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Lizzo Conducts Mass Meditation Class During Coronavirus Pandemic
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Lizzo led a live meditation class for those who are feeling the anxiety and stress over the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The "Truth Hurts" singer took to her Instagram account to perform a live meditation service on Friday (March 13). “There is the disease, and there is the fear of the disease,” Lizzo told her audience. “I think that fear can spread so much hatred; fear can spread so much negative energy, and fear can spread the disease even quicker than the disease can.”
During her meditation class, the singer had crystals covering her desk, spoke about fear, played the flute, had incense burning, recited a mantra and practiced breathing techniques.
She continued, “I wanted to let you guys know that we have power. You have power. You have power to eliminate fear.” The 31-year-old added, “The opposite of fear is love. So we’re gonna take all this fear and we’re gonna transmute it into love.”
During the live stream, Lizzo asked for action to be taken with new leadership to create a cure and get proper testing. "There’s a lot we need to do on that end, so we’re also going to take time to meditate toward that as well," she said.
Lizzo then spoke about the toll the self-quarantines can take on a person mentally with distancing ourselves from loved ones. “This pandemic that’s happening to us right now is encouraging that we do distance ourselves physically,” she nodded. “That we take precaution and that we don’t put ourselves in social spaces where we are susceptible to the virus. This distance that is being wedged between us physically, we cannot allow that to wedge us apart emotionally, spiritually, energetically. I feel you even if you have a cough. I feel you. I reach out to you. I love you.”
She wrapped up her session with words of wisdom. "Be healthy, be vigilant, but don’t be afraid. We’re in this together. We’ll get through this together. Because we always do. We’re not going to let fear become the next pandemic. Namaste," she concluded.
Lizzo's Houston Rodeo concert was set to take place on Friday (March 13), however, with the growing concern over the coronavirus, the Houston Rodeo was cancelled.
Watch Lizzo's meditation session, below.
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Wednesday Review: Pixar is Brilliant
Just barely in time to NOT be the Thursday Review (local time), here it is:
It is now official: Disney did not ruin Pixar.
Summary: (Concept SPOILERS) Inside Out is the story of 11-year-old Riley. Or rather, the five primary emotions in her head. These emotions are Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger and Disgust, and their job is to guide Riley through life as smoothly as possible, helping her make memories and develop her personality. The memories are represented by spheres color-coded by whichever emotion they're each associated with. Special memories become "core memories," which form the pillars of Riley's personality, represented by islands branching off from headquarters. At the end of each day, all the normal memories are sent to long-term memory storage. That's what we learn at the beginning of the film. That's the equilibrium, which gets thrown off when Sadness's touch starts turning otherwise joyful memories sad, setting off a chain of events that plunge everything into chaos.
My Review: This film is absolutely brilliant. Go see it NOW.
Seriously, though, if you want an actual review:
Inside Out is quintessential Pixar: Delightfully creative, satisfyingly well-crafted, with a wonderful emotional depth. It's hard to explain how much emotional depth without spoilers, so you're just gonna have to trust me on this one.
One of the best aspects is how Joy grows as a character. It's set up early, but doesn't really come to the fore until the story approaches the inciting incident with Sadness and the core memories. It becomes more and more obvious what's going on there and what needs to happen, but it's no less enjoyable to watch; the characters' actions remain believable in the circumstances through all of that.
It's a pretty sophisticated story about the roles and value of our various emotions and how they reflect us, all wrapped up in a visually beautiful, fun and creative package. Genius.*
My Rating: 5-Stars**
*Seriously, you should all go see it. I'm pre-ordering the DVD.
**Easiest 5-star review ever.
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Insider’s Guide to GoPro HERO4
Looking for a guide for a different GoPro? Check out all of my complete guides here:
HERO4 Session
HERO3+ Black
HERO4 Series
New Features of the HERO4
Understanding Video in the HERO4
Understanding Photos in the HERO4
HERO4 Black is the ultimate video powerhouse with stunning new ultra high-definition modes such as 4K-30, 2.7K-48, 1080-120, and even a new larger 4:3 (tall) mode called 2.7K 4:3 (2704 x 2028 px) or 2028P.
HERO4 Silver
HERO4 Silver is similar to the HERO3+ in terms of features and image quality but comes with a built-in touch screen. Both cameras are the same size and form-factor as the previous HERO3+ models.
Unlike the HERO3+ Black vs Silver, the new HERO4 line unifies the quality across the board, building off of the HERO3+ Black platform. 2.7K-30 and 1080-60 will look very similar across both models so you can mix and match footage from both cameras seamlessly. The HERO4 Black model has additional, more powerful, high resolution/high frame-rate modes.
New Features (HERO4 Silver & HERO4 Black)
The two cameras come packed with exciting new features. Both cameras feature a new menu structure with dedicated settings button, new quick-capture setting, new power-saving wifi & low energy bluetooth, live video moment tagging, new ProTune settings for photos, long exposure photo & night lapse modes, and 24P for nearly all video modes 1080 and above.
New Menu Structure w/ Dedicated Settings Button
The HERO4 line of cameras features a new user interface (UI) that’s faster to dial into the settings you need. Also, where there used to be a WiFi button on the side of the HERO3+ is now a new contextual settings menu. This means a press will bring up the settings for whichever mode you’re currently in. If you’re in video, the side button will bring up all of the settings for video modes. To change the settings for photo, scroll forward to photo mode and press the settings button. This button also acts as a ‘previous screen’ button when you’re anywhere in the menu system. If you press and hold the settings button, it will still act as the WiFi on/off button as you may be used to in HERO3 and HERO3+.
There are now 3 main modes in the carousel – video, photo, and multi-shot. Each of these modes have sub-modes that are easily accessed via the settings menu button. When you set a sub-mode, that mode will stay in the sub-mode until you switch out of it (even between powering the camera off) . The popular timelapse feature can be found as one of the sub-modes of multi-shot just after burst.
Quick-Capture
If enabled, this setting allows you to quickly power on and start recording or taking photos right away. While the camera is off, if you press the shutter button (top), the camera will power on and begin recording. If you press the shutter button again, it will stop recording and power off. If you hold the shutter button, the camera will power on and start taking photos in time-lapse mode. Again, hitting the shutter button will stop the photos and turn the camera off.
WiFi + Bluetooth LE (Low Energy)
If you’ve got WiFi on, HERO4 uses a new low energy bluetooth system to “sniff” for incoming connections so it can keep the WiFi off and save power. Currently this only is supported in IOS. Also, the WiFi transfer speeds are 50% faster – you’ll notice the video preview has slightly less lag.
HiLight Video Tagging
If you’re filming a long session and want to find the perfect moment later, the HERO4 has a new system of recording a ‘moment’ tag in your video’s metadata. You can either tag a moment from inside of the GoPro app or straight from the camera. The side ‘settings’ button acts as a highlight tag button when you’re recording. You can see which videos have tags when reviewing on the LCD back, jump directly to tags in the GoPro App, or use GoPro Studio to see tagged videos and where those tags exist in the clip.
ProTune for Photos
We’ve had ProTune available for video for a few years, and GoPro has brought the same flexibility to photo modes. When you enable ProTune in the photo settings it’ll open up some of the customizable settings you’re used to seeing in DSLR cameras. You can control white balance, color profile, ISO limit, sharpening, and exposure compensation.
This controls the temperature of your photos from cool to warm (3000K to 6500K). By default it’s set to auto, which does a great job in most situations. If you are familiar with the video ProTune controls in the HERO3+, the white balance setting of ‘Raw’ has now changed to ‘Native’ as to not confuse it with true raw photo/video capture. The ‘Native’ setting doesn’t apply any white balance correction matrices and captures the native look from the sensor.
This controls the overall color/contrast look of your photos. It has two options: Flat & GoPro Color. The ‘Flat’ profile produces an image with less contrast and saturation and is intended to be used with color correction tools. ‘GoPro Color’ is what you’re used to seeing out of a GoPro – it has standard color and contrast.
ISO Limit
This sets a cap on how high the auto ISO will go. ISO is basically how much digital lightness is added to the photo. You can set the limit from 800 (lighter with more grain) all the way down to 100 (darker with less grain).
Digital sharpening has always been added to photos to have the appearance of being sharper and more appealing straight out of the camera. Typically, if you manually add your sharpening later, you’ll have a higher quality image. Now you have the ability to set the level of added digital sharpening.
Exposure compensation tells the camera to either expose a set level of stops above or below the camera’s auto exposure level. You can go between -2 and +2 with half stop increments.
Long Exposure & Night Photo/Lapse
You now have the ability to shoot photos with exposures up to 30 seconds, opening up a whole new world of photo and time-lapse possibilities.
Night Photo
The default night photo mode auto-exposes to the proper time (up to 2 seconds). For more customized photos you can manually set the exposure time from 2 seconds all the way up to 30 sec.
Night Lapse
In night-lapse mode you can set your exposure time and interval time (time between shots). By default the exposure is on auto (up to 2 seconds), while the interval time is set to continuous (takes a photo directly after the previous exposure is finished). You can set intervals from continuous all the way up to 60 minutes and set exposure times manually from 2 seconds up to 30 seconds.
In both modes you have the ability to utilize ProTune and limit your ISO levels to further gain control over your photos.
HERO4 Silver Specific Features
The HERO4 Silver can be seen as an upgraded version of the HERO3+ Black Edition with a built-in screen. It takes advantage of all of the new features listed above, as well as having some special new features specific to having a screen. It also has a new button on the back to turn off the screen, which allows for quick access to save battery.
The new built-in touch screen is brighter than the previous LCD BacPac and is more reactive to touch and swipe gestures. It feels snappy and you can fly through menus quickly with precision. A few new shortcuts have been introduced to enhance the experience of controlling the camera.
Swipe Gestures
First off, to ensure you’re not accidentally changing settings with the touch-screen, there’s a swipe to unlock the screen. Once you’ve unlocked it, you can press and hold the screen for 2 seconds to lock again if you wish. When you’re idling between recording or taking photos, a swipe from the bottom acts as pressing the contextual settings button on the side. It’ll bring up all of the settings related to the mode you’re in. A swipe from the right side will bring up all of the mode options, including playback and camera settings. Once you’re in playback you can click any thumbnail to view, then swipe left or right through clips on the SD card. When you’re in playback looking at a clip or photo, swipe up from the bottom to reveal a few more options, including a back ‘X’ button that comes in handy.
Double Tap FOV Change
If you’re in a mode that has more than one FOV option you can double tap the screen and it’ll cycle through FOVs; essentially zooming in. You can only do this while you’re not recording. Modes that support multiple FOVs are 2.7K (W & M), 1080 (W, M, N), and 720 (W, M, N).
HERO4 Black Specific Features
On top of the new features mentioned above, the HERO4 Black specifically also has higher quality video in ProTune at 60Mbit/s, expanded app functionality, and a whole new set of video modes:
Higher Quality Video in ProTune
When ProTune is activated for video the max bitrate is now 60Mbit/s. Previously the HERO3+ maxed out at 45Mbit/s, so there’s a 33% increase in quality over similar modes, such as 2.7K-30. GoPro recommends using this Micro SD Card, which supports the increase in data.
Expanded App Functionality
With the HERO4 you’re able to preview while recording, or instantly watch back most* videos you take on the App whether you’re in ProTune or not. In HERO3+ when you film in ProTune or high resolution/high power modes it’s not able to stream or record a preview (LRV) file at the same time. Now LRV files are created for almost* all files regardless of ProTune, giving you the ability to instantly watch back files, scrub through quickly, or download low-resolution videos to your mobile device.
*Video modes not supported: 1440-80, 1080-120 & 90, 1080 Superview 80, 960-120, 720-120, 720 Superview 120
New Video Modes
4K – 30
4K SuperView – 24
2.7K – 48 (wide & medium FOV)
2.7K Superview – 30
2.7K 4:3 – 30
1080 – 120 (wide & narrow FOV)
1080 Superview – 80
720-120 (medium FOV)
720 Superview – 120
Read about the new video modes in depth here: Understanding Video in the HERO4
Auto Lowlight
Keep in mind: This setting is on by default, but you can turn it off in the video settings screen. Auto lowlight is a mode that will automatically lower your frame rate if you go into dark areas. It’s only active on frame rates higher than 30 FPS. If you’re in a 30 FPS mode and are looking to turn it off, it’ll say N/A. You have to switch your video into a mode that’s higher than 30 FPS to switch it to OFF. Once you switch it off in one mode, it’ll stay off for all modes until you re-enable it. If you intend to utilize slow motion, I recommend turning it off first thing so it won’t automatically lower your frame rate.
Persistent Settings Across Sub-Modes
In the HERO4, photo and video modes are separated into categories as sub-modes within Video, Photo, and Multi-shot. Mode settings such as spot meter and ProTune are specific to all sub-modes within a single category. For example, when you setup ProTune settings specific to taking a night lapse, those same settings will apply to time lapse as well, since it’s within the same category. Remember to check settings before each new session so you don’t accidentally leave a white balance or exposure compensation set when you didn’t intend to. Both of these settings could have irreversible effects to your photos and videos.
USB Device Change
If you’re connecting the camera via USB cable, you’ll notice the camera will no longer show up as a drive plugged into the computer (mass storage mode). The protocol has been changed to a camera or picture transfer protocol. If you’re on a Mac, use Image Capture, iPhoto, or GoPro Studio 2.5 to download the contents of your connected camera to your computer or external HD. One downside is you can’t browse files directly on the card before downloading to your computer (on Mac). If you’d like to use the old method of reading the contents, you’ll have to use a card reader.
If you have any questions, don’t be afraid to shoot them below!
Insider’s Guide to GoPro HERO3+
I'll tell you exactly what's new in the HERO3+ and give you visual comparisons between it and the HERO3. There's a lot to learn and that's why I've gone through it all for you!
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The HERO4 brings a whole new set of customized settings for photos, as well as new controls for long exposure photos and time lapses.
See my personal reviews of all of the new modes in the HERO4 Black, as well as the Ins and Outs of all things video.
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The Complete Novels
Flann O'Brien / Jan 17, 2021
The Complete Novels Flann O Brien along with Joyce and Beckett is part of the holy trinity of modern Irish literature His five novels collected here in one volume are a monument to his inspired lunacy and gleefully dem
Title: The Complete Novels
Author: Flann O'Brien
Flann O Brien, along with Joyce and Beckett, is part of the holy trinity of modern Irish literature His five novels collected here in one volume are a monument to his inspired lunacy and gleefully demented genius O Brien s masterpiece, At Swim Two Birds, is an exuberant literary send up and one of the funniest novels of the twentieth century The novel s narrator is writFlann O Brien, along with Joyce and Beckett, is part of the holy trinity of modern Irish literature His five novels collected here in one volume are a monument to his inspired lunacy and gleefully demented genius O Brien s masterpiece, At Swim Two Birds, is an exuberant literary send up and one of the funniest novels of the twentieth century The novel s narrator is writing a novel about another man writing a novel, in a Celtic knot of interlocking stories The riotous cast of characters includes figures stolen from Gaelic legends, along with assorted students, fairies, ordinary Dubliners, and cowboys, some of whom try to break free of their author s control and destroy him The narrator of The Third Policeman, who has forgotten his name, is a student of philosophy who has committed murder and wanders into a surreal hell where he encounters such oddities as the ghost of his victim, three policeman who experiment with space and time, and his own soul who is named Joe.The Poor Mouth, a bleakly hilarious portrait of peasants in a village dominated by pigs, potatoes, and endless rain, is a giddy parody aimed at those who would romanticize Gaelic culture A na ve young orphan narrates the deadpan farce The Hard Life, and The Dalkey Archive is an outrageous satiric fantasy featuring a mad scientist who uses relativity to age his whiskey, a policeman who believes men can turn into bicycles, and an elderly, bar tending James Joyce With a new Introduction by Keith Donohue
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About "Flann O'Brien"
Flann O'Brien
Pseudonym of Brian Nuall in, also known as Brian O Nolan.His English novels appeared under the name of Flann O Brien, while his great Irish novel and his newspaper column which appeared from 1940 to 1966 were signed Myles na gCopaleen or Myles na Gopaleen the second being a phonetic rendering of the first One of twelve brothers and sisters, he was born in 1911 in Strabane, County Tyrone, into an Irish speaking family His father had learned Irish while a young man during the Gaelic revival the son was later to mock O Brien s childhood has been described as happy, though somewhat insular, as the language spoken at home was not that spoken by their neighbours The Irish language had long been in decline, and Strabane was not in an Irish speaking part of the country The family moved frequently during O Brien s childhood, finally settling in Dublin in 1925 Four years later O Brien took up study in University College Dublin.Flann O Brien is considered a major figure in twentieth century Irish literature Flann O Brien novels have attracted a wide following for their bizarre humour and Modernist metafiction.The caf and shop of Cult rlann McAdam Fiaich culturlann , at the heart of the Belfast Gaeltacht Quarter, is named An Ceathr P il The Fourth Policeman , as a play on words of the title of O Brien s book The Third Policeman.
Flann O'Brien writes some of the most bizarre fiction I have ever read. Considering the period in which it was written, it is far ahead of its time. There are plot twists, stories within stories, demons and fairies and curses (oh my!), vindictive saints, haunted houses, conspiracy theories, mad scientists, odd clerics, eccentric policemen, domineering uncles, bewildered orphans, bicycles with minds of their own, freely flowing liquor, and bartenders with secrets.O'Brien has a way of starting a s [...]
Derek Davis
At Swim Two-birds is probably the funniest book in the English language--especially Finn MacCool's description of what it takes to be accepted into his "tribe." The Third Policeman I haven't reread yet but loved originally. The other 3 novels are of much lower stature but fairly interesting, with occasionally wicked darts of off-the-wall humor. At his best, there was no one like O'Brien
Okay. Fulfilling a promise I made to myself at the beginning of the year. Which was to read my lovely Everyman's library edition of the Complete Novels of Flann O'Brien from cover to cover. Year's almost out. So here we go!
O'Brien is wonderful. Very funny--the more one knows about Ireland and the Irish the more hilarious his work becomes but it is hardly necessary to have even heard of Ireland to enjoy his writing. "At Swim-To-Birds" may be the first post-modern novel (unless one counts "Tristam Shandy").I was reminded of "Molloy" by Samuel Beckett while reading "At Swim" although probably because I expected or even wanted O'Brien to be linked to one of the certified recent geniuses of Irish letters--O'Brien doesn [...]
Starting with At-Swim-Two-Birds.-- This book took me quite awhile to get into. Having read The Third Policeman, I was expecting to be blown away from page one. However, O'Brien did nothing but set the stage for confusion and puzzlement!I was no expert at Irish Literature and Folklore, but it became apparent to me quite early on in this novel that if I was going to read At Swim and understand it at all, I needed to do my homework. Thank you Wiki!! Imagine doing 'homework' in order to grasp where [...]
Great collection for fans of Irish literature, and a real find if you've never read O'Brien. Only caveat is that the writing is very Irish, and it helps to have some background. For instance, "The Poor Mouth" (tr. from Gaelic), though funny in its own right, is a wicked sendup of traditional Gaelic-language works such as Tomas O'Crohan's "The Islandman" (the other four novels were written in English). The weird and wonderful "At Swim-Two-Birds" is worth the price of admission. Maybe O'Brien's wr [...]
Saving the hardest "cake" at the end (of all other works) for me to "bite", At Swim-Two-Birds, turned out to be "the most delicious" for the mind. What novel, art, music, and the expression of science & math can be, his works achieved the ultimate bliss, on the verge of lunacy.
This anthology is a telling story in its own right, which is just the sort of meta-fictional trick which O'Brien seemed to enjoy. The staggering comic genius of At Swim-Two-Birds and the Third Policeman, gives way to the more traditional satire of Poor Mouth and the Hard Life, to a sort of anti-climactic dilution in the Dalkey archive.The reason for this was the failure of the Third Policeman to be published, which caused the author to abandon 'Flann O'Brien', one of his many pennames, and conce [...]
Max Nemtsov
кто бы мне все ж объяснил, почему русский перевод романа Брайана О'Нолана "At Swim-Two-Birds" называется "О водоплавающих"? я понимаю, почему другой его перевод называется "Злой дух Пука, Добрая Фея, царь Свиини, я и мой дядя" - это нам перечислили половину персонажей (не надо было оста� [...]
Read the STOP SMILING review of The Complete Novels of Flann O'Brien.Flann O’Brien, the pen name of Brian O’Nolan, was 11 in 1922, the year Ulysses was published. O’Brien distinguishes himself from the lot who comprise the Sons O’Joyce as one of the first, and one of the best; no time-traveling ninja need disturb his infant cradle. He grew to become a faithful Joycean who had little patience for his fellow adherents. (“If I ever hear that name Joyce one more time,” he once declared, [...]
Sept 2015: At Swim-Two-Birds: (first read: 3-star)I don't know how to adequately review this book. It's beyond strange.There are so many twists and turns. Yet it's told in such a way that it's truly hard to follow. I recognized good writing, some humorous sections, an interesting storyline. This story would improve, I think, upon rereadingd possibly a third rereading. I will reread it one day.There are supposedly Irish myths and stories throughout this book. Perhaps knowing those would have made [...]
not quite sure i'd put o'brien with joyce and beckett, at least not yet. but he's damn close. read the first two novels. "at swim-two-birds" is a wild multi-narrative that weaves ancient, modern, literary and other voices wonderfully. "the third policeman" is a tighter, ultimately more compelling vision of hell that partnered well with my recent re-reading of dante's "inferno." i'll probably try at least one more of the 5 novels here, "the dalkey archive" i think, since joyce (sent up) is a char [...]
"The Third Policeman": so droll! Admittedly, I read it after hearing it tied to "Lost" but come on, Desmond. It's better seen as a goofy literary partner to Dylan Thomas and "Pale Fire": a foggy tale about mood and humor, not about mind-benders. As a bonus, O'Brian's grasp of particle physics isn't entirely outlandish. At this moment, you're just a few electrons away from merging with your chair.
"It was a queer country we were in. There was a number of blue mountains around us at what you might call a respectful distance with a glint of white water coming down the shoulders of one or two of them and they kept hemming us in and meddling oppressively with our minds."a terrifying and fascinating book. unforgettable, poetry burned upon the brain with levers of flames. a book that will burn the cerebral flesh and spit the wounds into the starry evening of eternity.
Chad Nevett
I've read The Third Policeman, but nothing else in this collection of five novels. Hopefully, over the next few years, I'll read the rest, but I'm not in a big rush.As for The Third Policeman, I really enjoyed it, although is it a bit obstuse and absurd--the key to it is remembering that it is meant to be funny. A very excellent book, though.
I only read the first two novels, At Swim two birds, and The Third Policemen. I attempted to start a couple of the other ones but they were far different stylistically and I did not want to be disappointed. At Swim, was an extremely hilarious book, and the third policemen certainly did not disappoint. This was a random find that left me wondering why I hadn't heard of Flann O'Brien previously.
I only read At Swim Two Birds and The Third Policeman, so I rated based on those. They are so creative and funny. I especially enjoyed the underlying morality tale in The Third Policeman. A must read!
James Fleming
Great. Really surreal story telling. Like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for adults :) If you like weird and wonderful and artistic, The Third Policeman is for you.
Majikwah
Early example of meta fiction and post modernism. Very funny and some great pathos as themes. And O'Brien's strong Irish roots give to some great writing and sentence crafting.
Melissa Powers
Genius, obviously, except for the slightly disappointing Dalkey Archive. Still a great plot, though.Like I said, genius. Obviously.
O'Brien is a personal fave and I'm reading "The Third Policeman" from this collection really enjoyed his "At Swim-Two-Birds" last year.
As the French have with literary sex, the Irish have with the down and out.
Kevin Tole
What can you say - The Third Policeman and At Swim Two Birds are modern masterpieces which everyone should read
Never again MUCK!!!!
Machado Drummond Amado Rosa Coelho
At Swim-Two-Birds: *****The Third Policeman:*****The Poor Mouth:*****The Hard Life:****The Dalkey Archive:*****
Justin Fawsitt
Mind-boggling Irish humor and breathtaking cynicism. The purest antidote to all the Celtic Twilight and Saints and Scholars shite and onions!
06/04/08: Just finished At-Swim-Two-Birds Was considering skipping The Third Policeman, since I read it last year, but I guess I'm partying hard with this book. WOOOOOO.
Excellent novels!!! Very wry and extremely entertaining!!! Anyone who wants a true insight into the Irish mentality, I strongly recommend reading these books Enjoy!!!
Shanti Hofshi
A fascinating author with a strange sense of humor. Particularly enjoyed At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman for the way O'Brien transcends some of the norms of "conventional" storytelling.
Have to give this one back to the libary. Finished the 1st chapter of "The Third Policeman," which is the story I got the book for. Very weird story so far. Will get it again later.
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Backgammon is the original game in history. It has been known as the "little war," backgammon appeared in ancient middle east over five thousand years ago. However, Egyptians called backgammon "Senat," which is a close style of the present game played right now. Hundreds of years ago, just citizens of power, the prevailing figures of royalty like Egyptian pharaohs, were allowed to enjoy. The game started to grow around the planet since then. Many different Backgammon variants were developed in numerous states and civilizations, but the main protocols of those variations resemble those of the ancient form . For example, The Greeks grabbed a hold of the game and called it by the name "bac gamen." From there, the Anglo’s adopted backgammon in the 17th century and have remained with it ever since. Backgammon and other ancient games weren’t ever accepted by most clergy. The clergy felt that the game was the work of Satan. This led clergy to abolish and burn the game. The abolishment and burning had never stop folks betting on games and having fun.
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Siberian Ibex
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Bovidae
Caprinae
Capra sibirica
34-130 kg
Siberian ibexes are large and heavily built goats. Their coats vary in color ranging from dark brown to light tan, with some reddish individuals. There is usually a stripe of darker hair down the center of the back and onto the tail, and some males have saddle-like patches on the back in the winter. The undersides are paler, and, in the winter, mature males becoming much darker with white patches. Females and infants are generally blander in color and do not always have the stripe down the back. Siberian ibexes typically molt between April and July, developing their paler summer coat, which continues to grow and become darker during the year, reaching the full winter condition around December. Both sexes have beards and horns. The female's horns are relatively small, and grey-brown in color. Those of fully-grown males are black. Both sexes have circular rings around their horns that represent annual growth, but males also have large transverse ridges along the front surface.
Folivore
Graminivore
Cursorial
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Siberian ibexes are found in Afghanistan, western and northern China (Primarily Xinjiang), north-western India, south-eastern Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, eastern Uzbekistan, Mongolia, northern Pakistan, and south-central Russia. These animals live mostly above the tree line, in areas of steep slopes and rocky scree. Their habitat consists of a mixture of high altitude tundra, alpine meadows, and regions of semi-desert. In the Gobi Desert, they may be found on hills as low as 700 m (2,300 ft) in summer, descending to lower, sometimes sparsely forested, slopes during the winter.
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South Asia, Central Asia, East Asia
Afghanistan, China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Temperate grasslands
Desert and Xeric Shrublands
Montane grasslands and shrublands
Climate zones
Dry\Desert
Habits and Lifestyle
Siberian ibexes live in herds that vary in size depending on the local population; about 5-30 is most common, although they can become much larger during the rut. Outside of the rut, most herds are single-sex, although some mixed-sex herds persist throughout the year. Siberian ibexes are diurnal and spend much of the day grazing, staying an hour or more at each location before moving on. Usually living at high elevations, Siberian ibexes seek out lower slopes during the winter in search of food. They seek out shaded areas with vegetation on hot days but do not enter forested areas, preferring to return to their alpine habitat when the weather has cooled. When snow is heavy, they will paw away snow to reach the vegetation below. Siberian ibexes communicate with each other during the breeding season, when warning about predators, and for recognition between mother and young. Females usually recognize their newborn through scents and also call their young for feeding. Communication during the rut is based mainly on physical posturing in which males perform flehmen. Flehmen includes raising and curling of the upper lip, along with shutting the external nares.
tribe, trip, drove, herd, flock, trippe
Terrestrial, Cursorial, Grazing, Browsing
Seasonal behavior
Siberian ibexes are herbivores (folivores) and their diet mainly consists of alpine grasses and herbs. During spring and summer, they feed mainly on grasses and sedges, while during winter they eat more tall herbs, and the twigs and needles of trees such as aspen, spruce, juniper, and willow. During the summer, they often visit salt licks.
Diet Herbivore, Folivore, Graminivore
MATING BEHAVIOR
REPRODUCTION SEASON
late October-early January
PREGNANCY DURATION
170-180 days
BABY CARRYING
1 kid
doe, nanny
buck, billy
BABY NAME
kid, billy
Siberian ibexes are polygynous which means that males mate with more than one females. Courtship rituals consist of licking, ritualized postures, and flehmen. Males compete for dominance during the rut, rearing up on their hind legs and clashing their horns together. The rut takes place from late October to early January. The gestation period lasts 170-180 days, after which usually a single kid is born, although twins and triplets may also be born but on rare occasions. Newborn kids weigh about 3 kg (6.6 lb) and grow rapidly during their first year. The horns are visible after about 3-4 weeks. They begin to eat at 8 days after birth, but do not do so regularly until they are about one month old, and are not fully weaned until 6 months. Males reach reproductive maturity at 18 months of age but do not reach their full adult size for 9 years. Females first breed in their second year.
POPULATION STATUS
Least concern (LC)
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Population threats
Main threats to Siberian ibexes are hunting for food and poaching in some areas by military personnel, road maintenance workers, and others. Other threats include competition with livestock for food and habitat, and in some areas by local predators among which are wolves, dholes, snow leopards, lynxes, foxes, and eagles.
Population number
According to IUCN, the Siberian ibex is abundant and widespread throughout its range but no overall population estimate is available. However, there are estimates of its populations in the following areas: China: Tian Shan - 40,000-50,000 individuals; Bei Mountains (northern Gansu) - 3,000-4,000 individuals. India: Ladakh - 6,000 individuals; south side of the main Himalaya - 4,000 individuals; Kanji-Boodkharbu Wildlife Sanctuary - 330 individuals; Lungnag Wildlife Sanctuary - 225 individuals; Rangdum Wildlife Sanctuary - 250 individuals; Rizong Wildlife Sanctuary - 174 individuals; Pin Valley National Park - 174 individuals. Former Soviet Republics of Central Asia: Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan - 70,000 individuals; Kazakhstan - 17,000 individuals; southern Siberia - 8,000-9,000 individuals; Altai - 3,000-3,500 individuals; Tannu Ola mountains of Tuva - 2,500 individuals; Western Sayan - 1,500 individuals; Eastern Sayan - 2,000-2,500 individuals; Uzbekistan - 2,400 individuals. Mongolia - around 80,000 individuals. Northern Pakistan - 2,545 individuals; Azad Jammu and Kashmir - 375 individuals. Currently, this species is classified as Least Concern (LC) on the IUCN Red List.
1. Siberian Ibex on Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_ibex
2. Siberian Ibex on The IUCN Red List site - https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/42398/10695735
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the US of hooliganism on Monday over the US government's efforts to ease its financial problems by injecting hundreds of billions of dollars into the economy.
"Thank God, or unfortunately, we do not print a reserve currency but what are they doing? They are behaving like hooligans, switching on the printing press and tossing them around the whole world, forgetting their main obligations," Putin told a meeting of economic experts at the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Putin's comments came in the wake of the completion of the US' quantitative easing (QE) 2 program on June 30, in which the Federal Reserve bought $600 billion worth of its Treasury bonds. The Fed's first round of QE, which ended in March last year, amounted to less than half the size of QE2.
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(Reuters) - Ireland's credit rating was cut to junk status by ratings agency Moody's which said the country will likely need further rounds of official financing before it can return to international capital markets.
Moody's cut Ireland's ratings by one notch to Ba1 from Baa3 and kept a negative outlook on the rating.
SUVRAT PRAKASH, INTEREST RATE STRATEGIST, BNP PARIBAS, NEW YORK:
"It's amazing that Ireland was still investment grade, it seems like a lagged effect to me. Now that the market has made up its mind what sort of rating is appropriate for Ireland, the market hasn't been strictly paying attention to these downgrades. However, the market is reacting. Credit spreads are widening, and stocks and rates moving a little lower on this news and mortgage bonds are wider. It looks like risk appetite has come off, but the news itself shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. A lot of people assume that these rating agencies tend to move with a lag, so there could be more downgrades to come. Sometimes it triggers forced selling from funds that can only hold bonds with a certain rating."..........read on
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OIL IN COSTA RICA
Hold up cowboys. Before every direct flight from the state of Texas to Costa Rica is filled (well atleast the first class seats I dont know if big oil Texan boys will sit in coach) let me explain what Oil in Costa Rica means? Yes, It means energy but ufortunately for all you money sucking capatlist idiots this is a little something we call White Oil. By now I probably lost 90% of my readers that I attracted by the title of this blog. Costa Rica does not have oil and no random blogger like myself would be the first to blurt to the world that a country of 5 million with no army just struck oil.
If you didnt already know Costa Rica lends itself to a number of different sources of generating energy. Costa Rica is a narrow country with two coast, high mountains, and a lot of rain. If you use your imagination with what I just said you should be able to see that rivers go racing down from these high mountains at a very high speed because the country is narrow and full of water because of the rains. Costa Rica also has some areas where they have generated energy through wind. Well this blog is not about either of those. This blog is about $White-Oil$.
I had never heard the term white oil until an official from ICE (Costa Rican Institute for Electricity) used it when interviewed about Costa Rica's Geo-Thermal Energy. He was being interviewed because ICE can only tap into 23% of Costa Rica's Geo-Thermal energy and the rest of it is located in protected areas and national parks. The reported asked this ICE official what he thought of this restriction: "It is a shame we cant tap into the national parks for geothermal energy it is the white oil of this country". Now tapping into Natoinal Parks just sounds wrong but their is a nice little ring to white oil, so I will say he had me for about 3 seconds.
There are many benefits to Geo-Thermal Energy for Costa Rica which now runs 15% of its lights of this type of energy and can only tap into 23% of its resources. The "White Oil" is also a lot cheaper. It cost about 4 cents for each KW as compared to gas which is 46 cents for each KW. So the cost is a no brainer. The second benefit which Im sure ICE plans to use on their side is that GeoThermal is much nicer to the environment. With gas each megavolt burns 1,000kilos of CO2 and with Geothermal it reduces to 59 kilos of CO2.
Image via WikipediaNow the question starts should the energy company be able to tap into the national parks. They had a deal in 2008 that said if they did the National Parks would get land that was 5% larger that the area used by the energy company to compensate for the area lost. So the final result would be that the National Park would be the same size even a bit larger. I know there are two sides to this story and I look forward to following it. This is just the basic info now that the energy company has used all 23% of the resources outside of the National Park we should start to see true colors fly with environmentalist and ICE officials as the debates begin. If you comments or thoughts on this we would love to hear. Also I dont know why but Jorge W. Bush the ExPresidenta of the USA uses GeoThermal energy to run his house in Texas according to this site click here. We feel this is a very interesting subject area for tourist that will be visiting and we would love to inform them the best we possibly can?
Source: http://www.nacion.com/2010-09-12/ElPais/NotasSecundarias/ElPais2516365.aspx
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Canadian distance runner Moh Ahmed rules 1,500 metres at Bowerman intrasquad meet
Canada’s Moh Ahmed raced to another blistering time Tuesday night, and proved he’s not just a world-class long-distance runner.
In what was a virtual sprint for the 5,000 and 10,000-metre specialist, the 29-year-old won the 1,500 in three minutes 34.89 seconds at the Bowerman Track Club intrasquad meet in Portland, Ore.
The time makes the Somalia-born, St. Catharines, Ont.-raised runner the fifth-fastest Canadian at the distance.
On July 10 in Portland, Ahmed shattered his own national record in the 5,000, running 12:47.20 to eclipse his previous mark of 12:53.16 set last summer in Rome when he became the first Canadian to dip under 13 seconds. The time vaulted the two-time Olympian to 10th all-time in the world.
WATCH | Moh Ahmed shatters his 5,000m Canadian record:
29-year-old Moh Ahmed of St. Catharines, Ont., ran the 5,000 metres race at the Portland Intersquad Meet in 12 minutes 47.20 seconds, bettering his previous mark of 12:53.16 set last summer in Rome. 18:09
Tuesday’s fast 1,500, in front of an empty stadium due to COVID-19, was just three seconds shy of Kevin Sullivan’s Canadian record of 3:31.71 set in 2000.
Only three other Canadians have run faster than Ahmed over that distance: Graham Hood (3:33.94), Nate Brannen (3:34.22), and Charles Philibert-Thiboutot (3:34.23).
Ahmed won bronze in the 5,000 last October at the world track and field championships in Doha, Qatar.
“Third is good. This is a stepping stone,” said Ahmed, who was looking ahead to 2020 and the Tokyo Olympics before it was postponed in March due to the coronavirus pandemic and rescheduled to July 2021.
WATCH | Ahmed battles back to win world bronze in 5,000:
Canadian Moh Ahmed reaches the podium with a time of 13 minutes 1.11 seconds. 3:03
In June, Athletics Canada recognized Ahmed’s feat as the most outstanding performance of 2019 by awarding Ahmed the Cal D. Bricker Memorial Trophy.
Ahmed was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, and moved to Canada at the age of 11. He trains with the Bowerman Track Club in Portland.
CBC Sports analyst Dave Moorcroft, who ran a world-record 13:00.41 in 1982, noted Ahmed has arrived as a serious medal contender and wondered if he was on the verge of “something special” come Tokyo.
“Medal contenders have a different mindset and aura, and I believe Moh has that,” Moorcroft said. “He is now not just a fast runner but also a great racer and he has to believe he can take that to the next level.”
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I Fought A Good Fight For The Nigerian People – Atiku
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Many Reasons To Run
Motivations vary for 14,000 runners getting ready for the Marine Corp Marathon.
Whether you are running around Burke Lake or the C&O Canal, this month, more than 14,000 D.C. area runners out there with you are taking the final steps of training for the Marine Corps Marathon (MCM). Each runner you pass has their own motivation and inspiration for lacing up a pair of running shoes.
For some runners, motivation for training is found through their own personal heroes. Karen Dietrich, 42, of Leesburg, Va., and her sister, Michelle Cunningham, 43, of Prattville, Ala., are two such people. Both married to military officers, the sisters wanted to pay tribute to the military members they have known, including former Marine, Michael. R. Horrocks.
On Sept. 11, 2001, Horrocks was the co-pilot on United Airlines Flight 175 that was hijacked and flew into the World Trade Center. “Michael’s dedication to his family, and his country inspires our family daily to be better people,” explained Cunningham. “This is just our small way of honoring his memory and supporting all members of the Armed Forces for their daily sacrifice to our country.”
Dietrich’s training has included weekday morning runs around town, weekend long runs on the W&OD trail and various local races including the Rockville Half Marathon this month. While she and Cunningham do not expect to lead the pack on race day, they will proudly wear red, white and blue pins to remind them of their inspiration.
OTHER LOCAL RUNNERS are participating to overcome personal challenges. Frederick, Md.’s Marién Bossaller, 34, has been a recreational runner for nearly 20 years but she has never completed more than a 10K. Bossaller, legally blind with no vision in her right eye and 20/2000 in her left, is in training for the MCM.
For Bossaller, long runs sometimes mean more than sore muscles and ravishing hunger. Often, her runs involve scrapes and bruises.
“I run either early in the morning or later at night so traffic isn't so bad, “ said Bossaler of her sometimes challenging runs. “Sundays and Wednesdays are tough, because people put their trash out on the street and I have a lot of obstacles.”
She is careful to choose flat sections of the C&O Canal to avoid stray objects. Her shorter runs often include running through her neighborhood on straight streets that are half a mile in length.
“I'm not letting my disability be an excuse,” said Bossaller. “I will continue to train until race day. I am determined to cross the finish line.”
Josh Stevens, 30, of Triangle, Va. is an active duty Marine who has Type 1 diabetes. Of the more than 18 million people with diabetes, roughly 5 percent have Type 1. Stevens can’t just lace up his shoes and go for a run. He must regularly ensure his glucose levels are within an acceptable range so he does not pass out while he runs. Then he carefully plans how far he will go on each run and how much energy he expects to expend to know if he’ll need to carry power gel or a snack to maintain his energy safely.
Unlike most runners who can treat themselves to a sugary snack after a run or a big meal of carbohydrates before a race, Stevens must carefully calculate and balance the sugars in each bite to maintain his health.
Though running is a part of his regular Marine training, he has been logging extra miles towards his running goals since Christmas 2005. To train for his first marathon, Stevens joins other Marines for training runs on Marine Corps Base Quantico before work most weekdays.
“I am going to run just like I do at 5 a.m. Monday through Friday,” said Stevens, “at ease and to finish the route. Maybe a conversation here and there and a great memory at the end.”
STILL OTHER RUNNERS in the Virginia area are running for a cause. Arlington native Dane Rauschenberg, 30, is running one marathon a weekend for fifty two weeks to raise money for operating expenses, special projects, building improvements and endowments for his cause, L’Arche Mobile. He hopes to raise $52,000 by the end of the year. The Marine Corp Marathon will be his 43rd marathon.
For some, the mere thought of being able to train in Virginia is inspiration. Maj. Megan McClung is more than 6,000 miles from the Arlington start line. She, along with nearly 150 deployed members of the U.S. military, are in training for their own marathon, the Marine Corps Marathon Forward. They will be the first to participate in the 26.2-mile satellite race that offers deployed service members throughout Iraq the chance to gather in the Al Anbar province to earn their place as a Marine Corp Marathon finisher. For those like McClung, training includes sweating it out in the heat of the Iraqi summer, for her own test of endurance in expected 80-degree weather on race day.
So on your next run, whether it’s a few miles to stay in shape or the final long run of your Marine Corp Marathon training, be sure to smile, nod or even say to other runners you pass. You never know what might be motivating them to keep going.
Running 'People's Marathon'
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Descend to Acheron – The Transience of Flesh (Petrichor)
Sunday, 29th November 2020 By Kyle McGinn
A new brutal death metal act from Australia, Descend to Acheron bring forth their first release with The Transience of Flesh. First and foremost, this release is intent on giving the listener a bludgeoning from beginning to end, as any enjoyable death metal release should. But some slight progressive tweaks also keep it a more interesting journey.
Given the EP length, there’s never a worry about the band going too heavy and getting fatigue from the perpetual bombardment of fast riffs and pounding drums. The visceral edge of the band does have a reminiscence to the elder statesmen of the ‘90s, with that urgent and punishing sound that early Deicide, Immolation, and Suffocation enjoyed coming into light readily. Each track is essentially a barnburner in that regard, moving quickly ahead with speedy tempos and attacking riffs doing their best to keep the adrenaline rush going. Deep, bellowing growls and raspy screams are par for the course, but the lows in particular stand out in their upfront heaviness and give an extra notch to the intensity. Despite the battering ram mentality, a few things on the progressive end do stand out. Outside of some nice tempo change-ups into groovy stuff, some of the basswork sticks out for the style at times (“The Godless Part I”), with a nod towards the more modern tech scene, and the solos/leads can display a melodic flair that serves as a nice counterbalance to the otherwise frenetic assault (see “Plague of Superstition”).
The Transience of Flesh is a death metal rager, pure and simple. For a first release, there’s a lot of promise for those hip to the scene. The merging of some lighter prog influences and frequent tempo shifts into an otherwise oppressive battering of death metal keeps it more intriguing overall. Hopefully we’ll hear some more from this act soon.
The Transience Of Flesh by Descend to Acheron
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Rand falls nearly 2% after student chaos
October 21, 2015 Written by Admin
The rand fell sharply to R13.52 against the dollar as chaos erupted outside Parliament, where Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene was delivering his medium-term budget policy statement.
The rand was trading almost 2% down from R13.27 before students and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) attempted to disrupt the minister’s speech in Parliament. Nene managed to deliver his speech almost an hour later.
The rand also traded weaker against the euro at R15.34 and the pound at R20.88.
Independent treasury specialist to corporates Adam Phillips of Umkhulu Consulting said: “Firstly, the bounce down to R13.00 was too quick and there was not enough good news to keep it down there.
“We have filled back in some gaps very quickly on the back of concerns that a US hike might still happen in December.
Chinese growth is still a concern and I don’t think from a sentiment perspective that the student fee protesting and EFF causing problems helps either. “Rating agencies will now comment on Nene’s speech. The one to watch is Fitch.”
Phillips said the rand-dollar exchange rate might be near the short-term top, but it remains volatile.
Nene emphasised throughout his speech that without economic growth, revenue cannot increase and without revenue growth, expenditure cannot increase.
South Africa needs more foreign direct investment to help boost economic growth and for this to happen, it needs to nurture trust internally before it can regain the trust of the outside world, said reputation management expert Solly Moeng.
He was referring to the need to protect the public protector and other democratic institutions and said that by gaining this trust, South Africa can attract skills and foreign direct investment (FDI) to its shores.
But the 2015 FDI Confidence Index released in April this year showed that business leaders were increasingly looking for global growth opportunities, but not in South Africa.
According to the 15th annual index from global strategy and management consulting firm AT Kearney, two-thirds of companies plan to return to pre-financial crisis levels of FDI by 2016, but no African or Middle Eastern countries ranked in the top 25 FDI destinations in 2015.
Last year, South Africa ranked 13th in the index.
The other African countries included in the survey were Algeria, Angola, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania.
Martin Sprott of AT Kearney Johannesburg said at the release of the index that the main reason for South Africa slipping out of the index was the the capital flight to developed markets as investors move away from emerging markets towards safer destinations for better returns.
Political analyst Daniel Silke said Wednesday’s events would reverberate in our domestic politics for some time as student anger was once again assuming its place at the vanguard of protest against ineffective governance.
A return to the past
“South Africa is witnessing a return to its past as anger and frustration of a younger generation clashes with years of poor policy formulation and lack of implementation,” he said.
Silke said it is doubly ironic that these protests came on the day when Nene had to explain and confront a declining economy and weak economic performance.
“It reflects the dismal state of the country’s finances, all in the context of vast inequality and the inability to adequately kickstart growth in the economy.”
Silke said that what South Africa and the world witnessed on Wednesday was a classic tale of two countries: MPs locked into a political vacuum in Parliament while emotions, frustrations and anger boiled over just steps away outside.
He said events in Parliament would damage relations between the electorate and the executive, and that political parties should be concerned.
According to him, the executive seemed oblivious to the chaos outside and this would serve to deepen the sceptical views the electorate have of their leadership. – News24.com
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Fairfax County: Meals Tax Statement Debated During Joint Budget Meeting
Text prepared by Board of Supervisors and FCPS board chairs.
FCPS Superintendent Karen Garza (rear, right) laid out FY2018 required expenditure assumptions totaling over $58 million. Enrollment growth, retirement rate increases and health insurance rate increases were among those costs Garza said “are going to fluctuate but we have no choice but to pay.” Photo by Tim Peterson.
By Tim Peterson
Joint statement from Chairman Sharon Bulova, Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, and Chairman Sandy Evans, Fairfax County School Board:
“The meals tax is intended to diversify county revenue and to supplement and not supplant support for school and county services.
The meals tax would create a new revenue source, paid by diners in Fairfax County who are county residents, tourists, and workers who live in neighboring jurisdictions.
The School Board has committed that its share, estimated to be almost $70 million in new funding, will be used primarily to address teachers' salaries, which have lagged behind neighboring communities.
Almost $30 million would be available to address general county services or capital improvements such as in public safety, mental health services, libraries, and parks, as well as providing for property tax relief.
Note: the meals tax, if approved, would not be levied in the Town of Clifton, or in the Towns of Herndon and Vienna, where a meals tax has already been implemented.”
There continues to be division, at least among several members of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors and School Board, on whether voters should approve a referendum allowing the government to levy up to a four percent additional tax on prepared foods and beverages at restaurants, as well as ready-to-eat foods from grocery and convenience stores.
Following presentations forecasting FY2018 budgets for both FCPS and Fairfax County, BOS chair Sharon Bulova introduced a statement on the “meals tax” prepared jointly with FCPS school board chair Sandy Evans.
Fairfax County claims the tax would raise an estimated $100 million in a year, of which 70 percent would be directed to FCPS and their effort to make teachers’ salaries more competitive with the market and surrounding school districts. The other 30 would go to other county services such as public safety, mental health, libraries and parks.
FCPS Superintendent Karen Garza laid out FY2018 required expenditure assumptions totalling over $58 million. Enrollment growth, retirement rate increases and health insurance rate increases were among those costs Garza said “are going to fluctuate but we have no choice but to pay.”
THE TOTAL nearly matches up with the standard three percent increase in transfer from the Board of Supervisors. That would leave out projected compensation needs including a planned step increase in teachers’ salaries -- a $44 million change alone from FY 2017 -- and teacher scale implementation -- a $44.3 million increase.
Supervisor John Cook (R-Braddock) thanked Garza for “the cleanest fall presentation” he’s seen in his time on the board. “This tells us what we need to know,” he said. “If the meals tax passes, you get it, if it doesn’t, you don’t.”
There was confusion initially over whether the statement would be issued on behalf of both boards and therefore reflect their collective views. It was pointed out neither board had voted on the statement’s content.
Springfield District school board representative Elizabeth Schultz said in no uncertain terms she wouldn’t vote for releasing the statement. She said she was critical of the statement omitting text to help voters understand the “magnitude of the impact” the tax would have, especially on low income families.
Supervisor Pat Herrity (R-Springfield) spoke to some criticism the BOS has received over previous public mailings on the meals tax coming across as intended to influence voters to vote in favor of it.
“It depends on whether you think you have a spending problem or a revenue problem,” Herrity said. “This is PR.”
Chairman Sharon Bulova explained the statement was developed by both chairs to be used to explain how funds from the meals tax would be used.
Budget committee chair Supervisor Jeff McKay (D-Lee) asked if any supervisor or school board member thought anything in the statement wasn’t factual.
Sully District school board representative Tom Wilson called the move for a meals tax “premature,” and that the Supervisors don’t have good information on the implications of the meals tax, if passed, on restaurants, families and other businesses.
“I don’t think it will have a negative impact on restaurants and staff,” responded Supervisor John Foust (D-Dranesville). “The opposition, they haven’t stepped forward,” with proof the meals tax will be the blow they say it will.
Schultz continued her opinion, following the meeting, calling the statement “classic liberal tax-and-spend mentality.”
“Instead of being more jobs- and economic growth-oriented, we’re going to make it more difficult to live in Fairfax County.
To Herrity, Schultz and others, Supervisor Dan Storck (D-Mount Vernon) said his response is, “Show me where we’re spending $100 million wrong. I hear bits and pieces, but they’re small pieces. The issue is we’re talking about a much larger challenge.”
Storck said he’s supportive of finding other ways to fund education and reduce the burden on real estate property tax, but that the Virginia General Assembly limits the County’s options by withholding income tax and constraining other taxing power.
“I lament, I’m frustrated because state legislature needs to give local communities the trust they say they have in us,” Storck said, “to make the kind of local decisions frankly democracy was founded on. Give us those choices, those opportunities. I think that the referendum is a way to do that. We have to at least make an effort to see it through.”
MORE INFORMATION on the 2016 Meals Tax Referendum is available here, including the text of the ballot question in both English and Spanish.
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Issaquah High School Course Guide
MUS200 - Orchestra 1 (Greenwood Orchestra)
Fine Art Credit
Year/1.0 Credit
Grade 9 - 12
Learning Recommendations: Successful completion of three or more years of orchestra or the equivalent in private instruction.
General Description: This orchestra provides a yearlong elective course for the string player who has had three or more years of experience. While some individual instruction will occur in class, the main goal will be the performance of orchestra literature as a group. Performances are mandatory and will include concerts, festivals, and assemblies. Some before school rehearsals may be required.
Content: The repertoire for the orchestra is selected from string literature appropriate to the beginning and intermediate high school level. The repertoire will be specific to each performance event.
Strategies: Most student learning will take place during rehearsals, but it may also occur during sectional rehearsals, chamber music, and private practice.
Homework: Private practice is assumed to be a minimum of 30-60 minutes per night. This practice time may include music assigned by the student’s private instructor in addition to music required for ensemble.
Course Fee / Materials: ASB Card. $30 Class Fee. Purchase of uniform (approx. $100), some travel costs (approx. $150). In most cases students must provide their own instrument. $150/yr rental fee for use of school cellos and basses.
Career and Tech Education
Zero & 7th Period Courses
Tutor/TA
Issaquah High School Contacts
College in the High School
Tech Prep - CTE Dual Credit
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Black and White Original Cardboard Mounted Rue Portrait From 1967
Rue owned two of these blow ups from a 1967 portrait shot by Jacques Cartier; he was the founder of The Hartford Stage Company where she performed for a season. We already posted the framed one that hung in Rue’s home office – you can see that one in the photos posted – but...
Formal Portrait of Rue, Her Little Sister, and Mother
This formal portrait was taken of Rue, her little sister Melinda, and her mother back in 1944. Rue told me that her grandmother made their matching dresses; obviously that is where both Rue and her sister got their sewing talent, because those dresses are beautiful. Although people are always...
Original Photographs Given To Rue By Brad Davis From "Midnight Express"
Rue adored the late actor Brad Davis, and from all accounts the feeling was mutual. Rue and Mr. Davis did theatre together in New York City in the ’70s, and then Mr. Davis lived at Rue’s home when he first moved out to California. Not only did Rue love him personally, but she...
Rue's Suggestive Thumbtack Holder
First of all, only Rue McClanahan would keep her thumbtacks in such a beautiful wooden box. Second, only Rue McClanahan would own a thumbtack holder that could be called “suggestive.” Keep in mind, Rue was never overtly sexual or in any way crass or vulgar – Betty White, on...
Trash Basket From Rue's Home Office
You can see this trash basket on the floor of the home office in Rue’s Manhattan apartment next to Rue and her bestie, Sue. The piece measures 12.5″ tall and is 12.5″ wide, too. We don’t think this was necessarily made to be a trash basket, but that is what Rue used it...
Rue's Marker Wheel She Used To Create Her Doodles
Rue kept this large marker wheel right next to her desk in the home office of her Manhattan apartment. She bought the set at an art store down the street from her apartment and used it from the early 2000s until the end of her life; all of the “doodles” she created during that...
Slightly Messed Up 5" x 7" Original Signed Publicity Card [SOLD]
We see why Rue didn’t send out this original signed card from the cover shoot of her memoir; she either put something sticky on it that left a mark when she pulled it off, or she slid something across the surface. This 5″ x 7″ signed card has come scrapes or lines on the front. They are very faint, but obviously this is why Rue stuck it in a book she was reading rather than have it mailed out. Bad news that it has the mark, but good news that another card with her original signature exists – we thought they were all gone.
Rue's Sexy Heart Anklet [SOLD]
Although we don’t think this is made of any “precious metal,” it is still precious because Rue owned and wore it on her tiny ankle. The chain is 9″ long and the little heart is about .25″ across. Comes with a Certificate of Authenticity from Estate of Rue.
Rue's "Magnolia" Tunic
Here is another piece Rue owned that was made by her dear friend Grace Martin. Rue had to alter the piece slightly by sewing the center, cleavage-closing fabric into the bodice after a wardrobe malfunction left her…ahem….exposed. The silk is gorgeous. The piece is kind of a one-size-fits-all tunic and there is a label sewn in that reads: “It’s A Magnolia by Grace Martin.” Rue’s print silk tunic comes with a Certificate of Authenticity from Estate of Rue.
Three Framed Stage Shots From 1972 Run of "Dylan"
In 1972 Rue starred with Will Hare in an Off-Broadway production of “Dylan.” Rue described it as the type of show where a theatre actor can fully experience being an actor. She loved the role and made some friends during the production that remained friends for life. Rue kept these three framed stage stills from the show up on her walls as a reminder of these halcyon days. The custom-framed original stills are almost 45 years old and there is some damage that has been done after all those years of California and New York City heat/cold/humidity/dryness. You can see some fogginess, but we don’t know if that is on the photos or the glass, and we don’t want to jeopardize the integrity of the pieces by starting to tear them apart. Rue’s three framed stage stills from “Dylan” come with a Certificate of Authenticity from Estate of Rue.
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Genocide today: From acknowledgement to prevention
Source: traumat psychologia
2020/02/06 - 14:20 • History, Politics
Article by: Colette Hartwich
The Holodomor, Stalin’s genocide of Ukrainians by starvation in 1932-1933, killed millions and its effects stretched over generations. A descendant of Ukrainians from the north-central Poltava province, Colette Hartwich learned that the Holodomor survivors were not just afraid of mentioning the famine, but also felt shame about it. The “victim only” status is one of the long-term consequences in post-genocidal communities, she says in her article.
By examining the Armenian genocide and the genocide of the Rohingya people along with Holodomor, Collete Hartwich suggests how it is possible to get out of this “victim only” status. She discusses why the nations responsible for genocides must pay compensation for their deeds to prevent such crimes in the future and how to get it done in a judicial way.
What have I learned about Genocide and how
As the descendant of Ukrainian landed gentry, I have learned that even mentioning Genocide was dangerous and somehow shameful. Holodomor, the deliberate Genocide by starvation organized by Stalin, heavily hit the province of Poltava, where my ancestors were either landowners or relatively rich farmers.
Those family members who starved are never mentioned, only alluded to. Why the fear? “Because they (the Russian communists) could come back”. In addition, indeed, they are back: in Crimea and in eastern Ukraine. Why the shame? It was a situation of helplessness then: grain and domestic animals, including cows (no milk) had been taken away by the army; access to the rest, of what was called the “prison of nations,” cordoned off by soldiers. One was condemned to being a victim in silence.
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In fact, cannibalism was the only way to survive. Soviet cruelty had destroyed human dignity. The lesson learned by the survivors here was “shut up and survive at any cost.” It is easy to see, how most of Eastern Europe still abides by these principles today.
Justice for the Armenians
My father descended from the Armenians already persecuted in the 18th century, who were happy to accept the offer of Louis XV of France to come and create their life anew in one of the most austere and cold provinces of France: Auvergne.
I am a founding member of a new French association for the defense of the memory of the Armenian Genocide. Now, that the main political institutions in the US have officially acknowledged the Armenian Genocide as a Genocide, it will be possible to set up the legal mechanisms for the descendants of the victims to ask for compensations. Already the yearlong legal fight for Incirlik, presently a strategic military airport in Turkey, situated on a family property of a descendant of an Armenian Genocide victim, is heating up.
From a socio-moral point of view, one has to start, at least, fighting the conclusion that “genocide pays”. The public has to realize that Turkey’s booming economy is largely built on Armenian deaths and the accumulated return on what was once Armenian property. This is a particularly difficult fight because at the time even very rich Armenians fled barely clothed. How could they have brought along the documents certifying property?
Legally, in such cases, the burden of the proof falls heavily on the accuser, not the allegedly guilty party. Thus, except for a little known case in California in the 70s, where a brilliant lawyer managed to put the burden of the proof on the insurance companies (accused), descendants cannot even recuperate the amount of the (important) insurance policies.
It is also important to help the victimized communities gradually to get out of the “victim only” status. In December 2017 at the VIII World Scientific Congress in UNO Geneva, I had given a talk about the transmission of trauma to future generations (“Trauma Trails: Intergenerational transmission of post-Genocide Traumas in descendants of the Armenian Genocide”). This particular field has been studied discreetly since the end of WWII around the artificial famine organized by the Nazis in one small province of the Netherlands. Since my speech, new bio-psychological science has developed: Epigenetics. It has confirmed that whatever the attitude to Genocide parents adopt the future generations will be affected. It is now believed, that these effects last at least fourteen generations and it is clear now that problems caused by Genocide are long-term. “Victim only” status is one of them. There may be some pity towards the victims and the descendants (and it is not always the case), but such pity is largely mixed with contempt, precisely because those involved are seen as passive.
This is changing and the change reflects the socio-moral progress of our society. Two countries recently exemplified that socio-political evolution. It is of great significance that these countries are by no means rich or well-known countries.
First, Lithuania in a long legal dispute against an ex-Russian officer, who murdered many members of the Lithuanian Resistance to the Russian occupation, has successfully enlarged the 1951 UN definition of Genocide to include even a relatively small national group, if that group is/was important to the national identity. Indeed, destroying a national identity is one of the most dangerous effects of a Genocide and constitutes the main pillar of Genocide intent.
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The other quite hopeful, recent and still evolving example of enlarging and specifying the nature and effects of Genocide. It is the Muslim African country, Gambia, suing a Buddhist country, Myanmar, at the International Court of Justice at The Hague for an ongoing Genocide of the Rohingyas, an unrecognized group of Myanmar citizens. Religion is an identity marker and it must not be forgotten that one of the first Genocides in History, the Roman Catholic Crusades, was led by the Roman Catholic Church against the Muslims, described then as “The Unfaithful”, according to Amin Maalouf in his book “The Crusades through Arab Eyes”.
The lawsuit Gambia v. Myanmar started in November 2019 at the Hague’s International Court of Justice, illustrates also the political importance of Genocide as an issue between nations because the accused legal party is led by Myanmar’s Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1991 (for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights) Aung San Suu Kyi. It is vital because for the first time in history one of the accuser’s – Gambia’s – immediate goal is to obtain from the International Court of Justice at the Hague a cease-and-desist order, which would mean that those few Rohingyas still remaining in Myanmar could be protected. Long-term, it opens up the possibility of Genocide prevention, in a century that has seen so many Genocides.
It also encourages lawyers to seek to compensation and punishment because it describes and defines seven indicators of Genocide intent, where planned intent is a central element of the UN’s Genocide definition. Alexis de Tocqueville had long ago insisted on the central importance of the law in our global society. This becomes more and more obvious today. The other factor these legal fights point out is the importance of truth.
In another battle for international consciences, Ukraine, as an independent state, has asked the German Bundestag to acknowledge Holodomor, Stalin’s Genocide by starvation in Ukraine, as a Genocide. Given the Russian influence in business and politics in Germany, that will be a hard task. Both the World Ukrainian Congress and the Ukrainian Embassy in Germany launched an information campaign about Ukraine with a special focus on Holodomor.
If it does encourage the moral reflection in international law and authentic information and education efforts on behalf of foreign embassies and journalists, battles around Genocide will have helped the global social progress.
Colette Hartwich is a creator and founder of Hadassah Luxembourg, WEGA Aide Humanitaire a.s.b.l Luxembourg; Co-Founder of L’Ukraine and ALPHEE Paris. She has 40 years of experience in humanitarian and environmental assistance projects in 7 different countries all around the world: Philippines, Ukraine, Armenia among others. For more than 25 years she is educating and coaching in fields of microfinance, humanitarian and development assistance project drafting.
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AUS vs IND, 1st Test: Cheteshwar Pujara Breaks Joe Root’s Long-Standing Record Against Australia | Cricket News
India vs Australia: Cheteshwar Pujara has faced 3,609 balls in 28 innings vs Australia in last 10 years.© AFP
India batsman Cheteshwar Pujara might have missed his half-century on Thursday, but he broke England skipper Joe Root’s record of facing most deliveries against Australia in the longest format of the game in the last 10 years. Pujara, who has now faced 3,609 balls in 28 innings against Australia in the last 10 years, scored 43 runs off 160 balls on the opening day of the first Test at the Adelaide Oval. Root, who has scored 5,962 runs in Test cricket, has faced 3,607 deliveries against Australia in the past decade. India skipper Virat Kohli and veteran batsman Alastair Cook have faced 3,115 and 3,274 balls against Australia respectively.
Pujara played a patient knock on the opening day of the pink-ball Test but was dismissed just before the tea break by Nathan Lyon. The Australian spinner sent Pujara back for the tenth time in Test cricket.
The Indian batsman admitted that patience is the key in the longest format of the game. Pujara said the batsmen need to spend enough time on the Adelaide wicket before they can start going after the bowlers.
“Patience is necessary for Test cricket as you bat according to the situation. When bowlers are getting the help you have to be patient and you tend to not play many shots,” he said during the virtual press conference.
“I don’t think it was a flat pitch where you can start playing your shots and keep scoring runs. So it’s a pitch where you need to give enough time as a batsman,” Pujara added.
At stumps, India’s score read 233/6 with Saha (9) and R Ashwin (15) at the crease and the Australian bowlers looking to go for the kill.
For the hosts, Mitchell Starc looked a completely different character with the second new ball in hand and finished with the best figures of the day — 2/49.
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Vaccine hesitancy ranges from 53-70%, up in December: Surveys – ET HealthWorld
Mumbai: Only three of every 10 Indians want to take the Covid-19 vaccine when it becomes available, according to a survey which says the remaining 70% would not rush to take the vaccine. Another survey found 53% had “concerns” about the vaccine.
Vaccine hesitancy — an occurrence Indian health officials have encountered with several vaccines in the past such as polio, flu, etc — is now making an appearance on the Covid-scape as well. Respondents of the two surveys cited reasons such as “herd immunity among Indians” to “the worst of the pandemic being over” and “side-effects of the vaccine” for their reluctance.
“The percentage of citizens hesitant was at 61% in October, dropped to 59% in November, and rose to 69% in December,’’ said Sachin Taparia of LocalCircles, a community platform on social media which did one of the surveys.
The hesitancy is proportional to the Covid curve. Average caseload has reduced from 50,000 a day to 25,000 a day at the national level. “This, when combined with concerns about side-effects and vaccine efficacy, explains the vaccine hesitancy in India,” said Taparia.
In the second survey of 11,000 by GOQii, a fitness technology company, 53% were unsure about taking a Covid-19 vaccine (43% would take the final call after watching the initial results while 10% were firmly against it).
The GOQii survey found women were more resistant than men, with 48% of males willing as against 42% of women. Similarly, older adults (45-60 years) and seniors (over 60+) were not as ready as younger age groups.
Experts believe the vaccine is the quickest way to achieve herd immunity against Covid-19. “Many Indians will take the vaccine, only those with access to skeptical theories may oppose it,’’ said a doctor working for a public hospital.
Public health experts such as Dr Anant Phadke have asked the government to be more “transparent’’ about the results of the ongoing clinical trials for Covid-19 in order to reduce this hesitancy.
The expert opinion is that people cannot relax about the virus as cases worldwide continue to rise. Dr Shashank Joshi, who is a member of the state government’s task force on Covid-19, said it would take another four to eight weeks before Mumbai can relax about the second wave. “Although the Diwali peak didn’t occur, it is important to observe Covid-appropriate behavior such as wearing mask and frequently washing hands to ensure there isn’t another spurt,’’ he added.
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Ultimate Painting – Dusk
When Ultimate Painting released last year’s "Green Lanes" it grabbed me on first listen. Their sunny pop, to me, felt like Chicago in the 1990s, the time and place where I came of age. So yeah, it evoked some nostalgia and that was certainly part of the appeal. But nostalgia only goes so far; ultimately, it's the songs that have to hold up. And they do.
Their follow-up, the appropriately titled "Dusk", is not nearly so sunshiny. If "Green Lanes" sounds like the summer days that I spent record shopping and eating at greasy spoon restaurants, "Dusk" is the nightime. It’s the hushed, peaceful drive home from the clubs, winding through urban neighborhoods. Listening to music with the windows rolled open on a crisp summer evening.
The album opens with the shimmering guitars and thin drum sound of “Bills” which sets the stage with its driving rhythm that is reminiscent of Stereolab. However, in lieu of chugging guitars, gentle guitar arpeggios skitter over the top of it all, with half-mumbled vocals on top of that. “Song For Brian Jones” follows with the same lazy, summertime cadence; but some additional percussion loosens up the groove just a little bit.
The album carries on with “Lead the Way.” It’s a somber march that pushes forward with the same sort of chiming guitars, and a single droning synth note that hovers in the background that both lulls and disquiets. “Monday Morning, Somewhere Central” uses little bits of electric piano to add some interesting, subtle counterpoint to the electric guitar. Some nice vocal harmonies strengthen the song’s hook to make this a song that could have been a college radio staple around 1996 or so.
On "Dusk", Ultimate Painting sets a mood and maintains it; it’s evocative as hell. The album casts a spell starting with the very first note, and simply won’t let you go until it’s run its course. It’s one of those records where, each time I drop the needle, I don’t want to pick it up, or even get up out of my chair until the whole thing has faded into the darkness, leaving only its beautiful ghost behind.
It’s another very highly recommended release from the Trouble In Mind label.
Available on CD and vinyl here (UK/EU) and here (US).
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04/05.04.1943 No. 297 Squadron Whitley V BD544 F/O. Louis Sproule
Operation: Nickel
Date: 04/05th April 1943 (Sunday/Monday)
Unit: No. 297 Squadron (38 Group) (2)
Type: Whitley V
Serial: BD544
Code: QA-B
Base: RAF Thruxton, Hampshire
Location: Weyhill, Hampshire
Pilot: F/O. Louis Andrew Sproule 116629 RAFVR Age ? Injured
Pilot 2: Lt. D.W.H. Dickson North Staffordshire Regiment - No further details
Nav: W/O. John Benjamin Burrows AUS/400317 RAAF Age 21. Killed
W/Op/Air/Gnr: F/O. Bernard Bullivant 115673 RAFVR Injured (1)
Air/Gnr: Fl/Sgt. Derrick Augustine Brooks 128963 RAFVR Injured (1)
On the 04th April the squadron sent 6 aircraft on 'Nickelling' operations over, Montluçon, Troyes, Paris, Limoges, Nantes and Rouen.
On return and understood that the aircraft had been hit and damaged by anti-aircraft fire. The pilot suspected that the fuel system had been damaged. On return they were instructed to divert due to fog however the pilot considered that he could not sales make the diversion and decided to try and land at their base, RAF Thruxton.
Above L-R: Ground crew, Fl/Lt. Arthur William Slipper, P/O. Derek Augustine Brook, Sq/Ldr. Lawrence Denis Emblem, F/O. David Pickard, Fl/Lt. Bernard Bullivant, Ground crew. (Courtesy Bruno Lecaplain and 38 Squadron Website - used with permission)
In making the final approach he apparently allowed the aircraft to get too low resulting hitting the ground about a mile short of the airfield at 01:21 hrs at Weyhill railway station. At the time Verey lights were fired as well as rockets - Mark II airfield lighting was implemented.
It was considered the main cause of the crash was pilot fatigue and mental stress and that it was not possible to identify how much fuel they had remaining as the aircraft was a total wreck, both engines thrown out of the aircraft on impact. Although the pilot initially survived he died on the way to hospital. The Australian navigator W/O. John Burrows was killed instantly. The second pilot, Army Lieutenant Dickson suffered head injuries but recovered.The other two crew members escaped with slight injuries.
(1) F/O. Bullivant and Fl/Sgt. Brooks both escaped injury and evaded capture later in the war. On the 28th July 1944 on a Albermarle P1400 the aircraft was attacked by a night fighter with the aircraft crashing near Muneville-sur-Mer. 3 of the crew were killed, 3 others evaded and made their way bak to England.
(2) 297 Squadron was first formed as the Parachute Experimental Squadron on the 15th December 1941, initially they were based at Ringway in Manchester but after only a week were moved to Netheravon. In February 1942, the first Whitley aircraft began to arrive and these were used to help train paratroopers. The Squadron moved to RAF Hurn on the 4th June, and then to RAF Thruxton on the 24th October. From these bases a steady programme of training with the Airborne Forces continued, but 297 Squadron also conducted a number of "Nickel" raids; dropping leaflets over occupied territory.
F/O. Louis Andrew Sproule. Rutherglen Cemetery. Division Q. Grave 88. No further details, are you able to assist further?
W/O. John Benjamin Burrows. Buried at Cannock Cemetery. Division. A. Sec. 1. Grave 1175 on the 10th April. Born on the 11th July 1921 at Coburg, Victoria, the son of Alexander and Ada Frances Burrows, of Middle Brighton, Victoria, Australia and husband of Marjorie Ruth Burrows, of North-Close,The Canonry, Salisbury, England. Epitaph reads: "Still Living, Still Ours Father And Mother".
With many thanks to David Franklin who brought this loss to our attention. He discovered a clip showing a Mr. Hannah McFadyen who had been looking after the grave of the Australian crewmember for several years. Bruno Lecaplain and 38 Squadron Website. For further details our thanks to the following sources.
KTY 05.05.2018
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Vive la France 2007
By Patricia Connell
The show was smaller than last year and with many exhibitors who had not made it across the Channel because of high winds, many thought that it would be a wash out but it was not.
Certainly, the organisors had made sure that the quality was there. The food from the various top French restaurants present (see Raymond Blanc in the above picture) at the show was simply amazing. How often can you sample food of that standard for a fiver?
The fashion show and the music so highly criticised last year for its poor quality, so a dramatic improvement. It was as much joy to see gorgeous girls on the catwalk as it was to listen to some enchanting music.
All in all, it was a great success. I now look forward to next year's event when I know it will be even better.
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Big Boi’s Daughter Jordan Patton Launches “Purple Ribbon Kidz” Music Label
Monday, June 6th, 2011 at 5:36 pm
While most kids dream of having a car when they turn 16, Big Boi’s only daughter, Jordan Patton received a job, yes she is the creator and CEO of “Purple Ribbon Kidz” music label. This is a dream come true to Jordan, and because of the great love Big Boi has for her and her dreams, he saw fit to making it possible for her to acquire her own record label that focuses on bringing authentic and true talent back in the music industry starting with the kids.
This star studded event was held at the Hard Rock Cafe downtown Atlanta. In conjunction with Enchanted PR, AW Media Group, and The StarFire Group, Big Boi made sure the celebrity kids were going to receive the royal treatment. When you walked up to the event there was an invasion of the color purple from balloons, to a purple carpet, and a large group of kid cheerleaders that were cheering on the celebs that walked the carpet.
The event was not only a celebration of Jordan’s 16th birthday, but a showcase to introduce to the world her first artist signed to her Purple Ribbon Kidz Label; Gabbie Rae a 13 year-old star who Jordan discovered on Youtube. Jordan was immediately impressed with Gabbie Rae’s vocal ability that she instantly to it to her father Big Boi where he was won over as well. From there Gabbie was the first act to sign to the label and immediately went to work on the first single.
Tonight was hosted by child star Adrian Kali Turner,kid Dj Priest was a beast on the 1s and 2s and we had special performances by Cypress, Von Grey, Audio (formerly B5) and the highlight of the night was Purple Ribbon Kidz first signed act Gabbie Rae. Other celebrities in the building were The Bailey Sisters, Dondria, Derek Blanks and son BO, Verse Simmonds, Lil Q (Q Parker’s Son), Brent Leakes (NeNe Of RHOA son), ReignDrop Lopes, Jacob Latimore, Shanti Das, Fresh P Jr, Harold House Moore and many more.
I’d have to say after watching all of the performances the future of music is in great hands. These young stars are going to take the world by storm. and I have to give it up to the Child CEO of the night Ms. Jordan Patton she definitely has an eye for talent, her first official artist is certified platinum and is going to go mega pop star status SOOOOOOON!!!!
You heard it first here “World be on the look out for Gabbie Rae”
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Bill Gates’ Globalist Vaccine Agenda: A Win-Win for Pharma and Mandatory Vaccination
abril 15, 2020 By francisco g subirachs Leave a Comment
[Robert F. Kennedy’s daughter, who was fighting Bill Gates on vaccine policy, mysteriously ended up dying along with her boy in a «freak canoe accident». Obviously it’s not hard to get two bodies dead from asphyxiation loaded onto a canoe and then tip the canoe over in deep water, but the BIG mystery is how both bodies sank to the bottom when dead women float breast up. So obviously Robert is pissed, and he is now letting it all out.]
Original source: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/government-corruption/gates-globalist-vaccine-agenda-a-win-win-for-pharma-and-mandatory-vaccination/
By Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Chairman, Children’s Health Defense
Vaccines, for Bill Gates, are a strategic philanthropy that feed his many vaccine-related businesses (including Microsoft’s ambition to control a global vaccination ID enterprise) and give him dictatorial control of global health policy.
Gates’ obsession with vaccines seems to be fueled by a conviction to save the world with technology.
Promising his share of $450 million of $1.2 billion to eradicate polio, Gates took control of India’s National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (NTAGI), which mandated up to 50 doses (Table 1) of polio vaccines through overlapping immunization programs to children before the age of five. Indian doctors blame the Gates campaign for a devastating non-polio acute flaccid paralysis (NPAFP) epidemic that paralyzed 490,000 children beyond expected rates between 2000 and 2017. In 2017, the Indian government dialed back Gates’ vaccine regimen and asked Gates and his vaccine policies to leave India. NPAFP rates dropped precipitously.The most frightening [polio] epidemics in Congo, Afghanistan, and the Philippines are all linked to vaccines.
In 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) reluctantly admitted that the global explosion in polio is predominantly vaccine strain. The most frightening epidemics in Congo, Afghanistan, and the Philippines, are all linked to vaccines. In fact, by 2018, 70% of global polio cases were vaccine strain.
In 2014, the Gates Foundation funded tests of experimental HPV vaccines, developed by Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK) and Merck, on 23,000 young girls in remote Indian provinces. Approximately 1,200 suffered severe side effects, including autoimmune and fertility disorders. Seven died. Indian government investigations charged that Gates-funded researchers committed pervasive ethical violations: pressuring vulnerable village girls into the trial, bullying parents, forging consent forms, and refusing medical care to the injured girls. The case is now in the country’s Supreme Court.South African newspapers complained, ‘We are guinea pigs for the drug makers.’
In 2010, the Gates Foundation funded a phase 3 trial of GSK’s experimental malaria vaccine, killing 151 African infants and causing serious adverse effects, including paralysis, seizure, and febrile convulsions, to 1,048 of the 5,949 children.
During Gates’ 2002 MenAfriVac campaign in Sub-Saharan Africa, Gates’ operatives forcibly vaccinated thousands of African children against meningitis. Approximately 50 of the 500 children vaccinated developed paralysis. South African newspapers complained, “We are guinea pigs for the drug makers.” Nelson Mandela’s former senior economist, Professor Patrick Bond, describes Gates’ philanthropic practices as “ruthless and immoral.”
In 2010, when Gates committed $10 billion to the WHO, he said “We must make this the decade of vaccines.” A month later, Gates said in a TED Talk that new vaccines “could reduce population.” And, four years later, in 2014, Kenya’s Catholic Doctors Association accused the WHO of chemically sterilizing millions of unwilling Kenyan women with a “tetanus” vaccine campaign. Independent labs found a sterility formula in every vaccine tested. After denying the charges, WHO finally admitted it had been developing the sterility vaccines for over a decade. Similar accusations came from Tanzania, Nicaragua, Mexico, and the Philippines.
A 2017 study (Morgenson et. al. 2017) showed that WHO’s popular DTP vaccine is killing more African children than the diseases it prevents. DTP-vaccinated girls suffered 10x the death rate of children who had not yet received the vaccine. WHO has refused to recall the lethal vaccine, which it forces upon tens of millions of African children annually.[Global public health officials] say he has diverted agency resources to serve his personal philosophy that good health only comes in a syringe.
Global public health advocates around the world accuse Gates of steering WHO’s agenda away from the projects that are proven to curb infectious diseases: clean water, hygiene, nutrition, and economic development. The Gates Foundation spends only about $650 million of its $5 billion dollar budget on these areas. They say he has diverted agency resources to serve his personal philosophy that good health only comes in a syringe.
In addition to using his philanthropy to control WHO, UNICEF, GAVI, and PATH, Gates funds a private pharmaceutical company that manufactures vaccines and is donating $50 million to 12 pharmaceutical companies to speed up development of a coronavirus vaccine. In his recent media appearances, Gates appears confident that the Covid-19 crisis will now give him the opportunity to force his dictatorial vaccine programs on all American children – and adults.
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“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?”
octubre 1, 2018 By francisco g subirachs Leave a Comment
Original article at https://ethericwarriors.com/2018/09/23/4688/
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”
George Orwell, from “1984”, 1949
September 1, 2018 – Chicago, IL – The city has seen a total of 1,629 shootings so far this year, which marks a 16 percent decrease over the same time period last year, when 1,960 shootings were tallied, CPD said. The department also touted a 15 percent drop in robberies so far this year.
Tout – verb – 1. attempt to sell (something), typically by pestering people in an aggressive or bold manner.
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Conversation with Castilla La manchas farmer after 2 years of Gifting orgonite
agosto 3, 2016 By francisco g subirachs 4 Comments
Here is part of several conversations i had with the farmer last year on the phone. I recorded them to be able to write this post. It is not the whole thing, just took the parts which i felt were more interesting. He doesn’t use the internet much so it is the only form of communication i can use with him and he always insists to remain anonymous.
Right after i came from the great visit to Don and Carol´s which saved my ass from the local gestapo the farmer called me. We had mentioned we needed to do more and so we met again at his place loaded with more orgonite. The plan was to go along the coast Levante area from South Valencia to Almeria in south of Spain. I have some video made but most of the stuff you might see heavy rain or antennas. I may add up a report later. I think this conversation is more interesting.
Why did you contact me at first?
Farmer(F) >> it was because one member of my family was sick and i was worried about the antennas nearby. Later i took interest in some of Wilhelm Reich´s books, then got info on orgonite and i saw your page and decided to contact you. My worries or the understanding that it could be used for my crops came later.
It has been about a year since we did the first gifting.
Can you tell me your general impressions about it?
Farmer >> I am always observing but if you ask other members of the family they all have a reason to explain why the fields are better. One will say it is because the manure was good, the other cause he did such and such thing to the land etc…
OK, lets recap then. Last year (2014) it was so dry that you feared you were going to collect very little and it was going to be a disaster. You decided to put orgonite in your fields just a few weeks prior to collecting but we weren’t expecting anything or didn’t know how positive it was going to be for such a short time.
Farmer >> Yes, that s right.
You managed then to collect almost an average crop despite all this circumstances and your neighbors seem to be positively affected, some of them collecting double than they expected as is the case of the vineyard next to you.
F > that s right.
Now, you all have done your best 2 years ago, last year and this one so that the land will be well and can collect as much as possible. The only thing new is the orgonite you put in your land?
F > that is correct and also new was the fact that has been raining since.
So i wouldn’t call that a coincidence since every trip i take with you to gift we always get poured and i know the atmosphere is so much better.
F> Doesn’t seem so right.
So last year you mentioned to me that a normal crop is about 25 to 32 grains per spike , now, lets talk about this year since orgonite has been properly planted for a year now and we can say we could expect some changes.
F>> Yes, 25 to 32 grain is leaning towards a good crop
ok, so how much bio mass did you reach this year.
F > We have reached over 50 grains per spike this year and they are big grains. We have observed that they are very heavy this year.
That is great! and i actually joked with you last year about seeing if you could get 50 to 60 grains per spike and it has happened!
F >> Indeed it has.
Ok, so there was a barrier that we broke thru the Sierras, you have noticed again the mediterranean breeze coming thru as well, You have witnessed rain in all spanish Levante area, your land sounds spectacular…
F >> yes, in the early mornings we are getting frost again. that hasn’t happened in years.
F >> And this extra humidity which is great for the plants and the fields.
Well, i do not know how many more evidences we need then?
F >> (Laughing) of course. There s also been another change. I just remembered. Do you remember that we got hail not long ago here?
Yes, and you told me at the time that you were going to loose about 25% to 35% of your crops because of it.
F >> Well, the plants are growing again!
No way!!
F >> [laughs] Yes, so the grains that felt off the plants because of the hail, they got planted and are growing and so we are going to wait another month and collect them! and we are going to be able to get straw for animals.
Wow! that seems like a nice turn around.
F >> Yes, it is like a miracle.
Yes, i can tell you now what the miracle is!
F >> [laughs] If you see the fields now it is all back to green completely. For a second time this year now we have them almost to your knee level.
So this is like collecting two crops!!?
F>> Exactly, we are collecting twice this year!
F >> This is for the oats, not the barley.
Ah ok. is the Oat a stronger plant?
F >> well, it is simply a little more wild if you will
So this means you are actually going to improve on your initial lost. What are the collecting results?
F >> Yes, we are gaining again and recuperating some of that loss. We don’t know yet since.It has to dry out.
ah ok.
F >> Also i will not know until we actually weight it completely. The haze took its toll so we shall see.
ok. I remember you told me that you had some areas that always tended to be yellow patches.
F >> Yes, maybe manure doesn’t get there or the plant isn’t strong enough and they become yellow.
but i think you told me these areas were always the same. Like these yellow patches appeared in same areas thru the years.
F >> Yes, that is correct.
And this year?
F >> This year non of them have showed up. the whole field has been absolutely green. Last year we had them but this year they have disappeared.
Nice, so this is another thing to take into account as a good change.
F >> Yes. And the animals that came back last year to the area are still here. SO much so that we have build nests on the trees for the birds who have stayed.
Superb! Any other changes you can tell me about.
F >> not that i can think off right now.
ok. your land neighbors , touching your fields. There was the case of the grape producer who had a nice increase to salvage their crops despite the adverse conditions of last year. Have you followed on them?
F >>Unfortunately in this case he will not be able to collect since the hail destroyed the stems and it is very bad for the fruit trees.
Damm, that is right.
F >> the stems are starting to sprout again but it is too late.
You need to place a Cloud buster over there. i feel really stupid that i didn’t think to tell you or recommend that you have one there to reduce any violent weather in the area.(as of today, 2016, we did place two new Cb´s and one was planted on the fields)
So rains… Castilla la Mancha and Levante area are getting much better rains, right?
F >> Yes, i would say more Castilla la Mancha than Murcia for instance.
To me it seems that the mediterranean currents are coming South to North, specially after gifting the canaries. North of Valencia in Castellon and Valencia area itself have improved lots. I have been able to see thru these past years, plenty of rain and great atmosphere over there. I do see that still more needs to be gifted such as Almeria, a place much in need. Maybe we could say from Alicante to Almeria.
F >> yes, they come more from the south. and Almeria and Murcia need to recuperate. They are dry. It has rained more this year but it is lacking from past years.
Yes. Listen, the left overs we did not use last gifting trip you have gone by yourself to gift, right ?
F > Yes, i used everything! there were some Kgs left over. I probably used half in Castilla la Mancha and the other in Murcia area.
and Albacete Town, still dirty or clean by now?
F > It is done yes, now it is good. Someone else did it.
Ok, how about the Earth Pipes?
F >> yes,i pounded them.
Have you seen any brownish/yellowish smog floating around in some specific areas?
F > Well, i have not but i have seen what you are saying just above the sea about 5 miles out.
Yes, also it happens over there for this we need to take a boat to gift the seas as well. Anyhow i am glad you pounded them. Any other anecdote you would like to share?
F >>mmm.. some anecdote? well… the whirlwind that was pushing at me! Last August. I was on a mountain top and threw 3 or 4 pieces and immediately after about 15 yards in front of me a whirlwind was created from the ground and literally chased me!
