported us for all these years.�
The Adams County Fair may be the band�s last stop in Colorado for a while. There are no plans at present for a 2016 schedule. But the state has been good for the band despite it also being the place where Hurricane�s band was involved in a serious wreck on its way to a job in Denver. The wreck cost Hurricane his eye. But, in a painfully ironic way, the eyepatch he had to wear as a result, may have secured his signature look.
The loss of an eye proves that life is sometimes not fair. But also unfair may have been timing for Hurricane and two of his close musical friends, Sunny Osuna and Little Joe. While all have sold out shows across the Southwest for decades and earned the respect of their fans, none really had the boost necessary to slingshot them to national fame. But even knowing what might have been, you will never a word of regret from Hurricane. Even now, he�s got plans.
It may come as a surprise that this musical Pied Piper is also a big fan of opera�s Luciano Pavarotti. �I admire almost any musician or singer, but Pavarotti is one of my favorites.� He also includes legendary country icon, the late Hank Williams, among his inspirations. �I got my start with country.�
On hiatus, he�ll have a chance to finally sit back and listen to this unlikely pair as he dabbles with his coin collection, a pastime he picked up along the way. Perhaps people walking past Hurricane�s Albuquerque home will be able to hear him singing along with them.
What you won�t hear is a hint of bitterness from a satisfied man. He�s played with the best, earning their respect and, often, their friendship. �I�ve had good experiences,� he says. But now, it�s time to rest and, for that, he�s where he wants to be. �New Mexico is my home. I�m happy here.�
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Government confirms controversial solar subsidy review
Climate Change minister Greg Barker has stated that a public consultation proposing changes to financial support for the large-scale solar industry ‘will be issued shortly’.
Responding to widespread concerns about government’s plans to review the large-scale solar industry, Barker told the House of Commons a consultation is in the pipeline but he provided little reassurance for the country’s leading renewable energy organisations.
Green MP Caroline Lucas asked Barker to provide assurances that government will make no changes to the support available for large-scale solar under the Renewable Obligation (RO) scheme until at least April 2015.
In response, Barker said: “The latest results from the DECC Public Attitudes Tracking survey, published on 29 April 2014, show strong levels of public support for solar photovoltaic (PV), with current support levels at 85%.
“In previous surveys, solar PV has consistently scored 81% or above. However, these figures relate to support for solar PV in general, rather than any specific form of solar energy generation. In addition, the survey does not include any reference to large-scale or ground-based solar.
“The government said in the UK Solar PV Strategy Part 2, published on 4 April 2014, that we are considering the implications of current trends of deployment in solar PV on the financial incentives available in Great Britain under the Renewables Obligation and small-scale Feed-in-Tariff.
“We will issue a public consultation shortly proposing changes to financial support for solar PV. The proposals on which we will be consulting are intended to take effect from the 2015-16 financial year.”
Energy minister Michael Fallon previously told the Commons there was ‘no further comprehensive banding review planned’ for the RO scheme before it closes to new generation in 2017. But if this review goes ahead as planned, it would be the third RO review for solar power in less than three years.
The proposed consultation sparked a wave of criticism from the solar industry; with experts warning that another badly handled review of the sector could spook investors and bring uncertainty to Britain’s solar industry.
“We urge DECC to tread very carefully if it does indeed plan to review the support mechanisms for large-scale solar,” said Dr Nina Skorupska, chief executive of the Renewable Energy Association (REA). “This sector is creating jobs and bringing down costs rapidly.”
Concerns from the REA and other solar industry organisations will now revolve around exactly when this consultation will appear; and how significant any cuts to solar farm subsidies will be.
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Hobbits and dwarves and wizards, oh my!
Posted by linkmeister on 4 January 2013, 3:46 pm
I went to see The Hobbit in a matinee show today. Supposedly the movie was to start at noon, but it didn’t actually start till about 12:20 PM; it had about six or eight previews first. Good thing, since I didn’t get into my seat until about 12:10 PM. I haven’t read the book in …
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by Sara Michelle Fetters - December 7th, 2018 - Four-Star Corner Movie Reviews
Playfully Malevolent Favourite a Joyfully Feminist Blast of Historical Deception
It is the 18th century. England is in the middle of a costly war with France. An ailing Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) sits upon the throne, her friend and confidant Lady Sarah Churchill (Rachel Weisz) for all intents and purposes governs the country in her stead. Feeling a moment of compassion, Lady Sarah brings her estranged distant relative Abigail Masham (Emma Stone), a former Lady herself, into her and the Queen’s employment as a housemaid. She feels sorry for the downtrodden young woman, and whether purposefully or by accident she begins serendipitously teaching her tricks of the political trade.
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Abigail proves to be a quick study. Soon she’s bedding the dashing Lord Masham (Joe Alwyn) and making clandestine deals with the scheming minority party leader Lord Harley (Nicholas Hoult). More, she’s charmed Queen Anne, slowly worming her way into the monarch’s heart in hopes of replacing Lady Sarah as her most trusted confidant. It’s a crazy time overflowing in palace intrigue where backstabbing isn’t so much unexpected as it is a preordained rite of passage, all three women attempting to manipulate the other two in order to obtain whatever they think it is their heart currently desires.
Not going to mince words: I’m in love with idiosyncratic director Yorgos Lanthimos’ mind-bending historical drama-comedy-thriller-satire-political commentary oddity The Favourite. The movie is an amoeba. It is constantly shifting and transforming, mutating itself as it moves towards it guttural wallop of a conclusion with a forcefully cathartic effortlessness that’s stupendous. I found myself wanting to live inside each and every frame of this marvelous achievement, this intoxicating smorgasbord of whimsy, solemnity and ridiculousness a luxurious cataclysm of low-brow high-art that’s practically unlike anything else I’ve seen in 2018.
Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara’s script is a revelation. It uses history as its starting point and then decides to dig even deeper as it pertains to the complex psychology of its trio of female characters. This allows Colman, Weisz and Stone the freedom to mine a plethora of emotional nuances, Queen Anne, Lady Sarah and up-and-comer Abigail each the hero, villain and pawn of this story depending on the individual moment, sometimes even a melding of all three archetypes at the exact same time. Each actor appears to be relishing the opportunity that’s been gifted them, all shredding their respective performances with an electrifying spontaneity that’s a continuous surprise.
I can’t say any of them are better or more memorable here than any of the others also prove to be. Colman’s work is more introspectively complicated than it initially appears. Queen Anne isn’t quite the overly eccentric flibbertigibbet she comes across as. She’s battling intense physical pain, but her mental faculties aren’t nearly as diluted or as in disrepair as some around her assume. Colman explodes into rage at a moment’s notice but can just as quickly devolve into a puddle of depression only to suddenly snap into expressions of motherly concern that are comforting and sincere.
Weisz is equally dexterous in regards to her performance. Initially Lady Sarah shows herself to be the most devilishly manipulative character in the film. She can conspire and connive with the best of them. But she just as equally feels genuine compassion for Abigail when she hears her tale of woe. More importantly, she also cares for Queen Anne and cherishes her friendship, refusing to sugar coat or lie to the monarch even if telling the truth might initially hurt the woman’s feelings. Weisz brings all of this to life with zestful relish, and even when Lady Sarah is knocked back mouth agape by Abigail’s growing Machiavellian aptitude the character still remains a stoic paragon of resilience and fortitude that the Oscar-winning actress embodies with lithe elasticity.
Then there is Stone. This might be some of the La La Land Academy Award-winner’s best work yet. Abigail goes from being a free-spirited ingénue who wouldn’t pull the wings off a fly to a venomous schemer who can plot and plan alongside the best of the palace scorpions, all of whom are just sitting there waiting for the best moment to strike. Watching Abigail give into all her darker tendencies, seeing her soul erode bit by bit as she does so, Stone infuses this transformation with a demoralizing sadness that’s hauntingly tragic. At the same time, she also brings a level of comic exuberance to events that are undeniably hysterical, the actress showcasing a rare ability to combine laughter and tears into one gigantic stew of authentic emotional excess.
After Dogtooth, The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer it’s clear that Lanthimos loves to challenge himself. It’s also just as apparent he has no wish to play things safe. He melds genres and styles with intuitive flair, confidently allowing modern dance to enter into a historical drama in the same way he brought silent movie techniques, Ealing Studios comedic principles and Kubrickian meets Hitchcockian aesthetics to his previous efforts. While Lanthimos doesn’t go whole-hog on the modernizing of this story in the same way that someone like Sofia Coppola did with Marie Antoinette that doesn’t make what he’s done with Davis and McNamara’s screenplay any less revolutionary. It’s all incredibly directed, his level of control over all this peculiar madness sublime.
The technical facets are beyond reproach. Robbie Ryan’s (American Honey) cinematography, Yorgos Mavropsaridis’ (The Lobster) editing, Fiona Crombie’s (Macbeth) production design, Sandy Powell’s (Cinderella) costumes, makeup, art direction, Lanthimos’ canny utilization of an eclectic collection of classical music selections, all of that and more is exceptional. The film is as much a sensory explosion as it is an emotive one, every facet of the production working in tandem with its counterpart that allows the motion picture achieve maximum impact. If The Favourite isn’t the filmmaker’s best feature yet, it’s certainly in the discussion, watching it an all-encompassing blast of joyful malevolence I didn’t want to come to an end.
– Review reprinted courtesy of the SGN in Seattle
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Duncan Sheik had one very big hit a bunch of years ago. He never really went away, though – his musical, ‘Spring Awakening’, is moving to Broadway, and now he’s doing a solo appearance as part of the NYMF. Read all about it here, and don’t forget to breathe.
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AN EVENING WITH DUNCAN SHEIK
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 @ 8:00 PM
(511 WEST 54TH STREET)
The New York Musical Theatre Festival is proud to present An Evening with Duncan Sheik, an exclusive salon concert with pop sensation and Broadway composer, Duncan Sheik. This ONE-NIGHT-ONLY special event is set for Wednesday, September 27 @ 8:00 PM in the Penthouse at Ars Nova (511 West 54th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues).
Accompanied by an acoustic band, and joined on stage by several special guests, the night will feature tunes new and old written by Sheik, the composer of the Broadway-bound hit Spring Awakening and numerous pop songs such as “Barely Breathing.†Only 75 tickets are available for this one-night-only special event.
An Evening with Duncan Sheik, a ONE-NIGHT-ONLY concert event with Duncan Sheik, will take place on Wednesday, September 27 @ 8:00 PM in the Penthouse at Ars Nova (511 West 54th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues). NYMF members may purchase tickets for $50 by calling (212) 352-3101. Non-members may purchase a “NYMF AT NITE†ticket for $75 (includes admission to An Evening with Duncan Sheik and the three Friday Night Parties at New World Stages) by calling (212) 352-3101.
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Advisorist and Broadridge Advisor Solutions announce the Virtual Financial Advisor Summit 2021: NEXT for financial advisors, wealth managers, insurance advisors, RIAs, and enterprise decision makers.
Advisorist and Broadridge Advisor Solutions (BAS) are excited to announce the 2nd Annual Virtual Financial Advisor Summit 2021: NEXT (www.virtualfasummit.com), which will take place on February 10, 2021. The one-day summit, which will be hosted entirely online, is intended for advisors and business owners in the financial services industry, including high-end life insurance, RIAs, wealth managers, family offices, enterprise decision makers, insurance advisors, and financial advisors.
The Virtual Financial Advisor Summit 2021: NEXT comes on the heels of a successful May 2020 summit that broke industry records with 6,110 registrants. That summit centered around helping advisors implement the latest technologies and solutions as they shifted from physical to virtual advisory as a result of social isolation caused by COVID-19. The upcoming summit is all about What’s NEXT?
“The summit we hosted in May was an overwhelming success and we couldn’t be more excited about our 2021 event,” says Jeremiah Desmarais, founder and CEO of Advisorist. “I’m confident that virtual summit attendees are going to find immense value in the agenda and speaker list we’re building. It’s a diverse mixture of some of the top thought leaders in our industry. And we’re thrilled to be co-producing it alongside our friends at Broadridge Advisor Solutions.”
The Advisorist-BAS partnership brings together two of the leading names in the financial advisory industry and paves the way for another successful event that arms advisors with the knowledge and resources they need to thrive in today’s malleable marketplace.
“This is a natural partnership,” says Kevin Darlington, General Manager of Broadridge Advisor Solutions. “A lot has changed over the past nine months, and we anticipate even more industry evolution in the coming year. This summit will bring advisors, wealth managers, and enterprise decision makers the knowledge and frameworks they need to prepare for whatever is coming down the pipeline.”
The Virtual Financial Advisor Summit 2021: NEXT already has an impressive list of speakers lined up for the event. Featured presenters include executive producers Desmarais and Darlington, Ed Slott (Best Selling Author, President, Ed Slott & Company), Tom Hegna (Economist, Bestselling Author), Michael Kitces (Kitces.com), Cooper Schwartz (Money.com), Don Graves (Advisor, Bestselling Author), Caleb Guilliams (Better Wealth), Benjamin Brandt (Retirement Starts Today), Bill Cates, (Referral Coach International), Joe Elsasser (Covisum), Grant Hicks (Advisor Practice Management), Bill Hortz (Institute for Innovation Development), Alana Kohl (AdvisorPR), Jason Smith (Clarity 2 Prosperity), Rajini Kodialam (Focus Financial), Christopher Gonzales (Red Tail), and Lloyd Lofton (Power Behind the Sales). More are being added weekly.
The Virtual Financial Advisor Summit 2021: NEXT will include live, in-depth training, candid interviews, breakout sessions, and audience Q&A sessions. Topics focus on what’s ‘next’ as best practices for financial advisors in the areas of consumer trends, generating qualified prospects, LinkedIn prospecting, virtual prospecting in financial services, sales funnels, latest tax and finance laws, and the tips, tactics, and strategies advisors need to grow their practices in 2021 and beyond.
“In the spring of 2020, I said making the move to a virtual advisory practice is a ‘must for any serious financial advisor.’ Those who have followed through and made the shift have thrived this year, in spite of difficult circumstances,” Desmarais says. “Now it’s time to continue adapting as new trends take shape.”
Registration for the Virtual Financial Advisor Summit: NEXT is officially open. Tickets are free and can be found exclusively at www.virtualFAsummit.com
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Student safety is Berkeley school district’s priority
COMMUNITY AFFAIRS: Students should not have to choose between an education and their safety
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A major part of a school’s responsibility is to ensure the safety of all of its students. So when a lawsuit alleges that multiple Berkeley High School administrators were negligent in reporting a sexual assault, it’s time for the Berkeley Unified School District to re-evaluate its priorities and policies.
In light of the lawsuit, hundreds of BHS students staged a walkout to demonstrate their support for sexual assault victims and to call upon BUSD to create a healthier learning environment. Their demands included the appointment of an expert Title IX compliance officer, more districtwide training for sexual harm and early education on consent beginning in the sixth grade. All of these demands are necessary and could have easily been fulfilled, which begs the question of why they weren’t implemented in the first place. After all, any inaction only serves to normalize toxic “rape culture.”
Although BHS students were able to organize an incredible protest and mobilize their peers to voice support for sexual assault victims, they should not have had to deal with the tremendous task of educating the school district. For years, BHS students have been alleging that school administrators harbor toxic negligence that enables sexual assault. The recent protest reveals that student frustrations with administration policies have reached a peak. This protest stems from an institutional issue with prioritizing a safe educational atmosphere and, as evidenced in student testimonies, doesn’t amount to an isolated incident.?
BHS seems to have had issues with reporting sexual assaults dating back to 2015. The federal Office for Civil Rights launched an investigation in 2015 into whether the school district failed to fully comply with Title IX policies. Then, in 2016, a student sued the school district for negligence, alleging that the school failed to properly handle her sexual assault case. It seems that sexual misconduct has gone largely unchecked at BHS, despite numerous allegations spanning several years. As history keeps repeating itself, it’s unbelievable that no changes have been successfully enacted.?
A high school education should not come at the cost of a student’s safety in the classroom. While it’s commendable that BHS students were able to mobilize such a large protest for this cause, it’s disappointing that students still have to publicly hold administrators accountable for their failures. This should not be the only course of action for students to adequately implement resources. It is the school district’s responsibility to make sure schools are safe for students and not a place for sexual misconduct.
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Amazing Kid! of the Month – Robby Novak – November 2014
Posted in AKOM Archives 2014, Amazing Kids! of the Month, November 2014 Issue
Robby Novak, 11-year-old Kid President
By Kasey Dallman, AKOM Writer
”My mom makes me stand and smile in the mirror if I get grumpy.”
-Robby Novak, 11-year-old Kid President
November Amazing Kid! of the Month
November is an important month for politics. Politics — you know, those activities that influence the government. And while your parents and older family members are gearing up to vote for their favorite politicians in November, we’ve got one more name for them to add to the ballot. Yours!
Long gone are the days when kids can’t change the world and can’t be presidents. For 11-year-old Robby Novak, he’s known all along that we have the power to be awesome. In fact, you may know Robby as Kid President, the YouTube sensation who is making the world a lot less boring and a lot more awesome with his pep talks and charming videos. (Go watch one of his famous videos right now, and we promise Robby will have you craving both corndogs and world peace within minutes!)
Robby Novak, 11-year-old Kid President.
We couldn’t be more thrilled to add “Amazing Kid!” to Robby/Kid President’s incredibly impressive resume. Keep reading to learn more about Robby’s journey as Kid President, how he is making the world a better place, and how you can too! Warning: Extreme “awesome-ness” ahead. Proceed with caution!
Just a kid
One of the hardest things about being a kid can sometimes be hearing other people say, “You can’t make a difference. You’re just a kid!” But guess what? Awesome people have no age restrictions!
In July of 2012 when Robby and his brother-in-law Brad Montage made their first Kid President video. Robby not only showed off his epic dance moves and his infectious smile, but also took the first steps in urging us to start being more awesome.
Like any awesome president, Robby started with a vision. “My brother Brad and I just wanted to show people that kids are awesome and that they can change the world,” Robby said. “We think about stuff that’s positive and that will help people.”
It was Robby’s sister Kristi (Brad’s wife) who came up with the famous “Kid President” name. “Kristi and I work with teenagers and constantly talk about them changing the world,” Brad said. “We were inspired by them and how they handled big problems with such compassion and creativity. This made us want to explore what it might look like for a kid to decide one day he’s in charge.”
Now, Robby, Brad and the crew of SoulPancake have brought us dozens upon dozens of videos. From “20 things we should say more often” to “A Pep Talk From Kid President To You,” these videos have brought a smile to millions of faces and inspired countless kids AND adults to take action and change the world.
Robby’s family describes the video as a family project. The concepts for the videos “are all things I’ve been trying to teach Robby,” Brad said. “He in turn wants to share them with the world. We’re motivated by love.”
Robby’s favorite video to make was “Kid President Shares Your 20 Things We Should Say More Often.” He loved how funny some of the ideas were, saying, “Bless your little cotton socks!”
In fact, Robby even has a book coming out in February titled, “Kid Present’s Guide to Being Awesome.” “I couldn’t fit all of the awesome into one video so we decided to make a book that will teach everyone how to be awesome,” Robby said. His guide includes tons of ideas to help the world, interviews with his new celebrity friends, and a guide into how to make everything just a little bit “awesomer.”
Tin can, string, and heart
It doesn’t matter if you’re black, white, purple, pink, blue, yellow, green or red. It doesn’t matter if your favorite dance move is the lawnmower, the sprinkler, or the shopping cart. (By the way, Robby told us that while he loves to dance to anything, his favorite dance move is the pencil sharpener.) And it doesn’t matter if you are tall, short, big, little, or somewhere in between. As Kid President said it best, “You have everything you need to make the world awesome.”
Don’t let a lack of money, technology or other resources stop you from dreaming big. As Kid President, Robby has interviewed a lot of well-known people, including Beyonce, President Obama, and Rainn Wilson. However, his phone of choice isn’t an iPhone 6 or an Android. Instead, in Kid President’s videos you will see him throwing it way back to the days of communicating with tin cans connected by strings.
While Kid President’s tin cans and strings are pretty cool, at Amazing Kids! we think his heart is even more awesome! Robby has made around 70 videos as Kid President, a number eerily similar to the bones that have broken in Robby’s body. He was born with Osteogenesis Imperfecta, a condition that makes bones brittle and allows them to break very easily. But that hasn’t stopped Robby from dancing, or throwing a surprise retirement party for a beloved teacher, or launching #Socktober to spread acts of kindness to homeless people,
“Robby and I just want to try to create something that will make people happier than they were before,” Brad said. Judging by the loads of emails the family receives every day from parents, kids, and teachers sharing how Kid President inspired them to make a difference in the world, we’d say Robby and his crew has more than succeeded!
Robby shows us that even though we may all be different on the outside and we may all have different struggles going on inside of us, we were all made to be awesome. That doesn’t mean we don’t have hard days. Kid President has them too! But he has a great tip to get you giggling in no time. “My Mom makes me stand and smile in a mirror when I get grumpy.”
One of the perks of being Kid President is the furry friend that comes with the job! “I have a hamster and his name is Roosevelt,” Robby said.
Give the World a Reason to Dance
At the end of the day, being a kid president can be challenging. Robby doesn’t claim to know everything. He’s still navigating normal 11-year-old things like long division and spelling tests and deciding how many corn dogs are too many. But that doesn’t stop Robby from dreaming big.
“Me and Brad just want more people to know that they are awesome and that they can do awesome things,” he said. “I also want to interview Hugh Jackman because he is Wolverine.”
We can’t wait to see where Robby’s journey takes him. And we can’t wait to see where you go too. With a parent’s permission, log onto SoulPancake’s YouTube channel and be inspired by all the amazing-ness Kid President brings. We need YOU to show us just how awesome you can be.
Now go out and start changing the world. Seriously! Go out into the world, and give us a reason to dance.
zack / February 25, 2015
I lick how he inspird pipel to chang the werld.
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CIALIS (tadalafil), an oral treatment for erectile dysfunction, is a selective inhibitor of cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP)-specific phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5). Tadalafil has the empirical formula C22H19N3O4 representing a molecular weight of 389.41. The structural formula is: The chemical designation is pyrazino[1′,2′:1,6]pyrido[3,4-b]indole-1,4-dione, 6-(1,3- benzodioxol-5-yl)-2,3,6,7,12,12a-hexahydro-2-methyl-, (6R,12aR)-. It is a crystalline solid that is practically insoluble in water and very slightly soluble in ethanol. CIALIS is available as film-coated, almond-shaped tablets for oral administration. Each tablet contains 5, 10, or 20 mg of tadalafil and the following inactive ingredients: croscarmellose sodium, hydroxypropyl cellulose, hypromellose, iron oxide, lactose monohydrate, magnesium stearate, microcrystalline cellulose, sodium lauryl sulfate, talc, titanium dioxide, and triacetin. CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY
Penile erection during sexual stimulation is caused by increased penile blood flow resulting from the relaxation of penile arteries and corpus cavernosal smooth muscle. This response is mediated by the release of nitric oxide (NO) from nerve terminals and endothelial cells, which stimulates the synthesis of cGMP in smooth muscle cells. Cyclic GMP causes smooth muscle relaxation and increased blood flow into the corpus cavernosum. The inhibition of phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5) enhances erectile function by increasing the amount of cGMP. Tadalafil inhibits PDE5. Because sexual stimulation is required to initiate the local release of nitric oxide, the inhibition of PDE5 by tadalafil has no effect in the absence of sexual stimulation. Studies in vitro have demonstrated that tadalafil is a selective inhibitor of PDE5. PDE5 is found in corpus cavernosum smooth muscle, vascular and visceral smooth muscle, skeletal muscle, platelets, kidney, lung, cerebellum, and pancreas. In vitro studies have shown that the effect of tadalafil is more potent on PDE5 than on other phosphodiesterases. These studies have shown that tadalafil is >10,000-fold more potent for PDE5 than for PDE1, PDE2, PDE4, and PDE7 enzymes, which are found in the heart, brain, blood vessels, liver, leukocytes, skeletal muscle, and other organs. Tadalafil is >10,000-fold more potent for PDE5 than for PDE3, an enzyme found in the heart and blood vessels. Additionally, tadalafil is 700-fold more potent for PDE5 than for PDE6, which is found in the retina and is responsible for phototransduction. Tadalafil is >9,000-fold more potent for PDE5 than for PDE8, PDE9, and PDE10 and 14-fold more potent for PDE5 than for PDE11A1, an enzyme found in human skeletal muscle. Tadalafil inhibits human recombinant PDE11A1 activity at concentrations within the therapeutic range. The physiological role and clinical consequence of PDE11 inhibition in humans have not been defined. Pharmacokinetics
Over a dose range of 2.5 to 20 mg, tadalafil exposure (AUC) increases proportionally with dose in healthy subjects. Steady-state plasma concentrations are attained within 5 days of
once-daily dosing, and exposure is approximately 1.6-fold greater than after a single dose.
Tadalafil is eliminated predominantly by hepatic metabolism, mainly by
cytochrome P450 3A4 (CYP3A4). The concomitant use of potent CYP3A4 inhibitors such as
ritonavir or ketoconazole resulted in significant increases in tadalafil
AUC values (see PRECAUTIONS and DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION). Mean tadalafil
concentrations measured after the administration of a single oral dose of 20 mg to healthy
male subjects are depicted in Figure 1.
Figure 1: Plasma tadalafil concentrations (mean ± SD) following a single 20-mg tadalafil
Absorption — After single oral-dose administration, the maximum observed plasma concentration (Cmax) of tadalafil is achieved between 30 minutes and 6 hours (median time of 2 hours). Absolute bioavailability of tadalafil following oral dosing has not been determined. The rate and extent of absorption of tadalafil are not influenced by food; thus CIALIS may be Distribution — The mean apparent volume of distribution following oral administration is approximately 63 L, indicating that tadalafil is distributed into tissues. At therapeutic concentrations, 94% of tadalafil in plasma is bound to proteins. Less than 0.0005% of the administered dose appeared in the semen of healthy subjects. Metabolism — Tadalafil is predominantly metabolized by CYP3A4 to a catechol metabolite. The catechol metabolite undergoes extensive methylation and glucuronidation to form the methylcatechol and methylcatechol glucuronide conjugate, respectively. The major circulating metabolite is the methylcatechol glucuronide. Methylcatechol concentrations are less than 10% of glucuronide concentrations. In vitro data suggests that metabolites are not expected to be pharmacologically active at observed metabolite concentrations. Elimination — The mean oral clearance for tadalafil is 2.5 L/hr and the mean terminal half-life is 17.5 hours in healthy subjects. Tadalafil is excreted predominantly as metabolites, mainly in the feces (approximately 61% of the dose) and to a lesser extent in the urine (approximately 36% of the dose). Pharmacokinetics in Special Populations
Geriatric — Healthy male elderly subjects (65 years or over) had a lower oral clearance of tadalafil, resulting in 25% higher exposure (AUC) with no effect on Cmax relative to that
observed in healthy subjects 19 to 45 years of age. No dose adjustment is warranted based on age
alone. However, greater sensitivity to medications in some older individuals should be
considered (see Geriatric Use under PRECAUTIONS).
Pediatric — Tadalafil has not been evaluated in individuals less than 18 years old. Hepatic Impairment — In clinical pharmacology studies, tadalafil exposure (AUC) in subjects with mild or moderate hepatic impairment (Child-Pugh Class A or B) was comparable to
exposure in healthy subjects when a dose of 10 mg was administered. There are no available data
for doses higher than 10 mg of tadalafil in patients with hepatic impairment. Insufficient data are
available for subjects with severe hepatic impairment (Child-Pugh Class C). Therefore, for
patients with mild or moderate hepatic impairment, the maximum dose should not exceed 10 mg,
and use in patients with severe hepatic impairment is not recommended (see DOSAGE AND
ADMINISTRATION).
Renal Insufficiency — In clinical pharmacology studies using single-dose tadalafil (5 to 10 mg), tadalafil exposure (AUC) doubled in subjects with mild (creatinine clearance 51 to
80 mL/min) or moderate (creatinine clearance 31 to 50 mL/min) renal insufficiency. In subjects
with end-stage renal disease on hemodialysis, there was a two-fold increase in Cmax and 2.7- to
4.1-fold increase in AUC following single-dose administration of 10 or 20 mg tadalafil.
Exposure to total methylcatechol (unconjugated plus glucuronide) was 2- to 4-fold higher in
subjects with renal impairment, compared to those with normal renal function. Hemodialysis
(performed between 24 and 30 hours post-dose) contributed negligibly to tadalafil or metabolite
elimination. In a clinical pharmacology study (N=28) at a dose of 10 mg, back pain was reported
as a limiting adverse event in male patients with moderate renal impairment. At a dose of 5 mg,
the incidence and severity of back pain was not significantly different than in the general
population. In patients on hemodialysis taking 10- or 20-mg tadalafil, there were no reported
cases of back pain. The dose of tadalafil should be limited to 5 mg not more than once daily in
patients with severe renal insufficiency or end-stage renal disease. A starting dose of 5 mg not
more than once daily is recommended for patients with moderate renal insufficiency; the
maximum recommended dose is 10 mg not more than once in every 48 hours. No dose
adjustment is required in patients with mild renal insufficiency (see DOSAGE AND
Patients with Diabetes Mellitus — In male patients with diabetes mellitus after a 10 mg tadalafil dose, exposure (AUC) was reduced approximately 19% and Cmax was 5% lower than that observed in healthy subjects. No dose adjustment is warranted. Pharmacodynamics
Effects on Blood Pressure — Tadalafil 20 mg administered to healthy male subjects produced
no significant difference compared to placebo in supine systolic and diastolic blood pressure (difference in the mean maximal decrease of 1.6/0.8 mm Hg, respectively) and in standing systolic and diastolic blood pressure (difference in the mean maximal decrease of 0.2/4.6 mm Hg, respectively). In addition, there was no significant effect on heart rate. Effects on Blood Pressure when CIALIS is Administered with Nitrates — In clinical
pharmacology studies, tadalafil (5 to 20 mg) was shown to potentiate the hypotensive effect of
nitrates. Therefore, the use of CIALIS in patients taking any form of nitrates is
contraindicated (see CONTRAINDICATIONS).
A study was conducted to assess the degree of interaction between nitroglycerin and tadalafil, should nitroglycerin be required in an emergency situation after tadalafil was taken. This was a double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study in 150 male subjects at least 40 years of age (including subjects with diabetes mellitus and/or controlled hypertension) and receiving daily doses of tadalafil 20 mg or matching placebo for 7 days. Subjects were administered a single dose of 0.4 mg sublingual nitroglycerin (NTG) at pre-specified timepoints, following their last dose of tadalafil (2, 4, 8, 24, 48, 72, and 96 hours after tadalafil). The objective of the study was to determine when, after tadalafil dosing, no apparent blood pressure interaction was observed. In this study, a significant interaction between tadalafil and NTG was observed at each timepoint up to and including 24 hours. At 48 hours, by most hemodynamic measures, the interaction between tadalafil and NTG was not observed, although a few more tadalafil subjects compared to placebo experienced greater blood-pressure lowering at this timepoint. After 48 hours, the interaction was not detectable (see Figure 2). Standing Systolic
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Estimate with 90% CI) in Response to Sublingual Nitroglycerin at 2 (Supine
Only), 4, 8, 24, 48, 72, and 96 Hours after the Last Dose of Tadalafil 20 mg or
Therefore, CIALIS administration with nitrates is contraindicated. In a patient who has taken CIALIS, where nitrate administration is deemed medically necessary in a life-threatening
situation, at least 48 hours should elapse after the last dose of CIALIS before nitrate
administration is considered. In such circumstances, nitrates should still only be administered
under close medical supervision with appropriate hemodynamic
monitoring (see CONTRAINDICATIONS).