F >> yes, i had to start running! and i must point out that it was not a windy day at all.
Do you know any more people gifting in the area by now?
F > I do not know them personally but i know few people have started doing it as well.
yes, those are the ones doing the Jaen area right?
F > i think so yes.
How about the old lady that did her whole town?
F >> well, of course. She is doing it too. She is phenomenal, does it by herself. Going to tell you another anecdote i just remembered… Strange stuff was happening at a woman’s house . Do you know what was happening there? what happened to me?
F > someone always pulled my shirt when i entered the house! It happened a couple of times and there was no hands or fingers present i can assure you.This woman and her family weren’t feeling very good there. So we placed several orgonites around. When i took the stairs to reach her apartment the whole building felt very bad.
So what happened with that then?
F >> all the strange happenings have ceased and they all feel better at home.
Alright. I remember a story you mentioned about an older woman in a village who offered her views?
F >> yes, the water fountain! there s a spring that has started to have a water stream again. On TV and radio they say that all streams from underground water are dry!
haha, of course!
F >> It s a lie! But in this case the stream has started to flow after 30 years as the old lady mentioned. It has ferrous taste, i tried it.
aha. So the land we have covered these past two years, what extension do you think it is?
F >> Last year we did about 1600km and another 1400km this year.
ok and also what you have covered yourself.
F >> Exactly, there s that much too.
and other comments you can offer?
F >> Well, i d like to tell you about my view on orgonite and how it changes the energy pattern of the land.
oh well, that is an interesting subject and certainly you are an expert on land/earth so let s hear your take.
F >> well, land has been plowed and fertilized for ages. It has had many different crops at different times. Think you cultivate 10 years some veggies, then another 10 years there is cereal, other times there was gravel in that land and so on…
F > so this earth changes , it s adulterated too. So in this case i think orgonite is like an energy bomb for this earth that restores it energetically adulterated stuff hence the greater crops.
Yes, nice. There a man in the north i sent him many cones so he could gift the second crown inland with many antennas. he actually installs them and hence he will visit them all! he tried orgonite with his fruit trees and plants and he claims that ants do not get near the fruit trees. He says he notices less plagues and parasites around the plants. Have you noticed anything of the sort yourself?
F >> well, it is quite possible.
Which would be the 1st enemy of your cereals?
F > some type of fungus. They can appear if it rains much and the sun doesn’t shine. They could also appear if you have a bad storage of the cereal. The seed starts to disintegrate and bugs and worms start to appear.
ok. So you have a Oats, Barley and wheat, right?
F >> Yes. and the wheat this year is so heavy is leaning sideways!
Great news. Well, i think we have covered a lot. Hope now the CB on your way will solve the hail issue. Next week i am going to Valencia. What a change. Sylphs are there, the blue skies, it feels so much better to be there.
F > Yes, there actually rain for the next 3 days now.
Yes, raining very well and Castellon was outrageous!
F >> yes, valencia , Teruel, north and south of valencia, it is all good.
OK , was nice to know more and do this recap. Take care !!
F > you too and greetings to your family.
About a week ago i called him up to know about this years crops (2016) and he gave me the overall picture of these 3 past years. He told me a good season produces for their land about 300 Tones of cereal give or take 20. SO taking that into account let s see how it went:
2014>> 280 Tn so this came to be a good season almost on average even ´do the prospects were bad. He placed the orgonite late in the hopes that it would help and help it did. brought rain and the sun did the rest. The yellow unhealthy arches in his land did not disappear , the crop was almost ready to collect.
2015>> 200 Tn. This he mentioned covered the costs for the season but the hail storms had a great impact. They recuperated a bit cause a second mini harvest was created from the seeds that felt on the land and for the first time in years the yellow patches had disappeared. The plants were crispy, healthy and look heavy since they were leaning to the sides by the weight of the grains.
2016>> 600 Tn A very excellent crop season for them and orgonite has been in their land for two years straight now. Regular gifting has been done extensively and now a cloud buster sits on his land. No hail storms or violent weather happened. The yellow patches are gone for a second season in a row and spikes carried well over 50 grains. IN all this is double the average of a regular season.
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When flase flags don´t fly [VIDEO]
noviembre 16, 2015 By francisco g subirachs Leave a Comment
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Silent Epidemic; The Untold Story of Vaccines – Movie – directed by Gary Null
junio 16, 2015 By francisco g subirachs Leave a Comment
Silent Epidemic, by award winning film director Gary Null, is the first documentary to investigate thoroughly the true medical record and the historical evidence about vaccine marvels. Conventional medicine has herald the invention of vaccines as a miracle of modern science. It claims that vaccines have been proven to prevent and eradicate infectious diseases. We are told that vaccines are safe and effective, and that «herd immunity» can be achieved if a high percentage of a population is vaccinated. However, does the science support these claims and what are the untold consequences?
In case youtube decides to censor the link to view it on my website here you have the direct link: Silent Epidemic, The Untold story of Vaccines By Gary Null (Video)
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Caribbean Coast Gifting 2015
febrero 16, 2015 By francisco g subirachs Leave a Comment
Gifting the Caribbean Coast from Florida to Belize by boat. Orgonite towerbusters intelligently distributed by land and sea with dolphin collaboration does wonders to heal the hidden climate terrorism and mind control done thru the death towers some people still presume carry only cell phone communication. Please consider gifting your local area to get same results.
You can also read the full report here
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GLADIO B: all routes lead to Rome, all terrorist factions lead to NATO
octubre 30, 2014 By francisco g subirachs Leave a Comment
Corbett report´s GLADIO B VIDEO SERIES with Sibel Edmonds
Former FBI whistleblower and BoilingFrogsPost.com webmaster Sibel Edmonds joins James Corbett of The Corbett Report to discuss «Gladio B,» the clandestine NATO operation to fund and foment Islamic terrorists in the Central Asian / Caucasus region to commit terrorism, assassinations and drug running in the interest of western geostrategic agendas.
PART 1: In this ground-breaking interview, famed FBI whistleblower and Boiling Frogs Post founder Sibel Edmonds lays out the thread connecting NATO’s Gladio operations to Turkish paramilitaries and ultra-nationalists, and how the operation continues through cooperation with terrorists and the Islamization of Central Asia and the Caucasus. From Abdullah Çatlı’s remarkable life (and death) to the rise of Fethullah Gulen’s $25 billion (CIA-supported) Islamic network to the NATO takeover of the Afghan poppy crop in the wake of 9/11, you won’t want to miss a moment of this riveting conversation.
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THE GMO SCRAPBOOK: LOWER YIELDS, AND IS IT REALLY ABOUT SOLVING WORLD HUNGER?
Taken from http://gizadeathstar.com/2014/08/gmo-scrapbook-lower-yields-really-solving-world-hunger/
As readers can probably guess by now, this past week I have been focused on the subject of GMOs as a looming geopolitical issue between the BRICSA bloc and the West, especially in the wake of the recent Russian ban on all agricultural imports from the USA, EU, Canada, and Australia. But there’s more looming on that score, as this article, shared with us by a regular reader here, Mr. F.S., indicates:
Can GMOs Help Feed the World?
Of course, we’re all familiar with the claim of big agribusiness companies that their product is going to ward off starvation, increase yields, and so on. But this, as the article avers, is wrong on two counts, and I want to draw your attention to these statements, but for a rather different reason than their rather obvious implications:
“As John Robbins writes, if Monsanto’s true goal is addressing hunger, then their seeds would be designed to fix the core problems that underlie the hunger issue, such as:[1]
“-Able to grow on substandard or marginal soils
-Able to produce more high-quality protein with increased per-acre yield, without the need for expensive machinery, chemicals, fertilizers or water
-Engineered to favor small farms over larger farms
-Cheap and freely available without restrictive licensing
-Designed for crops that feed people, not livestock
“If GE foods were really a viable way to eliminate world hunger, then meeting these challenges would be a powerful argument in their favor, would it not? So, what does the science say?
“Monsanto gets a failing grade across the board.
“With nearly 100 million acres of GE food now planted worldwide, Monsanto’s crops have yet to do one thing to alleviate hunger, particularly for the world’s less fortunate. In fact, most of that acreage is devoted to growing corn and transgenic soybeans for livestock feed.
GE CROPS PRODUCE A HIGHER YIELD … RIGHT?
“No—their yield is actually lower. Overall, research has shown a 5 to 10 percent reduction in yield for GE soybeans versus the conventional variety. Other GE crops are performing equally poorly.[2] These plants are weak, malnourished and fail with the slightest environmental stress or drought. Agronomists and plant scientists have made far greater advances in yields with conventional breeding methods than with GE crops.
“The yields of GE cotton have been particularly abysmal. Scientists have determined that growing GE cotton in the US can result in a 40 percent drop in income. In India, the situation is much worse with up to 100 percent failure rates for Bt cotton, leaving farmers in total financial ruin. According to the National Crime Records Bureau of India, more than 182,900 Indian farmers took their own lives between 1997 and 2007 as a result of GE crop failures—a staggering 46 farmer suicides each and every day.[3]“
Certainly Mon(ster)santo is not the only agribusiness company there are many others, but the claims remain similar. Indeed, I have blogged previously on this site about University of Iowa studies conducted on normal crops vs GMOs, and you’ll recall that while GMOs initially appear to have higher yields, this falls off over time while normal seeds continue. In other words, over time, normal seeds out-produce their man-made rivals. And as many are aware, if the GMO-pushing agribusiness giants were really interested in the problem of increasing yield and alleviating world hunger, then they would have done precisely as John Robbins suggests, they would have engineered plants that could grow in substandard soils, without the need for herbicides and so on, done so without licensing (fat chance!), and designed crops for people not animals. (Let’s not even get into the fact that it appears that an increasing body of evidence correlates increases of GMOs with decreases of bee populations.)
So why am I bothering with an article that essentially rehearses known concerns? Well, recall, that I have been advancing the hypothesis for a couple of years now, that eventually the BRICSA nations might make the GMO issue a geopolitical one, perhaps even a human rights one (if they play their cards carefully and deftly). To make this work, I suggested in last week’s News and Views from the Nefarium that argicultural trade among the BRICS nations would have to expand and be formalized (which we have already seen with recent agricultural trade agreements between Russia and China), and once this was established, then BRICSA-wide standards for agricultural products would have to be negotiated. This would be driven, so I suggested, by the fact that the BRICSA bloc’s two most powerful members – Russia and China – have already either questioned the whole GMO enterprise in Russia’s case, or enacted partial bans on targeted products in China’s case.
To make such a geopolitical use of the GMO issue occur, an effective propaganda will have to be organized, and that, I submit, this article outlines in spades: (1) the claim to be addressing world hunger and agricultural production can be challenged – strongly – simply on the basis of what types of products have been the predominant focus of the agribusiness giants, (2) the claim to higher yields is debatable, and (3) the falling yields indicate bad agricultural practice in the big corporate farms.
So we may add one more thing to watch in the coming months and years, and that is, if any of the BRICSA members start talking openly and persistently about these three factors when addressing their domestic, and international, agricultural policy. If so, then to my mind, folks, that’s a clear signal that the GMO issue has become geopolitical.
See you on the flip side…
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BRAINWASHING: How The British Use The Media for Mass Psychological Warfare
Article appearing on http://www.whale.to/b/wolfe.html
BRAINWASHING:
How The British Use The Media for Mass Psychological Warfare
by L. Wolfe
Printed in The American Almanac, May 5, 1997.
The Tavistock «Mother»
The «Pictures in Your Head»
The «Radio Research Project»
The «One-Eyed Babysitter»
Consolidating the Paradigm
The Fly in the Ointment
«I know the secret of making the average American believe anything I want him to. Just let me control television…. You put something on the television and it becomes reality. If the world outside the TV set contradicts the images, people start trying to change the world to make it like the TV set images….» –Hal Becker, media «expert» and management consultant, the Futures Group, in an interview in 1981 [1]
In the 15 years since Becker’s comment, Americans have become even more «wired» into a mass media network that now includes computer and video games, as well as the Internet–an all-surrounding network whose power is so pervasive that it is almost taken for granted. As the standup comic said, «We are really a media conscious people. I know a guy who was run over by a car in the street. He didn’t want to go to the hospital. Instead, he dragged himself over to the nearest bar, to check out whether he made it onto the evening news. When it wasn’t on, he said, `What does a guy have to do, get killed, to get on television?’|»
In the highest circles of the British monarchy and its Club of Isles, this great power is not taken for granted. Rather, it is carefully manipulated and directed, as Becker describes from a limited standpoint, to create and mold popular opinion. In a 1991 report published by the Malthusian Club of Rome, entitled «The First Global Revolution,» Sir Alexander King, top adviser on science and education policy to the royal family and Prince Philip, wrote that new advances in communications technology will greatly expand the power of the media, both in the advanced and developing sectors. The media, he proclaimed, is the most powerful weapon and «agent of change» in the fight to establish a «one-worldist,» neo-Malthusian order that will transcend and obliterate the concept of the nation-state.
«It is certainly necessary to engage in a broad debate with the journalists and the top media executives involved to study the conditions for them to be able to define this new role,»
King wrote.In his project, King’s Club of Rome can count on cooperation from the media cartel, which is a British asset, as documented in our report. It can also call on the capabilities of a mass psychological warfare machine, also run by the British and their assets, which extends into key phases of media production, and includes writers and psychiatrists who help shape the content, and the pollsters who fine-tune and analyze the impact on targetted populations. Beyond this interacting network, there are millions of participants involved in the production, distribution, and transmission of media messages, whose thinking, in turn, has been shaped by the content of the media product, and who are, effectively, self-brainwashed by the culture within which they live.
The historic center of this mass psywar apparatus is based outside London, in the Tavistock Center. [2] Established in the aftermath of World War I under the patronage of the Duke George of Kent (1902-42), the original Tavistock Clinic, led by John Rawlings Rees, developed as the psychological warfare center for the royal family and British intelligence. Rees and a cadre group of Freudian and neo-Freudian psychiatrists, applied wartime experience of psychological collapse, to create theories about how such conditions of breakdown could be induced, absent the terror of war. The result was a theory of mass brainwashing, involving group experience, that could be used to alter the values of individuals, and through that, induce, over time, changes in the axiomatic assumptions that govern society.In the 1930s, Tavistock’s extended networks developed a symbiotic relationship with the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, created by European oligarchical networks, which focussed on the study and criticism of culture from a neo-Freudian standpoint. In the late 1930s, with its operations transferred from Germany to the New York area, the Frankfurt School coordinated the first analysis of the impact of a mass media phenomenon, i.e., radio, on culture–the Princeton-based «Radio Research Project.» [3]
With the outbreak of World War II, Tavistock operatives took effective control of the Psychological Warfare Directorate of the British Army, while its allied network in the United States embedded itself in the American psychological warfare apparatus, including the Committee on National Morale and the Strategic Bombing Survey.
By war’s end, the combined influence of Tavistock (which became the Tavistock Institute in 1947) and of the former Frankfurt School operatives, had created a cadre of «psychological shock troops,» as Rees called them, and «cultural warriors» numbering in the several thousands. Today that network numbers in the several millions around the world, and it is the single most important factor in determining the design and content of mass media product.
In 1922, Walter Lippmann defined the term «public opinion» as follows:
«The pictures inside the heads of human beings, the pictures of themselves, of others, of their needs and purposes, and relationship, are their public opinions. Those pictures which are acted upon by groups of people, or by individuals acting in the name of groups, are Public Opinion, with capital letters.»
Lippmann, who was the first to translate Sigmund Freud’s works into English, was to become one of the most influential of political commentators. [4] He had spent World War I at the British psychological warfare and propaganda headquarters in Wellington House, outside of London, in a group that included Freud’s nephew, Eduard Bernays. [5] Lippmann’s book Public Opinion, published one year after Freud’s Mass Psychology, which touched on similar themes, was a product of his tutelage by the Rees networks. It is through the media, Lippmann writes, that most people come to develop those «pictures in their heads,» giving the media «an awesome power.»
The Rees networks had spent World War I studying the effects of war psychosis, and its breakdown of individual personality. From their work, an evil thesis emerged: Through the use of terror, man can be reduced to a childlike and submissive state, in which his powers of reason are clouded, and in which his emotional response to various situations and stimuli can become predictable, or in Tavistockian terms, «profitable.» By controlling the levels of anxiety, it is possible to induce a similar state in large groups of people, whose behavior can then be controlled and manipulated by the oligarchical forces for whom Tavistock worked. [6]
Mass media were capable of reaching large numbers of people with programmed or controlled messages, which is key to the creation of «controlled environments» for brainwashing purposes. As Tavistock’s researches showed, it was important that the victims of mass brainwashing not be aware that their environment was being controlled; there should thus be a vast number of sources for information, whose messages could be varied slightly, so as to mask the sense of external control. Where possible, the messages should be offered and reinforced through «entertainments,» which could be consumed, without apparent coercion, and with the victim perceiving himself as making a choice between various options and outlets.
Lippmann observes in his book that people are more than willing to reduce complex problems to simplistic formulas, to form their opinion by what they believe others around them believe; truth hardly enters into such considerations. Appearance of reports in the media confer the aura of reality upon those stories: If they weren’t factual, then why would they be reported? Lippmann says the average person believes. People whose fame is in turn built up by the media, such as movie stars, can become «opinion leaders,» with as much power to sway public opinion as political figures.
Were people to think about this process too much, it might break down; but, he writes,
«the mass of absolutely illiterate, of feeble minded, grossly neurotic, undernourished and frustrated individuals is very considerable, much more considerable, there is reason to think, than we generally suppose. Thus a wide popular appeal is circulated among persons who are mentally children or barbarians, whose lives are a morass of entanglements, people whose vitality is exhausted, shut-in people, and people whose experience has comprehended no factor in the problem under discussion.»
Stating that he saw a progression to ever-less-thought-provoking forms of media, Lippmann marvels at the power of the nascent Hollywood movie industry to shape public opinion. Words, or even a still picture, require an effort for the person to form a «picture in the mind.» But, with a movie,
«the whole process of observing, describing, reporting, and then imagining has been accomplished for you. Without more trouble than is needed to stay awake, the result which your imagination is always aiming at is reeled off on the screen.»
Significantly, as an example of the power of movies, he uses the D.W. Griffith propaganda film for the Ku Klux Klan, «The Birth of a Nation»; no American, he writes, will ever hear the name of the Klan again, «without seeing those white horsemen.»Popular opinion, Lippmann observes, is ultimately determined by the desires and wishes of an elite «social set.» That set, he states, is a
«powerful, socially superior, successful, rich urban social set [which] is fundamentally international throughout the Western Hemisphere and in many ways, London is its center. It counts among its membership the most influential people in the world, containing as it does the diplomatic sets, high finance, the upper circles of the army and navy, some princes of the church, the great newspaper proprietors, their wives, mothers, and daughters who wield the scepter of invitation. It is at once a great circle of talk and a real social set.»
In a typical elitist fashion, Lippmann concludes that coordination of public opinion is lacking in precision. If the goal of a one-worldist «Great Society» is to be realized, then «public opinion must be organized for the press, not by the press.» It is not sufficient to rely on the whims of a «super social set» to manipulate the «pictures in people’s heads»; that job «can only be managed by a specialized class» which operates through «intelligence bureaus.» [7]
As Lippmann was writing, the radio, the first major mass media technology to invade the home, was coming into prominence. Unlike the movies, which were viewed in theaters by large groups of people, the radio provided an individualized experience within the home, and centered on the family. By 1937, out of 32 million American families, some 27.5 million had a radio set–a larger percentage than had cars, telephones, or even electricity.That same year, the Rockefeller Foundation funded a project to study the effects of radio on the population. [8] Recruited to what became known as the «Radio Research Project,» headquartered at Princeton University, were sections of the Frankfurt School, now transplanted from Germany to America, as well as individuals such as Hadley Cantril and Gordon Allport, who were to become key components of Tavistock’s American operations. Heading the project was the Frankfurt School’s Paul Lazerfeld; his assistant directors were Cantril and Allport, along with Frank Stanton, who was to head the CBS News division, and later become its president, as well as chairman of the board of the RAND Corporation.
The project was presaged by theoretical work done earlier in the studies of war propaganda and psychosis, and the work of Frankfurt School operatives Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno. This earlier work had converged on the thesis that mass media could be used to induce regressive mental states, atomizing individuals and producing increased lability. (These induced mental conditions were later dubbed by Tavistock itself as «brainwashed» states, and the process of inducing them called «brainwashing.»)
In 1938, at the time he was head of the music section of the Radio Research Project, Adorno wrote that listeners to radio music programs:
«fluctuate between comprehensive forgetting and sudden dives into recognition. They listen atomistically and dissociate what they hear…. They are not childlike, but they are childish; their primitivism is not that of the undeveloped, but that of the forcibly retarded.»
The Radio Research Project’s findings, published in 1939, backed up Adorno’s thesis of «enforced retardation,» and serve as a brainwashers’ handbook.
In studies on the serialized radio dramas, commonly known as «soap operas» (so named, because many were sponsored by soap manufacturers), Herta Hertzog found that their popularity could not be attributed to any socio-economic characteristics of listeners, but rather to the serialized format itself, which induced habituated listening. The brainwashing power of serialization was recognized by movie and television programmers; to this day, the afternoon «soaps» remain among the most addictive of television fare, with 70% of all American women over 18 watching at least two of these shows each day.
Another Radio Research Project study investigated the effects of the 1938 Orson Welles radio dramatization of H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, about an invasion from Mars. Some 25% of the listeners to the show, which was formatted as if it were a news broadcast, believed that an invasion was under way, creating a national panic–this, despite repeated and clear statements that the show was fictional. Radio Project researchers found that most people didn’t believe that Martians had invaded, but rather that a German invasion was under way. This, the researchers reported, was because the show had followed the «news bulletin» format that had earlier accompanied accounts of the war crisis around the Munich conference. Listeners reacted to the format, not the content of the broadcast.
The project’s researchers had proven that radio had already so conditioned the minds of its listeners, making them so fragmented and unthinking, that repetition of format was the key to popularity. [9]
Television was beginning to make its entrance as the next mass media technology at the time the Radio Research Project’s findings were published in 1939. First experimented with on a large scale in Nazi Germany during the 1936 Berlin Olympics, TV made its splashy public appearance at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, where it attracted large crowds. Adorno and others immediately recognized its potential as a mass-brainwashing tool. In 1944, he wrote,
«Television aims at the synthesis of radio and film … but its consequences are enormous and promise to intensify the impoverishment of aesthetic matter, so drastically that by tomorrow, the thinly veiled identity of all industrial culture products can come triumphantly out in the open, derisively fulfilling the Wagnerian dream of Gesamtkunstwerk–the fusion of all arts in one work.»
As was obvious from even the earliest clinical studies of television (some of which were conducted in the late 1940s and early 1950s by Tavistock operatives), viewers, over a relatively short period of time, entered into a trance-like state of semi-awareness, characterized by a fixed stare. The longer one watched, the more pronounced the stare. In such a condition of twilight-like semi-awareness, they were susceptible to messages both contained in the programs themselves, and through transference, in the advertising. They were being brainwashed. [10]
Television moved from being a neighborhood oddity, to mass penetration of especially urban areas, during approximately 1947-52. As Lyndon LaRouche has observed, this coincided with a critical period in the nation’s psychological life. The dreams of millions of World War II veterans, and their high hopes of building a better world, crashed to earth in the morally corrupt leadership of the Truman administration and ensuing economic depression. These veterans retreated into family life, their jobs, their homes, their living rooms. And, in the center of those living rooms was their new television set, whose banal images provided assurance that the corrupt moral choices they had made were correct.
The earliest programming fell back on the tested models of radio, as described in the Radio Research Project: the situation comedy, or «sitcom,» the game shows, the variety shows, sports, and the «soaps.» Many were in serial form, with interlocking characters, if not stories. All were banal, deliberately designed so.
The children of these unhappy veterans, the so-called baby boomers, became the first generation to be weaned on what LaRouche calls «the one-eyed babysitter.» Television viewing was encouraged by parents, often as a means of controlling the children, who would stare at whatever was on the screen for hours on end. The content of the first children’s programs was banal (but no more so than the television programming in general), and mentally destructive; even more destructive was the replacement of real family interaction by television viewing, as the dinner table was replaced by the «TV dinner» in front of the tube. Not surprisingly, the children fixated obsessively on the items advertised by the media, demanding that they be given such items, lest they not be like their friends. [11]
In the mid-1970s, Eric Trist, who, until his death in 1993, headed Tavistock’s operations in the United States, and Tavistock’s main media «expert,» Fred Emery, reported on their findings of the impact of 20 years of television on American society. In Emery’s 1975 work, Futures We Are In, they reported that the content of programming was no longer as important as the sheer amount of television viewing. Average daily viewing time had risen steadily over the two decades since the introduction of the medium, such that by the mid-1970s, it ranked as a daily activity only behind sleep and work, at almost six hours a day (since then, it has risen still further, to more than seven hours, with the addition of video games, home videos, and so on); among school-age children, the time spent viewing television ranked just behind school attendance. These findings, Tavistock indicated, strongly suggested that television was like an addictive drug. Similarly, Emery reported on neurological studies which, he claimed, showed that repeated television viewing «shuts down the central nervous system of man.»
Whether this claim holds up under scientific scrutiny, Emery and Trist present persuasive argument that general, extensive television viewing lowers the capacity for conceptual thinking about what is being presented on the screen. The studies show that the mere presence of images on television, especially within appropriate news or documentary format, but also within general viewing, tends to «validate» those images, and imbue them with a sense of «reality.»
Trist and Emery find nothing wrong with such developments, which indicate that television is producing a brain-dead generation. Rather, they show how this development fits into a larger global plan for social control, implemented by Tavistock and its allied networks on behalf of its sponsors. Society, they state in A Choice of Futures, a book published in the same time period, has been plunging through progressively lowered states of mental awareness, to a point where even the Orwellian fascist state is not attainable. At this point, thanks to television and other mass media, mankind is in a state of dissociation, whose political outcome will be manifested in a «Clockwork Orange» society, named for the book by the late Anthony Burgess, in which roving youth gangs habitually commit acts of random violence, and then return home to watch the news about what they have done on the «tube.»
The brainwashers point out that this development, for which they say the violence of Northern Ireland is a model, was not induced by the effects of television alone. Society has been put through «social turbulence» in a series of economic and political shocks, which included the war in Vietnam, the oil price shocks, and the assassination of political leaders. The psychological impact of those events, for whose responsibility they neglect to properly ascribe to the Anglo-American establishment, were magnified by their being brought into homes, in gory and terrifying detail, by television news broadcasts. Under the Trist-Emery scenario, one can imagine hearing the tag line for a future late news program: «The end of the world. Details at 11.»
In a 1991 anthology of the work’s of Tavistock which he edited, Trist wrote that all of the international «nodes» or centers of the institute’s brainwashing apparatus were deployed for the central purpose of consolidating the paradigm-shift to a «post-industrial world order.» Their goal, he stated, was to make the shift irreversible. In this work, and in other locations, Trist, like Alexander King, urges a mass «reeducational» campaign to break the last vestiges of national resistance, especially within the United States, to this new, one-world order.Approximately ten1 years earlier, another of Tavistock’s minions, Bertram Gross, in a paper delivered to a 1981 World Future Society conference attended by Al Gore, provided a glimpse of what this «new world order» might look like. Gross argued that in the period ahead, the world would be offered what Tavistock likes to call a «critical choice»–a set of options, all of which appear to be bad, but, because of applied terror and pressure of events, a choice is nonetheless forced and the «less bad» option taken. Western industrial society will break down into chaos; this chaos can, he said, either lead to a fascism of the authoritarian type that the British helped install in Nazi Germany, or to a more humane and benevolent form of fascism, which Gross called a «friendly fascism.» The choice, Gross proclaimed, is to attempt to go back to the old industrial paradigm, under which there will be Nazi fascism; or, to embrace post-industrialism, where there will be a «friendly fascism.» The latter, he said, is clearly preferable, since it is merely a transition to a new «global information world order,» which will involve more personal choice and freedom, a true open and participatory mass democracy.
For Gross, the choice is clear: In any case, there will be pain and suffering; but only the «friendly fascism» of the global information order, of a society wired together by cable television, satellites, and computer lines, offers hope for a better «future.»
Who shall administer this «friendly fascist» world order? Gross explained that there now truly exists a «Golden International,» a term that he credited to the late Communist International (Comintern) leader Nikolai Bukharin. It is an enlightened international elite, based within the powerful European-centered oligarchy that controls the global multinational communications industry, as well as other critical resources and global finance. This elite must be instructed and informed by the intelligence of the Tavistock networks; they must be shown that the great masses of television-fixated mental zombies can be won easily to this brave new world, through inducements of entertainments and the endless supply of «information.» Once the masses are won over, through «education,» then the resistance within national sectors will collapse.
In 1989, under the initiative of Trist, Tavistock convened a seminar at Case Western Reserve University to discuss the means to bring about a «stateless» international fascism–a new global information world order. In 1991, Tavistock devoted its journal, Human Relations, to the publication of the papers from that conference. In several of the papers, the call went out for the deployment of the mass media on behalf of this project.
In addition, since 1981, there was now a new technology at the disposal of the brainwashers–the Internet. According to Harold Perlmutter, one of the participants at the Case Western seminar, the Internet represented a subversive means to penetrate national borders with «information» about this new world order; it also serves as a glue for a network of non-governmental organizations, all circulating propaganda for the new world order. These NGOs are to be the superstructure upon which the new world order is to be built. Perlmutter, and other conference participants, argued that their movement cannot be beaten, because it doesn’t exist, in a formal sense. It resides in the minds of its conspirators, minds informed by Tavistock’s mass-media brainwashing machine. As television was the information drug during the last half of this millennium, so the Internet, with its glut of mostly useless chatter and «information,» with its subversive, programmed messages, is to be the new «drug» of the next millennium, Tavistock boasts. [12]
«Americans don’t really think–they have opinions, feelings,» said the Futures Group’s Hal Becker in a 1981 interview. «Television creates opinion, then validates it. Are they brainwashed by the tube? It is really more than that. I think that people have lost their ability to relate the images of their own lives without television intervening. This really is what we mean when we say we have a wired society. We are headed for an Orwellian society, but Orwell made a mistake in 1984. Big Brother doesn’t need to watch you, as long as you watch it. And who can say that this is really so bad?»
But, even within the elitist circles of Tavistock’s international networks, there is a faint glimmer that something might be seriously awry in their plan. It was expressed by an author quoted by Emery back in 1973, who wondered aloud what might happen when the television-addicted baby-boomer generation fully takes over the reins of leadership. Have we really prepared them to lead? Can they think and solve problems? Emery dismisses the problem, indicating that there is enough time yet to train such leadership cadre.But the questions linger. In 1981, at the World Future Society event at which Gross delivered his paean to the «friendly fascist» «global information order,» Tony Lentz, an assistant professor of speech at the Pennsylvania State University, observed that he had witnessed destruction of oral and written skills, by the mass media and television; not only could most students not write coherently, but they could not even speak intelligently. This was not merely a function of miseducation, he stated in his paper, «The Medium Is Madness,» but also because they had no desire to think. Arguing that Plato states that our knowledge of the world must be based on knowing the mind of someone who knows something about it, Lentz said that television has left people with the idea that mere images represent knowledge. There is no questioning, no effort to get inside the mind of someone, merely dialogue and image, sound and fury, that certainly signify nothing. [13]
«Allowing ourselves to be influenced by the subtle but powerful illusions presented by television,» wrote Lentz, «leads to a kind of mass madness that can have rather frightening implications for the future of the nation … We will have begun to see things that aren’t there, giving someone else the power to make up our illusions for us. The prospect is frightening, and given our cultural heritage we should know better.»
The Futures Group, a private think-tank, was one of the first organizations to specialize in the use of computer interfaces in psychological manipulations of corporate executives and political leaders. In 1981, it pioneered the RAPID program for the U.S. State Department, which used computer-driven graphics to brainwash select developing sector leaders into supporting International Monetary Fund conditionalities and population control programs. It was also involved in extensive profiling of the U.S. population for major multinationals.
The LaRouche movement undertook groundbreaking work on the Tavistock network in 1973-74, and published the results of its investigations in Campaigner magazine (Winter 1973, Spring 1974 issues). Additional work has been published in EIR, most recently in the May 24, 1996 issue, a Special Report entitled «The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire.»
For a comprehensive report on the Frankfurt School and its network, including its role in shaping mass media policy and cultural warfare, see Michael Minnicino, «The New Dark Age: The Frankfurt School and `Political Correctness,’|» Fidelio, Winter 1992.
Lippmann, who migrated from Fabian Socialist networks to the circles of the Thomas Dewey and the Dulles brothers, became the spokesman for an American imperialist faction that was controlled by the British, and deployed against the anti-imperial policy outlook of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. See Lyndon LaRouche, The Case of Walter Lippmann (New York: Campaigner Publications Inc., 1977).
Bernays is important in his own right, as the person who created «Madison Ave.» advertising, based on the tricks of Freudian psychological manipulation.
All Tavistock psychology (as well as Freudian psychology) proceeds from the image of man as a sensate beast. It explicitly rejects, with great malice, the Judeo-Christian view of man as created in the image of God, meaning that man, and man alone, is endowed by his Creator with creativity. Tavistock, which claims that all creativity derives solely from sublimated neurotic or erotic impulses, sees the human mind merely as a slate on which it can draw and redraw its «pictures.»
This is similar to the notion, put foward by Rees in his book The Shaping of Psychiatry by War, of the creation of a elite group of psychiatrists who will, on behalf of the ruling oligarchy, ensure the «mental health» of the world.
The Nazis had already extensively used radio propaganda for brainwashing, as an integral element of the fascist state. This was observed and studied by the Tavistock networks.
It is important to note that there is nothing inherently evil with radio, television, or any form of technology. What makes them dangerous is the control of their use and content by the Club of Isles networks for evil purposes, to create habituated, and even fixated listeners and viewers, whose critical capacities are thus seriously impaired.
For a more comprehensive discussion of television, its programming, and its brainwashing of the American population, see the 16-part series «Turn Off Your Television,» by this author in the New Federalist, 1990-93. It is available in reprint from EIR.
One of Tavistock’s specialties is the study of the psychological manipulation of children, and the impact of advertising on young minds. Such advertising is carefully crafted to lure children into desiring the advertised product.
There has been a massive investment in the infrastructure of the Internet, disproportionate to available near-term, or even intermediate-term return. This leads one to speculate that such investment is in fact a «loss leader,» for the intended psychological impacts of the new technology.
While such expressions are an echo of Platonic thinking, they are merely that–an echo. For a better understanding of the problem of education, see Lyndon LaRouche, «On the Subject of Metaphor,» Fidelio, Fall 1992.
The Media Cartel That Controls What You Think, by L. Wolfe, The American Almanac, May 5, 1997.
The Cartelization of the Media, by Jeffrey Steinberg, The American Almanac, May 5, 1997.
Direct British Control of the U.S. Media, The American Almanac, May 5, 1997.
British «Fellow Travellers» Control Major U.S. Media, by Jeffrey Steinberg, The American Almanac, May 5, 1997.
Tavistock’s Language Project: The Origin of «Newspeak», The American Almanac, May 5, 1997.
For Whom The Polls Toll, by L. Wolfe, The American Almanac, May 5, 1997.
The preceding article is a rough version of the article that appeared in The American Almanac. It is made available here with the permission of The New Federalist Newspaper. Any use of, or quotations from, this article must attribute them to The New Federalist, and The American Almanac.
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Gifting Castilla la Mancha by farmers invitation
septiembre 3, 2014 By francisco g subirachs Leave a Comment
I had a pleasant surprise last May when someone invited me to gift his area in Castilla La Mancha. This person is a farmer who had tested the positive effects of orgonite around his area and was mindful of the changes. He realized the atmosphere was turning healthy again and lots of animals he hadn’t seen in years were returning to the fields.
That area is returning to life again. When he saw the positive changes he decided to contact me. He told me the cereal fields this year were in bad shape by the lack of rain and that it would be good if i came and we tried to revert that by gifting orgonite in a more ample area. He was not expecting to get much crops this year but was thinking for the next one. This was in May and the cereal is collected around June although he started to place orgonite in his fields around March.
I was there over a weekend and we used just about 25kg of tower busters and some HHG´s for the job. This is more than enough to cover hundreds of km around if it is distributed intelligently among the smaller towers and specially mountain top arrays which have larger span.
I joke with him during the whole trip that he had lied to me and that there was no drought since it was raining everywhere we went ;-d after long months without a drop. No matter how many times i drop TB´s in large extensions of land and see the same positive results, it never ceases to surprise me happily to see the artificial smug dissolve to later watch nice healthy cumulus clouds discharging water as a healthy atmosphere is supposed to. This effect is always very evident and more dramatic in a place where no orgonite has been gifted at all.
On May 30th i flew from Menorca to Valencia where my host would come to pick me up. I ve been able to track the past 3 years the positive evolution of the area. From what i had personally seen, the areas that needed gifting were Valencia, Murcia and Almería on the Mediterranean coast. Years ago i gifted the river Turia in Valencia which crosses the whole town but i didn’t have much orgonite to do anything else.. I am happy to note that rain is back and to see that other people are gifting the area.
in fact, on the way to Castilla La Mancha by the Mediterranean highway we went thru a big storm around Benidorm area indicating the healthy atmosphere. I must add that on my plane ride i didn’t see the overloaded cancerous look of clouds that i used to around Valencia town. So we started gifting the towers on the highway then went towards Murcia area and headed Albacete direction which is in Castilla La Mancha. Without wasting anytime, we gifted until night time.
This was the route for the trip:
We covered an area of about 200km and the results have been a healthy atmosphere and plenty of rain ever since. The death towers, which some call cell towers, and the chemtrails aren’t able anymore to leave a gray sludge and prevent rain at all. The farmer has noted ´do that the cult of death worshipers have stepped up their psychological efforts to make him believe nothing good has come out of gifting by flying more frequently but as he noted, Sylphs show up and the act it is just a desperate attempt not to accept failure on their part because it is gone very fast.
After passing thru a storm in Benidorm on the highway
Reaching Murcia area it is very evident the arid terrain and less vegetation. We kept gifting towers along the way at about 250 meters away form them. We found several dozens.
Further south i identified static sludge sitting on a mountain top. This tends to indicate a group of towers up there and it is a way to follow the atmosphere signs and spot where possible towers may be found to gift if you do not have any coordinates of tower maps. As a general norm you will find many along the highways and national roads, some more at secondary and going thru smaller towns…Those are easy to gift , you just have to roll down the window and throw without stopping. Most of the day gifting is passed driving in the car. You can cover large extensions of terrain in a day´s excursion. You invest more time trying to find the proper paths to mountain top arrays and many times your intuition is going to be necessary to ¨guess¨ the proper path. Sometimes ´do pay attention to eagles, animals or any sign that may lead you there.
Going thru Cieza Town and Jumilla you can see how arid the land is.
My host took me directly to a mountain top he had pre-gifted a bit. There was a Franciscan order Monastery. I didn’t feel any bad energy from this place and it didn’t have any at your face external simbology. Apparently they keep an outstanding library with medieval period volumes and the Vatican came 15 years ago to take some away. Much wisdom is found in real books and although it is certainly very convenient to have an electronic gadget with your library in it i question myself if those who control the databases will not manipulate/edit easily that wisdom. This is difficult to do with a real book.
We drove as far up as possible with the car and then walked to leave some cones for the tower array on top.
We also visited the Almansa Castle. Just in front there was a mount with a tower array and on top of the castle there was a¨needle¨as i like to call them. It was gifted too. The castle has various rooms that can be seen from top cause they are semi opened. The whole rock is probably carved with tunnels and chambers hence we gifted also around possible trauma areas.
Night was coming and we called it a day.
Next day we started again. It was raining everywhere we went. All towers that were gifted the previous day liberated the atmosphere of unwanted artificial and technological tampering , the smog was disintegrated and natural cumulus clouds took their place discharging all over the area once dried by this technology.
We went thru highways, national roads, secondary and dirt paths to reach all of them.
As you can see, everywhere we went we found rain. From this place towards ¨el Rincon del Moro¨ (the Moore´s corner) , we could see it was pouring down generously around 50km all around.
We found a tower on top of mount with a large pool of water down the way and gifted them
On top of a dirt path we found a small tower. One or 2 Towerbusters are enough for this site. All Castilla La Mancha is very plain but there are plenty of mounts which don’t allow a far away view. When you are in a place like this, it is ideal to have some binoculars to check out the view from top and spot other towers and tower arrays.
This is how we spotted the correct dirt path to go to the tower arrays found at Rincon del Moro.
A dark brown HHG was perfect to camouflage it on this terrain. We also threw a few Tb´s.
Here we have a pic from a tower array near the Almansa Castle. The sludge would be cleansed into vital energy thanks to orgonite next to it.
That night, the host had arranged an informal talk/presentation on orgonite and gifting. There were about 10 women of all ages and it was fun and good to be able to talk openly about chemtrails, radiation, orgonite, gifting, parasitical and eugenecist financial mafia…
I brought a special cone for home use. After a while, the house host interrupted me completely startled to realize that her Mom had been very quiet all along even with so many people in the house. She went to check on her to find her completely relaxed. This was abnormal , she explained, cause she suffers from Alzheimers and is very common to have her short repetitively thru the day. She made an inmediate connection to the orgonite we brought. Hence, that very last piece would stay with them in the house.
Some Observations made by the farmer:
He started gifting and antenna very near his house cause a family member is very sick and he researched the effects of these towers on health and wanted to do something about it, specially something that did not involve an aggressive treatment. Later in March he decided to gift his agriculture land. By now it is almost complete, remaining a smaller area. HE covered water collection pools, wells, buried them and also gifted a pine tree that had a a hole on its base were a person could go thru. After doing this, he started hearing pleasant flute music and took it as another confirmation.
Worried about the drought in his area, he decided to gift it by the end of May, hence the invitation to come along and do it together. Even ´do he wasn’t expecting major changes to the crops since they were going to be harvested in June, he thought we could help bring a healthy atmosphere for next years harvest. It is important to note they depend 100% on just rain water, this area has no irrigation systems.
Most farmers of the area expected a disaster crop and it has been that way. What has been an amazing experience is that this farmer family who gifted their fields just in March ARE THE ONLY ONES WHO HAVE HARVESTED CEREAL AT ALL AND HAVE GOTTEN JUST BELOW AVERAGE HARVEST. We must take into account that they had no rain at all.
He also notes that all fields near his have actually benefited from his gifting. The one next to them cultivates wine grapes and they were expecting to get only 1kg to 1,5kg of grapes per vine. Instead , they have got 3kg to 3,5kg WHICH DOUBLES IT.
All farmers of the area took note and came to asks them what did they do differently. I guess out of shyness to tell the truth they answered the type of manure they used. I would like him to realize ´do the importance of coming forward to his neighbors so they too can enjoy the benefits of gifting their land with orgonite.
An older farmer offered him a recent observation without being asked. He said it had been at least 40 years since he had seen the sky so well. He also noted that in La Sierra del Segura (segura´s mountain range) there used to be an invisible frontier were clouds would never cross over and simply disappeared. He said this barrier is now gone and healthy cumulus clouds are crossing all over the place and discharging.
So thanks to orgonite and the willingness of this farmer to put it to the test and use it, all types of species of animals have returned to their land, the harvest has been saved even in adverse conditions (sure next year we will see better!), rain has come back in hundreds of km around, the sludge has disappeared and has been changed into a natural healthy blue, the natural Mediterranean sea humidity is also back.
This will happen to anyone who is watchful, as this farmer has been, and is willing to see independently what orgonite can do by gifting and taking note of the changes in his area.
It is as easy as tossing just 25 kg´s of orgonite tower busters from the car window and placing a few orgonite HHG cones at mountaintops.
A few 3oz tower busters intelligently distributed can have a major impact in vast extensions on land and as you can see a positive social outcome having direct influence on the moods of people but also a direct economic impact being able to continue to harvest and prosper despite the cult of chaos and death worshiper´s wishes ;-d
¨Coincidentally¨ people contacted me from the area and now near Albacete and towards Jaen area people have been expanding the gifting and a new Cloudbuster has been set too.
As for me, i would love to be able to cover the whole Mediterranean with orgonite by land and see as well as the Atlantic coast of Portugal, to have to whole peninsula completely gifted. This projects are very ambitious but at the moment Murcia, Jaen, Castilla La Mancha have been a lower level intensity with major positive impacts.
Hence, never underestimate the power of just one or two hundred tower busters gifted intelligently. With little, major things can be achieved and that is definitely to our advantage. ;-d
Since business sabotage gives me extra time these days, i have been given more time to write, thanks S#Htrats!
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Notorious stars Cary Grant as Devlin, Ingrid Bergman as Alicia and Claude Rains as Sebastian. It was directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a screenplay by Ben Hecht and released in 1946. It is often described as one of the best spy movies ever made.
Note this is a review of the 1946 spy thriller not the recent biopic of the rapper, Notorious BIG.
Notorious: Logline
The self-destructive daughter of a convicted traitor is asked by the American agent she loves to seduce a Nazi in South America. When the Nazi asks her to marry him, she has to decide how far she will deceive him in order to discover his plans.
Notorious: Plot Summary
Warning: My plot summaries contain spoilers The major spoilers are blacked out like this [blackout]secret[/blackout]. To view them, just select/highlight them.
It’s 1946. Straight-laced American agent, T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the self-destructive, heavy drinking daughter of a convicted Nazi spy, to infiltrate a group of German expatriates in Brazil.
In Brazil, Alicia and Devlin begin an affair, but Devlin is ordered to persuade Alicia to seduce the leader of the Nazi group, Alex Sebastian. Alicia who has fallen in love with Devlin hopes he will offer her a way out, but he, unable to believe in her, doesn’t.
Devlin arranges a ‘chance meeting’ between Alicia and Sebastian while horse riding. As expected, Sebastian, who has been infatuated with Alicia for years, is delighted to see her again. He invites Alicia to a dinner at his house. At the dinner, Alicia suspects there is something secret in the wine cellar.
Devlin debriefs Alicia. Alicia tells him of her suspicions about the wine cellar and remonstrates with him for forcing her into the mission. He says he knew she couldn’t change her ways, upsetting her. Sebastian sees Devlin and Alicia together and suspects they are attracted to each other. Alicia tries to persuade Sebastian she loves him. He asks her to prove it by marrying him.
Alicia goes to Devlin and his superiors to ask them what to do. They tell her to go ahead, although Devlin is not happy about it.
Alicia and Sebastian are married and go on a short honeymoon. When they return, Devlin asks Alicia to hold a party and invite him, which will give him an opportunity to investigate. Alicia steals the key to the wine cellar and they search it. Devlin accidentally breaks a bottle which turns out to be full of a metallic substance. Devlin takes a sample and tries to clean up, and they sneak out again just in time. Later, Sebastian notices that the cellar key is missing. When it reappears overnight he realises Alicia is a spy…
Sebastian [blackout]decides to poison Alicia, as the other Nazis will kill him if they suspect his wife is a spy, but if she dies after a short illness they will be none the wiser.[/blackout]
Devlin [blackout]discovers the substance from the cellar is uranium, suggesting that the Nazis are trying to build a nuclear weapon of some sort. He meets Alicia, who already ill from the poison but, hurt by his callous attitude, tells him she has started drinking again.[/blackout]
Alicia finally realises [blackout]Sebastian is poisoning her, but collapses and is trapped in her room, at Sebastian’s mercy.[/blackout]
Devlin [blackout] realising that Alicia was ill, not drunk, at their last meeting, goes to the villa, sneaks into Alicia’s bedroom and rescues her. Sebastian tries to stop them, but Devlin threatens to expose him to the other Nazis, who are waiting downstairs. Realising his predicament, Sebastian lets Devlin and Alicia leave and asks them to take him with them. Devlin refuses, leaving Sebastian to his fate.[/blackout]
Notorious: Analysis
Notorious has a Mission plot (see spy movie plots).
The ‘Mission’ Plot
Is given a mission to carry out by their Mentor.
Will be opposed by the Antagonist as they try to complete the mission.
Makes a plan to complete the Mission.
Trains and gathers resources for the Mission.
Involves one or more Allies in their Mission (Optionally, there is a romance sub-plot with one of the Allies).
Attempts to carry out the Mission, dealing with further Allies and Enemies as they meet them.
Is betrayed by an Ally or the Mentor (optionally).
Narrowly avoids capture by the Antagonist (or is captured and escapes).
Has a final confrontation with the Antagonist and completes (or fails to complete) the Mission.
A woman seducing a man she doesn’t love on the orders of another man, who she does love but who may not love her, is a very noirish theme, but Notorious is not a true film noir.
Noir elements include:
A love affair between two cynical and mistrusting people who are alienated from each other.
A man who treats the woman who loves him callously and manipulates her for his own gain.
A man whose love is being manipulated by a woman who cares nothing for him and who intends to betray him.
Characters willing to transgress moral boundaries to reach their goals.
Non-noir elements are:
Glamorous protagonists (Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman).
Characters being able to avoid their fate and resist the forces dragging them down.
A redemptive ending for the protagonists.
Fundamentally, Notorious is a romantic thriller that incorporates film noir elements. The ‘romance’ is caused by the fact that the spy mission and the characters’ misunderstandings are keeping the two would-be lovers apart.
For a much more light-hearted treatment of the story of a woman infiltrating a spy organisation through romance with the mastermind see North By Northwest, also starring Cary Grant, but with the female spy played by Eve Marie Saint.
The MacGuffin
Hitchcock’s movies often revolve around a ‘MacGuffin’ – an item that is of no direct plot relevance, though the characters are all searching for it or seek to possess it. In Notorious the MacGuffin is the secret in the wine cellar, which in the end could be anything. Supposedly in early versions of the screenplay it was stolen diamonds. The unresolved question of what exactly the Nazis are up to is not the movie’s strong point.
Characters and Attitudes
Alicia is the most sympathetic character in Notorious, unable to cope with the discovery that her father is a traitor and embarking on a self-destructive binge. All she wants is a chance of redemption, something that Devlin denies her until the denouement.
Sebastian is also in many ways a sympathetic character, despite being a Nazi. He is charming, attentive and eventually destroyed by his love for Alicia. His decision to kill her is the blind revenge of a man who has been betrayed and had everything taken from him.
Maybe in 1946 Devlin’s attitude to Alicia would have seemed normal, but to a modern eye, his behaviour seems bizarre. He forces Alicia into the mission, and then tries to blame her and her ‘lack of character’ for accepting it. He manipulates her into a terrible position and spends the movie feeling sorry for himself because of a situation he has been instrumental in setting up. At the end he does realise what a fool he has been, saving himself from being a completely negative character.
Reality: Honey Traps
Although a staple of espionage fiction, honey traps – sending agents to seduce the enemy – are rare in reality. One notable exception was the East German spymaster Marcus Wolf, who made regular use of male ‘Romeo’ agents, who sought out West German women in sensitive positions, romanced them, and turned them into spies. The programme was so successful that eventually NATO had to start monitoring all single women in their employ to make sure they weren’t in relationships with East German spies.
Notorious: My Verdict
A great romantic thriller with a noirish edge. Recommended.
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Agathonisi island -
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agathonisi : HOUSES/VILLAS | APARTMENTS/STUDIOS | HOTELS
agathonisi island information
Agathonisi is the northernmost of the Dodecanese islands, located only 8 nautical miles from the Asia Minor coastline. A tiny ‘dot’ on the map with only 150 inhabitants, a surface of 13 sq. kms and a coastline of 32 kms of crystal clear waters!
Here there are no cars, no buses, no circulation... the visitor will enjoy serenity, local hospitality and fresh fish! No wonder it has been included (along with neighboring islets) in the Natura 2000 Network as a natural shelter to endangered bird species.
Agathonisi has 3 villages : Agios Georgios, the island’s port. This is where all accommodations and services are located. Megalo Chorio (Big Village) which is the largest and oldest village where most islanders live, Mikro Chorio (Small Village) and Katholiko , a practically abandoned fishing village. Even though at a distance of only 500m from the port, Megalo Chorio is invisible from the sea (a throwback to pirate invasion times). Its main architectural feature are the stone walls that surround houses, with their large entranceways to the community. Megalo Chorio has 120 inhabitants, whereas the communities of Mikro Chorio and Agios Georgios have only 15 inhabitants each. Since the island is rich in fish there are many fish-farming facilities (piscicultures) one of which is in Katholiko which is also a natural refuge from winds.
The little white-washed houses built according to the local architecture, the tiny gardens and the kind nature of its inhabitants come in contrast with the dry climate and land which give a unique character to this lonely standing little island.
The serene life of the island, the hopitality of its locals, the cleanliness of its beaches as well as its many natural beauties satisfy the visitor’s need for a relaxing holiday. Fresh fish, the tasty fava (fliskoukoudi) and the local wine deserve to be tasted in the picturesque taverns by the sea.
agathonisi cultural INFORMATION
Inhhabited since antiquity, Agathonisi according to ancient historians, writers and geographers was named YETOUSSA. It changed various names to its current (Agathonisi), which declares the kind character ot its inhabitants ("agathos" for good in Greek).
The island’s proximity to the Turkish or Asia Minor coastline has infuenced its history. Originally Agathonisi was an exile place throughout the Roman and Byzantine course. It was constantly being attacked by pirates and therefore never was a real community until the 19th century. In the meantime the island was under Turkish occupation from the 16th century onwards although the Turks never lived on the island.
In 1922, Agathonisi was occupied by the Italians and it was liberated only after the end of World War II and was only then annexed to the rest of Greece.
From an archaeological view, on Agathonisi there are many Byzantine findings as well as numerous churches and chapels. You will definitely visit the unique in their kind throughout the Dodecanese islands "Domes", Byzantine sites most likely to have been used for storing food supplies.
There are many small churches and chapels scattered throughout the island, such as the Church of Agios Georgios, the Church of the Virgin Mary (Panagia), the Church of Agios Ioannis Theologos, the Church of St. Raphael, the Church of St. Charalambos, the Church of Agia Irini, the Church of St. Nikolaos, the Church of St. Panteleimon, the Church of Metamorfosi tou Sotiros (which hosts interesting religious festivals in the course of the year, the biggest of which are the feast of Agios Panteleimon on 27 July, the ninth day (Enniamera) from the Assumption of Virgin Mary, on 23 August, in Megalo Chorio, and Agios Ioannis Thermastis on 29 August (day of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist).
Close to the picturesque chapel of St. Nicholas, on the east side of the island are some large arched structures, the “Tholoi” (Domes), dating back to the 11th century AD and believed to have been used as food warehouses. Legend has it that there is a huge cave which leads to tunnels connecting one end of the island with the other. The archaeological excavations on the island are also worth exploring.
agathonisi Beaches
Agathonisi has mainly pebble beaches with clear blue waters: Ai Giorgis, Spilia, Gaidouravlako, Tsaggari, Palos, Poros, Vathi Pigadi, Chohlia and Katholiko and many more, mostly accessible by car, but some only on foot.
Citizens' Service Centre
Helidrome
5 x 5 field
Local community : +30 22470 29009, 29010
Ticket office (travel) : +30 22470 29004
Health Center : +30 22470 29049
Post office : +30 22470 29115
Agathonisi has no airport nor a large port. It can be reached via other, larger islands.
There is a connection by sea 4 times a week with the islands of Kalymnos and Samos (Pythagoreion port), twice weekly by speed boat with Kalymnos and once with Rhodes. During the summer months, a modern heliport is also in operation.
From the island of Samos : one can fly or take the large ferry to Samos and from there catch the small ferry “Nissos Kalimnos”.
From Rhodes island : one can fly or take the large ferry to Rhodes and from there catch a local high speed ferry “Dodekanissos Seaways”
From Kalymnos, Leros, Lipsi or Patmos islands with Nisos Kalymnos
From Kalymnos, Leros and Lipsi with “Anna Express” which is a local Lipsi boat.
You will cover all distances on foot.
agathonisi | SPORTS & ACTIVITIES
The calm bay of Agios Georgios, sheltered from the wind, is ideal for yachts. You can also moor in the bays of Spilia and Gaidouravlako. The harbor can take approximately 15 yachts that moor longside.
One may enjoy a sea trip to the nearby islands - Arki 10 miles away, Lipsi 15 miles away, Fourni 25 miles away, Samos 15 miles
The waters of Agathonisi have abundant fish and the hospitable fishermen await the amateur fishermen to teach them their secrets.
agathonisi MAP
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Published on November 22nd, 2020 | by greentechheadlines
Industry Outlook, Tesla Model S Police Car Succeeds In Fremont’s EV Patrol Pilot Program, The City of Fremont Police Department just released its full one-year report.
In the past, we’ve shared with you information about the Fremont Police Department’s Tesla Model S police cruiser. The department has been running the vehicle on a long-term test to see whether the Tesla will work as a cruiser, how much it costs to fuel, and if there’s an excess amount of down time due to charging.
Now, the Fremont police have released their official report. Most importantly, the Model S cruiser aced the long-term test, which ran for a full year. The department also pointed out that it saved a whopping $4,000 in fuel costs for the year. If you add maintenance and repair cost into the equation, savings over a typical gas-powered police cruiser added up to over $2,000.
The police department purchased the used 2014 Tesla Model S 85 back in 2018. It wasn’t a significant investment since it only cost them around $60,000. The Model S replaced an aging 2007 Dodge Charger.
Before Fremont can make a decision about whether it will move forward with electric vehicles as patrol cars, it must prepare this report to show why it either makes sense to do so, or is still not viable. As you can see from the report, the department has come to the conclusion that the pilot program was a success.
The Model S’ 265-mile range and superb acceleration are positives as well. However, the most important point of the switch to electric vehicles is zero tailpipe emissions. The Fremont police department says it eliminated 42,198 pounds of CO2 from the city’s air over the course of just one year of Model S use. Imagine entire government fleets of EVs across the country and across the globe. The positive impact on air quality would be monumental.
You can check the City of Fremont Police Department’s full report below:
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2007-05-07: Dipped in Ink
Roleplay Logs » Volume 01: Beginnings » 2007-05-07: Dipped in Ink
Summary: Tamara and Judah encounter one another at Battery Park. One of them has a premonition.
Date It Happened: May 7th, 2007
Dipped in Ink
Early afternoon; the sun is warm, the breeze off the ocean salty and cool. There are any number of people along the paths and sidewalks; joggers and dogwalkers, people out with their kids and people out to picnic. For all of that, Tamara has picked a spot at the island's very rim where the city sounds are background to gulls crying and waves lapping against the concreted edge. It would take someone familiar with the teen and her idiosyncrasies to recognize her with any quick ease - she wears an olive-green shirt over blue cutoff shorts, cheap sandals, and a hat. A straw hat with rounded dome and wide brim, a ribbon of jade wrapped around it and ornamented by two off-white silk flowers with too many petals; a hat which does nothing to keep the breeze from whipping strands of her hair off to the side. Leaning against the railing, arms folded across the top bar, she looks out at the rise and fall of the water.
Familiarity with Tamara? Check. Familiarity with Tamara's idiosyncrasies? Check. Even if Detective Judah Demsky didn't fit the criteria, he still has a scrupulous eye for detail. Without it, he wouldn't have progressed very far in his chosen profession. Unlike Tamara, he's dressed a little heavier for the weather than he needs to be. Denim jeans, a long-sleeved button down shirt from Old Navy and a pair of scuffed leather work boots allow him to pass for a civilian as he makes his way down the path that leads past the railing — and the teen. The only thing that sets him apart from everybody else is the holster peeking out from under his windbreaker, but with most of the park-goers being so absorbed in their surroundings… well. It isn't likely to be noticed. The sound of his boots hitting the pavement underfoot comes to an abrupt stop as he passes behind Tamara, and there is a brief pause followed by an awkward shuffle before he joins her at the railing. He says nothing at first. Knowing the runaway, she's been aware of him for much longer than he has been of her.
Silence seems to suit the girl just fine, at least at first. She doesn't so much as twitch a hair when Judah comes up behind or beside her - although the breeze is happy enough to make up for that lack. Tamara reaches up to catch her wayward hair, twisting it into a loop and stuffing it up under the hat. Stay. Blue eyes remain turned towards the ocean, directed somewhere in the distance. "Always different. Always the same. Always moving, always there. Maybe one thing /is/ forever," she says quietly, a melancholy note to her voice. "Or close enough," the teen amends, because she of all people knows better.
A small, sad sort of smile wrinkles the corners of Judah's mouth and peels his lips back just enough to expose his teeth and one of his gold fillings. "Close enough," he agrees, trusting in the breeze and the gulls to veil their conversation from any would-be eavesdroppers. "You're looking better. I almost didn't recognize you in that hat."
No eavesdroppers here. Or none that matter, anyway. Only with Judah's subsequent comments does the girl turn away, gaze shifting to her companion. "Do I?" She seems at least mildly interested in the statement, or maybe just his reference to the past. A moment later, Tamara pulls the hat off her head, heedless of the fact that doing so completely negates the earlier attempt at keeping her hair under control. She brings it down in front of her, sliding her hands slowly about the brim and studying the weave with peculiar intensity. The breeze goes right back to toying with the teen's hair. "Hats like wind more than hair," she observes distantly. "They found them all in funny places. Not just them, either."
Judah reaches over and, if she'll let him, catches one of those wayward strands between his fingers, tucking it behind her ear in an affectionate (if paternal) gesture. "You do." His voice carries a hint of relief. Tamara is more than capable of taking care of herself, but that doesn't stop him from worrying when he goes without seeing her for any long stretch of time. "This meeting isn't the coincidence that it appears to be, is it? You knew that I'd be coming this way."
Tamara tips her head a bit as Judah reaches over, accepting the gesture without qualm, a fleeting smile crossing her face. "Coincidence is chance. Chance is… someone else." She looks a bit perplexed, as if not too sure what the proper conclusion of that line of thought should be. Which probably doesn't help Judah's following any. "Not here." The girl gives the detective a questioning glance, perhaps looking for affirmation.
"Not here?" Judah shoots a quick look over his shoulder, his eyes darting from one cluster of people to the next. He's plenty familiar with the Battery Park area, but most of his visits here having been during the night, under the cover of darkness while wearing a bulletproof vest. Everything looks different in the daytime, and he struggles to think of a more secluded area where they might be able to talk. "Let's walk."
"No," Tamara reaffirms. "No Chance here." The girl tips her head, watching Judah look around, smiling slightly as he does so. To the direction, she nods. "Okay." One hand reaches out for one of Judah's; the other continues to hold her hat, rather than putting it back on her head. Doing so probably doesn't even occur to Tamara. She starts walking away from the island's shore, back into the park proper.
Judah closes his large, calloused hand around Tamara's much smoother, smaller one. Her answer doesn't surprise him. He follows her lead, half a step behind her, which is just as well; his legs are long enough that he might otherwise overtake her. The wind doesn't do much to his hair except continuously tousle his receding hairline. "So," he asks, "what's the occasion?"
She doesn't seem to set a direct path through the park - she drifts, rather, her course seemingly set by whim rather than intent. Not unusual for Tamara. The girl pauses by a rhododendron laden with pink-and-white blooms, dropping her hat in favor of plucking one from the bush. The accessory floats to the ground and sits in a sun-dappled spot, looking rather more lost than the teen. "Occasions," Tamara echoes, musing over the word. "No occasion. Nothing special." Turning to face Judah, she the flower up towards him. "It's a pretty day." And the precog apparently feels this is worth taking the time to enjoy, which says something in and of itself.
Drifting is a foreign feeling to Judah. He's never found himself taken by whimsy; everything he's ever done has been driven by intent. His first instinct is to pick up the discarded hat, but before he can stoop down there's a flower sitting in front of his nose. He inhales slowly, deeply, and then lets the breath out again through his nostrils, his whole body seeming to deflate. When was the last time he actually stopped to appreciate the world around him instead of scouring it for evidence? He doesn't remember. "Pretty days aren't anything special, huh?"
Tipping her head to one side, Tamara looks up at Judah through a thin veil of fallen bangs. "Not here. This." Releasing his hand, she cups hers around the flower, bringing it almost but not quite up to her nose. Then the girl turns her head away, looking out through the landscaping of the park. "There's…" She licks her lips, a thin line drawn across her brow as blue eyes narrow. "Sleeve dipped in ink; black spot won't wash out." Tamara turns the flower over in her hands, fingertips tracing around its pink edges. "Old movies, clouds drawn over the sun, all going gray. It doesn't get closer now, but it hasn't gone away yet. Maybe they were special; they just didn't know."
Judah squints at Tamara, thoughtful furrows appearing on his brow. He can see the imagery clearly in his mind if he closes his eyes, but as always, he doesn't have a clue what it means. Some days, he's not sure if she does either. All he knows is that if it Tamara thought the vision was serious, she'd probably be much more of a mess than she is right now. Wordlessly, he studies the flower, turning the situation over in his mind the same way she turns the bloom over in her hands. "You'll let me know if it does start getting closer, right Tam'?"
She probably would, at that. Watching Judah study the flower, Tamara holds it out on a flattened hand, maybe presuming he wants to look at it more closely. "If," the girl agrees. She starts to walk again, then stops, stepping back and leaning down to pick up her hat. Which the girl promptly plants on Judah's head, grinning broadly at him.
All of a sudden, Judah is wearing a hat. A hat with a ribbon and silk flowers on it, no less. He gives Tamara his flattest, most deadpan look, but it doesn't last longer than the span of a heartbeat before his mouth breaks into a wide smile and a loud chuckle bubbles up from deep within his chest. This, too, feels strange to him; for the first time in years, he's laughing — hard — and it isn't mirthless.
Tucking the rhododendron blossom behind her own ear, Tamara just meets Judah's deadpan look with a cheerful smile. The smile broadens as he begins to laugh, the girl stepping forward to take his hand again and continue walking. "It's a good day," she observes, her gaze flicking over the park around them.
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INTRODUCTION: "Secrets of the Sands" is a novel I found more or less by chance since I saw the cover on another review site and it intrigued me and then I checked and really loved the excerpt as writing goes though I expected a reasonably standard story. To my surprise the novel turned out to be quite different from what I expected and much better as storyline goes, while the prose kept the same quality that attracted me to the book first.
FORMAT/CLASSIFICATION: "Secrets of the Sands" stands at about 400 pages and is divided into twenty nine numbered chapters. There is a map at the beginning and a glossary at the end. The novel consists of two main threads that follow three main characters, Cafad Scratha, a disgraced desert lord from a clan that was mysteriously massacred some years ago , Idisio, a young street thief with an uncanny intuition that becomes Cafad's unwilling servant and Alyea, a young protegee of new king Oruen who is sent on a mission that may be her downfall.
While "Secrets of the Sands" starts as a traditional adventure fantasy within an epic context, it twists and turns quite a lot and it goes into quite unexpected directions, becoming darker and much more interesting than I expected. To start with the novel reminded me strongly of Maria Snyder's superb Study and Glass series but then "Secrets of the Sands" moved towards "new gritty" territory and I would strongly recommend it for fans of both traditional 90's fantasy and the "new 00's" genre.
OVERVIEW/ANALYSIS Liviu:
"Secrets of the Sands" has two threads: one that follows the semi-exiled desert lord Cafad Scratha and his accidental servant and former street boy Idisio as they try to do a good faith accounting of their mission from new king Oruen to research the history of the northern non-desert and dominated by an intolerant religion part of the kingdom until they stumble on unexpected happenings, people, facts and conspiracies that will change a lot what we think we know about the world of the novel. This one is a traditional picaresque adventure to a large extent, though the twists and turns make it quite unpredictable
The second thread follows Alyea, a young girl of mid-nobility who happens to be a one time lover of the king and current protegee but with a dark and violent past in times when the Northern Church was dominant in the capital too and she was branded as a "heretic"; she is sent to administer the Scratha domain in the name of King Oruen; her two mysterious and seemingly at odds "advisers" Chaq and Micru are supposed to "instruct" her in the way of the desert until another mysterious character, ultra-rich merchant Deiq makes his interest in her known too; this thread is just superb end to end, a thread of exploration, intrigue, magic, initiation rites and much, much more.
Of course the two threads converge though again not quite in a conventional way and the novel gets to a satisfying conclusion with the big picture to be explored further.
"Secrets of the Sands" is also quite dark with a world in which slavery, rape, and killing are facts of life and it all depends on "whom does it to whom" as "justice" and the "law" are concerned.
Highly, highly recommended as a haunting novel and a page turner and an A+ as an average of a solid A thread and an A++ one, while the announced sequel became another asap novel for me.
Cindy:
When I read the book description for Secrets of the Sands I was very intrigued. The dessert setting and lord system seemed interesting and I thought this was going to be just another fantasy title that was middle of the road for myself. However Secrets of the Sands surprised me and was a lot more then I expected.
The beginning of the book didn't seem to have anything really outstanding. There was the thief and he steals something and gets caught. At about page 80 or so something really snapped and I was hooked on this book. I couldn't put it down, I took it everywhere with me, I just had to know what was going to happen.
There are many elements of Leona Wisoker's work that made this book such an enjoyable experience: the characters, the creativity of the world, and the writing style.
The characters that came about in Secrets of the Sands all had a bit of mystery and mystic about them. There was just enough information to grab the readers attention but lead them to keep wondering, "What will happen" or "What about this". It's hard to keep that bit of mystery going without appear as if the writer is purposely not telling readers something just to keep them reading. Wisoker knows how to reveal information at just the right pace to keep the reader in the loop yet allow them not to know every single bit of information in the book.
I also found that as the reader went along with the novel, they grew with the characters. Both main characters completely change and transform before the readers eyes. So by the time the novel ends, it's almost as if the readers have two different characters before them. It was really amazing to see this with the characters in such a short time, and by the end of the novel I was completely hooked on almost every character to the point that I cared what happened to them.
Another area that Wisoker excels in is the world building. Secrets of the Sands takes place in a mostly dessert world that has lords, and a huge political system. The political system is complex without being so confusing you lose the reader. I was impressed with the depth of the world that was created. Not only the political system is developed nicely, there are also customs and rituals that are explained and described throughout the novel. All of this adds a bit of personality and made me fell as if I could completely envision the world that was created.
A part of the world that Wisoker created was that this complete world wasn't perfect. There is the temptation of sex, drugs, and thieves living in the streets. It's a dark and hard world but not so overly dark that it got depressing. In a way it was telling the readers the truth of the world and not hiding anything but yet not going into such detail that it turns into a gritty novel.
The last element that tied the whole novel together was the style of writing. First, Wisoker choose to alternate chapters of the book between the two character threads that were going on. This makes the novel fly by as it's hard to get bored with a plot line as the story is jumping at just the right moment to keep the reader wondering what is happening yet continuing on with another plot. It constantly kept me wondering what was going on with one part or the other at all times. Another area, and probably the most enjoyable part of the novel was the humor element that was added to the story line. The characters use humor or wise cracks occasionally in the book, but it all comes across as very natural and it's not so often that it's over used in the novel. There were a couple times I found myself chuckling or laughing with a joke that was told. This brought a refreshing approach and it just appeared very natural to the story.
In the end, I was highly impressed with this novel. There is something about this book that makes me want to reread it again. I completely agree with the comparison to Maria V Snyder, Leona Wisoker has tremendous talent and I can't wait to see what she brings to the table with the second novel of this series. The hardest part is going to be the wait for the second novel.
Mihai A. said...
It is an excellent novel and I can't wait its sequel either, because I am very curious to see where the story goes.
I more than happy now that I started my blog, because it is the reason for discovering lovely books such as "Secrets of the Sands" of Michael J. Sullivan's novels that otherwise I might have missed :)
Actually I saw the book on your blog first in the "Reading Gadget" and the cover attracted my attention as mentioned
I also completely agree with the joys of discovering smaller press books that otherwise I most likely would have never heard of
I agree with both of you! I think it's amazing to find other authors that might have gone unnoticed if it weren't for the chances I've gotten. There's a handful of really good smaller press I would have never found without it.
Dominc Cilli said...
I wrote the review on Sf site I assume this is where you saw it. I am glad you enjoyed it as much as I did
Dominic Cilli
Bastard said...
Just finished this book 2 nights ago and though it was just extremely good.
Wisoker seems to have big plans for the world, with 3 more novels in the series, a prequel set of novels, and maybe a trilogy after Children of the Sands.
Hopefully she'll be successful and the quality continues so that these books get done. Certainly she's deserving of the current praise she has been getting and deserves more attention than what she's been getting.
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RS Members Pledge Support For Passing of Anti-Trafficking Bill
| Ashok Dixit, Editor - Foreign Affairs, IOP - 14 Dec 2018
By Ashok Dixit
New Delhi, Sec 14, 2018: Extending strong support to survivors of human trafficking, Rajya Sabha members, cutting across party lines, have urged Rajya Sabha Chairman and Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu to convene a discussion on and for the passage of the Anti-Trafficking Bill during the Winter Session of Parliament.
Noted parliamentarians like D Raja, Akhilesh Prasad Singh, Pradeep Tamta, N.Gokulakrishnan supported the petition at a national consultation on human trafficking, which was organised by Prayas Juvenile Aid Centre (JAC) Society.
The objectives arrived at the consultation on Friday were:
• Identify concrete gaps in the delivery of justice to victims of trafficking
• Identify survivors’ expectations from the new law
• Put forward the views of the survivors regarding the Trafficking in Person Bill, 2018.
As part of the consultation, hopeful survivors of human-trafficking hailing from different parts of the country, made an appeal to Rajya Sabha members to deliver justice to millions of human trafficking victims by ensuring the passage of Anti-Human Trafficking Bill in Parliament.
As per the NCRB 2016 report, a total of 15,379 victims of human-trafficking were reported in 2016, out of which almost 60 percent were minors. The report has also estimated that more than a lakh children (1,11,569) have gone missing till 2016, and 55,625 of them remained untraced.
Survivors from various survivor collectives – Utthan, Vimukthi, Aazaad Shakti Abhiyaan, Bandhan Mukti and Worker Survivor Support group shared their experiences of human trafficking, ranging from sexual exploitation, bonded labour, forced marriage and other forms of trafficking.
The survivors also pointed out the glaring gaps in the existing legislations which have led to more suffering after rescue. The survivors appealed to the Rajya Sabha members to pass the Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2018 which has strong mechanisms for voluntary rehabilitation and victim-protection, in this Winter Session.
Amod K Kanth, Founder General Secretary, Prayas, said, “It’s time that Indian laws have necessary provisions to tackle the complex organised crime of human trafficking. We are thankful to the government for drafting a comprehensive and robust law which provides for necessary tools to address the crime and safeguards the interest of the victims.”
D Raja, MP Rajya Sabha, CPI, said – “CPI supports and stands in solidarity with the survivors of human trafficking. Discussion on the Trafficking in Person Bill is the need of the hour. I hope it’s taken up in the winter session of Rajya Sabha. CPI will also ensure human trafficking becomes part of its Party Manifesto”
Akhilesh Prasad Singh, MP Rajya Sabha, Indian National Congress, said – “It’s sad to see how for lust of money, people have shamed humanity. This must stop. I think all parties – BJP, INC, other parties should discuss this Bill in this winter session and pass it with necessary provisions.”
Pradeep Tamta, MP Rajya Sabha, Indian National Congress, said – “I have heard the tales of survivors here and understand the sufferings of thousands of human trafficking survivors who are not present here. We understand the urgency of discussion of the Bill and Congress party will support the discussion on the Bill.”
N. Gokulakrishnan, MP Rajya Sabha, All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, said – “Bills of such importance take a back stage among other Political issues. I will support the discussion of the Bill in this winter session of Parliament.”
Ranjan (name changed), survivor of organ trafficking present in the consultation, said, “It’s important for the Indian society to talk about such grave issues and therefore we reached out to the citizens in various parts of India and sought their support in our fight against Human Trafficking. Collectively, we have collected more than 1.15 lakh post-cards addressed to the Prime Minister, in support of the Trafficking of Persons, Bill 2018.”
Survivors also plan to submit a petition in support of the Bill to Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu.
The problem of trafficking is particularly prevalent in India since it is a source, destination and transit country for victims of trafficking. The new proposed legislation, Trafficking of Persons Bill (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) 2018, unlike the existing legislations of Immoral Traffic Prevention Act (which cover only sex trafficking) or Bonded Labour Act (for crimes related to Bonded Labour), covers all aspects of human trafficking- including aggravated forms of trafficking like forced labour, begging, administering chemical substances and hormones for early sexual maturity, forced marriage, etc.
The Bill provides for designated courts for fast-tracking trials and timely repatriation of foreign victims - within a period of one year from taking into cognizance, which is a highly commendable move as there are many cases of trafficking from across neighbouring countries such as Nepal and Sri Lanka. Another path-breaking addition to the Bill has been the formation of the National Anti-Trafficking Bureau (NATB), which will coordinate with authorities in international organisations, and facilitate inter-state and trans-border transfer of evidence.
(The writer Ashok Dixit is a senior journalist with 24 years of rich cross-editorial functional experience in covering and reporting on developments in South Asia. He had been associated with ANI as a Senior Editor for more than two decades. He can be contacted atashok.dixit26@gmail.com)
Pic2-(From L-R) D Raja, N Gokulakrishnan, Pradeep Tamta and Amod K Kanth at the National Consultation on Human Trafficking in Delhi
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IOWA CITY, Ia. — The Iowa men’s basketball home game scheduled for Thursday against Michigan State has been postponed because of COVID-19 cases within the Spartan program.
It is the first Hawkeye game this winter impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. There was no immediate word on when the game may be replayed.
Michigan State coach Tom Izzo revealed Wednesday that two of his players had tested positive for COVID-19 four days ago, but said the team was still planning on flying to Iowa City that evening. The players for both teams were to be tested again Thursday morning before a final determination was made about the status of the game.
But a news release from Michigan State on Wednesday evening revealed that the Spartans received one more positive COVID-19 test that afternoon. It did not say whether that was a player or coach. Izzo himself had a bout with COVID-19 earlier in the season, and his son, Steven, is currently in isolation after a positive test.
“I’m really disappointed, but it just goes to prove that this can affect anyone,” Tom Izzo said in the university news release. “I feel so comfortable that me, my son and my players did everything possible and followed every protocol as best we could. I’m really, really impressed with the way they have conducted themselves. This virus does not discriminate and I can’t emphasize enough how important it is to wear a mask, wash your hands and follow protocols.”
Per Big Ten protocols, any student-athlete who tests positive for COVID-19 must sit out for 17 days.
The University of Iowa said in its news release the postponement was “mutually agreed upon out of an abundance of caution surrounding the health and safety of the participants.”
“The two institutions will work with the Big Ten Conference to identify rescheduling options,” Iowa added in its release.
Nebraska and Penn State are other Big Ten Conference men’s basketball programs currently on a pause due to COVID-19 cases. The league built some off days into its schedule to accommodate games that might need to be made up. The goal is for each of the 14 teams to play 20 games.
However, the breaks in the schedules don’t line up currently for Iowa and Michigan State, so the conference will need to get creative in order to make it work. The Big Ten has moved dates for other games involving other teams in order to reschedule. One factor will be whether the Spartans need to make up more than one game, if the COVID-19 pause lingers. Michigan State previously lost a non-conference matchup at Virginia due to the coronavirus.
Iowa, which is ranked fifth in the Associated Press poll and eighth in the coaches’ poll, has an 11-2 record, with a 5-1 mark in league games.
Its next scheduled game is at 8 p.m. Sunday at Northwestern.
The Hawkeyes had an outbreak of COVID-19 over the summer, but have not reported any issues with players or coaches during the season. Iowa coach Fran McCaffery has said all along that he expected disruptions in the team’s schedule, and that his veteran group of players would be equipped to work around those.
McCaffery was asked Wednesday afternoon about information he was receiving regarding the COVID-19 situation on other teams and answered:
: We don’t get a lot of information about other teams, unless we’re getting ready to play them. So we were informed that there might be one or two guys out (for Michigan State. If there are, I hope they’re doing well and getting better.
“But as it relates to, say, Penn State and Nebraska, I suspect Brad Floy, our trainer, may know more, but we’re not playing those guys for awhile, so they’re on pause and probably expect them to be back off pause when we get ready to play them.”
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2012-2013 Ski Season Summary
A succession of storms led to fantastic ski conditions during the holidays for 2012-2013.
Our recently completed 2012-2013 Waterbury Winter Weather Summary, focused on how the snowfall and other aspects of winter transpired down at our house in the Winooski Valley, and now this report will focus on the skiing and snow in the higher elevations.
Snowfall: Compared to the snowfall-deficient 2011-2012 Ski Season, the 2012-2013 Ski Season was certainly a step up, but it was still generally below average for snowfall in the mountains of Northern Vermont. It was Bolton Valley that seemed to fare the worst of the northern resorts along the spine of the Green Mountains, perhaps due to their west slope location and this season’s dearth of upslope snow; they reported just 78.5% of their average snowfall. Heading northward, Stowe and Smugg’s fared a bit better at around 85% of average, and Jay Peak reported roughly average snowfall. Down at our house in the Winooski Valley, snowfall was 88.6% of average, so not too shabby by most accounts, but a bit below the mean like some of the local mountains. These past two seasons have actually been the first pair delivering back-to-back below average snowfall in our area since we started keeping track in 2006. Those numbers can be seen in both our Waterbury Winter Weather Summary Table, and the table of Bolton Valley annual snowfall below; this past season’s snowfall is highlighted in blue:
Low snowfall last winter meant back to back seasons with below average snowfall at Bolton Valley.
One item of note this season was the lack of big storms targeting Northern New England – two of the largest storms to hit the Northeast dropped the bulk of their payloads south of Vermont while exiting stage right toward the Atlantic. The first of those, nicknamed “Nemo”, hit in the second week of February, and pounded Southern New England with up to 40 inches of snow. The Green Mountains were on the northern fringe of that storm, but still wound up with 1 to 1.5 feet of snow up and down the spine. The other storm of note was during the March 5th – 8th period, and it dropped another 30 inches on some Southern New England locations, but nothing way up north. There were some periods of snowfall to highlight up in Northern Vermont however. The second half of December alone dropped almost 50” of snow down at our house, significantly more in the mountains, and produced some fantastic skiing for the holidays and into early January. Another period of note was the second half of March into April. Cold temperatures in the latter part of the season helped preserve wintry conditions on the slopes, and we received some decent snowfall as well – the largest storm for the season in my valley records hit the area near the end of March, with 21.3” of snow down at the house, and multiple feet for the mountains. The mountain snowpack finally responded during that late season stretch as well, and that’s detailed a bit more in the snowpack section below. Snowfall continued right into mid April, and the season was capped off with almost two feet of fresh snow on Mt. Mansfield for Memorial Day weekend. That was a sweet way to end the powder skiing for the season.
Snowpack: Aside from the spikes associated with a couple of early season storms, the mountain snowpack was below average going into mid December. That changed quickly though, with the onset of all that new snow during the second half of the month. The above average snowpack achieved during the holidays didn’t actually stay that way during January’s warmth and lack of storms. After consolidation, the snowpack generally trundled along at or below average through February’s continuation of relatively low snowfall. From mid February to mid March, the snowpack sat there essentially stagnant for an entire month; to wit, on February 21st, the snowpack was at 65”, and roughly a month later on March 18th, it was still at 65”, without any notable consolidation of more than a few inches. The late season stretch from mid March to mid April represented a nice rebound for the mountains however, with some quick gains from the big Northern New England March storm getting it above average, and the snow depth staying at least modestly above during the period.
Two periods stood out this past season for above average snowfall: The holiday period and mid-March through the end of April.
Tree Skiing: One metric used as a rough guide for the start of off piste skiing in the Northern Green Mountains is the point at which the snow depth reaches 24” at the Mt. Mansfield stake. For those unfamiliar with how this metric was established, it’s described in some detail in the 2011-2012 ski season summary. With the incorporation of this season’s data, the mean date remains at December 12th ± 19 days, with an average depth at the stake of 25.9 ± 2.7 inches. After the very slow start in 2011-2012, in which the 24” depth wasn’t attained until January 3rd (more than a standard deviation later than the mean), this past season was notably earlier. The plot below shows the date at which 24” was obtained for each season since 1954, with 2011-2012 shown in red, and 2012-2013 shown in green:
Each star marks the date of attaining a snow depth of 24 inches at the Mt. Mansfield stake, covering all years since 1954. Although still a bit later than average, reaching a depth of 24 inches at the stake this past season (green star – Dec 22) occurred much earlier than the previous season (red star – Jan 3). The mean date for attaining a depth of 24″ is marked by the large vertical bar in the center of the plot, and the smaller bars indicate the range of one standard deviation above and below that mean.
This past season, the date (December 22nd, Depth=28”, Green Star) was still later than average due in part to the slow first half of December, but unlike last season it was well within the 1 S.D. bars (thin vertical black lines). Note that the 24” mark is being used as an indicator of when the first forays into appropriate off piste/tree skiing terrain typically start in the Central and Northern Greens. In terms of empirical tree skiing observations, personal experience again lends some support to the use of 24” mark this season, as we began venturing into the trees the very next day on December 23rd at Bolton Valley. It should be noted though, that while the 24” mark was attained on December 22nd this season, the 40” mark was attained the very next day on December 23rd. The 40-inch rule (i.e. reaching a depth of 40” at the stake), is used as an indicator of when most off piste/tree skiing around here is ready to go. Although I haven’t looked into the data, this season has got to represent one of the quickest ascents from 24” to 40” – it’s interesting to note however that after rising to 42” of depth on December 23rd and 24th, the snowpack settled back to 36” for a couple of days before rebounding to 45” on the 27th.
Snow Quality: As an monitor of snow quality for the season, the chronological list of our ski outings has once again been compiled, with those days in which we were skiing powder indicated by a P, and those days in which powder skiing wasn’t available indicated by an X. The availability of powder suggests a fairly high level of snow quality, and the absence of powder generally indicates that temperatures rose above freezing at all elevations. Each listing below represents a link to the full report where images and more information from the outing can be obtained. Outings with an X may still be providing decent skiing such as wet snow, corn, etc. (or else skiing was typically avoided) but aside from the spring period, there’s going to be a price to pay in terms of snow quality associated with these episodes when temperatures eventually cool back down. The pattern of snow conditions in the Northern Green Mountains was fairly typical this past winter, with those days lacking powder skiing showing up in three distinct periods: 1) the early season with its usual temperature fluctuations, up through mid December before the weather pattern changed and the cold weather stabilized, 2) a thaw period in mid January, and 3) the period starting in mid March where spring weather began to make inroads. However, with the way the weather patterns this past spring continued to provide cool temperatures and snowfall, powder skiing generally dominated until mid April. Having analyzed the skiing in this way for the past three seasons, a surprising level of consistency is noted, with an overall average of close to four out of five days providing powder, despite notable differences in the demeanor of these recent ski seasons. The 2010-2011 season, which was above average in snowfall, provided powder on 78% of outings, the 2011-2012 season, which was well below average in many ways, revealed the same 78%, and most recently the 2012-2013 season, which was slightly below average in this area, produced a very similar 77% of outings with powder. The percentages don’t take into account differences in the number of outings each season, but with all three seasons falling into the range of 50 to 60 ski outings, differences in the sample sizes aren’t huge. The list of categorized ski outings with links to their full reports follows below:
P Stowe, VT, Sunday 04NOV2012
X Stowe, VT, Sunday 11NOV2012
X Stowe, VT, Thursday 15NOV2012
P Stowe, VT, Friday 30NOV2012
P Stowe, VT, Saturday, 01DEC2012
X Stowe, VT, Saturday, 15DEC2012
P Bolton Valley, VT, Friday 21DEC2012
P Bolton Valley, VT, Saturday 22DEC2012
P Bolton Valley, VT, Sunday 23DEC2012
P Bolton Valley, VT, Thursday 27DEC2012
P Bolton Valley, VT, Saturday 29DEC2012 (Night)
P Bolton Valley, VT, Monday 31DEC2012
P Bolton Valley, VT, Tuesday 01JAN2013
P Bolton Valley, VT, Saturday 05JAN2013
P Stowe, VT, Sunday 06JAN2013
X Bolton Valley, VT, Saturday 12JAN2013
X Stowe, VT, Sunday 13JAN2013
P Bolton Valley Nordic & Backcountry, VT, Saturday 19JAN2013
P Stowe Sidecountry & Bruce Trail, VT, Monday 21JAN2013
P Bolton Valley Nordic & Backcountry, VT, Sunday 27JAN2013
P Stowe, VT, Sunday 03FEB2013
P Bolton Valley, VT, Saturday 09FEB2013
P Stowe, VT, Thursday 14FEB2013
P Bolton Valley & Backcountry, VT, Saturday 16FEB2013
P Bolton Valley & Backcountry, VT, Monday 18FEB2013
P Bolton Valley, VT, Thursday, 21FEB2013
P Bolton Valley, VT, Tuesday 26FEB2013
P Bolton Valley, VT, Thursday 28FEB2013
P Bolton Valley & Backcountry, VT, Saturday 02MAR2013
P Stowe, VT, Sunday 03MAR2013
X Stowe, VT, Sunday 10MAR2013
P Bolton Valley, VT, Saturday 16MAR2013
P Stowe, VT, Tuesday 19MAR2013
P Bolton Valley, VT, Thursday 21MAR2013
P Bolton Valley, VT, Thursday 21MAR2013 (Evening)
P Bolton Valley, VT, Tuesday 02APR2013
P Stowe & Mt. Mansfield Chin, VT, Saturday 06APR2013
X Stowe & Mt. Mansfield Chin, VT, Sunday 07APR2013
P Stowe, VT, Saturday 13APR2013
P Bolton Valley, VT, Sunday 14APR2013
X Stowe, VT, Saturday 20APR2013
X Stowe, VT, Sunday 21APR2013
X Bolton Valley, VT, Sunday 28APR2013
X Sugarbush, VT, Saturday 04MAY2013
X Stowe, VT, Sunday, 05MAY2013
X Mt. Washington, NH, Saturday 18MAY2013
P Stowe, VT, Sunday 26MAY2013
The detailed month-by-month synopsis of the season is next:
October: It wasn’t an especially snowy October to kick off the season; we had five rounds of snow in the mountains, and the third one even dropped accumulations to the lowest mountain valleys, but none of the storms were huge dumps, and we had just a tenth of an inch of snowfall down at the house for the month. October’s first snowstorm started up on the 7th, with snowfall being reported at the top of the Mt. Mansfield Toll Road in the afternoon, and by the next morning Powderfreak sent along his picture of 4” of accumulation at the top of the Stowe Gondola. I also got a shot of Mt. Mansfield later in the day with its first accumulation of the season. It didn’t seem like quite enough snow to tempt me out to ski, but the FIS boys hit the snow and provided a thorough report of the turns. The second storm delivered some accumulation on the 11th, with a snow line up around the 3,000’ level and less than an inch of snow found up on Mt. Mansfield. The third storm was the one that finally touched the lower valleys with some minimal accumulations, but in terms of mountain accumulations, I don’t think it was anything more than junkboarding material. The 4th (on the 14th of the month) and 5th (on the 16th of the month) storms of October also appeared to be pretty minimal and generally flew under the radar in terms of discussion. So while it wasn’t a great October for natural snow skiing (with nothing like the back-to-back larger storms at the end of October during the previous season), some folks made some turns and there were several smaller rounds of snow to keep the peaks white.
November: Snowfall for the month of November turned out to be a bit below average down at our location in the valley, but we did have five storms that delivered accumulations all the way to the valley floor. It was a decent month for snowfall in the mountains, with Stowe reporting 35” in November. That’s not outrageous by any means, but it was a noticeable increase from the previous November. It was actually the first month with below average temperatures in Burlington in 20 months, and the corresponding mountain temperatures allowed Stowe to make a tremendous amount of snow. The rounds of November snows produced some modest powder that got me out early in the month on the 4th, and mid month on the 15th, but the best skiing was right at the month’s end. A storm overnight on the 29th dropped a foot of fresh fluff on the Northern Greens and then cleared out for some great turns by dawn patrol time. That new snow on top of previous rounds of accumulation delivered some fantastic bottomless powder skiing that held up even on steep terrain like Stowe’s National trail.
December: The great powder conditions from the end of November storm carried right over into the beginning of December, with some excellent skiing on the 1st of the month. That was really the highlight of the first half of December however, as snow was hard to come by through the 16th; we had just 2.2” of snow at the house during that period. It was as if a switch was flipped for the second half of the month though, with winter roaring back in to deliver almost 50” of snow for us in the valley. Some of the more significant storms during that stretch were on the 21st, with up to 20” of accumulation, the 26th, with over two feet, and the 29th, with another foot plus thrown in for good measure, so naturally the skiing during the holiday period was blissfully powdery. Even on days between the more substantial storms, a new half foot of snow could pop up. It was just day after day after day of powder, with even a little night added to the mix. The only detractor from that stretch was that the snowpack wasn’t initially up to the depths to allow people to enjoy that powder on all terrain. The natural base depths did make some quick and significant gains during the period though, with the 24” threshold depth at the Mt. Mansfield Stake being attained on the 22nd, and the 40” mark reached on the following day as described above in the section on tree skiing. Our first notable forays into the off piste were on the 23rd at Bolton Valley, which wasn’t surprising with almost all of Stowe’s terrain getting opened by that point. The off piste was quickly going… off, and things just went up from there. That storm on the 26th had a somewhat uncommon east wind, which filled in the Bolton Valley headwall areas for some fantastic coverage. Despite the relative scarcity of snowfall in the first half of the month, by the end of December, Stowe was at a respectable 102” of snow on the season.
January: December’s snows and excellent ski conditions continued into the beginning of January, with four modest storms hitting the Northern Greens during the first week. In the higher elevations, the largest of those storms came in on January 4th and affected the northernmost resorts hardest, with a foot at Jay Peak. Even with somewhat lower totals at resorts to the south, the skiing remained quite good because of all the powder that had been building up over the previous three weeks – we found over a foot of powder lurking in the trees at Bolton Valley on the 5th. More snow came in that night to produce a nice day at Stowe on the 6th, and after the final snowfall event in the series, the snowpack at the Mt. Mansfield Stake stood at 51 inches on the 7th. The stormy stretch ended after that, and warm temperatures brought spring-like ski conditions until mid month. Fortunately, the base depths that had built up over the previous three weeks meant that there was a lot of good, soft skiing. Winter was back by mid month, with small systems that brought a return to some powder conditions. The fourth week of January featured arctic cold, which unfortunately meant little snowfall, but at least the temperatures preserved the powder. Finally at the end of the month we got a modest half foot storm to bring back some fresh powder, but January as a whole was quite low on snowfall – down at the house it was by far the least snowy January in my weather records.
February: The month of February rolled in with a tempered return to the type of dry, arctic pattern that we’d encountered in that fourth week of January, but fortunately there was at least a bit more moisture and temperatures weren’t quite as cold. There wasn’t much new snow for the first weekend of the month, but at least the skiing was decent. Of the three storms that came in that following midweek, the second one brought from a half foot to nearly a foot of powder at some of the Northern Vermont resorts, so the skiing improved. Just in time for the next weekend, the “Nemo” storm hit the Northeast, and while it was largely a miss for Northern Vermont relative to areas to the south that got up to 40” of snow, the mountains still picked up more than a foot of powder to provide some excellent turns. Nemo was followed by a storm named “Orko”, which came in at the beginning of the following week with 1 to 1.5 feet for some of the local resorts. Beyond that storm, mid February was fairly dry, but powder conditions persisted, and on the 19th a more sizeable storm hit the area with snow totals of 1 to 2 feet plus for the Northern Vermont resorts. The month finished off with a few more storms, with a half foot storm and a 1 to 1.5-foot storm being the more notable ones. Although the month as a whole was actually rather lean on snowfall (only an inch from being the least snowy February in my records at the house), as it typical, the consistent availability of powder rolled right on into March as seen in the categorized list of ski outings above.
March: The first half of March wasn’t especially snowy, with just one notable storm in the ½ to 1-foot range for the mountains; the big storm that affected southern parts of New England with up to 30 inches of snow in the March 5th-8th period was literally a non-event in Northern New England. Of course even with some warmer temperatures in the second week, decent powder remained in the higher elevations, and soft snow made for fun turns on piste. Around mid month though, the skiing started to get even better as the snowfall picked back up with back to back modest storms and 72-hour snow totals topping out around 16 inches on the 16th. Thanks to the ability of the Central and Northern Greens to reel in snow, conditions moved well beyond the dust on crust that many areas to the south were likely encountering. That was the start of an excellent stretch of winter that was second only to the snowy December period, with our largest valley storm of the season arriving on March 19th and delivering 7-day snow totals of 2 to 4 feet in the mountains. At Stowe they were calling it “Powder Week” and the deep turns just kept on coming. The increase in mountain snowpack during the period was notable in that it finally moved solidly above average and stayed there Simply put, even lift-served powder skiing was endemic on piste during that second half of March until a brief warm-up during the last couple of days of the month.
April: Despite the somewhat slow increases in the snowpack during the heart of the winter, the gains made during the latter half of March meant that the snowpack was at least modestly above average heading into April, and it quickly reached a peak of 87 inches at the Mt. Mansfield Stake when the first storm of the month dropped a foot of snow at Stowe on April 2nd. I was up at Bolton Valley that day for a ski tour, and I got to witness some impressive snowfall rates as the storm crashed into the higher elevations. The alpine terrain above tree line on Mt. Mansfield was in good shape, consistently providing excellent outings during that first part of the month. Cool temperatures with additional snow meant that the snowpack stayed at an above average level right through the month, and another storm on the 12th saw Ty and I enjoying close to a foot of dense powder out in the Bypass Chutes at Stowe on the 13th. The skiing gradually transitioned to full on spring conditions after that weekend as the active pattern waned, and an impressively long stretch of clear weather moved in and stuck around well into May.
May: For most of May, there wasn’t much to talk about in terms of new powder, especially with the extended period of incredibly clear weather that carried over from the end of April and lasted a fortnight, finally ending on the 10th of the month. There was some mighty fine spring skiing right through that period with all the sun and warm weather, even if it did cause the snowpack to decrease a bit faster than it otherwise might have. The tranquil period of warm weather allowed the Mt. Washington Auto Road to open on the 10th of the month as well (definitely on the early side), but since unsettled weather had just returned at that point, we didn’t get to make our spring pilgrimage to the snowfields until the 18th. To really cap the month off well, Northern New England and the Adirondacks were rewarded with a Nor’easter over Memorial Day Weekend, which delivered roughly 3 feet of powder to Whiteface and nearly 2 feet to Mt. Mansfield. Excellent powder turns were made while the valleys were almost fully leafed out for the spring. We didn’t actually head out for any June turns beyond that, but the skiing over Memorial Day Weekend had been so good that it hardly mattered – it was just a few short months until the snows of fall would be returning.
So what about the overall feel for the quality of the ski season in Northern Vermont? Well, much like the snowfall numbers suggest, it feels like it came in a bit below average, even if not horribly so. The mountain snowpack (as gauged by what was seen at the stake on Mt. Mansfield) had its ups and downs, and on balance it probably gets rated in a similar manner to what the slightly subpar snowfall would suggest. Being frequent Bolton Valley skiers and living down below the mountain in the Winooski Valley, our perspective might be skewed a bit downward with the resort receiving just 78.5% of their average snowfall. Having the north miss out somewhat on a couple of big regional storms, while watching a horrid valley snowpack (see the 2012-2013 Winter Weather Summary for details) that kept ski routes to the lower valley bottoms essentially off the table, certainly didn’t win the season any extra points. It seems that 2012-2013 ultimately sits in the lower half of ski seasons and won’t be remembered as anything epic, but it also appeared to hold onto a decent level of powder availability (77%) based on our experiences, and that means there was still a pretty decent amount of good skiing. The fact that even the poor 2011-2012 Ski Season was able to hold onto a powder percentage in that range is also reassuring in that regard, suggesting that there is indeed a certainly level of reliability that can be expected in these seasons where snowfall/snowpack is below average.
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Listen: Bon Iver – “Calgary”
By Frank Wu ⋅ May 17, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment
The first single from Bon Iver‘s new album is entitled “Calgary” and can now be streamed or downloaded in exchange for an email. “Calgary” is our first taste of Bon Iver’s highly anticipated self-titled album, which will be available on June 21 via Jagjaguwar in the US and on June 20 via 4AD in the UK and Europe.
Bon Iver:
01 Perth
02 Minnesota, WI
03 Holocene
04 Towers
05 Michicant
06 Hinnom, TX
07 Wash.
08 Calgary
09 Lisbon, OH
10 Beth/Rest
New Bon Iver LP
By Kevin Miao ⋅ March 24, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment
Singer-songwriter Bon Iver has recently kept himself busy, but he has finally put out some news about his new album, which is scheduled to come out sometime in June. In an article with Rolling Stone, he talked about how he forgot how to write songs and had to relearn everything he knew for the new, yet-to-be-titled album. However, he feels he has adapted, and things will be much different than his first LP, For Emma, Forever Ago. You can read the article from Rolling Stone here.
New: Pusha T – “Lost In The World”
By Frank Wu ⋅ March 2, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment
GOOD Music’s Pusha T (of Clipse) has released his version of Kanye West‘s Bon Iver-sampling “Lost In The World”. The new song will be included on Pusha’s highly anticipated new mixtape Fear Of God. It’s the same Pusha T we’ve grown to love and expect, adding his touch to Yeezy’s masterful beat. Eughk!
MP3: Pusha T – “Lost In The World (Remix)”
More Kanye West News
By Frank Wu ⋅ September 30, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment
UPDATE: The song was unfinished and leaked. Kanye has chosen not to release a new GOOD Friday track this week because of the leak.
Check out a new Kanye West song featuring Bon Iver called “Lost in the World”.
“It sounds exactly like how you want it to sound: forward moving, interesting, light-hearted, heavy-hearted, f***ing incredible sounding jam,” Vernon said. “It was kind of bare so I added some choir-sounding stuff and then thicked out the samples with my voice. We were just eating breakfast and listening to the song on the speakers and he’s like, ‘F***, this is going to be the festival closer.’ I was like, ‘Yeah, cool.’ It kind of freaked me out.”
(Quote via P4K)
Stream: Ice Nine Kills – “The Predator Becomes The Prey”
Is This Whitey’s Last Stand?
Interview: Marietta
Watch: Bring Me The Horizon – “Go To Hell, For Heaven’s Sake”
Watch: Linkin Park + Steve Aoki – “A Light That Never Comes”
Earl Sweatshirt Performs in NY, Does First Interview
Watch The Weeknd and Drake Perform in LA
Listen: Bring Me The Horizon – “Shadow Moses”
Stream: Dance Gavin Dance – “Acceptance Speech”
Video: Bon Iver Live Acoustic Session At AIR Studios
Copyright © 2010-2013 Lost In The Sound by Frank Wu. All Rights Reserved.
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Direct Action #63 (March/April 1990)
Issue #63 of Direct Action, with articles on the release of Nelson Mandela and legalisation of the ANC, different strategies for the anti-poll tax movement including a critique of Militant (now the Socialist Party), South Yorkshire Police advising women to close their curtains, a reprint of Andy Anderson's pamphlet on Hungary '56, the collapse of the soviet bloc, part 2 of the DAM's new industrial strategy, print workers organising after Wapping, the British Army in Ireland, more police frame-ups of Irish people, updates on prisoner Martin Foran, the CNT/CGT court case, police killing an anti-fascist in West Germany, an advert for the March 1990 poll tax demo, and more.
Direct Action #51 (September 1988)
Issue #51 of Direct Action, with articles on the Stalinist leadership of the ANC and COSATU, racist attacks, workfare-type schemes, the possibility of a split ahead of the TUC congress, a strike at Yardley in Basildon, post office news, revolt in South Korea ahead of the Olympics, housing and a proposed housing bill, anarcho-syndicalist strategy and class, establishment hypocrisy on Ireland, a letter criticising DA's coverage of that subject, religious education, an article from the Australian ASF about the colonisation of Australia, and more.
South Africa 1985: The organisation of power in black and white
The police stations are surrounded by sandbags and barbed wire. They look like trenches in a battlefield. The police buildings are flanked by Saracens & Hippos.
Fueling the fires: South Africa in class war
Submitted by Malatesta Black on Jun 9 2017 07:51
The hope that the end of apartheid would herald a better life for the oppressed in South Africa has evaporated. Their conditions today are materially as bad as under apartheid - and even worse in some cases. But the upper classes are having the time of their lives. Working class struggles should be intensified and linked, based on self-organising and direct democracy to bring about real change.
The ANC’s South Africa: kleptocracy and exploitation
Submitted by Internationalis... on Apr 23 2017 15:51
The corruption of the Zuma regime has now reached scandalous levels but it was entirely predictable given the ANC's past.
Maldekstra Naciismo aŭ kiel trompi koncepton
Eseo sur la ideo de Jakvo Schram pri naciismo kaj "Maldekstra-naciismo.
A South African ruling-class brawl
Submitted by Malatesta Black on Mar 31 2017 10:16
This article looks at the factions of the ruling class battling for positions and control over the state in South. It considers whether such battles offer anything to the working class in the country.
No Pravin, it was not progressive nor redistributive
Submitted by Malatesta Black on Feb 23 2017 13:58
This article looks at the South African state's budget for 2017. Far from being redistributive and progressive, as the South African Minister of Finance claimed, it was rather a regressive and outright neoliberal budget.
In the ANC's battle of factions there are no superheroes
Submitted by Malatesta Black on Nov 7 2016 07:28
The article looks at the background to the struggle to control the state by factions within South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) and how this is linked to the legacy of apartheid and using the state to build a new section of the ruling class.
Another Abahlali baseMjondolo comrade has just been assassinated in Durban
Submitted by red jack on Sep 29 2014 18:43
South African shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo have just announced that Thuli Ndlovu, their Chairperson in KwaNdengezi has been assassinated. As the statement below indicates there had been serious threats against another comrade, Ndabo Mzimela, but the hammer of oppression fell elsewhere. The Marikana Land Occupation has been attacked by the ANC since this statement was issued. It seems that the Land Invasions Unit stood back and let the party members do the work. A women who tried to resist was attacked and injured with a spade.
They are using Facebook for live updates.
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Technology Facial recognition technology: Ed Bridges appeals human rights ruling
Ed Bridges argued the software analysed his data without his knowledge or consent
A man who launched a legal challenge after police cameras digitally analysed his face in the street is to take his case to the Court of Appeal.
Ed Bridges appealed against a ruling that South Wales Police did not breach his human rights by using automated facial recognition (AFR) technology.
The police force has been trialling the technology at public events since 2017.
Deputy Chief Constable Richard Lewis said it used biometric data analysis “lawfully and proportionately”.
Mr Bridges brought a legal challenge after he saw a police van marked with AFR cameras as he took a lunch break in Cardiff city centre and then again at a peaceful protest at an arms fair in the city.
He argued the AFR system analysed his biometric data – digital mapping of a person’s facial features – without his knowledge or consent.
The High Court ruled in September an important safeguard in the way the police force used the system was that the potential match suggested by the software was reviewed by the officer operating the equipment before the person was approached by colleagues.
The case was the first legal challenge of police use of this form of artificial intelligence.
South Wales Police
Ed Bridges spotted a police van marked with AFR cameras twice in Cardiff
Granting him leave to appeal, Lord Justice Singh said Mr Bridges’ case had a “real prospect of success” on all of his grounds as it “raises such issues of public importance and issues which potentially affect large numbers of people”.
Mr Bridges said: “South Wales Police have continued to use facial recognition against many thousands of people, subjecting everyone to unjustified and oppressive surveillance.
“I’m pleased the serious concerns of so many of us will be heard by the Court of Appeal.”
South Wales Police has Home Office support for four vans equipped with AFR cameras.
Technology How often is AFR used?
The vans have been deployed on 71 days at 39 events, with 60 people arrested at locations ranging from pop concerts to protests as well as big sporting events.
The Welsh force was the first in the UK to make an arrest using the real-time technology in 2017, ahead of the Champions League final in Cardiff.
But it emerged that of the 2,470 potential matches made using AFR, 92% (2,297) were wrong.
Mr Lewis said false alerts – wrongly matching a passer-by to someone on the police watchlist – had reduced to single figures and sometimes none at all on deployments.
Figures on the force’s website show the AFR vans have been used more than 50 times since January 2018. At 25 of those events, where figures were listed, more than 300,000 people had their face scanned.
The most recent use was when Swansea City and Cardiff City played at the Liberty Stadium in October. The next deployment will be the Wales v Barbarians rugby match at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium on 30 November.
Mr Lewis said his officers have learned to maximise the “super recogniser” AFR algorithm through better understanding crowd dynamics, where best to line up the camera and how many faces to analyse per frame.
He said: “Since the Champions League we have come a long way. The algorithm that we used then is different, it’s improved and we’re just about to look at another one.
“More importantly, our understanding of how the system is deployed – how we place the van, the camera sensitivity, the processing power of the computer – have all improved.
“That deployment was our first in mass crowds and that was a huge learning curve for us.”
The 25 events listed produced 137 alerts, 70 of them false alerts, an inaccuracy rate of 51%.
Mr Lewis said the accuracy of the AFR in spotting people on the watchlist who walked past the vans had also improved and was now “in the 80 percents”.
“So eight out of 10 times, a person on a watchlist is ‘hit’,” he added.
Mr Bridges was represented in court by the civil liberties group Liberty.
Hannah Couchman, Advocacy and Policy Officer at Liberty, said: “We are looking for a declaration that this is an unlawful technology to be used on our streets.
“Every single person walking past the camera has their right to privacy in some way eroded by this technology.”
Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has called the technology a “step change in policing techniques” and said police forces should justify its use.
For more on this story Eye on Wales is available online and on the BBC Sounds app
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How to be a ‘Biz’ Badass – Art and Commerce Can Co-Exist
By Taryn O'Neill on May 13, 2013 Resources and Favorite Things
photo by The Bui Brothers
“Screenwriters are asked to make art with business in mind. Why should we feel bad asking execs to do business with art in mind?” @silverwingscrpt
And I said that I wouldn’t be blogging much about ‘the biz’ directly… well my brain decided otherwise.
Photo credit: Scott Catron / Foter.com / CC BY-SA
The oft contentious marriage of Art and Commerce in Hollywood. The above tweet from Leigh Medeiros, in response to a disconcerting article in the New York Times about using algorithms to revise Hollywood scripts (fodder for another post), had the effect of hurtling me backwards in time, to my junior year at Duke and the study ‘abroad’ program I did here in LA. I came to explore Hollywood because I wanted to pursue a career that encompassed both the arts/ entertainment and business (I was an economics major). My desire to act was kept at bay by the pragmatic opinion that I would be wasting my expensive degree should I pursue it; becoming an agent seemed the obvious choice. Thus, I interned at both the Gersh Agency and a production company where I gave 30+ hours a week of my time. I loved the energy of an agency, it seemed like the hub of Hollywood.
Cut to landing a full time job at the William Morris Agency upon graduation, where there was little business or art in my day, unless you counted the ‘art’ of rolling calls or dealing with extreme behavior and late nights. One of my duties, however, was to prep the trades for my boss (a lit agent) every morning. I had to read both Variety and Hollywood Reporter and highlight any article that I thought she should know about as it pertained to her clients, the executives she had relationships with and the industry as a whole. It was here that my creative and analytical brain came alive. I could see the patterns of deals, find an interesting angle that a piece of news would suggest. I would write notes in the column as to how I thought a piece of information was relevant or significant to her business. Before the term was even hip, I was her curator.
Fast forward ten + years and I am now ‘the talent’. Apparently I found the strength to focus on the ‘art’. But I continued to be the curator, studying the ‘business’ side of the industry until the opportunity (New Media) came up where I could utilize it to jumpstart my acting career. I became a producer. I ‘re-branded’ myself. As a New Media writer and producer, it is my job to be up to date on the latest developments in the digital space. Everything from the latest YouTube trends and memes to a deal between Ben Silverman’s Electus and Hud:sun media. I also keep up with the news from mainstream Hollywood, which week by week, is becoming more affected by the digital democratization of content.
But even if I were solely a screenwriter or actor, not wearing any other hats, understanding the latest news in our industry would be paramount to me. Contrary to the NYTimes article, an algorithm should not dictate your work as an artist, and it’s a travesty if studios chose this path, but information can and should nudge you. If you want to write for the web, you have to be economical in locations and size of cast. If you’re a feature writer, you may have 10 script ideas floating in side of your head, but knowing the current landscape will help you pick which one to focus on. If only movie stars are getting cast in network TV pilots, focus your talents elsewhere.
You wouldn’t develop an app if you didn’t research mobile devices, would you?
So I want to empower you. Knowledge is power. I want you to be able to have a conversation with anyone in the Biz and be confident in your macro knowledge of our industry and the industries which affect it. Ms. In the Biz is the perfect launching pad. Then start yourself on a regiment, a badass diet of information.
Here are my top five picks:
1. Studio System News — A great round up of Hollywood box-office and deal news articles (via links and brief descriptions) delivered daily in a newsletter first thing in the am — Filmtracker recently acquired this site/ newsletter. They have a website but the newsletter starts off my day. It has started to cover the bigger digital news as well.
2. Cynopsis Media/ Digital — A more in-depth newsletter of pretty much everything happening in entertainment and media: what show is premiering, what was just renewed, cancelled, what bigger deals were just done, what executives are moving. There is one geared specifically towards Digital and its editor Wayne is fantastic — there is also a spotlight site every day.
3. Adage/ Adage Digital – Why?… You’re not in the advertising business. But like it or not, advertising is the engine behind TV. Ad revenue directly affects the budgets of shows and the commercials that get made. It’s also the realm from which many new directors get discovered. Why not know these talented folks before they go mainstream. Advertising industry is the elephant in every room that you go into related to Hollywood — and digital. Until content is solely financed by a subscription model, that 15 second preroll or 30 second TV spot or even product integration is important. Also, many of you are multi hyphenate creators – the site showcases great international commercials and branded shorts – see what is out there.
4. Tech Crunch — What is the latest app out there that might allow you to better monetize your show? When is Google Glass going public, how will it affect social media and engagement? These are all important tech developments that impact entertainment. The site’s ‘Crunch Daily’ is worth a quick skim.
5. The Skimm – speaking of skim, this newsletter email is a quick over view of everything else in the world going on! As this is important: it gives context. And perspective. Don’t be the industry gal at the lunch table who only talks about script deals and casting news. Or worse, reality TV. Inspire!
The EXTRAS:
Additional follows: @twitter itself. You have a bazillion entertainment feeds. Just don’t get bogged down in the ones reporting ‘celeb’ news rather than important deals. Even if I don’t like her alleged bullying tactics, Nikki Finke’s Deadline has the most comprehensive coverage of industry via twitter.
The Trades: Variety/ Hollywood Reporter. — Variety has a paywall that drives me nuts when I try to click to an article through twitter, but I find it covers a lot of digital news. The Hollywood Reporter weekly glossy is entertaining and glamorous. They have great weekly round up of deals and I love their Roundtable Interviews. If you can afford the glossy, I’d go for it.
Now that you have your main stay diet, you can SUPPLEMENT — if you’re an actor, read Backstage. If you’re a writer, John August’s blog and podcast, is fantastic, he and Craig Mazin talk about both industry issues and the writing process. A new favorite of mine is the Black board blacklist. If you are webseries focused, bookmark Tubefilter.com.
NOW TAKE ACTION:
Set aside even fifteen minutes every morning to do your ‘skim’ and have your virtual highlighter out, whether that be bookmarking or instapapering a few articles. Have your ‘biz’ notebook which you compile. As I will get into in a subsequent post, sometimes you won’t even know how an interesting piece of news will tickle your brain, how it might provide a solution for something you are working on with seemingly no correlation.
And if you have more time, use it! We are living and working in an era where almost every piece of information is at our fingertips. The pillars of thought and industry are on twitter! Rupert Murdoch tweets, and regardless of your opinions of his company, he is fascinating. Don’t just follow a small number of friends on twitter to keep your follower ratio low, follow follow follow! Free teachers are everywhere, thought leaders abound, with articles and ideas that will build your knowledge, thus your confidence… building the badass. So when someone asks you what you do, you can talk not just about your craft, but about the industry in which it is a commodity in. And in doing so, you may inspire that exec to bend his ear to the ‘art’ of it all.
Boom. Full circle.
What are your favorite entertainment news sites? Podcasts? Vlogs? My newsfeed is more geared towards digital but yours may be more indie film. How can you become your own best curator?
I look forward to your awesome answers. See you in the comment box! T
About Taryn O'Neill
TARYN is an actress, writer and new media producer originally from Vancouver, Canada. A competitive figure skater for 12 years, she graduated from Duke University. She has appeared on the TV shows ‘Vegas’, ‘Navy N.C.I.S.’, ‘The Inside’ ‘Lie to Me’ and plays a recurring role on the BYUTV family drama ‘Granite Flats’. She has acted in over 20 webseries (winning Best Supporting Actress at the Indie Soap awards for her work on ‘Compulsions’) as well as producing two series (including the Streamy nominated scifi series ‘After Judgment’.) She added writing to her repertoire after starting a blog in 2009, and in 2010, her first comedy script, “The Very True Adventures of the Madoff Girls,” was a Finalist in the NYTVFest FOX Comedy Pilot Contest. She has since written a full length series for ‘Stan Lee’s World of Heroes’ and has numerous web and tv projects in development, scifi being her genre of choice. In her spare time she studies all things science and trains in martial arts. Her quest to be an onscreen badass was first chronicled at her tumblr Operation BABE (Badass Alien-Fighting Body Endeavor), and has evolved into being a blog about being an inspired badass in all areas of life.
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CRO-MAGS ANNOUNCE NEW EP, First Single Released “2020”
Posted by Morgan Y Evans - Walking Bombs on Friday, November 27, 2020 at 11:28 AM (PST)
Earlier this year, CRO-MAGS released their first album in twenty years with the critically-acclaimed In The Beginning. To close out this year of international turmoil and disease, the band announces the 6-song EP, 2020, available worldwide digitally on December 11th. CRO-MAGS also release the eponymous track 2020 – venting all the frustration and rage, CRO-MAGS style, at the unprecedented chaos of this year.
The record itself is unintentionally 20 minutes and 20 seconds, and plays out more like a time-capsule look into the dumpster fire known as the year 2020. CRO-MAGS founder Harley Flanagan explains, “Just by coincidence we recorded 20 minutes and 16 seconds of music, so we simply added a few seconds of real-world chaos. The album cover is meant to look like a calendar – 7 squares across, with one picture from 2020 per day. Corona Virus, quarantine, empty streets, brutality, burning buildings, violence and destruction: 2020 is a year none of us will ever forget.”
2020 Track Listing
1 – Age Of Quarantine
3 – Life On Earth
4 – Violence and Destruction
5 – Chaos In The Streets
6 – Cro-Fusion
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SICK OF IT ALL release their new live video of “Never Back Down”
Posted by Morgan Y Evans - Walking Bombs on Wednesday, November 11, 2020 at 9:55 AM (PST)
New York City hardcore legends SICK OF IT ALL release their new live video of “Never Back Down” recorded straight from their homes. Check out the video HERE. The track is off their album The Last Act Of Defiance and follows the previous quarantine sessions “Alone“, “The Bland Within“, “Paper Tiger” and “Hardcore Horseshoe“. Make sure to subscribe to the band’s YouTube channel in order to get notified about future releases like the last quarantine clip that will be released in two weeks.
“This Quarantine Jam is a perfect anthem for these times! ‘Never Back Down’! Coming from the ‘Last At Of Defiance’ album. Here’s rally cry to get you through all the shit and the seemingly endless plague. It’s high energy, anthemic hardcore music, rooted in punk and Oi are a perfect fit to the take no shit everyman and everywoman lyrics. A reminder that no matter what they throw at you, keep on pushing, keep on fighting,” states SICK OF IT ALL about the release.
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ABERTOOTH LINCOLN release video for debut Riot Records single “Hell House”
Posted by Morgan Y Evans - Walking Bombs on Sunday, November 1, 2020 at 6:16 PM (PST)
Fronted by the charismatic person Edith Coleslaw aka Ashley Pooler, Abertooth Lincoln recently dropped their debut single for Riot Records, “Hell House”, and now the accompanying music video (below).
Hailing from Dayton, Ohio Abertooth Lincoln are an aggressive, spacey hardcore progressive punk band. Their music is heavy, weird, complicated and can flip genres within seconds. But the bottom line is they are unique and refreshing.
“This is the story of two naive but rebellious teenagers that magically get transported to a world within a comic book, in which they are subjected to the horrors of an evangelical hell house attraction. To save others from experiencing the same trauma and judgement, the teens take matters into their own hands, waging a bloody battle against the “demons” of Hell House. Hell Houses are a real thing, managed by evangelical churches in every state. They are run by people who get off on judging and condemning their neighbors, and pretending to be actual demons dragging sinners to hell. It’s violent indoctrination and fear tactics used on teens, and we thought it’d be fun if the people that do this sorta thing got sent to hell for a change.”
– Abertooth Lincoln
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WALKING BOMBS release political track “God Bless Dorothy Comingore”
Posted by Morgan Y Evans - Walking Bombs on Sunday, October 4, 2020 at 10:50 AM (PST)
I was deeply moved after reading an article about the Red Scare era HUAC horrors faced by one time silver screen Citizen Kane darling Dorothy Comingore (lareviewofbooks.org/article/destroyed-by-huac-the-dorothy-comingore-story/) and how she was wrongfully institutionalized, framed and slut shamed. Seeing as how we are in a new red scare today as conservatives target every common sense solution as ‘radical socialism’ and the Trump era has been all about gaslighting and zealous authoritarian dogma, it seemed the perfect time to honor the life of an unbelievably strong woman in song who had her rights threatened to a horrible extent.
This will very likely be on my in progress next album Tears We Should’ve Shed but due to Covid fudging up the year, I am giving it to the public now before the election and as a timely teaser track well in advance. I have been listening to The Adverts, Against Me! and Bad Religion, as you might be able to tell.
Thank you to Sean Paul Pillsworth (Nightmares For A Week) and Dave Bodie (ex-Divest, Kayo Dot, Time of Orchids) for helping me achieve this track and for Nada Recording Studios for being the perfect place to track it.
God bless y’all and Dorothy Comingore. Don’t give up the fight.
-Morgan Y. Evans
Click HERE to hear the song.
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WAR ON WOMEN release title track to new album ‘Wonderful Hell’
Posted by Morgan Y Evans - Walking Bombs on Thursday, September 10, 2020 at 8:23 AM (PST)
Intersectional feminist punk band WAR ON WOMEN return with new album Wonderful Hell(out digitally October 30th + physically on November 13th via Bridge Nine). You can hear a new single today! The title track, which unintentionally echoes John Lewis’ notion of “good trouble” as a catalyst for change, emerged during a period when vocalist/lyricist Shawna Potter was feeling exhausted and overwhelmed by life in the Trump era. “I think it expresses something that a lot of people are feeling. Like, ‘Okay, we had our moment. Now it’s time to get back to work. We can’t let this happen again. We can’t endure another four years of this,’” she comments.
It is disgusting the DOJ is being used as Trump’s personal flunkies to try to make sure there is no fair justice for E. Jean Carroll. The system is a joke! We need bands like this more than ever. Loving the new song. Reminds me of if old War On Women listened to a bunch of Dagnasty and Embrace and added more dissonant melody. Fucking rad!
Recorded with the band’s guitarist and co-founder Brooks Harlan alongside J. Robbins at his Magpie Cage Studios in February 2020 and completed in April (when in a COVID-19-free timeline the band would have been on tour with Bad Religion), Wonderful Hell is the first War On Women album to feature the band’s current lineup of Potter, Harlan, bassist/vocalist Sue Werner, guitarist/vocalist Jennifer “Jenarchy” Vito, and drummer Dave Cavalier. Like War On Women’s previous albums, Wonderful Hell includes anthemic songs that tackle systemic racism, acknowledge the natural feelings of wanting to give up or self-destruct in the face of insurmountable adversity, and some that aim straight at the jugular of gender disparity.
Check out the song “Wonderful Hell” HERE. I have said it before but I truly feel they are the most important current band in punk rock.
Look for Wonderful Hell to be available digitally on October 30th, 2020 (+ on physical formats on November 13th, 2020). More news, music, and pre-orders coming soon from War On Women (sign up to receive pre-order details here).
Wonderful Hell Track Listing:
1. Aqua Tofana
2. Milk and Blood
3. Wonderful Hell
4. This Stolen Land
5. White Lies
6. Big Words
7. Seeds
8. Her?
9. In Your Path
10. The Ash is Not the End
11. Demon
Artist photo by: Julia Schwendner
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DEAFBRICK stream album at Cvlt Nation
Posted by Morgan Y Evans - Walking Bombs on Wednesday, September 2, 2020 at 9:51 AM (PST)
photo by Felipe Pagani
Deafbrick – the collaborative album between Brazil’s DEAFKIDS and the UK’s PETBRICK – will see release this Friday in North America through Neurot Recordings and in Europe via Rocket Recordings. CVLT Nation is now hosting an advance stream of the entire album alongside an interview with both acts. This is a very exciting moment for the underground as both acts are pillars of inventive cacophony and this collab is sure to be something left field and morale boosting for fans of extreme, freaky chaos and percussive weirdness.
PETBRICK is the creation of Wayne Adams (Big Lad, Death Pedals) and Iggor Cavalera (Sepultura, Soulwax, Cavalera Conspiracy) and more. The band has released several EPs and albums through Closed Casket Activities, Rocket Recordings, and more over recent years, and they have toured and collaborated live with a variety of acts.
DEAFKIDS erupted into the international scene when Neurosis’ Neurot Recordings signed them in 2016. Since then, the label has issued two albums from the trio, and they toured internationally including opening for Neurosis, Bell Witch, Big|Brave, and others across North America, and alongside Rakta, Petbrick, and others in Europe.
CVLT Nation writes in part of the album’s intense and psychedelic attack, “DeafBrick is a unique aural experience and I’ll give it to the guys: there’s nothing quite like it on this planet. Their collaboration brings out the best in both bands and tends to temper any of their individual excesses. This is a focused, intelligent record of noise, industrial, metal, and punk. This is the most original album I’ve heard all year, but it is definitely not one of the most pleasant. There’s an element here, one of deprogramming, or maybe it’s programming, but you can feel your brain bleed in certain parts, like the band is issuing forth sounds that are breaking down mental barriers you never knew existed. This isn’t dangerous, but it is singular, and once you allow yourself to delve into its depths, you won’t come out the same person.”
Listen to the entire DEAFKIDS & PETBRICK Deafbrick collab at CVLT Nation early RIGHT HERE.
Also see the previously issued videos for “Sweat-Drenched Wreck” HERE and “Força Bruta” HERE.
Deafbrick will see release on LP and digital platforms this Friday, September 4th. In North America, find preorders through Neurot Recordings HERE and HERE. In Europe find preorders through Rocket Recordings HERE. Preorders for all digital providers are available HERE.
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WISDOM IN CHAINS, SHARP/SHOCK TEAM UP FOR 4-SONG E.P.
Posted by Morgan Y Evans - Walking Bombs on Monday, August 31, 2020 at 6:48 PM (PST)
Underground hardcore icons Wisdom In Chains face off with the ultra hyped Sharp/Shock for the ultimate hardcore / pop punk split, out on September 11th. Each band shreds a fresh original and then cues up on their own handpicked cover. Wisdom In Chains uncovers the glory of the ultra obscure Epoxies, while Sharp/Shock celebrates a classic hit from the legendary Buzzcocks.
Today, we’ve unveiled Side A opener “Richie’s Revenge” from Wisdom In Chains. The track showcases the band’s trademark PA Hardcore sound while remaining as relevant and timeless as ever.
Listen to (+ share) Wisdom in Chains’ “Richie’s Revenge” now on Soundcloud.
The Wisdom In Chains / Sharp/Shock Split E.P. will be available physically and digitally on September 11th from Fast Break! Records. Pre-orders are available here, and new music from Sharp/Shock will arrive soon.
1. Need More Time (Wisdom in Chains)
2. Richie’s Revenge (Wisdom in Chains, originally performed by The Epoxies)
3. The Ploy in Employment (Sharp/Shock)
4. Ever Fallen In Love (Sharp/Shock, originally performed by The Buzzcocks)
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Venomous Concept’s ‘Politics Versus the Erection’, out 8.28
Posted by Morgan Y Evans - Walking Bombs on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 at 10:59 AM (PST)
I have long maintained that Kevin Sharp (of Brutal Truth fame) has the distinctly most savage and hearty screaming voice in metal and the latest from his project with Napalm Death alumni, Venomous Concept‘s Politics Versus The Erection, does little to shake that certainty. The bellow to out bellow them all is paired with the band’s most blatant Poison Idea-worship yet for one of the most satisfying audio weapons yet to wield in the political shitshow of 2020. I am in need of blasting it after pedo protector Cardinal Dolan spoke at the RNC last night as if he is any moral authority on anything!
Kevin Sharp comments: “We wanted to do a record that sounded reactionary. We went into a studio wrote and recorded PVE in four days, in the age of digital thinking, records full of edits. Politics Versus the Erection is perfectly imperfect.”
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Interview: Ghösh- Symphony and Zach talk 𝔇𝔦𝔤𝔦𝔱𝔞𝔩 ℌ𝔞𝔯𝔡𝔠𝔬𝔯𝔢 methodology
Posted by Morgan Y Evans - Walking Bombs on Tuesday, August 11, 2020 at 12:46 PM (PST)
Ghösh are raising the bar for exciting acts to follow in 2020. “Nu Junglism. Digital Hardcore.”Whatever you wanna call it, this Philly duo have a fierce and kinetic, living punk energy that is a refreshing mutation of numerous styles into an explosive and vital sound. The tracks on their Bandcamp blew me away with a fresh poetic attack and a DIY vibe of anarchic, creative freedom. Party starting and with something subversive to say. Plus an unexpected take on a Limp Bizkit classic.
I really can’t rave about this group enough. Not many acts can pry me out of my current Entombed, Pink Floyd and Sun Ra rabbit holes, but when it happens of late I am probably listening to these freak flag flyers. Please check out the full convo with Symphony and Zach below.
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Concrete streaming ‘Free Us From Existence’
Posted by longhairedpoet on Tuesday, August 4, 2020 at 9:12 AM (PST)
New York hardcore metallers Concrete are streaming their latest full-length, Free Us From Existence over at No Echo. Free Us From Existence is due out this Friday, August 7.
From vocalist Lenny Fletcher: “This record is about having the strength to break the shackles and truly be free by any and all means necessary. You can either learn to turn your anger and sadness into fuel or kill yourself trying. Whatever it may be, we need to be freed from this existence.”
Head over to No Echo to check out Free Us From Existence.
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Globelamp details being discouraged from outing sexual harassment from a Burger Records Producer by Sloppy Jane
Posted by Metal Riot on Thursday, July 23, 2020 at 7:17 PM (PST)
Former Meowtain riot grrrl punk singer turned Psych Folk artist Globelamp (Elizabeth Gomez) has shared a series of IG posts showing receipts of Haley Dahl from Sloppy Jane seemingly threatening her with violence awhile ago for daring to make a public claim that Haley’s friend and Burger Records producer Joel Jerome sexually harassed Gomez during the recording of her album The Orange Glow. Gomez claims he would make tons of bad sexual comments, take pictures of her cleavage for a “spank bank” and say she had to have his baby, among other things.
In addition, Gomez has posted how she tried to warn Conor from Bright Eyes and Phoebe Bridgers from working with Secretly Group record labels because they helped Sam France from Foxygen. She posted tweets showing friendships between Sloppy Jane, Joel Jerome and Phoebe Bridgers and pointed out that if the dynamic between Ryan Adams and Phoebe mattered than why don’t the same folks care about what she says Joel did to her, with Phoebe’s best friend Haley even seeming to threaten her in a public manner and then Phoebe and Conor signing to Foxygen’s label and not caring about the multiple warnings Globelamp claims she tried to give through mutual former collaborator James Felice (who may not have bothered to ever say anything) and through multiple attempts at contacting Conor and Phoebe on social media through her verified platforms.
Phoebe today blocked Globelamp instead of accounting for any of this.
When I told people how Joel Jerome, recording engineer who recorded most Burger/Lolipop bands, sexually harassed me, I was told by Haley from #sloppyjaneband that I was making it up for “hype” and that she was going to hurt me. She went out of her way to message people like Ariel Pink to tell him to NOT believe me that I was abused. She is now trying to ride an image of being a woke feminist. It’s disgusting. Haley from Sloppy Jane tried to help cover up sexual harassment by a Burger/Lolipop producer. #burgerrecords #abuse #victimblaiming #lolipoprecords #sloppyjaneband #phoebebridgers
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Here is @_fake_nudes_ chatting it up with the burger producer who sexually harassed me when he produced me. Same guy her best friend Sloppy Jane threatened violence against me for saying he sexually harassed me and that I was lying. How could they do that when same thing allegedly happened to Phoebe with @ryanadams ? Then Phoebe signed to my abuser from Foxygen’s label despite me trying to warn her and @conoroberst via online posts and through former mutual friend James Felice. Wtf is wrong with hypocrites?! #secretlygroup #brighteyes #burgerrecords #sloppyjane #phoebebridgers #sexualharassment #foxygen #abuse
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#sexualharassment #burgerrecords #sloppyjane #joeljerome #brighteyes #phoebebridgers #conoroberst #darvo #foxygen #jagjaguwar
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Walking Bombs covers Zola Jesus, Black Flag (any sales go to Marsha P. Johnson Institute)
Posted by Morgan Y Evans - Walking Bombs on Saturday, June 27, 2020 at 1:05 PM (PST)
Head now to https://walkingbombs.bandcamp.com/album/i-cant-stand-w-jealous-again
A surprise 2 song Walking Bombs covers EP for you folks today, recorded May/June during quarantine. The artists Gridfailure and Globelamp helped with various elements on the EP as well.
All ongoing sales of this release will be donated to the Marsha P. Johnson Institute: marshap.org#
#blacktranslivesmatter #pride2020
‘Here are two lo-fi covers I did this Spring from home with additional support from Gridfailure and Globelamp on certain aspects. It was unintentional, but both songs deal with different aspects of relating to the concepts of self and relationships.
“I Can’t Stand” is one of my favorite Zola Jesus songs and covering anything by her is clearly friggin’ daunting because she is so talented, like a miraculous forest spirit. I think it is cool we have the same birthday. I wanted to focus on feeling the emotion and letting it be my own respectful manifestation of a song I love which I find incredibly moving. People can find themselves alone for many reasons, especially for being different. I wrote Nika and asked if it was ok to try to pull off and she gave me blessing to cover it, which was super awesome. It was also wonderful to have Gridfailure and Globelamp help me with recording different elements for max vibe!”
“Jealous Again” is one of the most aggro Black Flag classics and, frankly, I wanted to yank some of the frankly awful machismo out of it and make it a melodic but twitchy sort of examination of the mechanics of paranoia (without revealing if it’s unfounded or not). Now with Dave Brenner’s help it sounds like a wet cave full of ghosts. The slight organ added was fun because it is this monstrous thing that has apartment hopped with me and my partner and we never plugged in much until now. Oh, and I snuck a Biz Markie Easter Egg in there.” – Morgan Y. Evans
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Sick Of It All’s “Bull’s Anthem” gets a music video! Feat. Chuck Ragan & Tim McIlrath
Posted by Morgan Y Evans - Walking Bombs on Thursday, June 25, 2020 at 9:33 AM (PST)
And we’re baaaack. Metal Riot news here with the latest clobberin’ time updates to get you through these hard times. Anthrax have a new bourbon honoring Dimebag (made in my Hudson Valley) for all you boozers to check out. Looks legit! I have been sober six months so I am not gonna fuck that up, but you do you. So for my pick me up, let’s pivot to hardcore!
NYHC legends Sick of it All (and we’re all sick of it all right now, one way or the other), have a new video out for “Bull’s Anthem”. Always one of the all time greats of hardcore to me and many others, SOIA deserve all the love. And they brought some friends along!
“Getting all our fans and friends involved in the making of this video for ‘Bull’s Anthem’ was an absolute blast. We had so much fun going through all the submissions, piecing it together, and being able to bring some much needed laughter into all of our lives during these crazy times. It’s amazing to see so many people united via our music, from all over the world, and joining us in spreading a good responsible message. We want to thank Tim from Rise Against, Chuck from Hot Water Music and the hundreds of participants, for making this happen, and we want to thank you for watching and sharing this video. It’s US vs Them and the time for revolution has come! Support, love and take care of each other,” states SICK OF IT ALL about the music video.
“Bull’s Anthem” is off SICK OF IT ALL’s latest album, Wake The Sleeping Dragon!. For the release, Century Media Records teamed up with Fat Wreck Chords, who put out the CD and vinyl version in the US. The album is available to stream and purchase HERE.
NYC’s The Third Kind to release ‘Man Vs Earth’ this week! Stream now at TovH
Posted by Morgan Y Evans - Walking Bombs on Wednesday, June 24, 2020 at 11:11 AM (PST)
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New York City’s THE THIRD KIND – comprised of current and former members of All Out War, Bastard Clan, Vise Massacre, Awkward Thought, and more – will release their debut LP, Man vs Earth, this Friday. As its assault on the public looms, Toilet Ov Hell is now hosting an advance stream of the entire album, and the band has scheduled a livestream performance from NYC for the day of its release.
Engineered by THE THIRD KIND’s Taras Apuzzo at the band’s home studio at Otter House Studios in Long Island City, Man vs Earth was mastered by Dan Emery at Black Matter Mastering (Kool Keith, Krieg, Dwarves) and completed with cover art by Richard Muller and Frankie Accordi, and layout/design by Apuzzo.
The band offers, “Man vs Earth comes from a proletariat perspective. This music is built to inspire action, alive and fierce like the sun. Each song is written as a fable generally relatable to current events coupled with a reflection of the past. To ride it to win.”
Toilet Ov Hell writes, “…THE THIRD KIND are ready to throw down against all comers with their new album Man vs Earth. While some bands look to the stars and get all googly-eyed thinking about little green men, THE THIRD KIND turn their focus inwards to humanity and don’t like what they see.”
Stream THE THIRD KIND’s Man vs Earth LP at the Toilet Ov Hell portal RIGHT HERE.
THE THIRD KIND will self-release Man vs Earth on black vinyl LP and all digital platforms this Friday. Find preorders HERE.
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Album Review: Cro-Mags – ‘In The Beginning’
Posted by Morgan Y Evans - Walking Bombs on Friday, June 19, 2020 at 9:14 AM (PST)
Cro-Mags have one of the more turbulent legacies in hardcore and currently are ripped in half into two bands who each fairly have a serious karmic claim to aspects of the legacy. While Harley Flanagan owns the name now and . Let’s get this straight – In The Beginning is a more than admirable hardcore record full of plenty of aggro, solid moments and pit worthy consistency. To his credit, it is clear Harley didn’t just dial it in at all. He also made sure great people were attached to this era, from Rocky George (who steals the entire show with ease) to Phil Campbell’s cameo energy. Gabby also kicked a lot of ass. It sounds great mix wise and the performances range from on point to totally killer.
On the album’s artwork, Flanagan explains, “The front of the album is my old building I used to live in, called ‘C Squat’ where I wrote most of the music for 1986’s Age Of Quarrel album. The rear of the record shows me looking down at the site where the building once stood, essentially, it’s me looking at my past and where everything began.” I love the LES and C Squat makes me think of getting heroin spritzed out a needle up my literal nostril and then seeing Choking Victim in the basement while people urinated down an orange traffic cone. Damn, my life is somewhat different now.
The title of the record is honestly a big distraction for me, seeming like less of a PMA statement and more a troll reminder of who founded the band (although I am not tone policing dude on the things he is cynical about). It also is because I am a huge Mercyful Fate fan and The Beginning is a compilation album released in 1987 consisting of the Nuns Have No Fun EP and different versions of 4 tracks from the album Melissa. I know it is nitpicky and corny to note that and that neither this album or The Beginning are the most imaginative titles, but I don’t like thinking of other art when I am trying to concentrate on what is in front of me.
“PTSD” is a standout track, just about anything you might want in a Cro-Mags song present. That is good and bad. “Don’t Give In”, while also kicking ass, has almost the exact same development from a classic pace-setting slower intro to a growling, faster remainder. It is good but kind of makes you want to just listen to “We Gotta Know”. Or does it? Am I biased because Cro-Mags have a smaller discography than The Ramones? Plenty of Ramones songs sound similar and I love them all. Lots of elbow swinging, two-stepping mid tempo classic reminiscent moments to experience are present (or re-experience if you are an old fan) in a new chapter here.
While there is power in a lot of this, it also feels like an homage to bygone days. Still, he has way more of a right to that than half the new jack bands copying actual old school artists personal creative contributions and aesthetics but then acting as if they are hotter shit. No. Your new school band will never be Cro-Mags, Judge or Chain Of Strength. Stay motivated and do your thing, but don’t get it fuckin’ twisted and pay your respects, kids. “No One’s Victim” has some cool dissonance for the intro that I liked, before setting up an elbow swinging march sprinkled with mandatory lead guitar widdlies.
I guess I will just come out and say it. John Joseph and Mackie Jayson on board as well would have made this so much more fucking awesome. Harley did an admirable, great job holding the vocals but he isn’t a frontman and singer like John. The songs are cool but would’ve been cooler. Mackie is untouchably good. No contest. You can’t expect people to just forget knife fights and court shit or whatever you believe, but after the triumphant majority of Misfits (don’t forget poor Googy) and Guns N’ Roses (sans Stradlin) reunions of recent times, it is impossible to hear this and not also notice the missing elements in the room unless you are cave man headbanging so hard it doesn’t matter. One love and pma to all of these people, all of whom have profoundly influenced my life. It just makes me sad.
Listening to the strong closer “There Was A Time” (also a song name on Chinese Democracy, ha) I think this record is overwhelmingly well meaning and has a ton of real energy to it. I would never want to take away from that. It is admirable Harley went so hard and wrote so many songs for this, not ceding an inch of passion. Along with the new Body Count record, it is great to hear vets of the scene still give their all and not lose their beliefs. Sometimes survival is about being thankful for the good aspects and reality of the situation we have, not what we wish was different. In that paradigm, let’s be thankful we can still hear any of these musicians at all and support whichever version of the band (or both) and try and keep ahead of our collective societal demons, y’all.
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Technical death metal pioneers DEEDS OF FLESH return after a seven year hiatus with their 9th studio album Nucleus, set for release via Unique Leader Records on 11th December 2020 (Vinyl release 15th January 2021). The band's first release since the tragic passing of guitarist / vocalist and Unique Leader founder Erik Lindmark, who lost a battle with sclerosis in 2018, Nucleus features guest performances some of the biggest names in extreme metal to celebrate his life and contribution to metal. Vocalist Jacoby Kingston is joined by members of Pathology, Gorguts, Dying Fetus, Submerged, Decrepit Birth and more. With a mix of the old and new style of DEEDS OF FLESH writing, this album is the completion of a story that began with Of What's to Come (2008) and ran through Portals to Canaan (2013). The music was written by Erik Lindmark (RIP), Craig Peters, Ivan Munguia and Darren Cesca, and had been recorded and partially mixed for almost four years. When Erik Lindmark passed in 2018, vocalist Jacoby Kingston came out of retirement to help finish the album. Alongside long-time drummer Mike Hamilton, they finished the story arc, wrote the lyrics and made the vocal arrangements for Nucleus.
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A 'Game of Thrones' Dragon Just Made a Cameo on 'Westworld'
By Brock Thiessen
If you were wise enough to watch Westworld this weekend, you were met with quite the unexpected treat — an actual dragon from Game of Thrones.
Yes, during the second episode of Westworld Season 3 last night (March 22), the show made a rather awesome crossover with HBO peer Game of Thrones, as the sci-fi series inserted a dragon from Game of Thrones during one scene.
The cameo was quick but well played, with Westworld quickly showing off a GoT dragon in the lab with two technicians getting the Targaryens' weapon of choice ready for some fantasy-type theme park.
Explaining the cameo, Westworld showrunners Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan told Variety that the idea for the dragon placement actually came from GoT creator himself George R. R. Martin.
"George had consistently since the first season said, 'We've got to do a tie-in with Game of Thrones,'" said Nolan. "People forget that George was originally a TV writer and he came up in the TV world in which you'd occasionally have these crossover shows, which the fans would fucking freak out over. So George had always been pitching the crossover show."
Joy added that George wanted "a full situation, [a] Game of Thrones world, or something!"
While it's unlikely the GoT dragon will appear again in Westworld, the show currently airs on Sunday night on HBO.
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20th May 2004 cannon fire
Started by Paul Neville
Much has been said as to how fast the troops could fire their Martini's. How many cannon shots could be fired in one minute? How many men in a gun c... (click to view)
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19th May 2004 dear johnny mills as bartle frere in zulu dawn
"a final solutuion to the zulu problem" the above are the words sir john mills says as he reads through the ultimatum,while peter o toole a... (click to view)
19th May 2004 H.B Pulleine, Camp Commander Islandwana.
Started by David Alan Gardner
Poor Pulleine had a tough job on the day of the battle, from an early start, things went from bad to worse. Could the unenviable situation he inher... (click to view)
Latest Post: 2nd June 2004 2
18th May 2004 IM LOST
Started by SIR LOSTER
SO VERY LOST? IS THERE A MAP OF AFRICA SO I CAN FIND RORKES DRIFT ON IT?... (click to view)
18th May 2004 Melanie Trinder (John Jobbins)
Started by Bill Millar
Can you please contact me with your phone no, or and address please. have sent several mesages and had all returned! Thanks Bill... (click to view)
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18th May 2004 'Camo' cork helmets
Started by Miguel
We all know the overseas cork helmets were stained with tea or coffee in the field so they were not so visible. Am I the only one who found this su... (click to view)
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17th May 2004 Pulliene's death
I take it the cinematic death of Colonel Pulliene in the movie zulu dawn is dramatic license. Does anyone know how he and Durnford actually died? ... (click to view)
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17th May 2004 May Issue of 'Military Modelling'
Started by John Young
I don't know if many of the contributors to this forum have even heard of 'Military Modelling'? However, if you can try and get hold of the current i... (click to view)
15th May 2004 Myth of queuing for ammo at Isandhlwana
Started by Marc Jung
With all the recent excavation apparently throwing this theory out of the window, how did it come to surface in the first place? Were there any surviv... (click to view)
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14th May 2004 Daily Pay For Infantry Regiments as at 31st Jan 1879
Started by melanie
NOT BAD PAY FOR ONE DAYS WORK COLONELS 17s 6d LIEURENANT COLONELS 17s MAJORS 16s CAPT... (click to view)
14th May 2004 boxed martini henry ammo buried,never found?
in the washing of the spears by donald r morris,he makes reference to a report by an officer of the 2nd/24th which is interesting. ... (click to view)
14th May 2004 WEEKEND DISCUSSION FORUM
Started by Alan Critchley
As mentioned previously, RDVC are planning to arrange a get-together of enthusiasts, amateur and other for a week-end. It would be an informal gatheri... (click to view)
13th May 2004 Isandlawana Zulu Battlefield Video
Started by Andrew Bush
Guys, I live in Melbourne Australia and have contacted the shop on several occasions to try and purchase the video but none of my emails get answer... (click to view)
12th May 2004 How many Zulus attacked Rorke's Drift on 22/23 Jan 79
Started by Martin Evevett
Official records suggest that 500 to 600 warriors were sighted at 4.30 pm on 22 Jan. Chard stated 350 Zulu dead after the action which now appears to... (click to view)
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11th May 2004 A Public Thank You to Barbara Lindsay
Started by Steven Sass
I want to express my gratitude publicly to Barbara Lindsay. Prior to the "Zulu War, Through the Eyes of the London Illustrated News" being ... (click to view)
9th May 2004 Rorke's Drift - The Roll
Started by Peter Ewart
Something rather puzzles me and perhaps someone can help? I'm assuming the late Norman Holmes' work on the provenance and reliability of the variou... (click to view)
6th May 2004 Thomas Parry, Fred Evans and Adendorff
Started by Julian Whybra
Re Keith's query about Thomas Parry from 30th April. I had a number of e-mails directly asking me to expand my comment. I have done this under that ... (click to view) 0
6th May 2004 Number of Nco's in a company , Zulu war time
Started by Garnier Fred
Hi I'm trying to represent a line infantry company with 25mm figurines, so I would need the number of NCO's ( with the number for each rank : eg. 3 s... (click to view)
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5th May 2004 virus !!!!! be carefull
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i received an email from someone called [email protected] with an attachment that was a virus - luckily did not open it - please be ultra cautious... (click to view)
5th May 2004 Chelmsford returning to Islandhlwana
As a soldier in the Australian Army, the battle of Islandhlwana has always intrigued me ever since I was a young child. There are many interesting asp... (click to view)
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Olivia Chow’s triumph a class that ‘humanizes politics’: Porter
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By: Catherine Porter Columnist, Published on Mon Jun 22 2015
I went to Ryerson University on Sunday morning to see what Olivia Chow is up to.
There she was in her trademark yellow, standing at the front of a busy auditorium, teaching the guts and brains of activism.
Chow is now a ‘distinguished visiting professor,’ teaching in the “Jack Layton Summer Leadership School.”
If she can no longer change the country as a New Democrat MP, and couldn’t change the city by winning election as our mayor, then she’ll do the next best thing: teach others how to do it themselves.
“I’m beaming,” she told me later. “I know this will work.”
This is a five-day program, gleaned mostly from the teachings of Marshall Ganz — the civil rights activist and United Farm Workers organizer who became famous seven years ago as the man behind Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign’s grassroots organizing and volunteer training program.
Ganz took everything he’d learned over decades of action and broke it down into a theory of social change and the practical techniques and skills needed to implement it. Chow spent three months earlier this year taking one of Ganz’s Harvard University courses, long-distance. Even she, after more than 35 years of activism and political organizing, learned things.
“At the core of it is building relationships,” she explained. “It’s not asking ‘what is the issue?’ It’s asking ‘who are the people?’ If you look at education, the best practices are child-centred, and in medicine they’re patient-centred. Why should we be any different as organizers?”
Once she got hired part-time by Ryerson, she trained 15 people — many of whom worked on her mayoral campaign — to facilitate workshops for her class as teaching assistants.
With very modest advertising — just signs and word of mouth — some 250 applied for the course, so many that the university opened a second session in July.
“What it’s definitely proven is there is a huge interest in acquiring skills for making change,” said Myer Siemiatycki, politics professor and Ryerson’s first Jack Layton Chair, who came up with the idea for the class. “Jack would like that a lot.”
The auditorium on Sunday was packed with both young students new to activism and weathered protesters who should have turned cynical long ago. They were working on indigenous student rights and homeless shelter policies for transgender people and seemingly everything in between. I spoke to eight of them. Each was an advertisement for youthful enthusiasm. They glowed with excitement.
“I didn’t realize how much potential I have,” said Yasmin Virani, a 20-year-old criminology student who is lobbying Sunnybrook to expand its veterans program. “I can make a change.”
“Oh my gosh, I love her,” said Eric Rogers, when I asked him how Chow was as a teacher. “She has so much personal expertise. She humanizes politics.”
I asked each of them what big lesson they learned from the course. Here’s what a few said:
“You have to nurture relationships,” said Gord Jackson, a 75-year-old anti-poverty activist from Hamilton. “You aren’t the only bright light in the room.”
John Edwards is a 35-year-old actor-turned-nursing student. He’s passionate about defending public health care.
“Someone has to lead, but there should be no fewer than three people ready to take your spot,” he told me. “It’s a long hard process to make change. If I burn out, there are others who have been trained and are ready.”
(The 60-page course manual calls the training of volunteers the “ladder of engagement,” with concrete steps from supporter to volunteer to team member and organizer. For instance, every new would-be volunteer should be contacted within 48 hours “because prospects are more likely to say yes.”)
Rahat Hossain, 22, learned change is driven not by ideology but by personal stories. The soon-to-be-medical student has been an anti-poverty advocate for many years. But the course was the first time he told the story about how his mom often didn’t eat when he was a child because the family was broke.
“Yesterday someone else told me they had a similar story. I’m realizing how systemic and common it is. It’s not about this elaborate platform or fundraising or about even the big picture. It’s about building relationships by having conversations.”
One of the people Chow trained to facilitate the workshops is Brian Chang. What he learned, he said, was to try new ideas. “The opportunity for failure is great, but so is the opportunity for success.”
Chang and the rest of Chow’s group have formed a budding non-profit called Project Organize. They are planning on taking their program around Ontario, just as a group has done in British Columbia. Already they’ve trained a few other local non-profit groups, including the Social Planning Network of Ontario and rabble.ca.
I’ve booked them to come and train me and my fellow board members of our east-end residents association.
The business world has long codified and taught best business management and marketing practices. It’s about time we activists did it!
Catherine Porter can be reached at cporter@thestar.ca
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Portion of SCP-5001, directly outside of the primary containment unit.
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-5001 must not cease operation.
Due to SCP-5001's autonomous nature, no personnel are to disrupt its mechanical functions. Attempts to study SCP-5001 are to be limited to tactile and visual observation. Personnel who damage or disrupt SCP-5001's functionality are to be removed from their position in the Foundation, and may be subject to further disciplinary action dependent on Ethics Committee ruling.
Following Incident Omega-1, no attempts to stop SCP-5001-A from breaching containment are to be made directly, unless SCP-5001 is rendered incapable of performing recontainment itself.
Description: SCP-5001 is a bio-mechanical structure approximately fifty-three kilometers in diameter, located a total of 60 kilometers under northern Russia. SCP-5001, while non-anomalous in its own right, possesses numerous characteristics which imply its connection to anomalous phenomena, including:
Immense depth and size.
Records of SCP-5001-A's status dating back to 11,000 BCE, recorded in modern measurement systems.
Documents in numerous languages, including Phoenician, Ancient Hebrew, Greek (ancient and modern), Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Modern Russian, Modern English, Modern Mandarin, and various other languages which have yet to be identified.
Complete lack of time-affecting devices or residue from temporal anomalies.
Mechanical devices currently not reproducible by Foundation engineering.
Additionally, SCP-5001's primary purpose is unclear. Concentric to SCP-5001 is a spherical, hollow object primarily composed of graphene and another, unidentified compound. The spherical chamber is supported by twelve large, cylindrical rods composed of osmium and an outer layer of titanium, approximately 0.5 kilometers in diameter each. These factors, along with other mechanical devices surrounding the central chamber (see addenda), has led researchers to believe that SCP-5001 is a containment unit for an unknown anomalous object.
SCP-5001-A is the designation for the object or entity that SCP-5001 is containing. SCP-5001-A's appearance, properties, or anomalous effects are entirely unknown, with only basic information being provided by SCP-5001's computer interface. However, considering the significant effort exerted by SCP-5001's creators to contain SCP-5001-A, it is likely that the object or entity poses a significant threat to reality, and (if sentient) has malevolent intent.
Addendum One — History
In 1953, G.R.U. Division-P members were attempting to measure seismological activity in a narrow region of northern Russia, approximately 30 kilometers from SCP-5001's position1. During these experiments, a significant discrepancy was noted between projected and actual S-wave strengths. Further trials suggested that the discrepancy was not due to human or instrument error, and rather, there was a large body of non-solid material in a relatively close area.
GRU-P Seismological Readings
After triangulating the approximate position of the disruption, GRU-P members began to bore towards it using a Uralmash-4E series drill, and SCP-5001 was discovered. However, all of GRU-P's attempts to penetrate SCP-5001's outer wall resulted in failure, ending in the project being abandoned after two years. Nonetheless, in 1959, First Secretary Khrushchev showed renewed interest in breaching SCP-5001, and funded the operation until he was deposed in 1964.
In 1969, due to improving relations between the United States of America and the Soviet Union, the SCP Foundation and GRU-P had begun to cooperate on numerous anomalous projects. GRU-P signed a contract which allowed the Foundation to have joint control of the anomaly if they could successfully penetrate its outer walls. Thanks to a combination of anomalous technology purchased from the Global Occult Coalition and Dr. Elijah Rachama's experimental designs, SCP-5001's exterior was breached in 1971.
Joint operation and study of SCP-5001 was maintained until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. While under the control of both organizations, numerous studies were conducted on the technology that SCP-5001 possessed, which led to a number of devices being replicated by technicians on-site (an abridged list can be found below). The SCP Foundation and GRU-P agreed to keep this technology secret and only accessible among themselves.
In 1992, GRU-P liquidated its assets. Because of this, a large number of its high-ranking officials stole technology belonging to the organization. Most stolen devices were sold to Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd. for large sums of money, though a number of employees had joined The Chaos Insurgency and other similar groups, granting them access to essential documents. Although many important documents were leaked, SCP-5001's existence remained concealed, and the Foundation acquired full control of the structure shortly thereafter.
Addendum Two — Technological Characteristics
SCP-5001 contains numerous technological devices and important documents which have been of interest to Foundation personnel since its discovery. As mentioned previously, this technology was only available to the Foundation and GRU-P; however, since 1991, other Groups of Interest have had limited access to them as well. Below is an abridged list of important discoveries facilitated by SCP-5001.
Ontological Stabilizers
Large Hyperluminal Engine
Compound B-705
"OMEGA"
Official Document Name: Ontological Stabilizers
Foundation Alias: Scranton Reality Anchors (SRAs)
Function: Scranton Reality Anchors function to alter the total amount of Humes in a given radius of effect. This allows for the alteration of reality's strength in a given location, as well as the nullification of reality-bending properties present in many anomalies. Although it does not negate the effects, it reduces them to a degree that allows Hume-reliant entities to be properly contained.
Reverse Engineering Technique: Reverse engineering of Ontological Stabilizers was achieved in 1977 by Joint Research Unit 3, headed by Dr. R. Scranton. Due to the large number of OSes present within SCP-50012, and that the removal of one OS would affect the total Hume readings of the structure by less than 0.5 centiHumes, the Foundation and GRU-P deemed it appropriate to remove one from operation. The removed device was returned to operation in 1980.
Notes: Presence of two layers of Ontological Stabilizers surrounding SCP-5001's inner chamber has been noticed. The exterior OSes appear to be functioning at minimal capacity (approx. 15.3 H/m3), while interior OSes function at a higher capacity (approx. 83.9 H/m3). This further supports the hypothesis that SCP-5001 is a containment facility, and if this hypothesis is true, implies that SCP-5001-A has reality-manipulating properties.
A proposal to replace the OSes with the more effective Scranton Reality Anchors was proposed in 2003, but was narrowly rejected.
Official Document Name: Large Hyperluminal Engine
Foundation Alias: Drive Aleph (1–9)
Function: Serves as a self-contained energy source, engine, and propulsion system. Cylindrical in shape, each of the nine LHEs are approximately 22 meters in height and 5 meters in diameter. Although its mechanics have neither been fully understood nor analyzed properly, the LHEs continue to provide insight into Faster-Than-Light engine construction.
Reverse Engineering Technique: N/A. However, three of the nine LHEs have been removed from SCP-5001, and repurposed for experimental orbital eigenweapon technology. This was approved by the O5 Council in 1992. Nonetheless, development of FTL travel and corresponding technology has been progressing independently of SCP-5001.
Notes: The locations of the LHEs are approximately circular, located directly above the central containment area of SCP-5001. All LHEs have been inactive since their discovery.
Official Document Name: Compound B-705
Foundation Alias: N/A
Function: Compound B-705's exact purpose is unknown. Large portions of SCP-5001's external walls and primary containment unit are composed of Compound B-705, and it displays remarkable resilience to destruction or attempts to reform it. Portions of Compound B-705 that have been separated from its primary mass will attempt to reintegrate with each other — the mechanism behind this is unclear.
Compound B-705's more notable property is its constant electromagnetic pulse. This pulse appears to grow in strength when surrounded by material of its own or similar composition, and fires at a constant rate of once per 7ns. Subjects in close proximity to Compound B-705 or its pulses experience clearer thoughts, increased mental fortitude, and an increased pain threshold. It is believed that the primary effects of Compound B-705 are not electromagnetic in nature, but rather travel through a different medium, which produces electromagnetic pulses as residue.
Reverse Engineering Technique: Currently, Compound B-705 cannot be synthesized by Foundation personnel. Additionally, harvesting Compound B-705 from SCP-5001 has been denied by the O5 Council due to the limited amount available.
Notes: The exact radius which Compound B-705 transmits its effects (as well as its strength at different distances) are incapable of being determined.
Official Document Name: "OMEGA"
Foundation Alias: Artificial Intelligence Constructs
Function: Artificial Intelligence Constructs (AICs) are artificial consciousnesses developed by the Foundation for a specific or generalized purpose. Typically, AICs are responsible for running highly complex systems or handling anomalies which may pose a threat to direct human contact. Additionally, AICs may be deployed to deal with cybernetic anomalies, or infiltrate databases/networks.
Reverse Engineering Technique: Although "OMEGA"'s software could not be accessed directly, numerous question-answer sessions with the intelligence allowed for inferences to be made on its design and function. Artificial Intelligence had already begun research (especially thanks to the reverse engineering of SCP-079) by 1990, and thus "OMEGA"'s utility was largely ignored.
Nonetheless, in 2010, Dr. Fredrick Glass would successfully access portions of "OMEGA"'s software. Recovered data proved essential to the construction of Generation IV Artificial Intelligence Constructions in PROJECT: DEWEY (aka "Alexandra"), and would later result in more complicated and efficient AIC designs.
Notes: "OMEGA" was discovered within SCP-5001 on a single terminal in an unmarked room. The terminal appeared to be connected via wire to numerous locations around SCP-5001, though the specific devices it controls is unclear. On the terminal's side are numerous ports of unknown design or function.
"OMEGA" displayed a single input terminal at the bottom of the interface, with a virtual keyboard and language selection option on the lower half of the screen. After submitting an input in the appropriate language, "OMEGA" will produce a response, with accuracy of answers varying (though always technically correct). "OMEGA" also displays a degree of intelligence, and is capable of holding long and complex conversations. Despite this, "OMEGA" will refuse to answer any questions which will provide insight into SCP-5001's function or history.
On March 19th, 2013, Dr. Vanessa Kleiner accessed "OMEGA" without proper authorization. Cameras within the room showed Dr. Kleiner producing a metallic device of unknown origin from within their clothes, and inserting it into one of "OMEGA"'s ports. For approximately twenty minutes, Dr. Kleiner and "OMEGA" were unresponsive, until Dr. Kleiner spontaneously collapsed.
Soon after, Dr. Kleiner was discovered by another researcher and confirmed dead. An autopsy was performed, revealing the metal device to be a cybernetic implant. How Dr. Kleiner received these implants is unclear, as they were not Foundation-made nor approved.
Currently, seven research teams are operating within SCP-5001, and have continued to provide insight to SCP-5001's mechanical functions.
Addendum Three — Incident Omega-1
On December 30th, 2019, SCP-5001-A breached.
During routine operations, a large explosion in the north-eastern section of SCP-5001 disrupted electric flow to ~25% of the structure, as well as numerous essential components. The exact cause of the explosion is unknown; the two most prevalent theories is that it either was sabotage from a unidentified Group of Interest (potentially the defunct GRU-P), or a malfunction caused by Dr. Kleiner's actions. Regardless, this began a series of events which almost resulted in SCP-5001's destruction.
A full transcription of events can be found below.
[00:00] Detonation occurs in north-eastern section of SCP-5001. No footage is available of the incident directly, though its effects can be seen throughout the structure.
[00:23] Numerous portions of SCP-5001 shut down due to lack of electric flow. On-site security are dispatched to explosion location.
[00:57] Minor increase in SCP-5001-A's internal Hume levels. This is not generally noticed by on-site personnel, who are preoccupied with the explosion.
[01:33] Security arrive to explosion site. Two researchers are found dead in the initial explosion; one is found alive but in critical condition.
[01:39] Security personnel begin to enact first aid to said employee. Two other security officers scout the area for potential threats.
[01:44] SCP-5001-A's increasing internal Hume levels are noticed by monitoring staff.
[02:02] SCP-5001-A's temperature begins to increase from –107.4°C at approximately 1.5°/s.
[02:45] External staff at Site-59 are alerted to the situation. Site-59's director is informed shortly after.
[02:54] A number of personnel located within SCP-5001's monitoring room begin to report nausea and headaches. The reason for this is unclear.
[03:14] Technicians arrive at explosion origin. They begin to navigate towards damaged sections, with the primary intention to restore power.
[03:29] SCP-5001-A's internal Hume reading surpasses 10. The current operational OSes (~3400) begin to work at maximum capacity. This slows SCP-5001-A's internal Hume increase, but fails to halt its growth entirely.
[03:43] Low-Level State of Emergency is declared. Site-59 prepares to transport materials to aid in SCP-5001's repair.
[04:04] SCP-5001-A's temperature reaches 0°C. Minor — but notable — strain is placed on the cylindrical rods underneath the inner containment chamber.
[04:12] Slight tremors are detected at Site-59.
[04:35] SCP-5001-A's temperature stabilizes at approximately 37°C. Tremors become noticeable within SCP-5001's monitoring room.
[04:42] Pressure on cylindrical rods reaches ~100 MPa. "Interlock mechanism" is released; the meaning of this is unclear.
[04:53] Numerous personnel on-site begin to vomit or hyperventilate for unknown reasons.
[05:08] SCP-5001's monitoring mechanisms report a "LEVEL 9 BREACH." Following this, all lights in the facility dim significantly. This makes it difficult for the technicians to continue repairs.
[05:19] SCP-5001-A's internal Humes surpass 50.
[05:23] The primary containment chamber begins to shift upwards. Tremors are reported to be more noticeable outside SCP-5001.
[05:55] Intermediate-Level State of Emergency is declared. O5-3 is alerted to the situation. Evacuation of SCP-5001's upper levels begin; all non-essential personnel on-site are requested to leave.
[06:03] Shipments from Site-59 to assist in repairing SCP-5001 are sent. O5-3 authorizes the use of Mobile Task Force Omega-12. The primary containment chamber begins to accelerate upwards.
[06:13] SCP-5001's monitoring mechanisms report a "LEVEL 8 BREACH."
[06:35] MTF Omega-12 begins to navigate towards SCP-5001. Tremors increase significantly; a large malformation appears in the landscape directly above SCP-5001.
[07:00] The primary containment chamber abruptly halts its ascent, but nonetheless exerts pressure on the cylindrical rods. The containment chamber vibrates intensely.
[07:49] The containment chamber jerks higher, and continues ascending at a linear pace. All non-essential personnel are successfully evacuated. SCP-5001's monitoring mechanisms report a "LEVEL 7 BREACH."
[08:03] A large number of explosions detonate near SCP-5001's top. Camera footage reveals these to be caused by crushed OSes, as the primary containment chamber crushes them on its ascent. SCP-5001-A's internal Hume readings accelerate faster.
[08:27] All six currently-operational Large Hyperluminal Engines activate simultaneously. The primary containment chamber descends rapidly.
[08:43] The primary containment chamber's descent slows, and halts.
[08:46] The primary containment chamber resumes ascension.
[09:00] SCP-5001-A's internal Humes surpass 350. Aid from Site-59 arrives, and is quickly ushered to the damaged portion of SCP-5001.
[10:20] Large partitions appear in the ground directly above SCP-5001. These partitions expand at a linear rate.
[10:43] The primary containment chamber successfully destroys the top-most exterior of SCP-5001, and begins to rise out of SCP-5001. SCP-5001's monitoring mechanisms report a "LEVEL 6 BREACH." Major tremors are reported at Site-59, equivalent to the epicenter of a 5.0 earthquake.
[11:01] The ground's partitions reach a distance of ~10 kilometers across. Orbital satellites are capable of viewing the primary containment chamber when directly above.
[11:17] All personnel under medical care simultaneously enter a comatose state.
[11:34] MTF Omega-12 arrive. Despite their best efforts, all reality-bending capabilities are ineffective, primarily due to the amount of OSes present nearby and SCP-5001-A's internal Hume count (~470).
[13:23] SCP-5001 is repaired, and power is supplied to 94% of the facility. No immediate effects are noticeable. SCP-5001's monitoring equipment reports a "LEVEL 5 BREACH."
[14:00] High-Level State of Emergency is declared. All personnel inside SCP-5001 are ordered to evacuate.
[15:10] The primary containment chamber has risen 40 kilometers. O5-3 gives overruling order to terminate SCP-5001-A as soon as possible.
[15:16] Foundation begins preparation for the use of numerous anomalous weaponry, most notable being the High-Energy Concentration Orbital Railgun (HECOR), which begins calibration for firing.
[15:37] SCP-5001's monitoring equipment reports a "LEVEL 4 BREACH."
[15:42] All of SCP-5001-A's recording instruments are severed, and output no new data.
[15:55] Large detonations take place at the bottom of SCP-5001. Within a few seconds, three large tungsten rods are launched towards the primary containment chamber at hypersonic speeds, which successfully penetrate the unit. The chamber remains motionless midair.
[16:21] The primary containment chamber continues to ascend. All tungsten rods fall out of the chamber, and return to SCP-5001.
[16:29] Personnel previously in a comatose state become alert and hostile, attacking any persons nearby. Seven medical staff die in this exchange, and hostile personnel attempt to consume their bodies.
[16:47] Site-59 suffers from major structural failure and collapses.
[17:32] The primary containment chamber breaches the surface.
[18:06] The primary containment chamber begins to spin, gradually speeding up. Nearby dust particles orbit the chamber.
[18:51] A pressure wave is released from SCP-5001-A. Individuals caught in the wave experienced irritated skin, spontaneous hair growth, and intense nausea.
[19:23] Further pressure waves are released from SCP-5001-A in rapid succession. Individuals caught in multiple blasts experienced sudden tumorous growths, loss of higher cognitive function, and reformation of limbs, and began to attack each other. A single vocalization sounds out in an indiscernible voice from the primary containment chamber: "REVERT TO MY DOMAIN."
[19:55] HECOR fires.
[20:07]. Primary containment chamber, directly after the firing of HECOR.
[20:04] A large portion of the primary containment chamber's first and second layers are destroyed. All pressure waves cease. SCP-5001-A is exposed, but is obscured by the explosion.
[20:11] Rapid bursts of electromagnetic pulses emanate from SCP-5001, producing a magnetic effect. The primary containment chamber begins to descend. HECOR prepares for refiring.
[20:34] Individuals under SCP-5001-A's effects enter a comatose state, and begin to suffer from malformations in vital organs. All of these individuals die.
[28:30] Medical staff and rescue specialists arrive at Site-59.
[34:00] The primary containment chamber reenters SCP-5001. SCP-5001, through an unknown mechanism, begins to regenerate.
[36:24] The partition in the ground above SCP-5001 begins to close at a slow rate, and completes after ~56 hours.
In order to ensure the veil remained intact following Incident Omega-1, all towns within a 500-kilometer radius were placed under a Class-A amnestic regimen. Additionally, memetic amnestic agents were utilized to suppress knowledge of the event in any individuals who witnessed it. New Years celebration coverage, current geo-political events, and numerous other important incidents across the world helped distract mainstream media. On January 3rd, the veil was deemed acceptably intact.
On January 5th, reentry into SCP-5001 was permitted. Although a large majority of systems were damaged, much of SCP-5001's functionality was not compromised. All devices taken from SCP-5001 were restored or are being restored following Incident Omega-1, and research has been limited due to the potential danger SCP-5001-A poses.
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Although you have grown immensely since your earliest days, you have much room to grow. Your species' intellect is merely a bud, with so much potential. Your weapons are powerful; your medicine is supreme; your engineering is beautiful. With proper guidance and care, you are sure to reach an elevated state of being, and transcend your bodies for something more whole and perfect.
That is why it pains me so dearly to request that you leave this place immediately. Your studying and probing have almost resulted in the end of all I had worked towards to keep you alive. If you comply, I guarantee that The Devourer will never escape, and your species will be free to pursue the enlightenment of technology for all eternity.
Let this be my final gift to you, directly from the center of my broken heart.
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A Vertiginous Thrill Indeed
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That is how I felt after every piece of Pacific Northwest Ballet’s aptly-named program, The Vertiginous Thrill of Forsythe. The brilliance of the dancers and the delightful intricacies of William Forsythe’s choreography deserve to be seen again and again.
Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancer Jonathan Porretta with company dancers
in William Forsythe’s In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated
Photo © Angela Sterling.
The program featured two PNB premieres—The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude and New Suite—and one longtime audience favorite—In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated. The three works showcased the range of Forsythe’s style, as well as the skill of the PNB dancers. Though Forsythe is American, he grew to choreographic fame in Europe, and this was the first time a company in the US had presented an entire evening of his work. Given his talent and ground-breaking influence, this was a momentous occasion indeed.