Effects on Exercise Stress Testing — The effects of tadalafil on cardiac function,
hemodynamics, and exercise tolerance were investigated in a single clinical pharmacology study. In this blinded crossover trial, 23 subjects with stable coronary artery disease and evidence of exercise-induced cardiac ischemia were enrolled. The primary endpoint was time to cardiac ischemia. The mean difference in total exercise time was 3 seconds (tadalafil 10 mg minus placebo), which represented no clinically meaningful difference. Further statistical analysis demonstrated that tadalafil was non-inferior to placebo with respect to time to ischemia. Of note, in this study, in some subjects who received tadalafil followed by sublingual nitroglycerin in the post-exercise period, clinically significant reductions in blood pressure were observed, consistent with the augmentation by tadalafil of the blood-pressure-lowering effects of nitrates. Effects on Vision — Single oral doses of phosphodiesterase inhibitors have demonstrated
transient dose-related impairment of color discrimination (blue/green), using the Farnsworth-Munsell 100-hue test, with peak effects near the time of peak plasma levels. This finding is consistent with the inhibition of PDE6, which is involved in phototransduction in the retina. In a study to assess the effects of a single dose of tadalafil 40 mg on vision (N=59), no effects were observed on visual acuity, intraocular pressure, or pupillometry. Across all clinical studies with CIALIS, reports of changes in color vision were rare (<0.1% of patients). Effects on Sperm Characteristics — There were no clinically relevant effects on sperm
concentration, sperm count, motility, or morphology in humans in placebo-controlled studies of daily doses of tadalafil 10 mg (N=204) or 20 mg (N=217) for 6 months. In addition, tadalafil had no effect on serum levels of testosterone, luteinizing hormone, or follicle stimulating hormone. Effects on Cardiac Electrophysiology — The effect of a single 100-mg dose of tadalafil on the
QT interval was evaluated at the time of peak tadalafil concentration in a randomized, double-blinded, placebo, and active (intravenous ibutilide)-controlled crossover study in 90 healthy males aged 18 to 53 years. The mean change in QTc (Fridericia QT correction) for tadalafil, relative to placebo, was 3.5 milliseconds (two-sided 90% CI=1.9, 5.1). The mean change in QTc (Individual QT correction) for tadalafil, relative to placebo, was 2.8 milliseconds (two-sided 90% CI=1.2, 4.4). A 100-mg dose of tadalafil (5 times the highest recommended dose) was chosen because this dose yields exposures covering those observed upon coadministration of tadalafil with potent CYP3A4 inhibitors or those observed in renal impairment. In this study, the mean increase in heart rate associated with a 100-mg dose of tadalafil compared to placebo was 3.1 beats per minute. Clinical Studies
The efficacy and safety of tadalafil in the treatment of erectile dysfunction has been evaluated in 22 clinical trials of up to 24-weeks duration, involving over 4000 patients. CIALIS, when taken as needed up to once daily, was shown to be effective in improving erectile function in men with erectile dysfunction (ED). Study Design — CIALIS was studied in the general ED population in 7 randomized, multicenter, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, parallel-arm design, primary efficacy and safety studies of 12-weeks duration. Two of these studies were conducted in the United States and 5 were conducted in centers outside the US. Additional efficacy and safety studies were performed in ED patients with diabetes mellitus and in patients who developed ED status post bilateral nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy. In these 7 trials, CIALIS was taken as needed, at doses ranging from 2.5 to 20 mg, up to once daily. Patients were free to choose the time interval between dose administration and the time of sexual attempts. Food and alcohol intake were not restricted. Several assessment tools were used to evaluate the effect of CIALIS on erectile function. The 3 primary outcome measures were the Erectile Function (EF) domain of the International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF) and Questions 2 and 3 from Sexual Encounter Profile (SEP). The IIEF is a 4-week recall questionnaire that was administered at the end of a treatment-free baseline period and subsequently at follow-up visits after randomization. The IIEF EF domain has a 30-point total score, where higher scores reflect better erectile function. SEP is a diary in which patients recorded each sexual attempt made throughout the study. SEP Question 2 asks, “Were you able to insert your penis into your partner’s vagina?” SEP Question 3 asks, “Did your erection last long enough for you to have successful intercourse?” The overall percentage of successful attempts to insert the penis into the vagina (SEP2) and to maintain the erection for successful intercourse (SEP3) is derived for each patient. Study Results — ED Population in US Trials — The 2 primary US efficacy and safety trials included a total of 402 men with erectile dysfunction, with a mean age of 59 years (range 27 to 87 years). The population was 78% White, 14% Black, 7% Hispanic, and 1% of other ethnicities, and included patients with ED of various severities, etiologies (organic, psychogenic, mixed), and with multiple co-morbid conditions, including diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and other cardiovascular disease. Most (>90%) patients reported ED of at least 1-year duration. Study A was conducted primarily in academic centers. Study B was conducted primarily in community-based urology practices. In each of these 2 trials, CIALIS 20 mg showed clinically meaningful and statistically significant improvements in all 3 primary efficacy variables (see Table 1). The treatment effect of CIALIS did not diminish over time. Table 1: Mean Endpoint and Change from Baseline for the Primary Efficacy Variables
in the Two Primary US Trials
EF Domain Score
Insertion of Penis (SEP2)
Maintenance of Erection
General ED Population in Trials Outside the US — The 5 primary efficacy and safety studies conducted in the general ED population outside the US included 1112 patients, with a mean age of 59 years (range 21 to 82 years). The population was 76% White, 1% Black, 3% Hispanic, and 20% of other ethnicities, and included patients with ED of various severities, etiologies (organic, psychogenic, mixed), and with multiple co-morbid conditions, including diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and other cardiovascular disease. Most (90%) patients reported ED of at least 1-year duration. In these 5 trials, CIALIS 5, 10, and 20 mg showed clinically meaningful and statistically significant improvements in all 3 primary efficacy variables (see Tables 2, 3, and 4). The treatment effect of CIALIS did not diminish over time. Table 2: Mean Endpoint and Change from Baseline for the EF Domain of the IIEF in the
General ED Population in Five Primary Trials Outside the US
* Treatment duration in Study F was 6 months
Table 3: Mean Post-Baseline Success Rate and Change from Baseline for SEP Question 2
(“Were you able to insert your penis into the partner’s vagina?”) in the General
ED Population in Five Pivotal Trials Outside the US
* Treatment duration in Study F was 6 months Table 4: Mean Post-Baseline Success Rate and Change from Baseline for SEP Question 3
(“Did your erection last long enough for you to have successful intercourse?”) in
the General ED Population in Five Pivotal Trials Outside the US
* Treatment duration in Study F was 6 months In addition, there were improvements in EF domain scores, success rates based upon SEP Questions 2 and 3, and patient-reported improvement in erections across patients with ED of all degrees of disease severity while taking CIALIS, compared to patients on placebo. Therefore, in all 7 primary efficacy and safety studies, CIALIS showed statistically significant improvement in patients’ ability to achieve an erection sufficient for vaginal penetration and to maintain the erection long enough for successful intercourse, as measured by the IIEF questionnaire and by SEP diaries. Efficacy in ED Patients with Diabetes Mellitus — CIALIS was shown to be effective in treating ED in patients with diabetes mellitus. Patients with diabetes were included in all 7 primary efficacy studies in the general ED population (N=235) and in 1 study that specifically assessed CIALIS in ED patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes (N=216). In this randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blinded, parallel-arm design prospective trial, CIALIS demonstrated clinically meaningful and statistically significant improvement in erectile function, as measured by the EF domain of the IIEF questionnaire and Questions 2 and 3 of the SEP diary (see Table 5). Table 5: Mean Endpoint and Change from Baseline for the Primary Efficacy Variables
in a Study in ED Patients with Diabetes
Maintenance of Erection (SEP3)
Efficacy in ED Patients following Radical Prostatectomy — CIALIS was shown to be effective in treating patients who developed ED following bilateral nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy. In 1 randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blinded, parallel-arm design prospective trial in this population (N=303), CIALIS demonstrated clinically meaningful and statistically significant improvement in erectile function, as measured by the EF domain of the IIEF questionnaire and Questions 2 and 3 of the SEP diary (see Table 6). Table 6: Mean Endpoint and Change from Baseline for the Primary Efficacy Variables
in a Study in Patients who Developed ED Following Bilateral Nerve-Sparing
Studies to Determine the Optimal Use of CIALIS — Several studies were conducted with the objective of determining the optimal use of CIALIS in the treatment of ED. In 1 of these studies, the percentage of patients reporting successful erections within 30 minutes of dosing was determined. In this randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blinded trial, 223 patients were randomized to placebo, CIALIS 10, or 20 mg. Using a stopwatch, patients recorded the time following dosing at which a successful erection was obtained. A successful erection was defined as at least 1 erection in 4 attempts that led to successful intercourse. At or prior to 30 minutes, 35% (26/74), 38% (28/74), and 52% (39/75) of patients in the placebo, 10-, and 20-mg groups, respectively, reported successful erections as defined above. Two studies were conducted to assess the efficacy of CIALIS at a given timepoint after dosing, specifically at 24 hours and at 36 hours after dosing. In the first of these studies, 348 patients with ED were randomized to placebo or CIALIS 20 mg. Patients were encouraged to make 4 total attempts at intercourse; 2 attempts were to occur at 24 hours after dosing and 2 completely separate attempts were to occur at 36 hours after dosing. The results demonstrated a difference between the placebo group and the CIALIS group at each of the pre-specified timepoints. At the 24-hour timepoint, (more specifically, 22 to 26 hours), 53/144 (37%) patients reported at least 1 successful intercourse in the placebo group versus 84/138 (61%) in the CIALIS 20-mg group. At the 36-hour timepoint (more specifically, 33 to 39 hours), 49/133 (37%) of patients reported at least 1 successful intercourse in the placebo group versus 88/137 (64%) in the CIALIS 20-mg group. In the second of these studies, a total of 483 patients were evenly randomized to 1 of 6 groups: 3 different dosing groups (placebo, CIALIS 10, or 20 mg) that were instructed to attempt intercourse at 2 different times (24 and 36 hours post-dosing). Patients were encouraged to make 4 separate attempts at their assigned dose and assigned timepoint. In this study, the results demonstrated a statistically significant difference between the placebo group and the CIALIS groups at each of the pre-specified timepoints. At the 24-hour timepoint, the mean, per-patient percentage of attempts resulting in successful intercourse were 42, 56, and 67% for the placebo, CIALIS 10-, and 20-mg groups, respectively. At the 36-hour timepoint, the mean, per-patient percentage of attempts resulting in successful intercourse were 33, 56, and 62% for placebo, CIALIS 10-, and 20-mg groups, respectively. INDICATIONS AND USAGE
CIALIS is indicated for the treatment of erectile dysfunction. CONTRAINDICATIONS
Nitrates — Administration of CIALIS to patients who are using any form of organic nitrate,
either regularly and/or intermittently, is contraindicated. In clinical pharmacology studies,
tadalafil was shown to potentiate the hypotensive effect of nitrates. This is thought to result from
the combined effects of nitrates and tadalafil on the nitric oxide/cGMP
pathway (see Pharmacodynamics, Effects on Blood Pressure when CIALIS is Administered
with Nitrates under CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY).
Alpha Blockers — Administration of CIALIS to patients taking any alpha-adrenergic
antagonist other than 0.4 mg once-daily tamsulosin is contraindicated. In a drug-drug interaction
study, when tadalafil 20 mg was administered to healthy subjects taking doxazosin (8 mg daily),
there was a significant augmentation of the blood-pressure-lowering effect of
doxazosin (see Drug Interactions under PRECAUTIONS).
Hypersensitivity — CIALIS is contraindicated for patients with a known hypersensitivity to
tadalafil or any component of the tablet. WARNINGS
General — Physicians should consider the cardiovascular status of their patients, since there is a degree of cardiac risk associated with sexual activity. Therefore, treatments for erectile dysfunction, including CIALIS, should not be used in men for whom sexual activity is inadvisable as a result of their underlying cardiovascular status. Left Ventricular Outflow Obstruction — Patients with left ventricular outflow obstruction, (e.g., aortic stenosis and idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis) can be sensitive to the action of vasodilators, including PDE5 inhibitors. Patients Not Studied in Clinical Trials
The following groups of patients with cardiovascular disease were not included in clinical safety and efficacy trials for CIALIS, and, therefore, the use of CIALIS is not recommended in these groups until further information is available: - patients with a myocardial infarction within the last 90 days - patients with unstable angina or angina occurring during sexual intercourse - patients with New York Heart Association Class 2 or greater heart failure in the last - patients with uncontrolled arrhythmias, hypotension (<90/50 mm Hg), or uncontrolled - patients with a stroke within the last 6 months In addition, patients with known hereditary degenerative retinal disorders, including retinitis pigmentosa, were not included in the clinical trials, and use in these patients is not recommended. Prolonged Erection
There have been rare reports of prolonged erections greater than 4 hours and priapism (painful erections greater than 6 hours in duration) for this class of compounds. Priapism, if not treated promptly, can result in irreversible damage to the erectile tissue. Patients who have an erection lasting greater than 4 hours, whether painful or not, should seek emergency medical attention. PRECAUTIONS
Evaluation of erectile dysfunction should include an appropriate medical assessment to identify potential underlying causes, as well as treatment options. Before prescribing CIALIS, it is important to note the following: Renal Insufficiency
CIALIS should be limited to 5 mg not more than once daily in patients with severe renal insufficiency or end-stage renal disease. The starting dose of CIALIS in patients with a moderate
degree of renal insufficiency should be 5 mg not more than once daily, and the maximum dose
should be limited to 10 mg not more than once in every 48 hours. No dose adjustment is required
in patients with mild renal insufficiency (see Pharmacokinetics in Special Populations under
CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY).
In patients with mild or moderate hepatic impairment, the dose of CIALIS should not exceed 10 mg. Because of insufficient information in patients with severe hepatic impairment,
use of CIALIS in this group is not recommended (see Pharmacokinetics in Special
Populations under CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY).
Concomitant Use of Potent Inhibitors of Cytochrome P450 3A4 (CYP3A4)
CIALIS is metabolized predominantly by CYP3A4 in the liver. The dose of CIALIS should be limited to 10 mg no more than once every 72 hours in patients taking potent inhibitors
of CYP3A4 such as ritonavir, ketoconazole, and itraconazole (see Effects of Other Drugs on
CIALIS under Drug Interactions).
As with other PDE5 inhibitors, tadalafil has mild systemic vasodilatory properties that may result in transient decreases in blood pressure. In a clinical pharmacology study, tadalafil 20 mg
resulted in a mean maximal decrease in supine blood pressure, relative to placebo, of
1.6/0.8 mm Hg in healthy subjects (see Clinical Studies under CLINICAL
PHARMACOLOGY). While this effect should not be of consequence in most patients, prior to
prescribing CIALIS, physicians should carefully consider whether their patients with underlying
cardiovascular disease could be affected adversely by such vasodilatory effects. Patients with
significant left ventricular outflow obstruction or severely impaired autonomic control of blood
pressure may be particularly sensitive to the actions of vasodilators.
The safety and efficacy of combinations of CIALIS and other treatments for erectile dysfunction have not been studied. Therefore, the use of such combinations is not recommended. CIALIS should be used with caution in patients who have conditions that might predispose them to priapism (such as sickle cell anemia, multiple myeloma, or leukemia), or in patients with anatomical deformation of the penis (such as angulation, cavernosal fibrosis, or Peyronie’s disease). When administered in combination with aspirin, tadalafil 20 mg did not prolong bleeding time, relative to aspirin alone. CIALIS has not been administered to patients with bleeding disorders or significant active peptic ulceration. Although CIALIS has not been shown to increase bleeding times in healthy subjects, use in patients with bleeding disorders or significant active peptic ulceration should be based upon a careful risk-benefit assessment and caution. Information for Patients
Physicians should discuss with patients the contraindication of CIALIS with regular and/or intermittent use of organic nitrates. Patients should be counseled that concomitant use of CIALIS with nitrates could cause blood pressure to suddenly drop to an unsafe level, resulting in dizziness, syncope, or even heart attack or stroke. Physicians should discuss with patients the appropriate action in the event that they experience anginal chest pain requiring nitroglycerin following intake of CIALIS. In such a patient, who has taken CIALIS, where nitrate administration is deemed medically necessary for a life-threatening situation, at least 48 hours should have elapsed after the last dose of CIALIS before nitrate administration is considered. In such circumstances, nitrates should still only be administered under close medical supervision with appropriate hemodynamic monitoring. Therefore, patients who experience anginal chest pain after taking CIALIS should seek immediate medical attention. Physicians should inform their patients that concomitant use of CIALIS with alpha-adrenergic antagonists (other than 0.4 mg once-daily tamsulosin) is contraindicated because coadministration can lead to significant reductions in blood pressure. Physicians should discuss with patients the potential for CIALIS to augment the blood-pressure-lowering effect of other anti-hypertensive medications. Patients should be made aware that both alcohol and CIALIS, a PDE5 inhibitor, act as mild vasodilators. When mild vasodilators are taken in combination, blood-pressure-lowering effects of each individual compound may be increased. Therefore, physicians should inform patients that substantial consumption of alcohol (e.g., 5 units or greater) in combination with CIALIS can increase the potential for orthostatic signs and symptoms, including increase in heart rate, decrease in standing blood pressure, dizziness, and headache. Physicians should consider the potential cardiac risk of sexual activity in patients with preexisting cardiovascular disease. Patients who experience symptoms upon initiation of sexual activity should be advised to refrain from further sexual activity and seek immediate medical attention. There have been rare reports of prolonged erections greater than 4 hours and priapism (painful erections greater than 6 hours in duration) for this class of compounds. Priapism, if not treated promptly, can result in irreversible damage to the erectile tissue. Patients who have an erection lasting greater than 4 hours, whether painful or not, should seek emergency medical attention. The use of CIALIS offers no protection against sexually transmitted diseases. Counseling of patients about the protective measures necessary to guard against sexually transmitted diseases, including Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) should be considered. Patients should read the patient leaflet entitled “INFORMATION FOR THE PATIENT” before starting therapy with CIALIS and each time the prescription is renewed or refilled. Drug Interactions
Cytochrome P450 Inhibitors CIALIS is a substrate of and predominantly metabolized by CYP3A4. Studies have shown that drugs that inhibit CYP3A4 can increase tadalafil exposure (see PRECAUTIONS and DOSAGE
AND ADMINISTRATION).
Ketoconazole — Ketoconazole (400 mg daily), a selective and potent inhibitor of CYP3A4, increased tadalafil 20-mg single-dose exposure (AUC) by 312% and Cmax by 22%, relative to the values for tadalafil 20 mg alone. Ketoconazole (200 mg daily) increased tadalafil 10-mg single-dose exposure (AUC) by 107% and Cmax by 15%, relative to the values for tadalafil 10 mg alone. HIV Protease inhibitor — Ritonavir (200 mg twice daily), an inhibitor of CYP3A4, CYP2C9, CYP2C19, and CYP2D6, increased tadalafil 20-mg single-dose exposure (AUC) by 124% with
no change in Cmax, relative to the values for tadalafil 20 mg alone. Although specific interactions
have not been studied, other HIV protease inhibitors would likely increase tadalafil
exposure (see DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION).
Based upon these results, in patients taking concomitant potent CYP3A4 inhibitors, the dose of CIALIS should not exceed 10 mg, and CIALIS should not be taken more frequently than once in
every 72 hours (see DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION).
Other cytochrome P450 inhibitors — Although specific interactions have not been studied, other CYP3A4 inhibitors, such as erythromycin, itraconazole, and grapefruit juice, would likely increase tadalafil exposure. Cytochrome P450 Inducers Studies have shown that drugs that induce CYP3A4 can decrease tadalafil exposure. Rifampin — Rifampin (600 mg daily), a CYP3A4 inducer, reduced tadalafil 10-mg single-dose exposure (AUC) by 88% and Cmax by 46%, relative to the values for tadalafil 10 mg alone. Although specific interactions have not been studied, other CYP3A4 inducers, such as carbamazepine, phenytoin, and phenobarbitol, would likely decrease tadalafil exposure. No dose adjustment is warranted. Gastrointestinal Drugs H2 antagonists — An increase in gastric pH resulting from administration of nizatidine had no significant effect on tadalafil pharmacokinetics. Antacids — Simultaneous administration of an antacid (magnesium hydroxide/aluminum hydroxide) and tadalafil reduced the apparent rate of absorption of tadalafil without altering exposure (AUC) to tadalafil. Drugs Metabolized by Cytochrome P450 CIALIS is not expected to cause clinically significant inhibition or induction of the clearance of drugs metabolized by cytochrome P450 (CYP) isoforms. Studies have shown that tadalafil does not inhibit or induce P450 isoforms CYP1A2, CYP3A4, CYP2C9, CYP2C19, CYP2D6, and CYP2E1. CYP1A2 substrate — Tadalafil had no clinically significant effect on the pharmacokinetics of theophylline. When tadalafil was administered to subjects taking theophylline, a small augmentation (3 beats per minute) of the increase in heart rate associated with theophylline was observed. CYP3A4 substrates — Tadalafil had no clinically significant effect on exposure (AUC) to CYP2C9 substrate — Tadalafil had no clinically significant effect on exposure (AUC) to S-warfarin or R-warfarin, nor did tadalafil affect changes in prothrombin time induced by warfarin. Alcohol Alcohol and PDE5 inhibitors, including tadalafil, are mild systemic vasodilators. The interaction of tadalafil with alcohol was evaluated in 3 clinical pharmacology studies. In 2 of these, alcohol was administered at a dose of 0.7 g/kg, which is equivalent to approximately 6 ounces of 80-proof vodka in an 80-kg male, and tadalafil was administered at a dose of 10 mg in 1 study and 20 mg in another. In both these studies, all patients imbibed the entire alcohol dose within 10 minutes of starting. In one of these two studies, blood alcohol levels of 0.08% were confirmed. In these two studies, more patients had clinically significant decreases in blood pressure on the combination of tadalafil and alcohol as compared to alcohol alone. Some subjects reported postural dizziness, and orthostatic hypotension was observed in some subjects. When tadalafil 20 mg was administered with a lower dose of alcohol (0.6 g/kg, which is equivalent to approximately 4 ounces of 80-proof vodka, administered in less than 10 minutes), orthostatic hypotension was not observed, dizziness occurred with similar frequency to alcohol alone, and the hypotensive effects of alcohol were not potentiated. Tadalafil did not affect alcohol plasma concentrations and alcohol did not affect tadalafil Both alcohol and CIALIS, a PDE5 inhibitor, act as mild vasodilators. When mild vasodilators are taken in combination, blood-pressure-lowering effects of each individual compound may be increased. Substantial consumption of alcohol (e.g., 5 units or greater) in combination with CIALIS can increase the potential for orthostatic signs and symptoms, including increase in heart rate, decrease in standing blood pressure, dizziness, and headache. Anti-Hypertensives PDE5 inhibitors, including tadalafil, are mild systemic vasodilators. Clinical pharmacology studies were conducted to assess the effect of tadalafil on the potentiation of the blood-pressure-lowering effects of selected anti-hypertensive medications. Alpha Blockers Doxazosin — When tadalafil 20 mg was administered to healthy subjects taking doxazosin (8 mg daily), an alpha[1]-adrenergic blocker, there was significant augmentation of the blood-pressure-lowering effect of doxazosin. Tamsulosin — In a clinical pharmacology study, when a single dose of tadalafil 20 mg was administered to healthy subjects taking 0.4 mg once-daily tamsulosin, a selective alpha[1A]-adrenergic blocker, no significant decreases in blood pressure were observed. Therefore, based upon significant augmentation of the blood-pressure-lowering effect of doxazosin, an alpha[1]-adrenergic blocker, and no significant effect seen with 0.4 mg once-daily tamsulosin, a selective alpha[1A]-adrenergic blocker, administration of CIALIS to patients taking any alpha-adrenergic blocker other than 0.4 mg once-daily tamsulosin is contraindicated. Other Anti-Hypertensive Agents Amlodipine — A study was conducted to assess the interaction of amlodipine (5 mg daily) and tadalafil 10 mg. There was no effect of tadalafil on amlodipine blood levels and no effect of amlodipine on tadalafil blood levels. The mean reduction in supine systolic/diastolic blood pressure due to tadalafil 10 mg in subjects taking amlodipine was 3/2 mm Hg, compared to placebo. In a similar study using tadalafil 20 mg, there were no clinically significant differences between tadalafil and placebo in subjects taking amlodipine. Metoprolol — A study was conducted to assess the interaction of sustained-release metoprolol (25 to 200 mg daily) and tadalafil 10 mg. Following dosing, the mean reduction in supine systolic/diastolic blood pressure due to tadalafil 10 mg in subjects taking metoprolol was 5/3 mm Hg, compared to placebo. Bendrofluazide — A study was conducted to assess the interaction of bendrofluazide (2.5 mg daily) and tadalafil 10 mg. Following dosing, the mean reduction in supine systolic/diastolic blood pressure due to tadalafil 10 mg in subjects taking bendrofluazide was 6/4 mm Hg, compared to placebo. Enalapril — A study was conducted to assess the interaction of enalapril (10 to 20 mg daily) and tadalafil 10 mg. Following dosing, the mean reduction in supine systolic/diastolic blood pressure due to tadalafil 10 mg in subjects taking enalapril was 4/1 mm Hg, compared to placebo. Angiotensin II receptor blocker (and other anti-hypertensives) — A study was conducted to assess the interaction of angiotensin II receptor blockers and tadalafil 20 mg. Subjects in the study were taking any marketed angiotensin II receptor blocker, either alone, as a component of a combination product, or as part of a multiple anti-hypertensive regimen. Following dosing, ambulatory measurements of blood pressure revealed differences between tadalafil and placebo of 8/4 mm Hg in systolic/diastolic blood pressure. Aspirin Tadalafil did not potentiate the increase in bleeding time caused by aspirin. Carcinogenesis, Mutagenesis, Impairment of Fertility
Tadalafil was not carcinogenic to rats or mice when administered daily for 2 years at doses up to 400 mg/kg/day. Systemic drug exposures, as measured by AUC of unbound tadalafil, were approximately 10-fold for mice, and 14- and 26-fold for male and female rats, respectively, the exposures in human males given Maximum Recommended Human Dose (MRHD) of 20 mg. Tadalafil was not mutagenic in the in vitro bacterial Ames assays or the forward mutation test in mouse lymphoma cells. Tadalafil was not clastogenic in the in vitro chromosomal aberration test in human lymphocytes or the in vivo rat micronucleus assays. There were no effects on fertility, reproductive performance or reproductive organ morphology in male or female rats given oral doses of tadalafil up to 400 mg/kg/day, a dose producing AUCs for unbound tadalafil of 14-fold for males or 26-fold for females the exposures observed in human males given the MRHD of 20 mg. In beagle dogs given tadalafil daily for 3 to 12 months, there was treatment-related non-reversible degeneration and atrophy of the seminiferous tubular epithelium in the testes in 20-100% of the dogs that resulted in a decrease in spermatogenesis in 40-75% of the dogs at doses of ≥10 mg/kg/day. Systemic exposure (based on AUC) at no-observed-adverse-effect-level (NOAEL) (10 mg/kg/day) for unbound tadalafil was similar to that expected in humans at the MRHD of 20 mg. There were no treatment-related testicular findings in rats or mice treated with doses up to In men, there were no clinically relevant effects on sperm concentration, sperm count, motility, or morphology in placebo-controlled studies of daily doses of tadalafil 10 mg (N=204) or 20 mg (N=217) for 6 months. In addition, tadalafil had no effect on serum levels of testosterone, luteinizing hormone, or follicle stimulating hormone in males. Animal Toxicology
Animal studies showed vascular inflammation in tadalafil-treated mice, rats, and dogs. In mice and rats, lymphoid necrosis and hemorrhage were seen in the spleen, thymus, and mesenteric lymph nodes at unbound tadalafil exposure of 2- to 33-fold above the human exposure (AUCs) at the MRHD of 20 mg. In dogs, an increased incidence of disseminated arteritis was observed in 1- and 6-month studies at unbound tadalafil exposure of 1- to 54-fold above the human exposure (AUC) at the MRHD of 20 mg. In a 12-month dog study, no disseminated arteritis was observed, but 2 dogs exhibited marked decreases in white blood cells (neutrophils) and moderate decreases in platelets with inflammatory signs at unbound tadalafil exposures of approximately 14- to 18-fold the human exposure at the MRHD of 20 mg. The abnormal blood-cell findings were reversible within 2 weeks upon removal of the drug. Pregnancy, Nursing Mothers, and Pediatric Use
CIALIS is not indicated for use in newborns, children, or women. Tadalafil and/or its metabolites cross the placenta, resulting in fetal exposure in rats. Tadalafil and/or its metabolites were secreted into the milk in lactating rats at concentrations approximately 2.4-fold greater than found in the plasma. Following a single-oral dose of 10 mg/kg, approximately 0.1% of the total radioactive dose was excreted into the milk within 3 hours. It is not known if tadalafil and/or its metabolites is excreted in human breast milk. Use of tadalafil in nursing mothers is not recommended. Pregnancy Category B — There was no evidence of teratogenicity, embryotoxicity, or fetotoxicity in rat or mouse fetuses that received up to 1000 mg/kg/day during the major organ development. Plasma exposure at this dose is approximately 11-fold greater than the AUC values for unbound tadalafil in humans given the MRHD of 20 mg. In a rat prenatal and postnatal development study at doses of 60, 200, and 1000 mg/kg, there was a reduction in postnatal survival of pups. The no-observed-effect-level (NOEL) for maternal toxicity was 200 mg/kg/day and for developmental toxicity was 30 mg/kg/day, which gives approximately 16- and 10-fold exposure multiples, respectively, of the human AUC for the MRHD dose of 20 mg. There are no adequate and well-controlled studies of tadalafil in pregnant women. Geriatric Use
Approximately 25% of patients in the primary efficacy and safety studies of tadalafil were greater than 65 years of age. No overall differences in efficacy and safety were observed between
older and younger patients. No dose adjustment is warranted based on age alone. However,
greater sensitivity to medications in some older individuals should be considered (see Special
Tadalafil was administered to over 5700 men (mean age 59, range 19 to 87 years) during clinical trials worldwide. Over 1000 patients were treated for 1 year or longer and over 1300 patients were treated for 6 months or more. In placebo-controlled Phase 3 clinical trials, the discontinuation rate due to adverse events in patients treated with tadalafil 10 or 20 mg was 3.1%, compared to 1.4% in placebo-treated patients. When tadalafil was taken as recommended in the placebo-controlled clinical trials, the following adverse events were reported (see Table 7): Table 7: Treatment-Emergent Adverse Events Reported by ≥2% of Patients Treated with
Tadalafil (10 or 20 mg) and More Frequent on Drug than Placebo in the
Eight Primary Placebo-Controlled Phase 3 Studies (Including a Study in
Patients with Diabetes)
Tadalafil 5 mg
(N=476) (N=151) (N=394) (N=635)
Flushing*
Pain in limb
* The term flushing includes: facial flushing and flushing Back pain or myalgia was reported at incidence rates described in Table 7. In tadalafil clinical pharmacology trials, back pain or myalgia generally occurred 12 to 24 hours after dosing and typically resolved within 48 hours. The back pain/myalgia associated with tadalafil treatment was characterized by diffuse bilateral lower lumbar, gluteal, thigh, or thoracolumbar muscular discomfort and was exacerbated by recumbancy. In general, pain was reported as mild or moderate in severity and resolved without medical treatment, but severe back pain was reported infrequently (<5% of all reports). When medical treatment was necessary, acetaminophen or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs were generally effective; however, in a small percentage of subjects who required treatment, a mild narcotic (e.g. codeine) was used. Overall, approximately 0.5% of all tadalafil-treated subjects discontinued treatment as a consequence of back pain/myalgia. Diagnostic testing, including measures for inflammation, muscle injury, or renal damage revealed no evidence of medically significant underlying pathology. Across all studies with any tadalafil dose, reports of changes in color vision were rare (<0.1% The following section identifies additional, less frequent events (<2%) reported in controlled clinical trials; a causal relationship of these events to CIALIS is uncertain. Excluded from this list are those events that were minor, those with no plausible relation to drug use, and reports too imprecise to be meaningful: Body as a whole: asthenia, face edema, fatigue, pain Cardiovascular: angina pectoris, chest pain, hypotension, hypertension, myocardial infarction, postural hypotension, palpitations, syncope, tachycardia Digestive: abnormal liver function tests, diarrhea, dry mouth, dysphagia, esophagitis, gastroesophageal reflux, gastritis, GGTP increased, loose stools, nausea, upper abdominal pain, vomiting Musculoskeletal: arthralgia, neck pain Nervous: dizziness, hypesthesia, insomnia, paresthesia, somnolence, vertigo Respiratory: dyspnea, epistaxis, pharyngitis Skin and Appendages: pruritus, rash, sweating Ophthalmologic: blurred vision, changes in color vision, conjunctivitis (including conjunctival hyperemia), eye pain, lacrimation increase, swelling of eyelids Urogenital: erection increased, spontaneous penile erection OVERDOSAGE
Single doses up to 500 mg have been given to healthy subjects, and multiple daily doses up to 100 mg have been given to patients. Adverse events were similar to those seen at lower doses. In cases of overdose, standard supportive measures should be adopted as required. Hemodialysis contributes negligibly to tadalafil elimination. DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION
The recommended starting dose of CIALIS in most patients is 10 mg, taken prior to anticipated sexual activity. The dose may be increased to 20 mg or decreased to 5 mg, based on individual efficacy and tolerability. The maximum recommended dosing frequency is once per day in most patients. CIALIS was shown to improve erectile function compared to placebo up to 36 hours following dosing. Therefore, when advising patients on optimal use of CIALIS, this should be taken into consideration. CIALIS may be taken without regard to food.