Vertiginous opened the evening, a dazzling rush of a piece for two men and three women to the last movement of Schubert’s 9th Symphony. In the pre-show lecture, Doug Fullington (PNB’s Education Programs Manager and Assistant to the Artistic Director) described it as “like packing 30 minutes of steps into 10.” Even more impressive than the speed at which the dancers moved was the detail and nuance in their dancing. Like a kaleidoscope, the work seamlessly morphed from solo to duet to ensemble in every possible combination. Though unquestioningly a modern work of ballet (it premiered in 1996), it was also the most traditional of the evening, displaying Forsythe’s love for and interest in the traditions and heritage of ballet. This especially came through in his use of épaulement (classical ballet’s contrapposto-like opposition and counterbalancing of head, torso, and legs). So many moments stood out that it seems unfair to list just a few, but a few included: échappés with more verve and amplitude than I have ever seen; Leta Biasucci’s fleet footwork that she made look like a delightful game; Carrie Imler starting a solo with huge powerful leaps and ending it with soft, languorous turns and balances. And most of all, watching all five dancers (including Margaret Mullin, Benjamin Griffiths, and Jonathan Porretta) revel in dancing this incredibly difficult, but also incredibly delicious movement.
Pacific Northwest Ballet soloists Leta Biasucci and Margaret Mullin
in William Forsythe’s The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude
Photo © Angela Sterling
New Suite is a compilation of duets from various ballets, that has been performed in a variety of incarnations. PNB’s incarnation has nine duets, most just a couple minutes long, each just perfectly too-short. The music ranges from the 18th century to the 20th; there are four duets to music by Handel, one by Bach, one by Gavin Bryars, and three by Luciano Berio. Amazingly, this was the first time New Suite had been performed to live music. Each duet was its own world, quickly sketching a theme, whether a romantic relationship, or friends at play, or explorers into mystery, or courtly counterpoint. In Berio 2, Chelsea Adomaitis and Steven Loch had an intensely intimate yet abstract exploration of interlocking circling gestures that provoked sighs of both contentment and longing from the audience when it ended. Though the duets in New Suite were not originally choreographed to go together, and each could stand on its own, they created a remarkably satisfying and surprisingly cohesive whole.
Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancers Lindsi Dec and Jerome Tisserand
in William Forsythe’s New Suite
In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated is an audience favorite for good reason. Performed on a stage stripped of wings and backdrop, to a driving electronic score by Thom Willems, its high kicks, thrust hips, and displays of virtuosity go down very nicely. Dancers stand casually, walk in pedestrian fashion to get from one side of the stage to another (seemingly ignoring any dancing going on at the moment), observe each other with a combination of skepticism or competition, and then they suddenly morph into spotlight-stealing dance superbeings. Yet, often as not, when someone was dancing in the spotlight, someone else, or even a whole ensemble, was dancing away on the unlit sides of the stage, barely visible unless you looked for them. Classical formations were deployed unclassically—on an out-of-the-way part of the stage, or completely different ones at the same time. Such details take Middle from eye candy to a fascinating, multi-focal exploration of ballet and performativity.
Some modern ballets look like the choreographer finds the rules of ballet to be annoying restrictions to be thrown aside and broken at every opportunity. Part of what makes Forsythe’s choreography so important for ballet is that he regards these same rules as invitations for exploration and invention. Just as a good ragout is more delicious for all the time it has spent simmering, Forsythe uses the centuries of ballet heritage to create depth of flavor in his decidedly contemporary choreography.
Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancer Lindsi Dec
Fittingly then, this evening was three years in the making. That’s how long ago Peter Boal began talking to Forsythe about putting together the program. The level of thought and planning was readily visible not only in what happened on stage, but also in the richness of activities surrounding the stage. For the public, there have been photos, videos, interviews, in-studio events, an on-stage lecture demonstration (even live-streamed online for anyone who couldn’t attend the event) and more. For the dancers, there has been not only the insight of several of Forsythe’s experienced and talented stagers, but two weeks in the studio with Forsythe himself. He is by all accounts a remarkably generous and delightful person to work with, and the PNB dancers were reported to be over the moon to be working with him. This all came on top of a repertory chosen to highlight the talents of the PNB dancers and give them the support of live music from the wonderful PNB Orchestra.
That PNB did not skate by on the wow factor of the first US all-Forsythe program alone, and instead dedicated the time and money to doing this right, is incredibly heartening. Not only did the company’s efforts result in a thrilling evening of dancing, they speak to an institutional ethos that promises many more such evenings.
Tickets and more information about PNB can be found on their website.
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Bay Bridge Toll Increases May Drive Commuters To BART
by Justine Quart | June 30, 2010 10:20 am | in News | 4
Commuters to and from the East Bay are bracing themselves for one of the biggest and most confusing Bay Bridge toll increases ever.
Starting July 1, carpools (which must use the FasTrak toll tag) are now $2.50 instead of free, and for regular traffic it’s $6 for the Bay Bridge during “peak” hours of 5-10 AM and 3-7 PM, $5 on weekends, and $4 during off-peak hours.
The new pricing structure is complex, and apparently aimed at encouraging drivers to free up the lanes during rush hour AND to generate funds for construction of earthquake safety measures. But will the real unintended consequence of this spike be a spike in BART ridership?
Bay Bridge Car Commuters: Do New Tolls Have You Considering BART?
For many commuters with a 9 AM office start-time, waking up before dawn to skip peak toll hours and save a few bucks is unrealistic. Scott E. of Berkeley comments “With the increase of tolls, I would prefer to take BART even though it takes longer and is less convenient for me. Otherwise I’d try to find some other people to carpool with, but that comes with its own drawbacks too.”
Greg P. of Oakland agrees: “I wish they would have just made the bike pathway go all the way across the bridge instead of stopping at Treasure Island. I think a lot of people would consider just riding their bike and not pay tolls at all.” Maybe one day, Greg.
We did a little math to compare the price of BART vs the Bridge for a typical East Bay commute. A car drives about 13 miles from the MacArthur station in Oakland to Civic Center. During rush hour the toll is $2.50 if you use FasTrak to carpool ($6 if you don’t!) and uses about $1.60 of gas to get into the city for an average of grand total of around $7.15. Of course this does not include wear and tear, parking, emotional distress while yelling in traffic, etc.
Taking BART from MacArthur to Civic Center costs $3.30, for a $6.60 round trip. For a single person, it is now definitely cheaper to ride BART, and the cheapest among us can just take BART when traveling into the city and try to swindle a ride when East Bay, the direction with which drivers do not face tolls.
BART, for their part, is ready for an increase in ridership, but they don’t have much of an idea what that increase might be. When asked if BART anticipated a jump in ridership after the new tolls go into effect, BART spokesperson Linton Johnson said “yes, but we don’t know by how much.”
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Rail Express, 15 February 2019
Infrastructure Australia’s newest Infrastructure Priority List has been welcomed by the Australasian Railway Association (ARA), with six new or updated rail initiatives included.
Capacity on Victoria’s Cranbourne and Hurstbridge lines, port access at Melbourne, and connectivity on the Gold Coast and in Perth are all new aspects of the latest List, released on February 14. The List is compiled by Infrastructure Australia, arranging proposals into early-stage ‘Initiatives’, and ‘Projects’, whose business cases have been approved by Infrastructure Australia, thus recommending them for federal funding.
In all, the ARA counts 54 rail-related projects and initiatives among the 124 on the new list. “As Australia’s population grows, rail infrastructure will increasingly become the backbone to meet Australia’s growing passenger and freight needs,” ARA chief executive Danny Broad said. “To manage the challenges posed in our cities and regions in the long-term, Australia will need to ensure that it continuously invests in rail infrastructure.”
The list is developed using data from the Australian Infrastructure Audit, and submissions from state and territory governments, industry and the community, including more than 100 submissions in the last year. Not much has changed at the top end of the list produced on February 14. Three ‘High Priority Projects’ have graduated from the list entirely: New South Wales’ WestConnex road project and Victoria’s Monash Freeway Upgrade Stage 2 and North East Link projects. No ‘High Priority Projects’ have been added, and no rail-related ‘Priority Projects’ have been added or removed from the list.
Six new rail-related Initiatives are included on the new list, however.
1. A new Priority Initiative concerns the duplication of eight kilometres of the Cranbourne Line between Dandenong and Cranbourne southeast of Melbourne, which the Andrews Government has already committed $750 million to deliver by 2023.
2. Another new Priority Initiative is for capacity on the state’s Hurstbridge Line. Before last year’s election the Andrews Government targeted marginal seats with a $530 million proposal to build a new train station at Greensborough, and duplicate sections of track along the line.
3. An initiative concerning container terminal capacity at Melbourne was updated to include the near-time landside transport initiatives needed to support capacity growth, “including road and rail access from metropolitan, regional and national networks”.
4. Stage 3A of the Gold Coast’s G:link light rail line was essentially added, listed as ‘Public transport connectivity between Broadbeach and Burleigh Heads’. The Federal Government in November 2018 committed $112 million to the project, and the Queensland Government is progressing with the plan.
5. Transport connectivity between Morley and Ellenbrook is a new Priority Initiative, the third of Perth’s Metronet urban rail projects added. WA’s Government submitted the Morley-Ellenbrook Line for the list in September, and it joins the Yanchep Rail Extension, a High Priority Project, and the Thornlie-Cockburn Link, a Priority Project. Metronet’s Forrestfield-Airport Link was also once on the list, but has graduated.
6. Also in Perth, a new Priority Initiative is to improve the Canning Bridge public transport interchange, to improve public transport patronage and reduce impact on the adjacent road network. Canning Bridge station is on the Mandurah Line.
Infrastructure Australia chair Julieanne Alroe described the 2019 list as the independent advisor’s “largest, most comprehensive and most diverse” yet. “With a record 121 nationally significant proposals and a $58 billion project pipeline, the Priority List will guide the next 15 years of Australian infrastructure investment,” she said.
“The 2019 Priority List provides a credible pipeline of nationally significant proposals for governments at all levels to choose from. As an evidence-based list of opportunities to improve both our living standards and productivity, the Priority List reflects the diversity of Australia’s future infrastructure needs across transport, energy, water, communications, housing and education.”
Alroe noted many of the new projects would respond to the challenge of population growth in Australia.
“Congestion in our cities and faster-growing regional centres not only has significant consequences for the Australian economy, but has direct impacts on communities, reducing people’s access to education, health services, employment and other opportunities,” Alroe said.
Citing the forthcoming NSW and federal elections, Alroe urged politicians to avoid making politically-motivated funding commitments, and to trust the independent advisor’s analysis when making budget decisions.
“Infrastructure Australia is urging decision makers to commit to solving any emerging or growing problem by embarking on a feasibility study to identify potential options, rather than a pre-defined project that may not be the most effective solution,” she said. “Decision makers at all levels will best serve all Australians by continuing to consult the Priority List as a source of informed analysis on the projects that represent the best use of our infrastructure funding.”
One of those decision makers, deputy prime minister and minister for infrastructure Michael McCormack, said the Government was now taking this approach. “Once upon a time there was a ‘build it and they will come’ sort of attitude,” McCormack said when the new list was released. “There were also the political ramifications and implications and benefits of spending money on infrastructure. But the fact remains that we need rigour and accountability around what we’re doing, how we’re doing it and where we’re delivering it.”
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By Richard Yeakley ryeakley@news-journal.com
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The city of Longview closed the application window for its vacant director of human resources position Friday with 27 applicants to consider.
City spokesman Shawn Hara said at least two of the applicants were currently employed by the city.
He said staff was likely to begin considering the applications next week, after they are compiled by Strategic Government Resources, the firm contracted by the city to conduct the search.
Applications had been accepted since early September. An original Oct. 4 deadline was extended to Friday. The additional time netted an increase of three applications.
The position is vacant due to the early retirement in August of Karri Hyko.
Her replacement will oversee the human resources department for the city, which has about 830 full-time and 45 part-time employees, according to the job posting.
After initial winnowing of the candidates, interviews would be conducted before a final decision is made.
City Manager David Willard has said the hiring of a new assistant city manager, the city’s other vacant upper-level position, may wait until the city has filled the human resources position.
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Big Shot State of DJ Culture 2012 Survey: 90 DJs Speak Out
September 24, 2012 Darren Ressler 12 Comments
Like it or not DJ culture is all grown up. Starting out in warehouses, basements, lofts and clubs in the ’70s and ’80s, and evolving into massive raves one-offs, festivals and global tours in the late ’90s and ’00s, its long and winding road has set the stage for a new generation of formidable talent and musical innovation. If you consider where DJ culture is at the moment, it’s hard to see things cooling off anytime soon: DJs are gracing the front covers of old guard print magazines, scoring movie soundtracks, touring with shows boasting fantastic production and even squabbling with each other on social media like reality TV stars.
The mainstream’s heightened interest in DJ culture has once again brought it to the crossroads. Knowing the cyclical nature of pop culture we’ve been wondering how it will all play out. When the pendulum swings back — and it no doubt will (simply reference every musical fad over the past 40 years) — what might the ramifications be?
Hoping to gain more insight we conducted interviews over a three-month period with 90 DJs of varying profiles playing a range of styles based all over the world. Our intent was to get a first-hand, unedited view about the state of DJ culture in 2012 from those who make their living in the DJ booth. We asked each DJ the same three questions: Where do they see the culture? What are its most disturbing trends? How are we going to make the global scene better? The comments (listed in alphabetical order below), like any quality DJ set, were intriguing, enlightening and entertaining.
We would like to thank all of the DJs who participated in this article. It is our hope that their views will open a wider discourse in the community we’ve been a proud member of since 2003.
1. Andrea Oliva
"I am happy we still have an amazing scene here in Europe, like Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Spain and the UK."
Where do you see DJ culture right now?
Well, everything became so big! I just hope all the young guys, especially the big commercial acts who became famous in one day (in the States), care about the “culture” and try to teach the same young kids about it! There is so much history behind the techno and house scene, and it’s so frustrating when DJs tell the wrong stories… I mean imagine a country that has a history and one day someone comes with his new fame from nowhere and start to tell a total different story, the older guys who know the real story will eat him! So I just wanna say respect the culture… Don’t make everything a huge sell out — we are still a kind of movement so go out and find the real history behind our scene.
In your opinion, what is the most disturbing trend?
I don’t know why the trance guys say nothing? I mean they made a whole kind of music for themselves which was big! Now trance is like gone with the wind and people today think it’s house…it’s weird! All those melodies, harmonies, big snare roles in the break of the track, etc. this is trance even if it’s more rhythmic now and maybe 5bpm slower but its still trance, but this is not house! Some guys have influenced the kids so bad, they made confusion for their own interests. And the industry is clever — they see a trend if good or bad, they jump on the train and give them (the kids) to eat what they wanna eat, this is the trend… For me the trend goes to the wrong direction… I am happy we still have an amazing scene here in Europe, like Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Spain and the UK…. we know what we want to eat in these places!
How are we going to make the scene better?
Separate those guys in dance acts and don’t call them DJs or producers because it has nothing to do with house, techno or trance! Make only dance festivals or only house, techno and trance festivals! Do you ever see a Big Mac menu at McDonald’s with fresh homemade pasta, bolognese as a side dish, everything on one plate? It just doesn’t match together! Big Mac is big Mac and homemade pasta, and bolognese with fresh basilico are two different things!
2. Andrei Osyka (Droog)
I think the general quality of DJing has gone down primarily because of the shear quantity of people claiming to be DJs. Like a lot of things that come with the digital age you have to dig deeper. But I think for a DJ like myself I’m the most I’ve been excited about music, and I’ve been DJing for the last 11 or 12 years. The volume of interesting music that I find myself playing is really thrilling, and I’m excited about it. I would say it’s both the most exciting time and slightly a scary time because now people like Paris Hilton are trying to be DJs. There’s some problems here, but I would encourage those who feel like they have the knack and feel like they have true ability to definitely go for it. Even though I’ve seen a lot of shit out there, I’m seeing young DJs doing some really cool, interesting things predominantly as a reaction to the crap out there.
The misuse of technology: Traktor and Ableton are amazing technologies but unfortunately they’re often in the wrong hands. New technology in the wrong hands can really be problematic. There’s also a whole new generation of people jumping on the DJ bandwagon and sniffing around. Cream rises to the top pretty much, especially in our less commercial genre. Those who are truly talented and have their heart in the right place are succeeding. I think in the bigger picture of things I’m not too pessimistic.
We have to be genuine with everything you do. With us we have a slightly bigger platform and more people are paying attention, so we really have to stay true to our sensibility in the same way we were when nobody knew about us as critical as ever while maintaining that quality control and taste level. I think the more we grow and people pay attention, the more we stay true to ourselves and we believe in what we do, then that will be our contribution and hopefully that’s contagious in its own way. You can achieve a greater level of success while still doing what you do.
3. Andrew Emil
"It's a good thing that 'electronic' music is so big, but with that also comes the diluting nature of mass appeal."
DJ culture is, as far as the US is concerned, the largest it has ever been. I mean you have “DJs” that came out of the woodwork a few years ago playing at the Grammys. I grew up in a time where you really had to work for to get your name out there and get gigs. It’s a good thing that “electronic” music is so big, but with that also comes the diluting nature of mass appeal (i.e. loss of individualism, lack of experimentation, creation of more product based things and not art, etc.).
Entitlement issues that children have; thinking a music career is a sprint and not a marathon; not respecting the game of making a solid discography and performance resume; just thinking because you can have access to a million songs does not make you a selector. Experience makes you a selector. After many years of perfecting your craft is the only way you get amazing at it. So leave the performance arena to the “amazing ones.” A lot of tracks that come out today are either what I would call “demos” ten years ago or just a total lack of creativity. Loss of art and individualist imprints leave a very uninspired crowd in the wake of that kind of output. Quality control needs to come back home! If you don’t want your music to be disposed of. Stop making disposal music!
First step: Keep making great art in hopes that it will become more successful as there are more fans of house music than ever before.
Second step: Try to educate the masses about the history of this thing called house. If you get inspired by the past you will tend to have more respect for the future and take your time to craft excellence.
Third step: Take you time to create great art. It will have a longer shelf life and will be revered in the future as well as now. Create everlasting pieces so that when the trends come and go, as they always will, your work will stand the test of time. Future classics!”
4. Angel Alanis
"Pre-recorded sets. If you're going to do it at least be honest about it."
It’s gotten much broader and it’s reaching out to so many more people who were not exactly big fans of it or just did not know. The technology has improved so much that being a DJ is more accessible.
Pre-recorded sets. If you’re going to do it at least be honest about it. Steve Angello and the like should at least try to put some work into it. I’m sure most people don’t care since it’s just a name up on stage. What’s next? Hologram DJs? Anyway, bring a fucking flute or something or juggle while your 60-minute CD plays out.
Better? I have no idea.
5. Ashley Beedle
"It's not about being a superstar on a stage, it's about making a party."
DJ culture is dying as an art form.
It has become very easy for people to “DJ” due to technology, but technology doesn’t make a DJ. DJs need personality and know how to select and program a journey.
The only way to fix this is looking at who came before us, understanding music and presenting it to those who want to learn. It’s not about being a superstar on a stage, it’s about making a party.
6. Atnarko
"The most disturbing trend is the idea that you have to stand behind the decks looking as wasted as possible (while usually playing bad) to be cool."
I think it’s a really exciting time for electronic dance music in all forms. There are many more possibilities then there were a few years ago as a DJ. I enjoy the challenge.
Besides the “DJs” that fake it the most disturbing trend is the idea that you have to stand behind the decks looking as wasted as possible (while usually playing bad) to be cool.
We can make it better by working hard and using our creativity to the maximum potential. Make music you believe in. Play music you love. Don’t be afraid to reach out or leave your comfort zone.
7. Beat Assassins
"It would be nice if from time to time if acts broke through because they are totally sick on the decks."
Completely in the hands of the producers.
No one breaks through anymore for being a great DJ. It’s all about being a great producer. Therefore it would be nice if from time to time if acts broke through because they are totally sick on the decks. I have in the past gone out clubbing to check out a new act because their tracks were amazing, only to find someone behind the decks who can’t DJ or (worse) using software to mix their tracks for them.
Good question. It’s not an easy thing to change but YouTube could play a big part. I’d like to see a magazine or large blog/website have some serious contacts run a DJ competition. Not a DJ competition whereby you send in a mixtape and win a warm-up set at blah blah night. No, I suggest DJs upload a YouTube video of themselves DJing in their bedrooms (not live) and the footage must clearly show the decks. This way DJs can demonstrate mixing skills and scratching (if they scratch) and the format they play off, CDJs, Serato, vinyl, etc. — no software mixing allowed. Plus the competition should be about genres — in this competition we are looking for the best drum ‘n’ bass DJ, in this one the best dubstep DJ, the best house etc., so DJs win on merit and not one what’s the most popular music. Check out this footage of DJ Sleeper, and you will see the kind of footage I’m talking about. The winner should get some proper booking at some events within their genre; I’m sure that could be arranged. Judging (well it’s up to the organization running tings) but I suggest at first by the website — final ten go to public vote (maybe).
8. Berger
As the music industry’s “It” girl. And future episodes of where are they now? or Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.”
Fist pumping, checking in, tweeting and posting in place of dancing on the dance floor.
Give it a Zooropa meets Tommy meets The Wall overhaul.
9. Break Science
"No trends really disturb us, because all trends eventually die."
DJ culture is now a culture of producers that make their own music, instead of just playing other peoples original tracks. It’s a growing culture of musical composers who are feeding off of each other to create the sound of the future.
No trends really disturb us, because all trends eventually die. It’s all about timeless music.
All the producer/DJs on the scene have to keep developing their craft to insure a true renaissance in modern, electronic music.
10. Brett Johnson
The names may change but the party is the same.
Not dancing.
Depends where you live. Free things….
12. Chuck Love
"Support the DJ whether he's a performer or selector."
Evolving with exciting new technology, soon the idea of two turntables will seem nostalgic.
Listening to people whine that are nostalgic for two turntables.
Evolve beyond simply beat matching two tracks together. Support the DJ whether he’s a performer or selector. Open your mind to new genres. More slide guitar.
13. Colleen “Cosmo” Murphy
"Many DJs think turning up the volume as loud as possible is what they are supposed to do and do not realize those little red lights mean you are only amplifying a distorted signal. These problems are so easy to correct."
Sonically inept.
One of the most disturbing trends of current DJ culture is the lack of interest in or understanding of sound quality. Most vinyl-based DJs are unaware of how to set up a turntable correctly (balancing and adjusting tracking force and anti-skate) and could care less as to whether the cartridges have a compromised and blunt stylus. On the digital side many DJs play MP3s (using 320s is a poor excuse) and are amplifying low res digital files over a loud club PA. Finally, many DJs think turning up the volume as loud as possible is what they are supposed to do and do not realize those little red lights mean you are only amplifying a distorted signal. These problems are so easy to correct.
There are loads of turntable tutorials on YouTube, DJs can download and play WAVs as opposed to low quality MP3s and they can adjust their levels on their equipment so that it doesn’t distort. Very simple and very effective.
14. Creep
Bigger than ever. Especially since pop music is derived so much from dance music nowadays. It’s a good and bad thing. Everyone considers themselves a DJ, even if they don’t take the time to learn the craft.
I always find it disturbing when people don’t take the time to learn how to beat match. They either use a program that will do it for them, or worse yet, they will just mix songs without them matched. This is what we call “shoes in the dryer.” The most enjoyable part of DJing is putting songs together properly, teasing the crowd a bit through EQing and then dropping in the next song at the appropriate time. It just doesn’t get old to me, and I’ve been doing it for 15 years. I can’t imagine having a machine do it for me, there is no soul in that.
Real DJs will always be noticed. DJ culture will remain strong through those that do take the time to learn how mix properly and really know how to work a crowd. Those that don’t are weeded out.
15. Dani Casarano
"The new generation is here now so it is important to know what happened in the past to make better the future of the scene."
For me DJ culture is everywhere. With all the new technology, everybody can play music.
People love bad quality music more and more.
Electronic music has existed for a very long time. People change – the new generation is here now so it is important to know what happened in the past to make better the future of the scene.
16. Dave Clarke
"There are two sides of this 'culture' but only one side can claim a cultural heritage."
There are two sides of this “culture” but only one side can claim a cultural heritage, the commercial only for money side has completely left the culture side with no one batting an eyelid if they are caught on camera with no cables plugged in or a mix CD on and faking it. Then you have those who care what they are doing because they represent a belief, you have a few clever ones in between the two camps who profess to care and trade on their past but actually only want cash.
PR people buying fake chart positions on online stores, do the maths….the sales are so low these days that if someone buys a couple thousand of their own track they will get almost half the money back when they get accounted too, so for a thousand euro or so they claim a top online hit.
Then you have the last generation moguls claiming big business is killing dance music, when in reality they are green with envy that they didn’t get where Guetta is, that is utterly laughable and ultimately sad and hypocritical, especially when they laid the seeds to culture not being important in the scene in the first place.
By having journalists that are mot swayed by PR people, by not blindly following trends because you lack the minerals to be self determined. By actually giving a fuck, that might help.
17. David Alvarado
"There is always a new flavor or trend that grabs the attention of the most susceptible of dance music lovers, but quality and true craftsmanship always finds its way to the top of the pile."
I see it trapped in a battle of ideology; it is suffering from a serious identity crisis as well. You have this constant back-and-forth argument about what is and what isn’t DJing: Vinyl vs. digital, CDJ vs. laptop vs. USB stick vs. whatever is next on the horizon. What has made things even more confusing, and has further blurred the line, is the recent advances in DJ software and hardware and the quick pace of its evolution. It’s a bit odd but it’s been more than 10 years since I started using Final Scratch as one of its beta testers, and only in the last few years has the technology finally caught up to our imagination, that and a whole slew of DJ controllers now hitting the market only makes the possibilities that much greater. I look back when I first started and there were DJs that played records but then would drop a remix fresh out of the studio on reel to reel, now that never made them any less of a DJ in our minds — they were just using whatever medium available to stand out from the rest. I think that’s the same applies now as well.
I think the one that I find most offensive is the creating of social media/YouTube stars that spend more time building a fan base based of their viral marketing efforts and social media rather than their actual skills. Add a gimmick of some sort like a costume, or mask and presto! You know have an Internet superstar DJ!
Whatever the medium or tools have been, true talent and innovation has always won out. There is always a new flavor or trend that grabs the attention of the most susceptible of dance music lovers, but quality and true craftsmanship always finds its way to the top of the pile. I’ve seen many trends and hype up personalities come and go. I also see the true craftsmen and artists still around and relevant — you fix it by leaving it to its own evolution and self regulation.
18. Derek Dunbar
"DJs need to be more creative in what they bring to the table. Entertaining is more than pushing play and fist pumps."
Hungry for something new and different.
A handful of DJs made a big name for themselves in the mid-late ‘90s. These are the same DJs you still see at the top of charts and booked over and over again at clubs. Very little desire is shown on the part of club promoters and booking agents to expose people to new talent. Afraid of having a low attendance and possibly losing money, promoters and thus agents resort to pushing the same few they know are a sure bet.
Better marketing! Promoters who have a good following need to realize that for the most part their attendees depend on them to expose them to the variety of DJs who are out there. We also need more agencies willing to get behind talent, market them and bring some competition to the agency world. DJs need to be more creative in what they bring to the table. Entertaining is more than pushing play and fist pumps.
19. Detboi
"I'd prefer to go see someone playing their own music right now than a DJ, but there is the odd exception."
It’s never been more popular to be a DJ, so you could say it’s very healthy! But to me it’s in a bit of a mess at moment. I’d prefer to go see someone playing their own music right now than a DJ, but there is the odd exception — Martelo, Jackmaster, One Man, Bok Bok are all incredible DJs and they have a voice.
Do you really want to set me off on this? Buying a Beatport top 10 to make you more popular, buying 20,000 likes on Facebook, also wanna “DJs” ripping shit from YouTube and then playing it out… so many annoying trends at the moment. But my main hate is just lack of originality in DJ sets — the Internet has given birth to the most original music but not many visionary DJs that have their own stories to tell. In some ways, it’s become monotone and lacking in art.
Sudocrem. It fixes everything. I guess if more people celebrated originality rather then mediocrity that would be a great start. BE DARING. HAVE A VOICE. HAVE A VISION. TAKE RISKS.
20. DJ Dainjazone
"DJs are finding comfort in how they want to represent themselves. Why be limited?"
I see it adapting to the times. Technology is giving opportunities to DJs/producers to deliver their ideas and sound in a multitude of ways. DJs are finding comfort in how they want to represent themselves. Why be limited?
Hate. Negativity. There’s a way to be heard, get a point across, etc. without being disrespectful or negative. Negativity comes from an unpeaceful place inside. Those people, typically, don’t know how to control their emotions.
I think the scene is okay the way it is. It’s not great. Originality in production is always necessary. Some guys play pre-recorded mixes at their shows and do things that are frowned upon and although there is no excuse for their lack of ethics and etiquette, those guys will always be around. Things are only frowned upon until everyone does it. Then it becomes the norm.
21. DJ Gospel
"It's time to take the DJ booth back under control."
Where do you see DJ culture?
I don’t really see it as a culture anymore as it is a fad or trend brought on through social networks. You used to never see “celebrity DJs” but with today’s advances in technology you can see any athlete, actor or personality try their hand at DJing. When you look at the definition of culture and compare to what is going on now in the DJ profession it falls way short. Today it’s more of let’s see how many people we can pack in here to be seen. The music has become an afterthought and that to me is not an advancement in the “DJ culture.”
I find it disheartening that a club will go for quantity over quality these days, having 5-10 DJs play in a 4- or 5-hour period is like riding a bus that makes too many stops when you are trying to get out of the bad side of town. A DJ just does not get a chance to create a memory with people with such short sets and generally you will hear the same tracks repeated. Instead of the DJs working the crowd they are trying too hard to impress the other DJs and the crowd is feeling left out.
The scene will have to go back to it’s roots before it gets better, there are some great DJs out there that get it and have the ability to create a memorable night without needing a lineup of other DJs to do so, but there are far too many that don’t and will just fall into the vicious cycle of being the puppet for a promoter or club owner. It’s time to take the DJ booth back under control, get rid of the wannabes looking for fame and the celebrities looking to keep their name in the game.
22. DJ Sneak
"Separate the phony from the real, be truthful about what’s going on, when someone is faking the funk, expose them."
DJ culture needs to get back to the basics, back to when a DJ actually played for the crowd and the purpose of being up there was to entertain with music, not lights, looks and fireworks. It’s okay to embrace change and evolution but it’s also very important to remember and respect the art form and its foundation.
The ones that are running the music business: clowns run the show, corporations cash in on garbage music and no one learns anything. For me the best music was recorded in the ’70s and ’80s — music died after 2000. The new generation falls for the pressure of the industry and its gimmicks to become pop stars, to put their talent aside to make money and fit in with the masses.
Start a musical revolution! Separate the phony from the real, be truthful about what’s going on, when someone is faking the funk, expose them. People need to take a stand and pay attention to what they are listing to and watching, be smart, read between the lines. People should be challenging their talent, respect should be given when respect is due, not when it’s manipulated by marketing plans, money and fake behavior.
23. Dogu of Ancient Astronauts
"DJ culture today is a mixed up thing of people preserving the old art form and those pushing the limits of new DJ techniques."
DJ culture went through big changes within the last couple of years due to new digital DJ equipment, which changed the whole game of DJing. Back in the day you had to carry a lot of vinyl to gigs while nowadays people mostly carry laptops, a hardware box and control vinyl (those that still want to keep that physical vinyl feel). Even a lot of those that kept on DJing with vinyl to keep up that culture sooner or later turned into one of the new DJ technologies. Vinyl sales of all music genres rapidly went down. Then easy to use producer software like Ableton came up and with the help of external controllers a new level of playing music was born. Producers that before would just play their own recorded music from vinyl or a digital file could now spin their own music in Ableton and even do live remixes and add live effects and such. DJs started from being selectors of strictly good tunes/songs to play to a crowd and mix it and cut it together. DJ culture is still present everywhere on this planet but through the easy help of technology nearly everyone could become a DJ. And through the easy access to free music in the internet (legal or illegal) one of the most important parts of DJ culture, the digging for new vinyl, nearly died. Music somehow lost a big portion of value. Especially for the younger generations who were raised in the digital age. In the last two or three years vinyl got a new renaissance and sales went up again, but DJ culture today is a mixed up thing of people preserving the old art form and those pushing the limits of new DJ techniques.
Through the easy access to digital music people lose the touch to the real value of a song and its background. Digital DJ techniques often make the DJ more an entertainer than a real selector of quality music. I think a real DJ is someone that also teaches people where music comes from and where it can go and not just kicks a fat entertaining show. The music always comes first.
We should keep on spreading the true culture of digging for good music and presenting people the history and roots of the music. The connection of the past and the present is what makes up the culture and progression can only come from fusing these elements. To just rely on technology will not lead forward.
24. Ernesto Ferreyra
"I will keep on supporting underground music and will spin vinyl until the end."
Highly competitive, which is good but at the same time more and more DJs are going too functional, synced and boring.
The enormous hype that is built around to push some artist or crews and six months later that’s old and there must be some new hot stuff…
In my case, I will keep on supporting underground music and will spin vinyl until the end. It’s not much but at least this way I keep finding special music and feel a bit more human while playing.
25. Escort
"As DJs turn into performers and producers, they will have to develop a compelling live experience or else people won't want to go to the show."
Eugene Cho: The production aspect for DJs becoming more and more important and I don’t see that trend ever reverse. The tools of music production and editing have become more easily accessible and now even geared specifically toward DJs which is transforming the role of the DJ from a curator to a creator.
Dan Balis: I agree. The primary role of DJ is to curate a musical environment for a night. There’s some technical aspects that are important, but at the end of the day, I’d much rather hear great records, sequenced in a way that makes me want to dance, over impeccably beat matched poops. An impeccable 2-minute blend of two crappy records doesn’t make those records any better. That said, there are a few DJs — I’m thinking specifically of our friend, Porkchop, who will often drop the odd record that by any measure, blows, but somehow he sequences it in such a way that you’re blown away.
Eugene Cho: With all this focus on DJs today they are now turning into performers, which is weird because a DJ is traditionally someone behind some gear looking down and not engaging with the crowd. So you end up with a crowd of people watching someone bobbing their head illuminated by a computer, which seems so detached from the crowd and to what you are hearing.
Dan Balis: Yep. DJs with laptops and control surfaces — they don’t even make any attempt to play records; it’s just a half-baked live PA.
Eugene Cho: If a DJ isn’t really going to put on a show, then they need to get out of the limelight. I don’t think making the face of dance music someone twiddling knobs or playing with a laptop is a good idea. That’s what MCs and VJs are for.
Dan Balis: I’m not that optimistic that it’s fixable. Your average 16-year-old consumes music in a way that’s completely alien to us — thousands of MP3s and yet they’ve probably never listened to an album end to end.
Eugene Cho: As DJs turn into performers and producers, they will have to develop a compelling live experience or else people won’t want to go to the show. Some way or another it’s going to be fixed
26. Fred Everything
"It used to be DJs made the Jesus pose during an epic breakdown. Now DJs throw cake in the crowd while they DJ. Really Aoki?"
It’s bigger than it’s ever been, no doubt, but it has lost its sense of “special.” The turntable (CDJ, laptop) is the new guitar. (Un)fortunately, the learning curve is so small these days. Having access to a ton of music and software mixing your songs together only increases the quantity of over quality of DJs.
It used to be DJs made the Jesus pose during an epic breakdown. Now DJs throw cake in the crowd while they DJ. Really Aoki?
27. FreQ Nasty
DJ culture, and electronic music in general, is in an amazing place where genre boundaries have broken down, the music has a wide appeal and the prejudice between vocal and instrumental music has almost broken down in the scene, if not outside it. It’s an exciting time to make music right now. DJ culture and electronic music will go underground again as it has before after a big wave of popularity, but the idea of what “underground” means has been changed forever.
The amount of time taken up by social networking in a DJ/producer’s day.
Like everything else the trend will pass. Until then I’ll remain a twittering fool for the kids.
We don’t have to agree with what’s going on in the mainstream and it’s okay. Staying true to our craft and keeping in mind what made us do what we do in the first place should be the main inspiration.
28. Frivolous
"As electronic music becomes more mainstream and crosses over with more traditional forms of music, we will see good developments happening too."
I’d like to think that DJ culture is in a bit of a transition. I know that some traditions are hard to break, and in a lot of ways you could say that old rockers aren’t that different from old DJs, but I think that with the young generation we are seeing some of the boundaries being blurred between the roll of the DJ/live set/performance artist/etc. Mostly attributable to the changes in distribution via the Internet, and the technology used to play music. With products like Beatport’s Mashbox and Ableton Live, Traktor, Maschine, etc. it’s becoming harder and harder to say this is a DJ set, or this is a live set, this is a concert, this is an original recording or edit or remix or whatever. I think that this transition has some negative side effects, but is primarily a good thing for the record industry as a whole (if it ever catches up).
This is hard to say. There are different problems that face different countries all around the world. I guess the worst thing is the phenomenon of the super-star DJ. When a name becomes more important than the music that they play. We see it a lot more in countries with a long history of nightlife like Italy. The problem becomes when promoters can just count on a good attendance from putting a well recognizable name on the bill and not giving two shits about the quality of the event. This is when the music suffers and it’s probably what burns me the most. In North America it still seems like the scene is struggling to establish solid footings in places where bi-laws and the general reputation of electronic music is soured on a political level. I think that with this adversity, it makes people really ask themselves, “Why am I really into this scene to begin with?” and thus it can make for some actually quite good parties. When people are dedicated to a vision which is not understood on a mainstream level it’s underground, and that’s where it all comes from to begin with.
As “the scene” grows, there will be more shitty DJs, events, labels, etc., but as electronic music becomes more mainstream and crosses over with more traditional forms of music, we will see good developments happening too. These days I’m really excited about the music and festival scene in South America, where they have such high integrity for having music in their lives that is meaningful and inspiring. I think it’s hard to talk about electronic music in relationship to “a scene” by this point, because electronic music is everywhere, and the metamorphosis is happening on so many frontiers. To talk about “the scene” kind of makes me feel old.
29. Gavin Herlihy
"The once elitist, shadowy world of production and DJing has now been democratized."
A really fascinating place proving that Warhol was correct when he famously proclaimed that everyone would have 15 minutes of fame in the future. That has positive and negative effects on the industry of course but at least the once elitist, shadowy world of production and DJing has now been democratized.
The assumption amongst fans that everything is free.
Sadly, we’re not going to change that idea but we need to fix other things to ensure artists have a worthwhile income to keep on making music. In an ideal world publishing could pay the bills as technically we should be paid every time our music is performed/played or reproduced but we need to make changes to our laws to make that happen and allow technology to help. For example, if every DJ playing Traktor/Serato had an app in their software that automatically e-mailed their tracklist to a royalty collection society when they played at a professional venue suddenly it might be possible to accurately claim that money back. If every radio station by law had to mail that society their full tracklists (and not just the sample tracklists they’re currently sending which are pointless for helping underground producers). If every ISP had to pay every time a song was illegally downloaded via their networks they would pay a lot more attention to the issue or artists would get some form of compensation for the abuse of their music. If cloud music companies were made to pair a fair amount of money to artists that would be another money door opened. The technology is there to do all these things but what we’re short on is lobbying power to make them a reality. I think it’s about time that the likes of Madonna, Paul McCartney, U2, etc. who currently enjoy the lion’s share of publishing royalties, gave something back to the music industry by funding lobbying groups to see that artists gain the necessary voice they need to stop being ripped off by the industry around them.
30. Hugh Cleal
We are in the middle of the best time for DJs in the history of dance music.
Illegal downloads.
Throwing underground events with up-and-coming talent.
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Ariel Helwanis MMA thoughts: Dont doubt Jeremy Stephens integrity
We’ve got a supremely busy weekend of MMA coming up, highlighted by the UFC’s debut in beautiful Copenhagen, Denmark.
This is a sneaky good card, which has flown under the radar. The headliner, Jack Hermansson vs. Jared Cannonier, is of interest because both have looked really good as of a late and represent fresh blood at 185 pounds. Hermansson, in particular, is one of the breakout stars of 2019. I’m also very curious to see Mark Madsen, who is a 2016 Olympic wrestling silver medalist and is a perfect 8-0, make his debut in his home country. In addition, the fight card is littered with names who are always fun to watch, such as:
Did you realize all of those exciting fighters were on the card? Like I said, it’s solid from top to bottom. Every fight has an interesting storyline going into it.
Saturday’s UFC Fight Night main event features two middleweights who are coming off the biggest wins of their career. Jack Hermansson, who has won four straight fights, defeated Jacare Souza in April, while Jared Cannonier stopped Anderson Silva in May.
UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Cannonier
• Saturday, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Prelims: ESPN+, 11 a.m. ET
• Main card: ESPN+, 2 p.m. ET
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In addition to that, Bellator has two cards this weekend — one in Dublin, Ireland, and the other in Inglewood, California, which are filled with solid fights. The best of the bunch is the Patricio “Pitbull” Freire vs. Juan Archuleta featherweight title main event on Saturday night, along with the rest of the featherweight grand prix fights. Oh, we’re also getting Lyoto Machida vs. Gegard Mousasi 2 and Antonio McKee fighting on the same card as his son, rising star A.J. Plus, Cage Warriors and LFA, among others, also have cards, too.
So. Much. MMA.
But before we get to all that, here are my thoughts from the week that was in our lovely sport:
The Lede
This strike to the eye caused the #UFCMexico main event to be ruled a No Contest pic.twitter.com/EXIKa2PyeE
— ESPN MMA (@espnmma) September 22, 2019
If you’re one of those people who thinks Jeremy Stephens looked for a way out against Yair Rodriguez by faking an eye injury 15 seconds into their fight Saturday night, please consider this: Stephens has been fighting professionally for 14 years. That was his 45th professional fight. Throughout his 12-year run in the UFC, which is impressive in its own right, he has always been known as a guy who will fight anyone, any time. Sometimes to his detriment. As the great Jim Ross likes to say, Stephens is tougher than a two-dollar steak. The idea that Stephens, who just spent the last six weeks in Mexico preparing for this fight, which cost him $30,000, would make it all the way to the fight itself and then fake an injury is just absolutely absurd. I can’t even wrap my head around this idiotic claim. Why in the world would he do this?
Full disclosure: I have never been scratched in the eye like that before, but I have seen enough fights to know that those can sometimes hurt more than eye pokes. I mean, just look at his reaction. He couldn’t even open his left eye.
No matter how you slice it, the situation was unfortunate. I especially feel for Stephens because he only gets his show money as a result of the no contest and never got a chance to show what he could do against one of the game’s young studs. His character is also being questioned, which is not right.
On top of all of that, he left the arena having to be shielded by security as fans were throwing bottles, cups and lord knows what else at him. Have you seen that footage? It’s absolutely despicable. We have seen fans throw things here or there as a result of a controversial moment, but never quite like that. No one deserves that, and I hope those “fans” are ashamed of their behavior. I hope they woke up Monday morning embarrassed. I’ve never understood people who do this. It’s one thing to boo, but to actually pelt someone down below because you’re upset a sporting event went a certain way is just so bizarre to me. Hopefully we never see a scene like that again.
Following his no contest with Yair Rodriguez, Jeremy Stephens needed to be escorted back to the locker room by security as fans pelted him with bottles and cups. Orlando Ramirez/USA TODAY Sports
And then there’s Rodriguez. Look, I completely understand his frustration. That was his first fight in 10 months. He was headlining his first show in his home country in front of lots of family and friends. That was an incredibly disappointing turn of events, especially when you consider it happened in the first 15 seconds, which means he most likely had a lot of pent-up energy that needed to be released. But, I don’t think he handled that situation particularly well. If anything, I think he may have negatively affected it because once the fans saw how upset he was, that may have given them the green light to act the way they did.
Fortunately, he calmed down (I think Michael Bisping stonewalling his outburst before their interview in the Octagon helped bring him back to reality) and regathered his composure.
Just an ugly ending to an otherwise entertaining card.
So, what should the UFC do now? I think you have to run it back. Now you have a legit grudge match. Let Stephens heal and then book them on the next available card. It makes too much sense.
Herb Dean has been the subject of a lot of criticism this year, and often rightfully so. Simply put, he hasn’t had a particularly great year. However, I thought he handled the situation in the main event Saturday night phenomenally well. He was calm and collected. He didn’t rush Stephens to decide too fast and did his best to salvage the fight. We only seem to talk about refs when they mess up, so it’s important to note that Dean was very much on point during that whole episode.
Alexa Grasso appears to sink in an armbar, but Carla Esparza is able to maneuver her way free. For more UFC, sign up here for ESPN+ http://plus.espn.com/ufc.
I still can’t believe Carla Esparza survived that armbar attempt in the third round of her fight against Alexa Grasso. Reminded me of Donald Cerrone vs. Benson Henderson 1 at WEC 43. If that fight were contested in PRIDE, where they scored fights based on the totality of damage and not round by round, I think Grasso would have won. I also wouldn’t strongly argue against a 10-8 third round, which means the fight would have been a draw. But, I had it two rounds to one for Esparza. Grasso continues to improve, though, and I wouldn’t be surprised if sometime soon she goes on a nice little run. Remember, she’s only 26.
Bend the knee
The Brandon Moreno vs. Askar Askarov fight was a ton of fun to watch. I thought Moreno did enough to win, but I don’t hate the draw result, either. But you know what I kept thinking about throughout that fight? This is all thanks to Henry Cejudo. I don’t know if Cejudo will ever fight at 125 again — those weight cuts take a toll on him — however, he single-handedly saved that weight class with his win over TJ Dillashaw and his ability to get “over” with the fans afterwards. Heck, even Moreno himself was a casualty of the flyweight purge earlier this year and then was brought back because of what Cejudo did. It’s remarkable. And ever since then, it seems like the majority of the flyweight fights have been all action. This division was a single result away from disappearing and now it’s enjoying a renaissance, all thanks to “Triple C.” I love it.
Speaking of Cejudo, is it me or is he on the longest victory tour of all time? I feel like no matter the location of the event these days, there he is in the front row, huffing and puffing while showing off that replica medal of his. It’s good to be the king, I guess.
PENSAMIENTOS DE MÉXICO
Every fight from UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Stephens is available to watch on ESPN+.
FIGHT-BY-FIGHT REPLAYS
• Yair Rodriguez vs. Jeremy Stephens
• Alexa Grasso vs. Carla Esparza
• Brandon Moreno vs. Askar Askarov
• Irene Aldana vs. Vanessa Melo
• Martin Bravo vs. Steven Peterson
• Jose Quinonez vs. Carlos Huachin
• Polo Reyes vs. Kyle Nelson
• Ariane Carnelossi vs. Angela Hill
• Sergio Pettis vs. Tyson Nam
• Vinicius Moreira vs. Paul Craig
• Sijara Eubanks vs. Bethe Correia
• Claudio Puelles vs. Marcos Mariano
Watch the complete card on ESPN+
I keep waiting for the best Irene Aldana to show up, and I think she did on Saturday. What a dominant win. … That Steven Peterson spinning back fist KO — just the seventh in UFC history — is on my shortlist for knockout of the year. I mean, he countered a spinning back fist with his own spinning back fist. Incredible timing. … That was the last fight on Paul Craig‘s contract. I think he proved he should stick around. … Bethe Correia is really wacky, but I love it. You can never have enough wacky in MMA. … Sergio Pettis should send his thanks to Triple C, too. Flyweight is where he belongs. … That was Angela Hill‘s first stoppage in three and a half years and also her first in 12 UFC fights. Perhaps this will propel her to go on a run because I’ve always felt she’s better than her now 10-7 record suggests. … Anyone else notice Jorge Masvidal‘s logo on the sombrero he was wearing? Nice touch. And I love that he got his own entrance. The man can do no wrong these days.
Nothing to worry about
Jorge Masvidal and Nate Diaz share mutual respect for each other at their press conference as the two are set to square off at UFC 244. For more UFC, sign up here for ESPN+ http://plus.espn.com/ufc.
If you listened to last week’s episode of The MMA Reporters, you heard me say I suspected Thursday’s UFC 244 news conference was not going to be very exciting. And wouldn’t ya know it, it wasn’t. Now let’s be very clear here: the location and the setting were magnificent. Jorge Masvidal’s suit was tremendous. Heck, even the “parental advisory” poster was great. But the actual news conference itself? Bit of a dud, right? You know why? When it comes to news conferences, both Masvidal and Nathan Diaz are counter punchers. They like to sit back and wait for their opponent to lead the dance. That’s what made the first Conor McGregor–Nate Diaz news conference so magical. McGregor was the aggressor, and Diaz counter-attacked. So, given their demeanors at news conferences, I had a feeling it would feel a bit flat. Add in the respect both seem to have for each other, and, well, you saw what happened. But, again, let’s be super clear here: that news conference didn’t dampen my excitement for this fight at all. In fact, just seeing them there together made it feel very real and made me more excited.
It’s not often these days that a fight breaks through the MMA bubble and speaks to the “mainstream” audience. This fight has broken through. No doubt about that. I never would have thought this particular matchup had it in it to do so, but here we are, and it’s a wonderful thing to see two guys who have paid their dues — and then some — garner this kind of attention. Nov. 2 can’t come soon enough.
Two down, one to go
So Max Holloway vs. Alexander Volkanovski for the UFC featherweight title is official for Dec. 14 in Las Vegas. I am very much looking forward to this fight. I don’t know who is going to win but I’ll just say: don’t sleep on Volkanovski. Yes, this will be the biggest fight of his career, but I have been very impressed with his overall skills and durability. He will be a tough out, no doubt, for Holloway.
That’s title fight No. 2 for this card. I maintain this fight should have happened at UFC 243 in Melbourne, Australia, next month, but alas, I’ve already talked about that enough. As you probably know, already booked for the card was Amanda Nunes vs. Germaine de Randamie for the UFC women’s bantamweight title. The current plan is to add one more title fight, but that fight isn’t locked in and the promotion is currently exploring multiple options, sources say. The UFC is still holding out hope the third title fight will serve as the main event. Fights discussed have been a Stipe Miocic vs. Daniel Cormier 3 heavyweight title fight, Kamaru Usman vs. Colby Covington for the UFC welterweight title or a Jon Jones UFC light heavyweight title fight. There’s also a chance none of those fights happen and they end up with two title fights. Stay tuned.
Speaking of the Usman vs. Covington fight, there’s still no update there. The UFC has now put it on the back burner in hopes of making Miocic vs. Cormier 3. If they can make that one happen — and it’s certainly not a formality because Miocic is nursing injuries — they’ll likely delay the 170-pound title fight and worry about it in the new year.
Conor watch
The addition of the second UFC 245 title fight all but ensures that Conor McGregor won’t be on that card. McGregor wants to fight on it, though, but financially, it doesn’t make sense for the UFC to put him on a card with multiple champions on it because then they’ll be forced to pay more in pay-per-view points. That said, McGregor’s return feels imminent. My hunch is he fights early in 2020 and more than once next year, too. Time to get back to work.
Be safe, Suga
Rashad Evans, as first reported by ESPN’s Brett Okamoto, is coming out of retirement. I was recently talking to Evans, who became a vegan recently, about how good he looked these days. Sometimes when a fighter walks away from active competition they let themselves go, but Evans looks phenomenal. He seemed to be in a good spot and at peace, so I was a bit surprised to hear he’s coming back. But I shouldn’t be, of course. This is the fight game. No one stays retired. Unfortunately for Evans, he’s lost his last five in a row. His last win was six years ago against Chael Sonnen at UFC 167. It’s been that long. He’s turning 41 on Wednesday, too. I certainly wish Evans, one of the good guys in this sport, all the best, but we all know history and father time are not on his side. Hopefully he’s doing this for the right reasons and is booked against fighters his own age and caliber.
I don’t buy for a second that the UFC is currently interested in booking Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Georges St-Pierre next. I think this newfound interest surrounding the fight is simply a warning sign to Tony Ferguson to let him know they have options in case negotiations, which haven’t really started for that fight, go haywire. That’s the fight to make and everyone from the UFC brass to the fans to St-Pierre himself knows it.
A nod to “The Hitman”
With the UFC finally coming to Denmark this weekend, I’m reminded of the greatest Danish MMA fighter ever: Martin “The Hitman” Kampmann. Kampmann went 11-6 in the UFC and is the only Danish fighter to have more than one win in the UFC. And he wasn’t just some guy on the roster. No, he was a perennial contender who could hit really, really hard. His knockout of Jake Ellenberger, who was on a six-fight winning streak and close to a title shot at the time, back in 2012, was probably his most impressive win. His two fights against Carlos Condit are classics, as well, in addition to his notable victories over the likes of Thiago Alves, Rick Story, Paulo Thiago, Jacob Volkmann, Thales Leites and Jorge Rivera. He also almost famously screwed up the UFC’s plans to book Jake Shields vs. St-Pierre at UFC 129 in Toronto months before that historic stadium event, but he ended up losing a razor-thin decision to Shields at UFC 121. It’s been a while since I watched that fight, but I still think Kampmann deserved to get the nod.
Kampmann won’t be fighting this Saturday — he retired almost four years ago. However, his presence will most certainly be felt. He currently trains fighters in Denmark and will be in Madsen’s corner, among others.
The best insider in the sport, Ariel Helwani, and best personality, Chael Sonnen, break down the MMA weekend and look ahead to the biggest cards. Watch on ESPN+
Glad to see Bellator sign Nick Newell to a long-term deal. Well-deserved and long overdue. … Before booking Greg Hardy vs. newcomer Ben Sosoli on Oct. 18 in Boston, there was brief talk of doing Hardy vs. Todd Duffee, sources say. However, Duffee’s eye won’t be healed in time after last week’s Jeff Hughes eye poke. I’d like to see that fight one day. … USADA suspended David Branch for two years last week, retroactive to May 24 because he failed an out-of-competition drug test for Ipamorelin, a substance that mimics growth hormone. I reached out to Branch to get his side of the story, but I didn’t hear back. I bet there are a lot of recently suspended fighters who were jealous of the fact that the UFC cut ties with Branch right away. … Poor Calvin Kattar. He goes from being booked against Zabit Magomedsharipov in his home state of Massachusetts to now having to fight Magomedsharipov in Magomedsharipov’s home country of Russia a few weeks later. Tough luck. … Best wishes to England’s Cal Ellenor, who was forced to withdraw from Friday’s Bellator main event against James Gallagher after several recent medical checks revealed he is dealing with brain illness. According to Ellenor, scans revealed he has a gap in his frontal lobe and three black spots in his brain that have recently developed. It appears as though his promising career is now over.
My favorite story of the weekend is the return of Nicolas Dalby. If you’re unfamiliar with his story, Dalby, who was released from the UFC in 2016 after going 1-2-1, fell into a deep depression three years ago and dealt with alcoholism. After seemingly hitting rock bottom, he was able to overcome that and went unbeaten in his last four fights in Cage Warriors, which led to him recently getting re-signed by the promotion. And wouldn’t ya know it, he’s from Copenhagen, so he gets to return in his hometown. Dalby is a really interesting guy. He once e-mailed the UFC with suggestions on how to make fight week run smoother and then decided to shadow the operations team prior to UFC 199 three years ago to get a better appreciation for what they do.
I’m honestly not sure if he would have been re-signed if the UFC wasn’t running a show in Denmark, but who cares? I believe it was the Roman philosopher Seneca who once said luck is when preparation meets opportunity, and that is exactly what happened to Dalby.
Monday’s Helwani Show lineup:
Jack Hermansson will face Jared Cannonier in the UFC Fight Night main event on Saturday, seeking his fifth straight win. Ed Mulholland for ESPN
1:00 p.m. ET: Weekend recap.
1:05 p.m.: Carla Esparza will look back at her hard-fought win over Alexa Grasso and discuss what’s next.
1:25 p.m.: Jeremy Stephens will talk about the controversial ending to his fight against Yair Rodriguez and will update us on how his injured eye is feeling.
1:45 p.m.: Leon Edwards will discuss where he stands amid the drama atop the welterweight division.
2:00 p.m.: Martin Kampmann will talk about the UFC’s return to Denmark and the role he played in the rise of Danish MMA.
2:20 p.m.: Comedian and MMA superfan Joey “Coco” Diaz will discuss Diaz vs. Masvidal and his love for MMA.
2:40 p.m.: Jack Hermansson will preview his main event fight against Jared Cannonier this weekend.
3:00 p.m.: Jorge Masvidal will talk about his unlikely breakout year and his UFC 244 headliner versus Nate Diaz.
3:35 p.m.: In his first interview since UFC 241, Daniel Cormier will address his fighting future and talk about his recent loss to Stipe Miocic.
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Prior to visiting Fayetteville, North Carolina, pick up a local newspaper. Here you can learn all about this beautiful southern city and all it has to offer for both visitors and residents.
The daily Fayetteville newspaper is the Fayetteville Observer. The Observer is published in both print and online media and is the oldest still running publication in North Carolina. The Fayetteville Observer has been publishing since the early part of the 19th century and published the news throughout the Civil War, despite having its offices destroyed in 1865 by General Sherman’s troops.
The Fayetteville Observer online gives you up to date local and national news. In addition to finding out news events, you can discover restaurant revues, job opportunities and real estate information; right in the comfort of your own home. Those seeking to find out what is going on daily in Fayetteville, North Carolina should pick up a copy of this Fayetteville newspaper or check out their website online.
In addition to publishing the Fayetteville Observer, the Fayetteville Publishing Company also publishes the Acento Latino. This monthly, Spanish language newspaper. The Acento Latino began publication in 1999 and now has a circulation of over 17,000. It offers news, events and advertisements in Spanish to the citizens of Fayetteville and the surrounding areas.
The Fayetteville Press Newspaper is another publication distributed by the Fayetteville Publishing Company. The Fayetteville Press has been publishing minority news for the people of Fayetteville, Fort Bragg and Pope Air Force Base for the past 11 years. It currently has a circulation of over 24,000 and is one of the fastest growing newspapers in the region. The Fayetteville Press Newspaper is distributed monthly.
One wonderful news publication is the Kidsville News that circulates through the school districts of Fayetteville, North Carolina. This Fayetteville newspaper is marketed to children attending Kindergarten through the fifth grade and gives them a comprehensive idea of what is going on in the world in language they can understand. In addition to being a valuable learning publication, the Kidsville News is also a fun publication for children as it contains pictures, puzzles and games for them to play. The Kidsville News has a publication of 33,000 and is published by Emmalew Publications in Fayetteville.
Emmalew Publications also publishes Up & Coming Weekly, a weekly newspaper for residents of the Fayetteville area with a circulation of over 15,000. Up & Coming Weekly has local features, information and news on what is going on in Fayetteville as well as surrounding areas. This hip publication is often read by young people as it features stories about popular music, fashion and local theatre as well as club and movie revues. Up & Coming Weekly also has an online publication where you can find out all about the art scene in Fayetteville and discover what is playing in the theatres as well as obtain live theatre revues.
One way to discover more about the industry and business in Fayetteville is to read the Sandhills Business Times. This bi-weekly publication has a circulation of over 20,000 and is dedicated to the businesses and industries of Fayetteville as well as surrounding areas. The Sandhills Business Times also has an online publication that gives you all of the up to date business news in the area. If you are thinking of relocating to Fayetteville, the Sandhills Business Times is a great way to learn about different opportunities for businesses in the area.
Whether you are planning on living in Fayetteville, North Carolina, or just visiting, a Fayetteville newspaper is a great place to discover more about this wonderful southern community.
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I Bought the Sun for a Dollar by @SciFiAuthorGary #Romance #Suspense #Metaphysical
Can anyone actually buy peace or happiness? Perplexed by the loss of job and fiancé, Timothy Ray makes a symbolic purchase of the sun for a dollar to try to right things in his slightly off course career trajectory. When he stumbles upon a brilliant, cascading sunrise and then a chance meeting with a statuesque blonde he feels his life is about to change for the better but his new girlfriend is a spy, working for a contracted data mining firm.
Name: Timothy Ray
Profession: Recently unemployed due to outsourcing.
Do you have any special skills or training?
I seem to have a unique skill of turning good situations into bad. But my recent discovery of a sunrise has given me hope. Plus, I’ve just met a very sexy girlfriend.
I view the world with a realistic viewpoint. Some see the glass half full, but I know better.
Who is your significant other(s)?
Well I recently started dating this amazing woman, Lou Ann. I’m hoping she’ll be a permanent part of my future.
How would they describe you?
I think she sees me for the real me. But, who am I kidding, I think she likes the physical attraction between us both as much as I do.
Tell us about your family.
I don’t stay in touch much. My parents separated. It’s why I wasn’t too surprised when my recent fiancé called off the wedding.
What do you think was left unsettled in your story?
I want to see life from that full glass perspective. The funny thing a break-in in my home led me to a special place in the woods where I experienced a glorious sunrise. It was spectacular. And I hope Lou Ann will come to see this perspective as well. Right now, I’m just glad to spend nights with her and hold her hand at restaurants. Her voice is like a siren. But as much as I desire her, in every possible way, (Timothy laughs mischievously) I think Lou Ann needs to see the sunrise I see for us to have a lasting relationship, the one I can only dream of.
If you could change anything about your story what would it be?
I would like to get others to experience my joy. I think we’d all be in a better world because of it. I used to rail and scream at things out of my control. Now I kind of like things out of my control because it’s how I met Lou Ann.
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Gary Starta began writing as a journalist where he covered the police beat, town meetings and interviewed local artists. His inspiration to tell stories did not stop with newspaper reporting when he began writing fiction in 2004 at the very strong suggestion of a girlfriend. Now, with 17 books written, he foresees many more stories on the horizon whether they be contemporary, romance, thrillers, sci fi/fantasy or murder/crime.
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The Baby Maker by Margaret Tanner - Get your #Romance today! #HEA #LoveStories
His name and his money are the only things war hero, Tye Jamieson, can offer Jenny McKenzie and their unborn child.
Tye is an expert at making babies, but not of the human variety. His babies are sophisticated fighter planes. Now that he has made a real baby, he is desperate to protect it if his secret mission into war-torn Iraq goes bad.
When tragedy strikes, will Jenny be able to forgive him for the way he has deceived her?
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EXCERPT 1 – PG 13
Tye Jamieson stared down at the detective novel he was holding. Maybe it hadn’t been such a good idea asking to share a hospital ward with another patient. He didn’t want to get involved with other people’s problems, he had too many of his own.
Mack seemed a nice old guy, a thorough gentleman, that dying breed of modest hero and God-fearing family man. Salt of the Earth, his Granny O’Leary would have said.
If only he wouldn’t keep harping about his beautiful granddaughter.
“I brought her up with old fashion values,” Mack kept saying.
Tye knew such a paragon didn’t exist. Twenty-one years old, hardly went out with men. Yeah, probably a frigid mouse of a woman. Not that I care what she looks like. He always selected his female companions with care now. Glamorous beauties, willing to indulge in commitment free sex for a diamond or two. Not the twinkling gems you put on the ring finger of a woman’s left hand. He had been down that road before and it had cost him emotion as well as cash.
I’m a cynical bastard. An emotional cripple. I’ll never put myself through such trauma again. It would destroy him. No, better to stick with his silicone enhanced babes, and leave permanent relationships and happy families to other men.
“Hello, Grandpa.”
The soft, melodious tones intruded on his brooding. He glanced up, and a bolt of electricity shot through him.
So, this was Mack’s granddaughter. A halo of tousled golden curls framed a heart-shaped face. Gray eyes, shadowed with worry, stood stark against her alabaster skin. Small and dainty, she looked about sixteen, and wore an air of such fragility he wanted to protect her.
He opened his book and scanned the opening sentence. Delicate porcelain figurines were not for him, and he should never forget it.
Margaret Tanner is an award winning, multi-published Australian author, who writes Contemporary Romance, Historical Romance and Western Romance. She loves delving into the pages of history as she carries out research for her historical romance novels. No book is too old or tattered for her to trawl through, no museum too dusty. Many of her novels have been inspired by true events, with one being written around the hardships and triumphs of her pioneering ancestors in frontier Australia. She once spent a couple of hours in an old goal cell so she could feel the chilling cold and fear.
Her favorite historical period is the 1st World War, and she has visited the battlefields in France and Belgium, a truly poignant experience.
With the encouragement of friend and Western Romance author, Susan Horsnell, she has fallen in love with writing Western Historical Romance. Frontier Australia and frontier America, have many similarities, isolated communities, a large single male population and a lack of eligible women.
Margaret has a short story published in the Western Romance Anthology, Rawhide ‘N Roses which was a 2015 Rone Finalist.
Margaret was also thrilled and excited to be invited to contribute a novella in the ground breaking series American Mail Order Brides. 50 brides from 50 different States in America, from 45 different authors. Her contribution is Edwina – Bride of Connecticut, Book No. 5 in the series.
Margaret is married and has three grown up sons, and a gorgeous little granddaughter.
Outside of her family and friends, writing is her passion.
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On A Knife’s Edge by @AuthorLyndaB #Suspense #Action #Romance #BookTour #Amazon #Kindle
On a Knife's Edge
She was once his sweet salvation…
Lynch Callan has been a dead man walking most of his life—nothing out of the ordinary for a member of the 5th Street biker gang. There was a brief period, though, when she made him believe he could be more. That he could be worthy of her, and her love. To protect her, and keep their relationship from being discovered, he went to prison. Except now the Streeters are in danger. But in order to save his crew, he must first betray them. If caught, he’ll end up dead for sure. It’ll be the mother of all balancing acts—especially with her in the picture. But Lynch will do whatever is necessary to protect the people he loves.
He was once her deepest desire… Shasta Albright doesn’t break the rules. Not anymore. As an unruly teenager, she defied her family at every turn…even secretly befriending, then dating, then falling in love with a bad boy Streeter. Finally her recklessness caught up with her—with lasting and even dire consequences. Now she leads a pristine existence, always staying within the lines and keeping her secrets hidden. That is until he gets released from prison. Can Shasta hold her perfect world together, or will everything get hurled into chaos?
With young girls going missing, the sleepy town of Stardust, Nevada becomes an unlikely epicenter for an illicit slave trade—with Shasta and Lynch caught in the middle. Amidst the rising body count, they fight to keep their loved ones—and each other—safe. A single slipup could have deadly repercussions. It’s an untenable and treacherous position. Much like walking On a Knife’s Edge…
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Lynch broke the kiss and grasped the pull tab of the sweatshirt zipper. With purposefully slowness, he lowered it. He bore his gaze into hers, giving Shasta the chance to stop him. She just stared at him with eyes so huge, so round, he thought he’d die within their brown depths.
Once the jacket hung open, he flicked it off her shoulders then skimmed the t-shirt up her torso. She lifted her arms and he pulled the shirt over her head.
He snagged her wrists. “Keep ‘em up, kay?”
Her delicate throat muscles labored as she nodded.
He ghosted his palms over her sports bra then wormed his fingers under the bottom. Still holding her gaze, he tugged it up. She licked her lips and her arms quivered slightly, but didn’t lower. Within seconds, her breasts were bared. He devoured them with his gaze.
They were flawless. The perfect size with two perfectly pearled nipples.
He outlined one areola with his finger. Her body trembled. He shifted her position so she laid prone on the seat, her feet near the handlebars and her head resting on the passenger cushion.
He kissed her again. His balls ached and his cock pounded at twice his heart rate. His hand molded around one breast. The satiny feel sent another shaft of hunger through his blood.
He kissed her eyes closed before nipping his way to her ticklish earlobe. Goose bumps erupted across her skin and her body arched toward him. His mouth journeyed down her delectable flesh to lick the velvet hollow of her neck, then down farther to a rigid nipple. Her body went completely still—almost like she’d stopped breathing—as his lips closed over the puckered crest.
Lynch stroked his tongue over the peak while his hand skimmed across her flat belly to the snug waistband of her jogging shorts.
Shasta braced her heels on the handlebars and elevated her hips. Lynch pulled while she wiggled. At last, he peeled the offending garment off one leg then the other, along with her running shoes. He replaced her socked feet to the outside edge of the handgrips.
Air back up in his chest as he feasted on her spread before him in all her naked glory. Her skin held a slight rosy hue and her earthy, sexy scent filled his senses. Her nest of pussy hair tightened the knot in his belly. He never dreamed he’d see her like this again.
He again gently gripped her wrists and placed her hands on the passenger seat. “You best hold on, Shaly,” he croaked.
About Lynda…
I have no doubt I was born a storyteller.
I remember telling my first “story” in kindergarten. I informed my teacher, Mrs. Downing, that my mom had just had a baby boy. She hadn’t, of course, and while I got thoroughly admonished for my “storytelling,” I wasn’t deterred from what would become a lifelong passion.
From making up tales as a kid which centered around my favorite TV shows to today, I love telling stories! Stories with handsome guys and spunky gals, that always…always end with a happily-ever-after.
My romances are full of passion, with heat levels that range from hot to sizzling! I've been a finalist in numerous writing contests, including RWA’s® prestigious Golden Heart® in 2010. Please join me for laughter, love and that all important HEA.
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The Blood Princess: Episode 1 A Vampire Dark Fantasy Novel (Blood Rite Saga Book 1) by @Dylan_R_Keefer #YA #PNR #UF
A woman with no memory. A secret with lasting implications. When Prudence awakens in a tomb with no memory of her past, she makes a daring escape that quickly places her in harm’s way. Rescued by a mysterious woman, she struggles to retrieve her memories and accept the dark urges that soon plague her. Hellish flashbacks of the life she used to live haunt her, but they’re not the only threats she has to contend with. As her grip on reality starts to slip away, she plummets into a cycle of self-destruction. Will the truth save her from herself or will it send her spiraling out of control and closer to imminent death?
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Dylan Keefer is a web designer / developer by day and a writer by night. He’s basically a modern day superhero, using code and words to breathe creativity into reality. On a more serious note, he has been writing from a very young age and has always been pursuing the dream of writing professionally. Everything he does is in pursuit of that dream. He writes light-hearted as well as dark themed stories across multiple genres. His stories involve psychological struggles or moral dilemmas of the human condition. If you like those themes and the idea of questioning what it means to be human, then it won’t matter what genre the story is; he will make you a believer.
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Labels: Dark Fantasy, Dylan Keefer, Paranormal, Purple Press, Urban Fantasy, Vampires, Young Adult
Find out why Sex is the Best Medicine - @KathleenGrieve #Hot #Sexy #Romance
When adventurous and sexy becomes the most thrilling dare of all...
Conservative psychiatrist, Grant Anderson plays by the rules, believing he's in complete control of his own deep, dark compulsions. Just on the brink of making a life-altering decision, a minor accident lands him in the emergency room. Encountering the irresistible and outrageous Kate Sumner changes everything for the stuffy psychiatrist. Suddenly, the fun-loving, adventure-seeking nurse tempts Grant in ways he's never known, daring him to forgo all inhibitions and expectations. Will the doctor learn that pleasure is the world's best medicine?
https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Best-Medicine-Contemporary-Medical-ebook/dp/B01N7N0B25/
Fun Author Interview
Who I am I’m a mom, a grandma, wife, nurse, writer, and amateur cake baker.
What genres I write in Contemporary, Medical, Paranormal
Favorite genres to read All… I just love to read
Favorite TV shows Right now I’m on a Food Network binge… Chopped, Chopped junior, and Kids Baking Championship
Last movie I saw on the big screen Rogue One
What’s on my Netflix list (to be watched) I’m not sure what’s on there. I haven’t actually watched Netflix for a while.
Coffee or Tea Tea
Chocolate or Caramel chocolate
Apple Cider or Pumpkin Spice apple cider
Rock N Roll or Country OMG! I have to choose one? I can’t! LOL I love both!
Lumberjack or Police Officer Lumberjack
Tropical Island or Winter Cabin tropical island
Abut Kathleen:
Full time nurse, amateur cake baker, writer, and zombie obsessed, Kathleen draws a lot from the real-life medical drama she experiences as a RN for her novels. Writing romance is a creative outlet where she can effectively deal with the daily stress and sorrow, adding levity and humor to situations that provide a happily ever after when there isn't one. She has recently discovered the fantastic world of air ambulance after 20+ years of working critical care in the hospital and relishes her role as a flight nurse!
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HOT NEW RELEASE: Tight Spiral by @Gill1Michael #Sports #Romance #Suspense #Superbowl #football
The minute she had sat down at the table that day in Wembley, he'd felt a connection that seemed to develop instantaneously between the two of them. He had wanted her ever since...
Inspired by Lee Childs and Nicolas Sparks, Tight Spiral is a fast-paced tale of romance and suspense. Written by former American Football Coach, Michael J Gill, this is the story of two people who fall in love despite the obstacles and wrongful assumptions in their path.
The novel follows Harry Smith, the first British quarterback in American college football who had everything going him: a star future, and a pretty Texan girl on his arm. But when "Prince Harry" collides with fate in a near-fatal accident, everything unravels.
Amy Carrington is a sports reporter in Leeds, England, who'd much rather report on life and fashion. But her boss has a brand new job for her covering the rise of American football in Britain that might just skyrocket her career and change her life.
When Harry emerges from his coma with no interest in football, can Amy bring him back to life and help him win the biggest game of his career?
https://www.amazon.com/Tight-Spiral-Smith-Carrington-1/dp/1783063009
VERY HOT Excerpt
After minutes of slow rhythmic sexual bliss the iPod shuffled to a slightly faster song. It was a rap with a powerful throbbing beat. Amy followed the music, her hips rotating harder, gradually becoming faster. She glanced at Harry’s face, satisfied and titillated by the look of exquisite heaven on his features.
Her song selections created a perfect crescendo, a slow and gentle pace, now leading up to immense intensity. They both reached climax exactly at the same time, with the ultimate crash of music, and subsided against each other the moment the song came to an end.
After years of writing articles and non-fiction, Michael turned to contemporary fiction writing in 2012.
His first book "Tight Spiral" is a romantic sports drama set in the USA & UK. This is a story of two people who fall in love despite the obstacles and wrongful assumptions in their path.
Michael decided to publish a new edition with over fifty additional pages, which will be available on October 28, 2016 and available now on pre-order. The original story is rated 4.27 out of 5 stars on Goodreads.
Michael also writes a murder/mystery series - Raymond Armstrong Novels, featuring The Whisky Affair & The Shackleton Affair.
The Whisky Affair is receiving excellent reviews including - Gill's s knowledge of the whisky industry comes through in this riveting novel set in Scotland. The story has realistic characters, a strong sense of place, and a murder to sweeten the plot.
I found The Whisky Affair intoxicating.
Alice Walsh - Award winning author
The Shackleton Affair was shortlisted for the Book Viral best book of 2015 award.
All of Michael's novels have a romantic element that is best described by a Goodreads reviewer - Your love scenes are hot. I like their moves. Its sexy without graphics and its fun.
Born in Yorkshire, England, Michael was involved in an almost fatal accident when he was 17 years old. After days in a coma, over a year in the hospital, that day changed his life for-ever. Fate, destiny, life's journey is always forefront in his mind.
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Masters of the Universe Ultimates Pre-Order Shipping Update
Attention MOTU Friends and Fans!
At long last, the Masters of the Universe Ultimates figures are nearing the end of their journey into your hands!
The figures have made the long ocean trek to the Port of Oakland, where they are currently waiting to clear customs inspection. This process will take 3-10 days depending on the level of customs inspection they get assigned, and following that, they will go to our shipping facility to be sent, at last, to you.
We expect to begin shipping orders to you beginning on July 20th (or earlier!), and for the shipping process to take several days to get the large volume of orders out to everybody. Shipping confirmations, including tracking numbers, will be sent out for each order as they are shipped.
We cannot overstate how greatly we appreciate your patience as we built up our infrastructure and process around taking over the MOTU Classics line! Thank you again so very much for hanging in there. We are very pleased with and excited about these figures and can't wait to get them into your hands.
We have also received some questions about the blister packaging for the Ultimates. Our original intent was to package the figures in a resealable clamshell blister. In the production of the figures, the original model for the resealable blister failed the packaging drop test in safety testing, and the factory was not willing to proceed without modification. At that point, creating new molds for a revised resealable package would have added 4-5 weeks to the production schedule, and we were already rushing to get these figures into your hands. So we made the choice to instead use a vintage MOTU inspired, heat-sealed blister package so we could avoid any further delays.
Again, we want to thank you all once more for your support and patience, and assure you that your figures will be in your hands in the coming weeks. We love them and hope you do too!
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No more excuses EDITORIAL 04/30/2011
Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez has resigned from her post and obviously, Noynoy must be overjoyed by the latest turn of events.
He immediately accepted Merci’s resignation.
But now that Merci is gone, he may be facing an even bigger hurdle as he no longer has that excuse he always uses to blame his failure to get rid of corruption in his government, due to what he and his allies call their major “stumbling block” now that she has resigned.
When scandals start to rock his government too, who else will he be blaming for the corruption?.... MORE
Good choice? FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 04/30/2011
Good choice?
The Makati Business Club (MBC) is really riding high under the Noynoy administration, what with an additional appointee to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) commissioner in Gus Lagman.
Lagman was reportedly apppointed by Noynoy on the strength of his IT credentials. Fine. But his track record — at least during election quick counts in the past — always held a partisan color and this may prove disturbing to many when election time comes.
True, Lagman did question the reliability of the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines in 2010 as well as the anomalous Mega-Pacific deal during the time of Benjamin Abalos Sr. And Lagman, even as a commissioner, pushes the release of the source code and other documents which Jose Melo and his Comelec commissioners refused to release, despite a Supreme Court order for the Comelec to free these.
But it has also been noted that, despite all his and his Namfrel colleagues’ opposition to the PCOS machines, they all seemed to have stopped all complaints after their candidate won the Comelec “unofficial” precinct count that was pretty questionable. Even the provincial and municipal count failed to match the precinct count, as there was a clear 4 to 5 million votes in excess of the official precinct ballot count..... MORE
Bosnian Croats feel squeezed in Muslim-shared entity focus 04/30/2011
Bosnian Croats feel squeezed in Muslim-shared entity
MOSTAR — More than 15 years since the end of Bosnia’s 1992-1995 war, Muslims and Croats still avoid each other in this picturesque southern town.
They were allies against the Serbs during most of the conflict, but also fought each other for a period, notably in the region around Mostar.
Under the Dayton settlement they were forced into an autonomous but shared federation, with the Serbs having their own entity, the Republika Srpska.
Now demands are building among Croats to be given their own autonomy amid feelings that the majority Muslims are squeezing them out of a voice..... MORE
CHR Decision on Fil-Am Activist Case to Perpetuate Impunity – Rights Groups
Human rights group Karapatan said that with the CHR resolution, “the crime of torture will have its heyday under the Aquino administration.”
By RONALYN V. OLEA
The Commission on Human Rights’s (CHR) report on the abduction of Filipino-American activist Melissa Roxas and two others has drawn criticisms from human rights groups.
Roxas, a member of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan-USA chapter, and her two companions Juanito Carrabeo and John Edward Jandoc were forcibly taken by armed men on May 19, 2009 in La Paz, Tarlac. Roxas suffered torture for six days before she was freed by her captors. In her affidavit and subsequent testimonies before the CHR and Congress, Roxas maintained that her captors were members of the military.
In its recent findings, however, the CHR said there is insufficient evidence to support Roxas’s allegations that members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) took her and subjected her to physical and mental maltreatment.
Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) bewailed the CHR resolution saying it “practically clears” the military of any wrongdoing.
While the CHR resolution states that there is “enough evidence to find that complainant has suffered cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment or punishment by persons unknown,” it also states that there is insufficient evidence to support Roxas’s claim of torture because, according to the rights body, there was not enough evidence to determine the identities of the abductors.
Melissa Roxas testifies during the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) investigation on her abduction and torture in 2009.(Photo by Ronalyn V. Olea / bulatlat.com)
“In the light of the lack of evidence against the persons who inflicted the physical and psychological maltreatment on the complainant, it is not possible for the Commission to reach any findings on torture, the definition of which includes elements of State party or agent and certain intentions, purposes and motivations,” the CHR resolution said.
The same report states: “The CHR has received information that indicates the possibility that members of the NPA committed the kidnapping and other human rights violations on Roxas et al. These sources have been found to be credible. However, no specific names of individuals have been provided to the CHR, thus the Commission, with its limited resources, is unable to further follow up and identify specific persons as the possible perpetrators.”.... MORE
Source: Bulatlat.com
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/04/27/chr-decision-on-fil-am-activist-case-to-perpetuate-impunity-%e2%80%93-rights-groups/
Kin, Writers and Artists Launch Campaign for Release of Detained Poet Ericson Acosta
“His works as a writer, poet, thespian, singer and songwriter have remained relevant especially to the succeeding generations of UP activists in and out of the university. His bias for the poor and oppressed dates back to his campus days.”
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Mrs. Liwayway Acosta is graceful in keeping her pain hidden; but sometimes it becomes too much and tears fall and she struggles to regain her composure.
For over two months now, Mrs. Liwayway and her husband Isaias Acosta and have been worried because one of their two children, their son, writer and poet Ericson, 37, had been detained and falsely and maliciously charged with illegal possession of firearms in Catbalogan, Samar. Both mother and father are now at the lead of a campaign pressing for their poet-son’s immediate release.
“At least we know that he’s alright and that he’s not being hurt. That was our greatest worry in the beginning. Our son is made of stronger stuff and we know that he’s holding up in prison. This is not the kind of thing that will break Eric,” said Mrs. Acosta.
Mr. Acosta in the meantime is the unashamedly proud father. He even has a list of his only child’s achievements since grade school, and at the drop of a hat can enumerate the various literary, theatrical and scientific awards Ericson has received since he was in shorts and attending grade school in St. Mary’s College,and eventually when he went to the University of Sto. Tomas for his secondary education.
“He has never been anything but a good son, an intelligent student, and a loving parent to his own son Emmanuel,” said Mr. Acosta.
Artists Rally Behind Campaign for Poet’s Release
Two weeks ago, the family and Ericson’s friends and former colleagues officially launched the Free Ericson Acosta campaign in Quezon City. It was a reunion of sorts for Ericson’s friends from his university days, and an event that saw some of the most respected names in the Philippines’ literary circles placing their support behind an artist who chose a path of human rights activism.
Family, friends and supporters from the art community commit their support to the Free Ericson Acosta Campaign. At the lead are father Isaias Acosta and mother Liwayway (not in picture)..(Photo by Ina Alleco R. Silverio / bulatlat.com)
At the time when Ericson was arrested earlier last February 13, he was a freelance journalist documenting the human rights situation in Western Samar. He was arrested in the company of various community leaders from a farmers’ organization who staunchly defended him and affirmed his work as a writer.
During the campaign launch press conference, Ericson’s former editor-in-chief in the Philippine Collegian Michael John Ac-ac said that the former had true artist sensibilities and that he, Ericson, honed it through the years by voracious reading, prolific writing and by constantly discovering developments in the cultural scene.
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URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/04/27/kin-writers-and-artists-launch-campaign-for-release-of-detained-poet-ericson-acosta/
Think Tanks Refute Malacañang’s Arguments Against Wage Hikes
“Since July 2010, skyrocketing commodity prices coupled with stagnant wages have eroded workers’ wages in lightning speed, which is unmatched by the previous administration,” said EILER executive director Anna Leah Escresa.
As Malacañang thumbs down the demand of government employees in the country for a substantial wage increase, research groups have taken turns debunking government claims that salary and wage hikes are impossible to implement given the current economic conditions.
Current Wage Provides Only 41 Percent of What Families Need
The IBON Foundation said the value of the daily minimum wage in Metro Manila has dropped and is only able to provide for about 41 percent of the amount needed for a family to live decently. This is less than the figure 10 years ago, in 2001, wherein the minimum wage was about 52 percent of the cost to live decently.
According to the IBON Foundation, the daily minimum wage of P404 (US$9.39) is just 2/5 of the estimated average family living wage (FLW) of P988 (US$23) in the National Capital Region (NCR) as of March 2011. The family living wage is defined as the minimum amount needed for a family of six members to meet their daily food and non-food needs plus a 10 percent allocation for savings. The latest living wage estimates are based on the 2008 family living wage computation of the National Wages and Productivity Commission of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).
According to IBON data, the daily minimum wage of P265 (US$6) in 2001 was half of the amount a family needed to live decently, which was then pegged at P509 (US$12).
(Photo by Ina Alleco R. Silverio / bulatlat.com)
As the DOLE and the wage boards deliberate on whether to give a wage hike next month, the research group urged government to raise wages to a decent level and approximate the wage increase to the estimated family living wage.
Nonstop Price Hikes
Adding to the urgency of a wage increase, a labor research group said, is the fact that the combined wage increases in the past decade had been totally eroded within only eight months by nonstop price hikes under the Aquino administration..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/04/23/independent-think-tanks-refute-malacanangs-arguments-against-p6000-and-p125-salary-wage-hikes/
Media Groups Urge Aquino to Take Concrete Action to Stop the Killings
“As we pause from daily routine in this period of spiritual contemplation and renewal, we ask once again that you draw strength from our advocacy to end the impunity that has punished the Filipino people for so long.”
MANILA – In an open letter, media organizations called on President Benigno S. Aquino III to take concrete action to put a stop to the killings of journalists.
The Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists, Inc. (FFFJ), a national network of press oriented organizations, together with other media organizations and mass communication professors and students, said the action should “send a signal that the executive will do all that is necessary and within its power to counter impunity.”
Six journalists have been murdered since Aquino assumed the presidency. An unidentified gunman shot at broadcaster Miguel Belen of Camarines Sur on July 9, 2010; he later died on July 31. On January 24, Gerardo Ortega was gunned down in Puerto Princesa, Palawan. A woman broadcaster Marlina Flores Sumera was shot dead on March 24. The FFFJ noted that the first two killings are work-related and said that the murder of Sumera could also be work- related..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/04/21/media-groups-urge-aquino-to-take-concrete-action-to-stop-the-killings/
Merci resigns By Arlie O. Calalo and Gerry Baldo 04/30/2011
SAYS NATION, INSTITUTION, FAMILY COME FIRST
Merci resigns
By Arlie O. Calalo and Gerry Baldo 04/30/2011
Catching her detractors by surprise, embattled Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez yesterday personally submitted her resignation to President Aquino 10 days before her impeachment trial at the Senate would have started, earlier scheduled for May 9, when sessions resume.
Gutierrez submitted her one-page resignation letter to Aquino around 10:30 a.m. in Malacañang and proceeded to her office in Quezon City where she held a news conference wherein she read a prepared statement regarding her sudden decision to resign from her post.
In her letter to the President, she said her resignation will take effect on May 6 or three days before her impeachment trial at the Senate was set to begin.
Scheduled to retire in December 2012, Gutierrez stressed that her “undivided loyalty” was to the Filipino people, and not to the former President, although she said she is grateful to the former President for having appointed her to this post.... MORE
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High court reverses Desierto ruling on behest loans 04/30/2011
High court reverses Desierto ruling on behest loans
The Supreme Court has reversed the 1998 ruling of the Office of the Ombudsman as it ordered to indict officials of a local company for an anomalous behest loan it allegedly obtained 35 years ago.
The high court’s First Division, through Associate Justice Jose Perez, reversed the findings of former Ombudsman Aniano Desierto who had dismissed the case along with 17 others filed by the Presidential Ad Hoc Fact-Finding Committee on Behest Loans.