Renal Insufficiency — No dose adjustment is required in patients with mild renal
insufficiency. For patients with moderate (creatinine clearance 31 to 50 mL/min) renal
insufficiency, a starting dose of 5 mg not more than once daily is recommended, and the
maximum dose should be limited to 10 mg not more than once in every 48 hours. For patients
with severe (creatinine clearance <30 mL/min) renal insufficiency on hemodialysis, the
maximum recommended dose is 5 mg (see General and Patients with Renal Insufficiency
under PRECAUTIONS and Pharmacokinetics in Special Populations under CLINICAL
PHARMACOLOGY).
Hepatic Impairment — For patients with mild or moderate degrees of hepatic
impairment (Child-Pugh Class A or B), the dose of CIALIS should not exceed 10 mg once daily.
In patients with severe hepatic impairment (Child-Pugh Class C), the use of CIALIS is not
recommended (see Patients with Hepatic Impairment under PRECAUTIONS and
Pharmacokinetics in Special Populations under CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY).
Concomitant Medications — For patients taking concomitant potent inhibitors of CYP3A4,
such as ketoconazole or ritonavir, the maximum recommended dose of CIALIS is 10 mg, not to
exceed once every 72 hours (see General and Drug Interactions under PRECAUTIONS).
Concomitant use of nitrates in any form and alpha-adrenergic blockers (other than 0.4 mg once-daily tamsulosin) is contraindicated (see CONTRAINDICATIONS and Drug
Interactions under PRECAUTIONS).
Geriatrics — No dose adjustment is required in patients >65 years of age.
CIALIS (tadalafil) is supplied as follows: Three strengths of film-coated, almond-shaped tablets are available in different sizes and different shades of yellow, and supplied in the following package sizes: Store at 25°C (77°F); excursions permitted to 15-30°C (59-86°F) [see USP Controlled Room Manufactured for Lilly ICOS LLC
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darling you know i love you chords
BTW, Sonic Junction Mike (as opposed to Monster Mike), the 3rd to the last chord of the B section should be E7/B, not Eb7/B.  Maybe I'll finally get it! How does it sound? Classic B.B.  Just like he did on the All Your Love Lesson. Play song with guitar, piano, bass, ukulele. King Live Darlin' You Know I Love You, It's Only Love - Bryan Adams & Tina Turner, Tina Turner | River Deep Mountain High (Live HD), Ike & Tina Turner - River Deep Mountain High 1971 (including intro), Tina Turner & Eros Ramazzotti - Cose Della Vita - Live Munich 1998 (HD 720p), Tina Turner - What's Love Got To Do With It (Live), Tina Turner 'Steamy Windows' (Live Barcelona '90), Show the world what you are playing with ChordU. We're off to a great start with a fabulous tribute to B.B. Follow. Standard Ukulele (GCEA) Baritone ukulele (DGBE) Piano/Keyboard chords; Bass chords; F; 13px; C7; 1 … Search. : Ab, Ab7, Db, Eb7. Loop 3:27 B.B. And also, I believe Mike Caren will have an anouncement about a new step forward for Sonic Junction soon. Being composed of two eight bar A sections an eight bar bridge and a final eight bar A section to complete the 32 bar chorus. Chords: G#, C#, E, F, A#, D#, Fm, C#m, A#m, Am, G#m, F#. King - Darling You Know I Love You. Hey Monster Mike, great tune and lesson! 05 Darling, you know I love you Live in Bonn. 6:34. King's Vocal Approach to Playing Darling, You Know I Love You. Harold Banks playing B. [Chorus]~ F E I love you like the moon and stars,, C F when little kids get hit by cars,, F G C girl you know its true! Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. Sheet music arranged for Piano/Vocal/Guitar in C Major. [G# B F# C#] Chords for ike and tina turner darlin you know I love you.wmv with capo transposer, play along with guitar, piano, ukulele & mandolin. Get the best Darling You Know I Love You Guitar Pro tab by King B B @ 911Tabs.Com - tabs search engine. You Know I Love You lyrics and chords are intended for your personal use, it's a super Kenny Rogers song.  Here are a couple I've got bookmarked, along with the ones in the background listening here they give us many eras/ages of BB. Notice Mike's choice of picking in the rhythm with added triplets reminecent of some doo wop rhythm. … Darlin' You Know I Love You chords by B.B. I love the site — the G-Plus Songs are phenomenal. Darling You Know I Love You Guitar Tab by B.B. Suggested barre voicings (as recorded): Emaj7: x79897 B: 799877 [Intro] Emaj7 Dbm Gbm B Emaj7 Dbm Gbm B [Verse 1] Emaj7 Dbm Watched the sky, you know I Gbm B Emaj7 Dbm Gbm B Like a star shining, in your eyes Emaj7 Dbm Sometimes I wonder why Gbm B Emaj7 Dbm Gbm B I just wanna hold your hand and walk with you side by side [Chorus 1] Emaj7 Dbm I know you know Gbm B I love you … ;-) Good to see you again, and thanks.Â, %4/T.X/X.6/3.5/2.4/1.X/X[Ab] / / / | %4/T.X/X.4/1.5/3.4/2.X/X[Ab7] / / / |, %4/2.X/X.3/1.6/4.X/X.X/X[Db/Ab] / / / | %X/X.5/2.6/3.4/1.6/4.X/X[Do7] %X/X.8/2.9/3.7/1.9/4.X/X[Do7] %X/X.11/2.12/3.10/1.12/4.X/X[Do7] %X/X.14/2.15/3.13/1.15/4.X/X[Do7] |, %4/T.X/X.6/3.5/2.4/1.X/X[Ab] / %X/X.8/3.7/2.8/4.6/1.X/X[F7] / | %6/T.X/X.6/1.7/3.6/2.X/X[Bb7] / %6/2.X/X.5/1.6/3.X/X.X/X[Eb7/Bb] / |, %4/T.X/X.6/3.5/2.4/1.X/X[Ab] / %4/2.X/X.3/1.6/4.X/X.X/X[Db/Ab] / | %4/T.X/X.6/3.5/2.4/1.X/X[Ab] / %6/2.X/X.5/1.6/3.X/X.X/X[Eb7/Bb] / |, %4/T.X/X.6/3.5/2.4/1.X/X[Ab] / %4/2.X/X.3/1.6/4.X/X.X/X[Db/Ab] / | %4/T.X/X.6/3.5/2.4/1.X/X[Ab] / %4/T.X/X.4/1.5/3.4/2.X/X[Ab7] / |, %%4/2.X/X.3/1.6/4.X/X.X/X[Db/Ab] / / / | %X/X.5/2.6/3.4/1.6/4.X/X[Do7] / / / |, %4/T.X/X.6/3.5/2.4/1.X/X[Ab] / %X/X.6/3.5/2.4/1.4/1.X/X[Eb7#5] / | %4/T.X/X.6/3.5/2.4/1.X/X[Ab] / / / |, %6/T.X/X.6/3.7/2.6/1.X/X[Bb7] / / / | / / / / |, %6/2.X/X.5/1.6/3.X/X.X/X[Eb7/Bb] / %7/2.X/X.6/1.7/3.X/X.X/X[E7/B] / | %6/2.X/X.5/1.6/3.X/X.X/X[Eb7/Bb] / %X/X.6/3.5/2.4/1.4/1.X/X[Eb7#5] / |, Lesson 5 - Solo - B Section and Last A Section. Loop 5:55 Breakdown of A Section Head / Melody. I will let you know when it becomes available. Darling You Know I Wouldn't Lie lyrics and chords These country classic song lyrics are the property of the respective artist, authors and labels, they are intended solely for educational purposes and private study only. F G C Darling,, I love you! 5 years ago | 30 views. Daniel Johnston; 562 views; Guitar. This a feature tune for Mike with the Bluetones and he is doing a great job of teaching it.  I've worked on this one a lot over time, but I'm sure Monster Mike will have some insights that I've missed. But I will get it eventually! Next week we start work on the melody so get the rhythm and chords down this week. Darling You Know I Love You - Bb King - Guitar. Cool! You Know That I Still Love You. Log in.  Played it lots, but I still learned a lot from the lessons. but darling I love you! [C F G Cm Gm] Chords for Tina Turner Darling You know I love You with capo transposer, play along with guitar, piano, ukulele & mandolin. Darling You Know I Love You - Bb King - Guitar. 4:27 . Loop 11:46 Breakdown of 2nd A Section Head / Melody.  I myself have a new cd due out September 25th called " The Acoustic Blues and Roots of Duke Robillard. Watch fullscreen. Last updated on 09.14.2014 Mike will show you just about as close to BBs melody style as you can get here. F A Dm C [Verse 1] F A Your love is special to me Dm C Even when we fuss and fight I don't want to set you free F A And I love the shine in your eyes Dm C And I may not know why you… Print and download Darlin' You Know I Love You sheet music by Tina Turner. I'm the meantime, I could have no better substitutes than Paul Kolesnikow and Mike Welch while I heal up. - Yalp Darling, You Know I Love You > B Section Melody Hi Folks, This week we are focusing on the bridge and last A section of the melody for Darling, You Know I Love You.  I am also working hard on a auto biography which journalist/guitarist Bob Angell is helping me write. *play the intro again here* [Verse]~ C I've been tryin' to move on,, C since you left,, since you've been gone,, He's the perfect guy to teach this style with that amzing vibrato of his. Sign up. Includes transpose, capo hints, changing speed and … ike and tina turner darlin you know I love you.wmv. Library. King - Darling You Know I Love You with capo transposer, play along with guitar, piano, ukulele & mandolin. King learn how to play chords diagrams Download and Print Darlin' You Know I Love You sheet music for Guitar Chords/Lyrics by B.B. King Style Chicago Blues Backing Track [A 8 Bar Blues - 60 BPM] - … I'm finishing up the backing track today and will have it sent to Mike C. by the evening. Duke, hope you include Brandy's II and Club Zircon in your autobiography, where a young impressionable Stevieboy saw you many times with Roomful of Blues! Ultimate Guitar Pro is a premium guitar tab service, available on PC, Mac, iOS and Android Try for free I think I'm rushing a little in first chrorus, but it feels to me like I'm locking in okay on the second chorus. As always we start with the rhythm. Finally got around to learning the chords, and I was knocked out how much fun the rhythm is to play. I am glad you are digging this lesson. King's "Darling you know I love you" - Duration: 4:27. bluesman383 875 views. I Love You. Loop 14:00 Run-Through of First Two A Sections with Metronome. Monster Mike's arrangement of the great BB King blues ballad. C And I like laughing at retards, C and I like throwing rocks at dogs, F G C but darling I love you. But you know we can't live on dreams alone And to pay the rent I must leave you all alone Cause you know I made my choice many years ago Now this travelin' life is the only one I know But you know that I love you, I guess I love you Whoa, I love you But you know that I love you, I yes, I love you Whoa, I love you But you know that I love you, I guess I love you Whoa, I love you In the meantime, I myself have started physical therapy and am on my way to healing. It felt really "cozy" playing it.Â. This is the best guitar site on the web! D Bm D … The chords provided are my interpretation and their accuracy is not guaranteed. It was also a lot of fun playing along with the track. King's Vibrato. Darlin', darlin' you know I love you I love you for myself But you're gone, gone and left me for someone else. search engine by freefind: advanced: Type in an artist's name or song title in the space above for a quick search of Classic Country Music lyrics website. Duke. Play along with guitar, ukulele, or piano with interactive chords and diagrams. King with free online tab player It will take time but I'll be back before too long. Loop 1:05 Introduction to Darling, You Know I Love You, Loop 2:15 Breakdown of Chords and Song Form. This one was harder for me, but it's such a great song it's worth the extra effort it takes. The ability to loop sections and slow them down, plus have a professional walk you through it and explain what's happening and suggest fingering is invaluable. B.B. I'd also like to make you aware of a few things happening with me. But You Know I Love You:The First Edition. B. Report. Last updated on 09.14.2014 King from Sheet Music Direct. Great progression. Being composed of two eight bar A sections an eight bar bridge and a final eight bar A section to complete the 32 bar chorus. RocKwiz - Beth Hart - I'd Rather Go Blind, Tina Turner & Chuck Berry - Rock n roll music, Tina Turner - The Best (Official Music Video) [HD REMASTERED], Tina Turner & David Bowie -Tonight (Private Dancer Tour 1985), Ike & Tina Turner "It's Gonna Work Out Fine", Tina Turner: Fool In Love (From the movie), Ike and Tina Turner Think it's gonna work out fine, Tina What's Love Got To Do With It - Fool in Love, B.B. 6:10 . All contents are subject to copyright, provided for educational and personal noncommercial use only.  Other news is that myself and Marty Gunther are putting together a book of my photographs of blues and jazz musicians taken from 1990 to 2005 with vintage film cameras. We encourage you to purchase the original artists' album and official songbook. Playing next. $3.8 | $2.11^ $1. 05 Darling, you know I love you Live in Bonn. All the vibrato in this tune will *definitely* be a challenge for me. Choose and determine which version of Darling You Know I Love You chords and tabs by King B B you can play. / INTRO: D C G D / #1. Learn a Smoky Blues Lick in B - BB KING STYLE WITH TAB - … Like this new t-shirt I got says, I have a plan. Darling You Know I Love You - Bb King - Guitar. Sorry I've been out of touch. The chords provided are my interpretation and their accuracy is not guaranteed. Thanks a lot for it! Get access to Pro version of “Darlin You Know I Love You"! Browse more videos. King with his "You Know I Love You" with Monster Mike Welch doing his great rendition of the tune instrumentally. When night began to fall I cry, cry alone And I wish, baby I could hold you … I am looking forward to seeing you all play it along with the track soon. Chords for Tina Turner Darling You know I love You. Darling You Know I Love You Guitar Pro Tab by B.B. King . Blues_Boy_King 38,310 views. Continuing from where we left off Mike picks up the intensity as we get the bridge. BB King - Darling you know i love you. 5 years ago | 30 views. I will keep at this to smooth it out, particularily the dimished. King Monster Mike Welch Darling You Know I Love You Backing Track Print Chords & Tab Loop 1:07 B.B. DARLING, YOU KNOW I WOULDN'T LIE CONWAY TWITTY CONWAY TWITTY COLLECTION DISC I G C Here I am late again for the last time G D And like I promised I just told her goodbye G C Please believe me for this time it's really over G D G And darling you know I wouldn't lie Didn't I come and tell you about her How temptation lured she and I But now I know it was only fascination And darling you know … As always we start with the rhythm. #9 Canada A.C. and #19 on BB Hot 100 on REPRISE Records in 1968. Hi, guys! So you see as I'm healing I am keeping very busy but most of all, I look forward to getting back to teaching my lessons here at Sonic Junction. - Duration: 6:34. I Could Love You Darling lyrics and chords These country classic song lyrics are the property of the respective artist, authors and labels, they are intended solely for educational purposes and private study only. As Mike says, a number of different versions of this one out there. SKU: MN0025781 Darling, You Know I Love You > Chords We're off to a great start with a fabulous tribute to B.B. BUY SHEET MUSIC ↑ Back to top | Tablatures and chords for acoustic guitar and electric guitar, ukulele, drums are parodies/interpretations of the original songs. Also it's exactly the strumming pattern as "This Boy" which is a classic example of this sort of rhythm guitar figure.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ATmw8u-PsI&NR=1  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqkWH4G1SRA#t=60. Chords for B.B. "  It's an 18 song album of a mixiture of acoustic old time blues, a few new tunes and some old time Jimmie Rodgers, Delmore brothers and even a Stephen Foster song. 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Episode 25: Going, Going, Gone
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Julian Jerome, now exonerated from his many crimes, tries to reclaim his life, and mostly fails. He visits the Crimson Magazine office and demands to be returned control of the magazine from Editor-in-Chief Nina Reeves, who flatly refuses. He visits the home of his wife, Alexis Davis, whom he’d tried to kill, where he is threatened by Alexis with an empty bottle of wine and a forthcoming restraining order against him.
Samantha Morgan, concerned that her mother, Alexis, is being both mad and driven to drink by Julian’s remaining in town, visits her father at the Jerome penthouse. She implores with him to leave town, for the sake of her mother, and everyone in town who is emotionally pained by his presence. Sam knows that if Julian were to stay in Port Charles, he’d eventually be killed, most likely by Sonny Corinthos, the gangster with a heart of gold.
Sonny Corinthos, meanwhile, has decided to both take care of the Julian situation AND keep himself out of it by hiring one of him men to hire a third party to kill Julian, one that he and his organization will have no ties to.
Sonny’s son Morgan Corinthos continues to spiral downwards from his bipolar medicine being swapped with mystery pills by Ava Jerome, who is his ex-lover, his father’s baby momma, and the mother of his girlfriend. Ava’s motivations for this nefarious behavior is Morgan dating her daughter Kiki, as Ava feels Kiki could do better. Morgan has been feeling the effects, spontaneously enrolling in college, then immediately finding difficulty concentrating enough to complete his first paper. He recalls the unfortunate advice of Darby and buys a paper online before finding out that the professor uses a program that scans papers for plagerism. Morgan panics, calls cyber-genius Spinelli to remove his paper before it can be seen by his professor, but is told it is too late. Shortly after, Morgan receives a call from his professor to see him in the morning.
In desperation to get help from ex-husband Detective Nathan Reeves, Claudette Boland claimed to have a daughter in hiding. In response, Nathan’s fiance, Maxie Jones, demands a DNA test. Claudette provides a lock of hair, suspiciously darker than that in the photograph of the supposed daughter Charlotte, for DNA testing. The results deem Nathan the father, and Maxie is crushed. Alone with Claudette, Nathan demands to be taken to his daughter, but Claudette refuses. When pushed, she confesses that she is in hiding from Valentin Cassadine.
Laura Spencer, seated on a plane on her way back to Port Charles from getting young Spencer Cassadine settled in his boarding school, is surprised to find Kevin Collins seated beside her. Kevin had taken a flight all the way to europe so he could talk to her on her flight home. He apologizes for writing a novelization based on her, and provides her with the only copy, one that will not be published. She is touched.
Last but not least, the drama of the hospital killer has finally begun to unravel. Ana Devane, blows back into town and right into the center of it all. Wanting to speak with D.A. Paul Hornesby about what went wrong in the Jerome trial, she is let into Paul’s hotel room and while looking for paper to leave a note, she finds the cufflinks that were earlier tied to the killer, rattling in the back of his nightstand drawer. Concentrating on Paul as the culprit, Ana and Police Commissioner Jordan Ashford join forces and get to work. They determine that the victims of Hornsby were all related to Susan in some way. Ana locates Susan’s half brother Dillon, the son of Paul Hornsby and Tracy Quartermaine, in the hopes that he knows where Paul or Susan are.
Paul Hornsby confesses to his ex-wife, Tracy Quartermaine, that he’d killed Sabrina Santiago, but Tracy doesn’t think he means it literally, and instead seeks to calm his stress by locating his daughter Susan and facilitating some contact between them. Tracy figures out that Susan is located in a convalescent home upstate, and arrives just as Paul, who happens to be visiting, is pleading with his non-verbal and mostly unresponsive daughter to break from her shell, telling her that it was safe for her now that he’d killed everyone who had failed and wronged her. Horrified at what she’d heard, Tracy tries to leave, but Paul intervenes, and talks her into joining him for dinner. Instead, Paul traps Tracy in his nearby cabin, enjoying having her to confess to, and having moral difficulty killing her, but feeling obligated to. When Tracy’s phone rings, she sees that Ana Devane is calling, and screams HELP before the mobile is snatched by Paul and stomped on. A passerby hears screaming and investigates, but Tracy is bound to a chair and gagged to conceal her presence. Finally Paul decides to inject her with Derisiphol while she is bound, but as he approaches, Ana kicks open the front door and stands with gun ready and pointing at Paul as he holds a hypodermic to Tracy’s neck. It’s a stand off….. then Dillon appears!
EPISODE 28: Sonic Screwdrivers and Computer Books
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Cream for Her Coffee
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“Come out here for a minute, will you hon,” my wife Anne called to me.
She was sitting on the deck facing the lake enjoying a beautiful July morning with her friend Kelly. Anne has known Kelly since childhood, and the two have been close throughout the 27 years Anne and I have been married. Kelly was visiting us at our cabin in the Northwoods of Minnesota for a few days, as she has for the past several summers. I grabbed my cup of coffee and went out onto the back deck.
“What’s up?” I said.
“Kelly was just telling me about an article she read in a magazine that said that men jerk off several times a week, regardless if they’re getting sex from their partners or not,” she said. “Do you do that?”
Now how was I supposed to answer that question, especially in front of Anne’s good friend? Both of them sat there sipping their coffee, looking at me, waiting for my reply.
“I don’t know, probably a couple of times,” I said.
“So you do jerk off?” Anne said, as if I was doing something unholy.
“Everybody masturbates sometimes,” I said defending myself. “I bet you two do.”
The girls looked at each other and giggled. Who knows what goes on the minds of women? I settled into the lone empty chair on the deck and joined their conversation. They went back and forth about masturbation for quite some time before Kelly finally said, “You know, I’ve been with a lot of guys over the years, but I’ve never actually seen one of them jerk off.”
It’s true about Kelly, she has been with a lot of guys over the years. Both she and my wife are 52 years old, although both are in great shape, are very attractive and could easily pass for women years younger. Kelly has never married; partly because she enjoys being with different guys on a regular basis, and partly because she’s very particular about who she would even consider as a husband. As a result, Kelly is a very hot unmarried cougar.
“I haven’t either,” Anne chimed in. “I’ve given him a number of hand jobs,” tilting her head toward me, “but I’ve never seen him jerk off himself.”
“Well maybe it’s time for both of us to see it,” Kelly said. She looked at me and said, “What do you say big guy, you want to give us girls a show? That is, if it’s alright with your beautiful wife.”
“I’d love to see that show,” Anne said, turning in her seat to face me. “What do you say? I bet you’d jerk off later anyway, why not show us how you do it?”
I couldn’t believe it. My wife was actually asking me to masturbate in front of her and her girl friend. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to, heck, the mere thought of it had made my cock stir in my shorts. “I guess so,” I said, “but you’re going to have to do a couple of things for me first.”
“We’re not going to agree to anything,” Kelly said, “but tell us what you have in mind.”
“OK,” I said, “first, Anne, you need to get me the lube from the bedroom. If I’m going to do this, I want to be well lubricated.”
“Agreed,” Anne replied, “what else?”
“If I’m going to jerk off in front of you, I need something to stimulate me, so to speak. So both of you have to show me your tits.”
Anne and Kelly looked at each other. Kelly raised her eyebrow slightly and shrugged her shoulder. I guess that meant yes, because Anne said, “Alright, canlı bahis şirketleri is that it?”
“Yep. Get me the lube and show me your tits and I’ll jerk off for you,” I offered.
Anne got up and went inside. Kelly looked at me, but neither of us said a word. In a second, Anne was back with a half-full bottle of KY liquid. She handed it to me then settled down in her chair. I got up from my seat and stood in front of the two good friends. My back was to the lake as I leaned against the wooden railing of our deck. I undid the belt and top button on my shorts and pulled down the zipper. I dropped my shorts and stood there in my boxers. “Before I go any further, you two have to take off your tops,” I said.
Both Anne and Kelly were still wearing what they had slept in the night before. Anne was wearing a very tight tank top and a pair of white cotton boy-cut panties. Kelly was wearing an extra large T-shirt that came down to the middle of her thighs. Again Anne and Kelly looked at each other and shrugged.
Anne pulled her tank top up and off. My wife is a beautiful woman with great looking tits. She’s 5 foot 2 inches, weighs about 115 pounds, and keeps her body toned and tight with a rigorous work-out schedule that includes daily 10-mile runs, as well as Pilate’s and yoga. Anne’s tits, which are a natural 34C, are firm and round and stand out from her chest even when she isn’t wearing a bra. Anne’s tits were now naked as she sat in front of me.
Kelly then pulled her T-shirt off to reveal her gigantic 34DD boobs. I always knew Kelly’s tits were big, it was impossible not notice them no matter what clothes she on, but seeing them naked was a revelation. They were easily the size of cantaloupes, maybe bigger. And that wasn’t all. Kelly wasn’t wearing any panties.
“This is all I wear when I sleep,” Kelly said, directing her comments to Anne; explaining why she was now sitting naked in front of her friend’s husband.
Kelly’s pussy was a luscious sight. Her lips were full and pink and she kept herself shaved completely clean. Here I was looking at my wife’s friend’s hairless pussy as I prepared to jerk off for them outside on our back porch, not more than 50 feet from the lake, where any boater could motor by and catch quite a show.
I pulled down my boxers and my rock-hard cock sprang to attention. “Take off your shirt too,” Anne insisted. “If Kelly is going to sit there naked then you should be naked too.”
I complied by unbuttoning my shirt and taking it off. I stood there completely naked in front of my topless wife and her naked friend. I reached for the KY and applied a generous amount to the head and shaft of my prick. Slowly I began to slide my fist up and down the length of my very hard cock.
A drop of pre-cum appeared and leaked out the tip of my cock. It dangled there for a second before dropping to the deck in slow motion. I watched as Kelly’s eyes followed that drop as it landed between my feet. “That was just some pre-cum,” I said, “you’ll know when I really cum.”
I continued to stroke my engorged dick. It felt incredible to be outside in the warm summer air with two very attractive women watching me beat my meat. I was so turned on I knew I wasn’t going to last long. My pace was slow and canlı kaçak iddaa methodical; first because I didn’t want to cum too fast, and second, by going slowly the pressure really builds so when I do cum I can shoot it quite a distance. I wanted to give Anne and Kelly something to remember, I wanted them to see my cum really fly.
Kelly spread her legs wider and with her left hand she began rubbing her clit. From where she was sitting my wife Anne was unable to see Kelly playing with herself, but because I was standing in front of them, I had a clear view of what Kelly was doing. Watching Kelly rub her hairless naked pussy pushed me right over the edge. The muscles in my legs, chest and arms tightened. I let out a deep moan and exploded.
The first shot of my white sticky cum erupted from my cock with such force that it made it the five feet to where Kelly was sitting and landed on her thigh just above her knee. My next spasms were not nearly as strong so my cum dropped to the deck near my feet. After squeezing the last drop of spunk from my cock, I leaned back on the railing of the deck to catch my breath. Anne got up out of her chair, pulled on her tank top and said, “I’ll go get you a towel.”
I looked at Kelly who was now frantically fingering her pussy. She started to cum herself while she looked directly into my eyes. “That was so fucking hot,” she whispered, as she shook with a powerful orgasm.
Anne returned and threw me the towel. “Why don’t you put your clothes back on Kelly and we can make some breakfast.” Kelly got dressed and followed Anne into the kitchen. I sat on the deck for a few more minutes, naked and confused. It seemed as if Anne were angry at me for jerking off in front of her and Kelly, even though they were the ones who asked me to do it. Again, who knows what goes on the minds of women.
That night when we were in bed, Anne reached over and grabbed my dick and squeezed it hard. “You really got off seeing Kelly naked didn’t you. I saw you looking right at her big tits as you blew your load.” she said. Replaying the events in my head did make me excited and my cock began to stiffen. “See,” Anne said, “just mentioning it is getting you hard again you bastard.”
“What’s your problem?” I said. “You wanted me to jerk off for you so I did. I think you enjoyed it too.”
I rolled over on top of Anne, pushed up her tiny nightgown and positioned my dick at the opening of her hot little twat. As I slid into her I could feel that she was already soaking wet. “Aha,” I said. “You’re already turned on yourself just thinking about my little show this morning. You loved me jacking off in front of you and Kelly. It really got you hot didn’t it?” I said, as I slowly pumped my dick in and out of Anne’s tight little pussy.
“Just be quiet and fuck me,” Anne ordered. I stopped talking and fucked her pussy hard. We both climaxed quickly and then dropped off to sleep.
The next morning Anne and I got up around 8 a.m. Anne made coffee and then decided to go for her run. “This way I can get it in before Kelly wakes up and before it gets really hot,” she said. The temperature was a pleasant 74 degrees, but it was supposed to heat up to near 90 this afternoon. Anne left for her run, I filled my coffee cup and went to sit down canlı kaçak bahis on the back deck. A short time later the screen door slid open and Kelly came out on the deck carrying her own cup of coffee.
“Mind if I join you?” she asked.
“Not at all,” I responded, “have a seat.”
We sat there admiring the beauty of the lake and woods making small talk when Kelly finally brought up the subject that was hanging there between us, yet unsaid. “That was really something yesterday,” she said. “I’d never seen a guy jerk off before and it really got me hot. Would you consider doing it again, this time just for me?”
“What you mean right now?”
“Yeah, if you’re going to do it it’s probably best that you do before Anne gets back,” Kelly said.
She had a point, I don’t think Anne liked me jerking off in front of both them yesterday. I was positive the thought of me mastubating in front of just Kelly wouldn’t sit well with her. “OK,” I said, “but you’ve got to keep this just between the two of us. Agreed?”
“Agreed,” Kelly said. “Do you need the lube?”
“No, I don’t want to waste any time getting it,” I said. “I don’t want to be out here jacking off when Anne gets back from her run.”
“Just don’t go too fast,” Kelly asked, “I want to enjoy the show.” With that she pulled off her T-shirt and was again sitting there completely naked. She reached her hand down to her hairless pussy and began rubbing her clit.
I quickly stood up, stripped naked, and positioned myself in front of her. My cock was already hard from the sight of Kelly’s gigantic 34DD tits and her sliding her fingers in and out of her wet pussy. My stroking was faster than it was the day before and in a matter of minutes I was ready to cum. Sensing my impending explosion, Kelly said, “Tell me when you’re going to cum.”
“I’m getting very close,” I said, and could feel the cum rising in my balls.
“Hang on,” Kelly said, “cum in here.” She reached out, picked up her coffee cup off of the little table that was between our chairs and held it up to my dick. “Cum in my coffee,” Kelly pleaded.
“What?” I said, continuing to pump my fist up and down on my cock.
“Cum in my coffee,” Kelly repeated. “I want to taste you.”
The thought of Kelly wanting me to cum in her coffee cup made me even more excited and I couldn’t hold out any longer. Thick white ropes of cum shot from my dick directly into Kelly’s cup of java. Four, five, six, seven spasms; I deposited everything I had stored in my balls into her morning beverage.
When my orgasm finally subsided, Kelly reached out, squeezed my balls, wrapped her hand around my cock and pulled her hand from the base of my dick to the tip, literally milking every last drop of cum out of me. A big glob of cum dripped out of the tip of my semi-hard cock into Kelly’s coffee cup. “I’d hate to waste any,” she said, with a big smile on her face.
I quickly got dressed and Kelly pulled on her T-shirt. We went inside, refilled out coffee cups and went back out onto the deck just as Anne was coming around the side of the house.
“Hello sleepy head,” Anne said to Kelly. “It’s another beautiful day in paradise.”
“It sure is,” Kelly responded. “I’ve been sitting out here enjoying the incredible view,” Kelly said while winking at me.
“I made the coffee pretty strong today,” Anne said to Kelly. “I hope it’s alright with you.”
“I had to add a lot of extra cream to it,” Kelly said, as she took a big drink from her cup, “But it tastes fantastic now.”
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Franklin & Bash Show Summary, Upcoming Episodes and TV Guide
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Started: Jun/01/2011
Ended: Oct/22/2014
Usually aired on: Wednesday
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Falcon's Nest
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Honor Thy Mother
Jared wakes up in bed next to Peter's mom equal parts thrilled and horrified that he's slept with his best friend's mom. Peter finds out about it and things get awkward, but the guys must quickly put aside their differences on the issue to save their beloved diner after it's been shut down and is in the process of being bought out by a competitor. Also, Pindar returns from his travels abroad and informs the guys he's engaged - but is his fiancée real?
Peter's mom brings the boys the tantalizingly touching case of an injured stripper. Realizing they're going to have to think outside the box to help the beautiful ladies of Kandy's, they do the Franklin & Bashiest maneuver to date, and help the strippers of Los Angeles unionize. The guys' old nemesis Damien Karp rejoins the firm, and Peter exchanges his legal services for the lavish title of Duke in lieu of pay, culminating in a gala at which Jared drunkenly makes a pass at Peter's mom - or is it the other way around?