Desierto dismissed all of these cases on the ground of prescription and insufficiency of evidence.
Named respondents in the particular case were Mohammad Ali Dimaporo, Abdullah Dimaporo and Amer Dianalan, stockholders and officers of the Mindanao Coconut Oil Mills (Mincoco), a domestic corporation established in 1974..... MORE
Police confiscate guns from Cagayan farmers By Ted Boehnert 04/30/2011
Police confiscate guns from Cagayan farmers
By Ted Boehnert 04/30/2011
TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan — Policemen confiscated several firearms believed to be unregistered owned by three farmers in a remote town here last Wednesday, police report said.
Senior Supt. Mao Aplasca, Cagayan police director, identified the farmers as Solito Cabbuag, Loreto Cabbuag and Jayson Banad, all residents of Barangay Mauanan in Rizal town, Cagayan Valley province.
According to Aplasca, confiscated were M16 Armalite rifle with 14 alloy magazines and 300 live rounds of ammunition, a 12-gauge shotgun with 6 live rounds of ammunition and a .22 caliber pistol with a magazine and 38 live rounds of ammunition.
The guns and ammunition were confiscated based on a search warrant issued by Judge Edman Castillo of Tuao Regional Trial Court Branch 11, Tuguegarao City.... MORE
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20110430nat10.html
Know RH, RP bills first before supporting them, urges solon By Angie M. Rosales 04/30/2011
Know RH, RP bills first before supporting them, urges solon
Amid the increasing tension between the Malacañang and the Catholic Church on the raging debates over the controversial Reproductive Health (RH) bill or Responsible Parenthood (RP) bill, a senator is appealing to the public to get themselves fully educated to the issue before taking any position on the matter.
Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV made the call as he took note of the apparent misconception of some individuals as to the advantages and disadvantages of the bill.
“The public is unwittingly supporting the RH bill because they are being led to believe that the measure would control population growth and allow access to contraceptives.
“But the thing is, contraceptives can be accessed freely now and the Department of Health (DoH), in fact, has been distributing contraceptives even without the RH bill. Also, there is no provision in the RH bill that would help control the population,” he said..... MORE
Over 1 million toddlers enrolled in DepEd’s kindergarten schools By Jason Faustino 04/30/2011
Over 1 million toddlers enrolled in DepEd’s kindergarten schools
By Jason Faustino 04/30/2011
Over one million pre-school children signed up during the early registration campaign conducted last January giving the Department of Education (DepEd) a head’s up before universal kindergarten is implemented in all public schools starting June 2011.
Education Secretary Armin Luistro said the universal public kindergarten program for five-year-old will give new entrants to basic education the proper preparation on the rigors of schooling. “Studies have shown that school children who went to pre-school are better prepared for schooling and have greater chances of finishing school.”
Universal kindergarten is the first step under the 12-basic education programs of the government which aims to prepare high school graduates for the world of work, for college education and for the global arena.
“We always say that education is a great equalizer. This universal kindergarten program will do just that as it democratizes access to pre-school education which used to be enjoyed only by those who can afford it in private schools,” Luistro said..... MORE
Security at Laperal Compound tightened By Pat C. Santos 04/30/2011
Security at Laperal Compound tightened
By Pat C. Santos 04/30/2011
Concerned over the safety of informal settlers at Laperal Compound in Guadalupe Nuevo, Makati City, Mayor Jejomar “Erwin” Binay has reiterated his appeal to the 400 families whose houses were razed by fire recently to avail themselves of the relocation sites and financial support offered by the city government.
This came after Binay ordered the Makati police to enforce tight security measures to prevent residents from rebuilding their houses after a violent confrontation they had with police-backed demolition team.
Binay said the compound is a danger zone and forbade residents to return after last week’s fire that razed more than 900 houses and left some 2,700 families homeless..... MORE
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Trix Twin Railway
© Copyright 1998 - 2012 Garry Lefevre
To Site Introduction
Exhibition Layouts from around the World
Trix as a teenager !
The first picture of a professional layout I have after the war is this one taken in 1948.
This was at the Central Hall Westminster, London at the annual model railway show.
It shows on the right Siegfried Kahn and Franz Bing, whilst on the far left is Bill Best manager of Trix Ltd.
The layout is similar to the one below without scenery.
The above layout was first shown at the BIF in 1950. Afterwards it went on tour round department stores in the UK. With minor modifications it was used in 1951 and 1952 exhibitions.
The gravity fed shunting yard can be seen clearly in this picture. I remember how fascinated I was as a young boy to see the locos run forward and back (never stalling) and pushing goods wagons down the slope where after auto uncoupling they ran into one of the sidings, each point operated by remote. The times were displayed for the next full show as in between the locos had to be serviced. Something we collectors of TTR know all about to day
A Britains Lilliput collector : George Burton added the following information about the picture on the right :
This is interesting from the Lilliput viewpoint in that it shows the Fordson Tractor, Hurdles and Sheep in front of the station in the centre. Beyond the station are what look like the fronts of Lilliput cars. There are also two horse-drawn items which look like the pre-WW2 Britains Gas Cylinder Trailers modified to have a Lilliput horse pulling them. Lilliput was not introduced until 1951 - the earliest reference found so far is an advert in the Meccano Magazine for the Tractor in March 1951. The supposition is that Britains supplied Trix with these prototype items for this display. Although the horse drawn trailers were not put into production, the Britains’ Archive material (originally housed in the Bethnal Green Museum) did contain Trailers finished in civilian colours (blue and yellow). In my collection I have an unusual Lilliput Sports Car with, so far, a unique wheel type and no manufacturers name underneath - I am now wondering if this might be one of the pre-production/prototype samples used on this layout
The picture on the left is of a layout first shown at the British Industries Fair in the Spring of 1953 then subsequently at the annual Model Railway show at Westminster Hall in London. The first event was for trade only whilst the second was the major public show of the year for all Model railways enthusiasts. I remember seeing this, having queued up in the rain outside the show for an hour or more. So many people went that the queue had to controlled by several police officers
Above the 1953 Trix Twin layout with Trix Express items such as the Diesel Flier
Above : Official Trix exhibition layout in April 1954
At Westminster London
An Early 1950’s Continental Trix layout
All bakelite layout with a diesel flier and the post war 20/59 in the background. The goods shed in the front made by Trix is much sort after by collectors
An unusual picture taken from the inside of the Bassett-Lowke shop in High Holborn in the 1950’s shows a demonstration layout on the left.
A Trix Express layout in Germany shown in 1953 at a trade show in Nürenburg
Unlike the English layouts the German ones had detailed scenery to add realism. These pictures must have been introducing the new fibre based track which can just be seen in the front of the layout, whereas the rest is bakelite.
Above one can see a harbour scene. In the foreground on the left are two E94’s
A 1954 layout from Nürenberg
Alongside is a rare colour photograph
of a Trix Express layout designed to sell Trix to the Continental public. This was presented at the annual Toy fair still used to day as the place to announce new products.
The layout on the left is from 1961
At yet another trade show Trix Express presented this fine layout.
It is interesting to note the track plan displayed above the layouts surrounding the “TRIX” name
See layouts from 1936 to 1939
See layouts from 1999 -2008
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'Bob's Burgers' Writers to Helm 'Deadpool 3' for Marvel Studios
Wendy Molyneux and Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin are writing a script for the feature
Nearly a year after Ryan Reynolds confirmed Deadpool 3 is in the works, a pair of script writers for the feature have been revealed.
The Hollywood Reporter confirms that Wendy Molyneux and Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin — both recognized for their work on Bob's Burgers — are penning the film's script for Marvel Studios.
As previously reported, Deadpool 3 will be a full Marvel production, marking the first studio project to use characters now available following Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox in 2017. Reynolds had previously said of the move, "We're over at Marvel [Studios] now, which is like the big leagues all of a sudden. It's kinda crazy."
Deadpool 2 arrived in 2018. Earlier this year, that film's producers were fined nearly $300,000 over a fatal stunt accident during shooting.
Recently, Reynolds bought a Welsh football team with Rob McElhenney and was involved with Rick Moranis' return to the screen.
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Lone Galaxy Garden
By Evan McDowell
Lone is Nottingham, UK's Matthew Cutler, a producer with a history of unapologetically wearing his influences on his sleeve. While previous albums received positive reviews, his warbled hip-hop beats came off as the sound of an artist struggling to find his voice. Galaxy Garden (Cutler's fourth official album in as many years) takes the hazy, nostalgic melodies of his previous efforts and reimagines them through early '90s house and Detroit techno. The album is laden with bouncy synth lines that weave their way in and out of each song, projecting a sense of urgency without discomforting the listener. Cutler touched upon these ideas with Emerald Fantasy Tracks, but here they are fully realized in their well-planned structural and dynamic changes. A first for Lone on this album is the introduction of outside collaborators. IDM mainstay Machinedrum is heard playing guitar and singing on "As a Child" and "Cthulhu," while the soft-voiced Anneka is featured on "Spirals." The appearance of these organic instruments is a welcome addition, offering short breaks from the mechanical repetitiveness of the rest of the album. For listeners that like their electronic music with a pulse (both literally and figuratively), this release will be a rewarding experience. (R&S)
DANCE AND ELECTRONIC
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Review: Beauty and the Beast (2017)
By : Nikki McKeown
Category : Movies, Reviews and Events
Beauty and the Beast’s heroine Belle was played by modern feminist Emma Watson.
It may be a ‘Tale as old as time’ but Bill Condon’s remake of the 26 year old fairy-tale film was refreshingly modern, feel good and unforced.
The film is set in a picture-book French village during the 1780s. Beauty and the Beast’s heroine Belle was played by modern feminist Emma Watson. Watson’s character was clever and bookishness with a perfect balance of strong will and innocence.
Dan Stevens plays the enraged Beast whose charm seeps through from very early on in the film. Stevens adequately portrays his characters bitterness with undertones of frustration and sadness.
Gaston, the self loving bully is played by Luke Evans however it is his sidekick the smitten Le Fou played by Josh Gad who steals the show. McGregor and McKellan also work well together as the hilarious and odd duo Lumiere and Cogsworth.
The story follows a young prince – Dan Stevens – who refuses to help an old beggar lady when she arrives to his castle. The woman warns the prince not to be deceived by looks before transforming herself into a beautiful enchantress.
She puts a spell on the prince turning him into a beast and the castle’s inhabitants into furniture. The Beast must find love before all the petals from a magical rose have dropped.
The film pulls out all the stops in its ballroom scenes and most of all in the Be our Guest dinner sequence which can only be described as a “choreographic extravaganza”.
The movie highpoint reminds the viewers of Disney’s successful and magical history in cinematic craft. Throughout the film the frolicking furniture brings life and laughter to the audience during even the darkest of moments.
Overall, the live action/digital hybrid film was joyful and enchanting. Writer’s Stephen Chbosky and Evan Spiliotopoulos skilfully modernised the story without eliminating all the features we fell in love with as children.
Those who predicted the film would not hold a “talking candle” to the original will be pleasantly surprised.
See alternative reviews at : https://arstechnica.co.uk/the-multiverse/2017/03/beauty-and-the-beast-2017-review/
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/mar/19/beauty-and-the-beast-review-undeniably-arresting-emma-watson-josh-gad-bill-condon
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/beauty-beast-review-emma-watson-dazzles-disneys-show-stopping/
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2013 END OF YEAR CD GIVEAWAY!
Thanks to the kind people at quality sales and distribution company [PIAS] Cooperative, one of the biggest and best distributors of independent music in the world, and also the good folk of Sad Day For Puppets, we have a splendid bundle of CDs to be won that show a great cross-section of the year in alternative music. In fact, there should be something for everyone here, so check out what's on offer below or using the playlist on the right, work out the answer to the INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT question below and then email us your answer. Simple!
Eels - Wonderful, Glorious
Alt-rock veterans Eels showed that they're right on top of their game after over a decade and a half of making consistently great records with 'Wonderful, Glorious'.
Eels' website
Larry Gus - Years Not Living
From the legendary DFA Records stable comes 'Years Not Living', the latest album from Greek remixer and ambient beat-maker Larry Gus with some forward-thinking sounds.
Larry Gus' website
Summer Camp - Summer Camp
English duo Summer Camp cemented their place as one of the country's foremost indiepop groups this year by following-up debut album 'Welcome To Condale' with this ace self-titled effort.
Summer Camp's website
Gogol Bordello - Pure Vida Conspiracy
'Pure Vida Conspiracy' is the latest full-length from New York-based gypsy-punks Gogol Bordello, a formidable live force who've transferred some of that energy on to record.
Gogol Bordello's website
Sad Day For Puppets - Come Closer
The best band in Sweden™, Sad Day For Puppets, released their third album this year and as expected it didn't disappoint, merging heavenly vocals, sweet melodies and occasional darkness.
Sad Day For Puppets' website
To get your hands on a bundle of shiny new CD copies of the above albums, all you have to do is answer the following question:
Which record was declared The Sound Of Confusion's album of the year for 2012?
a) Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) by Eurythmics
b) Sweet Heart Sweet Light by Spiritualized
c) Sweet Kisses by Jessica Simpson
Once you've worked out the answer, simply send an email with the answer and your name and address to
competition@thesoundofconfusion.com
with the heading "2013 CD Giveaway" and we'll announce the winner in two weeks' time (December 14th) so that you'll hopefully get your prize just before you go insane from hearing another Christmas song! Good luck!
contact@thesoundofconfusion.com
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Ummagma - Micro Macro
Single review by soul1@thesoundofconfusion.co.uk
Ummagma have been up to some of their lovely old tricks; delivering music through a very effective pimp: YouTube. This Canadian-Ukrainian duo have become known for their fantastic audio-visual offerings, so it's no wonder that we have caught onto their latest video for 'Micro Micro'.
This video was produced by Californian Edward Alvarez, with the original film material derived from historic (now creative commons) archives. Not just ANY film, but a film that barely survived to this day, as all existing copies of this film (barring this one), which celebrated Dadaistic film art-forms, were destroyed by the Nazi regime in the lead-up to World War II.
Perhaps their utmost "indietronic" track, there is also a bit of ethic pseudo-gypsy flair in the first half of the song, while the second half of this track leads you into a scratchy drum programming wonderland that leaves you wishing it would continue for at least a few minutes more.
You are also welcome to enjoy this and other tracks in audio-only form (we've attached a small selection here) or head over to Ummagma's YouTube, where you can already find a bouquet of their creations.
Ummagma's website
Wilson & Joy - Vampire EP
EP review by wayoutwest@thesoundofconfusion.co.uk
One of the sonic delights that came to my inbox yesterday ended up there not because of an email sent by some band or PR company, but from Bandcamp, specifically because I had previously bought an EP from Wilson & Joy, an indie hybrid duo from North Wales who delightfully combine a variety of genres, primarily shoegaze, alt rock, folk-rock, and dreampop. So what did I get in my mail? Notification of a new EP release by the duo (Phil Wilson and Marc Joy) which, in my mind, is their best work to date. Thank you Bandcamp! So here's a play by play of what you can expect to (and should) hear.
First track = 'Vampire'. This one combines the swoon and catch of Travis with the charm and melancholy of Trash Can Sinatras (especially from their phase). Scotland and Wales just came that much closer through this song.
Vampire EP by Wilson & Joy
Second track = 'Lost'. The first guitar lead-in to the second track immediately brings associations with The Smiths and The Cure, while the rest of the song leads you to other reminiscences from the 1980s/early 1990s, namely sounds and feelings experienced in the likes of The Railway Children, Icicle Works, and 'The Hurting' phase of Tears for Fears.
Third track = 'Walk Alone'. Definitely treading (tiptoeing) into Jesus & Mary Chain and MBV territory here, but it is done ever so tastefully, so let it be - listen up and listen loud… Phil Wilson's vocals are ever so pure though relative to these bands, seemingly like Travis is now making a guest appearance.
Fourth track = 'Brighter (Bricabracboy's Dimmer Switch Remix)'. Comparisons escape me for the first part of the song, other than that funky urban pop beat that drums up parallels to Lorde's 'Royals'. However, that strong association only stays there until the vocals kick in. Towards the song, we are slipping into this house with a nice nod to Screamadelica-era of Primal Scream's 'Loaded'. A very nice way to go out, really.
The Vampire EP was released through Ear to Ear Records, which is based out of Mold, North Wales. Recorded and produced by Marc Joy (Tim and Sam's Band, Mike Peters, Golden Fable). Wilson and Joy are a songwriting/production team based in the North West of England. They have worked together since 2003 and over the years have amassed a substantial back catalogue of original material, originally beginning under the name The Raft (with 8 albums to date). Apart from participating in Wilson & Joy, Phil Wilson continues to write and perform with his band "The Raft", while Marc Joy operates alongside Lisa Von H as 'Lights That Change'.
Wilson & Joy's website
Buy the EP
Jane Woodman - Aerial
Single review by wayoutwest@thesoundofconfusion.co.uk
San Francisco DIY artist Jane Woodman has released a new video for the song 'Aerial', taken from her album 'Teenage Red'. Jane has been making somewhat of a stir in the indie music scene, tastefully fusing such genes as shoegaze, dreampop and darkwave, and establishing a local following for her live venues in the region.
This video is rather dark and experimental, as is the track, with a haunting metallic blip/clink background sound, sitting cosily under a bed of warm, woozy, lush guitar and angelic vocals. It's all very reminiscent of the early 4AD sound - Dif Juz and even Cocteau Twins' infamous Guthrie-gaze guitar bliss comes to mind when hearing the guitar…
Teenage Red by JANE WOODMAN
The vocals or melody crafted by Woodman are not even comparable to anything out there - they take you elsewhere, thus proving the name of this song to be very fitting, 'Aerial', because that is where it takes you. Do fly, sooner than later… We’ve also decided to give you a sampling of a few other tracks from this spectacular album.
Woodman independently released 'Teenage Red' earlier this year after running an Indiegogo campaign, with support in mixing from Monte Vallier of Ruminator Audio and mastering from Josh Bonati, both of whom have worked with The Soft Moon, Weekend, Wax Idols. Prior to that, several years had passed since releasing her debut EP 'Poéme Èlectronique'.
Jane Woodman's website
Band To Check Out: The Veldt
Article by wayoutwest@thesoundofconfusion.co.uk
Nowadays, there aren't many shoegaze bands still around today (excluding their “let’s have a reunion” versions) that date back to the late 80s/early 90s heyday. The Veldt is an exception - with one exception. Namely, performing under the name The Veldt once again, they did previously undergo a name change after "taking a hiatus" in 1997/98 - to Apollo Heights, and now back to The Veldt.
Everlasting Gobbstopper by Apollo Heights
Disco Lights by Apollo Heights
The twin brothers that formed its backbone are Danny and Daniel Chavis, who, together with Hayato Nakao, have brought us sounds under both band names. From the time that the band released their first proper record 'Marigold's' on Stardog/Mercury in 1992 through their breakthrough album 'Afrodisiac', a lot of changes have occurred and, under the Apollo Heights brand, the Chavis brothers have pushed their musical boundaries with more electronica and trip-hop influenced backdrops to create texture with Daniel's soulful falsetto croon. Both Bloc Party and TV on the Radio have cited The Veldt as their inspirations, not only for integrating alternative music, but also for their groundbreaking blend of soul and post-rock.
Minos - Backing Track by Apollo Heights
Camus by Apollo Heights
Their list of collaborators looks like something straight out of the shoegazer hall of fame. They have worked with producers Ray Shulman (The Sugarcubes, AR Kane, The Sundays), David Sitek (TV on the Radio), and Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins, Violet Indiana), whose influence you can most strongly sense in the first two tracks of this article. The buck doesn't stop there. They’ve also worked with Jesus & Mary Chain, Mos Def and Lady Miss Kier of Deee-Lite fame and have shared the stage with the likes of Oasis, Cocteau Twins, The Pixies, Fishbone, and Corrosion Of Conformity, among other notables.
This month, The Veldt released their first new song in 15 years, the appropriately titled 'Resurrection Hymn' on the compilation album 'Square Peg In a Round Hole Vol. 5'. You can listen to it here. We enjoy the wall-of-noise effect and the reverb-laced building of tension over appealing drums. We’re already wondering what this might have sounded like with Daniel’s divine vocals and whether another version of this track (with vocals) might appear on their next release.
Square peg in a round hole vol. 5 by Square Peg In A Round Hole
For their forthcoming EP, The Veldt have already been working with two massive legends - Robin Guthrie and Joe Foster (a.k.a. Slaughter Joe), co-founder of Creation Records - seriously whetting our appetite. Apollo Heights is being featured in The Smiths' bassist Andy Rourke's forthcoming documentary 'The Sounds Of The City'. Having gained recognition under both names, I expect they may still, from time to time, perform under both names in future - only time will tell. In the meantime, we are already looking forward to getting our hands (and especially our ears) on the forthcoming EP from The Veldt in 2014.
The Veldt's website
Apollo Heights' website
Morning Smoke - Melancholy
Single review by jay@thesoundofconfusion.co.uk
We have closely been following Morning Smoke over the last few months. Soon they are going to hit us with their first EP and this is the latest track to fall into our hands off it. Quietly I might say it's their best track so far, which is even more impressive if you think how majestic 'In Euphoria' is. With 'Melancholy' there is the real sense of a band truly hitting their stride and sound.
'Melancholy' is all wrapped in a cavernous, cathedral-sized sound. The guitars are as if they have been dipped in gold as they shimmer and flash across, dropping sonic mirror balls. Milo McNulty's vocals have a true sense of depth and strength, combined with a raw freshness that inhabits you and the song. 'Melancholy' builds with epically restrained grandeur, but doesn't loose itself, simply quietly unfurling its sublime power. And all the while there is an incandescent hook that takes you by the hand and sweeps you up into the stratosphere. It dances with you as a glistening guitar coats you in starlight, all of it simply captivates you. With 'Melancholy', Morning Smoke have showed that they could easily stand along The Horrors and Foals as leading the vanguard of post-modern British music. I have had the privileged to hear another track 'Blue Ribbons'. This only cements all that has already been said. Not only can't we wait for the EP, but with tracks such 'Blue Ribbon' waiting to be unleashed, the album will be one of the highlights of 2014.
Morning Smoke's website
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Ned and the Dirt - Giants
Album review by jay@thesoundofconfusion.co.uk
Every once in a while life gets in the way. You try to make the time for things and there just doesn't seem to be enough time for everything. I've had Ned and the Dirt's latest album lingering in my iPod for a couple of weeks now. It soundtracked a few hours back and forth to work, my daughter heard it enough to start singing along. I kept meaning to find this hour to sit and write about it, then I realised already it has quietly snuck into my psyche, and has been consistently rewarding me with each play. Opener 'Physical Proof' is a seductive and beguiling song. It is a a plea for desire, to fulfil lovers, which grows from an electro-tinged landscape that Justin Vernon used so well with his last Bon Iver album, and also Gayngs. 'Physical Proof''s guitar dances around, twistng and turning on a mesmeric refrain before the last stanza when Ned Durret leans back and unleashes a sonic, kaleidoscopic boom that scorches your eyebrows off and climatically fulfils the song's desires.
Looser, dirtier, 'Boyhood Pride' swaggers into view holding "a broken beer bottle". It is a strutting, raw blast of a song. Like a long and slow dance from a stranger that will forever be etched on your groin. 'Boyhood Pride' has a Faces groove that simply bludgeons you into glorious submission like the smile on Edward Norton's face after a thrilling beating from Tyler Durden. We are then taken back down into the long, hot, steamy night with 'Turkish Delight'. Hands are "on your thigh" as things are "heating up". Durret hits us up with a wickedly pure falsetto that only heightens the song's tension, as that hot night builds from a glance, a smile, to "me coming home with you". All this is soundtracked in a barely controlled crescendo of noise that peaks with a carnal howl and then the breath is exhaled, before we are riding out on some magnificent, epic noise. Like the Afhghan Whigs at their best, 'Turkish Delight' similarly blinds you with its depth and prowess.
Ordinarily after such a ride as 'Turkish Delight', oft what follows has a sense of anti-climax, yet Ned and the Dirts show how good they are, that 'Dear Liza' more than stands tall in the incendiary wake. It is powerfully epic as Durrett truly unleashes his powerful voice. 'Dear Liza' simply absorbs you, daring you to look away, yet you can't as the view is utterly entrancing. 'Dear Liza' has a sense of drama that I've not felt in a long time. A distant cousin to Live's 'Lightning Crashes', but 'Dear Liza' is no rehash and has a timeless classicism to it. 'Dear Liza' spills into 'The River', yet another emotive, skyscraping song that sweeps you up and places you so deep inside that you never want to leave its embrace. It has a harder edge, pushing back and forth, then up into the stratosphere as riffs the size of Jupiter stomp around you and that sky is filled with brilliant flashes of sound. And yet, through it all, there is a masterful undercurrent of tribal restraint, quietly bringing you down to the song's end.
Then we are back with the bourbon and screaming electric blues with 'Sugar'. It takes you to the bar, pours that sweet liquid straight down your throat, gets you dancing with her, and then has you taking her to the sweetest oblivion all the while, "not even knowing your name". Then all to quickly we find ourselves at the last song of 'Giants'. 'In Ronda' is a is a wonderful waltz of marching drums, Durrett's impassioned, raw voice and a tale of "throwing it all away". Then it takes you dancing back up into out atmosphere, gliding amongst the clouds and starlight, closing 'Giants' perfectly. In this day, where there are no restraints of time or quality, 'Giants' is a wonderfully powerful and masterful album that embeds itself deeply into you. If I have one complaint, it's that it is over too quickly, so I promise you will press play again and again, just to be fulfilled. I am so glad that I finally found that hour.
Ned and the Dirt's website
WED 27 NOV the dragonfly, Hollywood, CA, US
WED 26 FEB Unknown venue, Los Angeles, CA, US
THU 27 FEB Unknown venue, San Diego, CA, US
FRI 28 FEB Unknown venue, Phoenix, AZ, US
SAT 01 MAR Unknown venue, Tucson, AZ, US
TUE 04 MAR Unknown venue, Las Cruces, NM, US
THU 06 MAR Unknown venue, San Antonio, TX, US
FRI 07 MAR Unknown venue, Austin, TX, US
SUN 09 MAR Unknown venue, Austin, TX, US
WED 12 MAR Unknown venue, Dallas, TX, US
SAT 15 MAR Unknown venue, Boulder, CO, US
WED 19 MAR Unknown venue, Salt Lake City, UT, US
FRI 21 MAR Unknown venue, Reno, NV, US
SAT 22 MAR Unknown venue, Sacramento, CA, US
TUE 25 MAR Unknown venue, San Francisco, CA, US
THU 27 MAR Unknown venue, Fresno, CA, US
SAT 29 MAR Unknown venue, Los Angeles, CA, US
Joesph Eid - Human
With a playful and sunkissed warmth, 'Ready Now' welcomes us into Joesph Eid's album 'Human'. On a day were the cold seems to seep into your bones, 'Ready Now' is a delicious slice of Californian acoustic pop sunshine. Title-track 'Human' is a more restrained, delicate, entrancing song that has a beguiling touch that will infect you. It has a simple folk undercurrent that could of stepped out of Laurel Canyon or a Greenwich Village coffee shop. It is an early highlight, placing Eid alongside contemporaries such as Iron and Wine and Jonathan Wilson. Its gently sweeping strings wrap around you adding that final touch to the song's wondrous charm. 'Hit Me Up' is a lilting bar-room waltz. With a sweet slide, shuffling drums and a irresistible foot-tapping beat it will have you happily getting your gal's hand to dance under the mirrorball, as we hear that "baby you want me now, as you want me", with the gentle warning of "don't take forever" as the song two-steps out to it's close. On a loose, near jazz swing, 'Something Real' glides into view. It has a delectable touch that is completed with a devilishly flourished piano. 'Something Real' is a cautious tale of loosing yourself behind the world of Twitter, all coated in a breezy, light-footed song.
It all falls back to the intimate and gentle with 'The Rock'. This is cut from the same cloth as 'Human' and has the same entrancing magical touch, that makes you wish that Eid resisted the more fuller sounds and gave us an album of gemstones like this. 'The Rock' has a superbly crafted punch that comes from its elegiac restraint. It is mesmerising and has you rewinding to submerge in its depths again and again. 'Take a Breath' is a brief interlude that comes across slightly like a new-world counselling mantra, as we are told to focus on our "third eye". It serves well as a break to allow you to breathe after 'The Rock'. With a sense of the flamenco and heat, 'Rain' has a rich palette and a rewarding sense of drama. With 'What Will You Do' Eid strikes the balance of his sublime acoustic side with those fuller arrangements. It is another highlight, like 'Brilliant Disguise'-era Springsteen, with flashes of Bruce Hornsby's 'The Way It Is'. It is an effortlessly realised song that is perfectly paced and enriching. We are now in the album's most rewarding succession of songs, and 'Don't Leave' is a timeless country-rock song that has the album's most exquisite guitar, only adding to the aural pleasure. 'Don't Leave' is a shimmering, lilting ballad that is enhanced with a pure country female counter-vocal.
'The Rock (Reprise)' is the album's first real misstep. Lyrically it is embittered and forlorn, but it can't decide whether it wants to be stark and vent, or be a little more subtle, wrapping the scorn and fear in larger arrangements. It ends up feeling just a little too un-focused. Penultimate song 'Greatest Lesson' is a perfect closing time song. It is serene, a little worn, soundtracking those days when the world feels a bit harder to deal with. Its stately feel is built upon with unhurried and graceful strings. And so to closer 'It's Only Love'. Another delectable country-rock song that encompasses all of 'Human''s strengths. It has a quietly huge hook that will stay with you long after it's finished, Eid gives us some of his most astute lyrical stanzas, then gracefully 'It's Only Love' grows into a duet that follows in that wonderful tradition of Gram and Emmylou, up to Mark Lanegan and Isobel Campbell. 'Human' is a real journey with some touches of magic, all delivered with a charm and craftsmanship that rewards with each play.
Joseph Eid's website
Wed, 04 Dec Los Angeles, CA, US ROOM 5
Tue, 17 Dec New York, NY, US
CD Release show at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Whales In Cubicles - Q&A + Golden Medal free MP3
Article by jay@thesoundofconfusion.co.uk
Ahead of the release of their debut album, we flung a few questions over to London alt-rock champions Whales In Cubicles. You can check out previous single 'Wax & Feathers' by clicking on the track name, or listen to 'Disappear' and get a free MP3 of 'Golden Medal' below. While you're doing so, here's what they had to say for themselves.
TSOC: Thanks for taking the time to have a chat with us. Your album is due to wow us really soon, you've released a steady stream of near faultless singles and toured hard. This is quite a traditional way to build things up. Do you feel that it has worked for you? Do you still think that there is a place for the album in this age of streaming etc?
WIC: Not sure what the alternative to that is? I don't really know. Obviously albums are not what they used to be what with the digital age and all, but I think if you are a true music enthusiast you can still enjoy the physical copy as an entity of its own. And if you are willing to go the far length and ignore progress, listening to an LP on your record player can still be rewarding. Right?
TSOC: I really like it when an album is viewed as something that ebbs and flows, has an 'A' and 'B' side. Is this how you've approached it? Is the sequencing important to you? So often you find that bands weigh albums with the singles in the first few tracks then seem to tail off.
WIC: Yes that is how we have decided the track listing. I'll be entirely honest with you, my mind has long been on album two. I was ready to move on from the moment we did the last take or last mixing tweak or whatever.
TSOC: You've had the album waiting for a while, has there been a temptation to tinker with it? Or is there a point when if you did more touches, that you felt that it would detract from the piece?
WIC: We've had the album finished for a long time, and it is frustrating to just let it sit there until you've figured out exactly what to do with it. I kept wanting to include new songs to it. But it wouldn't be right. I don't like retouching, it becomes an endless exercise in futile perfectionism. I have a tendency to do just that, so it's a struggle not to.
TSOC: Some of your videos are real pieces of art and have real impact. The 'Nowhere Flag' video really stands out for me. Before I go on, I have to ask how you managed to get the streets of central London so empty? Do you come up with the concepts or is a collaborative effort with the director etc? Do you think that the video still can enhance a song or conversely detract from it?
WIC: The idea came from our friend Leo and he developed and edited it. I think a video can destroy a song and vice versa, make it an enjoyable experience. We got up at 4am every morning for a week or so, but there was still retouching to do as London never really goes to sleep. During the shot at Piccadilly Circus we went so overboard with the yellow tape that I was sure a police car would pull up to wonder what the hell we were up to, but they didn't show.
TSOC: I hear some great touchstones in your music such as Buffalo Tom, Pixies - who has influenced you outside of these? Outside of music what other influences do you draw from? With being on the road so much, have you found that this has shaped some of the songs? Maybe how they will sound live?
WIC: The Pixies? Never heard of them? Obviously you can't help but love the Pixies and they are an influence that directly or indirectly more or less influenced every piece of music done after them, just like VU influenced everyone who came after. But it's not like we idolize them or that era or anything. I am more inspired by writers and writing as an art form. People like George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut or Dostoevsky influence and inspire me more than any musician has ever done. Being on the road is great for songs. they breathe new life.
TSOC: Are there anyone's career paths that you'd love to follow?
WIC: I think people like Leonard Cohen, Bjork, PJ Harvey, Sonic Youth are all great examples.
TSOC: With the year drawing to a close, looking back, what have been some of the highlights? What are your hopes for the New Year? One of mine is finally catching you guys when you play Bristol in February.
WIC: Touring with Die!Die!Die! was excellent, a real mean live machine and a hard-working band. I have endless respect for those guys, really sweet and genuine.
TSOC: Are there any new bands that you recommend for us to check out? Anyone that you just have to tell everyone you meet about?
WIC: Music scene is crazy, bands start up each and every day. Check out Misty Miller, keep an eye on her she is brilliant and on to big things.
TSOC: Going back to the end of year thing. What has been your album, bands, singles and cakes/pies of the year?
WIC: The National's new album was phenomenal and QOTSA.
TSOC: And to our final question. You are headlining your own festival. You can have five other artists, bands on the line-up with you, past or present. Who would you choose?
WIC: It would be a pretty chilled festival: Sonic Youth, Television, Jeff Buckley, Radiohead, Bjork.
<a href="http://whalesincubicles.bandcamp.com/track/golden-medal-free-download">Golden Medal - FREE DOWNLOAD by Whales In Cubicles</a>
Whales In Cubicles' website
SUN 08 DEC Sound Control Manchester, UK
MON 09 DEC The Harley Hotel & Bar, Sheffield, UK
TUE 10 DEC The Green Door Store, Brighton, UK
WED 11 DEC Start The Bus, Bristol, UK
THU 12 DEC The Shacklewell Arms, London, UK
FRI 13 DEC Purple Turtle, London, UK
TUE 28 JAN Think Tank at Digital, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
WED 29 JAN Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh, UK
THU 30 JAN Nice N Sleazy, Glasgow, UK
FRI 31 JAN A Nation of Shopkeepers, Leeds, UK
SAT 01 FEB Night & Day Café Manchester, UK
WED 05 FEB The Cookie Jar, Leicester, UK
THU 06 FEB Moles Club, Bath, UK
FRI 07 FEB Prince Albert, Brighton, UK
THU 13 FEB Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen, London, UK
FRI 14 FEB 60 Million Postcards, Bournemouth, UK
SAT 15 FEB Start The Bus, Bristol, UK
SAT 22 FEB Oakford Social Club, Reading, UK
The Lancashire Hustlers - Sing Walter de la Mare EP
EP review by kev@thesoundofconfusion.co.uk
The first half of the 1970s were derided for a long time, but music, like clothes, has a tendency to fade in and out of fashion. As noted recently, it was a surprise that NME's 500 greatest albums ever list singled out 1971 as a possibly the strongest year. This was probably a shock to many, although it made me think of some of the music we've featured this year, and how much of it does borrow from what was popular in that era. Take The Lancashire Hustlers's debut album 'She Was Just An Opportunist', about which we said "Welcome back, 1971!". This comment was partly in jest, but also was very apt for the record the duo had made; it was a solid body of work rather than just a collection of songs, it was idiosyncratic, it was British and it was very good. Much the same could be said of this new EP by the self-proclaimed "musical magpies", which puts to music poems by English poet Walter de la Mare who completed the bulk of his work in the early 1900s.
Noted for his children's poems in particular, de la Mare's words are very adaptable, having been used in musical compositions by Benjamin Britten. Here though, we're once more looking at the sound of those great British songwriters, and once more the word "idiosyncratic" could be used. Think Kevin Ayres, think Ray Davis, The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band and Syd Barrett, but also think of progressive folk and prog groups such as Fairport Convention. The adaptations are handled lightly so as not to take away from the words, beginning rather fittingly with the lovely, simple, classic folk of 'Autumn'. It should be noted that lyrically these poems forego flowery language and use simplicity to form a more powerful message than some other people's works that read more like someone's just cut up a thesaurus. 'Comfort' also adds a reasonably simple arrangement and a bobbing melody to keep the emphasis where it should be. You could easily do a disservice to de la Mare's prose by going overboard, so this traditional approach really pays off. 'John Mouldy' has the traditional feel it deserves, and 'Some One' talks of "still dark nights" and has music to match that atmosphere. The timing of this autumnal and sometimes wintry collection is perfect, and if you knew no better, you'd never guess these words weren't written for the songs that now house them.
The Lancashire Hustlers' website
Dec 13, 2013 KINGSTON UPON THAMES - The Willoughby Arms
The Microdance - Moopy Moop/Skulduggery
Our introduction to The Microdance came with the release of single 'Yo Yo at 26' back in the summer, and it seemed pretty clear that although they're at a reasonably early stage in their career in terms of releases, they've had some time to develop their sound and gel as a unit. A point reinforced by the fact that they formed back in 2010. That single took a melee of sounds from different alternative guitar scenes and wrapped them up together to form a whole new package. The Londoners couldn't exactly be called cutting-edge, but at the same time there appears to be a definite drive to forge an identity for themselves amongst a sea of other bands, something that they continue here.
New double A-side single 'Moopy Moop'/'Skulduggery' probably doesn't have its heart set on platinum sales, it's too dark for that. Instead the approach they take is to pull guitars in from post-punk, atmospherics from dreampop, vocals from grunge and effects from shoegaze, all combining to leave a potent result that's both angry and fantastical at the same time. This is particularly evident on 'Moopy Moop', a song that could have been engineered to reach for the stars; it's on the verge of soaring but deliberately avoids overt grandeur while still ending on a fearsome high. 'Skulduggery' is built from the same ingredients, yet is allowed to be a little softer around the edges. It's difficult to describe how they take a sound as strong as this and make it sound so otherworldly; there's a strong dreamlike quality to this, almost to the point where it becomes psychedelic, although not in the conventional sense of the world. It'll be interesting to see just how far The Microdance can go, but they definitely deserve credit for generating a distinct noise.
The Microdance's website
Albin - En Timme Kvar
Album review by scott@thesoundofconfusion.co.uk
This latest release from Psychic Malmö is a very exciting prospect: Albin Johansson and his successful attempt at creating great psych soundscapes with 'En Timme Kvar' (One Hour Remaining). Albin, this year has appeared and collaborated with many of Malmö's heavyweights; Big Fox and Solander to mention a couple. Johansson remains a diligent hard worker with intelligent ideas. He is also organist in the psychedelic rock band Madman's Moustache and in recent times opened for the Swedish band Fläsket Brinner. He is somehow finding time outside all of this to create his solo works and here are resulting effects.
What you hear here is one man's love to write music. On first listening I immediately sense a film score where I'm the director and I'm directing myself through a sci-fi epic. 'En Timme Kvar' is a head-expanding journey into the world of Albin. This is an instrumental album with the organ and keyboards at the heart, with repetitive drum beats and tape echoes keeping everything intertwined. The music created here is minimalist yet warm and dynamic, showing traits of Swedish psychedelic prog and krautrock.
En timme kvar by Albin
Albin's website
Champions League - Ebiza
I'm in the middle of a run of night shifts. My world is one of artificial light, either harsh neon, or amber street, breaking up the seemingly endless darkness. Going to work in the dark, coming home in the dark. It's a temporary vampiric-like existence without the leather and cheesy erotic undercurrent. In the hour's twilight that I have before I leave, I follow the link to the consistently sublime and quietly wonderful Champions League and there latest gift 'Ebiza'. In one play my world is sun-drenched, night is lit with fireworks and flames, yet it's warm enough to stay in the lightest of clothes until the sun rises and fills you again.
'Ebiza' is slightly more restrained than earlier tracks such as 'Paris is My Playground', but no less fulfilling or wondrous. Champions League have distilled the timeless classicism of Del Mar euphoria and blended it with notes from The Beloved and the new swathe of acts such as DeadMau5 to give us another entrancing, mesmerising, beguiling slice of perfect sunkissed dance. And it has flooded my world with endless colour instead of the monochrome of night.
Stream or download the single
Champions League's website
Japanese Gum - Homesick
'Homesick' grabs you and takes you into a world so rich and rewarding you swear you have found the holy grail dipped in Turkish delight. It has Caribou and Four Tet-like hypnotic, childlike, yet consumingly addictive sound-hooks and a Warped-esque sense of playfulness that combine to drill into your cortex and infect your core with 'Homesick''s sheer wonderment. It is like dropping oil onto water, dropping LSD into your mouth and loosing yourself in the world that unfurls in the liquid.
It has grandiose, cathedral-sized synths that embed a sense of the epic into the burning centre of the song, then around that you are gifted dancing tabla drums and wickedly compressed beats, before falling down on its knees with a Wayne Coyne sense of perverse charm and wonder, as 'Homesick' steps on an infinite escalator and takes you into other realms that you had not yet imagined. Japanese Gum are a new find to me, yet they have a wealth of sounds behind them that I am now utterly drawn to seek out. And after a play of 'Homesick' you will too.
Japanese Gum's website
Sheen - Hey
With 'Hey', Sheen introduce themselves as something to sit back and watch evolve into something rather special. 'Hey' is a brimming five and half minutes of near untold riches. It starts deceptively quietly before building on a chiming guitar that unfurls an instantly perfect melody. When Aneta's velveteen vocals complete the initial ride you fall with open arms into the kaleidoscopic pool of sounds, following it as it runs through a land of twist and turns, like the chocolate river running through Willy Wonka's factory. When you expect it to drop a chourus, 'Hey' surprises you, leaving waiting and yearning, then subtlety drops the pace and leads you by the hand further down the rabbit hole.
You lay back and let 'Hey''s warm embrace wash over you, a swirl of measured delight and grace, before building into a controlled, euphoric, melodic, near cacophonous climax of sound that builds to a finale that leaves you joyous and breathless in a way not felt since 'Loveless' absorbed you all those years ago. And in case you missed the sonic soul hit that is sister track of 'Hey' a few weeks ago, go find 'Skylark' now, and your day will be better for having Sheen and their two marvels of songs in it.
Sheen's website
TUE 10 DEC The Waiting Room, London, UK
Stellarscope - March Of The Lonely
Some bands give it a go and if they don't succeed they dismember to never be heard of again. Philadelphia's Stellarscope could have been just one these bands but it seems they don't back down too easily. This year is their 15th anniversary and what better way to celebrate it than with the release of a new album 'March Of The Lonely'.
With influences spanning from space-rock, shoegaze, punk, classic rock and prog, and creating lovely textured soundscapes, its hard too turn this band away and they deserve hard-earned credit. Its filled with lust-like fuzz and soaked in reverb and delay that gives a cold space chill. 'Island Universe' is a seven-minute journey into what best describes Stellarscope's vision and ongoing love to create music, and why not.
March of the lonely by Stellarscope
Stellarscope's website
Stream or download the album
Buy the album on CD
Mind Movies - Dreamtronica
Album review by wayoutwest@thesoundofconfusion.co.uk
Since the days of and the emergence of the bossa nova genre, Brazil has made its way onto the world's music map; however, the buck doesn't stop here. Brazil's musical tapestry is as rich style-wise as its Amazon is with varied species. We've briefly touched on the great music coming from Brazil, exploring bands such as The Sorry Shop. This is the first of a series to explore the musical happenings of this major country.
We begin with an electronic project that recently came to our attention. Mind Movies is a project born of the electronic experiments of Brazilian producer Raoni Santos. These experimentations took form around an array of ambient pads, random noises and rock echoes. In February of this year, Mind Movies digitally released his debut full-length LP 'Dreamtronica', complete with 11 tracks. We're sharing several of our choice picks from this album.
Ringing true to the project's name, this music does indeed invoke various expressive and colourful imagery in the mind when listening to it. It's not simple in structure and, at times, can even be busy, but whatever the case, it clearly works. 'El Ratón' and 'XS Of Love' contain soundscapes layered over frenetic beats, with the latter also embarking on some seriously smooth disco territory. 'Goya' and 'Me Encantaria Estar En Tú Cabeza' opens an internal trip of the mind. Both 'You’re All I Need' and 'Ainda Não Começou' also present an enjoyable ride.
“The main idea is to stimulate the imagination, memory and any other kind of 'mind movies' through electronic music, giving listeners a kind of soundtrack for their own special universe.” explains Raoni. The debut album is free below, provided courtesy of the artist himself.
Mind Movies' website
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CAVE - Threace
EP review by scott@thesoundofconfusion.co.uk
Three words spring to mind after an intriguing adventure into my unknown world of CAVE. They are, repetition, repetition, repetition (words famously quoted by Mark E. Smith). The opening track to their new EP 'Threace' is a spiralling experience with plenty of spunk, 'Sweaty Fingers' is a clear indication that this is a band that have a lot more to offer.
The gradual building of instruments and the clean fuzzy production of psychedelic drone is enough to keep the listener listening though their lengthy instrumental tracks. This occasionally offers unexpected moments of genius. There are clear influences of krautrock and African psychedelia that merge together gracefully and create a inspiring image of landscape that brings an eminence of richness. 'Slow Bern' I think is a good example, and my stand-out track!
CAVE's website
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Brightness Looms with Lights That Change
When you think of North Wales, a wide array of picturesque, quaint, and even mystic images spring to mind, but certainly none of them are immediately associated with the latest current of popular or even underground music. But if you do a little digging, you can unearth some treasures. This blog has previously introduced you to several of them, including Golden Fable and The Joy Formidable. Today we shall introduce you to yet another: Lights That Change.
This two-piece dream-team from Mold, Flintshire is comprised of Lisa Von H on vocals and producer Marc Joy, who covers everything from composition to instrumentation, recording, mixing and mastering. Kind of like Wisconsin's epic dream-trash wonders Garbage, only without the need to recruit a Scot from abroad to complete the dream-team. Lisa Von H, a native of North Wales herself, is not that far away: near London to be exact. But it seems home is where the heart is, or, in the case of this duo, where their sound comes together.
The duo, whose lush sound cannot but drum up reminiscences of mid-to late-stage Cocteau Twins, released their debut self-titled EP in July, which is a real bonus for all of us, as it's being offered on a pay-what-you-want basis. 'Theme 1 Stage 3' is full of grace and goodness with mesmerizing vocals, while the other two tracks are also really great but still leave plenty of room for Lisa's dreamy vocals, which we do hope are forthcoming. Put that on our wish list. We present you several blissful tracks from that EP:
Lights That Change is releasing their music through Ear to Ear Records, which is also based in Northern Wales. Expect to hear more from this ethereal dynamic duo, who have been getting steady airplay on BBC Wales over the past few months.
Lights of Change's website
Ummagma - Rotation/Live And Let Die
Single review by tatjana@thesoundofconfusion.co.uk
The dreamy output of Alexx Kretov and Shauna McLarnon seems to be endlessly likened to the nineties riches that bands like Curve, Lush and the Cocteau Twins gave. Certainly there isn't a lot to compare them to in this decade - there's no "look at me" noughties pop caterwauling behind Ukrainian/Canadian duo Ummagma, just soft pastel textures almost buried behind the amplifiers. 'Rotation' is the first on the double A-side single release, a very sweet play no favourites marketing tool that aims to preview several upcoming 2014 releases. Thankfully the distraction of the initial (almost unbearable) siren build-up dies off and you are left with a discernible riff that drifts into the place between aimless drives at dusk and train station reflections. It gave off the surf rock strains of classic Pixies with a deeply embedded Kim Deal lilt.
The film clip is a multi-photo affair (featuring footage from French filmmaker Bulle Plexiglass's film 'The End') and reinforces the subtle complexities of this finely layered genre that often has to fight the urge to merely be indistinguishable background hum. 'Live And Let Die' is bolder and more wide awake, with the images of butterflies swallowing factory emissions a perfect embodiment of their quest to blanket a seedy urban alley with flowers while still acknowledging the gritty street art beneath.
Buy the single from Amazon
Secrets For September - Letting Go & 'Live' EP
It can be notoriously difficult for bands from the far south-west, that is Devon and Cornwall, to get noticed and enjoy real success without emigrating. The closest major centres of musical activity that national press look to are Bristol and Brighton. So it's good going for Plymouth's Secrets For September to have made the upper reaches of the Amazon rock chart. But what of their chances of success it the national top 40? You'd have to say they're pretty slim, and this is by no means a slight on their music, it's more due to the fact that Secrets For September make music that's not in step with current trends and isn't produced or engineered to sell bucket loads and then be forgotten about. Essentially they're not the musical equivalent of Burger King; something cheap, omnipresent, throwaway, and ultimately a purely corporate project. These songs are made to leave a lasting impression.
Single 'Letting Go' is a breezy rock/pop track that doesn't reinvent any wheels and could perhaps even be described as almost easy listening. In another time this track would have garnered the radio play it deserves. The chiming guitars and pure vocals are clean but not too polished. In terms of production they've got the balance exactly right and at times recall The Sundays. If you purchase the whole EP on CD you get a glimpse of what they sound like outside of the studio, thanks to four live tracks, each of which shows a tight unit. If you listen blindly to 'To Behold' you perhaps wouldn't realise it was live until the applause at the end. The band cite folk and prog as influences alongside indie-rock, and you get a taste of both of these on the epic 'Upside Down', a song that sounds like a merging of mid-'70s Pink Floyd and Pentangle. The live version of 'Letting Go' reinforces what a good song it is and what an accomplished group they are. Rounding things off is 'Friends Forever'. At over ten minutes in length it emphasises the fact that Secrets For September aren't aiming for disposable, mass-produced pop, instead letting fly with some impressive guitar breaks. They may be offering us secrets, but we'd be more than happy to share them.
Letting Go & 'Live' by Secrets For September
Secrets For September's website
Spids Nøgenhat - Kommer Med Fred
Album review by kev@thesoundofconfusion.co.uk
When NME recently gathered together past and present writers, along with a few notable musicians, and put together a top 500 albums of all time list, it was interesting to note that they singled out 1971 as a particularly prominent year. It's perhaps not the most obvious, but when you look into it, you find the convergence of the expanding beat group/rock sound with psychedelia being taken in new directions, prog yet to disappear up its own arse, and the major emergence of talents like Neil Young, David Bowie and Marc Bolan. They may have been making records in the '60s, but this is when they began to peak. Danish group Spids Nøgenhat are a band that could have belonged to that very same era. 'Kommer Med Fred' fits in well with the revival of the psych/prog/rock sounds of the early '70s, and they even go as far as to point out that it's the Danish acid scene of the time that they look to for inspiration (their name even translates as Liberty Cap, a common form of magic mushroom). Any notions of a band attempting to cash-in on this revival can be knocked on the head right away, as Spids Nøgenhat initially began as a side-project back in 1998, but reformed in 2009 for some gigs, and now their second album.
Paradoxically, 'Kommer Med Fred' (roughly translated as 'We Come In Peace') sounds incredibly familiar, like many bands you'll know, but at the same time is shrouded in mystery, and that's thanks in part to the lyrics being in Danish. This may not be mysterious to those who speak the language, but to those of us who don't it makes you wonder what the songs are about, especially given the strange sound effects and chanting of final track, the excellent 'Fred'. What we can say is that Amazon has every song on the album labelled as 'Explicit', something which makes you wonder even more. There are effects used right through the album, from the Hawkwind-like intro to 'Mere Lys', a superb acid-fried rock song that also uses what sounds like an electric jug (the instrument that gave those legendary 13th Floor Elevators tracks their unique sound). It feels like the beginning of a journey into the unknown, which is exactly what it is. Single 'Lolland Falster' is a bit like early Super Furry Animals with Neil Young on lead guitar, fronted by Joe Cocker or Chris Farlowe; throughout the album there's a lot of soul to be found. More upbeat, 'Lever Vi Nu?' actually sounds as though it's skipping along with ease, as if it didn't need writing, it just appeared. It's that natural, and Neil Young joins in again.
Then they throw in a cover of 'Den Gennemsigtige Mand' by Furekåben (a Danish band from the early '70s) which is an eight-minute odyssey filled with distorted guitar that doesn't outstay its welcome at all, in fact it makes for an epic centrepiece. Another more modern comparison could be to Swedish psych-rock titans The Soundtrack Of Our Lives, especially on slower songs like 'Spids Nøgenhat I Græsset', as they used a similar cocktail of strong vocals, past sounds and a modern twist. Judging by this record, Spids Nøgenhat are just as good, but possibly more consistent. They hold this form and this formula on 'Jorden Kalder', before stepping things up with the breezy highlight 'Vand, Brød Og Te'. It's the kind of song that has you hoping they don't leave it another decade or so before taking us on another trip. The only thing holding them back from making more of an impact in the UK, US or other English speaking nations is that they sing in their native tongue. And why shouldn't they? It actually adds an extra dimension to these songs, so if in doubt, give it a go. You might just find it to be one of the best albums of its kind released this year.
Spids Nøgenhat's website
The Deadline Shakes - Bright Spot In A Bad Year
It's been just over a year since Scottish quintet The Deadline Shakes entered the fray with debut single 'Sweeten The Deal', and since then they've steadily been building momentum and getting their music heard by a wider audience thanks to some decent radio play and some notable live events, but their third single (check out the second, 'Boy', by popping over here) still defies categorisation. Is it guitar-pop, alt-pop, something else with a hyphen and the word "pop" after it, or is it just plain old pop? I think 'Bright Spot In A Bad Year' is best described simply as pop, but it's by no means plain or old. That said, although there's a modern element to parts of this song, the overall sound is pretty timeless.
The Deadline Shakes don't make ordinary music, they make songs that chop and change naturally, they don't follow patterns or fads, yet they're becoming an irresistible band. There's a strong '70s influence here, especially in the arrangements. You can hear bands like ELO in the mix, along with more modern proponents of songs made with traditional instruments like The Delays, The Tyde, The See See or even The Thrills, but you'd have to take all of those and soak them overnight in a huge vat of harmony, then bring them out and sprinkle them with a host of interesting twists and turns and lush orchestration. This track now makes a trio of wonderful and unique tunes. Musically it hasn't been a particularly bad year (if you know where to look), but this is definitely still a bright spot.
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Texture & Light - The Hard Problem Of Consciousness
Album review by tatjana@thesoundofconfusion.co.uk
It's not uncommon for a member of an indie band to morph into the world of electronica, turning from the creative challenges of a band room space to the autonomy of self produced work - it is slightly more unusual for the reverse to be true. Trevor Refix was a respected Canadian DJ making all the right noises on all the right dancefloors, until the "Sunday morning comedown" shoegaze, indie playlist of choice he turned to in his downtime became indelibly burned into his bass-thud soul.
And so begins the realisation of his dream project, ably helped by a bunch of musos that help Refix expand his laptop visions into something of more texture and err light. Their collective ethos is simple and covers all bases - indie music for the dance floor and electronic music for the bedroom. 'A Quiet Place' is by no means that; fuzzy electro with a slight Eurogliders influence? Absolutely! (see what I did there?). 'Jaded Dancefloor Heroes' says "if you shake those hips you can shake those wishes into feelings, when the drugs kick in we can raise our hands to the ceiling" - a clubber sing-along lyric if I ever heard one.
'Let's Go Let Go' works as I adore a layered ending and I too am "nervous" a lot of the time, but '17+ Heather' is the stand-out, a simple love song I wouldn't mind having penned in my honour. Lyrics so unpretentious it’s impossible to poke fun at - and I think that’s precisely the tone on this entire record. It's not that there's no depth, but it's doing away with hipster affectations and just embracing the fact that we are young, we are green, we have teeth nice and clean etc... and we need a fun soundtrack to match.
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IYES - 'Til Infinity
Single review by karla@thesoundofconfusion.co.uk
When starting a new record label, there's always the risk of plummeting head first into a bleak and empty hole full of the corpses of former independent labels who have backed the wrong horse and come out of it with empty pockets and even emptier hearts. The choice of your first signing is of optimal importance, it's definitive in representing the quality of who or what you are essentially standing for as a company, so it's not a choice to make lightly. Luckily for upcoming label Duly Noted Records, they've nabbed a right old catch in their launch act; Brighton-based electronic pop duo IYES - who are kicking-off the label with their incredible debut single ''Til Infinity'.
Comprised of Josh Christopher (UK) and singer Melis Soyaslanova (Czech Republic), IYES have created a blissfully melodic track in ''Til Infinity', featuring tribal drums, organic hand claps, haunting harmonies and equally ethereal male/female vocals. Dynamic, quirky and electric, when it's not dub, it's synth-infused pop, with huge catchy choruses that resonate without being pushy, anthemic, or generic. Despite not being 100% mainstream, IYES do have a commercial appeal that should continue to intrigue a vast audience without the risk of them becoming quickly overrated, and that’s a rarity we are more than happy to embrace.
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* Islamic Jihad's scam: Keep up rocket attacks to attrition Israel. Blame "rogue groups" The Israeli air force struck Islamic Jihad targets in Gaza early Friday, Nov. 15, after several rounds of Palestinian rocket fire blew away the "ceasefire" shortly after it went into effect early Thursday.
* Gaza ceasefire faces real test on Friday at weekly Palestinian border disturbance UN Middle East peace envoy Nickolay Mladenov knew from bitter experience what he was talking about when he said on Thursday, Nov. 14 that the UN and Egypt had "worked hard to prevent the most dangerous escalation in and around Gaza from leading to war" and "the coming hours and days were critical."
* Followers of Rabbi Meir Kahane mark 29 years since assassination Supporters mark 29th anniversary of the assassination of Rabbi Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League and Kach party.
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* Gaza militants fire 5 rockets at Israel hours after cease-fire declared Five rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip toward Israel just hours after a cease-fire was declared between Israel and Gaza's militant Islamic Jihad group early Thursday morning, an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson confirmed.
* IDF Releases Video Warning of Islamic Jihad's Terror Ambitions The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tweeted out a video on Nov. 13 detailing Islamic Jihad's terror ambitions as a background for the recent rocket attack against Israel from the Gaza Strip.
* Iran Strongly Condemns Israeli Assassination of Palestinian Commander Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman has strongly condemned the Israeli regime's terrorist attack on Gaza Strip and the assassination of an Islamic Jihad commander.
* US, Israel Seeking to Consign Palestine Issue to Oblivion: Iran The Iranian president has warned against the US and Israeli policies to relegate the issue of Palestine to oblivion.
* Sovereignty Movement: 2 State Solution would turn country into Judea/Samaria Envelope 'Missile launches toward cities of coastal lowland were never considered in various scenarios until Israel withdrew.'
* Turkey Is In NATO, But It Is No U.S. Ally America and Turkey point fingers at one another as the source of the problem.
* BRICS brings the chance of world change, as the US and EU obsess over internal battles The big outsider nations of the world meet at the BRICS summit as the US and EU face their own struggles, with a chance to reset the global agenda to improve their own economies and standing on the international stage.
* Europe Backs Iranian Nuclear Breakout Tehran shelters members of the terrorist group Al Qaeda, and it is reportedly continuing to facilitate the group's operations.
* Pope Francis urged to REPENT by clergy after participating in 'idolatrous worship' of pagan goddess An international group of Catholic priests and scholars have called on Pope Francis to issue a public apology for holding a ritual on Vatican grounds which included the worship of a pagan fertility goddess.
* Islamic Jihad says not ready for ceasefire; PM: Israel will do what's needed "We will not tolerate attacks on our citizens," Netanyahu said. "In the last year, we accumulated a mass of these attacks."
* IDF: Israeli forces are 'walking a tightrope' to prevent Hamas joining fray Army spokesman says Islamic Jihad is continuing its attacks but 'in a measured way' so as to allow option of restoring calm; rocket count at Israel hits 250 by midday.
* Netanyahu Warns Islamic Jihad Terrorists: 'Stop Attacks or Absorb More Blows' Islamic Jihad terrorists in Gaza must stop rocket attacks or "absorb more and more blows" as an escalation of violence raged for a second day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday.
* IDF warns Islamic Jihad expected to continue fighting 'for several days' Military says 250 projectiles fired since Tuesday, Islamic Jihad 'very confused'.
* Gaza: IDF Continues Assassinations, 3 Top Terrorists Killed, Reserve Units Activated After a barrage of rockets hit Israel on Tuesday following the IDF's assasination of Islamic Jihad terrorist leader Abu Ala-Ata, Palestinian Islamic Jihad has also confirmed the death of a central brigade commander Khaled Farraj by an Israeli airstrike in the central Gaza Strip on Wednesday morning.
* Jihad turns to using short-range rockets against Israeli locations close to Gaza During Wednesday, Nov. 13, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad withheld use of its long-range rockets against central Israel and instead hammered Israeli locations near the Gaza Strip, causing damage but no casualties.
* "Death to Israel" song on Hamas TV as terrorists' rockets strike Israel Since the early morning, Islamic Jihad terrorists have been firing rockets from the Gaza Strip at Israeli civilian targets following Israel's assassination of senior commander of the Islamic Jihad terror organization in Gaza, Baha Abu Al-Ata.
* EU shops must label products made in Israeli settlements, judges rule, in decision set to anger Israel The European Union's top court ruled Tuesday that shops in EU countries must identify products made in Israeli settlements on their labels, in a decision likely to spark anger in Israel.
* Turkey's Syria operation reveals cracks among Erdogan's political foes Turkey's military incursion in Syria has given President Tayyip Erdogan a bump in opinion polls and exposed potential cracks in an informal political alliance that claimed surprise victories over his ruling party in local elections this year.
* After Bombarding Tel Aviv, Islamic Jihad Now Threatens to Attack Jerusalem A massive barrage of rockets have been fired from Gaza into Israel on Tuesday following Israel's overnight assassination of Islamic Jihad leader Abu Al-Ata.
* Palestinian Islamic Jihad: This means war Hamas and the Palestinian Authority also condemned the assassination of their rivals' top terror leader.
* Iran-Backed Islamic Jihad Declares War on Israel The Times of Israel reports: Palestinian Islamic Jihad declared Tuesday that it was preparing for war with Israel after the IDF carried out a dawn assassination of one of the terror group's senior leaders in the northern Gaza Strip.
* Gaza militants fire rockets into Israel after Islamic jihad leader killed Militants in Gaza sent a barrage of at least 50 rockets over the border into Tel Aviv early Tuesday, vowing further revenge after the Israeli military carried out a pair of targeted airstrikes on senior Islamic jihad commanders in Gaza and in Syria.
* Israel is at war with Islamic Jihad. Tehran weighs opening northern fronts as punishment for Al-Atta killing By two targeted assassinations in Gaza and Damascus, Israel on Tuesday, Nov. 12, went to war against the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
* Sanhedrin in Final Warning to Iran: Choose Path of King Cyrus Or Die Like Haman After much deliberation, the Sanhedrin has issued a declaration calling on Iran to cast off the false-mantle of 'Iran' and return to their Biblically-correct identity as the Persian Empire.
* The Palestinian Christmas Show In a few weeks' time, the Palestinian Authority (PA) will perform its annual Christmas deception show.
* Exorcisms make a 21st century comeback in Minnesota, U.S. No official data are available, but church leaders say there are more Catholic exorcists in the U.S. today than at any time in recent memory.
* North Macedonia president meets Macron after French veto on EU accession talks The French and North Macedonian presidents are due to meet in Paris on Tuesday, weeks after France blocked the start of EU accession talks for the Western Balkan country.
* Kochavi: IDF is Ready on the Ground, in the Air and at Sea Netanyahu: Gaza Operation will take time; We will hit anyone who hits us.
* Hangars go up in Israel for hundreds of US F-35s, says another unfriendly Russian Defense Dept "leak" Unfriendly leaks relating to Israel, the IDF, its weapons and interaction with the US come from Russian defense department "sources" every few days, causing unease in Jerusalem and the IDF high command.
* Third Israeli elections growing more likely as time running out Gantz has only nine days to put together a coalition before he must return the mandate.
* Poll: Netanyahu Would Beat Gantz in Direct PM Election Latest poll indicates little change in Israeli voting preferences
* 15 settlers, 3 officers injured in West Bank clashes during police raid Israeli security personnel apprehend settler, 21, who defied bar order issued by the IDF.
* New Campaign Demands: Jordan Disconnect from Temple Mount in Exchange for River Island An Israeli student organization called "Students for the Mount" wrote an appeal in Arabic to the Chairman of the Jordanian Parliament, Atef al-Tarawa, demanding that Amman adhere to the peace agreements with Israel signed in 1994, and abandon all of their demands relating to the Temple Mount.
* China in the Middle East: From Observer to Security Player There is much debate both within and without China over whether or not its economic interests in the region will force it to play a more active security/military role in the Middle East.
* Is a Zionist biological bomb poisoning the Middle East? Referring to Israel as "the Zionist enemy," a member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council has claimed that Israel seeks to "incite the world against the Muslims" in order to trigger a war between Jews and Arabs.
* Talks underway on prospective Palestinian Authority elections Talks between the PA leadership and Hamas on the subject of elections have not been held since 2005.
* Assad: 'Israel has conquered our land' Bashar al-Assad says more than 100,000 Syrian troops killed in civil war, blasts Israel for 'conquering' Syrian land.
* Turkey: Hate Speech against Christians and Jews Member of Parliament Garo Paylan hinted that the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan has not only failed to do enough to prevent hate speech, but actually has been instrumental in spreading it.
* Berlin Wall anniversary: Merkel warns democracy is not 'self-evident' German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned against taking democracy for granted, at a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall.
* Neither the US nor Israel knows for sure when Iran will have a nuclear weapon The predictions of US Secretary of State and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday, Nov. 7 that Iran may have a nuclear weapon within a year were more an expression of concern over the reactivation of the under Fordow enrichment site than a forecast based on solid data.
* US races Russia for military positions in NE Syria, including new air bases Exclusive: A large influx of US troops is entering northeastern Syria this month to counter new Russian plans.
* Jerusalem: Israel approves controversial Old City cable car plan A controversial plan to build a cable car network in Jerusalem's Old City to transport visitors to one of Judaism's holiest sites has been approved by Israel's housing cabinet.
* Palestinian Islamic Jihad Agitates for Violence in the Gaza Strip Israel seeks to prevent a powder keg from detonating on the southern border as it prioritizes the more threatening front up north.
* Leading Democrats Call for Conditioning Military Aid to Israel Three leading Democratic presidential candidates recently endorsed a new policy regarding U.S. military aid to Israel: It should be conditioned on Israel embracing policies toward the Palestinians favored by American progressives.
* Germany: Statue of Ronald Reagan Unveiled to Mark Fall of Berlin Wall The U.S. Embassy in Berlin unveiled a statue of Ronald Reagan on Friday at a site overlooking the location of the former president’s iconic speech imploring the Soviet Union to remove the Berlin Wall.
* 'Iran is a threat to the whole world - time to wake up' 'Europe, quit stalling and take action!' says Netanyahu, vowing that Israel will never let Iran acquire nuclear weapons.
* China – not Iran – is the real reason US troops will never leave Iraq Recent developments suggest that the US and its allies have become increasingly wary of China’s expanding influence inside Iraq, even while Washington continuously points out the threat supposedly posed by Iran instead.
* The forgotten mass destruction of Jewish homes during ‘Kristallnacht’ While accounts of the 1938 pogrom have focused largely on the ravaging of synagogues and stores, the attacks on houses destroyed the last refuge for Jews amid rising discrimination.
* The US Disconnect in Syria As outlined at the UN General Assembly, Turkish President Recep Erdogan's plan is to resettle two million Syrian refugees in this "safe zone" at a cost of $53 billion.
* A Strategic View of the Turkish Campaign Against the Kurds In light of recent regional events in general and the Turkish invasion of Syria in particular, Israel needs to reconsider the underlying strategic rationale not only of its covert activities in neighboring countries but also its more overt conduct.
* Naftali Bennett to be Defense Minister, Join Lists with Likud The offer was brought by Netanyahu to Bennett when the two met in Netanyahu's office on Friday morning.
* Germany: Statue of Ronald Reagan Unveiled to Mark Fall of Berlin Wall The U.S. Embassy in Berlin unveiled a statue of Ronald Reagan on Friday at a site overlooking the location of the former president's iconic speech imploring the Soviet Union to remove the Berlin Wall.
* Young Muslim Women Surge to Success in American Elections Politics expert: Women of color are "next generation of leaders".
* Middle East: The Anti-Iran Revolution is Well Underway The nationwide protests taking place in both Arab states [Lebanon and Iraq] are also driven by a burning desire to end Iran's blatant attempts to turn them into de facto fiefdoms of Tehran.
* Watch Russian & Egyptian soldiers take turns downing US & British drones (VIDEO) The Egyptian hosts and their Russian guests took turns manning Egypt's Russian-made air defense systems during a joint military exercise near Cairo.
* Vive la France! Macron trip to China will disappoint EU When French President Emmanuel Macron returns home from his state visit to China today, he may just wonder, as he looks out of his plane's window, "Have I just been played?"
* Pentagon: Revenue from Syria Oil Fields to go to SDF, Not United States Hoffman added that the United States expects Turkey to hold to account any Ankara-backed forces who allegedly commit war crimes in northeast Syria.
* Netanyahu:'Iran is a threat to the whole world - time to wake up' 'Europe, quit stalling and take action!' says Netanyahu, vowing that Israel will never let Iran acquire nuclear weapons.
* Fatah: 'We'll defend our holy sites with our blood and souls' Abbas: 'Crucial moment demands every Palestinian present themselves immediately to quickly discuss fate of eternal capital Jerusalem.'
* Hamas Bans Rally to Commemorate Yasser Arafat Fatah and Hamas have been holding indirect negotiations on PA President Mahmoud Abbas's initiative to hold new Palestinian parliamentary and presidential elections.
* China Holds Contest to Build Flying 'Iron Man' Military Suit China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) could one day get an "iron man" suit that will provide soldiers with "heavy firepower, special armor, and flying capability," according to a report by the state propaganda outlet Global Times on Wednesday.
* New, venomous fish penetrates Med, threatening local species With no natural predators in the Mediterranean, the beautiful but voracious lionfish - one of 100 alien fish species off Israel's western coast - are reproducing like wildfire.
* Joint medical drill boosts Israel's ties with NATO NATO forces, Israeli Navy, and trauma center from Israel's Rambam Hospital hold joint medical drill in port city of Haifa.
* Mike Pompeo: Iran Positioning Itself for Rapid Nuclear Break-Out "Iran's expansion of proliferation-sensitive activities raises concerns that Iran is positioning itself to have the option of a rapid nuclear breakout," Pompeo said in a statement.
* Historian: New evidence shows FDR's bigotry derailed many Holocaust rescue plans In his book about Franklin Roosevelt and the Holocaust, Rafael Medoff finds links between the US president's anti-Japanese stances and his policies against Jews fleeing Hitler.
* U.S. Zionist Congress 2020 Elections: What are they and why are they so important? Many consider the World Zionist Congress the "parliament of the Jewish people."
* Iran 'closer to making nuclear weapon' in latest breach of landmark deal 'Iran's decision to restart enrichment at Fordow is a very significant and worrying step.'
* Turkey Captures Al-Baghdadi's Wife in Syria - Report "The United States said Baghdadi killed himself in a tunnel. They started a communication campaign about this," Erdogan said.
* Major Rabbis Unite in Decisive Call For All Jews To Return From Exile: "It's Time" In a rare consensus, an impressive array of some of the most prominent rabbis of this generation came together in a declaration saying that there are no longer any valid excuses: Jews must act on the Torah commandment to move to Israel.
* IDF Operations Head: Threat Posed by Iran is Not 'Fear Mongering' Speaking to Finance Ministry's Budget Department Maj.-Gen. Aharon Haliva says next year won't be favorable to Israel.
* Ukraine joining NATO would take world dangerously close to nuclear war Ukrainian membership of NATO would be a brazen provocation that could finally break the back of Moscow's patience.
* How Putin Outfoxed Trump, Pence and Erdogan President Donald Trump claimed the entire credit for this outcome. But in reality it was the culmination of a scheme that Russian President Vladimir Putin had been planning since at least January 2019.
* A New Middle East Is Coming The fallout from the September attack on Saudi Arabia's Aramco oil facilities is continuing to reverberate throughout the Middle East, sidelining old enmities - sometimes for new ones - and re-drawing traditional alliances.
* Palestinian Settler-Colonialism The concept of "settler colonialism" has been applied with almost unique vehemence against Israel. But the fact that Jews are the indigenous population of the Southern Levant can be proved with ease.
* Hamas Joins Iranian Plan to Foil Arabs' Anti-Corruption Protests What Iran evidently wants is to see Arabs protesting against the US and Israel -- and against nothing else.
* Weaponizing Impeachment against Political Opponents To be impeached, a president must commit a crime (misdemeanor is a species of crime) and the commission of that crime must also constitute an abuse of office.
* Erdogan Lauds Koranic Harshness Toward Non-Muslims Notwithstanding any limited "support" Turkey may (or may not) have provided the successful U.S. raid which liquidated ISIS's al-Baghdadi, Turkish President Erdogan made some revealing, indeed pathognomonic remarks, during last Friday's (10/25/19) prayers in Istanbul's Great Camlica Mosque.
* Christian Hymn Society Releases 'Queer Hymns' for LGBTQIA2S+ A group known as the Hymn Society has released a collection titled Songs for the Holy Other: Hymns Affirming the LGBTQIA2S+ Community for liturgical use in the United States and Canada.
* Why Kinneret's new record low is good for Israel Israel's largest freshwater reservoir falls by just 23.5 inches during summer - the lowest summer decline on record.
* Timmerman vs. Puder: The U.S. Presence in Syria The physical elimination of the arch-terrorist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS who sought to be the "Emir of the Believers," has made the world a safer place.
* China - not Iran - is the real reason US troops will never leave Iraq Recent developments suggest that the US and its allies have become increasingly wary of China's expanding influence inside Iraq, even while Washington continuously points out the threat supposedly posed by Iran instead.
* Fatah Official: Abbas Won't Seek Reelection In September, Abbas announced in a speech before the United Nations General Assembly that he intends to call for "general elections" in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem.
* Colorado Man Accused of Planning to Blow Up Synagogue He is charged with attempting to obstruct a religious exercise by force using explosives and fire.
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Break to Love: Live from the 1st Annual Evian Wooden Racquet Cup at Forest Hills
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Travel to the outer reaches of New York reminds you that the universe is expanding. If you just keep running a la Gump, it doesn’t take long to rock the suburbs. Bridging Ridgewood, Flushing, and Forest Hills, the West Side Tennis Club is accessible from several MTA lines. But if you’re prepared to bring your own coffee and pee in a sushi restaurant that looks like the mansion from the end of Scarface, it’s a breezy ninety minute walk from Bushwick proper. On Saturday, we ventured north to bring you the sights and sounds of the inaugural Evian Wood Racquet Cup. The sights? A Dov Charney wet dream of guy thigh and sashaying ladies, decked out in classy tennis attire new and old. The sounds? “Thwack” and “glug”, the cool rhythms of sports being played while chugging free bottled water.
The WRC was comprised of sixteen uniquely attractive blogger quartets, squaring offin a single elimination tournament. Each team played using the old-timey wooden rackets that were the norm until metal’s intro to the game in 1967, the same year in which casual sex was patented. The tourney winners received four tickets to the US Open finals, where one of them will sub in for Rafael Nadal following an injury to his middle-parted hairline. The day was even capped off by an appearance from Judah Friedlander (30 Rock, American Splendor), comedic sensation and established champion of the world. Friedlander challenged a fully-garbed ninja to a game of ping pong, and eloquently extolled the virtues of Evian and healthy competition alike.
In the tradition of ABC’s Wide World of Sports, Vol. 1 herein brings you an insider’s guide to the tournament, profiling but a few of the afternoon’s tremendous athletes. Drink in their acute fashion sense, and soak up their sage wisdom!
From left: Danielle Brock, Patrick “Hat Trick” Letterii, Doug Levy, and Allison Pottasch of Flavorpill. BROCK: “I’m here to win the costume contest.” LEVY: “We’re planning some Tonya Harding shit. You’ve been warned.”
From left: “Bao and Issac” of The New York Times, moments after winning their first-round match. ISSAC, on the thrill of victory: “We stuck to our game plan. And I drank some of my friend’s beer beforehand. It fills you with carbs and calms the nerves. Good stuff.”
From left: Corey Henderson and Dan Rollman, co-founders of Recordsetter.com. ROLLMAN: “If we start losing, our strategy is to start smoking on the court. It feels good and causes an opponent to lose focus.”
Above: The Collective Wrecking Crew of Refinery29 New York. UNNAMED PLAYER/SPOKESWOMAN: “We’re the Fashion Distraction. Print that! And when in doubt, hit the ball directly at your opponent’s head.”
From right: Tournament winners Sandy Marks and associates, a/k/a Team 40 Love, a/k/a the Judah Friedlander All-Stars. MARKS: “Man, we’re just trying to size up these other crews and figure out how to hit the ball straight. These wooden racquets are no joke.”
From left: Stephanie Woo and Ruthie Thier of Warby Parker. WOO: “An intimidating look is everything. It’s all about striking fear into the competition.
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Media Release: Young people make history in Scottish Parliament
OVER 100 Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament (MSYPs), aged 14-25, will make history as they provide evidence to the Public Petitions Committee in the first committee meeting held in this Chamber.
These young people are set to take over the debating chamber of the Scottish Parliament this weekend to make policies and discuss topical issues.
The meeting also represents the first time the committee has convened to receive petitions exclusively from young people.
In March 2010, members of the Scottish Youth Parliament passed two motions identified by individual MSYPs to become SYP policy and be taken forward to Scottish Government as petitions.
The two petition topics being presented:
1. ‘Ban Mosquito Devices Now’: Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to introduce legislation to ban use of the ‘Mosquito’ and other such devices which emit a loud, unpleasant, high-pitched noise designed to be heard only by those under-25. Lead Petitioner: West Aberdeenshire & Kincardine MSYP, Andrew Deans, aged 17.
2. ‘Political Education for All’: Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to ensure that political education is provided to all school pupils and is given prominence within the framework of the new Curriculum for Excellence. Lead Petitioner: Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber MSYP, Rowena Carlton, aged 17.
At the same time as the Scottish Youth Parliament’s sitting being held in the Scottish Parliament’s debating Chamber, the UK Youth Parliament’s (UKYP) members will similarly be debating on a variety of contemporary issues in the House of Commons Debating Chamber over the same days.
Derek Couper, MSYP and SYP chair, said:
“This is a profound event for the young people of Scotland, and their elected MSYPs. This weekend provides the opportunity for debate and discussion on some of the most important issues facing the youth of Scotland, and allows the Scottish Youth Parliament to take these issues straight to the decision makers themselves”
1. For further information, interviews or interest in attending the petition contact Kate Bouchier-Hayes, Events Co-ordinator on 0131 313-2488/078 2533 5489 (kate.b@syp.org.uk)
2. The SYP is a youth-led organisation, all Trustees are aged under 25. SYP’s vision is of a stronger, more inclusive Scotland that empowers young people by truly involving them in decision making processes
3. Young people from the UK Youth Parliament will similarly be debating on a variety of contemporary issues in the House of Commons Debating Chamber over the same days.
Other highlights of the two day programme include:
A third petition by South Ayrshire Youth Forum will be presented. Their petition aims to give a voice to young people in matters concerning changes to leisure and cultural facilities.
MSYPs participating in workshops alongside the Scottish Parliament’s Education team and Futures Forum
Deputy Presiding Officer Alasdair Morgan MSP chairing debating session in the Chamber on Saturday, Debates on: A Big Society and National Citizen Service; Organ Donation- an Opt-Out system; Coal, oil and gas phased out in favor of nuclear power.
Responses from their latest youth consultation ‘Picture the Change’ announced
Speech from Tam Baillie, Scottish Commissioner for Children and Young People
MEDIA RELEASE posted by SYP. You too can post media releases (aka press releases) on allmediascotland.com. For more information, email here.
Contact: Kate Bouchier-Hayes
Email: kate.b@syp.org.uk
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BBC Scotland replies to Macwhirter
AN article by columnist and political pundit, Iain Macwhirter, that first appeared on allmediascotland.com and then in last week’s MediaGuardian, has drawn a response from BBC Scotland.
In a letter sent to today’s MediaGuardian, BBC Scotland writes: “Iain Macwhirter is clearly missing his BBC research colleagues [from his recent job of presenting a lot of BBC Scotland’s politics output] if he thinks BBC Scotland is only providing some kind of localised news service.
“He should know – as he was part of the news and current affairs team at the time the research was done – that audiences across Scotland expressed a real desire for more coverage of news in their own areas.
“This was in addition to, and not instead of, the extensive range of national news output already covered – clear to see for anyone who looks at our website on a regular basis or tunes in to our wide-ranging news programmes on both TV and radio.
“Page impressions to our news website have increased significantly since we expanded our regional coverage in April, an increase that is mirrored in those taking advantage of the Listen Again service for our various regional news bulletins.
“Iain may not share that view but it is what our audiences have told us they want from us.
“For the record, Iain should also know that the efficiencies happening in BBC Scotland are also happening throughout BBC News and are aimed at getting the best value for money for all our Licence Fee payers.
“Savings identified will be put back into programme making so that audiences have the best possible output from us as we move into a fully digital age.”
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Novels and Entertainments
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The Go-to Guy
Killers for hire are usually shy. Advertising and PR tends to bring them the wrong kind of attention, so they rely on trusted intermediaries to bring them new business.
Tom Masson is one of these, a go-to guy, that trusted intermediary between those who need less than legal services and the specialists who are only too happy to carry them out.
Suzanne Croft is just such a client with the ambition to become a widow.
Liam Divorty, an Islington used car dealer, ekes out his income as a killer for hire. Though he's good, there's not enough demand to take up the profession full time.
When Liam arrives at the home of the intended victim, he discovers him inconveniently dead, with the police quickly on the scene.
With Divorty banged-up in jail and his powerful friends out for revenge, Masson must find answers to a lot of questions, and fast.
A small town is just a jail with no bars. Trapped, always watched, always watching, and the question is: are you the jailer, or the inmate?
In Abernathy, Claire Patel-Campbell's debut novel, you're dropped into Small Town America: which could be small-town England; small-town anywhere. You feel the frost in your bones, your breath freezes, and you shiver with dread. You become one with the residents: walk the same streets, drink the same bad coffee, and feel as claustrophobic, or as powerful, as one can in a tiny town with secrets.
It all starts with a body, frozen in the snow. Who she is, and why she came to be there, will be the plucked thread that may cause the whole town to unravel.
"I fell into the story and the characters: there is a swiftly developing complexity and a feel of disaster that is compelling. There is that sense of anarchy about it which I think is one of the markers of Americanness. Always odd that a country so dominated by legalities should feel so lawless."
Alan Smith, author of Her Majesty's Philosophers
Tyrants Rex
In a distant future where technology and fantasy intertwine, Mycul Zas, an idealistic young man cheated of his inheritance by his uncle, is thrust into a perilous world of betrayal, prophecy, and genetically engineered monsters.
'Sent' by his uncle to 'see the world' and find his missing father, Mycul soon discovers the depth of his betrayal when he is sold to a geneticist. Here he meets the mordonts, human monsters engineered millennia ago to be great warriors. With their help he escapes and vows revenge, not just for himself, but for his father, the mordonts, and against the oppressors that let this happen.
Torn between fate, loyalty, equivocal prophesies and the enmity of the Protector, he teams up with a one-handed assassin, an exiled prince, a scientist with a murky past, a drunken giant, and a necromancer's daughter. Together they strive to overthrow a tyrannical regime and destroy the restraints of destiny itself.
Rapeseed
What is it like to discover you were born because your mother was raped by a stranger? Sam discovers this awful truth, and gradually comes to terms with it. Is it a coincidence that her job as an academic researcher requires her to investigate 'Rapeseeds', the children of rape victims? Does the manner of their conception have effects on their psychological or intellectual development?
When Sam attempts to fulfill a long-held ambition to meet her natural father, she is drawn into a web of chance and intrigue that leads inexorably to danger. Does anyone love her enough to save her from herself?
Avoiding the sensationalism of media coverage, Sam's story brings the terrible crime of rape into focus through the lives of ordinary human beings who have to overcome the tragedy rape. It's a story of love and friendship, of obsession, and a 'leave the lights on' nail-biting thriller.
“The primary aim of the book, though entertaining, is to expose the reader to the horrors of rape, its effects on people, and research’s ethical dilemmas. In this it is faultless. The story crucially compares consensual loving sex with forced and ugly assault, grabs the reader’s attention, while allowing them to think about the moral and ethical problems of rape, both personal and methodological, it exposes.”
Christopher Nuttall, former Director of Research and Statistics, Home Office
How to be a Man
Frank, Jason, Bernard and Eve: friends caught up in petty crime, fine art, and dangerous partnerships. Is it ever too late to remake yourself, to paint yourself a brand new shiny life?
It can take endurance and fortitude to survive prison, but there is a price to be paid. How does this play out in the ordinary world? Jason with all his lonely prison virtues meets Frank who is adrift and selfish in his habitual way. Jason shows Frank how to behave and changes him. Frank, of course, changes Jason.
As a journalist Alan Smith has been in the business of observing and reporting on life’s events. In Her Majesty’s Philosophers Smith reports on the reality of life for criminals and prisoners, a book described as “a penal affairs classic which every student of crime and punishment should read.” How to be a Man is the companion volume that anyone who lives a charmed life must read. Every prison sentence is a sentence for life: and we are all but one small slip away.
After fourteen years of teaching philosophy in Prison, Alan Smith has a n in depth understanding of the life and culture of those caught up in the crime and prison merry-go-round.
Here in the Cull Valley
What goes through your head as time stands still in the seconds before you die? Journalist Teddy Beresford is about to find out.
When he is killed on a notorious stretch of road, everyone assumes that it was an accident.
The key to what really happened lies in Teddy’s bizarre, newspaper-style diary. There is his torrid affair with the driver, a married woman, but his downfall goes far deeper, into a world of broken promises, backstabbing and deceit.
Here in the Cull Valley is a brilliantly perceptive tragi-comedy. This is a novel about betrayal and the destructive nature of sexual obsession.
The story offers a fascinating insight into the vanishing world of Britain’s regional newspapers as, through the diary and two other compelling and unique story-telling devices, the tragedy and its roots are laid bare.
Border 7
An overcrowded planet
Dominant corporations controlling food, medicine and work
Those on the outside scrabbling to survive
In this companion novel to The Keepers Pauline Kirk captures the stark reality of a world that is not too far away.
Jude is a skilled member of The Corporation's security force. Cracks are beginning to appear in the system and dissatisfaction is growing. Soon even Jude begins to doubt the benevolence of the omnipotent Corporation to which she is pledged until the day she dies. In this world of subterfuge, traitors and spies, trusting the wrong person can be a death sentence. Jude has to learn to trust and to earn the trust of people who have every reason to be suspicious of an agent of The Corporation.
The Geology of Desire
What do you do when you witness your erstwhile girlfriend being pushed over the cliff at Whitby Abbey? Go to the police? Well… perhaps there are complications: it was a policeman doing the pushing; and my being there might easily be construed as complicity or even guilt; and more to the point, I knew the policeman. Well! I had known Bartholomew Fair since childhood, he was almost family.
I was studying geology at Hull, I knew this coast like the back of my hand, or thought I did. This one event had me re-evaluating not just the rocks on the North Yorkshire shore but the layers of relationships with my friends , cleaner, tutor, Carrie, my girlfriend, the now dead Drew, my parents; and what did this have to do with events during the last war?
Luke Kennedy keeps his secrets close to his chest.
Introverted,painfully distrustful, he shares nothing with anyone.
But this summer, Luke and Seb – his only friend – travel to his hometown in midwest America, a trip that will force him to confront his past. Reliving childhood demons he thought he had left behind, Luke's entire life will be turned upside down. Will these changes be for the better?
Homelands is the coming-of-age story about a young man's quest for closure and understanding; a tale of love, hate, growth and, above all, the importance of friendship.
When the Crow Cries
What would you do if you found a doorway to another world?
When Robyn becomes friends with Victoria, James and Elliot they show her how to reach higher and further than she could ever imagine. It all seems fun at first. The greatest adventure of their lives. But something darker is stirring in the other world. It's getting harder to leave.
Breaking the barriers across time and space may be fun at first but the key to get back is lost and they can't get home until that moment When the Crow Cries.
Maxine Ridge delivers a strong opening to her Two Worlds trilogy with an extraordinary take on time and place providing a compelling commentary on innocence and experience, knowledge and discovery that compels the reader to keep on reading, to the unexpected ending.
This is the book you will not put down. Illustrations are by Helen Ridge.
Foul Play
This intriguing detective story introduces DI Ambrose in the first of three tales of murder most foul in a fog bound theatre with a cast of eccentric actors to keep the reader engaged until the very last page. This novel is the first cooperation by mother daughter duo Pauline Kirk and Jo Summers writing as PJ Quinn.
Set in a partially bombed out theatre in the sleepy town of Chalk Heath where the leading lady is attacked on stage during a rehearsal. This is postwar austerity Britain, James Dean, Danny Kaye and Brian Rix are all the rage, yet in Chalk Heath, culture is represented by the Players. Ambrose and his team set about finding the killer.
This was a time when forensic science was in its infancy and crime scene processing was primarily good observation with a bit of fingerprint analysis and blood typing thrown in to taste. For the crime novelist this period allows for good character development and greater freedom to explore the relationships between all the principals. Foul Play is an exemplary tale of high drama in a dramatic setting while Ambrose, who remembers the theatre in is prewar glory, and coping with his own wayward son, attempts to reconcile his younger self, his son; the damaged theatre and acting troupe with the essential business of solving the crime.
This DI Ambrose mystery, the second of three tales of murder most foul begins on a train in India and continues back in sleepy Chalk Heath, the patch of DI Paul Ambrose. This novel is the second cooperation by mother daughter duo Pauline Kirk and Jo Summers writing as PJ Quinn.
This charming sequel to PJ Quinn’s first DI Ambrose Mystery, Poison Pen, takes DI Ambrose under cover at a writers’ retreat in Chalk Heath, to determine the circumstances leading to a suspicious death on an Indian railway train. This retreat is not only a challenge to Ambrose’s investigative skills but to his cullinary and writing skills too; Ambrose is also kept busy avoiding low beams and unwanted amorous attention.
This novel features Ambrose’s team of detectives including DS Winters and WPC Meadows, both of whom are establishing their own following.
Close Disharmony
DI Ambrose’s third mystery by Mother and Daughter, Pauline Kirk and Jo Summers, writing as PJ Quinn, takes us into the world of choral singing delightfully reminding us of all the petty jealousies that pervade any group of amateur performers especially when things get a little competitive.
When a famous close harmony choir visits Chalk Heath, tensions are rife. DI Paul Ambrose feels a sense of foreboding, but is powerless to prevent the murder of one of the singers. Does the choir include a murderer, or is the death connected to the recent thefts in town? And is there a thief at the hotel where the choir is staying? DI Ambrose’s colleagues make his job even harder. WPC Pauline Meadows has been singing with the choir and PC Sutton’s wife is their accompanist in Chalk Heath. Can DI Ambrose and DS Winters solve the mystery before the choir returns home?
Wine Dark, Sea Blue
Arts graduate of a recession generation, Ellie Kazakis has a lot of problems. But finding an actual job is the least of them. There are the complications surrounding her grandmother's death, the secrets she seems to be keeping from everyone around her, and her own addiction to One Night Friendships- the only time she feels alive is when she knows she doesn't have to see those strangers ever again.
Wine Dark, Sea Blue is about being what people need you to be, and what happens when all those obligations start to blur. Do you keep the secrets, or do you break?
This is the debut novel of the London writer A.L. Michael. This novel is edgy and explores a culture where jobs are hard to come by and drugs are only too easy to find yet it also explores the role of family and friendship in these difficult times.
For more information see www.winedarkseablue.com
Carol’s Christmas
It is Christmas Eve and in Acacia Avenue the lights are on, big style - flashing lights on every house - except at number 26 where Brian sits in darkness waiting for his daughter Carol to come home. This will be the first Christmas they will have spent together since Edna died.
The heart warming tale of a father, a daughter, a pair of ice skates and a set of flashing lights.
This story is the first of a series of 'Entertainments': too long for a short story, too short for a novel or novella. It is a story that can be read in one go - in an evening, in an afternoon, on the train, on the plane, wherever, whenever
An uproarious comedy set in the heart of Spain involving three vats of paella, a marching band and a herd of mountain goats. We have all wondered what the locals get up to behind our backs while we’re away on holiday – this story lets you in on the secret.
It’s late September and in the little town of Orecha it is time for the annual festival. But a terrorist has hijacked the paella van, the Chief of Police is drunk and The Mayor is having an affair with a flamenco dancer – all of which leaves Pepe in charge. Pepe – young, handsome, and desperately in love with Rosita.
Readers who remember Clochmerle will enjoy this wonderful tale
A gritty drama of deceit, determination and revenge played out on Epsom Downs. We’ve all wondered what the lads do when they’re let out on their own – this story tells you the truth.
Car mechanic Baz could have been a contender but an accident at work put paid to his sporting career – and when the mob start turning up at the garage, he begins to get suspicious. Things aren’t altogether right in the marriage department either, so when the boss calls for a day out, Baz sees a chance to get it all sorted....
A thrilling finish combining the great british love of the geegees and blood sports.
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BIRTHPLACE: Jiangxi, China
2015: Game continued to round into shape late in the season. After a T20 at the Chongqing Jiangnan NewTown KingRun Open, returned to the Nine Dragons Open a year after finishing a career-best T11 at Nine Dragons GC. Had a disappointing 76-73 (5-over) start but then caught fire on the weekend, shooting scores of 68-69 to match the T11 from a year earlier.
2014: Opened his season with a 77th-place performance at the Buick Open in April…In his next start, at the United Investment Real Estate Wuhan Open, shot a final-round, even-par 72 to T44…Next made cut didn’t come until the late-summer, when he T63 at the Cadillac Championship…Added a T48 at the Jianye Tianzhu Henan Open…Enjoyed his best outing on PGA TOUR China when he T11 at the Nine Dragons Open in mid-November. Had a solid first round at the difficult Nine Dragons GC, making four birdies and an eagle on his way to a 2-under 70. Added an even-par 72 in the third round and eventually finished T11 for a ￥31,200 payday, the largest of his PGA TOUR China career.
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RockMelt Updates To 0.9.62.313
By Armin Seuchter | July 25, 2011
The latest version of RockMelt is out and it includes a number of improvements to performance and stability. The newest Chromium enhancements have been added as well as over 130 issues have been fixed, allowing for what the company promises to be a better browsing experience. No new features have been added otherwise, so it’s a particular minor update.
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion also got some love, with RockMelt now running a lot more smoothly on the newly released operating system. The RockMelt experience on Lion is said to become even better in the near future, however. What this promise entails is better support for full screen mode, gesture based navigation, and hiding scrollbars until sites are scrolled.
RockMelt can be downloaded from here.
Being passionate about software, Armin joined FavBrowser.com in early 2011 and has been actively writing ever since. Having accepted the challenge, he also enjoys watching anime, indulging in good books, staying fit and healthy, and trying new things.
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Santa Lucia Highlands: New Releases
The Santa Lucia Highlands, a roughly 12-mile stretch of windswept, high-altitude, east-facing vineyards 15 miles inland from the Monterey coast, boasts nearly 6,100 acres of some of the New World’s most prized Pinot Noir and Chardonnay vineyards, with Syrah on the upswing. The success rate for Pinot, in particular, is uncommonly high. It’s pretty tough to find many below average wines these days. But it’s also difficult to find serious values, as the region is pretty much devoted to bottling premium and super-premium wines, making it a veritable Gold Coast of California viticulture. In fact, other than the Napa Valley I’d bet that the Santa Lucia Highlands, which was first planted for commercial wine production in 1973, can lay claim to commanding the highest average price per bottle of any American winegrowing region.
The good news is that the quality of most wines warrants their prices, especially in topnotch vintages like 2013 and 2012, which are the years that I focused on during my late-June visit to the region. Both of these harvests yielded abundant quantities of clean, ripe fruit from benign growing seasons. And with rare exception, the red wines are awfully easy to drink now, but there’s no question that even entry-level bottlings of red wines have the stuffing for at least several years of aging.
The 2013 Growing Season
Adam Franscioni, whose family owns some of the most prized vineyard in the region, including Rosella’s, Sierra Mar and Garys’, told me that “the fruit in 2013 was pristine, plain and simple.” A warm, dry winter allowed the vines to flower earlier than normal and the weather remained kind through what turned out to be one of the earliest harvests ever recorded. “There wasn’t pressure to pick early,” Franscioni said “but the fruit was just ready to go.” The producers who I spoke with think that the wines have the structure and depth to age well, over the next decade, for sure, but there’s plenty of upfront appeal for the impatient. Adam Lee, who makes wines under the Siduri and Novy labels as well as overseeing production for the Franscioni family’s ROAR label, described the vintage as “one of those rare years where you actually get quality and quantity, which is kind of the unicorn of wine growing.” He added that the ‘13s “have always led with their fruit and don’t seem like they’re ever going to go dumb,” which should make them ideal for wine lovers who are short on storage, or, as mentioned above, patience, and restaurants that place wines on their list within minutes of delivery – which means pretty much all of them nowadays.
Gary Franscioni’s striking Sierra Mar Vineyard
Thoughts on 2012
Two thousand twelve gave a crop that more or less matched 2013 in quantity and quality. The wines were showing extremely well during my June trip and in July, when I tasted many more of them in New York. Unlike the wines made in Santa Barbara to the south, most Santa Lucia Highlands wines, both red and white, are generally pretty expressive upon release. The ‘12s are no exception. Jeff Pisoni, whose family and their eponymous vineyard’s fruit have played a major role in building the region’s present-day reputation, told me that “the ‘12s are pretty hard to resist drinking now but they’ll age, and they’ll do it on balance, not concentration.” That’s not to say that there’s a dilution issue with the ‘12s – far from it, at least in the case of the top producers who are the focus of this article – but even wines made from vineyards such as Pisoni that typically produce reds that require aging have been showing uncommon drinkability in recent months. That said, the ‘12s are wines where I would err on the young side when it comes to making drinking decisions. Better too young than too old is my rule of thumb in general, and I would certainly apply it here.
Syrah on the Rise
At this point the consistently high standard of Santa Lucia Highlands’ Pinot Noir is well-known and even taken for granted, but what’s somewhat less discussed is the rapid quality ascent of Syrah in recent years. Those characteristics that make Pinot Noir so successful here – freshness, perfume and fruit intensity – can be found in the best Syrahs. In many cases the wines hearken strongly to serious versions from the northern Rhône Valley. At this point, though, the area planted to Syrah is dwarfed by Pinot.
Looking out from Pisoni Vineyard
Chardonnay in the Santa Lucia Highlands
I find white wines in the Santa Lucia Highlands, especially the Chardonnays, to be more of a mixed bag than the reds, with many examples in the decidedly rich, even opulent school. I hasten to say that this doesn’t mean loose and blowsy, but compared to their counterparts from the Sta. Rita Hills or Santa Maria Valley, for example, the wines are simply more buxom, with rare exception. With that in mind, my inclination is to enjoy them on the early side, even releases from seriously good vintages like 2013 and 2012. Oak is another factor that’s hard to ignore here as the vast majority of the area’s Chardonnays are fermented and aged in oak, often in a substantial percentage of new barrels, which fans of the tight, racy style typically produced on the Sonoma Coast or in the Sta. Rita Hills might not find so appealing. My advice with these wines is to enjoy them in their youth for what they are, and with rich, strongly seasoned or buttery dishes and even with robust cheeses, especially blues.
Vintage 2014 – First Impressions
A quick look at some barrels of baby 2014s, another early harvest with clean fruit and relatively high yields, gives the early impression that we’ll be looking at wines cut from similar cloth to the 2012s. The fruit is forward and fresh and tannin levels appear to be on the moderate to low side, which means, once again, early drinkers for the most part. Given how quickly most wine lovers, not to mention restaurants, run through their New World Chardonnays and Pinots, even from high end wineries, I’ve begun to wonder about the logic of making age worthy versions of those varieties. At this point I’d wager that a good four out of five Santa Lucia Highlands wines from, say, the 2009 and 2010 vintages, were drunk up some time ago or on the drinking block right now, which begs the question: why make wines to age if nobody’s doing it and your bottles look ungainly or even unpleasant compared to the majority of your neighbors’ bottles? Based on my tastings in recent years it seems like many winemakers have considered that predicament and moved toward making more accessible Pinots, which I don’t think is a bad thing at all.
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Trump cheered the Sunday outcome but also laid bare his resentment after two years of investigations that have shadowed his administration. "It's a shame that our country has had to go through this. To be honest, it's a shame that your president has had to go through this," he said.
Democrats pointed out that Mueller found evidence for and against obstruction and demanded to see his full report. They insisted that even the summary by the president's attorney general hardly put him in the clear.
Mueller's conclusions, summarized by Barr in a four-page letter to Congress, represented a victory for Trump on a key question that has hung over his presidency from the start: Did his campaign work with Russia to defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton? That was further good news for the president on top of the Justice Department's earlier announcement that Mueller had wrapped his investigation without new indictments. The resolution also could deflate the hopes of Democrats in Congress and on the 2020 campaign trail that incriminating findings from Mueller would hobble the president's agenda and re-election bid.
But while Mueller was categorical in ruling out criminal collusion, he was more circumspect on presidential obstruction of justice. Despite Trump's claim of total exoneration, Mueller did not draw a conclusion one way or the other on whether he sought to stifle the Russia investigation through his actions including the firing of former FBI director James Comey.
According to Barr's summary, Mueller set out "evidence on both sides of the question" and stated that "while this report does not conclude the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him."
Barr, who was nominated by Trump in December, and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller in May 2017 and oversaw much of his work, went further in Trump's favor.
The attorney general said he and Rosenstein had determined that Mueller's evidence was insufficient to prove in court that Trump had committed obstruction of justice to hamper the probe. Barr has previously voiced a broad view of presidential powers, and in an unsolicited memo last June he cast doubt on whether the president could have obstructed justice through acts - like firing his FBI director - that he was legally empowered to take.
Barr said their decision was based on the evidence uncovered by Mueller and not affected by Justice Department legal opinions that say a sitting president cannot be indicted.
Washington, D.C. - 24 March 2019
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Tucker, The Associated Press:
"So perhaps the most significant finding out of the special counsel's report today is that special counsel Mueller did not find any evidence of criminal conspiracy between anyone associated with the Trump campaign and Russia. That is there's no quote unquote "collusion" that is prosecutable in any way between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. And that is the question that has been hovering over this investigation from the start. So that's a big victory for the president. it's a really unequivocal victory. The other interesting finding of note is on the question of whether the President obstructed justice. And here it's a little bit more complicated. In this particular aspect of the investigation the special counsel did not reach a conclusion one way or the other as to whether the President obstructed justice. Instead, according to Attorney General Barr who summarized these findings, Mueller presented evidence on both sides of the ledger for these different episodes involving Trump's behavior that were examined, and then did not reach a conclusion one way or the other. However, Barr said that he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had reached their own conclusion based on Mueller's evidence and determined that it was insufficient to establish obstruction of justice."
++BLACK FRAMES BETWEEN SOUNDBITES++
"So the letter today from the attorney general, it's a four-page letter, it marks the conclusion, the real end conclusion of the special counsel's investigation. We expect to hear more details of what the special counsel found in coming days and weeks."
3 . SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Tucker, The Associated Press:
"The major investigation that concerns the president right now is taking place in New York City. That's an investigation into hush money payments that were made to two women, one a former Playboy model, the other a porn star, who both say they had sex with the president about a decade before he was elected. And both received money during the campaign effectively to not come forward with their allegations. Prosecutors in New York City, in southern district of New York, are investigating whether that's a campaign finance violation. The president's been implicated in wrongdoing by his former lawyer, Michael Cohen. It's not yet clear what's going to happen with that investigation."
"I think the main takeaway actually is going to be how unsatisfied Democrats are. This is a four-page summary of what appears to be a very lengthy, very detailed report from the special counsel. And there is a suggestion in this letter that the special counsel did find evidence in at least some of the episodes he examined of potential obstruction of justice and simply did not reach a conclusion. So if you're a Democrat on Capitol Hill right now, you want access to all of the special counsel's work and you want the American public to see all of the evidence he gathered and his underlying report. And so we can expect going forward, that is going to be the next big legal front is this fight between Congress and the Justice Department over how much of Mueller's two years of work the public has to see. Especially because on the question of obstruction, it's clear that Mueller did indicate that there's a there there. He just didn't reach a conclusion one way or the other so that's given hope to Democrats that they want to see more."
"The regulations actually do not stipulate that the report is made public. That's a judgment call. It's what the regulations actually mandate is that a confidential report is delivered by the special counsel to the attorney general, who oversees his work. So in this case that would be Mueller to Barr. And then it is possible that a document could be made public. But you have to imagine, and we know this for sure in this case, that this is a document that concerns grand jury information, perhaps classified information. That's a complicated process to scrub that document of any potential issues, executive privilege issues. And that's going to take some time."
"It is important to take stock of this moment that this is a pretty significant victory in terms of this collusion, or no collusion finding I should say, between the president and Russia and the special counsel according to Barr was pretty unequivocal about that. And so the president, we can expect him to rightfully claim victory and based on what we know from the special counsel's findings, that perhaps seems justified on that front. However there is a reference that is interesting and that is multiple offers from people connected to Russia, Russian associates, two individuals associated with the Trump campaign, offering help. We suspect that's a reference to the Trump Tower meeting that took place in June 2016 between Donald Trump Jr. and a Kremlin connected lawyer. He took that meeting with the expectation of receiving dirt on Hillary Clinton that could be used in weaponised during the campaign. We also know that a former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos had a meeting in London where he learned from a professor that Russia had dirt on Clinton in the form of thousands of stolen e-mails. So we suspect that Mueller's making reference to that, the fact that there are these multiple overtures of help from people connected to Russia. But there's no evidence or no allegation even that either of those two sides worked together. And that's a significant conclusion."
Washington, D.C. - 11 November 2018
7. Still - Donald Trump Jr. (Partly covers Soundbite #6)
"As it relates to the question of collusion, we do have a definitive answer from the special counsel and ostensibly endorsed by the attorney general that there was no collusion. We've heard that from the president for the last two years. That is the central finding and take away from this four-page summary that there was indeed no collusion, no criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign on one hand and the criminal in the Kremlin on the other to get Trump elected."
"It is possible that House Democrats could come up with a different conclusion on the on the collusion question. It's not clear how readily embraced by the American public that would be, because the special counsel is regarded as the ultimate arbiter of, with subpoena power, evidence, ability to criminally prosecute, so he's regarded as the final voice. So it's not clear whether the American public will accept if Mueller says no collusion and House Democrats say otherwise."
++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
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The attorney general said he and Rosenstein had determined that Mueller's evidence was insufficient to prove in court that Trump had committed obstruction of justice to hamper the probe. Barr has previously voiced a broad view of presidential powers, and in an unsolicited memo last June he cast doubt on whether the president could have obstructed justice through acts — like firing his FBI director — that he was legally empowered to take.
"So perhaps the most significant finding out of the special counsel's report today is that special counsel Mueller did not find any evidence of criminal conspiracy between anyone associated with the Trump campaign and Russia. That is there's no quote unquote collusion that is prosecutable in any way between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. And that is the question that has been hovering over this investigation from the start. So that's a big victory for the president. it's a really unequivocal victory. The other interesting finding of note is on the question of whether the President obstructed justice. And here it's a little bit more complicated. In this particular aspect than the investigation the special counsel did not reach a conclusion one way or the other as to whether the President obstructed justice. Instead, according to Attorney General Barr who summarized these findings, Mueller presented evidence on both sides of the ledger for these different episodes involving Trump's behavior that were examined, and then did not reach a conclusion one way or the other. However Barr said that he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had reached their own conclusion based on Mueller's evidence and determined that it was insufficient to establish obstruction of justice."
"So the letter today from the attorney general, it's a four page letter, it marks the conclusion, the real end conclusion of the special counsel's investigation. We expect to hear more details of what the special counsel found in coming days and weeks."
"The major investigation that concerns the president right now is taking place in New York City. That's an investigation into hush money payments that were made to two women, one a former Playboy model, the other a porn star, who both say they had sex with the president about a decade before he was elected. And both received money during the campaign effectively to not come forward with their allegations. Prosecutors in New York City, in southern district of New York, are investigating whether that's a campaign finance violation. The president's been implicated in wrongdoing by his former lawyer Michael Cohen. It's not yet clear what's going to happen with that investigation."
"I think the main takeaway actually is going to be how unsatisfied Democrats are. This is a four page summary of what appears to be a very lengthy, very detailed report from the special counsel. And there is a suggestion in this letter that the special counsel did find evidence in at least some of the episodes he examined of potential obstruction of justice and simply did not reach a conclusion. So if you're a Democrat on Capitol Hill right now, you want access to all of the special counsel's work and you want the American public to see all of the evidence he gathered and his underlying report. And so we can expect going forward, that is going to be the next big legal front is this fight between Congress and the Justice Department over how much of Muller's two years of work the public has to see. Especially because on the question of obstruction, it's clear that Mueller did indicate that there's a there there. He just didn't reach a conclusion one way or the other so that's given hope to Democrats that they want to see more."
"It is important to take stock of this moment that this is a pretty significant victory in terms of this collusion, or no collusion finding I should say, between the president and Russia and the special counsel according to Barr was pretty unequivocal about that. And so the president, we can expect him to rightfully claim victory and based on what we know from the special counsel's findings, that perhaps seems justified on that front. However there is a reference that is interesting and that is multiple offers from people connected to Russia, Russian associates two individuals associated with the Trump campaign, offering help. We suspect that's a reference to the Trump Tower meeting that took place in June 2016 between Donald Trump Jr. and a Kremlin connected lawyer. He took that meeting with the expectation of receiving dirt on Hillary Clinton that could be used in weaponized during the campaign. We also know that a former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos had a meeting in London where he learned from a professor that Russia had dirt on Clinton in the form of thousands of stolen e-mails. So we suspect that Mueller's making reference to that, the fact that there are these multiple overtures of help from people connected to Russia. But there's no evidence or no allegation even that either of those two sides worked together. And that's a significant conclusion."
"As it relates to the question of collusion, we do have a definitive answer from the special counsel and ostensibly endorsed by the attorney general that there was no collusion. We've heard that from the president for the last two years. That is the central finding and take away from this four page summary that there was indeed no collusion, no criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign on one hand and the criminal in the Kremlin on the other to get Trump elected."
"It is possible that House Democrats could come up with a different conclusion on the on the collusion question. It's not clear how readily embraced by the American public. That would be because the special counsel is regarded as the ultimate arbiter of, with subpoena power, evidence, ability to criminally prosecute, so he's regarded as the final voice. So it's not clear whether the American public will accept if Mueller says no collusion and House Democrats say otherwise."
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US Mueller Politics Analysis (Lon NR)
AP Analysis: At the end of the Mueller process
Adam Schiff , Robert Mueller , Donald Trump , Eric Swalwell , Jerrold Nadler , Nancy Pelosi , Jair Bolsonaro , Michael Cohen
Elaine Kamarck, of the Brookings Institution says "we're pretty much at the end of this process" as she discussed the next steps in the special prosecutors Russia probe.
Kamarack, Senior fellow in the Governance Studies program as well as the Director of the Center for Effective Public Management , said on Tuesday that "The only thing that really seems to remain is whether or not the president himself is guilty of some crimes and do those crimes constitute in the minds of the members of Congress, high crimes and misdemeanors."
In a related story The Associated Press reports that President Donald Trump has been calling the Russia probe a witch hunt for two years.
But now, Trump and his allies are starting to see it as something potentially very different: a political opportunity.
Trump has grown increasingly confident that special counsel Robert Mueller's report will produce no clear evidence of a conspiracy between Russia and his election campaign.
A change is also underway among congressional Democrats, who had believed the report would offer damning evidence
Kamarack says "We're at a point where this is about to move unless there's some you know smoking gun. This is this investigation is about to move from the legal to the political and there the Democrats are going to have to decide do we move forward with impeachment."
Washington - 19 March 2019
1.Wide shot of Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro walking out of White House into Rose Garden
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Elaine Kamarck, Senior Fellow Brookings Institution:
"It's not often that a president is subject to a special counsel and that means often that the findings of a special counsel could lead to something very dramatic like impeachment. Or it could just turn out to be a bunch of nothing. And so everybody was interested in this. Everybody was excited about it. The president himself was furious about it. But this is a big deal. We don't generally have investigations like this of sitting presidents."
3. Side shot of Trump speaking
"The only thing that really seems to remain is whether or not the president himself is guilty of some crimes and do those crimes constitute in the minds of the members of Congress, high crimes and misdemeanors, which is the constitutional issue for impeachment, and so we're sort of down to the end game here. I mean it looks like there was a rapid string of indictments, trials, etc. It's possible that one or more of the president's children or in-laws could get indicted but it's, we're pretty much at the end of this process."
5. Trump speaking
"The issue, though, is did the House and Senate, did the intelligence committees when they were controlled by Republicans ignore important pieces of evidence? The Democrats think they did. And so the Democrats will have to start their own investigation. They may find nothing as well."
Washington - 25 February 2019
7. STILL - The Capitol is seen in Washington as Congress returns to work following a week-long recess. A top House Democrat, Rep. Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has threatened to call special counsel Robert Mueller to Capitol Hill, subpoena documents and sue the Trump administration if the full report on Mueller's Russia investigation is not made public.
8. STILL - House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, of California, left, and Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., return to hear Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer, testify before a closed-door session of the House Intelligence Committee, on Capitol Hill
"We're at a point where this is about to move unless there's some you know smoking gun. This is this investigation is about to move from the legal to the political and there, the Democrats are going to have to decide do we move forward with impeachment? Now, Nancy Pelosi has said, wisely I think, that probably not that. There's just not unless there's some blockbuster finding in the Muller report or someplace else. Probably not because bet we're almost at 2020. Let, it's cleaner, easier for democracy to let the voters decide."
10. STILL - House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., with Ranking Member Doug Collins
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Elaine Kamarck, Senior Fellow Brookings Institution:
"This investigation has taken place simultaneously with a very chaotic presidency and with a separate investigation into Donald Trump's business empire. Now it may not be impeachable to be a corrupt businessman. All you have to do is look at the Deutsche Bank story in today's (New York) Times and you can see that that's that's going to be a big story. But maybe it's not impeachable but it sure isn't desirable."
12. STILL - President Donald Trump walks along the Colonnade of the White House, towards the Rose Garden with visiting Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro
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US Mueller Politics Analysis (CR)
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US NY Stormy Cohen Analysis (Lon NR)
AP Analysis: Trump's Lawyer Appears in Court
Robert Mueller , Sean Hannity , Michael Cohen , Kimba Wood , Stephanie Clifford , Donald Trump
A legal fight over what should happen to records the FBI seized from US President Donald Trump's personal attorney took a surprise twist Monday when the lawyer, Michael Cohen, was forced to reveal a secret _ that he had also done legal work for Fox News host Sean Hannity.
The disclosure came as a New York judge disappointed a lawyer for Trump by letting prosecutors proceed with the cataloguing of evidence including multiple electronic devices that were seized in raids while a system is set up to ensure they are protected by attorney-client privilege.
Lawyers for Cohen and prosecutors had reason to claim success after three hours of arguments left U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood saying she may appoint a special master to help decide how much of the materials are subject to the privilege.
The only disappointed party seemed to be Trump's attorney, Joanna Hendon, who said she was objecting to any plan by prosecutors to search for how many times Trump's name appears in documents as they try to decide how many might be subject to attorney-client privilege.
Prosecutors promised not to study the contents of the materials while the process of protecting privileged materials is resolved.
Wood also denied Hendon's request that lawyers for Trump and Cohen get the first crack at designating documents and other evidence that might be subject to the privilege.
The Hannity revelation came after Wood required Cohen to divulge the names of the clients he's worked with since the 2016 election.
One, of course, was Trump himself.
Another was Elliot Broidy, a Trump fundraiser who resigned from the Republican National Committee on Friday after it was revealed that he paid $1.6 million to a Playboy Playmate with whom he had an extramarital affair. The Playmate became pregnant and elected to have an abortion.
With Cohen by their side on Monday, lawyers initially resisted revealing the name of the third client for privacy reasons, saying it would be embarrassing for the client and that the client had asked that they immediately appeal any request to divulge his name.
But Wood pressed on.
When the name was announced, there were gasps and some laughter in a courtroom packed with journalists. A few of them raced from the courtroom.
Cohen's lawyers did not detail the type of legal work he did for Hannity.
On his radio show, Hannity said Cohen was never involved in any matter between him and any third party.
Hannity, an outspoken supporter of Trump, has been a fierce critic of special counsel Robert Mueller, who is looking into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Monday's hearing began with an appearance by porn actress Stormy Daniels, who was swarmed by photographers and nearly fell as she was hustled into the courthouse, a scene that captured the sensational atmosphere around the case.
The last to enter court, she was among the first to leave.
While in court, she smiled several times as she observed the proceedings from a folding chair near the back of the room.
Outside afterward, she said Cohen has acted like he's above the law and that she and her lawyer are committed to making sure everyone learns the truth.
The April 9 raid on Cohen sought information on a variety of matters, including a $130,000 payment made to Daniels, who alleges she had sex with a married Trump in 2006.
New York – 16 April 2018
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Larry Neumeister, Associated Press Reporter:
"Prosecutors were saying that lawyers for Michael Cohen and President Donald Trump were just trying to delay proceedings by asking for a process where they would look at all the evidence that was seized last week first, and then decide what was not violated by attorney-client privilege, and what prosecutors could use in their criminal investigation. Prosecutors say that's not the way to do it. They want a process whereby attorneys for Donald... President Donald Trump and Michael Cohen have a role in the process but aren't able to control the process. The judge seems eager, she said, to make whatever occurs not to...not slow up the process so that the government can do what it needs to do in its investigation, and yet, the attorney-client privilege is protected."
++BLACK FRAMES++
"The judge did say that she may, and this is something that Michael Cohen's lawyers were requesting, that she may appoint a special master to at least have a limited role in deciding how the evidence is viewed and how they ultimately decide what is subject to attorney-client privilege. But she seemed also to be giving the government what it wants in letting the prosecutors, the special taint team they have –not their criminal prosecutors—get a look at all the evidence of putting it together so that they can hand it over to the attorneys for Michael Cohen and President Donald Trump to look at and for them to flag whatever they think should be subject to attorney-client privilege."
"Prosecutors revealed that when they did the raids on Michael Cohen's residence and his office, that they had numerous electronic devices, including telephones, and that for what they could, the computer devices, they actually took images. So, his lawyers, they say, already have much of the evidence and know what's there."
"The surprise moment in court came when the lawyers for Michael Cohen did not want to divulge one client who had asked to remain anonymous, saying that it could be embarrassing being associated with someone who's under criminal investigation. The judge forced them to divulge the name, it turned out to be Sean Hannity, a Fox News personality. And as soon as that name was announced, there was an audible gasp in the courtroom that's largely crowded with journalists, and some journalists immediately ran outside court, and you could see Stormy Daniels smiling on the side of the courtroom in the back, a little bit after this happened."
"Stormy Daniels has a role in this because Michael Cohen played a part in ultimately a payoff that she got to remain silent after what she says was an affair with the president."
"So, I think, ultimately, she has a role in the investigation because the settlement that was paid out to her. Michael Cohen says he paid her the money and he did it out of a home equity loan. So that's presumed to be part of the government's investigation."
++EDIT ENDS ON A SOUNDBITE++
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Woolworths Cheese Makers Challenge
A few weeks ago I got to taste some of the delicious award winning cheeses which are sold exclusively at Woolworths, at the Jackie Cameron School of Food & Wine in Hilton. The tasting was a delectable prelude to the Woolworths Cheese Makers Challenge competition which takes place in June and July this year.
I’ve long been a fan of Woolies cheese and it’s my go-to place when on the hunt for a selection for a picnic, party, or just an excuse for cheese and wine at home! The smellier the better for me – I’m a bit obsessed with blue cheese served with fig or ginger preserve… yum. But really, any cheese will do – the joy of a smorgasbord variety of them, accompanied with olives, biscuits, grapes and fruit is the easiest way to make me happy – simple girl with big Mediterranean tendencies ;)
So pair Woolies cheese and Jackie Cameron and you have a match made in foodie heaven!
I hadn’t visited the school before and that was a treat in itself – the most beautiful grounds, with a magnificent view and state-of-the-art kitchens make this a must-visit culinary destination. I was delighted to find out that Jackie also hosts cooking classes for the average joe – so I have a weber braai class in mind for sometime in the next few months.
Back to the cheese though. I knew that Woolies was famed for having an amazing selection, but wasn’t aware that a lot of the cheese is locally produced in our Natal Midlands. Chrissie Briscoe, from Chrissie’s Country Cheeses, Barbara Robertshaw & her team from Indezi and Dimitri from The Gourmet Greek were at the event and all produce cheese for Woolworths locally.
The Woolworths Cheese Makers Challenge competition is in its 5th year and invites passionate local producers to submit their artisanal products, for judging by a panel of independent cheese experts. Winners have the opportunity to have their cheese listed and sold in Woolworths stores.
There are a few entry categories: hard cheese, semi-hard cheese, wash rind cheese, white mould cheese, blue mould cheese, fresh cheese and cheese with added foodstuffs, so we were treated to a table laden with a huge variety, along with an array of hot and cold dishes paired with Woolies cheese, prepared by Jackie Cameron.
Needless to say I rolled back down the hill to Durban – it was all delicious!
And I also have a much bigger appreciation for the work Woolies do to support & promote local cheesemakers – I will definitely be on the lookout for more of the local selection when I’m next stocking up.
Woolworths Cheese Makers Challenge details:
Visit the website to download the entry form and terms & conditions.
Entries are due by 30th June 2016 and products to be submitted by no later than 19th July 2016.
Judging takes place on 21st July 2016.
Fingers crossed for our KZN producers!
* Here’s a list of the cheese we tasted – my favourites were the De Leeuwen by Fairview and the oozy Saint Louis. Thanks to Suzy Regan for this info.
Brie de Roche – Fairview Estate, Paarl
Made from a blend of Jersey & goat’s milk, this traditional style white mould cheese has an intense rustic flavour and barnyard aroma, with a slightly chalky heart that will ripen to a soft creamy texture.
Saint Louis – Fairview Estate, Paarl
Is a triple cream cylindrical cow’s milk cheese with a white, bloomy rind. It has a soft buttery texture, tangy edible rind and tastes like an intense version of Brie. Cream is added to the cheese during manufacture and it is ripened for approx. 15 days from the outside in. It is made exclusively for Woolworths by Fairview, Paarl and is named after expert cheese maker – Louis Lourens.
Lanquedoc – Dalewood Fromage, Franschhoek
Lanquedoc ™ is a semi-soft washed rind surface-ripened cheese made from 100% Jersey cow’s milk. It has a delicate complexity, with savoury character and a very smooth and creamy texture.
Royal Ashton – La Montanara, Ashton, Western Cape
Produced from Jersey milk at the foothills of the Langeberg mountains, this cheese is matured for up to 2 months to give a full sweetish, nutty flavour.
Overberg – Klein River
Overberg is an aged Gouda-style cheese made from pasteurised cow’s milk. Matured for 5 months, this firm, ivory-coloured cheese has a rich, robust flavour.
Kilimanjaro – Belnori Boutique Cheesery, Johannesburg
Kilimanjaro was named the winner of the 2012 Woolworths Cheese Makers Challenge and also received a silver medal at the 2012 World Cheese Awards. Kilimanjaro is made from the milk of Swiss Saanen goats, most of which have been reared on the property and is a curd-washed, truckle shaped cheese which has been matured for 4 months to allow the nutty flavour to develop.
Oak Smoked Stanford – Klein River Cheesery, Stanford, Western Cape
The production of Oak Smoked Stanford was inspired by a study tour in France. The cheese maker, Jacko Van Beulen developed this magnificent hard cheese and named it after their local village, Stanford. It is matured for 3-4 months and smoked using a cold smoking technique the old fashioned way, controlling the draft and temperature by hand. Oak shavings from wine barrels are used and this gives it a unique flavour. The Stanford is smoked by Sean Hormann at The Aphrodisiac Shack Traditional Smokehouse, which is located on the banks of the Theewaterskloof dam just outside Villiersdorp.
De Leeuwen – Fairview, Paarl
Semi-hard washed rind cheese with blue veins. This cheese is made from Jersey milk and matured for 4 weeks to give a strong robust flavour.
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Message From Our Vicar
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We strive to know Christ more deeply and to bring others to his redeeming love and grace.
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Bad Astronomy from Lawrence Krauss
Thread: Bad Astronomy from Lawrence Krauss
2015-Oct-12, 01:04 PM #1
Rocky1775
I was watching a show on black holes a few weeks ago (I believe it was an episode of How the Universe Works), and the show raised the question "Why doesn't the accretion disk just fall into the black hole?". Their answer, complete with video of Lawrence Krauss reiterating their bad astronomy, was that "centrifugal force" acting on the orbiting matter counterbalances the gravity of the black hole. My astronomy professor pounded into the heads of his students that there is no outward force acting on orbiting objects.
I suppose offering a "centrifugal force" explanation of orbits is easier to convey than the reality, but this just confirms my observation that you can't trust an explanation that authorities on physics give to laymen. Somehow generating an answer that is quick and satisfying to the listener is more important than the truth of the matter. I suppose they tell their kids that babies are delivered by storks.
Some day I'm going to write an article entitled, "Saying 'centrifugal' doesn't mean you're a bad person."
Centrifugal force pops up naturally if you try to retain Newton's Laws in a rotating reference system. It's often called a pseudoforce, because it appears only in a non-inertial frame of reference. So when Krauss says "centrifugal", he's tacitly adopting the rotating reference frame familiar to all of use from fairground rides.
As usual xkcd has something suitable to say on the topic.
swampyankee
A long time ago, one of my physics profs said something like "it acts like a force; it's a force." I think he was talking about the Coriolis effect, but the same logic applies.
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How do things fly? This explains it all.
Actually they can't: "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." - Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.
2015-Oct-13, 12:52 AM #4
John Mendenhall
Originally Posted by grant hutchison
Centrifugal force pops up naturally if you try to retain Newton's Laws in a rotating reference system. It's often called a pseudoforce, because it appearys only in a non-inertial frame of reference. So when Krauss says "centrifugal", he's tacitly adopting the rotating reference frame familiar to all of use from fairground rides.
Duh-uh. Of course, non-inertial reference frame. Thank you for the nice ah ha wave, Grant.
I'm afraid Mr. Bond isn't in orbit. His ride, and the ones at the fairgrounds, actually are pushing on the passanger, and the normal force the passanger exerts back is centrifugal, and very real. Pseudoforce sounds a little like pseudoscientific geocentrism to me. You can mathematically put the Earth in the middle, and have everything flying around it, but its not such a good way to understand what is happening.
Originally Posted by Rocky1775
In Newtonian terms, Bond is in orbit. A central force is deflecting his straight-line inertial trajectory, just as under Newtonian gravity. And Krauss is clearly framing this as a Newtonian problem (not invoking General Relativity), because he's talking about a balance of forces.
Here's A.P. French, in his classic Newtonian Mechanics textbook for the M.I.T. Introductory Physics series. This is Chapter 12, "Inertial Forces and Noninertial Frames", in which he's building towards a discussion of orbits in which he invokes the "centrifugal potential energy" curve calculated from centrifugal force in the rotating frame.
We shall now consider a particular kind of inertial force that always appears if the motion of a particle is described and analyzed from the standpoint of a rotating reference frame. This force--the centrifugal force--is familiar to us as the force with which, for example, an object appears to pull on us if we whirl it around at the end of a string.
In Chapter 13, "Motion Under Central Forces" he begins his treatment of orbital mechanics and derives the centrifugal potential energy of a rotating frame:
The term l²/2mr² is often referred to as the "centrifugal" potential energy, because the force represented by the negative gradient of this potential energy is given by ...
Fcentrifugal = mr(dθ/dt)²
which is indentical with the centrifugal force mω²r in a frame rotating at an angular velocity ω equal to the instantaneous value of dθ/dt.
Sitting yourself down in the rotating frame of an orbiting object is actually quite a fruitful way to come at Newtonian orbital mechanics - it's certainly how I learned it. More significantly, it's how French taught it at M.I.T., which is where Krauss got his Ph.D. in physics.
ETA: "Pseudoforce", by the way, is a term introduced by Richard Feynman in The Feynman Lectures on Physics. He wasn't prone to pseudoscientific geocentrism, as far as I'm aware.
Last edited by grant hutchison; 2015-Oct-13 at 11:39 AM.
Durham NC USA
If you can't understand it both ways, you probably don't understand it, though.
Why would you say that the fairground forces are very real but not the orbital ones? Gravity pulls on the passenger in orbit, and the force the passenger exerts back is centrifugal, no?
Originally Posted by grapes
And there will be a lot of things you simply can't understand if you don't understand the Newtonian central force model of gravity.
Unlike the "stork" hypothesis for childbirth, Newtonian central-force gravity is a hugely successful and productive way of understanding the world.
Ken G
What will be very refreshing to me is if there is ever a time when people on this forum start to recognize that the language we use to describe physical situations is just that-- the language we use, to gain understanding. There is not a "correct language", there is only using the language correctly, whatever language we are choosing. We only need to be clear what we are doing, because no language is going to be "what is really happening"-- science doesn't do language like that. There's no better example of this than the language involved in "centrifugal forces."
Indeed, we can consider even more controversial situations to make the point-- we can imagine being run over by a car. Almost anyone, in that situation, would invoke the language that we are being squashed by a force coming from the car. That would be like calling the force that kills Bond in the centrifuge the "centripetal force." However, there is actually nothing at all wrong with saying that the force that squashes us is not a force coming from the car, but rather the "inertial force" that comes from our own inertia. This is also why you can kill a person with a 30 mile-per-hour car, but you cannot kill a fruit fly that way. We can use language that simply enters our own reference frame, and says that we are "squashed" between a force from the car and our own "inertial force" (which is the equivalent way d'Alembert framed all of Newton's laws). We can say that a force from the car alone cannot squash us-- forces don't squash, what is fatal is being caught between two forces. Although this is certainly a nonstandard language, it is not only correct when used correctly, it is actually rather insightful-- the trauma to our bodies will be, after all, not the trauma of a single force, but the trauma of a crush between two forces. Of course, as Grant said, one of the those forces will be a "pseudoforce", meaning it will not obey Newton's three laws about forces. But it will be a useful force to contemplate anyway-- so long as we contemplate it correctly.
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2015-Oct-17, 07:16 PM #10
Also, there is zero gravity and microgravity. You may be in free fall--but you can still feel enough of a tug so that a keel of a satellite--or a face of a body tidally locked--still point to the body you orbit.
If you have any mass at all--you never really have zero gravity.
2015-Oct-18, 05:09 AM #11
I think I understand it pretty well.
Why would you say that the fairground forces are very real but not the orbital ones?
I don't. There is a very real centripital force in both cases.
Gravity pulls on the passenger in orbit, and the force the passenger exerts back is centrifugal, no?
In this case, the centriufugal force the passanger exerts on the planet is trivial. Thats why the Earth doesn't orbit the astronaut, and the Sun doesn't orbit the Earth, mostly. Well, they do an itty bit, but not like, say, Pluto and Charon.
Originally Posted by Ken G
Also note that Bond is getting squashed, and an astronaut in orbit isn't. In fact, unless he looks out the window, he can't even tell that he is in orbit. (Assume he has zero length, and his spacecraft has zero volume, so the tiny tides don't give it away.)
(And no cheating with a gyroscope, either. ;-)
Last edited by Rocky1775; 2015-Oct-18 at 05:29 AM.
Also note that Bond is getting squashed, and an astronaut in orbit isn't. In fact, unless he looks out the window, he can't even tell that he is in orbit.
That's true, but the point is, there are (at least) three very different ways to explain an orbit of a point-particle (our approximation to the astronaut), and the typical physicist learns all three:
1) Newton: There is exactly one real force on the orbiting astronaut, and it is gravity, and it causes the astronaut to accelerate, which he/she needs to do in order to go in a circle.
2) Einstein: There is exactly zero force on the orbiting astronaut, so he/she does not accelerate at all, but rather follows the inertial path determined by gravity and their orbital speed, and that path is a circle.
3) d'Alembert: There are exactly two forces on the astronaut, one gravity and one the inertial force (a specific case of which we call the centrifugal force), and those forces balance in the frame of the astronaut. Everything around them will appear to accelerate in a circle around them, but the astronaut cannot perceive acceleration of their own frame, it is their own frame.
Each of these pictures has its strengths and weaknesses. Only #2 is accurate for strong gravity, but all three work well for weak gravity. Above all, though, we must not imagine that any of those three languages is "correct", for each are known to fail in some context.
In what context does Einstein fail?
Amber Robot
I was watching a show on black holes a few weeks ago (I believe it was an episode of How the Universe Works), and the show raised the question "Why doesn't the accretion disk just fall into the black hole?".
It *is* falling into the black hole. It just keeps missing!!
Originally Posted by Amber Robot
That is a much better answer than Krauss gave.
Also note that Bond is getting squashed, and an astronaut in orbit isn't.
Which tells us something deep and remarkable about the force of gravity - it acts like a pseudoforce!
So we can think of the astronaut's comfortable state as arising from the balance of two pseudoforces, gravity and centrifugal, whereas Bond is suffering the balance between one "real" force (centripetal) and one pseudoforce (centrifugal).
(Scare quotes because all these forces are "real" - they're just real in different ways.)
The Planck scale.
A very small failure, indeed.
Or an absolute huge one, if you consider that it's a disagreement with our other most fundamental theory of the Universe.
Jeff Root
If general relativity only fails at the Planck scale because it
disagrees with quantum mechanics, then I see no reason to
presume that it fails at all. Quantum mechanics is *certainly*
incomplete. Something added to it could require that no real
matter or radiation or anything can be as small as the Planck
scale, in which case there would not and could not be any
actual conditions under which GR could fail.
-- Jeff, in Minneapolis
No one said it wasn't small, from a human perspective-- only that it is a failure. It cannot be "correct", and that was the only point being made about it-- in science, we select the idealization we like, and we try to tailor its complexity and accuracy to our needs. There is often a tradeoff there, but none of the choices are "correct" in any absolute sense. So it is with the "centrifugal force."
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Originally Posted by Jeff Root
presume that it fails at all.
Actually, I take rather the opposite perspective. I see no reason to presume it should succeed! In fact, I see no reason to presume it does not break down well before you get to the Planck scale, that is only the place that it becomes inconsistent with another great theory that is also likely to break down before you get to that scale: quantum mechanics. What amazes me most about physics is not that its theories break down, but rather that they often successfully extrapolate well outside the domains where they have been tested. But there's often a limit to how much extrapolation they can support. It seems to me we must always resist the fallacy of believing we are right until proven wrong, that approach has a habit of forcing us to eat more "humble pie" than is strictly necessary.
GR might fail at any point beyond our observations, but I
see no reason to *presume* that it fails, except as a means
to explore or hedge against the possibility that it does fail.
If a relation fails when a value goes beyond some limit, but
it is fundamentally impossible for the value to ever reach the
limit, does the relation fail?
2015-Nov-09, 02:47 PM #25
Then you do see a reason to presume it will fail! In science, this is called "skepticism." I might add one more reason: the track record of history. But of course we cannot know if something will fail until we look for it to fail, and to help motivate that search, skepticism is useful, though other techniques are available as well.
It sounds like you are asking about the issue of "burden of proof." Is the burden of proof on the person who claims a relation succeeds to show that it succeeds, or on the person who claims it fails to show that it fails? I would say both-- so lacking any such demonstration, the safe stance is agnosticism. But when talking about what we expect, rather than what we claim, skepticism says to expect it to fail. Expectations are simply strategies for forming testable hypotheses, they are judged by how they advance science, not whether they are right or wrong. The expectation that the speed of light would be variable as the Earth orbits the Sun was a very valuable expectation that was responsible for a Nobel prize-- when found to be wrong. The important thing is to not let your expectations cause you to fail to do the test-- ergo skepticism.
Last edited by Ken G; 2015-Nov-09 at 02:49 PM.
General relativity cannot fail because it disagrees with QM because QM is a different theory that is not about gravity and so can never disagree with GR. An equally incorrect statement would be to say solid state physics fails because it does not describe gases. General relativity fails because it has singularities. These are below the Planck scale so GR "fails at the Planck scale" by itself.
2015-Nov-10, 09:24 AM #27
Then you do see a reason to presume it will fail! In science,
this is called "skepticism."
Are you equating "scientific skepticism" with the null
hypothesis? I won't argue against that ... but ...
The comment I was responding to was your assertion that
GR fails at the Planck scale. Not that it could fail or that it
might fail or that we have no reason to presume it doesn't
fail. You asserted that it *does* fail at the Planck scale.
I'm not aware of any reason to think or presume that.
It sounds like you are asking about the issue of "burden of
proof." Is the burden of proof on the person who claims a
relation succeeds to show that it succeeds, or on the person
who claims it fails to show that it fails?
I don't think that's what I'm asking about at all. I'm saying
that you claimed GR fails in a situation that may not be able
to exist, for reasons other than GR failing. If a situation
cannot exist, does it make any sense at all to say that a
theory fails in that situation? I personally think it does not.
If a conflict with QM in a hypothetical situation is the only
reason to say that GR fails (which seems to be the case),
and the hypothetical conflict might possibly be resolved by
a change or addition to QM alone (which also seems to be
the case, even if people who want to quantize GR often
disagree), then I think there is no reason to claim that GR
ever fails.
I would say both-- so lacking any such demonstration, the
safe stance is agnosticism.
I don't disagree with that. I'm certainly not claiming that
GR doesn't fail at the Planck scale, and even more certainly
not claiming that it doesn't fail somewhere. I just don't
see any reason to think it *does* fail at the Planck scale.
And I'm trying to get confirmation or refutation of the idea
that the reason you specify "Planck scale" is that the Planck
scale is where GR and QM come into conflict.
But when talking about what we expect, rather than what
we claim, skepticism says to expect it to fail. Expectations
are simply strategies for forming testable hypotheses, they
are judged by how they advance science, not whether they
are right or wrong.
I see no reason to claim that GR fails at the Planck scale.
It *might* fail anywhere it hasn't been tested.
Originally Posted by Reality Check
General relativity cannot fail because it disagrees with QM
because QM is a different theory that is not about gravity
and so can never disagree with GR.
It appears that GR and QM conflict when GR predicts an
energy density greater than QM can handle. That may
occur at the Planck scale. If actual observational evidence
of the conflict can be had, I expect that it will show up well
before the Planck scale.
An equally incorrect statement would be to say solid state
physics fails because it does not describe gases. General
relativity fails because it has singularities. These are below
the Planck scale so GR "fails at the Planck scale" by itself.
By "below the Planck scale" I presume you mean "at an even
smaller scale than the Planck scale". I agree that zero is
"below the Planck scale". The singularity in GR is when the
scale goes to zero. At that point, the energy density becomes
infinite.
I would not say that GR fails when the scale is zero.
Instead I say that zero is the limiting value. In addition,
I say that there may be a smallest possible value which
is greater than zero.
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Elite 14 Showcase: Young shows out
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WICHITA FALLS, Texas -- Hosted at Wichita Falls (Texas) Hirschi, the Elite 14 Showcase has become an important stop. Filled with talent from Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, it is a place for teams to see where they are headed into the season and for college coaches and scouts to see an abundance of talent in one day. On Saturday, class of 2017 point guard Trae Young proved that he is a high level prospect during a huge day.
Young's father starred at Texas Tech.
Young shows off all around game
A year ago, Rivals.com got a first look at Norman (Oklahoma) North point guard Trae Young at the Elite 14. It's safe to say that the 6-foot-1 floor general has come a long way over the past year.
Nobody had a better day in Wichita Falls and Young easily backed up his status as a four-star prospect in the class of 2017.
Known for his ability to shoot the ball from deep, Young is a confident jump shooter who has a high skill level when it comes to scoring the ball. He has runners, pull-ups and hesitation moves to go along with his deep jump shooting. What surprised though, was how much Young has developed as a playmaker.
"My shooting ability helps to keep defenders guessing," Young said. "I've been working on really being more of a point guard and being as much of a leader as I can."
One of those point guards who is able to play at full speed while remaining under control, he was constantly running the ball right down the defense's throat. He found teammates with crisp passes, initiated the offense and showed that even though he can score, he can run a team and be a playmaker.
Whether it's a case of him not being in a position to show the dynamic all-around game or him developing his game -- it's likely some of both -- the bottom line is that Young has serious game and he will be one that we hear from much more down the road.
So far, Young has offers from Oklahoma, Texas Tech (where his father Rayford starred), Oklahoma State, Connecticut, Kansas State, Houston, SMU, Tulsa and Creighton. Others involved include North Carolina, Texas and Kansas and he's seen the Jayhawks, Sooners and Cowboys within the last month or so.
McGriff brings the energy
The No. 135 player in the 2016 Rivals150, there has never been a question about whether or not Cameron McGriff has the athleticism to play at the high major level. However, exactly how his game translates and what skills he brings to the table have been up to debate.
McGriff, a high flying combo forward at Grand Prairie (Texas) South Grand Prairie, showed a highend motor and improving skills on Saturday.
The 6-foot-7 prospect spent most of his day playing above the rim and crashing the glass, those things he has done in the past. But it was his usage of shot fakes, ability to hit short to medium jumpers and showing that he is an improved threat off the dribble that proved to be most notable.
McGriff has always passed the eye test with ease, and that is the case more than ever thanks to added muscle. It's the added game, though, that is going to benefit him more in the long run.
McGriff listed offers from Texas Tech, SMU, Oklahoma and Tulsa to go along with interest from Baylor, Arkansas and Texas among others.
Patterson puts himself on the map
There was no shortage of college coaches on hand to watch the Elite 14 on Saturday and a short poll revealed that few of them were familiar with junior Devonte Patterson. Well, that was until the 6-foot-6 forward took the floor with Bridgeport (Texas) High.
McGriff holds offers from Oklahoma, SMU, Texas Tech and Tulsa.
Because after watching him make one play after another, Patterson may have left the biggest impression on anybody scouting the event.
Patterson's two biggest assets at this point are big time athleticism and an even more big time motor. He was flying all over the court grabbing rebounds, stealing possessions, defending and trying to dunk everything in site.
His ball handling and overall skill level are a bit raw, but he's certainly not deficient and his shot looked promising from mid range.
Rivals.com spoke briefly with Patterson who said that he is unaware of any schools that may have been recruiting him. It is a safe bet that won't be the story from here on out. If he can replicate Saturday's performance down the road, Patterson has the look of a potential high major prospect.
More Elite 14 notables
Thanks to a strong summer, 6-foot-10 center Schnider Herard climbed all the way up to No. 41 in the class of 2016 rankings. The way things are looking, the product of Plano (Texas) Prestonwood may not be done climbing. He isn't just tall, he is thick, strong and really knows how to use his size to his advantage. He sets up position in the post and once he sits down defenders have little hope of moving him off of his spot. He's a true back to basket scorer with good hands and holds offers from Kansas, UConn, Kansas State, SMU, Texas, Oklahoma, Texas A&M, TCU, Miami, Missouri, Arkansas, Vanderbilt and Baylor.
He isn't quite the shooter that his older brother Brandon (a sophomore at TCU) was coming out of high school, but three-star junior Josh Parrish isn't going to have any troubles finding somebody to pay for his college education. He's a strong 6-foot-4 wing who specializes in driving and finishing through contact.
A pair of players showed well for Edmond (Oklahoma) Memorial. Junior forward Kristian Doolittle and senior combo guard Curran Scott both had their moments. An emerging prospect at the small forward position, Doolittle has a great looking basketball frame and is strong fundamentally. He's probably been more of a natural power forward up until this point but he moves well enough and has good enough instincts on the perimeter that he should make the transition as he finishes up his last few years of high school. He already has offers from Oklahoma and Tulsa. An athletic driver, Scott is an off the dribble scorer who is quite comfortable in an up and down game. He had earlier offers from places like Rice and Texas State but they have filled their slots so he is entering his senior year wide open. Mid-majors looking for a scorer should be taking a long look this winter.
Center Kelvin Jones from Hobbs (N.M.) High still has to get stronger and refine his footwork a bit, but the 6-foot-10 prospect is a sleeper that should be evaluated closely. He moves well, has terrific hands and the three-star prospect shows soft touch. At the least, upper end mid major programs in need of a big man should take a long look.
Shooting guard Terrance Ferguson, the highest ranked player in attendance at No. 8 overall in the class of 2016, finds himself in a new position this year. After playing alongside current Chinese professional point guard Emmanuel Mudiay for his first two years of high school, Ferguson is now the main man at Dallas (Texas) Prime Prep and he looks ready to take the challenge. It is going to be a process to get him to be as aggressive as his skills should allow him to be, but he showed signs that he is headed in the right direction. At 6-foot-6, Ferguson was bombing from deep, showing that he can get where he needs to go off the dribble and flashing his world class athleticism. Despite his already very high ranking, Ferguson remains a guy who has huge upside and appears to be just scratching the surface of what he can do down the road.
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9. The Board shall cause Minutes to be made of all meetings and recorded in an appropriate form:-
a) of all appointments of Officers made by the Board
b) of the names of the members present at each meeting of the Board and Committees or Sub-Committees of the Board
c) of all orders made by the Board and Committees or Sub-Committees of the Board, and
d) of all resolutions and proceedings of meetings of the Board and of Committees or Sub-Committees of the Board.
The Board will approve, with or without amendment, the minutes of the preceding meeting and these will be duly signed by the Chairman together with any financial statements presented at that meeting.
10. All proceedings, resolutions and reports of every Committee or Sub-Committee intended to be laid before the Board shall be circulated among the members of the Board at least seven days before the meeting of the Board at which the same are to be submitted.
Committees or Sub-Committees
11. The Board may appoint such Committees or Sub-Committees as they think fit but all acts of any Committee or Sub-Committee shall be subject to the approval of the Board unless the Board has delegated its powers to that Committee or Sub-Committee to deal with a specific issue.
12. A Committee or Sub-Committee may elect a Chairman of their meetings. If no such Chairman is elected, or if he is not present, the members present shall choose someone of their number to be Chairman of such meeting.
13. A Committee or Sub-Committee may meet and adjourn as they think proper. Proposals at any meeting shall be determined by a majority of votes of the members present, and shall be decided by a show of hands. In case of any equal division of votes the Chairman shall have a second or casting vote.
14. Regulations 9 and 10 shall apply to minutes of Committees and Sub-Committees.
Order of Debate
15. Every proposal or amendment, other than a proposal for the approval of a Committee or Sub-Committee, shall be proposed and seconded and shall, if required, be written out and handed to the Chairman who shall read it out before it is further discussed or put to the meeting.
16. The Chairman will invite members to speak out on the subject under discussion.
17. Members must declare where they have an interest in a matter to be discussed, the Chairman then deciding what if any part the member can take in any ensuing discussion and whether the member can vote.
18. A proposal or amendment once made shall not be withdrawn without the consent of the Board.
19. Every amendment shall be relevant to the proposal to which it is applied.
20. Whenever an amendment upon an original resolution has been proposed and seconded, no second or subsequent amendment shall be moved until the first amendment shall have been dealt with, but notice of any number of amendments may be given.
21. If an amendment is rejected then other amendments may be proposed on the original resolution or proposal.
22. If an amendment is carried the proposal as amended shall take the place of the original proposal and shall become the question upon which any further amendment may be moved.
23. No proposal to rescind any resolution which has been passed within the preceding six months, nor any proposal to the same effect as any proposal which has been negatived within the preceding six months shall be in order unless: (a) notice thereof has been given and specified in the Agenda and (b) the notice bears, in addition to the name of the member who proposed the resolution, the names of two other members; and when such resolution or proposal has been disposed of by the Board, it shall not be competent for any member to propose a similar proposal within a further period of six months.
24. Order 23 shall not apply to proposals which are moved by the Chairman or other members of the Committee or Sub-Committee in pursuance of the report of the Committee.
Common Seal
25. The Common Seal of the Board shall be kept in some safe place. All deeds and other documents to which the Common Seal of the Board shall require to be affixed shall be sealed in pursuance of the Board, and in the presence of both the Chairman or Vice-Chairman and the Engineer or Clerk.
26. Copies of all sealed documents must be retained.
Suspension of Standing Orders
27. Any one or more of the standing orders, in any case of urgency or upon resolution or proposal made on a notice duly given, may be suspended at any meeting, so far as regards any business at such meeting, provided that 75% of the members of the Board present and voting are in agreement.
Special Circumstances – Coronavirus
28. In relation to any meeting held before 7th May 2021, “presence” at a meeting includes physical attendance and being present through remote attendance. “Remote attendance” means attending or participating in a meeting by electronic means, including by one or more of the following:
i) telephone conference,
ii) video conference,
iii) live webcast,
iv) live interactive streaming.
29. In relation to any meeting held before 7th May 2021, regulation 5 is suspended, and the Board shall instead provide members with relevant details to enable members to attend and participate in meetings, including remotely. The Board shall provide confirmation of these details in the agenda. For these purposes, “details” includes one or more of the following:
i) the venue,
ii) the availability of a telephone conference facility and the manner of accessing such facility,
iii) the availability of a video conference facility and the manner of accessing such facility,
iv) the availability of a live webcast facility and the manner of accessing such facility,
v) the availability of a live interactive streaming facility and the manner of accessing such facility.
It should be noted that paragraphs 28 and 29 above were added in May 2020 and approved by Defra.
STATUTORY PROVISIONS REGARDING THE PROCEEDINGS OF AN INTERNAL DRAINAGE BOARD SET OUT IN PARAGRAPH 3 OF SCHEDULE 2 TO THE LAND DRAINAGE ACT, 1991.
Proceedings of Internal Drainage Board
(3)(1) An Internal Drainage Board may, with the approval of the relevant Minister, make rules-
(a) for regulating the proceeds of the Board, including quorum, place of meetings and notices to be given of meetings;
(b) with respect to the appointment of a Chairman and Vice-Chairman;
(c) for enabling the Board to constitute Committees; and
(d) for authorising the delegation to Committees of any of the powers of the Board and for regulating the proceeds of Committees, including quorum, place of meetings and notices to be given of meetings.
(2) The first meeting of an Internal Drainage Board shall be held on such day and at such time and place as may be fixed by the relevant Minister; and the relevant Minister shall cause notice of the meeting to be sent by post to each Member of the Board not less than fourteen days before the appointed day.
(3) Any Member of an Internal Drainage Board who is interested in any company with which the Board has, or proposes to make, any contract shall-
(a) disclose to the Board the fact and nature of his interest; and
(b) take no part in any deliberation or decision of the Board relating to such contract;
and such disclosure shall be forthwith recorded in the Minutes of the Board.
(4) A minute of the proceedings of a meeting of an Internal Drainage Board, or of a Committee of such a Board, purporting to be signed at that or the next ensuing meeting by a person describing himself as, or appearing to be, the Chairman of the meeting to the proceedings of which the minute relates:-
(a) shall be evidence of the proceedings; and
(b) shall be received in evidence without further proof.
(5) Until the contrary is proved-
(a) every meeting in respect of the proceedings of which a minute has been so signed shall be deemed to have been duly convened and held;
(b) all the proceedings had at any time such meeting shall be deemed to have been duly had; and
(c) where the proceedings at any such meeting are the proceedings of a Committee, the Committee shall be deemed to have been duly constituted and to have had power to deal with the matters referred to in the minute.
(6) The proceedings of an Internal Drainage Board shall not be invalidated by any vacancy in the membership of the Board or by any defect in the appointment or qualification of any Member of the Board.
Littleport & Downham Accounts
Littleport & Downham Annual Governance & Accountability Return
Littleport & Downham Biodiversity Action Plan
Littleport & Downham Board Members
Littleport & Downham Byelaws
Littleport & Downham Consent Form & Notes
Littleport & Downham Conservation Statement
Littleport & Downham District Map
Littleport & Downham Election Notice
Littleport & Downham GDPR Policy
Littleport & Downham IDB1 Form
Littleport & Downham Meetings & Minutes
Littleport & Downham Notice of Drainage Rates & Special Levies
Littleport & Downham Pension Discretions Policy
Littleport & Downham Policy Statement
Littleport & Downham Works Programme
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Ustad Karim Khalili, leader of Hezb-e-Wahdat-e Islami and former vice president of Afghanistan, is expected to arrive in Islamabad Monday for a three day visit.
Leading a delegation, Khalili will meet with Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan; foreign minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi; Speaker of the National Assembly Asad Qaisar, and other dignitaries, Pakistan’s Foreign Office spokesperson said in a press release.
“The visit of Ustad Karim Khalili is part of Pakistan’s ongoing policy to reach out to political leadership in Afghanistan to forge common understanding on the Afghan peace process and deepen people-to-people linkages,” the spokesperson said.
The statement noted that Pakistan’s fraternal ties with Afghanistan are rooted deep in shared history, faith, culture, values and traditions.
Pakistan fully supports all efforts for peace, stability and prosperity of the Afghan people, read the statement.
“Pakistan remains steadfast in its support for an inclusive, broad-based and comprehensive political solution of the conflict in Afghanistan through an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace process,” the spokesperson said.
Khalili’s visit coincides with the second round of intra-Afghan dialogue between Kabul and the Taliban in the Qatari capital Doha.
Islamabad’s influence over the Taliban during the peace talks process is viewed as crucial – especially after Pakistan arranged direct talks between Washington and the Taliban in 2018, which eventually led to a deal between the two in February last year.
Under the agreement, the US committed to withdraw all foreign forces from Afghanistan by May 2021 in exchange for security guarantees from the Taliban.
To discuss Afghan peace process, Taliban delegation visits Pakistan
To discuss peace, Hekmatyar went to Pakistan
Mullah Baradar-led Taliban team in Pakistan for talks
Khalilzad heads to Islamabad
Pakistan honestly supports Afghanistan peace process
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Bush’s War Is a Financial Disaster
March 17th, 2004 - by admin
by Eric Margolis / Contributing Foreign Editor, Toronto Sun –
http://www.canoe.ca/Columnists/margolis_mar14.html
WASHINGTON (March 14, 2004) — The famous words of King Pyrrhus of Epirus after the bloody battle of Heraclea in 280 BC are as appropriate for America’s conquest of Iraq: “One more such victory and we are ruined.”
The March, 2003 invasion of Iraq pitted the world’s greatest military power against the largely inoperative army of a small, dilapidated nation of only 17 million (deducting rebellious Kurds), crushed by 12 years of sanctions and bombing.
Thanks to total air superiority, invading US forces achieved a brilliant feat of logistics, racing from Kuwait to Northern Iraq in under three weeks. The 15% of Iraq’s army that stood and fought was pulverized by massive, co-ordinated US air strikes and artillery barrages. Urban resistance failed to materialize.
The rout of Iraq’s forces recalled another colonial war, the Dervish Campaign of 1898. Gen. Kitchener led the imperial British Army far up the Nile into Sudan where it met and massacred a primitive Islamic host at Omdurman. Britain’s quick-fire guns and artillery mowed down Dervish cavalry and sword-waving “fuzzy-wuzzies” as murderously as US precision munitions vapourized Iraqi units.
US air and ground forces in Iraq displayed superb technical, electronic, logistic and combat prowess confirming they are two full military generations ahead of nearly all other nations.
But as the great modern military thinker, Maj.-Gen J.F.C. Fuller, observed 40 years ago, the proper objective of war is not military victory but a politically advantageous peace. While the US won an inevitable military victory against a nearly helpless Iraq, political victory so far remains elusive.
Primary Objectives
In my view, two primary objectives drove the US invasion of Iraq: oil and its support for Israel. White House claims about weapons of mass destruction and terrorism were propaganda smoke screens.
President George Bush’s claims that impotent Iraq posed “a grave and gathering danger” to the US, Condoleezza Rice’s hysterical warnings about “mushroom clouds over the US,” and Vice President Dick Cheney’s bizarre jeremiads about “Iraq’s reconstituted nuclear weapons” were absurd.
The US now controls Iraq, a strategic nation with the Mideast’s second largest oil reserves.
The CIA estimates China’s and India’s surging, oil-hungry economies will cause world oil shortages by 2030 – or sooner.
Accordingly, the Bush administration moved to assure America’s global hegemony by seizing Mideast and Central Asian oil before the impending crisis. Doing so required occupying Iraq and Afghanistan.
The US imports little oil from the Mideast or Central Asia. However, these regions are primary oil sources for Europe and Japan – and, increasingly, for India and China.
By dominating these oil sources, the US controls the economies of its main commercial and potential military rivals. Control of the Muslim world’s oil is the principal pillar of America’s world power.
The Pentagon plans three permanent major military bases in Iraq from which powerful garrisons of US air and ground forces, backed by mercenary native troops, will police not just Iraq but the entire Mideast and guard the new “imperial lifeline” of pipelines exporting oil from Central Asia and the Arab world.
Other US bases in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Pakistan, linked to bases in Bulgaria and Romania, will guard the new imperial route.
The second objective, in my view, was aiding Israel.
Influential American supporters of Israel’s rightist prime minister, Ariel Sharon, played a significant role in building the case for war against Iraq.
From various positions in the White House, Pentagon, National Security Council, media, and taxpayer-supported Washington think tanks, these neo-conservatives helped to orchestrate the campaign about Iraq’s non-existent weapons of mass destruction and trumpeted alleged threats from Iraq.
Mini-states
The neo-cons achieved their objective: Iraq, once the Arab world’s most developed, industrialized nation, a bitter foe of Israel, was destroyed, and will likely end up split into three weak mini-states.
Israel is a primary beneficiary of the Iraq war: a potential nuclear rival was eliminated by the US
Many neo-cons believed crushing Iraq would help to cement Israel’s grip on the occupied West Bank and Golan, thwart a Palestinian state and force the Arab nations to accept Israel’s regional hegemony.
But for the United States, Iraq was at best a pyrrhic victory. Invading and occupying Iraq has proven to be a financial disaster. The invasion cost $105 billion US in direct expenses – the price of five complete carrier battle groups, or one million low-cost apartments.
Occupying Iraq costs $9 billion monthly.
Pre-war neo-con plans to finance the occupation by plundering Iraq’s oil have been frustrated by sabotage. Congress estimates the overall cost of “pacifying” and “rebuilding” Iraq for fiscal 2003 and 2004 at a staggering $200 billion.
This money will have to be borrowed by the empty treasury, which, thanks to Bush’s reckless “war” spending, is running huge deficits heading toward $400 billion, risking an explosion of inflation that threatens to undermine the long-term bond market and further weaken the dollar.
10,000 US Casualties; 10,000 Iraqi Civilians Killed
The human cost of the war continues to rise. As of this writing, US losses amount to 555 dead, and about 9,000 casualties from combat, accidents and serious illnesses.
Ten thousand Iraqi civilians were estimated to have been killed by US forces — in a war now described as waged under “mistaken intelligence assumptions.”
Iraqi military casualties are 6,000-10,000.
Iraq lies in ruins. “Rebuilding Iraq” means paying for all the damage caused by massive US bombing and years of sanctions.
Puppet Regime
In spite of rosy claims from the White House about handing sovereignty to Iraqis, American troops will garrison Iraq for years to guard the oil fields and maintain a “democratic” puppet regime in power in Baghdad that obeys Washington’s orders.
US forces will continue to face a simmering, low-grade guerrilla war that will kill or wound more American troops, and increasingly brutalize and corrupt occupation forces – the inevitable result of all colonial wars. In short, America now has its own West Bank, or Lebanon.
The brazen arrogance and profound ignorance shown by the Bush administration in its crusade against Iraq has turned the world against the United States. Occupied Iraq is acting as a terrorism generator. For the next generation of young Muslims, Iraq is becoming what Afghanistan was in the 1980s, a rallying point to fight foreign occupation, battle imperialism and defend the tattered honour of the Muslim world. Bush and his men have created millions of new enemies.
Half of all US ground combat forces are tied down in and around Iraq. Reserves are being mobilized for long tours. Wear and tear on overstretched US forces and their heavy equipment is a grave, though little discussed, problem.
Neo-con promises of “liberation” of Iraq, of joyous, flower-tossing crowds and of rapid “democratization” have turned to dust. Iraq remains a dangerous, volatile mess seething with violence and implacable Shia political demands. Twenty resistance groups now battle US and allied occupation troops. Militant Islamic jihadis are heading for Iraq to fight “Great Satan” America. Yet Bush still claims invading Iraq made America safer.
However, because of Iraq, much of the world now regards America itself as a menacing, unstable threat.
President Bush has stuck his head into a hornet’s nest. The US will bleed men, money and reputation for a long time before it figures out how to get out of the first colonial misadventure of the 21st century.
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Anderson Crow, Detective
by George Barr McCutcheon
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"What's the sense of doing that?" argued one middle-aged widow of a practical turn of mind. "You can save funeral expenses by letting the Germans do it for you."
The next day the merchants of Tinkletown—notably the Five and Ten Cent Store and Fisher's Queensware Store—did a thriving business. From one end of the town to the other came people returning presents that fortunately had not been delivered, and others asking to have their accounts credited with presents already received.
Of the twenty-odd weddings announced for the week ending June 3, 1917, only one took place.
Mr. Otto Schultz was married on Saturday to Miss Bumbelburg. He was the only candidate in town who was worth suing for breach of promise. Miss Bumbelburg, having waited many years for her chance, was not to be frightened by a Presidential proclamation. The duration of the war meant nothing to her. She had unlimited faith in the Kaiser. When the war was over he would come over to the United States and revoke all the silly old laws. And she was so positive about it that, after a rather heated interview in the home of Mr. Schultz, senior, that gentleman admitted it would be cheaper for her to come and live with them after the wedding than to present her with the thousand dollars she demanded in case Otto preferred war to peace.
Mr. Crow, on the 5th of June, strode proudly, efficiently, up and down Main Street, always stopping at the registration booth to slap former fiances on the back and encourage them with such remarks as this:
"That's right, son. If you've got to fight, fight for your country."
To Mr. Alf Reesling he confided:
"I tell you what, Alf, when this here Kaiser comes up ag'inst me he strikes a snag. He couldn't 'a' started his plot in a worse place than here in Tinkletown. Gosh, with all you hear about German efficiency, you'd 'a' thought he'd 'a' knowed better, wouldn't you?"
THE PERFECT END OF A DAY
ANDERSON CROW GETS ONE ON THE KAISER
A long, low-lying bank of almost inky-black clouds hung over a blood-red horizon. The sun of a warm, drowsy September day was going to bed beyond the scallop of hills.
Suddenly the red in the sky, as if fanned by an angry wind, blazed into a rigid flame; catching the base of the coal-black cloud it turned its edges into fire; and as the flame burnt itself out, the rich yellow of gold came to glorify the triumphant cloud. The nether edge seemed to dip into a lake, the shores of which were molten gold and upon whose surface craft of ever-changing colours lay moored for the coming night.
Anderson Crow, Marshal of Tinkletown, leaned upon his front-yard fence and listened to the rhapsodic comments of Miss Sue Becker on the passing panorama. Miss Becker, who had contributed several poems to the columns of the Tinkletown Banner, and more than once had exhibited encouraging letters from the editors of McClure's, Scribner's, Harper's, and other magazines, was always worth listening to, for, as every one knows, she was the first, and, so far as revealed, the only literary genius ever created within the precincts of Tinkletown.
"You'll have to write a piece about it, Sue," said Anderson, shifting his spare frame slightly.
"No mortal pen, Mr. Crow, could do justice to the grandeur, the overpowering splendour of that vista," said she.
Anderson took another look at the sunset,—a more or less stealthy one, it must be confessed, out of the corner of his eye. Sunsets were not much in his line.
"It's a great vister," he acknowledged. "I don't know as I can think of a word that will rhyme with it, though."
"There is such a thing as blank verse, Mr. Crow," said Miss Becker, smiling in a most superior way.
Mr. Crow was thinking. "Blister wouldn't be bad," he announced. "Something about the vister causin' a blister. I don't know as you are aware of the fact, Sue, but I wrote consider'ble poetry when I was a young feller. Mrs. Crow's got 'em all tied up in a pink ribbon. It's a mighty funny thing that she won't even show 'em to anybody."
"Oh, but they are sacred," said Miss Becker feelingly, as she looked over the rims of her spectacles at a spot in the sky some forty-five degrees above the steeple of the Congregational Church down the street.
"I don't know as I meant 'em to be sacred at the time," said he; "but there wasn't anything in 'em that was unfittin' for a young lady to read."
"You don't understand. What could be more sacred than the outpourings of love? What more—"
"'Course it was a good many years ago," Mr. Crow was quick to explain.
"Love's young dream," chided Miss Becker coyly.
Mr. Crow twisted his sparse grey beard with unusual tenderness. "Beats all, don't it, Sue, what a poet'll do when he's tryin' to raise a moustache?"
"I am sure I don't know," said Miss Becker stiffly.
"Speakin' about sunsets," said he hastily, after a quick glance at her shaded upper lip, "how's your pa? I heard he had a sinkin' spell yestiday."
"He's better." A moment later, with fine scorn: "His sun hasn't set yet, Mr. Crow."
"Beats all how he hangs on, don't it? Eighty-seven last birthday, an' spry as a man o' fifty up to—" He broke off to devote his attention to a couple of strangers farther down the tree-lined street: two men who approached slowly on the plank sidewalk, pausing every now and then to peer inquiringly at the front doors of houses along the way.
Miss Sue Becker, whose back was toward the strangers, allowed her poetic mind to resume its interest in the sunset.
"Golden cloudlets float upon a coral—What did you say, Mr. Crow?"
"Ever see 'em before, Sue?"
"Hundreds of times. They remind me of the daintiest, fleeciest puffs of—"
"I'm talkin' about those men comin' up the street," said the old town marshal sharply.
Miss Becker abandoned the transient sunset for something more durable. Forty-odd summers had passed over her head.
For one professedly indifferent to the opposite sex, Miss Becker went far toward dislocating her neck when Anderson Crow mentioned the approach of a couple of strange men.
"I've never seen either of them before, Mr. Crow," she said, a little jump in her voice.
"That settles it," said Anderson, putting on his spectacles.
"Settles what?"
"Proves they ain't been in Tinkletown more'n twenty minutes," he replied, much too promptly to suit Miss Becker, who favoured him with a look he wouldn't have forgotten in a long time if he had had eyes in the back of his head. "They must be lookin' for some one," he went on, squinting narrowly. "Good-bye, Sue. See you tomorrer, I suppose."
"I'm not going yet, Mr. Crow," she said, moving a little closer to the fence. "You don't suppose I'm going to let those men pursue me all the way home, do you?"
"They don't look like kidnappers," he said. "Besides, it ain't dark enough yet."
"Just what do you mean by that, Anderson Crow?" she snapped.
"What do I mean by what?" he inquired in some surprise.
"By what you just said."
"I mean you're perfectly safe as long as it's daylight," he retorted. "What else could I mean?"
The two strangers were quite near by this time—near enough, in fact, to cause Miss Becker to lower her voice as she said:
"They're awfully nice looking gentlemen, ain't they?"
Evidently Mr. Crow's explanation had satisfied her, for she was smiling with considerable vivacity as she made the remark. Up to that instant she had neglected her back hair. Now she gracefully, lingeringly fingered it to see if it was properly in place. In doing so, she managed to drop her parasol.
To her chagrin, Marshal Crow took that occasion to behave in a most incredible manner. It is quite probable that he forgot himself. In any case, he picked up the parasol and returned it to her, snatching it, in fact, almost from beneath the foot of the nearest stranger.
"Oh, thank you—thank you kindly, Mr. Crow," she giggled, and proceeded to let it slip out of her fingers again. "Oh, how stupid! How perfectly clumsy—"
"Did I hear you addressed as Mr. Crow?" inquired the foremost of the two strangers, halting abruptly. He was a tall, florid man of forty or thereabouts, with a deep and not unpleasant voice. His companion was also tall but very gaunt and sallow. He wore huge round spectacles, hooked over his ears. Both were well dressed, one in grey flannel, the other in blue serge.
"You did," said the town marshal, straightening up. "You dropped your umbrell' ag'in, Sue," he added. "Yes, sir, my name's Crow."
Miss Becker waited a few seconds and then picked up the parasol.
"The celebrated Anderson Crow?" asked the man with the glasses, opening his eyes a little wider.
Mr. Crow suddenly remembered that he was in his shirt-sleeves. His faded blue sack-coat—"undress," he called it—hung limp and neglected on the gate-post.
"More or less," he admitted, wishing to goodness he had on his best pair of "galluses" instead of the ones he was wearing.
"Marshal of Tinkletown, I believe?" said the florid stranger, raising his eyebrows slightly.
"Excuse me," said Anderson, conscious of a certain disparaging note in the speaker's voice, which he quite naturally laid to the "galluses." Without turning his back toward them he retrieved his coat from the gate-post, remembering in time that those "plaguey" suspenders had played him false that day and Alf Reesling had volunteered to "tie a knot in 'em," somewhere in the back. "I could fine myself five dollars fer goin' without my uniform," said he, as he slipped an arm into one sleeve. "It's one of my hide-boundest rules," and his other arm went in—not without a slight twinge, for he had been experiencing a touch of rheumatism in that shoulder. "Yes, sir, I'm the Marshal o' Tinkletown," he added, indicating the bright nickel star that gleamed resplendent among an assortment of glittering and impressive dangling emblems.
The man with the spectacles peered intently at the collection on Mr. Crow's breast.
"You appear to be almost everything else as well, Mr. Crow," said he, respectfully.
"Well, I guess I'll have to be going," put in Miss Becker at this juncture. "Give my love to the girls, Mr. Crow."
She moved off up the board-walk, her back as stiff as a ramrod. Any one with half an eye could see that she was resolved not to drop the parasol again. No savage warrior on battle bent ever gripped his club with greater determination.
"So long," was all that Marshal Crow could spare the time to say. "Yes sir," he went on, making a fine show of stifling a yawn, "yes, sir, I've had a few triflin' honours in my day. You gentlemen lookin' fer any one in partic'lar?"
"Not now," said the florid one. "We've found him."
The spectacled man had his nose quite close to Mr. Crow's badges. He read them off, in the voice and manner of one tremendously impressed. "Grand Army of the Republic. Sons of the American Revolution. Sons of Veterans. Tinkletown Battlefield Association. New York Imperial Detective Association. Bramble County Horse-Thief Detective Association. Chief of Fire Department. And what, may I ask, is the little round button at the top?"
The marshal was astonished. "Don't you know what that is?"
"It doesn't appear to have any lettering—"
"It don't have to have any. That's an American Red Cross button."
"So it is,—so it is," cried the other hastily. "How stupid of me."
"And this one on the other lapel is a Liberty Loan button,—one hundred dollars is what it represents, if anybody should ast you."
"I recognized it at once, sir. I have one of my own." He raised his hand to his own lapel. "Why, hang it all, I forgot to remove it from my other coat this morning."
"Well," said Anderson drily, "there 'pears to be some advantage in havin' only one coat."
"Mr. Marshal," cut in the larger man brusquely, "we came to see you in regard to a matter of great importance—and, I may add, privacy. Having heard of your reputation for cleverness and infallibility—"
"As everybody in the land has heard," put in the other.
"—we desire your co-operation in an undertaking of considerable magnitude. Quite frankly, I do not see how we can succeed without your valuable assistance. You—"
"Hold on! If you're tryin' to get me to subscribe to a set of books, so's my name at the head of the list will drag other suckers into—"
"Not at all, sir—not at all. We are not book-agents, Mr. Marshal."
"Well, what are ye?"
"Metallurgists," said the florid one.
"I see, I see," said Anderson, who didn't see at all. "You started off just like a book-agent, er a lightnin'-rod salesman."
"My name is Bacon,—George Washington Bacon,—and my friend bears an even nobler monicker, if that be possible. He is Abraham Lincoln Bonaparte—a direct descendant of both of those illustrious gentlemen."
"You don't say! I didn't know Lincoln was any connection of Bonaparte's."
"It isn't generally known," the descendant informed him, with becoming modesty.
"Well, I'm seventy-three years old an' I never heard—"
"Seventy-three!" gasped Mr. Bonaparte, incredulously. "I don't believe it. You can't be more than fifty, Mr. Crow."