Peter and Jared tackle journalist shield law when they agree to defend a high school newspaper reporter accused of running a smear campaign against another student. Winning this one is especially important to Peter because the mother of the young journalist is an old High School flame who got away. Meanwhile, Jared and Swattello are required to fill out HR forms detailing the nature of their professional relationship and Infeld sues a dry cleaner over a pair of extremely overpriced pants.
Good Cop/Bad Cop
Peter and Jared become the targets of a dirty cop while helping a client win back his beachfront property from a greedy land developer. Concerned for their safety, the boys turn to Peter's old flame Officer Wendy McQuiag to help expose the corruption and keep them out of trouble until they can win the case. Meanwhile, a newly reinstated Stanton Infeld competes with his nephew Karp, now at a rival firm, for high-powered piece of business.
Driver who works for a crowd-sourced taxi service is accused of stealing celebrity handbags with the help of one of his passengers. Peter and Jared have their work cut out for them when it's revealed the passenger used a fake identity to book the rides, and left their client to take the fall. The guys must find the mystery girl and convince her to confess, but when they do, they discover the driver's crush on her is so debilitating, it's almost clinical, giving them no choice but to put his neurochemicals on the stand and prove his 'crush' is akin to that of a 'judgment impairing drug.' Meanwhile, furious that his caricature has been removed from a local restaurant, Infeld sucker-punches the owner, re-sparking a bitter rivalry. To avoid a costly settlement that could bury him and the firm in debt, Franklin & Bash arrange a more old-school measure to appease the victim: Infeld must take one punch from guest star Mike Tyson.
Kershaw v. Lincecum
The firm's newest attorney, Anita Haskins, takes point on a seemingly simple divorce case, but when it's revealed that the plaintiff is married to a plastic surgeon who's been subletting at the firm, Peter and Jared step in to ensure they don't lose the much needed revenue stream. They guys must now win the case by proving the surgeon cheated on her/with her. Also, a promise to score tickets to a highly anticipated baseball game sends the boys calling in favors all over town leading to a kiss Peter or Jared will never forget. Creed Bratton also guest stars.
The Curse of Hor-Aha
Four months after the arrest of Stanton Infeld, Peter and Jared find themselves in charge of the newly renamed Infeld, Daniels, Franklin & Bash. Enter Mason Trawley an archaeologist who believes he's been unfairly locked out of a storage unit containing many treasured artifacts, among which is the death mask of Egyptian Pharaoh Hor-Aha. Peter and Jared agree to take Trawley's case, but soon find themselves questioning their client's sanity when a former professor claims Trawley is unstable and possibly dangerous. Peter, and Jared hire private investigator Dan Mundy to discreetly search the firm's computers for evidence that might exonerate Infeld of his supposed crimes. Meanwhile, Ellen Swatello the newest partner to join the IDFB ranks, defends a Medical Marijuana Dispensary in danger of being closed in order for a Day Care Center to open up down the street, resulting in a weed-iation. Also joining the firm is young attorney Anita Haskins.
Subpoena of Pindar's computer unearths evidence that he may have been responsible for the destruction of the Man Cave. An insurance fraud investigation is spearheaded which ultimately implicates the entire F&B gang. Karp finally gets his shot before a judicial selection committee but quickly finds they know way too much about his past, and Peter and Charlie plan one last 'montage' before she leaves for San Francisco and their summer of love comes to an end. Infeld is finally able to make peace with his old foe.
Peter and Jared defend a bounty hunter who's been charged with excessive use of force, resulting in an F&B-style courtroom demonstration that literally blows up in their face. Jared tries to cheer Peter up by bringing him along on a double date. Karp takes a Franklin and Bash approach to life after some good news, and Pindar's stalking of their famous neighbor turns ugly when he crashes a drone onto his deck and finds Peter's girlfriend Charlie in his company.
On Rachel's order, Peter and Jared must court a client whose business was struck by a priceless meteorite. Once the government tries to seize the artifact, the boys' legal maneuvering steers their client toward his Indian ancestry in an effort to save it. Infeld defends Damien for the murder of a judge, subsequently revealing a few secrets of his own about that fateful day.
Peter and Jared attempt to silence a relentless heckler who's singled out a major league prospect. Rachel reluctantly handles her family's litigation against a bull semen distributor, and Karp's quest to judgeship hits a roadblock when his mentor is found dead on a golf course. Meanwhile, Peter's future with Charlie takes a back seat to her potential career commitments.
Jared and Peter come to the aid of their friend Robbie who's been charged with murdering his long-time practical joke adversary. The boys must cast aside their instincts as lawyers and channel their inner prankster to draw out the truth. Damien handles a case for Infeld's foundation; a turf war for shelf space between a supermarket and a non-profit that employs rehabilitated criminals. Peter finally gets to meet Charlie's daughter who takes a shine to Pindar.
Peter and Jared represent a brilliant actuary who buys a dying woman's life insurance policy for pennies on the dollar and then is accused of her murder. Damien and Infeld work with a Venice Beach beekeeper, and Peter makes headway with Charlie, but is surprised to learn she has a daughter.
Captain Johnny
Wager is made between Rachel and the boys as to whose case will garner better PR for the firm -- Jared and Peter's defense of a fisherman in which they invoke 'Pirate Law' or Rachel's case, a wrongful termination involving a self-proclaimed psychic. Meanwhile, Peter and Jared acquire a 'discarded' curbside sofa, which Pindar discovers is a certain celebrity. This renews a feud between the star and their landlord, Stanton.
Good Lovin'
When Peter's mother is arrested on prostitution charges it's up to theboys to prove her methods are purely therapeutic. But when Jared's sexually demanding fling with the opposing DA renders him exhausted and useless, Peter must single handedly confront his mother on the stand and distill her true motive. Meanwhile Damien attempts to woo a judge with hopes to gainendorsement for his bench after he retires.
The gang moves into Infeld's beach house and Peter is quick to pursue their beautiful neighbor, Charlie. Jared and Peter must prove a veteran is alive after a clerical error wrongfully pronounced him deceased and he is poised to lose his house. Karp is increasingly concerned about Infeld's erratic behavior, which comes to a head when he befriends a Ukrainian drive-through worker and plans to marry her for a visa extension so she can pursue the American dream.
After legal heavyweight Rachel King humiliates Franklin & Bash on national television, Stanton hires her to help run the firm. Peter and Jared represent a famous magician after a bracelet vanishes and never reappears. Damien intentionally re-releases an embarrassing viral video with hopes to expedite his judicial appointment. Pindar finds a termite in his bed and has the house tented, but staying on the outside proves too difficult and results in the Man Cave's destruction.
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Jared's father attempts to buy the firm. Meanwhile, Peter helps a high-school friend who's running for governor but is plagued by a scandal.
A former client accuses Peter and Jared of misconduct, spinning into motion an internal investigation against the duo and putting their jobs in peril. Before long, the case yields an unexpected new love interest for Jared.
The guys work for a widow, helping her keep possession of her late husband's body before it's immortalized as a dancer in a bizarre human-body exhibit. Elsewhere, a stalker menaces Stanton Infeld; and Hanna connects with an old college friend.
The guys aid two female Navy sailors who are charged with assault. Hanna helps in the case, but she may have hidden motives in doing so. Meanwhile, Pindar mediates a dispute between virtual-business owners; and Karp tangles with a summer associate.
Peter and Jared work on a case in which a former chop-shop worker is charged with a premeditated attack. Later, the guys rumble with an all-powerful district attorney. Meanwhile, a pretty law student arrives for a summer program.
L'Affaire Du Coeur
Peter and Jared advocate for a notable judge who's charged with having an affair with a lawyer. Meanwhile, lusty tension heats up between Peter and Janie; and Karp defends a college pal.
Jared must serve as a small-claims judge and ends up making an unfortunate ruling that irks the rock-music community. He's forced to square off in court against his father in a case that spins around a legendary rock bigwig. Meanwhile, Infeld's spiritual adviser is exposed as a fraud.
Jango and Rossi
While Peter and Jared defend one of Infeld's former wives who's charged with kidnapping a dog, they happen upon two fellows who are low-level versions of themselves. Elsewhere, Karp teams up with Pindar on a robbery case, only to have to deal with Pindar's various eccentricities.
Jared and Peter's first manslaughter case centers on an aspiring crime fighter charged with pursuing a man who later died. Meanwhile, Peter's mother pays a visit and delivers big news; and Pindar battles his phobias.
Peter and Jared seek a promotion by trying to sign a beverage-company bigwig as a client. Elsewhere, Peter is attracted to a sightly lady police officer.
Franklin and Bash team up with a hotshot attorney to defend one Stanton Infeld, who is charged with murder. Tensions soon run high when it appears the trial could be sabotaged. Meanwhile, a wrestler fights for justice after he's fired for being too old.
Janie's fiancé enlists Peter to help him dodge a legal quagmire in the wake of his bachelor party. Meanwhile, Jared revisits his high school when a teacher is accused of having lusty encounters with her student.
The Bangover
A judge puts Franklin and Bash on house arrest due to their courtroom shenanigans. Meanwhile, a visit by Infeld's niece goes up in smoke when she's busted for marijuana possession by a judge; the arrival of Carmen's boyfriend has legal consequences.
Franklin vs. Bash
Peter and Jared's friendship is tested when they defend two pole-dance instructors who are accused of stealing. Meanwhile, Karp and Hanna represent a teen boy who wants to kayak solo on the treacherous Amazon River, thereby defying his father's demands not to do so.
Franklin and Bash think they've gained a big-bucks trophy client when a wealthy CEO courts them, but the bigwig's unethical conduct could land them in a heap of trouble. Meanwhile, Karp and Hanna reach out to Pindar for help in acquiring a new client.
You Can't Take It with You
A family feud rages when one side sues the other over a prized home-run baseball. Jared tries to cover all the bases, but he ends up battling his own father in the case. Meanwhile, Peter and Hanna defend a reality-TV father; and Karp and Pindar work on a top-secret project.
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A tangled legal quagmire finds Peter working for Jared's old rival. As for Jared, he must take the lead on a divorce case when friction mounts between Karp and Hanna. Harry Hamlin guest stars.
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An unremarkable woman seeks representation when she believes she was wrongly dismissed from her job at a men's magazine for being too attractive. Elsewhere, Franklin and Bash's epic technology-laden man cave causes the server to crash.
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Franklin and Bash hold court when a woman is accused of using sex as a means to kill her husband. The two young-gun lawyers suspect the judge or jury is on the take, so they apply unconventional methods to deliver justice.
A buddy-legal drama about offbeat yet effective street lawyers Jared Franklin and Peter Bash. First up: The young-gun bad boys draw the attention of Stanton Infeld, the head of a top law firm who considers recruiting the dynamic duo.
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Rasch/Schindler Family History
1.1 Florian Rasch II (picture)
Birth Place: Overdorf, Germany
Religion: R. Catholic
Death Date: February 12, 1891
Death Place: St. Florian, Alabama
Burial Place: St. Michael's Cemetery, St. Florian, Alabama (Row 17, Plot N2)
Father: Florian Franz Rasch I
Mother: Carolina Schindler
He lived at Kraubitz, Germany, where his occupation was listed as a gardener.
The manifest for the ship named "Stephani" arriving in New Youk from Bremen, Germany on
August 1851, lists Florian Rasch,age 32 and occupation as baker; Carolina Rasch, age 24,
and Paul Rasch, age 9 months. The manifest states that he came from Frankenstein and was
headed for Boston. In 1852 he returned to Germany to bring his father to the U.S.
After coming to America with his small family, he farmed the land he purchased in Michigan.
In an 1869 Michigan farm census for Warren Township, Florian owned 40 acres of farm land
and 95 acres of woodland. His farm was valued at $4,000. One of the reasons that he moved
his family may have been because more land was available in Alabama.
With 10 of their 11 children they moved from Michigan to northwest Alabama in April or May 1873.
He purchased land from Fr. Hueser on which the John Wilson plantation home was located.
The reason he moved his family to Alabama was that his wife was in poor health and he
believed the warm climate would help her.
He grieved bitterly over the death of his beloved Caroline, going to the cemetary daily
and weeping at her grave. The paster arranged for him to spend some time with his son,
Fr. Luke, in Wisconsin.
All sources agree that St. Florian, AL, is named for Florian Rasch. The family legend is
that he was a very holy man who went to daily Mass, and died in the church. Another version
of the origin of the name of the town is found in the booklet about the 100th anniversary of
the parish which cites the donation of the bell for the first church as the reason the town
was called St. Florian in honor of its donor.
Spouse: Caroline Nickel
Birth Date: March 8, 1827
Birth Place: Germany
Death Date: December 8, 1880
Burial Place: St. Michael's Cemetery, St. Florian, Alabama (Row 17, Plot N1)
Her children's generation believed that Caroline had tuberculosis.
Her last child was born when she was 45 years old. She died at the age of 53.
Marriage Date: 1849
Children: Paul Joseph Florian (R/S 1.1.1)
Edward John (R/S 1.1.2)
Robert Florian (R/S 1.1.3)
Annie (R/S 1.1.4)
Clara (Twin) (R/S 1.1.5)
Julius (Twin) (R/S 1.1.6)
Catherine (R/S 1.1.7)
Elizabeth (R/S 1.1.8)
Emma (R/S 1.1.9)
Anthony (R/S 1.1.10)
Francis Allen (R/S 1.1.11)
References: 1 3 12 20 23 69 139 156 176
1.2 Joseph Rasch
Mother: Johanna Josepha Carolina Schindler
Immigrated to the United States, possibly arriving on the ship Celle in 1853.
The name of wife unknown.
Moved to California.
Had one unmarried daughter.
References: 1 20 156
1.3 Franz Rasch
Birth Place: Germany
Arrived in the US with family on May 19, 1852. Disappeared some time thereafter.
He may have gone to New Orleans and joined the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
References: 1
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Washington Redskins vs Dallas Cowboys Predictions, Picks, Odds and Betting Preview – NFL Week 13 2017
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Both squads are clinging to playoff hopes here in Week 13 of the 2017 NFL football season. On the road, the Washington Redskins are 2-3 straight up and 3-2 against the spread (ATS) while the Dallas Cowboys are 2-4 straight up and ATS when playing in the supposed comforts of AT&T Stadium.
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The Redskins (with a 5-6 SU, 5-6 ATS on the season) saved their postseason hopes after a Thanksgiving night win at home against the NY Giants. They won 20-10 to end a two-game losing streak, even without running back Chris Thompson (injured) as rookie Samaje Perine carried the load with 100 rushing yards and 30 more on three catches. Quarterback Kirk Cousins connected with wide receiver Jamison Crowder on seven passes for 141 yards and a touchdown. On the defensive end, Washington recovered after giving up a 72 combined points in the previous two games, even if doing so against the Giants isn’t much of a task. All in all, it could be all that they need to take one from Dallas while on the road.
Betting on the Dallas Cowboys (5-6)
Point Spread: (-1.5)
Is QB Dak Prescott even the same person without Ezekiel Elliot on the field? Nope. Dallas may be given a 1.5-point advantage in this game, but it’s hard to see the light for a team hurt so badly by a 6-game suspension of it’s most valuable player. In the last three games Elliott has missed, the Cowboys have lost each by at least 20 points. Their Thanksgiving day game was no different, falling 28-6 to the Los Angeles Chargers. The Cowboys have scored fewer than 10 points in three straight games for the first time in team history. Dak Prescott can only blame Elliott for so much, the rest falls on his shoulders.
Writer’s Pick
This writer thinks that the spread should be bigger, and pointed in the other direction. The Washington Redskins are hungry for the post season, and will stomp all over Prescott to dash all remaining hopes that the Cowboys may or may not have for making the 2017-18 playoffs. Pick: Washington Redskins by at least a touchdown.
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Friday, August 14 – Nationwide Safety Checks Start on Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer
Nationwide Safety Checks Start on Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer...Behind the Blast: Russian Businessman Abandoned Ship, Cargo, and Ukrainian Crew in Beirut...Avangard May Close Egg Farms in Coming Weeks...Ukraine to Create Domestic Airline Based on Antonov Regional Jets...US Threatens to Stop Sending Oil to Belarus Through Odesa..
By Sept. 15, all of Ukraine’s ports are to complete “extraordinary measures for government supervision” of the import, handling and storage of ammonium nitrate, Prime Minister Shmygal has ordered. The explosion of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate in Beirut’s port killed 171 people, wounded 6,500, left 250,000 homeless and cause $15 billion to the port alone.
Ukraine, Europe’s largest food exporter, is a major importer of ammonium nitrate, a key component of fertilizers. Last year, Ukraine imported 716,000 tons, at least seven times the volume of 2016, according to the State Statistics Service. Coming from Georgia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Romania, the chemical compound enters through a dozen ports – from Izmail to Mariupol. Inside the country, there are more than 600 warehouses for ammonium nitrate, Andriy Miselyuk, director of Dialogue Institute for Socio-Political Design, writes on his Facebook page.
At Pivdennyi, Ukraine’s busiest port, 9,600 tons of ammonium nitrate are stored “in accordance with all norms and standards,” the seaport administration says in a statement. The compound is “packed in big bags” at berths No. 1 and 2. “In this case, it is not explosive,” the port asserts, that bulk handling of the compound is dangerous. During the first six months of production, the chances of explosion are low. Ukraine consumes 1.5-2 million tons a year, an amount that makes for a steady rotation of stock. The Beirut stockpile, entirely in bags, was seven years old when it blew up.
Behind the devastating Beirut port explosion was a Russian business man who abandoned his ship, his 8-man Ukrainian crew and his cargo of ammonium nitrate in Beirut in 2013, according to a Reuters story, reported by 12 journalists in 11 cities, from Moscow to Panama City. Police questioned the de facto owner, Igor Grechushkin, aged 43, at his home in Cyprus about the cargo. The ship’s captain Boris Prokoshev, told Reuters from his home in Sochi that he sees Grechushkin and the ship’s charterer, Teto Shipping Ltd, as the same entity. Based in the Marshall Islands, Teto was dissolved in 2014.
Flying the flag of Moldova, a landlocked nation, the ship, the Rhosus, was loaded in Sept. 2013 with 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate produced by Rustavi Azot, a nitrogen producer in Georgia. The cargo was destined for a commercial explosives factory in Mozambique. En route, it developed a leak and docked in Beirut. Four months earlier, safety inspectors in Seville, Spain detained the Rhosus for a series of safety violations, including a corroded deck. In Beirut, Grechushkin ordered the captain to load heavy road building equipment on the deck, reports according to 112.ua.
With the Rhosus disabled by the leak, Grechushkin abandoned the ship and the crew, both news agencies report. Four crew members were forced by Lebanese officials to stay on the ship for 11 months to prevent it from sinking. After a sailors aid group flew them home to Ukraine, the ship sank. According to Prokoshev, the captain, Grechushkin owes at least $150,000 in unpaid salaries. According to 112.ia, Grechushkin lives in Cyprus with his wife Irina, and their son, a student at a private university in Scotland. Although Cyprus is a 45-minute flight or a 2-hour ferry ride from Beirut, the captain said Grechushkin never came to Beirut to check on the boat. The blast was so massive it was heard — and felt — in Cyprus, 200 km across the Mediterranean.
IFC is supplying a $35 million loan to help Galnaftogaz to improve its supply of fertilizer and fuels to small farmers. The Lviv-based company has pioneered allowing farmers to buy fertilizer and seeds in the spring, paying forward with ‘crop receipts,’ or liens on fall harvests. Galnaftogaz, with 357 OKKO-branded filling stations, is Ukraine’s largest fuel retailer. The loan from IFC, a World Bank unit, will also finance installation of fast-charging stations for electric vehicles.
After good weather in eastern and central Ukraine, the USDA has raised its Ukraine harvest forecasts to: 27 million tons of wheat, and 39.5 million tons of corn. “Yields are expected to be the second highest on record, with a previous record of 7.84 tons per hectare in 2018,” writes the US Department of Agriculture.
Ukraine’s Avangard, Europe’s largest egg producer, may close six of its 20 farms, cutting production by 20% by mid-October, reports Poultry World. UkrLandFarming, Avangard’s parent company, may have to lay off 2,500 employees. Avangard owner Oleg Bakhmatyuk says that due to ongoing court cases against him, he is unable to get bank loans. In 2010, Avangard raised $187.5 million in an IPO on the London Stock Exchange. But Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and occupation of half of Ukraine’s Donbas resulted in Avangard losing valuable properties. Although Avangard produced 2.6 billion eggs in 2018, its debt is estimated at $2 billion.
Next year, Ukraine will create a domestic airline based on a fleet of regional jets produced by Kyiv’s Antonov, Infrastructure Minister Vladyslav Krykliy said yesterday on a visit to Kharkiv State Aircraft Manufacturing Company. “Aircraft manufactured by Antonov will be used for regional transportation,” he said. To boost domestic air travel, Ukraine is abolishing the 20% VAT tax on domestic tickets. Last year, 16 of Ukraine’s 54 civilian airports carried passengers — on scheduled or charter flights. About 5 million people flew out of regional airports.
Betting that corona travel restrictions will ease, SkyUp announces seven new international routes for its winter schedule. Starting Oct. 25, Ukraine’s discount carrier will fly from Kyiv Boryspil to Amman, Belgrade, Bratislava, Belgrade, and Stockholm. It will also start Kharkiv-Dubai and Lviv-Dubai. On Sept. 26, it will start Kyiv-Dubai, a route that is to become five times a week.
Starting today, Ukraine’s new electronic visa platform launches at this address: https://evisa.mfa.gov.ua/. Citizens of India, the Philippines and South Africa will be able to get electronic visas for travel to Ukraine for business, tourism, medical treatment, culture, science, education, sports, and journalism. The e-visa should be printed out to show at border control.
After Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko cracked down violently in the wake Sunday’s presidential election, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Washington is considering ending oil shipments to Belarus. Most come through Klaipėda, Lithuania, to the Naftan refinery, in northeast Belarus. Several shipments of US oil have come this year through Odesa to Belarus’ southern refinery, in Mazyr, 50 km north of Ukraine. So far this year, Odesa has handled six tanker loads of oil for Belarus, largely from Azerbaijan.
From the Editor: One month ago, I ruffled feathers with news items gathered under the headline: “Will Russia Launch a Military Attack on Ukraine in August?” Now it seems my premonition of a Russian August surprise was off — by a couple of degrees. In Belarus, yesterday’s walkouts from big state-owned companies strengthen calls for a national strike. That could be Lukashenko’s endgame. With the White House distracted in the 81-day runup to the US presidential vote, Moscow could easily pull a Prague 1968 – roll in tanks to restore ‘order.’ Timothy Ash writes: “The Ukrainians are very concerned. They think the Russians’ game plan is take over Belarus, roll tanks up to the border with Ukraine, and then max pressure on Ukraine from the North and East.” Also from London, Keir Giles, writes a Chatham House essay: Watching Belarus Means Watching Russia Too. In Russian intervenes militarily in Belarus, “Ukraine would be forced to rapidly re-orient its defense posture to face a new threat from the north.” With Best Regards Jim Brooke
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China Outstrips Russia as Ukraine’s Top Trading Partner…Betting on Chinese Trains Crossing Ukraine, a Big Container Hub Goes up Near Hungary-Ukraine Border…Chinese Covid Vaccines Rise to 5 million…Metro and Air Traffic Down Drastically in 2020…
Steel Grew in 2020…GDP Growth Pushed Off To Spring…Chinese Vaccines for 2.5% of Ukraine’s Population by June 1…Ukraine Will Spend $20 billion to Service Debt This Year…Ukroboronprom Puts Up For Lease 5 Parus…US Treasury Sanctions 7 Ukrainians…Nearly Half a Million ‘New’ Cars Flood Urkaine
Gazprom Works to Finish Nord Stream by Summer…Ukraine Zero Foreign Investment in 2020…DTEK Opens London ‘Investment Hub’…Turkey-Ukraine: 30 Military Production Projects… Ryanair Cuts 70% of Flights out of Kyiv Until April
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Review: Raygun Cowboys – “Tales About Life, The Road, and Life on The Road”
The new record from Raygun Cowboys – Tales About Life, The Road, and Life on The Road, out yesterday via UK-based Diablo Records – features a few great blasts of psychobilly noise, for sure. (And there’s one excellent, unexpected cover; more on that later.) The thing that’s interesting about the 10-track LP, though, is how…
Review: Spheruleus – “Light Through Open Blinds”
Fifteen years ago, the definition of ambient music, even the initiation to ambient music, was very different. But, even by the standards of the day, Untitled was an odd duck. Crafted by experimentalists Jon Mueller, Bhob Rainey and Jim Schoenecker, the four-“song” outing, sealed in an orange jacket adorned with a drawing of a toaster,…
Review: Graham Costello’s STRATA – “Obelisk”
It’s a calculated and unbelievably addictive kind of descent into madness. Obelisk — the (wait for it) BRILLIANT debut full-length from Scottish sextet Graham Costello’s STRATA, out Feb. 1 – is a tightly wounded knot that finds itself at the intersection of jazz, fusion and math-rock. And it is wondrous to behold. Sounding, at times,…
Review: Colin Mawson – “Death of the Ego”
It begins in isolation: a descending piano line, a star-twinkle gradually picking up speed as it traverses the lonely sky. The song – the title track to Colin Mawson’s Death of the Ego, out next week via Disintegration State – is eerily calm and resolute, an interesting take to lead a record by a multi-instrumental…
Review: Slow Decay – “Ghosts” EP
Hard to get into Ghosts, the new EP from Isle of Man’s Slow Decay. It’s not that there’s anything particularly wrong with the three-song outing; the vocals – delivered by a front-woman who sounds like the offspring of Bjork and Danzig – are well-studied and well-trained, the guitar crunches, the drums pop. It’s just that…
PROFILE: Chris Besinger of STNNNG (2017)
Ladies and gentlemen, STNNNG has reentered the building. After four years of waiting and much, much anticipation, Minnesota’s greatest post-punk band is back with a new record, Veterans of Pleasure. We shot a few questions to the king of the speak-sing delivery, STNNNG vocalist Chris Besinger, to set the record straight on his wicked agenda….
PROFILE: Chuck Mosley (2017)
Chuck Mosley just can’t stop. Chain-smoking Marlboro Blacks as he sits near the end of an aging sofa, the 80s icon kicks on some rough demos of his latest project, a frontman outing with post-punk band Primitive Race due out this fall. The music cuts angular and jagged, more raw and steel-edged than what you ever would…
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Northwest Semitic
Title: Northwest Semitic
Subject: Abacus, Semitic languages, History of Syria, Deity, Amalthea (mythology), Canaan, Baal, Hebrews, Ishtar, Bel (mythology)
Levantine
concentrated in the Middle East
Afro-Asiatic
Central Semitic
Ugaritic (extinct)
Amorite (extinct)
Northwest Semitic is a division of the Semitic language family, comprising the ancient languages of today's Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, western Syria, and western Jordan, along with their modern descendants.
Traditionally Northwest Semitic is divided into two sub-groups: one of which is Aramaic, and the other comprises Canaanite (including Ugaritic, Phoenician, and Philistine) and Hebrew. In this reckoning Northwest Semitic itself is one of three divisions of Semitic along with East Semitic (Akkadian) and South Semitic (Arabic, South Arabian, and the Semitic languages of Ethiopia).
However revisions of both the larger Semitic divisions and the place of Northwest Semitic within them have been proposed in recent years.
Common elements are to separate Ugaritic from Canaanite within Northwest Semitic, and to group Northwest Semitic with Arabic (but not South Arabian) in a higher Central Semitic grouping. This Central Semitic may be a top-level division of Semitic, or itself a subdivision of a West Semitic.[1]
The influential [1] As SIL only treats living languages, the position of the extinct Ugaritic is undefined.
1 Historical Development
2 Phonological Characteristics
The time period for the split of Northwest Semitic from Proto-Semitic or from other Semitic groups is uncertain. The first attestation of a Northwest Semitic language is of Ugaritic in the 14th Century B.C.
During the early 1st Millennium, the Phoenician language was spread throughout the Mediterranean by Phoenician colonists, most notably to Carthage in today's Tunisia. The Phoenician alphabet is of fundamental importance in human history, as the source of the Greek alphabet and later Latin alphabet, and of the Aramaic/Square Hebrew and Arabic writing systems as well.
By the 6th Century B.C. the use of Aramaic spread throughout the Northwest Semitic region (see Imperial Aramaic), largely driving the other Northwest Semitic languages to extinction. The ancient Judaeans adopted Aramaic for daily use, and parts of the Old Testament are written in it. Hebrew was preserved, however, as a Jewish liturgical language and language of scholarship, and resurrected in the 19th Century, with modern adaptations, to become the Modern Hebrew language of today's Israel.
With the Muslim expansion in the 7th Century A.D., Arabic largely replaced Aramaic throughout the region. Aramaic survives today as the liturgical language of the Syriac Christian Church, and is spoken in modern dialects by small and endangered populations scattered throughout the Middle East.
Phonological Characteristics
Phonologically, Ugaritic lost the sound *ṣ́, replacing it with /sˤ/ (ṣ) (the same shift occurred in Canaanite and Akkadian). That this same sound became /ʕ/ in Aramaic (although in Ancient Aramaic, it was written with qoph), suggests that Ugaritic is not the parent language of the group. An example of this sound shift can be seen in the word for earth: Ugaritic /ʔarsˤ/ (’arṣ), Hebrew /ʔɛrɛsˤ/ (’ereṣ) and Aramaic /ʔarʕaː/ (’ar‘ā’).
The vowel shift from *aː to /oː/ distinguishes Canaanite from Ugaritic. Also, in the Canaanite group, the series of Semitic interdental fricatives become sibilants: *ð (ḏ), *θ (ṯ) and *θ̣ (ṱ) became /z/, /ʃ/ (š) and /sˤ/ (ṣ) respectively. The effect of this sound shift can be seen by comparing the following words:
Ugaritic
*ð (ḏ)→/z/ ḏhb דהב
/dəhab/
(dəhaḇ) זהב
/zaˈhav/
zahav gold
*θ (ṯ)→/ʃ/ (š) ṯlṯ תלת
/təlaːt/
(təlāṯ) שלוש/שלש
/ʃaˈloʃ/
šaloš three
*θ̣ (ṱ)→/sˤ/ (ṣ) ṱw טור
/tˤuːr/
(ṭûr) צור
/sˤur/
çur (ṣur) mountain
Aramaic language
Ugaritic language
Semitic languages
Proto-Semitic language
Blau, J. 1968. "Some Difficulties in the Reconstruction of 'Proto-Hebrew' and 'Proto-Canaanite'," in In Memoriam Paul Kahle. BZAW, 103. pp. 29–43
Cross, F. M. 1965. “The Development of the Jewish Scripts,” in The Bible and the Ancient Near East: Essays in Honor of W. F. Albright, ed. G. E. Wright. New York. Reprinted 1965, Anchor Book Edition; New York, pp. 133–202.
Cross, F. M. 1967. “The Origin and Early Evolution of the Alphabet,” EI 5: 8*-24*.
Cross, F. M. 1982. “Alphabets and pots: Reflections on typological method in the dating of human artifacts,” MAARAV 3: 121-136.
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Ginsberg, H. L. 1970. “The Northwest Semitic Languages,” in The World History of the Jewish People, volume 1/2: Patriarches. Tel Aviv.
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Halpern, B. 1987. “Dialect Distribution in Canaan and the Deir Alla Inscriptions,” in “Working with No Data”: Semitic and Egyptian Studies Presented to Thomas O. Lambdin. Ed. D. M. Golomb. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns. pp. 119–39.
Harris, Z. 1939. Development of the Canaanite Dialects. AOS, 16. New Haven: AOS.
Herr, Larry G. 1980. "The Formal Scripts of Iron Age Transjordan," BASOR 238:21-34.
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American Craft Council Baltimore Show Feb 19-21
Posted on February 1, 2016 by admin |
The American Craft Council (ACC) is a national, nonprofit educational organization founded in 1943. with a mission to promote understanding and appreciation of contemporary American craft.
The Baltimore ACC Show is the American Craft Council’s flagship show – a must-attend for craft lovers – runs from Feb. 19–21, 2016 at the Baltimore Convention Center.
More than 650 top contemporary jewelry, clothing, furniture, and artists from across the country will gather under one roof. It’s a great chance to touch, feel, and explore high-quality American craft and meet the makers behind the fabulous work.
Artist Drew Storm Graham is one of the outstanding makers that will be showing at the Baltimore ACC show – featuring his artistically handcrafted interchangeable wooden bow ties and his company Switchwood. (Booth: 2100)
SHOW DATES AND HOURS
Friday, Feb. 19: 10 a.m.–8 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 20: 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 21: 11 a.m.–5 p.m.
The Baltimore Convention Center is at One West Pratt Street.
Purchase your tickets online or at the show. CLICK HERE for online weblink. FREE for American Craft Council members and children 12 and under. Join the ACC and get in free!
SPECIAL FRIDAY EVENING ADMISSION
Get into the show for just $5 after 5 p.m. Sorry, no other discounts apply.
Posted in ACC, american craft council, Baltimore, craft design art, craft fair, Craft Show, drew storm graham, switchwood | Tagged wearable craft, wood bow tie
Posted on December 20, 2012 by Chip Montague |
Before we throw away the 2012 calender, we are looking thru the pages of the Washington Glass School dates and blog postings – noting that events from a few months ago seem like ages ago. The strange phenomena of time flying by is observed once again. Many of the years past events were months – or years- in planning and preparation, and seemed like they would never happen, now seem faraway, and the impact, both good and bad will be here for a while. Month by month – here is a quick review of Washington Glass School’s 2012:
“Facture” exhibit at Bullseye Gallery, Portland.
Michael Janis started the year out west, showing at Bullseye Gallery in Portland, OR. The show “Facture“ was centered on artists that use glass as a canvas with artists Michael Janis, Kari Minnick, Martha Pfanschmidt, Ted Sawyer, Abi Spring, and Jeff Wallin; moderated by Michael Endo. The show ran thru February, and later traveled to Bullseye’s RCBA Gallery
in Emeryville, CA.
Rob Kincheloe gets close to the critter.
Italian flameworker Simone Crestani was here teaching workshops at the new Chrysler Museum of Art Glass Workshop. While here in the area, Simone was working at Rob Kincheloe’s new torch studio out in Virginia.
After annealing, the bug was filled with plasma and charged.
The installed sculpture at Smith Farm
The “Science of Art Laboratory” (SOFALab) project was created to initiate the spark of communication that can bring out new understanding and develop new tools of interactions from both the sciences and arts. Developed as a collaborative effort from the Executive Director of Smith Center for Healing and the Arts, Shanti Norris; the Director of Printmaking at George Mason University, Helen Fredrick; and the Founder of Hamiltonian Artists and physics professor of George Mason University, Paul So, a SOFAlab project was held with Dr. Caroline Wellberry and Erwin Timmers using glass diverted from the waste stream.
The students were from Georgetown University and Residents from the Fort Lincoln Clinic. The resulting glass and steel sculpture was exhibited at Smith Center Gallery.
Michael & Christina Bothwell: TLF.
February is also the month of Love – with American Craft Magazine included Michael Janis in its survey on who was “Craft Crushing”. Michael was all about sculptor Christina Bothwell.
The Washington British Embassy hosted the signing of the US/UK Friendship Agreement. L-R Chief Executive of Sunderland City Council Dr David Smith and Washington, DC Mayor Vincent C. Gray
The cities of Washington, DC and Sunderland, England renewed their Friendship Agreement in February, and the formal connection between the two cities were strengthened. The unique connection has allowed for international exchanges that played out in the year and beyond.
Professors Tate and Janis at UK’s Washington Old Hall, ancestral home of US President George Washington.
Sunderland Uni has a world class glass facility.
Fulbright Scholars Michael Janis and Tim Tate were off to England’s North East, teaching at the University of Sunderland. Joined by Michael’s wife, Kay Janis, acting as chaperone for the lads, the boys were teaching at the National Glass Centre in the expansive glass facilities at the University.
DC’s Fulbright duo teach at Creative Cohesion.
Creative Cohesion, a Sunderland, England artist collaborative was initiated by artists that had participated in one of DC’s Artomatic events. Inspired by and modeling themselves on the Washington Glass School model, the City of Sunderland helped create a non-profit organization which specializes in arts based activities, and provides space, facilities and services to local creative practitioners and the local community. Creative Cohesion’s facilities include a glass hot-shop, which was set to open, and Michael and Tim were invited to teach at the inaugural glass workshops. The gallery component of Creative Cohesion was one of the exhibitors at London’s Affordable Art Fair in March. Michael and Tim were invited to show their artwork at the huge international art fair, and the lads were off to the big city.
The artists celebrate at London’s Affordable Art Fair.
Jeffrey Sarmiento, Kevin Petrie and Michael Janis
Back to the University of Sunderland, for a big wrap up of more workshops. Professor and glass artist Jeffrey Sarmiento – showed Michael how the University’s waterjet machine worked with glass panels, creating a class demo piece.
Hugs to all as the Fulbrighters returned home to Washington, DC, determined to reinforce the connections made. Right after the boys left Sunderland, Creative Cohesion’s artist facility was damaged as the adjacent building partially collapsed during a strong windstorm, closing the artist center until later in the year.
Click HERE to jump to video link
Upon Tim’s return to DC, he appeared as one of the speakers in a TED Talk about “The Creative City”.
“Jazz Man” tops the refurbished Howard Theater.
Sean Hennessey was in the news as Washington’s historic Howard Theater re-opened to fanfare. Working with Brower Hatcher and Mid-Ocean Studios, Sean created the concrete and glass trumpet form for the team.
At the opening, Sean was interviewed by National Public Radio (NPR).
Erwin Timmers was one of the 121 featured artists at the 30th Annual Smithsonian Craft Fair.
Erwin Timmers and Mick Coughlin set up at the National Building Museum.
His cast recycled glass sculptures were a strong point of the show at the National Building Museum.
Space Shuttle Discovery does a low flyover the Washington Glass School in April.
NASA’s Space Shuttle program was retired, and the shuttle “Discovery” flew over the glass school as it headed out across the country. We ate “astronaut freeze dried ice cream” in its honor.
Tim Tate’s glass and video sculptures received the “Critics Award” at Habatat Galleries 40th Annual International exhibit in Michigan.
Habatat Galleries held its 40th Annual International invitational, and exhibited Tim Tate’s video reliquaries. Tim’s work won the Critic’s Award at the show.
May started off running with Glass Art Magazine having an article about Erwin Timmers eco-glass and a cover story about Michael Janis’ frit powder drawings – creating a publishing two-fer! The magazine also late ran a special online feature about Tim Tate & Michael Janis’ Fulbright adventures.
Some great photos by Pete Duvall of Anything Photographic filled the 10 pages of articles about Erwin and Michael.
The design concept for the LOC Adams building doors.
Rubber mold from one of the LOC sculptures.
The Washington Glass Studio began working on the Library of Congress Adams Building doors in May, working to recreate the historic sculpted bronze doors in cast glass. The project integrates a number of artists from the Washington Glass School and connects craft artisans from FireArt Glass in Portland, OR. Sean Hennessey started the process by creating a test panel taken from the original doors. There would be a full size sample made of the cast /laminated artwork panel, submitted to the US Architect of the Capitol for approval.
Dave D’Orio’s artwork awarded by the JRA.
Artomatic 2012 – the month long, non-juried, anything-goes exhibit opened in May. This year, the setting was a soon-to-be-demolished office building in Crystal City. The James Renwick Alliance (JRA) is an independent national nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing scholarship and education on contemporary American craft, to supporting activities directed toward this purpose, and to encouraging connoisseurship and collecting. At this Artomatic, the JRA sponsored activities and programs, and had reviewed the 10 floors of artwork, selecting winners in different media.
Sean Hennessey’s artwork awarded by the JRA
Dave D’Orio, Sean Hennessey and Michael Janis were each selected for their works in glass. The JRA also sponsored receptions and artist talks during the event. (FYI- The not-for-profit organization Artomatic.org has been instrumental in organizing international exhibits that brought together Sunderland artists and the Washington Glass School, and some new plans are being developed for the coming year.)
2012 was anniversary year marking the start of the American Studio Glass Movement in 1962. A number of shows were held this summer to give some insight into how the art form has changed during the past 50 years. In the arty city of Asheville, NC, Bender Gallery showcased Erwin Timmers, and Asheville’s Blue Spiral 1 hosted a show about the next generation of glass artists (including Christina Bothwell, Thor & Jennifer Bueno, Susan Taylor Glasgow, Sean Hennessey, Michael Janis, Marc Petrovic, Tim Tate and others).
Marc Petrovic demo’s at GAS
Laura Donefer works the runway.
The Glass Arts Society (GAS) held its annual conference in the nominal birthplace of the studio glass movement – Toledo, OH. Said Tim Tate of the Toledo GAS – “
[Outgoing GAS President] Jeremy Lepisto’s gang did a spectacular job! and Laura Donefer’s fashion show blew me away!”
Sean Hennessey gets serious at the LOC.
The panel molds are cleaned in the studio.
The month of July was a scorcher! Work continued on the US Library of Congress bronze doors in the sun with temps in the mid ’90′s F (mid 30′s C!). The “rockets red glare” refers to how hot it feels. Sean and crew worked in the brutal heat taking rubber molds from the Lee Lawrie bronze sculpted doors.
The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum opened its spectacular “Craft Futures – 40 Under 40” exhibit. 40 under 40:Craft Futures features forty artists born since 1972, the year the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s contemporary craft and decorative arts program was established at the Renwick.
Matt Szosz at the opening of 40 Under 40.
The show, curated by Nicholas Bell, showed how the youngsters in craft are remaking the world of craft.
This show generated many discussions on how craft is no longer a part of the “apprentice to a master” world, and is one where the young students wish not to be tied to any one craft media.
Audrey Wilson models the latest in cold shop fashion.
Speaking of kids today, in July, Audrey Wilson joined the Washington Glass School as the new studio coordinator. Audrey had met Tim Tate when he was teaching a workshop at the Chrylser Museum of Glass in June, and applied for the position.
Elegance comes to the Glass School.
Audrey soon was teaching classes at the Glass School, and her accessible and welcoming teaching style won over many of the artists at the studio.
In August, the Brentwood Arts Exchange (part of Maryland’s Prince George’s Parks and Recreation) held part of its summer Creative Expressions Camp encouraging the kids to explore a variety of artistic media as well as contemporary reading and writing activities around such themes as animals, nature, and adventure.
The studio was overrun with kids, all eager to try working in glass. Some showed an intuitive knack for the craft – Who knows where these young artists will take the medium and artworld as they grow up!
Ceramic artist Novie Trump worked in the studio, working to incorporate glass into a commissioned artwork piece. Novie wanted to make an illuminated hive for an installation of ceramic bees. Novie made a number of fused glass alternates and presented to the client – a trendy restaurant in Georgetown.
Ultimately, however, the architect selected a ceramic version for the installation. We will get her to glass somehow, we will not surrender.
An impressive steed. And a handsome horse too. Michael Janis as a Beltway Cowboy.
The London Olympics were celebrated here as the Washington Glass School hosted the equestrians dressage events along Otis Street. In Mt Rainier, MD. Ok, the 2012 Summer Olympics did not take place at the Washington Glass School, but the 2012 National Night Out (NNO) did. The NNO is a campaign that involves citizens, police, neighborhoods and local officials to increase crime and drug prevention and to strengthen police-community partnerships.
Then & Today
Left inset: Engraving (ca. 1860) of battlefield site where Joshua Barney fell by Benson Lossing in “Field Book of the War of 1812 “ ; Right: Washington Glass School on the same site. Over the past 200 years, the topography has been modified and changed tremendously – the creek now flows under the concrete pathway opposite the Glass School.
Connections to American history was exposed in the August post about how the Glass School’s Mount Rainier building site was part of a key battle in the War of 1812 – in the Battle of Bladensburg. With the US loss at this battle, British forces swept into Capitol Hill and burned the White House, the Capitol and the Treasury.
Penland School of Craft Auction Tent, 2012
Michael Sherrill’s incredible studio
An ardent support of the Penland School of Craft, Tim Tate took a group of collectors from the James Renwick Alliance to the annual Penland Auction and as part of the “Tim Tate Tour“.
The group visited the artist studios of Hoss Haley, Michael Sherrill, Dan Essig, Christina Cordova & Pablo De Soto and Stoney Lamar.
Glass artist Beth Lipman with Susan and Fred Sanders at Penland.
The excursion also included an art tour of Asheville, NC with a visit to the Glass Secessionism show at Blue Spiral Gallery.
Carol Trawick, David D’Orio & Catherine Leggett. Photo: Bethesda Urban Partnership
September opened big for artist Dave D’Orio, as he was one of this year’s winner of the Trawick Prize.- a visual art prize produced by the Bethesda Arts & Entertainment District that honors artists from Maryland, Washington, D.C. and Virginia. The annual juried competition awards prize money to selected artists and features the work of the finalists in a group exhibition. Dave is the executive director of DC GlassWorks, a glass blowing facility (and sister school to the Washington Glass School) in Hyattsville, MD. At the 2012 Artomatic, the James Renwick Alliance gave Dave’s installation sculpture its ‘Award of Recognition’.
Toots Zynsky, William Warmus, Matthew Szösz at Smithsonian Renwick lecture.
William Warmus takes photos of Erwin Timmers’ artwork.
The 40 Under 40 exhibit at the Renwick Gallery continued its run, with author, independent curator and glass expert William Warmus moderating a conversation about the past, present, and future of studio glass between veteran glass artist Toots Zynsky and artist Matthew Szösz. After the talk, William visited the Glass School – of which he said: “It’s better than I thought it’d be…it’s not as bad as it could’ve been“. Hmmm.
The month of September is usually the start of the exhibition season – and this one did not disappoint.
Detail from Sean Hennessey’s “Finding The Right Key“
Sean Hennessey opened his solo show at the District’s 410Goodbuddy Gallery.
Based on Alice In Wonderland, Sean’s work in the show: Reimagining Alice incorporates cast glass that was painted with concrete and integrates videos, LEDs, EL panels and other media that pulls traditional glass into new realms.
Tim Tate and Marc Petrovic also had openings in September – at Arizona’s Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum. Under the title “Glass Secessionism”, the show opened to record crowds.
Nancy Donnelly‘s solo show at Foundry Gallery included her “Glass Bouquets” that art critic Lenny Campello described as an update to the Washington Color School saying “… [Nancy's] new work takes the color stripes from the canvas of the 1960s giants of DMV painting and re-invents it in a fresh new approach to a 21st century dialogue in glass and concrete”.
Tim Tate teaching at Penland School of Craft
Tim Tate returned to North Carolina’s Penland School of Craft in October, this time teaching with Sean Hennessey and Robert Kincheloe.
Sean Hennessey explains the dry plaster casting process.
The class was 21st Century Reliquaries, and the students incorporated techniques that included Rubber Mold Making, Wax Casting, Plaster/Silica Mold Making, Lost wax, Dry Plaster Casting, Painting Glass, Cutting Glass, Glass etching and Flameworking.
November started with the big show in Chicago – SOFA!
SOFA Opening Night at Chicago’s Navy Pier
Allegra Marquart’s panels on exhibit at Maurine Littleton.
Michael Janis and Allegra Marquart were shown at Maurine Littleton Gallery and Tim Tate was shown thru Habatat Galleries. As the focus on both craft and art at SOFA is so high, this show is where the artists have stretched a bit to show they have game.
Michael Janis’ works were huge!
Michael’s new colorful works involved optical distortion and the resolution of the imagery.
Tim Tate’s works at Habatat Galleries space.
Tim’s new works were a larger scale – and he was thinking outside the dome.
Upon return to Washington, DC – the setup of shows continued, as artists from the Washington Glass School were featured in the special exhibit on the 50th Anniversary of Studio Glass at the Washington Craft Show.
Visitors gather around Joan Falconer Byrd, author of the new book “Harvey K Littleton: A Life in Glass“. Ms Byrd was one of the show’s speakers at the event. She was one of the first students in the Toledo workshops and was Professor of Art at Western Carolina University.
Maurine Littleton Gallery’s show-within-a-show was the centerpiece to the Washington Convention Center.
Historical works by some of the Studio Glass Pioneers were featured.
Works by Tim Tate, Allegra Marquart, Sean Hennessey, Erwin Timmers, Alison Sigethy and Michael Janis were shown as where the next generation of glass artists are heading.
Art Miami’s Aqua show brought throngs.
Miami became the focus of the art world with the Art Basel/Art Miami juggernaut as the world seems to head south for the huge art extravaganza. Washington Glass School artists were well represented, with Tim Tate, Erwin Timmers, Sean Hennessey and Audrey Wilson’s works at a number of international galleries.
Audrey Wilson showing at Alida Anderson Art Projects space at Aqua
Audrey did very well, selling a major work to a NYC collector and a museum has asked about having her work for an upcoming art exhibit – awesome!
Everyone at the Washington Glass School sends a big THANK-YOU to all for the love & support this past year…
So – should one survive the Zombie Mayan Long Count Armageddon -
Whats coming up in 2013?
We can divulge some news scoops for the coming year -
Michael Janis will be the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass (AACG) calender boy for the month of January, as the “Artist of the Month”. January… starts the year off right…
Artomatic is planning to host a variation of the Glass 3 (the international exhibition US & UK artists) however, this year, it will be an international Glass + Ceramics showcase at downtown DC’s Edison Gallery – the month of March is being blocked out for the opening, gallery talks, workshops, and events.
Glassweekend will take place at New Jersey’s WheatonArts this coming June 7,8,9, 2013. The international symposium of contemporary glass will have demos by Beth Lipman, Davide Salvadore, Hiroshi Yamano; the keynote speaker will be Judith Schaecter.
Best Wishes to all for the Coming New Year!
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Jeffery Zimmer’s New Work @ Philly Museum Of Art Craft Show
Posted on October 27, 2011 by Michael Janis |
Jeff Zimmer, We Were All Wrong (The Home of My Father), 2011.
Multiple layers of enameled and sandblasted glass in lightbox.
22 x 25 x 7″
The 35th annual Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show will be held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
WGS alumn Jeff Zimmer will be one of the artists featured by Scotland in the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show Nov 10 – 13, 2011. Jeff will be exhibiting his exquisite series “Whitewash”. This past summer, Jeff’s work was a favorite of Washington Post arts critic Michael O’Sullivan in his review of the LongView Gallery show of Washington Glass School artists.
Said Jeff of his new works: “Whitewash depicts a series of landscapes, both urban and rural, American and Scottish, under a blanket of snow — a metaphor for the way we, as individuals and nations, ‘whitewash’ our pasts. The luminous, internally illuminated landscapes, placed in thick frames, contrast the untrammelled snow with the barely-concealed debris which remains, only partially hidden from view.”
Jeff Zimmer, We Were All Wrong (The Writing on the Wall) 2011
Multiple layers of enamelled and sandblasted glass in lightbox
The Glass Quarterly blog gives a nice cover to Jeff’s work online – click HERE to jump to Ruth Reader’s article.
Click HERE to jump to more of Jeff’s series “Whitewash” (every piece is stunning, by the way).
Posted in Craft Show, eca, edinburgh, enamelled glass, Jeff Zimmer, layered glass imagery, philadelphia museum of art
American Craft Council Baltimore show
Posted on February 27, 2009 by Michael Janis |
More than 700 of the country’s leading craft artists are gathered under one roof to present the latest designer & handmade work at the American Craft Council Show in Baltimore, the largest juried, indoor craft show in the nation. This fantastic show of the highest quality handmade jewelry, furniture, clothing, home décor, and more, will be available for purchase at the Baltimore Convention Center, February 27 – March 1, 2009.
A group from the Washington Glass School made a grand tour of the enormous show – some of the highlights included:
Tommie Rush’s booth – great to catch up with Tommie & Richard Jolley. Tommie is the Vice President of the Glass Arts Society. Click here for info about her glass.
Kenny Pieper had great work on display at his booth – always great to catch up with one of the worlds best blowers! Click here for his website.
Rania Hassan – is showing in a new section of the ACC show – ALTCRAFT. This section features rising indie crafters whose work illustrates the innovative techniques and materials of the burgeoning new handmade movement, in a shared market-style space. And her work looked fantastic ! Click here for her website
Robert Wiener’s DC Art Glass booth was packed – a very popular place!
Click here for Robert’s website.
Posted in ACC, Baltimore, Craft Show, Tommie Rush
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The Convair B-58 Hustler was the first operational supersonic jet bomber, and the first capable of Mach 2 flight. The aircraft was developed for the United States Air Force for service in the Strategic Air Command (SAC) during the 1960s. Originally intended to fly at high altitudes and speeds to avoid Soviet fighters, the introduction of highly accurate Soviet surface-to-air missiles forced the B-58 into a low-level penetration role that severely limited its range and strategic value. This led to a brief operational career between 1960 and 1969. Its specialized role was succeeded by other American supersonic bombers, such as the FB-111A and the later B-1B Lancer.
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2012 DEMOCRACY DAY CHURCH SERVICE
The above was how NTA Network captioned proceedings at the National Christian Centre, formally, the National Ecumenical Centre, where interdenominational services are held, which, I think, would be more apt in capturing what really happened at the centre. That was not a church service. It was an interdenominational service for 2012 Democracy Day.
The online community’s comments and media reports have dwelt more on the aspect of corruption as addressed by the guest speaker ARCHBISHOP PETER AKINOLA, and it is with this aspect of his speech I shall begin.
Credit must be given to Archbishop Peter Akinola for his firm words against corruption, the part of his speech that got media attention, as mentioned earlier. The pulpit has never been so frank on the issue of corruption. This aspect of the speech did not leave anybody out – we are all in it together; ‘almost everybody is stealing either with his pen or gun’. Everybody is part of the corruption monster in Nigeria, he said: public and private office holders, the politicians, the clergy and everyday people who steal everything they set eyes on, from streetlights to bridge rails, anything in Nigeria is stolen ‘like an abandoned wreckage’.
He also said that ‘Government has only a half-hearted resolve to fighting corruption, or punishing those guilty of corrupt practices.’ Only those who lost favour with the government of the day are punished. Those with the right political connection are spared. ‘Those fighting corruption in the judiciary and police have no clean hands’. Even National Assembly’s invitations are addressed only to such government ministries, parastatals and agencies that have not remitted part of their loot to individual members of the committees overseeing them. ‘Those who have made their way with’ our commonwealth ‘and are living far beyond their means’ are further rewarded by our traditional rulers, making them high chiefs. ‘Our universities have joined the queue by inviting such people and giving them honorary doctorate degrees’. Corruption will continue to strive ‘in full gear because Nigerians and their governments have chosen to give only lip service to its eradication’.
He concluded by what is called Mubaahalah in Islamic parlance as in Qur’an 3:61, for two disputing parties to gather together, ‘earnestly pray, and invoke the curse of Allah on those who lie!". He said, of course paraphrasing Ezekiel 18:20 (The soul who sins is the one who will die. The son will not share the guilt of the father, nor will the father share the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous man will be credited to him, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against him...): ‘I believe there is a way out, as a Christian, as a preacher, as one who reads the Bible; I believe there is a way out. Corruption is another word for stealing; stealing is a sin, God commands us all not to commit. And as you know, every soul that sins and fails to repent shall die in its sin and end up in Hell. So, let us resolve here today, to take to the Court of God, beginning from this place, all those thieves who have failed to repent.’
Archbishop Peter Akinola
At this point he perused the audience carefully as if to make sure who and who was there. Seated right in front of him was President Jonathan, state governors and leaders of the National Assembly or their representatives. Also present were ministers and other top government functionaries. Then the guest speaker, Archbishop Akinola asked ‘Will you join me?’ in connection to what he said earlier of taking ‘all those thieves to the Court of God’. No response. Nobody said amen. You could hear a pin drop. Quiet, save a faint murmur! ‘Are your hands clean enough?’ He charged further. No answer.
The scenario would have been the same if this mubaahalah were conducted in any mosque in this country. Thievery knows no bounds or religion. The counterparts of the same people who gathered at the Christian Centre among the Muslims are also stealing the country blind. If any imam would be courageous enough to invoke Allah’s curse on thieves of our commonwealth only a few or none of his congregation will dare say ameen.
The few minutes of that silence in the Christian Centre lingered, then the guest speaker broke it ‘There you go’ said he, ‘corruption is corruption but you are not ready to fight it, because you are all beneficiaries of it. Whether you steal in a small way or you steal in a big way, stealing is stealing.’
He then turned to his constituency, the clergy, and challenged them for eating people’s property in vanity, devouring what does not belong to them and interacting with the thieves in government without speaking truth to power. ‘Let us take our case to the Court of God if you dare!’ On this also there was complete silence. ‘So,’ he continued, ‘who is deceiving who? You are only deceiving yourselves, not God.’
It takes courage and sincere passion to say the words he said and more so in the presence of the country’s sitting president. He minced no words and the elite present meekly listened to these outpourings of a distressed heart. It is as he said: the rich and the political class are running this country aground. They do not steal by the millions any more but by the billions and lately, trillions! Exactly how long any sane person thinks this can last, I do not know; but I know it is not sustainable for any length of time.
I admire courage whenever it is honestly displayed and I would like to think this particular one was not stage-managed but sincere. Akinola has a good track record in calling a spade a spade in the presence of authority. I recall his encounter with the Anglican Communion leadership in England when he threatened to secede with millions of Anglicans from the central body for what he believed to be immoral interpretations of the Bible which were used in support of same sex marriages.
Unfortunately, the media neglected the inflammatory and inciting part of his presentation which was full of historical incongruities and erroneous interpretation of facts. It is only a Christian evangelist that can speak so openly in the presence of the custodians of security in Nigeria which included the Commander-in-Chief himself, distorting history, preaching hate and goading Christians against Muslims without the press calling for his arrest, or his establishment expelling him. If any imam were to speak thus he would have been stopped, accused ‘of inciting people against the government’ (as happened to me at the National Mosque same time last year), and subsequently removed from his position. Many were the imams that have been so expelled in not a few of Northern states for speaking against injustice, corruption and electoral malpractices during the 2011 elections.
Close study of the First Scripture Reading in that Democracy Day Sermon betrays a deep level of congruence between the verses read and the import of Akinola’s presentation which portrayed a grand design by the Muslims in Nigeria, ‘under different names and guises’, to annihilate the Christians. That First Scripture Reading was from A song of ascents of David in Psalms 124:1-8 I will quote from the same New International Version (NIV) of the Bible as did President Jonathan during his Second Scripture Reading at the event, whatever his reasons were. “If the Lord had not been on our side—let Israel say — if the Lord had not been on our side when people attacked us, they would have swallowed us alive when their anger flared against us; the flood would have engulfed us, the torrent would have swept over us, the raging waters would have swept us away. Praise be to the Lord, who has not let us be torn by their teeth. We have escaped like a bird from the fowler’s snare; the snare has been broken, and we have escaped. Our help is in the name of the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.”
President Jonathan delivered the Second Scripture Reading in Romans 8: 28-39 “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him… If God is for us, who can be against us? …… Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
“No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
That was the Second Scripture Reading by the number one citizen, President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria. The Islamic community is bereft of political leaders who are proud of being Muslims or who desire even to be identified with the religion in anyway.
After the First and the Second Scripture Readings Archbishop Akinola started by quoting Luke 5:36-37: “No one tears a piece out of a new garment to patch an old one. Otherwise, they will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old. And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined….”
On the strength of these verses Archbishop Akinola questioned the subsistence of ‘the geographical expression’ called Nigeria based on the 1914 amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates. According to him the amalgamation was effected illegally ‘for the political and economic interests of the colonial overloads’, without consultation or permission of the ethnic nationalities from these Protectorates. In other words, Nigeria is a consortium of unwilling partners; we remain fragmented and mistrust ourselves. This situation led to the civil war which could not keep Nigeria one despite the popular slogan portraying why the government took up arms against its own people. ‘Unity’ he posited, ‘cannot be attained by military fiat or by war. You get unity through the collective will of the people in the atmosphere of mutual respect and trust.’
In Akinola’s estimation bringing the Northern and Southern Protectorates together has been ‘the root cause of our problems which governments continue to deny by patching up the unpatchable’ and ‘putting new wine into old wineskin, and the wineskin has been bursting…. The problem is not about this government or about President Jonathan. It is because, ab initio, we failed to do the right thing – seeking the consent of all nationalities. If we had sought for the consent of all before the amalgamation, those now calling for a religious state would have chosen a different path.’
This is quite revealing! Actually, I doubt if this balkanisation agenda was a unanimous position of all Christians gathered for the Democracy Day Sermon. It begs that question: what gave Archbishop Akinola the nerve to preach his divisive gospel in the presence of President Jonathan, and knowing that the proceedings were beamed live on national television stations? Is President Jonathan privy to any surreptitious design to break up this country along ethnic and religious divides? And why is this coming now? Is the current state of insecurity in the country fashioned in consonance with that design?
Archbishop Akinola said ‘killings and political insecurity have been with us from the beginning of our nationhood; it is not new.’ The North has a history of violence and political pogrom that ‘are older than most of you sitting here today’, he told his audience. According to him the mayhem that preceded the civil war in which millions of Igbos were massacred was called ‘Araba’ in the Hausa language. Araba, in Archbishop Akinola’s dictionary ‘means to separate infidels from real people of God…. It was a clear case of religious and ethnic cleansing.’
This is not true. I thought the Archbishop was unaffected when he, at the commencement of his sermon, declared to reveal ‘the truth about us in our past; the truth about our beginning as a country, to determine from where we are and where we are going….’ I am taken aback by this employment of canard history to preach hate at a time that we need to foster Christian-Muslim mutual respect and understanding.
Araba, Let Truth Be Told, conjures up the sad events of the first military coup of January 15, 1966, which, actually, was The Siege of a Nation, and the motivation of the principal actors or, more appropriately, the executioners – Nigeria’s Five Majors. The perceived selective, gruesome murder of Northern leaders during the coup will necessitate An Intimate Portrait of Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, and why the violent overthrow was described in some quarters as “Igbo Coup”.
Araba and also Aware were words used to signify separation after the violence occasioned by the counter-coup of that despondent period of our history. It is not uncommon for some people due to their ignorance of the bigger picture and their selfish motives to call for secession; it is still so today. Pogroms had been unleashed against Igbos in the North as well as against Northerners in the East, which sad event necessitated the mass exodus of people across both lines of the divide to their ancestral homelands – the Igbos from the North to the East, and the Northerners from the East to the North. The calamitous results of this mass exodus brought about the position taken by the late Ojukwu, the then Military Governor, that since the property and lives of Igbos and Northerners cannot be guaranteed in either North or East of Nigeria, as the case may be, the Igbos shall assert their independence by having a separate country of their own. That was the context in which Araba was used; it was not a ‘means to separate infidels from real people of God….’ It was not ‘a clear case of religious and ethnic cleansing’ as the Archbishop presented. Besides, Akinola seemed to have forgotten that the North has always had its fair share of Christians who until the advent of political religion lived in harmony with their Muslim neighbours. This sad occurrence, if anything, reminded us of our inherent ability for brutal reprisal whether justified or otherwise. None of us is an epitome of ethics when it comes to turbulent circumstances; many of us, not withstanding our professed faiths, whether as Christians or Muslims, permit our compassion and sympathy to desert us, and we end up descending into the bottomless pit of belligerence and massacre.
I find no rationale for a man to avenge the death of his innocent brother by killing more innocent people. The South East chapter of CAN gave a last warning of sorts to Muslims recently that they would start killing innocent Muslims in reprisal if there was another bombing of a church. There was no reaction to this by security agents; as stupid, unchristian and ill-thought out as it was to say that. What we are in fact witnessing is the reign of bigotry and mediocrity on both sides. People who have no business being religious leaders have found their way into positions of leadership, and erudition is now mistaken for wisdom; selfishness and callousness for courage and bravery.
Whatever the circumstance of our coming together; as at 1914, Nigeria had a heterogeneous religious community in both the north and the south. Akinola in saying the amalgamation was a forced coupling of 2 unwilling parties is letting us into the inner workings of his mind; a mind that sees the north as black and the south as white or vice versa. He could not fathom or countenance any shade in between. This is either religious bigotry or sectionalism. From Sokoto to Adamawa to Yobe and Kaduna, there has been a long history of Christians and Christianity.
The late Sardauna of Sokoto had the late Sunday Awoniyi, a Yoruba speaking Christian as his secretary. He once travelled over 500 kilometres to a remote school to personally congratulate a Christian pupil who had just done the north proud in WASC examinations. That boy has risen to become one of the most respected and one of the few rational voices on the matter of insecurity on the Christian side; my good friend Archbishop John Onaiyekan. In the South West most especially, the population of both Muslims and Christians is roughly equal. If there was a grand design to exterminate Christians like Akinola was insinuating, what took the Muslims so long? By the way, Muslim leaders have been having reports, for long, of a CAN Army complete with branded CAN rifles and camouflage uniforms and even armoured vehicles. The responsible leaders among us have been quelling these in the minds of their followers. This is to douse any tension and avert any trouble that it may occasion later. Distrust breeds more distrust ad infinitum, ad nauseum. I hope both sides will understand this and work for once for real peace and not mere surface politeness.