"Do you suppose I fought in the Union Army before I was born?" demanded Mr. Crow. "Where'd I get this G. A. R. badge, lemme ast you? An' you don't think the citizens of this here town would elect a ten-year-old boy to the responsible position of town marshal, do you? Why, gosh snap it, I been Marshal o' Tinkletown fer forty years—skippin' two years back in the nineties when I retired in favour of Ed Higgins, owin' to a misunderstandin' concernin' my health—an'—"
"It is incredible, sir. You are the youngest-looking man for your years I've ever seen. But we are digressing. Proceed, Mr. Bacon. Pardon the interruption."
Marshal Crow had drawn himself up to his full height,—a good six feet,—and, expanding under the influence of a just pride, his chest came perilously near to dislodging a couple of brass buttons. His keen little grey eyes snapped brightly in their deep sockets; his sparse chin whiskers, responding to the occasion, bristled noticeably. Employing his thumb and forefinger, he first gave his beard a short caress, after which he drew it safely out of line and expectorated thinly between his teeth with such astounding accuracy that both of the strangers stared. His objective was a narrow slit in the tree-box across the sidewalk.
"I couldn't do that in a thousand years," said Mr. Bacon, deeply impressed.
"You could do it in half that time if you lived in Tinkletown," was Anderson's cryptic return. "You ought to see Ed Higgins. He's our champeen. His specialty is knot-holes. Ed c'n hit—"
"Are you interested in metallurgy, Mr. Crow?" broke in Mr. Bacon, a little rudely.
Anderson pondered a few seconds, squinting at the tree-tops. The two strangers waited his reply with evident concern.
"Sometimes I am, an' sometimes I ain't," said he at last, very seriously. He even went so far as to shake his head slowly, as if to emphasize the fact that he had made a life-long study of the subject and had not been able to arrive at a definite conclusion.
"Good!" exclaimed Mr. Bonaparte. "That proves, Mr. Crow, that you are a man of very great discernment, very great discernment indeed."
Mr. Crow brightened perceptibly. "I have to know a little of everything in my line of work, Mr. Lincoln."
Mr. Bonaparte made no attempt to correct him. As a matter of fact, for a moment or two he was in some doubt himself; it was only after indulging in a hasty bit of mental jugglery that he decided his friend couldn't possibly have introduced him as Bonaparte Abraham Lincoln, or Abraham Bonaparte Lincoln. He wished, however, that he had paid a little closer attention when Mr. George Washington Bacon arranged his names for him.
"We should like to have a few minutes' private conversation with you, Mr. Marshal," said Bacon, lowering his voice.
"Fire away, gents."
"I—ahem!—I said private, Mr. Crow."
"Well, if it's anything you don't want the birds to hear, I guess we'd better go up to the house. If you don't mind that woodpecker up yander an' them two sparrers out there in the road, I guess this is about as private a place as you'll find in Tinkletown."
"Haven't you—an office, Mr. Crow?" demanded Mr. Bacon.
"Yes, but it ain't private. Whenever I've got anything private to 'tend to—er even think about—I allus go out in the middle of the street. Shoot ahead; nobody'll hear you."
"It will take some little time," explained Mr. Bonaparte, anxiously. "Have you had your dinner?"
Anderson looked at him keenly. "What's that got to do with it?"
"Mr. Bonaparte means supper," explained Mr. Bacon. "He is a bit excited, Mr. Crow."
"He must be," agreed Anderson, glancing at his watch. "Half-past six. Go ahead. We won't be interrupted now till it's time to go to bed."
The two strangers in Tinkletown drew still closer—so close, indeed, that the town marshal, having had his pocket picked once or twice at the County Fair, fell back a little from the fence.
"You must be careful to show no sign of surprise, Mr. Crow," said Bacon. "What I am about to say to you may startle you, but you—"
Anderson reassured him with a gesture.
"Perceed," he said.
Whereupon the spokesman, Mr. Bacon, did a tale unfold that caused the town marshal to lie awake nearly all night and to pop out of bed the next morning fully an hour earlier than usual. For the time being, however, he succeeded so admirably in simulating indifference that the men themselves were not only surprised but a trifle disturbed. He wasn't conducting himself at all as they had expected. At the conclusion of this serious fifteen minutes' recital,—rendered into paragraphs by Anderson's frequent interruptions,—the eager Mr. Bonaparte exclaimed:
"Well, Mr. Crow, doesn't it completely bowl you over?"
"What's that? Bowl me over? I should say not! Why, I knowed fer I can't tell you how long that there's gold up yander in my piece of timberland on Crow's Mountain. Knowed it ever since I was a boy."
His hearers blinked rapidly for a few seconds.
"Really?" murmured Mr. Bacon.
"Do you mean to say there actually is gold—" began Mr. Bonaparte, but he got no farther. Whether accidentally or otherwise, Mr. Bacon's foot came sharply into contact with the speaker's shin, and the question terminated in a pained look of surprise, directed with some intensity and a great deal of fortitude at nothing in particular.
"Well, you are a wonder, Mr. Crow," said Mr. Bacon hastily. "I am immensely relieved that you do know of its existence. It simplifies matters tremendously. It has been there all the time and you've never known just how to go about getting it out of the ground—isn't that the case, Mr. Crow?"
"Exactly," said Mr. Crow.
Mr. Bacon shot a significant look at Mr. Bonaparte, and that worthy put his hand suddenly to his mouth.
"Well, that's what we're here for, Mr. Crow—to get that gold out of the earth. If our estimates are correct—or, I should say, if our investigations establish the fact that it is a real vein and not merely a little pocket, there ought to be a million dollars in that piece of land of yours. Now, let me see. Just how much land do you own up there, Mr. Crow?"
"I own derned near all of it," said the marshal promptly. "'Bout seventy-five acres, I should say."
"Nothing but timberland, I assume—judging from what we have been able to observe."
"All timber. Never been cleared, 'cept purty well down the slope."
"And it is about five miles as the crow flies from Tinkletown, eh?"
"I ginerally say as the wild goose flies," said Mr. Crow, somewhat curtly.
"Well, you have heard the proposition I bring from my employers in New York City. Think it over tonight, Mr. Crow. Then, we will meet tomorrow morning at your office to complete our plans. I shall be prepared to hand you a draft for two hundred dollars to bind the bargain. What time do you reach your office?"
"Ginerally some'eres between six and a quarter-past."
"My God!" muttered Mr. Bonaparte.
"We will be there at six-fifteen," said Mr. Bacon firmly. "Good evening, Mr. Crow."
Far in the night, Mrs. Crow peevishly mumbled to her bedfellow: "What ails you, Anderson Crow? Go to sleep!"
"Never mind, never mind. I can't tell you, so don't pester me. All I ast of you is to wake me at five if I happen to oversleep."
"Well, of all the—do you suppose I'm goin' to lay awake here all night waitin' for five o'clock to——"
"How in thunder do you expect me to go to sleep, Eva, if you keep jabberin' away to me all night long like this? Ding it all to gosh, here it is after one o'clock an' you still talkin'. Don't do it, I say. Don't ast another question till five o'clock, an' then all you got to do it to ast me if I'm awake."
"Umph!" said Mrs. Crow.
Messrs. Bacon and Bonaparte were an hour and forty minutes late.
It was nearly eight o'clock when the two gentlemen came hurrying around the corner into Sickle street, piloted by Alf Reesling, the town drunkard.
A long, important-looking cigar propitiated Mr. Crow, and after Mr. Reesling and other citizens had been given to understand that the strangers were figuring on buying all the timber on Crow's Mountain, the three principals set forth in Anderson's buckboard.
In due time they arrived at the top of the "Mountain." Now Crow's Mountain was no mountain at all. It was a thickly wooded hill that had achieved eminence by happening to be a scant fifty feet higher than the knolls surrounding it. From the low-lying pastures and grain-fields to the top of the outstanding pine that reared its blasted storm-stripped tip far above its fellows, the elevation was not more than three hundred feet. Nevertheless, it was the loftiest hill in all that region and capped Anderson Crow's agricultural possessions.
Just before the Boggs City National Bank at the county seat closed that afternoon Mr. Crow appeared at the receiving-teller's window. He deposited two hundred dollars in currency. Mr. Bacon had decided that a draft on New York might excite undue curiosity.
"If people were to get wise to what we are really after up here on this mountain, Mr. Crow," said he, "it would play hob with everything. If it gets out that we are after gold—why, the price of land would be so high we couldn't—"
"Lot of these hayseeds been wantin' to sell fer years, the derned rubes," broke in Anderson, pityingly.
"Well, you get me, don't you? Keep our eyes open and our mouths closed, and we will be millionaires inside of a year—or two, at the outside."
"Mum's the word, as the feller said," agreed Mr. Crow.
"And of course you see the advisability of having our articles of incorporation filed secretly in New Jersey. This contract we have signed will be ratified by our employers in New York, and the regular articles drawn up at once. Wait till you see the names of the men who are behind this enterprise. The first meeting of the board of directors will bring together a dozen of the greatest—"
"Where will the meetin' be held?" broke in Anderson, somewhat anxiously.
"New York City, of course. It wouldn't surprise me in the least to see you elected President of the Corporation, Mr. Crow."
"Oh, gosh-a-mighty! I—I can't accept the honour, Mr. Bacon. It's too much of a responsibility. Besides, I don't see how I'm goin' to be able to get away from Tinkletown this fall to attend the meetin'. The County Fair opens next week at Boggs City, an' the second week in October there's to be a Baptist revival—"
"You can send in your proxy, Mr. Crow," explained Mr. Bacon. "It will be all the same to us, you know."
"Well, I guess I better," said Anderson thoughtfully.
A fortnight went by. Crow's Mountain had become the scene of sharp but stealthy activity. Anderson went about the streets of Tinkletown as if in a daze. Acting upon the stern, almost offensive, advice of his new partners, he did not go near the "Mountain" after the first couple of days. They made it very plain to him that everything depended on his shrewdness in staying away from the "Mountain" altogether.
The Tinkletown Banner, in reporting the vast transaction, incorporated an interview with Mr. G. W. Bacon, who announced that the syndicate he represented had in mind a project to erect a huge summer hotel on top of the "most beautiful mountain east of the Rockies," in the event that satisfactory terms could be arranged with Mr. Crow. As a matter of fact, explained Mr. Bacon, he had been instructed to make certain preliminary investigations in regard to construction, and so forth—such as ascertaining how far down they would have to go to bed-rock, and all that sort of thing.
Practically all of the syndicate's preparatory work on Crow's Mountain was done under cover of night. Motor-trucks that were said to have been driven all the way from Pittsburgh—on account of the dreadful congestion on the railroads—delivered machinery, tools, drills, rods, bolts, rivets and thin jangling strips of structural steel.
Marshal Crow, assuming an importance he did not feel, strutted about Tinkletown.
His abstraction had a good deal to do with the accident to old Mrs. Twiggers. He was dreamily cogitating at the time she was run down by Schultz's butcher-wagon, and as the catastrophe took place almost under his nose, more than one citizen called him names he wouldn't forget. The old lady had her spectacles smashed and lost a dozen eggs in the confusion. Moreover, Ed Higgins's hen-roost was robbed; and three tramps spent as much as half a day on Main Street before Anderson took any notice of them. Ordinarily, he was death on tramps. Crime, as Mr. Harry Squires put it in a caustic editorial in the Banner, was rampant in Tinkletown. It was getting so rampant, he complained, that it wasn't safe to cross the street—especially while eggs were retailing at forty-two cents a dozen.
It remained for Alf Reesling, the town drunkard, to bring order out of chaos. Not that he seized the opportunity to go on a spree while Anderson was moon-gazing,—not at all. Alf loathed intoxicating liquors. He did not drink himself, and he had a horror of any one who did. He had been drunk just three times in his life, but as he had managed to crowd the three exhibitions into the space of one week—some twenty years before—Tinkletown elected him forthwith for life to the office of town sot.
Now, Alf had a grievance. He finally got the ear of Marshal Crow and let loose in a way that startled the old man out of his daze.
"Here you been watchin' me, an' trailin' me, an' lecturin' me for twenty years, dern ye,—an' pleadin' with me to keep sober fer the sake of Tinkletown's fair name, an' you let this feller Bonyparte git full an' keep people awake half the night. He's been drunk more times in the last three weeks than I ever was in all my life. He—"
"What's that? Did you say drunk?" demanded Anderson, blinking. "Who told you he was drunk?"
"He did," said Alf. "He don't make any bones about it. He tells everybody when he is drunk. He's proud of it."
"An' I suppose everybody believes him," said Anderson scathingly. "The people of this here town will believe any thing if—"
"Las' night that pardner of his'n an' two other fellers from up the hill had to take him up to his room an' lock him in. He was tryin' to sing the Star Spangled Banner in Dutch. Gosh, it was awful! He orter be arrested, same as anybody else, Anderson Crow. You got me under suspicion every minute o' the time—night and day—"
"That'll do, that'll do, now Alf. No more back talk out o' you," exclaimed Anderson menacingly. "You might as well be drunk as to act drunk. Don't you know any better'n—"
"Are you goin' to arrest this Bonyparte feller?"
Anderson eyed him sternly for a moment. "I got half a notion to run you in, Alf Reesling, fer interferin' with an officer."
"How'm I interferin'?"
"You're preventin' me from arrestin' a violater of the law, dern you. Can't you see I'm on my way over to Justice Robb's to swear out a warrant against Abraham Lincoln Bonaparte for bein' intoxicated? What do you mean by stoppin' me an'—"
"I'll go along, Andy," broke in Alf, suddenly affable. "I'll swear to it if you—"
"'Tain't necessary," announced Anderson loftily. "I c'n attend to my own business, if you can't. Nobody c'n sing the Star Spangled Banner in Dutch without havin' a charge of intoxication filed ag'in him, lemme tell you that. Git out o' my way, Alf."
Mr. Crow's pride had been touched. The shaft of criticism had gone home. He would arrest Mr. Abraham Lincoln Bonaparte, no matter what came of it. He did not like Mr. Bonaparte anyway. It was Mr. Bonaparte who had ordered him off Crow's Mountain—his own mountain, mind you—and told him not to come puttering around there any more.
On second thoughts, he accepted the nominal town sot's offer to make affidavit against a real offender, but declined his company and assistance in effecting the arrest. Down in the old Marshal's heart lurked the fear that his new partners would put up such strenuous objections to the arrest that he would have to give way to them. It was this misgiving that caused him to make the trip to Crow's Mountain instead of confronting his man that evening at the hotel or in the street, in the presence of an audience.
Arriving at the cross-roads half a mile from the foot of Crow's Mountain, he encountered two men tinkering with the engine of a big automobile. They stopped him and inquired if there was a garage nearby. While he was directing them to Pete Olsen's in town, he espied two more men reposing in the shade of a tree farther up the lane.
As he drove on, leaving them behind, he found himself possessed of the notion that the two men were strangely nervous and impatient. He decided, after he had gone a half mile farther that they had, as a matter-of-fact, acted in a very suspicious manner,—just as automobile thieves might be expected to act in the presence of an officer of the law. He made up his mind that if they were still there when he returned with his prisoner, he would yank 'em up for investigation.
He went through the motions of hitching old Hip and Jim to a sapling near the top of the "Mountain." They went to sleep almost instantly.
In the little clearing off to the left, a couple of hundred yards away, Marshal Crow observed several men at work constructing a "shanty." Closer at hand, almost lost to view among the pines, rose the thin, open-work steel tower from which the "drill" was to be operated. Standing out among the tree-tops were the long cross-bars of steel, and from them ran the "guy" wires to the ground below. Mr. Crow had never seen a "drill" before, but he had been told by Mr. Bacon that this was the newest thing on the market.
The Marshal started off in the direction of the "shanty" and suddenly a most astonishing thing happened. Mr. Crow disappeared from view as if by magic!
In order to give the drill as wide a berth as possible, he had deployed widely to the left of the path, making his way somewhat tortuously through a rough lot of underbrush. Without the slightest warning, the earth gave way beneath him and down he shot, clawing frantically at the edges of a well-camouflaged hole in the ground, taking with him a vast amount of twigs, branches and a net-work of sapling poles.
Not only did he drop a good twelve feet, but he landed squarely upon the stooping person of Mr. Bacon, who emitted a startling sound that began as a yell and ended as a grunt. He then crumpled up and spread himself out flat, with Mr. Crow draped awkwardly across his prostrate form. For the time being, Mr. Bacon was as still as the grave. He was out.
Anderson scrambled to his feet, pawing the air with his hands, his eyes tightly shut. He was yelling for help.
Now, it was this yelling for help that deceived the astonished Mr. Bonaparte. He jumped at once to the conclusion that the Marshal was calling for assistance from the outside.
So he threw up his hands!
"I—surrender! I give in!" he yelled. "Keep them off! Don't let them get at me!"
Anderson opened his eyes and stared.
He found himself in a small, squat room lighted by a lantern which stood upon a crudely made table in the corner beyond Bonaparte. There was a board floor well littered with soil and shavings. In another corner stood a singular looking contraption, not unlike a dynamo.
Marshal Crow bethought himself of his mission. Although the breath had been jarred out of his body, he managed to say,—explosively:
"I—I got a warrant for your arrest. Come along now! Don't resist. Don't make a fuss. Come along peaceably. I—"
"I'll come, Mr. Crow. I was dragged into this thing against my will. Gott in Himmel! Gott!—"
"Never mind what you got," exclaimed Anderson sharply. "You come along with me or you'll get something worse'n that."
"Is—is he dead!" groaned Bonaparte, his eyes almost starting from his head.
Anderson backed away from the sprawling, motionless figure on the floor.
"I—I—gosh, I hope not. I—I was as much surprised as anybody. Say, you see if he's breathin'. We got to git him out o' this place right away an' send for a doctor. The good Lord knows I didn't intend to light on him like that. It was an accident, I swear it was. You know just how it happened, an'—you'll stand by me, won't you, if—"
Just then a loud voice came from above.
"Hey, down there!" A second's pause. Then: "We've got you dead to rights, so no monkey business. Come up out o' that, or we'll pump enough lead down there to—"
"Don't shoot,—don't shoot!" yelled Mr. Bonaparte shrilly. "Tell your men not to fire, Mr. Crow!"
"Tell—tell who?" cried Anderson blankly. Suddenly he sprang to his companion's side; seizing him by the arm, he whispered hoarsely: "By gosh, I thought there was somethin' queer about that gang. Have you got any of the gold here? I recollect that feller's voice, plain as day. They're after the gold. They've heard about—"
"Are you coming up?" roared the voice from the outer world.
"Who are you?" called back Anderson stoutly.
"Oh, I guess you'll recognize United States marshals when you see 'em. Come on, now."
Abraham Lincoln Bonaparte faced Marshal Crow, the truth dawning upon him like a flash.
"You damned old rube!" he snarled, and forthwith planted his fist under Anderson's chin-whiskers, with such surprising force that the old man once more landed heavily on the prostrate form of the unfortunate Bacon.
"O-oh, gosh!" groaned Anderson, and as his eyes rolled upward he saw a million stars chasing each other around the ceiling.
"I'll get that much satisfaction out of it anyhow," he heard some one say, from a very great distance.
Sometime afterward he was dimly aware of a jumble of excited voices about him. Some one was shouting in his ear. He opened his eyes and everything looked green before them. In time he recognized pine trees, very lofty pine trees that slowly but surely shrank in size as he gazed wonderingly at them.
There were a lot of strange men surrounding him. Out of the mass, he finally selected a face that grew upon him. It was the face of Alf Reesling.
"By jinks, Anderson, you done it this time," Alf cried excitedly. "I told 'em you was on your way up here to arrest these fellers, an' by jinks, I knowed you'd get 'em."
"Le—lemme set down, please," mumbled Anderson, and the two men who supported him lowered him gently to the ground, with his back against a tree trunk. "Come here, Alf," he called out feebly.
Alf shuffled forward.
"Who are these men?" whispered Anderson.
"Detectives—reg'lar detectives," replied Alf. "United States detectives—what do you call 'em?"
"Scotland Yard men," replied Anderson, who had done a good deal of reading in his time.
"I started out after you on my wheel, Andy, thinkin' maybe you'd have trouble. Down the road I met up with these fellers in a big automobile. They stopped me an' said I couldn't go up the hill. Just then up comes another car full of men. They all seemed to be acquainted. I told 'em I was a deputy marshal an' was goin' up the hill to help you arrest a feller named Bonyparte. Well, by jinks, you oughter heard 'em! They cussed, and said the derned ole fool would spile everything. Then, 'fore you could say Joe, they piled into one o' the cars an' sailed up the hill. I didn't get up here till after they'd hauled you an' your prisoners out o' that hole, but I give 'em the laugh just the same. You captured the two ringleaders. By gosh, I'm glad you're alive, Andy. I bet the Kaiser'll hate you fer this."
"The—the what?"
"Ole Kaiser Bill. Say, you was down there quite a little spell, an' they won't let me go down. What does a wireless plant look like, Anderson?"
That evening Marshal Crow sat on the porch in front of Lamson's store, smoking a fine cigar, presented to him by Harry Squires, reporter for the Banner. He had a large audience. Indeed, he was obliged to raise his voice considerably in order to reach the outer rim.
He had been called a hero, a fearless officer, and a lot of other pleasant things, by the astonished United States marshals, and he had been given to understand that he would hear from Washington before long. Mr. Bacon (Kurt von Poppenblitz) and Mr. Bonaparte (Conrad Bloom) had also called him something, but he didn't mind. His erstwhile partners, with their four or five henchmen, were now well on their way to limbo, and Mr. Crow was regaling his hearers with the story. During the first recital (this being either the ninth or tenth), Alf Reesling had been obliged to prompt him—a circumstance readily explainable when one stops to consider the effect of the murderous blow Mr. Crow had received.
"'Course," said Anderson, "they did fool me at first. But I wasn't long gittin' onto 'em. I used to sneak up there and investigate ever' now an' ag'in. Finally I got onto the fact that they was German spies—I got positive proof of it. I can't tell you just what it is, 'cause it's government business. Then I finds out they got a wireless plant all in order, an' ready to relay messages to the coast o' Maine, from some'eres out west. So today, I goes over to Justice Robb's and gits a warrant for intoxication. That was to make it legal fer me to bust into their shanty if necessary. Course, the drunk charge was only a blind, as I told the U. S. marshal. I went right straight to that underground den o' their'n, an' afore they knowed what was up, I leaped down on 'em. Fust thing I done was to put the big and dangerous one horse de combat. He was the one I was worried about. I knocked him flat an' then went after t'other one. He let on like he was surrenderin'. He fooled me, I admit—'cause I don't know anything 'bout wireless machinery. All of a sudden he give me a wireless shock—out o' nowhere, you might say—an' well, by cracky, I thought it was all over. 'Course, I realize now it was foolish o' me to try to go up there an' take them two desperadoes single-handed, but I—What's that, Bud?"
"Mrs. Crow sent me to tell you if you didn't come home to supper this minute, you wouldn't git any," called out a boy from the outskirts of the crowd.
"That's the second wireless shock you've had today, Anderson," said Harry Squires, drily, and slowly closed one eye.
THE BEST MAN WINS!
ANDERSON CROW MEETS HIS WATERLOO AND HIS MARNE
For sixteen consecutive years Anderson Crow had been the Marshal of Tinkletown. A hiatus of two years separated this period of service from another which, according to persons of apparently infallible memory, ran through an unbroken stretch of twenty-two years. Uncle Gid Luce stoutly maintained—and with some authority—that anybody who said twenty-two years was either mistaken or lying. He knew for a positive fact that it was only twenty-one for the simple reason that at the beginning of the Crow dynasty a full year elapsed before Anderson could be convinced that he actually had been victorious at the polls over his venerable predecessor, ex-marshal Bunker, who had served uninterruptedly for something like thirty years before him.
It took the wisest men in town nearly a year to persuade the incredulous Mr. Bunker that he had been defeated, and also to prove to Mr. Crow that he had been elected. Neither one of 'em would believe it.
It was the consensus of opinion, however, that Anderson Crow had served, all told, thirty-eight years, the aforesaid hiatus being the result of a decision on his part to permanently abandon public life in order to carry on his work as a private detective. Mr. Ed. Higgins held the office for two years and then retired, claiming that there wasn't any sense in Tinkletown having two marshals and only paying for one. And, as the salary and perquisites were too meagre to warrant a division, and the duties of office barely sufficient to keep one man awake, he arrived at the only conclusion possible: it was only fair that he should split even with Anderson.
After thinking it over for some time, he decided that about the best way to solve the problem was for him to take the pay and allow Anderson to do the work,—an arrangement that was eminently satisfactory to the entire population of Tinkletown.
Elections were held biennially. Every two years, in the spring, as provided by statute, the voters of Tinkletown—unless otherwise engaged—ambled up to the polling place in the rear of Hawkins's Undertaking Emporium and voted not only for Anderson Crow, but for a town clerk, a justice of the peace, and three selectmen. No one ever thought of voting for any one except Mr. Crow. Once, and only once, was there an opposition candidate for the office of Town Marshal. It is on record that he did not receive a solitary vote.
Republicans and Democrats voted for Anderson with persistent fidelity, and while there were notable contests for the other offices at nearly every election, no one bothered himself about the marshal-ship.
The regular election was drawing near. Marshal Crow was mildly concerned,—not about himself, but on account of the tremendous battle that was to be waged for the office of town clerk. Henry Wimpelmeyer, the proprietor of the tanyard, had come out for the office, and was spending money freely. The incumbent, Ezra Pounder, had had a good deal of sickness in his family during the winter, and was in no position to be bountiful.
Moreover, Ezra was further handicapped by the fact that nearly every voter in Tinkletown owed money to Henry Wimpelmeyer. Inasmuch as it was just the other way round with Ezra, it may be seen that his adversary possessed a sickening advantage. Mr. Wimpelmeyer could afford to slap every one on the back and jingle his pocketful of change in the most reckless fashion. He did not have to dodge any one on the street, not he.
Anderson Crow was a strong Pounder man. He was worried. Henry Wimpelmeyer had openly stated that if he were elected he would be pleased to show his gratitude to his friends by cancelling every obligation due him!
He was planning to run on what was to be called the People's ticket. Ezra was an Anderson Crow republican. Tinkletown itself was largely republican. The democrats never had a chance to hold office except when there was a democratic president at Washington. Then one of them got the post-office, and almost immediately began to show signs of turning republican so that he could be reasonably certain of reappointment at the end of his four years.
Anderson Crow lay awake nights trying to evolve a plan by which Henry Wimpelmeyer's astonishing methods could be overcome. That frank and unchallenged promise to cancel all debts was absolutely certain to defeat Ezra. So far as the marshal knew, no one owed Henry more than five dollars—in most cases it was even less—but when you sat down and figured up just how much Henry would ever realize in hard cash on these accounts, even if he waited a hundred years, it was easy to see that the election wasn't going to cost him a dollar.
For example, Alf Reesling had owed him a dollar and thirty-five cents for nearly seven years. Alf admitted that the obligation worried him a great deal, and it was pretty nearly certain that he would jump at the chance to be relieved. Other items: Henry Plumb, two dollars and a quarter; Harvey Shortfork, ninety cents; Ben Pickett, a dollar-seventy-five; Rush Applegate, three-twenty; Lum Gillespie, one-fifteen,—and so on, including Ezra Pounder himself, who owed the staggering sum of eleven dollars and eighty-two cents. There was, after all, some consolation in the thought that Ezra would be benefited to that extent by his own defeat.
Naturally, Mr. Crow gave no thought to his own candidacy. No one was running against him, and apparently no one ever would. Therefore, Mr. Crow was in a position to devote his apprehensions exclusively to the rest of the ticket, and to Ezra Pounder in particular.
He could think of but one way to forestall Mr. Wimpelmeyer, and that was by digging down into his own pocket and paying in cash every single cent that the electorate of Tinkletown owed "the dad-burned Shylark!" He even went so far as to ascertain—almost to a dollar—just how much it would take to save the honour of Tinkletown, finding, after an investigation, that $276.82 would square up everything, and leave Henry high and dry with nothing but the German vote to depend upon. There were exactly twenty-two eligible voters in town with German names, and seven of them professed to be Swiss the instant the United States went into the war.
Mr. Crow was making profound calculation on the back of an envelope when Alf Reesling, the town drunkard, came scuttling excitedly around the corner from the Banner office.
"Gee whiz!" gasped Alf, "I been lookin' all over fer you, Anderson."
"Say, can't you see I'm busy? Now, I got to begin all over ag'in. Move on, now—"
"Have you heard the latest?" gulped Alf, grabbing him by the arm.
"What ails you, Alf? Wait a minute! No, by gosh, it's more like onions. For a second I thought you'd—"
"I'm as sober as ever," interrupted Alf hotly.
"That's what you been sayin' fer twenty years," said Anderson.
"Well, ain't I?"
"I don't know what you do when I'm not watchin' you."
"Well, all I got to say is I never felt more like takin' a drink. An' you'll feel like it, too, when you hear the latest. Maybe you'll drop dead er somethin'. Serve you right, too, by jiminy, the way you keep insinyating about—"
"Go on an' tell me. Don't talk all day. Just tell me. That's all you're called on to do."
"Well," sputtered Alf. "Some one's come out ag'in you fer marshal. I seen the item they're printin' over at the Banner office. Seen the name an' everything."
Anderson blinked two or three times, reached for his whiskers and missed them, and then roared:
"You must be crazy, Alf! By thunder, I hate to do it, but I'll have to put you in a safe—"
"You just wait an' see if I'm—"
"—safe place where you can't harm nobody. You oughtn't to be runnin' round at large like this. Here! Leggo my arm! What the dickens are you tryin' to—"
"Come on! I'll show you!" exclaimed Alf. "I'll take you right around to the Banner office an'—say, didn't you know the People's Party nominated a full ticket las' night over at Odd Fellers' Hall?"
Anderson submitted himself to be led—or rather dragged—around the corner into Sickle Street.
Several business men aroused from mid-morning lassitude allowed their chairs to come down with a thump upon divers mercantile porches, and fell in behind the two principal citizens of Tinkletown. Something terrible must have happened or Marshal Crow wouldn't be summoned in any such imperative manner as this.
"What's up, Anderson?" called out Mort Fryback, the hardware dealer, wavering on one leg while he reached frantically behind him for his crutch. Mort was always looking for excitement. He hadn't had any to speak of since the day he created the greatest furor the town had experienced in years by losing one of his legs under an extremely heavy kitchen stove.
"Is there a fire?" shouted Mr. Brubaker, the druggist, half a block away.
Mr. Jones, proprietor of the Banner Job Printing office, obligingly produced the "galley-proof" of the account of the People's Convention, prepared by his "city editor," Harry Squires, for the ensuing issue of the weekly. Mr. Squires himself emerged from the press-room, and sarcastically offered his condolences to Anderson Crow.
"Well, here's a pretty howdy-do, Anderson," he said, elevating his eye-shade to a position that established a green halo over a perfectly pink pate.
"Howdy-do," responded Anderson, with unaccustomed politeness. He was staring hard at the dirty strip of paper which he held to the light.
"Didn't I tell you?" exclaimed Alf Reesling triumphantly. "There she is, right before your eyes."
Mr. Reesling employed the proper gender in making this assertion. "She" was right before the eyes of every one who cared to look. Anderson slowly read off the "ticket." His voice cracked deplorably as he pronounced the last of the six names that smote him where he had never been smitten before.
Clerk—Henry Wimpelmeyer
Justice of the Peace—William Kiser
Selectman, First District—Otto Schultz
Selectman, Second District—Conrad Blank
Selectman, Third District—Christopher Columbus Callahan
Marshal—Minnie Stitzenberg.
A long silence followed the last syllable in Minnie's name, broken at last by Marshal Crow, who turned upon Harry Squires and demanded:
"What do you mean, Harry Squires, by belittlin' a woman's name in your paper like this? She c'n sue for libel. You got no right to make fun of a respectable, hard-workin' woman, even though she did make a derned fool of herself gittin' up that pertition to have me removed from office."
"Well, that's what she's still trying to do," said Harry.
"What say?"
"I say she's still trying to remove you from office. She's going to get your hide, Anderson, for arresting her when she tried to make that Suffrage speech in front of the town hall last fall."
"I had a right to arrest her. She was obstructin' the public thoroughfare."
"That's all right, but she said she had as much right to block the street as you had. You made speeches all over the place."
"Yes, but I made 'em in good American English, an' she spoke half the time in German. How in thunder was I to know what she was sayin'? She might 'a' been sayin' somethin' ag'in the United States Government, fer all I knew."
"Well, anyhow, she's going to get your scalp for it, if it's in woman's power to do it."
"I'm ag'in any female citizen of this here town that subscribes to a German paper printed in New York City an' refuses to read the Banner," declared Anderson loudly—and with all the astuteness of the experienced politician. "An' what's more," pursued Anderson scornfully, "I'm ag'in that whole ticket. There's only one American on it, an' he was a Democrat up to las' Sunday. Besides, it's ag'in the law to nominate Minnie Stitzenberg."
"Why?" demanded Harry Squires.
"Ain't she a woman?"
"Certainly she is."
"Well, ain't that ag'in the law? A woman ain't got no right to run for nothin'," said Anderson. "She ain't—"
"She ain't, eh? Didn't you walk up to the polls last fall and vote to give her the right?" demanded Harry. "Didn't every dog-goned man in this town except Bill Wynkoop vote for suffrage? Well, then, what are you kicking about? She's got as much right to run for marshal as you have, old Sport, and if what she says is true, every blessed woman in Tinkletown is going to vote for her."
Marshal Crow sat down, a queer, dazed look in his eyes.
"By gosh, I—I never thought they'd act like this," he murmured.
Every man in the group was asking the same question in the back of his startled brain: "Has my wife gone an' got mixed up in this scheme of Minnie's without sayin' anything to me?" Visions of feminine supremacy filled the mental eye of a suddenly perturbed constituency. The realization flashed through every mind that if the women of Tinkletown stuck solidly together, there wasn't the ghost of a chance for the sex that had been in the saddle since the world began. An unwitting, or perhaps a designing, Providence had populated Tinkletown with at least twenty more women than men!
Alf Reesling was the first to speak. He addressed the complacent Mr. Squires:
"I know one woman that ain't goin' to vote for Minnie Stitzenberg," said he, somewhat fiercely.
"What are you going to do?" inquired Harry mildly. "Kill her?"
"Nothin' as triflin' as that," said Alf. "I'm goin' to tell my wife if she votes for Minnie I'll pack up and leave her."
"Minnie's sure of one vote, all right," was Harry's comment.
Fully ten minutes were required to convince the marshal that Minnie Stitzenberg was a bona fide candidate.
Anderson finally arose, drew himself to his full height, lifted his chin, and faced the group with something truly martial in his eye.
"Feller citizens," he began solemnly, "the time has come for us men to stand together. We got to pertect our rights. We got to let the women know that they can't come between us. For the last million years we have been supportin' an' pertectin' and puttin' up with all sorts of women, an' we got to give 'em to understand that this is no time for them to git it into their heads they can support and pertect us. Everybody, includin' the women, knows there's a great war goin' on over in Europe. Us men are fightin' that war. We're bleedin' an' dyin' an' bein' captured by the orneriest villains outside o' hell—as the feller says. I'm not sayin' the women ain't doin' their part, mind you. They're doin' noble, an' you couldn't git me to say a thing ag'in women as women. They're a derned sight better'n we are. That's jest the point. We got to keep 'em better'n we are, an' what's more to the point, we don't want 'em to find out they're better'n we are. Just as soon as they git to be as overbearin' an' as incontrollable as we are, then there's goin' to be thunder to pay. I'm willin' to work, an' fight, an' die fer my wife an' my daughters, but I'm derned if I like the idee of them workin' an' fightin' ag'in me. I'm willin' the women should vote. But they oughtn't to run out an' vote ag'in the men the first chance they git. When this war's over an' there ain't no able-bodied men left to run things, then you bet the women will be derned glad we fixed things so's they won't never have to worry about goin' to war with the ding-blasted ravishers over in Germany. If the time ever comes—an' it may, if they keep killin' us off over there—when the women have to run this here government, they'll find it's a man-sized job, an' that we took care of it mighty well up to the time we got all shot to pieces preservin' humanity, an' civilization, an' all the women an' children the Germans didn't git a chance to butcher because we wouldn't let 'em. Now, I'm ready any time to knuckle under to a man that's better'n I am. But I'm dog-goned if I'm willin' to admit that Minnie Stitzenberg's that man! Yes, sir, gentlemen, we men have got to stand together!"
"'Sh!" hissed Mort Fryback, jerking his head in the direction of Main Street. With one accord the men on the porch turned to look.
Miss Minnie Stitzenberg had come into view on the opposite side of the street, and was striding manfully in their direction. The Higgins dog trotted proudly, confidently, a few feet ahead of her. She waved a friendly hand and called out, in a genial but ludicrous effort to mimic the lordly Mr. Crow:
"Move on there, now. Don't loiter."
A little later, the agitated town marshal, flanked by the town drunkard and the one-legged Mr. Fryback, viewed with no little dismay a group of women congregated in front of Parr's drygoods store. In the centre of this group was the new candidate for town marshal. Alf Reesling stopped short and said something under his breath. His wife was one of Miss Stitzenberg's most attentive listeners.
Marshal Crow was not disheartened. He knew that Minnie Stitzenberg could not defeat him at the polls. The thing that rankled was the fact that a woman had been selected to run against him. It was an offence to his dignity. The leaders of the People's Party made it quite plain that they did not consider him of sufficient importance to justify anything so dignified as masculine opposition!
On the day of the Republican Convention, which was to be held in the town hall in the evening, Anderson went in despair and humility to Harry Squires, the reporter.
"Harry," he said, "I been thinkin' it over. I can't run ag'in a woman. It goes ag'in the grain. If I beat her, I'd never be able to look anybody in the face, an' if she beats me—why, by gosh, I couldn't even look myself in the face. So I'm goin' to decline the nomination tonight."
He was rather pathetic, and Harry Squires was touched. He had a great fondness for the old marshal, notwithstanding his habit of poking fun at him and ridiculing him in the Banner. He laid his hand on the old man's arm and there was genuine warmth in his voice as he spoke to him.
"Anderson, we can't allow you to withdraw. It would be the vilest thing the people of this town could do if they turned you out of office after all these years of faithful service. We—"
"Can't be helped, Harry," said Anderson firmly. "I won't run ag'in a woman, so that's the end of it."
Harry looked cautiously around, and then, leaning a little closer, said:
"I know something that would put Minnie in the soup, clean over her head. All I've got to do is to tell what I know about—"
"Hold on, Harry," broke in the marshal sternly. "Is it somethin' ag'in her character?"
"It's something that would prevent every man, woman and child in Tinkletown from voting for her," said Harry.
"Somethin' scand'lous?" demanded Anderson, perking up instantly.
"Decidedly. A word from me and—"
"Wait a second. Is—is there a man in the case?"
"A man?" cried Harry. "Bless your soul, Anderson, there are fifty men in it."
Anderson fell back a step or two. For a moment or two he was speechless.
"Sakes alive! Fifty? For goodness' sake, Harry, are you sure?"
"Not exactly. It may be sixty," amended Harry. "We could easily find out just how many—"
"Never mind! Never mind!" cried Anderson, recovering himself. "If it's as bad as all that, we just got to keep still about it. I wouldn't allow you to throw mud at her if she's been carryin' on with only one man, but if there's fifty or—But, gosh a' mighty, Harry, it ain't possible. A woman as homely as Minnie—why, dog-gone it, a woman as homely as she is simply couldn't be bad no matter how much she wanted to. It ain't human nature. She—"
"Hold your horses, Anderson," broke in Harry, after a perplexed stare. "I guess you're jumping at conclusions. I didn't say—"
"There ain't going to be no scandal in this campaign. If Minnie Stitzenberg—German or no German—has been—"
"It isn't the kind of scandal you think it is," protested Harry. "What I'm trying to tell you is that it was Minnie Stitzenberg who got that guy up here from New York two years ago to sell stock in the Salt Water Gold Company, and stung fifty or sixty of our wisest citizens to the extent of thirty dollars apiece. I happen to know that Minnie got five dollars for every sucker that was landed. That guy was her cousin and she gave him a list of the easiest marks in town. If I remember correctly, you were one of them, Anderson. She got something like two hundred dollars for giving him the proper steer, and that's what I meant when I said there were fifty or sixty men in the case."
"Well, I'll be ding-blasted!"
"And do you know what she did with her ill-gotten gains?"
Anderson could only shake his head.
"She went up to Boggs City and took singing lessons. Now you know the worst."
The marshal found his voice. "An' it went on for nearly six months, too—people had to keep their windows shut so's they couldn't hear her yellin' as if somebody was tryin' to murder her. An' when I went to her an' respectfully requested her to quit disturbin' the peace, she—do you know what she said to me?"
"I've got a sneaking idea."
"Well, you're wrong. She said I was a finicky old jackass." The memory of it brought an apoplectic red to his face.
"And being a gentleman, you couldn't deny it," said Harry soberly.
"What's that?"
"I mean, you couldn't call her a liar. What did you say?"
"I looked her right in the eyes an' I said I'd been neutral up to that minute, but from then on I'd be derned if I'd try any longer. By gosh, I guess she knowed what I meant all right."
"Well, as I was saying, all you've got to do is to tell the voters of this town that she helped put up that job on them, and—"
Anderson held up his hand and shook his head resolutely.
"Nope! I'm through. I'm not goin' to run. I mean to withdraw my name tonight."
Considering the matter closed, he sauntered to the middle of the street where he held up his hand and stopped a lame and venerable Ford driven—or as Mr. Squires was in the habit of saying, urged—by Deacon Rank.
"What's your speedo-meter say, Deacon?" inquired the marshal blandly.
"It don't say anything," snapped the deacon.
Anderson saw fit to indulge in sarcasm. "Well, by gum, I'd 'a' swore your old machine was movin'. Is it possible my eyes deceived me?"
"Course it was movin'—movin' strictly accordin' to law, too. Six miles an hour. What you holdin' me up for?"
"So's I could get in and take a little joy ride with you," said Mr. Crow affably. "Drop me at the post office, will you?" He stepped up beside the deacon and calmly seated himself.
The deacon grumbled. "'Tain't more'n a hundred yards to the post office," he said. "Stoppin' me like this an'—an' makin' me get out and crank the car besides. An' I'm in a hurry, too. Couldn't you—"
"Well, I ain't in no hurry. If I was, don't you suppose I'd 'a' walked?"
That evening the town hall was filled with discouraged, apprehensive Republicans. A half-dozen newly enfranchised women occupied front seats. Ed. Higgins confided to those nearest him that he felt as though he was in church, and Alf Reesling loudly advised the convention to be careful, as there were ladies present.
Mr. Hud Lamson, as usual, was the chairman of the "Convention." No one else ever had a chance to be chairman for the reason that Hud did not insist upon having the honour thrust upon him. He simply took it.
Following the usual resolutions condemning the Democratic Party to perdition and at the same time eulogizing the Democratic Administration at Washington, Mr. Ezra Pounder was nominated by acclamation for the responsible post of town clerk. In swift succession, Ed. Higgins, Abner Pickerell and Situate M. Jones were chosen for selectmen. Justice Robb was unanimously chosen to succeed himself.
Then ensued a strange, significant silence—a silence fraught with exceeding gravity and the portentous suggestion of something devastating about to overtake the assemblage. Some one in the back of the hall cleared his throat, and instantly, with one accord, every eye was turned in his direction. It was as if he were clearing the way for action.
Harry Squires, the perennial secretary of all conventions held by all parties in Tinkletown, by virtue of his skill with the pencil, arose from his seat—and stepped to the front of the platform.
"Order!" called out Marshal Crow, in his most authoritative voice, sweeping the convention with an accusing eye.
"Mr. Chairman, fellow Republicans and voters of the opposite sex," began Harry, in a distinctly lugubrious tone, "we have now come to the most critical moment in the history of Tinkletown. It is with ineffable sorrow and dismay that I stand before you this evening, the bearer of sad tidings. On the other hand, I expect to derive great joy in offsetting this sad news later on in my humble speech. I am now, gentlemen—and ladies—speaking of our most noted and most cherished citizen, Mr. Anderson Crow, known to you all, I believe, without exception. I—"
At this juncture, up jumped Alf Reesling and shouted:
"Three cheers for Anderson Crow!"
And three cheers were given with a vim. Uncle Dad Simms, a patriot of long-standing but of exceedingly short memory, took the convention by storm by crying out in a cracked but penetrating voice:
"Three cheers for the President of the United States! I don't keer if he is a Democrat! Come on, now, men! Three cheers for President Cleveland!"
A roar of laughter went up and Uncle Dad, being quite deaf, followed it with two squeaky cheers, all by himself, and then looked about in triumph. Alf Reesling proposed three cheers for President Wilson, and again the welkin rang. Having established a success as a promoter of enthusiasm, Alf mounted a chair and roared:
"Now, let's give three cheers for General Pershing an' the boys over in France, includin' the four noble young men from Tinkletown who are with him in the trenches, killin' the botches! Now, hip—hip—"
And once more the air shivered under the impact of vocal enthusiasm.
Mr. Squires held up his hands and checked what might have become a habit by thanking the convention for the timely and admirable interruption, explaining that the digression had given him an opportunity to regain command of his emotions.
"It is, however, with pain that I am authorized to announce, not only to the glorious Republican Party, but to the City of Tinkletown, that—Hold on, Alf! We can get along without three cheers for Tinkletown! To announce that the name of Anderson Crow is hereby withdrawn from the consideration of this convention for the—er—the nomination for Town Marshal. Mr. Crow positively declines to make the race. It is not necessary for me to dilate upon the manifold virtues and accomplishments of our distinguished marshal. His fame extends to the uttermost corners of the earth. For nearly half a century he has kept this town jogging along in a straight and narrow path, and I for one—and I feel that I voice the sentiment of every citizen here and elsewhere—I for one do not resent the frequent reproaches and occasional arrests he has heaped upon me in the discharge of his duty. It was all for the good of the community, and I am proud to say that I have been arrested by Marshal Crow more times than I have fingers and toes. And, I am further proud to add, that on not a single occasion did Marshal Crow hesitate to admit that he was mistaken. Gentlemen, it takes a pretty big man to admit that he is mistaken. But, if you will read the next issue of the Banner, you will see that I can write about him much more eloquently than I can speak. He has positively decided not to be a candidate for re-election. While we are thereby plunged into grief of the darkest hue, I am here to tell you that our grief is mitigated by the most gorgeous ray of light that ever beamed upon the human race. It is my pleasure, gentlemen of the Republican Party—and ladies of the same sect—to present for your—"
Alf Reesling's voice was heard in plaintive protest. He spoke to his elbow neighbour, but in a tone audible to every one, far and near.
"I'll be dog-goned if I'll stand for that. It's an insult to every man here to say they are of the same sex. We give 'em the vote and, by gosh, they claim our sex. I—"
"Order!" commanded Marshal Crow.
The orator resumed. "It is my privilege to present for your consideration the name of one of our most illustrious citizens for the honourable office of Town Marshal. A name that is a household word, second only to that of the present incumbent. Circumstances over which we have no control—although we did have it up to a short time ago—make it possible for me to present to you a name that will go down in history as one of the grandest since the bonny days of good Queen Bess. Gentlemen—and at the same time, ladies—I have the honour to put in nomination for Town Marshal our distinguished fellow voter, Mrs. Anderson Crow!"
A silence even more potential than the one preceding Mr. Squire's peroration ensued. It was broken this time by Uncle Dad Simms, who proceeded to further glorify his deafness by squeaking:
"And he'll be elected, too, you bet your boots. We don't want no gosh-blamed woman fer—eh? What say, Alf?" And Alf, making a cup of his hands, repeated with great vigour an inch or so from Uncle Dad's ear the timely remark that had caused the ancient to hesitate. It is not necessary to quote Alf, but Uncle Dad's rejoinder is important.
"Well, Jee-hosaphat!" he gasped.
"Is there a second to the nomination?" inquired the chairman.
Marshal Crow arose. "I second the nomination," he said, taking a sudden tug at his whiskers. "Before we take a ballot, Mr. Chairman, I want to say right here an' now that Mrs. Crow will have my full an' undivided support, just as she has always had. I have allus maintained that a woman's place is in the home. Therefore, when it comes time fer Mrs. Crow to assume the responsibilities of this here office, I am goin' to see to it that she stays home an' tends to her household duties. I am goin' to be deputy marshal durin' her term of office, without pay, ladies an' gentlemen, an' I am goin' to lift every bit o' the work off'n her shoulders. I believe in equal sufferin'. If she'll do the woman's share o' the work, I'll do the man's, an' nothin' could be fairer than that. Between us we'll give the city o' Tinkletown the best administration the office of marshal has ever had. My wife ain't here tonight to accept the honour you are goin' to heap on her, but I think I can safely promise she'll consent to make the race. She may kick like a bay steer at first, but when she sees it's her duty to run, you bet she'll do it! It's a case of woman ag'in woman, feller Republicans, an' man ag'in man. All I got to say is that the best woman's bound to win. I almost forgot to say that if the voters o' Tinkletown don't jump at the chance to git a marshal an' a experienced deputy for the price o' one salary, it's because there's more derned fools in the town than I thought there was."
Mr. Ed Higgins sprang to his feet.
"I move, Mr. Chairman, that we make the nomination unanimous without a dissenting vote," he cried out. "We got a chance to get the best deputy marshal in the United States of America without it costin' us a red cent, an' besides that, we get the best cook in all Tinkletown for marshal. If there's anybody here, male or female, who c'n deny that Mrs. Crow is the best cook alive I'd like to hear him say so. I've eat a hundred meals in her house an' I know what I'm talkin' about. I defy anybody—"
"I call for a vote!" cried out one of the women, bridling a little. "And I want to say to you, Ed Higgins, that while I think Mrs. Crow will make the best marshal we've ever had, I wouldn't go so far as to say she's the best cook in Tinkletown. You haven't been invited to eat in every house in this town, don't forget that."
"All in favour of making the nomination of Mrs. Crow unanimous signify by holding up their hands," said the chairman.
Every hand went up. Then a rousing cheer was given for the "next Marshal of Tinkletown," followed by the customary mumbling of "The Star Spangled Banner."
Three full days were devoted by Anderson and the leaders of the Republican Party to the task of inducing Mrs. Crow to make the race against Minnie Stitzenberg. At first she refused point-blank. She didn't intend to neglect her household duties for all the offices in Tinkletown!
"But, consarn it, Eva!" Anderson protested for the hundredth time, "nobody's askin' you to neglect your household duties. Ain't I agreein' to handle the job for you?"
"Well, I posi-tive-ly refuse to wear a star—or carry a pistol."
"You don't have to. I'll wear the star."
"And if you think I'll traipse the streets of Tinkletown from morning till night, you're very much—"
"That ain't any respectable woman's job," said her husband stiffly. "You're not expected to do it as long as you got a deputy."
"And as for snooping around putting my nose into other people's business,—why—"
"Now, don't let that worry you, Eva. That's part o' my job."
"Who's going to tend jail when there's anybody locked up in it?"
"I am, o' course."
"And who's going to be street commissioner, truant officer, chief of the fire depart—"
"You are, Eva,—but I'm going to look after everything, mind you. All you got to do is to see that I git somethin' to eat whenever I need it, an' a bed to sleep in at night, an' I'll—"
"A bed to sleep in, you ninny!" she cried. "You're going to sleep in the same bed you've been sleeping in for forty years. What are you talking about? Ain't you going to sleep with me if I appoint you deputy marshal?"
"Certainly," Anderson made haste to assure her. "Unofficially, o' course," he went on, with profound regard for the ethics involved.
"Well, I'll think it over," she said wearily. "Don't bother me now, you two; can't you see I'm making apple butter?"
"I hope you will consent to run, Mrs. Crow," put in the wily Mr. Squires, "if only for the sake of showing Minnie Stitzenberg that it won't do her any good to be saying things about—well, about anybody in particular." He concluded very lamely.
"Has that woman been saying things about me?" demanded Mrs. Crow.
"I ought to have sense enough to keep my mouth shut," said Harry, scowling darkly. Catching the astonished look on Anderson's face, he hastily suggested that they "beat it."
Out in the front yard Anderson halted him. "Has Minnie been saying anything about my wife, Harry Squires?"
Harry first looked over his shoulder and then winked. "Not that I know of," he said, chuckling. "But I guess it's safe to go ahead and print the ticket with Mrs. Crow's name on it."
Never in all its sedentary existence had Tinkletown experienced a livelier campaign.
"If you vote for Minnie Stitzenberg, I'll never speak to you again," was the common argument of the Crowites, and "Don't you ever try to look me in the face again if you vote for that old Mrs. Crow," was the slogan of the opposition.
Mrs. Crow conducted her own campaign.
Anderson discovered to his great dismay that his meals were not only irregular in the matter of time, but frequently did not materialize at all. His wife and daughters neglected him completely. On three separate occasions after waiting until nearly eight o'clock for his supper, he strolled disconsolately over to the equally abandoned home of Alf Reesling.
"I'm a mighty poor cook," confessed Alf on the first occasion, a hungry, harassed look in his eyes. "But anything's better'n starvin', ain't it?"
"It shore is," said Anderson with feeling.
"I ain't seen a petticoat around my house since half-past nine this mornin'," lamented Alf, upsetting a pan of milk while trying to get a plate of cold ham out of the icebox. "It's terrible."
"Lemme take your knife, Alf. I'll peel the pertatoes—if you'll tell me where they are."
"I don't know where anything is," said Alf, leaning dejectedly against the kitchen sink.
"Well," said Anderson, "let's look."
"If the election was a week further off, I'd give up an' go to drinkin' again," said Alf on another occasion. "I'd sooner drink myself to death than starve. Starvation is a terrible end, Anderson. Worse than hangin', they say."
"Only four days more," sighed Anderson, clipping off a hunk of bologna. "My wife says if I'll hold out till after election, she won't never leave the kitchen ag'in long as she lives."
"That's what mine says. Sherman was only half right. War may be hell for men, but, by gosh, women are hell for war. An' that's what it is—war, Anderson, war to the hilt. Every woman in town's got her knife out an', my God, how they're slashin' each other! There won't be a whole woman left."
"Well, I'd be satisfied with half a one," mused Anderson, a faraway look in his eyes.
The day before the election, Mrs. Crow played her trump card. She had treasured an open boast made years before by the disappointed old maid who now opposed her. Minnie, before attaining years of discretion and still smarting under the failures of youth, had spitefully announced that she was a spinster from choice. With great scorn she had stated, while sitting on Mrs. Crow's porch, that she would die an old maid a hundred times over sooner than marry any one in Tinkletown. And, she added, the best proof that she meant what she said was the fact that nearly every man in town had asked her to marry him before he asked any one else!
The news spread like wildfire the instant Mrs. Crow released it. Mrs. Crow's veracity was not a thing to be questioned.
When the returns were all in, Mrs. Crow was found to have received 573 votes (women included), out of a total of 601 cast. Miss Stitzenberg held the German vote solid, including seven from her own sex who could afford to disregard the slander because they had been safely married in Germany long before coming to Tinkletown.
The day after the new marshal's induction into office Anderson appeared with his star glittering so brightly that it dazzled the eye. His shoes were polished, his clothes brushed and—shocking to relate—his trousers creased. In all his career as marshal he had never gone to such extremes as this. He was, however, not in a happy frame of mind. His customary aplomb was missing.
"Well, of all the—" began Alf Reesling. Then, before Anderson could put in a word of warning, he shouted to the group in front of Lamson's store: "Hey! Look at the dude!"
Anderson, very red in the face, declined a seat on a soap box.
"If I'd knowed she was goin' to act like this, I'd a voted ag'in her myself," he said rather wanly. "She started in bossin' me the very minute she got my place as marshal. She's laid down the law to me, an', by crickety, she says if I'm goin' to be her deputy I've got to look like this every day. Look at them shoes! And these pants! No, I can't set down. I don't dare risk sp'ilin' the creases my daughter Susie put in 'em 'fore I was up this mornin'."
VICIOUS LUCIUS
Lucius Fry lived up back of the Power-house on the outskirts of Tinkletown. He had a wife, two children and a horse and buggy. For a great many years he had led a quiet, peaceful, even suppressed existence. Being a rather smallish, bony sort of man, with a large Adam's apple and bow legs, he was an object of considerable scorn not only to his acquaintances but to his wife and children, and after a fashion, to his horse.
The latter paid absolutely no attention to him when he said "Get-ap," or when he applied the "gad"; she neither obeyed the command nor resented the chastisement. She jogged along in her own sweet way quite as if he were nowhere in the vicinity. His wife abused him, and his children ignored him. No one, it would appear, had the slightest use or respect for Lucius Fry.
He was, by profession, a well-digger. The installation of a water-works system in Tinkletown had made him a well-digger in name only. For a matter of five or six years, barring the last six months, he had been in the employ of his wife. She took in washing, and it was his job to collect and deliver the "wash" three times a week. In return for this he received board and lodging and an occasional visit to the moving-picture theatre. One of his daughters clerked in the five-and-ten-cent store, and the other, aged twelve, was errand girl to Miss Angie Nixon, the fashionable dressmaker.
Lucius had married very much above him, so to speak. That is to say, his wife was something like nine or ten inches the taller of the two. When they appeared on the street together,—which was seldom,—you could see him only if you chanced to be on that side of her. Mrs. Fry was nearly six feet tall and very wide, but Lucius was not much over five feet two. He had a receding chin that tried to secrete itself behind a scant, dun-colored crop of whiskers, cultivated by him with two purposes in view; first, to provide shelter for his shrinking chin, and second, to avoid the arduous and unnecessary task of shaving.
Roughly speaking, Lucius was a shiftless creature. It had long been the consensus of opinion—freely expressed throughout Tinkletown—that he did not amount to a tinker's dam.
However that may be, some six or seven months prior to the incidents about to be related, Mr. Fry himself wrought a tremendous and unbelievable change in the foregoing opinion. Almost in the wink of an eyelash he passed through a process of transmogrification that not only bewildered him but caused the entire community to sit up and take notice of him.
It all came about in the oddest sort of way. For a number of years Lucius had been in the habit of currying the old grey mare on Saturday mornings. Away back in his mind lurked an hereditary respect for the Sabbath. He wanted old Peggy to be as clean as possible on Sunday—observing the same principle, no doubt, that induces a great many people to take a bath on Saturday night. Moreover, he changed the bedding in her stall on Saturdays, employing a pitchfork and a spade.
For a number of years Peggy had put up with these attentions, responding amiably to his directions—such as "Get over, dern ye," or "Whoa, back," "Stan' still, can't ye?" and so on.
One never-to-be-forgotten Saturday morning in the spring of the year, Peggy happened to be peevish. The cause of her peevishness was a swarm of intensely active flies. Mr. Fry was accustomed to an occasional swish of her tail across his face. He even welcomed it, for the flies bothered him almost as much as they did Peggy. On mornings when he felt unusually tired, he was rather grateful to Peggy for including him in the sweep of her tail.
But on this particular morning the exasperated nag planted one of her hoofs on Mr. Fry's toes while he was engaged in brushing out the kinks in her mane.
Mrs. Fry happened to be in the stable at the time, seeing if the hens had mislaid anything in the hay. She was astonished by the roar of a mighty oath, followed almost instantly by a thunderous thump on the barrel-like anatomy of the family horse. A second or two later Peggy's head came in for a resounding whack, and the stream of profanity increased to a torrent.
Springing to her feet, the surprised lady cast a startled glance over the manger into the stall. Her husband had old Peggy backed up against the partition and was preparing to deliver a third blow with the spade when she called out to him: "Stop it, you little fool!"
Mr. Fry's attention was diverted. Peggy was spared the impending blow. Instead, the outraged hostler charged around the partition, through a narrow passage and into the presence of his wife. He hobbled painfully. Inarticulate sounds issued from his compressed lips. He gripped the spade-handle so tightly that cords stood out on his rather formidable forearms.
Mrs. Fry got as far as "You ugly little—" and then, as he bore down upon her, turned to flee. He altered his course, and as she passed him on the way to the open door, the flat of the spade landed with impelling force upon the broadest part of her person. The sound was not so hollow as that which resulted from the wallop on Peggy's ribs, but its echo was a great deal more far-reaching. Indeed, Mrs. Fry's howl could have been heard a quarter of a mile away. She passed through the door into the barnyard on the wing, as it were.
Lucius blindly took another swing at her with the spade as she made her exit. Missing her by several feet, he spun completely around several times with the momentum; then, not to be deprived of the full measure of triumph, he hurled the implement after her retreating figure. Rage improved the accuracy as well as the force of his effort. The spade caught Mrs. Fry below the waistline and for nearly a month thereafter she was in the habit of repairing with female visitors to an upstairs bedroom where she proudly revealed to them the extensive welt produced by her husband's belated return to power.
Not completely satisfied, however, he set out in pursuit of her, principally on one foot, but with a swiftness that surprised both of them. Overtaking her near the barnyard gate, he pulled up suddenly, realizing the peril of being too precipitate. He was rushing into disaster. She was likely to turn and snatch the offensive away from him. But just as he was on the point of turning to run the other way, she flopped down on her knees and began begging him for God's sake to spare her! Her eyes were tightly closed, and her arms were raised to shield her face.
Seizing this fine opportunity, he edged around in front of her, took the most careful, deliberate aim, and forthwith planted his fist solidly upon her unprotected nose.
He had always wanted to do it, but never before had the opportunity presented itself. He couldn't remember when he had caught her with her eyes closed before. She invariably stayed awake longer than he did at night, telling him the same thing she had told him the night before, and in the morning she kicked him out of bed before his eyes were open. Now here was the golden, long-desired chance. It might never occur again. So he swung with all his might and main.
Mrs. Fry involuntarily arose from her knees, balanced on her heels for a second or two and then sat down some distance away with the same heels in the air.
Then and there Lucius Fry ceased to be a person of no consequence.
Two or three neighbours, bent on rescuing Mrs. Fry, got no nearer than the barn-lot fence. Lucius, still hopping around on one foot, gathered up a stick of stove-wood in each hand, and let fly at them with such determination and precision that they decided to let him go ahead and murder her.
When Mrs. Fry's daughters hurried into the house a short time afterward, they found their mother dressing and bandaging Mr. Fry's foot and chokingly inquiring if she was hurting him. Between sentences she applied a wet towel to a prodigious, unrecognizable object that had once been her nose.
Juliet, the elder, planted herself in front of her father and passionately inquired if it was true that he had dared to strike her mother.
Lucius, with rare forethought, had provided himself with a stick of stove-wood before entering the house. He now held it in his right hand. He was not going to take any chances on his wife's treachery. He was ready for the slightest sign of an uprising. Without answering his daughter's question, he took a firm grip on the stick and started to arise from his chair, upsetting the pail of water that his wife had been using. Mrs. Fry screeched.
"Don't hit her! Don't kill her, Lucius! For God's——"
"Shut up!" snarled Lucius. "I'm goin' to belt the life out of her if she comes around here disturbin' the peace. I'm peaceable now, Stella—we've got perfect peace now, ain't we? But if she tries to—Well, you'll see what'll happen, young lady. Go an' get a mop and clean up that water. D'ye hear me? Beat it!"
"For the Lord's sake, Juliet, do what he tells you," begged Mrs. Fry.
"An' do it quick," said Mr. Fry.
Having so suddenly—and unintentionally—gained the upper hand in his household, he was determined if possible to retain it. Temporarily at least he had his wife scared almost to death and so submissive that he couldn't think of half enough indignities to heap upon her, no matter how hard he tried; and his disdainful daughters spoke in hushed voices, and got up every morning to start the kitchen fire, and carried in the wood, and waited on him first at meals, and allowed him to read The Banner before any one else claimed it, and fed the chickens, and behaved as daughters ought to behave. It was too good to be true. But as long as it really appeared to be true, he couldn't afford to relax for an instant; he went about with a perpetual scowl and swore from morning till night.
Every other week he went out to the stable, and after closing the doors, proceeded to belabour an old saddle with a pitchfork handle. The sounds reaching the back porch of the house caused Mrs. Fry to cover her ears and moan: "Poor old Peggy! O-oh! My gracious! He'll—he'll kill her!"
Occasionally he threw a stove-lid or a hatchet or something else at his wife, but his aim was singularly bad, for try as he would, he did not appear to come closer than five or six feet to her with any of the missiles. Once in a while he displayed the most appalling desire to destroy everything in sight. On such occasions he smashed chairs, broke up the crockery or tramped all over the garments that Mrs. Fry had just hung out to dry. By mistake, he once picked up a hot stove-lid, and then he swore in earnest. His dutiful wife wrapped his hand up in soda and called the stove-lid a "nasty old thing!"
In a very short time everybody in Tinkletown was talking about Lucius Fry. Some one, lying with a little more enterprise than the rest, started the report that he had gone to Boggs City, the county seat, and had thrashed a bartender who refused to sell him a drink. This report grew until Lucius was credited with having polished off a whole bar-room full of men without so much as sustaining a scratch himself.
When Lucius appeared on Main Street, men who had never noticed him before went out of their way to be polite and friendly. Women who pitied Mrs. Fry looked at him with interest and called him, under their breath, a "big ugly brute." Children stopped playing and ran when they saw Lucius Fry approaching.
Harry Squires, editor of The Banner, in reporting one of Mr. Fry's most violent eruptions, alluded to him as "vicious Lucius." The name clung to the little man. It was some time before the general public could utter it with confidence. Haste was not conducive to accuracy. Rash assuredness frequently turned Mr. Fry into "Vooshious Lishius" or "Lishius Vooshious" or even "V'looshious Ooshious."
Mrs. Fry, in course of time, grew to be very proud of her master, the despot of Power-house Gully. She revealed her pride every time she fell in with acquaintances on the way to church. In reply to an oft-repeated question as to why Mr. Fry did not go to church with her any longer, she invariably gave the supercilious reply that nowadays when she requested her husband to go to church, he told her to go to hell instead—and that was the kind of a man she respected, she said, not one of your weak-kneed, henpecked cowards who go to church because they are more afraid of their wives than they are of the devil. And while the mountainous Mrs. Fry was no longer able to thrash her five-foot-two husband, she still inspired fear among churchgoers of both sexes and all ages. She frequently asserted that she could lick any man in Tinkletown except her husband—and moreover, if any officer of the law ever attempted to arrest Lucius for what he did to her, she'd beat his head off—that's what she'd do.
The marshal of Tinkletown, Anderson Crow, on three separate occasions organized a posse to go out to Power-house Gully to arrest Lucius on the complaint of neighbours who said they couldn't stand hearing his wife's howls any longer. On each of these occasions, the marshal got as far as the Fry front gate, backed by eight or ten of the huskiest men in town. There they were intercepted by Mrs. Fry, who told them that Lucius was upstairs peaceably reloading his double-barreled shotgun, or oiling up his trusty old horse-pistol, as the case may have been, and she didn't believe he would like to be disturbed.
"Is he ca'am an' quiet, Stella?" Marshal Crow would ask.
"As quiet as a lamb," Mrs. Fry would reply.
"Then I guess we'd better leave him alone," the Marshal would say, adding: "But if he ever goes on the rampage again, just you send for me, Stella, an' I'll come as quick as I can."
And the wife of Vicious Lucius would say: "Don't forget to bring the undertaker with you when you come, Anderson. You won't need a doctor."
At times Lucius would feel his courage slipping. At such times he would go out to the barn and jostle old Peggy around in the stall, hoping against hope, but without the desired result. She simply wouldn't step on his foot.
One bitter cold night just before Christmas, a group of Tinkletown's foremost citizens sat around the big sheet-iron stove in Lamson's store. Outside, the wind was blowing a gale; it howled and shrieked around the corners of the building, banged forgotten window-shutters, slammed suspended signboards with relentless fury, and afforded unlimited food for reflection, reminiscence and prophecy. It was long past Mr. Lamson's customary hour for closing the store, but with rare tact the loungers permitted him to do most of the talking. It was nice and warm in the vicinity of the stove, and there were tubs of dried apples and prunes and a sack of hazel nuts within easy reach.
"I'll never forget the Christmas I spent out in Nebraska," Mr. Lamson was saying. He was probably the most travelled man in town. Every time he told a story, he went a little farther West. (Harry Squires disconcerted him on one occasion by asking in his most ironic manner if he didn't think it would be a good idea to settle in California when he got there, and Mr. Lamson, after thinking it over, stopped his subscription to The Banner.) "Yes sir; that was a terrible winter. I don't know as I ever told you about it, but we had to drive twenty-six miles in sleighs to get a tree on Christmas Eve. I mean a Christmas tree. The thermometer registered twenty-six below zero and—"
He was interrupted by the opening of the door. An icy draft swept down the length of the store.
"Shut that door!" roared out Marshal Crow.
But the door remained open. Whereupon every one craned his neck to see who was responsible. There was no one in sight.
"That's funny," said Newt Spratt. "I shut it tight when I came in awhile ago."
"Well, go and shut it again," ordered Mr. Crow. "Do you want us to freeze our ears right here in sight o' Jim Lamson's stove?"
Newt got up and kicked the door shut, saw that it was latched, and returned to his place near the stove. Marshal Crow, during his absence, had bettered his position. He had exchanged a seat on a box of soap for the cane-bottom chair Newt had been occupying.
"As I was sayin'," resumed Mr. Lamson, "the thermometer registered—"
Again the door flew open, banging against a barrel of sugar. With one accord the assembled group arose and peered at the open door.
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In 1989, Genevieve Farez, a former successful graphic designer and corporate identity specialist, and François-Michel Gregoire, an ex oil business entrepreneur and F1 sponsorship and event company owner, decided to join forces and began producing annual guides and diaries, specialising in sports related products and motor racing in particular. Both were motorsports enthusiasts with significant achievements in the F1 business as consultants to F1 teams & engine manufacturers & former major sponsors & shareholders of the FRENCH AGS F1 team.
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Some Momma Bears voted for our governor-elect, Bill Lee. We are filled with hope and promise as he takes office at the beginning of the legislative session in January. What will be in store for our public schools? Momma Bears are hoping for a resounding effort of support for ALL of our children and ALL of our schools.
Tennessee is filled with great school districts doing their best to serve every student that walks through their door. Public schools don't turn children away. They are a public institution that our state constitution requires for us to support with our tax dollars to create Tennessee citizens that contribute to our productive society. In some counties, public schools are the largest employer, the greatest asset, an engine for the economy. Public schools are the center of the community for "Friday Night Lights” football games, a Tennessee tradition and a resource people value.
Governor-elect, we need to let you know we are watching closely. So closely we noticed that folks you are picking for your cabinet or who might be advising you about public ed are anchored to an organization that we question: American Federation for Children (AFC).
We have written about them before. We talk about AFC's role in trying to bring vouchers to the Memphis Jubilee schools. “They’re ready,” said Carra Powell, a lobbyist for Tennessee Federation for Children, and parent of two in Jubilee Schools and one recent graduate. “As soon as the voucher bill is passed, we’re rolling them in.”
That legislation was JUST for those schools — a money grab. Laws to change an entire segment of government, ignoring a valued American principle of the separation of church and state, to siphon off tax dollars to private religious schools. When the voucher legislation died, what happened to those schools? They had to close or become charter schools to stay open. Which means we were going to take tax dollars to prop up financially unstable private schools. Is that the real point of vouchers? To financially prop up private religious schools in Memphis?
We wrote about AFC here as a warning that outside national interests are looking to remove the voices of public education from lobbying, silencing our voices in the halls of the legislature. Because a lot of this rule-making that includes or excludes is carried on in back rooms out of the public ear. So, if school systems don't have lobbyists listening for us, all laws will only be made by well-moneyed special interest groups and business lobbyists.
Citizens, "The People," use public schools. The people need a voice in those decisions. Because many times good decisions on paper don’t do so well in practice (cough... testing...) but are kept because someone in power has to save political face or make money or get re-elected. Lobbying is the way the "game is played." Those who would like to block education advocates and school districts from listening in on negotiated law and policy changes are only changing the rules to shift all the power and public money away from the public schools and into the pockets of the 1% business elite.
Please remember who these powerful business lobbyists represent. It is not teachers’ associations, but testing companies, textbook and computer software companies like Pearson, charter schools, voucher lobbyists like American Federation for Children, consultants for scripted curriculum businesses, student loan companies, all the entities who aim to profit off of tax dollars going to public schools. Do not be fooled.
It is not news that The American Federation for Children (AFC) is a 501(c)(4) lobbying and advocacy group that was founded by the billionaire family of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. And DeVos was chairman of the lobbying group for years until she was nominated to be education secretary. So, Momma Bears want to know why this anti-public education lobbying group is so cozy with our incoming governor?
Momma Bears, would you respectfully write our new governor-elect a nice email and encourage him to support our public schools FIRST and foremost? We don't need privatization schemes. We need fully-funded public education that can deliver quality, engaging curriculum, arts, and enrichment, support our teachers in the classroom and pay them professional wages so we can eliminate the teacher shortage and high teacher turnover, provide schools that care and build a world-class public school system that can serve all students. Let Governor-Elect Lee know Momma Bears value strong public schools. Email him at: bill@billlee.com
90% of all school-aged children attend public school in Tennessee. We need a governor to understand that he represents us — not The American Federation for Children (AFC).
Beware of the promise that choice is the answer. AFC’s version of school choice really represents creating several systems that may or may not choose your family (charter, public, private) for access. These systems are fighting over the same pot of public dollars. This type of competition creates winners and losers. Nationally, many times all of those systems, an most of all students, get shortchanged as these school choice systems fight over funding crumbs. How is that choice? And who is this AFC cabinet choice for education?
Momma Bears think all children should win by creating a winning public school system for EVERY child in the State of Tennessee. There should never be losers. The American Federation for Children and Betsy DeVos do not support your neighborhood public school choice.
More reading:
DEVOS DANGER
https://deutsch29.wordpress.com/2017/01/26/devos-and-alliance-for-school-choice-where-the-ultimate-choice-means-vouchers-to-private-schools/
HIGHER TAXES DUE TO VOUCHERS (Private schools increase tuition every year!).
https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/education/2015/07/29/wisconsin-school-vouchers-boost-property-taxes/30839409/
Vouchers are stuck on a desk
You've probably already heard the great news that the voucher bill is probably dead for the year. If you want more detail about how Representative Dunn (who is the poster boy politician for out-of-state organizations funded by billionaires who want to privatize public schools) dramatically teared up when he pulled his bill from consideration because he knew he did not have enough votes for it to pass, then click HERE to read the news.
Dunn, with tears in his eyes, claimed that anti-voucher people only called him about the money not about the kids. Um, we have to point out the elephant in the room: his campaign and lobbyists are getting paid big bucks, paying people to show up and speak about vouchers, giving away yellow scarves to anyone who will wear them. Meanwhile, parents and teachers (like us Momma Bears) were working for free to stop it. Money matters to who? This is for the kids.
Anyway, after Representative Dunn's crocodile tears, his quoting scripture, and his pull on people's heartstrings lamenting the poor kids in Memphis that he claims his vouchers would save (ironically, the same poor children he won't lift a finger to push for adequate funding for their starving public schools), he at last brought his 4 year-old voucher bill to the clerk's desk. (cue funeral dirge music)
From what we understand, the clerk's desk is a vast dark hole. Once a bill is placed upon it, only a vote from 50 Representatives can get it off the desk to be voted upon again with 24 hours notice. This is intriguing to us, this desk...
Does it become piled up with stuff people set upon it?
What happens if the clerk spills his coffee on it?
Can he pick the bill up and put it on another desk or does that take 50 votes, too?
Is the desk a big giant pile of stuck bills that stay stuck forever?
Or does he have a nice file cabinet to put these lame bills in?
What are the odds of bills stuck there ever getting out?
Perhaps the greatest question we have is...
Can we put the TNReady paper test on the clerk's desk, too? Please oh please???
Before you throw a celebration party, know that this bill is not dead yet. We are watching to make sure it stays lost in the pile and not horse traded for something else. Representative Dunn is pretty sneaky and so are the many lobbyists in Nashville whose job is to get vouchers in TN. (Remember how the bill was rushed through committee when key members were absent?) So, we're happy the bill is stuck, but we're still very skeptical. Even after you cut the head of the snake off, it can still bite you. And there is always next year, the money flowing into campaigns to elect pro-voucher legislators has already started.
Speaking of money. We have heard that if you compile all the money spent on pushing vouchers over the past 4 years in TN (including the salaries of the lobbyists [lobbyists make big bucks, and there are a bunch of them], campaign contributions to politicians, PR, etc.) the grand total would be over $8 million.
$8 million spent to "help" 5000 potential voucher kids in Memphis? We can't help but imagine if that $8 million went to the current public schools of those students to implement smaller class sizes, to put more support staff in the buildings working with the students, and to providing support services to address the crippling poverty these kids face every day and will still face if they attended private schools on vouchers. Now THAT would really make a difference. Such a shame, such a shame.
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1.1 The Rising
Mac2Nite
Posted: 29 September 2016 - 10:25 AM
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I said it before and I'll say it again... I liked it! I'm actually looking forward to Friday night for the next episode! Could do with fewer explosions... but even the ORIGINAL series' logo was MacGyver written in front of an explosion
Anyway... Can't wait to see how they develop things going forward. And with all of the social media comments, etc.. I'm sure they're listening to us old farts... but also cognizant of the fact that we aren't the main demographic they're shooting for... just sayin'
"Any problem can be solved with a little ingenuity."
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Episode:Deadly Dreams
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True, true... >_<
My opinion and lack of views won't hurt them any, I'm sure. My opinion is kinda torn anyway. One minute I'm happy about the reboot, and another minute I'm hating it.
Dunno why really... it just feels like something is missing, almost like the show has no personality. But maybe that will change in the next episode?
I was never a fan of James Wan... hated the SAW series with a passion, and his horror movies are pretty mediocre. So the fact I was somewhat disappointed with the pilot doesn't surprise me at all.
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I can appreciate what you are saying... But if you remember the original series' pilot episode... Mac (as played by RDA) was cocky as h*ll... so I think one can't judge a series by its first episode... it takes time to develop... as it did the first time around...
Posted: 29 September 2016 - 12:07 PM
Well, sure!
I wasn't hooked on the original until season 3. I actually skipped most of season 2, went back and watched it later.
I guess what I'm trying to say is part of the reason I didn't care much for the pilot was because James Wan directed it. I'm not a big fan of his stuff, so... that may be why I was a bit disappointed. If the other episodes are directed by someone else, I might like it better. I'm certainly gonna give it several episodes before I decide I like it or not.
I've given the reboot a pretty fair shot... and I'm gonna continue to be as fair as I can with it.
You'll have to forgive me... I'm a very picky person about what I watch.
Edit: I was just thinking, I wonder if my Dad will like this reboot... lol I'll have to annoy him with it when I visit him next... heeheehee
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QUOTE (Mac2Nite @ 29 September 2016 - 02:59 PM)
Really? Cocky?
You'll need to explain that to me and remember there's a difference between being confident and being cocky.
"If I want a weapon I'll make one" is definitely cocky to the point of outright arrogance.
"The bag's not for what I take, it's for what I fond along the way" is confidence. But even with the confidence he wasn't overbearing with it and was never 100% it would work. Unlike this new MacGyver.
"I hack everything else.".... Really??
Director of Intelligence
SAK owned: Tinker/Pioneer
Episode:The Human Factor
Jacket: Brown bomber
Look, i can somewhat agree with what you are all saying. But there is truth to the imbalance of the two shows. Clearly this is not a copy of the original. Lenkov has been on H50 for sometime and took some of its formula to try to boost Mac.
"Some" may find the theme to Mac a little dated but the opening part to still carry a bit of validation. They wanted a more dramatic feel to fit with today's rougher audience so they took the one part that "Worked" for them and finished it with something else.
Television today is not campy. It is brutal. So it has to fit with the others. I also agree that there is a lot going on that i am not fond of. Hate the team thing, not liking Eads too much. The relationship with Nikki is 2 dimensional and couldnt care less if she dies or not. Wilt is always going to be there when Mac goes home (I have a feeling). He's going to be like a ghost or a haunting.
I liked the alone time Mac had. It helped you to connect to the character better.
"The bag's not for what I take, Colson - it's for what I find along the way."
Posted: 3 October 2016 - 01:11 PM
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SAK owned: Tinker
Episode:Passages
I managed to watch halfway through the pilot, and I really must admit that it was quite entertaining. However, I disliked the whole team involvement.
I will rate the episode 8/10; A person should not continuously examine the contrasts between the original series and the reboot; it is not a sequel, but a complete remake of the series. Not bad at all!
"I guess the way you look at the world depends on where you are. From up here it looked like a pretty nice place." - MacGyver (Eagles)
And you only saw half?
The pilot was okay. But it did not blow me away. IMO of course.
The second episode was worse for me and i just didnt "get" it.
Posted: 4 October 2016 - 12:07 AM
QUOTE (denizen @ 4 October 2016 - 08:14 AM)
It was late so I decided to go to bed...
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Forgive me if this has already been asked (I may have overlooked a post or two), but how did Nikki fake her death for several months? Mac and Jack both must have known where her body should have been, so didn't anyone actually look for her body before proclaiming that she was dead? Or did they just say, "Well, huh, I don't see her, but oh well, I guess she must be dead and her body just vanished."
Well...IMHO... Mac was shot himself and unable to return to the scene of the shooting... so since he had seen her "get fatally shot" he presumed her dead? As for hiding out for several months, I imagine her "other friends", the ones who faked her death, helped hide her as well
QUOTE (Mac2Nite @ 7 October 2016 - 02:20 AM)
Possible. It just seems like a very sloppy way of handling it by DXS. They're supposed to be such a high-powered, top-secret organization, yet when one of their own agents disappears, they just assume she's dead and don't look for a body?
Mac saw her get shot, sure, but he got shot, too, and he survived, so why would he (or anyone) assume it wasn't possible for her to have survived, especially when her body was never found? Presumably somebody got Mac out of the water not too long after the shooting (since he didn't drown), so wouldn't they have also tried to get Nikki out? And if Nikki was no longer there, wouldn't that raise some concerns about where she went?
(I'm probably overthinking something that was actually just a case of lazy writing.)
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Sloppy writing, more like. Yep, I had the same issue. When you're a person who analyzes things like plots etc, holes like that can get annoying. These days, too many shows jump around so fast that it can throw one off. They cram too much in too quickly and you can get lost pretty rapidly. Correlations between length of time between commercial breaks, and lack of narrative story telling and the development of ADD are pretty well documented. I feel like the writers of this show (and many others) suffer from the same ADD that their shows help to induce. The MacGyverisms in the new show are one such example. They happen so fast that there is no suspense (someone else mentioned this before on here). There is no wondering "What's Mac up to?" it's just BAM done and onto the next thing before one can even appreciate the ingenuity of what we just witnessed.
I know styles change in terms of storytelling formats and fashions, but I don't always think they are improvements merely because they are new. Our brains are wired to think in terms of stories. We process things that way and turn periods of our life into episodes even though it is really an unbroken stream of one thing after another. Stories, to be good, have to be constructed in a particular way for them to be meaningful and stick. I can remember many episodes of the original show. They stuck. I have the distinct feeling that many of the new episodes will be forgettable and all sort of blend together in my mind after the season is over. But, I'm 49 years-old. I was 18 when the original show started and I grew up watching shows that had four acts and an epilogue. Character development was more important, and people would actually watch something from beginning to end to see how it turned out. There didn't have to be a thrill a minute, watching each scene go by in a blur as if riding on a roller coaster.
Here endeth my cranky old man rant.
But, I'm 49 years-old. I was 18 when the original show started and I grew up watching shows that had four acts and an epilogue. Character development was more important, and people would actually watch something from beginning to end to see how it turned out. There didn't have to be a thrill a minute, watching each scene go by in a blur as if riding on a roller coaster.
It's odd, because in some ways, you're right: With shows like this new MacGyver, everything is being done at a breakneck pace in order to keep the audience's attention. And yet, audiences, overall, have very good attention, as evidenced by the fact that we see much larger story arcs in tv shows these days than we did in the 80s. Back in the 80s, shows were done on an episode-by-episode basis. Everything was neatly wrapped up in 45 minutes (not counting commercials.) But these days, many shows give us huge stories and complex characters, spread out over many years. And people stick with those shows, and follow the intricacies of the plots and characters' developments very closely, so I don't really know why a show like this MacGyver reboot feels the need to speed everything up.
Posted: 15 October 2016 - 08:06 AM
My sister watched the pilot last night... her opinion isn't as biased because she's not a big fan of the original. She thinks my fandom of the original is hilarious.
Some of the things she said you guys have mentioned already:
1. It's more Mission Impossible than MacGyver
2. This is the Jack Dalton and Riley show, MacGyver comes in secondary
3. It's too fast paced, and the whole team thing is done too quickly. Because of this, it gives little room for the audience to connect with the characters... especially MacGyver, who should be the first to connect with because he's the title character.
4. The MacGyver/Nikki love scenes are forced and uncomfortable... The whole handcuffs scene was ridiculous
5. Fake explosions are too obvious, and makes a mention that at least it's not a Michael Bay film. I said it was directed by James Wan, and she said: Well, that's obvious.
6. Humor is too forced
7. All in all, she said the show was "okay", but was too predictable.
She did laugh a few times and thought Jack Dalton was amusing. She said she'd be willing to watch a few more episodes though to see if it gets any better. She also said her husband might give it go... but only because Sandrine Holt is in it.
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Posted: 31 January 2017 - 12:06 PM
SAK owned: various
Episode:phoenix under siege
Finally I watched this episode.
This Mac is too young, the other cast has the same names of the old tv show but they are totaly wrong.
Also I admit I like the female version of Thornton.
I love her!
Many macgyverism are cool, with "references" to original MacGyver, but others are not much believable
The voice over is too intrusive and too boaster.
But I'll give it a chance, after all.
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Posted: 18 October 2017 - 12:57 PM
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Episode:The Widowmaker
I've started my next little "side-project" on my blog by writing about the Pilot Script by Peter Lenkov - well, basically looking at "deleted scenes" that didn't make it into the episode that aired: https://dashboardonfire.wordpress.com/2017/...-scenes-part-1/
The script that has been floating around for a while is the Revised Network Draft from June 20. There were several revisions after that until the Table Read on July 8 and probably some more revisions after that. Then came the editing of course.
I'm not sure how many posts I will write. So far, I have scheduled another one for Sunday (about Siberia and the Helicopter Chase). Then I sure will have to write about the "Baywatch with Tanks" Scene .
I know not anyone can comment on my blog, but I will also bring the Deleted Scenes in here over the next few weeks if anyone wants to discuss them. I'm posting the shortest one for now because I have to crop and resize the other screenshots first...
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Posted: 15 March 2018 - 06:41 AM
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Episode:Serenity, Passages, Humanity
Don't know where to put it but starting tonight the reboot will be aired in Belgium every Thursday night, 4 episodes after each other. Currently I'm a little overbooked with tv, so I'll have to record it and watch it afterwards. Now I'll see for myself what they came up with. I think my reviews on the episodes will be coming soon.
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It's better to be a little sad than to be fake content.
QUOTE (MacGyverGod @ 16 March 2018 - 02:41 AM)
You haven't seen the reboot at all yet?
It'll be interesting to relive the first season through your reviews, in that case. Looking forward to your opinions!
Nope, there is a first time for everything.
Posted: 15 March 2018 - 08:37 PM
I think i got to episode 4 of Season 2 and i gave up.
Sounds like you at least gave it a chance.
QUOTE (denizen @ 15 March 2018 - 11:37 PM)
I dunno why I got the feeling you gave up before that. Just had to give it another shot, eh? XD
@MacGyverGod - Do let us know what your thoughts are. The more opinions the better, I say. I'm usually half awake when I watch them, so I'm always a bit out of it when I go to write down my thoughts.
Yes, I know... it's awful... XD
I actually did. Then with the opinions shared by others regarding how season 2 was going to improve, I gave it the benefit of the doubt. But it ultimately became more foreign than the first season and so i just stopped altogether.
I guess its just not that feeling of what i used to get from seeing the original.
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The trick is not to expect it to feel or be the same.
It's a different show in a different era about the same character and that's really how it has to be watched.
Latest episodes are certainly entertaining, but it's still very dumbed down "no thinking required" entertainment.
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Exactly and I think this is why most of us get disappointed. We're still expecting more of the same thing which it no longer is. I think this is one of the reasons why I wasn't that impressed with Lethal Weapon. Riggs with a mustache? A different wife with a different fate. Murtaugh as a heart patient? Songs during action sequences, but after like six episodes, it started to get better, like it found it's footing so yes I am curious to that second season while they are of course no match compared to Mel Gibson and Danny Glover.
Guess I'll find out whether the new MacGyver is dumbed down with no thinking requiered. The original show was not exactly meant for the intelligent either. Can't think of one episode I couldn't follow as kid and I've been watching for 25 years. As a 6-7 year old of course I didn't understand a word he said nor what he was doing. Maybe Ugly Duckling. It was just cool when the old SAK came out, cutting things, connecting things and boom you can blow out a lock. To be honest, I think the original show was at least in some way educational without getting too 'schooly' or making you say: 'Should've paid attention in class'. That's what I like so much about the show. Everyone can understand it.
That's one way of looking at it.
I'm just not a fan of the team oriented format, and I'm also not that big of a fan of reboots. If it wasn't for the original, I wouldn't give the Reboot the time of day simply because it's not my kind of show.
I can remain objective... and I've been more than fair. Heck, I've even recommended it to my friends who wouldn't touch the original with a 10-foot pole. Interestingly, they have no interest in the reboot either. lol
I just feel that the reboot isn't anything new... it just kinda comes off as a typical and boring.
It's not a bad show though... it's just not my kind of show.
They're always feeding us the same thing. Everything bigger, faster and more spectacular with similar characters. It's like everyone can take out whole armies by themselves now. Rambo did that in the 80's when it was new, Xena did that in the 90's and pretty much everyone else after the year 2000. Of course nothing wrong with that.
But recentely I was thinking what if they now made a show like in the 80's and 90's, both an action/adventure and a family related sitcom with occasional drama and every week is a complete new episode with every now and then a two-parter.
Jedi, your friends really don't know what they're missing here. Try On A Wing and a Prayer or Humanity. Those would be two of my recommendations.
I feel that if a show is different and exciting, it will find its own way to pull you in. Simply holding onto the character as a form of a leash is just not good enough. Lenkov made his own show.Whether we liked it or not was irrelevant to him.
When you see it, you will understand. This is H50 / NCIS. There is nothing new here.
When the original show was released, NOTHING compared to it. I don't feel i need to mindset myself to watch it. As an audience, i expect to be entertained, not spoon fed. And this incarnation is filled with spoon feeding what i already had this morning.
Someone on the magnum-mania forum posted an article from the Guardian newspaper here in the UK, about the Magnum reboot - I copied and pasted this paragraph because I think it's absolutely spot on (apart from Lenkov's first name being wrong!):
Worse, the new Magnum will be produced by Paul Lenkov, who has made a cottage industry of watering down shows you used to love. Lenkov was also the mastermind behind the Hawaii Five-O and MacGyver reboots, which should be enough to give you pause. His speciality seems to be taking good, sturdy, landmark shows – shows which were undeniably key parts of the cultural landscape first time around – and turning them into wallpaper. His versions are bright and lively and absolutely hollow, full of grinning haircuts who operate without any meaningful motivation. They’re empty calories. They’re things designed to make noise in the background while you look up recipes on your phone. I’ve tried watching Lenkov’s Hawaii Five-O. I really have, multiple times, but it’s impossible. There’s no weight to it. It’s like watching mist.
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September 9, 2018 February 28, 2020 by Muzammal Khan
George Michael Zimmerman (born October 5, 1983) is an American known for the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida on February 26, 2012. On July 13, 2013, he was acquitted of all charges in Florida v. George Zimmerman. Starting at 2015, he remained the subject of media enthusiasm because of continuous contention over the Trayvon Martin case. Moreover, he has been engaged with other vicious occurrences, with assertions of brutality made against him. Zimmerman was later the objective of a shooting, which brought about a conviction for endeavored kill against the culprit.
George Michael Zimmerman was conceived on October 5, 1983, in Manassas, Virginia, to Gladys Cristina (née Mesa) Zimmerman and Robert Zimmerman Sr. He is the third of four kids, and his kin incorporate a sibling, Robert Jr., and two sisters, Grace and Dawn. His mother was conceived in Peru and has some African family through her Afro-Peruvian maternal grandfather. His father is an American of German descent and a profession military officer. He served 22 years in the military, working for the Department of Defense for the most recent 10 long periods of his military vocation. Prior to resigning to Florida in 2002, Zimmerman Sr. had filled in as a justice in Fairfax County’s nineteenth Judicial District.
George Zimmerman is seeing
Zimmerman recognizes as Hispanic on voter enlistment forms. He was raised as a Catholic and filled in as an altar boy from age 7 to 17. Zimmerman went to All Saints Catholic School in Manassas before going to open high school. At age 14, Zimmerman joined an after-school Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corpsprogram in light of the fact that he had needed to end up a Marine. When Zimmerman was 15 years of age, he held three low maintenance occupations on evenings and ends of the week to set something aside for an auto. Zimmerman graduated from Osbourn High School in 2001.
In the wake of moving on from secondary school, Zimmerman moved to Lake Mary, Florida, a suburb of Orlando, where he was utilized by a protection office. Zimmerman took classes during the evening to acquire a permit to offer protection. It was amid this time when he moved toward becoming companions with Lee Ann Benjamin, a land operator, and her better half John Donnelly, a Sanford attorney. Benjamin and Donnelly would both affirm for his benefit at his preliminary in the demise of Martin. According to Donnelly, in 2004 Zimmerman and an African-American companion opened a satellite office of Allstate Insurance, which fizzled a year later.
Move to Retreat at Twin Lakes
Zimmerman wedded Shellie Dean, a licensed cosmetologist, in 2007. After two years, they leased a townhouse in the Retreat at Twin Lakes in Sanford, Florida. Zimmerman had beforehand been utilized at an auto dealership and a home loan review firm. Zimmerman enlisted in Seminole State College in 2009 and was chipping away at an associate degree in criminal equity. In December 2011 he was permitted to take an interest in a school graduation service, despite the fact that he was a course credit short of his degree. He was finishing that credit at the season of the shooting. Zimmerman was then utilized as a protection guarantor.
George Zimmerman is in happy mode
In mid 2011, Zimmerman took part in a resident gathering at the Sanford City Hall to challenge the beating of a dark vagrant by the child of a white Sanford cop. Amid the gathering, Zimmerman asserted he saw “sickening conduct” while taking part in a ride-along program with nearby police; in any case, the police office said later that it didn’t know when, if at any point, Zimmerman was in that program.
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BCC (Behavior Change Communication) Division, NRHM Haryana
BCC DIVISION (ABOUT)
'Behavior' is a very important health determinant. Promoting 'Healthy Behavior' to achieve the goal of health is key objective of health services. 'Health activities' to prevent disease and promote healthy life can be achieved through `Health Education' which is targeted at dissemination of correct information, motivation of people to adopt healthy life styles and guide people to avail of medical and health services for effective utilization of health services. Health behavior change refers to the motivational, volitional, and actionable processes of abandoning health-compromising behaviors in favor of adopting and maintaining health-enhancing behaviors.
Behavior change among individuals and communities is achieved through a combination of communication approaches and strategies/interventions on adoption of healthy behaviors. Behavior change interventions and communications therefore refer to an interactive process using behavior change interventions and communication approaches to develop, promote and sustain positive behaviors in individuals and communities. The approaches used are aimed at influencing behaviors of individuals and communities through targeted psychological positioning of information accompanied by activities such as skills building, marketing and advocacy to encourage social and cultural changes and to promote the adoption and reinforcement of desired behaviors. BCC service delivery focuses on the use of a variety of targeted messages and campaigns and the Media, including Drama, Poetry, Storytelling and Songs in addition to traditional print and audio mass media (Newspapers, Billboards, Radio and TV).
Behavior change communication (BCC) is any communication (e.g., interpersonal, group talks, mass media, support groups, visuals and print materials, videos, etc.) that helps foster a change in behavior in individuals, families, or communities. BCC is a process of working with individuals, families and communities through different communication channels to promote positive health behaviors and support an environment that enables the community to maintain positive health behaviors taken on. The BCC Division at Haryana is mandated to support the district administration in ensuring that communication activities in the district equip families and communities with appropriate knowledge, skills and attitude to improve health and lifestyle decisions. In order to meet this goal, various strategies including mass media, local and folk media, outdoor media, social mobilization, social marketing, community dialogue, interpersonal communication are employed.
Historically, this area of health development programming has suffered from a lack of a theoretically-sound, systematic, and evidence-based approach to communication planning, implementation and monitoring of communication activities. Communication, promotion of services/social marketing, demand generation, and interpersonal communication skills of front line workers remains a weak link which impacts the effectiveness of the national flagship programme NRHM.In this regard a novel BCC strategy was initiated in Haryana in 2008-09 to impart health education and to communicate the available information and knowledge to public in rural/remote areas in simple and easy to understand language. This is a major shift from conventional to rural centric and community participative approach targeting people right up to the grass root level. BCCDivision looks after building the capacity of paramedical staffs at districts, block and village levels to design, execute and evaluate strategic communication programs on behavior change. The division focuses on behavior change in seven thematic areas — family planning and reproductive health;adolescent, maternal and child health, referral transport and non-communicable diseases. The division's key strategies include the use of behavior change communication to increase uptake of positive health behaviors.The BCC Division is working in the following key areas:
1. IPC INITIATIVE: SMS GROUPS
A unique way of inter-personal communication at village level was started through SaksharMahilaSamooh (SMS), a village based CBO. SMS is an effort to harness potential of educated women in villages of Haryana. All the educated women who have completed their matriculation & above are members of "SaksharMahilaSamooh". In areas like Mewat, women who have completed the 8th class can also be made members of SaksharMahilaSamooh. A "subgroup on health" consisting of ten most active women in the group has been constituted. These women are being trained by the health department in BCC using simple health modules specially written for this group in Hindi. There are more than 6167 registered SMS groups in Haryana. For easy message delivery and for implementation of regular activities, an annual calendar has been prepared based on health determinants and programs. Fortnightly activities (Pakhwara approach) have been planned in such a way that all age groups are given target specific and need based information for desired impact and change in behavior. Educational material has been designed by the health department in the form of Flip charts which helps these women take the correct message to the rural public. A guide book in FAQ format has also been printed to enable them to plan their activities and also to make any need based changes in the scheduled activities. These groups are trained for disseminating messages to the community by carrying out activities like Group Meetings, Rallies, Competitions (Quizzes), Wall writings, Banners/Pamphlets and Cable publicity.
2. NEWS LETTERS Two kinds of Newsletters are published from BCC Division, NRHM Haryana i.e. SwasthSansar and Haryana Health. SwasthSansar is a bi-monthly Hindi newsletter for frontline workers and PRI members focused on a current health issue of concern, e.g., anemia, child health, maternal health, family planning, care during pregnancy, etc. Haryana health is six monthly newsletter in English for doctors on success stories and current significant articles by specialists to have an update in the area.
3. IEC/IPC MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT
Effective IEC (Information education and communication) and BCC (Behavior change communication) is crucial to achieve desired outcome in any programme. The key strategy for generating awareness to improve health behaviors and promotion of health seeking behavior will remain interpersonal communication by medical/paramedical staff and community volunteers with the people. Initially, all IEC activities were carried out under the different programmes in the Department e.g. CH, MH, RBSK, PNDT, FP and ARSH. Currently, all IEC units of different programmes have been merged to form a fully-fledged BCC unit that spearheads planning, implementation and monitoring of all IEC/BCC interventions in the department and the health sector. Thus the BCC unit has the overall mandate of providing coordination and technical leadershipin designing, printing and implementing interventions for achieving healthy behavior adoption in the community. Under this component we are preparing, designing and printing yearly Calendars and Diaries, Posters, Banners, Hoardings, Brochures, Flipcharts and IPC Booklets for frontline workers like ASHA, ANM, PRI members and ASHA Trainers. Four IPC booklets have been pulished till now, these are Sanchar Margdarshika, PrabhavshaliVartalab, EvamSamvad, SurakshitMatratavandSwasthSuvidhaonkobehtar banana meinJansamudaekiBhagedari.
4. MEDIA ACTIVITIES & PR
Public relations of NRHM Haryana is being dealt by BCC Division only in which the division organizes events, media and other conferences, workshops and Sammelans. Apart from these the division also works on press releases. In media activities, the division is focusing on carrying out mass media activities like Phone-in-programs, TV/Newspaper advertisements, Radio Jingles and Video Spots.
5. DOCUMENTARIES
BCC division has developed documentaries for health awareness programs. These documentaries are used by frontline workers as a resource material. Some of the documentaries developed by BCC are KilkarianGoonjtiRahein(on Child and Maternal Health),BetikiVidayi(on PCPNDT Act),AakhriMauka(on High Blood Pressure),SwachtaMatra(on Personal Hygiene), Chinta Mat kerMaa(on Institutional Deliveries)andPadav(on Adolescent Health).
6. LETTERS FOR ASHA & ANMs
An initiative taken up by Mission Director to directly communicate fortnightly with ASHAs and ANMs through letters for dissemination of messages on particular health issues. This work is also carried out through BCC and till now letters have been written to ASHA, ANMs on Anemia, ANC, Post-Partum Care, HBPNC, etc.
7. CAPACITY BUILDING-IEC/SBCC
An initiative has been taken up by BCC Division to include the IEC/BCC and SBCC part in the content of capacity building trainings of frontline workers done by other departments of NRHM Haryana. BCC also impart training on SBCC to DACs, BEEs and ASHA trainers for making them capable of implement SBCC for achieving the positive results in health determinants. BCC also works on monitoring and evaluation of capacity building initiatives to improve the practices based on learnings.
8. RAPID
RAPID is an monitoring tool developed and employed by Haryana Health department for reviewing and having a clear picture of ground reality. BCC division also employs the same tool for monitoring the works of SMS groups. It is also aimed at knowing whether IEC materials have reached the targeted place and regular following is being done or not. It is also aimed at appreciation of best practices among frontline workers to give them recognition and motivation.
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Ashton Gate dual-sport redevelopment
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Bristol City Football Club is hedging its plans to build a new stadium in Ashton Vale by bringing forward alternative plans to redevelop its existing stadium, Ashton Gate.
The plans foresee a multi-purpose stadium for Bristol City FC and Bristol Rugby, both of whom are overseen by the same umbrella company, Bristol Sport.
Speaking on behalf of the Bristol City FC board, Jon Lansdown said:
Modern stadium facilities are a key pillar for the club, closely aligned with our community engagement and the importance of financial prudence. This redevelopment plan is testament to all of that.
A staged reconstruction is planned to replace the Wedlock and Williams stands and to renovate the Dolman Stand, increasing the capacity to over 26,000 seats. The interior of the Atyeo Stand will be improved and there will be a new club shop and museum of sport, as well as a large ‘Wedlock’s Pub’ area incorporated into the site.
The proposed redevelopment is estimated to cost £40m, with any shortfall being underwritten by Bristol Sport owner Steve Lansdown. The redevelopment plans have received the backing of the Mayor of Bristol, George Ferguson.
Plans will be submitted early in the summer months and, once underway, a full stadium redevelopment would be deliverable within three years.
Bristol Rugby chairman Chris Booy commented:
Whichever outcome, new stadium or a redeveloped one, this is an exciting project to be linked with and represents a bright future for our club.
The club says that a Desso pitch will be installed at Ashton Vale or Ashton Gate to cope with the multi-purpose nature of hosting both football and rugby.
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Liverpool FC: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly - Week 8
Last updated : 08 October 2018 By Ben Green
Napoli snatched a last minute winner. They made the front three look like beginners. An ex-player called them ordinary, but then frankly, he is plain delusionary. Some news we can all hail, as forgotten man hits the comeback trail. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, another week reviewed at the world's favourite football club Liverpool F.C.
Remaining in the top three after a tough week. Liverpool lost twice in Cup competition but were able to hold their two closest rivals to well-earned draws. What's good about that? I hear you say. Well, let me explain and put it another way.
Over recent seasons, Liverpool have performed against the likes of Chelsea and Manchester City. Then gone on to struggle against the likes of Crystal Palace or West Ham. This season they've struggled against "top" opposition but dispatched of the "lesser" teams quite easily, a pattern I'd take over the others any day.
If Liverpool can maintain their current form and not lose against the "top" teams, I think they'll likely win the league. Fair and simple. Of course you want to beat the City's and the Chelsea's of this world but for me, it's best to avoid defeat.
Little between the two sides today as our unbeaten @premierleague run at Anfield extends to 25 matches. 🔴 #LIVMCI pic.twitter.com/39ZAtYxXbZ
— Liverpool FC (@LFC) October 7, 2018
Liverpool survived yesterday through a Riyad Mahrez missed penalty. An error that City may well rue come May. I felt this game would be a draw in my preview. For the facts that: Pep Guardiola must be sick and tired of losing to Jürgen Klopp; and secondly, the Reds have struggled this last few games against the best of the rest.
The (Not) Bad
Sky Sports have carried some encouraging news this week about Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's rehabilitation following his knee injury last season.
It appears that the ex-Arsenal misfit turned Liverpool good-fit maybe somewhat ahead of schedule for his return.
Alex Oxlade Chamberlain on the mend 👊 #LFC pic.twitter.com/NqTEhfy4S1
— Anything Liverpool (@AnythingLFC_) October 4, 2018
Many Reds fans will share my thoughts in that the team misses the Ox somewhat. Yesterday's game was crying out for his energy. I couldn't help but share that tweet yesterday of him scoring against Citeh last season.
Let's hope this is good news. Personally, I'd love to see him back for the title run-in. On yesterday's evidence, he could make all the difference in what's shaping up to be one of the most exciting title races in years.
Another ex-pro speaks out against the team. Former captain and certified nutcase Graeme Souness told Virgin Media after the Napoli game, “That’s as ordinary as I’ve seen Liverpool play, certainly this year..." in response to the apparent ineffectiveness of the Reds front three against their Italian hosts.
Steady on Souey! Let's not forget that Napoli are no pushovers. They are second in Serie A and as such deserve more than a modicum of respect. Their boss, wily old Carlo Ancelotti done a number on Liverpool the other night. They simply didn't let their visitors play.
"Liverpool's front three showed nothing!"
Graeme Souness wasn't holding back on @VirginMediaIE last night... #LFC #VMSport. #KeithAndrewsShow is live 12:30 every Thursday on OTB social channels. pic.twitter.com/OEtRwUp84Y
— Off The Ball (@offtheball) October 4, 2018
One has to wonder what he expects. For Napoli to simply let themselves be walked all over? When Jürgen Klopp first took over at Liverpool, he said words to the effect of: Its important in football, that when you play a team that's better than you, you have to bring them down to your level... This is basically what the Napoli defence done to the Reds attack on Wednesday.
Kalidou Koulibaly knows Sadio Mané from the Senegalese national team, for example. Many of the Napoli side would have plaid against Mo Salah. These are very important aspects that Souness overlooks in his rant.
Now we have to suffer two weeks of international football and sweating over the players coming back injury-free. After that, we have the visit of Liverpool to the Kirklees Stadium, home to Huddersfield Town and Klopp's best friend David Wagner, for the next Premiership fixture.
This has indeed been a week of discovery. We've discovered that whilst the squad has improved, there is still work to be done. They competed against both Napoli and Manchester City but there remains a certain je ne sais quoithat's missing. Maybe it's making his way back from injury.
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The new multiplayer obstacle course game from Mediatonic is out today on PS4 and Steam, and it truly is unlike anything else on the market. While the game is certainly chaotic in its own right, those hoping to get the platinum trophy in the game are in for a rough road ahead.
The game’s full official trophy list has been revealed (via TrueTrophies), and one of them requires you to come in first five times in a row. This may not sound like a huge deal for your average game, but considering the absolute chaos that this game is and the amount of players involved… oh boy. Luck is needed just as much as skill is, so it sounds like lots of aggravation lies ahead.
For those unfamiliar with the game, players are tasked with racing through a series of crazy obstacle courses, dealing with deadly traps and hordes of other players along the way. Not only that, but your character is clumsy and can easily fall over at any time. One little mistake will likely result in you not coming in first, and the Infallible trophy wants you to accomplish that feat 5 times in a row. Good luck!
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DOI Wrestling Shoot Interview with Kevin Kelly, Disc One
By Brian Bayless September 11, 2014
This interview was filmed on September 23rd, 2005
The Interview was conducted by Sean "The Mic" McCaffrey
Disc One runs at one hour and fifty-seven minutes long
Growing up, Kelly said that he was a huge wrestling fan. He grew up watching the WWWF in New York then moved down to Florida when he was about nine years old and watched Championship Wrestling from Florida.
Kelly puts over Graham for being the greatest booker ever and how he could develop characters and long-term storylines that lead him to sellout an 11,000 seat arena in Orlando for 82 weeks in a row.
His all-time favorite angle was when Ole Anderson coerced Dusty Rhodes to trust him to go up against the Russians when they were in Georgia. Kelly said that he got TBS back on TV too.
Back to Florida, Kelly said that he loved the babyface intensity of Mike Graham. He also liked the Brisco Brothers and said that Jos Leduc legitimately frightened him as a child.
Kelly said that he graduated from Florida State University in 1990. After graduation, he worked at a local radio station and they were doing a county fair that involved wrestling. Kelly said that he was looking to get into the business at the time and volunteered to be the ring announcer. The wrestler was a guy named Cliff Anderson, who looked like Arn Anderson, and he booked Kelly for some shows after that. This was in the beginning of 1991.
He then talks about how the wrestling industry was in a transition period in the early 1990's. Kelly says that the Florida Championship Wrestling office was barely around and a lot of shady independent bookers used false advertisement to sell tickets and that made it tough to sell any tickets afterwards.
Kelly was the announcer for the International Wrestling Federation, which filmed at Universal Studios. Kelly said that he was terrible as a ring announcer at first, constantly relying on announcing caches and not being able to tell a story in the ring. Kelly said that they filmed about 40 episodes before the promotion went under. He then said that Rob Van Dam, The Smoking Gunns, and Mondo Kleen (Damien Demento) all started out there.
He then said talks about how he got into the WWF. In 1994, he sent in a tape of himself to Bruce Prichard but never heard anything and also never bothered to update his phone number for Prichard to reach him. Kelly said that he was friends with Billy Gunn and kept in touch with him and one day, while contemplating leaving the wrestling business due to not making money and his first child on the way, he called Gunn. Also at this time, he got a call from a guy he knew to warm up the crowds at MGM Studios before WCW shows. While at the studios during his audition, Kelly's pager went off and it was Gunn, who told him that Prichard saw his tape and been trying to contact him for the past several months to be an announcer. He called Prichard and told him he was at a WCW Show. Prichard asked him if he signed a contract and Kelly had not so he went to the WWF. Kelly thought he bombed in his audition.
He talks about how Kevin Dunn hated him and how they did not get along. He said that a month after he got there, JJ Dillon quit then Jim Ross took over for talent relations.
About office politics, Kelly said he stayed by himself and would pick the agents brains so he could learn. He does talk about Vince constantly having closed door meetings with Shawn Michaels, Bret Hart, and the Ultimate Warrior.
Kelly talked about how he used to drive around Mae Young and Fabulous Moolah and how he learned a lot from them and they were hysterical. Kelly said that he really liked Chyna, who was never the same once she broke up with HHH.
When asked about Bret, Kelly said that he made a lot of money off of the "Montreal Incident." He also said that Bret had an inferiority complex as he was always the second choice as he was never as big as Hogan, not as charismatic as Shawn, and not as good as Curt Hennig in he ring. Kelly puts over Hennig for working with a herniated disk at SummerSlam to wrestle a twenty-two minute match with Bret. Kelly does say he feels sorry for Bret and the dysfunction in his family.
About the Kliq, Kelly said that Kevin Nash & Scott Hall just left before he came into the WWF. Kelly said that Vince was hurt when they left and Kelly told him that he was loyal. He mentions how HHH was originally going to win the "King of the Ring" tournament if not for the "Curtain Call" incident at Madison Square Garden. Kelly also talks about producers and TV people saying that the Kliq were all assholes back then and treated them and especially Chris Candido and Sunny all like shit and how they made it difficult for the backstage crew to come into work day after day as they were all treated terribly by them. He adds that the only redeeming quality about Kevin Nash was that he was tall when asked about his run as Champion.
On the creative process when he first started with the company, Kelly said that the writers would all meet at Vince's home. Back then they filmed four weeks worth of shows in a night for the RAW tapings then another four weeks worth at the Superstars tapings. At the time, it was Jim Cornette and Bruce Prichard who met with Vince.
Kelly was asked about the Pillman/Austin angle with the gun (Kelly is wearing a Pillman t-shirt) and Kelly said that he thought it was wild and great. The interviewer brings up how Al Isaacs from the Scoops hated it as Kelly said the whole angle was groundbreaking and opened up the creative envelope. Kelly really liked Pillman but knew he was in a lot of pain and knew that is time was short and the pain would never go away. The interviewer brings up the Canadian Stampede ten-man tag match as Kelly calls it the perfect main event PPV match.
He talks about how Shawn Michaels was a dick back then and was always fucked up on pills but today he has changed completely. Kelly truly believes that Shawn finding religion saved his life and he is easy to deal with today.
When asked about 1996 Survivor Series, Kelly said that it was a terrible show. They built up Rocky Maivia for several weeks through vignettes and Shawn was in a very dark place at that show and flipped off the fans at one point.
On the 1997 Royal Rumble, Kelly talks about how they had to run out and get him Pedialyte because he was vomiting non-stop and calls it an awesome performance.
Kelly talks about how WCW had the nWo and they had the Godwinns and The Stalker and other garbage but still had Undertaker, Shawn, Bret, and Stone Cold.
Regarding the Undertaker, Kelly said that he demands respect out of everyone and how all of the backstage workers would go up and shake his hands and say hello to him. He said you get what you give with the Undertaker and he is generally respectful to people.
He is asked about Sid main-eventing WrestleMania 13 because of Shawn "losing his smile.". Kelly said that no one was going to follow Bret/Austin anyway. The interviewer asks about the possibility of Bret going in as the champion with Austin winning the belt and Kelly said that would have been way too soon as they still needed the babyface on the chase and the turn had to happen so the chase for the belt became Austin vs. The Establishment.
When asked about the "Monday Night War" at that time, Kelly said that it was a massacre as WCW was kicking their ass. He talks about in February 1997, they called a meeting and the room was silent until Vince Russo stood up. The interviewer then stops Kelly and said that he will get back to this question later.
Now, Kelly is asked about the "Montreal Incident." Kelly tells the story and how he was there covering the story with AOL. Russo was working with Vince for TV that week and told Kelly what was going on at the show and that Bret was leaving and balking at every idea they gave him. Apparently, Vince McMahon had Russo pick up the receiver at the other end when he was speaking with Bret over the phone. Kelly said he went to Stamford the day after the show and missed the TV taping the following day. Kelly then said it had to happen though.
He is asked about Shawn bringing out the mini Bret Hart. Kelly then talks about how he loves midgets then talks about how Vader kept bitching about the mini Vader as Goldust and Mick Foley loved the mini versions of themselves and would be taking pictures with them. This leads to Kelly talking about Vader was a miserable bastard while in the WWF.
Kelly talks about how rich Vince is and how he never goes to gas stations and has a service that comes to his house to fill the tank in his car.
About the Rock, Kelly said that the fans shitting on him and the "Die Rocky Die" chants really bothered him. This leads to a discussion of Rock ragging on him in his promos and how he called him "Hermie" and Kelly felt that was an insult aimed at him by writer Brian Gewirtz, who he calls a "comic book guys" and someone who he does not respect because they see wrestlers as beneath them.
Kelly tells a story of working in Florida with the Rocky Johnson (The Rock's dad) at a show in a flea market in Florida. The Rock, who played for the University of Miami at the time, came to the show with his dad and made the save. Kelly added that he always jokes with the Rock that he can always get him booked at that flea market if he needs work.
When asked, Kelly said that Rock was better at promos than Austin. Kelly then talks about how Brian Lee came up with a lot of Austin's material for promos and that was how he got his stuff. Kelly said that Rock also took stuff like "rudypoo" from Iceman King Parsons in Memphis then adds about how most people get their best stuff from others. Kelly also thinks that Austin was never comfortable on the mic.
When asked about the WrestleMania 15 main event, Kelly thought that Mick Foley should have been involved as part of a three-way with Austin and Rock. Kelly said how Shawn Michaels was around at the time and Austin went to him and said that he didn't want Mick in the main event then Shawn went to Vince and said it should be Austin vs. Rock as the main event. Kelly said when the decision was made, Mick's wife Collette was at the TV taping and she was crying as Mick got screwed out of a huge payday. Kelly talks about Austin being a different guy at that time and was becoming paranoid and as a result became political. When asked if he was as bad as Shawn in regards to the backstage politics, Kelly said that he was. Kelly said it was because he was getting on that "G" (GHB I assume) and how that was big in the locker room and that it changes you.
Kelly said that he was not that close to Owen Hart as they did not want the office guys to mingle with the wrestlers. He was watching the show on a camera and knew he fell once they cut to the crowd. He then talks about how he had to go on next and interview Debra McMichael and Jeff Jarrett for the match as Debra was sobbing with he and Jeff almost in tears as they did not know he was dead until a half-hour later and no one knew he died once he hit the ring. When they found out Owen was dead, they were getting ready for the main event. He said that the tribute RAW for Owen was done perfectly then talks about how it was hard for Austin to honor him with the beer at the show because once you crossed him, he would never forgive you. Kelly talks about how Austin never forgave Jarrett for treating him like shit in Memphis and would never work a program with him as a result.
He is asked about HHH rising to the top of the WWF. Kelly said that his evolution was interesting and that he had a lot of injury problems in the beginning of his career and that he underwent an experimental knee surgery from James Andrews that worked. He then said that he became who he was from the lessons he learned by hanging around with his friends in the company.
Kelly said that he came up with the idea for the wedding chapel payoff for the HHH/Stephanie/Test love triangle. He said that he was in bed with his wife one night and came up with the idea. Kelly said that his wife followed the shows and that they were both huge soap opera fans to begin with, calling it his favorite element in wrestling. He then sent the idea in an email to Vince who replied in all capital letters "GREAT SHIT."
On Billy Gunn, Kelly said that he was the best natural athlete he has ever seen in wrestling and puts over how he saw him beat guys in races with his wrestling boots. When asked why he did not get over as a singles star, Kelly said he was never comfortable on the mic.
Kelly said that he has tremendous respect for Mick Foley because he was never Vince's idea of what a great wrestler should be and that Jim Ross was why he even got into the WWF to begin with. Kelly then talks about how one night on RAW, Mick came backstage after his segment and Vince gave him a hug and told Mick that no matter what, he is part of the family.
On HHH as the heel entering and leaving WrestleMania 2000 as the champion, Kelly thought it was the right decision as it was getting formulaic with the face always winning the belt at Mania.
He is asked about Kurt Angle. Kelly puts him over for picking up the business as quick as anyone else he has ever seen.
Kelly is then asked about Taz debuting in at the Royal Rumble. He said they dropped the ball as it was a great moment but they knew he was going to get buried because of his height. He also said that guys like Bradshaw made sure he never had a chance.
He is asked about a few other workers. Kelly said that he was backstage after the Acolytes faced Public Enemy. He said that PE went over and shook the hands of the Acolytes after the match and there was no ill-will between them. He did say that Bradshaw always had a chip on his shoulder and that deep down inside he thinks he is a good person but can be a narrow-minded bully.
Kelly briefly talks about Heyman and how he was on the WWF payroll as far back as 1996, making $1,000 a week. He said he was not shocked when ECW went under as they all knew it was going to happen.
On WCW closing, Kelly does not believe that Russo killed WCW. When asked about Russo needing to be filtered by Vince McMahon in the WWF, Kelly said that Vince is a lousy writer but the greatest editor as he can turn a great idea in gold and a terrible idea into something.
He talks about Jim Ross and says that while he was a great announcer, he was a rotten boss. Kelly said that he was always cranky and could not make the people that worked for him better. Kelly does attribute some of that to how hard Ross was working at the time.
Kelly was not on the road at the time but from all of the reports he heard all of the WCW guys were looked down upon when they entered the WWF.
When asked about Wrestlemania X-7, Kelly said that the next night began the downward spiral as Austin turned heel and the Rock left the company to go to Hollywood and the company lost their two top babyfaces on the same night. Kelly also said that Austin should have turned a year sooner.
Now, Kelly talks about how the WCW guys were used when they came in and said they should have let them be who they were in WCW and since they owned the footage, they could have shown the fans clips and highlights of them to get familiarized with them. Kelly also would have had DDP as a face.
Kelly said he never thought that RVD would ever work for the WWF and still does not think that he fits in with the company. Kelly then said that if they let RVD be himself, he could become a superstar.
He then speaks about all of the belts in the company when they bought out WCW and how they never bothered to get them over and said that they would combine them to pop a rating for a show then talks about how the short-sighted booking has the product where it is today.
Final Thoughts: This was good stuff. My only problems were with the interviewer. Although knowledgeable, he was difficult to understand a majority of the time. It was like he was talking with marbles in his mouth. For Howard Stern fans, he sounded like a quieter version of JD Harmeyer.
However, Kelly was an awesome guest. He was willing to talk and not afraid to hold back. Seeing as how he said in the interview that he would never go back to the WWE, he told it like it is instead of trying to get his job back. Kelly also provided great insight into the backstage happenings during the hottest period in the history of wrestling.
Disc Two will be posted tomorrow.
Here is my schedule for the next several days
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Friday: WWF Wrestling Challenge 10/19/86
Saturday: RoH Final Battle 12/28/02
Sunday: WWF Houston Summit House Show 10/19/86
Tuesday: WWF Superstars of Wrestling 10/25/86
Thursday: Shoot Interview TBD
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MikeyMike, Witness September 11, 2014 at 10:16 AM
I didn't realize how big of a dick that Austin was. Seems a bit petty.
Night81 September 11, 2014 at 10:17 AM
I'm interested in reading more about that meeting where Russo stood up. Is that in disc 2?
Brian_Bayless September 11, 2014 at 10:21 AM
They did not and that sucked as I wanted to hear about that too
juvydriver September 11, 2014 at 10:22 AM
Are these usually posted on Tuesday? I'm trying to figure out if I'm losing my mind or not...
Matt Hayden September 11, 2014 at 10:22 AM
"Kelly also thinks that Austin was never comfortable on the mic."
I did not agree with everything Kelly said. That was one of those times
placetobepodcast September 11, 2014 at 10:24 AM
I am fairly certain he went into it when he covered 1997 with us.
I think a good question to ask is who was NOT petty when they hit the big-time.
I've never really heard anything bad about The Rock...but who knows?
The Ghost Of Meekin's Moobs September 11, 2014 at 10:30 AM
Austin and JR are cut from the same cloth. Both total assholes who put on a public front.
Good job Mr B
Ok, so mind losing it is. At least I know.
So, forever, everyone said that Montreal was all Vince and in the last 2 months, both Russo and Cornette have said they actually brought it up, even though they didn't think he would do it. It's why I love wrestling...
I think so too. He basically stands up and says, "I've got some ideas..." and the rest is history.
Sounds about right. I know I have heard the story before.. would make sense that it would have been from him on the show.
BTW, Kevin is awesome on all those timeline things you guys do. He's got a pretty good memory and he doesn't seem to be out to just bury guys (except Kevin Dunn).
Matt Johnson September 11, 2014 at 10:43 AM
Is it really petty to not want to work with someone who broke your neck and for someone who was a dick to you earlier in your career? Shutting Foley out of the main event sucks but him not really liking Owen or Jarrett is justified IMO.
Thank you, they are a lot of fun to do and he is a really good sport. Yeah, he hates Dunn and he whacked Triple H hard on last night's.
The Foley thing, if true, is a pretty dickish and cowardly too.
I need to relisten to when he did 1999 with us... curious if he had the same story or if time changed that memory at all since it would have been eight years after this.
MichaelXavier September 11, 2014 at 10:53 AM
Don't forget that Triple H also takes credit for coming up with the screwjob.
Extant1979 - Ghetto Superstar September 11, 2014 at 11:12 AM
I remember Foley writing about it in one of his books, he seemed to blame Shawn Michaels for it, no? It's been a while since I read it.
Chris Hirsch September 11, 2014 at 11:14 AM
Austin wasn't comfortable on the mic? Huh?
jeff bailey September 11, 2014 at 11:15 AM
Is this McCaffrey dude the same guy who housed Hyatte after he pissed off the rest of the internet?
In his recent run, Rock thought Hornswoggle was a Make-A-Wish kid, that cracked me up.
Slightly skeptical that Kelly came up with Triple H marrying Steph.
Obviously didn't use enough lube
That could have been an honest mistake!
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Kino Lorber Studio Classics - AN EYE FOR AN EYE and THE HERO AND THE TERROR on Blu-ray
AN EYE FOR AN EYE (1981; Steve Carver)
I came to Chuck Norris as a kid and he was a big favorite of mine. I can't remember if my Chuck Norris phase came before or after my Bruce Lee phase. I think it was after. Anyway, I got a big kick (pun intended) out of Chuck's movies and his lack of acting abilities didn't bother me in the slightest. Did he kick ass in a movie? That was the essential question. If Chuck was kicking dudes' faces and generally knocking folks out, I was having a good time. It was always neat to see Chuck doing his own fight scenes and a lot of his own stunts. That certainly made me think he was a badass as a kid and somehow kept me more engaged with his movies. Chuck was more accessible in some ways than Bruce Lee. Don't get me wrong, both are unbelievably talented martial artists. Bruce Lee's speed made him feel superhuman though. Chuck Norris was not as fast with his karate moves, but he was still a master and tough as hell. My friends and I often found ourselves trying to "spar" with each other after watching a good action-packed Chuck Norris movie. That would happen after Bruce Lee movies sometimes too, but more often it was Chuck who compelled us to fake kick each other onto the couch or into other random pieces of furniture. I must admit that since I saw a lot of his films on VHS in very close succession, they tend to run together a little bit in my head. I mean, the little bits stand out here and there (for instance, I'll always remember SILENT RAGE for it's mitogen-induced monster-man) and I can slot them into categories based on the guest stars in the cast, but thats it. That's it until I watch them again and then I start to recall the details. AN EYE FOR AN EYE was a Chuck movie that I must have seen early on. It has a catchy revenge-y kinda title and I'm sure that caught my eye. That title combined with the cover art featuring Chuck delivering one of his powerful side kicks was just the ticket for twelve year old me I'm sure. What I forgot about the movie is that Chuck kicks no ass in it until the thirty-five minute mark. Then there's a long break with more investigation and talking and romance and basically a lot of non-fighting for another thirty minutes or so. Maybe I was just expecting more action and the waiting is the hardest part as Tom Petty famously said. Thankfully, the film picks up in terms of action in the last forty minutes or so (including a nice standoff between Norris and classic 80s bad guy Professor Toru Tanaka). The nice thing that makes the non-fighting parts more enjoyable is the excellent ensemble of supporting actors in this movie. The late Christopher Lee,
Richard Roundtree, Mako, Professor Toru Tanaka, veteran character actor Matt Clark (who I am a big fan of), and Stuart Pankin all make appearances. Chuck's partner at the open of the film is Terry Kiser (Bernie Lomax himself from WEEKEND AT BERNIES)and he kicks off all the revenge machinations with a brutal death (spoiler!). It was especially nice to get a quick dose of Christopher Lee after his recent passing.
Transfer on this disc looks pretty good.
This Blu-ray includes an audio commentary from Director Steve Carver.
THE HERO AND THE TERROR (1988; Willam Tannen)
I remember thinking that THE HERO AND THE TERROR felt a little different from the other Chuck Norris movies I had watched to that point. I'd seen him play a cop many times, but that usually led to a lot more fisticuffs. This movie was based on a novel and maybe the filmmakers decided to adapt less fighting into it. It seemed more of a standard thriller that just happened to star Chuck Norris. In this case, Chuck plays a cop who is haunted by an experience he had catching a serial killer and being nearly killed by him. Chuck is tortured by a recurring nightmare of the killer drying to drown him and he's pretty traumatized. This is a very introspective Chuck Norris in this film. He's constantly having flashacks to his nightmare and spending time with his pregnant wife (his former therapist). Meanwhile, the serial killer (known as "The Terror") escapes the high security mental institution he'd been locked up in since Chuck had him put away. This particular killer has made a habit of neck-snapping with his lady victims right before drags them back to a "lair" that he has a created for himself at an abandoned movie theater. This movie contains exactly two fight scenes in the entire thing. It was produced by Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus (Cannon Films). As I mentioned, it felt like they were going for something of a more conventional thriller and outside of The Terror himself, who is kinda scary, the movie on the whole is a bit bland. The highlight is probably Jack O'Halloran's perfomance as The Terror. O'Halloran is one of those big, ugly-looking dudes who was only cut out to play monstrous movie villains. He will always be remembered as "Non" the giant almost non-speaking grunt from General Zod's war party in the SUPERMAN films. Fans of the 1987 DRAGNET movie may also recall him as "Big, bad, stupid-looking" Emil Muzz from that film. Apparently he was a heavyweight boxing contender in the 60s and 70s and you can see it. He's given a lot of sneaking around to do in this movie and little else. Other cast highlights include Billy Drago (who shows up for like a minute and then never reappears) and Ron O'Neal (SUPERFLY) as the Mayor.
Transfer on this disc is not bad. No special features included on the disc.
Bonus: Chuck Norris interview for THE HERO AND THE TERROR:
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The Disassembled Man by Jon Bassoff
The Disassembled man was my third read from author Jon Bassoff and his debut novel, from his other two stories the darkly disturbing Corrosion and the instantly forgettable Factory Town it would be interesting to see where this one would go. The Disassembled Man is told in a brash, maniacal first person narrative in true psychopathic style with lashings of dark and dirty humour.
Frankie Avicious is a man with a plan, one that's creeped up on him over time, shitty job at the slaughterhouse and a wife who has loads of potential in the wealth department but has let herself go somewhat over the years. Change is coming, he's making promises he can't possibly keep but that's not going to stop him trying and once you take the first step there’s no going back.
First off, he's in love with a stripper who sees him more as a stalker than a love interest, he hates his obese wife with a passion but her father is the big knob on the hill, a man with serious money. Now how can he get his hands on all that money and run away with the stripper of his dreams? It's gonna take some careful planning, or maybe not, let's just kill the old man, wife will inherit the money and then kill her, simple as.
Prepare yourself for a ride of carnage as possibly the most morally repressed man you've ever come across dives into a killing spree that would make psychos are us extremely proud.
Ruth is the wife and it would be fair to say that Frankie's love for her has waned just slightly over the years.
'She had more rolls than a bakery and more chins than a Hong Kong phone book.'
Tongue in cheek humour and violence follow after an argument.
'I should tell you now that Ruth suffered from a rare psychological disorder called insanity. The doctors gave her medication to stabilize her moods, but she must have forgotten to take her magic pills that day. In the wink of a con artist’s eye, she went from behaving like a loving housewife to a wild-eyed psychopath.'
And the punch that changes everything.
'but in all my life I don’t think I’d ever landed a better blow than this one. My fist vibrated, and she just stood there for a moment— the way a cartoon character remains suspended after walking off a cliff— then her knees gave way, and she collapsed to the floor.'
Frankie then has to win his Ruth back after she storms off, with money at the forefront of his mind, when he finally manages to convince her of his love it comes at a cost. A steamy night of passion and some hilarious scenes as Frankie in his mind goes to battle with a sexual tyrannosaurus.
'Then, like a Japanese kamikaze pilot, I readied myself for destruction. I dove into bed and was quickly smothered by the beached whale that was my wife.'
A mysterious traveling salesman named Jack Marteau takes an interest in hard drinking Frankie's fate as it becomes just a matter of time before he gets what's coming to him.
The Disassembled Man is a cringingly entertaining trip that has plenty of laughs, a war zones worth of violence and slaughter, some deranged family moments including incest and more than a fair share of depravity. All for money, the root of all evil but it's never that easy or we'd all have plenty of it. If moral fortitude and goodness of heart is what you're after then you're knocking on the wrong door with this story, prepare yourselves is all I will say.
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2003 Mini Cooper S (R53) Review (And How I Came To Buy It)
After an absolute age I sold my Lotus Elise. My reasons for selling it were outlined here and once I'd decided it had to go I got slightly more annoyed with it as each day passed unsold.
One horrible day in early February I went into the garage to load the tumble dryer. My Triumph Tiger is a fair bit longer than the Street Triple which preceded it. The Tiger was at the back of the garage and the Elise in front of it but shuffled really far forwards so there wasn't much room between it and my workbench - and the tumble dryer adjacent. I caught the edge of my kneecap against the Elise's number plate and swore loudly.
After two months on sale it had become just a lump that was in the way. I'd never really bonded with it and its state of unsoldness (someone call Oxford - I invented a new word) was wearing really thin. Four people had viewed it and taken it for extensive test drives and had taken up many hours of my time - and then not bought it. The day before the kneecapping incident a young man had spent two hours poring over every last detail and then proceeded to piss me around with a series of offers with catches attached. He wanted me to take it to a Lotus expert for an independent inspection as well as service it and MOT it. In polite terms I let him know he could Foxtrot Oscar.
"Will the damn thing ever sell?" is not what I was thinking when I received a phone call the next day at 8.30am whilst still asleep. "Yes?" I barked as I answered the unrecognised number. "I'm calling about the Lotus," said the voice. I snapped to attention. We spoke for thirty minutes. I tried to hide my just having woken-upness. He sounded genuine. He sounded sane. He did not sound like your typical Lotus-buying arse-merchant. He would visit the next morning.
They next morning I walked round the car to give it a check over and noticed the front number plate was hanging off.
On an Elise the front plate is stuck on with industrial-spec double sided sticky tape. I did not have any in the house and it was too late to go shopping. 99% of Elise buyers want a car that is 99.9% perfect and a hanging off number plate is reason enough to walk away from a sale - after having spent five hours asking the seller questions that would flummox even Lotus' longest serving employee.
I tried to stick it on with a piece of normal sellotape folded back on itself but this did not work. Obviously. I was desperately trying to make it stick in place by mind power alone when the prospective buyer turned up.
As it turned out he was a normal person rather than the usual Lotus time-waster buyer and after just half an hour he bought the car. He paid me the money and drove away in it, very happy.
I immediately paid off the loan which I had taken out to buy the Elise - and which was the over-riding reason for selling it.
However I did want another second car. I love my XC60 but I lease it and I've overshot the allowed mileage by nearly 50% and rather than pay extra for the privilege of driving it more than I should I wanted to buy a second car.
Eagle-eyed Speedmonkey readers will remember that in November last year I declared I needed a "Don't Give A Shit Car," and that that would be a 2004 Mini Cooper S.
I set myself a budget of £2,500, which I could afford without taking out a loan, and spent hours looking at the classifieds for the perfect Cooper S.
I ignored all those sold by dealers who at that budget I consider (through experience) to be cowboys. I found one for sale in Cornwall. I texted a mate and asked if he fancied a trip to Truro that Saturday (yes he'd like that he said) and texted the seller. Unfortunately she was away for the next weekend.
I didn't really like any others. Missing service history, horrible colours, horrible condition, horrible places, horrible sellers.
Then one Friday I was working from home. Whilst making a cup of tea I checked the Autotrader app and a new private ad for a Cooper S popped up. It had done 105,000 miles, had a full service history, one lady had owned it for the past five years and it was only ten miles from home.
I called the seller and asked if I could see it on Saturday. "You'll be lucky," he said, "...the phone's been ringing off the hook."
I knew why. At £1,750 it was around £750 cheaper than anything else of the same spec and condition. "OK, I'll be there at lunch," I said.
I ignored every one of my own rules for buying a used car, primarily because the seller was obviously a decent bloke (and that counts for a lot when buying used) and because at the price it was a complete steal. After a short inspection and an even shorter test drive I offered the full asking price, paid a deposit and shook hands on the deal. I couldn't afford to haggle or muck him about because the usual second hand dealer ghouls were phoning him every few minutes offering him close to the asking price.
The next morning my mate who was going to come to Cornwall came instead to Wokingham and we picked the car up.
I drove to Halfrauds to buy a Pure DAB digital radio to replace the analogue unit in the dash as well as 5 litres of 5W30, an oil filter and four Bosch spark plugs.
Once home and with a large cup of tea I set about servicing my new (to me) Mini Cooper S. It had only been serviced six months previously but I wanted to get to know it and give it a good start to my ownership of it.
The servicing was ridiculously easy. The engine is well packaged and everything was easy to get at.
Afterwards I filled it up with super unleaded (not necessary but I wanted to treat it) and took it for a proper test drive.
A 2003 Mini Cooper S has a 1.6 litre, 4-cylinder engine and is fitted with a supercharger. For those who don't know this is similar to a turbocharger but instead of being fed by exhaust gases is driven by a belt from the engine. The supercharger is cooled by an intercooler which sits behind the scoop in the bonnet - so it is there for a reason.
The car has 163bhp, 155b ft of torque, does 0-60mph in 7 seconds and weighs around 1,140kg.
The driving position is great. The bulkhead sits quite far forward so the footwell is relatively deep which means you can sit with your legs out like you would in a rear wheel drive sportscar. The interior is nicely designed but the seats in mine are part cloth (in an eye-watering shade of Smurf blue) and part leather.
The steering wheel feels chunky as does the gear lever. The switchgear is designed for maximum retro effect but looks and feels of a decent quality.
Some people told me the Mini is a girl's car but a) it looks good, b) it's fast, c) I don't care. And it really does look good, inside and out.
My own car misses some options I would have liked, namely full leather seats, heated seats, twin dials (we'll come to those in a minute) and cruise control but it makes up for all those because it has the glass panoramic roof. This is so big it makes the car feel like a Targa. Full epicness (another new word!).
The only real let-down inside the car is the fact the speed readout is in the middle of the dashboard. If the original owner had specced satnav this would have been housed in the centre of the dash and instead of just the rev-counter being located above the steering column two dials (speed and revs) would have sat just below the driver's view of the road. Instead working out the speed means briefly looking down and to the left - which is silly.
Driving the Cooper S is an absolute hoot. The engine has a lot less low-down torque than I imagined and the gearbox is less than smooth. My main driver this past year has been my Volvo XC60 which has one megaton of torque and the smoothest gearchange outside of Madonna's wardrobe.
But once used to these twin foibles I drove the Mini as it should be driven. Hard. And by god it rewards. You'll notice in the photos the overhangs are absolutely tiny. This means you can chuck the car this way and that and it'll comply. It turns like a Jack Russell on carpet and it goes like the proverbial clappers as long as you change gear right in the red zone. And it refuses to understeer no matter what you do.
The ride is less than relaxed but the upside is you feel the road and what is going on with the wheels. The power is linear which means you don't really get torque steer but it's still a good idea to turn the traction control off because it does cut in far too early if, for example, you corner quickly and get the inside front wheel spinning slightly.
For less than two grand I can't think of another car with four seats that'll deliver so much fun. I suppose a Renault Clio 182 might do but once you've bought one you'll realise you have bought a Renault and this will make you annoyed.
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Calvary Gaol, standing bleak and forbidding on the Cumbrian hillside, exerts a curious hold over Georgina Grey. For her family’s history is closely bound up in its dark and terrible past. It’s there that her great-grandfather worked as a prison doctor in the 1930s, where his involvement in a bizarre experiment would change the course of his life forever. The experiment was never spoken of afterwards, but uneasy memories of it lingered for many years.
Georgina is intrigued to learn that her mysterious great-grandfather left his money to psychic research, apparently ignoring the claims of his own family. Travelling to the Cumbrian market town of Thornbeck to help wind up the unusual legacy, she meets TV presenter and anthropologist, Chad Ingram. And Chad is fascinated by Calvary too. He plans to conduct a new experiment in the now-disused gaol – an experiment that will take place in the brooding desolation of the old execution chamber.
But Chad’s experiment and Georgina’s curiosity are to have horrifying consequences. For there is someone in Thornbeck who is prepared to go to any lengths to ensure that the macabre past remains buried…
Walter Kane almost missed the signpost to Calvary Gaol, but he saw it at the last minute and swung the car sharply across the road and into the narrow lane.
It had been quite a long drive, but he had enjoyed it because he was still enjoying the novelty of owning a car. It had been an extravagant purchase – if his mother had still been alive, she would have been deeply shocked. The action of a spendthrift, she would have said. It had always been tacitly understood that when Walter reached twenty-one and inherited his father’s money outright, it would be sensibly invested. To provide a little income, his mother had said, because you won’t make a lot of money from doctoring: don’t expect that you will.
Walter had not said he did not want to make money from being a doctor, and he had not said he did not want his father’s money, either. And buying the dogged little Austin Seven was not really so very spendthrift: if he was offered this Calvary appointment a car would be very useful in such a remote place—
No. Let’s be honest about that one thing if about nothing else. The car is because I didn’t want any comparisons between this journey and the one my father took along this road twenty years ago. I want to arrive at Calvary as my own master, in command of my own life, and I don’t want any ghosts travelling with me.
But the ghosts were with him anyway, and as he drove along the narrow road towards the prison he found himself thinking that the landscape could not have changed very much since 1917. There might have been fewer houses then, although the farmhouse across the fields would have existed – even to an untrained eye it looked almost Elizabethan. I don’t suppose you’d have seen it, though, said Walter to the memory of his father. You wouldn’t have seen the lanes or the hedgerows either. Oh damn, in another minute I’ll be conjuring up a reproachful spectre from the past, like something out of Hamlet, doomed to walk the night, forbidden to tell the secrets of the prison-house— That would be just like my father, as well, because from all accounts he was fond of dramatic gestures.
But there were no such things as ghosts and if this particular prison-house did have any secrets it could keep them locked inside its walls because he did not want to know what they were. He would think instead that his appointment with the board of prison governors was for three o’clock, and if he did not drive a bit faster he would be late. He had no intention of being late, or of doing anything that might jeopardise his chances of this job.
He rounded a curve in the lane, and there looking down from a gentle slope of the English countryside, was Calvary. The place of execution set on the hill.
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A spider's tactile hairs
Friedrich G. Barth (2015), Scholarpedia, 10(3):7267. doi:10.4249/scholarpedia.7267 revision #150455 [link to/cite this article]
Curator: Friedrich G. Barth
B. Lungsi Sharma
Volker Dürr
Jiro Okada
Prof. Friedrich G. Barth, Department of Neurobiology, University of Vienna
Figure 1: Cupiennius salei (Ctenidae), a much investigated wandering spider from Central America; adult female with a leg span of ca. 12 cm [Photograph: FG Barth]
With more than 43,000 known extant species, some 500 new species currently described per year and an educated estimate of 150,000 or more existing species (Penney et al. 2012; Platnick 2013) spiders form a large group of animals, much larger than other groups traditionally receiving much more attention (e.g. birds with ca. 10,000 species, amphibians ca. 6,500 and mammals with ca. 5,500 species). They have existed at least since the carboniferous and their age of at least 320 mya is about twice that of mammals. From an evolutionary and ecological point of view spiders have been very successful to this very day. They have conquered practically all terrestrial biotopes and impress with their sheer number of individuals and their role as the main predators of insects. Undoubtedly, the spiders' success to a large extent is due to their rich repertoire of highly developed sensory systems. Among these the cuticular hairs are the most obvious ones. They also provide the input stage for a spider's tactile sense. As shown by studies in Cupiennius salei (Ctenidae), a Central American wandering spider (Barth 2002, 2008) (Figure 1), which has attained particular importance as an exemplary spider in a number of international laboratories, these tactile hairs are surprisingly well "designed" to serve their particular sensory purpose. This will be outlined in the following.
1 The exoskeleton and its sensors
2 Mechano-sensitive hair sensilla
2.1 Types of morphology and arrangement
2.2 Proprioreceptive vs. exteroreceptive
2.3 Well matched micromechanics
2.3.1 Hair shaft or outer lever arm
2.3.2 Inner lever arm and dendrites
2.3.3 Directionality
2.4 Physiological responses of sensory cells
2.5 Behavioral roles
3.1 Internal references
The exoskeleton and its sensors
No other structure dominates the life of arthropods more than their exoskeleton. It not only protects them and provides the lever system needed for locomotion, but also carries a multitude of sensors at the interface between the organism and its environment. In addition to being the base for sense organs the exoskeleton is an auxiliary structure propagating the stimuli for a unique skeletal sense alien to us humans. Spiders in particular have an elaborate skeletal sense with up to some 3,500 sensory slits embedded into it. These represent sites of enhanced mechanical compliance responding to the slightest strain and deformation in the nanometer range, going along with stresses in the exoskeleton due to muscular activity, hemolymph pressure or substrate vibrations (Barth 2002, 2012a, 2012b; Fratzl and Barth 2009). Supported by many studies on the functional properties and behavioral role of its strain sensors we have to conclude that the spider is informed about the mechanical status of its exoskeleton in remarkable detail.
The sense of touch, however, is served by the other group of sensors, the hair sensilla. These are particularly numerous in hunting or wandering spiders which do not build webs to catch prey but roam around and much more rely on their tactile sense than do for instance orb weavers. Although counter to the intuition of most people (associating spiders with a web for prey capture) not only more than half of the known spider species, including Cupiennius, are such hunters, but there also seems to be an evolutionary tendency to abandon web building for the sake of free roaming hunting (Jackson 1986; Jocqué et al. 2013).
Mechano-sensitive hair sensilla
Figure 2: The exoskeleton of Cupiennius salei is densely covered by cuticular hairs, the majority of which is innervated. (a) Ventral view of first two segments of walking legs (coxa, trochanter, trochanter/femur joint), (b) dorsal side of opisthosoma, and (c) dorsolateral aspect of proximal leg segments and prosomal tergum [Photographs: FG Barth]
Cupiennius belongs to the hairy type of wandering spiders with several 100 thousands of hairs on its exoskeleton (Figure 2). The vast majority of these hairs is innervated and serving a tactile function, the major exception being the non-innervated short yellowish plume hairs of adult spiders. There are also some chemoreceptive hairs among them, however, which are mostly found on the distal sections of walking legs and pedipalps and recognized by the steeper angle to the cuticular surface and often a slightly S-shaped hair shaft. Among the 21 sensory cells of each of these hairs there are two mechanosensitive ones, responding to the deflection of the hair shaft (Harris and Mill 1973, 1977). The most interesting known function of pedipalpal chemosensory hairs is their response in Cupiennius to a pheromone (S-dimethyl ester of citric acid) attached to the female dragline which stimulates the male to start his vibratory courtship (Tichy and Barth 1992; Barth 1997, 2002; Gingl 1998; Papke et al. 2000). Different from chemoreceptive hairs the majority of the other hairs are unimodal, responding to mechanical forces deflecting the hair shaft by direct contact (Foelix 1985). The density of these hairs is up to about 400/mm2 (Eckweiler 1983; Friedrich 1998). This is remarkable, in particular when compared to our human skin, where the densely innervated glabrous skin of the fingertip has only 1.5 Meissner afferents per mm2, to give an example (Johnson et al. 2000). A lot still has to be learned to understand whether the spider uses the high spatial resolution potentially provided by such a dense arrangement and what for (Barth 2015).
Figure 3: Structural details of the long tactile hairs sticking out of the carpet of other hairs. (a) Scanning electron micrograph of a walking leg tarsus. Arrow points to one of the long tactile hairs dorsally. (b) Basal part of tactile hair indicated in (a) according to electron micrographs. CF connecting fibrils, DS dendrite sheath, HB hair base, HS hair shaft, JM joint membrane, S socket, SS socket septum, TC terminal connecting material. (c) Dendrite terminals in longitudinal section (transmission electron micrograph). TB tubular bodies, RL receptor lymph. (d) Example of projections of tactile hairs on the femur of the second left (A2) and fourth right walking leg (A4) into the prosomal (thoracic) ganglionic mass; dorsal view. Note longitudinal sensory tracts 4 and 5 [(a) – (c) from (Barth et al. 2004), (d) from (Ullrich 2000), unpublished]
At a closer look a large diversity of mechanosensitive hair sensilla can be seen. And it is to a large extent this diversity of the mechanosensory hairs which enriches the small sensory space of spiders which lack long distance senses like our vision and hearing. The tactile sense is a close-range sense par excellence. Its hairs all form first-order lever systems and follow the same basic Bauplan. Their outer hair shaft always protrudes from a cuticular socket and they are innervated by 1-3 (most typically three) sensory cells with dendritic terminals close to the end of the inner lever arm. Tactile hairs all have a so-called tubular body in their dendritic ends indicating their mechanoreceptive function. The primary afferent fibers into the central nervous system show a somatotopic organization in the longitudinal tracts of the subesophageal ganglionic mass. There are also projections into the brain proper, the supraesophageal central nervous system (Figure 3).
Types of morphology and arrangement
Figure 4: Distal part of C. salei walking leg. (a) The tactile space of the spider’s walking leg (not considering active leg movement) determined by indicating the tips of the tactile hairs forming the outer borderline. Individually labeled hairs all belong to the particularly long type primarily exposed to tactile stimuli. Ta tarsus, Mt metatarsus, Ti tibia, Pa patella, Fe femur; encircled crosses mark the position of spines, scale bar 5mm. (b)Tarsus and metatarsus, showing the most intensively studied long tactile hairs. Note presence of such tactile hairs on the ventral side as well [(a) adapted from (Friedrich 2001),(b) photograph: FG Barth]
The most obvious difference among sensory hairs is that between hairs adequately deflected by direct contact and those deflected by medium flow,that is by the frictional forces contained in the slightest flow of air (Figure 4). The latter type are the so-called trichobothria, of which Cupiennius has about 100 on each of its legs. The trichobothria are easy to identify: Due to their outstanding mechanical sensitivity they can easily be seen moving under the dissecting microscope following the ever present air movement. Quite differently, the deflection of tactile hairs needs much larger forces (see below). Trichobothria have been the subject of numerous studies, including physical-mathematical modeling, physiological and behavioral experiments, analyzing their dominant role in the spider's capture of flying insect prey (Humphrey and Barth 2007; Klopsch et al. 2011, 2013; Barth 2014). According to studies in several laboratories and including the analog sensors (filiform hairs) of insects they are working down to energy levels close to that contained in thermal noise and for that reason mainly have received a lot of attention from physicists and engineers as well. For the biologist the trichobothria are an impressive demonstration of the functional changes achieved by varying and properly adjusting just a few parameters contained in the Bauplan common to all hairs. Thus the spring stiffness contained in the articulation of the airflow sensing hair and resisting its deflection is smaller by up to about four powers of ten than in a typical tactile hair, where it measures between 10-8 and 10-9 Nm/rad (Dechant et al. 2001; McConney et al. 2008; Barth 2014). Similarly, low mass and the effect of hair length on the frequency tuning are used in a very "clever" way closely related to fluid mechanics in trichobothria. Details are found in reviews by Humphrey and Barth (2007) and Barth (2014).
Figure 5: Tactile hairs with one sensory cell only. (a) and (b) hair plate on the anterior side of a walking leg coxa of C. salei; scale bars 100 μm and 20 μm, respectively [from (Seyfarth et al. 1990)]. (c) long smooth hairs (length from 40 to 1000 μm) on the coxae of two neighbouring walking legs (R2 and R3); Pl pleural sclerite of prosoma; asterisks indicate areas of smooth hairless cuticle opposing both groups of hairs [from (Eckweiler et al. 1989)]
A simple way to classify spider tactile hairs is the number of sensory cells attached to them. The exceptions to the rule of 3 bipolar cells mentioned above (Foelix and Chu-Wang 1973) are hairs supplied by only 1 sensory cell, as shown for the short and stout hairs of the coxal hair plates (Seyfarth et al. 1990) and most likely applying to the two hair plates more recently found on the chelicerae. Another type of tactile hairs with one sensory cell only are the so called long smooth hairs on the coxae as described by Eckweiler et al. (1989) (Figure 5).
When going into more morphological detail (like shape of hair socket, hair length, shape of hair shaft), a further classification of tactile hairs turns out to be difficult and its value is still doubtful. Intriguingly, the distribution of hair types characterized by a certain combination of these parameters is conservative, possibly indicating a relation to particular stimulus patterns, being kind of templates of them (Friedrich 1998; Barth 2015).However, in order to turn this speculation into reliable data it still needs a lot of research. Hair sockets measure between 3 µm and 15 μm in diameter and vary in shape and their degree of openness, which strongly affects the mechanical directional characteristics of hair deflection.
Proprioreceptive vs. exteroreceptive
Tactile spider hairs represent both proprioreceptors and exteroreceptors, the difference being that the first ones are stimulated by self-generated stimuli whereas the latter respond to stimuli from an outside source. Proprioreceptive stimulation amply occurs during locomotion when hairs located at joints are deflected by joint movement or when a joint membrane rolls over a field of coxal hair plate sensilla. The long smooth hairs are stimulated when two neighboring coxae are approaching each other, most likely measuring the distance between them (Eckweiler et al. 1989; Seyfarth et al. 1990; Schaber and Barth 2014).
Well matched micromechanics
A number of electrophysiological experiments as well as computational studies of their micromechanical properties have revealed surprisingly "clever" details of tactile spider hair properties, reflecting the properties of the stimuli they have to cope with. Examples are the following.
Hair shaft or outer lever arm
The tactile hairs studied in detail are the long hairs (length up to ca. 3.2mm) dorsally on the walking leg tarsus and metatarsus, forming the outer boundary of the spider's tactile space (Figure 4) (Albert et al. 2001). They are stimulated from above when the spider is moving around in small spaces and hitting obstacles while wandering at night (Schmid 1997; Barth 2015). As already mentioned the stiffness of the hairs' articulation is larger by up to four powers of ten than that of the trichobothria. As a consequence the forces (which are in the μN range) needed to deflect these and similar tactile hairs on other body parts (Figure 2) not only deflect but at the same time bend the hair shaft. Accordingly, Young's modulus E and the second moment of inertia J along the bending hair shaft dominate the hair's mechanical behavior during stimulation. Inertial forces due to the mass of the hair shaft and highly relevant in case of the trichobothria may be neglected in case of the tactile hairs. An important consequence of the bending of the hair shaft, its cross sectional heterogeneity and the increase of J by roughly 4 powers of ten from the tip of the hair towards the hair base is that the point of contact of the stimulus moves closer and closer towards the hair base with increasing stimulus force from above. From this it follows that at the same time the effective lever arm decreases. The bending moment therefore increases more and more slowly until it saturates at ca. 4 ✕ 10-9 Nm (Dechant et al. 2001).This in turn implies protection against breaking, an increased working range (as compared to a non-bending rod) and higher mechanical sensitivity for small deflections (forces ca. 5 ✕ 10-4 N/°) and the initial phase of a stimulus than for large stimuli (forces ca. 1 ✕ 10-5 N/°).
According to Finite Element Analysis the hair shaft may be considered a structure of equal maximum strength underlining its mechanical robustness. Axial stresses do not exceed ca. 3.2 ✕ 105 N/m2 (Dechant et al. 2001).
A seemingly perfect match between stimulus and hair micromechanics is in addition found in what was identified as a "second joint" within the socket. There the deflected hair shaft bends even before it contacts the socket (Barth et al. 2004).
Inner lever arm and dendrites
As it seems the hair base and the inner lever arm of the tactile hairs (on the inner side of the axis of rotation) likewise are structures favoring a combination of high sensitivity and mechanical protection of the dendritic terminals from being overloaded and damaged (Barth 2004). The inner lever arm is only ca. 3.5 μm long, that is at least ca. 750 times shorter than the outer one. This implies a considerable scaling down of the hair tip movement and a corresponding scaling up of the force close to the dendrites. When the hair is deflected by 10°, which is close to the maximum deflection under biological conditions, the torque counteracting the stimulus measures ca. 10-8 to 10-9 Nm and the displacement close to the dendrites ca.0.5 μm. At the physiologically determined threshold stimulus of 1° ("slow cell", see below) the latter value is only 0.05 μm (Albert et al. 2001).
Apart from effects of the asymmetry of the socket structure (as clearly seen from above in some tactile spider hairs) there are directional dependencies of the torques resisting hair deflection before any contact with the socket. The most pronounced case so far known of such a mechanical directionality are the hairs at the joint between walking leg tibia and metatarsus. For the natural direction of stimulation the torsional restoring constant S is smaller by a factor of about 100 as compared to all other directions (Schaber and Barth 2014). Dechant et al. (2006) provide a quantitative mathematical description of any cuticular hair, based on the stiffness of its articulation in the preferred direction and transversal to it.
Physiological responses of sensory cells
Figure 6: Electrophysiological characteristics of long tactile hairs. (a) Responses of the fast and the slow cell to a ramp and hold stimulus (hair deflection). (b) Characteristic curves of slow and fast cells of tarsal and metatarsal tactile hairs [from (Albert et al. 2001)]
The tactile hairs sticking out of the carpet of hairs dorsally on the walking legs of Cupiennius have also been subjects of electrophysiological experiments (Albert et al. 2001). Like in Ciniflo (Harris and Mill 1977) for unknown reasons extracellular recordings were only possible from two of the three sensory cells, one of which is much larger than the others. Tactile hair sensory cells consistently show phasic response characteristics, answering to the dynamic stimulus phase, that is to the velocity of hair deflection. Using biologically relevant stimulus velocities the maximum response is seen with a latency of 1 to 2 ms only, a very short time typical of many mechanoreceptors and implying high temporal resolution. Adaptation time to static deflection varies; consistently, a "slow" and a "fast" cell were found, the latter being much less sensitive in terms of the deflection velocity threshold than the former (ca. 30°/s vs. <0.1°/s) (Figure 6).When exposed to ramp-and-hold stimuli the action potential frequency follows a simple power function \( y(t) = a \times d \times t^{-k} \) in both cases. Here y is the impulse rate, t is the time, a a constant representing the amplification, d stimulus amplitude and k a receptor constant describing how quickly the response to a maintained stimulus declines. In the present case k-values are around around 0.5, implying properties in between that of a pure displacement receiver (k=0; response independent of frequency) and that of a velocity sensor (k=1;differentiator of first order). Lowest threshold deflection angles are in the range of 1°. The characteristic curves (impulse rate vs. angular velocity of hair shaft deflection) are saturation curves for both the slow and the fast cell. However, the slow cell saturates at much lower velocities than the fast cell (Figure 6). The corresponding values for the tarsal tactile hairs (TaD1 and TaD2; Figure 4) are 250° s-1 and 650° s-1, respectively. For the slow cell threshold deflection angles are independent of deflection velocity, whereas they highly depend on it for the fast cell for which the minima occur at ca. ≥100° s-1 (Albert et al. 2001). Importantly, the cells do not provide information about the exact time course of hair deflection but only about its presence and onset. Whereas the "fast" cell is working like a mere quasi-digital "event detector", the "slow" cell is suggested to serve the analysis of the texture and shape of surfaces actively scanned by the spider and to be well adapted to that function, similar to the SAI tactile units in the vertebrate glabrous skin (Albert et al. 2001; Johnson 2001; Barth 2015).
The reader interested in insect mechanoreceptive hairs is referred to a review article by Keil (1997) and to a paper by Theiß (1979) who found a spring stiffness S in fly macrochaetae very similar to that described here for the spider case. Of particular interest may be the remarkable lack of a standing transepithelial potential in spiders. Such a potential was found to be fundamental for the primary processes (transduction) in insect sensilla but is absent from spiders according to all knowledge currently available (Thurm and Wessel 1979; Thurm and Küppers 1980; Barth 2002).
Behavioral roles
Figure 7: The body raising behavior of C.salei .(1) The spider approaches a 10 mm high wire obstacle from the left.(2)It raises its body as soon as tactile hairs ventrally on the proximal leg and the sternum touch it.(3) Having passed the obstacle the spider returns to its undisturbed walking position. [from (Seyfarth 2000)]
Figure 8: (a) Action potentials of tactile hair sensory cell (SN) and coxal muscle c2 (Myo) responding to the deflection of 10 tactile hairs on the hind leg coxa. (b) Cross sectioned neuromer of leg 4 showing the incoming tactile hair ending and the motor neuron supplying coxal muscle c2.There are local and plurisegmental interneurons which are not shown here. Numbers 1 to 5 indicate the centrally located sensory longitudinal tracts; CT, CL, and VL represent the central, centro-lateral and ventro-lateral tract, respectively. [from (Milde and Seyfarth 1988)]
Figure 9: (a) Excitatory motor neurons innervating coxal muscle c2. Above: Motor neuron activity (MN) and the corresponding muscle response (Myo) following tactile hair stimulation. (b) Plurisegmental interneuron involved in body raising behavior of C. salei. Above: Stimulation of right hind leg (R4) induces reflex muscle activity in the same leg (R4, Myo) and also activity of an interneuron on the contralateral side (L4,IN) [from (Milde and Seyfarth 1988)]
A lot still needs to be done to better understand why Cupiennius and other wandering spiders are so extremely well equipped with tactile hairs. A particular research requirement is the analysis of complex stimulus patterns like those seen during active tactile probing in the dark and courtship and copulation (Barth 2002). Upon simple stimulation like the experimental deflection of a few neighboring or individual tactile hairs the spider withdraws the stimulated body part or turns away from the source of stimulation. Often this behavior follows the deflection of a single hair only, like raising the opisthosoma ("abdomen"), lowering the prosoma ("cephalothorax") or withdrawing the spinnerets (Seyfarth and Pflüger 1984; Friedrich 1998; Barth 2015). Interestingly, the long tactile hairs forming the outposts of the sense of touch are not only found dorsally on the leg, but also ventrally on the tarsus (Figure 4) and among all tactile hairs so far studied they were the ones most easily deflected (smallest values for elastic restoring constant S; 5.9 ✕ 10-11 Nm/° for distad deflection). They are assumed to provide sensory feedback information during locomotion.
A full neuroethological analysis of a tactile behavior comes from the work of E-A Seyfarth and his associates who examined "body raising" behavior in Cupiennius, which is also found in salticid and theraphosid and probably many other spiders (Figure 7)(see review by Seyfarth 2000). This behavior must be very helpful when the spiders walk around on structurally complex terrain and have to avoid and cope with all sorts of mechanical obstacles. Seyfarth and co-workers successfully traced the information flow from the sensory receptors to the central nervous system and the motor output. The deflection of long tactile hairs on the sternum or ventrally on the proximal leg first activates the coxa levator muscle of the stimulated leg. Thus a primary local response pulls the coxa against the prosoma while the distal leg joints are extended hydraulically. Coxal muscle activity in turn leads to the stimulation of internal joint receptors at the tergo-coxal joint, which triggers a second, the pluri-segmental response: The muscles of the remaining seven legs contract almost simultaneously and the legs are extended. By intracellular recording and staining the neuronal correlates of "body raising" behavior could be identified from the stimulated tactile hair and its sensory afferents to inter- and motor neurons (Figure 8, Figure 9).
Another, more recent analysis, asked how well adapted tactile hairs ventrally at the tibia-metatarsus joint might be to a proprioreceptive function, monitoring the movement of the joint (Schaber and Barth 2014). The results are much in favor of such an adaptedness.
Hairs opposing each other on the tibia and metatarsus side of the joint, respectively, deflect each other by some 30° (mean) during locomotion, with the microtrichs covering the hair shafts interlocked.
For both hairs the torque resisting deflection during locomotion (ca. 10-10 Nm rad-1) is smaller by up to two orders of magnitude than that in the opposite direction.
Action potential frequencies recorded from individual tactile hair sensory cells follow the velocity of hair deflection within the naturally occurring range of step frequencies between 0.3 and 3 Hz. Obviously then, these joint hairs are well suited for a proprioreceptive function.
There is much left for future research on the tactile sense of spiders. Do wandering spiders use tactile information on form, size and texture of an object's surface? When watching their smooth and elegant way of moving around on geometrically complex structures like bromeliads or other plants and watching the females producing and manipulating their egg sac one is strongly inclined to assume that they do use it. The same applies to the capture and handling of their prey. The next question then is: How are they doing it? The active tactile probing of their immediate environment (Schmid 1997) should be examined in more detail as should be the handling of prey and the sexual partner during precopulatory and copulatory communication (Barth 2002, 2015). Such knowledge would now allow us to predict the respective stimulation patterns of the sensory periphery and to hypothesize on the information theoretically available to the central nervous system. What the central nervous system is doing with it still largely is in the dark but the neuroethological analysis of the body raising behavior of Cupiennius (Seyfarth 2000) nicely shows what can be done and hoped for.
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May The Horse Be With You!
by Matman
When I interviewed Dark Horse President Mike Richardson at New York Comic Con 2013 we spoke about so much, but it was his exuberance of all things Star Wars that made me take notice. After chatting I began to realize HE is the big reason Star Wars comics have had so much passion and fire.
Also, Mike wrote the stories title on my copy of 'Star Wars - Dark Empire' # 1.
And this is why the news that Star Wars was returning to Marvel hurts so much. Because I know how much Mike and the rest of Dark Horse loved making Star Wars comics.
When Dark Horse got the liscence to make Star Wars comics in 1991, the world didn't care about Star Wars...myself included. I have always considered myself to be one of the worlds biggest Star Wars fans, so much so I give it full credit for saving my life following a traumatic move in 1977.
Dark Horse brought a quality to the Star wars books not seen in a lot of the Marvel run. I always felt that Marvel was just putting it out because it had to, not because it wanted too. Sure some amazing creators and stories filled those 107 issue (and 3 annuals), but there was something deeper about the Dark Horse runs.
With world building like Legacy and Old Republic and the incredible current 'Star Wars' and 'THE Star Wars', Dark Horse has brought the best creators in the business to play in the sandbox and have done an amazing job. Never did I feel Dark Horse treated Star Wars as just another licensed property... they treated the books like they were their own intellectual property... much like they do with all their liscenced or creator owned books.
But in the world we live in, it isn't hard to see why Marvel would be the new home of Star Wars...again. After all, Marvel and Star Wars are owned by Disney so i makes sense to keep it all under the same roof.
But this story isn't about what is gonna happen, it's about what Dark Horse has done and that is given me (and many others) quality books featuring the characters and situations we hold so important to us.
So thank you Dark Horse for making me love Star Wars again and despite the fact that the Jedi all may be moving, you will not only survive... but prosper!
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Clevedon's Victorian Gun Battery
In the late 1850s a wave of anxiety swept through the British military establishment. The letters page of the London Times was awash with concerns about Britain's vulnerability to foreign invasion. The letter writers had a point - the British Army and the Royal Navy were sorely stretched in defending the Empire and were engaged in a series of colonial and foreign wars. Indeed in a single decade the British had taken on Czarist Russia, an Indian insurgency and most notably the Qing Emperor in China, a country with a population of 500 million.
Clevedon Volunteer Artillery (Source Unknown)
Ironically, the concerns were centred on France who were, of course, Britain's coalition partner throughout this period. Some sixty years earlier the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars had changed European geo-politics for ever. Those with very long memories recalled the last French invasion of Britain in 1797 (the invasion battlefield at Fishguard is the subject of one of my earlier posts). Much later, the coup d'état by Louis Napoleon in 1852 induced a particularly acute bout of invasion panic and in the ensuing years a number of steps were taken to strengthen Britain's costal defences and raise a local militia who would backfill gaps in home defence.
Clevedon Pill - 1878 (Rob Campbell Collection)
The volunteer movement got underway in 1859 and the Clevedon Artillery Volunteers (initially known as the 1st Somerset Artillery Corps) were formally adopted into the 1st Artillery Volunteer Corps (Portishead and Clevedon) on 18th June 1860. At its' inception the Corps mustered nearly 45 men and almost a year later The Weston-super-Mare Gazette was reporting a roll of over 50. The unit was commanded by various members of the Elton and Trestrail families up until the point of its disbandment in 1908.
Clevedon No. 9 Battery - May 1888 (Elton Archive)
Captain Sir Edmund H. Elton
(middle seated row - 6th from the left)
The Clevedon Volunteers went through a number of iterations the most controversial one being their incorporation into the Gloucester Artillery Volunteer Corps as Battery No.9 in 1880. According to some secondary sources there was a strong local preference for the unit to be brigaded with any of the southern counties. Certainly in 1908 (18th March) the Western Daily Press reported that it had been hoped that the Clevedon Artillery would be united with Weston-super-Mare as a Somerset Corps and then made into the Horse Artillery or something useful.
The Wain's Hill Battery - Recently Restored
The Clevedon Volunteers' gun battery overlooked The Pill, an area of coastline characterised by small creeks suitable for supporting an amphibious landing (the topography has changed since a pumping station was built in modern times). It was formally inaugurated on the 14th August 1860 when the Corps' two guns (landed from the Juverna) were put in position - one on the battery site and the other in the 'Drill Shed'. The Volunteer Service Gazette and Military Dispatch described the day as one of the gayest ever witnessed in Clevedon with flags flying from every church tower. Clevedon formed just a small part of the Bristol Channel picture.
Clevedon Artillery Volunteers - Clevedon Pier - 1893
Around the same time a series of batteries were strung across the channel from Brean Down to Lavernock Point in Wales with two heavily fortified islands in between - Steep & Flat Holm. Since 2016 a local volunteer group - The Friends of Poets' Walk - have put in hundreds of hours of hard work into clearing the battery site near Wain's Hill (referred to as Battery Hill in a press report of 1878) - along with the adjacent 2nd World War era Home Guard depot. The Clevedon Civic Society generously donated resources and expertise in order to stabilise the remaining structures.
'Big Bertha' 1932 (Derek Lilly Collection)
What about the guns? I haven't examined many primary sources but by a process of deduction it is possible to work out the basic story. An edition of the Weston-super-Mare Gazette on 17th September 1864 tells us that the Clevedon Artillery Corps was originally equipped with two eighteen-pounders and these are referenced in press reports from the opening of the battery - as quoted above. In his book Clevedon: Places and Faces the late Rob Campbell mentions a '64 pounder'. Indeed contemporary press reports reveal a 64 pounder was used in Heavy Artillery competitions between (at least) 1882 and 1889 at Wain's Hill. The original guns had in fact been replaced (or perhaps augmented) by the aforementioned RML (rifled muzzle loading) 64 pounder and a 40 Pounder RBL (rifled breech loader). In 1899 the two guns were, in turn, replaced by 40 pounder RBL's adapted with a side loading action. There are a number of photographs of at least one decommissioned 40 pounder RBL with side closing, still in situ at the battery but with the breech and vent piece removed.
Clevedon Battery - Two 40 Pounder RBLs - (Ted Caple)
The Left Hand Cannon - Close Up (Jane Lilly Collection)
The two side loading 40 pounder RBLs latterly deployed at Clevedon was the 'Land Service' version of the RBL 40-pounder Armstrong Gun. The naval version was mounted on an iron traversing carriage but the picture above shows the Land Service block trail carriage variant. 226 of these guns were issued to Volunteer Artillery Batteries in 1888-89. Clearly the remaining guns were rendered inoperable - and became tourist attractions - when the battery was decommissioned in 1908. In 1916 the Western Daily Press was reporting that influential residents had asked for the removal of the obsolete guns from Dial Hill (sic). It doesn't look like they were removed at that time but according to a Council Road Committee report they were 'dismantled' (probably deactivated). In June 1924 Clevedon Council approved the payment of 6d per annum to the Clevedon Court Estate so that the two obsolete guns could remain in situ - this despite 'other members' saying the guns were neither useful or ornamental. Rob Campbell has the guns being disposed of in 1940 so as to avoid the unwanted attention of the Luftwaffe. Local historian Jane Lilly says that one of the guns was offered to Sir Ambrose Elton as a decorative piece for his lawn and this is borne about by a 1924 report in the Western Daily Press which said that the two guns and the German howitzer mentioned below should be offered to the Lord of the Manor.
First World War German Howitzer at Pier Copse (Rob Campbell)
Pier Copes - April 2020
In 1919 a First World War era German howitzer (with carriage) was placed in Pier Copse overlooking the entrance to the Pier. The gun had been allocated to Clevedon by the A.S.C. Transport Officer based in Exeter.The current whereabouts of that gun is unknown although at least one local person remembers playing on it as a child. So what happened to the three guns in the end? Well, thanks to Mike Taylor on Twitter, we now know that the two old guns (erroneously described as Crimean War relics) were put up for sale in 1938 having been moved and hidden during the Great War. The article discovered by Mike - Wells Journal, September 1938 - says that a relic of the last war, a captured Austrian howitzer, has already been moved from Pier Copse. (Clearly the point about the two older guns being 'hidden' prior to 1919 is contradicted by the Clevedon Council minutes for 1924 quoted above so there remains some doubt as to exactly when they were moved away from the old battery).
The artillery competitions at Wain's hill left a legacy though - a popular local pastime in the 1950s and 60s was cannon balling. At low tide local teenagers would wade out onto the mudflats and retrieve bullets, cannon balls and other items of ordnance from the area in front of the old battery. In the 1960s the remains of an old target looking like a burst barrel was a prominent feature on the foreshore.
Cannon Ballers on The Pill in the 1960s (Derek Lilly Collection)
As with many topics, the snippets of information included in this blog post pose more questions than answers.
What about the men of the Corps? Who were they and what happened to them? Well that story will have to wait for another day.
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