‘Fourteen years later’, continued Archbishop Akinola, ‘came the Maitatsine riots targeting Christians, destroying their churches and hard-earned properties.’ This unsound narrative relates to the bloody clash of December 1980 between the militant followers of Mohammadu Marwa (alias Maitatsine) and the Police. That crisis was the aftermath of flawed exegesis of the precepts of Islam and its practices by Maitatsine, against the known and right interpretations of orthodox Islam. The Maitatsine group was outside mainstream Islam and rejected what it termed as “crass materialism of orthodox mainstream (Tijjaniya/Qadiriyya) while ascribing divine power and authority bordering on blasphemy to its leader Mohammed Marwa, Maitatsine”. Therefore, the Maitatsine riots were more of an intra-Muslim crisis on the one hand, and Maitatsine and the police on the other. It was not an uprising ‘targeting the Christians, destroying their churches…’
The sermon also touched on ‘the 1987 Kafanchan and Kaduna riots’ that ‘claimed 1000’ Christian lives; the ‘1992 Zagon Kataf’ mayhem ‘and the killing of those considered as infidels’; the slaying of Christians in ‘Tafawa Balewa’ in 1991, 1995 and 2000; the ‘persecution of Christians in Plateau from 1994 to date, due to the question of emirship of Jos, a predominantly Christian community…’
If politicians lie or twist historical facts to achieve a mundane end, it is no surprise, for they are wont to attain to power by any means necessary, lawful or otherwise. But one should be disturbed nay be fretful when blatant untruth is uttered from the dais and embroidered with scriptural authorities. I still fail to understand why Archbishop Akinola chose to go into many sad periods of our nationhood and at the same time presenting it in a way that will incite his audience against the Muslims.
The Kafanchan unrest was the outcome of a ‘crusade’ tagged ‘Mission 87’ organised by the Fellowship of Christian Students (FCS) of Kafanchan College of Education. During the crusade a Christian convert, Abubakar Bako, was the guest speaker. He used the occasion to deliberately misinterpret the Qur’an to which action the Muslim Students Society (MSS) took exception. Trust youthful exuberance to make a mountain out of a molehill and before you know it, things went out of hand and later the crisis erupted in the campus with spillages in the town of Kafanchan and Kaduna state as a whole. So, it was a seemingly calculated act of provocation on the part of the FCS on the campus to organise a crusade featuring a Christian convert to use the scripture of his former religion to asperse its teachings. That was the cause of the crisis.
Economic reasons brought about the disturbances of Zagon Kataf in 1992. It was a crisis over the resettlement of a market from its old site to a new one, and who would have control of what in the way the market was run, between the indigenous Atyab and the 17th century settlers among the Hausa-Fulani. The Atyab happened to be predominantly Christian, and the Hausa-Fulani predominantly Muslim just like in Jos. The crisis, at its infancy, had nothing to do with religion; but it later assumed a religious dimension with devastating consequences. This has been the trend with most of the insurrections in the North; a purely ethnic, political or economic clash of powers turning into a religious crisis because one side happens to be Christian and the other Muslim; the one a so-called indigene, the other settler.
The crisis in the Plateau is a good example at hand. Archbishop Akinola said it is ‘due to the question of emirship of Jos’; nothing could be further from the truth. I’m certain most people among his audience did not believe what he was saying on this. The truth is that the indigenous Christians of Birom and other confederate tribes purposed to ethnically cleanse Jos of the Hausa-Fulani who they claim to be settlers, and who happen to be Muslims. Was it emirship tussle that led to the massacre and cannibalisation of Muslims on Eid day in Jos? On September 28th, 2011, armless Muslims who went out for the Ramadan eid prayers were ambushed by a mob of Rukuba, Afizere and Birom Christian youths, killed, their flesh roasted and devoured by some of the murderers. It would have been godlier for the pulpit to condemn such acts of barbarism as unchristian and against the teachings of Christ, with the same abhorrence that the issue of corruption was addressed.
I must state in the strongest terms that any Muslim who targets any Christian who has in no way attacked or abetted an attack on Muslims is playing with Hell. Only Allah can forgive such a major crime if such repent before it is too late. It is one of the most abhorrent things a Muslim can do. I must also urge my Christian brethren; at least those who have not been blinded by hatred and bigotry to see that killing an innocent Muslim for the death of an innocent Christian is equally barbaric, unchristian and indefensible before our Creator. We must together condemn evil not minding whose ox is gored.
On Boko Haram Archbishop Akinola said, ‘The Boko Haram therefore, is a continuation of the Araba agenda of 1966 under a new name, guise….’ And he admonished the congregation: ‘People of God! Don’t be deceived; and I urge you, in the name of God to shun all political, religious and hypocritical claims by some of our religious and political leaders that the Boko Haram attacks were not an act of Islamic aggression against Christianity. Foul! It is. This has been going on for the past 36 years, under different names and guises, unabated.’
Here the truth is out naked! The Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) which is the official government censor of radio and TV broadcasts did not deem it fit to censor such inflammatory broadcast. But pray tell me why they should? The ‘man of God’ needed not look further for approval; the C-in-C was part of the congregation that listened to all that junk.
In other words, Akinola was urging all Christians not to trust all Muslims no matter how sincere they are when they say that Boko Haram is on its own and not part of the rest of us and that his flock should not be deceived into believing the Muslims mean well. With friends of Nigeria like Akinola, who needs any enemies from without? The Yorubas have two grades of elders; the ones that know how to bring harmony into homes and those who don’t. I leave you to determine in which of the categories he falls.
I am not familiar with the standard of civility and etiquette that the church enjoins on worshipers during such gatherings. I kept wondering what was going on in the mind of President Jonathan, members of his cabinet and other functionaries there present; what would his response be when it was his turn to speak?
Archbishop Akinola has a new interpretation for Boko Haram, ‘The word Boko’ he said, ‘is a Hausa word for book. Haram, of course, for abomination, forbidden; in the scriptures of Islam, the Jews and the Christians are often regarded as the People of the Book, Ahlel Kitab…. So, put together, therefore, Boko Haram means, Jews and Christians are contrary to popular understanding…Jews and Christians are an abomination!
I am at a loss for words to express my utter shock at this “twist in the tale”. This is a gross and deliberate distortion of facts. Akinola would not attain the position of Arch Bishop of the Anglican Communion without taking several courses in comparative religion. They study the Qur’an in that process. Hence, his definition of Ahlul Kitaab in a way which insinuates it is the same as ‘Boko’ in the phrase Boko Haram is not only mischievous but unpardonable. The Hausa word Boko was coined before all currently living generations. It was used to dissuade a Muslim from giving his child or ward to the missionaries who came along with their partners, the colonial masters. It was well documented that there were forced conversions, change of names and faith and calculated coaxing of children into Christianity under the guise of giving formal western education. This was resisted by the mainly Muslim northerners.
The group which Mohammed Yusuf headed was tagged Boko Haram not because they called themselves that but because it was the easiest way to describe them to others since they also think that the western education we get in schools today is ill-conceived and heretic and hence haram. This was very apparent to anyone who listened to the last interview he gave to the army officers who caught him before handing him over to the police. So for Archbishop Akinola to now say what that phrase means is that Christians and Jews are an abomination is dishonest and inciting.
The president took his turn on the dais and did not see anything worthy of comment in that blatant call to hate and disharmony by a so-called man of God and proceeded to thank the army for not truncating democracy yet. He did not rebut or refute or correct any impression Akinola gave. We call that positive reinforcement of negative ideas. This is tragic and sad. Former President Obasanjo would not have done that. His encounter with a Birom bigot during his visit to Jos is still fresh in our minds.
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iPad pre-orders are just starting to ship out and Best Buy is getting prepped, but Apple's just posted up a whole slew of its Guided Tours to hold you over until April 3. Sadly, we're not seeing any entries for "How Do You Type While Standing Up" or "Why Do I Need A $30 Dongle To Get A USB Port On This Thing," but the entries for Mail, Safari, iBooks, and the rest do include some revealing new information -- and it certainly seems that tap-and-hold will be a big part of the UI paradigm. We're still watching them all -- let us know if you see anything interesting in comments.
Update: Okay, here's the new stuff we've seen so far:
iBooks has an integrated search feature, a built-in brightness control, and a dictionary that can pull up any word just by tapping on it. The same dictionary is in Pages, too -- we're assuming it's a system-wide feature available to any app, just like on Mac OS X. We've been told in the past that it supports user dictionaries and spellcheck, but we'll see what actually ends up shipping.
There's a quick mention of connecting the iPad to your home stereo in the iPod video, but no mention of streaming to the Airport Express or an Apple TV. There's a big missed opportunity.
Typing with one hand on the portrait keyboard in Pages looks just as silly as you'd expect.
Numbers has a special formula keyboard.
Tap and hold is everywhere, and unlike the iPhone, the UI has "windows," which are detailed info panes that float above the main app interface. The iWork apps also all have a "menu bar" area in the upper right that contain several options. You can see how interacting with an iPad will be familiar but still quite different than using an iPhone -- depending on the apps, of course.
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The formal ceremony adding the Historic Kaibab Trail Suspension Bridge to ASCE’s list of Historic Civil Engineering Monuments was held on Saturday, February 23rd, 2019 at 3:00 p.m. Two plaques commemorating the landmark have been placed: one in Grand Canyon Village at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon 100 feet East of the Yavapai Geology Museum, and the second approximately 350 feet west of the north end of the Kaibab Trail Suspension Bridge at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
At the time of its completion, the Kaibab Trail Suspension Bridge was the only crossing of the Colorado River in a distance of 754 miles from Moab, Utah to Needles, California. Due to the travel barrier of the Colorado River and its canyons, the bridge is still one of the few Colorado River crossings in the region. Except for a suspension bridge only one-half mile downstream, the Kaibab Trail Suspension Bridge is the only physical crossing of the Colorado River in 340 miles, between Navajo Bridge upstream and Hoover Dam downstream – both of which have previously been designated as National Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks.
Built in 1928 and located within one of the seven natural wonders of the world—the Grand Canyon, the 440-foot single span suspension bridge crossing the Colorado River has fostered backcountry recreation and provides a connection between the North and South Rims of the Grand Canyon. Since its completion, the bridge has served muleriding tourists, pack trains hauling supplies to Phantom Ranch, hikers, backpackers, Park Service and concessionaire employees. The bridge also provides a pathway that is five feet wide. The structure is suspended from four 550-foot-long
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a bishop for 1.6 years
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Domenico Cardinal Rivarola † (1608)
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Pope Sixtus IV (1471)
(Francesco della Rovere, O.F.M. †)
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Top 10 Pointless Choices In Games
Melissa Buranen, Daniel Hein and Ethan Butterfield April 18, 2017 Top 10 Pages
5. Romance Deliah or Not (Firewatch)
Firewatch is a game whose story has divided a lot of people. Some people find its character-based story to be charming and emotional, while others believe it’s pretentious and has little impact. One of the centerpieces of this divide is Delilah, the ranger in charge who is really the only character you talk to throughout the game..As you might expect, it’s possible to attempt to romance her depending on the choices you make. It makes sense, considering the player character, Henry, is dealing with an incredibly complicated and draining relationship, and Delilah is the only one who can comfort you. But at the end, no matter what you do, the relationship between you and her ends up nowhere. You can pursue her all you want, but you’ll never get her. Though I’m sure several people would rather they just remain friends, those who want Henry and Delilah to get together will end up disappointed.
~Daniel Hein
4. Anger or Appease Ramsay (Telltale Game of Thrones)
Ah Telltale, giving players the illusion of choice through their games of narrative exploration into worlds that people may already love through other mediums. The first episode of Game of Thrones was one I played on whim, but it drew me in quickly. It made me believe my choices matter. Making me stressed with each major choice it offered. When Ramsey Bolton arrived I knew something bad would occur having been a fan of show for sometime already. Still I believed their was a way to pacify the sociopath and turn his favor. Boy, did I try. I replayed the scenario and entire episode multiple times looking to get an outcome that would save the young boy turned Lord of the House, Ethan Forrester. The effort being fruitless. No matter if Ramsey is calmed or angered Ethan will be eliminated. The only result of the effort is whether Ethan is remembered as Brave or a Coward.
~Melissa Buranen
3. Cage or Bird Brooch (BioShock Infinite)
Bioshock, by being such an emotional rollercoaster of a series, you’d expect some pretty big choices from it. In truth, there really is. From the first to third, Bioshock is littered with important decisions that really bring out the feelings of the gamer. Do you protect or dispose of the little sister, whether to throw the ball at Fink or the married couple, the list goes on. One such choice that is rather lacking, however, is the Bird or Cage Brooch toss-up in Infinite. For how much of a big deal that make about the choice of brooch, it hardly matters at all. This is quite a shock to when, all things considered, one would assume that this could have been so much more than just a throw away.
~Ethan Butterfield
2. Tell Truth to Kyoko or Not (Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc)
On a scale of decent to brilliant, Japanese visual novel games bring out some truly amazing storytelling that players just don’t see in other titles. With that being said, though, these games also are not immune to bad decisions in the industry. Case and point, the forced choice. In the mystery thriller Danganronpa, you take control of Makoto as you unravel the secrets behind why Hope’s Peak Academy has turned into a Saw film by the antagonist Monokuma. One of your friends during this endeavour is Kyoko Kirigiri, one of the more talented students trapped in the killing game. During a later portion of the story, you are given a choice between telling Kyoko the truth or not telling her out of fear. If you choose to tell her, Danganronpa resets the conversation until you pick ‘No’. Which, given what has followed in terms of plot, isn’t at all what the main character should be doing at that point. Considering that earlier in-game Makoto and Kyoko literally have a discussion about trusting each other, this is just all around lazy design and something that doesn’t help the immersion at all.
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Melissa interests are anime/manga, comics, and most importantly gaming. She enjoys writing creatively and about games. She can also be found as Xaliv for online gaming and social media.
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Pacific is the name of the Brussels building where the director lives, on the 18th floor. Also called "the suicide tower", it is a typical example of collective housing. In a subtle play between interior and exterior, between private and public places, Angie Obeid reveals an anxiety-provoking and closed-in space, even though the windows of the apartments offer a dizzying, suspended view …
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Home Fossils Ancient extinction of giant Australian bird points to humans
Ancient extinction of giant Australian bird points to humans
An illustration of a giant flightless bird known as Genyornis newtoni, surprised on her nest by a 1 ton, predatory lizard named Megalania prisca in Australia roughly 50,000 thousand years ago. Credit: Peter Trusler, Monash University
The first direct evidence that humans played a substantial role in the extinction of the huge, wondrous beasts inhabiting Australia some 50,000 years ago—in this case a 500-pound bird—has been discovered by a University of Colorado Boulder-led team.
The flightless bird, known as Genyornis newtoni, was nearly 7 feet tall and appears to have lived in much of Australia prior to the establishment of humans on the continent 50,000 years ago, said CU-Boulder Professor Gifford Miller. The evidence consists of diagnostic burn patterns on Genyornis eggshell fragments that indicate humans were collecting and cooking its eggs, thereby reducing the birds’ reproductive success.
“We consider this the first and only secure evidence that humans were directly preying on now-extinct Australian megafauna,” said Miller, associate director of CU-Boulder’s Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research. “We have documented these characteristically burned Genyornis eggshells at more than 200 sites across the continent.”
A paper on the subject appears online Jan. 29, in Nature Communications.
In analyzing unburned Genyornis eggshells from more than 2,000 localities across Australia, primarily from sand dunes where the ancient birds nested, several dating methods helped researchers determine that none were younger than about 45,000 years old. Burned eggshell fragments from more than 200 of those sites, some only partially blackened, suggest pieces were exposed to a wide range of temperatures, said Miller, a professor in CU-Boulder’s Department of Geological Sciences.
Optically stimulated luminescence dating, a method used to determine when quartz grains enclosing the eggshells were last exposed to sunlight, limits the time range of burned Genyornis eggshell to between 54,000 and 44,000 years ago. Radiocarbon dating indicated the burnt eggshell was no younger than about 47,000 years old.
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The blackened fragments were likely burned in transient, human fires—presumably to cook the eggs—rather than in wildfires, he said.
Amino acids—the building blocks of proteins -decompose in a predictable fashion inside eggshells over time. In eggshell fragments burned at one end but not the other, there is a tell-tale “gradient” from total amino acid decomposition to minimal amino acid decomposition, he said. Such a gradient could only be produced by a localized heat source, likely an ember, and not from the sustained high heat produced regularly by wildfires on the continent both in the distant past and today.
Miller also said the researchers found many of the burnt Genyornis eggshell fragments in tight clusters less than 10 feet in diameter, with no other eggshell fragments nearby. Some individual fragments from the same clusters had heat gradient differences of nearly 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit, conditions virtually impossible to reproduce with natural wildfires there, he said.
“We can’t come up with a scenario that a wildfire could produce those tremendous gradients in heat,” Miller said. “We instead argue that the conditions are consistent with early humans harvesting Genyornis eggs, cooking them over fires, and then randomly discarding the eggshell fragments in and around their cooking fires.”
Another line of evidence for early human predation on Genyornis eggs is the presence of ancient, burned eggshells of emus—flightless birds weighing only about 100 pounds and which still exist in Australia today—in the sand dunes. Emu eggshells exhibiting burn patterns similar to Genyornis eggshells first appear on the landscape about 50,000 years ago, signaling they most likely were scorched after humans arrived in Australia, and are found fairly consistently to modern times, Miller said.
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The Genyornis eggs are thought to have been roughly the size of a cantaloupe and weighed about 3.5 pounds, Miller said.
Genyornis roamed the Australian outback with an astonishing menagerie of other now-extinct megafauna that included a 1,000-pound kangaroo, a 2-ton wombat, a 25-foot-long-lizard, a 300-pound marsupial lion and a Volkswagen-sized tortoise. More than 85 percent of Australia’s mammals, birds and reptiles weighing over 100 pounds went extinct shortly after the arrival of the first humans.
The demise of the ancient megafauna in Australia (and on other continents, including North America) has been hotly debated for more than a century, swaying between human predation, climate change and a combination of both, said Miller. While some still hold fast to the climate change scenario—specifically the continental drying in Australia from about 60,000 to 40,000 years ago—neither the rate nor magnitude of that change was as severe as earlier climate shifts in Australia during the Pleistocene epoch, which lacked the punch required to knock off the megafauna, said Miller.
Miller and others suspect Australia’s first inhabitants traveled to the northern coast of the continent on rafts launched from Indonesian islands several hundred miles away. “We will never know the exact time window humans arrived on the continent,” he said. “But there is reliable evidence they were widely dispersed across the continent before 47,000 years ago.”
Evidence of Australia megafauna hunting is very difficult to find, in part because the megafauna there are so much older than New World megafauna and in part because fossil bones are easily destroyed by the chemistry of Australian soils. said Miller.
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“In the Americas, early human predation on the giant animals in clear—stone spear heads are found embedded in mammoth bones, for example,” said Miller. “The lack of clear evidence regarding human predation on the Australia megafauna had, until now, been used to suggest no human-megafauna interactions occurred, despite evidence that most of the giant animals still roamed Australia when humans colonized the continent.”
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Students may appeal the decision of a University Conduct Board (UCB), University Honor Board (UHB), or Title IX Hearing Board to the Executive Committee (EC). The EC is the University’s committee of final appeal. Members of the EC are appointed by the President of the University or designee. The EC is chaired by Dr. Rober Harger (rharger@highpoint.edu).
Appeals are limited to 1,500 words in total. Grounds for the appeal must be clearly and concisely stated, and all relevant information substantiating the grounds for appeal should be included. The following constitute appropriate grounds for appeal:
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WLTP : How it will change road tax and VRT in Ireland
Originally published 18-5-2018
WLTP is around the corner and will have a major impact on the European automotive industry and its consumers. Most EU countries’ car taxation system is based on NEDC figures. It will not only impact BEV publicized range but also published co2 emissions for PHEV and ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) cars.
What is WLTP ?
WLTP (Worldwide harmonized Light vehicle Tests Procedure) is the new emission test cycle replacing NEDC (New European Driving Cycle).
Why is WLTP replacing NEDC ?
NEDC was setup in 1997, in a time where fuel economy, emissions and global warming concerns were not as important as today.
The growing number of EU States basing their taxation system on co2 emissions (in Ireland, since 2008) made car manufacturers optimize their products so they can achieve this cycle with the lowest emissions possible. Unfortunately, unlike real world driving, this NEDC cycle required slow accelerations, and low speeds as you can see on the graph below:
By Orzetto, CC BY-SA 4.0
This testing cycle drove manufacturers to more engine downsizing : A small engine with a turbocharger that is not pushed too hard will not consume a lot, while showing a similar power/performance to a bigger non-turbo engine. Today in Europe most engines are turbocharged and have been downzised.
Of course this optimization resulted in a large difference between manufacturer claims and what we drivers can achieve today. Who can get 4.1 liters per 100 km with a petrol Golf or 250 km with a full charge in a 30kwh Nissan Leaf ? Matching NEDC figures was still possible 15 years ago but today, these are anywhere between 20 and 50% off the reality.
WLTP is supposed to be closer to real life driving conditions. Which means a model will have its official co2 figures bumped up, by around 20 grams per kilometres (according to this Dutch study), and EVs/PHEVs will show official EV ranges decreasing by about 20%… But do not worry, underneath, it is still the same car!
WLTP test cycle
One interesting change is going to happen with wheel sizes and options. Today with the NEDC system, again in order to optimize results, manufacturers are presenting the most economical version of a given car/engine/gearbox (ie the basic version with the smaller wheels and no options). Usually NEDC ratings consider wheel sizes, but tomorrow with WLTP each car configuration will go through tests and it means a bigger tyre size or a heavyweight options could greatly affect the co2 rating of the car and the VRT or road tax you will pay. Instead of getting one single NEDC figure (378km 40kwh Leaf) , manufacturers will publish a WLTP range (best and worse cases scenario).
BMW, one of the rare manufacturers who started communicating WLTP figures, is for example rating the i3 300km NEDC (with standard 19in wheels) or 290km NEDC (with optional 20in wheels) or . For the WLTP cycle, it shows a range of 235-255km. But even with this cycle BMW gives 200km as real-life range.
So, when is it going to happen ?
1st September 2018 : All new cars coming to the market (newly launched models) will be publicised with WLTP.
1st January 2019 : All new cars (even the ones who were launched before September 2018) will show WLTP figures.
What is it changing for the next car I will drive ?
Instead of being optimized for a very theoretical test, the cars will be optimized to this more realistic test. Many car’s hardware will not change on the 1st January, but they will probably get software updates. On the long term it is possible that petrol/diesel cars engines will “resize” (as opposed to the downsizing trend we’ve seen in the past years). The good thing is that it should eventually benefit your real range/fuel economy.
What is the government going to do about it ?
Today in Ireland, like in many EU countries, the taxation system (in our case motor tax and VRT) is based on these NEDC related co2 emission. It will be based on WLTP on 191 registered cars onwards. If a car emitting 115g of co2 today will go up to around 135g in 2019, VRT rates would go up by 2 points, road tax would go from €200 to €280 per annum.
The ACEA (European Automobile Manufacturer Association, SIMI is a member of) is asking governments not to penalize consumers by adapting the taxation system. However it is possible that our government will use this as an opportunity to review taxation as they did in 2008. Today we are late on EV adoption, and pushing customers towards electrification by making the road tax and VRT a bit more attractive towards EVs/PHEVs could be a road the government is willing to take. The IEVOA will soon publish its recommendations.
What if the government doesn’t change VRT or road tax ?
It is still something that could happen. Here is a table showing different models (Volkswagen Golf in this example) and how WLTP would affect their VRT and motor tax, if nothing is being done.
What are the car manufacturers doing about it, why is this news to me ?
Manufacturers have been asked not to communicate about WLTP to avoid consumer confusion. It is quite understandable. At the moment they are passing WLTP tests to their current range of models and most don’t have figures to publish anyway. Another risk is that consumers might anticipate a 2019 purchase, fearing a hike in VRT/Motor tax, and resulting in a collapsing 2019 market. Not only it is a risk for national dealers but it is also at the European level for manufacturers that like to anticipate as much as possible production volumes.
Manufacturers will also adapt their ranges of products (especially since wheel size or options are greatly affecting the results) to a new taxation system but governments are likely to communicate at the very last minute so we can say that today, in May 2018, we are still very deep into uncertainty.
On top of it the Euro6d Temp norm is coming into effect for all models on the September 1st 2018, which means some software and hardware updates there too for Petrol and Diesel engines. No doubts manufacturers are trying to sort WLTP and Euro6d Temp at once.
EVs and PHEVs
EVs should not be negatively affected by WLTP. They will still emit 0g of co2 and beside the range displayed, they won’t see changes.
PHEVs will go through more modifications to keep their advantages over diesels. As of today, most PHEVs are available in Europe in stock only (long delivery times, caused by shortage in batteries don’t help). We can expect some model updates by the end of the year. For the Irish market, emissions should remain low enough to keep benefiting from VRT rebate, SEAI grant and low Motortax bands.
If you want to know more about PHEVs NEDC and WLTP cycle, check this quite technical document.
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London Fashion Week Men’s: the trend highlights
London Fashion Week Men’s is well known for its experimental edge and the colourful collections that are seen on the runaway season on season. With LFWM SS20 all wrapped up, it’s time to see what trends we should be looking out for in the seasons ahead. From LFWM favourites to new and emerging designers, take a look at what came out of this season’s show.
Gender fluidity
LFWM is known for its gender-bending catwalks, and with designers like Charles Jeffrey Loverboy showcasing new club-kid inspired collections each season, it’s clear to see why. This season’s runways saw more crossover than ever before on the catwalks, as well as far more female models showcasing unisex collections.
Sharp edges
Blocky, geometric prints and patterns were everywhere this season in sharp contrast to the baggy shapes that were also seen on the Old Truman Brewery catwalk. Combining these sharp shapes with bright colours, there was plenty on the catwalk to bring you right back to the 80s.
Following on from the rise of popularity of orange in womenswear, menswear got an orange injection for this season’s LFWM. Bright oranges, alongside pink and red tones set the scene for a tropical, almost feminine palette, as menswear moves away from blues and greys.
70’s Revival
From New Romantic looks to the return of the power suit, the 70’s made their presence known at this season’s LFWM with a few modern twists.
Discover the latest collections from exciting new brands and household names at Jacket Required SS20. Join as at the home of LFWM, the Old Truman Brewery, for the July edition of Jacket Required on 24th and 25th July.
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Ledger Online / May 19, 2020 / No Comment
Trinity Hillel wins award for multicultural event spotlighting Israel’s Druze community
By Leah Staffin and Emily Wickes
HARTFORD – Trinity College Hillel and the Trinity’s Women and Gender Resource Action Center [WGRAC] have been named recipients of the Trinity College Most Innovative Program of the Year Award for their co-sponsorship of a week of International Women’s Day events, with guest chef/entrepreneur Naseba Alkesh, a Syrian Druze woman from Israel’s Golan Heights.
The two groups brought Alkesh to Trinity’s campus for a week-long program celebrating women’s growth and leadership, and exploring feminism and entrepreneurship, after meeting her in August 2019, when Trinity Hillel, with the support of a private foundation, led a group of 17 Trinity College students on a 10-day “Fresh Perspectives” trip to Israel.
Over the course of the 10-day trip, students explored the multi-ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity of the Old City of Jerusalem, developed an understanding of the geopolitical challenges on both the Gaza-Israel and Syria-Israel borders, and engaged with Israelis and Palestinians from Jewish, Christian, Druze, and Muslim communities.
Druze Chef Naseba Alkesh cooked dinner alongside Trinity kosher chef Robert Kalmar, for about 200 guests at the Trinity’s Kassow Kosher Eatery.
Lisa Kassow, director of Trinity College Hillel and senior associate chaplain for Jewish life, hoped the students come away from this experience with “a deeper understanding and appreciation for the complex and compelling cultural, historical, and political realities that exist there for both Israelis and Palestinians.”
Accompanying Kassow and the students on the trip were Laura Lockwood, the director of Trinity’s Women and Gender Resource Action Center (WGRAC), and Leah Staffin, the assistant director of Trinity College Hillel.
Along their journey, students had the opportunity to meet journalists, politicians, artists, intellectuals, activists, and other community members.
Participants were advised to approach the whole experience with open minds. Kinnard Hughes ’22, an economics major, found great personal growth within this experience. “Now that I am back, I am more apt to enter academic and social environments without any strong preconceived notions,” Hughes said.
The group visited Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Haifa, the Golan Heights, the Sea of Galilee, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Ramallah, and the new Palestinian city of Rawabi. Other highlights of the trip included Yad Vashem – Israel’s official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust – a Rainbow LGBTQ tour of Tel Aviv, and musical Shabbat services on the Tel Aviv pier with hundreds of participants as the sun set on the Mediterranean Sea.
The itinerary also included swimming in the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea, and eating out at restaurants and markets to sample different kinds of Israeli and Palestinian cuisine. Each dining experience exposed students to different social and cultural customs.
“One of the best ways to learn about diverse cultures is to share meals and conversation over communal tables,” said Kassow.
That thinking led Kassow to use the creative medium of food to bring people together as part of Naseba Alkesh’s visit to the Trinity campus.
Among the five program Alkesh and her son Amjad led over the course of their week-long visit, were a Druze feast, reminiscent of the meal shared in her home/restaurant in Buq’ata, Israel. She cooked alongside Trinity kosher chef Robert Kalmar, serving dinner to approximately 200 at the Kassow Kosher Eatery.
Alkesh also served as keynote speaker at WGRAC’s International Women’s Day celebration. She shared her story of starting her own business in a deeply patriarchal society in which she exclusively hires elderly women who have little means of support, fostering a sense of strength and pride.
At her restaurant, Alkesh teaches classes to international chefs and visitors, and educates diners about the Syrian Druze community. Her son Amjad, a medical resident in Jerusalem, spoke on campus about the Druze culture, history and religion. Rakan Al-zagha ‘22, president of the Muslim Student Association and of Palestinian descent, translated Amjad’s Arabic to English at this event.
Mother and son also met with Hebrew and Arabic professors and students and ended their week’s visit with one of Hillel’s largest Shabbat dinner programs of the year. Trinity students, staff, and faculty assisted Alkesh as she created a feast of nine delicacies in the Hillel kitchen.
The week of cuisine, culture and conversation brought many unlikely partners together to learn about a fascinating and little known aspect of Israeli society.
Emily Wickes and Judie Jacobson contributed to this report.
Main Photo: Naseba AlKesh serves her Druze cuisine to the Trinity Hillel community at the Zachs Hillel House.
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Victorian housing
The sixty-four year reign of Queen Victoria saw many changes in architectural and interior design with inspiration drawn from diverse sources. Among the most enduring characteristics of the period included ceramic tiled flooring in geometrical patterns. Generally found in hallways and kitchens, many of these highly decorative floors have been destroyed, but for those fortunate enough to find a property with one still intact, repair and cleaning will produce a striking feature.
The Victorians used both plain and patterned – also called encaustic – tiles. The pattern of encaustic tiles is inlaid into the tile rather than being produced by the glaze, so as the tile wears down the pattern remains.
Brick or stone Victorian houses were built using lime mortar and any re-pointing should be carried out using the same material. The Victorians also favoured the angled face of the weatherstruck jointing method.
The Victorian period coincided with the beginning of the mass production of plate glass. Consequently houses built in this era were designed with windows with larger panes, as illustrated by the popularity of the vertical, sliding, sash window with four or six panes. Windows of this type could be rectangle or arched.
Staircases underwent quite a transformation during this period. At the beginning of Victoria’s reign staircases were generally elaborate in design with twisting balustrades and carved from a single piece of wood. Later, simpler, less ornate designs became fashionable.
Other features associated with the Victorian period include cast iron fireplaces in ostentatious designs; deep skirting boards; and interior doors with stained or etched glass panels.
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here and now feature artist: jack girard
Jack Girard is a flourishing artist based in Lexington, Kentucky where he is able to combine his passion for art and teaching as a Professor of Art and the Fine Arts Division Chair at Transylvania University. He teaches various classes such as multi-level drawing, painting, printmaking, and upper-level studios.
His contextually driven work is inspired by personal experiences, reflections on his own life and interactions with others. Girard's work has been exhibited in many corporate, institutional, and private collections in the United States as well as overseas.
LAL (Lexington Art League): What is the name of the piece you selected for Here and Now?
JG (Jack Girard): The piece is titled “Balers,” a collage/mixed media work on Rives paper.
LAL: What inspired you to create this piece?
JG: When I was in graduate school I lived with a 4’ Chinese goose named Struedel. I frequently return to bird images when I am feeling nostalgic or confused by human behaviors.
LAL: What was the process for creating this piece? How did you know when it was “finished”?
JG: I started with a central image—an old photograph of field slaves baling cotton procured when passing briefly through South Carolina—and built the work in response to that initial choice. I knew it was finished when I stopped learning from it.
LAL: Not only do you have a love for art, but also you have a love for teaching art. What is your favorite thing about teaching?
JG: Stirring up enthusiasm for what I love and do.
LAL: What is the most important thing you want your students to take away from your classes?
JG: A deep and meaningful sense of accomplishment.
LAL: Have you ever been inspired by a student or multiple students? If so, how?
JG: Always. Students nurture my humility.
LAL: Are there any artists that inspire you? What about their work inspires you?
JG: My tastes and interests are extremely broad. I’m not sure I attribute my real inspirations to artists other than to say that some allowed me the courage to address some rather delicate issues in my work. Ed and Nancy Kienholz, Norman Keller, Naum June Paik, and Cy Twombly were probably the most influential visual artists I looked at. Robert Rauschenberg as well, although he more or less influenced everyone in the field to some degree.
LAL: What is one thing you want viewers to take away from your piece?
JG: It’s never one thing…but maybe something, or anything. Once the piece is finished, I’m fairly detached from it and the viewing process.
LAL: Do you have any memorable instances of people reacting positively to your work or people feeling like they can relate to a piece on a personal level?
JG: I remember most a viewer’s negative reaction to a collage work of mine that featured hydrocephalic babies. I was trying to share my sensitivity (and fear) to those moments when expectant parents worry about having a less-than-perfect child. The woman at this opening dressed me down quite publicly and without any filters. As she turned and left, I noticed that she was pregnant. All I could do was say thank you. It wasn’t the response I expected, but I later realized that it was the response I wanted.
LAL: What advice would you give to your students/new artists?
JG: Art is like religion—you can’t ‘kind of’ do it. You’re either in or you should stay out. Dabblers tire me. Some have teased me for being an art snob. I can live with that.
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Gisèle Ngungua Sangua, D. R. Congo
Home > What we do > JusticeMakers Program > Fellows > 2017 JusticeMakers Fellows > Gisèle Ngungua Sangua, D. R. Congo
Gisèle NGUNGUA SANGUA, D. R. OF CONGO
Gisèle Ngungua Sangua from D.R. of Congo
“The domain of human rights is to me an influent and appropriate domain, open to anyone who cares for justice to give a voice to the voiceless. This space gives hope to those who do not believe in justice.”
Ms. Gisèle Sangua has a degree from the University of Lubumbashi in private and judicial law. She is a lawyer at the Lubumbashi Bar Association and the International Criminal Court and has founded an organization “Action large des Femmes Avocates” providing legal assistance to victims of violence and detained women. The organization also actively takes part in the promotion of women’s rights, leading several awareness activities on the basic principles of the rights of women and girls.
The challenge: To address prison overcrowding, which stems from the poor coordination between the different actors in the criminal justice sector.
Project: Access to Justice for All
Gisèle’s project “Access to Justice for All” seeks to empower justice actors to take full responsibility to act for the overall improvement of justice and to streamline the handling of legal cases without unreasonable delays. As such, Gisele will provide legal assistance to 200 detainees in Kassapa prison in Lubumbashi, one of the most overcrowded prison of the Democratic Republic of Congo as well as providing training to local defense lawyers so that they may provide legal representation and monitor conditions of detainees. Ultimately, the long-term objective is to “unblock” the prison facilities to ensure the proper functioning of justice.
Training workshop for access to justice.
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Dieudonné Munguwampaga, D.R. Congo
Khadi Ouedraogo SY, Burkina Faso
Charlotte Tchakounte, Cameroon
Wminpiou Gontran Walè Somé, Burkina Faso
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What I Did At SPX 2005
Not to mention AAEC and AAN!
Jen Sorensen and me at AAN 2005 in San Diego
In my bid to become a slightly less obscure alternative lefty political cartoonist, I attend as many cartooning-related events as possible, from AAEC and AAN to MOCCA, SPX and WAM, among other exciting acronyms. I go partly to hawk my wares (hint, hint) and meet potential fans and editors, but mostly to hang with other cartoonists, talk shop, rant, commiserate, and drink (I'm a lightweight, especially when compared with other cartoonists, but I can manage a weak vodka tonic or two).
Anyway, this past weekend was a pleasant nonexception to that pattern. Masheka Wood (who was attending his first cartoon convention as an exhibitor) and I caught a ride from Brooklyn down to Bethesda with Brian McFadden (of Big Fat Whale fame), who in addition to being a damn funny guy has excellent taste in music (Magnetic Fields, Pixies, the Clash, etc.) On arrival we discovered that we were sharing a table with one of my all-time cartooning heroes/idols, Keith Knight (here's a picture of Keith, me, and Masheka I found via Wasp). Not only that, but we were set up directly across from Harvey Pekar (of American Splendor fame)! Craziness, I tell you!
Most of the exhibitors at the Small Press Expo draw comic books and graphic novels, not weekly political strips, but I still got plenty of love. My enthusiastic sales technique did cause me to almost entirely lose my voice by weekend's end, but it was worth it, as I sold quite a few copies of my new cartoon collectionette, "Good News".
Us alt-weekly cartoonists tend to travel in packs, so in the evenings Masheka and I of course had to hang with Brian, Keith, Jen Sorensen, Matt Bors (goddamn if he isn't as funny in real life as in his cartoons) and August Pollak. And since most of us are Campus Progress cartoonists, you can see photos of our respective booths on the Campus Progress blog. Outside of the altie political clique, I also got to chat with both Nicholas Gurewitch (creator of the twisted and amazing Perry Bible Fellowship) and fellow glasses-wearing New Yorker Alec Longstreth, both of whom won well-deserved Ignatz Awards Saturday night.
I had intended to put in an appearance at the big anti-war protests in nearby DC, but at the last minute I got invited to present one of the Ignatzes, which are a Big Deal. Of course no one in the alternative-comics world had any idea who I was, but maybe that was a good thing, because my voice sounded like I was being strangled, and I forgot to research how to pronounce the names of nominees (such as winner Kevin Huizenga). But it was still fun, especially since Keith emceed the event and required all winners and presenters to down a shot of tequila. Keith himself had about 8 or 9 shots in a half hour--you can see the effects here (scroll down). I didn't have any tequila, but Alec Longstreth's speech almost made me cry anyway.
Oh, and Masheka, Keith and I got to visit with SPX staffer Warren Bernard, who has the most amazing home personal cartoon collection (hundreds and hundreds of books, many of them rare and out of print, many of them signed... totally crazy and awesome!). All in all, an awesome, if exhausting weekend. For more SPX photos and coverage, see the indispensable ComicsReporter.
AAEC and AAN 2005
Both of these conventions took place way back in June, but I've been busy. I don't have time to describe the fun in detail, but here are two short photo galleries:
AAEC 2005 (Sacramento) slideshow, featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger (a convention guest speaker), Steve Notley, Ted Rall, Mark Fiore, Leilah Rampa, Clay Bennett, Cindy Procious, Morrie Turner and many more.
AAN 2005 (San Diego) slideshow, featuring Jen Sorensen, Ted Rall, Andy Singer, Max Cannon and more.
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Morning Roundup 24/08/09
Check out this morning's headlines...
Calvin Beats Tinchy
Calvin Harris’s Ready For The Weekend album beat Tinchy Stryder’s Catch 22 to number one. While David Guetta’s Sexy Chick track- which features Akon- claimed the top spot in the official UK singles chart.
Oasis Pull V Festival
The band pulled out of V Festival in Chelmsford at late notice. According to the Manc group Liam is suffering from laryngitis. Snow Patrol were bumped up the bill to fill the slot for unhappy fans.
X Factor Kicks Off
The ITV talent show returned this weekend with Simon Cowell’s unique dress sense and Cheryl Cole’s beauty on show. Watched by 10 million people highlights included a dodgy Lithunian duo and single mum Stacey Solomon from Essex who wowed judges.
LiLo Burgled
Lindsay Lohan is 'upset', according to her mum, after her house was burgled yesterday. The star lost clothes and jewellery and had her safe ripped out of the wall.
Kerry Katona Questioned
Police have questioned the former MTV star in relation to a mugging outside her house. Kerry is reportedly due to face a police investigation over alleged drug taking. At the weekend she told a newspaper she is not a drug addict but said: “I am sorry and ashamed.”
Inglourious Tops US Box Office
Quentin Tarantino’s latest movie Inglourious Basterds has topped the US film chart over its opening weekend. The World War 2 comedy took over £22 million.
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Sony unveils VAIO S13 and S13p laptops with Ivy Bridge, prices start at $900
In addition to all the other new laptops it announced today, Sony refreshed its mid-range S Series with a new look, and consolidated its two 13-inch models, the SA and SB lines, into one model, now called the VAIO S13. (There's also a more business-oriented version called the S13p, which we'll tell you about in just a moment). Thanks to a magnesium, aluminum and carbon fiber construction, it's fairly lightweight, at 3.8 pounds. Spec-wise, Sony went with Core i5 and i7 Ivy Bridge processors, though this time around, it's missing switchable graphics -- at least on the S13. That machine now has integrated graphics only, though the business-centric S13p will be offered with an NVIDIA GPU with up to 2GB of VRAM. The S13p also sets itself apart with features the IT guy might appreciate, including TPM, a fingerprint reader and a hard drive accelerometer.
Across the board, the S13 should last up to about seven hours on a charge, or 14 if you add an optional sheet battery. Also, the company will sell an external docking station with a built-in 500GB hard drive and built-in battery -- a first for Sony. We're told the dock will cost $189, and that you can use it even with the sheet battery attached to the laptop. The S13 and S13p will go on sale this month, starting at $900 and $1,200, respectively. Though the more consumer-friendly S13 will be available in black, silver white and pink, the buttoned-up S13p comes in a more staid palette: black, gold and "Gun Metal."
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/04/sony-vaio-s13-s13p/
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Neopedia : Aethia and the Battle Faerie
Aethia ran through the Haunted Woods, a Faerie frightened and alone. Her wings were wounded, unable to lift her from the ground into the cold air. The trees loomed over her, their limbs reaching down, clawing at her, trying to hold her still. Far away, she heard a howl echo off the hills. Far away, yes, but not as far as it was half an hour ago. The pack was getting closer, and she was tired, every step a little slower.
She crossed a cold river, the water freezing her toes. The mud sucked her feet down deep, and it slowed her down even further. Branches scraped against her face, blinding her vision as she ran. What was she doing here? Some foolish quest to find something that had been lost for ages. She didn't even remember anymore. All she could think of was running - running from the pack on her heels.
She was foolish to come here. She was a young Faerie who hadn't even graduated from the Faerie Academy, but when she found a folded piece of paper between the pages of an old book, she knew she had to solve it herself. A name, a clue, a sword... lost so long ago, almost forgotten by the others. No one knew where she went, or what happened to her, and many feared even whispering her name. Aethia didn't. When she found the paper, she said it out loud.
"Valeane," she whispered. The name of the Battle Faerie.
Written on the paper was a map. Not a very good one, as the water stains damaged much of it, but what was in her hand was definitely a map. The Haunted Woods. The Mourning Tree. A quickly drawn image of a sword. Could it be? Could she have hidden them there? The two swords she wielded when she faced the Dark Faerie Fiona? The swords she was forced to hide. No one knew why, but when she was defeated by Fiona, she disappeared for a time, returning without her swords or her pride. She faded away then, never to be seen again.
And here she was, in the Haunted Woods, looking for that hiding place, looking for the lost swords, hoping she could bring them back to Faerieland and...
She stopped, her feet buried in mud. There was a growling in front of her, red eyes staring from the shadows. Aethia turned. More red dots, more growls. She spun in every direction, but the growls were everywhere. She drew out her tiny knife, forged from Faeriesteel, and took a deep breath of cold air.
"Stop!"
The voice was like a blade of ice, cutting through her ears. She turned to see the slender shadow, peering at her beside one of the twisted trees.
"Fiona!"
The Dark Faerie's grin was as slender and dangerous as a knife-edge. "I'm glad they're teaching you well in the Academy." She stepped out into the clearing, the Werelupes staying where they were. "Did they teach you to never trust a Darkness Faerie?"
Aethia shook her head. "They taught me all about you, wicked sister."
"You're so educated," Fiona whispered with her mocking voice. "You know what happens to little Faeries who wander into the Haunted Woods, then?"
Aethia nodded slowly. "I do."
"Well, because you're so... educated... I will give you a head start." She waved her hand and the red eyes and growling disappeared. "Get going, little one." She leaned forward, putting her hands on her hips. "I want to see you run!"
Aethia didn't hesitate. She spun on her heel and ran as fast as she could through the woods, searching for any kind of solace, any kind of hiding place from the pack.
She ran. Her weary legs ignored the pain; her hands tore at the tree limbs, snagging her hair and clothes. She heard nothing behind her, but that was only a matter of time. The pack would find her soon enough, those creatures bred on hatred and spite. It was only a matter of time.
The mud grabbed her ankles, pulling her deeper down into the bog. Aethia grabbed at anything to keep her from falling, but as soon as she got free, she heard the howls begin.
No more time.
The moon loomed high in the sky, casting its silver light down on the Forest, chasing away all the shadows.
Nowhere to hide.
She ran again, fell, and tried to pull herself up. Then, she just fell back into the mud, her heart beating hard against her chest, her legs refusing to move any further.
"Aethia," a voice said to her. She looked up, expecting to see Fiona... but there was no one. She pushed herself up, just enough to look up at the sky, and there before her, fallen from her pocket, was the map that brought her to the Forest.
She looked at the map, then looked up around her. A circle of trees. All bowed toward the center. A single wide tree, all blackened by age and despair. The circle all bowing toward the centre...
She was there!
Lying in the circle, surrounded by the bent trees. Someone called to her. Someone...
Her arms ached as she lifted herself to her feet. The ground beneath her was moist and half-frozen. She approached the tree. Carefully. Reverently. She didn't hear the beasts, didn't care about the darkness. Her numb fingers touched it, her frozen lips whispered the name.
"Valeane."
The tree growled and she stepped back. Its limbs turned and the bark opened up, a wooden maw with slivers for teeth. Deep inside, she saw the glint of moonlight on steel, and without thinking, she reached forward.
The maw snapped shut, and she barely got her hands out of the way in time. A deep voice then spoke: "Who are you?"
She put her hand on her heart. "I am Aethia, student of Shyvara, daughter of Dreeana."
"What do you seek?" the voice asked.
Aethia lowered her head. "The sword of flame and the sword of ice," she answered.
"Who wielded them?" the voice asked.
"Valeane," she said, her voice low and soft.
From behind her, the sound of the pack grew closer. She looked up at the tree, her eyes flashing in the light.
"Why do you seek?" the voice asked.
Aethia blinked away the sweat and dew from her eyes. She knew her next answer was important. More important than anything she had ever said before.
"Why do you seek?" the voice asked, its tone insistent.
Another voice spoke then, just behind her. "Be careful," it said, all cold and cruel. "If you answer wrongly, the tree will gobble you up."
Aethia didn't need to turn to know who stood behind her. She heard the pack, snarling at the edge of the circle.
"Why do you seek?" the voice asked a third time. Three is the magic number, Aethia thought. It won't ask a fourth time.
"To teach others to protect themselves," she said.
From behind her, she heard Fiona curse in the Faerie Tongue. The voice spoke to her: "You are worthy," it said. The swords then glowed, one silver like ice, while the other was red like a forge. She took them into her hands, and the silver sword froze her fingers, while the red sword scalded them, but she did not let go. For all the pain in her hands and fingers, Aethia did not let go. Instead, she turned and faced Fiona, the swords in her hands.
"I've found them!" she said, seeing the reflection of her eyes in those of the Dark Faerie. One eye was silver, and the other red, just like the swords.
The Dark Faerie took a step back. Then, another. "You found them," she hissed. "Let's see how long you can keep them!"
The pack leapt into the circle, but the swords moved in her hands, as if they had a will of their own. She guided them, and they guided her. Together, they faced the pack, and drove them back, one by one.
"Enough!" Fiona cried, and the pack backed off. "You have found the swords," she said, fading into the darkness. "But your predecessor had them as well. She failed to master their secret, and she was judged unworthy. We will see if you do any better..."
The pack faded as well, leaving Aethia alone in the circle. "What did she mean?" she asked, but there was no one to answer. Aethia looked down at the swords; the Faerie Tongue written on their blades was old and difficult to translate.
A riddle! she thought. That's what she meant. The swords are a riddle.
"That's right," the voice behind her said. She turned to face the tree and saw a beautiful yet ghostly figure standing there. "And if you do not solve the riddle, the swords will not serve you."
Aethia fell to her knees, but the ghost shook her head. "No," she said. "I was not worthy. You may be." The ghost touched Aethia's chin, and it was as cold as iron chains. "Go forth," she said. "Go and find the secret of the swords."
When Aethia looked up, the ghost was gone.
"I will," she said, a tear finding her cheek. "I swear I will."
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Clarksville Historic District (Austin, Texas)
Title: Clarksville Historic District (Austin, Texas)
Subject: West Line Historic District (Austin, Texas), History of Austin, Texas, East Cesar Chavez, Austin, Texas, Austin, Willow-Spence Streets Historic District
Collection: 1871 Establishments in Texas, African-American History of Texas, Ethnic Enclaves in Texas, Historic Districts in Texas, National Register of Historic Places in Austin, Texas, Neighborhoods in Austin, Texas, Populated Places Established in 1871
Clarksville Historic District
U.S. Historic district
The Sweet Home Baptist Church serves as the focal point of the neighborhood.
Bounded by W. Lynn, Waterson, W. 10th and MO-PAC Expwy., Austin, Texas
Edmerson, Willis
American Craftsman Bungalow, Late Victorian
The Clarksville Historic District in Austin, Texas, is an area located west of downtown Austin near Lady Bird Lake and just northeast of the intersection of the Missouri Pacific Railroad and West Tenth Street. Many historic homes and structures are located within the Clarksville Historic District. While Clarksville is geographically part of the Old West Austin Historic District, it is distinct from the two historic neighborhoods of Old Enfield which lies immediately to the north on the eastern side of Texas State Highway Loop 1 (commonly referred to as Mopac) and Tarrytown which is situated to the west and northwest on the western side of Mopac.
Founded by freedman Charles Clark in 1871, Clarksville is the oldest surviving freedomtown ‒ the original post-Civil War settlements founded by former African-American slaves ‒ west of the Mississippi River. The historic district was inducted into the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 in recognition of its unique and valuable history.[2]
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The area was originally part of a 365-acre (148 ha) tract of land belonging to Texas Governor Elisha Pease, and in 1871 was sold to Charles Clark, a freedman who would start the community that now bears his name. Clark built a house on what is now West Tenth Street and subdivided the remainder of the land to other freedman. Just a mile west of Austin, Clarksville soon became a de facto part of the city, especially when the International-Great Northern Railroad laid tracks nearby in the 1870s. The Sweet Home Baptist Church, a cornerstone of the community to this day, was founded prior to 1882, and a school existed as early as the 1890s.
At least six communities of emancipated slaves existed around Austin including Wheatville (founded by celebrated Austin black leader Reverend Jacob Fontaine), Pleasant Hill, and Clarksville.[3]
However, early in the twentieth century developers began to realize the land value of Clarksville, which lay near growing downtown Austin. Austin city policy aimed to concentrate the local black population in the east, and pressured black communities in west Austin, such as Clarksville and Wheatville, to move. In 1918 the Austin school board closed the Clarksville school. Clarksville residents were later forced to use city services in east Austin or none at all. The 1928 master plan of the city of Austin embraced Jim Crow and recommended "that all the facilities and conveniences be provided the Negroes in this district, as an incentive to draw the Negro population to this area." Most Clarksville residents endured the lack of services, however, and refused to move.[4] In 1968 Clarksville residents unsuccessfully protested a state and local plan to build a highway along the Missouri Pacific Railroad, which extended along the western boundary of Clarksville. The completed Mopac Expressway sliced through the community, forcing 33 families to leave.
Despite pressure to move to segregated east Austin, Clarksville retained its African-American identity throughout the 20th century. Residents of Clarksville began requesting Austin city funds for the improvement and preservation in 1964, but dirt streets crossed the area until 1975, and a creek carrying sewage periodically flooded homes. However, in 1975 the Texas Historical Commission designated a two-block-wide strip of Clarksville as a historic district, and the city paved the streets with asphalt. In 1976 the Austin City Council approved the use of $100,000 from a federal housing and community-development grant to pave streets permanently, improve drainage, and expand the neighborhood playground. Another $100,000 was designated for housing rehabilitation. The same year Clarksville residents and supporters defeated a plan to build a thoroughfare through the community connecting Interstate 35 and the MoPac Expressway. Later in the 1970s, as rising land values drove lower-income residents out of the area, the Clarksville Community Development Corporation was established to provide low-income options to preserve the community's character. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.[2]
Clarksville today
Many European immigrants settled in Clarksville throughout the early 1900s, building a community still felt today. Anthony Colanetta settled in Clarksville and opened Anthony's Laundry & Cleaners at the corner of West 12th Street and West Lynn in 1950. Colanetta also built a drugstore that he leased to his friend Hylton Nau. Today both stores are still operating, and the Craig Weller and Mark Skiles opened Clarksville Natural Grocery, and a year later they joined forces with John Mackey to open the first Whole Foods, then called Clarksville Natural Grocery.[5]
^ a b Thompson, Nolan. "Clarksville, YX (Travis County)". Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved January 2, 2011.
^ Clark-Madison, Mike (October 20, 1995). "The Clarksville Effect". Austin Chronicle. Retrieved January 2, 2011.
^ Henneberger, John (1978). Clarksville, a Short History and a Historic Tour. Red River Women’s Press.
^ Gray, Ki (February 13, 2008). "A History Austin's Oldest Neighborhood Clarksville". American Chronicle. Retrieved January 2, 2011.
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China-Africa relations: Chinese foreign minister’s New Year trip still on despite coronavirus
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When China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Africa at the start of 2020, there was a lot of optimism. For ever-improving China-Africa relations, for growth and for more Chinese funding for the Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s pet trade and infrastructure development plan which has funded the construction of highways, hydropower plants and railways across the African continent.This was before coronavirus struck and destroyed economies, sending many African countries…
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From Saturday 30 October 2010
Canterbury London review & photos
Team PT was out in force at Canterbury‘s London show on Wednesday. Check out our review over in the Canterbury Tour Blog. In the meantime, here’s some pics from Not Advised‘s set that night:
Sacrighandi
The Sacrifice and Propagandhi split will be released on War on Music records on December 10th 2010. It sees Sacrifice take on Rush and Propgandhi take on Corrosion of Conformity. Tracklist: 1.Sacrifice: “Anthem” (Rush) 2. Propagandhi: “Technocracy” (Corrosion of Conformity)
Fangdrew WK
The majestic Fang Island have teamed up with the perpetrator of perpetual partying personified Andrew WK for a cover of Joe Buzzell’s ‘Patterns on the Wall’. Check it out on Pitchfork using the following link: http://pitchfork.com/news/40549-listen-fang-islands-andrew-wk-collab/.
GOTK reveal album details
York metal mob Glamour Of The Kill have announced they will be releasing their debut album, ‘The Summoning’ on 24th January through their own Afflicted Music label.
New ASFAR Out Now!
The brand new, winter 2010, issue of A Short Fanzine About Rocking is out now. It’s a bumper 80 page issue featuring interviews with Terror, The Wonder Years, Brutality Will Prevail, Down To Nothing, The Arteries, Throats,
Punk Goes The Darkness would be better
Punk Goes Pop 3 can be streamed from MySpace Music now:http://www.myspace.com/punkgoes Tracklisting (full details in the comments): 1. Breathe Carolina – “Down” 2. Woe, Is Me – “Hot ‘N Cold” 3. Artist Vs Poet – “Bad Romance” 4. Mayday Parade – “In
Friday was Pizza Day, the best day of the week!
THE AQUABATS!, the world’s favorite rock superheroes, will release their new digital EP RADIO DOWN! on November 9 via Fearless Records. This digital-only three-song EP features guest vocals from hip hop legend Biz Markie. RADIO DOWN! serves as a precursor to the band’s in-progress album, slated
LIVE PHOTOS: Canterbury
Internationally famous class
Want to see The Famous Class cover the Mario theme tune live in China? Course you do. Follow this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaW73rxaKLE.
Rival Tube
Head over to Rival Schools‘ Youtube Channel to see them chat about forthcoming album ‘Pedals’, the video for their new single ‘Shot After Shot’ and touring the US with the Gaslight Anthem.
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[Review] Cocktails at House, Leeson Street, Dublin 2
Because I work in the vicinity of Harcourt Street, I think that I have been dragged to most of the depressing bars and venues that litter the area around Harcourt Street and Leeson Street. Many of them are grim places with bad, loud music, forced jollity and the reek of desperation. I was intrigued when word started to filter through on Twitter that the venue formerly known as Kobra had been redesigned as House, a new "leisure option" including a greenhouse type location and wine room.
The first thing I noticed upon entering was the smell of a real fire, burning in the fireplace to the left. The entrance opens up into a wooden floored bar area, before transitioning to a conservatory and finally opening out onto the large garden area. The hostess offered to set me up a small foldaway table at the very beginning of the garden area, but the wafts of cigarette smoke were off-putting, so I took another table, tucked against the wall in the conservatory.
On first acquaintance, I very much liked the decor. It was bright and airy with apparently mismatched (yet carefully matched) tables and comfortable chairs and lots of verdant greenery. It promised a different kind of nighttime work bar and I especially liked the cocktail menu which was bound in heavy dark leather, embossed with the House logo.
The conservatory area at House
My first cocktail choice was the Fiorello, a mix of Cointreau, pisco, agave and fresh thyme (€11.50). Served short over chipped ice, it was a good choice for the first Friday evening drink. I've seen thyme starting to appear on cocktail menus recently and this was an excellent example of how to use it.
The second cocktail of the evening was the Mariposa, a richly coloured drink made with lime, passion fruit, Aperol, rum and topped with champage, served in a coupe (€9.50). I had chosen this because of the Aperol and rum base, but I should have remembered that I don't terribly enjoy the sweetness of passion fruit juice. This is definitely a drink for the more sweet toothed drinkers.
The Fiorello cocktail
The Mariposa
My last cocktail of the evening was the classic Last Word (€11.50). This mix of Chartreuse, gin and Maraschino came served atop a coaster formed from a folded paperback novel page. I sincerely hope that no decent book was sacrificed in its making, but I would nominate Fifty Shade of Grey or any Mills & Boon novel as fair game. Alongside our last drink, we shared an antipasto plate of reasonable meats and cheeses (€16.00) and excellent sweet potato fries with a punchy aioli (€5.00).
The Last Word with its 'novel' coaster
As the evening wore on, it darkened outside and the atmosphere inside the conservatory area became more intimate and cosy. This would have been great for cocktail drinking except for the that the music volume was turned up and the vibe was regressing back into the horrible Celtic Tiger bar that I thought it had escaped. This was disappointing to me as the cocktails at House are well-made with a well thought out menu. But the level of the cocktails just didn't suit the atmosphere of the bar.
The nighttime conservatory at House
I have been told that there are other rooms, including a wine room, in House which may be better suited to relaxing back and drinking some serious drinks. But I do believe that you shouldn't have to escape to a special room when enjoying drinks that cost around the €10 mark. House strikes me as a great concept, which is well presented and packaged. However, I feel that it needs to escape the ghost of earlier venues and do something different, instead of merely looking different. My recommendation, go early in the evening, enjoy a drink or two and depart before the cattle-like crowds arrive.
UPDATE (December 22nd, 2013): I recently went for lunch at House, where I ordered the burger. To be honest, I don't know why I keep playing Russian roulette when it comes to burgers. I should stick to the good places.
What I received was truly an insult to the meat that went into it. It was everything that could be wrong with a burger. Mealy grey mince, over processed with all texture removed. Given the time between ordering and arriving, there was no possibility that this burger was cooked to order, which means that burgers are sitting pre-cooked in the kitchen.
Why go to the effort of dressing up like a supermodel when you're wearing tatty grey underwear underneath?
House, Leeson Street, Dublin 2
URL: housedublin.ie
Twitter: @HouseDublin2
Labels: cocktails, D2, Dublin, restaurant reviews
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Abrams Confirms Trailer, Denies Connection to Cloverfield
Last night at the 2010 Time 100 Gala at the Time Warner Center, J.J. Abrams confirmed the existence of a super secret trailer attached to prints of Iron Man 2, but he also confirmed that it has nothing to do with Cloverfield. Of course he could be lying, but at this point it's all we have to go on. Here's what he had to say according to Vulture:
"You have to check [out the trailer]," he told us. "But it has nothing whatsoever to do with Cloverfield, despite your expert reporting." So what does it have to do with? "I won’t be able to tell you until it’s done," he said.
So I guess we'll just have to wait and see at midnight tonight when the trailer premieres. Although, it's probably not going to tell us much up front, but at least we'll get some idea of what's going on here. And whether this is a Cloverfield movie or not, it will definitely have some cool viral marketing behind it, so you can be sure to find all the updated news here, so bookmark this page.
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Tagged with: cloverfield • iron man 2 • jj abrams • super 8 • teaser • trailer
4 Responses to “Abrams Confirms Trailer, Denies Connection to Cloverfield”
Yiddleja says:
so i just found this. A review of the “Super 8” trailer. If this is legit it sounds awesome.
http://filmpopper.com/j-j-abrams-super-8-movie-trailer-review/
Steve Fratty says:
Area 51… I thought those behind Paranormal Activity were gonna do an Area 51 type film… hmmm. Seems to be less connected to Cloverfield now though indeed.
That being said, could be bullshit for all we know for now ha.
Steve: Yeah, Oren Peli (Paranormal Activity) is currently working on a movie called Area 51 and it does sound kind of similar.
“A group of teenagers stumble upon an area in the Nevada desert known for hosting an alien encounter.”
And I’m pretty sure Oren’s is going to be in the same “POV” style that Paranormal Activity is. So we’ll have to see how each of these films comes together in the end…
Ahh that’s his name! I couldn’t for the life of me remember before.
Yeah it does seem odd that two POV style movies based around Area 51 are on the way… Though like I said, this could be bullshit (though it seems legit enough to be fair, currently).
We’re gonna be left guessing as usual with ol’ Abrams for some time to come no doubt.
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Required for September 2021 or Easter 2021 if available
Contract: Full Time, Permanent Salary Range: ISR L18-24 (£63,508- £73,559)
We are ready for a dynamic and skilled leader to continue our journey to ‘good’ as our Interim Headteacher’s contract is due to end at Easter 2021 and she must return to her own school. Sutton School is changing and it is not the RI school of the last Ofsted report. Despite the difficulties of lockdown, our Interim Headteacher and Deputy Head have continued to strive for rapid improvement. Recently introduced initiatives include Cornerstones curriculum and Read, Write, Inc and they have been embraced by teachers and learners alike. We are currently reviewing our Maths and Reading schemes so, with our developing team of enthusiastic middle leaders, we are all working together to raise standards and improve outcomes for all of our children.
Preferably an experienced leader (Headteacher, Deputy Head or in a senior leadership role) you should have a demonstrable track record of raising standards, and the ambition, skills and experience to lead a school offering opportunity to flourish. You must possess a deep understanding of curriculum development and teaching and learning, with the ability to unite, enthuse and inspire the whole school community. The successful candidate will support the ethos of a Church of England school serving the village community. If you are currently from outside Fenland and East Cambridgeshire Opportunity Area, we are able to offer assistance towards removal expenses.
Sutton C of E (VC) Primary School is set in the large village of Sutton in the Isle, 6 miles west of the beautiful cathedral city of Ely. Our school’s vibrant and positive character is expressed in our school values of “Respect, Responsibility, Koinonia”.
Full information and application forms are now available from the School website http://www.sutton.cambs.sch.uk
Visits by prospective applicants are welcome and can be arranged with the school. Social distancing guidance will be followed. Please call the school on 01353 778351 or email office@sutton.cambs.sch.uk. If you have any questions over the holiday period, email chair@sutton.cambs.sch.uk. Applications should be returned to headship@epm.co.uk
Closing date for application: Monday 25 January 2021 @ 12 noon
Shortlisting : Friday afternoon 29 January 2021
Assessment and interviews: Thursday 4th and Friday 5th February 2021
Sutton Church of England (VC) Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and requires all staff and volunteers to demonstrate this commitment. Offers of employment are subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure and other employment checks.
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TBR News November 30, 2017
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Elephant Sanctuary's Solar Hot Water
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We're moving to Energy Independence!
This campaign, to raise funds for solar hot water heaters, is the first step in a series of steps aiming at bringing Boon Lott's Elephant Sanctuary more in line with our holistic view of how we would like to be in the world.
What is BLES?
BLES strives to rescue and protect the elephants of Thailand from abuse and ultimate extinction. We provide a safe home where we focus on individual survival and growth in numbers. BLES allows elephants to interact in a natural environment that encourages breeding. Additionally, we offer support and advice to local elephant owners who may lack sufficient funds to care for their animals. We are deeply committed to our village community and provide jobs and housing to several mahouts and their families. We encourage local participation in BLES activities and promote education about elephants and their plight as well as the environment. To realize its mission, BLES has targeted goals in protection, expansion, and education.
The mistreatment of elephants is just one of the many horrific effects of the current status quo on this planet. BLES would like to take action to not support those systems that ultimately lead to the destruction of habitats, the impoverishment of huge amounts of people, the reduction of biodiversity, and the complex systems that ultimately lead to elephants being mistreated. We feel it is time for us to take steps toward distancing ourselves from those destructive systems.
Our first step on this path is to move toward energy independence, including photovoltaic panels for electricity, bio-gas (methane) digester for cooking fuel, and passive-solar hot water heaters for showers and baths.
This campaign is the first step in that process. We are raising $2,875 to replace all our energy intense electric hot water heaters with electricity free passive solar collectors. This transition means we will no longer being using electricity for hot water for guests, residents and mahouts.
Goals of this Campaign
The goal is to raise $2,875 to cover the cost of 5 passive solar collectors, plus the needed piping and installation.
Another goal is to help BLES be more energy independent and function more in line with the ethics that BLES is built on.
And a final goal would be long term economic well being, which then feeds directly to our most important goal, the protection of elephants.
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We need to raise $2,875 in 30 days. WeTheTrees works on an all or nothing basis, so please help us make the goal, and please spread the word!
The $2,875 will be spent approximately like this:
$2050 for 5 panels (150 L capacity each) @ 12,000Baht ($410) each
$200 for PVC piping
$300 for the installation of the system
$250 for contingencies
$75 for consulting and implementation
$2875 TOTAL BUDGET
If we raise more than our goal, the excess will be applied directly to our next step in becoming more energy independent, the construction of a methane digester.
These passive solar collectors generally have a ROI in three to four years, meaning that all the money spent on them, would be 'retrieved' in the form of savings on electrical bills within four years. This means that over the course of the next 20 years, this single improvement could save BLES tens of thousands of dollars. Which in turn means more money to put toward the rescue and rehabilitation of elephants.
Help us to take this important first step. Helping the elephants isn't enough. We need to reduce our exposure to the preconditions that lead to the elephants needing to be rescued in the first place.
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The Japanese version has a military science-fiction theme where the prosperous planet Sophia the 3rd is attacked by a barbaric race who wiped out the inhabitants leaving only an overlooked science outpost. The outpost builds a fighting machine called the "Metal Attacker" piloted by Kane Gardner who uses it to fight the evil tyrant Goez, and his minions. In the American version, the pet frog of a boy named Jason escapes his terrarium and jumps on a radioactive box causing it to mutate into a large monster which sinks into the ground. Jason chases after his frog and finds an underground abandoned tank named Sophia the 3rd, along with a suit of armor that fits him perfectly. He dons the suit in search of his lost mutant frog. Just slightly different!
Even before I played the game Blaster Master, I read the pre-teen [[Worlds of Power]] novelization loosely based on the game. As a child around 10 years old, I thought the book was pretty good, but as an adult, there's not much to like. It was more than enough to get me interested in the game, and a friend of mine from school had it, and I played it at his house. I enjoyed the game, but didn't get very far. Later, I remember playing it again at home with my brother and getting much further (maybe to area 3?). Using cheats I have seen the entire game, but, having seen how difficult it is, I have little desire to try and beat it properly.
Even before I played the game ''Blaster Master'', I read the pre-teen [[Worlds of Power]] novelization loosely based on the game. As a child around 10 years old, I thought the book was pretty good, but as an adult, there's not much to like. It was more than enough to get me interested in the game, and a friend of mine from school had it, and I played it at his house. I enjoyed the game, but didn't get very far. Later, I remember playing it again at home with my brother and getting much further (maybe to area 3?). Using cheats I have seen the entire game, but, having seen how difficult it is, I have little desire to try and beat it properly.
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North American box art.
Blaster Master is an action-adventure game developed by Tokai Engineering and published by Sunsoft for the NES in 1988-06-17. In the game, the player pilots a tank-like vehicle that can be upgraded with various power-ups like homing missiles, a hover drive, and the ability to drive along the walls.
Even before I played the game Blaster Master, I read the pre-teen Worlds of Power novelization loosely based on the game. As a child around 10 years old, I thought the book was pretty good, but as an adult, there's not much to like. It was more than enough to get me interested in the game, and a friend of mine from school had it, and I played it at his house. I enjoyed the game, but didn't get very far. Later, I remember playing it again at home with my brother and getting much further (maybe to area 3?). Using cheats I have seen the entire game, but, having seen how difficult it is, I have little desire to try and beat it properly.
3.1 Box Art
3.5 Graphic Sheets
3.6 Fan Art
I own Blaster Master, but I have not beaten it.
Best Version: 58%
Yoshiaki Iwata created unbelievable background art, some of the best on the entire platform. Each stage has a unique feel and his art has a great sense of separation between foreground and background, and employs a wonderful illusion of depth and perspective. He also uses large multi-tiled seamless backgrounds despite the limitation of only 256 8x8 pixel tiles.
Naoki Kodaka created a really great soundtrack for this game. The songs complement the game greatly, but several tracks standout well by themselves.
The idea of hopping in and out of your tank to go into rooms is a nice mechanic. I like how there are certain parts in the side-view areas where you're forced to navigate enemies without your tank.
The multitude of power-ups that you get throughout the game are pretty cool.
The large bosses are great looking and make for interesting battles.
I like how the game map is not linear, but requires backtracking to progress, and how the various power-ups you find allow you to take shortcuts through old areas.
The American intro is well-drawn and utterly ridiculous (in a good way). The Japanese title screen is quite nice as well.
The tank-in-the-tunnel game start animation is really great. And the ending is quite satisfying.
The indoor portions of the game are a low point:
The player's character moves a bit clunky, but the enemies move pretty quickly, so you take a lot of hits.
The gun is awful (see Ugly).
It seems like the player shouldn't have unlimited grenades, but since the bun is so bad, it helps.
Most of the sections are pointless and only serve to supply the player with a couple secondary weapons which aren't that beneficial anyway.
Because the player's hit box is so large, it's difficult to maneuver through the narrow passages between spikes and pits.
By looking at some of the layouts of the indoor sections, it kind of seems like the designers originally intended for the player to be able to jump, and then removed the ability without adjusting all the levels. There are rooms where it's impossible to progress without taking spike damage, and occasionally power-ups are completely unreachable. I think I would rather have a jump over the grenade (if the gun were improved).
I don't like how enemies cease moving the moment they leave the screen, and begin moving again when to move toward them again. Also, taller enemies become hidden when their lower half is off-screen which not only looks weird, but also makes them appear more suddenly when moving down.
A lot of the enemies are pretty obnoxious either because they take too many hits to kill, or are too hard to hit (the gray worms). This requires the player to slowly ease their way through areas which is not fun.
The games doesn't limit sprites very well, which often leads to noticeable slowdowns.
For a game this long, and with levels so winding, a save slot, password system, or, at the very least, unlimited continues should have been made available.
It becomes very difficult to control Sophia when you get the walking on walls and ceiling power-ups. It would be nice if the game let you temporarily disable the power-ups when they're not helpful.
There isn't as much variety in enemies and bosses as I would like. Too much of the enemies use the same or very similar AI, only with a slightly different sprite. They're also very monochromatic being either gray or red.
It probably would have been better design to space out the tank weapons upgrades rather than making them the first two upgrades.
Area 8 is a bit of a letdown. It relies mostly on spike damage inflicted due to poor controls, the graphics aren't as impressive as the previous stages, and I don't much care for the music.
The box reveals the final boss, and the manual seems like it was meant to hide its identity, but instead hides the first boss.
The gun system for the indoor game portion is wretched. The idea of powering up your weapon and losing power as you take hits is a good mechanic, but most of the gun upgrades are very erratic and hard to aim. Even at full power, it's common to watch enemies walk through your barrage of bullets unharmed to collide with you. A similar mechanic was used in Fester's Quest, and it's just as awful there too.
In the later levels, the game becomes insanely difficult. Expecting the player to beat the game on only a 3 lives and continues is unfair.
The original Japanese box art is drawn in anime style. It focuses on the tank and Kane, but there is also a girl on the box who doesn't appear anywhere in the game except in the end credits.
The American and European box art contains a cutout from a screenshot of the final boss. Kind of a spoiler! It has a decent layout, but the boss is so abstract, it doesn't explain the game at all.
Game manual.
Fan hit book.
Nintendo Power, June, blurb.
Nintendo Power, September, part 1.
Nintendo Power, November, part 1.
Nintendo Power, November, poster.
US Ad.
Japanese ad, 1.
Worlds of Power - Blaster Master - Paperback - USA - 1st Edition.jpg
Novelization
Area 1.
Area 1, interiors.
Area 4 (Japan).
Intro (Japan).
Intro (USA).
Area 1, mountains.
Area 1, underground forest.
Area 1, indoors.
Area 1, underwater.
Area 1, guardian.
Area 2, broken bridge.
Area 2, block room.
Area 2, green wall.
Area 2, gargoyle room.
Area 2, cloumn room.
Area 3, construction room.
Area 3, tech room.
Area 3, lights room.
Area 4, water surface.
Area 4, sewer.
Area 4, bottom of sewer.
Area 5, coral.
Area 5, crystal caves.
Area 6, snow tunnel.
Area 6, snow cave.
Area 6, ice tunnel.
Area 6, ice cave.
Area 7, lava tunnel.
Area 7, lava cave.
Area 7, volcanic cave.
Area 8, organic cave.
Area 8, intestinal tunnel.
Ending (USA).
Graphic Sheets
spriters-resource.com/nes/blastermaster - Graphic sheets.
Fan art by Malakym.
Fan art by Gooie Duck.
Fan art by Zac Gorman.
youtube.com/watch?v=2STUx_9bkB4 - Longplay, USA.
youtube.com/watch?v=2HlxFZMEvl4 - Longplay, Japan.
English Blaster Master
Japanese 超惑星戦記メタファイト Cho Wakusei Senki: Metafight Super Planetary War Records: Metafight
Directors Hiroaki Higashiya, Koichi Kitazumi
Manager Kiharu Yoshida
Game Designer, Character Designer Yoshiaki Iwata, and Others
Programmers Kenji Sada, Kenji Kajita
Music Composer Naoki Kodaka
Sound Programmer Naohisa Morota
European Director Akito Takeuchi
American Designer Richard Robbins
Special Thanks Kenji Mori
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Video Game Rank - 5
Video Game Graphics Rank - 8
Video Game Sound Rank - 8
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Digital Top Stories
Google Music launches
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 17 November 2011
So, Google Music proper is here, people. Well, it is in America. But hey, we got Spotify first, plus we managed to offload Piers Morgan on that lot as a “serious journalist”, ha, I think we’re ahead.
Anyway, as expected the web giant announced its big music offer in LA yesterday, transforming the digital locker service Google launched earlier this year – that time without the music companies on board – into a fully fledged, fully (nearly) licensed, download, cloud storage, mobile play, social media recommendation and artist profile service, backed by three of the four majors and most of the independents, including, crucially, the digital rights body representing the bigger indies, Merlin. So, despite talk of Google having to put its music offer live with large portions of the mainstream music catalogue missing, in the end only Warner’s recordings aren’t included, and I think all of us, at some point, has had to put a digital music service live without Warner on board.
I think it’s fair to say response to Google’s big music announcement has been mixed. Little was announced that we weren’t expecting, and in reality the slick new platform doesn’t really offer anything not already on the digital music market. And all of this has been a very long time coming, we having expected Google to launch something like this on various occasions over the years when other “big music announcements” were promised. Plus, Apple-style, everything on the all new Google Music is pretty locked to the Google platform, rather than integrating other social media and music services.
But, arguably, no one other digital music service currently offers the combination of functionality Google’s new platform will provide. And there will be no subscription fees, not even for the digital locker element (the Google locker was free during beta, but subscription charges had been expected long term). And by being fully integrated with the Android Market store the reach is potentially huge, as the number of Android-powered smart-phones around the world continues to rocket.
It was probably the potential of the Android integration that wooed the music companies in the end. Although most of the music rights owners already enjoy a good and lucrative relationship with Google’s YouTube division, their past relations with the rest of the web giant have been mixed – many feel the company should be doing more to stop copyright infringing services from appearing in Google searches and from earning from Google ads, and most were very pissed off when the web firm announced the initial launch of its digital locker earlier this year without any label deals in place (even though, technically, no such deals were required for the beta offer).
Three other things stood out at the big announcement, though. First, having Merlin on board at launch is a coup, given many of the other big music launches have left the key indies out in the cold, despite the people behind said launches often claiming an affinity with the grass roots creative community.
Second, the social networking integration – although limited to Google’s own Plus social network – will enable users to offer their followers a full track preview of any songs they buy and recommend. Google reps were very keen to stress how this was ground breaking. In Europe, of course, mflow has offered that service for sometime, and with limited success, although having the full-track-preview-of-peer-recommended-songs functionality integrated with a bigger music offer with an existing sizable user base will likely make its impact more noticeable.
And third, the artist hub will let self-releasing artists get their music into the Google Music platform from launch in a simple way, offering various bits of functionality akin to direct-to-fan service providers like Topspin and Bandcamp. If cleverly integrated with YouTube – the biggest streaming service on the net – and the new sell-through store the Google video site is launching, that could make quite a compelling combination of services for DIY talent.
There’s exclusive content and free tracks galore as well, though that all that seemed rather run of the mill. In fact, while the various Google reps who took to the stage, to deliver their best Steve Jobs impressions (while sneaking looks at a stage-level teleprompter every 37 seconds), often implied they were leading some kind of revolution with their big music offer, as we say, pretty much everything Google Music will do is already being done pretty well elsewhere.
But, that’s not to say that the fact Google has finally entered the market with a decent music service, and one that brings lots of functionality into one place, and which is extra-friendly to independent and self-releasing artists, and which is fully integrated with millions of smartphones, isn’t important. Which leads us to the next big question of course – when, exactly, will this come to Europe?
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New to MUBI - OUR LITTLE SISTER
Following the death of their father, three siblings take their step-sister into their home.
Review by Eric Hillis
Directed by: Hirokazu Koreeda
Starring: Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Kaho, Suzu Hirose
When we think of comic book movies we inevitably picture slam bang Hollywood blockbusters, but two of the best of recent years have been low key, female-centric affairs - Lukas Moodysson's We Are the Best! and now Hirokazu Koreeda's adaptation of Akimi Yoshida's serialised Manga 'Umimachi Diary'.
The film introduces us to three twenty-somethings still living together in their late grandmother's house in an idyllic seaside town. The eldest is Sachi (Haruka Ayase), a serious-minded nurse who acts as a mother figure to her less mature younger siblings, Yoshino (Masami Nagasawa), a bank clerk with a bad record of falling for no good men, and Chika (Kaho), a flighty sports store worker who seems the most grounded of the three.
When news arrives of the death of their estranged father, the trio couldn't be further from distraught. At the funeral they're introduced to their 14-year-old stepsister, Suzu (Suzu Asano), who is caught between two stools, as her birth mother, the second wife of the girl's prolific father, is also dead, and she doesn't get on well with her stepmother. Instantly falling for her charms, the girls invite Suzu to live with them, an offer the teenager enthusiastically accepts.
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What follows is two hours of sheer cinematic feel-good bliss, as Koreeda wraps us up in a warm blanket and feeds us the story of four thoroughly charming women. The lack of any explicit 'drama' might be off-putting to some viewers, but approached as a 'hang-out' movie, Our Little Sister is one of the best of its kind.
There's no discernible narrative arc; Koreeda simply lets us spend time with his quartet over roughly the course of a year. There are side plots, such as the heartbreaking deterioration of a local café owner diagnosed with cancer, but most of the film's drama is kept confined within the psyches of its protagonists. Sachi despises her father for walking out on her mother, but she now finds herself in the role of would be 'homewrecker', as she's fallen for a married doctor at her hospital. Suzu is constantly worried that her presence may remind her newfound siblings of their father's indiscretions, and while she tells others details of her father's life, she feels unable to mention him in her sisters' presence.
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The closest the film comes to traditional sentimentality features Suzu's wannabe boyfriend taking her for a cycle through a lane blanketed by cherry blossom trees, her father's favourite plant, but it's a moment that's earned, and it gains extra meaning due to Suzu's hidden feelings and secret release of emotion.
Koreeda jerks the tears at several points, but in the most understated fashion. The arrival of the girls' mother sparks much passive aggression, leading to the quietest of confrontations between the woman and her eldest daughter. No voices are raised, but the subtle alteration of the scene's light as Sachi's mother closes a door behind her offscreen is emotionally devastating.
I can't recall a single line of dialogue from Our Little Sister, but I remember every scene vividly, and I know exactly how each one made me feel. This is the mark of a truly great filmmaker, and Koreeda may be the greatest orchestrator of quietly conducted human drama working in cinema today. At the conclusion of Our Little Sister I felt like the little boy from Shane, begging for these women to stick around a while longer. The end credits create an almost tangible sense of loss. Sachi, Yoshino, Chika and Suzu are off to live the rest of their lives, but I'm thankful they leave behind this two hour snippet for the rest of us to cherish forever.
Our Little Sister is on MUBI UK from May 9th.
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Melissa McCarthy Meets Foul-Mouthed Muppets In First Trailer For THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS
First look at Brian Henson's upcoming puppet noir.
Muppet maestro Brian Henson returns to the world of puppetry with The Happytime Murders, a Who Framed Roger Rabbit? style blending of human and felt actors.
Melissa McCarthy stars as a human detective investigating a serial killer preying on the former stars of a hit puppet show. Elizabeth Banks, Maya Rudolph and Joel McHale also star.
The Happytime Murders is in UK/ROI cinemas August 24th. You can check out the first NSFW trailer below.
The official synopsis reads:
Starring Melissa McCarthy, THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS is set in the underbelly of Los Angeles where puppets and humans coexist. Two clashing detectives, one human and one puppet, are forced to work together to try and solve who is brutally murdering the former cast of 'The Happytime Gang', a beloved classic puppet show.
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During the rising period of the lodging industry, well-known homestays such as Xipo and Dalezhiye represent the peak period of the homestay industry. Obviously, Lang Chengjie's wave happened to step on the consolidation period of the homestay industry.
Xiaolang said frankly: "From now on, the average occupancy rate is about 50%. In the case of an epidemic this year, it is a cliff-like decline." Fortunately, "the house is self-owned and there is no rental pressure; in terms of manpower, it is basically self-owned. Operating, the expenditure is relatively small."
Jointly do overnight stay, let the guests stay
But Xiaolang is not a passer-by. He has been wondering how to improve his business.
"I think this epidemic also gave me a chance to calm down and think about how to go in the future."
Xiao Lang found that many guests who came to stay at the homestay would ask: What is fun around? Where can I go shopping? They often do not stay in the room or stay long.
If the guests can stay and stay longer, can it improve the operation of the homestay?
Moreover, the power of one person and one store is limited after all, but what if several people and several stores unite?
Xiaolang began to look for "little friends" in the surrounding homestays. After such a search, he really found a unique bed and breakfast in the same village-
Ruoxi, the host of the homestay likes audio and video. There are many audiovisual rooms in the homestay, and there are also many good movies. The hostess likes to roast, making good pastries and good coffee; the brook in front of the door, the green grass in the courtyard Yin
Wandering the mountain township, the male host of the bed and breakfast was a chef, and he was good at cooking; both couples like gardening, and the small garden at the door of the bed and breakfast is maintained in a beautiful and evergreen season;
Qingqi, the owner of the homestay is a senior tea artist, and he is also good at the processing of local products. If you want to understand the local culture and history, you can go to his home;
On the other side of the mountain, the owner of the homestay is a veteran off-road expert and a fishing enthusiast. Welcome to communicate with us.
"I contacted four other homestays in the village, together with our family, jointly launched the "Xiantan Sulv". For guests, resources can be shared. For example, guests who live in my house, I can recommend them to stroll through the garden of the mountain township. Afternoon tea, go to Ruoxi B&B to watch a movie in the evening. If you are interested in the history of Mogan Mountain and Xiantan Village, recommend them to go to Qingqi to find a boss to drink tea and chat; if you have a sense of cross-country, sports and fishing If you are interested, I recommend them to have tea and chat over the mountain. Similarly, if the guests who live in these houses are interested in bonsai, they will recommend to our moss garden."
The purpose of this is one thing: to allow guests to stay and find it interesting to live in a bed and breakfast in Xiantan; to be able to come back again and again, and to recommend relatives and friends to come over after a family comes.
In addition to developing characteristic homestays in the same village, Xiaolang is also working hard to expand the surrounding amusement places.
"We still have many scenic spots near Xiantan Village. Not to mention that it is not far from Yucun Village, that is, the nearby Longtan Scenic Area, Xiantan Flower Sea, Xianren Cave, Tea Garden, etc., can be used by residents. We will follow up later Make some route planning for the surrounding scenic spots, print it as a promotional material to the residents, or take the residents directly to play."
The combination of homestays has become a general trend in recent years
In fact, with the vigorous development of rural tourism and the introduction of country homestays across the country in recent years, the homestay guest group is gradually diverging. Even the head homestay brands and homestay highlands that have never been worried about business and hard to find a room in the past have begun to join. In the competition for robbing customers; this competitive situation has become more apparent with the outbreak of the outbreak and the decrease in occupancy rate at the beginning of this year.
In the face of this status quo, one of the coping strategies of the homestay circle is to hold groups to warm up-a close or loose alliance between the homestays to gather and stay together.
On April 12, Lao Guo, the founder of Baicuishanju, led a team to cross nearly half of China, search for homestays and hotels along the way, and start the Star Connected Live Broadcast Challenge.
The Lao Guo team hopes to realize the interconnection of traffic, mutual operation assistance, and supply chain sharing in the form of live broadcast with goods through interconnection with travel and lodging companies along the way.
In the end, after 15 days of interconnection challenges, it has traveled more than 6,000 kilometers, successfully interconnected 14 homestays, sold more than 1,000 rooms, gained more than 20,000 new fans, and built a private domain traffic sharing platform called Xingsu Internet.
On June 10, 25 homestay villages (groups) in 11 towns (streets) in Ruian City, Zhejiang Province faced global investment promotion, and released ten new policies to support the development of the homestay industry. The development "upsurge" ignited a new bursting point in rural revitalization and development. In the planning, Ruian's homestay cluster plans to build a multi-service homestay village by introducing supporting industries such as culture, catering, leisure, and experience.
There were spontaneous associations of private travel and lodging companies before, and government-led business alliances afterwards. It can be seen that Xiaolang’s and friends’ travel is on a road that is in line with the development of homestays. I look forward to the fact that Xiantan Travel can grow bigger and bigger. ,Getting better.
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Nanotechnology blog
All about technology, inventions and nanotechnology
Pizza inventions
Who first invented pizza?
An often recounted story holds that on June 11, 1889, to honour the Queen consort of Italy, Margherita of Savoy, the Neapolitan pizzamaker Raffaele Esposito created the “Pizza Margherita”, a pizza garnished with tomatoes, mozzarella, and basil, to represent the national colours of Italy as on the Flag of Italy.
Is pizza an American invention?
Italians Didn’t Invent Pizza However, since Naples, Italy was founded as a Green port city, pizza was developed further in Italy. At first, it was bread with oil and herbs. It wasn’t until later that mozzarella and tomatoes were added. The modern pizza , as we know it today, became popular in the late 18th century.
What is the best pizza ever made?
America’s 15 best pizzas Frank Pepe’s , New Haven, Conn. ( Di Fara , Brooklyn, N.Y. ( Di Fara Classic Pie) Pizzeria Bianco, Phoenix (Marinara) Una Pizza Napoletana , San Francisco ( Margherita ) Pizzeria Mozza, Los Angeles (squash blossoms, tomato, burrata) Roberta’s, Brooklyn, N.Y. ( Margherita ) Sally’s Apizza , New Haven, Conn. (
Why pizza is called pizza?
The word “ pizza ” is thought to have come from the Latin word pinsa, meaning flatbread (although there is much debate about the origin of the word). A legend suggests that Roman soldiers gained a taste for Jewish Matzoth while stationed in Roman occupied Palestine and developed a similar food after returning home.
Is pizza from China?
There is a story in China that suggests pizza is an adaptation of the scallion pancake, brought back to Italy by Marco Polo. The first recorded use of the word ” pizza ” dates from 997 AD (in a Latin text from the town of Gaeta in Southern Italy), more than 250 years before Marco Polo was born.
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Where is pizza invented?
of Naples
Did the Chinese invent pizza?
Italians developed and perfected their style of pizza making, but they were not the only culture that appreciated the ease and deliciousness of the dish. Some people even credit the Chinese with the invention , but the Greeks (and others) also had a role. The Greeks baked a flatbread known as plakous in mud ovens.
Why is pizza so addictive?
The psychological response to pizza’s ingredient combinations is partially explained by the fact that highly processed foods like pizza , with added amounts of fat, refined carbohydrates and salt, are most associated with behavioral indicators of addiction , such as loss of control over consumption, cravings and
Did McDonalds ever sell pizza?
Though pizza was a national menu item at the fast food chain in the 1980s and ’90s, most locations of the fast-food chain have stopped serving it since. But at three fast-food locations in the US, the mythical McDonald’s pizza is not just a memory. Instead, it’s a real menu item that you can still order today.
What’s the worst pizza?
We’ll also take a quick look at the best pizza places in America and the cities they’re found in. Papa John’s . Some say the pizza is too expensive for what you get. Little Caesar’s. You get what you pay for. Pizza Hut . Sbarro . Cici’s Pizza . Jet’s Pizza . Domino’s . New Haven, Connecticut.
What is the number 1 pizza in America?
Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana in New Haven, Connecticut was named the best pizza joint in the nation for the third year in a row.
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What country eats the most pizza?
What is pizza called pizza?
A small pizza is sometimes called a pizzetta. A person who makes pizza is known as a pizzaiolo. Pizza .
Pizza Margherita, the archetype of Neapolitan pizza
Serving temperature Hot or warm
Main ingredients Dough, sauce (usually tomato sauce), cheese
What is the full form of pizza?
Definition. Options. Rating. PIZZA . Pretty Imaginary Ziga Ziga Ahh.
Why pizza is my Favourite food?
Among the number of food Pizza is my favorite food because it tastes and smells fabulous. The pizza itself looks so yummy, crispy and so cheesy. There is no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap. My love for Pizza is very high.
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Big Hit Reportedly Pursuing Acquisition of Zico’s Label KOZ Entertainment
They hope to have him join the team.
Recently, Big Hit Entertainment artists BTS became the first Korean artist to reach No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Big Hit is currently pursuing the acquisition of KOZ Entertainment, which is run by singer Zico.
According to news outlets, Big Hit’s movement to acquire KOZ started earlier this year and is working more actively these days to make this happen.
Music officials stated, “Bang Shi Hyuk has been actively discussion the acquisition with KOZ and so far things have been going in a positive direction.”
In regards to the news, Big Hit Entertainment stated, “We are open to various opportunities. There hasn’t been a confirmed decision yet.”
Previously, Big Hit Entertainment acquired Source Music, Pledis Entertainment and other labels. If they are able to successfully acquire KOZ, they will be bringing in a great addition to the company.
Bang Shi Hyuk has worked with Zico as a judge for the Mnet survival program I-LAND and has shown respect for Zico’s world of music. With that being said, many are interested to see if Big Hit and KOZ will formally establish a partnership.
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Hollywood Korean American actor Ki Hong Lee to marry longtime girlfriend
A photo announcing Korean American actor Ki Hong Lee’s wedding date to his longtime girlfriend and now fiance, Ha Young Choi, was posted and later found by netizens.
According to a user’s post on Insights Korea, the actor will be marrying Choi on March 7th in Tujunga, California (about half an hour north of Los Angeles) in a private ceremony and the two have even created their registry at Pottery Barn.
The photo that announced their engagement and upcoming wedding featured a photo which Choi posted on her Instagram account for their four year anniversary on June 9th last year.
Day 92 #100happydays Happy 4 years to us!!
A photo posted by Hayoung Choi (@hayochoi) on Jun 9, 2014 at 7:49am PDT
Following the news, fans from all over the world have left their good wishes and congratulations in Korean and English for the couple on recent photos that both Choi and Ki Hong Lee have posted Instagram.
Ki Hong Lee was born in South Korea before his family immigrated to the United States when he was five years old.
The 28 year-old actor caught headlines and became one of the most recognizable Asian American faces in media following his role as Minho in the Hollywood blockbuster Maze Runner. He was also #4 in People Magazine‘s “2014 Sexiest Men Alive” edition right behind fellow Hollywood actors Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pratt, and Jamie Dornan.
Congratulations to the soon-to-be married couple!
Source: Insights Korea
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Park Bom Opens Up About 2NE1 Members And The Possibility Of Reuniting Again
Will 2NE1 get back together?
Park Bom held a showcase for her new solo album, “Spring”, where a reporter asked about the possibility of 2NE1 reuniting for a new album.
She commented about how each of the members are currently busy promoting their own schedules, so it may not seem likely in the near future, but she’s more than willing to get together again.
“Right now, the members are busy with their individual promotions, but if given the chance, I want us to reunite.”
— Park Bom
She also commented on how thankful she was for Yang Hyun Suk to promote her new album. Perhaps since YG’s on board with her comeback, a 2NE1 reunion may not be completely hopeless after all!
A post shared by YANG HYUN SUK (@fromyg) on Feb 14, 2019 at 5:17pm PST
“I’m very thankful that (CEO Yang Hyun Suk) gave me his support.”
Although a 2NE1 reunion is still a hopeful wish, Park Bom promised to “greet everyone with good music this year“, and asked for “lots of love” in her new song, “Spring”!
And the fans are right behind her as her new song has been on a steep climb since its debut! It’s marked incredibly high on multiple music charts, ensuring that its on its way to hit #1 on MelOn soon!
Welcome back to the music scene, Queen Park Bom!
Source: News1
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Here’s What Kim Tae Hee Said About Child Actor Seo Woo Jin Ahead of His Gender Identity Controversy
Child actor Seo Woo Jin’s mother is being accused of setting the boy up for gender identity issues.
In light of the criticism child actor, Seo Woo Jin and his mother have been receiving for playing a girl when he’s actually a boy, what Kim Tae Hee said about Seo Woo Jin earlier this month resurfaced.
Child actor Seo Woo Jin is currently playing Kim Tae Hee’s daughter in the drama, Hi Bye, Mama!, and doing a spectacular job at it.
But netizens online began criticizing the child actor’s mother in worries that the boy could face gender identity issues due to the role.
Ahead of this controversy, Kim Tae Hee took to her Instagram account to praise Seo Woo Jin for his amazing acting ability.
If you ask, ‘What is acting?’, the answer would be to become Seo Woo. Woo Jin is the most focused in a serious and calm manner on the entire set. In normal life, he’s so playful and very boyish, but as soon as the director says, ‘Ready?’, he’s a true actor who becomes Seo Woo again. Thank you so much, Seo Woo.
– Kim Tae Hee
Netizens are putting their focus on Kim Tae Hee’s claim that Seo Woo Jin indeed has a strong sense of who he is as well as what job he is expected to do on set when the cameras are rolling.
Seo Woo Jin received the role of Kim Tae Hee’s daughter for looking just like her.
And despite how well he’s been portraying the role, his mother recently made it known that she’s been receiving criticism, but that she was thoughtful when deciding to let her son participate in the drama.
We didn’t go to the audition because we wanted a starring role, and when we were offered the role of a little girl, I asked Woo Jin about his opinion first. When he immediately said it was okay and that he could do a good job, that’s when I decided to proceed forward.
– Seo Woo Jin’s Mother
In response to both Seo Woo Jin’s mother’s response and Kim Tae Hee’s prior post, netizens are leaving comments such as “It doesn’t matter as long as he’s a good actor“, “I don’t know why gender identity is an issue when an actor is just acting“, and “Don’t netizens have anything better to do than to attack a kid?”
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